Author's Note:Before we begin the next chapter, I would like to clear up a small confusion a few of my reviews had ideas for breaking Erza. I believe she can only be "tamed" by going through a series of steps, not a single life shattering moment. I know a few of you won't like the idea, but you need to realize that Natsu is going to be evil and so will do evil things. And whilst I could use the Evil Presence to do so, using it over and over again will get boring and overused fast, and so I need other ways to convert people to his side. So ideas would be welcomed but for Erza, who is strong willed and strong believe in justice, I think this is the best way for her. Break her and then rebuild her to what Natsu needs her to become.
Chapter Nine…
(Galuna Island - Part 2.)
13th of November 782 - Galuna Island, Late Afternoon:
It has been a day since Natsu and Happy left the island and came back, during this time, Natsu got an anti-light magic item from Gnarl, which would allow him to get pass the barrier. Now that he was back, he went to the village to see Levy. Upon entering the village, Bobo showed Natsu to the village library where the Solid Script Mage was reading the books in there.
"Hey Levy I'm back." Natsu greeted the young blue haired Mage.
"Oh Natsu, Happy," Levy greeted in shock, not suspecting him for a few more days, "you're back sooner then I thought you would be. Have you got what you needed?"
"Yeah I have, I shouldn't have a problem getting through the barrier now." Natsu said with a smile, "Now have you found something about the temple?"
"I might have," Levy told Natsu unsurely, "there's something here about this place being a powerful place for some rituals, one such ritual is to get something called Moon Drip. These Moon Drips are meant to have the power to break most seals, no matter how powerful the magic used. But there's nothing about the side effects that we have seen."
"Hmm," Happy hummed thoughtfully, "it might be this Moon Drip at work, and that whoever is behind this, needs a lot of the stuff, and this could be the reason for the side effects."
"You might be right there." Levy acknowledged thoughtfully, "So when are you two going to check it out?"
"Tomorrow," Natsu told her, "we want to rest up after that damn boat ride. A good night's rest should do the trick."
"That's fine," acknowledged Levy, "but what would you like me to do in the meantime?"
"Rest for the rest of the day," Natsu told her, "and in the morning see what else you can find out about the temple in case it's not Moon Drip."
Levy agreed to this, and the three of them spent the night getting to know the villagers, before turning in.
And Then…
14th of November 782 - Galuna Island, Moon Temple, Morning:
The next morning was a rainy one, no one there felt like doing anything, but knew they had to, at least Natsu, Happy and Levy did, as they needed to find a way to help the villagers. Now we see Levy back in the village library researching the island and the temple, whilst Natsu and Happy searched the temple itself.
But as Natsu and Happy got near to the temple, they were attacked by a huge rat, a rat that was wearing a black corset-style top with pink frilly edges which was tied up the front with black strings. Completing its outfit was a white lace headband and a red ribbon tied across its chest.
Upon the rat attacking them, the two of them retaliated, with Happy using Wind Magic, and Natsu using his Fire-Make Magic and using one of his new swords. The fight didn't take long, but at the end of it Natsu killed the damn thing. Upon killing the rat, and Natsu collecting the Lifeforce, Happy said, "Are you sure it is wise to kill the rat? The way it is dressed, it belonged to someone, most likely the ones we're meant to stop, and so it'll show that we're here."
"And knocking it out would have done the same thing," Natsu informed his partner, "this way they'll know I don't play about. And who knows, if they are good enough, making them mad at me will make them attack at their fullest and show me if they are any good, if so, I can see about having them joining us."
"But what if they won't?" asked Happy.
"We kill them" Natsu said simply, as they started to walk near the temple which was in ruins, and as they entered the place, they were struck with awe at the size of the temple, there wasn't much about the place other than that. It was a total mess with broken walls, unstable floors, moss growing everywhere and the usual rat or two that scampered away at their appearance. "Wow…I wonder when this place was built?" Happy commented, before saying, "It's gigantic."
"I know and it's a mess too," Natsu said as he looked around, "it looks like this place has been around for a long time."
"Natsu, take a look at these drawings." Happy said as he pointed up at the wall in front of them.
"They look like moons." Natsu said in wonder, as he begun to walk towards the wall. But as he got near to the wall, he accidentally stomped his foot on the ground hard, which was badly damaged. The floor cracked a little and Natsu momentarily paused as he felt something through the crack, something dark. This made Natsu raise an eyebrow, as he wondered what this dark feeling was and where it was coming from. But as he tried to take a few more steps forward, the ground beneath them crumbled and the two of them only gawked in shock for a second before they fell through the hole.
As they were falling, Happy used his Wing Magic and flew over to his father and grabbed hold of him before he floated them down to the bottom, where there was a cave that was hidden underneath the ruins. Once they landed, Natsu used his Fire-Make magic to burn the rubble away.
