"So your keyboard is jammed huh?" Speaking
"Yesthespacebarwon'tspace!" Communications
'Better bring out the bat.' Thinking
Sounds come from people's mouths.
RWBY...what a show right?
Fight Fight Fight!
"Okay, now we're here...where is everyone?" Natsu mumbles to himself as he walks down a battle-worn street with smashed windows, abandoned cars, bullet casings scattered across the road, and slash marks scattered across the street.
Maggie goes on her guard as she feels uneasy in this area, sensing the bad energy in the air as they walk down the street. Irene softly coos as they look around, feeling a little scared of what happened around here.
"This is the place right, right in front of Blades N Bullets, but no one is here...I hope Nila is safe." Natsu mumbles then senses a something behind him.
Natsu quickly turns around but only sees a black blur run into the alleyway, "Irene...take Maggie and watch me from a rooftop, I don't want you two to get hurt." Natsu tells his drakes as he puts them on the ground.
Irene coos as Maggie to get her attention, she does and starts to follow Irene, when Irene hovers above her. Maggie opens her wings to reveal that her wings actually part of an leg, giving Maggie six legs instead of four. She follows Irene up the Blades N Bullet building and set up on the 'U' of the blue Bullet sign.
"Now...where are you?" Natsu whispers and closes his eye then looks around. He finds several blue souls inside the gun store and one black orb running toward him.
He instantly opens his eye then disappears into a yellow flash as something explodes and takes a swipe at his last known position. The hunter then appears a few feet away from the building's dust cloud in front of the store. Natsu reaches for Sally and Pheo but thinks of what he just learned a hour ago, "When you're done hiding in that cloud, come out and fight me," Natsu taunts as he raises his fist in front of him then lights his hands up in golden flames with lighting sparking around the flames.
'Let's see how powerful this fire really is,' He decides and waits for his enemy to reveal itself.
The dust cloud blows away to reveal very big Ursa looking at him with a killer intent, this Ursa must be as big as a double decker bus. It has spikes as long as stop signs sticking out of its back and rock like armor pad all around its body, created from its own skeleton. The large demonic bear glares at him, waiting for him to make his first move.
"You're not going to run right?" Natsu jokes, but only gets a growl from his opponent.
"That's good, real good," He mumbles, getting excited that he can fight a Grimm that won't run the second a fight starts.
The bear huffs its chest and roars loudly then swings its right claw at Natsu. Natsu blocks the attack but feels that this Grimm is stronger then the other Grimm he has fought in the past. He smirks at this challenge as the bear swings with its free claw, only to have it be blocked again by Natsu, putting the two in a mercy situation.
The Ursa grows impatient and tries to chew Natsu's face off by snapping at his face with its sharp fangs while ignoring that burning and stinging pain keeping from Natsu's burning hands.
"You really need a mint or something," Natsu dodges its mouth while trying to avoid the smell of its bad breath.
He dodges several attempts of its attacks till the bear feels the pain grow unbearable that it falls back a step for a split second recovery before jumping in the air for a ground slam attack. As it falls to the ground, Natsu simply flashes into a yellow flash as the bear creates a creator right on Natsu's last location.
The bear growls as it lifts its claws from the creator it created and finds that Natsu is not a smashed wreak, so he looks around in front of it to look for that good for nothing hunter. It hears foot steps behind it and uses a skill the Ursa got a few years ago, it roars as several of the spikes on its back shoots out to spear the person behind him.
"Whoa!" It hears then turns to find Natsu side stepping to dodge the incoming spike attack.
"That's new," He mumbles and watches the spikes destroy a car behind him, creating an explosion.
Looking back at the bear, Natsu goes on the offensive by running toward the bear with his lighting speed to help him. The bear watches as Natsu flashes out of its sight and scans around it again to look for Natsu, only to find him at the last second in front of him with his fist cocked back, with his whole fist and forearm, set ablaze again. Natsu then buries his fist into its black fur to send a paralyzing amount of electricity surging through its body, shocking it so much that its body locks in place at the pain.
Natsu keeps going by using his free arm to elbow the bear back as he builds up the flames on his other hand, then Natsu fires a beam of lighting from his fisted hand, sending the bear flying down the street and into a building. Natsu watches as a dust cloud consumes the bear and rubble falls on it. Dragneel decides to finish this fight quickly but inhaling deeply and preparing himself for a devastating attack.
'Burn!' He yells as he covers his mouth with his hands and fires another beam of golden fire at the dust cloud, making the building collapse down from the force of his roar of lighting and flame.
He waits a moment for the cloud to die down but a car comes flying out of the cloud, forcing him to catch the car and stagger back a little at the force. As Natsu puts the car back on its four tires, he sees the Ursa's face cracked from his attack but still fighting strong, and an unusual red glow coming from its eyes, 'Why did I save you?' Natsu thinks as he looks down at the car he caught, but before he could step back from the car, the bear shoulder charges the back of the car, sending the car and Natsu flying back to a group of cars behind Natsu. Natsu feels his chest squish between the two cars as his face slams against the hood of the car in front of him.
"This...adds another reason...why I hate cars..." Natsu mumbles as he slowly raises his face from the hood of the car and rubs his nose.
Growing a little bit angry, Natsu puts on hand on the car's side and powerfully pushes the car away from him, making the car fly down another street and crashes into a building, making the car alarm sound off in the distance.
