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"Natsu!" – Character Speech
'Natsu!' – Thoughts
Natsu! – Flashbacks
Natsu! – Spells and Magic
Natsu, Sun King of Fiore?
Natsu's Reign As King
Previously on Natsu, Sun King of Fiore?
…there is a girl that is standing on the water!" The stranger finally explained what he was seeing so the others with binoculars hurried over to check it out. They all saw the same thing. Then something else extraordinary, amazing and fantastic happened.
That girl, with a strange robe and flowing blonde hair, had wordlessly raised her arms up which caused a large portion of the sea behind her to glow brightly. Then the sea acted like something large was rising almost instantly. And that something turned out to be a large golden shell with the same symbol as the ship. Within that shining shell was an island with a large base, a massive tree that held up a slightly smaller amount of earth. It was Tenrou Island!
"Woah…" The woman that was called Asuka could only say, with the light showing that is slightly past her prime. "So this is what my folks always told me about, along with my Master. It is finally here."
That same morning, within the castle in Magnolia, a couple sleeps in their king-sized bed. But that soothing and restful slumber was not to last when there was heavy knocking on the bedroom door. "Your majesty! Please, we need you!"
There was grumbling and movement under the sheets in the bed. "I thought I told everyone to let us sleep in…" He sounded like a grandpa whose grandchildren bounced on his bed very early in the morning. Even when he grungily got up, out of the warm sheets and the comfortable mattress, the knocking was giving him a headache.
"Honey, why not take the call and see if it is an emergency." It was the other person sleeping in the king's bed. No doubt the Queen of Magnolia, the king's wife. That was given when the elderly looking man nodded and got into his slippers, walking to the door in a snail's pace.
Once he finally opened the door, he saw one of his servants looking fanatic. "So? What's the trouble?"
"Sorry to wake you, your Majesty but we have a large group of maniacs trying to get into the castle! We are barely keeping them inside the throne room!" The servant shouted and the king signaled for him to calm down and lower his voice. "And once he seized them, they all have the Fairy Tail symbol on a different part of their bodies!"
That got the elderly man's attention and so did his wife who also rose from the bed. She looked like the age of a grandmother with wrinkles covering most of her body. They both looked at each for a little while before the man returned his gaze to the messenger. "Thank you for the notice. We will come out to handle once we get fully dressed."
"Yes, your majesty!" The servant bowed and hurried away to give the elderly, royal couple all the time they need.
Later, in the throne room,
"Let us go!" "Where is that bastard!?" "How dare he goes and becomes king while we were away!" "I will cave his face in and freeze his brain to dust!" As the messenger said, there was chaos in the throne room of the castle. There was this rioting crowd who wants to see the king with intent to maul. But they only got so far before guards appeared as if out of the walls and seized them. "Don't you know who we are!? We are…!"
"Fairy Tail." Everything just stopped when they heard that voice of age but also of power and authority. The riot was stopped right there by only a voice and a couple of words. But soon the guards noticed that the Fairy Tail crowd weren't doing anything; that is considered an insult and vulgar when it is around a leader figure, especially a king.
"How rude!" Fairy Tail cringed to hear such volume. "You are now in the presence of our latest and greatest King ever! The one that has protected his family, his home and Fiore more times than anyone else! His royal majesty, the imperil Sun King of Fiore, King Natsu Dragneel! In company is his wife and fellow ruler, Queen Lucy Dragneel!"
"…WHATT!?"
"Smoke brain! You became king of Fiore!?" Gray looked like he was going to burst with anger and envy. So much that his vision as limited to only Natsu; which explains why he hadn't noticed the guards still at arms and aiming at his head.
"Funny how things can turn out huh ice princess. When I hoped to get promoted, this wasn't what I had in mind. But it is still a good life." Natsu spoke in a tone that matched his age as he moved to sit on his throne. "Both of us get to watch our home grow and thrive and be able to help in any way we can, more than when we were still Fairy Tail mages."
"Oh dearie, I thought you were going to save that for our grandchildren." Lucy cooed at Natsu, playfully scolding him.
"Whoops, I forgot darling~!" Natsu returned his wife's affections in a manner that almost grossed out the men while the girls found it romantic; Makarov was reminded how he was around his own wife. "Now then, for what reason were you being rough with my guards? They were just doing their duty."
