So, it has been some time since I've posted anything , I really hope you'll enjoy this one, I mose certainly did up until this point. Have fun reading :-)

When you were not raised by a human, you don´t think like one. This was a fact, most of the guild often forgot when dealing with dragon slayers. They had abilities, very different from other humans, for example their keen hearing and sense of smell. In most cases, those were of great use during a fight, but on some occasions, it could also become a great liability, especially when everyone was counting on them working in their favor. It was of great importance to know if they were about to be ambushed, or if offered food was poisoned. Fairy Tail´s very own dragon slayers had indeed saved their guild members on more then just one occasion from some very unfortunate experiences thanks to those very abilities. It was only natural that some people would figure this out eventually and use it against them.

The first tine this happened was on a job, Team Natsu was working on in Hargeon. Natsu and the others had just recovered from their injuries and after some discussion they decided to take a well paying job, so everyone, especially Lucy, would be able to pay their rent this month. The task had been a simple one: Guard the ship of a trading company, specializing in exotic and valuable spices, until it was ready for departure. Natsu really hadn´t liked this job the moment they took it. To get to Hargeon, they had to ride in a carridge, which was, for a dragon slayer like him, pure torture. Then, they had to guard this stupid cargo vessel that was full of things that had a very strong smell which messed up his very keen sense of smell completely. There were quite a lot of people around, so it was also very noisy, so much so, that Natsu´s ears were almost hurting. Right when he was about to inform Erza about this, it happened. First, it just seemed like nothing more, then a cloud passing by, but the next moment, the entire group, consisting of Natsu, Erza, Grey and Lucy, lay on the floor, unconscious.

A hooded figure approached the, now motionless, group of wizards, using a magic circle that would teleport them to a, yet, unknown location. When the light faded, there was nothing more left, then an empty space, where there had been four mages standing only a minute ago. The whole process was over so fast and was carried out so quickly, no one, not even the ships owners, who only stood a few meters away, noticed anything out of the ordinary.

When she came to, there was only darkness. Erza wasn´t sure what had happened, only that it

wasn´t good at all."Hey everyone" she whispered, "are you there? Can you hear me?". She got only silence in return. After feeling around herself for a bit, she managed to find something. On closer inspection, it felt like a shoe. A moment later, she was sure that there was a person attached to it. Erza started pulling on their leg and poking him or her multiple times, in hopes to wake them up. Her efforts payed off after a short while, when she was rewarded with a low groan, presumably from Grey, whom she distinguished from his voice and the fact that his skin was not as scorching hot as Natsu´s was. "Grey? Grey, are you alright? Do you know, what happened? "

"E-Erza?" She heard his voice and shifting of clothes in the dark right next to her. "Where are we?"

"I don't know, the last thing I remember was the job we did, and then nothing." was the reply, the ice mage got from the scarlet haired knight, followed by a question. "Do you know, if the others are here as well?"

For a few moments, more rustling could be heard, while Grey searched his surroundings for any other members of the group, then the movement stopped. "I found someone, I think it´s Lucy"

Erza sighed in relief "well, can you try waking her? The sooner we find out, what´s going on here, the better. I really don´t want to spend any more time here then necessary. We don´t know how long it´s been now and the master might get worried if we don´t return on time."

Grey hummed in agreement and then, She heard him calling out to the unconscious girl next to him, until there was the sound of another body moving around with them and a sleepy voice that was inquiring about, what had happened to them.

"Well," Grey said, "that´s what we were hoping you could tell us, because Erza and I have no idea about it. The only thing we DO know is that we were doing our job and then, ended up here somehow." there was a moment of silence, and then

"Oh, Erza is here too? That´s good."

"Yes, I am here as well Lucy, now can you tell us if there is anything, you remember?"

"Hm, let me think for a moment… Actually, yes there was something strange, I remember Natsu being somewhat uneasy and I think he wanted to speak to you Erza, because the last thing I remember was him turning in your direction, but it could also just have been a coincidence I guess…" after this, a few moments of contemplative silence hung in the air.

"Speaking of that flame for brains, it really isn´t like him, to get ambushed like that, right? And where is he anyways?" Everyone started feeling around for a bit, until they reached the walls of the, rather small, room they were confined in. They were made from some sort of stone. The fact that none of them were apparently blindfolded or bound in any way, worried Erza, because this meant there was something or someone else that would be keeping them from escaping. She had a suspicion on this matter however and decided, to test her hypothesis. She reached out and tried summoning one of her magic weapons. Nothing happened. Sighing, she turned to were she could hear the others talking quietly among themselves. "Natsu seems not to be here, but I´m confident he can take care of himself. Getting out of here and figuring this whole thing out should be our top priority right now. I think this room is made from some sort of magic canceling rock or anything else alike, I can´t use my magic here. Have any of you tried yet?" The other two could be heard now, muttering their respective spells. After nothing happened, they had their answer.

