Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does.
A man trudged through a city, no one daring to come near. The people that would venture close quickly scampered away. They all noticed the intense aura of self-loathing that surrounded him. The man had just arrived to Magnolia, home of the Fairy Tail guild. The man had heard of a certain young man, and wanted to see him with his own eyes.
The man pushed up blue tinted sunglasses and forced a cocky smile, scaring nearby women. It had been months since he had been able to genuinely smile.
The cause of his sadness: He had killed someone. No, not directly, but he had refused to be there for the girl when she needed him most, ending in a fatal accident. A tear ran down his cheek and his smile faltered, taking on his loathing frown once again.
Natsu had just returned to Magnolia after completing a mission with his friend Happy.
"Thank Igneel I'm off that train!" bellowed our loveable idiot, kneeling down to kiss the ground.
"Aye sir!" Came his friend's quick, and true to his name, happy reply.
"Happy, I just can't believe we didn't get the reward money. I mean, we completed the job!" Natsu whined to his feline friend.
"Well Natsu, we can't get paid if you have to repay people for damages."
"It wasn't even that bad!"
"Aye! But you did destroy a part of the village wall…"
"That wasn't even m.."
Happy continued without hearing out what Natsu had said, "break their village idol, burn down half the forest and punch the chief in the face, putting him in the hospital with second degree burns!" Happy ended chirping, just recounting the events in his simple manner, causing Natsu to grown.
"Haaappyyyy! He grabbed my shoulder when I went after that ape thing!" Referring to the chief of the village and a race of primal beings called Vulcans.
"Well, we can't help it now!" Happy smiled, looking up at his father/brother. His wings popped out as he started to circle Natsu's head, smiling and laughing. Natsu just couldn't stay in a funk with his best friend so close, trying to lighten his mood. Natsu cracked one of his famous face splitting smiles and they continued on toward their guild, Fairy Tail.
As Natsu and Happy were on their way Natsu bumped into someone else, both persons falling to the ground.
"Oi! Watch it!" Natsu roared forth, jumping back to his feet as the other did as well, both slamming their faces against one another and growling.
"Wasn't my fault Flame-Brain!" Shouted a teen Natsu's age named Gray Fullbuster.
"What was that, Ice-Queen?"
"You heard me, Ash Mouth!"
"Shove it! Ya fu-"
"Natsu!" A female voice bellowed.
Natsu whipped his head around just in time to see a shining metal fist connect to his face, catapulting him backwards and slamming into a wall. He slowly shook himself and struggled to stand. Looking to his left he saw Gray in much the same situation. Looks of shock and horror were shot between the two, all hostility gone from moments before as they both desperately sought a plan to keep their hides.
Natsu glanced towards where he was standing earlier, you know, before a monster sent him sailing.
He regretted it immediately.
A beauty with long, dark hair was stalking towards them, a scowl on her face. Her torso was covered with armor, as were her arms. She wore a blue skirt and black metal plated boots.
As she came to a stop before the two boys, her scowl turned to a slight smile. Gray was shocked and Natsu once again put forth his face splitting grin, causing the beauty to snort in humor.
"Welcome back, Natsu. How did the mission go?" She asked in a pleasant manner, shocking the boys. She was NEVER this nice.
"Well… ahh… You see…"
Happy finished what happened for him, putting it in terms that were sure to make the beauty enraged, "You know Natsu! He blew up a bunch of stuff and put the village chief in the hospital!"
Natsu only had time to groan before misfortune once again befell him, a metal clad fist once again connecting squarely with his face. His launch was accompanied by the beauty's roar of outrage, "Natsu you idiot!"
Happy circled the girl's head, finally deciding to land on top of her hair and snuggle down, stating sleepily that she should be more forgiving.
The girl whipped her hand upward, trapping the cat atop her head. "Oh? Forgiving you say?" malice dripping from her voice.
Happy started bawling, trying to hide his face from the menace.
The beauty looked towards Gray, who only shook his head at her, as if to say "Too far."
The girl quietly wrapped the cat up in her arms and smiled down at him. Happy immediately took notice of the change and looked up to the girl's face, a grin he "inherited" from Natsu playing across his face. "Oh Erza! I knew you were nice!" the cat chirped happily whilst snuggling into her arms, contentedly falling asleep.
Erza only smiled. She only beat up idiots, those being Natsu, Gray, and whoever decided to get between her and her precious cake.
Our self-loathing man from earlier was shocked when he saw a teen flash by him, crashing into a wall. The man paused for a moment, staring deep into the wreckage. He caught a glimpse of spiked hair sprouting up in a multitude of directions. That wasn't his main focus however, it was the boy's hair color, pink. The man felt his breath catch, was he imagining things?
He sprinted towards the spot the boy had landed, coming up and seeing the teen more closely.
There was no doubt. He had found him.
He hadn't thought he would ever see this boy again, yet here he was, splayed out in front of him.
The man looked down and saw the guild insignia on the boy's upper right arm.
It was the Fairy Tail guild mark.
His excitement couldn't be contained, he let out a whoop and scooped the boy up onto his feet.
The boy was rather unsteady at first, slowly gaining his feet and shot his hand out to steady himself, grabbing the man's arm.
The man wrenched free of the hold, shocked beyond words. What had just happened? He had been suffering from an incurable sickness that would make him slowly fade out of this world.
Why had the severity of his sickness feel noticeably less when the boy had grabbed his arm?
That's when he noticed it, the boy's magical aura.
The man was shocked, he did not recognize the boy, yet the teen had the power of a Celestial Spirit locked up tight within.
That's when he remembered, one hundred and forty years ago, the baby that he had locked away.
That's when the sudden realization struck him. They hadn't been trying to just protect the child, they were going to turn him into a Celestial.
The boy's face had grown quizzical as the man's penetrating stare bored into him.
He slowly grinned and thanked the man. Before he could though, the man cut him off.
"My name is Loke. I wish to join Fairy Tail and train you. Would this be acceptable?"
Natsu looked more closely at the man, actually, upon closer inspection, he looked more like Natsu's age, maybe just a year or two older.
Natsu grinned widely again. He didn't know who this man truly was, or why he wanted to train him, but he wasn't the one to make the call. "Come with me! You'll have to get the Master's approval before you can join."
Both smiled at one another, turning to walk towards the guild that Natsu now called his home, Fairy Tail.
A/N: Anyone catch the Game of Thrones reference in last chapters a/n?
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