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Btw-I kinda made this story up...because it's a fan fiction, and IDK what the parents names are. So they are going to be mother and father.
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"What shall we name him?"
"...Zeref."
"What a wonderful name...Zeref Dragneel. Our musuko."
"Right from the start, the parents knew that this boy was going to be special." Natsu explained to the intrigued Messenger. "So, the boy grew to the age of four...and things started changing."
"Zeref-musuko?" Called a kind, manly voice, full of warmth and love for his family.
"Yes, father?" Replied the young polite, Zeref Dragneel.
"He is here, Zeref."
Zeref's face quickly lit up. "H-he is? My otouto?"
"Yes. Come and see him."
Zeref hurriedly followed his father through hallways in the cushy home they lived in. Zeref had been advised, more of actually demanded, to leave his mother. She had been pregnant for only a few months, and Zeref had heard it was going to be a boy. He was going to be a big brother.
But the look on his father's face looked worried and agitated, not the normal warm face.
"Father...?" Zeref wondered, stopping a moment. "...are you all right?"
Father stopped in his tracks, and turned around. "Zeref-musuko..."
His voice was still warm, and kind...but his expression...
Father sighed. "You must follow me."
Zeref gingerly nodded, and followed his father. They reached a decent sized room, one that would be comfortable for birthing a child. It was to make mother comfortable while she was in labor.
Zeref stopped when his eyes rested on a little form in his mother's arms. From the baby's head, was a little mess of pink hair. Already. Zeref smiled, but then his smile faded when he saw the look of worry on his mothers face.
Immediately, he took the liberty of rubbing his mothers back.
"What's the problem mother? You're all right? Aren't you?"
Mother nodded, her dark hair falling in front of her face. She nodded as if she were fine. But the tears showed otherwise.
Zeref peeked over his mother's shoulder, and narrowed his eyes. The baby was semi skinny, a tiny thing, actually, dark rings were sleeping under the baby's big eyes, but the baby's eyes were closed. His chest was barley moving, it wasn't right.
"W-what is wrong with him?"
Mother looked over at him with her dark brown eyes, staring into Zeref's coal-colored eyes. Her eyes were red and puffy, and her lip kept quivering, her shoulders shaking. "Z-Zeref..."
Father sat down next to Zeref. "H-he...the baby is sick."
Zeref frowned.
"He has only minutes to live."
Zeref felt his own eyes being filled with tears.
"May I hold him, mother?"
Mother nodded slowly, and gently placed the baby with salmon colored hair in Zeref's arms.
"Come on...let me make you some tea." Father guided mother out, the midwife also left, figuring Zeref would want some time with his brother, who was condemned to die.
Zeref stared at him.
It was a new life. A fresh start, a little boy...but he would not live?
Zeref's heartbeat fast, as he stared at the baby for minutes. He didn't know how long he was there, but eventually, he came back to reality, and let a tear slip from his face.
It landed on the baby's face.
Suddenly, the eyes of the baby boy opened.
Zeref gasped, as he saw a dark little cloud disappearing.
"Otouto?" Zeref whispered, and stared into the eyes of his little brother.
They looked similar, besides the fact that they had different colored hair...his eyes were the exact same as Zeref's.
But in some light...looked brown, but was, in fact, black.
Then the baby smiled, and so did Zeref.
"Mother! Father!" He exclaimed. "Come quickly!"
His parents rushed into the room very quickly.
"His eyes! They are open!"
The midwife ran into the room as well, and took an examination.
"H-he...he is well! How is this possible!?" She pondered.
"Well...it's a miracle!" Mother said.
"We will name him Natsu, for he was born in the summer."
"Natsu Dragneel...Natsu-ani."
"It was only a few years later when it happened." Natsu said sternly, staring off into the distance, remembering it vividly. "Of course, this is after my parents were killed. I don't remember that part...but this...this...I remember..."
"Zewef!" Natsu called. "ZEWEF!"
"Natsu-ani! What's wrong!?" Zeref exclaimed, running over to his brother.
"I don't feel gwood." Natsu complained, holding his stomach.
Zeref frowned. "Natsu, I left only five minutes ago, and you're feeling bad? What kind of "not good" is it? You don't look sick..."
"I feewel...wike...I'm gonna...dwie..."
Zeref scowled. "Natsu...?"
Natsu suddenly and unexpectedly slipped to the ground.
"Natsu!" Zeref cried. "Natsu! What's wrong!?"
"Zewef...I have a heawdache..."
"Look...what we have here. Two stupid boys."
Obviously the voice of a drunk man.
Zeref looked up, glaring at who stood there.
The Dragneel brothers had recently made their way back to their parents graves.
"You two are pathetic..." The man mumbled, and kicked mother's grave.
Zeref stood up, Natsu pulling himself up as well, despite his pain. The man laughed. "The pink kids got the virus. It's been going around for at least five years. Aheheh...it's semi rare...and it kills. No cure. He's a goner."
The man grabbed Natsu, and threw him into a tree, Zeref about to run over to help him, but the man spoke again.
The man started laughing again. "You two can't do any thing against me. I'm bored. I want to destroy this."
He kicked father's grave, and started trying to tear them down.
Zeref felt anger boiling inside him. First he had blatantly told Natsu that he was going to die, then he had thrown his brother into a tree, and then he had started trying to destroy the graves.
Zeref felt his black magic start to grow, and grow...
"ARRRGHHHHHAAAAA!" Zeref screamed, and let it out.
"That's all I remember then." Natsu sighed. "I suppose that's the moment I died."
