The Black Wizard Zeref was known throughout history as a monster who desired nothing besides death and destruction. Stories passed over the centuries retell the horrors of the demons which he brought into the world to do his bidding. Cultists worshipped the ideal of this dark and vile being and the values that he represented.
Though what no one knew was the story of Zeref Dragneel, a cursed boy whose only wish was to bring his younger brother back to life. Though as the years passed that dream faded into the darkness that followed him like his own shadow. This darkness was his curse; the Ankhseram Black Magic which would kill anything that he loved. So this forced the boy who couldn't die to separate himself from all human contact and do nothing besides plan a way to take his own life and end this nightmare.
With the goal of ending his own life he created his demons of Tartaros and the book of E.N.D; which contained the master of Zeref's group of demons. Unfortunately even his own creations didn't possess the power to end Zeref's life. This forced the dark wizard to live throughout the centuries in his own depression, always hoping for the day when he would draw his final breath.
Eventually Zeref's never ending nightmare was brought to a momentary halt when he met a young woman named Mavis Vermilion. She was the light that brightened the darkness that shadowed him. In fact what no one knew was that Mavis shared Zeref's curse; so in a way Mavis and Zeref were bonded on a level beyond comprehension. This bond brought the two doomed souls together in love.
They spent an entire year together away from other humans and started a life together in solitude. However, Zeref was destined for a life of misery when one night his curse overpowered Mavis's own, causing the first master of Fairy Tail to fall into a state close to death. Though Zeref believed that she was lost forever, so he returned her body back to Fairy Tail.
This was when the second master of Fairy Tail, Precht, took Mavis away and sealed her away in a crystal with hopes of bringing his friend back in the future. Though as time passed Mavis remained trapped inside the crystal with her curse being the only thing keeping her somewhat alive. However, Mavis wasn't the only one inside the crystal as there was a tiny spark of life within Mavis. One that was half dark and half light, a perfect balance of yin and yang. This was her unborn child and, due to Mavis's predicament, her body could only focus so much of her remaining life force to keep the child inside her womb alive.
Precht, being the brilliant man he was, placed runes onto the crystal when he discovered Mavis's fate and that she was with child. His goal was to give enough power so that Mavis could stay alive and the child would be able to grow inside her like a normal pregnancy. Though instead of the usual nine months this method would take years, even decades, for the child to be born. Precht didn't care, he just wanted to help his friend any way he could.
So with that, Fairy Tail's ultimate secret was born and it stayed a secret until the day Precht decided to hand the title of master over. He showed Mavis to his successor Makarov Dreyar and told the man of her condition. This caused the now third guild master to do everything in his power to not only keep her a secret, but to try and save her. He tried his best to save the woman, but her condition was far beyond his understanding. Soon the years passed by and Makarov was unable to do anything for Mavis. In fact the short guild master now spent a majority of his time raising his grandson Laxus after he was forced to expel Laxus's father from the guild, causing the man to run off and leave his son behind.
Soon the thought of saving Mavis fell into the background of Makarov's life, but that changed on the day of October 10, X768. Which is the day where our story begins.
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(With Makarov)
Sitting alone in his office with nothing besides his work and thoughts, Makarov worked diligently on his paperwork for the guild. His thoughts though were constantly being shifted to his eight year old grandson Laxus. It has been three years since his father had experimented on the small child, causing Makarov to expel his son from the guild. So for the past three years the short master has spent most of his time raising Laxus.
Currently his grandson was at their home asleep, while Makarov worked on some important paper work regarding a few missions his mages had been on. While he worked he thought more and more about Laxus. His grandson had been an official member of the guild for two years now and already showed great promise in power. This made Makarov extremely proud and he hoped his grandson would turn out to be a wonderful man in the future.
"Well that should be enough work for today." Makarov mumbled in exhaustion while moving his papers together in a neat stack. "I swear that damn Guildarts is going to be the death of me. Six more reconstruction fees from towns he's demolished. Ahh I don't have time for this, it's getting late I should go home and check on Laxus."
