Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters; they belong to the one and only Hiro Mashima.

I do own Nova Scarlet, Kaki Dragneel, Relio Connell, Mary Fullbuster, Truth Tell Spell, the Ten Wizard Fiends and the idea for the fic though.


Ten Wizard Fiends

(A I.-.-.I Kuroyagi I.-.-.I original fan-fiction story.)


Natsu's POV

'Do you like the future, Natsu?' A voice said with some hint of sadness. 'Your wife hates you, your daughter doesn't know what to think of you, your guild doesn't want to have anything to do with you and you're the most wanted mage in the world…'

'So? I'm starting to make up things with Erza and my daughter, I found Igneel and Kaki and the guys in Fairy Tail don't attack me on sight as before; I don't think that this future is as bad as you put it…' I answered while trying to see if I could find the owner of that voice that sounded so familiar, everything was dark and even my senses were having troubles to discover the exact position of the speaker.

'What you did in the past will always come back to haunt you, Natsu; in time, what took you almost two decades to fix will broke again and you'll end up alone…'

'That's a positive thought, with Erza and Nova I could end up dead and with my extremities in Fiore's four points…' The voice let out a small chuckle.

'You never seem to lose your optimism, but thinking positive of the future will not help you, Natsu, not always; you must do more…'

'What do you mean? More like what?' I asked, but the voice only chuckled again and disappeared; leaving me alone in the dark. 'Hey! Answer me dammit!'

"I'll give you an answer all right!" I woke up with a start, eyes opened wide in shock and looked up; the daughter of Gray and Lucy was yelling and raising her hand at me. "Wake up!"

*Slap!*

"That was unnecessary…" I said while standing the stinging pain in my cheek, unable to rub the hurt spot with my hand; I was tied down on the ground, the team of mages around me looking down at me. I looked away, unable to stand the hard eyes that my daughter and… step-brother? Gave to me, I knew they wanted answers but that meant revealing a lot of info that they would not like.

"Father, start talking, or else…" She said threateningly to me, a dangerous glint coming from her eyes at the same time that she summoned one of her many swords. I arched an eyebrow at her, before looking away from her again and keeping my mouth shut… that was, until Kaki forced me to do it… in a way to much like my older self.

"Damn it brother! Talk!" He said while kicking me in the groin, such luck was mine, I deadpanned at the low blow and later asked them to put me in a more comfortable position; I was moved close to a tree, the thing serving to lean my back against it. I cleared my throat, looked at everyone in the eye and later closed mine, visualizing the moment in which the title of 'saint' was given to me.


Era; nineteen years ago

The place was in celebration, the people was running around from here and there to watch the parade that the council was holding on the main road that lead to its headquarters; rune knights positioned in a close line at both sides of the road, trying to hold off the people that wanted to salute the hero that saved them… the one that discovered the reason behind why the foreigners were attacking and later defeated them, one by one… the one that was first suspected of treason… the one… that was about to be granted the title of Wizard Saint.

The caravan transporting the mage appeared on sight down the road, the people going into frenzy when they realized that it was the one that they were expecting, the ten best officers of the rune knights escorting it while doing demonstrations of their ability. It was a day to celebrate.

The caravan then stopped in front of the council's building, where a large stage was set-up to make the ceremony public and where Guran Doma and his council of mages was waiting for the young man that was about to receive the important title.

The door opened, a foot came out with a hand and later a bunch of pink hair before showing the hero of Fiore, a mage from the troublesome guild of Fairy Tail and one of its S-class mages.

Natsu 'Salamander' Dragneel.

With an attire completely different from the one that he always used, elegant yet simple robes, consisting of a black, long tunic, with gold stripes across the edges and on the upper part of the arms, a decorated collar and large straps connected to decorated buckles closing the inducement on the front, over a white shirt, and matching pants and shoes. His beloved scarf encircling his neck as always and adding a sophisticate yet humble look to his new clothing; not wanting to leave it aside in a day so import as that one.

He was dressed perfectly for the occasion.

"Step closer, Dragneel." Said Guran Doma with a ceremonial deep voice, Natsu did as told and got up on the stage, stopping in front of the old wizard and nodding while giving his most serious eyes. Guran looked at him from top to bottom and sighed quietly before proceeding. "Kneel."

