Chapter 37:
"Dammit! Dammit! How could I let him get away!" Natsu yelled as he ran trough the forest toward where he heard the explosion.
'And that idiot demon, Lilith! She knew Zeref was here! That's why she didn't want to tell me! Oh! When I get my hands on her!' he thought then looked at his right arm 'And what the fuck am I going to do about this?! Mira will kill me!'
Suddenly, in the sky exploded something like red fireworks.
Natsu's eyes grew wide and he felt like he swallowed a rock. 'Enemy?! Here of all places?!'
All around the island every Fairy tail member saw that red fireworks that Erza fired.
Natsu stooped for a second and sniffed the air. "Something big is coming!"
He heard another explosion and started running again even faster then before. If you would seen him now only thing you would see was black blur.
He saw a clearing and he could smell smoke coming from there.
"Wendy! Get away from him!" He could hear Lily's voice.
'Wendy?!' Natsu thought and jumped over a fallen tree finding himself between Panther Lily and a tall, dark skinned man. He took quick glance behind Panther Lily, who was in fighting stance facing tall man, and saw Wendy, Charla and Mest.
"What is going on here?" Natsu demanded but no one answered him since everyone watched him with wide-eyes.
"Who... no... What are you?" said a tall man, his mouth still hanging open in surprise.
Natsu looked at him annoyed and opened his mouth to answer but Charla decided to step in "Natsu! That man is from Grimoire Heart! He's our enemy!"
Natsu's eyes narrowed and he glared at the man. "And Mest?" he asked and Mest's eyes widened in surprise.
Lily answered this time. "He's working for the council"
Natsu's head turned toward Mest who straighten up and said "That's right! Fairy tail! And my real name is Doranbolt"
"What are you doing in Fairy tail, Nameless?" Natsu growled. Wendy's eyes widened slightly. Mest just got annoyed "Nameless? I just told you my name! It's Doranbolt. D-O-R-A-N-B-O-L-T!"
Before Doranbolt could blink Natsu was only few inches from his face growling from back of his throat. Dornabolt start sweating and gulped. Member from Grimoire Heart, who was silently watching, raised his eyebrows in surprise 'So fast!' he thought.
"I heard you the first time, Nameless. Now tell me what council wants with Fairy tail?!" Natsu growled.
"Isn't it obvious?!" Doranbolt asked and then smirked "It's what council always wanted- to disband this troublesome guild"
"Wrong thing to say..." Charla whispered.
The next thing Doranbolt knew he was flying trough the clearing after being punched straight in the face with Natsu's fist.
"Oww" Doranbolt moaned holding his hands over his bleeding nose "That hurt you bastard!"
Natsu glared at him with his famous I'm-gonna-kill-you glare and Doranbolt shut up.
"Listen well, Nameless. Do you really think you'll be able to disband Fairy tail? You are trying to hurt Fairy tail. You imposter, lying about being a Fairy tail member, daring to place a foot on our holy island. Do you really think we will just stand by and wait for you to come at us? Of course we won't! We.. no, I will never stand by and watch as you hurt my guild. I don't care who my enemies are; demon, dragon, human, army, council... I don't care. Who ever try to even lay a finger on my guild I'll slaughter them without a moment hesitation" While talking this Natsu was walking slowly toward Doranbolt and now was standing right in front of him. Dornabolt was now shaking under Natsu's magical pressure that was slowly leaking from his body.
"Now run and tell that to those bastards in council, Nameless" Nastu said and smiled wickedly. Doranbolt didn't even nodded before he disappeared using his teleportation magic.
Natsu's face became emotionless again as he looked at Wendy, Charla and Lily. He now noticed how injured they all were actually. He turned his attention to the dark guild member and asked with blank expression.
"Did you do that?"
The man didn't answer but repeated his question "What and who are you?"
The man was really having trouble trying to tell what the teen in front of him was. His right side of body was cowered in scales completely and his eyes didn't look normal... They were almost dragon-like.
Natsu glared at the man because he didn't answer his question.
