Chapter 4

As the same sickening sound filled the air yet again, Natsu quickly broke from his frozen state. He turned back to Wendy to see her now shaking in a petrified fear. Taking a calming breath, Natsu scooped Wendy up into his arms in a bridal hold as he took off running as he felt Wendy bury herself into his chest as her hands gripped his vest in a death lock.

If it had just been him he wouldn't have cared, he would have stayed, he would have fought back, he would have done anything BUT run. Yet it wasn't just him, he wasn't alone, he had someone to protect, someone that was vulnerable, someone that needed him and right now his best option of protecting the terrified girl in his arms was to grab her and run. To run and not look back as he prayed to any deity that would listen to help him get Wendy to safety.

To him it didn't matter what happened to him, all that mattered to him was getting Wendy to safety. That's all that ever seemed to matter to him from the moment he had met her. That was always his first instinct, to protect Wendy's world as she knew it, to not let anyone or anything disturb her views, to keep her happy and above all else, to not let her ever be harmed be it physically, mentally, or even emotionally.

During the fight against the Oracion Seis Natsu had run off to save Wendy when she had been captured, yes everyone thought he had done so to help keep Erza from losing an arm but in reality that didn't matter to him, sure it would have made him sad if she died as she was a member of his guild but that was it and given how hypocritically abusive she was to him and Gray it wasn't unreasonable for him to be that way. All that had mattered to him was saving Wendy; when he had gotten back he begged Wendy to save Erza's arm all so no one would wonder why he had rushed off so fast if he wasn't concerned for Erza.

When he had to fight Zero, he only won because he knew if he didn't Wendy would be in pain because he failed.

During the incident with Delphine his only thoughts were that he was glad it had been him to be caught and Wendy hadn't or that he had to get free so that he could beat the shit out of the stupid machine and the woman responsible so Wendy wouldn't be a risk of having the same done to her.

When they had gone to Edolas and got captured he had pushed himself past his breaking point as they sucked him dry of magic so they wouldn't touch Wendy.

During the attack on the island he had constantly worried about what was happening to Wendy only to have to save her from that black flame bastard who dared to think of hurting a hair on her head let alone to kill her. The very thought of said blond asshole made Natsu grit his teeth in rage.

He wasn't a foul, he knew what the reasoning for him being like that was, he wasn't as dense as he let others think because it was easier to play dumb than to confront the obvious emotions that others held for him as that would mean hurting people, something he had never liked. Beating the shit out of someone may have been fun for him because he knew when to draw the line so that the injuries weren't bad and besides, physical injuries healed fast, emotional wounds were a different story. Natsu knew that better than most. He knew how those wounds could grow and last for years, how they could never seem to heal, which was why he played the fight loving fool. It was because of that, that Natsu never said anything when the guild would whisper behind his back thinking him unable to hear, when they might as well have been screaming in his ear.

Wendy… was his mate. Her soul held the extra pieces missing from his own just as his soul did for Wendy's.

Yet his concern for Wendy had lead him to restrain himself when his Inner Dragon roared for him to lay claim to her as such or when his mating season would come around. Wendy had just started the transitional stage of aging in which she left childhood and and became a young woman. He himself was almost at the end of that transition and would be considered a young man soon, he would soon be starting his life as part of the newest generation to become adults. Which in turn made him realize what entering in a mating ritual with Wendy would do to her as he knew the world wouldn't hold back on making its disdain known for such a relationship between them to occur before Wendy herself had crossed that final threshold to join the ranks of adults. He also wasn't sure if he would be able to hold himself back from FULLY completing the mating before Wendy was ready for such things, as he knew after the first mating he wouldn't be able to keep his hands off her.

Shaking his head Natsu pulled his mind from the past to refocus on the present and the task at hand, ensuring Wendy's safety. As Natsu refocused he noticed a hole in the ground that looked like it was deep enough for it to work for what he wanted.

Zeroing on his target Natsu began to push himself to run faster until he dropped to the ground and proceeded to slide through the entrance of the hole and even further down beneath layer upon layer of Earth.

