As Natsu broke the wall and entered into the area with little light and water on the ground, the beast licked its cub wound and carried it to the nest as it then went back to fight Natsu.
It saw Natsu on the ground with little water covering his knees and elbows as it then spread its wings and went towards him with its claws stretched out and its mouth wide open.
Natsu fell towards the ground causing the beast to miss him as the it landed in his front and then gave him a deadly look.
"Yep it's out to kill me, I guess I'm now in big trouble" Natsu thought as he stood up from the ground.
Natsu had a little distance between him and the beast as he then swallowed his saliva indicating that he was terrified.
They looked at each other for a while before the beast leaps towards him trying to devour him.
Natsu jumped towards the corner to avoid getting killed as he then pulled out his knife to fight.
"This creature is going to be tough and hard to beat, its reflexes are sharp but it doesn't use magic to boost it's speed, which means I can easily dodge its attack and kil...." Natsu thought as he tried dodging the beast attack before it suddenly uses magic to increase its speed and almost decapitated him.
"Gaps!!!"
"What in the world just happened. That beast almost killed me. I literally just believed that I would be able to kill it easily, but I guess I was wrong" Natsu thought as he dodged the beast attack and jumped back a lot due to fear.
"I guess I'm back to square one, so how am I going to kill this beast, because it looks like it hasn't even gotten serious" Natsu thought as he took a standing position, holding his knife backward in his right hand and folding his left hand as he took a stance like that of a boxer.
The beast on the other hand licked its lips and faced Natsu while doing so, it then began to walk slowly towards him as a magic seal appears in its eyes and began to see everything moving slowly.
It then launch an attack hitting Natsu as another seal appears in its mouth, as a sonic noise came out which caused the cave to shake, as sand pours out from the top and water dripped faster as the walls then began to crack.
Natsu landed on the ground and stood up, but this attack threw him into the air as he covered his ears due to the noise, but before Natsu could realize what was happening, the beast launched itself towards him and hit him on his left hand side towards the wall.
Natsu flew and crashed into a wall which caused it to crack.
Natsu had blood flowing through his head towards his eye on the right side of his face, since he crashed into the wall with the right side of his body.
As he was getting himself out, the beast was getting ready for another sonic scream.
Natsu placed his right hand on the wall to support himself as his knife fell towards the ground.
Natsu began to move forward slowly and then faced it, as the beast launched another wave at him causing him to hit the wall, which made the crack on it grow more.
The wall was pressed inside showing a deep circular shape on it, as Natsu fell towards the ground sitting down, which then showed the shape of his body on the wall.
"That was close, if I didn't remove my hand from the wall and faced the beast to fight, I would have broken my right hand since it would have been crushed by that force. The problem here is that even if I get more injuries, Dr Mayumi won't treat me or let anyone do that either, so if I don't end this fight soon, I might not be able to participate in the other stages of the exams efficiently" Natsu thought.
Since Natsu was just sitting down and bleeding on the floor acting lifeless, the beast began to walk towards him gently while he was thinking.
Natsu saw that his knife was not too far from him as he then noticed the beast walking towards him, so he fell towards the ground facing his knife.
His body was a little bent since he was in a sitting position, and as he fell, he stretched out his left hand and landed on the ground.
The beast stopped and watched him for a while as it surveyed the area and later began to come closer to him while licking its lips. It didn't notice the knife since a rock covered it from its site.
As it got very close to Natsu and bent to use its teeth to pick him up, Natsu jumped towards his sword as he rolled and grabbed it.
He faced the beast on his knees holding his sword in his right hand as he leaps towards the beast and stabbed its right eye.
The beast screamed and hit Natsu away causing him to cut its eye, since his blade was still attached to it.
It began to use its furs to touch the eye that got cut and screamed in pains which made it angry as it did its usual skill.
When it screamed, Natsu closed his ears and as the beast came close to him to attack.
Natsu threw the sword he was holding towards the beast which blinded the other eye.
The beast hit Natsu towards the ground and still left its claws on him as it used its other hand to touch its eyes which caused it to scream in pains since the sword was still on it.
