TRIGGER WARNINGS: Graphic depictions of gore, torture and rape

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Natsu didn't even know how in the world he was conscious again. His body hurt so, so much and he was feeling extremely light headed and tired, but he couldn't waste time by sleeping. His nose told him he was somewhere new and no longer in that dreadful cave, but oh god wherever he was smelt so much worse. It was the smell of death and rotten flesh, if he had anything left in his stomach to throw up he would've but he could only manage a gag. Frustratingly he was still blindfolded and chained up, but his limbs felt so weak he doubted he would be able to move even without the restraints. Luckily whatever had been shoved in his ass was no longer there, atleast that was a positive, and he was grateful nothing else had been forced into him. The master had just beaten the absolute crap out of him, cut him, fucked him with some object that felt similar to the shape of a penis, and had jerked himself off into Natsu's wounds; that was definitely the worst part, but if he didn't escape he knew many more horrors were to come.

Ignoring his pain, both mental and physical, and the rancid smell that assaulted his nostrils he desperately tried to make an escape plan, but he couldn't seem to come up with anything solid. He'd still try though, Natsu Dragneel was never a quiter. He would save himself and Katherine and destroy the bastards who dared to do this to them.

"Hello! Anybody there?!" He tried to shout as loudly as possible but cringed at how messed up and raspy his voice sounded. No response, just eery silence. The dragon slayer growled lowly with anger. He tried to tug at the chains, but in his state that was completely useless. He tried to summon his magic, but he was still pumped full of sedatives. What was he suppose to do? Just wait around for Fairytail to come? He guessed that was his only option for now. "Helloooo!" He called out again. His throat hurt and his mouth was as dry as a desert. "Can I atleast get some water!"

"Be quiet pet, I could hear you from the cell next door," he heard someone snap. No not someone, that voice, that smell, it was the guilds master. His skin crawled. "How are you feeling?"

"How the fuck do you think I'm feeling?!" He hissed in return. The master chuckled. "Where are we?" Natsu asked furiously.

"We're back at my guild. This will be your new home," the master said softly and Natsu felt his blindfold fall to the ground. His eyes fluttered open to be met with a harsh yellow light, he groaned and blinked a few times to try and get use to seeing again. It took a moment but his blurred surroundings eventually became clear. The master was grinning evily. He had dark eyes as black as coal and long, straight silver hair that draped over his large shoulders. Natsu then scanned his prison cell. It was rather tiny and the exit was a large iron door, there was nothing to see other than the room he was in. It was empty other than a light hanging from the ceiling; and the walls and floor were decorated with bucket loads of dry blood. "Do you like what you see?" He cackled.

Natsu ignored the man, "What's your name?" Natsu narrowed his eyes at the dispecible man with obvious loathing.

"Eldon, but you will call me Master like the others," Eldon smiled.

"Like hell!" Natsu sneered. Eldon's smile windened and he unclipped the chains that held his arms up. They fell onto Natsu's lap and he gave a little groan. He just had shackles on his wrists and ankles now. The relief of not being chained up was short lived as Eldon grabbed him by the hair and dragged him into the middle of the room. He hoisted the dragon slayer to his feet and attached more chains to his wrist shakles and attached them to a hook on the cieling. Natsu yelped as his whole body weight pulled on his shoulders, he could only scrape the concrete floor with the very tip of his toes.

"That looks painful," Eldon laughed sadistically. Natsu would've loved to spit in his face if his mouth wasn't so dry. "As pretty as that defiant glare is I rather miss you crying. Remember that? Remember how you sobbed like a little baby?" Eldon's eyes twinkled with pleasure. Natsu knew he was only trying to get to him, to 'break' him. That's what this little game was, he wanted to make Natsu into his little obediant slave and he would rather die than become that. He ignored Eldon yet again.

"Where's my scarf?" Natsu asked urgently, the precious item suddenly popping into his mind.

"Is that something important to you?" Eldon asked curiously.

"My father gave it to me!" Natsu exclaimed.

"Oh well that's too bad. I have no idea where that thing went. Anymore questions?" Eldon smiled again. Natsu hoped he could get his scarf back but there were more important things at stake. He forced the scarf to the back of his mind.

"Where's Katherine?" He demanded the girls where abouts. Eldon's smile stretched even further.

