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'I'm all fired up' - People Thoughts

"I'm all fired up" - Creature Speech/Attack/Spells/Translation

'I'm all fired up' - Creature Thoughts

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Episode 10: Knight of Zero

Tuesday, July 24th, Year X784, 11:29 A.M, Earthland, Alakitasia, United State of Indonesia, Jakarta.

United State of Indonesia, also known as U.S.I was an archipelago country that located in southern of Alakitasia Continent, two hundred and ninety kilometers away from Alvares Empire, and a hundred and ten kilometers away from Britannia Empire. The country included the island of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Papua and few smaller neighboring islands. Its capital was Jakarta that located at the western part of the island of Java.

Jakarta was known worldwide as a major tourist destination from entire Earthland. The city was so big that could rival Pendragon in term of size with some ancient building and landmark that said existed even before Zeref was born into the world.

But right now…Jakarta, as well as U.S.I was experiencing its darkest hour in their history…because of the sudden attack from total seven Dragons that came out from nowhere. Not even thirty minutes since the attack begun, the Dragon had killed, or rather consumed half of Jakarta's total population. The original 11,800,000 of people had been decreased to mere 5,900,000 of people.

The mages were utterly useless, they were no match for the wrath of Dragons.

The civilian were trembled in fear when the Dragons floated over Jakarta, opened their mouth while preparing for breath attack, causing the survivor began to run for their life. The seven Dragons just finish gathering up magic for their breath and fired it down at Jakarta.

(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM)

The power of the massive seven roar attack caused absolutely titanic explosions that could be felt from entire Earthland when they hit the targets. Despite of the amazing feat, the blasts from earlier were nothing but a small fraction of the Dragon's true powers. When the smoke died down, as Jakarta once stood was now in ruins from the absolutely devastating blasts.

Mages and civilians were laying on the ground was either dead or suffer heavily injures from the blast. Bloods scattered everywhere from the lifeless body, to limbs missing from the body. It was a massacre. The blasts killed almost over half of the current surviving population, the rest of the people that miraculously wasn't killed or injured from the blast stared wide eyes where there falling comrades lay dead or crying in pain. Everyone start to run over to their friends and family that was caught in the titanic explosions. Crying and screaming about their love ones, tears falling from their eyes.

A titanic Dragon with silver scales all over its body looked down at the ruined city and noticed there were still many survivors. It approached its fellow dragon which happened to be a dark blue fish-like Dragon. "Levia…there are still many of these insects that survive our attack." The silver Dragon said to the Dragon named Levia.

"Then just shot them again, Motherglare!" Levia replied in annoyance, causing the Dragon named Motherglare grumbled before charging for another breath attack. The civilians saw this and most f them began to run again while the other merely slumped on the ground, appearing resigned to her fate. They knew it's useless to avoid the inevitable.

Just when Motherglare was about to unleash his roar, the Dragon let out a pained howl when a black with outline purple colored ray pierced through his stomach that created a massive hole on his body like hot knife cut through butter. Motherglare coughed up a massive amount of bloods before fell to the ground, creating a gigantic crater beneath him.

Levia saw this and widened his eyes in utter shock when his fellow Dragon was killed in front of his eyes. He glanced around to find the attacker but soon his vision soon filled in black when the same black-purple ray that killed Motherglare pierced through his head, killing Levia in instant.

The other five Dragons which all green in color turned their attention to the direction where the blast was coming and widened their eyes in pure shock and horror when they saw the one who shot that rays that killed two Dragons without much effort.

It was a pale skinned girl around fifteen years old with long elegant black hair reached her back and a pair of purple eyes. The girl was wearing a sleeveless black and dark blue uniform with ornament around the chest, black frilled skirt with white scale like pattern, black stocking and black boots. She also wore a black-golden highly ornate cape and a red ribbon on her head.

While the remnant human population of Jakarta cheered at the girl that killed two Dragons with no effort at all, largest green Dragon instantly labeled the girl as enemy and turned to his fellow Dragons. "What are you waiting for? Kill that insect!" He ordered the smaller green Dragons. The other Dragons nodded while they charged quite amount of Maryoku [Magic Power], preparing for their roar attack again.

The girl watched this calmly with bored eyes. "Kuiku Taimu! [Quick Time]!" The girl whispered, snapping her left finger before the world around her began turned dark blue.

The girl has frozen the time around her.

The girl pointed her left index finger at the frozen Dragon, gathering a quite amount of black-purple Juryoku [Curse Power] and concentrated it on the tip of her left index finger. "Cero Oscuras [Dark Zero]!" The girl whispered before shot four beams towards the smaller green Dragons, pierced through their hearts but the Dragon still didn't even budged.

"Rensa! [Chain]!" The girl then swept her left hand to her side and a numerous black-thorny chains erupted from the ground and wrapped around the largest green Dragon while the thorns dug deep to his body before the girl hammered her left hand down, swinging the Dragon to ground very hard.

When she snapped her left finger, the time was flow again, letting the Dragons that had their hearts got pierced fell to the ruined city.

The only Dragon that still breathing was the Dragon that the girl slammed to ground with her black thorny chains. The Dragon tried to rose up but the chains was so tight that he couldn't even move a muscle, even when he tried to break the chains only for the chains to tightened by itself.

