Apocalypse

Summary: Naruto had fought on the side of humanity in the Dragon Civil War, and he won, but at what cost? After shielding himself from the world for four hundred years, he will make his return and align with a guild, Fairy Tail, but is the world as peaceful as it looks? A completely different take of the 'Dragon Slayer Naruto' story. Includes mostly Fairy Tail elements, though there is some involvement with Naruto's world. Canon and non-canon elements and arcs. This is my first fanfic, so any type of feedback, barring flames, is appreciated.

Arc 1: Return

Chapter 1: Dragon Slayer

'X784' A cloaked young man thought, shaking his head. Spiky blond hair fell to the side of his deep blue eyes. 'Has it really been so long?' It was peaceful, he thought, as he wandered through the town of Hargeon. It wasn't dark yet, but it was by no means day, the sun deciding that it wanted to play a last few rainbow colors across the horizon. Then, as soon as the colors came, they vanished behind the sea, placing the city back into a placid darkness.

'This is what I fought for,' he reminded himself with a smile. Memories, happy and sad, swirled up into the forefront of his mind, but they were ignored. Dragons, Dragon Slayers, Zeref, they were in the past. The world he knew was gone, and he could settle down and live a normal life. Though, after such an exiting past, he didn't know if he could stand a normal life. Fiore still had problems, and he couldn't leave people in need. That didn't really explain what he'd been doing for 400some years.

The blond smirked. 'Maybe the world should get a reintroduction.' Then he felt it. Power radiated from somewhere on the beach. 'Igneel?' He wondered.

He pulled the hood down on his darkly colored cloak and jumped onto the top of a building then used the rooftops to hurry over to the beach. Houses blurred below him, but he needed to find the source of that power. As he approached the beach, he noticed that a ship had crashed into the sand, and people with guns and swords lay cowering and floored near some teen with spiky salmon colored hair. One of them floated up with some purple type of fire magic. Two more, a blond girl and... was that an exceed, stood behind the pink haired boy, cheering him on. 'What's going on here?'

The pink haired teen's hands became coated in flames. "This is what Fairy Tail wizards are like!"

"Ah!" The floating guy exclaimed, panick on his face. "Red Shower!"

The pinkette dodged multiple strikes of pink and purple magic, jumping into the air. With a swing of his flaming fist, he clocked the guy on the cheek, sending him flying over the buildings. The blond shrugged, walking calmly towards the girl and cat to figure out what was going on.

The blue cat was busy with an explanation. "Dragon lungs for breathing fire, dragon scales for dissolving fire, and dragon talons covered in fire. It's an ancient magic that lets-"

"Dragon Slayer magic," the young man interrupted.

They both turned to the newcomer. The blond girl was surprised. "Are you serious?"

"Yup," he nodded, "a lifetime ago, there was a war between dragons and humans. To kill them, we adopted dragon slayer magic. Nifty, huh?"

"Really!" The girl exclaimed.

The blond nodded. "Oh, how rude, I didn't introduce myself. Naruto Uzumaki, nice ta meechya!"

"Oh, I'm Lucy Heartfelia, and this is Happy."

"Aye!"

Lucy rolled her eyes. "The one beating up Bora the Prominence is Natsu."

Naruto chuckled, looking over at the two fighters, saying to himself, "Dragon Slayer of Igneel indeed."

Meanwhile, the fight was escalating, Bora destroying some of the town, and Natsu charging a Fire Dragon's Iron Fist. In moments, the pinkette had socked Bora hard enough that he flew across the town before crashing into a bell.

"H-he went overboard!" Lucy cried, looking at the destruction.

"Don't you just love it?!" Naruto cheered, feeling invigorated by the destruction.

Their conversations was interrupted the the stomping of many metal-coated feet. "The army!" The blond girl exclaimed, again, turning around in shock.

Natsu came running, grabbing Lucy on the shoulder and pulling her down the street. "Shit, let's get the hell outta here!"

"Halt!" The soldiers called at Naruto, realizing he was still standing there.

