A/N: NEW WRITING STYLE!
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
[E.N.D speaking] (In Natsu's head)
"Attack/Transformation"
E.N.D floated silently inside Natsu's mind. He was lying horizontally and his right hand had a small ball of red flames dancing in it. The Scarlet flame began to take the form of a small serpent. Once it was formed the serpent circled around E.N.D multiple times in a playful manner. This carried on for about a minute before finally E.N.D let out a bored yawn and clenched his fist, extinguishing the flame. [It should be about time now.] He thought as his body rotated clockwise until his body was upwards.
Back in the real world Natsu finally began to stir. His eyes scrunched up and his body began to stretch out. Unfortunately due to the size of the hollow mound he was residing in he didn't have enough room to complete the action. Natsu found this feeling uncomfortable and rolled out of the mound lazily. He surprisingly seemed like a normal kid, minus the torn up pieces of clothing and the black scales covering his body.
[Well, well, well. Look who decided to join us] E.N.D said in a teasing tone. Natsu replied with a grunt before rolled over onto his back and slowly opened his eyes.
"How long was I out?" Natsu asked. His body felt extremely lax as if it was incapable of making the slightest amounts of movement. Natsu concluded that this was because he had either been asleep for a long time or he was completely out of energy. But that was impossible, he'd specifically trained to keep his magic container supplied as such he would have easily recovered the lost energy a few hours.
[Four days and three nights. I'd say it's around noon at this moment.] E.N.D replied and at the same time confirmed Natsu's theory of having slept for a long time. Natsu sighed as he heard that, never before had he slept for so long and now the first time he did it felt like it had only lasted for a second.
"What a waste." Natsu uttered before letting out another yawn.
[Yeah I know what you mean.] E.N.D spoke with a chuckle
"Whatever, you're just jealous." Natsu joked and then sat up, stretched then lay back down again. He lay down in the grass gazing up at the canopies of the trees in the jungle. "What happened to that Hydra?" Natsu asked.
Hearing this E.N.D was silent for a bit before he asked Natsu a question. [You don't remember anything do you?] Natsu shook his head slightly and E.N.D sighed before going silent again. [I figured something like this would happen.]
"Something like what? What happened?" Natsu asked curiously.
[I'll tell you later. Anyways you killed him but not before two of his buddies showed up.] E.N.D began to retell what had happened three days ago to Natsu, including how he, as he put it, 'saved his ass.'
When E.N.D had finished explaining Natsu looked down at his apparel. "Wow the way you described you'd think i'd be a lot bloodier." Natsu joked.
[You were, but it looks like your body was given enough time to absorb it, you've got a few new scales appearing on both sides.] E.N.D revealed. Natsu raised his hands to his face and sure enough it was exactly as he said. There were signs of scales forming but they weren't complete.
Natsu let his hands down and sighed. "It might not be as potent as drinking the actual stuff but it's still pretty fast." The young dragonslayer chuckled to himself as he said that. "Anyways, can we get back to what we were talking about before? You said his buddies showed up but I can't remember anyone other than that Hydra."
This time it was E.N.D's turn to sigh. [I have a theory regarding that, because honestly it's the only thing that makes sense, you didn't take enough damage to get memory loss so this is what I think happened.]
E.N.D paused to see if Natsu was still listening. Natsu nodded indicating him to continue. [Remember that new technique you learnt about a week ago?] E.N.D asked as he tried to get Natsu to jog his memory. Natsu was silent for a bit before his eyes widened.
"The True Dragonslayer Secret Art." Natsu whispered as he tried to figure out what that had to do with the battle against the silver Hydra.
[Yeah well you activated it and by the looks of things it did more than just give you a power boost] E.N.D revealed making Natsu's eyes widen.
"Over than the power up and the intangibility effect what did anything else happen?" Natsu asked in a hurried voice.
[Relax I was getting to it, it's refreshing to see you still act like a normal kid.] E.N.D chuckled making Natsu pout a bit. [Anyways the 'Reaper' as it's so called gave you the ability to morph your chaos energy, you turned it into a blade at one point and even wings.]
Natsu's eyes widened again, but this time in surprise. "Really? Woah, that sounds awesome." He said as a sparkle appeared in his onyx colored orbs.
E.N.D chuckled. [Yeah yeah now listen up this is where things get interesting. That technique is very dangerous to use. Not just for your enemies either.] E.N.D revealed making Natsu furrow his brows in confusion. [Interested?] E.N.D asked. Natsu nodded. [Okay so first things first. That technique should not be used, well under the assumption you want to keep your sanity that is.]
"Keep my sanity? So using this technique….. will make me insane?" Natsu asked.
