Written Disclaimer: I am not the owner of Fairy Tail, all rights are reserved to Hiro Mashima.

Author's Note: Alright, now you may or may not have ever heard this but, you do have a right on whether or not to read this story. If you have any constructive criticism I implore that you share your thoughts, however, if you do not like the story that I am writing because of something I do or it seems too generic, I ask that you may share your thoughts about this as well but do try to keep things nice and civil.

Important things that should be noted:

Year of Lisanna's death

Natsu's strength and intellect (He will NOT be OP or insanely smart but he will have ideas and a better concept of things that in canon he would not.)

I will be stating this again later when it comes up but Natsu and Erza's relationship with Wendy (Will be more familial)

Age Changes:

Natsu- 19

Erza- 21

Wendy- 11

Anyways, I don't want to ramble on too much sooo, here is the story

Chapter 1: Fanning the Flames

Magnolia x780

The day was bleak and overcast as a large group of people stood in the middle of a cemetery. Two of these people had white hair and were easily identifiable as siblings. These siblings were kneeling in front of a headstone crying profusely at the loss of their sister while a girl with scarlet hair gently placed a hand on each of their shoulders.

Looking up the redhead had finally worked up enough courage to read the gravestone, which said:

Here lies Lisanna Strauss

Kindred spirit, Fairy Tail mage

And the best sister any sibling could ask for

Underneath the words there was an engraved symbol that most would presume to be the symbol of the Guild called Fairy Tail. As the redhead finished reading the words marked down on the gravestone of Lisanna she felt tears blurring the vision in her left eye as they began to roll down her cheek. She looked backwards to look for a pink haired mage amongst the other mourning guild mates. After searching for a few minutes with no luck she squeezed the Strauss sibling's shoulders as she walked to the guild master.

"Master, have you seen Natsu? I haven't seen nor heard from him since Mirajane and Elfman got back and I am worried about him."

"No Erza, I am afraid that I haven't seen him either. Honestly, I am worried too. No one has seen him in four days and it isn't like Natsu to just disappear like that. However, I think I may know where he is."

Meanwhile in a forest outside of Magnolia stood a young teen with salmon pink hair. The teen's body looked like he had just walked through a tornado. His body was littered with cuts and bruises along with quite a few deeper gashes along various parts of his body. The baggy pants he generally wore were reduced to just the upper portion and a shredded vest was could be seen discarded to the side, no longer able to serve its purpose. The surrounding area looked as though it fared no better, there were scorch marks all over the pace on various things while the ground seemed to be made of them seemingly blackened all over. Pieces of scorched rock littered the clearing while the trees surrounding the area were scorched on the sides facing the clearing.

"Damn it all, this isn't enough! At this rate, I'll never be able to protect my friends and family." Natsu shouted vehemently.

'I also won't be able to protect her, wait were did that come from?'

"Ah, think Natsu. What can I do to make myself stronger?" Natsu pondered this question for a moment before he thought of something, shouting to himself, "I've got an idea!"

"Little kids like you having an idea is dangerous." A voice drawled from one of the trees surrounding the clearing.

Natsu whipped around to face the speaker, he was dressed with a black leather jacket over a black shirt. He was wearing black jeans topped off with black combat boots, if you couldn't see his face you'd have thought it was simply just a large shadow. Natsu wore an enraged expression on his face while he snarled, "I am not a little kid!"

The man's flinch was barely visible when he looked into the dragon slayer's eyes. Said eyes seemed to burn a hole straight into the man's soul. The man however, visibly relaxed when his partners appeared around the clearing, signifying their operation was about to start.

Natsu had almost suddenly noticed four other scents surrounding him around the clearing. "What do you want from me?" Natsu asked.

"Well, since you asked so polite like. I think that we an divulge a little bit." One of the men behind him said.

"Sure, since it won't matter in the end of things." Another implied.

"To answer your question, we want you." The man grinned evilly, "and your magic. You see, we are magic hunters that look for people with ancient, lost or simply rare types of magic. It just happens that this line of work runs hand in hand with black market bounty hunting, which of course is run by the Balam Alliance. And one of the biggest upcoming targets just happens to be a pink haired brat standing in front of us."

