chapter 13 enjoy
A disgruntled blond-haired wizard was walking along a bridge when she hears a commotion from below.
What she saw was a large crowd around one man before hearing the words flame prince.
"Wait, flame prince? as in the legendary fire wizards who one of if not the most powerful fire wizard in the world, what is he doing in this dead-end town."
With Natsu
"Ok he should be around here somewhere," Natsu said
When Lucy finally made it to the crowd a strange feeling washed over her.
After her eye landing on the man who is known as bora unknown to the crown, he looked at her.
This feeling inside her grew exponentially before long two heart formed over her eyes.
These feeling would have continued to grow before the head of pink hair crossed her eye.
"Long time no see Bora," the pink-haired man said with a smirk.
"N-Natsu what bring you here" the now named Bora said
"Ow nothing just heard a rumor someone was using my moniker," he said as a beautiful woman with dark purple hair walked up beside his small feline-like creature sitting on his shoulder.
"Ah if I come across him I'll make sure to let you know," he said shakily.
"Bora I'm giving you a chance to come clean or suffer the consequences."
"Um um."
"Too late" Natsu instantly K.O him.
After Bora's defeat, all the girls were broken out of his charm spell; all eye landed on the trio.
"A mind explaining why you just knocked out The flame prince," the blonde hair female asked.
"Simple he's me," he said as a fist caught fire before shooting up in the sky before slithering around in the sky like a snake.
As you'd expect many of the females were dumbfounded at this revelation.
Natsu proceded hurl Bora over his shoulder carrying the man to the rune knights in the area.
Many of the girls went on to what they were doing before falling under the fake flame princess spell.
All except one the blond heir celestial mage who doing a poor job hiding her stalk no making sure this pink haired man was indeed the flame prince.
"Stop your following we know you're there," he said
"Eh" was her response before coming out behind the corner of a building.
"What your name," he said before glancing at Ultear who responded with a knowing smile, she had her Lacrima at the ready.
"The names Lucy and you three."
"My name is Natsu Dragneel, on my shoulder is Happy and next to me is my Wife Ultear dragneel, wait, Lucy are you by chance are you Lucy heartfilia.
"Yes, she said as she hung her head in shame."
"So you're the Lucy I've been looking for" before handing her Capricorn gate Key.
Lucy, as you expect, was awestruck with her Jaw nearing the floor.
"T-this is a G" She managed to say
"Golden gate one of the 12 zodiac gate keys, I found his key a while back, and he was in his words partnered to your mother. I promised to give you his key if I ever found you."
"I-I don't know what to say."
"A simple thank you is more than enough."
"Your down to one key Natsu" Ultear said
"Wait, you have more keys."
"Yep before today, I had the two golden gate keys now I have one" before showing off Loke's key.
"Hey would it be possible for you to give me that key," Lucy said in a seductive tone
Natsu could only laugh at this silently feeling sorry for Lucy.
"Bad move Lucy" Happy interjected
Lucy would have responded but was cut short before feeling a murderous aura emanating from the Ultear.
"Eventually but my contract with Leo isn't over yet when it is he's all yours."
"I completely forgot what are you guy's doing here besides dealing with him" pointing to Bora.
"One her was using my moniker and two to deal with the slavers he has under his control."
"Are you part of a guild Lucy?" Happy said
"No not yet but want to join one, specifically fairy tail."
"Well you're in Luck we're members of that guild."
"And done," Ultear said
"What now."
"This" she showed the recording of Natsu handing Lucy as Capricorn Key.
All color drained away from Lucy's face at the embarrassment.
"The guild going to get a kick out of this," he said
"Come on Natsu Bora won't stay unconscious for long" Ultear informed
"Right forgot about that, come on Lucy."
With that said the trio plus Happy walked towards the rune knight outpost.
One hour later
"Ok with Bora dealt with we have to find his gang."
"How are we suppose to do that."
With wicked grin" Lucy mind helping us out" Natsu said
Lucy had a bad feeling wash over her before reluctantly agreeing.
Night time
"I can believe I agreed to this," She said as was on the slaving boat with the rest of Bora victims.
Lucy with the help of cancer she was able to get out of her restraints before catching sight of Happy.
"Ready Lucy," he said picked her up and carried her out to the water.
"Don't have a choice, OPEN GATE OF THE WATER BEARER."
Out of thin air, what looks to be mermaid formed.
"Aquarius I need you to send that boat back to the shore.
Aquarius grunted at her request before doing as she told.
With her urn in hand, she formed a giant wave of water the sent the boat flying towards the shoreline only for it the land with a crash.
So much power was put into the wave is cause damage to houses nearby.
"I'm dead. I'm so dead," Lucy thought to her self.
