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Chapter Thirteen: The Chill of Death
Natsu ran toward Romeo, as the pink haired Fire Dragon Slayer got ready to land a direct hit onto the dark purple haired boy. However, the younger male simply jumped over the charging Fairy Tail Mage, getting him to stop moving as he turned around to see Romeo landing behind him on his two feet.
The dark purple haired boy turned around to glare at the pink haired young man, before he drew out the two blades that were on his waist, before he pointed both of them toward the ground to the side of him.
"Rise!" Romeo shouted out, as purple lighting then shot out of the blades and right into the ground around him, confusion Natsu as well as the rest of the Tenrou group.
Their answer came as the ground Romeo shot the purple lighting at began to break apart before a hand shot up from the ground, as well as multiple other ones close to it. The Fire Dragon Slayer and those of the Tenrou group widened their eyes in shock at the sight as undead started to arise from the ground. Some of them looked to be that of skeletons with armor and weapons on hand, while the other ones looked like that of ghouls. They all let out a roar as they fully emerged from the disturbed ground of dirt.
Needless to say, they were surprised by the sight before them.
"What the f**k?!" Gray exclaimed at the sight of Romeo literally raising the undead before their very eyes.
"Necromancy?!" Makarov shouted in shock by the sight before him. Why in all of Earthland did Romeo possess this kind of power on him? Necromancy is one of the darkest and most forbidden magic there was in all of Earthland!
"It's disgusting I know," Asce started to say, getting the Tenrou group to look at the Knight from Kalavar, "Romeo perverts the remains of those long gone, forcing them to fight and obey his will, denying the dead their rest." It was clear to the others that the Crusader was the most disgusted by Romeo's abilities, mainly since he was someone who wielded Light Magic, and was one of holiest beings in the guild right now.
It wasn't difficult to see that Romeo was basically everything that Asce stood against. They were in the way polar opposites if one would to put their thoughts to it.
Zin, while he disagreed with a lot of things with the Knight, did agree with the part of perverting the remains of the dead. To him, it was a disgrace for an Inama to even dare to meddle with the corpses of their fellow brethren.
Natsu, just as shocked as the others were, didn't have the time to say anything as the group of undead roared once more before charging right at the pink haired Fire Dragon Slayer. Seeing this, Natsu jumped out of the way of the coming horde of undead as he then charged at one of the armored skeletons, before kicking its head clear off, sending it flying to the stand where the others were at. It also landed directly right into Lucy's arms, who blinked for a moment before letting out a shriek.
"AAAAAAHHHH!" The blonde shouted as she threw the skull onto the ground. A few of the others like Gray, Gajeel, and Bickslow, couldn't stop themselves from laughing at the Celestial Mage from that.
One of the ghouls then ran in toward the Fire Dragon Slayer, as Natsu managed to side step out of the way before slamming a Fire Dragon Iron Fist right into the ghoul's stomach, making it break in half as it fell to the floor, lifeless once more. Two more ghouls as well as an armored skeleton then charged up toward him. Luckily the pink haired male managed to slam one of the ghouls into the ground with a kick, killing the undead, and then he went on kicking the armored skeleton right into the chest, making it break apart as it dropped its weapon as it flung into the air. Natsu managed to grab it before using it to slice the other ghoul's head off, making it roll into the ground.
"Come on Romeo!" Natsu shouted with a confident grin on his face, "Surely there's more you can d-!"
He didn't get to finish before a blur went right pass him, before a cut was seen on the pink haired male's arm, getting him to let out a small grunt from the hit, before turning around to see Romeo now behind him, as he was getting ready to attack once more as well as the other still standing undead he has risen from the grave.
"Alright!" Natsu exclaimed with his hands enveloped in flames, "Now we're talking!"
"…Look at your arm." Romeo told him, getting the Fire Dragon Slayer to be confused for a moment, before he looked at the arm that the dark purple haired boy managed to get a cut on with his blade.
His eyes shocked and horror as he saw the skin around the wound beginning to decay as well as literal maggots started to appear from the wound, trying to dig deeper into the flesh of the host they got on.
"W-What the heck?!" Natsu shouted in horror before be used his other hand to grab the wound before burning the maggots out off his arm, and trying to stop whatever it was causing the skin around the cut to begin to decay as well.
Sadly he couldn't focus on too much about it as Romeo and the remaining undead he raised charged at the pink haired male once again. Two of the armored skeletons tried to swing their axes onto the Fire Dragon Slayer, but luckily he managed to roll out of the way before the two undead could hit him. Not wasting anytime, Natsu then fired off a Fire Dragon Roar at the two undead, quickly reducing them to cinders. Romeo then appeared right in front of the Dragon Slayer, getting Natsu to widen his eyes before the dark purple haired boy then swung both of his blades right at him. Luckily, Natsu managed to dodge the two blades before he then attempted to kick Romeo to get him to go flying. However Romeo managed to rolled out of the way before he charged right at the pink haired male once more with his blades out, intending on getting another hit in. The pink haired Dragon Slayer jumped out of the way to avoid getting hit by Romeo; however he didn't see one of the ghouls jumping high in the air before clamping itself right onto Natsu.
