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Chapter 2 : Early Warning
It took a total of fifteen minutes for the group to reach Hagrid's empty house, during the journey, Natsu didn't try to speak anything other than wanting to ask if the food was free but decided against it and on the way he started whistling a funny tune too much to the amusement of the other three wizards also a bit of relief.
"Professor, what are we doing here?" Harry asked the old wizard as he followed him inside. Ron upon hearing a wolf howling jumped into the wooden cabin while Natsu tended to walk in cooly with his hands behind the head.
"Harry, Mr. Weasly, use the fire place, it has a Floo network towards my office, don't go wandering and stay hidden under my desk, there are a few apples kept for you if you are hungry," Dumbledore instructed kindly in his soft tune.
"Professor, what about you...and him?" Harry asked the old man while pointing towards Natsu who was fully submerged in something on the desk of the half-giant.
"We will follow soon. Now quickly!" Dumbledore assured and although Harry wanted to protest but he kept his disagreement silent and was further pulled by Ron who was a little familiar with the Floo and upon entering the fire place, was transported away.
With that done, Dumbledore straightened his spectacles and turned to face the Dragon Slayer who was observing something, it was an interesting small animal that was making its way out of a egg that was similar in size to that of a ostrich egg.
Crack. Natsu watched with his full attention...or what ever was there that seemed like attention on his head on to the creature that was making it's way to a new life.
It struggled to free itself, desiring to leave the cramped space of the shell. And could sense something warm, and safe just outside. All it wanted was to break free and meet the huge presence that awakened it.
Crack.
A hole breached the shell as he jerked it's head up against the top. Excitement ran through Natsu's blood as he felt the feeling of déjà vu but quickly was replaced by sadness at the thought of what had been the first thing...person he saw come out of an odd egg.
'Happy...I will see you soon, partner...that's a promise.' He gave a sad smile and continued to observe the you creature.
"Come on body, you are close! Just a little more, and you are free!" Natsu cheered in a hushed tone.
Crunch!
Summoning every ounce of strength in it's tiny body it started to push, Natsu saw the egg shaking violently and knew if he didn't hold it, the egg will fall off.
Gently reaching his arms he wrapped it around the egg while kneeling. With something holding the egg still, the creature forced it's whole head through the small breach it was able to make. Natsu's eye's widened at seeing a scaly head that sized to that of a small bird, the dark scales were coated with what seemed to be the liquid reminder in the egg. And from the scent... It was a male!
The little life form sucked in it's first breath of fresh air and let out a small squeak.
"You did it lil buddy!" Natsu cheered for the baby who looked around the space and was greeted with a dimly lit place with a feeling of something that was warm and rigid. It intrigued him, so he sought to get closer, but his attempt to walk failed as he was still in the egg which was held by something of the same warmth.
He squeaked in surprise as he felt something moving him. He'd forgotten that only his head and neck were free, not the rest of his body. He soon felt his egg being kept on the floor, courtesy of the Dragon Slayer who had the little creatures back in front of him.
A laughing sound made both the creature and the dragon slayer turn around and that sudden movement of the hatchling was all it took for it to completely break free and Natsu seeing that it was just the silly old man he turned back to the completely hatched creature and was stunned. A tiny Dragon!
It was right in front of him but not looking at him, it was stretching his unused long neck muscles and the rest of his body...which included a pair of black bat like scaly wings a small body similar to igneel and small blunt talons. On his metallic black scales were long curving golden patterns that started from just below his pointy ears and through his long neck and towards his sides and making a thin out line on the underside of the wings and touching the tip of his tail.
At first, the little dragon was alarmed by the strange voice, but his fear was quickly replaced with calm as a huge, dark pink head loomed over him. The onyx eyes gazed down at him softly with a deep affection.
The small dragon raised his head to look at the comforting presence but didn't raise his long neck but lowered it and only raised the head in a sign of submission but it only was for a moment before the small beast wobbled it's way to the Dragon Slayer and latched on to his leg and purred lightly before dozing off in the next second.
"Wow... It's a dragon... Boy is Happy gonna be surprised or what?" Natsu said to himself as he gently untangled the dragon from his leg and onto his arms before slowly getting up with the dragon still in his arm.
"It is a Black dragon hatchling and it seems to have great faith in you." Dumbledore voiced out.
"Wow. You guys have dragons here?" Natsu asked enthusiastically but was greeted by a sad smile.
"That we do...but only a few hundred are alive and that too kept in treasuries to guard the riches..."
"Wow...dragons work with humans?" Natsu asked surprised but was greeted by a shake
"No...these humans enslave them for their own benefits... And not many dragons are born...a dragon can only lay eggs in a thousand years and that egg will take a hundred to hatch hence they are vulnerable to people who use them as medicine and others.."
Natsu tightened the grip on his little friend and looked down at the small creature.
