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Just2protect: Short AN.

Annie: This story to have one more chapter then the second book is going to be going out.

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Natsu practically leapt off the train once it came to a stop, not wanting Laxus' scent to get lost in the small crowd coming off the train after him. This station was a small one, barely more than a platform with a ticket stand and a few tourist families wandering around. Most of the shops were selling hot foods and drinks, equipment for the mountain just beyond the town's edge. Natsu took off down the street, following the faint scent he knew to be Laxus'. A flash of blonde in one of the shop windows made Natsu freeze in his tracks and peer inside. Sure enough, Laxus was inside, handing a man money that was probably to pay for the massive black coat now draping over his shoulders lined in dark grey fur. Natsu sighed and sat down by the door until the door opened and Laxus stepped out.

"Thank you again." The blonde said before closing the door.

"Laxus?" The teen jumped and turned to see Natsu sitting against the wall, looking up at him expectantly.

"What are you doing here?" Laxus asked.

"You were almost crying at the station. Is everything okay back at the Guild?"

"The Guild?" Natsu asked, standing up.

"I came after you because of this." Natsu opened his hand and showed the tiny glass dragon to Laxus.

"Why'd you give it back?" Laxus bent down to Natsu's level and set his pack off to the side.

"Well…When you originally gave it to me, you said that if more Dragon Slayers joined the Guild who became your friends, you'd give them the other two. And Freed made me realize that even though Ivan's my dad, it doesn't excuse what he did and I was the only one looking for his innocence. Had it been anyone else, I would've reacted the same way everyone else did. So I figured I should return it because, I figured…" Natsu threw his arms around Laxus' neck, almost sending the teenager flying back onto his back.

"You were upset. I thought you needed some time to cool down and when I saw the dragon this morning, I thought you were leaving me. I don't want you to go!" Laxus wrapped his arms around the boy and smiled thankfully before Natsu pulled away and held his hand out, giving the tiny dragon back. Laxus wrapped his fingers around it gently and smiled at the pink-haired boy in front of him.

"Thank you, Natsu." he said, wrapping a hand around the back of Natsu's neck and touched their foreheads. Just as they did, a shock of electricity shot through the both of them. Laxus yanked back and then checked Natsu's forehead for any electrical burns.

"Are you alright?" A small sigh of relief rushed out of him when Natsu nodded and there wasn't even a slight reddening on his forehead. That was when Laxus noticed that unlike other times when he used his magic, where he'd feel a slight tingling in the part of him that had released the lightning, he couldn't feel a tingling in his forehead, rather in his chest over his heart. He rubbed the spot, confused.

"What's wrong?" Natsu asked. Laxus shook his head.

"Nothing. But on another note, we need to get you home. This is an S-Class job and you haven't even taken a regular job yet." Natsu shook his head.

"I think I've been away from you long enough. I wanna stay. What's the job anyway?" he asked. Laxus reached into his pocket and pulled out the page.

"Um…there's a Wyvern on the mountain that's been acting up. Normally they'd leave it alone but it's been coming close to hiking trails and scaring the tourists. They're worried someone will get hurt so my job is to relocate it or kill it, whichever happens is fine. Whatever scales I get I can sell at my leisure." Laxus said, trying to emphasize Natsu's need to go back home.

"Alright then! I'll help you. My nose is better than yours anyway so I can track better. You can still take the reward, I just want to stay with you and catch up a bit." Laxus sighed, knowing he wasn't going to win an argument here.

"Fine, but you have to listen to what I say. If I tell you to run and hide, you do it, understood? No arguing." Natsu nodded.

"Alright. We should probably get you some winter gear, it'll be freezing on the mountain."

"I'll be fine. After Igneel used blood fusion on me, I haven't been affected by the cold at all. Not even in the winter." Laxus raised an eyebrow.

"Alright. If you insist. But if you get cold, let me know, alright?" Natsu nodded and the two set off towards the mountain. As they walked, Laxus told Natsu about how Evergreen, Bickslow and Freed had been since they'd last been together on the first floor, and Natsu told him about Gray, Atlas and baby Romeo and about how apparently Atlas claimed Romeo was the reincarnation of his son. Laxus came to a stop near a sign post that pointed in two different directions on the mountain.

"Which way do we go?" Natsu asked. Laxus looked at the sign and then pulled out his page again before looked at the two snow-covered trails.

"Natsu, can you smell which one has been used more?" Laxus asked. Natsu sniffed in both directions and shrugged.

