Chapter 8

Natsu was struggling to understand what was happening to him, when he looked at this Juvia he wanted to get even closer to her. So, he did just that by pulling Juvia into a tight hug. When he did Juvia's face tinted red and her heart beat even faster.

Natsu noticed that the rain had started to get warm, so he took that as a good sign. Natsu noticed though that Juvia appeared to be very pale and cold so he used some of his fire magic to warm his body up to make her warmer.

Juvia couldn't believe what was happening; out of nowhere a stranger had appeared and asked for her name. After that he had suddenly pulled her into a hug, she already felt like she was going to pass out from happiness, but then she felt the heat.

Juvia knew it had to be coming from the boy, because he was already naturally warm, but then he had gotten even hotter to a very warm and comfortable heat. She felt as if she were laying by a warm fire place wrapped in a blanket on a really cold day.

Juvia relishing in the heat started to fall asleep before the boy talked to her. "Where are your parents?" He asked. Juvia got a little sad at that question and felt like crying again.

Natsu noticed that the rain had started to get cold again so he added a little more heat, but at the same time he realized that this girl must be the rain woman and her emotions which seemed to be linked to her magic was causing the rain.

"You don't have to answer if you don't feel like it I didn't mean to make you sad." He said. Juvia allowed her face to get red again as she finally put her hands around the boy to complete the hug and absorb more of his heat. "I don't have parents, I live at an orphanage. Nobody there likes me though, I can't control my magic and it always rains; because of that everybody gets mad at the rain and me." She said.

Natsu smiled and placed one of his hands on the girls cap covered head. "I like this rain it's a sign that times are bad, but you always have to think about the amazing rainbow that can be made after the rain finally goes away." Natsu said.

Juvia felt her heart beat even faster as the rain slowed down. "Y-You like the rain?" She asked surprised. "Well sure rain is nice every now and again, but you don't want it to last forever do you. You eventually want the rain to end so that you can see the sun; there is nothing more beautiful than the sun after a good rain." He said.

Juvia's face couldn't have been more joyous then in that moment as her smile encompassed her whole face. She was so happy that someone truly understood how she felt and wanted to be. When the boy gently nudged her though she looked at him and noticed it was no longer raining.

"See its lovely isn't it, the sun after it rains?" He asked. Juvia then looked where he was looking and couldn't help but to feel that he was right, the sun was gently putting its warmth on her face and the sky was a beautiful blue the seemed to gleam.

He then pointed his hand in another direction and Juvia caught sight of a beautiful rainbow that seemed to cover the whole sky. Juvia then shifted her body so that she was lying on Natsu as he kept his arms around her.

While she felt sleepy, Juvia still wanted to ask her own questions. "What is your name, you haven't said yet?" Juvia asked. Natsu looked down at her and smiled. "My name is Natsu Dragneel." Juvia smiled to herself.

'Natsu, such a nice and strong name.' She thought. "Where do you live, I've never seen you around here before?" Juvia asked. "I don't have a home my father and my friends are traveling with me to look for a symbol that was on me when my dad found me." He said.

"So you are adopted then?" Juvia asked. Natsu nodded for Juvia. "I guess so, but I have never known any parent other than Igneel so it doesn't feel weird or anything." Natsu said.

He then looked down at Juvia once more who was almost asleep. "Would you like to come with me and my friends on our journey to look for the symbol?" Natsu asked. Juvia's eyes widened to epic proportions before she calmed back down and thought about it.

'Is He asking me to be with him… forever, oh my he's so daring.' Juvia thought as her face became red with all the thought going through her mind. Natsu became worried as he noticed Juvia's face getting really red, before he could ask her if she was alright Juvia moved again.

Juvia had placed her whole body weight on Natsu and was just about to fall asleep. "I would love to go with you Natsu." Juvia said before she tightened her grip on Natsu and fell asleep. Natsu only smiled at that and waited until Juvia was completely asleep and picked her up bridal style and headed back towards Igneel.

After a few minutes of careful walking so he wouldn't drop or wake Juvia Natsu finally arrived back to Igneel and his friends. When they saw the girl and questioned Natsu about her he answered all their questions and then told them that she would be coming with them on their trip to look for the symbol.

Everyone took the information in and didn't question it, but both Ur and Igneel seemed to have a twinkle of understanding in their eyes that the younger people didn't understand. He then told them that he had found no information on the symbol, so everyone then got back on Igneel and prepared to look for another village that might have information.

