So here is the official sequel to A Return Worth Waiting For. While you don't have the read the prequel, it's recommended to know the changes I've made. Anyways, I do hope you enjoy. Please know while this story is rated M, it's for safety reason as it will contain swearing, some gore, and minor adult themes.

Talking – "Quotations"

Thoughts – 'Italics with contractions'

Important words, people, etc. – Bold

Spells – Underlined and bold

The Life of a Dragon and Knight

Chapter 1: The Salamander Rumor

To many, it was a fairly…average day. Assuming average means a brawl going on between the two signature members of a guild. The fight going on between the two members were that of two young men. One with spiky raven hair while the other has spike rose colored hair. Many people were simply laughing at what caused it. The cause of such an event being a muscular white haired man pushed into the rose haired mage while flaunting about manliness; causing the rose haired mage to stumble and head butt the raven haired mage.

"I'm going to kick your ass Flame-Brain!" The raven haired mage roared as he furiously tried to pound the rose haired mage into the ground.

"Like that will ever happen Ice-Queen!" The rose haired mage, 'Flame-Brain' retorted. The fight went on with the two crawling all over the ground beating on each other until a certain red-head stood over the two fighting.

"Now, now Natsu. What have I told you about fighting?" The red-head calmly asked as she picked up Natsu by the back of his vest, him struggling to escape from her grasp. She normally would have pummeled the two of them for their antics a year ago but now she simply ends it in ways some people wonder if it's really the same fearsome Titania from a year ago.

"Come on Erza! Let me at 'em this one time!" the rose haired mage, now identified as Natsu, desperately retorted, struggling to get back to fighting with his friend/rival, who was getting off the ground, prepared to resume their fight.

"Hah! As if you could win Flame-Brain." The raven haired mage insulted with a smirk on his face. Natsu simply raged comically, with fire spewing out of his mouth as he rambled incoherently while the Titania female held him up, dangling by the back of his vest.

"Natsu, Stop. Now. You too Gray." Erza glared, ceasing any resistance from the dragon slayer and ending any smart remarks from the ice mage. "Now, let us be off Natsu." She continued and dropped Natsu and turned towards the door, with Natsu starting to follow her.

Minutes later as the pair walked towards the train station, Natsu had to ask. "Why are we going to there again?"

"Don't you remember Natsu? There's a rumor saying there's a 'salamander' there. It could be your father!" Erza said in more carefree tone, wanting to help Natsu reunite with his father at all cost.

"But it could just be someone trying to use my name." Natsu said in a monotone voice.

"True." Erza said, closing her eyes with a thinking look on her face, "But if that's the case, we'll just beat them up." With that ended, the pair continued to walk towards the train station in silence, Erza not thinking about anything in particular and Natsu wondering how he heard the rumor.

Flashback

Natsu was for once, not doing much at the guild simply talking to Mira about what kind of flaming food he should have with Erza sitting right next to him at the bar eating her cake. Flaming meat seemed to be the preference for him, nothing else. Soon though someone called out to the Salamander.

"Oi! Natsu!"

Natsu turned toward the voice. "Yes Wakaba?"

"I heard a rumor that may pertain to your father." The man stated with a small smile on his face.

Natsu's eyes lit up somewhat. It may be a rumor, but it was good enough for him; even Erza turned a head, quite yearning to help Natsu find his father.

"It's said that there's a certain Salamander in Hargeon Port. It could be nothing but I'd say it's worth a check." The middle aged man stated.

"Alright! I'm heading out!" Natsu said, apparently all up and ready to go find his foster-father. That is, until a certain female hand held him down by the shoulder.

"How about you wait a short bit and I shall accompany you?" Erza said with a small smile at him. "It should take no more than an hour"

End of Flashback

Arriving at the train station, the two got onboard and found a compartment for themselves and sat down directly across from each other. The two simply sat in silence until the train started to move, in which the rose haired dragon slayer turned slightly green.

"Still haven't gotten over your motion sickness I see." Erza said softly.

