The Dragon Father

It's Time You Face Your Demons

Back at the guildhall Zeref was trying to control his anger. Nothing was working and he hated it. The Spriggan were being overwhelmed and Mavis was far out of his reach. He had calculated this attack for years, waiting to strike until he was certain that his armies could deal with both Fairy Tail and Acnologia... he hadn't expected the mages to be this strong.

"Father!" someone cried bursting through the doors breaking Zeref's concentration. It was Larcade.

"Do not call me that," Zeref muttered under his breath.

"Father the Ishgar guild's are advancing, we need to leave," Larcade wheezed. He was greatly injured and had come a long way, "they'll kill you."

"Good," Zeref smiled, "If I can't fix the world or destroy it I'm better off dead."

Larcade seemed to be fighting back tears, Zeref was certain if they were from his wounds or his heart, "You can't die! I won't let them hurt you!"

Suddenly Larcade was on the ground contorting in pain, "You will not stop them," Zeref gritted raising his hands as we walked over to Larcade, "You are not my son. You are a mere book of Zeref, the world will be graced with your death today," Zeref gritted.

"No father, please don't!" Larcade cried.

A huge explosion sounded through the room. It knocked Zeref back into the wall of the guildhall but it did not affect Larcade.

"You know, I've been trying to play nice," someone said walking through the smoke, "I've been trying to become a real member of society." Jackal emerged standing between Larcade and Zeref he wore a green cloak and matching gloves, "But the fact that you raise your hand against my kind just pisses me the hell off."

"Jackal?" wondered Zeref, his eyes narrowing.

"I tried so hard too." Jackal growled ripping his gloves off exposing his clawed hands, "I told myself that I would keep it down, try to turn over a new leaf, not kill people. Now, I'm just gonna light you up."

"You want to fulfill your purpose, try to kill me" Zeref sighed, "You are not at that caliber."

"No. Now if killing you only killed me and Salamander, I would do it in a snap," Jackal said snapping his fingers; this caused thousands of explosions to go off across the battlefield knocking out thousands of Alvarez troops. "But, Seilah doesn't deserve to die, and this kid, Larcade, he doesn't want to die." Jackal looked back towards Larcade.

"I don't know how you're alive, and I don't know how you got here, but I recommend you get out of my way or you will perish."

Jackal began laughing, "You think I'm just gonna walk away!? After what you've done to this kid? After what you've done to my guild!?"

"I had nothing to do with Tartaros's destruction," Zeref scoffed.

"I'm not speaking of Tartaros!" Jackal roared ripping the cloak off revealing his Fairy Tail mark, "I'm talking about my new guild! I'm talking about Fairy Tail!"

"You... you joined Fairy Tail?" Zeref shook. This was another unplanned predicament.

"Yes. And I'll fight to my dying day for them. They taught me how to live; they taught me how to love. With them, I am cared for and can forget my deadbeat creator who just tried to kill my brother!"

"Brother?" Larcade whimpered.

"You're a demon right?" Jackal snarled sending Larcade a sideways glare, "that means you're family and so help me you're gonna live and love and even be happy!"

"What?" Larcade whispered

"You realize that with a snap of my figures I could destroy you?" Zeref laughed.