I was alone, purely and simply alone. No family, no friends, no one to turn to. I had no purpose; I was just a body walking on this Earth, waiting for the end. Then, one day, he found me, and he saved me from myself. The stranger said, "Hey, are you okay?" No one had ever bothered to notice me, much less talk to me with concern, but this person; he was different than all of the others. "Sure, but I am actually really hungry, do you have any food?" I asked. "Yeah," he said as he reached into his pouch, handing me some bread, he said, "Here you go, eat this." I said," Thanks, who are you?" He responded, " I am Natsu, Natsu Dragneel, and you? What is your name?" I said, "I am Nicholai, Nicholai Kasai. Thank you Natsu, but I really have troubled you for long enough, I should get going." Natsu then exclaimed, "Don't be ridiculous, I don't mind helping you. Speaking of which, why are you out here all alone?" Surprised with his warmth towards me, I tried to answer him, but the moment I thought about my own predicament I started to cry, and the only thing I could manage to say was, "Not a day goes by, where I don't ask myself the same question." I started to fall over in sadness, but then he caught me and said," Yeah, I think I know what you are going through, the loneliness, the sadness, you are the same as when I first lost Igneel. He was my only friend, he was my only family, and then he left. I had nothing to do, nowhere to go, but then I found Fairy Tail. They became my family; they were the only things in my life that mattered to me. So come with me, and find your new family in Fairy Tail." I couldn't say anything except; "I can't thank you enough, Natsu, for being the first one to care for me, for giving me a future, for being my only friend when no one else was, and for saving me from my own darkness."
*TIMESKIP the next day*
"So," I said, "This is Fairy Tail?" "Yep!" said Natsu. "For some reason, I thought people would treat each other more like family rather than beating themselves half to death, but at least they are high spirited" I said as I stared at the utter chaos that was the guildhall. "Don't worry about it," Natsu said, "they're just messing around like they always do." A short old man approached us and said, "Hi, I am Makarov, the guild master, and who might you be?" "I am Nicholai Kasai, Natsu found me and brought me here," I said in response. "Well, as the guild master, I welcome you to Fairy Tail, if you do wish to join," Makarov said. "Thank you sir, I would like that very much." "Alright," Makarov said," Where would you like your guild mark, and what color would you like?" "I would like a brown mark, and could I have it right below my right shoulder?" I said. "Sure, no problem," said Makarov, "and if you don't mind me asking, what magic do you use?" I said, "Oh, um, I don't really know any magic yet." "Don't worry about that," Natsu said," I can teach you dragonslayer magic." "Really?" I asked, "You don't mind?" "Of course not, I have already helped you this much. Why stop?" Natsu exclaimed. For one of the first times in my life, I smiled and said "Thanks Natsu! When can we start?" "Right now, let's go to my house so we don't disturb anyone!" He said excitedly. On the way there, Natsu asked me a question. "Nicholai, if it is okay that I ask, what exactly happened to leave you all alone?" I said, "I honestly have been alone for as long as I can remember. Barely getting by, I was living for nothing and no one, and living without a purpose is one of the worst ways to live. You and the rest of the guild are my first family, and I cannot thank you enough for everything that you have done for me. But let's not focus on that now; I am happy now that I am in Fairy Tail with you and everyone else." Wow, Natsu thought, when I was alone I found people like Igneel or my friends in Fairy Tail, but he's been alone all this time. It must have really been tough for him, and I can't even begin to understand the full extent of his suffering, so helping him like this is the least I can do.
They approached what looked like a small cottage as Natsu said, "All right, we're here, so lets start your training." "Ok, what's first?" I said. "First thing to do is build up your resistance to fire," Natsu said as he made fire appear in his hand," Ok now gradually get closer and closer to the fire as your body gets used to it." I was only at most two yards away from it and the heat was already tremendous, but surprisingly it wasn't taking very long for my boy to get used to it. Even Natsu seemed dumbfounded as I was standing inches away from the flame within a matter of minutes. "Okay, now I am going to surround you with the flame until you aren't bothered by it anymore. Slowly but surely, over the course of about an hour he became used to the flames. "Wow Nicholai, you really are getting through this training fast, getting to this stage in the training took almost an entire day for me." Natsu said, "But now it is going to get tough. I am going to use my fire dragon's roar on you until you can resist both its heat and force." "What? Is that safe?" I exclaimed. Natsu said, "Don't worry, the heat shouldn't be too much of a problem for you because it doesn't exert too much force on the target, it is really the heat you have to worry about. You ready?" "That wasn't very reassuring, but okay, let's do this." I said. "Alright then!" said Natsu," Fire dragon roar!" The attack flew at Nicolai as he braced himself and yelled, "Here it comes!" But then suddenly, the exact moment that the attack touched Nicholai it immediately darted to the left as if it had a mind of it's own. "What was that?" Natsu exclaimed, " Nicholai did you do anything?" "I just asked in my mind for the fire not to hit me, and I felt some sort of power build up in me and the fire darted to the left as if it heard me." My god, Natsu thought, what is this kid!
