237🐐MLK Jr. is the Goat!🐐
{«Chapter 12»}
Natsu desperately looked for a place to hide, the look of pure disappointment and rage he was receiving was the reason for his current state. And the Etherious was sure his panicked and guilty look wasn't helping his case. "Joan I didn't know she would do that!"
A frown soon replaced Joan's gritted teeth, "Why didn't you pull away?"
'Because Ididn't want to...'
"It all happened so quickly that I didn't notice it for a second," Natsu paused for a second and in that his face had a deep sense of nostalgia, "But Zeref probably thought you and I are in a relationship. So she tried to stake her claim."
Joan's frown deepened, "I don't care what she thought! It doesn't make it any right for her do what she did!"
The Etherious raised his eyebrow before a frown grew on his face, "What's wrong with you? What did Zeref ever do to you?"
"What did she do to me!? I don't care what she did to me but I can't forgive her for hurting you!" Joan exploded.
Natsu furrowed his eyebrows at the lie, "Really Joan? Do you expect me to fall for that?"
He knew. For the longest time Natsu's known about Joan's feelings towards him, hell if he wanted a simple lay then he would've indulged her. But he didn't just want to sleep with her, he wanted something deeper and it was out of fear that Natsu never acted on his emotions. He's felt this emotion only a few times in his pitiful existence and all of those times he's done something to screw up his relationship.
'Like cheat or fall out of love.'
The first girl he ever fell in love with was Lucy and the relationship was ruined because his true identity was discovered. The second was about 9,800 years ago with a Tactician Queen, their relationship was doomed from the start considering she was married, but Robin, host of Grima, was a guilty pleasure for Natsu. The third one was with an psychotic mad woman who had the power to control ice and worked for a corrupt empire.
His relationship with Esdeath would've actually worked if he hadn't been attracted to the enemy who was also his fourth lover: Akame. His fifth one was with Hestia, and did he love Hestia or what. She would always hold a special place in his heart more than any of the others but a relationship between a Goddess and a Demon was never meant to happen, and for their love millions died.
Well that's what he would've said if it weren't for the fact that none of those, except the war part, we're true. The reason he fears a relationship with Joan is because he believes he'll fall out of love, and she would be essentially be Hestia 2.0, but without the whole war thing. "W-what!?"
The blonde's was taken back by his ability to spot the lie. "Not what. Why."
"I- um- well- it's..." Joan stuttered trying to find an excuse.
The crimson eyed Demon sighed, he didn't want to make Joan uncomfortable. It was never his intention, if she was unwilling to answer then he could do nothing about it. The pinkette released another deep sigh, closing his eyes before opening it again. "Forget it. Let's go back to the dorm, Ren and Nora are probably waiting for us."
Putting his hands on his head, Natsu began to walk back to the dorm, behind him, he heard Joan release a breath of relief.
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Natsu's eyes snapped open as heard Fall cry out to him for what seemed like the millionth time since his arrival at Beacon. He had tried to ignore it for sometime, mostly because he didn't know what was causing her the pain but now Natsu has thrown caution to the wind.
'That logic is so flawed.' Natsu shook his head.
If he was planning on being like his past self then this was necessary, because Natsu Dragneel would never let his family or friends get hurt. The Etherious Demon's crimson eyes scanned his dorm room, Joan had the bed on his left: the one closest to the bathroom. While Ren had the one to the farthest, near the window.
They were all asleep, Nora's snores, Joan's soft breaths and the small movements of Ren's chest were clear indications of it. Natsu quietly removed his plain white blanket and grabbed his Scroll before gently making his way out of the dorm room.
The lights of the hallway were dimmed and from the corner of his eye, the creator of Grimm could see a camera pointing towards his room. Natsu let out a soundless tsk before stretching. He wore a black tank top and red shorts that were knee length. On his feet, which were normally covered by his boots, were his Aura sealing runes.
Natsu still had his trademark scarf but it was wrapped around his waist while Zeref's pendant was still around his neck. With every stretch the muscles on his body flexed. While he wasn't a muscle junkie like Elfman, Natsu did have body mass. If he had to compare, then Natsu would say he had as much muscle as Laxus but far more defined.
Once the pinkette finished he reopened the door to his room and softly walked to the window which was slightly open. Natsu lifted the window and while looking inside the room to make sure his teammates don't wake up, he stealthily climbed out onto the roof. The Fire Dragon Slayer closed his eyes and sighed softly before turning around and coming face to face with a crow.
