"WHAT!"
I am met with enlarged white eyes and open mouths from both Natsu and the exceed next to him.
"N..nat…su is your brother?" the exceed asks. I nod as I look down at the floor embarrassed by their reactions. I understand that they would be shocked but I didn't think that this would happen.
"Natsu" Gray starts speaking directly to Natsu which seems to calm him down "Nozomi has been looking for you for 24 years. She came here just after we went to the S-Class exams and fought Acnologia. She was told that we were all feared dead so she stopped looking for you."
I try my best to continue Gray's words but all that comes out is a whisper, which everyone still manages to somehow hear. "I finally saw you again on Lacrima-vision at the Grand Master Games after hearing about a rumour that the people feared dead from Fairytail had come back. I saw your face during one of your fights and I knew that it was you. I knew that you were the brother that I had lost all of those years ago."
I look up to see him looking at me with interest. I decide to take a bold move and show him the photo of us as children. He cocks his head to the side looking at the picture and then at me, grinning widely.
"Why does that kid look like me?" Natsu asks pointing at the younger version of himself.
Gray puts his head in his hands and mutters 'baka' while I silently laugh to myself. "It's you Natsu when you was little. I'm the one holding you in the picture"
He looks between me and the picture in his hands making the connection between us both and the picture and smiles after a minute or so.
"I now have more nakama!" He says which startles us all.
"What?" I ask
"Everyone here is my nakama and you say that you are my sister so that makes you my nakama!"
I am stunned into silence by his words. Gray standing next to me mutters "baka" while shaking his head as I silently agree with him. Can he really be so accepting so quickly?
"Natsu…"I start…. but I just don't have the words. I feel the tears flow freely from my eyes as the realisation that all that I have been living for has finally come true. My long lost brother is here, right in front of me. Plus he is accepting me straight away!
"I'm so happy for you both!" Erza shouts out with tears falling down her eyes. I look around and I realise that the rest of the guild had formed a small circle around us and had been listening the whole time. They were all in tears and I cry with them.
Natsu looks at me concerned. "Why are you crying?"
I giggle "I'm happy Natsu"
He looks even more confused "Why would you cry when you are happy? You cry when you are sad."
And I can't take it any longer. I lunge for him and envelope him in a tight hug while he just stands there still, not quite sure what to do with himself. I let go as I start to sob, letting go 24 years of heartache and wonder of whether I would find my brother again. Natsu just stands there letting me cry on his open navy vest and I feel him slowly move his position to put his hand on my back to comfort me and pull me closer in the hug.
We stand there for Mavis knows how long as I let all of my emotions out. When I finally stop crying, I mutter into his chest "Without you here I didn't feel right. I felt hollow. Now I feel complete again. I've missed you so much baby brother." I pull away from his chest and grab his hands, my mood changing to excitement. "I have so much to tell you and I want to hear everything about you!"
I pull him onto a nearby bench and I realise that the crowd had dispersed. I think they must have realised that we needed our own space and thought it would be wise to give it. Even Gray and Erza are on the other side of the room talking to a blonde girl and a small dark blue-haired girl to give us space.
"You must have a lot of questions. Ask me anything you like" I start
Natsu um's and ah's for a while for thinking up his first question. It reminds me of when he used to do that as a baby and it made me giggle silently to myself. He asked me about our parents and how we got separated. I told him everything that I knew and despite the fact that it was a lot to take in, he just accepted it.
"Are you a mage like me?" He asked after I explained my story. I nod.
"What magic do you use?"
"Because of what happened to us when we were little, I developed fire magic." I say. Natsu looks back like he is ecstatic.
"Just like me! I'm a fire dragon slayer! Igneel taught me everything I know!"
I look back at him confused. "Natsu… we both developed our fire magic because the fire that burnt our village down was filled with magical properties and we ingested it. I guessed you would be a fire type mage of some sort but how did you learn fire dragon slayer magic? "
"I was raised by my Dad Igneel. He is a fire dragon and the king of dragons. He found me as a baby and raised me to learn dragon slayer magic. Since he was a fire dragon, I learnt fire dragon slayer magic." Wow no wonder I didn't find you Natsu!
