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Chapter 3
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'I love traveling and all the sights I've seen so far but there still hasn't been a single sighting of dad or any other dragon no matter where I look. The people I've asked either look at me like I'm crazy or ignore me thinking I made it up. I haven't given up on finding Ryujin though and I even found a large egg that hatched into a cat of all things so my travels aren't so lonely anymore. Right now the both of us have set up shop in the village called Hargeon Town and we're making a good profit off the things I've found.' Hearing a crashing sound Asura looked up from the keyboard he was typing on to see a large man standing in front of the booth they set up glaring down at Cole.
Cole is a small anthropomorphous cat standing on two legs with dark brown fur covering most of his body except for his face, belly and paws being a lighter shade. Even though he was only a few weeks old Cole refused to walk around without clothes on so he wore a sleeveless light yellow jacket along with a yellow and white colored scarf around his neck. "You heard me the first time buddy no discounts." Cole told him looking up at the towering figure of the man with his turquoise colored eyes shining brightly. "You think I care that your apart of some wannabe Dark Guild my dad can kick your ass faster than you can blink if you try anything."
Asura smirked from his seat seeing his partner slash son chewing out the man making a yellow screen appear in front of Cole when the man moved to attack him. "Do you have any idea who I work for. I'm a member of Ghoul Spirit and -." He never got to finish his rant when Asura grabbed his head slamming him into the dirt making a small crater appear from the force behind it.
"Could somebody call the Rune Knights to pick the idiot up." Asura called out to the crowd before taking another seat this time in front of the booth they set up. "Next customer please." He called out with a small smile on his face getting the next person to come up to buy the small dagger Asura had on sale once a man ran off to alert the Rune Knights.
Even though he was only fourteen Asura already had a name going for himself as a fierce B-Mage and merchant who could find rare treasures no one else could. That little gift was one of the passive abilities from being a Water Dragon Slayer making it to were anything lost to the oceans waters always found a way to him one way or another. That's why Asura always tried to stay near places that connected with the ocean in some form so he could always check the nearby waters every morning finding random things like lacrima or other objects lost when ships sank.
A cloaked figure watching from the gathered crowd looked on with a small smile as the pair worked selling off the things they had to the people who stopped by. He watched the talking cat waving a small banner around attracting a few more people before glancing at Asura. The teen running the booth had blond spiky hair with brown tips and was wearing an orange shirt under a worn looking brown jacket, a pair of dark blue pants with a light blue scale patterned scarf wrapped around his waist and a pair of black shoes on his feet. Looking closer he could see a black colored key pouch with an orange swirl like symbol on the front of it barely visible thanks to the scarf hiding it. "You've grown up Asura." The man whispers placing something down on the counter but Asura still hears it snapping his head up to scan the street.
"Naelon." Asura looks around for the cloaked form of the man who gave him a second chance only to see nobody that could fit his build among the people walking by his booth. 'I most have been imagining things.' Asura thought with a small frown before shaking his head going back to work.
A few hours later after most of his stock was sold Asura was packing up when Cole walked up to him holding a golden key in his paws. "Look what I found dad it was mixed in with some of the lacrima." Cole looked so happy waving the golden key around that Asura smiled ruffling the top of his head. Taking the key with a smile Asura looked it over having never seen a golden one before today. It was intricately designed with the bow sculpted to look similar to a ram's head with horns sprouting out of both sides. The center of the bow is a white heart stamped with the crest of the Ram colored pink while the blade of the key's design looks like a ram's curled horn with the very bottom looking like a hoof.
"Lets find an open place to test it out and see if I can get another contract out of it." Asura told his partner as he picked Cole up and placed him on his head. It took a bit of walking but they found a park where Asura placed his duffle bag on the ground before pulling out the golden key.
"Open the Gate of the Golden Ram. Aries." Holding out the key when he said that a light appeared that caused some of the nearby people who were still in the park this late to shield their eyes. When the light vanished the pair saw a pink haired older girl looking around nineteen wearing white fluffy clothes with a satchel on the side of her waist.
