AN/ right I have decided mostly what I'm going to do in terms of the cannon arc's and my own original stuff that I want to put in, basically this chapter is the first episode of Fairy Tail, so it is a year later or so from when Naruto has joined Fairy Tail, Some of that time or things that happened during that time will be shown in flashbacks but other than that I am starting off from this point.
What I have chosen to do for my original stuff is to spread out the cannon arcs further than what they are in the Anime, and in between the normal arcs, I'm going to write my own arcs that will focus on Naruto and whoever else I decide to use for that arc. Also Naruto will not be with Natsu's team all the time, so he will not be involved in some arcs like the Deliora one for instance.
Now for pairings … I'm not sure yet what I want to do with the pairings, I've gotten some pretty good idea's from people who have messaged me but for the moment I'm still undecided as to what to do. Feel free to put any idea's you have into a review or a PM and I'll get back to you.
'Thinking'
"Speaking"
"Summons" speaking
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Fairy Tail or One piece or anything to do with them.
Chapter 1
(Naruto has joined Fairy Tail but from there, there is a timeskip to the start of cannon read the AN for more info. For now Naruto has gotten close to various members of the guild but that will be shown more in future chapters.)
"Natsu, We're here! In Hargeon" The blue cat known as Happy exclaimed, to the face down form of Natsu Dragneel, who was on the floor clutching his stomach.
The conductor of the train just stared on at the scene, sweat dropping and completely confused as to what he should do. "Get up! Get up!" Happy said waving his paws around, and then the train conductor finally managed to blurt out "Is he okay?".
"Aye!" Happy replied quickly, turning briefly to look at the conductor as he spoke before turning back and resuming his attempts to convince Natsu that they were no longer moving so he should get up.
The conductor was about to speak up again but was stopped abruptly by someone placing a hand on his shoulder, turning the conductor found himself looking at none other than Naruto D. Uzumaki, he shook his head tiredly at the downed form of Natsu before speaking to the conductor.
"It's okay really, he always gets like this. Natsu really can't handle any type of transportation." Naruto explained to the man, getting an 'Aye!' from Happy and a groan of either pain or agreement from Natsu, which was followed by him saying weakly "I'll never take the train again …".
The conductor's thoughts ran along the lines of 'If this is how you end up, that may not be a bad idea'
Naruto sighed and walked over to Natsu, grabbing one of his arms; Naruto dragged Natsu up and threw one of his arms over his shoulders. "It's alright, I'll take care of him" Naruto said to the conductor, and he then proceeded to, mostly, drag Natsu's limp body off of the train and onto the platform.
Happy followed them out looking at the town of Hargeon, and commented "If the info we got is right 'Salamander' should be in this town".
"I've told you guy's the chances of this 'Salamander' being Igneel are practically non-existent" Naruto said finishing with a sigh, he let Natsu down so he was sitting on the platform, behind them the noise of the train moving off could be heard.
"But anyways good luck guy's I hope you find something, but for now I have to get to my job" Naruto grumbled the last part and then started to walk away from the two.
"Thanks …" Natsu said his voice coming out a lot stronger than it had a minute ago. Naruto waved over his shoulder calling back "I'll try and meet up with you guys later".
Naruto then pulled out of his pants pocket, a wooden box and a note, reading the note he muttered the words aloud "deliver this to the magic shop in Hargeon" and underneath there was an address. Apparently a supply caravan heading to Hargeon had been attacked by bandits and ransacked, this was something they had either missed or left behind and the person who ordered it still wanted it delivered, but the caravans weren't willing to use the path to Hargeon until the bandits had been taken care of. So the person who ordered it put up a request for any mages that were heading to town to deliver it and there would be a small reward.
But even so Naruto couldn't hold back a sigh, it was demeaning to have to a job like this, god dammit, he was an S-Class mage, and here he was doing a crappy delivery mission that paid crap all.
He stuffed both the box and the note back into his pocket, 'These disappearances the old man wants me to check out better be worth doing this' he thought, within the last five days, there had been a worrying amount of missing persons reported in Hargeon and the surrounding area, mostly Hargeon though. Master Makarov had asked him to go down and check it out; he gave him this delivery job as a reason for him to be in town.
Because if he just went into town and suddenly solved all of the missing persons cases and stopped the cause, on his own without a mission request to do so, it would make the magic council look bad because they hadn't, either noticed the rise of missing persons or had done nothing to stop it, the people only being helped because he had decided to check it out when they hadn't, would make them either look heartless (because they hadn't sent help) or incompetent (because they hadn't noticed) to the public.
And if that happened then they would punish both him and Fairy Tail for making them look bad. But if he was already in town for a job and then just happened to solve the cases and stop the cause, because he ran into it, then that would give him and Fairy Tail some leeway to defend themselves.
With another sigh Naruto walked off into the town, going to go get the job out of the way before he began checking out the missing persons.
"What! There's only one magic store in this entire town?" A girl half yelled at the store owner. She had brown eyes and blond hair part of which was tied by a ribbon in a singular bunch to the right side of her head, she had large breasts, and a curvaceous body. She wore a belt that, along with keeping her skirt up, held a bunch of keys. She also wore some sort of high heels. Her name was Lucy Heartfilia.
"Yes. This town lives off the fishing business instead of magic." The shopkeeper explained, not seeing Lucy's depressed face at this information, or if he did he simply ignored it and continued on "Not even a tenth of the people in this town use magic, the only reason this store exists and survives is because traveling mages who come through town."
Lucy sighed loudly at the man's explanation "I guess this was a total waste, then?" though the way she said it made it more of a statement than a question.
Lucy pretty much ignored the man now as he went about trying, somewhat desperately, to sell her different things in the shop. She absently replied that she already had a ColorS magic as she looked around some of the shelves a bit more.
"What I'm actually searching for are some powerful gate key's" She said hopefully, looking over at the man, "Ah, unfortunately the last key I have is still being delivered" The man said sadly and Lucy too deflated.
