Well here's another chapter for you all, thank you to everyone who has reviewed. I really enjoy reading them, some are very…unique. Thank you for staying with my story since I put it up to those who have, this will probably be one of the final chapters concerning Phantom Lord, its boring writing for them, I just want to give you guys a long story. If these last few chapters weren't that good, I apologize, they weren't all that fun to type, but on with the story.
Chapter 14:
'Use it Natsu' the disembodied voice said again.
Natsu couldn't believe what he was hearing. 'Igneel…' Natsu thought shakily. After 7 long years he finally was hearing from the dragon again. 'Use it before it's too late Natsu.' With that final thought Natsu could no longer feel the presence of the voice speaking to him.
'That was Igneel, I just know it.' Natsu thought to himself. 'He wants me to use that then? Well I mustn't disappoint him, though I wish he were still talking to me.' Natsu felt deeply hurt from hearing Igneel's voice in his mind and then him being gone just as fast as he was there.
Natsu looked down at Makarov in determination. 'If I am to use this power I need to get back up to full strength.' Natsu turned to Macao and said, "Hey Macao make me some fire, I need to be at full strength for this."
Macao and the rest of the guild were utterly confused by what he meant, but Macao created some fire for Natsu nonetheless. "Don't know what you're going to do, but do it fast so we can get out of here."
Natsu started to consume the fire and turned towards Master Makarov and held up his right hand. "Everyone stand back." Natsu said as he started building up power in his hand. After a few moments, black fire started to surround Natsu's hand, but it was different then before when he had gone ballistic. The fire had a golden hue around it this time. 'This is going to hurt a lot.' Natsu thought with a grimace.
"Natsu what are you doing?" Erza asked, not sure at all as to what he was doing. The rest of the guild was just as confused as her.
"Bringing him back…" was the only reply she got which caused the guild to stiffen at his words.
Natsu put his hand over Master Makarov's heart and thrust his hand into the Master's heart yelling, "DRAGON'S LIFE FLAME!" The effect was immediate on Natsu who had started gasping in pain. The spell was taking his own life force and pushing it into the Master. The color was draining from Natsu's face rapidly and his face started changing at the same time. No longer was his face that of a 19 year old; but that of someone in their mid 20's. It wasn't a large change but it was still noticeable.
Natsu no longer had a boyish look to him; instead it was a more mature look but tired at the same time. It was as if he had lost a small portion of energy that wouldn't come back with no matter how much he rested. Master Makarov had started glowing and a pulsing sound was heard. The sound was similar as to if someone's heart beat had been put on speaker.
Natsu pulled his hand out and the Master started rising off the ground into the air with the flame surrounding him completely. The fire surrounding the Master started to creep its way over to Natsu as well, who was groaning in pain as his own life force was being taken from him. As soon as the fire touched him Natsu screamed in pain, it was nothing like he had ever felt before. It was as if his skin was being peeled of with a peeler of some kind and his muscles being shredded from his bones.
The guild was staring at Natsu who was still screaming in pain but they could do nothing to help him; the fire surrounding the Master and Natsu was too intense in heat. Not even Erza who requiped to her Flame Empress Armor just recently repaired) could get within five feet of the pair. That's when the situation that seemed bad went to worse: Natsu's skin was slowly falling off him in chunks about 1 inch long. Blood was flowing freely from the numerous wounds all over Natsu now who was screaming even more.
At that moment the fire which was almost pitch black just flared a brilliant gold and all the guild could feel from it was warmth. It felt like a lovers caress to them. Natsu stopped screaming for this flame was sealing his wounds up and taking some of the pain away. After about 30 seconds the flames disappeared entirely and Natsu fell to the ground gasping for air. The Master's body floated down and landed softly where he had been laying before.
At this point the guild rushed to both of them to see what happened. They were mainly looking at Natsu who was struggling to breathe because of how much blood he lost and how much of his life force was taken. (If his life was a percentage he'd be around 10% at this point). "Natsu are you okay?" Erza cried while grabbing his hand trying to keep his attention so he didn't slip away from her again.
The guild was looking at Natsu hoping he was okay, for it looked like he was about to die. Then they heard something they wouldn't believe to ever hear again. "Ugh what hit me?" Master Makarov said while trying to sit up. Everyone turned to stare at him with eyes as wide as dinner plates and jaws on the floor. There was Master Makarov who had just been killed was now sitting up and looking at them all.
