Dragneel; Igneel & Layla 9, Saraphina 6, Nash 4
Redfox; Ren 9, Axel 7, Connor & Wyatt 5
Haroworth; Nolan & Lucca & Kellen & Rainer & Aura 5
Drayer; Lexie 10
Justine; Marcus 8
Alberona; Chance 7
Fullbuster; Storm 9, Ur &Ulter 5
Damian 8
Fernandez; Maia 6
Fiore; Drake 7
Ecluiff; Reese 8, Verity 6, Kato 1, Kassie (4 months along)
The Incident with Igneel
**** Six Years after Celestial Mage Wanted****
"Hmm," Igneel sighed as he gazed up at the request board in front of him.
"What are you thinking about," Kinana asked as she passed by the boy.
"I wanna take a job, and this one looks good," the boy said as he plucked a job off of the board.
Reading over the request Kinana rolled her eyes. It was a job to take out a team of bandits that had been terrorizing some merchants. The reward was decent but no one had taken it yet, most of the heavy hitters that would snatch this job up in a heartbeat were all busy with either kids or other responsibilities.
"No," the bar maid said as she tacked the job back on the board just out of the boy's immediate reach.
"But why? I could handle the job," Igneel whined.
"Your mother said no fighting jobs until they get back," Kinana said as she set her tray down. "Now I am going to restock the bar," she called out as she disappeared in to the cellar.
A few moments later the guild doors opened revealing a little girl.
"Blondie!" Kyra cheered as she ran and jumped on to the boys back. "What's wrong?" she asked noticing the pout.
"Nothing," the blond said as he shook his head. "Wanna take a job with me?" he asked smiling slyly as he eyed the request once again.
"Sure!" she cheered as Igneel pointed towards the paper and the girl grabbing it before they both ran out of the guild hall.
A few minutes later Kinana returned and noticed that the head of blond hair was missing.
"Where's Igneel," she asked. It was her and Erik's turn to watch the Dragneel children as their parents were out of town.
"Kyra and him ran off," Damian answered as he carefully ran a soft dry towel over Koa's scales. The black snake gently coiled around him as he did so.
"How cute," the bar maid sighed as she returned to work. Never noticing that one job was missing from the board.
It was several hours later after the sky had turned dark that she began to worry. Igneel wasn't back yet and though she knew no one in town would touch him; trouble always seemed to find him. Just like his father, so Kinana continuously looked at the guild doors hoping to see them open and the boy tumbling in. Her concern only increasing when the guild doors opened and relived a distraught and worried Flair and Midnight.
"Have any of you seen Kyra?" Flair asked as she scanned the area looking for a familiar head of red hair.
"She ran off with Igneel a while ago we were just about to go looking for them," Erik said as he looked between his old friend and the girl.
He had known that the illusion mage had met a girl and that he had a daughter but he should have guessed it was Kyra. In spite of her favoring her mother's magic the girl was gifted in illusions and the nose, she had Midnight's damned nose.
"She usually stops here whenever she comes to visit me, but I haven't heard from her since she checked in at ten this morning," Midnight sighed, as usually she told him that she had arrived at Magnolia station and was going to visit Igneel for a while.
He reminded her to be safe and that Elaina would help her get to the Hartfilia estate where he was stationed for the next few months. Most of the members had been freed long enough that they were able to come and go as they please. All happy with Lucy as their leader, but last year the last few fanatical that were still loyal to her aunt were released. They were still unable to be trusted so Crime SorciƩre still kept one person on sight to watch over them.
He was starting to get worried that by two in the afternoon he hadn't received a call letting him know she was on her way. And by three he was calling Flair and Jellal, who sent Racer in is stead, as he made his way to Magnolia. Both he and Flair had spent the last few hours looking for her and just became more and more concerned as she was no were to be found.
"Um Master," Kinanna asked quietly as she looked over at the request board. "Please tell me you sighed out on the bandit's job," she said as the tension in the guild grew.
