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-Let there be midnight
Me No Own Fairy Tail
The Attic's Little Secret—
Natsu-chan
Gray and Loke didn't speak of their experience with the thumps in the house they had heard earlier when Erza and Lucy came back carrying a few bags in each hand. They even acted normal all throughout dinner without speaking about earlier and keeping it to the back of their minds. It worked out well since the two had soon forgotten about their experiences and enjoyed the time they spent with their two other friends during dinner.
"So what are we going to go do tomorrow?" Lucy asked curiously as she took a bite out of the pizza they had cooked earlier, eyes darting around the table and at the other three who looked at Erza for the answer. Erza shrugged, reaching to grab another slice from the already half eaten pizza.
"I was thinking we could go down to the lake around noon and stay there till four, come back and make a fire to roast some s'mores." she suggested, looking around the table for the opinion of the others.
"Yeah, sounds good to me." Gray said with a smile, leaning on the back legs of his chair, stuffing the rest of his pizza in his mouth and took a swing of coke. Erza glared at the teen when he slammed his glass back down on the table, the sticky drink spilling over the sides and creating a little ring around the glass.
"I like it since it'll give me a clear view of Lucy in a bikini." Loke said casually giving Lucy a seductive wink only for the blonde haired girl to grow red in the face as she glared harshly at Loke.
"Then I'll have to make sure I swim with a tee-shirt and shorts on only." she threatened. Loke turned pale at the threat, the pizza in his hands falling down on his plate with a soft 'plop'.
"No! Your body is too gorgeous to be hidden Lucy-chan!" he wailed with fake tears streaming down his face. Lucy crossed her arms and turned her head away from him with a 'humph'.
"I don't want to defile my body with your eyes on it." she shot back annoyed. Loke whimpered in defeat, head slumping on the table as he began to mutter incoherent words to himself while the fake tears still streamed down his face. Lucy smiled in victory, sticking her tongue out childishly at Loke who whimpered even louder.
"Pathetic," Gray snorted in amusement, Loke instantly snapping back to life with a tick mark making itself known on his forehead.
"What did you say?" he growled out in annoyance. Gray smirked, chuckling at his friend.
"I said—" he started, only to be cut off by Lucy's shriek of horror as a large butcher knife came out of seemingly nowhere, aiming itself right at Loke who dodge quickly out of the way, falling out of his chair. Everyone jumped up while Loke scrambled to his feet, Gray and him running to the other side of the table where Lucy and Erza stood in surprise.
A boy no older than the age of fifteen stood there. He was deathly pale with what looked to be a hospital gown hanging on his skinny frame, and a shock of pink spiky hair, but the most defined feature of the boy wasn't the pink hair or deathly pale skin, it was the two different eye colors the glinted in the light of the chandelier above the table. His left eye was a charcoal black while his right eye was a forest green color.
"W-who are you?!" Erza demanded, overcoming her shock as she glared at the intruder in anger. The boy tilted his head to the side, pulling the butcher knife out with two hard tugs. "Answer me!" she shrieked to the boy who just blinked calmly.
"Why… here…?" the boy asked, his speech choppy and his voice hoarse and raspy. He climbed onto the table while the four of them backing up to the point where their backs were pressed against the wall. "Never… seen…" his voice held a tone of a crazed person as he tilted his head further to the side, his eyes becoming larger and crazier. "Natsu-chan… hungry…" He lunged at the four with the knife held ready in his hand, only missing them by a fraction of a second as they screeched in terror and ran from the room only for the boy to follow.
"Who is this guy?!" Gray asked when the pinkette suddenly blocked their exit of the front door, the only way for them to go being up the stairs.
"I don't know but I knew that this would be some type of horror movie!" Loke screeched as they ran upstairs, flying pass all the rooms until they reached his, slamming the door shut and locking it with the safety of the dresser being pressed against it.
"Did—did he say he was hungry?" Lucy panted as she sat herself down on the bed, trying to catch her breath. She held a hand over her heart as if to stop its beating, looking at the others for confirmation. "Cause if he did, I sure don't want to be his next meal." she said while the others nodded in agreement.
"Hey, look at this." Gray said suddenly, catching their attention as they all looked up. He had walked over to the end table Loke had been at before dinner and was now holding the same journal he had been reading earlier in his hands, open.
"Gray, I don't think it's time to be reading diaries." Lucy scolded, standing up to stand next to her scarlet haired friend for some security.
"She's right, we have to call the police and inform them of the intruder." Erza agreed. Gray rolled his eyes at them and shook his head.