Normally, the blade was meant to return back to him due to the force of the wave but when he threw the knife, the beast was not so far from him, plus, due to the speed it was going at, the beast used its left eye to collide with it as it hits Natsu towards the ground.
"What now, I'm stuck and the worst part of all this is that it's crushing me" Natsu said as he tried to move out but couldn't.
"Well I guess this is the end of me, besides it was fun while it all lasted!" Natsu thought as he closed his eyes.
The beast waited for a while before it raised its foot and stepped on him.
As its foot landed on Natsu and covered him, blood began to flow as the beast could feel blood flowing out from it's foot.
It then removed its foot from the area and went back a little as it sat and let out a loud roar of relief.
Natsu was covered in blood as he was badly injured not to forget about being crushed, he really looked like he was dead.
The little beast that got stabbed died due to loss of blood so the beast two other kids flew down as it roared and meet it.
One of the kids flew towards the eyes of the adult beast as it placed its legs on the mothers face and used its teeth to hold the knife as it pulled out the knife out of its eye while its wings was flapping making the adult beast scream in pain.
The other kid flew towards Natsu and landed close to his blood as it sniffed it and then licked it.
After leaking his blood the beast raised its head and went towards Natsu and sniffed him as it used its head to push his body.
As it was pushing his body, it looked like a pet trying to wake its owner up.
As the adult beast screamed the kid raised its head up and went towards the mother that was in pain.
Natsu on the other hand was in severe pain as the noises work him up while he began to sit upright.
"I'm still alive, I thought I was gonna die for sure" Natsu said as he looked at his hands covered in blood.
As Natsu raised his head up, he saw the mother and her two cub in front of him, immediately what came to his mind was, "I'm dead!"
As he tried to get up he felt lots of pain on his body as he thought, "This hurts, damnit, why am I in so much pain right now?"
One of the cub spotted Natsu as he was getting on his foot and made a noise which alerted the others on what was going on.
The mother stood up and faced Natsu as her cubs stayed besides her.
Natsu began to look around for his knife so that he could defend himself.
"Where is it? Where's the knife? Common where could it be!" Natsu thought as he was looking around trying to find it.
"There it is" Natsu thought as he saw the knife not too far from the beasts.
The knifes was in front of him but he had to pass through the beast to get it, since it was at the back of the beasts towards his right.
Meanwhile, as Natsu was focusing on his blades the mother got prepared to launch a sonic scream at him as magical seals appeared in front of her mouth.
The kids went back a little to avoid getting caught up in the attack.
When the beast unleashed its blast, a sound wave came out from its mouth destroying the ground and throwing both rocks and water towards Natsu.
It was a wide range attack, so the sound began to crack the walls around them, as sand and water began to pour towards the ground.
Natsu couldn't react to the attack since he wasn't aware of it, until his ears began to hurt, before noticing rocks heading towards him.
Natsu closed his ears trying to protect it from the noise, but when he saw the rocks heading towards him, he left them and tried to protect himself from the rocks by crossing his hands to cover his head.
A rock almost the size of his hands came in contact with him, throwing him into the air as he rotated an landed on the ground rolling.
He tried getting up and as he did, he saw a gigantic rock heading towards him, so he jumped so that the wave would throw him back, but the rock was way too fast, which made it collide with him.
Natsu felt pressure moving him towards the rock, so he tried to stand on it before it collides with the wall.
Since the rock was very big, it served as a shield and protected him from direct contact from other rocks.
As rocks of different sizes hit the gigantic rock, it made it hard for him to be able to stand as the rock began to rotate causing Natsu to be in a crawling position.
"Yep, if this exams doesn't kill me, I don't know what will!" Natsu thought in fear.
"I have to think of something fast, if not I'll die. I can't crash into the wall with this and survive!" Natsu thought trying to make sure he survives.
Natsu then took a deep breath as he thought to himself, "I have to get it right if not I'll die"
Natsu then crawled towards the end of the rock and held it closely and firmly.
"Okay, I'm going to jump out of the rock before it collides with the wall" Natsu thought.
As the rock got close to the wall, Natsu jumped off only to see another big rock heading towards him.
"Shit!!!" Natsu thought as he collides with it, as it carries him closer to the wall.