"I didn't," Laxus said as Fairy Tail mobilized.
Canna and Chance locked on to Igneel's tracker but the idiot had taken a job in the Western Forest. And due to the magic that the forest held it made pinpointing their exact location near impossible.
"Their outside of Magnolia in the Western forest. I've got a hundred mile radius of where they are," Cana said as she pulled out her deck her son following as well. "Aright concentrate on Igneel. He has the tracker so it will be easier to find him. And Kyra won't be far," Canna instructed as she and Chance ignored the rest of the guild jumping into action.
Mira called the Palace, Levy her brother. Grey phoned the Dragneels. Laxus was looking up the job in the guild book as the other dragons were grabbing the scent markers they had for Igneel and Kyra. Each child associated with Fairy Tail had one. It was a blanket that they slept with, each was kept in magically sealed containers and used to help each slayer and if necessary the council's tracking dogs.
"Is Gorgan's lake in that area?" Laxus asked as Freed studied the board where Igneel's tracker had been activated.
"Dead center," The rune mage said as he marked the spot.
"Start there, the request said that the bandits hang out there," Laxus ordered as the slayers all left.
"No you two stay here," Erik ordered as he was the last slayer save for Laxus in the guild. Even Lexie was assisting in the search.
"She's our daughter," Flair cried out as she tried to get around the slayer.
"Exactly, both of your scents are too similar to hers we can get confused so you staying here will better our chances of finding them," Erik said as he raced after the other's jumping in the SE cars before they took off.
It was a few hours later that the Dragneels arrived. Lucy clutching her mate as he descended from the sky. Massive wings disappearing into his back as they both collapsed in the guild.
"Any word?" Lucy asked as Mira shook her head.
"Not yet, but they arrived at the forest about twenty minutes ago," Mira spoke as the com began ringing.
"Erik!" Midnight growled as the poison slayer filled the screen.
"We found them. The moment we got to the forest it was hard to miss them. Followed a trail of destruction led us right to them. They're both passed out but Wendy looked them over and said they'll be alright. Master half of that area Canna was talking about is gone, and when I say gone there isn't even ash or dust. The bandits well only one of them survived most died, but we don't know why yet. The rune knights and Crime SorciƩre are beginning an investigation," Erik reported as Jellal appeared behind him.
"We're sending the dragons and the kids home, Macbeth you are off this investigation," Jellal ordered as he walked away.
It was another few hours later that the group arrived back both sets of parents racing towards their children who were each in the arms of another slayer.
"Igneel are you okay?" Lucy cooed seeing his eyes opened, "You are in so much trouble!" she growled, "My poor baby," she finally sobbed as she clutched the boy to her.
"It's late everyone get to bed," Laxus ordered as both families took their kids to bed.
It was a few days later that Jellal called a meeting at the guild hall to discuss what had happened. Both Igneel and Kyra were seated in the middle of the guild their parents behind them as Laxus, Jellal, and Mest stood in front of them.
"Now after going over the investigation and the surviving member of the bandits the results are hard to understand we want both of your stories," Jellal said as the runs flashed around the children.
"These are truth runes if you lie we'll know," Laxus grunted as he looked down at the kids.
"Well it started once we got to Gorgon's lake," Igneel began as he scratched the back of his head.
Their smell was potent, the group had been camping there a while. Kyra and him had gone over their strategy on the train. They would wait and see if any were mages and if not they'd surround them with fire and pick them off one by one. What they hadn't counted on was the one patrolling.
They were about to make their move when all of a sudden they were each trapped in a separate barrier.
"Hey guy looks like we got us a couple mages," the one who captured them sneered as he carried them to the group.
"That one's a dragon better let him go or we'll have to deal with the council," another said as Igneel found himself falling to the ground.
"Let Kyra go!" Igneel growled as he felt his fangs lengthen in anticipation of the fight ahead.
