Natsu had just reached the edge of lake, where the monster was located, this would be third time that Nastu would be going up against it.

*Flashback*

In his first encounter with it, he had barely been able to to make it out alive as the poison ravaged his body making some of his limbs become numb and usuable, he was trying to swim back up to the surface with only one good arm and leg. His swimming was a bit lop sided as wasnt going in a straight line but more diagnol which was making the trip longer and he was running of air fast.

He finally managed to make it back to the surface where he had some friends he made of his journey here. As soon as they saw Natsu the male of of the group of three had started to swim out towards Natsu to bring him back to shore.

"Natsu come on buddy try to hang in there" said the man who trying to drag the 12 year old boy called Natsu back to shore. It had taken him 3 years and he finally found out where the monster was hiding.

As the man pulled Natsu to shore, one of the girls in the group was already as side using her magic to help get the poison out of his system. This girl was a healer mage, her name was Kaari Aviel she was 14 years old with light brown hair which covered half her back, she had light green eyes which could show anything its reflection. She wore light brown leather clothes which could mild protection from physcial attacks.

"C'mon Natsu i know your stronger than this" Kaari said while crying and trying to heal the wounded Dragon Slayer.

It took alot out of Kaari but she had finally stabilised Natsu to the point were he wasn't in a life threatning danger from his injuries. "So are we going to take him back to the village to heal or we going to wait here for him to wake up?" asked the who was still dripping wet from saving Natsu.

"I'm not sure Desil, he could sleep for a week or wake up in an hour" Kaari said back to the man whos name was Desil. Desil was an average looking man who had black hair which was spiky and messy and some of his hair covered his left eye, he had dark brown eyes and he wore black cargo pants with sturdy black boots and he had a dark blue shirt with a black cloak around him which came around to cover up most of the front of his body leaving a small gap.

"I'll pick him up and lug the moron back to the village so he can get better treatment and i don't like being close to the lake where that thing is" said Desil as he picked up the unconscious dragon slayer and started to walk back through the forest with the rest of the group.

*Flashback End*

Natsu was standing at the edge of water looking into it scanning the sruface of it looking for anything that could help him tell where the monster was hiding. After a few minutes there was no signs of it, so Antsu deduced that it must be in the cave, it's home.

Natsu requiped his knapsack back into his pocket dimension with a note inside for Erza on how his travels are going and what he is about to do. This is how Natsu kept in contact with the guild his pocket dimension was located inside the guild in a room in the back, when he would send knapsack back they would go through it and get notes and messages from Natsu and they could send him some saying how they were going. His last note was sent titled "To Erza" which was ment for her eyes only, since they were little Natsu and Erza were very close, they were practically best friends and liked each other very much.

Natsu took a big breathe of air and dived into the lake swimming towrds the north side of the lake looking for that cave which held that monster. After swimming for just over a minute Natsu saw the cave and started furisouly swimming to it, trying to get to the cave to he could breathe the air that the cave held.

Once Natsu had made into the cave he was taking alot of heavy breathes trying to get the oxygen back into his lungs. "That took longer than i remember" Natsu said while huffing and puffing, bending over with his hands on his knees.

A few minutes later

Natsu had walked through the cave system and had finally found the main area of the caver where Orochi was. The serpent was just waiting there waiting for the Salamander. As Natsu approached the serpent could feel Natsu's Magic power coming closer, it started to hiss spewing poison from two of it's mouths covering the area with a thick purple gas.

Natsu immediatly started throwing fireballs into the gas trying to burn the gas away, but it was no use the fire wasn't burning the gas away faster enough and the gas just kept on coming. "Fire Dragon's Roar" Natsu yelled tring to burn away even more of the gas and this time most of the gas was gone, so Natsu requiped his sword again and charged at the serpent.

As Natsu was charging the glow of his sword got even bigger till flames started to swirl of it. "Fire Dragon's Sword Art: Sharp Scorcher" Natsu dived at Orochi and cut one of his heads off with blood spewing all over the ground and the serpent hissing in pain, it lept at Natsu trying to sink it's fangs into mutiple parts of his body but only managing to get a graze on Natsu's left shoulder. The poison had affected his body and his left arm was starting to become paralysed, Natsu turned up his fire magic and burned the poison from his system but his left arm was still being unresponsive.

After a few more strikes to the monster only able to graze it a few times because of how many ways it could attack from because of the seven heads it still had left. Natsu was on the defensive now as the serpent started to attack mercicly trying to grab a hold of Natsu's arms or legs, the Dragon Slayer kept dodging and parrying it's attacks waiting for an opening to start his own offensive attack, after a minute of dadging it finally happened the serpent had over shot one of his bites, Natsu cleaved down on its neck slicing it clean off with more blood spurting on the floor that was 2 heads down and 6 left to go.

"This is going well, just need to keep going like this and I can finally beat you and avenge my friends" Natsu thought with a stern look on his face.

*Flashback*

The fight had started out good destroying the poison that the serpent had layered the ground with. They had started to wound the serpent with some of their attacks "Fire Dragon's Roar" Natsu yelled sending a spiral of fire at Orochi burning part of its body, which it didn't like it hissed in pain, slinging its multiple tails at Natsu which he got hit by one of them sending him flying into the cave wall leaving cracks.

