Chapter 1 - Natsu's Secret Past!"
*I do not own any of the Fairy tail characters or anything related to it*
It was gloomy night in Magnolia, harsh rain was storming the wild city. The streets consisted of wet people running to find cover. A street light flickering and dying out, causing darkness to fill the street. But just up ahead was a roaring guild full of light and happiness. In there you found people bickering, drinking, working, partying, eating, all sorts of ing's really. There was a certain blonde sitting on a comfy chair with a book and blanket off to the side. Hanging to every word she found the little world in her hands to be fascinating. She wasn't even in the same room as the others.
The barmaid Mirajane was giving out motherly smile to her little sister and Erza. "Wow look at Lucy she must be reading something interesting to have been so invested in her book with all this commotion around her".
"Yeah she looks just like a little girl reading a fairy tale" Erza said causing the trio to laugh.
Off to the other side of the room were the three exceeds talking about the members of Fairy tail who were living life like there was no tomorrow. Cana, Macao, Wakaba, Nab and Max were having a drinking competition. Gray was trying to get Juvia off of him. Gajeel was with Levy arguing how boring books were, Jet and Droy were arm wrestling, Elfman was chatting up with Freed, Bixlow and Evergreen about being the manliest one. Romeo and Levy were chowing down the Cheesecake that was left over from Erza's 7th one that day. Gildarts who had returned to visit his daughter was drunk with Laxus and Makarov. And a certain pink haired mage was snoring off in a corner. When suddenly….
"Man this rain is driving me nuts!" Gray inspired around the guild the most obvious of conversations,
"Yeah and Salamander here has been snoring like a log driving me nuts!" Gajeel continued,
"Leave him be boys!" Erza yelled from the bar"He's been doing non-stop jobs for the past three weeks".
"You know come to think of it why has he been doing so many jobs lately, and that to by himself! He usually does most of his jobs Lucy or you guys" Lisanna inquired next to Erza.
"I don't know hasn't told me anything" Gray replied closing in on the conversation as the guild resumed what they were doing before Gray and Gajeel had started this commotion. Then Happy flew over to Lisanna stopping under her hand as she petted the blue furball.
"Yeah you now he hasn't told me why either" Happy said butting in.
"Really I thought always told you everything" Mira replied.
"No, when I asked he just said it's a surprise" Happy replied.
"That's odd" the scarlet mage pondered with her peers.
"Maybe LuLu knows" Levy said coming next to Gajeel who held his chin in his hand as he thought the reasons why Salamander did what he did.
"Good idea" Gray said "Hey Lucy" but the blonde did not budge from her little world.
"LUCY!" the group yelled.
"Ah! What can't you guys see I am reading here!" Lucy replied
"We know we were just wondering if you knew why Natsu was taking so many jobs" Levy asked the upset blonde.
"I don't know, he asked me to tag along but he was doing so many, and back to back nonetheless I had to decline" Lucy replied.
"Wow! Now I am starting to worry!" Mira said to the group while looking for the pinkette who had disappeared from his favorite napping spot. "What! Where did he go?!"
Everybody turned around to look for him and Gray yelled "What, I just saw him where did flame brain disappear to?"
Mira then called Gildarts, who was sitting on the bar right next to where Natsu was sleeping a moment ago "Gildarts did you see Natsu just now?"
"Huh? Yeah? No? Wait what?" he replied drunk.
"Ugh you're drunk old man!" Laxus called him out struggling to stand up. It turns out the two strongest wizards in fairy tail had also had a drinking competition with the Guild's Master.
"He is in the showers Mira!" Gramps said still sober than the two strongest.
"He said he was tired from napping so now he's gonna go take a shower to relieve the fatigue"
"Oh!" the bunch replied,
"Why are you guys so worried about Natsu?" he inquired his children.
"Well you see master" Erza started "Ever since we got back from the Grand Magic Games he's been working back to back jobs without us, and he hasn't even told happy why?"
"Oh yes! I was worried to apparently in the jobs he had taken recently were really high paying jobs, where he did a lot of the fighting and apparently he hasn't destroyed much either, thus I haven't heard from the magic council about him since. So I approached him, apparently he said that he wanted to buy the nearby land around his home something about making his house bigger and getting proper furniture, said someone was coming to live with him and he needed to make his place more "liveable"" at this the guild took a turn to shock they couldn't imagine there dense pinkette to actually do something normal for once. Even Lucy had put down her book to find more about this.
