Hey pals. New chapter here today. Dunno if its good single I literally wrote this out of stress. But at least its something. I've decided to make this a Natza fanfic. Though its gonna take a while for that to happen since natsu isn't interested and he's no airhead like the series but its still gonna take a while. Slow and steady does the job.

Anyway, Enjoy!

Chapter 5: Erza vs Zancrow plus Natsu

Erza crash-landed into a store after receiving a heavy punch from zancrow. Although she was alright but not much could be said about this particular roadside store in part ruins. With such a strong impact, people quickly took notice of this and out of curiosity they made their way to the scene of the crime.

With this much people gathering about, it created a slight traffic jam by the road, making it difficult for cars to drive by. Gaining more audience around her, Erza clicked her tongue at the amount of spectators she was amassing. Soon, she might even be on the news and that's the last thing she wanted right now. She just entered highschool and she wanted to make the most of it by having a lot of time to make plans for her own future.

Her frustration vanished when she saw a burning flame soaring above them. Quickly noticing who it was, she yelled "Everyone Run!" she shouted but it seems they didn't heed her warning. Or more like they thought she was out of her mind.

"Is something wrong with the poor girl?"

"Maybe she's lost?"

"And she destroyed a part of the store"

"Maybe she's just too eager to be a hero"

"She's pretty. Do you think she'll go out with me?"

"Young kids these days"

Everyone whispered out loudly to one another, not even caring if the one they gossiped about was even listening. Their mutters were cut short once they had a loud muscular voice above them.

"Erza Scarlet" Zancrow yelled "There are lot of people down there"

Erza narrowed her eyes at what he was getting at. And why does he have to be so loud for everyone to hear him? This isn't a battle she planned for but what can she do? He's a maniac that suddenly appeared and wants to kill them. Well her specifically since the pink haired boy was no were to be found.

"Yeah there are" Erza yelled back.

"What do Villains and crowds have in common?" Zancrow asked.

Erza looked around the confused faces staring at both of them. Some wondered if they were couples fighting each other or they were just into rolling playing.

Erza closed her eyes for a while and thought about it deeply. 'What do villains and crowd have in common?' She tilted her head while deep in thought.

"So cute" Some guys gushed when she tilted her head cutely. They blushed at her beautiful, confused expression. If they had met her on better terms, they'll definitely wanna go for her but too bad they don't really know her.

Erza suddenly opened her eyes widely and had a gasp of shock mixed with a little hint of fear in her tone.

"I see you've figured it out" Zancrow laughed his usual tongue sticking, maniacal laugh. "You're so very smart Erza~chan" he purred.

"Zancrow, you wouldn't dare" she threatened but it backfired at her when he smiled even wider.

"Oh trust me babe, I'm not someone to just talk. I MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!"

Zancrow, with the help of his flames keeping him airborne, he positioned himself to make an attack.

Having a good eye sight but not as good as the dragonslayers, Erza saw him as he suddenly had a huge breath intake. His belly surged out like he stole the air around him and his cheeks got bigger.

'A breath attack?!' Erza thought in surprise and fear.

"This is for you babe" Zancrow said. "God-slayer: Black flame Bellow!"

A black magic circle appeared in front of him as a huge spiral torrent of black flames spun from it and headed towards the earth. Seeing the incoming attack of flames, everyone had a panic session as they all scattered around, running left and right like chickens with loosed heads.

"Equip: Adamantine Armour!" A white magical circle appeared below her as she quickly transformed to a different armour with a shield made specially from gems and diamond.

Not thinking twice Erza charged her shield upwards, creating a larger blue magic seal as the torrent of flames collided with it. Erza braced herself for the force of the impact but it was more powerful than she had imagined as it pushed her back a bit from the force but she stood her grounds but the heat from the flames began wearing her out. She managed to keep her shield up until Zancrow began loosing more flames until it died down completely.

Erza felt her shield and hands were on fire from the intense heat of he flame. She had completely underestimated Zancrow. He wasn't going to be a push over for her, that's for sure. Seeing him release a strong and powerful amount of flames made her think twice about her decision to face him alone. Maybe she was being over zealous with her intention to bring him down.

