Hahaaa! Finally this chapter done! Sorry I am so late, but had few outings with friends cause next week exams coming, so kinda we were pushing away the stress.

Reminds me, I will probably update at weekend next week too, if not later, as I got it filled with damn quater exams.

Anyhow! Onto your questions!

Shinigami: Acnologia was refering to Natsus real father, not Igneel. And why did he kill Igneel is gonna be explained in this story like 2 chapters from now on if I dont turn again one paragraph into whole chapter :D

Jesse: Im afraid I cant spoil you what kind of relationship these three have yet, as I would have to throw away few chapters if I did that. But what I can tell you, because I will try to say it in this story, but as I am a starter writer need to say it so people would understand what the hell do I write. Acnologia in this story for first chapters feels great admiration and gratitude towards Natsu, however confuses it with love. And Im trying to desribe why and how in this story after I get through the damn introduction already :D (They aint pairing, they aint gonna be doing anything except Acnologia teasing Natsu, so it doesnt count as yaoi, right? RIGHT? :D)

ef07: Im glad my story could make your day better :) yours do the same you know? :D

Writing bunny: Yes, Im going to show their reaction of course...but in next chapter! :D

Now! Happy got a fish and he has to answer to Guest!

What is Natsu's E.N.D. form?

Happy: Aye! The fish was delicious so i will tell ya! He got those sharp horn things coming out of his head! Oh, oh and over the whole right side of his body he got torch marks that look like they are on fire! His eyes turn all red with his pupils looking just like a dragons! His nails grow a little longer and sharper but still look human enough to me! And he got those wings which looks like they are ablaze too!

But...his expression always grows so serious when he is using it...I dun like it at all. How he looks aint all that scary, but the authoritative air around him is very very scary, no one ever dared to talk back to him if he used it!

And thats all!

So now you can go and enjoy your chappiee! Looking forward to your opinions! ;)

A dawn welcomed our partying group faster than expected, as the celebration of young prince return spread through whole Alvarez and the citizens threw big festivities along with the castle inhabitants and were allowed onto the king's garden.

Just now when people needed to get their children into beds, the celebrations started to calm down, giving a certain opportunity for our guests of honor to slip away.

They separated at the castle doors, the younger climbing up the large building walls and entering through the opened window of prince's room, while the other casually walked through the main entrance, the door opening instantly before his presence. Each of them gathered certain helpful things – thought no one except them knew what for- and tried to sneak onto their meeting place.

The stairs down were long, especially for both of them as one of the two was way too excited and the older one was anticipating this very moment for years. The area they were supposed to meet at was way beneath the castle, as the sole reason for the Empire construction was Zeref trying to get Mavis from Fairy Tail grasps to revive her, failing miserably after few hits from Fiore's Etherion. He took his lost very badly back then, and barely managed to gather the courage to try once again.

That was until his brother came that day few months ago, and screwed every single one of Zeref's plans.

He was having one of his night trips across the whole castle, his inability to sleep driving him extremely bored in his room, and so he took his time remembering every single inch about the place he called home these days. The moon was illuminating the whole room through the glass balcony doors and shining upon his way as he didn't bother to switch the light lacrimas on. He liked the night better, and the fresh air that came with it if he was to choose, not to mention the secret beauty of the moonlight that was avaible to see only at clear nights like this.

Then, he noticed through the glass doors a strange orange light aminds the blue, which could be compared to a falling star.

And indeed, it was flying closer and closer towards him, to the point he wanted to run out and duck, but in thanks to his curiosity and disbelief he ran onto the balcony instead, expecting to see at least some details of the thing.

Shock was way too simple word to be able to describe what he was feeling when he recognized flash of pink in the fire light.

Ah wait, he wouldn't like if he called it pink now, would he. What color did he say it was again? Oh right, salmon. His brother was way too interested fish, and Zeref was sure it was that flying and talking cat's influence.

Well, back to the main topic, was Natsu planning a suicide? What was he doing in middle of the night at Alvarez quarters? Is he crazy? Zeref needed Natsu to kill him, not Natsu killing himself!

He wanted to shout, to yell, but he could not voice his concern for Natsu, or the curse would activate itself and end this little dance of theirs way too soon.

