The inextinguishable Flames

A/N: So, I saw that yesterday, a lot of people followed and favorite the story, but there are still few reviews, so if you're still reading and you haven't review, please do! I'd like to know what were the things you guys liked the most so I could make them better! But anyway, before the story starts, as Usual, I have here with me, Happy!
Happy: Hi there!
Andrew: Hey there Happy, how are you doing?
Happy: Great! Me and Natsu have been training like crazy and we're finally ready to go to that tournament and kick some butt in the games!
Andrew: Good to hear! And Have you Heard that salamander is going to be in Hargeon?
Happy: Maybe it's Igneel! I have to go warn Natsu!

Oh.. He ran off. Ok, well, hopefully, you'll enjoy the chapter!
Good reading!

Chapter 4 – A long Lost Friend!

"I met Natsu" Said Erza, surprising Makarov. "And what happened?" he asked, desperate to know about his child. "Monstrous is not enough to define his power. He became… So strong. Right now, I can't keep up with him. He's on a league of his own." She said, scaring Makarov.
"I see. For as long as Natsu was able to keep himself out of the radar, I congratulate him, but I knew he would come back. I've received Reports from the magic council saying that Natsu has been destroying place after place with his training."

Suddenly, Gray kicked the door for the entrance of Master's office. Entering in a hurry.
"Master! Oh, Erza. Sorry about that, but I've got a lead on Natsu." he said, surprising Erza who in one second was on top of him."
"I heard that Salamander was going to be in Hargeon! I thought about going, but I had to come talk to you first Master."

"Erza, Gray. I've got a job for you two. go there and bring Natsu back." Said Makarov with a serious look on his face, knowing that they would care of the job.

(Hargeon's Train station – one train ride later)

Gray and Erza were exiting the train, going for the city, as always, Gray was wearing just his pants. As they were exiting the train station a group of women passed through them shouting.

"Salamander's going to be in town!" they shouted, as if they were all infatuated with him.

(Hargeon's Magic Shop)

A blonde girl was exiting a magic shop, going for a tour of the city. "Only one magic shop in town, and even after I used my sex appeal, the man only brought down the price of the key by 1000 jewel. Is that what my sex appeal is worth?" She said, mad at the shop owner. Suddenly, a group of women passed running in front of the blonde girl shouting. "I Heard Salamander's going to be in town, we have to go!" They shouted.

"Salamander? The Fire Wizard who uses fire magic that can't be bought in shops?" She said, as her eyes sparkled, she went running following the girls.

She reached a big city square, where she saw a group of women around the fire wizard. The man was tall, had purple hair, and was wearing a big robe. With two big rings on his hands.

Erza and Gray also followed the women and finally found them all gathering around a man. Erza was wearing a white shirt with a little bow tie in the top and blue shorts, with a white scarf on her neck, that was given to her by Natsu.

They got close to the group of people and Erza passed through every woman getting in front of the 'salamander'. She broke everyone on the way as she passed through and shouted.

"NATSU!" she shouted before looking disappointed.
"Who are you?" Asked Gray.
All the Women were launching Gray a death glare. Before 'Salamander' calmed them down.

"My Name is Salamander! You've probably heard of me?" He asked, looking at Erza.
"Are you a part of any Guild?" Asked Erza, while 'Salamander' not noticed their Guild Marks.
"Ok, my presentation was very bad. Let me correct myself, my name is Salamander and I'm a part of Fairy tail, the strongest guild in fiore!"

Erza shouted. "REEQUIP!" she transformed into her Black wing armor, launching the Fake Salamander a death glare. Gray pointed to his Guild mark on his stomach before bringing his hands together.
"ICE MAKE CANON!" he shouted

"This is most unfortunate. We're both Fairy tail wizards looking for our long lost friend, and you're here just tarnishing both his name, and our guild's!" Said Erza, swinging her sword, trying to make the fan girls fall back.

The blonde girl got scared but instantly ran over to the two wizards to offer her help, since her dream was to join Fairy tail.

The purple haired man got truly scared as he started to create fire around him.

The blonde girl took a key out of her pocket and shouted. "COME FORTH! TAURUS: GATE OF THE GOLDEN BULL!" She said, as a yellow magic circle appeared and a Bull came out of it.

"Miss Lucy! You look hot as always! Mooo!" The bull said, while staring at the blonde girl.
"Just take out that fire wizard!" She shouted as Erza took a step back and let the bull jump towards the fire wizard.

