Chapter 14

"Human talking"

'Human thoughts'

"Demon talking"

'Demon thoughts'

"Dragon talking"

'Dragon thoughts'

"Hybrid talking"

'Hybrid thought'

•A few hours later in the land of Isvan east of Fiore.•

Natsu drops from the the night sky onto a hillside. He looks around at his surroundings as he usually does, and notices a building that fit the description of what the man from earlier today told him. "Hmm it seems he wasn't lying, the place is exactly how he described it. He called it the Bureau of Magical Development, it sure is build quite odd." The building Natsu was speaking about was the Bureau of Magical Development where many magical experiments take place under the eye of the director of some guy named Brain, or what Natsu heard about and was told by the human who told him about this where this place is.

Natsu looks at the structure that researches magic, it took on an otherwordly, mechanical appearance: it was an extremely high building, seemingly composed of metal, whose shape was highly reminiscent of a crescent moon which match the one on the sky this night, leaning on the ground with one edge, with a series of massive, dark cable-like structures linking its lower curved part to the ground and holding it in place. At the building's base and scattered here and there throughout its mass were red parts protruding outwards in several directions, while the rest of the structure was metallic in color, with many more, slender parts jutting outwards throughout its perimeter, these having been reminiscent of antennas or pipes.

Natsu sniffs the surrounding area to catch anything of his interest. "*sniffs sniffs* there's definitely some powerful wizards in that building and *sniffs sniffs* no way this is too perfect. I wonder why would he want to associate himself with humans?" Natsu said in a puzzled tone. "It doesn't matter but the magic power he's emitting it's not what it use to be, so what that fucking leaf loving dragon said was true then are all dragons had a huge portion of their souls have been taking from them by Acnologia." The demon child said as he looks for a opening to sneak into the building.

A few minutes later Natsu is in ventilation system of the building trying to find the magic scent that he caught earlier and this Master Zero that was supposed to be challenge for Natsu. 'This place has a nasty vide to it, it's all cold and metallic it's like the inside of a metal sphere. Whatever he's scent is getting stronger...' Thought Natsu as he continued way through the inside of the Bureau of Magical Development ventilation system.

As he heads to the dragon scent to he caught earlier he stops suddenly as he hears a scream. 'What the hell was that? Wait a minute that scent *sniff* it can't be this is too perfect. A Etherious is here.' Natsu said to himself in his mind as he mentally jumps up and down, happy that he is not only going to kill a dragon but a Etherious too, it must be his lucky day. The screams can be heard all over the facility, the screams where clearly coming from a female in agony. This puzzles the demon why would a Etherious be scream in pain, especially in a place like this? Natsu curiosity got the better off him and makes a detour to the Etherious first. After a few turns he and there, he carefully slips out of the vent and climbs on the top of the vent where the light is not hitting. He hides in the shadows like a bat in the dark. Natsu sees a pitch black haired girl wearing a traditional kimono and matching sandals, she looked around the same age of Kagura. But unlike Kagura she has a certain feature that Natsu could relate to, she has two giant horns sticking out of each side of her head. Natsu also sees why the Etherious is screaming in pain.

'There experimenting on her, it's look like there trying to amplify her magic powers. I don't recognize this Etherious, perhaps Zeref or Mard Geer give life to her or something, then again there's a lot I don't remember clearly. *sniff* *sniff* wait no she's part human, she's a hybrid? No she's smells human but Etherious at the same time, a hybrid smells like a combination of the two. Is she a human turned like me? I guess I got to ask her myself. This girl can definitely be useful' Thought Natsu as he get ready to jump to the floor to ask this Etherious girl some questions.

He looks down at the huge laboratory, that has a round and very deep pit, with carved, light walls, crossed by a series of web-like wires used to tie the black haired girl up and suspend her over the chasm. The barely visible ceiling seemed to be full of round holes, with light coming out from them making easy for Natsu to hide as the light coming out from the holes are more concentrated and focus on one spot. The floor is surrounded by several people wearing lab coats, some armed guards and a certain man with dark skin and white hair.

