Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima
Hope you enjoy it's a long one!
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Natsu and Lucy sat in the middle of the camp eating, it had been 5 minutes since they had left the tent Erza, Gray and Happy were in.
Lucy yawned before blinking a few times trying not to fall asleep, "Tired?" came the question from the man next to her, none of the villagers were awake yet, the sun had just risen, and Lucy had had no sleep since yesterday "A bit," she admitted groggily, Natsu sighed from next to her, he ate the rest of breakfast and just after he had finished it off he felt a weight press down on his left shoulder.
Turning his head to the left slightly he saw Lucy fast asleep leaning on his shoulder, he sighed before reequipping a blanket and draping it over her, "You better not drool," after a few more minuets, Natsu's thoughts drifted back to the rage potion residue they had found that Sherry had taken, 'There's no way she would take a rage potion willingly, those things are mini death warrants in a bottle' Natsu rubbed his forehead, 'I'll have to go the temple to see if I can find out what's going on, otherwise this could get out of hand'.
Suddenly he was knocked out of his thoughts by Erza who bonked him on the head roughly with the flat end of her sword, "NATSU," she whisper shouted at him, "Huh, oh hello Erza," Natsu said politely, his thoughts being discarded to the back of his head, "So Natsu, Gray has told me your situation, and although when we return you will be severally punished we will be completing this mission," She said crossing her arms as she sat down at the table laying her sword down across it, Natsu sighed pointing at the blade she had laid across the table, "I assume that conversation went well?" Natsu questioned, pointing to the specks of blood dotting the sharp edge of her sword, she sighed herself picking up the blade, "Yes I wasn't the most agreeable to begin with, Gray was set on doing this mission as you can see, so here we are... I could do with something to clean the blade with though," she said looking round for something to clean the blood off with, "Here take these," Natsu said reequipping a handful of napkins, Erza stared at the pile mildly surprised before looking back up at him.
"Gray really was telling the truth," She said accepting them and proceeding to clean the blade, "I assume he told you quite a bit then," Natsu replied resting his elbows on the table and raising his hands, resting his chin on them, "Yes, about you and him meeting all those years ago...although I really wouldn't call it a meeting, under the circumstances," she said cleaning the last of the blood of the blade and reequipping it back to her realm.
Lucy shifted on Natsu's arm mumbling in her sleep as she did so, Erza looked at the two sat as they were and spoke, "You came on this mission not knowing what to expect, yet you say you protect her…what if you happened upon an enemy that neither of you could defeat…coming on this mission was foolish what if she'd have been hurt or worse what would you do?" she crossed her arms and sighed closing her eyes, thinking she would have stunned him into silence with her small rant she began to stand up.
That was when she stopped when she heard him chuckle, she opened her eyes to see him leaned over the table slightly, his hands intertwined with each other, "Forgive me for laughing..." he looked up at her, his eye's looking directly into her own "But it is good to see she has made such dependable friends in such a short time," this time Natsu stood up, lifting the Lucy into a princess hold "I think I'm going to go get some shut-eye for a few hours…and those bags under your eyes tells me you should do the same," and with that, he took her over to one of the empty tents.
Erza looked towards where he had walked off and stood still for a few seconds before smiling to herself 'yeah friends' with that she herself returned to the tent where Gray was to rest for a few hours before moving on.
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Natsu placed Lucy down on one of the cots, standing up to full height he tapped into his magic, scanning the surroundings of the tent, he began to place seals on the surfaces, defensive and offensive spells, just in case anyone were to infiltrate the villages encampment, "Hmm, I could do a flash freeze…" he put his finger to his chin seemingly remembering the last time he did the spell on someone, grimacing slightly he just placed a simple sleep enchantment, "The last person I used that on doesn't have their arms anymore…or leg's".
