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Fighting the Council

Chapter 1

Igneel watched in awe at his pink haired disciple. He never would have thought that Natsu would have progressed so far as a mage. To think that he found this kid four short years ago and that he had learned so much magic in that time was just astounding. Igneel kept staring at Natsu as he thought back to when he and the young child met.

Flashback start

A young child around the age of three was stumbling around in the forest. 'Where did everyone go?' he thought. Continuing on his 'path' he was recalled into his thought. He thought back to the time where his small village in the mountains was ransacked and destroyed by child slavers. He remembered that exactly two days ago, his mother was tucking him into his bed, telling him." Goodnight, and don't let the bedbugs bite."

He responded with his usual, "It doesn't matter if the bedbugs bite, because I know that you will be there to protect me." He said that last part with a small grin creeping along his face. After their nighttime ritual, he closed his eyes and fell asleep, listening to the sound of his mother climbing into her bed.

The next morning, Natsu woke up only to find that his mother was gone, and when he stumbled outside he saw his mother lying on the ground, covered in a sort of crimson water. Standing just above her were two grown men, walking around with whips on the belt that was holding up the trousers they wore. Neither of them were wearing shirts, showing off many scars that reminded Natsu of scratches from a creature possibly from cats. As Natsu listened in closely, he could faintly hear a conversation among the two grown men.

"So, do you think we have all the children," one of the men asked the other.

"I think that we have all the children, but Master would not be happy with us if we let one go, "The other man continued. "I say that we should check and make sure that we didn't miss any children, and if we don't find any, we will continue to the next village."

"Sweet, so we have our plan settled down now?"

"Yeah, let's go!" with that said, the two men walked down the street, oblivious to the child hiding in the door frame of a house, on the verge of tears. The child didn't get most of that conversation, but he knew enough to know that they were dangerous to him.

Once the child was certain that the dangerous men were gone, he walked over towards his mother laying on the ground, covered in that same crimson liquid. "Mommy, are you okay?" Natsu asked. Staring at her unresponsive figure, Natsu asked again. "Mommy, are you okay?" Still no response. "Mommy!... Mommy!... Mommy why won't you answer me!?" The child broke down in tears as his Mommy was ignoring his pleads. With the new weight of devastation on his shoulders, Natsu crumpled into the ground and lay next to his mother, while getting covered in some of the warm crimson water.

Sometime later, Natsu heard voices shouting in the back of his mind. The voices were saying things like, "Crap! We missed one of the children," and "Hurry, we must get him before he runs away!" Natsu also heard footsteps closing in on his location. It was then that he realized that those voices sounded like that of the people who were surrounding his mommy, talking about children. Standing up while rubbing his tired eyes, Natsu faced the men and asked, "Who are you? Are you friends of Mommy?"

One of the men responded saying," Yes, we know your Mommy very well."

Natsu sighed in relief. "So do you know why Mommy is laying in that warm red water? Is she asleep, 'cause it is really comfortable in that water, and I just wanted to know why she didn't invite me."

The man responded with lies as smooth as silk. "Yes, your Mommy is sleeping, and she told us to watch you while she takes her nap."

"Oh my goodness! Thank you friend of Mommy!" Natsu replied cheerfully. "But," Natsu started while his face seemed to darken," are you sure Mommy said that?"

"Of course I am. I was here when she told me after all. Right before she took her nap."

"Why are you lying?"

The man blinked once. Then twice. And he blinked again for good measure. "What do you mean?"

Natsu looked at him with a venomous glare. "I mean that you took advantage of Mommy's nap, and are trying to steal me. I heard you say really weird things about taking children, and I think that you don't really know Mommy at all."

"Alright you got me. But it is too late. We will bring you in to the Tower of Heaven, and you will work for us as a slave." After the man said those words, he charged the child and picked him up, carrying him over to the pile of the other slaves. Natsu, not wanting to be captured, bit the arm of his assailant, drawing blood. While his attacker was incapacitated, Natsu took off heading toward the forests near his house.

Natsu shuddered as he finished remembering what happened two days ago. Natsu remembered how he returned a day ago, and found his mother still laying there. However, one thing had changed. Now, his mother was trapped in a brown shell right where that warm red water should have been. No matter how hard Natsu tried, he could not pull his mother out from her brown prison. Finding it futile to keep trying, Natsu wandered in the forest, searching for someone to help him.

