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EDITED: 12/23/13
Juniper was relieved. She was relieved because she finally got off the death train. Oh man, how she hated transportation. Why couldn't she enjoy the ride like other people? She's been trying to get rid of this problem for years. It doesn't work. It has to be in my genetics, yeah, that's it! She thought excitedly. Then her mood dampened when she realized that they couldn't leave the 'cemetery' yet.
"Um, excuse me, Sir?" she heard an attendant say. She followed his stare to find a pinkette lying face down on the train floor.
"Natsu, we made it to Hargeon! Come on, get up already!" A blue cat named Happy complained standing next to the pinkette's head.
"Is he alright?" questioned the attendant shakily.
"It's fine, he always does this when he travels. Juniper too. Didn't you see her desperate escape off the train?"
"Happy stop chatting and hurry up and get Natsu so we can leave; I don't want to stay!" Juniper cried anxiously, waving her hands waiting off the train. Juniper was usually a happy-go-lucky girl, but she doesn't favor transportation. She had dark wavy, royal blue hair put in a ponytail with side bangs, tanned caramel skin, a nice figure, a bright blue eye and a hazel colored eye, with black rimmed rectangular glasses. She was wearing a three finger white tank top, an off-the-shoulder baby blue long sleeve shirt, jean shorts, and black running shoes.
"Never. I'm never riding a stupid train again." Natsu, the boy on the ground said feebly. He looked ready throw up everything he ever ate.
"If our information's correct," Happy explained looking at the large town, Hargeon, that was bustling with business, "Then we should find that Salamander somewhere in this town. Let's go!"
"Give me a second would ya?" Natsu said leaning out the train window.
Natsu had spiky pink hair, olive skin, dark olive eyes, a navy blue vest with orange trimmings, white pants, and black shoes. He also was not a fan of transportation.
Happy stepped off the train, then turned back toward it with Juniper once they heard the train whistles going off. Natsu screamed in horror looking at the two before the train disappeared with him down the tracks.
"Oh no! Natsu left us. He better have a good explanation for this. How are we gonna find him?" Juniper said looking at the blue cat.
"Uh oh," muttered the cat.
"Aye."
"Oh, man," said Natsu, "I wound up riding the train twice."
The trio were walking around Hargeon, looking high and low for a mysterious goal.
"You've gotta get over that motion sickness, Natsu. You too, Juniper." Happy said.
"I'm trying okay, I have been for a long time." Juniper retorted quickly.
"You know I'm so hungry I could eat my hand. Can you eat yours Juni?" Natsu complained.
"No, I kinda need it, you know. For important stuff."
"It's too bad we don't have any money for food." Happy proclaimed.
"Yeah, what'd you do with it?"
"Hey, Happy, Juni, this salamander were looking for has got to be Igneel, right? And then we could see if he knows where Taranis is?" Natsu questioned.
"Aye. It has to because the only fire dragon I've ever heard of is Igneel," agreed Happy.
"That's true." Natsu and Juniper agreed.
From a far, the group heard many high pitched screams. "Salamander!" "You're so dreamy!" "And so hot!"
"Salamander!" Natsu and Happy exclaimed.
"Speak of the devil! Let's go!" Natsu shouted.
"Wait!" Juniper shouted as the duo ran away approaching the screams. "I don't think that's him!"
They kept running.
"Hey, you guys better wait for me!"
"Hurry up Juniper, it's our lucky day!" They screamed.
The girl quickly followed behind. Oh man, so many people!
Natsu and Juniper pushed their way toward the center of the screaming crowd of girls. She looked around at the girls and wondered why they had hearts in their eyes and why they were squealing so high and loudly. It was hurting her ears.
"Igneel, Igneel, Igneel it's me!" Natsu shouted in happiness as he popped up from within the crowd. Juniper followed walking behind him.
"Natsu, are you sure that's him? It doesn't look like him." Juniper with a confused look on her face.
She also noticed a pretty blonde girl staring at them with an astonished look on her face as a blush fell from her cheeks. Juniper smiled at her showing all her front teeth.
