The Dragon That Led Me To the Stars

A/N: Hey guys, here's the next chapter!

I wanted to make an announcement everyone. I just wanted to say that I'm only reversing Natsu and Lucy. I know some of you guys have asked me if I could, but the story I played out is only working with Natsu and Lucy, and I wanted to keep the rest of the canon characters the same. I hope you guys will still support me either way.

I'm sorry for anyone who wanted them switched, I'm not trying to be mean, but my idea is to only keep these two switched.

P.S. there are spoilers for Zeref's past on how he became the black wizard and how the demons were made and Natsu's past, but now it's technically Lucy's. Though you probably already know.

Chapter 5: The Black Wizard Zeref (Yeah, I know. Soooooo original. {That's sarcasm, the title sucks guys} I'm so creative {More sarcasm} Bye)

After Lucy, Natsu, and Happy worked out there agreement about becoming a team they took on the mission on retrieving the book Daybreak from Duke Everlue.

They were on the train to Onibus when they sat on the train. Right now Lucy was suffering from her motion sickness. She was sulking at the window covering her mouth from the impending vomit that threatened to come up.

"I...I'm gonna be sick," she choked out gagging over her own words.

"Are you okay Luce?" Natsu asked giving her a comforting hand on her back.

"N-no," she stammered, "b-but...don't worry...this...always happens." The fire dragon slayer rested her head against her new partner's shoulder and fell asleep.

He turned to her and her sleeping form and softly nudged her. "Hey Luce, you're," the celestial mage was at a loss of words and just left her there. She looked so at ease by his side he couldn't help but admire her.

Natsu just smiled and started patting Lucy's head of golden, yellow hair when he heard snickering. Natsu turned to see Happy laughing and snickering with a hand over his mouth doing this action. "Shut it," the salmon haired boy barked.

"But I didn't say anything, except you loooooove her~" Happy sang in a sing song voice. Happy's face collided with the window as he fell down. "Ow..."

Lucy's fist had met with his blue face when she had heard that. "Be...quiet you...s-stupid cat," she stuttered. "Uh..."

"It's alright," Natsu reassured patting her head calming her.

"T-thank...you Natsu," Lucy replied falling into his lap asleep.

"No problem," he smiled, 'anything for you Luce.'

The train ride was another three hours and in their train chair was silence. The train came to a stop and the celestial mage slightly nudged his partner awake. "Time to wake up."

"Huh...five more minutes...Erza," Lucy muttered.

"Erza? I'm Natsu, Lucy, not Erza- wait? Erza? As in Erza Scarlet, the strongest female mage in Fairy Tail, also known as Titania," Natsu said his voice clearly having a high range of admiation in it.

The fire dragon slayer immediantly woke up standing with one foot on the seat. "'Strongest female mage in Fairy Tail'? Please don't fool yourself Natsu. If anything I'm the strongest female mage, even outta Erza," she said. "Great Titania or not," Lucy scoffed lowly under her breath.

"Now let's go," she grabbed Natsu by his collar along with his blue furried friend, as they grabbed their things and were on they're way.

Lucy was walking when she had a dark feeling in her stomach. A man in old fashioned robes walked by quietly past Lucy.

Lucy POV

I was walking down the street when this dark feeling came. I was obviously sensing dark magic, but, it was so strong. In a way it was familar to me, the magic.

It made me feel like I should be remembering someone I'm forgetting. It was comforting, but I can't ignore the fact it was a high concentration of dark magic.

I looked around and sadly saw no one out of the ordinary and kept on walking down along the street.

But where- no- who it came from really bothered. Turning down the block I only caught a glimpse of black hair.

I wiped my head around but just like before no one was their and I felt disappointed with myself. I should put this aside for now. I'll look into it after this mission.

But one another note, Erza! Being the strongest female wizard, please! If she wants to be the strongest then she's gonna need to beat me first! I realized I'm not even the strongest female wizard, but the strongest wizard in Fairy Tail, period!

Haha, it's good to be Salamander!

Normal POV

A man, probably in his late twenties, walked down the cobblestone road with a calm, but dark aura.

He walked around in his robes and passed a girl with blonde hair. Then he felt her presence starting to look back at her. He had to disappear.

He did exactly that. He disappeared from not just the girl's sight, but everyone's line of vision.

He looked back behind the building to see the girl look around, and probably for him, but he stayed behind the building. She finally walked away when one word crossed his mind: Lucy.

'If only I could meet you. So you could set me free, and kill me. You would probably hate to know I, the Black Wizard Zeref, am your brother,' he thought walking off.

Zeref POV

I had decided to travel through the town Onibus, but did not expect to make an encounter with Lucy so soon it surprised me.

This- she- is my curse. My ever haunting nightmare of my mistakes. I ran away from many things that I deserve the title, "The Cowardly Wizard Zeref" instead because of everyone I abandoned.

I couldn't help but cringe at how many people I hurt through this path. My path, it only causes destruction and suffering.

I really want to die. To leave my pitiful life and finally be free. But I have this damned curse on me. It's the only thing that's been keeping me alive for the past 400 years.

And now because this it's caused me commit many crimes throughout my very long lifetime.

I made demons. The books of Zeref, I called them. Is that narcisstict? To name a whole group of books after yourself? I mean I don't think so. What was I supposed to name them: The books of Darkness or some really chessy line from a movie. Yeah, no thanks.

But it doesn't erase my mark from history. I've even made the most powerful demon of them all. E.N.D.

You're probably wondering what E.N.D stands for. Well it stands for Etherious, Natsumi, Dragneel.

And right now you're probably confused as to why I named it E.N.D. Well, Lucy's full name is Lucy Natsumi Dragneel, and I think E.L.D- is just weird. Besides, E.N.D just sounds better. So I used her middle name Natsumi instead.

It wasn't supposed to be that way though. Things were supposed to be different. All I wanted was a life with my little sister. I never asked to be cursed with eternal life, or for my little sister to die, or make demons that destroyed people's lives.

If only I hadn't messed with life and death. But a part of me believed I could bring Lucy back. That I could make her alive again, and that she wouldn't stay dead forever, but sometimes we don't get the things we wish for.

Through my own path I met people. Enemies, adversaries, and- and even friends, though it didn't last long.

My curse- it makes all living things around me die, and I'm immortal. See the irony in that?

I wanted to revive the died and played with forbidden magic, so now I'm cursed to live forever, and I unintentionally made things die.

So now I wander over places, searching for something that can bring me death. I want to die, to end my miserable excuse of a life, and finally be at peace.

I walked through the forest and sat down in an abandoned grove. The plant and wildlife, slowly but surely started dying off, till nothing in the surronding area was alive. This is my peace.

I can be alone with nothing more to hurt.

My presence slowly filled the area, contaminating it with it's dark presence. I was meditating in order to stay calm when another presence filled the air.

This one was light and soft, but still as serious as they come.

I knew who it was.

"Hello Mavis."

"It's been a long time, Zeref." I felt something in the wind. Like words were being carried, but I couldn't receive them. Her words were lost to the wind, and were carried away.

"So we finally meet again," I said, giving off a small smile.

Lucy POV

I was in the changing room grabbing the maid costume for our mission when something reached my ears.

The voice was so soft, it was like it was whispering to me. That's when a name filled my head. It was something so unfamiliar that I didn't understand why it appeared.

The name was: Zeref