Ok, this is the second chapter in Dragons Plight. This chapter some stuff will be reviled. I have some semblance of where I want to take this story and if you want to know you're going to need to keep reading when I update it. : P
Same as last chapter, I don't own Fairy Tail.
Lucy was very irritated, her and Natsu were on their way back to the guild after they had completed the job. In a very rare occurrence Natsu managed to not destroy anything, but that was mostly because of his current state of being. From what she could tell he didn't sleep the entire week they were doing the job, and any time she brought up anything having to do with how he was he would just brush it off or pretend to not hear her and ask or state something that caught her off guard and caused a complete subject change. The latter being why she was currently stomping ahead of him. After they had gotten off the train in Magnolia she had asked him, once again, what was wrong and he had the audacity to just smile and say 'stuff'.
Ignoring him asking her to slow down 'I worry for him and he can obviously see it, and even a week after he said he would tell me he won't give me a straight answer. I mean seriously 'stuff!?' that's not an answer to give someone who worries for her partner' coming out of her thoughts she realized she was at the doors of Fairy Tail. Worried she turned around to see if she could spot Natsu. To her relief he was only a few steps behind her, she was glad she didn't accidently leave her partner behind as she walked ahead of him with her thoughts. As they walked through the doors she saw everything in Fairy Tail was normal, meaning fists where being thrown and tables and chairs where sailing through the air. As they walked around the chaos towards the bar, where Mirajane stood smiling, to give the report on what happened they were stopped by Gajeel who stood in their way looking fairly livid, then again he looked that way all the time.
"Salamander, we need to talk" he growled out, making some of the fighting stop because very rarely did Gajeel want to talk to anyone, let alone Natsu.
Natsu just sighed tiredly "what do you want Gajeel, I need to give the report on what happened during the job."
Gajeel just snarled "bunny girl can do that" he said referring to Lucy "but I need to know how far you plan on taking this, especially considering you plan on doing it the hard way"
Natsu started glaring at Gajeel, because by now the whole guild was focused on them, even that master seemed to take an interest on their conversation. "Gajeel I would appreciate it if you didn't bring that up, especially here and now" he growled out, anger underlying his tone.
"I don't give a shit, I need to know if you're going to go crazy and start-" his sentence was cut off by Natsu's growl. "That's not going to happen, but if you must know I'm trying to not freak out anyone by disappearing off the face of the planet for upwards of four two five months, at least this way I can still be around and it will only last for two to two and a half months"
Gajeel just stared at Natsu with a clearly pissed off expression, even more than he normally had. "Don't give me that shit. How do you think they feel right now looking at you?" he said, pointing at the amassed crowd.
"HOW DO YOU NOT GET IT YET?" Natsu shouted, startling everyone "at least this way they can still see me, so the fear that something bad happened to me is alleviated. Say I did do this the other way, what then? They would get worried, what would happen when they get worried? They would look for me, and we both know they would not stop looking till they found me, but what then? Huh? They wake me up and we both know what would happen then. Don't we Gajeel?" asked Natsu, finishing his rant and staring at Gajeel. Gajeel just said nothing.
"Either they would die or I would" said Natsu quietly, but it was so silent in the guild everyone could hear him. Right before everyone could say anything Natsu turned around and quickly started walking towards the door "I'm going home, I need to leave" he stated as his left forearm caught on fire burning his sleeve, startling everyone because his clothes never got damaged by his flames "Gajeel, if you want to tell everyone, feel free. Just make sure they don't try and find me." Everyone stared after him till the doors closed.
After they closed everyone turned to stare at Gajeel, which caused him to growl out "what the hell do you want?"
The guild master, Makarov, cleared his throat "I believe we are waiting for you to explain what is happening to a member of our family" he stated with a tone that said 'explain or you will not like the consequences'
Gajeel, catching the masters tone sighed and nodded his head "fine but first we are sitting down cause I sure as hell am not standing for the entire thing cause the explanation is a fucking long one."
