Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail, it belongs to Hiro Mashima and I, unfortunately, am not him. I do however own any OC characters that will appear later in the story. Relax and enjoy the story.
People speaking "Hello Hello Hello"
People thinking 'Geronimo'
Magic Spells "Fire Dragon ROAR"
Creature/Dragon speaking "I am ALIVE"
Creature/Dragon thinking 'Come along'
Chapter 9
Salamander in Hargeon
"Wake up Natsu!" A voice called out; Natsu turned his head away from the voice, keeping his eye closed and trying to sleep. Before Natsu could drift back to sleep though, he felt a small hand pat his cheek and he heard another voice.
"Come one daddy, we're here!" A young voice called out, making Natsu open his eyes to see a little girl staring at him with big brown eyes. She had long red hair put into a ponytail with two rose colored bangs on the sides of her face and at the tip of the ponytail.
It's been over four years since Lisanna's death and three years since Natsu became an S-class wizard. He was now 22 years old and married to Erza; she had wanted to have a real wedding even though the Dragon Marks were the same as being married, so they decided to have a small ceremony after their daughter was born. They had named her Nova Lisanna Dragneel, which brought tears to Mirajane's eyes a little when they asked if they could use Lisanna's name before bring them into a small hug and happily agreed with the name. As Nova grew, everyone noticed she was starting to look like Erza when she was a child, except for the areas with Natsu's hair color and other small features. She was now three years old turning four in a few months.
While Erza was away on her Extermination Mission, Natsu was taking care of Nova; when he had heard of a salamander passing through Hargeon, he brought Nova along with him since he figured there would be no real danger at the ports.
"Alright Nova, I'm getting up." Natsu replied before letting out a yawn as he rose from the seat, placing a hand on top of the girls head and giving it a small rub before he reached up and grabbed their supplies from the carrier above. As he secure his pack on his back he reached up again and grabbed a stuffed red dragon and handed it to Nova, who snuggled the dragon before running to the door quickly with Natsu and Happy following after her. "Wait for us Nova! Happy, grab her!"
"Aye sir!" Happy quickly flew at Nova and grabbed her as she exited the train, lifting her a bit into the air to stop her from walking. Natsu reached the door as Happy placed Nova back down.
"You've got to be careful Nova; these kinds of places are not safe for you to walk around on your own." Natsu warned Nova, who nodded her head.
Nova didn't say anything as she brought her toy dragon closer. Natsu reached out and started patting her on the head.
"It's okay, just remember to stay close; I don't want anything bad to happen to you." Natsu said, not hearing the train's alert that the doors were closing.
"Um, Natsu…" Happy said, trying to get the Dragonslayer's attention. Natsu removed his hand from Nova's head and turned his head to look at Happy.
"What's up?"
"I think you should get off the train befor-" Happy didn't get to finish as the doors closed right in front of Natsu and the train started to move, before long the train left the platform. "…Well there he goes…"
"Daddy?" Nova questioned worriedly as the train left.
"Don't worry Nova, Natsu will be back." As soon as Happy said that Natsu appeared in front of them in a small burst of flames, staring angrily at the departed train in the distance.
"Stupid train! Closing the doors just as I was leaving!" Natsu yelled, but his mini rant was interrupted by Happy.
"It was your own fault Natsu, you took too long to get off." The blue cat commented and Nova nodded her head a little at that, though she didn't understand why her father was yelling at the train.
"…Whatever, let's go!" Natsu said as he secured his backpack, "We need to check to see if that information on that salamander being in this town was correct."
"Aye!" Happy exclaimed.
"Do you really think Grandpa Igneel is here, daddy?" Nova asked as she reached one hand out and grabbed Natsu's fingers.
"We'll see Nova; I got a feeling there is something interesting about this town." Natsu replied as he curled the fingers around his daughter's hand.
(Meanwhile)"What!? This is the only magic shop in town!" A blonde girl exclaimed after hearing the news from the shopkeeper.
"Unfortunately only a very few can use magic in this town, this shop is mainly for traveling mages. Most of the stores here are more focused on fishing and other sea-based equipment." The shopkeeper explained, making the girl give a heavy sigh.
"So coming here was a waste of time." She said to herself with disappointment in her voice.
"Hey now, don't say that," The shopkeeper said as he motioned to his other magical good, "I have plenty of magical items, and a bunch of new stuff came in a while ago." He reached under the counter and brought out a card with the word "Color" on it and a glass ball at the top. "This color magic is popular among girls; with a wave of your hand you can change the color of your clothes." He demonstrated by turning his clothes purple and then green.
"I already have that item." The girl stated as she stared at some of the other items, unsure of what some of them were. "What I'm really looking for are powerful Gate Keys."
"Gate Keys, huh? That's a rare request; lucky for you I happen to have one." He said catching the girl's attention as he grabbed a box on the shelf behind him; she got closer to the counter as he opened the box to reveal a silver key inside.
"Oh wow, it's the Little Doggy!" She said with glee.
"Yes, but it's not very strong at all." The shop keeper commented, but the girl shook her head.
