Chapter 7

Void


A/N Well…. I guess its quite self-explanatory that I am sorry for not having uploaded…. Anyway aside that I want to introduce you all to the 7th installment and also just a heads up that again I will be quite busy over the upcoming few weeks

Anyway lets get this Chapter going!


The group and the viewers stopped everything even breathing for a second as the fire and smoke cleared…. Natsu came out and he looked like a monster as could only be described to be from hell…

"Natsu Dragneel… So you have decided to join us alas" Zetas said with a mocking voice, the mages still had no reaction. They all just saw him… all bloody and pulsing with veins, Happy was the first one of the bunch to mark one fact, "Natsu…. Natsu your eye…. What the hell happened to you…" he said this while beginning to let out a few tears and having seen his best friend bloody and tattered didn't make his life any better?

Mirajanes heart was pulsing, she felt her temperature rise slightly and was also frightened by how the mage was in taters and lifelessly just standing there with a cold eye and a hollowed out eye socket. "Natsu! What the hell are you doing here! Get lost before you get killed!" Erza screamed from the side while holding Simon on her shoulder, she felt like the older sister to Natsu through them growing up together.

She began welling up with tears, she continued screaming at the fire mage and the rest of the mages were still just shocked… plain and simple. The viewers of the broadcast just viewed this monster of a man standing there. Makarov who just began to stumble on the floor with a sick like stumble just mumbled out, "Oh God, please Natsu… don't die… don't kill any of them…. Please…" he finished his mumble with snorting and a faint tear running down his cheek. Sting wasn't accepting this to be the same Natsu but the rest of the Sabertooth members understood that after his departure he had gone through a lot.

Gray looked at the normally smiling Dragon slayer and seized only to find a man of distance and violence, "What the fuck…. What the fuck happened with you…. This isn't the same Natsu…. Is it?" he said while trying to comprehend what was going on.

Natsu began to breath in and out; he simply ignored Erza´s advice and began to talk to his enemy, "You?" Zetas bolts his head upwards as Natsu points at him, "did you do this to them… were you the one who caused this destruction?" he said while maintaining his powerful posture.

Zetas gulped at how he could just plainly ask that to someone as strong as him, though he recollected himself as in a sly voice exclaimed "Natsu Dragneel, Yes… Yes I did this to your friends with my new godly power! I have become a god!" Natsu widened his eyes and in a dubious voice replied, "Are you really a God? I doubt that…" Zetas became furious and began to send out waves of energy and repelled with words at the Fire Mage, "You insolent prick! I will make you fall! I will become the strongest and rule over everyone! I will also avenge Rex my only friend!" Zetas said.

Natsu instinctively then barked back, "Ah, that piece of shit was your friend! Then I better finish the job and…. KILL YOU!" Natsu said, the Mirajanes eyes widened when she realized what he had just said… Natsu was the killer of Rex…

"Natsu! Don't think lightly of me! I am more powerful then any of these fools! I beat the Queen of Fairies, The Wizard Saint and I killed the Master of Lamia! Don't you dare underestimate me you fucker!" Zetas said in a killer voice, as he got ready for the impact and fight.

Natsu like a dog came bursting upwards with his fist, Zetas dodged the first few barrages of attack but got a final punch in the stomach which sent him upwards, he countered by pummeling a magic fist downwards at Natsu sending him raining downwards.

Natsu hit the floor sending a shockwave at the Mages sending them flying backwards with them barely holding on to themselves. "White Lightning Barrage!" Zetas screamed as he sent 10´s of thousands white lightning bolts at Natsu, the Fire Mage didn't counter but simply roared out like an animal, "BRING IT ON!" as he finished his line the bolts hit him and temporarily the field lit up white with thundering noises and outrages surges of wind and electricity.

Lucy barely managed to shout out, "Jura got beat by just one of those! How the hell will Natsu deal with thousands of those!" she was about to get her answer.

The smoke cleared with electricity still sparking form random pieces of earth, The smoke was covering the middle of the crate but before anyone could see Natsu they saw a flame like light forming followed by the shout of Natsu, "Fire Dragons Emperor Slash!" The slash of bright fire came rapidly at Zetas and following the blast was Natsu still covered by the smoke and sending a fierce punch outwards at his enemy.

Zetas folded his arms and let out a barrage of white lightning bolts, the bolts collided with Natsu's attack and caused a bang of energy, which fluxed and caused Wendy, Juvia and Lucy to all fall unconscious.

"What the!" Zetas said as Natsu came out of the smoke with his fist ramming straight into Zetases jaw, "Take that fucker!" Zetas said as he took Natsu´s leg and began to swing around and around and chanted "WHITE LIGHTNING TORNADO!" A tornado of white bolts formed and people began to see the two fazing out their sight.

"Dammit! "" Gray managed to utter as he saw his friend getting caught up in their mess.