But, when Natsu landed graciously on the fence of the balcony, Zeref found himself unable to move a muscle, or speak. His willpower was strong enough however to keep a calm expression even thought he was a complete mess inside.

"What are you doing here?" he managed to ask after a while, covering any trace of shock or concern Natsu would be able to find, trying to keep his curse under control.

He didn't realize that Natsu could smell with his dragon senses how nervous he was about this fateful encounter.

But nothing could prepare him for Natsu's question, and he knew that all of the act he put up until now shattered under that intense gaze, ruining this façade of his that he was building up over 400 years.

"Who are you?"

Zeref opened his mouth, trying to answer immediately that he was the dark mage everyone feared, everyone despised and dark guilds admired, but found out he was unable to utter a single word. He tried again the process but failed again.

"Zeref" looks like he was still able to voice out his own name. Good job there brain, true genius for ya.

But Natsu looked way too unsatisfied with that kind of answer to Zeref's surprise.

"Tell me your whole name." he growled dangerously, obviously not in the mood for games and Zeref gulped, suspecting Natsu knew something he shouldn't. He couldn't tell him the answer, he just couldn't! Natsu could hate himself for being his sibling, or worse, he could end up in the same state he did years ago, which resulted to this whole memory erasing in the first place. And Zeref knew he won't be able to bear to see Natsu like that ever again.

Yet, despite his best efforts to keep it a secret, he found himself answering as years of loneliness and pain finally caught up to him.

"Zeref…" tears forming in his eyes as sweet memories of his childhood kept coming back to him, and he couldn't keep them under control along with the quiet sobs, but he forced himself to finish his sentence. He had to, he wanted his brother back, he needed his brother back, Zeref didn't want to be alone, even if it was a selfish thing to do. It was already hard enough to resist the urge to tell him the truth every time Zeref saw him, how could he keep quiet when his brother was now finally demanding the answer, like he always dreamed he will? "…Zeref…"

"...Dragneel."

Piercing silence surrounded them and Zeref awaited Natsu's reaction patiently, even thought his heart was beating wildly and he wanted to yell. But he didn't open the book, meaning his brother couldn't have had his memories back and being told that you are over 400 years old sibling of the supposedly most evil villain must be quite scary.

"Why…" Zeref closed his eyes, expecting cold and harsh words of rejection.

"…why didn't you say anything sooner?! You! You kept on being all mysterious and shit! And why the hell don't I remember a thing?! Would you even fucking tell me if I didn't have those damned dreams about the past?!" all the accusations hit right Zeref's heart, and he felt more and more guilty and wanted this to just be done and over with.

"I'm sorry." he managed to whisper through all the pain, his voice sounding raspy and barely audible even for a whisper, but he was sure Natsu heard him.

"Tell me the truth." Natsu demanded and Zeref really wanted to, but felt utterly exhausted from his crying and the state of his voice didn't make it any easier. He sighted and went back inside for a second, leaving Natsu by himself at the balcony, completely bewildered if the dark mage really just walked out on him. But after a while he came back carrying a book and shoved it towards Natsu.

"Here, you can either open it and find out the truth, or burn it and forever forget all this ever happened." He said shakily while giving Natsu the book and shooing him to go already, or someone will come and notice him.

Natsu was a bit reluctant, but knew if he was find out he couldn't possibly hope to face all Alvarez's shields at once, betting that Zeref wouldn't spare him. He looked carefully at the book in his hand, a book of last Zeref's demon, book Igneel wanted Natsu to bring him, yet not destroy.

A book that shouldn't have to do anything with him, and yet…

„You gotta be kidding me…"

"It's your choice."

He had to confess, he didn't expect Natsu to open the book, knowing that if he did burn the book, Natsu would die, this time without resurrection as an option, but he guessed it was better than finding out you aren't who you thought you were the whole time.

He couldn't hide the fact that he was really glad that he did open it.

If it wasn't for him, Zeref would even now search of a way how to end his once miserable life and continued bringing misfortune upon his dearests. Even the Alvarez shields changed for the better, and the once quiet castle has turned into party building in kingdom not planned for war, but all kinds of festivals and celebrations. When Natsu arrived beaten up with Acnologia to whom he was helping standing as he was in way worse shape than Natsu, he still couldn't believe the words he said at that time.

