A/U: Hey guys finally got to start writing my NaLi fanfic, I've been writing for the past two months now and gotten some pretty good reviews so I'm confident with my abilities. Just so you guys know I've changed both Natsu and Lisanna's characters in this to suite my story better, I mean everywhere I look it's all NaLu on this site and no offence to the fans but the pairing is just to typical, I've strongly been hoping that Fairytail will pull a Naruto if you know what I mean. If you don't I won't risk spoilers but I just feel that Natsu and Lisanna's relationship was deliberately destroyed with her two year absence to make way for NaLu and it pisses me off when people make Lisanna out to be a bitch, saying she should have stayed dead or that she is useless and to those people I say go fuck yourself at least Lisanna uses her own magic to fight opponents from day one unlike a certain celestial spirit mage who uses spirits to fight in her stead *cough* Lucy Heartphillia. *cough* Look I have nothing against what the Mashima has planned for Fairytail in terms of relationships that is his decision not ours, not yours our mine his Fairytail is his property and I respect that but I just feel that because that Lucy is the main female protagonist others and the first we meet with Natsu the NaLu fans tend to cast off any real connection he has with any of the other female wizards in Fairytail even if Lisanna was his FIRST friend and if you ask me even if Natsu is an idiot there was something special. Just my opinion anyway sorry about the rant I really get carried away when it comes to these types of relationship. Okay this is a prologue chapter to the main story. Please do not let my rant detour you from reading the fanfic everyone has their own opinion and I need to respect that, so my utmost apologies. Please enjoy the chapter.

It All Started In The Rain-Prologue.

"Hey what you doing out here in the rain?" a young white haired girl asked. She wore a plain pink dress that had a red ribbon around the neck of the dress, she had bright blue eyes and her voice was etched with worry and curiosity as she directed her question towards a young pink haired boy who sat on a ledge with a saddened look on his face, he looked to be around eleven years old the same as her.

"Huh, just, you're…" he said trying to remember her name from earlier.

"I'm Lisanna silly" The now known Lisanna replied.

"Yeah that's right, you're Mira's kid sister right" he said now remembering who the girl was.

"Yeah you got it, so Natsu what type of magic do you use, we haven't found out yet and why are you out here by yourself?" Lisanna asked the boy now known as Natsu. Natsu hasn't had that overall much contact with other people so he doesn't quite feel comfortable around.

"Please if we are gonna be part of the same family we gotta trust each other, oh wait know if it's like a secret I'll trade you mine for yours!" she said excitedly. Nodding in response to show he agreed Lisanna looked around to make sure that no-one was around to here. Seeing that no-one was around she sat down beside Natsu sharing the umbrella she carried between them.

"Okay my first secret is I'm not really Elfman and Mira's sister, they found me on their way to the guild and because we all look so alike I was passed off as their sister, of course I learned take-over magic to make sure the story fit together but that isn't my real magic." This really got Natsu's attention she was sharing something with him that only her pseudo brother and sister knew "she must really want me to trust her" he thought.

"The second thing is something even Elfman and Mira don't know about, you'll be the first person I'll have told this too." She said with a pink hue across her face. "Why would trust me with something so important?" he asked inquisitively. "I don't know something about you seems familiar, like you seem cold towards people and I guess if my secret helps you open up then it's worth it plus I want to be your friend and get to know you better." She answered giving him a joy filled smile that caused his cheeks to take on the same colour as his hair.

Making sure nobody was around she leaned over to his ear and whispered "I'm a dragonslayer." It took a while to register with Natsu it shocked him beyond words how this frail looking girl could possess the magic capable of defeating the mightiest creatures in the land. "WHAT ARE YOU SERIOUS!?" he shouted at her. "Shhh! yes I'm serious, I'm the ice dragon slayer my dragons name was Glaceon the ice dragon Queen."

Natsu's face seem to light up into a smile much to Lisanna delight and confusion. "Why are you smiling to be honest I was expecting you to not believe in an instant?" His smile turned into a smirk when he lit his hand on fire, the flame was a mix of shade of blue and white. (Like Azuela's fire from Avatar the legend of Aang) The flame danced around his hand and gave off heat and at the same time no heat to the girl's amazement.

"Hahaha I believe you because I'm a dragonslayer as well, I'm the Azure dragonslayer and my father was Gandora the Azure dragon king." He said giving her a large smile that made her already present blush intensify. The two sat in silence for a little while until Lisanna broke the silence. "So your dragon did he disappear a couple of months ago on the 7th of July?" she asked the cheer in her voice no gone and tears threatened to escape.

His smile now gone also nearly on the brink of tears said "Y-yeah, wait your dragon disappeared as well, (Lisanna nods in response) both dragons on 7th day of the 7th month too weird. Still I won't stop looking for Gandora until I get my answers, I'll get stronger so I can see him again together we can get stronger, together one day we'll find our parents." He turned to her only to see the tears in her eyes and afraid he had done something wrong started to panic.