"Shut up! Just how the hell are you the King of Fiore!? The country hates you! You wreck everything you touch!" Gray retorted and screamed like a man gone mad. And yet neither Natsu or Lucy showed any reaction.
"In case you are obviously wondering, I am not doing this when you stuck your tongue in my face when you were elected for the Exams while I didn't." Natsu said calmly. "If I did, then I would have done a lot worse than become a king. At least I have don't have that disgusting habit of stripping every five seconds." Natsu smirked and so did everyone else, mocking Gray very badly.
"THAT'S IT!" Gray shouted and charged in for the King of Fiore, clearly have lost his mind. "ICE-MAKE-!"
Once Gray was a few feet of Natsu, he stopped in midair! It was like something had grasped his entire body but it didn't feel like how a person does it. Gray felt like he tripped and fell forward on a heated metal title. He was wondering why, despite the intense heat, Gray couldn't say a word.
"I maybe old, but I am nowhere weak. I have not only a kingdom to run but the world's biggest guild to run as its top dog. It is stressful but can be fun at times." Natsu said, carefree and without a worry on this attempt to bash his head in. Then the aged king twitched a finger, sending a burst of pure magical energy at Gray. The near-nude mage was sending flying back at the speeds of a meteor burning in the atmosphere, landing back on the ground just as hard; incredibly, there wasn't a single crack made off of Gray's body.
"Now what to do about the rest of you lot…" Natsu said before he twitched one of his eyebrows. All of a sudden, the entire chamber started to get roasting. It was like the sun had left the sky and was about to enter. Most of the mages from Tenrou Island fell to the ground, looking like they were about to melt. The only ones not on their knees were Makarov, Gildarts and Laxus; Mirajane and Erza felt the heat worse than those three but not as bad as the others.
"I think they had enough dearie, and that is my best friend you are about to roast alive." Lucy then spoke sweetly but with a touch of authority slightly greater than Natsu's, successfully cutting off the excessive heat in the throne chamber.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" Gray was practically making a scene with everything scaring him out of his wits, so bad that even his senses are feeling numb. "And how were you jerks not even sweating?!"
"King Dragneel oversaw everything that you see as is within out kingdom. So only our enemies feel our king's wrath while we fight on." One of the guards said in a monotone, almost like a robot.
"The only enemies here are the words of old rivals." Natsu's voice cut through the atmosphere like a heated knife through butter. "Now would you please relocate our guests to their rooms, leave those three here." While the guards struggled with most of the intruders, they didn't bother with Makarov, Gildarts and Laxus. The others were given the guest treatment, with rooms to boot.
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There was this one problem with the guest rooms,
"If this is the way you treat guests, how do you treat prisoners!?" Gray shouted while gripping the bars of the cell he was placed in by the guards. The other guys groaned and held their ears painfully.
"Maybe if you had better manners than we could have at least gotten breakfast in bed." Cana responded from a cell that was reserved for girls. "Seriously, you acted worse than Natsu does in front of royalty. Sure, he got in a cell with Erza but you tried to assault our new king, in board daylight, in front of a small army of guards and his wife!"
"I get it!" Gray was still furious, "No way in the seven circles of hell am I going to have that flame brain as my king! Especially after how he is treating us!"
"Oh shut up Gray, anyone will not trust after how you made that bad first impression! We're a team, how you act is to be an example of the rest of us!" Droy spoke up, angry more at Gray than anything. "And it was bad enough at what you said to our rescue team…" This cut off as everyone remembered what happened, and how they first learned on how much time has passed.
Flashback Begins!
"Is that everyone?" Throughout the abyss that was unconscious, a voice was finally heard and light was shown. Then colors appeared, followed by shapes and finally clearance.
"Yes Madam. Everyone on the ancient records on who went to this island before it vanished." This new voice was that of a young man that wasn't familiar. And then a lot of unfamiliar voices were heard, muttering or yelling; something about the 'treating the others'.
"Arrgh. My head" Gray moaned and finally got up from some kind of blanket used as a bed. He didn't recognize the pattern but felt it to be some kind of comfy fabric. "What happened?" Gray muttered to himself and tried to get up, only to lose his balance on the first step.
"Easy, easy. Don't push yourself." Gray felt someone grab him and help the ice-maker mage to sit back on the fabric bed. "You all have been out of commission for quite a while."