"Do you want me to fly us out of here Natsu?" Happy asked as he dust off the rubble that was on him.
"No I sense something down here." Natsu explained, and he did sense something, and now that he was down here, he now had a better feeling of it. It was like his demonic side of him.
"Oh? Where?" Happy asked him.
"From there." Natsu answered as he quickly made his way down a pathway in front of his son. Happy followed a few meters behind him. After walking for some time he finally came to a stop causing Happy to look at him in bewilderment.
"Natsu?"
Natsu silently glared upward, never taking his eyes away as he spoke, "That thing is the source of the dark feeling I've been sensing."
"What are you talking abou-!" Happy didn't finish his question as his eyes widened in absolute horror, and his jaw dropped open as his eyes grew wider and wider with each passing seconds.
The thing that shocked them was a massive, dark blue, humanoid Demon that seemed to be in some sort of an Ice prison. The creature had a large torso and two large arms that ended in scaly hands. On the left and right part of his torso as well as around his neck, he was covered with a series of spikes. In addition, he had two large legs, whereas the feet resembled that of a bird's, with additional spikes on the back. His hair was mane-like in shape and it flowed down to the nape of his neck. He had a pair of horns that point upwards, jutting from a plate on his forehead. He also had large pointed teeth as well as two hollow eyes.
"Is that a demon?" Happy asked fearfully. Sure he knew his best friend and father was one, and had a fearful demonic form too, but this was something else, something much taller and more powerful. Sure Natsu would be like this one day, but still, he wasn't expecting to see another demon any time soon.
"I think so, it does feel just like my demonic side," Natsu admitted to his son, "but the question is what is it doing down here? And what kind of demon was it?"
"Someone's coming…" Happy told the Natsu when heard voices behind him, his head turned as he saw shadows moving toward the large cave they were in. "We got to hide!" Until he knew who they were against, Natsu agreed and went into hiding as two people walked into the cave.
The first one was a lean-built, mildly muscular young man of average height with distinctive animal features: he has a pair of canine ears sitting on his head, a small dark nose and a lower face which was coloured differently from the rest of his body, bearing resemblance to a canine muzzle. He had shoulder-length, straight brown hair, large round eyes with black pupils and dark eyebrows. He was bare-chested and only wore an extremely loose pair of pants with mildly torn hems, held up by a long belt covered in many rhombs, with the part left out from its plain rectangular buckle hanging down. Such pants bore a large, dark shield-shaped logo emblazoned on the right knee: this depicted a stylized skull, bearing ears similar to his own ones, with a pair of bones crossed below it, most likely tibias. The whole symbol was highly reminiscent of a Jolly Roger. He also had a red collar covered in hollow studs circling his neck, and donned a pair of simple dark shoes, each adorned by a light, stylized footprint, similar to that of a cat, or maybe a small dog.
The second man was a short, slim young man distinguished by his extremely brushy, squared black eyebrows. His eyes, too, were black, while his hair, initially arranged in a number of spikes pointing upwards with a particularly large one topping his forehead was unusually, bright blue. He sported a green coat reaching down to his knees, sporting black section in correspondence to the sleeves's outer part and on the sides' lower parts, below the plain dark belt with a rectangular buckle which, together with the two vertically striped, overlapping hems placed on the front, kept the garment closed. His pants were dark and loose while his plain shoes were light-coloured.
"Are you sure that the voices came from down here?" The man with bushy eyebrows asked and looked around to see if there was anyone in the cave.
The other man just growl in response, as he too looked around.
"Oh I hate being up during the day." the shorter man groaned.
"So Toby, have you been exposed to the Moon Drip? You have the pointed ears and everything…" He teased with a grin.
"I DIDN'T! IT'S JUST DECORATIVE! YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT!" He shouted at him getting offended.
"I'm just teasing you idiot!" He told him as the two walked around the cave again
"You don't have to be mean about it." The dog like man whined.
"Did they just say Moon Drip?" Natsu asked himself with a raised eyebrow after overhearing their conversation, "Looks like Levy was right, and this ice is some sort of powerful magic that they're trying to break, to free this demon."
Before Happy could say anything, they heard a voice behind the two men. "Yuka, Toby, I have grave news."
They both along with Natsu and Happy turned toward its source.
It was a woman with blue eyes, pink hair, large breasts, and a curvaceous body. Her hair tied in pigtails, her choker tied into a ribbon, a purple and pink short spaghetti dress with light pink trimmings, black leggings, and high-heeled sandals. Her dress appeared to have two long and thin wings at the back, "Someone has killed Angelica." she told them as she clasped her hands together in front of her chest.