'That big guy with the white hair I've seen him before oh that right his name is Brain, so he must be working with Zero then. He seems pretty strong.' Thought Natsu waited for a good time to drop down.

•Meanwhile with Brain and the black haired Etherious•

"Stop please ahhhhhh!" Yelled the little girl who is hooked up on down machine with the wires she's connected to are sending electricity through her body.

"Sir Sayla's magic energy is rising up, should raise up the voltage?" Asked one of the lab working to Brain, the white haired man simply turns to them. "Of course she is the key to the greatest magical break through ever." Said the man as the working puts more voltage on electric shock, resulting in the Etherious named Sayla to scream even louder. The pain becomes to much for the young demon to endure and passes out, Brain orders them to stop as the experiment only works when the 'subject' is conscience.

"Get her down and return her to her room so she can rest, we'll do it again as soon as she wakes up." Brain orders to the lab workers, who only nodded. He then turns around to exit the lab. 'On to my another guess.' Thought Brain walking to his other laboratory. The lab worker bring Sayla down from the machine she was connect to and take her to her room so she can rest. As soon as she is returns to her room, she is put on the bed they made for her, one of the workers stays in her room as she sleeps so they can take her back to the laboratory as soon as she wakes up. The lab worker is sitting on a sit reading a magazine as a certain pink haired demon pair of hands slowly appear behind the worker, and in a split second Natsu snaps the worker's neck. Natsu sees a stream of blood leaking out from the man's left ear, the demon with his hands still on the lab workers head, carefully twists his head back in place. Natsu grabs the magazine the man was reading and places it back in his hands, so it looks like he's reading the magazine normally.

'I wonder how their going to react when they find their comrade dead in a quite normal position.' Thought Natsu as he takes a look at the dead lab workers body sitting on the chair and holding the magazine. He then turns to Sayla who was pass out from the pain. He places her on his shoulders and open the window in the room.

'The mountain I landed on earlier had a cave, I can place her there in the meantime.' Thought Natsu jumps out of the window and flies to the mountain he was thinking about. He lands carefully and places the demon in the cave laying on the cave walls to support her. As soon as Natsu made sure no animals or people could wonder into cave by destroying the path to the cave, he turns to the Bureau and launches himself. As Natsu is only a few feet away from the structure, he sticks out his fist out and a air bubble starts to form.

"Tremor magic Shockwave!" The demon yelled as he punched the building sending a powerful shockwave through the building causing it to shake and rumble. The point of the impact created a giant hole that Natsu land on and started to make his way through the structure so he can kill the dragon and fight this Zero. As he runs through the Bureau following the scent of the dragon he starts to encounters some of the guards and begins to fight them all, as he fights them off he notices the damage he cause with the shockwave from his tremor magic.

'I put enough power in my shockwave to destroy this place, put it only did about 20% of the damage it was supposed to do. This place definitely has a insanely strong magic barrier around it to fend off magical attacks, well most of them. Whatever I got to hurry up them these weaklings, I'm need to save all my strength for Abraxas and Zero. Then again Brain is pretty strong fuck it I'll fight all three off them.' Thought Natsu as he continues his way through the guards and building personnel.

•Meanwhile with Brain on the other side of the Bureau.•

Brain walks into another laboratory very similar to the one he had Sayla in but the pit where their 'subjects' are hooked up to is at least 30x bigger. The 'subject' that is hooked up on the machine is a huge black dragon with neon green colored orbs over his body, he his Abraxas the purgatory dragon. The dragon like Sayla is screaming in pain but unlike Sayla they are not trying to amplify his magical abilities, they are taking the dragons magic or whatever is left out of his body. Brain nods at the lab workers who are busy experimenting on the Purgatory dragon Abraxas. Brain sees a man his sitting on a chair smiling at the dragon getting his power ripped from him. "So how's are guess?" Asked Brain to the man. The man turns to Brain.

