Hello and welcome to Chapter 4 of "Only Time Can Heal a Dragons Heart". First thanks to all of you that are favoriting, following, and reviewing this fic, as I get notifications on my cell all throughout the day, and each one keeps me driving forward. Thanks for reading now read some more.
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
Chapter 4: Awakening
Nothing, that's what he felt, nothingness, as he floated in a void.
'Where am I, what happened to me, what is this place?' Natsu thought to himself as he reflected on how he came to this place.
'Oh, yeah I remember, I was fighting those fire Vulcans then I remember… sadness, that's what I remember, but why was I sad, and why did my flames turn purple?'
He strained to remember the cause of his depression, but nothing happened.
'I guess I'm in my mind, somewhere in my deep, empty brain', he thought.
'Wait did I just call myself stupid' since when do I do that'. As he was thinking a small hole appeared in some ways ahead of him with light shining through.
He tried to willing himself towards the light, but nothing happened, he then tried swimming, walking, posed as superman would to try to fly, but nothing happened.
'Why can't I move, that could be my way out'. Suddenly an idea popped into his head, or the head inside his head.
'I'll use my flames to propel me towards that light,' as he faced the light and pointed his arms straight behind him, he fired up his fists but instead of his usual flames, only purple fire appeared, but instead of being pulled towards the light, he was being pulled backwards, away from his possible escape.
He cut his flames so as not to stray too far from the light, 'Why is my fire still purple and why were they pulling me away from that light.' He strained to figure the cause of this.
'Maybe if I can get my normal fire to appear it will work'. But he didn't know why his fire was purple, until it all rushed back to him like the motion sickness he gets after stepping foot on a train, all of the depressing thoughts started to circulate in his mind's mind.
'Why….why is this happening to me, what did I do to deserve this, I never hurt them, is it because I waited too long, maybe should have talked to them about it right away.'
He thought back to his conversation with Erza the one they had after the beating he received after Lucy and Lisanna had been laying awfully many hints about their true feelings for the young dragon slayer.
Flashback
Erza had noticed the two women's actions towards the dragon slayer and it only pissed her off that this went unnoticed by him, after deciding that she had had enough of his thick headedness, so she decided to tell him the straight truth, not after a little punishment.
"Are you serious", Natsu said as it had finally dawned on him that it was obvious the liked him, how had he never noticed this before.
"Yes, they've been at it for a while and It looks like they're almost done, they must've realized it was a lost cause by now so you'd better hurry up", at this she walked away leaving a bruised Natsu alone to his thoughts.
"I can't believe I was so stupid", he had a lot of thinking to do.
Flashback End
Meanwhile
"Alright Meredy, now make him swallow it, hopefully it will pull him out of this little coma."
Said a raven haired mage to a younger mage with bubblegum pink hair. "
Yes Ultear" said Meredy as she poured some kind of formula into the dragon slayers mouth as she massaged his throat making him swallow it.
"Very good, now all we can do is wait the rest is up to him", said Ultear.
"Wake up Natsu, you have to come back to me, please don't leave me here alone", said Happy with tears in his eyes.
Back to Natsu
'I was so stupid, maybe I deserve to be in here forever', he thought lowering his head.
'NO! I won't stay here I have to leave, even if I won't see them for a while I still can't just give up, I have to get out of here'.
He forced the depression and sadness as deep into his mind and willed his regular fire to appear and he aimed it directly away from the light and he boosted forward towards the light as he neared he reached one hand out and awoke, sitting upright in a flash as he looked around, and as his eyes adjusted to the light he saw two figures, both were women, one with long raven-colored hair, the other with medium length pink hair, more pink than his salmon hair.
"Who…who are you two," he asked the two strange mages.
Before he could regain his senses, a small blue cat tackled him and held on to him tightly,
"Thank god you woke up, I thought you were going to leave me", said Happy hugging Natsu.
"Don't worry buddy, I'm not about to die anytime soon," at that he noticed a peculiar scent in the air , he smelled the scent of an old man, whom he'd last met on Galuna Island, as he determined that the smell originating from the darker haired one,
"Why do you smell like an old man that I fought on Galuna Island?",
"That old man was me, I was in disguise that day to prevent from revealing my true identity," she said as she turned into the old man then back to her regular form.
"My name is Ultear Milkovitch, and this is Meredy my adopted daughter", she said as she pointed at the one called Meredy.
"Oh I see, ii guess that makes sense, and my name is Natsu," he said to them.
"We know who you are, you are quite famous around Fiore, and it's nice to finally meet you".
"Likewise", he said as he stood up dusting himself off.
"How long was I out?"
"About 6 hours." Meredy responded.
"Wow, not as long as I thought, I thought I would have been out for a few days, but never mind that, so how long have you been trying to wake me?"
"Not long, we found you after your fight with those Vulcans," said Ultear.
Now finally asking the question that had been burning in her mind ever since they found Natsu. "
So what are you doing out here, and why are you alone?" she asked. This caused Natsu to lower his head as he told them both the entire story up to his awakening from his inner mind.
"Wow," both women said simultaneously, feeling quite bad for the emotional trauma that the dragon slayer went through.
"So you told them you were looking for a man named Igneel?" Ultear asked.
"Yeah, but Igneel's not a man but he is my father, he's a dragon, he's the one that gave me my magic", both women look quite shocked at the dragon slayers statement.
"You… you were raised by a dragon, where is he now, why didn't he come to help you?" Ultear asked.
