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~After Story~
-:Chapter Fifty-Two:-
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"A track sensor?" Lucy choked over the words. Hjin had dropped his jaw in chock.
"What?" Gray looked between the two of them. "Didn't Natsu tell you?"
When both shook their heads, he mumbled a silent curse over his friend. Hands flat on his thighs he stood up and snapped his fingers.
"Follow me." he said and everyone did as said. Lucy on the other side, sat still in the seat. Fists shaking in her lap as tears prickled the corners of her eyes. Hjin turned around so he faced the saddened blonde. Sighing he got over to her, crouched down and laid a rough hand over hers.
"He needs you, you know." he looked up to her flushed face. "And Lisanna too."
"B-But I am just a big burden for him. I can't use a weapon, I can't any martial arts."
"That doesn't matter. It is what your heart want." his ice blue irises stares into her honey brown orbs, like a lance nailed fish. Locked. "C'mon, we will save them both." raising he held out his hand for her. Whipping away the tears she laid her hand in his, standing up before him.
Erza had waited for them and had a smile pasted on her lips as she led the way to Gray's special room.
Gray sat on a chair with computers blinking and beeping around him. Yet again the jaw dropped down in Hjin's lap.
"What an hacker…" he said, flabbergasted by the view.
"Okay, I have tracked him down. Yokono street 23, house 443; 1."
Lisanna and Natsu had been separated from each other. And Natsu was very furious about it.
"You remember this, Dragneel?" looking up to the ash-grey haired man, he narrowed his eyes. Zero held up the contract Natsu had signed for over nine months ago. Wanting to grip and tear it into small pieces were very high. But do less when he's attached to a wall.
"No."
Zero furrowed his brows tightly together.
Natsu suddenly let out two loud sneezes and banged his head in the table at the second.
Zero stared at the you man with wide red eyes. Wondering if he was trying to knock himself out.
"Ow." Natsu shook his head as the pain subsided and a red mark replaced it instead, just on the right side of his scar. Looking up to the man, he frowned. "What? Can't a human sneeze when he wants to?"
Zero smirked evilly. "I wouldn't call you human, Dragneel. You are beyond being it."
"What do you mean?" his voice was low and rough from anger. "I am a human!"
"No. You are a killing machine." Zero paused. "A machine who showed no mercy. The unknown serial murderer. The living devil in Japan. Chiba's grim reaper."
"Those are just stupid nicknames from the newspapers!" the rosette shook with anger. Coming up with the old names he got hit hard.
"But there are a true story behind each of those names."
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"You can't deny it."
"I haven't denied anything of that!" he yelled, some of his spit hit Zero on the cheek. "I am a criminal! So what? I am a human being with a trashed past! And-"
"I get it! Enough already." Natsu shut his mouth and gave a heated stare towards the man. His eyes followed him as he moves over to a big bureau. Looking in each of the three drawers.
What is he looking for? Natsu narrowed his eyes as Zero charged through stuff inside the drawer. Looking around he saw a set of katanas lay inside a chest of glass. If I could just…
"Aha, found it." taking his eyes off the chest he looked over to the man. His eyes widened at what he is holding. "You like what you see, Dragneel?" Zero to the few steps over to the rosette. Natsu pressed his back against the chair, his neck strained to get away from the object.
"I see you remember it. The 'x' marker Katsu used on you." Zero took the cold metal marker away from the young man's face. Instead he poked Natsu's chest with it. "If I remember right, Katsu said you got amnesia."
Natsu could already tell what he planned. And he didn't like it.
"Wha'st with that look?" Zero's lips formed a cruel smirk. Natsu snarled.
"I know what your plan is, and I will stop you."
Zero cocked a eyebrow.
"Because," he flexed his arm muscles, feeling the handcuff chain crack. "I will fight back!" with one final flex the chain broke.
His fist connected with Zero's jaw, sending him with unstoppable speed in the desktop. Crashing the glass chest he took the twin katanas, held them like a real warrior.
Zero gave a cough of laughter.
"Didn't know you have trained swordsmanship."
"Don't go around and think you know me." he snarled at the older man. His eyes set on dead to kill him. "I will defeat you without breaking a sweat."
~õ~
Lisanna struggled in Laxus hard grip.
"Release me you big monkey!" she screamed in his ear. The blond jerked his head away from her mouth.
"Shut up already you pathetic woman!" kicking open a door he threw the white haired girl inside. Landing with a pained shriek, she turned to look up to the over muscled man. "Stay here and be quiet!"
With that he closed the door with a steady bang. Lisanna shakily stood up and ran over to the door and took a hold on the knob. Twisting it she felt how her blood drained away from her face.
Locked.
Sinking down on her knees she curled up into a ball. Tears escaped her eyes as she hugged herself around the knees.
"Hjinsave me and help Natsu." she whispered as a loud sob came from her parted lips.
She couldn't remember why Laxus would do this to her and her friends. Why did he take Natsu too, when he hadn't done anything to the blond? Why? Why did he do that?
She was angry and confused. Why couldn't she just had stayed there in Germany. Her second home there she had friends and no enemies.
Could she consider Laxus as her enemy? She guessed she could since he threatened her if she did anything wrong her precious Hjin will see his last daylight in the nearest of time.
Nails dug deep into her white skin, drawing a small amount of blood. Bringing her hand up she followed a lonely string of the warm liquid drop run down her finger, palm and wrist, coloring the sea-blue stone bracelet Hjin got her on thanksgiving.
Hjin. Was he okay? Did he survive the shot?
Many questions swirled in her mind, making her dizzy and more worried than before.
Why did everything turn out to be like this? She wanted answers, answers to her questions.
~õ~
Natsu raised his right hand and held the thin sword's edge pointed at Zero.
"You do understand that the blades are back reversed. In other words, no use to kill." his red eyes looked straight into Natsu's black ones.
"Then I just have to flip them over." he said and with a graceful twist had them with the back down. The blades shone strongly in the sun's dozy rays.
Now it was Zero's turn to narrow his eyes. He hadn't expected the boy to take the challenge to fight with the swords upside-down. Had he trained in the secret style of that sort of swordsmanship?
"You look surprised, Zero? Something you didn't expect?" hearing the challenging tone in his voice, Zero swung the marker staff so it broke a chair into small pieces. Then he held it pointed at Natsu.
"Come at me, boy."
Natsu gripped harder on the sword-shafts and shifted his pose so he stood low bended, attacking pose.
"With joy."
DADADUMMM~! End of chapter 52! :D How was it? Good or bad? And Natsu! *gasp* he can fight with swords *o*y
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