I have two things I have to say up here, and they are: I FINALLY WATCH FANTASTIC BEASTS! XD The last one is please vote on the poll. It'll be closed by the next update.
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Recap: "Don't waste your breath, Harry. We both know that Natsu is an idiot," a voice said mockingly. Harry and everyone else in Fairy Tail snapped their heads around and up to see a blond, spiky haired man with – like Harry – a lightning bolt scar on his face.
"Laxus, when did you get back?" Harry asked.
Everyone is silent as they waited for the answer to Harry's question. Laxus grinned down at the messy-haired teen. "I just got back late last night. So tell me, who's the little pipsqueak?" he asked insultingly.
Harry glares up at the man on the second floor with anger. "Don't call him a pipsqueak. He's my adopted son, Castor," he answered.
Laxus' grin falls off his face while he stares at Castor with a calculating expression. "Your son, huh?" He turns to look back at Harry. "Well, I'll trust that you picked a strong child. Even from up here I can feel that he has magic, but will he be able to back it up?" he mocked.
Harry's eyes narrowed farther. "What's that supposed to mean?" he demanded calmly.
Laxus shrugged his shoulders. "I mean, is he going to be strong enough to be a member of this guild when I take over? I'll leave that up to you when the time comes."
"Laxus, if you took over anytime soon, which I doubt Makarov will let you, Castor is too young to live up to your expectations yet," Harry said. "Were you as powerful as you are now when you were his age?" Laxus didn't say anything to that. "I didn't think so."
Laxus held up his hands with a smirk playing on his lips. "Okay, you got me. I'll give him until he's 20. How old is he now?" he asked.
"He's 6 now, but he'll be 7 during the Harvest Festival," Harry replied while softening his glare a little.
"7 is the magic number," Laxus said, "and this gives me a great idea."
Harry doesn't want to think about what this idea is, but something tells him that he will find out around Castor's birthday. He was done talking with Laxus for the time being, which gave the man the opening to insult everyone else in the guild. Harry never understood why, but Laxus never insulted him, and always told him that he could do better things with his time than talk to any of the weaklings as he likes to call them. He has asked others of the guild why he was never insulted – well, in the beginning he was – but they all told him not to question it.
"LAXUS! Why don't you come down here and fight me?!" Natus' shout pulled Harry out of his train of thought.
"Why don't you come up here, short stuff?" Harry also never knew why Laxus called everyone short. If anyone is small for their age in this whole building, it's Harry.
Natsu jumped up into the air and aimed his flaming fist at Laxus, but before he could reach him, Makarov grew his own fist and stopped the Fire Dragon Slayer from getting up onto the second floor. Makarov reminded the Natsu that no one that is not S-class is allowed up there; this make Laxus laugh at the pink-haired slayer.
"What a weakling. You can't even get passed an old man," he said scornfully. "Well, it was fun messing with all of you. See you around, Harry." And then he left in a flash of lightning.
After Laxus was gone, Harry rolled his eyes and sighed. He went back to finishing his breakfast when Lucy walks up to him. "Hey, Harry, I have to ask you something." He turned his green eyes to her, and raised an eyebrow for her to continue. "I noticed that that Laxus insulted everyone, but you. Why is that? Are you a friend of his?" she asked.
Harry swallowed the food that he finished chewing and answered, "I've been asking myself that for half a year now. My best guess is because of our scars – or rather that's Fawkes' best guess. If you noticed we both have scars the shape of bolts of lightning on our faces."
Lucy tilted her head. "You do?" she asked.
Harry was confused at first, but then realized that his hair is covering the tiny scar. His scar had people stare at him, so he had a habit of covering it up. He lifts up his bangs for Lucy to see.
"Oh…how did you get that?" she asked.
"The Dark Lord that Fawkes told us about," Harry answered. Thanks to thinking too much of Voldemort, Harry remembered that when the man tried to kill him, but failed, he was given this scar as proof.
"Ouch, it looks like it had to hurt," Lucy said.
Harry shrugged. "I wouldn't know, I don't remember it. I think I may have been too young," he replied.
"Other than the scar, because I think there is more to it than that, is there another reason why Laxus likes you?"
