So kinda rushed to get the next chapter out because i received more positive reviews then i thought i would. ALSO i have a few other stories in the works like NaLe, NaGura, and NaMi. Anyways hope yall like the next chapter. I dont own fairy tail. that hiro's jam brah.
Chapter 2: Something was taken.
It had been 2 months since Dimaria joined the guild and the guild had gotten back to normal after that day. Coming to terms with the fact that Laxus Wasn't like Master Makarov in the fact that he wouldn't expel a wizard from the guild for killing only if it was to protect their family, or the guild, given it was the only option that they had. The prisoner from the attack on Natsu's house had yet to reveal any pertinent information so Laxus let the Magic Council take him for further interrogation. Wendy, Mira and the rest of the guild got used to Dimaria being next to Natsu all the time and Dalia couldn't have had more fun getting to know the guild. Wendy took her to get ice cream at least once a week and Mira ,While working the bar, made sure that Dalia experienced the bliss that is her cooking. Of course Natsu and Dimaria both knew that Mira could cook better than them. Natsu and Dimaria wanted to go on a job since she was now officially a member and she wouldn't have to wait for him to return. However there was the small matter of their house being mostly destroyed.
Over the first month they expanded their home with 2 new rooms, a master bedroom and a bedroom for Dalia. The rest of the house remained the same as they felt no need to change it. Dalia was definitely clingy to her parents save a few people one being Laxus. The next month nothing major of note happened.
"Hey Mari? Wanna go on a job?" Natsu asked in a knowing voice as his mate was sure to jump at the opportunity to be alone with him again.
"Well, well, well, does the little Dragon want some alone time?" she said slyly as she saw him shift in his seat upon the tease.
"Well when you say it like that I'm not sure if I want to. Maybe my old team would want to go?" he said nonchalantly.
"Is my little dragon upset with me because I have a little fun with him?" She feigned a pouting face that could have brought any defense down.
"Okay, okay just don't use your secret weapon you know I can't resist it!" He said with a nervous look on his face.
"Well, I'll go on this job with you Natsu, could you choose a job id like?" She said smirking as Natsu went upstairs to the S-Class board.
He popped into Laxus's office, "Hey Lax, Would you be able to watch Dalia while Mari and I take a job? We are a little strapped for cash since we redid the house?" Natsu asked.
"I'd love to take care of that adorable little ball of fire!" Laxus said as he got up from the Desk putting the paperwork aside. "Where's my niece bud? I wanna get my mind off of this fuckin paperwork." He added after he got to the door.
"She's downstairs at a table with Mari. Just let Mari know that you'll take care of her she'll probably freak out if you snuck up on her." Natsu said as he realized that Dimaria was very protective over her.
Thanks bud I'd hate to see her wrath!" Laxus cheered as he was on Dimaria's good side and he wanted to stay there.
Natsu proceeded to get to the board and noticed several jobs that would please Dimaria. There was one that he thought fit both of them just fine. Dimaria likes jobs that can either be Stealth or just straight Combat at its purest. Natsu on the other hand couldn't really do the whole stealth thing so be much preferred combat. So he picked an S-Class job that had them travel to a forest to eliminate an army of Bandits that have been harassing the roads.
"Mari are you ready to go? I have a job! Mira can you put us down for this job?" Natsu hollered from the second floor.
"Which job is it Natsu? I can't register it if I don't know which one it is!" Mira yelled back in her typical sweet voice.
"It's the Worth Woodsea job! Bandit army needs a whoopin!" Natsu proclaimed to Mira as he made his way over with the request sheet and to the silence of the guild. "What? Why'd everybody get quiet?" He asked noticing the silence in the guild.
"Natsu that job is really dangerous…..Erza got really hurt a few years ago attempting that job with Kagura, Millianna and Minerva after the war. It took them a week to find the camp the bandits were using and from the report they were ambushed. I'm sorry but I don't think you should take it unless you are having anyone else go with you." Wendy chimed in as she floated down next to Mira. Wendy had been known to float around in the guild because she didn't like forcing her way through a crowd.
