I made this because I kinda like Cana who is just damn beautiful and sexy!
Also because she and Natsu are friends since their childhood.
Anyway, setting time on the year X777
ENJOY
In a forest at some part of the land, there are large trees, bushes, small lakes, and dozens of animals living everywhere. but there is also a young salmon haired boy who wears a scaled scarf and ragged red boxers who is just wandering around the place all alone.
"Igneel! Hey Igneel!" the young boy cried out as he is Natsu Dragneel; the child of a Dragon.
The young boy continues to scream out into the air while wandering the forest as he is searching for his dragon father.
"IGNEEL! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Natsu shouted very loudly as the young boy looks so desperate to the point he was on the verge of tears. He looks down and gritted his teeth hard. "Where did you go, dad?"
Natsu wipes a hand to his eyes as he is frustrated to not find any signs of his dragon father anywhere.
"just where did you go, dad?" Natsu cried out. "why did you leave me all alone?"
As the young man continues to frustratedly cry to himself, a foot wearing wooden shoe came behind along with the bottom of a staff.
"hey, kid. You lost?" a voice spoke out as Natsu quickly turns and sees an old short and mustached man standing behind him. this small old man is later to be known as Makarov Dreyar. "are you looking for your parent?"
"w-who are you?" said Natsu as he takes a step back and got into a fighting stance. "What do you want?"
"I just want to know what a young man like yourself is doing out here in the forest." The old man replied with an obvious tone in his voice. "so? are you lost?"
Natsu blinks his eyes once before he slowly eases up after believing that the old man wasn't a threat.
"I'm looking for my dad; Igneel." Said Natsu in replying to the old man's question.
"your father brought you here and left you?" Makarov asks while scratching his chin once and thinking about the possibility that the child in front of him was abandoned by a father who didn't want anything to do with children. "all alone?"
"no, Igneel and I live here." Said Natsu before he frowns. "we are always together in the forest, but when I woke up this morning…he just…"
"he just disappeared, huh?" Makarov finishes Natsu's words while continuing to scratch his chin. "sorry for asking about your situation, boy."
"just why did he leave me here?" Natsu asked no one while tearing up. "he promised that we'd be together and he broke that promise…just why?"
The old man looks at Natsu for a moment before he sighs.
"how about I help you find him?" Makarov asks as Natsu looks at the old man.
"You'd help me find Igneel!?" Natsu replied eagerly with a big surprised face.
"Of course." Makarov nods with a smile. "What does he look like? It'll make it a lot easier to find him."
"Igneel is a giant red dragon." Natsu stated while pointing a finger up towards a thought bubble that shows the image of the young child's dragon father. "he breathes out fire, and he snores very heavily when he sleeps!"
"I see, he's a big red dragon who breathes out fire and snores very heavy." Said Makarov with a nod as he went silent for a few seconds before he blinks his eyes three times and gawks. "a dragon?! Your father is a dragon, you say!?"
"yeah! A fire dragon!" Natsu nods three times.
Makarov sweatdrops a bit as he crosses his arms and forms a frown on his face.
"that makes it harder to find him then." Makarov muttered out before he close his eyes, tilts his head down, and sighs a bit. "I don't know anyone that has ever seen a dragon."
"what!? there has to be someone who saw Igneel!" Natsu exclaimed with a rather desperate look on his face. "he's big and very large! Someone has got to have saw him!"
"I don't really know how to answer you, boy." Makarov spoke out before sighing. "Dragons are creatures of myth and legends. Trying to spot one is incredibly rare…" he then looks at Natsu. "I'm sorry to say that there has never been a spotting of one for the past few years."
"that can't be…" Natsu muttered out with a frown as he looks down and held up his shaking fists. The young child having a frustrated looking growing on his face. "Igneel.."
Makarov looks at the young man's growing frustration as he could tell that he really wants to find his dragon father.
"someone just got to have saw Igneel..! I just know it!" Natsu growls out in frustration. "there has to be someone who saw where Igneel had gone to!"
"perhaps so." Makarov spoke while nodding once before he smiles and points a finger up. "how about you join my guild?"
"huh?" Natsu looks at Makarov all confused. "guild?"