Later on the evening of the second day of stumbling through the forest, he finally met someone, or should I say something, that would help him. This 'thing' was a very intimidating creature. It was a large dragon with crimson red scales, and a row of really sharp, long teeth perfect for eating meet. The dragon's scales were very magnificent, their shining crimson scales flaunting their glistening beauty for all to see. The dragon spoke to Natsu and asked," Young human, what are you doing all by yourself in this forest?"

Natsu replied to the magnificent creature," My village was destroyed by two mean men, and they trapped Mommy in some brown cage that used to be a nice and warm red liquid. The mean men tried to steal me, but I ran away, and now I have nothing."

Igneel looked at the child and saw the sad look on his face. Then, Igneel did something he didn't think he would ever do. Igneel invited Natsu to come stay with him and his friend and Igneel would teach Natsu everything that he needed to know. Natsu's face beamed as he vigorously nodded his head, and followed the majestic dragon to a cave on the side of the tallest mountain near his village.

Flashback end

Igneel's train of thought suddenly came to an end as his pink haired prodigy yelled at him. "Igneel! What did you think of my Fire dragon's Iron Fist?"

Igneel stared at the tree Natsu had just demolished. Even though Natsu was six years old, his concept and skill of his magical spells were increasing at an astounding rate. Natsu was really starting to become just as destructive as all of the dragon slayers. Igneel had to say that he was very proud of Natsu. In fact, he was just as proud of Natsu as he was of Zeref, Natsu's best friend. Even though Igneel didn't teach Zeref her magic, he was still proud of her. Zeref was excelling at her magic as well. Igneel looked over to where Zeref was training. Her Chaos Dragon's Iron Fist was really starting to destroy more land than he could have ever imagined. Well, what could you expect? Zeref's teacher was Acnologia, Igneel's best friend. If you have ever seen that dragon fight, you would be amazed at the amount of destruction she causes. It is such a beautiful sight to behold.

Igneel looked back at Natsu, realizing that he had just zoned out for such a long period of time. "I think that you're getting a lot stronger. Soon, you might even make me sweat to hold off your attacks," Igneel replied, but Natsu didn't hear the remark he hid under his breath. "It's too bad I will be gone by then."

Natsu woke up on the morning of July 7, X777, only to find that his foster parent wasn't in the cave like he normally was. Instead, Natsu found a white scarf with black lines making a dragon scale pattern. Natsu, not worried in the slightest, went over to his friend Zeref's cave while wrapping the scarf around his neck. As Natsu walked over, he did not see Igneel or Acnologia, which started to make him wonder where they could be. 'Did they take a vacation? Is Acnologia just sleeping? What if they abandoned us for a few days to train our survival skills under pressure?' Natsu continued to ponder the possibilities of what was going on as he finally reached the cave where Zeref and Acnologia lived.

Looking inside, he could see Zeref still asleep, clad in her black robes and white sash and a white necklace lying next to her sleeping body, which had her smooth and shiny black hair sprawled out on the ground. Immediately, Natsu looked away with a small blush coming to his face. He had never seen a girl asleep before, and Natsu had to admit, it was fairly awkward for him. In an attempt to avoid the awkwardness of this situation, he walked outside of the cave and sat down waiting for Acnologia, Igneel, or Zeref to stop by.

After waiting a good twenty minutes, he heard Zeref wake up. Natsu waited while he waited for Zeref to come outside, probably in search of Acnologia. As soon as Zeref greeted him, Natsu explained the situation to her. "So ultimately, I can't find Igneel or Acnologia, and I think that they have left us and are letting us experience the outside world."

"Okay. I understand. We should probably wait here for a couple of days, and then we should go look for them. You never know if they got in trouble. Even though they are the mightiest dragons to ever roam the earth, they can still become incapacitated in the means of a sneak attack. And if they were brought down by a sneak attack, I will punish their assailants so hard that they will feel pain till the day they drop dead."

Coming to an agreement, Natsu and Zeref waited for two days, and their parents never showed up.

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