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Chapter 25: Natsu and Co Vs The Darkstalkers Part 1

Erza and Elfman watched in amazement as the green flames dispersed, leaving no traces of that monster. They were in awe. Natsu turned around and started to walk back toward them. He had his head down the entire walk and when he stopped in front of them, he put on a goofy smile. "Yo! Sorry for making everyone worry."

"Natsu…" Erza whispered. "…h-how are you…w-what happened?"

"I'll explain everything later, Erza. First things first, I have to tell you guys what's happening." He told her. Erza wanted him to answer her question, but after seeing that monster, she knew that it had to wait. She nodded her head.

"Alright, I can wait." Natsu nodded and smiled.

"Okay…where to begin…" He thought about which route to take in his explanation.

"I guess you can start by what that thing was and what it was doing inside of Mira." Erza offered.

"Yeah…I guess that should work…" He agreed and then looked over at Elfman and his older sister, frowning at the white haired mage. "That monster is known as a Darkstalker."

"A Darkstalker?" They both repeated as Natsu nodded.

"From what I can understand from his explanation, these monsters can take over someone's body and have the ability to completely become the person they take over. They can talk like them, act like them and even use their magic the same way, almost as if there was nothing wrong with them." Erza and Elfman were shocked. "There is also one other thing, apparently, the Darkstalkers can only take over people who are emotionally unstable." He then frowned. "It's because of me this happening."

"No…it's not because of you, Natsu." Erza reassured him. "It was our mistake for assuming you were dead…"

"No…" He stopped her. "…don't blame this on yourself. You guys had no choice, but to assume that I was dead." He told her. "Besides, all we have to do is defeat these guys and everything will be back to normal." He grinned. She smiled. She felt warm inside at seeing the familiar grin. He was back. He was alive. It took all her strength to not run up and touch him. To see for herself that it was really him that was standing there, talking to them as if nothing happened. "Alright, then..." He suddenly said as he rummaged through his pockets.

"What are you doing?" Erza asked curiously.

"Hold on...damn it...where are they...ah, here they are!" Natsu took out what looked like gem stones that gave off this weird blueish color.

"What are those?" Elfman asked.

"These are...ummm...I'm not really sure, but I was told that these stones can help us fight against the bastards." Natsu explained.

"How?" Erza asked as Natsu handed her one of the stones.

"Something about these stones emitting some sort of magic that the Darkstalkers are weak against. These are used to remove the Darkstalkers from people's body. However, you can only use the stones once and they won't work that easily."

"Huh? But you were able to remove one easily." Erza said.

"Oh that was by luck." He said grinning.

"Luck?" Erza and Elfman both asked.

"Well, I wanted to test one out and luckily it worked. At first I couldn't believe it because the guy who gave me these said it wouldn't work unless you weaken the person who the Darkstalker is possessing. It also lets your attacks affect them because not only do they get removed from the person, but the stone gets embedded into them and that makes them vulnerable to our attacks. Otherwise, our attacks won't have any effect and render useless." He replied. "I doubt luck will happen again so it's best if we make sure to weaken everyone before using the stone. If you don't then you would waste the stone and unfortunately I don't have an unlimited supply."

"Alright, I understand." Erza nodded her head.

"Good." He smiled at her. "Elfman, I think it would be best if you take Mira somewhere safe and protect her in case they try to possess her again."

"Right! As a man, I will protect my sister!" He roared and Natsu grinned.

"My, my...isn't this a happy reunion." The three turned their heads up to see Evergreen sitting with her right leg over her left on the edge of one of the buildings. "To think that you were still alive, Natsu."

"Evergreen..." Erza growled in anger as she glared at the woman who dared to defy the Master and their guild.

"Hahaha, I like that look you're giving me Erza...it shows so much anger..." She laughed.

"You..."

"Calm down, Erza. She's being manipulated." Natsu told her.

"Huh? You mean that she's..." Natsu nodded.

"Most likely..."

"I see..." She looked down at the stone and clenched it tightly. "Then, I'll handle her." She told them and stepped in front of them.

"Alright, just remember, you only have one chance to use the stone." Natsu warned her again.

"Right!" Erza replied with a smile and a nod of the head.

"Oh and one more thing..." He leaned forward and whispered something in her ear. Erza's eyes widened as Natsu pulled back and turned to Elfman.

