Training with the dragon

Chapter 5

As I walked into the guildhall with Sapphire, I noticed that even through it was very early in the morning there were already many people there. Natsu and Gray were already arguing over something and Erza was eating her strawberry cake while eyeing Jellal.

"Hey did you hear? There was another guild that got disbanded because one guy walked in and took out their leader, and no one knows why," I guess some guilds must have it rough I thought to myself. As we walked toward the bar Mira walked up to me grabbed my arm and pulled me along.

"Where are we going?"

"I'll tell you if you tell me what you and Sapphire where doing last night."

"Well she asked if I wanted to sleep at her place because otherwise I would have slept on the street."

"I see, how cute! Did the two of you share a bed?" As she said those words, I could feel my face turn red so I answered quickly so she wouldn't turn her head.

"No not exactly."

"Now what is that supposed to mean 'not exactly',"

"Well we didn't share for the first half but we did the second half."

"Okay that's cute. Now please sit down. Have you decided if you want to become a member of our guild yet?"

"Well that's an easy one. Of course!"

"Now now. It needs to be because of the whole guild not just Sapphire."

"Wha… it's not just because of her. I feel comfortable being here."

"That's good. Now tell me where do you want your guildmark and what color."

"Oh um… well I think in a dark purple and could I get it at the base of my throat."

"Sure we have a couple of different dark shades of purple please choose one," she said holding out magazine of colors.

"I think… this one," I said and pointed.

"Alright. Since you want it in quite the bothersome location it will take some more time even though it's just a magic stamp. By the way has Zeke Arrived yet."

"That's fine. And no I don't know where he could be." After a couple of minutes, I had my official guildmark of Fairy Tail. I thanked Mira, she gave me a smile, and we walked back to the main hall. When we got there, I looked around for a certain dragon slayer.

"Hey Naaaatsuuuuu" I called out and I saw him as he turned around to look at me. I made a come-over-here motion with my arm and he said his goodbyes to Lucy and the others.

"What's up Jack?"

"I just wanted to hear if you wanted to train with me later." I said a little nervous. This was my idol I was talking to and asking if he wanted to train with little old me.

"Sure how about we go right now I know great place in the mountains. Come on."

"Thank you," I said as I ran with him to the exit. But before we left, I asked Mira to cook some lunch and she happily obliged. When we had run a little, Natsu stopped running and walked instead and so did I.

"So… how was last night at Sapphires house huh," he teased and elbowed me.

"It was nice. Neither of us could sleep so we went training in the nearby forest. So there's that,"

"Aaand? Come on you can't just leave it at that."

"Well there's nothing more to tell."

"Come on I know you didn't ask me out here to train if you could have done it with her. You know her way better."

"That's true but she can't help me with this."

"I see. I guess I'll find out why later. This is going to be fun," he said grinning widely.

As we came to a large opening in the mountain, where there was flat ground and many good rocks to smash and set up to practice various forms of magic.

"Alright prince charming, show me what you need help with," he said. I looked around for a good rock to aim at.

"Alright, here goes nothing. GLASS DRAGON ROAR!" as I shouted shards of glass sprayed from my mouth and missed the rock by a hair.

"WOW, you're a dragon slayer. What generation?"

"Fourth and the only one at that."

"What's a fourth generation dragon slayer mean?"

"It means that I don't have a lachrima inside me and I was also not trained by a dragon. I taught myself everything from the bottom. Even how to eat glass. That was a bit painful in the beginning," as I explained Natsu stared at me with an interested look.

"That's AWESOME! Alright let's train your roar."

"Could you do me a favor don't tell anyone when we get back to the guild before I have perfected it okay."

"You got it. I won't," we trained for hours and eventually I actually hit the rock not in the center but I was close, then we decided to take our lunch break. I consisted of a couple of sandwiches and there was a pond nearby where we got something to drink.

"Tell me Jack, why don't you want me to tell the guild you're a dragon slayer?"

"Well because I haven't perfected all of my moves so it's a little embarrassing. I mean do you know a dragon slayer who can't hit a giant boulder with their roar?"

"Well, let's see Gajeel nope. Wendy no. Laxus definitely not. Cobra I don't think I have actually seen Cobra roar but I'm guessing no. Sting and Rogue no. Well no, I haven't so I can see your point. But don't worry about it, one day you WILL save Sapphire from something terrible and she'll be so grateful that you go to her house and…" I cut him off before he could finish that sentence.

"Please do not finish that sentence! Where did that come from anyway!?"

"Well why else would you be embarrassed. She's the only one you really know in the guild properly. I mean you did sleep in bed with her right?" I could feel my face turning red.

"Don't worry you don't have to say it I can see it on your face that it's a yes. Nice going man you haven't been here for more than two days and you already have more going than most of us," he said and hit my shoulder.

"um… thanks. I think. Anyway let's get back to training shall we."

"Yeah! Let's go! I'm all fired up now!" He got up, ran over, and was ready to fight

"Let's fight, I wanna see what you got other than the roar," you could see the fire starting to gather around him.

"Alright get ready, here I come, I won't hold back"

I stood up and launched myself at him about four feet from him I jumped up in the air "GLASS DRAGON STAMP!" my foot became a glass version of Gajeels iron dragon pound. Natsu dodged out of the way and was now right in front of me in the air. "FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!" he hit me straight in the gut. I grabbed his arms and held him so I didn't fly back from the impact. As we neared the ground, I shouted "GLASS DRAGON STEEL KNUCKLE!" and hit him on the shoulder turned him around so I was on top and he was face down as we collided with the ground. As I got off him, I hoped that was impressive enough. However, I was not so, fortunate as he got up like it was nothing. "DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART: CHRIMSON LOTUS EXPLODING FLAME EDGE!" I could see my life flashing before my eyes. The only thing I had to counter his secret art was my own. But, I hadn't perfected it yet. Nevertheless, I had no choice if I wanted to survive. I readied my stance, but he stopped before he threw his attack at me. "Judging from your facial expression I win," he let on a huge grin flashing his fangs and crossing his arms in victory.

"Well what did you expect? I have never really fought anyone before."

"If that was your first fight that was pretty good. I was all fired up during that."

"Thanks, but I didn't manage to hurt you enough to make you stay down for more than two seconds. Zeke is a much easier opponent."

"Well is it necessary to get me down for long to become stronger. Maybe next time we fight it'll be three seconds before I get up."

"I suppose you're right. Can I train my roar a little bit more I almost have it I think. Plus I think it would really help in a pinch."

"Sure try not to just spit it out. When I couldn't do it like I can now I held out my hands up to my mouth like this," he held his hands as if he was holding a trumpet. (For reference, see episode one of the anime)

"Alright got it."

I tried out his new technique and he was right it was a lot easier to aim. After another couple of hours, we decided to go back to the guild. This had certainly been a great day spent with my idol. The strongest dragon slayer in Fairy tail!