"No way, we let you go cause we don't want to deal with your daddy and his friends but this one will fetch a fine price in Bosco," the man hissed as Kyra over powered the bubble and landing on her feet.
"Now stop it brat," the man growled a Kyra leapt back and sent out a ring of fire around the man in question.
"Never! You guys need to surrender before it gets ugly," Kyra hissed ready to fight.
"I said shut it," the man hissed as he teleported behind Kyra and using the hilt of his dagger knocked her unconscious.
"Kyra?" Igneel called out as he watched the girl fall to the ground. "Kyra!" Igneel roared as he felt himself get overcome by something strange, powerful and scary as his world went black.
"The next thing I remember is waking up in uncle Gajeel's arms and my mom and dad pulling me into theirs," Igneel said as the runes around him remained still.
The three adults in front of him shared looks of concern. "Kyra anything to add," Jellal asked as the girl thought about it.
"Well I don't know if it was a dream or not but I remember waking up in a pair of warm arms feeling like I was flying," the girl said as she looked over at Igneel and smiled.
"Jellal what's that look about?" Levy asked as she looked at her bother. She knew that look it was one she got herself when the whole picture came together and you wanted to deny what you were seeing.
"Zeref are you here?" the blue haired man asked as the spirit appeared Mavis by his side.
'What do you need?" Zeref asked as he looked over at his brother and Nephew.
"Is it possible for the powers of END to transfer to any of Natsu's children?" the heavenly body mage asked as the guild sucked in a breath.
"At this point I have given up believing that there is anything that could be impossible," the spirit said as Mavis giggled beside him.
"Why did you ask that?" Lucy questioned as she watched Jellal reach for a file.
"I haven't shared this with anyone yet because I didn't want people to get the wrong idea. Only those of us here and the royal family know about Natsu's connection with Zeref and the demons. If the rest of the world knew it could cause a panic," Jellal said as he opened the file. "Cause of death for every member of the bandit crew was Curse magic," he said as he handed the copies of the reports to everyone.
"The only one who survived said and I quote," Jellal began as he looked down at the file. "One minute he was like a normal kid the next he had horns, wings, and talons instead of fingers. His skin was covered in black swirling tattoos. Then he growled and began ripping the flesh right off of the other's bones while they were still alive. I'm a neutralizer mage no one's magic can work on me but one flick of his hands and it's like the air ignited and exploded around me. I remember lying there unable to move as he drained the life out of every living thing in the area. Not even the plants and water survived. I don't know how I did but after he had killed every one else he picked up the girl muttering something about a mate and flew off," Jellal finished as the guild seemed to almost want to explode.
"Hisui," Lucy said with a bow as the monarch appeared in the hall.
"I knew there was something missing from the file," she said as she stepped out of the shadows.
"I meant no disrespect majesty but I wanted to make sure it was even possible," Jellal said bowing.
"No I understand that file will be burned, the official cause of death has been changed from curse magic to death by dragon force. Dorenbolt I require your skill to wipe this mages memories," Hisui said as the rune knight nodded his head.
"Why?" Levy asked.
"Like Jellal said if the public were to learn this truth then they would demand the heads of everyone related to Zeref. The public will never accept the fact that his blood relations are alive and if they were to learn the truth about Natsu and now Igneel there would be riots in the streets," Hisui began. "The world can forgive Jellal because he was under the influence of the spirit of Zeref. But the world would sooner accept the Devil than anything having to do with Zeref," she said grimly as she tossed the file at Natsu who promptly lit it on fire.
"Am I in trouble?" Igneel asked as he bowed his head.
"I don't believe in punishing someone for something they didn't chose," Hisui said as she knelt down next to the boy.
"I was only protecting my mate," he said quietly as he looked over at Kyra. The girl reaching out to touch Igneel, the little boy taking it.
