The Dragon Overlord

by The Dark Dragen

Alternate start from when the Strauss Siblings go on the S-Class: What if instead of Elfman telling Natsu that he can't because it was his as the man of the family to protect them, but Mirajane Strauss, who tells Natsu, he is too weak and destructive to go with them and from there things changes for him. Overlord/Lemons/Dark/Powerful/Harem/Natsu Female/Zeref PLEASE READ & REVIEW!

17. Chapter 16

Chapter Sixteen…

(Lucy Heartfilia - Part 4.)

3rd of February 783 - Wendy Marvell - Onibus Town:

We begin our chapter not with Natsu, Happy and Rouge, but with a young girl named Wendy Marvell, who was a petite eleven year old girl with fair skin. She had long, dark blue hair that reaches down to her waist, with two bangs framing her face which reach down to her chest alongside her brown eyes. When she smiles, you could see she had elongated canine teeth. The young girl was wearing a simple dress with two wavy stripes, blue and yellow, running across the dress and ending in small pointed edges at the bottom. She was wearing blue high hill shoes, and around her arms and legs she had wing like attachments. She had a cat like symbol stamp located on her right shoulder, this was the symbol for the guild, Cait Shelter Guild.

Now the young girl was a shy and polite, but was eager to try and make friends when she could and she cares greatly for her guild. Whilst she might have a family with her guild, she was insecure, doubting of both her ability to help her friends and her appearance - the size of her breasts. Which her guild often told her she was being silly, as she was only eleven years old, and had time for them to come to her. She is intelligent and has a very honest personality, is 'direct and open with her emotions,' but she is also easily swayed by the people around her. Wendy doesn't enjoy fighting, preferring to avoid it as much as possible. If, however, it's for the sake of her guild or friends, Wendy will fight without hesitation.

She was with a small, white female cat who had pink ears and small brown eyes, she also had two whiskers on each side of her face, she had a pink bow near the end of her tail. Now the cat wasn't any normal cat, she was able to walk on two legs, and was wearing clothes: a pink top with a pink bow tie and a pink skirt. She was in fact an Exceed from Edolas. Now Carla is very strict and serious most of the time, and she rarely shows any emotions. She was at first very aloof, turning her nose up at seemingly everyone save for Wendy. This was because she cares deeply for Wendy. She also tries to get Wendy to shy away from her timid personality, scolding her often for it (which is ironic considering she is not very sociable herself.)

Now Wendy wasn't any normal mage, as she had a Lost Power known as Dragon Slayer Magic. Now unlike those nowadays who might have Dragon Lacrima to give them Dragon Slayer Magic, Wendy was given and taught Dragon Slayer Magic by her foster mother, Grandeeney, who was a dragon herself. However the problem was that Grandeeney begun teaching her daughter Sky Dragon Magic when she was about four years old. Now Sky Dragon Magic was used for mainly supportive and enchantment, but would have a few offensive powers. During the year, year and a half of training Wendy, Grandeeney mainly taught her supportive and enchantment spells from what the Sky Dragon Magic could do. The only attack power that she taught Wendy was the Sky Dragon's Roar, before she disappeared when Wendy was five years old.

And when Wendy awoke on July 7, X777, the five year old had no idea where her mother went and searching for her mother. When she first went searching for her mother, she met up with a man named Jellal who allowed her travel with him, though he was as hopelessly lost on the road that she was on. That didn't matter though, as Wendy liked Jellal and the two had fun. But then one day though, Wendy heard Jellal utter something by the name of 'Anima,' and shortly afterwards, he suddenly deemed it too dangerous for Wendy to travel with him further for no reason at all.

So it was no surprise that Wendy was heartbroken, as she not too long ago lost a mother, but now she was losing someone she was slowly considering as a big brother. She told him that she didn't want him to leave, as she didn't want to be left alone again. But the young boy found her a guild where she could stay at, this guild was the Cait Shelter, where she stayed ever since.

Within the first few years, the Wendy saw the guild trade with traveling merchant, for everything they needed. And she happily explore the nearby forest known as Worth Woodsea, although she would never go too deep because her Guild Master warned her not to. Now during one of her visits in the forest, she found a huge white egg with what looked like pink flames on it.

When she took it back to her Guild to find out what it was, she was shocked to find it hatching, and and a white cat with wings came out of it. Not only that, but the cat was able to talk too. After some thought, Wendy named her new friend Carla. Wendy soon found that her new friend was strict and serious, and at first she distant from herself from Wendy, but over time they got along and became close. Even though they were close, Carla would tell her off if she misbehaved or scolded her when she become too shy or timid.

