With Great Power Comes Great Responsibilty

Chapter 46

As soon as Natsu recovered from his experience with the symbiote he and Gray started searching for any remains of it. Unfortunately black ooze wasn't exactly easy to find in the big city. They checked the church first, looking from top to bottom but it was no where to be found. Natsu tried to use his smell to track it down but the symbiote had no scent. The ran across roof tops and swung from buildings for hours during the night but still nothing.

"Any luck?" Natsu said to his partner over the phone.

"Nope. Sorry." Gray replied. "Do you think it might have gone into the sewers?"

"I really hope not because I do not want to go through that nasty place again."

"Listen is it okay if I call my part of the search off early? Aunt Ur bought this new TV and I want to get over there and help her install it before she hurts herself."

"Sure thing. I'll call you if anything happens."

He hung up and continued his search. Since neither he or Gray had found anything in the past few days since they started looking, he was beginning to think that maybe the symbiote fizzled out like Erza suggested. He was about to call it quits on the search when out of no where something jumped down and slammed him into the rooftop he was on. He pulled himself back up from crash and saw something that made him understand a whole new level of fear.

What had attacked him was a large, bulking, figure covered in black and resembling a dragon. It had reptilian eyes, talons, teeth, and forked tongue like Natsu but this one was far more frightening. Far more dangerous. Far more filled with hate. Natsu knew what it was and what it wanted. It was the symbiote and it had come for a fierce reckoning with him.

"Did you miss us Red?" The monstrosity spoke in it's inhuman voice.

"You ensnared another human being?!" Natsu realized in horror.

"One more better suited to our gifts." It grabbed Natsu and started to brutally punch him in the face. "We have one mission! To destroy you for rejecting us! And to destroy that partner of yours for driving you to do so! And our new host is more than willing to help us accomplish that! After all he wants you two do gooders destroyed as well!"

"What do you mean?"

The symbiote peeled away a little which allowed Natsu to see the face of it's new host and to his horror it was Laxus Dreyar. The very last person Natsu wanted infused with some evil energy.

"Hey Dragneel." He said with a sickening grin.

"Oh my God Laxus!"

"No! Not Laxus! It's Black Dragon now!"

The symbiote covered his face again and he lunged for Natsu, pinning him to the concrete.

"Laxus stop! You don't know what you're doing!" Natsu cried in pain. "You don't want to kill me!"

"You're right we don't. Not yet anyway. Killing you would be too easy. You haven't suffered yet and we intended to dismantle you piece by piece." He hissed in Natsu's ear. "After all we know all your little secrets. We know who you are, we know that Blue Tiger is really that nosy nerd Gray, and we know who you both care about the most. Like Professor Clive for example. Isn't he like a second father to you? And that med student Erza. Hard to believe a hottie like that ended up being friends with you."

"You leave them alone!" Natsu demanded. "They don't have anything to do with this!"

"If you care about them then they have everything to do with this. But perhaps we should start with the first person you ever started caring for. Oops! My mistake that would be your dear old Daddy wouldn't it? But he's dead. Dead because you let that mugger escape."