Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail nor Walt Disney's "Aladdin".
In the heart of an enchanted city, a commoner mage named Natsu Dragneel and his mischievous blue-furred flying feline companion, Happy, battle to save the free-spirited Princess Lucy Heartfilia from the schemes of the evil Lightening Dragon Slayer, Laxus. Natsu's whole life changes with one rub of a magic ice lamp called the Ice of Wishes as the level-headed, cool-tempered Gray appears and grants him three wishes, setting him on an incredible journey of discovery. However, the relationship between the kind Princess and protective Dragon Slayer are tested as the two mysterious people watch them, hoping Lucy and Natsu are ready for an enemy that cannot be seen...
Aladdin's Fairy Tail
by
Magnafeana
Chapter One:
Natsu On The Run
"Gotta keep
One jump ahead of the breadline
One swing ahead of the sword
I steal only what I can't afford
( That's Everything! )
One jump ahead of the lawmen
That's all, and that's no joke
These guys don't appreciate I'm broke
[Crowd:] Riffraff! Street rat! Scoundrel! Take that!
[Aladdin:] Just a little snack, guys
[Crowd:] Rip him open, take it back, guys
[Aladdin:] I can take a hint, gotta face the facts
You're my only friend, Abu!
[Crowd:] Who?
Oh it's sad, Aladdin's hit the bottom.
He's become a one-man rise in crime
I'd blame parents except he hasn't got 'em
[Aladdin:] Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat
Tell you all about it when I got the time!
One jump ahead of the slowpokes
One skip ahead of my doom
Next time gonna use a nom de plume
One jump ahead of the hitmen
One hit ahead of the flock
I think I'll take a stroll around the block
[Crowd:] Stop, thief! Vandal! Outrage! Scandal!
[Aladdin:] Let's not be too hasty
[Lady:] Still I think he's rather tasty
[Aladdin:] Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat
Otherwise we'd get along
[Crowd:] Wrong!
[Aladdin:] One jump ahead of the hoofbeats
(Vandal!)
One hop ahead of the hump
(Street rat!)
One trick ahead of disaster
(Scoundrel!)
They're quick, but I'm much faster
(Take that!)
Here goes, better throw my hand in
Wish me happy landin'
All I gotta do is jump!
(Reprise)
Riff-raff, street rat, I don't buy that
If only they'd look closer
Would they see a poor boy?
No siree they'd find out there's so much more to me…"
~Performer: Brad Kane, Songwriter: Time Rice
It was a typical hot day in the deserts of Magnolia, especially in the kingdom of Fairy Tail. In the streets of common bazaar, merchants were attempting to sell their merchandise with style, whether it be fruit, fish, magical items or weapons. People of all different colors weaved in and out of the busy market, going through their everyday live in the fiasco of the desert-enshrouded city. Mages of all sorts arrived in the enchanted kingdom for its reputation for powerful sorcerers. Children played around the legs of the adults, attempting to use magic, while the adults used simple spells for just to get by.
On the corner, a drunken female mage read the cards of a passerby's future, foretelling events such as a fateful encounter. Off to the sides, a powerful and built man showed off his "manly" strengths, impressing people by lifting obese objects. In a darker and narrow alleyway, a man on a levitating carpet slept, able to block out the sounds of the people.
Life was hectic in the kingdom of Fairy Tail. And while everyone was seemed to continue in the average every day, a seventeen year-old boy and his flying companion plotted from the top of a building, looking at the sea of unsuspecting people.
"All right, Happy, we gotta get some lunch for Wendy and Charla this morning," a spiky pink-haired boy commented, eying the food stands with hunger.
Happy nodded and agreed, "Aye, sir!" He looked at his friend with excitement. "Maybe some fish for Charla, Natsu?" he hoped, flicking his tail.
Natsu glanced at his friend, his onyx eyes twinkling with amusement and his mouth forming a smirk. "Man, you got it bad, don'tcha?" he teased.
