Demon's Creation
"Another failure" Natsu sighed opening the door to his room. "There is little time left" Natsu breathed heavily "I can't give up though". He put his hand against the wall for support "but my body doesn't have the same resolve as my mind it seems". Pushing himself off the wall, he managed to reach a desk chair to collapse back in. "It wouldn't be doubtful to say I have less than a couple of months left".
"Aktuwally I beweve yolu haf lefs thaan one and aw haf momfths lefst" a feminine voice strained out obviously not used to speaking the language.
"What?!" Natsu spun in his chair to face the figure. "Who are you? How did you get here?" he gulped his eyes darting around the room, looking for the break in origin or an escape route. From what he could see, he could guess the figure was obviously female considering she wasn't wearing clothes, about the same height and age as Zeref. Looking closely he could see this woman and Zeref were nearly twins except for a few key differences, the figure had hazel eyes not black, her hair was much longer, her complexion was slightly lighter and overall the figure was curvier than Zeref.
The figure was just kneeling on the floor with a book in hand and said nothing as the pages just turned by themselves rapidly. "I awm tfhhe bing frum…" the book slammed shut. The figure stood up slowly whispering under a subtle breath "dictionary memorised, speech should be recognisable".
"Did you say something? Answer my questions dammit, you're in my house" Natsu frowned while panting heavily.
"Forgive my rudeness" the figure bowed. "You may call me Sayla, as by calculating difference in vocabulary Sayla seems as a logical choice". Sayla cracked her head to the side "and as you remember with the capsule experiment you were working on".
"Yeah I do *cough* what of it?" he covered his mouth using his hand.
Sayla smirked "glad you asked, you put your blood in there but as you have a cracked magic container some ethernano got all mixed up with your blood… then time skip forward, I'm here ta-da!"
Natsu chuckled grimly quickly grapping a chunk of lacrima. "Do you really expect me to believe that? Life cannot be created that easily" lightning shot out the lacrima hitting Sayla dead centre in the chest.
"You don't believe me, that's a shame" Sayla stepped forward as if there was no lightning there. "What, is it too ironic for you? Too cruel for you? All your trouble to save your own life failed but created other life instead" she squatted the lacrima out of his hands.
"Shut up" Natsu growled as he punched her gut. "Fuck…" he withheld his hand in agony.
The woman blinked "that hurt my feelings, you will not do that again". Sayla walked past him robotically "I will put on some clothes, you will stay here". She slammed the door open leaving him alone.
'Oh crap, where's Zeref at a time like this, she would know how to deal with this problem' Natsu pushed himself up off the chair. 'There's no way I can stay with this maniac any longer' he wobbled over to the door as quietly as he could. 'Okay, she's in Zeref's room… and I need to walk past it to get out of here… or I could, no there is no way I will be able to jump through the window in my state'. Natsu tip toed slowly as he made his way down the corridor and past Zeref's room.
"I can hear you, you know" Sayla's head snapped round. Now wearing Zeref's Academy uniform, Sayla stood up glaring at Natsu "why did you sneak around and try to leave?" she spoke sharply.
"B-Because… this is my house, I can do what I want" Natsu backed up as she stepped forward, unfortunately for him a wall stopped him. "Anyway, if I really am the one that created you. You must. You will, obey me".
"I will not obey" Sayla bared her teeth. "I am superior in every way, I obey no one" she shot forward to grab him but tripped over herself. Taking his chance, Natsu bolted to the front door as Sayla recovered.
Slamming the front door behind him, he took a moment to catch his breath. 'Zeref should be in her lab at the top floor' Natsu gazed at a couple of guards before shaking his head. 'There's no point in asking them, they won't help an ungifted person like me… probably help that crazy bitch in there'. Clearing the thoughts from his head, he sprinted to the academy a few minutes away.
"Natsu… get back here now" Natsu turned his head back to see Sayla start to run but collapsed after her first few steps. "Do not run from me!" Sayla jumped up and started to run again, tripping slightly this time.
"What the hell is wrong with her?" he pondered taking glances behind as he ran. "It's like she has never ran before" he stopped glancing at the woman not knowing she had not ran before but was learning pretty quickly. "Closest stairs *pant* there" Natsu panicked hearing her footsteps getting louder. Quickly turning a corner, Natsu gulped as he felt the wind from Sayla pass him as she failed to turn the corner. 'Now just up the god damn stairs' he climbed with no end in sight.
