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"Talking"
"Thinking"
"SHOUTING"
"Attack!"
"Dragon/Demon Talking"
"Dragon/Demon Thinking"
Chapter Two: Fall of Heaven, Journey to the Fairies.
The day is July 12 of the year X777, and right now, the Tower of Heaven is quiet.
The Tower of Heaven, a R-system, a device designed to resurrect someone, but to do so, it requires a sacrifice.
This is an awful place, full of hatred, sadness, misery, suffering and death.
The Zeref cultists are full of misery and suffering, they are actually enjoying the suffering of their slave forces, they thrive of the pain and misery of others, they are truly some of the worst humanity has to offer.
Thus they have become targets for the wrath of one Fire Dragon Prince.
In one corridor of the western wing, one would see nothing, but if one were a Dragon Slayer, one would hear a soft heartbeat coming from the corridor.
One of the doors at the end of the corridor opens up, but there is no one there.
The door then closes and soft footsteps are heard.
The footsteps continue to go down the corridor and then goes towards the barrier, a large metal wall created to keep prisoners from trying to escape.
The footsteps go up to the barrier and then a soft noise is heard and then a semi loud 'thump', signifying that the source of the footsteps jumped clear over the barriers with very little difficulty.
The footsteps continue on past the barrier until they reach the end of the island, where we find a small, unassuming bush.
The footsteps go up to the bush and then pushed past the bush and into a tunnel the bush is concealing.
After two minutes of going down the tunnel, we find a 12 foot by twelve foot cave.
The footsteps stop and then a distortion appears on the air for a few seconds before it is dropped, revealing the source of the footsteps to be none other than our resident Fire Dragon Prince.
Natsu sighed, using his Fire Invisibility takes an extreme amount of concentration and so his head was starting to hurt.
Fire Invisibility is subset of Fire Dragon Slayer magic, it uses the casters internal fire source to create a cloak of invisibility and it doesn't use a lot of magic, but it does create major headaches in the users uses it for too long.
Natsu had arrived at the Tower of Heaven on July 8th and since then, he had taken enough supplies from the cultists to last him another day and he had used his invisibility to scope out the enemy numbers.
He has found out that there are a total of 100 guards on the outside of the facility, while another 200 remained inside to guard the prisoners and they have 50 other members in reserve, for a grand total of 350 guards he has to take care of to free the 500 slaves.
During his scoping of the Tower, he had not found the source of the feeling or the voice he had heard, but he knows that they were one in the same and they are here, they stand out in this sea of darkness as a source of light, there are a number of these light patches, signalling other good people, but the source of the voice was by far the brightest.
Natsu had wanted to go find the owner of the voice, but he knows doing so might tip of the guards, so he has stayed away and had continued to scope out the enemy.
Now that Natsu knows their numbers, Natsu has also come up with a plan to get rid of them.
He has found out the Tower of Heaven has a number of magic cannons to attack incoming vessels, so he has planted a number of Crimson Fire Dragon's Magma Core Implosion right around them.
Magma Core Implosion is a very versatile move, it can be used as a straight up attacking move, or you can stall the reaction that leads to the explosion for as long as you want, which is what Natsu has done. He has placed the Magma Core Implosion sphere's underneath the cannons and when the time is right, Natsu will send a mental signal to the core's to start the reaction, which will lead to a devastating explosion whenever he wants.
Natsu's plan is actually ingenious: There is a group of slaves nearby the cultist's armory, but they have a group of 75 guards around at all times for that fact.
Natsu is going to create a diversion using his Magma Cores, drawing the guards away and then he shall free the slaves and then get them to the armory.
Once they are armed, he shall have them break into three different groups and move to different sections of the Tower. These sections have only one entrance and exit, making them perfect as a kill zone.
The slaves shall hide behind sporadically placed boxes and walls and fire at the Cultists one at a time, when one of the slaves get tired, another takes over.
Natsu has also used his time to create about two hundreds palm sized Magma Core Implosions that when heaved at a target and they hit will explode with ferocious power.
He called these Magma grenades and these shall help even the odds for the rebels.
After the three groups split off, Natsu shall go to the other slave holding cells and free them as well and get them armed as well, while taking down any guards in the way.
After all the guards on the inside are taken out, Natsu shall then lead the rebels to the courtyard, when the remaining cultist will most likely make a last stand.
Natsu has prepared for this and has created about a hundred Magma Core Implosions and buried them about five hundred yards away from the entrance to the courtyard.
Natsu will detonate them in one massive go, hopefully destroying their last obstacle to freedom, and once the cultist are defeated, Natsu shall use Fire Dragon's Roar and blow open the barrier and get the rebels to the boats and once they are all in the boats and a safe distance away from the island, Natsu shall use Fire Dragon King's Roar to forever destroy this accursed Tower and forever make sure it can never be built again.
Natsu's plan is very good, but it all relies on the rebels being willing to fight themselves, for if they do not, that shall make his job of defeating the cultists all the harder.
Natsu then yawn's, it is getting late and tomorrow is the day he initiates the plan and free the slaves.
Natsu then lies down on the floor and begins to fall asleep, but before he does he whispers, "Tomorrow, tomorrow is the day in which you shall be free. Please hold out just a little longer."
Elsewhere...
Erza has just come back from her long day of working and is insanely tired and exhausted.
She falls to the floor and gets in a comfortable position and starts to fall asleep when she hears a whisper in the wind saying, "Tomorrow, tomorrow is the day in which you shall be free. Please hold out just a little longer."
Erza feels hope blossom in her heart once again, for the past 5 days, at nighttime she hears a boy's voice whisper encouragement and kind words to her and that has been her pillar of strength, that is what has given the hope that she shall be free soon.
She smiles as a few tears fall from her eyes and she whispers back, "I will hold out for as long as you need. Just help free me and my friends."
Erza then falls asleep with a content smile on her face, she and her friends shall be free soon and that makes her impossibly happy.