[In basic terms yes. That technique it feeds off your negative emotions and amplifies it. Sooner or later you'd end up insane.] E.N.D stated as he watched Natsu's expression change to one of deep thought. The demon king sighed. [You won't even know how it happened either. It seems like you lose your memories every time you use it a part from the first time, after all you do need to know how to activate it.]
Natsu slowly lifted his left hand and planted it directly onto his face, his five digits spread out allowing his right eye to see through. "I guess I'll have to find a different technique to use so I can power up." Natsu sighed before sitting up.
[Actually you don't need to find a new technique.] E.N.D stated causing Natsu to raise an eyebrow.
"Oh really? Because I haven't been taught anything else other than the Chaos Drive but that's only good if I can actually hit my enemies and considering the fact that most of my enemies will be able to fly I don't think that's happening." Natsu retorted as he stood up fully and brushed the dirt off his clothes and began to do a light amount of exercise to wake up his muscles.
[I never said you were taught it. But there is something that overgrown lizard once told you about.] E.N.D said as Natsu started to ease into a jog, of course he still jogged at speeds normal people would struggle to reach.
"Even if he did I don't think it's what I need. I need something that boosts my physical attributes as much as my magic power." Even though he was jogging every word spoken by Natsu was said casually and fluidly making it easy to understand.
[Oh I know. That's exactly what this technique does, or else I wouldn't have told you about it.] E.N.D smirked as his statement caused Natsu to stop.
"You're joking right? If there was such a thing then I would...have….already…..heard about….it." Natsu's speech began to slow as he slowly realized what E.N.D was talking about. 'You're not talking about that are you? That's crazy! I've never been able to do it!' Natsu thought to E.N.D as he didn't want to risk yelling and giving away his position, he was never fully certain he was safe in this place.
[Yes I am. You know it's exactly what you need right now and besides it's been what? A year since you tried to achieve it?] E.N.D scoffed. [Think about it. You've got life or death situations all around you. If that's not enough to achieve it then I don't know what is.]
Natsu gritted his teeth. "Dragon force." He muttered. 'Acnologia said it can only be triggered through special training or under special circumstances. The bastard never gave me any training for it and E.N.D is right, if being put in a life or death situation isn't enough then I can either die or try again. Maybe this is what I need.'
[Trust me I know you're ready for this. But it definitely won't be easy.] E.N.D spoke and Natsu nodded.
"I know but if I can achieve it I'd become much stronger. Though I probably shouldn't neglect my basic training." Natsu snickered. "For all the the shit he put me through he at least gave me some pretty good advice."
E.N.D chuckled. [As far as training goes his was nothing if not effective.] Natsu began to chuckle too before sighing to himself.
"Well looks like I've found my next objective." A smirk made itself present on Natsu's features as he began to start moving again. 'Dragon force. I will obtain it!'
Time skip: (Three months later)
"How the hell did I get myself into this mess?" A shirtless Natsu asked himself as he slowly looked around, his back covered in scales and his abdomen and chest the only parts of his torso left with normal looking skin. He was now in a mountainous area with sharp jagged rocks all around him, or he should be but instead he happened to find himself on a completely flattened out piece of land.
The flat piece of land was one kilometre in diameter and three kilometres in circumference and along the borders were sharp pieces of stone that reached around thirty metres in height making for quite a large arena. However even though there was a large amount of space Natsu was feeling a desperate need for some breathing room right about now.
All around him were Maroon colored dragons ranging from somewhere around 100-75 metres tall and 50-45 metres long with plated black underbellys and small spikes that reassembled stone growing on their shoulders. Each leg had a black spike providing backwards on the back of their knee joints. Their wings looked much like those that most people would imagine them to be, leathery looking and spines splitting them. Their claws were colored black.
There were some noticeable differences however. Some of the dragon's had a large horn on top of their snout, just above their nostrils, with another small horn behind it while the others had no horns at all. Also the dragons with horns had two tails instead of one, all of them having a Maroon colored flame on the tip.
Natsu knew that the differences most likely differentiated them from male and female but he wasn't sure which one was which. After all they all looked pretty intimidating and for all he knew was that the ones without horns and two tails just weren't fully grown yet, which was a fair argument seeing as how they were smaller than the ones with horns.
All in all there were six dragons surrounding him, four of them being hornless. Natsu shifted around waiting. They were just standing there watching him.
[No using Chaos Drive now. This is by far the best opportunity we've come across these past three months.] Spoke E.N.D .
Natsu adopted a fighting stance and focused his eyes. "Well what are we waiting for then?" And with that Natsu charged at one of the horned dragons as it retaliated by biting at him.
Once again I'm too lazy for a proper Author Note :D
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