Hey everyone sorry I had to make you guys wait a bit for the next chapter. I have recently started college again so I've been pretty busy as you can probably imagine plus I have been very depressed as well :/. Anyways I hope you enjoy the latest instalment and thank you for the continued support as it's been fantastic:). As always fairy tail belongs to Hiro Mashima.
Chapter 3- Fairy tail
"WOHOOO WERE FINALLY HOME" screamed Natsu, "AYE" Happy replied. "Man has it really been 2 years? Place hasn't changed one bit" Natsu said. They had just arrived at Magnolia town, a place which they left exactly 2 years ago. "Magnolia is a beautiful place, I really hope I can get myself a good home to live in while I'm here" said Lucy. "There should be some houses which you could rent for a while, once we make you an official member of the guild then we can help you look" Happy explained. "Or you could always live in fairy hills if you want" Natsu said.
"Sounds like a great idea thanks you guys" Lucy said with a smile but then noticed Natsu with a very worried expression. "What's wrong Natsu?" She asked. "I don't know, I just feel as if after these 2 years people won't look at me the same way they did before I left" he explained. "What do you mean by that?" Happy asked. "I mean that what if they thought badly of me when I left, that what I did was selfish leaving the guild after they just lost someone beforehand" Natsu explained.
"Lost someone?" Lucy asked in confusion, "sorry we can't tell yo-, its fine happy Lucy is a friend and it's not fair to hide things as serious as that" Natsu said after interrupting Happy.
"If it's something very bad you guys don't need to go out of the way to explain to me I understand" Lucy said with a smile. "I appreciate your kindness but I'll fill you in on why we left the guild 2 years ago to train, I know I said I'd do it when we got there but oh well may as well get it out of the way" he said. What Natsu really meant by that was that he didn't want Lucy to bring up Lisanna in front of Mira so that it didn't cause any tension on his return and Lucy's first day.
"I'll start from the beginning, I was coming back the guild after completing a job when I wasn't met with the sight of a happy guild instead I was met with looks of despair and tears, I felt as if my whole guild had been brainwashed or I was in some form of illusion magic but it was far from out, a guild member whom I care about deeply had been killed by accident by their own sibling, her name was Lisanna Strauss" Natsu said with a tear coming from his left eye.
Lucy's eyes widened in horror as she knew who's sister that was, "Natsu you don't need to say anymore I understand why you left, you left cause you wanted to make sure something like this never happened again, right?" She asked and Natsu replied with a firm nod and a weak smile.
"I'm sure the guild will welcome you back with open arms, just like I hope they welcome me that way" Lucy said with a giggle.
Natsu couldn't help but feel motivated by Lucy's positivity and he then got a great idea in his head. "Thanks Lucy, hey by the way I know it's sudden and you haven't joined the guild yet but when you do how about we form a team?" He asked. "You and me, a team? Heck yeah I'm in but won't we need more members?" Lucy asked. "Yeah I know a few people we can recruit but for now let's continue, my nerves are killing me" Natsu said while grinning. "Lead the way" Lucy said as the trio continued their way to the guild.
Meanwhile at Fairy tail
It was just a normal day at the guild, Gray was stripping, Cana was drinking, Elfman was shouting out how much of a 'real man' he was and everyone's favourite demon was at the bar. She was cleaning away and thinking about her Natsu. She always was a worried that he had been killed, met someone else or forgotten about everyone here but she constantly reassured herself that Natsu would never do that and was confident that he was alive and well. Hearing Macao and Wakaba's conversation about events that transpired in Hargeon made her really happy as there was hope that she may see Natsu sooner than later. Little did she know in 5 minutes her wish would come true.
"Hey sis you alright?" asked Elfman. "Yea I'm ok, just thinking about something" she said with a pink tint in her cheeks. "Wouldn't be about Natsu would it" Elfman teased. While he thought it was funny he soon began to shiver after seeing a purple aura around Mira while she looked at him with an evil smirk, "what was that Elfman?" She asked. "Nnnnothin sis I didn't say anything" he said while quivering. "Good" she replied.
Suddenly the guilds front door banged open and everyone turned round to see who it was, most thought it was Erza coming back from her job but boy were they wrong. There was a male with his hood up with a little blue creature on his shoulder standing with a blonde haired celestial wizard. Slowly the male took his hood off and everyone gasped and the hall went silent.
"Yo" Natsu said, after 2 years he had finally returned home.
"NATSU!" The entire guild yelled while Mira was watching over from the bar with her hands covering her mouth and tears flowing from her eyes, her crush had finally returned home. "So Natsu you're finally back huh, well let's just see how strong you've got ICE MAKE: BATTLEAXE" screamed and all too familiar Ice make wizard Natsu simply smiled. "Nice to see you too stripper have a bit of this FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST" Natsu screamed destroying the attack with ease. "That all you got Ice princess?" Natsu teased. "Pfft whatever I'll get my hands on you later" Gray stated. Natsu was about to move on to see the others until Gray stuck out his fist. "It's good to have you back man welcome home" Gray said with a smile. "Thanks it's good to see you again man" as Natsu bumped fists with his long friend/rival.
