Fairy Tail: Black Blood [Book 2/2]

Chapter Thirty-Four: Zeref

     Natsu

     The sense to kill him suddenly became unbearable and I had to physically restrain myself from transforming into my etherious form and tearing this man's face away from his body. Nobody seemed to notice my internal turmoil and silence filled the air.

    "So, Natsu, it seems you've come after all," Zeref said, hopping off the large rock to stand before us, a small smile playing at his lips though his dark eyes remained emotionless. It suddenly reminded me of Taiyo's eyes. Zeref turned his head to face the other demons of Zeref with me and his brow furrowed slightly. "And it seems you've also brought friends. How come?"

     "Back-up," I merely replied. Zeref nodded slowly.

    "Ah, I see. It appears you also have the same idea in terms of going about this."

    "What do you--"

     Three people stepped out of the shadows of the waste land behind Zeref, walking up to him calmly though they kept a considerable distance between themselves and him. The first person was an old man with light skin, long bleach blond hair, and a beard with amber eyes. He had six-pack abs and wore a cloak around his shoulders along with black sweat pants and slippers. In his hand was a long, curved staff; Then there was a tall man, looking to be right around my age, with spikey blond hair and scarlet eyes, he had white eye-liner around his lashes and he wore a tribal-looking pants with a white toga, revealing half of his chest, and he bore a white cross on his forehead and a giant golden cross on his back; The final person was a woman, looking to be in her mid thirties, with a long black skirt that exposed her thighs. She had a scar on the right side of her abdomen as well as a revealing shirt-like bra. She had flowing crimson hair tied back in five giant braids and her eyes were golden in color, she wore a large black hat and a large leopard-print staff was carried in her hands. She was almost the splitting image of Erza! All three of them had the mark of Alvarez on their bodies.

    "Who the hell're they?" I demanded. Zeref smiled.

    "These three? Why, they are one of my strongest subordinates, each one willing to go along this mission with us. Allow me to introduce August, Larcade Dragneel, and Eileen Belserion."

    "Wait, did you say... Dragneel? I thought you and I were the last ones!"

    "Yes, we are the last of the original bloodline. Both of our parents hail from different tribes though under the same surname Dragneel; the parent of Larcade isn't of any clan so technically we are the last of the last."

    "OK, I get that, but how's he related to us?"

     Zeref ignored my question. "Anyways, we have some more important matters to brush up on. My subordinate, Eileen Belserion, has a vast amount of magic under her wing and she conducted a certain type of magic, eye magic, to track down Acnologia. He is quite nomadic so she has since had some trouble spying on him without being noticed, but we were a bit too late to comprehend his plans. You see, Acnologia plans on destroying not only us but to demolish the last dragon slayers in existence as well before he goes about to conquer the world. We have only a limited amount of time to kill him before it's lights out for humanity."

    "I don't get why you sound so serious about this, I mean, didn't I hear you say a while ago that you want to eliminate humanity? I mean, dude, you seriously have to get your priorities in order, because you're confusing the hell outta me."

     The younger man, (I assume was Larcade), took a threatening step towards me, his scarlet eyes narrowed. The demons behind me tensed up but I remained firm, even as he began shouting, "You have no right to address father in such a way, uncle Natsu!" Uncle... I blinked.