HELLO GUYS WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER CHAPTER OF DRAGON'S WRATH. NOW BEFORE WE BEGIN, I WANT TO THANK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU FOR STAYING HERE SUPPORTING THIS STORY AND THANK THE PEOPLE WHO PMem ME SOME NICE IDEAS FOR THE IN THIS CHAPTER SOMETHING WILL BE REVEALED AND SO EXPLANING THE LONGEST CHAPTER IN THE STORY FOR NOW. I WANT TO CLARIFY THAT SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN WITH GRAY BETWEEN THIS CHAPTER AND THE OTHER, BUT NOTHING PERMANENT. AND... WIITHOUT FURTHER A DO... I HOPE YOU GUYS, ENJOY THE CHAPTER...
Chapter 4 - Returning Home
7 Year Time Skip
We can see a now 13 year old Romeo Conbolt looking towards the direction where Tenrou Island is. The Fire Mage sighed as he knew that they weren't coming back. Still looking at the sea, there comes our resident Gun Mage, Bisca Mulan or as she like to be called now, Bisca Dragneel. She was Natsu's mate six years ago when they came back from their training and some events.
Bisca approaches him and said: "Romeo, your father has been worried about you" the boy looks back to her and saw her worried expression on her as well. He sighed once more knowing that everyone must be worried about him. "Let's go back to the guild, you will be able to talk to Master… He's back from the meeting" After hearing this Romeo immediately nodded and ran towards the guild.
"Romeo! Wait… and he's gone" Bisca smiled at the sudden change of attitude of Macao's son. She then started walking not wanting to be away from her joy, her daughter, even if she was with his father.
At Fairy Tail
The Fairy Tail guild wasn't where it was seven years ago. It was now more to the center of Magnolia. It was a three story building. In the first story, is for drinking and having fun with other members. The bar was located in that floor. At the right of the bar, there is the infirmary.
On the second story, is the floor where the mages went for jobs. Now there were bulletin board for each class. D-Class, C-Class, B-Class, and A-Class. There is also a door to the left that leads to the inside pool.
On the third story, is for the S-Class jobs were at. Only S-Class mages were allowed to go into this floor. The only exception was when the guild master called for someone to go to his office that was on the right side corner.
"How is my little dragon?" asked a salmoned haired man. He was Natsu. Now instead of wearing his black vest with gold trims, he wore a white vest similar to Makarov's. "Daddy! Stop embarrassing me" pouted the 6 year old girl named, Asuka Dragneel. Natsu, fourth guild master of Fairy Tail, chuckled. "Hai, hai... Now then how want to-" "Men!" the guild heard a sound from outside. Bringing his hand to his head and messing with his own hair, he said: "What do they need this time" Natsu whispered, but his daughter heard him thanks for her having Natsu's magic.
Then, they guild doors opened revealing the Trimens and Ichiya form Blue Pegasus. "Men! We would like to talk to Master Natsu. Men…" the Trimens leader said. "Hey Ichiya, what do you want to talk about? And how is Master Bob?" Natsu asked his fellow mage. "Master Bob's parfumées is as strong as ever. Anyway, Hibiki has found ethernano magic were Tenrou Island once stood" Hibiki began to explain the Fairy Tail mages, including Romeo and Bisca, how he found it.
Minutes passed and nobody said anything, until… "Bisca, Wakaba, Macao, Jet, Droy, and Max… Go to the port and get a boat and search the area" Commanded Natsu as Hibiki, Eve and Ren went towards the women to flirt. All of them salute him. Natsu went towards Bisca and hugged her. "Be back soon" He whispered. Bisca smiled at him and gave him a kiss. He obviously kissed back but quickly separated their lips as he motioned her towards the door. "Be back soon Asuka. Don't give daddy, mama-Ultear, or mama-Meredy trouble, ne?" Bisca said to her daughter which was in the lap of Ultear Milkovich, one of Natsu's mates and member of Fairy Tail since five years. Asuka responded with two 'Hai' as the group went towards the port.
