Chapter 73

"Well, I'll be leaving for now, I'll probably return before the others finished their training." Natsu with a smile.

"Then, take care."

Natsu smiled as he hugged Kagura and Ultear before giving a peck on the lips, he then turned his gaze towards Ariel, who is smiling with her eyes closed.

Natsu was about to say something but stopped himself, he just smiled sadly and jumped in the air, leaving the four of them alone.

Kagura glance at Ariel, worry can be seen in her face, "Ariel, you-"

"It doesn't matter. I'll be resting in the house." Ariel interrupted her before she could finish her sentence, she then turn around and walk back towards the house.

Kagura and Ultear look at each other, before looking at the lonely back of Ariel.

'So even until now, you are still blaming yourself for that?' They thought, as they watched her enter the house.

She glance at the sky with sad expression, 'Its been a year since 'that' incident happened huh? If only 'that' didn't happened, then perhaps, I would also-'

A tear escapes her eyes, 'I thought that I would've already forgotten everything about 'that', everything about 'him', but even now, just seeing 'him' with others, while I could only stare at a distance...'

"...It fuċkɨnġ hurts, goddammit."

(A/N: New harem? Let's see shall we? Its already hard for me writing about six girls, if many people agreed then I'll Break My Limits if not, she'll move on)

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Up in the sky, Natsu was flying while using his flames to propell himself. He was staring in front of him in a daze, before a sad smile broke out in his face.

'You really should stop blaming yourself, Ariel, its not your fault, I made that choice myself.'

Natsu continue to fly for a few hours before a familiar scent invaded his nose. He stared at the island a few miles away as he narrowed his eyes.

...

"Sniffle~ That Natsu, how dare he throw a maiden like me as if I'm some sort of trash? Bastard, I'll make him pay one way or another."

She was walking aimlessly in the forest, she doesn't even remember where she started walking, everything just look the same, trees here, trees there, so many trees!

Rustle~

Lucy stopped walking as she observe her surroundings with a serious and wary eyes, she look completely different from her pitiful appearance earlier.

"This 'training' is really nothing but pure torture, as expected of Natsu I guess? Always overdoing everything." Then, she let out a grin as her eyes locked at the tree a few meters beside her, "But, he won't be Natsu if he did things in a half-ass way."

"Open! Gate of the Bull: Taurus!"

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Gajeel.

"Damn, salamander is really crazy, throwing away bunny-girl like that, now I don't even know where the hell I am!"

When he saw Natsu throwing Lucy away, he just ran like his life depends on it, which it kinda did, and don't know where ran off to.

Suddenly, a fast shadow appeared beside him, its claws was already a feet away from ripping his neck.

Gajeel noticed the shadow and quickly reacted, the moment he felt it appearing beside him, his arms already turned into an iron club and blocked its claws.

"Gehee~ let the hunt begin."

"Iron Dragon's Roar!"

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Gray.

"Ice Make: Shield!"

A shield made of ice appeared in front of Gray as he spread his arms open, blocking an attack coming from a three meters tall sabertooth tiger.

"Ice Make: Arrow!" Countless arrows made of ice appeared as it shoot towards the sabertooth tiger, but dealing a little to no damage, it didn't even pierced its skin.

'ROOAARR' It angrily roared and with a swiped of its large claws, Gray's shield broke as he retreated.

"Damn!" He cursed as he glared at the large sabertooth tiger, "What are the chances of immediately encountering a S-class beasts the moment I stepped into the forest?!"

"Ice Make: Hammer!" Gray creates a large ice hammer that floats above the sabertooth before dropping it, the sabertooth flinched from the impact as it angrily roared and pounced at Gray.

"Damn you flame-brain!"

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Wendy.

"Bohoo~ Natsu-san is scary~ sniffles~" Wendy cried while being carried by Carla as they floats around.

"Hmph! And you still admired him despite that," Carla sneered as he began to imagine Wendy acting like a ruffian.

Wendy suddenly felt a powerful presence approaching them, "Carla! Dodge to the side! Quick!"

Carla reacted quickly and moved her body along with Wendy to the side, as a shadow narrowly passed through them.

"That's a fast one child, looks like this will be a tough one for you."

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Erza, wearing her Heaven's Wheel armor, was surrounded by two corpses of beast, a five meters tall wild boar, and the other was a three meters long and two meters tall hawk.

"These two isn't at the level of an S-class mage, they are only as strong as Natsu seven years ago, before the fight against the Lullaby."

She un-equipped her Heaven's Wheel armor and returned to her Heart of Creuz(?) armor and continue walking.

She then glanced at the sky and sighed, "I hope I'll encounter an S-class beasts soon."

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Natsu...

He shot towards the island, as his eyes turned fierce, he landed on a sandy shore and look towards a tree, there a young man with black hair wearing a black robe can be seen.

"Zeref." Natsu glared at the young man who only smiles at him.

"Its been a long time, my dear little brother." Zeref said as he smiled at Natsu.

Natsu narrowed his eyes, but didn't deny the way he was calling him. He was about to open his mouth and speak when the both of them felt a ridiculous amount of magic power coming towards them.

A few seconds later, a large, jet-black dragon with feathery wings like a bird, and blue markings on its scales appeared.

Natsu's face twisted in anger as he fiercely glared at the dragon, "Acnologia."

Acnologia glanced at Natsu before descending down as he transformed into his human form, he grinned and glared at Natsu provocatively.

Natsu clenched his fist, as his magic power leaked out of his body, reddish-gold flames appeared and surrounds him while a blue lightning sparks coiled around the flames.

Ever since the tenrou group returned, this is the first time that he released all of his magic power.

It was so powerful that the land itself was burning, Natsu haven't released all of his magic power while he was with those who are close to him as he knew that it would harm them.

But now, he dared to unleashed all of his power as he knew that the people here won't be affected that much.

However, just as Natsu released his power, they felt a terrifyingly energy that dwarfed Natsu's by a large margin,

The three turned their head to the sea, and a large white-scaled creature emerged from the waters, the magic power it was radiating was enough to cause Natsu's flame-like aura to vanish like a dust being blown away by the wind.

They stared at the large creature in shock, they didn't expect for it to appear here.

"The Leviathan Emperor."