A/N: I might just update TWGP and The END only, as it seems they are the most popular of all my stories, and I just want them finished first. If you disagree lemme know. This is where my original story comes into play.

I've rewritten this chapter over and over but I am just not satisfied with it. I hope you all like it because I feel like I could have done better, enjoy!

Chapter 15: The Pieces' Reformation!

"U-Ultear? Is that you?" Natsu asked her, whom was magically chained to a large rock of Etherion.

Ultear slowly opened her eyes to the sound of his voice, then her eyes widened in surprise. "N-Natsu? Why are you here? You have to leave!"

"What's going on?" He asked more to himself than to her.

"Ahh, look who finally decided to join us!" Said a familiar voice.

Natsu immediately took notice of who it was. It was Diratul! Alive and well, albeit with a badly burned face. Jelian and Mesdalo were right behind him too, wearing smirking faces.

"You!" Natsu snarled at him and the others.

"Yes, that's right, me. Thought you could get rid of me? Well, NEWSFLASH! YOU CAN'T!" He screamed at Natsu. "Thanks to your flames, my face will never go back to normal! Even special healing magic isn't doing anything! For that, you and your friends won't be leaving this tower alive!"

"How the hell did you even get here!" Natsu demanded an answer. Diratul smirked, and gestured over to the injured Ultear.

"Well an old friend of yours decided to help us out. She declined at first, but after a few, oh-so-glorious, "convincing" methods, she gladly agreed to help us."

"I'm sorry, Natsu. I just couldnt.." She fell unconscious.

Hearing that brought anger to Natsu. If the situation had been a bit different and only Diratul were here, it wouldnt be too bad. However, he's up against the three of them, none of his friends were strong enough to help him either. Only Gajeel and Wendy were strong enough to defeat them, but they had gone to search out some unknown answers.

He was all alone, in a different timeline, Ultear was unconcious, and he lacked the power to protect his friends. He clenched his hand in disappointment. Looking around, he saw Erza's unconcious body being held by none other than Jellal. Jellal had that same smirking face he hated, from the last time he was on the tower. It seemed as though he was sided with the three generals.

"Na-Natsu.." Ultear croaked. She slowly opened her eyes and turned to him. "Y-your friends...tell them...e-everything, and t-their previous strength should r-return..the magic around th

Natsu's eyes became wide opened. There was a chance they could win! He just needed to remind them, of the "past". That would explain why he remembers it all, although it doesnt account for why Gajeel and Wendy remember as well. If Jellal is still evil, then that would mean he isn't aware of anything. Natsu shifted quickly towards an opening in the tower floor. He sprinted towards it and jumped...

...Only to end up staring back at them.

"Tsk tsk, we can't have you leaving that easily." The woman Jelian said hauntingly. How could he have forgotten about her special Spacial Disruption Magic? It was quite a troublesome one, and Erza had been the one able to take her down.

Wait...ERZA! The only other hope he had left was Erza! If only he could reach her..

"Erza! You-..!" He grunted as he was kicked at his side and flung towards an etherion crystal, causing shards of crystal to scatter.

"No no no, we cannot allow that." Mesdalo said while molding an iron spike out of thin air. This cult leader possessed Iron-make magic, and he wielded it superbly. Gajeel had been the best match for him, and he gladly took the challenge.

Mesdalo stomped his foot onto Natsu's back, gaining a groan from the latter. Next he twirled the iron spike above him, then shoved it down through his right leg.

Natsu withheld a yell from escaping from leaving his mouth. He teared a bit before clenching his eyes shut in pain. The spike had gone through his leg and into the crystallized floor, preventing him from moving. Mesdalo instantly crafted another one, and did the same as the previous leg, to the other one.

This time he couldnt contain it, and Natsu roared towards the floor. He never felt so caught of guard before. Which led to one conclusion, he must of gotten faster, they all must have been training before facing him again.

"Now, you can just lay there like a dog and enjoy the show." Diratul spoke and grabbed a sharp pole, courtesy of Mesdalo. He never noticed the conflicting faces that Jellal kept making.

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"What's taking Natsu so long?!" Gray grumbled from his position inside the water sphere made by Juvia.

"Juvia suspects him to have run into trouble." Said Juvia.

"Yea I think so too. I can't stop this chill from going up my back, I feel like something bad is going to happen!" Lucy worriedly spoke. Happy in front of her, had a nervous face, he felt it too, a darkness in the air.

