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Chapter 8
"Let me go you jerk!"
"No."
"I said let go!
"No."
"Let go or I'll kill you!"
"You tried that already."
"Asshole."
The argument was held between Natsu and Ultear. The dragon slayer was holding Ultear by the back of her kimono, keeping her out of her each with her punch and kicks as he walked down a path toward a small clearing in the forest.
Natsu sighed, "How many times have you called me that already?"
"37 times Pinky."
The annoyed dragon slayer sighed again as he noticed the time mage throwing her legs up and wrapping herself around his arm before trying to snap it; luckily he removed any weapons she had hidden in her kimono, albeit with difficulty since she hid them in awkward places.
"You're not gonna break my arm anytime soon you know. It's been through worse than your strength."
At this point you must be wondering, What the hell happened to the fight with them and Zancrow and the dozens and dozens of grunts and how did Natsu get into this situation?!
Well, let's go back a few hours and see…
~With the Fight~
Both Zancrow and Ultear couldn't believe what they heard.
"YOU taking down Grimoire Heart?!" Zancrow cackled with disbelief, "You must be crazy Pinky!"
Ultear took a closer look at the dragon slayer and noticed something different about him from the other people faced whenever she had to kidnap or kill,
"You… you're not scared are you?" Ultear asked, who was wondering who this guy really is.
"Who gives a fuck if he is or isn't, he's going to BURN!" Zancrow shouted with nothing but bloodlust in his eyes and voice, completely forgetting about the mission that was entrusted to them. He brought his hands together as his black flames formed into a shape of a scythe.
"Fire God's Death Scythe!"
"Zancrow don't-"
It was too late as the psychotic blonde was already bringing down the blade toward the pinkette. Ultear went to force Zancrow to stop by using her Arc of Time to dissipate the flames, unfortunately, she was too late.
Natsu received the entire attack, which Zancrow enjoyed as he saw Natsu getting covered in flames and saw that even the ground around the pinkette was getting destroy and melted.
Once the attack finished, they saw there was nothing left, nothing even ashes, "Damn that felt good! A little too short for my liking but still goo-"
SLAP!
Zancrow felt his right cheek sting from Ultear's slap, "You stupid, fucking idiot! We were supposed to bring him to our master, not kill him!"
Zancrow shrugged, "Don't worry time bitch, like he said, he was a dragon slayer. Why would we want one when we already have me!"
While Ultear agreed that God-Slaying magic is superior to Dragon-Slaying magic, they still had an order and right now they need to catch up with that girl or else they'll be in massive trouble!
"I'm not dead yet!" Natsu shouted behind the two, shocking them to the core. Especially Zancrow, who thought he burned to oblivion,
"How the fuck did you survi-"
"SHUT UP!" Natsu roared as he drove his fist into Zancrow's stomach, immediately causing internal bleeding, a ruptured stomach, intestines, and liver getting squished and the bottom ribs crushed from the force of the punch.
Zancrow instantly vomited blood and double over in pain before succumbing to the pain and passed out five seconds later.
"I think he'll live." Natsu thought aloud as he turned to Ultear and found nearly forty teal orbs flying into him, sending him flying through several trees. Natsu eventually stopped as he hit his fifth tree. He frowned as he saw more orbs flying towards him. He quickly dodged them as he did try to get back towards the teenager.
'I can't let him near me! I can't let him near me!' Ultear thought as she was still thinking of how one man was able to bring down Zancrow in one hit. She only knew two people being able to do that, being only their master and Bluenote, both the most powerful members in her guild!
"You morons, what are you waiting for, get him!" Ultear shouted to the hundred grunts that she brought with her. The foot soldiers had no choice but to obey unless they wanted to face her wrath.
Natsu quickly noticed the foot soldiers coming and thought, 'This is starting to really get on my nerves! I don't have time for this!'
"Fire Dragon Roar!"