Time skip...
Morning starts to seep over the horizon and right now, Natsu is preparing to free the slaves.
He eats his morning breakfast and rechecks over his plan to make sure he has it completely memorized.
Natsu then makes the illusionary bush above disappear and then he crawls out of his hide out.
Natsu then stands up and closes his eyes.
His skin starts to ripple like a lake and after a few seconds, Natsu is now invisible once again.
Natsu then ran up to the barrier and jumped over it with no problems.
Natsu then want towards his first objective: the slave's by the armory.
Natsu ran into the facility, using the shadows as cover, in the off chance someone could see through his invisibility.
Natsu then came upon the slave holding cells and saw they were all here, getting ready for the start of their workshift, meaning they were still fresh and so less likely to collapse from exhaustion right now.
Natsu then sent a mental command to the Magma Core Implosions by the Magic cannons and three seconds later, twenty massive explosions rocked the facility.
Dust and debris began to fall from the ceiling as the slaves cried out in fear and the guards in confusion.
"What in the name of Zeref is going on?" A small skinny guard asked.
"The hell if I know. Someone must be trying to free the slaves, we have to go outside and catch them." A larger, more muscular guard replied with.
The guards then all ran away, leaving on five to guard the slaves.
Natsu smirked, this was going to be far too easy.
Natsu had grown to hate the Zeref cultists over these last five days, so he is going to enjoy inflicting pain upon these five.
Natsu then dropped his invisibility and then shouted out, "Fire Dragon's Roar!"
Natsu reared his head back and then threw it forwards and sent a 3 meter wide tunnel of fire at the guards.
They barely had time to even scream in pain as the flames hit them before the five were knocked out, each one falling to the floor, smoking and slightly charred from the intense flames.
Natsu smirked, it had felt good to cause these horrible human beings incredible pain for their actions, but Natsu didn't stay on that, he had a revolution to initiate.
Natsu walked up to the slaves holding cell's bars and then he ignited his hands.
The saves all gasped, true they had seen him breath fire, but ignite his hands and not be hurt as well? Who was this young boy?
Natsu then placed his hands against the bars and within seconds, the bars melted into puddles of molten steel.
Natsu quickly melted all the bars to the cell and then said, "Come with me if you want freedom."
The slaves hesitated for only a few seconds before they all came out of the cell.
Natsu then said, "Follow me."
Natsu and the slaves then began to run down several corridors to get to the armory.
Once they got to the armor, they saw a group of 15 guards right outside of the armory.
"Hey kid, maybe you should use your fire magic and beat those guards." A 25 year old slave man said.
Natsu shook his head and said, "My fire magic tends to cause explosions, meaning noise. We need to be quiet. Luckily for us, I have the perfect thing."
Natsu stepped out into view of the guards and before they had a chance to react, Natsu yelled out, "Lightning Dragon's Roar!"
Natsu reared his head back, but unlike before, now purple lightning formed in his mouth and then he threw his head forwards, unleashing a 5 meter wide lightning bolt that covered the distance between Natsu and the guards in the blink of an eye.
The pure electricity caused the guards to become unconscious from the pain almost instantly, meaning no time to call out for help and this time there was no explosion, meaning that no one was alerted to their presence.
The slaves were even more shocked now (no pun intended). This ten year old boy come out of nowhere, showed the ability to shoot fire and now lightning from his mouth and to change the size of said attacks at will? Who in the name of Ishgar is this child?
Natsu then turned to the freed slaves and said, "Hurry, go inside the armory and grab any weapons that you can. Swords, magic guns, anything that could be used as a weapon and hurry, more guards will be here soon."
The salves nodded and then they group of twenty-one slaves rushed into the armory, grabbed a number of swords, magic guns and some armor for their chest's.
Natsu then said, "Time's up, we have to go now."
Natsu and the group quickly began to run down the halls of the facility, quietly taking out any guards that got in their way until they came to the three kill zones.
Natsu then turned to the group and said, "Stay here and if any guards come, hide behind the walls and boxes and take them out quickly, meaning aim for their heads or limbs. I am going to go free the other slaves."
The leader of the group nodded and said, "You heard him, move quickly, more guards will be here soon."
Natsu then reached behind him and handed the leader some of his Magma grenades and said to him, "These are Magma grenades. Toss them at a group of enemies and they will explode of contact, creating a massive explosion, so only use them groups of 7 or higher. Good luck."
Natsu then ran down several corridors and found a group of fifteen guards.
Natsu smirked, it was time to have some fun.
Natsu ran towards the group, one fist of fire and the other covered in purple lightning and he yelled out, "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist and Lightning Dragon's Iron Fist!"
Natsu jumped into the air and smashed his left fist that was covered in flames in a guards face, causing several teeth to fly out and the guards limp body to fly into a wall.
Natsu then spun around and punch his right lightning coated fist into another guards gut, causing him to spit out some blood and then the guard's body became covered in lightning and that guard flew into the air and smashed into the ceiling.
The other guards were frozen in fear, this kid had just sent two 150 pound adults flying as if they weighed nothing and he seemed ready to pound the rest of them into the ground.
Natsu then gained an evil smirk and yelled out, "Fire Dragon's Grip Strike!"
Natsu grabbed another guard's face and then blasted him point blank with a lot of flames, causing him to go flying to the other guards, knocking about three out with him.
"Six down, nine to go." Natsu thought with a grin.
Natsu then rushed for the other guards and yelled out, "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!"
Natsu's entire body became covered in flames and then he headbutted a guard in the stomach, causing him to cough up blood, then the flames on natsu exploded.
When the dust cleared, all the guards were unconscious and badly burnt and beaten.
Natsu smirked, these pathetic fools couldn't handle even 1% of his total power, but that was to be expected, these men only appeared to be strong, they were actually weak, they prayed upon the weak and the defenceless, these people sickened him.