"MIRA!" Lisanna screeched as she saw her sister running forwards with a blood ankle, "Mira! You cant!" Erza screamed. Mirajane ignored them and fell into the tornado. She felt a surge of pain and could only think to herself, "Is this the pain that Natsu is going up against right now?"

Mirajane began to stand up, she didn't understand where he was but she could with each pulse of air begin seeing more clearly. The she heard it, an echo… Natsu´s voice. She followed it and began to struggle with her ankle but continued "Natsu! Where are you!"

"Fire Dragons… ROAR!" Natsu screamed as he threw himself at Zetas with everything.

"White Lightning…. ZEUS!" Zetas accordingly threw himself at Natsu with his attack and through Mirajanes eyes it… looked like two higher entities fighting.

The two continued throwing blow after blow at each other. The collisions were so strong that the sky was cracking and Mirajane felt like she was in hell. Natsu looked to the side even as enraged as he was and saw Mirajane standing there and widened as he saw a bolt flying towards her.

"Am I going to die?" Mirajane said, as the bolt was seconds away from her, "No you wont." She widened her eyes as the Dragon Slayer landed in front of her. A light formed and a splat of blood smeared across Mirajanes face. She began tearing as she saw a hole at where his kidney should have been, blood flowing out and him coughing out an overdose of blood.

Natsu looked at her and in a cold voice said, "Get out of here… don't die…" Tears fell to the floor from the female and another voice came forth, "Natsu… You truly are the most strong of these fools… but there still is a major difference between us both…" Natsu turns around and had blood dripping down from him, "You are still a human and I am a God like entity… You bleed and I don't…."

Mirajane began to become more and more scared and was hoping this all was just a nightmare. Natsu though only began to tighten his muscles even more and grew a smirk, "I told those other two that being a God to me isn't anything… you have to…. Just push even fucking further!" Zetas shocked takes a step back or more he is forced backwards as Natsu…. "Fire Dragons Emperor Fist!" His pounding fist of crimson red plants into Zetas and sends him flying back.

"Is this the same Natsu…" Mirajane thinks to herself as she continues watching as there exchange of blows continues. Outside of the tornado though the commotion has stopped and everyone is trying to prep up for what may happen afterwards. Juvia has regained slight consciousness but Wendy and Lucy are still blacked out.

Mirajane truly did want to help out Natsu but… she was powerless at the moment and even with her strength…. She wouldn't be enough. She began hitting the floor and muttered, "Why, why am I so weak." She continued this but still observing the two clashing.

"ZEUS TORNADO ULT-" Zetas was interrupted by Natsu´s fist "Dumb ass! Don't take so much time to cast! FIGHT ME 100% and then I will fight you at 100%!" Zetas grew annoyed at the smug speech.

"You pesky little fucker! I should anyway get rid of you so, very well… Be witness to true power… Zeus Lightning Mode…"

It seemed like the earth started to rumble and the heavens were cheering. Zetas became cloaked in armour of lightning one so radiant that Natsu had to cover his eye from it.

"This is my full strength Natsu Dragneel! Show me yours now!" Zetas proclaimed as he pointed with his finger towards Natsu. In response Natsu jerked upright, "Dragon Force!" Natsu in an instant became engulfed in flames; the two were about to clash with their fists, Zetas chanted like a cheater, "Zeus Black Lightning!" Strings of Black Bolts came flying at Natsu only to be countered with a good old fist.

"I had respect for you… for about a second…." Natsu said in a pissed off voice to Zetas. Zetas faintly responded "Cheating is also a form of tactics… don't be fooled by that."

This time Natsu came charging forwards with his flaming fist, "Fire Dragons Iron Fist!" the fiery fist pounded in to the gut of Zetas, "Black Bolt!" from the gut of Zetas a bolt of darkness sprung at Natsu´s returning fist and caused a terrible pain in Natsu´s body.

"NATSU!" Mirajane wailed out as she saw her comrade getting pummeled and bleed out.

Natsu coughed out another load of blood, for that though he came back with another right hook to Zetases jaw seemingly breaking it.

"AHHHHHH!" Zetas screamed out while jumping a few meters back, "Seems that you aren't a god after all!" Natsu said with a mocking and smirking face. Zetas began releasing huge amounts of energy, "BASTARD! ITS TIME TO DIE!"

Natsu got ready to take the next blow from Zetas but was astounded by the speed and the power of the blow that Zetas delivered to Natsu´s head. "Black Twin Lightning!" as he said those words, Natsu´s world became filled with darkness as his head got fully lit up with electricity. In fact so much that it caused him to begin bleeding from healed areas, his eye began bleeding, his eyes socket began to flood out with blood, his abs, cuts, arms and legs. Natsu´s eye was so filled with blood he could swear he had lost his other eye as well.