"The scents don't linger for very long and if anyone has been here, it's been too long for me to smell anything." Laxus sighed and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Well…Wyverns are sometimes mistaken as dragons…so I'm going on a limb and gonna guess they smell similar…Can you smell anything like a dragon?" Natsu sniffed again.

"There's something reptilian on the path to the right," Natsu said after a moment. Laxus nodded and moved to head down the right-side trail.

"Stay behind me, understood? And listen to me when I tell you to do something." Natsu nodded. "Good. Now, the mountain is dangerous even without the Wyvern. We need to be quiet or we might cause an avalanche." Natsu nodded again and followed the blonde teen. They traveled in silence, Laxus' eyes shooting to and from anything this Wyvern could be hiding behind. He was also watching the skies in case this thing was going to swoop down on them in a surprise attack. He also knew that on this mountain, the skies darkened roughly as early as they would wintertime in Magnolia and if they spent too long looking for the creature, they wouldn't have enough light to make it back down the mountain. Natsu was sniffing the air every few minutes or so, trying to get a better sense of where this creature was. It wasn't until Laxus decided they should probably stop soon for lunch that he caught sight of a hint that the creature was near…a massive dung dropping.

"Ew!" Natsu groaned as he covered his nose.

"Yea," Laxus agreed, gagging at the smell. If there was anything that could ruin an appetite it was the stench of feces, especially a pile the size of a child.

"Let's go, you doing okay?" Natsu nodded and pulled his scarf up to cover his nose.

"I'll be okay once we get upwind of that thing." Natsu came up and took hold of Laxus' hand and the blonde pulled him along. Not long after, the two saw the path ahead of them covered in tracks, fresh ones by the looks of them.

"Stay behind me." He ordered as he set his pack against the mountain side and pushed Natsu to hide behind it. The pink-haired boy obeyed and peeked out behind the pack as Laxus knelt down in the snow and sniffed at the tracks. These were definitely from the same creature that had left the lovely surprise for them a while back…And it was close. Laxus shot to his feet and began looking around, sniffing the air. A low growl made him snap around to see a massive White Wyvern staring down at him. Or at least, it looked like one. Natsu looked up at the creature and his eyes widened at the sight of the deer leg sticking out of its massive maw.

"Laxus, be careful! That's a rogue Wyvern!" He called out.

"Igneel once told me that rogue Wyverns are like regular Wyverns, but they eat meat and sometimes even mate with dragons!" The Wyvern turned its head towards Natsu and its maw opened, dropping the half-chewed food into the snow. Natsu whimpered and hid behind Laxus' pack a little more. Laxus ran over an put himself in between Natsu and the Wyvern, tiny connections coming together in his mind. Natsu had Igneel's blood in his veins. It made sense that if rouge Wyverns would mate with dragons, that this Wyvern would've noticed how much Natsu must smell like his father.

"Listen here you freak, keep away from him!" Laxus yelled, hunching his shoulders to make himself look bigger. The Wyvern snarled in warning and Laxus found himself snarling back as he pulled off his coat and set it on Natsu's head. The boy pulled it around him and looked between the two snarling males. Igneel had told him of this once after he could understand what it meant to be mates with someone. When two dragons, or in this case a Wyvern and a dragon, both wanted the same female, they'd fight trying to impress her and show which one would make the better mate.

"Wait! That makes me the female here!" Natsu yelled in realization. Laxus' eyes went wide and his cheeks burned as he cleared his throat. As he looked away he caught sight of a cave not too far off. If this was going to come down to a fight, he'd prefer Natsu be in a place where he likely wouldn't get hurt.

"Natsu, there's a cave over there. Go in there and don't come out until I come get you, understand?" Natsu nodded and slung Laxus' pack over his shoulders and the blonde took hold of his hand.

"Come on." He ordered as he took off, pulling Natsu after him.

"Remember, do not come out until I come get you, understand?" Natsu nodded again as Laxus let go of his hand and spun around to face the Wyvern as it came down to the same level as Laxus. Natsu bolted into the cave and continued running until he came to a dead end and the light from outside was so dim he could barely even see his own nose in front of his face. He could hear thunder rolling near the cave's entrance and loud snarls, draconic and Wyvernian. He sat down and pulled his knees to his chest so he could rest his chin on them.

