A/N Here's chapter three of the Strongest dragon Slayer.

On the last chapter of The Strongest Dragon, Natsu has been taken by slavers along with the other kids from Rosemary Village. Will he be able to escape his torture and who is the scarlet-haired girl with brown eyes?

Mr. Bitch is not a god slayer I compared the feeling of his lightning to being struck by a god due to Natsu's weakened state. Natsu's hunger wasn't what made him weak it was his fatigue, I did not nerf his brain, which I thought was made apparent in the first chapter, I just had him do some really stupid shit, like not eating or sleeping for days on end. It is a proven fact that you are more sensetive to pain while tired.

' I'm going to tear this hellhole to the ground and turn the rubble to ashes,' Natsu thought to himself with his eyes closed as he felt the whip crack against his back again. ' Five minutes before a can begin my plans,' He thought to himself as he bit his lip to keep his yelps of pain back.

" I'm starting to think you enjoy coming here and getting tortured by little ol' me," Mr. Bitch sneered mockingly, Natsu ignored his remark and kept his eyes closed counting down. " I mean you've been here, what two years now, and after all this time you still haven't learned your lesson," Mr. Bitch continued his mocking rant as he sent more lightning into the whip before striking it against Natsu's bareback.

Mr. Bitch grinned to himself when he saw blood trickle down Natsu's mouth as his teeth had pierced his lip. Mr. Bitch looked down at his watch before growling in annoyance. Mr. Bitch began te relentlessly whip Natsu as he was now focusing on getting a scream out of Natsu who had successfully kept them to himself despite eight hours of constant torture.

Mr. Bitch growled in anger as he heard the doors behind him opening up to reveal ten guards and a medic. All of the guards looked like they'd rather be anywhere but where they currently were and the medic just looked tense and was looking at everything but Natsu. ' I have at least two seconds to act after they remove the magic restraints so that they can place the dual acting suppression seal for my magic and strength so I have to be quick,' Natsu thought to himself as he calmed his breathing.

Two guards grabbed each of Natsu's four limbs as the other two undid his chains and stood off to the side as Natsu was forced down on a stool with all of his limbs secure. As soon as Natsu felt his magic container was accessible to him he blew out a huge streak of fire onto the medic who barely had any time to scream as his head was reduced to ash. The other guard was to slow to act as Natsu set them all on fire by releasing magic through his skin setting his whole body on fire and burning their hands and making them let go.

Natsu cuffed his hands to his mouth as he blew fire out while doing a full three-sixty turn burning everything and everyone in the room. Natsu looked around and saw that Mr. Bitch had left the room before he could get to him. Natsu flexed all of his now sore muscles as he stood straight. The sounds of footsteps rang in Natsu's ears as he looked around the room before going to the wall that was covered in weapons and picking out two separate blades. One was a hunting knife which he held in his left hand and the other was a katana with serrated edges.

" Let the slaughter commence," Natsu growled to himself as the rage that had built up inside of him from being trapped and beaten for so long boiled to the surface filling his mind with thoughts of torture and death but overall, vengeance. Natsu let out a mighty roar as he charged out of the room and was face to face with over a dozen guards whose morals dropped seeing him free and unrestrained in any way.

Somewhere^Else

A certain redhead's eyes opened groggily as the sounds of explosions filled the tower. She looked around and saw that all the others were also awakening and they began mumbling to themselves in annoyance as the tower shook from another explosion.

" Looks like he's at it again, do you think he'll do it this time sis?" A tan skinned slave asked her curiously as he shook some fallen pebbles out of his blonde hair. The slave girl looked at him for a second before looking in the direction of another explosion.

" I don't know Sho, maybe he will maybe he won't," she answered in a slightly snippy tone making Sho look at her oddly. ' It won't do him any good to get his hopes up, we're going to be trapped here until we die,' The girl thought to herself as she looked away from the now slightly downtrodden boy.