"Impressive" Zancrow applauded the red haired girl "You're indeed the daughter of the scarlet witch"

'He's too strong' she thought 'Using this armour dried me of my strength and magic. I have little left to face him and I'm sure he's got more in him than I do' she thought in full blown frustration.

Natsu was nowhere to be found and no hero were on sight. Though she could hear the sirens of the city police close by but what can ordinary humans do against a villain with magic?

Everyone breathed in relief after witnessing they weren't going to be fired to crisp by the blonde villian. Now they saw the scarlet teen as a hero and applauded her with cheers and catcalls from who knows where but that was the least of her problems right now. Now she's got a whole crowd to protect while Zancrow use it as a means to wear her down.

The young teen still doesn't get why there's always a crowd whenever a villain appears making it tough for the hero. Now she's used one of her magic consuming defensive armour in less than two minutes and her magic is now depleted.

"Damnit!" she cursed under her breath "Where the hell is Natsu?!"

Erza was so engrossed in her thoughts of knowing where Natsu currently was as sudden screams of awareness pulled her out of it.

"Lookout!" Someone screamed but she couldn't react on time as a heavy punch implanted into her stomach, knocking the air out of her as she flew some good meters away from where she once was. Leaving no room for a comeback, Zancrow zoomed after her and tried delivering a fist coated in flames.

"Aaahhhhhhhhh" Erza screamed in pains as the flame made contact with her skin after trying to block them with her bare arms, slightly giving burns and the force of his fist nearly breaking the bones of her arms. Erza crashed into another building creating a large dent on the concrete.

'It hurts..' she screamed within her. 'It hurts all over'

Sadly no one could hear her thoughts within and come to her rescue. For what its worth, she was clearly being overpowered right now. Had it been she didn't had to pull out the bigger guns earlier to protect them, she might have stood a better chance but luck wasn't on her side today.

Zancrow landed a few yards away from her with a deadly smile on his face "Isn't it amazing that your first real villain gave you a real experience?" he asked the weakened girl.

The blonde young man slowly began walking towards her in a dramatic way as he watched her powerless while looking almost lifeless on her knees.

"Too bad my pal Natsu isn't here to see one of his friends getting killed on such a glorious night" he stopped in front of her and breathed the fresh air in pride. Yanking her wildly by her hair, he pulled her up and brought her close to his face, piercing red eyes stared intently at her with the zeal to kill and destroy her.

"You know, if we had met on better terms I would have made you mine but too bad you're all wasted today" He used his other free hand and traced a finger from her creamy smooth face down to her throat. Erza watched him powerlessly as he smiled and talked thrash.

"Sayõnara Erza~chan" He brought his free hand up and summoned a huge ball of flames. Looking at the red head one last time, he smiled all the more as he was definitely enjoying the night. He gets to kill someone and not just any someone but the daughter of one of the most powerful heroes of Fiore. He brought his hand of flames down on her but to his greatest surprise, Erza suddenly regained herself like she was suddenly fully awake and fisted an upper cut to his jaw with good force as it sent him upwards. Quickly not leaving a breather for both of them, she summoned a sword on her left hand and slashed him with it but she wasn't able to get a good cut to render him powerless as Zancrow quickly snapped out of his shock from the blow to his jaw and managed to avoid sustaining a life threatening injury.

Although he managed to avoid her sword, it did slash him but not enough to overpower him, still in the air, he did a somersault and landed some meters away from her.

Erza looked at him with dead serious eyes. A look determined to survive this whole ordeal the night had set for her.

Zancrow was still left in surprise as he stood firm but his chest told a different story as blood dripped from it. Erza managed to score a hit on him but not too deep to do any serious damage on him.

"This is my blood" he said, looking at it with wide eyes, slowly bringing his right hand to touch his cut, staining his hand with his own blood. "It's red and smells funny just like the people I've killed."

Those words made erza sick 'The people he has killed.' she thought. Was she going to be one of them tonight? Was she going to die tonight? No, she wasn't going to let that happen. Not now, not ever.

Looking back to Zancrow, he was still staring at his own blood 'Erza What's wrong with him?' Erza thought with keen eyes at his dramatic reaction to seeing his own blood. Hasn't he ever injured himself to be his surprised to see his own blood? Erza thought.