After around 30 minutes of placing enchantment's he listened in on Erza's tent, hearing the snores of two people and a cat he opened his tent flap and moved outside the village, "Okay, now to find out who the island's resident drug dealer is," and with that he teleported to where he last found Gray, 'Judging by what they said yesterday, they must sleep during the day' he began to try and sense anyone around or nearby his location, not feeling anyone he knew his assumption was correct, he proceeded down the temple, reaching the cavern where Deliora was he was about to approach the demon covered in ice, stopping his foot inches away from an alarm enchantment, "this is high level…higher than what that Leon fella could of ever of hoped to have, his three lackeys couldn't have done this either…" Just then an idea popped into his head, he took a step forwards activating the silent alarm, 'My guess is whoever placed that down is who I'm looking for' know all he had to do was wait for whoever it was to approach him.
With time to kill he approached the demon and placed his hand on the ice at the base of the statue, activating his magic he let it flow through the ice, almost as if searching for something, his eyes widened slightly "The spell…it will be finished by tonight," his hand remained for a few seconds, as he was about to remove it, he felt something else, something was reaching out, all of a sudden his mind went white, he blinked rapidly, "Fuck I hate brain freeze," he removed his hand of the ice and placed it on his head, that's when he suddenly felt the world shift almost, the texture under his feet changed, the air and wind changed around him.
He opened his eyes, letting them widen slightly as he saw where he was, "Well this Isn't the cavern anymore," instead he was standing in a snow blizzard, a small cabin lay just within his eyesight, and apparently it had occupants who were causing quite the ruckus, though the wind from the blizzard was distorting it too much to make heads or tails out of it.
He sighed rubbing his forehead, "Been a while since I've randomly been summoned into another dimension," with that said he walked towards the cabin, getting to the door, he sniffed, trying to see if he could tell how many people were in there, "Two people…one human…and a demon," he squinted his eyes slightly, ready to break down the door, before he heard a particularly loud shout, "YOU FUCKING CHEATED!" came a female voice, and a particularly angry one, Natsu stopped with his fist inches away from the door, "That voice…" he turned around rapidly, placing his finger on his temple he sent out a wave of magic, trying to decipher where he was, his eye's widened as he realised where that was, he slowly let his hands fall to the side before he began chuckling, his laughter got louder and louder before he turned around and opened the door.
Inside the two occupants stared at the door, their game of cards dissipating, the candles in the cabin all being blown out, except for a few at the back of the room, they both looked at the door baffled, one a lizardry looking man with two horns sticking out his forehead and a thick tail coming protruding from his back, he stared at Natsu, his mouth agape, the other a woman with short dark purple hair, her black irises wide as could be, after a few seconds the man's laughter calmed down.
"Hey Ur…are you sure you didn't put anything in that tea this morning," the demon said, "No lizard face…that's another human being," Ur said shaking her head the demon, slowly she stood up, the demon doing the same, Natsu's face was still hidden from view they watched as his hand went to his head and heard him sigh, "I need to stop putting my hand's on things," with that he walked into the cabin, the demon had no reaction, not recognizing the man, Ur on the other hand, "Wh-what…Natsu?" she said walking towards him slowly, "Is…it really you?" she asked as she got withing arm's length of him, Natsu smiled at her softly, "Yeah it's me," he said letting his hand fall to the side of his body, Ur's head fell before she whispered something "Good," Natsu could of very easily dodged it, but he felt he had it coming.
A loud slap echoed around the small dimension they were in, a red hand mark on Natsu's face, the smile still on his face, "Yeah I deserve that one," he said chuckling slightly, Ur was staring at the man, her face red with anger and several tick marks dotted around her forehead, "That was for avoiding me for sixteen year's!" Natsu rubbed his cheek as Ur shouted at him, "I even had a kid while you were avoiding me, and then had to take care of two brats…"she looked at him before turning her back to him "Whatever, not like you took care of me for twelve years and when you left I didn't even get a goodbye before you up and left…" all of sudden she turned around and slapped him again, "OH WAIT YOU DID!" with that, she finally calmed down slightly, Natsu hadn't stopped smiling at her since he had first seen her "It's good to see you, Ur," all of a sudden she crashed into him, burying her face into his chest "Its good to see you too…Dad,".
The demon who had been sitting watching the spectacle with a slight amusement froze with those words, "Eh…eh…EHHHHHHHHH!".