"How does it feel?!" Zetas screamed at Natsu´s body that simply just lay there in the little crater he had formed. Mirajane just stood there, as if in paralyzation she thought he was dead... though she was going too be surprised…

"That was quite interesting, the feeling of having every molecule in you electrocuted." Natsu said while grabbing the leg of Zetas. He clenched it so powerfully that it seemed that Zetases armour was slowly cracking.

"What the fuck are you…. Natsu Dragneel?" Zetas said while stomping with his other foot on Natsu´s head, "I am… I am… I am THE ONE WHO´LL KILL YOU!" Natsu´s fist lit up with flame and began to break off bits of the armour.

"Bolt Barrage!" Zetas shot bolts and bolts and Natsu´s back, the Dragon slayer swooped upwards with an uppercut! "Fire Dragons Supreme Slash!" the slash of crimson flame slung Zetas upwards with a huge crack formed across his armour.

"How strong have you become?" Mirajane said as she saw Natsu holding back an enemy that they hadn't been able to defeat all together. The gust of winds created by the clashes of attacks shot Mirajane backwards slightly.

"Damn, this is really getting tedious." Zetas said as he shot another bolt, what he received back though was a straight up blast if crimson energy which seemed to puncture him in the chest.

"I finally think I know how I am going to beat you!" Natsu said with a sneer, which frightened Mirajane. Zetas looked confused and smiled back, "You´re bluffing, so don't try and bullshit me…"

For a few seconds the air got very tense as both men stared at each other. Mirajane began to feel sick as the air seemed to be gripping at her neck and tightening. "What the hell is this?" she said as the air began storming and swirling around without control.

The wind began to form what seemed like a small vacuum near Zetas, "Interesting, what did you do to change the circulation of air?" Zetas said during their stare off. Natsu began to slowly smile and began to… laugh!

"Why are you laughing!" Zetas said annoyed with the response of the enemy. Natsu dropped his laugh and began to position himself; with each time he began to move the vacuum seemed to fly higher and higher till it hit the roof of the tornado illusion. "I am creating heat, each time we clash I am releasing heat and this heat condenses itself into a vacuum… so in sense I am creating an anti tornado to what you have us covered in… the only difference is that the vacuum isn't the thing that´ll get us out of here…" Natsu said as Zetas looked still confused, "I am going to fire at the vacuum which will in sense create a mini tornado of my energy.

Zetas widened his eyes and sprung up with his fastest speed to the vacuum to block his attack, "You shouldn't have told me that!"

Natsu began smiling creepily and began releasing insane amounts of energy into the open, "Zetas… I lied *Zetases eyes widen* I simply want you up there for my attack, it will break this place and damage the area around it but I will be one closer to my goal so here goes F-" Natsu got interrupted by a touch on his ankle, he turned around to see Mirajane hanging on his ankle.

"The rest of the group are outside, if you attack now… you might kill them!" she said with the minimum energy, as she had none really anymore. Natsu stared at her with a cold look and uttered, "Just stand back… and no one will be killed." Mirajane looked at him for a few seconds before letting his ankle loose. Zetas smirks and puts his hands together and waits.

"Here goes! FIRE DRAGONS SUPREME ROAR!" Natsu screamed out as a huge crimson blast of fire launched at Zetas who tried to fire back but that didn't help at all, "Fuck you!" Zetas squeezed out as the blast hit him. The Group outside and the broadcast witnessed, as the tornado grew crimson coloured and imploded.

"What the hell…" Gray shouted before the field grew bright and died out. Everyone outside slowly began rubbing their eyes and sought to look at the tornado wreckage.

"NATSU!" Happy shouted out trying to see his friend, but what he was to see was something he thought he wouldn't have wanted to have seen… the entire group faced the crater of the explosion to see Mirajane being held on the collar by… Zetas….

Mirajane looked Zetas in the face and began panting as he began to start talking, "That was very close... if you hadn't stopped him with your quick talk, I wouldn't have been able to counter with my Zeus Lightning Rotation." Mirajane looks at him in shock and tries' turning her head to look for the Dragon slayer, but unfortunately for her Zetas has something he has to do so he throws her to the side and Mirajane crashes into some of the rubble at the sides of the crater as she squeals out in pain from the pure impact, "Now to you…" Zetas says as he slowly walks towards a cloud of dust.