"Wendy I appreciate the concern but I think Mari and I have it. I've got an ace in the whole plus I've got a goddess with me. I think we can do it!" Natsu said with conviction and his normal toothy grin.
"Natsu as much as I don't want to have another of my guild hurt I believe you two can complete this job. But you are taking a communication Lacrima and you will check in when you get there and every 2 hours after you've started your hunt. Those are my terms, the council would have my….." Laxus looked down at Dalia who was contently sitting in her uncles lap "Backside if we lost the immortal." Laxus finished his sentence confusing Wendy, Mira, and anyone else close by with the term.
"Master what do you mean by Immortal?" Mira questioned.
"Well shit I let that slip." Laxus said but immediately felt the aura of Dimaria behind him as he had cursed in front of Dalia, who hadn't noticed.
"Well you see the council decided that the 4 top Wizard Saints were the so called 'Gods of Ishgar', since encountering the Spriggan 12 and realizing that the Gods could be easily outmatched decided to make a new position and grant it to someone who they know can't be corrupted by money, or promises of power because this individual already has power beyond what anyone could promise. They called this position 'The Immortal of Ishgar'. Now this position grants the individual an entire army at their disposal and access to every file that the Council and the kingdoms have. They can go anywhere do almost anything but they didn't want that information to go public especially who it was. Which I'm guessing you've all figured out because I'm an idiot." Laxus explained as everyone looked at Natsu who was sheepishly scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah they made me the Immortal….But I don't really know why I did what anyone would have done." Natsu said.
"Not everybody." Mari sang out.
"Well it's for multiple reasons Natsu. I mean you are functionally immortal. Once you hit like 30 you'll stop aging. As long as Zeref is alive and that book is with him the only way you'll die is if you fall in combat. And I highly doubt that." Mari added before Natsu could comment on the first statement.
"Well your magic means you'll be with me for quite some time." Natsu chimed in when Dimaria finished.
"What do you mean by that Natsu?" Wendy asked as she was getting confused by the conversation.
"Well you see…" Natsu started taking a look at Dimaria who cut him off. "My power is the Age Seal, well because I am a vessel for the Time God Chronos my Clock so to speak stopped about a year ago. So to put it simply I won't age because I'm the vessel for the time god. What Natsu meant is that since dragons mate for life and he's essentially immortal, and I am the time god's vessel. We are going to be together for a long time." Dimaria smiled at the thought of having someone to rely on.
"Wow I didn't know that that would happen to you?" Brandish piped up as she had arrived as Laxus was speaking.
"Yeah, there is a lot that we've discovered, but that's for a different time! Natsu? Are you ready?" Dimaria said as she grabbed her knapsack and turned to Natsu.
"Yeah just give me a second!" Natsu said over his shoulder as he approached Laxus who had Dalia on his lap. "Hey honey! Mommy and daddy are going to be working for the next couple of days so Uncle Laxus will be staying with you okay?" Natsu said to his daughter as he had gotten down so he could look her in the eyes.
"Daddy you'll be back right?" Dalia said with almost tears in her eyes.
"Of course honey! I'll always be there for my little dragon." He said giving the little girl a toothy grin that calmed all who saw it. "Daddy will read you a story when he gets back ok? Be good for your Uncle Dalia! We'll be back soon!" Natsu got up nodded to Dimaria who came over and gave Dalia a kiss on her head and a big hug before the two departed for the train station.
The next day at the Worth Woodsea
"Shall we go meet the client?" Dimaria sang as she was happy to finally be on a job with her mate.
"He'll be meeting us in a second." Natsu said as a Heavy set man rounded the bend in the path with a few guards.
"Why hello there Salamander and his Lovely assistant!" The Man said with a strangely flamboyant and aloof sounding voice. "I hear that you are the brave mage that accepted our contract! As you should know Titania and several others failed and almost died so I hope the two of you are ready for a harsh fight. We estimate their numbers at almost 100, up to 200 bandits. The reward for them is 300 Million jewels. Will that suffice?" He added.
