Alrighty mates I finally updated after a long time so rejoice! I didn't update for so long cause I was busy with school and stuff and then I ended up forgetting to update. So sorry foks. Also I discovered something I didn't know before: Ichigo likes chocolate. Yeah I didn't know that so from now on his favorite food's gonna be chocolate flavored food. Alright now onto the story.
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Chapter 3: Meeting the Blond Princess.
(Hargeon port a few years later)
"Is my sex appeal really only worth 1,000 jewels?" A buxom blond complained to her self. This is Lucy Heartfillia heir to the Heartfillia family. She has brown eyes, blond hair tied up in a pony tail, and a very curvy figure. She also had a chain of gold and silver keys on her belt.
"Can this day get any worse?" She said as depression lines appeared above her ahead. She than over heard about a famous mage in town from a couple of girls running by. "The Salamander's here? My day just got a whole lot better!" She said as she ran after the girls.
Meanwhile in another part of town a pink haired man and a flying blue cat were walking to the center of town."Do you really think Igneel will be here, Natsu?" the blue cat asked as he flew around the pink haired man.
"Well he better be or that guy who told us about this invitation is getting their ass kicked." The now named Natsu answered.
The duo kept on walking for a few more minutes until they heard a loud squeal. They headed towards the location of the noise and came across a male being swamped by girls. "Now, now ladies just get in line and I'll give all of you your signatures."
Natsu turned to his partner, "Well that doesn't look like Igneel at all" he pointed out.
"Wow, Natsu did you figure that out all by yourself? You deserve a fish" Happy told him mocking him.
"Yeah I know I'm pretty sma…wait a minute you fucking fur ball! You're making fun of me!" Natsu turned to his partner and grabbed his tail and flung him in the random direction, which happened to be towards Salamander and his group. Happy knocked down everyone and then stopped in between a busty blond's breasts.
Natsu ran over to them and started apologizing to everyone. "Oh no, it's quite all right. I understand that people get excited when they're meeting me! The great Salamander of FairyTail." Salamander said dramatically. as he stood up and spread out his arm.
Natsu stared at him for a few seconds before speaking these simple words. "I've never seen you around the guild Salamander. And who is this Salamander?"
The girls all looked towards Natsu with shock, and then to the fake Salamander with Anger.
"Oh yeah, that's Bora the Prominence, kicked out of the guild Titan's Nose. Rumor has it he uses charm magic to attract girls and sell them off as slaves." Happy explained.
"Well looks like my covers blown, but as long as any of you don't live I'll be able to continue my work. Red carpet!" Bora said as he jumped back and casted his spell. Purple fire appeared beneath his feet and lifted him off of the ground. "First I'm dealing with you, you pink haired shit."
Natsu's eye twitched in annoyance as he looked at Bora with anger. "It's Salmon you asshole!" He yelled as red fire swirled around him. He jumped up at Bora, "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist" he yelled as he slugged Bora with a Flaming Fist and knocked him back into a couple buildings, destroying them in the process.
Lucy looked at Natsu and Aw before she remembered something. "Wait a second, pink hair, scaled scarf, and Strong fire Magic? That's the real Salamander!" She exclaimed.
Happy looked at her confused, "What do you mean he's the real Salamander? Natsu is human, not a lizard" He said.
"No you weird cat. The people gave him a nickname called 'Salamander' because hes so strong and uses Fire Magic." Lucy explained as Happy made an Oh face.
"Wait so does that mean all of the rumors about the Salamander sightings were just us? Wow we've been following rumors of ourselves around this whole time." Happy said to himself while Lucy sweat dropped.
'Wait, this means I have a chance to join FairyTail if I make a good impression on them' Lucy thought to herself. She went to go help Natsu, but she saw Natsu punching Bora and sending him flying towards the ocean and into a cruise ship, which then proceeded to blow up.
Natsu stared at the explosion with a blank expression while Lucy stood there mouth agape in shock. Natsu then turned around still having a blank expression with a little sweat running down his face, and started sprinting towards Lucy and Happy. He grabbed both of them and kept on running with more sweat running down his face.
"N-Natsu, what are you doing?" Lucy yelled cheeks slightly red with embarrassment.
Natsu turned to look at her with a fearful expression on his face, "We're getting away from here before the Rune Knights come and arrest us." He said as he kept on running.
"But why are you bringing me?" Lucy asked.
