Okay first off this is my first Fairy Tail fanfic so please go easy on me! Also this will be an altered version with some differences mostly surrounding around Natsu! I got this idea from "Eye of the Black Dragon" by snakeboy33 though Igneel instead of Acnologia raised Natsu. And he is 18 years old in this story. Anyway read, review and I hope you enjoy!
Hargeon Town
"Ugh!" Lucy Heartfilia yelled to herself as she walked through the park of the port town. "Why is it that whenever I'm low on money all the store's prices are to damn high!? And I still can't find a clue of where Fairy Tail is" The busty blonde said to herself as she continued walking with a depress look on her face.
"I'm starting to wonder if I should even bother looking for Fairy Tail anymore?" Lucy murmured to herself again. But the moment she said that the information she had gathered about said guild erased that thought. Fairy Tail, according to what she had learned, was one of the strongest guilds in Fiore filled with powerful and famous people like the legendary "Titania" Erza Scarlet, the popular super model and equally powerful mage "Demon" Mirajane Strauss, the powerful Guild Ace, Gildarts Clive and their Guild Master was one of the Ten Wizard Saints, Makarov Dreyar. And then there was the mysterious and famous Salamander, who is said to be a master of Fire Magic that no one could compare too. "What am I saying of course its worth it! A guild like that is worth the effort to join it." She reassured herself.
Now the problem was of finding them since the locations she heard all varied to different towns. The only solid info she had gotten so far was that they were in a town near Hargeon. But so far the people she asked had no clue of where it was. Seriously how does one not know the location of a famous guild like Fairy Tail? She was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't even know where she was going. It was only until she bumped into someone did she snap out of her thoughts. Of course falling backwards and landing on your butt would do that to you.
"Ow, that hurt…" She mumbled as she rubbed her butt. Then she looked back up at the person she had bumped into. "Sorry about that I was-" But whatever she said died in her throat as she looked up at said person. The person was a young man to be exact, a year older then her and looked like he was a few inches taller then her. He had an unusual hair color: short, spiky pink hair with a few framing his tan face. He had onyx eyes too. The rest of his body was also tan along with being leaned and muscular. Not a bulky muscle that dumb men try to get since they believe that will get women's attention, but the kind of muscle form that was lean and smooth like he did a lot of physical activities that kept him in shape.
He wore a red hooded, long-sleeve jacket that reached his calfs, and had hood, which was down, along with a darker shade of red on the trims of the jacket's edges. The jacket was unzipped and revealed a black sleeveless shirt with light grey lines, and did little to hide his chiseled abs, which Lucy was having a hard time averting her eyes from. The young man had a black fingerless glove over his left hand while attached to his right arm was a golden bracelet that had a red orb embedded on it, though it was hard to see it under the sleeve. Around his neck but underneath the coat was a white scarf that had a scale-like pattern. The young man also wore white trousers held by a yellow belt around his waist. On his feet were black boots that went past his ankles, and had grey straps. The last bit of detail was that the young man had a one-strapped green bag over his left shoulder. All in all the young man was very attractive in Lucy's books and said girl was having a hard time hiding the growing blush on her face.
"You okay?" The young man asked, his voice neither too deep nor too light but just right. It was also plain but full of power in it too and Lucy couldn't help but feel captivated by it like his voice was magic itself.
"Y-y-yeah! I'm fine, it was my fault anyway." Lucy stammered since her blush began to slowly reappear when the young man offered his hand to her like a gentleman. Not wanting to be rude and deny it, Lucy gratefully took his hand, blushing even further as she felt how firm and smooth it was. And before she could react pulled her up like she was nothing more then paper. Lucy also noticed that he had unintentionally made her stand a few inches away from him. That's when she saw, or more like felt that his body was warm. Not the usually kind of warm like body heat, but warmth that was both powerful and at the same time comforting too and it surrounded his whole entire body…almost like magic! 'Is this guy a mage?'
However just as she got out of her thoughts Lucy realized that the pink haired young man was no longer near her. She looked around frantically, wondering where he wander off top and maybe he knew where Fairy Tail was, but he was nowhere in sight. Sighing once again Lucy headed out of the park with a depress aurora around her.
A few minutes later she had arrived at the town's plaza. Lucy figured she could find someone that might know the location of Fairy Tail, or the very least she could find something to eat. Searching for a guild on an empty stomach wasn't the best idea.
Just as she was about to look for a café something in the corner of her eye caught her attention. It was a large crowd of young woman surrounding something or someone. Wondering what it was all about Lucy made her way over towards the crowd of woman when she suddenly heard them saying, 'Salamander' in a way that sounded like they were in love.
'Wait! Salamander? As in the famous Salamander from Fairy Tail?' Lucy thought to herself in awe. 'This is it! My chance of finally getting into Fairy Tail!' Lucy thought as she made way through the crowd of woman to reach 'Salamander' who was a tall man with purple hair, tan skin and had a purple cloak on too. Swirling around him was what appeared to be purple flames. But what caught Lucy's attention was how her cheeks began to turn red and her heartbeat went wild. 'W-what's happening to me? Why am I feeling this way?'
