DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL! :(

NO FLAMING OR CRITICS PLEASE!

Natsu's eyes popped open as he woke up from his dream.

It was silent in his house, without Happy there.

Happy had been staying with Wendy and Carla, because he wanted Natsu to sleep better.

Natsu didn't want to get up, not even to go on a mission, but eventually, he fixed himself up, and glanced in the mirrors. His skin was pale, and dark purple bags slept under his eyes.

He walked past his reflection, and trudged towards the guild.

Once he got there, he sat down by the bar, and lay his head on his arms.

No. He didn't want to sleep, but he was so tired, that it gave him a headache to even think.

Lucy had been in the guild for a while, she was going to ask Natsu if he wanted to go on a job with her and the rest of the team, but he w

as asleep at the bar.

"Is he okay?" Lucy wondered aloud.

"Yeah, I'm sure he's fine," Gray said, though a look of worry sat in his eyes.

"What's wrong with Natsu?" Erza asked, approaching Lucy and Gray.

Both mages shrugged.

"Should we wake him?" Wendy asked.

"Maybe..." Lucy muttered.

She strode causally towards Natsu, and just before she touched his back, his eyes shot open, he lifted his hand faster then Lucy could blink, and grabbed her wrist before she touched him.

Natsu wasn't himself for a second, he stared glaring at Lucy, a wild look in his eyes.

Then it disappeared, and he looked like himself again.

He let go of her wrist and looked back at the bar.

Lucy looked at him sadly, and glanced behind her. Her friend were starting to walk towards them, Lucy beckoned them to stay there, and they obliged.

Lucy turned back to Natsu.

"A-are you all right?"

Natsu didn't reply for a moment, then he looked up with bloodshot eyes. "No."

Lucy put her hand on his shoulder. "What's wrong?"

Natsu blinked back tears, which surprised Lucy very much.

"I c-can't sleep, Luce."

"But you were sleeping a second ago-"

"No...I mean, every time I sleep, I have a dream- nightmare. A-and it's like whenever I fall asleep, it doesn't count for sleep at all...I'm so tired...and I can't sleep." Natsu explained.

Lucy let out a sad sigh. "Oh, Natsu...maybe we should go and talk about it with everyone else?"

Natsu but his lip, but nodded. He tried to stand, but his legs gave away, he was lucky Lucy was there to help him.

He looked up and she smiled down at him.

Natsu smiled back, and the two gazed at each other's eyes, until Lucy blushed madly, and helped him up.

"What's wrong?" Erza asked.

Lucy explained the situation, and then everyone nodded.

"Gray, Happy, could you two please take Natsu up to the medical wing?"

"Why?" Natsu asked.

"You want to sleep do you not? I have a way to do it."

The boys nodded and took Natsu up.

Juvia, Levy, Canna, Wendy Carla and Erza turned to Lucy.

"Um, yes?"

Erza grinned. "Was there something incriminating about Natsu's eyes?"

Lucy's face switched to red. "What? No! We-"

"You two are just perfect!" Levy said.

"No! No we're not!"

"Your in denial Luce." Wendy agreed.

"Juvia thinks you two should get together! Less competition for Juvia for my Gray-Sama!"

Lucy stared at them in shock. "N-no! No. I was only trying to help!"

"I'm sure..." Canna mumbled.

Lucy growled.

Erza chuckled. "Alright, let's go see how Natsu is doing Lucy,"

Canna Juvia and Levy parted ways and the other three clambered upstairs to the medical wing.

Natsu was snoring on a bed, his arms and legs spread our and the blankets falling off the bed.

Gray was standing in the cOrner, and Happy was sitting on a chair next to Natsu's bed.'Is he sleeping?' Lucy thought. 'Or is he pretending for us?'

Lucy walked towards the bed, staring down at him. Memories flashed in her mind.

All the times she and Natsu had together, that we're "'romantic'".

They were all wonderful.

"Natsu!" Zeref screamed, and raced towards the river his brother had just fallen in.

Zeref opened his eyes in a haze.

"That...dream." Zeref muttered to himself.

He remembered it all to well.

...

Zeref raced to the river side, searching franticly for his brother. He didn't see him at all. Zeref started getting angry. And an angry Zeref, is not a good thing.

Suddenly a hand emerged from the water.

"Natsu!" Zeref exclaimed in relief, as he waded into the river to help his brother. "I-I told you you would fall!"

Natsu was shivering. "S-sorry...big b-brother..."

Zeref pulled him all the way out of the water and warmed him up.

"You silly boy!" Zeref said. "You scared me half to death!"

Natsu looked back up at Zeref, and smiled. "I apologized."

Zeref shook his head in disbelief. "I love you, Natsu. Thanks for being okay."

Natsu nodded. "Thanks for saving me,"

"I would never think twice about saving you, brother."

Natsu nodded again, and the two boys looked at the setting sun.

"What...happened to mom and dad?"

Zeref felt a lump appear in his throat, and a heavy foot of guilt stomp onto his chest. He couldn't tell Natsu the truth. He

couldn't.

"You would hate me if I told you." Zeref said, tears forming in his eyes.

"I would never hate you." Natsu replied, putting his hand on Zeref's shoulder.

Zeref sighed. He decided it was for the better to tell him. "Mom, and dad...t-they died because of me, Natsu."

"I-I don't remember..." Natsu murmured. "Please tell me the rest of the story."

Zeref closed his eyes, remembering the day. "You were only one. Mom and Dad were trying their bests to teach me how to use my magic. I-it's incontrollable,"
Natsu nodded, he had gotten a close-up look at what his brother could do one day when a street thief stole Natsu's bag of food. "They had you in the house, and we we're in the field. That's when the house caught fire. Of course, we didn't know you would be okay then, and we got a person to help us. But...h-he...was insane. And he tried to kill you, and mom, and dad. He cut chichi across the gut, and I...I got angry. You know what happens when I'm angry, Otouto. Mother, and father didn't make it through, neither did the man. But you did. You did, Natsu. You survived. But I killed them."