He looks in front him to find the Ursa waiting for him to act, "So you want to play like that? Okay, let's play," He taunts as he rubs his jaw and gets back into his fighting stance as he walks toward his enemy.
The Ursa charges Natsu and starts off with a downward slash, making Natsu defend by blocking its claw. As he defends, the bear unleashes a barrage of swipes at his arms, pushing Natsu back slowly as he tries to hold his ground. It wasn't as bad as Yang's punches, but Natsu feels that he is losing his ground against the Grimm, 'Come on Natsu, focus!.' He scolds as the Alpha repeated strikes his arms.
This motivates Natsu enough to find an opening in the Grimm's attacks and start a comeback, so Natsu waits as the Alpha cocks back its claw to counter. When the Grimm does, Natsu quickly grabs its claw and sucker punches the bear dead on nose. Natsu hears something break into little pieces as the Grimm flies back and skids on the road. Natsu punched the Grimm so hard that its white skull armor shattered apart.
"Is that..it?" You're done?" Natsu asks and waits for the Alpha to get back up but it doesn't comply, all it does is breath deep raspy breaths.
"Okay...we're done here," Natsu mumbles and slowly starts to walk toward Ursa as he pulls out Sally from his holster.
"Sorry bud...I can't take any chances with you. If we fought before then, it's been a good run, goodbye," Natsu apologizes at his aims at the Alpha's face, noticing the Ursa's black fur around its face and the red glow on its eyes is no longer there.
The Alpha looks into the barrel of Sally as a golden light builds up from inside it then blinds it as his face is pierced with a bullet. Natsu feels a spike of power fill him as the corpse turns into a black smoke and glides in the wind toward the sky.
"I got the Alpha...you can come out now," Natsu yells out loud as he watches the black smoke dissipate, 'I...I killed it,' He mumbles feeling a sad from ending another creature's life.
"Good work, so you're Salamander, aren't you a little young for this kind of work?" Ashley notes Natsu looking to the sky as everyone in the building walks out.
'Hey! I hate that nickname, did Winter tell Ironwood that?' Natsu ticks at the name as he realizes that Ashley is a Atlas soldier.
Natsu looks at the group of soldier, "Hey, you're from the dance!" He ignores the question and points at her and Neela.
Ashley grumbles to herself that he remember her from the ball, "You can deal with him Nila," She mumbles and calls in for an extraction for the civilians.
"Nila?! You're alright!" Natsu runs up as he watches the store owner walk up toward him and hugs her.
"Of course I'm fine Natsu, nice work out here. You really saved us," Nila thanks as Sparrow 1 lands right on the street and waits to civilians to climb aboard.
"R12 to Striker 1, we're armed and ready for combat over," Alice hears as she spots the gunship fly in the distance with another escort bullhead flying around above them.
"It's nothing Nila, I'm there when you need me," Natsu assures as the two break the hug and Areon directs the civilians into the bullhead.
"Sis, are you coming with us or you're going to the safe zone?" Neela interrupts and walks up toward the two.
"Oh Natsu, this is my sister Neela, Neela this is Natsu, he's my favorite customer at Blades N' Bullets," Nila introduces.
"Hello Neela, nice to meet you," Natsu greets and shakes the hand of Neela's sister.
"Likewise, thanks for the assist Natsu, that Alpha would of found us if it weren't for you," She thanks and nods her head.
"No problem," He assures and gives her a smile then lets the two sisters have a moment while he goes get Irene's and Maggie's attention.
"That won't get me rid of me that quickly little sis, I'm coming with you," Nila assures as Alice and her team provide security around the store.
"Alright, try to keep up then okay? All these years out the field may of hurt you a little bit," Neela jokes.
"I should say the same for you, the last time I saw you shoot, you hit everything but the target," Nila returns her joke, making Neela pout of the memory of the first time she fired a rifle.
"Neela, we're heading out now with the hunter, so hurry this up," Ashley warns as Sparrow 1 lifts off to head back to the safe zone the hunters made for Vale and Atlas forces to gather up the civilians.
"Hey hunter, what are you doing?" Cobra asks, watching Natsu call for someone named Irene and someone named Maggie.
Natsu doesn't answer him as Irene flies down to his shoulder with Maggie landing on his other shoulder, Maggie still clueless of what is around her.
Cobra wants to ask what is sitting on his shoulder but decides to leave that for another time, same for his teammates and his comrades, "Alright everyone listen up, I just been informed that several hunters are fighting the threat of Grimm at the plaza and they are beginning to be overwhelmed by the enemy. We better move now if we want to give them a hand," Alice briefs everyone.
"Hunters as in the Beacon students?" Nila asks.
"Don't know, all I got was their team name, RWBY." Alice answer, making Natsu's eye widen.
"RWBY?! We got to go now!" Natsu yells and runs to the plaza with Irene and Maggie holding on to his jacket tightly.
"Hunter! Damn it, let's go team," Jack mumbles and runs after Natsu, then with his teammates following behind him.
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"This isn't good..." Ruby mumbles as she, Yang, Blake, and Weiss form a circle on a stage while Grimm form around them, creating a sea of black all around them.
"We can't take them, come on! Bring it!" Yang aggravates the Grimm and punches her fists together.
