Standing in front of the white wooden door, Nashi gulped down all of her fears.

"It looks so… intimidating, somehow.." she whispered. Xiphos glanced at her with a raised eyebrow.

"You are exaggerating, come on. Dad must be sleeping his ass off right now," turning his key to the house and unlocked the door, they proceed to enter the house. Nashi's mind went wild, thinking about the house looked like a den of a monster. But, as soon as she walked in further into the living room. She was astonished with how 'unthreatening' the house was. It actually looked nice.

"Wow, I feel like I'm in a library that is in a middle of a garden" she said, looking around the quite spacious room. Checking out the shelves of thick clean books, flower vases here and there, and a single… pot of cactus.

"What is a cactus doing here? It's a bit.. you know, out of the theme" Nashi inquired. Xiphos dropped down his bag on a beige colored sofa across them.

"Never mind the cactus, my dad insisted my mom to 'at least let me keep something that is not making me look unmanly' or something like that" he replied.

"Anyways, I'm going upstairs and wake my dad up, you go wait here." he said pointing to the beige sofa as he proceeds to climb the stairs. Nashi did as she was told. She sat there, her bag and her arms folded on her lap. She checked out the room for a few times until she was interrupted with the vibration of her Lacrima Mobile Phone.

1 new message from Dad

"Nope.." she said and shoved the phone back into the pocket in her skirt. She definitely does not wanted t o know what her father's text said. A few seconds go by and her phone started to vibrate more frequently. She knew it was her annoying father. He would never let her go without him constantly texting or calling her. Good thing she put her phone on silent mode but still, the vibration is definitely starting to get on her nerves.

She heard footsteps descending from the stairs. It must be uncle Gajeel and Xiphos. She focused herself back to the matter at hand. She stood up, prepared to turn around and greet her 'ol uncle Gajeel. Their footsteps are getting closer, that's her cue to turn around.

"Good af- who the hell are you?!" she exclaimed.

There he is, Uncle Gajeel. With his long spiky black hair covering his face, making him look like a gigantic heap of uncared hair.

"Um.. you look so.. tired" Nashi slurred. Gajeel didn't respond.

Xiphos kicked his father's ankle and the kick jolted him awake.

"Huh.. Salamander's kid. What takes you here? You wanna dance in a bunny suit while I sing like you did when you were 5 years old?" Gajeel snorted with a grin. Nashi cringed at the topic.

"No. Uncle Gajeel, I'm here for a serious matter." Nashi replied with her eyes squinted.

"Alright get on with it, I wanna sleep again" Gajeel replied yawning as he jumped to the sofa and sat down. Nashi looked at Xiphos, her eyes are giving him this weird 'oh come on, I can't bear this. You do the talking' look which Xiphos only shrugged. Both then sat down across the old Iron Dragon Slayer.

"So, father. There is something that has been bothering Nashi for quite sometime. Which is…" Xiphos started.

"What? Get to the point son, you know I don't like hitting around the bust" Gajeel groaned.

"It's bush, father. Not bust." Xiphos said.

"Yeah yeah. Just don't tell your mother, she might hit me for that sensitive word" Gajeel replied. Nashi instantly starting to feel very uncomfortable. She never knew why the old man is her favorite uncle. Well used to be.

"Anyway, Nashi is starting to have this red scales growing out on her hands. She was worried that she might actually transform to a real dragon." Xiphos finished. Gajeel was silent for a moment.

"What? That's all?" Gajeel snorted.

"Uhh… yes?" Xiphos raised an eyebrow, his father's anwers are quite surprising to him. He never knew that his respond would be something like this.

"That's fine… ya know. I even grew out horns when I was your age."

"You mean.." Nashi said.

"Yes it's because you're a teenager and it was because of the hormones, bla bla… If that's all I'm going to my room again." Gajeel said and stood up. Nashi shot up from her seat.

"What? You mean I'm not going to die or like transform into a fire dragon or something?" Nashi asked.

"Yeah yeah. Now you go home before salamander started screaming here asking where his daughter is" Gajeel replied without turning his back.

Nashi jumped with joy, "Thank you, uncle Gajeel!" she exclaimed. A

After a while, Gajeel had returned to his room, the two teens were standing on the front yard with Nashi already saying her goodbyes to Xiphos.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Nashi" Xiphos said.

"Yeah… thanks for all your help, Xiphos!" Nashi shouted as she ran home.

Meanwhile

"Hello?" a woman's voice can be heard from the other side of the call.

"Shorty, you need to go home now." the old Iron Dragon Slayer said.

"What? Gajeel, but I'm still in a middle of a mission in Hargeon" she replied.

"Just get back here, quickly. We need to talk"

"What? You're acting weird"

"It's Nashi, we need to warn Salamander."

"What about Nashi? Why wait me?"

"I can't tell him. I don't know what is up either, there's something wrong with Nashi's Dragon Slaying magic" Gajeel explained.