The blond man brought his hand to his face, staring at his own blood for while before taking a lick out of it. His hand dramatically fell lifeless while his bangs overshadowed his eyes from view.

'What now?' Erza thought, not liking where this were heading.

"YOU BITCH!" He suddenly screamed out, his expression replaced with a nasty, furious looking Zancrow with red piercing eyes filled with hate and bloodlust. "I'LL KILL YOU"

He released his magic in a burst of flames making a powerful tower as it skyrocketed almost reaching the sky. It drew the wind around him, fueling his flames to make it even more powerful. The air pressure was getting low for Erza as the heat from the flames was enough to make her pass out.

The flames surging around him was great that Erza began seeing her life ending right before her. She tried running but her legs felt heavy for her to even move it. It sure was a short life. Too bad she wasn't able to interact more with her friends when she had the chance to. Maybe in her next life, she wouldn't be as strict as she was.

"I'll make sure this time you are burn to crisp!" he yelled angrily. "I'm the one to see people's blood and not mine! YOU'VE MADE A BLASPHEMY OUT OF ME!"

Gathering even more flames, he devices another attack on her.

"God slayer secret art: Fiery fields of hell!" a large black magic circle appeared below them, covering the whole area and dyed the land black. Flames erupted wildly from it and began spinning like it was out of control, engulfing everywhere in black flames as it burned all escape route to the female red head.

With each passing seconds, it grow bigger and stronger and stretched over 5 meters wide. Erza felt her will got weak, giving it up as she was surrounded by flames almost the level of her height. There was nothing left for her to do than to accept her fate right now.

She wanted to scream but the intensity at which the flame burns weakened her voice. It was so dry and so hot around her. Her eyes were getting blur and watery and her flesh was rapidly getting past the temperature she could withstand. This was just not what she wanted. She just wanted to go home like every other normal school kids but why should hers be different now. She didn't even get to see her mum for over a week now and she had told Erza she was coming back today. She wasn't ever gonna see her again.

"Hahahahahahahahaha" Zancrow laughed "You think you were good enough of challenge for me but let me tell you little girl. I'm in leagues above yours"

"But you're in leagues below mine" a new voice entered. Suddenly lightning engulfed Zancrow, sapping his flames to oblivion as he was roasted clean from one powerful struck of lightning.

Falling to his knees at the surprise attack, he wasn't able to recover quickly as another bolt of lightning struck him again. He had piercing screams of pains as it struck him over and over again pushing him to a near death state.

Erza watched with wide eyes and her mouth wide opened at how this person easily overpowered Zancrow with his lightning. It amazed her with the amount of lightning he shot each time it went out and replaced it with another bolt of lightning.

Having had enough, Zancrow passed out his mouth wide open and smoke came out of it. His eyes were completely white like snow from passing out from shock.

The young man made his way to the downed girl, offering her his hand to help her up as he was a little out of breath. Erza stared at the young man in total shock, unbelieving what her eyes just viewed. He stood there in front of her with his usual calm expression, his spiky pink never unchanging as it could easily give his identity away.

"Geez Erza, you can't just left me have a piece of relaxation would you?"

"Na...tsu" she trailed softly. Seeing him again felt so amazing to her right now. She had actually thought he would definitely abandon her to fight him all alone which he did but hey, he didn't let her die so that counts as not abandoning her. In a cruel way though.

"I thought you left..." she smiled sadly. Small droplet of tears escaped her eyes watching the pink haired boy just in front of her. Just like she remembered, he would always be what she remembered him to be.

The years do change people as they grow and while Natsu seemed to have changed like a lot, there's one thing she always knew would never change and that's his caring heart. No matter how much he denies it, he always does care for other but it seems he doesn't what to show it now.

Erza took his hand with a smile and helped herself up but she staggered a little as her legs felt like jelly to her. Natsu sighed after witnessing this. Seeing he has no choice, he carried her to the wall close to them and rested her on the ground with her back resting on the wall. He sat beside her in silence as she watched him looked at the battered and unconscious criminal a few feet from them.

