AN: Hello, this is StormOfFireandShadows and this is my first time writing a fanfic. I was inspired to write this by Repiece's story Time is the Path to Strength and I'm not stealing any ideas of anything. I hope you enjoy this and read it to the end.

"talking"

'thoughts'

"powerful being speaking"

'powerful being thoughts'

'flashback quotes'

Now that that's clear on to the story and please make sure to leave a review on your way out so you can tell me what you think, any suggestions, and constructive criticism is welcome.

Disclaimer: I dont own fairy tail and never will, and this goes for all the rest of my future chapters.

Chapter 1: Torturous Awakening

"FUCK YOU TARTARUS," Natsu screamed. All around him were the dead bodies of his fellow guild members, family, and friends in the town now turned wasteland of Magnolia. The nine demon gates of Tartarus just merely stared down at him with sneers painted on their faces. Natsu himself was in horrible shape, he was missing an arm, blood leaked out of the many cuts like a waterfall, and jagged scar ran down one of his eyes. It took all of his energy to even look up at the dark guild from the ground.

"Where's all that talk about beating me, well Salamander", the newly revived Jackal said. "I'm gonna...kill...you," Natsu panted out. "HAHAHAHA, you still think you can win," Jackal mocked, "I DON'T THINK SO!" as he proceeded to kick Natsu. Natsu's eyes opened wide as he coughed violently, blood traling down his lips. "Let me tell you something, that you could never figure out, Fairy Tail is DEAD! LOOK AROUND, YOUR SO CALLED NUMBER 1 GUILD IS DEMOLISHED!" Jackal walked to a nearby dead guild member that happened be Cana, "see this girl, she died because you light guilds are WEAK!" and he threw her dead body up into the air. "NO STOP hack PLEASE," Natsu screamed in terror. Jackal just smirked cruelly and activated his bomb curse. An explosion blew off and ashes of the once beautiful heavy drinker rained down the sky

"I'LL KILL YOU BASTARD," Natsu screamed as he tried to lunge at Jackal, but Kyouka and Tempesta, another two members held him down. "LET ME GO YOU ASSHOLES, ILL KILL YOU!" 'I'm Cana, Its nice to meet you and welcome to fairy tail!' Cana said with a bright smile. "HOW COULD YOU? SHE WAS ALREADY DEAD!", Natsu screamed with tears flowing down his face as he thought of the drinker.

"That's an easy question to answer. To make you suffer," Jackal said with glee as the nine demon gates started laugh.

Jackal then used his bomb curse magic on Natsu's leg immobilizing him from using his legs. "AHHHHHHHHHH!" Natsu cried in pain. "Gather up his so called family and destroy them all!" commanded Kyouka, "I am amazed with how far you have come Natsu Salamander Dragneel, for out of everyone in Fiore you have caused us the most trouble with your persistence and stubbornness. To honor that, we will destroy everyone you care for in front of your very eyes." The nine demon gates eyes gleamed with a demonic twinkle.

"Please...hack...I..hack...beg of you...please...please...don't do this," Natsu begged. "Ok you have had enough," Jackal stated. "Really?" Natsu said as a little hope gleamed in his heart. "FUCK NO," Jackal exclaimed as he punched Natsu and sent him flying back a good 25 feet.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHA, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVED ME," Jackal mocked. "Really?" Jackal said in a squeaky voice mimicking Natsu causing bouts of laughter to erupt from the dark guild team.

All hope was crushed for Natsu in that moment. He could only watch helplessly from where he lied on the ground as the nine demon gates searched through the bodies looking for someones Natsu was close with.

"Ooooo look who I found," said the ice demon slayer Silver as he held up a familiar looking ice mage. 'What are you looking at pink head? What did you call me stripper? You heard me fire ass!. "No..no..no," Natsu muttered as he stared at the limp body of his best friend/rival Gray Fullbuster.

"Please don't do this," Natsu pleaded.

"Hmmmm, this guy uses ice...ok i got it," Silver said. "What are you gonna do?" Natsu asked a little scared for once. "I'm gonna eat him!" Silver exclaimed with a maniacal smile and true to the demon's word Gray was eaten. Natsu watched horrified as the head was gone with a big bite, then the arms, legs, and when everything was gone Silver let out a satisfied burp. "HAHAHAHAHA THAT WAS DELICIOUS," Silver stated with blood trickling out his mouth.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH! hack hack hack. I WILL CRUSH YOU!" Natsu screamed before he started hacking blood.

