A few days have past since Natsu had awoken and with the help of Mirajane, Natsu had almost fully recovered the days in the guild were calm as they had heard that twilight ogres master had been arrested and the guild disbanded. The day started like some many others in the year past the two woke up in the same bed the difference being the two were closer than they had ever been ever since they had confessed their feelings for each other though due to Natsu's health they hadn't actually been out on a date yet. The sun shone brightly through the window as Natsu started to stir, his eyes started to open as he felt a slight weight on his chest he looked down and smiled.
"Still can't believe it" Natsu muttered, thinking the beauty was still asleep.
"Well believe because I'm not going anywhere" Mira responded turning her head to face Natsu.
"Morning, how long have you been awake?" Natsu asked giving her a kind smile that he reserved only for her.
"Not to long, I was just enjoying how warm you are" she answered as she moved her head up and planted a kiss on his lips.
"Come on we better head to the guild, don't forget it's our last day in this guild hall" Natsu said after a few minutes of comfortable silence.
"But I'm comfortable" Mira pouted.
"That's the downside of being the guild master" Natsu joked.
"Aw come on Master can't you stay a little longer" Mira said giving him puppy dog eyes.
"Don't look at me like that" Natsu weakly protested. " How about I make it up to you tonight by taking you out to dinner" Natsu suggested with a slight blush since he was new to dating, Mira noticed this and decided to tease the poor man.
"Is the big tough guild master asking me out on a date" Mira giggled.
"Well.. you know... only if you want to" Natsu mumbled his blush getting deeper as he was now unable to look at the white haired beauty.
"Of course I want to Natsu" Mira said hugging him. "Now come on we had better get to the guild" the happy couple carried on there daily routine and soon they were walking to the guild hand in hand, chatting about how the new guild hall should look, they turned the corner and saw two cloaked figures one short and one tall. standing outside the guild hall which made Natsu and Mira suspicious as they approached Natsu called out.
"Hello can we help you?" Natsu asked as they got closer.
"Hello" the taller responded the voice was feminine. "We here to talk to Fairy tails guild master"
"Well you in luck, I'm fairy tails forth master" Natsu responded letting go of Mira's hand ready for anything.
"Thank God, can we go inside and talk in private?" Natsu nodded and unlocked the guild doors and lead them inside, once I side the taller cloaked woman lowered her cloak and signalling for the other to do the same. The taller woman had purple hair with dark eyes and around the same age as Mira, while the smaller one seemed to be younger probably around 15 years old she hand pink hair.
"So how can I help?" Natsu asked.
"There's nothing going to be a easy way of saying this but we were on Tenrou Island before it was destroyed" the purple haired woman started.
"Who are you and why only come to us now?" Natsu asked as he felt Mira's hand grab his tightly as the painful memories of the last year came flooding back.
"My Names Ultear and the is Meredy" she then went on to explain how they were part of Grimoire heart and their goal on Tenrou Island to find the dark Wizard Zeref, and her fight with Gray, she then went on to explain how Gray and the rest of team Natsu went to fight Master Hades and the fact with Meredy's persuasion how she fixed the Tenrou tree so the fairy tail wizards had the power to finally beat Hades. '..So we watched as Acnologia destroyed the island wee spent the last year trying to find a way to pay for what we've done in our lives" She paused for a moment she then dropped to her knees "I'm so sorry for everything you can do with me as you will just look after Meredy she is innocent" she finished as seen began to cry.
'So in the end you helped our guild out?" Natsu asked.
"Yes" Meredy responded she was also moved by Ultear's speech.
"Thank you" Natsu said simply, Ultear looked at the man confused.
"Why are you saying thank you I hurt your family" Ultear shouted at the man.
"Yes you did but in the end you helped our family get rid of Hades so you saved them" Natsu said with a small smile.
"But Acnologia" Ultear protested.
"Ever since that day we've detected unusually high levels of ethernano in the area around where Tenrou Island was, we hope that one day they will return to us" Mirajane said kindly.
"For your sake I hope that's true" Meredy whispered.
"Now as to what to do with you to?" Natsu pondered.
"I'm prepared for what ever you think is necessary" Ultear said standing up "Just please look after sweet Meredy" She pleaded.