"It's okay; I've been looking for it!" She said enthusiastically before she asked the big question. "How much is it?"
"It's 20,000 jewels."
The girl froze before asking again, "I'm sorry, how much is the price again?"
"I said it was 20,000 jewels." The shopkeeper said again.
The girl leaned against the counter, revealing a huge amount of cleavage to the shopkeeper; she crossed her arms under her breast to make them pop out more. The zipper on her top seemed to lower itself due to the pressure.
"Oh come now you dandy man…can't you give me a little discount?" She asked while finishing with a seductive wink. The shopkeeper was quiet for a moment before speaking.
(A few minutes later)
"Tch." The girl grunted as she walked down in a huff, "Stupid old man; HE ONLY KNOCKED OFF 1,000 JEWELS!" she yelled angrily as she kicked a café sign down.
Her attention was taken when she heard a few girls screaming; not in fear or pain, but in delight. A few girls ran passed her in hurry towards a large crowd a distance away. While staring at the crowd in confusion she heard another pair of girls behind her talking as they ran towards the crowd.
"Is there really a famous wizard in town!?"
"Yeah, it Salamander!"
"…Salamander…" The girl said to herself before she gasped in realization, "You mean the famous wizard who uses Fire Magic not available in stores? He's in this town!?" She said as she walked to the crowd, "I wonder what he's like."
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"Ah man." Natsu said as he, Happy and Nova walked down the street, "We've been here for hours and still nothing, looks like this lead was a dead end too."
"Don't say that Natsu, we haven't looked all over town yet." Happy said as he looked up at Natsu.
"But if Igneel was here, we would have seen him by now. A giant red dragon is not that hard to spot in a place like this." Natsu stated while turning his head downward to look at Happy.
"Yeah I guess that is true." Their mini-debate was interrupted as they heard a tiny growl; they turned their attention to Nova who was staring up at Natsu.
"Daddy…I'm hungry." Nova said; Natsu nodded his head.
"Yeah I'm getting pretty hungry myself." Natsu gave her a small smile as he spoke, "How about we look for a good place to eat before heading home, sound good you two?"
Both Happy and Nova gave a nod but as they continued walking forward, they heard a group of girls yelling. Looking forward they saw a giant crowd in the town square. They could hear what a few of them were saying.
"It's Salamander!"
"He's so dreamy!"
"He's so hot!"
Nova looked up at her dad, who stared at the crowd with a little confusion, "Daddy?"
"Happy." The blue cat looked up at Natsu, "Stay here with Nova; I'm going to check it out."
"Are you sure Natsu?" Happy asked with a little concern.
"Yeah…I am just going to see if it is Igneel, if not then this lead was definitely a bust." Natsu replied as he started rushed towards the crowd. "Just make sure Nova stays out of harm's way if things go bad."
"Aye Sir!"
Natsu hurried over to the crowd, his mind lost in thought. 'I doubt its Igneel, but I should still double check.
When he got to the crowd, Natsu made his way through the drooling fan-girls to reach the center; while he called out Igneel's name. When he was able to get to the center he saw a blonde hair girl get closer to a dark-blue haired man; as the two looked at him, Natsu had only one thing to say.
"Who the heck are you?"
(A few moments earlier)
The blonde female wizard stared at the man in the center of all the fan-girls, her heart beating like crazy and her face almost completely red. The man she was staring at was tall and had dark-blue hair; he was wearing a short sleeved shirt, red striped pants, and large bracelets on his right arm. The man was wearing a dark, high collared cape that reach to the back of his knees, and he had two small, barely noticeable rings on his right hand. The man quickly struck a pose, making the other girls go crazy while the blonde continued to stare.
'W-what's happening to me!? My heart is beating so fast!' The girl thought as she stared at the man talking to a few girls before turning his head to look at her, a playful grin on his face, she quickly grabbed at her heart as it started to beat even harder. 'Is it because he is a famous wizard? Is that why my heart is throbbing so much in my chest!?' Hearts seemed to cover her eyes as she got closer to the man, not hearing a male's voice call out through the crowd. 'Am I…in love?'
"Igneel!" A voice called out, catching both of their attentions, they turned to see a man with rose colored hair emerging through the crowd; the girl's eyes widened before the hearts completely shattered. The rose haired man stared for a second before speaking in a flat tone. "Who the heck are you?"
The man jerked back in surprise before he gave a cocky smirk while making a pose, "I am Salamander, surely you've heard of me." Salamnder said, expecting the other man to be amazed, but instead Natsu had already started his way back to Nova and Happy before the man even said who he was. "Gone already!" Salamander exclaimed in shock.
Natsu was walking back to his companions, however he was suddenly attacked by several of the fan-girls surrounding Salamander. They tackled him and started to bite, scratch and perform wrestling moves on him while screaming at him.
"You're so rude!"
"Salamander is a famous wizard, so you better apologize to him right now!"
"If you don't, we'll rip you to shreds!"
Natsu, caught off-guard by the girl's sudden beating, was not sure on how to handle these girls. He didn't want to hurt them, but they were seriously annoying.
