"Banzai!" Naruto yelled as he crashed into the building. Aiming at one of the people inside, he crashed into the surprised wizard and used him as a cushion.
Bouncing off the wizard, he punched the first person he saw with a flame covered fist. Following that up with an iron fist to another unsuspecting wizard. By this time, all of the members of Gloria had realized that they were being attacked.
A few of them began sending a barrage of magical attacks at Naruto. Somersaulting away from the attacks, he took a deep breath and roared out, "Fire Dragon's Roar!"
The breath attack was powerful enough to not only defeat a large number of the dark mages, but also overwhelm a large number of magical attacks that had been heading Naruto's way. Once he let up with his breath attack, Naruto put his hands together.
"Metal Make: Hammer!" A plain over sized hammer appeared in Naruto's hands. Swinging it around, Naruto took pleasure from hearing the bodies go crack when he hit them. Off to his side, Naruto spotted three wizard congregating together.
"Triple Unison Raid: Magma Vortex!" The three wizards released a combination fire, earth, and wind magic spell together resulting in a molten rock tornado heading right towards Naruto.
Pumping magic into his hammer, he braced himself and swung. When the head of the hammer met the tornado, he was pushed back. Carving a trench with his feet, Naruto kept pushing his hammer, but he heard cracking sounds. Looking at where the head met the handle, He saw that it was beginning to break under the stress. Reinforcing it with magic did nothing as the strength of the tornado was damaging the hammer faster than Naruto could fix it.
Looking at the molten doom ahead of him and then at his hammer, he gritted his teeth. "Metal Make: Launch!" Underneath him, a metal platform lifted him away from danger, but once he was out of the way he saw that the tornado was actually following him.
"Battle Archive!" Feeling the magic activate in his eyes, Naruto began to analyze the magic forming the tornado.
In an instant, he saw through the spell. It wasn't a true Unison Raid. A Unison Raid created magic that was more powerful than its parts. The Magma Vortex spell was created through the combination of a fire spell to melt the earth spell and then the wind spell controlled it. However, he saw the flaws in the spell.
'The fire spell has to be continually invoked at increasing temperatures to keep the earth spell in its melted state, and the wind spell is constantly cooling the entire structure. As such the weak link in the entire spell is the FIRE WIZARD!' Naruto realized as he landed back on the ground.
Throwing his hammer up into the air, he threw his hands forward. "Splash Cannon!" Shooting a sphere of water three times his size, he fired it at the tornado. Once it impacted, the sphere broke and the entirety of the water inside splashed out onto the tornado. The water evaporated instantly, but with such a large amount of water the temperature of the molten tornado plummeted and become stone.
Jumping up and grabbing his hammer, he pumped it with magic and repaired the cracks it had sustained and then he drove it into the stone. Breaking through the stone without a problem, he launched himself at the three wizard who launched the spell at him. Swinging his hammer, he took them out.
Looking around, he saw that the guild had been abandoned. They ran away when he was busy dealing with the tornado. Checking once more, he sighed. "I'm gonna have to track them down."
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"You can't get away!" Naruto yelled as he plummeted at the fleeing wizards. Swinging his hammer down, it crashed in between the three wizards. Sending them flying in all directions, he left the over sized hammer embedded in the ground.
Dashing at one of the still flying wizards, Naruto punched him into the ground. Jumping at another, he was met with a barrage of flying cards. Throwing his right hand forward he roared, "CRASH!" The cards that were thrown at him were disintegrated in the attack and reeling his other arm back, he sent it into the face of the card thrower.
Back flipping, Naruto avoided the large crystal that was thrown at him. Looking at who threw the crystal, he saw that it was the only girl in the group and the one that was guarding a chest of some sort. 'If it's in a chest then it must be important.'
Deciding to grab the chest after he knocked out the girl, he was forced to dodge the projectiles that kept coming at him. The girl was a good shot, but that was it. Seeing another crystal flying at him, he grabbed it out of the air. Draining the magic from it, he learned that the girl was using a form of Make Magic.
She apparently wasn't very good at it though. However, he could see its potential. The magic could create crystals in all of its natural formations, but the only one she could make were as weak as glass. A good hit would shatter them. It made him wonder why she was the one who was given the chest.
Dodging another barrage, he grew tired of waiting for her to step up. "Shinra Tensei," Naruto said bored as he sent the wave of force at her. Unable to see the attack coming, she was sent into a tree and it knocked her out. Picking up the chest she dropped, Naruto opened it up.
Unprepared for the bright glow, he had to blink his eyes to get rid of the spots in them. Focusing, he was able to see that it was strange gold symbol. It was shaped much like a heart, but he wasn't able to tell much beyond that. Whenever he tried to focus on it, it became blurry. Ignoring that, Naruto instead focused on the magic he could feel coming from it.
He was unprepared to see the vortex of infinite magic energy inside. So enraptured by it, he didn't hear the warnings coming from his tenant. Touching the heart, Naruto was consumed in a golden light.
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Opening his eyes, Naruto saw that he was in some strange place. Everywhere he looked he was surrounded by white. Pushing himself up, he looked himself over and saw that he was perfectly fine. In fact, he felt better than ever.
'That would be my doing.' Turning to the voice he recognized, Naruto saw that he couldn't make out Gabriel's form.
