Chapter 6: A Port to History
2 years passed
Hargeon Station,
"Ugh.." The poor pink haired dragon slayer groaned as he laid face first on the train's floor.
"Natsu! We made it to Hargeon! Come on Natsu! You need to get out before the train starts moving!" Happy stood there poking his partner's head.
"Just..a moment.." Natsu groaned out as he tried to pull himself to the window.
"Excuse me, is he alright?" The train conductor asked at the strange scene.
The talking blue cat immediately turned around raising his paw. "He's fine! This always happens when he travels!" Happy assured the conductor but he wasn't convinced.
"..I am..never..going on this..stupid train.." He muttered weakly.
Leaving his friend to stand on his own, Happy walked out of the train and observed the station "If our information is correct, that salamander should be around somewhere here in this town."
"Just give me a second wouldya?" The dragon slayer put his half body through the window and waited as he tried to swallow the food that was coming up, but failed as the train moved taking him with it as Happy simply watched.
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Lucy couldn't believe what just happened. "Only a thousand for my sex appeal! That old geezer might be crazy!" She grumbled her way through the port city.
"Oh it's Salamander!"
"What? Where?"
"Come on! He's giving autographs!"
The flock of girls that came from behind took a flailing Lucy with them. 'Salamander? Isn't he the one that uses Fire magic that cannot be bought from shops?' Upon seeing the so called Salamander, hearts appeared in her eyes and her heart started to beat wildly.
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"Man..I got wound up in that train twice.." Natsu's head was a bit ditzy as he and Happy walked side by side.
"You gotta get over that motion sickness!" The blue feline stated with concern.
"Yeah.. I am so hungry I could eat the whole town.." Natsu brought out the next misery.
Nodding his head sadly the cat stated "Aye! Too bad we don't have any money left for food..."
"Hey Happy,"
"Hmm?"
"This Salamander they were talking about got to be Igneel, right?" Natsu asked with a small hopeful voice, much different to his usual loud and confident one.
"Aye!" Happy cheerfully flew up.
"Oh Salamander! You're so hot!" The squealing voices of females from a crowd ahead of them caught their attention. A broad grin spread over the dragon slayer's downcast face.
"Ha! Well speak of the devil! We are in luck today! Come on Happy!" Natsu and Happy raced towards the crowd.
"Aye!" Happy chimed.
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"Awe you girls are all so sweet.." the Salamander charmingly smiled.
'Is it because, he's a famous mage? Is this love at first sight? Oh he's looking at me!' Lucy skipped her way to the Salamander ready to hug and although she wanted to stop, her body didn't wish for that.
"Igneel! Igneel!? It's me! Uh..?" The hearts in Lucy's eyes broke away and suddenly she felt her whole body giving her the control of her actions.
'Charm magic! That creep!' She turned to thank the one who broke the spell. It was a pink haired man with a weird blue cat.
"Uh..who the heck are you?" Natsu's question made the Salamander shocked.
"Who am I!" he exclaimed. Clearing his throat he spun before showing the charm ring into the dragon slayer's face..or at least where the latter stood. Turning his body to the other side, Salamander saw the boy and cat walking away disappointed. "Wait a minute!" This day was turning too much complicated for Salamander.
"Hey you jerk!" The hypnotized girls reacted violently.
"Apologize to Salamander right now!" One of them screeched, paining the dragon slayer's sensitive ears.
"Or we will rip you to shreds!" They all jumped on to tackle the pink infidel.
"Yeah! Now apologize.. Wha.." The five ladies who pounced on the young man were confused while the hypnotized women were a little shocked, the charm spell prevented their fickle mind from breaking the spell, along with the girls were Salamander who was clearly shocked and so was Lucy, who expected the boy to fall over.
But what was happening right in front of them was something they never saw before. "Natsu! If you don't put those girls down, I am telling it to them! And you do remember I get fish for reporting if you are not faithful!" Happy faulted the dragon slayer, who by the way, stood there, unaffected by the excess load of five adult females, one on his head, another two on his back and one on each arm. His face was filled with fear, not from the women but from what the talking cat said.
