Welcome back to chapter 2 of Flames of the Familiar!
Aieeeee, thanks for the kind reviews! o/o I really hope I don't let you guys down in this chapter.
Important: this story will have short arcs since I'm not really good at writing.
Previously on Flames of the Familiar,
He was all fired up now; even without a full belly, he was going to protect the Mistress who had freed him from his deep sleep. He barely knew her, but the trust they had in each other made him feel like they had known each other since the beginning of time.
Is this what it meant to be a spirit?
No matter, because nothing could stop him now.
Natsu was determined to protect his Mistress's dignity.
Flames of the Familiar
Chapter 2
Warmth
Natsu breathed in deeply.
He collected his magical energy and felt the air flow around him quicken its pace. Heat began to emanate from his body, and he himself was too hot to touch. His horns began to protrude and were surrounded with a red blaze.
The demon set his arms ablaze.
His power in full power would be sure to harm his Mistress, so he reluctantly held back most of his power.
He dashed towards the machine.
"FIST OF THE FIRE DEMON VERSION 2!" Natsu bellowed out and mentally chuckled at the ridiculousness of how long the attack's name was.
Natsu swung his fist down at the machine, which shot up numbers that were climbing upwards at an alarming rate. Everyone watched in shock.
Crack.
Crack.
It slowly started to split. The lacrima began to flash light repeatedly, and Natsu raised his magical power slightly. His fist drove into the magic power tester, completely and utterly obliterating it.
Everything was bright, and dust particles shot into the air.
Natsu raced back to his Mistress and protected her from the dust with his wings.
Principal Mirajane waved the dust away from her with great winds in her demon form, and then ran to her machine. "NOOOOO! MY MAGIC POWER TESTING MACHINE!" She started bawling, tears rolling down her cheeks.
Everyone was conflicted on whether to cheer for the demon-spirit being or comfort the she-devil principal.
The dust had subsided, and Natsu folded his wings and let his back absorb them again. His horns returned to his skull.
He gave his Mistress his trademark grin. "Look Lucy! I'm the strongest!"
Lucy smiled back and tackled him into a hug. "You're so awesome, Natsu!" Slightly caught offguard by this, he stumbled backwards before finding his footing.
A few moments of crying and warmth later, Mirajane suddenly stood up with tears in her eyes. "You two!" Natsu and Lucy jumped away from each other, sensing the dark magical power radiating from the principal. "Spend the rest of the day fixing my machine!"
Gulping, the two jumped away from each other hastily.
"Use your own magical power," she sniffled, "and use the potions if you must! Anything to fix my machine..."
As if on queue, the bell rang, signalling for the next class to start. Chatter arose once again, and everybody else moved to their next classes.
"Natsuuuuu," Lucy facepalmed, "fix this up yourself. Look what you did!"
The overpowered demon grinned sheepishly and scratched his head. "Sorry Mistress," and he set to work, picking up the broken shards of the lacrima.
After watching Natsu do the work for a few minutes, she decided to join in even though the pinkette told her that he was fine with doing all the work.
xxxxx
"How's he doing, Virgo?"
"The demon is not doing anything suspicious, though he's a definitely dangerous. His power is tremendous."
"What should we do, brother?"
"Keep an eye on him. I'm going to need to insert myself in this situation soon."
"Understood."
xxxxx
"Father's gonna kill me if he finds out about my detention!" Lucy complained as they made their way back to the classroom, where many math questions awaited. "Natsu, why did you even eat my book?!"
The demon shrugged nonchalantly, "my hunger needed to be satisfied." He cast a glance to his Mistress. "'Sides, I was doing you a favour. Math suuucks."
At his last statement, Lucy put her hand on his mouth and glared at him, a silent warning not to lick it. "Shhh!" The blonde hissed. "Don't say that near Miss Olietta! You're lucky she didn't hear you!"
"Oh?" The purple-haired teacher walked out of the classroom and stared at them angrily. "You might want to rephrase that, blondie."
xxxxx
Natsu!" Lucy scolded as soon as Miss Olietta left the room to get some scissors. "You need to stop getting us in trouble!"
The boy ignored her and instead said, "no wonder why she isn't married yet."