(Tap, tap, tap, tap)

The Dragon heard footsteps sounds which confused him greatly, why the footstep that would normally have been inaudible was amplified as obvious as a jet engine roaring overhead. The Dragon looked up to see the girl from before walked towards him. The Dragon growled in fury at the sight of this insect that had killed six of his kind without much trouble and that's hurt his pride beyond repair.

"Who are you?" The Dragon growled at the girl who merely raised her right hand and clenched her fist causing the chains tightened even more, crushing all the bones inside of the Dragon's body.

"I want your boss Zirconis, where is Acnologia?" The girl questioned the Dragon named Zirconis coldly who flinched when this unknown girl knew his name.

The green scaled Dragon hissed from both in pain and anger at the girl. "I ain't telling you shit." Zirconis replied with venom in his voice.

"I was hopping you'd say that." Was that all the girl's reply as her right arm gripped the chains that bounded Zirconis's left arm and with a little effort, tore off the arm from Dragon's torso.

"UUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Zirconis howled in agony that could be heard throughout the entire country of U.S.I when his flesh had been ripped off from his torso. Bloods was flowing from his left shoulder like a river. Before Zirconis to even do anything, he was thrown through the ruined city, crashing over the rubbles with the chains still bounded his body.

The Dragons coughed up a massive amount of bloods as he tried to sit on his ass with no success at all. "I've got rights, you little insect!" Zirconis groaned as he finally was able to sit on his scaled ass.

"Not today!" The girl kicked the Dragon's skull with her left leg very hard. She continued beat up information out of the Dragon by ripping off his right hand, causing the Dragon screamed in agony yet again. "Are you gonna talk now…or…should I severe your head first to make sure you understand the gravity of your situation right now?" The girl took a grip on the chains that wrapped around Zirconis's head and was about to rip the Dragon's head off.

"No no no no, wait wait, okay, fine, I'll talk…" Zirconis announced desperately, not wanting to lose another part of his body, not to mention that it will kill him if he lost it.

This caused the girl tilted her head at him. "Where is he?" She questioned Zirconis again.

"…He's currently in Egolas." Zirconis answered causing the girl narrowed her eyes in suspicious before kicked the Dragon in the jaw very hard that breaking it completely with a very loud cracking sound.

"Don't lie to me!" The girl said coldly. "That place is not even located on this planet, it's far across Galaxy, why should I believe you that Acnologia is hiding there?"

Zirconis grunted in pain as he locked up again to the girl. "I swear, I'm telling the truth. Four hundred years ago during Dragon civil war, he just 'escorted' us Dragons to that planet for no reason." Zirconis explained causing the girl widened her eyes a little at the new information she got.

"Wait a minute…I thought Acnologia was killing all Dragons to satisfied his thirst of Dragon's bloods?" The girl replied in confusion since the story Zirconis told her was entirely different from the story she heard before.

"No! Acnologia merely subjugated us and killed the Dragons that disobey him. My guess is he's building an army of Dragons under Zeref's order in preparation for war against E.N.D" Zirconis explained and panicked when the girl tightened her grip again on the chains. "Wait, that's the truth. Please spare me!" The Dragon pleaded to the girl but flinched when the girl's violet eyes glared murderously at him.

"Oh, I never said that I'll release you even if you're telling the truth!" The girl told Zirconis before pulled the chain that wrapped around the Dragon's neck, ignoring the yells of pain from the green Dragon.

(Crunch)

With a very loud crunching sound, the girl beheaded Zirconis completely, letting the headless Dragon died on the ground on the pool of his own bloods. She tossed the head away in disgust before started to walk away but stopped when she heard the townspeople cheered at her from behind.

The mysterious girl turned around to face a man around fifty four years old with short black hair. The man smiled in gratitude at her. "On the behalf of the Indonesian people…I'd like to extent to you our sincerest gratitude." The man said, giving the girl a bow which soon to be followed by the rest of the townspeople.

The man looked up at the girl again. "What should we do to repay you?" He asked again.

"Just don't tell a single soul about me being here!" The girl replied emotionlessly and snapped her finger again to freeze the time around her. Six black feathers wings with three wings on each side suddenly appeared behind her back before she took off, leaving the ruined city on high speed.

When the time flows again, the citizen of Jakarta realized that their savior was already gone.

Unknown Time, Erza's Mindscape

Erza's eyes squinted as a very bright light dawn her and opened her as she was awakened in an unfamiliar place. She was on a very tall square skyscraper building, Erza woke up with a start, heart pounding in her chest and she screamed both in terror and panic…

…Since she was sitting n the building, vertically.

Erza jerked, scrambling away while tried to get hold onto one of the windows, but she couldn't reach it and she closed her eyes, preparing for a very hard crash landing. A minute later, she encouraged herself to open her eyes to find out that she was not falling from the building, instead she was indeed floating vertically on the flat windows

"Finall awake, huh?" A raspy voice echoed through the space. Erza quickly turned to upward and her eyes widened in shock when she caught sight of the white figure, grinning down at her from few levels away from her.

The figure, to lack of words, was indeed 'Erza'. But this 'Erza' was completely white, from her skins, hair, robe, even the sword she was holding that similar to her own Kuroisakura [Black Sakura] was white in color. The only exception was her eyes which were yellow for the irises and black for the sclera.

"Man, I could have stabbed you a thousand times by now if I want to..." The white Erza said to the Erza who scrambled away even further to lower level. This caused the white Erza grinned even more, almost splitting her face "…What's the matter?...Scared little girl?" The white Erza sneered at her counterpart who was about to had cardiac arrest.

