Chapter 5: Enter Lucy

Two Months Later

The day was bright as we turn our gaze to the town of Hargeon. It was a popular port town in Fiore that was always visited by many ships continuously moving their cargo in and out of the country. Many people didn't pay the sailors much mind as they were either booking passage or just arriving from ships themselves. Very few actually ever visited the town while traveling the country, as it was near the edge and didn't comprise of much wonder to the average person.

Now we turn our attention to Hargeon's train station, where a transport has just arrived from the city of Magnolia. As the train slowly came to a stop it let out a whistle, alerting the passengers they had reached their destination.

Mira then opened her eyes as she had heard the high-pitched whistle. She slowly sat up from where she had laid her head. Yawning, Mira covered her mouth with her palm as she placed her other hand on her husband's head, who was sleeping with his head on her lap and Happy was sleeping on his abdomen. Mira was wearing her usual dress, with Natsu's scarf around her neck and Natsu was wearing his usual dress with a new addition on his coat and that was the insignia of Fairy Tail on the left side of his chest and over it he was wearing a red colored cloak in order to hide his insignia, that was on the coat, from anyone to see.

He seemed to be deep in sleep despite the loud whistle blowing.

"Natsu wake up, we've arrived at Hargeon." Mira whispered gently as she stroked his face with one hand while her other hand was gently shaking him.

Natsu groaned in his sleep, "Five more minutes please."

Mira sighed a little, "But you have a mission, Natsu. If you don't complete it, it will bring shame to Fairy Tail." she said again, but this time sporting a small smirk.

She leaned back a little when Natsu shot straight up, with wide awake eyes. This had the side-effect of throwing the sleeping cat off Natsu's abdomen. The poor cat's face was implanted on the opposite seat.

Natsu looked at Mira and smirked a little, "That was a dirty trick, my dear wife." he spoke still giving her a small smirk that made shivers run down her spine. "Well then, lets go." With that he made his way to the exit with his beloved wife following him immediately.

The poor, groaning blue cat was completely ignored.

Meanwhile

A young woman was talking to the store clerk of a magic Shop. She has brown eyes and shoulder-length blonde hair that was tied with ribbons in a variety of colors into a small ponytail to the right side of her head with the rest of her hair loose. She is buxom and has a curvaceous body. She wore a blue skirt with a belt that, along with keeping her skirt up, held some sort of golden and silver Keys and a whip with a heart-shaped end. She completed her outfit with a pair of black, leather high heeled boots.

"What?! This is the only magic shop in town!"she shouted at man behind the counter.

"Unfortunately only a very few can use magic in this town, this shop is mainly for mages that are passing by from here. Most stores here focus on fishing and sea-based equipment." The man behind the counter told her.

The girl sighed as a cloud appeared above her head in depression, "I guess coming here was a waste of time." she muttered in disappointment. She dropped her head as she had become slightly depressed at this news.

"Oh come on now, don't say that," said the clerk as he began to point out some of his magical inventory, "I have lots of magical items, also I just received some new items a while ago." He then proceeded to reach down under the counter and pull out a card that had the word "Color" labeled on it with a small glass ball near the top of it. "This color magic is a popular item among girls. With a single wave of your hand you can change the color of your clothes!" he exclaimed as he turned clothes from purple to green as he demonstrated.

"No, I already have that kind of item." The girl said with a sigh as she started to look over to the other items around her that were on display, but she wasn't sure what most of them were. "What I really need is some powerful Gate Keys."

"Oh, you're looking for Gate Keys, huh? That's a rare request, but luckily for you I just so happen to have one right here in stock." He said as he turned and reached up to grab a small box of a shelf behind him. The blonde approached the counter in curiosity as he opened the box revealing a silver key within it and when she got a good look at it squealed in delight.

"It's the Doggy! I've been searching for it!" she shouted in excitement, "So how much is it?"

"20,000 jewel."

The girl froze before looking at him morbidly. "I'm sorry but I don't think I heard you right, what was the price again."

"I said it was 20,000 jewel." He repeated to her.

The girl then sat on the counter, raising her leg as to reveal her entire figure. With this pressure the zipper on her shirt-jacket lightly lowered as to reveal more of her cleavage.

"Oh come on now… aren't you sure you couldn't give a girl like me a discount?" she purred seductively as she winked at him.