Finally coming to a stop Natsu smiled as he noticed the slow, shallow flow of water that was running along the smooth stone he was now laying on which had allowed him to slide fairly far down into the hole.

Slowly crawling to the end of the hole Natsu came upon an opening that was roughly the size of a ten one bedroom homes, with an expanse of dry stone that was roughly a one bedroom house in size, upon which he promptly lay Wendy down on before he turned to head out once more, only to stop when he noticed Wendy wouldn't let go.

He looked down at her only to see her running the blood from a self inflicted cut on her finger over her lips. She then proceeded to place a kiss on the middle of Natsu's sternum making him go wide eyed at her doing so, while he wondered if what he was assuming her to be doing was what she was actually doing.

Wendy then pulled back and gathered every aspect of her magic into her mouth and blew a mixture of a neon sky blue as well as a neon green breath at the bloody kiss mark that her lips had left. The moment the magically charged air hit the bloody kiss mark the blood absorbed the air before it glowed white and moved to the shape of a white, feather covered, Dragon standing fiercely on Natsu's chest as if daring someone to even try coming close to Natsu.

Wendy's P.O.V/ third person

Wendy had been scared out of her mind. The sicking sound that filled the air may not have been as powerful as that of Acnologia's roar but it still had just as much malice in it, it still had just as much blood lust in it and intent to kill as well. It was because of the that her body had froze on her. She couldn't do anything but be reduced to a shaking mess as she stood there in petrified fear. Or that was until she was pulled into the arms of one Natsu Dragneel.

'Natsu,' Wendy thought as she tightened her grip on him.

From the moment she had heard his name her heart felt like it would beat itself into a soup. She joined the Alliance of the Light Guilds all in hopes of meeting the man that was attached to the name that made her heart go wild. Whenever she was in trouble he would show up like her prince charming and save her as he unknowingly swept her off her feet. She had lost count of the number of wet dreams she had already had about him "punishing" her for being such a naughty girl. All of which were thanks to her mother, Grandina, passing on her secret perversion. Which probably had happened sometime during one of Grandina's many lessons on the signals for who her mate was and the different things that would be required of her to ensure her mates happiness and pleasure, just as they would for her.

'But why would Natsu even look at me, I'm no better than a child. I don't have the looks that the other girls at Natsu's age do, I don't have the strength they have either, I don't have Levy's brains, I'm not close to him like Lisanna, I don't have Mira's natural grace, I haven't even begun to show anything close to Lucy's figure like my Edolas version had, and I don't have Erza's strength. I couldn't even slay a Dragon like my magic is made to do, why would he even look at me,' Wendy thought to herself in a depressed manner thanks to the overwhelmingly bad situation they found themselves in when Natsu suddenly slid into safety.

As Natsu slowly made his way further into the hole to ensure Wendy was left safe and comfortable, Wendy's thoughts began to change as a ray of Hope at survival appeared.

'But I have healed him whenever he was badly injured, he never tried running off when I treated him like he does with everyone else, he would also stay in the infirmary when I stayed with him or at least stay at my side when I would let him leave temporarily so long as he stayed with me, he also saved me whenever I needed someone to rescue me, he's rather protective of me, he also didn't go to get treated by Erza back on the island when she pulled the sexy nurse card, he waited to be treated by me when all the other guys didn't, it was like she didn't even interest him like that, then again he never seems interested in the girls that flirt with him. We're also all alone now with no known way home, and we don't know if we'll ever even find one,' Wendy thought as she made up her mind and decided to act on her instincts, just as she felt him try to leave her in safety as he turned to go back out to face the monster bearing down on them by himself, like she watched Natsu do daily.

