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Here is today's useless fact.

Bet you didn't know that banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

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Bet You Didn't Know

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Dragon's Feelings

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Natsu and Igneel were busily training, attacking each other one after another with a barrage of moves. Igneel would often pause during the fight whenever Natsu did something wrong and correct him on it until he fixed his mistake before continuing. His son was a fast learner though and didn't mess up many times, he was truly a dragon at heart.

A few Fire Dragon Slayer moves later, Natsu stood where he was, across from Igneel, breathing heavily. Training nonstop for two hours did that to the boy, but he still at energy to go on. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his arm then took off his shirt. The material stuck to his skin as he pulled it off; he tossed it on the floor beside him enjoying the cool breeze that hit his chest.

Natsu sighed out and peeked over at his teacher, she was sitting alone in the plains writing in a notebook. While her family was training Lucy took this time to prepare Natsu's next lesson, not wanting to waste her time on just sitting there and watching them. She did have her first-aid bag next to her though, ready for whenever Igneel would call her. She wasn't needed yet so at the moment she was busy writing down words.

Now that Natsu knew the alphabet, she was going to teach him how to read before going back to mathematics. Lucy's goal was for Natsu to be just as smart as she was, but would probably settle at half as smart... maybe ever a quarter. She figured if he knew how to read, write, count and eat probably, plus manners, that he'd be able to survive in the human towns.

"What's wrong my son? You're daydreaming." Igneel said putting his guard down.

"Why does Lucy never do anything?" Natsu asked turning towards his Father.

Igneel looked questionably at his son, "what do you mean? She's your teacher, she teaches you, and your... nurse. She patches you up too." He told him.

"I know that, but I mean train like us. Can she not learn dragon slayer magic too?" Natsu asked.

"You were chosen by me to learn my magic son, not her, so no. She can't learn our magic, but that doesn't mean she can't have a magic of her own. Another reason I picked that young one over there is because of her abilities as a mage, it's not much but I knew she was training before she came to live with us." Igneel told him.

"Training in what? What kind of magic was it? Was it a powerful one?! Does that mean Lucy can fight against me?!" Natsu asked cheerfully.

"Why don't you go ask her?"

Natsu didn't need to be told twice.

"Hey! Lucy!" He yelled running over to her.

Lucy looked up from her work and closed her notebook. She placed it on the grass beside her and stood up, wiping her butt free of dirt.

"What's wrong? Are you hurt?" She asked.

"Nope, I was wondering what kind of magic you know?!" Natsu asked.

"Magic? Oh... well," Lucy frowned a little and looked away from him.

Seeing this, Natsu frowned as well and wondered what was the matter with the girl.

"Um, well... you see my Mother was teaching me her magic. I was training to be a celestial spirit mage." Lucy answered after a while.

"Celesal spirit mage?" Natsu repeated.

Lucy giggled and shook her head, "suh," she stared.

"Suh," Natsu repeated.

"Les."

"Les."

"T."

"T"

"Al."

"Al."

"Suh-les-T-al."

"Suh-les-T-al, celestial. Celestial!" Natsu cheered.

"Very good Natsu." Lucy praised.

"So yeah, what's a celes-tial spirit mage?"

"Um... well our magic is used by celestial spirit gate keys. We summon out creatures from the keys and they come to our world with our magic." Lucy explained.

"Wow! So you can summon out monsters?! Can you do one now?!" Natsu asked.

Lucy shook her head, "no. I need to celestial spirit key to summon out something and my Mother has all of them. Right now I'm just... normal." Lucy told him.

"Hmmm," Natsu hummed.

"Igneel! Find Lucy this key she talks about so she can start training with us!" Natsu ordered his Father.

Igneel chuckled, "it's not so simply my boy. Celestial spirit keys are hard to find. Even though there are mage shops that sell them, the towns near us aren't nearly as big and populated to have them. And if I were to go to a bigger town, I risk getting attack by mages myself." Igneel explained.

"But you're strong Father! You can take all of them on!"

"That I could, but many innocent lives would be in danger and that..."

Natsu sighed, "is a bad thing. Alright, still though. If Lucy doesn't train with her key magic, how will she get any stronger?" He asked.

"It's alright Natsu, I'm sure when I return home I'll get caught up on everything I've missed." Lucy told him.

Natsu stared at her and blinked... return home? What was his teacher talking about?

"But this is your home," he said.

"Oh I know, I meant when I return to my old home with my other family." Lucy further explained.

"... but you're never going back. You're going to stay with our Father and I forever, isn't that right Father?" Natsu asked.

Igneel turned the other way and didn't respond, knowing a secret he could not tell his son at the moment. Natsu frowned and looked back at Lucy, who was simply staring at him.

"No! You can't go home, you can never go back! You're my teacher, you're Igneel's daughter! You have no home to go back too!" Natsu whined.

"I can't stay here forever though." Lucy told him.