"I don't know. I never really seen myself all that strong, but since he tells me that I shouldn't be hanging out with you guys, because you're weak – his words, not mine – tells me that he thinks I'm strong at least. Might have something to do with me blasting him through a wall," he mumbled the last part quietly to himself; so quietly that Lucy didn't seem to hear him.
"What was the last thing you said?" she asked.
Harry shook his head. "It doesn't matter. It happened quite some time ago."
Yesterday, after Harry finished eating and not running into anyone else that want to talk to him, he and Fawkes went outback to start the animagus training. They spent hours, and only got the getting into the mind down. After that, Harry went home and looked at the spell book. While reading it, he remembered how some of the spells worked and how to cast them. But that was yesterday, today Harry is back to being behind the guild trying to find his inner animal, while Romeo and Castor played.
{Breathe in, and breathe out. You're going into your mind, and then the core of your magic to find the animal within,} Fawkes' voice instructed.
Harry did what he was told. He is relaxed, breathing evenly, and Fawkes' voice sounds like it's in the distance, which is weird because his voice is inside his head. 'Guess that means I'm already getting into my magical core,' Harry thought.
{Do not think, Harry,} Fawkes said firmly, but softly. {Keep your mind clear of all thoughts. You're now in you core, look for your animal.} Harry wondered how Fawkes knew he was musing, but pushed the thought away and cleared his mind again.
He searched for his animal, but couldn't find anything. He did see what color his magic is though; it was gold. He search some more, focusing on only his animal and saw… something. He didn't notice it before, but that was because it was too big and too close to notice. He thought his inner animal would be small, but this was far from it. He couldn't see details at all; it just looked like a big, long, black shadow. There are a lot of animals that could have big, long bodies. Harry knows that he isn't going to find out just what his animal is going to be today either. He left his magical core.
Harry opened his eyes, and Fawkes asks, {Did you see anything?}
He nodded. "I did, but I couldn't tell what it was." Harry told his familiar what he saw, making Fawkes look deep in thought afterwards.
{That could be almost anything. It's so big that you didn't notice – that right there tells me how big it is. The only things I can think of that could be it are dragons, basilisk, occamy, probably amphithere, a bakunawa, hydra, or really any of these creatures, but you get the idea,} Fawkes listed just a few creatures, Harry knows that there are more, but that was enough.
Harry tried to think which creature it is that he could be, but he was torn away from his thoughts by Gray's voice. "Hey, Harry!"
Harry turned his head to face the direction of the guild hall, and saw Gray running up to him. "What's up?" he asked.
Gray was now standing in front of him. "Natsu, Lucy, and Happy haven't shown up at the guild today." Harry doesn't see how this could be a problem. "Not too long ago, Laxus said he saw a flying blue cat with an S-class request in its paws!" Now he understands what the problem is.
Harry gets up from where he was sitting on the ground, and asks, "Where do we have to go?"
"We need to get to Hargeon, before those three get on a boat," Gray said.
Harry nods in understanding. "Alright, I'll meet you at the train. I just need to ask Macao to watch Castor, Edge, and Dash for me," he explained. Gray nodded his head, and took off for the train as fast as he can.
Harry runs into the guild hall, and asked Macao to watch his son, and his son's familiars for him. Macao said he will, but he will owe him dinner when he comes back. He smiled gratefully, and told Fawkes to teleport them to the train station.
Harry, Gray, and Fawkes make it to Hargeon, and started to make their trek down to the docks. It didn't take them long to get there, thanks to running. They scanned the area, and Harry saw blue, blond, and pink out of the corner of his eye.
"There they are," said Harry, pointing out the three rule breakers. 'How do you like me now, Snape!? I'm not the one causing trouble!' he thought to himself, remembering that Snape always said that he's up to no good.
"Let's sneak up on them," suggested Gray, making Harry grin impishly.
Gray and Harry, with Fawkes on his shoulder, walked silently up to the three members of most likely Natsu's plan to go on the S-class quest. They were standing right behind Natsu and Lucy. They waited a moment to hear that the guy they were talking to agreed to take them to Galuna Island. They decided waited a moment longer just so the three trouble makers can have their fun, before they crash it.
Harry and Gray pop up from behind them and say, "We found you!" Natsu, Lucy, and Happy all shouted out in surprise, all the while Fawkes is laughing at them.
