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"Talking"
"Thinking"
"SHOUTING"
"Attack!"
"Dragon/Demon Talking"
"Dragon/Demon Thinking"
Chapter Four: Beginning of the Team.
It was a bright day on July 784, a day that would be remembered long after as the beginning of some of the most important events that have ever happened to the world of Earthland.
There was nothing particularly groundbreaking about this day, there was no army of the undead attacking, no dragons, no giant monsters, nothing out of the ordinary.
However, on one of the trains entering the small port town of Hargeon, there is a certain salmon haired dragon slayer sleeping in one of the booths.
This is Natsu Dragneel, Son of Igneel, the Fire Dragon Prince, S-Class Mage of Fairy Tail, also he is unofficially the Strongest Mage in all of Ishgar, since he beat God Serena a year ago, but refused the position of God of Ishgar.
Natsu has really grown these last 7 years, he now stands at a colossal 6 foot 4 inches and weighs probably around 185 pounds due to the muscular physique he now boasts. His spiky salmon hair is now much longer, going down past his shoulders an inch or more, giving him a wild and untamable look to him. He now also has a single scar going across his left eye, from the middle of his left temple, down to the left side of the bottom of his chin. Natsu's outfit hasn't changed a bit since his childhood, still having the black t-shirt with the black cloak, baggy white pants and black combat boots.
Sleeping in his lap is a small two foot tall light blue cat that is wearing a royal purple vest that has white edgings to it and has a lime green backpack on his back.
This is Happy, he is Natsu's surrogate son, since Natsu and Erza along with a few of their friends hatched him out of an egg that Natsu found in the forest surrounding Magnolia town.
Happy is an energetic, fish loving ball of happiness, but when the situation called for it, Happy does have combat abilities that place him at low S-Class, Happy is officially ranked as a High A-Class wizard since he hasn't taken the test yet to become an S-Class wizard yet.
A conductor on the train walked up to the sleeping due and said, "Sirs, the train will be moving again soon. Please depart if this is your destination."
Natsu groggily got up and said, "Thanks."
Natsu took hold of Happy and walked off of the train and began to search the crowed for his target.
Happy woke up from all the movement and said, "Natsu, are we in Hargeon yet?"
Natsu nodded and said, "We just arrived. Now, let's go find the phony who stole my name."
Happy nodded and said, "That phony won't know what hit him!"
Happy and Natsu came back to the guild about a day ago after a three month long training trip to the frozen wasteland called, "The Icy Wrath of Death" it is the coldest place in all of Earthland, temperatures there are reported to have fallen below -200 degrees Fahrenheit on the coldest winter days.
Natsu has been going there as a training exercise for the past 6 years, he goes and trains in the winter time, when the temperatures are their absolute coldest. He does this because the cold temperatures force him to use his magic to keep his body warm, so it is a constant drain and this forces his magic containers to get larger due to the continuous usage.
Natsu and Happy heard that a man had been calling himself "Salamander" and this man has been in cities that mysteriously have had a number of their women disappear at the same time the exact same time "Salamander" appears.
Natsu and Happy immediately knew the two were connected, so he and Happy immediately set out to capture this man and get him to lead them to the missing women.
Nothing is known about the man besides the fact that he calls himself "Salamander", but Natsu figures that since he is abducting women, that he should have a dark or malicious aura to him, so that should aid Natsu in finding the man.
Natsu and Happy thus began their search for the criminal, unaware of their inevitable meeting with a future friend.
Across town, in Hargeon's only magic shop, there is a certain busty blonde named Lucy Heartfilia, who is currently looking for anything useful.
"What? This is the only magic shop in town?!" Lucy shouted out in disbelief.
The owner of the shop nodded and said, "Since Hargeon is a fishing town, we don't have many wizard's in town, the most we usually get is travelling wizards, so there has never been a need for more than one magic shop."
Lucy nodded at that logic and once again became to look around the shop for anything that could be of some use to her.
Eventually she came over to the Celestial Spirit section and saw several keys, but all most all of them were of Silver Key Spirit's she already had.
However, she then saw one she had been looking for for a while now, she found the key for the little dog, Nikola.
She squealed with excitement and ran over to the shop owner and said, "How much for this Silver Key?"
The shop owner looked at the Key for a second and said, "Since the spirit is a really weak one, I shall give it to you for 9,000 Jewels."
Lucy winced a little at that one, but still paid the price and and so got a new key and then asked the shop owner, "Got anything else?"
The shop owner looked deep in thought and then said, "Oh! I may have something that might interest you!"
He went to the back of the shop and after ten minutes of looking, shouting and mild profanity, he came back out carrying a large leather brown book that had written in golden letters on the front, "Celestial Spirit Mage's Complete Guide."
The shop owner looked pretty smug with himself and said, "This little beauty here is an ancient book written by one of the most powerful Celestial Spirit mage's to ever live, sadly his name has been lost to history. However, he wrote down all his knowledge about Celestial Spirit magic, including several spells he created himself. Some of those spells were said to be SSS-Class in power."
Lucy was floored, Celestial Spirit mages could create such incredible spells? This book was a must have! "How much for the book?"
The shop owner looked down in deep thought and said, "Well this is a extremely powerful book and as one-of-a-kind, is impossible to replace, so I will set the price at 1,500,000 jewels."
Lucy's spirit came out of her mouth at hearing that outlandish price, all that money for one book?! But Lucy could understand where he was coming from, but there was no way she could afford such a book.
Lucy was about to say she couldn't afford the book when she heard someone say, "I'll buy the book."
Lucy turned around and say our main protagonist, in his arms were a number of magical items, ranging from a cursed sword that could summon magma, to a Take Over Soul that has a demon that has mastery over lightning and so on and so forth.
Natsu placed the items on the counter and said, "Please ring these up."
The shop owner nodded and added the book to the pile and in total Natsu's order cost 50,000,000 jewels, but thankfully Natsu keeps his cash in his pocket dimension, allowing him to carry his total amount of 400,000,000 jewels.