Coming over his initial shock, Salamander smiled dashingly and walked towards the boy. "Now now my sweet darlings, let the poor boy go, I'm sure the boy didn't mean anything malicious by it." This once again brought them back to his charm. Taking out a marker, he signed in a white paper and extended it to the dragon slayer. "Here's my autograph kid, now you can brag to all your friends." Natsu stared dumbly at the Salamander.
"No thanks." The girls tried to attack him again but Salamander quickly waved it off and tucked the paper in the boy's pocket.
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"Guess it wasn't him after all.." Happy spoke disappointedly as he and Natsu walked away from the female crowd.
"Definitely not him..." The dragon slayer sighed sadly.
"Uh Happy..you won't tell them about the incident.. I mean it's not my fault the jumped on me!" The blue cat looked calculatingly at the dragon slayer.
"Hmm a cooked salmon sounds good." Natsu's jaws dropped at the demand Happy put forward to keep his mouth shut.
"But we don't have any money and you said it too!" Natsu yelled, nearly on the verge of exploding.
"Then you can forget-" Happy's threat was cut out by someone from the side.
"Hi there!" They turned their heads to the left where a smiling blonde stood waving her arms nervously.
The curiosity on, who this girl was quickly erased from Happy's eyes and was replaced with an evil grin with which he turned towards Natsu. "So Natsu..five salmons sounds appetizing.."
"Oh come on Happy! We haven't seen her before in our life! Besides, why are they bothered anyway? What's so conflicting about me hanging out with any girl?" Well, as stupid as it sounds, Natsu was still oblivious to the heart of a woman. And worse, he thinks kissing is just a show of affection that is shown to girls and sometimes by weird men.
"It's because this girl is not supposed..." Happy began his lecture.
"Hey I am still here you know.." Lucy's voice fell on deaf ears as the two continued to argue.
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A little behind them, Salamander's play was still going on with his charm magic. "Ah I have to leave now." The Salamander gave a stylish pose.
"What! You are leaving already?" The still hypnotized crowd exclaimed, grabbing the arguing blue cat, dragon slayer and the bystander Lucy.
"Time for the red carpet. Ha!" A magic circle came and Salamander was lifted up by flames. "I am having a blast at my yacht and you are all invited!" He blasted off.
"Who the heck was that guy?" Natsu asked while staring at the idiot who flew away. Happy shook his head.
"I don't know, but he was a real creep!" Lucy took the opportunity to make her presence be known again, and was successful as both turned their heads at her.
"Huh?" Both the dragon slayer and cat looked at her confused.
Quickly giving a wave she spoke "Thank you for your help!" This only confused them further.
"Eh.."
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"My names Lucy and it's nice to meet you."
"Aye!" Happy acknowledged with his mouth full but Natsu didn't bother as he was too busy attacking the huge amount of food. Ripping, clawing, swallowing, shredding, the food deserved a better customer.
Lucy laughed nervously at the scene in front of her. "Natsu and Happy, was it?" Natsu shoved more food into his mouth ignoring her again.
"Sobh nihise" he complimented the food while shoving more in.
"Hehe Thanks, you can slow down now..foods not going anywhere.." Just as Lucy said that, a pastry crashed into her face. 'There goes the money I saved from the old geezer..'
"See, that guy Salamander was using a charm spell on all those women. Charm spells make women believe that they are in love with the guy wearing it. But it's been banned for years! That creep might have gone through a lot of trouble to get his dirty hands on those." Natsu and Happy still didn't pay much attention to it.
"I know I don't seem like it, but I'm a wizard!"
"Isthatso?" Natsu tried with his mouth full, dirtying the table in the process.
"And I am going to join a guild! Oh I should explain what a guild is. It is a place where wizards gather and live as a community. They are a form of organization which makes a mage be considered as a full-fledged wizard, and the guild I want to join is the best, oh if get in, I could just die!" Natsu and Happy were confused from all of Lucy's talks. "I'm sorry; all these guild and wizard talk might sound gibberish to you."