"Who's coming happy?" Lisanna asked the blue furball still under her arm.
"I don't know he hasn't told me yet, all he said it's a surprise" he replied with an upset town disappointing the rest.
"Aww come on Gramps! I told you to keep it a secret till she arrives!" a familiar voice yelled from the entrance and exit of the guild showers which were conveniently placed by the pool.
"Natsu!" everyone yelled in unison.
"Oops!" the tiny old man said with a hiccup.
"Whoa Natsu got a girlfriend!" someone yelled "Is it you Lucy are you finally moving in with him" rumors started which Lucy loudly denied with having a part in any of this she was as shocked as the rest.
"So Natsu who's coming to live with you?" Lisanna asked in a sultry voice.
"Oh well, I wanted to keep it a surprise but since Gramps ruined it" the teen said walking closer to the bunch topless, drying his hair with a towel and sitting down on the bar stool next to Lisanna.
Everyone closed in trying to listen to the young boy with eagerness, "But before I can tell you about her you guys need to know about him!" he said with a smirk on his face.
"Just tell us already" Charle yelled with anticipation sitting down next to Wendy and Romeo who had turned their attention to the Pinkette's story.
"Did Gramps tell you how he found me in the forest after Igneel disappeared?" he asked with getting nods in return "Well the truth is he didn't find me right a way, he found me a 8 months after Igneel's disappearance"
~ Flashback ~
"After Igneel left, I looked everywhere, visited the nearby towns, villages but I couldn't find him, and I walked for days, no weeks, when I found the Ancient City of Guardians!" Natsu narrated
A younger version of the pinkette stood firm on a hilltop overlooking the giant city, a large tower stood to the East of it, where he saw a large bird fly, which filled his eyes with hope, thinking it was Igneel. But suddenly his vision started to get blurry and he fell to his knees. His gaze turning to the large birds who was flying towards him, "Igneel!" he scorned out but barely any voice came. The boy collapsed changing his vision to the ground. He started going in and out of his subconsious trying to stay awake to meet his adopted father but when the figure came close it was not Igneel rather a large Gryphon who when came close transformed into a young built man. That man came to his knees next to Natsu, held his head in his lap giving him water out of his leather bottle. Still Natsu barely gave any response. Natsu kept going in and out witnessing the large houses beneath him as the man flew him back to the top of the tower, where he finally went to sleep.
The next morning he woke up to be lying in the silver bedroom, with a chandelier hanging above his room gave him notice of it's elegance. Suddenly Natsu found that he was very comfortable wherever he was. He found himself outside the room a few minutes later trying to explore the strange land. He walked down the stairs and found a large amount of commotion. To his left was a dining table filled with people surrounding it, eating, bickering, drinking, as if there was no tomorrow.
"So you're awake" a soft and gentle voice spoke from behind. Natsu turned around to find his savior a silver haired man with light red mascara around his blue eyes, he was tall and respected. Because when he spoke the room had gotten silent. He came down to Natsu's eye level "My name is Damien I found you on Journey hill overlooking us, you were about to pass out of hunger and fatigueness I suggest you eat up and save your strength for you have a lot to tell us about that peculiar fire inside you". The man spoke to Natsu who was invited later by the hungry men of the table.
They sat him down and gave him plenty of food to eat, which he chowed down in the matter of minutes. He found another boy across him offering a plate full of veggies. The brunette boy with dark brown eyes spoke in his childish manner "You're going to need their strength".
Natsu quietly took the veggies and ate them, even though they did not taste as well he knew he could use whatever he got. Once they were done eating, Damien led them to the living room where he took Natsu in his lap so he could narrate his story. Which he did hesitantly and came to a sad ending.
"Oh so you are the fire dragon slayer, I should've guessed" he smiled to Natsu.
"Wait you know about me?" Natsu replied.
"Lets just say I knew Igneel, he was a dear friend only dragon who defeated me, he is the king of fire dragons of course. Let me tell you one more thing, even though you might think that Igneel has gone you should know that he is always with you in here" He said pointing to his heart "And one day he will come back to help you and you will be reunited".
With that Natsu gave them his biggest smile, which cheered the bunch including the young boy who was paying attention to every word that had been spoken by the new duo.
Soon after they were done narrating Natsu found himself again with Damien and the young boy who were being led to the top of the tower.
