Missing In Action- Chapter 3
Hey guys! I'm back with another chapter, this one is a longer than the previous ones. So sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I just started high school so there is that and on top it's the middle of marching band season so my next couple of months are going to be hectic but i'll try my best! Anyways let's just jump right in, enjoy chapter 3!
It was dark and quiet, the only sound was water dripping onto the cold hard floor of the filthy cell. There were no windows for light to find its way to the pitch black room, the only source of the little bit of light was coming from a lantern outside of the cell.
The door of the cell opened and a tall man walked into the dirty cell. Natsu woke up to being slapped across the face by the man of whom he despised.
"Time to wake up Salamander." he said with a smile. "How about we have some fun this morning?" Natsu growled at he man only to be punched in the gut.
"No no no, bad Salamander. You should know better than to growl at me!"
"Oh go to hell!" Natsu yelled kicking the man in the leg.
He almost fell over but caught himself by grabbing the table that was in the room. The table was full of weapons ranging from small daggers to huge swords.
"Now you're gonna get it!" he yelled with a look of pure rage. "Boys! Get the machine ready! We have some magic to drain!" he yelled with a crooked grin.
Natsu's eyes widened with horror. "No please anything but that!" he screamed.
Having you magic drained was worse than torture. It was like having your soul ripped from your body. It was life playing tug-a-war with life and your soul was the rope. Having your magic drained from your body was the worse thing that could happen to a mage.
"No please!" Natsu screamed but he was already being dragged to the room where the worst thing on earth was.
They hooked up the screaming dragon slayer to the machine. The machine was like the one in Edolas, but much much worse. The man had amplified it to cause more damage along with the damage caused by the draining process.
"No no no stop! STO- AHHHHHHH!" Natsu tried to say but was cut off when a agonizing pain went throughout his whole body causing him to screaming out in pain.
The draining went on for hours and Natsu's tortures loves the sounds of him screaming for them to stop, they were amused at what they were doing to the poor teen.
When it was over Natsu was too weak to even lift his head. All he could do was close his eyes and go into unconsciousness hoping that this was all just a bad dream.
Lucy woke up to the birds singing with Happy sleeping next to her. Lucy took Happy in with her while they came up with a plan to search for Natsu, Mira, and Wendy. Charla was staying with Erza for the being.
Lucy was still in denial, she didn't want to believe Natsu was missing. She wanted him to jump in her window and scare the living crap out of her. She wanted the dragon slayer grab her by the arm and them jump out of her window to go on a job, then she would complain about him never using the door and him replying with his famous grin.
She wanted Natsu to be there with her.
Lucy got out of bed and got her clothes from the dresser and went to the bathroom to take a shower. Once she was cleaned up and dressed she woke up Happy, they ate breakfast and went to the guild.
When they go to the guild everyone was as gloomy as they were yesterday when they were given the news about Natsu's, Wendy's, and Mirajane's disappearance.
"Hey guys." Lucy said as she sat down at the table with her friends. There was Gray, Erza, Charla, Juvia, and Lisanna.
"Hey Lucy." Gray said.
"Do you know when the search party leaves today?" Lucy asked "I went home before I could get the information."
"Juvia believes it's at noon."
"Oh ok, thanks Juvia." She replied with a small smile.
"You guys are going to go out with the search party right?" Lisanna asked.
Everyone nodded, just then the guild doors busted open and two people walked in. One was tall and very built. He had long black hair with crimson red eyes with iron bolts all over his face. He wore a black coat with feather like spikes on his right shoulder. Next to him was a small black and grey cat with a scar next to his left eye. The cat also had a small sword with a red handle attached to his back.
"Gajeel, Lily I assume the job went well?" the master asked as he approached the pair.
Gajeel nodded. "Gihe, very well." he said with a satisfied smile. "But master we heard some some talk about a guild while we were on the job." he said with a serious look. Pantherlily nodded.
"It was concerning if I might add." Lily said.
All eyes were on the three. Everyone flinched 'did word get out that quickly?' the members thought.
"Practically everywhere people were talking about a dark guild that is going after the dragon slayers." Gajeel said.
'It must have been them…' Makarov thought. "Gajeel, Lily, Happy, Charla, Lucy, Gray, Erza come with me." Makarov said while turning around and walking to his office.
Said people looked at each other and followed the old guild master. Once the group arrived in his office the master closed the door behind them and sat at his desk.
"What is it master?" Lucy asked.
Everyone's eyes were on the old guild master.
Makarov looked at the group of teens in front of him, "I believe the people Gajeel and Lily heard about are the bastards that took Natsu."
The room was silent, but you could still hear the rest of the guild members bickering about who knows what until someone decided to break the silence.
"Wait what are you talking about master?" Lily asked. "What do you mean 'took Natsu.' Salamanders missing?" Gajeel asked but it was almost like he was demanding a answer from the old geezer.
