A/N: Yo! Here is the first chapter of my new fic. It is my first time trying out a Fairy tail fic and I would like all of your honest responses. Not just it's good or great story or update soon, I want to know what I am doing right and wrong so that I may continue doing it.

This story is called 'The Mechanical Dark Flame God' for reasons that will be explained throughout this story.

Summary: What if after Lisanna was hurt (not dead) in the battle with Elfman Natsu blamed himself for her injuries and left the guild for several years to get stronger? What if he had a run in with an extremely dark mage who gave him the secret behind his magic since Natsu had impressed him and he was old? What if he lost his arm in the fight? Darker Natsu, Sadistic Mirajine, Colder Lisanna, Less 'Manly' Elfman (not that much less), less strict Erza, Gray is still stripping, Master still pervy, Cana still drunk, Levy drooling over Natsu's mechanical arm.

Pairings: Lisanna/Mirajine/Edo Erza/Erza/Milliana/Cana/Natsu/Wendy/Levy

Warnings: Mentions of torture

Chapter Preface to story

Natsu scowled as he saw Lisanna injured in the hospital. It was all his fault, despite what Mirajine and Elfman said about it being their fault. He should have ignored Grey and gone with her, now she was injured and in the hospital and Natsu couldn't do a thing about it.

Natsu needed to get stronger. It wasn't just a desire like others to be the strongest in the world or anything, instead, his was an instinct that was flowing through him with no reprieve from it, he needed it so that nothing like this ever happened again.

However, he knew that he couldn't do it in the guild, everyone there would just baby him or treat him like an idiot. The only one who didn't was Lisanna. Erza treated him like a weakling and someone that couldn't do anything for himself while Mirajine and Cana would just tease him if he went to them for training, same thing with Makarov, Elfman would get distracted, and Laxus was a genuine ass (no offense to any of the fans of his, but it is true!).

The guild would just hold him back in this case.

That was why he made his decision: to leave and train to get stronger.

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It was a few days since the accident and Lisanna was up and about. She had finally recovered enough to get out of bed and walk around, everyone had been crowding around her whenever she woke up.

"What's going on?" Lisanna asked groggily as she woke up.

"Sis!" Elfman cried as he hugged her.

Mirajine got a tick mark on her head as she punched Elfman in the head and watched him crumple to the floor.

"Idiot! She just woke up and you want her back unconscious!" Mirajine yelled at him.

"Itai! It hurts!" Elfman cried out, "are you really going to let her hit me like that?"

Lisanna giggled and did a face count of the room, seeing that everyone was there except for one person.

"Where's Natsu?" Lisanna asked, curious of the answer, she was expecting him to be in the room as well, as the first face that she would see.

They all looked blank at the question.

Mirajine shrugged and said, "We don't know, after your accident he took a major attittude change and started being really quiet and then we hardly saw him here. He took it really hard."

Lisanna twitched as she caught something, "You didn't even check on him to make sure he was alright, of course he would take this hard! I was his only friend here! He likely feels pathetic right now and is blaming himself for it since he fought Grey instead of going with us!"

Mirajine blinked at that, "But he couldn't have done anything if he did come!"

"I know that, and he knows that!" Lisanna groaned.

"Then what's the issue?" Erza asked, not getting the problem.

"The problem is that he knows that, the last time that I even got a small cut he went overboard and started training like crazy! He knocked himself out and I had to beat sense into him!" Lisanna lectured.

Grey scoffed at that, "Please, like he ever trains, all he does is try to instigate fights with what little magic he has."

When Lisanna saw some of the other guild members nodding she scowled and got mad, something that she rarely did.

"Really? Is that what you think? How do you think that he got this strong at such a young age? I know it doesn't seem like it with all of the mages out there that are stronger, but he is one of the most powerful and strongest kid his age, and he did that by training his ass off day in and day out, never taking a break when he got sore or ran out of magic, that just pushed him to get better than before. Natsu only acts like you all treat him." Lisanna glared.

Mirajine was the first one in the room to say something.

"You're right. None of us thought about Natsu throughout this whole affair." She scowled with her head down, it annoyed her to no end to have such an obvious flaw pointed out in what she had done, plus, she honestly felt bad for not considering how Natsu was feeling having to watch his only friend in the hospital with no way to help. She was having to go through it thanks to the fact that she couldn't use healing magic.

Some people looked on in disbelief, not realizing that Natsu was a lot deeper than most people gave him credit for. All he was doing was what was preconceived of him. For some reason, all of them thought of him as an idiot except for Lisanna, so that's what he acted like around everyone but Lisanna. That was one of the things that actually endeared him to Lisanna, his ability to put up with that from the guild and his family, she wouldn't have been able to.

Lisanna just shook her head.

"So, does anyone know where he is before we go back to the guild?" Lisanna said coldly, not going to give them the time of day for what they had done.

All of them shook their heads and more than one member of the guild had felt like this was going to change Fairy Tail forever.

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A few days ago...

After Natsu had gone and visited Lisanna for the last time, he had started to pack the place.

He looked at Happy with a sigh and made up his mind before nudging the flying cat awake.

"Aye," Happy murmerred out groggily.

"Happy, you cannot tell anyone except Lisanna what I am telling to you, and follow these orders precisely, do you understand?" Natsu asked seriously.

Happy, who had never seen Natsu that serious, quickly nodded his head in agreement and said, "Aye!"

"Thank you, Happy," Natsu said as he hugged his friend. Natsu then got it together and said, "Happy, I think that you deserve to know what I am doing. I am leaving this guild for a couple of years in order to train. Lisanna's accident has shown me how pathetic I am. Don't even try to argue with me, Happy," Natsu said when he saw that Happy was going to open his mouth, "I was too weak to even consider going on the mission, no matter how strong I pretend I am, I always fail! It's because I am weak. Staying here will only make me weaker. It's not the concept of friends that will make me weaker, it's that I wouldn't be able to train to become stronger like I would out there, they would all try to stop me!"

"Natsu..." Happy whispered, surprised at his friend.

"Tell Lisanna that i'm sorry that I had to leave, but I can't let something like this happen again." Natsu said. "Also, tell the guild that I said see you."

Natsu then walked away with a bag slung over his shoulders.

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Lisanna and the others got to the guild and looked for Natsu for about thirty minutes before Happy came flying in.

"Lisanna!" Happy called out with tears in his eyes.

"Happy! Did you see Natsu anywhere?" Lisanna asked frantically.

Happy broke down into sobs before he said, "It's horrible! Natsu left!"

Lisanna looked on in shock before asking, "Why?"

Happy said, "He said that he was pathetic and the guild was holding him back from gaining strength since they would intervene in his training."

Lisanna stood shelshocked for a minute before rounding on the guild, "This is your fault, damnit! None of you could see past yourselves to look at Natsu! And now look what's happened."

Lisanna broke down crying at that and Mirajine tried to comfort her while everyone else was stunned.

Little did they know that that was the last time that Lisanna would show that much emotion for three years, or that Mirajine would become more sadistic then ever.

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In the mountains a day away from Magnolia, Natsu continued his trek to find somewhere away from civilization where he could train, unaware of what would happen in the mountains...

A/N: Done! I hope that you all enjoyed this preface to the story. I will have the first chapter out tomorrow, and hopefully will get to Wendy the next day and then his return on Monday.

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