Chapter 0: Prologue

(Encounters)

Hello Everyone! This is my first fanfic ever so basically this is my first story, so i would really love your opinion on this one if this story is worthy to stay or it has to be deleted. Eitherway, there are a few genders switched here and there with few powerful ocs placed in this story. Both main character would be an oc and the feiry dragon slayer of ft. Oh, i also gotta mention that most characters would be powerful most especially the main character.

So guys, please tell me what ya'll think after reading this first trial. Criticism are also accepted!

'thinking/thinking

"Talking"

"dragon/god"

flashback

Disclaimer:- I do not own fairytail or its characters. I only own my oc in this story and a few story plot!

400years ago (x371)

The sun began to rise over the horizon, coating the overgrown landscape in rays of bright, warm light. The lush forest filled with lively wildlife and the chirping sounds of birds could be heard from a good distance.

The beautiful morning was filled with bright and lovely colours, beauteous to the eyes. Out of the forest was the old but beautiful city of mildian, its busy streets bristling with people of all kinds as the move on with their daily routines.

A lone mage made walked through the lonely path of the forest, admiring the works of nature and giving in to the pleasant smell and view of the forest. The said mage stumbled across a path filled with different varieties of herbs. Seeing what rare opportunity this was, scooped down as he began to pick herbs of his liking.

While busy with picking the herbs, a rustling yet disturbing sound was heard from up the tree as its residences flew off in haste creating an uneasy feeling to it. Suddenly a wild shook to the earth caused him to loose his balance as he fell to his butt, as his gathered herbs scattered across him. Looking around to find the cause of the continuously violent tremor, which was getting closer and heavier.

Suddenly a gigantic dark figure could be seen as it slowly approached the male being who looked on in surprise as trees were broken apart and the earth continued its quake. Coming into the lights the forest has to offer, a large dragonic structure that stood on all fours having large dark red scales that glitters as the morning sun beat down on it. It's whole body was covered in dark red scales except its underbelly and lower half of it tail having a beige colour to it.

Its body was toned and refined, covered in muscles and veins threatening to pop out from it. It had scar smothering its body with the most noticeable being an X-shaped scar beside its snort, just below its right eyes, having two pairs of red wings folded on its back.

The dragon proceeded on its path but came to a halt, seeing after seeing a human in its path. The man wore a high collared black and tan robe with gold trimming featured at the edge of the collar along with a large white toga draped around his torso. Matching dark eyes and hair loomed his features and a pendant around his neck.

He looked on surprise but snapped out of it as he got up from his position. Dusting himself as he continued to stare at the mighty creature that has graced him with its presence. Deciding to break the silence he worded first.

"Hello there!' He said as he gazed continuously at the dragon. silence ensured once more with the dragon having an intense look on its face.

"Um, not to be rude but who might you be?" He asked keeping his cool, not showing any sign of nervousness or fear apparent on him. Suddenly the dragon smirked as it unleashed its wings, creating a huge gust of wind that blew off the scattered herbs.

"I am the great and powerful Igneel! King of all fire dragons!" Igneel boasted as he swell with pride.

"I very much know the name igneel and seeing you in person is a great honour for me" The human mage responded, not feeling too honoured. Igneel retracted his wings and growled at the human response.

"And who are you exactly? or rather what are you exactly?!" it came out more of a demand than a question has the human eyes narrowed with caution as to sensing a sudden rise of danger approaching at a considerable speed.

"I am Zeref...Zeref Dragneel. A worthless man whose life no longer held any meaning to it" He spatted out as he looked down to the forest path, his eyes covered by his bangs.

"I ask once more boy, who are you?!" Now it sounds more of a threatening question as Igneel began to loose his patience as he eyes glowed in power. Igneel was known to be prideful and a little hotheaded, scratch that he was as hotheaded as his flames but this time it was a different matter.

Igneel sensed an abnormal flow of magic, dark magic precisely that entered deep into the forest as it lingered in the air of the forest which caused a sense of uneasiness. Deciding to investigate it, Igneel followed to back to its source which led him to his current encounter.

Sensing real danger approaching as he thought of a way to avoid battling with the great beast in front of him, he quickly decided to tell him the truth.

"I'm a wizard who studied and mastered the ways of the Black Arts" Flames spew out of igneel's nose as he looked on unconvinced by the answer he just received.