"Shit I'm sorry I don't know what I…" but he wasn't able to finish as the girl had thrown her arms around him causing him to fell warm inside, well warmer than usual, which was strange to the boy as fire wizard he never felt cold nor heat but he could feel this and it was nice. "Really will you help me find my mother, will you help me become strong enough to face her so I can ask why? Did she abandon me because I was weak or because she didn't care about me that's all I ever thought about after she left?" Lisanna cried out

"As my first friend I'll help you no matter what, I couldn't imagine our dragons abandoning us because we are weak, even if you say you are weak you're a lot stronger than me in ways, your kind, caring compassionate and put others first, you didn't even know me and made my well-being your priority, I wish I could be more like you. Physically I may be stronger but that doesn't count without heart to a dragon family is what is most important so no they definitely wouldn't abandon us because they thought we were weak if anything this is just another one of their tests and together we will pass it" He said smiling to her.

Clearing her eyes she started smiling again "you know you're really smart but you still haven't answered my other question." Lisanna said still curious as to why he wasn't enjoying his welcome to Fairytail party. "Thanks, well as you know adapting to being around humans isn't easy when you either lived on your own or with a dragon your entire life. So basically I'm not a people person but with your help I could probably be a bit less could towards them right." He said smile to her.

"Right I got your back, just make sure to keep my secret okay. Oh a one other thing were making a team." The girl proclaimed. "Well I won't complain, I'll keep your secret and making a team sounds like it will be fun besides if it's just me and you then I can help you practice your dragonslayer magic." He said as the pair got up Lisanna held out her hand extending her pinkie finger. "What are you doing?" Natsu his brand new friend. "It's a pinkie promise take your hand like mine and wrap your pinkie finger around mine." She explained

Doing as he was told Natsu raised his hand along and wrapped his little finger around Lisanna's. "So what are we promising?" he asked with a questioning look. "Simple we're promising that we'll be friends forever and that we'll always be looking out for one another" she said excitedly. "Deal, just remember if I start a fight with someone it's probably cause they pissed me off or hurt someone I care about" he said the last part while staring at her with a cherry smile which surprised the girl because she knew what she was implying. "He says he cold towards people but what he just said was very caring he has a lot of potential" she thought to herself. "But it will probably take me ages to get used to all the butt-heads in the guilds" He deadpanned "Or maybe not."

The two entered the guild together unnoticed by everyone except the present S-class wizards which was just Makarov and Laxus. Soon after though a red head came up to the two, she had scarlet hair done in plait and wore a blue skirt, black boots and a chest piece of armour along with some thin silver gauntlets. Lisanna had started walking over to Mira and Elfman leaving Natsu alone with the scarlet haired girl.

"So you're the new member of the guild, welcome to Fairytail My name is Erza scarlet, your name is Natsu but we don't know your second name mind telling me and if you don't mind telling me what magic do you use?" The red head now known as Erza asked Natsu. Their conversation had got the attention of a few of the younger mages in Fairytail.

"Man I hope she cleans his clock, it's kind of her initiation thing you know?" a raven haired boy known as Gray Fullbuster said as he waited in anticipation. "My name is Natsu Dragneel and yes I do mind I'm not in the mood to talk right now tin can." Natsu said plainly. Every member of Fairytail's Jaws dropped, well almost Mira was in Fits of Laughing saying how great this kid was, Laxus had a wide grin to see what would happen next and Erza was exuding a murderous aura.

"Here it comes" a cowering Gray said as he say Erza swiftly reach for the Pinkette's scaled scarf who now had his back turned to Erza as he walked towards the Strauss siblings. What happened next shocked everyone, as Erza's hand was about to grab the scarf Natsu grabbed her arm and flung her over his body so that she was lying down on the floor in front of the Dragon slayer who had a serious expression on his face.

"No-one touches the scarf unless I saw so got it red!" he scowled. Erza for one was still too shocked to move as was most of the other people in the guild. "Hey kid what's so special about that scarf anyway?" Laxus asked from the second floor of the Guild. "My father gave it to me before he disappeared." He replied "no father, heh I can sympathize with you there kid." Laxus thought to himself as he remembered how his grandfather the current guild master exiled his father from the guild which put their relationship in a dead end zone.

"If you want to know what my magic is that badly you could have just said please." Natsu then explained to Erza as he gave her a hand up causing the scarlet haired mage to blush a bit. "Erza's a cougar, she likes younger men!" shouted Mira from her table which caused Erza's blush to deepen and stutter her words while the rest of the guild laughed, the younger ones only understood the fact liked younger men and started laughing cause everyone else did.