"But Erza, do you really think we can leave Natsu to his own devices? I mean, we have no idea what's going on, and I don't want him getting hurt."

"Don´t worry Lucy, I've known Natsu for quite some time now, and I´m sure he´ll bee fine. Besides, even if we wanted to help him or at least find out, where we are, we need to figure out how to get out ourselves and what´s going on, otherwise we wouldn't be able to help, even if we found him."

"Besides," Grey interjected "I´m pretty sure, he´s making them regret taking us, as we speak."

A shaky laugh could be heard from the blond "I guess you´re right, but I´m still worried, he really didn't seem like himself earlier"

Now Erza started to think about the whole situation. She hadn't noticed anything wrong with their Salamander during this mission, except the usual motion sickness of course. But now that she was thinking about it more closely, she remembered him being a little more quiet, and irritated then usually. She was impressed with Lucy for noticing this right away, since she´d known him for so long, she should have seen it as well. "But what could have been wrong with… Damn it! Why didn't I think of this earlier!"

The other two were startled at this, for Titania really unusual, outburst. "Ahhm, Erza, what´'s wrong?" asked Grey, who was a bit lost right now. He really hadn't noticed anything off about his rival at all. And now, Erza seemed to have figured out the problem at hand, without having to think about it for too long.

"I always forget about that! Do you know, why we are rarely ambushed when we are on a mission?" The other two shook their head. "It's because of his sense of smell! And I bet the reason he seemed off were all those foreign spices we had to guard. I bet, they messed up his nose completely."

After a few moments of shocked silence Grey´s only response was: "Well damn, I never thought about that."

"Well," Lucy said, "It´s a good thing Happy decided to go on another mission with Wendy and Carla, he'd be flipping out completely right about now."

At about the same time, Natsu awoke. From the lack of noise around him and the fact that he wasn't able to smell those awful spices anymore, he concluded that he was far away from the place he last remembered being and that the others were not in the same room with him. He felt oddly cold, and when he tried reaching out to his flames, they wouldn't respond at all. "Great" he muttered. "First this stupid assignment and now this crap?" The only positive thing he could see about this, was that he was neither blindfolded, gagged or bound, so he could at least move around a bit. Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming closer to the room he was in. Well, at least I know now, where the door is. He thought while the feet outside came closer and closer and then stopped completely. Natsu could hear breathing and something that was most certainly a key sliding into the lock of the door separating him and presumably his captor from each other. A moment later, the door slowly opened and the first thing he noticed was a gun pointed at his head. Not one of those cheap magic guns you could basically just shrug of with enough magic energy after you were hit, but by the smell of it, a real one with lead bullets, that would probably pierce even his skin (which was more resistant then the average humans already).

The one holding it was a tall and broad shouldered man, at least one foot taller than Natsu himself was. He had straight black hair that was tied into a ponytail that went all the way to the floor, yellow eyes and almost white skin. He wore black trousers, knee high brown leather boots combined with a white dress-shirt a vest and a tie. He was all in all completely strange to look at.

"Who are you and what do you want from me?" Natsu had asked this before the man even had the chance to walk into the room completely. But before he even had closed his mouth again, his captor had backhanded him across the face hard and he was back on the ground faster then he could think.

"How dare you speak in my presence without permission you lowly animal!" The man growled with a dark and deep voice that absolutely fit his size and muscular build. "I'm only gonna tell you this once, and you better listen closely and without speaking or you will regret it." The pink haired dragon slayer, who was now sitting on the floor, wiping blood from his now split lip just glared daggers at the giant in front of him. "My name is Ivan and I am the one who is going to own you. I always wanted a dragon, but now that they have gone extinct, I will have to make due with the next best option. Since you were raised by one and learned its magic, you should at least be able to entertain me for a little while. I also heard your kind is quite durable, so I won't have to treat you to delicately if you disobey me, remember that. I had to go through a lot of trouble to obtain you, and I will not let you escape ever again. Getting those idiot merchants to hire the strongest team of Fiores top guild wasn´t easy you know? But it was perfect! Your keen sense of smell was completely useless this close to so many strong odors and since it is always quite noisy at the port, you wouldn't have been able to hear me, no matter how good your ears are, so you see, there was really nothing you could have done to avoid me!"

