A/n: yo, its been a while, im not gonna make up excuses on why I didn't update, bt if ya like wat ur reading so far.. review. Thnx for the support

-Ryan sensei

The silent room filled with lizard corpses currently held the famous team of three. Happy, Natsu, and Lucy, yet only the sound of flapping wings and sandals running against the hardwood floor could be heard.

Lucy's POV

Lucy was lying peacefully on the floor until she heard her name, screamed by her partner.

"LUUUUUCY!"

The concern and sheer force of the voice caused Lucy to slowly open her eyes. As her eyes looked around the room, she was relieved to see that her partner was coming towards her.

He must've successfully killed the other lizard, but why is he running over here? Did I get in his way? Oh god, I know I keep getting in the way, but I just didn't want be a burden again.

As Natsu finally appeared before her, he crouched down, his hands ghosting over her, unsure of his partner's condition. Lucy saw his hands moving towards her and she hazily began speaking.

"Natsu I-"

Before she could finish, Natsu's arms encircled her. Before she knew it, he was lifting her upper body close to his chest so she'd just be sitting up.

Natsu's POV

She's alive, she's alive, she's not dead, she's here...

Lucy slightly pushed away from Natsu and spoke, "huh? Natsu what's wrong?"

"LUUCY!" Happy shouted, as he landed next to the two.

"What happened to the people? What's going on you guys?" Asked Lucy sitting up on her own.

Worry about yourself a little would ya?

"We saw you on the ground! And you're covered in blood! And Natsu smelt your blood so-"

"Thats right! I still smell your blood, where is it? We're going to the doctors right now to get you checked out. Can you stand? You know what? Carrying you's faster."

"Huh? Wait Natsu! What about the people! Are they safe?!" Lucy asked desperately grabbing both of his shoulders.

"They're all safe and waiting outside, so up you go," the dragon slayer stated as he lifted the blonde up bridal style.

Lucy just let out a sigh and gripped onto Natsu's vest, already used to the idea of him carrying her. Natsu blushed lightly, but as he kicked the building's door down, the blush was replaced with a serious face. The group of people who were about to be attacked by lizards were now waiting anxiously outside for their saviors.

Natsu was greeted by a group of now relieved eyes and asked them,"questions later, for now where's the nearest doctor? My partner's injured and she needs to see a doctor!"

"Natsu, it's fine I don't need a-" Lucy whispered nervously.

"No Luce, it's not fine at all."

The small boy he'd helped previously, pushed his way through the crowd, and slowly approached Natsu.

"Um our two best doctors left town 'cause of the lizard problems, but I know where the third best doctor is! He's really nice! I could take you to him!"

"Thank you! Would you really- say, what's your name?"

"... Micheal," the black haired boy said nervously. Natsu patted his head and smiled.

"Lead the way Micheal! We're countin' on ya!"

With Micheal leading the way for the three, the other townspeople, unwilling to let their saviors go unthanked followed.

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"Well the good news is it's nothing serious," said the short doctor with swirled glasses, a long white beard and a lab coat.

Multiple sighs of relief were heard throughout the packed room.

"But there was so much blood!" Said Happy who sat worriedly next to Lucy on the patient's bed.

"Oh! Some of it was indeed her blood, but most of it was the lizard's blood. I'm quite surprised such a lovely lady like yourself was able to take a one of the seda lizards. Her own blood was coming from her hands that I just finished patching up... now!"

Lucy, now in a new and clean set of clothes, smiled from the compliment, this smile reassured Natsu that she would be okay, and he was able to smile once again in return.

"There is one other thing though..." said the doctor. Everyone's eyes turned back towards the man, with worry in their eyes.

"I don't have the proper equipment to tell why you fainted, but I bet you were just tired from your use in magic."

There's no way I'd be tired just by using Taurus and Horologium. It's probably because I haven't eaten in so long plus the strain of using magic that my body couldn't take it. I got lucky this time, but I'll have to be more careful… Lucy thought.