He rubbed the back of his neck. "Man, all this has got me revved up too... I really wish I could resist arrest, but I gotta go!" He hightailed it out of there, jumping on the nearest awning and again onto the rooftops, running towards Natsu and the others. "Next time you think of the fact you've got a city to arrest people in, come thank me!" He chuckled at his own joke.

Finally! He caught up to those three idiots. Well, two idiots and a loud girl, but close enough. They were running like bats outta hell, and even though he could catch them if he wanted, he slowed it down and had a time with watching them freak out. When he found them, the pinkette stopped and looked at him funny.

"Do I know you? You smell familiar?"

Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Uhh, I certainly hope not. I saw you fight, Natsu Dragneel," Lucy gaped, she didn't tell Naruto Natsu's last name but he guessed it? Impossible. "I heard about that guild Fairy Tail, and I think joining sounds like a blast."

Natsu opened his mouth but was quickly cut off. "I know right! They're all over the papers causing destruction, so I know they're a bunch of awesome wizards!"

"Aye," Happy agreed with a nod. 'Is that all he says,' Naruto thought with a sweatdrop.

Natsu shrugged. "Fairy Tail's like a family to me..."

"Sweet! So what the hell do I do?" Naruto wondered. All three of them shrugged. 'Aww man, why's stuff nowadays so complicated! I want to beat up bad guys and make stuff explode! Urgh, damnit, why is causing chaos so much fun?' Bah, who was he to argue. Chaos has saved a bunch of people and killed many foes, so it's just as good as anything else out there.

"Where is the guild, since you guys are going so slow."

"Magnolia Town," Happy answered.

"It's the cool looking place with a kick ass design," Natsu put in. Lucy rolled her eyes.

"I'll see you three at Magnolia Town then!" He was gone in the blink of an eye.

"Cool!" Happy cheered, looking at the spot where Naruto was.

Natsu nodded, the guy was fast. 'I wonder if he'd fight me... But seriously, why does he smell so familiar. It's like Igneel said... But I can't remember what it was! Ragh, damnit!' Thinking was not his strong suit.

Lucy sighed. "Doesn't Naruto know that the train station is the other way?"

Naruto darted through the streets of Magnolia, going at a leisurely run, which probably wasn't leisurely at all to any normal person. Finally, he spotted a building that could only be Fairy Tail's guild. Part of that was because it said 'Fairy Tail' on the front and had the same symbol that was on Natsu's arm. Naruto thought the guild name was kinda dumb since 400 years ago, even 300 years ago, everyone knew that fairies didn't have tails. He shrugged and opened the door.

The first word to describe the guild hall? Loud. Lively would work too. There was a brunette chugging an entire barrel of alcohol; he could it was alcoholic tell by the smell, even across the room. There was one good-looking guy with glasses talking with two cute girls in the corner, making them giggle and blush every few seconds. A half naked guy was arguing with a tall, muscular white haired man over something involving manliness. That didn't begin to cover some of the rediculousness going on at the moment, and all this madness made him let out a grin. 'I'm definitely signing up!'

"Can I help you?" The voice almost startled him, making him turn around to see a white haired girl at the bar. Damn, she was cute.

"Uh, ya, where the hell do I apply! This place is awesome!" The girl chuckled.

"Well, normally we have to wait for the Master to decide, he's busy right now, but I suppose it wouldn't be too bad if we let you join. By the way, I'm Mirajane, but everyone calls me Mira." She was so kind, Naruto thought. Kind and pretty...

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki. You got any papers or something?"

"Generally, no we don't. We're supposed to ask what kind of magic you use first though."

The blond rubbed the back of his neck. "It's, uh, complicated. I use Apocalypse magic, but I swear it's not as bad as it sounds! It's kinda like a, I dunno, a lost magic, but not really. More that the other user has a habit of hiding or blowing up stuff and then hiding..."

Mira smiled sweetly again. "Oh, here's the Master right now, he's probably slacking on his paperwork again."

Naruto looked around. All he could see was a short, old man. "I don't see him..."