"I won't let anything happen to him!" He swore
"That I don't doubt... But I have to say, this is really a surprise. That egg was supposed to hatch ten years before, I and my friend who lived here found it fifty years back after he was given a Norwegian Ridgeback dragon's egg by a stranger...the other hatched and was sent to a dragon sanctuary where she will be safe...but him... Although my friend Hagrid never wanted to believe this, was thought to be a bad egg...but now he will be happy if he is released and more so, it was because of you Prince Dragneel." Dumbledore explained with a smile.
Natsu gave a toothy grin and said. "Ah don't mention it but if you are addressing me with this whole'Prince' stuff, it's actually 'The Great Demon King Dragneel!" Natsu made a small silly evil laugh before pausing.
"Anyway, why do you call me that?" Natsu asked seriously.
"It's because you are the Son of the King of the Fire Dragons." Dumbledore answered humbly.
"How do you know that?" Natsu asked suspiciously. 'This guy isn't like the chick I met who was obsessed with dragons, is he?'
"It is hard not to see a enormous red dragon landing in the forbidden forest and not take any action since I am the Headmaster of the school which owns these grounds and to make sure it's not a threat..."
"School? School... School? You are not gonna make me study here, are you...?" Being the son of Igneel was great but that doesn't mean he liked scary teachers like Erza... Erza...no matter how much scary she was, Natsu now missed the feeling about his comrade.
With a small laugh, Dumbledore shook his head. "No, no, I could never force the Prince-"
"Natsu, just Natsu." Natsu cut off the professor.
"Ah..yes...thank you for allowing me to call you by your name, Natsu-san."
Again the Dragon Slayer cut him off "just Natsu okay?"
"Alright. As I was saying, I could never force the offspring of the great King of Fire Dragons who defeated and saved humanity from the another dragon who laid waste to the entire wizarding world two thousand years ago in the matter of a few seconds because of a foolish wizard king wanting to slay the dragons for sport...the battle was said to be legendary with the King of the Fire Dragon's, Igneel's slight victory..." Dumbledore said and watched the awed expression of the Dragon Slayer.
"Woo that old lizard did that? I thought he was unmatchable... And gramps say I am the one who destroy towns!...wait... This forest is the wizard world?" Natsu asked not wanting to think that Igneel just destroyed a small piece of land.
"It is quite big as the normal world an my name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore." Dumbledore said with amusement and was alerted by something growling. Natsu's stomach.
"And I suppose your stomach is too." Dumbledore spoke before giving a small clap and whoosh a desk appeared and followed by a eight course meal and the old wizard clapped again and a small basket with a soft pillow appeared on the desk.
"You can put your little friend in the basket until you eat." Natsu nodded enthusiastically and hastily but gently placed his friend on the soft pillow. The tired small dragon let out small noises in discomfort of losing the warmth of the Slayer and seeing this, the latter gently removed his scarf and placed it over the small dragon's neck and immediately it hugged the scaly cloth.
With his friend settled, he turned towards the poor food placed on the table and attacked it with full fury.
Ten minutes, forty eight plates later and Dumbledore being surprised that he wasn't eaten with the dish later...
"Ah...that hit the spot." Natsu let out a tired sigh and leaned back on the chair.
"You eat quiet a lot, no offense." As Natsu didn't know to wave the comment with a 'None taken' he waved it literally off before getting up and stretching.
"Thanks for the food...uh..Prosp..perer Albus... Pacific..wolf..brawn?..double...door?" Natsu, with great difficulty thanked the professor who broke out into a laughter.
"Oh..no...you can refer me as Albus or Dumbledore, which ever seems fit." Dumbledore suggested earning an embarrassed laugh from the dragon slayer.
"Now...I would like you to have something known..." All traces of amusement left the old man's face causing Natsu to blink and nod with a serious expression to continue.
"The power you used did not need a wand but here in this realm we use it. Most of the wizards are afraid of anything they don't know and often tend to attack... So I humbly request you to not harm anyone...seriously.."
"He won't harm." A voice cut Dumbledore's request and made it sound as though it was an order and both the young and old knew who's voice it was as a strong but pleasant sensation fell over the area.
"Igneel!" Natsu cheered.
"Quiet brat! You might wake the little one!" Although not in sight, Igneel knew what was going on and so resisted to use his infamous temperamental voice on his child.
"How do you know that?" Natsu asked confused.
"Been watching over you always. Now on to the topic. I seem to have forgotten about this place, it may raise hostility against you... But from what this human said...I have been feared here...good...but upon your arrival...something has awakened." The Dragon's voice was that of great seriousness.
"You, Human, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore of Hogwarts, heed my words for this world is once again going to a great Dragon war..And humans will once again be slaughtered..." Igneel's voice paused.
Dumbledore didn't show his shock but was enough to narrow his eyes to the invisible person.
"Ah come on Igneel, if its dragons like the little guy in the basket-" Natsu stopped as Igneel started again.
"Natsu, this is not a joke...the Dragons that were imprisoned by me are no ordinary ones. They are the Legendary Knights of the Ancient Dragon Empire which existed before Humans walked the Earth..."
