Bonds ~Fairy Tail

ch.3

Another update! Hope you enjoy…

Well nobody posted questions so, I compromised. My friend asked me in the real world-

Q: Why didn't more people react when Natsu collapsed in front of the guild?

A: Because this story takes place after they just got back from being stuck in time on the island, so if you remember correctly there isn't that many members left in the guild at this point in time.

Ch. 3 Taken

FlashBack

Makarov watched as ill child breathed while he slept. It had been two days since Natsu had to be put to sleep and Erza and the others had left to the resort. In that time Mirajane, Lisanna and Makarov switched off every few hours to watch the boy.

As if on cue Lisanna walked into the infirmary. "Master, you'll fall ill too if you don't take care of yourself." She smiled at the old man and placed a hand on his shoulder, "I'll take over watch for a while, okay?"

"Okay, my dear. I'll will send Mirajane to watch over Natsu soon." agreed Makarov.

"There is no need, I enjoy watching Natsu, but okay."

Makarov stood up from the stool he had been sitting on and walked down to the main area of the guild where everyone else spent their days.

"How is Natsu doing Matser?" a girl with blue hair asked the old man as he sat down.

"Not much better, no matter how much rest he gets he stays pale and those shadows stay under his eye."

"At least he doesn't have a fever anymore…" she inquired.

Just then Lisanna walked to the railing, and called to Mirajane to help her try and get Natsu's fever down.

Levy sighed. "He's going to be alright, isn't he master?" A tear formed in one of the rune mage's eye. "I don't know…" was all the Master could think to say without lying to his child.

Back in the infirmary Mirajane had just left after helping with Natsu's soaring fever. Lisanna sat on a stool beside his cot. "Natsu,...what happened?" Lisanna grabbed Natsu's burning hand. 'He still has a fever...' thought Lisanna, 'We can't keep giving him medicine, we'll end up overdosing him.'

She sat with Natsu's hot hand as minutes, became hours. She sat there for so long because hope was always a lingering factor when she was around the pinkette. She hoped he would become less pale, twitch, or tighten his grip on her hand, something to tell her he was beginning to recover, and that he would be okay.

Lisanna got up from her stool, about to go find her sister to take over monitoring Natsu, she didn't trust herself right now because she was becoming tired.

She stood and leaned down and kissed Natsu's inflamed forehead before turning to go downstairs.

A cold breeze stopped Lisanna from going any farther. She turned back to Natsu and saw a magic circle only a few inches from herself.

When she realized what was going on her eyes grew very wide, she saw a man jump in the window, she only had time to scream before the magic circle blasted her with the magic of this strange man.

When the guild heard Lisanna scream, and see her go flying, airborne, out of the infirmary, they all stopped what they were doing. Elfman quickly recovering from his shock caught the small girl.

Master glanced at the two as they landed safely on the floor beside the bar, before hurrying up the stairs, and into the infirmary.

A man with a blue snake tattoo going up along his next and ending with the snakes head on the top. He was standing over top of Natsu, who was still under the Wiccan spell.

"Awaken him now!" ordered the man, balling up a piece of Natsu's shirt and pulling him up into the air.

"Let go of my child!" Makarov expanded his hand, grabbing for this man who had grabbed Natsu.

Makarov had expected this stranger to pull away, but instead he put his very large hand on top of Natsu's head, lifting him by only his neck, to eye level with himself. He raised a finger, now transformed into a dagger, up to Natsu's throat. "Awaken him! Now! Or this will be last time you see him breathing." Master stopped, and lowered his head.

"Fine, just don't hurt him." And the small old man began reciting the spell, but this time backwards.

Instantly, the mage in the stranger's hand twitched, and opened his eyes. The boy scanned his surroundings, not knowing where he was, then it all hit him.

But before he could do anything about his recovered memory, the large man snapped his fingers and a blue magic circle appeared in front on Natsu. A flash of light left the master, temporarily, blinded.

When he finally gained his sight back it was too late, the large stranger had already knocked Natsu senseless, and he laid limply thrown over the stranger's shoulder.

He turned towards the open window and stepped onto the window sill, about to jump out for a quick escape with Natsu.

"Wait!" called Makarov, the man looked back at the small master over the shoulder not occupied by a boy.

"What are you doing with Natsu? Did you cause what's happened to him? Also who are you?"

The man smirked, "I am Kiritan. Member of a dark guild referred to as 'Kuro Oni', Dark demon. As for your second question…" Kiritan indicated Natsu by pointing with his head, " Yes, I infected him with Oni Kona, demon powder, it is a illegal powder that slowly eats away a hosts memories until there aren't any left. Every night that he went to sleep at his house we poured some on him, and pumped a little into the air so he would inhale it. It was quite amusing to see it, the way he just would cough the whole night...was hilarious!" He broke into a laughing frenzy.

"But, Why? What could you possibly gain?"

"The thing about Oni Kona is…" Kiritan's eyes bulged, he raised a hand to his forehead, "I'm sorry...yes I'm coming."

'He is using telepathy' realized the old saint. "Now, I must go." the man turned to leave again.

"You know we'll come after you." said the master, not meant as a challenge but it sounded very close.

"I knew I was forgetting something!" Kiritan stepped back into the infirmary. He laid Nasu onto the floor. Kiritan raised a hand, revealing that he had transformed one of his fingers again. This time into a large green thorn.

"This is a Yuko-no thorn, that means they're deadly. I'm just gonna…" He took Natsu's shirt and opened it, revealing his bare chest. He then shoved the thorn/finger into Natsu's chest, very close to his chest.

"There! I control what my finger's turn into attached or not. If I see you following me or even trying to track my I will push that thorn the rest of the way into his heart, and let him suffer for the time it will take for his "strong" heart to fail."

Makarov stood with his hands balled into fists at his side, shaking furiously out of anger. Kiritan placed Natsu back onto his shoulder, and once again climbed up onto the window sill. He turned back and smiled before jumping down to the streets of Magnolia.

Makarov stood un-moving for several minutes in the infirmary, he turned and walked to the railing of the top floor and looked down at his small guild, he didn't need to tell them anything, they had already heard it.

Just then, Mirajane began to cry along with Levy. Lisanna wailed, "Nooo….Natsu" the master looked down at the ground around his feet, for once he did not know what to do.

End Flashback

Okay, this is the end of what happened to Natsu, Also the names I used were japanese words… if you look them up do one word at a time…. Please Review!