When everyone got on Igneel's back though, Natsu hadn't let Juvia out of his sight and laid her down next to him so that her head rested in his lap. Everyone continued to talk and ask questions about the new girl while they travelled.

Seeing as how a small town didn't have much information, the group had decided that their next destination would be a larger town, and they would continue to go to larger and larger towns until they found solid information on the symbol.

After a few days of flight Natsu and the others had come to know Juvia a lot better, and she was glad to have so many people that cared for her. After she had been surprised by meeting Igneel Juvia had warmed up to him quickly and was very grateful when he told her that the rain came from her lack of control over her large amount of magic.

After she had heard that Juvia had set out to practice every chance she got to control her magic and had great fun practicing with everyone else. She was glad to know that everyone used different kinds of magic and was very surprised by Natsu's ability to use many magic types.

Igneel had been following his nose to a large town for the last day, but that had changed sometime over the day and the town he smelled previously full of people now smelt like it was burning and being destroyed and as if no one was left alive.

Igneel flew towards the town slightly faster and within an hour the flames of the burning city that he had smelt were visible to all. Igneel took in a deep sniff and looked around, and he only smelt a few people alive, but they were close to dying.

His eyes then caught something though; near the edge of the town there was a house that was completely in shambles, but inside there was a boy with bright blonde hair that seemed to be protecting three little kids from the destruction around them.

He could tell that the boy with bright blonde/yellow hair was hurt as he had blood dripping down his right arm and some on his forehead, but other than that the four people were savable in comparison.

Igneel then swooped down and in one quick move landed near the house that the four people were in. Now that he was closer though Igneel was able to tell that the boy was around Natsu's age and he had some strange satchel bag on him, and the smaller children were all girls and two appeared to be around Wendy, Sting, and Rogue's age but the last one looked slightly younger than Natsu but around the same age.

When the boy saw him though he instantly turned toward Igneel and lit his hand on fire with black flames as if preparing to attack. Igneel drew in a breath and the boy's fire traveled to Igneel's mouth while the boy collapsed on his knees.

"I don't wish to fight you boy, quite the opposite if you are willing to accept it I offer you my help." Igneel said. The boy was breathing heavy but managed to stand up and accept Igneel's offer of help.

Igneel then put his head down so the four could climb on, the first one on was one of the girls who had bright pink hair and was shaking. Next on was the other smaller girl who had a pale white-blue color of hair. When she climbed on Igneel's back and Rouge was able to see her he immediately fell to his knees and began to breath heavy.

Everyone helped the girl on and then looked at Rogue as he started to sweat while still breathing hard. Natsu guessing what was going on since something similar had happened told them not to worry while they help the next girl up.

The girl had a strange purple color of hair and when she was on Igneel's back, much like Rouge Natsu suddenly collapsed to his knees and started breathing heavy. When Juvia tried to come over and help him he simply waved her away and told her to help the last person while he tried to get his air back.

After the boy had finally managed to get on Igneel took off into the sky and flew in a safe direction. Wendy went into action first and started healing the girls of their minor injuries, before she could get to the boy though she was almost completely out of magic.

Natsu had managed to get his breath back though and help Wendy sit down while he healed the boy. When he healed the boy he asked him his name and where he had come from. The boy looked at him for a minute before deciding to answer.

"My name is Zancrow, I was being trained by a man of the name Hades, but when he gave me the test to join his guild which consisted of killing someone I refused. He then called me a failure and had two of his men try to kill me but I managed to escape.

"Along the way I managed to grab a few things that he kept guarded because he felt they were important, but I was seen doing that which is how Hades minions were able to find me again, and that's how my arm got injured.

"I tried to run away into this town but they followed me here and thought that the best way to kill me was to destroy the whole town. Along the way I was able to lose them and save those three, but I didn't expect to be saved by a dragon." Zancrow said at the end before he passed out.

When the boy had reawakened the next day he decided to officially introduce himself to everyone which led to the girls doing so as well. The three girls that Zancrow had managed to save went by the names Kagura Mikazuchi, Meredy, and Yukino Aguria.

Once all four were completely healed Natsu seeing how it wouldn't hurt asked if any of them had seen the symbol he was looking for. When he drew the symbol for them Zancrow's eyes widened before he spoke. "I've seen that symbol before, it's for the mage guild called Fairy Tail."