The Old and the New
Fiore a land of magic and adventure, it was home to many.
It was what you would expect of any place, one where dark times and good ones were spread.
Humans busy with work, having fun and living their daily lives.
Wizards joining guilds as a place of work, for many knew there place in the world.
Be it a light wizard, a dark wizard, a princess or a baker.
Many had and knew their place in a world where time was something precious, it was to be treasured.
But what is life to one who's life is blank, all but the foster parent who raised him and nothing else.
Having to learn to live in a world he was not accustomed to, and try and find the one who had left him.
While at the same time hiding a dangerous secret that only his two companions knew, as he did not have to care about the one thing humans did.
Time...
This is the story of an exceed, a fire wizard and a demoness.
Hargion, a town by the sea known more for its inports and exports than magic.
A town the two had visited a century or so ago before it had even been built, now they were here once again.
This is were our story begins.
"Come on Natsu, were off the train" a small blue cat with a white belly, dark eyes, a green cloth around his neck and wings said.
He was tugging his friends vest as he laid pathetically on the stone ground.
"Is he alright?" asked a passing passenger.
Another voice spoke up" He is just motion sick, but thank you for your concern" the one who spoke was a woman as the passenger nodded and left.
She could be described as a beauty sculpted by some god, her skin was pale without a single blemish. She had long black hair with a tint of purple that would fall past her waist, but was currently held in a bun letting the rest that was not held in the bun cascade down her back. She wore a black kimono with gold and purple markings, though it had several modifications to let her battle in it.
The most obvious were the two large slits on the sides showing off her thighs, her feet and ankles tied in bandages as the woman wore no shoes. The sleeves weren't attached to the actual outfit, being tied below her shoulders as the obi around her waist was gold. In her bun what looked like two purple flowered accessories were actually throwing knives, and at her side held by the obi was a sword.
The womans eyes were her most peculiar feature though, they were red and while that color wasn't uncommon.
Well her eyes and her rather large breast, which were still very noticeable as the outfit left her shoulders bare but still showed some of her large asets.
And unknown to anyone but her two companions, she had large golden horns on both sides of her head.
During there time as children and as they had grown she had learn to control their apperence, making them vanish when around humans.
To anyone she just looked like a very beautiful kunoichi. And a bit out of place in her current attire, but she never cared what humans thought anyway.
"Why did they invented transportation! Why! Four hundred years, and it still sucks" Natsu moaned from his face down position on the ground.
His wild pink hair was currently limp, reflecting his emotions. A large pack on his back for the groups items, wearing an atire of a black vest with a gold trim, white trousers, black sandles and a white scaled scarf.
"Complaining isn't going to solve anything Natsu! Now get up, this is becoming pathetic" and with that his female companion lifted him up with one hand with ease.
Suprising a few people as Natsu struggled in her hold.
"Okay! I'm up!" Natsu exclaimed being let go as he rubbed the back of his head" Jeez Sayla, attract anymore attention why don't ya" he said as her display did have people staring.
She just rolled her eyes and began to walk" Says the guy who falls over at the mention of a train" Sayla smirked as she chuckled at the look on her friends face.
"Shut up! Lets just find Igneel" Natsu muttered his pride wounded as Happy and Sayla laughed at his deflated pride.
"When are you gonna learn Natsu, you never win against Sayla" the cat poked at his father figures sore spot.
He just looked away from them both and muttered" I hate you both" which just lead to more luaghter.
"Whatever you say Natsu, whatever you say" Sayla said, as they were walking before Happy realized something.
"Hey guys, do we even know where were going" He spoke from Sayla's shoulder.
And at that moment the other two froze" No" Natsu said looking at Sayla.
"Me either" she said as Happy sighed, how those two survived for over four hundred years would forever be a mystery to him, as he had only been born around seven to eight years ago.
"You two have the worst sense of direction" Happy knew this from his short life time already.
They ended up walking around for about an hour, trying to see if they could find anyone who knew about the salamander rumored in town.
They got lucky when two girls exclaimed where he was before shrieking like crazy fangirls.
Which lead to the three going in that general direction before Sayla had a realization.
Stopping Natsu as in front of them was a large group of girls.
"Natsu I just realized something" She said almost blankly, reminiscing her old personality of being cold and withdrawn from the world before they met.
"What?" the dragon slayer asked as he wondered why she was looking at him that way.
"There's no way Igneel is here, for one why would girls be excited to see him and two, we would have seen him already" she said to her sometimes dimwitted friend as the wheels began to turn in his head.
"Oh, yeah" Natsu said a bit disappointed as he looked at her and Happy.
