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"Speaking."
"Thoughts"
A grumbling man in white knee-length trousers with a black overcoat that had golden trimmings was walking out of a train with his legs shaking.
"I'm never gonna go on a train." He whispered before vomiting stomach acid on the pier of the train station. A blue cat with a green backpack was walking next to him, giggling at the discomfort of his traveling companion.
"Oh c'mon Natsu. We can't walk everywhere and I can't fly you all the time either." The cat said, freaking out the conductor even more.
"I know Happy but this is just torture. I need to get rid of this motion sickness soon, I can't take Lily with me if I'm vomiting all over the place." The man said and wiped sweat from his brow and blowing the ends of his bright pink hair out of his face. Happy just shaked his head and continued walking, not noticing that the door had closed on Natsu and left him inside the train with a green face.
"I hope we find Igneel today Natsu." The cat said, not looking behind him as he was sure that Natsu was following.
"Natsu?" Happy said with a questioning tone and panicked when he noticed Natsu's head sticking out of the window with a alarmingly green tint.
"You're supposed to help me Happy, not leave me to the train." Natsu said as he finally had been able to get back to the train station.
"Where are we again?" He continued when his stomach stopped doing backflips and trying to come out of his mouth.
"Hargeon, the port city with...dun dun duu... FISH." The blue cat shouted the last word with drool pooling under his feet. Natsu grinned at the sight as it always cheered him up to see his adoptive son get excited about fish. His grin faltered when he remembered why Happy liked fish and when Happy saw Natsu's face he calmed down, knowing exactly why his grin had faded. "You have to move on sometime Natsu, she would've wanted that." Happy thought to himself.
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A blond girl was walking along a dirt road, feeling tired as she had to walk from the previous town over. She was trying to save money as she had heard that this town, the port city of Hargeon had a magician shop and she was very keen to see what they were selling. The loud grumble from her stomach reminded her that she also needed to eat, her figure would not maintain itself. "C'mon Lucy! You can do this. It's just around the corner." She thought to herself, trying to cheer herself on as the walk had been long. Lucy was just glad that Hargeon had been so close that she did not try to camp outside. It was not her thing after all as she had delicate skin, not to mention the damage it would do to her hair.
She was dragging her feet when she finally entered the city through a stone archway that had large wood and iron doors. Lucy then proceeded to ask the guard at the gate about the magic shop she was looking and thanked with her usual cheery attitude and winked at the guard. She laughed inwardly at the blush she got from the guard and felt good about herself. Lucy almost made it to the shop, she was pinned down on the ground by a herd of frenzied fangirls shouting Salamander-sama with a very high-pitched sound. "Salamander? The fire mage with a one of a kind magic? This I got to see." She thought and got up from the road. Lucy dusted herself, looked around and went over the huge crowd of fangirls she spotted in the distance.
When she got to the crowd she saw a tall and slim man with spiky blue hair and a dark-colored tattoo over his right eye with the shape of an X. Lucy felt heat rising to her face and a loud thumping noise from was ringing in her ears as she looked at the man. "W-what is this feeling? Am I getting excited to see a famous mage or...is this LOVE?" She shouted to herself inside her mind as her eyes got a little glassy. She was interrupted by a shove when a man pushed himself through the crowd.
"Igneel. Igneel?" The man kept saying as he made his way through the throngs of people. Salamander was taken a bit aback at the sudden appearance of the man but he didn't let his glamorous smile falter.
The women surrounding the Salamander grew noticeably cold when the man looked at Salamander's face and slumped with an audible groan.
"Not him either, dammit." The man said and Lucy noticed that the man had pink hair. "Who has pink hair?" She thought to herself before starting to make way over him to say thanks as she had seen the rings in the other mans fingers and came to the conclusion that his rings had, most likely, charm magic in them. Lucy only took two steps when the other women in the group came out of the stupor they had been after the obvious disappointment of the pink haired devil.
"How dare you disrespect Salamander-Sama! Die you mongrel!" Where the loudest shouts from the group as it started to kick and hit the man who had been knocked in the ground. Lucy was just about to go to his help when there was a sudden growl from coming from the ground.
"GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME!" was the loud shout and the man rose from the ground with flames flickering around his arms and his eyes seemed to burn with irritation. The women took steps back as the sight gave them a scare.
"Now now young man. No need to shout and ladies, I think he meant no disrespect." Salamander said and walked over to the pink haired man to offer him the sign he was holding.