"Last thing I remember was talking to an image of Jose…" Then the Master stopped as it clicked into place. "How am I alive? I was killed up there. Someone had sucked my life dry." Before Master Makarov could process another thought; the entire guild tackled him into a hug.
"Master!" "You're okay!" "We thought we lost you for good!" Many different people of the guild cried out with more crying out other things similar to those said already. Everyone had tears in their eyes at the fact they had their master back.
"Who did this? How am I alive again?" Makarov asked quietly. In response the guild parted to the sides to show Erza holding Natsu close to her. She was crying silently as she held Natsu. "Come on Natsu come back to me please! Come back Natsu! You said you would always be there for me!"
Everyone was staring at her confused. "Erza?" Gray asked, then continued, "What's wrong?"
"His heart stopped…" Erza said before breaking down again (sorry if that seems out of character to you guys but if the person who you love and they love you has their heart stop and your not crying, you are seriously fucked up).
The guild blanched at her words, they loose their master, and then get him back, but at the cost of his savior's life. "DAMNIT NATSU!" Erza screamed pounding on him. The guild jumped at her sudden out burst and her actions. Erza constantly pounded on his chest over his heart while crying more. "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU ALWAYS BEING THEIR FOR ME NATSU!?" Erza screamed again. Pounding more and more on him. After a few moments she collapsed over Natsu crying over him. She just lost the man who had fallen in love with her and she with him. She still had to confront her past before being with him but she still loved him.
"Erza, I can't breathe with you lying on top of me."
Erza jerked up in surprise and saw Natsu looking up at her with a smile on his face. "I was having a wonderful dream until you woke me up you know." Natsu said with a slight smirk. "But that doesn't matter now since I woke up to your beautiful face." As he said that Erza turned beet red.
"Baka. You scare me to death with me thinking your dead and then you go and say that." Erza said as she lightly punched him on the shoulder.
"Natsu? What did you do?" Master Makarov said as he slowly rose to his feet.
"MASTER!" Natsu exclaimed he heard him speak. "It worked! It really worked."
"Whatever you did did seem to work my boy. But what was it that you did?" The Master questioned.
"I used Dragon's Life Flame" Natsu said while sitting up, he was still too sore to really stand up. "It's a move that takes my own life force and puts it into someone that was recently killed. It's the exact opposite of death magic, but just as rare to see. It's almost never used for a few reasons."
"What are the reasons? I have never heard of this spell before." The master stated.
"Well that's reason number one. Only a few people have ever learned it through out time. Second, it has a very low success rate, and also it generally kills the caster. For both the caster to survive and the person it was used on to be brought back is even rarer. That has only happened once before if I remember correctly from what Igneel taught me. That's not it though for the caster; if they do survive they loose part of their life span. It's an unknown amount; it could be a few days to a few decades taken off." Natsu explained.
"Well Natsu, that is astounding at what you accomplished and I can't thank you enough my boy." Master Makarov said while bowing to Natsu. "Though I think its time to go back to our guild, though we need to go save Lucy as well."
As the guild gathered up, Elfman called out, "Hey where is Loke? He was here a few minutes ago."
With Loke:
Loke had just caught Lucy as she fell from the tower trying to get away from Jose. (Sorry all I didn't really feel like writing that whole part out. If you don't know what happens just go watch the anime and instead of Natsu saving her it's Loke).
"Thanks for the save Loke." Lucy said shakily from falling well over 150 feet.
"No problem Lucy." Loke said while fixing his glasses. "Are you hurt anywhere?" He asked Lucy.
"No, I'm fine. Thank you though."
"Again no problem, but come on lets get heading back to the guild."
Lucy nodded and the two of them set off for Fairy Tail.
Back with everyone else:
"Come on everyone let's head back now and recuperate. This was a tiring day for us all. Especially Natsu." Master Makarov said with a chuckle while looking at Natsu who was currently passed out in Erza's arms.
"Aye Sir!" The guild responded to him.
And there is the new chapter, I hope you liked it and sorry if it wasn't that great, doesn't sound all that good to me but then again I am writing this at 3 a.m. in the morning. Review on how you liked the chapter and have a good day/night.
