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ACT V: Ragnarok – The Fateful Encounter

Approximately X793

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Chapter 34: Crazy demon is crazy

Lucy had been surprised but also frightened when Natsu suddenly bit down her neck with the intent of killing her. That he had this intention was pretty clear for her, because his aura had fluctuated and radiated with malice portraying a primal animal that had finally caught his prey.

It scared her so much she barely noticed the pain, as everything was replaced with a weird static sound that drowned her surroundings. Lucy was still in this weird emotional state when her body suddenly fell down on the ground, where she for a second before Laxus quickly came to sweep her away from the demon, who seemed to be momentarily occupied by the sudden presence of Gray and Erza, which made it easy for them to flee.

"You okay?" the lightning mage asked clearly concerned about her.

"Ye-yeah" she stuttered her throat prickling from almost being ripped out by the former Dragon Slayer as they destined themselves a bit from the demon and their two guild mates.

"I guess this is fine for now" Laxus said to no one in particular as he placed the blonde on the ground "We need to stop the bleeding somehow" he muttered more to himself as he placed his huge hand above her wound.

"Allow me to be of assistance" Zeref said nonchalantly making the blonde man eye him suspiciously before he scooted away to make room for him.

"Silly girl..." the dark mage whispered and shook his head as he traced her neck with a warm hand trying to investigate her wound.

"Hold it right there or I will fire!" Gray shouted all of a sudden while pointing a bow in their direction.

"It's okay... Wendy stay back, we've got this" Laxus quickly looked at the healer who was currently hiding behind a huge rock. It was obvious she wanted to assist them with her healing, but it was essential that she preserved some magic for later on. After that Laxus quickly exchanged a look with Zeref before continuing "I know this might seem odd but for now Zeref is our ally"

"He WHAT?!" Gray's said clearly surprised.

"It's true..." Lucy started but speaking made her throat itched so much that she started to cough loudly into her hand.

"You can take care of her right?" Laxus asked the dark mage, who nodded in return "Very well, I leave her in your hands but rest assured if you try any funny business with her I'll be back to fry your ass"

"Funny business?" Zeref blinked with a confused expression on his face "I've heard that sentence before however that was regarding someone hinting towards the act of love making. I can assure you that wont happen since this is not the time nor the place for such a thing to occur"

"... yeah you're clearly related to that stupid pink haired brat..." Laxus whispered, his eyebrow twitching in annoyance before he quickly sprinted towards the occurring battle.

"Oh well" the dark mage shrugged before turning his attention towards Lucy who was panting and trying to recover her breath "Does it hurt?"

"It's not that bad" she smirked weakly, making the dark mage roll his eyes because he clearly didn't buy her lie.

"Uh-huh" sighing a few strings of dark magic shot out from the tips of his fingers before they started repairing her torn flesh, which was done rather quickly.

"To be frank I'm not that experienced when it comes to human bodies, but I'm quite certain your neck will hurt for a bit, because unfortunately I do not have the ability to repair bruises"

"That's okay" Lucy smiled genuinely "thank you"

"I... well..." the dark mage blushed while scratching his neck looking somewhat sheepishly "... it was an easy task"

"Even so I'm grateful, that you healed me again" her smile widened making the other mage blush more profoundly.

"Uhm... well... uhm" Zeref coughed into his hand and stared in the other direction before he sighed loudly "I guess there is one more thing I can do to help you"

"Ohh?" Lucy blinked and watched curiously as Zeref reached inside his garments and pulled out a white piece of cloth that had a checked pattern on it.

"I stole it when we fought him" he said before handing over Natsu's scarf which she accepted right away "Since it's a precious thing to him, I doubt he wants it to be affected or destroyed by his curse"

"That's very considerate of you" she gasped while carefully wrapping the scarf around her neck, instantly feeling the warmth from it soothing her throat "Thank you"

"Yeah..." Zeref avoided looking in her direction, his cheeks turning pink again as he slowly got into a standing position, where he somewhat casually offered her his hand "... if you're ready we should join the others"

"You're right..." Lucy nodded and accepted the hand that smoothly helped her up on her feet "Let's go, we need to stop him before something bad happens"

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At first it had been utterly fun fighting his comrades, but as the fight continued the more furious Natsu got. Sure he pretended that he was dominating and crushing the pathetic humans, but the truth was something else entirely, because even though the mages were somewhat exhausted, they had so much goddamn will power that they didn't stay down.

