AN: Well, I know that I have another story currently on the go, but I have had this idea in my head for weeks and have been sub-consiously planning it out to the point where the first few chapters and relationships as well as backstory and alterations to canon are almost fully fleshed out. This story will be taking place from the start of the series but I will say that even though Lucy will be absolutly fangirling over Natsu they will NOT be a pairing. Plus Natsu was never particularly close with Lissana due to alternate timelines.
On with the story!
Chapter 1: A Chance Meeting
A young pink haired mage in his late teens-early twenties was walking through the streets of Hargeon port, looking for a slave trader named Bora the Prominent who had been expelled from his last guild and had come to Hargeon because very few people were mages and wouldn't know about his use of charm magic.
The young man was wearing a black leather vest over a tight fitting black t-shirt that showed off his well defined muscle. He has a black and white scarf wrapped around his waist in place of a belt on his baggy motorcycle trousers and combat boots, he had two fingerless black gloves on and a titanium chain necklace with an odin's knot design in the center, he had his arms around the back of his head, enjoying the sunshine while extending his dragonslayer senses over the town, trying to catch a snippet of conversation about his target, he then heard a gaggle of girls talking about a "salamander" and a frown came across his usually smirking face, why would a large group of girls be interested in a small lizard?
"Well, it could be one of Bora's aliases, I doubt it though… better go have a look anyway," he said to no one in particular as he always worked solo. He dematirialised and re appeared on top of a roof looking for the group of girls he had heard before. He eventually spotted them and dissapeared again before apearing at the outskirts of the group, pushing through lots of atractive young girls, he spotted the man at the center. He was tall, with short deep blue hair and a red x tattoo above one of his eyes with two rings on one hand and a cape on his back.
"Oh hello, young man! Come to say hello to a famous mage?" The man who Natsu could only assume was 'salamander' asked the pink haired mage
"In a way, Bora the Prominent, former member of the Titan Nose guild but expelled for illegal activities, currently wanted by the council for use of illegal charm magic and operating a slave ring. I'm here to bring you in, some come quietly so there is no disturbance please," Natsu informed the man and all of the girls surrounding him, all in stunned silence. Bora quickly snapped out of his stupor and exclaimed
"If you expect to take me in alone you are sorely mistaken my young friend!" he said as he prepared a magic circle.
"Quint-Curse: Obey," Natsu said simply as he waved his hand at Bora, producing a slight green glow over the man's head. "Now come with me to the council office," he asked though bored of the ridiculous man's attitude. Most of the women had run away once they saw the first magic circle although one blonde stayed to watch the Pinkette who she thought she recognised before but at the use of his magic it clicked, the man in front of her was Natsu Dragneel, the dual dragon slayer, user of two completely unkown magics as well, known as one of Fairy Tail three strongest members, also known as the Chaos Angel, it was this recognition that caused her to speak up.
"Umm, Hi, are you Natsu Dragneel? I'd like to thank you for what you did, can I buy you lunch?" she asked timidly
"Yes I am Natsu Dragneel, if you would follow me to the council office while I take this man in then I would be happy to have lunch with you, you could tell me about your celestial spirit magic." he awnsered and suggested at the same time, stunning the girl into silence for a third time in two minuets as he had even noticed that she used magic let alone specified it down to the exact magic.
"Oh, yeah sure, I'd love to go to the council office with you and may I ask, when did you notice my magic?" she asked, still stunned that he was even talking to her, let alone asking about what her magic was like. She thought she was on cloud nine but that felt like nothing once he extended his hand to her
"Take my hand, we will head to the council office, return this man and then I will head to the nearest restaurant where I will awnser any questions you have." He commanded, intrigued by the girl that had three zodiac keys but such low magic power.
"Why do I need to take your hand?" she asked while blushing furiously
"Because I can use my magic to get us there instantly and back to the restaurant in less time than it would have taken to explain this."
"I had heard about your speed but thats crazy. No one is that fast." she said unimpressed by the boast
"Then take my hand and find out," he commanded again as the girl just nodded, worriedly, and took his hand before getting very dizzy, very fast and seeing a council building once she re opened her eyes and then saw Natsu hand Bora over to the council representative who shook his hand and told him something before he was back at her side and then they were back in Hargeon outside of a restaurant.
"Whoa, what in the hell is that magic, its crazy fast!" she inquired to the tall, handsome mage who seemed to ignore her and get a two person table and menus as well as ordering both of them a water.