"IT'S JUST A DAMN RAT! Who cares if someone killed it Sherry!" Toby yelled at her.
"She was not just a rat…" she responded, lowering her hands to her stomach. "Angelica was a brave hunter that galloped in the darkness…and in love."
"Something is severely wrong about her." Happy muttered to Natsu.
"Yeah, and seeing they aren't deformed, we can be sure they aren't from the island." Natsu told him.
"Intruders, eh?" Yuuka said and the others stared at him, "It could be nothing, but with the killing of Angelica it could be that someone found out what we're doing and came to stop us. Either way though, since they have seen Deliora, we can't let them walk away alive." Yuuka told his comrades as they slowly walked away.
"Not only that, but they can't get away from killing Angelica," Sherry told them darkly, "and it'll upset the Cold Emperor should he hear about this. They should be given the eternal sleep to these people...in other words, 'Love'."
"'DEATH!'" Toby yelled at them. "WE'LL KILL THEM!"
Natsu and Happy waited until they disappeared before coming out of their hiding spot. "Now what?" Happy asked the group.
"We go back to the village and see if they know anything about this Deliora," Natsu explained to his friend, "and we need to know more about this Moon Drip and see if we can break it."
And so the two of them left the area and returned to the village.
And Then…
Galuna Island, The Village, Lunchtime:
It was about lunchtime when Natsu and Happy returned to the demon village, where they went to the village library to see Levy. Upon entering the library, Levy saw them them and she said, "Hey you two, I see that you're back, have you found anything?"
"A bit," Natsu admitted to his researcher, "we found out that you were right, there is a group of people using the Moon Drip ritual."
"What for?" Levy asked in shock, Moon Drip only used for the most powerful of seals, and these seals are normally protecting the most powerful and dangerous of items. To need the Moon Drip to undo whatever the seal was, it was something worrying.
"It would seem that it is some sort of Dark Guild trying to free a demon from its ice prison," Natsu explained to the blue haired Mage, "the demon seemed to be called Deliora."
"Deliora!" the Solid Script Mage shouted out in shock, "Are you sure about this Natsu? What did the demon look like?"
And so Natsu explained what he saw down at the cave, and as he Levy came more fearful. Once Natsu explained what he saw, Natsu asked, "So who is this demon?"
"Aye." Happy agreed with his father.
"It is one of Zeref's demons." explained Levy fearfully.
"So it's one of hers." Natsu said thoughtfully.
"Hers?" Levy asked confused, "Don't you mean his?"
"No hers," Natsu corrected, "during my training, I learned that Zeref was a female and not a male as everyone thought. And to be honest, the way she turned out was mainly because of the Curse of Contradiction that the God Ankhseram put onto her because she played with life and death, as she was trying to bring someone back to life who she loved. Who I don't know," Natsu lied at this part, "but the Curse kills anyone around Zeref without prejudice.
"This Curse was controlled by her emotional state, which is why she had trouble controlling her powers. So should she care about the lives of others, her Magic would become uncontrollable and randomly bursts outward, killing all those around her. However, over time she learnt not to cares about others, and so she learnt to completely control her Magic, and became the ruthless, cold-hearted Zeref spoken of in legend. In a way I feel sorry for her, she only turned out that way because some God cursed her because she wanted to bring someone she cared about a back to life, and to control her Curse, she had to become the person who we know today. If I was her, I might have done the same thing, try and bring the one I cared about back to life, no matter what."
Levy was shocked to hear this, she wasn't sure what to think. If what Natsu learnt about the Black Mage Zeref was right, then she only became what she was because a God cursed her for trying to bring someone, who she most likely cared about, back to life. She couldn't help but feel somewhat sad for the Black Mage if what Natsu was right, to control the curse that this God gave her to make sure she didn't kill those close to her, she had to become the cold and ruthless mage from the stories they heard about. If it wasn't for the curse, she might not have become what she had .
"What about the demons?" Levy asked when the monster came to mind, they were a danger to the world, and it was mostly thanks to Zeref because she created them.
"Oh to start off with it was mainly to create life so she could find a way to bring her loved one back," Natsu explained, "they were weak and more or less useless. But once the Curse was placed on her, she created demons that could kill."
"What do you mean to kill her?" Levy asked confused.
"Because she was more or less immortal," explained Natsu, "from what me and my people could find out, part of the damn curse, made her part immortal. She wouldn't die of old age, and she could heal faster than a normal person, but she could be killed. Realizing that she'll never grow old, but all those around her that she cared about would, along with knowing that she might be the reason that a few of them would die, she went mad."