Makarov sighed. "That's right, you two haven't heard did you? Well a few nights ago team Natsu was attacked while helping Mirajane clean the guild. Mira took Wendy to a safe place while the others fought. In the midst of fighting Gray attacked one of the intruders but he grabbed Natsu by his scarf using him as a shield, causing him to be heavily injured and while one of the attackers took the other stayed and fought with Erza, Gray, and Lucy." the master explained, Gray cringed he started to blame himself for Natus's kidnapping. If only he was stronger... "Gajeel, you said that there was a dark guild going after the dragon slayers?" He nodded.
"Hold on old man, are you saying that the people that attacked us and took Natsu are in that dark guild going after the dragon slayers?" Gray asked.
Makarov nodded. "Did you two catch the name of this dark guild? Perhaps the area they are located?"
"I believe it was something like 'Reaping Shadow'. I also heard they were near Hargeon, people are now trying their best to avoid that area." Lily stated while crossing his little arms.
"Hmm, I see." Just then the door to the master's office swung open and Levy ran into the room with a look of horror on her face.
"Matser!" she yelled.
"Levy-chan? What's wrong?" Lucy asked the bluenette.
"Master come quick! It's Mira!" she shouted.
Makarov was instantly up along with the others in the room. They all ran down to the guild hall to find a heavily injured Mirajane, alone.
"Mira what happened?!" Makarov yelled as he ran over to the barmaid.
"T-they found u-us and took W-wendy." Mira said weakly.
"T-they have W-wendy?" Charla choked out as tears streamed down her face.
"Get her to the infirmary!" Makarov screamed.
"Those bastards are going to pay for what they did!" Master yelled. "They have crossed the line, brats we are going to war!" The whole guild started yelling. Never make enemies with Fairy Tail.
Wendy was walking down a long, dark, and dirty hallway. She had magic restraining cuffs on, they were too tight and started to hurt her small and delicate wrists. She had no idea what happened, just yesterday she was with Mira and they thought it was now safe to head back to the guild, but then she felt pain in the back of her head and heard screaming,then everything went black. Now she was in this strange place, it was cold and scary. She could hear people screaming, crying, and yelling. Wendy was terrified.
Wendy was then thrown into a dark and dirty room. She was injured but not to badly, just a few cuts and bruises plus the large bump on the back of head where she was struck. Sadly Wendy was going to be given more them a few cuts. They scared dragon slayer saw a figure chained to the wall behind them with their head down. It looked like a person, a teen maybe. By the way they looked they didn't seem to be in good health at all.
"H-hello?" Wendy called nervously, she was shaking.
The person's head shot up "Wendy?" he called. "N-no they c-couldn't have gotten you t-too." he said with worry in his voice. The man sounded familiar to the young sky dragon. There was no way it was him. Wendy slowly approached the young man. He had spiky pink hair and wore a scaly white scarf. There was no denying it.
"N-natsu?!" she yelled running the rest of the way to him. It was him, it was really him but he looked terrible.
He had huge dark circles under his eyes. He had cuts and bruises all over his body, there were bandages on his arms, legs, head, and torso that were bloody and terribly wrapped on the poor teen's beaten body. Natsu was so much thinner than normal you could count his ribs if you wanted to, it was obvious that he wasn't getting the nutrition he needed. He was pale, very pale, he looked like a ghost. This the wasn't like the strong, unbeatable, fun-loving Natsu that she knew. This Natsu was weak and vulnerable chained to the wall like he was, it was like he had given up.
"What did t-they do to you?" she asked with tears in her eyes.
"No Wendy, don't worry about me. You NEED to get out of here, NOW!" As he said those words the door to the cell opened and a tall and buff man walked in.
It was quiet and the two stared at the man with a scared look hidden in their eyes.
"Natsu-san w-who is t-t-that?" Wendy whispered while staring at the man, he had a evil look in his eyes and a crooked grin was spread across his face. She started to shake in fear. "D-draven." Natsu said with a growl.
"Now now Salamander is this any way to treat ME!" Draven yelled as he stabbed Natsu in the side with a small dagger. Wendy screamed. Natsu gasped by the sudden attack and gritted his teeth trying his best not to give in to the screams of pain he wanted to let out, he knew Draven was looking for the screaming and yelling asking him to stop. Natsu wasn't going to give in. Eventually Draven pulled out the bloody knife and Natsu began to bleed frown the new wound.
"I think it's time to have some fun don't you think Salamander, now that we have another toy to play with." Draven said with a evil grin on his face as he turned towards the terrified girl. He loved the look of fear that was plastered to her face.
"DON'T YOU DARE! LEAVE HER ALO-" Natsu yelled but was cut off when he was smacked in the face with the butt of the bloody blade Draven was holding in his hands.
"Come on Salamander it's play time." he said as he dragged him and the screaming girl to the 'play' room.
Okay this is what I have so far, what do ya think? Again sorry things have been slow, freaking school, I have a few test coming up (two weeks in why give us tests now?) so things are going to be slow again. Plus there is marching band atop of all that, it's now the middle of the season and we have shows, parades, and football games to perform at and of course after school practices *sigh*. I'm actually thinking about writing another story but on a different topic, the game Legends of Zelda Twilight Princess. It's one of my favorite games and I thought it would be fun to write about it, just a thought. Anyway's i'll try to get the next one out ASAP! Until next time, night guys!