Hiya! Okay, I'm going to explain something to you guys before you read this lovely chapter I'm giving to you so you won't be a bit confused if you do get confused! About Natsu's intelligence, yes he was extremely smart thanks for the invented drugs Zeref experimented on him with (Yeah, a real thanks to you Zeref -.-) and well, the thing is even though the drugs made him brilliant and everything, his mind was still in a developing stage so he didn't exactly know what he was doing. He just did things thinking they were just normal everyday life things and thought nothing of the like. But because of that intelligence his mind kinda paused, so to say, in this childlike state though his actions and everything outward suggested he wasn't one. It was more of a brain problem so everything he saw is what a small child would see but more in his perspective with the drugs influencing him too. So when he has taken the reversal effects drug his mind kinda expressing the small child he is on the inside cause his brain had never really developed and all but some of that intelligence has remained. Hope I cleared up that part cause it kinda made sense to me but might not for you. And another thing for when you read the last part of the chapter: I will remind you, this is a no romance story cause I'm not really one for romance, but will do it sometimes, so just to clear that up this is no NaLu nor NaZa story. Nor will this be. Okay, thanks, enjoy! 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—

Thoughts and Plans, Confusion Is Where We Meet

"Natsu-chan scared…"

After a few minutes of hiccupping and crying from the pink haired teen sitting on the ground, they had finally managed to calm the crying Natsu and bring him down to Gray's room since it was the second room close to where the attic's stairway was and it wasn't destroyed like Loke's room. They got him changed out of the filthy hospital gown and into some of Gray's clothes that were a bit too baggy, the dark blue sweatshirt hiding his hands and the shorts being held by a belt and on the fourth to last hole on the belt.

He sat there sniffling on the bed, rubbing his nose with the back of his hand as his multicolored eyes glanced at the four standing in front of him cautiously and full of fear. Gently as to not scare the once demented teen, Erza crouched down in front of him and smiled sweetly.

"Natsu-chan," she started, catching his attention as he brought down his hand to look at her more properly. "can you please tell us what you remembered?" she asked. Natsu's bottom lip started to wobble again as if he was about to cry once more, but it slowly stopped as Natsu seemed to calm himself down.

"Everything is in confusing parts…" he said quietly, almost like a small child who witnessed something horrible. "First there was a man with black hair who poked me with sharp stuff… Then I'm alone and the man isn't there anymore. Everything gets older and older and it's harder to find food and it's lonely. Everything creeks and the shadows seem big and scary. Then four people come. They scared me, they screamed, too, every time I got near them. I was so confused. Then there's pain all around… everything hurts! I couldn't see straight it burned… burned…! Burned!" Natsu whimpered, bringing his legs up on the bed to his chest as he clutched at his hair with his eyes screwed tight and tears streaming down his face. Erza softly put a supporting hand on his knee which he flinched away from, but she left it there as he slowly started to calm down.

"It's okay, nothing's going to hurt you anymore." she said. Natsu nodded his head, still in his tense position and hiccupping uncontrollably.

"Natsu-chan doesn't like pain! Natsu-chan remembers the man and when Natsu-chan remembers the man Natsu-chan remembers the pain!" he hiccupped, making himself seem smaller as he curled in on himself.

Erza started to say comforting things to Natsu that slowly calmed him down, and when he finally stopped crying, he had fallen asleep. Erza stood up with one last glance at Natsu and looked towards Loke who was standing awkwardly in the middle of Gray and Lucy, all three of them looking as if they didn't know what to do.

"Loke, bring Natsu into one of the other two free rooms and come and meet us downstairs in the living room." she ordered, Loke giving her a quick nod as he went towards the tear stained faced Natsu, picking him up and walking to one of the mentioned rooms. Erza jerked her head towards the door to Lucy and Gray. "Come," she said, leading the other two down to the living room where they each found a place to sit and sat there waiting for Loke to come down, in silence. When Loke finally came down and found a place next to Gray on the couch, Lucy was the first to speak.

"What do we do?" she asked, her voice sounding very loud in the silent house. Outside crickets chirped indicating that it was now late at night, an owl hooting somewhere in the distance, but at the moment, all of that was far away for the four had different things on their minds than chirping crickets and hooting owls.

"I don't know." Erza replied, voice sounding just as lost as Lucy and just as loud even though she talked in a quite tone. "But I kinda feel sorry for Natsu." she said truthfully.

"You kinda have to after what he just told us." Gray piped up, glancing quickly towards Erza than back to where he was staring at his knees. He went on. "I mean, even though he was pretty demented and all that, he didn't choose to be that way. He was just some kid kidnapped for a crazy jerk ass scientist who wanted to experiment on him as a baby. He was molded to be something that wasn't him, he even killed this Zeref person, and by the sound of it, he didn't even know what he was doing, who would? He was, like, what? Five? Not even that he spent ten years alone and when alone, someone can go crazy." Gray said, everyone nodding quietly in agreement.

"He's just a small kid who never got to grow up." Loke added on, everyone feeling the subject getting far more depressing than what it originally was.

"I hate people like Zeref." Erza suddenly spoke up with venom laced heavily in her voice. "He had no right to kidnap Natsu, he had no damn right! He screwed up his future and for what fucking cost? Nothing! We don't even know Natsu's real name and if we try to do some damn blood test to find any living relatives, we probably won't since Zeref messed with his genes and everything!" she was getting so frustrated with each word she spoke that her hands clenched painfully on her knees and her shoulders were so tensed they almost reached to her ears. She felt her anger reaching new heights and took a deep breath to calm herself, relaxing her shoulders and uncurling her hands. "What are we going to do?" she suddenly asked in a defeated voice, sounding much older than her own age, eyes closed.

"Huh?" Lucy looked up confused, delicate blond eyebrows pinched together on her forehead as she tried to grasp at what Erza was trying to say. "What do you mean?" Erza opened her eyes and looked at her blond friend, finally feeling the last of her anger dwindling away.

"After this trip is over, where is Natsu going to go? No orphanages are going to accept him cause he's far too old, foster care can sometimes be bad to be put into, he has no relatives that we know of, what are we going to do?" she said, looking lost as she looked at her three friends in front of her.

"He can stay here." Loke said, making everyone confused as they switched their gazes to him. He scratched the back of his neck feeling a little nervous as he was suddenly put on the spot light. "Well, we can tell your parents about him, can we not?" he asked, looking towards Erza. "Your parent's are pretty chill and can understand easily, so all we have to do is call them, get someone nearest to this place to check up on Natsu every now and then, make sure he's fed and clothed, and he can just stay here." Loke suggested. Gray shook his head at this plan, disagreeing with Loke.

"Everything does sound nice in that plan of yours Loke, but if you remember one thing, Natsu was alone for ten years and had no human contact. It must've been miserable being alone and not talking to anyone. Even if we find someone near here they are not about to come out here every day to just talk to him, because visits every now-n-then won't be enough human and social contact. Natsu needs to be somewhere where he can interact with someone on a daily basis, like a school. We can't just leave him here. That's like treating him like the experiment he was." Gray said. Lucy nodded, agreeing with this plan.

"Gray's right." she said, looking up with a determined look. "We can't just leave him hear alone, but what we can do is let him live with me."