After Ivan was done with his little speech, there were a million question running through Natsu's head, but he only dared to voice one oft them. He had gotten a pretty good idea of how strong this Ivan guy was physically. Without his flames he wouldn't stand a chance against him. And there was still the gun that had been trained on his head the whole time Ivan´s little speech had lasted. "What have you done with my friends you bastard?!"

A Few seconds of silence followed, then…

BANG

Natsu felt a burning pain in his left shoulder. He screamed. It was different from any kind of pain he had ever felt before. It was concentrated on his shoulder alright, but he still felt it throughout his entire left side. It took him a moment to realize he had actually been shot. The dragon slayer put a hand on the wound reflexively and felt it being covered in blood immediately. A second later, he felt the hard tip of a boot burying itself into his stomach, lifting him into the air and then smashing him into a wall with so much force, he felt the air rush of his lungs and one of his ribs crack from the impact. When the boot was removed from his stomach, Natsu sank to the floor, taking fast and shallow breaths, whimpering slightly, as a handful of his rose colored hair was gripped harshly and his had was yanked from the floor, until he was hanging completely in the air, only held up by the hand now gripping his entire face.

"Haven't I warned you not to speak without permission you useless, disobedient piece of shit?" Ivan snarled. Then, Natsu was dropped back onto the now bloodstained floor. "But it´s only fair I told you, so listen. They Are Dead. Since they were of no use to me, I killed them right on the spot."

With those words, Ivan could see the life drain out of the young dragons eyes. Nothing he had done to him had been as effective as this. Even if the young man in front of him was hurt, bleeding and should by all means be unconscious by now, he was just lieing on the dark, could floor, completely motionless, eyes starring into nothingness, utterly shocked at what he had heard just then. He decided lo leave his new pet to contemplate his situation for a bit and to go check on the other prisoners. He still hadn't decided what to do with the other three yet. That guild they were from, Fairy Tail, had enough enemies he could sell them to. On the other hand it would be funny to keep them and play with a little bit. He could sell them anytime he wanted if he got board, so he had all the time in the world, he was certain no one would figure out who he was and where he´d taken four of Fiores most famous wizards or what had even happened to them.

After reaching the staircase that lead to the dungeons upper level, he took a moment to just enjoy the fact that he'd fulfilled his greatest dream. He had a dragon all to himself now. That child downstairs maybe didn't look the part yet, but he would change that soon. He´d spent most of his life researching dragons and their famous human children and after years and years of searching, he'd finally been able to uncover an ancient spell that would cause the dragon particles in those children's blood to take over completely and irreversibly. But he had to wait for a little bit longer until he could start. This boy still held to much magic energy, even if he was currently unable to use it. It was important to first drain his magic a little bit more, so he wouldn't be able to resist the transformation. From what Ivan had observed in the boy, he had a fiery temper, no regard for authorities and was allover acting more dragon then human. He already had sharp teeth and from all the dragon slayers he had observed, the sharpest senses. This was also the reason it had been so important to have had a solid plan to capture him. Without one, the whole project would have certainly failed or resulted in injury to himself.

When he reached the other cell, he took a moment to collect himself. When he looked down at his dress-shirt, he noticed some quite obvious bloodstains on it. Well, let the fun begin. He thought to himself as he unlocked and pushed open the door in front of him.

The three mages in front of him looked up startled when he opened the door, pointing his gun at them. He smirked. They were just ordinary humans and without access to their magic, they hadn't even noticed him approaching. Nothing compared to his soon-to-bee very own dragon.

The red haired women got herself under control a little bit faster then the others. "Who are you and what have you done with our friend?"

A Low and dark chuckle made its way out of his throat "You know women, he asked the exact same thing before he had to learn were his place is." She then seemed to notice the blood on his shirt. The others to seemed to have noticed it as well, if their sharp intakes of breath were anything to go by. "Well, I´m going to tell you, what I told him: You only speak, when you´re allowed to do so, otherwise you will get punished severely. Don't try to escape, you wouldn't be able to anyways. You belong to me now and will obey every command I give you, do I have made myself clear?"

The three of them shared a look, apparently contemplating their next course of action, then they nodded. Suddenly the blond women raised a slightly shaking hand.

"You may speak."

"Thank you. I just wanted to ask where our friend is and if he is alright. Can we maybe see him or speak to him?"

Ivan just looked at her for a few seconds. Even while she was obviously afraid of him, as well as his trusty gun, she'd managed to keep her voice steady. He decided to reward her with an answer. "Since you aren't going to escape, I can tell you that your little dragon child is not to far away, he's actually in the same building, just a floor below you. The magic canceling stone down there is a lot stronger the it is here, so he took quite some time to wake up. Now for his well being, He decided to disobey me, so I had to punish him a little bit, but I didn't kill him, after all, he's the reason all of you are here now. I need him alive, so you don't need to worry. And for your last question: I can not allow you, under any circumstances, to see him in person or to speak with him. But since you asked so nicely, I can show him to you.