"There is too many of them, and their growing in numbers as we speak, we need backup," Weiss mumbles and readies herself for battle.
"We can't run either, Nevermore will catch us if the hoard doesn't get us first," Black points out as she spots a Nevermore in the sky.
"Then we fight here, we'll get through this, I'm sure of it," Ruby rallies as she hears her scroll ring.
"Cover me," Ruby orders as she picks up her scroll and quickly raises her Crescent Rose again.
"Hello?" She asks as Yang punches an enemy away.
"Ruby! I'm on my way, and I got some backup with me just hold on tight!" She hears Natsu's voice.
"Thanks Natsu, where are you coming from?"
"3rd street, and we got a gunship too so don't worry, we can do this okay?" Natsu rallies, feeling a little worried for his best friends and mates.
Ruby looks around for 3rd street but only finds Grimm faces looking at her, "Umm...I don't know where that is." She mumbles as Blake stabs a Beowulf in the face and kicks it back down the stage.
"RUBY!" Yang yells.
Ruby drops the scroll by accident and turns around to find a Beowulf pouncing toward her, but before she can't attack, a sniper gunshot goes off in the plaza and shoots the Grimm right in the skull, sending the Beowulf flying off the stage.
"The smoke, we're coming from the smoke!" Natsu yells as everyone and everything looks toward the sound of the gunfire, and they all spot a figure on a rooftop.
"Tango eliminated move in now, the hunters are surrounded." Reap reports as he looks down the side of the rooftop to see his teammates down below throwing smoke grenades where the buildings meet the plaza.
"Smoke deployed." Areon informs as he and the whole fighting force watches as white smoke covers the entrance to the plaza.
"Alright let's go!" Natsu yells as he runs into the smoke with Pheo ready in one hand and the other lit ablaze with his lighting fire.
"R12, open fire on any Grimm you see, friendlies at the white smoke and in the middle of the plaza so watch your fire copy?" Alice calls in.
"Solid copy Striker 1, switching to 25 mike mike," Jay assures then ends the transmission.
Alice nods to herself before joining her squad walking in the white smoke with rifles raised.
...
From the skies, two bullheads make their way toward the plaza, one bullhead carrying team CFVY and Professor Port while the other is carrying team JNPR.
"So they already brought the big guns huh?" Coco asks as she watches the gunship, circling around the plaza, shooting two streams of bullets down to the Grimm below.
"Landing now, LZ is hot so get off as soon as I land." The pilot warns as the two bullheads approach the plaza.
"We got it." Coco assures.
Then the bullhead slows down to reveal the plaza scattered with Grimm, the bullhead lands as the other bullhead takes another landing zone.
CFVY and Professor Port quickly disembark the bullhead then get straight into the fight as Grimm run toward them while the bullhead makes a fast exit back to base.
While CFVY and the Professor fight, JNPR make a swift landing and charge toward RWBY at the center of the plaza.
"Let's move out!" Pyrrha yells and pumps her spear into the air before charging the enemy.
"Freeze! We're junior detectives!" Sun shows his badge to the Grimm before him and Neptune.
"We also got badges so you know it's official," Neptune assures as the two fist bump.
Then several squad cars and SWAT armored SUV's park right next to them and hop out armored SWAT units and police officers wearing kelvar vests. The armed forces aim M16 and MPK5 at the charging Grimm and fire at will.
"Let's get them boys!" A police officer yells as he fires his Glock 17.
"You have the right to remain silent..." Sun and Neptune recall the Miranda rule they learned a few hours ago but they stop as they see smoke pop in the street next to them.
They drop as they see Natsu walk out of the smoke cloud and fire Pheo at Grimm in the head before shooting a golden ball of lighting in front of him. What made Sun and Neptune drop their badges, a group of soldiers follow Natsu's lead into battle as they walk out of the smoke cloud and fire their assault rifles. This must be the most badass thing they have ever seen in their lives.
"Come on! Bring it!" Natsu taunts as he punches a Beowulf in the gut the buts the barrel of Pheo under its chin then fires.
A man dressed in armor, head to toe, hip fires a light machine gun, killing wave after wave of charging Beowulves, he laughs as the bodies hit the floor.
"We got this covered hunter, we'll take care of it from here." Alice assures as she takes a knee and unloads another magazine into the fray.
"You got it, good luck Nila," Natsu waves at Nila before running deeper into the fray.
"Favorite customer huh...no wonder," Neela mumbles, Natsu is one strong hunter.
Glynda walks toward the breach with an irritated look on her face while she whips her rider's crop around to eliminate the Grimm around her. She gets ready to fight another Beowulf but a something golden punches it away and into an alleyway, she looks in front of her to find Natsu.
"Glynda! You're alright!" Natsu cheers and shoots another Ursa to add to his kill list.
"Natsu? Who is this-oh we will talk later, I need to seal in the breach," Glynda notices the strange creature on Natsu's shoulder.
Natsu nods, "Okay, I'll cover you," He assures and follows Glynda toward the hole in the street.
It doesn't take long for the two to reach the hole as Natsu covers Glynda, killing all Grimm who dare try to hurt his mentor.
Natsu notices Glynda lifting up the rubble to cover the hole in the ground, so he helps her by raises his free hand into the air, filling up the hole with dirt and killing all the Grimm hiding inside the hole.