See, Natsu is extremely thrifty, since he built his house outside of Magnolia, he didn't have to pay a landlord, so no money drain there, plus he only spends money on food and a few gifts for his friends, plus he is an S-Class wizard, so he get's jobs with rewards into the 1.5 million to 3 million jewel range, so he saves up a lot.
After paying, Natsu requiped his order into his pocket dimension, save for the book, which he hands to Lucy.
Lucy looked shocked and said, "Sir, why did you give me the book if you spend a million and a half for it?"
Natsu replied with, "Well I don't use Celestial Spirit magic and since you have Celestial Spirit keys, that leads me to believe you are a Celestial Spirit mage, so the book you be of more us to you."
Lucy looked at the book and said, "I can't accept such an extravagant gift, it's too much."
Natsu replied with, "Well I ain't taking it, so you're stuck with it."
Lucy looked at the book once again and sighed and said, "Fine, you win. I'll take the book. BUT! I have to pay for lunch."
Natsu turned to her and said, "You don't have to."
Lucy shook her head and said, "I owe you, so come on."
Natsu sighed and said, "Fine, I have found it is pointless to fight with a girl whose mind is made up. Just wait for a few seconds for my best friend. He went down to a fish shake to get a mackel, so he should be back soon."
Just then a voice said, "Hey Natsu, who's the blonde?"
Lucy looked down and say Happy eating a mackel while staring up at her.
Lucy then shrieked out, "You're a talking cat?!"
Happy nodded and said, "Technically speaking I am an Exceed, but that's beside the point. Who are you?"
The blonde haired mage recomposed herself and said, "I am Lucy. Natsu met me in the magic shop and bought me a rather expensive book, so I decided to pay him back by paying for lunch."
Happy just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Lead the way."
Later, the three of them were eating a small restaurant and having a nice conversation.
"So you are the Fire Dragon Prince and your dad was the Fire Dragon King, Igneel, who is currently inside you creating antibodies so you don't turn into a dragon?" Lucy asked in complete disbelief.
Natsu nodded and said, "Yup. I am also a S-Class mage of Fairy Tail."
Lucy's eyes turned to stars within seconds and said, "Fairy Tail?! I have always wanted to join Fairy Tail! You guys are amazing!"
Natsu and Happy chuckled a little at her behavior and Happy said, "Aye! Fairy Tail is the best guild in all of Fiore! And Natsu here is the strongest member of the guild."
Lucy's eyes grew enormous and her jaw dropped to the ground, causing even more laughter from Natsu and Happy.
The more she thought about it, Natsu did seem to be familiar and after a little bit of thinking, it hit her like a magicmobile to the face.
"You're the Salamander of Fairy Tail! The mage who controls the hottest flames on Earth! It is also said your flames can burn the darkness out of magic and even outright destroy magic itself! Is that true?" Lucy asked.
Natsu nodded and said, "My flames burn at such an intensity that magic itself is destroyed, but when it turn my flames up to the point, I am a danger to ever around me in a five hundred foot radius, being inside said radius is extremely danger and can lead to major injuries and if you're inside there long enough, death."
That statement got the young lady shocked and said, "Seriously?"
The fire mage nodded and said, "I of course have never actually killed anyone before, but I am not overselling the dangers of my flames, when I got to that point, run like hell."
The blonde then said, "So is there a test or exam that I have to pass to get into the guild?"
Natsu shook his head and said, "All you have to have is magic, show up and you're in."
Lucy was stunned and said, "Seriously, it's that easy?"
Natsu nodded and said, "Fairy Tail is like a family, we never turn down potential family members, regardless of their past."
Lucy smiled, her love of Fairy Tail was growing more and more by the second just listening to this young man tell tales about the legendary Fairy Tail.
Happy then asked, "So what kind of mage are you?"
Lucy took of her key ring and showed it to the two mages across from her and said, "Well I am a Celestial Spirit mage, I form contracts with celestial spirits and call upon them to aid me in battle. The silver keys are common and powerful, but the golden ones are Zodiac Keys and there are only 12 of them. I personally have the Taurus the Golden Bull, the Water Bearer Aquarius and finally Cancer, the Giant Crab."
Natsu nodded and said, "I know all the basics of Celestial Spirit Magic, we have a Celestial Spirit mage back at Fairy Tail."
This was shocking to the blonde who said, "Really, who?"
"Her name is Yukino Agria. She along with Minerva Orland joined Fairy Tail on the same day about three years ago. I trained both her and Minerva to be stronger and a year later Minerva became a S-Class mage and Yukino became one last year. Both like to stay away from the public eye, they want to become better mages before going public." Natsu explained.
Lucy was intrigued, she had never met a Celestial Wizard before. "How many keys does Yukino have?"
"Yukino has three Silver Keys and three Golden Zodiac Keys. She has Caelum, the Chisel, Polaris, the Bear Cub, and Deneb, the Swan, her Zodiac Keys are Pisces, the Paired Fish, Libra, the Heavenly Scales, and finally Ophiuchus, the Snake Charmer." Happy said.
Lucy was confused, she had never heard of Ophiuchus, so she said, "I have never heard of Ophiuchus before, what Zodiac is she?"
Natsu then said, "She is the thirteenth Zodiac and she isn't really well known, but Yukino found her key in an abandoned mining tunnel."
"Ah." Lucy said.
Natsu then said, "Well come on. Me and Happy are on a mission and when we're done, we can go to Fairy Tail."
Lucy gained a look of excitement and said, "I'm going to go to Fairy Tail! This is AWESOME!"
Natsu and Happy laughed and Natsu said, "Well Lucy we will be off. Go to the train station and 10, we'll be there to take you too Fairy tail."
Lucy excitedly nodded and then the three parted ways, two headed to continue their hunt for the impostor, the other going to get her stuff so she can be ready to join Fairy Tail.
