Chapter 17~ I meet the family!
Disclaimer~ I GlenCocoSavesTheDay does not own Fairy Tail, my ships would have sailed by now, but they will. THEY WILL I TELL YOU!
Another Note~ Some people have been getting confused on how big Natsu actually is, so I'm going to tell you. Natsu is not as big as Igneel, which you should know how big Igneel is if you've seen or read Fairy Tail. Natsu is probably about as big as a medium sized elephant. Sorry for the confusion, please read on!
I could feel myself getting anxious as me and Natsu run to the dining hall. I Lucy Heartphilla, is going to have dinner with dragons! Never in my life did I think I would ever be doing something like this. Okay I take that back, when I was younger I had fantasies about dragons, after my mother died, they were all I had. My mother said dragons were kind creatures, so I used to pretend I was a dragon myself. Before mothers passing, she would play dragons and princesses with me. I would be the dragon coming to save the princess, who was my mother.
My mother would think it was a bit silly of me, but hey it was fun. Of course I tried to fly once, that did not go to well. Let's just say I had a sprained ankle for a week. My father would even join in, he was normal then. Oh how I wish he would have stayed the same, why did he have to change? Those were good times, I'm glad I listened to her! Never in my life would I regret the decision of taking the fork in the road.
Me and Natsu reached the front door, but we stopped. Were they here already? What was I going to say? What is Natsu thinking right now? I tapped on Natsu on the arm and he didn't respond. He must be deep in thought.
"What's wrong Natsu?" I asked. Natsu snapped out of it and looked down.
"I haven't seen him in awhile." Natsu grinned. Who was he?
"Who?" I questioned. Natsu started to shuffle his feet and he looked pretty excited. I thought he was going to trample the door down. I wonder who could get him this excited, it made me feel weird.
"Igneel, it's been a whole year." Natsu frowned. "I don't get to see him often." His dad, I feel like a total idiot now. Man, that's rough. I guess I would be upset too, but I haven't seen my mother in years. I wanted to cry, for Natsu. I've been just a big cry baby lately.
"I only get to see him once a year." Natsu added. Why was that? Why couldn't he see him more often?
"Why?" I asked. Maybe I should have known why, I think I already knew the answer. Natsu was a prince. A dragon prince at that, but his father must be king obviously. Igneel must have king duty's to attend to, which must suck for Natsu.
"He has to stay with the others and protect them." Natsu said. Protect them? Protect them from what? Who are the others? I need more information.
"Who are the others and why do they need protecting?" I asked. Natsu looked at me with an unpleasant look. Natsu looked like he was in pain, maybe I shouldn't talk about this now. We should be eating and chatting with his father, not talking in front of the door.
"We'll talk about this later," I smiled. "I want to meet your father." Natsu looked a bit taken back. I pulled on his arm and I held the door handle, Natsu didn't move. What was up with him lately, usually he acted on impulse. Natsu wasn't a thinker, or maybe he was. I guess I would just have to find out.
"Come on dragon boy." I teased. Natsu chuckled as we opened the door. As we walked into the room, I didn't expect to have another chair thrown at me. Instead of jumping back, I just stood there. I waited for impact, but it never came. Natsu stepped in front of me and started to growl.
"Who threw that?" Natsu growled. Why was he so angry? Well it's probably because we've already had one thrown at us today. I held onto Natsu's arm and looked around to see if Erza would kill us. What did I do now?
"We'll look what we have here." A voice spoke, It sounded a bit like Natsu's except more manly. I stepped over Natsu's tail and out from behind him, to see dragons. There were so many, all of them were gathered around the table.
Each were a different color, one was white and another was blue. The one that really caught my eye was the huge red one in front of us, I just stood there in awe. The one that spoke was so similar to Natsu, except he was huge. Natsu was so small compared to him. Wait a minute, this must be Natsu's father!
"Igneel!" Natsu cheered. Natsu let his guard down and charged over to him. I just stood there like an idiot. Natsu and Igneel bumped heads and started to laugh, it was so beautiful. I looked around to all the other dragons. They were all happily chatting and laughing with one another, they were like humans. They made me want to cry, I missed this. I felt like a piece of me was coming back.
I could feel the tears prickling at the corner of my eyes, I quickly whipped them away. I was such a baby, I need to man up. Who am I kidding? I looked back to Natsu and Igneel and realized they were looking at me. My eyes locked with Natsu's and that had me blushing. His eyes were like a night sky, I just wanted to stare into them forever.