"You talk too much." Happy pointed out tiredly as he finished the last salmon.
"Oh, you guys were searching for someone when you ran into Salamander?" Natsu ripped of a big bite from his last item on the plate which was a pizza.
"Aye! We are looking for Igneel!" Happy being the civilized one, replied.
"We heard a rumour that a 'salamander' was going through town, so we came here to see him, but it turns out to be somebody else." Natsu spoke disappointedly, now all the food gone.
"That guy didn't look like a salamander at all." Happy too joined.
Crossing his hands Natsu agreed "No kidding! I bet that guy can't even breathe fire like a real dragon."
Lucy looked at the duo dumbly before asking "uhh..I don't get it..your friend Igneel looks like a..Dragon?"
Natsu's eyes widened. "No. You got it all wrong. He doesn't look like a dragon. He is a dragon."
"Aye! Igneel is a real life fire dragon!" Happy chimed.
"D-dragon!" An image of a giant angry dragon pictured itself in the blonde's mind, before shaking her head. "Why would a fire dragon show up in the middle of a town?!" She roared frustrated at their foolishness as they saw the point and expressed their shock. "It's totally ridiculous!" She finished.
Getting up she placed the money on the desk "Well..It's been nice knowing good people like you..although expensive." Natsu and Happy still remained frozen from the shock. When Lucy was about to exit, the maid came and bowed. "Thank you ma'am visit Ahhh!" Lucy too turned back and "Ahhh!"
"Thank for the food!" The cat and dragon slayer's foreheads were touching the restaurant's floor.
"Ahh stop embarrassing me! Look you guys helped me earlier and now I helped you. Let's call it even." She nervously and embarrassedly reassured.
Getting up, Natsu and Happy shared a sad look. "I feel bad you know...we weren't even trying to help her..." Happy nodded. "Aye. We could look for something.." Suddenly a bulb lit on Natsu's head.
"Oh yeah! I know! Here! This is for you!" Natsu held out the Salamander's autograph.
"No way!"
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"Man….These guys don't know when to hold up. They sure are the most destructive guild in Fiore!" Lucy said as she read out the part where Fairy Tail members destroy stuff…important stuff…in their jobs.
"I see...so you want to join Fairy Tail." Lucy jumped up startled and turned around to see who it was, only to come face to face with Salamander. The strange thing was, there were no girls with him.
Remembering what he has been doing before Lucy quickly backed off. "Now is that the way a pretty little girl should treat a great guy like me?" Salamander posed himself in front of the girl.
"Ha! Your charm magic won't work on me now that I am aware! And you are not at all a great guy! You are a creep! You abuse magic! Ones like you should be behind bars!" Lucy angrily growled.
Salamander held out his hands. "Now now I just wanted to feel like a celebrity. But I am no creep. And then again..I guess you need my help…" he came closer.
"I don't need any creeps help." Lucy said flatly.
"Oh, so you haven't heard of Fairy Tail's Salamander?"
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Evening.
Lucy stood in front of the yacht that looked like a party was going on deck. 'This is the ship of that Salamander.' Normally after knowing that a person is a creep you wouldn't want to go near him, but here Lucy didn't care, want to know why? She can get into the Fairy Tail Guild using this guys help because he knows the master very well and said he will recommend her to the guild if and only if she comes to his party and hence here she was dressed and beautiful.
Lucy got on deck and was not surprised to see all the girls from before. Then she noticed someone walking towards her, Salamander. On his way all the girls present except for Lucy was either grabbing him or squealing. He held out his hands and Lucy took it with a fake smile.
Salamander lead Lucy to the main room, she saw Salamander wave his hand to the side and saw a red wine bottle opening itself and pouring the red liquid into an exotic glass which then came floating towards Lucy. When Lucy attempted to take the glass, Salamander stopped her. "Ah ah aa now... it's my duty as the host to serve you." Salamander huskily said, to which Lucy again fake smiled at and allowed him to guide the glass to her mouth, but before the tip touched her lip she grabbed it and threw it away quickly getting up.
