One day while training with Igneel Natsu stumbles across a black haired boy around his own age. The two grow up together before joining the Fairy tail Guild.
A stronger and slightly smarter Natsu along with OC, story follows some of the Canon timeline with my own adventures written in, Also has a different major story line centred around the Dragons.
OCxErza and NatsuxLucy
Please R&R
I don't own any rights to Fairy tail story or characters, just the OC and some plot stuff.
Enjoy!
Cold wind snapped at his uncovered legs as he gripped the small sheet tighter around his shoulders against the incoming snow storm. He heard the distant sound of alarms coming from the towering structure silhouetted black against the snow behind him. He gritted his teeth preparing to delve deeper into the whirling thicket of sleet and snow, his long black hair flowing backwards into the wind.
"Oro…" his whisper quickly lost to the air "...I'm coming"
Far to the south atop an indistinct foothill, Natsu Dragneel could be heard laughing heartily as he tumbled over small rocks and stones desperately leaping to avoid his Father's talons as they swept overhead.
"You'll have to do better than that ya big lizard!"
"Hpmh" Igneel grunted to himself with a smirk as his long pointed talon flicked forward sending the boy flying, tumbling backwards over the edge of small cliff edge descending into the forest below.
"Please come back with some manners boy…" Igneel sighed to himself as he lay down basking in the warm midday sun, a small smile spread across his face.
"Arghh!" Natsu's tumbled downwards bouncing off tree trunks and through various thickets until he landed with a thud. Sat in what had once been a river bed.
'Stupid old lizard, that was cheating. When I get back up there.. Huh?'
Natsu's train of thought was suddenly disrupted by a boy who looked to be of a similar age to himself. He had matted black hair running down to the small of his back, skin that was worryingly pale and gleaming with sweat. His clothes were torn and dirtied with mud and grime. He also had a tattered blanket loosely draped over his shoulders. Natsu could hear slight breaths otherwise he would have assumed the boy dead. He wasn't moving at all.
"Yo! Y-you okay?" Natsu slowly walked over to the boy and gave him a slight nudge with his foot. Getting no response Natsu leaned closer and gave the boy a sniff and a prod with his finger. The boy smelt funny, like snow and fire, trees and wildflowers and a bunch of stuff he didn't know names for.
"Huh. You know you smell weird? Where did you come from anyway?"
"...Oro" the soft rasping sound of the boy's voice took Natsu by surprise.
"Well you don't smell bad so I guess it's ok to take you to Dad. Hold on if you can" Natsu bent over and lifted the boy over his shoulder, eliciting a small grunt of pain from the boy.
"Opps sorry about that. I'll try and be gentle." With that Natsu began the climb back up to Igneel. When he finally reached the clearing he heard Igneel snort
"What took you so long I didn't even hit you that hard" Igneel turned and his eyes widened slightly seeing Natsu carrying a limp figure over his shoulder.
"I found someone, they don't look so good and he smells... really weird." Natsu gently placed the boy on his back in front of Igneel. Igneel leaned his head forward to inspect the boy.
Interesting...he does smell a bit odd, but I've smelt it be- It couldn't be. But I wonder…
"Natsu put him in the cave, we had best tend to his wounds" Natsu nodded and picking the boy up again he gingerly walked over to the cave he had been calling home for as long as he could remember. Once he had him laying down Igneel's face came to the mouth of the cave.
"Step outside son I shall help him" Once Natsu had stepped outside Igneel breathed out gently and a soft golden flame enveloped the cave creating a shimmering curtain of fire around the prone figure. Nodding in slight satisfaction he turned to Natsu
"Where did you find him?"
"He was down by the old riverbed. I tried asking him who he was but all he managed to say was Oro before he passed out. You think that is his name?" Igneel's eyes widened even wider at this but the boy hadn't noticed as he was watching the golden fire.
"And what kind of fire was that? It smells different to normal?" Igneel chuckled to himself
"They are flames that will heal his body. I will show you them once you have finished your training for the day." Natsu groaned, he really wanted to stay and find out who the boy was but he knew there was no getting out of his training.