On their way back to the shore they saw a Nastu effortlessly take out the slavers.
He was hitting them with so much force they destroying some of the houses.
As soon as they landed Natsu had taken care of the crew who were all in the custody of the rune knight.
"Nice Job Lucy"
"Well done indeed."
"Aye, sir."
Suddenly the trio plus Happy were surrounded by the rune knights.
"Eeh" was Lucy response.
"Relax Lucy I have this covered."
"Thank you for taking out Bora," one knight said
"No problem."
"I hate to ask you this But….." ushering the damaged houses."
"Right…..Ultear your mind" He said with a sheepish grin.
"I suppose I can do that," she said before going to work on the damaged homes.
Lucy was too preoccupied with the guilt of causing damage to notice Ultear fixing the damages property with her magic.
Several minutes later
"Ok everything settled time to head to fairy tail," he said proudly before bolting off.
"There he goes again."
"How do you put up with him," one knight said
"He's my husband I don't have a choice," she said before running off.
"Lucky bastard," the knight said before walking off.
"Come on Lucy we need to get going" Happy said picking her up flying off towards fairy tail.
"Hey wait, what are you- AHH" she screamed as Happy flew at top speed.
The next day
The three wizards plus Happy stood in front of the fairy tail guild hall.
"Natsu you know what to do," Ultear said
"Aye, sir."
With one swift kick" WE MADE IT BACK ALIVE" he shouts.
With his piece spoken the group headed inside.
Lucy like in the old timeline was awestruck before The guild erupted in brawl they are famous for.
She expected Natsu to join in but was surprised as he weaved his way through with Ultear close behind him.
The two found their spots at the bar before long a towering black figure came walking in causing the brawl to stop dead in its tracks.
The black figure started shrinking smaller and smaller till he bearly under waist high.
He proceeded to go into a rant about how the magic council is giving him one complaint after another before setting fire to them.
The flaming papers found themselves in Natsu mouth; Lucy was awestruck at this, so look around and saw no one batting an eye.
"Someone mind explaining why Natsu it eating fire."
"My husbands a fire dragon slayer, there for takes on some of their traits, one of them one of them being able to consume any flame that's not his own"
"What now."
"Mira your mind," she said as she stood up"let go upstairs all this noise it irritating."
"No problem."
Natsu and Ultear made their way to the second floor.
When they reached it, they found a secluded corner to themselves with Ultear finding her place on Natsu spot.
The reason for coming up here was because of the noise but that not entirely true.
It is true the guild is somewhat noisy, but in fact, it was an excuse for the couple to be by themselves.
Natsu wrapped his arm around Ultear protectively, Ultear Like being held by him as it's one of the few time she can fully let her guard down.
With Lucy
"So mind going into detail of Natsu magic now.
"Natsu uses an extremely rare and powerful magic called dragon slayer magic; it gives him the power afforded to only dragons and their slayer like Natsu. he knows other types of magic to"
"What other Magic's does he know."
"He knows Requip magic for sure beyond that is pure speculation."
"Mind going into greater detail" She whimpers.
"You didn't hear this from me, but from what I heard its rumor he knows another type of slayer magic."
"What kind."
"Sadly I don't know, their rumor to be stronger flame types."
"Are there other dragon slayers too."
"Yeah, actually there is six dragon slayer in the guild."
"Six who are the other five."
"There names are Erik or Cobra as he goes by then Gajeel, Wendy, Sting and Rogue, Each one uses a different element."
"Elements?"
"Yes element Natsu element is fire and in order, as I mention they Poison, iron, Sky or wind, white and shadow," she said unaware of Laxus status."
"Are their other types of slayer magic."
"Yes, actually we have an Ice devil slayer in our ranks."
"Devil slayer?"
"Yes, devil slayer magic is magic that's meant to slayer demons."
"Who is it?"
"Our resident Ice mage Gray, Gray do you mind."
"No problem" he promptly showed Lucy the mark of the ice devil slayer.
"So that's the mark of an Ice devil slayer how did you learn it, speaking of which how did Natsu, and the other learn theirs?"
"No one knows how Gray learned his except Natsu and the master, for the dragon slayers, Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy learns there's from the dragons that raised them. Cobra learned his from a dragon lacrima implanted in his body, Sting and Rogue Learned there not only from the Dragon that raised and them but also a Lacrims implanted in their bodies."
Mira would've continued before the guild doors open revealing man in dark blue jeans and undershirt with a white overcoat, maroon hair with a purple cat on his shoulder.
Next to him are three kids no older than 12 with cats of their own on the shoulder and finally a much older man with bandages on him.
"You are hopeless you know that Macao," the maroon-haired man said
"Sorry for having to drag me back."
"It's no problem your lucky Romeo brought this to my attention since Natsu was busy."
