A/N: Hey guys, this is my first ever fanfiction after reading a ton of them. I really thought that I should write one of these myself and started with the story. This is story reimagined starting from when Natsu was with Igneel.

Disclaimer – I don't own fairy Tail. The OC are mine though.

Fairy Tail: New family and a new world

Chapter One: An unexpected meeting

Year x776...

It was a normal day, a day like any other with a bright morning, with birds chirping their tune and a cold breeze blowing through the grass. In a cave at the edge of the forest, a creature living there was rising to the morning. The creature was massive and looked like a gigantic lizard with wings and wait… gigantic lizard with wings… oh… it's a dragon. It got up and moved outside of the cave into the forest leaving behind a kid who didn't look older than 6. The kid reacted to the sudden loss of the warmth of the dragon and opened one of his eyes just enough to see the light outside the cave. He then lazily jerked to a sitting position, rubbing his eyes he then got up and stretched, finally out of his dazed state. He then walked outside the cave and saw the dragon standing facing away from him. "Good morning, Igneel" called out the boy, alerting the dragon who replied "Good morning, Natsu". Natsu then walked forward and stood there looking in the same direction as the dragon trying to find anything in sight, but in vain. He then felt the cool breeze flowing through the air and thought 'this feels so good'. It felt good despite not having any proper clothes, just a pair of pants that went down to his knees. The dragon then looked at the boy and said "How about we get some breakfast and get started with today's training?". "Okay, let's go!" was the reply. The boy then went into the forest with dragon to get food.

Natsu had caught a rabbit and Igneel had found his meal (A/N:God knows what that could be!). They both had their meal and were set for the plans for the rest of the day. They then got out the forest and come back to the clear area near the cave. "Let's start training Igneel, teach me a new powerful spell today!" exclaimed Natsu with fire in his eyes. "Okay if you think you can learn this then I'll teach you something even better tomorrow!" said the dragon, smirking in his mind. "Awesome!" said Natsu "let's do this, Now I'm all fired up!" and he got ready for learning the spell. Igneel then signaled Natsu to get over his back, which Natsu complied, and took off to a place with large rocks and boulders. Igneel let Natsu down and told him "Today you are going to learn the Fire dragon's: Sword Horn". "Okay, so what does spell do? Does it go boom?" Natsu asked. The dragon only gave a grin and explained the spell to the kid, to which the kid showed a lot of enthusiasm hearing the word 'boom' at the end of the explanation.

A good six hours later, the kid lay there on the ground near the dragon panting and rubbing his head. "Ouch! That hurts a lot Igneel! What kind of spell is this?" asked Natsu crying anime tears. "I told you, leaning dragon slayer magic and the spells I know are going to need a lot of training! I never mentioned it being a walk in the park" replied the dragon. "This is the not fair, you overgrown lizard… this spell is not even strong and it hurts a lot!" Natsu cried, getting up. "Don't compare me, the mighty Igneel to a puny lizard, you foolish brat" roared Igneel pounding the kid into the ground with his large claw. "Practice makes perfect… you have to practice to make the spell you learnt strong" replied the dragon sternly. "Stupid dragon!" replied Natsu with a tick mark on his head. "Let's take a break!" said the dragon now he too getting a little tired of the constant lecturing to the kid. "Let's go to the village where you got your books… you go and meet up with the people you know and greet them" suggested Igneel to which Natsu calmed down and agreed. Then, Natsu got onto the dragon's back as he was signaled and they departed to the village.

Natsu, resting on Igneel's back, thought of all the people in the village he knew, the old man selling the fruits and vegetables, the sweet nuns in the church and the stern librarian from whom Natsu got his books. 'Honestly he is a jerk… but he does lend the books for free, so I guess he's not so bad' thought Natsu. 'All the other town people are also very nice' he remembered when they helped him get to the library when he got there the first. As Igneel started to descend Natsu snapped out of his thoughts and got ready to go the village. Igneel dropped Natsu off a few miles away from the village so as not scare the villagers to death. Natsu then waved to Igneel and ran away to in the direction of the village.

Running towards the village he could see the sky getting darker by the minute. It took quite some time for the kid to get to the village. But strangely as Natsu got closer to the village it started to get brighter. As he got closer he could smell ash, burnt wood, flesh and bones. He had a bad feeling about that and when he reached the village, his eyes were wide in shock at the scene before him. The whole village now burning in a bright red and orange flame, 'This is really bad!' thought Natsu worriedly. "I've got to find what caused this!" muttered Natsu and ran off looking in every direction. He then spotted 3 people in black cloaks, presumably men due to their size and height, standing near one of the burning houses. The house was pretty small and looked as if it was about to collapse from burning. The men standing there looked as if they were trying to find something inside the burning house. Natsu then carefully hid behind a wall which was opposite to the house and observed the men. He was keenly looking for an opportunity to find out the thing that the three were so keen on finding. Suddenly a part of the roof collapse onto the house, scaring the three men. "Let's get out of here!" shouted one of them, "The woman in there must have already died because of that roof collapse". "Yeah… we have already done our work, let's just go!" agreed another one and the three were about to leave when they heard another house collapse. *CRASH* *BOOM* *CLANK* Natsu froze behind the wall thinking that he was found out. 'What do I do!... They know I am here!' panicked Natsu. "Let's just go… all the houses are collapsing anyways" spoke the third and they moved away from the place and disappeared in a black torrent of magic. "That was close" Natsu sighed of relief, "Better go find out who is in there" and with that the boy sped to the house.