"Let's go." Elfman nodded and then they took off, leaving Erza and Evergreen to look at each other, one with amusement and the other with anger.

"You know if you can't beat me...I'll have to dispose of Natsu, Elfman and Mira myself." Evergreen told her, smirking.

"Like hell I'll let you!" Erza shouted and equipped herself with a sword as she ran toward Evergreen. Evergreen smirked as dropped down to the ground and in a flash was in front of Erza. 'Shit, she's fast!' Erza barely blocked a kick from Evergreen as she lifted her sword.

"You're too slow, Erza." She stated and closed the distance between her and Erza and landed a kick to Erza's rib area, the blow being weakened by her armor. Erza slid to a stop and looked up to see Evergreen once again heading in her direction. This time, Erza decided to go on the offensive and swung her sword. Her eyes widened when she saw Evergreen gracefully dodged the sword and then landed another kick in the gut.

"Gah!" Erza grunted, sliding to a stop once again. Despite the armor, the last kick hurt, a lot. She placed an arm on the spot where the kick landed and raised her head to see Evergreen flipping her fan open. She smirked and covered the lower half of her head with fan.

"I'm sorry...did that hurt..."

"You..." Erza growled and then equipped into a different armor. Evergreen eyes slightly widened at her new armor.

"A...cat?"

"It's not a cat!" Erza screamed as she equipped into her Flight Armor. "It's a Cheetah!"

"They're both cats so what makes the difference." She replied.

"Hmph, I'll show you." With one step, Erza's speed increased so high to the point that Evergreen didn't see Erza's sword coming at her until the final moment. Using her own speed, she dodged the sword by backing away from it. "So, you gained some speed."

"Oh really? It looked like to me you were barely able to dodge my sword." Erza smirked as Evergreen scowled.

"Don't get so cocky...little pussy cat." Evergreen snapped her fan back to normal and then raised her arms. She crossed her arms in front of her and then in one swift motion, extended her arms out. "Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun." Hundreds of needles were shot at Erza. In response to the attack, Erza used her new found speed to dodge all the needles and moved towards Evergreen. However, she was already on the move as she had wings grow from her back and was now flying in the air while continuing to shoot out the needles at her.

Erza continued to move and dodge the needles, but when one of the grazed her shoulder slightly, she realized that the needles were moving faster. In response, she decided to kick her own speed up a notch, but the needles soon caught up and even surpassed her speed. What was worse was that she was not getting close to her opponent. She tried to go faster, but even she knew she couldn't and then one of the needles connected with her shoulder, which was then followed by more needles, exploding among contact.

Evergreen continued to lash out her attack and a large smoke cloud shrouded the area. She then stopped, figuring she must have won the fight. Suddenly, a beam of lightning was shot out from the smoke cloud and towards Evergreen. She dodged it and looked down to see Erza standing there with a brand new armor. She wasn't sure when she equipped into her Lightning Empress Armor, but she assumed it was during her barrage where some of her needles might have missed her.

'She's not only fast, but she also got stronger...' Erza thought as she glared up at her. 'I assume it's the Darkstalker inside of her...looks like this will be more difficult than I thought.'

"It's a shame that I already haven't beaten you yet, but...it's only a matter of time before I end this fight and go after your friends." Erza gasped when she saw something black in her eyes. She wasn't sure exactly what that was, but she had a pretty good guess on what it was. Regardless, she had to take the upper hand in this fight. Clenching her spear, she lashed out multiple lightning beams that were easily dodged by Evergreen's quickness. "That won't work." She winked and waved her hands. The needles appeared once again, but this time, Erza used her lightning beams to counter and the two attacks exploded upon contact in the air.

Evergreen then dashed into the smoke cloud, Erza doing the same, and as Erza went in for a stab, Evergreen put her fan in front of her. The sword stabbed through the fan, but created enough resistance that didn't allow it to go too deep past it. Closing the fan, she spun around in mid-air and rotated her arms so that Erza spun around and was sent crashing back to the ground. Erza stood back up and glared at her. 'Damn...there has to be something I can do...' She knew she had to do something or else she wouldn't last long.

Evergreen smirked as she dropped her fan and pulled out a new one and opened it, flapping it against her face. "Looks like this is disappointing...I guess I'll just finish you off right here and now...and then I'll go after Natsu and those other two." She licked her lips and it angered Erza to no end.

"I won't let you!"

