Shameless filler chapter.
Several days after his talk with Blake found Natsu walking through the streets of Vale with his sisters and their teammates, his arms laden with several bags full of miscellaneous goods. Ruby thought it would be a good idea to do some 'team bonding' in the form of a shopping trip. As for why Natsu was there, well his sisters were broke and knew he had lot of money saved up from the various freelance jobs he did before going to Beacon. They have the heiress of one of the richest families in Remnant with them, why do they have to mooch off me? Natsu thought with a sigh. This must be how Lucy felt when Happy and I ate her food.
Seeing the look on her brother's face Yang slung her arm over his shoulder and called in a much to happy voice, "Oh, cheer up little bro! You get to spend the day with three gorgeous girls, and Weiss!"-"Hey!" "What could possibly be better than this?" She asked him rhetorically.
"How about not having to pay for four girls on a shopping spree, one of which I may add has a trust fund worth more than our house! Seriously, why am I paying for all this crap?" He asked the girls, raising the bags slightly for empathies.
"Well, I invited Weiss so it would be rude to ask her to pay, Yang and I don't really have any money, and aren't boyfriends supposed to pay for their date's stuff?" Ruby spoke up, looking between him and Blake as she said the last part.
"We aren't dating." Blake bluntly told the younger girl, "And even if we were I wouldn't make him buy all the stuff I wanted. I would pay for it myself."
"Then why aren't you doing that now?" Natsu questioned her, "At least if we were dating I would get something out of it, but right now your just one more person that's burning through my savings!"
Blushing Blake walked a little faster to put some distance between the fire user and herself, "I'm, uh, kinda broke too…" She admitted.
After several seconds of awkward silence, Ruby asked a question of her own, "What would you be getting out of it Natsu?" She asked her brother.
"What?"
"If you and Blake were dating, what would you be getting out of it by paying for her stuff?"
Not seeing a problem with telling his sister, Natsu shrugged his shoulders, "S-" Before he could even finish the word, Yang's hand was covering his mouth, preventing him from making an eligible sound.
"Nothing! He would get nothing, Rubes." Yang quickly said covering up what her twin had been trying to say. Natsu rolled his eyes at his sister's behavior, honestly Ruby was fifteen and Yang still acted like she was a four year old whenever anything that was even remotely related to sex came up.
Ruby took her sister's words at face value and simply kept walking, "Oh, let's go to Dust Till Dawn, I need to reload on Crescent Rose's ammo." With that the young Rose sped off in the direction of her favorite store, leaving her team and brother to follow. Sighing at the girl's antics, the four remaining hunters in training began to jog after the red clocked reaper.
Dust Till Dawn was an average sized store that catered to huntsmen and huntsmen-in-training, all along the walls of the shop were rows and rows of Dust crystals, powders, and rounds. It was no wonder Ruby liked the place so much, it was filled to the brim with weapons and explosives!
Natsu, not feeling the need to restock his crystals, left the girls to do their shopping. Leaving the shopping bags with the store owner who had become good friends with Ruby over the years, Natsu went back outside.
Geez, where do they plan to even put all that crap? Natsu asked himself, stretching his arms to work out the cramps that had built up from caring the girls' bags.
"Pathetic. To think the great Salamander would fall so low in a mere two decades."
The voice was all too familiar to Natsu, even after all the years since he had last heard it. "Acnologia, I was wondering when you'd show your face." Turning to face the tyrant king, Natsu was unsurprised to see that the black dragon was the same as how he remembered him. Dark blue hair, neon blue eyes, and tattoos covering his arms. It was almost like they were never reborn. Except for one thing.
"Nice arm." Natsu couldn't help saying, "Do you still get phantom pains from when Igneel ripped the old one off?"
"Every day, Dragneel." The tyrant told him.
Smirking, Natsu decided to see how far he could push his old enemy, "So what convinced you to get off your sorry ass and come find me? I thought you would have been at my door the second your power returned."
Acnologia scowled at the insult, "Believe me dragon," he spat the word out like it was the greatest insult one could give, "When my power does return your days will end soon after."