Natsu began to run once again and after a few minutes, he found a massive open area with about 60 slaves and 30 guards.
Natsu smiled, freeing these slaves would help even the odds quite a bit.
Natsu decided the time for subtlety was over, it was time to make some noise!
Natsu jumped down and landed down onto the floor.
Several guards took notice of Natsu and yelled out, "Boy, why aren't you working?"
Natsu smirked and said, "Why would I work for such filth as you?"
A guard took that comment quite personally and marched over, intent on teaching the brat some manners.
But before he even reached Natsu, Natsu then yelled out, "Fire Dragon's Flame Elbow!"
Natsu reared his arm back and threw it forwards as a trail of fire came bursting from his elbow and the turbo charged fist smashed right into the guard's stomach.
The guard bent over in extreme agony, not prepared for Natu's follow up attack, which was, "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"
A small fist coated in flames then came flying into the guard's face, causing him to be sent flying through the air for about ten feet.
Everyone in the cavern stopped and just stared in shock and awe, this young boy had just beaten a massive adult with not effort apparent.
Then as one, the guards went charging towards Natsu, intent on bringing him under control.
However, they made a massive mistake: they had grouped together in one massive unit.
Natsu had an evil smirk on his face and then began to chant.
"With the flames on my right hand and with the flames on my left hand, bring them together and you get FIRE DRAGON'S BRILLIANT FLAME!" Natsu yelled out as he combined his flames together to form a massive ball of fire, which he then chucked at the guards.
The guards had no chance of getting away in time and were promptly knocked out and their unconscious bodies tossed all over the cave.
The slaves were quiet for a few seconds before they all began to cheer, finally they had a chance to get out of this hell-hole.
Natsu then walked over to each slave and tore off each of the slaves cuffs and then said, "Everyone, get the guards weapons if they are still usable and hurry, more will be coming."
The slaves nodded and then hurriedly grabbed anything that could be considered as a weapon, the guards weapons, their pickaxes, shovels, anything.
Notsu then said, "Go down five corridors, hand a left and there will be a group of twenty-one other slaves, join them in holding those rooms, they will be where any free slaves will come to join you guys."
The group nodded and then the 60 slaves ran to go join the other slaves.
Natsu then began to run towards the third group of slaves.
Natsu pushed fire into his feet and two streams of fire came out of his combat boots, making him fly quickly towards the group.
After about ten minutes of flying, Natsu found the third group in another cavern, they were also mining just like the second, but this group was 40 in number and have 50 guards, suggesting that this particular group had a history of trouble.
Natsu then sucked out his right hand with his index and middle finger sticking out, while his ring and pinky finger were closed and finally his thumb was up in the air, making his hand look like a gun.
Natsu aimed for the lead guard for this group and once he had found him, aimed and them closed his thumb, causing a medium sized fire ball to be sent from his index and middle fingers.
The fireball struck the lead guard and pushed him off the pathway he was walking on, causing him to fall to the floor.
Several of the guards went to check on him, while most of the others began to look for who caused that.
Natsu saw several of them coming towards him and smirked.
Natsu then shouted out, "Lightning Dragon's Electric Vortex!"
Natsu formed a familiar purple sphere between the palms of his hands and after a few seconds worth of charging threw it at the guards.
The sphere traveled the distance between the guards near instantly, and once it had reached them, the sphere broke apart and became a five sided star and struck the guards.
A extreme amount of electricity was released, causing the guards to scream and then fall unconscious.
Natsu then jumped out of his hiding place and charged a group of five guards.
"Lightning Dragon's Zeus Cannon!" Natsu yelled out as he thrusted both hands out in front of him and then a large purple magic circle appeared and from it came a massive lightning bolt that went screaming towards the guards.
Those poor guards had no chance of even screaming in pain before they were rendered unconscious from the shear amount of pain their bodies were in.
The remaining guards then surrounded Natsu and one of them then said, "So, what you going to do now boy?"
Natsu then smirked and said, "Just this. Lightning Dragon's Secret Slayer Arts: Raiju's Rage!"
Natsu's entire form became engulfed in purple lightning and then he sent a massive bolt into the sky, smashing through the roof and out of the facility.
Seconds later forty smaller lightning bolts came crashing down into all the guards surrounding Natsu, frying them and knocking them out with ease.
Raiju's Rage is a move that Natsu can change with ease, allowing him to strike a single target with an insane amount of electricity, or strike a group of enemies with medium amount of electricity.
Natsu smirked and said, "You guys never had a chance."
Natsu then turned to the slaves, all of whom were extremely scared of this small boy, he just took down forty enemies with an almost casual ease, meaning he is insanely powerful.
Natsu then approached the group, who all took a step back out of fear.
Natsu then said in a calming voice, "I am not here to hurt you, I am here to free you."
A small girl, no older than 7, came forwards and hugged him, while tears came down her face and she said with a quivering voice, "Thank you."
Natsu smiled and then rubbed her back and said, "Shh, shh. This nightmare is almost over. You all shall be free. I swear it."
Natsu then gently grabbed her wrists and then tore off her restraints.
Natsu repeated this process until all of the slaves were free of their restraints and then Natsu said, "Alright listen up. I need all of you to gather any and all things that can be considered a weapon and get yourselves armed. We need everyone who can fight to fight if we are all going to get out of here."
The slaves nodded and then began to run all over the cavern to search for weapons.
After about fifteen minutes of searching, the forty slaves were all armed and then Natsu said, "Alright, you guys go down the corridor to the right for about 10, 15 minutes and in three separate rooms shall be all of the other freed slaves. Join them in holding those rooms for as long as you can."
The group nodded and then took off running and Natsu went the other way, headed towards the largest of the five slave groups.
The one he was about to free was mainly built off old people or very young people, only about 3 medium aged adults in the entire 339 slave group.
They were kept in the middle of the facility, where the remaining 85 guards and their pet's called Watchers guarded them.
