Beastly Possession | By : Rhov Category: +. to F > Fairy Tail Views: 26740 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is the property of Hiro Mashima. I make no money, I just do this for my own pleasure. |
Disclaimer: Trolls are a form of beast; therefore, Hiro Mashima is the biggest beast of them all.
Chapter 31
Beastly Takeover
"Natsu, stop!" Lucy cried out.
The fierce claw, poised to shred the half-beast under him, froze at her shout. Natsu's eyes still did not leave his prey, fluctuating between sage green and crimson red, but he held back as her shout brought him back to his senses.
Lucy looked at the feral. Part of her wanted to hate him. He had hurt her and her friends. He had killed...who knew how many people! And he had been ready to rape her just a minute ago. Still, under all the snarling, she saw that teenager she had briefly spoken to.
"He's just a boy in there," she said sympathetically. "He's scared. He was telling the feral not to hurt me. He doesn't want anyone hurt. He's trapped in there, partially conscious, caged by the beast. We need to see if we can somehow save him. If...if it's at all possible..."
She wanted to rescue the boy held prisoner inside that beastly body, because as Lucy looked at Natsu's wings and tail, all she could imagine was...what if this had happened to Natsu? What if the boy Balaur Blackstone had once been just like the silly Fire Dragon Slayer? If someone had found him earlier, this boy could have grown up in Fairy Tail. He could have been one of their nakama. Fairy Tail would never give up on Natsu, even if he turned fully feral. Similarly, her brief meeting with the inner boy dwelling inside this beast showed her that this was not just some fiend, but a potential friend. If this had happened to Natsu...
She would do anything to save Natsu.
She also did not want to see Natsu turn into a killer. She had a horrible feeling that if he killed Balaur, a piece of Natsu's humanity would be forever lost.
Slowly, the claw dropped, and the tension loosened from Natsu's shoulders. Balaur did not move, assessing the threat from this new prey, wondering why he did not instantly attack, what this hesitation meant.
"I know how he feels," Natsu said darkly, glaring down at the feral. "I know what it's like, being trapped, looking out from the inside, knowing you're hurting people, maybe even killing people," he sneered, "and not able to do a damn thing about it." Finally, he turned away and gazed sadly at Lucy. "Even hurting friends," he whispered.
She bit her lip, knowing that Natsu must still be torn up inside that it had been his body that claimed her the night of the gala, took her virginity, and yet...it was not his mind.
"I know what it's like," he growled, looking away sadly. Then he glared down at the beast again. "I know how much it hurts, how you end up hating yourself, and all you want...is for someone to stop you," he gnashed, breathing heavily. "All you want...is for the nightmare to end...one way or another." His fingers tightened up again, baring the claws. "I know how he feels inside, and I know...he probably wishes for death."
"Natsu, stop!" Lucy screamed again.
With a red glow of fury in his eyes, Natsu's hand plunged down, yet at the last second the feral grabbed his wrist, easily halting the attack. Natsu tried to pull away, but Balaur had his wrist in a crushing grip. Slowly, the feral rose to his feet. He grinned at Natsu, only slightly shorter, both so frightfully similar with their wings and tails, one brown like the soil, the other crimson like flames. The feral leaned in close to Natsu's face.
"Fight me." He yanked Natsu's wrist forward to pull him in and grinned with a fierce hiss of excitement. "Fight me, Fire Slayer. Fight me for girlie."
Natsu yanked his wrist away and glared hard, pulling himself up to be even taller over this younger dragon slayer. "I don't need to fight you over Lucy. She's mine!"
The beast cackled and tilted his head with a wild smile. "I claimed her. I marked her."
Natsu laughed smugly. "Sniff closer, bastard. I can tell you touched her, but I can also tell...you didn't take her."
"Marked her!" he insisted.
"I marked her, too."
"Marked over your mark."
Natsu glanced back to Lucy and saw that, indeed, there was a bite right over where he had bitten her just the night before, and many other bites had bruised her skin. It angered him to see that and think about what this feral must have done to her. He smelled no semen, at least, but he did smell Lucy's sexy scent on this creature's hand. He had touched her, and he had marked her flesh, putting his claim on her.
"So what?" Natsu shouted, gritting his teeth in fury. "I'll mark her again. I'll mark her as many times as I have to, because she is my mate. I..." The red flashed brighter in his eyes, and his voice growled, "I fucked her first."
Lucy trembled. That was the voice of the beast, the creature from that night at the gala. He was back...but not fully. The eyes were mostly red, but some green still sparkled through the burning, beastly glare. She could see for herself, Natsu was unstable.
The feral chuckled lowly. "But I marked her first."
