Fairy Tail Natsumi's Story

Book 1 of Natsumi's Story

July, x777

Cold

Cold was the first thing Natsumi noticed when she woke up in Igneel's cave, Igneel's nest. She slowly sat up rubbing her tired eyes and stretched her small arms, Natsumi blinked slowly standing up she looked to the left then to the right in hopes of finding a still asleep Igneel.

"Papa?" Natsumi called out but no one answered.

Natsumi is normally the first to wake up and if Igneel woke up before her to search for food he would wake her up before he left and told her to train.

"He could be out hunting and just forgot to wake me, yea that's right won't be the first time that damn over grown gecko forgot" Natsumi nodded to herself.

Natsumi took a deep breath and released it calming down Natsumi, grabbing her scarf she wrapped it around her neck and exited the cave. While Igneel goes out hunting Natsumi goes to training a nearby field. While Training minutes turn to hour's and before Natsumi even realised it was evening. Natsumi made her way back to the cave and sat at the entrance waiting for Igneel to return.

"Gee what is taking him so long, I'm so hungry" Natsumi whinnied as her stomach rumbled. "Better be one big meal or else I'll make sure he will pay" Natsumi grumbled wrapping her scarf around her neck a couple more times and burying her noise into it. She sat there soaking in the evening light waiting for Igneel to return.

Soon Hours turned to days but Natsumi hardly moved from her spot, it was now raining heavily and thunder could be heard in the distance, Natsumi had not gotten any sleep since her father disappeared, she couldn't sleep, Natsumi missed her father's warmth she felt afraid and hungry... so very hungry. Natsumi did not care that she was sitting out in the rain hugging her knees, Natsumi did not care that she was drenched all she wanted was her father to return.

"Did you abandoned me papa? Was I too weak?" Natsumi questioned herself as tears started to flow down her face. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry" she kept repeating to herself as she hugged her knees tighter and started to rock herself.

A distance roar was heard but Natsumi took no notice of it. The crunching of branches was also heard later which was getting closer to the front of the cave, Natsumi still took no notice of it.

"Was I too weak? I'm I weak because I am too small?" Natsumi questioned herself, she lowered her head to rest on her knees "He was always complaining on how small I was..."Natsumi looked into the sky with hollow eyes. "If I get stronger...will he come and find me, will I find him?"

Suddenly a large roar screeched close by scaring all the wildlife away, a large beast exited the tree line into the clearing in front of the cave. It had dull red scales, powerful long back legs with perch claws, a large jaw its arms were more like wings and a barbed tail.

A fire wyvern

Natsumi who has now noticed she was no longer alone stared at the beast, she watched it stare right back at her but she took no notice of it. The fire wyvern must of came here to claim this area as its new territory and will kill anything in its way. It took a step closer seeing Natsumi as a free snack, the fire wyvern lets out another roar as lighting strikes through the sky it's steps were like small tremors in the ground for the small child as it walked closer.

"Oh?" Natsumi's eyes lit up as she finally acknowledged the fire wyvern. "You think you can just waltz in here and claim my pap's nest?" She questioned as she stood up.

An ear piercing roar answered her question.

Natsumi was in deep thought while she stared at the fire wyvern "If I beat you I'll get stronger right? "Natsumi asked with a feral grin on her face "But more importantly... "Natsumi took a couple more steps closer to the fire wyvern. "You look tasty, mind if I eat you? "She asked as she lit her right fist on fire.

The fire wyvern standing at its maxed height let out a roar before it charged at Natsumi feeling her magical presence it now saw her as a threat and decided to not play with its prey and kill her as fast as it can.

"Heh, I'm all fired up! "

October, year x777

Makarov let out a sneeze as he walked through the forest towards the town of Magnolia, he had a meeting with the council on how his brats were getting too destructive he nearly lost all of his hair when he saw the bill for the damages done by his brats.

"These brats are going be the end of me "He muttered to himself although he complains about them constantly he, funny enough, would not have them any other way his mind went back to the bills for the damages although he wouldn't mind if they did tune down the damage they did a little. Normally he would just take the train to return to his guild but a friend of his in the council had told him about a child living in the forest with large amounts of magic who was attacking travellers who try and pass through.

Makarov had been walking the long way through the forest, he could tell that the child was stalking him he could sense the child's magical presence following him for about two hours now and any attempt in moving towards the child were in vain, the child. Makarov can tell that the child was waiting for the right moment to make their move and strike so if he wanted any chance to meet this child he would have to make camp and wait for the child to come to him.