"W-What are you staring at!" I stuttered. Natsu and Igneel started to laugh on cue, what were they laughing at? I could feel my whole face heating up, this was so embarrassing. I covered my face and walked over to them. Natsu stopped laughing when I hit him.
"I will kick you out of the bed forever if you keep laughing!" I exclaimed. Igneel started to laugh even more, what was so funny! I'm not a comedy act!
"No!" Natsu cried. Natsu started to rub his snout into my hair, was this an apology? Igneel's looked so amused.
"I think your eyebrows are trying to escape." I pointed to his forehead. Igneel looked up like he was trying to see his eyebrows. I guess he was more like Natsu than I thought he was.
"So you're the one Erza told me about." Igneel chuckled. I could feel myself die a little bit inside, what did Erza say? Did she tell him already? Maybe she was just teasing me, but Erza never teases. I'm doomed!
"Igneel Dragneel, King of Fire." Igneel reached out his claw to me. King of fire? That actually sounds really cool. I reached my hand out and took his claw into my hand. He was warm like Natsu.
"Princess Lucy Heartphilla." I smiled. Igneel looked a bit surprised. Maybe my the news of me running away really did spread. Or maybe my father declared me dead, that's probably something he would do. Father would say I was embarrassment, so claiming I'm dead is probably better for him.
"My son has picked quite a fancy lady!" Igneel chuckled. P-Picked? So Erza really did tell him after all. Thank you Erza, you make my life so much easier!
"D-Dad!" Natsu exclaimed. Igneel grinned just the same one Natsu has.
"Aren't you two getting married?" Igneel smiled. I was about to protest until Natsu beat me to it.
"Why yes we are!" Natsu said as he licked my cheek. I squealed and tried to pull back from him, Natsu took his claws and clung to my dress. I was surprised that he did that, he licked me again! I swear Natsu Dragneel will be the death of me!
"So you found a princess willing," Igneel smiled at me. "Let's go eat!" I swear if one more person or dragon or anything say a princess willing, I will punch someone. Igneel went over to a dragon that was somewhat metal looking and sat next to him.
"Don't eat the sliver ware Metalicana!" Igneel snapped it out of his clutches. I giggled, it was quite amusing to see that. I looked up to Natsu and saw how excited he was.
"Well the adults sit here while the kiddies sit over there!" The lightning yellow one exclaimed.
"That's a perfect idea Makarov." The white one giggled. I think the white one was a woman. Or should I say female.
"But I want to sit with Igneel!" Natsu whined. Poor Natsu, he must really be disappointed.
"We'll have more time later," Igneel chuckled. "I have a surprise for you!"
"A surprise!" Natsu was now excited, he was like a kid.
"I'll give it too you later," Igneel called to him while huffing down his food. "Go sit with your cousins and greet Lucy to them." Natsu whined some more and dragged me over to the table full with smaller dragons. There was also Erza and Jellal, Juvia, Gray, and a boy and a girl.
Natsu pulled me passed everyone and sat us at the head of the table. Natsu let go and stared at his food with awe.
"I finally get to eat this!" Natsu cried as he dug in. I looked next to me and realized there was a small petite girl with blue hair sitting next to me. I've seen her somewhere before, where did I see her from? The girl smiled at me and something clicked.
"Levy-chan!" I cheered as I hugged her. Levy was an old childhood friend who went missing about a year ago. I grew distant from her because of my father, she was the only friend I actually made. I could feel myself crying, I thought she died.
"Lu-chan!" Levy hugged me tighter. I pulled back and whipped my tears.
"What happened to you?" I asked. She just disappeared without a trace one day, never to be seen again. I was surprised to even see her again.
"I got kidnapped by a metal headed idiot." Levy said while something shadowed her. I looked up and realized it was another dragon. He looked so, scary. He looked exactly like Metalicana, just a bit smaller. This knuckle head must be Gajeel.
"What did you say shrimp?" Gajeel sneered. Gajeel started to pat Levy's head and examine me. What was this metal eater looking at?
"Bunny girl." Gajeel said bluntly. Bunny girl? What the heck was that suppose to mean. Do I have bunny ears? No, so what the hell?
"What did you call Luce?" Natsu said while colliding heads with Gajeel. Gajeel growled while pushing back, but Natsu stood he ground.