The smoke clears and standing there is Natsu., but his one functioning eyes was blank, not even the pupil to be seen. He is standing there with his fists raised and Zetas slowly approaching him, "Even after my Thunder God strike I prepared in the short time you gave me, it was still not enough to knock you down from your feet." Zetas stands across from the hollow like Natsu, he plans on stepping forward but is interrupted by a familiar voice. "Zetas! Your fight with us isn't finished yet!" Erza screamed at the top of her lungs out towards Zetas, behind her standing a few meters back the rest of the fighters. Mirajane crawled out of the crater and lay on her back, she just began to shut her eyes while letting out a small sigh, "Why am… why am I so weak compared to him…"

"Erza, be careful! I wouldn't engage him! His pressure is pushing me downwards!" Simon shouts out to Erza who is slowly limping her way towards zetas who is just staring at her with a cold look. Gray looked at Erza´s foot as she continued limping and noticed it was bleeding from the sole of her foot, "Erza don't be reckless." Gray coughed out as he slowly stood up. "I know… I am not strong enough… but its worth a try." Erza muttered to herself.

"Erza, you aren't even in a league that you can compare to me anymore, maybe you had a chance before Dragneel arrived but now he has pushed beyond the level of humans… WHY CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT I AM A TRANSCENDED BEING! I AM GOD!" Zetas screamed out in a burst as he clenched his teeth and flicked his wrist at the air in front of him, at first Erza confused at why he just flicked out to just nothing but then she felt a stinging like pain in her sides. Blood splattered from her wound and she fell to the floor crying from the pain as Zetas simply in pure boredom said out loud, "Boredom, Weakness, that is what you are now… can you even take one of my lightning strikes? Well I guess as you all wont be leaving here alive and the entire world is viewing I guess I could display my power, the power that is that on par with god! ZEUS LIGHTNING STRIKE!" Zetas howled as he stretched out his arm with electricity gathering rapidly.

Makarov who was now broken and shattered on the floor began to shed tears as he saw the girl that had grown up with him nearly like a daughter to be killed in front of everyone in the battlefield, why hadn't he sent Laxus or even Gildarts with them just for incase, but even he wasn't sure if Gildarts could beat this enemy at this level.

"Now die!" Zetas announced as he arm shot out a blast of lightning at the Erza, was she going to die, she thought she was… but then everything changed as…

"FUUUUUCCCCKKK!" zetas wailed out as his wrist crushed by a hand, standing there was Natsu still with his blank eye and not conscious of what he was doing. "RAHHHHRAHHH" the Dragon slayer yelled out as he slung Zetas backwards.

"What the fuck, how? Natsu Dragneel, how in the fuck did you survive my last attack. It hit your heart it shut down everything! I made calculations and it was supposed to shut down everything! YOU PIECE OF SHIT STILL THINKS YOU CAN WIN AGAINST GOD!"

Erza and the rest of the group had their eyes widened as the unconscious Dragon slayer was roaring out with all his might and began throwing punches at Zetas, these punches ignited flames that clashed with Zetases lightning fists. Zetas who still believed in his own method were still in awe of how a mere human could poses such power and sere will.

"Natsu Dragneel what ever you are right now, this fight will go down in history as the time of where a new era of a God shall be known. NOW LETS FIGHT YOU DOG!"

Unknown Mindscape

"What the fuck? Where am I?" Natsu said as he stood from a piece of rubble. "We welcome you again to choose Dragneel Natsu…" Natsu sprung up as he heard the two voice in sync and turned around to see the two figures he had met in the forest, "Light and Dark? What the fuck is going on?" Natsu questioned.

The two just stood there and stared at him, Natsu grew annoyed and punched out with his bare knuckle, "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT! THIS IS BULLSHIT!" Natsu's fist came hurling at Lights face, "Boy choose one of our sides or die in the carnage of the w-"

Light wanted to speak out, dark face shocked as Natsu´s fist crunched into Lights face.

"Interesting." Light spoke as Natsu´s fist came of his face, Light thrust his hand upwards and knocked Natsu backwards into the edge of a cliff like area. "Yeah, there is a lot more from where that came from you asshole!" Natsu screamed out. The two gods though merely continued looking at him coldly, "So, what will you do? Are you going to join one of us or do you want to die here in your own mind?" Dark said as he set his eyes at Natsu.

Natsu smiled which surprised both of them slightly; they let this not show outwards though, "What happens if I don't want to join either of you?" Dark and Light continued to still coldly look at the Dragon Slayer and then spoke out, "I guess we shall now obliterate you. You know when you die in your own mindscape then… You wont be able to fight back this Zetas… the only think pushing your body to fight him while unconscious is your pure will, but never mind…" Natsu fell to his knees with the immense pressure that the two gods were releasing from their bodies.

"Divine shock!", cracking formed on the cliff in the mindscape and in front of Natsu he felt himself falling and the walls of his mind cracking he felt everything crumbling. He saw them vanish, he fell and fell. Natsu tried to stop… there was nothing to hold on to though, he saw his world cracking the view through his unconscious body and how it was being shattered by Zetas, pummeled to the ground and smacked around like trash.