Natsu started coughing up blood, he may have had some broken ribs. "Natsu!" Kaari called running up to the injured Dragon Slayer. Bending down to the Salamander Kaari started to use her magic to heal Natsu while Desil and Alice the other person of the group who also a Dragob Slayer, she was the Rock Dragon Slayer, she had long blonde hair which reached down to her back with two spirals of hair falling down the side of her face to her shoulders, her eyes were a deep blue.

Desil and Alice were fighting the monster while Kaari was trying to help Natsu who was still coughing up some blood. As the fight was progressing Orochi saw that Natsu and Kaari were not attacking him so started to spray it's poison towards the two "Rock Dragon's Jagged Wall" Alice yelled stopping the poison from reaching them but during this time in stopping the attack Orochi had started to attack Alice who was not prepared for the attack, she had fangs synk into her left leg paralysing it immediatly and rendering her only move small amounts as one of her legs was complety useless now. As Alice felt the pain in her leg dissappear she felt a new pain in her stomach as she looked down all the saw was the tail of Orochi sticking out of her stomach, she started to cough up blood onto it's tail and then the tail was removed leaving a 20 centimre hole in her stomach, Alice collapsed onto the ground dead.

This enraged Desil who started to attack Orochi with his strongest move Sandtomb: 1000 tonnes, this created all the sand in the area to encase Orochi trying to crush the serpent, everyone heard the loud painful hissing sounds coming from the tomb, the craature was being crushed to death from the sand, then a loud expolosion was heard and where the tomb was ment to be was Orochi with a bit of blood coming out of its mouth, but that was all that happened to it from Desil's most powerful attack, this left him complety shaken he couldn't comprehend how it survived his attack.

The next thing Desil knew he was having several sets of fangs sunk into his body, Desil was dead before he had even hit the ground.

"Nooooooooooooooooo!" Kaari cryed as she watched Desil hit the floor. his eyes were open and staring blankly into nothing. Kaari sprinted over to Desil's lifeless corpse. The poison destroyed his nerves in less than 5 seconds. Kaari was crying over his body trying to use her magic to bring him back but it was usless. "No no no you can't go Desil!, you just can't" she was screaming "I LOVE YOU, DON'T LEAVE ME!". Desil and Kaari had been dating for a just over a year now and now that was all over thanks to Yamata no Orochi, this monster had ended all the chances that the couple had together their lives now seprate.

Natsu had just opened his eyes trying to conquer the pain that was coursing through his chest and stomach from the blow that Orochi had delivered to him from his tail. Salamander looked up to see a awful site, Kaari kneeling over a lifeless Desil and then he looked to the right to see Alice lying face first on the floor covered in flood absolutely motionless. Natsu was now distraught at seeing two of his friends dead, he had known them for years, but now they laid dead on the floor of a cave which you could just barely make into.

"Kaari" Natsu yelled "we need to get out of here, we can't keep going, we need to retreat NOW!'. Natsu quickly rose from the ground clutching his ribs with his left hand and ran over to the crying Kaari, picking her up off the ground with his right throwing her over his shoulder and running to the cave tunnels entrance. While Natsu was doing this Orochi was spewing more poison into the area trying to get some distance between Natsu and itself as it had received some damage from the attacks earlier in the fight.

As they were making their way through the cave system Kaari was still crying over her boyfriend Desil who she watched die in front of her. "C'mon Kaari we just have to get out of here and we will be safe' Natsu said while wincing at every step from the pain in his chest. Once they had made to the waters edge of the cave. "Ok take a big breathe and let's get in, we can't stay any longer it's poison it slowl making it's way through the caves." Natsu said as he jumped into the water and waited for Kaari to to get into the water, but she was just standing there shaking and crying.

"KAARI!" Natsu shouted trying to snap her out of her confusion. "Huh" Kaari said wiping her face of tears. "Ok, Natsu let's go." she said climbing into the water.

After a two minutes of swimming.

"Aaaah" Natsu yelled coming out of the water trying to catch his breathe. After a minute of breathing heavily he looked around trying to see where Kaari had resurfaced but she hadn't. Natsu swam around for twenty minutes looking for her "Kaari" he shouted multiple times looking and hearing for any signs of her life. After a few more minutes Natsu swam to the shore to wait to see if she would find him, once he made to land Natsu hunched over onto the ground and had an uncontrolablr coughing fit with some blood flying onto the ground and onto his hands.

After what seemed like an eternity of coughing up blood Natsu was just about to collapse due to his injures just before he went into unconciousness he heard some voices from behind him, but before he could turn around Natsu collapse, smacking his head into the ground.

When Natsu awoke a couple of hours later he was in a infirmatory of a building he had no idea about. He tried to move but found out that he could barely love his arms without a immense pain surging through his chest.

"Ahhh,so your awake now?"said the uknown voice of a female.

"Mmmmm, it seems so" said Natsu in a raspy voice trying to sit up in the bed.

