Chapter 2.

The next day saw the young Dragon Slayer walking through the forest south of Ateos the central hub for merchant trade in the North West of Fiore. There was the first town Natsu saw while searching for his Dragon, and the young boy had to admit that it was a very beautiful town, and Natsu saw a few while his was studying user Anna, though while the town they would visit were smaller than this it still had enough influence on the boy to want to see how the life in the city to go to the city and see what he can find on Igneel, Natsu headed towards it.

As he entered the city he was awed in what he saw, all the things were pretty much new the Dragon Slayer and he honestly didn't know were to start to look for clue so he just wandered around, buying some food and some equipment that he found necessary for his journey with the gold that he was left with, which Natsu was extremely happy for his teacher to make him learn at least a bit of Re-quip magic. That way he could carry a lot of stuff and not be worried about losing it or getting it stolen.

Continuing his look around Natsu saw something that made him angry. The sight that he saw was of the man in his 30's dragging an older man that was from the look of him in his late 70's, the man was shorter then Natsu and had a bald head with white hair on the side of his head, he was also wearing an orange zipped up hoodie with the matching pants and overly large shoes.

The man that was being dragged by force away into the dark ally wasn't even fazed by the fact that someone was trying to rob him, but that didn't stop Natsu from rushing towards the ally to kick some well-deserved butt. He was always lectured to help someone in need and this was one of the perfect opportunities to do it, entering the ally that the 2 entered before, he grinned as he saw that the ally was a dead end, meaning that there was no escape for a crook to get away from him.

"If I were you I would let the old man go!" Natsu said a bit louder making his presence known to the 2 men in front of him.

As the 2 turned to see who behind them, they were shocked to see a little kid with pink hair and black eyes that was grinning like a madman towards them. Though the old man saw and felt huge magic power from the kid and was very impressed by it, the crook didn't and the old man knew that if the kid wanted to he could easily beat the shit of the man who "captured him". Though while the old man was impressed, the crook just started laughing his head off at the thought of a kid barely 12 threatening him.

"HAHAHAHA, oh man that was a good one kid. Now fuck off, I have work to do." The crook said as he pointed his knife at the old man's neck and again demand all of his money.

Seeing as he was just ignored and laughed at, Natsu growled a bit before he smirked again as a devilish idea popped up in his mind.

"Oh, you think just because I'm a kid I can't kick your sorry excuse? Don't make me laugh, I fought dogs that have more courage and power than you. So I'm going to ask you again to let go of Gramps before I burn you to ash." Natsu spoke his voice being arrogant as he mocked his opponent, who was extremely easy to provoke it seemed as he harshly troughs the old man into the wall and made his way toward Natsu who just widen his smirk. While the old man just had a tick mark for being called "Gramps" by some little brat, but he had to

"I was planning to let you go so you can run to your mommy, though now I'm going to beat you up to a bloody pulp you brat!" The crook yelled as he tried to kick Natsu only to get his foot caught by the pink haired boy.

"Oh well, I tried to be nice." Natsu said as he lighted his hand that was still hold the foot on fire and started to squeeze it, forcing the crook to yell in pain as he felt his skin burning and his bones crushing.

[Fire Make: Mace!] Natsu shouted as he sent the thief flying into the wall rendering him useless with a well-placed punch to the face with his fire mace.

"Wha? One shot? Damn, I thought he would at least be able to take one more...oh well." Natsu muttered to himself as he rubbed his head in disappointment before he remembered the old man. "You okay Gramps? This trash didn't hurt you?"

Shaking his head at the display of magic and to answer the boy the old man replied in a calm voice. "Don't worry, I'm fine, though you didn't have to do what you did, though I'm grateful for your assistance young man. Though what is your name if I may know?"

"The name is Natsu, Natsu Dragneel. What is your name Gramps?" Natsu answered with a huge grin on his face.

"Natsu huh? Natsu you are a fire mage I see. My name is Makarov Dreyar. Did you ever considering joining a Guild?" The old man now known as Makarov asked again.

"A guild? What is that?" Natsu asked with a confused look on his face as he never heard of it, prompting the old man to sigh.

