Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

REMEMBER:

~The dragons are alive, and still living with the dragon slayers.

~They live in a Pocket Dimension all together

~Cities of caves, lakes, forests, volcanoes, etc (every dragon lives with their element)

~Dragons (and dragonslayers) have pack instinct and can sense their (or their packmate's) soulmates.

~Igneel is Alpha, Metalicana is Beta

~Natsu is Alpha of the dragonslayers, Gajeel is Beta of the Dragonslayers

~Top dragons (council) have transformation magic (turn into humans for a bit)

~There are more dragons than there are in cannon

~Few backstories have been changed around to make sense

~Gajeel is still in Fairy Tail (will be explained) however Natsu is not

~Kagura and Yukino are in Fairy Tail instead of Mermaid Heel and Sabertooth

~Soulmates: Natsu/Lucy, Gajeel/Levy, Laxus/Mirajane, Cobra/Kinana, Sting/Yukino, Rogue/Kagura, Wendy/Romeo (but they're young so they're just best friends)

~ Sting and Rogue are Natsu and Gajeel's age instead of Wendy's… it just wouldn't make sense in this universe.

Gajeel must have decided that it would be funny to ditch his alpha dragonslayer in the middle of unfamiliar territory with no knowledge of how to act or any money whatsoever. Because that was exactly what seemed to happen. One moment Natsu and his pack were walking around the city and the next Gajeel and the others were nowhere in sight and for some reason Natsu couldn't smell them.

"I'm so hungry!" Natsu grumbled. Thankfully he knew enough about the human world to not wander into a restaurant without money. What did the humans here ever use for money? Natsu sighed, just another thing he would have to ask later. Thanks Gajeel.

Natsu sniffed to see if he could smell his pack. Nope. But he did smell the most wonderful scent that he knew, no not food, his mate. That immediately made him perk up; looking around he spotted the blonde walking just a bit behind him, looking around like she was trying to hide from someone.

"Hey Lucy!" Natsu yelled. She looked up startled and started running at him. He flinched, "What are you-"

"Shhh." Lucy said putting a hand to his mouth. "Be quiet."

Natsu thought, 'I know a way you can shut me up.'

Lucy looked around and sighed, "I think I lost them." Natsu pointed to her hand which was still on his mouth, "Sorry." She took it off.

"Who do you think you lost?" Natsu asked. He looked around tensely trying to spot any person that might try and hurt his mate. There didn't seem to be a problem, but maybe they were just good at hiding?

"Mirajane and Erza!" Lucy shivered. "They are all over me."

Natsu was about to ask about that but out of the corner of his eye he could see the two searching around in the crowd.

"Well come on then." Natsu whispered hurriedly. "They see us." He saw the exact moment they recognized him and Lucy.

The two of them ran through the crowd, Natsu dragging Lucy by the hand. "What are you doing?" She yelled.

"Be quiet." Natsu said. "You wanted to get away from them right?" He turned to her. Her eyes widened a little, "Then I'll get you anywhere you want to go."

She smiled so brightly it reminded Natsu of the sun, "Let's go."

They ran a few blocks, through large crowds, before they stopped. When they did Lucy huffed and puffed, and laughed a lot. "That was so much fun." She said breathlessly. Her blonde hair had gotten a little out of place during the sprint so she smoothed it over.

"Yeah." Natsu chuckled, not as winded as his mate. "Ever do something like that before?"

"Run away from my overprotective guild members who happen to scare me more than you can imagine?" Lucy shook her head, "No I can't say that I have." She laughed again, "Seriously, that was so great. You sure you aren't a Fairy Tail wizard? Because you seem to remind me of one an awful lot."

Natsu shook his head, "Not a Fairy Tail wizard, though you guys seem to know how to party from what I've been hearing." He smirked, "If you ever wanted to do that again, I'd do it. Anytime."

"Anywhere?" the blonde asked. Natsu's heart sped up a little at the totally innocent question. He would take her anywhere she wanted to go.

He almost blushed when his stomach growled. It was very audible. Lucy giggled a little, "Hungry?"

He scratched the back of his head a little and laughed, "Yeah. Kind of."

