Chapter 1: The End and the Beginning

A man about the age of twenty six staggered out of the lower levels of his guild coughing and gasping for air that wasn't full of smoke, which was not likely considering the fire was everywhere. He had a light skin complexion that would have been flawless, if it hadn't been for the recent burns that he received. The clothing that he was wearing was nothing special, some standard black shoes and pants and a plain orange shirt, but what he took pride in was his cloak. The cloak was one of the ways that people could tell that he was part of his guild, it was standard issue for all mages of his guild and as you rose through the ranks you got a different color representing your status. He was currently at the second highest color that his guild had, meaning he was one of their best's but right now that meant jack shit to him.

Their guild hall was now looking like it had gone through a war, well you wouldn't call what happened to them a war it was more of a one-sided slaughter. There was smoke and fire everywhere, tables and chairs we smashed and destroyed, nothing was spared from the disaster that took place here moments ago. But the worst by far was the carnage that he was now seeing; all of his friends that he gotten to know over the last few years, gone, just like that they were all gone and only he remained. He could see the blood splattered all over the place, random appendages thrown around the room, just at the sight of that made him want to vomit, but what was worse was seeing the scared faces of his guild members and friends as they died. Their faces were frozen in their last expressions which were in complete agony and pain.

But all of this was small compared to what he smelt; the best way for him to describe it was death. He could smell the blood sweat and tears that were shed in here, mixed with the smell of piss and shit, which happened sometimes when people died. But the one that was the strongest was the smell of burnt hair and skin, the smell of someone burning alive was one of the worst smells that he ever smelt in his life. Just looking at the charred corpses scattered about with the rest of the carnage made him realize that there was no way to really identify who the victims were.

But all that really mattered to him right now was getting out of here while he still had the chance, he felt like complete shit for hiding while all of his fellow guild members fought for their lives while he hid in a storage room. But he was determined that he was going to survive this, if not for himself than for his friends that died for him. So he kept low to the ground where the smoke was not as thick and crawled his way toward the exit of his guild hall. He was only ten yards away from it when he heard the one thing that he was hoping to never hear again in his life.

"Where do you think you're going bub, did you really think that I didn't notice you hiding in that storage closet." said a voice that was deep and gravelly. All the man on the floor could to was gulp and wait to see what this monster had planned for him.

"I have special plans for you bub, first you are going to help me move all of the bodies outside. Then after we are done with that you are going to march your sorry ass to the nearest Council building and confess to them all of your crimes and the crimes of your worthless guild, and don't worry there is plenty of evidence left here." growled out the man as he now stood in front of man still on the floor. He looked up at the one man, more like monster, that did all of this to his guild and could only see his red eyes glaring down at him because of the thick smoke.

"Y-y-yes S-sir." whimpered the man on the floor.

"Good to hear but actually I just thought up of something you have to do before you turn yourself in. It's actually pretty simple you are going to give an interview to Sorcerer's Weekly about what just happened here, after which you will then promptly turn yourself in otherwise I will find you and skin you alive. But before that I have to do something to you so I know you won't try anything funny." said the man standing in the smoke as if it wasn't even there.

"W-what are y-you g-g-going to do to m-m-me?" he stuttered out while looking up at the nightmare of his dreams.

"I am going to take your magic away from you." replied the man having a huge grin spread across his face showing his pearly whites at the man on the floor.

He looked up at him with complete terror, how was this monster going to do something like that to him. As far as he knew the man before him never had any power like that, but then again a few minutes ago he was their prisoner and had been that way for four years now. He shouldn't have been able break out of his cell especially with him wearing magic suppressing cuffs and also magic draining ones, but that was clearly wrong since he was standing before him now glaring as him with unmatched furry and rage in those red eyes of his.

As the man, bent down to pick him up and do whatever he was going to do to take away his magic, all he could do is think back to what caused all of this to happen. How long ago did all of this happen he really couldn't tell because to him it felt like a lifetime ago.

Flashback to before it started:

"So today is the day." stated a member of the guild.