"Well let me tell you then, my boy. A guild is where a group of us mages come together and take on all sorts of jobs and quests. Sometimes alone, sometimes with a team. In fact, there are hundreds of guilds in this land, Natsu."

Natsu slowly nodded, taking in what the master of the 'Fairy Tail' guild has to say to the clueless young Dragneel

"Also... in a way… they are also somewhat like a family, we look out for each other and nurture magical talents and skills we all have. Heh… We even fight against other guilds, showing that we are stronger and tougher against others… but… we also fight alongside each other… in the darkest of times… We end menaces and protect the lives of the innocents…"

"And what are they?" The pink-haired mage asked with a worried but also a curious look on his face, to which Makarov held his hand.

"I am just about to get to it, young boy. These menaces are guilds too… but they are known as 'Dark Guilds'… They are guilds that commit the darkest of crimes… Threatening the lives of us and many innocent lives… Even lives were lost too…"

Natsu stood still as he took in what old master said, frozen and scared for his life with all this frightening new information given to him by Makarov.

"But no need to worry, it's very rare that it happens. Heh, most of the time we just do jobs, have drinks, flex our occasionally fight with each other for fun." Makarov reassured the young Fire Dragon Slayer getting him to have a grin on his face at the thought of good fights that he would get.

Though while all that was good and all he still didn't know from which Guild the old man was so he decided to question it.

"Okay, Gramps you got me interested, though you still didn't tell me from what Guild you are from and what is it like."

"AHH, my bad, my boy. I'm from Fairy Tail, and I'm a Master of that Guild." Makarov said with a smile on his face.

"Fairy Tail?" Natsu asked as it was a strange name for a Guild.

"Why yes Fairy Tail. And in it everyone treats everyone like family, we stick for each other through thick and thin and we treasure each member like our own flesh and blood. We are a bit of rowdy, fight-loving and a bit destructive but we still try to keep it down, though some are more destructive than others we still cherish all of them. Though, besides that, we do work for those who can't use magic and in return they pay us for it. The jobs could be anything from treasure finding to monster extermination. So, would you be interested in joining my boy?" Makarov briefly explained to Natsu, who hearing fighting, monster extermination, and destruction was already sold. Making mayhem was he specialty after all, and if he was to add that metalhead Gajeel than mayhem would not do justice to the destruction that those 2 would cause.

"Sure I will, but where is your Guild anyway?" Natsu said with excitement in his voice at the prospect of meeting new people and fighting strong opponents.

"It's in Magnolia my boy, in the southeast of Fiore from here it will take us 4 days of train ride." Makarov told him in a calm voice though he started to get confused as Natsu started to sweat a bit.

"D-d-did you just said 4 days of train ride?" Natsu barely managed to say as he started to sweat and pale a bit.

"Why yes my boy, why are you so nervous?" Makarov questioned him.

"I-it's because of my magic...I get extremely motion sickness when I ride anything." Natsu barely said as he started to turn green a bit at the thought as a flashback of Anna's punishment of riding a carriage for a day flash by his eyes.

"What? Why? I thought that maker magic doesn't make it's user sick of transportation." Makarov asked confused as he was fairly sure that it Maker Magic didn't have the setback.

"Well, honestly, Fire Make isn't my main magic, it's more like a secondary one." Natsu said with a huge grin which got Makarov even more interested as he nodded to Natsu to continue. "My go-to magic is Fire Dragon Slayer Magic, my father, Igneel the Fire Dragon King he raised me and taught me his magic."

Hearing Natsu's answer Makarov passed out. He would never in his wildest dreams thought that the dragons were still alive and that even some took some children and raised them and trained them. Thought he did believe that Dragons existed as there were more than enough proof of that.

"Y-you were raised by a Dragon?" Makarov stuttered, asked making Natsu grin disappear and to be replaced by a frown.

"Yes, I was raised by a Dragon. Go ahead and laugh at me all you want. I don't care what people think, I know that Igneel is real and when I find that scaly bastard, I'm going to kick his ass for leaving me alone." Natsu sternly said as he started to turn around to leave, though before he got the chance to leave he was stopped by the small Fairy Tail Master.