"If you guys like, you may stay here to wait for the news" Said Natsu towards Ichiya and the Trimen. "We would love to stay with these goddesses, but we must go back to the guild. Master Bob's words" Said Ren as he along with Eve and Hibiki stopped flirting with the Fairy Tail women. Each and everyone of them didn't expressed it, but they were glad that they have stopped doing that.
"Then I wish you a good trip" Ichiya responded with another 'Men' before leaving the guild with his guild mates. "So… what now Master?" Natsu looked up to see his pupils. At the right side was Eric or commonly known as Cobra from Oracion Seis, the Poison Dragon Slayer. In the middle was Sting Eucliffe, the White Dragon Slayer. Next to Sting, was Rogue Cheney, the Shadow Dragon Slayer. Finally to the left, was his adoptive brother, Pete Dragneel the Earth Dragon Slayer.
"We wait, Sting… We wait. Hopefully we will see them again" Natsu said making everyone smile. "Then I hope your right Natsu. Asuka wants to meet her other uncles and her aunt" Said Meredy from behind him. Natsu looked back at her and smile at her. "We'll see" Natsu said before standing up and going towards his mate and daughter
In a boat
"Do you see something?" Max asked Bisca. She shook her head as she kept watching around. "Hey, is that a little girl?" Asked Droy. Everyone went towards Droy as looked to where his fingers pointed. There was a little girl with wavy blonde hair and green eyes floating on the water. "Is she… floating?!" Asked Jet in shock. Everyone was like him, but then, out of nowhere, a light blinded them.
They averted their sight from the light and when they looked back they were shocked but mostly happy. "Is that-" "Tenrou?!" Max started to say and Bisca finished. Surely the island that belong to Fairy Tail was right there before their eyes. The girl began to go to the forest and disappeared from their sight. "After her! She can help us find them" Bisca said getting everyone out of their stupor.
They got to the shore and quickly went in the same direction that she went. The group soon found them. Gray, Lucy, Wendy, Gajeel, Cana, Levy, Bixlow, Freed, Evergreen, Elfman, Lisanna, Mira, Erza, Juvia, Laxus, Gildarts, Makarov, Happy, Carla, and Patherlily. They were alive. Soon everyone started to tear up and went to hug them. Jet and Droy went to Levy. Bisca went for the girls as Max, Macao and Wakaba went for Makarov.
Tenrou group was confused as to their reaction. Only seven minutes had past by, but why did they look different. Then the same girl appeared and introduced herself as Mavis Vermillion, Fairy Tail's first guild master. She then explained that using their magic, she was able to use one of the three Fairy Magic, Fairy Sphere.
"So… the first saved us" the third guild master chuckled. Then Mavis looked at Makarov and said: "Third, you would've been proud of Fourth" Tenrou group got confused while the others were grinning. "So… shall we get going?" Bisca said. The other agreed and went towards the boat.
At Magnolia
They have arrived at Magnolia. The trip was very enjoyable, except for two Dragon Slayers. Everyone had found out that Bisca had a daughter, and to say that everyone was shock was a misunderstanding. Mira demanded information on who was the father, but she only said that he was a guild member.
When they arrived at the guild, Makarov immediately started to cry. Saying something about money and expensive. Everyone sweat dropped as they saw the third guild master like that. Opening the doors, Max said: "Everyone, their back!" Everyone looked at the doors and cheered.
The one that knew them started to cry, while the new members introduced themselves. "Master should be here any moment now" Said a familiar voice. Tenrou turned their heads and saw Eric. Immediately, they went into a fighting position. Gray not wanting to experience that pain again when they fought him, quickly build up his magic.
