Zeref's strongest Demon and the Queen of Fairies share a bond that others can't match. He was finally putting his war-torn past behind him while she was living through her darkest moments. What happens when they finally meet? Will love blossom; or will it be their greatest regret?

Before anyone reviews saying that the timeline doesn't work like this, I don't care. This is fanfic not cannon so sit back and enjoy the ride.

'Thoughts'

"Talking"

Normal

"Spells"

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A young boy with pink hair laid on a beach alone segregated from the world around him. The coarse sand and quiet waves being his only company as animals and humans alike were scared of him. The boy was watching the clouds high above him for as long as he could before they faded away into the oncoming night. He wanted to float away with the clouds away from his current time away from his regrets.

A girl was running through a burning village pulling a younger girl by the hand. The world around them was covered in a red light with an orange hue. The light emitted from the flames were beautiful to an onlooker but to the two of them, it is the cause of a lot of pain. Their homes were currently being burnt away by these flames and soon would only be seen as ash. They were both scared as they took a pause before the older scarlet hair girl looked for a place to hide the younger girl.

As the man continued to lay on the beach watching the clouds, the clouds turned to flames as he saw the world through the scarlet girl's eyes. The man was confused as he sat up looking out at the ocean before rubbing his eyes trying to wipe away the image. After taking his hands away the image still plagued his mind as he now heard a voice, "We need to find a place to hide." The voice sounded scared. The voice sounded like it was coming out of his own ears along with the screams of other villagers trapped in the fire.

As she looked to her left from in between the rows of houses she hears a young boy's voice, "You can hide in that container." The girl was startled by the voice but didn't have time to question it as her eyes locked with said container before running towards it.

As she now stood in front of container she opened the lid and lifted the younger girl inside. Picking the lid back off the ground she told the younger girl, "Hide in here. You will be safe." The younger girl hesitantly nodded her eyes filled with fear. Fear of what would happen to her if she was found by the men rampaging their village. She listened though as she crouched down in the container before the scarlet haired girl put the lid back on top.

As she placed the lid back on the container the faded image of a beautiful ocean sunset began to over way itself over her own vision much like the burning village had for the young boy. She took pause as she tried to focus on the faded ocean view. She was unsure of what to think, of how to react. She wanted to be there, she wanted to be away from her burning home. Above that though the sunset reflecting off the late ocean water was just, "Beautiful," she said taking an elongated breath. The sound of the waves were drowned out by screams, while the feeling of sand filled her fists. Reaching her hand out to it she tried to grasp it but the moment she closed her fist the vision vanished. Blinking rapidly, she looked around for the cultists before taking off in a run.

The boy just continued to sit there watching the world through her eyes. He felt like a mage had put him into an illusion to where he had to help the person escape before it would be released. There was also a slight worry of that they would try and kill him while he was trapped in the illusion. Over the screams of villagers, he heard a shout, "I found another kid." He had no time to think before he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head before his vision was the path of rubble below. 'What is truly going on here?' He thought before his vision turned to darkness. He felt the same pain she did, heard the exact sounds, and saw the same world; while she saw his.

When she finally came too she was in a cell. She was locked in the cell with multiple other people most her age, but some middle age or elderly people. One feature was the same in them all, though, they were all hunched over and their faces were engulfed in mixes of fear and sadness. She wasn't the one to notice it but the boys wore white ripped up muscle shirts with a pair of patched-up ripped shorts. There were some slight differences with some being shirtless and others having a yellow string as a belt. While the girls wore an extremely faded almost white blue long shirt. They all wore metal bracelets with red spheres on them. Herself being the same.

When the young boy came to he found himself face first in a pile of sand. Trying to remember why he was like this the image of the burning village flashed in front of his eyes. "Was the truly only an illusion?" He asked himself not expecting a reply. His mind was filled with questions but no answers followed. If it wasn't an illusion, then there really was a burning village and the girl he was watching the world through was captured. This information was useless to him though as the world was currently in a time of war so villages being burnt to the ground was nothing abnormal. What would be considered strange is that the beach he started is still in the exact condition it started in. Judging by how the sun was now at the highest point in the sky it was around noon, which means he was out for at least eighteen hours maybe longer. There was nothing he could do; he could sit there in silence with himself pondering over the truth or travel in search of it.

He never took himself as one to sit still so he jumped to his feet and started his adventure in search of answers. This is what he told himself at least. The truth ran much deeper than that.

The same day she was brought she was put to work. She was forced to carry piles of rubble from the mines into a bunch of crates not far from the entrance. She continued this till the crates were filled to which she and the person mining would have to pull the crates on a sled for others to build with. She didn't make it through her first day without breaking down, on her way of walking back to the mines her body gave out and she started crying. The cultists yelled at her to stop but the tears just continued to run down her face. She wanted to tell them to let her go home but the words were trapped in her throat. The tears only stopped when her body fell to the ground unconscious.