As everyone was finding a seat Gajeel walked up to the bar and sat on it, before Mira or the master could ask what he was doing he stated "I'm doing this so it's easier for everyone to hear me" they both just nodded as he got himself comfortable.
"Now, before I start I'm going to lay some ground rules. One, do not interrupt me, if you have a question be a good little student and raise your hand" he teased, causing some to mutter curses at him "Second, do not, and I repeat, do not go after Natsu at any time till he comes back himself, if he comes back not looking like his normal self, do not bring up anything, and defiantly do not go after him during the explanation, for two reasons, first one is he needs to find somewhere he will not be found cause that would be very bad and you'll find out why when I'm explaining and second is he said I could tell you if you didn't go look for him and I don't want you to make a liar out of me. And I'm sure that master can do something to make sure you don't go after him" he said pointedly towards the old man sitting a few feet away.
The master nodded his head "anyone that goes after Natsu will be forced to do community service missions for six months and any and all pay will not be received by the offending person or persons and instead given to the guild, and if you have a team they will share your punishment even if they were opposed to you going, however there will be leniency if a teammate informs me of a person's decision in going after Natsu" he stated forcefully, wanting everyone to know he was serious.
Before anyone could say anything to the punishment Gajeel clapped his hands together "Alright, now that that's out of the way. As you all know, dragon slayers are quite different from a normal human. One of those differences is the fact that we technically have two sets of instincts. What this means is because we are human we have human instincts, but because we also have dragon traits and most importantly, dragon magic, we have dragon instincts. So for a certain amount of time we only rely on our enhanced human instincts to keep us alive till our dragon instincts kick in because our magic has deemed we are ready to endure what they bring." Gajeel would have continued gut grey interrupted him.
"So Natsu's magic decided he was ready to have dragon instincts? If that's the case why does he look like cra-ah" Grey was cut off by Gajeel throwing a barstool at him.
"And that's what happens if you interrupt me" he said smiling evilly. "But kind of, let me finish. As I was saying, because Natsu's magic felt he was ready for a dragons instincts, it started to activate them. Now this takes a toll on the body and mind but it can be resolved in two ways, one takes a while and is fairly safe unless someone disturbs them and that is sleeping it off, it also keeps the magic mostly the same. The other way is deadly for the slayer and anyone else involved. That way is staying awake. But this comes with a few repercussions, and those alone put the slayers life at risk. The first one is the slayer has to stay awake the entire time and even though the time is half than if they would have slept, depending on the slayers magic, can still be a long time. They also have to deal with the instincts themselves as they appear and those can get deadly or…well…otherwise. What I mean is the main few dragon instincts are to find a mate, prove you're the strongest, and the main one, take out all enemies A.K.A anyone stronger than you or that you feel threatened by. And while the instincts are taking hold that is everyone because a slayer is very weak while this is happening. Meaning if a guy finds Natsu he will likely attack to kill no matter who it is. The other thing I was talking about is finding a mate, while dragons and dragon slayers have one set mate while the instincts are kicking in the desire to find one is so strong they will take the first member of the opposite gender they come across. Meaning if a female finds Natsu…well after nine months there will be a miniature Natsu in the guild. But that outcome is not definite, if the slayer is strong enough to somewhat resist the instinct and if the female obviously does not want to…err…lay with them, the slayer can repress the instinct long enough for the girl to get away. Ok any questions before I continue with the next part?" Gajeel wanting to take a break from the lecture for a bit.
"I have one" said Lucy as she stood up.
"Alright bunny girl, ask away." Said Gajeel as he signaled to Mira for some water and a few pieces of metal.
"You're telling us that Natsu is planning on staying awake for two to three months"
"Yep" he answered after taking a sip of water.
"And during that time period Natsu will try and kill any guy that gets close or try and force himself upon any girl that gets too close" she asked with a few shaky breaths.
"Yep, why wanna volunteer yourself?" he asked with a smirk.
"w-what, no, I'm just worried" she replied hastily.
Gajeel just sent her a knowing smirk "sure"
"Wait!" shouted grey "what did you mean by a slayer sill attack any guy that gets close because they consider them an enemy?"