"Oh, you mistook what I said, I do believe you, my boy, there is plenty of evidence that Dragons were real." Makarov quickly told Natsu making him look at the old man. "And how about you come with me and join Fairy Tail. I'm sure all of us would help you find your father." Makarov added making the young Dragon Slayer's eyes to go wide.

"Y-you will help me really find my father?" Natsu asked in a shaken voice, still not believing what he heard from the old man.

"Why yes, we will be more than happy to help you my boy." Makarov answered him in a calm almost fatherly tone which made Natsu hug the old man with all his might almost making the poor Master of Fairy Tail dead from his vice grip.

"THANK YOU GRAMP!"

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To say that Makarov was surprised at the suffering that the young Dragon Slayer put up with during the ride to Magnolia would be an understatement. Natsu during the whole journey from Ateos, Natsu was pretty much dead, his was hanging from the window of a moving train and more than a few times Makarov needed to pull Natsu back since it looked like he was about to go overboard and fell from it. But that all disappeared as soon as Natsu was firmly back on solid ground, which he started to kiss and said that he would rather die than ride in that metal death trap.

Of course, Natsu little outburst caused a few people to sweat drop (Makarov included) and some to laugh at the boy for his overdramatic scene.

After Natsu finished with his drama and recovery, they made their way towards the Guild, and on the way towards it Natsu couldn't help but stare in awe at the beauty of the town. Magnolia as Makarov told him possesses a large built-up area, extending over a large, rectangular surface to the shores of lake Sciliora. Splitting the town vertically and horizontally is a series of large roads. The whole place is built in a western style, with its buildings being mildly reminiscent of neat Medieval towns. As they continued their walk towards the guild, Makarov told him more about Magnolia which made Natsu grin at what the town had to offer. Located almost in the middle of the town, overlooking Central Path, a horizontal road where events and parades are held, is Kardia Cathedral, one of Magnolia's most important and distinctive landmarks. In the northernmost part of the city, sitting on the shore of Lake Scilliora. which, to the west, has the HalfCocor Hotel Bar, the Toy Store Tom and the Magic Store Lendis; north from the station, on the town's western border, is the entrance to the park. And beyond that was a huge forest that was all in Magnolia's jurisdiction.

It took almost half and hour for the duo to reach their destination, and as soon as they reached it, Natsu was left without words.

Fairy Tail's Guild resided in an imposing building consisting of three floors and incorporating several architectonic styles: it was in a shape reminiscent of a pagoda, with each floor being smaller than the one below it and sitting on the latter's roof. The roofs also bore great resemblance to those of real pagoda, consisting of extremely long, arched tiles lined up one after the other and possessing simple curved protrusions jutting upwards on the building's angles. On the highest roof, topping the summit of the building, sat a simple, round and pointed dome, highly reminiscent of those seen on Arabian buildings, which bore a flag on its point. The roof below the one with the dome, the middle one, housed a large banner with Fairy Tail's symbol on it, held up by a pair of vertical poles. The building's large entrance was again Arabian in design, with its shape being reminiscent of that of the dome on the summit, and above it was the guild's name, topped by a protruding, stylized heart shape and flanked by a pair of carved fairies. Stylized heart shapes were also visible on the frames of the numerous, large pentagonal windows located on each floor, with the top floor housing smaller, arched windows partially covered by banners.

And behind the closed door, both Natsu and Makarov could here yells, laughter and small explosions going on, which prompt the old man to sigh and shake his head at his destructive kids while Natsu having a huge toothy grin on his face at the thought of joining whatever is making those explosions.

"Well my boy, here we are, Fairy Tail Guild. The best and the most rowdier guild in all Fiore. And most destructive." Makarov said with a smile though he barely whispered the last part but it was still heard by Natsu who had his eyes shining in a prospect of meeting new people.

"Well gramps, what are we waiting for, let's get inside!" Natsu shouted as he kicked the door open with so much power that it nearly blew them into smithereens.