Later

"Tch!" the girl scoffed as she marched down the street in a rage, "Stupid old man, he only knocked off a measly 1,000 jewel, is my sex appeal really worth only that much!" she shouted before kicking down a café sign.

She then heard the sounds of screaming girls and looked below the bridge she was standing on. She saw a crowd of fangirls screaming in delight. She wondered what it was all about before she heard the voices of some girls passing her.

"He's here! Salamander's here in town!" one random girl shouted.

"Really!? You mean the strongest mage in Fairy Tail?!" another one screamed.

"Yeah! I heard he's really handsome too!"

"Salamander?" the blonde muttered as she thought that she heard that name. Then it hit her, 'They say that this is the man who uses fire Magic that you can't buy in the stores?! It's really him?! I wonder what he looks like!' she thought as she made her way to the crowd of girls.

With Natsu

"Aren't you glad Gildarts trained you to get over your motion sickness, I know I'm because we didn't have to litsen to your moaning now like I used in the past?" Happy asked him.

Natsu grimaced as he remembered the hell he went through. 'Training', Natsu thought, was a strong word for what he had to go deal with. Not even Makarov's punishment was as bad as what Gildarts, Igneel and Yamamoto forced him to do to get rid of his motion sickness. Although he did appreciate the fact he no longer had to continuously worry about getting sick from transportation. But he seriously contemplated if it was worth what his tenants and Gildarts had put him through. They said that if they are going to train him, then they would need to work on their weaknesses, so they couldn't be exploited so easily.

'Stupid Gildarts, stupid Igneel and stupid Yama-ji, made me go through all that hell for trying to get over my weakness,' Natsu said to himself.

"Oh get over it, it wasn't that bad, we just made you travel on a train for several hours to days by tying you to a seat." Igneel said, Natsu's eye twitched at that.

"And how is it not that bad, do you know the pain I went through? I still have nightmares about those days!" Natsu shouted at Igneel.

"Even still, tell me did it not get rid of that pathetic and unnatural weakness? I would say that it did and it is for the best since now you can fight in a moving vehicle without feeling sick," Yamamoto said.

"Yeah I guess," he said lazily as he walked with his hands behind his head.

"So Natsu why don't you tell us how are you going to find Bora and his accomplice and how are you going to catch them?" Mira asked her husband.

"Well, we are going to ask some people about this 'Salamander' that I heard on our last mission and after that we are going to check it out." he told her with a smirk.

Mira nodded her head in understanding, it was exactly their 'mission'. There were rumors about someone naming himself Salamander in Hargeon, the problem with that was that the real Salamander was here right beside her. So who was this man that had dared to use her husband's name?

"But Natsu aren't you Salamander?" asked Happy titling his head to the side with a question mark above his head.

"Yeah, that's why we're goi-" Natsu was cut off by the sound of squealing girls. They all stopped and looked forward to see a crowd of girls surrounding a space around the plaza. They then listened in to see what the fuss was about.

"Salamander!"

"He's so hot!"

"Burn me!"

"That must be our guy," Mira stated matter-of-factly.

Natsu began making his way toward the crowd, "You two stay here, I am gonna see what is this all about." he told his two companions. The cat and his wife nodded their heads and waited patiently for Natsu to handle the situation.

Natsu pushed through the crowd, slightly nudging the blonde haired girl from earlier and appeared in the centre of the group. Where he immediately found the so-called Salamander in front of him.

Back To The Girl

As she stood in the front of 'Salamander', she looked at him up and down. He was a man with bleu hair and a dark tattoo covering the right part of his forehead, just above his right eyebrow. He wore a high-collared cape almost reaching down to his knees. Below it a light short-sleeved shirt paired with light pinstriped pants with visible hems. The blonde's heartbeat sped up as soon as she laid her eyes on him, 'Why is my heart beating so fast?! What is this feeling?!' She thought before the man turned and looked at her causing her eyes to instantly turn into hearts. 'Is this love? Am I in love?' She moved closer until someone nudged her a little as he pushed himself through the crowd until he was in front of 'Salamander'. The hearts that had formed in her eyes quickly broke and her heartbeat slowed down to a natural level.

All the attention turned to the new arrival. The blonde looked a little confused at why the feeling she had now disappeared, but it then hit her. That guy was using charm magic to lure girls at him. She scowled angrily.

