Warning: This chapter is filled with many elements which could be found in M rating fic. I'm shocked that I wrote this. I have gruesome scene with vulgar, torture with a lot of blood, sex scene and rape. If you can't accept it, it's best you avert your eyes from this chapter.

Natsu and Gray had a number of chances to make things right in our RPG. They were just unlucky to encounter a mad man who lusted over Natsu and his cuteness.

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Chapter 3

"Natsu, where are you?" Gray shouted looking around his surrounding. The scene had changed from the forest he was previously in to a void where there was absolutely nothing.

Gray felt desperate. He needed to find him as soon as possible. That was when he saw the familiar salmon-haired figure walking very fast away from him.

"Natsu!" Gray finally caught up with him and pulled him into a deep hug. He finally found him.

"Gray?" Natsu was surprised to see Gray. He should not be here.

"Leave with me now, Natsu". Gray grabbed his hand after releasing him from the hug but to his despondence, Natsu would not budge.

"Natsu?"

"I'm sorry. I can't leave with you. I won't be able to." Natsu looked up to Gray in tears which really shocked him. He had never seen Natsu so depressed.

"Why?" Gray grabbed him by his shoulder urging Natsu to look at him into his eyes.

"I'M NOT WORTHY OF YOU." Natsu yelled as he broke out from Gray's grasp pushing him away. "I'm dirty." Natsu confessed as he hugged himself on his own shoulder shifting himself away from Gray. "In other words, I'm tainted. I no longer belong just to you. I'm cheap. I can sleep with anybody".

Gray's eyes widened at response. It must be that guy's doing. Gray gritted his teeth in anger. How could he do this to his Natsu? Gray pulled Natsu into a hug once again. He stroked his hair and rubbed the back of his head gently as his expression softened.

"Natsu, I love you. I don't know why either. Ever since we are kids, you have been always in my mind. I followed you sometimes when you were out on mission because I'm worried about you. Perhaps it is my karma for Juvia to be stalking me". Natsu chuckled at his confession. He finally relented and nuzzle his head on the taller boy's neck. He did not expect his feelings for Gray to be returned. He did not deserve Gray at all especially he was already...

"But…" Gray placed finger over his lips. "No matter what you have become, you will always be my Natsu, my only love. I will give you happiness" Gray assured him. Natsu was beaming in tears of happiness.

"To be able know your feeling at the end, that's good enough". Natsu let go of his hands and he smiled at him in happiness. "I love you, Gray. I will protect you until the end…".

"Natsu?! " Gray realised Natsu had been drifting further and further away from him and he could only watch him disappear from his sight. He could no longer reach him.

"NATSU!"

In reality…

The crazy man who had humiliated Natsu crept up to the unconscious pair.

"Gray Fullbuster, I will kill you and make Natsu mine". He muttered. The man requipping himself with a dagger and hovered it over Gray's back aiming for his heart.

Natsu's eyes snapped open. He shoved Gray who was lying over his body away from him in reflex causing him to crash against the wall at the other side. The dagger ended up embedded in Natsu's stomach to the man's disbelief.

"Why? Do you know how much I love you". The man pulled out the dagger and yelled at Natsu who smirked. "Like I told you, I won't let you hurt Gray… " Natsu covered his trembling hand over his wound grimacing in pain. He removed the oxygen mask and tried to sit up. The blood was seeping through his fingers.

"I will protect him till the end…" Natsu muttered in determination.

At this point of time, the man raged in madness. He approached Natsu and pulled him by his hair. He stabbed him again right on the same wound causing Natsu to shriek in pain while he covered his mouth with his hand after throwing him back to bed so as to minimise chances of anyone outside from hearing them followed by a few tight slaps. It didn't look like Gray who was under a spell lying unconscious against the wall would wake up anytime either.

"I'm giving you one last chance. Will you become my mate?" The man demanded pulling his hair forcing the boy to look him into his eyes. Natsu refused. He averted his eyes and took one quick glance at his beloved Gray and smiled weakly. He was already contented having Gray confessing his feeling to him.

"To be able know your feeling at the end, that's good enough".

He would never betray him.

"NO, NEVER!" Natsu declared glaring at him in determination. Natsu grabbed his wrist and burned him with his fire causing the man to yelp in pain but he would not let go of him. The mad man pushed his head back to the pillow before grabbing him by his neck choking Natsu. Natsu felt air was being forced out right of him.

