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Natsu propped himself up against the rough tree bark and heaved a sigh. "Natsuuuuu I'm bored." Happy, his flying blue companion, complained from atop Natsu's head.

The pink haired dragon slayer grumbled in agreement. "It's been a slow day, that's for sure."

The wind suddenly shifted, and Natsu was alerted by the new scent that filled his nose. He stood up quickly, knocking Happy off of his head, and took a couple of deep sniffs through his nose. The Exceed was quick to activate his wings and catch himself. "What's the matter Natsu?"

Natsu squinted in the direction of the new scent and released a low growl. "There's another dragon in my territory again... and a human?... Strange. Humans don't normally travel this far into the mountains."

Happy's eyebrows knit together in concern. "What do we plan on doing?"

Natsu gave Happy a huge lopsided grin and pounded his fists together, instantly catching fire. "Give them a warm welcome of course." Natsu took off down the mountain side with Happy following.

"I'm all fired up!"

"Aye sir!"

Lucy's heart beat loud in her ears as she rode her steed as fast as she could through the thick woods of the mountain range. Loud roars, which seemed sickeningly like laughter, reverberated to her very core. Lucy didn't even dare to look behind her, for she already knew what the thing was that was chasing her. A huge shadow zoomed past and landed in her path that threw out enough wind to knock Lucy off of her horse. She let out a scream as she slammed into a tree. Lucy fell onto her stomach and weakly lifted her head. With each step the beast took, the ground shook. The horse was able to let out one mangled whimper before the dragon finished it off. Lucy wasn't able to take her eyes off of the horrifying scene and felt the back of her throat fill with bile at the sound of bones crunching.

'Move dammit!' Lucy screamed at herself, but her body refused to cooperate.

Licking it's lips, the dragon turned its attention towards Lucy. It's black scales coated with slick red blood glistened in the light of the setting sun. With a single swipe of its claw, Lucy was flung nearly a half a mile, and skidded to a stop. It threw it's head back and let out another roar before stalking towards her. Lucy attempted to stand, only to feel an intense pain in her left leg. She whimpered and tried to curl up into fetal position. The dragon swung it's claw again and sent her rolling into a tree.

"It's just playing with me now... like a cat with a captured mouse." Lucy let out hoarsely.

She looked up at the dragon and mustered up her strength. "IF YOU'RE GOING TO KILL ME GET IT OVER WITH." She screamed.

"Oh?"

The Dragon leaned in and stared at her through green slits for eyes. Lucy sucked in a painful breath. "...how... y-you. You can talk?"

"Of course I can talk stupid human!"

The dragon boomed as he picked her up with his claws. Lucy hung there helplessly as the dragon continued. "Get it over with? We've just barely begun! I haven't had a lively hunt like this in weeks! You're a fast little human and your screams are just so delightful."

With this the dragon dug dug a claw into Lucy's left leg, and she let out a pained wail. The dragon threw his head back and laughed.

"Yes! Yes I love that sound. It's simply exquisite!"

Lucy clenched her jaw and stuck her chin out defiantly while tears streamed down her face.

"Oh come come now. Just a little more before I wrap things up?" The dragon dug it's talon deeper into Lucy's leg and she fought back a scream behind clenched teeth. The dragon let out a "Hmph!" and let her body drop like a rag doll.

Lucy tried to brace the landing as best as she could, but there was really no avoiding injury. She crumpled up on the ground trying to imagine the torture she was about to endure before her gruesome end.

"If that won't make you scream, maybe I'll use a different tactic?"

The dragon sucked in a deep breath and let out a gust of flames hot enough to turn any man to ashes within seconds. Lucy squeezed her eyes closed, waiting for the hot flames to engulf her body ... only they didn't come. She dared to open one eye and nearly fainted out of total shock.

A lone silhouette was casually walking towards the oncoming flames. As the fire surrounded him, Lucy heard a weird slurping noise and watched breathlessly as the flames disappeared.

'No they aren't just disappearing... he's... eating them!?...'

For a moment there was total silence. It seems even the formidable dragon was surprised.

The man's shoulders began to shake as he burst into laughter. "You call those flames hot?! Igneels flames make yours the equivalent to ice!"

The dragon thrashed it's tail and let out a low gravely grumble. "You dare insult me boy?"

Lucy felt herself tremble uncontrollably. "You've gone and pissed it off now! It's really over…"

The mystery man let out a snicker and continued to stare down the dragon. "Happy! Get her out of here."

Before Lucy could react she was airborne. Lucy looked up and had her jaw drop. "A flying cat?!"

"Aye sir!"

"Wait! Are you sure he'll be-"

The man charged the dragon at inhuman speed and threw a punch."IRON FIST OF THE FIRE DRAGON!" The dragon was thrown back through several trees.

The cat, Happy was his name if Lucy remembered right, laughed. "Natsu can beat that guy no problem! He's a pushover."

Lucy stared in total awe of her unexpected savior. "He's strong…"

"Aye… by the way… you're… kind of heavy…" Happy grunted with visible effort.

Lucy didn't even hear the rude remark. She was too focused on the battle… or should I say one sided beat down, taking place.

Within minutes the Natsu guy had beaten the thing to a pulp. With one last attack, the dragon was sent flying, leaving nothing but but a single twinkle in the sky.

"A-... Amazing." Lucy breathed.

"HEAVYYYYY!" Happy whined.

"Neh?!" was all Lucy got out before she and Happy dropped out of the sky.

Lucy covered her face, not wanting to see when she'd splatter.

Strong arms suddenly snatched her midair.

"Natsu." Happy's voice reassured her she wasn't dreaming.

"Oi. Girl. Open your eyes."

Lucy's eyelids flickered open and took in her mystery savior. His hair was the same color as cherry blossoms and his eyes were a flat black. He wore black billowing pants, an open vest and a white scarf. Due to his open vest Lucy could make out every sculpted muscle of his abdomen that rippled with power. Lucy opened her mouth but no words came out. The short relief from earlier was replaced by fear when she realized just how strong this Natsu guy was.

He cracked a grin. "I don't blame you for being scared of me," Lucy's eyes went wide, and he pointed at his nose. "I can smell it. But I'm not here to hurt you."

Lucy's shoulders sagged in relief. "Thank you for saving me."

Natsu shrugged. "The guy was encroaching on my turf. You just so happened to get saved as a bonus of me defending me me and Igneels territory."

'He didn't set out to save you idiot!' Lucy thought to herself feeling like an idiot.

She glanced back up and felt a shiver roll down her spine. "W-why are you looking at me like that?!"

Natsu had an evil looking smile on his face and a devilish gleam in his eye that made every hair on her body stand up.

"I saved your life… so it technically belongs to me!"

Lucy thought her eyes might bulge out of her skull. "W-w-w-w-what?!"

Natsu didn't say anything more, he just threw her over his shoulder in an iron grip and began marching. "H-Hey! Wait just one minute! Where are we going?!"

Ignoring her questions, Natsu looked back at Happy. "Let's go Happy!"

Looking just as confused as Lucy, Happy followed Natsu. "Aye?..."