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Chapter four: The Want to Protect

Hinata's Hospital, Year 2025, June 14, Tide: 10.40am

"IDAI KOUGEKI!" a explosion of smoke and the scent of burned flesh filled the room. Lucy opened her eyes, and screamed when she saw Natsu stand in front her, seeing blood coming from his right arm. "Bastard!" the pink haired man charged forward to punch the guy, since the barrier disappeared when the stranger had to take it away to blast away his attack. Ichi'ro suddenly appeared beside Natsu, his hands shining with an yellow glow.

"Let Amelia go!" the brown haired boy roared, his eyes showing the anger he held. Just behind them were Gray and Gajeel, together with Erza and Cana. The shadowed man snorted before he jumped out from the hole in the wall, but not without having the others following after. Again he held the unconscious Amelia in one arm, starting to made strange turns and twists with his free hand while mumbling unhearable.

"*Porta Lucem, aperire!" a bright light made Natsu and the others stop to cover their eyes.

"Amelia!" Natsu took his arm away to see the face of the kidnapper, his anger exploded when he recognized the face. "HADES!" roaring the pink haired man flew onto him.

"Say bye to your daughter, Salamander." Hades said with a smile and the portal started to close. Natsu reached his hand out, but the portal closed just mere centimeters from his fingertips.

"AMELIA!"

~õ~

Erza had a hand on Lucy's shoulder while they sat at the Redfox family's house, outside the city. Cana also sat beside the blonde woman, her fist clenched so the knuckles turned white.

CRASH!

Outside in the forest, they could hear Natsu go rampage, destroying tree after tree, stones being smashed to gravel. And the roars of the anger that still boiled like hot water inside him. Gajeel and Gray were also outside, trying to calm the pink haired demon.

"Natsu! Calm down!" the heard the gruff voice of Gajeel shout, a roar was the answer he got.

"Stop destroy things before you make the police come!" Gray voice came instead after that, but he too got a earsplitting roar in answer and a big crack of a tree followed short after. "NATSU!" suddenly a big bang came and made the window vibrate. Lucy hided her face deeper into her palms. Lily and Ichi'ro jumped when another bang came from the outside. The brown haired boy glanced to the blonde haired woman and then outside from the window. Jumping off the couch he made his way to Lucy.

"Lucy-san, I think you're the only one who can stop Natsu." he said, making the woman, plus Lily, look at him.

BANG!

"Please Lucy-san." Ichi'ro took her hand in his smaller one. Nodding the blonde haired woman stood up, walking over to the door she opened it and silently closed it after her.

"God damn it Natsu! Calm down!" Gajeel roared back this time instead of shouting it. Lucy walked inside the woods, following the broken trees and then stopped to see her husband fight against his friends.

"Stay away!" she flinched when she heard the hollowed voice come out from Natsu's mouth. "Stat away from me!"

"Natsu.." Lucy slowly walked up to them, tears slowly flowing down her cheeks to drop down to the dirty ground. The pink haired man snapped his head up, his eyes nailed at hers. "Natsu please… listen to me." she started. Gajeel and Gray looked at each other before stay to the side, following the blonde woman's step towards the wild demon. Cupping his face in her hands, she brought him down to her own so their eyes were in the same height. Lucy looked at him, his teeth had turned to sharp fangs, his nails turned to long black claws and his eyes shined like a wolf's in the full moon.

"L.. ucy.." he slowly said, while he turned back to his human form again. A small smile appeared on the said woman's lips when Natsu looked with those dark onyx eyes she loved. Natsu's arms hung by his sides, and suddenly he fell down on his knees, arms wrapping around her waist. At first Lucy's eyes was wide but softened when she saw a tear roll down his left cheek. Stroking a hand through his soft locks of pink hair, she let more tears escape her eyes. Crouching down on her knees too, she laid her arms around his neck, making his face crush onto her chest.

"Don't hide you sadness…" her voice cracked at the last word. Natsu brought his head up, facing her it was his turn to cup her face, drying the tears away.

"I'm sorry… it feels like it is my fault.. but I will take her back." he whispered, slowly he kissed her. "I promise." he again whispered.

Place Unknown, Year Unknown, Date Unknown, Tide: Unknown

Hades laughed, finally he had the daughter of the Salamander, his resolve to get the power he had searched for ages. Looking over to the steel table, were Amelia laid with her wrists and ankles attached at it with chains, his already wide smirk grew even wider. Walking over to her, he let his hand went through the girl's collar long pink hair.

"My little angel, you will be the key to get the power of Yin and Yang united light." he said, taking some strands between his index finger and thumb he laughed. "Amelia Kimo Dragneel, your life is in my hands now."

"Hades-sama, Kain is waiting for you." a maid said, bowing down to her master.

"Thank you Shii, tell him I'll come in a few minutes." Hades said, waving with his hand he gave her the signal to go.

"Hai, Hades-sama."

"Are you sure it was Hades you saw, Natsu?" Makarov asked the pink haired man.

"Yes, I will never forget his face." he answered, his eyes filled with hate. "But I thought I killed him fifteen years ago when he was in Lucy's soul.."