"He is stupid fast at everything," she muttered to herself, completely in awe of the famous mage in front of her.
"Well, let's get to our table and I will awnser your questions, then you awnser mine."
"What could a mage like yourself, strong enough to be a wizard saint, with four different magics, part of the three strongest mages of the strongest guild in Fiore possibly need to ask an idependent mage like me?!" Lucy exclaimed quetily as she sat down in the restaurant
"I'm curious as to how such a young independent mage got three zodiac keys, I would also like to know if you have any plans for joining any guilds and whether or not you have contracts with those three powerful spirits?" Natsu asked honestly, not remotely fazed by the compliments as they seemed to happen daily at this point.
"Oh, I'm planning to join your guild, Fairy Tail. I got these spirits from my mother and yes I do have contracts with all three but they are all really weird." Lucy awnsered with a simillar directness, even though she was dying to ask him about his magic and missions.
"That's good, Fairy Tail is a great guild, you will fit in well there. I belive I owe you some awnsers too." Natsu said, inwardly sighing at that last bit, he could never catch a break!
"Yay! Is it true that you defeated an entire dark guild in less than a minuet?"
"Yeah."
"Is it true you have made two different magics?"
"Yeah."
"Is it true you once beat Titania Erza in a single punch?"
"No, but I did do that to Gray Fullbuster,"
"Oh, Is it true that you became an S-Class wizard in less than a year of joining Fairy Tail?"
"Yeah."
"What was that magic you used earlier on that man?"
"My Quint-Curse magic. Yes it is one of the two I invented," He said foreseeing the next question
"How about the other one you used to go really fast?"
"That was my Displacement magic. The other one I invented, and I didn't go really fast I simply displaced our particles from one place to the other."
"Are you interested in any girls?" came the next question, one that caught the older mage off guard as all the other questions were magic oriented
"I suppose."
"Oh, can you tell me who it is?" Lucy asked, masking jealousy in her voice
"As long as you tell absolutly nobody, or I will hunt you down." he said putting a little force behind the threat at the end, "It's Erza Scarlet." he said while blushing slightly, thinking of the scarlet haired beauty sitting back at the guild hall
"Wow really!?" Lucy asked, losing all sense of jealousy, once she realised thats who he was talking about, The Titania Erza, strongest female mage in Fairy Tail
"Yes, really, God it feels good to actullay get that off of my chest." he looked genuinly relieved to be saying this out loud to someone. But it was at this moment that the waiter walked over and handed them their glasses of water, "Do you actually want to eat or were you just being polite? Because now that I have dealt with Bora, we could head over to Fairy Tail and get you signed up."
"Wait! Really! Fairy Tail! Here I come! let's go, let's go, let's go!" Lucy tried her best to resist yelling before some money appeared on the table and Natsu simply looked at her with a devious smile and said:
"Here we go then." ha said before they both did the weird displacement thing and were all the way to the outskirts of Magnolia before the bells started ringing and a siren blared out
"WARNING! ALL CITIZENS TO YOUR DESIGNATED POSITIONS! CHAOS SHIFT IMMINENT!"
"Natsu? What does that mean?" Lucy asked, disoriented and alarmed and then the city began to move "OH MY GOD! WHY IS THE WHOLE CITY MOVING!?" she asked, now just alarmed as Natsu just laughed.
"I love doing this to newbies! Basically, because my magic is so powerful, people want to stay away in case I have bad news and am in a bad mood, because I had one issue with a townsman once. Anyway this only happens when Gildarts and I enter the city."
"Oh, well it makes it easier to get into the guild hall I guess," Lucy said, meaning to ask someone how powerful Natsu really is.
"Yeah it makes it easier until this happens," Natsu said as you see an ice walkway extending above the city before you hear
"ICE-MAKE: LANCE!" and large spears of ice shoot toward Natsu and Lucy
"Quint-Curse: Obey!" Natsu responds with as he slams his hand into the ground and a large green pulse flies across the entire city and the ice just stops before crumbling apart and a black haired shirtless guy walks over and greets Natsu while Lucy just looks on in shock at the switch in attitude from the shirtless guy.
"Lucy, I would like you to meet Gray Fullbuster, Fairy Tail's resident Ice mage, and self proclaimed rival of mine!" Natsu said as he introduced the still shirtless mage "Yeah, he has this weird stripping habit. Gray your clothes!" Natsu then shouted at Gray and the shirtless mage looked down
"GAH! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!" as he ran off to find his clothes.
