Chapter 4

"Talking"

"Thoughts"

"Attack names"

"Flashbacks"

Year (X777) July 6

"D-damn... the moment I start channeling my magic it gets all difficult" said a panting Natsu. It has been a year since he had reunited with his parents and over the time he has been training to get a Dragons slayers greatest technique: Dragon force.

"Of course. this is a simple way of obtaining Dragon force, the only other way to get Dragon force is by killing a Dragon, and you aren't ready for something like that y-" Igneel was interrupted by Natsu.

"I have already killed Igneel" Natsu said to his father, he had never really talked about it because he thought that Igneel would get mad at him... "That day on that tower... this man had a girl and he was going to kill her... s-so... I killed him..." Natsu said sobbing as he remembered that day, he had nightmares of that man which sometimes kept him awake all night.

"Did you save the girl?" Igneel asked. Natsu only nodded to him. "Then its fine. Listen Natsu... killing is bad of course, but if you kill to protect someone then that is different, killing for no reason is just despicable. Let me tell you what you should do... you should give people a second chance if they are willing to change but if they don't want to change then you should get rid of them but don't forget that they died by your hands or you will be no better than them. Is that clear!?" Asked Igneel to his son. "You have been making me proud of you over and over again Natsu. don't let me down now, ne?"

"Hai" Answered Natsu with determination on his face... which then changed to a goofy face with a toothy smile.

"Let's go back, your mom is- RRROOOAAARRR" Igneel was Interrupted by roar that was not his own nor from his mate...

RRRRROOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRR!

After that second roar Igneel recognized the roar and suddenly extended his wings and flew up in the sky yelling at natsu to hide. "Acnologia!" Igneel yelled in a way in which scared natsu for he had never heard his father talk in that way. "What are you doing here!? What do you want!?" screamed Igneel to someone. curiosity took over Natsu and so he walked out of a bush in which he had landed after Igneel's shouting... he was left speechless for what he saw: A black Dragon with blue marks over his body. Now seeing a Dragon was not so surprising to him, but what left his speechless was the fact that this new dragon was holding his mother under him and biting her neck making her bleed. "ACNOLOGIA! LET HER GO OR ILL KILL YOU IN THIS VERY MOMENT!" Igneel yelled out like he never did before, by this time Igneel was covered in flames with the color of blood.

"RRRROOOOOOOAAAAAARRRR" The black dragon roared.

"I see. guess there's no reasoning today..." thought Igneel to himself. After that Igneel launched himself at the black Dragon. "RRRROOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR" Igneel roared to Acnologia as he crashed against him sending both of them away from Natsu and Elaine.

"Mom!" yelled natsu as he ran to get at his mother's side and help her.

"Natsu. my boy listen to me... you need to stay hidden from that dragon, he is Acnologia Dragon of Apocalypse. we are going to make him get away from here so you just hide ok" Elaine said to Natsu.

"No! I'm a Dragon Slayer! I can help you to fight him off, that's what I've been training for after all!" Natsu responded to his Mother.

"Yes Natsu you are a Dragon Slayer but you aren't ready to face a dragon like Acnologia, as much as it pains me Acnologia is stronger than your father and he needs my help, and because you are a Dragon Slayer he will try to kill you if he sees you, so please stay hidden until this is all over" Elaine begged to Natsu.

"O-ok..." Natsu said as he lowered his head in shame for not been able to help his parents.

After that Elaine flew up to the Sky to help Igneel on his fight. once she was close enough she breathed out a strong fire roar to Acnologia, Igneel too started to breath out his fire towards to the enemy, this created an enormous cross in the sky made of fire, but to no bail Acnologia spread out his wings making the fire go away. After that Igneel went low and landed a Fire Dragon's iron fist onto the beast stomach making it go up in the air were Elaine was waiting so she could deliver a powerful Diamond Dragons Roar which send Acnologia down to crash on the ground making a huge crater appear, dust started to fade away only to reveal the black dragon covering himself with his wings around him, after a few seconds the Dragon spread his wings which then created a big shockwave that sent everything around him flying. Acnologia roared and took his flight once again, this time the great Dragon flew past Igneel and Elaine and unleashed a laser like roar down to them making them both crash with the ground as well, Igneel and Elaine would retaliate with combined attacks of their own, their attacks while powerful they only managed to do so much to Acnologia, Acnologia for his part would only attack with his bare claws and fangs, this battle would take time to finish... the battle took place in sky and earth, the clashes of this mighty Dragons could not be compared to anything, each clash made the earth shake and the sky thunder, the landscape was changing with each attack, mountain tops disappeared, and new canyons were created. Blood could be seen drop from the forms of the Dragons, but sadly, most of the blood came from the fire Dragon king and his mate, the battle had now been going on for hours. Natsu had tried to help his parents in numerous occasions of times, he could not just hide and see his parents suffer, but unfortunately for him Elaine had trapped him each time he tried to help in a dome of rocks making it impossible for him to see what was going on and help. Just when he got out of the last dome that his mother had created to stop him he saw as both of his parents were on the ground all beat up and just as he was about to go to them he heard the black dragon talk so he stopped in his tracks to listen what the cursed dragon would say.