When the traveling merchants stopped coming, and she was nine years old, she was sent out to get to get supplies and missions for the guild. Her main missions were to help villages nearby with odd jobs or healing. Today, she and Carla was in Onibus Town, answering a request from the local hospital. It would seem that there was a female patient that they couldn't heal, they had a severe case of Magic Deficiency Disease. Now normally they would only need to exchange power to heal her, but this case was so severe that no amount of magic transfer could wake her, and the only thing that was keeping her alive was the potions they were giving the lady and putting her into a Magical Coma. So they have been hiring Mages for help, hoping that one of them could help her. Wendy wanted to help this lady, as she didn't like the idea that no one could help this lady and so she hoped that her powers could help this patient.

Now as Wendy was looking around the town, Carla called out, "Wendy, stop looking around child, you have a job to do."

"I know Carla, but this is my first time in this town and I want to look around." Wendy explained to her friend.

"I know child," Carla admitted kindly, "but you can do so after you have done your job."

"Ok Carla." Wendy said with a sigh, as the two of them headed off to the hospital. Once they, the stuff was surprised that Wendy was a Mage with Healing Powers, but after proving it by healing a few patients, she was taken to the female patient that she was there to heal in the first place.

The female patient that Wendy meant to try and heal, was a beautiful woman, in her early thirties, who had long blonde hair. No one knew who she was, so she was a Jane Doe. So after taking a short break from healing the patients, Wendy begun to try and heal the Jane Doe. It was slow going, but the doctors at the hospital was shocked to find out that Wendy was able to make some head way, being able to make Jane a bit stronger, something the other mages were unable to do. It wasn't much, but it was enough for the doctor's to realize that Wendy was able to start healing their patient.

Carla stopped Wendy from doing any more though, as it took a lot out of the young girl. This was something the doctors agreed with, as they didn't want her to get Magic Deficiency Disease either. So seeing that she made some head way in healing the lady, they give Wendy a bed to rest in and some food to regain her energy. They knew it might take a few days to see another improvement, in their Jane Doe, but the early signs looked good.

So once Wendy rested up though, she and Carla looked around the town a bit, before returning to the hospital for the night. Wendy wanted to help the Jane Doe more, but both Carla and the doctors wouldn't allow her, as she already used a lot of power that day, and they didn't want the young healer to end up like Jane and getting the Magic Deficiency Disease too. So instead Wendy would go to bed early, so that she could wake up early and start again to heal her patient.

And Then…

3rd of February 783 - Natsu Dragneel - Evening, Covert Forest:

It has been over a month since Natsu, Happy and Rouge left to find Lucy in the town that Natsu left behind, but she wasn't there as Natsu thought she would be. So for over a month, the three of them trained together to get stronger. Natsu still had no luck in gaining his demonic powers, it would seem that he would have to look for the other demons for this help. But before he did so though, he would need to get stronger in his other magic, as the only ones would be able to help him was the Nine Demon Gates from the Dark Guild Tartaros, and they were all powerful. And because they didn't know he was E.N.D, should he come up and say he was, they would attack him as they wouldn't believe him. So he would have to get stronger before going to them, which he was doing now.

Now as for Happy, he learnt a new skill, a Battle Mode, so he could fight better with his 'father.' Sure he could use his human from, but that was a weak body, not suited for battle. So he was working on a form useful for battles, something he was working on since he got his human form. And it was something he got in the last few weeks. His new form stood eight feet, his body was still of an Exceed, but it had muscles upon muscles. But the problem was that he could only hold this new form for minute before returning to a small Exceed. As the new form takes up a lot of power to hold. But Happy was happy with this, he got a new form for battle, and all he needed now was to train with it so he can last longer in the new form.

As for Rouge, she had difficult time, she was so used to using her Gun Magic, that she never thought about using another. And she wasn't sure what kind of magic to use for close range magic, so she trained with Natsu in hand to hand combat, so that if she did lose her weapons, she would be totally defenceless. During the last month or so, Rouge found herself attracted to the pink haired Mage. He was strong, stronger than anyone she ever meet, and he was training to become stronger. At first, she wasn't sure about being a Dark Mage, as she feared of getting caught, and believed that they looked out for themselves.

But with being with Natsu, she learnt that he wasn't like any Dark Mages she knew of. Natsu was willing to train her to become stronger, and unless they betrayed him, wouldn't hurt them. Use them maybe, but not betray and hurt them unless he had no other option. In the end, this seemed to be a good deal for her, a good looking and strong Master. She could get used to this.

Now over the last month, Natsu had them come to the Covert Forest to train, as they had no idea where to find this Lucy person they were looking for. Not only were they training, but they were fighting the vicious beasts that were living in the woods. This was meant to help them get stronger too.

Rouge remember Natsu getting a Communication Lacrima call from his employer, finding out how the search was going. He wasn't happy that Natsu wasn't able to find his daughter, and that if he didn't find her soon, he would find someone who could. Natsu told him to go ahead, that without knowing where she was, it was impossible to find her, not even knowing where she might want to go. As she might not even be there at that time, but at a later date. As much as Natsu's employer was unhappy about this, and force to admit Natsu was right, and so wouldn't do anything right now. But if Natsu didn't get any results soon, he'll have to find someone who could.