"Why are you blurry?" Naruto asked squinting and trying to make out anything. Gabriel looked like a fuzzy ball of light.
'That is all that your limited view of reality allows you to perceive. However, I believe that there are more pressing concerns.' Gabriel thought-spoke to him.
"Right. Where are we?" Naruto asked as he looked around once more.
'Currently we are between your world and the next. I believe some people in your world call it heaven.' Gabriel thought-spoke to Naruto getting him to freeze.
"I'm dead?" Naruto said quietly as he tried to keep from panicking.
'No, and you are no longer at the risk of dying young.' Gabriel told a panicking Naruto.
"Wait. You knew about that?" Naruto asked shocked that Gabriel knew about his condition.
'Of course I did. I knew about your condition the moment I entered your body.' Gabriel spoke into Naruto's mind while making him feel dumb for questioning him.
'Your body was unable to adjust to the vast amount of magic power you had when you were young. As a result you suffered tremendous pain whenever you used your magic. The real reason you left your village wasn't because someone poisoned the surrounding land. It was so that you could find someone who could help your condition.
Unfortunately, by the time you were able to find someone you were too old for the treatment. Instead all that could be done was to numb your mind to the pain that you were receiving from your magic container. The spell has been known to fail when you absorb too much magic at once.
However, that is now history. The moment you touched the heart, I was restored to full power. This would normally be a moment of celebration, but you ignored my warnings and touched the heart.
Instead of slowly draining the heart so that I wouldn't damage your soul, I absorbed the entirety of my power at once and your soul split in two.' Gabriel thought-spoke to Naruto.
"Huh?!" Naruto yelled in fear.
'Calm yourself. The soul is durable. Your soul will survive and heal itself until it returns to normal.'
"Then what about the other half of my soul?" Naruto asked as he tried to wrap his head around what he just heard.
'I have taken care of it. I sent it to another world.' Gabriel thought-spoke nonchalantly.
"Couldn't you have just put it back together?" Naruto asked while getting the gist of what happened.
'Yes I could have.'
"Then why didn't you?" Naruto asked as he began to wonder about Gabriel's sanity.
'It is all part of the design.' Gabriel thought-spoke to Naruto who now wore a puzzled expression.
"Design? Are you telling me that this was planned?" Naruto asked shocked while staring at Gabriel.
'It is time for us to part ways.' Gabriel suddenly thought-spoke.
"Aren't you going to answer my question?" Naruto asked in a hurry and wondering why Gabriel avoided the question.
'No. I shall not. Goodbye Naruto.' Gabriel thought-spoke before Naruto could say anything.
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Sitting up suddenly, Naruto looked around in panic. Recognizing the area as the location he was at before he touched the heart, he noticed that the girl was gone. The other two dark wizards were still here though.
Bracing himself, Naruto decided to test what Gabriel had spoken of. "HAAAAA!"
Feeling his magic power explode out of him, Naruto was surprised to feel no pain. Pushing even more of his power out, the ground began to shake and he could feel his control slipping. Calming down, Naruto looked at himself in wonder.
Gabriel had healed him, but it also made him wonder why he wouldn't answer his question. Shaking his head, Naruto decided to not question it. He was healed and he would live a long time, and hopefully he'd get a sexy girlfriend soon too.
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"Wow, all of you look like crap." Naruto said as he looked at his fellow Fairy Tail mages.
"Oh shut up. You got lucky." Macao shot back as he held an ice pack to his head.
"Yeah right, you're just getting slow old man." Naruto said as he crossed his arms and looked at Macao smugly.
"What'd you say brat? You wanna go?!" Macao yelled as Wakaba held him back from strangling Naruto.
"Bring it on! I bet I could beat you no problem!" Naruto yelled before getting crushed by a giant fist.
"No one will be fighting anytime soon. It's a time of rest and recovery." Makarov said before turning his head and whispering, "Besides Porlyusica would kill me if I let anyone else get hurt after she's patched everyone up."
"Porlyusica?" Naruto asked once he pulled himself out of the crater that he'd been crushed into.
"She's the resident medical expert. She actually treated you after the whole Phantom Lord fiasco." Makarov said as he drank some more of his beer.
"Really? Why didn't anyone tell me? I would have thanked her." Naruto said as he scratched the back of his head.
"She's actually still here. She's in the medical wing treating a few of our members." Makarov said as he finished his beer. "Mira! I need more beer!"
Ignoring him, Naruto walked into the medical wing. Looking inside, he saw that Bisca and Alzack were getting patched up. "Hey where's Porlyusica?"
"She's over there." Alzack said as he gestured behind them to the elderly woman who was closing up her bag.
"Mean old lady!" Naruto said as he pointed at Porlyusica. Turning to the shout, Porlyusica looked at Naruto and then disregarded him.
"Hey! I'm talking to you! I came here to say thanks for helping me a few months ago, but don't think I forgot that you threw a book at my face!"
"Oh be quite and just enjoy the time you have left you brat." Porlyusica said with no venom in her voice.
Raising an eyebrow at what she said Alzack and Bisca began to pay attention.
"What are you talking about?" Naruto asked confused.
"Your magic container is putting such a stress on your body that you have less than a year to live." Porlyusica said as she turned to look at Naruto.
