E.N.D as everyone knows, is a demon that the Fire Dragon King himself wasn't able to defeat, so the next best thing he is able to do is raise his son and make him strong enough, so that he would be able to succeed where his father has failed, hence Igneel sees that Natsu is trained vigorously before his disappearance.

Chapter 1: Dragon Slayer

April 3, X774

"Natsu, is this the best you can do?" Igneel, the Fire Dragon King, mocked his son, who was close to fainting and was only standing because of his own arrogance and pride that was a by-product of his father's.

Natsu was panting heavily as he stood using his knees for support, the boy looked too odd for a boy of his age, well chiselled muscles, although small, and steam coming off from his body, which was only covered by shorts, no torso or footwear. But the most distinctive feature was his pink, wild and spiky hair. "Damn..you old..lizard..just need..to..catch..my breath.."

"How disappointing, and here I thought you were going to use Dragon Force to defeat me?" Igneel's voice was filled with disappointment but in truth he was proud, the boy that he raised had the determination to train and get stronger from the day he was able to walk. Such fierce passion and determination was never seen before by the Fire Dragon King.

'My dear boy, you must succeed where I have failed..' The dragon thought as he watched the boy clenching his fist and gritting his teeth as once again red flames erupted all around him, covering his body completely before cancelling.

Natsu swiped his arms in a circular fashion, creating a torrent of flames "Dragon Slayer's Secret Art.." the flames began to seep out again. "Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade!" Natsu in whirlwind of highly destructive crimson flames, barraged towards Igneel, yet again.

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A few days had passed since the last spar, or slaughter to be accurate, that has taken place, Natsu laid snoring on the cave's floor while Igneel sat guarding the entrance as the morning haze blurred nature for all beings but him. He wasn't observing though, he was thinking. 'Natsu, you have grown strong, but not enough and I only have a few years left to train you.' The dragon was secretly proud of the boy's achievement, after all he was sure, the boy must be the only one that might have ever come close to achieving Dragon Force at such a young age, except for the one beast that has become a nightmare for the world.

Then why was Igneel not worried about his disciple turning into a new Acnologia? Because he knows he can believe in him, he knows that Natsu would always do the right thing. '..well maybe not always.'

"Morning Igneel!" Natsu yawned as he sat on the Dragon's clawed hand.

"Natsu, I have something to tell you." The dragon's voice laced with seriousness.

"Eh?" this only happened a few times for the dragon slayer, when he tries to fight wyverns alone or when he is being motivated. He was pretty sure Igneel doesn't know about the day before yesterday fight with the wyvern.

"I have something to confess. Listen carefully." The dragon stated, gaining the boy's full attention.

"A few hundred years ago, I met a- fought a demon known as E.N.D..." If he didn't have the boy's attention before, he had it now.

"I tried to destroy him, but failed."

"What!" Natsu exclaimed, he was shocked, no, beyond shocked.

"I want you to defeat him. You are the only one capable of." That shocked him further; here the Fire Dragon King was requesting him, for completing a task that the King himself has failed.

But the shock was immediately replaced by determination. "I will kick his butt! I won't deviate for anything else!"

"No, this is a very important task my boy, his defeat is not attainable by just physical strength, it is a battle you will face alone.." Igneel paused. '..I do not think even I will be there my boy, and we are already here before the others..' he added in his mind. "..but at the same time I want you to have a real life, find friends and enjoy. Promise me. Promise me that you will." Although Igneel's words about having a real life didn't make sense he nodded with a grin.

"Alright! I'm all fired up!" Natsu excitedly jumped up.

"Alright, that's enough talking. Give me twenty with this boulder on your back." Natsu didn't have time to evade the giant boulder Igneel picked up and dropped carelessly on the boy.

"Damn you.."

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Many weeks later...

Again it was a day off for the Dragon and his child who were sunbathing in the afternoon sun. The warm breeze gentle rattled the grass and flowers of the meadow as the great king and his son took naps. 'Tonight is when you will test your strength on one of Zeref's weaker demon's that is going to arrive in the city nearby, do not disappoint me, Natsu.' Igneel gazed at the dragon slayer through a half lidded eye.

Night

Igneel stared up at the stars as he could hear the roars of the demon that he was expecting, along with the horror filled screams of the people that only he could hear, and has been hearing for the past thirty minutes but didn't make any action other than watch the boy in front of him making funny faces at him, completely obvious of the events going on in the village . He was one of the dragons that fought for humanity and this was an action that would seem to wipe that good deed he did in the past, but it had to be done, for the pink haired boy needed some motivation, and hopefully the dead people will give him some.

Now all he had to do was get the boy there without telling him. 'That's it!' A giant bulb lit on the dragon's head and he flicked the boy with his clawed hand like swatting a fly.

"Igneeeeel!" Natsu screamed as he went flying through the night sky.

Few minutes later,

'Ah man! He still hasn't stopped doing that to me.' Natsu sighed as he tried to find his way back but suddenly the smell of fire and ash invaded his nose.

"Hmm? That's strange, why do I smell fire?" He heard fast footsteps heading his way and immediately he fell into a battle stance to deal with the threat that was headed his way.

But what came out to the clearing horrified him, a man, no a man on fire came screaming and running and fell right in front of the boy before dying.

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"Gray.." A purple haired woman sighed sadly as she looked over to her pupil who stood away with Lyon on his back. "..I want Lyon to discover the world; Gray, you too, of course. You don't have to be sad. I'm alive. I'm eternally alive as ice. Step into the future. I'll seal your darkness..." She fell into a stance and channelled her magic, but the beast had other plans as he swung his leg and slammed it on the ground causing the ice mage to be blown away and Gray being hit by debris, dropping the unconscious Lyon and in a few seconds, himself in a similar state.