Natsu looked toward a man in the middle of the crowd with a disappointed look on his face, "Who the heck are you?"
"Who am I?" The man looked at Natsu in horror. He had navy blue hair that leaned over more on the left side, a symbol of two C's back-to-back on his right temple, rectangular shaped eye's, and slightly tanned skin.
Is this who is causing all this ruckus? He doesn't even look that impressive, Juniper thought. His voice is a little weird too.
The mysterious man wore a navy blue cloak with gold trimming and two steering wheels of boats on it, red pants with black pinstripes, a white shirt, black shoes, gold bracelets, and a few rings on his fingers. Like Loke, she noticed.
"I am the Salamander, surely you've heard of me before." 'Salamander' said arrogantly.
But Happy and Natsu started walking away before he even finished his sentence.
That imposter should take some acting lessons. He's so stupid pulling a stunt like that thinking he won't get caught, Juni thought with a frown on her young face.
"Hey, wait a minute!" As his eye's widened in despair, a group teenage girls beat Natsu silly, kicking him violently. Happy sweat dropped as he looked on in apprehension.
"Now, now. That's enough my lovelies, the poor boy didn't mean anything malicious like." The 'actor' said with a hand holding his face. This caused all the girls in the crowd to swoon. Except one, Juniper noticed, she looked at that creep with disgust! The blonde haired girl with the knee high black boots, a white and blue shouldered top, and a blue pleated skirt with a tan belt and a black whip and a ring of keys attached to it. Hm….
The bluenette walked over to the pink haired mage. "Here's my autograph, kid. Now you can brag to all your friends." He said with a smug smile.
"No thanks," replied Natsu with a bored look on his face.
The girls didn't like his response, so they kicked him into a wall.
Juniper walked over to join Happy by the wall where Natsu was lying face down in garbage that he landed on.
"Guess it wasn't him afterall." Happy said sheepishly.
"Definitely not him." Agreed Natsu.
"I told you so, but you guys don't listen to me." Juni said while pouting with her arms crossed.
"Sorry." Natsu and Happy said.
"Well," spoke the 'crazy man,' Juni decided to name him, "I must get going ladies, I have business to attend to."
"You're leaving already?" The swooning crowd of girls replied.
"Time for the red carpet! Hah!"
The man snapped causing a ring of fire to appear around himself, then lift him into the air to hover atop of purple fire. "I'm having a swaray on my yacht tonight, and you're all invited!" He called as he flashed into the air to disappear from sight.
As the girls continued squealing, Natsu began to speak. "Who the heck was that guy?"
"I don't know, but he was a real creep."
The three turned and looked to see the blonde girl haired waving at them.
"Thank you for your help." She said with a smile.
"No problem. So what's your name?" Juniper asked with a delighted expression.
"Uhhh…" Natsu and Happy muttered.
"My name's Lucy, it's nice to meet you."
"Aye."
Later, after that fiasco, Lucy found herself at a two story restaurant to repay the group in food for their help. She thought it was the best thing to do since they stopped her from being hypnotized by that loser earlier.
"Uh. Natsu, Juniper and Happy was it?" She tried making conversation, but it didn't seem that the two males were paying attention because they were too busy stuffing their faces. At least the girl was.
"Uh-huh, but you can call me Juni if you want," Juni justified.
"Yesh, your sho nishe!" Natsu spoke with his mouth full.
"Thanks we're not in a hurry, you can slow down. Food is kind of going everywhere," Lucy sweat dropped.
She was right of course, food was going everywhere, and they had an audience.
"Natsu! Chew your food first, that was impolite!" Scolded Juniper, who was calmly eating, to Natsu then Happy who was sitting on the table between her and Natsu.
"Evidently, that 'Salamander' guy was using magic, a charm spell, to hypnotize the ladies in town to thinking they were in love with him," explained Lucy. "Charm spells have the power to attract people to you against their own will, but they've been banned for years. Nobody even sells them anymore! He must have gone through a lot of trouble to get his hands on it. What a creep."
But I broke free of that spell thanks to you barging in when you did. I really can't thank you guys enough."
"No problem, Lucy!" Grinned Juniper.