"Fucking fairies" he snarled while dodging Erza's sword, before flipping backwards in order to avoid another gosh darn frozen arrow from Gray, but as he did a lightning from Laxus managed to strike him, making his flesh prickle and burn in pain from the currents that was burning through his system.

"Just snap out of it already" Zeref sighed impatiently as black wires of magic shot from his fingers, lashing towards the demon at an incredible speed before they snaked around his body tying him like they were black ropes that prevented him from moving even an inch. As Natsu was immobilised the other mages from Fairy Tail stopped and stared at the two brothers, all of them wondering what the dark mage was about to do, but also ready to take action if the situation demanded them to do something.

"Tsh! As if this will hold me for long" Natsu teased mockingly as he struggled against the black magic, trying to measure their strength against his own physical strength.

"Well then I better make sure I take advantage of the time we have, wouldn't you agree?" Zeref cracked his knuckles as he casually strolled over to his younger brother.

"Ohh, this might get interesting" the demon crooked an eyebrow while sending the approaching figure a challenging look.

"I assure you, there will be no pleasure in this"

"Is that so, mm?" Natsu sang as black magic spawned around the dark mage's hand.

"Yes" Zeref nodded and for some reason looked rather sad "This fight is meaningless, so it's time I use a different method to get some answers"

"So my lil' bro wants to play with me?" the demon said, his eyes widening "I feel soooo privileged" he chuckled wickedly, feeling how the insanity within him appreciated the fun he was about to have.

"Shut it, and tell me how to undo this state of yours" the dark mage's eyes glistened in a red color, portraying he was dead serious.

"Come on that's a stupid question" he exhaled having a foreboding feeling that the game wouldn't be as amusing as he had imagined.

"Tell me!"

"How about... mmm... no"

"So be it" Zeref said, his voice sounding cold before multiple small arrows of concentrated black magic shot towards the demon, where it pierced through his skin and straight through the ropes that held him. As the flesh was ripped into small wounds the flesh that was hit started to rot, sending an agonising pain through Natsu's body which caused him to voice his suffering with heartbreaking screams.

"What are you doing?!" Erza asked sounding horrified.

Ignoring the woman Zeref stopped the attack and asked once more "Tell me how to undo this state of yours"

"Tsch! Maybe if you try putting in some force I might answer you" Natsu's lips curled backwards into a lethal looking smile "Go on, do it! I dare you to"

Narrowing his eyes the dark mage raised his hand and clenched it, which caused spikes to grow from the ropes which dug into the demon's meat, making it seem like he was inside an iron maiden.

The pain was so intense this time, because some of it dug so deep into his body that it was starting to smash his organs, which caused blood to flow out of his mouth as more piercing scream filled the air.

"Stop this right now!" Gray snarled as he stepped in front of Zeref, who stared back at him with a somewhat bewildered look.

"You..." breathing heavily Natsu's body fell slightly forwards, where the mixture of blood and saliva streamed out of his mouth before landing on the ground "... stay out of this"

"What?!" the ice mage asked and turned around to exchange a look with the demon.

"Ohhh don't look at me like that" Natsu winked towards the ice mage "I promise I'll play with you later, my precious"

"... seriously you're fucking creepy..." Gray's body twitched in discomfort.

"Zeref stop it" Lucy said as she placed herself beside the ice mage "This isn't the solution and you know it"

"Perhaps, however our efforts so far have been futile" the dark mage exhaled and looked somewhat frustrated.

"We'll figure it out somehow" the blonde smiled warmly, making Zeref blush in return.

"Get a room will ya" Natsu rolled his eyes clearly not liking what he was seeing.

"A room?" Zeref raised an eyebrow clearly not understanding that hint "I'm sorry but I fail to see why we need a room in this current situation"

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Natsu roared and felt thoroughly annoyed but also unreasonably angry.

"What?" Zeref asked sounding genuinely surprised.

"Like heck you don't know what I mean! You sneaky bastard!" his eyes flashed in madness and unrestricted hatred. After all he remembered all too well that his relative had dared to kiss Lucy like it was nothing.

Blonde girls always have the most fun, huh? Ripping out hearts and using them as earrings because that's high fashion or something. Baah! Stupid girls and their retarded way of manipulating guys.