"On the other hand, she's also dislocated her shoulder, so I gotta pop it back in. Unfortunately, we don't have any pain killers, so it's gonna hurt quite a bit..." The old man then turned directly to Lucy, putting both hands on her dislocated shoulder. "You ready?"

Lucy gave a pained smile and looked at Natsu. Her eyes held contact with his onyx ones, and Natsu refused to let go of those bark colored orbs.

Then without warning, the doctor pushed Lucy's arm back into position, creating a popping sound. Unfortunately, thanks to Natsu's hearing, was intensified, and he cringed at the sound, and tightened his fist.

"GYAHAAAAHHHH! AHHH! UGhhh.." Lucy screamed with tears that refused to spill, before biting her lower lip to muffle her scream. The doctor backed away, and sat back at his desk, filling out some paperwork.

Natsu wanted to make her pain away, he wanted to protect her, he loved her, and yet he could do nothing for her.

That was when Natsu noticed her pale hand that continued switching between making a fist, and flexing. It took no thought for Natsu to grasp that hand, and become her support. As he made contact, she quickly grasped tightly onto his hand, and held on until the pain subsided shortly after.

Natsu sat down on Lucy's side, with Happy curled on the opposite, they together looked like a family. The onyx eyed teen gently stroked Lucy's back as he had her lean on him for support. Only a few minutes passed, but for Natsu it might've been a millisecond, it was all too short before Lucy sat back up and sniffled.

"Thank you very much sensei," Lucy said smiling as she thanked the doctor.

The doctor smiled lightly, then sighed, "I'm sorry I couldn't do any better than just first aid. If only the other doctors didn't leave and take the good equipment with them... It's all cause of those damn lizards!"

"Actually that's why we're here, we're from fairy tail, on the mission to destroy all of them!"

The doctor just rose an eyebrow in concern.

"Ok, today we were caught by surprise! It's not like I was clumsy or anything. I just pulled the weight off of a really heavy lizard, got some bad rope burn and popped my shoulder... and was a little dizzy 'cause... I used too much magic..." Lucy said nervously.

She's acting kinda funny. She might be uncomfortable... Or maybe she's lying, or hit her head when she fell, I don't know, but it doesn't matter why, I'm just glad she's alive and safe, with me.

"I noticed earlier when you were speaking about the lizards you said 'seda'? What exactly is that? Can you tell us more about the lizards, anything'll help," Lucy said to the doctor.

"Oh! I can help with that!" Said a tall man in glasses that was anxiously waiting in the back with the other group of 6-7 people. His appearance was similar to Warren, but his hairstyle was more disheveled.

"You would?" Happy said excitedly, turning his head up to face the bunch of townsfolk gathered in the medium sized, yet empty room.

"Of course! Anything for Natsu, Lucy, and Happy, our saviors! Since you're all set, why don't Micheal and I take you to the research room. Oh! And I'm Crory by the way."

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Lucy's POV

"Woaah! This place is huge!" Natsu said running down the long book aisles. Happy remained on Lucy's side.

"Okay all of you come over here!" Crory said motioning to a door in the back of the library.

Once Natsu rejoined the group, they all entered into a small dark room without windows. Croy pulled a box of matches from his pocket and began lighting the large candles that were stationed in each of the four corners in the room.

Lucy looked back at Natsu who was inching towards the flame and put up a hand to his chest, halting him.

"Don't you dare try eating that fire," Lucy whispered. A light tinge of red came across Natsu's cheeks and he crossed his arms looking away, pouting.

Once the candles were lit it was easier to tell why they were there. Dozens of lizard images were on the walls, calculations, a skeleton head of a lizard but five times smaller than what they faced.

"What is all this?" Happy said, looking around in awe.

"This, is the lizard research room. Through the past couple of months we've attained a lot of info to stand a chance against the lizards, but unfortunately we're not strong enough to defeat them, so we asked for some outside assistance, or in other words, you guys," Crory said proudly.