Makarov jumped out of his chair and walked towards the door of his office. However, before he could grasp the doorknob he heard an unfamiliar cry.
"What in the world?" The aged wizard mumbled in confusion before taking a moment to listen in closer. "That sounds like a baby crying, but that's not right. No one is at the guild besides me."
Following after the sound, Makarov quickly found himself heading towards the Fairy Tail basement. Soon he found himself standing at the door of Lumen Historie; where the crying could be heard easily from within. Slowly preparing himself for a trap, Makarov prepared his magic and walked into the room.
"What the hell?!" The Wizard Saint mumbled in confusion as he walked over to a small child laying before the first master's crystallized body. "A baby boy, how is this possible?"
Without thinking Makarov picked the boy up and took notice of his spiky blond hair that held a small streak of black down the middle. He also took notice of the child's beautiful bright blue eyes and whisker like birthmarks on his checks.
"You're a beautiful child, but how in the world did you end up here?" Makarov asked himself as he continued to observe the small baby.
"The answer is simple, he is my son." A female voice answered causing Makarov to turn around in surprise.
"The first!" Makarov shouted in a hushed tone, trying not to startle the baby.
Mavis walked towards Makarov in her ethereal form and then looked to her body. "I have been pregnant with my little Natuto for years, but thanks to my condition giving birth wasn't really an option. So thanks to the help of Precht I was able to muster up enough magic to give birth to my son by teleporting his body out of my own."
Makarov looked down to the child with wide eyes. "Precht only told me about you being trapped within the crystal. He never mentioned anything like this, but how could you sustain your life and his while being in the crystal?"
Mavis smiled and tried to touch her son, but her hand passed through his body causing the new mother to frown. "Like I said it's all thanks to Precht. He figured out I was pregnant and devised a way to help my child grow and even created a way for me to get him out of my body once the time was ready. Now all that is left is for someone to raise my child. So I'm going to ask you to do it for me Makarov, raise my little Naruto."
The short guild master was stunned, he didn't know if he could raise another child while running a guild at the same time. "First, I don't know if I can. I already have so many responsibilities and I'm not the best at raising children. Just look how my son turned out."
Mavis puffed out her cheeks and placed her hands at her hips. "That's bull Macky-chan, you were a great father and you are raising Laxus to be even better. Besides you are the only one who can raise my son. No one but you knows about me and I can't raise Naruto."
Makarov looked down to Naruto who had fallen asleep in the master's arms. "Fine I will raise him, but I would like to know who his father would be."
Mavis waved the Wizard Saint off. "He's someone from the past you wouldn't know of. Besides I have one more request, Naruto will not know of me. It would be much easier for him to grow up believing he is your grandson."
"But first he should have the right to know about you and even if I lied to him and said he was my grandson, Laxus wouldn't believe that Naruto was my grandchild either."
Mavis smiled and kept her gaze of her sleeping child. "He doesn't need to know about me or my sins." The first master explained cryptically. "And as for believing that he is your grandson it would be easy to lie and say your son had another child which he left off with you."
Makarov thought for a moment, then after a short time thinking to himself he looked down into Naruto with a smile. "Fine, I can accept those terms for the time being. Happy birthday Naruto Dreyar."
Mavis smiled and started to fade away knowing her son was in good hands. "Grow up well Naruto and know mommy will always be watching over you." The founder of Fairy Tail promised before she disappeared."
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(Five years later: X773)
It has been five long years since Makarov had adopted Naruto into his family. Since that time all of the current members of the guild bought into the lie of Naruto's origin, considering leaving a child behind would seem like something Ivan would do. And since he wasn't around to deny being Naruto's father everyone accepted Naruto as the master's grandson. After all, everyone believed that Makarov wouldn't gain anything from lying, so why would he even try to.
Even Laxus who was now thirteen accepted his "little brother" and was not only protective over Naruto, but was the small five year old's role model. The two blondes were inseparable and this brought a change in Laxus that made Makarov beyond glad.
This change started around the time Laxus took up his role as older brother. Instead of the traumatized boy angry at his father, the eldest grandchild became strong and caring. Traits that Makarov hadn't seen in Laxus since his father left, causing the aged wizard to believe having Natuto in their lives was a true blessing.