"Dead. Melchior certainly didn't waste his time," he said with amusement. Natsu's eyes widened. Was he lying? Or had he really failed? If it was the latter, he would be completey distraught with himself for his failure; it would be all his fault, Katherine's blood would be on his hands. If only he'd been more careful like Gray, then he would've noticed and Katherine would be safe. Maybe Gray was a better wizard than him after all. Either way, that didn't make him useless! He was still a fire dragon slayer!

"If that's true, you will pay asshole!" Natsu snarled. Eldon trailed a finger up his abs and to his chest playfully.

"I think you're the one who's going to pay my pet" Eldon placed a kiss on his collar bone. Natsu thrashed as hard as he could against his chains to escape his touches but Eldon grabbed his waist and held him still.

"Let go of me! Stop touching me!" Natsu screamed and tried to lift his leg to kick him, but he was still too weak to do so. Eldon clicked his tongue and went over to a pile of chains on the floor. He got to work on chaining Natsu's feet to the floor, spreading them far apart. Natsu groaned at the discomfort.

"That's better. Now, where should we start?" Eldon beamed and his eyes reflected his insanity. Natsu began to feel a little nervous, was he planning to do worse than before? His body was still a mess of cuts and bruises and he tried to forget about the pain in his ass. He could handle pain, but torture and humiliation? He didn't know how to handle that.

"It doesn't matter that you moved. Fairytail will still find you," Natsu threatened and Eldon's expression darkened. He roughly grabbed Natsu's jaw.

"You're mine now. They won't come for you," he said bitterly as he forced Natsu to look into his eyes. "I've been looking forward to actually fucking you, maybe we can start there?" He was smiling again. Natsu's eyes widened, no, anything but that. He didn't want to lose his virginity to a vile monster.

Someone banged loudly on the iron door and Eldon's eyes shifted. Natsu couldn't twist his body around to see who it was as Eldon went to open it.

"Oh Melchior, thank you very much," he heard Eldon say happily. Melchior grunted in response and he heard something heavy be thrown on to the ground. The door closed loudly and Eldon came back into his view with a very excited look on his face. "Melchior brought you a gift," he stated and ducked behind him again. When Natsu saw what his 'gift' was he vomited stomach bile all down his front.

"N-no!" He gasped, tears formed in the corners of his eyes. It was Katherine's corpse, and he could only tell that from her scent and blonde hair, her body had been completely disfigured. Her eyes were missing, so was a hand, and the rest of her body was a bloody, mangled mess. "YOU FUCKING MONSTER!" He shrieked.

Eldon threw his head back and roared in laughter. Natsu continued to scream and cry at him. Eldon grabbed the girls corpses hair and shoved her bloody, mutated face into his own. Natsu's nose filled with the metallic scent of blood and he puked again, the stomach bile burnt his throat. He stared into the empty eye holes horrified and feeling intense guilt. Eldon dropped the corpse at his feet.

"This is your fault," Eldon hissed and caressed Natsu's cheek. Natsu tried to bite his hand but he quickly pulled away. "That girl died because you couldn't save her!"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP! SHUT UP BASTARD OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!"

Eldon gingerly rubbed his hands all over his body and ignored his shouting.

"You're so beautiful," Eldon whispered in admiration. "I do like my boys thin though, but we'll fix that."

"YOU WILL FUCKING PAY!"

Eldon groped his manhood and ass eagerly. "I'm going to really enjoy this," he purred and went behind Natsu. The dragon slayer knew what was coming but he couldn't do anything about it. "Maybe I'll stop if you beg."

"No fucking way," Natsu snarled defiantly. He'd rather get raped then plead for his mercy. He heard Eldon laugh and then something hard push against his entrance. Natsu closed his eyes and tried to find a safe place in his thoughts as Eldon violated him. He thought about Happy and his teammates, he thought about Fairytail, his family. He didn't doubt they'd come for him, he wouldn't have to endure Eldon's torture for long. He was strong, he was Salamander of Fairytail! "You will never break me," he said darkly as Eldon pounded into him.

"I love a challenge."

Team Natsu had been non-stop working to get Natsu back for almost two weeks. All of them were sleep deprived and worried sick for the dragon slayer, Happy was obviously the most distraught.

"I want Natsu back," the cat sniffled and clung onto Erza. Erza pet his head sympathetically.