Natsu knew that this is going to be his toughest battle yet, so he decides to break some of the Crimson Fire Dragon Slayer moves.
Natsu closed his eyes and he imagined his inner flames becoming stronger, and after a few seconds his flames changed from their usual orange color to crimson red.
Natsu then began to run even faster, he had precious little time left, the guards on the outside would be getting curious soon and come back inside and see that their charges were now out and free and more than that, they were armed and ready to fight for their freedom.
Natsu ran for about 12 minutes until he came upon a massive cavern, where about 150 slaves were working right now, the other's were still in the cells lining the side's of the cavern.
Natsu saw 17 groups of five guards all around the cavern, meaning that taking them out in one massive blow would be impossible and taking them out one group at a time would be too slow and the guards might kill some of the slaves before he could stop them that way.
What he needs is a distraction.
Natsu then reached behind his back and pulled out three of his Magma grenades and he then gained a massive smirk.
Natsu then threw the grenades with all the force he could.
The three round red sphere flew through the air and struck the back of the cavern, causing a very loud explosion.
Predictably, almost every guard ran over to where the grenade's hit, only to see that there was nobody there.
Natsu smiled evilly and then rushed out of his hiding place.
70 guards were over there, he couldn't let this opportunity pass him by.
Natsu then yelled out, "Crimson Fire Dragon's Cannon Blaster!"
Natsu reared back his left arm, where a magic circle appeared and then he thrusted it forwards, where from the magic circle came a large crimson dragon, who roared out as it flew towards the group of guards.
The dragon struck the group with the force of a bomb, blowing them all away from the impact sight.
None of them were killed, but all of them were smoking from the extreme heat and all of them were knocked out and probably wouldn't regain consciousness for a while.
Natsu then heard load footsteps coming from behind him and then he ducked downwards as a sword flew right where he had been.
Natsu twirled around and saw three angry guards coming at him.
"You little shit! Who do you think you are?!" One of the guards yelled at him.
Natsu put on a furious face and shouted right back with, "I am Natsu Dragneel, Son of Igneel, Prince of all Fire Dragons and I shall bring justice to those you have harmed."
The same guard the yelled out, "I don't care who your dad is you little shit! I am going to kill you and everyone you love for your disobedience!"
Natsu then said, "You shall not harm them. Crimson Fire Dragon's Roar!"
Natsu reared his head back, took a deep breath and then threw his head forwards and engulfed the three guards in a torrent of crimson flames that knocked them out with extreme ease.
Natsu then saw the remaining 12 guards raising their magic guns at him and he smirked.
Natsu then yelled out, "Lightning Dragon's Thunder Dome!"
Purple lightning crackled from natsu's form and created a purple dome of electricity around him.
A second later, numerous magic blasts struck the dome with no effect.
Natsu smirked, Thunder Dome is an nigh impregnable dome of electricity, it would take something of a much higher caliber to crack this barrier than those measly guns.
Natsu then yelled out, "Lightning Dragon's Thunder Drive!"
Natsu's entire form was now engulfed in purple electricity, boosting his strength, speed and endurance.
Natsu then disappeared from all sight, causing the Zeref cultists to look around and try to find him.
Natsu then reappeared right behind a cultish and shouted out, "Lightning Dragon's Iron Fist!"
Natsu punched him straight in the face with his purple lightning covered fist, sending him flying across the cavern and into another guard, and the momentum from the fist caused them to fall of the edge and down to the floor, knocking them both out.
Natsu then disappeared in a flash and struck another two guards with two quick punches.
Natsu then yelled out, "Lightning Dragon's Roar!"
Natsu then unleashed another large purple lightning bolt from his mouth into five other guards, knocking them out within seconds.
All that was left were three guards and they were all terrified, so they fell to their knees and begged for mercy.
Natsu stalked over to them, his teeth barred and a snarl on his face and then he said, "Mercy? You, who are without mercy, now plead for it? I thought you were made of sterner stuff."
Natsu then punched all three of them in the face with the lightning covered fist's, knocking them out before they had a chance to react.
Natsu then saw all the slaves looking at him with awe and a little bit of fear, so he said in another calming voice, "I am here to free you. But if I am to free you I need your help."
One by one they all nodded to Natsu and so he went over to each slave and tore their restraints off of them and then told each one of them to go get some form of weaponry.
Some of the freed slaves when to the cells holding other slaves and by using the magic guns, blew their doors open and then took of their fellow slaves restraints, decreasing the time it would taken to free all of the slaves.
After about thirty minutes, all of the slaves were freed and ready to roll.
Natsu then said, "Head towards the armory, I trust you all know where that is."
After nods in reply he then said, "Go towards the armory and then take several corridors to the right and you shall find three rooms were the other freed slaves are. Stay there until I return with the final forty slaves."
The large group of freed slaves then went charging down the corridors, intent upon getting their freedom.
Natsu then left the cavern and began running towards the final group, the group that held the owner of the voice, he could feel it, but he could also sense that some of the darkest souls in the awful place where also there, meaning that they might kill them to prevent their escape.
Natsu's worries gave him speed and after 5 minutes of running, he found the final slave cell, filled with the final group of slaves.
Natsu then saw only three guards here and so he just run up towards them, his right fist coated in flames, his left encased in lightning and punched the three of them unconscious before they knew what was happening.
Natsu ran up to cell's bars and began to met them, earning him several gasps of shock.
After all the bars were melted he then entered the cell and began to tear the restraints off.
While he was doing that, he tried to locate the voice's owner, but for some reason he just couldn't.
The last person whose restraints were to torn off was an elderly man with a long beard, thin beaten limbs, and a strange symbol on his back
It looked like a fairy, but this fairy had a tail on it as well.
The old man looked at natsu and then said in a kind grandfatherly voice, "Thank you young man."