At that point the bell above the shops door rang as a blond, blue eyed guy, wearing a white trench coat walked in.
Naruto took a quick look around; he smiled and nodded at Lucy, who blushed rather prettily he thought, as her eyes flicked from his face to his uncovered chest.
Lucy watched frozen as one of the hottest guys she had ever seen walked into the store, he had spiky blond hair and sparkling blue eyes, she blushed as he smiled at her and blushed deeper as her eyes drifted to his chest and rock hard ab's.
She stared and had to stop herself from drooling at his body. As he walked past she mentally berated herself for staring like an idiot.
Naruto walked past the cute blonde, his eyes lingering slightly on her body as he did so, and up to the counter, he started speaking to the shop owner, "Are you the guy who run's this place?" at the mans nod he pulled out the wooden box and handed it over to him, the owner smiled widely at Naruto thanking him, he then asked for him to wait a minute while he got the payment.
As the owner went into the back, Naruto turned to look at the girl in the store, with a quick glance, he noticed the keys on her hip, which would make her a Celestial Spirit mage, he also notice she had a very nice body.
Seeing that she had noticed him looking he smiled and introduced himself "Hi, I'm Naruto".
Lucy blushed a little as she felt the guy looking at her, looking over at him she was pleasantly surprised to see that he wasn't leering at her, most guys just stared at her chest when they saw her, quickly snapping out of her surprise she introduced herself after him "I-I'm Lucy" she said stuttering a little.
His smile gained some mirth when she stuttered, it was cute, but he had to admit he had seen girls do a lot worse when he walked by, one memory of a women shouting at him to ' Take her like an animal' came to mind before he shook it away. "Lucy, huh? A pretty name for a pretty girl" she blushed again, but before he could go on, or Lucy reply the shop owner came back in, with the box and a small stack of bills.
"Here you are young man and thank you again" he said handing over the money to Naruto.
Naruto just waved off the man's thanks "It wasn't a problem; I was heading this way anyway".
With a wave Naruto headed back towards the door, waving goodbye to Lucy as he went. Lucy was about to follow but the shop owner stopped her saying "Now then young Miss, you said you were looking for gate keys, yes?" And with that the old man opened the box Naruto delivered showing off a silver gate key.
Lucy gasped as she saw it "That's the Canis Minor, Nikora" She said obviously excited.
The shop owner sweatdropped, before saying "You do know this key isn't powerful at all, don't you?".
Lucy's cheeks reddened and she turned away slightly saying simply "So what? I was looking for this one …" She picked up the box and key and happily asked "How much?".
The owner held up two fingers and replied "20,000 jewels". With a more serious expression leaned closer and asked again "How much might it be again?".
The shopkeeper didn't back down though "Like I said, 20,000 jewels".
Hearing this the shop went deathly quiet, and Lucy and the old man stared at each other, then suddenly Lucy hopped up onto the counter, leaning so her skirt rode up showing off more of her legs and she zipped her top down a bit to show off more cleavage, and then posed with one arm behind her head, asking in a cute voice "Come on, how much is it, really, you wonderful old man you …".
Lucy walked angrily down the street, practically stomping, while muttering angrily to herself "He only knocked off 1,000 jewels? So my looks are only worth 1,000 jewels?" A dark look came over her face and a tick mark developed over her eye. "That's nothing! It pisses me off … if that's all I can get then …" Lucy cut herself off as she noticed a head of blonde hair further on down the street. Recognizing the white trench coat she called out to Naruto.
Hearing his name the blonde mage turned and looked around and then he spotted Lucy heading towards him, he waved with a grin and then waited for her to catch up to him.
"Hey Lucy …" he said as she came up beside him, a quick glance to her hip and he saw the extra key there. "Ah, so you bought the key I delivered" Lucy was surprised that he had noticed her keys, but that was wiped away as the dark look crossed her face again, and she said blankly "Yes, I did".
Naruto, although he was a powerful mage, couldn't help but sweat when that look was directed at him, he sighed in relief as she brightened up quickly, and with a smile Lucy asked him where he was going now, inwardly hoping that he wasn't doing anything and then maybe they could go out to eat together or something.
"Hmm, well after I delivered the key, I was going to go meet up with a friend of mine, he's looking for something and some rumors said it might be here."
Lucy looked a little down heartened at that, but they were both distracted when they heard a lot of girls screaming.
A few girls ran past them, talking to each other, "They said a famous mage has come to town". Naruto started to get a little nervous when he heard that but calmed down when another girl practically yelled "It's Salamander-sama".
'Phew, they haven't recognized me yet, it's pretty lucky that this town has such a small magical community, otherwise I would have been noticed by now' Naruto thought with some relief, though he wasn't as popular as Erza or Mirajane, the fact that he practically came out of nowhere, and finished the S-Class promotion trails within months of joining a guild, meant that he was pretty well known.
He then blushed, and there was also that photo shoot, Makarov had made him do as punishment as well. Luckily those pictures were only in the latest issue so if he hurried he could take care of everything here before he was recognized and then go lay low in the guild, until news about the photo shoot passed.
"Wait a second …" Naruto said remembering what those girls had screamed, he then let out a loud sigh "'Salamander' … Man Natsu's not going to be happy".
Lucy looked at Naruto before grabbing his hand and starting to drag him off "Come on, Lets go see what this is all about" she said pulling him along.
'I may as well, that's probably where Natsu's going to be anyway'. "Okay, Okay, Stop pulling" but Lucy kept her grip on his hand, and well, he couldn't say it felt bad.
"Ah man, I'm starving …" Natsu complained as he walked down a narrow street, he was finally revived from the train ride.
"And we don't have any money …" Happy chimed in, he was also rather hungry. Natsu sighed "We should have asked Naruto for some money before he went off" he said sadly.