"Natsu Dragneel, for your actions during the short war that we held against the organization of foreigners 'Shintsuki', you've been elected by the Magic Council and the King of Fiore to receive the title of Wizard Saint." Guran then nodded to one of the councilmen at his side, the guy coming to stand at his side with a close box that when he open it, showed the medallion that showed a wizard as saint; the Chairman of the Council grabbed the object with both hands and turned to the kneeling Dragon-Slayer, putting the medallion around his neck and over his scarf.

Guran nodded to him and with the now wizard saint standing, turned to face the public, his cane hitting the stage to silence the cheering populace when he was about to speak.

"People and Mages of Fiore, I gladly present to you, the new addition to the Ten Wizard Saints," He said in his ceremonial deep voice while raising both arms to make emphasis of the importance of the moment. "The Fire-bearer, S-class mage of Fairy Tail; Natsu Dragneel!"


Actual time

"That's when you were name Saint, but it doesn't explain why you're now considered a threat and one of the bad guys." Said Relio to me while scratching his chin, the others nodding at his words before urging me to continue; though, I didn't wanted to, so I cut short the explanation. Sighing sadly when the memory of that dreadful day came to my mind, it was something that I wasn't fond of ever doing in the first place.

"I didn't defeat the organization or its leader, I was the leader; the defeat that they suffered at my hands was just a screen to get them inside Era like prisoners and to make me earn a position of power from which I was able to gain classified information from the Council and later free my co-conspirators…" This earned me shocked expressions, I looked down in shame.

"Then, you attacked the Council from the inside?" I nodded at Mary's question. "Then that's why you earned the tag of Wizard Fiend and that strange nickname…"

"The Wizard Fiend thing came later; I earned the nickname of Ignifer during the battles against my old friends of Fairy Tail, I showed my mastery in Fire Magic which together with my Dragon-Slayer magic was almost invincible…"

"Almost?" Kaki asked me, the thought of using black flames in a near future charming him to hear more; I narrowed my eyes at him to make him forget about such an idea and nodded.

"The flames of a Dragon-Slayer are powered not only by magic, but by heart too; each flame that I use has a different feeling empowering it…" I explained while closing my eyes and remembering my actions from before losing consciousness. "Red flames are powered by bravery; Green flames by envy; Blue flames by friendship; Purple flames by jealousy…"

"And Black flames?" Asked Relio while shuddering at the memory, I was about to respond but Nova; who was strangely quiet up until now, did the explanation for me.

"By rage… You were enraged at that mage Brenner for telling me something that you didn't want me to know." She shot me a betrayed look, to what I nodded sadly again.

"Yeah, it's like she said." The kids stood quietly at my words, looking down in thinking while letting me there to kill myself with the dreadful feeling at the pit of my stomach that was settling because of my expectation to their reactions. "Hey, if you're going to talk or think or whatever for a long time, can you untie me?"

"No, if we do that, you will run away to avoid further questioning and now that we have you in this position, we're not going to release you until we're satisfied." Nova said while crossing her arms, closing her eyes to imagine the situation and nodding to her words; Kaki laughed at my failed attempt to get away, to which I growled fiercely, scarring the hell out of him so much that he hide behind my daughter. I sighed tiredly before moving around in my position and getting myself comfortable; if they were going to think about some more questions then, I could get more comfortable to wait.

"You said that this was nineteen years ago, that means that Nova hadn't been born at that time, right?" I widened my eyes in surprised at Mary's question and looking at her, I saw a strange glint in her eyes and a devious smile on her face… Oh, shit; she wasn't going to ask me about THAT, right?

"R-right…" I answered nervously, her smile widened and I could swear that I heard a dark cackle from her.

"And, if we think about it, Nova is eighteen years old right now; so…"

"M-mary! Stop! That's not something good to ask him!" Relio said with an embarrass blush on his face, understanding her line of thinking. Nova and Kaki though, were expecting the new Celestial mage to continue with her rambling; not fully grasping what was going on. I gulped down in fear, this wasn't going to be good… and to make it worse; she stepped close to me and touched my forehead, casting the Truth Tell spell before her smile turned to a wide grin.