"Oh don't worry. I got that fixed." Naruto said waving off her concern.
"Impossible. The procedure can only be done on young children." Porlyusica said as she glared at Naruto for lying to her.
"Yeah, but a friend of mine fixed it. Don't worry." Naruto said as he put his hands on his hips.
"You," Porlyusica said while poiting at Naruto, "are getting a physical right now! You two!" Pointing at the eavesdropping duo. "Get out!"
Literally kicking out Bisca and Alzack, they could only stare at the closed door as they heard Naruto begin to scream.
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"So you were dying?" Makarov asked as he stared at Naruto.
"Yeah, but I had years to live." Naruto said trying to get past the whole thing.
"Porlyusica said that you had less than a year to live." Mirajane said as she looked at Naruto and tried to calm her heart. To think that they might have lost someone so young.
"Okay, so I was off by a few years. The point is that I'm all bettter now." Naruto said as he tried to ignore the way that Mirajane was looking at him. It made him feel guilty.
"I understand your wish for secrecy over something like this, however we are your family and as such you should learn to rely on us. You will need to be punished for not confiding in us." Makarov said seriously as he stroked his chin.
"Fine, but can we please just drop this. I got over the fact that I was gonna have a short lifespan. Right now I want to celebrate the fact that I'm not gonna die young." Naruto said as he scratched the back of his head.
"Your right." Makarov said as he nodded his head. Standing up he took a deep breath and said, "All right you brats! It's time to party!"
Hearing him proclaim that, all of Fairy Tail began to party once again.
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"So you were dying." Cana said as she finished her barrel of beer.
"Even you heard about it?" Naruto said as he put his head on counter of the bar.
"I'd be amazed if anyone in the guild didn't already know about it." Cana said as she picked up a new barrel.
"Anyway, if you had told us sooner, I would have made sure that you died a man." Cana said with a saucy grin.
Gaining wide eyes, Naruto turned his head and looked at Cana. Noticing her flushed face, he realized she was drunk. "Well, is your offer is still available?"
Laughing, Cana had to lean on the bar to keep from falling. "Sorry, but now that I know that you're not dying the offer's gone, but hit me up in a few years when you're older."
Watching her walk away, he noticed that she was putting an extra bit of sway in her hips. Seeing her look back he realized that she was doing it on purpose. Grinning, he just enjoyed the view. At least he did until Mirajane tapped him in the shoulder.
Looking at her, he noticed the serious expression she wore. Seeing her gesture to the back room, he followed her. Getting inside and taking a seat on a barrel, he saw her close and lock the door. Feeling his heart race, he wondered if she had heard what Cana had said.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Mira asked him quietly.
Figuring out what she was talking about, Naruto sighed. "Like I said, I was told that I had years to live. At best I'd make it to my mid-thirties. At worst I'd die in my twenties."
"Porlyusica said you had less than a year."
Scratching his head, Naruto had the sense to be embarrassed. "I didn't take into account how much magic I absorbed since I joined Fairy Tail. The more magic I had, the less I lived. I didn't realize that I had actually absorbed so much magic, but don't worry!" Naruto said trying to keep her from crying.
"I'm all better now, even Porlyusica said so. I won't be dying anytime soon. If anything I'll die an old old man." Naruto finished as he laughed a bit.
Crossing the distance between them, Mira hugged him as she began to cry. Freaking out, Naruto just hugged her and rubbed her back. Though he did blush a bit when he realized that she was wearing a back less dress and that her breasts were pushing against his chest.
After a bit Mirajane stopped crying, but didn't stop hugging him. Naruto, having gotten rid of his blush, just held her. He was confused about what he was supposed to do, but he didn't have to think on it long as she let go a bit after.
However, he got confused once again when she grabbed his face. Blinking, he wondered if she was gonna go 'Demon' like a few of the other members said she used to. However, what she did was nothing like what he expected. She kissed him. It was a quick chaste kiss, but it was enough to make Naruto's blush return full force.
Wide eyed and face as red as Erza's hair, he could only look at Mira in surprise. "Don't forget that we're a family. No matter what you need, we'll always be here."
Nodding as that was all he could do, he saw her leave the back room. A minute later, Naruto finally found his voice, "What the fuck was that!?"
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The following day, Naruto still had trouble looking at Mira, but it was put at the back of his mind when the Oracion Seis destruction team arrived. Though they came with two extra people.
"So you're the Sky Dragon Slayer?" Naruto asked Wendy once she was no longer surrounded by the rest of the guild.
"Ah, yes. I was trained by Grandeeney." Wendy said with a smile. Next to her Carla was looking at Naruto with narrowed eyes.
"I'm guessing Grandeeney raised you too?" Naruto asked while resting his head on the back of chair.
"Yeah, but she disappeared." Seeing the sad look Wendy got on her face, Naruto knew he had to steer the conversation in a different direction.
"Are you liking the guild so far?"
"Oh yes, everyone is so nice. It's actually really fun." Wendy said with a smile.
"That's good to hear. If you ever need any help don't hesitate to ask." Naruto said back with a smile as he stood up.
"Natsu! You and me lets go!" Naruto yelled as he pointed dramatically at Natsu.
"Hell yeah!" Natsu said before charging at Naruto with a flame covered fist. However, he was stopped short by a massive fist.