Ultear saw the flames burning through her orbs and saw it coming towards her quickly. As quickly as she could she used her magic to protect her from Natsu flames. She dissipated the flames with her magic but was surprised at how far the roared spread and decided to use her magic to form a shield around her. She waited for around ten seconds before seeing the roared finally disappearing.
"That wasn't too bad…" Ultear said as she was sweating from the intense heat of the flames.
"It over Ultear."
The teenager's eye widen when she saw that the pinkette was right in front of her.
"W-W-Wha-"
"You're all alone now Ultear, give up or else," Natsu warned as he gestured behind him, showing that all of her foot soldiers were defeated by that one roar alone. Seeing that the time witch wasn't showing any signs of surrendering or getting out of her shock he sighed,
"Fuck this."
That was all he said before doing a quick karate chop to the back of the neck, leaving the teenager unconscious.
~Back to the Present~
After the very short one-sided fight and Ultear waking up and an hour later, Natsu took Ultear with him while leaving behind the crispy grunts and a heavily wounded Zancrow. And now he's suffering from Ultear's annoyance.
"You this is getting a little annoying," Natsu said as shook Ultear off his arm and putting her back on the ground, though he didn't let go of her. He has been putting up with this for about four hours now and hoped that this will be over soon.
He looked at the clearing around them and smiled,
"Yep, this must be the place."
Ultear looked at him, "What are you talking about P-"
"Call me Pinky one more time and I'll tear your clothes off and stuff them down your throat!" Natsu warned, causing the time mage to be silent, "Good."
Natsu reached into his pocket and pulled out some kind of small, blue orb that had some kind of red markings all over it. The orb was no bigger than a marble
Ultear recognizing that to be a teleporting orb, a very rare item and what's even worse than it was hers, "Hey how did you get that?!"
The dragon-slayer looked at her, "I found it on you while I was looking for any more weapons on you."
Ultear glared at him, before remembering where she put, "But that was...was…"
"Strapped to your inner thigh?" Natsu said without hesitation or shame, "Yeah, it was. I had to be very thorough with you. Can't be too careful."
While some of you may know that Ultear was a murderer, a thief, a liar, and a dark mage, she was still only fifteen years old and have no experience with boys or intimacy, Master Hades only let older female members take missions that involve being more slutty, so knowing that this young man was so close to her made her cheeks feel hot and pink with embarrassment.
"Y-Yeah, so what if you have it? Those things only work if you have the set the locations before activating them, which means you can't beam yourself to my guild if you don't know where it is." Ultear said with a strained smile.
"I know," Natsu said before handing it to Ultear, "Which is why I want you to use it."
"Excuse me?!"
"Take us to your guild so I can defeat Hades and end your guild for good."
"No, and this time no threat will scare me!" Ultear said defiantly, knowing that Natsu wouldn't kill or even hurt her since he needed her for this.
Natsu looked at her with a blank expression, deciding to do the first that came to mind.
RIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPP!
"KYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Natsu ripped her Precious White Kimono to shreds before burning them to ashes.
"What the hell was that for you asshole!?"
"Like you said, threats won't work with you so I'm just going to keep ruining your clothes until you're butt naked and then probably beat you into a bloody pulp," Natsu said as he began reaching her bra with a blank face, showing that he wasn't really interested in seeing her body, but instead is this desperate if he wanted to destroy Grimoire Heart.
Ultear took the small orb the second she felt his fingers on her bra and quickly transported them to her guild's airship.
"Thank you," Natsu said as he finally let go of the semi-naked teen and away, most likely tracking down Hades' scent.
"You jerk!" Ultear shouted as she ran the other way towards her room to change.
Neither realized that it was almost nightfall, which showed that Natsu was about to pull an all-nighter against Grimoire Heart.
~Back at Fairy Tail~
While his older self was fighting his way towards Hades throughout that time, the present Dragneel walked up the stairs of the guild hall to get to Makarov's office.
"Come in."
Natsu, as well all know, like to give everything his all and kicked the door open, leaving a noticeable footprint on the door.