"What?" the beast hissed. Suddenly, Natsu's eyes widened and snapped solidly back to green. "Wh-what did you say?"
Lucy gasped as she remembered her first encounter with these half-dragon beasts. "That night. The night I was attacked. He bit me. He...he bit me on my breast." Her hand touched her chest where she could still remember the pain of that creature in the darkness as it sank its teeth into her flesh.
Natsu growled furiously. "Then it was you! I was never sure if it was you or me that night. For weeks, I was terrified it might have been me who hurt Lucy so badly. But...it was you, you goddamn bastard!"
"Yessssss," the beast hissed smugly. "Marked her first. Claimed her first. Smelled dragon slayer on her, but not marked, so I took her."
"Then that means..." Natsu's tail whipped back and forth angrily, and his wings trembled in rage. "...you hurt Lucy even back then. She was in a coma for days. She almost died! You hurt her...that...badly." The red flared in his eyes again, and he bared his sharp teeth. "You hurt Lucy. Kill you!"
"Natsu!" Lucy shouted, but he began to hunch over, his tail swishing with madness. "Natsu, you need to calm down. Don't let the beast take over. Don't kill him, please."
The feral cackled arrogantly. "Listen to girlie." In a falsetto, he mocked, "Don't kill me."
"Shut...up!" Natsu growled.
Suddenly, the feral looked around. "In air. On building. Not good for fight." He bolted past Natsu, grabbed Lucy around the waist, and leaped off the train station roof, flying off with Lucy shrieking at the sensation like she was falling, only for the feral's wings to flap and lift them both into the air.
"Lucy!" Natsu screamed. He spread his wings and took off after them. "Give her back. Fire Dragon's Roar!" A ball of flames shot out of Natsu's mouth.
Lucy screamed as the fire scorched her as well. "You idiot! Who do you think he's holding?"
"Oh. Sorry, Lucy."
"Sheesh, practically turning into a beast yourself, but you're still an idiot." She should be angry, he had burned off most of the last bits of her clothes, but as she watched Natsu flying after her, she could hardly help but smile. He was still the same silly Natsu deep down inside.
Natsu realized an aerial battle was a bad idea since Lucy might be dropped. He flew after the feral, although he was not as used to wings as this seasoned beast. He struggled with flying straight, and he was much slower.
"How does Happy make it look so easy?" he grumbled, straining to flap his wings properly.
« I could help Slayer fly. »
"How can I trust you?"
« Because is Lucy. Save Lucy. Kill feral. »
"Lucy doesn't want him to die."
« Then only fly. Fly to Lucy. Save her. We need Lucy. Protect Lucy. Don't let feral bastard take Lucy away from us. »
Natsu debated it, but he was quickly falling behind the two. "Fine," he grumbled. He closed his eyes, and when they opened, the beast's red eyes were glowing. "We save Lucy. We only fly, not kill. Not yet." Instantly, the wings flapped harder, and Natsu sped through the air with a determined sneer.
They headed out of Magnolia and to a flat stretch of land covered in clovers. There, the feral alighted and tossed Lucy to the side. She rolled over the clovers, crying out at the pain all through her body. Her leg still throbbed, her arm had soaked through the bloody bandage, and her broken wrist burned as the bones crunched together.
"Better place. Firm earth." He picked up a rock. "Lunchtime." He bit right into the stone, crunched it between his teeth, and swallowed it down.
Lucy felt the ground under her. Because of the clover, the soil was soft and smelled fresh. There was a sponginess to the soil, but firmness as well. Indeed, if the Earth Dragon Slayer had to fight, doing it on a building would be a disadvantage. Here, he could change the field to his liking. At least if they were out in a clearing like this, they would not cause too much damage to the city. Makarov would punish them harshly if they destroyed the train station.
Natsu landed and instantly crouched with his wings spread in a dominating pose. "Fight!" he hissed, but the red in his eyes faded. "You wanna fight, huh?"
Balaur chewed another rock. "Fight you. Kill you. Claim girlie. Fuck her. Make lots of babies."
"You bastard," he sneered. "I'm the one who will father her children, because I'm the one who will marry her!"
Lucy blushed as he boldly declared that. "Idiot. You haven't actually proposed to me yet," she mumbled happily.
"I will when you're ready, and you'll say yes."
"Says who?"
"I know you, Lucy," Natsu smiled. "You'll blush and mumble that I asked you totally all wrong, but you'll still say yes. Then we'll marry and have kids, and you'll be a mother and I'll be a father, and we'll have our own house with Happy and lots of children."
Lucy bashfully looked away. Was that really his dream? It was...sort of nice.