Anyway, it was the evening of the 3rd of February, and Natsu was taking a break from his training and was walking around the forest. But as he was doing so, he heard a man saying darkly, "The years I've been teaching you have been wasted, but maybe this place may do what I could not." At this Natsu heard someone crying, and was wondering what was going on, so he followed the voice to see what he was doing. And as he did so, he heard the man went on to say, "These woods are filled with vicious beasts, either they'll strip you of your tears, your heart and your weakness, or they'll strip you of your life. Once your tears have dried up for good, you may return to the guild."

Here Natsu got close enough to see what was going on, but was able to hide behind some trees so not to be noticed. The Dragon Slayer saw that the area he was in, had a waterfall and a clear river. Standing there was a young girl, someone Natsu thought was no older than thirteen years old. She had a cute face with large green eyes, with distinctive eyebrows, they were smaller than anything Natsu had seen before. She had black hair, which were in buns.

She was wearing a short Qipao, which was dark purple outfit with white trimmings, it also had a light purple circle in the centre of it, with white lining around it. She was also wearing a dark purple shorts, and light purple arm-warmers, along with a simple pair of dark sandals.

The black haired girl was with a tall elderly man, he was distinguished by his massive, extremely muscular physique body, Natsu was surprised that it was untarnished despite his advanced age. The man had long light hair, which was tidily gathered on the back of his head and tied in a braid, which reaches down below his middle back, and is secured near its end in a large tuft; the thick beard and moustache was covering the man's lower face, linked to his hair by the Master's sideburns, which were untamed, with several spiky strands jutting outwards from the latter one. He also had a very hairy chest, with his torso and abdominals sporting spiky hair in a shape reminiscent of a cross.

He has marked facial features and a long, massive and mildly rounded nose. His sunken eyes, topped by light and bushy eyebrows, are very distinctive, being almost completely white, as if they lacked pupils, and has a black underlining around his lower eyelid; something which gives him an otherworldly look. There was a small, dark Guild's mark is located in the centre of his high, mildly wrinkled forehead.

He was wearing a short, mildly loose and dark kimono with light edges and cuffs, secured around his waist by a light sash tied on the front with a simple knot, whose right side is casually left hanging over the side of man's corresponding leg, revealing part of the man's muscular torso.

Whilst the right part of the garment was worn normally, whilst he was keeping his left arm in the sleeve, resting such arm in the front part of his kimono, casually hanging from it, and thus leaving the other sleeve hanging from his left shoulder hollow. His legs are covered by a very loose pair of light pants, which on the front of each leg bears a vertical line composed of many dark rhomb's joined together and lined up. For footwear, the man was wearing a simple pair of black sandals, and his forearms are wrapped in light bandages. Circling the man's massive neck was a necklace composed of many large, dark spheres, reminiscent of an over sized series of Buddhist prayer beads, and topping his head is a light headgear similar to a crown, with many vertical sections with pyramid-shaped tops surrounding a massive, central semicircle jutting upwards from it. All in all, his appearance resembles that of the mythical Tengu.

Watching for a few moments, he saw the man walk away from the girl, into the forest. As the older man left the girl, Natsu watched as the girl broke down into a ball, as she put her arms around her legs as she cried and shouted out, "I'm sorry, please forgive me father, please forgive, I'll do better I swear."

Natsu couldn't believe it, the man was this girl's father, and he was just leaving her here because she meant to be weak, and able to cry. Whilst he might not give a damn about other nowadays, he still cared about two things, first was his teammates and allies, the second was parents that treat their children like shit. Natsu would love nothing more than beat the shit out of the man, but he could sense that the old man was way much stronger than he was. So until he was much stronger, he had to hide and let the man go.

It took all of Natsu's willpower to not and attack the man, when he shouted back from the forest, not looking back, "You're no daughter of mine, you're weak. I cull the weak, I should crush you like the insect that you are. But I won't but if you come back to me as you are now, I'll kill you."

And with that he was gone, but as he left Natsu saw seven of the strongest beasts within the forest, about to attack the girl. So without thinking, he acted before the beasts could hurt her and used his Fire Mage powers to kill them all. As he did, the girl looked like she was about to act herself, but instead, she saw Natsu standing in front of her, with fire surrounding his body. Taking a few deep breaths, Natsu calmed himself down and resending the fire back into him.

As he did, he asked the young girl, "Are you alright? You're not hurt are you?"

"N, no I'm not hurt." the young black headed girl told her rescuer. She was shocked, the man in front of her killed seven of the scariest of beasts that she ever seen, as if it was nothing, and done it with nothing but fire. Whilst she might sense great darkness within him, more than her own father, she also felt great power within her hero. Not as much as her father's of course, but it was close, with a bit more training he could defeat her father with ease - or so she thought. As she looked him over once again, she saw that he was quite handsome. With his strength and his looks, the young girl found herself being attracted to him.