"Get off of me!" Natsu shouted as he landed back onto the ground.
Before Natsu could forcefully pull the hugging ghoul off of his body, the undead without warning then exploded, getting the pink haired male to cry out from the surprised move, not to mention getting ghoul remains all over him. Thankfully, he managed to recover fast as he quickly turned around only to see Romeo running right at him. This time, Natsu couldn't avoid him fast enough as the dark purple haired boy managed to slash at Natsu's side as he passed him, getting Natsu to cry out from the strike. Looking at the wound, his eyes widened in horror once more as the skin around the cut on the side of his abdomen began to decay as well as more maggots appearing from it as they attempted to dug deeper into the flesh of their hosts. The pink haired Fairy Tail wizard couldn't focus on them though as another ghoul ran up to him before clamping its jaw right onto Natsu's left shoulder, getting Natsu to shout from the pain before he then slammed his fist right into the ghoul's head, caving it in as well as killing the undead, falling to the ground.
"He's loosing." Zin told the others without glancing their way, noticing how Romeo was using the undead and the disease and maggots he summons to deal more damage to the pink haired male as well as tiring him out.
Everyone else of the Tenrou group could only watch in shock and horror as they saw how Natsu was slowly being overwhelmed by the younger male. Everyone else who weren't of the Tenrou group only gave the others sympathy stares, as they knew that no one other than Asce and Zin, and possibly Sayla, could handle "The child of Death".
Natsu gritted his teeth as he held onto his now bleeding shoulder from the ghoul's rather hard bite. He also had his other hand to attempt to burn off all of the maggots appearing from the wound on his abdomen side. Romeo however wasn't going to let the pink haired male to get some spare time, as he then put his hand out in front of him, before a purple lighting with was launched right toward the Fire Dragon Slayer. Natsu couldn't move out of the ay in time as the lighting grabbed onto him like a grapple, before the Dragon Slayer found himself being pulled right toward the dark purple haired younger male, much to his shock. As he was pulled closer, Romeo grabbed his two blades once more before attempted to slice up his opponent in front of him. Fortunately for Natsu, he managed dodge the two blades at first.
Keyword, at first.
However, the more and more Romeo continued to swing his blades at the pink haired male, the faster he was getting, giving Natsu more difficulty to dodge every single one of the slices. If that wasn't bad enough, some maggots still remained from the decaying wounds on the pink haired male, eating their way further and further into their host, getting Natsu to feel more pain from in his muscles, forcing him to unable to go faster.
And then, without warning, Romeo managed to get both blades to strike right into Natsu's chest, getting the Fire Dragon Slayer to shout from the hit once more as their was now an X shaped wound on his chest, which the flesh around the cuts already beginning to decay as more maggots appeared, before they went on to eat and dig further into the flesh of their host. This also got Natsu to fall over onto his back, as Romeo then put a foot right on top of the X shaped cut, forcing Natsu to remain down on the ground.
Natsu only grit his teeth as the pain he got from the cuts, the maggots still in him, as well as some other unknown reason, as he looked up only to see Romeo pointing one of his blades right at the other male's face.
"…I win." Romeo merely stated to the Fire Dragon Slayer beneath him.
And with that, the dark purple haired boy then got off of the pink haired male as he then begun to walk toward where everyone else, most noticeably toward the exit of the training area.
"Natsu!" Lucy, Lisanna, Wendy, and Happy shouted in worry as the three then ran over to see the injured Fire Dragon Slayer, as Asce followed up right behind him.
"Move aside, I can heal him," The Crusader informed the other four as he put his hands over the hurt Fairy Tail Mage, "Light, give me the aid to heal this man." He whispered to himself, as both of his hands began to glow with Light Magic.
Before Natsu or the others knew it, Natsu was enveloped in light as all of his wounds were then healed, any maggots in him were purged, and any decay and diseases cleansed as well.
Natsu then got up, looking over at himself as he saw himself looking like he was never in the fight in the first place.
"Whoa… that's so cool!" Natsu exclaimed excitedly, as he didn't think Asce could heal him that well.
However, his excitement ended as he, as well as everyone else then noticed Erza marching toward where Romeo was currently walking at. This got nearly everyone to freeze in horror by this.
"What is wrong with you?!" Ezra shouted at the dark purple haired boy, who didn't seem to be bothered by the angered red head woman as he only walked right by her, angering her more, "Don't you see that you went too far with what you did?!"
Romeo stopped walking as he turned to look at the red haired woman with a glare, which got those who were familiar with how Romeo is now to feel more nervous.
"How about this?" He started to say to her, before he turn around and continue to walk away from everyone else, "If you don't want him or anyone else to end up like that, then stay out of my way."
And with that, Romeo simply left the training area, as well as the guild building itself, leaving everyone else behind him.
Here we go. Chapter done. So what did you all think? Good? Bad? Want me to poison Canada's water supply? Let me know.
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