Natsu looked around, but couldn't find the voice's owner and then turned back to the old man and said, "Sir, was anyone taken recently?"
The old man nodded and said, "A little girl named Erza Scarlet was taken for punishment about three minutes before you came."
Natsu began to panic, the voice's owner maybe in pain, all because he was too slow, now Natsu was extremely pissed off.
"Do you know which way they took her?" Natsu asked.
The old man nodded and said, "They said they were taking her to the punishment room. It is about two floors above us and three corridors to the left."
Natsu nodded and then asked, "Do you know where the armory is?"
The old man nodded and then natsu said, "Go to the armorory and then go several corridors to the right, there will be three rooms filled with the others slaves, go there and wait for my return. I will be back."
The old man nodded and then said, "Good luck."
Natsu nodded and then pointed his face towards the ceiling and then shot a stream of fire into the ceiling, melting it.
After a few seconds, there was now a hole that went several floors up, the same floor where the punishment room is located.
Natsu then flew into the air using his flames to propel himself into the air.
Once he was on the same floor as the punishment room, Natsu closed his eyes and tried to locate the brightest stop in the ocean of darkness.
It took a few seconds, but he found her and once he did, he went running for her.
"I am almost there. Please hold on." Natsu thought desperately.
With Erza...
Erza screamed out in pain as bolts of electricity went charging throughout her body.
After a few seconds, the charge died down and Erza slumped forwards in her chair, heavily breathing.
Erza had been taken for trying to start a revolution and now was facing the consequences for her actions.
"You think she learned her lesson?" One of her torturers said.
"Na, we have to really break her and I know just the way." His partner said as he then pulled out a large knife.
He then walked over to Erza, grabbed her hair roughly and yanked her head up.
The man smiled wickedly behind his mask as he brought the knife closer to the terrified girl's left eye.
"This is your punishment for challenging our authority little brat. You are our slave and you will do our bidding until the time we deem you are no longer of any use." He said as the knife came even closer.
Erza closed her eye's are prepared for the pain, but just as the knife was about to cut into her flesh, a loud explosion rang out.
The wall in front of Erza exploded, sending debris everywhere and knocking the second torturer out.
Erza coughed from all the dust that was in the air, which also prevented her from seeing who caused all of this.
From within the dust cloud, two orange eyes came into existence.
These eyes were of no human, they were of a demon, a creature of vast power of destruction.
Her other torturer came up and placed the knife close t her throat and yelled, "Stop right there, or I will kill this bitch!"
The eye's stayed right where they were, but then several arches of purple electricity appeared and then struck the man in the chest.
He screamed in pain as he fell to the floor, but then he was pulled up by his throat by strong hand and then he was slammed into a wall.
The dust died down and revealed who caused all of this.
It was a ten year old boy who was wearing a black full body cloak that had a red dragon's head on the back and he looked pissed.
No pissed was an incorrect term, he looked positively furious, like he was about ready to kill somebody.
"Why?" He said in a low tone that was full of hatred and anger.
"What?" The guard stupidly said, right before he was brutally smashed into the wall behind him.
"Why? Why do you enjoy inflicting pain upon others so much? What gives you the right to place yourself above others in such a way?" The boy asked again in the same tone.
"We are followers of Zeref, we shall be the ones that build a perfect world with him. Only we are the ones that are capable of such a thing and so we are naturally better than everyone else." The man said.
The boy was silent for a few seconds before he unleashed a monstrous headbutt to the man's face, utterly destroying his nose, and breaking bone.
The man slumped to the floor, utterly unconscious and in a world of pain.
"No one can build a perfect world. All people are flawed and thusly, the world they build is flawed. There is no such thing as a perfect world, just as there is no such thing as a perfect human being. Everyone is weak, no one is strong. People like you are the worst humanity has to offer. This whole Tower just shows how dark and horrible human beings can be. That is why I am going to destroy it." The boy said with so much venom that Erza shivered a little.
The boy then turned towards her and ran over.
He then swiftly tore apart the restraints, but without them Erza started to fall towards the floor.
Natsu quickly grabbed her and placed her gently back into the chair and he said, "Are you alright?"
Erza gasped, this boy was the owner of the voice that had been talking to her just before she goes to sleep at night.
"Its you." Erza said with awe, while Natsu gasped as well, he has found the owner to the voice he had been hearing.
Natsu then gave her a warm smile and said, "My name is Natsu Dragneel, what's your's?"
Erza then replied with, "Erza Scarlet."
Natsu smiled even more and he said, "That's a really pretty name. It fits you."
Erza gave a small blush at his compliments, she didn't know why she got so flustered when he complimented her, she just met him.
Natsu then grabbed her and picked her up bridal style, making Erza blush extremely hard right now.
"W-what a-are y-you d-doing?" Erza stuttered out.
Natsu smiled at her and said, "Well you can't walk right now, so I got to carry you."
Natsu then began to run, causing Erza to latch onto his neck using her arms.
Natsu ran through the corridors with extreme speed, all the while carrying a madly blushing Erza.
"I could get used to this. Him carrying me in his strong arms, it is really relaxing. I can't help, but feel safe and secured here." Erza thought as she snuggled closer to Natsu's chest.
Natsu meanwhile was thinking, "What the heck is going with me? Since I have seen her, I can't help, but feel this overwhelming desire to protect her, no matter the cost. She is also really beautiful and wait! Beautiful?! Where the heck did that come from?"
Natsu now had a large blush on his face too, prompting Erza to say, "Are you alright?"
Natsu grinned and said, "Y-yeah, e-everything is g-good."
Erza didn't believe him for a second, but decided against prodding any further.
The two continued their journey in silence until they came upon where the other freed slaves were, which is where Natsu then said, "Can you stand?"
Erza nodded and then Natsu gently set her down, where she stood on her two legs, which while hurting, did not stumble.
Natsu then said, "Everyone listen up!"