"That's good." Natsu smiled at the girl, he could sense great potential within her, all she needed was training. "So tell me, what is your name? I'm Natsu Dragneel." Natsu had no reason to lie to her about his name, he wasn't hiding who he was.

"My name is Minerva Orland." Minerva told her hero.

"Nice to meet you Minerva," the Dragon Slayer told her with a smile, "Can I ask you something?" the young girl just nodded at him. "I overheard your father saying that you are weak, can you tell me what that is about?"

Minerva felt ashamed at this, seeing that her hero hear this, and was worried that he too would leave her too. But her hero said, "Listen my dear, I'm not about to leave you because your father thinks you're weak, I just wondering why he thinks such a foolish thing."

And so Minerva told her story to him, how she had to endure a hellish training for her father, Jiemma, who both verbally and physically abused her whenever she displayed any sign of weakness. And how that her father hated everything that was weak, and would either destroy it or if it was his own member destroy or kick them out of his guild, Sabertooth. Like only a few days ago, when she was training with the Second of Command of her Guild, Fingers, and somehow she was able to manage to defeat him.

Her father then ordered her to finish him off, as he could not have a Second of Command who was weak enough to lose to a child. But Minerva told her hero that she refused to do so, as he was her friend and guildmate. But this angered her father, as he despised her weak-mindedness and subsequently ended up killing the Mage himself. And because she was weak, her father took her to this forest to be left alone to fend for herself against ferocious creatures, to prove that she wasn't weak. And if she didn't give up her weak mindset and weak heart, and don't give up feeling for others, she could not return home.

Here Natsu couldn't help but laugh at this, upon seeing the upset and confused look of the young girl in front of her he said, "Oh I'm not laughing at you Minerva, but at your father."

"What do you mean?" asked the black haired girl.

"If he keeps destroying and getting rid of those who are weak, it would be only time before he has no Guild at all." Natsu told the girl. "The only way to make them from weak to strong is training,"

Minerva never really thought of it like that, she was taught that only the strong would prevail over the weak. She never thought about if her father keep on destroying or getting rid of those who are weak, he would have no guild. And Natsu was right, the only way to become strong you would have to train from being weak first. Now she thought about it, she beat her own father was weak in the first place. So she had to wonder why her father hated the weak so much for.

Now as Natsu looked at the young girl, he realized that in a few years not only would this young girl be hot, but she could be powerful if trained right. Natsu had to hide a smirk at this thought, if he could play it right, he could have her on his side. Not only as a loyal soldier, but possibly a sex partner too.

Before Natsu could say anything, Minerva asked, "Natsu, whilst I can sense that you are dark, I also able to sense that you are powerful too. I also believe that within a few years, you could even be as powerful or more powerful than my own father."

"And your point?" asked Natsu, wanting to get to the point.

"I would like you to train me," Minerva told him, "I want to get as strong like you so that I can pay my father back for everything that he did to me."

"What do I get out of this?" asked Natsu, as he couldn't believe his luck, it would seem that this young girl was doing the work for him. So he went on to explain, "As you said you sense that I got darkness in me, and that's not just because of my magic but because I am Dark Mage. So why would I do anything for free?" Natsu knew it was a risk to let her know what kind of mage he was, but with what her father was like, and his teachings was, he felt very little fear in telling her this.

"Ask anything and I'll do it," Minerva informed Natsu, "I just want to make my father pay for what he has done to me."

"In that case pledge yourself, mind, body and soul to me," Natsu explained, wondering if she would go for this, "and as long as you don't betray me and stay useful I'll train you."

"Useful?" the girl asked confused.

"Yes, useful," Natsu replied simply, "I'm planning to become a Master of a Dark Guild, and I'm going use them all to fit me needs. But if they betray me and become useless, I'll kill or sacrifice them." Whilst this was true, he said this to plant the seed in Minerva so that she would do anything to be useful to him.

Minerva was shocked, but understood his reasoning, as a Dark Mage Master, he would use his people in anyway possible, and if they won't useful, he would have to get rid of them. As they could prove a problem in the future, so their lives would need to be ended. Knowing this, she had one of two options, join this Natsu person who admitted he would use until either she might betray him or her usefulness is up. Or she could walk away and allow fate decide for her, where she might survive and return to her father where he would use her. But unlike Natsu, the moment she showed any weakness, her father would throw her away.

Minerva knew that whatever path she peeks, it would be one of darkness. But which path to take, she wasn't sure. For someone as young as her, it was a hard choice to make. However though, her father left her to die here, and didn't look back, all she had in mind was to pay her father back and kill him. So the option was made for her, kneeling on one knee, she said, "I pledge myself to you, my mind, body and soul to you my Master." Her only thought after that was how to keep herself useful, she decided there and then she would do whatever it took to remain useful to her new master.

"Good, now let's meet up with your new family." Natsu said with a smile, happy to gain the girl as an ally. He was worried that if he didn't, she could become a big problem for him in the future.