Later that day...
Lucy had gotten all her stuff packed at her hotel and was now on a park bench reading a Weekly Sorcerer Magazine.
"Wow, Fairy Tail destroyed yet another building? They are just a riot! Oh look at Mirajane! She is so awesome! I can't wait to get into Fairy Tail." Lucy squealed as she sat on the bench.
"You want to get into Fairy Tail?" A new voice said.
Looking up, Lucy saw a relatively tall and slim man who has dark blue shaded hair, he has a tattoo reminiscent of a pair of tongs placed horizontally right above his right eyebrow, covering part of the right side of his forehead.
The man is wearing ornate clothing, with the most visible piece being a dark, high-collared cape almost reaching down to his knees, possessing a lighter inner part and light edges adored by a pattern of many rhombs. He has a inner white shirt, has a pair of ruby red pants, has three golden bracelets on his left wrist, while on his left middle and index finger are two separate and unique rings.
The ring on his middle finger is golden and on the bottom part is a black clover symbol, while the ring on his index finger is a darker shade of golden, but this one has a red circular gemstone in the middle, while a light pink gemstone is placed on top of the red one.
The man walked over to Lucy and said, "I can get you into Fairy Tail if you want to join."
Lucy shook her head and said, "I already have somebody to get me into Fairy Tail, the Salamander."
The man looked a bit shocked and said, "Well that might be a bit tricky, since I am the Salamander."
Lucy narrowed her eyes and said, "You aren't the Salamander, I just met the Salamander. He is taller and more broadly built than you for one and he has pink hair. Nice try."
The man then narrowed his eyes and said, "I tried to be nice, but since you aren't cooperating, I guess I'll just do this a different way."
Before Lucy had a chance to react, the man waved his hand in front of her face, his palm sending out several particles of white light, causing Lucy to lose consciousness.
The man caught her and said, "You are coming with me, willingly or unwillingly."
The man then started to walked towards his yacht, the unconscious Lucy draped over his shoulder.
Meanwhile...
Natsu and Happy are currently going through the city, trying to find any leads about the Salamander, but no one they had talked to had seen the Salamander.
"Man, this is getting us nowhere. We can't find any clues to where the Salamander has gone Happy." The salmon haired dragon slayer said to his partner.
"I know Natsu. This is so weird. We should have seen some sign to where the Salamander is." Happy said back.
The dragon slayer and the Exceed continued on their journey to find the impostor, but time was quickly fading away and soon, it was nearly ten O'clock.
Natsu and Happy were by the pier when Natsu turned to Happy and said, "I don't think we are going to find the impostor tonight Happy. Let's call this one a bust. We might as well get over to the train station and take Lucy to Fairy Tail."
Happy nodded and the two were about to go to the train station when two young ladies walked by them, one of whom said, "Did you get invited to Salamander's party?"
Natsu and Happy both stopped and gave the two girls their complete attention.
The other girl shook her head and said, "No, I really wish I could have gone. Salamander is the coolest mage ever!"
Natsu then said, "I am sorry to interrupt, but, I couldn't help, but overhear that you said the Salamander was throwing a party?"
The first girl nodded her head and pointed out to the ocean where a yacht was sailing. "That is the Salamander's boat. He is throwing a party on it. I wish I could have gone, with him being a Fairy Tail mage and all."
Natsu's eyes narrowed and he turned towards he boat and said, "Happy?"
Happy replied with, "Yes Natsu?"
"Let's ride." Natsu said.
Happy nodded and then from his back came a pair of white angelic wings and the blue cat began to fly towards the boat.
Natsu on the other hand ignited the soles of his shoes and he flew of into the air like a jet.
The dragon made into human flesh and the blue Exceed flew towards the yacht, determined to end the Salamanders reign of terror.
Woe be to anyone in the way of an angry dragon and his son.
They are not known to be the most merciful of people when they are crossed.
Meanwhile...
The moment Lucy came back to consciousness, she immediately knew something was incredibly wrong.
For one thing, she was in a fancy room painted gold with extravagant furniture.
Another reason was she didn't have he keys on her person anymore and the book she had just gotten was not with her anymore either.
The final reason was she couldn't remember anything after that creep had waved his hand in front of her face.
Lcu got up and began to look for a way out of the room when a part of the room to her right opened up.
The creep that knocked her out came into the room with a extremely annoying smirk on his face and said, "Enjoying the room."
Lucy snarled out, "No and tell me where I am right now!"
The man didn't seem the least bit concerned with her anger and then raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
Within seconds, two large thugs came into the room and grabbed one of Lucy's arms and then began to drag her away.
"Hey! What do you think you are doing?!" Lucy yelled out as she began to struggle.
"Just showing you your future, my dear." The creepy man said.
The group of four went to the main deck, where to Lucy's horror, there was a large number of women who were unconscious and were being placed in chains and being taken below deck.
"Wha...What is going on?" Lucy asked in disbelief.
The creep smiled and said, "To put it simply, I wooed a large number of women using my Charm spell and then I knocked them all unconscious and now we are restraining them so when we get to Bosco to sell them all off, they will not have injuries."
Lucy gasped and shouted out, "You're a slave trafficker!"
The creep's smile increased and said, "Allow me the opportunity to introduce myself. I am Bora the Prominence, former member of the Titan Nose Guild."
Lucy gave him a withering look and said, "You are the worst type of wizard there is. Taking these women from their homes and selling them as slaves, your a waste of a human being."
Bora appeared unmoved by Lucy's words and then he reached into his pocket and showed her her key ring.
Lucy gasped, "My key's!" she said worried for her friends.
"It's not like you'll ever be needing these ever again, considering you will never be free ever again." Bora said and then he threw the keys over the port side.
"Noo!" Lucy yelled out as she saw her keys being thrown overboard, most likely to never to be seen ever again.
Bora walked over to Lucy and cupped her face and said, "Don't worry, the pain will stop after a few days."