The teacher stormed into the classroom, scissors in hand. "I'll have you know that I have a boyfriend!" She screeched and grabbed out at Natsu who immediately bolted to the back of the room.
"Aieeeee!"
When their energy was spent, Miss Olietta fixed her glasses and cleared her throat, calling for attention.
"The principal told me to inform you that if you cause any more mayhem, you'll be expelled." The teacher warned.
Lucy's jaw dropped. "But it's not even my fault!" She pointed an accusing finger at Natsu. "It's this idiot's!"
The purplette shook her head and sighed. "As he is your summoned familiar, you must take responsibility of his actions." She looked at the demon.
The blonde's mouth opened and closed. All this on the first day of summoning her spirits? "This isn't fair!" She blurted out desperately.
The teacher crossed her arms. "It's the rules, and I can't do anything about them."
A few seconds of silence later, Miss Oilers fixed her glasses and spoke again. "Your detention is over. You can go home now."
~xoxox~
"I can't believe this!" Lucy huffed out angrily and slammed the door to her dorm room after Natsu padded in.
The pinkeye watched her mutter curses under her breath worriedly.
He was sure he didn't do anything wrong. After all, he did this all before with G-
"This is all your fault!" His Mistress suddenly burst out. Natsu jumped, frightened.
"Why are you so misbehaved?! I'm this close," she made a small gap between her index finger and her thumb to emphasise her point, "this close to just dropping you off at the street!"
Natsu's head drooped, and he looked down at his feet suddenly.
"Father's going to..." Lucy ran her fingers through her hair. "He gave me one chance to..."
She turned away from him, but he could still smell the salt from the tears in her eyes.
After a silent dinner, Lucy quietly went to her room.
Even though it was summer, the night was cold. Wanting to make sure his mistress wasn't cold during the night, he started to climb in the bed.
"Sleep on the couch!" Lucy shrilly screamed, clearly still upset. He made his way to the couch, but his ears could still pick up the complaints under her breath. "A perverted troublemaker familiar."
Natsu curled up on the couch, falling into deep slumber with a hard feeling in his chest.
~xoxox~
"u.. !"
"I'm sorry father..."
"I.d..n. .t..he.r..t!"
"It won't happen again..."
His sensitive hearing picked up an end of a conversation.
Natsu's eyes cracked open. Lucy powered an audio call lacrima off. He could smell the salt from the bedroom.
His Mistress was crying again.
"Brother... he has no ill intentions against that girl.."
"..."
"Are you still going to intervene, brother?"
"I will, but I'm waiting for the right time."
"Understood."
Lucy seemed to have noticed that her familiar had woken up and hastily wiped her tears away.
She strode over to the kitchen and started making breakfast. "Morning, Natsu."
The sleepy pinkette got up from the couch and looked over her shoulder. "Morning, Mistress. What're you making?"
"Pancakes." Mistress flipped something that looked like a flat piece of bread.
Natsu hummed, acting as if he understood.
A few more minutes later, the food was ready.
"Here, squirt this on your pancakes." Lucy handed him a bottle of honey. Natsu took it and studied it for a few seconds before glazing the whole plate with it.
"Dummy!" Lucy snatched it from him. She didn't notice his flinch. "Like this," her tone went gentle, and she made a spiral on her own pancakes.
"Ohhhhh," The pinkette copied her with awe.
Sounds of cutlery and chewing filled the air before the blonde spoke up again.
"I'm sorry for last night," Lucy apologised softly. "So much had happened that day, and I shouldn't have taken it all out on you.."
Natsu looked at her with a confused expression, but the grin overtook his features.
"It's all good, Mistress! I understand!"
Lucy responded with a small, warm smile.
For having only meeting him yesterday, it already seemed like he was too good for her.
xoxox
After getting dressed (Natsu was given the school uniform), they walked to the school.
Of course, the whispers floated around like usual.
"Isn't that the familiar who broke the power meter?"
"But the seniors said he had horns and wings.."
"Transformation or ability-enhancing magic?"
"He doesn't look like much now.."
"Can't believe a Heartfilia summoned something like this.."