He felt himself slowly losing all sense and closing his eyes, but… a light sparking in the horizon seemed to keep calling out to him, it came closer and closer and swallowed him whole, he felt the pain faze away and everything disappear. He then shot up and remembered about how he still had to protect everyone and what had happened to Mirajane, was she safe or not. He confused in his mind just kept thinking what did he do with her. The silence was nearly absolute, nearly…

"You be cut of by the human tether, and be unbound by your mortal coil are the one we have been searching for long time… Do you accept our policies and offers?" A man that one couldn't properly see was talking to Natsu.

"What the hell is this place? What the hell did you do with her?" Natsu said in a furious tone only to be seen by the head.

"Are you confusing me with someone? If you think I am the Zetas man then I am not, sorry." The man in the silence spoke out. Natsu calmed down and continued asking his question, "Sorry, but where am I… I thought my mind was destroyed by Light and Darkness and what are you… I am very confused right now."

The Man came forward out of the silent light and to Natsu´s surprise all he could see was nothing. It was as if nothing was there but something was. "I see, you refused Light and Dark. Interesting… I know of none who have refused their choice, but then again I know of none that would punch a god… Natsu Dragneel you are in my world, the Void."

Back on the Battlefield

Everyone was just staring at how the two were fighting, Natsu punching and Zetas firing back with a barrage of fists, but each time Zetas threw more and more and Natsu bled more and more. The socket of his missing eye was bleeding, his cuts were bleeding and the amount of energized punches began to crack the bones in his body.

"This is… horrible." Lucy said as she looked at the bleeding Dragon slayer constantly get up and punch back while his knuckles were whipping and cracking and his screams filled the air. "DEVIL ICE MAKE: ZEROTH DESTUCTION BOW!" Zetas turned his head to see the incoming blow from the Ice Mage, "Pathetic, Zeus Lightning Strike!" Gray runs to the side as the bolt of lighting mows his attack and the area where he had been standing. Natsu sways out another punch, he screams in pain as Zetases fist comes crashing into his stomach, "I think its time to end this. As you are the first person I tested my killing technique I think I will also make you the one to test it on again, ZEUS LIGHTNING ROTATION!" Zetas screamed out as he dig his fist deeper into Natsu´s stomach making it bleed out like a fountain, he smiled as he forced his fist upwards and began to find a grip. Natsu´s unconscious body looked at him with a blunt face.

Zetases fist was gripped on Natsu´s heart! "It wont be as messy as with the stomach… Goodnight…" Zetas said as he twisted his arm and let out a wave of electricity which surged through Natsu´s whole body, he began coughing slightly with blood but his exterior wasn't damaged from this attack, but his interior was absolutely shattered.

If Natsu were to be brought to a Doctor he would probably have; Shattered ribs, ripped stomach, intestine bleeding, severe bleeding in his brain and heart, broken back, is nerve cords severed and every single bone in his body broken.

Zetas released his grip and took out his hand, the blood gushing out form the entry hole. Natsu´s body hit the floor on his back and lay there. Zetas turned around and faced the group, "Do any of you still have the power to fight me… If not then I will end this play of mockery and obliterate you all." Zetas said as he began walking to the group that were shivering from the pressure getting higher and closer to them by each step that he takes.

In that moment, they all could hear it, a sound, the sound of something strong, something nearly breathing, yes… it was the beat of a heart that echoed through the battlefield. "What in the fu-" Zetas exclaimed before rumbling of the earth and lights stopped him. Everyone was confused of what in the hell was going on, then it all became clear... Natsu was breathing.

In the Void

"The Void?" Natsu said in confusion of the word. "Yes, I am the Void, I am nothing, I have nothing here, I am empty… I have been since before the start of all, Nothing is here except nothing… somehow though you… you are here." The Void spoke to Natsu in a nearly godly voice. Natsu tried to look around but in fact there was nothing, no color, no one except him and the void. "If that is true… then… then why am I here? Who knows of this? What is it?" Natsu bombarded the void with questions. The Void let out a laugh and answered back, "You have many questions I see, No one knows of this place, not the Gods of Light and Dark, this place holds nothing but gives opportunity for something new… I have watched everything in this nothing for eternity and in all of that the only person I have been interested in was you. Natsu Dragneel, you fight for the people, but you show mercy to even the most brute of opponents or at least you used to, you gave in to the darker side, the Gods wanted you to choose a side," Void took a short break and continued, "Natsu, I chose you because I think you can be the one to change your life, some people are chosen by destiny but you continuously smack destiny in its face. There is so much more, but for us to fully talk we will need more time… I have knowledge that exceeds limits… I have no power but my knowledge is power... because even nothingness has its own knowledge of time…"

Natsu looks amazed through the void in fascination; "I haven't felt like this in a while… for the last few months I have just been fighting to beat an enemy." Natsu said as he continued his fascination. The Void then continued, "The road from here on wont be an easy one for you, but I can try to make it less tedious, if you give me a chance… Do you want to accept me?" Natsu looked through the void and slowly muttered out, "You say you are nothing, but you… have something that not all people have," void fluxions seem to show confusion, "A heart…" As Natsu finished the sentence the void seemed to light up and glow. Natsu´s body rose up in the Void and flew up to where he could hear something, the breathing of something, something he hadn't felt in a long time or hadn't cared for… he heard the beat of his heart.