"Maybe you heard of me... My name is Natsu Souleater..." Man's eyes widened. He knew that name "... son of the black dragon of apocalypse; dragon king Acnologia, dragon prince and chaos dragon"
"Interesting... so rumors were true, you really are a dragon. Very well then, my name is Azuma, one of Seven kin of purgatory"
Natsu now noticed something on the sea smoking. "And that is?"
"Council was getting tiring, don't you think so?" Azuma asked. And then looked at the sky "Well it was nice to meat you but now I must go..."
And before Natsu could grab Azuma was already merged with earth.
Natsu looked at Wendy who was sitting at the ground looking at Natsu. Lily and Charla were also looking at him and his new appearance.
"Natsu, why were you calling Doranbolt Nameless?" Lily asked confused.
Wendy answered instead of her brother "In dragon culture it is a custom to learn a name of your enemy before you kill him or he kill you. Using that name in fight and not forgetting it after you kill your enemy is the same as saying that you acknowledge your opponent. It's very big dishonor if your opponent doesn't want to use your name and it means that he sees you as something lower then trash. 'Nameless' is just nicer way to say 'I would rather acknowledge dirt under my feet than you'."
Charla and Lily looked surprised and looked at Natsu who only nodded before he knelt down beside Wendy and asked her "Are you okay?"
"Yes, I'll be fine but what happened to you?" she asked.
"A certain someone with magic he cannot control." Natsu answered looking at his right arm. Wendy wanted to ask more but she knew she won't get any answer.
Natsu stood up and dusted his pants and held out his arm to help Wendy stand up. He puled her up when she put her hand in his but soon stumbled and almost fell because of her injuries and exhaustion. Luckily Natsu catch her before she fell and put her on his back telling her "You're not alright. Let's go to the camp so someone can take a better look at you"
Wendy smiled and nodded. Natsu then picked exceeds in one hand and start walking toward the camp.
While they were walking Natsu asked Wendy "Can you tell me what happened?"
Wendy nodded with her head resting on her shoulder.
**flashback- Wendy's POV**
I and Charla were walking trough the forest looking for master's grave.
"Oh, hi. Wendy, Charla. I didn't think I'll see you around here" a voice said behind us.
Me and Charla turned around to see Mest smiling at us.
"Wendy is still in exams. Why would you think you wouldn't see us around here?" Charla said and sweat-dropped.
Mest rubbed the back of his head sheepishly "Right... I guess I didn't think too much about what am I saying"
"By the way congratulations Wendy for defeating Natsu. You must be really strong" He said with smile.
Wendy turned red "I- I didn't defeated Natsu. He let me pass. I will never be strong enough to beat him"
"Don't say that child! You will become stronger then he is. I'm sure in that" Charla said with smile and motherly voice.
Wendy blushed again "T-thanks Charla but I don't think that's even possible"
**stop-flashback- normal POV**
"Of course it's possible. You should have more faith in yourself Wendy" Natsu said with warm voice but his face didn't match his voice since it was emotionless as it was most of the times. Wendy blushed again.
**play-flashback- Wendy's POV**
"Well... anyway..." Mest started "I'll go now. I don't want to hold you back since you have limited time"
He turned to leave when a rock only few centimeters from me and Mest exploded.
We turned around with wide eyes only to see no one there.
"Who's there?!" I yelled getting in fighting stance.
For few minutes there was silence but then a face started to appear on a tree. My eyes grew even wider as human-like figure started to separate from the tree trunk.
After few more seconds we stood face to face with that tall man from Grimoire Heart.
"Hello there" Man said.
"Who are you?!" asked Charla as wings appeared on her backs.
"Are you from Fairy tail?" man asked and Wendy only nodded.
Then in the sky we saw red fireworks.
Charla's eyes grew wide "Are you the enemy?!"
Man just looked at the fireworks until it disappeared and then just shudder with his shoulders "Most likely"
"Who are you?" I repeated Charla's question.
"I'm from a dark guild called Grimoire Heart" man said and then lifted his arm and another explosion appeared but this time hitting me.
"WENDY!" Charla yelled and flew toward me only to be caught in another explosion.
"Mest run!" I yelled.
Mest hesitate but when he turned around Panther Lily jumped in front of him out of nowhere. He hit him and Mest flew into the rock.
"Lily?! What are you doing?" Charla asked and stood on her feet.
