"speaking"

"thinking"

On with the story

Bluenote Stinger stood in the borders of Magnolia with a stoic face as he just stands there and unmoving

"you finally come" Bluenote said as he sees Natsu walking towards him while wearing Enryuo Yoroi on

The young fire mage made his way towards Bluenote before taking a stop

"if you had been late a minute longer, this medicine would be gone forever" Bluenote said while holding the vial in hand

"how do I know that it's not a fake? So that you can get me to come here and get my hopes up" Natsu said as glowing red eyes appeared in his helmet's visor

"Hmph! Do you believe me or not, it doesn't matter to me" Bluenote said dropping the vial to the ground as it breaks "females are weak and they deserve death and die just like worthless maggots"

"you are mad" Natsu said before flames rages around his fists "I'll make you pay with your life for what you've done…I will destroy you"

"let us see if you can" Bluenote said with a smirk before Natsu appeared in front of him and sends a flaming punch to his face hard


In the hospital.

Éclair and the others laid on their bed, their fever didn't go down nor was their suffocating lungs

"this is troubling" Atlas said sensing the girl's rising body heat "I am afraid that this virus…might even be more deadly than that of in the past"

"hang in there, Cana-chwan" Gildarts said while holding Cana's hand "you'll get better and once you do, I'll get you the best wine in Crocus that they can ever offer!"

Atlas sighs as he prays that his nephew will come back with the possible cure


"Raaah!" Natsu sends a fury of flaming fists as Bluenote's face before sending him flying to the sky with an uppercut. He soon appeared above Bluenote before hammering him down to the ground in a large crash

Natsu hammers his fist together before a sphere of flames soon rages around in between his hand

"Karyu no!" Natsu lifts his hands up as the flaming sphere charges up even more before growing even larger "Koen!"

Natsu throws the flaming sphere down as it crashed to the ground before creating a large explosion

A giant hole was made as Bluenote stood within it

"this is it? This is the power of the brat who bested Zancrow, Rustyrose, and Azuma?" Bluenote stated before his face went angry "what a weakling!"

The ground shatters and breaks as a powerful magic force arises from Bluenote

"I had my hopes up for this?! Don't fuck with me!" Bluenote exclaimed as rocks started to float up in the air

Natsu looks at Bluenote and his rising magic power as lightning started to strike down everywhere

"his magic power is rising" Natsu thought before seeing Bluenote turns to look at him

"Fall down!" Bluenote shouted as he swings his hands up before down, causing a powerful gravity force that pulls Natsu down and crash to the ground

CRASH!

Natsu grunted a bit as he got back up before the gravity force pushed him down even further

"you disappoint me, maggot" Bluenote said standing in front of Natsu who couldn't get up "i don't know why the old Geezer deemed you as such an obstacle but you're nothing but a maggot! A worthless and pathetic maggot!"

"I've been called worse" Natsu said as he lifts his head up before his eyes glowed red behind his helmet's visor

"fall down!" Bluenote exclaimed as the gravity pressure increased on Natsu, pushing him further down even more

"gaaaaahh!" Natsu shouted out in pain as he got pushed deeper into the ground even more than before


Dan stayed by Meredy's side as the little girl rests on her bed

Before long, Meredy started coughing hard as she looks to be in pain

"Meredy-chan?!" Dan exclaimed seeing Meredy's condition as the child started to cry out in pain and so were the other children in the room "Meredy-chan! Hang in there!"

Soon, doctors and nurses came in as they tried their best to calm the sick children down

Dan watched a doctor went to Meredy's side as the child cried in pain while coughing non stop

"Big boss, please hurry" Dan said as he prayed for Meredy's safety


Natsu was in deep ground as Bluenote stood over him

"sink in the ground like the maggot you are!" Bluenote stated before he turns around to walk away

Bluenote takes a few steps away but soon stopped as he turns and sees Natsu climbed out of the hole

"still crawling, huh?" Bluenote said looking at Natsu

"i'm still breathing, aren't i?" Natsu said as he stands up straight before punching his fists together

"no one has ever got back up after receiving numerous gravity push to the earth" Bluenote said "you're the first"

"first for everything" Natsu stated as his plate slides open and reveals the young man having a smirk

"now I see why that old geezer deemed you as trouble" Bluenote stated "but I will be getting rid of you this moment"

"so soon, huh?" Natsu said while closing his eyes "well, I can't beat you as I am now. So why bother fight anymore"

"accepting your fate, huh?" Bluenote said before he positions his hands to the side before bringing them forward and a black energy sphere started to charge up "let's see if you can fly!"

"before that, mind telling me on what's really the antidote to the disease you spread?" Natsu asked "as a man's dying wish"

"I usually don't care but since you're a one of a kind, I'll tell you" Bluenote said "there's no cure! the virus only kills females but it can't withstand the blood of a male nor within a male host!"