A couple of hours past Makarov felt a spike in the child's magic power and he could sense the child getting closer quickly. Just as he stood up from his waiting spot a ball of fire, slightly bigger than himself, crashed into the ground ten metres away from him.

Looking at the fire as it was dying down he saw the child who was just barely a head taller than himself "Surrender the bag and nobody gets burned." The child growled out trying to sound intimidating.

Makarov took a long hard look at the child, the first thing that catches his eyes was the child's mid back wild pink hair the child also had a baggy red top with long black shorts no shoes and a white scaly scarf that was wrapped around her neck with both ends meeting on the ground. With the child's long pink hair and voice he would guess the child was a girl.

"Gramps ya listening? "The girl asked impatiently as she crossed her arms over her chest.

Makarov decided to play along and try to at least earn the girls trust "Ok, ok I am throwing my bag over to you. "Makarov informed as he thrown his bag towards her. But you won't find any valuables or anything that is worth much jewels. "

At this the girl frowned when she grabbed the bag of the floor. "Why does everyone always say that; why would I want any of their junk for or stuff for jewels people keep going on about. "She muttered.

That comment left Makarov confused. "Then what are you after then?" He asked the child as she started emptying his bag on the ground.

"food what else" She deadpanned as if it was the most obvious answer in the world.

Now that Makarov was a bit closer to the girl (without her noticing) he could get a better look at the child who was clearly underweight and was not even wearing any shoes.

"What are these?" The child asked herself as she picked up a load of magazines from Makarov's pile of items from his bag.

"MY DIRTY MAGAZINE'S!" Makarov shouted as he instantly closed the gap between them and snatched them away from the child and then continued to hold them protectively from the child who just blinked at his actions.

"What's a dirty magazine?" The child asked innocently as she tilted her head to one side.

"You do not need to know that, at all" Makarov sweat dropped he can thing of two members of his guild that will have his head if he corrupted a mind of a child

The child shrugged now no longer interested in the items of question and continued in search of food in Makarov's bag in case not everything fell out when she was emptying it.

"Unbelievable, you have no food" The child wined loudly as she checked the last pocket in the bag before throwing it on top of his pile." This sucks. What kind of traveller are you if you don't carry any food!?" She shouted and pointed her finger accusingly at Makarov with tears gathering in her eyes.

"What kind of child attacks Travellers for food" Makarov shouted back.

"Touché" The child turned her head away from Makarov and crossed her arms.

Makarov let out a small sigh as he took out a loaf of bread wrapped in paper he was saving for later from inside his cloak which instantly gained the interest of the child. He could already see the poor child drooling at the mere sight of it.

"I'm willing to let you have this bread all to yourself if you were to sit down and answer some of my questions" Makarov offered knowing how hungry the child looked she would agree.

The child thought about I for a minute before she gave a small nod and went up to Makarov, she held out her hands for the loaf of bread. He could also here a stomach growl out loudly and the look on the child's face held a slight desperation look with a hint of hope as she eyed the bread.

"Thanks gramps" She grinned as Markarov handed her the loaf of bread without the paper. She then fell backwards onto her bottom with her legs sprawled out and started to devour the bread. Makarov couldn't tell if the child was even chewing the food as she tore into the bread bite after bite and swallowed the mouth full of food instantly.

Once the girl finished eating the bread Makarov decided to start to question the girl "So what is your name brat?" Makarov asked deciding it was best to start with the simple questions first.

"My name is Natsumi Dragneel" The child now known as Natsumi greeted. "What is your name gramps?" She asked.

"You can call me Makarov Dreyar, now then please tell me Natsumi, why are you all alone out here and attacking travellers" Makarov asked as he decided to sit down next to Natsumi.

"Well... I'm looking for my papa" Natsumi answered honestly with a downcast expression. "He disappeared around July, I just woke up feeling cold and he was gone, he was not there." Tears started to gather in her eyes. "I waited and waited for him at his nest but he never came back." Natsumi started pulling and stretching at one of the scarfs end then using it to wipe her eyes quickly before returning to stretching it.

'What did she mean when she said nest' Makarov thought to himself but he disregarded it for the time being right now he had an important question to ask. This question will decide the child's fate.