"Sorry Natsu" Sayla sighed, as the crowd got louder causing them to see a man fly away in purple flames" But still I wonder wgere they got that alias, I only call you by it when you annoy me or people we get paid by" She told Natsu who gave her a pointed look.
The girls all began to disperse except for one, a blond who had a serious look on her face.
She didn't seem to know they were their as she walked right into Sayla.
Both dragon slayer and woman sweatdropped, did she really just do that.
Were their thoughts as the girl who looked like their outside ages as their bodies looked of those of teenagers, stood up rubbing her bottom.
"Ow, that'll teach me to watch where I'm going" the blond muttered as she noticed them and started to wave her arms in the air much to their confusion.
"Uh, are you okay?" Natsu asked wondering if the girl had a few screws loose.
"Oh, yeah I'm sorry for bumping into you guys like that" she apologized as Sayla raised a hand to stop her frantic motions.
"It's quite alright, we shouldn't have been standing here for so long" she said, apologizing for them as a familiar rumble was heard.
"So lunch!" Happy and Natsu said as Sayla sighed, her cheeks tinted a noticeable red from embarrassment.
"Exscuse them, their idiots" she muttered as the blond laughed at their antics" Would you care to join us, I wouldn't feel right since we sort of caused you to fall" Sayla offered the blond.
"Oh, you don't have to!" The blond waved her arms again.
"It's fine, we don't get to talk to people often" Sayla, said as the blond thought about it and nodded.
"Alright" The blond didn't want to be rude.
"So what was up with the crowd of girls?" Natsu butted in, as if it wasn't Igneel who had it been.
"Oh, just some creep using charm magic" She huffed, she had heard rumors about a mysterious wizard that was called salamander.
She really doubted that pompous blowhard had been him.
Meanwhile both Sayla and Natsu were suprised by the fact someone was using charm magic.
Charm magic was common a few decades ago, but as time past the magic became less common and less approved.
"Men, they have no standards" Sayla huffed beginning to lead as the blond laughed, while Natsu deadpanned.
"I resent that!" he muttered, not putting up to much fuss seeing how food was involved.
"So whats your name?" Happy asked the blond, having gone to lay down on Natsu's head.
Lucy blinked at Happy, Natsu and Sayla thought she would freak like most people but instead.
"It's Lucy, what about you guys?" she asked smiling, unknown to them she had seen weirder things, one being her celestia spirit Taurus.
"I'm Natsu Dragneel and this is Happy" He nodded up to the cat who waved.
"And I am Sayla, I don't know my surname so just call me Sayla" she smiled at Lucy, who seemed to be studying her.
"Are some sort of ninja?" Lucy asked talking about her attire and hairstyle.
Sayla laughed" No, no, it's just my prefered choice in fashion and my magic" she exsplained, as they arrived at a restaurant finding a table.
"Magic!? So you two are wizards!" Lucy spoke almost excitedly as they picked up their menu's, Happy and Natsu getting a rather mischievous look in there eye's at the selection.
"Yeah! Natsu uses dragon slayer magic and Sayla has this cool shadow magic!" Happy chimed in already having the list of fish he wanted to order ready.
"Shadow magic? Dragon Slayer magic?" Lucy asked confused, though they were stopped by a waitress asking for there order.
Needless to say Lucy was shocked by Happy and Natsu's large order, while Sayla just gave her a look that said 'just go with it'.
"Yes, I use a form of shadow magic It allows me to sneak up on people and I am practically invisible at night" When used without the casting of light, no one could tell were she was.
Lucy gave a look" So you are like a ninja" she chuckled as Sayla found herself blushing again from being wrong.
"I suppose" she never really thought about it that way, though shadow magic wasn't her true power.
The thing that had lead to her being saved by Natsu had been her other abilities, all she had to do was order someone and they would obey her without question.
That applied to inanimate objects leading to a form of levitation powers, and even the undead though corpses were harder to control.
She also had a second form, but she rarely used it, it was rather demonic and ugly in her opinion.
Which made sense considering what she was, but that didn't mean she had to accept it.
The ood soon arrived and the war zone as Sayla called it, began.
"What about you Natsu?" Lucy's question brought Sayla out of her thoughts, not even noticing that the food had arrived.
Natsu looked up at her, a small pizza being stuffed in his face" I have Fire Dragon slayer magic, my dad taught me how to use it" he said quickly and muffled, from the food in his mouth.
He received a wack on the head for his lack of table manners.
"Natsu! Swallow first talk after" Sayla shook her head, four hundred years and he still never learned table manners.