"Ok, Same as usual?" Igneel nodded and then smiled as Natsu darted towards the boulder field and the sounds of grunts quickly made their way over to the dragon. Igneel turned his gaze back to the boy.
Oro huh? Just who are you boy?
A week had passed since Natsu had found the lost figure, now awake he was resting his back against the wall of the cave and was hungrily devouring the food in front of him. Natsu grinned
"Hey you eat as much as me!" The boy barely nodded in response as he stuffed his face. He couldn't really remember the last time he had eaten cooked food. He had mostly survived on what plantlife he had managed to scavenge on his walk southwards. Waking up had been a shock. He had no recollection of the salmon haired boy or really much of the last few days. But what had really surprised him was seeing Igneel. He was still warily eyeing the dragon out of the corner of his eye as he gulped down the roasted meat. He was certainly glad they had saved him, and had too many questions for the dragon to count. But he wasn't sure if he could trust them. They seemed nice enough he reasoned but there was no way he was going to go back there. Never there, never again. He could only hope they wouldn't make him go back.
"Where are you from?" Natsu cheerfully asked, not seeing the quick flicker of fear in the boys eyes"
"I...erm...I dunno?"
"Hey I've been wanting to ask you, when I found you all you could say is Oro. That your name or something?" At that the boy's head shot up, genuine worry plastered across his face. Natsu blinked seeing that reaction
"I actually think it's a pretty cool name if you ask me I wouldn't worry about it!" He gave the boy his signature grin, while inwardly wondering what was up with him. It must pretty important if he is trying to hide it but Natsu didn't want to make the guy uncomfortable. Returning his gaze for a moment the boy slowly returned a light smile
"Erm...Y-yeah Oro is my name, sorry it just surprised me that you knew it is all" Truth be told he could hardly remember his real name, not since he was separated from Oro, the real Oro that is, not since before the tower, before his world had become 4 walls and a bucket.
"Hehe, well now that that is settled. Do you have Magic Oro? My Dad Igneel has been teaching me. Maybe he can teach you too!"
"That's enough Natsu, the boy just woke up let him have some rest" Natsu sheepishly winced at his dad's growl from outside the cave.
"T-that's ok. I er.. Can do a little bit of magic yeah." Natsu went wide eyed with excitement he had never seen any different magic before and could barely contain himself.
"Can you show me? What does it do?!" Natsu was on all fours now staring at Oro. Oro smiled at him
"You're funny, and weird. Can I show you tomorrow? I'm pretty tired still." Natsu sat backwards
"Hey I'm not weird, you're the one that smells funny. But sure I guess, thought you would be better after sleeping for a whole week though! You haven't even had to do any training."
The only response he got were soft snores as he realised Oro had drifted in to sleep. Natsu chuckled and then smirked when he eyed the unfinished food and quickly tucked into it himself.
Three months later
The two boys stood at the top of the boulderfield and dropped the last two of the day back down into the ravine. Oro was panting heavily he still didn't quite have the same stamina as Natsu but had recovered remarkably quickly. He now had a set of baggy trousers he had borrowed from Natsu as his own were wrecked, but was currently going shirtless. His long black hair was now tied into a loose ponytail. Natsu grinned at his friend,
"Just a training fight left and then it's time for dinner!" He grinned wickedly, this was definitely his favourite part of the day. Oro grinned back at him, he couldn't help himself, Natsu was infectious, even his nightmares of the prison cell were fewer and less vivid since he had been staying with them. He stood up stretching his back and getting a satisfying crack as he began to loosen himself up while they walked towards the cave.
"You think it'll be me against you again today or we taking on your Dad?"
"Haha I dunno, hopefully I'm fighting you, I don't feel like losing a match today and Dad is way to strong at the moment"
"Haha, like you can beat me!" Oro Cried back over his shoulder as he ran ahead back to the cave.
"What are you talking about I beat you all the time!" Natsu grinned as he followed after his friend. As he got to the cave he realised he couldn't smell Igneel nearby, shrugging he looked over to see Oro doing some stretches and grinning at him. Natsu thought back to the first time they had squared off.
"Don't think I'm going to take it easy on you just because you only just got better!"