"Yeah." Agreed Natsu.
"I know I may not look like it, but I'm a wizard too," beamed Lucy.
"Is that so?"
"Yeah, but I didn't join a guild yet or anything. And no one's considered a full fledged wizard until you join one. Oh, I should probably explain, huh?"
"No, you don't have to. We already know all that stuff," clarified Juniper.
"Oh, sorry. I just jumped to conclusions, I guess," blushed Lucy
"That's fine. So," Juniper started, "Are you looking to find a guild, since you don't belong to one yet?"
"Yes! And the most popular guild is the one I want to join!" Gushed Lucy. "They're the greatest and their always featured in Sorcerer Magazine! If I actually convinced them to let me in I think I'd just die!"
"Yeah?" Natsu said uncommitedly.
"Sorry about all this talk, but I'm telling you I'm definitely going to join that guild someday. And then I'm going to take all kinds of exciting jobs and make tons of money."
"Oh, yeah?"
"Sounds exciting!" Juniper leaned in with interest.
"You talk a lot," complained Happy. Lucy ignored his comment.
"Whoops, sorry again. You guys came here to try and find somebody didn't you?" asked Lucy concerned.
"We're looking for Igneel!"
"And he's gonna tell us where Taranis is," cut in Juniper.
"We heard a rumor that a salamander was coming through this town so we came here to see him. Turns out it was somebody else." Natsu muttered in disappointment.
"Yeah, that guy didn't look like a salamander at all."
"No kidding, that poser probably can't even breathe real fire like a dragon."
"Told you! We should have gone to the mountains or something. Somewhere with a lot of sky and wind. Don't dragons like to fly?" Questioned Juni.
"No, Igneel would like some place hot," argued Happy.
"Wait, so your friend looks like a dragon and can fly?" Seeked Lucy.
"No, you got it all wrong. He doesn't look like a dragon, he is one," Natsu informed.
"Huh?" Asked a dumbstruck Lucy.
"Aye! He's a real life fire dragon!" Happy educated.
"Huh!"
"Ha ha! You look funny, Lucy!" Laughed Juniper.
Later that night it was a full moon. Perfect to see everything at night, even in the dark. Natsu, Happy and Juni were later found on top of a cliff road that overlooked the town.
"Eh, so that was quite a meal, right guys?"
"Sure, Natsu, but I really liked that Lucy girl though," remembered Juniper, "She was a really nice person."
"Whatever, Juni. She talked too much," requited Happy. "Hey look! Do you think that's the boat where that salamander guy is having his party?"
Natsu and Juni turned to look at the boat for a couple seconds before turning back around to cover their mouths with both hands while they turned a deep blue color.
"I'm gonna hurl." Natsu said.
"I can't handle that kind of stuff, Happy," Juniper whined.
"Come on," Happy waved his hand unconcerned, "it's not like we're gonna board it or anything."
Suddenly the feeling of motion sickness quickly went away as they both heard three girls' conversation.
"That's Salamander's yacht, isn't it?"
"I wish I could have gone to his party."
"Who's Salamander?"
"Woah, you've never heard of him? He's a super famous wizard and he's in town right now!"
"And he's a member of Fairy Tail!"
Natsu and Juniper gained a dark look before turning to look at the boat.
Natsu quickly turned blue, "Oh no."
"Fairy Tail, huh?" Juniper inquired with a determined look.
"We'll show him Fairy Tail."
"Happy, do you think he's okay?" Asked Juniper as Happy held her in the air, above where Natsu had crashed into the boat.
"Sure, why not?" Replied Happy.
"Because he has motion sickness."
Juniper saw many men holding and dragging teenage girls and it looked like they were sleeping.
"Hey! Is this a slumber party! Why wasn't I invited?"
Happy noticed someone in the crowd of people, "Hey, what are you doing here, Lucy?"
"Oh, Happy, Juni, this jerk tricked me. He said he was gonna get me into Fairy Tail." She responded.
"Hold up, since when did Happy get wings?" questioned Lucy as the rest of the crew looked on with dumbfounded expressions at the flying cat and casual conversation.