While making Makarov pale at what he saw from the young pink haired brat and what was going inside the Guild.

Though even with a loud explosion, the fight that was now seen inside the guild didn't stop the members who were going at it. All of them had a huge grin on their faces, though that was until someone accidentally hit a red-haired girl that was wearing armor on her upper body with a sword secured on her right hip, she also wore a blue skirt with black boots. The red-haired was not too much older than Natsu, maybe a year if he should guess, but what made him interested was that the brawl was instantly stopped and the whole Guild fell into silence as the girl in question slowly raised from her seat all the while having a deep red almost crimson aura that screamed bloody murder around her.

"What did I said about fighting in the Guild?"

The teen girl asked, her voice was deadly calm making her even more terrifying to the ones that were having a brawl. And the Guild was terrified of her while her back was still turned.

Seeing as she didn't get her answer from the now ghostly paled members, the girl slowly turned around and started to crack her fists while slowly making her way towards those who hit her. Her brown eyes shining with bloodlust as she was prepared to give some punishment to those who ruined her time of peace.

Even though she looked ready to murder, Natsu couldn't help but admit that the red-haired knight was a very beautiful and attractive girl.

Though before the slaughter could begin a new voice made herself present, that made Natsu and Makarov who still didn't moved from their spot look at the owner of the voice.

"Tin can you really are like a tyrant. Live a little, o yeah I forgot you only know how to stuff your face with that cake of yours." The one that said was a beautiful white-haired girl who had her hair into a high ponytail by a massive purple ribbon, while a large strand was covering her forehead and two bangs going to the side of her face, she had in, Natsu's opinion, mesmerizing oceanic deep blue eyes the shined with mischief. Her outfit was in a gothic theme and it shown a lot of her still developing had a dark purple skimpy sleeveless shirt, black leather shorts with a black belt that had a like a pirate skull on it and high heels that went to her knees. On her fingers there were rings that also looked like skulls.

And just like with the redhaired knight Natsu also had to admit that the gothicgirl was attractive and beautiful in her own right. And the power that he sensed from the both was an added bonus as it made them even more attractive in his eyes.

"What did you say you worthless white skunk?" Red haired asked as she head-butted with the white hair girl.

"That your flat chest should stop ordering people around!" The white hair replied as she pushed her forehead against the armor girl.

"Why you succubus!"

"What you armored freak?"

"Harlot!"

"Strawberry ass!"

"That's it, you are dead you slut!"

And just like that a new brawl just kicked started but unlike the first one where everyone was in it, laughing and enjoying themselves, this time almost everyone was hiding under the table or anywhere they could to escape from the 2 powerhouses.

While this is happening Makarov and Natsu slowly made their way into the guild and went toward the bar where the old master took his seat on the bar counter and ordered his beer while Natsu just asked for a bit of water all the while keeping his eyes on a fight that was happening in front of him.

"Those 2 will destroy the whole guild before they are finished with their fight." Makarov said in a tired voice with a huge sigh as he took a large gulp of his beverage.

"Who are those two? I can see that they are powerful." Natsu quietly asked ah he turned to look at the Master of Fairy Tail.

"The one with a Red Hair is Erza Scarlet a powerful mage that uses Re-quip magic for armor and weapons, the one with the white hair is Mirajane Strauss a take over mage who's specialty is Demon take over. And both girls are candidates for an S-Class mage."

"An S-Class mage? what is that?" Natsu asked feeling very confused by the term as he never heard of qualifications of mages before.

"Hmm, you don't know about a ranking system for the guild mages? Makarov asked getting a negative from the young Dragon Slayer.