"you want to find your dragon father, right?" Makarov replied. "if you plan to do so, you need to get information and to gather it. you need to join a Mage's guild where dozens of information goes around. Not a bad idea, right?"
"I guess.." Natsu muttered out as he crossed his arms and looks down while pondering in his thought. "I don't know… I mean Igneel raised me in the forest so I have no idea what being a mage is about."
"My guild and I can help with that." Said Makarov with a small grin. "as a guild, we are all a family and therefore we help and support one another. If you want to find your father; I'm sure we can find him if we work together."
Natsu looks at Makarov for a moment as he ponders on his decision in joining his guild or not.
"how about it?" the old man asked. "not a bad deal, right?"
Natsu hums as he keeps on thinking while tilting his head side to side.
It took a minute of decision making for the young boy who grumbles in his thinking before he nods with a huff.
"alrighty! I'll do it!" Natsu replied with a rather determined look on his face. "I'll join your guild!"
"nice determined reply." Said Makarov with a nod. "by the way, I don't think we made introductions." The old man then holds his right hand towards Natsu. "I'm Makarov; Makarov Dreyar. Fairy Tail's 3rd Guild Master."
"I'm Natsu." Said Natsu as he grabs hold of Makarov's hand and shakes it firmly once. "Natsu Dragneel."
After their greetings with one another, Natsu follows Makarov who is leading him out of the forest and to the nearby town called Magnolia; home of the Fairy Tail Guild.
"wow!" Natsu wowed as he and Makarov stands in front of a large building that has the billboard sign that says Fairy Tail. "This is your guild, gramps?!"
"yup" Makarov nods while smiling to the building before him. "this is my guild that is filled with my love and happiness! Fairy Tail!"
"it's so big!" said Natsu as from his point of view, the guild was very large. "it must be at least 10 feet tall!"
"9 actually, but who is counting?" Said Makarov while shrugging his shoulders once. He then chuckles a bit and looks at Natsu. "hey, boy. Do you think Fairies have tails?"
"huh? Do Fairies have tails?" Natsu asked with a rather confused face. He ponders about the question before he looks at points at Fairy Tail's sign. "I guess they do since you name your guild Fairy Tail, right?"
"are you sure about that?" Makarov replied with a raised eyebrow as he smiles and looks at the guild once again. "no one knows if Fairies have tails or not, or even if Fairies exist at all. how can you or anyone be so sure if they have tails or not?"
"then why the heck you asked me if they have tail or not?" Natsu asked with a weirded out face towards Makarov who just chuckles.
"it's because it's a mystery that needs to be solved." Makarov replied to Natsu who tilts his head with a more confused face. The old man grins a bit and chuckles before looking at the young boy beside him. "don't you wanna know if they have tails or not? Aren't you curious about it at all?"
"curious…" Natsu muttered out before he looks down and begins to think as his face started to scrunch up before he looks at Makarov with a rather frustrated face. "now I am! And it's because you asked me about their tails!"
"hohohoho! See? It's a mystery that is so mysterious that you just got to be so curious." Makarov replied with a laugh before he looks at the guild's sign once again. "Fairy Tail. Do Fairies have tail to begin with? Do Fairies even exist? It's a mystery that everyone wants to solve no matter what. thus the name signifies an eternal mystery, and an eternal adventure." He then turns towards Natsu and grins. "sounds exciting, doesn't it?"
"a mystery…an adventure…" Natsu spoke out before he grins. "that sounds awesome and exciting!"
"yes." Makarov nods as he looks at Natsu. "listen well, Natsu. If you join our guild, you must know that everyone who joins Fairy Tail is like Family and this is their home. this Home of ours is not a place for fighting or going crazy. It's a place for us to be together as one large family, understand?"
"got it!" Natsu nods with a grin. "if being here can help me find my dad! I'll be everyone's Family!"
"you only understand half of it, huh?" Makarov sweatdrops before he sighs. "well. It's good enough for me."
Soon, Makarov enters the guild with Natsu as the two walks inside the building and getting some attention from the occupants inside.
