Chapter 2

"Talking"

"Thoughts"

"Attack names"

"Flashbacks"

two days later

"Natsu. Natsu wake up, we are almost there" said elaine to a sleeping Natsu. it had been two days since they had left their cave, during the trip they only stopped to eat or to let Natsu see new things that he had not seen before, like shining rocks which some where white, red and green, sometimes he would even find yellow ones. according to him, Igneel was crazy for telling him to keep them instead of just leaving them there.

"hmmm. fiphb minnuphs moo (five minutes more)" Natsu replied to his mother

"There's a river right behind me" Elaine said out of nowhere.

"I'm up! I'm up! please don't throw me into the cold water!" Natsu said frantically.

"Ha. I knew you would get up" Elaine said to Natsu.

"Not funny mom. Last time you did that the damn water was way too cold" a now fully awake Natsu said.

"Hehe. we are almost there. You can walk the rest of the day" elaine said as she extended her wing downwards so that Natsu could walk down. When Natsu got down he saw that Igneel was in front of the leading the way. The walk was quiet, nobody talked, they just enjoyed the nature as they could. After a while of walking they reached the volcano. It looked as if it had been asleep for a really long time, it even had grass all over it.

"What the hell happened here, why is there so much green here!?" Igneel asked as he looked around.

"When was the last time you were here dad?" asked natsu as he had reached Igneel.

"It wasn't that long ago. It was about two hundred years ago" answered Igneel.

"Dear..." called elaine.

"What is it Elaine?" asked Igneel as he turned around.

"That's a damn long time you overgrown gecko!" natsu yelled at his father who didn't know how to respond back, realizing that it had been a long time since he was there.

"You can go and leave your things at the cave natsu, after that come back here so we can start your training" Igneel said as if the previous conversation had never occurred. With that natsu took his things to the cave and came back running.

"Alright I'm ready, what do I do? "asked Natsu to his father.

"For now, I want you to go and burn all of the other side of the volcano"

"Ok" answered Natsu before he started to walk to the other side of the volcano.

"Two years are a lot, but do you believe that he will learn enough in that time" Asked Elaine to Igneel who had his eyes on the blue sky.

"No, it isn't enough time for that. For one to truly to learn the art of sealing one must dedicate to study nonstop, but I have a plan that will help natsu in everything that he will learn, in the mornings he will study with me, after that he will do practice with you about his new elements, lava is really similar to fire so he will learn that one fast, after his training with the magic he will start his lessons in swords, then at the end of the day I will teach him how to be my successor..." Igneel said.

"You don't plan on teaching him that level of magic, are you? He's too young, his body will not be able to resist the pressure of those flames, he will die!" Elaine almost shouted, she was worried about her son, sure natsu was a good wizard but he was not ready to do something of that caliber.

"Don't worry elaine, I'm only going to teach him how to access it in the future, I'm going to tell him what he will be able to do when he can access my power. And like I was going to say before, the only way for natsu to learn how to do the art of sealing is to give him a head start, for that I will use a magic which I saw humans use, this magic allows the user to share information with another person and let them have it for the rest of their life" Igneel said as he looked at flames that could be seen at the side of the mountain.

"I see, that would really give natsu a head starts and instead of teaching him about what he can do you will teach him how to do it with what he already knows. Who knew that you still had a brain there" Elaine teased Igneel.

"Ha-ha. Either way… I was able to create two swords out of the scales and claws that you give me last time, I also made one with my scales and fangs along with a scarf that will protect him of any real black magic" Igneel said while he took out the three swords and a white scarf that looked that it was made by white scales.

"Are they going to grow alongside Natsu?" asked Elaine as she looked at the sheathed swords now in the ground.