Then Natsu's face gained a serious expression and he asked "Say, Happy, This 'Salamander' is Igneel right?". Happy nodded as they continued to walk down the street answering "Yeah! I doubt a fire dragon would be anyone but Igneel, right?"
Natsu nodded seemingly reassured now that Happy agreed with him "Yeah that's right … though, Naruto didn't seem to think he would be here" he finished slightly down trodden.
Then up ahead of them they saw a group of girls and hearing them shout out "Salamander-sama" they turned to each other with grins both exclaiming at the same time "Salamander!".
Then they both started running towards the crowd.
Lucy stood in the crowd of girls looking at Salamander a confused and surprised look on her face as she thought 'Why is my heart beating so fast, … What on earth has gotten into me?' She watched on as Salamander lapped up the crowd's attention.
Naruto was stood a ways back not interested in the so called celebrity; he was standing back scanning the crowd for any sign of Natsu.
Then Salamander looked over in Lucy's direction, and she couldn't help but think excitedly 'He looked at me', her face almost went beat red and her thoughts went back to why she was acting like this. She put her hands over her heart which was still beating rapidly. 'Am I like this because he is a famous mage?' She questioned herself.
She began to move forward, pushing her way through the crowd, Naruto though had spotted Natsu on the other side of the crowd and saw he had quickly barged his way in heading straight for the centre. He thought about stopping him, but it was two late anyway. He sighed feeling sorry for Natsu finding another dead end in his search, 'Ah well, at least this should be fun to watch'.
Natsu forced his way through the crowd of screaming girls yelling out over them "Igneel!" he then stumbled out into the centre of the crowd, and froze staring at Salamander. Lucy, who had been distracted by Natsu's entrance and shouts, looked over to him and then suddenly, her heartbeat slowed and her blush faded, her thoughts cleared as if a spell had been broken.
Natsu's arms fell to his sides as he stared blandly at Salamander and in a deadpan tone he asked "Who the hell are you?" Salamander reacted as though he had just been punched, letting out and odd choking sound.
Naruto, who was still a ways off from the crowd, had his shoulders shaking in silent laughter, as he watched on at the scene.
Salamander seemed to recover quickly, and struck a flamboyant pose and in an almost arrogant tone said "If I said Salamander, would that ring a bell?" When he struck his pose Lucy noticed the sunlight glint off of a ring on his hand, her eyes widened as she recognized it.
Salamander who had closed his eyes while he posed, opened them expecting to see Natsu staring at him in awe, he didn't though and looking around his eyes bugged out and his mouth dropped open as he saw Natsu already walking away, down one of the streets that branched off of the courtyard they were in. Natsu's shoulders were slumped sadly, Salamander exclaimed in surprise "He's already gone!"
Naruto was now bent over, trying to stop himself from bursting out laughing, it got harder when he saw some of the fangirls attack Natsu for being rude to their 'Salamander-sama'.
Salamander tried to calm the pissed off fangirls "Now, now … just leave it at that. It's not like he meant any harm by it" Instantly the girls stopped and began fawning over him again. Lucy narrowed her eyes as she watched.
Naruto finally lost the battle with his laughter as he watched Salamander try to give Natsu an autograph, and see him refuse it and once more the fangirls set upon him, and he was left twitching in a pile of trash.
Happy just watched it all happen and then said idly to Natsu's twitching body "I guess we got the wrong person".
By the time Natsu got up Salamander had left using a type of fire magic, as he stared Natsu suddenly asked again "Who the hell was that guy?"
Naruto started to head towards Natsu now that the crowd was dispersing, as he walked over he saw Lucy head toward Natsu as well. "What a scumbag" she said about Salamander.
"Thanks a lot" she added towards Natsu as she smiled at him.
"Hey Natsu!" Naruto spoke out as he walked over, he stuck a hand out and helped Natsu up when he grabbed it.
Lucy looked confusedly between the two of them "You two know each other?" Naruto grinned and nodded saying "Yep! Lucy meet Natsu, this is the friend I was going to meet up with".
Just then Happy let out a frustrated noise and Naruto looked a little sheepish "Oh, sorry and the blue cat is Happy" "Aye!"
The group of four were now at a restaurant, Natsu and Happy were both overjoyed as they finally got something to eat and both ate ravenously, Naruto looked on amused at the both of them, far to used to their eating habits to care how they ate. Lucy though sweatdropped at them both.
"You're really nice" Natsu said around mouthfuls of food, against Naruto's warnings she had agreed to buy Natsu and Happy lunch.
"Thanks, sure … Just take your time and …" she then went quiet, when they sat down she wondered why Naruto had cast some sort of spell on the table, she was surprised to find out that he was a mage, but from the way he waved off her questions she thought that he probably only knew a few spells, and then she was more curious as to why he cast the spell. When she asked his reply was "Trust me its better this way".
And now she could see why, she and Naruto were sitting opposite Natsu and Happy, and bits of food flew from where they were both eating only to be stopped from hitting them by the small barrier Naruto had cast.
Lucy sent Naruto a thankful look, and he nodded back smiling. Then she looked at the amount of food Happy and Natsu were eating and her thoughts got somewhat depressing '… and there goes the 1,000 jewels I saved with my looks …'.
"Hey Lucy," Natsu spoke as he remembered what she said after they met that weird guy, "Why did you thank me after that weirdo left?" once he was done asking the question though he went right back to eating.
"Jeeze, at least try to be polite Natsu" Naruto said, but by the looks of things he didn't seem that bothered by it, he had forgone getting something to eat saying he wasn't hungry and just ordered a drink.
Natsu let out a confused "huh?" as though he didn't understand how he wasn't being polite, Naruto just shook his head "Forget it, it doesn't matter". Natsu just shrugged and went back to eating.
Lucy smiled as she watched the two of them talk, but then remembered she had been asked a question, "Oh, the reason I thanked you Natsu, is because that Salamander guy was using a charm spell, a type of hypnosis spell. That kind of magic can make people become attracted to you, but it was banned years ago".