"I'm willing to bet you don't have a lot of money on you." Lucy guessed.

He shrugged, "Not a bit." He had been to this world for less than a day and his beta was awfully interested in seeing him crash and burn.

Lucy nodded like she had thought of something, "How about as thank you for the assisted escape I take you out to lunch?"

"O-oh you don't have to." Natsu stuttered a little.

"Come on." She grabbed his hand. "I know this great place that's close by."

"Okay." He agreed, a little distracted by the way her hand fit in his. Like two puzzle pieces, as sappy as it was for him to think that.

"So." Lucy said leaning on her arms while they waited on their food. "What kind of dragon magic do you know."

Natsu almost sighed in relief at the topic, it was something he could talk about easily. He had been starting to get worried, he knew nothing about what to say to girls. "I was raised by Igneel who is a Fire Dragon. He taught me everything he knows."

"Fire Dragon Igneel." Lucy repeated like she was memorizing it. "That sounds really cool!"

"Yeah." He gave her a full blown smile, "My dad is the coolest dragon ever! He's strong, he's smart, he's nice, and he's the alpha of our pack too!"

"Alpha?" Lucy asked, "Like the leader?"

"Yeah. He's the leader of our pack which is really big." Natsu shrugged, "But he's also the king of the fire dragons."

"Wait so he's the alpha of one pack and the king of the Fire Dragons?" Lucy questioned, "That doesn't seem right, is that allowed?"

"Why wouldn't it be?" Natsu frowned, "Those positions aren't connected at all. No dragon just lives with his type, they spread out and find a family with others of different types, or maybe a few of the same types, and live together. The only time one type, or kingdom, really comes together are the annual meetings that they set up to conduct business. Or when disaster strikes." He took a sip of his soda, which was really good and he wondered why dragons didn't have it all the time, "When disaster does strike my father is the one to calm every fire dragon down and make the hard decisions that might be needed."

"Oh okay, I think I get it." Lucy said, "Thank you for explaining that."

"No problem." Natsu smiled, "Now what kind of magic do you use?"

Lucy took off the ring of keys from her side and put them on the table in front of her, "I'm a Celestial Spirit Wizard. And these keys are what allows me to be able to make contracts and befriend spirits that help me fight."

"Awesome!" Natsu's eyes shined a little, "Why are some gold and some silver?"

"The silver ones are normal spirits, each key is connected to one of the species that it specifies." She showed him a simple key with a blue mark on the bottom, "This is the key of the 'Small Dog, Nikora' and Nikora is the species not the dog so when I made a contract with my Nikora I nicknamed him Plue."

"Oh." Natsu was really interested, this seemed like a really cool magic.

"The golden keys are special keys. There are only one of each key, and each go to a specific spirit. There are twelve, technically thirteen, zodiac keys in the world and I have ten of them. The other three are with Yukino." Lucy explained. Natsu vaguely recognized Yukino as the name of Sting's mate. "The zodiacs are some of the strongest spirits of the Celestial Spirit World."

"Awesome! How did you meet them?" Natsu was practically jumping in his seat. When Lucy looked confused he added, "They are your friends, how did you get their keys so you could make them your friends? I bet you love those stories."

She smiled, "Yeah." she rubbed one that was gold and had a weird urn shape on the bottom, "Aquarius was my first spirit, she was my mother's before me. When my mother died she was passed down, and since I had no friends where I lived I summoned her everyday. And back then she allowed me to." The next key had a crab at the tip, "Cancer was also my mother's but I didn't receive his key right away since my mother gave him to someone else until I was ready. When I received him and made the contract the first thing he did was sit me down and do my hair since I didn't 'take care of it properly.'" She laughed a little.

Natsu laughed a little too, "He really sat you down because you didn't treat your hair right?"

"He's a hair stylist and would never want to be seen around with a wizard whose hair isn't in tip top condition." Lucy explained, fingering the next key whose tip was an axe. "My first contract with a spirit who wasn't a spirit of my mother's was Taurus whose key was hanging randomly with a farm. The farmer noticed my keys while I was helping his wife bring in the groceries and decided Taurus should be with me. When we contracted Taurus swore to protect my 'smoking hot body' as he called it." She scoffed, "Perverted cow."

