Apocalyptic

Repeat 1: A Reunion of Power

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{«Chapter 1»}

It happened again. He was dying, Natsu would've laughed if it wasn't for the sword shaped hole in his chest. Natsu wanted to scream, he wanted to shout, he wanted to cry, but most of all he wanted to burn the man who stuck his sword in his chest. But Natsu did none of those things, instead he chose to ask, if he was going to die then he wants to know why, why would his brother-in-arms betray him.

"W-Why?" Natsu asked weakly as he coughed out blood onto the hall of Universe One Fairy Tail. Zeref looked on in shock as blood dripped down the purple ice sword of the man who interfered with his battle against his little brother.

'Why is he shocked, he was going to kill me either way...'

The Etherious could see tears falling down Zeref's face along with Gray's, "I'm sorry Natsu. It was either you or Juvia."

The pinkette felt his eyes drop, as a wave of understanding washed down on him, the pinkette gave his friend a sad smile, "Then I'm glad it was me."

The last thing the pinkette saw before he closed his eyes was Gray's head exploding with Zeref in front of him with tears in his eyes. "I'll fix this little brother, I promise, we'll be happy together."

And then darkness filled his vision, soon after Natsu heard hundreds of people talking and rushing to their daily lives, the sound of a train leaving also wormed its way into Natsu's hearing. The Etherious smelt salt water in the distance along with various types of foods and spices in the market.

But before he could make more observations a fuzzy paw touched his head and a feminine voice spoke, "Natsu how long are you gonna sleep there? We have to find Igneel."

The Etherious opened his eyes to see a unfamiliar black Exceed before internally sighing in distress and fatigue, "Where are we?"

The Exceed titled his head to the side in bewilderment, "In Hargeon. Don't you remember the lead we heard about?"

'It happened again.' Natsu thought with an internal sigh, 'How many times have I done this? 100 times 1,000 times or 100,000 times?'

It really didn't matter. Every repeat the world was different, people were different, there were new allies and villains. Because every damn time he dies he's cursed to repeat his life in an alternate universe. Constantly seeing the dead faces of his family, living again.

The first few times it happened Natsu had told everyone what happened only for Phantom Lord make their move immediately after Lucy join Fairy Tail, and by immediately he means the week after Lucy joined the guild.

The pinkette also died in the whole ordeal by Jose Porla. Natsu had gotten cocky, thinking that his strength was the same as his previous life but he was proven wrong within 5 minutes. While a small portion of his Magical Power transferred from his previous life, his physical strength didn't, causing his own Magic to screw him over when he used a full power roar, but at least he took down Jose with him.

The second time he died was by Deliora's hands. The Etherious Demon of Destruction still had his Etherious form that Ur never managed to destroy. The third time Natsu died was during his encounter with Zeref on Tenrou Island.

But it wasn't Zeref who killed him, it was his alter ego, the Etherious Devil King E.N.D. Every repeat things were different and from that Natsu adapted, if he died from a stupid reason such as a physical disability then Natsu trained his body to death, and once he actually died when training.