Third person

"Please Natsu, mark me as your mate. I know you probably only see me like a child but…. BUT I LOVE YOU! I DON'T CARE ABOUT US BEING DIFFERENT AGES! I DON'T CARE WHAT OTHERS WOULD SAY! I WOULD BECOME A CRIMINAL THAT MURDERS EVERYONE IF YOU BUT ASKED ME TO BECAUSE YOU MEAN THAT MUCH TO ME! SO PLEASE! MARK ME AS YOU MATE, LAY CLAIM TO MY BODY SO THAT YOU AND ONLY YOU MAY EVER TOUCH ME! PLEASE," Wendy began saying until the dam on the full extent of her love for Natsu and her fear that he would reject her had finally broke and she proceeded to scream at the top of her lungs physical ability to scream.

"Ok," Natsu said simply after Wendy's next to eardrum blowing scream. "But it will hurt, and I won't go beyond marking you until we're older," Natsu stipulated as Wendy looked up at him in shock with tears of joy brimming in her eyes as she rapidly shook her head in agreement.

Natsu then took in a relaxing breath before letting it out as he turned Wendy's back to him. As Natsu fought against his instincts he was glad to see that Wendy's current dress didn't have an upper back to it as it meant he wouldn't have to ruin her dress thanks to it only having a back that covered from mid back down with a strap running behind her neck. Natsu then cut himself on his wrist as he let his blood cover his entire palm before he cauterized the cut with his magic and shook the excess blood off so he could leave a clear handprint of blood in-between Wendy's shoulder blades. Gulping, he then gathered each aspect of his magic in mouth just as Wendy had before he let out a stream of fire that was so hot and condensed that it had become like cross between lava and water.

When the fire touched the blood it was absorbed into it before the handprint lifted off Wendy's back as the tips of each finger lined up with a rib or her spine. The thumb and pointer fingers were each lined up with a rib on her left shoulder blade, the middle finger was lined up with Wendy's spine, the ring finger and pinky were each lined up with a rib on her right shoulder blade. The now flaming blood hand sank in as it pushed each finger to the center of each bone and then spread throughout the entire bone until the palm had touched her back and sank in. During the entire time Wendy had done remarkably well and only slightly whimpered in pain as she clenched her jaw shut and had to take seething/ ragged breaths. Yet the pain she had felt then was nothing compared to what happened next, as her entire body felt as though she was submerged in liquid fire making her scream bloody murder. Sadly the pain was amplified once more to the point that she had to fight blacking out as her entire upper back glowed bright orange with a red line slowly drawing a next to identical Dragon to the one Natsu had appeared behind him when he entered Dragon Force and was pissed. The difference was that this Dragon didn't have any scars and had black outlining each of the orange flames surrounding it and had a few pink scales on top of it's head and down the neck.

When the glow died down Wendy felt Natsu gently lay her down as he got up to leave when they both grabbed their heads in pain and screamed a scream that to each of them sounded like one of Acnologia's defining and powerful roars that had several look to the entrances of their hideaways with hope as they noticed the lack of any hatred and malice in the dual Dragon roars.

When the pain stopped both Natsu and Wendy passed out with Natsu collapsing like a ton of bricks right next to Wendy.

When Natsu and Wendy woke they noticed the rather comparing positions the were in. Wendy somehow ending up on top of Natsu with legs on either side of his hips and him having a hand on her butt. Yet even as they both blushed neither made any movement to change their positioning. It was only when Wendy felt something rather hard tap her in-between he legs that they scrambled apart with their backs to one another, and every bit of exposed skin looking like they had just come from having a bath in cranberry juice.

"H...how….a….are yo….you….f….feeling," Natsu stuttered out once both had regained themselves and Natsu had calmed himself.

Meanwhile Wendy had yet to respond as she was having a desperate battle to regain control over her inner ….well more accurately her base instincts as she now remembered she wasn't a Dragon Slayer so she no longer had an inner Dragon due to her being a Dragon. Though if you wanted to be technical both herself and Natsu were actually ⅔ dragon and ⅓ human. Which in turn meant that what was running through her head were the things she actually wanted from Natsu. In turn Wendy mentally groaned as she also realized that the one thing she was hoping she wouldn't have the way that Grandina had acted passed down to her.