"If that's true, then I wonder if their is anything we could possibly do. Natsu is really strong, he was once asked to become a wizard saint, he said he didnt want to though. If someone as strong as him is in trouble, then there is probably nothing we could ever do." Happy said looking down.

"Just being there for him is enough to-" Lucy began until waves began pushing them back fiercely.

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Natsu watched with pained eyes as Diratul proceeded to lodge the pole into Ultear's shoulder. Said person woke abruptly with a scream, blood flowing down her body and leaking over the floor.

"ULTEAR! STOP YOU BASTARDS!" Natsu roared at them from his impaled position on the floor.

"Such strong words from someone who's about to die." Diratul mocked. "Don't worry though, you'll get to have front row seats at watching your friends die. One, by one. Perhaps then you'll be wanting to die yourself."

Natsu's eyes snapped open wide in silent shock. Diratul dragged Erza away from a very conflicted Jellal, and led her over to where Ultear was. Jellal, seeing as the madman was about to kill her brutally, stepped in.

"Hey wait! This wasn't part of the plan! You can't just-!" The blue haired man began, but was suddenly pushed back by several spikes, digging into his flesh, and protruding from the other side. He flew out of the tower, Jelian allowing his body through, and into the far ocean.

"Sorry, but you've lost your usefulness to us." Diratul said to him before he had flung out of the tower.

"Jellal! Damn you! He was on your side!" Natsu growled. The scene of him fighting Jellal played in his mind for a second.

"Do you...remember how I killed that little brat?" Diratul grinned evilly under his shadowed face. Natsu froze and stared at him.

"The moment her body made contact with my power, I knew it was the end for her. Oh how terrified she must have been! Just thinking about it excites me!" He laughed. He turned and stared at him with hard cold eyes. "I hope I get to relive that pleasure again here. Perhaps..it will lower your debt a tad."

Natsu stared at the floor, clenching his jaw tightly, seething, trying to control himself. He saw flashbacks, his friends, his allies, deaths. Mira's, Elfman's, Lisanna's, Lucy's, Grays's, Wendy's Lifeless Corpse...Erza's death...

...

Black Essence spread from his body...

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"What do you think Gajeel?" Wendy asked her companion. They were in a far off town inside an old library.

"It gives only small details, seems he hadn't been seen that much." Commented the iron dragonslayer. They were both reading out of a huge book filled with the lores and myths of Earthland, with Carla looking in another. They first decided to embark on a search in order to find weaknesses to Zeref's greatest creation, E.N.D., or perhaps weaknesses to Zeref himself.

"E.N.D. was known as a terror to life itself, it says. Yet it was not seen by all. Perhaps it was because he didn't exist very long?" Suggested Wendy.

"Hmm, maybe. It reads: The creature known as E.N.D. ruled over ever demon and beast the world had to offer. The being held a strange power, infinite it seemed, that it bended to its will. It is believed by scholars that he possessed power to corrupt the balance between dimensions, if it were possible. The lands shook as if it were alive and had fear. After about 50 years after the sightings, it had vanished. Without a sound, and the land seemed to be at peace until another threat appeared against humanity."

"This is tiring me out. We have nothing to go onnn!" Wendy drawled out.

"We just have to keep searching, child." Carla said look through another.

Wendy herself looked on intently with another book, until her eyes fell upon a couple of words.

'The One Dragon..hm..'

After a while they left, noticing it was getting dark. They decided to set up camp in a nearby forest after having to sniff out any possible dangers. They resided peacefully before they felt something swell up inside them. At once, Gajeel hacked and coughed while there was a deep black light coming from his chest.

He fell to ground trying to regain his strength but to no avail. Wendy rushed over to him once he began coughing.

"Gajeel?! What's wro-?!" She too came into the same state as her partner. Only difference was, she had a blue light emanating from her body. 'What's happening to me?'

"Wendy! Gajeel! What's wrong with you both?!" Carla panicked.

Wendy's hair and eyes changed to that of her dragon force form. However she did not feel a rise in strength and did not gain her feather like attachments to her wrists and ankles. Gajeel himself gained surprisingly pink hair as well, although a darker shade of it.

Only one word, or rather, a name came to their minds as they felt themselves vanish.

'Natsu..'