The bull got close enough and swung his axe, taking out the fire wizard in one hit.
"Now, miss lucy! Time for a smooch!" he said as she closed his gate and sent him home.

Both Erza and Gray turned to the blonde girl with smiles on their faces. "Thanks for the help. That's some neat magic right there, what is it?" Asked Gray, a bit confused.
"It's Celestial spirit magic! I call upon my spirits with these keys and they come and help me fight!"
"Why are there silver and gold keys?" Asked Erza, not knowing about the type of magic as well.
"Well, there are the silver keys that are for multi propose such as pets and to help around the house, things like that, and there are the golden keys, that are the 12 keys of the Zodiac, each one represented by the its sign, I personally own Taurus, the bull you saw, Cancer the Crab and Aquarius the water bearer!" She said, noticing pride in her voice.

"Impressive! Are you a part of any guild?" Asked Erza. The blonde girl's eyes sparkled after her question. "No, not really. I'd like to join one someday, but I'm still growing strong." She said, looking at Erza.

Gray suddenly looked her up and down, "Would you like to join fairy tail?" he asked, looking straight into her eyes.

"I'd love to! I mean, if it's ok…" She said shyly. Erza grinned at the blonde girl's situation.

"What's your name? For the looks of it, a strong wizard like you would come in handy in fairy tail!" asked Erza.

"My name's Lucy." She said with a big smile.
"But, just a question. You guys said that this man was a fake 'Salamander'? Then how does the real one look like?" Asked Lucy. Gray looked at her before answering.
"he's middle sized, a little taller than Erza maybe, he has pink hair…" He was talking before Lucy interrupted him.

"Does he walk around with a blue cat?" She asked.

"Yes! That's him! Where did you see him?" She asked grabbing Lucy and giving her a death glare she had never seen before.

"He was having lunch with his cat in the dinner down the street." Said Lucy before Erza ran off.

She looked at Gray, waiting for an explanation for what happened.
"Oh, Erza is that scary everyday of the week, and she has kind of a crush on Natsu…"

"Natsu? Is that his name?" Asked Lucy looking at gray.

(Down the street)

Erza was running through the street looking for a trace of Natsu, a little ahead, a pink haired dragon slayer noticed her scent, and knowing she was running, he turned around to see Erza running up to him, she jumped against him and gave him a tight hug, finally being with him made her happy. Erza looked up and saw Natsu giving her a big smile before he came to his senses and talked.

"What are you doing here?" He asked, now surprised.
"We came looking for you after we got a tip of a salamander in town." She said. Natsu laughed.
"That's funny. I came here thinking it was Igneel. Who was it anyway?" Natsu asked.

"It was some guy taking your name, Lucy took care of him." Natsu didn't recognize the name.
"Who's Lucy?" Asked Natsu getting up along with Erza.

Lucy and gray were coming down the street , until the shirtless ice wizard looked funny at Natsu.
"Ice boy!" Said Natsu looking ready for battle.
"You want a piece of my flame brain?" Said gray giving him a head butt before getting kicked by Natsu and flying half of the city in the opposite direction.

"Was that it? He's getting weaker by the day!" Said Natsu before bursting into a giant laugh.

Erza looked with surprise at Natsu who was getting stronger by the day. Natsu started burning his fist asking Erza for a fight, but she refused, knowing full well that when it came down to raw power and durability, she would definitely lose. Natsu started going to the train station to go away to keep his train going until he was grabbed by Erza. Erza took the Scarf he gave her and put it on him. She grabbed his arm and started walking to the train station, showing Natsu that she was taking him to the guild.

(Hargeon's Train station)

Gray, Lucy, Erza and Natsu were entering the Train back to Magnolia, Lucy was asking a lot of questions about the guild, trying to understand how the guild worked. Erza was completely grabbing Natsu because she knew that he would run away to go back to training if the situation proved useful for it.

Natsu Then turned around to Erza, who was hugging his arm, and gave her a smile. Erza's face turned even redder than her hair. Gray got up and grabbed Lucy out of there knowing that Erza was going to make her move.

Lucy, outraged "What was that for?" She asked. "Erza's time, let's just go sit somewhere else." Lucy looked confused before she turned around and Erza putting the head of the sick Natsu on her lap.