"HAHAHA, I haven't had this much fun in a long time," Silver replied. "Keep it down," Tempesta said to his guild mate, " it's my turn," as he help up someone else from team Natsu with blonde hair. "Lucy," Natsu stared at the person he helped come to fairy tail. 'You want to join fairy tail right? Then come with me! OK!

The next thing Natsu knew was he was staring at Lucy's head...just Lucy's head. Stared at the once vibrant eyes that were once filled with life, now blank, dull, and lifeless. "WAAAAAHHHHHH," Natsu cried out in pain, not from his own injuries, but from seeing fairy tail members dead bodies get tortured even after death.

"I found one," another member of Tartarus, Keith said silently. He raised a curvy body up with long flowing pure white hair revealing it to be Mirajane.

"M-Mira," Natsu stared at the beautiful barmaid and turned to look way unable to see another one of his guild mates get beaten even after death. "If you don't see it's no fun," Keith said. He walked to Natsu and used his magic making Natsu's body form an 'X' in midair forcing his head to look straight and won't let him close his eyes. "Mira? The 'demon' of fairy tail. Oh I know the perfect thing." Natsu unable to control his body floated to Mira who was now suspended in the air right in front of him. Suddenly he felt something wet and looked down at his arm which was lodged right in Mira's dead heart.

"W-What? N-no, I d-didn't do this. NOOOOOOOO!" Natsu screamed as he looked at his last remaining arm as it repeatedly trust into the body of Mirajane each time coming out with more and more blood. 'Natsu don't blame yourself for Lisanna's death. Its's my fault Mira! If I went i could have done something! SLAP! If you went you could have died too! Shhh, its ok, we are fairy tail and we are family.

Finally. after awhile his body stopped, but by then the former demon of fairy tail already had so many holes that it was hard to tell where her body parts were.

Keith just stared and threw away the body. "d... you...tr...," Natsu murmured. "Care to speak up Salamander?" Jackal mocked. "I SAID DON'T YOU DARE TO TREAT HER BODY LIKE THAT!"

The nine demons then felt an incredible spike of magic power. "I'LL KILL YOU ALL. I SWEAR IT. I WILL DESTROY YOU BASTARDS!"

"Fire Dragons Iron Fist!" Flame covered Natsu's right arm, but instead of the normal orange, it was red-orange with streaks of gold giving the fire a majestic look, but Natsu didn't notice any of that, no, all he saw was the tartarus team that he was gonna kill.

Kyouka merely scoffed, "Pathetic" as she raised an arm to stop it, but to her utter shock her, arm was burned off and she was blasted back.

"Get up! I'm not done with you yet!" Natsu growled.

"Fire Dragons Claw!"

"Hmphh, you caught me off guard, but not this time!" Kyouka responded as he charged at Natsu and smirked.

Right before they made contact Kyouka raised an object up, Natsu's eyes widened, but he couldn't stop and closed his eyes, "I've heard you've been causing trouble again. Even if Master forgives you, I won't." and opened them in horror to see the one and only Erza Scarlet.

He fell to his knees, trembling as he looked at the scarlet beauty's body which was now heavily burned. He raised his trembling arm to reach out, "E-Erza?",but before he could touch her a foot connected with the armor mage sending her deep underground.

"W-What? NO, ERZA! ERZA! ERRRRZZZAAA!" He wailed out, before starting to dig frantically into the ground trying to find even a little glimpse of the armor mage.

'Pitiful,' was the only thought running through the nine demon gates as they watched the rosy haired dragon slayer.

"Hey Natsu, are you ok?" a familiar voice said.

"What..no way...," Natsu looked up, "Lisanna." He ran to her and hugged her. "Oh I'm so glad your ok!"

"Natsu.." Lisanna began. "Yea?" Natsu replied.

Suddenly Natsu felt a great pain and looked down and saw a knife sticking out from his chest.

"W-why, h-how, Lisanna?"

"I can answer that," said a demon called Sayla.

"With my magic I can control people and manipulate them to my will," Sayla explained,"and that's why you were stabbing the redhead without being able to move." "YOU BITCH, STOP IT!" Natsu shouted. "Why can't bear to bring harm to one of your DEAD friends?" Sayla questioned.

'Lisanna' kicked Natsu to the ground and slashed multiple wounds across his chest making him jerk violently, screaming profanities.