Levy gasped in shock and horror, as she realized the main reason that Zeref became the Black Mage they all knew, and it was thanks to the God Ankhseram, who didn't like the idea of people playing with life. And so he cursed the poor woman who tried to bring her loved one back into her life. Was it wrong to do so, Levy wasn't sure, as if she lost someone who she cared that deeply about, she had the guts, the power and knowledge, she might have done the same thing.
In a way Levy cursed Ankhseram, as if it wasn't for him Zeref wouldn't have become that way. As she thought about it, it was Ankhseram who was the true villain, as he was the one who created the Black Mage in the first place. But still the stronger demons she didn't understand about, but she didn't have to wait long to find more about them.
"After going mad, Zeref created more and more powerful demon, one after another," explained Natsu, "she stopped caring about bring her loved one back, but to create a powerful demon that could kill her. If they couldn't kill her, she would throw it aside and create a new demon. She even used her loved one to make the most powerful demon that could kill her. "
Levy was shocked to hear this, but she could understand why she did it in a way, she wanted to die and she didn't care how or who got hurt. It wasn't right, but with the kind of curse and the life she lead, Levy wasn't sure if she wouldn't have done the same thing or not. "So if she is immortal, what happened to her and her demons."
"We don't know what happened to Zeref, she just disappeared one day." Natsu explained honestly, "We believe that she had somehow had enough of the death and killing, and so removed herself from society, so that she wouldn't bother us and we didn't bother her."
It was strange, but if she was immortal, this could be the only thing that explains why they haven't heard anything about Zeref for a long time. And Levy hoped that they would never hear about the Black Mage.
"As for her demons, they appear every so often, but most of the time they are controlled." Natsu told the Solid Script Mage.
"Controlled by who?" the blue haired Mage asked worriedly.
"By the leaders of Tartaros." Natsu explained simply.
"You're kidding!?" Levy asked in shock and horror. Tartaros was part of the Balam Alliance, and with two other powerful Dark Guilds, Oración Seis and Grimoire Heart controlled many of the weaker guilds..
"No I am not, in fact all of Tartaros are demons that Zeref created," explained Natsu, "but until they are able to find their creator, they keep a low profile so as to not be found out and dealt with."
Hearing that Levy wasn't sure to be happy or not about this, but in the end she decided to be happy about it. If the leaders of Tartaros didn't control the other demons, she feared what might happen.
"Anyway, about Deliora, what do you know about him?" asked Natsu, getting back to the subject.
"He was defeated a few years before you joined Fairy Tail," Levy begun to explain, "he was known for destroying many villages over his time. But he was defeated by an Ice Mage by the name of Ur Milkovich, but they didn't know how other than that she died in doing so."
Here Natsu thought about what he heard, and about how Milkovich could have defeated such a demon. Normal ice shield would be useless, as they wouldn't be as powerful to do so. Then he remembered something when he was reading up about Molding Magic when he was training to use Fire Make Magic, he read about Ice Make and Water Make Mages, as they were two of Molding Magic that could become a problem for him. In the Ice Make part of it the books, he learnt about one such skill that could have stopped the most powerful of demons. But it should only be used as a last resort.
"I think I know what she used." Natsu told his partners.
"What is that?" asked Happy.
"It is a powerful Ice Make spell known as Iced Shell." Natsu told them.
"Never heard of it, what does it do?" Levy queried with interest.
"And you shouldn't, as it is an extremely powerful yet fatal Ice Magic Spell, where the caster has to give up their lives to cast the spell." Natsu explained to them, shocking and horrifying his partners, "I only know it as I was reading about magic that could be used against my Fire Make Magic." Levy nodded at this, understand why he would look up about Ice Make Mages, "But they aren't fully dead though, they still live though, as they would become part of the magic feeding the spell for the rest of time. And no normal magic could break it."
"Other than Moon Drip." Levy suddenly guessed at why this group was using this ritual.
"That's right," Natsu agreed with her, "but by the size of it, it'll take years for the ice to be fully melted. So I was wondering how I could stop this ritual."
"Other than stopping the castors,, there's nothing I can think of." Levy said with a sigh.
"Seeing that this is a Dark Guild, I might have to kill a few of them to persuade them to stop." Natsu smirked at this, shocking Levy at the way how easy Natsu could say that about killing, and with a smirk.
But before Levy could say anything, they heard someone say at the doorway, "You won't be killing anyone Natsu." In the doorway was none other than Erza Scarlet.
"Damn, what are you doing here Scarlet?" Natsu said darkly, not wanting to see this busy body bitch.
"I heard that you were an Independent Mage and was also a S-Class Mage to and doing your first S-Class Mission, and I came to see if you are ready." Erza explained her reasoning for being there, "But seeing that you're willing to kill people, I can see that you're not, as you know full well that you're not allowed to kill people."