Oro simply grinned at him and readied himself. He stood still arms by his sides and just nodded. Natsu quickly jumped towards Oro using his fire to propel him faster as he swung his fist at the boy's stomach but it just passed through the air where he had been stood, caught by surprise Natsu turned just in time to half catch a boot flying into his stomach. It pushed him back five feet or so but he had managed to block most of the force of the kick.
Before he had time to counterattack Oro was behind him swinging a kick at his face. He caught Natsu just under his Jaw sending him flying backwards. Putting a hand down Natsu dug his hands into the dirt slowing himself to a stop, now standing his hand.
"You're fast, but I'd like to see you dodge this"
Fire Dragon's Roar
a large torrent of fire raged towards Oro who placed his hands in front of him and clasped them together,
Time Dilation
Stones that were previously scattered across the ground shot up and melded together creating a floating barrier between him and the attack. As the flames cascaded around the stone wall he could feel himself sweating at the incredible heat radiating from the fire. He felt the air escape his lungs as he hadn't seen Natsu move behind him and punch him in the back with everything he had. Oro flew forward and crashed through his own defence toppling to the ground and struggling for breath. As Oro got up on all fours he had clearly had the wind knocked out of him but he managed a smile and a nod to Natsu before passing out.
Oro stepped forwards placing his right fist against the palm of his right hand
Time Dilation
Once again stones began to shift into the air, each one flying to his hands until they formed the shape of a dangerously sharp katana that now ran along his right forearm as he held it, he smirked at Natsu.
"Neat trick, but I saw you practicing it and decided it looked cool so.."
Fire Dragon's Burning Sabre
Natsu crossed his hands back to his sides as red hot flames shot out in the form of two swords of flame.
"Oh and I have two of them" he grinned as he charged towards Oro. Shaking off his surprise that his new technique was no longer a secret Oro ran to meet him, deflecting Natsu's slashes which tore stones loose from the sword but no sooner had they touched the ground they bounced straight back into place. Once Oro had weathered the first wave of Natsu's attack he swung his own sword towards him. Natsu slashed both swords downwards smashing Oro's blade to pieces as the stones flew past him.
"Guess mine are bet-what's so funny?" Oro grinned,
"You didn't break it, look behind you" Natsu glanced over his shoulder to see hundreds of small fragments of stone hovering in the air, in an instant they snapped into place and the sword slashed at him cutting through skin on his chest as he barely managed to avoid the full blade. Cursing Natsu stepped backwards as the floating sword kept swinging at him, he was finding it really hard to follow where it was going to attack from as it wasn't attached to the person swinging it. As a sudden thought flashed through his mind he felt dirt against his back and all he could see was sky.
"Ow, that hurt" Natsu rubbed the back of his head as Oro offered him a hand up which he gladly took.
"Sorry maybe I got carried away. I was fed up of losing to you" Oro smiled slightly
"No worries that was fun, gave me some ideas for new attacks too." Oro looked a touch worried at that but choose not to pursue the matter just then. Looking around they saw the looming shape of Igneel heading towards them.
"Looks like dinner has arrived."
Later that Night
Having eaten as much as they both could Natsu had laid out not far from their fire and was drifting off into slumber, while Oro was pulling on a jacket, inwardly jealous of his friends innate warmth.
"Night Natsu" Oro sighed as he looked at the small campfire
"Night Bro, Night Dad" Oro's eyes snapped to look at Natsu
"What did you just say…" he was almost breathless he was so shocked, he felt a warmth building he could only vaguely remember from a past life.
"What do you mean silly? Igneel is my Dad and your my Brother aren't ya?" Natsu had one eye open and was looking at Oro with a smile.
"I-I…" He sighed "yeah I guess I am...Brother" Natsu closed his eye again and drifted off. Oro watched him intently, listening to Natsu's heartbeat until he was sure that his new brother was asleep. Standing up quietly he crept out of the cave towards Igneel, who lazily opened his eye.
"Um, Igneel?"
"What is it Oro?" Igneel smiled slightly pretty sure he knew what this was going to be about.
"I-I need to talk to you….it's about my parents…"
1 year later.
Two figures sat by the side of a small pool, formed by a waterfall cascading through the forest. They were further south than they had ever been before. Chasing whispers and rumours. Resting their feet in the ice cold water was a refreshing respite from the hiking they had been doing.