"Gray don't-" "Ice-Make Hammer!" Gray called out. Macao wanted to warned him but it was too late. In a matter of seconds there was a huge explosion. Destroying the floor and walls. Makarov started to cry once more, until they saw the wall and floor repair itself. "Still as straightforward as ever, Gray" a feminine voice called out. The Ice Mage look back and what he saw shocked him. "U-Ultear…" Gray was pale and became white as a paper when he saw that his attack had done nothing to Cobra. Then out of nowhere somebody said: "Juvia-chan"
The rain girl turned around and… "Meredy-chan!" the two girls hug each other while the rest of Tenrou group was confused. "Makarov" a voice called the old man. Everyone turned around and once again, everyone was shock. There was Natsu. He didn't look like he have aged, but his hair look a little longer that before knowing the difference. But what caught Makarov's attention was the similar white vest that Natsu had on.
"So, Natsu when did you became a Wizard Saint?" Tenrou widen their eyes more as the looked at Natsu to see his appearance.
He stood 5'8" inches tall. His salmon hair was shoulder length long. His face got two scars. One on the right side of his jaw and another right on the left eye, but luckily he could still see. He had the Wizard Saint vest. He also had his scarf on his neck as always. He had black cargo pants with black boots.
"Four years ago, Third" Natsu said making Makarov jaw drop. Many members didn't get it, until their old guild master shouted: "You're the Fourth!" At this some of the had fainted because the couldn't stand it anymore. "Yup. Now if you can follow me to the office" Natsu said to Makarov as he started to go up, but was stopped by Gajeel.
"What do you want Gajeel" Natsu asked the Iron Dragon Slayer. "Why do you have Acnologia's scent on you" When the fellow Dragon Slayer said that, people looked at him as if he was crazy. Natsu on the other hand, didn't looked fazed at all and answered: "Because I killed him" He turned around and went to his office. "Makarov, I don't have all day" he added while entering the room. The old man walked to the office and close the door.
They couldn't get anything anymore. Then Wendy, who luckily wasn't one of the few people that fainted, sniffed around the guild. Laxus and Gajeel were confused at this but the other Slayers smirked in amusement. She was near Bisca, who had Natsu's scent all over her. "Bisca-san… may I ask a question?" The Gun Mage wizard looked at Wendy smiling.
"Sure Wendy… what is it?"
"Why do you have Natsu's scent on you?" When she asked this, Bisca quickly blushed. The other two slayers sniffed as well since they were curious. She definitely had Natsu's scent, but Gajeel looked at her with wide eyes when the other two didn't know what was happening. "Oye Metal Scraps… what's wrong?" Laxus asked. "Yeah Bolt Brain what's happening?" By now Gray was out of his stupor and insulted Gajeel while asking the same question. Gajeel was murmuring something. To ashamed to said it out loud. The group watched the out of character Gajeel, until they heard a voice, whom they recognize as Makarov, shout: "You're the Dragon King!"
Minutes passed by and the guild was silent as a dessert. Natsu killed Acnologia and became the Dragon King. Too much for the minds of some wizards. "So… What was it that you were going to say Gajeel?" this time, Levy asked. Gajeel kept murmuring the same thing over and over again. Seeing that he wasn't to respond, Bisca decided to tell them herself: "I'm Natsu's mate… and have a daughter"
Team Tenrou went white. Natsu… Their Natsu knew what that was and also had a child?! Shock was an understatement, but some women didn't take it the good way. Erza, Mirajane and Cana stiffened and had different reactions from what she said.
Erza was conflicted. She didn't know what to do. Ever since the Tower of Heaven, Natsu was beginning to break the armor that surrounded her heart. But she couldn't find anything to blame him. He won't wait for 7 years for her when she didn't have told him how she felt.
Mira was shock. For her part, her heart began to crumble in very tiny pieces. She began to fall in love with the idiotic Dragon Slayer ever since he consoled her when she thought that Lisanna was dead. And that feeling only kept getting stronger. She as well, realized the same thing Erza realized… Natsu didn't know that so he wasn't going to wait for 7 years to return.