One word stood out when the dragon kings said that, "When? Don't tell me you're still recovering from the transfer of worlds?" Seeing Acnologia's scowl deepen Natsu couldn't help but laugh, "Oh Mavis, you are! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" He couldn't help himself, here he was face to face with his greatest enemy and he could probably kill the guy with ease. Still chuckling, Natsu looked at the blue haired king before him, "If your power hasn't returned yet, then why are you here Acnologia? Are you so arrogant as to think you could beat me at anything less than full power?"
"No Dragneel I am not. I have come for a different reason." The dragon told the red eyed slayer, his face still set in a deep scowl, "I came here to warn you. I am not the only threat to this world."
"Yeah I know. Their called Grimm. Big black soulless things that are a dime a dozen." Natsu said.
"Do not mock me Salamander. I do not consider that trash to be anything more than a nuisance at best. No, the threat is one born from man. They are gathering the pathetic dregs this world has of magic and plan to become the rulers of a new age." Acnologia told him.
Now Natsu was paying attention, "Why are you telling me this? I would have thought you would join them if they were such a 'threat'."
If anything the dragon's scowl only deepened, "As if I would stoop so low as to ally myself with such weak things. No I am telling you this because I can sense that you have sealed your power, lowering yourself to the level of these pathetic beings who call themselves warriors. I want you to be aware of the dangers you have opened yourself up to by making such a foolish mistake, because if you die by any hand but mine any victory I may later achieve would be tainted by the knowledge that I never got my revenge. I will not let my pride suffer for your idiocy Salamander, you will live, if only so I can have the pleasure of killing you myself."
Now it was Natsu's turn to scowl, "Then how about we get that out of the way and I kill you now?"
Acnologia just laughed at his words, "Just because my full power has yet to return does not mean that I am defenseless Dragneel. Even as weakened as I am a fight between us would destroy everything around us for miles, and I know your bleeding heart couldn't stand that any more than my pride could stand fighting you at anything less than both our full powers. Do not fret Salamander, the time for our next battle will come soon enough. Just be sure to live until then." With that, the dragon in human form turned his back to Natsu, silently saying that he was not afraid of him, and walked off leaving the Fairy Tail wizard to think about what he had said.
What the hell was that? What is that bastard planning? There's no way he would just tell me something like that unless he got something out of it… Unless it's just like he said and he just wants to get the chance to fight me himself. If there is one thing dragons and humans have in common it's the fact that they hate to lose or have their pride take a hit. But who's gathering magic? Heck I didn't even know this world had magic other than the two of us, where are they even getting it?
Natsu's train of thought was broken however when team RWBY exited the Dust store "Yo, little bro!" Yang yelled- right in Natsu's ear.
"Gak! Damn it Yang what the hell was that for?!" Natsu demanded, rubbing his now throbbing ear.
"You were staring at the same spot in the road for the past five minutes, couldn't think of any other way to get your attention." Yang shrugged uncaring of her twins apparent pain, "Anyway we got all the stuff we wanted, and Weiss was nice enough to pay since you just up and left like that, so lets head back to the school now. The last airship leaves in twenty minutes." Yang told him, before shoving several of the shopping bags he had been carrying earlier into his arms, "Let's go I don't want to have to walk back."
"I'm coming, I'm coming. Geez." Natsu said allowing his sister to push him along. He could think more on what Acnologia said later.
Right well to be honest even I think this chapter is pretty much crap, but I said I would have a chapter done today so here ya go.
Acnologia makes his first appearance and reveals he is still recovering his power, and Natsu learns there are other magic users on Remnant. Other than that nothing happened this chapter. Like at all.
In other news next chapter will skip back to cannon's time frame and my state testing ends this upcoming Friday so full length chapters will soon be making a comeback. Also the story I write when my ADD makes it too hard to focus on only one thing 'Dragon of the Hearth' now has the set up chapters posted, please check it out and tell me what you think. Just don't expect another chapter for it to come out too soon, like I said it is a secondary priority.
And finally the Beta who said they would check my chapters never responds so I'm currently looking for a new one, if anyone wants the job send me a message (I'm looking at you Jack Redhawke).
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Wingd Knight out.