"I'll explain that later okay," said Happy as he suddenly dropped Juniper and switched her with Lucy, then flew into the air.
"Happy!" Juniper screamed with a horrified look on her face. "Oh no, here it comes," she said with a nauseous look on her face.
Salamander suddenly snapped back from his trance from hearing a screaming Lucy. "After them!" He commanded. "We can't let them report this to the magic council."
He paused for a moment then shouted, "Prominent Whip!"
Juniper watched as multiple beams of pink fire shooted out at Happy and Lucy. She watched helplessly as they dodged and weaved through the air.
"That cat's quicker than he looks," one the men aboard announced.
"Hey guys," Natsu said breathing heavily, kneeling on the ground with standing, sweating Juniper behind him leaning on the door.
The men approached the duo, then two took Juni by the legs and hung her upside down while three began kicking Natsu. Juniper let one hand cover mouth to keep from puking while the other held up her shirt.
"Forget about them, let's continue on towards Bosco," Salamander ordered.
Suddenly, Natsu blocked a man kick and pushed back. "The Fairy Tail guild," he struggled, while Salamander looked at him curiously. "You're a member?"
Before he could answer, or anything else could happen a huge wave appeared out of nowhere, and violently pushed the boat back to shore.
"Why is the sea so angry?" Screamed a terrified Salamander.
Juniper would respond with a witty comeback, but right now she was too focused on the boat spinning back and forth. Then with great force the boat crashed into shore. The water from the ocean fell down from great heights, making it seem like it was raining.
"That hurt," the Salamander complained. "What in the-" He cut himself off at the sight of two silhouettes standing on top of the railing of the sideways boat.
"Natsu! Juniper!" Lucy screamed looking up at the shadows with Happy on her shoulder.
Natsu looked down at the all men crew, "So you claim to be a member of the Fairy Tail guild."
"Yeah," the 'Salamander' defined. "So what's it to you? Get 'em men."
"Sir!" They replied.
"Let me get a closer look at you face." Natsu leered at the incoming men as he took his jacket off. "Juni, mind if I do this myself?"
'Salamander' grinned a sinister grin.
"Fine, but I call the next fight," Juniper said as she jumped over to Happy and Lucy.
"Hey," complained Lucy. "Why did you leave him like that? Natsu, watch out!"
"Don't worry about him. I probably should have told you this earlier, but he's a wizard too. So is Juniper." Happy stated.
"Ahhh?" Lucy screams.
"What? You thought I was regular? Well, there you go Lucy, jumping to conclusions!"
The two men ran towards Natsu with nasty grins present on their faces. But before they could land a hit on him, he pushed them to the side, showing off his red Fairy Tail guild insignia on his shoulder. "My name is Natsu; I'm a Fairy Tail wizard and I've never seen you before!" Natsu shouted and sneered at the imposter's shocked face.
"So Natsu is a Fairy Tail wizard?" Lucy shouted in astonishment.
"Yeah," responded Juni looking at Lucy. "Happy and I too."
"That mark on his arm," a crew member said worriedly, "This guy is the real deal, Bora!"
"Don't call me that you fool!" Bora shouted quickly to his revealed identity.
"I know him. That's Bore the Prominence." Happy said with a glower. "Rumor has it that he was kicked out of the Titan Nose wizard guild a couple of years ago because of bad behavior."
"I have no idea what you're trying to do here," Natsu started, "And I don't care if you're a good guy, bad guy, or what. I'm not gonna let you dirty the Fairy Tail guild's name!"
"You tell 'em Natsu!" Juniper supported from the side with a smile.
"And what are you gonna do about it?" Bora taunted. "Stop me? Prominence typhoon!"
Then Natsu stood head-on to scorching fire.
"Natsu!" Lucy screamed. She made a move to run forward, but Happy blocked her path.
Juniper heard girlish high-pitch screams in the background and figured it was the fan girls from earlier. Little delicate flowers. Blegh!
Bora stood in front of the flames, "That's the way it goes. The bigger the talk, the weaker the man."
"Gahh! This is so gross." The group of scammers heard in the inferno. "Are you sure that you're really a fire wizard? 'Cause these are the nastiest flames I've ever tasted!" Natsu exclaimed with a full mouth.