The anger was so brutal and threatening that his aura around him grew more visible. As it did he could feel it enter each of his muscles, fuelling the power behind his curse making him roar loudly, as he once more used force against the dark magic that was restraining him. This time however they snapped quite easily, earning him back his freedom to move.

"I'm done with this shit!" Natsu growled furiously "It's time I remove the fucking bitch for good!"

Not wasting time he quickly closed the gap between himself and the celestial mage, causing him to catch her off guard as he grabbed her scarf covered throat with his claw.

"Ugh!" Lucy moaned in pain as the demon tightened his hold on her.

"Let her go!" Erza growled her voice dripping with anger "Or I will behead you"

"Ohh, don't worry I intend to do that" Natsu chuckled somewhat wickedly as his wings unfolded behind him, before he bend his legs and used the position as a catalyst to shot himself high up into the air.

"Come back here!" Gray yelled before slamming a clenched fist against his other hand "Ice make..."

"No, you might hit Lucy" Erza stated as she placed a hand on the ice mage's shoulder and shot him a piercing glare "I'll take care of it"

"Fine" Gray grumbled feeling somewhat annoyed.

"Watch out!" Laxus yelled, as Gray and Erza felt heat coming from above them, but none of them had a chance to react before they felt strong arms grabbing them, making them fall and tumble on the ground until they eventually stopped.

"What..?" Erza muttered in confusion when she saw that it was the lightning mage that had grabbed them with his muscular arms.

"I told you to watch out" Laxus grumbled as he let the other mages go and got into a standing position, where he let out a loud sigh as he scanned the sky.

"Thanks..." Gray said before getting up on his feet "Where is he?"

"Gone" the lightning mage stated.

"What?! How?!" Erza growled in outrage "We were only distracted for a few seconds, how is that even possible?"

"Dunno" Laxus shrugged lazily "Evidently it was enough time for him"

"Damn it!" Erza cursed as she requipped into her Black Wing Armor "I'm going after them"

"But you don't know..." Gray started.

"I don't care!" the scarlet haired woman snarled before launching herself into the air, her wings flapping to gain more speed as she flew.

Hopefully Erza would get there in time, before something horrible happened.

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Natsu was listening to the blonde's moans and feeling her hands struggling against his claw as he flew through the air, ignoring the battle that was going on underneath them.

This time he would make sure he killed her. Ohh yess, even if he had to do something as basic as snap her neck.

The former Dragon Slayer had a lot of creative and utter horrible images of her death displaying in his mind, making him laugh out loud. Honestly the ideas was somewhat hilarious, because each and every one of them involved spilling her blood all over the place.

Everything should be coloured in a crimson colour...

The demon didn't know for how long they flew, but suddenly they were above some rather step and sharp looking mountains.

"This should do it..." he whispered to himself with a smirk, before raising Lucy up so they were eye to eye with each other.

"Nn..." the celestial mage gasped, trying to call his name but it was impossible for her to speak with his claw clenched so hard against her throat.

"You ready to die, hm?" he hummed before tilting his head to the side.

Not being able to answer Lucy just stared back at the demon, her eyes shinning with pain.

"Or do you want to plead for your life, like the pathetic human being you are" Natsu spat before he in a quick movement removed his claw from her throat and instead grasped her shoulders, preventing her from falling down.

The celestial mage didn't answer but gasped loudly, before she hungrily started breathing through her mouth to gather sufficient oxygen to enter her body.

Natsu didn't say anything, but patiently waited for the girl's answers.

Because he was a goooood demon! Ohh and on top of that he was a mother fucking dashing looking demon who knew how to dance! Haha!

A chuckle escaped his lips, making the girl send him a bewildered look.

Speaking of dancing he should teach those humans some moves when he got back. Death by dancing... how delightfully artistic, no?

The chuckle turned into a full blown laugh, making the girl in his grasp shiver from what he presumed was fright.

"I..." Lucy started in a low voice, abruptly stopping the demon's laughter.

"Yeah, go on"

"I... I want..."

"Uh huh, let me hear you say it"

"I want..."

"You want to live, right?" Natsu's lips curled back revealing his shiny teeth.

"... want him back"

"Hahaha! I thought so! I..." the demon's eyes widened when he realised what she said "... what?"

"Give him back to us!" Lucy yelled her voice filled with conviction "Please!"