"I found it! he said with that big toothy grin of his, announcing a few seconds after that the apocalypse dragon is gonna live with them from that moment.

His brother was a brilliant light, shining upon them and showing them the right path, as he always was.

And this time, Zeref won't let him go.

The room they were in was narrow and dark, lit by simple torches. On the floor was a large magic circle drawn with while chalk and filled with unreadable encrypted words. In middle of the circle, a clothed woman body lay.

Zeref stole a glance at his younger brother and upon their eyes meeting they both nodded and came closer.

Natsu went inside the circle, summoning his phoenix by blowing fire into his hands, which formed into the fire bird after few seconds, he stood over the Mavis's body, unsheathing his sword and preparing himself, while the phoenix started to form few tears in his eyes.

The circle served to cleanse the sealing that was done on her when Purihito sealed her in the crystal, while Natsu had the hardest role in this all. He had to plunge the sword near her heart just like he did to his brother, but he mustn't damage it in any way and has to keep the sword steady until it swallowed every single drop of her curse. Then, after carefully and speedily removing the sword, the phoenix tears must heal her wounds before she could bleed out.

Needless to say, both were very nervous about this, and Natsu was afraid that he will screw it up right before his brother, and forever crushing his hopes. Despite the nervousness he was feeling, Natsu kept his hands steady by sheer will. Signaling towards his brother that he was ready, Zeref kneeled at the edge of the circle, and started chanting words that no one except the two of them would understand.

The circle started shining after a while, notifying Natsu that it was time. He plunged the sword into Mavis's chest, careful not to damage anything except the bone, and watched as the swords metallic colour started to change into black once again. The awful smell of blood made him want to throw up, but hearing his brother's chanting he pushed the urge back to his mind, concentrating onto his task.

Seconds passed for him like hours, maybe even damn days, not like you could see in this dark place the time. But finally the sword seemed to stop getting darker and darker, and Natsu glimpsed at his phoenix, assuring himself that the tears were ready. The tiny fire bird bent his head towards the wound as much as the sword allowed, his tears on the brink of falling. Seeing that everything was ready, Natsu pulled out fast the sword, and the bird started shedding his tears which mixed with the blood which was flowing incredibly fast from the wound.

By now the chanting stopped, and all of them was staring at the scene with their breaths held.

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The phoenix finally disappeared, and Natsu came closer and with shaky hands wiped the blood off of the wound. He finally released his breath in relief seeing the wound was healed, but still he didn't know if she was actually alive. Fearful, he reached out his hand to feel the pulse on her neck, his brother coming to kneel at hers other side, waiting for Natsu's verdict.

Natsu closed his eyes in concetration, so he would be able to feel it no matter how weak it was.

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Faint, but it was there. He cracked a smile, looking at his brother whom had by now tears in his eyes that he finally managed to achieve his goal, and they both grinned like idiots.

Satisfied with their result, they calmed down and brought now cured Mavis to one of the best castle rooms.

She never thought opening eyes would be this hard, she felt utterly exhausted and confused about what happened. She was a ghost, she shouldn't feel pain, nor exhaustion, nothing.

But when she finally managed to open her eyes, she closed them fast, as the light was way too bright for her. But after a while, out of curiosity that she was known for she tried again, this time letting her eyes adjust despite the pain. And was surprised that she saw a white ceiling, was she lying somewhere? Turning her head to the opened window that was located next to the bed she was lying in, she saw bloomed trees, with leafs rustling in the autumn wind that she could feel. A bird flew to the window, and she extended her head from below the bedsheets, thinking that the bird couldn't see her so it wouldn't flinch, even though her hands would go right through him.

But she was surprised when it flew away and when she let her hand fall, it didn't go through any item that it accidentally touched.

"Huh?" she brought both of her hands up to her face, examining them to see what changed. Now she realized, how come the bedsheets didn't go right through her? How come she could actually lie on the bed?

She jumped into sitting position, throwing the blankets off of her, looking up her whole body. She was now wearing a simple light pink short skirt with a white top which had red bow at the collar with the strings going across her chest.

She was completely confused about what was happening. Was this a dream?