"Psst!" the boy spoke out. "I'm Sarune nice to meet you!"
"Hi I'm Natsu, nice to meet you too" he said back to the young boy smiling.
Damien interrupted the two new friends "Natsu, you must be wondering what's going on, let me tell you, You are in the Guardian City of Magic, in the tower of the Guardians!" he said opening the doors to a windy ledge overlooking the magnificent city, chirping with hope and light. The city roared full of people happily bartering, fighting, living!"In this city we are the Guardians we look over the entire world of magic. We hide in the shadows and try to save the world from calamities. This city is our home, we the guardians were the first ones to learn how to use Magic, we then went out and spread this knowledge now every being knows it so we protect it. We are the Guardians of Magic!
Natsu looked with wide eyes and heard the adult with clear ears. He looked at the entire city with amazement and found the chill in his spine which shivered his entire body with excitement. He found himself looking at the boy next to him who was displaying a large smirk.
Damien turned around to find himself placing his hands on Sarune's shoulders "Sarune here is training to be the next hea Guardian and replace me, and as guardians it's our responsibility to stay in the shadows so outside this city we are just regular workers, you got that?"
"Yeah!" the young boy cheered.
~ Flashback end ~
Everybody back at the guild was at their utmost silence even Gildarts who had returned to normal soberness found the story intriguing.
"I am sorry I never told you guys, they made me promise" he said to all of the guild.
"What happened next!" Lucy asked in eagerness which the Guild complied with.
"I lived with them for eight months in which I met dozens of new people, I even asked if I could become a guardian with Sarune who became my first best friend but Damien said that Igneel wanted me to go down another path when he trained me so I never joined them. But the short amount of time that I spent there were some of my happiest. I even met this beautiful pink haired girl Elaine!" he continued "She was one of the most beautiful girl I ever met, and Sarune was in love with her! You wouldn't believe how nervous he got around her, anyways for eight months I lived there when I decided to leave and look for Igneel. Damien took me back to where Igneel had raised me where I met Gramps and found you guys. I never heard from them again until two weeks ago, apparently since we were gone I had missed the letter but it came back when the news of our return got out, 6 years ago the city was destroyed in a massive attack led by some big monster. One of Zeref's minions but it turns out the Guardians took them out. But with heavy cost every single one of them died and were buried, but one survived!" Natsu said turning back to the guild.
"Aww I am so sorry Natsu" Mira said with others looking at him with sympathetic looks on their face.
"Oh no it's fine they died doing their duty and plus Sarune said in the letter that he didn't want me to cry if he got the news"
"So it was he who survived?" Erza asked.
"No he became the head Guardian so he had to lead them into battle, where he died killing the monster but his daughter survived, her mother Elaine died protecting her and now Madelaine and upon their death I was named her god-father, but since I was gone she was living in an orphanage in Crocus, when got word I asked the Orphanage's headmaster to drop her off here in one month so I can get everything ready" he said, the whole guild looked at him shocked.
They all started yelling at for being an idiot and not going to pick her up at the Orphanage, yet most were concerned about him, how he was going to handle taking care of a little girl all on his own. When Natsu got up and yelled "ENOUGH! I am not letting my first best friend's daughter to live without a family when I am still here, she is going to be under my care now and I will take care of her, none of you can stop me according to the laws I am above age to take care of a child even though we spent the last seven in Tenrou".
Hearing that Makarov got up from his seat on the bar and found his way towards Natsu who was standing by Lisanna and Levy, "Natsu my boy, the path you have chosen for yourself is going to be hard and beautiful, you are going to go through times but don't worry cause you have your family with you, Fairy Tail always takes care of their own, and if she's your god-daughter then she is a member of our family and no one can change that. Always remember we have your back if you ever need anything!"
"Thanks Gramps I needed that!" Natsu said back
Erza came upto him and said "And we will help you with get ready for Madelaine's arrival!"
To which the whole guild yelled "Yeah!"
Well that's chapter 1 guys! I know I kinda rushed the flashback but I am going to do a lot of flashbacks later on when Natsu tells his stories to the young girl. This is my first Fanfic so it will be great if you guys can give some honest reviews and also appreciate it if you can let me know If you think I should continue this, I will add a lot of Natsu x someone later on when I decide on who. This series will take a deep and wild turn if you think I missed something or should add something please let me know and I will do my best.
Thanks!