And Then…

10th of of February 783 - Wendy Marvell:

It has been a week since Wendy and Carla arrived at Onibus Town, where Wendy begun to heal a comatose patient who had a severe case of Magic Deficiency Disease. Wendy learnt that this was the worse case of Magic Deficiency Disease that the doctors ever seen, the doctors had no idea what the magic the woman used, but it must have been something very powerful for her to be like this.

Now it took Wendy a few days to heal the lady enough that she would live, but unknown if she could ever use magic again. However, before they could take her out of the coma, they needed to create a potion for her. As with all the years within the coma, her body would be too weak to move or do anything, even talk. But the problem is that they didn't have some of the ingredients to create the potion, so asked Wendy to get the ingredients from the mountains west of them, The Windy Mountains. Wendy was more than happy to help, and went to the mountains. The Windy Mountains were called as such because of the strong winds that blow within the place, and people visiting the place had to time the winds carefully. Now the plants that the doctors need was deep within the mountains.

But as Wendy and Carla entered the mountains though, they were caught unaware of a Mage, who tried to trip the with chains. The only reason that the chains caught Wendy, was because Carla caught sight of the attack and spout her wings and took flight with her friend, so the chains didn't hit them. Wendy didn't like this, she wasn't a fighter, as her mother taught her healing magic over battle magic. As she thought that fighting should be the last resort, and so only taught her Sky Dragon's Roar to defend herself. But her mother disappeared before she could teach her, Wendy, and more battle magic.

So to avoid getting hit, Wendy had to rely on Carla to fly out of the way of the chain attacks, and some water attacks. As Carla was flying about to get herself and Wendy to safety, Wendy called out to the person who was chasing and attacking them, "Why are you attacking us for?" She wanted to know why someone wanted to attack them, when they done nothing wrong.

"I've been hired to capture you," a male voice came from behind the mask, as he lunched another attack, "your healing magic is quite rare, and my employer is paying top Jewel to capture you."

She couldn't believe it, someone wanted her as a slave or something because she had the ability to heal others. What kind of monsters would do that? So with this information, Carla started to fly away from the mountains, to the nearby woods, hoping that they could hide within it and lose this person. But it wasn't to be, as the Mage kept up with them, and used magic in his chain to cut down the trees. At this, Wendy cried out for help, "Somebody please help me! Someone is chasing me! Anyone here!"

But luck wasn't with the young Dragon Slayer, as no one seemed to be in the woods that day, and so she and Carla had no one coming to help them. So with no other option, she had to fight, so calling out to Carla, she called out, "Carla we need to face him and fight."

"Child don't be foolish," scolded Carla, as she didn't want her human to get hurt, "you are not fit to fight. Not only don't you know how to fight, you only have one power to use in a fight."

"I know, but if we don't do anything, he'll end up capturing us sooner or later anyway." Wendy explained to her friend.

As much as Carla hate to admit it, Wendy was right, they had to try something or they would be capture before too long. So sighing in defeat, Carla said, "Fine, but you use your power whilst we're in the air, I'm not landing unless we have to."

With this, Carla flew higher in the sky so that the Mage wouldn't be able to reach them, and Wendy cried out, "Sky Dragon's Roar!" As she began casting the spell, the bluenette girl quickly gathered air in her mouth. She released an exceptional quantity from her mouth in the form of a tornado-like blast.

Unfortunately though, the Mage was barely able to dodge it, using his chains to pull him away. But as he dodge the tornado-like blast, he saw the aftermath of the attack, trees uprooted, and the ground broken up. He knew that he shouldn't get caught within that attack, as he could end up dead if he did.

Now the problem was that Wendy wasn't used to fighting, nor was she used to using her Sky Dragon's Roar often, so after a few Sky Dragon's Roars, Wendy found herself low on magic. Carla realize this and realize that they won't getting far, so she said, "Child we need to try and escape, we're both low on magic and need to get out of here."

"I know Carla, but unless we can slow him down we won't get far." Wendy told her friend, acting on adrenaline. Carla knew that Wendy was right, but at the same time knew that they were low on magic. After barely dodging another round of chain and water attacks, Wendy was on the verge of collapsing. Steeling herself, the fear of being taken was beginning to overwhelm her thoughts. With nearly the last of her magic, she let loose her final Sky Dragon's Roar.

The young girl aimed at the forest floor, hoping the Mage wouldn't be able to catch her with trees falling around him. In a twist of luck, her attack completely avoided hitting the man entirely, but instead as the Mage avoided the attack, one of the falling trees hit him instead, leaving him unconscious as a tree knocked him out.

Seeing him unconscious, the girl and her cat landed onto the ground so that they could catch their breath, not bothering to check on the man just yet. But as they were catching their breath, three people and a blue flying cat entered the area.

And Then…

10th of of February 783 - Natsu and Co - Covert Forest, short while earlier:

It has been a week since Natsu meet up with Minerva Orland, and the group were still deep within the Covert Forest training. Happy and Rouge was shocked when they meet Minerva and her story, they couldn't believe that a father could treat their child this way. Happy understood why his father wanted to help this young girl, even if it was only to use her, seeing how his own father used him, and would hate other parents would use their children as tools.

