Shen had revealed his secret.

Chapter 4 Start

The guild was stunned into silence as Shen told them that he was a hybrid of a human and a dragon.

"Now I told you." Shen said "And I do not intend to stay here any longer."

"Half human and half dragon? Are you saying you're like a Dragon Slayer?" Natsu asked

"I'll answer your questions then get out of my way. Natsu unlike you, Wendy and Gajeel who were trained by dragons I was not. I am the biological son of a dragon. I was born from a human and dragon." No one knew what to say, Shen sighed "My mother was a human and my father was a dragon. My father left to protect me and my mother so no one would know about the dragon blood that runs through my veins. If I hear that any of you let what I told you slip, I will not hesitate to kill you." Shen noticed that none of the guild members moved yet "Now move."

"Explain why you want to leave." Makarov said to Shen.

"I need to leave because now I have been found by those people again, people know of my power and will think I am dangerous, and to be honest I don't trust any of you to keep my secret for long, and people all around will come and will hunt me down for being, as I was called today, a freak of nature, for being a son of a human and a dragon. I am leaving for my safety, which is all I care about."

"You can't trust us?" Makarov said "Why?"

Shen smiled "Humans are dishonest, untrustworthy and selfish creatures. They fear what they don't understand and want to be rid of it, and they will do whatever they need to do to gain power and status in the world. I may be a half human myself but that doesn't change my answer."

"You are afraid we will say something about you to the wrong person and they will hunt you?"

"Exactly. My safety is my top priority."

"You do know if you stay in Fairy Tail every member will swear on their lives that they will not let a word about you slip out, and no one here minds that you are a mix of human and dragon."

"Swearing on their lives? How do I know this isn't a lie?"

Makarov looked at Shen for a while then said "You hate purebred humans, don't you?"

"Why do you think that?"

"You talk of humans with hatred, and I can tell it by your eyes, you hate humans because they did something to you."

Shen looked down "You are partly right. I don't hate all humans, that would mean I hated my mother, but I only hate the ones that did what they did to me..."

"Will you let us know?" Erza asked "After all you are still a member of Fairy Tail at this moment." She said tapping her neck and Shen remembered the black Fairy Tail mark.

"Why do you need to know my past? It's over and done with, what I did and what was done to me can never be changed."

"Will you tell us?" She asked.

"I don't see why it matters, but fine."

This next part is going to be what happened, not the way Shen tells Fairy Tale.

The woman that walked beside her child, who was 3 at the time, had blonde hair and blue eyes. She stood at about 5 foot 5 and wore a light jacket. The young child, that was three at the time, had short red hair and golden eyes.

"Where are we going, mommy?" The child asked.

"We'll going to find a place to live." She said with a smile.

"...Why did daddy leave?"

"He wanted us to be safe. People don't like dragons Shen. They are afraid of them. You shouldn't mention your father around other humans."

Shen nodded "Okay, I won't."

"Good."

They continued travelling for a week until they came to a village and were happily accepted into the village. There were about 50 citizens in the village and many kids Shen could play with. He fit in very well with the other kids and no one knew what he was...until one day about 6 years later. Him and his closest friend, along with a group of other kids were playing a game when one of his friends did something stupid, but at the same time funny and everyone started laughing but Shen's laughing was cut off as he started to cough. He felt a little heat in his throat but thought nothing of it as he continued coughing.

"You okay Shen?" His best friend asked and Shen nodded, before his coughing got harder and suddenly a stream of fire shot from his mouth catching the other kids off guard and they all moved away.

"What was that?" One of them asked.

"How did you do that?" One of the others asked excitedly.

"I..I don't know." Shen replied confused, not knowing it was something he got from his father.

"That was awesome." His best friend replied.

"I-I guess so..." Shen said, wondering why that happened. Once he got home he said nothing of it to his mother. Two nights later he was awakened from shouting downstairs and he crept down the stairs and into the front hall. His mother was at the door with all the other villagers at the door, his friends and grown-ups alike.

"All of the children are saying the same thing!" One of the adults told his mom "He started coughing before he let out a stream of fire from his mouth!"

"That's not something a kid should ever be able to do! You are hiding something from us and we demand to know what it is!"

"I'm not hiding anything. Now please leave or you're awaken Shen."

"We don't care if we awaken that demon child!"

Shen walked into view "I'm already awake mom." He said with a small yawn.

"Shen, go back upstairs." His mother said.

"But it's too noisy...maybe if you tell them they'll leave."

"Shen! Back upstairs!"

"The villagers pushed past his mom and partly into the house "Why don't you tell us what you are then!" a female shouted at Shen.

Shen yawned "Then will you leave so I can get back to sleep? My father was a dragon." He replied calmly, honestly like any kid would.

