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For the rest of the day, Natsu experienced something that she rarely ever experienced around Fairy Tail: boredom. And she hated it. At fairy tail, she could take missions, talk to her friends, have Lucy yell at her for not being more girly and then run away from her attempts to giver her a make over, challenge Laxus and all of the other S class mages (despite the fact that she was one herself). She missed every moment of it. But most of all, she missed Grey, as much as it pained her to admit it. With that in mind, Natsu fell asleep on her bed in the Black Order. Sadly, she had forgotten that the last thing you think about before you fall asleep is what you dream about.
~o0o~ Dream ~o0o~
Natsu found herself in the mountains; snowy mountains to be exact. A cold wind blew though the air. The young dragon slayer shivered, something that she rarely experienced considering that her body temperature was always abnormally high. She thought she had dressed better for the snow. Natsu then noticed what she was wearing and almost screamed.
She was in nothing but her breast bandages and underwear. Natsu heard a chuckle from behind her. "Its not that bad once you get used to it, Natsu." The voice spoke. Turning around, the figure revealed its self to be a boy her age with navy hair, also in his underwear. No mater how long she stared at where the face should be on the boy, it was all blurry; she couldn't make out one feature.
"Well, I for one prefer the heat." Natsu found herself speaking involuntarily. It was as if she was watching from inside her self but had no control over her body. She spoke and acted but not on her own accord.
"But you said you wanted to learn. And here we are. You aren't going to quit on me are you Natsu?" The Boy said. There was something strangely familiar about him. 'Natsu' huffed in annoyance.
"The cold can't stop me." She raised her fist into the air. "I will learn!" The dragon slayer declared firmly, fires of determination burning in her eyes.
"That's the Natsu I know. Now position yourself like this." The boy said as he took a stance beside her; his legs slightly apart with his right foot in front of the left. Nodding, 'Natsu' entered the same footing. The boy came up behind her and lightly grabbed her arms. He moved them so that they were along the left side of her body. Her left hand was moved so that the palm faced away from her and the side of her hand was parallel to the ground, her right in a fist connecting softly with her left.
She shivered when she felt his breath against her neck. The boy let go of her arms. "Now, focus on the snow around you, the temperature of it, the texture, and shape. Envision what you want to create, move your hands in front of you and then say Ice Make: Shield." Although it was hard to focus on all of those aspects of the snow, she snapped her eyes shut and thought long and hard about it. Picturing every detail and curve of the shield.
Moving her hand's in front of herself, she shouted, "Ice Make: Shield!" the ice shot up in front of her, creating a small shield. 'Natsu' fell out of the stance and grinned at the boy, who was smiling as well. He drew her close, wrapping one of his arms around her waist, and lifted her chin with his hand.
"Congrats, Natsu."
~o0o~ Dream End ~o0o~
'I wonder who that boy was…' Natsu thought idly. She was too dense for her own good. 'But what I'd really like to know is,… why the hell was I learning ICE MAKE magic! I'm warm blooded, not cold blooded like ice princess!' But sometimes her stupidity balanced out her denseness.
"NATSUUUUUUU!" A high pitch voice, obviously belonging to a girl, yelled, waking Natsu up with a jolt. Natsu grumbled, and put her pillow over her head to stop the ringing in her ears. Did her mornings here always have to start with yelling? "Come on! You have to get up and get dressed!" Natsu didn't budge. Trying a different tactic, the girl stated, "Do you want to miss breakfast? Its already nine!" The pinkette peaked out of here pillow at the mention of food. Lenalee was standing in her room, tapping her foot with impatience.
"Are you sure…?" Natsu asked, still clinging to the pillow.
Sighing Lenalee said, "Yes, Natsu. The dining hall closes at 9:45 to prepare for lunch." She honestly worried about the girl sometimes, she was as bad as Allen when it came to food. For good merit she added, "They'll have fire." To be completely honest, Natsu's fire eating thing completely crept Lenalee out.
"…Fine…" Satisfied with her work, Lenalee exited Natsu's room and waited outside. She waited for about five minutes before the pinkette emerged, dressed in her normal garb. The two of them proceeded to the dining hall for breakfast, well Natsu was going for breakfast, Lenalee was just tagging along.
Ever since Natsu's newly discovered concept of being bored, she had been itching to do something. "So, what exactly do you guys do for fun around here? Based off my fight with K- Kuna? Kande? Kata? What's his face yesterday, I can tell that you guys don't like to fight amongst each other." Lenalee raised an eyebrow, while chuckling lightly at the girl's butchering of Kana's name.
"Oh so you do like fighting. But you're talking about fighting with friends as if it's a daily activity for you." Natsu laughed and put her hands behind her head.
