Chapter 2: Fairy Tail
The date, July 7th, X777, dragons seemingly disappeared from the face of the Earth, and all dragon slayers were abandoned, according to them. Natsu had a wide cheerful grin as he followed the short old man to whatever this guild is, so that he can join and get help in finding Igneel.
"Natsu, we are here!" Makarov turned around with a smile as he directed the boy's vision to the rowdiest guild of all, Fairy Tail. Natsu looked at it in awe, the building greatly represented a pagoda, not that he knows what that is, and had three floors, on the highest roof, topping the summit of the building, sat a simple, round and pointed dome which bore a flag on its point. The roof below the one with the dome, housed a large banner with a symbol on it, held up by a pair of vertical poles. The building's large entrance was foreign in design, with its shape being like that of the dome on the summit, and above it was the guild's name, topped by a protruding, stylized heart shape and flanked by a pair of carved fairies.
"Wow! This place is huge! So this is a wizard guild, huh?" Natsu exclaimed as he took in the sight. He swallowed his disappointment of it not being a type of food.
Makarov, holding his staff loosely turned around "Yep, it's called Fairy Tail."
Blinking, Natsu let out a snort "Ha, that's a weird name."
Makarov chuckled lightly "Hehehe..yes..but you see, nobody knows whether or not fairies have tail, or if they even exist, so it will forever be a mystery, unless we try to find out, which could become an amazing adventure and our members are the ones who want to find out."
Natsu, with a broad grin and awed eyes "I don't get it, but it sounds awesome!" He cheered.
Makarov nodded, the smile not leaving his face and started towards the door "Come along Natsu, I will show you the guild."
As instructed, the dragon slayer followed the old man excitedly and without any delay the master opened his guild's door for the potential member. Upon opening the door's Natsu was met with the sight of a large hall and several long benches and the related tables stretched across its length with a bar at the end that was being managed by many waitresses and beside it was a large board with lots of papers attached. While many people of different height, size and shape filled the area.
"Wow.." Was the only thing the dragon child could muster.
"Yes. It is quite a sight ain't it, Natsu? Natsu? Nat-" all that was beside Makarov was an outline of the boy that he brought in. Worried, the old man began "Where did he-" but was cut of by the barmaid clearing her throat behind him. "Well hello there, Marie! Decided to go on the date-" he was cut of yet again as she pointed her finger at the counter with an annoyed look. Confused by the look on the young barmaid's face, he looked to see what was the cause of the lady's distress...and boy, it was a horror.
What Natsu 'wowed' wasn't at the guild but at the turkey, fried salmon, cooked rice, baked potatoes and smoke cured bacon which was cooked with additional hickory smoke. And all that was going into the black hole which was Natsu's stomach.
"Hehe uh I will pay.." Makarov sadly sighed.
What seemed like eternity for Makarov was ten minutes in reality, for the dragon slayer to finish eating.
"Ah that hit the spot.." Natsu sighed satisfied
"Listen up brats! This here is Natsu! He wants to see how our guild works so that he may think about joining! Make him feel welcomed!" With that Makarov took his spot on the bar counter and ordered a beer. Within moments Natsu and Gray hit it off..literally hit as they started a small brawl.
Drinking his beer Makarov observed the scene with a smile and stated "A feisty one, eh?"
Chuckling, Reedus nodded while holding his pad and pen "Ah, he will fit right in!"
"Gotta admit gramps, he's one little trouble maker, where did ya find him anyway?" Makarov's grandson, Laxus asked while sipping soda.
The question made the old man's face go from cheery to stone cold serious. "It is something I have to keep to myself.." He looked at the two boys fighting in the middle of the hall before sighing.
"Shut up you stripper!"
"Make me, Pinky!"
"With pleasure!"
"Oh let's see about-" Gray stopped in mid sentence as a redheaded girl popped out of nowhere and stood between them before pushing them both apart, Gray froze but Natsu got annoyed.
'Who the hell is she?'
Gray, upon predicting what the pink haired boy was going to do will endanger his existence, tried "Don't do it!" but was too late.