"If you are looking for your father why are you hanging around here and attacking travellers, I mean you been here for a while now apparently and didn't your father ever tell you that it is wrong to take things that were not yours?" Markarov asked as he started gathering his magic, just in case the child decided to try and fight or attempt to escape.

Natsumi stared at the ground for a couple of minutes thinking to herself if she should tell him her reasons before turning to look at Makarov seemingly contemplating to tell him or not in the end she let out a sigh and looked to the sky.

"I needed a base point" Natsumi answered, she pulled out a large folded up map which was tired around her neck from underneath her top and handed it to Makarov.

"A base point?" Makarov asked as he took the map and proceeded to unfold the map. The map turned out to be the whole region his eyes widened at the amount of the extra detailed that was written on the map.

"I wanted to find my papa so I travelled around the land but when I went into one of them places called towns and cities but I was soon chased out for some reason so I decided it's best to stay in the forests and search the towns when its dark. So in order to search the area I needed a base to return to where it would be safe and were I can store any supplies till I finish" Natsumi explained

"Why did they chase you out of the towns?" he asked

"No idea" Natsumi pouted and crossed her arms over her chest "All I did was eat some food no one wanted"

Makarov had a feeling were she found the food "And where was the food?"

"On these wooden tables" Natsumi answered "I mean there I was finally eating something after a while and all of a sudden this large man started to shout and attack me, I ran for a bit but he won't stop chasing me he even got some other to help. So I defended myself and all of a sudden a group people in shiny metal started to attack me so I ran away and stayed away from towns.

Makarov sweat dropped at her answer 'No wonder you were chased out

Natsumi stretched "I need to finish my search in this area before I move onto the next area I planned, but most of the wild animals fled when I started to hunt here and travellers always carry so much food" Natsumi muttered "Papa always said that Humans tasted bad so I should never eat them so I eat their food instead"

Makarov Sweat drop grew at the last bit of information the child shared with him. He started to hate whoever the child's father is; this poor excuse of a human being has not only did a poor job of educating this child but had also abounded her.

"What kind of human abandons their own child" Makarov muttered darkly to himself.

"Oh! Papa is not a human" Giggled Natsumi

"What do you mean Natsumi?" Makarov confusedly asked

"Papa is not a human" Repeated Natsumi as she quickly stood up "He is Igneel! King of the fire dragons!" Natsumi exclaimed while lifting up her arms in the air "And I'm his daughter" she placed her hands on her hips, puffed out her chest in pride and gave a large toothy grin.

As crazy as that sounded that Natsumi was raised by a dragon, looking at her right now makes Makarov believe that Natsumi was indeed raised by a dragon or at least she believed she was.

Makarov could easily tell that whoever this Igneel was, human or dragon, Natsumi held him in high regards.

"I really don't know why he left me" Natsumi deflated herself and let her arms drop "It was properly because I was not strong enough, that I was too small and weak" Natsumi lifted her right hand the lit it alight and stared at the flame as in a trance with an empty expression "If I get strong enough will I find him, will he return for me, will I ever find him?" Natsumi questioned herself.

Makarov stared at Natsumi for a while before sighing and closing his eyes. Makarov has seen that expression lots of times on people who are ready to give up and who are willing to do anything even kill. He pondered on what to say next.

"Why don't you join a guild Natsumi" Markarov asked.

Natsumi snapped out of her trance and turned to Makarov "A guild?" Natsumi asked with a slit tilt of her head.

"Yes a guild, they are places were people with magic gather, they work together, become friends and even become a family. It's a place where we can call home" Makarov explained

"Home..." Natsumi muttered as she stared off into the distance with a longing look but she quickly shook her head "No... I don't need a home or friends Those things won't help me get stronger, I just need to be stronger" Natsumi muttered to herself but then felt angry "I just want my papa!" she shouted "I... I won't be weak anymore, I can't be" She told herself. "I don't need one of these pointless guilds!"

Makarov let out a small sigh which caught Natsumi's attention she turned around and glared hatefully, her eyes that were now in slits and was giving off a small growl. Makarov opened his eyes and turned his gaze to the sky

"Weaklings will stay weak forever"

That sentence made Natsumi flinch and was about to retort but Makarov was not finished.