Natsu let out a gasp of surprise, caught off guard by the bird before calming down and jumping off the roof and landing in a crouching position when his bare feet touched the green ground.
'She's beneath Beacon...' Natsu felt her Aura plead. 'What has Ozpin done to my daughter!?'
The Etherious growled as he looked around to find a way below Beacon without having to destroy the school. Just earlier in the day, and even a few hours ago, Natsu hadn't felt Fall cry so much that it was numbing his senses. Whatever Ozpin was doing underneath the Academy was harming his daughter and Natsu was going to find a way to stop it from continuing.
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A cylinder shaped glass container was connected to a giant machine with wires that sent Aura to the brown skinned brunette who whimpered every few seconds. In front of the said containment container stood a tall man with coffee mug in one hand while a cane in another.
"Fall. No, Amber I-" Ozpin started with remorse in his voice but was cut off by a beep from his Scroll.
"Qrow."
"The wildcard has left and is nearing Emerald Forest. Now he just jumped off the cliff. Should I follow?"
"No it's alright. I'll handle things from here." Ozpin responded before ending the call.
The headmaster of Beacon Academy walked a few paces from the Fall Maiden before placing his cane in front of him and leaning against it. A small smirk started to form on his face as he felt Natsu's Aura coming closer to his location.
The Green Wizard tapped his cane once and a hidden gate in the wall across from him opened, dust came out of the sealed entrance and with the dust so did Natsu Dragneel.
"Welcome Etherious Natsu Dragneel, I have been eagerly awaiting your arrival."
Grimm crimson eyes narrowed at Ozpin who smiled, "How do-"
"Know that name? Well one doesn't simply forget their own name."
Natsu furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, "What do-"
"Mean? Well what can I say, I am you, well rather the remnants of what you abandoned 1,000 years ago."
"I don't re-"
"Remember doing such a thing?" Ozpin cut Natsu off once more, "Well that's to be expected, you hadn't realized when you finally decided to stop being a prick and teach those 4 girls magic that you left them a portion of your powers: well it was more of your memories."
'I can'tsimplymention that I lost all of the power, that would be far too embarrassing and knowing my previous self he would never let me live it down.' Ozpin thought taking a sip from his mug.
"OKAY! Stop cutting me off! This is seriously getting annoying! And what the hell are you blabbering on about?!" Natsu exploded losing cool most likely due to Amber's fluctuating Aura, Ozpin guessed.
"Are you done?"
"Ye-"
"Good, because we have much to discuss, especially your recent behaviors in the past few months. Well that can be discussed in a later date, but I have to ask, are you an immature brat or a 10,000 year old cunt who laments about how terrible his life is but never tries to better his situation or commit suicide. Correction, I neglected to say actually commit suicide."
"What..." the Demon King asked baffled by the Green Wizard's comment.
"What? Was there too many big boy words for you to understand?" Ozpin mocked.
'Acting out of characterdoesn't suit me.' Ozpin thought.
Natsu glared for a few seconds before calling down. He chuckled realizing what happened, "No, I think it's funny that you're making fun of yourself whenever you insult me."
The Green Wizard fixed his glasses with his middle finger, indirectly flipping Natsu off, "Hardly. While I have your memories, along with others, I am not you. I am Odin Ozpin just a Huntsman with the unfortunate luck of burdening your memories for God knows how long."
"But you just said that you were me." Natsu said titling his head to the side, confused that his assessment was incorrect.
"I am you but at the same time I'm not. I simply know everything you've done prior to the meeting with the Maidens. But at times I am quite envious of the life you had lead before turning into Zeref 2.0."
"Oh..."
"Yes 'Oh.' And let me explain, you have quite a lot of screws loose in there, and that's not even mentioning the nightmare inducing, mental scarring, and adulterous actions you've committed. Really? What were you thinking seducing Queen Robin and impregnating her!" The Headmaster of Beacon scolded.
The pinkette laughed nervously, "You know all of that?"
"Yes and I know much more. You need some serious therapy sessions. I will consult Glynda about it tomorrow and you'll have daily sessions with her until you graduate Beacon Academy!"
"Really? That's not necessary, I'm fine." Natsu waved off Ozpin's concern.
"No. No your not. And we both know that. You can't always put a cap on your anger, it's bound to explode when someone chips your scales. Life simply can not be dealt with living in the past, pondering on the What ifs and missed opportunities, you have to move forward Etherious Natsu Dragneel." The Huntsman concluded taking a drink from his mug.