She heard a chuckle and made a sharp turn of the head towards while blushing that someone could see her in her confused state.

"Welcome back" Natsu said, but where was she? Why was he here? Why could she touch things?

Recognizing the look on her face, he thought that it would be good to start explaining.

"You are back amongst the living, without your curse now. Congratulations!"

She just tilted her head and looked at him as if he grew another three heads.

"Hey! It's true, me and Zeref brought you back."

"You and Zeref?" she asked warily, wondering in which kind of position she exactly was here.

"Aye, don't worry though, you ain't prisoner or anything. You are free to go to Fairy Tail if you wish."

She doubted that. "Where are we then? Is this no Fairy Tail?"

His expression suddenly became serious, and she shivered from his gaze, confused about this whole event.

"No, you aren't, I stole the Lumen Histoire from Fairy Tail, and now we are at Alvarez, in it's castle to be precise."

"But I'm free to go back?"

"Yes, but…"

She knew there was going to be more, what did they want her for? What did Zeref want from her after all this time?

"I know it's a lot to ask of you…but…could you…"

Natsu was asking for a favor? What happened? She was so confused… and the fact that he did kneel right now before her didn't help her situation much.

"I know it's too much to ask for, but before your leave, could you please talk to him? Even if it's words of rejection, even if those words are cruel, please talk to him. He wanted to do this the whole time, the curse making him unable to do it the right way, but right now he is afraid to even come close to you, thinking he doesn't deserve another chance."

Another chance…without their curses…they could talk just like normal acquaintances, without the threats of war. She smiled and jumped from the bed cheerfully, smilling gently at Natsu, having her hands folded behind her back.

"Where is he?"

He cracked a smile too, thankful for her decision, but words of thanks could come later, right now he needed those two to talk it out, and so he pointed in the direction of doors which led away from the room. He told Zeref that he will leave alone once she wakes up, so he was standing behind the doors waiting for Natsu to tell him how is she and if she left yet.

It's gonna be a real surprise for him when she is gonna be the one walking through the door.

He looked up at her, noticing her excitement as she practically ran out of the door with smile on her face.

He really hoped those two will finally get it through their stubborn heads that even after those 100 years they are still in love with each other.

And he would help them realize that there were no obstacles anymore.

When the sun started to set, and the mix of their voices could still be heard behind the door with occasional laugh, Natsu started to grow irritated that they were leaving him out of all the fun, but he knew he had to give them time.

When it got dark already however, he just wanted to bang his head against the damn door, telling them to open it and let him free from this damn room, he got bored!

He completely forgot there was opened window which could be used as emergency escape.

He went to the door, wanting to rip them off of the damn metal handles, but once he got closer, the room slammed right into his face and he fell to the floor while holding his nose, for a while thinking it was broken.

He growled and looked at who did this to him, and saw his brother and Mavis standing above him with worried looks on their faces. His brother extended his hands towards him and Natsu took it, pulling himself up.

"Zo, Finay evelything done?" The two looked at him confusedly, and he couldn't believe how stupid he sounded, he did move the damn bone with his hand of his nose so he could talk normally again.

"So, finally you are done?" he asked again, this time sounding like a normal person.

They both nodded.

"Good, so now I can take you back to Fairy Tail, are you ready?" he started going towards the window, suddenly realizing he could use that all along.

Where did his habit of going through windows instead of door go when he needed it the most?

However, he stopped as he didn't hear anyone follow him and turned around.

"Actually I'm staying." she announced, and Natsu looked with his eyes wide at Zeref, hoping this was a joke. But he just gave him an apologetic smile.

Natsu officialy lost it and fainted. The two running towards him, kneeling at his side, Zeref calling his name and shaking his shoulders while Mavis just panicked and tried to wave with her shirt so he would be able to get more air into his lungs.

Makarov's gonna kill me.

And thats the end of this chapter! I tried to make it long enought as you guys wanted, but it always depends on what the chapter is about ya know? Sometimes I got many things to write in there and sometimes I struggle to make even 2 thousand words :D

But well, I hope you enjoyed it, Im really sorry for any grammar mistakes I made in this one as Im sure there is way too many than before because I was hesitating about how to phrase few sentences way too much :D

See ya later guys!

Alaeriii! :)