"Yes it is boys, today is the day that we finally break that beast we have had locked up in our dungeon for the past four years." cheered a different member.

"What's so special about today, I mean he hasn't cracked after all of the torture and experiments that we have done to him." said another member.

"Yea he didn't crack after we even brought in one of his old friends and started to torture her in front of him. If anything it made it even harder for us to get even a grunt out of him." pointed out a different member.

"Oh so some of you guys didn't know about the long game that Master put into effect last year." said the first member to talk.

"No we didn't." replied a few members.

"Oh man, then you are going to love this." said the member who just spoke before.

"So you know that friend that we brought, the main reason we brought her and put her with him was so that they would become extremely close to one another. Eventually they would start relying on one another so that they could still make it through this terrible ordeal." he explained with an evil smirk spread all across his face.

"Yea that makes sense, but why on earth would Master want to do that, it sounds like we are helping him by do that?" asked a member.

"Yes it did help him, but it once again made him start feeling things that he gave up on ever feeling again when we captured him. And now that he has them, we are going to destroy them by killing that girl right in front of him, HAHAHAHA. I only wish that I could be there to watch it when it happens but I guess I will have to watch the recordings of it." answered the member with a huge smile.

"That seems too cruel even for us." stated one of their few female members.

"Yea I can't even imagine how terrible that is going to be for him. It wouldn't surprise me if he becomes a shell that doesn't even feel pain after that, his brain will probably just give out." said another one of their female members with a frown.

"Will you chicks shut up; you didn't care about anything else that we did to him while he was here. Actually all of you even help with it, so why is this becoming such a big deal to you?" asked a male member.

"Because this is messing with his heart, and that is something that I personally don't want to toy with." said a female member.

"But torturing is fine with you, man I will never understand women." replied a male member. But then the guild all heard and felt a roar that shook the guild, causing all of the members to cover their ears do to the loudness of it. Finally the roar stopped after a few long seconds.

"It seems like they just did it, and if I have to guess that was the roar of a broken man." said a member with a big grin.

"We did it, he's now broken for sure. So let's party." another member shouted. Causing the rest of the guild to follow suit and start celebrating so loudly that they couldn't hear what was going on down stairs. They were all having a really good time for five minutes, until a member crashed through the basement doors and landed on the middle of the floor.

Everyone was shocked at what the saw, he was missing his right arm and all that remained was a charred stump. The rest of his right side was severely burned and his cloak was actually still on fire. His face looked like he had been smashed repeatedly into the wall over and over again, but that wasn't all. They could see his bone jutting out of forearm, and when they looked at his left leg it looked like his foot was snapped clean off. But the part that scared all of the members the most was when they figured out who this completely destroyed man was, it was their Master.

"Run you fools." he said while coughing up blood.

"Too late for that old man." said a deep and gravelly voice from the stairs, causing all of the members to look and see a man completely covered in blood and gore standing there. His red eyes that were the exact same color as the blood covering him, but what scared them the most were those eyes paired with that creepy smile.

"What the…" said the member that was earlier bragging the most, but was cut off by the blood drenched man appearing next to him and grabbing his throat. The next thing the guild new there was a loud snap and their members' lifeless body dropped to the ground.

"Who's next?" asked the man staring at the guild that captured him four years ago and had been experimenting on him and torturing him daily ever since. The next moment the guild went into complete chaos, spells were being casted haphazardly around not caring it they hit their friends all they cared about was trying to keep that man away from themselves. This was the best outcome that the man could have hoped for, being able to use this chaos to his advantage dismembering members to put them out of commission while also spreading the fear and chaos.

After a few more moments he was the last man standing, the guild members that were here were either dead or lying on the ground unable to fight back. So he went over to one of the injured and smashed his skull in, shocking all of the injured members, thinking that they were just going to be going to jail.

"W-what are you doing, he couldn't fight you?" asked an injured female member.

