"Natsu, what are you doing?" Zeref asked his brother.

Natsu was in the regeneration room with Lamy, typing some things on a lacrima keyboard as Lamy helped him do ... something. Inside one of the regeneration pod, floating in a green bubbly liquid, was a creature that looked like a baby dragon with red scales, a pink underbelly and pink small wings.

"I'm making a new Etherious, what does it look like?" Natsu asked half-heartily, not looking at his brother as he approached him.

"Are you sure it's a good idea for you to make a new demon?" Zeref asked, crossing his arms and looking up at the demon with raised eyebrows. "Remember what happened with Rier?"

"The rhyming wasn't that bad really," Natsu shrugged. "Rier have helped me with writing a poem."

Zeref couldn't imagine Natsu writing a poem or even holding a pen without stabbing anyone.

"Why would you want to write a poem? Never mind that, I was talking about the pranking."

"I'm making her an angel," Natsu says dismissively. He typed some more on the keyboard, hitting random keys. Zeref wondered if Natsu was even paying attention. Lamy, on the other hand, was staring at the demon with distaste, her bunny ears flopping down.

"Can't I give her some longer horns and make her face more twisted with a few warts here and there?" Lamy pleaded.

Natsu clearly did not like that. Eyes flashing red like fire he pushed Lamy's head into the keys, crushing her face in the process.

"You're not doing anything to her!" Natsu growled. "You're just helping me."

Zeref watched as the keyboard around Lamy's head starting sparking, the blue-green sparks travelling up the machine and illuminating the regeneration pod in a golden light. Natsu, eyes back to normal, looked up at the glowing regeneration pod with wide eyes.

"Uh-oh."

The regeneration pod blew up, sending the three people—well, the two demons and the immortal human— in the room flying into a wall, dirt and debris falling down from the roof. Zeref, who was unharmed thanks to his immortal body, stepped away from the cracked wall and stared at the shattered regeneration pod with wide eyes, which later went narrowed with annoyance.

"Natsu, you're going to be making me a new regeneration pod as well as a new basement as punishment for destroying the regeneration room," Zeref says, turning to his dazed brother who was lying on top of a pile of rubble, his eyes spinning. Natsu moaned something in pain in response.

"Natsu, you're going to be making me a new regeneration pod as well as a new basement as punishment for destroying the regeneration room."

Zeref turned to see the demon that Natsu was trying to create standing in front of him, looking up at him with brown eyes.

"Sorry, did you say something?" Zeref asked.

"Sorry, did you say something?" the demon repeated. Zeref's eyes turned red in annoyance.

"Stop copying me!" Zeref screamed at the female demon.

"Stop copying me!" the female demon copied in the same tone as Zeref.

Zeref was trembling in annoyance, his curse threatening to push itself out of him. Zeref tried to calm himself down as he turned to Natsu and Lamy, who had recovered and were rubbing their heads. Natsu looked up at his brother and froze at his expression of death.

"Natsu," Zeref grounded out. "Do something about this thing before I loose hold of my curse and kill everyone in Alvarez."

"Natsu, do something about this thing before I loose hold of my curse and kill everyone in Alvarez."

Zeref growled and rushed out of the regeneration room to calm himself down. Natsu stumbled towards the baby demon and knelt in front of it.

"So you repeat everything people say?" Natsu asked.

"So you repeat everything people say?"

"I'll take that as a yes."

"I'll take that as a yes."

Natsu held his palm out in front of the demon and a red magic circle appeared. The demon transformed into a red and pink pendant and Natsu put it on, setting it so that the pendant was beside Rier's pendant.

"Master, why did you create that demon?" Lamy asked.

"Rier needs a girlfriend," was Natsu's response.


Erza,

I made this demon for you so that you would be able to send letters to me if you want. This demon doesn't have a name yet so it'll be up to you to give her a name.

~Dragion

P.S. she repeats everything you say so don't get irritated

Erza looked up at the red and pink demon who was flying around her room. She smiled at the demon that resembled a baby dragon and held her hand out towards it.

"Ember," Erza sighed, deciding to name the baby dragon demon thingie after her mother.

"Ember," the baby dragon demon repeated. This was what Natsu had warned her about, that the demon would repeat everything she says.

A knock sounds on the door and Gray's voice sounds through the door. "Erza, are you ready yet?"

"Hold on Gray!" Erza called. She held her palm out towards Ember like Natsu did towards Rier and a pinkish-reddish magic circle appears and Ember turned into a red and pink pendant necklace that Erza put on. Erza opened the door and Gray looks at the pendant.