Messenger nodded in agreement. "Lord Dragneel..."
Of course Zeref remembered the rest of it.
Zeref fell to his knees, breathing hard. The tree next to his parents grave was dead, the leaves were gone. The ground around him was brown, no grass was alive. The man that had threatened him, was also dead.
Zeref's eyes turned up, to see his brother, not moving a muscle. He wasn't even breathing.
"N-Natsu!" Zeref scrambled over to him, and lifted his brother's lifeless body into his lap, cradling the pink haired boy. "No...no...NOOOO!"
(A'N: To dramatic...?)
"I don't really like to remember it...though," Natsu sighed.
Messenger stared into END's eyes.
"well...I do feel as if I needed to tell it to you."
Natsu sighed again. "How could Erza do it?"
Lucy was incredibly worried. She tapped her finger on a stool, panic sitting in her body, wanting to make her run out, find Natsu, hug him, and calm him down. Bring him back to the guild.
And Erza...she couldn't believe that she would do it. She was sure everyone believed that. But no one wanted to say it.
Gray looked just as worried as she was. Lucy supposed that the amount the two fought, just meant that they were best friends.
Who wouldn't be worried for their best friends?
"Gray..." Lucy whispered. "Are you okay?"
Gray glanced up. "Yeah. The only thing is I'm just pondering over how we didn't give Erza a chance to talk, to defend herself."
Juvia sat down next to Gray, and put her hand on his back, who didn't notice, waiting for him to go on.
"That's not us. That's not Fairy Tail. I thought we were a family." Gray muttered.
"Juiva agrees." Juvia said. "Juvia thinks we should find Natsu-san and and Erza-san!"
"Aye..." Happy agreed.
"Not everyone in the guild is going to agree, you know." Lucy pointed out. "Everyone's still a little...pissed, and dumbfounded. I think we should ask Wendy, Lisanna...and possibly Mira to come with us."
"I'm in." Carla said.
"Me too." Wendy nodded, coming up behind Carla.
"Can I come?" Levy wondered.
"Of course."
"We're coming." Mira, Elfman and Lisanna said.
"Let's go." Gray said.
"And that's what happened." Erza said.
The Crime Sorcière stared at Erza.
"Um..." Jellal downed his brows. "Well..."
They had talked for quite sometime, and finally Jellal decided to explain why they were here.
"It's actually funny, that...that thing was here for basically the same reason we were."
"We've been looking for clues about END, Zeref, and the book of Zeref." Meredy explained.
"Meredy thought of the idea that END could possibly be someone, instead of just a demon." Macbeth said.
"I thought that END was dead. The tartaros demon's said that they wanted to revive END though..." Sorano said.
"And how do you know that?" Erik asked.
Sorano rolled her eyes. "You should know too."
"We already talked about this," Meredy said. "if they wanted to revive END, that means he was dead. Yes. But, "revive". What is it? Bring back. And it got me thinking, that END could possibly be inside someone, or even something. But probably someone. So I looked into it, and I found some tracking magic. It's ancient, and difficult to use, and even find. Any trained mage can use it, if they know how to, and if they find it. It can only be active for about five minutes, so I had to track the traces. It traces anything really, that's why it's so rare. I looked for powerful demons, because you can't really just "search" the demon END. But there were traces of it in Magnolia, actually...by-and-in your guild."
Erza nodded. "So...someone in Fairy Tail could...could be a demon? Or END?"
Jellal nodded. "We wanted to find that person, before any damage happens, like they remember, because obviously if they knew they were END, they would have already done plenty of damage."
"You are all incredibly smart..." Erza murmured.
"Do you want to help us, Erza Scarlet?" Jellal offered warmly.
"I-I..." Erza stared at Jellal's hand. "...well...I...I...I suppose so...only until I am excepted back into the guild, and then I can have Levy and even Freed to help..."
"END's in Fairy Tail. And you wanna know his name?"
"What is it?"
"Natsu Dragneel."
"Salamander!?"
"Y-yes M-Master Wakahisa!" Eiji stammered.
"Please call me, Master Hideo Wakahisa." Hideo said.
Eiji nodded. "Yes Master Hideo Wakahisa."
"Good. Now, I want to do this. This'll be fun. I hate Salamander. He destroyed my old house. END destroyed my family...now it is payback...we leave now."
"I better go...Natsu, please, come with me."
"I will...maybe...later." Natsu said. "I want to think. Once I clear my head, I will call you."
Messenger nodded. "Very well."
And then, he was gone.
And suddenly, people walked out of the trees.
Standing there was a group of men, all glaring at Natsu.
"Who are you!?" Natsu demanded, taking one step back.
"We're here to take you in."
"Natsu!" Called the familiar voice of Lucy Heartfilia.
She came into the small clearing, and instinctively pulled her hand to her keys, as the other came behind her.
"What's going on here?" Gray mused.
Natsu shrugged, actually happy his friends had shown up. Only a little happy.
"Get Salamander!"
Natsu jumped back in surprise as a large man jumped at Natsu. His friends started fighting the men trying to get Natsu, but there were so many, that a few of them got past them.
Natsu lit his hands on fire, grinning, and then jumped on the leader Hideo.
"That won't work Salamander!" Hideo laughed.
"Why not, idiot?" Natsu smiled, lifting his hand to punch Hideo.
"Because of that!"
Natsu looked up, stupidly, and something was clamped around Natsu's neck, and something sharp pierced his neck, and he tumbled down unconscious...
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