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Chapter 2: Back after two years

To say that Fairy Tail was a crazy guild was an understatement. With all the destruction they left after their mission and the amount of bad reputation they got from both clients and authorities, it was a miracle that they were still on function. It was all luck to be honest. If you are a Fairy tail wizard then prepare to have a life full of odd adventures.

But what happen today was beyond what they usually experience.

Before all of them was sitting a man that they all thought to be dead for the past two years: The Dragon slayer, Natsu Dragneel. And this wasn't the first time. During the last year, plenty of people claim to be the missing Salamander. A lot of them were horrible, although sometimes you could find a very good imposter but at the end of the day they were that: Imposters.

So hearing another person that he was the defund wizard wasn't something that surprise them. But the moment he took off his helmet and they saw a boy with spiky pink hair they all froze. He even show them the mark on his right shoulder and after a test to prove its authenticity, they reach the ultimate conclusion:

Natsu Dragneel was alive and before them.

"I'm still not buying this shit." One of the mage commented. He was a young man, no more of seventeen of age. He was wearing black jeans with no shirt at all. "And I can't believe that all of you do are actually believing it."

"We made the test, Gray." The master said keeping a straight face. "It's almost impossible to replicate our mark. He is Natsu."

"Bullshit!" He screamed. "If he is really Natsu then why he came back after two years?!"

"H-He is right." A woman entered the conversation. She had long brown hair and was wearing a bikini top. "Is not that I don't believe you but…he makes a good point."

"HE IS REAL!" Suddenly from the resting room a blue cat fly towards them. "I know that smell! Is the smell of Natsu! He is the real one!" The blue cat was crying.

"H-Happy! Don't go off like that!" Mirajane's brother yelled at the cat, he was currently helping his older sister to walk. She looked very badly, incredible exhausted.

"But…!" They all look at the elder of the Strauss, she was staring at the man who claimed to be their friend. Who by the surprise of every person inside the room, he look very calm.

"You seem very calm for what's going on, my boy."

"I admit that I should have present myself with more tact. It wasn't my intention to cause such ruckus."

"You did it anyways, flame brain."

"Flame brain? Excuse me, why are you so hostile towards me?"

"Alright, you just confirm to me that you aren't Natsu."

"How so?"

"Natsu, he is Gray." The bikini top woman said with concern. "You and he always fight all the time. Don't you remember him?"

"Gray…." He put his hand on his chin, trying to remember him. "Gray?...I remember! You are one of the ones who I play with when I was a child!" He said with wined eyes. "Hold on…miss, are you perhaps…Cana?"

"Yes! Oh my god! You-You really him!" Cana was crying and hugging the young man…or attempting because his armor was full of spikes. "What's with all those spikes?!"

"Defense, it prevents people to grab me and beasts to maul me."

"HOLD IT!" Gray grabbed Cana and pulled her away from Natsu. "What the hell you mean with that, idiot?! We're never friends! I always dislike every corner of you!"

"I honestly remember it as a child feud. Hating someone only because he uses ice, is beyond stupid."

"Alright, there's no way that all of you think that he is Natsu. Just hear him! Natsu never speak like a nerd!"

"I told that he is Natsu!"

"Shut up, Happy!"

"Don't speak to him like that!"

"ENOUGH." The master intervened and stopped the ruckus. "This isn't a moment to fight, children. One of ours has returned after two years, we're witnessing a miracle and all of you are fighting. That said, I do concur with Gray. My boy, seeing that you didn't die that day what is the reason that you show up after 2 years? Why took you so long?"

Natsu looked at them at silent and closed his eyes. "You're right, you all deserve to known what happen at the night of April 14th of 784. All you know what transpired that day, I denied what I heard and stole a boat from the port. Unfortunately, I didn't know nothing about navigation and the weather didn't help me either. Deep inside the sea, my boat was stoke by lighting and got destroyed. The impact knock me out and me drawn."

"But didn't kill you."

"….when I woke up, I was inside of cell."

"What?! Why someone look you up?!"

"I getting to it, Happy. The sea send to a prison island of a foreign Kingdom. The guards find me at the cost but they believe that I was a prisoner trying to escape so they lock me with the other prisoners."

"You didn't try to explain yourself?"

"Of course I did but the beings guarding the prison weren't humans. They were magic creatures who all purpose was to prevent the prisoners to escape. As a matter of fact, I never saw another human being besides the prisoners."