From A dark haired shirtless boy who is sitting at a table and drinking some juice, A red haired girl, and a white haired girl who looks to have been fighting but are now looking at Makarov and Natsu, a meek white haired boy and a white haired little girl, a light blue haired girl wearing a flower patterned small dress, a brown haired tanned girl wearing yellow one piece dress, a man with light brown hair was sitting on a stool at the bar counter smoking a pipe, while a dark blue haired man sat next to him, and lastly a blonde haired teenager with a lightning shaped scar over his right eye and wears headphones.
Everyone looks at Natsu and Makarov who made their way to the bar at the end of the guild where they can get a better look at those around them.
"ahem!" Makarov coughs out loudly as he gets the attention of everyone in the guild to him and Natsu. "Alright listen up, you brats! We got ourselves a new member of our Family!" he then waves a hand towards the young boy beside him. "This is Natsu! Natsu Dragneel! He's new in the town, so be nice to him!"
After he was done talking, the guild went and shouted out cheers for the arrival of a new member of their guild.
Natsu looks a bit surprised to the cheers from the people in the guild before he looks even more surprised when many of them came and started to talk to him at the same time.
"you're Natsu, huh!?" "your hair is so damn pink! It's kinda cute!" "what magic you use?!" "how old are you!?" everyone chattered non stop as Natsu looks overwhelmed from their loud voices.
"hey! Be nice! Greet him one at a time!" Makarov scolded the members of his guild as he was about to go in and save Natsu from being overwhelmed but he soon realized that the young boy is chattering back with the large crowd while having a big grin on his face that made the old man look surprised for a moment before he relaxed and sighs. "what…I was worried for nothing."
Some time later, Natsu is at the bar as he gets a stamp pressed against his right bicep and it soon gets pulled away to reveal a red Fairy Tail mark.
"wow! That's awesome!" said Natsu in seeing the mark on his right bicep.
"it's a magic stamper." Makarov stated as he holds the stamp that he soon placed away to the bar. "now that you have the Fairy Tail Mark, you are now an honorary member of Fairy Tail." He then grins. "which means…." He then raised a finger to the air. "you lot! It's time to party!"
"YAY~!" everyone cheered in unison as the guild instantly went into a party mode.
Drinks were drunk, food were scarfed, and laughter rang in the building as everyone went crazy with the party.
At one part of the guild, Natsu is with members of the guilds who seem to be in the same age as he is or older.
"my name is Lisanna Strauss!" the young white haired girl greeted Natsu with a smile. "nice to meet you, Natsu!"
"yeah!" Natsu replied with an equal smile. "nice to meet you too!"
"this is my big brother; Elfman and my big sister; Mirajane!" said Lisanna as she introduced the other two white haired individuals beside her.
"you can call me Mira" said the older sister with a grin.
"y-yo." The meek looking boy greeted.
"I'm Cana Alberona!" the brown haired tanned looking girl greeted Natsu who nods with a smile.
"my name is Levy McGarden!" the light blue haired girl greeted the salmon haired boy next while holding a hand out towards Natsu. "pleasure to meet you!"
"huh?" the young salmon haired boy looks at the hand before to Levy in confusion.
"um? what's wrong?" Levy asks from seeing the confused face.
"that's what I want to ask you." Natsu replied as he points a finger at Levy's outstretched hand. "what's with the hand?"
"she wants to shake hands with you, Natsu." Lisanna told the young boy. "it's a common way of greeting people."
"really?" Natsu replied with a raised eyebrow as he soon scratches the back of his head. "I don't really know about that."
"how can you not know about that?" the dark haired boy told Natsu with a rather weirded out face. "it's like something so basic that our parents taught us."
"how was I supposed to know that?" Natsu replied while folding his hands behind his head. "Igneel only taught me how to talk, hunt, and magic. He never taught me anything about hand shaking and stuff."
"does your old man lack common sense or something?" Mira asks while crossing her arms. "it's obvious for any parent to teach their kids manners like hand shaking and stuff."
"who knows?" Natsu shrugs his shoulders before he looks at Levy. "so I'm supposed to shake her hand? That's it?"
"ain't that obvious?" the dark haired boy stated while crossing his arms. "are you stupid or something?"
In an instant, both Natsu and the dark haired boy instantly butt heads while glaring at one another.