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"So let me get this straight," the demon said slowly as it tried to process everything it had been told, "You found popsicle here," gesturing to Ur who was sitting down in the chair, Natsu stood against the wall behind her, "as a kid, and took care of her, taught her magic…and after sixteen years, left!?" Deliora asked too which both parties nodded.
"Right, right makes sense…apart from all the stuff that doesn't…like all of it!" Deliora shouted at the two, "I mean look at you," he said gesturing to Natsu "You look younger than her," Ur looked behind her at Natsu, "He never did age…you still haven't fixed that? I thought it was some kind of curse, you always said that when I asked anyw-," that was until she was interrupted by Natsu, "Anyway, So Ur…care to tell me where and how you learned the Iced shell spell…and why you ever…ever thought it was a good idea to use it?" he asked her as he towered over her, "Aha well yo-you see my student at the time, Gray," she looked down at the floor as she spoke "he really didn't like that demon over there, so I thought by killing that said demon, he'd be free of all that grief in his life…I knew what it was like to lose Natsu, after you left, I had a kid but eventually, she got sick…she was taken away by the bureau of magic development or something like that…but they couldn't save her…I lost her Natsu," Tears fell to the ground like raindrops "and I wasn't going to let Gray's loss be in vein-like mine!" she looked up and smiled as tears flowed from her eyes "But turns out I-I really don't like bein dead," with that she fell forwards of her chair, only to be caught by Natsu, "You've been really brave Ur," as he looked her in the eye's the tears turned into wails, "You can let it all out now," and so she did, years of torture of being stuck in the same prison as the thing that killed her, after a few minutes her tears quieted down into quiet snore, Natsu picked her up and carried her over to the nearby bed.
"Yah know, I've been waiting nearly nine years for someone to appear, I knew it was possible…but to see it actually come true…your body will be a perfect host for my soul," Natsu turned around to see Deliora stood up smiling at him, "That's a sudden shift in attitude," came the comment from Natsu, "You see, when she's awake its like she almost in control of this dimension, after all it is her spell," the demon began to pace the room, the evil glint in its eye never disappearing, "So when she awake, if I act up, she can just make me vanish, obviously I'll still be here, but it just gets boring…and I hate it, I can't do anything while she sleeps either, she has some kind of defence while she sleeps," the demon demonstrated by throwing a fork at her, as it approached it simply bounced of an invisible shield, Deliora then looked Natsu dead in the eye "But now I can control you, her adoptive father, and I'll laugh as she watches hopelessly as her own father kills her hehehe she won't see it coming…and then I'll be free of this prison, and continue my rightful quest to kill Zeref," he looked up slowly and began laughing manically, suddenly his head snapped down at Natsu "So be prepared to die," with that the demon rushed Natsu, swinging wildly with it's right hand, only for it to be caught by Natsu, the shockwave breaking all the windows in the room and blowing out all the candles, with his bangs covering his eyes, he spoke.
"She's been suffering in here for all those years because of you…and yet here you stand ready to finish her off at the drop of a hat," he looked up slightly, he hadn't been this angry in a long time, the sclera of his eye's turning black and his iris's beginning to glow a blood red "That really pisses me off," Natsu bent the demon's arm inward on itself, several bones snapping in the process, "Kughh" the demon grimaced as it felt its bones break in on themselves.
As Natsu let go of the arm of the demon, it bent over blood pouring from the open joints "FUCK," it groaned in pain, "What are you?" It asked looking up at the man, only for Natsu to raise his fist and punch the demon in the chest like a jackhammer, destroying the wall to the cabin, somehow not waking Ur up.
Natsu approached the demon who lay in the snow, its chest caved in, the breathing from Deliora shallow "Allow me to show you, whose daughter you fucked with," Natsu grasped the demons head, and all of sudden Deliora found himself in a world stretching infinitely.