The fire dragonslayer stood up with a shadowed face and red eyes as he felt something cold and warm fill in within his body. It felt normal, and familiar. When he turned his face and eyes up to stare at Diratul whom was about to decapitate Erza, the whole tower shook violently.

The weather patterns roared violently and the ocean gained massive far off tidal waves that quickly rose and just as quickly fell. The large waves pushed his group of friends below in the waters away as they screamed for dear life.

"WAAAAH! WHAT'S GOING ONNN?!" Happy screamed out loud while onto Lucy's arm.

"WHAT THE-?! WHAT IS THAT?!" Gray alerted them, by pointing to something that conpletely cast its shadow over the ocean and all over the crystallized tower.

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He sensed something familiarly dark. Diratul turned towards the pinned down Natsu, whom was head down and staring at the crystalized floor. He grinned. He grinned knowing this is why he is torturing the teen this much. He wanted to face off against him at full power. Diratul didn't care what his power was, he couldn't rest until Salamander was defeated by his own two magically infused hands.

He watched him struggle with the metallic beams piercing his body, and watched as the teen ripped them from his body forcibly. Salamander stood up slowly, his head hanging down covering his face.

Natsu felt an unbearable rage, he hated it. His rage felt almost nostalgic, as if it had been waiting all this time to have shown itself. His teeth clenched fiercely, feeling them getting sharper and clench harder. He felt his vision going blurry, and a strange feeling of depression entered his body, a pulsing in his heart, and mind.

...

He could only say one last thing to the man that sealed his own fate.

"You've crossed the line, Diratul." He said, his voice changing, completely losing consciousness, a darkness swirled around him...

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A girl looked down at her sword surprised, the mentioned sword perched against a log where she was resting. She had been training hard, practicing with the weapon, it being a sacred tool passed down in her family. It was a long straight sword, adorned by mysterious crystals within a strange black metal that was the blade, and a pale white handle that glowed with the moonlight.

All of the sudden the sword had started pulsing, going on and off. She had heard about this, never in her wildest dreams would she think that it would all unfold within her lifetime.

When the sword's glow dissipated, she knew what she had to do. She had to find IT, wherever it may have awakened, and eliminate the world's threat once and for all. She immediately sheathed the sword in her holster around her waist, and instantly took off, her destination being Fiore.

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Something was off, this didn't feel right. This situation was screaming immediate death, but he couldn't let that stop him. He HAD to kill Salamander. However those emotions stopped when he got a good look at his eyes.

Natsu raised his head to stare at him. Piercing red eyes with an inner circle stared at Diratul, stared at his soul, rather. Without a warning, both Jelian and Mesdalo gurgled, before their chests burst out and splattered blood over the floor before them. They slowly fell to the floor with shocked expressions.

Diratul jumped in shocked surprise, having no idea what just happened. He turned back around towards Salamander, still staring at him as though nothing happened. Diratul noticed a figure shadowing them, whom was behind Salamander. He couldnt see the figure's head, but he noticed large wings and a body that both changed colors every second.

Natsu leaned back, hands and arms outstretched, palms up and fingers in a claw-like position.

He roared so fiercely it was no longer human, and the figure seemed to copy Salamander's actions. The roar made everyone in the vicinity cover their ears quickly to no avail as even the sound seemed to pass through their flesh.

Slowly bringing his head back down, he barred his teeth. Large, protruding fangs out for everyone to see before narrowing his red eyes deeply and immediately snapping them wide open.

"Burn within the Flames Of Hell." Natsu growled, before watching as Diratul did not even have time to react when his body was suddenly engulfed within bloody-red flames. All sound was trapped within the flames, and Diratul struggled in agony, obviously yelling his lungs out, before his body melted away into ashes before that too, was burned.

All of a sudden a rumbling was heard. The tower had begun shining beams of light in every direction. The Etherion Tower was quickly becoming unstable. The floors collapsed, and the supports broke apart, and the tower slowly started to disappear.

"What's happening to the tower!" Lucy yelled. frantically.

"Having all of that ethernano in one place cannot be very stable for long." Happy said realizing what was about to happen. "The tower is going to explode, catching us as well."

"EH?! But what about-" She saw that the tower was starting to condense a ton of magical energy, and a wave of light was about to overtake them.

"ERZA, NATSUUUU!" Lucy yelled to tower before she closed her eyes as tears fell down.

A/N: Sorry for the lateness, I'm trying my best here people!