Bora turned to his accomplices and said, "Take her below deck and get her restrained. She will fetch a hefty price, so we don't want her to be damaged."
The grunts nodded and began to walk towards the main deck, where Lucy would be chained and imprisoned until they reached Bosco.
Lucy had tears running down her face as she thought about her predicament.
"So this is how my journey ends. Me being taken and sold as a slave, never to join Fairy Tail, never to go one adventures and make friends, or fall in love. My future is going to full of darkness and pain. I am sorry mom, for such a failure. You would have had all these guys defeated and broken in only a few minutes."
But before Lucy could be chained, something smashed into the the deck of the ship only twenty feet from Lucy.
Wood splinters went flying everywhere from the force of the impact and a dust cloud had been sent up from the objects landing.
Everyone one of the people on deck stopped and stared at the dust cloud, waiting for whatever was underneath to show itself.
Eventually, the dust cloud disappeared and from it came the imposing and dangerous looking form of one Natsu Dragneel, who looked positively pissed off, along with his partner Happy, who looked no less angry.
Natsu face was twisted into a mask of simmering and incredible anger as his eyes darted all over the ship, searching for his enemies when his eyes landed on Lucy.
"Lucy?" Natsu asked confused, "What are you doing here?"
Lucy's face lit up, there was hope! "Natsu! Am I glad you're here! These guys are slave traffickers!"
Then, everyone felt as a massive rush of heat began to spill from Natsu as his face evolved from one of incredible rage to one of absolute fury and rage.
Natsu's eyes changed from obsidian to to brightest burning coals imaginable, while a bright orange magical aura began to form around Natsu.
The wooden deck below him began to simmer and blacken as Natsu's temperature began to rapidly climb.
Happy was no different, his eye's too changed, from their usual black color to a bright green color, his face also transformed into one of murderous rage and he also had a magical aura beginning to form around him, his being an azure color.
Natsu then said in a deathly calm voice that sent chills up Lucy's spine, "Lucy, these guys haven't harmed you in any way have they?"
Lucy shook her head and said, "They haven't physically hurt me."
Natsu nodded his head and said, "Happy?"
Happy replied with, "Yes Natsu?"
Natsu said two words that finished this group of traffickers, "Sic em."
Happy face turned into a malicious smile and said back, "With pleasure."
Natsu then moved so fast it appeared he disappeared and when he reappeared, his fist was firmly in the gut of one of the goons, who double-over in intense agony, only to be kneed in the face so hard his nose was in a billion different pieces.
Happy on the other hand was surrounded by some goons, one of them said, "It's just a little cat! Let's kill 'im and eat im!"
Happy looked directly into that man's eyes and said, "You get destroyed first."
Before the group could respond, a large black cloud appeared around Happy, hiding him from view.
The goons surround Happy coughed and sputtered from the smoke.
When it cleared, a much different Happy was standing where the small blue cat once was.
This feline was 7 and a half feet tall, rippling with raw muscles. The feline stood one two legs, had an azure fur covering his entire body, while several plates of golden metal covered his chest, he has three that formed a combat shirt of sorts, a pair on his legs that covered almost all of his lower legs, while two golden gauntlets where on his forearms. He had on a helmet that covered his forehead and had a spiked protrusion on either side of the head and one his shoulders were golden shoulder pads with a silver spike in the front and a silver spike on the back, while the straps for his breastplate had a silver spike on them as well and on the back of the armor was six silver spikes. This cat had a face more reminiscent of a tiger and the canines were over three inches long, while a large blue cat tail was swinging behind this mighty warrior. (Lookup Blade Tigrerra and then imagine the changes I made and you get the idea)
The goons were so stunned, they couldn't react when the new Happy's right fist struck out and sent one of the goons flying back across the deck.
Happy turned towards the other goons who were shaking in fear and said in a deep rumbling voice, "Anyone else want to make fun of the cat?"
The goons all shook their heads and Happy smiled towards them before he began to demolish the group with incredible speed and brutality.
Meanwhile with Lucy, she was in awe as this two mighty warriors began to fight and destroy the goons on the ship as if they were nothing more than children.
"I can't say here and do nothing, I have to help, somehow." Lucy thought.
Lucy then noticed her two guards were distracted, so she wrenched her arms out of their grasp and then elbowed both men in their pride and joy, dropping them to the floor as their gasped in pure agony.
Lucy then ran over to the port side of the boat and jumped off the ship.
Lucy plunged into the warm waters as she began to look for her Celestial Spirit keys.
After a few minutes, she found them on a rock formation and swam over to claim them.
After getting her keys back, Lucy swam up to the surface and grabbed one of the keys.
"Open Gate of the Water, Aquarius!" Lucy shouted out as she placed one of her keys into the water.
A golden glow appeared and from the glow came a beautiful blue mermaid carrying a large water urn in her hands.
Aquarius turned towards Lucy and said, "What did you do this time dear child?"
Lucy looked sheepish and moved her two index fingers together nervously and she said, "Well, I got kidnapped and taken aboard a slaver ship, but then two Fairy Tail members came flying out of nowhere and are currently destroying the crew members. I was hoping you could wash the ship to shore for me?"
Aquarius looked at Lucy for a few seconds before she sighed and said, "Only you Lucy, could get into that much trouble in a day."
Lucy looked really sheepish now, but before she could retort, Aquarius raised her urn and a massive wave washed under the ship and carried back to the shore, doing very little, if any damage to the pier.
Lucy smiled and said, 'Nice job Aquarius!"
Aquarius puffed up her chest and said, "Well what do you expect of me, Aquarius, the Water Bearer, one of the most powerful Celestial Spirits in existence."
Lucy rolled her eyes and then said, "Mind helping me to the shore?"
Aquarius huffed and said, "What am I? A glorified carrier?"
Aquarius raised her urn once again and another wave came in, this one much smaller and a lot slower, so as to not hurt Lucy.