"Stop bullying my daddy, you meanies!" Nova's voice called out. The girls turned their attention from hitting Natsu to Nova, who was giving them a glare that was more adorable than threatening, especially while she was holding her stuff toy dragon. Happy was standing next to her, ready to get her away if something bad happened.
"Beat it kid, he was rude to Salamander and he's gonna pay. So stay out of our way if you know what's good for you." One of the girls threatened. Natsu twitched at those words.
"Did you just threaten my daughter?" Natsu asked darkly, scaring the girls a little before they were roughly thrown off by Natsu; he gave them a glare which made them freeze "Now listen here I don't care what you do to me, but don't you ever threaten my daughter again or you'll pay the price." His tone was so dark; it made some of the girls wet themselves a little. The tension was broken however when Salamander got in between them.
"Now now my beauties; leave the man alone. I doubt he meant anything malicious by it." Those words snapped the girls out of their fear as they stared at Salamander with hearts in their eyes; the blonde girl narrowed her eyes at Salamander as he wrote his autograph and presented it to Natsu, who stared nonchalant at Salamander. "Here you go; an autograph to give to your daughter."
"…No thanks..." Natsu quickly said and the next thing he knew, he was thrown across the street head first.
Happy and Nova went over to Natsu and when they made it to him, Happy said, "I guess it wasn't him after all."
"Definitely not him."
"Well anyways, I'm sorry but I must depart." Salamander said much to the girls' disappointments. "But don't worry," He snapped his fingers and fuchsia-colored flames danced around Salamander before lifting him into the air, making the girls cheer. "I am hosting a party on my ship and you are all invited to come!" He shouted before leaving the area, the girls left as well to prepare for the party.
"Are you okay daddy?" Nova asked as Natsu sat up.
He gave her a smile before replying, "Yeah, I'm alright Nova, are you?" She gave him a small nod. "Good…who the heck was that guy?" He muttered to himself.
"I don't know, but he was a creep." A female voice called out from behind them; the three turned around to see a blonde girl staring down at them. She was wearing a white and blue sleeveless collar shirt, a blue mini skirt, and black female boots; she also had a whip on one side with a heart shape at the end and on the other was a whole bunch of keys. Natsu stopped his quick study when she spoke again. "Thanks for your help!" She said with a smile.
"Huh?" Natsu blinked "My…help?"
(Later at a Restaurant)
"My name is Lucy; it's nice to meet you." Lucy said with a smile as they began eating. Natsu was inhaling huge portions with every bite, some of it flying everywhere, Happy was eating his fish and Nova was eating a small hamburger at a fast pace too, but not as fast as her father.
"Aye!" Happy replied as he grabbed another fish.
"…Nice to meet you too ma'am." Nova said, a little shy at meeting a new person.
"You can just call me Lucy," She said to the younger girl, who smiled before happily continuing to eat her meal.
"So what are your names?" Lucy asked; Natsu swallowed the food in his mouth and took a big gulp of his drink before answering.
"Oh right, sorry about that. I'm Natsu," Natsu said before pointing to Nova and Happy, "This is one of my best friends, Happy." Happy gave a small wave. "And this is my daughter, Nova."
"Your daughter!? But you're so young!?" Lucy exclaimed as she looked back and forth between the two. "She can't be more than three years old!"
"Yup, she's turning four in a few months." Natsu placed a hand on Nova's head, smiling at his daughter before turning back to Lucy. "I brought her along with Happy and I because we had heard that someone we were looking for was coming to this town, but I didn't want to leave her alone, so I decided to bring her along for a little father-daughter bonding." After he said that, he noticed Lucy had a sad look in her eyes for a moment, "Is something wrong?"
"…No no, it's nothing," Lucy said as she waved her hands in a dismissive manner, but in her mind she was thinking something else. 'These two are so close, he really loves having his daughter a part of his life…I'm so envious.' Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard Natsu ask something. "I'm sorry, what was that?"
"I asked if you really okay with paying," Natsu repeated as he continued "The three of us were already heading to a restaurant to grab something to eat before heading home; I can pay for our meals if you want." Natsu commented, but Lucy shook her head.
"It's not trouble," She replied before thinking to herself, 'Even though all that discount money I had left from my sex appeal is all gone…' She shook her head a little before continuing to speak, "This is my way of saying thank you for helping me with that Charm spell."
"Charm spell?" Natsu and Happy repeated with confusion. Imaginary question marks were floating above their heads.
"It's a magic that was banned years ago, it has the power to attract other people's hearts to the caster. That Salamander guy was using that magic to get those girls' attentions. How disgusting." She snarled to herself, not noticing Natsu and the others were eating again and barely paying attention to her. "But thanks to you guys interrupting him, the charm on me wore off."
"I zee." Natsu said as he took a of a giant meat bone.
"You wouldn't guess from my appearance, but I'm a wizard as well." Lucy commented with a smile.
"Uh-huh."
"Yeah, but I'm not a member of a guild yet." She commented before she thought that the three in front of her didn't know about magic. "Ah, a guild is an association for wizards and it will mediate jobs and other information to wizards. A wizard isn't considered full-fledged until they work for a guild." She explained.