"Oi, kids these days..." The old man hopped on a bar stool and grabbed a drink, chugging the entire thing in one go.

Mira leaned over. "He's Master Makarov," she whispered.

Oh... "Oh. Hey, I'm not a kid!" He was around before the guild master was even born!

"Bah, you're all my kids," the Master argued. 'Is this guild's master really a short, grumpy man who should have retired?' He was liking this guild more and more, and he had absolutely no idea if it was because of the guild's rediculousness or his own insanity.

"Kid, Mira said you use Apocalypse magic?" Makarov asked with sudden lucidity.

"Uh, ya. Why?"

"Never heard of it," he replied with an unconcerned smile. "Get a stamp or whatever and we can do paperwork later. God knows I have enough to do already. You got a place to stay?" Naruto shook his head. "Well go do a job or something first and we'll figure it out. I gotta keep my mind off of the fact that my kids can't stop destroying things." The master was interesting to say the least. At least he appeared old enough that calling all of the people in Fairy Tail 'kids' wasn't odd.

Mira had returned, he didn't even realized she'd left, holding a stamp in the shape of the guild mark. "Where do you want it and in what color?"

"Orange," he answered immediately, pulling off his baggy black cloak. Underneath was another cloak, the same one he used to have as a sage, but instead it worked as more of a loose jacket, covering his arms and some of his chest. It was black and red, two of his top three colors, and read Apocalypse on the back, but it was in English, not kanji. His pants and shirt under that were just an orange tee shirt and black pants. He pulled down a jacket sleeve and pointed at his right forearm. "Here."

Mira wondered how he managed to fit a cloak over another cloak then nodded and pressed the thing to his skin. A little magic later and an almost permanent orange mark of the guild was on his forearm. 'Cool,' he thought. 'Magic really has come a long way in everyday use since the war.'

"So what's there to do?"

"You can take a job and make money or you can chill for a bit and meet everybody," Mira answered, "I think Natsu's going to be back soon, you'd like him."

"Oh, the fire Dragon Slayer?" He was kind of weak for a dragon slayer, but in this peaceful age that was to be expected. Well, and he only saw a couple seconds of a one-sided fight, so he didn't really know Natsu's 'true' skill and ability. "I met him at Hargeon. He blew up a boat and scared a slaver out of his wits. Nice kid."

"That sounds like Natsu. If you want to take a job, they are on the board over there." She leaned forward a little, drawing Naruto's attention to her breasts, which were near his face, and pointed at a board with papers all over. "You're supposed to show Master or me before you go."

He stared blankly for a moment, then shok his head, realizing he should say something and stop staring. "Awesome!" Naruto rushed over, probably too quickly, and scanned the board. 'Pirates... Had enough of that for one day. Find lost dog, sounds tedious. Finding pets was never my thing, at least it's not a cat. Clear a cave of wyverns, says there's only one. Oooh, that one's A class with a 300,000 Jewel reward. That's a lot, right? Meh, I want to beat someone up first, so maybe save that one for later. Oh, I've got it! Find and bring in for questioning on actions of dark guilds, also A class. Name is Conway, suspected for involvement in multiple dark guilds including blah... Reward for capture is 150,000J, sweet! And I get to bash someone's face in!'

"I wonder why a task with wyverns is available to everyone?" He mused as he handed the flyer to Mirajane. The master had moved a few stools down and looked half asleep.

"This is B rank, almost A rank. You sure? Usually we have a team of A and B class mages or an S class mage go on these kinds of jobs." Usually, Mystogan did them, and everyone credited to the fact he was mysterious and ninjalike, so capturing people was easy for him.

"Bah, ranks are only to make people feel good about themselves," Naruto waved off. Makarov cheered and held his drink up before chugging the rest.

"I don't see why not. These dark guild guys are dangerous, Naruto, you could get hurt or killed."

"Na if I die, my brother would probably kill him and anyone I've talked to. He's violent." Well, and he wanted Naruto dead... The last words he said over 400 years ago were something like 'I'll kill you myself! No one will get in my way.' Right before he went into hiding too. Hiding except the odd case of a destroyed village.

