Chapter Thirty-One: More Than Meets the Eye

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I apologize for how long it took me to update. My hubby and I went on a vacation and I and I left all my things at home so that I could focus on him and family.

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Previously:

On an edge on the other side of the island a man look in the direction that had Natsu took off in then back at where he had exited the water. With a sigh he looked disappointed, "With the way he was breathing I'll never make it down there like he can." He rolled his eyes as he started to walk around setting his traps as he went along, "Damn it, that would be the fasted way to get to her. Blasted creature making the entrance where I can't reach."

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Toshiro sighed leaning back against the wall of the nest he was forced to stay in. While he enjoyed the quiet it did bothered him that his every move was being controlled by the ever watchful eye of the aquatic lizard. Looking at her with teal eyes he could see that she was fussing with one of her eggs that had wiggled while Natsu had been escaping. The way she moved the egg was very loving and patient. She turned her attention to the other eggs that had not moved. She was moving them away from Toshiro as she had figured out that, while he didn't mean to, his energy was lowering the temperature in the area he was sitting. Closing his eyes the half reaper decided to relax since nothing was happening for the moment. While he had been forced to stay there he had been given the chance to feel out the person's energy that had been placing the energy bombs. Whoever they were they were defiantly male and stronger than he had anticipated.

Having a sudden thought he opened his eyes and stood up and taking in the ceiling with narrowed eyes. 'Hyorinmaru, do you think it is possible for me to freeze the area around the bombs while I'm down here?'

The ice dragon tilted his head in thought, 'Perhaps, it wouldn't be a bad idea to try. He is clearly trying to disturb her into attacking or get down here to try something with her. See how far she will let you wonder.'

Looking at the lizard he stood up and reached out to pull himself to the lip of the nest. Instantly she looked at her new charge, "I'm not going to run, just let me try something." She looked unconvinced so he figured an explanation was in order, "I just want to see if I can freeze the bombs the person has placed." Her sliver eyes continued to look at him, "That man is trying to do something to you and if I can stop his attempts to getting down here, your children will be safe." With narrowed eyes she laid down but continued to watch him carefully. With a careful breath Toshiro pulled himself onto the lip of the nest and looked up at the ceiling again shooting his energy up feeling out the island. 'I'm going to need a little help here.'

'Allow me to freeze the bombs and you focus on the island and not freezing it over. It will not due to harm the ecosystem with your cold spiritual pressure.' The dragon replied reaching through the energy his child was providing to freeze the energy bombs.

Hearing the lizard get close to him the ice dragon slayer put his hand out, "Don't distract me, I've never done something like this before." The mother stopped and just stared at him curiously. 'I think there is two more on the left side of the island.'

'Good catch hatchling.' Hyorinmaru replied reaching through the energy while his son searched for more, 'Hm, it seems this man means to reach down here by tomorrow. There were many energy bombs in the center of the island.'

'Her cave isn't near the center though it's off to the side.'

'Yes, a smart move on her part. However do you see what I see?'

The half reaper was confused at first but then saw it, 'Shit! If he keeps making that hole deeper it would fill this area up with water. Her eggs are not meant to be in the water when they are born.'

'Exactly... GET DOWN!'

Toshiro was startled but a bomb that his zanpakuto missed blew up shaking the island. Due to the unexpected shaking Toshiro not only lost concentration but his balance as well. As he started fixing his balance the aquatic lizard wrapped her tail around the eggs and her head came up to his back allowing him to place his hands on her snout. Taking that as his chance he jumped back into the nest just as another bomb went off. 'How many did you miss?'

'Five, but none in the center.' Hyorinmaru replied wrapping around the child in his inner world. 'You and the aquatic lizard will be safe.'

'Good, the last thing I want is for her to freak out and have a hard time deciding what to do.' Toshiro replied his hand holding onto the nest so that lizard didn't have to feel the need to try and help him. Feeling the other bombs go off the dragon slayer gave a soft growl in irritation, 'Those are sizable explosions. How large were the explosives?'

'The energy ball itself wasn't very large however the energy within the ball was sizable as you as said.' The ice dragon replied, 'The ice I have placed around the others will contain the blast.' When the shaking stopped Toshiro gave a small sigh of relief, 'We're going to have to do that tomorrow unless he wises up and detonates them right away.' Hyorninmaru nodded in agreement as his child rested against the wall of the nest, 'We need to come up with a plan. This man can not be allow to harm this creature. She might attack everyone even though they have done nothing to cause it.'

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Natsu jumped looking at the island. Narrowing his eyes he looked at the mayor, "Is that the explosions I think they are?"

"Yes." Mayor Takashi replied then tilted his head, "Though I've never seen them shoot off blue energy before."

The pink haired dragon slayer sniffed he air and smiled, "It's Hitsugaya."

Happy cheered, "Even being held by the creature he found a way to help." He high fived the dragon slayer, "Maybe him being there will be helpful." Natsu nodded in agreement as Mayor Takashi smiled.