"Hmm." Natsu mumbled as Lucy continued excitedly.
"There are many guilds all over the world and it pretty hard to get into the guilds that are popular," Lucy sighed happily, "There are a lot of great wizards who are at the one I want to join! Aah… What should I do!? I want to join that guild, but I bet it'll be really hard…"
'It wasn't hard for me to join mine.' Natsu thought to himself with a sweatdrop.
Seeing Natsu give a blank stare, Lucy gave a dismissive wave, "Ah sorry, I guess all this wizard talk is hard for you guys to understand." She leaned her head on her hands as she gave a small smile, "But someday, I'll definitely join that guild and do a bunch of exciting job."
Realizing she had finished talking Natsu spoke, "I…I see…"
"You talk a lot." Happy bluntly commented and Nova was drinking her milk, not paying that much attention to what Lucy had said.
"By the way, you guess were looking for someone, right?" Lucy questioned as she remembered them saying earlier, wondering if she could maybe help.
"Aye, we're looking for Igneel!" Happy replied as he grabbed another fish.
"We had heard a rumor that a salamander was coming to this town, and we came to check it out. But it turned out to be someone else." Natsu explained with disappointment in his voice.
"That guy from before didn't look like a salamander at all." Happy said.
"I bet that guy can't even breathe fire like a real dragon." Natsu added.
"I don't get what you're talking about, your friend looks like a dragon." Lucy commented, trying to imagine a human looking like a dragon.
"No you got it all wrong; he doesn't LOOK like a dragon, he IS a dragon." Natsu answered. "He's a fire dragon to be more specific."
"WHAAA!?" Lucy exclaimed as she stared at Natsu in shock. "…THERE'S NO WAY A DRAGON WOULD BE IN THIS TOWN!" She saw the three people across from her make a realization pose; well Nova was just copying her father and Happy. "YOU JUST REALIZED THAT!" She stopped and took a deep breath before reaching for her purse and pulling out a few bills. "Anyway I should get going, enjoy your meal and maybe we'll see each other again."
As she started walking away from the table she heard movement behind her, when she took a look her eyes widened in shock and mouth dropped. Natsu and Happy were on the ground with their heads to the floor and Nova was standing in her seat with her head bowed down.
"Thank you for the meal!" Natsu exclaimed while Nova and Happy followed with a loud thank you.
Lucy took a quick glance around and noticed some people were watching the scene with mixed emotions. She gave a small yell before speaking. "Don't do that, it's embarrassing! You don't have to thank me; you helped me before so now we're even." She tried to calm the situation down.
"But I feel like we didn't really help at all since we weren't trying to." Natsu muttered to Happy who quickly agreed.
"Aye, I feel like we should still do something." Happy replied.
"…Wait, I know!" Natsu exclaimed as he reached towards the seat and grabbed something before holding it out to Lucy; it was Salamander's autograph. "Here, you can have this!"
"No way!" Lucy yelled as she slapped the thing away and quickly walked out the door.
Natsu stared at the door for a moment before walking back to the table, "Oh well, let's get our fill and then get ready to head home." With that, the three continued to eat.
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After Lucy left the restaurant she went to a newsstand and purchased the newest Sorcerer Weekly; as she walking through the park she decided to relax on a bench and read.
"Looks like Fairy Tail is causing trouble again! Let's see…The Devon Thief Family destroyed, however seven of the townspeople's houses were destroyed as well…HAHAHA! Talk about going overboard!" Lucy said cheerfully as she flipped through the pages before coming to the center; where more pictures of Mirajane were located.
"So it looks like the centerfold is going to be Fairy Tail's drawing card, Mirajane; she's so pretty…huh?" She noticed that one of the pictures was folded in and when she opened the centerfold she saw Mirajane of course, but also another woman with her. "That Erza Dragneel, one of Fairy Tail's famous wizards! She's never done a shooting before…wow, she's really pretty too."
Erza and Mirajane were standing back to back staring at the camera in their bikinis, Erza giving a coy smile while she had her hands in her hair to give it a wild look, some of her hair covered one eye to add to her sex appeal and Mirajane was giving the camera a bright smile and a hand held out to the camera while the other was across her stomach. Erza's black bikini and red hair contrasted against her lightly tanned skin while Mirajane's white bikini simply flowed with her pale skin and white hair.
"Man seeing these two almost makes me wonder if being good looking is a requirement, I mean I have confidence in my looks, but I've got no chance against these two…But I wonder how can I join Fairy Tail, is there some special requirement or something?" Lucy wondered out loud, "I wonder if I have to go through an interview. But I'm definitely going to join Fairy Tail, they're the best guild ever!" She giggled to herself until she heard a voice behind her.
"So you want to join Fairy Tail, huh?" Lucy jumped in surprise as Salamander emerged from the bushes with a grin on his face.
"Salamander!" Lucy called out as she scooted away.
"I've been looking for you." He said as he walked out of the bushes and made another pose, "I wanted to personally invite you to the party on my ship."