"You shouldn't move, you have some broken ribs. You have to stay still for atleast another week or so for your body to recover, otherwise you could be out for a lot longer than that" She said walking over to Natsu and helping him back down into the bed.

"Ok, how did i get here?" Natsu asked while still closing his eyes trying to ignore the slight pain he still had left.

"A hunting party of ours heard some shouting coming from the lake, so they decided to go and have a look and then they found you coughing up blood just out off waters edge" she said while getting Natsu some more painkillers.

"Here take these, they will help with the pain" she said forcefully putting them in Natsu's mouth making him choke on the pills.

"AARRRGHH!, what do you think you're doing?" yelled Natsu trying to get the stuck pills out of his throat.

All the lady did was hand him some water in a glass with a smile.

Once Natsu had drunk the water he looked back the "Doctor" who was still smiling, then Natsu felt his eye lids start to close but just before he fell he asleep he thoguht "fricking sleeping potions".

*Flashback End*

As Natsu was dodging left and right countering the serpents fangs with his sword, one of the heads went for Natsu's stomach which made him do a backflip while in mid air "Fire Dragon's Scorching Fury' Natsu yelled throwing and blowing mutiple fireballs at the serpent trying to damage it as much as he could.

Once Natsu had landed he looked back at Orochi to see that the monster was heavily damaged and that atleast 3 of it's heads had been seriosuly burnt rendering them useless. Orochi lunged at Natsu with 2 heads while spraying the posionous gas directly at him trying to get him to inhale a small amount of the deadly poison.

"Fire Dragon's Roar" Natsu yelled as a torrent of red fire spewed from his mouth burning away most of the gas that had sourrounded the area again. Straight after the attack Natsu went charging in with his sword in his right hand "I'm going to END you Orochi" Natsu screamed as he was running at the monster, Orochi hissed back at Natsu while swinging all his tales at Natsu trying to get him off balance, but Natsu had none of it "Fire Dragon's Sword Art: Combustion Ignition" Nastsu yelled hitting all of Orochi's tales away which exploded after the contact with sword blowing them completly off his tale only leaving one tale intact.

"Fire Dragon's Secret Art Crimson Lotus: Inferno Of The Flames" Natsu yelled with tears in his eyes remembering what happened to friends the last time he met Orochi. The sheer force of the attack sent Orochi into the back of wall destroying a massive portion of it. Without even letting it get back up Natsu was already on top of the monster slashing his sword into the monsters multiple throats quickly killing the monster.

It let out one final hiss from it's last alive head before it was quickly decapitated. Natsu stood over the dead body of Orochi, the monster that had lived for hundreds of years and which had killed thousands of people was finally defeated.

Tears fell onto the corpse as Natsu was still crying, he had finally defeated it, completing his first 100 year quest. but at what cost?. After several minutes of crying, Natsu regained his composure and started to remove the mutiple sets of eyes from the beasts head. He also had a look at Orochi's tails wondering if he could do anything with the parts of the monster that was left, "it would be a waste to leave it's very durable hide here and the tail bones seem pretty hard" Natsu thought to himself, "maybe make some new armour or something for Erza, bet she would like it."

He had no idea why the noblewoman who put up the request wanted the eyes, all he knew is that she wanted as many a possible. Once Natsu had finished cutting out all the undamaged eyes, in the end he had 9 out of the possible 18 eyes the rest were burnt away from the fire spells he had used. "Well then better put these away for safe keeping" Natsu said as he requiped his knapsack.

Once his knapsack was in his hand he opened it to find a letter addressed to him from Erza.

"Dear Natsu

I hope that you are going well on your mission and that you will return home safely. From your last message it seemed like you were going to go and try and take IT on again, if you do i hope that you are ready to kill it this time, I don't know what i could do if i were to lose you.

Even though we haven't seen each other in nearly ten years, i still want you to know that you are still my best friend. When Natsu read that part his face went a bit red. I can't wait till you return to see your salmon hair again. Everyone is still woried about you and how you rarely contact us, but i know that you are busy training to defeat IT so i don't blame you. Please send another message to us once you have finally decided to return. We all miss you so muc.

Love Erza.

"Love Erza?" Natsu wondered as he read the message. He hadn't seen any of them in a very long time he really wanted to go home after the second attempt but he couldn't let his friends deaths be in vain.

To Fairy Tale

I have finally completed my mission Yamata no Orochi is DEAD. It took me three tries but i was finally able to kill it. So i shall be returning with in the next month. I can't wait to see you all again. Except for the ice princess.

I cant wait till see you.

Natsu

Once Natsu had packed the eyes away and also his note. Natsu was never good with long messages always keeping them short and to the point. He sent his bag back to his space. Natsu started to gather a lot of magical power and fire gathered around his body teleporting him to the edge of the shore. "That's gonna hurt tomorrow" Natsu said while breathing heavily "still need to practise that spell, takes way to much magic energy and makes me sore as hell the next day".

Natsu started to make his way back towards the town that had housed him for the last few years to tell them that he had finally completed the mission that he was on and to say thankyou for all their hospitality that they had showed him over the years, helping him when he was sick and helping him train his magic.

This would be the last time that he would see that crazy "Doctor".