Hey guys,this is my first fanfic ever. I hope you guys like it. Plz review
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New Note: HEY GUYS. I just wanna note that I've rewritten this chapter to have more content and just to be less...bad. Anyways I planning to do this with the rest of the chapters already published, so yea. Anyways I hope u enjoy and plz comment your thoughts about this chapter XD
Fluffy clouds dotted around the horizon where the clear sky meets the blue, calm sea. Fishing boats swarmed along the coast of the beach, illuminating rays of colour reflected on every seashell, and grain of sand.
The market bustling with different and unique window shops, sprawled around the centre square of Hargeon, accompanied with lively chit-chatter amongst the towns people. The whole area ecstatic with smells of sea-fish and cooked pastry's.
Beautiful bricked,terraces where to be seen all around the port city, accompanied by the colourful stony pavements, portraying the beauty of the town and its people . Such a lively place.
Hargeon, the largest port city of all of Fiore. Known for its excellent cuisine of seafood, fishing and seafaring the town is known to be one of the most largely populated cities in all of Fiore. Due to their expertise and success for fishing, magic is less considered or used there, with only 10% of population are magic users.
But due to the lack of magical protection, the town is homed to one of the most notorious dark guilds, Pandora's gate.
Even with their guild causing destruction in their wake more than occasionally, the town continued to flourished and never submitted to the guild in fear. How rare this was to see while it lasted.
At Hargeons station
"Eh sir, are you okay?"
The conductor looked at the pink haired boy in worry as the his whole body leaned out of the window, dead to the world and only hears a groan in response. He hesitantly lifts up his head looking out to the station and town, trying to will the world to stop spinning.
"Sir?", the conductor asks again.
He carefully watches the teen,-or at least he thought he was a teen- slowly staggered onto his feet, his feet slightly swaying at the action.
He continues to watch as the boy raises his gaze to for just a second, before walking past him, reaching for the nearest exit of the train, not once uttering a word.
The boy wore a sleeveless black top two red lightning-like pattern on the front of his top, along with a short sleeved crimson jacket that had an unusual pattern on the arms. Which of course were accompanied with baggy beige pants that were barely hanging onto his hip, with only a brown belt as support, with two small brown sachets attached to it.
His worn out black high combat boots clanked heavily against the rocky pavement as he groggily walked out of the train, his white scaled scarf slung around his neck.
"Ugh" he groans to himself. He is never riding a train again. Of course, he has said this before but he is completely serious now. Especially when he just spent 6 hours on that evil metal monster they call a train. He'd rather walk all the way back to Hargeon than ever riding on that death trap again. But he knows he would have to in the near future.
Stupid Motion sickness. Always in the way.
He staggers and stumbles his way through the streets, earning him a few worried glances from people passing by he knew were more staring at his...unique appearance
As he strolls past each market stall the smell of fish and warm and delicious cooked pastries wafted and overwhelms his senses. His stomach gurgles and groans . God he was so hungry. Why was even here? Then its clicked. Serid wanted to see him about a new mission.
Suddenly a thought entered his brain and he looks up to the large clock tower in the centre of the town.
Oh no
He's late.
Serid is going to kill him.
At that thought alone, lead him into a full on sprint, passing through the crowds of people that were walking by. The swivelled around each person passing by, but not without the occasional bumps on the shoulder. Concentrating on his path, he didn't expect the young blonde teen to walk in front of him . Before he could even think of stopping, he loses his footing and ends colliding at her, causing them to both crash to the ground, sprawled against the pavement.
He groans as as he lifts up is head to see the blonde girl from earlier sprawled on the ground, her palm nursing the side of her head. He watches as she slowly raises herself into a sitting position, still sitting on the dusty floor and hears her mutter a small "Ow". Her blue skirt ,crinkled from the collision, lay beside the mess of her stuff all over the pavement.
She slowly raise her gaze and seems to finally notice his yelps in surprise. Suddenly shes on her feet again and starts to ramble out an apology.
"Oh god, I'm so sorry. Are you okay?" she asks, offering a hand of help.
"No, No, I'm fine" he replies, ignoring the stretched out hand as he stands up. Hesitantly her stretched out hand drops back to her side.
"That's good" she sighs in relief. She smiles gently, hoping to get one in return. He doesn't.