"Everything is ready sir." One of the citizens said as they ran up to the mayor with Altrone right behind him.

"I'm glad to hear that."

"What are we going to do about that person exploding the island?" Altrone asked his green eyes looking into the mayor's brown, "All that moron is going to do is cause that creature to attack us."

"Currently we can't do anything." Takashi replied making the hunter sigh and cross his arms over his chest, "If we go near them it might cause the creature to think we are league with the person. The last thing we need to do is aggravate it."

"Her." The group looked at Natsu, "The water lizard is a girl and she has eggs."

"It has what?" Altrone asked in shock.

"Eggs." The pink haired dragon slayer tilted his head, "She's waiting for them to hatch."

The hunter looked like he was about to blow his top but before he could say anything the mayor nodded in understanding. "I see. Now her actions make sense over these last few months." He tapped his chin in thought.

The dragon slayer looked at the mayor, "She's been here that long?"

Takashi nodded, "Yes, and she never really bothered our fishermen until a few days before I was forced to send the request. Her scale startled us but we never really put any thought into it being there. When we realized the creature that it came from was still here is when we sent the request." The mayor placed his hands on his waist, "In fact it was the person attacking the island and us spotting her that made us send the request in the first place. Now I fear for the aquatic lizard's safety, especially if she has young."

Altrone turned and looked at the mayor like he had lost his mind, "Yet, if that beast stays it could turn to attack us for the same food source."

"I doubt she is even interested in us. If she really was bothered by the town, she would have bothered our fishermen sooner. She only started doing that when the explosions started going off."

"How does that change anything?" The hunter asked. "She would have attacked anyway. And even more so her children when they are born."

"If she really was bothered by us being here we would have seen worse signs from her much sooner." Takashi replied looking into Altrone's green eyes, "Yes, you, Takamoto and other hunters have spotting small signs of her using the island several months ago yet she never once stopped us from getting to the island, from fishing, or attacking our boats. And since we had no idea what she was truly capable of she had every opportunity to attack us at any given time. Yet, she did not."

Altrone was steaming from his ears, "Yet she did when Charlie took the Fairy Tail wizards over there."

Natsu rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest but before he could say anything the fisherman walked over saying, "Can you blame her?" The hunter looked at the man like he has lost his mind as well, as his hunting partner moved to stand at his side. "As far as we know she had no idea who has attacked and disturbed her at the island. All she probably heard was people above her and moved to defend her still growing young."

"Well then how do you explain her taking his partner? She probably plans on feeding him to her children."

Natsu raised an eyebrow, "I can explain that." He had the group's immediate attention. "We are dragon slayers. He like me was raised by a dragon."

"I'm going to stop you right there." Charcoal eyes glared at the hunter next to Altrone. As the two laughed Takamoto continued, "You are going to convince nobody that you were actually raised by a dragon."

Natsu growled making a fist at his side in anger, "I was raised by a dragon and his name was Igneel."

"Prove it." Altrone challenged with a smirk. Since the two hunters had heard that he was the one that really didn't think things through they had gone out of their way to make his time in town a living hell and treat him like they had Toshiro before hand.

The mayor placed a calming hand on the dragon slayer's shoulder, "He doesn't have to prove anything." Brown eyes looked at the steaming teenager, "You were explaining why your friend was taken."

"The only reason he was taken was because he partially smells like an animal." The fire dragon slayer glared heavily at the laughing hunters, "He and I both do. It's part of being a dragon slayer."

"Right, like I'm going to believe that." Takamoto laughed as he and Altrone started to walk away, "Just get ready for your friend to be eaten."

Finally losing it he shoved the mayor hand off his shoulder and blew out a short breath of fire startling the hunters to where they fell to the ground and aimed their weapons at him. He stared at them his eyes blazing in anger and his fist covered in fire that flickered dangerously. "Hitsugaya will not be eaten and that will be proven when you realize that, that lizard wants nothing more than to be left alone."

Natsu stormed off just barely resisting the urge to actually hit the idiotic men cowering on the ground. They looked at the mayor who shook his head, "I'll make sure he doesn't burn anything down."

The hunters looked at the fisherman who looked at them without pity, "Don't even try to get me on your side. You maybe of this town but you were the ones that antagonized him. I knew right away that he was ready to blow a fuse and yet you still pushed his buttons." Charlie then walked over to his son looking at where Natsu stormed off to in awe, "Come on, let's get home before your mom thinks that something bad happened."

"Dad, that was amazing. He blew fire from his mouth. Do you think that the other guy can do that but with ice?"

Charlie laughed messing with his son's hair as they walked, "I'm sure he can and much more. There is always more to a wizard than meets the eye. The big thing I want you to take from that is even though he is a well know wizard he is still a person." His son nodded in understanding and the two disappeared around a building.

Getting off the ground the hunters steamed in anger and stormed off away from the direction the fire wizard went.