Hey everyone, Cnguyen9 here or now, SkyleRaphael here and welcome back to another chapter of a Slayer's Companion. Sorry for no updating in a long time. I actually had a good chunk of this chapter done half-way through March but I eventually go lazy so I continued writing this randomly. Anyways, surprisingly enough, no-one has voted on the poll yet so please vote soon. So, let's begin with the chapter,
Key:
"Talking"
"Telepathic Talking"
'Thinking'
Flashback, Vision or Date & Time
Magic
(A/N)
~Line Break~
July 17th X777, 5PM, Fairy Tail Guild (A few moments before Skyle went to the basement with Mavis)
Natsu stared at Grey before letting out a small laugh. He then gave out a happy grin while saying,
"It will be a pleasure getting to know you."
Everyone smiled at the sight of someone as cute (*ahem* not *ahem*) as Natsu joining the guild. A second later, a young adult with purple hair (Macao) asked,
"So, what magic do you use?"
Natsu thought about it for a moment before saying,
"I use Fire Magic."
As soon as those words left the boys mouth, Grey shouted,
"Ha, no wonder you're so weak. Just go away pinkie."
Natsu glared at Grey with eyes that rivaled a certain red-head's glare.
"Yeah, like I would listen to a stripper like you."
Grey then grew multiple tick marks on his head (and if you looked carefully, he was slightly shaking from the glare) before shouting,
"OK! THAT'S IT! ICE MAKE: LANCE!"
A few dozen spears made out of ice were shot towards the other boy. While most of the adults yelled at Natsu to look out, Makarov grinned, knowing full well what would happen next. Natsu meanwhile, put his thumb and index finger on his chin while saying,
"Hmm, should I or should I not." He looked over at the incoming spears before saying, "Oh screw it. FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!"
He breathed out a giant stream of flames, easily overpowering the spears. Then they made contact with Gray, sending him flying off through the doors. Everyone was speechless from what just happened. Natsu just let out a small grin before saying,
"Oh, maybe I should have been more specific. I use Fire Dragon Slaying magic, which is much, much more powerful than regular Fire magic."
Makarov just grinned at what had just happened, enjoying the priceless reactions that littered the guilds faces before realizing that he needs to pay for the bills. Before he could start crying, a bundle of jewels fell on his knees with a note saying,
"This should enough money for the guild door and any medical bills for that boy. No need to thank me and like I said before, don't tell anyone about me. Have fun. Sincerely, Skyle."
Makarov just smiled again, knowing that the next few years will be the time of his life. He looked up, when everyone was starting to regain their composure, before saying to Natsu,
"So, my boy, what color and where do you want your guild mark to be?"
Natsu thought about it for a moment before saying,
"Red and on my right shoulder please."
Makarov happily gave Natsu his mark before shouting out,
"We have a new member here in Fairy Tail now. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!"
"LET'S PARTY!" the rest of the guild replied in excitement.
~Line Break~
As all the adults were drinking their asses off, Natsu was sitting at a table near the corner on his own. In his head, things were going along the lines of,
'So now what? I think I should probably act like an idiot. Through this, people shouldn't fear me that and underestimate me. Probably should hold back as well.'
Before he could continue thinking about it, a voice came from behind him,
"Hey Natsu! Come over here!"
He turned behind him to see the brunette from earlier with all the other kids sitting next to two other girls that are the same age as him (The Strauss siblings don't come till later. The timeline slightly changes over time so I will say that in this story, they come after Natsu). He just ignored it, as he continued to walk towards the girls. As he got there, he asked,
"You need something?"
The previously mentioned brunette replied,
"I wanted to give you a proper introduction on who we are. My name is Cana Alberano. I use Card magic."
The girl with red hair then said, "My name is Erza Scarlet. I use Requip Magic."
Finally, the girl with short blue hair said, "And my name is Levy McGarden. I use Solid Script magic."