The young boy had traveled into a forest having not gotten far from the beach before he felt extreme fatigue. The fatigue was followed by the feeling of a dry throat that no matter how much water he drank was satisfied. He felt his body slowing down as he began to hear shouting. The words were incoherent over loud sobbing. He opened his mouth to ask what was wrong but the words didn't leave his throat. The shouting stopped as he felt his body connect with the ground below him.

She was woken up by someone shaking her shoulders. As she opened her eyes she was greeted by the blurry image of blond hair and dark green eyes. Very shortly her vision cleared up and she could fully take in the eyes staring directly at her. Seeing her awake the boy seemed to force himself to smile as he introduced himself, "I'm Sho," his voice was calm and loud echoing throughout the cell.

She was startled by his action as she shyly directed her gaze towards the ground. As her eyes locked on the ground she saw what seemed to be the tops of trees with the sun setting over the horizon. Before she could try and reach out for it, the view was quickly taken away from her as she began to hear someone shout, "The monster, we need to kill him before he kills more innocent people." The shout scared her. She never saw the accuser as the person began to run in the opposite direction telling themselves, "Just leave me alone."

As she brought her gaze back up to Sho with an extremely meek voice she replied, "I'm…"

With a groan, the boy who was lying in the forest pushed himself up. This was the second time in what he believed to be twenty-four hours that he had fallen unconscious. He was currently now sitting up and trying to find the sun along the top of the tree line. The boy didn't know how to appreciate the beautiful light show the sun shining through the trees was giving him nor did he care. His view didn't change as he tried to get a grasp on the situation, 'Why is this happening? Who is that other person, is it even another person? Am I simply going crazy? ...' He wanted to scream out in anger but he was brought away from his questions as he sees a boy with blond hair and dark green eyes introduce themselves as Sho. 'So they are a real person.'

Hearing someone yell at him from behind calling him a monster he can't help but feel saddened, he doesn't want to kill anymore. Shooting up from the ground he doesn't even turn back to look them as weakly says, "Just leave me alone." He doesn't want to hurt anyone anymore. He knows he has no way of making up for his past actions but he doesn't want his present and future actions to add more. He runs further and further not looking back an extremely faded view of a stone cell in front of him. He now knows it to be the other person's view as they finally reply back to the boy, "I'm Erza."

As soon as Erza introduced herself to Sho her view of the sunset forest vanished along with the angry mob of shouting too. It still plagued her mind though it was all too weird to her. It felt like this whole thing was a dream and the world she is only seeing in faded flashes is the world she truly knows. She wants to escape and return back to that world, to get away from all the pain. Sho grabbed her by the wrist as he lifted her to her feet and introduced her to a few other people of the cell – Jellal, Simon, Wally, Milianna, and Rob. They were all around her own age besides Rob who was an elderly old man.

As night closed in and everyone was asleep Erza was sitting alone in the corner of the cell closed off from everyone. She was finally letting sleep take over when she saw what she took to be a starry night sky with the moon directly overhead. The moon was illuminating the tops of the tree as the view seemed to be from above as if on a mountain. Erza wished to truly be there as she solely focused her vision on it. She attempted to reach out to the view like every time before but like every other it failed. She was brought away from its beauty when she heard a voice began speaking asking, "Hey, can you hear me?"

Erza was surprised replying, "Yes." Erza was confused on how to think, the voice sounded like as if she herself was talking but in a different voice.

"You are probably as confused as I'm. I assume you currently see what I see and hear what I hear, much like I do for you. As if you are currently standing here staring up at the moon while it is as if I'm sitting there in the cell. The only thing I don't know is if we feel the same pain." She was confused but so far what he was saying was correct. Though how would he test if they felt the same pain.

She was going to question him on this till she felt a sharp pain go throughout her leg. She bit her lip to suppress the scream and to not wake the others up. It didn't stop the tears from welling up in her eyes, though. "Yes, we feel the same pain," Erza said wiping away her tears.

'I don't understand how this all happened. It is like our minds are connected to one another. What to do? What to do? I need to get her out of that place and somewhere safer. Where is she, though?'

"Where are you?" He questions,

"I have no idea," Erza replies. She is unable to hear his thoughts as they have to actually talk for the other to hear.

He doesn't reply before Erza wonders out loud, "Who are you? Where are you even?"

The boy looks out at the unseeable ocean before taking a loud moment of silence. 'What do I tell her? I can't have the one person who will talk to me hate me. What do I say damn it? I can't call myself E.N.D. as she will know who I'm.' As a warm summer breeze swept by him messing up his already messy spiky pink locks he replies hesitantly, "I'm Natsu and I think I'm by Akane Beach."

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