Naruto's eyes darkened when he heard about the charm spell, due to his years in the Tower of Heaven, Naruto despised anything that could take away someone's free will. 'Seems like there's something else I have to take care of here, So on top of checking out these disappearances for master Makarov, I have to find this guy, Kick his ass, take the charm and then take it back to the Master, as far as I know there's still a bounty on those things'.
As Naruto came out of his thoughts, he realized that he had missed the rest of what Lucy said, only catching the end of it "But I'm totally going to join that guild".
He was surprised to see Natsu and Happy paying attention to what she was saying, Lucy continued on "I bet I could get a bunch of big jobs with them." As she finished she linked her fingers together and rested her chin on them.
Natsu seemed to be at a loss for words, Happy though did not have the same problem "You sure talk a lot" he stated. Lucy ignored the cat as she seemed to realize something. "Oh, Yeah …" she glanced at Naruto before continuing "Naruto said you guys were looking for something".
"Aye! Igneel!" Happy responded and then Natsu continued on "I'd heard that a Salamander had come to this town, so I thought we'd check it out, Naruto came along cause he had some stuff to so around here anyway." Naruto agreed when Lucy turned to look at him.
Her attention was drawn to Happy when he said "He didn't look like a Salamander though." Natsu nodded at Happy's deduction "Salamander's are fire dragons, so I really thought it would be Igneel." He stated matter of factly.
Lucy had opened her mouth to ask something, but was interrupted when Naruto grabbed her shoulder, "Don't, Just don't" was all he said, he then gave her shoulder a slight squeeze and let it go, Lucy blushed at the contact but decided to follow his advice this time.
"Anyway" she began after shaking off her thoughts of a person who looked like a fire dragon, "I have to get going, so take your time." And she then put some bills down on the table and stood up putting her bag over her shoulder. She then smiled at Naruto saying bye, he smiled back saying "Bye Lucy" he then looked at the table and grinned looking back at her "I guess I was lucky today, I met a pretty girl and she bought me lunch" He said chuckling.
Lucy blushed, but her smile widened at the compliment as she walked away with an extra sway in her hips.
As she reached the door one of the waitresses spoke up "Thank you, come again …" but cut herself off as she looked behind Lucy and her jaw dropped in shock. Curious Lucy looked over her shoulder and then froze.
On the floor between tables both Natsu and Happy were on their knees, their heads bowed to the floor. "Thank you very much" Natsu said loudly, Happy echo'ing "Very much". Lucy quickly looked to Naruto for help but found him laughing at the scene 'Traitor'.
"Stop it! You're embarrassing me!" she yelled at them, they remained bowed though, she calmed down a bit and said in a more normal tone "It's fine, okay? You save me back there, so we're even now 'kay?" she asked trying to reason with them. To the side Naruto's laughter continued.
Natsu and happy both sat up and turned to each other, "But we weren't trying to save you or anything …" and Happy agreed finishing Natsu's thought "Aye. No payment needed".
Then Natsu suddenly lit up and he slammed his fist into his open palm, smiling he went over to Lucy and then handed over the autograph Salamander gave him earlier. "You can have this!" he said happily. "Who'd want that!" She yelled at him angrily. And once more Naruto's laughter could be heard
Lucy was sitting in a park in Hargeon, when she had left Naruto, Natsu and Happy she had bought the latest issue of the weekly sorcerer, a magazine which reported on magic. She was sitting on a bench, and some birds were nearby eating bread which had been thrown by some of the other people there.
"Oh my, Fairy Tail's caused trouble again?" She asked herself noticing an article, she read aloud for a bit "The Devon thieves gang wiped out along with 7 houses …" she then changed her position lying down on the bench and kicking her legs in the air, she laughed as she kept on reading commenting "Man they, really go overboard!".
She read on turning the pages, and then came upon pictures of a beautiful white haired woman, in different poses and different swimsuits. "Ooh a photospread of Mirajane!" she said happily as she continued flicking through the pictures, she wondered out loud "I wonder how exactly does someone join Fairy Tail? Is there an interview or something".
She turned another page in the magazine and then froze when she looked at it, as expected there was Mirajane but it was the other person in the photo that made her pause. In this photo Mirajane was pressed up against the side of a lightly blushing Naruto D. Uzumaki.
Lucy stared, her eyes wide and her jaw hanging open at the picture, inspecting the photo she concluded that it was definitely Naruto, only instead of his usual clothes; he was wearing a pair of orange swim trunks.
Lucy quickly turned to the next page and again both Naruto and Mirajane were there, in a different pose, with Naruto lying down and Mirajane lying beside him, she seemed to be using his chest as a pillow, and it looked like Naruto was stroking a hand through her hair.
Another page and another picture, and again. On the third try though there was something different, when the photo was taken it looked like Naruto was hiding behind a tree and Mirajane was trying to pull him out by his arm. As she turned the page she could she could see why. In this picture the swimming trunks were gone, and in their place was speedo, that left very little to the imagination. Lucy turned beet red and as she looked at the picture and had to wipe some drool from her chin.
It seemed that Naruto had been in the water before this shot as his hair was wet and his body was glistening, even Mirajane in the photo seemed to be eyeing him hungrily. The next page there was a shot from the other side showing his back, the eye-catching part was a tribal phoenix design tattooed between his shoulders ( . ) but Lucy's eyes zero'ed in on the mark that was inside the circle made by the phoenix's wings, it was the Fairy Tail insignia.
It took a few minutes for her brain to work long enough to put it together but she eventually did, screaming mentally 'Naruto's a Fairy Tail mage!'.
"Maybe he could help me join Fairy Tail?" she asked aloud, but she didn't know where he was, or even if he was still in town. She realized the she may have just missed her chance to join Fairy Tail.
"So you want to join Fairy Tail?" a voice asked from the bushes behind her. She jumped in fright and turned to look, she was incredibly surprised when she saw "S-Salamander?"
