Back with the next chapter!
"Speaking"
""thinking""
On with the story
Natsu grabs a dark mage's collar before slamming him down to the ground before throwing him away to another Dark mage's group
He claps his hands in satisfaction before continuing beating the crap out of another dark mages
"I'm sorry...I would fight, too, but my magic power..." Pantherlily apologized to Natsu.
"Don't worry about it, there's no helping about it. Wendy can't restore even her own magic." Carla tried to cheer him up.
Natsu knocked out yet another dark mage and sent a short look at the cat. "Don't worry about it, just focus on recovering. I can handle it." he assured while grinding yet another mage into the ground with his right leg.
He had just found Wendy's scent and found them surrounded with dark mages
Mest was nowhere to be found and Wendy and the cats were vulnerable
"these punks are just making me waste more of my time" Natsu said annoyed before he got surrounded by them
They all blasted Natsu with fire attack before they all see the flames being eaten by Natsu
"he's eating the flames!?"
"what the heck is he!?"
"Wait a second...fire magic, and a salmon coloured hair..."
"Salamander Dragov?!"
They all panicked before Natsu smirks at them.
"see ya" Natsu said as he burst into flames and created a flaming tornado that made all of the small fries fly away
"Monster..." muttered the downed mages.
"hahahahahaha!"
A laugh was heard as from a cliff a man with wild blonde hair and with a crazy look appeared
"That's enough, you lot! Enough, I said!" he yelled.
"Master Zancrow!" gasped one of the mages in relief.
"You guys are clearly no match for him." deduced Zancrow with a smirk. "Go and look for Zeref. I'm more than enough to take care of this guy."
The men nodded eagerly and started to leave the scene. "I was starting to think he might be too strong for us, but with Master Zancrow here, nothing bad can happen!"
Zancrow's eyes narrowed dangerously, his smile gone. "Hey. What did you just say?" he asked quietly, sending chills down his guildmates' back.
"I...I said I thought he could be too strong for us...the infantry!"
"There is no one stronger than Grimoire Heart in this entire world. We are the strongest guild there is." said Zancrow, black flames forming in his right hand.
""black flames?"" Natsu thought before he winces in pain as he grips his head
"If this guy here is too much for you, then you are not fit to be in our guild. We do not need trash like you!" he roared with a smile and set his comrades aflame.
The men screamed in agony, as the black flames burned them alive. They fell to the ground one by one, dead, their corpses slowly turning into ash.
Wendy grasped her mouth in horror, the horrible smell filling her nostrils. Unable to fight it back, she leaned to the side and threw up, with the last screams dying down as she did so.
"This man...his own allies..." gasped shocked Carla.
Zancrow licked his lips and took a loud sniff of the air, the smell filling his nose. He sighed in bliss, his eyes half-closed. "I just can't get enough of this smell. The sensation it gives me..." he trembled in joy, before looking down at Natsu. "I envy you, with that enhanced nose of yours and all. You must feel the same way, don't you, Salamander?" he asked with a sinister smirk.
Natsu wasn't listening to him as he was in the middle of gripping his head as it was beating painfully
In Natsu's mind
""black flames…..pitch black flames….."" Natsu thought as his mind was starting to turn black
He had a flashback as the same stranger was in the picture again but it was soon changed as he sees that he was in the middle of a burning wasteland
But the thing that took him by surprise was the colour of the flames
The flames were black, pitch black
""who?"" he thought as someone was standing in front of him
The figure heard his thought as he/she turns around and revealed to Natsu that the figure wasn't even human
""a black… demon?""
Outside of Natsu's mind
"hey! You listening you damn gecko!" Zancrow shouted before he got his reply by Natsu who burst into flames
Carla, who was more or less fine now, carefully Grabs Wendy and started to fly up to the air. Taking the hint, Lily spread out his wings best to his ability and flew away as well.
"Carla! What are you-" Wendy tried to protest.
"We have to get away. This is going to get ugly." Charla explained to her
Zancrow started laughing as he jumps off the cliff he was standing and started to approach Natsu
"now this is something that I like," Zancrow said as he burst into black flames
"Enjin no! Dogo!"
Zancrow breathes out a torrent of black flames that was heading towards Natsu who stood still
Just as the flames were about to hit him, Natsu lifts his head and looks at the torrent of black flames that was heading towards him
"…. black flames…" Natsu muttered out as his eyes turned black with red dots appearing in the middle
BOOM!
At Base Camp
Mirajane kicked away the last of her enemies, with Lisanna putting hers down after choking him out. Before she could take a breath, however, she felt strong presence behind her. She quickly grabbed her sister and guarded her with her figure, with a man with brown hair approaching them from behind the trees.
"My luck is truly against me." he sighed. "First cats, now women?"
Mira tensed up after feeling his magic. He was no pushover.
"Are you the one who blew up the tree?"
Azuma exhaled through his nose and raised his right arm, aiming it at the women. "Perhaps. But don't worry, I will not treat you the same way. I'll try to make it as painless as possible."
beach
Hades plunged the flag of Grimoire Heart deep into the sand.
"Your brats have no chance of winning against my Seven Kin of Purgatory, Makarov." he declared. "All of them are great mages I have raised myself for years. Each and every single one of them uses the magic that is closest to the source of all magic." He then looked into the horizon. "Lost Magic is at their disposal. Nothing will stand in the way of their forbidden arts."
Hades turned around and walked back to his ship, the sounds of battles spread out across the entire island falling into his ears.
It was the beginning of the end. The war has begun.
But as soon as he was about to enter his ship, he felt a very dark and ominous presence appearing as he looks behind and saw a pillar of black flames appearing on the island
He thought that it was Zancrow, one of his subordinates, but he knew that he was wrong as the flames he was seeing wasn't because Zancrow's flames, the flames he was watching were black, pitch black
"what is this?"
That's a wrap!
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