Her gaze turned toward the pink haired boy and her eyes widened in shock. The aura of this man, it screamed absolute power and authority. Never before, had she ever witnessed something like that and it made her knees weak just by being near him. 'W-w-who is that?! I-is t-that magic I-I'm feeling?! her thoughts were going insane, the others seemed to not know since they weren't mages like her. She was brought out of her inner conflit by Natsu's voice.

"Who the hell are you?" Natsu asked, faking disappointment.

'Salamander's' whole body turned white and he flinched in shock before quickly regaining his compusure, "I am the famous mage Salamander of the Fairy Tail guild, surely you must have heard of me." he said as he took a 'cool' stance with his eyes closed while the girls squealed at how cool he looked. When he opened his eyes, he saw that instead of being impressed the pink hanired boy was looking annoyed.

"So you claim yourself to be a Fairy Tail wizard," Natsu started, "Then show me your guild mark," Natsu finished.

"What!" was the only thing that fake Salamander said.

"I said show me your guild mark," Natsu said, not seeing anykind of reaction from the fake instead of nervousness, Natsu quickly got annoyed and removed his cloak showing everyone the insignia of his guild, "I'm Natsu Dragneel, the real Salamander of the Fairy Tail and I have never seen you in the guild before," Natsu said loudly for everyone to hear., "You are Bora the Prominence, and frankly I don't care who or what you but using mine and my guild's name for charming several women and selling them for slavery was the biggest mistake you ever made and now you are going to pay for that," he added as he cracked his knuckles and got ready to beat up the fake but before he could around twenty of Bora's men came to save their boss.

From the corner of his eyes he saw that Mira was about to jump in to aid him but he stopped her, signalling that he would handle it alone. Natsu blurred away from his position and attacked all of the twenty men for whole two minutes before all of them were unconscious with several fist marks on their body. He then looked at the scared Bora who was holding a girl from the crowd as his hostage.

"Stay back or I swear I'll kill her," he said. Natsu sighed and used Flash Step to appear behind the criminal and delivered a chop to his neck rendering him unconscious. Natsu then asked Happy to contact the Rune knights and tell them that they have apprehended the criminal Bora.

"Everyone I'm Natsu Dragneel, the Salamander of Fairy Tail guild and that guy was Bora the Prominance, he was using my name for attracting the crowd so that he could use the forbidden charm magic to charm the girls and then sell them for slavery," Natsu said loudly when he noticed that the crowd was panicking, his announcement quickly calm them down and all them disperssed.

Both Mira and Happy made their way to the pink haired slayer, when they approached him Mira quickly gave him a kiss while Happy landed on his head, "Good work Natsu, you handled that quite nicely." Mira said to him.

"Aye," Happy chirped, he then looked around, "I still can't believe that you stopped causing destruction wherever you go," Happy teased causing Natsu to develop several tick marks while Mira was giggling.

"Hey make it sound like I'm somekind of walking disaster or destruction machine," Natsu accused.

"Because you were," Happy chirped from the top of his head causing the pink haired slayer to pout but it quickly left when Mira gave a kiss.

"Thank you for breaking that charm spell that was casted on me," the blonde girl said to Natsu as she approached them.

"Its no big deal miss!" Natsu asked.

"My name is Lucy."

"Well miss Lucy as I was saying that its no big deal, guys like him who uses my guild's name for power just pisses me off," Natsu said, "By the way my name is Natsu Dragneel."

Lucy nodded at that before her gaze fell on a smiling Mira, she immediately had stars in her eys while steam blowed from her nose, "Oh my god, you are Mirajane Strauss." she squealed, "You look even more beautiful in real life."

"Thank you but I have to correct on something, its Mirajane Dragneel now as of two months ago, not Mirajane Strauss," Mira informed her causing her to go wide eyes before she looked at Natsu.

"You both are married!" she asked.

"Yes we are married since two months ago," Natsu replied with a smile.

"Congratulations!"

"Thank you Lucy," Mira smiled.

"Hey you guys are from Fairy Tail right!" Lucy asked nervously to which they both nodded, "Do you think that I can join the guild?"

"Yes you can, infact you can come with us," Mira said, "What kind of magic you use?!"