"Who are you calling stupid, stupid!?" "the one who calls another stupid is the stupid one, dumbass!" the two growled at one another as they have a spark of rivalry in an instant.
"hey, Gray. Stop it." Cana called out to the dark haired boy whose name is revealed to be Gray. She then points a finger at him. "and also, wear your clothes!"
Gray turns away from Natsu for a moment and to Cana before he looks down and gawked when he realized that he is only wearing boxers on.
"where they go!?" Gray exclaimed in shock.
"stripper." Said Natsu with a deadpanned face.
"what you call me!?" Gray shouted angrily before he and Natsu gets into a fight. "how dare you call me a stripper!"
"I'll call you a stripper because you are one!" Natsu shouted as he punches and kicks Gray who retaliates in return.
"instantly with a fight…." Makarov muttered with a sweatdrop as he is by the bar with a few other members of the guild. The old man watching the brawl before sighing tiredly. "will this be an ordinary thing every time someone comes and joins?"
Natsu and Gray keeps on fighting before the scarlet haired girl came and knocks them out with just two punches.
"ow!" Natsu and Gray cries out in pain as they had steaming bulges appearing on top of their heads before they turn and growled angrily at the one who knocked them in the first place. "What you do that for!?"
"to stop your fighting, obviously." Said the scarlet haired girl while placing her hands on her waist. "listen well, the guild is a place for us to gather and have fun! Not fighting! Remember that well!"
"he started it!" Natsu and Gray exclaimed while pointing at each other before both went and glared at another while a fiery rivalry spark flies in between them. "what did you say!?"
BANG!
Another punch to their heads came again as the scarlet haired girl holds up her fists while Natsu and Gray held their heads in pain.
"I said that the guild isn't a place for fighting!" she shouted at the two. "did you two not listen to me!"
"we weren't even fighting!" Natsu and Gray shouted in return before they yelp in fear and hugs each other when the scarlet girl raise her fists up. "iiiihh~!"
"I said no fighting…" she spoke out in an ominous voice while her eyes glows red. "understand?"
"Y-YES!" Natsu and Gray screams.
"good." she said with a nod. "now greet one another properly, you two."
Natsu and Gray looks at her for a moment before to each other, both growled at one another and was raring to fight again but a glare from the scarlet haired girl made them shiver before they reach their right hands towards one another.
"N-Natsu Dragneel…" "Gray F-Fullbuster.." they spoke out as they grabbed each other's hand and shakes them once. "n-nice to m-meet you…"
"good." the scarlet haired girl nods. "this is how we should be in the guild. We are friends, and we are a family."
"like I want to be friends with a stripper…" Natsu muttered while looking away and Gray instantly glares at him because he heard what he muttered.
"What did you say!?" Gray exclaimed in an instant.
Natsu went and sticks his tongue out at Gray before he sees the scarlet haired girl reach out her right hand towards him.
"I'm Erza, Erza Scarlet." She greeted with a smile. "welcome to Fairy Tail, Natsu."
Natsu blushes a bit to see her smile as he nods meekly before reaching out his hand to hold Erza's and then shakes it once.
"n-nice to meet you." Said Natsu a bit shyly.
Some hours later, the celebratory party for Natsu's arrival and joining with the guild. The young boy is at the bar with Makarov as he is in the middle of eating a plate filled with spicy fried chicken.
"so? how is the guild, Natsu?" Makarov asks the young boy while holding a mug of beer.
"ibuw bowkay." Natsu spoke out with his mouth full of fried chicken.
"chew and swallow first before talking!" Makarov quickly interjected as Natsu chews and then swallowed all the friend chicken in his mouth down his throat and into his stomach.
"it's okay!" said Natsu with a grin. "Everyone here is crazy fun! They all party and are all so nice!" he then quickly looks away with a rather scared and nervous look. "except for Erza…she's scary!"
"I see.." Makarov replied with a sweatdrop before he coughs to a fist and then takes a few gulps of his beer then exhales in satisfaction, he then looks back at Natsu. "by the way, I forgot to ask you before but how long have your father been gone?"
"huh?" Natsu looks and blinks twice at Makarov. "how long has Igneel been gone?" he then looks down and held up both hands with a few fingers being outstretched. "I guess….3 maybe 4?"