"Fight later! Right now we party!" Makarov slurred out as he he danced on a table.
Seeing the crater Natsu was in, Naruto relented. They could fight later.
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"So, are you gonna show me how much better your Dragon Slayer Magic has gotten?" Natsu said as he stretched.
"Well, I was thinking we'd just fight and see what happens." Naruto said as he activated Battle Archive. It'd been a while since he fought Natsu.
"Well then, let's go!" Natsu said as he launched himself before Makarov even said go.
Swinging his arm out, Naruto yelled, "Requip: Hammer!" Swinging his over sized metal hammer, Naruto smacked Natsu up into the sky. Jumping after him, Naruto tried to swing his hammer down on Natsu, but he kicked Naruto in the face as retaliation.
Back flipping onto the ground, Naruto held the hammer off to his side. Natsu was too fast to hit with the hammer more than once. Now he would be expecting it. 'Unless,' Naruto thought as he narrowed his eyes, 'I sped the hammer up.' Channeling his magic into the hammer, Naruto jumped and swung the hammer, but mid-swing he released the magic he channeled as Fire Magic.
Getting a boost mid-swing allowed Naruto to once again hit Natsu. However, this time the force he hit him with was much higher. This sent Natsu rocking up into the sky. Activating Aera, he flew after him. Once again above him, Naruto knew that Natsu was expecting him to smack him down, except that he had an idea. Channeling Titan Magic into the hammer, it grew to titanic proportions.
Swinging it down, Naruto smirked when he saw the scared look Natsu expressed. The force of the strike was far larger than either of the ones before and when Natsu crashed back into the ground it created a crater.
Following through with his swing made Naruto make a few flips in mid-air from the inertia of the hammer. Shrinking it down, Naruto managed to get himself under control. Landing on the ground, Naruto ignored the crowd around them.
Waiting for Natsu to spring up, Naruto noticed that he wasn't moving. Inching himself over slowly, he poked Natsu with his foot. Seeing no reaction, he looked at Natsu's face and saw that he was unconscious.
"Woohoo! I won!" Naruto said as he threw his hammer into the sky. All around him, the guild couldn't keep their shock off their faces. Natsu was strong. To be beaten in three hits was crazy.
"Oh my god, Naruto's a bigger monster than Natsu." Lucy cried out when she saw Natsu get beaten.
"Naruto beat Natsu up when he couldn't even finish the fight when he first joined." Gray said as he tried to keep the fear off his face.
"Alright then, it's time to fight a man!" Elfman yelled as get got into the circle that was to serve as the battlefield.
Turning to his new opponent, Naruto lit his hands up with lightning. However, he then unveiled a spell he'd been working on. With a yellow magic seal appearing underneath him, Naruto's skin began turning yellow as scales developed on his body.
"Lightning Dragon's Scales."
"Well? What are you waiting for Elfman?" Naruto taunted when he saw Elfman freeze in shock.
Shaking off his shock, Elfman yelled, "Beast Arm: Iron Bull!"
Seeing Elfman charging at him, Naruto braced himself. Crossing his arms, he took the hit. The ground underneath him cracked a bit, but Naruto was unharmed. Smirking at the shocked look Elfman had, Naruto released a burst of lightning sending Elfman flying away.
Putting his hands together, he drew them apart and created a halberd composed of lightning, "Lightning Halberd!"
Twirling the halberd, he aimed it at Elfman. Seeing the halberd and remembering what it did to Laxus, Elfman moved cautiously. However, Naruto wasn't going to take things slow. Utilizing High Speed, Naruto shot forwards towards Elfman, Naruto ducked under a swing and he jabbed his halberd at Elfman. Unable to move out of the way, he took the full force of the lightning halberd.
Pulling the halberd away from Elfman, Naruto watched him topple over. "WOO! That's two! Who's next?"
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Lying unconscious after taking a beating from Makarov, Naruto didn't hear the conversation that occurred between Mirajane and Makarov. "It's incredible that simply being cured of his condition has made him such a better fighter."
Shaking his head, Makarov corrected her. "It's not that he's become a better fighter. It's that he's no longer scared about using his magic power. You remember what he said, about his magic container? If he used too much it'd cause him pain. He might not feel it, but his body still registered it.
Now though? He doesn't have to hold back anymore. He can now channel the entirety of his magic power into his spells. You saw how he enlarged his hammer correct? That requires more magic power than most wizards have."
"Oh, so then he can now overwhelm his opponents when before he had to outmaneuver them. That's pretty incredible." Mirajane said as she looked at the hammer that was lodged into the ground next to her.
Around her were the unconscious bodies of other mages. They had decided to see how many people Naruto could beat in a row and as a result Fairy Tail had lost about a fifth of its workforce. Makarov decided to end it when Naruto defeated Max.
Of course, Makarov hadn't been expecting Naruto to not only take the hit, but remain standing and challenge him to a fight. After that though, Makarov crushed him, but it was interesting to see that Naruto could actually take a hit from him.
"Now, what am I gonna do with all these bodies?" Makarov asked himself as he saw that everyone was now unconscious.
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"So this is healing magic?" Naruto asked as Wendy healed his swollen eye. He had already activated his Battle Archive, so that he could analyze it, but he could only analyze it with one eye as the other was being healed.