"I use Celestial Spirit Magic," Lucy replied.

"Wow, that's a rare kind of magic," Mira commented, suddenly Natsu's stomach grumbled causing him to rub the back of his head sheepishly.

"Guess I'm hungry," Natsu said, "besides its time for lunch anyway lets go get something to eat and you should come with us as well Lucy," he said and started walking toward the nearest restraunt.

Later At Restaurant

Natsu and the group could be seen at a nearby restaurant with Happy eating his beloved fish, Natsu eating his massive order, he may have learned some table manners but it didn't mean that his appetite diminished if anything else it only increased, Mira and Lucy were eating their own small order.

It was quite peaceful environment around the group but that changed when Lucy started talking, "So Natsu I heard that you are the strongest member of the Fairy Tail, is it true?" she asked, Natsu looked up from his food.

"I don't know about being the strongest, there are members that maybe stronger than me like our guild master, he maybe old but he is one of the ten Wizard Saints at rank 5, a title that is given to the ten strongest wizards on the continent, then there is Gildarts who is just as strong as any of the Wizard Saint, then there is our mysterious member Mystogan and how can I forget my beloved wife Mira." Natsu answered her.

"Don't listen to him Lucy he is just being modest, currently no one can even hold a candle to him in our guild, the training that he put himself through is insane, I am sure if he wasn't a dragon slayer then his body might have given out by now," Mira said with smile on her face.

"What is a dragon slayer?!" Lucy asked.

"Dragon slayer's are the wizards that are trained to kill a dragon, due to the nature of their magic a dragon slayer's body also undergo through some changes like their sense of smell, hearing and sight becomes comparable to that of a dragon, their body becomes more durable and stronger than an average human's body, they can replenish their energy and magic power by eating their elements," Mira informed.

"Really that's amazing," Lucy said.

"Yes it is but there is more, there are only two ways to become a dragon slayer; first one is being trained by a dragon like Natsu here and second one is by implanting a dragon lacrima inside a person's body," Mira informed.

"You were trained by a dragon?!" Lucy asked in amazement, "But there has not been a single dragon since four hundred years," she added.

"That is where you are wrong Lucy, infact me, Happy, master and Gildarts even met the dragon that trained Natsu and he was not just any dragon, he was the Fire Dragon King Igneel," Mira replied.

After that everyone became silent and ate their food peacefully when they were done and paid the bills, the group of the four went to the train station where they boarded on a train that was going to Magnolia Town.

Few Hours Later

"Welcome to Fairy Tail Lucy," Happy said as they stood in front of the guild's gates.

"Well let's go inside," Natsu said as kpened the gates and went inside with Mira, Happy and Lucy, when they were inside, Lucy was shocked to see the number one guild in Fiore to be so chaotic, a huge brawl was underway in the guild, with various chairs and tables flying everywhere while almost everyone was beating the crap out of each other.

"Hey guys we are back," Natsu greeted everyone as he and Mira made there way toward the bar with Lucy behind them, poor Happy was lost the chaos.

"Welcome back Natsu, Mira." said someone before went back to the brawl.

"So Natsu is back huh!" a naked Gray said, before he turned his attention to Natsu, "Natsu I will defeat you today," he said and started gathering magic "Ice Make: Ice Hammer", a hammer made of ice appeared above Natsu and was about to hit him but as soon as it got near him, it got vaporised.

Seeing that his attack was wasted, Gray was about to attack again but stopped when he heard an annoyed Cana's voice, "Gray your clothes," she said as she put her barrel down.

Gray looked down and whdn noticed that he was naked he freaked out, "Gah! Where are my clothes?!" he asked before he looked at Lucy and approached her, "Miss may I borrow your underwear?" he asked.

"As if pervert," Lucy yelled and hit Gray with a bat that appeared out of nowhere.

"You guys don't know how to treat a beautiful lady," Loke said as stood up from the middle of a crowd of girls and approached Lucy he was about to say sometning, when Elfman punched him away.

"Fighting is manly," Elfman yelled, he was about to add something else when Gray hit him, sending the flying into Cana who was drinking from her fifth barrel, who spilled all of the booze from her barrel.

"Look what did you do!" Cana said as she held a card in her hand and a magic circle appeared on it, "You are going to pay for that."