"Where was Nova's mother during the ceremony?"

"She was watching me with the guild; in a balcony given to the S-class mages and Master Gildartz, so they could witness the ceremony from a better spot."

"Did you celebrate your new title with the guild that night?

"Yes, in a compound handed to us by the Council while we stayed in Era."

"Did you drink a bit too much during that party?"

"Mary!" Relio tried to stop her, instead of stopping me from talking; idiot.

"Yes, your father challenged me to a drinking contest and I won." I smirked at her annoyed expression when I said that, I was under a spell so I didn't lie; but then she smirked again; roles changed as fast as they did the first time. I gulped down in fear and turned my head to look at Nova, she was expecting the next question.

This was something that she SERIOUSLY didn't need to know!

"Did you confess to Erza-san that night?" My daughter's eyes widened in realization, she now knew what this… devil was planning to ask.

"Yes, outside the city, in a field of lilies under the clear midnight sky." Yes, I'm a romantic… sometimes. All of them blushed slightly at my words, while I was dying from the furious blush and embarrassment that was coming to my face at remembering… that night.

"Were you two… alone?" Nova was about to stop her but then it seemed that she changed her mind, surely her mother's perverted vein appearing on her. Kaki sat on the floor while expecting to hear more, he seemed to be taking notes… I frown at that, but when I turned to look at Relio, he was doing the same… My jaw dropped to the floor.

I was doomed.

"Yes, I didn't sense anybody close."

"Did you start with a kiss or a hug?"

"She pinned me to the ground and did both at the same time." The girl seemed to be getting enough of the picture, her legs were wobbling at imagining the scene and the blush on her face grew in width.

"A-and then, what happened?"

I told them. I told them everything dammit! Never in my life I have been so ashamed, well, maybe when… no, that wasn't like this situation or even close to it.

Either way, I was bashed to the limits, my most private and dear moment spilled out to some kids in the most humiliating way… "…Eight hours later, we returned to the compound hand in hand…" I'm not going to help them again, next time I'll watch from the distance; a safe distance.

Mary passed out when the story ended, a nosebleed and a dreamy look with Nova almost following her, the boys were blushing but with serious faces; nodding to me in an sympathetic fashion… they felt sorry for me but proud at the same time. I felt like dying on the spot, now, nothing that they said would be worse than this; I just bare my soul and heart to them, what else could they ask me?

"Was making mother fall in love with you… part of your plan?" Nova said after some minutes, quickly recovered of the past story and with a calm serious face that would have made Erza proud. I raise an eyebrow at the question, it was good to get doubts out of the system but she could trust in me a little more; I shook my head in response.

"No, it wasn't. In fact, my partners told me to avoid getting too close to anyone during the whole deal."

"Then why did you do it?" I heard the contained pain in her voice, my face softened at that.

"I love her; I couldn't contain my feelings towards her anymore after being separated for so long from her." She nodded before turning around and walking to the forest with a stoic face, I followed her with eyes, before looking at the two other boys… and calling their attention. They looked at me with wondering eyes, asking me what I wanted but I shook my head before speaking again. "Don't tell her but the spell of your friend here stopped when she passed out…"

"Then, you just lie to her before?" Alzack's kid asked me, I shook my head slowly.

"I didn't lie, not about that, I swear." They nodded seriously at my words, standing up and going to raise Mary from the ground to take her to the camp; I called my brother to stop.

"Kaki," Said boy turned to me in question, I signaled him in the direction that my daughter went with my head before asking him seriously. "Do you like it when she cries?"

The boy shook his head furiously, a frown settling on his features that made me remember the brat that I used to be; I smiled encouragingly at him.

"Then go after her, don't leave her alone to cry by herself…" He stopped to think at my words for a moment before nodding seriously and dropping his partner's body on the ground; letting her hit with her head hard on the ground much to his partner's surprised, and he went after Nova.

Relio shoot me a dead glare for making him go away but it softened later, understanding what I was trying to do and carrying the girl to the camp on his own. I looked in the direction in which both kids went and smiled, that strange voice wanted me to do more; here's more.

