Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!


Morning...it came in a flash. The sun rose over the horizon creating a blood red imprint across the sky. Burning like the deep seeded fires of revenge. Natsu got up promptly as soon as the sunlight hit his eyes. Lucy felt him stir and woke up right after, she sat up and watched him get out of bed.

She leaned forward and pleaded before he even had the chance to leave the room, "Please...let me come with you..."

"No." He didn't even turn to face her when he spoke.

This was so very hard for him, of course he wanted Lucy to come. He feels the strongest when she's around normally but under these circumstances it was impossible. Right now Ami is still alive as far as he knows and he needs to do what needs to be done to get her back. Whatever that is...

Her voice screamed desperately from the inside, this wasn't what she wanted anymore, "Why! I'm strong too...I love her too!"

He spun around, returned to the bed, and pulled her into his arms. Natsu was lucky to have this opportunity to spend time with Lucy at all and he knew that. Once he left the safety of his house this calm...was over.

"I'm not completely in control anymore...I might KILL you! I couldn't live with myself if I did that!" Natsu's face was contorted in frustration.

Lucy held onto him for dear life as the tears came cascading down, "I love you...I love you so much. I'm scared, I want her back."

Natsu pulled away so he could look her in the eyes, "I love you both...and I'm going to show them first hand, they are fucking with the wrong family."

His eyes intensified with a burning hate Lucy rarely saw. She felt a hint of fear, whoever took Ami...Natsu was prepared to erase them wholly from this world.

"Never be alone while I'm gone, you're strong but...there is more strength in numbers. I need you safe so I can return to you with Ami and we can pick up where we left off."

He became softer...never even flinching, this was it he wasn't having this bullshit anymore. Once he found her, Ami was going to be coming back with him and no one was going to stand in his way. Natsu loved his family more than anything in this world, he just wanted it back to the way it was. He grabbed his clothes and got dressed, Lucy slipped into some pajamas. Gildarts would be here soon...

As soon as Natsu left their bedroom there was a knocking at the front door. That had to be him. Lucy stood in the doorway to the bedroom wishing she could be with him. Before leaving her once again Natsu gave her one last passionate kiss goodbye. Finally he opened up the front door, outside Gildarts and the Guild master Makarov were standing there waiting for him.

"Gramps!?" Natsu said half excited and half confused.

Makarov had a huge grin, "What? You think I'm going to sit back while my children's children are in danger!?"

A sense of comfort and warmth filled Natsu, a grin plastered on his face.

"We need to get going. Let's talk more on the way." Gildarts wanted to get this little trip over with.

They left the house just as Levy showed up. She wanted to make sure Lucy was alright. The three of them walked back towards Magnolia instead of away. Natsu followed

Gildarts looked back with a serious expression, "Were going to the council, they're the ones who took Ami."

"What?" Natsu responded with a mix of both anger and utter confusion.

"She should be safe. I don't think they would hurt her since she's just a baby."

"Yes...but we must hurry. I've already arranged for transportation." Makarov pointed in the direction of a carriage.

Natsu held back a groan, the situation was too desperate to complain. What was this about though...why would the council be after her? They don't particularly like him but that's not grounds to kidnap his child. There had to be something he was missing here. When they got to the carriage Gildarts turned around and knocked Natsu out, when he woke up again they would already be at their destination.


They came up to the main council headquarters in Era, Makarov went on ahead. He would try to discuss things more rationally before doing something that might potentially cause loss of life. Natsu was like a ticking time bomb at this point, Makarov could only watch over him so he didn't do something he might regret. So he went first to meet with one of the council members, Gran Doma. A man who never in his life before enjoyed the antics of Fairy tail. It was his order in fact to have Ami removed from them...that is why he answered Makarov's call. When Makarov entered the room on the second floor Gran Doma was already inside waiting, staring out the window.

"Guild master Makarov, what brings you here?" Gran Doma had a sinister tone.

"You know why, I'm here for Ami. I don't know what compelled you to take her from us but-"

"Ami...about that, I'm afraid we can't help you."

Did he have no idea what he was asking for!? This could lead to an all out magic war between the council and the guild of Fairy tail! Not only that but Natsu is already here and his recent power surge was more then enough to wipe out half of the population in this entire structure.

"Her father is here and if you don't return her I can't guarantee I can hold him back! I'm doing this for the guild but I'm here for you too! I don't want to see unnecessary bloodshed."

"That isn't what I meant. We can't give her back." His face was fierce, he knew very well what might befall him!

Makarov looked up horrified, that means...

Natsu was awake now right outside of the building. He smelled her, though it was very faint. His chest painfully ached and his body flared up, his imagination and instincts went wild. Gildarts watched partially in horror, he'd seen this before but never ever to this kind of intensity. Even after months of traveling together...he had not experienced this amount of magic power emanating from Natsu's body. And he was on the move, walking towards the council building. Panic came over him, Natsu wasn't completely in control of the area around him yet. Anything or anybody who came within his radius would be badly hurt or even killed.

Gildarts ran after him to keep others away, "Everyone! Get back!"

Makarov could hear the screams of panic from the ground level. It was most likely Natsu blind with rage and fury. He didn't honestly blame him for what he felt. Ami was his precious little girl and she was taken from him. Anyone else would be just as upset...and that's why he would never leave Natsu behind. Lahar stood in the way in front of the doors to Makarov and Gran Doma's meeting place, Natsu approaching slowly.

Gildarts tried to issue a warning, "You need to move. Get as far back as you can away from Natsu."

