If you've just been browsing, this is the sequel to 'The 'Tail' of Meliera Kane'. I highly recommend that you read that first, otherwise you won't get what's going on. If you've been following the 'Tail', welcome to the sequel. The first chapter is on.

Lucy gave Natsu a worried glance. Ever since Meliera's second death - first and only death to everyone else - he had been in a deep melancholy. He hadn't gotten drunk, or anything drastic, but he just looked tired all the time and didn't want to do anything. He had been getting better lately, thanks to the support of his guild.

How terrible, to love someone and marry someone, only to have them ripped away from you just a few months later, she reflected.

She was still getting used to the fact that it had been seven years since they went to Tenrou Island, when they had all been trapped in a time lock. Especially since she now had a monster debt to pay off for her rent.

"Who do you think this 'Salamander' is?" Levy asked her, finishing her hot chocolate.

"No clue," Lucy said. A guildless young woman, who was only known as 'Salamander', had been roaming Friore the past four years. She was so feared, it was said that all crime stopped whenever she entered a town and didn't resume till at least three days after she left. Nothing was known about her. She had no family or friends to speak of. It wasn't even known where she came from.

"There's a new museum exhibit this weekend," Mira said, taking their mugs. "It's about the unsolved mystery of Kari Dragonchild."

"Dragonchild?" Levy asked, wrinkling her nose. "Was she a Dragon Slayer?"

"That's what they think," Mira responded, "but nobody really knows."

"Maybe Natsu would like to go," Lucy mused.

Mira laughed. "The one time he went to a museum, he swore he would never go again. He hated it."

"Well, if you tell him that there's going to be another Dragon Slayer there," Levy said slyly.

Lucy laughed at her idea, thinking it excellent.

"Another Dragon Slayer where?" Natsu asked. All three girls jumped. They hadn't noticed that he had been there.

"At the museum this weekend," Lucy said. An interested look covered his face. "I'll take you if you promise not to fight her."

"Her?"

"Yes, her."

He bit his lip. "I suppose it couldn't be too bad," he finally said. The girls all smiled. He had rarely gone out since Meliera's death. This would be good for him.

I noticed that so many fanfics cover Natsu's post-Igneel life, a few cover his time with Igneel, and even fewer cover how Igneel found him. I have yet to read one that's like this one. That being the fact that this fanfic covers his PRE-Igneel life. This one does.