"Sounds nice," Mira replied with a smile. 'He'd probably eat you whole...' Naruto deadpanned to himself. Ah, dragons. "Oh, since you were wondering about the wyvern job... Normaly, a job like that will be restricted to a team of A class or S class mages, but the ones we get from this guy are always flukes. No one takes it because they know he won't pay them when he finds out there are no wyverns."

"Weird," Naruto said. "Well, gotta go!" He rushed out of the door and smirked. 'My life is gonna get interesting.' He sighed, looking off into the distance. 'I wish that I went insane and you were in my place, Acnologia... I'll save you one day.'

"This is the hideout I was looking for?" He stared at the small, rickety, nearly broken shack in front of him in the woods of southern Waas Forest. Honestly, finding the information wasn't hard since the one who requested the mission from Oshibana town was in contact with the army. That explained why the job was oriented around 'capture' instead of 'beat senseless because of a grudge,' but Naruto could care less.

The military had a pretty good idea of where the dark mage was, it just seemed that the couldn't be bothered to send people after Conway, saying that there were 'worse fish to fry' or something along the lines. Naruto didn't really care about the reason, seeing how it was practically impossible for them to do absolutely everything. Either way, he picked up a little information from a businessman that was targeted a few years back by Conway. Apparently, the mage was a hireable assassin back then, and it seemed he was forming his own posse.

Though, looking the small shack, Naruto could say in full faith that the posse was a lot smaller than he originally thought. In fact, he could only smell a few differet people that used the place at all. 'Easier for me,' he shrugged, walking up to the door. When he opened it, he was greeted with exactly what he thought it would be, a small shack. There was literally less than five square feet of space.

'Okay, something's up here... I can smell them, but I can't see them.' He glanced around on the floor, searching for anything curious. Then he spotted a bunch of symbols under the doormat after kicking it away. 'Runes, sneaky.' He had no clue what they meant, he never really bothered to study up on them during the war, and after the war, he had other things on his mind.

He pressed a hand against them and funneled his magic into it. Impulsive, probably, but he had no other ideas. They glowed a bright green, sending a small shock up his arm. Not harmful, just surprising.

"Password," a gruff, bored voice commanded.

"Uh. Fuck you!"

"It looks like we've actually been found out," the lazy voice sighed. "Never thought the day would come."

Naruto glared at the talking symbols. "Stop hiding, or I'm breaking your damn runes."

The man laughed. "Go ahead."

Naruto raised a fist above his head. "Apocalypse Dragon's Fist!" Blue energy lighting up the room, he smashed at the runes, making them glow. A jolt of pain ran up his arm.

"You idiot," the voice sighed, "you can't break runes with force."

He stumbled back and took a deep breath. "Apocalypse Dragon's Roar!" A jet of blue flame-like energy spewed at the runes, making the shed glow blindingly white. Sheilding his eyes, Naruto vaguely notice the entire miniature building being ripped to shreds and a crater forming beneath him.

But then, suddenly, the light cut off and the runes fizzled back to a lifeless scrawl on the ground. The forest around him shimmered, making him look carefully at his surroundings. It shimmered again, and again, and then he realized that a large house was fading into existence in front of him, replacing the forest.

"Ugh, I better tell boss," a voice said from behind the wooden door. He heard footsteps quickly running away.

'Oh no you don't,' Naruto thought, bursting through the door into a hallway. The man was about forty, completely bald, and wore intentionally torn clothes.

The blond pulled out a kunai from one of his many pockets. 'It's always nice to keep these on hand.' With a slight move on the hand, he sent it sailing right into the person's shoe, making him stumble forward and fall.

The man twisted around, pulling a sword from a sheath at his waist. He stood up shakily and swung at Naruto's chest, but the blond caught it with his hand, ignoring the blood dripping out. "W-what the hell?" The man gasped.