"Why did you come back?" she asked. He made it clear to her that time he doesn't want to have anything to do with being a hero and that includes fighting villains.

"I don't wanna see your ghost hunt my precious dreams every night while you cry in my sleep" he simply replied.

Rather than taking offence to it, Erza merely chuckled at his words. Well, she did almost became 'ghostified' by the flames of the godslayer.

"How are you feeling?" the dragonslayer asked not looking at her. She smiled again, looking at the dark sky filled with little stars made her a calm now, knowing the pink haired boy was right beside her.

"I'll be alright in a few minutes"

"You have instant healing?" he raised a brow.

"Do I look like I'm in a game?"

"But you just said you'll be alright in some minutes"

"I said that so you wouldn't be so worried about me"

"Huh, why should I be worried?"

"You should be, because I almost died!"

"Hmm, I thought you had him"

"You just said the impossible"

"You've watched mission impossible?"

"No, Why should I?"

"What a bummer, I thought you knew that about that movie"

"So we are talking about a movie now?"

"Well duh"

"I so wanna kill you right now" Erza facepalmed with a bright smile.

Even though she almost died just some minutes ago, she wanted to cherish this moment as much as she could. She missed the good old days when they used to play and fight all the time. It was like they were re-living those times in this very moment.

"Hey red, can you walk now?" Natsu asked as he finally turned to look her in the eyes. Trying to move her legs, she felt a little weak but she felt she could manage a walk.

"Yeah. why?"

"Good" he said as he stood up. He took her hand and gently pulled her up her feet "I need to go now. I'm hearing the sounds of sirens and two helicopters coming this way. I think the police and the news guys are here" he spoke, getting ready to leave.

"Why? I mean you took him down so stay here till they come. Everyone dreams of having the whole world to know them and I'm-"

"Look red, sure I took him down but like I said, I don't want any attention on me. So please take all the credit okay and don't give me the talk of 'I can't take your credit, you earn it' shit. I wanna live in a low profile so don't mention anything about me. Got it?" Natsu said in a stern voice.

Erza could only nod her head in response. Natsu looked calm, patting her head a little and ran into the opposite direction. Soon the sound of sirens and helicopters were close by just like he said.

'I forgot to ask him how he was able to use lightning!' she thought, hitting herself on the head.

"Ouch" she yelled in pain, forgetting her body hurts all over. Now with Natsu gone and the police coming, she wasn't sure she'll be going home anytime soon.

With Natsu(Natsu P.O.V)

Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! FUCKKKKKKK! DAMNIT!

I cursed as I had disappeared from that area where Erza was. My while fucking body was aching in pain! Using such an amount of lightning is a freaking chore and I feel like my body was about to break down any moment from now. It was a good thing I was saved by the cops and used it as an excuse to leave or I might have passed out if I stayed longer than I should.

I'm not really a lightning user. My specialty is fire. I'm a fire dragonslayer but taking in something other than what I'm supposed to be puts a troll on me once I use anything outside my original element. I should have used my fire against Zancrow but seeing he's a godslayer, the fight would have dragged out for too long which was very displeasing to me so I opted to using my lightning which did the trick but not without giving me a pain in return.

After I reached my lovely looking home. Not even bothering to pull my shoes, I threw my bag to God knows where and headed straight to my room and fell flat in my comfy warm bed. I wonder how long I'll be asleep but one thing I know for sure was...I'll be late to school tomorrow. Not even lasting up to a minute I fell asleep.

The next day at school.

"You're late young Dragneel!" that was the usual angry voice of Mrs ultear scolding me as always on how late I was "Its 10:00am and school starts by 8:00am meaning you're two hours late!" She yelled the last part out for me to hear specifically.

For one, I don't fucking care. And two, when would this loosed engine ever shut her trap up on how late I am. I'm the one who's late and not her so why don't I freaking get a rest!

"Do you have any excuses this time?" she folds her arm under her big looking tits. Well, nice growth Miss Ultear. She angrily tapped her right foot as she waited impatiently for my reply.

"Well I was just so not feeling the school vibes today that I slept in"

She scowled even more angrily at me. I think I may have stepped on a land mine today.

"Oh really" she smiled "You weren't feeling the school vibes at all"

"Yes ma'am. I'm glad you understood me" I smiled back at her.