"Natsu, can I ask you something?"
"Yeah, what.. is it?" Natsu was trying to talk, but was too sick for it.
"Have you ever felt that someone next to you makes a complete difference?" She asked before looking at Natsu, waiting for a response. Natsu didn't quite know how to respond, before he turned his face towards Erza. "You make me feel like that.." Natsu was struggling to talk. Erza blushed completely, trying to keep her composure. "You know, we could… do something when we get back to magnolia, if you'd like…" She said, trying to get Natsu to ask her out.
"Would you… Like to go for a… Strawberry cake?" Natsu kept struggling, for Erza's sake.
Erza's eyes sparkled, she couldn't be happier, she would be with Natsu and Strawberry cake, her two biggest loves.
"Sure, I'd love to…" Erza got down and gave Natsu a kiss on the forehead.

Lucy let out a little "ooooh, So cute" seeing the couple two rows back.

(Fairy tail guild's hall – Magnolia)

Erza was still holding onto Natsu, this time just because she cared, knowing that Natsu wouldn't run away, because he asked her out.
Gray opened the doors, shouting. "We're Back, and look who we've got here!" Said Gray before Erza pushed Natsu forward, everyone was congratulating Natsu's comeback, before stopping to see how different Natsu looked (A/N: He looked similar to after the Time Skip before cutting his hair).

Master came down the stairs and gave Natsu a good looking, noticing his power was now much higher. Makarov gave Natsu a pat on his back before calling out to him.
"The Grand Magic Tournament is a month from now and you're here slacking off? Time to train! It has been announced that each Guild can enter up to 4 Wizards on the tournament.

Makarov got up the stairs before picking up a piece of paper, and starting to talk about who was going to participate.
"As the grand magic tournament is a new tournament, I'm going to explain how it works. There will be 64 participants, who will fight each other, until a victor being reached, and when so, the victor will be able to challenge any of the wizard saints he or she desires. And the battle cart will be completely random." Said Makarov. And so, I have chosen 4 wizards to participate in the tournament, the 4 I think are the most powerful of the Guild. Unfortunately, as Guildarts is not here, the four chose will be" The master stopped talking to raise suspense in the room.

"Erza Scarlet!" He said, hearing a loud cheer from the wizards of the guild.

"Gray Fullbuster!" Again, a loud cheering from the rest of the guild.

"Laxus Dreyar!" The guild kept cheering the wizards that were picked for the tournament.

"And last, but not least! Natsu Dragneel!" He shouted, the four wizards gathered in front of Makarov, before he started talking again.

"I want all of you to start training tomorrow, I want a Fairy Tail wizard to win the tournament." Makarov said before grabbing his cup of beer and starting to drink again.

"LAXUS!" Shouted Natsu. "Hum? What do you want pipsqueak? " he asked
"Today, will be time for our showdown! I'll finally be able to kick your ass!" Shouted Natsu, before Gray and Laxus started to laugh.
"You, beat me? Don't make me laugh.. You can't scratch me." He said convinced of what he was saying.

Makarov Knew that Natsu had become much stronger, and from what Erza had said, Natsu would even be able to give Laxus a run of his money.

Makarov told Cana to hold write Natsu's and Laxus's Name on a board, allowing the guild to bet on Natsu, Cana, not knowing of Natsu's power put the odds on 1/100, meaning that for each dollar bet on Natsu, the player would get a 100 if Natsu won.

The two went outside and a Mob gathered around them.

Everyone was betting on laxus to the point where the only people that actually did bet on Natsu so far were Erza and Happy.
Natsu was standing in front of Laxus, the two eyeing each other before Mira came out of the Guild with money on her hand, handing it to Cana. "5000 on Natsu!" her bet surprising everyone. This meant that Mira would become rich if Natsu won.

"I won't disappoint Mira, Erza, Happy! Let's become rich!" said Natsu with a smile on his face.
Gray suddenly looked at Lucy asking her to on who she had bet on. She had just got her Fairy tail Guild mark on her hand, a pink mark.

"People were saying that Laxus is a better wizard so I've bet 10 dollars on him." She said, before turning to Gray.
"It was a good bet, no way that flame brain could beat Laxus." He said.

The master Got in the middle of the two wizards raising his hand.

"Are both Wizards Ready?" He asked, from which the only response was both Natsu and Laxus silently nodding.

Master moved his hand down before shouting "FIGHT!"

A/N:
So guys, did you enjoy the chapter? Hopefully you did! I brought Natsu back to the guild and finally his showdown with Laxus is coming! Everyone wanted to see Natsu going against Laxus in after the time skip in the Manga, me included, but as that was impossible so far (Hopefully they'll do it in the future), I've made it here!

Next Chapter: A hot battle in Magnolia – Natsu vs Laxus!

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