"I'm...so...sorry," Natsu forced out with pain as tears streamed down his face. 'Natsu, you're the dad. So your suppose to protect your wife and son.' 'I couldn't portect Happy when he was blown to bits by Jackal's bomb curse and I couldn't save you when you died,' thought Natsu, 'I'm so sorry.'

"Fire Dragons Iron Fist" BOOM

A body fell to the ground. "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry," Natsu kept on repeating as the tears fell onto the ground, but was interrupted when he was locked in a choke hold and held into the air by Kyouka.

Natsu strained to breathe under the increasingly tight hand as he was flailing his arms about trying to get a way to suck in oxygen. "Everything you care for is gone, every guild mate you know has been killed, every bond you have made has been eradicated, yet you still hold to life like a kid fighting for a toy?" Kyouka sneered, "Maybe you still need some more, after all we won't stop until we have broken you." Kyouka looked at Natsu as if expecting a response, but all he got was more flailing and clawing. "Your eyes ask the question of what did you ever get to deserve this, why did we have to kill all your precious people, well simple, you have interfered in our plans for much to long. We did warn you, but you light guilds always do what's right and you persisted to stop us. Its not our fault, its yours."

Kyouka then threw Natsu to the ground who immediately started to cough and gasp. "Bring the last one," Kyouka commanded.

Silver came up with a short old man that was frozen in a block of ice. Natsu still struggling to get air back in his lungs looked up to see someone who was kidnapped at the beginning of the war between Tartarus and Fairy Tail. "Old man Makarov" Natsu looked at the man in ice unable to believe it was him

Silver unfroze the ice and Makarov fell to the ground shivering, but when he finally came to his senses, and saw Natsu he rushed towards him. "Hey. ... cough ..gramps ...you..good?" "Don't worry about me my boy, what did they do to you?" Makarov looked shock at the injuries the boy contained, but was on the edge of tears when he saw Natsu's eyes. The once cheerfulness and excitement that was in the eyes were now full of deep pain and sadness, not like Natsu at all. "NO PARENT CAN SIT STILL AFTER SEEING THIS, TARTARUS I WILL KIL-HACK!" Natsu watched horrified as a shard of ice sticked out from where his heart was.

Whether fairies have tails or not, or whether if they even exist, nobody knows for sure. So it's like an eternal mystery, an eternal adventure. This is Fairy Tail!

Natsu stared, as his surrogate grandfather fell to the ground, his mind unable to comprehend what just happened and unable to form words. "HAHAHAHAHAHAH," the nine demon gates laughed hard. "Did you really believe that we would just allow him to live? You are a fool!" Jackal exclaimed as he once again began to laugh with the rest of the members.

All hope of living died. All hope of ever winning got crushed. All hope was gone. That was the last straw. Natsu was broken.

The nine demon gates smirked for their work was done. Natsu 'Salamander' Dragneel, their worse enemy was defeated and broken. They felt good.

"WAAAAHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Natsu screamed as his magical power soared forcing the tartarus crew on their knees.

Lightning Flame Dragon Mode

Dragon Force Activate

"Unbelivable, he managed to activate dragon force through rage alone," Kyouka remarked. She nodded to her team and they nodded back. They knew what they had to do before it got too out of hand.

Lightning Flame Dragon's Roar

'SHIT!' the nine demos gate thought as the powerful beam was already upon them, and they barely dodged it, but when they looked for Natsu he was gone when..

Lightning Flame Dragon's Fist

Jackal went down. The rest all thought,'How did he move so fast,' before he vanished again.

Lightning Flame Dragon's Firing Hammer

Ezel, Torafusa, Franmalth, the other members of the nine went down. 'So this is the power of dragon force?' thought Kyouka.

Crimsom Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade

The remaining 5 tried to dodge but Tempesta and Keith weren't so lucky.

'Shit, I can barely move,' Natsu thought,' I must finish this for FAIRY TAIL!' He tried to move, but when he looked down his feet were frozen to the ground.

Ice Demon's Freezing Containment said Silver.

"I must admit, I wasnt' expecting that," Kyouka said,"but its time to face the facts, you are still suffering from all the previous wounds, and soon the adrenaline will wear off, you are at your limit. Goodbye dragon slayer of fire." She waved her hand

And the world turned dark.

AN: Wow that was about 2.5 k words. Hope you enjoyed it. All the members of Tartarus I mentioned are the actual characters in Fairy Tail. I will explain through flashbacks of how all of fairy tail died and such, so make sur u follow and fav this story.

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