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DEMON HERE, SORRY FOR NOT POSTING, I realized I needed to actually finish my ocs and what I want to do with this story, became really busy but now I will update it regularly so please enjoy CHAPTER 2
Natsu: "Even I know everything belong to the rightful owners! Enjoy!"
Natsu had managed to wobble off of the train just before the doors closed and the train took off, at the sound of the train moving brought the mighty dragonslayer down to his knees, gagging, after three minutes of him trying to keep anything in his stomach. After he regained his strength he starts kissing ground saying "thank you" over and over again between each kiss, ignoring the people staring at him and the comment about someone calling him a nutjob, the reason why he didn't care was because he was free from that moving deathtrap, he had been stuck on the train for five hours, it was the worst torture he has ever had, he would arguably say it is worse than when Igneel left him.
Once Natsu had calm down his happiness, he stood up to take in the evening cool air, it was lightly caressing his face but his jacket was blocking the wind from touching nose of his torso. He decided he wasted enough time and that he should leave the station as if nothing just happened and he did. The main roads were made out concrete while the side roads were made out of gravel, the houses looked in good shape, most of them were made of bricks but each house were a different color from the other houses, some being one story, others are two, but hardly was three because it was rare to need three floors in Pril because the families were not big enough due a lot of natural causes, when someone became sick, it spread since the houses were so close to each other, it was easier for the germs to spread if the sick person wasn't careful.
Natsu made his way through the streets, passing the different houses as he thought about food, causing him to drool a bit, making people look at him funny. He finally reached his destination, Silent-Night, a big four story Inn, made out of red bricks with a pointy black shingle roof, four windows on the ground floor lead to the huge tavern on the inside with the door being in the middle of the windows, the second and third floor had a window per room (eight rooms) then the fourth story had two rooms with two windows, they were the spacious rooms for the rich.
Silent-Night was the only inn, inside the city of Pril so it was constantly packed with travelers wanting food, drinks, sleep, and maybe a fight, most of the time, there are people sleeping on the floor due to passing out from to much meade or from the lack of rooms, the owners of the place would like to make another Inn or at least add more stories but the rich travelers want the fancy rooms farthest away from the tavern part and above the common rooms. The rich also don't want another inn at the other end of town, but rather be at silent-night, the one in the center of the town, making them lack a cause to help pay for the expansion or the other inn, and well the government of Pril follow what the Richest people want so they can scam… I mean 'get' more money..
When Natsu walks into the inn, due to his super sensitive nose, a foul smell of alcohol, blood, unshowered men and sweet defiled his nostrils, almost causing him to gag because of not being used to the combination, but he decides mans up to act normal so that way he didn't attract attention from the rowdy patrons that wanted to fight or any of the other people who might be there to spy on him.
As he walked up to the bar, he scanned the whole tavern to see if anybody was there to spy but only found, all the tables were full with men that were having drinking competitions, some passed out, and others for food, some women were winning the competition, none passed out cause they know when to quit, children running around playing freeze the wizards (freeze tag), stick and stone (Tic tac toe), or some other game young wizards play now-a-days.
The fire mage had to dodge the kids running around until he got to the woman at the bar, pushing over a drunkard off a stool, the man looked up at Natsu as he attempted to speak but it just came out as murs and slurs, so Natsu just kicked him lightly in the temple, causing the drunk to pass out. After he made sure he didn't kill the man by mistake, he sits down on the stool, whistling to get her attention, she approached him and asked, "How may I help you?"
The bar maiden had blonde hair with a small body figure, no taller than 5'3, she's wearing a French maid outfit that hugged her slender body, "I would like a room and three of everything thing" as soon as he mentioned food, his stomach let out a growl that rivaled a lion's roar, this caused everyone to stop and look at the pink hair mage as he blushed hard, trying to hide his face until the bar maiden shouted, "Alright lads! Have some decency and get back to whatever you were doing!" Everyone instantly went back to what they were doing because of fear of the woman, "Sorry sir but it looks like there are no rooms and we can't…" She was interrupted when Natsu sighed, all he wants to do is check out a room for the night to rest, tired from that long train ride and finally eat. He pulls the scroll out of his inner pocket of his jacket with his hand over the seal to hide it, "Lean closer, I have something to show you" the bar maiden frowned because the fire mage had interrupted her, but since she didn't know what he wanted and didn't want to turn away a future patron that will pay good for the food he ordered.
She leaned over until she was an inch from Natsu's face, the salamander leaned forward this time to whisper in her ear, "look down" when she did she was shown a glimpse of the seal causing her to cover her mouth with her little hand, as she gasped lightly. her hand concealed the sound from all but one person who was a few stools down from the pink hair mage, the sound the bar maiden made the mysterious person's ear twitch, confirming that their suspicion was correct on thinking the pink hair mage was on a mission for 'him'.
The blonde woman looked Natsu in his eyes with a fake but yet pleasant smile due to who the fire mage's client is and how he means big money. "It looks like our best room just became available but it would cost a little bit extra due to a special treatment." Natsu had already figured out what the maiden meant, he mouthed "Put it on his tab." As soon as those words came out of the image's mouth, the blonde hair woman disappeared as fast as fish does in front of Happy, just to reappear with a huge smile. "Everything is paid for sir."
Somewhere else in the world where people could hear cries of a dying man, "What is wrong Mr. Andre?" His assistant said to him, "For some reason, my wallet feels so empty and lifeless, I will kill whoever did this to my wallet" Anime tears are rolling down his long, skinny face. Natsu felt a shiver down his spine as he felt a threat from a scary person for some odd reason.
