Hey all, sorry for the delay, I've been swamped with school stuff these last few weeks but here's chapter 6, also my cousin is now on fanfiction, his story is for Naruto so if you like the anime look up foragan and read his story, I only read the first chapter and I thought it was pretty good so you guys might like it. Now on with the chapter.

Chapter 6

Erza coughed up some blood before slowly reaching her hand out to touch Natsu's cheek before saying, "I love you Na…" Her hand then dropped to the ground and Natsu staring at her with eyes wide.

"ERZAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Natsu screamed before an explosion of power erupted.

Shikage actually took a step back in surprise at the explosion of power coming from Natsu. 'This boy is something else.' He thought to himself.

Natsu let out a primal roar as his power kept rising and after a few moments he charged at Shikage sending out a left hook that collided with Shikage's face before he even had a chance to react sending him flying across the room and smash into the wall. "YOU BASTARD! I'M GOING TO FUCKING ANNIHLATE YOU!" Natsu roared at him.

Gajeel was shaking slightly at the power Natsu was giving off as he thought, 'This power is even worse than when we fought, it's so much more evil.'

Shikage threw all the rubble covering him off and said, "YES! This is what I'm talking about! Show me you're true power Dragon slayer."

Natsu charged after him again while kicking out which Shikage ducked under and sent out his own kick hitting Natsu in the back knocking him down. Shikage smirked but then frowned as Natsu got back up as if he wasn't kicked down. Natsu turned to Shikage and yelled out, "FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" and sent out a huge blast of black fire towards Shikage. As the blast traveled towards him the ground below it started to melt from the sheer heat of the attack causing Shikage to think, 'Shit!' as he jumped out of the way and when the blast hit the spot where he was standing was completely obliterated.

Shikage whistled before saying, "That attack would have definitely hurt if it had hit me."

When the smoke cleared from the blast radius, it showed a crater about five feet wide and ten feet deep. Shikage turned to Natsu and said, "My turn, DEATH MAGIC: DECAYING WINDS!" he shouted the last part sending a gust of wind after Natsu.

Natsu stood there watching the attack come towards him not even fazed by it, until he saw that the ground the wind passed over had started to mold and anything on the ground rotted away. Natsu jumped out of the way but the corner of his jacket had been hit causing it to decay and fall apart. Not caring about that and not letting Shikage get another attack out, he lunged forward and smashed his fist into Shikage's face sending him to the ground. He then lit his hand of fire as he grabbed Shikage by the face yelling, "BURN FUCKER!" and through him into a wall before charging after him and started pummeling him into the wall further.

The wall crumbled away after the first few hits opening up into a whole other room and caused them both to fall to the floor. Shikage slowly got up as Natsu did the same and thought, 'He's almost there, just a little more.'

Shikage stuck both arms out with his hands side by side pointing at Natsu and started channeling magic into a ball in his hands before he yelled out, "DEATH BALL!" and sent it flying after Natsu.

The ball was about to hit Natsu, but before it could hit him he had smacked it away and sent it flying into a wall causing an explosion. Natsu then rushed at Shikage again with murderous intent in his eyes and tackled him to the ground. As they hit the ground Natsu started compressing his magic into a ball and slammed it into Shikage before jumping away with his arm crossed in front of him with two fingers pointing out and swung it in a sweeping motion causing a massive explosion to go off.

Once the dust settled from the explosion Natsu saw Shikage standing there panting with his arms crossed in front of him in a defensive manner and he said, "That was a fearsome attack dragon slayer, if I hadn't put up a small barrier in time that would have obliterated me."

Natsu just growled at him before charging after him once again and Shikage thought, 'He is utterly bent on killing me, he doesn't know when to stop it seems, and almost nothing seems to affect him in anyway.'

Shikage waited for Natsu to come at him and a split second before Natsu tackled him he jumped to the side while sending out a side kick which through Natsu off to the side. Once he did that he ran back to the room they were in originally and grabbed his sword. Just after he picked it up he was knocked down again by Natsu. He tried to swing his sword to attack Natsu but Natsu swatted it to the side with the back of his hand and grabbed Shikage's arm holding the sword, and before Shikage could try and pull his arm back Natsu slammed his palm into the back of his elbow causing it to shatter. Shikage groaned in pain, willing for himself to not scream and knocked Natsu off of him and jumped away. When he got away from Natsu he looked down at his arm to only see that it was mangled beyond use and thought, 'Just a little more and he's ready, but fuck this hurts.'

As he looked back to Natsu he saw him charging at him again and attempted to dodge away, but Natsu had grabbed him by the foot and slammed him down into the ground. Natsu walked over to Shikage and stopped down on his knee shattering it beyond repair and then grabbed the other leg and then completely ripped it off his body. Shikage allowed himself the pleasure of screaming in pain this time.

Shikage then looked at Natsu seeing him walk away and then pick up his sword before he turned back and said, "You will die by the very sword you used to kill my mate. May you forever rot in the deepest pits of hell."

Natsu walked over to Shikage grabbing him by the neck and stabbed the sword into Shikage's sternum and through him to the ground. Natsu's remaining power then left him and he dropped to the ground with tears in his eyes. He punched the ground as hard as he could with the remaining strength he had screaming, "DAMN IT!"

He then heard chuckling and looked up and saw Shikage chuckling as he said, "Congratulations Natsu, you've passed."

"What?" Was all Natsu could get out.

Shikage then weakly waved his hand and it looked like the world was unraveling itself by Erza and after it all cleared away it showed Erza on the ground unconscious. Shikage then said, "It was all a test Natsu, your loved one his alright. Everything that happened was all a test. The kidnapping of your guild mate Lucy was just a ruse to get you here, while it all really happened with her being kidnapped, no harm befell her. Everything you saw about her and what I did to Erza was all an illusion."

"What do you mean? What was it all for?" Natsu asked with disbelief and hope in his eyes.

"I was trying to see if you were truly read to face you're destiny, you see in the near future you will come across Zeref, and you are the only one who can stop him. Also don't worry about Erza; she should be waking up any minute."

As if that was queuing her; Erza opened her eyes and slowly sat up. Seeing this Natsu ran over to her with a burst of energy and tackled her into a hug saying, "You're alive, I thought I lost you." He was crying by the end of it.

Erza, despite her confusion had simply hugged Natsu back as she said, "I'm alright my dragon. I'm still here."

Natsu laughed weakly and kissed her with as much passion as he could muster to which she readily responded to. Shikage smiled at the scene in front of him and he said, "Natsu, do you want to know why you are the only one who can stop Zeref?"

At hearing this, Natsu pulled back from Erza and asked, "Why is that?"

"You see there are only three people in the world who know this next bit of information…" Shikage trailed off slightly and started coughing harshly.

"What is it?" Natsu asked while standing up and walking over to Shikage.

As he got next to Shikage, Shikage grabbed him by the collar weakly and said quietly but loud enough for the others to hear, "The only other one I know of who knows this is your guild master, but Zeref is your father."

And that's chapter 6 done, with another cliff hanger, please don't hate me for it and remember to look up my cousins story if you're interested in Naruto, again his name on fanfiction is foragan. Until next time.