It was all perfect. Just him and his dragon. But then it all changed, why did everything have to change?
"Igneel?" The young boy whispered, his voice barely audible. His eyes forever tormented by the bloodied dragon lying before him, unmoving. "Ig..neel?" he tried again, not wanting to believe it.
I was only gone for an hour. What happened?
His eyes widened as he got closer, the smell of blood filling his nostrils, and magic.
Someone else was here, but why is Igneel hurt.
The words struck him hard, like epiphany had slapped him across the face.
Igneel is hurt. Igneel...is hurt.
His pace quickened considerably, and he found himself sprinting towards the ruby scaled dragon.
"Igneel!" he cried out frantically "Igneel! Igneel!"
Igneel.
It felt as if the space between them was increasing, no matter how fast he ran it felt like he would never close the distance.
"Igneel!"
He can't be. Theres just no way.
The tears fell freely from his charcoal eyes, accompanied by sobs and desperate cries.
I'm almost there!
"Ig-"
Bam. Silence.
"God he's a noisy one isn't he?"
The boy felt a heavy weight press onto his back, squishing him against the soft grass, despite his enhanced eyesight he couldn't see who it was, daylight was gone now.
"Leave the boy be, we've got what we came for."
Two voices, they're deep, probably males, are they trying to take Igneel away from me?"
"Let me have my fun will'ya" He kicked the childs head roughly. "Whats up with this kid he's got pink hair."
"I said leave him be." the other voice said sternly.
Another kick. "Shut up already you're not in charge."
A loud bang was heard, followed by an ear piercing scream. The pink haired boy remained still, listeining to the conversation unfold.
"You fucking shot me!" the man screamed, clutching his leg. "The fuck is wrong with you? you bastard!"
"Only a coward would dare to abuse an innocent and defencless child." The cool voice replied rather calmly, gun still in hand. "Kumari, Bandow, take Hector back to the guild, I'll transport the dragon there when you're ready."
"But sir!" a higher pitched voiced replied "Aren't you going to kill the boy, he's a witness afterall, this project is top secret."
The man lowered his gun and turned his back. "Sorry Kumari, I don't kill children." As he began walking back to the dragons body the boy felt something snap within him, Igneel was the only thing he had left, it was the only thing he'd ever had, Igneel was his family, and he was going to defend it, to the death.
Anger clouded the boys mind, there was no reasoning now, only hatred. Flames danced around his body and engulfed him, his eyes gleamed red. Kumari's eyes widened.
But he's a child, how can he hold so much power.
"Eric." Kumari warned, her voice quivering "Sir he's not human."
Eric turned to face the demon on fire. He gave the child a look, a frown, like he pitied him. "Go." he ordered, wether it was directed to Kumari or not she and Bandow grabbed Hector and vanished into smoke.
Eric and the pink haired boy were now face to face. "What do you want?" he asked, his voice showing no sign of fear.
What do I want?
His jaw clenched and his fist tightened, a low growl rumbled from his chest. "I want..." he hesitated, not sure what the exact words were. "I want... my family back!" And with those words he charged at the man who had hurt his dragon, Eric had to admit, as scared as he was he couldn't help but admire those flames, beautiful yet terrifying, fierce yet somehow gentle, giving off a warm colour.
Oh Natsu, you've grown so much.
He grabbed the boys fist with his one hand and flipped him over, forcing him once again onto the ground and extinguishing the flames. "Don't make this harder for me than it already is Natsu."
The child winced, if a human could cause him this much pain then Igneel could have killed him long ago by accident. "Wait a minute how do you-" he was silenced by a cold pale hand over his face. "Sorry about this." said Eric, a hint of emotion in his voice "We'll meet again sometime." A white light flashed from the hand, and in that instant, Natsu forgot everything.
One week later
.Last vision: White light
.Woke up in forest
.Name: Natsu
.Father: Igneel (dragon)
Makarov tapped the pencil against his note pad, humming to himself.