Natsu's hand caught on fire when he heard that one. Thankfully it was under the table so Lucy did not see.

She talked a little about the silver keys but none of the silver keys she had really had too much of a story, she bought their keys in a store and became good friends… the end. The next key she showed Natsu was elegant, "On my first mission as a team with Gray we ran into this Celestial Spirit Wizard who was awful to people and spirits alike. When he was arrested, because automatically any contracts you have with spirits are nullified upon arrest, Virgo sought me out and asked if I wanted to contract."

"That's cool." Natsu said, "You must have really made an impression with her."

Lucy smiled and nodded. The next key had a tip that was the tip of an arrow, "Sagittarius was from my first S Class mission. Gray decided to try one of them out so he grabbed one with a golden key reward and we hopped on a boat to this island of demons who didn't know they were demons. Things happened, Erza showed up to destroy everything and at the end we couldn't take the money but since I was a Celestial Spirit Wizard Erza let me take the key."

"That was nice of her. But why weren't you allowed to take the money?" Natsu asked.

"Because officially Gray and I weren't supposed to take the mission since it was for S Class wizards. S Class wizards are stronger than normal ones and go on much more dangerous quests… like the one we were on. Even though Erza was an S Class wizard she did not take the mission and so none of us were allowed to take the reward." Lucy sighed, "I missed out on so much rent money."

Natsu grimaced, she went on some dangerous mission like that.

The next key was a lion on the bottom, "I got Leo a few weeks later. I don't know how much of the story he wants anyone to know, but he is one of my strongest spirits."

"Princess, I believe I am your strongest spirit." Natsu turned, a man with orange hair dressed in a fancy suit was standing next to their table. His smile was certainly pleasant, but his eyes were hard whenever he glanced at Natsu. "Princess, who is this?"

"This is Natsu, Natsu this is Leo the Lion, but most of the guild calls him Loke." Lucy introduced the two of them not noticing the angry storm cloud between them.

"Pleasure." Loke said in a deadpan.

"What's your story?" Natsu asked, "Since Lucy doesn't know if she can say."

Loke leaned forward a little, "She saved my life. That's one of the only two things to know about our relationship." Natsu's hand caught on fire again because of the word 'relationship', Loke noticed but Lucy did not. "The other is that I am her most loyal spirit and will stop at nothing to crush Lucy's enemies."

"Natsu's going to help with that." Lucy laughed nervously starting to feel the tension in the air, "Gajeel brought some people to help Fairy Tail wage war on whoever tried to hurt me."

"Well tell Fairy Tail that the Celestial Spirit World is preparing as well." Loke said proudly.

"Loke!" Lucy said shocked.

The orange haired male smirked, "Did you really think that the Celestial Spirits who made contracts with you would just let something like this go? Unlike the other times the people who attacked you nullified out gates and left us banging on the barrier trying to help you. We're ticked. And let's not even go into what the Celestial Spirit King is feeling at the moment, his favorite human was attacked."

"I'm not his favorite human." Lucy tried to say.

"You severely underestimate how much of an impact you made on him." the orange haired male scoffed. "The king would kill to keep you happy."

Lucy was starting to get agitated so Natsu tried to change the subject, "So I wonder when that food is going to get here."

"Mind if I join you?" Loke asked getting ready to sit down.

"I do brother." another voice rang out. Natsu turned, slightly scared, to see a pinked haired woman in a maid's outfit, "The princess is trying to enjoy a lunch date and you're ruining it."

"It's not a date!" Lucy interjected.

"See!" Loke said, "So I should be able to join."

Virgo glared, "That's rude Leo." She crossed her arms annoyed.

"Is not," Loke argued, "The more the merrier right?"

"Two's company, three's a crowd." Virgo uncrossed her arms and walked over to the other spirit. Taking him by the ear she turned to Lucy, "I am sorry princess." Then she turned to Natsu, "Prince." Lucy and Natsu (who had taken a sip of their drinks) choked a little. Virgo then looked to Loke who was obviously uncomfortable with her nails digging into his ear but holding himself back from hurting the other, "It is punishment time Leo." They disappeared in a glimmer of gold.