"Ugh. I've….been working….on it. It's getting….better." Natsu tried to answer, trying to contain his lunch. Erza soon got up and walked over and sat right next to him, push him into her, so he could have something to lean on. She no longer let him lay on her lap since they were together. With that the two ended up in a position where Erza was slightly laying on the seat up against the window with Natsu laying up against her stomach already sleeping contently; apparently finding Erza very comfortable to lay on.

Erza smiled contently at this. 'You say that, yet here you are still sick and laying on me, asleep.' After about an hour of unconsciously stroking her hand through Natus's hair, Erza finally lost herself to sleep. Unknown to her, one of the stops between then and their destination, a certain blue haired bookworm entered the train and saw the couple sleeping peacefully in their compartment.

The Next Day

Walking through the streets of Hargeon, a young woman, with blonde hair, came upon a general store. A store she was hoping to find certain…items.

"Is this really the only magic store in town?!" The blonde asked herself quite appalled that such a sizeable city had only one magic shop.

"Ah! A customer! Good afternoon!" the shop owner greeted enthusiastically, rather uplifted since today was a slow day for the owner.

"Hello!" The young woman greeted.

"Is there anything I can help you find today, or are you just looking around?" The store owner asked politely

"Ah, now that you ask, I'm looking for specific items." The female stated, "Gate keys to be exact."

"Oh? A Celestial mage? Well, not many people here use magic but I do happen to have one! It's the Gate of Canis Minor. It's not very strong I'm afraid." The shop owner apologized.

"It's ok! I've been looking for this one anyways." The young female replied cheerfully. "How much?"

"20,000 jewels." The shop owner stated

The blonde's heart stopped for a moment, unable to comprehend the price. She instead, decided to ask to make sure. "Umm, sorry. How much did you say?" She asked, hopefully not dreading what she heard.

"20,000 jewels." The shop owner stated, somewhat annoyed his potential customer didn't listen the first time.

The blonde groaned in frustration. 'I really don't want to spend that much.' With that, the female the female leaned seductively over the counter, displaying more cleavage with her outfit than necessary. "20,000 even for a young girl like me?" She purred seductively.

With Natsu and Erza

"I can't believe you left me on the train….again!" Natsu whined comically at the red-head. It took 20 minutes before Erza was able to catch up to the train to stop it. Afterwards, the two walk through the streets looking for any signs of the rumor they heard of a 'salamander'.

"I said I was sorry!" Erza complained back, still trying to stifle a laugh from how Natsu was acting towards her. The two were walking endlessly, searching for any signs of the rumor before they heard some chatter from a couple civilians.

"Did you hear? The famous Salamander is here in town." An enthusiastic male asked one of his friends

"Yeah I did actually. He is very popular, I was going to go see him but he was surrounded by a crowd of fan-girls." The other male replied.

'Charm magic eh? That's illegal. Well, it's not Igneel but we should check this out anyways.' Erza thought, before turning to her rose haired companion. "Come Natsu, we have something of importance to do now."

"But I thought we were looking for Igneel?" Natsu complained

"He's not here. We came here on a rumor of a Salamander, but I just heard that he was here in town apparently using Charm Magic on various women to get attention. We have to stop him." Erza explained before walking ahead leaving Natsu to catch up.

With the 'Blonde Female'

"Only a reduction of 1,000 jewels!? Is my sex appeal only worth that much!?" The blonde teenager raged comically, storming off in a random direction in town.

"Look! It's Salamander!" A random woman squealed in delight. This caught the blonde's attention as she saw other females soon rush over to form a crowd around a single person.

"Hahaha! Now ladies, there's plenty of me to go around." A carefree male voice rang out in response to his 'fan-base'.

This quirked the blonde somewhat. Especially at the somewhat cocky attitude of the male. She came upon the crowed and tried to look over the heads of all the people. 'Dammit! I can't see anything!' She slowly nudged herself into the crowd to get a better look at this 'salamander'. To her surprise she came upon a fairly handsome blue haired man with an 'X' like tattoo above his right eyebrow. Upon gazing upon him, she immediate felt her heart race.

"Oh? What do we have here? My, my, are you are quite the looker milady." 'Salamander' stated, talking directly to the blonde female.