"I'm sorry but are you my new summoner?" The pink haired girl Asura figured must be Aries asked unable to meet his gaze. Aries knew for weeks now that her former owner was dead when the cloaked man who found her key summoned her and told her someone killed Karen. The man never showed Aries his face but simple told her to call him Naelon and that he was taking her key to a new master that would take care of her. Aries didn't know why but the man scared her in ways nobody else could when she saw his eyes change to a pulsing red seconds before her gate closed but now seeing the boy in-front of her she was thankful he found her key before anyone else could.
"Yep Asura U. Waterfang all around kick ass Dragon Slayer and jack of trades merchant at your service." Asura answered with a grin that Cole matched.
"And I'm Cole miss fluffy lady, dads only kid and mascot for the store." Cole told Aries waving his paw to get her attention. It wasn't really a store but Cole liked to call it that when they set up their little booth in whatever town they stopped in.
"And I am known as Aries the Ram." Aries told the pair smiling slightly when she saw Asura grinning. "Sorry but can I ask how old you are?" Averting her eyes again she missed the way Asura's grin dropped a little.
"I'm fourteen right now and Cole's three weeks old." Asura informed her wondering what happened to make a Celestial Spirit so scared of people. "So did you want to work out a contract now or later Aries?"
"Sorry, we can do it now." Her face was red from embarrassment at forgetting to do that first instead of getting sidetracked at having a new master so young. "I can be summoned any day of the week except for the first of every month and the third friday of every month." Asura nodded at that since it sounded reasonable to him.
"So what can you do." Asura asked tilting his head a little sideways trying to figure out what someone so soft looking could do.
"I can fight if I have to and I know Wool Magic, I'm sorry." Aries bowed her head until Asura gave her a pat on the shoulder while Cole made funny faces trying to cheer the Spirit up.
"Hey that's okay if you're not that good in fights." Asura said trying to cheer Aries up when she looked close to tears. "You can help out with the booth I run or even teach me what you know about the Celestial Spirit World maybe your form of Magic if you want." He tried saying anything he could think of to cheer Aries up and finally got her to look at him when he mentioned her brand of Magic.
"I thought you said you were a Dragon Slayer why would you want to learn my Magic?" Her question was answered when Asura brought up a screen and a keyboard using Archive showing her an image of Ryujin in the background along with the list of the different branches of Magic he was learning.
Water Dragon Slayer Magic, A Rank
Water Magic, B Rank
Requip, C Rank
Celestial Spirit Magic, B Rank
Archive, B Rank
Snow Magic, C Rank
Illusion Magic, D Rank
Clone Magic, C Rank
Sleep Magic, D Rank
Solid Script, D Rank
Ring Magic, D Rank
Light Magic, D Rank
Great Magics, D Rank
"As you can see I'm a Dragon Slayer like I said but I'm also trying to learn all the Magic I can to prove to my dad I'm better than him." Asura scratches his cheek embarrassed seeing most of them are still not even past the middle bar he set for himself. "I still need to find him first but I'm confident by the time we meet again I'd be at a thousand spells like I promised."
"I know you can do it dad then grandpa would be shocked telling everybody what a great son you are and what an awesome grandson I am. Then you can force him to buy us all the cheesecake and fish we can eat." Cole told his father with an excited glint in his eyes while thinking about sitting on top of a mountain of fish.
Aries just smiled seeing Asura and Cole talking about all the food they could get once they found Ryujin. The child in-front of her had a kind heart and she could feel the magical power he had boiling at the surface ready to come out. She just knew some day he'd be something great when he got older.
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"Aries run!" Asura yells out watching with wide eyes as the Blizzardverns kept attacking his injured friends. He breaks into a dead sprint trying to reach her seeing her and Cole trying to get out-of-the-way. His chest constricts painfully his heart racing as Asura curses every deity he knew of for walking into the nest of Wyverns.
Asura runs having been flung back from the previous attack trying to reach her in time seeing the three of the Blizzardverns flying around them. The job was supposed to be simple where they were just searching Mt. Hakobe for some herbs only for everything to go down hill when they walked into the Wyverns nesting area.
'The distance is nothing, I can definitely make it running.' Asura thought ignoring the blood running down his side as he passed the dead bodies of two Blizzardverns that got in his way. "Water Dragon's Pressure Fist!" With his hands coated in water that he made as hot as possible Asura takes a running jump his fist connects with the closest Blizzardvern knocking it out-of-the-way long enough to grab Aries and Cole before jumping away.
