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"Natsu!" – Character Speech
'Natsu!' – Thoughts
Natsu! – Flashbacks
Natsu! – Spells and Magic
Natsu, Sun King of Fiore?
From Years to Decades, Who Is The New King?
Magnolia, Capital of the giant magical continent of Fiore,
"Why!?" Some neighbors within a town groaned to hear a certain teenaged girl scream from within the shower. Even the children stopped their playing and sprinting to hold their ears and complain to their parents to make it stop. They sure wish they can. "Why was I rejected for the stupid Trials!? I am her best friend! I even made her a promise to help her win this year!"
This girl was Lucy, formally Heartfilla of the once wealthy Heartfilla clan. She was a girl of well-endowed proportions for her age. She has been trying to use her 'sexual appeal' to the same effect as she reads in books or seen in movies. But it took a while for to see that Lucy's vanity and low self-esteem had made it very lackluster.
But Lucy had given up on that shameless style once she became a mage of Fairy Tail. That guild was the strongest and most popular in the entire Fiore continent. They already went through over fifty years of standing strong, a guild war from a hated rival Guild, a treacherously deadly game from the grandson of the current Guild Master and even being sent to a parallel world by a power-hungry king.
But because of that, Fairy Tail has gotten a new and improved Guild Hall, a few new strong additions and became even more of a fun home for Lucy. She was still done and for a good reason personally. One of Lucy's best friends is a drunken mage who had a secret that tormented for almost her own life and there was the vow made to tell everyone who her father is once she was promoted to the powerful and influential S-class rank.
Lucy had found her friend in an alleyway one day, covered in snow and drunk out of her mind. Taking her to the apartment that Lucy rented, and struggled to stay, where the two made a promise. A promise to get the promotion together and be at her friend's side once the vow is complete. But it was not to be,
"I guess that it is because of the failures Cana had to face in the past that gotten the perverted old man to give up on her. But how can I face Cana anymore since she has another partner for the trials." Lucy then muttered to herself more quietly and turned off the shower; not knowing that everyone outside had sighed in relief. But when she entered her bedroom, she screamed again.
"NATSU! HAPPY!" Lucy was in disbelief to see the two mages that brought her to Fairy Tail and Magnolia in the first place were in her apartment room and she never even heard then knock. "WHY CAN'T ANY OF YOU-!" Lucy was about to kick then in retaliation until she noticed that both intruders looked sullen and unhappy. They didn't even get near Lucy's bed, a place that both of them often steal from the owner whenever they feel like it. "Are you guys still down on about the selection?" Lucy, of course, didn't take too long to figure out what has gotten the two fireballs down on life.
"I can't even face the guild doors without seeing that disgustingly smug look on the stripper's face, thinking that because he got in then he will get the promotion before me! I often hear him say that he plans to embarrass me even worse than ever in his naps!" Natsu shouted but didn't even break a sweat compared to what he normally does when he goes wild or blows his top.
"Hey." Lucy got Natsu to stop his shouting by at least sitting next to him and Happy, not caring about still being in a towel. "I was rejected too. I know how it feels. I don't mind that you guys came but please try to knock next time." Lucy was a 'civilized' girl and tries her best, with what patience she has, to teach her best friends to be the same. "No one likes people that barge in when they feel like it. Don't tell me that Igneel taught you that~!"
But Lucy knows how to tease Natsu about how the fireball proclaims to be taught by a dragon who also uses magic, that is associated with dragon's fire. Natsu never appreciated when Lucy did it, he was laughed and ridiculed for the topic in the past, but there was nothing that he could do to retort and argue back. "Fine, I will try. Like for next year's trials. We both should." Lucy just nodded.
"All we can do is make the best of it Natsu, Happy. Maybe our friends will actually tell us how to get ready for the trials next year once they come back." Lucy said and Natsu actually smiled.
"Yea, when they come back…" Natsu was wondering why his voice felt like an echo. But he and everyone else in Magnolia will learn soon enough,
Three days later,
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TELLING US!?"
Natsu and Lucy were in the harbors of Magnolia, with agents from the Magical Council that runs every guild in Fiore. Both of them were also bearers of dire, tragic news. They claimed that Tenrou Island, where the Trials are taken place, was attacked by one of the three most powerful Dark Guilds and then a large black dragon soon after. Once that dragon unleashed a maelstrom of an attack, Tenrou Island was no more.
