After a blissful night, Natsu and Mirajane were making their way to the guild hall. They were dressed in their normal attires. Feeling like eyes were planted on his back,, Natsu looked around and sniffed the air. Mirajane noticed his action and questioned what he was doing.
"Something wrong?" She asked him, he shook his head.
"I don't know. I'm feeling like we're being watched. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's bad or good." Natsu explained the feeling he got.
"Don't break your little head over it, it's probably nothing." Mirajane smiled at him.
"You don't trust my senses?" Natsu looked back at her, she was surprised by the sudden change of mood.
"Of course I do, I just don't want even more stuff happening to the guild." She looked away from him, feeling as she had just distrusted him. Natsu swung his arm around her shoulder and pulled her closer.
"Then we're gonna make sure nothing will, right?" She looked up at his grin and couldn't help but smile. When they arrived at the guild the average procedure would take place. Natsu would find Gray and insult him for being a pervert as he would sit naked as usual. Mirajane would go over to the bar and serve everyon their drinks. Cana was found at the bar as usual, she took a seat close to Mirajane.
"Say, Mira." Cana spoke up, she was only as drunk as she usually is. Mirajane turned and looked at the card mage.
"How's Natsu?" Cana raised her head so she could see the silver haired woman's face. She looked confused until her smile returned.
"What do you mean, Natsu's fine!" She cleaned up a couple of mugs and pulled out more of these.
"I didn't mean how he's physically doing, I meant what he's like ... yaknow." Cana whinked at Mirajane, she was still confused.
"What's he like in bed?" Cana asked her straight-out, Mirjan took a step back from the very surprising question.
"Isn't that beteen me and him?" Mirajane asked cautiously.
"Nope, you need to share that. Besides, I'm not the only one wondering." Before Mirajane could become even more confused Cana pulled out a magazine by the name 'Sorcerer's Weekly' and opened it to show her one specific page. It told them that Natsu was in the top 10 male wizard idols to female mages in Fiore.
"Seems like he's got quite the image in publicity right now. Newspapers are talking about him quite often. How he suddenly returned from a 2 year long journey with you. How he fended off an entire guild by himself. How he defeated the man that infiltrated the magic council. We can be happy nobody knows about our fire dragon trip yet." Mirajane looked at the page and took the information Cana gave her. It was all very surprising to her, but she mostly slightly pissed off at the fact that he was given so much attention by the opposite gender. Worst about it all was that he didn't even know himself. Then the doors of the guild hall opened for someone they all despised so much.
"COOOOOOOOL!" Jason of the Sorcerers' Weekly magazine shouted as soon as he entered the guild hall. But unlike many other times, he didn't seem as distrated hence he went straight for Natsu.
"Natsu Dragneel, I have some question for you." Jason seriously spoke as he pulled out his noteblock.
"Um ... Ok then?" Natsu muttered confused as he was being dragged to a seat by Jason.
"We've been hearing rumors about dragons being seen around Fairy Tail. What do you know about this? Was it perhaps your father, Igneel? Or was it another fire dragon? Or was it just a friend of your father?" The mood around the guild quickly turned serious. They knew humans weren't supposed to know about the dragon's appearance. Natsu was holding his breath, thinking about how to respond. After a while he took a deep sigh.
"Igneel was here, yes. But he is no longer." Natsu smiled at Jason, who quickly noted everything down.
"So at long last you have been reunited with your foster parent? And why did he leave again? Did he tell you this time?" Jason continued to throw a barrage of questions at the fire mage.
"Igneel died in this very forest." The mood turned very gloomy, even for the reporter.
"Natsu ..." Mirajane started, but was stopped when Natsu motioned her to stop.
"It's fine. As you may or may not know, Igneel was the king of the fire dragons." Natsu started to speak again, peeking the interest of Jason.
"So if he died, then what happened next? Was there some sort of election?" Natsu chuckled at the question.
"I guess you could say that. It was actually a very tough challenge that the soon to be king had to beat." Jason noted down all of the information Natsu was giving him.
"So it was only possible for the most powerful dragon of them all to beat them?" Jason asked.
"Actually, it wasn't a dragon at all that beated the trials." Natsu laughed while saying it, Jason only took a confused look.
"Huh? Then what did?" Natsu laughed again.
"This guy." He smiled while pointing at himself with his thumbs. No matter how serious the situation was, the entire guild had to crack a smile at the childish way of telling Jason.
"COOOOOOOOOOOOOL, so you are now the king of the fire dragons?" Jason yelled out and asked for confirmation, Natsu nodded.
"THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST STORY EVER!" Jason quickly rushed his pen over a new blank page.
"Thank you so much, Natsu. This is way more than I could've hoped for. But ... Why aren't you sad about the loss of your father?" Jason asked as he was standing before the door, ready to leave.
"Because he still lives within me, I talk to him quite often actually." Natsu smiled at him.
"Cool." Jason calmy said (if that's possible?) and left the building. Silence commenced for a little while until Erza broke it.
"Natsu ... are you sure about this?" He turned to face her with a smile.
"Yeah, it's my land after all, right? I get the feeling this is gonna tick off that black dragon." He evily smiled while looking away. Many sweatdropped at the reasoning behind his actions.
