X773, Training Grounds
Monday – July 8th
"GET UP BRAT, IT'S TIME FOR TRAINING!"
Those were the words that Natsu woke up to. He sat up and yawned, and as he stretched he looked outside his room, through the window to see the position of the sun, he would have to guess it was around 6 in the – wait WHAT!
"DAD! WHY ARE YOU WAKING ME UP THIS EARLY!" bellowed Natsu as he walked through the door in the main living area, continuing on he went straight into the kitchen to make himself breakfast. Just as he reached for the cupboard his hand was smacked away by Igneel, of course since this was Igneel it caused Natsu to spin around comically until he collapsed from dizziness.
"You will be eating a special diet from now on Natsu, and I expect you to continue this for the rest of your training. It will help you grow strong and healthy." Igneel told him wisely, looking every bit the majestic beast he was supposed to be.
After Natsu had finished his breakfast, Igneel had Natsu walk into a four pointed star drawn onto the cave floor. In the middle was the same dragon head that appeared in his spells, above that laid five zigzagging lines, all in parallel and all with an arrow pointing downwards at the very bottom. Beneath the dragon head was the word gravity, and below that the number 1.
Once Natsu was in the centre of the magic star, Igneel placed a claw onto the edge of one of the points and channelled some of his magic into it. The affects became increasingly obvious as Natsu started to look like he was straining, then there was a sudden flash of fire all along the edge of the star. When it died down Natsu was a breathing a little louder, signs of the seal working.
"Wh… What was that? I feel like you just dumped a boulder on me." Natsu asked with a confused expression on his face, and why wouldn't he, all he knew as that there was a flash of fire and now he was heavier.
"That my son, is the fire dragon gravity seal – level one. Once you stepped into this magic star I had drawn, I pushed some of my magic into the star to power it up, when charging up it measured your weight, level one is the same as adding on your current weight, meaning you are 2 times heavier. I will explain more later, first we train." Giving of an evil chuckle Igneel walked outside followed by a very weary Natsu.
"No Natsu, DROP AND GIVE ME 500!" and with that order, the training had begun.
As soon as his father had said that he went into the press up position and started completing his proper press ups all the while Igneel sat at the side watching him. Natsu kept count himself of course, so soon all that was heard was the nature around them and the easy breathing of the kid in training. UP – DOWN – UP – DOWN, the same pattern continuing for who knows how long.
After the first 50, Natsu was breathing a little faster but that's to be expected, 150 and his arms started to titch, 300 and his breathing was much heavier, 450 and his arms were dead tired but still he was determined to complete his father's training regime… 495, 496, 497, 498, 499… and 500, with that Natsu collapsed to the ground.
Igneel looked on with pride as Natsu fell face first into the dirt, and he should be how many fathers could say that there seven year old did five hundred push ups with 2 times their weight, none that's how many. Igneel gently lifted Natsu up and passed him a small bottle of water, which Natsu drank down greedily. Once the bottle was finished Natsu moved onto the sit ups. He bested them with little to no effort on his part, it was very easily done for him, and this time he only had a small mouthful of water to refresh himself.
Natsu then stood on a small line that Igneel told him to stand on, when he looked around he realised there was a large circle going round and back to him. "Natsu this circle is exactly one mile long, you will have to complete 15 laps before you get your break." Igneel told him, waiting for Natsu to start.
Again this wasn't as much of a challenge as he had expected, but he didn't complain knowing how tough it was going to get in the future. Once he had completed his 15 mile jog, which took him around 45 minutes, Natsu walked over to his foster parent, only now realising that this exercise was more for leg strength than it was for endurance.
Once he had reached the spot that Igneel was resting at Natsu collapsed onto the floor and let out a small sigh of relief when his aching muscles were finally given their well-deserved rest. Natsu felt something land on his chest and when he looked down he saw a notebook and pen.
Turns out Igneel's tactics lesson was more about survival than anything else, yes he was taught some tactics but mostly consisted of Igneel telling him how to survive on his own, such as looking for suitable shelter and what you can and cannot eat. Igneel told him he should remember these as they could become very helpful in the future. With the hour over, it meant combat lessons were next.
Igneel got Natsu into the correct position as the starting point, and then guided Natsu through the movement he wanted completed. As time went on Igneel would add more movements to the current ones, and slowly but surely, Natsu was learning hand to hand combat. Once all the movements for the combo was completed, Igneel instructed Natsu to increase the speed that he completed the combo in.
Natsu was surprised, he had expected Igneel to make something cool out of magic, and then have him fight it, but instead he was just shadow fighting. The moves in all honesty wasn't exactly hard for Natsu to complete, plus while he didn't have experience fighting with this technique, he did have experience fighting strong opponents.
This took roughly about two hours for Natsu to do and when he heard Igneel call him over he ran as fast as his little seven year old legs could carry him, he was starving dammit. When Natsu arrived at the cave he found Igneel in the kitchen area, but all thought was soon forgotten as he the smell from the kitchen drifted under his nose. Natsu was mesmerised.
The smell was so good. When Natsu seated himself by the table, Igneel presented him with his meal. Before digging in Natsu remembered the gravity seal Igneel had him under.
"Igneel, can you tell me more about the gravity seal you placed me under?" Natsu asked before he started eating the wonderfully delicious meal, he didn't know what it was and he didn't care, it was just so damn good.
