"Hey Natsu...are you alright?" Zara asked, seeing the Dragon Slayer's eyes shut tightly. She walked back over and placed the bowl of stew on the stool next to the bed.

"Maybe he went back to sleep?" Happy suggested. Zara shook her head and bit her lip. "No, something isn't right…" She placed her pale hand on Natsu's head, checking for a fever.

Then, to both of their surprise, Natsu's eyes shot open. Faster than anyone could blink, he grabbed her wrist tightly with his non-bandaged hand, pulling her close to his face. He seemed to be frantically searching for answers in her sky blue eyes.

"Who the hell are you? What the fuck did I just see?"
"Natsu… your hand… it's hurting me..."

Natsu looked down at his hand and quickly released her. Zara quickly pulled back and began rubbing her wrist.

"How the hell should I know what you saw?" She questioned

Natsus eyes didn't sway from the woman's."There was this lady and you in a room...and you and her were taking care of me...then all of a sudden...Zeref...came in.."

"So, you do remember something…" Zara pursed her lips and turned around and pulled back the curtain to the other room. Happy took a peek inside and saw more bookshelves, also filled to the brim with books and scrolls. In the middle of the room there was a desk- surprisingly clean compared to the rest of the cave- and she walked to it and picked up a box. She then turned around and carried the box with her back to the bed and sat on the edge.

"Here, Natsu. Your birth certificate." Zara handed him a slip of paper that was falling apart at all the folds. He looked up at her expecting her to be joking, but her face was dead serious. He opened it and looked at it. Happy peaked at the sheet. Honestly, it looked like lines to the Exceed, even more so that usual.

"Hey Natsu, what does it say?"

The dragon slayer cleared his throat and began.

"Certificate of live birth, name Natsu Dragneel. Sex: Male, Single, Time of birth 6:03 am.. Mother: Alisa Bia Dragneel, Father: Malachi Rory Dragneel ..Date of birth July 7th….Where the hell did you get this? This has to be fake..."

"No, it's real." Zara stated matter of factly. "Your parents gave it to me to keep safe. You went through a period of trying to burn down the house, so they asked me to put it in a safe place until you learned how to control it… Now, here is your older brother's." She pulled out an older looking sheet and handed it to the dragon slayer. He shakily opened it and looked at the words.

He paled and his hands began to shake slightly- his grip on the paper tightened the further he read.

"Natsu… what does it say? Who's your brother?" Happy asked.

The dragon slayer's hands now shook uncontrollably and then he stood up, and crumpling up the sheet. "HEY! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW-" Natsu glared at her, or she guessed he did; she couldn't see his eyes.

"This isn't fucking funny, lady..." He murmured. He walked to the table and gripped it until his knuckles turned white. Then he flipped the table over, all the stuff falling to the floor; now his whole body was shaking violently.

"HEY!" Zara exclaimed in horror, watching the papers fall. "All my research messed up…." Natsu ignored her, and went to the edge of the cave, and let out a deafening roar.

All over the country, those who had the Fairy Tail mark woke up at the same time, startled (minus Levy and Gajeel- they were already awake-(*^o^*)) but almost all just sighed and went back to sleep. All except one. Lucy Heartfilia got up and looked to the moon. "Natsu…" She whispered.

Back at the cave, Natsu finally stopped screaming and had slumped back onto the bed, exhausted.

"You better now?" Zara asked hesitantly, not wanting him to blow up again. Natsu looked up, his face still pale, but he had finally calmed down.

"You're telling me that he- of all people.."

Zara nodded her head slowly.

"Yes, he is… but in all honesty I thought you would freak out more about the year of birth…"

"Yeah, that has to be fake."

"No, it's very much real; you really were born then… trust me, I was there; I helped with the delivery."

Happy, meanwhile, was completely clueless on what they were saying- they had slipped into a different language.

"Uh, Natsu? What's going on?" He asked.

The dragon slayer turned to him in surprise. But Zara spoke for him.

"He's speaking our native tongue, blue cat, a dead language: Latin."

Happy was beyond confused, but Zara continued, picking up the stew from the stool and held it out as an offering.

"Natsu, eat. I need you to listen carefully to my story… it is really important- and in it, you might be able to find out who you were, who you are, and maybe who you will be."

Natsu looked at Happy and Happy looked at Natsu and they both shrugged.

The dragon slayer took the stew from the woman and began to eat it quickly. After about thirty seconds, Natsu had finished and sat cross-legged on the bed with Happy in his lap. Zara pulled over a rocking chair that looked like it had seen better days and sat down, covering her legs with an old quilt. Happy thought she looked like an old grandmother who was about to tell her grandkids a bedtime story.

"All that I'm about to tell you is the truth. Most of it won't make sense to you now, but wait until I get to the end; I promise everything will be explained. Zeref, Acnologia, Celestial Magic: All of this began more than 400 years ago, with two idiots who got stuck in a tree."

(A/n Hestia: yay! Happy birthday me! We're publishing a chapter today to celebrate! AND ALSO OVER A THOUSAND VIEWS HOLY CRAP I LOVE YOU GUYS!

But seriously, how are you all liking this?)

Vesta: I feel like this chapter is short(er)... probably is, I'm just too lazy to look up word count on my phone right now :P Anyway, whoo! Two chapters in less than a week! Yay! And the next chapter should be up pretty soon- within this week, probably.)