I do not own Fairy Tail.

Chapter One

This is a story of a school, of a boy trying to grow up by himself in a world that scared him. His name is Natsu Dragneel, and his whole life changed one fateful day when his entire appearance turned dark. Running home from school, slamming open his bedroom door and throwing everything he had on his back and dumped it all to his floor; having his notebooks and several dirty napkins falling out.

He groaned as he fell to his knees, pained all over his body. It was a miracle his foster parents aren't home from work at this point. He felt this pain halfway through the walk home, throughout the entire day, Natsu felt weird. He felt tingles on his back and felling a stabbing feeling in his head. He had only thought he ate something bad.

This, however, was not that.

His left palm hit the wooden floor when he let out a low and agonizing howl. His head felt like it was tearing apart in two different places and his back felt the same, right in between his shoulder blade, Natsu felt tearing. His face was getting hot and very itchy.

"Shit," he drawled out, letting his other hand fall against his other with his forehead smacking it in the space between them.

It felt like it took hours for the pain to subside, however, he looked to the digital clock that had fallen on the floor from his backpack knocking it over, it told him that it only lasted about 20 minutes.

Letting out a long sigh and falling flat to the floor, that's when he sensed a heavy object fall to his vision. It was a red tattered piece of what seemed to be a wing. His eyelids blinked once before he squinted to see fully what exactly was in front of him.

A shaky hand stretched out to touch the object, it felt like tight skin that winged out a full 5 feet out, but that's not what scared him, what scared him was that he could fell his own hand on this wing. Natsu struggled his way to the bathroom down the hall, apparently smacking his new limbs on the door frame and looking around to make sure no one saw him.

The mirror showed himself, different from this morning. His wide jade eyes moved drastically throughout his whole person. Atop his head was two black horns that swirled into points, sharp points. His cheeks and forehead had adorned scales, red scales that felt rough when his hand touched them gently. His forearms were found to have the same kind of scales. Behind him, were big and red wings with points or…or claws? He wasn't really too sure, and he was super confused as to what was happening.

A floor below, Natsu heard the front door open and the jingle of keys on the counter. Frantically, his hands flew to the doorknob, slamming the door into itself and unlocking to suddenly locking it again, Natsu finally made it out the bathroom. Locking his own door and breathing harder, Natsu leaned against the wood, hanging his head down.

What the hell was happening? Is this a dream?

"T-this has to be a dream, there's no other way this was happening. What exactly is happening?" Natsu paced around his room, pulling his pink hair at the roots.

A knock on his door startled him, making him jump slightly and stare at the door, "Natsu? who are you talking to?"

"Uh," wringing his hands together, trying to swallow before replying, "Myself?" it came out as a question more than a statement.

"Well, alright. Mark and I will be going out to dinner for the night so you can order any pizza you want?" Already knowing what her foster son was going to get.

Food was far from his mind, it only took the sound of his name fall from her lips to bring him back to the reality that he hadn't answered her, "Oh, um, yeah sure. That's fine,"

After telling him that she loved him, she left with his foster father for the night. Slowly opening his door to the quiet house, he so hoped it was.

[***]

On a separate plane, there seemed to be one old and wise man who was short as a 4-year-old. His small steps around the screen surrounded the quiet and bright room. He was waiting, waiting for the right moment.

That moment came in short beeps in the location of the United States, in the southwest part called, Arizona. It lit red in the easternmost part of the area, smiling to himself and pushing a button on the table to send someone to get him. Now all he had was time.

[***]

In the midst of his freak out, Natsu started pulling at his hair and breathing heavily while a portal opened up inside his bedroom. His puddle of a brain was now trying to comprehend someone coming through and clearing his throat, folding his arms over his chest.

Natsu had no clue what was happening, he was close to having a full-blown panic attack. The blood rushing through his head causing him not to hear anything the guy was saying in front of him. His hands ran up and down his arms with the chills that ran through his veins; his vision faded in and out all while this man walked to him to get his attention.

"Hey, kid! Will you calm down," his deep-toned voice wasn't seeming to get through to his hurricane of a mind. Natsu's eyes shifted back and forth still trying to put together what he turned into what he must do now?