Water up to his ankles was what surrounded him, "Whe-where am I?" it asked looking round frantically, he spun round and round looking for something anything, when all of sudden he heard clapping behind him, apparently from thin air Natsu was sat in a chair, a throne almost, "I remember when he created you all those years ago, he never meant for you to get loose, but when he found out you had, he simply shrugged and said it wasn't his problem anymore…I always hated that about him," Natsu stood up and approached the demon, Deliora fell to their knees as he approached 'How didn't I feel this when he arrived this…evil…this demon is like nothing I have ever seen' "His nonchalantness for the loss of life is why I left, I escaped just like you had Deliora,".
"But that's not what I'm here about, the only reason you two are still here is that she knows that you aren't dead enough yet, you still have power left in that body of yours…you've known for a while she's been sapping you constantly of power, Tis how the Iced shell spells works, but her sapping away your power is like if I dropped a bottle of water in the ocean…so to speed it up I'm going to make that bottle of water…a tad bigger," as he said that Deliora felt his power vanishing hundreds of times faster than it had been, he screamed in agony as it seeped from out of him, his body was quickly becoming shrivelled, "Goodbye Deliora!" As he finished his shout, Natsu felt the last of Deliroa's power seep from him, his body turning to dust, and after a flash of white Natsu was back in the snow, looking around the storm had cleared and a beautiful mountain range had appeared, he approached the broken cabin opening the door even though there was a massive hole in the wall next to it.
Walking in he saw Ur lay on her bed, awake, she smiled as he walked over to her, her face was pale almost as white as snow outside, she coughed before she spoke "So," her voice was rough and quiet "You wanna tell me why I feel like death but at the same time I feel the best I ever have?" she asked smiling up at him, "Your free now Ur," he said kneeling down next to her, "So it really isn't reversible," she said looking up at him her smile wavering," Natsu looked at her, his heart breaking for the millionth time in his life and shook his head, Ur smiled softly looking to the wall away from Natsu "Ahh well, I had a good run, may have been trapped in here for nine years but…I enjoyed my life," she chuckled "Not many people can say that huh?" she looked at Natsu, his eye's widened as she looked at him, no tears, no frown, just one content smile, "I'm ready, Natsu," Natsu nodded his soft smile not once wavering, he placed his hand on top of hers.
"Just one thing, I have two students out there, basically my own kids, Gray who I mentioned and Lyon…can you take care of them…you are their grandad after all," she said looking at him, tilting her head slightly, they both chuckled before Natsu nodded "Of course, they're both fighting each other at the moment, but I'll set em straight," Ur beamed him an even bigger smile "Goodbye, Dad".
As she said that her eyes fluttered closed, and she fell back onto the pillow, her pulse flatlining, "Goodbye Ur," another flash of white consumed him and he found himself heavily panting, his knees and hands soaked in water, Natsu slowly looked up to see the ice had disappeared along with the demon, a lone tear fell from his eye, followed by more and more "GOD FUCKING DAMMIT," he slammed his hand into the water, his hand connecting with the ground as well causing a small earthquake.
"What in the world!" came a shout from behind him, looking into the water Natsu noticed his eyes were still black and red, allowing them to return to normal he stood up to full height and turned around to face the person he was originally here for, the person was dressed in a tribal Esq gear with a mask, the man's eyes were blacked out by black eye holes in the mask, long green locks fell from his head as he perched himself on top of the cliff, "Your one of those fairy tail wizards…where is Deliora?" he asked as an orb of glass floated nearby his head, "It's gone," Natsu simply replied, he ran a hand through hair, slowly calming himself down.
"What do you mean gone? Something like that can't just disappear," his tone was gruff, and he was obviously angry, Natsu looked up at the man before beginning to smell the air around the man on the cliff…or the her on the cliff 'there's the smell of the Datura plant, so this person is definitely the culprit but,' "Why do you have perfume on?" the man on the cliff stood still for a few seconds before a tick mark appeared on their forehead "I-I don't have anything of the sort on!" they shouted down at the very confused Natsu, who himself just simply sighed.