"Okay, time for me to leave…" I tried to stand up but failed miserably, falling hard on my side and grunting in pain at my stupidity. I forgot that I was tied up! "Is someone going to untie me?"

Silence. Everyone left to do their business and they left me here, alone and tied; and it was getting dark.

"Crap…"


Kaki's POV

I followed her quietly, watching her walking figure from afar, stopping myself from running to catch up to her and talk to her; not fully knowing what I could say or do but understanding that I couldn't left her alone after what she heard. I frown at my brother; the things he did all those years ago caused pain at that moment and were causing pain now, something that made me feel angry and sorry for him at the same time. He was trying to mend his mistakes now with Nova and her mother, and every step he took always drive him two back.

So sad… but to be expected, he would have to work harder from now on to make those painful memories a matter of the past.

And as his brother, I was going to help him in whatever way I cou… "Ugh!"

I hit against something hard and fell to the floor with it, dumb of me for walking while thinking; who told me that thinking had its disadvantages? …Oh, brother did… I opened my eyes after growling in pain for the hard thing that got in my way and I was surprised with what I saw, beautiful brown eyes, scarlet hair, silver armor… I tripped with Nova! I stood up quickly, putting a hand behind my head and bowing quickly at her while apologizing for my mistake; earning a surprised look from her before she chuckled at my reaction. I stopped my actions and looked at her dumbly before laughing with her and offering her a hand to help her stand back up which she took quickly.

Dusting her clothes of dirt and some little branches, she turned to look at me with a questioning gaze, expecting me to explain why I was following her. I scratched the back of my head in embarrassment before shrugging, not really knowing what to say. She nodded at my strange answer and turned around to continue with her walking, I followed her close now until we arrived to the other side of the island; at the border of a cliff she stopped and turned to look at me again before opening her mouth to say something… I held up a hand to stop her, thinking that I already knew what she was going to say.

"Brother hided those things from you because he knew that this would be your reaction…" She looked at me questioningly and chuckled again, I frown, wasn't that what she was going to say?

"And what would have been my reaction?" She asked slightly amused, I looked at the red sky while raising my hand to count with my fingers.

"You were going to seek quietness to think about what you heard, you were going to curse his name and later cry for your bad luck in life… Sorry…" She looked troubled with what I said so I apologized before walking to stand behind her and close to the cliff, looking how the water clashed against the rocks. "You know that you don't need to bear this burden on your own, right?"

"I… Yes…" She said to me doubtfully before turning around and walking to stand at my side, looking at the same thing that I was; I shook my head in response.

"No, you don't, otherwise we wouldn't be here," I said to her as a matter of fact, she looked to a side with a frown. "Nova, all fathers have their troubles from the past, that's something that we cannot change."

"But we can think about it and decide if we are okay with them for doing those things." I shook my head again.

"Don't judge people for their pasts Nova, what would you do in your father's place? I; in his place, would try to fix my mistakes from the past, hoping that one day people can overlook what I did and focus on what I am now." It was her turn to shake her head in negative.

"But what happens to all the pain that those actions brought? Shrugged them away? Those things will always be there to remember what a person can be capable of, and for my father; even if I try to trust in him, I don't think I can fully give my trust knowing what he did to my mother and I…" She inhaled some air, looking with half lidded eyes at the sunset. "And now, I have another reason, I just happened to find out that he was a Wizard Saint, betrayed the council from the inside and gained the title of Fiend…"

"I know Nova, I was there hearing it too but still I believe that he deserves our trust… he's seriously trying Nova, otherwise he wouldn't take so many efforts in hiding his past from you and me…"

"…" She stood quiet at that one. I continued.

"Nova, he's your father, his past is behind him now and this is the present. He wasn't with you before but he's here now, would you be so idiotic as to miss this chance? Besides, he's already suffering a lot for what he did so don't make it harder for him." She looked at me with angry eyes, resentment dripping with a hint of her voice cracking down... either that or I went a 'little' beyond my limit by calling her 'idiotic'.

"Then why did he do it! ? Why did he left mom and I alone and betrayed the guild! ?" I looked at her sadly, shaking my head in answer… and sighed internally in relief.

