#torafusa

Tartaros, part 4

(Close-ups under the cut)

Battle of Fairy Tail arc

Technically this is part 2 of Lyredy vs Keys, but the focus is mostly on Gajeel and Natsu vs Torafusa and Tempester. 

PS: There will be a part 3 which will be about Gajevy's scene.

"Keyes is gone. They killed him." Torafusa said while glaring at the couple who remained holding hands while staring ahead of them.

"Alright!" Gajeel cheered and Natsu gave a smile, though his gaze quickly went to his injured girlfriend.

"Now you can help Lucy." The reminder made Meredy remove her hand, blushing a bit, before sitting down by the blonde's side. She felt exhausted and drained, but thankfully there was no pain, meaning the baby was probably okay. She still needed to check with Porlyusica, though.

"Hey, you okay, man?" She looked up upon hearing Gajeel's words and her eyes widened. Lyon was coughing, struggling to breathe.

"Lyon? Are you okay?" The pinkette asked while pressing against Lucy's wound.

"Bean particles. So Keyes managed to contaminate him at least." They heard Natsu's opponent say.

"One for one, that we can take." Torafusa said just before Lyon's body dropped after a final cough.

"No!" Meredy let out a frantic scream while quickly crawling away from Lucy so she could catch him before he hit the ground. The impact of his heavy body against her arms hurt, but she ignored it as she desperately touched his face.

"Hey, don't do this to me. Just open your eyes." She barely realized that tears were streaming down her face until they began soaking his blue coat.

"What's wrong with him?" Natsu asked, though his attention soon went back to his battle as Tempester sent an attack.

"Damn it!" Gajeel tried to reach the trio on the ground, but was stopped by Torafusa. "Get out of my way!"

"You are not leaving our battle." The demon warned.

"Please, talk to me." Meredy kept trying, sobbing onto Lyon's unconscious body. He remained unmoving, face suddenly pale and she could feel him struggle to breathe.

Looking between him and Lucy; she started growing stressed with the knowledge that they needed help and there was nothing she could do. She wasn't a healer, after all and wasn't even supposed to be using magic.

"What do I do?" A broken whisper as her hand returned to her stomach. The pain was beginning now, she could feel it. "Okay, baby, I'm calm. It's okay." She whispered while taking a few deep breaths, trying to calm herself down.

"Just hang in there, Meredy." Natsu's reassuring voice made her look at him and her eyes widened. Something had changed, that was clear. He was glowing bright red and there were lightening sparks coming off his body. As she surveyed Gajeel and their opponents, she noticed they all had changed. While the iron dragon slayer now glowed green and had a different appearance, both demons had changed form. They looked stronger and more threatening.

"What happened?" Meredy asked, confused.

"They said something about taking Etherious form, that way they'd be more powerful against us." Natsu replied.

"So we decided to do the same." Gajeel replied.

"Let's get them, Gajeel!" They charged at their opponents, managing to catch them by surprise.

Meredy sighed in relief once the demons were thrown back, but they were quick to stand their ground and fight back. She could do nothing but watch as the two dragon slayers tried to keep up, but everything soon turned chaotic when Natsu and Gajeel accidentally punched each other on the jaw.

"What the hell?" The latter grew angry.

"Hey, you were the one that got in my way." A fight quickly erupted between the two while their opponents watched, shocked.

"Guys, this is the worst time for us to be fighting amongst ourselves." The pinkette reminded them while attempting once again to press her cape into Lucy's wounds, seeing as the celestial wizard was fading fast.

"He's the one that came at me!" Both men yelled while pointing towards the other.

"Why do I have to be awake for this?" Meredy sighed, shaking her head.

"Forget it, let's just go back to beating this punks." Natsu turned back to Tempester, who stared at them with a raised brow.

"Yeah! Victory will be mine!" Gajeel turned to Torafusa, who was smirking at them. "The hell are you smiling about?"

"You just allowed me to win." As the former stared at him in confusion, he suddenly began glowing.

"This can't be good." The pinkette whispered, staring in disbelief as water seemed to pour out of his body.

"What the?" Natsu screamed just before it reached him. There was so much liquid that within minutes they were submerged.

"No." Gajeel's eyes widened once he looked around.

Meredy was attempting to reach the surface, taking Lucy with her. She clearly didn't have the strength to do so, though, and he could tell that she was in pain. Lyon's body was dropping and he knew the ice mage wouldn't hold on for much longer.

"Lucy!" Natsu tried to swim towards the trio, but he could feel himself being drained. They noticed, quickly, that this wasn't just normal water. No, there was something mixed with the liquid. "Damn it!"

The first demon we see in the series is a flute, an inanimate object turned demon through Zeref’s magic.

The next set of demons related to Zeref we see all have some sort of animalistic features either in their first or second form. Or in the case of Franmalth and Keyes just straight up living matter. So it might be safe to say that Zeref had moved to turning living objects into demons. (Silver isn't counted in this since Keyes was the one who made him a demon)

And then lacarde here now was the closest to human in terms of appearance in comparison to Zeref’s other demons, so it was possible he was made a little bit before Natsu or perhaps after Zeref gave Natsu to Igneel to raise so he could go back to the drawing board and work out a few kinks.

What I'm basically getting at here is that all the demons we saw in the series were most likely experiments before Zeref finished creating an Etherious body to revive Natsu.

But the question now is, where does Natsu fall?

Since we never saw his Etherious form would natsu fall into the animal based demons with tartarus (with a body that's a mix of demon particles, human dna and animal dna) or the latter with lacarde ( a body that's just demon particles and human dna).