"I d-d-d-don't l-like him!" she said stuttering badly. "Your face says otherwise," Laxus said from the second floor. "SHUT UP LAXUS!" a high pitched feminine voice said, the source of which surprised each and every member of the guild. "Aw is little Lisanna jealous that Erza got a head start on her?" Laxus mocked the Girl, normally as of late he would strike out against anyone who dared talk to like that, but he could never bring himself to actually strike and harm any of the younger generation so he would just mock them instead.

"No way if anyone has the head start it's me, me and Natsu agreed to form a team, and I'm his first friend." She exclaimed quickly as saying it was embarrassing. To say people were shocked that Lisanna, shy, little Lisanna actual did such a thing was an understatement. "I see, Natsu is this true?" Mirajane asked in sickly sweet manner.

"Y-yeah" he answered. He didn't know why but this women was terrifying every step she took towards him he could the murderous aura she emitted grow, but what made it even scarier was the fact she was hiding it behind that sweet smile of hers. "Mira don't hurt him, if you're worried about him protecting me he can don't worry he can, he's a dragonslayer." Lisanna explained to her pseudo sister, at hearing this kid was a dragonslayer Laxus and Makarov simultaneously spat out their drinks and shared a glance that said "we need to talk, NOW!"

"What!" the entire guild bar four shouted in unison as those four were the ones who knew of the existence of dragon slayers. "Come on Lisanna Dragons don't exist anymore so how could there be any dragonslayers?" a now stripped down Gray Fullbuster asks. "Gray your clothes! And dragons do exist, Natsu is a dragonslayer come on Natsu show them." She said with determination dragging Natsu outside by the hand while getting cheers from the crowd that followed them saying they looked so cute together.

The crowd gathered behind the proclaimed dragonslayer a betting pool had been made for whether Natsu was or wasn't a dragonslayer. The majority of the crowd had put it on he wasn't while taking advantage of their knowledge Laxus, Makarov and Lisanna had placed it on that he was. "What's going on here?" a deep masculine voice called from behind the crowd. "Ah Gildarts just some friendly betting, that boy out in the centre of the field there says he's a dragonslayer so we made bets to on whether or not he was." The old master explained.

"I'll take a piece of that, 500 jewel on that he is a dragon slayer." Placing his bet he then stood with his side and saw that Lisanna was staring at the young boy with a bright smile on her face. "Lisanna you wouldn't happen to have a crush on that boy would you, remember what Mira said any boy you liked had could only get her approval if he fought me seriously?" before Lisanna could utter a word Laxus spoke up.

"I don't think crush is the right word try in love, she already formed a team with him and it's only his first day." Laxus said in a teasing tone. "Hoh, you kids grow up so fast, but don't get ahead of yourself kid he's gotta get through me before you two can be a thing." Gildarts said with his usual troll face. "Gildarts, Laxus shut up, come on Master make them stop." Lisanna complained to the short guild master who was trying to contain his laughter.

"All right Natsu prove to us you're really a dragonslayer." The master shouted after regaining his composure. "Gladly!" he replied sternly. Taking up a steady, sturdy stance he started inhaling "Azure Dragon's…" arcing his head and body back, then bring them forward he blew into a funnel shape he created with his hands "Roar!" he shouted out as blue fire burst from funnel.

"Hahaha sorry kids looks like we win the bet, this boy is a true dragonslayer, and if you don't believe me well then the boy will no fight Gildarts to prove it." Makarov said with a sly smile "Eh!" the entire guild shouted in unison. "Hope your ready kid this'll decide whether you and little Lisanna get to become a team and as the strongest wizard in Fairytail I should warn you that I don't like to hold back." The ace of Fairytail said with a wry tone, this really interested Natsu greatly he knew the guild master ha to be strong but for someone to be stronger than them this really peaked his interest.

"Okay Gildarts I accept your challenge, but saying that I know I can't defeat you I just want to see how I measure up to someone said to be stronger than the master of the strongest guild." He said with a determined look. "Hoh, why would that be?" Gildarts asked the boys answer was very mature for someone of his age and intrigued the Crash mage. "Two reasons, first Lisanna is my first friend and we made a promise but I'll skip out on the details so this team is important to me." He said while sending a look towards said white haired girl electing a few awes and kawaii's from the crowd.

"And what would be the second be if you don't mind me asking?" Gildarts asked the boy curiously. The boy's mood became serious and transfixed upon the situation, "I have to become stronger, he is out there somewhere, my dragon, my father is out there somewhere and I have to get stronger before I can face him. Not in order to defeat him just to make him proud, I now fighting you will help me get there so I will make it my goal to surpass you before I find Gandora!" Natsu stated as pointed at Gildarts causing many members of the guild to Laugh at him but Gildarts could see the fire in his eyes and see the determination in his words.