"quite a short time.." Makarov whispers as he scratched his chin for a moment. "but considering how your father is a dragon and all, I'm guessing that is enough time for him to be far away or not." He then sighs. "it must've been hard for you to just keep on looking for him for 3-4 days, huh?"
"not really." Natsu replied. "i always sleep under a pile of leaves when it's night, I always hunt boars and roast their meat for food, and I always take a bath and go poop by a river stream." He then grins. "it's fun living at the woods!"
"I don't think that would be what any child of your age would say…." Makarov stated while sweatdropping.
"so you picked this kid from the forest, gramps?" a voice spoke out as the blonde teen came walking by. "what an annoyance."
"Laxus.." Makarov glance at the teen whose name is Laxus. "I told you before in the past that the guild will accept everyone no matter what their background is."
"yeah, yeah. I know." Laxus replied as he pocketed his hands and looks at the ceiling with a rather bored look. "just passing by and saying things to get rid of my boredom."
"if you want to get rid of your boredom, then go and do a job for crying out loud." Said Makarov with a rather stern gaze at the blonde teen. "it's better to do that than just laze around in the guild."
"that's boring too." Said Laxus as he walks away. "it's less boring being here than being outside."
Makarov watches the blonde walk away before he sighs.
"who's that guy and what's his problem?" said Natsu while munching on a fried chicken.
"that's Laxus Dreyar, he's my grandson." Makarov stated as he holds up his mug and drinks his beer. "and don't mind him, Natsu. He's just being the teen that he is."
"hmmm…" Natsu hums for a moment while munching on his food before he gawks at Makarov. "grandson?! gramps! You have a grandson!?"
"you just realized it now?" Makarov replied while sweatdropping. "it would've been so obvious considering my age, right?"
The days go on for Natsu in Fairy Tail, the young boy goes around in learning what it is to be a mage of the guild and also trying to learn and collect any information he could get about the whereabouts of his dragon father.
"your father is a fire Dragon, Natsu?!" Lisanna stated in surprise as she with Elfman, Cana, Levy, and Gray was playing a game of cards by a table. They were chattering about each other and just now learned about their salmon haired friend's family relation. "really!?"
"yeah! Igneel is a big fire dragon!" said Natsu with a grin. "he could breath fire and wipe out an entire forest with just one attack!"
"Why do you sound so happy about that!?" Levy interjected.
"that's just stupid." Said Gray while looking at the cards in his hands. "Dragons don't exist, they're just fairy tales."
"they're not!" Natsu exclaimed. "Igneel is real! He is a real dragon who taught me magic!" he then lights the cards that he has in flames. "see!? This is my Fire Dragon Slaying magic!"
"don't burn the cards!" Cana exclaimed.
"looks like normal fire magic to me." said Elfman while looking at the fire.
"is this like normal fire magic!?" Natsu exclaimed as he took a deep breath and then unleash a small stream of fire out of his mouth. "Karyu no Hoko!"
"He breathed out fire!" Lisanna screamed out.
"I can also eat fire too!" Natsu stated as he holds up a torch from nowhere and inhales the fire into his mouth. "yum!"
"and now he is eating fire!" Cana exclaimed next.
"I'm convinced.." Levy sweated with a rather baffled look. "no fire mage can do that with their fire magic."
"see?! It's cool right!?" said Natsu with a grin.
"just because you can do that, doesn't mean that your dad really is a dragon." Said Gray with a bored face. "you must've learned that magic from someone else. I mean learning magic is an obvious thing to do for anyone who wants to be a mage."
"I didn't learn this magic from someone else!" Natsu exclaimed. "I learned this magic from my dad! Igneel taught me this magic!"
"yeah, and I learn my magic from the snowman." Gray replied in a bored voice as he looks at the cards in his hands. "just hurry up and play your card."
"what's with your attitude!?" Natsu exclaimed angrily. "my dad really taught me my magic! Igneel is a real fire dragon!"
In an instant, both Natsu and Gray began to brawl while Lisanna and the others sigh as this is an occasional thing after the salmon haired boy joined the guild.
"stripper!" Natsu shouted after kicking Gray into the ceiling.
