A Dark Secret? (Rewrite)

Part 1

Third Person P.O.V.

    It had been two months since Natsu and Happy started on their little training trip. Currently, Happy had gone into the town to get some food leaving Natsu by himself.

“Fire Dragon’s: Iron Fist!” Natsu said as his first lit up with flames and he punched the tree.

Two hours later, Natsu had exhausted his magic and laid on the ground panting covered in a thin layer of sweat. Natsu then heard a twig snap causing him to perk up and his ears to wiggle.

“Happy is that you?” Natsu said whipping himself around only to come face to face with a man who looked to be eighteen and had black hair.

“So we meet again Natsu.” The mysterious man said in an unusually soft tone.

“What the hell do you want with me?!” Natsu had spat out in a harsh tone.

“Relax Natsu I come in peace. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Zeref Dragneel. Or in other words your older brother.” The man now named Zeref said as Natsu froze.

“No, it can’t be true. I don't have an older brother!” Natsu shouted now glaring at Zeref.

“Let me tell you a story Natsu. Long ago, more precisely 400 years ago there had been this happy family of three people. Those three people are me, dad, and mom. I had just turned three when mom came into the room and announced that there was to be a new baby in the family. Nine months later you came into the world Natsu.” Zeref said with a faint smile on his face as Natsu sat down motioning for Zeref to sit beside him for investigative purposes.

“Go on” Natsu said looking Zeref in the eyes as Zeref’s smile expanded.

“Everything was happy for the five years of our lives. You and I would always go out after I came home from school and play. You always grew so jealous when I would go off to school and I would end up explaining that you had to be eight in order to attend school. Until one day, while I was at school a dragon had come and destroyed the village leaving you, mom, and dad to burn to death during my absence. When I had walked into the village I had discovered that it was burnt to the ground, so I did the only logical thing that an eight-year-old would do and ran to my house. When I arrived I figured out that everyone had died, I cradled you in my arms and cried for hours that day.” Zeref said as Natsu leaned forward slightly to absorb more information

“After that, I delved into studying different ways on how to resurrect a person. I had just wanted to see your smile just one more time. The teachers had reprimanded me all the time until one time they told me to stop because I would never bring you back and that's when it activated.” Zeref looked down clenching his fists tears threatening to fall from his eyes.

“When what happened?” Natsu said completely lost in the story.

“I was given the curse of contradictions, the more I loved life the more I took life from others the more I hated life the less I took it from others. I had killed everyone that day and eventually discovered that I could no longer die no matter how much I tried. At first, I loved the idea of immortality I had all the time in the world to learn whatever I pleased. I soon learned every knowledge of magic out there, but eventually, throughout the years I had started to hate the idea of being immortal and had started to want to die. I eventually started to create etherious in order to kill me. But yet my etherious could not fulfill my desires. One day I had managed to create an etherious that could fulfill both my desires. I brought back my baby brother Natsu and created a strong enough etherious to kill me. I named my creation Etherious Natsu Dragneel, E.N.D for short” Zeref finished as Natsu sat there frozen.

“Natsu, I'm back from the market!” Happy said walking into the clearing.

“Until we meet again Natsu my baby brother.” Zeref said as he got up and quickly teleported away as Happy came up behind Natsu

“Are you ok Natsu?” Happy asked concerned about his father figure.

“Couldn't be any better Happy.” Natsu said with a fake smile on his face.

   Throughout the months Natsu and Happy trained harder than ever. During those months when Natsu was training he couldn't stop thinking about his conversation with Zeref. Was what Zeref had said to Natsu even true? Was Natsu really E.N.D? Was Zeref really Natsu's brother?