I can explain this I promise! There will only be the nightmare ones present, there will be no haunting animatronics in this. Things will be a bit different as well. This part of Natsu's past is official to my main version of the past of Natsu/E.n.d. While this story itself may not be canon to my official version, the past parts of Natsu you will see will be official. Anyway, I hope you enjoy, or not, I don't care you all have your opinions.
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Chapter One: Reliving Nightmares
A young Natsu was currently on an old bed of sorts, with only a flashlight in hands as he looks around the bedroom. He didn't look any older than 4 years old. Anything that made a noise made the boy jump or flinch in surprise. The young child looked at the closet, which was at the far end of the room. Getting up from the bed, Natsu ran toward the closet and used his flashlight to see inside of it. So far, nothing was present in the closet. Despite nothing being in there, the young boy was still scared.
"M-Mommy… w-where a-are y-you?" The little child called out in silence as he hoped his mother would appear. He needed her to make them monsters go away.
All of a sudden, he heard a movement from behind him, and before the young child could react, Natsu was lifted up from the ground. As he struggled he saw himself in front of a horrific looking humanoid robotic bear of sorts.
"L-Let me Go!" Natsu shouted at the thing, but the creature simply moved in for the kill, making the boy scream in horror.
Natsu's eyes open wide eye as he awoken from yet another nightmare. After calming down a little, he put one of his hands to his head.
"Another one..." The fire dragon slayer told himself as he looked at what time it was. It was still in the middle of the night, and Happy didn't awake from his awakening. He was grateful for that, as he didn't want to make the exceed worry.
He didn't have that nightmare for a little while, and yet now he received another one. He figured that he would have gotten over that by now, and only worry about the other kinds of nightmares. Guess he was wrong about that huh?
Natsu got out of his bed, too worried to fall back asleep, as he went to the bathroom to clean himself up. As he looked in the mirror, he looked at the slightly faded scar that was still present on his head; luckily his hair covered it so no one would notice it.
How many years has it been since then? It's been a long time since the incident, and a long time since…
Natsu shook his head to get those thoughts out of his head. He didn't want to relieve THAT as well. The current nightmare was bad enough for the Fairy Tail mage to deal with.
He shook as he remembered the incident that was to blame for these kinds of nightmares. If he remembered right, he even lost parts of his brain because of what happened. Luckily, though to this day he doesn't know how, his brain managed to heal itself. He didn't know if it was thanks to the doctors or some kind of magic. Natsu figured it had to be some sorts of magic; the doctors didn't even want to save him… no one in the town wanted to…
Once more Natsu shook his head to get the thoughts out. He survived that accident simply because his mother managed to force them to help him.
'Mom" Natsu thought to himself as he began to shake from the memories, of that incident and when she…
Natsu shook his head again as he didn't want to remember THAT right now. Natsu could only prepare himself some food as he simply decided to stay awake for the rest of the night. He would tell Happy that he woke up earlier to train, that will convince the exceed.
'LATER IN THE AFERNOOM'
The guild was as crazy as ever. Natsu and Gray were fighting, people were drinking, people were talking, and look, Natsu and Gray just started another guild brawl. So yeah, everything was normal to them.
Currently, Lucy, Levy, and Mirajane were at the bar discussing some books they have found in the library. They were talking about one of them right now.
"So this is some kind of spell book then Levy?" Lucy asked her friend.
"I believe so." Levy responded to the blonde, "I don't know what kind of spells are in here though." She finished.
"What kind of spells do you think it holds?" Mira asked the two.
"I don't know, and if past experiences taught me anything, it's best if we left it alone." Lucy pointed out, remembering the last time a spell was cast in the guild. It caused a lot of trouble, and the celestial wizard didn't want to deal with something like that again.
Happy decided to go to the three females after he tried (and failed) to impress Carla.
"What are you guys doing?" The blue exceed asked the three.
"Nothing, we're simply talking about this spell book." Lucy responded.
"Oh, are you looking for a spell to make you not heavy?" Happy asked the blonde, who didn't like what he said.
"I'm not heavy you stupid cat!" Lucy shouted at him, getting the other two to sweat drop from this.
"Wah! Mira, Lucy's being mean!" Happy sobbed to the take over mage.
"It's okay, if I gave you a fish would that make you feel better?" Mira asked him.
"Aye!" The cat responded, as Mira went to get him a fish. As she went to do that, Happy went to look at the spell book Lucy and Levy were looking at.
"What does this one do?" Happy asked them as he pointed at one of spells labeled in the book.
"I don't know, we haven't gone over all of it yet." Levy replied to the blue exceed as she looked at the spell he was referring too. "It looks like you need to fill a name of someone in order to use it."
"Oh, I wonder if it means to summon fish to the person you pick." Happy wondered, getting the other two to deadpanned at his thinking.
"Happy, I don't think that's what it means." Lucy pointed out. But Happy ignored her as he picked up the book.
"I'm sure that's what it means. Maybe if I put Natsu's name here and say it, all the fish will come to him!" Happy planned.
"Don't you dare stupid cat!" Lucy shouted at him, who then along with Levy looked in horror as he read the spell with Natsu's name.
But nothing happened.
"Huh, I think I said it wrong, let me try again." Happy told them.
…Only for Lucy to snatched the book from the exceed before he could attempted again.
"You're not going to do anything!" Lucy told him firmly. "At least he didn't say it right." She responded to Levy, who nodded in agreement.
However, unknown to them, Happy said the spell correctly. No one noticed 5 tiny glowing balls coming out of Natsu. One was a brown color, another a purple color, one a yellow color, one a red color, and the last one a gold with purple color, as they flew to certain parts of the guild before vanishing.
The nightmares have come to life.
Like I said, there are some differences in Natsu/E.n.d's past. I made sure it worked with Natsu being Zeref's brother an all of that. There are many other differences as well, but those won't be explored in this story.
See you all next time, whenever that will be.