"stink breath!" Gray exclaimed as he returns the favor by slamming Natsu to the floor.
The two boys keep on throwing insults at one another while fighting in a big comical dust fight.
"This is getting old way too fast…." Levy sighs while Lisanna nodded twice in agreement.
"I wonder why those two always fight no matter what?" Cana asks as she gathered all the cards that the group were playing with before shuffling them. "we can't play a good game if they keep on doing it like this."
"I think it's because Natsu is a fire mage and Gray is an ice mage?" Elfman pointed out to a thought bubble that shows Natsu ablaze in red fire while Gray is shrouded in cold ice. "I think it's because of that?"
"polar opposites, huh?" Lisanna muttered out before the group hears loud pained screams from Natsu and Gray who they see have been knocked to the floor by Erza.
"how many times do I have to tell you two not to fight!?" the Scarlet haired girl shouted angrily while placing her hands on her waist. "every single time you two get close, you just fight!"
"h-he started it!" Natsu and Gray groaned while pointing at each other before they get another knock on the heads by Erza. "ow!"
"stop fighting and just start respecting each other!" Erza exclaimed before huffing once. "UNDERSTAND!?"
"A-AYE…" the two boys replied while in pain.
"geez, these two knuckleheads!" Erza huffs again before walking away. "how many times do I have to knock some senses into their heads?! It's so tiring!"
After Erza was gone, Natsu and Gray gets up while holding their aching heads.
"it's because of you mocking Igneel that Erza had to knock our heads!" Natsu growls at Gray as the two butt heads once again.
"it's because you are so hot tempered that she knocked our heads, idiot!" Gray exclaimed.
"and it began once again…" Levy sighs as she shakes her head because of the fact that Natsu and Gray won't ever get along no matter how many times Erza knocks them on the head.
Some time later, Natsu is now at the eastern forest as he is in the middle of training himself.
"Karyuu no Tekken!" Natsu shouted as he sends a flaming punch to a poorly drawn picture of Erza that is strapped and tied to a large tree. The young boy furiously punches and kicks the drawing as he did barely any damage whatsoever with his fire dragon slaying magic. "oraahh!"
He then jumps and sends a diving kick at the drawing but because of a little mistake on his attack's landing, Natsu feels a vibrating sense of pain just going through his entire body that made him fall to the ground before rolling around while holding his legs.
"i-it doesn't hurt!" Natsu shouted while he gets up and his face is a bit in tears cause his legs were shaking and wobbling non stop from the pain. "not at all!"
Natsu shakes off the pained feeling before he continues to hit the drawing of Erza over and over.
"I'll show you! I'll show you all!" Natsu exclaimed as he sends punch after punch against the picture before sending a hard kick. "my magic!"
As he was getting serious, the tree that he was punching and kicking instantly showered him with acorn nuts that all fell when he kicked the trunk hard.
Natsu is covered in a pile of acorns as he spits out a few that went inside his mouth before he sighs tiredly.
"what's the point…?" Natsu frowns as he looks down. "everyone keeps making fun of my magic and my dad…what's the point of being in Fairy Tail if they just don't believe in me?"
"hey, kid. Don't beat yourself up just because of what other people think about you." A voice called out to Natsu who turns and meets with a tall muscular man with shoulder length orange hair, a stubbly beard, he wears a high collared and tattered cloak with shoulder plates that covers his whole body. "you're putting a bad name for yourself."
"who the heck are you, old man?" Natsu stated as he gets out of the pile of acorn and face the stranger.
"oh right, I know about you but you don't know about me." the orange haired man replied while reaching out a hand from under his cloak and scratches his chin. "sorry about that." He then waves the hand to the side. "my name is Gildarts, Gildarts Clive. And like you; I'm a Fairy Tail Mage."
"You are?" Natsu asks while raising an eyebrow.
"yup." The named Gildarts replied with a nod as he pulls a part of his cloak to reveal a black Fairy Tail mark that is on the left part of his chest to prove to Natsu that he is a member of the same guild before covering it up. "I just came back from a quest and learned from Master that we got a new recruit a few days back. so I thought I come and see who the new guy is." He then grins a bit. "and to my surprise, you're a kid like Gray and the others."
