Febuwhump 2025
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- Creator:
- Spot_Of_Tea
- Series Begun:
- 2025-02-01
- Series Updated:
- 2025-02-28
- Description:
Heyyyy if your reading this then welcome! This whole series, while part of a writing event, will have an over-arching storyline centred around Zeref and him coming to terms with his curse and ultimately becoming the monster we all know and love.
Enjoyyy >:3c
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- 43,385
- Works:
- 28
- Complete:
- Yes
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Febuwhump Day 1: Vocal Chords
That day would be seared into his mind.
They were dead.
Everyone was dead.
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- Part 1 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 2: Holding back tears.
He thought he'd experienced silence before. This was different though, this wasn't a comforting silence that warmly embraced you. This was a cold and hollow silence that cut you to the bone. Normally one would hear the sounds of bird calls and the faint rustling of leaves and long grasses. There wasn't any of that now. In fact Zeref couldn't remember the last time he'd heard any sounds of anything living since the accident. It was as if the whole world just... stopped.
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- Part 2 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 3 (alternative prompt): In another life.
He was the only survivor and was fortunate to be found by someone who recognised the Dragneel name and brought him home. He feared what would've become of his beloved grandson had he not been brought back to the family.
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- Part 3 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 4 (alternate prompt): Die A Hero
The man suddenly stopped in the middle of a particularly large patch of dead grass and stepped to the side, letting Sigurd see for himself what had been found.
And the sight turned his stomach.
That was a grave… a large one. He'd seen pits like this dug before to bury plague victims and from the looks of things, it was fresh.
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- Part 4 of Febuwhump 2025
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Febuwhump Day 5: Not trusting reality
Still flashes of green on his peripherals weren't the only thing he was seeing lately. Yesterday he caught a brief glimpse of pink and had frozen in place.
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- Part 5 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 6: forced to stay awake
He was exhausted. His hands trembled and his legs shook as he shuffled about the work space he'd created. He'd tried to go back to his room, had tried to sleep in there but nightmares and visions of the accident woke him up every time he'd closed his eyes.
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- Part 6 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 7 (alternate prompt): Body Horror
Research was slow. Eclipse by now all but abandoned. There was just something missing from the plans but nothing Zeref had studied stood out as a solution. So for now he had put it all to one side in favour of his new line of research.
The alternative application of soul prison theory. More importantly the creation of an organic vessel to hold a single soul.
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- Part 7 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 8: Bleeding Out
He couldn't do it.
Not if it meant repeating what he'd done.
He just couldn't keep going.
So many people died on that first day. And now the bodies just kept piling up.
Then he'd gone and done… that!
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- Part 8 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 9: Necromancy
He was fairly certain the man was dead.
He had been the one to kill him after all.
Yet there he was, shuffling down the corridor.
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- Part 9 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 10: Magic Exhaustion
Between the exhaustion and the blood loss he wasn't sure how the boy had survived this long. Had all those mercenaries been the ones to blame for the damage? Had they been attacking his nephew, drawing blood and forcing that wretched death magic from him?
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- Part 10 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 11: Demonic possession
He felt weighed down.
Although his first thought, upon opening his eyes, was to question where the hell he was. It certainly wasn't the library that was for sure.
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- Part 11 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 12: Used as practise
When he was satisfied he was dry enough he handed him a fresh set of robes. Zerias had wished he could find some spare academy robes, instead of the Bellemare robes he had had to grab instead.
Zeref had hesitated upon seeing the black robes.
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- Part 12 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 13: "I don't trust anyone else"
When Zerias had presented his theory, that Zeref's mind and his perception of those around him was the trigger, they'd set about finding ways to test it.
It hadn't exactly gone to plan.
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- Part 13 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 14: Becoming the monster
It was odd. he didn't see the man in front of him as a person anymore. His uncle's theories about his cursed magic only harming those he didn't want to hurt seemed more true than ever.
Yet when Zeref reached out to that uncontrollable magic rolling deep within him, he found it now responded to his direction. When he reached out, for once, it listened to him.
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- Part 14 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 15: Icarus
But he wasn't scared anymore. How much more could he possibly hurt him, what punishment could the man dole out that would be worse than what Zeref had already been through.
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- Part 15 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 16 (alternate prompt): On the run
What could he possibly do against his grandfather. A man who was ten times the wizard he was. Who had decades of experience and mastery of magics Zeref had never even heard of.
For all of Zeref's newfound power he had nothing that could stand up to that. And what was worse, they still had his uncle. Zeref still wasn't sure if the man was even still alive, but there was every chance that if he still breathed, they would use his uncle against him.
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- Part 16 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 17 (alternate prompt): Major character death
He just hoped that his uncle was alright.
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- Part 17 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 18: Living weapon
The Bellemare estate was grand. Far grander than any other noble estates that Zeref had ever seen. In fact as he wandered down the winding road that lead up to the manor, past the well manicured gardens and the flowering Magnolia trees, he remembered the first time he'd been brought to the estate.
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- Part 18 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 19: Death wish
Gallus threw everything he had at him, the estates staff, his own personal guards, the few members of the family that were in residence.
They all fell to Ankhselam's magic, dropping dead the instant it touched them.
And the boy.Just.Wouldn't.Die.
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- Part 19 of Febuwhump 2025
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Day 20: "I did good right?"
"Ankhselam black magic."
The voice cut through his whimpering, distracting him long enough to look up at who had spoken.
His grandfather… wonderful.
He looked away with a sigh, wondering what fresh horrors awaited him at the hands of his dear old grandfather.
"That is what that magic of yours is called."
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- Part 20 of Febuwhump 2025