Later that night, Natsu, Happy and Naruto were at a viewing area of the town where you could look at the harbour and the sea, Natsu was leaning with his back against the rail, Happy was sitting on the rail looking out at the sea, and Naruto was beside them, more thinking than taking in the view.
Natsu let out a satisfied breath "What a meal!" he proclaimed happily, Happy let out an "Aye!" of agreement. Naruto turned to Natsu and asked "Natsu, since you're lead was a bust, do you want to head back to the guild now, or do you wanna stay and help me out with this thing the master wants me to check out?"
Natsu 'Hmm'ed' in thought "I suppose I'll stick around, it shouldn't take to long should it?"
"Nah, should be over pretty quick" Naruto responded, he just had to figure out what exactly was going on. From the information he had been able to gather after they're lunch all of the disappearances Makarov was talking about were young women and the disappearances first started around 5 days ago.
Naruto closed his eyes and let the sea breeze relax him as he thought, but his musings were quickly interrupted when Happy called out to him and Natsu, pointing toward the see "Oh yeah … isn't that the ship Salamander's party is at?". This reminded Naruto that was another thing he had to do, get that charm … He shook it off choosing to focus on one thing at a time.
'Okay, a lot of young women disappearing, from that alone I would guess at slavers. So presuming I'm right, this is a port town the best place to keep something secret and somewhere they could make a quick getaway if they were found out would be a ship' he paused in his thoughts as he overheard some girls speaking a little ways off from him, Natsu and Happy.
One part of their conversation stuck out to Naruto though, "Salamander?" "You don't know him? He's the famous Fairy Tail mage that came to town about five days ago".
Naruto's eye's widened as it all clicked, a guy pretending to be a famous Fairy Tail mage to get attention, using the charm spell on groups of young women and inviting them to private parties on his own ship. All that topped with the fact that the day he arrived was the day the disappearances started and it was too much to write off as a coincidence.
Natsu's eyes narrowed as he heard what the girls said "Fairy Tail?" an he then clenched his fist "Oi, Naruto …"
"Yeah I heard Natsu, and if I'm right this guy is also the reason the old man sent me here" Naruto stared at the boat Happy pointed out earlier with narrowed eye's, He motioned for Natsu and Happy to follow him as he started moving "Come on".
Lucy was surrounded by sleeping women, which Salamander had used his sleep magic on, both him and his thugs were laughing as Salamander had just thrown away Lucy's gate keys and her last line of defense. They had also just told her that both she and the rest of the women on the ship were going to be sold as slaves at Bosco.
'What a horrible thing to do … so this … this is what it means to be a Fairy Tail mage?' Lucy thought angrily 'Using magic for evil and tricking people …' Tears began to leak from her eyes as she spoke the final part of her thoughts out loud "You're the worst kind of mage there is!".
And at that moment the ceiling came crashing down in a rain of broken wood and splinters but when the debris cleared, Natsu could be seen his face serious, his body crouched down from the landing.
Lucy wiped her eyes and cried out happily "Natsu!" Natsu remained still for a few moments before suddenly turning, holding a hand to his mouth and looking like he was going to puke "As I thought, it's no use …" he said weakly.
Then there was a thump above them and another person dropped through the hole, though the others in the room didn't Lucy recognized him immediately.
"Man Natsu, sometimes you're just useless" Naruto said amusedly without any spite, looking at Natsu's sickly form. A weak "Shut up" was the response which only made Naruto chuckle.
"Naruto!" Lucy half yelled, he turned surprised and then looked at Lucy in confusion "Lucy…-" he was cut off though by Happy who had wings coming from his back and was floating above the hole in the roof "Lucy what are you doing here?".
Ignoring Naruto's grumbles about being cut off by a cat, Lucy answered the question "I was tricked; he said he would help me get into Fairy Tail". At this point all of the thugs and Salamander were staring at Happy in shock and then Lucy asked what they were thinking "Wait, Since when did you have wings!"
"Leave that for later" the cat said as it suddenly flew into the room and wrapped his tail around Lucy, and then started flying off with her, with a cry of "Run, Away!"
Salamander quickly turned to his group of thugs, shouting "After her! There'll be trouble if the council gets wind of this!" And the goons started to move but where stopped when they heard a dark laugh. They turned to see Naruto blocking the door leading to the deck. He gave a feral grin and said in a low voice "What makes you think I'm going to let you?"
Then he suddenly blurred and was nothing more than a streak of white and blonde as he charged the thugs and started delivering vicious kicks that sent them flying all over the room.
"Wait, Happy what about Natsu and Naruto?" Lucy asked as they flew off "I can only carry one person, anyway it's fine even if Natsu can't do anything Naruto will take care of it" Happy stated firmly.
Lucy though didn't seem to be listening and carried on "Stop Happy, we have to help those other girls and Natsu and Naruto".
"Listen Lucy-" "What" she snapped at him, then there was a sudden popping sound and then Happy stated the obvious "My transformation ran out" and sure enough his wings had disappeared, and with a cry of "You damned cat!" and "Aye!" they both plummeted into the water.
As they hit the water Lucy immediately started to swim looking around for that glint of light that would show her where her keys were, Happy on the other hand impossibly kept falling through the water quickly before smacking into a rock.
'There they are' Lucy thought in both relief and triumph as she saw her key's hanging on a rock, she quickly swam over to them and grabbed them, and then headed back to the surface, while Happy floated up his eye's swirls.
Lucy took a deep breath as she surfaced, after a moment to catch her breath, she announced "Here I go! Gate of the water bearer, I open thee!" And then she put the key into the water and called her spirits name "Aquarius!"
In a flash of light Aquarius appeared, Aquarius was a mermaid-like Celestial Spirit. She had a long blue tail, large breasts and she wore a revealing bikini top. She had two gold armlets and she wore a jewel circlet. She carried an urn with her. Suddenly Happy seemed to come to life and he started drooling "A fish!" he exclaimed, "Um, no" Lucy said quickly trying to correct him.
