Chapter 2: To Hear the Unheard
A/N Well I figure when I'm on a roll there's no need to stop, after all I didn't get much of anywhere.
I also apologize for any random uncapitalization of I's, as my ipad is a pain in the butt to type on.
Enjoy!
Chapter 3: To Hear the Unheard
Natsu
Could it really be that hard to find something you're certain is there? It was like trying to find shoes in the morning, they were there, but tucked under a pile of who knows what. A smell like no other poured through his nose, and he couldn't recall what it was. Natsu searched deep, leaving Lucy and Happy far behind.
It was a certain silence that caused him to freeze. He tried to take a few deep breaths to reclaim the oxygen that had left his body at a disintegrating pace, but no matter how hard he tried he felt the whisper of deafening silence throughout the forest. Because of his dragon-like tendency to constantly grow frustrated, he remained still waiting for whatever it was causing him to feel this way to jump out and attack, that's what they usually did anyhow.
"NATSU!" called out a screeching girl.
Natsu heard but he tuned out her whine to listen closely to the ere forest. Finally,as if the side stepping criminal had given up their game he looked to the rustling bushes past the clearing, to no avail.
"Natsu! Lucy is threatened to hit meee."cried a flying cat from somewhere in the forest.
He didn't know why, but the pout of his best friend didn't phase him in the least. Natsu felt entranced and drawn.
Was it the smell of what he smelt earlier?
As Lucy's whine became louder and Happy now flying toward him in relief he tried to shift his focus.
"Natsu you could've waited, what was the point of running…" she started to ramble. She was clearly dirty from whereever she had found herself, mud up to her skirt.
"Natsu?" she called out.
Natsu would have responded, he would have liked nothing more than to tease her about the way she looked, but she too realized the ere silence in the air.
"Come out already!" Natsu shouted in impatience.
This silence had played with his senses, it wasn't right. It was shifting his focus and making him grow angry, whatever it was it needed to show up now, or the forest be damned.
"I'll burn down the forest." wasn't far from his mind.
A plain and sorrowful whisper came across his ears. "Why do we live and die?"
"Where must we choose to begin?"the voice echoed more clearly.
He swore it was close. A ball welt in his throat from the tingling voice. Whatever the voice, he couldn't stand it a second longer.
It was spouting nonsense.
"What choice will you make, Natsu?" it whispered. It came from the clearing. It was crisp and hollow at the same time,like describing a wolf's call in the night.
When the silence turned to footsteps he knew that even with Lucy and Happy continuously bantering in his ear, that someone else had also joined.
"Natsu, your face is scary." Happy whispered
Natsu hadnt realized the growing anger he had filled his head with. Was it the silence, the familiar presence? The voice?
No, what bugged him was the smell, it filled his nose like that of a walking disease- every animal knows to avoid it-, but he was drawn to it. He had no doubt his face was scary.
"As is should be." a voice chimed emerging.
The atmosphere reeked of sorrow as the man approached and an echoing stillness firmly grasped the three guild members as they stood trying to grasp the situation.
As if to break the tension, Natsu lashed out
"Would ya stop hiding in the bushes and come out you cry baby bastard!"
It wasn't something Natsu himself found amusing, he was erging for a fight he couldn't win, and it was everything but serious to the man.
It was a great invitation, one he implored to accept.
At last, Zeref stepped from the shadows.