After the bar maiden hurried up and went to kick out the patrons, paying the difference of the bill they didn't stay for and paid no attention to their nagging, she tidy up the room and changed the sheets, she brought Natsu to the room. Once he opened up the door entered it slowly, closing the door so he can inspect the room to see if anybody had plant something to spy on him. As he walked across the freshly polished wooden floorboards did not make a single noise, he checks under the red rug, the leather couch and two chairs that are facing each other in a triangle shape, then other side of the room was a wizard's deluxe size bed with silk red sheets but a black, fluffy blanket that covered the whole bed, then the three things that made this room worth it was the noise barely reached this room, there was a nice and freshly polished mahogany table with four chairs, so you did not have to eat with the commoners, but then the last thing is the view of the beautiful sky because of it being the fourth story, you can see over the residential area.
An hour later, there is a knock on the door but before Natsu could even get ready for an attack, the smell of delicious food filled his nose, his mouth instantly water, the smell makes his stomach roar like Igneel use to, causing an "Eeeep!" From someone on the other side of the door. The hungry mage, floated to the door, being lead by his nose as his legs and arms dangle, landing on his feet to open the door with a huge watery, toothy grin seeing the long row of food, it took well over fifteen minutes for the people to find a spot to put the food and leave the endless pit alone in his room, before he ate, he took off everything except his under armour shirt and his pants, puting the discarded items on the bottom end of the bed, nicely folded up.
Natsu had actually only ate about 1/6 of what he ordered the other 5/6 actually got sprinkled with magic salt that made food stay fresh for a few weeks, then he re-equip the food onto his own plates then put them back into his magical storage that re-equips go to, making the food last a few months. Natsu had learned this magic, but there were some difficulties, he can't do armor and weapons because well when he tried to, his knives were out of their slits on his harness and was three centimeters from making him a knife holder, also he can't do anything over five pounds at a time or anything bigger than a large hot-n-magical box from medium wizards. (Hot-n-Ready from little caesars)
It took Natsu about two hours to do all of that due to him still having troubles with the magic, he looks out window realizing it is night time, he sigh as he got up and walks to the bed, he lays down, sinking into the fluffy, soft bed. Thinking of his sister, closing his eyes to remember her beautiful pale face, but realizing that she is gone from his life, probably dead, then realizing that he is actually really lonely relationship wise. Sure there were the others at the guild and some girls wanted him but he actually grew out of his feelings he had for his old crushes, he actually don't like how skimpy some of them dressed, or how some are violent, sure he use to be like that and a weekly brawl maybe bi-weekly but after the events of GMG, he and Gray mellowed out, they fought much less due to their own interest, Gray took interest in Juvia and well started give Natsu local private missions to get information from the dark guilds around his forest.
Afraid that he is going to be abandoned by everyone, causing hims to shoot straight up, covered in sweat, panting, he had a nightmare but this time it was of his guild finding out about his past mistake, banishing him from the guild. He got up to go the window, letting the fresh night air fill his nostrils, it relaxes him a lot, this was escape if it wasn't for the sirens that started going off in the business district. He only put on his boots and his harness, in the matter of eleven seconds, as if he had practice it a million times, then jumping out of the window, on to a two story house, running towards the source of the siren.
After five minutes of running on the rooftops and flipping over the gaps between the buildings, he finally stopped when he could see the jewelry store, the store was one story with the building being brick and the front being mainly one huge window and a door except now it just looked like someone had opened up a present gift.
Intrigued on what Natsu sees, making him wonder how this happened, the fire mage was snapped out of his thoughts when a man in a squeaky voice yell drawing Natsu's attention towards him, "I saw the pink thief running out of town, towards the forest!" This caught Natsu's interest like a worm on a hook in front of a fish, when he was about to look away from the squeaky voice man, Natsu swore that the man was smirking as well as looking up at Natsu through the corner of his eyes, but Natsu didn't have time to question it as he needed to not lose this lead and go get suited up for a stealth mission, Natsu had a bad feeling though and wanted to back out but this mission paid pretty nicely after he gets it done.
The fire mage returns to his room with haste not caring any noise he made or who spotted him, once back into his room he puts on every all the items he had discarded earlier before his meal, once back at the window, he lit his hand on fire to run it through his hair, causing a wave of black through his hair, following his hand surfing through his hair right now. Natsu had another trick for stealth missions, he actually had a second magic type, ash, however, he can only use it when he is using his flames, and the second thing is that he can only make things darker, he never liked this ash ability due to the fact that it came when his mistake happened, it caused him so much psychological damage that he can't use his ash magic more than ten seconds.
Once his hair was black, he pulls out a black bandana from his pant's pocket, wrapping it around his neck, he pulled it up over the tip of his nose after he tied it around the back of his neck.
He jumped onto the same building as last time when he exited the window the first time, but this time, as soon as he lands, instantly breaking into a sprint towards where the rumored pink thief was heading towards, only making minimal jumps over the gaps so he didn't lose much speed, calculating how long he would get to the forest and how fast he was doing, since he had to go to his room, he knows she should now be leaving the town, maybe already in the forest, Natsu was brought out of his thought when he swear he felt someone watching his back, but the fire mage paid it no mind because he needs to hurry to the forest, to not lose her, he picked his speed as fast as he can go without using magic.
Who was the person in the bar, is that the thief for his mission and who was watching him, find out in the next chapter.
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