"Pathetic. Elaine I should have taken you by force and made you my mate... Igneel you may die along with this so called mate of yours" the black dragon said as he unleashed his roar down to Igneel and Elaine.

"N-natsu. p-please do not waste your life l-looking for revenge, p-please live, live for us and live for those w-who you may hold dear to you in the future...find a w-woman that can put up with your a-attitude and that can l-love you as m-much as I do... e-eat healthy food, make sure you clean y-yourself regularly... d-don't be a womanizer... b-be gentle with woman... don't drink until you are old enough... give respect to those you believe deserve it and not to those who demand it...also k-know that I w-want many m-many g-grandchildren... b-be happy...a-and I'm s-sorry I cant s-see you g-grow up more... N-natsu... d-don't ever f-forget t-that i l-love you" Elaine talked to Natsu telepathically as she to cried during all of the talk.

"Natsu... Live every day like it's your last… live a long life… and die long after I die, and if possible die with a smile of your face. That is the only way for me to face your mother after I die. ... I'm proud of you...N-natsu" Igneel too talked to natsu telepathically also breaking down at the end of his message. just when he finished talking the attack from Acnologia landed on both and created an explosion which send everything flying but Natsu who was holding himself with his magic.

"MOM! DAD!" screamed a crying Natsu as he saw the attack connect with its targets which were his parents, his heart broke and he cried nonstop for his parents to come back, for them to return... unknown to him Acnologia was looking at him but at the same time ignoring him, and so the black Dragon flew away from the destroyed land.

The battle of dragons had gone for hours, beginning on July 6, Year X777 and ending at the sunrise of the next day July 7, Year X777... Natsu Dragneel had just lost his parents right in front of him with him not been able to do anything about it.

July 7, Year X777 marked not only the end of the Fire Dragon King Igneel and his mate Elaine Queen Of Elements. It marked the rise of Natsu Dragneel: The Dragon Slayer.

Year (X777) July 7

In the forest once ruled by a mighty Fire Dragon king had no sounds at all, no wind, and no animal could be seen, this had been going on ever since the sun had come up to light the land again.

In a big crater was a boy with messy pink hair that covered his eyes, around the crater one could see many animals, maybe all of the animals that have been living in the forest, this animals were all bowing in front of the crater showing their respect to the now dead dragons that unfortunately had completely lost their bodies because of the attack making the poor boy sink more in his sadness. The silence was disrupted by the sound of marching which then stopped not too far from the crater in which Natsu was, some animals started to run away into the woods trying to escape from whatever had come to the crater, some other animal started to growl to what was in front of them and suddenly attacked as if they wanted to protect the boy that was inside the crater. After a moment Natsu could hear struggles and the growls from the animals so he started to walk slowly up the crater to see what was happening.

"What the hell is wrong with this animals!?" Natsu heard someone ask.

"It appears as if they are trying to protect the crater" a new voice spoke, this one sounding more deep than the other one that had talked.

"But why would they protect a hole!? That's just stupid" another voice was heard.

The moment was reaching the top of the crater he saw how the animals were trying to keep some mans from getting too close to him or the crater that was now behind him, Natsu looked around and he recognized the clothes that the man were wearing; it was the same clothes that those council people used, he looked around some more and found what he was looking for which was the same old man that had presented himself as the chairman of the council, at his side was a tiny old man which Natsu did not recognize, he was about to walk toward the old man but stopped when he took notice of some soldiers were about to shoot magic to the animals that had just been protecting him moments ago, as the soldiers lifted their staffs to shoot he ran as fast as he could and stood in front of the animals, by the time that the soldiers took notice of the small boy it was already too late and so they fired their magic straight at him, the old mans were surprised too but only the smaller one reacted but he was too slow at that and so he could only see as the magic got closer and closer to the boy. The moment the magical blast were right in front of natsu he started to hit all of them with amazing speed, one by one the magical blasts exploded and in no time they disappeared, Natsu was receiving surprised looks from every person in front of him and so he stood straight and looked at the ones that had been fighting the animals.

