In a world full of mages practically anything is possible. Nothing is unbelievable and you must be prepared for the unexpected. However the word unexpected is subjective and in the eyes of the beholder. What you call normal, I may not and vice versa. This story revolves around the dragon slayer Natsu and his comrade in arms Erza Scarlet.

Let's go back to how this love blossomed. Erza and Natsu were at the magical tower together fighting against Erza's first love, Jellal. Jellal's harsh words, destructive nature and unforgivable behavior leaves Erza distraught and speechless. Natsu who was currently being outclassed by Jellal does the unthinkable and begins to start eating a etherion rock he found on the floor by his feet. Jellal laughs and proclaims that Natsu would never be able to absorb pure magic as a replacement for how he consumes fire. However to Jellal and Erza's surprise, Natsu properly consumed the etherion properly and that greatly increased his magic and combat strength. Scales start to emerge on the enraged Natsu's face as he charges ahead to resume the battle with Jellal. Erza noticing the scales commences her thoughts within and thinks "Is that Natsu? The real Natsu? Is this the rumored dragon force power? He looks like a savage beast!" As Natsu continues his assault on Jellal, Jellal starts to realize he can't win against this newly awakened power oozing from within Natsu. Jellal conjures up a spell that if he actually got to release would've certainly demolished the tower while surely vanquishing all enemies, Natsu and his first love Erza included. Thankfully Jellal gets interrupted by the bloodthirsty Natsu who scorches ahead and finishes the battle with his dragon slaying secret arts. The battle concludes, Natsu reverts back to his original self and passes out instantly. Erza runs over to the fallen Natsu, thanks him for his hard work, efforts and whispers "Leave the rest to me, I know what to do." Erza takes a stand as the tower begins to crumble apart. She knows the only way to stop a massive explosion from the tower collapsing is to stabilize the etherion magic running amok throughout the area. In other words Erza is ready to sacrifice herself to do this feat that will save Natsu and her friends nearby. She appears to be completely letting a etherion rock absorb her fully body and magic and the tower begins to stabilize. A warm and calm feeling settle into the ever sinking Erza as she falls deeper within the etherion and she thinks to herself "It wasn't a long life but I went out on my own terms. That's more than enough for me." As these thoughts overflow her mind her instincts begin to tell her to open her eyes and once she does, she cannot begin to comprehend what she sees. She's out of the depths of the etherion magic and being held in Natsu's arms far away from where the tower once existed. In disbelief and shock Erza is left speechless and the two comrades fall to the ground. Natsu then shouts "Never again! Don't you ever think about giving up nor sacrificing yourself ever again!" Touched by Natsu's sentiments Erza thinks to herself "Did he save me, but how? How'd he find me in the midst of all that powerful magic? My heart is racing, what is this feeling that I'm feeling? I've only felt this way about one man before and that was Jellal. Wait, does that mean I love Natsu?! No way!" Erza gathers herself and finally speaks "Thank you Natsu, for everything. For saving me, for taking on my trauma and for allowing me to be your friend." Natsu sighs and replies with "I love you Erza. Not just as a comrade, I want more than that. I want you with me always. From this day, until my last day." Erza's face lights up from the blushing and with no hesitation she responds "Natsu I value you as a friend, brother and comrade in arms. Let's not get feelings involved with family matters." The response doesn't please Natsu but he understands and gives respect to Erza and her decision.

Time has passed and it's now many months since the magical tower incident. Natsu and Erza are still friends but feelings were never addressed again. They do their occasional missions together, along with Grey, Lucy and others at times and the job is always done efficiently. In the months that have passed Natsu and Lucy's chemistry has expanded immensely and the two are nearly inseparable. They are often spotted holding hands, Lucy sitting on Natsu's lap or feeding food to each other. Something about this doesn't sit too well with Erza, which leads her to cockblock way too often. If Erza notices Natsu and Lucy doing a duo mission, she inserts herself and makes it a trio, if Natsu and Lucy are having a meal together, Erza jumps in between and eats with them. The crazy part about all of these petty actions Erza is doing is that, Erza herself doesn't even know why she's doing them. So Erza starts to self reflect and she thinks to herself "Why am I acting this way and doing these things? It's not like I want Natsu, I could've had him. It's not like I don't like Lucy, she's cool. So what's wrong with me?" A voice responds to her within her conscious saying "Maybe you do like him. Maybe you regret not giving a shot when you had the chance." Erza jumps up, looks around and shouts "Who's there, show yourself!" In that exact moment a shadow figure begins to walk toward Erza from out of the depths of darkness. From the tone of the voice Erza definitely knew the person was a woman and she runs to turn on the lights. To her surprise it's none other than Mirajane! Mirajane had used one of her demonic abilities to listen in on and eventually telepathically communicate to Erza about her concerns. Erza now highly upset yells at Mira "You creep! Tell me all you know Mrs. Model! What is love and why does it happen?!" Mira now rattled by the overly aggressive Erza, takes a seat and begins to explain. She tells Erza "The heart loves who it loves, there is no cure for that. You can be the Scarlet Warrior on the battlefield, but that won't help you with the war of love. I'm not sure who has you all flustered but I do know that ignoring it will only let what you are currently feeling consume you." Erza tells Mira to leave her be, Mira leaves and Erza continues her self reflecting thoughts as she lays in her bed.

