BURNING

by vatsalpuma

Natsu is fed up of being the butt of all jokes and has finally decided its time for changes and revelations. He goes all in in a to finally get some hope and a home where he shall not be judged. The Tenrou group is in trouble. Natsu has his own agendas to complete. Currently showing what happened to Natsu(EDOLAS ARC) OC-Edo Igneel. Rated M for language and lemon. Pairing official.

12. Chapter 12

I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL. PERIOD!

BURNING

CHAPTER-12

"I missed you Natsu, I missed you so much" she said, almost crying, her voice breaking.

"I missed you too Lis..." my face having a splitting grin. "I thought that I had lost you permanently..." I said now looking away from her.

She cupped my cheek and forced me to look into her eyes and asked, "Does that mean that you moved on...?" in her trademark sweet and gentle tone.

"...Yes I did." I said softly yet in a resolute tone.

"Good" she said grinning, with a hint of pride, "That is what I would have wanted... because I did too" and proceeded to smash her lips into mine, our eyes closing, kissing each other due to sheer need to touch and to say 'Yes she/he is actually here'.

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NATSU POV

I did not realize it when I and Lisanna started talking of all things of the past. She asked me what went out in the guild after her 'death'; I told her of all the adventures I went on, living my life as she would have liked it. In reality, most people never realized she was my best friend in the guild. We were paired because we raised Happy as 'parents' during the days when we were young and naive. We had even cleared it out between ourselves and Mira... she had to be told rather firmly. We laughed when we remembered her sobbing when she heard the news. It is true that we never saw each other in a sibling kind of a away, but we were always close. We blushed red in embarrassment on remembering the kiss we shared a few minutes ago. We both agreed that there the kiss held many emotions- longing, relief, happiness, but not romance, not even a trace of it. It was fuelled more due to our physical longing for each other. We reminisced about the past. She told me about her adventures in Edolas, her new found peace of mind.

"Lisanna I can go back to Earthland..." I said, "When the time comes... would you accompany me back home?" I said croaking out the word home.

"Typical Natsu, we will cross the bridge when come to it... don't you agree" she said with a smile on her beautiful face.

"Come and live in the castle with me. That way I can ensure your protection and ensure that someone can act as messenger when required" I proposed to her.

"Let me think about it. Maybe I will agree when you come next time" she replied.

After that I realized about the time and hurried to leave. I asked her to inform the Edo-fairies about her situation to which she agreed. I also told her to inform Ashley that the guild would not be required to teleport for atleast another week, and that they should teleport as soon as possible if they get any information about soldiers being spotted near the forest. With a quick hug, and I ruffling Lisanna's pixie cut haired affectionately I left.

When I exited the forest I saw most of my army relaxing, only the higher ups looking a little tense. I was relieved that none of them made any efforts to form a search party after me. When they saw me, they all stiffened. Seeing this I cursed myself and the need to act like a bastard all the time. My men work because they are scared of me and my power and not because they respect me or anything. I sighed out loudly and commanded them to retreat. "Where were you commander?" asked one of the soldiers.

"And since when am I answerable to you private?" I replied back haughtily, hoping to hide my nervousness and the reality along with it. I received only hushed silence. "That is better..." I said.

After that we returned to the castle. I was relieved that I no longer had to cause any more deaths just to establish my trustworthiness towards Faust. After commanding dismissal I hurried back to my room to cool off before I went to submit the report.

When I entered my room, I surprisingly found it smelling fresh and not having the musky smell of sex like I usually did. 'I guess Knightwalker called in the maids' I thought. Stripping myself of my top and pants, I went to the mirror. I, only in my boxers, inspected myself in it. I saw that I had grown muscular with slightly broader shoulders and even taller. "Guess not having magic does physically strain a person" I thought out loud. I went to the washroom and freshened up. After taking a arm shower and dressed in my training clothes of the black tank top and pants, I picked up my epee and headed towards the training grounds.

'Another day of learning how to use a sword...yay' I thought sarcastically. This was one of the few times I missed Erza. I almost chuckled remembering the reading lessons she gave me when we were younger. She was such a go getter, always motivated to get the best results possible... maybe that is why she failed to appreciate me. 'I guess Jellal and his position of wizard saint was better than me and an A-rank license for her' I thought out bitterly. Knocking myself out off my broody moment, I sighed and picked up my epee and started going through the standard fencing stances and motions.

I was practicing my swordsmanship when another Sugarboy entered the training grounds. I stopped my thrusts as he approached me holding the smirk on his face.