" Don't worry Sho, I'm sure he'll succeed this time and then he'll come and help us, don't mind big sis she's just snappy, I heard from grandpa Rob that when girls get older they start acting weird," A dark-haired boy said to the boy introduced as Sho, though he whispered the last part although not well enough as a rock was thrown at his head courtesy of the "snappy" girl.

" You shouldn't talk about big sis like that Wally-nii-san," A brown haired little girl said meekly as she walked over to them from an old man who had yet to say anything. The little girl went and sat next to the redhead before hugging up to her side. The older girl looked down at her before giving her a grin and rubbing her head affectionately causing the girl to purr like a cat.

" Hey look on the bright side, with him destroying shit right now we won't have to work for a while, so we can just chill until he gets caught, oh and look the explosions have stopped," A blue-haired boy said sarcastically as the explosions stopped although closer to the slave barracks than usual.

' Jellal-nii-san you shouldn't be so mean he just wants to leave like we do," The small brown haired girl said to the blue haired boy now introduced as Jellal. Jellal sent her a hard look before scoffing and turning away.

" Listen Millianna, Sho, Wally, we're never leaving here until L- I mean until Zeref is revived that's what they said, so we should just accept it and finish the tower," Jellal said seriously as he held his arms wide out on either side of him referring to the tower. All of the slaves sent Jellal an annoyed look, couldn't he shut up about Zeref they already get enough of that from the guards.

" Ahh, here you all are I've been looking for like ten minutes," A voice called through the metal bars. All of the slaves trapped in the cell looked towards the door in shock and in Jellal's case anger. The boy in front of the bars was about five foot but they could tell that he was close to their age. They gasped at his physic though. His body was covered in scars and some of them looked fresh.

Natsu^P.O.V

After getting past the guards who were cowering behind some boxes after seeing him head their way Natsu looked around everywhere for the slaves although most of the cells were filled with dead or dying people who were too weak to be able to help so Natsu left the, for now at least. Natsu heard talking further down the corridor and followed it until he found a cell that was filled with about ten people.

" Are you the Onii-san who keeps making things explode," A little brown haired girl said softly as she stared at Natsu in shock. Natsu just grinned before nodding excitedly causing the other slaves to share a look and cheer, all save for the red-haired girl who looked cautious and Jellal who looked downright homicidal.

" Look I'm going to free you guys so stand back," Natsu said seriously as the slaved stepped back in fear of getting caught in an explosion. Natsu's hands set on fire before he moves them in a large circle in front of the bars causing them to turn red before melting like an ice cube in hell. The old man stared at Natsu in shock before smiling which went all around unnoticed.

Natsu walked into the cell with the other slaves before melting the chains that connected them to the walls although they were still cuffed they just weren't connected to anything because had Natsu tried to melt the cuffs off it would burn them. After freeing them Natsu led them to the armory to arm them for their eventual confrontation with the slavers.

" Alright, guys let's go get the rest of the people who are trapped here and then we're busting through the front door," Natsu cried out as the slaves cheered from behind him as they charged, right back where they came from. After rounding up the rest of the slaves in the tower they took up a fort in front of the armory on Natsu's order.

The captured that were unable to fight or fend for themselves were held up in the armory getting healed by a slaver medic who Natsu ' kindly' convinced to heal them. Outside of the armory they set up some barricades and hid behind them with blasters while they more able body people got blades or blunt weapons courtesy of the torture room.

" Why are we just waiting here why don't we just go through the front door," Sho asked impatiently. Natsu held his hand up before the sounds of many footsteps reached the rest of the people's ears. Sho peaked over the barricade only to get pulled back by Natsu. Sho was about to complain when he saw a magic bullet pass over his head not even a second later.

" Alright I'll draw their fire and once they have to reload let them have it," Natsu whispered so they could all hear him. Some of them sent him worried looks but they were unable to voice their worries as Natsu hopped over the boxes. All hell broke loose.

They slaves battled against their slavers for a good hour before the battle seemed to be calming down. The slavers lost far more men than the slaves but they made up for it with sheer number. Natsu was slowly getting tired due to the wounds that littered his body slowing him down. Natsu was hit on the left side of his face with a haymaker when he wasn't paying attention.