"Don't forget us if it wasn't for me that poison would keep you bedridden for months" Wendy scolded in a tone similar to her niichan.
"You forgot I was the one who told about him," Sebastian said from Cobra's shoulder
"My bad"
"Thank you, Sebastien," Macao said
"Erik your back, "A purple haired barmaid said
"It's Cobra"
"You'll always be Erik to me" The got chuckle all around all around at Cobras expense.
"Daddy your back" Romeo said as he came running to father only to tackle him down.
"Sorry for making you worry have to thank Cobra for saving my hide."
"Where do you want it and what color" Mira said
"What?" Lucy said
"Your guild stamp," she said holding out the stamp.
"Right hand in pink please" Mira stamp her hand.
"We have a new member everyone."
The guild roared cheers as they went into full-on party mode.
"Mira have you seen Nii chan," Wendy said
"Yeah where Salamander anyway," Cobra said
"Up here," he said from the second floor."
"One of these days Salamander I'm going to be up there too."
"Will see about" as he jumps down only sucker punch in the face.
"Natsu why would you do That" Kinana said
"You've known us for how long," he said before Cobra returned the favor.
The part quickly turned into another guild wide brawl with Natsu and Cobra being the only one not using magic for the everyone safely mainly Cobra.
Funny enough Lucy was still entranced by her guild mark she didn't notice.
"What's your name."
"Oh me it's Lucy and yours."
"The name is Wendy, and these are my teammates Sting and Rogue."
"Wait as in the dragon slayer Mira mentioned, your a little young to be wizards."
A tick mark appeared on Wendy's head she was just about to show this woman the error of her ways when she was cut short.
"They may look small, but these three slayers are a force to be wrecked with," Ultear said making her presence known from above.
"She's right Lucy Wendy Sting and Rogue were trained by Natsu himself," Mira said
"That's correct we were trained by the legendary flame princess of fairy tail" Sting shouts.
"They hated me at first, but in time they grew to like my training regiment," Natsu said with Cobra hanging onto him.
"Next time I'll win for sure."
"Sure you will," he said in a sarcastic tone.
Cobra didn't say anything as he willed himself to the bar before planting his face trying to get his strength back after fighting Natsu.
"Nii Chan I know you just got back from the job but are you able to train us," Sting said
"Sure" Natsu headed to the door with the three young slayers at his back.
"Surprised you're not going with Cobra," Mira said with a smirk, she didn't get a response from him probably from the beating Natsu just gave him.
"I will surpass him," He said fiercely before laying his head on the bar once more.
"Sure you will."
"How strong is Natsu anyway?" Lucy questioned
"Very," Ultear said before leaving.
"Mira how strong is Natsu anyway," Lucy said hoping to get a better answer.
"Natsu is in the top three for the strongest wizard; he's also a wizard saint like the master."
"Wizards Saint? What's that."
"Wizard Saint is a title give to wizards who are recognized as one of the strongest wizards in the wizarding world, and there are ten in total."
"Ten you said I assume their rank from strongest to weakest."
"Rank is hard to nail down since their constantly changing as time goes forward and each member is getting stronger or weaker from their age."
"That make sense; I notice Sting and Wendy calling him brother are they related."
"No their not after they joined Natsu took it upon himself to train them to grow stronger, and in time they grew to see his as big brother, so it was only natural they call him that is there any else.
Over the next two hours, Mira answers any question she had about the wizarding world.
Natsu walked in with a passed out wendy in his arms carrying her bridal style with Sting and Rogue using each other as supports with there exceeds flying overhead.
"I see he put you guys through the wringer," Mira said
"They're getting stronger little by little" Natsu said resting Wendy down the table with her teammate not far behind.
"Natsu if you're as powerful as the rumors say why are you called the flame prince and not I don't know fire king," Lucy said
"OVER MY DEAD BODY!," Igneel roared.
Natsu could only chuckle he wasn't alone Mira joined in as well.
With a questioning look"What's so funny" Lucy said
"My father Igneel is a fire dragon, not just any fire dragon he is their king; if he found out I went by fire king, while he's still kicking, I wouldn't hear the end of it."
"Wait is hr saying dragons are real I thought they were only legends."
"No they are authentic just ask Gajeel, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue they will say the same thing."
"Where are they?"
"Don't know they just up and left seven years ago?" he said
"Why did they leave."
"After they finish teaching us our magic they wanted us to live our life as the human do."
Just as Natsu finished, the guild door opened up revealing the last of the known dragon slayers.
"Gajeel your back I take it the job went well," Natsu said
"To easy if you ask me."
"Yeah well unlike you some people we aren't walking powerhouses," Levy said fiercely getting a chuckle out of Gajeel.