"Oh I'm Lucy by the way" she retrieves her once stretched out hand for a handshake, a smile still gracing her lips. Shit. She was waiting for him to give his name.
Whats he going to do
Lie
"I'm-" he starts but was cut of by the large dinging of the clock tower bell, slowly chiming in sync with his heart beat.
"I have to go" he mutters as he runs passed her, ignoring her yelp of surprise, sprinting down through the crowd of people.
"What a strange guy.." Lucy mumbles.
She lowers her gaze to the ground, realising her stuff still lay on the dusty pavement. Kneeling down she grabs her celestial keys (God, Aquarius is gonna kill her for dropping them...again) and her new book she bought for Wendy. She saw this little novel in on of the market stalls and couldn't help but think of Wendy and before she knew it the books was in her hands, paid and now hers. She just hopes Wendy will like it.
"Oy Lucy what are you doing?"
Lucy turns around to see a raven-haired teen walking towards her, his hands resting in this black pocket jeans. Lucy smiles and gives him a small wave as a greeting.
"Oh Gray, sorry I got distracted" said Lucy. "I met the strangest guy.." she mumbles, more to herself as she gazes at where she saw said guy ran too only seconds ago. Gray raises an eyebrow and, slowly, a sly grin graced his lips. "oh?" Lucy blushed and punched him in the arm. "I didn't mean like that idiot!" she pouts when Gray continues to laugh
"I know, I was just winding you up. Anyways we should head back. We don't want to Erza angry from waiting too long".
They both shiver at the thought.
"Yea we should go " she agreed
At the outskirts of Hargeon,
Natsu looked up as he stood in front of the Pandora Gate gateway. A soft breeze shook the old rusty gates, creaking from every movement it made. He sighed as he pushed the gate open, which caused it to make a loud screeching sound, and slowly walked towards the entrance.
Once he reaches towards the door, he takes a moment before sliding the door open with his palm. He could here the roars of laughter and lively chatter sudden transform into eerie silence. He cant help but a cold smirk grace his lips when he smells the scents of respect and fear.
This was nothing new of course. After all, he is the most powerful wizard in this guild, of course they revered and fear him. As he strolls through the main hall, talk of him circled around his fellow guild members. One word always caught his attention.
Salamander
Natsu cant help but grin.
Due to his notorious immense of fire magic and his status in the guild, he had grown a reputation that even caught the magic council attention, earning him a code name, since no one ever knows his true name. That code name was "Salamander". And now every everyone shakes in sheer terror from that name alone.
As he passed by his fellow guild member, he noticed and hear some whispering among the others about challenging him but as soon as he was in human earshot, they would just shrivel up and cower in fear.
Hmph
Cowards
Natsu ignore the glares and sneers that he feels behind him and continue walking toward the door that lead out of the main hall. Once he left the room, he heard the earlier chatter start once again.
He continued down the hallway and he couldn't help but note the quiet and eeriness of the hall, So quiet You couldn't even hear the slight breeze outside. the only sound he could hear was his breaths and the soft thumps of his boots against the cobble stone floor. The lanterns that hung of the stony wall, dimly lit the hallway, only making the whole place slightly more eerie.
When he finally reached the end of the hallway, he paused for a moment before taking a step and lightly knocking on the wooden door. He hears a soft mutter of "Enter" and slowly takes a deep breath before opening the door and taking in a step inside.
The room was very well cared for and well furnished compared to the other rooms in the guild. Bookshelves surrounding the large, spacious room , each filled with an array of different types of books, most of them about the dark art, some just normal fictional book and wizard biographies.
The room was dimly lit, the only source of light was the flames that licked outside of the fireplace in the far back wall of the room. Across the fireplace was a large vintage wooden desk and a vintage wine chair behind it. And in the armchair was a young middle age man reading at what Natsu presumed was a letter or scroll of sorts, intently, carefully reading over every word carefully. His combed back white hair cover his stern and cold face as he continued to read, his thumb tracing over the paper. He sat there in his long, black v-necked shirt, with a red robe-like jacket that reached to his knees. He wore baggy black trouser and and black combat boots.
Serid, the guild master of Pandora's Gate. Known for his immense knowledge of the dark art, he earned himself the title of one of the most powerful dark art mages in all of the dark guilds.