"Laxus…you're gonna be okay…You've gotta win. Otherwise…" Natsu shook his head, banishing the negative thoughts from his mind as he shrugged off the pack and wrapped the coat tighter around himself. To distract himself from the fight outside, he figured he may as well look around at the cave. He pulled a hand from the coat and a flame came to life in his palm, lighting up the entire cave. The walls were bare but the floor was covered in furs and pelts. Along the edge were a number of trinkets and knick-knacks. But resting on the top of a heap of wood was a white egg with blue markings roughly the same height as Natsu's torso and so wide around he could almost wrap his arms around it when he picked it up. He smiled and nuzzled the shell gently before pulling off the coat and wrapping the egg inside it so tenderly, it was as if he were afraid that the slightest jostle might break it open. A roar of pain outside pulled Natsu's attention away from the egg. He bit his lip as he looked from the egg to the entrance before steeling his nerves and deciding to at least check on Laxus. Laxus roared as he slammed a lightning-covered fist into the Wyvern's snout, making it release his shoulder. Blood ran down his arm and dripped off into the snow as Laxus continued attacking with lightning-covered punches. The Wyvern turned his head and roared right in Laxus' ear, sending the teen to his knees and the Wyvern swiped at him with sharp claws, sending him flying into the mountainside.

"Laxus!" The blonde snapped around to see Natsu bolting towards him from the cave's entrance. Laxus saw the Wyvern's tail moving and if it kept going as it was, it was going to hit the pink-haired boy.

"Stay back!" Laxus yelled. Almost as if in slow motion, Laxus watched the Wyvern's tail snap to the side, catching Natsu in the ribs and sending the poor boy flying into the mountainside to collapse into boneless heap in the snow. The Wyvern didn't even turn to look at what it had hit. Laxus' hands clenched into trembling fists as a snarl rolled past his clenched teeth. His shoulders hunched and every muscle in his body tensed. His inner dragon was demanding this creature die, be ripped limb from limb until the only evidence it ever existed was nothing more than shreds of skin, meat, shards of bones and a puddle of blood. A part of Laxus smirked at the idea. It seemed perfect. With a roar, Laxus' entire body became covered in lightning as he launched himself at the Wyvern. His vision went completely red the moment his lightning-covered fingers ripped into the Wyvern's side like paper. When his vision cleared, Laxus found himself standing in the snow, shirt missing, pants torn to ribbons, blood coating his hands, arms, legs, and even his bare chest. His wounded shoulder was throbbing like crazy but that was the extend of the damage on him. The Wyvern had been ripped apart and various bits were scattered around. A number of the scales littered the snow. But that wasn't Laxus' priority at the moment. He bent down in the clean snow and scrubbed the blood off his skin as best he could before rushing to Natsu's side. The boy hadn't moved since he'd been knocked out but he didn't seem to be getting cold at all. If anything, his skin was warming up. Laxus checked his neck and back for any broken bones or slipped disks before checking the rest of his limbs to make sure moving him would be alright. Thankfully, nothing was broken. Laxus scooped the boy into his arms and looked up to check if there would be enough time to get down the mountain. The sun was setting so even if Laxus forgot about his pack and just ran, there wasn't enough time to get down the mountain safely. As much as he knew he needed to get Natsu to a doctor, if only to be checked over, he also knew it wouldn't do any good if he broke his neck trying to get down an unfamiliar mountain in the dark. He sighed and made his way into the cave.

"Mnn…" Natsu groaned as Laxus set him down on the floor before moving over to his pack and beginning to set up camp. Once he had the bed-mat laid out, he moved Natsu onto it and pulled a blanket from his pack before looking around for his coat. Once he saw it was wrapped around an egg, he gently put it near Natsu and covered the boy with the blanket instead. Laxus grabbed some of the wood from the stack Natsu had grabbed the egg from and some dried grasses the Wyvern had dragged in on its claws to start a fire. Once that was done, Laxus went back outside and collected as many of the Wyvern's scales as he could, ending up with quite a haul. If he could sell them when he got back home, he could probably get double, maybe even triple the reward from this job. Upon finishing his task, Laxus went back inside, put the scales in his pack, sat down next to Natsu and began running his fingers through the boy's hair. He was honestly beginning to get worried about the boy. If he'd been knocked out since around lunchtime and it was now sunset, even he went on the old superstition that sunset in these mountains was around 5:00 like it was in the winter, it wasn't good for a kid to be knocked out for such a long time.