Wendy nodded, but kept from looking him in the eye as the solid orange color was unnerving as she didn't know where to look. It was even more unnerving than his ringed purple eyes.
"It's incredible." Naruto said as he saw the way the magic worked. He had seen an incredible amount of magics, but none were as intricate as this.
"Thank you." Wendy said as she finished healing his eye.
Blinking, Naruto touched his eye. It was still a bit tender, but he could actually see out of it now. Smiling at Wendy, she smiled back before moving on to the other members who still needed some treatment.
Seeing her leave, Naruto brought up his hand. Focusing, he began to imitate Wendy's healing magic. It was a lot more difficult than almost anything else he had used. It also required a fair bit of magic power to maintain, but that wasn't really a problem for him.
Letting it go, he sighed as the strain disappeared. It required intense focus and at the moment he didn't need to use it. Standing up from the bench he was sitting on, Naruto left the guild hall. He needed to do some experimentation again.
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Sitting in his tree, Naruto looked at the Archive screens with all of the information he had gathered about Dragon Slayer Magic. This time he had three sources of information to draw upon. Looking at Natsu, Gajeel, and even Wendy using Dragon Slayer Magic was interesting.
Without even telling his Archive, it began to find the common factors between all three of the slayers. This information was being compiled on a completely separate screen. However, once it finished, another screen opened up and it showed the instance when Natsu had scales.
The information gathered from this sample was apparently incredible as the screen compiling the information exploded into action. Seeing the information being compiled, Naruto had to blink and wonder if this was normal for Archive. He only had met one other wizard who could use Archive, and he hadn't really told him much beyond the basics.
Shrugging, Naruto decided not to question it. It just made his magic even more unique. Seeing the compiling window stopped being active, he touched it. Opening up even more, Naruto began to read through the information and realized that what he now had was pure Dragon Slayer Magic. It had no element attached to it.
Getting an idea, Naruto closed all of the other windows and brought up all the elemental magic he knew. Creating multiple copies of the pure Dragon Slayer Magic, he moved them over the elemental magic screens. Seeing the screens begin to combine the information, he leaned back and waited. Thankfully, he didn't have to wait long as the screens finished quickly.
Looking at the new screens, he saw that they now had titles.
Water Dragon Slayer Magic
Wind Dragon Slayer Magic
Earth Dragon Slayer Magic
Ice Dragon Slayer Magic
Light Dragon Slayer Magic
Darkness Dragon Slayer Magic
Grinning like a fool, Naruto focused and he felt his hand become engulfed with water along with the familiar feeling of Dragon Slayer Magic flowing through him.
Letting it dissipate, Naruto opened up a list of all of the magic he could use. However, he stopped at the section about his Rinnnegan. Looking at the list of magic he could use, Naruto tried to activate the Asura Path, but couldn't. Moving on to the rest, he found the same result.
Frowning, Naruto wondered why he was unable to use any of them, except for the Deva Path. He had been able to use that one since he was a child. Sighing, he left it alone. It could wait. He had time to research it later.
Closing those, he looked through the list again, but he stopped on Flame God Slayer Magic. Opening it up, he saw that it was very sparse. It mentioned its ability to hurt spirits, the black flames, and the ability to eat flames much like a dragon slayer.
Looking at it, Naruto wondered if he could synthesize the rest of the missing information. From what he knew it was very similar to Dragon Slayer Magic, so maybe he could just transplant that information over?
Opening up a window with Dragon Slayer Magic, he dragged that information over to the empty God Slayer Magic and he waited. However, instead of his Archive exploding into action like it did before it went slow. A few lines of information would be written, before they were erased and then new lines were formed. This happened continuously, but Naruto noticed that it was actually gaining some sort of progress.
Scratching his cheek, he realized that his Archive would probably take a while to do this, so it'd be best to leave it be.
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"Where's Wendy at?" Naruto asked as he had wanted to go on a job with the newest member.
"She and Natsu went after a stupid rumor about a dragon." Gajeel said in his usual gruff tone.
"If there was a dragon anywhere near here, we'd all be dead." Naruto replied as he sat down on a stool at the bar.
Raising an eyebrow at the statement, Gajeel asked, "What makes you say that?"
"During the era of dragons humans were the food source for dragons." Naruto said as he ordered a drink from Mirajane.
"How the hell do you know that?" Gajeel asked completely surprised. He had known that dragons ruled the world hundreds of years ago, but he hadn't known that they ate people.
"The woman who took care of me when I was younger was a historian. She was really knowledgeable about the era of dragons." Naruto said with a smile as he remembered his caretaker.
"Sounds like she was really smart." Gajeel said catching on to what Naruto was subtlety saying.
"She really was, but god you didn't want to piss her off. She'd smack you around if you did." Naruto said as he remembered mouthing off to her once. She had smacked him up and down the house until he apologized.
"HAHAHA, sounds like she was the perfect caretaker." Gajeel said as he laughed at Naruto's scared face.
Hearing the guild door being smacked open, Naruto turned his head and saw Erza walking in. "Sup Erza. If you're looking for Natsu he took Wendy to chase down a rumor about a dragon."
"No, I'm not looking for him, but thank you for the information. I came here to inform the master that I was attacked." Erza said as she crossed her arms across her armored chest.