Natsu smiled, happy that he was able to talk to people his age and possibly make new friends. Then, he sensed that Skyle just used his magic to go somewhere. Before he could focus too much on that, Levy asked,
"So Natsu, where did you learn your magic?"
Natsu looked over at the bluenette before replying, "My father Igneel taught me it."
Erza nodded as she said, "Igneel must have been a great man then."
Natsu shook his head while replying, "Igneel isn't a man. He's a dragon."
Most of the guild stopped for a moment before bursting out into laughter. Natsu grew angry as he shouted,
"WHATS SO FUNNY?!"
Grey came back when Natsu told everyone that his father was a dragon. He then replied,
"Because dragons don't exist. Stop lying around to everyone already."
"IGNEEL IS REAL YOU STUPID PRICK!" Natsu shouted in retaliation.
Grey had a smug look on his face as he said, "Oh really, then where is he now huh? Oh right, you don't know since he doesn't exist."
Natsu physically grew tick marks as he shouted, "Don't say anything that you don't know you stripper!"
Grey then butted heads with him while shouting back, "Yeah well you shouldn't lie with something as stupid as that pinkie."
"Ice Princess"
"Flame Brain"
And they continued to call each other names back and forth before,
"Knock it off you two." Erza said while pushing the two heads away, misshaping the two boy's necks.
"Sorry." They both said in perfect unison.
Meanwhile, Skyle had reappeared on the roof and saw everything that had just happened. He then face-palmed, muttering to himself,
"I take it back. These years are going to pass by waaay to slow for comfort."
~Line Break~
July 24th X777, 2PM, The Forest Behind the Fairy Tail Guild
It has been a week ever since Natsu joined the guild. He was able to get along really well with most of the members in the guild. The person who he didn't get along with the most was Gray since he is the one who makes fun of Natsu about Igneel the most and because their elements are polar opposites (pun partially intended) of each other. The person he got along with the most surprisingly, was Cana. Though on the contrary, this wasn't the most surprising thing in the world since they have similar situations when it came to who their parents were. Cana doesn't know who her father is (actually she does, Natsu just doesn't know that) while Natsu never knew his true parents (Skyle does, he just doesn't say anything).
Currently, the Fallen Angel and the dragon was somewhere in the forest with Skyle building the house. Skyle normally was either up in the beams listening to the conversations or in the woods building a house for the two of them to live in. One thing that was most noticeable about the companion however, was the black and seaweed colored lacrima headphones with a yellow Leo symbol around his neck (never been the best at describing things. Just imagine Laxus' headphones but without the spikes and the white is a dark green). Natsu was currently watching Skyle as he built the outside frame of the house. After a few moments of sitting there, Natsu asked,
"Hey Skyle, wanna spar?"
Skyle stopped hammering, put the hammer down, took off his headphones and gave Natsu an emotionless glare. He then said,
"Really? Don't you remember what happened yesterday?"
~Line Break~
July 23rd X777, 4PM, Fairy Tail Guild
It was a somewhat peaceful day at Fairy Tail when,
*BOOM*
A large explosion appeared in the distance. Everyone in the guild was shocked when Erza asked,
"What was that?"
Makarov shook his head as he said,
"I don't know."
Gray then said,
"Let's check it out."
As he, Erza and a few of the other people within the group went out, Makarov had a small grin before mumbling to himself,
"Actually, I do know. I'm just going to be silent for a while."
Meanwhile, at the back of the forest, Natsu was gripping Bond of Flame with both of his hands while he started to growl like a wild animal. Skyle was just smirking while resting a blade behind his neck. Unlike the previous blades, this one actually looked like a regular blade. The blade was another single edged blade but without the part that comes out at the top. The handle was made of some type of stone with a dark cloth wrapping around it. The blade itself had an iron outline that surrounds sharpened solid ice. At the end of the hilt, was a small green gem. This, was Skyle's Ice Blade (unlike before, I don't have anything to help you guys imagine this. Don't have a name to, so yee).
Around the two boys was broken logs, burnt land and frozen chunks of ice.