Using his grip on the blade of the sword, Naruto twisted it from the man's grasp and tossed it in the air, catching it on the hilt with his bloody right hand. He pointed the tip at the man's neck. He wasn't about to kill the guy, knowing that legal guilds were against it and all, but the grunt didn't need to know that. "Where's Conway?"

After no answer came back, he pressed the tip harder against the man. "Fine!" The grunt caved. "Conway's all the way down the hall to the right. There are only five people here, the rest are with him, just please don't kill me."

"Thanks," Naruto gave him a sincere smile. "I wasn't going to anyways," he added cheerfully. The man just gaped at him. The blond turned to go, but he knew he was forgetting something. "Oh right, gotta turn you in. Huh, but if I leave you here, you'll probably just run." He swung a fist at the man's head, knocking him out. "I'll tie you up later."

One bored wave later and Naruto continued down the hallway. He seriously hoped that the grunt's skill level wasn't representative of the rest or Conway. He was looking for a nice warm up to stretch his legs, and the last thing he'd want to do was fight someone at Fairy Tail. He'd rather not fight friends or future friends, all things considered. Padding down the hallway calmer than he thought he could manage, he heard voices coming from a door to his right. They were whispers, undetectable to any normal human, but he could almost make out the words.

'Well, here goes nothing!' With a loud yell, he burst through the door, knocking it off of its hinges. The four people inside turned their heads, each having varying levels of shock. He recognized one as Conway, and the others just seemed like buff, hired muscle. Conway himself was a tall man, perhaps 6 foot 2, with straight brown hair that stopped just above his eyes. He wasn't a buff man, making him easy to spot in this crowd, having a decently lithe build. He wore a grey shirt that could be seen behind a black jacket, and his pants stopped way above his ankles.

Conway shifted his gaze towards the intruder, a wild smirk on his face. The three thugs disappeared from existence. 'Illusions,' Naruto noted, surprised. Then, he almost yelled. Looking at the dark mage's eyes, he saw something he thought had died thousands of years ago. Red. His eyes were crimson, three swirling tomoe circling the center. 'H-how!? Sharingan!'

Even more shocking was the fact that Conway bit his lip, wiping the blood with his palm and forming five seals. He pressed his hand to the ground. Grinning wildly, he glanced at Naruto, saying only "Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei."

The blond heard a sound to the right of the room and quickly twisted behind him, finding two coffins rising from the ground. With a loud noise, the lids fell on the floor simultaneously. 'No-no way!' He wanted to scream, but his mouth wouldn't work.

Both of them had spiky jet black hair, though one's only reached past his ears while the other's extended down his back. The first wore civilian clothes, and had his eyes closed, arms across his body. The second had dark red armor covering his body, two ringed eyes staring at Naruto, arms placed at his sides. It was impossible. "Zeref... Madara!"

"Hello again, Naruto," they both replied at the same time. This was truly his worst fear, the only thing that could scare him without placing his friends in danger.

In a moment, the blond regained his composure, a snarl on his face. "Where is Acnologia!? What the hell did you do to him!?"

Zeref opened his eyes, revealing red eyes that resembled the sharingan, but they weren't the same. "I thought you knew what I did. After all, you spent over four hundred years trying to deny your gift."

"Gift!" He yelled. "It was a curse! You took my brother from me. And you," he faced Madara, "I stopped you once, I will do it again."

'T-this is impossible. It had to be an illusion!' But any illusion with magic shouldn't work on him as well any more, and they usually weren't this realistic! Still, he placed his hands in the ram seal, closing his eyes. His chakra was dormant, overwhelmed by magic power, but it was still there. Dark blue energy covered his body, mixing with the light blue chakra. Snapping his eyes open, he yelled, "Kai!"

The coffins and two people that strived to ruin the world were gone. The three thugs were back, a smug look on their faces. Conway seemed somewhat startled, but his eyes were back to normal. 'The sharingan was an illusion too, wasn't it? I hope...'

"To escape my illusions so quickly... No other mage has accomplished this. Demonic Illusion, Hell Viewing is strong, it shows you your worst fears, and you shattered it in less than a second!" It felt longer, and it probably was. Illusions could distort time. "Get him!" Conway panicked.