"Oh...and what are you going to do about it...weakling?" That word stung Erza really hard as memories of what happened at the tower resurfaced. Natsu was back, but that still did not change the fact that she felt weak. She hate to admit it, but she knew she was weak and not even Natsu's return made her think otherwise. "Oh, how the mighty have fallen…" Evergreen continued. "You're a disappointment of a mage, Erza. It'll be a pleasure killing you!" She suddenly dove down toward the scarlet knight. Small clouds of fairy dust appeared out of her body and exploded in a bright flash that caused Erza to cover her eyes. She then felt a strong blow from behind her as Evergreen kicked her in the back and sent her into one of the houses, luckily unoccupied by anyone. "Fairy Bomb: Gremlin!" Dust particles surrounded the house that Erza was in and she ignited them to cause a large explosion.

The building was no longer standing in it's rightful place. The explosion that occurred tore the building apart as flames flicked back and forth against the wind. Evergreen smirked at the sight. She quietly turned around and started to walk away from the building. A sudden jolt at the back of her foot alerted Evergreen as electricity went up her body. She screamed in pain at the electricity that coursed through her body. She gritted her teeth and slowly turned her head around.

"This fight is not over..." Erza growled as she was now glaring at her opponent. Blood trickled down her forehead, temple, the corner of her mouth and shoulder as she stood in the center of the destroyed building. The electricity that was hurting Evergreen was seen all over the floor of the area they were in and the source that it all came from was Erza's spear that was pointed at the ground. "I got you now..." She smirked as Evergreen was paralyzed in place. She quickly reequipped into her Morning Star Armor and raised her dual swords in front of her. She started to charge her magic power at the tip of her dual swords. When she was fully charged, she fired her Photon Slicer. Evergreen's eyes widened as she felt the attack her hit. She screamed loudly at the pain. Erza only watched as an explosion occurred. She fell to one knee and raised her arm up to cover her eyes from the dust.

When the dust moved away from her, she lowered her arm and looked at the large dust and smoke cloud that formed around the area Evergreen was hit with the Photon Slicer. Her breathing was heavy, so she took the time she had to try and get it under control. She knew the fight was not over, but she was glad that she was able to at least deal some heavy damage to Evergreen and hopefully to that Darkstalker that was possessing her.

"Wryaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!" Erza grunted and placed her hands to her ears at the horrible and loud scream, her swords falling to the ground.

"What the hell is that?" She wondered, opening one of her eyes halfway. She lifted her head slightly and looked at where the dust and smoke cloud was. She was able to see a silhouette of someone, but it still was not clear enough to know what it was. With a swipe of the hand, the cloud of dust and smoke was blown away and Erza's eyes widened. There was Evergreen, but it was no longer the fellow guild mate she knew. It almost looked like she turned to a half demon monster, kind of like Mirajane's Take Over Magic. Her eyes were dark, similar to what see saw before, and parts of her body had these weird black markings all over on any skin that was visible.

"Wryaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" That same screech was heard coming from Evergreen;s mouth as Erza had a pretty good guess on what was going on.

'It must be that Darkstalker...' Erza thought as she grabbed her swords. She clenched the tightly, but before she could get anywhere near ready for a second round, she was swatted away by a strong hand. Erza spat out blood as she slammed into the broken fountain once again. 'W-What!? That was so fast...d-don't tell me it wasn't using it's full power in the first place...' She grunted, telling her body to get up. Luckily, she was still able to move and sat up. She used one of her swords to get back to her feet and looked at the Darkstalker. The monster was glaring at her through Evergreen's eyes, looking at Era as if he was the hunter and she was his prey. 'No...I can't become the prey...I have to be the hunter...' Erza stood up. She raised her swords and placed them in front of her to fire another Photon Slicer.

"Wryahhh!" Before Erza could even charge up her attack, the Darkstalker moved so quickly that Erza didn't even have the chance to try and tighten her stomach to weaken the knee blow that the monster landed. Erza bent forward and spat out blood. Gritting her teeth, she used whatever strength she was able to gather up, and swung her sword at the Darkstalker. Unfortunately, the sword was grabbed easily by Evergreen's hand. Erza's eyes widened as she was lifted off from the ground. She was twirled around and around above Evergreen and then slammed down to the ground face first.