His winged comrade was hung up over the white-furred feline who wouldn't so much as spare him a passing glance. But if Happy wanted to keep going after her, then Natsu would give his friend all the encouragement he needed. Happy flicked his tail in raw eagerness.
Natsu looked back at the crowd, his thoughts back towards his little sister. Ever since Igneel and Grandine had abandoned them, Wendy had been Natsu's only family left, and he'd been looking after her ever since.
But with both left without any money...
"Let's do this Happy!" Natsu jumped onto the ledge with a confident fanged grin, ready to spring down to the street.
Happy took up a position beside him. "Aye!"
Together, the two leapt from the top of the building with the rushing winds gliding over their bodies. The sounds of the babbling market seemed to conceal any sounds they made as they landed softly on the soft-blanketed roof of a merchant's stand. Right on their victim.
Natsu whispered to Happy, "Alright, Happy, you know what to do."
"Aye," Happy murmured. He sprouted pure white wings and glided down to the street level.
Natsu gazed after his friend, confident he wouldn't mess up. Happy descended in the wide alley filled with people and maneuvered his way until he found his way to a strong male that was very buff and mesmerized everyone with his animal-like strength.
"This…is…manly!" the man bellowed as he lifted up fifteen haystacks on a platform. People gawked at him in admiration, applauding. The built man took this praise for self-satisfaction and grinned. Happy flicked his tail, and stalked behind the burly man.
Happy's tail tickled the man's feet.
"What the—?" The man spluttered in between his gaily laughs. His concentration on holding the platform broke as he laughed "unmanly-like" at his tickling feet. The people surrounding the man took uneasy steps back, glancing at him with uncertainty. "Stop! Stop!" he laughed as the tickling increased.
As his mirth rang in the alley, the platform he held in his arms was thrown across the alley and crashed into a building, startling numerous people and frightening the animals and children. Several merchants gathered to assess the situation as the people gossiped on how the accident happened with some trembling. The man continued to laugh, unaware of the attention he was drawing.
The brunette woman reading cards on the corner stopped drinking her barrel of wine to yell at her friend's rowdy merriment. "Elfman! Knock it off!"
The said man glanced at his friend through watering eyes as he stammered in-between heavy laughs, "Sorry, Cana…! Can't…stop…laughing!"
The woman rolled her eyes and muttered to herself as she drank her booze.
Natsu watched the situation from afar, trying to contain his own laughter. "Good job, Happy," he congratulated.
The merchant of the stand Natsu was on top of left, his natural curiosity about the hullabaloo getting to him. Natsu slithered into the stand, knowing his window of opportunity was shortening by the second. He grabbed a loaf of bread and a fish from the merchant stand and sneakily moved to the other side of the alley with the stolen food.
He whispered to his friend once in earshot, "Happy, let's go!"
Happy nodded in agreement and ceased to tickle Elfman's giant feet with his tail as he retreated to Natsu's side. Natsu tossed Happy the blue-scaled fish, watching as the delight flared in Happy's black eyes. "Fish!" he meowed, his mouth drooling from the sight of a succulent specimen.
Natsu chuckled, readjusting his black vest that exposed his abdomen. They began to make their getaway when-
"Stop! Thief!"
Natsu glanced back to see the furious face of the stand owner as he pointed an accusing finger at Natsu and Happy.
"Where?"
Maneuvering through the crowds of attentive people were the royal imperial guards, clad in pristine silver armor and gleaming swords. Their captain glared at Natsu with such fierceness that the boy shied away from her. She flipped her scarlet hair, revealing a pair of merciless dark brown eyes.
"You again," she snarled. "Requip!" Her body became pure white for a few moments, blinding bystanders. The white left her and, in her place, was a woman with long red pants and a bandage rapped around her midsection and her chest. Her red hair was pulled back into a neat ponytail and she bore a long staff with a vicious-looking blade at the end. Her face showed her antagonism.