"I've never heard of that kind of magic before, why would someone learn a magic to slay dragons when they don't exsist" Lucy had only taken a bite of her meal when Natsu nearly got in her face.
"Of course their real, after all my dad was a dragon" Natsu nodded his head, speaking so fiercely about it that Lucy didn't have the voice to deny it.
"But how!?" she didn't know that the two in front of her were far older than she could ever know.
"Igneel found me as a kid and raised me, one day he dissappeared and I've been looking for him ever since" Natsu explained" I met Sayla a year later, and we eventually found Happy" All those events had transpired four centuries ago.
"Wait is that why you guys were in town, because you thought the salamander was your dad" in that moment she took a deep breath and then lost it.
"You guys actually thought a dragon would show up in a port and have massive amounts of fangirls!!" she nearly shrieked causing Natsu and Sayla to cover their ears.
"I figured it out myself once we came here, now refrain from your shrieking senstive ears here" Sayla spoke calmly as Lucy blushed.
"Oh, Sorry yeah there's this guy called salamander a wizard with awesome fire magic but no one knew who he was until that guy showed up" then she leaned in and whispered" but to be honest I don't think that guys the real salamander he's to creepy" she crossed her arms.
Sayla and Happy looked at Natsu who was to busy eating to notice what the topic had changed to.
'Natsu has gained the reputation as being called salamander in our travels, I never thought there were rumors' The woman thought, as she looked at Lucy.
"So what brought you here Lucy? Hargion is not known for it's magic" Sayla asked the girl.
At that Lucy got a bit nervous as she pulled out a key ring with several keys, some silver some gold.
At the sight of the gold ones, Sayla got a bit of an uncomfortable pressure to them.
A look at Natsu showed the same thing but they quickly hid there discomfort.
The two had come across the magic before but had never actually learned about it, they tended to avoid civilization for awhile.
People were to suspicious of them, a child with lost magic and a girl with demonic horns.
People didn't seem to change over the centuries that had past, Natsu and Sayla just got better at hiding their true nature in a world that wouldn't accept them.
Lucy didn't seem to notice their discomfort" I'm a Celestial spirit mage, we make contracts with beings we can summon through the gates and they help us" she exsplained.
"Why are some silver and some gold?" Happy asked eating his body weight in fish.
"The silver ones are pretty common and can be bought in stores, but the gold ones are powerful and rare there's only twelve" Lucy exsplained" There's a rumor about a thirteenth zodiac key, but no one knows if its true" though she did wonder if it was real who had it or was it unowed.
"I think I have heard about it, the snake charmer I believe" Sayla tapped her chin, in thought.
"So are you part of a guild?" Natsu asked Lucy, he and Sayla never really joined one.
For one they lived longer than any meer mortal, two they just hadn't had much contact with large towns until this century.
Lucy shook her head" No, but there's this one guild I really want to join; their called Fairy Tail there one of the top guilds in Fiore but what if they don't accept me" She started out enthusiastically then became less confident.
"Fairy Tail, that sounds familiar" Sayla, muttered trying to remember where she heard the name before.
"Arn't they that guild that always destroys stuff, kinda like Natsu" Happy spoke up pointing at his fire breathing friend.
"Hey! I resent that!" Natsu glared at his two companions who laughed.
"Need I bring up the firestorm incident" At that Natsu gave Sayla a look then turned away.
It had happened around two hundred and eighty years ago, he had accidently activated one of his abilities some sort of fire that turned into a fire storm.
Needless to say that forest burned down and went down in history, Sayla never let him forget either.
Lucy just sighed at their bickering, she guessed they must have been companions for a long time if they were so easily able to joke around with eachother.
"Well, I have an idea about Lucy's problem" Sayla spoke looking at the girl.
"What, you guys secretly know the guild master?" Lucy said jokingly.
"No, but the next best thing!" Natsu smiled, already knowing what Sayla was going to say" we'll go with you since Igneel isn't here, maybe a guild like Fairy Tail knows where he is" and if not they could always move on like always.
"Really!? I couldn't bother you, after all you guys already bought lunch" Lucy, stood up seeing as they had long since finished the food, Sayla being the one to pay.
"It's no trouble, it's not like we have anywhere else to go" Lucy didn't catch the double meaning.
The group was constantly on the move, had been ever since they've met and never stayed in one place for to long.
People would become suspicious after a decade or so, and that's when they'd have to high tail it out.
"Yeah, and if Fairy Tail is always causing trouble that means they have some strong wizards!" a wicked grin was on Natsu's face at the idea of a good fight.
Sayla elbowed him, giving him a knowing look deflating Natsu's excitement.