To the Battlefield

"What the hell just happened?" said the magic Council as they watched the battlefield glow; they weren't the only ones who thought that though. Everyone was thinking that, it seemed that the entire field had just lit up.

"What's going on!" Erza shouted as the shockwaves of the beating pushed her, Zetas was facing the huge light that was blasting upwards and sending shockwaves outwards.

"Is this Dragneel… no that's impossible? YOU ARE DEAD!" Zetas screamed out as the light grew dimmer.

"Zetas… I feel dead, my bones are broken my organs are bleeding and my head feels shattered, but I will stand here to the end of time jut to stop you… or at least I thought that… I have something to propose to you?" Natsu said as he limped through the dust created from the shockwaves, Zetas looks at him very seriously and the rest of the people watching and the group behind Zetas looked confused.

Zetas muttered to himself, "What the hell does he want?" 'Zetas continued looking at Natsu who in the mean time had stopped in and got ready to talk.

"Yajima, regardless of what you say, Natsu Dragneel is a danger… if he doesn't take action now and come back with his guild or.. you know what's going to happen?" Gran Doma spoke out to his members, and in specific Yajima. Yajima looked back, "Yes." He answered while looking downwards at the floor understanding that he had failed absolutely at protecting Natsu from the council.

The scene draws back to Natsu, "Zetas, I want you to… join me in my journey." Natsu says.

Silence, even Zetas doesn't know what to say. The first one to say anything is Gray, "What? Natsu… ARE YOU FUCKING OUT OF YOUR MIND! YOU LEFT FAIRY TAIL SUPPOSEBLY TO PROTECT US AND THEN… YOU FUCKING WANT TO TEAM UP WITH GUY WHO NEARLY SLAUGHTERED US ALL HERE TO PROVE US OF HIS GODLY POWER! FUCK, EVEN HAPPY WAS TAKEN HOSTAGE BY THAT PIECE OF SHIT! IS THAT REALLY YOU NATSU!" Gray screamed out building veins on his forehead. The rest of the group even though they might not have used the exact same language would agree with him.

They all were shocked at what Natsu said, but Zetas seemed to be the one to calm himself quickest out of the bunch, "What? You are asking me whether I want to join you, even after all I did, I the God of new? Even I have to say that this is pure blasphemy. What do you really want?" Natsu simply stared at him normally and after a few minutes calmly to the surprise again of everyone formed a smile on his face. "You figured out one thing, I am not interested on forming a friendship with you, but if you don't come with me now… it might be too late for you to escape for your life. By the time that the council saw this they have had to have called for troupes of their finest to go out and bring you back and somehow I can´t see you wanting to land in a cell for the rest of your life, but if you try and kill me when we escape… then I will kill you." He said with such ease while keeping his smile in tact.

Everyone stared at him, Gray was about to blast out much more, but he was interrupted by the laughter of Zetas, "HAHAHHA, so you want us together to escape and then go separate paths? Natsu Dragneel you are interesting, but why are you so worried about escaping… now that your guild is here you can go back with your family and celebrate about your victory. So why don't we just finish what we started!" Zetas said as he came bolting forwards, "Black and White Zeus God Spear!" The helix of white and black lightning formed and came zooming into Natsu´s direction, it was going to hit him straight on the forehead… or at least that is what it seemed like.

"What in the fuck…" was all that even Makarov through the Lacrima vision could say as…Natsu caught the spear. Natsu stood there for a few seconds not sure of what he done either, but somehow the Zetas that before seemed to be lightning fast was slower.

"Interesting, you caught my spear… maybe for now I will join your side. In the end though I am the God." Zetas said as the group shocked again tried to fight him, but were surprised as Natsu smiled and held out his hand in a shaking manner, "Come." Natsu said. Zetas walked with his hand stretched outwards and smiled back.

"Natsu… the fuck are you doing? What in the actual fuck are you doing? You will be wanted for this! Please don't fuck up like this!" Gray managed to squeeze out before he fell to his knees.

In front of the entire world, both of them shook hands. "Dragneel tell me which way I will take with you, talk quickly before I change my mind." Zetas spoke to Natsu who kept on smiling. From the back came dashing forwards and shouting red headed Erza, "NO WAY AM I LETTING YOU GET AWAY WITH HURTING OUR FAMILY! ZETAS YOU WILL DIE HERE AND N-" Erza tried to say out as she received bolt of electricity into her entire body. "Do not talk in that tone to a God like me." Zetas whispered back while still shaking Natsu with the other, but when he turned around he didn't expect to see what he did.