"W-what is this? What's happening to me? This-s is a dream, right?" his frantic mess of a sentence came out as his eyes found the man. His brown eyes stared right back in his jade, Natsu lost hope when there was no deception in them. "This, this isn't a dream?" questioning again.

With the shake of his head, Natsu lost all feeling in his hands when they fell to his side in despair.

"Then…then…what…?" Natsu tried to get words out but he was never good at explaining his thoughts.

The man's hand ran down his own face, letting out an exhausted sigh, "Look kid, you are, how can I say this?" he paced in Natsu's room trying and failing to explain this to the kid, "You are a creature, you are supposed to be in our dimension, there are several other kids there just like you,"

Creature? "I thought I was human," he offhandedly stated, touching his own bare chest, temporarily forgetting that his shirt ripped earlier.

The guy laughed, throwing his head back and holding his stomach, "Far from it!" holding his hand up, then waving it to show a door that glowed on its edges. "Come on, let's go," pushing the teen boy forward towards the door.

This was it; he was leaving his life here to be where? Natsu didn't know. Wait, where was he going? Digging his feet in the carpet to halt his steps, Natsu turned around to face him, "Where am I going, who are you and what am I?"

"Kid," putting his hands on his hips but before he could say anything the boy interjected.

"Natsu, my name is Natsu Dragneel,"

Chuckling, the man smiled, "Alright Natsu, we are going to Earthland, I am kind of like the Grim Reaper, and you are, from what I can see, a dragon," he answered consecutively to Natsu's questions.

"Grim Reaper?" Natsu jumped back, knocking over his computer tower in the process with his wing. "Am I dead?" thinking back at the moment he thought he was knocked out for hours when it was only 20 minutes.

"No, you aren't dead. Come on, I'm going to take you to someone that will answer all your questions," pushing the kid through the door causing him to stumble through the door.

Once Natsu was through, the entire world changed. The sky was no longer bright and clear blue sky, but a pale grey and the grass was black but surprisingly soft beneath his feet. He thought he saw flames in the far-off horizon. The air was even different, to Natsu, it felt clearer which confused him on a whole different level.

The Grim Reaper started walking along without him, Natsu had to chase him to catch up. They were walking along a gravel path, his jade eyes looked back up at the guy who had his hands in his pockets with a bored look on his face, "So, uh, do you have a name Mr. Grim Reaper man?" raising an eyebrow and holding a smirk to the man.

Giving Natsu an unamused look, "Names Gildarts,"

Nodding, folding his hands behind his head; yet hitting his horn on the side of his head surprised him before he forgot, "Gildarts, huh. So, what, um, are you?" curiously looking at him.

It was a minute before Gildarts told him and Natsu was beginning to think he had crossed a line, he does that often when he doesn't think before speaking, "Me? You don't want to know what I am,"

Natsu hummed, continuing on their long-ass walk before he asked, "Why?"

Huffing out of his nose, "Natsu, it just wouldn't be a good idea,"

Pouting but following up to a single-story building that was more of an office building and kind of blocky in Natsu's opinion. The front door was doubled and filled up the entire wall. It was gray and black with small windows all around and Natsu had only just begun to walk inside.

[***]

He was now inside some small man's office, like he was super small, it was hilarious at best. Gildarts basically dumped him in here with this man and went on his merry way.

"Natsu, welcome," he said showing him the seat that was right in front of him. Slowly making his to the chair, minding his wings when he sat. "I sense you're very confused about this,"

"You damn right I'm fucking confused," slamming his hands in the side arms of the chair.

Holding his hands up with an amused look painted on his lips, "I know. You, Natsu Dragneel are special. You belong here and we will help you find who you are here," folding over a paper to the other side before looking up at the teen again, "It seems that you are 15 years old, when is your birthday?"

Grumbling to himself, how did this guy know so much about him? Natsu crossed his arms and sunk further in the plush chair, "Its July 7th, is this really important?" his birthday was a sore subject since that was the day his parents abandoned him at the local church when he was 7. Telling him that they had to go somewhere, and they would be right back.

Yeah, they never came back.

