Your Love Our Return.

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I think this is will the end of the Rape Arc but I believe this will become a nice little series. What do you guys think? Also to all Sting x Natsu fans I'm sorry but within this series Sting and Natsu won't ever be together.
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Sting stood in the clearing where a pile of newly dug dirt sat, with Lector by his side he wondered where the person who'd sent the request was. This 'Shadow' had requested the help of a dragon and seeing as Sting was the closest thing to a dragon he'd accepted the request. But now he wondered it it had been a hoax, a prank. He heard whispering from the bushes all around him and Lector whimpered.

"Sting..." Whispered a cool voice.

"Sting..." Whispered another voice.

"Who's there!" He shouted, the deep smell of upturned soil prevented him from picking up the scent of the voices.

"You hurt me Sting..." Came a soft voice.

"You broke him, Sting." Came an angry voice.

"I was cold, Sting." The soft voice whimpered.

"How could you, Sting?" The angry voice growled.

"Who are you?! Show yourself." Sting shouted.

"He doesn't remember, Shadow." The soft voice sighed.

"How dare he not remember, Blaze!" The angry voice bellowed. Sting's breath caught and the mentioning of Shadow and Blaze. So the Devils Pink and Black where here and after Sting. There were only two people who had it out for him. Sting fell to his knees, his horrible deeds had finally caught up to him.

"Sting, sting?! Get up!" Lector cried. "What's wrong with you?" Then the cat turned to address the voices. "Leave Sting alone! What's he done to you, bullies."

"Lector stop, run home. Be safe. My retribution has come." Sting moaned.

"Poor little kitty doesn't realise who he protects." The soft voice cried.

"Foolish feline, defends a rapist." The angry voice scoffed.

"How dare you!" Lector shouted but his shouts were cut off when a familiar Mage appeared and grasped his little vest. "R-Rogue?!"

"You're beloved human defiled him. Broke him, beat him, cut him, choked him!" Rogue roared.

"Shadow, it was not Lector's fault." Another familiar Mage came out from the shadows. "Release the cat, he can do us no real harm." Natsu turned to Sting who stared at his obsession with fearful eyes as the cold emotionless Onyx eyes seemed to drill into his very soul.

"N-Natsu..." He breathed. The Pink Haired dragon slayer had changed, he was still thin, he had long hair pulled back by a black band. His face had a scar and his eyes held no emotion as they looked upon him. As though he was less than nothing to the slayer. Rogue was different too, shorter hair, his eyes filled with rage and hate.

"You know, I was scared of you." Natsu said turning his back on Sting. "I was afraid for a long time, that you'd find me, and torture me again. But you didn't and eventually I grew out of that fear and into anger and revenge. I wanted to kill you." Sting's hands gripped the dirt so heavily that his knuckles had begun to bruise from the force of bone agains skin. If it had been long ago, Sting would have fought Natsu but he could sense it. Natsu was far stronger than before, and Rogue too. Both were frightening to be near, both were Devils in human skins.

"But he changed. As I worked on getting his life back on track. He lost interest in killing you." Rogue said. "He simply wanted to make sure you never tormented him again."

"So here is a warning." Natsu spun around and kicked (like David Beckham kicked) Sting in the stomach with such raw power that the tree Sting hit was uprooted. He slid off the trunk and gasped as Natsu grabbed him by the hair and dragged him into the centre of the clearing. There he heated a metal instrument similar to what one would use to brand a cow. And as Rogue held Sting down he pressed the red hot metal into the quivering skin of Sting's hip. The metal but deep and permanently singed the letter R into his skin. Sting curled up into a tight ball and Lector watched in horror.

"R for Rapist. Rather fitting don't you think Sting?" Rogue growled. "Personally I wouldn't have minded of he'd killed you." Natsu grabbed Sting by the hair again and stared straight into his eyes.

"If you EVER do anything like that to ANYONE EVER AGAIN I will end you. If you EVER become a threat to my family I will personally shove the heated brand so far up your ass you'll taste the melting metal." Natsu snarled and Sting could tell Natsu was dead serious. Natsu released Sting in disgust.

"I'm pretty sure this is apparent but I quit Sabertooth. I've already sent a letter of resignation and Frosch has left as well. Along with that letter is one that explains exactly why I've left. So have fun with that." With that Rogue turned and left. Natsu paused and looked softly at Lector who was crying.

"Take him home, tend to the wound, what you do from there is none off concern. But Lector..." The cat stared at Natsu who held a truly sad expression. "I would ask him for a proper explanation. Take care Lector, I'm sorry you had to witness that." And then Natsu took off after Rogue.

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The entire guild was at Natsu's grave, it had been two years since they'd lost him and as they filed out of the church each halted and stared in shock. By the tombstone stood Rogue Cheney. But he wasn't paying his respects to the dead, he was leaning against the stone with a grin as the entire guilds eyes filled with tears of joy. Standing upon the stone with a look just as happy and tearful as theirs was their missing member, their happiness. Natsu Dragneel stood atop his tombstone grinning as only Natsu would at a graveyard.

"Hey guys." He said his voice wavering as he tried not to break down. "Miss me?" Natsu was tackled with hugs and his ears rang with cries of his family.

As he explained his two year ordeal he could see anger and despair flare within his family. But he told them not to attack Sting.

"He's had enough." Natsu said. "We have two new family members now. Rogue Cheney and Frosch are joining Fairy Tail."

The rain above Fairy Tail ceased that night, tears were dried and hearts made whole, Happy clung to Natsu's head as if he'd wake up from his dream at any moment and Natsu would be gone. Natsu melted the ice sculptures and started a fight with Gray claiming he wasn't as fat as the sculptures made out he was. Fairy Tail partied into the night and long into the next day. Lucy sat back and watched Rogue openly flirt with Natsu and smiled. He was okay, he was in love and he was home. The heart of Fairy Tail was home.

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Sting didn't return to Sabertooth, he took off to a new land and took on a new name with his best and only friend Lector by his side. And lucky he did because Sabertooth was furious, all its members quickly joined the celebration of Natsu's return and appointed Yukino as the master of Sabertooth. From that day on Sabertooth and Fairy Tail were inseparable, teams often comprised of mages from both guilds and the damages had never been so drastic. But one name fell off the damages list as Rogue kept Natsu's destructive tendencies under check.

Everything was different, most everything was new, but Natsu didn't want it any other way. Rogue and Natsu officially became S-class mages together and Frosch and Happy celebrated by eating Happy's prized fish.

Natsu lay on the bed he and Rogue shared and smiled. He was home, he was loved and he was safe. He watched Rogue meticulously pack for the picnic they were having with the strangest group of people. Freed, Levy, Gajeel, Mira, Romeo, Erza, Yukino, Macarov, and several council members were going to have a picnic with them tomorrow. "Come to bed Rogue."

"What if I forget something?" Rogue sighed continuing his panicked packing. Natsu sighed as well and got up. Wrapping his arms around his partners waist he pulled his lover back to the bed. "You're so spoiled." Rogue chuckled.

"Who made me like that. Mr Shadow." Natsu teased.

"What am I going to do with you?" Rogue said affectionately. Natsu made a thinking face and then smiled and replied;

"A kiss would be a good start."

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