"Uh-oh…" Happy said, flashing his friend a worried glance. They both recognized her: the great and powerful Erza "Titania" Scarlet, a fierce mage with a rare magical power and a deadly temper. She knew of Natsu and Happy's extensive records of thievery and was always hard on herself when she failed to attain them.
And this time, she would not fail.
"After them!" Erza commanded, sprinting towards the two.
Natsu fled the scene by dashing through the bazaar's maze with his worn out black sandals. Happy flew next to him with anixety making his fur bristle. "What are we going to do, Natsu?" Happy inquired . "Erza will catch up to us soon."
"Not if I can do anything about it," Natsu growled. He needed to feed his sister!
Natsu ducked when a wall of blankets on a clothesline hit him. He continued to run blindly, knowing full well that the guards were hard on his tail and would catch up if he slowed or stopped his mad sprinting. He emerged with a green blanket in his hands and enwrapped himself in it as a temporary disguise and stood near a window of building. A few women eyed him in amusement.
"Getting into trouble a little early today, aren't we, Natsu?" one of the young women questioned in hilarity, her blue eyes twinkling and her long white hair flipped to one side. Another young woman chuckled loftily, her eyes and hair color same as her sisters, yet her angelic white hair shorter.
Natsu flashed them a grin, checking his peripheral vision for any sign of Erza or the guards. "Well you know, Mira… Gotta get by somehow."
"Don't be getting into too much trouble now," the woman with shorter hair warned, a smile on her lips.
Natsu looked at her in amusement. "You're only in trouble if you get caught, Lisanna," he scoffed.
"There's the street-rat!" a high-pitched voice yowled over the commotion.
Natsu paled. "I'm in trouble."
Natsu winked at them and began to run once again. "Bye, ladies!" He threw the farewell over his shoulder as he and Happy dashed among the throng of people. As they swiftly wriggled themselves from the sea of oblivious commoners, Happy took hold of Natsu's vest and flew him to the top of a building, safely out of harm's way. Natsu sighed in relief, as he watched the usual commotion from his perch.
"That was close," he admitted, knowing all too well that their escape was too close for comfort.
Happy nodded, floating in the air. "Aye. If Erza had caught us—"
"There you are, street rat!"
Natsu sprung to his feet when he saw Erza and her men encircle them, each glaring at the two of them with disgust.
"Speak of the devil," he muttered as his gaze flickered from the guards to over the street. Absentmindedly, he continued to backed up to the ledge's edge as Erza and her men enclosed on him menacingly. Happy shied away at Erza's hard stare, nearing himself towards Natsu.
"I'll make your hands my trophy, street-rat," Erza grinned.
The guards chuckled, prowling around Natsu and Happy like lionesses circling their prey. The mage and his cat were running out of options. It was either jump into the street or face Erza. Natsu examined the street below. Connected to his building from another building across the street were numerous clotheslines filled with assorted clothes. Maybe if he…
"Sorry, guys," he apologized with a grin as he stepped onto the ledge. "Time for me to go. And all I gotta do is jump!"
Natsu leapt over the edge as the guards launched themselves towards his body. Instantly, he fell through the lines of clotheslines, feeling his weight become heavier and heavier with each and every drop. His vision became clouded with assorted colors and mixtures of light and dark as his body felt the softness and scratchiness of different clothing. He could hear the guards mutter to themselves and Erza's orders to go down and find him with his acute hearing.
Natsu landed onto the middle of the street. His fall was cushioned by the extensive amount of clothes he had gathered. As he peeled the first layers of clothing off his body, he could hear people's accusatory voice shriek at him:
"Stop, thief!
"Vandal!"
"Outrage!"
"Scandal!"
"You won't get away that easy!"
Natsu looked back at the prowling guards with in incredulous expression. "You think that was easy?" he exclaimed.
After Natsu relieved himself of the clothing that enwrapped his body, he heard fierce words: "He's wanted dead or alive. Kill him if you want to."
