"Everyone prepare yourselves! We are arriving soon!"
The conductor yelled out as some people had fallen asleep on the way as they began to awaken and wake others near them.
Liddan woke up from his place as he had fallen asleep as he stretched and yawned a big sigh. He turned to see that his father was still in his fetus position from the boat ride as he scoffed in annoyance.
'Tch… weak'
Liddan had no choice now as he had to carry his father now like a sack of potatoes. He got weird looks from people but he didn't care, the sooner this was done the better.
On their way to a small alley he stole some hair dye that was brown as he planned to use it on his fathers hair to seem him less noticeable.
"Are you feeling any better now?"
*Liddan asked in a rough tone as he dumped natsu on the ground to wince.*
"Yeah but not after you threw me to the ground, ouch.."
"Save it, let me dump some of this in your hair.."
*Liddan plopped a handful of brown goo as it stained natsu's pink hair a dark brown color.*
"Hey! Are you putting horse shit or something!"
"No but that doesn't seem bad either.."
*liddan chuckled as natsu made a fuss about his son man handling his hair rough.*
After natsu's hair was completely dyed they both came out of the alley as they walked twords a clinic.
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The clinic seemed a bit beat up but Liddan came to a stop at the door as he knocked in a specific pattern.
From the door came a lady around her 40s who didn't show herself but cracked the door open to only see Liddan.
"Well well well, look who finally came to visit me? If it ain't Liddan.. what brings you here today?"
*a woman said as Liddan sighed and replied to her*
"I didn't come for a visit-"
"Ah well then I'm not a doctor either.."
*she slammed the door as she made a attempt to close it but Liddan caught the door from closing by a crack.*
"Look wendy! I need your help in getting me to the 'port' there's no-"
*liddan was caught off as a older looking tiny wendy came out with a mean face arguing with him.*
"Look at me now punk! If you hadn't killed your father I probably could have put him to rest by removing that curse but because of that nasty attitude, you think bossing everyone around is okay. If your father only seen you now, he would knock that smug look off your face.."
*wendy pointed a finger at Liddan who didn't flinch or move from his stance. Just then natsu decided to intervene noticing that this was the older version of wendy.*
"That's right! I already punched him for mistreating his sister in the beginning. I ought to give him another punch!"
*natsu showed off his arm in a motion like he was about to discipline his son like if he was still 8, but stopped as he saw the older wendy look at him in tears. Liddan only facepalmed at this.*
"Na-natsu-san? … is that really you?? But h-how.."
"Nashi brought him back after the dummy failed blocking vidal from place her curse on him- Ouch!"
*liddan received a pinch from natsu who still didn't like the way his son was being rude but payed more attention to wendy.*
"Come, come inside both of you… it's not safe to talk outside.."
*wendy opened the door wider as she looked around and closed it tight right after.*
Wendy had become the next head medic in the fairy tail guild after porlyusica died a few years ago. She was told to go into hiding, after natsu had turned rouge and begun to destroy towns and killing people. Wendy couldn't believe it but had unfortunately witnessed when Liddan finally snapped and killed natsu. She was devastated as she couldn't understand how a perfectly sane son kill his father who was like a war hero to many people. She couldn't bring herself to forgive Liddan for this but also couldn't just turn her back on him. He and Nashi were the last thing they all had from natsu…
"So what are we dealing with?"
*wendy already knew why Liddan had brought natsu for the curse but needed to know how long has he been infected.*
"He only arrived 18 hours ago… look."
*Liddan opened up natsu's cloak and vest showing wendy the black veins running from the center of his chest to his shoulders. One had run up to his neck as it was making its way to begin eating at his memories as promised.*
"We need to act fast I don't think my magic won't work on this for long…"
*wendy began her healing magic as the other veins shrunk except for the one in his neck.*
"Thanks wendy… like always your the best healer I know…"
*natsu looked at wendy as he patted her head. She smiled as she missed her brother figure like pats on her head.*
But just then natsu stepped away as he clutched his chest and began to scream in pain. Wendy cupped her mouth as Liddan stood infront of her ready to swing at his father if anything happened.
Natsu collapsed to the ground as he kneeled and held his head. He cried out in pain as the curse ate at his head now.
"Liddan! Do something!! Please!! He's your father!!"
*wendy tugged at Liddan begging him to try helping his father but he only shook his head and replayed in a rude tone.*
"Why should I? He's still going to turn into a monster.. we should end his 'suffering' now and kill hi-"
"*SLAP*"
Liddan's eyes widen as his head had turned from the slap. A angry wendy stood their as she glared at Liddan in her pink dragon form.
"Don't ever talk like that about your father… he's not a animal, or a monster… your father would have moved the sun and moon for you even if it meant sacrificing his life to save yours… if you don't plan to help him then don't stop me next time in helping him you ungrateful brat.."
*wendy swooshed past him as she began rubbing natsu's back without her healing magic. She pieced together that maybe any form of magic that threatened to remove the curse only agitated it and worked faster… as natsu calmed down now he looked up at wendy as he asked now*
"Huh?? Where am I? Where's my team?…"
*wendy feared the worst has already begun to happen, she only needed to ask one thing to know now for sure.*
"Do you know who you are and where you last remember?"