"Well, I can get while you don't know seeing as you were raised by a Dragon." Makarov slowly said as he took a bit of his beer before he continued. "You see in a guild there are 6 ranks of mages. The weakest are D-Class they usually do small jobs, though while they are the weakest that doesn't mean that they can't improve, it only means that they are not at the level of power and experience to go to and do harder missions, then there is C-Class and like class D ones they are lacking in power or experience. Now on to B-Class is a class were the mages can take a higher jobs and those job are a bit more dangerous, though not too much but still it needs to have both power and experience to do those, A-Class is a class where mages have power and experience and can do the more paid and more difficult task that is too dangerous for the D an C ones to take, sometimes though even a B-Class can take them. A-Class is also on a brink of becoming an elite if you could say that. And now we have S-Class, those are the ones that take the most difficult and most dangerous missions, those are the ones that are the strongest and most of the time the ones with the most knowledge. And finally, we have an Ace of a guild, he is, in essence, the most powerful one who is in charge of the Guild when the master of the guild isn't there. The Ace can take any job he wants from D to SSS class. Our Ace is currently on an SS job and should be returning in a year at the most." Makarov explained to Natsu who nodded his head in understanding.

"So... what rank do I have?" Natsu questioned as he again returned his gaze at the brawl which slowly started to turn into a full-blown battle as both girls slowly started to use their magic.

"Well brat, as you have one of the lost magic and have been living with a Dragon who no doubt but you through a lot of challenges I think a B-Class is sufficient for the moment, though you can always fight someone from A-Class to improve your Rank or by doing a lot of missions that slowly build up in difficulty would suffice." Makarov said with a smile before his smile turns into a look of horror as both girls shouted their respected magics.

"That's it you are going down! I'm done playing with you! Take-Over: Satan Soul!" Mirajane shouted as a purple magic circular appeared under her and she flashed in a blinding light before transforming.

"I was going to say the same for to you whore! Re-Quip: Heavens Wheel Armor!" Erza shouted as she also was enveloped in a blinding light.

As the light died down, Natsu was meet with a site that he hadn't expected. Erza was in an armor that was seemingly made of silver metal. The upper part of this armor only consisted of a small, revealing breastplate that extended along her hips, composed of feather-shaped plates pointing upwards with a large metal flower on the front, leaving the tops of her still developing breasts exposed, as well as her flat stomach. Her biceps were covered by metal straps and her very large plated gauntlets sport feather-shaped plates at the edges. At her waist was circled by large, decorated plates reminiscent of feathers that lie on a long skirt. She wore a pair of plated high boots which the top was hidden under her skirt.

All in all, Natsu was very impressed at what he saw and the power that he felt was tremendous to the point that he needed to release a bit of his seal to match her. Though while Erza looked like a warrior princess, Mirajane looked like Gates of Hell just opened and the judgment day had arrived. And if he was honest at this point, he didn't know who was stronger. The War Maiden or the Devil.

Where Mirajane stood, now stood a real white hair demon. Mirajane's eyes, eyelashes, ears, and hair all change drastically, and dark, thin markings appear all over her body that was in a maroon skimpy one-piece suit that revealed her arms that were now armored and had claws that to Natsu's eyes looked as sharp as Dragon's ones and legs that were in the same shape armored and sharp. Her suit was open on the front and the back. The suit was in a V shape, going from her neck where it was tied with a maroon colored ribbon down to her sides, while barely covering her chest and private part while exposing her stomach and her long legs.

As he was admiring the power and looks the two war girls showed he clearly heard what the Master and everyone else spoke and that made it even more exciting for Natsu to battle them, but he first needed to be officially in a Guild to do it.

"OH God, please stop those two...I beg you, whole Magnolia is going to be destroyed if they don't stop..." Makarov said out loud as anime-tears started to fall at the sight of 2 13-year-old girls battling it out like they were in a war. And it only got worse as he heard them calling out some of their strongest attacks, completely disregarding safety of their fellow guildmates.

"Dance my Swords...[Blumenblatt!]" Erza shouted as she created a few dozen swords from thin air and sent them flying at the Demon who just smirked preparing and firing her own attack.

"You need to do better than that you Fatty [Evil Spark!]" Mirajane shouted as she created a sphere of dark lightning and sent it towards the swords who were heading at her with breathtaking speed.