"I heard Miss Knightwalker went to the hospital again today. Are you sure there isn't something you two want to tell me? Or are you overworking her poor self these days. Since the day you two had fought, she has taken more days off from duty than what she had taken in her whole term before that. Should we be celebrating, should I inform the King of something?" he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively. In any sense, Sugarboy and all his weirdness, with his pink armor and cheeky personality, Sugarboy was a good friend with whom I could be myself. Do not get me wrong, he was as loyal to the King as loyal as I was to Fairy Tail before the betrayal, nor did he know of my actual plans but he was one of the only two people in the castle with whom I could really let go. Knightwalker was my outlet of stress and emotional baggage while he was my source of help when I needed any.

"Shaddap Sugayboy" I said in my usual boisterous tone. I grinned and he instantly went for his sword, Rosa Espada, to block my fast upward draw/slash to prevent it from slicing his face open. I positioned my epee in front of my face, my hands at the dead center of my chest, I looking ahead directly at him, indicating a spar. Sugarboy was one of the best swordsmen in the army and sparring with him really helped me hone my sword skills. Though we never kept any rules, there was a standard unsaid one- do not soften and deform my sword or I will turn your balls to mush with your own sword. He charged at me with his sword in his left hand. I stood in a sideway stance with my right foot facing forward ready to parry his sword with my own.

"I do hope you are incorrect regarding Knightwalker. I am not ready for it to happen. If it does happen we would go forward with the abortion like we had decided" I replied to his earlier question as I parried his forward thrust towards the left and met him with my own thrust, moving my left arm backwards to help maintain balance.

"So you two had thought of this possibility... what if she does not want to do it? Motherly instinct is a very strong force after all..." Sugarbay said moving toward his left to avoid my attack. With applying his weight on the heel of his left foot, he spun around carrying the moment in a slash at my chest

"I honestly do not know what I would do then. One thing I know is I cannot hurt her even if I wanted to. Also I growing up without my parents, always wanted a family." I said as I ducked under his slash and performing a leg sweep to disrupt his balance successfully. With my free hand I punched his exposed gut sending him two steps back wards as I countered by saying, "But I trust her not to violate the agreement. Also I find her conceiving highly unlikely as she had the doctor give her the pill." I said as I mentally marvelled at the technological advancement of Edolas.

"Well with that out of the way let us get serious..." he shouted as he charged again knowing my style revolves around dodging and countering so as to not damage my sword with blocking. His attacks got more and more aggressive forcing me to go on the offensive as that was a great weakness of fighting a normal sword with an epee. An epee, is not a slashing weapon, it is a piercing weapon. It is very flexible and strong to be able to absorb the force of the thrusts and sleek to be able to pierce in between bones for the kill. As only its tip portion is sharpened, slashes are only deep enough to draw blood, but it can be easily laced with poisons and help channel magic due to its very dense needle like tip.

After the spar we both came out a little ruffled up but relatively unharmed. Only Sugarboy sported a major injury on his right forearm when he was unable to avoid an upward thrust I made towards his shoulder, although we both had more than a few open slices on our arms, torso and back. We bowed down to each other as my friend left for the infirmary.

I called a cadet training there and told him to ask the king for an audience on my behalf scheduled tomorrow regarding the recent search for the rebels and my upcoming magic training. After that I left for the room. Seeing my injured state, a nurse followed me.

"Sir your wounds need to be tended, please move to the infirmary" she said.

I looked around, and saw my personal maid standing nearby looking at me. She did her job well, always hidden, but always present when required. "Has Knightwalker returned from the hospital?" I asked her

"Yes Sir, she has and she had instructed me to tell you that she is waiting in the room as usual" the maid replied bowing to me.

"Very well, your assistance will not be required..." I said to the nurse, who looked a little apathetic but left on being reassured by the maid. "...Send the supplies to my room and prepare my personal bath." I instructed her and walked away, the maid followed me two steps behind me, her head bowed politely.

I had barely taken a step into my room when I was smacked on my head by a bery powerful fist. "You overdid it... again" said the owner of the fist.

I, smiling sheepishly at her, said, "I did it out of habit", allowing her to take my hand and lead me to my personal bath which held an onsen with all cleaning and medical supplies. She carefully stripped my clothes off me and threw the ruined ones away from the hamper to be discarded away. As I stepped into the onsen to allow the hot water to soothe my muscles and wash away the dirt and blood, she too, in her birthday suit, entered the onsen with me. As she started rubbing my arms with her cupped hands which held some of the hot water to clean away all the dried and congealed mess off me, she looked up at me with glossy eyes and a sad, concerned face... "Why are you trying so hard..."

CHAPTER END

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