"Is that all you got?" Skyle taunted
Natsu scowled as he said,
"YOU WANT A CHALLENGE, I'LL GIVE YOU ONE! TAKE THIS, RAGING INFERNO!"
A large tornado of flames started to fly towards Skyle. But he didn't do anything. He just stared while calmly raising his left hand while saying,
"Deep Freeze"
The tornado suddenly froze up before shattering into a thousand fragments of small ice. Natsu then let out a sigh, tiredly saying,
"I give up… You win…"
Skyle smirked again before letting his ice blade disappear in a small burst of icy wind. He sighed as he walked over to Natsu, picking up Bond Of Flame, and letting it disappear in a cloud of flames. He then looked over at Natsu then said,
"Come on Natsu, get up. We've done this for years now. Get up."
Natsu looked up, wanting to retort, before slamming his face back onto the floor, collapsing from exhaustion. Skyle sighed before saying,
"idiot…"
He then looked over and saw Gray, Erza and the small group coming over to the area. They were able to get glimpse of him before he disappeared in a cloud of darkness. Cana then asked,
"Who was that?"
Erza shook her head saying that she doesn't know. Then they noticed Natsu lying face first on the floor. Grey laughed at the sight while saying,
"HA! That idiot probably fought the guy from earlier and got his ass beaten hard."
The two girls glared at him before asking Macao from the group to help carry Natsu back to the guild. On their way back, both of them had the exact same thoughts.
'Why did I suddenly turn so angry when Grey insulted Natsu?'
~Line Break~
Natsu nodded his head in understanding before lying back down. Skyle sighed as he was about to pick up the hammer again. But he then sensed three new presences near the guild, one of them being demonic. Skyle then concentrated for a moment, before coming to realization.
"Three new members. Siblings most likely."
A few seconds passed before he muttered,
"and one of them is another possible mate for Natsu…"
He gave a small smile before turning over to Natsu, saying,
"Hey, Natsu, let's get back to the guild. I bet something interesting will happen."
Natsu nodded and the duo started to walk back.
~Line Break~
The two reached had reached the guild when Skyle's eyes glowed a light blue for a brief moment. A second passed as he thought to himself,
'Take-over mages? This can either end really well or not well in anyway.'
He then turned over to Natsu saying,
"I'll go now. Remember to call me through our psychic bond if you need me."
Natsu nodded as Skyle disappeared in a cloud of darkness. Natsu then walked into the guild seeing three unfamiliar children his age with white hair, two female and one male. The youngest one of the group had pale skin, wearing a small pink dress. The only male had messy white hair, somewhat similar to Natsu's hair. He was wearing dark jeans, a white dress shirt with a red bowtie and a blue overcoat. Finally, the oldest one in the group had long silky white hair wearing a purple cloak that covered her entire body. However, the most noticeable feature about her was her right hand which was all brown with purple spots throughout, similar to a demon arm. Natsu walked over to them and said,
"Hello. Are you three joining the guild?"
The three turned over to Natsu, seeing his happy grin. The oldest female then replied,
"There is no need to give me a false welcome. You don't need to hide your disgust at me."
The youngest girl turned over to the older girl before saying,
"Mira, you don't need to be rude."
Before the other girl could reply, Natsu said,
"What do you mean, why would I be disgusted by that. It makes you special in a way. Besides, everyone here is a freak in their own way so why wouldn't we accept you."
Then muttered to himself,
"And besides, you look really beautiful with that in your own way."
But she heard him and started to blush. A few moments go by and he said,
"So anyways, my name is Natsu Dragneel. What's your name?"
A few seconds go by when the youngest sister said with a smile,
"My name is Lisanna Strauss. That is my older brother Elfman and this is my older sister, Mirajane. It's nice to meet you."
Meanwhile, a brunette and a red-head somehow heard what Natsu said under his breath as ell and was glaring at the oldest girl. Then when they noticed what they were doing, they had the exact same thoughts as the day before. Meanwhile, Skyle chuckled to himself, saying,
"Oh Natsu. You are too much like your father at times."