After a minute of travelling, the two reached the shore and Aquarius said, "Alright Lucy, my time is up, just remember I am available to be called anytime, just try not to get into anymore trouble okay?"
Lucy nodded and then gave Aquarius a hug as her friend returned to the Spirit World.
Lucy then heard noise to her left and whipped around, only to see Natsu and Happy in his tiger form standing over the beaten a broken bodies of the crew.
"Natsu!" Lucy called up to him.
Natsu turned towards Lucy and smiled.
The salmon haired dragon slayer and his trusted parted jumped down to Lucy.
"Are you alight?" Natsu asked Lucy, searching her over for injuries.
"I am fine. How about the rest of the women, are they okay?" Lucy asked.
Happy nodded and said, "They are alright. Just a few bumps and bruises, nothing serious. We do need to go get the authorities to arrest these waste of space that dare call themselves humans."
Lucy nodded and was about to run off to go get the authorities when a giant skull shaped ball of fire came flying towards the group.
Lucy screamed as she shielded her face with her hands, but to her surprise there was no pain, just a slurping sound.
Lucy turned back towards Natsu and was gobsmacked to see the salmon haired dragon slayer eating the giant ball of fire as if it was a simple smoothy on a hot summer day.
Natsu ate the fireball, belched and then glared towards the one who threw it.
Standing on the deck of the ship was Bora, who looked absolutely livid.
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO DESTROY MY SHIP AND MY SHIPMENT?!" He shouted out in barely controlled rage.
Natsu continued to glare at Bora and then he rolled up his right sleeve to show off his right shoulder and on it was a red Fairy Tail symbol.
"I am Natsu Dragneel, Son of Igneel, Prince of all Fire Dragons, but above all else, I am a Fairy Tail Wizard and I will not allow you to slander our good name a moment longer! So prepare yourself for the absolute worst beating of your life!" Natsu shouted out.
Bora glared even harder and then ignited his flames underneath his feet and flew into the air.
"Prominence Typhoon!" Bora yelled out as he stretched his arms wide out to his sides as a magic circle appeared in front of his chest and from the circle came a massive swirling vortex of flames that came rushing towards Natsu, who didn't even react.
The flames struck Natsu, engulfing him in their unholy destruction, but Natsu was not deterred. These flames were nothing but the weakest of embers compared to the power and might of the Fire Dragon King.
Natsu raised his right hand and swiped it, causing the flames surrounding him to be extinguished in a second.
Bora, being consumed with rage, didn't notice the flames hadn't hurt Natsu, so he continued to attack, this time he used, "Red Shower!"
Bora, atop his swirling vortex of flames keeping him a-lift, raised his right hand and a magic seal appeared, causing a shower of fierce purple flames to be fired at Natsu in a scattered pattern, causing damage in a mild area.
However, these flames were even weaker than the Prominence Typhoon, so these small little puff's were nothing to him.
Natsu still hadn't reacted, his facial expression hard set in stone, with a glare that could kill an elephant leveled at Bora.
Natsu's apparent inability to be hut by his person set Bora into an even deep rage, causing him to use one of his most powerful spells in his arsenal, "Hell's Prominence!".
Bora placed both hands in front of him aimed directly at Natsu and gathered his energy in between his hands.
Lucy could sense the power behind that spell, while not even close to the power Aquarius showed and by the standard, no where near the power of Happy's abilities, it was still a respectably strong spell, but Lucy refrained herself from yelling out to Natsu.
Lucy didn't know why, but something about Natsu's complete lack of care for such a spell, made Lucy come to the conclusion that Natsu knew what he was doing and she should just watch.
Bora finished gathering his power and with a final yell of, "TAKE THIS!" he sent a large laser-like blast of magic towards Natsu, who did even move.
Just as when the blast was about to strike, the beam suddenly began to break apart as if it hit a wall and suddenly, visible to Happy, Bora and Lucy, there was a dome of energy surrounding Natsu, protecting him from the power of the spell. The force of the spell hitting Natsu's protective barrier caused fierce winds to be generated and sent all over the port. (what happened to Goku's Kamehameha Wave when he began his battle against Jiren)
Lucy was amazed, she had never seen such a thing, the spell never made it past two feet in front of Natsu and he gave not a single reaction to the beam hitting the sphere, almost as if he was generating the sphere at no cost of physical or mental exhaustion.
"Happy, what was that?" Lucy asked in a quiet, almost scared voice.
"That my little lady friend." Happy replied as he turned towards Lucy with a look of nostalgia in his eyes, "Is Natsu's aura."
"Natsu's...aura?" Lucy asked confused.
"Aye. Natsu's power is so great, he can create a barrier around himself that destroys the magic behind a magical attack, leaving beam or energerial attacks like the Hell's Prominence, nothing more that hot air. Physical magical attacks are rendered useless, due the fact that they all rely on magic to make them so effective." Happy explained to the shock and awe of Lucy. "Remember when Natsu said he could destroy magic around him?"
Lucy nodded and Happy then said, "Well, this is a much safer version of that technique. That technique is an active magical ability, the user must conscientiously make the choice to use the ability. This technique is so powerful, that those in it's target area are completely unable to execute any and all magical activities. That is, if they are knocked unconscious by the power of the flames. The technique Natsu is using right now on the other hand is a passive magical ability, it is always in use. This technique creates a small perimeter around Natsu, 2 feet from him in all directions, that destroys magic, but Natsu can turn the power of the barrier down to the point where the barrier does minute amounts of magic destruction, so that he doesn't hurt his allies ability to fight."
Lucy looked back at Natsu in new found awe that he could execute such a simple, but incredibly powerful ability all the time. She could only dream of doing such an incredible technique, while Natsu has two different techniques that do the exact same thing, just in different ways.
Back to the fight, Natsu still hadn't moved or done anything to Bora at all, causing the slave trader to grow even angier, so much so that Bora forwent any thought at all and was now just throwing magical attack after magical attack at Natsu, each one being destroyed by the power of the barrier and leaving Natsu completely fine, much to the increased anger of Bora.
