Chapter 3

A.N: VERY IMPORTANT READ THIS. I have created a poll on my profile to decide who Natsu will be paired with, and it is up to you readers to decide, in case you wish to Pm me or leave a review, the poll is on who the pairing for Natsu should be. The choices are Erza, Mirajane, Juvia, Kagura, or all of them this poll will be open from 2/5/15-2/12/15; there is also a second poll up about who Natsu will be paired with in my next Fairy Tail story, for that one since the list is so long it will only be a poll on my profile from 2/12/15-?. Also if you have read my previous A.N then you know I mentioned 17 people joining Natsu on his journey to Fairy Tail, that number has now changed to 21 people; crazy right.

Never in all of his time with Igneel had Natsu ever seen him this angry. Igneel flew towards "Zeref" at such a fast pace that Natsu almost couldn't stay on his back. After they had flown for a few minutes at a frantic pace Natsu picked up four scents, one smelled incredibly dark and vile but the other three smelled like ice and then each had their own individual smell wrapped in along with the ice smell.

After another minute or so Natsu was finally able to see a giant monster in his vison that was at least 30ft tall and walked on two legs as if it was human. All around the monster were the remains of a town that was completely destroyed and burning. Natsu wanted to ask Igneel what was going on, but he didn't get a chance when Igneel suddenly rapidly descended and landed next to a woman and two boys around his age that Igneel almost crushed.

Never before in her life had Ur ever been so terrified, glad, or utterly amazed then in that moment. Her newest apprentice Gray had just run off on his own trying to fight the demon that had destroyed his home. Naturally she ran after him along with her other apprentice Lyon, but once they had gotten to Gray he had already been knocked out cold.

For a few moments she and Lyon had been able to fight the demon, but then Lyon had gotten knocked out by a stray piece of debris, just when the demon was about to attack again and she thought she would have to use her most powerful but costly spell a giant red DRAGON had landed right next to her and her apprentices.

Before she could think anymore though on what she had seen, she had to quickly catch an object that was hurtling towards her at brake neck speeds. When she did catch the object it turned out to be a boy the same age as her apprentices with bright pink hair. Quickly setting the boy down she watched in awe as the tiny boy quickly got up and started yelling at the dragon.

She would have questioned the boy's sanity if the dragon didn't speak and tell the boy to shut up and stay out of his way while he fought. Ur could only watch on along with Natsu in pure awe of what happened next. The dragon, Igneel, as the boy had called it towered over the demon and then engaged it in combat.

Never before had either wizard seen such an amazing sight, Ur because she had never seen a dragon and Natsu because Igneel never fought anything seriously. The demon backed up and prepared an attack and launched it at the dragon, but the attack bounced off the dragon's scales as if it had never even been there. Igneel then opened his mouth and drew in a large amount of magic power that gathered in his mouth.

Ur then collapsed to her knees and breathed extremely heavy, never before in her life had she ever felt such dense or powerful magic then the one coming from the dragon in front of her. Many had told her that she was considered a wizard on par with some of the wizard saints, but she felt as if she was being crushed by the dragon's magic presence alone.

When she looked to her side she noticed that the boy, Natsu, wasn't being affected by it, she chalked it up to either his magical energy not being strong enough to sense the dragon, or he had been in the dragons presence long enough to not be affected by it.

Ur once more looked forward when she heard Igneel say "Ice Dragon's Roar" with that a giant beam of extremely blinding bright ice shot out of the dragon's mouth causing Ur to look away from the bright beam. When she was able to see again, there standing completely frozen in ice in front of her was the demon Deliora.

Not only could hers, but also her pupil's darkness be over now that the demon was gone for good. She could only stare in awe though at what Igneel had just done, if she were to beat Deliora she knew for a fact that she would have had to sacrifice herself. Igneel made it seem as if he had hardly put any effort into beating the demon though. When Igneel lumbered back over to her and the three boys she prepared for him to attack, but knew that if he did she wouldn't stand a chance.

Ur let out of a breath of relief though when Igneel reached them and then just lay down in front of the four of them. He was grumbling about something she couldn't understand, but her focus changed back to Natsu when the little boy ran up to the dragon and started yelling at him in anger. "What was that about dad, you could have at least told me what was going on." Natsu shouted at Igneel.