"I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry." Aries was in tears seeing the blood running down the side of Asura's chest from the claw that knocked him away moments ago.
"It's not your fault Aries." Asura told her taking a small glance at the unconscious form of Cole before turning back to the problem at hand. He never took his eyes off of them as the three remaining Blizzardverns let loose ear-splitting roars but he doesn't back down. "Can you stand?" Aries nods slightly getting to her feet with Cole in her arms. "Good then when they charge me I want you to find some cover and hide."
"No I won't leave you alone." Asura didn't give her a choice when he created a clone that looked depressed who grabbed Cole and took off running. "Close Gate of the Golden Ram." Aries saw him mouth 'I'm sorry' before she vanished leaving Asura alone to face the Blizzardverns.
Seeing them charge Asura took a deep breath all the snow around him vanishing into his mouth as he swallows all the surrounding water. "Water Dragon's Roar!" Asura yelled out sending a giant blast of water at the Blizzardverns knocking two of them into the side of the mountain. "White Out." Extending his hand a Magic Seal appears. Asura's Seal was light blue with the image of a dragon at its center rotating clockwise while the outside layer was black rotating counter-clockwise.
With those two words a snowstorm envelopes the area around them leaving Asura to grin knowing the Blizzardverns would have a hard time finding him with all the snow blinding them. Quickly pulling out a silver key Asura puts the rest of his power into summoning his biggest Spirit. The bow of the key in his hand is shapped like a bear cub's head with an upside-down white heart. At its center is a yellow orb within a silver diamond while the blade is a simple design shaped like a four tipped snowflake.
Jumping over the closest Blizzardvern Asura holds out the key calling out. "Open Gate of the Bear Cub! Polaris!" With a loud crashing sound the large spirit landed on top of the Blizzardvern while Asura knocked the other one unconscious using another Water Dragon's Pressure Fist. Asura fell to his knees the blood loss being too much to handle watching the orange-colored mechanical bear he called a friend fighting the last Blizzardvern off. His vision started to blur as he falls forward seeing the image of someone running towards him seconds before everything goes black.
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Everything was normal at Fairy Tail as Master Makarov overlooked his children down below talking and laughing. He had a sad smile still seeing the dark cloud that hung over a few of his children knowing it was only a few weeks ago when Lisanna passed away and a few of them were still mourning.
He saw it happen watching Natsu suddenly stop fighting with Gray smelling the air seconds before the doors opened with a bang revealing Cana supporting the bloodied form of a blond teen. "A-Asura." Natsu's eyes are wide seeing his childhood friend like that as he rushes forward ignoring everything around him as he rushed to help Cana get him to the infirmary.
"Get him any kind of water you can find. He's a Dragon Slayer like me!" Natsu yells out ignoring every eye on him while Mira rushes to get some water for Asura. They got him to the infirmary and started getting Asura to drink some water when Porlyusica came in followed closely by Makarov.
"Stupid brats always doing things that get them hurt forcing me to come heal you." Porlyusica mutters under her breath quickly getting to work seeing all the blood when Natsu tries to squeeze in beside her. "Makarov get him and the girl out of here so I can work." She pulls off Asura's bloodied jacket and shirt while Makarov drags Natsu out of the infirmary.
Getting them out to the first floor basement Makarov asked the question on everyone's mind noticing the looks Natsu kept sending the infirmary door every few seconds. "What happened Cana?"
"The 3,000 Jewel job to collect herbs on Mt. Hakobe was mislabeled." Cana told the guild taking the offered rag to get the blood off of her. "The herbs the client wanted were right in the middle of a Wyvern nest that blondie got to before I did."
"So another weakling got in over his head and got hurt who cares." Looking up towards the second floor of the guild they saw Laxus Dreyar looking down at them with a smug look on his face. After hearing what Laxus said it took Gray and a few others to hold Natsu back when the Fire Dragon Slayer looked ready to do more than just fight him if he got up there.