' Shit right in my fucking blind spot,' Natsu thought to himself as he lit his body on fire to get the slavers to give him some space. Natsu forced more magic to his body as he entered Dragon Force. Natsu was throwing men left and right but he was slowly getting overwhelmed. A guard managed to get lucky and stabbed Natsu in the side. He growled before glaring at the now fearful guard before Natsu could kill him a sword went flying into the man's heart killing him instantly.

Natsu looked behind him and his heart fluttered. The red-haired girl was standing above the fallen body of the old man with a look of rage maring her beautiful face, swords floated in the air above her before being sent into other guards. Natsu watched in awed silence as she charged the slavers with a blade in her hand along with a couple other floating above her. To Natsu, she looked like a goddess as she was drenched in the blood of her enemies without a single drop of his blood in the mix.

" Enough!" A loud voice boomed throughout the tower. Everyone stopped and looked at the new figure. Natsu growled in rage as he looked at the man. It was the bastard who was on the ship and had beat him after Mr. Bitch had, and to top it off the bastard was wearing the scarf Igneel gave him.

" I will not stand for this insolence all of you filthy heathen will stop fighting this instance. You filthy slaves lay down your arms and go back to your cell and all of you guards will be joining them as now I have a shortage of slaves.," The man shouted angrily. The red-haired girl gave a war cry before charging at the man. The man glared at her before lifting his hand and shooting a large ball of fire at her destroying her blades that she had used to protect her and exploded making her scream in pain as she was sent flying.

" You bastard," Natsu growled out in rage his voice thundering through the battleground. The building shook as Natsu's hold on his power released flooring everyone with his monstrous power. How dare these filthy swine, touch her or his scarf. Natsu's canines enlarged as he grew in size as pin-salmon and red dragon wings sprouted from his back. Natsu's fingers turned into claws and his feet turned into claws.

" How dare you touch her, and you're wearing Igneel's scarf," Natsu roared out as he stood at a full seven^eleven, scales covered most of his body, his wings spanned out twenty feet from wing tip to wing tip, his nose and mouth formed a snout about seven inches long with a pointed nose, and his scales sparkled in a mix of salmon and red as the hair on his head grew out into a main and went down across his back.

Everyone stared at the beast in shock and fear. The man Natsu directed his anger at was frozen in terror. The man in fear started shooting fireballs at Natsu while backing up in fear. Natsu prowled forward as he let the fire go out on his skin not affecting him at man tripped over a dead slaver before falling on his butt, he frantically scooted back as tears cascaded down his face as he saw his death in the beast's eyes.

As soon as the man's back touched the wall he let out a weak whimper as he soiled his pants filling Natsu's dragon strong senses with the smell of pee that now saturated the air along with the smell of death. Natsu launched himself at the man and engulfed his head in his now larger hand.

Natsu picked the man up by his head while he relished the muffled cries the man produced as the man clawed frantically at his hand trying to free himself. Natsu slowly increased his grip on the man's head crushing it slowly. Natsu felt the man's skull slowly giving in to the pressure that his exerted. Natsu stopped abruptly and reached his other hand out before grabbing Igneel scarf and wrapping it around his neck.

Natsu's nose was assaulted with the smell of the man all over his scarf and growled before ripping the scarf off of his neck and dropping it into a portal before squeezing the man's head as hard as he could crushing the man's head in his hand. Natsu swiped his hand to the side throwing blood everywhere, Natsu looked with contempt at the man's corpse before raising his foot and stomping on his corpse, Natsu repeated this a couple more times before he lost himself in his anger once again and stomping repeatedly on the man's corpse. Natsu stopped his mindless demolishing of the man's corpse by two small arms wrapping around his leg.

" P-please, he's dead… just… just stop, please," Natsu turned to see his next victim would be only to stop when he saw the two tearful brown orbs staring into his dragonified eye. Natsu's magic pressure slowly retreated back into the depths of Natsu's body as he shrank back to his normal size, his dragon parts retreating back into his body.