The boy on the left had messy black hair which he had recently had cut short and a simple white shirt, the other had spiky salmon hair and was carefully watching a fishing lure as it lazily bobbed in the clear water. Both men were wearing a longsleeved jackets that were black in colour.
"You know there aren't any fish worth eating in this pool right?" The Black haired boy casually skimming a stone in circles across the water with his magic.
"You don't know that, I could get lucky! Besides it calms me down whenever I start thinking about Igneel disappearing"
"Natsu…" the boy sighed letting the stone drop into the water.
"Natsu, we need to talk." The pink haired boy looked up to him with a confused look in his eyes. Oro looked at his brother and Natsu could see a deep sadness in his eyes.
"I haven't been completely honest with you. My name is actually Rysler and I don't just use time magic." Natsu moved to talk but Oro silenced him with a pleading look
"Sorry Natsu, please hear me out. I-I am a dragon slayer just like you, my parents name was Ouroborus, the infinity dragon. I was kidnapped while buying clothes in a nearby town, by a group of mages interested in harnessing my powers for themselves. That's how I ended up learning time magic... Thanks to their experiments on me. I managed to escape and was looking of Ouroborus when you found me."
He sighed while Natsu wrapped an arm around his shoulders and simply gave him a hug. Now the scars across his back that Oro never wanted to talk about made sense, same for those distant stares that he occasionally had until Natsu called out to him. Oro was shocked at the sudden closeness, sure he had grown to love Natsu as his brother, but they didn't exactly have the type of relationship that led to much hugging.
"I'm so sorry you had to go through that Oro...or whatever your name is, heh, if I ever see the people who did this to you they will pay, I promise, I'll make them pay for what they did to my brother."
"Natsu…" getting a hold of himself Oro pushed Natsu back "You don't understand, Igneel is gone because of me. I spoke to him about my parents asking if he knew them or where they were and he said he had to go find them. It's my fault he's gone"
Natsu blinked for a second taking in this new information seeing the pain in his brother's eyes clearly. Without much of a second thought he broke into one of his signature grins surprising Oro who looked confused but still clearly devastated that he had been responsible for the pain his brother was feeling.
"Well I wish you had told me sooner! We could have been working on your dragon slaying magic this whole time!" Oro was clearly taken back by the cheerful response and clearly didn't know how to process it properly.
"Y-you're not angry with me?...I thought you would hate me…" his voice trailed off to a whisper before he gasped as he was again embraced in a hug by Natsu this one stronger and tighter.
"You're a bigger idiot than I thought then. Bro we are looking for my father how could I not understand you wanting to find your's?" he pulled back slightly before Oro pulled him into a tighter embrace. Natsu could feel warm tears against his face
"Thank you Natsu I was scared you would hate me, t-that's why I hadn't mentioned it." Natsu smiled,
"So what kind of magic did your parents teach you? Wait you said parents as in plural, did you have two dragons?" He could feel Oro begin to laugh
"It's infinity magic, it's why I was able to harness time magic, it affects everything that will and ever could exist, kinda like time does. I use 'parents' because I don't know if they were male or female or if they even had a gender. Didn't know what else to call them honestly"
Oro eventually pulled back and looked lovingly into his brother's eyes.
"Could you perhaps continue to call me Oro, that name only has good memories of my family unlike Rysler."
"Sure thing! Now I think we should get going, you can tell me the rest on the way. I think I have thought of a way to get help finding Igneel and Ouroboros!"
Oro smiled and playfully punched his brother on the arm
"Sure, now what's this plan?"
"We are gonna join a strong guild!"
6 years later
Natsu and Oro stood on either side of the small old man in front of the massive doors to the Fairy tail guild hall. Both were wearing long black jackets only Oro's was without sleeves. They also had simple black shoes and white cotton pants, simple travelling wear. Each holding a small bag over their right shoulder. Oro had the faint promise of stubble and his black hair running just past his shoulders. Neither one of them could really take in the sheer size of the building or of the town they were in. They had both seen small towns and villages before, but their construction had been mostly wooden and simple. This building along with much of Magnolia was made of grand stone structures. The large guild emblem above the doors in a deep red, proudly declared its purpose. The sounds of shouting and things braking could be heard from within. Natsu and Oro looked at each other, both with a small grin while the old man sighed and shook his head.
