Chapter 12

Walking out into the clearing Alzack laughed at the shocked looks on Natsu's and Erza's faces, "What's wrong ash face? Cat got your tongue?" As he spoke his eyes drifted to Happy who didn't know what to think. Seeing the look on Natsu's face Jennifer instinctively walked over to him and placed her hand on his shoulder before softly asking, "You know this guy?" "Know him?!" Natsu replied through gritted teeth, "yea I know him, his name is Alzack and up until we left Fairy Tail I would've called him brother." Jennifer looked at the newest adversary and realised from what Natsu had just said why she recognised him, he was in an article in sorcerer weekly, one of Fairy Tail's two elite scouts / trackers, Alzack and Bisca. Turning back to Natsu she was about to say something to comfort him when she heard Alzack sniggering, she looked at him and found an evil, almost devilish smile on his face, "so, ash face has found himself a whore huh?" he asked still sniggering through his evil grin, "well I don't see a dragon slayer mating mark on either of your necks so that's all she must be. But don't worry, I'll make sure no one finds out that's all she is," in a flash he had drawn his guns and fired a pair of small magic bullets at Jennifer, in the split second it took for Alzack's shots to speed towards her Jennifer's vision became obstructed. It wasn't until a few seconds later when she came to her senses that she realised that the object was Natsu, who had taken the shots to protect her. As Alzack laughed at the display of affection a flood of shock and worry washed over Jennifer's face, but as she was about to check if he was alright she heard a low but angry voice from him that made Alzack stop laughing, "How dare you!" Natsu raised his head, opened his eyes and gave Alzack a look that froze his blood and awakened a fear he never knew he had. Natsu's eyes had become reptilian and held a burning rage that could match the flames of hell, the skin on parts of his face had turned into Dragon scales and he was giving off a huge amount of heat. "You..." Natsu continued through gritted teeth, "you were my comrade, my friend, my BROTHER!" all the while the amount of heat he was giving out increased bit by bit as flames ignited around his feet, "I would have happily given my life to help you and the others but...but now. Now you not only attacked me, but tried to KILL the woman I love just because I left Fairy Tail and met her?! For that Alzack...for that I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!" As Natsu screamed the last words the flames around him erupted into a firestorm, all Alzack could see was Natsu's silhouette in the flames with red glowing eyes filled with rage and murderous intent. With the fear within him rising Alzack began to panic, he raised his now badly shaking guns and prepared to fire. Happy took that as his cue and began to glow as he flew full speed into the blazing inferno as Alzack finally fired.

G-G-Guns Magic: F-F-Full A-A-Auto

He squeezed and held the triggers on both guns as they fired a hailstorm of magic rounds like he was holding a machine gun in each hand. After a minute the flames began to die down and Alzack released his triggers thinking he would see Natsu either dead or unconscious on the floor, instead however he saw Natsu stood in the same place adorned in a suit armour that hadn't even been scuffed by his attacks. Natsu remembered the training that Stein had given him and channelled his magic energy into Happy, as he did his metal wings extended. The feathers began to heat up rapidly, until they glow white hot giving off a stream of super heated air like a jet plane readying for launch, he slowly rose off of the ground until he was hovering about 2 inches in the air. Suddenly Natsu flew forward like a bullet being shot out of a gun, slamming his fist straight into Alzack's stomach winding him, before he could recover Natsu lit his foot on fire and kicked him in the back sending him flying towards the others. With a burst of speed that would put Laxus to shame Natsu appeared in Alzack's flight path and delivered a kick that sent him flying the other way where, thanks to another burst of speed, Natsu was waiting to deliver a fire dragon's iron fist uppercut, launching him into the air. With one final explosive burst of speed Natsu appeared in the air above Alzack and sucked in the air, As he did Happy began to glow and pulse, like a battery charging, until Natsu was ready and Happy was glowing solidly, just as Alzack began to slow and fall Natsu unleashed a huge burst of power.

Roar of the Fire Dragon

Natsu's roar was far stronger than any he had ever used before and hit Alzack head on, making him return to the earth with a crash leaving a crater. Having used a great deal of magic energy Natsu floated down to the other Fairy Eaters, his legs giving out the second he landed but the impact never came, looking up he found Jennifer's eyes looking at him lovingly as she caught him. Suddenly they all heard a blood curdling laugh emanating from the crater, it sounded like two voices the first being alzack's but the second, well that was also male but much deeper and much much darker. As they all turned to look Alzack walked out of the crater still chuckling, his eyes were now totally black and he was emitting a black aura / energy, "you've gotten stronger pyro" he smirked, "I'll let you win this round, but when we meet again your life will END! Your soul will be a gift for my master and your friends...will suffer greatly." His black aura engulfed him before completely vanishing from sight, even the dragon slayers couldn't detect him with their enhanced senses. "Looks like...*huff*...we won..." said Natsu weakly as Happy returned to his normal form before both lost consciousness, Jennifer looked at him, she was worried if he was alright, scared by the image of him enraged, happy that they had won and finished their mission and felt a large sense of love both for the fire dragon slayer and from the knowledge that he was willing to put himself on the line to protect her.