"Oi! You want some too, tin can?" In the next second, the ice mage made a crater on the wall with a series of bumps on his head and was expecting the other boy to end up next to him, but nothing came. Rubbing his bump he got out of the crater with his eyes still closed. 'Did Erza vaporize him?'
But when he opened his eyes, they widened like saucer plates at the scene that played in front of him. Erza Scarlet, S-class mage and one of the strongest in the guild, was on her knees, clenching her right hand with her left in pain, while a seemingly unharmed Natsu looked at the kneeling witch with confusion, them to nervousness and finally concern.
Gray watched as the new comer quickly kneeled down next to her "Uh are you okay?"
Gritting her teeth to stop the painful scream that wanted to break free, she looked down at her, seemingly and feelingly cracked and burnt knuckles and the rest of her fist, cracked.
Everyone watched in shock while Makarov looked over the issue with concern, after all they heard the bone cracking sound right after Erza punched Gray's head and threw him like a rag doll into the wall and when she tried to do the same to the dragon slayer, and she did, but only half of her action succeeded.
Her skin upon contact on Natsu's head, got burnt as if she touched a red hot iron plate, and felt like one too. Adding the force, the impact was unpleasant..
'..what the..is his head some kind of hot metal?' Erza thought as the pain kept on getting worse. Makarov got ready to go and help his child but paused as he saw Natsu kneeling next to her. The Knight closed her eyes which were already covered by her red bangs, to tackle the pain, but then she felt someone holding her hands with his pair, gently covering hers.
She looked up and saw Natsu looking at her apologetically "Uh sorry.." He measly tried before shaking his head and looking into her eyes with determination that made her blush.
"Don't worry! I know how to fix this! But it's gonna hurt a lot, k? Good!" Not waiting for a reply, his hands glowed red and in the next second, Erza screamed. The pain almost brought back the memory of the most painful day in her life when she was at the tower. She tried to pull away, but the boy's grip was like a titanium lock and soon, her consciousness left her as she collapsed onto the dragon slayer, her body sweaty and tired.
"Talk about thick-headed punks." Gray muttered under his breath after figuring out what happened and was quite surprised about his words being literal.
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Natsu sat on the stool of the bar as he laid his head on the bar counter, sighing tiredly. Only a few minutes passed since Makarov took the unconscious Erza to the infirmary and the rest of the guild already came out of their shock.
"Natsu, why are you so gloomy? It doesn't suit you." Lisanna tried to cheer her new friend.
"Ah..I didn't mean to hurt her..I didn't know I was this thick-headed.." Lisanna giggled at his use of word, which unknown to Natsu was an insult.
Stifling her giggles she asked curiously "Any way, how did you get such a thick head?"
Immediately he responded "oh uh it's because Igneel used to bonk my head if I pulled some prank on him." Lisanna giggled again.
"This Igneel sounds like an interesting person." To this Natsu shook his head no.
"Igneel's not a human, he's a dragon! The Fire Dragon King!" Lisanna giggled again at the joke.
"You are really funny Natsu, but that's really mean to call him a monster." Lisanna was expecting a funny reaction but what she got was a blank expression.
"Igneel's not a monster, he's a dragon." This gave opportunity for the ice mage to speak
"And Erza's a viper!" After the comment was passed, he felt a bone chilling feeling from behind. And he knew who it was that was standing behind him, emitting the feeling and unable to mutter a word, he was rendered unconscious.
"Ahem." Clearing her throat and earlier humiliation, Erza walked over to Natsu and took the seat beside him; she could clearly see that he was avoiding making any contact, much less eye contact.
"..I am..uh..sorry.." Natsu didn't look up as he said that.
"It's alright. I underestimated your..head's density, but I didn't do it out of any grudge or anger, what is your name?" Erza asked him as he looked to the other side
"Natsu.." He murmured
"Natsu, huh? Let's get one thing straight, everyone in Fairy Tail treats each other like family and this guild hall is always like our home and it's not a place for fighting, do you understand?" Erza's abrupt question startled Natsu but he looked at her with slumped shoulder.
"..yeah.."