"Well you're a mage aren't you? I saw your celestial spirit keys and knew you were a mage right away, because of that the Ruin Knights would have probably taken you in and questioned you. You wouldn't want that right?" He asked. Lucy nodded. "Well then you should have no problem running away with me"
After running a while Natsu stopped and dropped Lucy on her butt which she yelled at Natsu for. But when she looked around she saw that she was inside a small restaurant. "Welcome to Yukihira's how may I-Oh, hey Natsu your back again." A voice said as a red haired teen came out from the back. He was a little bit shorter than Natsu, had golden eyes, and was wearing black long sleeve shirt with matching pants. He also had a long strip of white cloth wrapped around his right arm.
"Yeah, and I brought a friend along with me. So you wanna serve us some food?" Natsu asked as he sat down at a nearby table; Lucy following suit sitting in front of him.
"Yeah, but before I serve you anything I need you to go on a small job for me. A nearby town's been taking all the customers away from this town because of a knew fast food place, and because are town's already not well known as it is we don't have any customers." Soma explained. "I also have two of my friends in the kitchen helping me so all I need are the ingredients."
"All righty then! What do you want me to get?" Natsu said as he thought of all the monsters he would get to fight.
"Well we need you to get a wild golden cuco. It's the size of a normal chicken, but it's very aggressive and tastes better." Soma said as Natsu face dropped.
"Seriously, a cuco?"
"Yeah it'd be nice if you could get a couple dozen. Oh and don't use your fire, I'll cook it my self since anything you bring is almost always charred."
"Fine, lets go Lucy" Natsu said as he walked out the door Lucy following close behind him.
After a few minutes walking Lucy asked Natsu how he knew Soma.
"Well me and a couple of my friends took on a job for him a couple months ago." Natsu started. "We had to collect some ingredients from some pretty strong monsters. After we were done we went to his shop to drop off the ingredients he wasn't there and wasn't at the shop.
(Flashback two months ago)
"What the Fuck? Where's the client?" Natsu roared out as he shot a stream of fire towards a random direction.
Naruto took the note from Natsu's hand and read out loud, "Sorry we closed shop for a while. If you want to find me I'd be half-way around the world, and my son's at Totsuki Culinary school. Oh yeah, for the one's that took the job request just head over to Totsuki and give it to him." Naruto proceeded to rip the paper to shreds and throw it into the stream of fire.
Well let's get going, I think I felt this Basilisk egg shake." Ichigo said as he started walking towards the direction of Totsuki
(Totsuki)
-I'll be taking the top." A slightly younger looking Soma said as he pointed towards the sky. As soon as he pointed towards the sky a huge shadow covered the area around him. Soma noticed this and then looked up to see a huge bag crashing into him.
Natsu, Ichigo, and Naruto all landed around the bag groaning in pain. Luffy landed, bounced once and then landed on his feet. "I told you this was a bad idea!" Naruto said as he stood up, rubbing his back glaring at Luffy.
"Who cares? We got here pretty fast, and it's only gonna hurt Natsu for a while, cause he doesn't have regeneration powers like you and Ichigo." Luffy said as he walked over to the bag and picked it up. "So which one of you is Yukihira Souma? We came here to deliver the ingredients you requested." Luffy shouted out to the crowd.
"T-That's me you assholes." Soma said as he shakily stood off the ground. The four turned to look at him and saw his condition and quickly peaced together what happened. They all rubbed their head sheepishly and said a quick apology.
Meanwhile the crowd was talking amongst them selves.
"Hey, isn't that the Four Kings of Fairy Tail?"
"What are famous mages like them doing here?"
"How the hell did they manage to fall from that far above?"
"Never mind that they all look pretty hot" that comment got a couple nods from other females, and glares from the men.
Back to the main commotion at hand they were currently discussing about payment. "Well I left all the money back at the shop, so we're kinda in a pickle here." Soma said as he looked at the four.
The four were in deep thought before Naruto came up with an idea. "Hey, since you were able to get into this school why don't you cook for us?" Naruto suggested. The other three nodded in agreement and looked at Soma for an answer.
"Sure it saves me from paying a couple million jewels." Soma said he beckoned them to follow and took them to the kitchen he used a couple days ago for the entrance exam. Once they got there they saw Erina cooking and her aid Hisako standing near by.
"Oh, hey Erina! Mind if we use a kitchen I got a cook for these four." Soma said to Erina surprising here.
"Yukihira! What are you doing here and who are those plebeians you brought."
Instead of Soma replying she didn't expect the orange haired pleb to speak up. "Erina? As in Erina Nakiri? Holy shit is that you princess?"
"Who do you think you are commoner to speak to me like that?" Nakiri said clearly angry.
