So... Guess what? I decided since I accidentally took two weeks off Startstruck, I'm just going to post the Prologue to Animal to test the waters a little bit. This story is a big step in my writing because I've stepped so much out of my comfort zone with it... It's super nerve racking! Truthfully, I have no idea if people are even going to read this one because it's deep (For me anyway) and cruel. Trigger warning! Please, please, PLEASE don't read if you're sensitive to certain things. There is a lot planned for this story and I'm excited (But nervous as hell!) to get this going! I hope you enjoy dipping your toes into Animal!
Disclaimer: Sadly Hiro Mashima does not accept souls, so he still owns Fairy Tail... But one day... It will be mine!
There has always been something that has been debated about since the beginning of mankind; something that every man has wanted and craved to have.
What's that you might ask?
Simple.
It's Free will.
Some humans say it's the greatest gift bestowed upon humanity. To be able to have the ability to control exactly what happens to them and how it happens. That they are the masters of their own fate and that no one can say different.
Other humans say that free will is nothing but pure utter crap; nothing but a mere illusion that the human mind conjures up to express the term freedom. They say that everyone has a predestined fate and that no matter what they do or how hard they fight it, life will happen just how the greater powers up above intended.
My sperm donor, Igneel, once explained it to me like this- Destiny is a freight train rolling down the track to an unknown place that only the conductor knows about. When they get to the railroad crossing in their car, they can choose to stop and wait for the train to pass them by, or they can try to pull out in front of it and beat that bad boy across.
That choice is their free will.
If they choose to rush ahead, their car might stall on the tracks. They can choose whether to try and start the car or sit there like a dumbass and wait for it to plow into them. Or they can choose to get out and run, with the chance that they'll slip and fall or get their foot caught in the track.
They could also choose to hang back safely and not take the chance of any of those. Next thing they know, a bigger vehicle rams into them from behind, sending them into the path of the train.
If it is their destiny to get hit by that train, they will. They only thing they can choose is how they become hamburger for the birds.
Yet… My kind has free will.
Every single decision I had ever made in my life was done with consent and choice regardless of what those around me told me what to do or had to say. There were no higher powers influencing how I lived my life.
I always did what I wanted, always followed my own rules, and had my own personal agenda. Destiny and fate? Personally, I considered that bullshit. I controlled my life and their puny, pathetic lives. If they pissed me off then they would no longer breathe the same air that coursed through my lungs. Simple as that, because in the grand scheme of things I was the predator and they were the prey. I had the choice about what would be their fate. And if they would leave me alone and avoided getting in my way then they would get to live on, letting another predator or circumstance deal with their fate.
Humans didn't get to choose what would happen to them. The strong would always put down the weak.
And, you see, I wasn't mortal nor human.
That was how I lived for many years until one girl- one ordinary human girl changed how I began to look at things. I didn't know it at the time, but our fates and destinies had been mashed together by some sort of freak accident caused by the higher powers. And with that, she taught me the true meaning of a human life. She taught me how to think differently about those who were alive around me.
And it was then that I realized how truly fragile a human life was…
If I hadn't believed what he had told me, she might still be alive today. I curse the day I ever called Igneel Dragneel my father.
I am Natsu Dragneel.
And this is the story of how I met my demise.
As I said this isn't going to end happily ever after, but I do have a sequel planned out after this. Just in case people wanna know.
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