"You seem to have the smell of blood and death on you. Care to explain that now?" Zeref sighed as he put his hands up in the air that says 'i give up' as he walked close to Igneel and dat right next to him.

"You are right, I do have the stench of death lingering in me" He said as he walked up to igneel and laid down right next to him using his palms as support under his head not really afraid of igneel as he continued "Basically I have the curse of contradiction in me, a curse placed upon me by Ankhseram."

"The god of life and death. Did you try to reserve the flowing balance between those two existence?" Igneel asked Zeref, eyeing him suspiciously as he waited for a reply to confirm his suspicions.

"You are certainly right..." He paused as he closed his dark eyes and breathed in "...I did in fact tried to revive the dead"

"Humans will always be humans" Igneel sighed out as he rested down to hear what the human has to say to defend himself.

"I won't try to defend myself because I am proud of what I did, even if it means cursing myself with immortality and misery all through my life!"

"What a useless resolve" Igneel scoffed at Zeref as he categorized him as foolish but yet surprisingly firm man. All through igneel's live, he has known humans to act foolishly when under emotional pressure especially when it comes to someone they love. So he thought it was be something related to that.

"And i take it you tried reviving someone you care about" Igneel looked at zeref wanting to know the reason for his action. Zeref had a gloomy expression on his face as stared at the ever changing sky. He wore a sad smile on face as he thought of a way to answer Igneel.

"Would you care to listen to my story?" He waited for a response and got a grunt so he took that as a yes. He replied with a "Very well then." as he wet his lips, ready for the long explanation.

"A few years back, during the raging war, my family and I had isolated ourselves faraway from sight as we had led quite a peaceful and happy lives" he raised his right up to obstruct a stray ray of sunlight from shining on his face as he continued "I had my dad, my mum and my little sister who was just a fragile 3 years old..." he brought his right hand over his face as he covered it to hide his expression.

"Suddenly we were attacked by some dragon. They burned down my home killing everyone except me..."tearing up as he remembered the tragic demise of his family. He was loosing his cool ad his dark eyes gave a small shade of red.

"We led a happy life...I was so happy to have someone I would call a sister...fate was just too cruel on us!" Now he was really loosing it. The tension in the air rises drastically as zeref's eyes shone blood red. Igneel cleared his throat, snapping Zeref from his fit of rage and apologised and continued.

"Wanting to change fate itself, I decided not to give up with the resolve of reviving my dead sister" Igneel sighed. Just as he thought, it had something to do with someone dear.

" I researched black magic through a school, I mastered it and indulge deeper into life and death magic but I was caught which lead me to be cursed by the god Ankhseram" He laughed at himself and sat up.

"I continued my research on my own and created demons called etherious demon to kill but they were not powerful enough to do so. I created the most powerful demon just as powerful as me and imbued it into my sister, reviving her and things went downhill after that"

"As expected of human foolishness. You humans continue to amaze me" Igneel deep voice echoed out.

"That's the summary of what happened. Igneel I would like to make a proposal!" Igneel looked at zeref suspiciously as he thought of what kind of proposal he was about to spit out. Waiting patiently, he looked on to zeref.

"Igneel, I have tainted myself so deep in darkness that I can't be saved. I want you to train my sister and become her dad. I don't want her to become as dark as me!"

"No! Go find someone else" Igneel said as he got up ready to leave. But was stopped by zeref.

"Please Igneel, I know this might be bothersome but you are the only one I can turn to right now...Please Igneel!" he said as he got to his knees and bowed his head low to the ground. Igneel sighed and growled at himself, he was getting too soft for taking pity on him.

"Very well then" Zeref smiled at the response he received and stood up. "She, like I had told you have powers that rival mine, I would like you to seal it and teach her dragon slayer magic" Zeref told.

"Meet me deep into the forest, find a cave large enough to house me. Brign her along" With this Igneel has had enough for one day as he stretched out his wings and took off into the air creating large gust of wind that pushed zeref back but he stood his ground as Igneel disappeared.

Turning to the other side as he walked away from the forest back into the city bubbling with joy with a smile plastered on his face. He was truly grateful to Igneel.