"No I can't kill innocent people, or take assassin jobs" Natsu told the bitch, unhappy that she was here telling him what he can or cannot do, "as for Dark Mages, whilst frowned upon, killing them is allowed as long as it isn't an assassin job to kill them."
"Don't you remember what Master…" Erza began to argue about killing, but Natsu stopped her by saying, "I'm not a goddamn Fairy Tail Member now, in fact I'm not in a Legal Guild, I'm an Independent Mage and so as long as I obey the law I can do whatever I want, even start a war with a Dark Guild. Something a Legal Guild cannot do."
"But…" Erza tried to argue once again, but Natsu stopped her once again, "But nothing, I'm not the same dumb weak person you knew, if you push me I'll push back. I'm not putting up with your shit anymore." And with that Erza tried to punch Natsu, not liking how he was talking to hear and so wanted to show who was in control here. But what she didn't suspect was that Natsu side-stepped the punch, took her arm and throw her across the room.
She hit the wall on the other side of the room with enough force to knock the wind out of her. Slowly she got up and glared daggers at Natsu. She then summoned one of her blades and charged at him. He then did something that no one except Happy expected, he used requip magic and summoned a blade as well. He deftly deflected her attack and he hit her stomach with the pommel of his sword, knocking the wind out of again, and sent her crumpling to the floor. Before she could get up again Natsu knocked her to the ground and pinned her so that she couldn't move.
This shocked Levy, as whilst she knew Natsu changed, she never thought he would act like this towards Erza, as before he was so scared of her. Now he was stronger and more confident in his actions, and to her surprise she liked it.
As Natsu pinned his former tormenter, he said to her, "Listen well Erza, as I told you, push me and I'll push you back, and I'll do this to anyone who tries it. I'm not the same person you used to know, so back off and let me deal with MY mission MY way." Then before letting Erza go, he turned to Levy and said, "Happy and I are going back out, and search the area for a bit, and see if we can find the Dark Mages and how many there are. If we can't find them, we'll go back to the temple and deal with them."
"What do you want me do whilst you're out there." asked Levy.
"As much as I hate to ask, I want you to keep an eye out for the villagers and if possible protect them." Natsu explained to her, "As I pissed someone off, as I killed their huge pet rat, and they might come here to pay me back. So do what you can to protect them, and if you can, help them escape the place and take them back to the ship."
"Sure Natsu." Levy said with nod.
"As for you Erza stay or leave, I don't care, but don't get in my way." Natsu said darkly as he left the library.
As he left the library, Erza got up and dusted off, as she asked Levy, "What the fuck happened to that bastard." Unhappy how the Dragon Slayer treated her.
"He changed, became stronger and more confident," Levy told her Guild Mate, "someone who won't allow others, like you, to bully him. I say you better leave him alone, as he won't take your crap anymore."
"But he is going to kill them." Erza told her angrily.
"I know," Levy acknowledged sadly, "and whilst I would like it that it didn't happen, it is better than them unsealing a powerful demon."
"What do you mean?" Erza asked confused, "I thought the mission was to remove the Curse from the island, how does that come about killing someone and unsealing a demon."
"Because Natsu found the cause of the Curse…" Levy explained, before she went on to explain the cause of the Curse of the island.
Erza was shocked about what happened to the islanders, and the reason behind it all. But she was still against killing people, it should never happen. And if she had any say in it, she was going to make sure that Natsu wasn't going to kill anyone.
And Then…
Galuna Island:
Natsu decided to search for the Blue Minions, before looking for this Cold Emperor and his people. Natsu had Happy fly to the north side of the island, when he was informed where the strange creatures was. But as he got near the the north side of the island, he found a small camp of seven people. Having Happy land in the forest nearby, the two of them snuck near to the camp.
As they got near to the camp, they heard a male say, "So can you tell me how long this is going to take?"
"You just got to this island than?" asked another person, a female.
"Yeah, just today." admitted the man.
"Well my name is Rose," Rose told the man, "and the Cold Emperor told us it would take a few years until Deliora defrosts. And when he is, the Cold Emperor will finally kill him and take the revenge for what the damn demon did to our villages."
Upon hearing this, Natsu and Happy were shocked, it would seem that these people were villagers from villages that Deliora destroyed. And that this Cold Emperor seemed to think that he could kill one of the powerful demons that his sister created, Natsu had to wonder what kind of fool this person was. It took Ur Milkovich using Iced Shell to seal the demon away, seeing that a normal person couldn't defeat a powerful demon. And from the people that he dealt with earlier, they seemed to be willing to kill anyone that got in the way of their revenge.
"So what is the plan if the villager get in the way?" asked the man.
"We'll kill them," Rose told the man simply, shocking and horrifying the man, "we can't let them inform anyone else what we're doing, as they would try to stop us, and we can't have that. If you decide to go against us, we'll kill you too, as we can't risk you talking too."