"There...now the Grimm can't get in from here...now we just need to take care of the Grimm in the city now," Glynda explains and swats a Grimm away with her rider's crop.
"Oh, so that's what brought the Grimm in? Good that we closed it up," Natsu realizes and watches as several Atlas dropships pass over the plaza and drop in squads of the new combat robots. Soon after that, the Grimm in the plaza are wiped out completely by the fighting force.
"So this is Maggie, how adorable, so there are other dragons out there," Glynda mumbles and she pets the black drake on her head while she carries her in her arms with Irene on her shoulder.
"Yeah, Melinda told me everything about Irene and gave me this cool lighting fire stuff she's back over in...the Emerald Forest," Natsu stops as he notices that the giant Atlas airship is glowing blow at the tip.
The next thing he see's makes him panic, "Maggie, Irene, stay with Glynda!" Natus orders and flashes into a yellow light.
Minutes earlier
Inside the Atlas airship, many Atlas officers type in orders and actions inside the bridge of the ship.
"Sir we have a large heat signal coming from the Emerald Forest," One of the officers inform the Captain of the ship.
"How big?" The captain asks.
"It's 10 times bigger than anything we ever encounter before, our forces on the ground are requesting an Doomsday strike on the position of the heat sig sir."
"That big huh..." The captain purse his lips while he thinks about using such a powerful weapon right now, he decides to ask the General on his opinion on the orders.
"Get me General Ironwood," He orders and waits for the display screen on the bridge to power up.
"Captain? What is it?" Ironwood ask.
"We have an unknown force, larger than any we have encounter before, inside the Emerald Forest. Forces on the ground are requesting a Doomsday strike on the signal's position to eliminate the threat," The captain explains.
"Have you checked that Vale forces are in the AO?"
"We have sir, no General Orchid confirmed that no Vale forces are that deep in the forest. They're still in sector delta sir."
"Can the men gather visual contact with this force?"
"No sir, forces on the ground are currently engaging Grimm hoards as we speak, all they hear are loud roars and tremors below them as they fight. It's most likely a new kind of Grimm sir, something big too."
Ironwood takes a moment to process this information before giving his answer, 'No friendlies in the area...just a very big Grimm...' He thinks at the possibility of his men becoming the slaughter of a new Grimm...and he doesn't like it.
"Doomsday strike is approved, fire on that position, and I want visual confirmation that we hit the target as soon as the strike ends understood?!" Ironwood sternly lays out his conditions.
"Yes sir, we'll right on it sir," The captain assures, making Ironwood nod and end the call.
"Alright you heard him, charge up the Doomsday weapon!" The captain barks orders, making the officers on deck scatter across.
"Fireteam, aim the cannon at the Sector Delta, coordinates one one three, two six niner," He hears as he looks outside to see the ship line up to the Emerald Forest.
"4-2, we have confirmed Doomsday strike, retreat at designated mark to avoid the shockwave of the blast copy?"
Emerald Forest
Natsu appears somewhere in the Emerald Forest, looking for Melinda, he watched as the Atlas Airship fire several blue beams of destruction up into the air and at the Emerald Forest to created an explosion that can be seen inside the Vale and probably in space.
"MELINDA! Where are you!?" He yells as he runs toward a several mini mushroom clouds in front of him.
He runs for a few minutes, feeling terrified for Melinda's well being, but still hoping that she's alright and unharmed, "Please be okay, please be okay..." Natsu mumbles as he runs past trees in blinding speed, heading toward Melinda's last know position.
Then Natsu runs into an opening in the forest an almost falls in side of a large creator but catches himself, he looks around to find that the creator could be almost 200 yards long in diameter. He looks to the middle of the creator to mind a familiar sight of a giant golden dragon lying in the middle of the creator.
"MELINDA!" He yells then teleports down to her.
"N...Natsu...is that you?" She mumbles and senses a human in front of her.
"Melinda, you're alright!" Natsu sighs in relief and finds no life threatening wounds on Melinda, she must be super tired from defecting that blast, but her most of her body is covered in a smoke and dust.
"M...Maggie? Wh-where is she?" She asks slowly as if she's in pain.
"She's safe with Irene back in Vale, we did it Melinda, we saved Vale thanks to you," Natsu smiles.
"Th...thank you Natsu...I...I fear I don't have...have long N...Natsu," She softy warns and takes slow deep breaths.
"Melinda what are you talking-No oh no no no please no Melinda!" Natsu falls back in horror and shock as the smock clears up to reveal that Melinda's bottom legs and tail are nothing but a red mush next to her pile of inner meat sprawled out across the ground.
Natsu starts to breathe quickly at the sight of the blood and guts in front of him.
"N..Natsu...I need to...ask you a...f-favor," Melinda whispers, feeling that her time is running out quickly.
"M...Melinda...please don't die...I-I can fix this. Don't you worry I can't fix this," Natsu stumbles to his feet and thinks of what can stop the bleeding and save her.
"Too much...blood...Natsu...li-listen to me," She mutters.
"You can tell me later Melinda, I'll save you, I'll fix this and you and Maggie can be together again!" Natsu yells and feels his hands shake in fear and his body shut down in panic.
"Take...care...of...Ma...Mag...gi..." Melina takes her last breath and says her last words to the world before letting the end take her, letting death take her away.