4years later(X374)

"Fire dragon iron fist!" a small pinkette shouted as she engulfed her fist and launched herself to her opponent. Her attacks were put off and she was sent flying and crashed into a boulder, shattering it.

"Again!" a deep voice called out as the small pinkette gave a girlish battle cry as she engulfed her body in flames that burned bright orange and launched forward headbutting her opponent in a futile attempt as she was swatted away again.

She looked down in shame thinking how powerless she was against her dad. Looking up to him, she asked "Dad, am I really weak?"

Her dad sighed as he spoke "No child, you aren't weak"

"Then why dad, why am I not strong enough?!" She yelled on frustration. Her dad saw the frustration weighing on her, he smiled letting out a breath of fire that coated the sky.

"The path to strength is as easy as you thought it would be. Dedication, hardwork, friendship and attentiveness are needed to grow in strength. The journey to strength leads only to either salvation or destruction. Well you may not understand now but when you get older, you surely will" He laughed.

"Yes dad, I didn't understand a thing of what you just said" She glared at him thinking he was making fun of her but she laughed on with him.

"Thanks Igneel" She grinned at her dad.

"Come on natsumi, time to hunt food for dinner" Igneel said to Natsumi as she jumped up for joy on hearing the word food. Running up to igneel's back as he took off in search of food for tonight's dinner.

Zeref walked the paths of the forest as he had something important he wanted to say to Igneel. Moving emtionlessly as he looked round his surrounding. He stopped, sensing someone approaching him.

Moving towards him was what appeared to be a human wearing a red old worn out hooded-cloak as the human came from the direction he was heading to.

The hooded human, Seeing someone in his path, he stopped and took a good look at the dark haried man in front of him. Yellowish bright eyes locked with dark eyes as they stared at each other intensely, no one showing any sign of backing out.

"Who are you?" Zeref broke the silence as the questioned the man in front of him.

"I am merely an aimless traveller" Said a velvet voice that sounded a little musculine but soft to the hearing as he looked around him and took notice of his surrounding. A voice brought him out of his daze

"Very well then, I will take my leave then." He said as he began to walk past the unknown man but a voice stopped him.

"Wait! Take me wherever you were going!" The hooded man called out as he turned to look at Zeref. Zeref turned to look at him wearing the same emotionless face as he responded flatly with a 'no'.

"Very well then, let's have a mock battle and the loser listens to whatever the winner says." He smiled from under the hood covering his head as his face was less visible.

"Do you go about challenging anyone you meet?" Zeref voice suddenly turned cold as his face gave a dark expression as he looked at him with annoyance hinted on his face. I mean, what idiot challenges someone he just met to a battle? He just don't get what was going on.

"Don't be confused my friend. I can sense your magic running wild within you and its very powerful. I want to put it to the test." He waited for zeref's acceptance to the battle but was shot down again.

"Be on your way before i loose what little control I have before you get yourself killed!" Zeref looked at the one he dubbed a mad man in his mind as he turned to leave.

"Don't worry about killing me because that won't happen" He smirked under his hood liking how things were proceeding. 'Maybe i going too far with this' he thought.

"You are quite persistant but please leave before I really kill you!" He was really loosing it now. Just how stubborn was this guy anyway.

"Like I said, that won't happen weakling. Let just start already, unless you are afraid to battle me that is...little boy" He definitely had just pushed the button. Zeref eyes glowed dangerously red as black mist starts twirling violently around him drying up trees and turned the air black, making it a little difficult to see. The earth shook in rage as zeref unleashed his fury sucking the life out of the trees and leaving them withered and dry.

"You have angered me and you shall pay for it you fool! You death is inevitable!" He furiously said as his magic runs wild.

"Okay then, bring it on!" He said as he revealed himself, ready for a face-off against zeref. 'I really went far too far with taunting him'.

And Stop!!

A/N:- That's it for now folks. I don't really know how good it was so i just want you all to tell me what you think about it. Well i've introduced the female natsu which is the main character and also an oc who is also the main character in this story. Just so you know, things would get prettt intersting from the next chapter which would also be the final prologue and chapter 3 would be the start of the actual story. I wanted to first focus on how everything happened before fairytail existed and not just starting the story at fairytail guild(if you know what i mean)

Anyway, i'm looking forward to your replies to know if i should continue or not. Look forward to the next chapter!

I'M OUT!