Greetings people, it's me again, coming at you with another chapter for this story. Sorry if I took so long to update, I haven't had the time for it. But here's a new chapter for you all to either enjoy or despise. It's up to you really.
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Chapter Ten: Vision One, seeing the real Natsu
Everyone could only watch as the mist formed above the orb that Erza found from the bag began to take form. Eventually, the mists began to show them something, a location of sorts, and then it began to start.
We see a young man with spiky pink hair as he looked over a piece of paper of sorts. He was wearing a simple brown robe with red outlining that covered his whole body, wore dark gloves which didn't cover his fingers, and was also wearing dark boots. He also was wearing a red cloak on his back as well, and he was also wearing pointy red shoulder pads as well.
"Is that Natsu?" Erza question in surprised as she saw this version of Natsu. The red haired woman wasn't the only one surprised though.
"What is he wearing?" Freed asked the others, as it was weird to see Natsu wear something like that.
"Hang on; let's see what else this shows." Makarov told the rest of the guild, who listened to the small guild master.
"Okay," Natsu began to speak as he put the piece of paper away, "So the camp of bandits from the Defias Brotherhood should be around here." Natsu told himself as he continued his path through the wheat fields of Westfall.
After a few minutes of walking, the pink haired male stumbled upon the camp of bandits. Spotting the camp, Natsu hid behind a large boulder to prevent from being seen. Peaking out from the side, he got a better look at the people in the camp.
"Red masks that covers half of their face, yep, they're defiantly with the Defias Brotherhood." Natsu once again spoke to himself as he counted the numbers of the bandits.
"Is flamebrain on a job here or something?" Gray questioned as the ice mage and everyone else watched this memory of Natsu.
"It looks like that." Lucy spoke, even thought she and everyone else didn't know what a Defias Brotherhood was though.
"Don't worry; I'm sure Natsu kicks their butts!" Happy exclaimed happily.
"I'm sure he will, let's see for ourselves." Mira replied to the blue exceed, giggling at Happy's excitement.
Only if they knew what Natsu was about to do as they continued to watch.
After counting their numbers, and getting ready himself, he jumps from his hiding from the boulder, and launches a fireball from his hands, hitting one of the bandits, catching them off guard.
"What?" The bandits turned to see the pink haired mage. "Look at what we have here, a lone traveler trying to pick a fight. You came to the wrong area boy." One of the bandits told Natsu.
"Can you back up those words?" Natsu asked them, before without warning launching an arcane blast from his hands, hitting another bandit as blood spilled from his body as it hit the ground, signifying that he was dead.
Everyone in the guild was shocked and horrified by what they just saw. Natsu, one of their friend and guild mate, just flat out killed someone without remorse. They couldn't say anything as the memory continued.
"Get him you fools!" One of the caster bandits shouted as they charged at the pink haired mage.
Natsu merely smirked as he dodged an attack from a bandit's axe, as he launches a point blank fireball at his attackers face, burning his face off as he fell to the ground lifeless. Natsu then all of a sudden appeared right in front of a caster, delivering a swift kick to the neck, which caused a loud crack noise showing that he broke the caster's neck, killing him. Natsu continued his assault on the camp of bandits, which caused to get someone's attention from one of the tents.
"What's with all the noise?" A man stepped out, with two ogre guards next to him. Seeing his two bodyguards and his clothing and armor, Natsu guessed this must be the guy in charge of operations here. Seeing the pink haired male, the bandit boss spoke once more, "Well, looks like we have a rat sticking his noise where it shouldn't belong. Guards, take care of him!" The boss commanded the two ogres.
"We get him!" They shouted as they charged at the mage. Natsu managed to dodge the first ogre's attack, but was hit in the back by the other ogre.
"AH!" Natsu exclaimed as he managed to get back on his feet, unleashing arcane missiles from his hands at one of the ogres, which managed to bring him down. The other ogre didn't like seeing his friend fall to the tiny person, and got angry as he roared, charging at Natsu once more with more fury and speed than before. Luckily, Natsu managed to dodge the attacks, though one of them cut his robe though. Getting behind the ogre guard, Natsu once again unleashed an arcane blast dead center into the ogre's chest, killing him as he fell down.
"Bah! Worthless, all of you! I shall take care of you myself!" The bandit boss replied with annoyance as he drew his two swords from his back.
"You can try; you'll just end up like the rest!" Natsu shouted back as the bandit boss charged at Natsu. Natsu managed to use his blink ability to get a good distance from him. The pink haired mage then unleashed a bolt of frost at the bandit boss, hitting him as he fell to the ground. The bandit boss got back up and charged once more at Natsu, but due to the frost bolt, he was slower than he was, giving Natsu enough time to unleash another arcane blast at the bandit boss, who took the hit, sending him back to the ground. As he got back up, Natsu was suddenly in front of him thanks to his blink ability. Without warning, Natsu unleashed a point blank cone of frost, which finished the job as the bandit boss fell to the ground, both dead and frozen.
"Whew, that was a close call." Natsu told himself as he suddenly began to look around for something.
The guild was simply frozen in shock by what they have witness. They couldn't believe that Natsu just killed them without a second thought. They thought Natsu was simply going to beat them up or something and bring them to officials or something.
"H-He actually killed them." Lisanna managed to speak from seeing what they saw.
"Huh, never thought I would see Natsu killing someone and act like its normal." Laxus admitted.
"But this is Natsu though, he would never kill anyone!" Mira exclaimed at the lighting dragon slayer.
"Well he clearly did." Gajeel responded back, "And we didn't know he kept all of this stuff either, so I don't think we can say that we know what Salamander is capable of." The iron dragon slayer finished.
"What is he doing now though?" Wendy asked as he looked at the memory again, getting everyone else to look at the memory again as well.
The pink haired male looked around the corpse filled camp, as he looked for anything that he could use to finish the job. Natsu then looked at one of the swords near the bandit boss's body.
"I guess I can use that." Natsu spoke as he got on his knees, grabbed the sword, and proceed to behead the bandit boss's head from the rest of the corpse, getting more blood on his robes.
So after, getting the bandit's boss's head and putting it in a bag, and after grabbing anything that looked like it could sell for money, he proceeded to head back to Sentinel Hill.
The memory finally ended, though the mists were still present as the orb was now glowing. However, the last act that Natsu did left them more in shock once more.
"D-Did he just t-took his head?" Kinana managed to get out, as some members of the guild couldn't handle that as they headed to the restrooms to empty their stomachs.
"W-Why… Why would he do that?!" Erza shouted in horror. Never would she have imagine that the carefree, happy go lucky Natsu would do something like that with no problem.
"Remember," Makarov began to speak, getting everyone's attention, "From what we've seen, this is clearly somewhere where such actions seems to be normal giving Natsu's lack of care for those bandits. Whatever this place Natsu used to be at, his actions were clearly allowed." The small guild master told the rest of the guild. Of course that didn't mean he agreed with the pink haired male's actions though.
"Uh, the orb's still glowing, so maybe we can see something that might explain more about why it was okay for Natsu to do what he did?" Lucy suggested to the others.
"I agree, we will look at the orb again." Erza agreed with the celestial spirit mage. Everyone, even those who came back from the restrooms, watched as Erza touched the orb once more. The mists above them began to show them another memory once again.
Okay, there's that. Hope you like it, or not, it's up to you really. See you all next time, whenever that will be.