Chapter 1: The Injury

After a grueling day of training Natsu was passed out on the cold stone floor while Igneel was out getting them food. It had been a few years since Igneel had taken in Natsu and he was now used to his usual antics. Even though Natsu had black hole for a stomach and tried and fight him every 20 minutes, he had grown to love the idiot of a kid he had taken in.

Igneel flew in to the cave that he and Natsu were taking up occupancy in. In his front claws was a animal that looked like and was the size a bear but it had six legs, a single big horn coming out of its forehead about 10 inches long, and it was completely green.

After he landed he put the dead creature near the entrance of the cave. He waked in to see Natsu on the floor.

"Brat, get up I got you your food." Igneel said with a bit of annoyance in his voice because Natsu begged him to get more food after training only to find him alseep on the floor.

(Snore)

"Get up brat."

(Snore)

"GET UP." Igneel yelled in frustration.

In an instant Natsu was on his feet, his hand on his forehead like he was saluting a flag "YES SIR." he was comically sweating, afraid he pissed off his father and was going to be punished.

"I brought you food, its at the front of the cave." Natsu bolted passed Igneel when he heard where the food was.

Igneel watched his son devour the carcass. "God dammit Natsu remember to cook the meat before you eat it." Igneel said because Natsu now began to try and eat the meat without using his magic to cook the meat.

All of a sudden the ground started to shake. Igneel instantly recognized it as an earthquake and went over to try grab Natsu so he wouldn't hurt himself. Natsu didn't even realized the ground was shaking, when he saw his father he thought he was going to take his food. With a giant chunk of meat in his hands and jaws he took off running to the entrance to the cave to make sure his father didn't take his food.

Igneel couldn't grab Natsu before he ran to the entrance and as he got up to grab him a rock about the size of Natsu's head start falling from the top of the cave. "NATSU, LOOK OUT!" Igneel yelled out to try stop his son.

Natsu only stop running because he realized the ground was shaking, unfortunately he stopped right under the rock. Now the ground was shaking so much that it threw Natsu onto the ground. Igneel could only watch as the rock slammed in the back of Natsu's head and broke on impact.

The ground then stopped shaking and Igneel walked over Natsu.

"See now that is why you have to listen to me Natsu, if you don't you could get hurt."

He got no response. He looked closer at Natsu's head to see where exactly the rock hit him. His eyes widen when he saw that the rock had hit Natsu on the back of the head. Natsu's head looked like it had a large dent on it. Igneel realized his injury was worse than he thought and his didn't know any magic to heal it.

He quickly yet carefully picked up Natsu and flew as fast as he could to the only friend he knew that could house very powerful healing magic.

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Grandine was caring for the baby girl she had taken in a few weeks ago when she caught the smell of Igneel. Igneel landed about 500 yards away from Grandine because he knew that she had just taken in a human child and was extremely protective over the child. Even though they knew each other she was ready to attack with everything she had in order to protect her new daughter.

"Why have you come here Igneel?" Grandine said with a dark, threatening voice

"I mean you no harm to you Grandine or your new daughter, I am here only to ask for a favor. My son was injured during the earthquake we had about an hour ago and I wanted to ask you to heal him."

"Ok fine but if you try anything, I WILL rip your throat out"

Igneel gently laid Natsu near Grandine as she began to look over the boy. "What happen to this boy?" Grandine questioned while looking at the back of the boy's head and noticing the large dent on his head.

"He was eating near the front of the cave when the earthquake hit, I went over to grab him so he didn't hurt himself but I guess he thought I was going to take his food or something, so he took off to the cave entrance when a rock fell from the top of the cave. He finally noticed that the ground was shaking , he stopped running, was thrown to the ground by the shaking and the rock slammed into the back of his head"

Grandeeney quickly started to heal the boys head. Natsu's head started to lose the dent and it looked like it was beginning to look normal. After a few minutes Natsu was completely healed but was unconscious. "He will most likely not wake up for a few days and..." Grandine stop for a few seconds because she was afraid of how Igneel would react when she told him the next part.

"And? And what? Spit it out already." Igneel was now growing impatient

"Well because the rock hit so hard it might have cause some brain damage, I am not saying that he will become like a new born child for the rest of his life but it might change his personality"

Igneel stood still for a few seconds as he comprehended what Grandine just said."So your telling me that his personality might change from annoying and obnoxious to like calm, responsible, and more mature?"

"Ummm it might not become exactly that but basically yes."

"THANK THE GODS." Igneel yelled at the top of his lungs. He was ecstatic that he might not have to deal with the constant attacks from the boy or his unrelenting urge to annoy the hell out of him.

"Will you shut up! You might wake up my daughter." Grandine said in a quiet yet angry tone. Sure enough the sound of a crying baby could be hear from the mini house that appeared to be built just recently. Carefully she removed to roof to the little house to revel a little girl, no older than a year, with a little blue hair on its head. She used a little magic in order to levitate the young child from its crib to her giant front palm.

She softly began to sing to the young girl in soothing voice. Almost instantly the child stop crying and began to fall back asleep. After 10 seconds of singing the child was sound asleep again. As she levitated the child back to its crib, Igneel slowly walked over to see the child.

Grandine was hesitant to letting him see her daughter but let him because he didn't seem like he was going to hurt. Igneel eyed the sleeping little girl with great interest. Even to him she was extremely cute in a childish way and he felt if she asked him for something he would get it for her."Ok you have an extremely cute daughter, maybe when Natsu wakes up he could meet her." Igneel suggested

"I am fine with that as long he doesn't hurt her"

"Oh, trust me he can be very careful when it come to young creatures, I once saw him take care of a baby vulcan that had gotten lost from its mother. He took good care of it until the things mother found it and then he gave it to her as carefully as he could."