"What do you think you are doing?" asked Natsu with his hair still down after all that had happened. "This animals were only protecting this grave and me, so why were you trying to kill them!? Why are you even here!? This place must not be touched by human hands like yours! You're not worthy of even to lick the ground from this land! go away you humans!" Natsu yelled at the soldiers that were in front of him while showing his eyes to them so they would get scared. His eyes had lost his dark jade color and was replaced by blood red eyes, but even while scared the soldiers did not move and dared to threaten Natsu.

"Look kid, move or we will burn this damn forest" one of the man said while shaking, but unfortunately for him Natsu would not stand for such a thread so he attacked every man that had the same uniform as the man that had dared to threaten him and his home. Natsu started to attack the soldiers one by one with nothing but his physical strength, before anyone could react Natsu had already taken more than half of the soldiers out, just as he was about to attack one of the remaining soldiers a big yellow glowing hand stopped him in his tracks.

"Stop" a deep voice said. Natsu looked around to see from where the hand had come from and he was lead to the small old looking man that he had saw when he had come out of the crater. Natsu was surprised that he had been stopped so easily, then again he wasn't using his full power but even so he could feel the old man had a lot of magic inside of him. "Stop with this meaningless fight you brat, you are hurting this man for no reason" the old man said.

"Meaningless? Listen here old human. This forest belonged to my father and because he isn't here anymore it belongs to me now! And I will not stand by as someone tries to destroy it" Natsu said with clear anger in his voice.

"Your fathers forest? Who is your father? Who are you? And why are you even here? Nobody has lived here and no villages are close..." asked the small old man to Natsu.

"This forest has been my home for as long as I can remember, this forest belonged to my late father Igneel and I'm his son; Natsu Dragneel." Natsu answered the questions of the old man. "Who are you and why are you here? My father told me that no human was ever supposed to come here, not unless invited or at least worthy of stepping in this lands"

"Hmmm..." the old man seemed to be thinking of something. "My name is Makarov Dreyar master of the guild Fairy tail. I am here because I was asked to come and investigate why there was so much magic been used and to see if that magic was the cause of the earthquakes that were happening last night" Makarov responded.

"Those earthquakes were created by my father and his opponent during their battle. Now you know what happened, please leave this lands" Natsu said as he turned around to leave, but he was stopped by the voice the appeared to be coming from the other old man.

"Stop right there you brat! Come here and answer my questions" the old man yelled but Natsu didn't paid any attention to him and kept walking away. "That's it you stupid little brat! I'll show you to respect your elders. Rune knights destroy this stupid forest, burn it to the ground!" the man ordered to his soldiers. The man didn't waste anytime and started to destroy the forest by making it burn. Natsu stopped walking away and turned to see how the soldiers destroyed his home, he looked at the man who had given the order and he recognized him.

"Gran Doma. chairman of the magic council..." Natsu took notice of how the man was looking at him with serious eyes. Then his eyes turned back at how the soldiers were destroying his home, the trees were now burning and the fire was spreading, Natsu in blind rage jumped at the soldiers and prepared to attack. "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack" Natsu's attack took everyone by surprise as this was the first time he used his magic in front of them. Realization struck Gran Doma, the boy in front of him was the same one that had been in that village over a year ago, his surprise was greater when suddenly the fire on the trees started to fly and go to Natsu's mouth. "If you dare doing anything like that again then I will kill you"

"Please calm down and let's talk... by what you have said you are the owner of this lands correct?" Asked Makarov since he was the only one to have recovered from seeing Natsu's magic. Natsu nodded to Makarov. "Then I ask your permission to stay in this lands and talk to you for a few minutes. is that ok with you?" Makarov asked again.

"Hmmm... fine but everyone else must leave this place immediately. they are not worthy, nor will I grant them permission to be here" Natsu said.

"very well, let me tell my companions" Makarov started to walk back to Gran Doma. "Chairman, this boy will not talk unless you and your man get out of this lands, he will talk only to me for some reason, so I ask of you to wait for me at the end of this lands" Makarov said to the Chairman.

"insolent brat! very well, but if you don't come back with answers this lands will be burned to the ground" Gran Doma said as he started to walk away while been followed by his man.

"Let us start again with the introductions shall we? My Name is Makarov Dreyar, third master of Fairy tail guild, and wizard saint" Makarov Introduced himself. Natsu was confused, he didn't know what a guild or wizard saint were but for the tone of the old man now named Makarov those titles meant something big, so he decided to introduce himself again.

