I had been seeping when it happened.
My hands were bound together behind me. My knees and ankles were also bound together not allowing me to move. A gag went in my mouth and a blindfold on my eyes. Something wrapped around my chest holding my arms in place.
I heard shuffling and then voices. "Alright load him up we got three more pick ups here than we are done. And don't forget keep the blanketed on him and put water on it continuously just in case."
As he said this I felt a large dripping wet blanket surround my body and any on my firebase ideas went out the window. I struggled best I could trying to make the man that was so carrying me let go.
"He is way lighter than I would have thought." The man said close to my ears and I flinched as the other three or so laughed.
"Well don't get used to it two others are going to be very heavy. I mean iron and lighting are of as light as fire and air." The first man said and I guess he was the leader.
Fire lighting air and iron? I thought to myself then it hit me. Me laxus Wendy and gajeel! Shit! I start struggling even more when I heard the opening of a cage door.
Soon I was thrown into a cage and had more water dumped on me before I herd it looked closed.
I listened closely and heard a voice over a radio system.
"We got the fire dragon slayer who's next?" The leader in the groupe asked and a gruff woman's voice answered.(A/N: A Russian accent but they don't have Russia so they don't know.)
"We won't be needing iron or the sky girl or the lighting fire should get us even more than those three companies just make sure that water is the only thing that touches him." She spoke with a heavy accent that I didn't recognize at all.
"Alright." He replied and I heard a chorus of sighs in relief.
"Oh thank god! I really didn't want to wake up a S-ClaSs wizard even if we bound him with rubber and anti magic seals I still think he would get AWay!" A man said with a sigh of relief and that the vehicle started to move.
I instantly went limb and started groaning as my stomach did flips. They must have expected me to get motion sickness cause I felt the gag be removed and the floor under me in the what I figure is a flat bed truck move. I was able to than puke out the bottom of the tuck.
What felt like days may have only been a few burs before the truck finally stopped. The floor underneath me a spur ack I and another bucket of water was through on me. This time I felt the entire cage being lifted out of the truck and being put on the ground.
"Let me go!" I shut horsley before they could put the gag back on me. "Let me go! Right now!"
"Yeah I don't think so selling you will bring in such a great price." The leader said with a broad shrug.
"Selling?!" I repeat horrified.
"Yes the Salamander of fairy tail should bring in a big buck." The second man said deviously.
They opened the door to the cage and dragged me out wrapping a collar around my neck and cutin my feet free enough to walk but barely.
They lead me into a large building and into a large room full of people and rich looking people. A man in a suit on the stage I was lead to pointed to me saying.
"Natsu Dragneel. Fire dragon slayer of fairy tail. Strong and hard to break. Bids start at a thousand jewels." The man said as hants shut up. Soon it was at almost 20 million jewels cons it was still going strong.
It was another 10 minutes before the last bid was called at 50 million jewels by a man in a suit who payed in cash taking the Lead my captures placed on my neck.
"Come with me boy. My boss wanted you so he gets you." He said and dragged me to a black limo.
And thus from that day I became people's property. I spent 5 years with 20 owners because no one could break me so they just kept selling me to earn money off me.
I have finally broken losing the hope that fairy tail would save me from my 18th master who burned my guild mark off.
5 years later.
A man with a hat sunglasses and a long trench coat entered the building looking for a particular piece. He had come to this actuation when a rumor about what he was looking for got to him and the others who were trying to receive the work as well.
When what he cas looking for came out on stage finally he had to hold himself back at the sight.
A pink haired boy was lead out on a leash. His dead onyx colored eyes looked around the room with fear. He started to shake and curl up into a ball to get away for the prying eyes.
When the bidding started he bid enough to knock out the competition and got the boy. At the end of the auction he claimed his prize.
The man a led up to the cages of slaves and count the pink haired one that he bought cowering in the farthest corner of the cage trying to get away from life itself.
The man noticed something off and looked for a worker there the manager of the captives.
"Excuses me I payed for the pink haired one over there tonight and I was informed that he came with a scarf and dragons slayer magic, but I don't see the scarf do you by any chance know where that is?" He asked he had never gone to an auction before so he was new at this.
"As yes that particular purchase did at one point come with a scarf but that item has been sold separately from the original peace for control reasons. Take away scarf and you have a play thing that has a lot of energy and dose as told to get scarf back. Give scarf and you get an unresponsive slave." The man said since it was his job to know the items it was both good and back news for the stranger.