"Got a problem with it Salamander?" Gajeel hissed. This starting to get out of hand. Gajeel and Natsu were going to fight, with me and Levy in the middle of it. No way was I going t let that happen, I don't feel like getting injured today.
"Oh no you don't." Levy and I said in unison. I started to push Natsu back and so did Levy with Gajeel. Natsu seemed to calm down pretty quick, and so did Gajeel.
"Fine, but this ain't over Salamander." Gajeel muttered while going back to eating the metal armor. Natsu huffed and also went back to eating. These two idiots were the same.
"So you and metal face make a good couple." Natsu blew out a spark of fire. Levy started to get all red while Gajeel began to choke on the metal. I think this was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Gajeel had a soft side to him, that was so great for Levy!
"You are so made for each other." I chimed. Levy turned an even darker shade of red. Gajeel snorted and swallowed his 'food'.
"We are." Gajeel patted Levy's head. What? Wait did I hear that right? I was just teasing them, I didn't know it was true. I probably looked like an idiot because Levy started to giggle. I could feel my jaw wide open.
"Hold on," I looked at Gajeel then Levy. "Please explain."
"Well I was an unwilling princess." Levy giggled. Gajeel hissed at her and shoved her a little. I'm going to punch, I'm going to do it.
"This knuckle head took me from the kingdom and claimed me his!" Levy said while smacking his arm. This was actually getting quite interesting, I nodded my head as a sign to go on. Levy took a drink of water and gulped.
"I hated Gajeel for a long, long time." Levy said while giggling. Gajeel began to growl while hearing this, I think Levy was just teasing him.
"I soon grew to love him." Levy sighed. Gajeel was now happy hearing this, he is a knuckle head.
"So you fell in love with him even though he's a dragon." I grinned. This was so cute, it was like a fairy tale. What did Levy mean by Gajeel claimed her?
"Well Gajeel has a-" Levy was cut off when Gajeel started to suffocate her in a hug. NO! I was just about to know. Damn Gajeel and his stupid lovey dovey side!
"No more talking shrimp." Gajeel chuckled while looking at me. He knew exactly what I wanted to hear. Why couldn't I know? Gajeel was truly an evil dragon! I will get him back for this, somehow. I glared at him and turned back to Natsu, he was eating my food.
"Natsu!" I hissed. Natsu looked up from the food and grinned.
"You're cooking is just so good." Natsu sighed happily. Smart move Natsu, smart move. I'm not really that hungry anyways. I'm so happy to see Levy again, and I have a feeling me and Gajeel will be friends. I looked across from me and saw a small blue dragon. I started to wave and smile to her.
"I'm Lucy Heartphilla." I said while putting my hand out. She squeaked and put out her small claws. She looked as if she was smiling, except it looked like she in pain.
"I'm Wendy Marvel." Wendy smiled shyly.
"Thank you Wendy!" I beamed. Wendy was so surprised she looked like she didn't know what do with herself. She probably didn't even know what I was talking about.
"For what?" Wendy asked.
"For all the dresses you made me." I smiled.
"You're welcome Lucy-san," Wendy smiled. "It was fun to make them." Wendy had a small boy sitting next to her, very closely. The boy had black hair and a nice little scarf around his neck.
"And you are?" I said while putting my hand out. The boy was just as shy as Wendy. I wonder if Wendy 'claimed' him like Gajeel did. I don't think Wendy would do that, it just seems weird.
"I'm Romeo." Romeo thrusts his hand out and shook mine quickly. I felt like my arm was going to fall off sometime soon.
"So you and Natsu-nee are getting married." Romeo asked. I was internally screaming, does everyone know. Thank you Erza, you make my life so awkward. I nodded my head so quickly that I think I freaked him out.
"Erza filled us all in, she was quite happy about it." Romeo smiled. Erza was like a messenger bird. I looked back to Natsu to see him looking at me. I waved my hand at him and he didn't budge.
"Natsu!" Igneel came right behind us. We both screamed from the sudden intrusion, I think I had a mini heart attack just now. Igneel laughed and patted our backs harshly. Natsu wasn't affected but I was gasping for air. I felt like Erza punched me and kicked me at the same time.
"You ready for your surprise?" Igneel asked. Natsu nodded and looked like an excited puppy. This was so cute, never had I seen Natsu so excited. Maybe while he's looking at his food. Heck I was excited to see what he got him! The suspense was killing me.