Natsu looked at Dimaria for a judgement on the reward amount and received a nod of approval. 'Yes that shall suffice, we will be back within the day to confirm the completion of the job, would you be able to lead us to the inn where we can change and store our things?" Natsu said with a little venom because the man had insulted his mate insinuating that she was merely an assistant.
Later at the inn.
Natsu and Dimaria had changed and where about to head out to the forest to eliminate the Bandits. Dimaria was wearing her normal combat attire only slightly modified. A Skintight body suit the inside of which was a fire red color with a golden outline that is sandwiched between the red inside color and the black outside color. Her right arm had a golden gauntlet with a Fairy Tail emblem instead of an Alvarez Emblem on it plus the Pauldron is slightly more spiked then her previous one was. To finish it off she had a Black cloak, which covered her dagger that was sheathed on the small of her back and a Falcata type sword sheathed on her hip. Her hair was in a ponytail being longer than it used to be.
Natsu's combat wear looked nothing like what Natsu usually wears. He wore a black sleeveless muscle shirt; his pants were not as baggy as they usually were. They were black and went into a pair of black boots that reached up to his knees. Overtop of the entire outfit was a dark red leather duster type coat. The long scaly scarf wasn't around his neck like usual though instead it was around his head working more like a bandana to keep his long hair tamed.
They set out to deal with the bandit problem and it wouldn't take long for them to find the camp that their problem was stemming from thanks to the knowledge from Erza's report of its location and the bandits apparent arrogance that they didn't move their camp to avoid being found again. But unfortunately for the bandits they are about to pay for their arrogance.
"Well it looks like they believe that they can't be touched Mari!" Natsu chuckled as he turned to Dimaria.
"Looks like it babe! Oh oh oh does that mean we get to finish this quickly? Cause if so you're in for a fun night!" Dimaria chuckled to begin with but turned to a sultry tone by the end.
"Really? Well then we should finish this so we can start!" Natsu grinned as he hadn't gotten anything for quite a while and let's be honest here he really wanted some.
"Hey we got some visitors boys!" The sentry yelled alerting the bandits to the duo that approached.
The camp of the bandits was a large tent city. There were so many of them that they didn't feel the need to fortify their location having multiple S-Class mages and many non-Mage warriors. The entire camp was set up in rows like a military tent city with a large Makeshift shack in the middle that acted as a Tavern for the bandits.
Dimaria shed her cloak about 100 feet from the entrance into bandit tent city. Natsu shed his duster and boots at the same time that Dimaria shed her cloak. They looked like they were ready for war but for the duo this was nothing more than pest control.
A whistle came from the leader of the bandits as he approached the duo with his full force behind him. Almost 200 bandits ranging from middle aged men to young woman. The leader, a man named Marco, was at the head of the group to meet their challengers. He was wearing a torn duster with no shirt and baggy pants with brown leather shoes. A rather disheveled looking man with scars all over his body armed with a cutlass. "Well, well, well are you mages that stupidly took the contract on us?" he shouted as he turned around bringing his arms up like he was hyping up a crowd.
"This was a much warmer welcome than I was expecting…." Natsu confusingly said as he looked at Dimaria with an obviously confused look on his face.
"Well we would like to extend an offer to you honorable mages!" Marco said in a slightly mocking tone. "Join our ranks! Submit to me and you will never need to work for that fucking council again! Nor the Kingdom! No one tells us what to do! We would welcome you after we have our way with your lady!" Marco Laughed ending the sentence with a smirk as the crowd behind him roared their approval.
The ambient temperature began to rise. A loud rumbling growl was heard from Natsu as Marco looked lustfully at Dimaria. The crowd began to sweat not understanding what was causing the temperature to rise. "Do you understand who has been sent to deal with you? Do you understand what you have said? You have insulted a dragon's mate. You have threatened a dragon's mate. Not just a dragon…..you have threatened the mate of THE FIRE DRAGON KING!" Natsu finished roaring fire spewing from his maw as his appearance changed becoming more draconic in nature.
His feet grew in size and formed scales and claws, the scales moved up his legs to just above his knees but was covered by his pants, his hands sprouted scales immediately his fingernails morphed into claws as the scales moved up to just past his elbows, his head sprouted horns, as his eyes narrowed to reptilian slits and their color changed to golden.