"Can I purchase the scarf?" He asked pulling out his wallet.
"Of course. It's only twenty jewels." The man said obviously not knowing the most important thing about the boy. Never mess with the scarf Igneel gave him.
"Alright." The stranger said and pulled out the money handing it to the man who went to retrieve the scarf immediately. The stranger walked up to his prizes cage and took out the leash for it and opened the door pulling him out by the red collar on his neck and hooking the leash to the hook.
The boy looked up with fear in his eyes and then looked at the ground crawling on all fours when the stranger began to walk away leash in hand. The actioner soon brought the scarf out and the stranger was gone.
When they left the building the stranger let out a disgusted sigh and tried to shake away the filthy feeling he had from the place.
"Oh god I never want to do that again. You hear me never get captured ever again!" The man shouted at the slave who cowered and bowed trying to get as small as he possibly could.
"Oh come on no fight? Really? You can scent me right you know who I am right?" The stranger said as a car pulled up and a red haired women jumped out.
"Gray! You got him good job!" She said with a sigh of relief patting him on the back.
"Yeah I did even got the scarf now that was fun apparently the two were sold separately, Erza. He had even separated from his scarf that's just wrong." Gray said as Erza examined the boy they had been searching for since he got captured five years ago without a sign.
She looked at his wrists and found the anti magic bracelets.
"That not all he's lost check out his bracelets." She said and Gray did and shattering the bits of metal around his wrists.
"Natsu come back to fairy tail with us we have been looking for you for five years come home we all missed you and never stopped looking for you." She said trying to get the dull expression out of his eyes.
He looked up to her fear in his glazed over eyes. He opened his mouth then shut it again out of pure fear he shrunk into the ground again.
"He's so thin. We need to get food into him. Let's get him to the guild as soon as possible." Erza said and picked Natsu up with very little resistance from the boy who just froze against the chest plate she always wore. Placing him on a seat in the car Gray sat across from him and Erza in the drivers seat. The scarf on Gray's lap.
Natsu looked around nervously and slid to the floor of the car and curled up as the car started up and drove gray noticed his motion sickness never acted up once not even a change of color in Natsu skin or a cold sweat.
Gray reached over and removed the collar that Natsu had been wearing and put a new shirt on him that was smaller than his original that should have fit perfectly but since Natsu was so skinny his normal sized shirt never fit right.
Natsu looked up at Gray and gave a slight sniff when he found Gray without a shirt on. Natsu gave a flicker of recognition in his eyes and curled up at Gray's feet and fell asleep a small tear running down his cheek.
They soon arrived at the guild building and a crowd of people met them tears of joy streaming and cheers were elicited from the crowd as Natsu stepped out of the car only to his behind Gray with a squeak. He bowed his head and tried to lower himself to the ground without being noticed.
"Natsu has been in a bad situation for the past five years please treat him as though he never left. Go about your normal activities and only greet him if he greets you first. And don't yell at him or start a fight we don't know what will happen." Erza told the crowd who all nodded and went back inside leaving a cowering Natsu behind gray and Erza.
"He seems really attached to you right now." Erza pointed out as they entered the hall Gray still holding the scarf and Natsu crawling in behind them remembering his training and stoking to Gray like an annoying piece of gum.
"Maybe..." Gray said and knelt down to give Natsu his scarf back. "Here you go flae brain."
Natsu looked to the scarf than to Gray and gingerly touched it but took his hand away again like it burned him.
"Go on take it if you want it." Gray said sitting down so he could wait patiently for natsu to take the scarf.
Natsu looked at the scarf with hope and reached out to touch it again feeling the material carefully and took the end scouting closer to Gray. He than used a speed that not even Jet could keep up with any grabbed the scarf and ran to a corner under a empty table with benches and very little room to get at him or see him.
Gray was hurt that Natsu ran but he got up and left him alone to shove his face into the scaly material and have a small moment of peace.
"Natsu..." Erza said reaching out for the boy.
"Leave him. I was told that the scarf was actually used as a weapon against him. They took it away and did dangerous things to him than there was a small chance he would get it back at all." Gray said not knowing what Natsu had gone through to get this way in only 5 years.
"Where will he stay? He can't be left alone." Erza said to the master.