"Natsu, listen to me." Laxus had no idea what he was really doing, but he'd seen plenty of people talking to others who'd passed out and for some reason, all those people came around in a few minutes at most. He knew it wasn't realistic but he was willing to try anything at this point.

"You've been out since lunch. I need you to wake up now, understand? I'm worried that you really hurt yourself when you hit your head. There's nothing outside but I can't see inside and there's a ton of stuff that can go wrong in there. I need you to wake up Natsu, please." Laxus swallowed thickly and bit the inside of his cheek before pulling his hand away and forcing himself to turn away from the boy.

"This is all my fault. Seriously, what the heck is wrong with me? This never would have happened if I'd just listened to everyone. My dad had gone crooked, plain and simple yet I defended him. I should've been one of the people who gave him the kick in the pants needed to shove him out the door, then none of this would be happening. Natsu wouldn't be like this if he hadn't been worried about me because I left the dragon at his house without even a note. And I wouldn't have done that if I'd just stopped acting like such an idiot!" Laxus' fist slammed into the stone floor at that thought. His jaw clenched and he snarled at himself.

"Laxus." A warm hand wrapped around Laxus' fist and the blonde turned around to see Natsu pushing himself up to sit.

"Take it easy," Laxus said gently, moving to help the boy.

"I know."

"You feeling alright?" Natsu nodded.

"Yea, I feel fine."

"You sure? I'm serious Natsu, if even the tiniest part of you hurts, you need to tell me right now. Especially if it's your head that hurts." Natsu shook his head before catching sight of Laxus' shoulder. His eyes widened.

"That thing bit you." Laxus looked down at his wound and shook his head, opening his mouth to speak when he felt Natsu crawl into his lap and a warm mouth and tongue begin licking at the bite.

"What are you doing? You don't know what that thing had when it bit me! Stop!" Natsu pulled away for a second and glared at the older teen.

"You're hurt and I'm fine. Let me take care of you. Aside from that, dragons are immune to lots of diseases Wyverns carry. Igneel told me. So I'll be fine. You said I've been sleeping since lunch and if that thing bit you before it knocked me out, then I don't want to know what you could be coming down with already! So let me clean it at least." With that, Natsu went back to work and Laxus relaxed some, letting the boy do as he wished. After a while, Natsu pulled back and began shifting through the pack until he pulled out a canteen, some jerky and bandages.

"Hungry?" Laxus asked as Natsu wrapped the bandages around his shoulder.

"A bit. I haven't eaten all day." Laxus smiled some as Natsu tied off the bandage. The blonde reached over and handed the biggest chunk of jerky and the canteen to Natsu, who took a swig before passing back the canteen and beginning to gnaw on the jerky.

"So tomorrow, we'll head back to town and pick up our reward before heading back home. Does that sound alright?" Laxus asked before taking a strip of jerky for himself. Natsu nodded.

"Hey, did you see the egg?" the pink-haired boy asked excitedly. Laxus chuckled.

"Yea, I saw it. What do you want to do with it?" he asked.

"Hatch it! What else are you supposed to do with a dragon's egg?" Natsu said with a chuckle. Laxus joined in, pulling Natsu into his side tenderly, sending up a silent prayer of thanks to whatever deity had made Natsu someone he would have never expected to forgive him the way this boy had and accept him.

"I guess that makes sense," Laxus said as Natsu stood up and began looking around the cave a little more.

"Have you looked around here yet?" Natsu asked.

"No. Why?" Laxus asked as he came over and squatted down next to the boy as he began looking through the trinkets and poking at a few.

"Because Igneel once told me that when dragons or Wyverns fight, the loser gives up territory. And guessing by the smell

coming off of you, that poor guy doesn't even have anything to claim territory with, does he? So technically speaking, this cave and everything in it belongs to you." Laxus' eyes widened some as he sat back.

"Alright then. So how about you and I go through this tonight? And whatever money we make off it goes right to you. After all, if you're going to hatch a dragon, I'm willing to bet feeding the thing is going to cost a fortune." Natsu looked at the massive pile of trinkets and then to the egg.

"Are you sure?"

"Yep." Laxus said with a nod. Natsu smiled, went back over to the egg and set it down beside him as he retook his spot by Laxus and the massive pile. The blonde smiled and the two began sorting through the massive pile of gemstones, necklaces, jewels, ancient royal jewelries, ancient weapons, ancient staff of fire, ancient staff of lightning, ancient staff of metal, ancient staff of light and rings, setting each item into a pile off to the side depending on what it was. A few minutes into the work, a thought made Laxus pause. Natsu noticed.

