AN: I had no idea of what to write for this day, then I saw a small comic in a theory and bam! this part came to be.
And here we start the drama! BTW, I'm sorry for posting late. My finals are approaching and I'm really stressed and running against time to be able to study all the stuff I have to study.
Ok, now back to business, I hope you all enjoy reading!

Drops of truth

When they had decided they were going to try to negotiate with August, they didn't expect Mest to go and mess up everything. If August was already scary enough when he was calm, after he lost his cool he was absolutely terrifying.

A strong blast of heat magic was thrown at them and Natsu jumped in front of Lucy, negating part of the magic and protecting her. The others weren't as lucky. They took the blast head on and now were out of combat.

August looked at the mages in front of him carefully. He had no doubt about it, out of the two mages left standing, the boy was exactly who he thought he was. After all, even if someone denied it, those two did have some similar traces.

The king of magic prepared a powerful spell, this time, with no heat involved. Natsu and Lucy tried to face the spell, but it was way too strong for them. The spell hit the duo and the dust covered the air, just like a smokescreen, hiding the effects of the magic.

When the dust settled down, the duo couldn't move. Their bodies felt heavy, as if they had used up all of their magic power. They struggled to move, trying to stand up against the king of magic, but it was a futile attempt.

"It's no good, Luce. I can't move my body."

"We can't give up now Natsu. We have to keep trying..." Lucy panted. Her body refused to move even the slightest inch, even talking was taking a great tool on her tired and hurt body.

August just watched the struggling mages before approaching Natsu's body. Out of the many things the Fairy Tail mages had seen and experienced, nothing had prepared them to what would happen there.

"It's a shame you chose to stand in the opposing side, prince of Alvarez. I wouldn't have to take this measures if you had stayed in his majesty's side. After all, your brother did order us not to kill you, but to bring you to him alive."

Lucy was taken back by August's words. It couldn't be true, could it? She looked at Natsu, just to see the dragon slayer trembling. And by seeing that, something inside of her snapped. She thought they had shared all the secrets that troubled them, but it seemed she was mistaken.

"Natsu, is... is what he said true? Could it be that you didn't share everything that was troubling your mind, even after we decided to face our demons together?!"

"Luce, I..." Natsu looked away. "...Even I hadn't accepted the things Zeref said to me. I wanted to get the book of END back first and then I was going to tell you everything. I didn't want to lie to you..."

"But you did lie anyway. You betrayed my trust again, Natsu!"

Seeing how things were getting way too heated up, August decided to intervene and interrupt the quarrel.

"I think that's enough. I take from this talk that there're quite the number of things you didn't tell you friend there. But it's too late now. I've decided. END shall awaken now."

Natsu looked more and more terrified as August got closer and closer to him. The warning bells started ringing inside Lucy's mind, with her gut feeling telling her something awful was about to happen.

August could see Natsu's pointless struggle and the dread stamped on the boy's face. He was tired of playing the fearsome foe, so he started the final act leading to END's awakening.

"You should stop with the pointless struggle, fairies. There's nothing you can do to stop END's awakening. Isn't that right, prince of Alvarez? Or should I say END, Etherious Natsu Dragneel?" August said, while raising his staff and inflicting a fatal would on Natsu.

A gasp came out of Natsu's mouth, just as blood started to flow from the wound on his stomach. Lucy was totally paralyzed by the shocking scene. Just as Natsu spit some blood, her body started to tremble as the despair clouded her mind. And for an instant, a single high-pitched anguished cry calling for a friend was what could be heard there.