-Two days later-

After collecting their money from the client the group had rushed back to the guild hall to get Wendy, who luckily had returned from her mission, to heal Natsu and Happy. She had checked them over and diagnosed them as being exhausted from using too much magical energy at once and just needed rest, the rest of the group spent the rest of the day reporting on the mission's events, including Alzack's presence. Most of the Guild was pondering what to do in the bar, Lucy had locked herself in her office with Lord Death to consult the Magic council and Natsu and Jennifer were in Natsu's room as he had just woken up. "Hey pyro boy, how you feeling?" Jennifer asked softly, "a little beat but I'll be fine" Natsu replied with a smile before staring down at his feet, "Jen I...I just need you to know that what Alzack said was wrong, your most definitely mean more to me than he suggested and to tell you the truth I...well...I've wanted to give you my mark since we confessed to each other but I..I know to Slayers that's the same as getting married so I didn't want to, ya know, force you or anything." Jennifer smiled, giggled and shook her head "silly pyro" she said making Natsu look at her "I love you, you know that, I wanted to mark you too but I could tell you were holding back for some reason. As for the hold 'meaning marriage' thing so what? We are mates, now and always, there will never be another for me so I would love to carry your mark, besides, who's to say we can't have a proper wedding later on huh?" Natsu felt a huge wave of happiness and love wash over him, he wanted to say something loving and profound but came up empty so lifted Jennifer up so that she was straddling him on the bed before pulling her into a deep passionate kiss, his tongue licking her bottom lip wanting access, which she happily obliged allowing their tongues to dance and explore every part of each other's mouths. As things started to get more heated Natsu began to put butterfly kisses along her neck, finding a vain he traced it slowly with his tongue sending shivers of anticipation down her spine until me nipped and sucked on her neck, as if giving a love bite, bit allowing his teeth to pierce the skin just slightly. As he pulled away the small drops of blood from the tiny bite receded back into her neck as a black mark began to appear, forming into the shape of a dragon's head with flame on its forehead, he had marked her as his mate. (A/N if you type 'buddyfight ancient world' into Google images it's the very first one, just with fire on its head ) A wave of ecstasy shot through Jennifer and almost like she was being driven to by some primal urge she repeated the same procedure on Natsu's neck, the mark forming into a dragon's head with a tornado on its forehead. Within seconds the two locked lips again and allowed their passions to run wild.

-Time skip next morning-

Jennifer slowly woke from her slumber, her nose being filled with the slightly ashy scent she had come to love as she did. Opening her eyes she found she was snuggled into Natsu's bare chest while his arms were wrapped around her, making her feel safe and amazingly comfortable, looking down she found that not only were they both still naked but had slept on top of the bed sheets making her think back to the previous nights 'events'. As she remembered she felt herself heating up both because of a little bit of embarrassment and because she remembered his kisses, his caresses and the way their passions ran wild her lust to do it again began to build and boil over. Every urge in her body was telling her to wake Natsu up and 'start' again so she shifted ever so slightly to see the clock on the wall and saw that it was a little after 8:10 am, given how much she was enjoying snuggling up to Natsu she decided to let him sleep and shifted back to her original position, only to hear "well you're up early." Looking up she found Natsu's eyes looking at her filled with a huge amount of love, "did I wake you? Sorry I was just looking at the clock" she replied "that's okay Hun, but why don't you tell me what you were thinking about that was getting you so...excited?" Natsu asked with a slight grin "I...was thinking about last night, I guess I have another reason to call you pyro now, that was really hot" she answered seductively, "hmm yes it was, well since we're both awake and we don't need to go downstairs for a while," before Natsu could even finish Jennifer slid on top of him and locked lips with him, allowing their passions to run wild once again.

By the time Natsu and Jennifer had gotten washed, dressed and made their way downstairs it was nearly 11am, as they descended the stairs hand in hand they got some knowing smirks from Oliver and Laxus as well as some squeals of excitement from the girls as they noticed the new tattoos on Natsu and Jennifer's necks. One of the squeals came from Lucy who smiled and said "I'm so happy for the two of you!" The frenzy of congratulations lasted all the way through brunch (A/N can't really call it breakfast at 11am lol) until finally Master Lucy stood up and called for quiet, "I know we're all excited about Natsu and Jennifer's...erm...marriage?..Is that how it works? Either way I have an announcement I need to make. As you all know after Natsu and the others returned yesterday I spent the day contacting the magic council with Lord Death, apparently this isn't the first time they've heard rumours about Fairy Tailers committing crimes but up until now they've never had any proof. But now thanks to that mission report and a great deal of information dug up by Laxus' information network they have all the information they needed to make a decision. It is my duty as Guild master to announce that as of 9pm last night the Fairy Tail guild has been been re-designated as a dark guild, it's members declared criminals, Makarov Drayer has had his title of Wizard Saint revoked and a kill of capture order has been issued for all known current members of Fairy Tail." The entire guild took a moment to take in what had just been said before Lacus spoke up, "I should probably tell you blondie that my sauces have heard rumours that my grandfather is no longer guild master of Fairy Tail, though no one knows who is for certain." Lucy was about to speak before Bixlow jumped in "well that's all well and good, but I wanna know who's getting Makarov's saint title, got any ideas cheerleader...erm I mean master cheerleader" he added getting a dirty look from Lucy, "not yet" she replied. Gray stood there thinking about who he thought deserved the title, as well as thinking about his former comrades that had turned to the 'dark side', he couldn't help but get the feeling things were going to get dangerous and difficult.