25th: A dragon's roar
Summary: The sound of a dragon's roar scared most people but to them, it meant just one thing: 'home'.
Wendy was pretty young when she joined Fairy Tail after Cait Shelter had played out to be nothing than an illusion that had been supposed to make her happy. Therefore, she was easily scared by many things – even though Charle tried to hide this. Natsu and Gajeel noticed it anyway and seeing that Gajeel had a soft spot for blue-haired women (and such who would be a woman one day), he tried to be nice to her. He quickly realised that she missed her dragon – hell, they all did.
Their dragons had been their families and even though Metalicana had been a bastard sometimes, he had been Gajeel's father just like Grandine had been Wendy's mother. And so, the dragon slayers formed the craziest kind of family anyone had ever seen – even surpassing the strange dynamics of the Dreyar-family. Wendy was like their little sister and both Natsu and Gajeel would do anything to protect her – but they would never consider each other as brothers.
They had merely gotten adjusted to their current situation when Laxus had returned and seeing that he was also kind of a dragon slayer, he had to be integrated into their already messed-up system and became Wendy's distanced 'cosin'.
This covered all the problems they had had for a few weeks before a new problem appeared: Gajeel started to date Levy and so the family grew once more. Levy became the title of an aunt and while she claimed that it made her feel old, she was visible flattered. Lucy was included the same way and everything was fine once more – at least until Wendy started to blush whenever Romeo was around and Gajeel who wasn't as dense as Natsu realised quickly that this meant that their family was growing once more. The problem about Romeo was that he was like Natsu's little brother and so Natsu couldn't be Wendy's brother anymore and became an uncle while Lucy was promoted to be a sister. While they were at it, they also included Juvia into their family seeing that she was the closest Gajeel had to a responsible older sister though the water mage was younger. When Cana joined the family as she started to date Laxus, it was easy since Laxus had never been closely 'related' to another member of their family.
Sting and Rogue never got included into the family – probably because Gajeel who viewed himself as he head of family had a little problem with the Shadow Dragon Slayer who had dared to commit two sins: insulting Gajeel's cat, Patherlily, and hitting on Levy – well, Gajeel considered asking her after the way as a blatant attempt to take the blue-haired Solid Script Mage away from him and he had reacted according to this – and even Rogue didn't have the reflexes to avoid Gajeel's wrath and had spent the following weeks in the hospital, unable to eat solid food. This had kinda ruined the interest the both former Dragon Slayers of Sabertooth had had in joining the crazy family Fairy Tail's Dragon Slayers had formed to give themselves a home.
It was strange how the members of this family reacted when they heard a dragon's roar. For Wendy, it meant that her brothers were fine. For Gajeel, it meant that either Laxus or Natsu were showing off and that he had to remind them of their rightful places. For Natsu, it meant that the stupid iron brain was probably still standing and fighting while Wendy was probably healing someone who had gotten hurt. To Laxus, it meant that his only true rivals in his guild were sound and safe – well, as safe as anyone could be on a battlefield. For Levy, it meant that Gajeel was alright and this always relieved her. For Lucy, this meant that Natsu was probably nearby; fighting recklessly as always and she would smile. For Romeo, this meant that Wendy and Natsu-nii were both fine and that was all the young Fire Mage had to know. For Juvia, this meant that she hadn't to worry about Gajeel-kun because as long as she could hear his roar, he was alright. For Cana, it meant that Laxus had reached the battlefield and this always gave her new strength.
Yes, their enemies were frightened at the sound but to them, it meant 'home'.