"I don't know Nova, I know the same as you about all this, but I do know something;" I turned to face her, pulling her to an embrace; that seemed to surprised her, and whispered to her ear. "He will tell us everything; everything, we just need to give him time… Situations like the one from today will repeat and he will be force to tell us even those things that he wasn't even planning on telling us… He and us need patience, we can't ask for the world from one day to the other…"

"But…!" I tightened my embrace, stopping her from saying more.

"Nova, be patient, as me that I had to wait all this time for a moment and an excuse to hold you close to me…" She flinched lightly at my indirect confession, slowly returning the hug that I was giving her; I smiled at her action. "Patience rewards those that listen to her, right?"

"I-I think so…" I laughed slightly at her shy reply, earning a small kick on my leg which almost made me laugh harder.

"So, will you give him a chance?" I separated from her, grabbing her from both her shoulders and forcing her to look at me in the eyes; she seemed doubtful for a second but later, shook his head and smiled in reply. I grinned and embrace her again. "That's the Nova I know!"

"Good, now that we settle this, can you stop hugging me?" I blushed at that question, moving myself to release her but gasping in surprise when she forced me to stay close to her. "Not now Kaki, in a few minutes."

"O-okay…" I was the one stuttering now, which earned me a soft chuckle from her. I smiled again, closing my eyes and hugging her closer to me. "I'll be here all the time you want."

"Good to know…"


The next day

Mary's POV

This was totally weird. From one day to the other Kaki and Nova became so close that I felt the urge to throw up every time that I was close to them or even watched them from afar, what did I miss after I passed out?

Relio doesn't want to tell me; Nova's father… he looks at me with such hatred that it's amazing that I'm alive right now and not turned to a statue of charcoal as that Dark Wizard. Fire-brain and red-head? They won't tell me about it or even talk to me about something else; they're so into each other right now that when Relio tried to tell them about the disappearance of that kid we found on the island they didn't hear him.

"This is annoying…" I muttered to myself while Nova's father rowed to the port city and Relio steadied the course; I got stuck with the love-birds on the center of that boat, lucky me. I heard my partner laughing at my words, making me wish that he weren't the one steadying the boat so I could throw him to the water with a kick. "Shut up…"

"When we get to the dock, I'll use the whirlwind of fire to leave quickly; I can feel the presence of council's guards waiting for us close by…" Everyone looked in his direction and nodded seriously, good, at least they were listening to what he said. "I'm sorry for not being with you on your way back to Magnolia, but I'll cause you a lot of troubles if the guards find me with you…"

After that, we got to the port; stepping out of the boat we said our good byes to Nova's father and we saw him mutter something under his breath before being engulfed in the whirlwind of fire in which he arrived to save us. I opened my eyes in surprise, on the island, I got to see the whirlwind from afar and it didn't seem a big deal; but being in front of it now gave another impression of the fire technique.

"Guess that, that's the end of our journey…" Relio said to us, while we walked to the now bustling town; receiving a cheering and gifts of appreciation for getting rid of what cause them trouble, I was happy to receive those thanks and tokens of gratitude but Nova had to spoil it.

"We didn't do anything; we were going to die if it weren't being because of a mage called Ignifer…"

Nice played, give the credit to someone who needed it, though, the people of the town looked doubtful at her words. Some even dared to say that he brain washed us or force us to say that, Kaki intervened; his eyes fierce at hearing the people called liar at the red-head.

"We are telling the truth! He appeared out of nowhere and when we were about to be kill, he saved us from that wizard fiend!"

Okay, now they seemed to believe us, it seemed that the word 'Fiend' had its own power. The crowd started to disperse and open the road to us; we didn't lose time, we marched out of that city quickly before the rune knights that Natsu said found us to question us about what happened.

Only that we didn't count with Erza-san to be here too; she was standing at the exit of the city with her arms crossed waiting for us. When we came into her view, she looked at us and rooted us to the ground with harsh-narrowed eyes; either she was angry or wanted to lecture us.

"I was called here by the Council; they told me that two strong magic sources were felt on the island from which you're coming from." She looked at every one of us in the eye and later turned to look at the island in the distance. "The two are registered in the records to belong to Davis Brenner aka. Nemuri and Natsu Dragneel aka. Ignifer… Do you happen to know something about it?"