"Sorry but your charm spell won't work on me anymore; the weakness to that spell is "awareness", when a target is aware of it, the magic becomes useless." Lucy stated as she created more distance between the two.
"Ah! I knew you were a mage when our eyes met. It doesn't matter though, the invitation still stands." He said as he brushed off her words.
"No way am I going to be caught at a party with a nasty creep like you." Lucy crossed her arms as she looked away. That seemed to make him flinch as she continued. "Using your spell to make yourself popular, that's proof enough on what kind of person you are."
"Oh come now, that's all in good fun; I just wanted to feel like a celebrity at my own party." Salamander said as an excuse. Lucy started walking away as he finished talking.
"I am actually wondering if you really are a popular wizard; you just too pathetic." She said as she walked, not looking back.
"Hold on a moment. You wanted to join Fairy Tail, right?" He asked making her freeze mid-step. When she turned her head to look at him, he continued. "Have you ever heard of Salamander, one of Fairy Tail's famous wizards?"
"Of course…Wait, are you one of the wizards of Fairy Tail?" She question with a yell, to which he answered with a smiled and slow nodded.
"Yes, I am. I can talk to the master if you're interested in joining."
The girl simply stared at him in open-mouthed shock for several seconds before promptly running up and pressing herself against his side, a big smile on her face.
"I can't wait to go to your party tonight!"
Salamander gave an airy laugh, gently trying to push her away from him. "That was easier than I thought it would be."
Completely oblivious to anything he was saying, she moved to stand right in front of him, stars in her eyes as she clasped her hands together. "Can I really join Fairy Tail?"
"Of course. Just don't tell anyone about the Charm spell." Salamander said.
"No problem, I won't!"
He nodded, and looked off into the distance for a moment. "Well my dear, it has been a pleasure. I shall see you at the party tonight. It shouldn't be hard to spot when you get to the docks."
"You got it Mr. Salamander!" Lucy watched until she could no longer see Salamander's back, then something in her brain seemed to click back into awareness.
"Oh, crap! I must have fallen for some kind of pseudo-charm!" Thinking about it, a smile slowly began to creep across her face. "But who cares! I'll just put up with him for a little while until I join Fairy Tail, then ignore him! Woohoo!"
(Later that day)
Natsu, Nova and Happy had left the restaurant and were walking off their meal; they had stopped at a railing that overlooked Hargeon's lower area and the docks below. They were staring up at the sky and looking at all the stars, which was a lot more than they expected with all the town lights
"Hehe, that was a good meal." Natsu said as he patted his stomach before looking at Nova. "Was your meal okay Nova?"
"Mhmm, it was good; though I like Aunt Mira's cooking better." Nova said, smiling. "It was nice of that lady to pay for our meal."
"…Yeah, still a little guilty about that." Natsu muttered.
"Aye." Happy agreed before he noticed a ship out at sea, "Hey, isn't that the ship that Salamander guy is having his party?"
"Huh?" Natsu turned his head and saw the ship, "Yeah, I think so…I wonder if ships are good for va-" Natsu started to say before a woman's voice was heard.
"Hey hey, that's Salamanders ship!" Natsu and the others turned to the two women talking. "It's too bad; I wanted to go to the party too."
"Who's Salamander?" The second girl questioned.
"He's a really famous wizard that's in town right now."The first girl said. "He's also a member of the great Fairy Tail guild!" Natsu and Happy's expressions went completely serious at those words and Natsu's eyes narrowed.
"Fairy…Tail…" He turned towards the ship; looking from the ship to the docks he spoke out. "Nova," His daughter looked at him, "Daddy needs to take care of something before we leave, so I am going to need you to be a good girl and wait for me at the docks. Happy will come back to join you in a bit after he drops me off, okay?"
"…Okay daddy." Nova replied as she looked up at her father, who stared out at the ship.
"So he's a member of Fairy Tail, is he?" Natsu muttered darkly.
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"So your names Lucy?" he said looking at her. "That's a very pretty name." he said causing Lucy to say thank you for the compliment.
"Yeah, thanks." She responded as she looked around the room; they were the only two there as all the other girls were outside.
"Let's have a toast, to commemorate your beauty." He said as he poured a bottle of wine into two glasses.
"Don't you have other girls to attend to?" She asked, wanting to get as far away from this man as possible until they reached Fairy Tail.
"It's fine." He brushed her comment off, "I just wanted to have a drink with you."
With a snap of his fingers, pearl-shaped droplet rose out of the glass and headed towards Lucy very slowly.
"Now open your mouth Lucy, and savor each drop as it enters your mouth." Salamander said.
'HOW CREEPY CAN THIS GUY GET!?' Lucy thought as she closed her eyes and opened her mouth, 'I can do this, I can do this, I can do…!' She quickly opened her eyes and smacked the wine drops away.
"What do you think you're doing!?" She questioned as Salamander's eyes widened in surprise. "I know you were just attempting to use sleep magic on me."
He smirked as he brought a hand to his chin, "Very impressive, my dear."
"Don't misunderstand me.I really want to join the Fairy Tail guild, however I am not going to date you just to make that happen."