There was silence before he saw movement from the side of his vision before he felt a fist hit him and knock him off his feet.

"Ow! What was that for?!" He shouted at the one that hit him, as he tasted blood in his mouth.

"He's a son of a dragon! He's a danger to anyone around him! He needs to be dealt with now!" A man, who he realized was his best friend's father, said rising a kitchen knife. Shen's eyes went wide as he saw the knife, but his mother suddenly tackled him to the ground.

"You will not kill my son! Shen, run!"

He was stunned and wasn't sure what to do "Mom?" He got to his feet and the man she had tackled threw her off of him "You're protecting a monster like him? Then you can die too Dragon Lover!" The man stabbed her in the chest, right through the heart. Shen ran to her side.

"M-mom!" He said taken over by the fear that any kid would feel if their mother was stabbed.

"Now to deal with you, dragon child."

His mom was still alive and whispered to him "Shen...you have to live...remember that I will always...love...you." Her eyes quickly went empty and her head fell to the side.

"Mom!" He shouted as tears escaped from his eyes and sadness filled his body, but just as suddenly as the tears started his sadness turned to unbearable rage "How could you do this... I'll kill you all!" He said standing up suddenly. Suddenly all went black.

Shen became faintly aware of the feels and sounds all around him. He could hear birds chirping and feel the hard ground under his head.

"Where am I?" He muttered as he opened his eyes and pushed himself to his feet. The sight that awaited him took his breath away. He was in the village, but all of the buildings were destroyed and bodies, and limbs were scattered around the area. He looked down and saw most of his body was covered in blood, his hands most of all, and he had a copper-like taste in his mouth.

"W-what happened?" Suddenly painful memories came to his mind and he saw his mom dying before him again, and he saw images of him, tearing each of the villagers apart, even his friends.

"I-I-I d-did this..." He sat there for a moment before he crawled to where his mother's body was. He sat there for a moment before tears started to run down his face again. He could have been sitting there for minutes, hours, or days, but to him it felt like many, many years. He had lost the one that loved him and he was now forced to travel by himself, trying to survive. He left the ruined village with a heavy heart and for the first time, alone. He eventually found a city and walked in. No one paid any mind to him. As night came for the first time in the city, he entered an alley and slept there. The next morning he was hungry, but had no food. He went near a fruit market and manged to steal an apple, and from that point on he started to steal just to live and he got so good at it so quickly that he was never caught. About a month later as he he was siting in an alley again, thinking about how his life had turned out he heard noises at the other end of the alley. As he looked out he saw 2 boys, about 2 or 3 years older then him, bullying a young girl that may have been his age or a little younger. They were holding a doll away from her, passing it to each other over her head.

"Give it back! It's mine!" She shouted as she reached for it as they passed it. Normally Shen avoided interaction with humans but this time he stepped out and none of the three noticed him until he snatched the doll from the air and handed it to the girl.

"Don't touch things that aren't yours." Shen said looking at the two boys as he gently pushed the girl behind him.

"Why not?" One said stepping up to him, being 4 inches taller then him "What are you going to do about it you wimp?"

Shen smirked "You really want to know?"

"There is nothing a wimp like you can-" He was cut off as Shen swung his fist into the boy's cheek sending him to the ground.

Shen glanced at the other one "You going to try fight me too?" The kid looked at his friend then ran off. Shen lead the girl to the other side of the alley, now getting a good look at her as the sun hit her. She had brown hair to her shoulders and bright blue eyes. She wore a green silk dress that went down to her knees. Her face and arms were dirty, most likely from trying to get her doll back. She smiled at Shen as they exited the alley.

"Thank you for getting me my doll back!"

"Don't worry about it."

She leaned closer and kissed his cheek "You're my hero."

Shen felt his face go red "Um...thanks."

"Do you want to come to my house and meet my dad?"

"Um..okay?" He said, in a question type way. She took his hand and led him through streets and alleys until they came upon a house and she opened the door, pulling Shen in.

"Daddy, I'm home!" A middle aged man came in and smiled "Erica where have you been?" He noticed Shen "And who is your friend?"

"He helped save my doll from two mean boys." She said as she let Shen's hand go and went to her dad and hugged him.

"I'm Shen." He responded, trying to act polite, not knowing if any humans could be trusted.

"Well Shen I thank you for helping my daughter. Where do you live?"

Shen looked down "Since my mom died...nowhere." Silence took hold of the room until Erica whispered something into her dad's ear.

He smiled "Shen, how would you like to stay with us?"

Shen looked up at him "R-Really?"

"Yeah. My daughter has taken a liking to you and I want to thank you for helping her."

Shen thought about saying no, remembering how humans had ruined his life once before, but when he thought about going back to living on the streets he nodded.

"O-okay. T-thank you." Shen said, not sure what else to say.