"W-we… uh… this and that… and!" Kaki rambled nervously before shutting his mouth and leaving the talk to Nova, though, when she was about to talk I interfered.

"We got to the island and the next day confronted with the one that you first mentioned he beat us unconscious and when we woke up; we were back in camp with our injuries healed. Nothing more." She looked at me for a good amount of second in which I hold my breath and looked back at her before she sighed and started to walk into the city, raising a hand in good bye.

"Go back to the guild, I'll explain everything."

We looked at her figure walking out of sight and later turned to look at each other, all of us releasing a tired sigh of relief for the luck we had lately before hitting the road and walking back to the guild.

And I hadn't failed to notice the slight blush that Nova had on her face for her mother's action to us, even I had to admit that her mother looked really cool back there.

But she wasn't close to be as my mom!


A week later

Natsu's POV

It has been a weak since I showed my truth power to the kids and I still couldn't get out of my mind the betrayed look that my daughter gave me; I buried my face on my hands in thinking, she probably didn't came to our spot this past week because of that. Idiot of me, I should start telling her everything from now on in order to prevent situations like that one happening ever again… if she ever talks to me again.

"I can stand being alone and secluded from the people but I cannot stand it when my little girl is mad at me; what kind of Wizard Fiend am I?" I asked sarcastically to myself, a chuckle and the sound of steps being my answer; I looked up and much to my surprised, Erza was here, walking calmly towards me with an amused expression.

"One that is not evil at all…" She stopped in front of me, making me raise my head to look at her. I sighed before looking the other way, not entirely convince with her answer.

"That's your opinion though; I bet Nova's entirely different…" I heard another laugh, this time coming from my right side and two sets of footsteps coming in my direction. Looking over my shoulder, I was surprised to see Gray and Lucy walking side by side to stand under the shadow of the tree. "And, what are you two doing here?"

"Just paying a visit asshole, you don't own the forest…" Gray said with restrained anger, he still didn't forgive me for what I did. I grunted at him, such was my luck; I just wanted to suffer on my own, what was wrong with that? But then I heard it, the ice mage scratched his cheek with a finger and looked the other way to not face me when saying it. "Thanks… for saving Mary, without you there…"

"I didn't go there to save them, I went there to save my own ass," I said truthfully to them, looking sadly at the grass. "Saving the kids was collateral…"

"Whatever you say, you still saved them…" Oh god, how many knew about this place? Turning my head to my left, I saw Bisca speaking softly to me while coming with Alzack on toe, the gunner just nodding to me in appreciation before both stopped too under the shadow of the tree. "And for that you deserved a small thank you…"

"Well, you said it, now can you leave and let me to my misery?" A chorus of laughter was my answer; I raise an eyebrow at them while standing up, eyeing each one of them questioningly before stopping to looked at Erza. "What's so funny?"

"She doesn't hate you Natsu, in fact, she's constantly talking to me about how powerful and almighty you looked when fighting that other Fiend…"

"Yes, Relio is talking about it too; he's so motivated now that he actually comes earlier than before to train with me…" Alzack said, adding his two cents.

"And Mary, let's just say that she is motivated too… and also, she brought some interesting material for my work…" That last comment made me shudder in response, Lucy's sly smile was something that I didn't wanted to see again. I dropped my head in surrender, a nervous laugh escaping me.

"She told you about it, huh? That little devil…"

"What did you say! ?" I heard Gray say menacingly to me, a fist held in front of him.

"I said that your daughter is a little devil, ice stripper; she casted Truth Tell on me and made me spilled out… what happened after I was named a saint…" Erza's eyes widened as plates in shock at what I said, she grabbed me by the shoulders and asked in a frightened voice.

"You mean what happened at night! ?" I nodded dramatically at her; her next reaction was understandable, she summoned a golden spear much to everyone's surprise and turned to look at the parents of the girl, both of them flinching under her intense gaze, a red glint in her eyes that didn't foretold anything good for Mary. "Where's she?"

"Now Erza, they know already, there's nothing else to do…" She trembled furiously when I moved my hand to grab her shoulder and calm her down, another set of laughs was heard and this time I joined.