Smiling Erza nodded in approval "Welcome to Fairy Tail. I am Erza."
"So tell me Natsu, what sort of magic do you use?" The Knight asked curiously as she put one hands over the bar counter
"I use the Fire Dragon Slayer magic." He beamed but there were so many different reactions from many who were eavesdropping. Like Laxus spitting out his soda, Macao dropping his beer on Wakaba who was coughing out the cigarette he swallowed, Erza sat there with a blank face, but Makarov didn't look surprised, because he was already informed by the boy.
"You are a what?" Lisanna stared in awe. But the sudden laughter from all the members broke her from the trance.
"Oh the pinky knows how to joke!" A now conscious Gray howled in laughter, the only ones that didn't were Erza, who was still shocked, Lisanna, still awed, Laxus and Makarov.
Finally finding the words, Erza began "Natsu, that's not possible. There isn't anyone who knows of such lost magic any longer."
"But Igneel is not just anyone! He is a dragon!" The boy exclaimed
"Natsu, dragons don't exist." Macao put his hand around the boy's shoulder.
"I think it's cool to have a dragon be your friend." Lisanna said with a soft smile while mummers started to sound throughout the guild.
"I can vouch for him." A smooth voice caused all the murmurs to halt and turn all their attention to the guild door and many males fainted with bloody noses after seeing who it was.
There, standing in front of the closed guild door was Ur, another S-class mage..no the third strongest mage along with Laxus in Fairy Tail, arrived from visiting her other pupil Lyon who joined another guild, wanting to leave the nest..although, Ur was still his local guardian..oh and why most had bled from their nose? She was only wearing her bra with her pants, and the attire revealed most of her upper skin and voluptuous body.
"Ur! Your back!" Gray said as he fell into a battle stance with a smirk.
"Not now Gray." She waved of the raven haired boy and walked towards the bar. Erza immediately stood up and bowed to the older woman who had stopped bothering to make the girl leave this habit.
"How was your trip Ur?" Makarov asked, his eyes not leaving her chest.
"Fine, thank you. Oh Natsu! I never thought I would ever see you again! Come here!" Natsu flailed in Ur's arms as she gave him a bone crushing hug, if not for his head being buried in her soft breasts. But this was making him suffocate, to which many would gladly like to die this way but not Natsu.
And hours of struggle later, Erza pulled out Natsu from Ur's body, his head all purple as he breathed in the air which was denied to him. Ignoring the erotic thoughts, Makarov asked "Ur, you know this boy?"
Gray also looked at the scene with interest 'Did she take in a new student?'
The woman nodded her head and replied "Gray, you wanted to know who defeated Deliora, don't you?" The boy's eyes widened at what his teacher asked, but nodded.
"Him," She pointed at Natsu, or where he was until now.
"Eh? Natsu?" The said Dragon Slayer was standing in front of Makarov. "Can I have that?" He pointed at the bottle of beer the old man was holding
"No Natsu."
"Why?"
"Because, you are not supposed to drink this." He raised the bottle away from Natsu's creeping hands.
"Why?"
"Because it's bad."
"Why?"
"Because... Argh go bug someone else Natsu!" The Master exclaimed.
Cheerfully the boy nodded "Okay!" And turned to find a new prey but crashed into a warm body..one that he didn't want to be near.
"Oh no! It's-" he wasn't able to finish as she grabbed him and placed him next to Makarov.
"Natsu, don't you remember me?" Ur asked the confused dragon child who shook his head.
"Do you know of a monster named Deliora?" She tried.
"Uh monsters have names? Maybe if you describe him..." The Dragon slayer replied while extending his hands and making shapes in air.
Sighing, the ice mage started "A huge human like monster that could shoot beams from its mouth and was destroying a city?" Suddenly realization fell over the dragon slayer, the burning man that ran into him, many people crushed, the screams of children and adults the same.
He nodded. "No way! Ur! Stop making pranks! He's just a twerp!" Gray ran out of the guild with an angry face.
"He..did w-what?" Makarov's jaws hit the counter
Natsu sighed sadly, the memory was daze, but he was sure he landed a major injury. "I defeated Deliora."
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