This was going to be so good. He took one step back and pulled out a vial of water from his pocket. "You see, my magic is mist, using water, I can manipulate space and light, this is also the method I used to transport you to this place. I will now create a one way mirror, that will stay active even after I have left, so you can watch him." He even managed to say this with a convincing smile. Maybe I should have become a professional actor…

He opened the vial and a thin cloud of mist expanded out of it, it was about two by two feet and showed a room pretty similar to the one they were standing in right now. The figure in the room was curled up in a corner and still clutching at his shoulder that still leaked crimson blood. The was more on the floor as well, he seemed to have dragged himself from the cells center into the corner, leaving quite an impressive blood trail behind. He was visibly taking to fast and to shallow breaths and he still had that blank look in his eyes, the only difference now were the silent tears that were running down his face, seemingly without him noticing, or caring, at all.

The three mages in the room in front of him were speechless. The red head was glaring pure death at him, while the blond started weeping for her friend. The dark haired young man, who had been rather quiet until now glared at him and whispered in a deathly calm voice "What have you done to our comrade, our friend you damn psycho?!"

"If you don´t want to experience the same kind of pain, you´d better shut your mouth and pray for my mercy boy" Ivan was now advancing on the, now shirtless, mage in front of him. The other two were watching this in horror.

"Well, if you disobey me again, I will make sure you will suffer more then you could ever think possible, am I understood? I have no practical use for the three of you, so behave, I can dispose of you anytime I want, always remember that." With that, Ivan turned around and was about to leave and close the door, when he noticed that now the red haired mage had raised her hand and was openly looking at him with eyes that just shone with the will to kill him. "What now?"

"You said we're disposable, but what about Natsu? What is it you plan on doing with him?"

"Oh, I´m so glad you asked! He of course is going to be my pet. I have always wanted a true dragon, and now, I've finally caught myself the strongest one alive right now. And all of that was possible because you idiots were dumb enough to fall right into the trap I had set for him. Next time you have something as valuable as a dragon, take better care not to lose it."

"I don't understand, he may be a dragon slayer, but he's still human!"

"You people are so ignorant, have you never thought about what dragon slayer magic is, or why only those can truly master it who have been raised by a real dragon? Have you never noticed he's more then just a lowly human?" He now had the undivided attention of the entire room." Let me explain a few things. All dragon slayers are actually part dragon. Not from birth, but to be able to master dragon slayer magic, one must take dragon particles into his body and leave his humanity behind. Only a dragon in body and spirit can learn how to fight and live like one. Their bodies take one some of a dragon's characteristics and when in dragon force, those particles I mentioned go partly out of control, enhancing those dragon-like qualities even more. You see, dear Natsu will become a real dragon, because I have found a sure method to enhance the dragon particles strength to a point, where they will irreversibly take over the body and transform the slayer into a true dragon for the rest of their, as dragon, really long life. And if you´ll excuse me now, I have got quite a few things to prepare."

"Wait, are you aware that this will not work? The dragons have developed antibodies against the dragon particles, so they don't go out of control." This time, it had been the boy who spoke.

"Trust me, I´m quite aware of that. This is also the reason I broke his spirit and am draining him of magic as we speak. The weaker he is in body and spirit, the weaker those antibodies will get and he WILL transform."

"But you´ll kill him, and what do you mean, you´broke his spirit already´?

"Don´t be stupid! Dragons are a whole lot stronger then us puny humans, he won´t die from some magic draining and minor injures you stupid boy! And for the other question, After showing him how gruesome I can get without breaking a sweat, I told him I had killed each one of you on the spot the moment I caught you. And let me tell you, the look on his face was priceless."

With this last piece of information, Ivan left the room, closed and locked the door, turned and walked down the dark hallway, all while laughing quietly. The look on those Idiots faces just had been so enjoyable, he couldn't help himself.

A few more staircases further up he opened another door that led into a huge cathedral-like room. This place had magic symbols engraved and drawn all over it and in the middle of it all were a pair of iron shackles bolted to the floor. He took out some notes as well as red ink and a coal black feather and continued drawing more and more complicated symbols and lines, adding further and further to the incantations that were decorating the entire room already. It wouldn't bee long now, only a few more days and he'd finally have, what he'd desired for as long as he could remember.

So. this was part one. Please leve a rewiew.

See you guys next time