"Stairs…" Sayla grabbed the banister and walked up slowly. "I see… that's how you do it" her steps gradually became faster until she was sprinting up the stairs, easily turning the corner on each flight of stairs. "There you are" she stood at the top of the stairs, seeing Natsu at the end of the corridor.
"So its you, the one who chased my little brother here" Zeref stepped out of a room in front of Natsu. "What do you want? You seem to be going a long way to catch him, why? Who even are you?" she crossed her arms.
Sayla giggled "I am Sayla and I do not have to explain myself to someone who is now redundant, you are no longer Natsu's sister".
"Let me say it another way" Zeref charged up purple magic in her hand. "You will tell me why you are obsessed with my brother or I WILL kill you".
Sayla tilted her head "shame you could've lived longer". She sprinted down the hallway aiming to tackle by her posture "die".
"Sonic Wall" a burst of air bombarded Sayla right in her gut sending her skidding back across the ground. "You shouldn't have done that" Zeref clenched her right hand then unclenched it hitting Sayla with a bolt of lightning. "Trying to take Natsu from me is something I can hardly forgive" next a fireball hit Sayla then a sharp rock and so on.
"Zeref" Natsu hugged his sister's waist. "Look I know she did the wrong thing but you don't need to kill her".
Zeref's eyes softened at his word "sure little bro- no!" She crouched down as blood started dripping from Natsu's mouth "come on, let's go in the lab, I'm pretty sure I'll have something". Zeref glanced at Sayla's prone form twitching slightly but shook it off 'Natsu comes first'.
"Big sis, I'm fine it's just that I had to run here from the house that's all" Natsu smiled weakly.
"Act tough all you like but your big sis doesn't take chances" she pushed him into the lab, making him sit on the seat. She pointed down "you will not get up until I say so understood".
Natsu slumped into the chair "fine". Gazing boringly at Zeref fiddling with magic machines, he wondered to the mystery of Sayla. 'Have I met her before, no not that I can remember… it looked like Zeref didn't know her at a glance, maybe she is jealous of how successful Zeref is'.
"There we are" Zeref dusted her hands off. "All these machines will keep you stable… what's wrong?" she asked.
"Nothing… nothing at all" Natsu mumbled looking down to avoid eye contact.
"Natsu" Zeref crouched down in front of him. "Come on…" she lifted his chin up. "Don't hide things from me, I wouldn't be a good sister if I didn't try to help my brother when he is feeling down".
"I'm… I just… well is there any point anymore?" Natsu scrunched his face up. "I'm not going to live much longer anyway".
Zeref placed her hands gently on my shoulders and squeezed "don't talk like that". She whispered "please don't think those thoughts".
He pushed Zeref's hands off him "don't talk like you know what it feels like to know that you will never experience your life".
Zeref slapped Natsu lightly on the cheek "I don't know? How do you think it feels to know your only family member is going to be gone".
Natsu raged "oh really will it be that painful with your grand plans". Zeref leaned back in surprise "what's wrong, did you not think I would notice?"
Zeref shook her head "I have no idea what you are talking about now Natsu".
"I think you do" he pointed to her experiments. "I know forbidden black magic when I see it, after all reading up on such things is the only entertainment I can find with this sick body of mine". Natsu pushed himself off the chair and wobbled over to Zeref's experiments. "Oh look what we have here, a liquid formula to keep maybe a body intact and preventing it from decaying, very interesting… and over here, calculations for sacrificing someone to revive another".
"Natsu… just stop" Zeref clenched her fists. "I'm just trying to do what's right for you… for both of us" Zeref strolled right to left.
"How will you practicing and using dark arts help us, what possible thing would be good for us? Would it be how you became a killer? Would it be me knowing someone died in my place?" Natsu stumbled back into his seat, taking very deep and strain full breaths.
"Natsu!" Zeref rushed over to Natsu. "Are you alright, what's wrong?" Natsu never responded as he fell into unconsciousness. "Damn it, why is this happening?" Zeref gritted her teeth.
"This happened because you interfered" Sayla growled behind Zeref. The woman shot her hand forward grabbing Zeref's neck then lifted her off the ground. "Without you everything would have been fine, Natsu wouldn't have ran off, he wouldn't strain his body, he would've been home allowing me to take care of him and he would have been all mine". Sayla snarled increasing her grip, choking Zeref further. "But you won't exist for much longer" Sayla spun around tossing Zeref towards the window. "Natsu is only mine from now on and you are nothing but a disposable siblings".
Chapter end