Natsha stood across the cloud field, while Igneel was on the other side. He shown her the path to this place from the stone room she was sleeping in. Much like the other places within his nest, it was above the clouds; away from human sight. The pink haired had her hands out in battle position. Her neck was visible without her famous scarf; which was now in Happy's hands.
The red dragon stood there fiercely. His chest was outwards as he tried to intimate her.
He wanted to see her growth. When she was only a toddler, she could barely lift his claw, but now she was grown into a teen. Her cherry blossom hair brushed her shoulders, while her bandages moved with her each breath.
She wasn't her baby anymore, but to him, she was still his baby.
"Are you fired up?" he questioned in a harsh tone. Sparks threw out of his breath with each word.
"Course," she uttered in delight. She punched her fists together and flares brushed against her bare lower chest. Her black vest was thrown to the side for this 'match' between daughter and father. "I'M ALL FIRED UP!" she shouted to the heavens and dashed forward across the cloud field. Her baggy shorts moved with each step.
Her fist burned with red flame as she impacted the dragon's underside.
Igneel didn't flinch. He looked down at the pink haired, and in a mocking tone he said, "You may start." He only did this to her during their matches, to get her to show her true strength instead of her basic.
Her eyes narrowed and she jumped up, kicked his chest, and when she was next to his neck, her foot caught on fire. She braced herself and kicked him with her burning leg. Her body was flung backwards, her knee touched the cloud and she slide backwards. Natsha glazed up to where she landed her second kick, but it barely left a mark on Igneel.
Her gaze soon contacted Igneel's own, and her cheeks redden in anger. She didn't want to look like a wimp when they only just began their match. There was only other way to show him that she could do more. "I would do better if you tried too!" she shouted back at him.
"Shall I?"
"Yes!"
He lowered his eyelids, and with a whisper, he uttered a spell, "Caderder'it Cinisinus."
His whole form turned into ash, a spark of fire shot into the sky, and the ash slowly descended onto the ground. Natsha lifted her gaze from the dust pile and around the field. A huge dragon like him could not disappear that quickly. "Igneel? Igneel!"
"Above," his face drummed down on her. She lifted her head and there the dragon flew; right over her head. Smoke was forming around his tail.
"What was that?" she questioned with widen eyes. This was the first time she saw the spell.
"In human words, the spell is called Ashfallen." The reason why he stated the spell in his language was because Ashfallen was the smaller version meant for humans, while Caderder'it Cinisinus was able to transport a dragon his size.
"Man, you need to teach me that!" She shouted with a grin.
"There is a lot that I did not teach you, such as this spell and two another."
She tilted her head to the side, "You gonna teach me them?"
"I thought we were in a fight," he concluded with a fond grin.
"You haven't even hurled a fireball at me!"
"You want me too?"
"Not even taking this fight serious!"
He wanted to chuckle at her. If he took this fight seriously, he would not even have to open his mouth and instead just roll onto her. Even stepping on her would end this fight. She may be a Dragon Slayer, but she was still inexperienced.
Finally, he gave in, and sent a weak fireball a foot away from her head. Instead of dodging it, she slipped the fire into her mouth and blew it back into his direction with her own fire added to the mixture. It died out before it even reached him in the sky.
She licked her lips from what taste was left of Igneel's flames. It tasted so nostalgic.
With a flap of his wings, she slide several feet backwards. She knelt to the ground and tried to stay her place, while Igneel slowly landed on the cloud field. Her face went back to her normal complexion, and she brushed her bangs back from her forehead. "Finally," she uttered with grin.
Natsha raced toward the dragon, but the dragon used another spell, "Hitzigue All'e." His body transformed into fire and the fire zoomed past her; forming a wall of fire. His body returned at the very end of it, and the fire slowly faded away.
She really needed to learn Dragon Language or get him to write her these spells.
"Come at me, Igneel!" The girl shouted as she covered herself in fire. It wasn't fair that he kept moving away from her instead of facing her like a man.
Maybe she has been by Elfman for a little too long.
His jaw opened and a ball of fire formed between his razor teeth. She increased her own flames until she looked like a burning building. Her bandages around her breast started slipping from all of the movement.
A newcomer sat on top of the rock as she gazed at them. The newcomer had a smile tugging at her lips from the sight. Daughter and father reunited once again; too bad she couldn't reunite to her own daughter because of Igneel's protests. Yet he went against his own rules to pick up Natsha.
Igneel halted his attack, gulping the flames down his throat, and turned his head to look at the newcomer. "Grandeeney."
"Huh?" Natsha's flames died out as she turned her head to where Igneel was looking. That name reminded her of something, but she could not remember as to what exactly.
Sitting on the rock, where Natsha first woke up in, was a blue dragon. The dragon, instead of scales, was covered in feathers that resembled a cloud in a sort of way. Her lips curled into a smile as she was finally noticed by the two of them. "Who would have thought the Great Igneel would have gone back on his own words."
"She needed to know these spells. If not, her match with…him… will only end badly on both sides."
"You could have done what I've done."
"Send index cards to her without the training?"
"I was following your orders." She looked as if she was rubbing the fact into his face.
Natsha, lost, looked back from both dragons. She did not understand what they were arguing about.
"Grandeeney, this is not the time for your complaints."
The dragon looked down at the human girl, "Listen child, the beast roars now, but later without your presence, he turns his back whenever I visit. I only came to see Igneel's daughter in the flesh. The daughter he always keeps his mouth shut about."
"Do not add her into our arguments, Sky Creature."
"Fine, I see I am not wanted here." The dragon turned around and her tail flushed in the wind. She glanced over her shoulder, "Tell Wendy I'm watching." With a wink, the dragon took off into the sky.