"Meredy can join us here in Fairy tail if she wants" Natsu offered. "We can provide work and we have Fairy Hills not to far from here where she could live" Natsu said looking at the young girl.
"Thank you" Ultear said to Natsu "Meredy please for me stay here with these people they'll look after you"
"But what about you Ultear" Meredy cried, Ultear just looked at the young master.
"Ultear you hurt our guild but I'm willing to look past that, join Fairy tail by the way you made it sound you and Gray are like siblings so that makes you family and family forgives" He smiled at her.
"You want me to join Fairy tail?" Ultear asked, she couldn't believe what she heard.
"Yea by the sounds of it you two are quite powerful, we could use powerful mages in our guild" Natsu smirked.
"Th..thank you" Ultear smiled with tears of joy selling down her face.
"Don't worry about it" Natsu shrugged.
"Come on I'll sort out your guild marks" Mira said smiling at her boyfriends decision. The rest of the day was uneventful after Natsu explained everything there was a party celebrating Meredy and Ultear's joining of the guild, around 4 o'clock Mira left saying she wanted to get ready for their date later that evening. Not to long after Natsu called silence to the guilds celebrations as he stood on the bar so easy everyone could see him.
"Fairy tail today is our last day in this guild hall, soon building will begin for out new hall, while we all have happy memories in this guild hall it's time we move forward to the future and to make sure we are still strong for when they return" Natsu announced, as he finished the guild erupted in cheers " Now if you'll excuse me I have a date" Natsu laughed jumping off the bar, he began walking out the guild but was stopped.
"Master how can the guild be so happy after everything they've been through over the last year?" Meredy asked, the pink haired girl and Ultear were sitting on a bench not far from the entrance.
"We have to be it what they would want they wouldn't want our lives to be ruined by their absence, that doesn't mean we forget them it just means we get stronger so we can make sure it never happens again, that's what makes fairy tail family" Natsu answered.
"Family" Ultear whispered to herself.
"You'll see the people of this guild would do anything to protect another reason member of the guild" Natsu said smiling kindly at the two. "Now if you excuse me I have a date and I'm pretty sure the demon would kill me if I'm late, see ya later" Natsu said running off out the guild. Natsu ran back to his and Mirajane's home to get changed, he entered the house and went up the stairs toward their room he pushed the door open just for it to be shut again from the inside.
"You can't see what I'm wearing till we get the restaurant" Mira spoke from inside the room.
"Aw come on Mira I need to change, I can't go to the restaurant dressed like this" Natsu responded curious about what was so secretive about what she was wearing, he heard movement inside then the floor opened slightly as an arm stretched out holding a blue shirt and a pair of back trousers.
"Here take these and change in the bathroom" Mira Said, Natsu sighed and took the clothes and went to the bathroom to change. By the time he had changed, adjusted he scarf and went down stairs Mira was already down there wearing a long black coat with a little further round the neck it reached all looked the way down to her ankles so nothing was revealed, her hair was down from her now normal back pony tail it was slightly wavy and reached most of the way down her back.
"Well don't you look beautiful" Natsu complimented.
"Thank you, you don't look to bad yourself" Mira said blushing slightly she then walked towards and kissed him
"Anyway shall we" Natsu joked in a posh voice offering his arm.
"We shall" Mira responded in an equally posh voice, and with that they left heading to the centre of town, the conversation was light laughing and taking about little things. It wasn't long till the couple reached the restaurant, as they entered they were greeted by a polite waiter how guided them to there table. Natsu had reserved the best table in the house it was in the top floor on a balcony looking over the park you could see most of Magnolia from the high point, the waiter left two menus on the table and excused himself.
"Its so beautiful up here" Mira said in awe.
"I thought you might like it up here" Natsu smiled to himself, he then pulled out a chair for her.
"Oh wow a real gentleman" Mira giggled, she was quite surprised if she was honest she had seen Natsu change a lot over the last year but she never knew he had a romantic side, she then took off her coat to reveal what she was hiding. She wore a red form fitting strapless dress it reached down to just above her knees, it had a partition going up her left leg which stopped just above her guild mark. Natsu was stunned like a dear in the headlights.
"Holy shit" Natsu said under his breath.