"You there!" A stern female voice rang out. The crowd of fan-girls parted to show a red-headed woman and a rose-haired man coming this way.

"You were right. It's not Igneel as I would have hoped." The rose-haired man said, somewhat downed.

"I told you that the moment we started hearing the talk around town." Erza retorted.

Something clicked in the blonde, as if she was taken out of a trance? 'Huh? What the? For a moment I felt like I was in love? Was this…charm magic? But that's illegal! But, perhaps he just uses it to be popular…' The blonde thought as she was released from the effect of the charm magic.

"You. Are you the one everyone calls 'Salamander'?" The Titania asked with a small amount of force behind her voice.

"Isn't it obvious?" The blue-haired man replied as he motioned to his fan-girls who grew bigger hearts in their eyes. "Would you like an autograph?" He asked, somewhat cockily.

"That can wait. Tell me, what guild are you from?" Erza asked with authority.

"You haven't heard?" one of the random surrounding women yelled.

"He's from the famous Fairy Tail guild!" Another screamed out.

That settled it for the couple. An evil smirk appeared on the red-head's face. "Oh? Is that so?" She asked with an evil tone. "It's funny. We're a part of the same guild, yet…I find it quite odd that I have never seen your face before." She stated, her smirk growing larger and her face darkening.

Inwardly the 'Salamander' was freaking out. 'Shit! This isn't good! I guess I can't blame anyone else since sooner or later the real guild was going to find out.' He had to do something. Fast. "Hahaha! That's a nice one!" He laughed as if they were telling a joke.

"It wasn't a joke." Erza stated darkly. With that, she pulled up the sleeve to the black turtle neck sweater she was wearing to reveal a dark blue Fairy Tail stamp on her left arm while Natsu took off his red jacket [A/N: The jacket he wears at the first chapter/episode] to reveal a red Fairy Tail stamp on his right arm. This caused the 'Salamander' to visibly sweat; there was no good way out of this for him. "Let me tell you one more thing." Erza continued as she saw what the effect of showing their guild marks had on the imposter, "This man behind me, is the real 'Salamander' of Fairy Tail." Natsu in response to that, grinned widely, raised his right hand up and set his fist ablaze.

The blonde female was looking at the scene in awe. The man she thought was the 'Salamander' was actually a fake trying to use the name to get famous; on top of that he was called out on it by two real Fairy Tail mages. 'That sure didn't look good on him.' The blonde inwardly smirked.

The fake 'salamander' was sweating bullets and soon lost the ability to think rationally as he lashed out. "Agh! Damn you!" He charged at Erza with the intent to beat her senseless. That is, if he wasn't met face first with the fist of said woman; stopping him dead in his tracks and sending him to the ground in a daze.

"Hmph. Weak." Erza smirked at how easy the man was taken down. She then turned to Natsu who looked bored. Apparently he was looking for a good fight. "Come Natsu. Let's head home." Natsu nodded and turned to start walking to the train station.

"Wait!" A female voice rang out. Causing the pair to stop and turned to the source of the voice.

"Yes?" Natsu asked in his still bored voice.

"Allow me to thank you." The blonde woman stated

Natsu and Erza had confusion written all over their faces as they stared comically at the teenager. "For what?"

"For helping out with that Charm Magic earlier. At least let me treat you to food." The blonde requested.

The couple did not know what the blond was talking about in the least. However, they could not deny free food. They both haven't ate for the majority of the day.

"So you guys are from the Fairy Tail guild?" The blonde asked in wonder.

"Yep." Erza answered with a smile while Natsu was busy mowing down all the dishes in front of him; some of the dishes being the plates included.

The blonde woman soon realized something wrong. "Oh! My apologies! I'm Lucy by the way." The blonde, now identified as Lucy introduced herself.

"Oh it's no worries." Erza said with a slight laugh. "I'm Erza Scarlet and this here is Natsu Dragneel."

Natsu stopped eating and gave his signature toothy grin, "Nice to meet ya!"

"So Lucy, is it safe to assume you can perform magic as well?" Erza asked quite curious seeing as he the blonde teenager was aware she was under the influence of Charm Magic.