Natsu scratched his head in confusion and looked the loaf of almost stale bread. "All this for a loaf of bread?" he murmured to himself as he picked himself up from the ground and ran with flying Happy to escape the grasp of the revengeful imperial guards. As the sprinted past an attractive female doing entertaining tricks with purple fire, Natsu glanced at her and grinned at an idea.
He glanced up at Happy. "Happy, you distract them. I got a plan."
Happy nodded. "Aye!"
As Natsu looked around for the materials needed, Happy flew overhead to find anything that could help him with his mission. He swooped down as a man attempted to swallow a sword whole and grabbed it from him, well aware of the shouts he received after he stole the piece of weaponry. He landed on the ground and waited
Happy was surrounded by imperial guards, yet they cowered from him as he waved the sword around, threatening them.
"That cat has a sword!" a frightened imperial guard cried out and was flanked by other apprehensive members.
Erza shoulder her way to the front, first eying the cat then glaring at her men. "Idiots! We all have swords!" she declared as she raised her gleaming blade into the air for all to see.
The guards, ashamed, raised their swords and advanced on the harmless blue-furred feline. Anxious, Happy set down the sword, expanded his wings, and took off with the guards following in tow. "C'mon, Natsu!" Happy prayed as he allowed the imperial guards to chase him.
Natsu snuck up to the girl creating letters and shapes out of her violet flames. She bore a scandalous translucent tank top and skirt, allowing the males to give her lewd comments as she danced with her flames. Natsu, unfazed, confronted her.
She looked at him with seductive emerald eyes and asked in an innocent, yet alluring voice, "Can I help you?"
"Excuse me, but can I eat some of your fire?" Natsu request.
She gazed at him with shocked eyes, but nodded in compliance. Natsu drank in the flames she created, knowing that his plan would go as he well as he had hoped. Once he had his fill, he wiped his mouth with the back of his chin, grinning. "No I've got a fire in my belly."
"Natsu! They're coming!"
Natsu thanked the girl for her flames and sprinted to find his friend. He could make out the enclosing guards as they dashed to catch up to Happy's speedy flying. Natsu smirked and deeply sucked in air.
"Fire Dragon's…" he began as his cheeks puffed up with air, the flames in his stomach awaiting for their command. As the guards and Erza continue to come his way, he raised his hands to his lips, a fiery orange circle with an intricate design appearing in front of him. He waited as the guards enclosed the distance between them. They were about five strides away from Natsu and Happy was soaring towards him.
"Rooooooooar!" he snarled as fire was produced from his mouth, through the magical orange circle and at the rushing guards. The imperial guards were consumed in the ferocious pyrotic outburst, lost in the mingled of red and orange.
Happy flew to his friend with the fish still safely secured in his paws. "C'mon, Natsu, while we have the chance!" he hissed, eying the dying embers with uneasy.
Natsu nodded and the two took off down the elongate alley, weaving between innocent people. They sharply turned down another alleyway that led into a drab clearing, hidden from the sunlight by tattered blankets that stretched from the sides of buildings to another side of a building.
Natsu sighed in relief when he saw the guards foolishly pass the alley's entrance, still on the hunt for the alleged thief. The Fire Dragon Slayer looked at Happy with a satisfied grin. They made it back unscathed and with food.
"Do you smell them?" Happy questioned as he looked around the damp area.
Natsu sniffed in the air for the scents of his young sister and her white-furred friend. They were definitely in the area. In fact, it smelled like they were…
The pink-haired teen took a tiny step back as a blue-haired young girl dropped to the ground, her usual simple wavy-patterned dress looking ruffled. Following her was a cream-colored she-cat with an air of dignity and grace. She flapped her wings and lowered herself to the ground before the wings dissipated into white particles.
Natsu smiled. "Hey, Wendy. We brought some food," he said, holding out the bread to the twelve year-old girl.
