"Where am I?"
"Welcome to hell!", the blonde man's voice echoed throughout the whole sky.
"What do you mean?!"
Black smoke appeared in front of me. It combined as one and formed an exact copy of the blonde man.
"We're in your cyborg mind! The mind I created! I control everything here! You don't stand a chance!"
"Get me out of here! You sick bastard!"
"Why would you want to leave? This place is perfection!"
"No it's not! Everything you've done has never been the meaning of perfection!"
"Oh, then what would you call it?"
"I'd call it the definition of insanity!"
"Ah, you've always been a special one Natsu. You were the one who managed to break my mind control and free the others am I right?"
"Yes! And know I'm going to end this nightmare!"
"You're forgetting something Natsu, I control you!"
"We'll see about that! FIREBALL!"
I shot out a gigantic ball of flame at him, but he didn't move.
Instead he raised his hand at it.
"Disappear!", and just like that my gigantic ball of flame turned into a small spark of fire.
"How?!"
"Do you understand now? You can't defeat me in this world. This is your personal hell! Now suffer!"
CLACK!
"No, not that sound again!"
CLACK!
"Stop it!"
Pain shot throughout my head along with that horrible sound.
CLACK!
CLACK!
CLACK!
CLACK!
"STOP IT!"
"No way! This is too much fun!"
"Now let's try something else!"
More black smoke appeared from the sky. It floated beside me and formed an exact copy of Lucy.
It was so real looking.
"W-What are you doing?"
Two giant hands emerged from the ground and grabbed my legs.
'Tsk! I can't move!'
"While we were implanting all of that technology into you, I got to study your mind a little bit. I had to say it was rather interesting. Especially how much you cherished this girl", he grabbed the Lucy made out of smoke by the hair.
She screamed an agonizing scream of pain.
"H-Hey let her go!"
'What am I getting worked up after this?! That Lucy isn't real!'
"Natsu! Please help me!"
"Lucy!", I tried moving but the hand gripped on to me more tightly.
'But! She sounds and looks so real!"
"Now let's see how you react when you see the girl you love die by my own hands!", he smiled a sinister smile as raised his right hand.
"You wouldn't dare!", I growled as I tried struggling from the hands below me.
His eyes turned cold as he shouted, "DIE!"
He snapped his fingers and a giant silver sword came out of thin air and flew straight into Lucy's knee.
"AHHH!"
"LUCY!"
He snapped again and again, until a ton of swords appeared. They all flew into Lucy's body, sending blood and screams everywhere.
"STOP IT! THIS ISN'T REAL! NONE OF IT IS!", I shook my head as I tried my best not to look and the bloody and bruised Lucy.
"What's wrong Natsu? Are you scared?"
'This is all just an illusion! This is all just an illusion! THIS IS ALL JUST AN ILLUSION!'
"Please stop it! I can't take it anymore!"
The bloody Lucy turned back into black smoke and vanished into thin air.
"What?! We haven't even started yet! The fun's just begun!"
He snapped his fingers and this time a sword flew into my chest.
"AHHHHH!"
The pain was unbearable, it felt as if my heart was sliced in half.
"Stop acting tough! I can feel it! You're scared and weak! Just give up already!"
'Give up?'
"Hehe, you have one thing right. I'm scared shitless right now"
"But!"
"I can't give up! I've come this far!"
"My nakama haven't given up yet! So why should I!"
"You're such a child!"
The sword moved even deeper into my chest causing me to spit out a liter of blood.
"There is no way you can win!"
'He's probably right! But! I can't give up! I have to make sure that all of us return back to our normal lives!'
'I miss those days already. I just want to go on more missions with my squad!'
"I'm done playing you! It was nice knowing you Natsu say hi to Igneel for me!"
'I guess dying is not so bad after all. I get to spend eternity with my Dad'
"DIE!"
'Natsu! What are you doing!', a voice boomed in my head
'Dad?! How?!'
'What the hell are you doing Natsu?! Are you really going to let this piece of junk kill you?!'
'It's impossible, he's in control I can't do nothing about it'
'Did you forget that this is your mind?'
'What does that have to do with anything?'
'This is your mind! Not his! This is your ultimate weapon now use it!'
'And how the hell am I going to do that?'
'That's something that you have to find out'
'Tell me!'
'Goodbye Natsu, it was nice being able to talk to you one last time'
'DAD!'
'Please don't follow the path I have chosen'
'DAD!'
"DIE!"
'Everyone! I'm sorry for even thinking about giving up! But now I know what I have to do!'
"Explode!"
A gigantic burst of fire came out of my body catching the blonde man off guard.
"Tsk! Impossible!"
"How?!"
"I own everything here! Not you! So get out!"
"Ohh, what's this sudden change of attitude. You were scared shitless just a second ago"
"Well somebody slapped some sense to me! And now I'm all fired up!"
'So anything I imagine will appear, right?'
'I guess there's only one way to find out!'
"You forgot one thing, if this is supposed to look like hell"
"And what did I forget?"
I smirked, "The fire!"
The world covered by blood was instantly replaced by fire.
"What?! How are you doing this?! I'm supposed to be in control!"
"Not anymore!"
'The fire, I can feel it calling to me'
I opened my mouth and absorbed all of the fire that was around us. I didn't leave a single flame behind.
"W-What are you doing?!"
'Watch this Dad'
"If you don't mind I want to show you my gratitude"
"G-Gratitude for w-what?"
"For making me PERFECT!"
"WRATH OF THE FIRE DRAGON!"
I shot the most gigantic flame of fire that I could, out of my mouth and right onto the blonde man's trembling body.
BOOOOOM!
The whole world around us turned a bright shade of white as everything crumbled to pieces.
'I did it'
My vision was returned to the cold dark cave that we were currently in. I saw the blonde man on the floor while Lucy was on top of him aiming her magnum at his head.
'So everything was just an illusion'
"C-Curse…..you…..D-Dragneel", he whispered as he tried to get up.
CLACK!
A shiny golden bullet flew out of Lucy's magnum and into the blonde's man forehead. Ending his wrath and suffering.
And for the first time, the sound of a magnum, didn't make me feel fear. It made me fear joy.