"…You're definitely going to be a handful," He said before he snapped his fingers again; a large number of men appeared, each holding one of the party guests. "You better behave yourself while you're on my slave ship."
"Y-your slave ship!?" Lucy exclaimed in shock as two men grabbed her arms. "You said you were going to take me to Fairy Tail.
"Yes and that was a lie to make you come. Our real destination is Bosco." He said before giving a dark chuckle.
"You bastard!" She glared at Salamander as he reached toward her legs and grabbed her Gate Keys. As he backed away she though, 'How could someone do something like this?'
"These are Gate Keys right? That means you use Celestial Spirit Magic and that also means these keys are useless to me since only the contracted wizard can use them." After he said that, he tossed the keys out the window.
'So this…' Lucy thought; tears formed in her eyes as she glared at the man. "This is a Fairy Tail wizard!"
Salamander reached behind a divider and pulled out a hot branding iron "Let me brand you as a slave first." He said as he came closer to Lucy. "It'll be a little hot, so please bear with it."
"You abuse magic, cheat on people, and perform slavery…" Lucy said as tears fell down her face, "You're the worst wizard alive!"
Suddenly a loud noise came from above and as everyone looked up, a figure burst through the ceiling and landed between Lucy and Salamander, making everyone take a step back. Lucy stared as the figure rose to his feet and realized it was Natsu, and he had an emotionless look on his face.
"The brat from earlier!?" Salamander shouted in surprise.
"Natsu!" Lucy happily exclaimed.
Natsu didn't reply back as he stared at the women on the floor and towards the men surrounding them. Their attention was taken again as another voice called out from above.
"What are you doing here Lucy?" Happy questioned as he floated down in front of her.
"T-this guy tricked me, he said he could get me into Fairy Tail and …!" She paused as she noticed two new additions to the cat, "Since when did you have wings?"
"We'll talk about that later." He said as he used his tail to grab onto her, and lifted her into the air before flying away. "Let's get you out of here!"
"Wait, what about Natsu!?" She turned back to see Natsu standing still
"I can't carry two people at the same time," Happy replied as he soared into the air, "And don't worry, Natsu will be fine!"
"I'm not letting you two get away!" Bora yelled while running outside; a magic seal quickly appeared in front of him and released multiple beams of fire at Happy and Lucy. "Prominence Whip!" Happy quickly maneuvered around the beams and with a quick burst of speed, dodged the beams as they slammed together. "Damn it, that cat is faster than he looks!"
"Hey guys…" Salamander and his men looked back to Natsu, their eyes widening as they saw Natsu standing over the battened bodies of the men who charged at him; Natsu let go of the collar of the one he was still holding and the body fell to the ground. "Tell me… are you really a member of Fairy Tail?"
"Shut up kid!" One of the guys shouted as he charged Natsu.
"But what can we do for Natsu and those other girls!?" Lucy questioned as Happy flew towards the docks before coming to a halt.
"Lucy…we've got a problem…" Happy said.
"Huh?"
"My magic ran out." As soon as he said that, the wings on his back vanished and the two were falling into the ocean.
"STUPID CAT!" Lucy shouted as they were falling into the water;she adjusted her body as she went underwater and started swimming, ignoring Happy as he hit his head against a rock. A glint in the distance caught her eye and as she swam towards the glint she saw her keys. Grabbing them quickly she swam to the surface with Happy following right after her; emerging from the water she took a deep breath and grabbed one of her golden keys.
"Here we go! Open, Gate of the Water Bearer – Aquarius!" A mermaid like spirit emerged from the blue magic seal Lucy's key created. She has a long blue tail, large breasts and she wears a revealing bikini top. She has two gold armlets and she wore a jewel circlet and wielding an urn.
"Whoa, that's incredible!" Happy exclaimed as he stared at the mermaid.
"The magic I use is called Celestial Spirit Magic, I can use my Gate Keys to summon spirits from another world to assist me." Lucy explained before pointing at Salamander's ship. "Aquarius, use your power to send that ship back to the port." Though Lucy gave the order, but all she got from Aquarius was a small "Tch". "You're supposed to come from the Celestial Spirit World to help me, not give an attitude!" Lucy said angrily.
"Let's get something straight…"Aquarius spoke out, catching both the girl and cats attentions. "The next time you drop my key, your dead understand." She finished with a dark glare.
"I'm sorry, it won't happen again." Lucy and surprisingly Happy replied.
Gathering both magic and water into her urn, Aquarius released a giant wave spiraling towards the ship with a yell; it got the ship…but it also caught Lucy and Happy as well.
"Don't flush me along with it!" Lucy cried out as she and Happy were covered in the giant waves.
"What the hell is going on!?" Natsu yelled as the ship was being flipped and pushed towards land, its passengers crashing into everything on board. The waves slammed the ship onto the port and the water hit the building in town as well.
"What's the big deal, Aquarius? Don't you think you could have just swept the ship into port without hitting me as well!?" Lucy yelled at the water spirit, who shook her head in disappointment.
"My bad, that was an accident…I didn't mean to hit the ship." Aquarius stated with a calm face.