"Well lets gets started, however to be fair I'll give you some handicaps." The older mage said breaking a branch off a nearby tree and drawing a circle around himself. "Okay kid hers the deal, I'm not allowed to set foot out of this circle all you have to do get me out of it and I'm only allowed to use defensive spells no offensive ones you cool with that?" he asked. Natsu eyed his opponent up and down a bit disappointed with the handicaps in place but then dismissed it as he realised without them he might end up in hospital or worse. "Yeah, get ready because here I come with everything I got."

"Azure Dragon's Roar!" Natsu shouted out releasing the same blue stream of flames from his mouth as he did earlier. He was sure as powerful as Gildarts was no defensive spell would stop him from being pushed out of the tiny circle. However to his sudden shock he saw a white light breach his flames turning it into little cubes. "W-what the hell did you do?" he spat out in shock. "Hehe, it's a simple disassemble spell called shatter, it's a basic form of crash magic that becomes more powerful the stronger the casters magic is. "He did that with just the basics of his magic, how freakin strong is this guy?" Natsu thought to himself.

"You know it's not too late to give up." Gildarts mention to Natsu. "Yeah right like I'd give up, if I give up here I give up on my dream of finding my father, all us dragonslayers that were raised by dragons we all strive for the day we will find our foster parents, there are others out there like me, Gandora told me so, he said in Fiore there were a total of seven kids being raised by dragons. Those dragons were our family and they suddenly disappeared on July 7th, you may find it hard to believe that a dragon is capable of such feelings as love or compassion for others but you wouldn't know would you, if I quit here I'm a disgrace to slayers everywhere." He proclaimed as he produced a magic aura.

"Then prove it! Show me your strength, show me your resolve!" Gildarts said sternly Natsu then charged at Gildarts hand lit ablaze "Azure Dragon's Cold Claw!" the dragonslayer roared as he brought an icy blue flame coated hand in the shape of a claw down in an arcing motion, Lazily sticking out his hand Gildarts caught the attack causing an explosion to take place, he was expecting the flames to be hot seeing as it was fire but it was ice cold and actually felt a bit off ice cover his hand and the life of him couldn't understand why,

After the smoke had cleared Natsu jumped back to gain distance seeing as his attack hadn't caused any damage, his clothes weren't even scuffed or ruffed up from the explosion. "That's some impressive magic power you got there kid but you're not controlling it right, a lot of your magic is being wasted through unnecessary movements that and you probably don't have proper regulation over your magic container." The crash mage explained to Natsu leaving the boy shocked he always wondered why his attacks weren't as powerful as they should have been, that and his azure fire had been acting up these last few weeks.

"Doesn't matter this fight isn't over Azure Dragon's Zero Flame Pulse!" Natsu shouted in response as he rushed forward with a smug smile as he had quickly formulated a plot in his mind. Stopping in front of Gildarts who had his arms folded with a questioning look Natsu unleashed two swirling icy blue flames from his palms that quickly engulfed the crash mage in a maelstrom of fire leaving a large proportion of the crowd that was watching in shock.

Then according to the dragonslayer's plan the flames dispersed as powerful kick swept through the air the force of which tore up a large portion of the training ground but Natsu managed to expertly duck underneath it and aimed with all his force at Gildarts exposed weak spot. "Azure Dragon's Iron fist!" he shouted as a dark blue flame coated fist connected with Gildarts' family jewel causing the man to fall like a tree out of the circle. The male proportion only winced covering their own jewels as they could only imagined how much that would have hurt while the rest of the guild was just shocked that the new kid while proving he was a dragonslayer also beat Gildarts Clive the most powerful wizard in Fairytail.

"Ha old man I win, now you have to let me and Lisanna be a team" the boy smile with a cocky grin. Gildarts got up still clutching his jewels like you'd expect. "Yep you beat me, even if you had to stoop to some extremely low methods. However Next time we fight there ain't gonna be any handicaps I'll be going all out." The elder mage said smiling to the boy who returned the smile in the form of a grin.

"Okay how about n…ughehe!" He said leaping at the crash mage preparing for a real fight but couldn't finish what he was going to say before Gildarts had brought a karate chop to Natsu's head effectively knocking him out as well as creating a Natsu shaped hole in the Ground. "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" most of the younger generation screamed at the sight they had witnessed, sure Gildarts was an idiot who couldn't tell left from right and didn't like it when he had to hold back but come on the kid only got here today and Gildarts had most likely given him Brain damage.

After an hour or so Natsu began to wake up in the infirmary, as he sat up he felt a weight on his left arm and looked to only see Lisanna passed out on his arm and his face immediately began to light up like a Christmas tree. A few thoughts ran through his head, like what Laxus would say if he saw the two of them, little did he know said lightning mage already did. Another thought was what would happen to him if that Mira girl seen them. Even though he knew they weren't really sisters he knew that Mira Lisanna as such.