"Marry?" the beast questioned. "Who cares! I fuck her, give her babies. You had your chance. Stupid Fire Slayer not plant seeds when shit is fertile."
"Hey! Are you calling Lucy a piece of shit?" he yelled angrily. "I won't forgive anyone who calls her that."
"Then fight me," the feral smirked. "Winner gets to fuck her."
Natsu crouched lower. "If you dare touch her, I really will kill you."
"Already touched her." The feral lifted his hand and stiffed the fingers he had forced inside Lucy. "Good smell. You like her smell, too? Nice smelling girlie. And she tastes good." He licked his fingers, then thrust his tongue between the fingers, giving a crude imitation of what he planned to do to Lucy.
His eyes flashed red in outrage. "Bastard!"
"Natsu!"
Just as Lucy thought for sure Natsu would pounce and attack, she saw the feral's eyes turn sharply to the side. A moment later, Pantherlily, Lector, and Frosh dropped down and settled Gajeel, Sting, and Rogue onto the ground. Happy followed behind them. Lucy brightened up at seeing them.
"Gajeel! Rogue! Sting!"
"Hey there, cutey," Sting said flirtatiously. He shrugged off a cape he was wearing and draped it over Lucy's mostly-naked body. "Cover up before you get sick."
"Thank you," she muttered, having almost forgotten about her exposed body.
Natsu still faced off with the feral. "Took you guys a while," he said in a raspy voice, panting as he struggled to remain in control.
Rogue looked at him warily. "Are you okay?"
"Yes!" he hissed, but Natsu shook his head. "Y-yeah," he replied again. "Just fine."
Gajeel stepped forward cautiously. "Natsu, you need to get out of here."
"No!" he snapped in a scathing snarl. "My prey!" His eyes dimmed back to green. "My fight. This...is my fight," he declared, breathing laboriously. "He challenged me over Lucy. My fight. My prey!" he ended in a half-insane cackle. Natsu held his head, shuddering as he struggled between the two personalities. "I'm...okay."
"No, you're not," Gajeel shouted.
Sting looked at the man he admired so deeply, and his eyes tightened with worry. Lucy gazed up and saw his expression.
"Is Natsu okay?"
Sting wanted to assure her it would all be fine, but as he watched, he realized the horrible truth. "No," he whispered. "He's not. Natsu," he called over. "Your smell is changing even worse. You need to get out of here. You won't last long." Under his breath, he added, "It might already be too late."
"I...can't," Natsu said softly, not turning away from the beast. "Challenged. Have to fight."
"Shit," Gajeel muttered. "Feral instincts. If he truly believes this, he's slipping fast."
Sting reached his hand down to Lucy. "Let's get you away..."
The feral roared suddenly. Lucy flattened, shielding her face with Sting's cloak as pebbles flew at the three dragon slayers, forcing them back. Suddenly, a wall of stone rose up beside Lucy, blocking her from the others.
"My fight!" the feral screamed. "No interrupt!"
He slammed both hands on the ground, and the earth shattered. A massive gap cracked open, so deep no one could see the bottom, and too wide to jump. The area around the feral, Natsu, and Lucy stood like an island separated from the rest of the clover field.
"Lucy!" Happy cried out.
Sting tried to reach out to her, but the gap was far too wide. Happy was ready to fly over, but Frosh grabbed his tail.
"Don't go, Happy. He's too strong for us."
"But Lucy..." the blue Exceed began to protest.
"Leave it to Sting-kun," Lector smiled with confidence.
Happy watched the two and frowned fretfully. "Natsu," he whispered, silently praying his best friend would be all right.
Natsu glanced back to Lucy. "Are you okay?"
"I'm not hurt," she replied, although she felt like panicking now that she was cut off from help.
"Don't worry. I won't let him touch you again."
"Natsu..." she whispered.
"Natsu!" Gajeel shouted. "You can fly still. Get out of there. We'll protect Lucy, I promise."
"My job!" he snarled. Natsu gulped, trying to hold back more of the change. "I love Lucy." Then suddenly his eyes went red. "And I love Lucy!" He breathed heavily. "And we're gonna protect her."
"Natsu!" Gajeel shouted.
Sting's mouth dropped. "Oh God, he's merging."
"Yeah," Gajeel frowned.
Rogue watched with narrowed eyes. "What do we do? Is he even able to recover at this point?"
Gajeel hesitated before admitting quietly, "I don't know."
"It shouldn't be possible," Sting insisted. "Right? It shouldn't be physically feasibly, merging like that. I mean, he's both at the same time." His voice fell with quiet hope and inner dread. "That...shouldn't be possible."
"It's Natsu," Gajeel said, not bothering to conceal the admiration he had for his rival. "They're working in harmony to protect Lucy."