"W-W-W-What are you?" Was that all Erza could ask as she glanced around frantically to find the exit door from here.

"Hehehehe…" The white Erza chuckled with a grin, showing all of her teeth. "…Let's just say that I'm your instinct…your killing instinct to be precise."

Erza was shock at that but finally managed to pull herself together enough to demand. "What do you mean my killing instinct? And where am I anyway?"

The white head snorted at the red head. "You're totally hopeless, you know that…You're in your mind, in your own head..." The white Erza sneered at her counterpart who widened her eyes a little. "…Normally, I won't appear until you're reached your 'perfect stage'. But your constant rambling about killing your targets is starting to drive me crazy." The white Erza groaned to emphasize her point.

Erza drew in a shaky breath and concentrated. "What do you want then?" Erza asked, straightening and shifting forward cautiously took a step back.

The white Erza merely grinned again that sent a chill through Erza's spine. "Just want to give you some advice…" The white Erza began. "…Make sure don't get yourself killed the next time I appear again." The white Erza threatened the original as she began to disappear with manically laughter.

Erza was just standing in the middle of her mindscape while still tried to comprehend what her counterpart's word before she was forced back to reality.

Wednesday, July 25th, Year X784, 05:56 P.M, Earthland, Ishgar, Fiore Kingdom, Crocus, Local Hotel

The sound of a ringing clock woke our favorite Devil Slayer from her slumber. When Erza looked at the time, she saw it was almost six P.M.

"OH FUCK, I'M GOING TO BE LATE!" Erza exclaimed in panic as she kicked away the sheet that covered her body before dashed towards the bathroom. After having a quick shower, she wore a very beautiful pink dress with red rose decoration on her left chest. Her scarlet hair was tied knot at the back loosely while she had bangs that covered her left eyes, which was still had bandages on it.

She stormed out from her room, checking out to the receptionist and ran as fast as she could towards her destination, which was a five stars restaurant in Crocus called Fiore de Restaurant. Her mentor had contacted her that he had reserved a table for both on them at Fiore de Restaurant. Erza questioned him why and E.N.D answered that her target, Liliana Erikson will be at the restaurant tonight and this is the perfect time for Erza to intercept her.

But Erza's mind were somewhere else, her mentor had asked her for dinner at the most popular restaurant in Fiore, does that mean this is a date?

Erza's face matched her hair color for a moment.

After what feels like hours of running, Erza finally reached the restaurant. Regaining her breath and wiping the sweat off her forehead, Erza exhaled a sigh of relief but flinched when she saw her mentor, dressed in black tuxedo and black pants with the addition of a white scaled pattern scarf which Erza thought fit for him.

E.N.D saw her and frowned as he crossed his arm while tapping his feet impatiently. "You're late!" He said and from his tone alone, Erza could tell that he was utterly upset.

"I-I-I'm so sorry…Your Majesty!" Erza apologized to the pink haired Eteriasu [Etherious] and bowed to him but grimaced when her mentor hit her on the head. "Ow!" Erza squeaked in pain as she rubbed her now sore head.

"That's for make me waiting for ONE minute!" E.N.D said in annoyance as he emphasized the word 'one' on his sentences. Erza merely bowed in shame but deep inside her, she thought that her sensei was being unfair but she can't do anything about it. "Anyway…wear this first!" E.N.D tossed her a silver colored ring that in her opinion looked ordinary.

"Sensei…What is this?" Erza questioned as she put the ring on her left ring finger and gasped when she saw at the reflection on the window. It was her but her original scarlet hair had been replaced with black while her eyes now violet in color.

Erza then looked at her mentor and gasped at what she saw. While her mentor may looked normal when Erza saw directly at him, but on the reflection his original pink hair now had been replaced with long-spiky orange hair with a pair of brown eyes.

"This is a special ring I made for disguising. It can change our appearance but anyone that wears the same ring could see us in our true appearance." E.N.D explained simply and Erza nodded in understanding why they must wore the rings. While Liliana won't recognize Erza, she would recognize E.N.D and would suspicious of him being here. "Now…Shall we go in?" He asked offered his student a hand for her to take.

Erza blushed furiously but she did her best to hide it from her mentor and accepted the hand he offered. "Of course…lead the way!" She replied as she and E.N.D walked inside the five stars restaurant hand-in-hand.

They walked to the receptionist who happened to be an old man around sixty, wearing a fine black suit, white chef hat and red scarf that tied around his neck. The old man noticed them and smiled at them. "Ah…Romanoff-san. Welcome to my restaurant." The old man greeted politely, lifting his hat a bit.

E.N.D smiled at him. "It's good to see you again, Watari-san. I'd like to confirm my reservation for table 77." He said to the old man named Watari. Watari smiled in enthusiastic and pointed at the table near the window.

"Of course…the table is over there, just like you wanted." Watari said before he noticed Erza who smiled friendly at him. "If I may ask, who is this lovely lady? Is she your date?" Watari asked, gaining blush Erza. Watari looked Erza's embarrassed face and couldn't help but thought that these two would make a perfect couple.

Watari laughed at that thought as he watched the 'couple' walked t their table. The couple sat on their table, eating their dinner in silence. None of them had said a word since Watari thought them as a couple.