"Who are you?" Lily asked in his battle form.
"I-I am Mest" Mest stuttered.
"Don't lie to me I know your not Mest! I was in the council and I know your form it!"
We gasped when we heard this. I looked at the Mest "I-is that true?"
Mest smirked and used his teleportation magic and appeared few meters away from Lily.
"Clever... "Mest murmured.
He was about to say something else but dark guild member spoke "Are you done?"
Lily turned his head and asked "And you are?"
"He's the enemy, Lily!" I yelled.
"Well then" Lily said and jumped at the man only to be sent flying by another explosion.
"Lily!" I yelled again.
On the horizon appeared ships and my and Charla's eyes grew wide. 'Council!'
But before we could say anything the ships exploded.
"There, this should take care of your problems, right?" man said.
"Council's battle ships!" Mest said in shock and surprise that council's ships were so easily destroyed.
**flashback end- normal POV**
"Lily then started fighting with the man and after few more seconds you jumped in." Wendy said with smile.
"Okay" Natsu said as he continued to run.
**with Makarov**
He was sitting happily next to the first's grave and drink beer from the bottle when he saw red fireworks in the sky. He spitted his beer out in surprise.
"Enemy?! Here?!" he yelled and jumped on his leg and started running "I won't let anyone disturb my children's exams. They waited to long for this!"
After few minutes of running he was at the beach and up in the sky he saw a big black airship with weird-looking heart on the front.
He knew the symbol. He started shaking in fury. 'How dare they to come on our holy ground?! How dare they to attack us?!'
He grew in size. Larger, larger, larger until he was in eye level with the airship.
"Be gone!" his voice roared as he hit the airship with his fist. The ship fall apart only to be restored in few seconds. 'What?'
In the corner of his eye he could see someone flying from the ship to the island.
"You'll leave this island this instant or bare the consequences" Between his arms started to form shining ball of light.
"I'll count to three"
"One"
A tall man with eye-patch with coat walked out and stood before Makarov.
"Two"
"Is that Fairy law?" a man asked with sickly sweet smile.
Makarov's eyes grew wide. "M-master Precht"
"Long time no see kid"
"Y-you joined a dark guild?" Makarov said in disbelief.
"No... I'm the founder of this guild" Precht said.
"Turn around and I'll let you leave, master Precht" Makarov said after few seconds.
"I don't think I'll do that. Oh, and call me Hades" Hades/Precht said with smug smile.
"In that case..." Makarov said and in his hands the light shined again.
"THREE!"
"FAIRY LAW!"
As the light started expanding Hades put his hands together and yelled "Grimoire law!"
Black light shined between Hades's hands. When the two lights collided they dispelled one another.
"H-how?" Makarov asked in disbelief, his eyes wide with shock.
Hades's hands glowed again and from them shoot something like chains made from magic. The chains hit Makarov and he started falling on his back. In the midair he start shrinking to his normal size and just before he hit the ground he flipped in air and landed on his feet. He looked up only to see Hades standing few meters in front of him.
"Why are you in a dark guild?" master Makarov asked former Fairy tail mage.
Hades answered with another question "What is exterior, and what is interior, Makarov?"
"This world is full of things that cannot be measured as merely good or evil." he said with evil smile.
"Good or evil, Fairy tail mentality should never change" Makarov said with frown.
"HAHAHA! You really learned how to talk, kid" Hades said laughing.
"Don't call me kid! You're not part of my family anymore!" Makarov said clenching his fists.
"To think the day would come when I would have to crush Fairy tail in this fashion" Hades said smiling evilly.
"I will not give you my guild!" Makarov yelled.
"So you intend to defy me, kid?" Hades said and then started preparing his spell.
Makarov didn't say anything. He just start making different hand signs preparing his own spell.
Hades moved his hand and around the two appeared a magic circles.
'An amatearsu 28 formula magic seal?! In an instant?!' Makarov thought shocked.
"You cannot beat me, kid" Hades said before magic circles made explosion
Makarov activated his own spell and protected himself from explosion but while he was concentrated on his spell Hades made more magic-chains and caught Makarov's feet with them. He swung his arms and the chains fallowed motion throwing Makarov trough the trees.