Natsu's advanced draconic senses then picked the sound of footsteps outside the door. When the door opens he sees Gildarts walk in, he never really took in the man's appearance earlier, he was a tall man at least 6'02', his hair was auburn in colour and he had some similar coloured stubble. He wore no shirt only a slightly tattered cape that showed off his muscular physique and black Fairytail emblem on his chest. He wore lose baggy pants and metallic boots, his exposed arms were both wrapped half way from the wrist to the elbows in bandages and in one hand he was carrying a thick book.

"Come to gloat?" Natsu asked in a pissed off tone. "I'd think you have more to gloat about than me kid" Gildarts responded while glancing in the direction of Lisanna who was still attacked to Natsu's arm causing said dragonslayer to blush. "Hey I'm too young for that shit!" he replied irritated a visible tick mark on his forehead. "Not for much longer, but I didn't come to make fun of you Natsu here take this." Gildarts said to Natsu while handing him the book in his hand.

"How to control your magic?" Natsu read the title questioningly. "Natsu you have a lot of magic potential, learn to control that magic and you could become one of the most powerful wizards in Fiore, powerful enough to see Gandora again, I'm going on a couple of s-class missions it should take a few months to complete them all so by the time I get back your make will be under control and then we'll have a proper battle." He said to the boy giving him his own childish grin that said he looked forward to that day.

"Deal, remember Gildarts I won't stop until I beat you, cause from today forward you're are my goal, to become as strong as you, the day I become able to fight on par with you or surpass will be the day I know I can finally face Gandora." He said in a determined tone causing the elder mage to smile before leaving.

THREE MONTHS LATER

A lot had happened since Gildarts had left, Natsu and Lisanna had formed their team and register under the name Team NaLi which they created using both their names or well Lisanna did anyway. The two would do missions together and would clear them easily, they were either high C-class or a low B-class wizards as they were both dragonslayers well one anyway the other was only a dragonslayer when on missions with Natsu when with her siblings she would use her take-over magic.

Never confident in her dragonslayer magic's offensive capabilities had gotten Natsu to help train when they were alone, that was after he quickly learned how to control his magic container. Lisanna quickly got the basics of dragonslayer magic down, like her roar, claw and wing attack and with ice being her element she gained a curtained degree over freezing things. Combine this with all the defensive, healing and enhancement spells her dragonslaying magic gave her put her somewhere near Natsu's power level for the time.

However the biggest revelation came around when Natsu was in the forest alone he had been trying to fell a tree simply to improve his strength physically. However after a few strikes his knuckles pulsed red with pain the compared to the slightly splintered bark of the tree, his pain was further amplified by a large egg dropping on his head.

Rushing back to the guild egg in hand he took Lisanna off to the side telling her he thought the egg was that of a dragon and wanted to hatch it with her, the two had taken the egg into the east forest and made a small thatched hut where they were going to hatch the egg of the supposed dragon. They had been doing so for the last few days with Lisanna making jokes about them husband and wife with the egg as their child and then about how some day that she could someday maybe be his real wife which always got the flustered reaction she loved so much from the boy however both would be lying if they said that they didn't have feelings in that general direction for one another.

The time spent together in the hut had become some of their best memories ever that they wouldn't trade even to see their dragons again. The two came back to the guild one day when the egg was missing, the two were frantic fearing that the Gorian Natsu beat earlier in the week had come for revenge. Much to their relief Elfman had taken the egg to make sure it was kept warm and only minutes later it hatched into a flying blue cat who was named Happy due to the fact that his birth seemed to bring happiness to the guild and so became the pseudo son of Natsu and Lisanna.

A few days had passed since then and Happy had gotten used to the guild, he was already born with the ability to fly, and had shortly gotten the ability of speech down that's to his pseudo parents. He flew around like any normal flying blue cat, annoyed guild mates with a few signature phrases that he developed but was never trusted with the fact that Lisanna was dragonslayer as that secret was Natsu's and Lisanna's alone.

"Hey Natsu I seen some really big footprints in the forest the other day, I'm not certain they are dragons, but at the same time I not certain they aren't." Lisanna said cheerfully to her best friend, team mate and "husband". "What, really lets go check it out. You coming Happy?" Natsu asked the blue feline who responded with his signature "AYE!"

The trio had made their way to their way to the area Lisanna had found the footprints, but much too Natsu's disappointment the footprints were not that of a dragon but most likely that of a forest Gorian. Beginning his long trek back to the guild he hadn't noticed that Lisanna was falling behind. "Hey wait up, I can't keep up!" she shouted at them snapping Natsu back to reality as a thick fog suddenly rolled in. "Oh sorry guess I spaced out be sure to keep up kay" he said to her turning his her over his left shoulder to face her at the bottom of the hill he was on.