~Line Break~
August 24th X777, 4PM, Fairy Tail Guild
A month has passed ever since the three Strauss siblings came to fairy tail. Mirajane had decided to change her outfit from the cloak to a gothic like outfit (you all know the one, I'm not gonna bother describing it) and had developed somewhat of a rivalry with Erza. Meanwhile, Natsu and Grey's rivalry grew even more. Though, there fights never really last that long since Erza constantly breaks them up (hypocrite. I mean, you break up two peoples fights but you constantly fight someone else. What's up with that). Unsurprisingly enough, Natsu grew quite close to the three Strauss siblings. Besides that, nothing new really.
Currently, the guild was surprisingly peaceful, even with Natsu who normally starts brawls here. Speaking of Natsu, he was currently standing by the request board, searching for his first quest. Yup, Natsu has not taken a quest ever since he got here before now. When he finally found a request he wanted, he ran over to the table with everyone his age. He shouted with excitement,
"Hey everyone, I finally found a request I would like to do."
Erza nodded while Grey just laughed and insulted Natsu about not getting a job before now. Before they could start fighting, Erza said,
"Natsu, Grey. Are you two fighting again?"
Both of them stopped with their glaring contest and put one hand around each other's necks while saying in perfect unison,
"NO MA'M!"
She then nodded. After a few awkward seconds of silence, Lisanna asked,
"Hey Natsu, what is the job say."
He looked over, seeing that the paper said to retrieve a stolen artifact from some thieves but to keep his idiotic act, he said,
"It says to go.. ummm.. beat up something something for 10,000 Jewels."
"That's not what it says!" Lisanna shouted in disbelief.
Erza then menacingly walked over and asked simply,
"Natsu, do you know how to read?"
Natsu looked at her for a moment before saying,
"uhh, …yes?"
Erza then looked at him before she started to drag him out of the guild saying,
"Come on, I am going to teach you how to read and write."
Then she turned around, glaring at him while saying In a menacing tone,
"And you will not run away. Got it."
Natsu started to sweat out a storm before replying in a shaky voice,
"a-a-aye…"
Before Erza could finish dragging him out of the guild, Mirajane called out,
"Hey red, who said that you are allowed to teach him, huh?"
Erza let go of Natsu as she turned over to Mira, saying,
"Really, like you can you witch."
Mira walked over and butted heads with the red-head saying,
"At least I can teach him unlike you ginger-head!"
And so the two started their hour long fight. After their hour long fight, the two finally came to an agreement.
"So I teach him for the first two weeks then you teach him for the next two weeks. Deal?"
They both shook hands before calling out Natsu's name. …only for him not to reply.
Erza turned to Cana and asked,
"Hey, do you know where Natsu is?"
Cana turned over and simply said,
"oh, Levy offered to teach him and he agreed."
*blink* *blink* *blink*
"WHAT!?"
Up on the beams, you can hear Skyle mutter,
"I honestly don't know why I agreed to this anymore."
~Line Break~
July 7th X778, 4PM, Forest behind guild
It has nearly been a year since Natsu has joined Fairy Tail and all was well. Well, as well as things can be inside of Fairy Tail. Natsu was currently practicing manifesting his dragon king flames (yes, I am going to give him his king flames) in the forest while Skyle was calmly observing him from a branch a few meters away from him. After being able to summon the crimson flames, he was only able to keep it for a few seconds before having it disappear and collapse in a puddle of sweat. Skyle walked over, giving Natsu a small smile, saying,
"You did great. Maybe another few months of training and you should be able to manifest the flames properly and we can finally begin proper training."
Natsu gave Skyle a determined smile while nodding before a giant white egg with blue patterns fell on top of his head. Skyle raised an eyebrow, thinking,
'What the actual hell. What is that thing? It's not a dragon egg nor is it a wyvern egg, that's for sure and those are the only type of eggs that are this big.'