Erza knew she couldn't think of the man in front of her like that. He was her mentor, her teacher. But why'd she feel this disturbing feeling now and as much as she got to admit it. Her mentor was so handsome, probably the most handsome guy she'd ever met. 'Wait a minute…I can't think him like that, he is my TEACHER. That's so wrong in many levels. But still…' She realized what she's thinking and blushed again while covering her lower face with napkin on the table, hoping her mentor didn't see her blush or she would die in embarrassment for thinking her mentor like that.

"Erza…are you alright? Your face is getting red." Erza snapped out from her thought as she heard her mentor speaking to her.

"Y-Y-Yes…Your Majesty?" Erza stuttered like an idiot while blushing like a schoolgirl that had a big crush to her senpai.

"Come on Erza, Wendy is not around. Stop being so formal!" E.N.D said and the red head only nodded.

Erza twirled her fingers like a giddy girl, she was hesitating to speak not wanting t upset her mentor. "Um…sensei?" She began.

"Yes?"

"Um…there is something I wanted to ask?" Erza continued while looked down at her unfinished meal. "This bothered me since the moment I found out that you're an emperor."

E.N.D eyed her a moment before before said. "Go on!"

Erza looked up to him and her brown's right eye met with his crimson eyes. "F-From what I know, I aware that you're really hating humanity in general…" Erza began while E.N.D frowned a little at this but he decided to hide it, he was curious what Erza wanted to ask. "…I couldn't help but wonder, why would you created an empire while you're despise human so much?" Erza asked quietly that only E.N.D who could hear her.

E.N.D was silent for a while after he heard Erza's question. It's been nine years since he met Erza and he thought that Erza at least deserved a little bit of his trust and a bit more open to her. Taking a very deep breath, E.N.D began his tale.

"The reason I created Britannia…was started when I met Wendy…and the girl I loves…"

(Flashback Start)

Sunday, May 8th, Year X371, 05:21 P.M, Earthland, Ishgar, Unknown Forest. [Four Hundred and Thirteen Years Ago]

"Tenryu no Hoko! [Sky Dragon Roar]!" An eight years old girl with short blue hair and brown eyes yelled out as she fired a medium sized of a hurricane-like blast from her mouth, aiming it at her opponent. She was wearing a simple white shirt with red short pants

The said opponent was a pale skinned little girl around the other girl's age just a little taller than her with long black hair reached her back and a pair of gray eyes. She was wearing a black sleeveless dress and white scaled pattern scarf. The black haired girl smirked as the tornado approached her at moderate speed before she effortlessly backhanded the attack, sending it crashed onto a huge boulder and shred it into pieces much to the other girl's shock.

The black haired girl saw this as a chance to dashed at the blue haired girl as she coated her right fist with black Maryoku [Magic Power]. "Kokuryu no Tekken! [Black Dragon's Iron Fist]!" The black haired girl sent her fist towards the blue haired girl's chest.

The other girl barely able to cross her arm to block the attack but she underestimate the power that the black haired girl using and soon she was being overpowered by her opponent before she was sent into a huge boulder, crashing onto it and destroyed it.

The blue haired girl emerged from the boulder with bleeding forehead. "Ow…" She whined, rubbed her head before glared at the other girl and puffed her cheek. "Ashley-chan, you're using too much power again!" The blue haired girl pouted at the girl named Ashley who merely rubbed back of her head in embarrassment.

"Hehe…I'm sorry Wendy, I didn't mean it. You know that I'm not that good at holding back!" Ashley replied and the girl named Wendy before walked to her and helping her to stand. She noticed her bleeding forehead. "Let's go back to village and patch that wound before it got infected. It's getting late anyway."

Wendy nodded her still sore head as she and Ashley began to walk towards the direction where their village was located. On their way to the village, a giant vortex made from black flame energy suddenly appeared from nowhere. Ashley narrowed her eyes at the vortex before widened her eyes as she raced to the source, ignoring the yell from Wendy. She felt a very powerful, yet dark energy from the vortex. She thought it was the Dragon that gave her, her Kuroi no Metsuryu Maho [Black Dragon Slayer Magic] but have second thought as she felt the energy wasn't magic, yet it could rival to that of Dragons.

No scratch that, it was even dwarfed all the Dragons she knew.

It was both frightened and excited for her.

Ashley saw the vortex vanished into thin air and she moved faster to the source. She could have called her fellow Dragon Slayer first, but she must to know first if this was a threat or not. She finally arrived in her destination and gasped in shock at what she saw with wide eyes.

Laying in the middle of a huge crater, was a boy a little older than her, probably around thirteen years old with slight tan skins, spiky pink hair, wearing a sleeveless ankle-length black coat with orange lining at his chest that revealed some of his developed muscle and then left to flare out into ragged ends. Ashley could tell he had just been in one hell of a fight because there were injuries all over his body and she was surprised he was even alive.

Something odd was still going on, the massive power she felt earlier was just disappeared like that.

"Ashley-chan, what was that vortex-HAH…" Wendy gasped when she saw Ashley with a boy that was on critical condition. "WE NEED TO GET HIM TO THE VILLAGE, NOW!" Wendy yelled in panic and Ashley could only nod her head, knowing she couldn't leave him to die here. With a little effort, she picked him up and slung him over her shoulder before headed towards the village.

Wednesday, May 11th, Year X371, 08:09 A.M, Earthland, Ishgar, Unknown Village.

