Chapter 10 The Rage

prelude Natsu has consumed the entire Gem of Rage, an SS class treasure that makes the user wild with anger and blood lust for 5 minutes by sucking on it for 5 seconds. Like the idiot he was, Natsu consumed the entire gem in one bite. The gem's effect only lasts for 5 minutes so the more you consume the more intense the rage becomes. This intense rage still only lasts 5 minutes.

Chapter 10

Zeref POV

"You only have 5 minutes to beat me. Can you do it in that amount of time?" I said.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" Natsu yelled, no magic yet escaping his body.

"Good plan Natsu, I must admit, I do believe you can kill me with your new rage fueled flames, if you can aim the rage at me. Having yourself die off when I die will protect your-"I pause as I see a petite blue haired girl with a white and yellow headband frantically hacking away at a brown leather book. And I recognize the book as she puts her pen to the book and pulls a complex magic rune out of the book. "END!" I yelled as I realized that she had identified the release code in the rune.

"GAAAAAAHHHHH!" Natsu yelled at the top of his lungs. His body grew crimson red scales slowly over his body. His teeth elongated and eyes shrunk to slits with his iris' turning a brilliant shade of orange. Simultaneously, magic began to slowly seep out of his body and increased exponentially.

I came to my senses as I felt the magic power grow at an alarming rate. Instinctively I shot over to where the blue haired girl was kneeling as she was just about to unlock the seal on END. While in midair about halfway between where I started from, I felt an intense wave of heat wash over me. But it didn't stop there. It got hotter and hotter without end, my new Emperors cloak was being rapidly burned away, leaving only my wanderer's robe to clothe me. I feel what I can only describe as a blast wave wash over me, launching me nearly half a mile away, when I landed I could feel the shockwave ripple through the ground like an earthquake that kept me from being able to stand up. Looking over in the blue haired mage's direction another wave of heat washed over my face. I could not see the blue haired mage, nor could I see my book. The only thing I could see was a mass of golden flames with streaks of every color flame whizzing within the flames.

'The final form of a dragon slayer. Dragon Chi. It is a theoretical state that can only be obtained by a Dragon Slayer who has not transformed into a dragon, and with Igneel's help Natsu seems to have achieved the impossible. Even for Natsu I thought this was impossible. I guess you were right, Mavis, I should never underestimate Fairy Tail.

Natsu Now stand crouched over ready to strike Zeref down as Levy franticly hurries to open the book of END. Feeling the immense heat from a great distance, Levy stopped decoding the book of Zeref and set up a quick anti heat rune around her. "Damn, why won't my rune work? This should dispel the heat and return the area to normal. Every time I activate the rune it just dissipates. Blue flame is whizzing through his golden flames, could those be the anti-magic flames that drained a wizard's magic power just from one use." Levy says, thinking aloud.

At this point, the flame around Natsu became so hot that the ground began to light aflame. The Earth around Natsu lit first, and it expanded rapidly away from him, beginning to ignite the Earth that was getting near to Levy, and before the heat became unbearable, Mest showed up to pull Levy and the book away from the raging inferno.

"You know I could have survived that."

"That's what I thought to." Mest replies.

"What do you mean?"

"When I jumped in front of you and took you away, I did it out of fear. And when I got there I thought that you would survive it anyway, but look." Mest says pointing to his shoulder.

Levy averted her glare from the fiery inferno in front of her to where Mest had been pointing. After a second or two of confusion while staring at a patch of empty skin she had a shocking realization.

"Your Fairy Tail crest! Its gone! What happened?!" The blue haired woman shouted, demanding an answer.

"On the way out of the area where Natsu's flames were expanding, during my teleport, I was licked by one of his flames." Mest said, showing her a piece of his lower leg that had an obvious deep burn running up his calf. The burn was almost half of an inch deep and four inches long. It had been instantly cauterized by the flame and was undoubtedly permanent.

"But how does that erase your Guild mark?" She asks, worried about what he may say.

"It was drained from my body. Along with the rest of my magic. I am no longer immortal, and I am no longer a wizard." The last sentence landed on Levy's ears like a punch form Gajeel, hard and unforgiving.

"W-what do you mean you're not a wizard anymore?" Levy asked shakily.

"I could explain my theory, but I have very little to go on right now."

"No time," Levy responded. "come here. I have developed the technique to read the minds of non-mages. If your theory is right, then I will be able to read your mind and learn what it is. If your theory is wrong, then it won't matter that I can't read the theory because it will be wrong anyways."