Natsu dissected the information for a few seconds before he realized what it meant. He got ready to fight these people but he knew he wasn't going to last very long, he had been training his body for four days straight and it was surprising to even him that he was still standing. He was already blinking spots out of his eyes and it seemed to him that these five men were well rested and ready to go.

The five men all got into different stances while readying their magic. Almost in perfet synchronization they called out.

"Earth Make…"

"Metal Make…"

"Water Make…"

"Wood Make…"

"Ice Make…" Upon hearing this Natsu immediately frowned.

"Golem!" They all shouted as five golems clad in armor with shields and weapons of their respective elements formed.

The five golems charged at Natsu who felt a slight energy spike of adrenaline. The two golems to reach Natsu first was the ice and wook golems. Natsu jumped backwards and lit his arms on fire before shouting, "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!"

The attack hit both golems, engulfing the wood golems in flames while the ice golem melted into a puddle of water. When Natsu landed he felt a presence behind him as he turned and ducked the slash from the incoming sword of the metal golem but was shield bashed in the face which sent him tumbling in front of the earth golem as he pounced backwards and twisting his body and again lighting his fist on fire before yelling, "Fire Dragon's Crushing Fang!"

Sweeping his arm in a deadly arc his fist made contact with the golem at the base of the neck decimating it, flinging dirt and tiny rocks everywhere as dirt got into his eyes. Natsu reeled back while involuntary natural tears sprung to his eyes to flush out the dirt making his vision hazy. The water golem reached Natsu as he began to stand back up. He turned around to look for the two golems remaining as his eyes widened in shock as the water golem was bringing its sword down to slash across Natsu's body. Natsu tried careening backards to escape the blow but only succeeded inmaking the gash slightly shallower. Acting on instinct alone, Natsu set his body ablaze to cauterize the wound and plunged a fist of fire into the water golen. The fire died out but the heat remained as the golem started to boil and turn to steam.

Looking away from the golem he was turning to steam he saw all five men smirking at him. Something about the demeanor seemed too confident, when a shadow loomed over Natsu. He turned around with a raised hand intended to stop the shield bash he knew was coming at him. When he felt the shield he dug his fingers into the metal shield by heating the metal up to make it more malleable. When he had a firmgrip he tore the shield away from the golem and in the same movement whipped it across the clearing, sticking it in a tree.

Spots were once again dancing in his vision as the adrenaline wore off. 'Not now, why does it have to be now?' Natsu thought as the last golem swung its blade's flat edge to knock Natsu out. Natsu ducked under the blow and stumbled backwards. He broke the fall by twisting his body and using his left hand to stop the momentum, effectively breaking his wrist in the process with a sickening crunch. He was able to regain his footing and coat his right fist in flames.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

The attack made contact and punched a hole right though the metal golem. He pulled his arm out and set his foot aflame and jumped, throwing his weight downwards to garner as much force into the kick as possible.

"Fire Dragon's Claw!"

The attack was severely weakened from Natsu's fatigue, however the sheer force of the kick smashed and twisted the metal golem into a mostly heaping pile of scrap. Despite being basically destroyed the metal golem still was able to swing the pommel of its sword into the dragon slayer's temple, serving to cause him to start blacking out. Just before he did he saw the golem shudder and collapse while his last thought was, 'I am sorry, Erza…'

Author's Note: First off, if you are reading this note right now and managed to read the entire story, well, I congratulate you. I also must apologize to you before I explain anything, so I am sorry.

Now, if you were confused about Natsu punching a hole through the metal golem I should explain that the golem is not solid. I would presume that the durability of the metal would require much more magic power. I would also like to state that with this kind of magic I would say that a master of metal make could use different types of metal, like iron or steel but doing so would again require more magic power.

If the whole thing about the ice make confused you as well, I will explain how they were able to get this in next chapter but it has to do with Gray's backstory. Which will be the same as canon so that really should answer that.

Also, should the posting process go as planned, the title of this story is Dragon's Treasure. It doesn't really seem to have any relevance but I think that Natsu has always wanted a family. It is something that he would treasure, which is where I got the name for the story.

I will not lie and say that this is my first draft because it really isn't, I have a literal hard copy that is slightly different than what I typed but it really does contain the same things. So, should I lose anything on the computer I still should not lose my ideas/thoughts for the story.

Anyhow, I am open to any suggestions that you may have and I bid you a fair day.

-Dead Delta