The chirping of birds and the soft rustling of the wind is what a certain pink haired boy known as Etherious Natsu Dragneel, in short E.N.D awoke to. His crimson slanted eyes squinted as the sun beamed down his face from the window. Groggily he sat up and blocked his eyes as his vision was becoming focused and out of its blurry state observing the unfamiliar surroundings.

He was in a house.

He couldn't remember why and how he was here before it hit him…his battle with Igneel which ended in draw, although he was on winning side.

'Damn that overgrown, fire breathing snake garden. Caught me off guard, I'll make get him later the time I see his ugly scaled face.' He cursed the Enryuo [The Flame Dragon King] as he observed again the house.

E.N.D then looked down only to see that his torso was covered with bandaged. He reached his forehead and find that it was also covered in bandages. He looked around the room he was currently in, the room was simple. The wall was made from wood and it painted in blue, two medium sized beds on each sided of the room, a medium sized wardrobe and a picture of two little girls that younger than him.

One with black hair and one with blue hair.

"Yay, you're awake!" A very cheery voice called out, causing our favorite Eteriasu [Etherious] widened his eyes. E.N.D turned towards the source of the voice to see the girl with black hair from the picture, standing right in front of the door with a tray filled with food on her small hands. The girl walked to him as she put the tray on the side of the bed.

Ashley smiled friendly at E.N.D. "Thanks god…I thought you wouldn't make it." The girl said while E.N.D merely stared at her.

E.N.D didn't need to be genius to tell that this girl was a human.

Human.

Those filthy being that merely judged persons by looks, discriminated his races and always thinking that they were on the top of the food chains. Oh how much he hates, no, despise humans although he was also once a human too.

Normally, he will scorn the human when he met them. But this human has made a good impression to him so far, so he merely chuckled in respond. "Heh…Believe me, you're not the first one who said that to me."

Ashley could only giggle at his respond. "Hihihi…I suppose I'm not!" She picked up a grilled fish that she had prepared for her 'guest'. "Here is your breakfast. You have been out for total three days, I sure you must be very hungry now!" After Ashley say that, she then heard a very loud rumbling sound and giggled again when she looked at E.N.D who blushed in embarrassment.

E.N.D could only nod his head before took a bite of 'his' breakfast and couldn't help but amazed at the girl cooking skill, because the fish was so delicious, it's different from any grilled fish he'd ever tasted.

"How is it?" Ashley asked her 'guest' hopefully.

E.N.D let out a small smile. "It's delicious…" He then looked up to Ashley. "…Thank you…" E.N.D suddenly paused.

Ashley gasped at his pause."Oh right, I've never tell you my name…" She giggled cutely. "…My name is Ashley vi Britannia, please to meet you." She introduced herself proudly when she mentioned her full name.

"Please to meet you too Ashley, I'm Natsu Dragneel…" E.N.D responded while hiding his first name, although he was sure that Ashley had no idea what Eteriasu [Etherious] was, he couldn't take the risk of anyone in her village might had knowledge about his race.

But first, he needed to know where he currently was.

"Um…If I may ask, where am I anyway?" E.N.D questioned politely to Ashley.

"You're currently in a small village called Britannia and this is my house…" Ashley answered while E.N.D listened to her. "…I'm living with my friend, Wendy. She's currently out to buy our food supply."

E.N.D nodded his head before Ashley climbed to the bed and leaned closer to him. "Anyway, what happened to you back then? I and Wendy found you in the middle of forest with injuries all over your body. You're lucky that we happened passed by or you would die from blood loss." Ashley said, causing E.N.D froze in his place.

E.N.D knew he had to lie and he had to lie fast because even if he tells Ashley the truth, he doubted the girl won't buy it. I mean, who would believe a thirteen years old boy fought with the strongest Dragon so far and come out with draw result.

"I was traveling around Ishgar to Alakitasia, but a group of people suddenly attacked me…" E.N.D began to tell his lie with his most convincing voice. "…"There were twenty of them and I managed to defeat nineteen but the last one got a lucky shot on me and…you know the result."

Ashley stared at him in awe with wide eyes as her mouth wide open, not everyday you can meet with a child who managed to defeat nineteen of men on his own. "Wow, you must be pretty strong!" She said but E.N.D merely smirked at that, so far he enjoyed the conversation with this human.

'Perhaps not all humans are bad after all.' He thought to himself before chuckled. "You can say that, I can hold on my own!" He replied as he punched his fist to air.

They laughed together while sharing their stories, both happy and sad story.

(Flashback End)

Wednesday, July 25th, Year X784, 06:11 P.M, Earthland, Ishgar, Fiore Kingdom, Crocus, Fiore de Restaurant

"Years had passed since that fateful day and I decided to stay in Britannia until I recover my full power…" E.N.D continued his tale as he drank his wine. Erza could see him smiling, probably reminisced his past memories and that was extremely rare to see him smiled happily like that. "…I was working as farmer and helping the people there to get a better life since all of them was poor."

"Ever since that day, I, Ashley and Wendy grew closer each day. I helped them to improve their Metsuryu Maho [Dragon Slayer Magic]…until Ashley confessed her feeling to me." As E.N.D was on this part, Erza couldn't help but felt jealous at Ashley.

Erza poured wine to her glass before drank it to calm herself. She put the glass on the table and looked back at her mentor. "Ne…what happened next?" Erza asked, she was eager to listens her mentor's past life and hope to get know Ashley and Wendy better.