"How long you be there?"

"Two months. One day, the prisoners riot against the guards. It was a massacre but I managed to escape."

"Y-You allied with criminals?"

"I didn't have a choice in the matter. And I wouldn't call of them criminals. Most of them were lock away because of a noble or false accusations. I actually made a friend inside that help me in our escape."

"Which kingdom did you land?"

"….hehehe."

"What the hell are you laughing at, flame brain?"

"If this kingdom suffer a prison riot, the government would send knights to capture them….two months. I was there only two months and I get out, one would think that I was very skillful. But they were people who were decades and couldn't get out. You know why we managed to get out? Is because the Kingdom did not longer exist, so their masters weren't there to give them orders."

"Aren't you just lucky?"

"I thought the same back then….but when I realized what happen to the kingdom….let's say that I wasn't lucky."

"What happened?"

"….What happen in there, was bad. Horrible. I couldn't leave and…is better that you people don't know what transpired there."

"And it took you two years to do it."

"One, actually. But during my time I made tons of relationship with multiple people, I couldn't just leave them like that."

"How considerate, guess we couldn't get that privilege."

"Gray!"

"What?! He left us and almost get himself killed! And tell us, why now? Why you come after two years?!"

"…I never forget, Gray. I…I always longed to come back to Fairy tail. Every day, every night, I dreamed about coming back here….but…"

"You don't have to say more, my boy." Makarov stopped the dragon slayer for talking. "I know that face, I saw it in many men. The face of the horror of a battlefield."

"How did you-?"

"Do you think I managed to be a Master just because I'm old?" He cockily said. "You did things that you are not proud of."

"We did what we have to do, Master. If you know my kind of face, you should also know what happen in those situations."

"I do….we could talk about your past….but not today. Today, we celebrate our reunion with one of our own! Everyone, prepare a party!"

"YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Isn't that great, Natsu? You're back with us!" Happy hugged his father.

"D—Do you believe my story?"

"Of course, child. What wouldn't we?" The old man stared at him. "Yes, is being long but you come back to us. We're witnessing a miracle, we shouldn't grief but celebrate your return."

"I apologize for all the trouble I cause you."

"Don't be. Never apologize to us. Now, let feast!"

Long ago, he loved parties. To boast about his winnings and drink to his heart content. The members were very touchy with him, especially the cat that now that he remember, he was like a son for him. Everyone was singing and dancing, they push him to join them but…he couldn't.

He feel like a third wheel.

"Is something wrong?" Mirajane came close to him, carrying a cup of beer. "For you."

"Thank you, Mirajane."

"You can call me Mira." She sit beside him. "Are you going to join them?"

"I don't believe that I have the right to do so after all that I did to them."

"Didn't you hear the Master? You did nothing wrong."

"I highly doubt that."

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…

…

"Have you…?"

"Yes?"

"Have you…..got stronger?"

"After two years? I believe so."

"If that's true then show it." Gray walked into their conversation. "You and me. Now."

"Excuse me?"

"Let's fight."

"Gray!"

"No."

"Natsu you don't have-what did you just said?"

"I said no. I will not fight you." All of the sudden, the party stopped and stared at Natsu. "What's wrong?"

"You…you reject a fight with Gray…"

"I did. What's wrong with it?"

"You and Gray always fight!"

"We do?"

"Yeah, you fight all the time! Ever since you meet each other!"

"Why?"

"Why…because…because you always fight each other!"

"I do have a reason to fight you. I want to beat the crap out of you for being such an idiot!"

"This isn't the time to fight, Gray. If you want to challenge me or spar, I will happy oblige. But not today and not here. What about in three days, outside town?"

"Fine! But don't you dare to run away!"

"Wouldn't dream off."

"That was oddly mature of you, Natsu." Cana commented. "Guess those two years did something on you. The older Natsu would straight up go into a fight."

"This is a party, we shouldn't ruin it with a meaningless fight." Yes, his younger self would definitely accept the fight with no concerns. But life thought him how to choose his fights and not go straight into fight like a rabid animal. "Mira, may I ask you something?"

"Of course."

"When I present myself to you, you believe that I was an imposter."

"I'm so sorry!"

"Don't be, as matter of fact, I want you to tell me all about those imposters."