"Yes. it took me a while to be able to carb the seals to the swords but I made it, the only thing left to do is have natsu put some of his blood and magic into the swords, I also took precautions when making the seals, this swords will only show their true power when natsu holds them for they will be a part of him and anyone that has ill will towards him will be rejected by the swords. His friends however will be at least able to touch them and at the chance that Natsu recognize them then the swords will accept them as well for a short amount of time" Igneel said proud of his creations, for these ones would be his master pieces.

"You really give it your all to make them didn't you. Well they will do for Natsu, oh speaking of the devil here he comes" said Elaine as she could see Natsu getting closer.

"I'm done clearing the side of the… Cool, hey who left those here they look so cool" Natsu said as he looked over the swords.

"Hehe. their yours Natsu, your dad here made them for you as… as a present for being a wonderful son to us both" Elaine said as she looked at Natsu, her young hatchling.

"Really? Thanks, Igneel, thanks mom. Hey, but I don't even know how to use a sword" Natsu frowned as he had remembered that he had no real experience with swords.

"Don't worry natsu, I'm going to teach you how to use them. But first you must know the name of your swords, that is the first step on learning how to use them" Said Elaine as she looked at a confused Natsu.

"Names? Why would a sword need a name? It's just a weapon" said Natsu.

"Yes, it is a weapon Natsu, but powerful ones at that. You see Natsu, normal weapons don't have names because they are too weak, but those weapons that are truly strong have a name so that they can be recognized and remembered" answered Elaine to Natsu.

"Oh, I see. So, what are the names?" asked Natsu to his mother which she only pointed to Igneel.

"The name of the one with the white sheath is Muramasa" Igneel said while pointing at the sword in word. Natsu took the sword with both of his hands and started to unleash it, when he did he was impressed by the sword, to say that the sword was his was mind blowing. The sword had a white handle and blue color underneath it, its guard was black and flower like pattern, the sharp side of the blade had a silver white color that it was able to be used as a mirror, and lastly the opposite side of the sharp side was weird, it had red blood color but unlike all the other katanas this one had a chainsaw like pattern with holes between the chainsaw like pattern. "that one was created with my scales and fangs" Igneel added at the end.

"Cool" that was everything that Natsu could say.

"That other one while I created it was also made with the scales and claws of your mother just like that other one" Igneel pointed at the two remaining swords. Natsu put Muramasa down and grabbed the next sword. " for that one I visited an old friend of mine, she contacted me while you two were training so I left to see her but when I got there it was not what I was expecting, even with all of her power I knew that death came to all of us and it was her turn, she had contacted me so that we could have one last conversation just like we did many times before, I mentioned you and what I was making for you, she wanted to meet you Natsu, but her old body would not move anymore so as an apology to you and a present as her goodbye she used the last of her remaining magic to give that sword the abilities that she once could use" Igneel paused as he heard a gasp from his mate, after seeing that she had regained her composure he continued. "Natsu her abilities had no match what so ever, even I admit having feared them… to be honest I would rather never be the one receiving them, when in war our enemies feared her for she could send them directly to hell with one slash of her claws and revive many more with another slash. Natsu with this sword that holds part of the soul of my dragon friend you will be able to heal and revive one hundred lives with one swing, be honored to hold such a precious object in your hand. And the name of this sword is Tenseiga: Heavenly rebirth fang. Oh just so you know, this sword won't be able to kill a human it will sure damage them but it will never kill one, this sword was created by me so that you could hunt dragons and even other monsters with more ease if you ever need more help" Finished Igneel as he saw how natsu held the sword close to him as if it was the most fragile thing in the world right now.

"To think that Tiamat would do such thing to help natsu" Elaine said as she had small tears forming in her eyes.

"Indeed, she was to me as a sister" Igneel said while looking at the sword now in hands of natsu. "Finally, the last sword, its name is Bakusaiga and even when its appearance is that of a normal katana its power is very useful and powerful." Igneel said as he looked at natsu who was holding the last sword, the sword was almost like any other, its guard was secure and purple, its blade was completely silver but the back of it was white with rune like patterns as well as in its handle. "Tenseiga and Bakusaiga are able to use the magic from your mother as well as the other techniques that I put into them, Muramasa can only use the element of fire which is my magic, I will tell you more about the true powers of the swords once you know how to use them, but for right now we need to make sure you mark those swords as yours" Igneel finished.

