Hey guys, I'm back. I haven't totally made a decision for who I should pair Marie with, but I have two options; pantherlilly or lector. I like lector because I just think it would be cute, but pantherlilly needs more spotlight to me and it would also be a very cute couple. I have no idea who to choose so I would like your guys opinions. It would mean a lot to me if you could comment on who you think she should be paired up with. Thank you!

Natsu's P.O.V.

She was being crushed by him. It had made him angry, weak and he was starting to lose control. What she had said to him had stunned him. She was being crushed by one of the deadly kin, but all she thought about was being with him. He felt himself shut down as he incinerated the rocks above him, he stood up and walked towards kain.

"How did you-" Kain's words were cut off by the crushing punch to his gut by Natsu's fist. Kain had flown back and didn't get up. Natsu started to repeatedly beat him within an in h of his life. He then came back.

"Uhhh..." Natsu looked around, then looked down and saw his bloody form, then looked at his hands. They were bloody. From his blood and Kain's. He shook his head. What had happened? He saw Lucy unconscious and he ran towards her, still in a state of shock.

"Lucy, Lucy, Lucy!" He shook her a bit as she started to wake up. He smiled a bit when she was fully conscious. He explained what happened. She seemed a bit scared, but brushed it off. It made him feel upset that she was somewhat afraid of him. He shook that feeling off as well. She smiled at him and it made his heard skip a beat. Why did he feel this way? He should be more into fighting other than girls, but then again Lucy was different. They had spent the night.

"Natsu?" She asked him.

"Yeah?"

"Why is your hair pink?" He looked at her as if she were crazy.

"Why is Wendy's hair blue? Why is erza's hair red? Why is freed and bisca's hair green? Why- okay I get it!" She cut him off. They then tried to catch some sleep.

"Thank you for saving me, I know I said it before but I wanna say it again. I don't like it when people save my ass, but if it's you, I can deal. You have that weird effect on me I guess." He had felt his face heat up at the compliment.

"Great. Now I'm not going to be able to sleep! Stop making me feel this way." He pouted. She giggled in a very girly way that had made him even more flustered. She really is something isn't she? They had woke up and picked up Gramp's scent. They found him unconscious and hurting. Lucy had checked a pulse. She sighed in relief.

"Still here." She muttered. It was more to herself though, but he heard it. He coughed.

"Gramps! Don't move too much." He said to makarov.

"Please leave the island. They are just too strong, you can't beat em so go home." He couldn't believe what he was saying.

"You better listen to the old man before you regret it." They heard a cackle. A phychotic one at best. It was zancrow.

"Bastard." Natsu mumbled under his breath. He really didn't want to deal with this guy. He started to sweat profusely and his hands had began to shake uncontrollably. He had only felt this fear when facing gildarts but now...he just can't control himself. He needed to breathe, but he didn't have the time. Zancrow must have noticed his fear.

"You're afriad aren't you? You should be...I am a force to be reckoned with after all." He started to cackle again, but this time he heard a growl so low it was even hard for him to hear.

"Shut up! I don't know who you are or who you think you are, but you're just a loser! A egosistical loser! I don't care how strong you may be, but Natsu's flames can beat your ugly ass flames in a heartbeat." Lucy spat. This had fueled zancrow's anger, but he hadn't made any sort of move...yet.

"Lucy, don't provoke him..." Makarov said. Lucy turned and glared at the master. A mixture of sadness, anger, and something else.

"Shut up. You're being a coward. He's nothing but words. He doesn't even look scary. He needs to be put in a straight jacket with that hostile look. He's not fooling anyone, but you." Master's eyes widened at her glare and words. No one, even before Lucy came, has ever glared and talked back to him. He was the master and he had the power, but now...not so much.

"Enough with the sap! If you think your boyfriends flames are more powerful than mine than let's test that theory. You cannot intervene as I beat the shut out of him. Its a one on one battle. Just me and him." Zancrow had made a bet and he was all for it. Natsu looked towards Lucy and saw her contemplating look. She was debating weather to go through with it or not.

"I believe in you, natsu. Win for master. Win for me." She grinned at me and held her thumbs up. I smiled back and nodded.

"Come on then, or are you a coward?" Natsu provoked him. He jumped down from the small cliff and charged for natsu. He wasn't exactly prepared for this fight, but what was he gonna do? He managed to land a punch on zancrow as he charged, but that was just a luck.