"I think he's had better days." Answered a paled red eyed man who has the same exact colored hair as Brain but wavier. His outfit is reminiscent of a military officer's outfit. He is Zero the man Natsu was told about and the reason why Natsu is there in the first place.

"I felt the tower shaking just a few moments ago do you know anything of it?" Asked Zero.

"It was probably Sayla trying to escape again or maybe some of the guards getting bored and playing with their magic again." Answered Brain not knowing what really cause that shaking.

"This magnificent creature's power and that Etherious you found are going to be the foundation of humanity next step to are evolution, wouldn't not agreed Master Zero?" Asked Brain to Zero who just kept staring at the dragon who is getting grained of his magic.

'You poor ignorant fool Brain. Evolution? No that girls DNA fused with this dragons power are going to make a weapon of pure destruction that is going to scar the Earth itself. Evolution is a dream of fools. Destruction is the only thing that matters in this world.' Thought Zero.

"So Brain how is Say-" "WAHHHHHHHH! E.N.D!' NOOOOOO!" Abraxas yells in pain. Both men are stunned at this, the dragon has not said one word since they found it, even when they started to steal his magic power he didn't say anything only scream. Brain and Zero noticed that Abraxas is throwing out more energy now, and it's getting to a dangerous point that it can destroy the machine. As both men where about to do something about the dragon to control him, they both get knocked on the ground by something.

"What in blazes hit us?" Asked Zero as he stands up.

"I don't know. Wait that a guard." Said Brain looking at the bloody corpse of a guard, he determine that the guard was the thing that hit them. He then feels the magic energy of a certain Etherious coming towards them. Zero orders the lab workers station there to stabilize or relaxed the dragon before he destroys the machine and gets free. Once that was done he turns to see Brain standing in the same spot that he was standing before looking somewhat amazed. Zero walks to him and sees the reason why his associate has that look on his face. They see Natsu walking with a smile on his face and blood on his Onslaught, not only that as he walked he's leaving a bloody trail behind. Natsu sees the two men standing next one another.

"So your Brain and Zero right?" Asked Natsu stopping a few feet from them.

"Yes young man I am Brain. What a pleasant surprise that you are here Natsu Dragnologia." Welcome Brain in a cheerful tone.

"Interesting the Onslaught of the fairies is invading my laboratory. The question is why?" Zero stated calmly.

"I wanted a fight so I asked one of the lowly rats that worked for you where I can find you and I ended up here." Natsu responded in a gleeful tone, it was cleared that Natsu was clearly enjoying himself. The demon takes a look at the two mages before him then moves his gaze at the dragon who was clearly in some kind of distress. 'It seems that Abraxas knows I'm here, that explains why he's so angry. Soon you fucking dragon I'll put you out of your misery' Thought Natsu shifting with gaze back at the Zero and Brain. Without a warning Natsu attacks them both.

"Hellfire Dragon Roar!" The demon lets out a hellfire blast from his mouth. Brain waves his dark wooden staff to make a barrier that blocked them from the attack. As the smoke cleared from the attack Natsu jumps out of the smoke and punches the barrier with a air bubble covered fist, this catches Brain off guard causing the barrier to shattered. Natsu quickly covers his left leg with chaos magic attaches several long chaos strings to his foot and kicks Brain in the gut not only kicking him in the cut but also cutting him resulting in for the man start to bleed profusely.

"W-what d-did you jus *crack*" Brain couldn't finished what he was saying as Natsu punches him in the back of the head knocking him out.

"One down two to go." The pinkette whispered to himself shaking off the blood on his fist.

"Very impressive young demon. You manage to take out Brain with relative ease, but I'm going to be a different story." Said Zero as his magic aura started to glow from his body giving off a dark greenish tone to it. Natsu sees this a grin wider.