Naruto slipped into a ready stance as the first charged with a sword. The grunt swung it at his head, but the blond shifted to the side, slapping he sword away. Just when the man was off balance, he went to attack, but the second had thrown a knife at him. Naruto was ready, turning his punch into a full out roll to his left, the dagger sticking into the wall behind him. The first thug attacked again with the sword but found a foot in his chest, launching him across the room.

The third guy stood back, a magic circle appearing in front. It was a basic magic fireball, one that required no aptitude for fire magic, only practice. Naruto breathed in and out, engulfing the fire in a torrent of blue. The Apocalypse Dragon's Roar continued on, covering the grunt in flames. The blond had no time to celebrate, finding the second guy was already shoving a knife towards his side. He jumped back a few inches, making the guy barely miss, then the grunt came at him with his left hand in a fist. Naruto caught the punch, twisting the man's arm and flipping the man onto the ground. One punch and the guy was lights out.

The first one had gotten the courage to attack him again with the sword, though he was shaken up after crashing into the wall and denting it. "Apocalypse Dragon's Fist!" Naruto smirked, countering the man's swipe by punching the sword. It flew out of the grunt's grasp, but the punch continued, sailing into the man's face, knocking him back to the same dent. He slumped on the ground, knocked out.

"That wasn't too satisfying," Naruto sighed, looking at the last member of the room. He cracked his knuckled and faced Conway. "One left. I thought this would be more of a challange." He pulled the dagger out of the wall behind him and threw it at the dark mage. Conway didn't move, letting the dagger stab him in the chest.

Before Naruto could question it, his opponent was on his right, grabbing the fallen sword. 'Illusion,' he realized. He tried to counter a swing of the sword by slapping it to the side, but the sword wasn't where he thought it was. It hit his shoulder and bounced off, cutting his clothes and drawing a measely amount of blood. "By the way, I'm no normal human," Naruto grinned. "Apocalypse Dragon's Wing Slash!" He punched a full two feet to Conways left, but the blue energy extended out from his hand, taking the shape of a large wing. The wing slammed Conway in the stomach, sending him sailing into the wall, knocking him through it and into another room. Naruto kicked the wall in, following the mage into the other room.

Conway was on the ground in pain. Hmph, he shouldn't rely on the first illusion so much, especially when chakra techniques allowed its victims to break out. Granted, he was probably the only one with unlocked chakra, human or otherwise, even if he hardly had enough to make a couple clones anymore. He held Conway up by his shirt. "Tell me, what was that illusion technique?"

"W-what technique!" Conway stammered. "It was my magic. Look, I'll give you anything you want, just don't kill me!"

"What could you possibly have that I want?"

"A name," the frighten mage answered quickly, fear evident. Naruto smirked, the man was clearly frightened by how easily he took out the grunts. He barely even moved.

"A name? Of who?"

"My employer." With a sigh, the blond let go of his mark, letting the mage fall back on his ass.

Naruto frowned. "Weren't you supposed to be alone?" Conway shook his head. "Well who is it then?" 'Maybe the client'll pay me extra!' He thought happily. 'For the trouble of remembering my past, extra cash would do wonders.'

He opened his mouth, then closed it. Naruto bent over and gripped his shirt again, making Conway gulp. Then, he spoke. "Samsara..."

A/N: This was pretty much a teaser chapter. If you're worried I'll go immediately into a new arc, I wont. He'll go back to Fairy Tail after this short mission. Anyways, pairing will be Naruto x Erza or Naruto x Mira, maybe I'll make a poll on my profile. Until then, you can suggest in the comments. Some about Naruto's past and the connection between the FT world and Naruto world will remain a mystery for now. I'm sure you guys already have some guesses and assumptions. For the record, Naruto's chakra was mostly converted to magic power, which will be explained later. Oh, ya, if anyone wants to beta for me, that would be great!

Until next time! Don't forget to leave a review, especially since this is my first fanfic!