Speaking of Natuto the child was a true marvel, at five years old he could already speak and write perfect English. A feat that many people well beyond his age never master. He also had a very mature mindset, but for some reason never asked about his parents. Something that Makarov found off, because what child wouldn't want to know about his parents? Even if the master promised he would lie and keep Mavis's identity as Naruto's mother a secret, it was still odd.
Though there were two things that set Naruto apart from any other child his age. The first thing was his personality; which was a happy and carefree attitude mixed in with a little side of recklessness, especially when magic was involved. Bringing up the topic of magic this is what made Makarov's life a struggle.
See, Naruto held unrealistic amounts of magic within his body at the age of five. In fact the master believes that Naruto's magical reserves rival his own. Which was a scary thought when you think that all Naruto can do from this point on is grow stronger and stronger.
Makarov chalked up these impressive reserves as a byproduct of the first master's magical power and how she was pregnant within the Lumen Historie for years. Though Makarov was half right, the rest of the truth stemmed from Naruto's true father; Zeref.
Though regardless of his lineage, Natuto was a true genius who was already learning magic. Currently he was learning advanced Lightning Magic from Laxus and has been reading dozens of books over wind, water, fire and even earth magic. He even asked one of Fairy Tail's older members Macao Conbolt to help him with his fire magic. Though the blond was disappointed in the lack of wind, water and earth mages in Fairy Tail as he really wanted to master the five basic elements and having a teacher made things much easier.
But not having a teacher didn't deter the small child, he trained every day he could. Already he was starting to show remarkable progress and something else as well. See the master took notice to some odd occurrences when he would supervise Naruto during his training.
Whenever Naruto would focus hard enough or show intense moments of anger and happiness, Makarov would notice the area around the blond would undergo certain events. Sometimes Naruto would become so mad that he would unknowingly push rocks and dirt away from his body by using some unknown force. And when the blond would mediate and focus, Makarov noticed again he would cause objects to levitate in the air. This made the master wonder if his adopted grandson has the natural ability to control gravity.
This wasn't a rare occurrence as most people are naturally attuned to learning one time of magic without much work. So the master theorized that Naruto had the ability to use some form of gravity magic. But he wasn't going to pursue this theory and help train Naruto just yet. First he was going to help the boy learn the magic that he sought after to learn in the first place.
So joining Naruto and Makarov, we find the two walking down the streets of Magnolia with Laxus following close behind.
"You showed real progress today Naruto-chan, I am very proud of you." Makarov revealed with a large cheeky grin. "Keep up the hard work and you will be Fairy Tail's ace one day!"
Naruto's eyes lit up with excitement at his grandfather's compliment and started to jump up and down. "Do you really think so Jiji-chan? I mean I work really hard and I can already use Lightning and Fire magic. I bet if I work even harder I can start using Wind, Water and Earth magic too!"
Laxus smirked at his little brother's determination. The little five year old wouldn't stop practicing till he was the best at everything.
"Settle down Naruto, you are already learning two types of magic. Don't go overboard, you are only five for crying out loud. You have plenty of years to learn other types of magic." Laxus spoke as the voice of reason while ruffling Naruto's hair and causing him to calm down a little.
"Hey I'm five and a half! Besides I can't wait till I'm older because I'm going to be the strongest mage Fairy Tail has ever seen. So I have to start early if I wanna pass you, Jiji-chan and Gildarts in strength." Naruto shot back quickly, showing yet again how determined he was to grow stronger.
Makarov smiled and picked Naruto up and quickly placed the child on his shoulders. "I know you can do it Naruto-chan. Just keep working hard and I'll be proud no matter what happens!"
Laxus looked up to his younger brother with a devious smile. The same one that Naruto would use when he would pull a prank. "You know Natuto, you can't be the best until you officially join the guild. Can't be Fairy Tail's ace if you are not a member of Fairy Tail."
Naruto placed his hands around his face and started to panic. "Awww crap you are right I'm not a member of Fairy tail yet!" The blond shrieked in worry, causing Makarov and Laxus to chuckle.