"What's up?" He asked.

"I only have my pack, my pants' pockets and the pockets in my coat. Even if we stuff them all to the brim, there's not enough space for everything." Natsu smiled.

"Actually, I know something with more than enough space." Laxus raised an eyebrow as Natsu stood up and went over to a wall.

"What are you doing?" Natsu bit his lip, suddenly feeling a little nervous.

"Promise you won't freak out, okay?" Laxus nodded and Natsu took a deep breath before reaching out with his magic power and opening the door to his Abyss Room. Laxus' eyes widened and his first instinct was to leap back. But he'd promised he wouldn't freak out so he sat as calmly as he could.

"That's an Abyss Room, right?" he said, trying to keep his voice even.

"Yea. Uncle Atlas told me not to show a lot of people. But I figured that maybe we could also store your pack and the egg in here while we're going down the mountain tomorrow." Laxus smiled and stood up, pulling Natsu into a hug.

"Good idea. And hey, I promise I won't tell anyone about this place, alright?" Natsu nodded and hugged Laxus around the middle.

"Let's get back to work! We've got a massive pile to go through and all night ahead of us," Natsu said. Laxus chuckled and the two went back to work. Time flew by and from time to time, one of the boys would take the piles from the cave floor and set them into the Abyss Room. By the time they'd finished, the sun was beginning to peek out over the mountains. Laxus packed up his gear and he and Natsu stashed the massive pack and the egg inside with the treasures. As Laxus scanned the cave for anything they'd missed, Natsu summoned a new shirt from one of the drawers and smiled to himself as he left the room.

"I think that's everything." Laxus said with a nod.

"Almost." Natsu said as he handed Laxus the shirt. The blonde smiled at him and pulled him into another hug.

"Thanks buddy,. he said as he unfolded the garment and pulled it on. It looked like his usual yellow t-shirt but instead of being plain, this one had a red dragon on the front sitting on orange flames and white lightning bolts shooting from its mouth.

"Looks good." Natsu commented as Laxus looked the shirt over quickly.

"Ready to go home?" Natsu nodded happily and the two set off. The climb down the mountain was relatively easy. Since neither boy had anything to really carry, Natsu made a sort of chasing game of it a few moments into the walk by making a snowball and waiting until he was in just the right place to be able to throw it and smack Laxus in the back of the head with it. The blonde's reaction had been almost instantly to retaliate with another snowball. Natsu and Laxus would switch off between one or the other to run down the mountain while being pelted with snowballs before reaching fresh snow to make another batch for their own arsenal until they reached the bottom, both soaked to the bone, laughing and gasping for air as they collapsed onto their backs.

"That was fun!" Natsu called as he forced himself to sit up. Laxus chuckled as he did the same and brushed some remaining snow from his hair.

"We'll have to plan a trip here or find a place near Magnolia to do this in the wintertime. Sound good bud?" Natsu nodded.

"So what now?"

"First, let's catch our breath. Second, we should probably get my pack out of your Room so we can sell the scales in town. Then third, we get on a train and head for home. No doubt your uncle's worried about you by now." Natsu nodded, slightly nervous about going home now. He'd left without sparing a thought towards his uncle or baby Romeo. He'd been gone a whole day and hadn't even left a note to say he'd be okay or where he was going or doing. No doubt Atlas would be worried sick at this point.

"Yea. We gotta get back quickly." Laxus noticed the tone Natsu was using and it made him a little wary.

"Is everything okay?" Natsu shook his head.

"I left without saying a word to Uncle Atlas…Or anyone for that matter." Laxus nodded before he stood up and pulled Natsu to his feet.

"Then in that case we'll just go home. There's some people in Magnolia who'll pay for the scales later. Right now, we need to get you back home so Atlas won't have to worry, alright?" Natsu nodded and opened up the Abyss Room again so Laxus could grab his wallet from his pack as well as one of the Wyvern scales to show his client as proof of the job's completion. Then they went back into town to find the client, a local businessman who ran the tours on the mountain. Natsu's focus was entirely on getting home though, so he didn't enter with Laxus. Instead he waited outside and tried thinking of what he was going to say to his uncle when he got back home. Natsu saw someone was opening a store and needing a Wyvern's body to do his work and Natsu thought of the dead body parts of the Wyvern that he saw as he and Laxus was leaving the cave and the body had showed up in front of the shop and the owner saw Natsu and went over to him and gave eighty trillion jewels for the body and went back to the body to start working on it. Natsu looked at the money and he put it into his wallet that he got from his Abyss Room and put the money in it before he put the wallet back in and closed the Abyss Room.