"Who'd be crazy enough to attack you? Besides Natsu." Naruto asked as he turned the stool around to look at her.
"I'm not really sure. They were covering their face, but they were able to use requip when they fought me." Erza said as she recounted her fight.
"Not many people can use requip in a fight." Naruto said as he tried to figure out if he knew any criminals that used requip.
Nodding to his answer, Erza replied, "That's why I wanted to inform the master about it."
"Well he should be in his office writing another apology letter." Mirajane said cheerfully as she cleaned some mugs.
Seeing Erza walk towards the office, Naruto wondered who would be crazy enough to try and attack Erza. However, his thoughts were derailed when Gajeel asked him, "So, what else did your caretaker tell you about the dragon era?"
Grinning at hearing the genuine curiosity, Naruto replied, "Well, there was a dragon civil war if you can believe it."
"Seriously? Dragons fighting each other? Damn, that'd be terrifying." Gajeel said as he imagined Metallicana fighting another dragon.
"Yeah, but after that not much is known. Historical records during that time are even harder to find than ones during the era of dragons." Naruto said as Mirajane served him a drink. Smiling at her, and successfully keeping his blush down for the first time since she kissed him, he thanked her.
Watching her walk away, Naruto didn't hear Gajeel ask him a question. Though he felt it when Gajeel smacked him. Holding his head, Naruto turned to him with a shocked expression. "What the hell man?"
"Pay attention when I'm asking you a question." Gajeel said as he rubbed his fist. Naruto's head was hard.
"What?" Naruto asked angry that he was interrupted ogling Mirajane.
"I asked what else you knew." Gajeel replied while looking away.
Grinning, Naruto told him what little he knew about the era of dragons.
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"I don't like being told to stay behind." Naruto pouted as he leaned against a table.
"I know, but there's a reason why I asked you to stay behind." Makarov said as he waited for Elfman, Macao, and Wakaba to return with Gray.
"Like what?" Naruto asked as he turned a stink eye towards him.
"Currently, you have the most magic power in the entirety of the guild. Should it come to it, I expect you to use it to defend Magnolia." Makarov said as he looked at Naruto.
"Well duh. I can't believe you thought you needed to tell me that." Naruto said as people from the city began to come into the guild for safety.
Chuckling a tiny bit, Makarov smirked at Naruto. "It's good to hear that my boy. Now, get ready."
Sending a confused look at Makarov, Naruto's eyes widened when he felt the magical energy nearby. Pushing himself off the table, Naruto ran outside the guild. Looking out over the horizon, he could see the dragonoid that Makarov was talking about earlier.
"Can we protect the town and the guild hall at the same time?" Levy asked outloud when she saw the dragon flying near Magnolia.
"Master has some kind of strategy right?" Jet asked Mirajane as she was the one who was usually in the loop about these things.
"He wants to wait until he's had the chance to talk to Gray." Mirajane said as she nervously waited for her brother to arrive with Gray.
"What good is that gonna do when we don't even know if the guys were able to capture him? We can't wait here twiddling our thumbs." Cana said as she put a hand to her face to try and hold off the oncoming headache.
"I'll keep the dragon outside the city." Naruto said suddenly causing everyone to look at him like he was crazy.
"Are you crazy? That thing will kill you." Cana said angrily while staring at him like he was crazy.
"I'll be fine. All of you just make sure that the citizens are safe." Naruto said before activating his Aera and flying off towards the flying dragon.
Taking deep breaths, Naruto realized that the fight he was about to have was nothing like the ones he's had before. While he doubted that the thing had the true strength of a dragon, it was still dangerous.
Bringing up his magic power to the surface, Naruto was surrounded in a corona of blue light. Focusing his mind, he shouted, "Shinra Tensei!"
The power of this Shinra Tensei was beyond anything that Naruto had ever tried before. Anything that was in front of his hands was pulverized. Large sections of forest were leveled as the wave of repulsive force made its way towards the fake dragon. When it reached the dragonoid, the construct was instantly pushed back into the mountains that it flew over.
As it crashed into the mountain, Naruto activated his Battle Archive. Looking at the machine, Naruto was able to see that it was gathering power from the orb in its chest.
"Naruto, did you do that?"
Turning his head, Naruto saw that Erza was flying next to him wearing her Black Wing Armor. "Yeah. Where did you come from?"
"I was on its back. I felt your magical power and jumped off just before you sent it flying." Erza told an embarrassed Naruto.
"Oh I am so sorry. I didn't know you were on its back." Naruto said as he apologized.
"It's fine. I was trying to stop it, but your attack did more than any of mine." Erza said as she looked back to the downed dragonoid.
"So, any idea about what's powering this thing? I know that it's getting power from the orb in its chest, but what's in there?" Naruto asked as he saw the dragonoid getting back up.
"Natsu is in there. He's being used as the power source." Erza said as the dragonoid began to jerk around.
"It looks like Natsu is trying to overload it. Though, he's going to need a lot more power than what he's putting out if he wants to be successful." Naruto said as he saw the dragonoid already adapting to the increase in power.
"Any idea about how to get him out of there?" Erza asked as she readied her sword as the dragonoid began to flap its wings so that it could take off.