Needless to say the reaction from the bandits was one of total surprise. None of them had ever seen a mage be able to turn into a human dragon hybrid so to speak. The entire time this was happening Dimaria was chuckling. "WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING BITCH!?" a random bandit screamed trying to hide the fear in his voice but failing terribly.
"Well if you must know you never asked us our names. Tsk, tsk, tsk, such a mistake. You should have recognized him from the hair. Now do you recognize me?" She sang and taunted and after she finished speaking she clicked her teeth in anger at being called a bitch.
"No I don't recognize you or him! You talk to me not that fuck stick bitch!" Marco said as he watched carefully for any aggressive movement from her, as Natsu was on all fours transforming.
Suddenly Dimaria was behind him "You really need to stop calling me that…." She whispered in his ear before reappearing in front of them. Natsu at this point had finished the transformation and was once again standing next to Dimaria.
"They really don't know who we are do they?" Natsu smirked with a sadistic grin on his face.
"Fine ill introduce myself my dragon, I am Dimaria the War Priestess otherwise known as the Heiress of Time, and my companion here is Salamander the Fire Dragon King. Now that introductions have been made if any of you wish to leave and turn yourselves in now would be that time." Dimaria yelled with an authoritative voice that forced many of the lesser men in the troupe to cower from. "I see that none took my advice, well I'd be lying if I said I was hoping you would be smart but honestly I'm quite glad you are all stupid. You see I've been itching for some real combat and you all are the closest thing I can get to actually strong fighters. Don't mistake that for me calling you strong though." She smirked as she now clicked her teeth and the first ten people in the formation behind Marco fell. Writhing in agony as they slowly started to bleed from their joints.
"Mari you won't get that fight if you just do that! Live a little babe! Let them think they have a chance! That's typically what I do!' Natsu said to her as he laughed punched Marco into the crowd of bandits causing many to fall trying to stop him.
"Why not!" Dimaria said drawing her sword.
Marco got up and just stared at the two who were now decimating his front line of men. Out of nowhere FIRE DRAGON KINGS IRON FIST Marco's jaw hit the floor as the 5 guys in front of him flew upward toward the sky. Marco jumped out of the way of the falling men. METEOR Marco shot toward, Natsu was stunned. He had never seen a Heavenly Body mage other than Jellal. HEAVENLY BODY MAGIC: COR CAROLI. Two golden dogs formed in front of Marco and charged at Natsu.
Natsu didn't see the Heavenly dogs until they were right on top of him. He quickly enveloped his body in flames and burned the magic away to nothingness. This melted the ground around him which caused Marco to realize that he was sorely outmatched by the flare of magic power he just felt. FIRE DRAGON KINGS BLAZING INFERNAL CORSEQUE Natsu yelled as he put his hand up in the air as if grabbing a javelin. Suddenly a long spear made of fire appeared at its head on the sides of the point about a foot from the top 2 curled tips appeared jutting off to the sides. Natsu hurled this fiery spear at Marco. Before he could dodge the attack it had landed. Marco was soon enveloped by the display of might that Natsu had just performed.
Dimaria on the other hand was dealing with quite a few of the grunts while Natsu dealt with the not so spectacular leader. Dimaria was quite bored at this point. Many of the "Strong" bandits fell in a few slashes of her sword. She was currently thinking about how what she wanted to do for dinner, maybe a nice restaurant or a nice pork with some noodles. She was broken from her train of thought after about 150 of the bandits were taken out. Slashed or burned they just kind of laid there trying not to be noticed, they were obscenely outmatched. For what had broken Dimaria out of her train of thought, well that would be the roar that sounded throughout the area. It was a deep menacing roar. Natsu immediately looked in the direction the roar came from. The look on his face was terrified.
"MARI!" Natsu shouted ploughing through many people in order to reach her. The Bandits heard the next roar more clearly and scattered. They didn't want to see what made the noise. They didn't want to be involved in something that was so far above their level.
