so I have not watched every episode of fairy tail, so please forgive me if something is not completely accurate. but do please enjoy. also, I do not own fairy tail (but I wish I did).
this story takes place before Natsu searches for Igneel, and while Gray is still being taught ice-make magic by Ur with Lyron. Lets just say Natsu I nine years old, while Gray is eight.
"Igneel, where are we going?" Little Natsu asked as Igneel was taking him under a cold region. Igneel said nothing the whole time they were traveling. "Igneel! Why aren't you talking to me? You have been silent for days."
Suddenly, he stopped. The two of them were in what seemed like an icy desert. "Igneel, where are we? Its so cold here."
The dragon hid himself inside of a cave on the side of a large mountain. Natsu slid down off Igneel's back as he has done many times before. "Natsu, keep walking north. There is someone I want you to meet."
"Who is it?"
"You shall soon see."
Natsu trotted out of the cave. He found that it was colder inside than it was outside. But still, he hated the cold. He was a fire dragon, not an ice mage.
Snow was falling heavily like a blizzard. Natsu quickly determined which way was north, even though he had never been in this part of Fiore. "So the sun sets in the west, this must be north," he said to himself. For several hours, Natsu trudged through the thickly fallen snow.
He looked up to see a boy about his age. The boy had black spiky hair, but Natsu was shocked to notice that he also had no shirt on. The boy turned and looked in his direction, cautiously running up to meet him. "Who are you?" he asked suspiciously.
"My name's Natsu," he said in a cheery voice.
"Gray, nice to meet ya," The Boy said grinning.
Nervously, Natsu asked, "Are you the one I was sent to meet?"
"No," Little Gray said scoffing, "What are you talking about? I'm just out here practicing my ice-make magic. See?" He put his two hands together and made a small ice crystal with it. "I'm not very good yet, but I'll have to keep practising."
"Wow! I wish I could do that!" Natsu said impressed.
"Hey, are you a wizard too?"
"Well sort of, I can make fire," he said producing a small flame in one hand. In a joking manner, Natsu melted the ice cube in Gray's hand.
"What was that for?" Gray said taking offence to it.
Defensively, Natsu said laughing, "Lighten up. I'm only playing around."
"Oh yeah?" Gray's voice rang competitively. He formed a few more ice shards and shot them at Natsu's feet.
"Is that all you've got?!" Natsu melted the ice before it could even touch the ground, then aimed a few flames toward Gray as he did his best to dodge them.
The two of them continued like this for nearly an hour, before they both fell to the snow. Panting.
Natsu was the first to stand. He grabbed Gray's shoulder as a friend, and said, "Gray, it was nice meeting you, but I have to go now."
"Where are you going?" Gray asked sadly.
"To see Igneel. He's going to take me home."
Gray asked, "Who's Igneel?"
"My dragon," said Natsu proudly before walking off into the snowy distance. Without knowing it, the two would one day meet again. Not as friends, but as strangers once again.
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