Ur drew in a breath and then stepped forward as Natsu continued to shout. "I don't mean to interrupt, but thank you for saving me and my pupils." Ur said grateful. Igneel used a small amount of magic and blew some lightning at Natsu shocking the poor boy silent as he turned his attention to Ur who sweated slightly. "It was not originally my intention, but you're welcome human." Igneel said.

Natsu had recovered and was getting up asked Igneel if he could give the lady a ride home since she was almost out of magic and her two students were passed out. Ur protested not wanting to be a burden to the dragon but when Natsu insisted and Igneel said he didn't have a problem with it though Ur was overjoyed to have a ride back to her cabin.

Grabbing Lyon and Gray, Ur quickly climbed onto Igneel's back with Natsu and was amazed by how warm it was. She didn't think on it long though as her vision was turned onto the amazing sight before her. She doubted that many had the privilege to see the sky's beauty from the back of a dragon, so she soaked in all the sights she was seeing.

She felt a little bad that her students were missing this, but she was also still so amazed by what she was seeing, so she closed her eyes and took in all the feelings of being surrounded by nature on the back of a dragon.

After several minutes of flight the group of now five was finally able to see Ur's cabin in the distance. Once they arrived at the cabin Igneel landed behind the cabin and made sure there was enough distance between him and the cabin for everyone to get off. Once Ur put her pupils down after getting off Igneel she lightly slapped them both to wake them up.

Gray was the first up and he immediately started looking around and yelling loudly while asking where Deliora was. When he finally caught sight of Igneel though the poor boy was even more frightened then when he went to face Deliora. Before he could try and attack or do anything else crazy, Ur calmly went over to him and explained that Igneel had taken care of Deliora.

While he looked slightly angry about that everyone could still tell he was happy that the demon that haunted his nightmares was gone forever. Eventually when Lyon woke up he was told just like Gray what had happened and he looked at Igneel with awe in his eyes.

Eventually Natsu finally joined the conversation again by asking Igneel what they were going to do since they had been on their way to meet another dragon when they changed course. Igneel looked over at Ur and asked "What kind of magic do you use?" Ur responded to Igneel quickly telling him that she used Ice Maker Magic. Igneel nodded in thought for a few moments.

When he was done thinking he looked over at Ur. "Would you mind if Natsu and I stayed here for a little bit of time?" Igneel asked. When Ur said she didn't mind Igneel thanked her and told her that Natsu would spend time with them to learn more about human society and that he would help them use ice magic better if they wanted.

Ur thanked Igneel for the offer and accepted it graciously. For almost a week the three boys made quick friends and spent time learning from their masters when Natsu suddenly caught a weird scent in his nose. He was listening to Ur scold Lyon and Gray about something when it hit him, he smelled someone that had a scent just like Ur's, but was also slightly different.

Ur noticing Natsu zoning out tried to talk to him to see what was wrong with him, but Natsu was deaf to her. Ur got nervous though when Natsu suddenly got up and started running toward the forest that surrounded her cabin. Ur, Gray, and Lyon quickly followed after him on his wild run into the forest.

After Natsu had run for almost a whole five minutes he stopped in the middle of the forest and took in a large sniff to get a stronger scent from what he was smelling. when he was about to take off again Ur caught him and tried to ask him what he was doing but Natsu ignored her. Natsu instead took a large sniff of Ur and became even more puzzled as the scent he had caught did almost smell exactly like her, but that wouldn't have been possible unless he was smelling someone related to her.

Natsu thought for a moment about who was related to Ur, but the only person he could think of was her daughter Ultear, but Ur said she had died as a baby when she took her to a magic expert to help her since Ultear was born with very high magic power.

With a quick realization crossing over his face Natsu quickly spun in the direction of the smell and took off after it. After another minute or so of running through the forest Natsu saw a girl that looked smaller than him, but he could tell she was older than him. He quickly ran up to her and could tell she was starting to freeze and get hypothermia, so he quickly light his hands on fire, but only warm enough to heat her up and not burn her.

He didn't look up when he heard the others finally catch up to him, but he did see Ur suddenly fall to her knees next to him and the girl. She gently crawled over to the two and cradled the girl into her arms as she had a profuse amount of tears running down her eyes.

Ur gently shook the girl to try and get her to wake up while gently saying Ultear over and over again while petting the young girls head. After a minute or so of prodding the girl slightly opened her eyes and saw Ur, the girl gently smiled before saying "Mommy" and she then hugged Ur and went back to sleep.