"I know," Hisui cooed as she ran a hand through the blond hair. "So were going to make sure everyone knows she's under your protection," she whispered as she stood up.
"I've brought the paperwork needed to register Kyra as a perspective mate, I'd advise you fill them out quickly," the now queen said as she handed the file to Flair and Midnight. "Igneel also needs training on how to control his demon side," Hisui spoke as Natsu scooped up his son.
"Don't worry was gonna do that as soon as we get to the isles," the fire dragon slayer said as he hugged his son close.
"I've implemented a new job ranking system as well," Laxus said as he unveiled the job board. It was now divided in two the bottom section labeled J-class and the top A-class. "So how this will work is anyone under the age of fourteen will be considered a J-class member. They will only be able to take an A-Class request with either a parent or written permission from both parents and be accompanied by an A-Class mage," Laxus said as he motioned Lexie forward.
"Try and take an A- class job," he said as his daughter shrugged reaching up to grab a random file soon the guild hall was filled with a loud alarm. "That means someone is trying to take a job their not supposed to," He said as he lifted up his daughter's hands. "The perpetrator will have this magic dye on their hands. Only me or Mira have the stuff to clean it off," he said handing Lexie a bar of soap. "I've done the same thing to the S-Class board,"
"Now to make things fair an A-Class mage cannot take a J-Class mission unless they are personally requested or accompanying a new member, this will be how the jobs work from now on," Laxus grunted as he finished his explanation.
"Who determines how the jobs are ranked?" Lucy asked.
"Mira, Erza, Levy, Freed and Myself will go over every job request," Laxus grunted. It was something he had been thinking about doing for a while. But never had a reason to put it in place, until now.
"Dad can you put me down?" Igneel asked as the guild hall returned back to normal.
Natsu set his son down and watched as the boy walked over to Kyra. The little girl stood next to her parents as they tired explaining what they were going to do.
"But why would I wanna date other people I have Blondie?" Kyra asked as she stared up at her father. Removing his necklace, a piece of lava from the isles, it was enchanted so that it would never cool and always be a source of power for him, that his mother had made him a while ago.
Placing the chain around Kyra's neck the girl turned and looked surprised as she gazed down at the gift.
"So everyone knows your mine," Igneel said as he kissed her cheek the red headed girl blushing madly as she blinked at him. And in the span of ten second she was sitting on top of his chest her hands in his hair.
"Ten thousand jewels say they mate before he's twenty!" Guildarts shouted as he placed the money on his daughter's table.
"I'll take some of that action, twelve thousand say he waits until he's twenty two," Grey said as all of a sudden Cana's table is covered in cash as she and Chance record every single bet.
"Ummmm Blondie. What's going on?" Flair asked as she looked over at the blonde who was growling as her own husband was joining in on the fun.
"You don't want to know," Lucy said as Igneel ran up to her Kyra right behind him.
"Hey mom does this mean Kyra can sleep with me since she's my mate?" Igneel asked as Mira fainted behind the bar and Lucy collapsed.
"No sleeping with your mate until your sixteen," Natsu said as he ruffled his son's hair. "That's when I started sleeping with your mom,"
"We didn't know each other before then," Lucy groaned from her spot on the floor.
"But Layla sleeps with Storm and he's her mate," Igneel said.
"No way is stripper's kid good enough for my girl!" Natsu shouted
"Hey my son is good enough for any one he wants," Grey growled as he and Natsu dissolved into another fight.
"Are you sure having Kyra with these people is a good idea?" Macbeth asked as he looked over at Flair.
"They may be crazy but she couldn't be in better hands," she said as she smiled down at her daughter and the little blonde boy next to her.
A;N/ So hello my wonderful readers. i wasn't going to post this yet but you all kept asking about who Kyra's father was and whether or not she was Igneel's mate well here it is. i loved reading the reviews (Seriously they keep me going) and hope you all enjoy reading this as much as i did writing it. so i'll see you all next week.