"Apparently he made it out from Lucy's soul before he died." the old man sighed. The silence in the room that came after that wasn't awkward more like it was like to be on a funeral. "But either way, Gray Gajeel, you two will follow Natsu to *Makai."

"Do you think he is there?" Gray asked, his eyes a bit wide by the place's name.

"Yes, creatures like Hades have their homes there." Makarov said, jumping down to the floor from the little TV-table, he tapped with his staff three times at the ground. A blue circle appeared under them. "Remember, you three have three days until the portal will close.

"Hai." all three said in unison. But suddenly the door to the room flung open and in came Ichi'ro but a hand grabbed him.

"Mom, release me!" the brown haired boy struggled against the hold from Cana. The woman frowned.

"I said no, you can't go with dad." she said, pulling him towards her. "Please continue Makarov." Cana said, her hold of Ichi'ro's arm got tighter.

"Ahem, well off you three will go." clapping his hands together, the three men lifted from the ground a bit.

'Amelia, just wait-' the pink haired man thoughts were cut off by Cana's voice.

"ICHI'RO!" Natsu looked to his side to see the little Fullbuster had escaped from his mother's hold and was now running towards them. Just when they was about to disappear, Ichi'ro got inside the magical circle and fast faded with them to the other world.

~õ~

"Woaaaah!" Gajeel landed on the ground first, but when he was about to get up, Gray and Natsu fell on him and last was Ichi'ro. Laying there, there four of them groaned in pain.

"Didn't he say that we would land on our feet?" Gray hissed, standing up and dusted himself off.

"That damn old man, he can't even make us land just on the ground, instead he made us fall 30 feet." Natsu sort of answered, suddenly a groan, which did not come from Gajeel or Gray, took his attention. Looking down he saw Ichi'ro lay flat on his stomach, running his already messy spikes of brown hair.

"Ouch, that hurt.." he mumbled, but shrieked when he was pulled up by the collar and was face to face with his father's angry face.

"Ichi'ro!"

"Hai!" the boy's hands flew up in the air in fear.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Gray asked, not soft, instead he sounded pretty mad at the boy.

"W-well.. I want so save Amelia too." he answered, now frowning. He didn't like the voice his father used, the voice when sounded like he was disappointed and most of all really angry at him.

"You little brat, you're to young and you haven't learn anything about your powers as a *Kokei Reitou!"

"I have learned some few things! And they are powerful ones to!" Natsu looked at the two Fullbuster boys.

"Gray, let go of him." the pink haired man said. Gray glared at him but still let his son down to the ground again. "Ichi'ro, it doesn't matter how powerful your attacks are the only thing that makes a man strong is the will to protect the one he want to safe that makes him stronger than any other guy." crouching down to the brown haired boy, he laid a hand on his shoulder. "Do you understand what I mean?"

"That I can only be stronger if I'm near the person I want to protect?"

"Correct, fifteen years ago when Lucy and I met, I was one of the persons who think raw power made you strong." he paused to look at Ichi'ro. "But when I got Lucy in trouble the feeling of 'protecting' flew through my body and made me understand that I can't beat someone with just the most powerful attacks I got, I had to fight by the will to protect her."

"So you mean you loved auntie Lucy before you even knew it?" Natsu chuckled, that boy was smarter than he thought.

"You can say it like that too. But you got what I meant, right?" Ichi'ro nodded a yes. "Good." patting the boy's shoulder he was about to stand up when the brown haired boy said something that made him stop. "What did you say?"

"I said… that I want to protect Amelia because she is the one I.. love" Blushing Ichi'ro looked up to the pink haired man, his eyes showing nothing but the truth. Natsu smiled, ruffling the boy's hair.

"Then I trust you on that." he said. A toothy smile spread across Ichi'ro face, showing a fist up in the air.

"Hai!"

~õ~

Meanwhile back with Lucy and the other's, they tried to calm a certain brown haired woman down.

"Cana please, try to relax." Erza said, holding said woman back against the armchair.

"I have to get Ichi'ro back!" she shouted, trying again to get away from the redhead's grasp but failed.

"Please Cana, Ichi'ro will be fine, Gray is with him." Lucy said, holding Cana's left arm.

"That's why I didn't want him to go!"

"Jeez, what could possibly happen? That he will start a fight with uncle Gray to show who is the strongest?" Lily asked.

"Exactly! You can't see anything that's not broken after they had have a fight!" Cana shouted. Lily pictured something in her minds that looked like a battlefield, sweat dropping the girl made a wry face.

"I think auntie Cana is exaggerating a little to much.."

End of chapter four! :D Hope you enjoyed it, and it was a but humor in this chapter too ^^

The scene with Cana being held back by Lucy and Erza, I got it from a OVA from Fairy Tail when they are in school ;) it's when Bisqa, Alzack, Levy and some more had to hold Elfman back when Mirajane was kidnapped by Gajeel and his gang :3 lolz that was so funny that I almost laughed my ass off 8D

And the other scene with Natsu and Ichi'ro was just soooo adorable ^^ I can truly picture that ;)

*Porta Lucem, aperire = Portal of the Light, open

*Idai Kougeki = The Greatest Attack

*Kokei Reitou = Solid Freezer

*Yin and Yang = Sun and Moon

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