What did I tell him about talking with his mouth open! Juniper thought while the scammers looked at Natsu with beyond dumbfounded facial expressions as did Lucy.
Natsu sucked all the fire in the air to his stomach, "Gah. Thanks for the grub, poser."
Juniper faintly heard, "Who is this kid?"
She and Happy looked on with slightly crazed expressions, "Fire magic doesn't work on Natsu."
"I've never seen anything like that," Lucy said amazed.
"Then you need to get out more," Juniper said with an amused smile.
"Now I've got a fire in my belly that's raging to get out!" Natsu yelled with excitement. Once he pounded his fists together, his pupil's turned to slits, like a dragon's. "Here it goes. Fire Dragon Roar!" He screamed as he clasped his hands in front of his mouth and fire spewed out like a volcano over flowing.
In response to this powerful attack, an explosion recked Bora's crew, along with the boat.
Bora floated along the damages on his pink-purple flames.
A crew member weakly stood, "Hey,Bora. I-I swear I seen this guy before. The pink hair and the scaly looking scarf. The girl, too. I ain't ever seen another girl with those eyes, or that colored hair to match. They've gotta be the real one's." He said as Natsu stood opposingly.
"Salamander!" Shouted Lucy in awe. "And Zeus, the goddess of the weather! That's them!"
"I hope you guys are paying attention!" Natsu said as fire gathered around his right and left hands. "This is what a Fairy Tail wizard can do!" He shouted with conviction as he bolted forward. "Here I come!"
"Rain Shower!" Bora shouted as mini balls of fire rained down under him.
"Arghh!" Natsu dodged all purple pelts and jumped through the air and punch Bora with a flaming fist which threw Bora into the cliffside.
"So he eats fire, then attacks with it? How does he do it? Is it some sort of spell?" Lucy questioned confusedly.
"He has dragon lungs that allow him to breathe fire, dragon scales to help him dissolve fire and dragon claws to help him attack with fire." Natsu and Bora got back up in defensive stances while Happy continued to explain to Lucy. "His brand of fire magic allows his body to take on all the qualities of a dragon. It's an ancient spell that's rarely used anymore."
"Seriously?"
"This particular magic was originally used to deal with dragons."
Bora created a beam of purple fire that shot Natsu into the ground, but didn't seem to scratch him at all.
"That's Dragon Slayer Magic. Igneel taught that to him."
"Wait," Lucy said suddenly, "Aren't you a Dragon Slayer, too, Juniper? You had a dragon parent also, right?"
"Yep, that was Taranis!" She said with a wide smile. "I'm a Storm Dragon Slayer."
The three turned to look at Bora as he made a mammoth ball of purple fire, then threw it at Natsu, who caught it with both his hands and devoured it. "That was a healthy meal," he yelled. "You're not doing to bad, but I'm about to cook you like a smoked fish!"
Bora screamed terrified, "You're gonna do what to me?!"
"Get ready," he said as he pounded his fists together. "Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" He punched Bora with great force causing him to tumble throughout the town then crash into the giant town bell.
"Don't be silly Natsu. Everyone knows you smoke food with smoke not fire." Happy corrected waving his hand.
"Oh wow! That was amazing!" Lucy exclaimed. "But he over did it!"
"Aye!"
"Oh shut it cat!"
"Well that's Fairy Tail for you!" Juniper burst out with a smile stretched across her face and lifted a thumbs up.
Out in the distance, Juni could hear pounding of iron clad footsteps. "Darn! The army!"
"AHH!" Lucy screamed as Natsu grabbed her hand and dragged her behind him as Happy floated beside them carrying Juniper.
"Crap we gotta get outta here!" Natsu shouted.
"Where the heck are you taking me?"
"Just come on, you said you wanted to join the Fairy Tail guild didn't ya?"
Lucy looked toward him in admiration.
"So let's go!" He continued.
"Alright!" She shouted with a grand smile.
"Awesome," started Juniper. "This is gonna be so fun!"
And so they ran from the impending army into the night.