This horrified the man more as he said, "O-Ok…"
This was all Natsu needed to hear, these people were willing to kill anyone who got in their way and knew that talk wouldn't change their minds. And with that he requiped his Overlord Gauntlet, and summoned a sword as he turned to Happy and said, "Ready for this partner?"
"Aye sir." Happy nodded as he transformed into his human form.
And with a smile the two of them headed into the camp. As they entered the camp, the one called Rose asked, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
"My friend and I overheard you wanting to freeing the demon Deliora, and killing it out of revenge." Natsu said simply, seeing no point of dancing around the subject.
"If you heard that, what are you going to do about it?" Rose asked darkly, "We have all rights to do so."
"I'm here to stop you," Natsu told them, "as if you fail of killing it, the demon will go on a rampage once again making problems for the world."
"Than you have a problem," Rose said, "as we'll kill you should you try and stop us. You have to understand that by the time that the demon is finally free, the Cold Emperor will have the power to defeat the damn demon once and for all. And we'll finally get our revenge."
"I can understand the need for revenge, but we can't risk that this'll fail, so we'll have to stop you." Happy told them.
"Then die…" sneered Rose and she and the rest of them attacked.
The first two people who went after them were killed so easily, that it was like a bad joke. Natsu swung his sword and cut their heads off with ease, they didn't put a much of a fight up. As this happened, Happy used his magic to blow the rest back. Than those who could use magic, tried to attack the two partners.
Two of them transformed into huge beasts, as they tried to attack Natsu and Happy. But the problem was that they had no skills when it came to fighting, they died before they could do much. And then there was the two without magic, they picked up weapons to fight, but once again they had no real skill in fighting.
This last person standing was Rose, who said angrily, "You bastard, I won't let you get away with this."
"If you give up with the idea of freeing Deliora, we won't have to do this." Happy told the mad woman.
"We won't," Rose told them, "the demon will pay for what he done to us."
"Even though he is frozen and can't do any more harm, and if you do this, you'll be putting the rest of the world at risk?" Natsu asked in shock, whilst he wasn't bothered by this, seeing he would be doing the same thing someday. He didn't want other people doing the same thing before he was ready to fight them off.
"If it means we get our revenge, so be it." Rose told them, before she said, "Wood Make Spears!"
And with that ten wooden spears appeared out of the ground and attacked Natsu and Happy, which they were able to dodge with ease. Natsu couldn't help but to laugh at this, "You're really going to use Wood Make Magic on me of all people?"
"What if I am?" asked Rose before she sent another set of wooden spears at them, which this time Natsu blocked with a Fire Make Wall.
This shocked Rose, but she wasn't going to back down now, as no one and I mean no one was going to stop her from doing what she thought was right. If it meant that people had to die for the Cold Emperor to free Deliora, and so he could kill it himself so that they finally get their revenge, so be it. But Deliora was going to pay for what it did to her village, hers and the other people's villages. She didn't care that it was already imprisoned, and it would most likely not be freed again, no she like the others wanted the damn demon to die.
She knew that with her enemy being a Fire Make Mage, and her being a Wood Make Mage, the battle would be hard, but she wasn't going down without a fight. And so using Wood Make Golem, she turned six of the nearby trees into Golems, so that they would fight alongside her.
This made the battle a bit harder, it would seem that she was a gifted Molding Magic User, unlike Gray Fullbuster. Whilst he might be a so, so Ice Mage, he limited his magic to defence like magic, no real attack magic like these golems. And he was easily distracted and angered.
Back to the battle, Natsu and Happy had to fight more carefully, as there were also face six huge strong Golems, and Natsu saw that he would have to use a bit more power than he was expecting against a Wood Make Mage, as Rose would also send other attacks at them, and was adept at blocking too.
Natsu used Fire Make Swords and made two fire swords. The golems were strong but slow and his fire swords cut through them easily but with dodging their heavy blows and making sure a wooden spear didn't impale him he wasn't making much progress but it was clear he was winning, it would just be a while before his victory and he would use up more magic than he wanted too. Happy sped up their inevitable victory thankfully, he blew one of the golems over onto Rose and while she was pinned Natsu used Fire Make Arrow and shot an arrow of fire through the golem and into Rose's heart. With the wood make mage dead the golems stopped and top over, unmoving.
Once the mages were dealt with, Natsu and Happy headed a bit more north where they found a stunning site featuring a unique land formation consisting of two giant holes, which was connected via an ancient lava tube cave. One was a deep watering hole, which you could swim in, and the other was empty. In the water area they could see the Blue Minions and their Hive, and some sparkling crystals which Natsu recognised as Lacrima Crystals.