Tears start to roll down Natsu's face as he runs up to Melinda and starts to shake her, "MELINDA! Wake up, don't die on me...don't you die on me Melinda!" Natsu yells as shakes Melinda repeatedly, hoping that she will open her eyes again.
"Melinda, why, don't leave...don't go..." Natsu breaks down and falls to his knees while hugging her nose and crying.
He feels a old pain build in his chest, in his soul, a pain so great that it starts something that can't be stopped. A pain that releases a beast inside him, a demon that takes no side on the battlefield, a beast who kills all in sight to quench a never ending lust of blood inside him.
'Burn...burn them all,' A voice whispers in Natsu ear, his own voice, he's telling himself to stop.
Then all of a sudden, Natsu stops crying, his pain, his suffering, his misery all stops in one moment to be replaced with something more. Something greater that fills him with power...anger. His body fills in fury, a never dying fire, that makes him a puppet to his own rage.
Natsu then slowly rises to his feet and turns around from the body then looks for the nearest thing to kill, 'All will burn...all will die,' He mumbles as Natsu opens his eye and only see black and red. The color of the night, and the color of blood is all he can see, all he wants to see.
Then fire sets Natsu's body ablaze, the flame dancing around him is the color the represents him, represents who he is, represents what he feels. The flame around him is pure black, the darkest color of them all. He feels dead, alone, abandoned, and most of all...hungry. Hungry for blood, and blood he shall have, blood to be split with his own hands.
Natsu then walks away from the corpse of the friend he couldn't save, the mother who wanted nothing more but to protect her child, the person who he can never me, and chooses to go down a path to kill. A path that he will never come back, unless someone saves him from his own darkness.
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"Did we get it?"
"I don't know, but we got orders to check it out."
"Uh...it better be dead, whatever it is."
A convoy of Atlas soldiers walks through the woods with a Paladin watching their six. The group must be at least 10 Atlas soldier and 11 to count the Paladin pilot, walking through the forest.
They all stop as they see something hiding behind a tree, one soldier put his gun up, "Something's behind the tree!" He yells, making his comrades aim at the tree, but they see a man walk out from the tree and stare blankly at all of them.
"What the hell, his eye," Someone mumbles as they all feel something bad about this guy, and his eye is helping.
"Is he one of them or what?"
"Humans can't be them right? It could be just a contact or something."
"I don't care, sir step aside, this is Atlas business," The man closes to Natsu warns as he aims his rifle at him, finger on the trigger.
Natsu doesn't answer as he sets his body ablaze with his dark fire, making everyone go on alert and prepare for combat, "What is that?!" Someone mumbles but gets no answer.
Natsu only walks toward the first soldier he sees and balls his hands into fists, "Step back, I'm warning you!" Natsu's target yells and steps back a few steps before shooting once at Natsu.
His flame acts as a shield and melts the bullets before it can hurt Natsu, "Damn it, FIRE FIRE!" Someone yells and open fires at Natsu.
In a split second, Natsu is under fire from all the soldiers, even the Paladin, while Natsu walks to the solder, "Why won't you die?!" The soldier in front of Natsu yells as he feels his suit reach unstable degrees as Natsu puts his hands on his shoulder and grips it tightly.
The soldiers begin to panic as their teammate screams in pain as Natsu melts his suit and his skin, "I can't shoot him!" Someone yells as they as a fist bursts through his back, making the soldier scream his lungs out from the pain. Luckily his wound is already been sealed by the flames but Natsu only retracts his fist from his back and drops him to the floor, making the soldier look down to the hole in his chest and try to cover it with his shacking hands.
As Natsu walks away, he snaps slowly raises his left hand and crushes it, sending the poor man into the flames. Making every one watch as the solder burns and call for help, "MAKE IT STOP! AHHH!" He scream before he burns to death.
"GRENADE OUT!" Someone yells as a soldier throws a frag at Natsu's feet, just for Natsu to slowly pick it up and look at it.
"That's right you son of a- MOVE!" Natsu hears as he throws the grenade to his right. He watches as the frag blows up and sends two soldiers flying into the trees around the group.
"Oh shit...you're going to be alright," A soldier assures as he knees down to his comrade below him with his leg blown off.
The wounded man only mumbles as he goes into shock with his helmet half broken, with some of his face shown, and a piece of shrapnel lodged into his brain.
"The fuck, KILL HIM!" A soldier yells as he wipes the blood off his helmet then fires his gun at Natsu, but only getting the same result from last time.
Natsu grows tired of the shooting and raises both his hands into the air, making the guns of the soldiers burn that the guns turn orange. The soldiers drop their rifles in pain as the pilot in the Paladin starts to grow orange.
"HELP! It burns! HELP ME!" The pilot screams and tries to get out of the machine but the combat robot suit blows up in a great ball of fire.
"We're screwed! RUN!" Someone yells at the back of the convoy, but before the others can do the same Natsu creates a fire wall around them to box them in, to ensure them that...death is inevitable.
"No no no, we're do we go!" A soldier yells and looks back to Natsu walking toward them with a twisted smile on his face.
"I'll take my chances out there then here," The remaining six soldiers watch as the seventh soldier runs into the fire, he gets to the other side and rolls on the ground to put out the fires, but he only burns alive. They hear as their comrade scream to death as he burns.