Natsu stood on the stoop of the church for hours. People asked him if he was alright, but he would argue saying they would come back to him, they said they would. He waited for a few more days until he could take it anymore and went inside the church to take rescue. From there, he was adopted not too long after to the family and then to another family when that one couldn't handle him. He's been to several foster homes, he had almost lost count. The one he was in now, well not so much anymore, he had been with them for about a year and a half.

"It's important because I need it in your record, plus what if there's something we do here for birthdays?" the old man smiled up at him. Natsu only widened his eyes before scoffing and looking away.

"No thanks, Gramps,"

[***]

As the questions went on and on about how this all happened and what his family life was. Natsu was started to get tired, especially after the whole changing species thing. It had been several hours he's been in that office. Natsu was starting to answer every question in food.

Makarov, the name he learned after calling him gramps, had asked him if he would prefer a room to himself or a roommate but he answered with, burrito. Then Makarov laughed and told him he was going to go with him to get food in the food court. That made the pink-haired dragon jump in his seat and yell, "I'm all fired up now!"

Now, they walked right into the large café with scattered people all around. There was more than one place to get food from, just liked in malls back on Earth. There was a pizza place and a burger place and even a Mexican place. Natsu's mouth was watering at the thought.

"This is where you will have all your meals while you're here. You can always go out but here is where your family eats," family? He considers all of them his family? Natsu's family back him still cared for him but it felt like he the black sheep and didn't belong.

Before Natsu could run over to get some food, a guy was thrown through the sidewall, landing on a table on his back. He was a male with black hair and black marks up his whole arm and the side of his face covered. His entire right hand was black even, "Don't touch my cake again!" a girl had yelled above him she had bright red hair that flowed in the wind with her white wings, unlike his own red ones.

Her armor was shinny in a way that could blind your eyes in the right light. Upon her head was a helmet that was sliver, like her armor, in each side placed a pair of wings just like the ones on her back. In her hand, he wielded a sword, long and girthy, the hilt of it was gold and resembled was appeared to be an eagle.

"I didn't touch your damn cake, Erza!" the boy yelled back, opening his mouth to shoot a windstorm of ice and snow at the girl in the air. She had easily dodged it, letting it hit the ceiling fan and having it fall to the floor next to some other students who didn't seem to be bothered by it.

Pointing her sword at him and shouting, "You did, you were the only one there and it's gone!"

Flipping himself and standing on his feet and pointing his finger at her, "That's dumb logic!" fully regretting it right after he said that.

"YOU DAMN BRATS!" Makarov yelled beside him growing and growing till he was the size of the whole room, he slammed his fist on the table that held the boy, "What have I told you about destroying my guild!"

"You just did," someone stated in the back but was completely ignored.

Natsu just watched the whole thing take place, he was thoroughly confused. Where was he that everyone here had magic or powers or whatever they're called? Did he have powers? Looking down at his hands, opening and closing his hands to concentrate.

He felt a warm, tingling feeling coming from the palms but Makarov was back by his side, "Son, you'll learn your magic soon enough,"

"I have magic?" his jade eyes widened at the old man.

Smiling with closed eyes, "Of course!"

"Gramps! What did you crush me? I totally had that!" the boy ran up with no shirt and his sliver necklace bouncing on his chest. His glare was directed at the short old man, thumb hitting his chest right under his cross necklace.

The Erza girl flew over to them, landing her foot next to the boy and right in front of Natsu, "Master, I had a good reason for damaging the wall and the table, I would never go against the rules," her hands behind her back and lowering her head, "You may strike me,"

Waving his hands in front of him, "No need for that Erza, it's all sorted out. No harm, no foul,"

"It was for me!" the necklace guy yelled but Natsu's focus was on Erza who was looking at him weird, his wings and horns; for some reason it made him feel uncomfortable and he hadn't had them for a full day yet.

"Master, who's this?" pointing to Natsu himself.

Patting him on the back, Natsu stumbled forward a little bit, "This is our new student, Natsu and he is a dragon. This is Erza, she's a Valkyrie ad this is Gray, he's a devil slayer," pointing to each member concurrently.