"Your point, that same thing just happened to my friend moments ago. She couldn't do anything about it, but that didn't stop you bastards from slitting her throat right in front of me." shouted the man as he came over to the women who spoke.

"But we weren't part of that." she stuttered as the man came closer to her.

"Weren't part of it HAHAHAHA, every single member here was part of it. Yes maybe you didn't actually cut her throat but you are part of this guild and now must all pay for what your Master did." declared the man as he then lit the women on fire, shocking the rest of the injured as they listened to her screams of agony until they finally stopped.

"Man was that sweet music to my ears." said the man with a sick smile on his face.

"How are you doing this, Fairy Tail mages don't kill, no matter what?" asked a member who had to ask, knowing that no matter what he was going to die.

"HAHAHA I stopped being a mage of Fairy Tail a long time ago. You guys were the ones that saw to that." replied the man laughing like a mad man and then pointing to his right shoulder were his guild mark used to be, which just a bunch of scars now.

"Losing you guild mark doesn't mean you aren't one of them." stammered out the member as the man stalked over to him with an expression that sent chills down his spine.

"I would have agreed with you a few months ago but things have changed. I think I am going to keep you around a little longer since you seem like someone I could talk to, but I have to make sure that you don't try anything." said the man with a big grin as he then proceeded to snap both his wrists and ankles, making it impossible for him to do anything but scream in pain as he watch the man continue on his path of destruction.

"You're a monster, worse than any of us." shouted out a man, this caused everyone else to think that he had a death wish which he might have.

"HAHAHAHA I could argue with you how I am only killing other killers and rapists who shouldn't be alive, but that would be a waste of my time. Yes I am now a monster, but a monster that you all created. A monster that is now going to kill every last one of you and after which I am going to go to the next guild like yours and do the exact same thing. And as for being worse than you guys, come on, you all tried to act like you weren't murders, rapists, and thieves. But you can only pretend for so long, you guys thought it would be fun to use me as a test subject for whatever you wanted and now see what that got you." said the man in his deep gravelly voice.

"You…" replied the man but was stop by the man jamming his hand into his mouth.

"I don't want to hear your voice anymore." growled the man and then ripped the tongue out of his mouth and threw it at a different member who was still alive.

"Well I am getting bored so let's speed this up shall we." said the man as he then ignited four other member on fire, causing them to scream out in pain.

"Oh god, oh god, please someone save us." begged a member curled up into the fetal position.

"God can't even help you now, and no one will be able to save you. So sit back and enjoy the show bubby." whispered the man into the members' ear and then threw him into one of the pillars.

"Why is this happening?" asked a member in a faint whisper.

"This is happening because you guys finally got what you wanted. You broke me and this is what you got, I bet none of you saw this coming now did you." boomed the man, shocking the member that he was able to hear him.

"Now before your Master there passed out he was ever so gracious to tell me that your guild has a total of seventy five members. He would have told me all of their names but I got a little carried away with my form of interrogation. So I am going to be a nice guy here and if you guys give me the names of all of your guild members I will kill you quickly and not make it painfully drawn out." said the man as he looked at all of the members with a sick smile.

"Why would we sell out our friends?" asked a member who was then screaming in pain as his foot caught on fire and wasn't going out.

"He does make a good point, but guess what I already know each and every one of your scents. This is all so that I could get to them faster, so unless you want to join mister I won't sell out my friends even though they would do it in a second if it saved their life. I would start giving me names of the members that weren't here today, there should be about twenty." said the man loudly over the member whose foot was being burned off and could only scream in agony.

The remaining members quickly started to give him names and even addresses of where their fellow guild members lived. The man got all of the names and a whole lot of information that he really didn't need to know in the last ten minutes. By that time the place was starting to fill up with smoke.

"Thanks guys this will really help me, and I am still a man of my word so you will all receive a quick death." said the man as he lit his hand on fire which was blood red and then punctured the guild member's heart with a quick jab. He did this until it was just the Master, the man that he broke his wrists and ankles, and the guy who lost his foot to a fire that couldn't be put out.

