Chapter 1
Natsu like Fairy Tail a lot. After all they were his family how could he not like them. Especially when he was a Dragon Slayer, and they were practically the embodiment of loyalty. Yet ever since he joined the guild he felt like an outsider. Sure that feeling decreased when other laxus was found to be a Dragon Slayer and the other Dragon Slayers joined the guild as well but it was still their. So at first he thought it was just because he couldn't find Igneel. However as the years began to pass he simply couldn't deny or hide it any more. Fairy Tail wasn't his home and never had been. This guild wasn't the nest he was looking for, yet he didn't know where that was either.
It also didn't help that no one seemed to understand him here as well. Sure Laxus, Wendy, and Gajeel all understood that his powers were meant to be destructive. But they all had a more precise form of it. Laxus had lightning so he could have point accuracy. Wendy was a sky Dragon Slayer so hers didn't burn everything it touched adding to its already destructive nature. Plus because she was a sky Dragon Slayer she was good as support so even then she could avoid doing damage and let others do the fighting as she keeped them good to fight. And Gajeel had his metal that could be just as precise and destructive as Laxus. Then there was him, he was the strongest of all of them he had already proven that and that was as he held back to keep from killing them. He couldn't be precise as they could. His magic was made for Massive distraction of the second most destructive Dragons known to exist the only other ones stronger than the flame Dragon was the chaos Dragons as they could switch between destructive and precise.
What was even more disheartening was that no one noticed the change in him. From being able to hide his problem to letting it out in the open and still no one saw it. So he was headed to the guild. With a what looked like his travel gear for a mission only five time bigger than normal.
Once he was at the guild he opened the doors Normally which finally caught the attention of the guild that something may be wrong. He then set down his bag and walked right up to Erza.
"Erza I want you to fight me" Natsu said
"Nlt right now Natsu I am eating my Cake" Erza said as she blissfully ate her cake. She was about to cut another bite out of her piece when the cake instantly was turned to ash by a flaming hand. This got everyone very concerned for the dragon slayer's safety
"I said I want you to fight me Erza" Natsu said the same way he had before as people now heard the dead tone in his voice. Even Erza heard it last her insane rage. That's when she saw them. The dead, cold, lifeless look in Natsu's eyes. No longer was there a raging fire in them. It was then she had seen that fire wavering for years, some days stronger some weaker. Then she remembered the last three months. It had slowly and steadily been extinguished from his eyes. The man before her was no longer the man she had grown up with, no, what stood before her wasn't even a shell of him. Erza knew at that exact moment she needed to figure out what the real reason he wanted a fight was, because if she didn't she knew they were dangerously close to losing the heart of Fairy Tail. And this fight somehow played a role!e in that final decision.