The Black Dragon Slayer of the Apocalypse
Chapter 18
Outside Zeref's HQ
It was the beginning of the end.
Lucy, Macao and Gray stood in front of Zeref's HQ. Lucy looked at the back of her right hand, her pink insignia was as vivid as ever. It symbolised hope and friendship. Right now, they had neither.
Painful memories of Fairy Tail came flooding back.
Lucy: How did it come to this? Usually no matter what, Fairy Tail would beat the odds and defeat the enemy. But now, as we stand here, everything we hold dear to our hearts have been destroyed.
Lucy looked to her left and saw Macao, his son had been inside Fairy Tail that horrific day. To her right was Gray, the guild was his home, his family and the place that helped him through Ul's death.
Lucy looked forward once again. Her reason for being here was the fact that Zeref had forced her best friend into becoming a murderer. At least that what she thought. No one actually told her that Natsu was being controlled, but it isn't possible that Natsu would do this on his free will. Natsu had killed Happy, the cat he hatched and raised. Makarov, the man who gave him a home when he had nowhere to go. Erza, the women who taught him to read as well as many other things. He killed them all. Not only that, he killed countless other people too: Juvia, Cana, Mira, Elfman even Wendy and Carla.
Gray: I do not care for the consequences.
Lucy held out her hands and the two boys next to her grabbed on.
Macao: I know full well that the likely hood of us getting out alive is non-existent.
Half the building was attached to a mountain. It was completely black and huge. At the very top of the HQ was a stone head that resembled Deliora.
Lucy: I want revenge for my fallen comrades, and if that means sacrificing my life, then so be it. A life without friends, is not a life at all. It is but an empty shell, you aren't alive, yet you are not dead. It is hell.
Lucy, Gray and Macao: I have cried so much that I have no more tears left. I have nothing to live for, except one thing. To defeat that one enemy. ZEREF! HE WILL PAY!
"FOR FAIRY TAIL!" She screamed, they all charged into dark building.
Macao obliterated the front door with his fire magic. They entered it only to be met with a barrage of Zeref's followers.
"ICE MAKE LANCE!"The drive of revenge can do crazy things. Gray managed to massacre them in one single strike of his magic. The three of them, stained with blood, ran on, not even fazed about what Gray had done. Floor by floor. Corridor to corridor. Room to room. Killing anyone who dared to cross their path.
It was a tsunami of never ending magic. Each of them having their own overflowing well of it.
Lucy turned right and immediately stopped in her tracks, at the bottom of the hall was a familiar face.
She froze in her tracks. Her heart was beating at 1000 miles per hour. She thought that she had prepared herself enough to battle him she had to. That was when it came to her. Lucy could never hurt Natsu even if she wanted to. Something always stopped her, and now she knew that something was love.
"GO! RUN! I'LL HOLD HIM Off." Macao screamed as he charged forward.
Lucy hesitated only to be pulled by Gray down the corridor to the right of them.
"But we can't just leave Macao!" Lucy protested.
"Trust him, it's the least we can do. We came here knowing that we will die, and if that's how Macao wants to end, then respect his decision." Gray told her.
Tears began to form in Lucy's eyes.
Lucy: We want revenge. I want revenge. I have accepted the fact we are going to die today, yet I… I can't leave Macao there. Right now, Fairy Tail lives within our hearts. If I leave him there, then I won't be a Fairy Tail wizard anymore.
"A FAIRY TAIL WIZARD WOULD NEVER ABANDON THERE COMRADES!" Lucy screamed, forcing Gray to stop.
He turned around, and slapped Lucy. Tears streaming down his face.
"FAIRY TAIL IS DEAD!" Gray shouted back.
"No it's not!" Lucy held out her right hand. "As long as we have this symbol on us, we will always be a fairy tail members!"
"Lucy…(sigh) look at your hand…" Gray said calmly.
Lucy hesitated, fear crossed every cell in her body. She slowly turned her hand around to see her Fairy Tail insignia had disappeared. She collapsed to her knees.
"… How..? When..? Why..? It was there... It was here only a few…"Lucy was breaking down.
"I didn't want to tell you but… the moment we first killed someone for revenge that was when it disappeared." Gray lifted it his top to reveal his insignia was gone too. "Please… let's finish what we started or we will have sacrificed the pride of being Fairy Tail members for nothing and die a useless death!" With those words Lucy got up once again.
"Argh!" Echoed through the corridor.
"He's gotten to Macao, damn! We can't waste any more time! Lucy let's go!" Gray dragged Lucy back into a run.
Elsewhere in the HQ
Zeref was sitting in a magnificent chair, whiling away time.
"This magic… I know it," Zeref's eyes had, from red, turned black. His heart began to beat hysterically and his body was filled to the top with worry. He rose from his chair.
"No this cannot be possible! But I can't forget this magical energy. He's near it! I need to stop him." He broke into a run. Zeref desperately ran to the lower floors of the HQ. "I need to get there fast, for only I will be able to stop Natsu."
Honestly i have the storyline all written out but i enjoy making new stuff up in the middle, so much for planning in advance. Oh and if you are one the new readers who have decided to take my advice and read this chapter first, then i hope you enjoyed it! i will admit that the first couple of chapters haven't been written well, but that was only because i was new to writing and way, way, waaaaay to excited to get a new chapter up. LOL! anyway i think i have calmed down towards later chapters which has, hopefully, increased the quality of writing. Fingers crossed. Anyway see you in the later chapters.