Ur got up, but when she looked up Deliora already charged up a beam and was ready to deploy it. The woman closed her eyes. 'So, this is it? I guess I will be seeing you..Ultear..'

"Fire Dragon's Roar!"

Her eyes shot open at the sound of a young boy, but when she looked up, there was no Deliora standing but the beast was on the ground, getting up slowly. She averted her eyes to the other side to see who did this. A boy, probably not any older than her own pupils but definitely different and if her eyes weren't playing any trick, the boy was steaming up, literally steaming up.

"H-hey! Kid! Get out of he-" her voice died as she saw the pink haired boy turning towards her, his face was unreadable, something kids his age wasn't supposed to have and for a second.

'I-is t-that a d-dragon?' A transparent red aura formed around the boy in the shape of a giant red dragon. And just as he looked, he averted his eyes back to the beast that was getting up.

Deliora let out a roar before turning his body to find who attacked him, and there it was, a small boy. The monster let out another mighty roar and brought down his giant fist on to the unmoving boy.

"No!" Watching in horror and wanting to save the strange boy, Ur brought her hands together "Ice-make-" Ur's horror turned to shock as she saw the fist being held over the boy's head, instead of him being crushed, but what happened next shocked her even more.

Digging his hand into the monsters flesh, Natsu caught hold of its finger bones and with a mighty pull, threw the monster that would have at least weighed a few tonnes into the debris.

'What the hell!' If she said this to someone else, she was sure to be branded as a mad person.

Letting out another roar Deliora started charging up another beam, but Natsu had other plans as he lit his entire body before charging at the demon, "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" He head butted the demon, and much to his shock, had no effect on the demon, who swatted his shocked form away and immediately firing the blast in his direction, which the dragon slayer barely avoided.

With a new found sense to fight, Ur started channelling her last bit of magic to help the boy escape, "Ice-Make: Rose Garden!" The chunks of ice did little to help the boy as Deliora brought his fist down on his unsuspecting form. Natsu was embedded when the monster removed his fist and he was sure that he got a few broken ribs and a broken arm.

Seeing the lady attack him, he turned towards her and started making his way, Ur watched horrified as the unconscious forms of Gray and Lyon were behind her. Ur limped her way to the boys and held them both in her arm, trying to give them whatever cover she was able to as the monster came closer, but then it froze, so did the ice mage. Enormous, that's the only word she was able to deduce the feeling of a magical entity.

RAARRGHH!

A roar that made Deliora's roar look like a child's scream as the huge entity Ur sensed, descended from the sky and landed a hundred meter behind her, facing the demon.

A dragon.

'D-dragon? Why has it come here?' She watched as the giant red beast that easily towered over Deliora, slowly making its way. 'It is searching for something?' This was more confusing than she expected.

Deliora didn't attack as he too observed the dragon, which stopped a little away from the crater he has created while killing the boy. "Natsu.." The voice shocked Ur furthermore, if it was possible.

"What happened? How could you let something like this defeat you? And you call yourself the son of Igneel? Stand up! If you don't annihilate this beast, it will continue to rein chaos on many more? Do you want that? Answer me boy!" Flames started to erupt from the crater and Igneel gave a satisfied huff as he received his answer before walking to the sidelines to watch the coming fight as his son jumped out of the crater and charged at Deliora.

'So the boy is the Dragon's child?' Ur limped near to the giant beast, who was sitting on its belly, watching the fight that was taking place, between his 'son' and Deliora. The dragon was bored, that much was clear when he sighed and averted his eyes to the moon. 'Are you kidding me?' Ur couldn't believe it, the small boy, no older than ten maybe, was fighting one of the most dangerous beasts, with a broken body and here the Dragon was, the one that was his so called father, sitting there, watching the boy fighting Deliora.

"Uh excuse me!" She yelled from her spot to gain the attention.

"Human, do not yell, this Igneel can hear you clearly, but be gone. I have no interest in conversing with thy." The deep dangerous, but royal nonetheless, voice made the ice mage flinch, but she held on to her might and continued.

"Why aren't you helping the boy? He won't be able to defeat Deliora by himself. You need to help him!" She exclaimed while holding her left arm, which was surely broken in the crash that occurred earlier.

The dragon scoffed. "If he needs help in eliminating such a minor threat, he has no right to be called the child of Igneel."

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Whatever Natsu did from his new found determination had no effect on the monster and he was on his last bit of reserve. Igneel watched as his son stood there without moving as a beam came in his direction. 'What are you up to boy?' The beam made a small dome like shape on where it had hit. Ur gasped in horror, but Igneel only watched.

Slurp

"Natsu, you fool.." Igneel muttered as he knew what the boy was doing as the white dome of light was suddenly cancelled by red flames as he saw a small red streak jumping out of it.

"Raarrghhhh!" The dragon slayer roared as power surged through him, and scales started to appear over his face.

"I am done being thrown around!" His whole body erupted flames as he crouched down before jumping towards Deliora's chest. "Dragon Slayer Secret Arts: Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade!" The dragon slayer went through the monsters chest. Deliora, slowly crumbled to its knees but before it fell a huge torrent of flames went his way, but not from Natsu, but from Igneel.

The only audience, that was Ur, watched in awe as she saw the display of power from father and son. 'Is this..a dragon slayer?'

'Consuming an item just because it has some fire in it is not a good strategy, but I will let it slide this one time boy..' The Dragon walked towards the unconscious boy who lost his scales and was lying flat on his back.

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