"Since when did you have a pendant?" Gray asked, blushing when he realised that the pendant was burried in Erza's cleavage. Erza smirked at her brother's expression.

"I've had it for a while, I just decided to wear it now. Let's go."

"Gray-Sama," Juvia says, appearing beside Gray. "Juvia is ready to go now too. So's Lucy-San."

"Let's go find this crystal," Lucy declares, appearing beside Juvia. She had a few silver as well as gold keys attached to her belt that Erza hadn't seen before. "I've gathered contracts with new spirits that would help us with our journey."


"Urg ... I should have worn my other boots," Lucy complained as she waded in waist-deep water behind Gray and Erza as Juvia swam beside her in her water-body.

"Would you stop complaining princess," Gray says, looking at her over his shoulder. He pulled his shirt off and threw it away, which Juvia (in her regular body) caught and held it to her chest like an over-obsessed fan girl.

Which she kind of was.

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Lucy screamed, a dark aura surrounding her. She leaped out of the water and wrapped her legs around Gray's body and dug her elbows into Gray's temples. "One of my forty eight torture techniques: Screwdrive Crush!"

"Alright! Alright! I won't call you 'Princess' anymore!" Gray screamed, trying to pull Lucy off of him.

"Did you hear that?" Erza asked, holding her hand up to silence Lucy and Gray.

"Hear what?" Lucy asked. "All I hear is Gray's constant whining."

A hissing noise came to their ears and they all froze, listening for the source of the noise. Above the hissing they could hear splashing, hinting that the creature was in the water.

"What is that?" Juvia asked.

In front of the group the water seemed to rise, spraying the group with more water as it cleared off the beast. It resembled a pink snake with long fangs, purple markings across its head and dragon-like wings. It hissed at them, dropping rock sized drool down onto them. Erza jumped out of the way and lucky she did because the place she was standing in completely disappeared, later being replaced by more water.

"What the hell is that thing?!" Lucy yelled, jumping off Gray's back.

"I think it's a basilisk," Gray says, rubbing his temples. "Don't look it in the eyes and don't let it drool on you!"

Erza grabbed her spear that was attached to her back and transformed it into its Mel Force form and sent a tornado at it. The basilisk flew through the air and crashed into the ground a few feet away from them, creating a huge wave to tower over them. Juvia manipulated the water away from them towards the basilisk as it got up and covered it with her water shield. Gray stepped forward and froze the water, trapping the basilisk in ice.

"Did we defeat it?" Lucy asked.

"I don't think so," Erza sighs, pointing. They all look to see the ice surrounding the basilisk cracking upwards before shattering, the basilisk giving out an enraged roar as it opened its mouth, a green ball of light developing in its mouth. Erza and Gray jump out of the way of the acid spit, Lucy had already ran a distance away from the basilisk. She pulled a gold key off her belt and held it up.

"Open, Gate of the Water Bearer: Aquaries!"

A mermaid with blue eyes that seem to have no pupils, light blue hair that reaches up to her waist and a royal blue fish-tail appears. She was wearing a dark blue bikini top, a gold belt and a headband on her forehead. She was holding an urn in her hands which she was using to splash water over her head.

"Aquaries, use Water Pillar on that snake!" Lucy demands, pointing at the basilisk that was dodging assaults from Erza's Ten Commandments Spear that she kept changing forms to attack.

"Tch." Aquaries glares at Lucy who glared back at the floating mermaid.

"Did you just say 'tch' to me?!" Lucy demanded.

"Listen here Blondie, if you ever treat me like a Pokémon again I'll change our contract to only Wednesdays," Aquaries warns. Lucy 'tchs' the mermaid who started pulling the water into her urn, swinging around in a circle as she collected the water. She then pointed the urn at the basilisk and a pillar of water rose from underneath it, throwing the basilisk into the air and causing it to crash into the water again.

"Re-Quip: Flight Armour!"

Erza Re-quipped into her Flight Armour and sped towards the basilisk, swishing her sword across its face and speeding away from the acid blood that fell around the basilisk as it roared in pain, writhing on the ground before rising up.

"I've blinded it so we don't have to worry about not looking it directly in the eye but be careful of its acid saliva," Erza tells them as she Re-quipped into her usual battle armour.

"Good, it's easier to fight now," Gray laughs, doing his usual Ice Make hand work. "Ice Make: Cannon!"

Gray moulded a cannon out of ice and shot a ball of water at the basilisk, hitting it in the face and causing it to shriek in pain at the burn. He did that again and again as Aquaries and Juvia blended their Water Magic together to attack the basilisk.

"Re-Quip: Morning Star Armour!"