"We're sitting duck in here! Get away from him," A solider yells as one charges Natsu with his fist cocked back.
He throws a swing but Natsu catches his fist easily, he screams in pain as his hands burns from his fire, he drops to his knee in pain as he hears Natsu chuckle at his pain. Then Natsu uses his free hand to force his arm the opposite way his arm is suppose to bend, Natsu uses so much force that his forearm comes clean off and his sprays blood all over Natsu, which only turns to vapor from his fire.
The soldier only screams while holding his bleeding arm as he falls to the ground, "HELP ME!" He screams and tries to crawl toward the remaining five soldier with Natsu watching him closely.
"Shit...what do we do? We can't help him," A soldier warns but another one of his comrades tries to help him.
"I got you man!" He yells as he grabs his hands and attempts to drag him away but Natsu stops him by grabbing the armless leg by the hand.
"WHAT?! Where are you going?!"
This only makes the poor man scream even louder as he feels Natsu's hand burn through his pants and scorch his hand with his fire.
"Come on! Let go of him!" The Atlas soldier hears as he tries to pull his buddy back but the soldier looks at him.
"Don't let go! Ahh...Don't you dare let go!" He yells through screams as Natsu begins to pull a little harder forcing the two toward him.
"Let go! He's dead already!" He hears but remain with his comrade but he losses grip of his friend and falls back on the ground.
"NOOO!" He screams as he falls back and falls on the ground, before he could react, Natsu raises his boot and stomps on his face, making his face nothing more than a meat pancake filled with brains and teeth.
The soldier watches in horror as the corpse of his friend twitches after death, fury fills him and he charge Natsu with tears in his eyes. He then throws a punch but Natsu dodges it and jabs his gut, breaking his ribs on impact, he feels his ribs stab his lungs as Natsu recoils his fist and hooks his face. The soldier staggers back as his helmet breaks from his fist, but he remains on his feet.
Natsu then laughs louder and hits the soldier again on the face, making the soldier spit out blood and stand back up again.
His teammates cringe at the sounds of breaking bones and punches of Natsu beating the soldier all to hell while laughing the whole time.
"WE'RE dead, we're dead!" One of the remaining four finally breaks and pulls out a grenade and pulls the pin and releases the hammer.
"Wait stop!" One yells as another soldier kicks the soldier away at the last second before grenade explodes, sending chucks of the soldier's body on his comrades and the dirt beneath him.
Back with Natsu, he laughs at the pitiful sight of the soldier lying in front of him while covering his face with trembling hands, "Ki...kill me..." He mumbles to the monster standing in front of him.
This only makes Natsu smile at him and step over him to fight his comrades, "What...he didn't kill-" Another Atlas soldier notes but Natsu only repeats what he did to the first man he killed and sets the soldier on fire, making him scream his last breath.
"Ma-maybe we can all take him down at once...maybe he's already down for the count, we just need to beat him," A soldier plans.
"I think we can do, three against one, we can do this," Another joins in but the last soldier has second thoughts.
"Okay, on three..one...two...three!" The first soldier counts down and only three run toward Natsu while screaming their battle cries.
They don't seem to notice the last soldier who stayed but they continue on their plan to overwhelm Natsu...just to have Natsu activate a trap waiting for the two.
The one on his right swings first with a jab but Natsu only uses this to grip his forearm, making another fall to his power and do the only thing that they can do...scream.
Natsu doesn't forget about the second one and cocks his head to the side to dodge the punch then returns the favor by grabbing his face. Putting the two in a deadlock of pain and suffering.
The last one soldier falls to his knees in fear and rocks in place, trying to block out the screams of his teammates. "Shut up...SHUT UP!" He screams as his blocks his ears with his hands.
Natsu only smiles brightly as he plants fear into the last soldier as he holds his friends in place. He finishes off the one to his right by kicking his leg the wrong way to send his bone sticking out of his leg. The two soldiers drop to the floor as Natsu lets go of them both go. The one on the right whimpers as he leans on his other leg as Natsu puts on hands at the back of his head and the other on his face then quickly snaps his neck in one swift movement. His body twitches as it falls to the ground, his friend doesn't really care that he died, he is more worried about the fact that is face is burning with Natsu's fire.
Dragneel looks over to Natsu and decides to finish him off by placing his boot on his back, making the man let out another powerful scream as Natsu drills his foot in his back. While he screams, Natsu stomps on his back that it hurts...but doesn't kill him. Making the soldier suffer long and slow for the last surviving soldier to listen to. For a minute straight, Natsu uses the Atlas soldier's back as a stomping tool for his sick pleasure. Now the soldier receiving the punishment is only creates gasps and groans to sound his suffering, he can no longer scream now that his lungs are empty from air.
Natsu grows bored of his toys current state, and finally finishes him off by stomping one final time, sending his boot through his chest and squishing that little meat blob he called a heart. He lifts his boot slowly as his organs and meaty insides stick to his boot. The smell of meat burns in the air as Natsu scraps the muscle and meat under his boot on the dirt below him.
He then slowly walks over to the last soldier of the 10 footmen, noticing that he is nothing more than a broken mess, mentally and physically...broken is all who he is. He slowly looks in horror to find Natsu staring at him with the largest smile on his face.
