Chapter 11: Who Wants to Know?
The train makes it to the station that is closest to Magic council. Natsu got out of the train at a quick pace. "Some things never change." Gray comments the familiar scene as he and the rest get off the train. "So what are doing here anyway?" He asks Lucy. Happy flies up to the Ice Devil Slayer. "We're here to find Gajeel. That is if he's here. As well as Pantherlily." Happy answers the question. They group browse around the town where the Council is. Natsu is sniffing the area. "Any luck?" Lucy asks the fire dragon slayer. Natsu narrows his eyes, then widens his grin. "No doubt about it. Gajeel is here." He tells his friends as he runs on ahead.
Happy smiles and flies up ahead to catch up to his friend. Gray shakes his head. "That guy will never change." He adds another casual comment. "He needs to chill when it comes to excitement." Lyon agrees with his rival. "No kidding. You don't even know what it's like sparing with him on a daily basis." Gray reminds Lyon. Lyon couldn't help but grin back. "I'd be able to kick his butt. But I had other plans instead." Lyon spoke back. Wendy and Carla run up ahead to catch up with Natsu. "Hey Natsu. What do you thinkg how Gajeel will react when he hears about the news?" The Sky Dragon Slayer asks him. Natsu shrugs his shoulders. "I'm not really sure. I just hope he'd be thrilled about it." He honestly replies back.
Natsu spots the gates of the magic council. "Halt. Who goes there?" The one guard stops Natsu and Happy. "I'm here to find Gajeel Redfox." Natsu gives his reason. The guards look at each other. "I'm afraid I can't allow you to enter." The oe gurad declines access. Natsu scowls at him. "Hey, I came all this way from Magnolia to find Gajeel and tell him something that might interest him." Natsu doesn't back down when it comes to make sure things go his way.
"We'll be happy to pass the message to him." The guard offers his one possibility. Natsu shakes his head. "Sorry, but this is between us Dragon Slayers. If you guys haven't noticed anything, I'm Natsu Dragneel of the Fairy Tail Guild and I'm a Fire Dragon Slayer." He introduces himself. The guards gasp. "Oh no. Not you. Your guild disbanded because of the involvment of the Tartaros Incident." Natsu isn't liking where this is going. He graps hold of the guard's collar. "Now you listen here. If it weren't for Fairy Tail, you guys would have died, or lost your magic power. You should be grateful that we took down one of the top guild from the Balam Alliance." Natsu growls at the guard. "I'm not going to wait here. I demand to see Gajeel Redfox." He threatens the captured guard.
"Alright, Salamander. That's enough." A deep voice stops Natsu. The door opens up to reveal a man with long black hair in a spiky way. He's wearing a pair of black boots, trousers and sleeveless jackets with a few feathers off on his left shoulder, which is very odd for man like him. He also has fingerless gloves on as well, to make him look biit intimiating to anyone. He has piercings on his eyes, nose, and ears. "Took you long enough." Natsu glares at the Iron Dragon Slayer. Wendy waves at him. "Hey there, Gajeel how are you?" She politely greets him with a smile. Gajeel smiles only at Wendy. "Well, Wendy I see you're growing up." He reaches through the bars of the gate to ruffle her blue hair. Carla flies up to Gajeel. "Enough. She worked so hard to get her hair up like that." She hisses. Wendy fixes her pigtails with the hair accessories in it to keep it still. "Okay. Okay Sorry. It's just been a year since I've seen you guys. So what brings you here anyway?" Gajeel asks them as everyone else came up. "I prefer to be in more private place to discuss about this." Natsu looks around before turning back to tell Gajeel.
Gajeel looks at the guards. "You two. No one is to follow my crew. Allow them in." He demands the guards. The guards don't waste another second and opens the gates to let the visitors in. Inside the building, Gajeel leads his friends into his sucluded room of the building. He opens the door to allow them in first. Inside Pantherlily is polishing his miniture weapon. "Hey, Lily. Guess who's here." Gajeel asks his little black cat buddy. Panther looks up to see some familiar faces. "Well, it's been awhile hasn't it?" He asks them as they make themselves comfortable. "So what brings you guys here anyway?" Pantherily asks them. Natsu speaks first. "You two might be interested to hear about this." He said to them with stoic look. Gajeel and Pantherlily look at each other with slight intriguement. "We're listening." Gajeel spoke to them. Natsu grins, "We happen to find a way to go to the place where the Dragons went when they left us." He tells them.
Gajeel's reaction isn't what Natsu was hoping for. Instead of an exciting look, Gajeel glares at him. "Why should I join you guys? You know fully well that Metalicana and I didn't get along, but I had to learn his Iron Dragon Slayer magic." Gajeel crossed his arms. Wendy speaks up. "Well maybe you two could make up. Besides it wouldn't hurt to hear about the place." She tries to cheer his up. Gajeel sneers at Natsu. "Oh Really? So where is this place that the dragon went to?" Natsu rolls up his sleeve to reveal the mark that Mavis put on his. Gajeel widens his eyes. "What is that thing?" He asks Natsu. Natsu walks up to him and places the arm to Gajeel's. Soon Enough the mark also appears on his exposed arm. "What the…" He drops his jaw in shock. Wendy rolls up her sleeve to show the same mark. "This is the key to Draco Orbits." Natsu tells him the purpose of the mark. "So are we the only ones who are going?" He changes his expression to a real smirk. "All that's left is Sting and Rogue from the Sabretooth Guild. Let's just hope they like to know about this." Natsu tells Gajeel with a determined look in his eyes.