Part 24 Natsu vs. Justice III

Natsu dodged as he almost got beheaded for the millionth time, well it felt like that. These four seraphs were frigging crazy! Three of them had swords and the last and most powerful held a spear. They were all wearing armor and they were all super-fast. Natsu had a hard time trying not to get killed. But through it all Martin just watched him with a smile on his lips.

"You know Natsu", he said. "For a dragon boy you are quite powerful and entertaining."

"Will you shut your trap already!?" Natsu yelled at him and smirked when he was finally about to ram his fist into Gabriel's face. Only problem was that when he was about to hit him… he rammed his fist into an invisible shield instead and his fist turned and hit himself.

Raphael. That was the problem with this whole fight! Raphael was the problem. Not only did the pink-skinned angel cast spells that weakened Natsu's powers or made the angel's teammates stronger… he also caused shields that protected his friends from physical and magical attacks. He needed to take that angel out first… but how? Whenever he went for Raphael Michael would get in his way.

That dude was already annoying as hell because he was immune to almost every type of magic and if he wasn't immune he took very little damage from the magic attacks his friends hit him with by mistake when trying to hit Natsu.

Gabriel turned out to be their healer while also using ice magic. Great.

Then there was Uriel who had been ordered to use his sword because he used fire magic. Natsu was also amazed and annoyed at the fact that these four didn't even listen to any of his mocking words. When one of them seemed to be listening, one of them being Uriel or Raphael, Michael would appear in front of them and make sure they didn't follow through. Natsu was figuring that these four were like siblings, with Uriel or Raphael being the youngest. Michael had the bossy attitude of some older brothers… or Erza. The red skinned angel actually reminded him of Erza in a way. No nonsense, honor, fighting like a tiger… and just his aura. But Natsu noticed something else about these four. They were doing everything they could to block Martin from his view. Natsu was barely allowed to even scream at the jerk that was sitting on his throne and just watching this as if it was a game.

But wait a moment… Martin was a man of honor. Natsu dodged another sword aimed at his head, gripping Gabriel's arm and using the angel to catapult out of reach of Uriel and Raphael. Natsu landed in front of Martin.

"Martin!" he yelled but an orange wing suddenly blocked his view of the Golden King.

"At ease Michael", Martin said and Natsu heard how Michael's spear was pulled out of the stone floor, right from between Natsu's feet. Michael moved aside to let Natsu look at Martin. But he along with the other four Seraphs hovered above the throne.

"Now what do you want Natsu?" Martin asked calmly.

"I wanna know why you are hiding behind these… guys", he said and looked up at the angry angels. Natsu wasn't the smartest but he knew it wouldn't be wise to call these guys things or something more colorful.

"Oh but Natsu haven't you realized it yet?" Martin asked and leaned a bit forward, resting his elbows on his knees.

"Realized what?"

"They aren't protecting me from you… no they are protecting you from me."

"What?" Natsu asked.

"Natsu", Martin said with a sigh and got up and walked towards the window. "The reason I told the king of Fiore and his daughter to stay away from our mountain and from attacking us is quite easy." Martin looked at the city below. "I want to protect them… from us."

"I don't get it", Natsu said. Martin turned and walked up to him.

"Natsu we're no ordinary family", he said and stood right in front of Natsu. "We are no ordinary humans. Long ago we were attacked and we retaliated… which caused a lot of death. I do not wish for innocent to be injured. You and your nakama, as you say, are innocent. I do not wish any harm to come to you."

"You have a funny way of showing it."

"You attacked us first."

"We did not you-"

"Stole our nakama… yes yes so you keep saying. But is that really true?"

"What do you mean?"

"Tell me… why do you think I brought Freed Justine here?"

"Because his powers can call that Albino guy!"

"Albion."

"Whatever! We know for a fact that Freed's powers drew him to Magnolia when Tartaros attacked us! So we know that you are trying to bring back the former Mountain Kings!"

"Former Mountain Kings?" Martin asked with mirth in his voice. "What makes you think there are former Mountain Kings?"

"Because you guys can't live as long as those guys have… Rogue said they disappeared 7000 years ago."

"That's a bit of a stretch… it's more like 700 years since we were sent away."

"Don't be stupid there's no way you have lived that long."

"And yet… you have heard of an individual who has haven't you? A dark wizard with demons of his own… Zeref was it?"

"Shut up, don't act dumb. We know you a trying to resurrect the Mountain Kings so that you can all go and kill Zeref."

"Kill Zeref?"

"Yes! He's afraid of that Albion guy! He knows you can kill him so… wait… wait that's it!"

"What is?" Martin asked confused.

"You're just like them!"

"Like who?"

"Tartaros! You're like them right? You're demons created by Zeref to kill him!"

"We're what?" Martin asked with a dangerous tone. "I warn you Natsu don't compare me and my siblings to those lowlife fakes."

"What? You aren't his demons? Oh! Maybe you didn't know! Tell me do you have a burning desire to return to Zeref so that you can kill him?"

"Natsu", Martin warned and the four Seraphs hurried forward.

"Aw come on it's not that bad", Natsu said. "At least you look human enough… right now. I mean all of Zeref's demons have a true side that they keep hidden… and you do too right? I mean that feather I pulled was either from you or Freed and as far as I know Freed isn't a bird so… what kind of demon are you?" After those words left his mouth Natsu heard a bell toll three and at the same time Martin swiped with his hand just as the Seraphs appeared in front of Natsu. When he did the four of them disappeared. Natsu blinked in confusion as the green moonlight fell on Martin and his body started glowing.

"I can see by the darkness in your soul that you have chosen to disregard my warning..." he growled. "You are beyond the point of redemption. I cannot turn a blind eye to the way you attacked my home and compared me to those beings created for only destruction and hate. Listen, fiend! Foul creature whose soul is tainted with darkness! Listen! And tremble in fear! I am Metatron! I am one with the Great Will! By this will, I shall destroy you!"

"Lot of talk from a poster boy", Natsu mocked and Martin's eyes flashed and he started changing. His clothes changed first. Turning into tight black pants and shirt. He was barefoot. Then his whole body seemed to be incased into silver. The silver was decorated with gold ornaments. That strange ruffled coat on his back unfolded into wings that looked sharp and deadly. His honey colored hair turned metallic as well. Over this strange armor he wore a toga like cloth which was white but held a golden cross at the bottom. On his forehead appeared a strange golden symbol and in each of his palms appeared the symbol of the Mountain Kings. Natsu's mouth fell open when he realized that Martin now looked exactly like one of the statues.

"WHAT!?" Natsu yelled. The winged being in front of him spread its wings and shouted:

"Fire of Sinai!" Natsu felt the floor underneath his feet explode and he was thrown high into the air before Metatron appeared in front of him again and punched him so hard Natsu was sent through a bunch of pillars. Natsu remembered thinking:

"This is bad." Before everything turned dark.

TBC

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