"I take it you like" Mira said sitting down, Natsu just walked up and planted a kiss on her lips.
"You look beautiful" Natsu said taking a step back and taking his seat opposite. The night was joyful the as they enjoyed the food? Natsu ate calmly no longer shovelling food in to his mouth he had matured over the last year he learned table manners, he barely fought anymore unless he had to. Soon they had finished meal and Natsu paid the bill, it was late night by the time they were walking home and they were approaching their home.
"I've had a wonderful night" Mira said hugging his arm.
"I'm glad, sorry it took so long" Natsu said scratching the back of head with his free hand.
"Hey it doesn't matter how long it took I'm just happy were together now" Mira said pulling Natsu into a kiss.
"There you are finally found ya" a voice shouted from next to them, the couple turned to see a young blond haired boy around 12 years old.
"And who are you kid?" Natsu asked.
"I'm Sting and I'm here to kick your ass" the young boy announced getting into a fighting stance.
"slow down their kid I'm in no mood fight tonight" Natsu slightly amused.
"White dragons punch" Sting shouted as his fist was covered in a white light as he launched himself towards Natsu.
"Dragons" Natsu muttered wondering if he heard right, he snapped out of his wonder as the fist got close as he easily caught it, sting tried to get out of his grasp but was unable to. "Hey kid are you a dragon slayer?" Natsu asked.
"That's none of your business" Sting replied, Natsu dangled the young boy by his fist.
"Come on you interrupted us it's only fair you answer my question" Natsu said with a smirk, Sting scowled.
"Yea I'm a dragon slayer what of it" Sting replied.
"What happened to him, who was he?" Natsu asked excitedly, Mira stood next to him and smiled still glad he could get so excited about any mention of dragons. Over the last year there had been many rumours of dragons come to the guild but Natsu ignored all of them saying he was to busy and had other things to deal with.
"My dragons name was Weislogia and I killed him with my own two hands" Sting boasted, Natsu stared him straight in the eyes.
"Your telling me you killed your dragon with this power I doubt it" Natsu said his eyes looking straight through Sting.
"Its true I killed Weislogia" Sting insisted, it was at that moment Natsu looked at Mira and motioned for her to step back, once she did Natsu dropped Sting as his magic began to surge flames surrounded Natsu and started to obscure him. The sheer magic pressure around him was enough to push Sting back and down on to his knees while the heat was extreme.
"How could you of possibly beaten a dragon when you can't stand up against this" Natsu said his voice was booming and deep, Sting managed with a great struggle to stand on his feet but as he went to raise his fist he looked up in to Natsu's eyes they were no longer the onyx caring eyes he saw before, they now glowed red and harboured nothing but menace and fear, the last year's worth of training had changed him massively. Sting took a step forward before falling to the ground, as he did Natsu started lowering his magic back to normal levels. "Now tell me what really happened to your dragon?" Natsu asked his voice caring with no hint of the monster before, Sting was on his knees shacking.
"Weislogia was near death he was weak, barley able to stand he asked me to kill him as a mercy, I didn't want to" Sting said his voice wavering as tears slowly began falling down his face.
"I'm sorry you had to do that but it sounded like he was in a lot of pain, you helped him" Mira said reassuringly resting a hand on Stings shoulder, Sting stayed silent and simply nodded.
"Hey kid how about you join Fairy tail I can help train you so you can make Weislogia proud" Natsu suggested.
"You would really want me in your guild?" Sting said looking up hopefully.
"Yea why not, with a bit of work I'll make you in to a Wizard Weislogia would be proud of" Natsu declared.
"You would really do that for me?" Sting asked surprised someone would help him, Natsu directed Sting to Fairy tails male dormitory then he headed inside a got ready for bed.
"That's amazing nice things going you did for him, giving him a home" Mira said smiling from the bed.
"He reminds me of how I was before master Makarov found me, I just hope I can help him in the same way" Natsu said smiling sadly, changing into his boxers and climbing into bed.
"you'll do great your great at helping people" Mira said reassuringly resting her head on Natsu's chest, Natsu smiled and kissed her head.
"I hope so, anyway Goodnight beautiful" Natsu said tiredly.
"Goodnight Natsu" Mira said slowly succumbing to sleep.