Makarov hit another tree and fall on the floor. He stood up and looked at Hades who made a gesture with his hand and another set of magic circles appeared around Makarov.
"Wh... What is this...?!" Makarov yelled in disbelief.
He looked at Hades only to see smug smile. He immediately crossed his arms in front of his chest and yelled "Maximum defense seal: THREE PILLAR GODS!"
Hades's smile only grew as he said in calm voice "Amaterasu 100 formula"
BOOOM!
Whole island shook from the explosion.
When the smoke cleared Hades smirked looking at barely standing figure of Makarov.
"As expected from the man I had hopes for. I can see now why were you able to support the guild for 48 whole years." Hades said smugly.
Makarov looked at Hades. His vision was blurry and it needed every last bit of his will power to stay standing. He started falling but stopped himself with shifting his feet.
"Hm?" Hades said and raised his eyebrow "Something wrong, kid?"
Makarov raised his head and glared at Hades. Blood flowing from his forehead down the face form cut on his forehead.
Hades started speaking "We've both grown old..."
"Ughh" Makarov let out a groan of pain.
"Here is the point where men who walked different paths meet..." Hades said.
Makarov finally being conscious enough to talk said "Y... you were a great master... You taught 'Harmony' to us... and led us on the proper path."
He took a breath and looked Hades in the eyes "What... happened?!"
Hades walked toward Makarov and looked back in his eyes. After few seconds of silence he raised his fist and hit Makarov in head causing him to hit the ground... hard.
Makarov looked at Hades blinking and trying to stay conscious.
Hades turned his back to Makarov and started walking away "'Magic' was originally born in darkness. The power was oppressed and feared. But gradually, 'Magic' became an everyday phenomenon, and a time when it could even be called human culture came. But tracking back the roots of 'Magic', when I arrived at Zeref..." he paused and turn his head slightly so that Makarov could see part of his face "I saw... what can be called the 'Essence of Magic'."
He turned his back to Makarov once again. By now Makarov looked like he was unconscious. Hades was wrong... Makarov's eyes snapped open and he jumped at Hades. In the blink of an eye Hades turned his head and fired a beam of magic that pierced Makarov right trough his stomach.
'It isn't... over yet... reach... the one who will inherit my will...' Makrov thought as he hit the ground half dead and unconscious.
**unknown location**
A hooded figure walked trough the desert. For some reason he stopped suddenly and looked to the left.
"What is... this feeling?" asked a certain lighting mage with lighting-like scar across his right eyes.
**back at Tenrou island- with Natsu and Wendy**
Natsu ran toward the camp thinking about Zeref. He unconsciously growled in frustration but immediately wanted to kick himself when Wendy asked worriedly "Natsu... Is something wrong?"
"It's nothing" he said not turning his head.
Natsu stopped suddenly and Wendy almost fell from his back.
"Natsu?" she asked but her answer came when glowing orbs fell from the sky and surrounded them. As soon as they touched the ground the orbs transformed into humans.
Wendy's eyes widened. There were at least two hundred men and every last one of them was a mage. She was still pretty exhausted and she surely wouldn't be able to fight with them. She looked at the enemy. They were all already in fighting stance, their weapons prepared.
She then felt being put gently on ground and looked at Natsu worriedly "Brother...?"
"You stay here. I'll take care of them" he said in monotone voice.
When he stepped toward them they took a step back. This pink haired teen in front of them was radiated with so much magic power that they were questioning themselves if it was even possible. Not to mention that his right side was covered in black and red scales and his slitted eyes were really unnerving.
They stood there for few second and then on unseen sign they all lunched themselves toward Natsu who didn't move one inch.
A second before they all hit him he said "Dragon slayer secret art: chaotic extinction: devil's trap!"
Underneath them appeared a pentagram with Natsu in the middle of it. On every point of pentagram formed five red pillars an magic shined on its lines forming a wall with at least hundred enemy mages inside the wall.
Natsu raised his hand and between those lines in pentagram magic shined before it exploded.
When explosion calmed down it only left Natsu standing in the middle of it. Ground on where the pentagram was was burned and cracked, dead forever. Wendy looked at him in disbelief. On the ground was piles of ashes that few moments ago were those mages. Remaining enemy mages took a step back in fear.