"He should stay in the infirmary for a while than we will think of another place for him to go." The master said calmly. He had been sitting on the counter drinking when the two had started talking. They watched Natsu carefully making sure he was safe.
"Do you think he could handle that? He may be better at someone's house." Erza said knowing how much he likes gray at this point in time and was hoping to get Natsu to live with Gray.
"We will try for a few days that's all. I just want to see how he interacts with others for a while if he can't handle it than he will go live with Gray." The master said and gray stared at the master.
"What?! No way! He can't live with me!" Gray said in a frustrated tone.
"Why not?" The master asked calmly.
"Cause he just can't!" Gray huffed crossing his arms.
"Well he likes you and Griggs you more than anyone else." The master said with a smirk.
"What makes you say that?!" Gray asked angrily.
"Cause he is sleeping at your feet right now." The master said and Gray looked down and sure enough there was Natsu asleep curled up at Gray's feet a slight smile on his face holding the scarf and grays pant leg like there were life rafts in the ocean.
"Oh come on!" Gray groaned and slammed his head on the bar table loudly and a small whimper was heard from the sleeping boy. And Gray felt a tight grip on his leg and looked down to see Natsu awake and clinging on to his leg fear written all over his face.
"Oh sorry Natsu didn't mean to scare you like that." Gray apologized a small kind smile crossing his face as he pet Natsu's hair softly. Natsu leaned into the kind touch as soon as it was given and whimpered when Gray took his hand away, but seemed alright enough when he fell asleep again and lessens his grip on grays leg.
"He really likes you." Mira said as she watched the two interact.
"Yeah he does. Wouldn't go near me at all when we first got him back but warmed right up to Gray like a safety line was through to him." Erza said eating a piece of cake slowly.
Lucy walked up and sat next to Gray. "Why does he like you so much I mean you guys fought so much before he got captured." Lucy said completly confused.
"Honestly? I have no idea." Gray said with a shrug and looked down at the sleeping dragon slayer.
"It may be because you two used to fight so much." The master said and got questioning looks from everyone.
"Let me explain. You two have a bond that goes deeper than any of us have with well anyone. Fire and ice immortal enemies trapped in hated for each other. But you two have surpassed that and become a brother kind of relationship. You guys care for eachother even if you don't see it. But Natsu dose always has and always will. It surpasses his previous training and allows him to trust you enough to go near you the most." The master explained taking another drink.
"I am leaving I can't deal with this." Gray said and stool up only to hear a whimper. He looked down to see Natsu trying to follow him even though he wouldn't leave the shelter if the over hanging bar.
"See he wants to go with you." The master said trying to hide his smirk.
"I thought you wanted him at the infirmary." Gray said hoping that it would save him a few more days, but he was wrong.
"I have changed my mind. He will stay with you. You will care for him, bring him on missions, and bring him here. No buts think of it as a mission that will take a while." The master said with a shrug.
"How long?" Gray asked eyeing the tiny man cautiously.
"Normally I would say almost 5 years since that was as long as his training was happening it would take that same amount to combat it. But in this case may be 2 years and 3 months. Most of the time it will be trying to regain his magic since he seems to have it but can't use it like he's been taught it was something that could kill him." The master said another shrug.
"Fine." Gray ground. "Come on Natsu." Gray waved the boy over who seemed to materialize by his side on all fours.
"Stand up." Gray said and lifted the boy up on shaky legs like he hadn't used them in a while. Gray moved his hand and slightly turned Natsu in the process.
"Holy shit!" Gray cried out horrified at what he had found.
"What is it gray?" Erza asked.
"It's gone! It's completely gone!" Gray said stepping back releasing Natsu who went back on all fours.
"What's gone gray?" Lucy asked.
"His mark! His guild mark is completely gone!" Gray shrieked and took another step back.
LUNA: I AM SORRY FOR ANY SPELLING AND GRAMMAR PROBLEMS I COULDN'T GET GRAMMAR FIXED ON MY IPAD. YES THAT IS RIGHT THE LUNAWOLF COMP IS IMPROVING!
NATSU: YES WE HAVE UPGRADED. OR IS IT BECAUSE YOUR BROTHER REFUSED TO GIVE UP HIS VIDEO GAMES AND BLUE EXORCIST SO HE GAVE YOU THE IPAD.
LUNA: EHMMM YES WELL WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO THERE RIGHT NOW.
NATSU: EXACTLY