In The Void…
Natsu sprung awoken from the empty black grounds of the void. Even in a daze, Natsu recognized the area very fast and knew where he was.
"DAMN IT!" Natsu yelled out. He didn't know what happened, it was like some of his memory was blurry and faded. Natsu tried to lift his left arm but cried in pain trying to do so. He looked down to only shout in shock at the state of his arm. He gripped his shoulder trying to fight the pain of his arm.
After a few moments passed the pain went down a tad bit. Natsu struggled to get on his feet but he did. Natsu looked around a bit to try and hear the sound of a roaring beast, but instead he heard a roar of new power, a roar that was calling out to him. Natsu walked towards the deep and powerful roar and was still gripping his left shoulder.
After a longer than expected walk, Natsu felt his body being covered by a familiar crimson fire. Unexpectedly that fire smelt and felt soothing and warm, It felt like it was trying to heal him. Natsu calmed down as he felt the pain slowly went away. Soon after the crimson flame left and Natsu was ready to continue.
This time it was a short walk, as Natsu gazed upon a tall door blocking him. Natsu looked at the door analyzing it. For some reason the door felt different from last time. It was a towering black metal door… with glowing red words? Natsu noticed the random appearance of the glowing letters and checked it out.
"To enter the locked door, Embrace the force of a royal beast."
It read. After reading that Natsu let out a confused sound, thinking it was a puzzle. Natsu intensely stared at the words, hoping to suddenly figure it out. But he quickly gave up realizing it's not going to work. Natsu let out a sigh before noticing someone behind him.
It was a pale man with silky short black hair and dark eyes, he was a little taller than Natsu and was wearing a type of clothing that was way out of date. He gave a weird but kind smile to Natsu.
"Hey! Who are you and what do you want?" Natsu questioned that man, putting a guard up. The darked haired man kept his composure and still had his smile before answering.
"My name is Zeref and the rest doesn't matter… at least for now." Zeref answered. Zeref still smiled as he watched Natsu lower his guard.
"It seems like you're stuck on this. Not surprising knowing you." Zeref said, before sighing. Natsu was going to speak out but was cut off.
"It seems like I'm going to have to help, but not too much. After all you have to get stronger." Zeref said. He started walking towards Natsu who put his guard back up.
"Aye! What are you planning to do?" Natsu questioned. Natsu lit up his fist with a bright and radiant orange flame. Natsu was staring deeply at Zeref before He quickly appeared before him. Zeref stuck out his finger and poked Natsu on his forehead.
Natsu felt a surge of power start flowing through him. He looked at both of his hands as his orange flame turned into the crimson ones. A memory played through his mind as he remembered what that voice said.
Natsu connected the dots and placed his crimson coated hand on the door and pushed it opened.
"WOW! It opened! Thanks ma-" Natsu was saying, before realizing Zeref was gone. Natsu didn't question it long as he entered the door. He looked around even though it was still dark inside, after taking a few more steps forward Natsu bumped into something and fell. Once he got up he saw a pedestal with something unfamiliar on it.
It looked like a small red seed with an emblem of fire on it. Natsu started to reach for it, as he got closer, the voice of a beast… no a dragon became clearer. When Natsu touched the red seed his left arm was being swallowed by the crimson flames once again.
This time it was way different, The pain was way worse than anything he ever experienced in his life. He grabbed a hold of the area of his arm close to the wrist. He was met by the feeling of something that felt hot yet cold. Natsu also felt something hard… scale like close to his wrist. Once the fire calmed down he felt depleted, he dropped to the ground in pain and looked at the bottom of his left arm.
Natsu didn't have enough energy to scream not even to shout, all he could do was stare as the bottom of his left arm was partly covered in red scales. Natsu could feel him going to pass out like always once he entered the void. But before he did, he heard a voice coming from the seed.
In Natsu's room
Natsu had just awakened for his long 'nap', he sat up rubbing his hand a bit dazed. Then like a tidal wave bits of memory from the void came to him. Natsu looked at his left arm slowly going down. Once he saw the bottom part he couldn't help but give out a loud but short shout.
It was in the middle of the night so he didn't expect anyone to be awake. But with his advanced senses he heard a door quickly open and immediately knew it was Izuka.
Within a few seconds Izuka flew the door into Natsu's room open. Izuka took a moment to look at Natsu as the moon light coming through his window shined on him. Izuka blushed a little but had a look of reassurance on her face as she dove into a hug.
Natsu gladly returned the hug as he knew she was worried for him. Natsu gave a sigh of release for many reasons but one of them being that he managed to wrap bandages around his arm since his new scales destroyed the old ones.
"Thank goodness you're finally awake." Izuka said a bit softly. Natsu gave a small chuckle before answering.
"You make it sound like I was knocked out for a while!" Natsu said, giving a toothy grin. Izuka looked at him concerned before fully explaining everything to him.
"What! You're so lucky... I wish I could've kept fighting." Natsu said, a bit bummed out. Izuka gave a small laugh seeing Natsu like he usually is.
"Well at least school starting again tomorrow." Natsu said lazily.
"Are you sure you want to go back right away? I'm sure mom would let you stay home since you just woke up." Izuka said, concerned. Natsu clinched his left fist, before looking Izuka in the eye saying… "Yes.". Izuka looked at the clock in Natsu's room and was surprised to see how early it was.
"Well we're going to have to get ready soon anyways, we might as well get ready now." Izuka said, looking at Natsu. Natsu nodded in agreement, kind of happy to hop right back into action.
But who knows what the school day has for them…
Short Chapter I know… But i feel like this would be better instead of it being cramped with the next one. The void scenes could be a bit repetitive but they're important for Natsu and also so we can see inside of Natsu's head, and no Natsu doesn't have complete control of the crimson flame. But the next chapter should be filled with way more character interactions and hopefully more interesting so don't worry. I hope I didn't make you wait too long, but the next one should be up soon. Let me know what you think, is there anything I could improve on? Is it moving too fast? Just let me know if you have questions.
Reviews
erasenpai946- Thanks for your words for the Natsu and Shota relationship and I hope I can keep the pace good and use all the advice well. You're also right about Natsu's dragon fire being superior to regular fire.
eralmeida8- Izuka's feelings towards Natsu right now are confusing, Same with Katsuki though they both have different ways of expressing their care for Natsu. And Natsu in fairy tail is usually described as quite "dense" but hopefully he doesn't stay like that. For Rumi and Nemuri let's wait and see, don't want to give away too much.
AbyssDragonslayer777- Thanks for letting me know. If you guys want I can go through the chapters and change it to Izumi, Katsumi, and Shouko.
AbyssDragonslayer777- Ik about Iida but for some reason Lida sounded better to me and I stuck with it until someone brought it up to my attention. Some things are changed in the story but not the drastic and big ones.
AbyssDragonslayer777-thanks I was confused about 13, I asked a couple people I know but they didn't know.
Chaotic- Appreciate the support!
SinnamonC- Thanks! Hopefully I can stay consistent this time.
NaLu-OTP48-Nice to hear from you, Thanks for the support
AbyssDragonslayer777- Will keep that In mind. Thanks!
erasenpai946-don't worry Natsu's scales along with skill will improve hugely once he understands the beast inside him.