"Yes you can!"

"We're going to grow up Natsu, we can't live in the forest forever. Soon we'll have to leave the nest just like a baby bird."

"We aren't birds, we're dragons! And dragons never leave the nest! Even if they did, I'm sure they'd travel in packs!" Natsu complained.

"That's wolves Natsu."

"Shut up! You can't leave and that's final!" Natsu pouted.

Lucy started to get irritated hearing the same thing over and over again. She placed her hands on her hips and leaned over to him.

"You can't tell me what to do!" She yelled in his face.

"Can too! You aren't leaving!"

"Of course I'm not right now! If I did who would be able to teach and heal you?"

"You can't leave ever!"

"I can't stay here forever either though!"

"Yes you can!"

"No I can't!"

"Can!"

"Can't!"

"Can!"

"CAN NOT!"

"CAN TOO!"

"ENOUGH! STOP IT BOTH OF YOU!" Igneel roared.

He grabbed Natsu in his claw and lifted him up, bringing him to his face.

"Lucy here isn't leaving anytime soon alright? So enough fighting!" He told his son.

"But she-"

"BUT NOTHING! She's going to stay with us for many years to come, so stop acting so childish!" Igneel told him.

Even though he was a child to begin with. Natsu pouted and wiggled his way out of Igneel's grasp, once out he jumped down on the ground and started walking away into the forest.

"Natsu!" Lucy called out running after him.

Igneel stopped her though, "he's just cranky. He'll return on his own sooner or later."

Lucy frowned and watched Natsu's fleeting figure before returning back to her notes.

"I'm not staying here forever am I?" She asked.

Igneel couldn't tell if she was sad or happy about that with the tone of her voice. He answered her honestly though.

"I'm afraid not."

Lucy nodded in understandment and started packing up her notebook and pencils.

"If not, how long will I be staying?" She asked.

Igneel laid down to the girl's level and watched her.

"How long do you want to stay?" He asked.

Lucy bit her lip.

"I know you saved me because I was all alone, and I'm very grateful for that. I'm not so sure myself though, I mean I like you and Natsu Papa." Lucy answered.

"But?"

She sighed, "but I miss my Father and Mother, and all my servants and friends."

Igneel sighed also, "I'm sorry I have to say this but you won't be leaving anytime soon."

"I'm okay with that Papa, you've shown me so much love that I never received from my other Father. I'm happy here, you and Natsu really pay attention to me and talk to me all the time! I'm never lonely at all like I was before, and, and-" Lucy sniffed and fell down to her knees, rubbing her hands against her cheeks to wipe her tears away.

Igneel frowned and nudged his daughter with a claw.

"It was a hard life, living with your family?" He asked.

"Mother was always there for me, Father saw me sometimes when he could but Mother always explained how busy work was. I didn't have many friends since I wasn't allowed to go outside much, but all the servants were really nice. I always tried my best to learn everything I could and to please everyone, but, but..."

"It's alright little one, no need to shed tears." Igneel said lifted Lucy up.

He held her against his cheek and let her try to wrap her arms around him as she cried into his scales.

"I always wanted to go outside and play with the other kids, Mother would play with me but it was never the same as with Natsu." She whined.

Little did they know that Natsu was standing in hearing distance, leaning his back against a tree. He peeked from behind it and saw Lucy's small figure against his Father's big one.

"I was never alone, but I always felt lonely without Mother by my side. She always greeted me with such warmth." Lucy mumbled.

"Are you lonely now Lucy?" Igneel asked.

Lucy sniffed and shook her head, "no. Now I have you and Natsu beside me and I'm always feeling warm."

"Papa's glad about that and so is Natsu. The reason he acted like that though is because he's just like you, he's never had any friends either. It's always just been him and me in this forest so I don't know if he's ever been lonely." Igneel told her.

Natsu shook his head, that wasn't true. He loved being here with Igneel, not once did he ever feel lonely or sad about anything... that is... until that argument he had a while ago about Lucy leaving.

"He's grown quite fond of you, you know. You've become his first friend so of course he wouldn't want you to leave us. He wants to stay friends with you forever." Igneel said.

Lucy giggled and smiled, "me too! I want to be with Natsu forever! You too Papa, maybe we can all move back to my home! Natsu could stay with me and I'm sure they'd let you live there too Papa!"

Igneel chuckled, "dragons and humans don't mix so well my daughter and Natsu isn't educated enough to live with humans. He'd burn your house right to ground.

"I guess your right." Lucy sighed.

"Seasons change though little one and time moves forward. We often don't know what will happen in the future so let's enjoy today while we can." Igneel said.

Lucy looked up at him and listened to his words of wisdom.

"Your fate may be to leave us one day, just like how Natsu's fate is to become a Dragon Slayer and leave one day also, but until that day presence itself you should enjoy the times we have left together to the fullest. Leave no regrets behind you when you continue on with your journey."