They continued to trek onward and Natsu continued the same trek of thought "Gandora where are you?" which was interrupted by Happy "Natsu Lisanna is gone!" He said worryingly. "Aw man if Mira finds out I'm in trouble, and she'll probably make Erza help her beat me up as well…HANG ON LISANNA I'M COMING!" he shouted into the distance. He had searched for a good 5 minutes until he heard a feminine squeal he knew all too well and turned to see the same Gorian that tried to steal and eat happy as an egg. He seethed and snarled in anger as his azure fire coated his body.

"Hang on their kid I wouldn't do anything too hasty, one wrong move and your girly here gets squished." The Gorian said in a gruff voice. Allowing his flames to retreat he stood in a neutral stance and asked "what do you want?" The Gorian laughed explaining what he wanted will Lisanna's imagination took control again. "However I might give her back I you get down on your hands and knees apologize and beg me too hand over the girl."

Not one to put pride before the well-being of his friends and family he did as he was told only for as he expected the ape like creature to start beating him into the dirt. He was helpless to do anything, as the Gorian came over to Natsu with an enormous boulder preparing to crush the small boy underneath. But the boulder never made it to the ground but seemingly levitated in mid-air from the Gorian's and Lisanna's until they heard a voice which Lisanna immediately recognised.

"Gildarts!" she called out in excitement as the strongest mage in Fairytail showed up in the nick of time. Said mage the used his crash magic to disassemble the enormous rock into tiny cube like chunks, smirking at the stupefied Gorian he said with an air of authority in his voice "See here's how this is going to play out, first you're going to put the girl down and then you're going to walk away." Doing immediately as it was told the Gorian did so saying "Yes sir, of course" before marching away deeper into the forest.

Gildarts then turned to see a sulking Natsu who was clearly upset about how things played out, but he had to smile even though he had only briefly met the boy before he felt like he had known him for many years, and that under that cold exterior of his he really was just like any other child his age with the same tendencies. "I'm proud of you Natsu, you've grown you put the wellbeing of someone you care about before the needs of your pride, you could have easily defeated that Gorian but you wouldn't have risked it because your friend would got hurt…it takes a real man to do that." The crash mage said electing a smile from the pinkette which was soon wiped when Gildarts continued "or would you only have done that because it was Lisanna come on Natsu I now you guys have a special connection but spare a thought for the others in the guild" he said jokily now in troll face mode. (You know what I mean)

They were all walking back explaining what happened Gildarts remaining silent listening until he couldn't resist anymore, "Then again Natsu I suppose having a wife is pretty manly too." He said smugly getting blushes from both pre-teens. "Hey kid tell you what, I'm staying in town for a week or two how about you lot stop by my place tomorrow and play some catch?" the man said with an infectious smile. Natsu couldn't refuse, he'd spent most of his life growing up with a dragon and never knew who his real father was so he never got to experience that sort of human relationship. However here was Gildarts stepping out of his own way to spend time with him like a father would their child. To say the boy was happy was an understatement, since their mock fight he had heard stories from the master of Gildarts power, even the Master hadn't seen him go all and it made the boy idolize him, and now Natsu was starting to see him as a possible father figure something he lacked in terms of the human manner.

"Sure I'll be there!" he exclaimed excitedly and beamed the largest cheesiest smile he could make effectively causing Lisanna to smile at his antics, "They're like a father and son, Natsu seems so open about who he is when he's around me Gildarts and Happy, together I'm sure we can make him warm up to the rest of the guild little by little!" she thought inwardly before running up to Natsu's side making sure she didn't get lost again.

Time skip-4 years later.

A lot of time had passed since then 4 years to be exact and a lot happened, Natsu and Gildarts had their fight Natsu got knocked out in a single blow obviously but that didn't stop him from trying again and again painfully each over the years. Gildarts left a few weeks earlier for his toughest challenge yet, a century quest; a quest that hasn't been completed within 100 years. Over the years the mature, smart, cold and isolated Natsu was replaced by a not so mature, still smart, warmer more sociable Natsu all thanks to one secret dragonslayer who also happened to have recently become his Girlfriend. Yep Lisanna Strauss Ice dragonslayer became Natsu Dragneel's girlfriend about a week after Gildarts left. The pair still kept team NaLi going strong doing more dangerous missions, as both slayers were now 15 years of age they were strong although over the last year or two Lisanna neglected training her dragonslayer magic to focus on animal soul so her sister wouldn't get suspicious of her.