"Gah!" Erza screamed in pain as she hit her head hard. She screamed pain as he entire body was in pain. The pain was almost unbearable. She could feel the presence of the Darkstalker above her. She tried to get away, but her body was not listening to her. She then felt Evergreen's foot pressed down against her head, pushing it deeper into the ground. 'Damn it...why am I so weak...I can't even save a nakama...why can't I be as strong as Natsu...' Her eyes slightly widened when she remembered something that he told her before leaving. She looked straight ahead and barely was able to see the stone that Natsu gave her to fight this Darkstalker monster. She used all the strength she had left to reach out for the stone. 'Come on...almost there...' She was so close to the stone that it felt like the tip of her fingers was barely touching it.

The Darkstalker saw what she was doing and took it's foot off her head and went to go slam it down on her hand, but the moment it let go of her head, Erza swiped the stone and rolled out of the way as the monster slammed it's foot to the ground, cracking the ground. Erza continued to roll and clenched the stone in her hand. She peeked over to the monster and saw that it was already coming at her. Whatever idea she had, she knew she had to do it quickly because of the monsters speed. Not knowing exactly what will happen, she gulped and then took the stone and stabbed herself with it. She screamed in pain as blood oozed out of the wound she self inflicted with the stone. She closed her eyes at the pain, but also because she felt something else enter her body as well. She opened her eyes abruptly when she felt the Darkstalker above her. She watched as time slowed down. The monster slowly descended down toward her, aiming to punch Erza deeper into the ground.

Suddenly, a burst of magic erupted out of Erza that fire upwards toward the Darkstalker. The monster screamed in pain as the magic was actually hurting him. The monster moved out of the way of the magic light and roared in pain. "Wryaaaah!"

"Stupid Natsu..." The Darkstalker that was possessing Evergreen looked forward and roared once again as it saw Erza on her feet, enveloped by the bright green light. Erza smirked as she remembered what Natsu told her before leaving.

"Whatever you do, don't do anything stupid like stabbing yourself with the stone. It contains very poisonous magic that could kill you. So promise me you won't do anything stupid like that."

Erza laughed. "If you didn't want me to do it...then why tell me in the first place." Her smirked widened as she glared at the Darkstalker possessing one of her guild mates with new determination.

Natsu and Elfman, continued to run in the streets as Natsu looked around for the other members of the Thunder God Tribe. Elfman on the hand was trying to find a good place to let his sister rest. They both stopped when a bright green light appeared behind them. They turned around and looked up to the see the large beam of magic. "W-What is that?" Elfman asked.

"Oh man..." Natsu groaned as he rubbed the back of his head. "Looks like Erza did what I told her not to do."

"Huh?"

He sighed. "It's nothing. Come on, let's go find some place to leave Mira." Elfman nodded his head. 'Erza...that magic is poisonous...I know you will come out of this alive...but...still...don't you dare die on me...I don't want to re-live that future...'

Erza glared at the Darkstalker. Along with her new found power, she equipped herself into her Black Wing Armor. Without a second to waste, she flapped her wings and accelerated very quickly towards the monster. The Darkstalker went to try and grab her sword, but it wasn't fast enough. Erza slash at the monster. No cut appeared on Evergreen's body, but the Darkstalker cried out in pain. Erza looked down at her sword and saw that it was surrounded by that green colored magic and she smirked.

"Now, I've got you...you bastard!" She screamed and connected with several different slashes that once again did not leave a wound on Evergreen, but dealt damage to the monster. The Darkstalker jumped away from the Scarlet Knight and used Evergreen's magic to get itself up in the air. Erza followed suit and she started to slash at the monster in an aerial combat that she was winning easily. She just continued to slash at the monster and effectively hurting him. "Get out of her body, you bastard! Moon Flash!" Erza rushed forward and slashed at the Darkstalker in a cross pattern.

"Wryaaahhhh!" The monster screamed as it slipped out of her Evergreen's body. Erza rushed over to catch Evergreen before she fell to the ground and lowered herself down. She placed her fellow guild mate down to the ground and then looked up at the real form of the Darkstalker. The monster glared at Erza as the Scarlet Knight walked past Evergreen and glared back. "Wryaaaaahhh!" The monster screamed and fired a beam of compressed dark magic. Erza swung her sword to deflect the attack as it dissipated up in the sky. "Wryaaahhh!" The Darkstalker knew it was in trouble and took some steps back.