"Of course, as I said that was the fire dragon gravity seal. When you stepped into that four pointed star it measured your exact weight, looking at you I would say that you are around 27 kilograms. Hat the seal does is add gravitational pull on your whole body, earlier I said that you are now 2 times heavier, this means that you have an extra 27 kilograms to work with. This means you just completed your current training with 54 kilograms. Also, on your back is the same magic star that I drew, this means you are under the seals effects. Does that explain everything?" Igneel answered honestly, not expecting a reply from seeing as Natsu never questioned him on educational things.
"Yeah, I get that, but if I were to go onto level two what would that mean I would have double my weight again." Igneel was proud he son had smartened up. "If so let's go under level two right now, I want to be strong!" yelled Natsu as he just proved to Igneel that while he had gotten a lot smarter, he was still a child at heart.
"No Natsu, while that might be the logical conclusion, that is not what happens. What would happen if you were to go under level two is your weight would triple, level three means your weight would quadruple, and so on. Now before we get your education under way, any more questions?"
"Is there any way I could move the seal to another part of my body, say the top of my left arm?" Natsu wanted the world to know that he was under pressure to meet the demands of everyday life that everyone else did with ease, he was a show off after all.
"Hmm, you might be able to move it if you concentrate, focus where the mark is and will it to move, the same can be said for changing the size of the seal, just concentrate on what you want it to do as hard as you can and it should work." Igneel didn't know whether it would work or not since no one really cared about the placement of the seal.
So Natsu did as he was suggested and put every thought out of his mind, bar that of shrinking and moving the seal, slowly but surely the seal started creeping along his lower back, up his shoulder, before settling on the top of his left arm.
"Yes! Now everyone will know I'm not going one hundred per cent against them and I have a cool tattoo of Igneel's head, this is great!" Natsu shouted with joy, and Igneel could only watch on with a mixture of amusement, pride, exasperation and a little bit of anger. Pride – his son had done the task on the first go, not knowing whether it worked or not, Amusement – he as jumping around like a hyperactive five year old, Exasperation – he just never shut up, and Anger – how dare he waste time celebrating instead of learning like he's meant to.
With a quick smack to the head with his harder than iron tail, Natsu shut up and sat down mentally preparing himself for the obviously dull task of education. It was only an hour in before Igneel had enough and declared it time for his magical lessons. To start with he asked Natsu to show him all the current spells that he knew.
"FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR"
"FIRE DRAGON'S IRON FIST"
"FIRE DRAGON'S CLAW"
"FIRE DRAGON'S FLAME ELBOW"
"FIRE DRAGON'S SWORD HORN"
"FIRE DRAGON'S GRIP STRIKE"
"FIRE DRAGON'S WING ATTACK"
"FIRE DRAGON'S BRILLIANT FLAME"
"FIRE DRAGON'S CRUSHING FANG"
"DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART: CRIMSON LOTUS: FIRE DRAGON'S FIST"
"DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART: CRIMSON LOTUS: EXPLODING FLAME BLADE"
"DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART: DRAGON GOD'S BRILLIANT FLAME"
"Hey… hey dad, send me some of your fire please, I'm nearly all out here, using all my spells like this." Igneel did as he asked, impressed with the amount of spells Natsu knew, especially that Dragon God's Brilliant Flame. Once Natsu had been recharged he continued on.
"LIGTNING FLAME DRAGON MODE"
"LIGHTNING FLAME DRAGON'S ROAR"
"LIGHTNING FLAME DRAGON'S FIST"
"LIGHTNING FLAME DRAGON'S FIRING HAMMER"
"LIGHTNING FLAME DRAGON'S BRILLIANT FLAME"
"DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART: CRIMSON LOTUS: EXPLODING LIGHTNING BLADE"
"Those are all the spells I can currently do, and then there is Hidden Fire Form: Crimson Lotus: Phoenix Blade which I can only use in Dragon Force." Natsu was extremely tired, going into Lightning Flame Dragon Mode used up an awful lot of magical power, and then to use every single spell in his repertoire, truly tiresome. While Natsu was half dead, Igneel on the other hand was deep in thought. Of all these spells, imagine what kind of power he would have if he could enter Fire Drive, and Dragon Force at will.
'Good lord, what if he managed to go Dragon Force: Lightning Flame Dragon Mode: Lightning Flame Drive all at once.' Here an image of Natsu with an extremely sheepish expression on his face surrounded by chaos, houses on fire and collapsing, families running to safety, several guild mates and mages a like staring at him with their jaws on the floor.
'Yes, I think its best I never tell him about that, or if I do when he's much older so his team mates don't tell him, causing him to get over excited and leading to mass destruction.'
At this point exhaustion had finally settled in on Natsu, causing him to fall over, but not before Igneel caught him. Trudging back to the cave, the fire dragon tucked Natsu into his bed for moving onto his room for his slumber.
Hey everyone I hope you're all pleased, I mean second chapter within two days. Seriously I only started it yesterday and I just couldn't stop.
Any who, I really need people to start saying whether or not they want the Thunder Dragon to appear and teach Natsu some moves, I would also like some more people to vote on my poll to help decide the outcome of the pairing.
Lastly copy and paste the link below if you want to see all of Natsu's spells as this is all of them, and the website gives an example and description of what each one is and who it was used against.
wiki/Natsu_Dragneel
R and R
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