"Holy crud yes!" Natsu cheered. Natsu could go from cool guy to a child. Igneel blew some fire in front of Natsu, and a present appeared?! How the heck did that get there? Was Igneel a secret magician. We all stared in awe and Natsu was truly the most excited. Natsu took his claws and reached out for the present. The present was wrapped in a big red bow, which Natsu ripped through moments later.
I felt the older dragons come behind me and watch. I felt like I knew what was going to be there, I was just waiting to see if it was true. Natsu cackled as he finally opened the box and stared at what's inside. I couldn't really see the present, Natsu just stood above it with pure happiness on his face.
"Mom made this scarf." Natsu smiled as he pulled the scarf out of the box. I felt my heart stop, it was that scarf. The scarf in my dream, it was actually here. How did this happen? I don't understand. It was just a figure of my imagination... right?
"Thanks." Natsu smiled. Natsu smile was a bit sad though, why was he sad? Oh the other hand, where was his mother?
"You're welcome my boy!" Igneel said while patting his back.
"Will you all be leaving soon?" Natsu asked. Igneel looked a bit worried but then glanced at me. Was he worried for his son? Igneel smiled at me and nuzzled his head with Natsu's.
"I will come visit you two tomorrow along with your cousins." Igneel stated. Natsu jumped up and looked like he was going to cry.
"Really!" Natsu exclaimed. Igneel nodded his head and turned towards the rest of his family.
"Let's get going before it gets too dark." Igneel said while shuffling the rest of the dragons out. Gajeel and Levy said they would see us tomorrow and so did Wendy. Gray and Juvia asked to say with us for awhile to get away from Lyon which is pretty funny.
Erza said she would assist them to a room. Which meant Jellal and Erza would be staying another night, except they get their own room. Thank goodness, Ichiya can go bother them with the kale. Happy and Plue decided to bunk with Jellal and Erza for the night. Now that everyone went to their courters, me and Natsu were left alone to head to bed.
We entered the room and flopped ourselves on to the bed. Natsu made me flop into the air and crash into him. Today has truly been a long day, so much as happened. I got to meet a bunch of dragons, I got a couple chairs thrown at me, and everyone thinks me and Natsu are getting married. Natsu had taken the scarf and wrapped it around his neck, it actually fit him.
"So about earlier, who needs protecting and why?" I asked. It's been bothering me all day.
"My cousins, there are evil people out their Lucy." Natsu sighed. Natsu didn't use my nickname, it was weird when he said Lucy, it make my heart flutter.
"Did something happen." I asked. Natsu looked at me and pulled me into him. The scarf went right into my face, it smelt so good. I feel like a weirdo now.
"An evil man killed my mother," Natsu trapped me with his wings. "Igneel decided it was best to protect them 24/7." Natsu started to shake. Was he crying? I recoiled in horror and started to sooth him telling him it was okay. But it wasn't okay, I knew this.
"My dad said it was best to have everyone together," Natsu cried. "But he left me here." Why would Igneel do that? Doesn't he want to be with Natsu.
"Igneel said the parents were better kept away from the children, because it makes our scent stronger." Natsu whispered. I began to cry. It was just so sad. I held my tears back the best I could, I needed to stay strong for Natsu.
"So Gajeel and Wendy also Laxus have the same problem." I said. Natsu nodded his head and pulled back.
"Natsu please take every moment with your father like it's the last," I smiled. "Don't forget you have me here and I promise to stay with you." I don't know where these words came from, but I felt pretty wise.
"Thank you for staying with me Lucy." Natsu sniffled. I patted his snout and smiled.
"I'll always be here for you." I said while cuddling into Natsu's scarf. Natsu chuckled and got more comfortable.
"Goodnight Luce." Natsu whispered.
"Goodnight Natsu." I whispered back. I'm glad Natsu confided in me, it made me feel happy. I promise I will keep Natsu safe, that sounds weird but I will. I smiled into Natsu's scarf and felt sleep taking over. Tomorrow will surely be fun.
Authors Note~ Hello everyone! So Natsu didn't become human this chapter but he will for sure next chapter, guaranteed! So this chapter was more touchy feely more than anything! I hope you liked this chapter! Next time you will read there will be Nalu, Gale, Jerza, Gruvia, Maybe RoWen and naked people. Now don't get the wrong idea, next chapter will be worth the wait. I will update in three days time, and don't forget to leave a review!
Until next time
Glen coco out~