"Natsu," She said seriously, making me back away a little and turned to look at everyone; from one moment to the other they were all serious and staring at me. "For what you did, the council is now keeping a closer watch on the guild than before, reason behind why Nova cannot come here to meet you and why Master is furious at you…"

I looked down and frown, everything good came with something bad in my life. But then Erza cough on her fist and continued, her next words almost making cry.

"But, he and the rest of the guild are willing to let you in at least once a year…"

"A month, Erza…" Corrected Lucy while sighing tiredly, making me snicker at the scarlet mage's attempt to fool me.

"Whatever, Freed will write runes around the town to hide your presence from the council but it will last one day and he won't be always around; so don't even think on losing one single day…" She turned to me with a harsh glare, one that made me feel so little that it wasn't a surprised to see me nodded repeatedly at her. "For Nova's sake…"

That last comment surprised me; I looked at her expressionless and later nodded, directing a grateful smile to every one of the presents that was returned in kind. I felt like crying, dammit!

"Thanks for everything guys… and sorry for what I did too…" I started to walk to the forest, raising a hand to say good bye and disappeared from their sight; right now, I just wanted to go and wander around… until things settle down, I would go and do something else. Distract myself with some dark mage hunting or traveling around.

"The Wizard Saint that betrayed everyone and everything in which he believed in and years after, looks for forgiveness while being tagged as the strongest of the Wizard Fiends... Ignifer, the fallen saint…" I smirked jokingly at my words. "Yeah, that's sounds cool…"

To be continued


Immediately

That night

Natsu's POV

"Finally, you're doing something…" The voice said to me in an amused tone, I frown at it.

"Asa? How could it be you? I saw you die…" I said seriously surprise, Asa only laughed.

"If that's true, who says that you are not crazy for dreaming about a dead person?" My frown deepened. "I am dead Natsu, but my magic still resides in those that have the Dream Control spell on them; that's why I'm here in your mind now…"

"Doesn't the spell ends when the caster dies?"

"That is true, but this is a residual effect Natsu…"

"So that means that it has a limit?"

"Yes."

"Good, because you're annoying…" He laughed in response.

"Look Natsu, I'm sorry for getting you into this and leaving you and your family in such a state but it was for a good purpose…" I snorted sarcastically. "If it weren't being because of me, you would have disappeared with the rest of your guild on Tenrou Island during the S-class Exam for seven years…"

"Seriously?" I asked while raising an eyebrow.

"Yes, my intervention prevented the appearance of the black dragon and saved your guild from a possible loss of fans around the world…"

"What..?"

"Sorry; broke the fourth wall in there, what I mean to say Natsu, is that you passed through a lot for a better future and now you must do whatever it takes to recover the things that matter to you so that future can be at your grasp…" I looked down in deep thinking at that. "Your friends don't hate you enough to never see you again, they're just still in shock at what you did and situations like Davis are the ones that will show them that you were, are and will be loyal to them…"

"That 'were' is wrong, I showed them that I can betray them if the situation arises…"

"Only if it is with good reasons Natsu, that's what I meant with 'do more'… Stop sulking about what you did, stop hiding it; tell them what was happening at the moment to make them understand that you are the reason behind these peaceful times…"

"I don't know…"

"Come on, if they truly are your friends, they'll understand…"

I thought about for a long time, some much time that when I realized, it was already time to wake up. Asa's voice sounded weak too; surely the residual magic that was left in me was running out by now.

"I'll do it, but if something goes wrong, be sure that I'll find a way to revive you just to kill you again…"

He laughed heartedly at my words, thing that made me raise an eyebrow in questioning.

I was talking seriously.

"Then good luck Natsu, be sure that the author of this fic will help you…"

"…"

"I seriously need to stop doing that…"

Now it is, truly, no kidding, out of any possible doubt

The End

Of this story at least


So, it took a while but here it is, the end of this three-shot. ^^

Don't know what to think of it, seriously, I was writing like it was the hardest task in the world and later inspiration struck me.

And here you got the chapter.

I checked it like a hundred times and, as I said, I don't know what to think of it.

So, reviews will be greatly appreciated, it will be the only way to be sure that you like it.

Now, I need to leave, I have a poker game in an hour and my friend's house is at the other side of town.

Saludos.