"Wait, that means you were aiming for me!? The angered female's question was ignored as Aquarius turned away and began to glow a light blue.
"Don't call me for a while, I'm going week-long trip with my boyfriend." Aquarius gloated as she turned her head and said one last thing before disappearing, "My HOT boyfriend."
"Don't rub it in!" Lucy called out; Happy walked up to her. "She can be such a pain!"
"You two don't get along well, do you?" Happy question before his ears twitched a little, he turned as he heard a voice.
"Happy!" Nova ran up to them, as she stopped next to him she started asking a bunch of questions. "Where's daddy? What was the big wave? Why is Lucy here? Wh-" Lucy placed her hand over Nova's mouth to stop the questions.
"We'll answer those questions later. Right now we need to find Natsu and those thugs." Lucy said as she grabbed Nova's hand and ran to the boat; Happy flew onto Lucy's shoulder. When they got there, Salamander and a few of his men were staring up at the ship, which was on its side and standing there unmoving was Natsu. "Natsu!" Lucy's eyes widened as she stared at Natsu, who was glaring at Salamander.
"So you said you're a member of Fairy Tail?" Natsu questioned making Salamander smirk.
"What's it to you?" He turned to his men and gave the order. "Get rid of him."
Natsu began slipping his coat off as two of the men charged at him, "Let me get a good look at your face." Natsu said as he released his coat and let it fall to the ground.
"Watch out Natsu!" Lucy warned as she reaches for one of her keys, but Nova grabbed her hand.
"Don't worry Lucy; there no way daddy can lose when he uses magic." Lucy stared at Nova in shock.
"H-his magic." Lucy stuttered.
"That's right, we didn't tell you earlier," Lucy turned her head to Happy, "But Natsu is a wizard as well."
"EH!?"
Natsu brought his arm forward and smacked the men away without even looking at them, his guild mark revealed to everyone. "My name is Natsu Dragneel, a Fairy Tail wizard and I've never seen you before!"
Salamander and Lucy were shocked at that fact.
"So wait, Natsu is a Fairy Tail wizard!" Lucy exclaimed in shock.
"That guild mark on his arm, this guy's the real deal Bora!" one guy spoke out as his body wouldn't stop shaking.
"Don't call me that you fool!" Bora responded, his voice a little crack from his surprise at a real Fairy Tail wizard was here.
"I recognize that name; he's Bora the Prominence" Happy's voice was heard, "He was kicked out of the Titan Nose Guild because he used his magic to commit theft and other horrible crimes."
"Truthfully I wanted to punch your lights out when we first met because of your face and personality; the urge grew stronger when I heard you wanted to turn those girls into slaves, but the thing that you did that pissed me off the most…" Natsu spoke as he walked towards Bora, "Was the fact that you tried to use the Fairy Tail guilds name to help your corrupted plans! You're not going to get away with it!"
"And what are you going to do about it?" Bora sneered as he extended his arms and a magic seal appeared in front of him, it released a spiral of flames at the unmoving Natsu, "Prominence Typhoon!" The flames made contact and created an explosion, the girls who had woken up had run away in fear.
"Natsu!" Lucy shouted as she tried to head into the battle, but Happy flew in front of her and Nova grabbed her dress, preventing her from moving.
"Heh, that brat never stood a chance, he was all talk." Bora said with an evil smirk before starting to walk away. He was stop however when he heard a voice coming from behind him, from within the flames
"This tastes awful." Everyone watched as a figure within the flames moved his hand closer to his face like he was eating something. The flames dispersed a little to reveal Natsu eating the flames with a disgusted look on his face. "Are you really a fire wizard? Because this is the nastiest flames I've ever tasted in my life!"
Bora, his men and Lucy all stared in shock as Natsu completely devoured the flames.
"Thanks for the meal." Natsu said before releasing a burp.
"W-w-what the h-hell is this kid!?" Bora cried out as his men panicked.
"Fire Magic won't work against Natsu." Happy said with a grin.
"I've never seen anything like it." Lucy muttered.
"Uh-huh, daddy is the coolest!" Nova cheered as she watched her father walk forward.
(Play Fairy Tail ost – Main Theme)
"Now that I've eaten, I'm all fired up!" Natsu exclaimed as he slammed his fists together, creating his magic seal and began to take a deep breath. "This is how you really use fire! Fire Dragon's…"
"Bora, I've seen this guy before!" A man shouted, catching his boss's attention, "Rosy hair and a scaly scarf. There's no doubt about it, this guy's the real-"
"ROAR!" Natsu unleashed a giant stream of flames at the group, causing an explosion, destroying the ship and knocking out all of them except for Bora, who used his Red Carpet to barely escape the attack.
"Salamander..." Lucy said in amazement.
"You better pay attention," Natsu roared as his body was covered in flames. "Because this is the true power of a Fairy Tail wizard!" Natsu shot forward at incredible speeds, Bora quickly cast his next spell to try and hit Natsu.
"Red Shower!" Bora sent multiple flaming orbs at Natsu, who used them as stepping stones to get to Bora and flipped over him before kick Bora in the head, send the caped-wizard sailing into a building. Natsu ignited flames from his feet to fly after Bora.