"I see, that's why it only affected females" Natsu said closing his eyes

"now! Fly!" Bluenote exclaimed "BLACK! HOLE!"

The black energy sphere charges up before it fired at Natsu

Natsu stood in his position before his plate slides closed and his eyes glowed red behind the visor

"NO THANK YOU!" Natsu shouted as he swings his leg up, kicking the black energy sphere into the air making it explode in the air

"what!?" Bluenote looks in shock as his attack was kicked to the sky easily "but how?!"

"there's an old trick my old man taught me" Natsu said as his face plate slides open "to defeat your enemy, you must trick them into thinking that they are winning"

"you! You were holding back the whole time!?" Bluenote exclaimed

"yeah" Natsu said before his faceplate slides closed and he burst into flames "I'm a good actor after all"

The flames subside as Enryuo Yoroi disappeared while Natsu's body turned into that of a Dragon

Dragon claws, Dragon scales, and Dragon wings. Natsu had transformed into a humanoid Dragon

"now.." Natsu said before he lifted up his right hand and spreads his sharps claws "..time for you to die"


Gildarts prayed for dear life as Cana and the rest of the girls were on life support machines now

All of them breathing hard even with the oxygen mask and their body temperature rising even more

"they won't survive till the next day" Atlas said sensing their condition

"damnit! Even with the temporary antidote, it didn't work!?" Gildarts gritted his teeth in anger

"it seems…that the only way for a cure is with the true antidote" Atlas said as he holds his staff close

BOOM!

A loud explosion was heard as Gildarts looks outside the window and sees a pillar of raging flames by the borders of Magnolia

"is that?" Gildarts said before Natsu came into the room while covered in dirt and blood

"how are they?" Natsu asked looking to Éclair and the others

"not well, with the temporary antidote, it didn't do well" Atlas said

"wait, how did you get here so fast?" Gildarts asked

"I'll explain later" Natsu said as he grabs a syringe from a table before taking Éclair's blood "right now, we need to make the cure for the disease"

"you got the antidote!" Gildarts said as Natsu shakes his head

"the guy never made an antidote, and even if he did. Do you really think that he would bring it with him?" Natsu asked as he looks at Éclair's blood in the syringe "like you said, he's a mad man. And a mad man he is"

"then how are we going to cure the disease?" Atlas asked as Natsu injects Éclair's blood into his arm

"hey! what are you doing!?" Gildarts exclaimed as Natsu pulled the syringe out

"don't worry, Éclair is an O like me. the transfer won't be dangerous" Natsu said rubbing his arm on the spot of the injection

"not that! You'll get the disease too!" Gildarts exclaimed

"I can't" Natsu said as he looks at the clock "because the disease can't handle being in the host of a male"

"what?" Gildarts said

"of course, the reason why the virus does not affect male it is because it cannot thrive in the male's body of its enzyme" Atlas said "then the cure would be simply"

"a blood transfer" Natsu said as he looks at the clocked for a whole minute as nothing happened to him "alright, get the doctors and tell them of this"

"I get on it!" Gildarts exclaimed as he ran out of the room

"Na…tsu…" Éclair muttered out as Natsu holds her hand

"sssshh, just rest. You and everyone will be alright" Natsu said before pecking her forehead "I promise"


The doctors and nurses went to work as they started a blood transfer between the patient with the male donor of the exact blood type

Everyone rush on the clock as all the sick patients were going to be saved soon


The day quickly passed to the next morning as everything in Magnolia is back to normal

Éclair's eyes slowly opened as she looks at the white ceiling above

"this is…." Éclair muttered out before sitting up on her bed and looks around as she sees Lucy and the others waking up as well "everyone.."

Dan and the group came in as they saw Éclair and the others up and healthy

"all of you woke up!" Dan said with a happy grin

"what happened?" Lucy asked while rubbing her head "my head's so woozy"

"yeah, I feel like I just woke up from a hang over" Cana said rubbing her forehead

"you always have a hangover" Kagura added in

"why are we in the hospital?" Erza asked

"we'll explain later, big sis. But right now, you all need to rest up a bit more" Dan said while one of the group members went to get a doctor or a nurse

"wait, where's Natsu?" Éclair asked

"he's with Meredy-chan. He was more worried on her condition after all" Dan replied


In Meredy's room, Natsu was sitting on a chair, sleeping deeply with a bunch of empty coffee cans around him. The man always stayed up all night while beside Meredy checking her

Meredy soon wakes up as the child looks up then to the side

"Pa…pa…." Meredy muttered out "…Pa…Pa"

Natsu soon wakes up hearing her voice as he smiles before going to her

"Pa..pa…" Meredy called out to him before Natsu caresses her head with a happy smile

"I'm here" Natsu said before pecking her forehead "Papa will always be with you"


That's a wrap!

Bye bye