Cana didn't know what to say or do. She just stood there repeating in her mind the same thing. Why? Why didn't I told him sooner? Were the words that were in her mind right now, but then a smirk came across her face as she thought: "Maybe I can ask Bisca to let me have him for a night?" as the thought ran through her mind, a stream of blood came out of her nose.
"Congratulations, Bisca!"Almost everyone said. While they were talking a young black haired girl came towards her mother. "Mommy where's daddy?" She asks. But that was a mistake since in a matter of seconds, almost every girl that was on Team Tenrou began to fawn over the 5 almost 6 year old girl.
Suddenly, Natsu and Makarov came out of the room and Natsu called: "Hey, everyone" Only the Dragon Slayers and his mates and daughter looked over to him, while the others kept talking and making lots of noise. This got a tick mark on Natsu's forehead and yelled: "Shut up!"
The guild once again became very quiet. "Now the Third Guild Master, Master Makarov, has something to say" Natsu stepped back allowing the little old man to take the front. "Now everyone, I will say part of what's happening and Natsu, the Fourth, will say the rest" Makarov looked at his children before continuing. "I'm stepping down as Guild Master and official making Natsu Dragneel, the Fourth Guild Master of Fairy Tail!" exclaimed Makarov making most of the guild erupt in happiness.
The old man waited for a minute so the cheering end a bit before continuing. "Master Natsu will be explaining some things too everyone, mainly the ones that went to Tenrou for the S-Class Exam"
"Well, for starters… I'm not only the fourth guild master… I'm also the Dragon King, a knight for Crocus at the direct command of the king, and a Wizard Saint" Everyone, including the members that were in the guild for the past 7 years, had their jaws hanging around.
Most of them knew of his Dragon King and Wizard Saint statuses, but never did they knew about him being a knight for the king. Meanwhile, Team Tenrou was to shock to even think about it. The Dragon Slayers that were with Natsu alongside Natsu's mate knew this. As Natsu watched all kind of reactions he began to explain how he earned this titles.
Flashback
At top of a brick colored mountain were 6 figures. They were Sting, Rogue, Pete, Cobra, Natsu and the current Dragon King Acnologia. They have managed, with their combined efforts, to bring Acnologia down and in turn reverting him to his human form.
Natsu was too tired to comprehend all that had happened, like he could comprehend it even if he wasn't tired. He just keep pushing forward clashing claws with Acnologia.
Right now, after all that draining battle, Natsu had his hand passing through the tanned Dragon Slayer's body. The dragon king spat out blood as he looks at his killer's eye. Then smirks knowing who was the one that killed him.
He wanted to hit himself so hard for not realizing that this young man was HIS brother. Changing his smirk into a small smile, the dragon king said: "Young… Dragon Slayer… what… is your… name?"
"Natsu Dragneel, son of Igneel"
"Ahh… So you are his boy *cough* anyway… I have something for you" The Fairy Tail mage looked at the dragon now man with curiosity. Chuckling he lifted his right hand, which made it to the salmon haired man forehead. With his blood that was in his hand, he started to draw the kanji for King (王). And as his hand fell without life, the Apocalypse Dragon Slayer muttered:
"Hail, the new King…"
It hasn't pass even a week since Acnologia was dead and everyone across Ishgar knew of what happened. Natsu and his fellow Dragon Slayers were heading to the Castle on King Toma's order. But suddenly, just when they could see the castle, mages from The Magic Council surrounded them. Then two knights went towards their sides revealing the current Chairman of the Magic Council, Grand Doma.
Natsu seeing the chairman was very curious of why he came to see him and his fellow Dragon Slayers. But before he could asked, a certain White Dragon Slayer got ahead of him.
"So... for what do we owe the pleasure for the Chairman of the Magic Council came to us personally?" Sting said… rather emotionless. At the guild he acted in a teasing manner and always wore a smirk on his face, but facing someone with a high rank in the world, he had to act… with respect. Their nature as dragons always in the way.