"My dad took out the whole nest only needing Polaris's help to finish off the last one. That's more than you could ever accomplish sitting up there looking all high and mighty jerk." A slightly injured Cole flew into the Guild carrying his father's crimson colored duffle bag followed by Polaris himself who just stuck his head in through the doors. Most of the guild were freaking out over seeing another talking cat and a giant bear head while Laxus eyes narrowed in on Cole a few sparks appearing around him at the insult from a cat of all things.
He took a quick glance at the infirmary door before turning and walking away with a scoff. "Whatever, it's not worth my time hanging around here." With Laxus gone the guild started to calm down except for Natsu who kept taking glances at the infirmary looking like he was about to rush through the door any second if the Master wasn't standing nearby to stop him.
"So flame brain how do you know that guy?" Gray asked him hearing what Natsu yelled out like everybody else did.
"Asura, his name's Asura U. Waterfang." Natsu told them never hearing Gray's taunt as he watched Mira lead Cole towards the infirmary wishing Porlyusica would hurry up and tell them Asura would be fine so he could go in there and see his old friend. "We've been friends a long time when I was still living with Igneel and they'd visit almost every month. It was long before I joined Fairy Tail." Natsu told Gray his eyes still locked on the door as the minutes passed by. "I've been looking for him to see if he knew anything ever since Igneel vanished to see if I could talk with Ryujin."
"So he's a Dragon Slayer like you are Natsu?" Happy asked looking up from the fish in his paws.
"Yea buddy Asura's a Water Dragon Slayer." Natsu tells him his ears picking up the door opening seconds before Porlyusica walks out wiping her hands clean.
"He'll live." She informs Makarov while the whole guild listens in. "From what his cat could tell me before he lost consciousness during the fight was that the idiot kept fighting instead of stopping the blood loss so he went down after the adrenaline wore off." Natsu doesn't hear any of it since the second she walked out he ran in with Happy right behind him.
Natsu freezes the second the door closes behind him seeing a bandaged Asura sleeping peacefully and is quiet not wanting to wake him as he walks closer. "Who are you guys?" Cole ask sitting on top of the duffle bag filled with Blizzardvern scales the clone gathered before dispelling.
"I'm Happy and that's Natsu." Happy told Cole introducing himself to a fellow cat while Natsu took a seat near the sleeping form of Asura.
"Hey Asura you better wake up soon so we can find out who's the better Dragon Slayer and break the tie we have going." Natsu told him while flashes of the time they spent training as kids flashed across through his mind. Reaching forward he moved a strand of hair back into place. The scent of saltwater invades his nose causing Natsu to smile knowing it was really Asura he was really here at Fairy Tail with him.
Author's Notes -
The ranking system I'm using for the magic he knows is like this. They go from D, C, B, A, and finally S. It was the only ranking system I could think of for his magic that wouldn't leave everyone confused or thinking I'm making him a god at fourteen. Most of them are D because he's learning on his own without anyone to help him except the books to help him.
I'm using the thought process that since there are so many different versions of Nikora and silver keys are common being sold in stores then there should be different versions of the other silver keys. Polaris only shows up once and I kind of liked the giant bear mech idea so I had Naruto/Asura find one of the Polaris keys.
As far as I know Clone Magic only showed up once in the Manga if I'm wrong please tell me. But until I learn otherwise I'm mixing the effects of Clone Magic where they take on a different emotion and the effects of Shadow Clones. He won't be spamming clones left and right but he'll use a few to do multiple things at once when busy.
I should have put this on the first chapter but my fight scenes are a high C low B so I'm sorry in advance if it isn't like other stories you've read.
As for Natsu there will be a few instances where he'll be OOC but only a few. He'll still be Natsu though so don't worry about me changing him into a completely different person.
List of different Magics suggested by Readers.
Gemini - It's a good suggestion since the fights they were summoned for were fights Lucy lost and I could think of another Spirit to interfere with her fight against Flare. (I'm leaning yes on this one unless something comes up.)
Devil Slayer Magic - That's to much power to me if I give him a Demon Dragon Slayer Mode. (I don't know on this one and would like to hear somebody elses thoughts on it.)
Ophiuchus - To much overkill in my mind so she'd only be used in monster sized Boss Fights if I did have Naruto/Asura get her key. (Maybe leaning towards no though.)
Response - (Thanks for your reviews.)
ShadowWolf: Their Dragon Slayers so they'll fight each other for whose dominant.