It took all of his willpower to stop a smug grin from surfacing on Natsu's face after seeing his Mistress's grimace.
It was a short walk, and after arriving at the school, the bell for roll call rang. Since Natsu couldn't be kept in the celestial realm, which everyone was trying to figure out, he had to sit next to Lucy in every class and was counted a student under the responsibility of Lucy. In classes, there were tables that could fit two people but everyone sat on individual desks to avoid in-class talking.
"Lucy Heartfilia."
"Here."
"Natsu Dragneel Heartfilia."
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEEE!"
The class went silent, and all eyes were on the enthusiastic pinkette.
In fear after his display yesterday, no one laughed.
Lucy sighed miserably.
xoxox
Cooking class.
Just her luck.
Natsu was extremely destructive, everyone could tell from yesterday.
But today, they were only making cupcakes, so nothing could go wrong, right?
Wrong.
"Natsu! Don't turn that up!" Lucy was mixing the batter and behind her, the familiar was turning up the stove with curiosity. "You're going to-"
She was cut off when the whole thing suddenly burst into flames.
"What the heck is this fraud? It says nothing will catch on fire here though?" Natsu complained, completely missing the point.
"You dummy! That applies when you cook stuff on there properly!" Lucy yelled at him while everyone watched, no one making a move for the extinguisher while the flames grew. "And that's completely missing the idea! Get out of there!"
"Eh? Why?" Natsu tilted his head, but was aware when a flame licked his arm, burning off his sleeve.
This boy was on fire.
The sprinklers turned on, but the flames were too strong to put out.
Lucy screamed and made a run for the fire extinguisher. "You idiots! Why aren't you helping this pyro?!"
"Thanks for the me~al!" Natsu cheered happily, ignoring the fact that his top was totally burnt off.
He patted his stomach, and grabbed a chunk of the fire as if it was normal.
Which it wasn't.
Natsu stuffed it into his mouth, and followed with more bites. Lucy returned, but stood there dumbfounded, fire extinguisher in hand.
After sucking up all the fire, Natsu's eye glinted.
"Alriiiiiight! I'm all fired up noooooooowwww!" The boy yelled out enthusiastically, shooting out fire from his mouth.
"Natsu! What the heck-" Lucy caught sight of her cowering classmates. "Get out everyone!" She directed everyone to the exit.
After finally letting his excitement out, his mistress pulled him out of the room to scold him. She opened her mouth to speak, but a shrill voice over the PA interrupted her.
"LUCY HEARTFILIA AND HER FAMILIAR, TO MY OFFICE, NOW!"
The mage and the familiar gulped simultaneously.
Lucy and Natsu stood awkwardly in the office, watching their principal march around with hands tugging at her hair frustratedly.
"The damage repairs... how are we going to pay for them..?!"
"This is a bad dream...'
"I swear! You two both cause more ruckus than all of Fairy Tail combined..."
Lucy perked up at the name of the infamous school. "Fairy Tail? As in the school east from here? The one with powerful mages?"
Mirajane's train of rant came to a stop when the student spoke. "Yes, that's the one."
The white-haired woman's expression indicated that she went into deep thought about something.
"Fea~ry Tairu?" Natsu sounded it out.
It rung a small bell.
"Ahhh I always wanted to enrol in Fairy Tail Magic School!" Lucy completely ignored the situation they were in, her star-eyes and gushing already activated. "Apparently you can go on missions there, and there are lots of strong mages! I tried to get in, but father hadn't wanted to send me into such an infamous school.. waaahh~"
Mirajane's head snapped up, usually-bright eyes bearing into her heavily. Lucy squeaked from the anger coming off in waves directed to her.
"So you always wanted to go to Fairy Tail...?"
"Y-yes!"
"Good."
"Eh?"
"You're expelled."
Important!: The demon that Zeref created has no name, they just call it the demon, which is why no one reacted to how Natsu introduced himself. Also, only the spirits in the celestial realm know that he's a demon. Aquarius isn't telling them anything because Loke needs to understand the situation first. I refer to Natsu as 'the demon' because saying 'Natsu' feels too repetitive rip
The next update will come in a few days (3-7)! If any later, I'm probably really busy. The next few days are a bit hectic for me.