Before he could continue with his train of thoughts, Natsu shouted,
"Hey look! A dragon egg!"
"Actually, that's no-"
"I need to show this to the guild!" Natsu said as he ran off.
"-t a dragon egg…" Skyle face palmed before continuing, "Why do I even bother anymore."
~Line Break~
A few moments later, Natsu came through the doors of the guild holding the egg. Most of the members turned over and saw him holding the egg so they all asked,
"What is that?"
Natsu let out a happy cheerful grin while saying,
"This is a dragon egg."
Everyone looked at it in interest, except for Grey and Laxus who didn't give a crap. Natsu then turned over to the old master, asking,
"Hey gramps? Is there any way to have this egg hatch faster?"
Makarov turned over, simply shaking his head before saying out a short speech.
"There is not any magic that can affect the speed of how life is born. The beauty of life happens naturally and should not be tampered with in any way (I don't remember how the whole thing goes but it goes something like this. I think)."
Natsu nodded before Lisanna offered him to help hatch the eggs. He agreed and the two of them decided to leave the guild. Meanwhile, three girls were glaring at the cute little white haired girl. Makarov just laughed at this before saying,
"Natsu, you lucky bastard."
~Line Break~
September 7th X777, 9AM, Fairy Tail Guild (For everyone that is wondering, everything in between is what happens in canon from them leaving the guild to them running to the guild with the egg hatching. I'm just a lazy ass by now)
It has been two months ever since Natsu had found the guild. Currently, the guild was gathering around the giant egg that was starting to hatch. Once the egg hatched, a small blue cat with white was what came out.
"A CAT!?" every person in the guild exclaimed at the same time. The cat then floated down before landing on top of Natsu's head, the wings disappearing when he landed. A few seconds passed before,
"AYE!" the cat said as it suddenly sat up and saluted.
"SO CUTE!" every person said in perfect unison as they all wanted to pet the cat (except for Laxus). While everything was going on, Natsu was having a small telepathic conversation with Skyle.
"Why is it a cat that came out of this. I mean, as much as I like it, I would have thought it was a dragon"
"It wasn't a dragon egg. Heck, I don't even know what that thing is."
"Why didn't you tell me it was a dragon egg?"
"I tried, but you ran off before I had the chance. But now, here is the most important part. What are you gonna name him?"
"Happy."
"What?" Lisanna asked as she gave him a slightly confused look.
"He spread happiness around the guild when he just hatched. Therefore, his name is Happy."
Most of the guild members smiled at this. Grey just thought it was stupid so he started a brawl with Natsu. He was so occupied that he didn't notice Skyle slipping away.
~Line Break~
Skyle was currently at the structure of the house that he was currently finishing for him and Natsu. He then walked inside and place a shard of frozen ice at a random part of the floor. This revealed a secret staircase that led to a small room that contained a desk, armor stands and multiple books on book shelfs.
Skyle walked over to one of the shelves and pulled out a large green book titled "Every Cat Like Creature in the multiverse." He started to flip through the pages, mumbling,
"Let's see here. Sniperwilds, Gormotti, Glameows (kudos to who can guess where those three names are from. Hint: they aren't from the same universe), ah. Here it is. Exceeds. Small cat like creatures that have angel like wings. It is said that they are like gods and goddesses, living high up in their world. The queen herself has the ability to decide who lives and who dies. The universe they reside in is Edolas. Huh, well that's neat. They're from the same universe as Jellal huh."
He placed the book back onto the shelf before he started to leave the room. As he took a step out however, his eyes started to glow blue.
~Line Break~
Time and location, Unknown
Skyle was in an area that had thousands of islands floating around. He then heard an explosion in the distance and saw an older Natsu, Wendy and Gajeel fighting a giant black metal dragon. He turned around and saw what seemed like older alternate versions of every person from Fairy Tail fighting an army with a crazy red-eyed blonde version of him, wearing all white and holding some type of gun. Then the vision seemed to cut forward, showing a towers of light raising from everywhere and the floating islands started to collapse. Before anything else could happen, the vision ended.
