Layla's POV:

7 Years Ago:

"You're too warm," I mumble uncomfortably. Natsu and I are in a small sleeping bag together, trying to get some sleep before we keep traveling in the morning.

"It's not my fault," he says with a yawn, "and look who's talking. You're making the air feel much colder than I'm used to."

I laugh a little and nod. It's funny how Natsu and I are such opposites considering we were raised together. It takes another few minutes, but soon he's asleep and sprawled out everywhere, taking up all the space in the sleeping bag. Having expected this to happen, since it has every night for the past week, I crawl out and lay in the cool night air, staring up at the stars.

Looking up in the sky is something I do often now. Searching. Searching for the parents who abandoned us. Igneel and Icieel, the fire and ice dragons who taught me Ice Dragon Slayer magic, and Natsu Fire Dragon Slayer magic. A little over a week ago everything was normal, but I woke up one morning to only Natsu. We waited for hours, and then a few days. Still we were alone.

I wrap my scarf around my face and neck, sighing sadly. This scarf was a gift from Icieel not too long ago, Natsu had gotten a similar one from Igneel. For the past few days our goal has been to search and find our foster parents.

Continuing to look up in the sky, I fall asleep with only my scarf around me.

"LAYLA LAYLA LAYLA!"

"WHAAAH!" I jump to my feet from surprise as my brother shakes me roughly, "What is it Natsu?!"

"It's time to go, I'm really hungry so we need to find some food now!" he says. Looking around it seems he's already packed up all of our stuff.

"Okay fine, let's go into the town down the hill," I mumble, yawning and rubbing my eyes with the scarf.

"Yes!"

Natsu grins and tackles me to the ground. Laughing I wrestle with him as we tumble down the hill. When we reach the bottom I use a little ice magic to get him off of me, "Come on, now isn't the time to play," I say, laughing, "You said that you were hungry so lets go get some food you goof."

The day was spent with me trying to get us supplies while Natsu messed around, getting into random brawls with other kids in town and eating any food people would give him. It was hard for me to get much of anything, since no one seemed to trust a nine year old girl with stuff that they didn't deem fit for 'little kids'.

An hour before sunset we sit back at the top of the hill, eating some chicken legs I got us in exchange for fixing a restaurant's freezer.

"Thanks for the food sis," Natsu says, "It's pretty good, but not cooked enough."

With a grin he sets his chicken on fire, and chars it to his liking. I laugh and shake my head a little, continuing to eat, "So where do you want to head to next? I can't think of anywhere we haven't looked that we've been to with Igneel before."

"Hmm... I don't know."

I look over at him and frown. I'm used to my brother being more in charge of what the two of us do. We sit in silence as we finishes our food, getting a little as Natsu lets out a large belch after finishing his food.

"I was thinking we should stop looking for the time being," Natsu says, picking up his backpack and standing.

Shocked and startled I get to my feet as well, "What do you mean? What else would we do? Where would we go?"

Natsu runs over to a sign while I try and keep up. He points to the middle arrow, with a grin of excitement, "Look here Layla," he says, "We could go to this place."

This Way -

The Beautiful Town of Magnolia

Home of the Renowned Wizard Guild, Fairy Tail

"Ya? So?" I'm not quite sure what he's trying to get at. What would we do at a wizard guild, especially so young? I doubt they know much about dragons, let alone where to find them.

"Igneel mentioned something to me about wizard guilds, he said they were filled with knowledgeable and powerful wizards..." he says, looking down the road that the sign says will take you to Magnolia, "We could go there, join the guild and still search for Igneel and Icieel."

I frown, unsure what to think right now. The only thing that's been on my mind since they disappeared was finding the dragons, not worrying about joining a guild. To me that only seems like a distraction that would keep Natsu and I from our real goal.

"Icieel told me about guilds too, and she said that people do a lot of jobs and are always busy, we wouldn't have time to sear-"

Natsu cuts me off with a slightly angry look, "They could help us Layla! Don't you want to find our parents?"

"Of course I do, but I don't think that joining a guild will help that much! Plus... I'm a little bit scared of what they'll think if we tell other wizards who we were raised by..."

"Why would you be scared?" he says with a frown, "We're probably more powerful than most of them, I could take them all myself if they tried to hurt us!"

"I still don't think this is a good idea!" I yell, trying to convince him. What scared me most was not what the other wizards would think, but what they'd do. Would they even believe us, would they think we're crazy or evil because of what we say? A threat?