"Everybody continue your work and guards stand by." Zero ordered the lab workers to keep working on Abraxas and the guards to stand by and wait for his orders.

'So Zero wants to fight one on one, fine by me.' Thought Natsu.

"I made the perfect choice to come here. Your magic strength is truly scary I can feel the darkness within you. Now fight me." Natsu said rushing towards Zero with dark magic covered claw.

"Dark Claw!"

"Dark Carpriccio Palm!"

Both dark magic based attack clash resulting in the laboratory equipment and it's workers getting hit by the dark magic indirectly. Both Zero and Natsu start to go at it with their fists and kicks, after a few minutes they both launch a kick mid air breaking their unison as it connected send them back.

"I applaud you Onslaught of the fairies, at such a young age you are able to keep up with me very impressive. But I know for a fact that right now if you and me where to go full strength you will come out victorious. I know it's not tested but this is a life or death situation so. You lab workers bring me the serum NOW!" Demanded Zero.

"B-but sir we haven't tested it yet the serum might ki-"

"I don't care. GIVE IT NOW!" Zero yelled at the lab workers who raced to give him a beaker full of deep dark liquid with a hint of neon green in it. Natsu just stands there not knowing what exactly is going on, but is interested in knowing what's going to happen next. Zero starts to chug the liquid and immediately starts to move uncontrollably and starts to scream.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" Yelled the man in agony. Natsu feels a spike in his magic energy, not only that but he also feels Abraxas magic now in Zero.

"What the fuck? So that thing he drink was Abraxas magic energy." Natsu whispered to himself while Zero body starts to change. Zero body starts grow and bulk up rapidly, neon green orbs start to sprout all over Zero body as well as pitch black scales. After a few moments of tossing and twitching Zero stands perfectly still. He now stands over 10ft tall with muscles on top of muscles, orbs and scales all over his body, his eyes turned completely white, and his mouth completely changed from one of a regular human to one that resembles that of sea creature. His top part of his uniform ripped from the transformation only leaving his pants still intact Natsu thank god that he didn't need to see that part of the transformation. Zero completely turned into a abomination of a man who is half human and half dragon and half whatever.

Zero stares at Natsu with a psychotic look on his face. "Well this a surprise I thought I would lose my mind but it seems that transformation is successful I feel the power of the dragon in me its flowing through my veins." Zero said in a dragonize voice, the lab workers and the guards station there all started to relaxed seeing how Zero is completely in control of his transformation. They start to move towards Zero so they can help him deal with Natsu who is a trespasser.

"Master Zero we will assist you to eliminate this demon." Said one of the guards. Zero turns slightly to the lab workers and guards, "That won't be necessary all of your services won't be needed anymore." Zero said confusing everybody there.

SLASH. SLAPSH. CRACK.

In a spilt second Zero just killed three guards like nothing completely disembodied them. The rest of the guards and lab workers start to run for their lives but ultimately where gutted by Zero. Natsu just stood in the same spot observing the situation. Once Zero was finished he turns to Natsu covered in the blood of the people who assisted him in his experiments and lab work.

"Well I guess it's just you and me, oh I forgot Brain is still alive and my dragon friend over there." Zero stated looking at Brain unconscious body and turning around to see Abraxas also in a comatose stated.

"You know that dragon's blood is going to kill you." Natsu spoke up, causing Zero to turn to the pinkette demon.

"Oh really? How would you know? It didn't matter it's time to die!" Zero rushes towards Natsu with his fist clenched at breakneck speed, Natsu quickly puts his arms up to block but the forced from the punched put Natsu through the wall next to the laboratory. Natsu stands up from rubble that was caused by Natsu being put though the wall, blood starts to drip from his mouth, he wipes the blood and smiles.

"That's what I'm taking about hehe this is going to be fun." The demon says taking his Onslaught off his back, he sees Zero coming towards him and rushes towards him, both monsters collided causing the building to shake