"Here, you can this. I know you came to get this." Salamander continued without giving the other man a chance to speak.
"Now I must be off, and you ladies are all welcome to my party! Nine o'clock at the harbor! In my ship! Be there or be square!" The man shouted with a grand flourish. He took his cape in his hand and took off from the place with a purple flame carrying him over to the harbor.
Lucy walked towards the pink haired man who was staring at the sign in his hand, with the signature Salamander, with disbelief in his eyes.
"Are you okay?" She asked the man and brought him out of the amazement.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine." The pink haired man said and flashed a grin that didn't quite reach his eyes.
"I'm Lucy and I'd like to thank you for your help." She said and offered her hand.
"I'm Natsu, this is Happy and what help?" Natsu said and took a look at the younger woman standing in front of him. She had brown eyes and blond hair with a ponytail on the side, which was tied with a blue ribbon. She had blue and white tank-top with a blue skirt and black knee-length boots.
"That asshole was using charm and almost got me, you knocked me when you came over so I was brought out of it." Lucy explained as Natsu kept looking at her with a confused face.
"Oh, no problem. I was just trying to get to him so no need to thank." Natsu said and turned his back on the blond with a wave of his hand.
"I'd still like to thank you. Let me buy you dinner, whadya say?" She said and hurried to catch up to the man.
"Well if you're sure then why not. I'm not going to say no to food." Natsu said and grinned at the blue cat that was walking next to him.
Over the next hour Lucy was going from gratitude to fatigue to horror as she saw the amount of food the two could shove down their throats. She had tried to eat but was quickly put off by the amount of food that was steadily being thrown out of their mouths as they chewed. "Good thing I saved my money." She thought and felt a slight shiver go down her spine as she wipe a piece of ham from her cheek. Lucy started a conversation in an attempt to slow down the two and possibly be spared from being showered with spit and pieces of food. Lucy told them about mages and mageguilds along with her wish to join Fairy Tail, the most famous mage guild in all of Fiore and Natsu told why he wanted to see the sleaze of a man, gaining a unbelieving look from the blond woman. After they finished Lucy said her goodbyes, hurriedly as she was embarrassed by the near shouted thank you's from the two and left from the restaurant with a new Sorcerer Weekly in her hands to see what was new in the magic world.
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"What am I doing here?" Lucy asked herself and tried to smile to the blue haired man sitting in front of him. She had been startled by the man when she had sat down in a park bench to read her magazine, only to be ambushed by his sudden appearance from the bushes. When Lucy had confronted him about the usage of Charm magic, the man had only asked if she wanted to join Fairy Tail as he was in a position to give a good word to the guild master. The only conditions were to join the party at the ship and not to talk about the Charm magic as it was against the law to use it. She had been quick to agree as it was her fondest wish to join Fairy Tail and now, here she was at the ship, regretting her decision.
"Now my sweet. Open your mouth and let these droplets of ectasy seduce your taste buds." The man said with a sickly sweet voice, the glamorous grin plastered to his face. Lucy sighed inside her head and opened her mouth to wait for the few drops to enter it. As the first one was just about to enter her mouth she slapped them to the side with an angry glare.
"Do you think I'm stupid? Trying to use Sleep magic now that Charm didn't work?" She said angrily and rose from the bench she had been sitting on.
"That's it. No matter how you are from Fairy Tail, you are despicable and if this is the way Fairy Tail does things, I want no part of it. I'm leaving and you can be sure I will report this to the authorities." She said hotly and made her way to the cabin door.
The door slammed open before she got to it and she was shocked to see the other women from the party being slung over the crew members.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, celestial mage-chan. I am bound to get a good price from you at Bosco, if I don't decide to break you in myself." The man said and gave Lucy a look that made her want to vomit. Before Lucy could say or do anything, the man was next to him with his keys in hand.
"Give me my Keys you bastard!" She shouted and made lunge towards the man. Salamander sidestepped and with a flick of his wrist, threw the keys out of the window.
"NOOOOO! MY KEYYYS!" Lucy shouted as she ran to the window.
"You're gonna pay for that." She said and turned around with a glare. Salamander smirked and raised his hand.
"Prominence Whi.." Was all he got out his mouth before he was slammed to the floor with a loud bang and falling pieces of wood. Lucy looked, wide-eyed, about the sudden hole in the roof.
"Lucy! What are you doing here?" Happy said and looked Lucy with a surprised look.
"Happy!? With WINGS?!" Lucy shouted at the sight of the blue
cat with white angelic wings behind him.