Sensing that if not stopped that the attack sent would literally blow the Guild sky-high, Natsu quickly unlocked his at half power seal. Which didn't go unnoticed by the Guild Master. "[Fire Make: Fortress!]!" Natsu shouted as a huge wall of Fire 10 feet wide rose in between the 2 deadly attack's stopping them while creating an explosion that rocked the Guild all the while making a smoke screen.

"WHAT?!" Was the reaction of everyone as they heard an unknown voice and saw the pillar of pure the shouts were the loudest from the 2 girls that saw their attacks being blocked with ease.

Everyone quickly wiped their heads at where they heard a shout and were speechless when they saw who blocked the attack. They saw a young boy with pink hair and dirty and ripped clothes smiling at them while the Guild Master was thanking the boy with anime tears.

"THANK YOU NATSU FROM STOPING THOSE TWO MONSTERS FROM DESTROYING THE GUILD! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST TO REPAIR THAT!" Makarov shouted in you that he finally found someone that could at least stop those 2 beside his grandson or their ACE.

"Yo! How ya all doing?" Natsu asked with a smile as he waved at everyone who still looked like they saw something that was impossible.

Seeing as he didn't get anything in return, he scratched the back of his head in confusion. "Um...did I do or said something wrong?"

And that was what broke the dam, as everyone started to yell in surprise at the boy who seemingly stopped 2 of most powerful members in their tracks. Though the racket that was created forced Natsu to close his eyes in pain and put his hands on his ears as he was sure that if they got even a decibel louder his eardrums would burst.

"SHUT UP!" Natsu roared as he overpowered the loud guild members all the while letting his flames go through his mouth.

And if his stopping of Erza and Mirajane didn't stopped them from shouting, his roar and fire did, as some members backed away in slight fear, while some were surprised as they never saw this in their entire life or some (Mirajane and Erza) got into their battle stance against the pink haired boy as they thought that he was about to attack them.

"Quiet brats, and Mira, Erza put down your weapons and magic." Makarov ordered as everyone was still unsure as to why the master told them that. Though obviously, Erza was the first to respond to it.

"But master didn't you saw it yourself he was about to attack us." "Yeah, I have to agree with Armor Freak on that one master." Mirajane added to what Erza said while also finding an excuse to jab at her rival, who glared at the white hair.

Seeing at what they were getting Master Makarov explained it to them, that Natsu wasn't trying to attack anyone at all. "You are mistaken Erza. He didn't try to attack anyone here, and I doubt he would do that. But it's more to his hearing, he has an enhanced hearing which was suddenly assaulted by all your shouts and it, if I had to guest is painful for someone who until recently was in a mostly quiet place."

"Uhh...my head...I think I will go deaf here. Why is the world spinning?" Natsu asked as he picked himself up and started to refocus his senses.

"Well, that would be because you are at the Greatest and Rowdiest Guild ever. Welcome to Fairy Tail Natsu!" Markov told him in passionate voice which was soon followed by a roar of approval from other members.

"Well, I'm glad to come here then." Natsu said making crowd cheer even louder as they knew that they gained a new member to their family.

"Excellent. Now where do you want your mark at and what color?" Makarov asked getting a confused look from the young Dragon Slayer before he pointed at others who all had it.

Seeing as this is some way to tell that you are a part of a Guild, Natsu nodded and pointed at his right biceps while grinning from ear to ear. "Here and make it red if you will Gramps."

Makarov again winced a bit at being called Gramps, but let it slide as he put a marker on the part Natsu wanted, a second later a Fairy Tail insignia appeared in bright red, making everyone cheer before Makarov silenced them.

"Now brats, we gain a new member and let's welcome him the only way Fairy Tail know how...LET'S PARTY! Makarov shouted which made the members go into a frenzy as the party started. Drinks, laughter, music, you named it there was. Natsu was introduced to everyone in the Guild and even answered some questions though he didn't wanna answer the ones about magic since he told them that would ruin a surprise. A brawl soon started which Natsu was more than happy to enter it.

'It looks like thing are going to get even more interested from here now out.' Makarov thought as he titled his head to the side a bit to dodge a flying bottle while keeping an eye on Natsu as the said boy was in a fight against a young black-hairedboy who only had his trousers on.

Done.