"Please no...no..." He pleas and starts to crawl away from Natsu but he stops as he feels the fire wall on his back.
He whimpers as Natsu stops in front of him and cracks his neck, he then swiftly pierces his hand into his chest. The soldier looks down to see his hand inside his chest then watches as another hand joins it inside his chest. He breathes quickly and looks back at Natsu while stuttering
"AAHH!" He screams as he feels Natsu's hand push away from each other, like two magnets of the same charge next to each repulsing each other forcefully. The pain grows unbearable as Natsu's hands tear a larger gap in his chest and his stops screaming once Natsu uses everything his has to split him into two pieces. He splits like a paper being tear apart and blood sprays into the sky as the two pieced man falls to the ground with its insides flopping out of its meaty prison.
Natsu smiles at the pure gore he has created with his burning fist as he stands up. He extinguishes his hands and body of his fire to get a better view of the destruction around him, the fire wall, the burning Paladin, and of course the many bodies of his poor poor playthings. He then begins to think of who he shall hurt next but he senses someone behind him...someone familiar. He turns around to find a woman with gray hair in a kimono looking around in horror at the sight, "Natsu...what did you do?" She whispers, it is none other than Grayfia...Death.
Natsu doesn't waste anymore time and runs toward her while laughing manically with his fist cocked back, as he approaches he gets a good look of Grayfia's fearful look on her face...but something snaps in Natsu to stop. Grayfia closes her eyes in fear and waits for his fist to hit her but nothing happens. She opens her eyes to find Natsu's fist right next to her cheek, but something is stopping him from hitting her. She steps back to find Natsu holding his own arm from hitting her with his face filled with fear at the idea of hurting Grayfia.
"No...don't...hurt her..." He mumbles as he hands begin to tremble, trying to stop his own power. Grayfia watches as Natsu finally gives him and passes out. Grayfia quickly catches Natsu and hugs him dearly, "Natsu...you're okay...you're okay." She whispers and hugs Natsu tightly as she feels tears run down her cheeks.
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"Alright boys...mission complete," Cobra announces as he looks around an empty plaza.
"About time, those Beowulfes are a pain to deal with," Jack admits and he spots Reap helping Nila fix some chairs of a wreaked cafe.
"Didn't even scratch my armor, so I'm a happy man," Hybrid nods assuringly as he dusts off his tank outfit.
"Nothing ever scratches your armor Hybrid," Cobra points out as the three join Alice sitting on the edge of a bullhead.
"Any plans now boss?" Jack asks.
"Nope, not for now, but I think we'd better head back to base for debrief," Alice explains and places her M16 on the behind the pilot's seat.
"Okay then, let's mount up, REAP! Get over here, we're leaving," Cobra yells and waves his hand at the sharpshooter.
"No, just got orders that he's staying for clean up duty," Alice explains and waves at Reap for him to ignore that.
Cobra only scoffs and gets on board, "Why only him?"
Alice doesn't answer him as Jack nudges him while the bullhead lifts off, "What else dude? He's a sniper, he got more intel for the rescue squad then all of us."
"Ah...I think that makes sense," He mumbles as Reap waves at them as they leave.
"Okay, that's all of it, now what?" Reap asks as Nila cracks her knuckles.
"Don't know, maybe I'll head back to the safe zone, see what I can do for the wounded. I might not look like it, I'm a not as bad of a medic as my sister is," Nila jokes as the two walk over to Neela and her team getting on a bullhead.
"Hey sis, we're heading back to the safe zone, you coming?" She asks.
"Yeah, Reap what about you?" Nila asks as she hops on the bullhead.
"Yup, orders to report to General Orchid to fill her about a mission before this op," Reap explains then joins the group.
"Ah..why didn't your team take you? They just left you here," Aeron notes.
"They got to return to base for debrief, which is the opposite direction from the safe zone, it's off northwest from here," Reap explains as the bullhead takes off.
"Oh...so what is VPS? Like a special forces?" Ashley asks as the group take their seats.
"Vale's Phantom Soldiers, kinda like recon unit, but we're more of an anti-Grimm group that isn't hunters," Reap explains.
"Why Phantom Soldiers, sounds a little odd for a group."
"I know, my leader Alice made it up, when she first started this group, she noticed that all the members of her squad lost something from the Grimm...and we're the phantoms of our fallen brothers, sisters...families. On the hunt for the Grimm, out for revenge," He explains darkly.
"Hmm...interesting," Nila mumbles, a dark way of naming a squad but a squad is a squad after all.
"Our name is plain, Atlasian Shock Trooper Unit, we're like you guys, just for Atlas. Going out eliminating Grimm for military ops," Ashley explains then something interrupts the two.
They all hear something shatters and they look to the pilot to find her leaning over the stick of the bullhead with the mirror in front of her bloody and showing several cracks from one bullet hole...she's dead...and the bullhead is spinning out of control.
They hear a beeping as the soldier spin out of control and falls down, "Someone get the stick!" Aeron yells as he tries to get to the pilot. They all try to reach the pilot to stabilize the bullhead as it falls down the streets below. It doesn't take long for the bullhead to make contact with the ground, when it does, it buries itself into the street and creates a long creator in the ground as he comes to a stop.