"Me?" Lucy asked, overhearing them from across the chasm.
Natsu chuckled gravelly. "Yeah, that's right, and I don't get it," he admitted. "Me and the beast inside, we're putting aside our own wants and needs for one desire: protect Lucy. Dunno how, but we're working together on this one. I know one thing, though. This...feral..." he said, nodding to Balaur. "He can be saved."
Lucy's eyes lit up with hope. "He can?"
"He can't," Gajeel insisted.
"Yes he can, Gajeel," Natsu said confidently.
"He'll fully feral."
"Yeah, he is...but do you know what?" He smiled as his eyes flicked between green and red. "Lucy doesn't want him to die. The beast...inside me...he says... There is a way," came a growling hiss. "There is a way to save feral."
Lucy shivered at that voice. "Natsu..."
His hand lashed out, as if shoving that other personality aside. "I...can defeat him." He gasped wearily and began to sweat as he staved off the inner struggle. "I can defeat his inner beast, but...there's a trick to it, one you guys aren't going to like." He glanced over to the three other dragon slayers. "Only another feral can do it."
Gajeel glared at him. "You're talking about letting yourself slip on purpose."
"Natsu," Sting warned. "You're on the cusp of becoming the same as him. If you end up turning into some murderous monster, I swear I'll kill you."
Natsu laughed wryly. "You don't have to worry, Sting. I won't hurt anyone except the beast inside him."
Rogue shouted across the chasm, "Even if you can save him, who will save you?"
"I'll figure that out when I get there."
Gajeel protested, "Natsu, this is suicidal."
"Only if I fail."
"Natsu!" Lucy cried out. He glanced over and saw her sobbing and silently shaking her head. "Don't do it. I can't lose you. Please, don't become like him."
"Hey, don't worry." He laughed, giving her the grin he always had despite the sweat from his inner turmoil. Then he promised solemnly, "I'll return to you, Lucy."
"A feral can't be saved," Gajeel shouted.
"They can!" Natsu yelled back, lashing out with his tail. "The beast inside knows how. Maybe Igneel taught me and I just can't remember on my own, but the beast knows... There's a way." Natsu gulped hard to hold back the beast. "There's...a way," he repeated calmer. "However, it means...it means I have to become feral first." His stomach twisted at the thought of giving up his humanity. What if the beast inside him was lying? Could he lie to himself like that? "I have to trust...myself." He firmed his stance with determination.
Lucy cried out tearfully, "Natsu, please, don't!"
He gave her a confident glance. "I won't lose, Lucy. After all," and his smile brightened, "I still have to get you a carrot ring."
The tears spilled over Lucy's face. She whispered his name softly, "Natsu." Even in the face of possibly losing his humanity, he could make her feel warm inside, like a bit of his fire burned within her.
"Trust me," he said firmly. Then Natsu closed his eyes. "All right, you bastard beast. Let's do this."
Gajeel jolted forward. "Natsu, no! If you willingly let the beast take over, you'll never..."
Too late! Scales crinkled over his skin. His eyes opened, and they gleamed red. When Natsu smiled, his fangs were longer, and a purring growl of satisfaction gurgled out of his throat.
"Want fight," he declared.
End of Chapter 31
NEW FANART!
Another fanart from SrgnDrgn. Again, it's like she read my mind and drew a scene months before I actually wrote what's outlined in my notes.
"Annoyed" - http://fav.me/d6w9naz
You can listen to how I tore up my throat acting this out. This is how I write, acting out the scene and recording the audio first.
http://chirb.it/fOddsA
While AFF and its agents attempt to remove all illegal works from the site as quickly and thoroughly as possible, there is always the possibility that some submissions may be overlooked or dismissed in error. The AFF system includes a rigorous and complex abuse control system in order to prevent improper use of the AFF service, and we hope that its deployment indicates a good-faith effort to eliminate any illegal material on the site in a fair and unbiased manner. This abuse control system is run in accordance with the strict guidelines specified above.
All works displayed here, whether pictorial or literary, are the property of their owners and not Adult-FanFiction.org. Opinions stated in profiles of users may not reflect the opinions or views of Adult-FanFiction.org or any of its owners, agents, or related entities.
Website Domain ©2002-2017 by Apollo. PHP scripting, CSS style sheets, Database layout & Original artwork ©2005-2017 C. Kennington. Restructured Database & Forum skins ©2007-2017 J. Salva. Images, coding, and any other potentially liftable content may not be used without express written permission from their respective creator(s). Thank you for visiting!
Powered by Fiction Portal 2.0
Modifications © Manta2g, DemonGoddess
Site Owner - Apollo