Gray nodded his head in greeting while Erza held out her hand quite aggressively at him, "Hello, my name is Erza Scarlet. I am the class president of Fairy Tail, if you have any questions, you may come to me,"

"Right," Natsu drawled out and shaking her hand with might have squeezed his hand way too tight. Right as she let go of his hand and shook it before looking longingly at the fried chicken place that was right across from them.

Natsu got his chicken, eating just about 10 pieces of chicken and several fries. Although, they had asked him if he wanted something magical, didn't really know what that meant but he said no. Sitting alone in the food court at one of the long tables.

Then someone suddenly sat across from him, he looked up to find Gray sitting there with a grim look on his face. This time though he had a white long coat with his black streak across his chest, "So, you're Natsu then?"

With a mouthful of chicken, "Yeah," raising an eyebrow at him.

"You know, you're the only dragon here?" leaning forward on his elbows.

"So what?" Natsu had been a dragon for hours and he really didn't feel any different than he did before. What did this Gray guy want anyway?

He leaned even further on the table, "You hear that dragons are the most dangerous creature there is," placing his chicken down on his plate and leaned back with an unamused look about him.

"Oh, I get it," Natsu said pushing up from his bench leaning on his palms against the table, "You wanna fight?" smiling at Gray, raising his fist in front of them and a foot on the table in the offence.

Gray slowly smiled and stood up, throwing his jacket away and went on full attack. The two had their first, of many, fistfights on Natsu's first day.

[***]

"This will be your room for the next year, after that you may choose if you want to stay here or have a place of your own," Makarov had told him showing him his room it was a corner room with one window in the back. A lone bed on the center of the right wall with two nightstands on either side of it. To the left of the bed was desk, nothing on it and a chair under it.

He really tried not to think of how sad it would be to never see his family anymore. He might see them, right? Natsu sat on the edge of the bed, facing the old man still at his new bedroom door.

"Tomorrow, I'll have someone named Lucy Heartfilia to give you a tour of our school," turning around to slowly close the door but turned back to the new dragon, "She is very shy, I would recommend you not frighten her too much with your loud…" waving around to his person, "…that. All I'm saying is, she delicate," fully closing the door behind himself.

Natsu was now left alone with his thoughts, was this all really real life? Or was he in some kind of limbo between heaven and hell? Maybe he was in hell and this was punishment for him.

Laying down in his bed, his wings had gotten in the way, once again, now laying on his side so they weren't in the way. His eyes looked over his room again, the wooden floors and the oak desk by the wall. It was all kind of better than what he had back home on Earth.

He just hoped that school wouldn't be the same as back on Earth or he wouldn't have a good time here.

Suddenly, Natsu sat up in his bed, having the sheets fall to his lap. His breath heavy as the cold air fluttered around his room, seeing his breath before him. Yet, he didn't even feel it. Looking around to find his bearings, seeing the concrete walls. The sweat on his forehead was starting to get cold as he calmed down to get up to look out the window.

Standing and stretching, dressed only in his boxers as the sun was rising in the horizon. He thought he might want to get a shower before he started school.

20 minutes later…

A snore floated in the room when Natsu came back after his shower and passed out face first in the bed. When a bird flew up and smacked itself against the window, Natsu flew up in a seated position with a big heavy snore. "Wha…what's happening?"

Looking outside, he saw the sun fully up in the air and Natsu just knew he was late for school. Jumping up and running out the door until he noticed that he was still in his towel from the shower and quickly dressed himself in a pair of black jeans paired with a white shirt he found in his dresser.

Getting to the front gates of the school he was showed yesterday, he saw a blonde girl with her arms crossed and looking quite annoyed. Yet, she looked different from everyone he's seen before. She stood there in a bright gold glow to her. She also had what seemed like stars floating around her in the glow.

"Hey!" Natsu shouted as he ran towards her with an arm raised, "Are you Lucy?" stopped just a few feet from her.

"You're late," she stated glaring at the young dragon.

Scratching the back of his head, giving the girl a sheepish look, "Yeah, I'm sorry. I fell asleep after I showered and it made me very sleepy, I guess," he tried to explain to her.

Her arms lowered to her side and her face seemed to soften, "Well, okay, but don't make it a habit!" pointing her finger at him with a playful scolded gaze in her eyes.