Natsu sighed closing his eyes slightly as he gazed at the marble floor, "Its not that easy."
"Lies. It's easy and you know that very well, but all you've been doing is creating illogical excuses and acting as if your the cause of everything." Ozpin shook his head.
"But I am! Look at the Grimm and look through those memories, you know how much sins I've committed!"
"Okay Jellal. What do you plan to do now. Kill the Grimm? Kill your daughter, Salem? Live in peace with the Grimm? Let the Grimm do as they please? Or control the Grimm like you did with the Etherious Demons 10,400 years ago?" Ozpin questioned, mentioning the blue haired heavenly mage because Natsu was acting exactly like him. With the constant whining about repentance and how he doesn't deserve love or kindness.
Natsu stayed silent for a few minutes, before his head snapped up towards Ozpin. Brown clashed with Red and a small smile broke on Natsu's face, "First of all don't call me Jellal, I'm way better than that asshole. And second of all I like your plan!"
Ozpin rolled his eyes, "Which one? I gave a quite a few if I remember correctly."
Even though the Green Wizard knew the answer it brought a smile to his face when he heard declare his goal, "I'm going to make the Grimm submit to me."
The white haired man clapped his hands, his mug floating in the air beside him, frozen in place, "And how are you going to do that? The Grimm are mindless, and I don't recall you ever creating something that could kill or force them into obedience."
The Dragon King smirked before striking his fist into his palm, "I'm gonna kick their asses Natsu Dragneel style."
Ozpin smirked at least he had brought Natsu Dragneel back to Earthland once again, maybe things will start looking up for mankind and faunuskind. But currently there was an even more pressing matter at hand, "Good. Now Natsu I need you to heal Amber, the current Fall Maiden."
"That's right! I was here for her! What happened to her?" The Demon asked, curious.
"She had an unfortunate encounter with one of Salem's pawn. Her Maiden powers were forcibly extracted from her essence and Aura, causing a leakage of sorts which affects her life force itself." He explained the air in the underground hideout changed from comical serious to a life threatening serious.
"I see. So basically you want to feed her my Aura in hopes that I end up healing her and hopefully helping her regain a semblance of control over the Maiden powers which are very close from slipping through your fingertips." Natsu deduced just like Ozpin had believed he would've.
The white haired Hunter nodded his head before looking at Amber's safe haven, the only thing keeping her alive. "How good is your control over Aura?"
"Ehk." Natsu winced, and turned his head away in embarrassment.
"Why don't you heal her with some Magic." Ozpin suggested, having forgotten that Natsu never trained to control his Aura.
Natsu scratched the back of his head and mumbled, "I never bothered to learn any healing magic. While I do have my Curse they would kill her."
Ozpin sighed in disappointment, "I should've remembered. You're a fighter not a healer. But it doesn't matter, I suggest you speak with your teammate, Lie Ren, of your inability to control Aura and seek his guidance and experience."
"Alright I'll do that." Natsu said with a grin.
Ozpin nodded his head to the pinkette, "You should leave. Tomorrow is your first day of school, you should get prepared. Good night."
"Night. But we need to have an actual talk soon." The pinkette yawned before he left, leaving the Headmaster of Beacon alone with Amber's healing tank.
'Manipulating him was far easier than I expected. With his magic the war with Salem will be resolved soon.'
"Magic. Huh." He looked at the place where Natsu had just stood. "You never thought of teaching or giving anyone all of those tomes you've kept hidden, even though you know full well that everyone on Remnant is capable of magic. You must really enjoy playing God: having powers that no one else has access to, Natsu Dragneel. But I suppose it makes sense, you are a Demon."
Ozpin shook his head in disappointment, it was such a shame too. Humanity would've thrived with the help of Magic, but the only man who has access to the tomes, Grimoires, books, and scrolls likes to keep it to himself. Well there was Zeref, but he- she, that was still confusing, doesn't have any of the Magic books that Natsu holds, hell Ozpin is sure that she has no Magic books with her.
Odin heard his Scroll beep once more, "Yes."
And for the next few minutes the old Hunter tried to placate Qrow from trying to maim Natsu because he saw the Demon sneak into Zeref's dorm room for a moment before he left, with Zeref following him out. "Qrow. Let it go, they won't do anything they'll regret later on."
Qrow was silent for a few seconds, "I'll still follow them, just to make sure."
"You can't do that. You have a mission to get to," Oz reminded his spy. "You've already delayed it long enough."
Qrow tsked, "Fine. But you better make sure Natsu doesn't do anything with my niece."