" Scarlet," Natsu whispered as he collapsed into the girl's arms. All of the slaves cheered in the defeat of the army as they rushed to the exit, none of the living guards tried to stop them because they were afraid that the red-haired girl would kill them. Only one slave stayed behind as he glared at the retreating backs of the other slaves from his position in front of some of the guards.

" Get off of the damn ground you coward we have a tower to build and a god to resurrect," Jellal ground out angrily as he turned to address the living guards. The guards all scrambled to their feet as the person who was secretly making the shot addressed them.

Natsu opened his eye and felt the familiar rocking of a boat but this time he wasn't strapped down on a metal table with his magic suppressed. Natsu sat up and shook the cobwebs from his head as he closed his eye and thought back to before he fell unconscious. Natsu's eye opened as he held his hand out as a portal formed above it and out dropped the scarf Igneel gave him although this time it did not smell like a pompous ass.

Natsu hugged the scarf to his chest before wrapping it around his neck. ' I'll never lose you again,' Natsu thought to himself as he tightened the scarf around his neck as the empty feeling that he had felt since it was lost leaving him feeling whole again. Natsu let out a shuddering sigh as he brought his knees up to his chest and hugged his legs to his chest. His body shook with silent sobs the full brunt of the past two years hit him.

A pair of arms wrapped around him as his bed sunk slightly due to the weight of another body pressing it down. Natsu froze as he lifted his eyes above his knees and saw red hair. The girl pushed away slightly as they met each other's gaze. A bloodshot onyx eye met a pair of understanding brown eyes.

" It's okay, you don't have to be strong around me, just let it all out," The girl whispered gently. Natsu bit his lip as he felt the sobs in his chest build up due to their outlet being cut. Natsu straightened out his legs as he wrapped his arms around the girl and pulled her closer to him. Natsu buried his head into the side of her neck and released a shuddered sob as most of his emotions that he had buried deep within himself during his entrapment at the tower.

The two stayed like that for what seemed like hours as Natsu clung to the red-head like a lifeline as he cried into her neck while she ran her fingers through his hair comfortingly and hummed a soothing melody that she use to do for the kids whenever they had a nightmare.

After Natsu stopped crying the two just sat there and enjoyed each other's company. ' I never did learn her name did I,' Natsu thought to himself as he lifted his head and cracked open his single good eye and stared at her and admired the serene look she held. " What's your name," Natsu asked though his voice was cracked from crying.

" Erza … Scarlet, yeah, Erza Scarlet," Erza said as she remembered what she called him before he passed out. Natsu closed his eye nodding while he let a smile grace his lips, his first true in a while.

" My name is Natsu Dragneel," Natsu said as his smile widened as he opened his one good eye. Erza just smiled which caught Natsu's heart as feeling he had never felt before crept up but Natsu ignored it as he yawned and lay down unknowingly dragging Erza into the bed with him. The two fell asleep peacefully unbothered by the rocking of the boat.

When Natsu and Erza woke up the boat had already gotten to land and they along with Rob were the only people left on the boat because the others left before going their separate ways. The three were going towards a port town to get to Fiore to join the guild that Rob was in but Natsu stopped abruptly.

" We need to go that way there's something I want to check out," Natsu said pointing west as his nose wrinkled slightly as if met with an unpleasant smell. Erza and Rob didn't complain as they followed Natsu who was basically speed walking. The trio soon got to a small town that seemed almost deserted except for the faraway sound of yelling in the distance.

The trio went to inspect what was happening and what they saw shocked and confused them. What looked like the whole town children elderly and all were all in front of a single wooden house chanting about ' Slaying a demon' others screamed things along the line of ' leave demon' or ' leave us in peace or we'll throw you out in pieces'. Natsu soon noticed that they all had a weapon of sorts. Most adults were carrying pitchforks and torches while the elderly and children were throwing rocks.

There goes chapter three. I wonder who's in that house that our hero and his company have stumbled upon, will Natsu have to fight a demon next chapter or will he save two damsels in distress along with their, manly? brother. That concludes the third chapter of The Strongest Dragon Slayer.

Ja Ne