"Five years later, a group of Dragons attacked the village. They took numerous casualties because none of the villager was a mage with the exception of Ashley and Wendy…" E.N.D explained to her student who listened to his story eagerly. "…We managed to win and I had to use my true form since I wasn't fully recovered back then."

Erza widened her eyes a little at this. "Does that mean, the villager know that you're an Eteriasu [Etherious]?" Erza asked and E.N.D nodded in confirmation.

"Yes, they were all quite shocked when I explained to them about myself being a demon as well as Zeref's brother…" E.N.D paused for a moment before continued with a small smile. "…But surprisingly, they all didn't care about it and accepted me as one of them. They knew me for five years and I haven't done anything bad to them during my time staying in Britannia"

Erza couldn't help but smile at her mentor who 'unintentionally' saved her from those slave drivers that hunted her in her home village. Despite all bad rumors she heard about him, Erza knew that her mentor wasn't a bad person at all. Sure, he was really, REALLY harsh sometimes during her training but that's for the sake of her to become stronger, to help him find the answer of the question that had bother him for very long time.

'So that's the reason sensei created Britannia Empire…He wanted to show his gratitude to the villager for accepting him as one of them.' Erza concluded and now fully understand what her mentor meant when he said he despises the majority of humanity.

The key word was 'majority'.

While E.N.D would 'slaughter' all humans that attacked him right off the bat without any hesitation, he will at least give few people a chance to get to know him before he revealed his true being. And it seems Britannia was the only one that had accepted him from who he was despite being a demon.

'But if that's true, then why Sensei is so obsessed of killing Zeref and Acnologia. Did they do something to sensei that made him to be like this?' Erza wondered while watching her mentor gripped on the white scaled pattern scarf he wore. Then it hit her. 'Ashley…the girl sensei loved. Could it be?'

"Um…sensei…" Erza began, she was hesitated to ask to her mentor about that happened to the girl he love because she doesn't want to make him upset. But she was really curious and suspicious that something bad happened to Ashley that made her mentor (possibly crush) like this.

"What is it…?"

"Forgive me if I'm being rude..." Erza paused for a moment, putting her hands on her knee and gripped on her dressed tightly before took a very deep breath and asked the question. "…D-Did something happen to Ashley?"

E.N.D's smile turned into frown when Erza utter that question. Erza flinched at her mentor's expression and mentally kicked herself for asking such personal question.

'Great job Erza! Now you've make him in fool mood again.' Erza cursed in her head at her stupidity. "Forgive my rudeness for asking such question sensei." Erza quickly said with her head bowed in shame.

There was silent for a while before E.N.D broke it.

"It was happened seven years after I met Ashley…"

(Flashback Start)

Friday, July 7th, Year X377, 10:49 P.M, Earthland, Alakitasia. [Four Hundred and Seven Years Ago]

"No, no, no, no, NO!" A twenty years old E.N.D flew through the masses of demons that her brother created, tearing the demons that was on his way.

While he and his newly girlfriend, Ashley traveled to Alakitasia, they were attacked by his older brother Zeref, his army of demons from the book of Zeref and a dragon called Acnologia that was even more powerful than Enryuo [The Flame Dragon King] Igneel.

Acnologia was mastodonic, and has an entire upper body covered in black, round, scales, which, in turn were decorated by spiraling, blue markings. Its lower body, specifically its belly, inner tail, and legs, were gray in color, and appear to be rather smooth. Acnologia's eyes were white and beady, and his head was round and blunt with four, large, elongated plates extending backward. Acnologia's mouth was full of razor-sharp teeth, and, attached to his chin, was a protrusion that resembles an arrowhead. Its large wings were feathery in appearance, akin to a bird's, and very similar to fellow Dragon Grandeeney's. The scales disappear at the end of Acnologia's tail, which, in itself, ends in a stinger-esque shape.

Zeref managed to separate E.N.D from Ashley and forcing him to face with the Dragon. Acnologia was so powerful even with his Eteriasu Fomu [Etherious Form], E.N.D doubt that he could kill the Dragon without getting himself killed in process. He barely managed to make Acnologia to retreat and quickly went to Ashley who was facing with his brother.

While he knew that Ashley was powerful, even rivaled to that of Dragons, but she was facing with his older brother who was on much higher level than Ashley with his Ankuseramu no Kuro Majutsu [Ankhseram Black Magic] which allowed Zeref to kill any living thing he desires. Even more fearsome when Zeref forgets the value of and no longer cares about a human life, he can bring the magic to its fullest.

E.N.D finally arrived in the battlefield which had been transformed into a wasteland and saw something that made his heart stopped beating for a moment. It was his brother…holding his girlfriend by her throat. Ashley's body was broken and beaten to bloody pulp.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" E.N.D screamed in pure rage when he saw his lover being held by his brother in such manner.

E.N.D flew down towards the two at speed that faster than speed of light but he suddenly stopped in the mid-air when his brother pointed his other hand at him. He then saw Acnologia flew passed him and landed beside Zeref who was smirking at the Dragon's arrival.

"Natsu…I've brought you back to life so you could end me…not playing with human child!" Zeref said as he faced to E.N.D. His red eyes were filled with anger and disappointment. "Think of this as punishment for wasting your life over such as petty matter as having a normal life with a human girl." Zeref then tossed Ashley body to his right side like a ragdoll before turned to Acnologia.

"Do it!"