This now left a very noticeable gap in terms of power between the slayers, but Lisanna didn't mind she had two magics to work with instead of one but she did feel bad for Natsu when they travelled on trains and other vehicles. She couldn't figure out why Natsu's motion sickness was so bad, if they had the time on their missions then she would walk with him to there their destination more time to spend together although they would have to make sure to keep any "antics" PG with Happy around. Even though she had spells for helping with motion sickness she knew that the recipient becomes more immune to the spells after every use so while he slept on her lap on a train journey back to magnolia she gave Natsu some of her Ice dragonslayer magic which went undiscovered by the Salamander for a long time. In these four years both Mirajane and Erza had become S-class wizards, Erza a year earlier because Mira was unlucky enough to get Laxus as her examiner which in short meant no mercy. As a result of the two new mages becoming S-class Makarov allowed anyone in the guild to go on a S-class mission as long as they were at last 14 years old and a S-class mage was the one who took the job which meant you had to be chosen to be on their team so not really anyone it was more down to Natural selection than anything.

Mira made a constant team of the Strauss siblings which meant that Team NaLi were always presses for mission time even if they were boyfriend and Girlfriend Natsu and Lisanna's mission only ever consisted of low A to high AA class missions which meant Mira's S class Mission got priority and often Left Natsu to do the mission himself. However in no way did he not get along with Mira for this petty reason, no Natsu got along with Mira quite well sometimes Mira would actually tease Lisanna about how she was going to steal her man. Natsu seemed to along with the Strauss siblings great, them, the master, Gildarts hell he would even have a decent conversation with Laxus every once in a while, these were the people he got along the best with even if Laxus was a cocky arrogant prick but hell he had the magic power and strength to back up his attitude.

While initially warmer to the rest of the Guild there were still some people he didn't get along so well with, said mages being Gray Fullbuster and Erza Scarlet. He didn't know why they didn't like him so much, he tried to chat sometimes but they would just scoff at him ignoring his existence which did hurt inside quite a bit. If he had to guess why they didn't like him it was even after Erza became S-class she would continuously challenge him, this all started 2 years ago and since then Erza was never able to beat Natsu or as he went by the alias of Salamander. Sure every time they fought her skills would improve drastically and she was able to land more hits on him, she had speed and precision that far outclassed his but she lacked the pure physically brute force needed to deliver a blow that he would consider devastating, hell after a fight with Gildarts he had to assume it would be a long time before some-one or thing hit him that was that strong even if the old geezer was holding back, he just assumed that Gray didn't like him because he was fire and Gray was ice.

"Come on man it was one fish!" Natsu exclaimed to his furry feline companion. Natsu now 15 years old was now taller around '5'02 and was much more muscular than usual. Another change was his eyes instead off his usual black onyx orbs they had a slight blueish tinge to them. He wore open toed black sandals, white three quarter length baggy trousers and a brown belt. He wore an open black sleeveless vest with gold trim that exposed his muscular body and off course his white scale pattern scarf he got from Gandora. "It may have been one fish to you but to me it was my whole life!" the feline righteously exclaimed, "What? You're not making any sense what so ever" the pinkette said turning away from is partner. "Are you two fighting again, what have I told about fighting when I'm away?" Lisanna shouted a few feet away from the two after just arriving to the scene.

Lisanna had also gotten taller and was around '4'09, her hair was now a good bit longer reaching down to her shoulders with some bits of her fringe sweeping across her fringe which f course Natsu found very attractive. She wore a knee length red strapless dress the had bits of pink material held up by gold bangles exposing her red Fairytail emblem on her left shoulder which was the opposite of Natsu's whose was red on his right shoulder. "Come Natsu as the dad in the family it's your job to take care of our son not to make him all huffy and upset." She said sternly "Yeah I know." He replied "wait up, what the hell are you guys talking about, who's whose parents?" Happy questioned still not having not figured out what they meant.

"Yours you dum dum" the Azure slayer said plainly to the blue cat. "No offence Natsu but I don't consider to be father material" Happy replied nonchalantly waving his paw. "WHAT DID YOU SAW YOU LITTLE BLUE FUR BALL!" he roared in response causing the feline to scurry behind Lisanna. "Natsu be nice and Happy stop being a smart ass." Lisanna said half laughing at the two. Sighing in response to show his understanding Natsu walked calmly up to the blue cat and placed his hand on his head. "I'm sorry buddy, I shouldn't have eaten your fish, how about we go fishing tomorrow and I catch you a bunch of fish?" he said sincerely to the feline with his cheesy smile.

"Alright I forgive you, it seems you are a father worthy enough of such a magnificent son after all." The cat said to apparently no-one in particular as both his pseudo parents were walking in another direction. "SO you ready for our Date tonight?" Natsu asked walking beside Lisanna hands folded behind his head. "Hmmm let me think…" she said placing her index finger to the bottom of her head creating a thinking like pose. "Well I don't have anything else…" but she was interrupted by Mira's shout "Lisanna hurry up we're leaving for a mission pack your stuff up!" the she devil shouted at her.