"At my…" Natsu struggled to get the next word out. "…old home," It felt terrible saying that bout her guild. "we used to fight almost every day, but we would never seriously injure one another, just a few bums and scratches from our blows. It was the best, the whole guild used to join in. We would almost destroy the place, that is until Gramps stepped in before we started using magic." Natsu smiled at the memory. Lenalee, how ever, blinked in confusion.
"Guild… Magic. What are you talking about Natsu? Don't you mean Innocence? And a branch of the Order? Magic doesn't exist, Natsu. Natsu?" The dragon slayer stopped walking, and looked at the ground with her bangs covering her face. They were really… gone? All of her friends and family… just gone? Sure she knew that she probably wouldn't see them again, but she had never really excepted it fully. She didn't want to let go. She loved them with all of her heart. But then again, she didn't deserve them. She was the one that forgot about them in the Void. "..Natsu? You ok?" Lenalee asked again. Natsu smiled up at the green haired girl.
"I'm fine." She lied. "So, what do you guys do for fun?"
"Well, usually we take missions. Our missions are usually along the lines of finding innocence or taking down masses of Akuma that pop up. But we usually only take missions every once and a while, particularly because most of them are life threatening. And we mostly come back injured, so we need time to rest and regain our energy." Lenalee said, answering the pinkette's question.
"Nice! So I'll bet you have been on a bunch of missions! Fighting Akuma, and taking names! HAHAH!" Natsu said as she punched the air, pretending to fight. The green haired girl laughed along with her.
After arriving at the dining hall and ordering food, Natsu was honestly surprised that they managed to fix the walls so fast. Usually when she destroyed something, they would make her pay for it. A grin plastered across Natsu's face. She could (accidentally) destroy things and not have to pay! That meant that Lucy could keep all the jewels to pay for-. She stopped, it would only lead to wistful thinking. 'It's in the past. It's in the past. It's in the past.' She chanted her mantra over and over in her head.
Natsu chatted with Lenalee as she continued to surprise the green haired girl with her endless stomach. Natsu decided that she liked Lenalee. Lenalee was a kind and caring person, and genuinely wanted to be Natsu's friend. She was not as dense as everyone though (yes she is), she could tell that Lenalee was being friendly (you would have to be a rock not to notice a nice person being nice). The two got along well for having known each other for a day. Lenalee reminded Natsu of Mirajane, the two both had the same personality complex, hell, they both gave drinks out to everyone!
"Could Exorcists Allen Walker, Lenalee lee, Yu Kanda, Lavi Bookman, and Natsu Dragneel please come to Chief Komui's office." Said a loud voice came out of one of the speaker's overhead. Natsu blinked. Bookman? So Mr. pirate was Bookman's apprentice. Who could have guessed?
"Looks like we got a mission Natsu. Come on I'll show you where the office is." Natsu followed Lenalee to an office that really needed to be cleaned. They were the last to arrive. When Kanda saw the dragon slayer, he huffed and turned away. Lavi and Allen, however, smiled and beckoned them to come over to be debriefed on the mission. Natsu also liked Allen, he was the first person at the Order that was nice to her. She could tell that he was probably a nice person with had the lungs the size of Earthland. He reminded her of Lisanna, the overly caring, loveable, person that she was who would stand up for any one. They even had the same hair. Natsu looked forward to their upcoming partnership. She knew that they were going to be great partners! She knew because the last time she got a partner, she saved Lucy as well from a possible life threatening situation. Lavi, she didn't know yet, the same went for Kaba, or was it Kita? She couldn't remember.
"Hello Hello HELLO!" An extremely happy man in a French beret exclaimed, popping up out of no where. "I've been wanting to meet you Natsu for some time now! My name is Komui Lee! I am the chief of the science department! I see you have already met my little sister Lenalee." Natsu blanched. Those two were related? Lenalee, Komui, Lenalee, Komui. Grahhh! It didn't make any sense! Allen put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"I thought the same thing when I first met him." Allen said.
"So I have a mission for you…"
(In a different place, possibly a mysterious location)
Two people in cloaks, one with out a cloak, and one really tiny cloak with two triangles coming off the top, looked out over the horizon.
'Natsu, I swear I'll find you… No matter what it takes. I never want to loose you again.' The boy with out the cloak thought.
"PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!" One of the other cloaks yelled in a feminine voice. The boy then started to look for his clothes and cloak that mysteriously disappeared…
WOW! Eleven reviews on one chapter in five days! Thank you so much! I hope this chapter met your expectations! The first two chapters I think are more of a prologue, considering chapter 3 is where the story really begins.. oh well I may change it later.
PAIRING: So what I plan on doing is that what ever pairing is in the lead, that chapter will lean towards that pairing. So.. vote for your favorite pairing!
I have narrowed down the pairings! For Natsu it is between Grey and Allen!
So far the pairing count is at:
NatsuxGrey- 7
NatsuxAllen- 5
ErzaxKanda- 3
VOTE! ^.^
~Slayerofthewind