Acnologia let out deafening roar, which alone was enough to shake the entire continent as it began to float above Ashley's broken body. It then made a deep breath and gathered its magic and concentrated it on its mouth.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" E.N.D exclaimed as he felt absurdly tremendous Maryoku [Magic Power] before Acnologia released its devastating attack, as bright ray of magic shot down from his mouth.

(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM)

Tremendously powerful blast shook entire Earthland. It created blindingly white dome of destructive magic, which vaporized entire wasteland, erasing the defenseless Ashley vi Britannia from existence. As the attack dissipated, Zeref was nowhere to be found and the black dragon floated above the gigantic crater which it just made for about one minute, examining its work. Then it swung its black wings and flew away.

Few meters away from the gigantic crater, Etherious Natsu Dragneel was staring at the gigantic crater lifelessly. For the first time in his life, he didn't know what to say after watching his girlfriend died in front of his eyes. His eyes then spotted the white scaled pattern scarf floating towards him. Miraculously, the scarf was fine without a scratch even after taking a direct hit from Acnologia's devastating attack. His hands reached the scarf, examined it for a moment before embraced it tightly as tears started to leak from his lone eyes like a river.

For the first time in his life…Etherious Natsu Dragneel, also known as E.N.D, crying his heart out for the girl that had died right in front of his eyes.

"ASHLEY!"

(Flashback End)

Wednesday, July 25th, Year X784, 06:17 P.M, Earthland, Ishgar, Fiore Kingdom, Crocus, Fiore de Restaurant

Erza Dragneel truly couldn't believe at what she just seeing now.

Her ruthless and fearless mentor…was crying in anguish after he told her about what happened to his lover. Luckily, he had placed illusion Jutsu Shiki [Runes] around his table so no one can hear or see him crying before broke down in tears after finished his tale.

Erza now hoped she hadn't asked that question, her curiosity reopened the old pain that her sensei had been suppressed for at least four hundred years. Ashley's death was truly devastated him and it's a miracle that her mentor still had the will to continue his life.

Thinks quickly, Erza stood to her feet, reaching to his head and held her mentor in tight embrace, making E.N.D to looked up to her in shock. Erza had no idea where did she find the courage to do this act but she didn't care since it seems calmed her mentor down, even if it's just slightly.

"Ssssshhhh…it's okay, don't hold back. Let it out, sensei!" Erza said tenderly to her mentor who was still quite shocked at his student act but listen to her advice and let out the emotion that he had been suppressed for over four hundred years.

After a minute of crying, E.N.D finally stopped crying, pulled away from his student's embrace and smiled at her. "Thank you Erza, I really need that!" E.N.D thanked to his pupil for the first time, causing the said pupil beamed into smile.

Erza sat back to her seat while E.N.D deactivated the Jutsu Shiki [Runes] but widened his eyes a little when he spotted a waiter walked passed his table. E.N.D quickly snatched a glass of wine on the tray, causing the waiter and Erza looked surprise and turned to E.N.D.

"I'm sorry sir, but this is for another table!" The waiter said to E.N.D politely.

"Table 69?"

The waiter nodded. "That's right!"

E.N.D put the glass back on the tray. "My mistake!" The waiter nodded before went to table 69 where Liliana dinner and served the drinks.

Erza looked at her mentor curiously. She saw E.N.D put something on the glass without the waiter knowing. "Sensei, what did you put in there…?" She asked the red eyed man.

"Just something that will make the traitor throwing up all her dinners." E.N.D simply answered before he and Erza heard noise from the Liliana's table. Liliana stood up and went to restroom. "It's time!" E.N.D looked at the Knight of Seven who nodded her head and stood to her feet. And when Erza was about to follow Liliana, E.N.D grabbed her hand one more time.

"And Erza…I want her dead!" E.N.D ordered with low yet authoritative tone.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Erza simply nodded again and went to restroom. The red head entered the restroom, silently requiped her Kuroisakura [Black Sakura] and standing right in front of the toilet Liliana currently using.

And when the toilet door opened, Erza thrust her black sword forward, piercing Liliana right on the heart. Bloods was flowing from Liliana's mouth as she stared at Erza in shock. Erza watched life began to fade from Liliana's eyes and closed her eyes before pulled out Kuroisakura from her victim, letting the said victim fell to the floor and died there.

Erza stared at the corpse of the first human she'd ever killed with an emotionless eyes before spotted a female handbag that Liliana carried today and crouched down as she reached to the handbag and opened it. He saw a pile of papers, pulling it out from the handbag and read it. She narrowed her eyes when she read the file before sending both the files and her Kuroisakura to her magical space, standing to her feet, closed the toilet door and leaved the restroom as if nothing happened.

Erza saw her mentor paying the bills for their dinner before her spotted her. "Is she dead?" E.N.D asked seriously as he and Erza leaved the restaurant and took off the magical ring.

Erza was silent for a moment while looking down. "Yes…she is dead!" Erza whispered softly as she too, taking off the ring that meant for disguise. She then requiped the files she took from Liliana's handbag and handed it to her mentor. "Sensei…It's seems Oracion Seis knew us coming!"

E.N.D took the files from Erza and read it before cursed under his breath. What he just read was the new schedule and location for Liliana's meeting with Oracion Seis. How the hell Oracion Seis knew they would coming. The intercept mission on Liliana was highly classified and only the top ranking officer in Britannia could access it.

'Which mean there is a mole in MY empire.' E.N.D concluded his thought furiously as he ignited the files with black fame, devoured it into nothingness. He then turned to his pupil who merely silent after her first kill.