Wendy stood up and looked at him with chocolate colored eyes, swinging her waist-length hair from side-to-side. She smiled, revealing a pair of sharp canine teeth to her older brother. "I'm glad you're back. I saw guards chasing you," she admitted as everyone settled on the ground. Her eyes showed her panic. "I was so worried they would catch you."
Natsu patted her head and gave her a genuine smile to reassure her. "I'm not going anywhere, Wendy," he vowed to his sibling with such brotherly-warmth.
The four of them hunkered down and began to feast on their poor-excuse for a meal. Happy offered the fish to Charla, only for the she-cat to flick her tail and twitch her ears in annoyance, not even bothering to acknowledge him. Natsu divided the bread fairly and heated up the dead fish with his fire, cooking it to perfection. They all ravished the meal, the hunger that gnawed at their stomachs dimming yet still there.
Natsu tensed. He wished he could protect his little sister and his friends Happy and Charla better than the way they were living now. Accused as thieves, treated like dirt… They only stole what they couldn't afford and no one seemed to appreciate that they were broke.
If only Igneel and Grandine hadn't left, Natsu growled. We could've been better off…
Wendy stared at her brother with concern and touched his hand. His onyx eyes snapped onto hers, filled with sadness. "It's okay," Wendy assured him. "We're still alive and together and that's what matters," she added with a smile. Natsu couldn't help but smile at his little sister's words. They were alive and healthy… Well, for the most part."
Trumpets and horns of assorts blared from beyond the tiny, dark clearing and on the main street of the market. People gathered curiously around the walls of the street, glancing both ways to see what was coming. Wendy also heard the commotion and her eyes twinkled with interest. She looked at Natsu with pleading eyes and he sighed. He couldn't ever turn down Wendy's large, begging gaze even if he tried.
The group moved to join the eventful scenery, weaving through the crowd as they asserted themselves to the front. Happy perched himself on Natsu's head, looking at the murmuring people with a tilt of his head. "Maybe there's a huge fish making its way here," he suggested as his mouth began to drool at the thought. He examined the streets and parted his jaws to taste for any sign of fish.
Charla snorted in disgust and twitched her ears in annoyance. "You certainty aren't the brightest," she remarked with her brown eyes glittering in exasperation.
Wendy looked up at Natsu, confused. "What's going on?" she questioned.
Natsu shrugged. "I don't know," he confessed. This many people lined up on the streets was abnormal, even with Fairy Tail's huge population.
A strange smell hit the Dragon Slayer's nose like a wall. The scent smelled of wilting flowers with a combination of a dying cow. Natsu saw Wendy flinch, indication that she smelt the peculiar odor as well. However, underneath the impending stench was a familiar scent… The scent of another Dragon Slayer!
A blonde fellow on a red horse cantered his way through the streets, looking rather calm with arrogance in his dark green eyes. He smiled slightly to the gathered crowd and ran a hand through his spiky blonde hair, which caused all the females to gawk at him in awe. Natsu noticed that Wendy was eying the young male with interest, which made him amused. His little sister was growing up.
"On his way to the palace, I suppose," a man with slicked back dark blue hair suggested, creating purple colored flames with his index finger absentmindedly.
A tall man with distinct brown hair with a large, curly tuff at the front shrugged, his mouth occupied by his pipe. "Another suitor for the princes," he sighed, blowing smoke from his pipe.
Natsu gazed at the man on his red horse, narrowing his eyes. He didn't like the looks of this man.
The crowd surged forward, causing Natsu and Wendy to be jostled forward in a startled manor. While Natsu stood his ground, he caught a glimpse of Wendy becoming exiled from the safety of the sidelines and stumbling out onto the cleared street. She fell in the path of the blonde fellow. Wendy looked with fearful brown eyes as the man halted his horse and looked at her with a sneer.
"Out of my way, peasant," he advised. His hands became engulfed in white flames as he studied his target carefully. A small white circle appeared in front of his left hand with an intricate pattern woven on it. "Light Dragon Holy Blast," he murmured as the white flame shot out of the white circle and towards the frightened twelve year-old.