"No regrets." Lucy mumbled.

"No regrets," Natsu mumbled the same.

He wiggled his nose and shook his head before running deep into the forest, a certain destination in mind.

"Thanks Papa, I'll try to stop fighting with Natsu." Lucy said.

Igneel chuckled, "by all means fight with him. Do whatever you want daughter, he is your student, just like I'll do whatever I want with you and Natsu because you two are my children. And like how Natsu would do whatever he wants just because he is himself. I just want my children to be happy Lucy, that is what makes me a happy dragon."

"I am happy Papa! Super happy! Sure I miss my old home but this one is much better!... Except bathrooms, I don't like peeing in the forest." Lucy mumbled embarrassedly.

Igneel broke down in laughter, his laughs echoing through the whole entire forest that even Natsu could hear him and he was miles away. Lucy smiled up at her Papa and started laughing too.

"That's something you can miss," Igneel grinned.

"Okay, so we're both happy. What about Natsu?"

"He's happy everyday I train him and everyday he plays with you." Igneel answered.

"But what if I start training with him?" Lucy asked.

Igneel scowled, "you cannot learn the art of dragon slayer magic littler one."

"Fine, but what about just fighting? I can punch!" Lucy said bawling her fist in the air.

"That you can, I don't think Natsu would enjoy beating up his teacher though."

"Why not? I enjoy beating him up when he doesn't listen as my student?" Lucy asked.

"Hahaha, that is true but you are different from him. He is a man while you are a woman, there's a certain attraction between him and you plus it's never right for a man to hit a woman." Igneel explained.

Lucy repeated his words in her head, nodding at them except for one thing.

"What do you mean by, attraction?" She asked.

"Lucy, do you know what attraction means?" Igneel asked.

"Um, does it have to do something with love?"

"Correct, but not with love, with being in love."

"So Natsu's in love with me? Like Mother is with Father?"

"No, no my dear. Natsu is way to thick headed to realize that, but he is fond of you and wants to protect you."

Lucy started thinking about it.

"So... he's going to be in love with me?" Lucy asked.

"Who knows what fate has in store for the two of you, I wouldn't be surprised if he did though."

"And... you're going to fall in love with me?" Lucy asked next.

Igneel's old dragon eyes widened, "hahahaha! Dear no Lucy, I'm much too old for that."

"But aren't you fond of me and want to protect me?" Lucy asked.

"Seems you don't understand it my dear."

"Teach me then! I want to understand! I want to know!" Lucy whined jumping up and down.

Igneel placed Lucy back onto the ground and watched her.

"Alright little one, think of this. You've seen your Mother and Father kiss and hug before right?" Igneel asked.

Lucy thought about it, "yeah. Mother says that's grown up things though."

"Correct, now what would you think about doing that with Natsu?"

Lucy scrunched up her nose and twisted her face, "yuck. Natsu's an idiot!"

Igneel laughed, "that he is. That's what being in love is though, wanting to be near your mate. What I feel for you is love though."

Lucy nodded, started to understand. "So being in love and just being loved is two different things?" She asked.

"Now you are getting it my child."

"Okay but what about Natsu? Is he being loved or being in love with me?" Lucy asked cocking her head to the side.

"Only time can tell for that one my dear, love is a strange thing. You are a very beautiful girl so he might be attracted to you on a deeper unknown level that might blossom into love, or he might just always love you as his teacher. Either way I want you to be careful with boys Lucy. Some men will try and take advantage of cute girls like you so always stay on your toes. I'm trying to raise Natsu up to be a gentlemen so I know he'll protect you if the time ever comes." Igneel said.

"You lost me again, what time?"

"Well, the time you choose whether or not you love Natsu or love another man. Whatever you choose just remember Natsu will always be there to protect you."

Lucy smiled hearing this, "really? So Natsu and I will still know each other when we're older?"

Igneel raised his head and looked up towards the sky.

"I've heard humans speak of how big the world truly is, but I don't see it that way. It's actually a very small place Lucy, who knows what will happen. When the times comes you two might go your separate ways or you might stay together, even if separated though just remember we are all connected."

"That's because we're family right?" Lucy asked.

Igneel nodded then smiled sadly, "exactly. So if one day you leave, or Natsu leaves... or even if I leave just remember, our family bond is strong and we'll always meet up with each other again some day."

"Alright Father, I'll try really hard not to forget that... but still! I don't want to love a- oops, to be IN love with a dragon! I want a prince like in the fairy tales!" Lucy cheered.

"Have you heard the story about the dragon turning into a prince though?" Igneel asked, planning to give his son a fighting chance if he ever decides to be in love with the girl.

Lucy's eyes started sparkling, "tell me! Tell me!" She cheered.

"Alright, alright, let's see if this old dragon remembers how it goes." Igneel said trying to recall the children's story Beauty and The Beauty, exchanging beast for dragon though.