"Mark? How am I supposed to do that? And why should I do it?" asked Natsu.

"You need to mark them so that those swords can recognize you and will only show their power to you, and they will also grow with you Natsu, the stronger you get the stronger the swords will become. As for how you should mark them then you just have to put some blood and magic to the blade" Elaine explained to Natsu.

"Cool, so I just have to put some blood into them and some of my magic too? "asked Natsu just to be sure to which he received a nod from Elaine and Igneel. After doing as he was told to do to each sword something happened to them. First he started with Tenseiga, when he finished adding his blood and magic to the blade a blue light surrounded his entire body which then turned into blue flames for a few seconds and died down soon after, next was Bakusaiga which he did the same process but this time black smoke came out of the body of natsu, which then was replaced by a green light and lightning that surrounded his body, then at the end it was Muramasa, going through the same process natsu waited for something to pass, but nothing happened, he then was going to ask Igneel if he did something wrong but before he could ask anything he saw Igneel smirk and a moment later he felt his body change, his fangs grew as well as his nails which now were claws, his salmon hair changed to a more reddish color, his eyes changed from a dark color to blood red, and finally all over his body you could see black flame like patterns, the transformation soon ended afterwards. Elaine with concern looked at Igneel for an answer.

"Natsu, you must learn how to control this form for this form will take away your reason and will make you concentrate on your enemy and ignore everything else, once you learn enough you will be able to use some techniques without having the swords at hand" Igneel gave his explanation. "For now, let us go to sleep, it is late, and tomorrow will start your training once again Natsu"

"Hai." answered Natsu as he took all the swords with him to the cave in the volcano, he was feeling tired from the last transformation.

"Igneel, what are you thinking?" Elaine asked

"Don't worry, Natsu can take full control of that kind of power. Now let us go to sleep as well" Igneel said and he started to walk to the cave as well. Elaine could not do much, so she accepted the answer she was given and followed her son and mate. The next day came fast and with it a new torture for Natsu.

"Ready Natsu? This may hurt a little" asked Igneel as he had one of his big claws over the head of Natsu, the moment when Natsu was about to talk Igneel started the spell in which he would share his knowledge with Natsu, this took about ten minutes for the information which Igneel was sharing was too much. When done Natsu was on the floor panting since he was exhausted.

"Damn… o-overgrown g-gecko, give... me... a warning!" said Natsu.

"Oh, stop crying. So, do you know what a magic seal is?" asked Igneel more serious now which Natsu only nodded. "Good, now we can start the real training. Natsu from here on out we will do nothing but train you as if hell was about to freeze over, you better be ready"