This caused everyone to grown silent and then Natsu continued, "Right now, we have almost two hundred guards left outside, just waiting to take us out. I have a way for us to escape. You will know the signal to run, once the signal has been sent, run towards the barrier which leads to where the boats are docked. I will take the barrier down and once it is down, everyone is get onto a boat as quickly as you can, and you are too help others as well, I don't want to see anyone here run off with their own private boat. Anyone who does this, I will hunt you own and make you pay. Understood?"
Everyone nodded, they had all seen what this kid can do, so he will most certainly keep his threats.
Natsu then said, "Everyone, follow me."
Natsu led the five hundred slaves towards the courtyard, where the 175 remaining guards were waiting for them.
Natsu then sent the mental signal and then hell was unleashed.
All of the Magma Core Implosions he had placed detonated at once, causing a hellish amount of flames to erupt, knocking out 160 of the guards all at once and the remaining ten were disoriented, confused and in no condition to try and stop the slaves.
Natsu then yelled out, "Go!"
The slaves then bolted, running towards the barrier as fast as their legs could carry them.
Natsu saw the remaining guards starting to get up, so he turned towards them and yelled out, "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!"
Natsu ran at the guards, a "V" of fire being created from his back, which he slammed into the guards, knocking all 10 of them out with no problem.
What Natsu didn't know is that a single guards was still conscious and was right behind him, with a dagger ready to be stuck in his back.
Erza saw this with widened eyes, she could allow another person to die here, not again!
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She yelled as all of her feelings of rage, anger, pain, suffering, loss, and helplessness came out of her all at once as a giant red magic circle appeared above her and then shockingly, many of the dropped guard weapons floated into the air and then rushed into the remaining guard.
The guard was a second from stabbing Natsu when he was struck by a hundred different weapons at once, knocking him clean out.
Natsu turned to Erza in shock as he saw the giant red magic circle, Natsu had sensed a extreme amount of raw magical power within Erza, but it was buried by all her feelings, he would have never thought she would break the seal and unleash all of her power at once.
Erza then wobbled on her feet and then fell over, having exhausted her magic all at once with that little display.
Natsu rushed over and then said, "You okay?"
Erza nodded and said, "I never knew using magic was so exhausting."
Natsu nodded and said, "It is very exhausting, I have extreme magic reserves due to 6 years of intense training. You just need some practice and I can tell you will be an absolute beast in combat."
Erza smiled and gave a small yelp as Natsu picked her up bridal style again.
"Aww, that was the cutest sound I have ever heard!" Natsu said as he rubbed his face against Erza's.
Erza's face was now redder than a tomato and she couldn't form a single sentence as her brain short-circuited.
Natsu then ran over to the barrier and saw all the other slaves waiting for him.
Natsu then laid Erza down gently and then walked right up to the barrier.
Natsu then covered his fist in crimson flames and then shouted out, "Crimson Fire Dragon's Cataclysm Fist!"
Natsu's fist smashed into the barrier and blew a massive chunk out of it, allowing himself and the slaves access to the boats, which they were all running for.
Natsu, Erza, the kind elderly man, whose name was Rob, and Erza's friends Jellal, Simon, Millianna, Sho and Wally all stayed back to make sure everyone got onto the boats.
After all the other now freed slaves left, Natsu said to the group that was left, "Get on the boat and cast off, I will join you shortly. I have something I have to do."
The group nodded and then went to the last boat and cast off as the looked at Natsu.
Natsu then turned back towards the Tower of Heaven and he knew, he had to end this.
Natsu then concentrated on the power within and within seconds, his entire form was engulfed by intense golden flames.
Natsu then flew to the top to the tower and then shouted out in a voice like thunder, "HIDDEN FIRE FORM: CRIMSON LOTUS: PHOENIX BLADE!"
Natsu's golden flame covered form then became even more intense and then he charged forwards.
Floor after floor he smashed right through as if moving through air, there was just no resistance to the awesome power he was demonstrating.
Erza, Jellal, Simon, Wally, Sho, Millianna, and Rob looked in awe as the golden flamed Natsu destroyed the awful tower that had kept them prisoner for so long.
Natsu then created a massive fiery tornado that sucked all the oxygen from the island and this knocked out all the Zeref Cultists, allowing the Rune Knights that were coming to take them prisoner without any complications.
Natsu smiled, those Zeref Cultists may be monsters, but they still deserve a chance to return to the light.
Natsu then flew over to where Erza's group was and then landed in the boat as the golden flames left Natsu.
Natsu was panting a little, so Erza then asked, "Are you okay?"
Natsu grinned at her and said, "Yeah, it's just the fact that I have been fighting for several hours now and the fact I used some of my most powerful moves and I just sucked away all the oxygen around an island, not easy."
Natsu was then engulfed in a massive hug, with Erza now clinging to him as several tears went down her face.
Natsu was now panicking, what was wrong, did he do something wrong? he didn't know, so he asked, "Are you alright?"
Erza nodded and said, "I am just so happy. Me and my friends are now free, we can now decide our own fates, and that is all thanks to you. So thank you."
Natsu grinned at her and said, "It was nothing. I couldn't just stand by as you and your friends suffered."
Erza smiled and then leaned in and gave him a quick peck on the cheek.
Natsu's brain froze when he felt Erza's lips on his cheek, his face then decided to do an impression of a tomato and it was a very good impression, while steam came out of ear's and then he fainted.
Everyone on the boat started to panic, was Natsu hurt, when they heard laughter.
Looking over to Grandpa Rob, they saw the old man laughing so hard there were tears rolling down his face.
"Grandpa Rob, what's wrong with Natsu?" Jellal asked, worried that the boy who gave them freedom might be hurt.
After Grandpa Rob regained his breath he said, "It is okay Jellal. Natsu here has fainted from Erza's kiss. It is funny, the boy can stand up to hundreds of enemies without breaking a sweat, he can output enough power to cut an island in half, but one kiss from a girl and he faints."