"I am Natsu Dragneel the Fire Dragon Slayer, son of the fire Dragon King Igneel and Elaine queen of the Elements, I am also the Prince of the Fire Dragons" Natsu Introduced himself leaving a wide-eyed Makarov.

Makarov could not believe what he was listening to, this boy had just claimed to be a real Dragon Slayer and be the son of a Dragon King! now it made sense on how such a young boy had so much power, Dragon Slayers were wizards that supposedly could take on Dragons and this boy though far from perfect he had power. "If what this boy is saying is true then a Dragon must be close... Natsu. would you mind telling me what happened here?"

Natsu didn't know why but he felt as if he could count with him, his instincts were telling him to trust this man and so he did. "Yesterday a dragon came to my father's lands and attacked us, my dad and mom fought him and that's why this land has changed overnight" Natsu explained.

"If so then where are your... umm... Parents?" asked Makarov. Natsu lowered his head and pointed at the big crater behind him. Curiosity took over Makarov and started to walk to the edge of the crater but to his surprise there was nothing in it. "N-natsu… I don't see them" Makarov said as he was expecting to see two majestic Dragons.

"That's t-their g-grave" Natsu said as he started to cry again. "It's my fault. If only I had helped them to fight off Acnologia they would still be here!" Natsu said. Makarov on the other hand was stunned, this boy had not lost his Dragon parents just to another Dragon but to Acnologia of them all, and what's more he was still alive to tell the tale

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"Hmmm... I do not know anything about your parents, but I can say that if they give their lives for yours then that means that you were everything to them" Makarov said while looking at Natsu. "rise your head Natsu, look into the future and don't ever give up that's what I believe they would want for you. Hmmm..." Makarov turned around and went to pick some flowers not too far from where they were and returned to the edge of the crater. Natsu followed him with his eyes all the way. "May their spirits rest in peace and may let their name be remembered by the one they once called son..." Makarov said as he threw the flowers into the crater.

"Thank you, thank you" Natsu repeated for some time and then he remembered his parents last words. ("d-don't ever f-forget t-that i l-love you) ("I'm proud of you...N-natsu"). Natsu stood up and looked at the crater with determination on his eyes and talked to the wind hoping that his parents would hear him. "Mom, dad I promise I will live on and become stronger. I promise" Natsu said barely above whispering level and then started to walk away.

"What will you do now Natsu? do you have a place to go? Do you have someone to go to?" Makarov asked Natsu.

"I will live on for my mom and dad. The only place I have to go is right here, I have lived here for as long as I can remember. And as for someone to go to I don't have anyone, the only ones that I ever knew were my parents and a few other dragons that I don't know where they are right now" Natsu answered.

"Hmmm... Natsu. like I said before I am the master of a guild, you can come with me to it, that way you will have a place to be, and there you can find people to let in your heart as well as become stronger. in my guild we see each other as family, you will be more than welcomed there. what do you say? will you come join my family?" Makarov asked while looking at Natsu's back. Natsu had stopped walking away and looked as if he was thinking about something, after a few minutes he came with a response and turned around to see Makarov.

" …I will go with you. Although this is my home I can't stay here forever so I will leave with you" Natsu said.

"Hmmm... that's good, to know the world will help you in many ways" Makarov responded.

"Before I join I would like to know if you can help me find a place to live, money will not be an issue if it's needed but I don't know much about where I'm going so I would like your help. Also, I need a place to train and be able to leave when I want from your guild" Natsu stated.

"Hmmm? Of course, I will help you with what you need my boy. Don't worry about a thing, I will help in any way I can" Makarov said.

"I guess you have a new member... but I would like to pick some things from my home, it won't take much" Natsu told Makarov.

"That's alright. you do what you have to do, I will wait for you here so we can go to your new home" Makarov said. With that Natsu started to walk away towards a mountain in which the cave where he had been living for years was, it took him a few minutes to get there and he started to gather his clothes, books, jewels, scrolls but stopped when he saw that along with his swords there was something that he had not seen before; a scarf, he took it on his hands and noticed that it smelled like Igneel, in fact the scarf was made out of Igneel's scales only that for some reason they were white, after putting the scarf around his neck he took his swords and decided against sealing them and he put them on the left side of his waist. After about an hour he returned to where Makarov was and nodded to him that they could go. they started to walk away but Natsu stopped and turned to see the crater one last time and spoke a few last words.