"…What do you mean? We only been here for a few days…" Gray still felt like his head was beating at his skull. But he did realize that this man's face was unfamiliar to him. "Hey! Why are you on our scared island!? Only Fairy Tail mages are allowed here!" Gray tried to get physical but it turned awkward when Gray's legs still refused to listen.
The man who helped Gray, had the expression that said 'are you kidding?'. "Take another look." He said with a cold tone while grabbing his right sleeve, rolling it up to reveal the symbol of a fairy that had a pointy tail. "I think that everyone and I being here is not a problem, at all."
Gray felt a little ashamed about it and then noticed that the rest of the new faces were also showing their Guild Symbol; from anywhere on the bottom except where the underwear goes (and you know what I mean!) "S-sorry, it's just…I never met any of you before. And I knew everyone that was part of Fairy Tail."
"Time makes change, whatever we want it or not." The man said, "But we don't answer to you, only to Miss Asuka."
"And who is Miss Asuka?" Gray asked and the women from the boat, with the face of a grandmother, approached.
"That will be me. And you are everything my parents and my Master ever said about, Gray Fullbuster." Asuka said, with a hint of venom in her voice; the leaked but contained kind. "And that goes for every single one of you, that we found half buried in the ground."
"What exactly happened?" Everyone heard Erza's unmistakable voice of authority. "And why are acting like we have been gone for years? What's your problem?" Asuka and her rescue team looked at each other; they looked troubled, about how to bring some kind of news to light.
"Our 'problem' is that you all have been missing for seventy years." Asuka brought the party crasher down, and hard. But then came the kicker where it hurts the most. "Just yesterday, we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of our Master Natsu's reign as King of Fiore."
"WHATTT!?" The island shook as hard as an earthquake, yet somehow didn't sink again.
Flashback Ends!
"All I need to know is that the lava head is never going to let me off the hook. He was always terrible with grudges and our rivalry." Gray spoke to end the rather nice and quiet session of looking back.
"The least you can do, ice brain, is to actually thank Natsu. He still kept the place together and even improved on it. The worst he could do as king, is to make us sound like criminals blessed by the previous king, which he didn't." Erza finally spoke, "I am sure that he will try to help us catch up. But I am not that pigheaded to do it myself. There is nothing proud about that. Agreed?" That was said to all, with emphasis on Gray himself.
"…Fine."
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And while the 'guests' were burning time, not with their trip down memory lane, Natsu was having a more civilized discussion. At least this three knew when to show manners, "…Well I will be damned. You sure did surprise me, brat."
"Flattery will get your nowhere, old man. After all, I already have a mate and I don't swing your way." Despite how disgusting it sounded, the guards found it funny while Lucy giggled.
"So now that you are king, the top dog, what is going to happen to us?" Gildarts spoke up. "Is there any room left for us here in Magnolia? Would we simply age all those decades?" This got both him and the two mages next him to grow a little pale. If that was going to happen, there would only be ash and bones left.
"Not necessary." Natsu answered and his guests took a large breath of relief. "We have been trying to figure out why you have disappeared, and we have long established that was the third great Fairy magic, Fairy Sphere. It is said to be the greatest defensive spell ever created, it can block any force that has malicious intent fueling it. Not even Acnologia, in all of his glory could destroy Fairy Sphere."
"ACNOLOGIA!" The three mages shouted, "You mean he is still out there!?" Natsu simply shook his head.
"Not the last time anyone saw him. I was told by a great woman, out of her time as well, that Acnologia was punished." Natsu too in a deep breath, "He was sent to a pocket dimension, between all space and time. There, it will take a thousand years for Acnologia to even twitch his finger."
This helped the trio relax, again. "Back to Fairy Sphere, it is unrivaled in blocking danger and evil spells, but its effects on the ones being protected can be similar to suspended animation. Meaning that while you missed out several decades, you all aged only seconds. That much we did find out about Fairy Sphere."
This was heavy on their minds, they weren't I any danger but still in a world that they barely could recognize. "One last question, Natsu." Laxus spoke up this time and noticed that the guards glared at him, "…King Natsu…" That correction got the glares off, "What is going to happen to us? How can we catch up after all the damn years we missed?"
"I can't take favorites, it won't help anyone. But as King, there is this little something I can do for my old guildmates." Natsu said while stroking his long beard. Yet somehow, this didn't make the three mages feel any more comfortable.
End of Chapter 2.