~Line Break~
Skyle's eyes turned back to their regular brown color as he stumbled forward a bit. A second went by as he said to himself,
"What the hell was that. Was that, the destruction of a world?"
~Line Break~
Six Months Later, Specific time unknown, Companion's Realm
"So, have you guys found anything yet?" a female voice asked.
The other two guys and girl turned to her. One of them then said,
"Apparently, the war ended 400 years ago and most of the dragons have been killed by a man named Acnologia." One of them said.
"Wait, isn't Acnologia one of his Slayers?" the first female asked.
"Yeah, but after he killed enough dragons, he turned into one himself, severing his bond with him." The second one said.
"Now, there are only a handful of real dragons left but a surprisingly a lot of slayers. But apparently the slayers are fake and are from Lacrimas. So most of the remaining companions are for those slayers. We are, for all I know, the last ones that are for real slayers." The other female said.
"But I thought that Lacrima slayers can't have a companion."
"They can't. However, with enough training, they are able to summon the weapon of a designated slayer."
The first female in the group nodded before asking,
"What about his whereabouts?"
They were silent for a moment before one of them replied,
"The tracker isn't responding in anyway and besides, he was pulled out at the start of the war. Our best guess is that he faded like the others."
A few minutes of absolute silence went by when said female of the group stood up and left the room. One of the two boys then asked,
"Will she be alright?"
"They were dating before his Slayer awakened him. You can't exactly blame her for feeling heartbroken now that he faded." the other female replied
Currently outside, the lady sat down at the bench before pulling out a picture that contained her and a certain black-haired brown-eyed boy intertwining hands with her. She then started to cry while barely sobbing out,
"I know you aren't gone yet. So please tell me. Where are you Skyle?"
~Line Break~
July 7th X779, 9AM, Fairy Tail Guild
Nearly a year has passed ever since Happy has passed and every person in the guild loves him. Though what was really annoying was his constant addiction to fish. Laxus had finally become a S-class mage during this time. Skyle had also finally finished building the house and the final product was quite majestic. It was a simple one floor house but it contained a kitchen, three bedrooms, a living room with its own fire place and three working bathrooms.
During this time, Cana, Erza and Mira had finally figured out what the weird feeling they had for the pink (I mean salmon)-haired slayer. Love.
Currently, all three of them were having the exact same thoughts.
'Today, I will ask him if he wants to go on a job with me.'
Speaking of the salmon-haired slayer, Natsu was currently at a table in the corner of the room, still thinking about why Igneel had left him. A few minutes went by when Happy asked him,
"Hey Natsu. What are you doing?"
Natsu looked over and simply replied, "Thinking."
A few seconds went by when Happy said, "Don't try to think Natsu. We all know that you can't."
Before Natsu could even think about retorting, three voices called out, "NATSU!"
He looked over and saw the three girls running over to him with job requests in his hands. They looked over and saw one another doing the same thing as them. A few seconds go by when the three of them said in perfect unison,
"Natsu, will you go on a job with me?"
The three of them looked at each other with surprised looks before looking back at Natsu with a serious look while saying. "Who do you want to go with?"
Natsu was currently thinking of what to do when he decided to ask Skyle for help.
"Skyle. A little help."
A few seconds go by when he replied,
"Nah. This is one of the most important parts in your life. I can't help you with this."
"…I hate you."
"Ha ha. Love you too. Oh, and be careful of who you choose since after this decision, there is no turning back."
Natsu then looked at the girls while saying, "I think I will go on a mission with…"
~Line Break~
And time. Sorry but not really sorry about the cliffhanger that I just gave you. Anyways, sorry again for a slow update. Also, please do know that if no-one votes in the poll by April 20th or so, then either this story will be discontinued or I will choose the pairing myself. Also, since this may be the reason why no one has voted yet, the poll appears on my username page. So yeah, hope you all enjoy and SkyleRaphael signing off.