"I'm so sorry!" Lucy stammered out.

"It's fine." Natsu laughed awkwardly, "Those are some special personalities though."

"Yeah." Lucy chuckled.

"What other stories do you have?" Natsu asked. "You have a few more spirits right?"

"Right!" Lucy agreed. She showed him four keys; one with pincers at the tip, one with two people at the bottom and what looked like a harp for the tip, one that seemed to have ram horns on the tip, and a silver one she hadn't talked about earlier who had a round bottom and a rectangular tip. "These are the keys of Scorpio, Gemini, Aries, and Caelum. I contracted with them at the same time because I had just defeated their master Angel and she was arrested for trying with her team to start Nirvana up again."

"The lost magic Nirvana?" Natsu questioned, "Igneel told me that legend, it's real?"

"Yeah, it turned on." Lucy shivered, "Thankfully Laxus, who was supposed to be kicked out of the guild but wasn't by some miracle, was there to stop everything. He and Gajeel were awesome at destroying the thing, which is part of being in Fairy Tail."

Laxus, Natsu frowned, his power was great. The problem was the instincts he kept bottled up. It was unhealthy for a dragon slayer to do something like stay away from a pack. Hopefully when they battled Natsu will be able to get him to see that.

"Anyway." Lucy tried to get back on track, "My last zodiac is Capricorn. After we took care of Angel's team and guild Oracion Seis another dark guild Grimoire Heart tried to get back at us since they were under an alliance. They sent one of their highest members after Fairy Tail Zoldeo to attack us. Zoldeo had human control magic so Leo made us all run and took over the battle. I don't know all of what happened but later Leo came over to me and told me that Zoldeo had been a friend of my mother's and had been holding onto her last zodiac spirit. He had been controlling Capricorn for years."

"That's messed up." the pink haired male said.

"Yeah." Lucy nodded, "Now that I've told you about all my spirits it's your turn. Tell me some more about the dragons!"

The waitress came at that point to finally give them their food. Both had gotten a steak; Natsu's was rare while Lucy got medium rare. Immediately the two started eating and Natsu noticed that while he was digging in just like the dragons themselves Lucy was much more refined. She cut up her steak slowly and ate it quietly.

"You are so polite." the dragonslayer said through a mouth full of food. Then he realized what he did and blushed, "Sorry."

The blond laughed, "I spend most of my time at Fairy Tail where this is almost no such thing as manners. Trust me, I've seen a lot worse things than someone chewing with their mouth open or talking while their mouth is full." She took another bite and started talking, "If it helps I can do this." She started noisily chewing her food with a 'nom nom nom'.

Natsu put his hand on her mouth, "You're embarrassing yourself."

Lucy swatted his hand away playfully, "Whatever."

Natsu smiled, "So you want to know about dragons?"

It ended up getting really late while they ate and laughed and enjoyed each other's company. The two ended up getting back to Lucy's apartment (because Natsu wasn't letting his mate go home alone in the dark) and Natsu realized he had no idea where to go to get back to Gajeel and the others. He had no idea where the portal was exactly, nor did he know where the others were spending the night.

Lucy seemed to read this on his face, "Come in, you'll find your friends in the morning."

Natsu followed his mate into the house/apartment. It was a really nice place. Lucy showed him to the bathroom. Inside he went to the bathroom and took off his shirt (he never liked sleeping in a shirt no matter if it was really just a vest and had no real material on his chest or abs, besides might as well give his mate a show right?). Coming out he sniffed and grinned. He jumped into her bed, and snuggled into it. It smelled so much like her and it was so soft! This was the best thing ever! Much better than his hammock at home! He didn't notice he was falling asleep, it just happened.

Thank you so much for reading!

I know Lucy didn't get Caelum in the anime/manga, but I honestly thought she should have. Caelum liked her enough to miss its target.

Natsu and Lucy got to know each other, that's great. And Natsu's gotten obsessed with Lucy's bed just like the anime/manga.

Did you guys notice something about what Lucy and Natsu did this chapter? Let me know!

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