"I'm going to get to that in the next part, anymore questions?" no one raised their hand or said anything so Gajeel took it upon himself to continue.
"Now, to answer the stripper's question. What that means is during the entire time spent awake the slayer needs to keep his magic below ten percent the entire time." As soon as he said that almost every hand in the guild went up.
Gajeel just sighed "let me continue, after words if there are still questions ill answer them." Not waiting for a response, he continued "this means the slayer has to be constantly using his magic, and with some of our attacks being physical that also means he is training his body. Meaning when this is over he is going to be a lot stronger than he is now. By how much…well when Metalicana was telling me about this he said those that manage to make it through, while very few and far between, they are almost on par with their dragon parents themselves." As Gajeel said this everyone stared at him in shock, even the master lost his grip on his drink when he spun towards Gajeel.
"That was my reaction. But that's not even the most shocking part." Everyone gave him a look that screamed 'how can that not be shocking enough?' he just grinned.
"That's out of dragon force and fighting normally with no extra power up." The guild sat in a state of even greater shock with what Gajeel just told them.
"But if the slayer has managed to use a second element, like Natsu's lightning flame dragon mode, they lose the ability to use the second element but can gain it again or receive another because of what happens afterwards. We don't really have to worry about it but I'll tell you anyway. After the slayer has managed to go through all of it and has slept for as long they need to get their full energy back the first thing they will do is hunt down an unfamiliar dragon and fight them but not to the death, and if the dragon decides the slayer fought them well enough the dragon will teach the slayer how to use the magic they use. But considering there aren't any dragons left except Acnologia, which Natsu knows about, he won't go after him. Ok that's all I have to say, anyone have any questions?" he asked even though there was going to be a lot of them.
"I've got one Gajeel" Levy called out
"What's that shrimp?" he asked with a smirk.
Levy ignored the name "If you get such a power boost shouldn't you easily be able to beat anyone here?" she asked with a smirk.
"Because you don't get a power boost if you sleep the time required, meaning yes I slept through it but I tried to do it the other way first, but I broke after a few weeks and Jose knocked me unconscious before I managed to go after anyone." He answered while slightly glaring at Levy.
Erza was next "why did you say 'sleep the required time? Like it's different for everyone?" she asked and while almost everyone was looking at her like they couldn't understand why she asked that.
"because it is, the higher up the chain the dragon that taught you your magic is, the longer it takes, so because Natsu's was Igneel, the flame dragon king, his would normally last upwards of five or six months, so because he is going through it the hard way, if he doesn't break it will only be two to three months that he has to do it." Gajeel explained to those that didn't get it.
"Ok but why does the magic have to be so low while it's happening." Lucy asked.
"well that's because it's the magic's way of testing you, if it comes up higher than ten percent it gets much harder for you to keep control." Gajeel said before taking a bite of some of the metal Mira brought him a while ago.
"So we are supposed to just wait till Natsu gets back before we can see him again." Stated Happy sadly.
"Yep, wait when did you get here?" asked a semi-startled Gajeel cause he didn't notice the cat or the people he was with.
"Oh, we got back right before you started your explanation." Said Wendy as she walked up in front of happy with Carla following her.
"Ok, well now that we know what's going on we will drop the subject of going after Natsu or you know what will happen, Yes?" asked the master.
"Aye, master" everyone in the guild chorused.
"Good, you all may now resume your day" said the master as he jumped up to the second floor.
As everyone resumed their day Team Natsu decided to take a mission to get off their friends current problem.
Ok, I was not expecting this to come out to 2722 words but I got so caught up typing that I didn't really think about what it was supposed to be. Anyway hope this makes up for the first chapter because I felt kind disappointed with myself. That's why I wanted to get this out as soon as I could. Not quite sure when the next chapter will come out cause I'm not sure what I want to happen next. Maybe some of how Natsu is doing and how the guild is doing after a one or two month time skip. Anyway enough rambling. Good-bye.