She knew of his tendency to get into fights, the problem was making sure he held back and only used his dragon slayer magic.
His abilties surpassed her own, and they still didn't know their full extent.
"No fighting anyone, I don't want to get kicked out before we even get through the front door" Lucy said as they walked outside, not really caring about the direction.
"Do not worry, I'll make sure he and Happy behave" the demoness gave a chilling smile, that even had Lucy shuddering.
"Us!" The two yelled as they pointed at her accusingly.
"Knowing you, your going to get distracted by a book store" Natsu shot back as Sayla blushed.
"I do not! Not all the time, it's untrue!" she was in denial, the minute she saw literature she was gone.
Lucy gave a wide smile that made Natsu and Happy shudder, to many from Sayla that promised pain engraved in their minds.
"You love books to!" Lucy was ecstatic, it had been awhile since she left home but she hadn't been able to meet anyone she could talk to about books.
Her day was turning out more intresting than she thought it would, mostly meeting these three.
They seemed to be full of surprises, but they seem to being hiding something that much was practically obvious.
Sayla looked at Lucy and swallowed her pride" Yes, I find hum-uh I mean, books intresting the stories and history" she said as she feared the look on Lucy's face, and a few hours later found Natsu and Happy dragging themselves on the ground.
"Natsu, I don't think I'm gonna make it" Happy spoke tiredly as he dragged his little body.
The sun was begining to set, the last rays were nearly down.
"No, we have to keep going" Natsu said dramatically.
Neither Lucy or Sayla noticed, they had been talking about books for hours driving the other two a bit mad.
Luckily Natsu and Happy would be spared a boring death as someone spoke to them.
"Are you injured?" the commanding tone caused them both to stop and stand up.
"Maybe there idiots" said another colder voice, as that sparked some of Natsu's anger as he looked at the two humans in front of him.
The one who spoke first was a scarlet haired woman in armor, her hair was shorter than Sayla's own but longer than Lucy's. Natsu wondered why she was wearing armor and noticed a strange blue marking on the breast plate.
A guild mark, but he didn't know which one as he and Sayla didn't exactly keep tabs with them.
The other, just looking at him made Natsu want to punch the guy and he didn't know why.
Unlike the red head who had a serious yet concern look on her face, the guys was cold and indifferent.
He was an ice mage, Natsu could tell easily from the feel of his magic which contradicted with his fire magic.
His hair matched his dark eyes, wearing a white shirt with a some sort of necklace and dark pants.
"What's going on?" Natsu and Happy looked to see Sayla and Lucy walking towards them.
"I hope they weren't causing you trouble" Sayla said already looking like she was gonna start busting heads.
The red head shook her head" Not at all, have you four happen to have met a man named Bora or as the alas he is using salamander" She asked them as she received nods.
"You mean the creep from earlier? Yeah he was using charm magic and then flew off talking about some party on his boat" Lucy said a bit disgusted by what had happened earlier, as she to had fallen to his charm.
"What did he do? Is he a criminal?" Sayla asked as the dark haired male looked at her, she felt a strange tension from him as he stared then looked away.
'What was that?' She thought.
"Yes, it was a job request, now point me in the direction of the marina!" the red head pretty much order causing them all to shudder.
"That way ma'am!" Natsu and Happy shook hiding behind Sayla who gave them an unamused look.
"Thank you, come Gray lets be on our way!" Making a sword appear out of no where she practically draggrd her companion.
"Geez, and I thought Sayla was bossy" muttered Happy.
"I beg your pardon!" the cat was doomed as Sayla began to chase the now dubbed 'Stupid cat'.
Lucy and Natsu just laughed" Figures she reached her limit for today" Natsu said as Lucy tilted her head.
"Her limit?" She asked him.
"Yeah, Sayla is pretty patient but eventually either me or Happy, pushes her 'I'm done your dead' button" Natsu gave a goofy grin, as if he hadn't just admitted they purposely tormented the poor girl.
Lucy just sighed" How does she keep sane" she giggled.
So things might have gone differently than they expected, but Natsu, Sayla and Happy couldn't say it was all bad.
Lucy was one of the few people they had interacted with over the years, as they tried not to make to many mortal friends.
Once Happy had been banned from eating fish for two days, much to his horror they bought train tickets for the morning.
Lucy explained that the town Fairy Tail was in was Magnolia.
The two vuagly remembered the name, the rumors of a town being built there when passing through Hargion.
They would soon find they wouldn't be leaving Fairy Tail anytime soon.
And held a connection that neither one even knew about, it was a place that would hold both awnsers and mysteries.
I decided to screw it and just get these stories out of my head