Then, Natsu just disappeared.
Bora was shocked and now looking around him in a desperate search for the Son of Igneel.
Who appeared before Bora in a flash and now had his right fist driven deeply into Bora's gut.
Bora let out a wordless scream as he felt all breathe driven from his lungs and a pain the likes of which he had never felt began to tear through his insides.
Bora's flames disappeared as Bora wrapped his arms around his waist, trying desperately to stop the pain, but before he could react, a face appeared before him and gave him the most brutal head smash of his life, causing Bora to not only start to see stars, but also his nose was absolutely destroyed.
The force of the head smash sent Bora flying into the ground, where he lay in a crater, broken, bleeding and so very much in horrible pain.
Natsu looked at the horrible man laying pathetically in front of him and said two words, "You're finished."
Natsu then turned towards Lucy and Happy and he instantly lost the anger in his features and smiled towards the two of them.
Lucy smiled back towards Natsu and said, "Natsu, that was awesome!"
Natsu laughed a little and said, "You didn't do so bad yourself Lucy."
Lucy's face fell at those words and said, "Yes I did. I got kidnapped by that creep then had to have you two come and rescue me. All I did was ask Aquarius to take the boat back to the port."
Happy placed his left hand on her right shoulder and said, "It is alright Lucy, you made a few mistakes, so what? I didn't become this powerful in a day's time. It took me six long and painful years to get this strong and I am not anywhere near as powerful as Natsu, despite being trained by him the longest. You can't give up after just one bad incident, you will get nowhere in life."
"Besides, we had to help you Lucy, you're a friend." Natsu said while smiling at Lucy in a comforting manner.
"But, I'm not apart of Fairy Tail yet and you've only known me for less than a day." Lucy shot back.
"Doesn't matter, you want to join Fairy Tail and you have a really good heart, that makes you a friend in my book." Natsu said in retort.
Lucy was stunned by their kindness and calm words. These two, she had known them less than a day and they had shown her more kindness and warmth than her own father had shown her in the last seven years or so after her mother's death.
Lucy couldn't hold in her tears and she began to cry, causing the two males around her to begin t panic and comically tried to apologize to her for whatever they did.
"I'm not sad. I am happy." Lucy clarified, causing Natsu and Happy to let out a breath of relief, for if Erza had found out they had caused a girl to cry...
Both Natsu and Happy shivered as they thought of the red haired knight, although Natsu was many times more powerful than Erza, she stilled terrified him, especially after what she does to people who hurt her beloved Strawberry Cheesecake.
Poor Jimmy, they were still finding blood spots all over the guild and that incident was a year ago.
Also, the hole in the right wall from when Erza used a support pillar to send Jimmy flying halfway to Crocus was still there, only now Erza had the hole framed as a warning to everyone what would happen to them if they ever hurt her beloved desert ever again.
Even Natsu was not safe from her wrath, only she didn't use physical methods of torture to get revenge on him, she mentally tortured Natsu until he snapped and begged for forgiveness that one time he accidentally set her cheesecake of fire.
The things she did are best left unsaid, unholy abominations of terror and darkness that were never meant to ever see the light of day, dreams of perpetual darkness and pain, how she discovered these methods of pain is going to forever remain a mystery and perhaps, that is for the best.
But back to the present, Natsu gave Lucy a small hug and just let her let out her pain for a few minutes and then he let her go and said, "Feel better?"
Lucy nodded and whipped away her tears with her left hand.
Happy then said, "Now, our next order of business is to release all the captive women and get these unsavory slavers into the authorities."
Natsu nodded and said, "Lucy, you and Happy go and get the women out of there while I go and get all the slavers restrained."
His two companions nodded and ran off to do as he said.
Natsu then began the long process of bending the metal railings into makeshift cuffs and chains to keep the slavers from trying to escape, but eventually they were all restrained.
meanwhile, Lucy and Happy had freed all the captive women, who were extremely thankful for having their freedom restored.
Just as the last women was set free, all aboard the ship heard the sounds of clanking armor and marching feet.
Stepping out onto the deck, Lucy and Happy saw three divisions of Rune Knights coming towards the ship.
Natsu jumped over the deck and walked towards the Captain, who was doing the same.
"Greetings, I am Natsu Dragneel, SSS-Class mage of Fairy Tail." Natsu said.
The Captain was stunned to see such a power mage here in Hargeon of all places, but quickly recovered and said, "Hello, I am Mathew Vest, Commander of the garrison here in Hargeon Can you please explain what happened here?"
Natsu nodded and said, "Myself and Happy, my partner, came into the town at ten o'clock to search for the fake Salamander and investigate into the mysterious mass disappearances of women in the towns said Salamander has visited. I searched the town of about twelve hours and found nothing, until I overheard about a party on the yacht behind me thrown by said Salamander, a Fairy Tail mage. I knew the man was an imposture due to the fact no other Fairy Tail mage is in the city and I am the Salamander, so myself and Happy flew out to the boat to investigate and imagine my surprise when I saw my friend Lucy kidnapped and about to be restrained and then taken somewhere to be a slave. Naturally this caused myself and Happy to become incredibly angry, so we began to knock the crew out and try and take control of the ship, while Lucy when overboard to summon her Celestial Spirit, Aquarius to get the boat back to the pier. Once back to the pier, I engaged the fake Salamander in combat and I discovered the fake Salamander is actually Bora the Prominence, a mage who had kicked out of the Titan Nose guild a few years back for unacceptable behavior. I quickly defeated Bora and since then, myself and my two companions have restrained the crew of the ship and freed all the captive women on board and that is when you guys showed up. Good timing actually, since we were about to g get you guys."
The Captain absorbed all that knowledge and then said, "On behalf of the people of Hargeon, I thank you for taking the fake Salamander and saving our people. I dread to think about what would have happened to them if you hadn't shown up."