"Uh-huh. I'm a mage as well. I'm a wandering mage at the moment however since I'm still looking for a guild to join. I was actually wanting to join your guild." Lucy said with a hopeful look.

"Is that so?" Erza said with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah! Though, I'm not sure I can do it, I bet it's extremely hard to join a guild such as yours." Lucy said a bit sadly.

"Nonsense. You will get in no problem!" Natsu practically yelled, gaining the attention of the other customers at the restaurant they were at.

"Really!?" Lucy asked with stars in her eyes at the possibility of joining the guild she has so longed to join.

"Of course! Almost anyone can join our guild." Natsu confirmed with a smile on his face.

"Yay! I want to hug you now!" Lucy said in an over exaggerated tone as she reached across the table, eyes closed, to give Natsu a hug, only to feel nothing. She opened her eyes to see Erza clinging to Natsu in a comical fashion.

"He's mine. Back off." Erza said both darkly and comically.

"Y-y-yes ma'am." Lucy saluted, quite scared at the red-head's possessiveness.

"Well. We better find a place to stay for the night. We'll leave in the morning back to the guild if you want to follow us then." Erza stated as she got up from the table with Natsu and walked away.

"Thanks for the food!" Natsu looked back with a grin and waved.

"Oh, no problem!" Lucy replied. 'There goes that 1,000 jewel discount' she internally lamented.

Later That Evening

"So, we're heading back in the morning?" Natsu asked with his hands behind his head while walking next to his female companion.

"Yes. I'd figure it best we just stay here the night, leave in the morning, and arrive during the day rather than the night." Erza answered. "That and it would give us time for our potential new guild mate time to prepare to join us."

"Yes, well, she has every ri-" Erza was interrupted by a couple locals standing a small distance away.

"Did you hear? The Salamander is having a party on his cruise ship!" The local said with enthusiasm. "Sadly. I wasn't invited."

"Hahaha! Only the more popular people or beautiful women got invited. I hear he carried a beautiful sleeping blonde with him." Another local replied.

Erza's face darkened at this. "Does he ever learn?"

Natsu just shrugged with a confused look on his face. "Guess not. It also appears he may have Lucy."

"Yes, but there are more than just one blonde female in this city." Erza stated as she marched her way to the two locals, knocking over a couple of bystanders who got in her way. "You there! Where is this ship?"

"U-uh it's… uh…" He said no more as he was met with a head butt from the Titania; shocking the person the other local besides her.

"I find this oddly counterproductive…" Natsu noted with a smirk.

"Shut it you tiny dragon." Erza retorted as she turned her attention to the next local, leaving Natsu to rage comically at the insult. "Now, tell m-" She started before being interrupted again; this time by something she was glad.

"It's just right over there!" The man pointed to his left, causing the redhead to look in the direction he was pointing, her eyes settling on an illuminated ship in the bay. Erza proceeded to drop the man and started walking towards the beach with Natsu in tow.

"Care to give me a lift?" Erza asked

"Don't you have armor that allows to you the ability of flight?" Natsu asked both curious and annoyed that she wanted him to fly her to the ship.

"I do, but it's much more fun when I can sit on your back while you fly." Erza said with a soft smile.

"Fine." Natsu relented closing his eyes while sighing, "Just know I'm simply dropping you off. I'm not getting on that death trap."

"Good enough for me. Now let's go!" Erza commanded.

"Right." Natsu saluted crouching down allowing Erza to hoist herself on his back as he lit his feat ablaze; providing himself with the proper thrust to send him into the air. Upon reaching his desired height he lit his hands ablaze to keep his balance and direction.

"Just drop me off when you get over it" Erza yelled over the sound of wind hitting the two. Natsu nodded and increased speed as he got over the ship before he slowed down to allow Erza to properly align herself with the jump-to-be-made. 'Here I go.' She gave a thought as she jumped off.

'Where….where am I?' Lucy asked to herself as she slowly shook herself awake. She moved to stretch her arms but realized she couldn't. 'Huh. I must have slept wrong.' She thought. That is…until she saw her arms were bound behind her back. "What the hell is this!?"