Being a fire dragon slayer, unaffected by the heat of the flames, he pushed the burning door away and got into the house. Being small the house had only two rooms. The first room was where the roof had collapsed. So Natsu quickly walked past it and discovered something in the second room. A woman not too old looking, lay there unconscious underneath a burnt wooden beam. Natsu without giving a second thought rushed to her and heard that she still breathing, but just barely. 'This may be difficult!' thought Natsu looking at the beam which looked almost twice as big as Natsu himself. As Natsu started lifting the thing he noticed that the beam was quite light and when he tried lifting it further it just crumbled into dust and smaller pieces of burnt wood. 'Damn, that's nasty!' Natsu complained internally sneezing off the ash that had formed. He then lifted the woman and rushed outside the house. He then got to wall that was nearby and rested her against it. Dusting off the ash, wood and other stuff off the woman, he then remembered the three people in the cloaks. 'I have to rescue others, if there are any…' Natsu then rushed backed. After a few minutes he came and was surprised to see the woman still unconscious. "Okay, guess Igneel will know what to do" sighed Natsu and picked up the woman and got moving in the direction in which he came from, opposite to the village.

Natsu got to Igneel, placed the woman on the ground and explained what happened in the village. "Igneel, what do you think we should do?" asked Natsu looking at the dragon, who was now examining the woman on the ground. "I don't think I'll be much of a help if she wakes up now!" replied the dragon. Looking at the woman Natsu now discovered who the woman was. "Wait a minute… I know her Igneel, she is a nurse at one of the hospitals in the village" said Natsu "I really wanna help her and also know what happened at the village!" exclaimed Natsu "She is a really good person, though I didn't talk to her much, I saw she was very friendly with all the villagers". "Okay, I know what to do" sighed the dragon in defeat "but if she wakes up and freaks out it's your responsibility, Natsu". "Okay! That's no problem at all" was the joyous reply of the boy. With that settled and out of the way Natsu got himself and the woman on the back of Igneel and they flew off in the direction of the cave.

Natsu sat there on the dragon's back near woman remembering about the village. 'Man the village was such a nice place… those cloaked people looked like they wanted all the people dead, why?'. 'and what did they mean by work?' pondered Natsu, then he remembered that the woman never woke up. He worriedly turned to look at the woman only to discover that she was sleeping, snoring ever so slightly. 'What the hell was I worried for?' sweat dropped Natsu. He then looked forward again staring into the sky loosing himself in thought of the village. He then closed his eyes and felt the wind blowing past him as he was sitting. "Okay, might as well ask her about everything tomorrow" sighed Natsu. With that Natsu just sat there enjoying the wind. A few hours later they had reached the entrance of the cave.

Next day morning Natsu and Igneel did their usual morning chores, had breakfast and gathered near the woman, who was still sleeping and snoring ever so lightly. Natsu looked at the face and saw how peaceful it was, whereas Igneel was trying to determine anything about the sleeping woman. She was beauty with pink hair, the color the same as Natsu's hair. She wore a cream colored one-piece dress, with white flower patterns on it which were barely visible, that was burnt and torn at edges with burn marks here and there. The woman had a bright complexion and a pretty face, adorned by her pink hair which was long. She had a slim yet voluptuous figure, a woman who was the ideal for any man. As Igneel was trying to examine the woman, the hot breath which he exhaled hit the woman causing her to stir in her sleep. Now she was slowly waking up because of the heat the air. Noticing this, both Natsu and Igneel curiously, quietly and slowly moved away. As the woman got into a sitting position with her vision blurry, not remembering or knowing anything that had transpired yesterday, she stretched and still had her eyes half-closed. Another hit with a hot breath of air snapped her out of her dazed state, startling her causing her to shoot open her eyes. As her vision cleared, she found out that she was under a tree and was being watched by a gigantic thing with two large golden eyes. "KYAAAAAHHH!" screamed the woman realizing the creature to be a dragon that was looking at her.