"I am sorry. Really am. I wanted to help everyone get off the island when Grimoire Heart attacked." One of the agents, Mest Gryder, was a working uncover as one of the guild members so he could be on the action in case a Fairy Tail mage goes rogue. But when he was nominated to be one of the candidates for S-class, that put a monkey wrench in his plans. Mest had to reveal that he was using magic in terms of memory to convince everyone of his undercover identity so that the Magic Council can have closer eyes on the troublesome guild. "But you Fairies were always hard-headed and wanted to protect your island and…"
"Stop." Natsu halted Mest. "No matter how many times you say sorry, the pity will only make things hurt worse. No words can bring back our friends." Natsu actually spoke with a low, mature tone for once. "Just please let Fairy Tail handle all this and have our time of morning. And you can count on no more destruction and bills for you to pay."
Natsu then turned from the harbor, holding Lucy in his arm and Happy on his shoulder. Both of them were definitely in no mood to talk for the rest of the day. Seeking of which, the next several will be very difficult with only Natsu and Lucy the remaining core members of Fairy Tail. Only time can answer if those two are enough for their guild and maybe Fiore itself.
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It has now been seventy years since Tenrou Island and its inhabitants disappeared off the face of the oceans in this world of magic. Fiore was nothing like it was that tragic day. The buildings, instead of wood, brick and plaster, were mostly made of metal, concrete and glass. The roads were now made of a new and durable substance that was named asphalt; it made replacing the brick roads less inconvenient. Carriages were barely used anymore, even the ones that require a plug to use a mage's magical power as fuel; they were replaced with vehicles called cars, buses and trucks that ran one a new fuel source altogether.
But perhaps the biggest innovation was the sheer size of Magnolia. Over the long seven decades, the city was twice in size, maybe even thrice in another ten years. And it was all done and thanks to its current ruler, the Sun King of Fiore. After the incident at Tenrou Island and its disappearance, everyone thought that Fairy Tail was going to fall down the rankings like a lead balloon; they were all surprised to say the least.
They say that after a long struggle, Fairy Tail grew strong once again, helped Magnolia survive an attack of seven dragons, from a guild of demons and finally expanding for the second time; in this turnabout, every building and every inhabitant in Magnolia was registered in Fairy Tail. It was the king's new decree and for six decades, Magnolia thrived. But the biggest chance was when another country and kingdom, named the Alvarez Empire, tried to attack Fiore and more especially, Fairy Tail once it became one with Magnolia.
The battles, which lead to an actual war with the Alvarez Empire, were devastating on both sides. But while the mysterious ruler was not worried, Fiore's was. The short but full of life king realized that he was a regular human being trying to fight an empire built on magic. There was the need for a new king, one that is strong to fight the wars himself and be able to use the powers of a king for the future battles.
And so, one of Fairy Tail's mages was chosen to be the next king. At first, everyone questioned the former king's decision but after several successful battle endeavors, the people of Fiore changed their minds. So much that they even sighed up for the new king's army, to match that of the Alvarez Empire. The new king had forced his people into rigorous training that matched the extent of fighting actual mages.
But like all wars, there was the climax that will decide who will win. And it happened when the new King and his army marched on the battlefield to meet the enemy emperor and his own army. The battle was something of hell, every soldier fought until their last breath; no prisoners taken in this bloody conflict.
But Fiore was lucky; their new King had actually won the war from that moment the enemy emperor exploded in a blast of dark magic. The veterans who fought there and survived to see this victory all said that their battle king had protected them with a warm and soothing bright light to burn at the energy that reeked of death.
That solely cemented this new king's position of authority and power for the rest of the seven decades since Tenrou Island disappeared. But still, all times have their time. Soon, it will time for Tenrou Island to return. But no one counted on it happening on the seventieth anniversary of their new king.
And it all begun with a boat seeing a young girl in a robe, standing on the ocean surface!
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"Is this where the King's sensory team located that flux in magic?" A stranger, on a boat that had a certain symbol of a fairy with a tail on the wooden sides and on the sails & flags, asked out of the blue. "We have been here for an hour and…"
"Hideo, if you have time to complain then find a spare binocular and help us look." Another stranger barked back, "Besides the King himself formed that team with personal selection. If they were wrong, then we would have been told already. Get going!"