"He's too strong!" someone shouted and when they were about to run and man with red eyes and blond hair jumped in front of them.
"You're just too weak" he said and raised his hand with his palm facing them. Second later a black fire formed around them and the last thing you could here from them were their agonizing screams of pain.
He smiled madly at Natsu "You on the other hand seems like an worthy opponent"
Natsu glared at him "You killed your own comrades" he said coldly.
"So? You killed half of them too!" the man said laughing "And by the way that was one truly magnificent spell! You're a dragon slayer, right?"
Natsu now smiled creepily at the man who seemed confused about his smile. "Wrong"
Man raised his eyebrow confused "But you just said 'Dragon slayer secret art'"
Natsu chuckled madly confusing the man even more "True, true... I just use the spell I used while I was still a human"
Man seemed to be taken aback slightly at that statement but then laughed "And what are you now? A lizard?"
Natsu's eye twitched "No... but you'll be nothing more then ashes once I'm done with you"
Man laughed "That's funny! I mean.. you actually think you can beat me! There's no human that can beat me! HAHAHA!"
"Well as I said, I'm not human" Natsu said annoyed.
"Well then.. why don't you introduce yourself."
Natsu smirked "I'm sure you heard of me... Natsu Souleater, Sounds familiar?
Man's eyes widened. He heard about him, that's for sure. I mean who didn't? 'Black dragon' of Fairy tail. Man who single-handedly destroyed countless dark guilds, killed countless Zeref's demons... the rumors say that he even killed dragons.
Man nodded.
"I'm glad you heard of me. But I'll still introduce myself properly. My name is Natsu Souleater, son of dragon king Acnologia. Chaos dragon of Fairy tail" Natsu said smiling his famous wicked smile.
Man gulped. So that rumor was also true... He truly did turned into a dragon. Soon Man smiled widely. This man is a real challenge!
"You maybe are a dragon but you'll never be able to defeat a power of god. I'm flame god slayer Zancrow!" Zancrow shouted with smug smile.
Natsu's eyes flashed with excitement. "Then lets see what can you do, flame god slayer Zancrow. The last god slayer I fought was Lilith and she was pretty good if I may say. I needed to use my demon form to beat her."
"Lilith? Who's that?" Zancrow asked raising his eyebrow.
To his surprise Natsu looked at him disappointingly "So you're not a real god slayer, right? You weren't thought by a god?"
Zancrow burst in laugh "God?! You can't be serious! Gods don't teach humans! That's just stupid!"
"You're the one that's stupid" Natsu said glaring.
Zancrow narrowed his eyes "Who are you calling stupid? Lizard?"
**somewhere else on the island**
A beautiful, pale-skinned woman with dark purple hair and brown eyes stood on the shore. She wear a battle suit that is sleeveless and skin-tight, being divided into 3 sections; the main body of the suit and the legs of the suit from the thigh down are both white with black patterning, with the space between them being a deep brown. The entire suit is trimmed with gold patterns, and she sports a matching white headband.
Next to her stood a teen girl. She has short, pink hair and bright green eyes. She wears some sort of gold wing-like headgear around her ears. Her uniform is a tight, purple leotard with brownish thigh-high boots that have white stripes at the top. Over her uniform, she wears a red cape with a golden lining around the edges. The cape's left-shoulder portion has the symbol of Grimoire Heart in white.
"Finally Meredy! We found him! Zeref is here!" said purple haired women who couldn't be older then 19.
"I'm so happy for you..." Meredy said and looked at the women next to her and smiled brightly
"Ultear"
End of chapter 37.
Next chapter: Natsu vs. Zancrow
Thanks for all amazing review and I hope to read more of them. I'm so sorry I didn't update sooner and I'm sorry to say that I don't know when will I be able to update again. Most likely it will be in a weak or two but I can't promise anything. Anyway... Ultear showed up, Zancrow will fight with Natsu and Makarov is left in the forest bleeding! I can't wait to write new chapter but that stupid school just won't give me any time to do so. I hope you liked this chapter and if there's anything you wanna know I'll be happy to answer your questions. Please review and thanks for reading :)