Ozpin merely hummed, it wouldn't take long before they would do something, so Oz couldn't make a promise he would be unable to keep. With his piece said, Qrow ended the call causing Ozpin to sigh, "What am I going to do with you Etherious Natsu Dragneel..."
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Ruby turned to the sound of her beeping alarm clock, pushing her blanket off of her she yawned and stretched arms. The sound of running shower stopped and Ruby took a few seconds to shake away her sleep.
Yang was sleeping below her, ropes holding their bunk bed together. All the while Cinder and Emerald kept their beds the way it used to be: before Team CERY made the dorm into their home. But the C and E of her team weren't there.
The restroom door opened with a creak and Cinder Fall walked out, wearing the uniform of Beacon Academy and an almost evil like smile. She was dangerous, Ruby didn't know what made her feel that way but ever since she's met Cinder she feels inferior, immature, self conscious, afraid, angry and many many more emotions that Ruby couldn't even name. There was something about Cinder that was both familiar yet foreign. "I'm done showering. You can use it if you'd like too."
The silver eyed girl snapped out of her daze, "What? Oh shower right, thanks."
Ruby smiled awkwardly which the flame eyed girl smirked to. "It's fine, be sure to wake up your sister and get dressed, classes begin in an hour."
The brunette ordered Ruby, as if she was the leader and strolled out of the dorm. Ruby's eyes widened slightly at the said order, and a sudden feeling of incompetence rolled over the red reaper making her feel even worse than before. The silver eyed warrior didn't know how long she had her eyes glued to the door but it was long enough for Yang to wake up.
"Morning Rubes." she yawned. Stretching her arms, and popping the joints before rubbing her eyes.
"Good morning Yang." Ruby greeted quietly, snapping out of her angsty daze. She got out of her bed and walked to the bathroom to follow her morning routine, leaving a confused Yang.
A good 10- 15 minutes passed before Ruby walked out of the bathroom wearing the Beacon Academy uniform with the addition of her red cape. A smile was on her face as she looked her sister who was doing some one hand push ups.
"I'm done. I'll go and get us breakfast." she informed Yang.
"Thanks Ruby." Yang said as she was finishing up her last set of push up.
The leader of team CERY walked out the her dorm and made her way towards the cafeteria, her red cape flapping behind her. Maybe some cookies would improve her mood?
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Ruby's silver eyes analyzed the fight between Weiss and the young Deathstalker. The heiress hesitated for a second, which caused her to get struck by the stinger of the Grimm. Ruby watched as Weiss used her Glyps to pause her landing before letting lose a icey blue Aura which caused half a dozen snowflake emblems to appear around the Grimm, before spears of ice came out of them and pierced the bone platings of the scorpion like Grimm.
She was efficient, Ruby would give her that, but the fight could be been ended a lot quicker if Weiss had destroyed the tail first.
"Splendidly done Miss Schnee, it seems we are indeed standing in the presence of a true Huntress!" Professor Port claimed with a laugh.
The Grimm Studies professor was a short and round man, with grey hair and mustache. He wore a velvet suit over a white dress shirt and red tie, he also wore black dress shoes to blend with the absurd amount of red. The bell rang immediately after the professor finished his small speech about bravery.
"It was a pleasure to teach you all today, be sure to read the first chapter by friday we will be having a quiz on it. After all 'Knowledge is Power'. Also can Mr. Natsu Arc stay behind, I have a note here from Headmaster Ozpin for you."
Ruby glanced around the room, but couldn't find Natsu anywhere in the room, his team was there but the leader was missing. Almost a second later Natsu bursted through the door, his clothes disheveled and hair messier then usual. The leader of team BWZN also walked in, and in a similar state as Natsu.
"Sorry Professor, I accidentally slept in." The pinkette said scratching the back of his neck.
Professor Port looked at him and Zeref with a raised eyebrow, and nodded his head in understanding before he cleared his throat, "There's noting to be ashamed of, my boy. And let this be my first and last warning to each and every one of you. While I don't see anything wrong with indulging yourself in copulation once in a while, please don't stay up late into the night. Espically on school days. Fridays, Stauradys and school breaks would be the ideal times you should do such things, if you truly can't keep your hands off each other."
Most of the classroom bursted out in laughter while Natsu's eyes widened, and just before he tried to say something to the professor, Zeref spoke up, "We'll be sure to keep that in mind."
Ruby was confused and to satisfy her curiosity she turned to her older sister, "Yang why are people laughing? And what's a copulation?"
