Since this is my first story the first couple of chapters are going to be a very short but I assure you the chapter length shall increase.

Anyway Disclaimer time. I do not own fairy tail nor am I receiving any profit from this story. It is just for enjoyment .


A screeching wail assaulted his hearing. Disgust bubbled up within him ,displays of such weakness was something he could never understand. He was a proud dragon ,every living being from deer to even those human wizards cowered before him! To be thought of as weak was a grave insult, he had razed towns for much less. It was also, very annoying.

"It was about time he was sent" the blistering red dragon thought " This child has an unenviable destiny."

The noise was closer now, the child most likely seconds away from entering his clearing .Thoughts on how to approach the situation ran through his head. "No" the mighty beast thought " It would not work if I am too heavy handed.". His thoughts on the matter were swept away as the child stumbled between two trees at the edge of his clearing.

The child had bright pink hair ,this seemed to be the only remarkable thing about it. As nothing else was discernable. This was mostly due to the dirt that caked it's body ,anything else of interest was hidden by clothes so ruined they could barely be called rags.

Despite being before a creature that few others could hope to match, the child had not even noticed him. As focused on deafening anything that could hear within a two hundred metre radius as it was.

"I can't even tell its gender." the fire dragon realised " They all look so similar at this age, I should have asked beforehand." it's clothes which he normally relied heavily on to inform him of their gender was in tatters.

' I will do as you asked me, I will raise him as you asked me. But other than that, I can make no guarantees.' He thought solemnly.

Irritated with the noise ,the dragon took a breath "Child!" he roared.

The wailing was instantly silenced and the child's face abruptly shot up. It's expression filled with a fiery fury as it faced him. Only for that fury filled face to shatter and morph into fear as its mind tried to process his fearsome form . The form hailed by other dragons as the king of fire.

Facing the mountainous beast Natsu's first reaction was to backpedal furiously and elicit a loud yelp that sounded like a gargled version of "MONSTER!" This action however only ended with it tripping over an upraised root. Leaving it sprawled out before him. shaking with fear.

Momentarily seeing the fire in the eyes of what was otherwise a broken child showed Igneel the path he was looking for. "Child, who are you?" he questioned. The air almost vibrating with power.

The child not daring to incur his wrath stuttered "Na-natsu"

"WRONG!" he roared with enough force that the child was left flattened against the ground. Just from the air that exited his maw." What you are is WEAK! Your current problems were caused because you were WEAK! And you will stay WEAK!" Each word made the child visibly recoil as if struck.

"Unless" He continued in a calmer rumble " you become strong, stronger than your problems. Strong enough to forever take control of your life. Strong enough to destroy those that try to deny you your life. Only then shall you be free of the constraints of weakness."

He watched as the words seemed to resonate with the child. Slowly the trembling ceased and Natsu stood. And while the hair shadowing its eyes denied him the sight of the fire he sought. The vicious grin spreading across Natsu's face was proof that it was there.

"I want to become strong. " Natsu answered.


I recently updated this chapter and made some minor major.