"My boy, whyyyy…" Makarov grumbled as he was on another side of the room, writing some stuff down on his desk; no doubt working out some kind of apology letter or working out the finances for the guild.
Not noticing the sad look on the old man's face, the young pinkette walked in, "Hey Gramps, I've been wondering about something and since you're old and all I've figured you know what it is."
Makarov stopped writing and looked at the young boy, not at all bothered being called old,
"Oh, and what have you been wondering lad?"
"What's a date?"
Makarov's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates, pondering if what he heard was right.
"A date?"
Natsu nodded.
"Why are you asking me that my boy?" 'Has Natsu finally found girls to be attractive and beautiful?' Makarov wondered as he began to wonder if Natsu is actually growing up.
"Because Lisanna asked me to one and I said yes." The young pinkette replied innocently enough, noticing how Makarov's smile was big and wide, bending his mustache.
"My boy, let me tell you and explain the concepts of dating!" Makarov answered proudly that his children were growing up. Makarov gestured the boy to come next to him and explained everything of how a young man such as himself should behave and gave him tips on how to act, what to expect, the appropriate things to say and so on. It got to point where Natsu got bored from everything that the old man was saying but he stayed quite anyway, considering that Makarov was writing down what he was saying since he knew that Natsu couldn't possibly remember everything detail.
After about twenty minutes of explaining and writing, Makarov handed him the stack of papers full of his advice,
"Now Natsu, I want you to read this over and learn it. Everything on these sheets should be appropriate for you and Lisanna; I'll explain the more mature stuff when you're older."
Natsu nodded, "I have no idea what you're talking about but thanks a ton, Gramps!"
As soon as Natsu left the room and closed the door, Makarov sighed in relief but continued smiling,
"That boy...I almost feel bad for him, dating the sister of Mirajane." Makarov went back to his work and chuckled.
"Almost."
~Back at Grimoire Heart~
Hades was gasping for air as he was glaring at the dragon slayer in front of him.
He couldn't believe what he was experiencing.
This young man, this dragon-slayer, took down nearly every member of his guild, destroyed over half the airship and has given Hades the fight of his life; not to mention the damage he had received from the pinkette.
His right eye was stabbed out, various burns littered his body with some scratches and bruises, most of his hair was burned off, not even his left hand was spared! The damn dragon-slayer burned off his left hand until there was nothing but a burned and ugly stub.
Hades looked at the young man and grit his teeth in anger.
"Boy, you are quite something."
Natsu spat out some blood from his mouth, "Not bad yourself you old geezer."
Hades wasn't the only one that suffers heavy damage. Natsu had numerous cuts from Hades' 'Bullet Magic' and 'Chain Magic', Had bruises from nearly head to toe, a nasty cut above his left eye causing him to bleed over half his face and his right arm is broken.
The two looked over one another before releasing even more of their magic out.
"Why don't you just stay down already?" Natsu commanded as he sprinted over to Hades and delivered numerous flame-coated kicks to the old man before unleashing an inhuman roar, similar to the one he gave Bluenote that nearly burned the bastard in the far future.
Hades screamed as he wasn't able to protect himself anymore and took on the attack head-on, blasting him through the walls and out of the ship,
Sending him flying into the ocean thousands of feet below.
Natsu quickly ran to the edge and was to see Hades' body flipping and hitting the water; causing a painful splash that was barely heard from the pinkette's enhanced hearing.
"Dammit," Natsu grunted in pain as he finally felt the adrenaline from the fight leaving him. He clutched his broken arm and sighed,
"Time to finally destroy the ship," Natsu said as he looked around and saw heavy damages that the ship sustained throughout his fights against the guild, "Or at least destroyed what's left of it."
As Natsu turned to leave the throne room, he found himself in front of Ultear again, but this time sh had a blade right at his chest.
"One wrong move and I'll slice you to fucking pieces!" Ultear warned.
