So I know I said that I would be updating Rise of the Kaiser but I'm having trouble with it so I need someone to collaborate with for that story, honor goes to the first person that offers, granted you have experience. That means you have to have written at least one story, which I'll read to get an idea how good you are. Sorry if that comes off as arrogant.
Anyway, hopefully this will hold you guys off and satisfy you until I can get the next chapter of Rise of the Kaiser done.
The Black Mage Zeref sighed as he killed another scientist, he wasn't sure why he was here, he just felt something pulling him towards this location where he found this facility. He felt a presence in this facility that intrigued him, it felt like something he's sensed before but he couldn't quite place it.
He stopped when he felt the presence again, only ten times more powerful. He looked down the hallway and concluded that the source of the presence was down this hall. He walked forward and found a black door with a clipboard hanging on the wall next to it. He raised an eyebrow when he read the title on the clipboard, "Project Black Blood?" he thought curiously.
He slowly turned his gaze away from the clipboard and to the door, noticing the odd design on it, a giant white 'X' that stretched from corner to corner with two smaller x's on the side of the larger X. He slowly put his hand up to the door and pushed it open, letting light into the pitch black room, and illuminating a figure in the middle of the room.
Zeref noticed that the figure was that of a small child, with spiky pink hair and all black clothes, he also looked slightly malnourished with bags under his eyes. The boy shakily looked up and Zeref noticed a look of madness glinting in his eyes while a giant maniac grin made its way onto his face, "Hi there!" The child said with a voice laced with insanity, "My blood is black you know."
"What is your name, child? What are you doing here?" Zeref asked in monotone, outwardly not put off by the child's insanity, though inwardly he wondered how a child could have a look of madness that intense in their eyes.
"The mean men test me," The boy said, completely skipping the first question, "They give me a test, and if I don't do it how they want, they throw me into this room… me and Ragnarok hate it in this room."
"Ragnarok?" Zeref questioned as his eyes scanned the room, looking for this 'Ragnarok' but the only person he could sense was the boy, and… something right where the boy was sitting? How was that possible?
He was broken out of his musings when he heard a dark chuckle originating from the boy, the only problem was the boy wasn't the one chuckling. His eyes widened unnoticeably when he saw a black shape emerging from the boy's back. When the figure was fully out of the boy's back, Zeref noticed that it was distinctly humanoid and had a pitch black body that had small muscles, with circular gloved hands. Its face consists of a large egg shape, with a giant white X on his face where his nose should be, with large Ping-Pong ball-like eyes with X's for pupils, and it currently had a manic grin on its face that matched the boy's.
"Howdy!" The figure, who he guessed was Ragnarok, yelled in a voice that was somehow high-pitched and raspy at the same time.
"I assume that you're Ragnarok?" Zeref asked, and got a nod to confirm his suspicions. "Well, boy what is your name?" He asked, directing his gaze back to the boy.
Before the boy could respond however, Ragnarok started to grind his small hand into the boy's skull, giving him a noogie, "This idiot right here is Natsu, and it's his entire fault that we're stuck in this goddamn room!"
"Ow! Ragnarok, that hurts!" The boy, Natsu, yelled as he and Ragnarok started arguing, if it could even be called that. It was just Ragnarok yelling at Natsu, giving him noogies and pinching his nose while Natsu was meekly trying to get him to stop.
After a few minutes of this, Zeref finally had enough, "Will you two stop it?" He asked in a calm yet forceful tone, easily getting the two to shut up and look at him.
"Just who the hell are you!?" Ragnarok asked in a rude tone, while Natsu looked away shyly, in complete contrast to the look of insanity on his face earlier.
"My name does not matter, but I would like to know how you got here, and I would also like to know just exactly what you are, Ragnarok."
Natsu looked up meekly, and started talking, "I don't know how I got here, and I've been here since I could remember really."
"You don't have any memories of life before this place?" Zeref asked.
"Well I do remember a blonde haired woman looking down at my, but that memory is so distant I can't remember her face, just that smile that she had." Natsu said while looking down, obviously saddened by not being able to remember her.
"And I have been with this kid as long as I can remember, it sucks being stuck inside of him! Every time he screws up, I have to pay for it as well!"
"I see." Zeref said while trying to decide what his next move should be. "And what exactly are you?"
"Ragnarok is part of me," Natsu said as he brought his knees to his chest, "He's made out of my blood, and can turn into a weapon which I can use."
"Your blood?"
"Yes." Natsu said meekly, "My blood is black you know. It's different than other blood, I can use it to make weapons like spikes and bombs and Ragnarok can harden it so that I can't get hurt by weapons and other attacks. I was also taught to use this weird kind of magic, I think they called it Slayer magic."
Zeref was intrigued by this boy's powers, "What do you plan on doing with these powers?"
Natsu shrugged, "I don't know, whatever the mean men planned to have me do."
"I don't think you have to worry about that then, seeing as how I killed them all." Zeref said passively, waiting to see the child's reaction.
Natsu's eyes widened and Zeref could see relief in his eyes, "R-Really?" the boy squeaked.
"You killed them!? Thank you, Emo!" Ragnarok yelled in his usual rude tone.
"Emo?" Zeref thought as he felt his eye twitch, he had no idea what 'emo' meant, but he just knew that it was an insult of some kind.
"Tell me boy, what would you do if there was a place where you can be in the light, surrounded by friends and not in this dark room?" Zeref asked the pink haired boy.
"There's really a place like that? Where!?" The boy asked with desperation in his voice, desperate to get away from the hell that he's lived in for the majority of his life.
"A magic guild called Fairy Tail." Zeref said, "It was built on the principle of family, and bonds. There, you will be able to escape this place and leave it behind forever."
"You better not be lying, Emo! Don't mess with us!" Ragnarok yelled, thinking that such a place was too good to be true.
"I have no reason to lie." Zeref replied simply.
"Good, because if we find out you're lying, we'll take you down!" Ragnarok exclaimed, shaking his small fist for emphasis.
Zeref nodded, choosing not to say anything. He turned his eyes back to the boy who was connected to Ragnarok, and gave him a small smile. Natsu looked away, not used to people smiling at him, before he slowly made his way to his feet and walked past Zeref, before he ran as fast as he could down the hall, eager to have freedom.
As he disappeared around the corner, with Ragnarok sinking back into his body, Zeref's smile grew slightly, "Maybe I've found the one that can finally end my curse."
His attention turned back to the clipboard on the wall, and his curiosity peaked, "I wonder what exactly they did to him." He said as he grabbed the clipboard and started flipping through it, before one sentence caught his eye and made him freeze.
"Subject's body has taken to the blood of the Black Dragon, Achnologia."
Again, sorry about not updating Rise of the Kaiser, I really do need help with that.