Rob moved Natsu a little so he would be under the shade of the sail of their small boat.
Rob and the others traveled in silence, revelling in their newfound freedom.
Erza stared over to Natsu and saw that on his face was small blush and a giant smile.
Erza smiled as well and then started to fall asleep, the day's taxing exercises starting get to her.
She moved over to Natsu and cuddled up to him and was soon asleep with a soft smile gracing her lips.
Several hours later...
The sun was starting to set when Natsu started to wake up.
Natsu opened his eyes and saw a few strands of red hair to his left.
Natsu looked over and saw Erza's sleeping form cuddled up to his left side.
Natsu smiled as he looked at her sleeping face, her soft breathing melodious to his ears.
"She is the cutest thing I have ever seen when she is asleep. Wait, cute?! Where did that come from?! What is happening to me?!" Natsu thought.
Natsu then saw the other's were asleep as well and just decided to settle in.
Natsu then heard voices and when he looked at their direction, he saw they were maybe twenty minutes away from the port he left from to get to the Tower of Heaven.
Natsu then started to gently shake Erza while saying, "Erza, wake up."
Erza slowly awoke and saw Natsu smiling at her.
"Wait, it wasn't some crazy dream? I really am free?" Erza thought.
She then saw the port as well and a few tears started to fill her eyes.
Natsu then said, "We have to wake the others up."
Erza nodded and then she and Natsu awoke the others.
After twenty minutes, the boat silently slide into the dock and then the small group disembarked from the boat.
Natsu then turned to Rob and said, "So, what shall we do now?"
Rob then rubbed his chin and said, "Wally, Simon, Millianna, Sho and Jellal, I think it would be best if you were given to an orphanage. there you can get family that will take care for you."
Said members didn't like that idea to much, but Rob held up his hand and they quieted down and he then said, "You need loving parents and a good home to wipe away the horror you have been forced to endure. I know you don't want this, but this is for the best."
Said members still weren't happy, but they knew it was best to listen to Rob's wisdom, so they reluctantly agreed.
The small group then walked over to the town orphanage and told the head lady the situation.
She immediately agreed to take them in and soon the entire group had new clothes and had showered and had eaten to their hearts content.
Right now the little group was settling into real beds for the fist time in a long time, it was the first time Natsu had ever slept in a bed before and then moment his back hit the mattress, he fell in love with how soft it was.
He, Jellal, Simon, Sho, Wally and Rob were all sharing a room, while Millianna and Erza where sharing a room.
Soon, Natsu's heavy eyelids closed shut and he fell into a deep peaceful sleep.
Time skip...
When morning came, Natsu and the other boys got up, got showered, put on some clothes and then went downstairs to get breakfast.
After five minutes, Millianna came and so did Erza, both in their new clothes.
Erza had on a black pair of pants, a sky blue T-shirt, some brown shoes and she has a two light purple wrist guards, while a pink bow is wrapped around her neck.
Natsu stopped eating and just stared at her, his brain has shut down completely.
Erza saw Natsu staring at her with a slight blush of his face and now she has a slight blush on her own face and she then says to Natsu, "So what do you think?"
Natsu's brain restarts and then he says, "I think it looks amazing!"
Erza now had a larger blush on her face and she quickly left to go calm herself down and get some food.
Once Erza and Millianna got their breakfast, Rob then asks, "So Natsu, what magic do you use? I have never seen anything like that before in my life."
Natsu smiled and says, "I use Fire Dragon Slayer and Lightning Dragon Slayer magic, plus I have a few others subset spells that I can use."
Rob looked absolutely shocked, a mage with TWO different dragon slayer magics? That has never been heard of before.
Erza then asks, "So, how did you learn that magic?"
Natsu smiles and says, "My dad taught it to me."
Simon then asks, "So, who was your dad?"
Natsu smiles even more and says, "My dad is Igneel, the Fire Dragon King."
Jellal nods and says, "That is a weird name for a human."
Natsu laughs and says, "Igneel wasn't a human, he was a DRAGON."
The entire table looks shocked, Natsu got taught magic by a dragon, a member of the mightiest creatures to walk Earthland?! That was nothing sort of astounding.
Rob get's out of stupor and says, "So that explains the Fire Dragon Slayer magic, but what about your Lightning Slayer magic?"
Natsu then sheepishly rubbed the back of his head and says, "Well, one night I heard thunder coming from outside of the cave I grew up in and I then had the brilliant idea to see if I could use my Fire Dragon Slayer magic to redirect lightning. So I went outside and climbed to the top of the cave, where I drew a Dragon Glyph, a subset of Fire Dragon Slayer magic that does a certain thing, like drawing lightning towards a certain spot. Once the glyph was drawn, numerous lightning bolts came down towards me and I used Fire Dragon's Iron Fist to knock the lightning bolt away from me, but I still got shocked, so I decided to continue on. After about four hours of perfecting my lightning redirection technique, I ate some of the fire's created by the redirected lightning."
"Wait, wait, wait. You can eat fire?" Wally asked.
Natsu smiled and said, "Yep, I can eat fire and lightning, however, I can't eat fire or lightning that I have created, otherwise it will cause me to become violently ill."
The younger members of the table looked at Natsu with awe, he was become cooler and cooler.
Natsu then continued his story, saying, "Anyway, as I saying, I ate some of the fire I accidentally created when I redirected the lightning to replenish my magic supply. But as I was doing that, I accidentally swallowed a lightning bolt."
The entire table gasped at that, he ate a lightning bolt?
Natsu then said, "When I swallowed that lightning bolt, it was the absolute worst pain I have ever felt. It felt as if every single nerve in my body was lit on fire. But then, beneath all the pain, I felt something. A charge that wasn't there before hand. So I focused on that and suddenly, my entire body is now encased in both fire and lightning at the same time."
