Back with the continuation
"speaking"
""thinking""
On with the story
"Er…za?" Natsu voiced out as the one he just attacked was none other than Erza herself
"Natsu…" Erza spoke out as she stood in front of Gray and had taken the attack to herself
"why?...why are you here?!" Natsu said as Erza smiled to him before coughing out blood as some of it splattered onto Natsu's vest and to his hands
Natsu looks in shock as his claw had pierced her body
"aa…..ah…aaaaahhhhhh!" Natsu screams in horror as he pulled out his claw and Erza came stumbling upon him
Gray looks in shock as the man looks at Erza as her blood keeps pouring out of the hole on her
"it's alright…it's alright" Erza told him as Erza's hand reached towards Natsu's cheek and caressed it
Natsu looks to her in horror as both came falling to their knees
"Er…za" Natsu's voice quivers in sadness and horror as he can't believe what he had done to her
"it's alright….Natsu" Erza voice out as she coughs out blood
"you…..are never…alone…i…am always here…..Rose and Mary…..are here for you…everyone….is here for you…we're a…..family, right?"
"don't speak! Don't speak anymore please!" Natsu said as he places his hands on her wounds and tried to heal it but could not focus as his emotions were messing with his concentration
The Dragon Brand on Erza's forearm was slowly disappearing as it was fading away with Erza's life
"so…please….don't be…sad anymore….i will always….be there…for you"
Erza's hand slowly falls down as Erza's eyes slowly closes
""I will always protect you ….i will always watch over you…..i….will….always… love you""
Natsu looks in horror as Erza passed away in his arms
"haaa….haaaaa" Natsu looks at Erza as her life was gone "Erza…please…please…..wake up…please…..please!"
"ERZA!"
Natsu screams out her name as the man's heart was broken into thousands of pieces
Natsu's flames suddenly rages again as the man mourns for his lost
"use it all! Use all my life! just bring back Erza!" Natsu shouted in the flames as his very life disappears and was replaced with END's
"very well" END said as he laid down Erza down to the ground "exchange your life for hers"
END lifted up his right hand as he pierced his own chest
His hand pulled out the Book of END from within himself as the Etherious grunted in pain in doing so
"not something I have tested, but," END said as he opens the book and dozens of dark characters came flying in the air "I'll just try and make do of what I can"
END swipes his fingers up and down as some of the characters glowed red and turned scarlet
Characters changed and changed as some floated to Erza and flied into her
"it is done" END said as he stands up and closed the book
Erza's wound slowly healed as her heart started beating again
"with this…" END said as he nearly fell to his knees but managed to catch himself "she has been given a second life"
END kneels down as he places the Book of END on Erza's chest as it glowed and got sucked into her
"I still have some time in this body before it regains it's strength" END said as he walks away and leaves Erza to Gray "but for now….Zeref"
As he left the scene, so did Natsu Dragov's final last piece of his soul
In a white misty land
Erza opened her eyes as she saw that she was in a white snowing land
"where….?" Erza stands up as she looks around and sees nothing but white snow "is this….the afterlife?"
"no" a voice spoke behind Erza as she looks behind and sees Zeref standing behind her
"Zeref?!" Erza exclaimed in shock to see the black wizard with her
"no, at the same time I am" Zeref replied to her "you could say that we're in your heart, or rather Natsu's heart"
"Natsu's heart?" Erza said in confusion
"Natsu or END whichever you feel comfortable with, used his own book to save your life after you sacrificed it to save Gray" Zeref told her
"he what!?" Erza said in disbelieve
"yes" Zeref replied to her "in this place, I will explain to you everything of what happened to Natsu, the real story of his life"
Zeref snapped his fingers and a giant flash overtook the whole snowing area
At a rocky area
END threads through the path as he was making his way towards Fairy Tail and to Zeref
He stops his path as he looks behind him and sees Irene floating in the air behind him
"have you regained your other half?" Irene asked the man who nodded as she landed on the ground
"yeah, I did" END replied to her
"I see…." Irene said as she closed her eyes "what were you trying to accomplish, END? Or should I say Natsu Dragov?"