"Well said, do it." Mest says as he leans his head towards Levy. Levy stands up and touches her head to Mest's. In an instant the theory flooded into Levy's consciousness.

"Natsu's state requires so much magical power to maintain that the refill speed of Fairy Heart isn't able to keep up. So to make up for that his flames are sucking up all of the magic from the surrounding Earth. He has no control over this and so it sucks all of the magic out of everything. Natsu has so much magical power just being used to keep him at this power level that he will drain everything his flames touch of all of its magic. I was barely nicked so my life force remained intact, but my magic, and my guild mark were drained from my body. Without my guild mark I cannot receive magic from Fairy Heart and my body was drained so fast that it permanently collapsed my magic container."

Less than a half a second after they touched heads Levy had jumped away from Mest, reeling in shock from her new realization. "I have to finish." Levy said as she grabbed the book of END and quickly identified the sealing code once again. Quickly snapping it in two the book opened up. After staring at the lines of code for a few seconds, a small voice escaped from her lips. "Wait, this isn't right."

'I need to get that book away from that girl.' Zeref thought. 'The only way to her is through him though. Fine, I will fight him just enough to get to her. Then once the book is safe I will kill my younger brother. Nothing will stop me from ending the Human Race.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Natsu yelled as he charged at Zeref. Zeref barely had any time to react, but was able to dodge the attack, but not the wave of fire that followed. The flames were so hot that they severely damaged the skin of the immortal mage. Far worse than anything that he had felt from Natsu's earlier attacks with his magic granted from Igneel. The nature of the magic that Igneel gave Natsu was what made it capable of killing him, but this magic, it may end him just from its shear force.

Natsu turned around with black eyes and lunged at Zeref once again. The Ground beneath Natsu was completely vaporized and the rising air currents had pushed the two brothers into the sky as the golden flames spiraled them upwards. Zeref was now engulfed in flames and unable to breathe. There was no oxygen in the clouds of flames, yet they continued to burn, using magic itself as a fuel source gathered from pure ether nano from the world around him and burning it in such high concentrations that the regular rules of magic broke down within the vortex. Natsu darted around inside the inferno smashing into Zeref again and again. Each time taking a body part with him, however they just continued to grow back.

The inferno continued to grow, and once it had reached a size of about a small lake the winds changed direction. No longer was it sucking air from the outside world. Now it was blowing wind as matter was being created within the vortex as not all of the ethernano was able to form fire, so it formed air. This air was being blasted out with tremendous temperature and force, scorching the Earth and causing Levy to flee for safety once again.

Natsu and Zeref were now high in the sky, surrounded by a raging inferno of pure golden flames, on the inside Zeref's body was in pieces as Natsu had him by the throat, viciously striking his body with golden raging flame enhanced blows. Nearly 4 minutes had passed since Natsu had first consumed the stone, but he showed no signs of letting up, if anything his rage continued to grow.

With only 3 minutes to go Levy has successfully unlocked the book of END. What she saw shocked her to say the least.

"What is this?" She said aloud. "According to this, END is active, and has been active for over 15 years. Is it possible that Natsu has been END this entire time?"

"What?" Mest replied. "How is that possible, he wasn't this strong before, why is he so strong now?"

"I think that this book is Natsu's Life force and that is all that has been keeping him alive this entire time." Levy solemnly responded as she quickly flipped through page after page of the sealed leather bound book. "I found it!" Levy shouts with exhilaration. "Erza you will get your wish after all.

'I only have seconds left.' The one though in the past five minutes finally surfaces in Natsu's mind.

King of dragons- Deaths dance

Zeref opened his one remaining eye as his body began to slowly heal, the more damage he took, the slower he healed. Soon there was going to be absolutely nothing for him to heal back from. The body parts that fell off of him were quickly incinerated by the flames, and being constantly drained of magic slowed his healing. Through his one remaining eye Zeref sees Natsu kick his legs out wide and ignite his heals. Each of his fists become raging red infernos and are aimed directly at him. The flames on his feet swell and accelerate Natsu in a spin with impossible revolution speed. In under a second Natsu's body had travel nearly half a mile as he sped towards Zeref with an incredible spin. Both fists make contact with Zeref's body which sends him into a wild rotation straight up into the atmosphere, the fire from the attack is sent in a shockwave back down to Earth as Zeref's body slowly burns away with a speed of Mach 5.

As Natsu began to fall from the sky, he sees Grey and Juvia fighting for their lives against the Mage king, with the last of the power of the rage stone Natsu releases a concentrated roar heading straight for August before blacking out

"I did it! Just in time." Levy smiles proudly, happy tears streaming from her eyes.