"so? you just come to check on me?" said Natsu before he looks away with a frown. "I'm guessing you also heard from gramps about my magic and other stuff, right?"
"yeah" Gildarts replied while crossing his arms under his cloak. "you're Natsu Dragneel, the son of a Fire Dragon named Igneel and you use Fire Dragon Slayer Magic. That sums it all?"
"yeah..." Natsu stated before he sighs. "and let me guess, you don't believe that my dad is a fire dragon like Gray and the others, right?"
"no, I believe in you." Gildarts replied while shaking his head once as this made Natsu look at the orange haired man. "first of all, you don't look like a kid who is all bark and no bite."
"all bark and…no bite?" Natsu muttered with a weirded out look towards Gildarts. "what the heck?"
"sorry, sorry, what I meant was that you don't look like the type to lie about things." Gildarts stated while chuckling for a moment. "I got a good eye on people and can tell the liars from the honest ones. And you're one of the honest ones."
"so…you really believe me?" Natsu asks with a rather hopeful look on his face. "for real?"
"yeah, I just saw you use fire unlike any other fire mage." Gildarts replied while nodding twice. "that just proves that you're a real Fire Dragon Slayer. I believe in ya."
Natsu felt happy for some reason as his lips formed a big childish grin.
As if it was fate, Natsu and Gildarts began to hang out with one another as both went around having fun like a father and son duo.
From fishing together to playing a game of ball, the two went and just had fun like there is no tomorrow.
About 2 months or so have passed after Natsu and Gildarts encounter at the Eastern Forest, the young boy is currently at a part of Magnolia where he stands by a river stream and is running before he jumps and catches a ball thrown by the orange haired man.
"nice catch, Natsu!" Gildarts called out while wearing a baseball mitt on his right hand. "you're getting pretty good at this game!"
"well duh! I've been training after all!" Natsu grins as he spins his right hand that holds the ball. "and with that training, I have made a new special move!"
"ho~? a new special move?" Gildarts looks amused.
"I call it Natsu special rainbow throw!" Natsu exclaimed before he throws the ball that ignites in fire. "try and catch it!"
"Natsu Special Rainbow Throw, huh?" Gildarts sighs with a smile as he raise his right hand and catches the thrown blazing ball with ease, the flames blown away when he catch the ball. "I don't see where the rainbow is."
"NO WAY!" Natsu exclaimed in shock.
"now then." Gildarts began to roll his right shoulder around. "how about I show you my own special throw?"
"e-eh?!" Natsu pales a bit as he takes a step back. "G-Gildarts' special throw? I-I don't think i…"
"here we go, Natsu!" Gildarts exclaimed while pulling back his right hand that holds the ball that he soon swings and threw away. "go!"
The ball flew and spins rapidly as Natsu gawks in seeing how fast it was coming.
"Gyaaaahh!" Natsu screams as a large dust explosion occurred at one part of Magnolia, the result of Gidarts who the young boy soon learned that he is an S-Class Mage of Fairy Tail and is extremely powerful to the point that he could barely control his strength.
"oops, looks like I overdid it again.." Gildarts scratches the back of his head as he looks at a long and large drag mark on the concrete road where at the end is a pile of rubble where Natsu's legs were sticking out and twitching. The orange haired man then laughs. "sorry, Natsu! I should've hold back!"
In an instant, Natsu gets out of the pile of rubble and looks angrily at Gildarts.
"were you trying to kill me!?" Natsu exclaimed. "learn to hold back against a kid, won't ya!?"
After the little incident, both Natsu and Gildarts are now sitting at the edge of the river bank, they were just throwing small pebbles into the water to pass the time.
"you always never hold back!" Natsu grumbles towards Gildarts who snickers in return while throwing a pebble into the water.
"sorry, sorry. I can never hold back at times." Gildarts replied while scratching the back of his head. "it's a bad habit of mine."
Both continues to throw pebbles into the water as they keep on doing it in a moment of silence that ended after a minute.
"hey, Gildarts." Natsu called out to the orange haired man who hummed in response. "you think I can ever find my dad?"