"and I thought my acting would fool you" END said as the black markings slowly shrank
"so the two sides of a coin merged into one" Irene said as END's right side was covered in crimson scales while his left side was covered in black markings
His right eye was white while his left was black, the two soul of light and darkness that fused and created the real and the only Etherious Natsu Dragov
"please..Irene…..leave this war…..you're the only one I don't want to fight….." END told her as Irene looks at him with a surprised look
"this war…..was meaningless in the first place…and I let my crave for destruction and blood took the best of me….so please…..leave this war….Irina would never like this"
"please" END pleaded with her as Irene looks at him before stomping her staff to the land
"this is goodbye…Natsu" Irene told him as a tear drops down to the ground as it glowed red
END nodded as the light that once overtook Fiore appeared again as it glows brighter
At Fairy Tail
Zeref sat at the seat in Fairy Tail as the man had an amused look
"so, Irene and Natsu betrayed me" Zeref said as the Universe One spell was canceled and Fiore was back to normal "what made you into doing this?"
Zeref stands up as END was standing before him
"stop this war….it was a mistake to even start it in the first place" END told him with a hardened gaze
"you know better than myself that this was the only path for us to take" Zeref said as he approached END "and weren't you the very one who wanted this war to begin with?"
END didn't reply as he burst into crimson and black flames
"Stop this war before I do it myself" END told his brother who smirked in response
"I knew that you will betray me eventually, Natsu no END" Zeref said as black aura dance around him
"I will stop you….and that's a promise" END said as he and Zeref punched each other's fist as a powerful burst of magic exploded upon impact
With Erza
She was in a forest as she looks around the place
"this is.." Erza voice out before Zeref appeared beside her
"follow me" Zeref told her as he leads the way with her following
"this forest was the very forest Igneel raised Natsu in" Zeref said as he stopped walking and so did Erza
Erza watches from within the woods as she looks up ahead and sees a small child who looks identical to Natsu
"is that..?" Erza said as Zeref nodded
"that's Natsu as a child and that's Igneel" Zeref said as Igneel approached Natsu as the two started playing around with each other
"400 years ago, before Natsu became END, he and I lived in a peaceful village together" Zeref explained to Erza as the scene changed to that of a stone and wooden home where Erza sees a man who looks like Natsu but was not him and with a woman who has black hair as she looks a lot like Zeref
"they are me and Natsu's parents" Zeref said as Natsu and Zeref as children came running in while playing around
"we lived in this home in our childhood before it was all lost when a dragon attacked the village and everything was lost in the flames" Zeref explained as the scene changed to that where the village was burned and everyone was screaming
"no…" Erza gasped in shock as she sees the scene and reminded her of the time Rosemary was burned down "my parents lost their lives and so did Natsu"
The scene changed again as Zeref and Erza were in a dark room where there were dozens of broken eggs like glass shell but one egg was intact and had a life in it
"that's when I created my most powerful Etherious of them all" Zeref said as Erza sees Natsu in the egg
"E.N.D, Etherious Natsu Dragov. The last and final demon of the books of Zeref, the rebirth of my dead brother and the birth of my powerful demon"
Zeref disappears as Old Rob appeared in his place
"Old Rob!?" Erza exclaimed in shock to see the old man again
"easy lassy, I am Rob and yet I am not at the same time" Old Rob told her with a smile
"your live was saved by Natsu as he gave his life to save yours, and in return your heart is fusing with the book of END as we speak"
"my heart?" Erza said as Rob nodded
"this is the state of Natsu's heart as well as yours. Both of your lives are now linked and can't ever be severed. This was the cost Natsu paid to save your life" Rob explained to her
Rob snapped his fingers as the scene changed to that of a cave where a young woman with blonde hair appeared in front of Erza
"Lucy!?" Erza exclaimed in surprise
"no, her name is Anna Heartfillia, she is your friend, Lucy's great ancestor" Rob told her as Erza looks in front of Anna and sees five children with her
"are they?" Erza asked as Rob nodded to her
"they are Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Sting and Rogue, the five children who were chosen to be sent to the future X777" Rob told her
"Igneel and their Dragons planned to send Five Dragon Slayers to the future to defeat Acnologia"
The scene changed again as they were back in the forest where Natsu and the others were with their dragons who looks to be in a discussion
"Natsu with Igneel, Wendy with Grandeeney, Gajeel with Metalicana, Sting with Weisslogia, and Rogue with Skiadrum. They five taught Natsu and the others their Dragon Slayer Magic and had planned to send them to the future on that time where Ethernanos were flourishing"
"but…" Rob said as he was replaced with Jellal "there was an unforeseen accident when the Eclipse gate was opened"
"Jellal!?" Erza exclaimed before realizing that this was all an illusion in her heart
"the real me is still in the real world, Erza." Jellal told her with a smile as the scene changed back to the cave where Anna stood in front of Eclipse as it opens
"due to an unforeseen incident only Gajeel, Sting, Rogue and Wendy got sent to the future on X777 but not Natsu, he was sent 200 years before the designated time"
The scene changes again as Erza sees that Natsu was in a forest, all alone.
