Chapter 1

Natsu's P.O.V.

Natsu sighed as he packed his bags. After many years his stay at Fairy Tail finally came to an end. Before he left Magnolia he decided to go around to one last look at the town before he sets out to travel around Fiore in search of the secrets of dragon-slayer magic.

He looked sadly upon his best friends sleeping form. Happy the exceed was snoring lightly on Natsu's old hammock. He softly whispered the words goodbye as he made his way to the door of his run down shack. "Happy I swear that one day we will meet again." he whispered. He then shut the door and made his way to the Fairy tail guild building.

On his way to the guild's building he started to think about his reasons for abandoning his life at Fairy tail in order to travel around the world in search of knowledge.

Flashback- 7 months ago

Team Natsu just finished another mission and were on their way back to Fairy tail. Instead of being his usual vibrant self he decided to lag behind the rest of his team mates. He was really worried. During their last mission against a dark guild Natsu noticed that instead of his usual red flames, the color of his flames began to change. At the start of the battle against the dark guild master he saw that flames bursted out in a darker shade of red and as the battle kept going on the flames got darker and darker till his flames where as black as the flames of the deceased god-slayer Zancrow.

Flashback End

It was at this point that he began to realize that something was wrong with him. He had no idea how he acquired the black flames, but he new that while using them he was more powerful than he had ever been. It was because of this reason that he quit team Natsu and formed a new team with Gajeel Redfox and Wendy Marvell. He grinned as he remembered the missions they went on in their short time as a team. His grin faded as he realized that he was going to destroy another team.

"Sorry guys, but I have to do this alone." he said. He continued towards his destination with the thought that if this went according to plan he would not stay away from the guild for too long.

He finally got to the guild building. They eventually got their old guild building back, after winning the Grand Magic Games and regaining their former status as the number one guild in Fiore.

He smiled as he looked at the guild building one last time. He took out a note he had previously written. In the note he simply said that he would be gone for a while but hoped that one day they would all meet again. He also apologized to Gajeel and Wendy for destroying their team. He placed the note on the door and with one last smile he left the guild building.

Natsu tried to suppress his tears as he made his way out of Magnolia, this place had been his home for so long and now he would be leaving it and venturing into unknown territory.

"Goodbye guys." He choked out. And with that Natsu Dragneel left the border of Magnolia and started his quest for knowledge.

(The next morning)

Gajeel's P.O.V.

Gajeel looked at the letter with shock and anger. He looked at his younger companion who was trembling as her body was wracked with sobs. Gajeel frowned as he realized that the person he began to look at as a brother simply abandoned him, without even so much as a hint to where he was heading to.

Gajeel tapped Wendy on the head as she began to sniffle and clean her already sore eyes with her palm. She looked up at him with those grief stricken eyes that made him mentally promise to puch Natsu in the face for abandoning them. With Wendy in her current state Gajeel decided to beak the news to the other guild members.

"Don't worry Wendy we will find him soon." He said. She seemed to calm down a bit after he said that, but he knew that there was no guarantee that he would ever find Natsu, as Natsu was a dragonslayer with a sense of smell as sharp as his, so he could definitely tell if he was being followed.

"Gajeel lets go get Carla and Lily" she said. It was pretty obvious that she was close to breaking down again, but he decided to support her.

"NATSU!" a voice called. Gajeel looked around for the source of the noise, but his mood got worse when he saw that Happy was the one calling Natsu.

Wendy looked like she was about to burst into a new round of sobbing, but it seemed like she was trying to be strong for her friends.

'Just like flame brain' Gajeel thought. Natsu may not have noticed it but Wendy looked up to him a lot. He even suspected that she had a crush on him. All these thoughts just fuelled his desire to find Natsu, so that he could beat him up, for making Wendy so miserable.

"Hey Gajeel have you seen Natsu?" asked the over energetic cat. Gajeel clenched his fists so hard that the effort made him wince. "Happy Natsu isn't here….. it seems he decided to abandon the guild." Happy had a stunned look on his face. As expected he didn't take the news well. After a moment of denial he finally accepted that his best friend had abandoned him. Happy dropped to the floor and started wailing, because he knew that his foster father just abandoned him without giving any hints on his destination.

Wendy picked Happy up and cradled the poor cat in her arms, whispering soothing words into his ear while attempting to keep her composure.

"C'mon Gajeel lets go spread the word." She said mournfully as she and Gajeel made their way to fairy hills.

Somewhere far away…

Zeref's P.O.V.

I watched silently as Natsu made his way out of Magnolia, without shifting my gaze from the lacrima orb which rested in my palm. I was aware of Natsu's newfound power and it seems that Natsu has turned out to be far more powerful than I thought. If that power was what I think it was then I have to make sure that Natsu uses it well, or I fear he may become a being worse than Acnologia.

"Natsu what exactly do you plan to do."

This is my first story so I need people to review. This story will be told mainly inNatsu, Gajeel and Zeref's points of view.