'*Groan* I couldn't get mom's grace, dignity, or anything else, noooo, I had to get her damnable perversion. Then again if that was Natsu at full mass, having mom's hidden side might not be so bad,' Wendy thought as she subconsciously licked her lips and got a lustful look in her eyes that looked just plain wrong to be in the eyes of thirteen year old girl…. Well if one wanted to be technical then she was actually a little over 400 years old but still had yet to physically developed past her thirteen-year-old body.

As Wendy continued to weigh the pros and cons of her mother passing her perversion to her, the lustful look grew. Wendy was pulled from her thoughts as she heard Natsu get up and close his eyes as he inhaled deeply a few times and his ears twitched.

"What is it," Wendy asked knowing that Natsu had NEVER done anything without reason. She had always wondered why he started fights so much even when she knew that he would prefer a calm and quiet atmosphere when he wasn't on an adventure, after all he had isolated his home away from civilization in favor of the forest. It was only after her memory had returned to her that she realized what Natsu had been doing.

Natsu had grown up in Fairy Tail, he knew that when there wasn't a massive brawl happening he would be able to hear everything that was said. So given that she herself had the same problem when she decided to stay at the guild instead of going on a job, and given her knowledge of how the guild treated Natsu, it wasn't hard for her to realize that he was trying to help her drown out her ability to hear every little thing so she wouldn't hear the things he probably had on multiple occasions.

That thought alone had Wendy's Dragon instincts making her seethe in rage as she began to think that it would be better if they stayed in this new world. At least then she wouldn't have to watch her mate be emotionally and on occasion, physically abused.

"Dragons, there's roughly ten Dragons, over a hundred. Five are fire and five are sky, and from what I'm sensing it seems those ten are the reason we aren't dead yet as it seems their locked in combat with the others trying to get to the entrance," Natsu explained.

"So what do we do?" Wendy questioned only to be surprised to see Natsu giving her a questioning look.

"I would have thought you would have suggested a plan, you always were the one to think things through, I just prefer to think with my fists," Natsu said with a goofy grin making Wendy giggle at how true that statement was. Though that wasn't surprising given who he was and fire Dragons reputation of preferring to beat things out than think them out.

"Well you are my mate, not only that but you're the one that has a birthright to be the king of Dragons. So you're just going to have start thinking more because I'm following your lead," Wendy said as she wrapped her arms around Natsu's frame and relished the feeling of his strong arms wrapped around her as well making her feel as though nothing in the world could touch her.

"Then I suggest we go out there and spill some blood," Natsu said seriously as he got a stunned look from Wendy.

"You didn't honestly expect me to let them live when they're trying to hurt you," Natsu deadpanned as Wendy simply nodded.

It was a well established fact that any time one Dragon would threaten another Dragon's mate, nest, or offspring, that a bloodbath would ensue between the two Dragons with only one every coming out alive. Something that Wendy was surprised had yet to happen as any other time someone had threatened her Natsu had only beaten them to death's door before he finally stopped rather than beating them through death's door.

"Then lead the way, I'll follow you to the depths of hell and back, my MATE," Wendy said as she pulled Natsu down into a kiss. After the two shared a passion filled kiss Natsu grinned as he covered his hand in flames while Wendy covered hers in wind. Then, they simultaneously punched their fist straight up as a fifty foot radius of wind amplified fire burst from the ground like an erupting geyser and continued to shoot up into the air until it peaked at a height equivalent to a 60 story building.

That's a wrap on this chapter hope you liked it. Any wa... *Crash*

DAMNIT, NATSU, WENDY GET OFF EACH OTHER! YOU HAVE A LEMON SCENE COMING SOON, CANT YOU TWO SHOW ANY RESTRAINT. WAIT! NOOO! NOT ON MY BED! OH DEAR GOD! MY EYES! MY EYES!.

*Sigh with anime tears* please remember to review, now if you'll excuse me I have to go destroy my mattress and get Laxus to short circuit that memory out of my head.