Saluting her he smiled, "Yes, mam. So, where do we start?"

Giggling behind her hand, she turned to show the front of the school. It showed a grey building that stood at least three stories tall with a big orange flag on the top, on the flag held something white that maybe looked like a fairy if you looked at the right way. Each story on the building had a red roof and pillars at the front entrance. Atop each pillar was, what Natsu could guess was a gargoyle, "This is the first-ever creature school Fairy Tail," letting him bask the schools glory.

"Wow," his eyes wide with wonder, then back to her, "Wait, creatures?" he asked.

"Oh, down here, every one of us are different creatures. We like to call each other creatures instead of monsters. No one likes to be called a monster," walking forward into the school, Natsu followed her, minding his wings at the gates.

Inside the school was much different from the outside, it was bright and colorful. There were tapestries all over the walls with the same fairy-like symbol on the outside. The floor was white tile with gold trimmings around each tile. The lockers were skinny, long and blue colored; they lined the halls until they split at the end of the hallway.

"Whoa, this looks nothing like my old school," Natsu commented as he followed the blonde-haired girl down the hall. His hand touched one of the cloths against the wall, yet he tugged on it; making it fall with the rod it bounce loudly on the tile. "Oh shit," he frantically picked it up only after having it fall several times until he had it tilted against the hall.

Turning back to Lucy, standing with one arm wrapped around her waist while the other covered her mouth as she giggled at the poor boy.

"What's next?" his voice cracked as he tried to hide his embarrassment with his hands behind his back and cleared his throat.

Shaking her head and moving on down the hall. She took him to the food hall; Natsu recalling the fight he witnessed yesterday with Erza and Gray, but it seemed like that wall was fixed already. Next, she showed him several classrooms with kids, or what he can call kids, they were all different looking with horns or wings or different legs or different colored skin. It was very and very refreshing from his old school.

"This is the library, I usually spend my days here if you ever need any help," showing her the grand library. Now, Natsu really never been to a library but this was huge. It was a wide-open room with long oak tables in the center but no shelves near them; they were all around the walls and as tall as he could see and up to the ceiling.

"How do people get all the way up there," pointing to the very top of the bookcase.

"Some people can fly, like you and some can just float up there but for those who can't we have ladders that go all the way up," Lucy explained and showed him one that was far off to the left. He was about to ask something else when someone ran up to Lucy with a large and thick book in her arms.

"Lu! I'm glad I found you, you lost one of your books in the dorms and I needed to get it back to you," this girl handed her the book that was white and cream in some places with a gold binding. Yet the girl before him was short, blue hair and three small, green wings on either side of her back, making six altogether.

The blonde blushed and slowly slid the book against her chest, "Oh, thank you Levy. Natsu, this is Levy, she's a sprite,"

Natsu smiled at the girl and shoved his hand out to shake her hand, "Nice to meet ya, I'm Natsu and I guess I'm a dragon," her tiny hand shook his with a bright smile.

"Oh, hi. You're new here? You're the first dragon I've ever seen,"

"Yeah, I got here yesterday, well, kind of dragged here by some guy," throwing his hands up in exasperation.

Both girls giggled at the boy, "That's Gildarts, he's what everyone calls the Grim Reaper. His story is so long, I don't even know if half of it is true!" Levy explained.

Natsu's eyes shifted to Lucy who was barely talking and looking down to the ground with her hands clenched in front of her, he turned back to Levy, "Well, I think we have more of the school to see. See ya later Levy!" grabbing Lucy's wrist and moving across the library to the double doors that lead to more hallways, "What's next?" he asked.

The girl looked to him with wide eyes, thinking that he did that just to make her feel more comfortable. Lucy smiled, "Yeah…um…this way to the sports fields,"

Thrusting his fist in the air, "Alright! Let's go! I'm all fired up!" he shouted with a spirt of fire coming from his mouth. He stood with wide eyes and still gaping mouth in front of the blonde, "What the hell was that?"

She giggled once more, hiding her mouth with her hand, "I guess you're a fire dragon then,"

Thanks guys, I just had this idea for a long time, and I wanted to make sure it was right. I wanted every last detail to be correct and not just something made up. All the creatures I mention in here are from fictional places.