"Ha! You thought I will be that dumb to not realize sleep magic? I am out of here!" Lucy said walking out of the room, only to be stopped by two giant men blocking the exit, they were massive and unshaved with cuts on their faces, they didn't match the yacht's party atmosphere and both were smirking at Lucy, then one of them looked at Salamander.
"Bora, are you done with-" the giant man was cut off by Salamander.
"Don't call me that you idiot!" Salamander yelled angrily at the giant man.
"Ah… Sorry Bose my bad..." The giant man said.
"You are a bad girl. If only you just slept peacefully, welcome to my slave ship.." Bora's outlook emitted a malicious aura which made Lucy shiver lightly and to reach the Keys on her hip.
She was resulted in grabbing her own waist. The key pouch was gone. She looked around frantically only to be stopped when she spotted them in Bora's hands.
"Looking for these?" he said in a dark twisted voice, exactly opposite to the one from before. He walked over to the window. Lucy's eyes widened as she realized what he was about to do, but before she could react; Bora dropped the keys into the sea. The ship moved away from the shore and was a mile into the sea.
The two men from before came and grabbed Lucy and dragged her to the others captured by these slavers, what she saw outside made her nearly to faint, about ten to fifteen men were dragging the women who were now unconscious into the dungeons.
Lucy let alone tear slip past her cheek. "So this is it huh? A Fairy Tail mage does this.." She closed her eyes and let fate has its way with her.
"RaargghhAhhh!" With a roar, a pink haired body landed on the yacht's deck, splintering the wood. Lucy's eyes widened.
"Hey I know you!" Her eyes filled with hope.
"Lucy! What are you doing here?!" Happy followed by.
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The port town of Hargeon was soon met with a huge wave of sea water, which brought along the famed Salamander's ship with it. "Aquarius! You washed me along with the ship too!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Tch. I didn't mean to tag the ship along." The spirit replied.
"What! You were using it on me!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Don't call me for a week. I am going on a date. With my boyfriend." She emphasized.
"You don't have to rub it in you know.." The blonde sigh tiredly as she saw the spirit go back to the celestial world.
"Don't worry Lucy! Next time the fish lady causes trouble, you call me to take care of it!" Happy piped in.
"Oh..I don't think I can take much of this stupid cat.." Lucy groaned as she squeezed the water from her hair.
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"Oh my god! That ship washed ashore!"
"Where did that wave come from?!" The townspeople moved away from the crash site while, the now awake women ran away screaming.
"Oh that hurt.." Bora groaned as hr got up from the rubble, followed by his men. He looked up at his crashed ship where a figure came out of the smoke and stood there, glaring at him.
"Natsu!" Lucy yelled as she came behind the other side of the ship, but the dragon slayer didn't acknowledge them.
"So, you claim to be a wizard of the Fairy Tail guild..." The cheery voice of the dragon slayer was gone, now it was replaced by an icy tone.
"So? What's it to you? Go get him men!" Bora ordered his men
"Yes Sir!" Two of the thugs charged at the pink haired man.
"Let me get a closer look at your face.." Holding a side of his shirt, he pulled it off, revealing a black waist coat. Bora grinned at the boy, waiting for him to be beaten by his goons.
"Watch out!" Lucy tried to warn but Natsu didn't bother, so did Happy, who was munching on a fish as he sat on Lucy's shoulder.
"I probably should have told you before, but he's a wizard too." Happy revealed with boredom.
"What!" Lucy exclaimed, yet again.
"..my name is Natsu Dragneel! And I am a member of Fairy Tail, and I have never seen your face!" Natsu's voice leaked anger, but what caught them baffled was that the dragon slayer didn't touch the thugs but simply waved his hands to the side and they were sent sailing into the ship. His right shoulder displayed the red guild mark to the people.