"Yeah. We smash that orb. However, it's using Dragon Slayer Magic as a power source, so only Dragon Slayer Magic can actually damage it." Naruto said as he began to gather magic so that he could begin to attack it.
"So then my attacks wouldn't do anything?" Erza asked frustrated at being unable to do anything.
"The only way you'd be able to damage it is if you used a large amount of magic power to break through its defenses. Unfortunately, if you did that you wouldn't have any power left. Unless..." Naruto trailed off as he looked at Erza's sword.
"Can I see your sword for a moment?" Naruto asked as he held out his hand.
Raising an eyebrow at what he was asking, she gave her sword to him. Grabbing it and examining it through his Battle Archive, he saw how the magic was flowing through the sword. Gathering pure Dragon Slayer Magic, he began to weave it into the sword. Making sure that the magic already in the sword didn't conflict with the Dragon Slayer Magic, he was able to successfully integrate the magic perfectly.
Swinging it once, he smirked as he felt the magic hum within it. Handing it back to Erza, Naruto smirked when he saw her gain a surprised expression on her face. "It should be able to damage the dragonoid now. I'll draw it's attention. You get Natsu out of that sphere."
Without waiting for her to agree, Naruto took off. Taking a deep breath, he yelled, "Water Dragon's Roar!"
Like the other dragon roars, the Water Dragon's Roar released a whirpool of magic water at the dragonoid which pushed it back onto the ground. However, unlike other the other roars the magic water was moving at such a rapid speed that it began to cut away at the dragonoid's skin.
Stopping the roar, Naruto looked down and was surprised to see that the dragonoid had taken such massive damage. It seemed that it didn't really have much defensive power beyond Natsu's Dragon Slayer Magic. That was interesting to know.
"HAAA!" Looking for the source for the source of the yell, Naruto saw Erza speeding down towards the orb. With a few quick slashes, she was able to shatter it and free Natsu. However, he looked exhausted.
As he was about to attack the weakened dragonoid, Naruto felt Warren reach into his mind. 'Don't destroy the dragonoid!'
Stumbling in midair, Naruto righted himself and asked, 'Why not? It's weakened and I could probably get it in one blow.'
'Natsu made a promise years ago to save a city, but he forgot about it. It's his responsibility to save them and master is saying to get him to fix his mistake.'Warren replied to Naruto who just sighed.
"Only a dumbass like Natsu would forget about a promise like that." Naruto said to himself before flying down to where Erza was shaking Natsu like a ragdoll.
"How could you forget something that important!? You promised that you'd save them and then you go and forget! That's not how Fairy Tail works and you know it. Now go fulfill your responsibility!" Erza said before kicking Natsu towards the downed dragonoid.
"Come on." Naruto said before grabbing Natsu and flying up into the sky. Dragging him through the air, Naruto threw him up into the air above the downed dragonoid. Gathering the most powerful fire magic he could conjure into both of his hands, Naruto clasped them together. Once clasped together, the flames changed color from their normal orange to bright white.
Throwing the white ball of flames at Natsu, it exploded in size bathing the town of Magnolia in light bright enough to light up the sky. Seeing the flames being devoured by Natsu, Naruto backed off and grabbed Erza even though she protested. However, when she heard Natsu yell, she stopped.
"Hidden Fire Form - Crimson Lotus: Phoenix Blade!" Turning to look at Natsu, Naruto was surprised to see Natsu bathed in the white flames that he had eaten. Seeing Natsu rocket up higher into the sky, Naruto took off as fast as he could towards the guild hall.
Looking back, he saw the flames engulfing Natsu transform into an arrow and as he reached the guild hall, Natsu crashed straight into the dragonoid. Seeing a pillar of white fire fly into the sky, Naruto quickly covered Erza with his body while forming a barrier of stone around the whole guild hall.
Ignoring Erza's protest, he braced himself for the boom that was sure to follow and he wasn't disappointed when it reached them. Feeling the earth shake, Naruto looked up at the stone barrier and reinforced it with his magic when he saw it beginning to crack.
Still holding Erza, he kept reinforcing the barrier for another few seconds after the earth stopped shaking. Staying still for a few more seconds, he slowly got off Erza as she Requipped her normal armor.
Seeing people coming out of the guild hall, Naruto made a small hole to look outside. Eyes widening at the scene, he gulped and hoped that Makarov wouldn't hold it against him. Turning to look at all of the people waiting for him to lower the barrier, he decided not to say anything and hoped that Natsu would take all of the blame.
Lowering the barrier, he heard the resounding gasp coming from the crowd behind him. All of Magnolia had been charred a bit. Everywhere they looked they saw everything covered in a small layer of ash. Thankfully, no buildings had been destroyed, but there was property damage everywhere. Naruto was more than sure that all of the buildings would have to be inspected for fire damage.
However, his internal thoughts took a back seat when he saw Natsu walking towards the guild dragging someone. When Natsu threw the charred body forward, Naruto poked it with his foot. Getting a small groan from the body told him that it was still alive.
"So, who's this?" Naruto said as he now actually looked at Natsu and saw the change he had undergone. "And what happened to you?"
Blinking at Naruto's question, Natsu looked at himself and saw that he had scales. "Oh, this again. It's Dragonforce. Your fire probably activated it. It'll wear off in a bit. Anyway, this is Daphne. She's the one who made the dragonoid."
