Lucy was tired, she'd been travailing for days. She heard a rumour that the great salamander was somewhere in the town up a head. She's been searching for him for moths now, come so close to finding him many times but was always a day or two to late. She always knew he'd been there by the destruction he left behind. This time she was hoping maybe she had gotten there in time to actually find him. The town seemed to be fine and nothing seemed to be on fire. "Hopefully he's actually here," she whispered out loud to herself.

Now Lucy picked up her pace hoping that her long search would soon be over. As she ran, she recalled the memory of her mother just before she had died telling her that Lucy wasn't the only mage out there that had the ability to call on the powers of a dragon. Her mother had urged her to leave the mansion and go find these people that might be able to help her better control her magic. Shortly after her mother had passed she did just that. It had been over two years now since she had run from her father and his house. He hadn't tried to find her and she could only assume that he was to busy with his work to even notice that she wasn't there anymore.

Lucy slowed as she entered the town as she could hear a faint yell off in the distance, like overly excited girls. Her magic allowed her to have really sensitive ears so even though the shouting came from somewhere in the center of the city, she could still hear them as if they were right beside her. Her magic also allowed her to change her appearance when she went into battle giving her wings, tail and horns. The only thing that always stayed with her was her ears. They weren't huge ears just little ones that sat on her head almost like a reminder that her magic was always with her no matter where she went.

Stopping suddenly Lucy started to sniff, she could smell all the delicious food that the town had to offer. It had been days since she had a good meal and could feel her stomach start to growl. Standing outside one of the shops that had a delicious looking pastry, she heard it, one of the girls had definitely said his name. Disregarding her hunger for later, she took off. As got the center of the town there was a nice fountain in the middle of the courtyard. Off to the left of the courtyard were the girls she had heard earlier, gathered around some guy. He was signing stuff for them and they all seemed like they where in love with him. She walked up to the group slowly, wanting to make sure that it was actually salamander before she revealed to him that she had been searching everywhere for him. She could tell right away that maybe this wasn't the right guy he didn't seem to have ears like she did but maybe he was able to hide his. She'd have to ask if that was possible.

Just as she got to the group of girls the man turned. His eyes lit up when he saw her, he immediately walked over to her grabbed her hand and kissed it.

Lucy was a little confused at this point. Why had this man all of a sudden taken such an interest in her? Maybe she was right, as he seemed to notice her ears when he showed interest.

"My lady I am the great salamander, whats your name?" He inquired staring rather intently at her ears, making her face a little hot.

"um, it's Lucy" She managed.

"My, what a pretty name. Means light, doesn't it?" He asked.

"Yes" Lucy said tilting her head to the side slightly. Could this really be him? The Salamander?

"Why don't you come have dinner with me?" He used the hand he still had a hold of her arm with to pull her a little closer as he asked.

Lucy could feel her stomach growl again at the thought of food she had been so close to getting something good to eat. Looking at the man in front of her Lucy could feel that something was off she could tell that he was trying to influence her some way she just couldn't pinpoint how. "I don't know I'm kinda in a hurry, maybe some other time?"

"Oh come on my dearest Lucy! You look like you could really enjoy a nice hot meal." He said to her as he slowly snacked his arm around her shoulders.

Okay, now Lucy was starting to get a little creeped out. This guy really needed to learn to keep his hands to himself. "Okay look yeah, it may have been a few days since I've had a good meal but that doesn't mean that I'm gonna just have dinner with the first creep that decided to ask me!" She moved away from him grabbing his arm and pushing it off of her shoulders.

"I didn't mean anything by it my sweet, I just wanted to get to know you a little better and find out why you had these cute ears. Not many people have ears such as those you must be pretty special." He started to take a step toward Lucy his hands outstretched in front of him reaching for her ears as he spoke about them.

"HEY!" She smacked his hands knocking him out of his trance like state. "No one touches the ears, and I don't know about special but I'm a dragon slayer, meaning i could kick your ass easy if I wanted to." she said slowly backing away from him. Realizing he isn't who he says he is.

"Oh, so you're a dragon slayer huh, must be a pretty rare magic seeing as I've never actually seen one for my self, sure I've heard about them and how you can tell you've found one by the fact that they have ears." He smirked slyly, "if I had known I was gonna run into a dragon slayer today I might have brought a few more magic rings with me."

"All the magic rings in the world aren't going to help you now." Lucy could feel the familiar pull of her magic as she called on it. She didn't need to use a full transformation so she focused her magic to her hands. Her fingers grew claws and her hands and forearms started to form golden scales. Lucy rushed forward just as she was about to strike this Salamander guy she caught the sent of fire and wilderness, like a forest on a hot summers day, could it be him?