"Natsu! What's happening!?" Dimaria asked questioning the chaos around her. "There isn't time Mari I need you to get our things and run. You are strong, stronger than anyone I've met, you know I love you but you don't stand a chance. I don't know if I do or not but he's here for me." Natsu quickly tried to explain. He didn't know why he was here or why he wanted him.
Acnologia was coming.
"Wait what are you talking about? I'm not leaving! What is happening!?" Dimaria confused as to why Natsu was telling her to run. Natsu didn't waste any time he pulled a lacrima out of his pocket. The lacrima was about the size of a matchbook. He put it into her hand and pulsed a bit of magic over it.
Meanwhile at Fairy Tail.
The Guild was relatively peaceful at the moment. Dalia and Asuka were playing with Happy who recently got back from the New Extalia. Mira and Wendy were talking to Kinana at the bar as per usual. Grey and Lucy were talking to Carla and discussing going on a job. Gajeel and Levy were waiting for Jet and Droy to emerge from the library as they were apparently trying to find more seeds for Droy's Plant magic. Suddenly Erza bashed the doors in. Everybody turned as Erza looked in confusion to Dalia as she had not yet met the little girl yet. Laxus tried to get to Erza to explain the little girl with pink hair but she was too fast.
"Hey there what's your name sweetie? My name is Erza Scarlet. What's your name? Are you new here?" Erza said caringly.
Looking at Erza with shy eyes she mumbles "Hi I'm Dalia Dragneel. It's nice to meet you."
Erza couldn't figure out words. Dalia had broken Erza. Suddenly the ground in the middle of the guild began to crack and spark. Laxus grabbed Dalia, Asuka, Happy and Erza as fast as he could before the orb that was forming could complete. After a few seconds a hysterical Dimaria was in the middle of the cracked ground bawling. Erza immediately Re-quipped a sword out seeing her as an enemy before noticing the Fairy Tail emblem on her calf. Needless to say Erza was very confused.
"What Happened?" Laxus asked bringing Dimaria into an embrace hoping to calm the frantic woman.
"IT'S COMING!" Dimaria shouted clutching Laxus's shirt staring into his face "I NEED TO HELP HIM!" she screamed as she tried to escape Laxus's grip.
"WHAT HAPPENED?! ERZA GIVE DALIA TO MIRA! AND GET HER OUT OF HERE!" Laxus exclaimed as Erza did as she was told. Brandish quickly ran to Dimaria and caught her as she had gotten free from Laxus and was running toward the door.
"MARI CALM DOWN! WE CANT HELP IF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!" Brandish had her hands on the sides of Dimaria's face yelling at her to get her to understand and it seemed to work as Dimaria had calmed down and was panting.
"It's Natsu he used some sort of Lacrima teleport to send me here! We were almost done with the job and we heard a roar and Natsu freaked out!" She started talking really quickly in her panicked state. "He grabbed me brought a lacrima out of his pocket panicked and activated the lacrima and I saw it before I got here I saw them starting to fight!" She finished beginning to cry remembering her mate that had been left behind.
"Wait who is she talking about? Who did was with her?" Erza asked not understanding what was happening.
"Natsu was with her….don't you say a fuckin word about her being sent here. I know you'll think of it as her abandoning him but you know damn well by how she is acting that she didn't willingly come here." Laxus scolded Erza as she was about to explode at Dimaria who was still in Brandish's embrace but instead of standing they had collapsed to the ground.
"Who was he fighting Mari? We can't help him if we don't know." Brandish asked as she was trying to get the information out of her but still trying to calm her down from her panicked hysterical state.
"Acnologia…We were attacked by Acnologia…" After that sentence Dimaria tried to get out of Brandish's grip again trying desperately to get to the door. She struggled but couldn't get out of Brandish's grip. "Please. Brandi I have to help him. Please, please let me help him. I can't do this without him….." She whimpered as her friend held tight to her.
"WENDY, GAJEEL, GILDARTS OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!" Laxus yelled at the top of his lungs. "WE ARE LEAVING!" As the Dragon Slayers and Gildarts got to the master they felt the familiar pricks of lightning as it enveloped them soon they were traveling through the sky.