"I know Happy. He's strong, I'm sure he's doing okay," Erza attempted to reassure Happy as best as she could.

Happy slowly nodded, "I can't believe they took him in the first place!"

Lucy reached out to pet Happy as well, she really sorry bad for the little guy but she was really concerned as well. They'd dug up as much information on the 'Keepers of Skulls' they could. They already knew they were a very dark guild who mainly participated in kidnapping, sexual slavery and human trafficking.

"Do you think they would have sold Natsu to someone else?" Gray asked. Happy whimpered and began to cry. Erza shot the ice mage a glare. Gray muttered an apology.

"I have no idea," Lucy frowned. "Levy has been trying to find out more information so we can hopefully locate wherever their guild is, but so far there's been nothing. No one knows barely anything about the guild or their members. They're good at what they do," she said. Erza decided to take Happy somewhere else as the two talked, it wasn't exactly new information. With nothing to go off they could only analyse the information they had managed to get, which was very little.

"Stupid flame brain. Only he could get himself in a mess like this," Gray grumbled.

"He can be rather impulsive," Lucy smiled sadly, "but he's still Natsu. He will be alright. We'll get him back in no time!"

"You said that two weeks ago," Gray's words hurt Lucy but she decided not to take it personally. Gray had been even more gloomy since the incident but she couldn't blame him. Even though the two were rivals they were also best friends, almost brothers even, and he was scared for him. Not to mention the torture Gray himself had to go through by some maniac named 'Chop', he hadn't caught any other names but he saw three of them. One of them had the power to form and control chains that could burn your flesh and the other seemed to be more of the leader. That's all Gray could remember.

"How are your scars going?" Lucy changed the subject. Gray's facial expression remained blank but she noticed the slight flash of pain in his eyes.

"They're fine. They won't go away completely but they would have definitely been worse if it weren't for Porlyuscia and Wendy," Gray said.

"Fairytail certainly puts those two to good use," the celestial wizard commented and Gray grunted in agreement.

"Attention Fairytail wizards!" Makarov stood up on the bar and everyone went silent, their attention on their small master. "The magic council finally got back to me with what they know about the Keepers of Skulls. They're a dark guild put together by an escaped prisoner named Eldon Latimer. He is extremely dangerous and the magic council have been trying to track him down and put him back where he belongs so they are willing to help us in retrieving Natsu," he stated, "their guild mark is a skull with the lower jaw missing. Unfortunately that's all the information they know. Team Natsu, I'd like to speak to you in my office. That is all."

Gray, Erza, Lucy and Happy all followed Master Makarov and sat in his office waiting for him to start talking. Makarov sighed and messaged the bridge of his nose between his forefinger and thumb. The master was obviously stressed and worried about Natsu as well.

"We still haven't been able to pinpoint the guilds where abouts. How are you four handling all of this? Especially you Gray," Master Makarov said softly, his kind eyes scanned Gray with concern.

Gray shrugged, "been better."

"You know we're all here for you if you need to talk about it Gray," Makarov placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Thank you," Gray muttered. He really did appreciate all the support he was receiving but he was honestly fine, just angry that Natsu had been taken and gone for so long. He remembered the photograph, what other torture was he experiencing? He flinched at the thought.

"How about you Happy?" Makarov questioned the Exceed who frankly looked miserable.

"I'm okay. Natsu will be okay," Happy replied tiredly. He had barely slept a wink since his best friend was stolen.

"Yes, he will be. Erza, Lucy?" Makarov looked at the girls.

"I'm alright. As Happy said, Natsu will be okay. He always is," Erza responded and Lucy agreed with her.

"Good. Try not to worry so much. Natsu can take care of himself. I'm working very hard to get him back and so are the rest of us. You all look exhausted, I recommend getting some rest," Makarov smiled at his children. They all thanked him and trudged back into the guild hall. Happy went home with Lucy, he had been staying with her since Natsu's disappearance. Erza tried to convince Gray to go home too but he insisted he was fine and was determined to stay at the guild. She eventually gave up and went home for some well needed sleep.

Gray sat at the bar and drowned his sorrows with copious amounts of alcohol. It was all his fault that Natsu had been taken and was being hurt, he had been completely useless. He couldn't stop thinking about the dragon slayer and guilt overwhelmed him.

He kept drinking until he eventually blacked out.