Chapter Four: Home

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Previously:

'What are you trying to say?'

'I'm saying you and I were once two separate people. But what ever happed during that travel caused you and I to become one. I don't know how so don't ask me. Hatchling please I took you away for your safety.'

Now:

'What about the memories you mentioned? And how come you couldn't take me here sooner?'

'You have already started to unlock them so they should be coming back to you gradually. As for your other question I wasn't strong enough. I had used up too much magic to send you to a different place the first time and in the state I am in now it took me fifty years to get the strength to get you back here.' Hyorinmaru explained looking at his hatchling in the eye, 'My son, please don't let me getting you safe be in vain.'

'Why then? Why did you do it then?'

'You were showing too many signs of being different. They saw you spacing out more and more often so the Captain of 4th was investigating that. They noticed that unlike their spiritual pressure yours felt different so 12th was looking into that. They were somehow already aware of you not having an inner hollow so the people in Central were looking into that. The last one…' The dragon sighed and closed his eyes, '…The last one wouldn't have been so easily spotted but Kurosaki showed up and they felt the energy of a half alive and half dead person. They started to realize you felt the same. For the most part they left you alone because you had no memories but the spacing out became too frequent. And as you know…'

'That is one of the signs of a soul getting their memories.' Toshiro laid on his arms, 'Why did you wait to tell me?'

'Because you wouldn't have listened. You know you wouldn't have.' Hyorinmaru touched his nose to his hatchlings arm opening his red eyes, 'I did what I thought would help please know that.'

'I do. Thank you for telling me. I'll stop looking.' Toshiro sighed feeling very lost, 'What do I do now?'

'You will figure something out my son. Even when fully alive you were always smart.'

Toshiro picked his head off his arms looking at the blond next to him when she touched his arm, "Are you okay?"

He looked away, "No, not really." The white haired male pushed his partially eaten food away, "I've lost my appetite." Then he got up and walked out of the guild.

Master Makarov made a sound in the back of his throat and followed the white haired male out of the guild, "Young man, wait up." Toshiro looked over at the guild master once he had caught up, "Follow me I have a place I want to show you." The white haired male did as asked and followed him. Neither talked the entire time.

When they got to where the guild master had intended Toshiro's jaw dropped. It was a cave but unlike the rest of the area around it the inside was lined with ice. The teal eyed male walked up to it feeling the walls, "What is this place?"

"It is my belief that this used to be a home to a dragon." Toshiro looked at him, "Dragons used to be among us some even took in children. These dragons would teach these children what is to my time a lost magic, Dragon Slaying."

"Wait, why would dragons teach their children to kill them?" The Soul Reaper asked confused.

Hyorinmaru also laughed a little as Makarov gave the history of dragons and their magic and ended with saying, "So in response to this the Dragons Slayers magic allows them to transform with features of their respective element. We don't know what those features are but it does make them powerful."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Well…" Makarov looked around, "…there is a story that most of the people here have forgotten but us old geezers. It is said that this town was once protected by an ice dragon many many long years ago. We can't even remember how long ago. But the part of the tale that does stay strong from generation from generation is that the ice dragon had a son. Unfortunately for this boy for some reason no one treated him right so he came across him, the ice dragon took him in without a second thought. He started to teach the boy his magic and it wasn't long before the child mastered it quickly. It was said the child was very intelligent." Toshiro's eyes were wide and his jaw dropped, "The child's name was never said but the dragons name…" The guild master looked at the shocked white haired boy, "…It is said that his name was Hyorinmaru." He smiled at the still shocked white haired boy, "He was the only one that managed to get his child to safety it is said." Hyorinmaru nodded in his son head, "Now when you told me about you zanpakto and how it had a spirit residing in it am I being too presumptuous to say that it is an ice dragon named Hyorinmaru?"

"That…that is his name." Toshiro gulped the lump in his throat, "But how did you piece that together from the little I told you?"

"The constant freezing of the anything when you got irritated. From the feel of it, it reminded me of the feeling Natsu gives off when he breaths fire. I guess if I had to word it I would say it is a mostly harmless outlet for the excess energy." Makarov answered.

'Hyorinmaru is this true?'

'Yes Hatchling it is.' The dragon tilted his head, 'Though I have to say I am surprised that bit made it too this generation. I would have thought that my story wouldn't have made it. This is…puzzling. Ask him how he knows all this?'

"Hyorinmaru is asking how you know this much about his history here?"

"Books mostly. In fact we have a copy of the 'myth' history in our library. That is where I got most my facts. Most people don't think dragons exist anymore so they are being labeled off as myths."

'Pity.' The dragon said with an irritated huff.

'Did you really live here?' Toshiro asked looking into the cave.

'We both did.' Hyorinmaru replied sighing fondly his eyes softening at the sight of his home, 'I enjoyed seeing you grow up and getting stronger. You got better at Dragons Slaying faster than Natsu. Igneel was rather jealous of that fact despite me not gossiping about it.'

'Igneel? Is that the dragon that raised Natsu?'

'Yes. He is the strongest of all dragons even over myself. But I am not ashamed about it. He deserved his position and I didn't want it. I was happy staying in one place to protect. If I had what he had I would have to keep the other dragons in mind.'

Toshiro looked at Makarov when the man said, "So what had you down in the guild?"

The boy sighed, "Hyorinmaru told me…that he took me from there and brought me back here on purpose." Teal eyes looked down, "I would have ended up a lab rat because I am actually half dead."

"Yes, I can see how that would cause your guardian to act when he did." The old man looked at the now homeless Soul Reaper, "Join Fairy Tail."

Toshiro looked at him, "But why?"

The guild master raised an eyebrow, "Do you have anywhere else to go? Did you want to join a different guild maybe? Because if you did that…" He indicated to the cave, "…you wouldn't be this close to home."

"No I…" Toshiro sighed he didn't like not knowing what to do, 'Hyorinmaru what should I do?'