"Wow" Happy let out as he stared as Aquarius, Lucy took pride in her magic and hearing Happy say anything even 'wow' made her happy she had impressed him. She then went on to explain her magic to Happy who continued to stare at Aquarius.
Finished explaining Lucy pointed towards the ship and said "Aquarius, use your power and sweep that ship up onto the shore!"
"Tch!"
Lucy immediately turned back angrily, a tick mark above her eye, "Did you really just say 'Tch' to me" she shouted, Happy agreed with her "You really shouldn't complain like that" he said to Aquarius.
"What an annoying girl you are." Aquarius stated in a bored tone as she looked away from the two of them. Water suddenly started to rise up around Aquarius; she looked at Lucy with one eye "Let me tell you something. The next time you drop my key-" her eye narrowed as she glared at Lucy "I'll kill you".
The glare made Lucy and Happy cave in and start apologizing, both stuttering out "S-Sorry".
Then the water that was rising around Aquarius was suddenly sucked into the urn she carried, and with a yell, Aquarius swung the urn, creating a giant wave which picked up the ship and forcefully moved it back towards the shore.
Naruto was standing amongst the unconscious bodies of Salamanders thugs who were strewn about the room, only Salamander himself and a few of the goons were left, as they had taken to cowering in a corner as Naruto demolished the rest of the men.
"Seems like you guys are the only ones left" he commented beginning to move toward the cowering group, but before he could get close the ship suddenly gave a huge lurch, before it began tumbling, due to Aquarius's wave attack.
Everyone in the room were thrown about, and those who were conscious were screaming, suddenly Natsu brought both hands to his mouth and began turning rather green.
The ship lurched again and Natsu was sent flying towards Naruto, and Naruto seeing how Natsu looked began yelling at him "Natsu! Don't point towards me, point towards him, towards him!" and Naruto gestured wildly at Salamander.
Both Lucy and Happy were getting swept up in Aquarius's attack as well, Lucy screaming at Aquarius "Don't sweep me away too!", Happy was too dizzy to make any comments.
The wave crashed against Hargeon's harbor, doing remarkably little damage for its size.
Lucy and Happy had gotten washed up at the shore near the harbor, they were both soaked but unharmed, the ship had also hit the shore and was lying on its side.
"What were you thinking?" Lucy began angrily, glaring at Aquarius who had joined them at the shore. "You think it's fine to sweep me up, too!" her voice started to get louder and she was about to launch into a rant, but Aquarius interrupted her calmly as though nothing had happened, "Alas, I failed".
She continued on "I ended up sweeping the ship away as well." Her voice was level but some disappointment could be seen on her face.
Lucy shocked, shouted in Surprise "You were aiming for me!" and her glare at Aquarius doubled, but she didn't seem bothered in the least, with her eye's closed Aquarius turned away from Lucy and Happy informing Lucy "Do not call me for a while. I will be on vacation for a week with my boyfriend" and then with a smug look over her shoulder she repeated "With my boyfriend" emphasizing the last word.
"Don't rub it in!" Lucy yelled at Aquarius as she disappeared back to the spirit world.
Happy who felt confident enough to join the conversation, now that Aquarius had left chimed in "Hey, Lucy! Maybe I shouldn't have apologized back then?" Lucy face palmed, depressed by Aquarius's parting shot and Happy's obliviousness, she muttered "This cat's so oblivious I don't even know where to start …"
Back with the ship, curious townspeople of Hargeon had started to gather around the beached ship, wondering what was going on.
"Dammit what the …" Salamander started but trailed off when he noticed a figure beginning to stand on the side of the ship.
"Natsu!" Lucy screamed out to him, Happy clinging to her shoulder, she then looked surprised as he stood up without a scratch.
Then there was a flicker beside Natsu and Naruto seemed to appear out of nowhere standing beside Natsu, he also looked completely fine.
Natsu spoke up gathering everyone's attention, he was speaking to Salamander who had surrounded himself with the few of his goons that Naruto hadn't taken care of. "You, are a Fairy Tail mage?"
"And what's it to you?" Salamander shouted back quickly, nervously looking between Natsu and Naruto, more wary of Naruto after watching him pick apart all of his men with ease.
"Get 'im boy's!" Salamander ordered, the men were hesitant at first, they to had seen what Naruto had done, but eventually they charged at the two of them.
"Take a good look at this face." Natsu said seriously, unworried by the men now charging towards him, he grabbed his jacket with one hand and then pulled it off letting it float away.
Naruto smirked a bit at Natsu's dramatics but played along he tapped his chest with a finger and the area he tapped lit up with light blue flames (like Marco's in One Piece) they covered a small part of his chest.
The thugs charged at Natsu first thinking he was the weaker one, Lucy screamed his name but Happy reassured her "Don't worry, I should have told you sooner, but Natsu is a mage as well as Naruto". Happy then took out a fish from his backpack and got comfortable to watch the show.
With one punch Natsu knocked the three guy's who charged at him to the side, he then tilted his body to the side showing clearly the Fairy Tail insignia on his right shoulder, the flames on Naruto's chest gradually disappeared showing another Fairy Tail insignia which was directly opposite the one on his back.
Then both Natsu and Naruto took a step forward, looking down at the group below Natsu declared "I'm Natsu of Fairy Tail! And I ain't ever seen you before!"
Salamander let out a 'Gah!' at being caught in his lie, while Lucy exclaimed in surprise "He's in Fairy Tail too?"
One of the remaining group of Salamanders men let out a nervous shout "Th-Those marks!" he suddenly began to sweat "T-They're the real deal Bora-san." He shouted towards Salamander. Who quickly turned toward him and yelled with wide eye's "Idiot! Don't call me that name!"
"Bora …" Naruto spoke up for the first time since the ship crashed, "Bora the Prominence, A mage who was thrown out of the Titan Nose guild a few years ago" Naruto announced and the newly named Bora froze in shock at being recognized.