Two weeks later the S ranking exams began. The participants and testers all leave to head toward FairyTail island where the exam is set to take place. Ironically for the team portion of the exams Natsu and none other than Lucy were put together as a duo squad and their tester was of course, the scarlet Erza. The duo and Erza head to their respective locations to do battle and shortly after arriving Erza initiates the fight. Erza calls out her heavens wheel with it being one of her most versatile attacks. She easily dodges Natsu's roar of the fire dragon, takes out Lucy's celestial Capricorn spirit. Her blades fly in directly aiming at Lucy's unprotected head when Natsu comes to her aid and burns the few blades to cinders. Natsu looks up at the flying Erza with a cold stare, shouting "Aye! Erza what's the big idea, you could've killed Lucy!" Erza sucks her teeth and shouts back "Tell your little girlfriend this isn't the playground and to be more prepared!" Lucy rises to her feet and tells Natsu to let her handle this fight, woman to woman. Natsu acknowledges Lucy's fighting spirit, kisses her hand and wishes her luck. Erza enraged by the hand kiss and Lucy, energetic from the hand kiss begin to clash. For a solid ten minutes the fight seemed pretty even and Lucy was actually holding her ground. If mage fights were based solely on the amount of magic you possessed, Lucy would have the advantage and possibly would win. Sadly though it takes much more than just having a enormous amount of magic, the main thing Lucy lacked in comparison to someone like Erza was, experience. The fight continued for another ten minutes however, this round was not like the last. Lucy was losing and losing badly, if she truly wanted to win she would've had to surprise Erza with a attack that carried enough energy to end the fight in one blow. She didn't do this therefore Erza and her experience gained the upper hand the moment the fights duration kept extending. Erza is now completely abusing Lucy in such a brutish way that not even Natsu can recognize her. Lucy has officially passed out and Erza tries to continue her wicked assault. Natsu rushes in and throws Erza to the ground to stop her. He gets on top and screams "What the hell is wrong with you?! Are you really Erza?!" Erza cries and replies "Idiot! Of course I'm Erza. This is a exam, I'm not allowed to go easy on you guys." Natsu responds "We get that but you're going way overboard! Lucy is unconscious yet you still tried to attack her, why?!" Erza now angry gets up and asks "Why?! Did you just ask me why?! You tell me you love me yet you with her all day. Go on missions with her. Sleep in her room. Eat with her. Walk and talk with her. You said you wanted me by your side at all times and basically lied!" Erza bursts into tears again and Natsu is now even more confused. He tells Erza to stop crying and then speaks in a soft toned voice "Erza. I confessed my love for you and you wasted no time in friend zoning me. I wanted you by my side, yes I did. The problem is you didn't want to be by my side. At least not in the way I wanted. So now you see me and I'm happy with another woman so that makes you jealous, doesn't it?" Erza wipes her tears and gives a head nod acknowledging that she agrees with Natsu's assessment of her feelings. So Natsu pulls her in close and whispers in her ear "Grow up. This is your loss. One girls friend is another girls future husband. Deal with it and move on. If you ever hurt Lucy again, I'll pulverize you." Natsu rises from the ground, walks over to pick up Lucy and leaves Erza broken and alone with a shattered heart. Erza curls up in the middle of the forest, rocking back and forth as depression begins to take hold of her. Mirajane appears and escorts the damaged Erza back to the guild.

Another month flies by and things within the guild are very different. Erza has left the guild and is on a adventure to find her true love. Meanwhile Natsu and Lucy are having the time of their lives, double dates with Grey Juvia, duo missions, and with no cockblock around things have been very noisy in Lucy's room nowadays. Other guild members often speculate about the noise but majority know what's going on and are either jealous or happy for the couple. Hopefully Erza can find her prince on her journeys, for Natsu and Lucy surely found love in a hopeless place.