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Reap is the first to wake up from the crash, his eyes widen and his looks around but quickly feels a sharp, constant pain coming from his chest. He looks down to find a piece of shrapnel lodged into his chest, if it was more to his right then his heart would throw in the towel. He grunts as he takes off his seatbelt and stumbles over to the first body he sees. He finds Ashely and takes off her helmet to reveal her closed eyes and white hair tied to a pony tail. He checks for a pulse to find it still beeping and he puts his arms under hers and on her chest to get a hold on her to pull her out. He grits his teeth as blood drips from his wound and drags Ashley to a safe position away from the burning bullhead.
He puts her down gently then falls to his knees and spits out blood as the pain grows stronger, but he fights through the pain and goes back in the bullhead then pulls out Aeron, Nila, Neela back out of the bullhead one by one, growing slower with each passing second.
He finally gets to the pilot, luckily still instant from the crash, he stumbles to her seat and lifts her up to find that she wasn't shot in the head, but in the stomach.
'Maybe there's a chance she's alive,' He mumbles and checks a pulse and quickly finds a faint one, making his eyes widen.
"Thank...you..." He mumbles and cuts off her seatbelt with his chrome black knife the takes off her helmet to release her black midnight hair, tied to a bun.
He then repeats what he did for the others and drags her out then places her next to Neela. Reap then puts his hands over her wound to stop the bleeding, making her gasp as she wakes up, "I...I got you...you're alright," He mumbles, growing weak from all the blood he lost.
"What...what happen? I saw a light in the distance...then..." She mumbles.
"We...crashed...but...we're...okay..." He explains.
Then the two hear the bullhead build up quickly, as if it's going to explode, Reap on grits his teeth and uses his body to protect the pilot from the blast.
"What's going-" She stops mid sentence as a Reap hovers over her and an explosion goes off, her eyes widen as Reap yelps in pain to reveal that a large piece of shrapnel impaled his back and now sticks out of his stomach, she wants to help him but the bullet in her stomach forces her to stay down.
Reap whimpers as he slowly falls on his back, right on the shrapnel in his back, 'So this is how I die...I don't care...saved someone at least,' He thinks and feels tired so he starts to close his eyes.
"HEY, Stay with me! Don't close your eyes, wake up! I need a medic here, I'm losing this one," He hears before closing his eyes and knocking out from the pain.
Sugar Rush (No Vigilance)
"Oh my- NATSU! I didn't know you baked this good!" Yang blushes at the excellent muffins Natsu made for her.
"What is this food you speak of?!" A chibi Nora and Ruby walk into the room to see Natsu nodding proudly of his work.
"Natsu made muffins? What?! Chocolate chip too, Natsu, what about me?!" Ruby asks and hugs Natsu on the arm.
"Yeah Natsu, you forgot all about us!" Nora agrees and hugs his other arm.
"Well you gotta wait for the next batch I'm making, Yang got here first, see that sign." Natsu tries to point at the sign at the door, 'Natsu's muffins, first come first serve.' It said in a major snafu font.
"YAY!" They cheer as they kick Yang out the door and sit at the table in the middle of the room.
Natsu nods and walks to the kitchen behind him then gets straight to work.
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"~I got my choco chips, can't mess with this, choco chip, choco chip~" Natsu sings to himself while he grabs a bag of chocolate chips and places them on the counter island in the center of the kitchen.
"Got my sugar, bowl of sugar, sugar sugar sugar sugar." He sings and pours a bag of sugar into a clear blow while nodding his head to a beat.
"I got my eggs, named them Meg, little eggs, sweets eggs. Ba da da dum, da da dah dum." He sings himself a tune then leaves again, sadly he didn't see hands, wearing pink gloves, quickly takes the bowl of sugar from the counter and sneaks away the room while giggling.
"Now put the sugar...where's my sugar...well gotta get more sugar." Natsu sings again then prepares himself to make another bowl of sugar.
After several minutes of baking, Natsu made a cute little bunch of muffins with little signs on the muffins that have both Ruby's and Nora's emblems on them.
"Alright! All done, RUBY, NORA! Muffins are done!" He calls and walks back to his serving room while carrying his muffins.
"Ruby? Nora...oh..." Natsu stops to see Ruby running around the room with her roses falling everywhere in the room while Nora works out a storm while doing repeated one armed push up with the biggest smile on her face. Natsu walks over to the table and sets the muffin on the round table in the run and notices a half filled bowl of sugar with spoons in it on the table.
"There my sugar." He mumbles and picks up the sugar, ignoring how Ruby and Nora are filled with energy from their sugar consumption.
"Natsu, you got...muffins?" The rest of Jaune's team walks into the room with Pyrrha and Ren with him.
"I did, but I got to make a new batch." Natsu explains and walks back into the kitchen, making footsteps in the piles of rose peddles as he goes to the kitchen.
"Is-is this a bad time? We can back later." Jaune stutters, feeling a little uneasy as the piles of rose peddles grows and Nora does her push ups.
"It's fine, take a seat, I'll be done in like...5 minutes." Natsu assures.
"Uh huh..." Jaune mumbles as he spits out rose peddles on his mouth while Pyrrha and Ren swim through the flood of peddles coming from Ruby's semblance.
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OKAY done...
Gotta get that gore back into the story you know? It's been awhile since I did that. Is it bad that I'm killing Atlas soldier while listening to Elfen Lied beats 'cause I am.
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