The sound of crackling fire surprises me and I jump back. Natsu's fist was clenched and he was barely controlling the small amount of fire he accidentally made from his frustration, "Fine. I'm going to go to Fairy Tail for help, and you can go be weak and frightened somewhere else!"

"N-Natsu...?" I say, shocked, even more surprised when I feel a few tears slip down my cheeks.

Natsu's expression changes a little into one of regret, but he turns away, "If you're too weak to come with me now, then I don't see any point in you coming with me anywhere anymore. I don't want to see your weak face anymore!"

"Please! Natsu don't!" tears stream my face, but I don't run after him as he retreats down the road to Magnolia. If he doesn't want me then why should I even try?

7 Years Later:

The last I ever saw of the brother I grew up with was his retreating figure while I cried like a helpless child. Why I didn't go after him that day, I'm still not sure. I'd heard his name a few times while traveling in Fiore. Natsu Dragneel, Salamander, the Fire Dragon Slayer. I knew where I could find him all these years, but I never dared look. I was too frightened that he hated me for being so weak back then.

"We're part of the Fairy Tail guild," the boy with untidy black hair who Lucy introduced as Gray says. He lifts his shirt and I see a mark on his chest that I'm assuming is the mark of a Fairy Tail wizard. From what the blonde said earlier, I assume he's some sort of Ice Mage, which admittedly intrigues me greatly having only met one other wizard before who uses some form of ice magic.

Fairy Tail... That was the guild Natsu set out to join all those years ago...

"Fairy... Tail...?" I repeat, my eyes widening slightly. Toby looks up at me and I know he's confused, so do the strange wizards around me. Is it possible that these guys might know Natsu? Has he mentioned me before? ""Do... do you know a wizard nam-"

Before I finish I see what I least expect. There's Natsu running towards us. He still has that same goofy grin he had back when we were little. Tears well up in my eyes, like the day when he abandoned me. From joy or sorrow I'm not quite sure. The goof says something that I don't hear because I'm too shocked, but then he meets my eyes and I know he can tell who I am. Even though I look a lot different, he can recognize my smell from anywhere, just as I know his.

"Nat... su...?" I say, my voice is shaky and it bugs me that my tears are now slipping down my cheeks. I can't help it, all my fears of what he thinks of me seem to vanish from just seeing him here in front of me after all these years, "Natsu!"

Running to hug Natsu, I accidentally tackle him to the ground.

"Can someone tell us what's going on?!" Oh ya, the blue cat named Happy. I never thought I'd see someone like Toby.

Neither Natsu or I respond, he grins up at me and I can't help laughing a little. Climbing to our feet I smirk slightly and raise my hand, "Talons of the Ice Dragon!" Magic made from ice in the form of three long lines come out of the magic circle at my hand and ram into Natsu, throwing him ten feet or so away from me. I could've thrown him back far than that, but I controlled how powerful the was.

"What do you think your doing?" the red head says sternly, summoning a sword and pointing it at me. The other two wizards and Happy just stare at me in shock. Only when Natsu starts laughing does Erza put down her sword, looking a little confused.

"That was for what you did all those years ago," I say, running over and helping him to his feet. I smile but I know he can see the hurt in my eyes. The same goes with him, he's grinning broadly but I can see his guilt. I doubt anyone else notices.

"Ya," he rubs the back of his head, "Guess I kind of deserved that. Sorry sis."

"SIS?!"

Both of us look back at the others to see them all wide eyed with shock, "AND SINCE WHEN HAS THERE BEEN AN ICE DRAGON SLAYER?!" Gray adds.

"Huh. I guess you could tell from the magic I used if you're used to Natsu's magic," I say, biting my lip. Other than Tobias and a couple other friends I've made in the past few years, no one knows about what kind of magic I use. I kept it that way so news wouldn't spread of the rumored Ice Dragon Slayer.

Natsu seems to take all of this with a calm face and smiles at everyone, putting an arm around my shoulders, "Everyone, meet Layla Dragneel, my little sister. Layla, meet my Fairy Tail family!"

Editor's Note: Thanks to everyone for reading! :) Reviews would be appreciated since I really care what you guys think. Thanks! :D

Also about Natsu being just a little OOC when he's young in the beginning, I made him that way because I believe he would've been a bit different before he got to Fairy Tail, and also irrational from the hurt he feels after just being abandoned by Igneel. :)