"Sir, if I may? Are these the Dragons of the Seven Sins?" Dumbledore spoke to the King of the Fire Dragons for the first time since his voice was heard.
"No...your human legends are wrong. They are not the Dragons of the Seven sins... They are the Seven Sins." Igneel finished gravely serious voice.
"You humans call those seven sins. But those were called forth from the Dragons name itself." He continued
"...may I write this down?" Dumbledore asked lowly, not wanting to anger the dragon. He gained no response and took it as a sign of allowance and personally Igneel didn't care.
"Natsu, listen to this carefully. This is my history. Billions of years ago when an Earth in an alternate universe to yours, started to form, we the Dragons were created. Each kind had a special power and so was life... It was only the strong that lived. I was born a few million years after when a single Dragon brought together all the dragons on that world and united them under his rule. A few hundred years after we started using the dragons that has the ability for dimensional transfer and conquered other earths..."
"...and came to this earth before finally stopping in Earthland... By then billions of years has passed and other Dragon Kings started to arise and one such being was me...but along with kings, rouge warriors also came up and one such was the Seven Sins..."
"Ignavian, the Dragon who has nothing to care...and the brute strength and speed of the Seven Sins...
Helluon...the dragon of glutton, he has the ability to eat anything including fire...
Invidiaous...the tactician of the Knights.
Voracitas...the hunter and tracker among them..
Zavist'A, the only female Dragon that ever existed in the class of fighters... She's a master in combat and also an enchantress...
Bród...the vice commander of the Knights, and then, finally, the most dangerous and of them all, their leader, Ferveon. They constitute the Legendary Knights, most of them are only slightly below Acnologia in both size and power, but Ferveon is equal the Black Dragon of Apocalypse," Igneel finished allowing Natsu to speak.
"Why aren't you here to fight them?
"My dear boy...I wasn't able to defeat them then and it won't change now also. They have a boon; only a Dragon Slayer will have the power. But fear not, they have yet to find their way out from the dimension I have sealed them... Be careful for it won't be long before they attack."
"But how do you think I will be able to defeat such beings when I couldn't even land a single blow on Acnologia!" It was unusual for the headstrong and cocky Dragon Slayer to admit he was not enough to deal with a fight even though it was going to be a war that decides the existence of humanity in the future.
"I do not know son, but I believe in you, and...I want you to know this, Natsu, the power, the liberation of another kind of flames-your flames, through which you can become the master of your own destiny... Farewell my Natsu..."
"Igneel?" There was no reply and the warmth that they were feeling left the area in a silent withdrawal.
"Seeing the boy's shoulder slumped, the Headmaster slowly reached for his shoulder and placed a hand.
"I only know about legends about the Dragon who stood up for humanity, but even then I can understand the bond you share is strong, Natsu, he believes in you. Maybe you should do the same." The wise man said as he flicked his wand and cleared the table.
A small smile started to form on the saddened face of the young hero "Yeah..I should. After all, I am a Fairy Tail wizard and our guild never backs down from a challenge no matter what it is!"
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Dumbledore explained to Natsu what the wizarding world looked upon everyone. How most treated mudbloods and squibs, which were explained by the professor what each term meant. Natsu silently heard all the explanation.
"...that is why I request you to not show who you are and your capabilities in the open."
"But I don't think this older..mort guy can take me down." Natsu said to the professor who shook his head with a smile.
"It's not what I am saying Natsu, you may or may not be able to defeat him, but your kind of magic doesn't exist or at least not in human hands, and for that you will be rejected by most and probably attacked by the Ministry in fear of you."
"That's kind of racist.." Natsu stated dryly.
"...and I thought the Council was worse." He added but nodded in understanding.
"So I suppose you understand. Also I don't think staying here will be good. Perhaps for a few days but over that you will be caught." Dumbledore stated as he closed the small notepad he wrote what all the dragon said and tucked it in his sleeves.
"Then where will I go? What about him?" Natsu pointed at his little friend.
"You could stay at my school." Dumbledore suggested.
"Oh no! Na ah! I ain't going to school! You won't take me alive!" Natsu said as he stepped back.
"Of course not! I told you I won't compel. I was suggesting you take up a subject and teach the students." The professor suggested.
"Yeah? Like what? Igneel taught me draconian and how to read and write human but other than that I am pretty much unable to deal in the educational life of a child." Natsu said with a little shame at being unable to help anyone other than destroying objects and from what the Professor was saying, it seemed they didn't need much of it here.
"There is nothing to be ashamed of, and what you learned itself is very useful. You could perhaps teach them Draconian and also some physical exercise...which is of great need and the subject of the hour. So, what do you say?"
There was a long pause and an uncomfortable silence that made the sound of the little dragon snoring be heard.
Finally clearing his throat Natsu took in a deep breath "Is the food free?"
Dumbledore wasn't annoyed but merely amused.
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A/N: The Dragons refer,
Ignavian: Sloth
Helluon: Glutton
Invidiaous: Envy
Voracitas: greed
Zavist'A: Lust
Bród: Prde
Ferveon: Rage