A few days later you could get to know all about Natsu's recent experiences in every form of media. He was even increasing in the top 10 of male wizard idols, much to Mirajane's annoyance. As he walked through Magnolia he could recieve several stares of amazement or envy from many people. He tried to just act naturally and smiled to everyone as he passed them. It didn't take long for everyone to accept Natsu as his regular self again, though some still treated him differently. Natsu sighed as he made his way to the guild again, Mirajane had gotten up early and gone off without him. When he entered the guild he saw the master standing on the stage.
"NATSU, YOU'RE GOING TOO!" He shouted while pointing at Natsu, who was very shocked.
"Wha- Going where? Master?" He raised his hands defensively before him.
"Natsu, There's been activity by one of the main dark guilds. Oracion Seis has been on the move and whatever it is, we've gotta stop them." Mirajane informed him about the situation.
"This is going to be a collaboration mission with 3 other guilds. This is to make sure we will not fail, remember that this is one of the 3 strongest dark guilds we're facing! Natsu, Mira, Gray and Erza, you will be the members of Fairy Tail that will see this mission through." Master Makarov continued. Natsu realized the responsibility he and the other mages had and nodded. With that, they all took off after preparing. They would meet somewhere in a forest far away from Magnolia, in a church. Natsu had no idea where it was, only that it would take transport. Mirajane's soothing ways helped him through it. Thanks to her, he drifted off to sleep in her lap during the ride.
When Natsu awoke he was supported by Mirajane out of their transport. He was still slightly Nauseous but it would wear off shortly. As they entered the abandoned church they noticed nobody was there.
"Seems like we're the first to arrive." Erza stated. They awaited the arrival of the other mages until the doors opened to reveal three teenagers and an orange haired man.
"Men!" He spoke while he rushed to Erza, who had been in pure shock the moment she saw him.
"Erza, your parfum is only matched by the beauty in your fair hair and skin. Let us ..." But before he could finish he was kicked in the face by the scarlet-haired mage. The three apprentices had disappeared from where they were.
"Oh Mirajane. Everytime I see you, it seems like your beauty is reflected in my eyes in a different and more appealing way." The middle one started.
"Can I call you nee-sama?" The smaller one asked.
"H-Hibiki .. Eve ... Ren ..." Mirajane started but was silenced by Hibiki's finger.
"Shhhh ... it's ok. You don't need to say it, I understand. Your eyes radiate the determination and desire you have deep within you." Hibiki smoothly turned everything she wanted to say against her.
"Actually I really need to ask you this." She started again. Hibiki's eyes widened.
"What is it?" She chuckled at his anxiety.
"Any last words?" He looked confused until he sensed the presence of a fiery satan bahind him. When he turned he could barely manage to catch the picture of a black, red-eyed demon engulfed by flames before he was slammed across the room.
"Stay. Away. From. Her." Natsu spoke with a satanic voice, his flames surging around him. It scared all of the Blue Pegasus mages as they quickly positioned themselves across from the dragon slayer.
"Natsu, we're supposed to cooperate with them, not murder them." Erza scolded him until Ichiya showed up again and got slammed into the ground by her.
"I could say the same to you." He laughed at the knight mage. The doors opened again to reveal a man with silver hair, an older and bold one and a woman with pink hair.
"Lamia Scale." Ichiya brought out.
"Lyon." Gray muttered.
"You know that guy?" Natsu asked Gray while pointing at Lyon.
"That's Lyon. They're not related, but you could say Lyon's Gray's brother. He was taught Ice Magic simultaniously with Gray by the same teacher." Erza explained, she had met him for the first time on Galuna Island.
"Seems like almost everyone's here, one more guild to go." Jura started. As if on qeue, a small, blue-haired girl ran in the room with a cat behind her. As she shouted at all the mages to announce her presence she tripped and fell flat on her face.
"Uh, are you ok?" Natsu crouched down by her and helped her up.
"Yeah, sorry I'm quite clumsy sometimes." The girl spoke up.
"I'm from Cait Shelter. My name's Wendy." She continued.
"No offense, but you don't look so strong." Natsu told her what they all were thinking, but no one wanted to say it.
"I don't know much offensive spells, but I know a lot of support spells and I can heal your injuries." Wendy smiled at everyone.
"Healing ... There is no magic around the allows for healing anymore, not in a form that's useful during combat anyways." Jura started.
"There is, but it's not very common. I know Sky Dragon Slayer Magic." Wendy explained the origin of her abilities, much to everyone's surprise.
"You're a dragon slayer?!"Natsu shouted, she nodded.
"Yeah, and I know you are too." She looked up at him, she had heard about Natsu and looked up to him.
"Well who hasn't, really." Mirajane gently started while pushing the little girl away from Natsu. Wendy was too close to Natsu than is comfortable for Mirajane, especially seeing how she looks at him.
"Now that everyone is present, we can start discussing what we will do from henceforth." Jura started to get serious about the situation.
"Why waste time, if you can do it fast." a voice echoed throughout the room.
"Now now, racer. Let the mages discuss their strategy, we want them to have a chance." another voice started.
"SHOW YOURSELVES!" Natsu shouted.
"Don't get impatient, boy. You'll get your shot soon enough. We'll be waiting for you to finish up, until then!" The voice echoed for one last time.
"Damn it, they already found us. We have to hurry." Jura stated, the mages nodded and rushed out of the building. Wendy was still confused to what just happened.
"Wendy, you can't stay behind like that, come on!" A while cat yelled at her and motioned her to move. Wendy quickly followed the mages into the forest.
