Chapter 22: Healing with Fire
Natsu couldn't be more proud than to do something productive with his fire magic. This one is something he has never done before, healing fire. When it comes to healing, it's usually Wendy who used her Sky Dragon Slayer Magic that does the trick. If Natsu were to do something like that, he'd have to ask Wendy on how she does it. "Hey Happy." Natsu turns to his blue cat exceed. Happy walks up to him. "What is it, Natsu?" Happy looks up to him. Natsu places his hand onto Happy's hand. "I need you to go find Wendy and Grandeeney. I need to know on how Wendy healed us over the years ever since she met us. Do you think you can do that?" Natsu smiles to his little buddy.
Happy smiles. "Aye, sir!" He replies as he uses his aera magic to summong his wings. "Wendy and Grandeeney headed north." Natsu gives Happy the directions on which way to go. Happy nods and flies north, hoping to make sure that nothing goes wrong. Igneel stares at his foster son. "So that must be the exceed that must be your friend?" He asks curiously. Natsu nods with a fond smile on his face. "Yeah. Happy came out of the sky when I joined Fairy Tail. He was an egg at the time. When I saw it, I assumed it was a dragon egg." Natsu explains to his foster dragon. He continued on with the stories that he and Happy had together, through the good, and through the worst. "Happy was my first friend I've ever had. And I would never replace him with anyone else." He spoke in a serious tone.
Happy continues on flying. "I wonder what Natsu wants Wendy and Grandeeney to do with healing. According to Igneel, Grandeeney has been having a hard time healing Igneel ever since they came here." Happy repeated what Igneel told them. He looks around to find himself in a mountain top. On the mountain is a big white dot. "That must be Grandeeney." Happy said to himself and flies faster.
Grandeeney and Wendy are talking to each other. "So, Wendy, how was it since you met Natsu?" Grandeeney asks her foster daughter. Wendy smiles shyly. "Well, I knew that when I met Natsu he had the same goal as a I did. We both were hoping to find you guys. But we all came to dead ends, and nothing seemed to help us." She explains to the Sky Dragon. Carla sits on her lap. "Nonsense, child. You've improved ever since you joined Fairy Tail." She assures her. Wendy just wraps her arms around her. "She is right." Grandeeney agrees with Carla's statement. Wendy looks up to her sky dragon. "Really? I'm not that great as a wizard. All I did was use my Sky dragon slayer magic to support them." She modestly spoke back. "Wendy!" Wendy heard a voice. The trio look up in the air to spot Happy coming down towards them. "It's Happy." Wendy smiles as she waves her hand to show Happy where they are.
Grandeeney tilts her head. "Who might you be?" She asks nicely. Wendy smiles to the dragon. "This here is Happy. He's Natsu friend. Like Carla is my friend. Each of us dragon slayers have an cat as a friend." Wendy explains to the white dragon. Grandeeney smiles back. "So what brings you here, little one?" Grandeeney asks Happy. "Natsu sent me to get you guys. He wants to know on how you use your healing magic." Happy gets to the point. The trio looked at each other. "So Natsu needs to heal Igneel with his fire magic. Not for destruction but for recovery." Grandeeney states out. Wendy smiles. "We should go to them." She suggests. Grandneey and Carla agree with her. "Let's go." Grandeeney lowers herself to let Wendy get onto her back with Carla and Happy to get onto her shoulders.
Natsu looks around Igneel's body, looking more closely to the injuries that Acnologia inflicted on him. "Igneel, is it okay…" Natsu asks so far, worrying about Igneel's respond. Igneel turns his gaze to see Natsu looking only at his injuries. "Go on." The fire dragon nods to give Natsu permission. Natsu places his hand on the injury on his wing. Onto impact, Natsu's eyes widen. Instead of the warmth of the fire from within, it was dead cold. "As far as you found out so, the injuries are having a hard time retreiving the fire from my magic. Grandeeney couldn't even open up my veins to allow my fire to go any farther." Igneel explains the experiences so far. Natsu warms up his hand onto the wing. Igneel sighs in glad. "Yeah, that's all you need to do." Natsu smiles back and keep his hand on the wing to warm it up with his magic.
Grandeeney, Happy, Wendy and Carla come into view. Wendy looks down to see Natsu trying warm up Igneel. "Natsu." Wendy shouts down to the fire dragon slayer. Natsu look up to see Grandeeney landing closeby. "Hey guys." Natsu replies. Wendy hops down and gets to Natsu's side. She looks closely to see a red glow. "Natsu, Happy told me that you need help on how to heal." Wendy said in a close observation of Natsu's efforts. Natsu nods back, "Yeah. When you heal us, what's the first thing you do?" He asks the sky dragon slayer.
Wendy places her hand by Natsu's hand. "When I heal, I look at the source of the pain, and I guide it out of the body. I did that method when I heal Erza to get the poison out of her system." She explains. She concentrated her sky dragon magic on Igneel's body. "Igneel told me that since Acnologia injured him, he somehow blocked the his veins to allow the fire to heal his wounds." Natsu gives her the details.
Grandeeney sits down near Igneel. "So, you pretty much told Natsu about my fail attempts to heal you." She implies to him. Igneel hmms, "Yes, and you did your best to open up the veins within me." He tells her in a sour look. "But it turns out that it has to be fire from Natsu who can do the job. I have faith in him. And Wendy is the perfect teacher when it comes to healing," She smiles in proudness.
Wendy concentrates her magic, infusing it with Natsu's. "Natsu, all you have to do is to open up the bloodstream to allow you fire to help Igneel's fire to get to the wounds." Wendy gives her instructions, guiding the fire through Igneel's injuries. Igneel smiles, "He's something else." He comments as he begins to feel the cold injuries warm up.