A/N: Decided to update this one instead, the next one will be for TDR, promise.
Chapter 2
With the sounds of splashing water beneath his feet, Natsu ran atop the sea, aiming for the tower on the island. Truly, humans can be so cruel to their own kind. These enslavers seemed to be a group of cultists, as if they were building this place with the sole purpose of worshipping a God or something. As he would stop anymore suffering from occurring in that tower, he would find answers from the one behind all of this.
Finally setting foot in sand from the island, he gazed up at the structure. It was a black built structure that seemed to yearn to pierce the sky and into the heavens. Truly a strange place. He's seen many places over the course of his eternal life, but this one takes the cake; at least that's what the humans say.
He honestly wanted to stop all delays and kill every one of these enslavers to avoid any future discrepancies. However, an unsettling feeling told him that he would eventually regret it, so he avoided the thought. Using his curse he transformed his current body to look like another guard. Perfect way to blend in.
Walking past several guards, he decided to find the root. He asked a guard to where the leader was by feigning forgetfulness. It seemed that, what they referred to as the Taskmaster, was on the top floor of the tower. As he walked calmly to a higher level, he saw a mix of adults and children working themselves off. The area semed to smell of sweat and the sense of sorrow was so strong you could taste it.
As he was trying to pass by, a guard called him over for assistance. The guard mentioned that he had to get something but could not leave the slaves alone, therefore he asked Natsu to take over. Without even allowing to answer, the guard left. He was annoyingly left to watch over these enslaved humans.
Natsu huffed with impatience as he saw a small group of children trying to move a cart of heavy building materials. He continued to watch them until one of them, a small black haired girl, tripped over a small bump on the floor.
"Ow, ow." The small girl whined quietly. She looked up in horror as she noticed Natsu walk up to her. The kids that were with her gained frightened faces and moved along quickly. They were afraid of the guards, he noted. The girl visibly shook as he stepped near.
"Are you alright?" Natsu asked with a straight face as he extended a hand out to her. She had a look of disbelief as she looked at the extended hand. "Hurry and take it, you don't want the other guard to see this right?" At that she hastily grabbed onto it and pulled herself up.
As she looked up at him, she gave him a small, fragile smile. "Thank you mister." She ran off back to her friends and resumed working, with a faint smile on her face. An equally faint smile crossed his own face until his attention was called for.
"Oi, you. I'm done, I don't need ya here anymore." Giving one last glance towards the girl whom piqued his interest, he left remembering his original little 'mission.'
With his feet moving up a flight of stairs, he reached a nearby room that seemed to be quite fancy. He entered inside without as much care to knock. A man behind a desk seemed to be pissed off by his entry, but didn't do anything about it.
"What is it?" He snarled.
"Sorry but, i kinda forgot what the point of all of this was so i hoped i could ask you." Natsu responded with a fake cheerful voice.
"What are you an idiot?! The Tower of Heaven was built to bring back our great leader Zeref, the most evil dark mage in history!" The Taskmaster kept on rambling about how Zeref was like a God to them.
For Natsu, the moment this human mentioned Zeref, everything seemed to freeze. Zeref? They want to bring back Zeref?! HIM?! THAT DETESTABLE HUMAN?!
Zeref may have been his creator, but it was his fault for what had happened in the past. At one point he decided to figure out who was the snitch behind the death of his beloved. Using his curse yet again he saw a hooded figure using illusion magic, whom was Zeref in disguise. It didn't make any sense. Why would his creator do such a thing? He was always told that he could lead the life that he always wanted. After this realization, he made up his mind to hunt him down, without the use of his curse; it would make the hunt that much more enjoyable.
Fixing his attention back to the insane Taskmaster, his eyes were red, with his guard form starting to disappear, and his will to act rationally disappeared. The Taskmaster saw this change and immediately grew wary.
"What the hell?! You're not one of us, who are you?!"
"So, you plan to bring back that monster?" With the speed of light he gripped the man by his throat up into the air. "Let me have you in on a little something." Everything froze as a demonic grin came across Natsu's features. "He's very much alive, and I'm going to kill him." With that he threw the man across the room and shot an explosive black ball of flames. The explosion shook the whole tower, causing complete, and utter chaos.
With his extremely sharp sense of hearing he could tell that there was massive panic and guards everywhere were trying to find out where the explosion came from. That being said, Natsu took on his actual demon form, the true form of E.N.D. If humans thought this was hell, then wait until they meet with him.
A/N: Dooone! Sorry but i decided to change the pairing, i need an unfortunate break from NaZaMi lol.