"You are asking for it, bitch. Since I can't have you, I will not give you to anyone either! Your heart belongs solely to me." The man yelled and raised his dagger over him. Natsu's eyes widened as he could only watch the crazy man plunge the dagger into his chest right through his heart while he struggled to get his hands free off his neck. His face contorted in pain as he released his grasp on the man's wrist when he felt the blade driving into his chest and punctured his heart. The man covered his mouth after releasing his grasp on his throat to prevent him from screaming from the excruciating pain of pulling the blade out from his heart. Blood was oozing out profusely from Natsu's chest as soon as the dagger was removed. Natsu felt his life leaving him. He knew very well that he would not be able survive this with his vital organ bleeding out and failing quickly from the fatal stab.

"Gray…" He raised his trembling hand covered by his own blood trying to reach for him. The man noticed it and he would not let him had his way of having his beloved man on his mind when he breathed his last. He was fuming in anger. Was he not good enough for Natsu? His lust over Natsu had gone way out of control.

"Your heart belong solely to me!" The man hollered in anger. He covered Natsu's mouth which was already overflowing with blood and stabbed Natsu multiple times in his heart till he was rendered motionless. He would rather end Natsu's life than having to see him with another guy other than himself. He thought he was rejected as Natsu preferred girls as his mate.

The man smirked. He would make sure Natsu remembered his last moment with him instead. He started to kiss Natsu, rip off his clothes and rape Natsu for one last time bathing in his blood. Tears welled up and flowed from the corner of Natsu's eyes down his pale cheek which was covered by his own blood and allowed the man to humiliate him before he breathed his last. He no longer had the strength to fight back. Natsu took one last glance at his beloved Gray.

"I'm.. sorry... Thank you...". Natsu murmured as his ailing heart slowed to a stop.

"Gray should have succeeded by now. Natsu and Gray must be having a good time lovey dovey in the room. That's why I give them some time alone". Loki commented as he led Lucy and Erza to Natsu's hospital room.

"I can't believe they likeeeee each other". Happy rolled his tongue.

"I want to see Natsu blushing madly when we caught them in the act". Lucy squealed.

"What is… the act again…" Erza could not find the words. She was already red on her face.

Loki sped up feeling excited. When he reached the door, he realised something was very wrong as he noticed red liquid seeping out of the door. He kicked the door opened and saw a crazy man all over the cold and lifeless Natsu who was covered in blood. He was the one who hurt Natsu.

"What are you doing?" Loki demanded. "Regulus Impact!" He yelled and punched the man and knocked him out by surprise. Erza realised what was happening and rushed to check on Natsu.

"Get the healer, Lucy!" Erza shouted. Lucy almost fainted at the sight and Happy was too stunned to move.

"Lucy! Hurry up!" Loki yelled at Lucy.

"O.. okay." Lucy ran off in panic not wanting to believe what she had seen.

"Gray! Wake up!" Loki slapped him after making sure that Gray was unhurt. Looked like Natsu had taken the blunt of the assault. Loki gritted his teeth in guilt. He should have stayed back to watch over them. The idea of Natsu's attacker might come back didn't occur to him.

"Natsu, wake up... I will give you my fish..." Happy flew to his side and tried shaking him with his paw in tears.

"Natsu…" Erza could not feel his pulse at all. "Natsu, please. Please wake up and look at me!" She grabbed the shoulder of the salmon-haired boy who could no longer hear her. Natsu fell limp on her arms when she released him from her grasp. She noticed extent of his wounds and was burning in fury. Loki came over and helped to cover Natsu's body with the blanket. The sight was too gruesome to see.

"Requip!" Erza summoned a sword and brought it to the unconscious crazy man's throat. She wanted to kill the man and cut him up badly. He was inhuman.

"Erza, no! It's not worth it". Loki shouted at Erza to stop her.

"How could he be so cruel to Natsu when he was unable to fight?" Tears fell heavily from Erza's eyes. "Why?!" Erza put down her sword.

"GRAY!" Loki could not take it any longer. He pulled Gray by his collar and punched the hell out of him. "How long do you still intend to sleep". The spell should have worn off some time ago.

"NATSU!" Gray finally woke up. He looked around groggily and spotted the motionless pink-haired boy on the bed covered with blood.

"Natsu…" He walked over to Natsu. "NATSU!" Gray finally understood the underlying meaning of Natsu's final words to him in his inner mind. His Natsu actually died with a smile despite what had happened to him before he passed on. He hugged the cold and dead salmon-haired boy who had protected him from the crazy man in tears.

Gray cried in frustration for his inability to protect Natsu from harm.

"NATSU!"

Three months later, a raven-haired boy was found dead on the frozen river at the outskirt of Magnolia filled with a mountain of 999 ice roses symbolising his everlasting and eternal love towards his dead lover. It seemed that he had frozen the river his lover had always loved to come by to create these roses.

The last rose was red in colour as it was created from his frozen blood protruding from his chest where his heart was.

"Natsu, I'm coming for you now".