Natsu waved his right hand dismissively and said, "It was nothing, the asshole deserved what was coming to him. I'm just glad I was able to stop him and of course sock him in the face a couple of times."
Vest chuckled a couple of times at that one and then turned back to his soldiers and said, "Come on men, lets round up this no good wastes of human beings and get them locked up."
The men all stiffened and yelled out, "Yes Sir!" and then ran towards the vessel to apprehend the slavers.
A good thirty minutes later, all of the slavers were placed into magic mobiles and taken towards the Hargeon Prison to await trial for their actions.
Natsu had searched through the ship and had found written records of all of Bora's clientele, previous trips, everything about his illegal actions, it was enough to put him in jail for a very long time.
Meanwhile, Happy and Lucy were helping get the women back on their feet, some were on that ship for a few weeks before they were rescued and they were not fed and water enough to keep them in a healthy condition, so Happy and Lucy were given them some of their magic to help get their bodies back into a more healthy setting and they were accompanied by several magical doctor who also helped out.
By the time all the slavers crew were taken to prison and the captive women were back into a healthy enough conditio to move them to the hospital, it was 11:30 at night.
Lucy, Happy and Natsu were all tired, so they went to a hotel and once there booked two bedrooms for the night and once inside, all three crashed into the criminally soft beds and fell asleep within seconds.
Timeskip...
The time was now now just about 9 O'clock in the morning, so the sun was now fully into the sky, lightning up the world with it's golden brilliance.
We find our salmon haired main protagonist and his partner-in-crime of an Exceed currently doing their morning exercise routine.
Natsu was currently sweating as he lifted up a large barbell set with a total of 500 pounds on it, however, the barbell weighed a lot more and Natsu was expending a lot more effort than that.
On the right barbell and on Natsu's left shoulder was a strange symbol that looked like a Y wreathed in flames, while being surrounded by an O, also wreathed in flames, while there was a Z on the left side and a reverse Z on the right side.
This is a Dragon Glyph and this Glyph increased the gravity on an object, making it harder to move, this is the preferred method of training for Dragon Slayers that bothered to learn Dragon Glyphs.
The current gravity increase on the barbell is 40 times it's usual weight, so right now Natsu is lifting 20,000 pounds with ease, while Natsu himself is underneath the effects of 40 times his usual weight, making it 40 times harder to lift the barbell then usual, so in reality, Natsu is training with 400 tons of weight and he has been doing this for 2 hours.
Natsu's morning exercise routine is as follows: wake up, train for 4 hours doing chin ups, squats, a 4 km run, lift weights etc., then eat breakfast.
Happy does the exact same work routine, save for the fact that he only has his 500 pound barbells set to 20 times Earth gravity and he himself has his own gravity set to 20 times it's usual, so only a quarter of what Natsu can do on a whim.
Natsu then set his large barbell onto the ground and waved his hand on where the symbol was and it disappeared in a flash of red particles and he did the same to his left shoulder, where the same thing happened.
Natsu looked over to Happy, who was in his tiger form doing the same thing to his light blue barbell set.
Natsu then concentrated on the barbell set and with a flash of golden light, the barbell set disappeared.
Natsu had learned a little bit of a magic called Requip, which allows the user to send objects into a separate pocket dimension that they and only they can access at all times.
Requip allows for the storing and the taking of anything stored within requip, making anyone who uses the magic a literal walking armory, that is if you are proficient with it.
Natsu and Happy learned just enough about Requip so that have a massive inventory that they can hold up to a maximum of 75 objects, although larger objects take up more space, so it is not a given number.
Natsu whipped his face with his towel and then tossed it over to Happy, who shrunk down to his regular form and also whipped his face, although due to the fact that Happy is a cat and not a man, the towel didn't work as well for Happy as it did for Natsu.
Natsu and Happy began to walk towards the hotel cafeteria, discussing about whether fish are better off cooked or if they are in fact better raw.
"I am telling you Natsu! Fish are best when they are raw, for that is when they have all of their juices still in them. When you cook them, you ruin the taste." Happy said while sitting on Natsu's left shoulder.
"Fish are best when they are cooked Happy! When you cook a fish with just the right spices and seasonings, they are divine, but when they are raw, they're just meh." Natsu countered.
Happy gasped as if he had just heard the most sacrilegious thing of his life and said, "How dare you sir! I shall have you know, that fish is best when it is raw and nothing that spews from that filthy sacrilegious mouth of yours shall make me believe otherwise!"
Happy and Natsu glared at each other for a few seconds before both of them burst out laughing.
The two of them then went and got in line and after getting a hardy set of food for their breakfast, they went over to a table.
After a few minutes, Lucy came down, got her own plate and then joined Natsu and Happy in eating breakfast.
After a few minutes of eating in comfortable quiet, Lucy asked, "So Natsu, when is our train for Magnolia coming in?"
To which she got the reply of, "The train will come in at 10:30 sharp and then it is a three hour train ride to get to Magnolia, then it is a simple 25 minute walk from the train station to the guild."
Lucy's excitement jumped, today was the day she would join the greatest guild ever, Fairy Tail!
"So, you have any questions about the guild?" Natsu asked.
Lucy thought for a bit then said, "So, besides you, who are the strongest people in Fairy Tail?"
Natsu swallowed his bit of steak and said, "Well, besides me, the other S-Class wizards are: Grey Fullbuster, Mirajane Strauss, Laxus Dreyar, Ur Milkovich, Cana Alberona, Erza Scarlet, Minerva, Yukino, Lisanna Strauss, Elfman Strauss, Mystogan, and finally the guild's Ace, Gildarts Clive and Master Makarov Dreyar"
"Wow, there sure are a lot of really strong mages in Fairy Tail isn't there?" Lucy said in awe.