This could explain why the Blues were here, the area was full of water other than a small island where the Hive was placed on, and where a few of them were sleeping on. The other was the crystal ravine, where people could mine for the Lacrima Crystals. These were spell ones, as they were Water Lacrimas, which could help Mages who could use Water Magic better, and create water spells.
Upon seeing Natsu with the Overlord gauntlet, the Blue Minions got excited at this, calling him Master. Natsu and Happy smiled at this, before the young Overlord called Gnarl for the Netherworld Tower Gate, which allowed Natsu to send the Hive back to the tower. This made Gnarl very happy, as it was one Minion Hive down, and two more to go and he couldn't wait to find the others.
Once Natsu sent the Hive back, it was getting late so they decided to go back to the temple to try and deal with people wanting to free his sister's demon.
To be Continued!
Author's Note - PLEASE READ TO THE END: Here ends Chapter 9 of The Dragon Overlord, and I want you to thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed the chapter. This chapter was a bit hard to write, as I had problems concentrating and the mood to write it. For a while, I have been working on one of my other stories called Magical Fallout, which is a Fallout story with the elements of Harry Potter and Mass Effect in it. But seeing that it'll be mainly Fallout for a good while, I have placed it into games, Fallout on fanfiction. I hope you go there and read this story as I would like to hear what you think of it. Poll at the end of this.
Now once again here the idea that duskrider sent me to break Erza, but as I said at the start, there isn't a traumatizing moment like many of you thought, but steps to breaking her. I'm sorry if I confused you I didn't mean to so here it is a bit clearer, as I can make it, going by each step. I changed it from the last version, as I have thought about it and came up with a few ideas of my own to add. I would love to hear what you think of the idea, and how to make it better or if there was something missing that you think should be added. But once she is broken, Natsu can rebuild her to fit his needs, into a new person and won't be a mindless sex slave.
Not only that, but I was reminded by a review about the possibility of Murphy's law happening, 'things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance,' or more commonly, 'whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.' I was told plan creates many openings for something to go wrong, and so I would like to hear your thoughts about what could go wrong, as I like the idea of something going wrong where Natsu as to sort it out.
Breaking Erza:
STEP 1 - The Fake Death of Erza: Will be a few years in the future. Natsu is still training to become a powerful Overlord, and most likely still looking for at least maybe the Green Minion Hive. At this point I'm hoping to have whispers of a powerful Dark Mage known as only as the Overlord, making a name for himself and building his own Dark Guild.
Either way, at some point the events of Tower of Heaven happen, more or less the same as the series, but at the end of it people will be lead to believe that Erze dead to prevent the R-System from activating - but when in truth she is captured. The reason people are made to believe she is dead, is so that no one would look for her, so that Natsu can break and rebuild her to his needs.
Erza's death is faked so that no one will think about looking for her, and so giving Natsu the time to break her, and then rebuild Erza to his needs: the perfect weapon who is only loyal to Natsu.
STEP 2 - Solitary Confinement: At this point of the plan, Natsu puts here in solitary confinement, with no windows, so that she won't know if it is day or night. Here she'll be left alone, all she would be able to hear is the screams of people in other cells.
The problem will become when her concept of time become fucked up, as I'm thinking that Natsu or one of the others could mess up her internal clock. As she won't know when she sleeps or awaken, as her captives will wake her up and make her sleep at different times so that she won't know what the time is, and so making it hard to know how long she has been captured for.
During her time in solitary confinement, not only will she be forced to hear others screaming from pain and people getting killed, she'll be forced to relive memories of her past, painful memories that she would want to forget. Some memories might be implanted into her and so she don't know which is true or not.
During this time, one of her friends be sent into the cell next to her, or some other prisoner that Ezra gets to know. Whoever it is tries to escape, but fails, and so the two plan together to make a better plan of escape. But over time Ezra's hopes are crashed as she learns that whoever she been talking to, have been killed since the day they tried to escape, and it was one of her captives she has been trying to fuck with her.
During this time, she would be given drugs in her food and water that'll play with her nerves, causing her greater pain and pleasure. All the while she believes it's to try and break her, but she'll fight through this. But at the same time, the drugs not only made her pain and pleasure, but little did she knew, but they also weaken her power, strength, slows her reflexes and muscle control.
STEP 3 - Overlord visits Erza: What seems to be weeks even months to Erza, she finally meets up with the Master of the captives that's being keeping her captive, a person by the name Overlord.
Here the Overlord challenge Erza to a 'fair and square' fight, one where should she win, she and her friends can be set free. The Overlord either cut her tendons after she is knocked out during these events to prevent her from running or while in battle after taking her fake eye. All this to show how outmatched she is to him, and that she couldn't win against the Overlord. As the Overlord leaves her to wonder why and how these events happened, he would make a comment that he will take what is his whenever he wanted, to take her purity. Have this commented on over time.