"in that time, a war was raging on and that was the First Trade War" Jellal explained as the scene changes to a bloodied battlefield as everyone was killing each other
"forced to participate, Natsu was dragged into the war that he hated"
Natsu was in the battlefield as he was killing enemy soldiers one by one
"slowly, he lost his mind and that's how he was born" Jellal said as Natsu stood in the blood-soaked lands of his enemies as the man had a crazed look on him "the vilest demon of the books of Zeref, E.N.D"
Natsu burst into pitch black flames as the man turns into his demonic form
"100 years passed and that was the time, Zeref found Natsu" Jellal said as the scene changes again to that of a cave up in the mountains where END resides in and Zeref appeared in front of him with a smile
"Zeref told him of everything that happened, the things that conspired in the time Acnologia reins"
The scene changes to that of a destroyed land as Acnologia stood in the land while roaring
"Natsu battled Acnologia but never was able to defeat him" Jellal said before he disappeared and was replaced with Makarov
"and that was when he met your mother, Erza" Makarov said as Erza looks in tears to the old man
"do not shed tears for me, Child. Makarov would never want to see you cry" Makarov told her as Erza nodded and wiped away her tears
The scene changes as Erza sees that she was in a castle of some sort and she was in front of END and Irene who Erza didn't recognize
"Irene is the creator and the mother of all Dragon Slayer, she created the magic to aid in the Dragon Civil War 400 years ago"
"20 years back, she gave birth to you, her first child. Her body was cursed with the Dragon Seed, the seed changes the Dragon Slayer into a dragon and corrupts their minds and hearts like Acnologia" Makarov told her
The scene changes to that of Rosemary before it was destroyed as Erza sees Irene putting down a basket in front of an orphanage with her as a child in it
"she abandoned you in order to protect you from her crazed ideals, she loved you so much that she couldn't bear to take away your life when you just came to the world"
The scene changes as Erza was back at Alvarez but in a daycare room where she sees Irene carrying an infant in her arms
"Irene gave birth to your sister, Irina. The child was born from between her and END"
"a sister…." Erza said in surprise before the scene changes to that of a dried wasteland where END stood in the middle
"and this is where I come in" END said as he turns around to Erza
"18 years ago, before I met you all, I came to Ishgar as a spy for my brother, to get information on the Magic Council's weapons, in doing so I created Tartaros and your Natsu"
END snapped his fingers as Erza and him were in the magic council where they see Natsu walking in the hallways wearing Enryuo no Yoroi "I went into a hibernated like state and your Natsu was created in my time of coma,"
"but that all changed when he met you" END said as the scene changed to that of the day Natsu and Erza met in Fairy Tail
"he forgot about his mission and all about me being the real him, and that is how he has a life of his own with you"
The scene changes again as this time, Erza was standing in the middle of a volcanic lava lands as everything was burning
"and that is the story of how Natsu came to be"
A deep voice spoke as the lava exploded and revealed Igneel
"Igneel!?" Erza said in surprise to see the Fire Dragon king
"thank you Erza, for trying your best in saving Natsu" Igneel thanked her as he did a low bow to her "Erza, listen well on what I have to say to you"
"your heart and Natsu's heart are connected that means you both share your life with each other"
Erza nodded as Igneel continued his explanation
"There are two seeds within Natsu, one is the Demon Seed the other is the Dragon Seed. Both seeds are light and darkness, two things that cannot be combined at all, I have a request for you, will you accept it?"
Erza nodded as she looks at the giant dragon
"I will!"
That's a wrap!
Bye bye