Natsu then turned round and was tackled to the ground by a certain script mage. "Natsu your back, this is the best day ever" screamed Levy McGarden. "Hey Levy, I see you're still as lively as ever" Natsu said which caused a slight blush to appear on Levy which caused a bit of tension from 3 individuals.
"Hey Natsu just cause your back doesn't mean you can hit on our girl" screamed Jet and Droy, "calm down morons sorry for being friendly to someone who I haven't seen in 2 whole years, oh and by the way hello it's good to see you guys again too" Natsu said sarcastically. "So in those 2 years of training how much of a man have you really become?" Elfman asked. "More than you can imagine tough guy, I can already tell you've been training, it seems you all have" Natsu said.
"Sooooo Natsu did you get me any books while you were gone, in your letter you said you would try and get some" Levy said. "Yep got a really special book which will help improve your script magic" he said as he handed the book to Levy. "Oh my gosh thank you so much Natsu, time for me to study" she said. "No problem work hard and you'll be even stronger than before Natsu" said with a toothy grin.
He then turned round and there she was, Mirajane. Natsu's eyes widened at how much she'd grown (in more ways than one) he was shaking at the sight of her, not in a bad way jus that he was so happy to lay his eyes on her again.
"M…mira?" Natsu said with tears in his eyes. "Hi Natsu" she said with tears flowing down her face the two were about to run at each other until. "Natsu this place is amazing thank you so much for brining me to fairy tail!" Lucy said while giving the dragon slayer a big hug which caused Mira's eye to twitch and Mira was beyond pissed at this point. "Who the fuck is this blonde bitch trying to steal my property" Mira said in her mind.
"No problem Luce just come over here and Mira will mark you with the guild's crest" Natsu explained. "The one and only Mirajane? AGGGHHHHH" Lucy screamed and went over to Mira. "I'm such a huge fan I can't believe were going to be guild mates" Lucy squealed with a smile. Mira's expression softened as Lucy didn't seem like a bad person but still she had to make a statement. "Me too it should good fun but I just needa get one thing straight with you" Mira explained. "Huh? What's that?" Lucy asked and Mira then brought her closer and whispered into Lucy's ear. "If you touch him, I'll fuckin kill you" Mira said with an evil tone which caused Lucy to turn pale.
"Y….yes mam" Lucy replied in fear. "Other than that you seem like a lovely person so I'm happy to have you here, welcome to the family" Mira said "now where do you want your guild make and what colour would you like" Mira asked with a sweet smile. "I'd like it on my right hand and pink please" Lucy asked.
Mira's expression darkened, "pink because of Natsu?" she asked with a deadly tone once again. "N….no mam just my favourite colour is all" Lucy explained quickly. "Ok sounds good" Mira said quickly turning back to her sweet tone.
As you can tell Mira has gotten very, very defensive over Natsu so if anyone lays a finger on him they are as good as dead. I guess 2 years can do that to someone especially if they were a demon to begin with. "Thanks Mira, Natsu look I'm an official member now" Lucy said to Natsu as he walked by her. 2Oh yeah, that's cool welcome to the guild Looney" Natsu said as he was too busy concentrating on Mira. "The names Lucy asshole" Lucy screamed
"What did you just call Natsu Lucy?" Mira asked with her signature death stare. "Nothing Mira" Lucy said quickly. Good replied the takeover mage.
Mira finally got to turn her attention to 'her man'. "So how have you been?" she asked nervously. "Not bad, got a lot stronger with the training and I can tell you did the same but you seem different" Natsu said.
"What do you mean?" Mira asked. "Well you seem less aggressive I guess" Natsu explained. "You don't like who am now?" Mira asked with tears forming in her eyes. "No no that's not it, its just ive been gone so long things just seem different around here he" continued to explain. "Oh well that's true enough I guess" she said. Mira couldn't hold it in any longer and threw herself into Natsu's arm.
"I missed you so much" she said while sobbing, "I missed you too" Mira Natsu said as embraced her. The whole guild had smiles on their faces at the beautiful site although girls like Levy and Cana felt jealous as they had a small attraction to the fire mage but knew it would be suicide to attempt anything with him.
"Ummm Natsu?" Mira said. "Whats up?" He replied. "On your letter, did you mean what you said?" she asked. "Well… I ummmmmm- NATSU DRAGNEEL!" Bellowed a voice. He turned round to see Master Makarov. "Yo gramps long time know-" *Crack* the master struck him on the head with a large fist. "Ow what the hell was that for?" Natsu asked in pain. "Never mind my office now" Makarov said.
Natsu reluctantly followed as he wanted to continue speaking with Mira but he knew better to go against the masters will. "Damn I was so close to getting his answer" Mira said cursing the fact that the master had turned up.
As Natsu entered the master's room he felt a tad nervous, "sit down my boy we have much to discuss" the master said. I have a feeling I'm in trouble Natsu said as he took a seat and prepared for whatever the master through at him.
Hope you enjoyed the 3rd chapter of my story folks, again sorry for taking so long, my reasons above are the truth. Thank you for the suggestions you have been giving me as I have been using your feedback to the best of my ability's. If you guys wanna ask me any questions (which I would then answer in the next chapter) leave it in the review section and I'll try and get back to you. If you ever wanna DM me feel free as I will respond.
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