"Gray, Harry!" Natsu and Lucy exclaimed.
"And Fawkes is here too!" Happy added.
"What are you doing here?" Lucy questioned more calmly now, but they could still here the panic in her voice.
"Gramps sent up to bring you three back to the guild," Gray answered.
Lucy gasped in fear, and Natsu looked pleadingly. "Oh, come on Gray! We can do this. Harry, you believe in us, right?" he said.
Harry raised an eyebrow. "Would I be here if I did? Sorry Natsu, but if you can't beat Erza, then I don't think you can take this quest on your own with the new girl and a cat. No offence, Lucy and Happy," he replied.
Lucy held up her hands. "None taken. As a matter of fact, I didn't want to be here in the first place," she said.
"She only came, because she wants to get her hands on the golden key that they're giving out as a reward," Happy pointed out.
"Shut up, cat!" Lucy growled.
Harry and Gray looked to each other, and then back at the three in front of them. "We don't care what the reason is for you to be going on an S-class quest. We're here to bring you back to the guild, even if that means dragging you by the hair," they said in unison.
{Don't forget to mention about the punishment,} Fawkes, who has been silent the whole time, reminded.
"Thank you, Fawkes," Harry said with an evil smirk on his face.
"What…did…he…say?" Lucy asked nervously.
"That when we get back. The master will decide your punishment," Harry said, making Gray smirk along with him.
"No! I'm too pretty to be punished!" Lucy shouted, and before she could say anything else she stopped when Natsu knocked out Gray. Harry was stunned for a moment, giving Natsu time to toss the ice mage onto the boat, and then drag him along onto it. Harry fought with all his might, but he was much physically weaker than the dragon slayer. Once on the boat, Natsu had Happy and Lucy help him tie Harry up, and once they got him wrapped up nice and tight, they tied Gray up as well.
"We're ready to go now!" Natsu said with a huge grin on his face.
"Wait, what about Fawkes?" Lucy questioned.
Harry looked to his familiar, who was hovering above them looking confused as to what he should be doing. "You could help, you know?" he suggested.
{Yes, however, I feel like this is meant to happen,} Fawkes said.
"Meaning you're not going to help stop them from going, aren't you?"
{No, but I will help in a fight, should the time come.} Harry sighed at that answer, and looked over to Natsu, who groaned in pain. He realized that he was sick. Harry looks over to the harbor, and saw that it was getting farther and farther away.
He sighed again. "Well, no turning back now. You might as well perch yourself on the side of the boat or my shoulder, Fawkes," requested Harry. Fawkes decided he was going to land on the rim of the boat. So, now they wait out the ride to the Island that the S-class quest is located. Harry heard another groan from Natsu. "This is going to be a long ride."
TBC
So, Laxus has a soft spot for Harry. I plan on having a flashback of them meeting sometime in the far future. I'm thinking around when Laxus and Natsu fight in the Battle of Fairy Tail arc.
The answer for what to do with Castor is that he'll be like Romeo, just there in the beginning, but after the 7 year time skip, he'll be there more often.
We also see a little of what Harry's animagus form is going to be, and speaking of Harry, I just got him kidnapped and tied up again. Sorry, Harry. :(
Harry: At least it was Natsu that did it this time. -_-
Voldy: You were easy to kidnap, or lead into a trap. :)
Enj/Dark: Leading Harry into a trap the way you did, Voldy, is never going to be possible again. The soul fragment is no longer there.
Voldy: …What soul fragment?
Harry: *smirk* The one that was attached to my scar.
Voldy: You had a piece of my soul in you and I didn't notice?! D=
Harry: Yup! :D
Natsu: What are they talking about? *he whispered to Zeref*
Zeref: I don't know. I never heard of something like that.
Natsu: But you're a dark mage.
Zeref: *shrug* Doesn't mean I read all the dark books out there.
Enj/Dark: He's got a point. :/
Natsu: Oh… :o
Enj/Dark: Lord Voldemort, could you be so kind as to say it this time? *holds up hand threateningly*
Voldy: *eyes hand suspiciously* Re- *sees hand getting ready to snap fingers* Please review.
Enj/Dark: :)