"Right look, that can wait till later, I have a few questions I want to ask you," Natsu shouted up, unsheathing his sword from his sheath, "And honestly I could use a quick pick me up, so please don't come quietly," he bent down slightly waiting on the answer, the woman…or man on the cliff simply grinned, "I'm afraid I won't be answering any question today," and with that the man through the orb at Natsu, only for Natsu to duck under it, with orb past him Natsu ran at the man, jumping up onto where they were stood he ran at the man, he stopped mid-run as the orb flashed in front of him, obviously trying to hit him as he ran, but as he stopped so did the orb, it stopped just in front of Natsu and flew right at him, hitting him the chest.
Expecting the man to be pushed back Zalty prepared his orb for another hit, that was until he noticed the pink-haired man hadn't moved an inch 'This one isn't like the cold emperor and his lackey's I might have to go up a level at this rate, "Seems you aren't as weak as the rest of the people on this island…this should be fun," Zalty laughed crazily as he began trying to summon the ball back to his side, that was until he noticed it was in the grasp of the man.
Natsu with a hold of the orb pushed his right hand out and crushed the ball, incinerating it with his magic at the same time, "I'm afraid there goes your only weapon," he said looking at the ashes he had created, letting them fall from his hand, "I've had enough for now, and I want some answers," Natsu put his sword back in his sheath the wind blowing Zaltys hair back his hands going into his pockets, "Kekekeke," came Zaltys mocking laughter, "I'm afraid you're going to need to do more than that to stop me," as he spoke the orb Natsu had destroyed seemed to patch itself back together, Natsu's eye's widened as he watched it reform itself.
With the orb back in the palm of Zalty's hand, he looked back at Natsu to see the man standing still his hands still in his pockets, "That magic you got there…" Zalty made a surprised face before smirking at that man again "Hohoho, you know of my magic, it's pretty good isn't it," Zalty juggled the ball in his hands and watched the man in front of him slowly put his head down, "How interesting," came Natsu's voice, "Wha-," just as Zalty was about to attack the ball in his hand turned back to ash again…just like it was before he had turned it back, "Arc of time is a fascinating branch of magic, and a very powerful branch of it too," Natsu looked up smirking at him dangerously, "And I know a thing or two about it," as Natsu said that the orb slammed into Zalty having transformed again.
Zalty was sent flying back before flipping in the air, only to have to catch his orb as it was thrown at him, catching it in his hand he looked up at Natsu, a cocky smirk on his face, "You know what never mind, I could do with some more fighting," Unsheathing his sword, he ran at the man.
'Shit' throwing the orb up he cast a spell, "Luminous Minutes" activating the spell, the orb multiplied by ten and flew at Natsu, "That's a good one, I haven't mastered the magic branch myself but I know a spell or two, flipping and spinning through the air he avoided each orb, landing on the floor he sliced the first 3 in half, and watched as they fizzled out of existence, "There's a lot of em I'll give you that," Letting his fist ignite he swung his fist in an arch, creating an arch of fire which destroyed half of the remaining orbs, the rest were cut in half, that was when Zalty suddenly rushed Natsu.
"A long-range fighter should never come close…and I thought you were gonna be a good fight," Natsu's said almost downcast, but he didn't let his guard down, he could see the beaming smile on Zalty's face, as he drew closer, a sword of energy suddenly appeared from the hand of the attacker, "How do you know my magic?" the man asked furious, Natsu put his sword on his shoulder as he shrugged, "and pray tell why I would tell you?" that was before Natsu tilted his head slightly, "At least take me out to dinner first," with a loud cry from Zalty he rushed Natsu again, this time as he attacked he alternated between his orb and his sword, but everything he through at Natsu was being blocked or parried, 'He's playing with me!' having enough he backed up slightly and put away his energy blade, summoning the orb to his side "Fine you know what, ill play ball," with that the magic around Zalty changed drastically, now nearly three times as powerful as it was before, "Luminous Minutes" Unlike last time where only around ten were created, hundreds of glass balls surrounded Natsu from all sides, "Ahh that one will be a bit difficult to dodge,".