"AYE! And Natsu too." Happy said and dropped Natsu on the ship.
"I guess these are yours?" Natsu said and tossed a key ring to Lucy.
"MY KEYS!" Lucy cried and caught them in the air. She startled when she felt someone grab her and lift her in the air.
"Stop struggling Lucy, you're gonna fall." Happy said and tried to get a better grip. Lucy stopped and felt slightly relieved that it had been Happy to grab him and not one of those would be rapists.
"What about Natsu?" Lucy said and looked back at the ship.
"I can only carry one and Natsu's going to be fine. There is one problem though." Happy said, panting at the exertion of having to fly to the ship and back. With extra luggage.
"What's that?" Lucy asked, trying to think what was wrong now."
"Out of magic." Happy said with a neutral tone as his magic ran out and they both fell to the sea, Lucy screaming curses at the stupid blue cat all the way down.
"Stupid cat, you could have told me sooner!" Lucy shouted and smacked the blue cat on the top of his head.
"OWW! You're mean!" Happy said and rubbed his head.
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On the ship, Natsu was trying not to vomit and fight at the same time and that was not going too well. He had beaten the weaker men but he was really starting to feel the rocking of the ship now and with the blue haired man slinging his flame whip everywhere, it was really starting to wear Natsu out.
"Blaargh!" Natsu vomited at the floor, right in front of the few people who were still standing. The men were taking steps backwards, trying to avoid to have their feet covered in vomit and started to go to the backside of this pink haired idiot who had attacked them. They were just about to hit him when the ship suddenly started spinning, which made Natsu vomit more and they were all thrown from their footings as the ship crashed to the beach, going a few hundred meters inland. "The fuck was that?" Natsu thought and climbed out of the shattered pieces of what used to be the hull of the ship. He climbed his way on top of the ship and took a look at the men gathered down below, feeling his rage surge to new heights as his nausea was going down.
"So you are Salamander of Fairy Tail hmm?" Natsu growled at the leader of the men, kicking off the few men who had tried to climb on top to attack him.
"Yes, and you boy are pot roast." Salamander said with a sneer.
"Prominence Typhoon!" He shouted and a sudden purple flamed surrounded the pink haired man.
"NATSUU!" Lucy screamed at the beach as she saw Natsu being engulfed with flames.
"Don't worry Lucy, fire doesn't affect Natsu." Happy said, munching a fish he had caught from the tidal wave that washed them into the shore.
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked, worry laced in her voice.
"You'll see." Happy said without a care and munched down the fish. Lucy was about to ask again when she heard munching. Not from the blue cat but from inside the purple inferno that was still blazing on top of the ship.
"Awful. These flames taste like shit. What did you do to these." Natsu said and swallowed the last of the flames.
"Well no matter. Thanks for the meal, now I'm all fired up." He continued with a smirk as he saw the terrified faces of the men.
"What are you? A monster?" One of the men whispered.
"No, I'm Natsu Dragneel. The fire dragon slayer." Natsu said and ignited his fist as he rushed towards the group of men.
"A fire dragon slayer?" Lucy said to herself, still being amazed that the flames had done nothing to the man.
"Aye, he takes the characteristics of dragons. Scales of dragons to counter any attack. Claws of dragons to go through any armor. And lastly, well, see for yourself." Happy said as they watched Natsu mow down the slavers and finally attacking the leader himself with a blazing roar. Lucy winced slightly as she could feel the heat from where she was standing and feeling queasy from the smell of roasted meat she knew was coming from the slavers. Lucy was at awe of the destruction Natsu had done and was still in shock when Natsu came to them.
"Shit, we gotta leave now!" Natsu said with a hurried tone as his heard clanking of armor and shouts. Lucy didn't have time to react before Natsu grabbed her hand and started running.
"Wait, what. Where are we going?" Came Lucy's ragged words as she was panting from the sudden running.
"You wanted to join Fairy Tail right?" Natsu said with a slight grin and getting a nod from Lucy who was trying to slow down her breathing.
"That's where were going, you coming?" He asked the blonde woman, not slowing down even for a minute.
"Okay!" Lucy said, unable to keep the grin of her face as she was finally heading towards her dream.
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"When is daddy going to be back Aunt Mira?" A girl of six with white hair and onyx black eyes said, looking at the guild hall doors.
"I don't now sweetie but I bet it wont be long. You'll just be a good girl and do your homework. You don't want Erza to be mad at you, right?" The white-haired barmaid said and smiled gently to the girl.