Angered, Natsu sprang into action as leaped in front his of sibling and willingly ate the ball of light. The blonde man stared back at the fire mage in subtle shock as Natsu wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and smirked. "Oh yeah. Now I've got a fire in my belly. And if I were as rich as you, you'd think I could afford some manners," he taunted.
The man, amused, ordered his horse to continue their walk, going around the two slayers with an air of superiority.
As they came closer to the gate, Natsu told his blue-furred friend, "Look, Happy. It's not every day you see a horse with two rear ends!"
As Happy, Charla and Wendy tried their best to hold in their laughter, the red horse stopped and glared at Natsu. The blonde man reached down to his horse's muzzle and patted it. "Calm yourself, Lector," Natsu heard the man murmur without straining his ears. The man gave Natsu a cold stare. "You are a worthless street-rat," he proclaimed as the palace gates opened and allowed him to enter.
"You were born a street-rat and you will die a street-rat." He tossed the words over his shoulder carelessly, unaware of the furious flames that licked on Natsu's hands. "And only your fleas will mourn you!"
The gates closed when Natsu sprinted after the man, enraged. He pounded on the door, but to no avail. He knew full well he was never going to enter the sacred palace grounds. As he glared at the doors, he growled, "I'm not worthless! And I don't have fleas!"
He stopped as he found himself scratching his head. Releasing a heavy exhale, he walked back to Wendy as the crowds dispersed back into their everyday lives, some giving Natsu and his companion dirty looks and others with admiring, yet sympathetic stares. He ignored them and gently grabbed Wendy's hand to pull her to her feet. She gazed off him and, by her look, Natsu could tell she was worried about him.
The onyx orbs softened as they stared into the concerned brown ones. "C'mon, Wendy. Let's go home." Hand-in-hand, Natsu and Wendy walked down the streets while the two felines flew overhead as they kept a watchful eye out for guards.
Day turned into night with the action of the lively streets of Fairy Tail dimming down as its populace readying themselves for a well-deserved slumber. Natsu carried a fast-asleep Wendy on his back as he made his way back to their makeshift home.
Riff-raff… Street-rat…
The words continued to echo in the mage's mind as he swiftly scaled a raggedy building.
I don't buy that. If only they'd look closer, he went on as he entered the open window of an abandoned building. He made sure to not bump his sleeping sister's head on any of the low-hanging beams as he made his way up the steps.
After he escaped the hallway of beams and debris, he found himself in a cleared out room filled with old rugs, rags, pillows, vases and other miscellaneous items. Natsu gazed around at his, Wendy, Happy, and Charla's home with a flicker of pride.
Would they see a poor boy? he asked himself as he lowered Wendy into her makeshift bed. No siree…
He pulled a tattered sheet over her body to keep her warm on the cool night. She gathered the material in her hand and smiled. Happy and Charla flew in, exhausted, and curled their bodies around the little girl as they purred in their sleep.
Natsu shook his head and wandered to the other wall wear a large curtain resided. He pulled open the battered curtains and gazed at the magnificent view of Fairy Tail. His gaze interested itself in the large, lit up palace. Natsu lowered his elbow onto the ledge and rest his head on his hands as his onyx stare never left the beauteous view of the palace.
"They'd find out…there's so much more to me," Natsu whispered. He glanced back at his sleeping sister and the two slumbering cats before returning his gaze to Fairy Tail's Palace. He grinned, revealing his distinctive sharp canines.
"Someday, Wendy, things are gonna change," he vowed, feeling as if the promise was to himself as well. He gazed at the palace. It's golden glow captivated Natsu. "We'll live in a palace, be rich and won't have any more problems at all."
Natsu tore his gaze away from the glorious view of the palace and sought out his improvised bed. As he got himself into a comfortable position, he closed his eyes, dreaming of a life of wealthiness and happiness. And all the food and fire he could eat.