"Alright you vulgar thing! It's time to finish this!" Erza screamed and rushed forward. The Darkstalker tried to swipe it's hand against Erza to stop her from attacking him, but she spun around to evade the hand. Her sword glowed a bright green color and she delivered her Moon Flash. The monster screamed in pain as her attack was enough to defeat the monster as it started to slowly disintegrate from the poisonous green colored magic. It let out one final scream before the Darkstalker was defeated and gone. Erza sighed as she returned her armor to her Heart Kreuz armor. "I did it..." She smiled to herself as she thought about the fight. She knew if it wasn't for what Natsu told her, she wouldn't have won, but despite all of that, this victory was something she needed and she was glad she got it. She turned around to look at Evergreen as she laid down on the ground unconscious. She took one step and suddenly felt this sickening feeling in her stomach. She put a hand to her mouth and suddenly coughed up blood. 'This...it must be the magic I absorbed from that stone...' She fell to her knees and coughed up blood once again. She felt her strength slowly getting zapped away from her as she fell to the ground. Her breathing was becoming heavy and she could feel her eyes slowly closing. Before they fully closed, she saw a pair of feet in front of her. Then, darkness took over.

"Will she be safe here?" Elfman asked.

Natsu nodded. "Yeah. Plus you'll be here so she'll be safer." He told him.

"Yeah..." He frowned as he looked down at his older sister.

"What's wrong?" Natsu asked, seeing Elfman depressed about something.

"Nothing..." Natsu looked at him and then reached for something in his pocket.

"Hey, Elfman, catch!" Elfman turned around and caught whatever Natsu threw at him. He opened his hand and saw a similar stone that he gave to Erza. "You're a man right! Than protect your sister like any manly man would do!" He grinned.

Elfman looked at Natsu and smiled, clenching the stone in his hand. "Right! I am the manliest of all men!" Natsu nodded his head in agreement.

"Alright, good luck! I have to go find the others!" He told him. Elfman nodded. Natsu took one last glance at Mirajane before walking out of the house. 'Wait for me Mira...I'll kick everyone's ass and then the guild will once again be back to normal.'

Gajeel, Happy and Makarov looked up and their eyes widened when they saw the enchantment tell them that the battle between Erza and Evergreen was won by Erza. Happy cheered excitedly, flying up and down, celebrating. Gajeel only stared as Makarov hid a menacing glare as Sekrom was pissed off at the loss of two of his Darkstalkers.

"Huh?" The three turned around and saw that all the members that were turned to stone reverted back to normal. "W-What's going on?" Lucy asked, looking around.

"Lucy!" Happy cried as he flew toward her and hugged her.

"It's good to see you are all okay." Makarov told them as he and Gajeel approached them.

"Master...what's going on?" Levy asked. Makarov told them everything and they were all left surprised.

"The battle of Fairy Tail..." Lucy said in shock.

"I can't believe Laxus would actually do something like this." Cana sighed and put her chin on her hand as she sat on the stage.

"Either way, now that you are all free, Laxus does not have the leverage anymore. He can't possibly keep up this ridiculous game anymore." Makarov told them.

"This is stupid even for him! Laxus should be punished; we can't tolerate this!" Bisca responded, clenching her fist.

"You're damn right! Once this is over, I plan to teach that boy a lesson!" Makarov added, stomping his foot.

Suddenly, the entire hall was suddenly covered in skull and crossbones with a lightning bolt going over one of the eyes. "What is this?" Lucy asked.

"Can you hear me, old man...and everyone else from the Guild..." Laxus' voice was heard.

"That's Laxus!" Levy told everyone.

"It looks like we've lost one of our rules...so I'm going to instate a new one. So, to keep this battle of Fairy Tail moving, I've activated the Hall of Thunder." Makarov's eyes widened in horror, but deep down, Sekrom was smirking.

"The Hall of Thunder!?"

"Only one hour and ten minutes remain...Do you think you can defeat us? Or will you play nice and retire, Master?" Laxus laughed.

"What on earth are you thinking Laxus? Are you trying to get innocent civilians involved?" Makarov roared in rage.

"Hahahaha! Then all you have to do is retire and I will spare everyone in this town and maybe the weaklings that made this guild as weak as it is..." Laxus continued.

"Damn you, Laxus!" Cana screamed. "Don't listen to him, Master! Don't-"

"Fine." Everyone's eyes widened as they looked at the Master.

