Once at the guild Natsu carried Lucy to the back where the cots were, ignoring the concerned looks that Erza, Grey, and many others gave him as Leo walked in carrying someone in a scarlet cloak over one of his shoulders. "Leo! What happened?" Elfman asked as he came running over and took the person in the cloak from the tall blond.

"This guy and his friends grabbed Lucy and were trying to kidnap her when me and Natsu took them down..." Leo said before pausing and looking towards the back room where Elfmans sister, Mirajane was heading to see if she could help the dragon slayer out. Leo waited until the woman was in the back room before saying, "There is something really funny going on, Elfman and I'm not sure if Natsu can handle it."

The man blinked at Leo, unsure of what he meant or how to respond when Erza and Grey walked over. "Then we'll have to make ourselves available just in case Natsu needs us. Won't we?" Erza said as Mirajane came out of the back troom shaking her head and tsking.

"Mirajane is Lucy alright?" Grey asked. The woman gave him a dirty look and picked up a wet rag and started to rub the paint job off of the bar in irritation.

"I don't know. He won't let me touch her." She bit out from between clenched teeth, worry, fear, concern and anger flitting across her features. Leo sighed and ran a hand through his tousled hair and said.

"Don't let it get to you Mirajane. The last person that touched her got his throat ripped out by Natsu's claws." You could have heard a pin drop from a mile away, everything was suddenly so quiet. And everyone was staring at Leo wide eyed, their expressions ranging from disbelief to horror as Erza said.

"Natsu's not the type to rip out a person's throat deliberately."

Leo snorted at her naive belief that Natsu was harmless. "You didn't see him do it. I did." The two glared at each other for a few seconds, both angry at the other's assumption.

Natsu wasn't a ruthless, cold blooded killer.

Natsu was a killer- Most people were simply too stupid to see that in him until it was too late.

This situation was similar to the old saying; if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. However in Natsu's case it was more like- if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck but could breathe fire, then you should get the hell away from it before it ripped off a limb or something. Because that was not a normal duck.

Natsu came out of the back and looked at the group around Leo and walked over and grabbed the unconscious man from Elfman and dragged him over to an empty chair and set him in it and then settled one hand on his shoulder then slapped him. The man woke up with a scream and everyone in the guild moved to stand around Natsu and the guy in the chair so that the man couldn't escape if he thought of trying to run.

Not that he would get far in the first place, Natsu looked pretty pissed to them which was part of the reason they were suddenly so quiet. They didn't want to draw his attention.

"Tell me who sent you and why." Natsu said in a rough gravely tone as the man shrank back from him.

"Where are Iseel and Karesu?"

"Dead. Now answer my question or you'll be joining them." Natsu growled in irritation as he shook the guy. The man whimpered and Natsu slapped him again and snarled at him. "Answer me you fucking pussy! Who sent you and why?"

"Donzela! Donzela sent us!" Natsu slipped his hand from the man's shoulder, down his arm to his hand and gripped it and brought it up to his mouth and put his finger in hsi mouth and asked around it.

Erza started to step forward but Grey and Leo pulled her back and both shook their heads no at her.

"Why w-ere youth sent?" The man jerked, trying to get his hand back but Natsu had him it in a bone crushing grip and was biting down on his finger, using his fangs to shred the skin and bite through the bone. The man screamed in pain and horror as Natsu spat his finger out of his mouth and into his lap and licked his lips to catch the blood escaping from his mouth.

"Why you were sent. You'll tell me right? After all if you don't-" Natsu opened his mouth and started to put another finger in when the man screamed.

"I'll talk! I'll talk! Just don't bite off any more of my fingers!" Natsu lowered his hand and waited for all of two seconds for the man to talk before letting go of his hand and gripping his head in his hands and leaned down and bit down on one of the man's ears.

He meant it only as a warning but the flesh tore so easily that before he could ease up on the pressure in his jaws, he tasted blood and the man let out an ear piercing scream as his ear came off in Natsu's mouth.

Natsu pulled back and spat the flesh out at the man's feet and hissed. "Talk now or your nose is next. Then, your eyes, then your tongue-"

"We were sent after the woman!"

Natsu slapped the crying, shaking, terrified man again and growled. "Why?"

"Because something was bound to her ninteen years ago! Something that belongs to us!" Natsu held his hand up and let himself slip just enough to allow his fingernails to morph into claws and then looked at the man expectantly.

Everything came out in a rush of jumbled words at first. But after Natsu warned the stranger to slow down so that he could understand him that jumbled mess became something else. Something much worse than Natsu had ever imagined.

Nineteen years ago Donzela, the mage that had sent the men after Lucy had tried casting a spell to create the perfect dark mage. He'd summoned the soul of one of the ten legendary mages and in an effort to give her a new form, something went wrong. The spirit was no longer able to rest and wound up bound to a child. Lucy Heartphilia.

Said spirit was unnoticed and unknown for nineteen years then when they had heard that the girl had had a whole guild come crashing down on her head they had thought that finally, finally their time to retrieve said soul and put her to work was upon them.

The man confessed that if Lucy's heart stopped even for an instant that her soul would leave her flesh and the other would be forced to take it's place. Ressurecting the dead woman within Lucy's body.

He also explained that as a byproduct of the spell used to summon her- she would have all of her memories of her prior life erased and would become a blank slate. Easy to manipulate and shape as Donzela saw fit.

However Donzela hadn't managed to completely erase her memories before she wound up attached to Lucy. He only managed to erase a fair portion of the woman's memories while scrambling everything else.

He theorized that she may know her own name, perhaps other things too. But she wouldn't understand why she was in a strange body or why she was being called by another name. She would probably be disoriented, frightened, confused-

Natsu stood there and listened for as long as he could stand too before asking what had happened to Lucy. The man looked at him and hesitated for a second then said, "She died. The second that her heart stopped everything that she was or ever would be- Her hopes, dreams and future all became forefit. Rissa is the only one left. And my master wants her badly."

Natsu got a peculiar look on his face. A cross between anger, rage and heart breaking sorrow. Still trying to get past what the man said about Lucy being dead as the man laughed at him. Natsu didn't even look at him as he reached out his clawed hand ahd pushed it into his chest, ignoring the gasps and screams of the people around him as he ripped out the man's heart then threw it down and walked off.

He needed time to think.