"Princess you wound me. I thought we were your friends. It's me Ichigo! With Natsu, Luffy, and Naruto. I know we've grown, but I'm pretty sure you could still recognize us" Ichigo said in a hurt tone placing a hand on over his heart.
Erina, upon hearing those words closely widened her eyes in realization. "Strawberry? Fishcake? Natsu? Luffy? Is that really you? It's good to see you again!" Erina said as she walked over to them, also causing Naruto and Ichigo to face drop at their nicknames.
"So how do you guys know her" Soma asked as he stared in mild shock as he saw Erina smile warmly.
"Well kind of the same way we met you just a while ago. A couple years ago, we were doing a job request for the Nakiri family. After we dropped off our ingredients we saw her crying in the corner and talked for a while. She didn't really leave the house much because of her father, so she was curious about the outside world. We talked about the adventures we had and we soon became friends." Naruto explained."But her father caught wind of what was happening and forbid us from talking to Erina again." Naruto ended in a sad tone
"So what brings you guys here?" Erina asked still smiling at the four.
"Well as I said earlier, instead of paying them a couple million jewels these plebeians came up with the idea of having me cook a meal for them." Soma said also making fun of Erina for calling her friends plebeians.
Erina blushed in embarrassment, "F-Fine, you can cook here."
Soma smiled and got right to work leaving the others to talk amongst each other.
After about an hour of waiting the red head came back with a dish quite familiar to Erina. 'He prepared him that? But it tastes so tastes Bad Erina! Never think of this commoner's food as good.' Even as she thought all this she began to become slightly hot and bothered.
Soma placed the bowls of rice in front of the four, along with a small container filled with a jello like cubes. "I present to you the transforming furikake gohan!" Soma said as he took his bandanna off his head and wrapped it back around his right arm.
The four took the small jello filled container and poured it on top of the rice. They watched in awe as the jello like substance melted and mixed with the rice. They took their chopsticks, and took a bite of the rice.
As soon as they took the first bite none of them noticed as the rice disappeared from their eyes. The three onlookers looked at their bowls in surprise when they saw the rice seemingly disappear.
"Shit, that was so good we didn't even notice we ate it all." Naruto said wiping his mouth."
"Damn, Soma! Can I have another bowl?" Luffy said as he held out his bowl.
"I'll have another bowl too!" the other three yelled as they held out their own rice bowls.
Soma had a sweat drop on his face and a slight look of dread."Sure" he said as he took the bowls. "Erina, Hisako I'm going to need help satisfying these guys can you help me" He asked the two.
Erina and Hisako looked at each other before nodding, heading to the kitchen to satisfy the four monsters.
(1 hour later)
The three cooks were sitting on a chair slumped over, completely exhausted. They looked over at the four and was met with the site of thousands upon thousands of clean plates and a huge sleeping Luffy.
"Holy…Shit. They eat…way…too much." Soma managed to get out, the others nodding in agreement.
"Sorry about that we haven't eaten since morning." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly \.
"You know how about we make you guys a deal" Ichigo said as he walked over to them. "We'll take on any request you ask of us, and in return you cook us a meal free of charge." Ichigo said as he held out his hand. Natsu and Naruto followed suit holding out their hands to their new friends.
The three looked at them with shock. Usually the job requests for the ingredients needed that they used would cost a couple thousand jewels. And the more rare ones that the four delivered earlier cost a couple million jewels. But to get all of that for just a meal? That was probably the best deal they will ever get. The three reached up and grabbed a hand. "We accept" and a new partnership was born.
"Alrighty then! We're gonna go back to the guild and check in, and if you ever need us, just send in a request and ask for us specifically. If that's all we'll be taking our leave." Natsu said as they rolled Luffy out and left.
The three cooks just stood their before Soma spoke up pointing at the massive pile of plates, "Sooo, how are we gonna deal with this?"
They looked at each other with dead eyes before they got to work.
(Present time)
"And that's how I met Soma" Natsu said as he pulled a wagon loaded with crates of cuco's.
"Wow that was quite an…interesting way to meet." Lucy said as she sweat dropped sitting on the wagon.
"Well we're here" Natsu said. He went inside to report to Soma, but instead saw a busty, tan, blond girl with short shorts and a bikini top cutting up some chicken a huge cleaver. She noticed him come in and lodged the cleaver onto the cutting board.
"Yo, are you the one Soma sent to get the cuco's?" She asked crossing her arms under her bust.
"Yup, it's all in a wagon out front. By the way I'm Natsu Dragneel and you are?" Natsu asked.