Now over the last week, the young girl that joined them, she wondered why her Master and his people were searching for someone, when they were meant to be Dark Mages. It was when her Master explained that at the moment they are pretending to be Independent Mage, to get the money they would need to start up and run a Dark Guild. This seemed to be to be a good idea, as they would need money to do anything. And as her Master explained, getting noticed as a Dark Guild too early wasn't a wise idea, they needed to build a power base and such before coming out and that took money. Which they were trying to get as Independent Mage.

During the training over the week, the thirteen year old was shocked to learn that her new Master was able to transform into a Demonic Hybrid Dragon. She knew that he was powerful, but she never thought he was this powerful, maybe he could become stronger than her father in a few months instead of years.

When talking about his plans, Minerva asked why didn't he have a fake name, seeing he was being careful and not wanting people learning who he was. Her Master informed her that he didn't give it much thought about it all, so it was her who give him a name to use, Lord Ryujin, the Lord of Dragons.

Natsu liked this name, as it fitted what he had planned for the Minions, and so decided he would keep the name. Whilst he was planning to have his people to wear masks, having the new name give him what kind of masks to use - dragon skull masks. Not only would it fit with his name, but the skulls should put fear into those they might come across in fights.

Now it was the afternoon of the seventh day of Minerva joining them, and they were training once again. Minerva was learning Requip like Natsu told her, whilst Natsu and Rouge was doing close combat training as Happy was training with his Battle Mode, so that he could last longer in it. But as they were doing so, they heard a battle in the distance, and wondering what it was about, the four of them ran towards the battle.

As they got to the fight, they saw they were late to see what was going on. But what they did see was the area destroyed, and a masked Mage who seemed to be unconscious, whilst a young blue haired girl and a white cat catching their breath. They believed that the girl was no old than eleven to twelve years old. To Happy and Natsu, the way the cat was acting, they suspected that the cat was Exceed and with the clothing that it was wearing, the cat was female.

Natsu had to laugh from within as he saw Happy reacting to the fact he found a female Exceed, he could imagine anime heart shape instead of his normal eyes in Happy's eyes. It was amazing. He just hope that Happy won't allow the female Exceed walk all over him, they are meant to be Dark Mages now, no, Dark Masters of Dark Mages of their new Guild. So he nor Happy could allow others to walk over them like they did in the past, they would be the ones to walk over others.

Now as Natsu was looking at the young bluenette, and felt something familiar about the girl, but he wasn't sure what it was. But he could sense that for someone for her age, like he was at that age, she had immense potential to become as strong as him with training, even maybe stronger than him. He knew that depending how things went from here, he would either have her join him, or have to kill her before she could become a risk. He couldn't allow a potential risk like her to live.

First thing first, he needed to know who she was dealing with, so walking up to the group walked up to the girl to make sure she was ok. But as they got near them, the white Exceed stepped in front of the young girl, and demanded, "Stop right there, what do you want?"

Although Natsu didn't like her torn of voice, he could understand it, if what he was seeing was telling him the right story, these two were in a fight and so was still on edge. "We mean you no harm, we heard the fight on the other end of the forest and we came to see if we could help." Natsu informed the Exceed, as it slowly got closed to the two he said, "But we see we're too late. So whilst we don't know any healing magic, I would like to know if you need any help."

"Stay away from us!" the white Exceed barked at them, not trusting them at all.

Happy was almost on top of her at this, how dear she treat Natsu like this. Sure he might be a Dark Mage, but she didn't know this. Not only that, if his 'father' wanted them dead, they would be already. And unless they show some sort of potential, Natsu wouldn't have bothered them, so this young girl must have something for the Dragon Slayer to help her. Sure he might be smitten by the white Exceed, but he was a Dark Mage, and he couldn't allow love to rule him and make him do stupid things. Sure in the future such things might happen, but it wouldn't stop him from slapping the bitch around if she asked for it.

But before he or anyone else in the group could say anything, it was the blue haired girl who said shyly, "Carla be nice, there here to help us."

"But child, we don't know who they are and what they want." Carla reprimand her friend, not trusting these people.

"In that case my name is Natsu," Natsu introduced himself, "and these are my friends, Happy, Minerva and Mulan who we call Rouge. We are Independent Mage training, and as I said, we came here to see if you need any help." With each of their name was announced, they give a small bow to girl and her cat.

"I'm Wendy Marvell, and I'm from Cait Shelter Guild." Wendy introduced herself.

"So can you tell us what happened?" asked Natsu.