"I'm going out for some time mom, dad. I'll make sure and come back here from time to time. see ya" After saying that Natsu started to follow Makarov out the forest. After some time of walking they came out of the forest and into a clearing in which they saw Gran Doma and his soldiers preparing for something. "Makarov I have something left to do before we go, you can take care of your businesses with that man over there while I finish here" Natsu told Makarov as he turned back at the forest and walked just barely in front of it and started to draw a five points seal on the ground, after the seal was complete he bite his thumb finger so that blood could come out and when it did he pressed his hand on the seal activating it making rune letters appear all around the lands, this kept going for a few more seconds and after that fire came out of them until it created a huge dome of fire all around the lands, the people behind Natsu stepped back in shock from seeing so much fire thinking that the forest had just been turn into ashes but then again their shock became even greater from seeing that absolutely nothing had happened to the forest, their heads snapped towards Natsu as he spoke the name of what apparently had just been a technique. "Fire Dragon's Heavenly Protection Barrier"

Makarov had no words for what he had just seen, the boy in front of him was not only a damn Dragon Slayer but also a Sealing Master, the Art Of Sealing was supposed to have gone lost many years ago and this boy knew about it, he was so looking forward on finding what other things Natsu could do but for now he had to tell Gran Doma what had happened so that he could go home and rest... or maybe just go home.

After about half an hour of explaining what had happened in this land to the chairman Makarov was ready to leave to his home but stopped when he saw that the chairman was thinking about something and he had this strong feeling that Natsu was involved, so he stood in front of the man waiting to see what he would try to do with the boy that was soon to be one of his new sons.

"That boy has power, power that should not just be wasted! I will take him and make of him a good soldier that will protect this country as well as the magic world. Boy! you will be coming with me; you will be of use to the Magic Council!" Gran Doma said with authority in his voice.

"My name is Natsu, Natsu Dragneel. And I have no intention of going anywhere with the like of you old man, I have decided that I will join Makarov's guild and that is final" Natsu responded to Gran Doma. Gran Doma was speechless, this young boy was going to join the guild that has been nothing but pain on his side, he could not stand for something like that.

"Makarov you will hand me this boy right now! he must be with the magic council, not with some worthless bunch of people from your guild!" Gran Doma said, he was about to keep talking but the pressure on the air create from the magic power of Makarov shut him up.

"Now listen here Chairman. you may insult me all you want but I will NOT stand by and let you insult my children. Natsu will be joining my guild and that is final, the council has no power over who wants to join a guild!" Makarov said as he stuck his middle finger to the man in front of him and while a yellow light was surrounding him. "Come Natsu, let's go home"

Natsu just nodded and followed Makarov away from the group of men but before he was out of earshot he screamed a warning at them. "I placed a barrier on this land which will only allow those I see worthy to go in and if you try to force your way in you will be burned!" and with that Natsu followed Makarov away. After hours of walking they both came in front of a village full of people walking on the streets. "Is this the place where your guild is located?" asked Natsu to Makarov.

"No. My guild is in a town named Magnolia. It's still far from here but we should be there by tomorrow noon if we take the train" Makarov answered.

"... ummm. What's a train? And in that note… what is a guild?" Asked Natsu since he had never heard or probably seen a train much less a guild in his entire life.

"Well a train is this big metal vehicle that we use to move faster from one place to another" Makarov explained. "as for a guild. Well a guild is a place where wizards gather to complete jobs that are given to us by people of the country"

"A vehicle? I think I heard Igneel mention them and said something bad about them, but I can't remember. So, where do we get a train?" Natsu asked again.

"In the train station of course" Makarov answered with a chuckle at how clueless the boy was. "Well I guess that if he was raised by Dragons then he most likely don't know many things about this world" With that Makarov lead Natsu to a train station where they would take a train to Magnolia, Natsu had a poker face when he noticed the similarity on the town's name and his number one target. Acnologia, Magnolia, Acnologia, Magnolia… well at least he wouldn't be forgetting the name anytime soon. They both soon went inside the train and Natsu started to look around as to remember everything that he could for future use, the train had small rooms and comfy chairs to sit on. Once comfortable Natsu looked out the window only to have his eyes go wide as much as they could.

"(Natsu. The one and only weakness of the Dragon Slayer is...)" Natsu remembered what that weakness was. "Vehicles!" Natsu yelled as he stood up startling Makarov and almost giving him a heart attack, he was about to get out, but the train started moving and his face turned green… "ugggg i h-hate… vehicles"

Hope you guys liked the new chapter. I will take some time to post the next one so I hope you can wait for it. Later!