"You..." Natsu growled in anger "... shouldn't say that"

"Why not? If you just give him control..."

"Like hell I'm giving anything back!" he snarled his claws digging into the girl's arms, making Lucy bite her lip to prevent herself from screaming.

"Besides..." the demon continued "... there ain't anything I can do about it. This body is consumed by the curse and there's no way it can return from that"

"What?" Lucy's eyes widened in horror.

"It's all over!" Natsu snickered "Even the rationality from the demon is gone! I'm what you might say completely insane"

"You can't..." the blonde gulped, a single droplet of sweat trailing down her forehead.

"Ohh but I can" his eyes glistened with madness, confirming his statement.

"Please..." she shook her head in denial.

"Tsch, you can please my ass all you want, that ain't gonna get you anywhere"

"But..."

"Heh, I say ass, you say butt" Natsu licked his teeth before continuing "Is this one of your perverted games?"

"N-no!" Lucy stuttered, her cheeks blushing.

"Suuuure it is"

"No!"

"Riiight..." Natsu sighed heavily, before sending the blonde a determined look "... anyway I don't have time for silly games, it's time for you to die"

"Please..." Lucy shook her head.

"Fine!" the demon groaned and rolled with his eyes "If you insist then sure why not"

With that said Natsu brought Lucy's face closer to himself, before he pressed his lips against hers, making her flinch in surprise, before her body became completely stiff.

Interesting, the demon thought as his tongue slipped through his lips, before he started trailing it against her mouth.

Lucy didn't react to his actions but kept perfectly still, probably because his actions disgusted her.

Well fuck her anyway! Natsu thought as he stopped his actions and glared at her for a brief moment, seeing that she was not at all amused.

"Ohh well" the demon shrugged "There you have it, your goodbye kiss"

Lucy opened her mouth and was about to say something when a childish laugh escaped Natsu's lips.

"Now bye by~ye" the former Dragon Slayer sang before he removed his claws from the blonde's shoulders, thereby dropping her and making her fall towards the mountains underneath him.

She was screaming his name, all the way until her falling body vanished into a deep cliff, where he soon heard the sound of something hitting the ground.

"What a relief" Natsu exhaled loudly before he started massaging the bridge of his nose "What a fucking relief"

Time to crash the party, he thought before flying in the direction the war was in.

The demon didn't fly for long before he spotted a black dot coming in his direction, making him wonder briefly who it was before the scent revealed the person's identity.

"You!" Erza shouted when she was close enough.

"Yeah me" Natsu smirked deviously "Don't tell me you missed little ol' me so much, you came all the way here"

"Where is she?" the scarlet haired woman raised her sword, not giving into his taunt.

"Ask politely, then I might answer your question" Natsu huffed before putting one of his claw like fingers into his nose, where he started digging after a bogey.

"Nngh!" clearly struggling Erza clenched her teeth together before continuing "Please tell me where Lucy is"

"In the mountains somewhere" Natsu removed the finger from his nose and lazily shot a piece of snot towards a mountain behind him "But I don't recommend going there, I mean after the fall she took, her body should be nothing more than a puddle of blood and broken bones"

"What..." Erza's hands grabbed more firmly around the hilt of her sword.

"It was simple really. I held her in the air, kissed her goodbye and then let go of her" the demon tilted his head to the side "Good enough explanation for ya?"

"She can't be..." the armored woman growled in denial.

"If you don't believe me, go see for yourself" he turned and pointed at a specific mountain "I dropped her over there, so feel free to go poke her remains"

"Tsch!" Erza snorted in anger as she flew past him and in the direction he had pointed.

And here he thought he was the crazy one... Natsu grinned widely as he flew off in the other direction, looking forward to the prospect of seeing more of his former friends die.


A/N: Ohhh I'm starting to enjoy Zeref and Lucy as a pairing. They seem so cute together for some reason *.*

Other than that I shortened the fights a bit compared to what I originally intended on including, because the situation across the battlefield has changed a lot, so I need to fasten the plot involving E.N.D, otherwise it'll end up with all guilds exterminating their enemies and them there's only Natsu + Zeref being the last villains (which would be awkward) ^^ Besides all of them are rather exhausted and I don't want to use too many "Hiro/nakama" tricks to save the plot xD

Have a nice day, y'all! :)

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