And with that the training started. For two years Natsu learned as much as he could, his knowledge of sealing was almost as big as Igneel's, his swordsmanship was not the best but it was good enough to give a good fight, the style that his mother taught him was way too rare and therefore it would give its opponent a hard time, she also taught him other stuff about the humans for he didn't really knew much about, it was there that he learned why Igneel still had those weird color rocks, according to his mother he could use them to get new things which he did for the clothes that he had were too wasted by all the training, so he went to a village to get new clothes, it was weird to be surrounded by so many humans, when he was there and did not know what to do, a strange human came to him, he noticed that the human had a sweet scent and had white hair, she helped him to get his new clothes which he didn't understand why the guy at the place with clothes give him so many, he only wanted one new change but he got more than one, he didn't complain and left the village not before saying goodbye to that strange human. Later on when he found his mother in the deep of the forest he told her what had happened and she said something about having to give him a "talk", he didn't understand and thought that it was going to be a new magic spell… he was so wrong, after that "talk" with his mother and another "chat" with his father he could not look at them at the eyes, apparently the human that helped him was a female human, or a girl is how the humans called their hatchlings. Over the two years Natsu learned the basics of other elements, such as lava, wind, earth, diamond, and steel, the training had been brutal all the way until the end, to learn how to use lava he had to actually had to train around it, in other words Elaine had taken him inside of the volcano where she used her magic to turn everything into lava and have Natsu learn right there, for his wind element manipulation he and Elaine trained on top of the volcano so that Natsu could feel the wind in his body and could get an idea of how it would be once he used the element, then he learned how to use earth which was now more easier to some point since he could train in ocean level ground again, the last two elements took more than he thought for to be able to control the steel and diamond proved to be too hard since they weren't easy to create, he didn't know much about them but his mother said that it would only be a matter of time before he could advance more in his elemental slaying magic, as for his sword training most of the time was physical training so that he could be stronger with his style, firstly focusing in one sword style at the beginning, then the two style, and lastly three sword style which proved to be a pain in the ass since it wasn't easy to hold a sword in his mouth, but never the less he was able to be proficient with it. Igneel had also trained Natsu so that he could control the flow of his magic, he showed him how to really 'control' his magic, during that time Igneel had told him how he would soon have to leave along with his mother in order to test him, he also taught him on how he would be the next to holder of the name of flame dragon king but not before telling him that he would most likely die if he used the power that came alongside the tittle any time soon in the next twelve years.

Year (X775)

It had been two years of training, it had been two years of been away from his home. Natsu's training had ended a week ago with him passing out thanks to the test that Igneel had given him, the test was to show all his new techniques to him without resting. Each of the techniques of each element that he had learned was to be shown, and for that to be possible he had to use all his magical power, even when he could control his magic flow in a really high level he still had to use all his magic. After a week of sleep Natsu woke up and walked outside of the cave feeling better, it was still early, and the sun still wasn't up, after a moment of silence Igneel came out of the cave to join Natsu to see the sunrise.

"Did I really had to show you all of my techniques?" asked Natsu to Igneel in low tone

"Not really. But I wanted to see how far you had come" Igneel answered and then finished. "I must say natsu, I'm proud of you"

"...Thanks dad. Hey, I've been thinking… can I really be strong? I mean, you and mom are dragons. How am I supposed to match up to your power? I'm just a human, and dragons are supposed to be the most feared, respectful, majestic, and powerful beings in all the planet" asked Natsu to his father. "I'm nothing but a low- AGGG" before Natsu could finish that last sentence he was sent flying towards a rock and breaking it. Where Natsu stood before there was now a scarlet dragon with one of her claws above her heart, and beside her was a blood red dragon looking at Natsu with sadness in his eyes.

"Natsu. Yes, you are a human, but over that you are my son, our son, and a Dragon slayer. Do not forget the honor that comes along with that title. You are Natsu Dragneel, son of Igneel and Elaine. Elemental Dragon Slayer. So, stand up and never forget this Natsu: we will always be with you, we will always look for you, we will always be your family, you are our pride and joy" Igneel said to natsu.

Natsu while hearing this was still laying on the pile of rocks which was created by his impact. After listening to what his father had said he couldn't help but let some tears go down his face. "Right" was all that natsu answered for a moment, after that they stood there in silence. Then Natsu got to his feet and looked at his parents. "I promise! I will be the strongest Dragon Slayer that there has ever been. Any dragon will know my name and will also know who my parents are!" Natsu said while looking at his parents

"I'll hold you to that Natsu" Igneel said. "But for now, let us give you one final test"

"Eeeeh? Another one? Why?" asked natsu to his father.

"Because I say so. If you finish this test, then we will teach you how to enter dragon force" Igneel said.

"What's the test" asked natsu

"We are going to leave you here and you have to track us down. We'll be moving around the country and you as a dragon slayer must find us. You will have one year to find us, if you can't find us then we will punish you" Igneel said to Natsu.