"I'm not going to just stand aside and let him do as he pleases!" Lahar held his ground.

Natsu ignored Lahar's presence and kept pressing forward to the doors. Once in range Lahar's sleeve burst into flames, followed by the quick reaction time of Gildarts who snuffed out the flames saving Lahar from the immediate danger.

Gildarts whipped Lahar's body from where he was standing to right against the wall, "I said, get the fuck back!"

Natsu past them and entered the room, burning the doors on his way in. His eyes peered in every direction, Makarov and Gran Doma stared down the smouldering dragon slayer frozen in place. This is the place where Ami's scent is strongest but...what was this feeling? Here...not here? Ami's scent, she isn't here! It's way too weak; She was here but now she isn't anymore.

"She's not here..." To him the room was spinning.

Gran Doma was angry at himself that things had gone so wrong, "On the way to the holding area she was taken from us. It was Brain from the Oracion seis."

Natsu felt sick, all restraint started to slip away. It was impossible to stop, he was about...to...EXPLODE. Gildarts put an arm on his shoulder to try and calm him down. Natsu smacked Gildarts away and the force even pushed Gildarts back a bit. This was not good.

"Natsu don't!"

Natsu charged at the councilor with full force and power. But something held him back. The area of flames around him dispersed and he stopped right in front of the mans face...but no one else was holding onto him. Natsu grabbed the sides of his own head and yelled out at the top of his lungs. He fell to his knees and proceeded to bash his face into the brick flooring. All of this to attempt to calm his own irrational thoughts.

"What am I supposed to do now HUH!? You want me to control myself when my daughter was taken WHO KNOWS WHERE!?"

Gildarts sighed in relief, that was so close. He prepared himself for the blood bath that was about to ensue but thankfully Natsu was able to stop...but for how long he didn't know. This is all their fault, if they didn't take Ami in the first place none of this would have happened. Natsu wanted to destroy this place and everyone inside, no matter how wrong it felt. It wouldn't bring Ami back...now that someone else has her the situation only grows worse!


Weeks had gone by and Ami hadn't had a bite to eat. The hours of non-stop crying made everyone avoid the room. Doranbolt had been pleading for hours at a time at the door. He feared for her life and at this rate she wouldn't last much longer. Babies tend to react much more negatively to having no affectionate care. He tried his best to look after her, changing her and what not. At least he had some supplies but he ran out of food long ago.

A dead silence overcame everything. She stopped crying, instead of relieving the tension of hours of noise instead it brought it to a new level of impending doom. Doranbolt could only watch in horror, she was probably starving to death. The fact that she stopped crying meant it was only a matter of time before...

"PLEASE! Somebody...Anybody! She needs food!...can anyone out there hear me!? I don't care if I die or starve to death...but whats the point of kidnapping her...just for this?"

Doranbolt felt so desperate pounding his fists against the white door. It opened with one quick motion and Cobra loomed over him with a box of supplies. Doranbolt didn't know if he should punch him out or thank him.

"Here, just shut her up! I couldn't even get close with her incessant whining!"

It had been weeks since he could even move! Doranbolt took the box thankful to have received anything at all right now. Ami needed to survive otherwise there was no way he could live with himself...not after what he's done. They were trapped in a tower at the far north end of the continent. It was built long ago at the request of Brain when he was still doing experiments to create loyal soldiers for Zeref and the Oracion seis. On the 30th floor there was a huge room, a few stories tall with a large device against the wall.

From left to right...on the left side of it was a closed ten foot tall door way, followed by a panel of controls. Next to that a series of stairs and platforms leading to a gigantic unfinished metal ring with tons of wiring through the middle of it. The ring was at least two and a half times the size of the door and it was emitting fairly powerful magic. Everything in this room was white including the material making up this contraption. But it wasn't yet complete...

"We need to work overtime if the device is to be finished on time." Brain was standing on one of the platforms talking down to his subordinates.

"I don't think I can work any faster!" Racer spoke moving white pieces of metal back and forth across the large room.

"Do we even know if this will work? I didn't sense any power from the girl." Angel was discontented and out of breath.

Brain smirked, "That's because it's sealed, but I could feel it. She's the child of that explosive dragon slayer."

Cobra entered the room, "Salamander..."

"Cobra, It's nice to see you up on your feet again." Brain sounded genuinely happy but Cobra knew better.

"You guys were the ones ignoring her cries. At this rate she's going to die before the portal is even finished!" Cobra was pretty pissed.

He didn't like the idea of leaving a baby to suffer like that, it was his idea to take Doranbolt up on his offer as her care taker.

"Go get more food for her to eat then. We have better things to do then lounge around like you." Midnight said...but wasn't really doing much of anything either.

"I wasn't lounging around! Her cries are debilitating!"

"Whatever Cobra, stop complaining and just follow orders~" Angel liked messing with him too, it was too hard to resist!

Cobra face-palmed, how he ended up with this job he'll never know.


Author's note: So I have been slowing down with my updates recently. It's not because I want to it's because I'm home for the holidays and things have been a little rough since I got here. I'm also developing a cold. I will be updating still it's just not going to be like EVERY DAY. I also have other stories I'm working on too. Thanks for reading I hope you are enjoying it.

1. Next chapter will go into whats going on and why along with a few other scenes about what happens next. I like having "villain screen time" in my stories too so you won't be in the dark for too long. Don't feel like I'm doing this by accident and that I wont tell you why these things are happening ;). It's just part of the story.