Wendy begun to tell them what had happened to her, about her job, to heal a lady who had severe case of Magic Deficiency Disease. And how she was sent to find some of the ingredients to create a potion to help heal the lady more. So when they came to the Windy Mountains to get the ingredients, but they were attacked because the Mage and force to flee into the forest where they tried to hide but was unable to, so was forced to fight. Hearing the story, Natsu doubts about it all, as he found it strange that the Mage would attack out of nowhere. He suspected one of the doctors that hired the young girl, or someone close to them, hired the Mage to kidnap her. But until he was sure for sure, he wouldn't say a word. But if he was right, they would be having a visit from Lord Ryujin, the Lord of Dragons.

But as he looked at the girl, and how shy she was, he had to wonder how she beat the Mage, and so asked, "No offence, but you don't look like someone who is able to fight. What magic do you use defeat them?"

Here Wendy was unsure how to answer, as many in the past made fun of her or told her she was lying when she said use used Dragon Slayer Magic. But yet she sensed that this Natsu and his friends would believe her, should she tell her the truth, and so the bluenette said shyly, "I use Dragon Slayer Magic."

"You too," the Fire Dragon Slayer said in surprise, not suspecting to find another of his kind here, "I'm Fire Dragon Slayer, and my so called parent was known as Igneel, the king of the Fire Dragons. Did you have a damn dragon parent or was your powers come from a Lacrima?"

Wendy was shocked, not only because she found another Dragon Slayer, but the fact that he didn't seem to like his dragon parent. And if she was sensing it right, he hated all dragons for some reason. But still, happy to find another of her kind she said, "I the Sky Dragon Slayer, my mother is Grandeeney, the Sky Dragon."

"What spell did you use to defeat this man?" asked Minerva, impressed that someone year age could create this much damage, with the broken earth and uprooted trees.

"The only attack spell that I know Sky Dragon's Roar." Wendy told her proudly and shyly, she had a red face at this, at someone outside her village been impressed at what she could do. Someone who didn't call her a lair.

"Wendy," Carla reprimand her friend, not liking her telling these strangers what she can or cannot do, "don't tell them anymore, we don't know them."

But they were shocked when Natsu swore, "That bitch, she only taught you Healing Magic and one damn attack power!"

"She also taught me how to strengthen other people too." Wendy defended her mother.

Natsu taking a few deep breaths, angry at himself that he lost his anger so easy around someone he wanted to gain as an ally. It would seemed that this Grandeeney was the worst of all the dragon parents, as she didn't teach enough to the child to defend herself knowing she would be sent to the future. So regaining his control he said, "Forgive me Wendy, I didn't mean that. But I have learnt a few things about our dragon parents that made me angry."

"So do you know what happened to my mother?" asked Wendy hopefully, she might finally find out what happened to her mother, "And why are you so angry at our dragon parents?"

"Oh I know what happened to her, and I'm very unhappy with her, leaving you defenceless." Natsu hissed, take a few more deep breaths at not losing his cool about unfit parents, "But not here, we don't know if this Mage had partners and if he did, where the hell they are. Let me check if he is ok, and then we leave here."

So Natsu give a look to tell them to keep the young Sky Dragon Slayer and her Exceed busy, as he checked at the masked Mage. As he got up to the mask man, Natsu saw a lot of damage and debris round him. But he could see that the man was still alive, he had slow breathing, so it was hard to tell from a distance. Upon seeing him alive, he quickly thought about what to do about this, wondering how to use this to his advantage. After a few moments of thoughts, he realized that if he was dead, and blame it on the other Dragon Slayer, he could use her guilt to mould her to what he needed from her.

So making sure that Wendy or Carla didn't see him, the Fire Dragon Slayer picked up a thick tree twig that had a sharp pointed end and stab it into the back of the man's neck - killing him instantly. With that done, Natsu put on his best sad look and went up to the others, and told the young Dragon Slayer, "I'm sorry Wendy but it would seem that with the wind pressure of your last Sky Dragon's Roar, it would seem that he landed on a sharp debris that killed him."

Wendy being an innocent child, was traumatized by the news that she killed someone, and started to have a panic attack as she curled up into a ball and her arms around her legs as she rocked back and forth. "No, no, it can't be right," cried Wendy unable to believe it, "I, I haven't killed anyone."

"I'm sorry Wendy, but you did." Natsu laid to her, "Although I know it was an accident, I don't know if others would believe this." This made her cry even more as Carla tried to comfort her friend, but she didn't know what to say to her friend, as she was shocked and confused. So instead she hold Wendy for dear life. Although the Exseed had a strange within her, some strange feeling of delight, it was strange and something she pushed back to deal with later. For now her friend needed her. The two friends didn't see Natsu's group giving him a strange look to see if her was telling the truth, all he did was mouthed later to them and they didn't say another word about it.

"Please, please, this can't be true," Wendy denied again, as Carla hugged her friend, "I didn't kill the man, I can't have."

"Shh, it'll be okay, I promise you that no one will ever know." Natsu told her, "If anyone ever finds out about this, I'll say that I did it. As an Independent Mage and someone older, I can deal with it and know a way to get out of trouble, so let me take the blame if anyone finds out."