"So what do I do with you guys?" asked the man getting no response.

"I could let you guys stay here as I hunt down, it smells like four of your friends that are hiding in the building. You know what that sounds like a good idea, now I don't want either of you running away on me. HAHAHAHA like either of you could even walk much less run." laughed the man as he disappeared into the smoke that was getting thicker.

"Why did I ever join a guild like this?" asked the man who lost his foot.

"Because you were a fucked up bastard like the rest of use." replied the other member.

"But I wasn't when I first joined." said the footless guild member.

"Yea none of us were really that bad when we joined, but with the Master and everyone else being that way it quickly turns you into one." answered the member while then hearing a blood curdling scream and then nothing.

"What have we done, no one deserved what we put that man through." said the footless man as he crawled over to a different guild members body.

"We broke him like he said, and now because of it, people like us will start to be hunted and killed until either he dies or there isn't any of our kind left. What are you trying to do?" said the man looking at his footless friend digging into the pockets of one of their friends.

"Looking for this." he replied triumphantly as he pulled out a knife.

"HAHAHA what are you going to accomplish with that?" asked the other member as the heard another scream.

"I am going to get it where I don't have to look at what we created." said the member as he slit his own throat with a creepy smile on his face and then died with it still there, the whole thing shocked his guild member for a few seconds until he realized that he would have done the same thing if he could have.

"AAAAHHHHH" screamed out the guild Master as he regained consciousness and was in severe pain.

"I didn't expect you to ever wake back up Master." said the only other man alive in that hellish room.

"Is he gone?" chocked out the Master.

"Why in the hell would you think that we would be that lucky?" asked the man.

"You have a point there, so where is he?" wheezed out the Master who was in immense pain.

"Killing the cowards and that is probably the last one." replied the man as another scream was heard in the middle of his answer.

"I never would have guessed this to happen in a million years." said the Master through clenched teeth because of the pain.

"So what happened down there, it would kind of be nice to know who to curse for letting him out, before I die?" asked the man.

"That's the thing; he shouldn't have been able to get out. All of the stuff that has kept him here for the past four years was all fine and working correctly. But after we killed her in front of him none of that mattered, he let out that roar and then killed everyone except for me in a few minutes. It was insane how strong he became, we couldn't even give him a scratch." said the Master with a lot of difficulty.

"The same thing happened up here, as you can see it was a blood bath." the member chuckled while looking at his Master.

"Well looks like you two have had enough time to chat it up, and it appears that your friend over there took the cowards way out." said the man while glaring at them with his read eyes through the smoke.

"He didn't want to look at you again." replied the guild member.

"AHAHAH and that is why I kept you a live this long I knew that you would give me another laugh today. Most people would have been too scared to say that to me." replied the man after laughing a bit.

"Well we both know that I am going to die today so why be afraid?" responded the member with a little smirk.

"Good point, well it was fun having this last chat but I have more prey to hunt down." replied the man as he stabbed the member though his chest with a flame coated hand.

"So mister guild Master, I was hoping that you had something that you really loved so that I could kill it in front of you. But as far as I could tell, what you loved was what you did to me and my friend. And I am not going to kill myself in front of you, that would be just stupid and I have so much more work to do." said the man as he crouched down towards the Master.

"So what are you going to do to me?" asked the Master barely able to speak.

"Well I am first going to congratulate you on being the person that caused the downfall of your kind. And don't worry I made sure that all of that incriminating evidence is still safe, with the exceptions of a few things. So soon the whole world will know that because of you and what you did to me, the common citizens will soon be able to sleep easier knowing that your kind will be the ones cowering in fear, trying to bide their time until I show up. As for what I am going to do I think that burning you from the inside out while still alive seems like an okay punishment, not the best but like I told your friend I have other prey to hunt down." said the man still drenched in blood as he did exactly what he told the Master, that he was going to do. After which he started to scavenge useful things from the guild hall that wasn't in any danger of collapsing since he put out all of the fires except for the main hall. The whole time he was waiting for the last member to come out so that he could do a few more things and be done with this place for good.

