Last of my Reserve chapters. No updates for a while, because I'll be taking down these chaps when the Rewrite is caught up to where this was, or is at least close. Happy reading!
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Gray has a close enough relationship with Drifta to gain his ice powers from her. Beasts come in all different sizes and not everyone exhibits powers from them, even if you have an extremely close relationship with your tamed beast. It's just something you are born with, it cannot be changed.
Lucy has a close enough relationship to have powers from Ryu and Bost if she could. She was simply not born with the talent to learn magic like that. She wasn't upset about that, she was simply happy to have had two wonderful beasts by her side.
Natsu is a rarity, however, because his powers don't come from Happy, his only tamed beast. He has an older form of magic, called dragon slayer magic. His body changed to be fire proof naturally, giving him the ability to breathe and eat fire due to his changed lungs. His canine teeth and fingernails also grew to be unnaturally sharp, all because he was born as a dragon slayer.
It is, however, much easier to tame a young beast than to tame a wild fully grown one. Young beasts are normally guarded by their parents possessively. Lucy wasn't sure what had happened to Ryu and Bost's mother, or if they were even related in the first place.
Ryu and Bost were happy to be up and about. It was a new experience for Lucy to be anywhere that wasn't her family's estate, and because Ryu and Bost were raised by Lucy, it was a brand new experience for them as well. Lucy was trying really hard not to run off and explore all of the simple wonders that the city had that Gray and Natsu seemed oblivious to.
Lucy would normally not care what others thought of her and just gone off and done her own thing. But she was trying so hard not to screw up her first human friends that weren't maids or servants. She let them drag her around the city. She did admit that they did show her plenty of amazing things in the city, but they didn't even glance at all the beautiful fountains and other decorations that Lucy wanted to stop and gape at. So she continued on, vowing to come out at a later date and explore on her own with just Ryu and Bost for company.
When they all arrived back at the guild hall, Lucy made sure to take Ryu and Bost back to her room to rest some more. They were still healing, after all, and too much exercise would be a bad thing for them while they healed. Gray bid them goodbye, stating that he had a quick mission he signed up to go on and that he would be back in a day or so.
After Gray left, Lucy started looking for a mission of her own to take on while Natsu was playing around the guild hall. Natsu's version of playing, of course, includes a lot of destruction, so it was surprising when Natsu came up behind her and tried to put Happy on Lucy's head.
"What are you doing?"
"Well, Happy and I-" Natsu began excitedly
"Wait. Don't finish that sentence. That sentence always ends in something I don't like or an explosion. I don't want to know anymore."
Natsu playfully scowled at her. "I'm not that bad! You make it sound like I get into some form of trouble every few minutes!"
Happy spoke up. "That's because you do, Natsu."
Lucy laughed before her attention was drawn away from Natsu. She saw a child talking to master Makarov, and he sounded very upset.
"Master, please! My father said that the mission would only take three days, and it's been a week already! Send someone to help him; I think he's in trouble!" The child begged.
"Romeo, your father is a Tamer of Fairy Tail! He can take care of himself!" Makarov told him.
Romeo looked down angrily before tearfully walking away. Natsu got an angered expression on his face, tightening his white scaled scarf and determinately walking out the door. Lucy followed him, waiting to see what he would do. Natsu stopped for a second by Romeo.
"Don't worry kid. We'll go get your dad back." Natsu patted him on the head and Romeo's smile could light up a room.
Lucy made an immediate decision. She reassured Romeo that they would rescue his father and joined Natsu in walking away from the guild. Natsu smiled at her, happy at her decision to join him on his rescue mission.
Lucy made Natsu wait for a second while she went to go fetch the mostly healed Ryu and Bost. Romeo happily waved them off as they left.
This was Lucy's first time discovering Natsu's transportation problem. She felt very awkward and helpless as Natsu moaned and groaned on the train ride there. Happy consoled her, telling her that Natsu is always like that and that he will be fine when they get off the train.
Ryu and Bost were fine on the train, both simply sitting down in the space between the two seats that faced each other and waiting for the ride to be over. When they discovered that the train didn't go all the way to their destination and that the only way to get any further without walking was by hiring a carriage, Natsu had to be practically dragged into it.
When the driver told them that he could take them no further, Lucy sighed and reluctantly complied while Natsu had no qualms about walking the rest of the way up the mountain.
Happy started whining again about being used as a hot water bottle by Lucy.
"But Lucy! Natsu's never cold and he isn't even wearing a shirt! Just that vest that he always wears!"
Lucy hugged the blue cat in her arms closer to herself, refusing to give in to Happy's protests of, "Put me down!"
She would use Ryu and Bost as her heaters, but they were much too large to be carried in her arms. So she settled for warming herself up using Happy. Natsu's naturally elevated body temperate kept him from feeling cold. Lucy also discovered that her two hellhounds were also cold resistant, so she was on her own. Happy wasn't immune to cold, but he was covered in fur and had his wings pressed around his body like a natural coat, keeping him warm in the freezing weather.
Lucy grumbled now regretting her decision to come with Natsu to rescue Romeo's father. She continued on, however, because there was no way in hell that she would turn back now after all she went through to get to this point.