"But weakness is not evil, since human beings are weak creatures to begin with. Alone, you feel nothing but insecurity; that's why we form guilds, that's why we have friends. We walk together in order to live a strong life, the clumsy one's will walk into more walls than the others, and it may also take them longer to get there." Makarov looked back at Natsumi "If you believe in tomorrow and put yourself out there, you can naturally obtain your strength that's how you will be able to smile and live strong." Makarov turned away and continued to look up at the sky in silence letting Natsumi think about his speech after a couple minutes of silence he turned again to the girl and watched her face scrunched up.

"I don't fully get it but if I join one of these guilds... I will have a place to stay while I search for papa" Natsumi asked

"Yes, I will also see to it that you will be educated suited for society and since I know most of the other guild masters I can take you to any guild nearby" Makarov informed.

Natsumi opened her mouth to object but quickly closed it with a thoughtful expression, she then turned to look at the sky in deep thought "You said there will be other people in a guild right" She eventually asked.

"Yes there will be a lot of people but it all depends on what guild you will decide to join" Makarov answered. "Why do you ask?"

"Then there's bound to be someone strong there right!?" Natsumi yelled out with her eyes sparkling as she jumped up and turned to Markarov.

Makarov sweat dropped to her reaction "I Guess"

"ALRIGHT" Natsumi shouted and then pointed at Makarov "Were can I find one of these guilds gramps" Natsumi gave Makarov a large toothy grin.

A tick mark grew on Makarov's head as his right eye twitched "You brat" Markarov muttered.

The two argued through the night before calling it a night to fall asleep and the very next day the headed towards the town of Magnolia soon enough after reaching the town Natsumi found herself in front of a large three story building.

"Whoa, so this is what a guild looks like" Natsumi asked herself as she stared at the building in front of her. "it looks so cool"

"It isn't it" Makarov proudly said "welcome to Fairy Tail"

"Fairy Tail?" Asked Natsumi as she tore her eyes away from the building to look at Makarov "Do fairy's have tails, what does it mean?"

"Whether fairies have tails or not, or whether they even exist, nobody knows for sure, so it's like an eternal mystery, an eternal adventure" Makarov explained to the star struck girl. "Unless we want to find out, and our members are the ones who want to find out"

"Sounds soo cool! I'm gona join this one" Natsumi cheered as she made her way to the guilds front door.

And Thus is the story on how Natsumi was brought to Fairy Tail.

"WHAT! YOUR THE GUILD MASTER?"

July x784

It was a normal day at Fairy Tail for Natsumi, she has taken part in at least two guild bawls, had a large breakfast fit for a family of four and returned a book back to levy which she finished reading last night. The seven years she spent at Fairy Tail have changed her for the better, Natsumi was now a lot smarter than she was and stronger however physically she has hardly changed.

Natsumi is a rather young, petite teenage girl of a slender build who stands at a rather below – average height of 156cm with mid back pink spiky hair, her skin is slightly tanned skin and her onyx eyes reflected determination with a hint of mischief.

Her outfit consist of a white sports top covering her chest with a sleeveless black open vest with a gold trim, a pair of white shorts with a black trim around the legs and a pair of sandals for foot wear, to complete her outfit she had a white scarf with a scale pattern wrapped around her neck with both ends falling down to her waist with a black waist band on her left arm.

"Natsumi, you up there?" shouted a guild member.

Natsumi tore her eyes off the request board and made her way to the banister looking down to the ground floor were the rest of the members of Fairy Tail where.

She spotted who called out to her and made her way down the stairs "What's up Krov?" Natsumi asked the bushy eye browed and very prominent upper central teeth member who always reminded Natsumi of a rodents two front teeth.

"Yo Natsumi I heard a rumour of someone calling themselves Salamander whose flames are as hot as dragon of fire at a town called Hargeon, but I doubt that your father is there I mean would a dragon really be in the middle of a town…and she left me" Krov now just realised that Natsumi had run off.

Natsumi grabbed Happy, a blue talking cat, from the bar table by his tail not that the cat noticed for he was eating a large fish. She then proceeded to run out of the guild but not before shouting "Not doing a quest possible father sighting Mirajane."

"My my" Mirajane said with a smile "Good luck" she called out with a wave she then looked back at the growing Chaos that Natsumi had made by accidently knocking guy wearing nothing but boxers over who landed on a different guy who spilt his bear over the next guy sitting next to him who went to stand and shout at the other guys who knocked over their beer over him but ended up knocking a girl that was walking behind him at the time. Pretty soon the whole guild broke out in one of its famous brawls.

My my….

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