Natsu began walking forward saying "I don't care whether you're a good guy or a bad guy, … But I ain't gonna let you get away with pretending to be from Fairy Tail!" he finished seriously, glaring at Bora.
Naruto stayed where he was happy to let Natsu take care of it, Bora yelled at Natsu "And what do you plan to do about it boy!" he then spread his arms and called out his spell "Prominence Typhoon!" A stream of swirling purple fire shot towards Natsu.
Naruto snorted at the attack, he didn't even bother to dodge, Natsu likewise remained where he was, the attack hit and caused an explosion, Lucy worried called out Naruto's and Natsu's names, she moved to go to them but she was blocked by Happy, who stared on unconcerned.
The only sound heard for a few seconds was the crackling of the flames, and the screams of the women on the ship, who had by now woken up and were running away.
"Hmph, I guess they weren't any trouble in the end" Bora said looking at the flames, he turned to walk away, but froze when he heard a voice say loudly "Gross!" turning quickly around he saw two silhouettes in the fire, the closer one being Natsu who had spoken, he seemed to be using his hand to gather the fire to his mouth.
"Are you really a fire mage?" Natsu asked, then the other silhouette chuckled "Heh, you should be asking if he's really a mage at all, that attack was pathetic". Naruto said to Natsu, Natsu 'hmm'ed' in agreement nodding his head.
As Naruto came into view you could see some blue flames swirling around him but otherwise just as with Natsu he was fine, not even his clothes were singed.
"I can't believe how horrible this fire tastes!" Natsu voiced his thoughts, all of the people watching bar Naruto and Happy stared in shocked amazement as Natsu sucked up and ate all the fire. Their forms now perfectly clear Natsu turned toward Naruto "Hey Naruto, can I have some of your fire, to wash this taste out of my mouth" he asked ignoring the others who were still frozen in shock.
Naruto chuckled again and held his hand out and the flames around him condensed into a fist sized fire ball in his hand, he lobbed it at Natsu, who quickly grabbed it and ate it, he let out a satisfied breath afterwards "Ahh, Naruto your fire is some of the best" he commented.
Natsu turned back to Bora and the rest who were coming out of their shock, he smirked at their looks "Thanks for the meal." Stuttering madly one f the men yelled "W-w-w-w-what the heck are they?"
Happy started to explain, with a strange look on his face and his eye's seemed to white out, "Fire magic doesn't work on Natsu, and Naruto … Naruto is practically untouchable".
"I've never seen magic like that" Lucy said, staring at Natsu and Naruto.
Natsu continued his walk, towards Bora commenting "Now that I've eaten, I'm all fired up!" he slammed his fists together, and his pupils lengthened to slits "Here I go!" he then yelled out "Karyū no Hōkō!" and he reared his head back sucking in a deep breath, then using his hands as a funnel Natsu breathed out a long stream of fire at Bora and his remaining men, which became a large fireball, when it hit there was a large explosion, that could be seen for miles.
The wind made by the explosion made Lucy close her eye's and brace herself so she wasn't blown away, when the smoke cleared she was able to see that Natsu's attack had gotten all of the remaining thugs, they were strewn about unconscious and covered in burns.
Bora had escaped most of the attack by using his fire to lift him out of the way. One of the men who was still conscious suddenly spoke "B-Bora-san, I-I've seen that guy before, Pink hair, and a scarf that looks like scales, it's him, he's the real …" The man blacked out but Lucy finished for him "He's Salamander!" she gasped in surprise.
Naruto chose to just watch for now, he saw no reason to interfere as Natsu could handle it, plus if he did Natsu might get pissed that he interrupted his fight.
Natsu held his arms out, and suddenly fire surrounded his forearms coating his fists "Remember this well … This is what a real Fairy Tail mage is!" he proclaimed loudly, before sprinting towards Bora.
Bora screamed and made the magic holding him in the air back away and started shooting small fireballs at Natsu. Natsu though just charged straight through, and with a roar he released a burst of fire from his feet, which shot him up in the air straight at Bora.
Reaching Bora, Natsu flipped around him and swung a kick, which hit him soundly on the cheek and sent Bora rocketing away, and straight at Naruto, Natsu smirked from where he was, glad he had aimed correctly.
Naruto also smirked as he saw Bora flying towards him; he knew what was going on. Naruto rarely ever had to resort to his powers while he was on a job; he mostly took care of everything with his other skills.
So fairly often on jobs and such that Naruto took with other mages of the guild, they tried to get him to go all out, to them that meant getting him to use his phoenix powers, but what none of Fairy Tail knew was that Naruto had 4 stages that he fought at, the first was the Rokushiki combined with his speed and martial arts, this was what he used most of the time, on tougher opponents he went on to the second stage where he used his phoenix flames and phoenix form as well as everything in the first stage.
Most of Fairy Tail thought that was it, but they didn't know about the further stages, on the third stage he began using his Haki abilities, there were very few fights where he had been forced to use his Haki, but he had been forced to a couple of times.
And then after his Haki there was another stage, which was actually his magic, over the years he had found that none of his abilities so far actually used any of his magic energy, sure he could use his magic to increase his abilities but he didn't use any type of specific magic.
When he had learned this he quickly set out to learn some form of magic to augment his abilities, after all thanks to his parents he had a very large amount of magical energy and he felt it would be a waste to not learn how to use it. But then the problem became what to learn, eventually after a long time researching Naruto discovered a magic he wanted to learn, and so he did. But the magic he learnt came with a very large price, so it was his last resort as after he used it he was guaranteed to be exhausted. His magic was his trump card only to be used to finish a fight, that was his final stage and one he hadn't had to use yet.
The majority of Fairy Tail thought that his Phoenix powers were his magic and he saw no reason to correct them, though he knew a few of them had probably noticed that whenever he used his power his magic levels didn't change.