"Hey gramps, is there usually a fight going on?" Both Natsu and Oro could very well hear and smell the fight going on inside.
"Unfortunately it is quite common, they are quite a rambunctious group of mages." The guild master caught himself and looked at the two young men
"But don't get any ideas, the fighting is not allowed and I will put a stop to it!"
Oro and Natsu just blinked at him for a brief moment and then broke into smiles
"We can stop it for you if you want" The old man stared wistfully wishing for a second before chastising them for being silly. When he opened the doors the noise stopped as everyone inside looked to see who had arrived.
"Oooh that's no fun" both young men sighed before looking at each other with smirks thinking about all the fights they could get into with strong mages.
"Alright you bunch of misfits. We have a couple of new members to the guild and I want you to all show them how they are supposed to behave as fairy tail members!" you honestly could have heard a feather drop after the Master had roared into the guildhall, that is until a fairly drunk girl near the bar hiccupped resulting in raucous laughter from many in the guild hall. The master turned and asked them where they would like their guild marks. Natsu responded first by showing his right shoulder to the old man and Oro followed suit except that he asked for his guild mark to be purple instead of Natsu's red. Spotting the bar off to the side Oro looked at the guild master.
"Can we get something to drink, sorry but we don't have much money…"
"Nonsense boy you are members of fairy tail now and I couldn't let any of my children go hungry or thirsty" At that their eyes lit up thinking of the mountains of food they would be able to get.
"Hey Natsu I'll go get us a snack then, wait here ok." Oro didn't wait for an answer before running over to the bar and asking for some ale and a couple of large steaks with all the sides. After the food was brought out to him on a large wooden tray he started to head back to where he had left Natsu. While looking at the steaming food on the tray he started drooling and forgot to look where he was going and accidently bumped into a white haired woman maybe a year or so older than himself, she was well developed and certainly beautiful with a long black dress hugging both her bust and her hips.
"Hey…" she started, but she stopped as soon as she turned and saw his face. He was her height with scruffy black hair and eyes that almost appeared to have a purple tinge to them they were so dark, they seemed to go on forever. He was wearing a sleeveless coat that hung just below his knees with a plain white sleeveless shirt that barely hid his musculature, not that surprising when you looked at his arms, she thought before pulling herself together and seeing the guild mark on his arm
"S-so you are one of the new guys huh? Just look watch you are going next time!" the white haired girl waited for a response and realised that the boy was no longer looking at her but over her shoulder where a pink haired man was having a heated discussion with wizard she knew to be Gray. it was not hard to hear their conversation
"Dragons don't exist you idiot! How would I know where one was? except for in a stupid book. Quit Lying!" before Mira had time to process this conversation and indeed before even Natsu could retaliate Gray's head had snapped backwards leading his body across the guildhall and smashing into the far wall of the building. A hushed silence quickly descended as everyone turned to hear the sound of a tray hitting the floor and see Oro with his arm still outstretched after he had hit Gray.
"Call my brother a liar again. I dare you" At the bar Makarov leaned forward with interest.
Hmm..he seems stronger than I thought, that spike in power was quite impressive. I wonder if that Natsu is also hiding his power
As he was watching a scarlet haired woman walked over to them
"No one is to start a fight with a fellow guild member!" as she shouted she threw a punch at Oro and everyone winced but it never found it's target, Natsu had caught her fist with his palm and looked up to her
"Hypocrite…" he went to hit her in the stomach but was surprised when she just managed to dodge it, her face twitching with anger
"What did you call me?" her voice was barely a whisper
"No one, and I mean no one, will ever hurt my brother and get away with it" Natsu looked up at her through his fringe that hung loosely over his eyes. Oro clamped a hand on his shoulder
"Natsu I'm sorry but I dropped the food" he pointed to the tray and food scattered on the ground near Mira who looked down in surprise.
"Huh? You idiot what you do that for?!" Natsu shouted as he saw the food and the two men immediately started fighting to the vast amusement of those in the guild who all burst out laughing.