Natsu was smiling at him nearly demonically and began to squash Zetases hand in his grip, "WHAT THE FUCK! YOU PIECE OF SHIT I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO ESCAPE!"

Natsu smiled and replied back, "Yes, I said we were… But I see one way for you to escape and that's… to the afterlife, and as I recall you told me that cheating was just another form of tactics… NOW DIE!" Natsu shouted as he ripped Zetases hand of with his grip and fired his hand up to a uppercut and slung Zetas into the air.

Zetas could feel his mind buzzing and for a long time he felt tired, but not just that he felt… that it had come to an end. What he had wanted so much since the start… power; he had reached the level of godliness. He closed his eyes and heard one more thing, "FIRE DRAGONS ROAR!" The blast of pure red crimson few out of Natsu´s mouth and flew into Zetas, he felt everything go; his legs pulverized in seconds, his arms pulverized, his whole body pulverized in seconds. Zetas let out one more cry before vanishing, "DAMN YOU NAAATTTSSSSUUU!"

The huge blast ushered away and whenever thing quieted down no one could believe what was now… They had come out victorious, they had lost a great leader Oba, but for that they had lived. Natsu began to walk away from the group or more we was limping away barely able to carry his own weight.

Standing up this time from being unconscious came the Take Over Mage Mirajane with a delighted face but saddened face as well, she was delighted that they managed to survive even though they had been injured but she was saddened seeing what had turned out with Natsu… that he had killed to attain his strength. In what fight did he lose his eye… why did he have to go through all this pain alone, he was family to her ever since Lisanna´s death. Now she… no… everyone needed answers of some sort.

"Natsu… what has happened with you, your smile has turned into that of a demon, your mercy has vanished… Natsu please… just tell us why you are doing this all!" Mirajane said with tears escaping her eyes and hitting the floor. Natsu stops again, he does not turn around though and in a non altered voice says, "Mira… in time all of you will see that this all will come to benefit, all I want to protect is the innocents… the innocents of the light and dark. You can call me evil or good but if I have to kill to reach my goals… THEN I WILL GODDAMN SLAUGHTER THOSE IN MY WAY!"

Natsu turns around to face them again, "I will reach my goals… even if it means having to kill my family." The group in shock of what to do, do they apprehend him or do they let him go.

"Natsu… why did I ever let you go." Makarov said to himself, while the other guild members just stood there speechless. The members from other guilds were also speechless.

"Natsu… I can't tell whether you are just evil or doing the right thing, what you just said was just cruel!" Lucy shouted from the back. Simon who was now being held up by Juvia and Jura shouted out, "Are you the same man who promised me to keep everyone safe!"

Natsu kept on hearing all of this, but he continued to turn towards the Lacrima cameras and the proceeded to speak out, "Magic Council, I Natsu Dragneel burnt down those villages, I killed and my biggest crime is that I did this all for nothing." The people watching confused of why he was announcing this information, Yajima now sure of what was going to happen just sat back and waited for Gran Doma to address him, "Natsu Dragneel," gran Doma´s voice sundered through the microphones of the Lacrima, "By admitting all of these things you do understand you can never turn back from the path you have gone." He asks Natsu.

Natsu standing there still staring at the Lacrima responds, "Yes, You can make me a wanted man… I really couldn't care, because in the end it won't matter."

"Very well, then I can assume that you won't mind being taken in." Gran Doma said with serious tone, while he was telling Natsu this though…. Everyone turned to what seemed like a flying blue bullet that surged into Natsu´s hands. "Happy…" Natsu said as he looked at the tiny blue exceed in his hands, Happy was crying and punching Natsu´s chest with his tiny fists. "Why… why… Natsu… You are my nakama… so why are you doing this…" Happy said while stopping his barrage of punches.

Natsu flicked his index finger into Happy´s forehead, the little exceed swiftly fell asleep, Natsu lay him on the floor and stood up and looked up to the Lacrima vision, "You can try and take me in!" Natsu shouted. Everyone looked at hm in shock and saw the Dragon Slayer sprint away into the distance… what were the people on the battlefield going to do, they were exhausted and while they only started to run… he had alredy reached the forest areas… just like that he had gone again.

"Lets cut the Lacrima Broadcast now, I think everyone has seen enough than necessary." Gran Doma said as the connections faded for everyone viewing.

The Battlefield was quiet, the fighters lay down and treated their wounds, Gray was sitting there with happy in His knees and began to mumble to himself, "Natsu… Next time… It wont end the same."

As all of them felt down, they saw from all angles people approaching… the evacuated citizens and they were cheering for them. They heard then shouting out thing such as; "Look at our heroes! The Saviors! We are forever grateful!" The group was overwhelmed by the amount of cheer coming form the people, soon thought they began to cheer as well and make their way back to the people.

