Werewolves//Book 1//

Chapter 20. Brothers

"Natsu Dragneel, get your butt outside to walk!" My foster mother yelled at me from downstairs.

I could hear the door closing for her to go to work, leaving me alone in my house. It was warm yet the light kept pricking at me. I had felt like this for a while, my emotions just won't let nature make me feel better.

I stuffed my phone in the pockets of my jeans before walking out of the house. The streets were empty and I could see my mother in the distance at the bus stop. The leaves were finally growing back on the dead trees, breathing back life to this side of London.

Walking around, I found myself in the woods.

The leaves had vanished from the last time I had been here and green leaves spread as a ceiling above me. The dry dirt below me gave out sounds as I walked with my trainers on.

I took out my phones by impulse and my lock screen had said that Jellal had sent me an image. I could see his texts afterwards but they must have been about the image because they didn't make sense to me at the moment.

I unlocked the phone and opened up the app to look at the image. I blinked a few times, trying to figure out why Jellal had sent this to me. The image was a photo of a TV screen. The screen showed a boy in his late teens.

Black hair and plain faced.

"You have a picture of me, I knew it would have reached you somehow!"

I whizzed around. The fact that I hadn't been able to sense the presence of another being was scaring me but the figure was too close for comfort. I backed away a bit and took in what he has said.

He was the boy in the picture.

"You look more dead in real life."

"You had always said stupid things," The boy said, "God, I missed your voice!"

"You say it like you know me..." I said. I put my phone away and tried to look at his face properly, wanting to know why he felt this way.

"Of course I do! I'm your brother, silly!"

He had a playful personality meaning he either had something to hide from me or he wanted to welcome me...again...

"I-I don't have a brother!" I blurted out. The texts Jellal had said me had made sense. 'My brother' was the one they were looking for.

If he was my brother, what would that mean for me? Would I have to bring him back to Juvia to force him to give her voice back? But he clearly seemed older than me and if he was a werewolf, probably a rogue one as Luce's parents would say.

He was one of the people I had wanted to see and find all my life, why had it I finally met him in this situation?

My eyes let out a sharp sting as his face began to feel more familiar to me. He slowly walked closer to me, probably feeling the same as I was. My cheeks were tingling by either sadness of forgetting him or that I had finally found him. The sensation went all the way down to my shoulders and wouldn't stop.

My eyes just kept stinging, however, I dared not to let out a single tear.

I didn't want to give off an impression that I was his weak little brother that couldn't do anything without him. That I couldn't even handle seeing him again.

But I did feel this way.

"I finally have you back..." He whispered at my shoulders as I pulled him into a hug. It felt warm and nice like we had done this many a years back. Before I could break, I slightly pushed him away.

"What do I have to do now?" I asked him. He didn't know what had happened in the time I wasn't with him. The pain of getting someone to love you but falling one step back in one second. He didn't know the pain of trying to think of what I should do with my life.

What I should do with him.

"Come with me."

The words shocked me. They weren't giving off a negative feeling as I thought it should have been. It was hard to describe in words what it made me feel. Somewhere between fireworks exploding and blinding me or him embracing me.

"What about my life here?"

My words were numb. I didn't want to ask it because the answer scared me. If I left my friends...family...Luce...behind what would that make me? Would that make me a broken link in their chain? Would I no longer belong to me.

"Your mother  doesn't have work today." He exaggerated my foster mother's term. "She went to fill out some papers to give you up to us."

My last memory of her face would have been breakfast with her baking. I had tried to help out but I had ended up getting distracted and she put me to sit down. She seemed so happy but this had explained why I had heard weeping last night.

"Can I leave one last note to someone?" I asked him. He nodded and I ran. I had left the person I had thought I wouldn't have found in many years behind. But, this time, I'm coming right back for him.

I bought revision cards from the nearest pound shop and steadily walked over to my next destination. I balanced the card against my phone's screen and began to write a simple goodbye.

I finally let the tears silently fall onto my t-shirt as I walked over to her house. I hadn't even noticed when the city I had been living in had turned dark.

The moon was shining bright but it gave me a different feeling of sadness. It was like a kick to the stomach as memories of my first full moon here.

Memories of how I arrogantly flirted with Luce in front of her mother and had the best night of my night. Memories of our first meeting and how she yelled at me. She wasn't like that anymore. Memories of her led to memories of the others. Gray had grown on me, becoming my best friend. Juvia followed by as Gray wanted me to tell him what Juvia had liked.

Footage of my life here filled my mind as I climbed the wall in the dark, mentally blinking at how the window was open to her room. I jumped through and my feet hit the ground with a thud. There was no sounds downstairs, meaning her mother must have been asleep.

I layed down the card on her stand and looked down at her.

Luce's shirt lifted up to show her stomach, signalling to me that she had felt troubled my the heat of today. She had felt warm today but maybe in a different way than the warm I had felt.

I went down on one of my knees and watched her peaceful face. I let out a breathless laugh as she took a breath in. Strands of hair were scattered in many different places on her pillow and a book was next to her.

I leant in closer to her and pressed my lips against her. This would be the last interaction I had with her, me kissing her as the window let in a cold breeze in the heated room. A single tear drop fell from my face and onto her cheek and I hoisted myself back up.

I wiped away the liquid from her cheeks and stood at the window.

Taking one look back at her bedroom before jumping out.

Are all of you surprised by this once in a lifetime oppurtunity inside of Natsu's head? Are you? And it's just 200 words longer than other chapters.

I didn't want Zeref to look bad in this book as in the manga/anime he had only ended up like this by his love for his brother. He might have finally cracked but he wants to go back to make sure Natsu was still human, even Layla might come back.

So Zeref isn't going to be a monster in this book, probably Jellal's best friend in the next book.

The next chapter in the last an in Lucy's POV again.