**AGAIN, READ AT YOUR RISK, SPOILERS**
A/N: Sorry, this might be confusing. Lemme explain the situation with dialogue. E.N.D has taken over Natsu's body, and looks like the picture shown. Natsu is trapped inside and can sometimes speak. E.N.D's dialouge is bold, Natsu's is italics; when speaking together it is a combination. This was actually hard to write, because it hurts my soul, and Natsu.
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Picture this:
Eyes fluttering open. Smelling leather. It's dark, and smells like roses, and mold. Looking groggily at arms. Arms are tied to a chase lounge chair by two leather bracelets. Looking around. "..." Door opens. And an ember explodes into flames in E.N.D's soul. Natsu, stood dormat in it.
"Hello, Natsu, E.N.D," he greeted him as if there were two people in the room.
"Zeref..?" Two voices rang out of E.N.D's body- one was nasal, and chillingly evil, the other, sounded casual, but, was quickly turning serious, seriously angry. Natsu was trapped in him, in E.N.D and E.N.D was taking the wheel. E.N.D, whom had laid in Natsu quietly, had turned the tables. At least, Natsu could speak at times through E.N.D.
Briskly shutting the door, Zeref walked to the long, velvet curtain, and yanked it down, not bothering to pull it to the side. Dust visibly danced in the light, and E.N.D took note of the room. Very victorian style. Round table and chair near the windows. Velvet red chase lounge. Matching curtains. A couch across from him. A locked door, a mirror, and a coffee table. On the coffee table, a book caught E.N.D's and Natsu's eye.
Zeref smiled weakly, and sat on the couch. He had dark circles under his eyes, and looked tired. "I see you have an eye for literature," he joked, and pulled out a handerkerchief, coughing into it.
Reaching for the book, he said, "One of my own creations. Ah...Kyoka, I believe. You remember her, don't you, Natsu?"
E.N.D cringes as Natsu briefly, painfully, remembers Erza's screams echoing, and her chained to the wall.
"Bastard," Natsu spits, and lunges at Zeref, but is pulled back by the cuffs.
"You can't touch me." Zeref shrugged.
E.N.D piped up. "Enough chatter, Dragneel. Now then," his eyes, shadowed, glinted as he chuckled slowly. "Zeref, what's your game?"
"Game? No game. I want...a war. Even now, mankind...it rejects me in full. And I need you to...ruin things for the guilds. Particularly...Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, Crime Sorcierè, Sabertooth, and above all: Fairy Tail."
"What's the catch?"
"No catch."
"Surely you have one."
Zeref seemed to ponder a moment. "Ah, it seems I do. Or, at least, I've thought of something." He tried to frown to hide his simper, and his amusement, and his interest. His 'oh the cleverness of you', sort of expression.
"You destroy the guilds for me...." He paused, and let out a hearty laugh.
"Say it," E.N.D and Natsu remark together.
"You destroy the guilds for me, and E.N.D gets to play a bit with the Heartfilia girl on her way here. Lucy....wasn't it? He'll deal with her first." A glint of red flashes in his eyes. "If she dares to fight, I'll pass her an even greater despair then I ever have. To anyone."
"DAMN YOU!" Natsu gains control, and the cuffs explode in flames. He jumps over the table, and wraps his hands around Zeref's neck, squeezing. "DON'T YOU EVER TOUCH MAH LUCY OR I'LL MAKE SURE YOU'RE 6 FEET UNDER!"
Zeref's voice escapes between gasping breaths. "But- you- already- hurt- her- your- s-self, N- Nats-ssu. The- k-keys-sss." He shakily points to Natsu belt. Hanging from his new outfit's belt, were melted, and browning Celestial Spirit keys. They were still hot to the touch.
Natsu dropped his hands, and fell to his knees. "Arrrggghhh! I can't think straight! He's tryna- Grammar, Dragneel- Get outta my head," he groaned.
He grabbed his hair and pulled on it, running his hands over the strange tear drop tattoos running over his body. They looked like individual black flames- they looked inhuman. Natsu touched his horns, yelling out in anger as he did. His outfit was a loose, burnt vest- thevest he always used to wear; he wore it over a green shirt, covering only his chest, but revealing his 6 pack. The tattoos spread from his sides and reached across his chest. The only normal thing left of him was the scar on his cheek. No, who was he kidding? He was inhuman. What did I do to her? The thought swirled around his mind like a dark hurricane.
As if Zeref had read his mind, he replied, coughing slightly, "Or rather, it was E.N.D who did it. Perhaps it is the reason you don't remember."
"So, Zeref. When do I get to play with the Heartfilia girl?"
"GET OUTTA ME!"
"Idiot. I AM YOU!"
"As soon as my dear brother loses his grip on you. Isn't that right Natsu?"
Silence.
"Dragon got your tongue, Dragneel?" E.N.D sniggered, plopping down on the couch. He grinned, his lips curling upward unaturally as he twirled Lucy's scorched keys. His muscled ribcage rippled as his laugh crackled, the black flames dancing.
"Guess so. So, Zeref. I guess you could say...he lost hold."
"Ah, perfect timing. Because you're late to your meeting with Lucy Heartfilia. But first. Can you do me a favour within your task?" Zeref picked up Kyoka's book, and threw it over his shoulder. It hit the wall with an echoing bang.
"Here's the catch..."
"First, you kill Lucy Heartfilia, then destroy the guilds is the win-win situation. But here is my catch. Take the scarf, and bring it to me."
"...A scarf?"
Zeref cast his eyes to the rising sun. "Not any scarf, E.N.D. This scarf contains extreme levels of ethernano. Enough to bring back every demon I created."
"Fascinating," he snorted sarcastically. "Anywho...What would you like me to do with the keys?"
"Keep them. As a trophy, like in game hunting. So you never forget, that you are the one who was given the privilege to slaughter the woman Natsu Dragneel is in love with."
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WORD COUNT: 1053.
A/N CONT.:
Sooooo....I was wondering if you noticed something...off about Zeref. What, oh what could it be? Oh, and NaLu- Zeref ships it.
~Hanon
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