"DETENTION FOR YOU!" She screamed at me, almost peeling my skin off "For three hours and You'll write an apology note and your good for nothing reason on why you come late everyday to school. Don't make me find you dragneel"

She gave me the stoic angry looks and stomped off angrily. Well that would have gone well. Guess I have a three hours detention and the useless whatever she wants me to write. I sighed. Better get going then.

Three Hours Later(1:00pm at That day)

Normal P.O.V

After serving detention for three hours and writing an apology note with reasons why he's always late(Which he never wanted to ever do) he had no choice but to get back to class.

Walking down the long hallways where his class was located, it was a little quiet on his walk alone to class. Well it was the middle of the day so of course it'll be quiet. Natsu was getting closer to his homeroom class, he spotted Erza close to the door of the class.

"You're super late" Erza frowned seeing the pink haired boy came close to class.

"Tell me about it"

"Natsu!" she exclaimed "You're the class representative and you're this late to school. You couldn't have just bothered coming to school and stay home"

Natsu sighed. 'Just why didn't I think of that'. What a great plan it would have been if he had just thought of this sooner.

"Yeah well I was earlier than I am but I was serving detention thanks to Miss ice queen sensei" Natsu rolled his eyes.

Erza stared at Natsu with a puzzled expression, wondering who the hell was Miss Ice queen sensei.

Natsu facepalmed "Miss Ultear sensei"

Erza then had an 'oh' expression, realising who Natsu was referring to. "That's not nice. Don't give your teachers names" Erza said in a stoic expression making Natsu move back a little.

"I hear ya..." he spoke "So, how's your arms and legs and head and...just how are you feeling"

Erza raised a questioning look at his way of concern towards her. Was he trying to behave like a clown or was he just being sarcastic? That was a question she couldn't answer.

Erza had both her arms bandaged up after trying to deflect Zancrow's fire but that burned off some part of her skin. Although it hurts all over, there isn't really any need for bandages other than her arms. Slight bruises heal up quickly.

"Fine. Just a little weak and magic drained but I'm fine" she replied "What about you?"

"Pff, I didn't hurt myself yesterday so why should I feel broken down like you"

Erza sighed, not really bothering to threaten him or make him take his words back.

"The reporter and police came right?" Natsu asked not really concerned but just wanted to know.

"Yeah they did" she replied "After you left they came and asked me a bunch of questions and how I ran into him and stuff. I had to made of lots of it to make it believable"

"Well you're recognised as a student hero now so make the most of it" Natsu smiled deviously.

"Yeah when I got to school today, our classmates were gushing over me. Kinda annoying but I think I'm flattered a little"

"Good for ya"

"And Natsu, I wanna ask" she turned serious. Taking note of her serious expression, Natsu know he wouldn't find this funny "How were you able to use lightning?" she asked.

Natsu was speechless for a while. How would he answer this one he wondered. Erza wasn't stupid and he knows it. Giving a straight answer would be way too easy for her taste.

"When the times comes, I'll tell ya" he said "IF that ever comes" he laughed and walked into his class.

'You have no idea how painful it was for me last night' he thought as he walked past the red haired teen and opened the door to his class.

Everyone seemed a little bored and unhyped. Just having idle chat with each other until gray noticed the opened room door and saw who stood in it.

"Hey, pinky is here!" his face lit up in a little bit of delight and a smirk curved up his lips.

Everyone turned to look at the door,seeing him with a displeased look and Erza behind him.

"Natsu You came!" Mira leaped her sit with a little smile on her face.

"The dude just never misses school" cana said, taking a sip off a bottled can water. Wait, was that actually canned water?

"Geez man, you just broke the Guinness record of being so late" Loke said.

"You're right, now I'll become famous and don't need to go to school anymore" Natsu said in an uninterested tone.

"Going to school is manly!"

"So Natsu, why are you late?" Lucy asked curiously.

"I bet he overslept again" gray laughed "Maybe he died, went to hell and came back just in time before school closes"

They laughed at Gray's comment.

"Yeah, Gray's right about that" Natsu said in boredom as he made his way to his seat but not before receiving a smack on the head from Erza.