End of Flashback:

"AAAAAAHHHH" screamed the guild member while clutching his chest from the place that the monster put his hand.

"What the hell is happening to me?" asked the guild member who was now in tremendous amounts of pain. It felt like he literally had a fire burning on the inside of him and could do nothing to stop it.

"Does it feel like your insides are on fire?" asked the man with a smirk.

"Yes" gasped out the member while still in tons of pain.

"Don't worry bub, it will be done after your magic is gone, but don't worry this is not like when a mage loses all of magic and dies from magic deprivation. No that can't happen with what I am doing, in this case since you will no longer have a container, or whatever it's called, that holds your magic." explained the man with a smug grin.

"But how?' asked the member still in pain.

"Simple, I put my fire into you and now it is eating away at your magic and container. Once it gets going nothing can stop it not even me, like I would ever do that HAHAHA." replied the man and laughing at the end of it.

"How did we not know about this?" asked the man still in disbelief.

"Simple, you are the first person I have used it on. The only reason I didn't do it before was due to the fact that back then there was no way I would ever be able to inflict this much pain onto someone. I mean this is pretty much torture, but hey, what goes around comes around." answered the man still smiling like a mad man. The last guild member in the guild was in pain for another ten minutes until it finally stopped.

"So it's done, alright now give your magic a test run. I want to make sure that it works the way I thought it would." demanded the man, which the member tried to do, but couldn't do anything. He couldn't feel his magic like he used to, in its place was just nothing and if felt so wrong to him, something that he has had his whole life was just now taken away from him.

"I can't do anything." said the member with his head down too terrified to look at the man who single handily took out his guild.

"Good to hear now start stacking the bodies outside I have some things to still do. Oh and if you do run, even the toughest prison won't stop me from skinning you alive. Oh and if you happen to get done moving the bodies before I come back, then you can go to that interview. While doing that interview tell them whatever you want, the only thing that you have to tell them is that I am going to becoming for your kind. It doesn't matter who you are or where you live, I will find you and then we'll let's just say it won't be pretty." said the man as he headed into the guild to do who knows what.

"Will do Sir." replied the terrified ex-mage as he went to work.

Two hours later:

"Well I am done moving the bodies out here, so I am now free to go do that interview and then turn myself in." thought the ex-mage as he started to head to the town that was two miles away. After the short walk to the town he borrowed someone's communication lacrima to call the Sorcerer's Weekly office.

"Hi is this Sorcerer's Weekly?" asked the ex-mage.

"Yes it is how may, I help you?" asked the lady on the other end.

"I have a story that you will want to know about." replied the ex-mage.

"And what would be the main topic of this story?" asked the lady.

"It would be about my old guild and where the Salamander has been for the last four years." answered the ex-mage whose only thought was to make sure that he did exactly as the Salamander told him, because he would happily spend the rest of his life in jail then ever see that man again.

"Are you serious?" asked the Lady excitedly, knowing how big this would be if it was true.

"Yes, he wanted me to have an interview with you guys before I do something else." replied the ex-mage.

"We can get a reporter out to you in the next hour, is that okay sir?" asked the lady.

"Absolutely, I have all of the time in the world." replied the ex-mage as he gave the lady all of the information that she would need to get someone to him.

End of Chapter:

Author's Notes:

Thanks for reading and I hoped you enjoyed this grim story of mine. Now the main reason that I decided to make this story is because I have read a few stories about Natsu getting captured and then pretty much being turned into a helpless animal. Which I will admit is probably the most likely outcome of such a situation, but I thought why not go the other way with it where he now become an animal that is on the hunt and won't stop until he wipes them off of the face of the earth. Now I know that a lot of the stuff in his chapter was left ambiguous but that was done on purpose, I plan on doing flash back to when Natsu was in there. I also plan on eventually reveling who his friend was that died in front of him, I have a few ideas for that but am still open for suggestions. So as always feel free to leave me a review.

Until the next Chapter

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