Later that day
Oro and Natsu were sitting by the river just outside of Magnolia relaxing after they had finished with their training. The sun was beginning to near sunset and a warm summer breeze was lazily floating over them. The forest oaks branches were swaying slightly and casting soft shadows that gently caressed the grassy bank. Oro glanced over to his brother and sighed, it was a good sigh, one filled with contentment and comfort.
"It's pretty good here huh?" Natsu smiled, he didn't bother to look at Oro, he knew he was watching the sunset too.
"Reminds me of when we were back with Dad... I get the feeling we can trust these guys."
"Yeah, I know what you mean. Feels like a big family, Kinda funny when you think about it. I only had one family member before I found you and Igneel, now there are so many I can't even remember all their names yet."
"Haha too true, you know I think we should tell them about our magic. It's only fair to them, besides they already have one dragon slayer, sure they will be happy to have 3" Oro looked back towards the sun and let out a deep breath
"You're right, guess it would have come out anyway. How should we tell them" He smirked as he already knew Natsu's answer
"So who are we gonna fight?"
"Well they are gonna have to be strong for us to show both our magic styles off. That or we could take two guys on a once maybe" Natsu looked up at the clouds as he debated it.
"Haha, be serious, we have no idea how strong any of them are. They might all be better than us, that is why we picked this guild isn't it?"
"No way you knocked that Gray guy clean across the room!"
"Only because he was focused on you and didn't see it coming."
"Yeah right...guess we should just ask the old man who we should challenge."
The large guild doors opened with a few guild members looking up to see who had arrived, back lit by the setting sun the two newest members of the guild strode in unison towards the bar and sat down at a table with the red headed girl and a dark haired boy. They both smiled in return to the frowns they received,
"What do you two trouble makers want? The red haired girl asked sternly while Oro held out his hand
"Hey, sorry if we got off on the wrong foot earlier, I'm just protective of my little brother. I'm Oro"
"We are the same age jerk off!"
"Haha yeah but I'm the mature one"
"You take that back!" The scarlet mage had taken Oro's hand but her response was cut off by an angry twitch at Natsu's outburst.
"Erza Scarlet and this is Gray. Will. You. Two. Please. Stop. Fighting!" she was about to hit Natsu when he grinned at her causing to hesitate with surprise.
"Do you know where the old man is?"
"Who?"
"Sorry he means the master, he's never been one for titles." Erza blinked and just sighed with her face buried in the palm of her hand.
"He should be back soon why did you need him? If you want a job you can just grab one from the board over there" Natsu rolled his eyes at Erza
"Not for a job Erza, we wanted to properly introduce ourselves to the guild and show you all our magic. But we don't know who the strongest guys here are so we were gonna ask him who to fight!"
Gray stood up about to propose he beats Oro right now as he hadn't fully forgiven him for the cheap shot earlier when Erza forced him back into the chair and smirked at the brothers.
"I have a better idea boys, why don't you accompany Gray and myself on a job? I will assess your magic and power, then let the master know my recommendation afterwards."
"I dunno, why would he listen to you?" the soft sound of a white haired girl's' laughter could be heard not far away at Oro's comment. Ignoring Mira, Erza refocused her gaze to the brothers.
"I can't say I'm not intrigued to see what you can do, but it would not be wise to have a fight without the master's consent, this way you will get your fight, master will know who to place you against and you'll get paid."
"Alright we're in, where are we going" Gray sighed and hung his head
"You sure about this Erza?" She smiled and nodded.
"There is a village not far from Mt. Hakobe that has been having problems with a group of bandits. We leave first thing in the morning"
"Ok Let's get back to the forest Natsu"
"Wait what?" "The forest?"
"Yeah where else are we going to sleep?" Both Erza and Gray look at the two boys in surprise as they headed out of the guild cheerfully chatting to each other
"Those two are seriously weird" Gray muttered and noticed that Erza was still watching them go with a slightly confused look on her face.
"True. But they are interesting"
Hope you enjoyed, the next chapter should be up soon, it's already finished except for some editing that needs doing,
any advice or things you would like me to try and include would be very appreciated.
Until next time!