Yang had stopped laughing at Natsu the moment she heard Ruby's question. The blonde froze at the question before wrapping an arm around the smaller girl, "I'll tell you when you're older."
The silver eyed girl pouted at her older sister's answer. Yang always responded with the same 'when you're older' phrase whenever Ruby heard something she shouldn't have. But this time Ruby wasn't going to take it laying down, if Yang was unwilling to inform the red caped Huntress then one of her other teammates could. After all it would be a good way to connect with Cinder and Emerald.
The silver eyed girl packed her notebook, which only had doodles because of the boring lecture, if it can even be called a lecture, from Professor Port. But tomorrow would be a different day and Ruby would make sure to take some notes. Putting her pen and the Grimm Studies textbook in her bag, Ruby stood up with Yang as they began to walk to their next period class which was History.
Before leaving the classroom, her silver eyes met Natsu's red orbs. Natsu smiled at her and waved which Ruby instantly responded back with her own grin and wave. 'Maybe I can ask Natsu what copulation means instead. And then we could eat cookies while talking to each other. Maybe Natsu will feed me some of his cookies...No bad Ruby stop thinking those things.' Ruby shook her head to clear her thoughts. The dreamy look she once had been replaced with more causal smile.
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The 'conversation' with his remnant or rather Ozpin had been an interesting one. A rush of incalculable emotions swirled around Natsu's mind, he didn't know how to properly react to his current predicament. A part of him wanted to know more about the hows, and whys. Why hadn't Ozpin's predecessors ever search for him? How was it possible for a piece of him to go missing without him even noticing?
There were many things that he would need to discuss with the Headmaster of Beacon. But for as of now, the Dragon Slayer couldn't hold his excitement in, "Fuck yeah!"
His blood was humming at the idea of fighting his creations, he could hardly imagine how much stronger they have gotten, and if Atlas was anything to go by then Igneel must be hundreds times more powerful. Putting his right palm at his heart, Natsu could feel it beating faster and faster. 'What is this feeling? It almost feels so foreign.'
He couldn't stop shaking, it was epic, the emotion he was dealing with now overrid the other emotions and thoughts. Adrenaline coursed through his system as a sudden influx of memories of his days as a Fairy Tail mage ran through his mind.
'The desire for an adversary equal to my power, no greater than the power I possess. The fear and sheer joy at the notion of such opponents is what I'm feeling right now. Maybe I should've kept Atlas alive?' Natsu shook his head. 'No, he would've killed me.'
While, once again, his goals have changed, Natsu felt like this was going to be the last time he would make a decision pertaining his future. Maybe he shouldn't have jinxed it, but oh well what doesn't kill you make you stronger.
'Wait a second, does that quote even fit with the whole jinxing scam? Maybe Nora could answerthat, she does seem like the type to talk for days about something like this.'
Natsu hummed as he finally got out the tunnel and onto the green grass of the Emerald Forest. The pinkette then jumped up and activated his fire magic on his feet to use as jetpacks. As the Etherious Demon made his way up he thought a bit more about his 'conversation' with Ozpin, 'Who should I tell first? Joan or Zeref? I can't tell them at the same time, God knows what they would do to each other if I turned my head for a second. Maybe I should do it tomorrow?'
The Dragon King pondered on the last thought for a second before smirking, "Nah. I don't think I could hold it in. A coin toss should be enough for this."
At least he now had an idea on who he should tell first, getting a coin from his sub dimension the pinkette flipped it, "Heads for Zeref, Tails for Joan."
And the coin landed on heads, with a smirk on his face and red eyes gleaming in the darkness of the night, Natsu made his way to the dorm window near his own, 'I guess this is your lucky day, Zeref.'
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Hey guys I'm sorry for this extremely late update. I am a piece of shit, I know. School has fucked up my writing schedule a bit. This was originally supposed to be updated on Christmas, but I couldn't cuz I had to go down to L.A.
Did you guys know that there's a place called Eggsluts xD. The food was alright and so was the Christmas/ my birthday party we had later that day. I also had a writers block for this story and thanks to one of my friends on this site, lord Rikudou, he offered me multiple ideas for this chapter.
Regarding this chapter, I feel as if I have failed you guys but I promise the next chapter will be longer and better. As this chapter was only 50% of the original outline.
If anyone wants to talk about this story, like of you have some problems or something with it, then drop a review or PM me with the criticisms.
Anyways I hope you guys like this, even though it was shit, and I'll see you all in the next chapter.
~Natsu vi Kurosaki