"Okay, should we get to the guild hall then?" Natsu asked although it was more like a warning as the he displaced them into the guild hall "I'm back, no one challenge me to a fight. Cana stop drinking as much. Wakaba smoke outside please. Vejeeter dance outside with Wakaba. Nab just pick a job. Loke stop flirting with every girl you see. Laxus get down here and stop being a moody ass. Someone tell me where Macao is and Mira we have a new member, also where are Erza and Gramps?" Natsu listed out his orders and surprisingly everybody complied, except Nab who just kept staring at the request board while Mira informed Natsu that the master was in his office and Erza and Macao were out on missions and both due back today. Then Natsu's spell wore off and Elfman screamed something about being a real man at Loke and that flirting wasn't manly and then started a fight .
"Ummmmm, Natsu? Why is everyon- Natsu? Where did he go?" Lucy asked to nobody before a beautiful, buxom platinum blonde girl in a lovely red dress walked over.
"Hello, are you the new member Natsu was talking about?" She said with a beautiful smile and cheery voice
"OHMYGODYOURMIRAJANEYOUARELIKETHEMOSTBEAUTIFULPERSONEVEROHMYGOD!" Lucy somehow got out in one breath
"Haha, yep I'm Mirajane but please call me Mira. You're beautiful too, what's your name?" the barmaid asked, not at all fazed by the gushing reaction, it was understandable, she was more famous than anyone else at the guild.
"Oh right, My name is Lucy, nice to meet you!" she said currently internally fainting because Mira had just started a proper conversation with her.
"That's a pretty name, Where would you like your guild mark and what colour?"
"Pink, on the back of my right hand please! Is the guild always like this?" she inquired while Mira placed the guild mark on her hand.
"Yep! It's really fun, right?" Mira said just before she got hit in the head by a barstool and thrown into a wall.
"HEY! ARE YOU OKAY?" Lucy asked the other girl just before she was swept off her feet by Loke
"Ugh, this place is so noisy sometimes, Don't you think, Gorgeous?" He said with a look that made most girls swoon before noticing the keys on her belt and putting her down before running off crying about cruel twists of fate and left the guild hall as Gray walked back in and instantly found Natsu and sat down and they began talking about something while Natsu displaced a drink for each of them by the bar and left the appropriate amount of money on the counter.
"Hey, sorry about that, this gets out of hand sometimes," Mira said, dusting herself off and punching the person that threw the barstool across the room and into her brother. "So, what kind of magic do you use?"
"I use Celestial Spirit magic which seems to be a good Loke deterent."
"BRATS! CUT OUT THIS FIGHTING RIGHT NOW OR I WILL CRUSH YOU ALL!" a giant screamed across the room
"Oh master! I didn't realise you were here." Mira stated innocently while Lucy's jaw fell on the floor
"MASTER!?" She gaped
"OH A NEW MEMber sorry about this, I'm the Fairy Tail guild master, but call me what you want." he said while shinking to about three foot high in a jester costume. "YOU DAMN KIDS HAVE DONE IT AGAIN! LOOK AT ALL THE PAPER WORK THE COUNCIL SENT ME THIS TIME! However. Any power that surpasses reason, still comes from reason, right? Magic isn't some kind of miraculous power. It is a talent that only works when the flow of energy inside of us and the flow of energy in the natural world are in perfect synchronization. To perform magic one must have a strong mind and the ability to focus. It should take over your being and come pouring out of your soul! If all we do is worry about following rules, then our magic will never progress. This means that Fairy Tail mages are free to do as we want and let the council try and stop us!" he shouted while holding his hand high in a backwards L shape. "No matter what we look after our family more than anything else!" he said gaining an entire chorus of cheers in the guild hall.
===The End===
===For Now===
AN: Well this was fun to write, as well as easier than Shinigami Arts in Fairy Tail. It took a while and nobody is expecting this, but don't worry, both stories will be getting an update a week as long as I don't say otherwise.
I made Natsu not only stronger but older too. The ages are as follows:
Natsu 20
Erza 19
Lucy 18
Gray 18
Mira 19
Laxus 21
Elfman 23
Gildarts 34
Makarov 88
The rest will be explained in the next chapter! Bye for now!