"Ouch" he said monotonously.

"This idiot overslept and tried sneaking in to school through the front gates but Miss Ultear caught him and gave him a detention" Erza replied.

Everyone laughed again at his expense. It was just so right seeing Natsu in class again. Believe it or not, he makes the class lively enough but not intentionally.

"Who ever sneaks in through the front gates?" Lucy laughed.

"Dude, you got a thing for that woman?" warren asked Natsu as he turned his seat towards Natsu.

"Mm, well she's got nice figure and all"

The boys whistled while sharing thumbs up and raising their brows. The girls were not so pleased about it.

"No wonder you always get her to yell at 're seeking for her attention!" Loke gasped like a little girl.

'Oh God. Not shits like this again' Natsu cursed within him. When he decided coming to school, he wasn't looking forward to his classmates harassing him like they always do. Maybe his was one of the bad sides of wanting to be left alone because they are doing more than just leaving him alone.

"Dude, what did you see in her anyway?" gray asked. Also wanting to know every details as soon as possible.

"At least she's a lady and doesn't strip at every little chances she could find"

"Gray your clothes" Lucy said.

Gray looked down at himself, seeing his body in nothing but his underwear. Screaming in shock, he zoomed off in search for his clothes.

"So Natsu" Lucy said "Do you...um...like...um..you know...um...".

Natsu yawned from frustration "Just say it"

"Okay...so...you are...crus...hing on Miss...Ultear?" She sucked her lips in, looking extravagantly at him as she tried avoiding eye contact yet eagerly waiting for his reply.

"Oh for fuck sake, I. am. Not. In. Love. With. Any. One." Natsu made it as audibly and as understanding for everyone to hear "Why would I be crushing on that witch?"

"Natsu she's your teacher" Erza scowled "Don't call her a witch"

Natsu smirked "Oho, you haven't really been on her bad side to be defending her this way"

"Yeah she's pretty much over the top when she's mad" gray said, now fully dressed and complete.

"She is pretty though" Mira said in thoughts.

"Not as pretty as you Milady" Loke gave Mira a charming smile and presented her a single red rose flower out of nowhere.

"Hey get your hands off my sister" Elfman yelled, kicking loke on the butt as he sent him crashing into kinana.

"Kyaaaaaaaaaa!" she screamed as Loke crashed into her. "Pervert!" she gave him a hot slap but she missed and it hit Natsu instead.

Everyone watched in suspense from what's gonna happen next. Natsu opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out of it.

Natsu P.O.V

Loke crashed into Kinana after elfman kicked him in the butt and sent him flying to Kinana. She screamed her usual anime tone and tried getting him off by giving him a good slap to erase his memory but unluckily for me, that play boy bastard dodged it and it went smoothly across my face and made a slapping sound.

It suddenly got quiet after that. Everyone eyes fell on me like they were expecting me to do something harsh and wicked.

I opened my mouth to try saying something but nothing could come out of it. Then I decided to take it out on gray.

"Fairytail brawl!" I yelled and punched gray as hard as I could, sending him across the room. Everyone cheered me on and joined in the brawl while I quietly gave away from the fight, not to get hit again.

Tables, chairs and even the walls were turned over and broken. Now that I noticed it clearly, it was suddenly getting out of hand as they slowly introduced magic into it. Not my problem.

Their sweet brawl was short lived when Erza had enough of it and gave them the glares of death. Not only that but she also punished them. AND ME TOO! What the fuck did I do? And ain't I the class rep? That Damn devil got no respect for people higher than her!

Hmm, I wonder what's gonna happen tomorrow.

Somewhere within the city.

A young man in a hoodie cloak walked through the silent parts of the city with a frown on his face. He looked displeased and stomped a little, trying to express his anger.

"That Zancrow is complete moron. A airhead and an idiot" he cursed. Walking further, he turned into a right corner and continued his journey to the unknown.

"A simple mission became a failure. It was a mistake to send him on my behalf" he frowned further but suddenly smirked "No worries you fool. You'll be out soon"

He gave a mischievous smile and disappeared in a magic circle.

That's all for now my readers. Until next time...maybe when i come back from the next world..XD. Later!