As he spoke, they all flew at him, and as Zalty watched Natsu succumb to hit after hit from the orbs, he eventually pulled them all out again and pushed them all in at once crushing Natsu under the weight of all the orbs.
Breathing heavily, Zalty took off his mask and bent over, trying to get his breath back, "This is the last damn time I do anything for that smug bastard, when I get back to the mainland I swear to god," just as he was about to turn around he felt a cold piece of metal press against his neck, "You know I really needed to let off some steam so I appreciate the fight," the sword on his neck lightly dragged across his skin as Natsu moved around him so he was stood in front of the man, "So the mainland huh, so you report to someone other than Lyon, interesting…so tell me was your plan for drugging Sherry with the rage potion?" Natsu asked, Zalty's eyes widened slightly before squinting slightly, almost scrutinising Natsu, "Your very interesting," the frown on Zaltys face turned to a smile, a wicked one at that "I'm afraid my goals as of now are beyond what you can understand," he smirked knowing he had the power here, "Your quite powerful for a lowly fairy tail mage, just who are you," Zalty licked his lips as he stared at him, suddenly he felt the sword poke into his throat, "I'm the one asking question's here," the blood began to drip from the sword, "Who are you and what are you doing on this island!" Natsu shouted at the wide-eyed mage.
All of a sudden, a shout came from the mouth of the cave "NATSU!" Natsu looked towards the voice to see Gray running towards him, he was a bit roughed up, less than he was last night but still, "Gray," all of sudden Natsu was slammed into by the orb from Zalty off balance slightly Zalty darted from the grasp of Natsu the sword cutting more of his neck, he then darted out of the cavern as Natsu watched him, 'I placed a tracker spell into his bloodstream when I stabbed him so that's sorted' "Leave him, I got all I needed anyway," Zalty looked back for the briefest of seconds throwing Natsu a confused look before continuing to run, "Natsu you've been gone since 10 am, where've you been?" Just then Gray looked up and noticed Deliora was gone, "WHERE'S DELIORA?" Gray shouted running past Natsu, he jumped down into the water and fell to his knees "Ur," Natsu jumped down and stood next to him "The demons gone Gray, it can never come back…she made sure it could never hurt you again Gray," Gray looked up at Natsu tears streaming down his face "N-no but you don't understand, Ur was sti-still alive, she was being kept alive by the spell, she-she" Natsu knelt down next to the boy, "She used the last of her life to kill the demon off Gray, she's been fighting the entire time she's been in there…she's one hell of mage," All of a sudden loud footsteps could be heard coming from the entrance of the cavern, "Ur…all along was fighting the monster?" came the voice of Lyon Vastia, his knee's buckled as he fell to them, Natsu and Gray jumped up to where he was lay, "All along ive been a fool, I couldn't see that she was fighting, while I tried to stop her," all of a sudden he burst into tears "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Ur," Gray walked over to him and picked him up off the floor, "She really was the best teacher Gray," he said looking at the water from the ice as it seeped into the rocks, "Yeah she really was,".
Natsu looked at the two brothers as they both supported one another, "Don't you worry Ur, those boys are doing just fine on their own," Natsu also watched as the water seeped into the rocks smiling sadly, "Natsu!" came the shout from Lucy, her and Happy walked over to them, with Erza stood in the back watching on
"Hey Lucy got a little sidetracked, what time is it?" he asked rubbing the back of his neck, "It's like 7 pm now, its dark out," she said, "Jeez I was out for that long huh," Lucy looked at him weirdly before sighing "Anyway so turns out the cultists-" "Were all from village's that were destroyed by Deliora and were all helping Leon to try and defeat the Demon," Natsu finished, Lucy looked at him weirdly "Sorry I caught on yesterday, they all had very specific accents that are native to places that were destroyed by the demon," Lucy stood there shocked before shaking herself out of it, "I forget your this smart sometimes," she sighed and walked towards Erza.
"Hey, Lucy…" Natsu shouted over to her as she walked towards Erza, "Congratulations on completing your first S-class quest," with that he turned around himself and headed for the entrance to the temple.