But that feeling soon went away when a figure appeared right before Salamander, startling said man and all the women including Lucy. Upon closer inspection Lucy realized it was the same man from the park that she bumped into earlier…with a blue cat with him too.
"Who the hell are you?" Salamander asked with irritation in his voice.
The young man in question raised an eyebrow, as if he did not understand. "Who am I? That's an odd question for someone to ask a fellow guild member, don't you think so Happy?"
"Aye!" The person named Happy replied and to everyone's shock, minus the mysterious pink haired man, the source of that voice was none other then the blue cat. Said cat was ignoring the attention he was getting and added, "Though I don't think I ever seen this guy around Fairy Tail before Natsu."
The young man, now identified as Natsu, nodded in agreement. "That is true we haven't see this man around the guild" Then his eyes narrowed as he glared darkly at Salamander. "Though we have heard of you…Bora, especially how you use to be a member of the Titan Nose Guild before being kicked out for using charm magic on women, which you're doing right now, most likely trying to capture these women and sell them as slaves."
Once this was said, the women gathered, including Lucy, suddenly broke out of the trances they were in now that the fact that they were under magic was revealed. Salamander, or Bora, had both a worried and angry look on his face as he glared at Natsu, who just continued talking, "Oh and don't worry about your men back on your boat, I already took care of them and freed the would be slaves. I'm sure they'll have loads to tell the authorities about you."
Bora was now so enraged that not only had he been revealed as a fraud but now his life was ruined, shouted, "Damn you, you bastard!" And fired a large purple fireball at Natsu.
All the bystanders gasped and watched in horror as the fireball flew towards Natsu who was just standing there with a calm look on his face. But suddenly, much to everyone's surprise he merely smacked the purple fireball with his bare hand, without even leaving burn marks on his skin. Bora, now having a look of hopeless desperation spotted several kitchen knives hanging on display in a nearby window. Using telekinesis Bora levitated the knives and had them shoot out from the glass straight towards Natsu who continued in remaining perfectly still. However once again Natsu surprised everyone when the knives merely bounced off his body, with the tips of the blades breaking a little from the contact. During that moment, that had everyone in shock, Lucy was the only person that noticed that what looked like dragon scales formed on Natsu's skin when the knives struck him. But suddenly something clicked into her head. 'Wait the warm aurora that he was letting off earlier, he's part of Fairy Tail, and now he just smacked that large fireball with ease without even burning himself.' Lucy slowly turned her gaze towards the man named Natsu. 'Could he be the actual…?'
As if answering her question Natsu said calmly to a shocked and now scared Bora, "Oh and by the way" He said before his left hand was engulfed in flames. Then he landed a quick blow to Bora's face, causing the imposter to slam into the ground hard, leaving a crater too. "I'm Fairy Tail's Salamander, Natsu Dragneel." Natsu said to the now unconscious Bora, whose cheek had Natsu's fist imprinted on it along with a severe burn mark to boot. With that done Natsu started to walk away towards the city exit, with the blue cat following closely behind.
Lucy just stared at the pink hair boy in awe while everyone else were murmuring to one another when a team of Rune Knights appeared too apprehend the knocked out Bora. The captain approached the young man and after a few words that Lucy could not make out the captain handed Natsu a small bag of what Lucy assumed to be gold. Then the captain bowed towards the young mage, saying something like "Natsu-sama" from what Lucy heard and walked off with his men dragging a still unconscious Bora with them. Lucy then spotted Natsu and the talking cat heading off towards the opposite direction. Not wanting to lose another chance Lucy ran to catch him. "Wait!" She cried.
Natsu turned around and saw Lucy run up to him. Taking a second to recognize her Natsu said, "Oh you're the girl who I bumped into earlier."
"Yeah. The name is Lucy." Lucy replied when she finally caught up to the pink haired mage. "Did you say you were from Fairy Tail?" She asked hopefully.
"I am" Natsu said as he stared at the busty blonde with an impassive look on his face. "Do you want to join?" He asked afterwards.
Lucy nodded vigorously in response. Natsu merely shrugged. "Okay then well then let's go." He said simply much to Lucy's shock and disbelief. She couldn't believe that her chance of joining her dream guild was near her grasp. "And it's all because I came to this town and ran into this cute- I-I mean this nice guy!" She corrected herself quickly in her head as she told Natsu to let her get her stuff from her hotel before they left.
Anyway here's the first chapter! What do you think? The next chapter will be Lucy arriving to Fairy Tail and learning about Natsu's history. Anyway give me reviews and please don't flame. Also I need some opinions on whether or not I should send Lisanna to Edolas or not. Leave a review or send a message.
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