"No Aunt Mira. Erza's scary when she's mad." The girl replied in a serious tone and turned her focus to the books in front of her. Mira sighed and ruffled the little girls hair before she went to give the ordered beers and barrel to their orderers.
"How's Lily doing?" A black-haired man asked and took the handle of the beer stein he was offered.
"Missing her dad Gray, what do you expect." She said with mock annoyance, knowing full well that everyone knew that Lily was missing her father and that was not what Gray had asked. Well, not only that. The man nodded and took sip of his beer before going back to his own thoughts.
"I'M BACK!" There was a sudden shout from the door as the doors slammed open, startling everyone inside the guild.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR FLAME-BRAIN?" Gray shouted and tried to wipe the beer off.
"QUIT WHINING POPSICLE!" Was the return shout and just as Gray was starting to rise from his chair, a voice came from behind him.
"Gray, clothes." Gray looked down and swore loudly, earning a hard slap to the back of his head.
"You do not swear in front of Lily, it's not manly!" A white-haired man with a scar across the right side of his face said with fury.
"Yea, freezer! If Lily has learned curse words from you, I'm gonna melt your ass." Natsu said and walked inside the guild, feeling happy that he was finally home.
"DADDY! YOUR BACK!" The little girl shouted from the bar as everyone deadpanned from the reaction. Everyone murmured that it was Natsu's daughter all right. The whole guild could crumble and she wouldn't know.
"Yea Lily. Daddy's back. How's my little girl?" Natsu said gently and picked the girl up. Lucy was slightly startled at the sudden shouting that had happened and even more so at the appearance of Natsu's daughter. They had talked on their way to the guild but Natsu had said nothing about a daughter or wife/girlfriend, not to mention that the carefree attitude that Natsu had had over their trip was not one you would usually find on a parent.
"You have a daughter?" She asked to confirm that she had indeed understood right the whole situation.
"Yea, this is Lily. My little girl." Natsu said with a smile and brought Lily over the blonde woman.
"Why? Hard to believe?" He continued and tickled the girl in his arms, causing the girl to break down in giggles.
"A little." Lucy said under her breath before shaking her head.
"I mean no, of course not. Hey Lily, my name is Lucy." She said and bowed closer to the small girl.
"Hello Lucy." Lily said and draped her arms over Natsu's neck.
"Welcome back Natsu. How did it go?" Mira asked from the bar, where she was wiping stains from the wooden counter that was shining from the lack of stains.
"A bust Mira. Thanks for watching over Lily." Natsu said with a subdued voice, not entirely hiding the hurt of not finding his father this time either.
"Hey Lucy. Talk to Mira about the joining." Natsu said and walked towards the bar when he spotted few books open on top of it. Lucy nodded and went to talk to Mira. After a few minutes Lucy was gawking over the new and pink Fairy Tail tattoo on the back of his hand, clearly happy about being a part of the guild.
"You should stop running around the country on these wild goose chases Dragon Dung. You're leaving Lily all alone." Gray said from his table, getting immediate action from Natsu. He gave Lily to Mira, who was also looking at Gray with annoyance, and walked over to his table.
"What was that Ice Princess?" He asked with a threatening growl.
"You heard me Matchbox. Stop leaving Lily alone." Gray said and stood from his chair.
"I'm not leaving Lily alone." Natsu said as a hard glint came over his eyes.
"Yes, you are jackass." Gray said with an equally low tone. Without warning, Natsu ignited his hands and gave Gray an uppercut that shot him out of his shoes. Gray lifted himself from the wreckage of chairs and tables and ran to Natsu. After a minute there was an all out brawl going on in the guild that left Lucy watching the destruction with a terrified face.
"Don't you think we should stop them?" Lucy asked the barmaid who was busy teaching Lily how to do the problem in her book.
"No, this is their way of bonding and unwinding. It'll stop soon." She answered and poured a glass to Lily, giggling at the frown on her forehead as she was thinking hard. Lucy turned to see what Mira was giggling about and couldn't help but join when she saw Lily scratching her way in a very Natsu like motion.
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"EVERYBODY STOP THIS INSTANT!" There was a new shout and Lucy dropped from her chair when she saw a huge black figure reaching to the ceiling. Every one stopped on their places and stared at the figure.
"Welcome back Master. How was your trip?" Mira said from the bar and took out the bottle that was preserved to the third guild master of Fairy Tail, Makarov.