This isn't much to go on at all.
A man with blonde hair leaned over his shoulder, and a slight chuckled was heard.
"Whats so funny Laxus?"
"Old man I hope you never decide to become a journilist, your notes suck, took you half an hour just to write down that."
Ignoring the comment from his grandson Makarov studied his eyes on the boy in front of them, he wore a white scarf that resembled a dragons scales, his hair was pink though the boy insisted it was salmon, and apart from his tattered shorts he was practically naked.
Then again its a possibility he's been living in the forest, and I doubt theres a clothing shop in the middle of a place like that.
"You said your name was Natsu yes?" the short man questioned.
Natsu nodded his head quickly and made a hum of approval.
"Well Natsu how old are you?"
Natsu turned his head slightly to the side "O-Old?"
"OLD." Laxus pronounced the words slowly, like he was speaking to a deaf person or grandparent. " . ?"
No hope. Natsu only turned his head to the other side "Old." the unfamiliar word felt weird when he spoke it. "Old" he repeated again.
"Oh god gramps ya'think his amnesia is that bad."
"He could just have a low range of vocabulary."
"Voca...vocabru..voca-"
"Don't even try it kid, you'll hurt yourself from thinking." Laxus leaned back against the wall "I'd estimate he's somewhere between seven and ten."
Makarov hummed once more and stroked his chin clearly in deep thought "I believe your correct Laxus, take him downstairs I think its important he socializes with the younger members of the guild."
Laxus sighed, he really didn't have time to be dealing with children right now. He grabbed Natsu by his scarf and picked him up on his way to the exit.
"Hey let me go!"
"Its your lucky day kid, you get to make friends."
Natsu stopped throwing punches at the tall blonde man "Friends?" a loud thump was heard as he was dumped on the guild floor.
"Hey what was that for!" Natsu had just about enough of this guy, acting all high and mightier than him, the great Natsu!
I could take him on any day.
"Hey banana head!"
Silence.
"I'm talking to you!"
No reply.
"Stop walking away from me!" He ran up to Laxus's retreating figure and yanked on his coat only to be flung away by his hand. Natsu crashed into a nearby table which was now split in two. He rubbed his head as he sat up on the remainders of the table, his face smothered with strawberry cake.
Damn that hurt!
Natsu wiped the cream off his face and licked his fingers.
A booming voice broke through the room. "Who do you think you are!" At a table in the corner of the guild Laxus chocked on his drink and placed the glass down.
The kid's not gonna live to see tomorrow.
Natsu looked up to meet the eyes of a warrior, blazing with anger, she had long scarlet hair held back in a plait and her body was incased in armour.
He'll start running in three...
Natsu stared at the red head with a look of boredom on his face.
two...
She glared at him, ready to kill.
One.
Natsu frowned, stood up and puffed his chest out "Who do you think you are?"
Laxus sighed heavily and continued to drink.
Should have run when he had the chance.
Natsu's fiery glare quickly faltered and died when he found himself face to face with something metal and pointy.
A sword?
Epiphany slapped him again. "How the hell did you get a sword!" but the scarlet haired girl merely smirked "My name is Erza, I'm an equip mage"
"I'm Natsu and I'm a dra-"
"And now I shall wipe you from the face of the earth!"
...What?
Natsu did what any sane human who valued their lives would do. He ran. The sounds of heroic screaming and running sounded throughout the guild.
Maybe he will fit in here.
"Laxus?" came a sweet shy voice. Laxus looked down to see a girl with short white hair wearing a pink dress. "What do you want Lissana?" She pointed to the scene of Natsu being strangled to death by Erza "Who is he?" Laxus followed her gaze "That Lissana would be Natsu, and he's the newest member of our guild."
"Oh ok. Hey Natsu!" Even though he was too busy fighting for his life he still managed to hear the first words of kindness he'd recieved from someone other than Igneel.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail!"