Natsu ran through the army of once living humans. He frantically looked around to try and find his guild. His head was throbbing from the previous noise that was the soldiers screams and his body ached from the previous fight. His breath was coming out in large, uneven, gasps while his legs felt like they were about to collapse at any moment but he wouldn't let them. Not when he was this close to finding all of his friends.

He had only just regained consciousness a little while ago. When he awoke he realised that he was the only one to truly be awake. He slowly walked through the soldiers at first but once he realised that his friends were there he began to search more quickly. He found a few of the guild members and a few from the other guilds who decided to help protect Fiore, including the Exceed. Some of his friends were dead but he only had a little time to grieve out of fear of finding others like that. If he was quick he would get all the live ones to the guild in time. He would carry each person despite being alive or dead to the guild. Despite some of them being badly burned he could identify the corpses and which guild they belonged too. He stumbled upon a few of the Spriggan 12 but decided to leave their bodies there, after all it was their fault that some of his friends were dead so why would he care about their measly corpses. Acnologia's dragon body was stretched out on the battlefield, cold and dead.

He had managed to find all of them but only missed one. Just one lost in an ocean of corpses. He thoroughly skimmed each body, each pile, and each smell. They were burnt to a crisp and the smell was surprisingly not that bad. Like something cooking but to think that they were once humans made Natsu's stomach turn. After going deeper into the flood of corpses he finally saw it. The blue fur gently being blown by the deathly hot wind. Natsu wrapped his scarf around his own arm being too hot to keep it around his neck.

He reached down and gently picked up his friend. He wasn't burnt badly, to Natsu's happiness. He gently carried Happy in his arms making sure to not touch the burn marks. He began to walk back towards the guild, finally able to find each guild member, but found it extremely difficult. He just realised how tired. The adrenaline was gone and the pain finally began to set in.

He thought that Lucy or Gray might be awake by now considering he had found them first and how little they had been damaged. Maybe they could help him stay determined but as he thought, he couldn't bring himself to carry on. He saw the guild only a ways away but his body wasn't going towards it. Instead, it had come to a stop. His body swayed and his eyelids felt heavy. He grabbed onto Happy pushing him into his chest as the floor began to rush towards him. He waited for the impact but instead felt an arm wrap around his waist as his eyes began to close.

He wanted to look up but his head had stayed down and his mind began to darken. He was to weak even to look up at the person but he was grateful that they hadn't let neither him nor Happy get hurt if they had fallen. His eyes were completely closed now but he wasn't unconscious yet. He felt himself being carried bridal style so he hugged Happy not wanting him to fall.

The last thing he heard before his mind slipped out of consciousness was a dark yet familiar warm voice, "Your heavy." He wasn't complaining, more like pointing out the obvious. His voice was so calm and sweet that it made Natsu's mind slip out of consciousness faster. "You really have grown, little brother."