"M-master?" Lucy asked, unable to take her eyes off from the huge figure standing in the doorway. Her eyes widened more when said figure suddenly shrinked to size of Lily and it was a old man.
"Yes, he is Makarov. Fairy Tail's third master." Mira said and gave the bottle to the Master before he jumped to the upper floor of the guild. He took a swig from the bottle and started waving a stack of papers. He then proceeded to chew off the members of Fairy Tail about the amount of complaints he had gotten from the Magic Council on destruction of property and the like, which made Lucy shudder as she remembered the destruction of the harbor of Harugeon. She dropped in surprise from her chair again when the master then set the stack of complaints on fire, threw them to Natsu and told them that they didn't need to worry about the complaints and or the destruction, so long as they were doing the good work they had been doing and strived to improve themselves. The whole guild grinned at that and continued on their drinking and chatting.
The master jumped down from the banister he had been standing and came to sit in the bar, next to Lily who he was very fond of. The new generation of Fairy Tail was very loved by the guild master and he made no attempt to hide it.
"So you must be new then?" Makarov said to Lucy and drank the rest of the bottle.
"Yes, I just joined Master. Natsu brought me in." Lucy said, feeling a bit nervous as the man was the Master of Fairy Tail for magics sakes. And here he was talking to her, someone who had been a member for almost fifteen minutes. Makarov lifted his brow at the news of Natsu bringing in someone new and looked at Mira who only nodded. Even she had been surprised that Natsu had brought someone over and both her and Makarov was hoping that this would be a sign of him coming out of his shell more. Not that he had been very unsocial but maybe this would mean that he had started to move on.
"Come on Lily. Time to go home." Natsu said and lifted Lily from the counter and gave her a kiss on top of her head.
"Okay daddy. I didn't get to finish everything." Lily said and wrapped her hands around her father's neck.
"Don't worry. I'll tell Erza it's my fault." Natsu said and started to walk out of the guild with Happy flying behind them. Lucy watched them leave with a smile before she noticed that no-one else was walking with Natsu. She turned towards Mira and Makarov with a quizzical look.
"Wheres Natsu's wife or girlfriend?" Lucy asked as she was baffled at why Natsu went home alone, sort of speaking. Makarov and Mira both had very serious faces when they answered.
"She died a while back. And you shouldn't talk about her to Natsu. Not yet anyway." Makarov said while giving a pack of tissues to Mira who was now crying silently.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know." Lucy said worriedly and looked down in shame.
"Don't worry about it, how could've you known? It's not like Natsu talks about Lisanna." Mira said between sobs as the memory was hard on her too.
"We hope that this means he's coming out of his shell." Makarov said and took another bottle of beer.
"Shell?" Lucy asked and was confused.
"He didn't seem like he shut himself out when we walked here." Lucy said, looking for an explanation. She was a writer and these kinds of things made good material, not that she would use this without Natsu's permission as these kinds of things were very personal but Lucy couldn't help her curiosity.
"Well, he's not that unsocial anymore but you're the first he had brought in years. The last ones were Erza, Mira, Eflman, the white haired man over there, Lisanna and Betty. We were all brought in around the same time." Mira said, finally being calm even if there was still a slight puffiness around her eyes. Lucy was surprised at this, and she was also surprised at just how many surprises she had had in one day. It was starting to be overwhelming and Mira offered her to stay over at their house as Lucy was new and didn't have anywhere to stay. Lucy gladly accepted and Mira waved Elfman to come over and show Lucy where she was staying until she found her own place.
Now I know at least half of you who are going to read this are going to shout at me for not updating the stories I already started but bare with me. The reason is that I'm stuck. And the best way to get unstuck is to stop trying to force it and do something else for a bit, so that's why I did this.
There are going to be more than a few changes for the canon of Fairy Tail and hopefully that won't bother you all that much. And before we go any deeper, this is me trying to be upbeat and cheery like Fairy Tail is supposed to be. Please tell me how I did. And if you have any questions about this fic, or suggestions, you can PM me or ask in the reviews. And I would really much like if you would review, either this or my other stories and you can give suggestions and ideas for the other two of my unfinished stories. Who knows, maybe I can get a chapter out of them. :D I know this is short but this is supposed to be an sort of introduction to this story. There are going to be pairings in this, I just don't know what pairs I will be doing. I do know that I will NOT pair Natsu with Lucy and/or Lisanna. Those two are out but otherwise I'm open to suggestion. Well I hope you like this. See you all soon.
-DraXXter-