Jogging towards the campsite, Natsu carried an unconscious Makarov on his back; it has been rather quiet for some time now, and while Natsu does enjoy peace and quiet once and a while, there was something incredibly wrong, not a single wild animal was in sight;
"Natsu!" a voice called from the distance, looking up he saw Happy flying towards them,
"Happy!" He shouted in glee, "is Wendy with you? Gramps needs medical attention" Happy nodded,
"follow me!" Natsu sighed in relief and chased after his friend. Soon he ran into an opening and met up with the Sky Maiden,
"Natsu-san!" Wendy cried out, Natsu placed Makarov gently on the ground; Wendy quickly went to work, her hands started glowing light green and began healing Makarov's injuries.
"did you manage to warn everyone else?" Natsu asked, Wendy shook her head,
"the camp seems to be abandoned" Lily explained, "there was even traces of a battle occurring"
"then the others should be somewhere on this island, with Grimore Heart running freely on the island, they could be fighting them, our only chances of finding them would be to listen for traces of a fight going on" Natsu explained,
"Natsu, when did you get so smart?" Happy asked,
"Happy! Don't ruin the moment" Natsu exclaimed, "and I've always been this smart"
"we don't have time to joke around" Carla scolded, "and Natsu's right, we should follow the sound of fighting otherwise we'll only be going around in a wild goose chase"; there was suddenly a smell in the air, causing Natsu to start sniffing around,
"what's wrong Natsu?" Happy asked,
"this smell is very familiar" he explained still sniffing around, "you guys stay here, I will be right back" with that he ran off.
Running through the forest, the smell was getting stronger and stronger, however because he was so focused on the smell he didn't even realize the edge in front of him; falling face flat he managed to grab onto a large leaf and use it as a cushion; what he didn't expect was that a simple leaf could also be considered as transportation, with his motion sickness kicking in, he was completely helpless. Falling further down the path only worsened the condition. After what seem like an eternity did he finally hit the bottom; crashing face first into the dirt, he quickly stood up trying to act as if nothing had happened. The source of the smell was close, he looked around when suddenly he sensed a pulse of magic coming from beneath him, jumping away a large tree sprouted from beneath the earth; and there it was, a woman sitting calmly on top of a tree branch looking down at him, he took another sniff of the air and confirmed it,
"so we meet again Natsu Dragneel" she said,
"so you're the one" he said, but raised a brow, "you like to cross dress or something?" the woman didn't really know how to respond to that,
"that was a disguise…" was her response,
"sure, whatever you say" Natsu said, "so who are you anyways?"
"my name is Ultear Milkovich one of the Seven Kin of Purgatory"
"is that so… in that case tell me" he pointed to the fallen body of Zeref who was rested on the tree trunk behind him, "what do you want him for"
"oh? Are you curious?"
"Kind of; but if you're going to rant about it then you can keep it to yourself" he took a closer look at Ultear, completely ignoring what the Grimore Heart Mage had to say; his eyes widened at the similarities she had with a certain woman from his past; images started flashing in his head, one particular image stood out from the rest, it was a memory of three kids, one was a young girl with short dark purple hair, the other had long golden blonde hair and the only boy of the trio possessed wild scarlet red hair; shaking his mind clear, he did manage to make out specific key words of Ultear's blabbering, Ultimate World of Magic and Zeref's Seal; all of which he has heard of a thousand times before, he only concluded that their intension was to revive Zeref's power and build a world that would wipe out all humans who could not use magic therefore creating what those fools called the Ultimate World of Magic; he chuckled to himself, he's heard of such a plan many times already but he knew full well that such an attempt would be impossible. His fists ignited into a brilliant orange flame,