He carries on telling me about his life with his adopted Papa with happiness and pride in his voice and I am so amazed by how cool it is to have a brother raised by dragons and to learn a secret magic art! I'm also relieved that Natsu was not left to fend for himself. That thought plagued me for years not knowing whether he was on his own. I had heard about dragons throughout my travels so it didn't surprise me to know that Natsu was a dragon slayer. I even knew of his power when I watched him at the Grand Master Games! I winced however when Natsu described Igneel as his Dad. Obviously I knew our real Papa but Natsu wouldn't remember either Mama or Papa, so it sounded like Papa was being replaced somehow to me.
"So are you in a guild too?" Natsu eventually asks.
I shake my head. "I spent all of my time wandering looking for new clues to finding you."
Natsu looks me with a sad expression, but then lights up again. "Why don't you join here?"
"What?" I ask shocked.
Natsu grins broadly at me. "Why not. I'm from Fairytail and it would be amazing to have my sister here too!"
"I don't know…" I say concerned
"Oh come on!" I heard Gray say as he walking towards us.
"It would be great to have you as part of Fairytail. Family should always be together" Erza stated. The blonde girl they were talking to earlier was next to her and nodded her head in agreement.
"You're exactly right Erza" I heard and I followed the mass of heads moving to look at a small man standing between Erza and Gray.
"Gii-chan" I heard Natsu say.
"Gii-chan?" I ask. He has adopted a Grandpa? And he has a dragon for a Papa? This is too weird.
"Master. This is Nozomi. She is Natsu's biological sister" Erza says introducing me. "Nozomi, this is Master Makarov. He is the master of our guild."
I smile and shake his outstretched hand. "Nice to meet you"
He smiles back at me. "So. I hear that you want to join Fairytail?" I look nervously around expressing my concern.
I blush. "I would love to…."
"Great!" He says interrupting me. "Go over to the counter and ask for Mirajane. She will sort you out with your guildmark."
Wait? Guildmark? I look at everyone who is showing me their guildmarks. I see the mark of Fairytail in all different colours on different sections of people's bodies. I looked over to Natsu who was showing me his bright red guildmark on his upper arm.
"Does it hurt?" I ask.
Everyone looks at me confused. "I've never been to a guild before." I explain
Natsu grins "No it doesn't hurt. Come on! Let's get you your guildmark!" He grabs me by the hand and drags me over to the counter where a white haired woman in a red dress meets me. She sees my scared expression and giggles.
"Natsu. It's your sister's choice if she wants to join." She turns to me "Do you?"
I look over nervously to Natsu who is beaming at me with the prospect of me joining. Knowing that I will do anything to see my brother smile like that all of the time I nodded my head. Natsu cheers along with the rest of the guild frightening me.
Mirajane laughs again. "Where would you like your guildmark and what colour would you like?"
I think about this for a while. "Can I get a red one like my brother on my left wrist" I hold up the inside of my left wrist to indicate what I meant." With that Mirajane goes away and comes back with a large stamp. She tells me to hold my wrist still and she places the stamp on it. A small light flashes and she removes the stamp revealing my brand new bright red guild mark! I am filled with so much elation that I start to cry again. Natsu and Mirajane just laughs as I stare at my guildmark.
The next thing I see is Natsu raising his arm in the air, showing me the back of his hand with his pointer finger and thumb out while the rest are clasped. It looks like a backwards 'L' to me, but no one seems to notice the weird gesture and the rest of the guild do it too. It must be their sign or something.
"Welcome to Fairytail sis" Natsu says and with that, my stomach flips, tears start to fall and I raise my newly stamped arm in the arm copying their hand gesture!
I am home.
Nozomi is part of FairyTail! What do you all think? I was going to give Nozomi the same guildmark as Natsu but I thought it should be different so i chose where I have a tattoo myself :D I know that Natsu accepted her very quickly but tbh Natsu is like that anyway in the manga/ anime about anything. Thank you all for reading again and keeping up with this! The adventure is just beginning! Don't forget to review/comment/follow/PM/ whatever for this story! Love to all :D