"Oh yeah, says who," Gray said as brought his right fist on his left palm and channeled magic causing a magic circle appeared on his hand as well.

"Fighting with magic is manly," Elfman said and transformed his hand into the hand of a stone beast.

Lucy was looking at this nervously as more and more members started channeling magic, "H-Hey don't you think that we should stop them!" she asked Mira who was standing beside her with Natsu and Happy, who were currently laughing their ass off.

"Oh there is no need to worry," Mira said.

All the fighting mages were suddenly feeling an ominous presence as a giant Shadow loomed over them, but they didn't have time to react as they were all sent flying by a huge arm.

"You Damn brats, I'm sick of seeing you fighting every freaking day!" a voice boomed all over the guildhall. Lucy looked up with a horrified expression on her face as a giant figure stood.

"Oh, you're here Master!" said Mira in joy stunning the blonde.

"M-m-master?!" cried the scared blonde in shock before she almost wet her panties when the giant turned his gaze to her.

"Oh? A new recruit, huh?" the giant began to shrink until he become an extremely short, elderly man. He had black eyes and is growing bald with only the outer rims of his head containing white hair. He also has a thick white moustache. He wore casual outfit, consisting of a white shirt with a black Fairy Tail stamp in the middle under an orange hoodie. His attire was completed with matching orange shorts and an orange and blue striped jester hat. He was holding a stack of papers in his hand.

"He's so tiny! Is he really the master?!" asked the busty blonde.

"Of course! I would like you to meet Makarov Dreyar, third master of Fairy Tail!" Mira introduced the old man to Lucy, "Master she wants to the guild."

"So you want to join the guild?!" he asked

"Y-Y-Yes sir, my name is Lucy and I would like to join the guild," Lucy said nervously.

"What kind of magic do you use my dear?!" the old master asked.

"I am a celestial mage sir," Lucy replied.

"Hmm rare magic, cute face, big boobs, you are in." he said and slapped Lucy on her rear causing her to develop a blush and punch the perverted old man away.

"PERVERT!" she screamed and punched the old man, sending the old master flying while everyone in the guild laughed.

Makarov corrected himself in the air and landed on a table. He then turned to the railing and jumped onto… that is after he hit his head trying to get to it. But he quickly regained his composure as he looked out to the entire guild with a stern look. "You've done it again you idiots!" He screamed before pulling out a very thick stack of papers and waved them. "Look at this, the Council has sent me another stack of these! Complaints from people, towns, and cities that you morons have caused trouble in!"

"Gray!" he called the mage who was trying to find his clothes, "After you finished wiping out a smuggling organization, you wandered in the city completely nude! Not just that, but you also stole a piece of dried underwear!"

"So, I should have just stayed naked?" muttered the ice mage only to be ignored.

"Elfman, you attacked the one who you were supposed to escort!" shouted the old man.

"He said that men were all about education!" replied the Strauss while showing his manly muscles.

Makarov just sighed in annoyance before continuing, "Cana! Stop charging the Council for your drinks!"

"Whoops, I guess they found out," she giggled as she started to down another mug.

"Loke, you have flirted with a councilman's daughter and caused her to get crazy ideas of being a model!" Loke simply looked away while adjusting his glasses.

Makarov continued to name off wizards and their radical behaviors, some simply hid behind others trying to avoid the guild master's wrath. As Makarov finished he closed his eyes in anger and crumpled up the papers.

"You all just keep getting those geezers angry with me." Makarov groaned which caused some of the members to grimace in fear. "But… I say to hell with the Magic Council!" He smirked before the papers in his hand burst into flames. He proceeded to toss the flames back toward the bar, which they then turned into a stream of fire and entered Natsu's mouth as he slurped it up. He gave a burp and lit up with a toothy grin as he looked to the guild.

Makarov then cleared his throat, "Remember, any power that surpasses reason still comes from reason. Magic is not some kind of incredible power, it is a talent that only works when the flow of energy that is created from inside us and the flow of energy from the natural world come together in perfect harmony. To perform magic, you must have a strong mind and the ability to focus. It should be able to take over your being and pour straight into your soul. If we all worry about constantly following the rules, then our magic will never get better. Don't let those fools on the council scare you. Do what you know is right! Because that is what makes Fairy Tail guild number one!" He shouted before raising his hand and making a symbol with it.