The table's occupants were really dumbfounded at that one, Natsu can combine fire and lightning together? Can he possibly get any cooler? (hehehehehe. Oh if only you knew)
Natsu continued his story by saying, "After that, my dad found my like that and said we were going to see an old friend of his, the Lightning Dragon King Thundreas. Igneel and I journeyed to him and after explaining the situation,Thundreas then taught me Lightning Dragon Slayer magic and that is how I achieved the ability to use Lightning Dragon Slayer magic."
The entire table just sat there in silence, that is how he got the ability to use Lightning Dragon Slayer magic on top of his already power Fire Dragon Slayer magic? Incredible.
Rob then said, "That is very interesting Natsu. Could you also tell me what those golden flames you used at the Tower of Heaven were?"
Natsu smiled and said, "That is my Dragon Force mode."
Rob's jaw dropped, DRAGON FORCE?! As in the ultimate form of a Dragon Slayer can achieve? And this boy can use it freely whenever he wants? Mind blowing.
"What's Dragon Force?" Simon asked.
Natsu then said, "Dragon Force is the ultimate form of a Dragon Slayer like myself, it gives us Dragon Slayer's power that is even greater than that of a dragon, or so the stories go. I can tell from experience what using it didn't make me stronger than Igneel."
The entire table sat in silence at that little fact, just how powerful is Natsu?
Natsu then said, "So Rob, what's the plan?"
Rob then said, "I am going to head back to my guild."
Natsu grew confused, "What's a guild?"
Rob then said, "A guild is a place where a bunch of mage's gather to do jobs and earn money, while also gaining experience.
Natsu's eye's turned into stars and he said, "That sounds so cool! Can I go with you and join your guild?"
Rob chuckled and said, "But of course child. I was hoping you would come with me back to my guild."
Natsu looked super excited, then a thought came to him and he said to Rob, "Can Erza come?"
Simon grew confused, "Erza? She isn't a mage."
Natsu shook his head and said, "She has magic, a lot of it too. When I was about to be stabbed in the back, she grew angry and then about a hundred of the dropped weapons flew up and smashed into the guy. When I turned around, Erza had a enormous magic circle above her head."
Everyone at the table turned towards Erza, who became very uncomfortable with all the attention and said, "I did do that."
Sho then says, "Do you really have magic Erza?"
Erza nodded and concentrated and a red magic circle appeared before left hand.
Everyone looked at the magic circle with awe, but then it closed and Erza said, "Sorry, that takes a lot out of me."
Natsu smiled and said, "Don't worry, you will get the hang of it eventually."
Rob nodded and said, "Learning magic is a very difficult thing at the best of times Erza. Don't worry, you will get it."
Natsu then turned back to Erza and said, "So, want to come with me and Rob to his guild?"
Erza looked down for a few seconds and looked back at Natsu and said, "Yes, I want to learn how to use my magic."
Natsu smiled and so did Rob, who said, "Then say your goodbyes. We have a long journey ahead of us. It will take about a day or more by train to get to my guild. I will go and get the train tickets. Natsu, come with me please."
"Sure thing." Natsu said as he and Rob left to go get the train tickets, and to give Erza some privacy to say good bye.
Erza looked at her friends and said, "I don't want to leave, but I want to learn how to use my magic. I could help so many people with it and..."
Jellal held up his hand, silencing her and said, "Erza, we understand and we support your decision."
Erza looked at the rest of her friends and said, "Really?"
Millianna nodded and then gave her a hug, saying, "We know and understand and we fully support your decision."
Simon then said, "Yeah, it's not like you're not going to be our friend anymore, your just leaving to better yourself."
Wally then said, "We shall meet again, it's inevitable. We are friends and we shall remain friends forevermore."
Sho nodded as well and said, "We will never abandon you, just as you never abandoned us."
All her friends then wrapped her in a group hug and Jellal said, "No matter where you go nor how far you travel, we are and always shall remain family."
Erza had tears running down her face at a ferocious pace and she said in a shaky voice, "Thank you all for being the best family I could have ever asked for."
Her friends smiled at her and said, "You're welcome."
Simon then said, "You should get going."
Erza nodded and then walked away, but before she left, she stopped and then turned and waved one last time to her friends.
They all waved back to her and then Erza walked out and headed towards the train station.
Once she got there, she found Natsu and Rob waiting for her by the train.
Natsu smiled and ran over and said, "You ready?"
Erza nodded and then the two of them plus Rob walked onto the train.
After a few minutes wait, the train started off and left the train station.
Natsu and Erza were by the window, while Rob was on the other side reading a pamphlet he had gotten.
Natsu then turned to Rob and said, "So Rob, you never told us what the name of the Guild we are going to is called."
Rob looked at them and said a simple sentence that changed the course of Natsu's and Erza's life, "It's called Fairy Tail."
With that sentence uttered, we leave our heroes on the train that is headed towards Magnolia Town, the city that is home to the greatest and strongest guild in all of Fiore, Fairy Tail.
The wheels of fate have started to turn and now they can't be stopped, as the future two strongest wizards this world has ever seen take their first steps towards their grand destiny.
The Knight and the Dragon have united and now evil's greatest foes have arisen and now, the whole world shall never be the same ever again.
Well that's a wrap!
This was one intense chapter, but I loved working on it.
To answer some of your question you may have, the Tower of Heaven Arc will never happen in this AU, just a heads up.
And also, Jellal, Simon, Millianna, Sho and Wally are not kept at the Tower of Heaven and will grow up strong, but Jellal will never fall into darkness like in the manga or the anime.
Did you guys like the building blocks for Natsu's and Erza's future relationship that I planted?
If some of you are wondering why Natsu and Erza are acting the way they are to each other, it will all be explained by Natsu in the next chapter.
Once again, if you have any questions or concerns or if you have any criticism, please leave a comment of PM me.
Thanks for all of your support you guys are the best!
This is Strikefreedom10, signing out.