first time uploading... i dont really get the format and all but welllll, enjoy ^^
the first chapter is sorta... a prologue ish thing... and its full of sadness and stuff but it get way better in the later chapters! i swear!
Chapter One: Despair
What just happened…? The cold air blew sediments of dust onto his body making Natsu flinch in pain as he felt the wound on his shoulder. Not long ago, he remembered watching Igneel as he took off into the sky for the fifth time that day… It was also the last time he has ever seen him.
Natsu limped over to his favorite place in the meadows; the warm feeling of sunlight touched his skin. He had a hard time figuring what exactly just happened. "He left me." Was circling in his head for the whole time. Oww… dammit my shoulder hurts. As Natsu drifted into his thoughts, he felt the pain disappearing.
Natsu slowly went to sleep with the scarf that was gifted to him by Igneel grasped tightly in his hands. The feel of the soft surface reassured him that Igneel was ok, that there was nothing to fear. He'll be back. Though he didn't notice the dark presence of violence happening not far away from those meadows.
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The ice mage slashed a dozen shards of crystalized tree branches into the defenseless dragon's skin making the warm red fluid flow out of the wounded flesh. He was almost pushed off the tip of the ditch, only inches before he makes a journey into the sparkling blue liquid.
"Not so mighty are we now, Igneel?" smirked the evil presence as he commanded his ice to go into the shape of a bow and arrow making the final blow to the poor dragon.
"I…I'll re…member… this…" Igneel managed to say before lunging into the water.
"Heh, you weren't even the right match for me, and they call you "the legendary fire dragon"? Oh by the way, the names Gray, remember it." The Ice mage dusted off his leather jacket before taking off.
That foolish mage… he was manipulated by Zeref. All he wants is power, there's no meaning in power if you don't have a heart. Igneel felt a trickle of tear down his cheek before drenching into the salty sea. I'm sorry… Natsu. I can't help you anymore…
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When Natsu woke up, the meadow was nowhere to be seen. This was a foreign place; one that he's never been to… and never would want to go to. Ashes flew everywhere, stinging his face with every movement. There was a fire. One that wasn't like the normal forest fires but one that indicates despair.
The trees were rotting and decomposing with every second that passes, there was no creature to be seen in the now dying forest.
"This couldn't be…" tears trickle down his cheeks as he remembered what Igneel once told him; "when a guardian of a forest withers away or leaves, the forest would be in inevitable disaster. Fires would be roaring away and trees would be rotting. This is why there must be a guardian in every forest, to protect what's important to them. And to save those that need them." Natsu stood there, anger rushing to his head as he choked out these simple words "I'll murder you… the one who killed my father."
Even though Igneel was only a dragon that took him in when Natsu needed him and also wanted to train him to become a dragon slayer, Natsu still thought of him as his own father. One that was there to teach him everything he needed to know. How could someone just… make him perish off the surface of the earth? He was really weak at that time, for his magic was used up to re-build the forest after a war between two guilds. Igneel needed to rest and obtain his magic back before fighting someone… how could they be so cruel?
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"What's that? Your saying that it'll be a waste of time to go against a kid like me? Who do you think you are you obese chicken thing?" Gray challenged the pissed off sorcerer that was clearly making a death glare at him.
"You dare insult the great Chicow? (LOL random character I made up) If it's a fight you want, then it's a fight you get." The Chicow lunged at Gray but missed slightly as gray dodged and planted a punch in the feathery creature's face and head-butting him to the walls.
This place was full of random creatures challenging one another into fights and gambles. The walls showed signs of scratches here and there and the florescent wallpaper was peeling off. There was a stench coming from who-knows-where and broken tables scattered all over the floors. A ledge was separating one half of the room from the other and a curtain door hung open for guests to come anytime.
Scrunching in pain, the Chicow grabbed Gray's hair and pushed him over to brake yet another mirror. Gray stood up, wiping excess blood from his mouth off with his shirt while making an ice hammer, squishing the Chicow under it.
"UNCLE! UNCLE! I concede!" the Chicow screamed in pain as the hammer slowly disappeared and when he looked up, there was Gray, smirking at yet another victory.
"Useless. Is there nobody that can match my power? And I came to this town to specially search for one too." Gray picked up his shirt and strolled out the guild, bored to death at another easy win.
It had been one year since he foolishly went up against the master of darkness, Zeref. He lost depressingly without the master even losing a sweat. And from then on, the raven-haired boy was determined to beat that powerful mage.
The darkness of what happened to his family caused him to become a twisted person. It was five years ago…
-Flashback-
"Hey, nii-chan, when are we going to go surfing? You promised that you would bring me there when we had spare time!" Gray pouted as his brother waved him out of his room.
"I'm busy, gray, some other time ok?" Gray's brother seemed to be busy searching frantically around his closet for something so Gray decided to not be a brat and listen to what his brother was saying.
He strolled outside to the nearby village along the grassy roads. The wind was calm and it's a sunny day outside today, so he thought that it would've been a great day for surfing. Gray spotted a cat and chased it all the way into the nearby forest where he stretched and took a little nap.
He woke up when he heard a THUMP coming from somewhere. He looked up and there, from the forest, he saw this gigantic monster thing destroying all the houses it sees in its path and clawing away at the innocent villagers.
All Gray could remember was blood and in a flash, the once beautiful and cheery village was reduced to dust at the monster's hands. It was terrifying. Gray looked all over for his family members to see if they're hurt and he found his big brother under a pile of ash and logs.
"NII-CHAN! ARE YOU OKAY?" Gray frantically pushed on the big log and pulled his big brother out.
"Answer me please…" gray sobbed and his eyes widened as he saw his mother and father with blood all over, their limp bodies making Gray look away and curl up into a ball. He sobbed in his shirt and inside his head, he thought that he needed to be stronger… he must take revenge for his family.
-End of flashback-
weeeeeeeee~ time to upload another chapter :D plz R&R flames are welcome anytime :]