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Just before the entrance, Sherry Yuka and Toby sat with their heads in their hands, "Uh Natsu?" Yuka said standing up "Us three would like to apologise for what we've done, we've already been to the villagers and apologised and now we beg for your forgiveness," all three of them bowed, Natsu sweat dropped before pulling out a bottle of whiskey, "Yeah-yeah, no worries," he said waving his free hand in the air.
"We're going to go back to Fiore and re-join are guild Lamia scale," Yuka admitted, all 3 looked back up at Natsu who took a swig and spoke, "Good for you three just don't try summon anymore demon's in your free time kay," and with that Natsu walked towards the entrance, "He's very chill," Sherry said staring at his back as he walked on "Dreamy almost," slight love hearts in her eyes, Yuka and Toby simply sweat dropped.
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When Erza and the rest of the groups came to the surface, they all returned to the village, which was repaired somehow.
"What in the blazes," Yuka said looking at the village, "This was Zalty, his magic could return things to a state before they were damaged," came the voice of Leon who was still being supported by Gray.
"He was a mysterious one," Sherry said with her index finger on her chin "He was also drugging you all but whatever," Natsu whispered under his breath, Lucy hearing him slightly looked at him wide-eyed to which he gestured he would tell her later.
Just then Erza walked in front of the group, "This mission isn't over yet, we still need to help the villagers turn back into humans," Erza said marching into the village, the rest stayed back and stood still for a few seconds before Natsu turned to them "So you didn't tell her about what the villagers actually are?" Natsu questioned Gray, Lucy and Happy, they laughed nervously before shaking their heads, "What are the villagers?" Leon asked, and by the curious look on Sherry, Yuka, and Toby's faces he could tell they wanted to know, sighing he walked into the village, "C'mon I'll explain it to everyone, so I don't have to say it twice,".
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After a few minutes of explaining to the villagers and Erza, she actually agreed with what Natsu was saying, "So…how do we...well get back our memories," Moka asked the group, Natsu and Erza looked at each other before Natsu smiled, "I'm going to destroy the moon," Natsu raised his hand up and pointed it at the purple moon, put his fingers into a gun shape "Bang" a huge shockwave emanated from Natsu's fingers as a bolt of fire raced into the air, higher and higher when all of a sudden It hit something, purple cracks appeared in the sky as what looked to be a dome cracked over the island.
"What is this!" Moka shouted as he looked into the sky, "The moon didn't shatter, it was the sky!" Lucy said as she felt remnants of the dome fall down onto the villagers like snow, "What the hell was that?" Gray asked, only for both him and Lucy to be hit over the head, "That was the miasma, don't you remember me telling you?" both her and Gray thought back to the conversation, (Past Natsu "It can create a miasma that solidifies in the upper atmosphere and if let alone causes side effects,") "Ohhh yeah, I remember now," both said at the same time, Natsu simply sighed and took out a bottle of alcohol, "I need something stronger,".
Suddenly all the villagers were engulfed in a bright glow, and instead of changing back to humans like they all thought they were, they had all regained their memories.
"These demons have the ability to turn into humans, they simply thought that it was their original form," Erza said as she watched them all gain their bearings.
All of a sudden, a new voice appeared "I'm glad I left it in your hands," came the voice of Boba, Lucy and Gray went wide-eyed as they watched the man who took them to the island walk towards them, "Thank you, wizards!" Lucy Gray and Happy jumped in surprise, "GHOST!" they both shouted, "You're that old sailor!" Gray said pointing at the Bobo.
And for the second time tonight Gray and Lucy were bonked on the head, Happy included this time, "Can you three just gain any slither of common sense for five minutes…please!" Natsu said as he took another swig from his bottle.
"Bo…Bobo?" Moka was shaking as he watched his thought dead son smile along with the villagers, "But you- we," Boba shook his hands as if to disagree, "You really think a stab wound to the chest could kill me," he said chuckling.
"But you vanished from the boat!" Gray said still confused, all of a sudden wings unfolded from Bobo's back as he flew up, "Sorry couldn't tell you the truth back then, I was afraid of the villagers, they all thought they were human!" he said smirking down at the duo.