STEP 4 - Over the next few months or so, Natsu should be able to break Millianna, yes the poll say she is with Natsu and not happy, and is willing to do whatever her new master wants from her. To prove this to Erza, Natsu as the Overlord will use Millianna in some sexual way. At this point Millianna tries to persuade her old friend that it is a good thing to give in to the Overlord.
At some point have one of Erza's friend, who was rebellious and keep on escaping, tortured in view of her before being taken away due to him misbehaving. At this point it could be anyone, even Natsu. It could be they watch Natsu getting 'tortured' by watching it on a Surveillance Lacrima, or have a fake Natsu getting 'tortured' or have a fake Overlord 'torturing' Natsu. If Surveillance Lacrima is used, his beaten state will be caused by training harder making Erza mistake it for torture. Erza during this time will also be tortured to help make it so she does not focus enough to realize it is fake.
STEP 5 - At some point of Erza's stay, Natsu is thrown into her cell for some reason, (ideas as to why would be welcomed.) Fearing that at some point the monster known as the Overlord would rape her, she wants her virginity taken by a friend and not a monster. Natsu will be too tempting a target. Natsu will turn things around and dominate her sexually.
Over the next few days, they would be separated for torture. After will, her captives states that Natsu was getting too rebellious and tried to escape (make it seem like Natsu planned this beforehand but did not tell Erza about it saying he was going to make his move before they were transported.) After Natsu's so called escape, the Overlord brings in a skeleton roughly the same body shape as Natsu and state they flayed his skin and made soap form it (serve her soap that night beforehand.) And informs Erza about his escape, and that he was killed because he tried to save her and could have escaped if he hadn't tried to come back for her.
STEP 6 - After Natsu's death, the Overlord has Erza experience memories for her time with Natsu in Fairy Tail, and interacting with him. Alter them along with others such as Grandpa Rob's death, her friends, and Jellal. Show Erza her own funeral having not told her beforehand they thought she was dead. If they bad mouth her in death all the better. Have the Overlord treat her lovingly like Natsu at times.
This is the final step so nothing can go wrong with it. STEP 7 - At the point that Erza is at the breaking point, knowing it would take the right action to break her mind fully, before Natsu could rebuild her to his needs, Natsu takes her for the first time as the Overlord. But this time it won't be the same as Natsu took Erza the last few times, it'll be rough and hard, raping her would be the right word for this.
As the Overlord is raping her, the Overlord reveal himself as Natsu, and that everything that happened over the last few months was because of him. Revealing this should mess with her mind to the point that she finally breaks, realizing that she was played by Natsu all this time. Everything that she been through, the pain, the pleasure and finally giving herself to Natsu so that her first time be something she wanted, but only to find out that it was Natsu all this time.
At this point with her mind broken, Natsu can rebuild Erza into something he can use, making her into the loyal warrior. The big Reveal cannot happen for a long time and I mean she has to think Natsu died screaming and was eaten for at least a week maybe more.
New Poll: After the last few chapters, I have been asking for names for a female Gajeel, and now it is now time to vote what her name should be. Pick one of the following names that you wish to have a female Gajeel to be known as:
Lissa
Ashley
Gabriel
Gajel
Garnet
Garnet
Gajana
Jeagela
Gajeen
Gabby
Overlord Log!
Overlord Items:
Eye of Evil: An Orb to allow the Overlord to spy on people.
Coffin of Regeneration: A Coffin that can heal anyone from near death.
Spell Stones: Got a few spell from Overlord that I'll use, but I would like ideas for more spells that I can use. So ideas are welcomed here.
Mana Pillars: Going to be called something like Power Pillars or something like that, which give the person as the name suggests, gives power to the Overlord.
Health Pillars: Not going to appear, as I can't see how I could use them.
Minion Totems: Not going to appear in the story, as I don't like the idea of limiting how many minions Natsu can use at a time. Not only that, I had no idea how to add them into the story. Unless you have an idea how to alter them to fit into a story.
Tower Heart: To follow the Followship of Evil, the Heart will now be called Nether Heart.
Tower Smelters: Unlike the games, the first Smelter will still be at the tower.
Minion Hives:
Brown Hive: Like in the game it'll be in the tower.
Red Hive: Like the game not in the tower, in this story the Red Minions will be found near Sun Village.
Green Hive: Like the game not in the tower, but I am unsure where it'll be found, so ideas would be welcomed as to where to find it. Was thinking of some kind of swamp or something.
Blue Hive: Like the game not in the tower, it's on Galuna Island and be the first hive to be found.