Erza Re-quipped into her Morning Star Armour and slashed her twin swords at the basilisk's body, jumping out of the way of the blood. The basilisk turned its head towards Erza and opened its mouth, the same green light building up in its mouth again. Erza lifted her twin swords up to shield herself but Gray ran in front of her just as the acid beam shot from the basilisk's mouth.

"Gray!" Erza and Lucy both shouted.

"Gray-Sama!" Juvia shouted.

The beam filled the air with a green light, causing them all to shield their eyes from the blinding light. When the light was gone and they thought it was safe to look they uncovered their eyes and sighed a breath of relief. Gray had conjured up an ice shield which had protected him from the blast but it looked like the acid beam had partially melted the shield. They looked up at the basilisk and realised it was charging another acid beam that Gray wouldn't have enough time to mould up an ice shield again.

"We're going to die!" Juvia shouts in fear. She suddenly grasped Gray's arm, causing him to stagger to the side in surprise. "Juvia would die beside her beloved Gray-Sama!"

"Juvia -"

"Get into a line behind me," Erza ordered. They quickly complied and Erza charged the lazers on her twin swords just when the basilisk shot an acid beam at them. Erza flicked her wrists and the laser beams hit the acid beam, reflecting it to opposite sides. Erza Re-quipped into her Flight Armour and sped towards the basilisk and jumped into the air beside it, slashing her sword down and severing its head. Gray moulded a shield to protect them from its acid blood and Erza dropped to the ground, her back to the basilisk which slumped forward, it's head dropping to the ground beside Erza.

Omake 2

Summary: Natsu is bored and no one will play with him. So he starts annoying everyone until they're forced to play with him. Set five months after first omake.

"Zewef-Nii! I'm bored!" Natsu complained as he flopped down on Zeref, who was lying on the ground, his arms behind his head and asleep, who awoke when Natsu landed on him with an 'Oof'. "I want to play!"

"Natsu, it's the middle of the night. You should be asleep," Zeref groaned, pulling his toga over Natsu. Natsu grumbled something but didn't complain. He closed his eyes, attempting to sleep.

"I'm not sleepy though," Natsu says, flinging Zeref's toga off him and jumping onto the ground. Zeref groaned again. It seemed that death, twenty one years passing and then becoming a demon didn't change Natsu's hyperactive personality despite Natsu being a sick child when he was alive.

"Go play with Acnologia then," Zeref sighs, turning over onto his side. He heard Natsu run off to something and a second later he heard a shout and Natsu whining to Acnologia that he was bored and wanted to play. Zeref rolled over to face them, interested on what was going to happen to Acnologia if he refused to play with Natsu. Last week Natsu had burnt his clothes off. The week before that Natsu had stuck spiders in Acnologia's bed. And the week before that he had been thrown off of a cliff.

"Urg ... watch this," Acnologia grumbled, getting to his feet and walking away from his bed. His form begun to shift, expanding and growing. He grew a tail and a pair of wings until he was standing over Natsu in his dragon form, a black and blue one.

"Wow," Natsu says in awe.

"I can turn into a dragon," Acnologia tells him arrogantly.

"You turn into an ugwy-ass dwagon," Natsu says blankly.

Acnologia shifted back into his human form and glowered at Natsu, not noticing the dark aura coming off from Zeref. Zeref stood up and walked over to Natsu, kneeling beside him and turning Natsu to face him.

"Huh?" Acnologia tilted his head to the side, wondering if Natsu was in trouble. If he was Acnologia couldn't wait to see what Zeref would do to him. If it was anything like the ones Zeref gave to him, Acnologia would love to see it done to Natsu instead of him.

"Natsu, where did you learn that word?" Zeref asked, his voice calm despite the dark aura coming off him.

"Which word Zewef-Nii?" Natsu asked innocently.

"'Ass,'" Zeref answered, not liking saying that word in front of Natsu.

"Acknowledger," Natsu answered. "He taught me a lot of bad words. Want to hear them? Fu -"

Zeref closed his eyes and turned to face Acnologia, who gulped. "Acnologia," Zeref hissed, opening his eyes, which were now red with his anger.

"Oh fuck."

"Death: Orb."

A black orb formed in Zeref's palm.

"Ooh, a balloon!" Natsu gasps in excitement as Zeref threw the Death Orb at Acnologia, who screamed and jumped out of the way. The tree behind him a few yards away was destroyed when the Death Orb hit it. Zeref continued to throw Death Orbs at Acnologia, who ran away screaming as Natsu kept asking Zeref to give him a 'balloon' and to stop giving them all to 'Acknowledger'.