"Erza, I need to see someone to discuss about your mission. You may go back to Magnolia but keep the fact that you're Knight of Round from everyone in your guild." E.N.D said as a black Juhojin [Curse Circle] appeared beneath him before it teleported him to the outskirt of Crocus, leaving Erza on the road alone.

When E.N.D opened his eyes, he spotted a black haired girl with pale skins and violet eyes kneeled before him.

"Rise, my Knight of Zero, Homura Dragneel." E.N.D ordered the girl named Homura Dragneel to stand back.

Just like what E.N.D said, this girl was Homura Dragneel, the honorable Knight of Zero and the 'unofficial' strongest Knight of Round. In Britannia, Homura officially doesn't exist, no one knew of her existence except the Knight of One, Wendy Marvell and the Emperor himself. Even outside of Britannia, only E.N.D, Wendy and Ashley who knew about her existence. Unlike the other round, Knight of Zero will only take a personal mission from the emperor himself. Also, Homura was actually an Eteriasu [Etherious], the first E.N.D ever created as well as the most powerful one, even surpassed Mard Geer Tartaros in term of strength.

"Did you get Acnologia's location?" E.N.D asked his most loyal subordinates seriously.

"Yes…According to the information I beat out from Zirconis, Acnologia is indeed in Egolas as we speak." Homura reported briefly.

E.N.D narrowed his eyes at the mention of Egolas. "That's quite far from here…how did they got there anyway?" E.N.D asked with a thoughtful look.

"I'm still not sure…" Homura began. "…But my guess is that they crossed the Dimension Gap to get there since Dimension Gap is the space between every planet, dimension and universe in existence, from which you can access any planet, dimension or universe if you put the right coordinates." Homura explained compactly.

"I see…" E.N.D nodded in understanding. "…Then we're lucky that Acnologia merely in another Galaxy, not in another dimension or universe. I guess my bastard of brother realized at how dangerous the dimensional travel is after what happened on that 'incident'."

Homura stared at E.N.D for a moment. "I suppose you're going to attack them." She said and E.N.D nodded his head in confirmation.

"Yes, although I aware that this is indeed a trap to assassinate me. But this is the best chance for me to terminate Acnologia from the game after knowing how hard to even know his whereabout." E.N.D said as he started to walk away.

"Will you need my assistance?" Homura asked much to her shock, the Emperor shook his head.

"No, Homura! You've did good enough. I think you deserve day off." E.N.D said tenderly as he walked away, but the Knight of Zero knew that there's no room for argument in his tone. So, Homura merely nodded her head. "Inform Wendy to arrange a diplomatic meeting with the president of U.S.I!"

"As you wish, brother!"

To Be Continued

Explanation:

United State of Indonesia: Yep, I added my country to this story for the introduction of Homura.

Dragons: Unlike in Canon Fairy Tail, there are still many Dragons that still alive all this time in this story.

Homura Dragneel: She's Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica with the uniform that similar to Kururugi Suzaku from Code Geass during his time as Knight of Zero unless she has skirt on her case.

Erza's Mindscape and White Erza: Her mindscape is looks like Ichigo's inner world and white Erza is like Ichigo's inner hollow.

History Lesson: Four hundred years ago, Igneel was the strongest Dragon before the appearance of Acnologia and thirteen years old E.N.D was slightly stronger than him (Igneel). During that time, Ashley and Wendy got their magic from Dragon without being trained by them, the Dragon just granted them with knowledge of Dragon Slayer Magic to them but they need to train to fully control it.

Britannia Origin: Britannia was originally a small and isolated village where Ashley and Wendy were born. But after Ashley's death, E.N.D with the help from Wendy transformed it into an Empire with E.N.D as the Emperor and Wendy as the second in command.

Power Level: I don't think everyone will agree with this but as you can see, in this story some characters will have more power than they had in Canon Fairy Tail. For the example, Etherious in this story is far more powerful than in Canon, their power can even rival to that of Dragon and you've already see it at how easily Homura killed seven Dragons.

I'll give you the list of the character and their class (So far):

Top Tier – Easily Planetary Level. (E.N.D, Zeref, Acnologia, Mavis, Wendy, Mard Geer, Homura, Igneel, Celestial Spirit King, Other unrevealed top tier Dragons, Gods and Etherious from the Book of Zeref)

Elite Tier – Easily Continent/Country Level, Barely Planetary Level. (Nine Demon Gates, Deliora, Rogue, mid tier Dragons, Etherion, Complete Juggernaut Drive Erza)

High Tier – Easily Island Level, Barely Continent/Country Level (Spriggan Twelve, Knight of Round except Rogue, Wendy and Homura, Other Devil Slayers, Fodder to Low tier Dragons, Ultear)

Mid Tier – Easily Mountain Level, Barely Island Level (Precht, Gildarts, Makarov, Ur, Laxus, Jellal, Bluenote, Lullaby, Four Heavenly King of Ishgar except God Serena)

Low Tier – Easily Town/City Level, Barely Mountain Level (Jose, Kagura, Mirajane, Mystogan, Gajeel, Zero, Azuma, Jura, Zancrow, many other S-Class Level)

What Next: E.N.D in action as well as four Knight of Rounds and Mard Geer Tartaros.

P.S: Any constructive criticisms are welcomed and any flame will be given to Erza. If something bother you about my story, just tell me!