"Well why don't we fix that Naruto-chan?" Makarov promised with an honest smile.
Naruto's eyes grew big and he hunched over to make eye contact with his grandfather. "Really Jiji-chan, I can become a Fairy Tail mage!?" The small boy shouted in excitement.
"I don't have a problem with it. Do you Laxus?" The eldest Dreyar asked.
Laxus crossed his arms and looked to Naruto with pride, he did train the blond to use his strongest form of magic after all. "Yeah old man I think he's ready to join the guild. He's already stronger than half the weaklings in the guild anyhow." The teen replied, showing a small distaste for the weaker members of the guild.
Makarov pushed the weakling comment off and focused on Naruto. "Well that settles things. Let's head off to the guild and get you a guild mark!"
Naruto tossed his hands up in victory, today was the day he became an official mage of Fairy Tail. And the ethereal form of Mavis watching above couldn't have been happier.
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(One year later: X774)
It has been one year since Naruto became an official Fairy Tail mage by getting his guild mark which was a dark orange symbol stamped onto Naruto's right shoulder. Though he wasn't just a mage in name, considering with the aid of Laxus Naruto has managed to complete several missions without trouble and even compete one A-class quest. Though that mission almost cost Natuto and Laxus both their lives, but it allowed Naruto to unlock some of his hidden potential.
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(Flashback)
It was a simple mission really, go into a town and clear out a group of dark mages that had been kidnapping children and shipping them off somewhere out to sea. Though things are never as easy as they seem.
The dark guild was supposed to be low in numbers and overall pretty weak. No sweat for a powerful wizard like Laxus who was climbing his way into the ranks of S-class. Plus he had Naruto by his side who was young, but was already a B-class caliber mage. So the two brothers believed their mission would go without a hitch. And it did for the most part as Naruto and Laxus decimated every dark wizard in their path.
However, when they finally made their way to the guilds master things took a drastic turn for the worse. See even though the guild itself was pretty weak and the master had average strength, but he had a type of magic that Laxus couldn't stand against; Rubber Man Magic.
No matter what Laxus did his lightning had no effect on the man. Same went for Naruto, but the blond still had his fire magic. Though even that wasn't enough, as the man beat both boys without mercy across his guild hall.
"You little shits dare come into my guild and defeat my underlings! I'm going to break every bone in your body then I'm sending you to the Tower of Heaven! That way you can spend the rest of your miserable lives in slavery!" The guild master declared in a vile tone while standing over top a beaten Laxus.
"Piss off." The elder brother growled, charging electricity through his body. He tried to send a jolt of lightning through the dark wizard.
The man laughed as the lightning passed harmlessly through his body. "Do you ever learn?" The man sneered as he kicked Laxus in the ribs, causing the second generation Dragon Slayer to cry in pain.
Naruto was laying on his stomach a couple feet away and watched his brother get beaten in horror. "Laxus-nii!" Naruto called out weakly in fear, before looking up to the man. "Stop hurting him!"
The dark mage ignored Naruto and continued to attack the defenseless Laxus, causing the older boy to ball up and try to protect himself.
"Naruto run away while you can!" Laxus ordered loudly; ignoring the blonde's cries for the man to show Laxus mercy.
"Oh he isn't going anywhere." The man chuckled as he kicked Laxus once more, causing the blond teen to cough up blood.
Naruto's eyes grew wide when he saw Laxus bleeding. "Stop hurting my brother!" The child shouted as he rose to his feet, his magical power slowly rising.
The man slammed his foot down on Laxus's face and held it there. "Oh, and what are you going to do brat?"
The air around Naruto grew heavy and dirt and rubble started to float around him. "I said stop hurting my BROTHER!" Naruto cried as he raised a hand up into the air.
The man was taken by surprise when he was quickly lifted into the air. "What the hell?!" He called out as he tried to swing and jerk his way free.
"Get lost." Naruto mumbled as he flicked his wrist, causing the dark mage to take off flying through the guilds roof and travel off into the distance.