"Bobo," said a teary-eyed Moka, all of sudden he popped his wings and flew up to him "BOBO!" he flew into said man and hugged him tightly, "Its good to see your back to normal," Bobo said chuckling lightly, just then the rest of the villager's wings expanded and flew up to celebrate, "An island of demons huh…" Erza said to the group, Natsu watched on as everyone one flew about happily, their black wings flapping in the wind, "God I miss flying like that," he whispered to himself, "What was that Natsu?" Erza asked thinking he spoke, "Huh…nothing," he said smiling softly at her.
"Were having a celebration tonight, a demon celebration!"
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Later that night, they were all sat around eating, Gray was being hounded by demon girls as he sat down, all telling him how cool he was, Natsu looked over from his seat next to Lucy and Erza, "Too be young again," he said drowning his sorrows in alcohol, "This demon stuff is good," Natsu said finishing off his…eighth bottle, Moka laughed as he watched him get another bottle, "This is my type of guy, just one of them is enough to put a cow to sleep," he said with rosy cheeks and chuckled.
"C'mon Natsu you must have girls flocking to you," came the voice of Bobo, "Hehe you'd think," he said starting another bottle, "You must have had a girlfriend in the past surely?" Lucy asked from her spot in between the two, Natsu only looked at her, before looking at the bottle "Yeah the past," he said taking a deep swig.
As the night went on Yuka and Sherry joined the party, apologising for the third time according to the villagers, Natsu walked off as he had sensed someone watching.
Up in the tree's near the village sat Zalty, his orb being used as a viewing lacrima, "Did you see that?" he asked into the lacrima, "Why did you restore the village?" the voice asked back, Zalty smirked putting his thumb up, "Call it a gesture of good will," the voice sighed before speaking, "Still, Fairy Tail is far more powerful than I anticipated…and this Natsu, he sounds interesting… let's just hope they don't stand in our way," removing the mask again Zalty's appearance shifted, instead of a middle aged man stood a young women, with dark purple hair, with the orb in hand she stood up and cut it off, "Yes, it would be an issue," she turned around only to come face to face with who they were just talking about, but he was very-very-very drunk "Wow Ish musht be very-very drunk," he said looking at his bottle, "Now im sheeing dead people," Ultear went wide eyed as she heard this 'Who does he think I am?' Ultear stood still, she was confused as she could be at the moment, Natsu moved and sat down on the tree branch sighing and taking another swig "Ur, I really am shorry I couldn't shave you," he hiccupped, "You were the cutest little thing when you were a kid when I found you fighting off the bear I knew you were gonna go plashes, then you were kind of a bwitch as a teenager, but aren't they all," he took another swig, "Then I left you, I didn't leave because I didn't like you anymore, you'll always be my daughter…well one of them anyway," he let a lone teardrop slide down his face again.
"Then when I shaw you again twoday," he hiccuped again "I was so-so-so proud, you defeated one of Zeref's most powerful demons all on your own…well he's top twenty on my list anyway but still," he took another huge sip from the bottle emptying it, "I bet your daughter is jwust like you…the magic bureau huh, I'll look into for you," he looked back at Ultear who was shocked still, a single tear drop fell from her face, "He-hey Ur don't cry…remember that song I always used to sing to you…you wh-whe…" and with that, he fell off the tree and to the ground fast asleep.
Ultear didn't move for five minutes, only staring down at what apparently was her mother's father…which would make him her grandfather… "No-no-no, that's just not possible…he spoke about the demon of Zeref like he knew all of them…am I someone Granddaughter!" she mentally "And what about the magic bureau…what is happening!" she whisper shouted at herself, biting her nails, she was broke out of her thoughts by a shout, "Natsu!" came the voice of Lucy, "Nats-…jeez you shouldn't of drank that much," Lucy summoned Virgo and asked her to carry him back to the village, which she gladly did.
Ultear watched as they walked away, "I need to think about some stuff,"
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So the longest chapter I've ever written nearly 7k words, let me know what you think and enjoy!