Lucy pulled up a chair from the meeting table in the center of the room and sat at the table.

"Alright, we're all ears so take it from the beginning."

Natsu followed his partner's lead and pulled up a chair, but sat in it the reversed position, arms crossed over the backrest.

"A couple of months ago, a traveler... A woman! Yeah, a short woman with black hair, rabbit ears, and was in a lab coat came to our town. We're not sure why exactly, but we do know she's the cause of everything... We have some underground mine fields, where we get larcrima crystals." Stated Crory.

"It's one of our specialties!" Micheal cheerfully added.

"Yes it is," Crory ruffled the young boy's hair playfully. "I remember witnesses say that she was rolling in a large box, about twice her size. Apparently inside were two of the lizards, one male and female, in their original forms..."

"Original forms? You mean those lizards weren't originally that... big?"

"Yeah, this is what we've gathered. The lizards were originally Komodo dragons..." Crory said drifting off.

Natsu's head perked up at the word, "dragon?!"

"Not the same kind Natsu, these are exotic and carnivorous beasts, but usually they aren't that big, they're like... 10 ft max.."

"Ah, yes! They were pretty big before, but now, it's just ridiculous! The woman injected them with some kind of serum and with time, they multiplied and now their sizes vary. A normal Komodo dragon, could eat a human, it's bite is deadly with poison and bacteria, and can move quite fast. Now with they're still just as carnivorous and deadly, in fact, and their appetites are several times bigger! But it's their sizes that make their speed slower for some of them, and faster for others, through the unfortunate cost of some lives, we were able to get a grasp of their different types and specialties."

"Ne Natsu, doesn't the woman they're talking about sound familiar?" Happy whispered. Natsu in response closed his eyes and tilted his head, trying to recall anyone that fit the description.

"There are three types of lizards. Mono, which is about the size of a mini horse carriage. Seda which you two witnessed today, and the last are the primas. They are about the size of...oh! About the size of a medium sized guild. There are only 2 and they are the original. They contain a slow, yet extremely powerful poison in their jaws. Those who've been in contact with even a tooth don't last more than 20 minutes. It's a slow and excruciating death, we're onto something, but still have a long way to go..." He took a moment to collect himself, clearly recalling unpleasant memories.

"The sedas are powerful, but slow and there are around twenty of them. Today was the first time that they actually went inside a building. It's usually just the mono lizards, we know how to take precautionary measures against them, but not against what is the sedas! Imagine our surprise when we see two of them just waltz right into our building as we were having a meeting on how to get rid of them! The mono lizards are fast and are quick tempered. So even the slightest movement could agitate them. We do know that they hate fire, but I don't know if that'll help much.." Crory finished as he pressed both his hands together.

"We just need to destroy their den and them, it's a lot, but... Please help us!" Micheal raised his voice in pleading

Natsu stood up and put a hand on Crory's tensed up shoulder, getting the man's attention, and looked off into nowhere specifically as he spoke.

"You guys are in luck. I happen to be a fire dragon slayer, who's great at destroying stuff and is super strong. My partners, and I will take care of everything. Just be ready to throw a huge party for when all the lizards are gone."

Natsu smiled at the two towns people, and a small glimmer of their lost hope returned to their eyes.

That's so like him. Just one of the reasons why I like him I guess...

"Alright, as much as I want to get started now, I think we should secure ourselves a place to stay tonight.."

"You can stay at my place! It's just my mom and I there. She loves visitors! You can stay with us!" Micheal cheerfully said grabbing Natsu's hand. Natsu looked back to Lucy with pleading eyes.

"Ohhh okay, as long as your mom doesn't mind.."

"Yosh! Thanks Micheal!" Natsu said lifting Happy onto his head.

A/n: things are still a lil slow paced, bt i get impatient! I want stuff to happen! So, a development will happen... in the next chapter tho ?￢ﾜﾌ️Thnx & review

-Ryan sensei