Chapter 15

A few hours later, and the cat and dragon duo finally arrived at Magnolia. The two of them stared at the town with a smile.

"Finally! We're home! Let's go Happy!"

Without wasting anymore time, Natsu ran towards the guild with excitement. He couldn't wait to see his friends once again.

However, once the two of them arrived in front of the guild, Natsu couldn't help but feel that there is something wrong.

But he shook those negative thoughts away and kick the door of the guild open.

"EVERYONE! WE'RE BACK!"

Natsu expected to be greeted by his friends with a smile on their faces, heck he even expected Gray to greet him with a ċȯċky smirk.

But he didn't expect to be greeted by silence.

The entire guild was silent, and the memebers inisde seems to be a lot smaller than what he can remember.

"Guys, where is everyone?" Natsu asked as he keeps looking around the guild, "Why is everyone so quiet today? Where are the others? The members here seems to be lot smaller from I can remember."

With a smile on his face, Natsu decided to approach the member that took care of him when he was a kid.

"Hey, Macao, why do you look so down? What happened?"

Macao just sighed, he was actually feeling conflicted, whether he sould tell Natsu the truth or not, but it is only a matter of time before Natsu will find out about it.

And, knowing Natsu, he would probably stormed off to Tenrou and search for them.

"Natsu," Macao glance at Natsu and stood up, "No matter what I say, please stay calm, and don't do something reckless."

"Huh?" Natsu tilted his head in confusion, not actually getting what Macao is saying.

"Natsu, the Tenrou group is gone," Macao suddenly dropped the bomb as Natsu, and even Happy stood still, while looking at Macao dumbly.

"Ha- Hahaha~! That's not funny Macao! If you want to joke, don't use gramps and the others." Natsu suddenly laugh after he snap out of his daze.

However, when he look at the serious face of Macao, he knew that he was being serious. But how could he accept this? Gramps, Guildarts, and other S-class mage of their guild are there!

There's no way they are gone!

"Impossible! I can't accept this! There's no way they're gone! Tell me its a joke right?! Its just a joke RIGHT!?" Natsu's eyes began to redden as he forcefully gripped Macao's collar.

"I hate to say this but its true, we just received the news five days ago, the rune knights informed us. The whole Tenrou Island disappeared, along with the rest of our friends."

"No, no, no, no! NO! HOW COULD THIS BE!? I'M SURE THEY ARE STILL THERE! LET'S GO AND SEARCH FOR THEM! WHY ARE YOU SULKING AROUND HERE FOR?! I'M SURE THEY ARE STILL THERE WAITING FOR US TO FIND THEM!"

"Natsu stop!" Macao exclaimed as he along with others, tried to hold Natsu off, "We already searched for them for five days! We couldn't find them! So please stop!"

"HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT?! DOES THE LIVES OUR FRIENDS DOESN'T MATTER TO YOU AT ALL?!" Natsu loudly said to Macao.

"OF COURSE IT DOES! HOW COULD OUR FRIENDS LIVES DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING?! WE KNOW HOW YOU FEEL! WE ARE ONE FAMILY AND LOSING A FAMILY HURTS, BUT THERE IS MORE PROBLEM WE ARE FACING DAMN IT!" Macao loudly refuted as tears keeps flowing from his eyes.

Hearing that, Natsu just stop struggling as he kneeled down on the floor ans cried.

The rest of the guild couldn't take it and cried also. The loss of their friends and family impacted them greatly.

There were even times where they couldn't sleep at night remembering the loss of their family.

...

Later that night.

Natsu is currently sitting at the guild's rooftop, while looking down at the sea behind their guild.

Even now, he still couldn't believe that his friends have disappeared.

He clenched his fist as he remembered the story from Macao.

"Acnologia..... I promise I will make you all pay!"

But with the little clarity he have left, he still managed to think it through and remained calm, though the anger in his heart still hasn't subsides.

"Well, you need to be a lot stronger than you are now just to put up as much of a scratch to that abomination."

Natsu's eyes grew wide as he quickly lit up his hands with flames as he heard a voice behind him.

"Who-?!" Natsu stared at the origin of the voice and saw a beautiful woman with long black hair and a girl with pink hair standing beside her, for some reason, the woman smells familiar to him, "hey, you're that guy from Galuna Island aren't you!? What are you doing here?"

"That's right, its me. I came here to talk to you, Natsu Dragneel."