"Master, you wanted to see me" he asked, his tone polite and all the more formal. The guild master finally looks up, away from his scroll, his crimson eyes meeting evergreen ones.
"Ah Natsu. About time you showed up" he says, his voice low and gruff as he places the scroll down on the desk. Natsu cant help but slightly flinch at hearing his name. No one know in the guild knows his true name except the master. He hates it. It gives him insight to a part of him no one knows about. But it was part of their deal. A requirement for him to tell his true name in order to join the guild.
"You do realise you're late" he asks rhetorically, his face stern, not giving anything away.
Natsu gives a slight bow. "My apologies Master, but I had ran into a small but brief...complication" he answers. Natsu straightens back up and sees a slight twitch on his lips, as though he was on the brink of smiling.
"Well no matter" he brushes it off, the small twitch from his mouth disappearing.
"Now to why I called you here" he starts, pausing temporarily gesturing Natsu to take a seat, which he does without hesitation.
"Natsu, have you ever heard of the Reas Family?"he asks.
"If I'm not mistaken, they are one of the most powerful and influential dukes in all of Fiore. Direct descendent of the Fiore royal bloodline. They are also known for the their amazing creation and production of magic item, earning them a great name in the magical industry" he replies
"Correct. Now to the assignment at hand" he starts. Natsu nods, waiting for the master to continue.
"The Reas are coming to Magnolia for this years Spring Solstice Festival. Our clients wants you to infiltrate them on their journey to the festival. You will kidnap the dukes only daughter, Diane Reas. You will then take her to the co-ordinate I will give to you later. There You will meet ur client and you will hand her over to them. Understood?" he asks.
"What will the client give us in return" Natsu ask. He doesn't want do a job if he doesn't get anything in return. Masters request or not.
"The three of you will receive at least 25,000 each and in return for the completion of this mission, our client will give access to his facilities and...products" he states, cryptic as usual. Hold on. Did he say three?
"Three of us?"
Serid raise his eyebrow in amusement." Did you think this was a solo mission? No, I'm afraid not boy. To insure there are no mess ups, I've assigned two other members of the guild to work along side you on this mission" he relays to him.
"Now I want your team to leave in o 2 hours. But I'm assuming you have more questions?" he asked stern but ultimately bemused.
"May i ask what the client wants with the girl?" he asks, never once losing his composure by his master attitude.
"Our client runs a underground black market, specifically in selling humans" he starts, a cold malicioussmile of respect gracing his lips.
"A simple common folk human, he could get a heavily amount of jewels but for a duchess, that would be an absolute goldmine. But this is more of a simple business transaction for the greater good. An alliance of sorts" he explains, cold and emotionless about the subject at hand.
Natsu just simply nods, as though this was just basic knowledge.
"What about Happy? Will he be accompanying me on this mission?" he inquires.
Happy was his one and only companion. Someone he would really consider as a friend. When he spent his first year here, he was training out in the guilds training ground, practising his fighting skills. After spending a whole afternoon training, he sat against one of the wooden training dummy's for a few moments but just about when he was going to continue training, he heard a soft rustle in the longs grass in front of him, one he wouldn't have heard if not for his heightened senses.
Cautiously, he stepped toward the long grass and moved the grass to see an enormous egg in front of him, Blue claw like markings graced its white shell. He slowly reached out towards it, curious but pauses when he sees it vibrate violently, slight creaking sounds heard.
And before he knew it, the shell of the egg began to crack open and he saw a small blue cat with wings of a dove pop up from the wreckage of the egg. He decide to take care of him and named him Happy and they've been inseparable ever since.
He occasionally brings Happy with him on some mission, at least the more light heartened and easier one. Never even consider on bringing him to the more...darker kinds of mission. He didn't want Happy to have deal with the...requirements that comes with mission.
"No "the master says. "He will stay here at the guild".
"I understand" Natsu replies.
He sits up and bows before reaching for the door but pauses when he hears his master voice.
"I need your very best on this mission Natsu. And don't cause any unnecessary complications. Failure is not an option. Or the consequences will be severe. Strongest mage here or not."
Natsu doesn't even bother to look at him as replies.
"Yes Master", and he leaves the room.
As soon as he left the room, he couldn't hep but a smirk creep onto his face. He chuckle darkly to himself. 'Things are getting intresting'
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