"If that's the case I would be happy to let him meet her, plus I think it would be good for her to have a older brother to look up too."

Igneel began to comically sweat at the idea of Natsu teaching the young girl all of his habits. He also began to think about what will happen to Natsu . If his personality changes how would it change the way he thinks, acts, and treats others. As he was thinking he failed to notice that Grandine had lowered the roof back onto the little house to cove the sleeping girl

Igneel finally stoped and walked over to Natsu who look a lot better. Igneel began to pick him until Grandine stopped him."You might want to leave him there and let him rest to make sure he will be alright."

"Alright but I don't what to be here more than I have too so he can stay here and rest while I leave. Contact me when he wakes up, explain what happen to him, why he is here and who you are. If that is all I will take my leave." Igneel said as he extended his wings.

He flapped them over and over again till he was 100 feet in the air and flew in the direction he came from.

Grandine looked at Natsu and thought "You have one hell of a father little boy." Then she went about her day like it was any other but she would check in Natsu every few hours to make sure he was ok.

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About a week later, Natsu began to stir. He slowly open his eyes to see a bright blue sky. He tried to sit up but had to stop because of the stinging pain in his head. He turned his head side to side in order to get a look at his surroundings. He was surprised to see tall grass everywhere and no cave in sight. He began to panic thinking he wondered off and got lost somehow.

After a few minutes the pain in his head subsided enough for him to sit up and get a good look at the area around him. Like he thought he was in a grassland type area with a few big hills, but the most interesting thing that caught his eyes was a giant feathery looking dragon sleeping next to a miniature house.

He froze when he saw the dragon. He was confused, he didn't know where he was, he didn't know where Igneel was, and he didn't know why he was here.

He slowly tried to move away from the dragon without waking it up. He didn't know if the dragon knew he was there but he didn't want to find out. As he stood up the pain in his head skyrocketed and he fell on his knees clutching his head with his eyes closed. When the pain in his head finally died down he open his eyes to see something he didn't want to see.

In front of him the white dragon was looking directly at him.

The dragon slowly stood up and walked up to Natsu. Natsu was sweating more and more as the dragon got closer. He knew that he couldn't even damage Igneel so he was pretty sure if this dragon was even half as strong of his dad, then he knew if this became a fight he wouldn't stand a chance.

The dragon looked at the boy with interest before saying in a sweet motherly voice "Don't worry little boy, I will not hurt you. In fact your father brought you here because he wanted me to heal you."

Natsu visibly seemed to calm down but was still on guard just in case the dragon was lying. Grandine then explained to Natsu who she was, what happen to him and how he got here. She then stuck out her front palm and pointed it toward the sky. She seemed to enchant a few words, then 2 balls of a light blue light appeared and sent one of toward the direction Igneel went.

"If you are wondering what I am doing, I am sending the light ball to Igneel so I can tell him you are awake and he can come pick you up. It will take an hour before the light gets to Igneel and another half an hour before he gets here so if you have any questions ask away."

Natsu looked at Grandine for a few seconds before asking "Why is there a mini house over there?" Natsu pointed at the house while asking his question.

Grandine look at Natsu and said "That is the house my daughter is using to live in."

"Really! Can I see her?"

"Of course you can, just be carful she is still asleep." Natsu quietly ran over to the house with Grandine walking right behind him.

When Natsu got to the house he slowed down and slowly open the door. Inside of the house, he saw a crib with a cute baby inside of it. He looked at the baby girl. He nearly grabbed her and squeezed her. She was by far the cutest thing he had ever saw. He pick her up and cradled her but nearly yelled in surprise the roof was lifted off the house.

Grandine look at Natsu and at her daughter to make sure he didn't hurt her but was surprised to see her daughter still sound asleep in Natsu's arms. After Natsu realized it was just Grandine he looked back at the baby girl who began to stir. She open her eyes to see a new face and it scared her. She began to cry so Grandine was about to take the little girl so she could calm her down but was surprised again by Natsu.

Natsu began to slowly rock the young girl back and forward. He softly talked to the girl saying thing like "It's ok" and "Its alright". The girl began to calm down and stopped crying, she looked in Natsu's eyes again and began to giggle. Natsu gave his signature grin to her and she began to giggle even harder.

"What's her name?" Natsu asked now realizing that he didn't know the name to the baby girl

"Wendy" Grandine replied

"Wendy? That's a cute name." Natsu said while smiling at the giggling girl.

"I was hoping that you can act like an older brother to her. It is important to have someone to look up to. Someone who could lead her down the right path in life and keep her safe. So could you be her older brother?" Grandine asked

"Of course I will be her older brother but why does she need me to lead her down the right path and keep her safe? Your with her so why would I need too?" Natsu questioned not being rude but confused why he would have to that stuff when Grandine would be there and could do it better than he could.

"Don't worry my boy it was just a saying of sorts. I will be there to help her but I also want to to help her as well." Natsu being satisfied with the answer given began to play with Wendy who began to giggle again.

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After an hour and a half Igneel finally showed up to see a sleeping baby in Natsu's arms. Natsu was out like a light while still holding Wendy. As carefully as possible the separated the two but when Wendy was out of Natsu's arms she began to wimpier. Grandine put Wendy back in her crib while Igneel picked up Natsu and put him on his back.

"Wendy seems to like Natsu, I hope he can come back and visit." Grandine said after she put Wendy in her crib

"I am pretty sure he will want to come back so I will have no option but to bring him back. Or at least show him how to get here."

"That is fine with me, he will be a good older brother to Wendy so he can stop by anytime. Well I am glad I was able to talk to you. See you later."

"See you later." was all Igneel said before he took off flying toward his home with Natsu and his back.