"M-Master! What are you saying!?" Cana screamed.

"I can't allow Laxus to involve innocent people! I don't like doing this, but I have no choice!" Makarov told her.

"But Erza is out there, right? She can stop Laxus!" Lucy responded.

"Erza? Hahahahaha! Too bad for you, but she's unconscious!" Laxus laughed as everyone's eyes widened.

"No..." Lucy shook in fear.

"If that is what you have chosen, then name me the new master of this Guild now!" Laxus roared. Makarov clenched his fists as he knew he had to give in to the maniacs demands. Sekrom, however, was all for it as he knew that by giving Laxus the position of Master, the everyone in the guild will be unstable.

"Fine Laxus...you win...I hereby res-" Before Makarov could finish, a large explosion occurred just outside the hall as the enchantment that was blocking the way for Gajeel and Makarov to pass through was destroyed.

"W-What? What's going on?" Lucy asked as she covered her eyes from debris and dust.

"This smell..." Gajeel said as he sniffed the air. "Heh...I knew he wasn't dead...that fire breathing bastard!" Gajeel smirked as Natsu walked out of the dust cloud and into the hall. Everyone stood there stunned as the guild mate they thought was dead walked in with a bang. He had an angry look on his face as he glared at Makarov.

"N-No way...is that...Natsu?" Bisca stuttered in shock. Both Happy and Cana were shocked beyond belief. Without hesitating much longer, Happy wailed tears of joy as he flew straight at Natsu and hugged him tightly.

"Natsu! You're really alive! I thought you were dead! But I knew you were alive this entire time! Waaaahhhhh!" Happy cried into his chest. Natsu smiled down at his best friend, patting him on the head.

"Yeah...sorry for worrying you buddy...I'm alive and well..." He told him. Happy lifted his head from his chest to look up at him and he smiled.

"Natsu...is that really you..." Lucy asked as she couldn't believe her eyes.

"Yep! I'm back, Luce!" He grinned. Lucy missed that familiar Natsu grin as she felt herself cry in happiness. Both Cana and Levy too started to have tears form in their eyes. Natsu smiled at them before returning to his glare, eying Makarov.

"Natsu...it really is you..." Makarov began, shocked. Natsu removed Happy off of him. "...this is great...now we have a chance to-" Natsu rushed at Makarov and swung his fist at him. The punch slammed Makarov into the wall, breaking it, creating a hole that lead to the outside. Everyone was shocked at his attack.

"Natsu! What are you doing!?" Bisca shouted at him.

Natsu didn't respond and instead dug into his pockets, taking out a few more stones. He quickly tossed one to Lucy and two to Gajeel. "Huh? What is this?" Gajeel asked. "Do I eat them or something?"

"If you want to die then go ahead." Natsu joked, but keeping his serious expression.

"What did you say, you bastard!?" Gajeel yelled at him.

"I don't have time to explain, but I'll keep it short. Possessing some of our nakama are these monsters called Darkstalkers. Myself and Erza defeated one each, so that makes only three left as well as the man who created them." Natsu told them.

"Wait a minute, Natsu! Darkstalkers? These stones? I don't get it!" Lucy asked.

"Those stones I gave you will help you fight the Darkstalkers. You will need them so that you can inflict damage to the Darkstalker and not our friends." Natsu explained. However, the stones only work once so it's best if you weaken the host first before using it. Also, I warned Erza about this, but I'm guessing she had no choice. Do not stab yourself with the stone, it is filled with very poisonous magic that can kill you. You may get stronger, but the poison can slowly kill you." Natsu warned them.

"Wait a minute! Is Erza okay?" Lucy asked.

"She's strong...I know for a fact that she will survive...she is Erza after all." He told them with a small smile.

"Right..." Lucy agreed.

"Gajeel, give the other one to Gray and both of you go after Laxus." Natsu told them.

"I don't need that ice boy's help." He responded.

"Maybe not...but the Darkstalker that is possessing him is probably the strongest...it doesn't hurt to have some help."

"Don't tell me what to do, dumb ass." He responded and took off, hopefully to find Gray.

"Lucy...go find Bixlow, Happy go with her..."

"Huh? You want Lucy to fight someone strong like that?" Happy asked in shock.

"Oi!" Lucy exclaimed at the exceed.