"you want to hear My honest opinion?" Gildarts replied with a raise eyebrow as Natsu just nods. The orange haired man then sighs while picking up a pebble that he soon throws into the water. "well, for starters I don't think you can find him in your current state."
"what does that mean?" Natsu asks with a confused face.
"what I mean is that you won't be able to find him if you just keep on being the current you." Gildarts explained. "for starters, if you want to find your Dragon dad you need information and to gather the needed information you have to go around towns and get them." He then looks at the young man. "and trust me when I say this, it ain't easy."
"why is it not easy?" Natsu asks curiously. "I just ask them about where Igneel is and just that right?"
"that's your way of thinking." Gildarts stated while rubbing a hand onto the young boy's head. "the world ain't like how you think it would be. Sometimes it goes good and sometimes it goes rough." He then looks up and looks a bit solemnly. "life as a mage in this world is tough and you got to get strong to survive. There will be times when you get close in finding your dragon father, but there will be times when you are so far from it." he then looks back at Natsu. "well, in simple terms. You need to become smarter and stronger, Natsu."
"I need to become…smarter and stronger?" Natsu muttered before he looks at Gildarts. "just like you, Gildarts?"
"yes and no." Gildarts replied after shaking his head once. "you need to be smart in getting info of where your dad might be and you need to be stronger so that you won't fall if you fail in a way that suits you. You don't need to be like me just to become what you want to become." The orange haired man raises his right hand and formed a hard fist while smirking at the young boy. "in simple terms, you need to reach new heights in your own way, Natsu. That's my advice for you."
Natsu looks at Gildarts as he ponders about his words for a moment before he nods with a small smile.
"I don't really get it, but I just got to get strong and smart in my own way so that I can find Igneel faster, right!?" said Natsu with a grin.
"that's close enough…" Gildarts replied with a sweatdrop.
"by the way, Gildarts. Do you know that you smell weird?" Natsu suddenly spoke out as his words made Gildarts look at him a bit confused.
"what you mean by that?" Gildarts replied as Natsu sniffs at him a few times before he looks in deep thoughts.
"well, you got a certain smell on ya that I know I smelled somewhere before." Said Natsu as he crosses his arms and looks up while thinking. "it's a faint smell that I smelled on someone else I met before, but it's really faint."
"you smelled a scent that someone else has?" Gildarts replied while raising an eyebrow before he looks weirded out with a smile. "you and your senses sure are sharp that it's amazing and weird at the same time."
"Who has this same scent?" Natsu mumbles as he ponders.
The time soon became night as Natsu is in Magnolia, the young boy walking around as he sniffs the air a few times.
"where is that smell coming from?" Natsu muttered out as he is following the faint scent he picked up on Gildarts, his nose smelling the same scent but he couldn't tell who it was coming from. "I know I smelled it somewhere…."
Natsu goes around sniffing the air as he went to alleys, roofs, and even to the sewers. The young boy becoming like a bloodhound that is tracking down the scent of its prey.
"where…" said Natsu as he is at the top of a roof and just sniffs the air a few times before he made a noise while his eyes widen because he got the faint scent that Gildarts has. "there it is!"
Natsu jumps down from the roof and begins to run at a certain direction while continuously sniffing the air.
"I knew I smelled this scent on someone before!" Natsu exclaimed as he keeps on running while making a few turns on the road. "but who was it?!"
The young boy keeps on running while making turn after turn on the road as he keeps on sniffing the scent that was getting closer by the passing second.
"right here!?" Natsu exclaimed as he turns and runs into an alley before arriving to another part of the town where he look side to side and then run to another part of the street. "closer! Closer!" the young boy runs up a street and made a turn before he yelps with another person he accidently bumps into.
Natsu and the person he bumps into fell to the street as they winced in pain.
"ow…" Natsu rubs his head before he sniffs the air and looks wide eyes at the person before him. "so it was you who have that scent!" the young boy stands up and grins a bit. "I knew I smelled it on some before." He looks to the other person before him and it was none other than his fellow guildmate, Cana Alberona who is looking at the salmon haired boy with a confused and weirded out look. "you got the same scent as he does, Cana!"
"huh? Same scent?" Cana replied all confused.
That's a wrap!
Bye bye