"Then's it's settled." Erica's dad said "Erica, you need to go and get cleaned up, go and take a bath."

"Okay daddy." She said going up the stairs

He looked at Shen "You need to take one after too." He walked into the kitchen and motioned for Shen to follow, which he did hesitantly.

"I'm Jase by the way." He said sitting at the table "Sit."

Shen walked over and sat across from him.

"Is it okay if I ask you a few questions?"

"Yes..."

"You told me your mom had died...but how?"

Shen avoided eye contact and looked down "She was murdered in front of me. She died protecting me and I ran..." Shen said lying on the spot.

"Why do people do things like that?" Jase said shaking his head "What about your father?"

Shen's heart jumped, and he reminded himself not to say what he did before "He left me and my mother. He disappeared. I haven't seen him since I was 3 years old."

Jase sighed "You've had a really hard life haven't you?"

Shen still avoided eye contact "Yes...but I have managed..."

"How long ago since your mother...passed on?"

"About a month and a half ago."

"Your mother really loved you to die protecting you. Remember that and it will help you move forward in your life."

Shen nodded "I will." but he added to himself mentally 'I'll remember she died because of what I am...'

"Just remember you are safe here."

Shen looked up at him now and thought 'Can I trust this person? He's human...but he seems nice...but so did the villagers for 6 years...but I will not reveal what I am and maybe I can live here happily.'

"Anyway if you have been living nowhere for a month you must be hungry. I'll start making dinner now."

Life had seemed to turn around for Shen. He was living with Jase and Erica for a while now and he had turned 10, and he learned Erica was only 8, going onto 9. Shen refused to interact with humans, unless they were friends with Erica, but he spent most of the time at the house, playing with her alone. Jase had work to do so he wasn't around in the morning but he told them to stay in the house and ignore the door if anyone came to it and he came home around 4-5pm every day. One day he came home and found Shen sitting on the couch alone.

"Where's Erica?"

"She went to sleep early. She was tired." Shen told him.

"Okay. I heard some talk today."

Shen turned to him "What was it about?"

"A village about a week's journey from here was just discovered destroyed. The buildings were burned to the ground and there were rotting corpses and bones everywhere."

Shen realized where he meant "Are you sure that talk is true?"

"I heard from someone that went near there, and the way he described it...I don't deny it."

"Any ideas who did something like that?"

"No idea... I just realized I never asked you a question before. How long were you in the city before you helped Erica?"

"About..." Shen thought "About a month."

"So you were here quite a while before. Anyway you should get some rest too."

"Yeah, I guess." Shen said standing up and walking upstairs and into the room he and Erica shared. Erica was asleep in her bed and Shen climbed into his bed and pulled the covers up and tried to sleep. After a few hours he hadn't gotten to sleep and the door slowly opened. Shen assumed it was Jase coming in to check in on them like he usually did. Shen was on his back and heard the footsteps move to Erica's bed and stayed there for a moment then a few steps came in his direction, but something fell and Jase muttered something as leaned down to pick it up. Like Dragon Slayers, he had a heightened sense of small,stronger then Dragon Slayers since he was really half dragon and he sniffed the air and caught a scent of something, and tensed a little, hoping it was not what he thought. As Jase came to his bed, Shen opened one eye very slightly and saw a small silver object in Jase's hand. Jase raised his hand with the object in it and after hesitating a moment he brought his hand down. Shen was out of his bed and standing on the ground beside it within a moment. Jase was taken off guard as his hand and weapon hit nothing, his weapon being a small switch blade. Shen looked at him for an answer.

"It would have been much easier if you were asleep..."

"Why...?" Shen asked, angry and depressed.

"You were the one that destroyed the village weren't you? You killed all the villagers and your own mother!"

Shen shook his head "My mother was murdered by them. I repaid them." Shen said giving up on hiding it "I was consumed by rage, I wanted my revenge. I do have the rage of a dragon inside me."

"Rage of a dragon?" Jase asked trying to inch closer, blade in hand.

"I am of mixed blood. Half human" Shen paused as he rolled across the bed, to get distance between him and Jase "and half dragon."

"You're a child of a dragon?!" He said in a hushed whisper as to not wake Erica.

"And a human. My mother was a human. Are you going to keep trying to kill me, just like the villagers did before?"

"You are a danger to me and my daughter. I can't believe I let her be around you so much...I'll get rid of you and dispose of your body before she wakes."

"Or you could let me leave here."

"If I let you leave and you destroy another village, that's something I will have to live with. I will rid the world of you here!"

"The world needs to be rid of people like you!" Shen shouted, not caring if he awoke Erica "You think I chose to be what I am?! I had no choice in the matter! I'm just trying to survive in this world where no one understands I did not pick to be half human and half dragon..."