"I'm Mito Ikumi, heir to the Mito family. I am an expert in cooking meat and the like." Mito said proudly puffing out her chest.
"Alrighty then, nice to meet you Nikumi." Natsu said making Nikumi sweat drop at the nickname her secret crush also calls her.
"Don't call me that!" Nikumi shouted at him pulling the cleaver from the cutting board and swinging it at him.
"Oi, calm down Nikumi you're gonna hurt someone." Natsu said as he dodged backards barely avoiding the strike.
"No! Only one person gets to call me that!" she said slightly blushing as she kept swinging at him.
"Gets to call you what Nikumi?" Soma said entering the kitchen.
Nikumi turned bright red as she turned to Soma. "N-nothing Soma! L-let's go check on the cuco's shall we." She said as she ran past Soma and exited the shop.
"What was that all about?" Soma asked him.
"I don't know" Natsu replied. They both shrugged and followed Nikumi outside.
(Couple hours later)
Natsu, Happy, and Lucy were walking around the town enjoying the festivities that was going around. "Damn, this breaded chicken is really good" Natsu said as he took another bite of the chicken. Lucy and Happy nodded in agreement as they too took another bite. "The other's are sure to be jealous of me, especially Luffy." Natsu said chuckling to himself.
After they finished eating they went back to Soma's shop to see him cleaning up the kitchen. "Hey Soma where's Nikumi?" Natsu asked as he helped clean up the kitchen.
"She went home about a half hour ago. Something about needing to talk with her father." Soma replied. Natsu nodded as he and Lucy helped around the shop. Happy on the other hand was sneaking into the fridge and steal some fish when no one was looking.
After ten minutes, they finished cleaning up the shop and went outside. "Well it was nice seeing you again Soma and thanks for the food." Natsu said as he held out his hand.
"No problem, and thanks for the ingredients." Soma replied as he returned the handshake. "Oh, and Lucy was it? Just swing on by anytime and we'll be happy to serve you" Soma said.
"Thanks for the Offer Soma-san, I'll make sure to come soon." Lucy said with a slight bow.
"Alrighty than see ya later" Natsu yelled as he walked out and headed towards magnolia, Happy siting on his head and Lucy right besides him.
"So where are we going now?" Lucy asked as they walked passed the gate to the village.
"Well isn't it obvious? We're going to FairyTail!" Natsu said as he grabbed Lucy and ran off into the night.
(Omake: Alternate version of how Soma met the Natsu and the others)
Soma placed a covered plate in front of the four,"I give you peanut butter squid!" he said as he lifted the cover to show a disgusting squid tentacle covered in peanut butter.
"What in the name of Igneel is this?" Natsu said as he poked the squid tentacle with his chopsticks. He swore it twitched as he poked it.
"It's squid tentacle covered in peanut butter" Soma replied smiling impishly as he grabbed one with his chopsticks and shoved it in Natsu's mouth. He did the same to the other three before they could reply.
Their faces went from curiosity then to disgust to finally horror. They spit out the squid and look for the nearest source of water to clean their mouths of such a disgusting taste. They saw the faucet and ran towards it. Luffy didn't make it and hunched over, vomiting on the beautiful carpet. The next to fall was Natsu eye's rolling back towards the back of his head. Ichigo and Naruto made it to the faucet and drank some water only to spit out again. But the damage has been dealt and Ichigo also fell in a heap.
"You son of a bitch" Naruto said as he looked at Soma who was on the ground laughing. Naruto then got an idea as he pulled out a gray plastic box and opened it. A horrible smell erupted from the box, filling up the whole room. Naruto grabbed a pair of chopsticks and picked up something that looked like a eel covered in syrup. Naruto disappeared in a burst of speed and reappeared in front of Soma shoving the eel inside of his mouth. Soma's eyes bulged before he swallowed and started coughing.
"Ha…ha…you…call that…disgusting?" Soma said, coughing as he struggled to stay on his feet. "That wouldn't even make it onto my top 15 for worst things I've tasted."
"Well the only way to settle this is to have a third party be a judge" Naruto said as he stood up right, striking a thinking pose. "We just need to find said third party."
"Well who can we fi-" Soma stopped mid sentence and looked at Erina and Hisako at the same time Naruto did. "Erina~. Hisako~" They both chanted at the same time. The two hugged each other and screamed one final scream before the two shoved each of their respective dish into their mouths.
Alrighty that's it folks. I added Soma to this cause I said there would be a lot of crossovers didn't I? And I also like Soma's personality so I added him in here. So please review and stuff and etc, and goodbye!