"I see we have a new member," Pantherlily said from Gajeel shoulder.
"Yep her name is Lucy."
"Hi"
"Nice to have a new member," Levy said
After getting a closer look, Lucy saw Levy wearing a dark gray dress with sandals and what looked to be a straight iron bar in her left ear and regular earing with a black hair band.
Gajeel wore bagging brown pant, black boot, and a black sleeveless shirt and setting on his shoulder was a small cat-like creature with green pant and small red sword on his back.
"Hi my name is Levy," she said with a bright smile.
"What job did you guys take," Natsu said
"Bandit clearing job."
"Not much of a challenge."
"You can say that again."
"Natsu, Ultear mention your her husband, how long have you guys been married."
"year and a half, anyway since your now a guild wizard get to work."
"Ok," she said going to the job board.
"You up for another job," Gajeel said
"Fine" Levy said
"Wait," Natsu said
"What is it salamander."
"You should take Lucy on your next job since she's new."
"As if"
"I think it would be fun we get to show a new member the ropes."
"Fine"
Gajeel and company went over to ask Lucy to go on her next job which she expected their job is to steal a book they pay 200,000 jewel.
The remainder of the day came and went, Natsu and Ultear went home to discuss where they go from here.
"What are we going to do from here since you were the one to go with her on that job."
"Yeah, Natsu what are going to do" happy said from his shoulder.
"Well we have to deal with lullaby then galuna island, and I have an idea of how to work with that."
Ultear was visibly uncomfortable at the mention of galuna.
"I know it's hard for you but it needs to be done, both you and Gray have to be there to lay this demon to rest"
"I know but how are we going to do that."
"You forgot when we were in hargion before Lucy we met the guy who had the flea for his safety."
"Right"
"What I had in mind was take the job since were S class, and Happy tells Lucy about it, causing her to follow us, but I'm going to stop there," he said with a smirk.
Ultear and Happy can only sweat drops at this, yep Natsu is still Natsu at the end of the day.
"What about the master he is not going to like this"
"I already talked to him how I was interested in the job after telling him about Bobo story."
"Just bobo."
"Hehe have to wait and see," he said with a sinister grin.
Two days later
Lucy was moping over her last job since the reward went up to 2,000,000 million jewel but didn't get a single one of it thanks to Gajeel and company turning it down as it was not the fairy tail way.
On the bright side, she did get a new gate key her name is Virgo the maiden, so it wasn't a complete waste.
"I heard you got a new gate key Lucy," Natsu said
"Yeah her name is Virgo."
"Think you can show her off."
"I don't see the harm.
"OPEN GATE OF THE MAIDEN" she shouts before revealing the pink haired maid.
"You needed me, princess."
"I don't I just wanted to show the guild my newest spirit."
Just then a member by the name of a jet came running if "Erza's back!"
Everyone but a few were visibly shaken at this news Natsu and Happy traded glances.
"Who's Erza"
"One of the scariest lady you'll ever meet," Gray said who was already down to his underwear.
"Erza a fairy tail wizard like the rest of us and is extremely powerful" Mira informed
"How powerful is she"
"She's considers the most powerful female wizard in our ranks."
"I resent that," Ultear said
"Oh sorry, Ultear I didn't mean to offend you."
"Wait who is stronger Erza or Ultear," Lucy said
"That is hotly debated subject," Mira said
"This is Crazy to ask but why don't they fight to decide."
"That hasn't happened for two reasons, one the skill set are radically different so it's not a fair comparison and Natsu a little protective of Ultear."
"Why is that she seems like she can take care of herself."
"It has to deal with him being a dragon slayer."
"How so?"
"As I mentioned earlier the magic they use is the same as the dragon, they're meant to slayer, but they also take on other traits like only having one mate. on dragon terms, they have been married for a long time, but on human terms, they weren't until they got married a year and a half ago."
Lucy would have continued before the door quickly opened revealing the silhouette of a woman holding over a large object overhead.
Their eyes adjusted to the light it was revealed to be a scarlet-haired girl holding something up overhead.
"After setting the strange thing down Erza went into nagging mode telling off the guild.
"I take it your job went well and what is that," Mira said
"It wasn't too difficult, and this is the horn of a monster I defeated. the locals were so happy they decorated it for me," she said before her eyes landed on ultear before glaring at her.
Ultear returned the glare, and both were radiating killing intent toward the other, Why simple both were dying to see who was the strongest female wizard.
ok that it for this chapter
this proved harder then I thought to write as I'm forced to pick and choose what to keep and what to drop for redundancy purposes
also I'm not sure how it integrates Lucy in the story as I don't want to over saturate the story with too many characters during the arcs up to X784
S-class trials from here since Ultear in the gang if you guy have any idea let me know
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