"First off, yeah, I really was raised by a dragon, and he's gone he disappeared on July 7, of the year 777 and I have no idea where he went, it's possible he's not in Fiore at all, he may not even be on the entire continent, he could be in another world for all I know", he said feeling a little sad at the thought of his father (regular sadness).
Ultear thought about the last sentence and how it might relate to the Grand Magic World.
"Well, It's possible that I might know where he could be," she said before Natsu shot over and was face to face with her.
"Are you serious, do you really know where Igneel is? Where is he? Please tell me I have to know," he asked excitedly.
"Well I'm only guessing at this, it might be a possibility that he's in the Grand Magic World", she said which caused Natsu to back off a little with a confused look on his face.
"Grand Magic World?" He asked.
"The Grand Magic World or the Ultimate Magic World, is another world parallel to Earthland, kind of like Edolas, but here only mages can survive, reaching this place is the main goal of mine and Meredy's guild, we strive to reach it, and were currently only missing one piece of the puzzle, and like I said, it's possible that Igneel is in the GMW (shortening it) as he is a dragon so he may have a way to get there."
Ultear watched as Natsu thought this over,
"I think it's a definite possibility that he could be there if this place exists, and you said you were in a guild, what guild exactly."
"Grimoire Heart" she responded
"Even though we're a dark guild our one and only goal is to reach the GMW".
At this Natsu's mind was filled with thoughts like 'they're in a dark guild, damn and they were so nice, but if what they say is true I'll need them to find Igneel. I won't judge these two yet as they really do seem like nice people, so for now I'll trust them, maybe not that Meredy chick, she seems to quiet, but this Ultear is pretty cute and her figure is absolutely drop dead gorgeous.'
"So you're in a dark guild huh, well I won't judge you for it as I don't know your reasons for being in it, and you two do seem pretty nice so I'll trust you for now." Ultear blushed a tiny little bit at his miniscule compliment unaware of what he really thinks of her.
"So about that GMW thing, how can I get there?" He asked
"Well, the only way I can think of is by coming with us and helping our guild with the last piece of what we need to get there, other than that it will be most likely impossible to get there", she said now pondering whether or not he'd join them.
"Join Grimoire Heart huh, well if it's the only way I'll find Igneel, I guess I'll have to join but before I do there are a few requirements, first, If you even so much as think of hurting Fairy Tail I will burn your Guild to the ground and beat everyone there within an inch of death" he said with a scaringly serious face.
"Agreed", Ultear said knowing that this would be one of his demands.
"Second, If you try to use me in any way I'll burn your Guild Hall to the ground, thirdly I will take no part in any crimes that are unnecessary to getting the this GMW, but I won't try to stop them unless you are doing something too serious". Understanding his reasoning Ultear nodded.
"And last of all, I'll need a lot of food", at this both Ultear and Meredy sweatdropped, while Happy was just laughing his ass off.
"I guess he's just like Zancrow", Meredy said, Ultear nodded.
"Zancrow?" Natsu asked, "He's our guilds fire god slayer."
Natsu was surprised by this but also quite intrigued.
"God slayer? What's that? Is that supposed to mean he was taught by a god? How am i supposed to believe that? Natsu asked.
"It's a lot like a dragon slayer, and no he was not taught by a god, our guild master, Master Hades taught him. Ultear answered.
"Sounds like a douche but I bet he's strong so I can't wait to fight him, Now shall we be on our way, I'm starting to get a little tired of this forest." Ultear and Meredy agreed and they stood up and started to walk onto a small path barely visible that led into the forest Natsu called out,
"Hey wait up one minute", at this he turned around to look at Happy that was now flying right behind him.
"Hey happy I need you to go back and stay at the guild, I know you want to be with me but something tells me that this purple flame business isn't over yet and I don't want you to be around if it starts any trouble, go and stay with someone from the guild, but don't tell them about this, just tell them I said that I quickly realized it would be too dangerous out here and I didn't want you to get hurt, which technically isn't a lie". Happy could only nod as tears formed in his eyes as he hugged Natsu.
"Don't you die Natsu, you come back to the guild one day and when you do I'll expect the biggest fucking fish I've ever seen," Natsu could only laugh at the exceeds words.
"You shouldn't use such language in front of your father Happy", this made Happy laugh.
"Well you better get going Happy and remember don't tell any of them about this, it's vital that you don't." Squeezing Happy one last time he let him go and happy started to fly off back towards Magnolia.
After Happy was out of sight he turned back to Ultear and Meredy, and they started to walk into the forest.
'Joining a dark guild, never would have thought I'd be doing that",
He tried to remember why exactly it was such a good idea to join besides finding his father, but then he looked in front of him at Ultear and saw her shapely ass, 'oh yeah, that's why, she is pretty damn cute, and just look at that ass.'
There you have it folks Chapter 4 of "Only Time Can Heal a Dragons Heart". I have to say I am pretty damn pleased with this chapter. Once again great thanks to "Natsu is Awesome" who's help has been absolutely invaluable to me. And I have a request to make, would you rather have chapters like this, this being the longest they will get unless certain circumstance uploaded most every night or have longer chapters uploaded every other day? PM me if you have any questions on what I have planned or if you have any tips or advice, or you can just leave a review. As I said earlier I have access to my phone all day so I can answer any questions at least within the hour, if not much sooner. See you tomorrow or unless you decide on longer chapters the day after. Laters.