"Yes, I'm Natsu Dragneel,… as for remember… I don't quite know.. I just know that I was on a mission with my team from fairy tail before a big black cloud comes over my memory…"
*natsu held his head as a headache formed at his attempt to remember but couldn't help wincing a bit.*
"Do you not remember me then?"
*Liddan asked as he really didn't care but wanted to test how bad this memory thing was..*
"No… who are you?…"
*natsu asked as he furrowed his brows trying to figure out why the man looked and smelled familiar to him.*
"Good, then I'm going.."
"Not so fast liddan, natsu he's your son that has turned into a big jerk… "
*wendy began to fill in natsu's gaps in his memory. She told him why he was there, then how he got there and finally why he needed to get to the 'port'.*
The port was a big machine that the magic council had developed but after they were overtaken the dark guild had confiscated it and hidden it ever since.
"Well why are we waiting for then! Let's go!"
*natsu stood up as he made an attempt to help Wendy up too but Liddan placed his hand on her shoulder stopping her.*
"Aunt Wendy… I'll go… your too old to go on this dangerous mission alone with my careless father and I know a way to sneak in already."
*Liddan nodded his head as Wendy scoffed and smiled.*
"Fine then, but be safe out there.."
With that Liddan and natsu made there way to the dark guild as they sneaked inside with two guard disguise's they managed to knock out.
"I don't know why we couldn't just bust down the door and fight them square on…"
*natsu complained as he hated doing things at a slow pace*
"Just be quiet… we are almost at the machine.."
Liddan and natsu finally arrived at the basement where the machine was hidden away. Liddan sighed in relief as he began to warm up the machine carefully. Once he got it working he waved to natsu to come now. He placed his father inside as he directed the laser at his chest as it began subtracting the curse off him. Once the curse was off natsu seemed drain as the curse was clawing him from the inside but he had to hold in his screams as to be quiet to not get found out.
"Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in… and you brought me a gift~"
Liddan turned now as all his worst case scenarios came true… vidal stood at the door now smiling in a sinister way.
"Vidal…"
*Liddan grimace at vidal as he breathed out her name through his clenched mouth.*
"Liddan.. didn't your parents teach you manners when breaking into someone's property? But then again you never really cared for one of them and the other one died "
*vidal showed a mocking pout but then laughed a bit at her own comment.*
"Shut up… I wouldn't be here if you wouldn't have tried your little time jump stunt.."
"Yeah… it was really stupid, if your sister didn't get in my way you wouldn't need to be here… I would have gotten what I wanted and continued my plans"
*vidal picked at her nails as if she was casually talking about something as Liddan grabbed a hold of natsu's coat, he was getting ready in case he needed to fight their way out.*
"Bup, Bup, Bup, not so fast… the dragon slayer stays.. in return I'll think about sparring your sisters life."
Liddan furrowed his brow at not understanding what she meant but saw next Nashi being brought to the entrance next to vidal. She was tied and had some old blood stained on her clothes. She sobbed a bit at the blood in her clothes that weren't hers… it belonged to mira..
"NASHI!! What did you do!!?"
"I didn't do anything, this little punk came and followed you two showing me all those tracks you worked hard to cover… so thank your sister for giving me the tip on your location…"
*vidal laughed in a sinister way but stopped as Nashi gave her a big kick up her chin and burned off the restraints. She made a quick dash twords Liddan and natsu… she needed to touch at least one of them to teleport out of there..*
Everything turned into slow motion as time seemed to slow down….
Nashi's fingers were just millimeters away from Liddan's as he tried reaching for her but he was too late…
A gush of blood had erupted from Nashi's chest where her heart was as she spit blood out…
Liddan face changed as his eyes widened in horror, natsu in the other hand had managed to catch Nashi as he hugged her into his lap..
Natsu began to cry in hysteria as he cradled his baby girl into his arms.. he brushed his forehead against hers as he heard her last breath.
"Thank you…*cough cough* for being my papa.."
Nashi's body went limp now as her glossy eyes dulled…
Liddan couldn't cope with the pain as he just collapsed to his knees dragging Nashi away from natsu's arms who just sat there processing everything.
"Nashi! No you can't leave me alone yet!!! No! I forebid it!! You hear!! I forbid it!!!"
*Liddan began crying into Nashi's lifeless body as natsu began getting up and stood infront of both his children.*
"Stupid brat… I wasn't planning to kill her yet .. hmm?"
*vidal wiped the blood from her busted lip as she looked at natsu.. she felt a shiver crawl through her as her eyes met his.*
"You… how dare you lay a hand on my kids…"
*Natsu professed as his body began to engulf itself in flames.*
"Ha… and this is why I needed you dead without memories… so you wouldn't remember those pesky vermins.."
*vidal prepared another blast ready to hit natsu next but couldn't fire away as a explosive energy erupted from natsu as he transformed into his dragon from before.*
In one swift action the dragon had crushed vidal and burned every fiber with his fire breath. The dragon proceeded to fly into the air as he tore apart all the enemies surrounding the area with his fire breath.