The woman then jumped at the sight of the dragon and was ready to flee, when she noticed a tuft of pink at the corner of her eye. Quickly glancing over, she noticed a boy, who was half-naked with pink hair, looking at the dragon with a confused look which she failed to notice. Assuming the boy was also taken and brought with her, which seemed obvious looking at the boy's clothes, she quickly got up and ran to Natsu. Running, as she closed in on Natsu, dived and tackled Natsu and sat up in a defensive position with half her back facing the dragon while holding Natsu. 'Interesting' smirked Igneel internally. "Don't worry I'll protect you. I won't let that dragon harm you!" the woman told Natsu in a comforting tone. She then looked at the dragon and found that it was trying to inch closer to the two of them. "Don't come any closer!" she shouted at the dragon, tightening her hold on Natsu. Natsu chuckled internally and finally spoke "It's okay lady, he won't hurt me or you" surprising the woman. "What are you telling young one? That's a dragon!" she replied back. "Don't worry he's my father" said Natsu with a big grin. "I was the one who brought you here yesterday" said Natsu remembering what had happened. 'Yesterday?' thought the woman and then it hit her. All of the memories of the events that had occurred the day before had come back to her and she remembered the most horrible one of them. She burst into tears while burying her face in her hands. Seeing her cry Natsu immediately hugged the woman trying to comfort her. The woman reacted by hugging Natsu back and started crying on his shoulder. "Don't cry. I'm here for you. Your face doesn't look nice when you cry. Please tell me what happened" comforted Natsu. Hearing the pure-hearted words of concern, the woman slowly calmed down letting go of Natsu. "Thank you" said the woman, finally calm. All the while Igneel was watching the scene unfolding in front of him and thought 'This just keeps getting better and better'. "You're welcome, by the way I'm Natsu Dragneel. What is your name?" asked Natsu with a big grin. Seeing the bright face of Natsu, she replied with a smile "My name is Erica Linette".

She then finally recognized Natsu, remembering that he was the kid who had come to find books very often in the village but never once visited the hospital for a checkup. She shrugged it off and enquired Natsu about the dragon. Before Natsu could say anything "I am Igneel, the mighty Fire Dragon KING!" roared Igneel. Natsu could only sweat drop at Igneel's proclamation. "O-o-oh, I-I-I s-see" stuttered Erica scared of the dragon's loud roar. "Stop scaring her, you stupid gecko" shouted Natsu who then received a nice thrashing into the ground. "Don't you dare compare me with a lizard" Igneel roared back at Natsu. Erica could only laugh at the supposed father and son's antics.

After a hearty laugh she calmed down and saw Natsu approaching her. "So, can you tell us what happened at the village?" asked Natsu carefully trying not to make Erica cry again. her face became dull but she decided on telling the complete day's events. She began "It started in the evening when group of cloaked men began to search for children in the village. At first they just entered the village and started discussing about their stuff in a small group. It also looked as though they just came to get supplies for their journey. But then they went to a place where there were more children. It seemed awkward at first but then the people just ignored them as it was none of their business. As soon as they got near a park where there were many children the group split up and started capturing the children". "Those people looked bad and even smelled fishy too!" said Natsu. Agreeing she continued "When the older people tried to stop them they just blasted them away using magic. When they were enquired for their reason for kidnapping during the struggle they revealed that the children were to be used as slaves to build a tower for the almighty Black Wizard, Zeref".

At the last word, 'Zeref' cursed Igneel angrily.

"My husband was one of the people who knew magic and tried to retaliate and was the first one to be made an example of" tears rolled down her cheeks, "Seeing my husband die everyone tried to retaliate even harder, but in vain". "The cloaked men then started to kill all the adults and captured every child in sight. I tried healing the wounded but it didn't seem to work". "Then the men targeted me. Scared not being able to do anything, I ran away and hid myself in a house. I am such a coward" and more tears started flowing down her cheek. "No I don't think it was a bad choice. In a situation like that anyone would try to flee. It was not cowardice" said Igneel. "Then what happened? Why did they set the village on fire?" asked Natsu, now curious. "They seemed to be commanded by someone. I think they received the order to eliminate all the adults and capture the children in the village. So they lit the houses on fire to kill the remaining adults who were hiding inside, including me" said Erica with sore eyes, after all the crying. "I passed out due to fear and the heat of the fire in the house and after that I don't remember anything after that until now" Erica finished. "So, I guess when they were checking for survivors I found you!" stated Natsu. "How did you escape and get to me, Natsu?" questioned Erica. "Luckily they didn't notice me amongst the burning houses" told Natsu with his signature grin. "Thank you… Natsu… Igneel, for saving me" Erica thanked them. "You're welcome!" replied Natsu smiling. "Hmph!" was all Igneel could manage. 'I think she will be a fine guardian for Natsu' thought Igneel, 'I need to find a way to bring these two closer'. "Wh-what are you going to do now, Erica?" Natsu put up a question not too sure whether to ask or not. "Huh? What am I going to do…?" the part came out lightly as Erica drifted into thought. Her eyes became watery again, as she remembered her dead husband. Her parents had passed away long ago and she had no siblings either, she had nowhere to go. As if Igneel's wish were heard, "Would you like to stay with us for a while?" asked Natsu. 'That's my boy, you have proven to be the mighty Igneel's son' smirked Igneel. Thinking for a while, "Okay, if it's not too much trouble for the two of you!" Erica agreed, blinking to remove the water in her eyes. Natsu perked up at the answer, "Yeah! Awesome" he yelled. 'I think this is for the best' Igneel was now happy.

Erica had agreed for a request from a kid never thinking how it would change her life forever.

A/N: There you have it guys. My first fanfic's first chapter, I hope you had enjoyed it. I don't have plans to keep the storyline the same, with some changes to the story here and there. They may be big or they may be small, you have to wait for the fun. And as I mentioned in the summary Natsu will be OOC in this story coz that's what I like. Please review guys