"What you can't be serious we just got back, and now we have to leave again man this sucks I was going to leave on a date with Natsu!" she furiously exclaimed. "Sorry but you'll just have to forget about your pink haired boy toy tonight, this is an emergency S-class mission." Mira said sternly not backing down from her sisters gaze. "Hey what if I come with you guys that way we'll get the mission down faster, don't worry about the reward I'm good for money now so I'm only in this to make sure Lisanna gets back in time for our date. "Well that's a nice offer, and it's true that we're certainly tired from our other jobs." Mira said considering bringing him along. "No way I'm the only man needed on this mission, I can protect both of you perfectly myself!" Elfman said ranting on about how Natsu wasn't enough of a man for Lisanna but most of the time if not every time he was just joking he knew Natsu could be beat his ass from one side of the guild to the other.

"Ugh when he gets like this there's no convincing him sorry Natsu looks like our date will have to wait until tomorrow evening" she said giving him a kiss on the cheek and then running after her siblings to catch them up. When she got half she turned back to face him and called out "NATSU! Make sure look after Fairytail until I come back." She while winking and making the fairy sign that Laxus created so many years ago. Natsu only smiled and responded in kind, he watched his girlfriend run off into the distance standing in silence but thinking in volumes. "Please come home safe, I know Mira is super strong but I can't help but worry… I'm over thinking this she'll come back tomorrow after the mission is done." He thought to himself.

However she never did come back.

Next day: late afternoon Fairytail Guild hall.

Natsu and Happy were rushing to the guild hall to get out of the rain, they hadn't been in the guild since early morning so they knew nothing of what transpired over the space of last night. The pair entered the guild and immediately the dark gloomy atmosphere hit them like a brick in the face, and that's when he picked up the salty scent of tears coming from Mirajane of all people. He froze at the sight before him both Mirajane and Elfman were heavily bandaged and crying but there was no sign of Lisanna which only could have meant one thing. Mira's head rose and her face froze when she saw her sister's boyfriend in front of her, seeing her face all the other guild members followed the line of sight until it reached Natsu. No-one in the guild had the heart to speak up not even the Master or Laxus, Mira tried to say something but he ran tears were all she saw as he ran leaving Happy behind him.

"NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! This can't be happening not her anybody but her! It can't be true, it has to be one of Mira and Erza's sick twisted jokes" he thought to himself in panicked and fearful manner he couldn't lose the person who saved him from his darkness. Back at the guild minutes turned into hours and the guild now although still grieving the loss of a family member had their thoughts on Natsu who ran off. "I'm worried at Natsu to have gone through what he already went through as well as losing someone he has cared about so much I 'm he's taking this loss just as bad as Mira and Elfman if not worse, I'm worried he'll blame himself for her death but I'm worried that all of Lisanna's hard work to bring that boy out of his shell will be reversed." Makarov said taking a swig of his ale.

However just as he set the mug down his worst fear was realised, he heard the most inhuman roar imaginable it sounded more draconic than anything. (Imagine Natsu's roar when he uses lightning flame dragon mode for the first time but toned down a bit.) A sudden burst of magic followed the roar and exude a cold aura that would freeze your very soul if were close enough to it the aura was exactly like the one he gave out on his first day at the guild only way stronger probably of Mirajane's level when using Satan Soul. Fear, anger sorrow all these emotions combined with the grief he felt amplified his magic tenfold but not in a good way. "Flames of Emotion that magic would be rare even in fire dragonslayers, his azure flames of destruction bend to the will of his emotions. You truly are a powerful young wizard but Natsu this won't help you get over your loss you need to find yourself, fight your fear in the flames Natsu." Makarov thought looking towards the direction of the east forest.

"Ahhhh!" was all that could be heard for miles around, the came from Natsu Dragneel, he was in front of a grave stone he made and placed in front of their thatched hutch for Lisanna. His screams radiated anger and sorrow along with the massive pillar of Azure fire that shot up into the sky. Memories of him and Lisanna came flooding back to him intensifying the emotions he felt, especially the memory when they were out in the rain together and promised to always look out for each other. He realised that he had broken his promise and there was no way to fix it, placing his hands over his face he muffled his draconic screams but the same couldn't be said for his magic. His blue Azure flames were slowly deepening in colour retaining their blue shade but filtered more towards a black colour.

Memories kept playing over in his mind, times where he wished he had changed things, he wished he had went on the mission with them, he wished he had answered Lisanna when they were kids when she asked to be his wife someday and then the flames and pain subsided his memories fell upon the memory of then out in the rain together and he wished he had told her how he felt. Though he may not have realised it then Natsu knew he was and always will be in love with Lisanna because for him it all started in the rain.

End chapter

A/U Okay I hope you enjoyed this chapter and again I'm so sorry about my rant I just got carried away and realise that everyone has their opinion so I hope you liked the liked the chapter, fav follow if you like the story cause every little helps.