"Natsu…" Natsu jumped at the sound of his name, only to see Laxus standing at the door, looking down at him in concern.

"I'm fine." The pink-haired boy assured.

"If you insist. We're paid so we can leave now if you're ready." Natsu nodded and the two headed for the train station. Natsu was too preoccupied with his upcoming discussion with his uncle to realize when the train began moving and Laxus was too worried about Natsu to realize he wasn't feeling motion sick at all. Gray sighed miserably as he poked at the food on the plate in front of him. Freed, Bickslow and Evergreen had come back to the table he normally sat at with Natsu, Atlas and Baby Romeo but with Laxus avoiding the table like the plague since Ivan's banishment and now Natsu's disappearance, no one really felt the mood to be catching up. Atlas was drumming his fingers on the table. He'd told Makarov of Natsu's disappearance and the Master had reported it to the Magic Counsel but aside from the few Rune Knights Atlas had run into and those Dark Guild Wizards that were now all rotting in jail, only members of the Guild and Ivan were aware of what Natsu was and his potential importance. Makarov had said it was highly unlikely that Natsu had been stolen away by Ivan so soon after Ivan's expulsion from the Guild but Atlas couldn't help but feel like the man was responsible in some way.

"Atlas?" Gray spoke up, noticing that Romeo was beginning to scowl and his cheeks were turning red. The man looked down at his son and held the boy to his shoulder before getting up and bouncing him somewhat.

"He's worried about his cousin is all." Atlas said gently, patting the baby's back as he rocked from side to side. Gray got up on the table and poked Romeo's chubby cheek.

"I'm worried about him too buddy. But don't worry too much. This is Natsu we're talking about. He'll be okay. Okay?" The moment Gray finished, the doors flew open and Natsu came running in, his newly acquired egg held high above his head and a wide grin on his face. Laxus walked in behind him, smiling gently and with his coat draped over his shoulders.

"We've made it back alive!" Natsu cheered as he raced to his usual table and set the egg on top before taking his usual seat next to Gray. The entire table was staring at him with slack jaws and wide eyes, a few people's jaws dropped further when Laxus came over and sat down next to Natsu, mussing his hair affectionately. Atlas handed Romeo to Freed and moved over to Natsu, grabbing the boy by the arms and turning him around to face him.

"Are you hurt?" Atlas asked. Natsu shook his head.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Atlas. Laxus left the glass dragon I gave him on our front step and I chased after him. I know I should've said something to you and I'm sorry. I won't do it again."

"You chased after him?"

"I went on a job." Laxus jumped in, earning him a slight glare from Atlas.

"I thought I made it very clear that-"

"I know sir. And I had no business bringing Natsu on this job. But I'm going to say this much. If it weren't for him, I definitely would've been killed out there so I owe him. And I also wanted to apologize, not only to you and Natsu, but also to Romeo, Freed, Bickslow, Evergreen and Gray, for the way I acted after my dad's expulsion. I hope you guys can forgive me at least someday." Atlas nodded and sighed as he stood up.

"Well…what's done is done. And there's no changing it. If Natsu managed to hold his own on this job, then maybe I should consider letting him go on some more jobs on his own. But in the future, I want to be notified if you're going on a job, understood young man?"

"Yes Uncle Atlas." Natsu said with a nod. Romeo began kicking and squirming and gurgling angrily, making Freed hold him away a bit.

"Um…Atlas?" The Rune Mage said. The former dragon came over and picked up his son, already knowing the baby needed a good changing.

"Thank you Freed. And thank you Laxus, for bringing my nephew home." Laxus smiled and wrapped an arm around Natsu's shoulders playfully.

Annie: If some readers are confused on what had just happened with the Wyvern's body, Natsu teleported to the store without knowing it. Here's my guess: Igneel is a dragon king and he has fire dragons to look after, right? What if he knows Teleport Magic and he uses it to get to those that are badly hurt or wounded and teleported them back to the fire dragon healers. So with Igneel blood fusing his blood with Natsu, Natsu had learned Teleport Magic as every king or queen of their elements know it to help their own people who are hurt or wounded. It's just a guess.

Just2protect: Ja Ne.