"Then accept death and you won't have to worry about people feel about you."

Shen glared at him "You ignored what I said. I'm trying to survive!"

"You will never be able to live in this world peacefully. It will be easier for everyone if you die here!" Jase jumped on to the bed, slashing out at Shen but Shen took a quick step back.

"You're pretty agile for a kid." Jase said getting off the bed closer to Shen.

"I thought I could trust you...I'm never making the mistake of trusting a human again!" Shen shouted, charging at Jase, his head connecting with his stomach, and knocking the wind out of him, and taking him to his knees. Shen moved back and looked over at Erica, who was amazingly still asleep.

"I would kill you, but I don't want her to go through what I did when my mom died." Shen said to Jase who was getting to his feet "So I'm leaving." Shen walked to the door and turned the knob but just then he felt a sharp pain under his left shoulder blade, and went to his knees. He reached back and felt the handle of the blade that Jase was holding. He pulled it out of his back, holding back a scream of pain. He got to his feet and turned to Jase who had a sword in hand "You came prepared." Shen said as he examined the blade in his hand.

"I need to make sure you die."

Shen shook his head "Stop this...I don't want to kill you."

"Then don't fight he charged at Shen. Shen could only move to the side as the door was behind him. Shen moved to his left, but Jase must have known he was going to do that as he collided with Shen. Shen realized quickly that he was as a disadvantage, Jase got to his feet before Shen could.

"Now you can die!" He brought the tip of the sword down at Shen, but Shen grabbed the blade with both hands, holding the tip inches from his head.

"Too close..." Shen said, realizing his hands didn't hurt from the blade.

"Damn it...does dragon blood give you persistence as well as strength?!"

"That would be my human blood. It is human nature to live!"

A groan reached both of their ears as Erica sat up. Jase didn't stop his pushing, trying to get the blade down into Shen's head as he looked over at her bed. Erica looked at them and saw the sword near Shen's head.

"What are you two doing?!" She asked surprised "Why are you playing with a sword?"

Shen cursed under his breath "I've had enough of this!" Shen lifted his legs "Get away from me!" Shen kicked forward with both feet and full strength, sending Jase flying into the bedroom wall and to the ground. Shen stood up and a moment later Jase's sword, which was sent into the air as Shen kicked him, came down and stabbed directly through Jase's chest. Shen froze in shock and Erica gasped. Jase looked up and said in a whisper.

"Curse you...dragon child..." and with that Jase took his last breath. Shen slowly turned to Erica, who now had a few tears welling in her eyes.

"I...I didn't mean for that to happen..." Shen muttered "Erica..I'm sorry." Erica stood up and took a step towards her father's body before bolting out the bedroom door. A moment later Shen heard the front door open. Shen walked down the steps slowly and then out the front door, and saw Erica was nowhere in sight.

"Damn...I killed her father... and I've been betrayed by humans twice." Shen went towards the town gate "Humans can not be trusted...I will never trust humans again." Shen vowed as he left the town.

(Back To Present Time)

"A while after that the group of people you saw that attacked me formed and ever since then I have been moving from one place to the other." Shen said finishing his story of his past.

"No wonder you don't trust humans." Makarov said looking down and shaking his head.

"Not all humans are like that though..." Wendy muttered.

"That's way you wanted to leave...why you can't trust us..." Erza said looking down at the depressing tale as well.

"7 years since that happened and I still remember it clearly. There is no place I can live peacefully."

"About that group that is chasing you" Natsu said, not really being effected by the story "What is this?" Natsu said taking out the whip that the leader used. Shen jumped back and glared at him.

"Keep that fucking thing away from me!"

"What is it?" Natsu repeated.

"My weakness. I'm not sure what it is, but it reacts to my mixed blood and burns through my skin and to the bone" Shen said looking at his wrist "As you saw..." Shen stood up "I've said all I have to say." Shen said pushing past the guild members and out the door. Makarov and Team Natsu followed him until he got to the front of the group and stopped as Shen walked a little further.

"Think on it Shen. Think on staying with Fairy Tail and giving us a chance." Makarov asked him.

"Maybe." Shen said "Before I do that though." he turned to Natsu "As for the reason I hate you, it's not because of you, but of who you are."

"What do you even mean by that?"

"You'll find out soon I'm sure. Anyway, you said that Fairy Tail is like family, right?"

"Yeah. I told you that after I protected you from the whip."

"You didn't know that it may have been more true then you thought for me and you."

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

"You haven't pieced it together yet?" Shen asked

"Pieced together what?" Natsu asked getting annoyed.

"My magic is fire. My father is a dragon." Shen smiling as he saw Wendy then Gajeel realized what he was about to say "My father was the dragon that trained you Natsu! My father is Igneel!"

Chapter 4 End