"Natsu's a Fairy Tail mage?" Lucy asked disbelievingly.
"Aye!"
"That symbol...he's the real Bora!" The thug called him for the second time.
"Don't call me that you idiot!" Bora angrily shouted.
"I know this guy. He was once a member of Titan nose, but was casted out for misbehaviour." Happy stated and Lucy nodded in agreement.
"I don't know who you are, good guy, bad guy or whatever, but I won't let you sully Fairy Tail's name." Natsu roared as he jumped down and stood facing Bora.
With his arrogant grin Bora asked "And what are you gonna do about it? Prominence Typhoon!" The fire enveloped Natsu completely, Lucy tried to go help her friend, but Happy blocked her.
"What are you doing?! He needs my help!" Lucy stared at the cat. "Nope. Natsu's in a bad mood, Lucy, and he's out for blood. You won't want to stand in front of him when he's angry.
Chuckling, Bora turned away. "That's the way it goes, the bigger the words, the weaker the man. Come on let's go." Just when he and his men turned around.
ROAR!
The fire that was burning dissipated into shreds and in the middle stood Natsu with his knees bent slightly, steam coming off from his body, and his eyes red.
More of the thugs charged in, and instead of taking those out in one go, Natsu allowed himself to savour the moment. The first man tried to punch the dragon slayer, only for that fist to be caught and crushed by a simple squeeze before being thrown into the town. The others too horrified tried to run, only to be met with similar fates.
The last one who stood next Bora shakily spoke. "I..know..this g-guy..pink hair, s-scaly s-scarf..he's the real one.."
Lucy gasped. "Natsu is a Fairy Tail's Salamander?!"
"Aye!" Just then Natsu pulled back his head, a fire lighting up in his mouth, pushing forward he bellowed. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" Bora missed the raging fire only by inches, and the residual of the dragon attack demolished his ship that was behind Bora.
"W-what the-" Bora couldn't finish as he felt a sharp pain under his jaws before feeling that he was on air and he was and crashed into a building.
Flying up with the help of his red carpet, Bora charged his attack and threw it down. "Prominence Hell!" The laser like beam went like an ark, enveloping the town and Natsu in its path. But nothing happened to the dragon slayer, a broad grin was there, showing his pearly white fangs. Gathering up fire into a giant sphere, Bora threw it at the dragon slayer. "Red skull!" Effortlessly, Natsu caught it and ate it in one gulp.
"You sure, you are a fire mage? Your flames stink like shit and tastes worse!" Bora nearly fainted at the sight.
"How did he do that?! Is it some kind of spell?" Lucy asked in awe at the sight of the ongoing battle.
"No. He has dragon lungs to breath fire, dragon scales to dissolve fire and dragon claws to attack with fire. This is an ancient magic, this type of magic are rarely used these days. It gives the user all the physical capabilities of a dragon. Igneel was the one who taught it to Natsu." Happy explained.
"I am done playing with you pal, I am about to cook you like a smoked fish!" Slamming his fists together, a magic seal with a dragon in the centre appeared and his hands lit up in red flames.
"You are gonna do what to me?!" Bora yelled in horror, unable to hold in his fear anymore.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" The attack sent Bora bouncing through the town, destroying many vendors and stuff before crashing into the church bell.
"Don't be silly Natsu! Everyone knows you smoke food with smoke!" Happy stated scientifically, not at all bothered by the magic displayed.
"Oh wow..that was amazing.. But he over did it!" Lucy exclaimed again. The sudden sounds of marching boots averted her eyes to the side. "The army!"
"Holy crap! Wegottagetoutoffhere!" Lucy felt herself be dragged on air as Natsu ran with her.
"Where the heck are you taking me?!" She protested, but the Dragon Slayer paid no heed.
"Just come with us! You said you wanted to join the Fairy Tail guild, didn't ya?" That ceased all forms of resistance as she gazed at the smiling face of the dragon slayer. "So let's go!"
"Aye!"
A smile came over her face too as she went with the cat and dragon slayer.
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