Seeing Daphne's body still twitching, he decided to ignore her in favor of studying Natsu's transformation. "I'm guessing Dragonforce has something to do with Dragon Slayer Magic?"
"Yeah, but I don't really know much about it. I've only activated twice." Natsu said before beginning to walk towards Makarov.
Looking at Natsu as he walked away, Naruto wondered if any of his Dragon Slayer Magics, would be able to activate Dragonforce.
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"I'm amazed the damage to the town was repaired so easily." Naruto said as he spoke to Makarov.
"It was mostly just cosmetic damage and that's simple enough to fix with a few wizards at your disposal." Makarov said as he drank from his mug.
"You volunteered the guild to do it for free so we wouldn't get blamed didn't you?" Naruto asked with a smirk.
"I'm old! I don't want to write more apology letters! I'll end up getting arthritis!" Makarov yelled out before looking at Naruto with narrowed eyes.
"Don't think I didn't see that you weren't helping with the repairs." Makarov whispered to Naruto as he tried to make it seem like he was in trouble.
"Hey, I went on a job. I told Mira and everything. Besides, spending a week in the desert was hell. You get sand everywhere and no matter how well you think you got it out, you'll always find more." Naruto said as he dusted his shoulder off and sand fell off.
"I'm just playing my boy. I knew you went off on a job. Though I see that you seem to prefer monster hunting jobs." Makarov said as he tried to drink from his mug only to see that it was empty.
"I'm really good at them. Plus, now that I learned to use healing magic I don't have to worry about injuries." Naruto said as he shook his hair and more sand came out.
"How is that you can heal yourself, but Wendy can't?" Makarov asked as he had seen Wendy be unable to heal herself.
"I think it has to do with dragon slayers being unable to eat their own attacks. Like how Natsu can't eat his own fire, Wendy can't heal herself with her magic." Naruto said as he saw that he was beginning to make a small sand mountain next to him.
"But don't you also use dragon slayer magic?" Makarov asked as he got a refill from Mirajane and Naruto got his food.
"Yeah, but I don't have it activate all the time. I can choose when to have it activate and as a result, when I don't have any sort of dragon slayer magic active I can heal myself. It's really handy." Naruto said as he dug into the delicious meal Mirajane made for him.
"I also seem to recall that Erza said that you used a water dragon spell?" Makarov said quietly as to not draw attention.
Continuing to eat his food, Naruto thought over his response before saying, "I've seen Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy using dragon slayer magic. As a result I have three sources to draw information from about how it works. I know Laxus is one too, but I barely saw him use it, so I don't really have anything on him.
Anyway, by seeing how all three of them use their magic, I was able to figure out how to use a form of neutral dragon slayer magic.
However, I didn't know about Dragonforce. I had only seen Natsu enter it once before at the Tower of Heaven and I kept that information in my Archive. It wasn't until Natsu activated it when he fought the dragonoid that I learned what it was called and what it could actually do." Naruto finished before going back to his food.
"Does this mean that your dragon slayer magic was unfinished?" Makarov asked as he took a large swig of his mug.
"It could do what it needed to do, which is hurt dragons, but I wouldn't have been able to enter Dragonforce no matter what. Except now that I've seen Natsu in it closeup for a long period of time I'm pretty sure that whatever flaws my dragon slayer magic had have been fixed and I could be considered a genuine dragon slayer now." Naruto stated with a grin which Makarov shared.
As he prepared to stand up, Makarov spoke to him, "Remember that the flower party is in a few days."
"Something about the cherry blossoms right?" Naruto asked as he dusted his leg off and even more sand came out.
"Yup and we usually don't get too many requests because people know how we get during this time of the year." Makarov said before seeing all the sand that Naruto left behind. "And take all of this damn sand with you!"
Using Sand Magic, Naruto grabbed all of the sand he had left and put it away in his Requip dimension. Doing so reminded Naruto that he should expand his dimension with Arc of Space. It also reminded him that he still hadn't really done anything with his Arc of Space. At least he wouldn't be bored in the next few days as he trained with it.
How's this chapter compare to the original chapter?
Now, I'm going to explain the original idea I had for this story. The reason that Naruto was dying was because of his magic container. Naruto's not originally from Earthland or Edolas. He's from the ninja world. However, his world was very different to the canon Naruto world.
I had intended to have this Naruto sent to the canon Naruto world so that he could fix his body. Now I'm sure some of you are wondering why his magic container was killing him and the answer is simple. It consumed chakra. However, since Naruto isn't a trained ninja he doesn't know how to increase his bodies chakra reserve.
He had large reserves, as a result of his heritage, as a child which is why he was fine as a little kid when others like Ultear were wracked with pain. I'm going to assume that it's easier to increase your chakra reserves as a child than it is as an adult and that is why the procedure to correct the fault is reserved for young children.
Instead I had Gabriel correct the flaw in his body, which in hindsight makes a lot more sense. Now as you have seen, Naruto's soul has split in two. One half I am going to keep here and another I am going to have sent to the Naruto canon world.
I'll upload that story later on in the coming months as I am waiting for the Naruto Movie that's going to come out in October and I want to know what happens then.
So, what do you think?