"Right Miss Asuka…" The man named Hideo walked with a dark cloud over his face and over his voice as he dragged himself into the cabin of the ship.
"Ahoy everyone!" Hideo barely touched the door when another stranger yelled out, pulling everyone's attention towards that direction; near the bow of the ship. "I have spotted something extraordinary, even for us mages! It is amazing! It is fantastic! Its…"
"GOING TO TAKE ALL DAY, SO OUT WITH IT!" Everyone on the ship yelled in prefect unison, silencing the stranger at the bow for a small moment.
"Right, there is a girl that is standing on the water!" The stranger finally explained what he was seeing so the others with binoculars hurried over to check it out. They all saw the same thing. Then something else extraordinary, amazing and fantastic happened.
That girl, with a strange robe and flowing blonde hair, had wordlessly raised her arms up which caused a large portion of the sea behind her to glow brightly. Then the sea acted like something large was rising almost instantly. And that something turned out to be a large golden shell with the same symbol as the ship. Within that shining shell was an island with a large base, a massive tree that held up a slightly smaller amount of earth. It was Tenrou Island!
"Woah…" The woman that was called Asuka could only say, with the light showing that is slightly past her prime. "So this is what my folks always told me about, along with my Master. It is finally here."
That same morning, within the castle in Magnolia, a couple sleeps in their king-sized bed. But that soothing and restful slumber was not to last when there was heavy knocking on the bedroom door. "Your majesty! Please, we need you!"
There was grumbling and movement under the sheets in the bed. "I thought I told everyone to let us sleep in…" He sounded like a grandpa whose grandchildren bounced on his bed very early in the morning. Even when he grungily got up, out of the warm sheets and the comfortable mattress, the knocking was giving him a headache.
"Honey, why not take the call and see if it is an emergency." It was the other person sleeping in the king's bed. No doubt the Queen of Magnolia, the king's wife. That was given when the elderly looking man nodded and got into his slippers, walking to the door in a snail's pace.
Once he finally opened the door, he saw one of his servants looking fanatic. "So? What's the trouble?"
"Sorry to wake you, your Majesty but we have a large group of maniacs trying to get into the castle! We are barely keeping them inside the throne room!" The servant shouted and the king signaled for him to calm down and lower his voice. "And once he seized them, they all have the Fairy Tail symbol on a different part of their bodies!"
That got the elderly man's attention and so did his wife who also rose from the bed. She looked like the age of a grandmother with wrinkles covering most of her body. They both looked at each for a little while before the man returned his gaze to the messenger. "Thank you for the notice. We will come out to handle once we get fully dressed."
"Yes, your majesty!" The servant bowed and hurried away to give the elderly, royal couple all the time they need.
Later, in the throne room,
"Let us go!" "Where are you taking us!?" "Has that bastard got us in trouble again!?" "I will freeze your faces and then that flame brain once i find him!" As the messenger said, there was chaos in the throne room of the castle. There was this rioting crowd who wants to see the king with intent to maul. But they only got so far before guards appeared as if out of the walls and seized them. "Don't you know who we are!? We are…!"
"Fairy Tail." Everything just stopped when they heard that voice of age but also of power and authority. The riot was stopped right there by only a voice and a couple of words. But soon the guards noticed that the Fairy Tail crowd weren't doing anything; that is considered an insult and vulgar when it is around a leader figure, especially a king.
"How rude!" Fairy Tail cringed to hear such volume. "You are now in the presence of our latest and greatest King ever! The one that has protected his family, his home and Fiore more times than anyone else! His royal majesty, the imperil Sun King of Fiore, King Natsu Dragneel! In company is his wife and fellow ruler, Queen Lucy Dragneel!"
"…WHATT!?"
End of Chapter 1.
*Thanks for the support guys! Things are definitely challenging at College and at home so all I ask is patience while it try to find time between studying for quizzes & exams and doing my other college work.
For this new OC Natsu, look up Yamamoto from Bleach but with pink hair and the robes of a king. That is the best description I can think of so take your time and also read how this canon character is associated with fire. I don't usually read Bleach but I might use some of those elements (with disclaimers of course).
On a side note, I finally took the driver's test at the local DMV and got my driver's license on the first try! Now everyone will expect me to be more of an adult, more independent and responsible with his own car. I bet that most of you felt like that when you passed your driver's test and earned your license. Let me know if you feel like it and have a good Halloween! *