"Oh? Awake already." A familiar male voice called out. Causing Lucy's head to shoot forward to see the fake 'salamander' walk towards her with a cocky smirk on his face.

"You!" Lucy sneered.

"Yes. Me!" 'Salamander' laughed.

"Where am I?" Lucy asked angrily.

"Oh, if you must know, you're on my ship. Now before you start screaming and trying to lash out, let's be civil. After all, I don't want to have to brand you like I will the others." The blue haired man said with an evil smile.

In response to this, Lucy fully took in her surroundings and saw a couple other young women similarly bound, but still unconscious with a couple of guards near them. "This is…a slave ship?" Lucy asked in shock to no one in particular.

"That's right." The blue haired man answered before he pulled something out from behind him. A brown leather pouch. "I believe these were yours." He stated plainly.

"Ah! My gate keys!" Lucy exclaimed.

"I thought you were a Celestial Mage when I saw these on your person. However, if my assumptions are accurate, gate keys require a contract with their summoner; meaning other people like me can't use them. Therefore they are…" He then took the keys and threw them out an open window of the ship, intro the ocean. "USLESS!"

Lucy almost snapped at this. Mostly out of sheer terror at how a certain one of her spirits will react when 'it' learns she lost 'its' key. "You bastard! How could you!?" Lucy shrieked.

"Jeez, so noisy. Maybe I will have to brand you like all the others." He said rubbing the back of his neck before lighting his index finger in a deep blue/purple flame.

A loud crash rang through the ship as a female figure with scarlet hair. "I knew you were suspicious, but to think you were transporting people to be slaves." The young woman sneered.

"Erza!" Lucy exclaimed.

"Hey! Don't I get any recognition?!" Natsu's voice slightly rang out from the hole in the ships ceiling.

"Yeah, yeah Natsu." Erza mumbled with a bored look before she turned her attention to the 'salamander'.

"Boss! Do you even know who that woman is!?" one of the 'salamander's' men shouted in sheer shock.

"Eh? What?" The blue-haired man looked at one of his men with a dumbfounded look.

"S-s-she is the Titania Fairy Queen of Fairy Tail!" The man exclaimed.

Erza, upon hearing this looked at the group of human traffickers with an upmost evil smile.

For minutes on end, a sound of men screeching from sheer terror and pain, metal cracking, slicing, and blowing up. The blowing up courtesy of Natsu flying overhead while launching attacks from the sky.

One Hour Later

"Thanks for saving me you two." A blonde teenager thanked.

"No problem Lucy! Though it was more Erza than me that helped." Natsu exclaimed with his signature grin. The sounds of a collapsing clock tower echoing behind him while Lucy's eyes just bulged out of her head when she noticed the destruction he caused with one attack.

"You over did it!" Lucy screeched.

"Really? I think I kept it to a minimum compared to other times." Natsu deadpanned while rubbing his ear."

"Nonetheless, you could have not used that attack Natsu." Erza said with a soft smile towards her rose haired companion, looking at a large trench like hole that lead all the way to the ruins of the clock tower, the fake 'salamander' lying in the middle of it all.

Natsu simply scratched his head with a sheepish laugh.

"You three, halt this instance!" A stern male voice rang out. Causing the trio to look in the direction of the voice. The voice coming from one of…what appeared to be hundreds of rune knights.

"Crap! Rune knights!" Lucy screeched.

"Let's go Natsu!" Erza commanded, grabbing Natsu by the hand and running off.

"Come on Lucy!" Natsu yelled back as he was being dragged away by the scarlet haired woman.

"Huh why?" Lucy asked, geniuinely confused as she followed them.

"You said you wanted to join Fairy Tail right?" Natsu asked while he was struggling not to trip with how hard Erza was pulling him; barely taking notice of Lucy nodding.

"Then follow us!" Erza said with a smile.

I do hope you enjoyed this chapter. For now I'm going to try to keep the chapters around 3,000 - 4,000 words at least. This does mean however it will take longer for me to work but I feel it works better this way. Anyways, if you guys enjoyed this, read the prequel if you haven't yet, ask me any questions you may have, give me suggestions for ideas, leave a review if you wish. See you all later.