But right now Naruto felt that Natsu was trying to get him to show his powers, he grinned suddenly 'Ah what the hell, it'll feel good to stretch my wings anyway'.
As Bora came close enough, Naruto let loose a fast snap kick to Bora's chin sending him almost straight up in the air, and then he started to transform, his arms were suddenly coated in his blue fire, in the fire his arms seemed to fade away as the flames grew stronger, until instead of arms, now in their place were two huge wings that seemed to be made of blue fire.
Naruto then crouched down, before shooting upwards, leaving cracks in the ground where he jumped up. His wings left a trail of fire behind him as he shot upwards; he quickly overtook Bora and continued flying up. When he thought he was high enough, he stopped and started using his wings to hover in place, and he waited for Bora to get close.
When Bora was close enough, he threw himself into a quick flip to gain momentum, before slamming a kick into Bora's chest, he coughed as the breath was forced from his lungs, and he was once more sent flying through the air, this time back towards Natsu.
Natsu grinned widely seeing Naruto transform, contrary to what Naruto thought Natsu didn't just want Naruto to use his powers, as he said before he wanted Bora to always remember the power of a Fairy Tail mage, he wanted to burn it into his memory. Having Naruto get a few hits in just helped prove the point and drill it home.
Natsu once more blasted himself into the air to meet Bora and another body rocking kick, crashed into Bora this time sending him straight at the town.
Lucy looked at Natsu and Naruto in amazed awe, she spoke her thoughts out loud as she watched Natsu fight with Bora "Natsu, he eats fire, breathes and punches with fire? And Naruto …" she switched from watching the fight going on, her gaze going to the still hovering form of Naruto, who was watching the fight from his vantage point in the air "He can transform his arms into wings of fire and fly?"
"Is this really magic?" she asked herself.
She was startled when Happy answered having forgotten that he was there for a moment, "Natsu … A dragons lungs to breathe fire, A dragons scales to dissolve fire, A dragons claws to be enveloped in fire, it's a magic that transforms your own body parts into that of a dragon's. An ancient magic."
Then Happy looked away from Natsu and at Naruto "Naruto, his is something similar, a magic that allows him to turn his body parts into a phoenix's" Happy continued ignoring Lucy's gasped 'A Phoenix?' "He can even transform fully into a phoenix, but I've only seen it once".
Lucy stared wide eyed as Happy continued "We don't know much else about Naruto's magic, even he doesn't know much about it … or so he says anyway".
"Natsu's magic though was originally made to deal with dragons." They watched as Natsu continued to dominate his fight and Bora became more and more desperate, he let loose an attack that cut through the city causing a lot of damage, but Natsu was still fine.
"Its dragon slayer magic, Igneel taught it to Natsu." Happy finished his explanation there, while Lucy still stared in awe at the two Fairy Tail mages.
"Damn you!" Bora cried out making a fire ball as big as his body and hurling it towards Natsu, Natsu grabbed it with both hands, the force sending him skidding back a few feet, before he once more sucked in all the fire and ate it.
"I'm getting a pretty good meal here" Natsu said with a smirk, using the back of his hand he wiped his mouth before speaking again "Listen up, bastard; I'm gonna burn you to a smoldering crisp!" As he finished a feral grin crossed his face.
"Take this" and once again he released fire from his feet to shoot towards Bora and he drew his hand back, as he did his fist was coated in flames, he then threw his fist forward with a cry of "Karyū no Tekken" His flaming fist crashed into Bora's face, the force of the blow sending Bora through rows of houses and making sure he was down for the count.
Naruto was impressed with Natsu, even over the last couple of months, his power and skill had grown a great amount, as he saw the final punch Naruto started to move, his image flickered again before disappearing, as he sped off to where Bora had landed.
When he got to Bora's unconscious body, he landed on the ground transforming his arms back, as he looked at Bora's unconscious and burned body he smirked, he couldn't help but think the guy got what he deserved.
Moving over he grabbed the charm ring from Bora's hand, staring at it for a moment he then clenched his fist, rather pleased when he heard a loud crack, he put the now broken charm in his pocket.
He could already hear the heavy armored footsteps heading his way, so he left Bora where he was and rushed off back to the others.
He found them, sprinting away from the military, once more his image wavered and he appeared right beside Natsu and Lucy. Natsu took his sudden appearance in stride, Lucy though screamed in shock.
"Overdid it again, eh Natsu?" Naruto asked with a smirk, as he looked around seeing the damage Natsu's fight with Bora had caused, Happy smiled and 'Aye'ed' in agreement. "Shut up and keep running" was Natsu's response, Naruto laughed before looking over to Happy "You take Natsu, I'll take Lucy?" he questioned the cat.
"Aye!"
And just like that Naruto hopped up, and his arms once again transforming into wings of blue flame, but this time his legs also transformed into bird like talons, moving over he grabbed Lucy's shoulders with his talon's, Lucy was scared at first but was surprised when they gripped her gently but firmly. Happy grabbed Natsu and then they both took off into the night sky.
"Wait a minute!" Lucy suddenly yelled as their pursuers now stopped and stared as they flew off, "Why are you taking me with you?" she asked. Naruto looked down at her and tilted his head to the side confusedly "Well you said you wanted to join Fairy Tail right?" Naruto smiled when he saw her first shocked, then happy expression.
"Just stick with us" Natsu said looking over at her grinning, he was much more relaxed now that they had gotten away from the military. At hearing them say they would help her get into Fairy Tail, Lucy looked between the two, three counting Happy, Fairy Tail mages with a beautiful smile on her face.
"Onward to Fairy Tail!" Natsu yelled pointing in what was most likely a random direction. Naruto, Lucy and Happy all chorused together "Aye!", and then suddenly Lucy noticed something "Wait, everyone can see up my dress!"
Okay, that's it for the first chapter, honestly I'm not too sure how good this one is as when I read over it I was hung-over, and I can't really be bothered to read over it again. So anywho til next time.