Hiya! So for another long wait, I seem to say that a lot now-n-days but it takes forever for me to update because of my procrastination, so sorry. To tell you the truth I had no idea what to put in this chapter so I was like screw it, I'll do whatever what pops up in my mind even if it's moving on a bit too fast and it probably makes no since, I don't care. I'm not proud with the chapter and how it's written, I just wanted to get this updated as fast as possible before I start to procrastinate again. Thanks for those who reviewed, favorite, and followed last chapter! Please leave a review and favorite! Farewell and Enjoy!

-Let there be midnight

Me No Own Fairy Tail

The Attic's Little Secret—

Reversal Effects

"Natsu-chan… hungry… very hungry…"

Lucy let out an ear piecing screech as he suddenly put his hand halfway through the hole and gripped the jagged wood, his other hand doing the same as he tugged a few times, the sound of wood splintering greeting their ears as they rushed around the room either looking for a weapon, a place to hide, or a way out. The only thing they found though were objects they thought they could use as weapons. Gray held a wooden chair, Loke a nightstand, Erza two lamps, and Lucy had somehow found an old flashlight in one of the drawers. When the deranged pinkette had finally made a large enough hole in the door above the dresser he began to climb through, all the while with his eyes set on the teens who shook with fear at the prospect that they might die and no one would ever know.

"Hungry… so very hungry…" he kept on saying as he jumped down from on top of the dresser, landing on all fours. He slowly made his way towards them on his hands and knees, the four backing up closer to the wall and their hearts threatened to burst out of their rib cage. Suddenly when they thought that it was going to be the end of them, a song started to play and Lucy's pocket began to vibrate. The pinkette stopped, the deranged look in his eyes turning to confusion as his eyebrows knitted together and he sniffed the air while looking around the room, trying to pinpoint where the sound came from.

"Quick, Lucy, your phone!" Loke muttered from the corner of his mouth over his shoulder to where the blonde was hiding behind him. With shaking hands she fumbled for the pink cell in her pocket and handed it over to Loke. The ginger took it slowly so he didn't catch the teen's attention who was currently searching all over the room for the source of the noise. He tossed it gently so it landed on the bed with a soft plop. They watched with bated breath as the pinkette froze and looked towards the bed, standing up clumsily on two feet and stumbling towards it. The three took that as their chance and fled the room, Loke and Gray flinging the dresser down from the door and prying it open, letting the girls through first. The deranged teen saw this and instantly ran after him, somehow once again trapping them from going downstairs. Gray looked around wildly until he saw a thin door in front of the bedroom they just ran out of and saw that it was different from the others and looked far sturdier, looking to be made out of thicker wood.

"There!" he shouted, pointing to it. The other three saw it and ran towards it with the teen hot on their heels. Being the last one, Loke slammed the door behind him and saw that he could lock it, so he did.

"Um, you know how in horror movies the worse thing to do is go upstairs? Yeah, well we seemed to keep going upstairs so our chance of survival is now slim." Gray said, making Loke look back and see that there were stairs leading up to what he guessed was the attic.

"Wait, no this is perfect!" Lucy suddenly squealed as she started to run up them, getting dumbfounded looks from her friends. "In the journal, Zeref mentioned that Natsu-chan was kept in the attic and that's probably where he kept all of his medicine and the like! We can probably find a sedate of some kind and inject it into him!" she explained happily over the pounding of the door.

"You're right!" Erza agreed. "Come on, we have to hurry!" with this they raced up the stairs and almost froze at the sight. In one corner of the dusty attic a small dog cage sat with the door slightly ajar, the lock on it broken and lying beside it. The only window in the attic was boarded up with some type of metal. A small metal table laid on the opposite wall from the small dog table with wheels. Stuff the four could not identify was also scattered across the room along with a small file cabinet that had a medicine label tapped to it. Without needing to have a second thought about it, they rushed over to the small file cabinet and searched through the drawers either finding empty needles, or a little note of having to make more. They felt their hope deflate a little when they reached the last drawer, opening it up only to see that it had one needle and a little note to it. Erza was the one to pick both up and read the note aloud to the others.

"'To use in dire emergencies! With one drop of what's inside, Natsu-chan will revert to a regular child and all that I've given him would be erased from his system. Be careful during use and make sure to use it when absolutely needed.' Well, I can't find a more better time than to use it now." Erza muttered the last part under her breath. She then turned around and stood up straight, dropping the small note to the ground as she held the needle tightly in her hand. "We need someone who is fast to inject this into him, and I know it's not me." Erza said, looking around at her other three friends.

"I'll just freeze up in fear before I even reach him." Lucy said truthfully.

"I'm far too clumsy." Loke admitted, everyone now looking at Gray who sighed ruefully.

"I'm kinda happy that I'm the one in track and can run faster than you guys, but at the moment I kinda regret ever signing up." he said, more to himself than his friends. Erza thrust the needle towards him just as the pounding on the door got louder and they heard the wood starting to splinter.

"Better hurry up and get ready, looks like that door won't hold him up much longer." she told him. Gray nodded as he went to where the wall was that separated the stairs from the rest of the room, pressing his back against it with the needle ready in his sweaty hands. Lucy, Loke, and Erza both found a hiding spot under a table not far away and watched Gray with worry in their eyes, all hoping that this would end just like they've planned.

After a few moments of just their soft breathing filling the room, they heard the door finally give and the deranged teen's footsteps on the stairs. When he reached the top he paused and looked around, giving Gray the perfect chance to plunge the needle into his shoulder and injecting the medicine into his blood stream. Gray took a step back and watched with wide eyes as the pink haired teen gave one howl of pain before he fell limp to the floor, ragged breathes escaping him as his face screwed up in pain.

Erza, Loke, and Lucy crawled out from under the table and walked slowly to where the pinkette laid on the ground passed out and in pain while Gray stood a little back.

"He's not dying, is he?" Lucy asked as she peered over him.

"He's breathing fine… I think. I'm no doctor but even if he's breathing a little ragged, he is still taking in oxygen." Loke commented with a slight shrug of his shoulders.

"What should we do in the meantime? What if the medicine doesn't work?" Lucy started to fret, fear lacing her eyes once more. Erza shook her head lightly, eyes never moving from the figure on the floor as she studied him to see if she could catch any changes happening.

"There's only one way to find out and that's to wait until he wakes up." the red had said with a slight sigh in her tone. Loke was about to bend down to sling the pinkette over his shoulder when then teen opened his eyes and blinked. He pushed himself off the ground until he was sitting down. The four couldn't see anything physically different from the teen since he still had pink hair and two different eye colors; they just hoped it was just his physical appearance that didn't change.

"Natsu, is it?" Erza tried, catching the teen's attention. Natsu slowly looked up and when he saw Erza fully, his eyes started to water and his lip started to wobble, hands up and ready to rub the tears away when needed.

"Natsu-chan scared…" he whimpered suddenly, hiccupping as he started to rub at his eyes when the tears started to fall rapidly.