Natsu groaned in pain, "Seriously? Do you want to keep fighting me? After defeating you? After defeating your master? After taking out your entire guild and destroying this damn ship you still wanna fight?!"
Ultear pressed the tip of the blade to his chest, "I'll keep fighting even if I have to sacrifice my body!"
It was this time that Natsu had enough and quickly swatted the blade away with his good arm and kicked the teenage girl in the stomach, causing her to vomit out whatever she had inside her.
"Give up Ultear," Natsu said as he gathered up most of his remaining magic to his left arm, "You can't change your past, no matter how hard you try."
When Ultear finally recovers from the kick, she looked at the dragon-slayer with eyes full of tears, "How would you know anything about my past?!"
Natsu didn't answer her question but instead said, "I'm here to change the future for the better."
And with all the magic he gathered in his left fist he punched the floor, effectively destroying whatever part of the ship that wasn't destroyed, including the Devil's Heart, the very thing that kept this ship and Hades' power going. It was this point that the ship began to fall and what's worse, Natsu lost all of his energy and collapsed, finally leaving Ultear the opportunity to kill him...
~Two Hours Later~
Pain.
That was all that Natsu felt when he opened his eyes.
The majority of his body was in pain and about half of it was bandaged or taken care of, including his right arm is in a cast.
It took about ten minutes before he felt some of the pain receding and was finally able to move, albeit just being his head and fingers.
'Man...that was even tougher than last time…' Natsu thought as he tried to move at least an inch from his spot.
"Be careful you moron, you wouldn't want to push yourself when you're just trying to heal."
Natsu looked over to his right and saw the same teenager that's been trying to kill him all night.
"Ul...tear?"
"Yes, it's me. You know you're very lucky. If it wasn't for my magic repairing whatever parts of the ship I could before the fall both of us would have drowned." She very well remembers how badly the ship was before it hit the ocean water.
"What...happened?" Natsu groaned out as Ultear applied some kind of green cream onto the cut above his eye.
"I was able to get us into a small lifeboat with some supplies before the whole ship sank," Ultear replied, showing no emotion whatsoever.
"Why did you… save me?"
Ultear looked at him in the eyes, that's when Natsu noticed that her eyes weren't as cold as before. Instead, they held some light that he hasn't seen from her in a very long time.
"To be honest, I'm not sure why," Ultear said as she finished applying the cream and sitting next to him, looking at his damaged body, "But I do know that you must be very powerful and special."
The dragon-slayer smiled, "Thanks."
The two stayed silent, resting at an area that looked like a sandy beach.
Eventually, the silence was getting to him and decided to say the first thing that came to mind,
"Hey, Ultear."
"What?"
"Wanna come with me and join my guild?"
Ultear looked at the Natsu, with curiosity in her eyes, "Which guild?"
Natsu's smile got even bigger, "Fairy Tail."
Ultear continued looking at him for a few seconds before out at the ocean, noticing that the sun was beginning to rise, giving the sky a brighter color other than the dark purple night sky.
"I'd like that Pinky," Ultear responded, having a very tiny smile on her cute face
"My name's Natsu. Natsu Dragneel."
"Mine's Ultear Milkovich, though I'm sure you already knew that."
The two stayed in silence once more as they enjoy the view of the sunrise and the change of the sky becoming a beautiful crimson color.
A/N: That's that for now. I really enjoyed this chapter since I only started this chapter this morning at 8 a.m.
I believe this chapter was important since it will really change the timeline very much.
Also, I'm for people that wanted to see Natsu fighting the whole guild or Just Hades, I'm sorry but from how Natsu had so much damage from Hades and seeing how he was at the end of the series, then I'm sure you would have an idea of how it was for him.
Also for mini Natsu and Makarov, I just wanted to do something to break the tension and to show some development for the young Natsu with Lisanna.
Also, I've noticed how some people mention the younger Natsu should be Natsu while the older one should be just Dragneel.
One more thing, I don't know if this chapter felt a little rushed or not but at least I'm happy with it.
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June 17, 2018
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