Nothing fancy happened, all that happened was that they came together and got thanked, after that the guilds separated and Fairy tail made their way back on the train. On the train though it was quite quiet… till Lucy started talking "Well, we made it," looks at Simon who is resting on a seat opposite of her, "Simon… what happened actually after the Heavenly Tower?" Simon looked upwards and began talking, "All I remember is… closing my eyes and dying in Erza´s arms… after that I remember only that this voice was calling out to me, rather strange but when the voice came closer the more this image of myself came closer… I woke up after that in the coast of a bay, I asked the people were I was and what date it was. I was absolutely shocked when they told me it was a year after that incident. I tried to do something but at the time my legs were burnt out, I just sat there selling fish… till I met a man with pure white hair, he asked me if I were interested in power… Like a fool I agreed… that man was Jose and what I agreed to be putting on the Zetas armor. In the end I managed to only pull myself out of this trance during the battle."

Lucy looked amazed at that; she saw that Erza was just looking out of the window, "Erza?" Lucy asked as Erza just looked straight out. Erza looked at Lucy and answered back, "Sorry, I'm still a bit fazed about what just happened with Natsu… it just doesn't make sense why he has to go through all of these lengths just to protect us all, but at the same time he says he would end everyone his way even his family."

The group looked down again and confused, Happy lay there sniffling in the corner, gray stood up with a serious expression; "Whatever Natsu was trying to display there… we will meet again… I just sense that, but don't forget hat he got injured more than us. He will probably also needs time to recover from those injuries and from what I could see those injuries are pretty fatal ones… it will definitely hurt when he settles down." Gray said with the rest of them just resting back… of course Juvia being the only one at Gray´s feet with heart shaped eyes.

Mirajane was resting on the shoulder of her sister Lisanna at the moment, but she couldn't get it out of her head; "Was Natsu really capable of killing without sense?"

She kept this thought in the back of her head for the rest of the journey.

The group gathered their things and got out, they walked up down the town where the people were cheering and the group just continued up into the Guild where waiting for them was the entire Guild. Before the Guild could start cheering though all of the fighters just fell down of tiredness. "Tired I see…" Makarov said as he got them taken to the Infirmary for their well-deserved rest.

With the Council

"This is quite sad isn't it? Having to make someone like that a wanted man…" Oga spoke out but was silenced by Gran Doma, "As we all agreed Natsu Dragneel will receive punishment for his treasons…. He will receive a place on our lists and we will also start handing out missions of his capture. As we all know that Natsu Dragneel even before this instance was quite powerful… I suggest that we place him at an SSS criminal ranking *Yajimas eyes shocked* and for his bounty well for Guild missions he would be up in the S class missions… I think 8 million jewels to start out with should be fine?" The council nod their heads in agreement, "If all have agreed then I will finalize this, start the printing and start the announcing we have a new enemy."

The council nods and rushes off to all of their stations spreading the word, getting people to announce, just Yajima still sits in the room with his head sunken in his hands, "What have you got yourself into…. Natsu?"

Unknown Location

In the darkest part of the forest lay a cave, in the cave you could hear the screaming of someone… Natsu, Natsu lay there wailing in pain after he began burning his wounds shit from the inside out, after each wound closed it left a tiny scar on his skin.

After hours of the pain he was done and lay there, he rose his eye and looked at the tiny amount of water that was streaming in the cave… he crawled over on his stomach and began drinking, he lay back and began to talk, "Well I have reached somewhere where we can talk freely now… so now talk." Natsu said as a light began to shine and talk, "I guess we already introduced ourselves so… let me teach you everything that knowledge can supply. We can do it two ways; the long way which is to learn it by heart or for me to merge with you… but for that I will vanish and you will continue to walk this earth alone." Natsu sat there slightly shocked but not long enough before Void began to talk again, "Considering that you will need that knowledge and people will eventually discover you… I am just going to do the second step. Natsu, we don't know each other for a long time but I can feel that you will change the world… this is going to hurt a lot… more than your fight…" Void said as Natsu began to smile, "Bring it on *Void begins to merge with Natsu* Goodbye Void." Natsu ends of with as the entire cave is filled with a pure light that seems to be cracking the floors. It shakes so hard that rocks begin to fall and cover the entrance of the cave.

The light settles and the night fades in… all that can be heard in the middle of this silence is a heavy breath and a heat beat. "I wont fight with Light or Dark… Ill fight against both of them!"

The wheels of time have changed course for the Dragon slayer, how is he going to change this story.


END OF CHAPTER 7

A/N: Well this was the end of Chapter 7, hope you do like it and once again I am sorry that this took too long to bring out. Some people might just ask why Void was introduced and then he disappeared at the very end… lets just say that play an important part later on.