Some Rune Knights and their commanders wanted to give him a beating, but then remembered that he, along side the others, manage to kill the Dragon of Apocalypse. Grand Doma look stoically at the Fairy Tail mages.
"Who is Natsu Dragneel?"
"I am, mister Chairman" Seeing the one he was going to congratulate, he said.
"Natsu Dragneel… As from this day forward, I, Grand Doma, Chairman of the Magic Council, declare you Wizard Saint number 5. Please in a week, head to Era to receive the emblem and vest" And with that he left, leaving a group of Dragon Slayers teasing their king.
Hours later, after Natsu became a Wizard Saint, the group entered the king's chamber. They got closer to the king and then bend on one knee.
"What do you need King Toma?" curiously every Dragon Slayer said at the same time. Toma waved his hand to assure them that they could relax and they did just that. While getting on their feet, Fiore's king said: "Natsu, you alongside your fellow kin, shall form a squad called… Dragon's Wrath"
"Why the name, King Toma?" asked Eric the Poison Dragon Slayer. Toma began to explain all the things to the newly made squad.
The slayers understood and accepted it. They stayed for a while longer and then went on their way.
Flashbacks Ends
Natsu finished explaining what had occurred during the last 7 years, and to say everyone that went to Tenrou was shock was an understatement. The others laughed at their shocked faces and Makarov, who was told everything in the office, was trying to get a hug from his great granddaughter. Sadly for him she didn't want to hug him and he quickly went to sulk to the nearest corner in the new guild.
Gray was the first one to get out of his stupor and only wanted to do two things. Ask about the whereabouts of Alzack, Nab, Reedus and Vijeeter. And he did just that.
"Hey Master, where are Alzack, Nab, Reedus and Vijeeter? Are they on a job or something?" saying his title in a insulting manner. When hearing these name most of their guild mates stopped doing their things. Noticing the reaction, someone else decided to step in.
"Master Natsu… what happened" Lisanna asked. Natsu's bangs were covering his face. He didn't want to look at them in the eye when he muttered two words loud enough for them to hear.
"They died…"
Each one began to pale at those two hurting words. Four of their friends, their family… dead. All of them began to shed tears. Even the ones that were here all that time began to cry
"How?" Lucy asked while sobbing.
Natsu told them about the 1 year training and when everyone came back, Bisca came with the news that Alzack died protecting her and that the council came two weeks later to announce that they had found the others bodies dead in front of Era.
Everyone began to mourn once more.
Gray was too angry at himself that he didn't know what to do. So he decided to do the next stupid thing to do.
"Natsu! You don't have the capability to be the guild master! Everyone knows that the things that you have done were only because of Macao and maybe Wakaba! You let four… FOUR of your NAKAMA die!" he stopped raging for a moment. "I challenge you to a battle outside, RIGHT NOW!"
Everyone was shocked at the choice of words. Tenrou Group didn't speak and just turned their head to the side. But his guild mates that stay all that time were a bit different to the one on Tenrou Group.
They were boiling in rage! Each and everyone began to channel their magic creating an aura behind them. But Natsu just stood there doing nothing.
When one of the slayers, Pete, was close to hit Gray with his roar attack, Natsu said:
"Challenge accepted…"
A/N: WOW WHAT AN INTERESTING CHAPTER. WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THIS. I THINK IT WAS NICE, SINCE EVERYTIME GRAY WAS ANGRY AT HIMSELF HE WOULD, HIT SOMETHING OR INSULT NATSU WITH SOMETHING OUT OFF PLACE. NEXT CHAPTER WILL HAVE NATSU VS. TEAM TENROU... BUT THEY DIDN'T AGREE WITH GRAY?, YOU ASK. THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT CHAPTER. PLEASE REVIEW, FOLLOW AND FAVORITE... AND HOPE TO SEE YOU GUYS NEXT TIME.
Zeckromizder, out!