"That's because Lucy is strong." He turned his head to smile at her, causing the blond to blush.

"R-Right...thanks Natsu." He nodded.

"Alright then...let's go Lucy!" Happy said and the Celestial Spirit mage nodded and the two took off.

"Cana and Juvia...go find Elfman." Natsu turned his head toward the two mages.

"Huh? Elfman?" Cana asked.

"He also has one of the stones and I'm pretty sure Freed is going to go after him and Mira. I need you two to be there so you can help him out." He told them.

"Juvia understands." Juvia nodded her head.

"Alright then." Cana responded. "But first..." Natsu's eyes widened as Cana rushed over to him and planted her lips on him. Natsu was caught by surprise once again by a surprise kiss from the beer drinking woman. When she pulled away, she winked at him. "Once this is over...there is more where that came from..." Before Natsu could even respond, he dragged a blushing and stunned Juvia away with her to find Elfman. Natsu sighed.

'Ah man...I wonder what Mira might think if she found out...' He scratched the back of his head. He turned his head to the last two people in the room and saw a blushing Levy and Bisca, fidgeting slightly after witnessing the kiss between Cana and Natsu. "You two alright?" He asked.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine..." Levy stuttered.

"Hold it...why did you attack Master?" Bisca yelled.

"That's because he's been possessed by the man who created the Darkstalkers...isn't that right, Sekrom?"

"Interesting..." The Levy and Bisca's eyes widened as they saw Makarov standing a few feet away from them, a malicious smirk on his face.

"N-No way...but why?" Bisca asked. "The Master wouldn't fall so easily."

"It's my fault..." Natsu told them. "If I didn't disappear then none of this would be happening."

"No...it's not your fault, Natsu..." Levy told him. "Don't ever say that!"

"I know I shouldn't...but...if I was still here, then I could prevented this from happening."

"That's right...it is your fault, Natsu Dragneel." Sekrom laughed as Natsu clenched his fists, glaring at him. "Although, I am curious...how did you know that I was in your Master's body?"

"Two reasons...one, seeing as how you are the leader of the Darkstalkers, you would have to possess the one person who is the strongest of the guild and the one who everyone would most likely never expect. The other...is the fact that you tried to force the Master to retire when I know for a fact he would never do such a thing!" He angrily told him.

"Hahahahahaha! Well done, Dragneel. You're not as dumb as they say you are." Sekrom laughed.

"Shut up!" Natsu puffed his cheeks and blew out fire. "Fire Dragon's Lightning Roar!" Natsu fired his attack right at Makarov. Using the small body he possessed, Sekrom jumped and dodge the attack. Once he got back on his feet, Sekrom lifted his head to see Natsu already ignited his hand and swinging his arm forward. Natsu punch connected, but instead of hurting Sekrom, he was able to block it with his bare hand. "Heh, I knew this wouldn't be easy."

"Then you should have come at me with your full strength!" Sekrom jumped up and quickly kicked Natsu in the face. Natsu gritted his teeth as he felt pain in his cheek, but that didn't stop him from turning around and igniting his leg. Makarov blocked his kick with his forearm and then grabbed a hold of it. He swung Natsu around and threw him away toward Levy and Bisca. Natsu flipped backwards and landed on his feet, just in front of Levy and Bisca.

"Natsu..." Levy muttered as she looked from the Dragonslayer towards the Master. "He really is possessed..."

"Yeah...this is going to be tough...especially when he combined the Old Man's strength with his own." Natsu straightened up and wiped his mouth. He reached into his pocket and felt only one stone in it. 'Looks like I'm in for a long fight...' He smirked while pounding his fist. "I'm getting fired up!"

To Be Continued...

Author Notes: I'm a sorry for not updating for like 2 or 3 months whatever it is. I've just been busy with school, working on a show that kept me working everyday from like 10am to 10pm. I also know that this chapter is shorter than the others and the reason for that is because I thought I made you guys wait long enough for an update that I split this chapter into 2 parts. So, expect the next part soon, hopefully...

Also, some of you have asked about Yourfanfiction. That site has closed down because they don't have enough funds to support it. So for those who want to read the lemons of this story without going to Adultfanfiction, I most likely going to create a blog for my stories. I will post the link tot he blog in the next chapter, since there will be a possible lemon either in the next chapter or the the one after that! I hope you enjoy the chapter and once again I'm sorry for the delay.