"I'll help gramps! Just fight!" She knew he kept looking back at gramps. He quickly nodded and charged for zancrow this time. In the corner of his eye he saw Lucy transform into her Aquarius form and protect gramps with a water shield. She made sure he was alright and that he could trust her with the most important father figure in his life as of right now. He was distracted for a moment and left himself open. Zancrow took advantage on it. He kicked natsu in the stomach and sent him flying.

"You see, I'm just too strong. You can't even touch me." Zancrow cackled. He shot black flames towards natsu and they engulfed him.

"What the?!" Natsu looked confused. The flames were slowly burning him. He tried eating the flames, but he couldn't.

"Ha! You think you can eat my flames. Only dragon slayers can eat something less or equivalent to their flames. Since my flames are black plus they are god slayers, you can't eat your way out of this one, I'm a afraid." The look in zancrow's eyes were horrid. He was a psychopath. This was not good.

"Crap..." Lucy muttered. She stood up and deactivated the water shield. She looked at zancrow. "If I beat you, this thing will disappear?"

"Even if you did beat me, which you won't, why the hell would I tell you?" Zancrow looked into her hard determined eyes and scoffed. She's crazy.

"No..." Makarov said. He got on his knees and enlarged his hand and wrapped it around zancrow's mid section. He squeezed.

"Let natsu go or I'll snap you like a twig."

"Hey! Let go old man!" He was starting to burn makarov's hand. He still held on, in fact, he squeezed tighter. Natsu had had enough. He set himself on fire and they went against zancrow's flames, but they just consumed his bright flames into zancrow's dark ones. "It's no use you stupid boy, you can't beat me. Now let go you stupid midget." He struggled to get out of masters grip.

"Natsu, stop before you get yourself in more trouble!" Lucy hollered to him. He flames died out and his powers were drained. He than began to suck up the dark flames around him. He could. His plan worked after all.

"Natsu...you're a genius!" Lucy was in awe as she watched him consume the flames. He drained all his magic power so than he could consume zancrow's on an empty tank. It was so genius for natsu. Even he was surprised of himself. Master let go of zancrow and Lucy tried her best to heal his hand with the help of Virgo and Aries. His hand had pretty bad burns on them, but he would live.

"How- how the hell did you do that?" Zancrow watched him as he took a step closer to him. It was impossible for anyone to consume his flames, but natsu did it. Natsu sucked in and dragon roared him. Zancrow flew back and landed hard on his back. He was out cold while natsu fell to the ground. He Was drained, mentally and physically. He hasn't wanted to sleep this much in a very long time.

"Natsu, you did it!" Lucy praised as she carried master to them. Master was grinning ear to ear until he got close to natsu. He was then ticked off.

"You idiot! You can't consume those flames. Do you realize what you've done to your body?!" Natsu tiredly smiled at him and sat up very slowly.

"I'm fine, gramps, no need to worry." Master was ticked,but let it slide. He had saved the day and all. Lucy quietly observed the two and natsu noticed.

"What?" She seemed shocked by his bluntness and turning the conversation towards her.

"Oh nothing. I just love your guys relationship. Its interesting to watch and observe." She smiled at them both and they seemed fazed by it.

"What do you mean?" He asked her. She just shook her head while smiling. She got up and picked up both natsu and master.

"Let's go!" She started to walk as they yelled her way.

"The hell? I can walk myself, women!" Natsu yelled from over her shoulder.

"As your master I order you to put me down this instant!" Master yelled as well.

"I did nothing the whole fight and you two got to fight! I want to help you guys and I'm worried. Just let me do this since I was totally useless to you in that fight." She pleaded. Natsu fell limp to her and let her carry him. Well, now he know how every girl who gets carried like this feels. It's kind of nice, in some weird not totally creepy way. Gramps let her carry him as well.

"Where are we going anyway?" Natsu asked. They were walking for some time and all he saw was ground. He had no idea what she was doing.

"I'm taking gramps to the camp grounds to rest and me and you are going to try and find gray and erza so that we can fight hades." Gramps visibly froze.

"No! You can't fight him. You'll die before you even get one punch in."

"You can't stop us. I know what he did to you and what he could do to others. I don't want that to happen so I'm going to fight him and I know the others plus natsu do too." That's where the conversation ended. They didn't talk for the longest time because they had nothing else to talk about. Natsu was giddy though and Lucy seemed to know why.

Natsu had no idea what was going on, but he was ready for it.