"He eats fire and then attacks with it…What kind of magic does that?" Lucy questioned as she watched the battle. Natsu was easily overwhelming Bora and beating him without even trying.
"He has dragon lungs that allow him to breathe fire, dragon scales to help dissolve the fire, and dragon claws for attacking with fire." Happy explained as he stood at Nova's side. "His brand of Hi no Mahō lets him obtain all the qualities of a dragon, he learned it from Igneel."
"Seriously…he learned this from a dragon?" Lucy whispered as Bora flew into the sky and concentrates a lot of magic before releasing it in a large laser-like beam at the town.
"Hell Prominence!" As the beam came closer to the buildings, Natsu appeared and backhanded the beam away, making it crash into the rocky cliff behind the town. Some boulders fell off the rocky wall and smashed into a few buildings; Natsu landed on the roof of one of the building, staring up at Bora, who was building his magic and conjuring a giant ball of fire.
"It's called Fire Dragon Slayer Magic, but Natsu's magic isn't just limited to that though." Happy finished his explanation, making Lucy look at him confusion before watching the battle come to a close.
"RRAAGH!" Bora roared as he threw the ball at Natsu, who extended one hand and stopped the ball in its tracks without moving an inch. He devoured the flames and gave Bora a smirk.
"You're actually doing better than I thought; I actually got a hefty meal from that." Natsu taunted before continuing to speak. "But I'm about to cook you like a well-done steak!"
"DID YOU JUST COMPARE ME TO FOOD!?" Bora said, freaked out at what Natsu said.
Natsu didn't answer as he instantly appeared in front of Bora with a flaming fist, "Take this, Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" The dragonslayer slammed his fist against Bora's cheek and the force from the blow sent Bora spiraling across town and into the church's bell, a loud DONG was heard though out the town as Bora made contact.
"Never use our guilds name again or you'll never live to see tomorrow." Natsu threatened before using his flames to fly towards Nova, Happy and Lucy; leaving the unconscious and beaten Bora behind.
(End Song)
"Great job Natsu!" Happy said as Natsu landed in front of them. Nova leaped at her father, wrapping her arms around his waist.
"That was so cool daddy! You sent that bad guy flying!" Nova cheered with a big grin on her face, which Natsu mirrored before flexing his arm a little.
"Of course I did, your dad is just that awesome!" Natsu said with a cocky tone.
"…You really were amazing out there," The three looked at Lucy who was pointing behind them, "But you overdid it."
Natsu turned around and froze a little when he saw the destroyed port; rubble was scattered all over the place, flames covering multiple areas. "You've got to be kidding me…and after all that effort to not destroy anything…Gramps and Erza are going to be pissed." Natsu whined a little while Nova patted his leg in comfort.
"Aye, they're going to tear you a part." Happy commented, making Natsu sweat a little at the thought.
"That's not helping Happy!" Natsu yelled.
"You said your last name was Dragneel, right?" Lucy asked the panicking Natsu, who stopped to look at her and gave a nod. "And you just mention Erza, as in Erza Dragneel." Another nod, "Are you related to her or something?"
"She's my wife." Natsu replied with a straight face.
"Y-your wife! Then that means that Nova-" Lucy started to say before Nova spoke up with a smile.
"She's my mommy!" Lucy stared at the girl, seeing some similarities between her and Erza's image from the magazine's picture. Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of multiple footsteps approaching; the group turned towards the sound and saw a large group of soldiers heading in their direction.
"The military!" Lucy called out in surprise before finding herself being pulled away by a running Natsu and Happy was carrying Nova as he flew overhead.
"Crap, we got to get out of here!" Natsu's voice called out.
"Where are you taking me!?" Lucy exclaimed as her body was floating in the air.
"You said before that you wanted to join Fairy Tail, right?" The blonde wizard's eyes widened when she heard question, Natsu turned to her with a smile, "Then come with us!"
Lucy was quiet for a moment before a smile grew on her face, "ALL RIGHT!" As soon as her feet touched the ground she joined Natsu in running from the soldiers; ignoring the yells for them to stop.
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A/N: Chapter Nine completed, I hope it was enjoyable for you readers. Be sure to review and no flames. I will ignore them and they will be given to Natsu. I hope you enjoyed your Christmas and will have a great New Year; until my next chapter.
Omake:
A chibi Lucy and Happy stood in front of the mission board.
Happy (looking at Lucy with a bit of curiosity): Are you okay Lucy?
Lucy (worry on her face): I'm a little nervous, I mean first impressions are important with things like this. How should I talk to them if they interview me?
Happy (eyes closed): I don't think that will be an issue.
Lucy (head tilted a little): Really?
Happy (nodding his head): Aye, I just wonder how you're going to do when that happens.
Lucy (shakes a little): That? What's that?
Lucy and Happy: Next time on The Fairy Flame Dragon…Chapter 10 - Welcome to Fairy Tail
Happy: Don't underestimate me just because I'm a cat; I am a Fairy Tail wizard too and will always fight with my friends!