"Oh hell no. I am not letting you punish me, I still remember when you tried to make me clean your damn mouth" Natsu said angrily to Igneel.

"Then you better get ready because we are leaving in an hour" Igneel said as he walked to the cave.

"Tsh. saying that you are going to leave me behind out of nowhere..." Natsu said in a low and sad tone.

"Don't worry Natsu. You just have to find us fast so that we can be together again" Elaine said. "And besides, I have another quest for you: I want you to try and learn to control more elements on your own"

"I guess that would make it more fun. I'll make sure to find you and that overgrow geko, but before that… HEY OVERGROWN GEKO, GET YOUR TAIL OVER HERE AND TAKE THIS SEAL OFF OF ME!" Natsu yelled at the cave.

"What seal are you talking about brat?" asked Igneel with a hand over his left ear scratching it.

"This damn seal on my back which prevents me from using your magic. The only reason I can use fire right now is because I am using my mom's magic" Natsu said as he took his shirt off and pointed at the dragon tattoo on his back.

"Oh, that seal, I forgot about it. Alright come here and I'll take it off from you" Igneel said while pointing at a spot in front of him. Natsu walked over to him and sat down facing away from Igneel letting him see the seal. After a moment of silence Igneel put one of his claws in the tattoo and released some of his magic making the tattoo glow in red light before starting to fade away. After it completely faded away fire came out of where the tattoo was before and surrounded natsu for about a minute before fading away like the tattoo. "There. With that you should feel as if you had more magic. Can you tell why?"

"I think. Because of my magic been sealed away my magic container was empty for some time until I started to learn more of my mom's magic, after two years of training here my magic container grew, but now that I have my original magic back my contained expanded in one shot therefore that's why I have the feeling of having more magic. Because I just got more magic I guess I'll have to work on my magic control again huh" Natsu clarified to his father.

"Good. You actually understood all of it, and yes you will have to train more" Igneel said.

"Ok. I'm all fired up. Just you wait Igneel I will find you in a year and you will have to tell me how to enter dragon force" Natsu said as he pointed at his father.

"Then you should get ready by yourself. We are leaving now, Elaine you ready?" Asked Igneel to his mate.

"Sure" that was all that Elaine said to him. "Natsu I'll be waiting for you"

"Sure, thing mom. And I'll make sure to keep practicing my magic and new skills too" Said Natsu to his mother. And with that he saw as his parents started to fly away from where he was. It would be a while for when Natsu would see his parents again, so he decided that he would set up to look for them starting tomorrow so he went to the cave to have one last night sleep there.

The next morning woke up and decided that it had been some time since he last took bath, so he went to a river that was close to the volcano. it didn't take him long to get all cleaned up. so, when he walked out of the river he started to look for his new clothes that he would be wearing for some time. Now he had a tight turtleneck shirt with a blue dragon head on its right side of the chest, he had black pants which were held by two belts that made an x on his waist, and finally a pair of black shoes. After getting dressed he went back to the cave and got everything ready. He sealed some of his food into a scroll which made a spiral symbol appear on it, his remaining clothes were sealed into his left shoulder making a two tomoe symbol appear, then he sealed all of the books that Igneel made him read and write for him in order to learn the art of sealing into his left shoulder as well only that the new symbol which was a crescent moon appeared below the one that was already there, finally he grabbed his swords and put them on his left side of his waist. "Damn, I guess sealing is pretty cool. But like hell that I'm telling Igneel that! well, might as well get going" Natsu said to himself. and with that he walked out of the cave, and into the world he started running. "I'm Natsu Dragneel, the fire dragon slayer" Natsu screamed to the skies as if he was challenging it. "and I'm also the elemental dragon slayer" Natsu whispered to himself, and with that he disappeared in a yellow lightning that went forward.

To Be Continued

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