Natsu stared at his brother in disbelief.

"I knew you would hate me. I'm a monster." Zeref buried his head in his hands.

Natsu sat there for a moment, the toddler not knowing what to do. But, then he embraced Zeref. "Your not a monster, Zeref. Your my brother. And I love you."

Zeref hugged him back.

...

"A monster..." Zeref said. "I have always been a monster, Natsu...and I know you don't love me now...and my acts were monstrous, when I killed mother and father, and that man...but that is nothing compared to what I was."

Zeref then looked around. "When will that messenger return?"

Natsu opened his eyes again. There were no dreams when he slept. Where were they?

Natsu pulled himself out of the bed, and clambered out of the medical wing. He found his friends downstairs in the main room of the guild.

"How did you sleep?" Lucy wondered when Natsu came next to her.

"B-better."

Lucy examined him. "You defiantly look better! That stuff that Gray used defiantly put you to sleep."

Natsu nodded in agreement.

Suddenly, the doors of the guild burst open.

A man stood there, grinning like an insane person.

"Who are you!?" Freed demanded immediately.

"A message bearer! Heh, heh..." The man said. "I've come to deliver a message!"

He closed the doors to the guild, and smiled widely at all of them.

"Get out!" A guild member exclaimed.

"Hmm...no." The man chuckled.

Elfman tried attacking, but his attack bounced off the man easily.

"Don't even try to attack me, weaklings." The man rolled his eyes at the guilds efforts. "I have the created protective spell of Goddo Serena!"

The man cleared his voice. "You can call me Messenger! Heh, heh, ironic name, considering I'm here to deliver a message! Ha! How funny is that?"

Messenger stopped laughing at his own joke. " Anyways, down to business! To deliver this certain message, I'm going to have to have everyone here! Where is your master?"

"Right here!" Gramps voice echoed off the walls.

"Good!" Messenger said happily. "The whole group! Ahem, the message is...one of you is hiding a very dirty secrete. Heh. That's for later though, I'll have to figure out transport-uh, lets continue with this message!"

Messenger started walking around the guild, eying everyone. "I am a messenger of Zeref. And yes, before you say anything, I am a demon he created years ago. He did kill me...yes, but he summoned me again from the underworld! And he made me...flesh again. My old self! Anyways, I came here to actually...warn one of you, or all of you. One of you has seen Zeref a whole two times! I know the first time when he returned, a few of you saw him!"

Messenger put his hand to his chin. "The names...names...oh yes! Ahem, Elfman, Evergreen, Happy the blue cat! Yes those ones. They all got to see Zeref. But one of you has seen him twice, and...survived."

"Twice? Who!?" Someone shouted.

Natsu shifted his feet. He hadn't told anyone about the other encounter with Zeref, with the tartaros arc.

"The name, I know. But wouldn't it be better if you all...guessed?" Messenger wondered.

No one replied.

"Fine then, I don't want to spoil the name just yet, so I'm going to walk around the room, and say..."no" if it's not you, and "yes" if it is. I'd rather like to determine the face, so I remember what they look like,"

Messenger looked at Lucy. "No."

He turned to Erza. "Mmm, no."

He walked around the room, repeating the word: "no".

Messenger stopped at Gray. "Hey, I've seen you before, you scary person. Let me take one step away from you, if you don't mind."

"Not at all." Gray murmured.

"Hmmm," Messenger looked hard at Gray. "Uh...no."

Then he finally stopped at Natsu, and looked at him in the face, a grin twitching at the edges of his lips. He got close to Natsu's face, and grinned full way. "Oh, so it's you." He muttered, so only Natsu could here.

He took one breath, still close to Natsu's face, and yelled. "Yes!"

Everyone gasped and stared at Natsu.

"And why you didn't share this information with your colleagues, I don't know! Maybe it's because you didn't trust them? Or because you felt it was a strange connection between you and Zeref? Hell if I know! But I defiantly know it's, you."

Messenger bit his lip. "Oh, I'm always so bad with names! But I do know your name. It's legendary. Natsu Dragneel!"

The man chuckled. "You met him again with the whole tartaros arc thing! Yep. He talked with you, didn't he. I know your all wondering why, Zeref has visited Natsu twice and not yet killed him. Your thinking: 'is there something about Natsu that Zeref likes?' Well, the answer is, yes. There absolutely most certainly is. But, Imma not gonna tell ya what it is. Nope. That's for Zeref and Natsu to deal out on their own time."

Messenger grinned.

"But he has one simple message to all of you!" Messenger exclaimed. "The message is,: 'Stay Away from me. All of you Fairies, stay away. You are meddling with power you are uncertain with, stop hunting me. I realize I have done wrong, and that I deserve to die, a very, very painful death. But only one can defeat me. And it's none of you'."

Natsu knew the message wasn't meant for him.

"But I have also here with me in my mind, a message to Natsu. See, that other message was meant for the rest of you. This one is for you. 'You must choose. The choice is yours. Natsu Dragneel. E.N.D. You know you want to know more about him. Come and find me, Natsu. I miss you.'" Messenger said loudly.

Natsu took a step back. "W-what?"

"For now, that's all I have to say. Think about the words everyone! Think!"

Messenger was about to leave. "Oh, wait, I forgot something."

Messenger turned and walked up to Natsu again, staring at him in the eyes. The man's breath tickled Natsu's face as he breathed slowly, and whispered. "I'll see you soon."

Then with the flick of Messenger's wrist, he was gone.

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