"Yeah, we have the most S-Class mages of any guild. If two or more potential S-Class candidates prove they have what it takes to be a S-Class mage, then the S-Class mages vote if one or more potential S-Class wizards are allowed to become S-Class. Most of the wizard mentioned beforehand were actually at one point students of mine." Natsu said with a hint of pride in his voice about his former students.
"Really?" Lucy asked.
"Yep. Grey, Cana, Erza, Mira, Lisanna, Elfman, Minerva and Yukino were all at one point or another, my students. They saw how powerful I was and so they asked me to train them and train them I did. I pushed them to their absolute breaking points and then I pushed them beyond that, for I truly believe that it is when we are pushed to our absolute limits that we can truly shine." Natsu said.
Lucy thought about Natsu had just said and saw the logic in that statement, when someone is pushed to their absolute limits, they grow so much more from that than from anything else.
Lucy then said, "Natsu, could you please train me?"
Natsu looked at Lucy for a few long moments, causing Lucy to figite in her seat for a few seconds uncomfortably, but then Natsu grew a large grin and said, "Sure, I would love to train you."
Lucy smiled and said, "Thank you! You won't regret this!"
Natsu nodded and said, "I see a lot of raw untapped potential inside of you Lucy. But to tap into that potential, you are going to have to really work for it."
Lucy nodded and said, "I promise I won't let you down and once a Celestial Spirit mage has given their word, they can't go back on it."
Nats nodded and said, "I have heard Yukino say the exact same thing time and time again. But right now, we need to eat and get ready, that train is coming in about an hour, so we need to get hustling over to the train station."
Lucy and Happy nodded and the small group of three quickly ate their breakfast, got their things from their rooms and turned in their keys and then walked over to the train station.
Once their, they saw they still had about another 30 minutes before their train arrived, so they sat down and began to talk.
Lucy then remembered something and turned towards Happy and said, "Hey Happy?"
Happy turned towards Lucy and said, "Yeah?"
"How did you transform into that large tiger form?" Lucy asked.
Happy then said, "It is an ability of all Exceeds to be able to transform into a Battle form, either as large winger four legged tigers like my great-grandpa was able to, or as the much more common two legged humanoid tiger form like I can. I simply focus my mind onto my battle form and let my magic wash over me, transforming me into the mighty Battle Form. My Battle Form has the unusual ability to be able to extend a large golden blade from my wrists to do additional damage. My armor is also extremely resistant to any physical damage, while energial attacks still do a lot of damage, so my fighting style is heavily into close quarters combat. I also like to use a trident I keep in my pocket dimension."
"Pocket Dimension?" Lucy asked.
"Aye, it is where Requip magic users store their weapons. Requip magic works a lot like Celestial Spirit magic, save for the fact that most Requip uses can only summon or de-summon weapons, while masters of this magic can summon or de-summon entire suits of armor to aid them in battle, although this is a very high level technique and most never get to that level." Happy explained further for the blonde mage.
"Ah. That makes sense. So, in your opinion, who has the coolest magic in the guild?" Lucy asked.
"That's easy, Natsu of couse!" Happy said.
"Natsu?" Lucy asked.
"Aye! His brand of magic allows him all the capabilities of two dragons." Happy said.
"Two?!" Lucy asked in shock.
"Aye Sir! Natsu is both a Fire Dragon Slayer and a Lightning Dragon Slayer." Happy said cheerfully.
"What does that mean though? What are the benefits of this?" Lucy asked.
"Well, Natsu has dragon lungs to eat fire and lightning, dragon claws to attack with fire and lightning, and dragon scales to dissolve fire and lightning. This lets him be unhurt by most fire and lightning attacks, while he can use fire and lightning to attack in pretty much anyway Natsu can think of and finally he can eat fire and lightning to not only give him back all of his strength, but it also lets him heal a little bit from wounds, although this healing ability is very limited and only does small cuts and bruises, normally, thankfully Natsu is the furthest thing from normal there is, so he can heal from a extremely light to heavily moderate damage, so from a paper-cut to cracked bones, but internal bleeding and other wounds of that magnitude are off the table."
Lucy looked back at Natsu in awe, the ability to destroy magical attacks and then heal cracked ribs from just eating fire and lightning? Just how powerful is Natsu truly?
Just then, the train for Magnolia arrived, so Happy, Lucy and Natsu all got onto the train and after twenty minutes of waiting, the train set off for Magnolia, home of Fairy Tail.
Natsu closed his eyes and started to fall asleep while Lucy started to read a book and Happy was lying in her lap purring as she scratched his back.
Natsu's dreams consisted of a certain red haired knight, with sparkling brown eyes waiting for him.
"Just wait for me Erza. I will be back in just a few hours." Natsu thought as he, Happy and their new friend set off for the greatest guild in the world, Fairy Tail.
And that is a wrap!
I am so sorry that this chapter took so long, but I have just had a really bad case of laziness ever since chapter three and death of a king didn't really help reignite the flames within.
I do hope that this chapter will help get me back into your guy's good graces once more.
I will try to type and post chapter five soon, it will not be a four month waiting period like this one I promise you that.
Also, bet you guys were not expecting Minerva and Yukino to have joined Fairy Tail, or that they are both S-Class mages! Don't worry, they will not be secondary characters and I will try to have them be apart of the A-team as well as Erza, Mira, Lucy, Grey and maybe one or two more characters if you guys want them to be.
To have a character you want be apart of team Natsu, just PM me and I will consider it, if a character gets more than ten messages wanting them to join, then it is mandatory that they will join. Voting will end by the end of chapter 7, so get sending in those messages for your pick for the new and improved Team Natsu.
Also, what is your favorite Fairy Tail character, mine is Natsu obviously. I mean, he was raised by a freaking dragon and not just any dragon, but the Fire Dragon KING! Talk about a badass dad! And also he uses fire, so that makes him automatically awesome in my book, so there's that. But tell me your favorite Fairy Tail character by PMing me or leaving a review.
Until next time, I will see you guys later.
StrikeFreedom10, signing out.