X784, Tenrou Island

The boy, no older than eighteen, stood there silently. Staring down one of the most fearsome beasts in the entire history of Fiore, Acnologia, the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse, and prayed he chose the right decision in tricking his friends, his family. He knew what would happen if they ran, the cursed beast would follow and then surely destroy them and anything in its way, and he would not allow that to happen, and besides this would be the perfect match to test his true power.

Yes that is correct. Natsu Dragneel, the Fire Dragon Slayer, Salamander of Fairy Tail, the Flame Dragon Igneel's son was going to fight to the last breath with Acnologia, the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse on Fairy Tail's Private Island, Tenrou Island, the Burial ground of Mavis Vermillion, the first Guild Master of Fairy Tail.

Now despite what most would think Natsu wasn't as dense as he seemed, when it came to a battle to a small grudge fight, Natsu was the perfect guy to ask for tips and hints, he is a master Tactician, master Martial Artist (AN: I don't know if they had martial arts in there but it looked like it, so I'm going with it) and had the abilities to help back him up, but he is not stupid. He knew why most thought of him as the dense power house who only wanted to fight, but it was not true. He was extremely knowledgeable in quite a few things, a dragon would not have an idiot as a son and heir, and they would be seen as a disgrace and an embarrassment to the dragon world and their kind, not to mention the humiliation they would suffer.

So Natsu hid his true intelligence, and while it was not as impressive as Levy's or a Wizard Saint, it was still nothing to laugh at. With his intelligence hid, he adopted a persona, someone who was a fun care free guy that would rather fight a girl than kiss her. He knew that he was still loved the way he was but he didn't want to be famous, he just wanted the family, and that small wish was granted in the form of a completely accidental meeting between Makarov Dreyar and Natsu.

Natsu shook off his thoughts as he heard the shouts, cries and pleas to come with them; that this was a fight he could not win, and why was he being an idiot at a time like this. Natsu laughed silently when he heard that one, trust Gray to be the same until the end, but he couldn't, otherwise they would die, all of them. He looked away for the black behemoth and towards his family and smiled at them. He looked at them all with small tears forming in his eyes, as he tried as hard as he could to show them how he felt with his eyes alone. When he saw the master sigh, he knew it was time to get this over and done with.

So Natsu turned his back on the his family, knowing if he turned back then he would bail out to stop the sadness he knows he caused, and with that he took a deep breath and shifted into a familiar stance, and bellowed a well-known shout that won most of his fights.

"FIRE DRAGONS ROAR"

With the spell cast a huge torrent of flame erupted from Natsu's mouth and headed straight for the Black Dragon, however as soon as the flame that emerged from Natsu had finished, everyone's, including the fighters, eyes had widened due to three things.

One: Natsu had never breathed such a large amount of fire in one go, ever. The size of this flame was about ten feet long by ten feet wide. Two: the time spent blowing the flames had never been this long, around seven minutes of blowing flames had nearly caused everything within a five metre radius of the fire was burnt to a crisp, including the ground. Three the most surprising: Natsu's Flames had managed to not only damage the dragons glimmering scales but also severely damage the dragon itself, with visible evidence as well. What once as an unscathed shiny black and light blue surface was now covered with burns, small gashes and a lot of blood, if the red liquid dripping from the beast's body was anything to go buy.

Silence descended on the island, it was as if even Mother Nature had stopped the sound of the winds and plants, to see the result of such an attack. The guild mates had their jaws on their floor, the master was on the crying between happiness and fear for the counter-attack, on a hill nearby a small child like mage wearing white robes is smiling with pride and hidden by the dense forest a black haired mage wearing black robes and a white sash was nearly giddy with excitement as the prospect of finally being freed from his cursed life could quite possibly come true.

However Acnologia was furious that this puny human could do this much damage to him in one go, and while he had to admit there was power to this boy, that was soon forgotten as his rage soon consumed his entire being as he prepared his roar to wipe this boy and everything behind him for five clear miles from existence. Natsu seeing this quickly grew ready to hopefully repeat his last attack to counter the power from his enemy's roar.

With both parties collecting enough air, they waited for half a second eyes locking onto each other, one showing absolute rage, the other pure determination and unwillingness to be defeated. The small amount of time dragged for hours to the watchers, and then power, pure unmatchable power was felt throughout the Island as the two roared. Fire met Chaos (?) as they battled for dominance, in their struggles they did not notice those around them covering their ears with pained expressions on their faces due to the sound produced by the two.

After a few minutes of struggling Natsu unknowingly slipped into his Dragon Force and upped his power output, slowly overpowering his opponent until with a final push launched his fire and his opponent's roars into his mouth and down his throat. There was a reason why Dragons told their students to never eat their own flames and that of another element, while the other's element could possibly be controlled through sheer willpower, the cause of eating your own magic is an explosive end. Now imagine the power of the explosion the King of Dragons could cause.

All the while watched in awe of the output displayed by both fighters, after recovering their hearing, and when Natsu pushed Acnologia's roar back into his throat cheered with wild abandon until Fairy Sphere surrounded Acnologia and Natsu, and Mavis appeared in front of them with her hands held out and sweat pouring down her face in concentration.

Most wondered why, until the explosion happened and ripped everything to shreds within the dome of Fairy Sphere, minutes passed until it as presumed safe enough to search, but before they could a swirl of blue and orange flames lit up the dark sky and sucked in the ashes of everything caused by the explosion, and to everyone's horror that included Natsu. Though he was dead tired he was still stubborn enough to make it back to his family. Everyone rushed over and held him down with all their might.

"I did it guys, I saved you. I stopped him from killing you, and…" Natsu coughed a little bit of blood but still forced a small weak smile, but a smile none the less, and everyone returned it. The pull of the vortex was growing stronger and they struggled to keep him still. "It's okay guys, let go, I did what I always wanted to in the best way possible. I will die knowing that I kept you safe from that…cough…monster, and I want to thank you all, for helping me and giving me the best family ever." Throughout his small speech Natsu slowly started to rise into the air, all the while smiling.

"Thank you, and Goodbye" with that Natsu smiled and raised his arm up signalling the message that all Fairy's knew, and it was returned with tear stained smiles and calls of goodbye, with that last communication Natsu was surrounded by flames and disappeared from sight. It was only then that all the female guild members collapsed to their knees and bawled their eyes out, wailing at the skies, as the males did their best to comfort them, all the while crying as well, hoping that one day they would see their friend again.

X773, A Deserted Mountain

A small seven year old boy with pink hair woke up to the sight of a large scaly red head, dozens of sharp white pointy teeth, and narrowed yellow eyes with slits in the irises that showed a mixture of emotions: anger, pride and fear being the main ones.

"IGNEEL!"

HI EVERYONE THIS IS MY FIRST TIME WRITING ANY FORM OF ANIME STORY SO PLEASE BE GENTLE, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ANY OPINIONS AND IDEAS YOU HAVE TO IMPROVE THE STORY, ADVICE WILL BE EXTREMELY WELCOMED AND I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE STORY.

ALSO ANY FLAMES WILL BE EATEN BY NATSU.