"W-Wendy?" Natsha blinked and looked at her shoulder where her Fairy Tail mark was inked.
A blue haired girl stood next to her. She was rubbing her shoulder as she gazed at the ground; remembering the past. 'Gradeneey…she…she disappeared seven years ago…' The white cat turned around and sent a icy glare at Natsha for asking her partner that question, about the dragons.
"Hey! COME BACK!" She raced over the clouds, but soon it ended. The dragon was sailing against the horizon and somehow turned into a blue orb. "SHE RATHER HEARS IT FROM YOUR MOUTH! NOT FROM MINE!"
The dragon did not turn back.
"Leave the sky creature alone. Much like the wind, she only comes whenever there is gossip to spread." He couldn't be bothered by her complaints much longer. Every time that dragon entered his nest, his ears were yakked off from all of her talking. What he does was his business, and he had good reason to bring his daughter to his nest, unlike Grandeneey who only wanted to be surrounded in human affairs.
"No. Wendy needs to know," Natsha stated firmly. The girl, much like herself, has been looking for her mother for several years without any hope, much like Gajeel. She couldn't be the only one to find her foster father, all of them needed to find their parents. "Igneel," she turned her head around and looked at him, "Will you follow her for me?"
"Weren't we in the middle of a match before that accursed dragon shown up?"
"We need to follow her before she gets too far away."
In the end, he gave in and lowered his neck to her. She climbed on and his wings started flapping.
She felt her stomach turned. Igneel gulped.
…
"Dragon!" Laxus roared into the fog. He turned in a circle, looking for beast he was following. He stomped his foot onto the ground and growled.
He was lost in the middle of the fog, and the Thunder Tribe was nowhere to be seen. Happy was already lost when the fog first appeared. Natsha was lost from the very beginning.
He felt like his hair was going to fall out.
The blonde could not even count how many days he has been searching for the pink haired. And the only two clues he had was from the two Dragon Slayers that he was on the right trail, but then that Dragon appeared. It could only mean one thing.
Natsha was close.
He didn't care if he was on the wrong trail. Suddenly Natsha disappears and now a dragon shows up. There was no way those two events were unrelated. The dragon only reconfirmed his thought by appearing before them.
His hand reached out and he touched the bark on a tree. He didn't know what direction was what, but he went past the tree and went straight. Either he would meet back up with the Thunder Tribe, or either the shoreline.
Or the dragon lair.
He is hoping for the latter.
"SALAMANDER! NATSHA!" he shouted into the fog. "DRAGON! IGNEEL!" He would call followers, but he knew they were behind him somewhere in the fog; he was only looking for one main person.
The girl who started the brawls in the guild.
Even if he say nothing about it, his eyes did wander from the second floor whenever she shown up within the guild.
He was watching from his normal table as Natsha walked up to the raven haired. In her hands was a trunk. Everyone around them was fighting. "ICE PRINCESS!"
"Huh?" Gray turned around. He was naked from head to toe.
She shoved his trunks into his mouth and punched him backwards.
Laxus couldn't help but chuckle. Evergreen glanced his way, "You…are watching her? Natsha?" The blonde ignored her as he took a sip from his glass.
Ever since that day, Evergreen has been on his case. Watching his every move whenever the pink haired entered the doors. Accursed woman.
The girl who tried fighting with him at every chance.
Every day, he waited for her to appear in front of him and demanding a fight. He always denied the request to see her angry pout and shouting that she would defeat him one day.
Natsha pounded her fist onto the railing and retreated downstairs, after getting denied for the hundredth time. Freed plucked a loose hair from his green mane, and asked a question that has been bugging him, 'What are you going to do when she does defeat you?'
'Then I deserved it. A weakling like her defeating me? That's shameful to my name. Not even wearing a bunny suit would make up for it.'
Which ended with Bickslow making a bet with him that if Natsha does pound his ass in battle, Laxus has to wear a bunny suit for a week.
And then there was Happy, who napped on his head ever since the feline was born.
More or less, after two years, most of the guild members knew about his actions whenever Natsha was around; because of the Accursed Woman (Ever) and She-Demon (Mira).
"NATSHA! GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE!" he shouted once more into the fog.
Then it appeared.
An orb above him.
It did not move from the sky, it only stayed there above him.
'Are you lost, human?'
TBC
Don't you guys love it when the plot comes back? Yeah, it took me a while, but finally the plot has returned. And guess what! It's about our main characters! I know, it's a shock, but believe me…Laxus and Natsha are actually the main characters and not Gajeel/Erza/Juvia/Rouge/Freed! Also, remember that one story I was talking about last chapter? Well, I got the first two chappies up! It's called King's Contract! If you like Fem!NatsuxLaxus (if you don't…then why are you reading this…O_o) and Fem!NatsuxSting, then check that out!
And to my listeners (you know...since I'm a Teller, you guys are listening to my story...I know...it sucks...):
rinpup14: I would hope so, since ya been following for fifteen chappies.
Danizinhachan: That's about the summary, thanks for wrapping it up! XD, and yeah, actually, hasn't Gajeel done a Laxus before? When he called Levy small that one time on that island, she ran away and he went after her...Idunno. Hey, if you read my other stories with Fem!NatsuxLaxus, Happy bugs the crap out of Laxus 24/7...I even made an Oneshot about Laxus watching Happy (Problem Kitty) and in the end *spoilers*Laxus gets blame for Happy's doings, so yeah, the two of them together...that's the complete opposite of Natsha and Igneel (these two actually want to be together...while Laxus doesn't want anything to do with the bugger). Thanks!
darkhuntressxir: Well, now we know it's not Gajeel's dragon, so it's good. ANd the plot has finally appeared!