Soon the entire guild started to follow his example, they cheered as he finished. Mira stood there with her hand up like everyone else smiling, Gray was doing the gesture while in his trousers that he had just recently found. Elfman was following suit as he had his right arm up and was clenching his left hand and pumping it 'like a man'. Cana had her hand up as well, while her other hand was still wrapped around her mug as she continued to drink. Lastly, Natsu had their hands up making the symbol.

Lucy just stood there in awe of what had just happened. She then started to tear a bit in joy, 'So… this is what it's like huh? Here in Fairy Tail.' She thought to herself before smiling and making the symbol herself. 'This is… the best day of my life!'

Later

"So where would you like your guild mark?" Mira asked Lucy as she grabbed a stamper from under the counter.

"Right here would work." Lucy replied as she pointed to the back of her left hand.

"And what color."

"Umm…" Lucy thought for a moment before deciding. "Oh, how about pink."

"Ok," Mira told her before pressing the stamper against Lucy's hand. Once she pulled it away, there now showed a pink Fairy Tail guild mark. "There you go, now you're officially a member of Fairy Tail," Lucy marveled at it for a moment before turning toward three people who were sitting at the bar.

"Hey Natsu look! I got my guild mark!" she exclaimed to Natsu who was sitting with Makarov and discussing something with him.

"That's great Lucy! Congratulations!" Natsu said to her enthusiastically as he grinned.

"Aye!" Happy inquired.

"Is my dad back yet?" Natsu then looked at the small boy who was standing right in front of him and Makarov who he was drinking his beer.

"Romeo, you're starting to get on my nerves. You're a wizard's son, have some faith in your farther and just wait for him." Makarov said to him impatiently.

"But he said he would only be gone for three days, but it's already been two weeks now." Romeo said as he was worried.

"Now that I think about it, he took the mission on Mt. Hakobe." Makarov said as he remembered the mission Macao had showed him.

"That's right, so can't you get someone to go look for him?" Romeo asked as he started to form tears in his eyes.

"Your father is a Fairy Tail wizard like everyone here, and members of Fairy Tail can take care of them-!"

"Whoa, Gramps! Let's not be so quick to thrash out at him." Natsu interrupted him as he approached the two.

Makarov then sighed, "Fine you deal with him," he said as he drowned himself in his mug.

Natsu then knelt down in front of Romeo and placed his hand on his head. "Don't worry about it Romeo, I'll go and get Macao back."

Romeo then snorted before responding, "R-really?" he said looking at Natsu in awe. Natsu nodded at him. Romeo's frown quickly changed into a smile, "T-thank you." He said sniffling.

Natsu then stood up and headed for the door, "Mira, Happy," he said as he continued for the way out of the guild.

"Aye!" Happy said as he shot out toward him.

Mira simply stood up and walked to follow Natsu. Lucy just watched them go.

"Hey, Natsu!" she said trying to get his attention.

Natsu didn't even turn around as he said "Why don't you stick around Lucy." Lucy stopped where she was and stared at his back. "Get a look around the guild, make some friends, and go on a mission if you need to. We'll be back soon."

"Gray," Gray shot up from his table quick as Mira walked up to him.

"Y-yeah?"

"Watch over her while we're gone, why don't you try showing her how team missions work?" Mira said with a smile on her face and a malecious aura around her that simply said she was not going to take a no for an answer.

Gray just stood there in his uptight position, "R-right."

Mira then returned to Natsu's side as he looked at her for confirmation. "Ready," she said as they proceeded out the door.

"Try to stay out of trouble Lucy." Happy said as he flew by them and waved back at her. Lucy just waved back and watched as they left the guild.

Makarov had just finished his drink as Wakaba walked up next to him and leaned against the bar next to him.

"That Natsu, always running off every time he thinks someone's in need," Wakaba stated as he smoked his pipe. Makarov just nodded. Ever since Natsu and Gildarts had returned, Natsu would do all he could to make sure that all of the members weren't stranded on some mission that they were unable to finish, always going to check to see why they were gone for so long.

"What? You think we should stop him?" Makarov replied to Wakaba's comment.

"I didn't say that," Wakaba said to him.

"Then stop your moaning and complaining and just be proud our guild has kids like that," Makarov told him to which Wakaba nodded.