"Not that," he sighed. "I think this journal belonged to the person who owned the house before." he cleared his voice before he went on. "'June 30, 2000. The specimen that I have named Natsu-chan is coming along very well. His eyes used to be a nice shade of green, but with the help of the medicines I have been giving him; his left eye is slowly changing into a charcoal color, though a few hints of green are still showing through. He has even started to pick up on speech and his strength seems to be growing by the day. By now he has the strength of a ten-year-old and in a few years if his medicine still works, he will be stronger than a grown man. But that's not the most interesting thing Natsu-chan has shown in his progress of being my experiment. When I first found him he had a nice shade of ginger hair, but like his left eye, it began to change colors until it has reached the color of pink. It's going along nicely and I just can't wait until I can see him fully developed, but that won't be for a while. Oh, it looks like Natsu-chan has gotten out of the attic again, it's time to put him back, so until next time. –Zeref.'" Gray read aloud. He flipped a few more pages and began reading the next entry aloud.
"' August 6th, 2000. Natsu-chan has developed a strange liking to sharp objects the longer I observe him, especially with knifes. Not what I wished, but I can work around it. He has also found something that he seems to love to say all the time, "Natsu-chan, hungry, hungry! Natsu-chan very hungry!" In one day alone he has said this, as recorded, fifty times. During those times I would proceed with getting Natsu-chan his usual meal. Before this, he would only be able to eat three times a day before he was satisfied. I have done some tests on some of the things I have given him and found out this was just a little side effect. If this continues Natsu-chan will be able to eat more than a human could even handle within a week, or more. I shall await the outcome with impatience. –Zeref.'" Gray flipped to the last entry in the journal and read that.
"'Natsu-chan has reached the age of five and has experienced such drastic changes since I first took him in. His speech his not up to pare and I don't think it ever will be, but his food income is... it's shocking. He can take into a months of an average humans intake of food in just one day. His eyes remain the same two colors as when they first changed though, and his strength is on par with a wrestling champion, his intelligence even exceeding above average to the point where I have to keep him locked up every night in different ways. The only thing that has gone wrong within these five years is Natsu-chan's love for sharp objects and stabbing anything he could. So far, I have been stabbed with a needle, pen, plastic knife, butter knife, broken glass, and a piece of broken of metal he had somehow found. Every single time he had stabbed me or something within his reach, he would giggle and shout, "Natsu-chan end, end! Natsu-chan hungry!" It worries me some too, but I have no way of knowing how to put a stop to—'" Gray paused, the others looking up.
"What's wrong?" Loke asked curiously as he walked over to his friend, followed by Lucy and Erza. Gray slowly looked up and showed them the page. It ended right where Gray had paused, old blood stains covering the paper and smearing some of the words together. All four shared a glance, ones filled with worry and fear. Right below it though, they noticed in big childish letters that creeped them out, were: "Natsu-chan full!"
"So… that guy down there is not just some crazy guy but apparently a psychopath who has been tested on?" Lucy asked, brown eyes giving the door with the dresser pressed against it a look of worry.
"And by the looks of it, he even killed this Zeref person when he was only five." Loke added as Gray closed the journal and set it aside.
"This is just messed up no matter how you look at it." Gray said with a shake of his head. "First some guy abducts a random child, keeping them locked up in the attic and testing on them with only God knows what, but the child also being a deranged psychopath since he was five. I can't tell what's even more messed up! The fact that some guy tested on a child or that child killing when he was five!" he threw his hands up in the air with wild gestures before he fell back into the plush armchair behind him, sinking down in it and setting his chin atop his chest.
"Even though I agree with Gray, that's the least of our worries. We have to concern ourselves with escaping this place without getting some pink deranged kid trying to stick a knife through us." Erza pointed out, crossing her arms over her chest and looking at her three friends who looked at her with agreement.
"But how? All we have is—" Lucy looked around the room to see two lamps, and a stack of pillows. Nothing worth fighting with. "—lamps. That is all we really have that could do really any damage, but we have two and when we are out, we once again have a lunatic on our hands." she deadpanned, looking back at the group who deflated with the thought.
"We could always climb out of the window and get some help?" Loke suggested, Erza giving him a slight glare.
"And risking breaking our legs in the process? Hell no, we have to think of some oth—" she was cut off as the door to the room started to rattle violently, making everyone in the room whirl around, Gray jumping up from the chair, startled. They all held their breaths as they waited for the rattling to stop, their hearts in their throats. They jumped once more when the rattle had stopped only to be replaced with a knife through the door. It was pulled out then started to repeatedly stab at the door until a pale hand gripped a loose part of wood and tore it from the door, throwing it to the side. A crazed charcoal eye immediately replacing the torn of wood, searching the room franticly until it landed on the four who stared in horror.
"Natsu-chan… hungry… very hungry…"