"You, you mean it?" Wendy's cries become sobs as she started to calm down a bit, "But why would you do it for someone who you just met."

"Listen we're both Dragon Slayers, we have to look out for each other." Natsu told her kindly.

"Th, thank you Natsu, please is there anything I can do to thank you for this?" Wendy asked the Fire Dragon Slayer, "I, I can't let you do this without paying you back somehow."

"You don't need to pay me back at all, other than being my friend." Natsu told her, it was a truth, at least for now. It would be slow going, but his plan is to slowly corrupt her, and make her a Dark Mage. She was at the right age to do so, and taking the blame for her so called kill, is a good start to do so.

"Thank you, thank you." Wendy thanked him over and over again, grateful for what he was doing for her. If she didn't she would always be looking over her shoulders, worried that it would bait her back at some point. Sure it still could, but with Natsu saying he would take the blame, she don't know why, but she felt better about it. But still, she needed to learn to control her powers, so that she didn't kill someone again by mistake. And without her mother, she had to find someone else to do so, and her only option was the old Dragon Slayer in front of her.

So with a sigh she pulled back from Natsu and asked, "Natsu, could you train me?"

"Why?" Natsu asked in shock, not suspecting this.

"I don't want to kill someone again by mistake because I couldn't deal control my powers," explained Wendy, "so seeing that my mother isn't around, I need someone to teach me. And seeing that you're the only other Dragon Slayer I know, I can only ask you for help. I also want to learn other Dragon Slayer skills too, something my mother wasn't able to."

Natsu couldn't believe his luck, he was going to wait a few weeks or months before coming back to the young girl and suggest training, but she beat her to it. It was like the Gods of Evil was looking down on him, and was helping him to get the young girl.

Carla was also shocked too, she wasn't suspecting her friend to ask for help with her powers. But she wasn't unhappy about it, she too didn't want her friend to kill someone by mistake, because she couldn't handle her powers. So whilst she didn't trust the strangers, she knew that she didn't much option about it, as the Sky Dragon Slayer need to learn to master and control her powers. And the only person who could help was the Fire Dragon Slayer, so she didn't say anything.

"If that's what you want, I'm fine with that." Natsu told her with a smile, "But you do know that you'll leave your Guild, as I'm on a job at the moment, and afterward I'm travelling and training."

Wendy wasn't sure about this, as she didn't want to leave her family which was the Cait Shelter Guild. But she also knew that she had to train, so that the same mistakes wouldn't happen again. Also her family would understand her wanting to learn more about her Dragon Slayer powers, as they too wanted this for her, but knew no one who could help. So they would be understanding and happy that she had found someone who could help her. So with a sigh and a smile, she said, "Whilst I'm upset of leaving my family, I know I need to master my magic and only you can help me. My Guild will also understand this, so yes I'm willing to travel with you and your friends, if it means I can master my powers."

"Good, so let's leave this place before anyone sees us." Natsu told them all, and so they all left the village and headed off to Cait Shelter Guild.

To be Continued!

Author's Note - PLEASE READ TO THE END: Here ends Chapter 16 of The Dragon Overlord, and I want you to thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed the chapter and hope you'll review. Now I hope you like how I introduced Minerva Orland and Wendy Marvell in this chapter, and how meeting Natsu will now change their fate. If you got any ideas as to what should happen next, I would like to hear them.

Now I'm unsure what is going to happen in the next chapter, but I know we'll be seeing Cait Shelter Guild, where Natsu will show Wendy the truth about her guild. I'm also thinking that I'll finally have Natsu take Mirajane as his, and possibly have him meet with another Dragon Slayer at the end of the chapter: Gabrielle. Was thinking that she would be with Levy. I would like to hear your thoughts and ideas about this.

Like before, I like to ask that when you review, you say why you love or like the story, or why you hate it, as it'll help me with writing this story better. I don't mind one liners, as I often do them myself when I can't think of anything to say about the story, but I do like to know why you love, like or hate it and would like a few lines to tell me why. So if possible, I would like to hear why you like or hate (or both) this story, and what you would like to happen next.

Depending what happens in the next chapter, I'm hoping it'll be the last chapter before we find Lucy. In which case I would like ideas as to where we can find here, and what she has been up to.

Now for those who have been waiting for my Overlord Vulcan and Her Black Rose - Rework, to be updated, and the rewrite of Animagus Mishap, I have some bad news. Whilst they'll happen in time, it might not be any time soon, as I have lost my memory card with much of my ideas that I had, so it'll take time to remember them and restart writing. I am sorry about this, but there's not much I can do about it. Not only that, but I'm sorry to say that my other stories other than those I have been updating recently are on long term hold, as the mood and the muse for them are gone and don't know if they'll be back. So if you want to work on them, please PM to let me know. I might one day go back to them but I don't think so.

And seeing that this is the last chapter before Christmas and the New Year, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, or for those politically fools Happy Holidays and a Happy New year.