Laxus looked to his brother with wide eyes, unable to believe what he just witnessed his brother do. "What kind of power was that?" The elder of the two gasped in shock, while Naruto ran over to his aid.
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(Flashback end)
After that incident Makarov refused to let his two grandchildren take another mission for an entire month. Though eventually he cracked and allowed the two to take missions again. However, Makarov learned about what Naruto did and he was rather happy about being correct about his suspension of the blond having some kind of gravity magic. So he spent a vast majority of the time helping his grandson master his abilities. And the stuff the now six year old Naruto could do with gravity magic was a little frightening.
Not only could he pull and throw large and small masses, he could increase the gravity or decrease the gravity in a certain area, and even repel attacks with a force of gravity. This made the master believe that Naruto could really one day, when he becomes of proper age, be the new ace of Fairy Tail. And he was going to help his grandson get to that level.
Today, however, wasn't a day to train or do missions. Instead the master was busy with some legal documents and Laxus was out with his new friends; Freed, Evergreen and Bickslow who created the group of his personal body guards; The Thunder God Tribe.
So Naruto's was left alone in the guild's main hall with nothing but his thoughts and a bowl of ramen while he sat at the guild's bar.
"Such a boring day." Naruto moaned in boredom while using his hand to make ramen levitate into his mouth. "Stupid Laxus-nii, ditching me for his cool new friends... I wish I had friends."
Naruto sunk into depression as he realized there wasn't any members in the guild around his age. Sure there was Laxus and his friends, but they were all much older than him and didn't really like to do the things he did.
"Hey kid!" An unfamiliar voice spoke up from behind, causing Naruto to turn around. "Where is the guild's master? I have to see him."
Naruto looked down to the boy, he appeared to be a year or two older than Naruto, which made the blond slightly happy. He also noticed the boy had a pack on his shoulders so maybe he was thinking of joining the guild.
Being too overjoyed to respond, Naruto started to look at his potential new friend's appearance. He was taller than Naruto by at least six or so inches and his spiky hair was jet black. The boy had a simple white coat with orange fur around the collar that was left open, revealing his plain blue shirt that went well with his plan blue jeans. Finishing his ensemble off was a silver cross necklace around his neck.
"Hey you gonna answer me or keep looking weird?" The kid asked while looking at Naruto with a cold expression.
Naruto gave the boy a cheeky smile. "Hi I'm Naruto Dreyar, future ace of Fairy Tail." The blond introduced happily. "Who are you? And would you be my friend?"
"Uh the name is Gray, Gray Fullbuster. And I'm here to talk to the master not make friends. So once again where is your master?" The now named Gray revealed in an irritated tone, causing Naruto to pout and look away.
"No I'm not telling you." The blond replied stubbornly. "Not till you become my friend."
"Fine I'll just ask someone else." Gray replied smoothly while turning his back to Naruto.
Freaking out, Naruto jumped off his stool and got in front of Gray. This made the older of the two smirk in victory.
"Alright I'll help you find the master since we are friends now." Naruto explained quickly causing Gray to sigh.
"You are really annoying, but call me whatever you want." Gray replied as he decided on giving up and letting the blond call him friend.
"Alright let's go! Grandpa should be in his office right now. Just follow my lead." Naruto revealed before taking off towards Makarov's office.
"Grandpa?" The ice mage mumbled as he titled his head and followed after Naruto.
Soon Naruto stopped at the door to Makrov's office and without waiting or knocking he walked inside. "Hey Jiji-chan my friend wants to talk with you."
Makarov took a break from his documents and looked up to his grandson and Gray. The latter of whom was gritting his teeth in annoyance causing the master to laugh as he picked up on the situation.
"Well since you are Naruto's friend what can I do for you?" The eldest Dreyar asked, while folding his hands over his desk.
Gray looked forward with a stern face and clenched his fists. "Do you know anything about the Iced Shell Spell? I've been search countless guilds hoping someone would know how to reverse its effects."
Makarov slightly frowned. "I'm faintly familiar with the Iced Shell. It's a spell used by Ice Make wizards. If memory serves right the spell takes the casters body and molds it into ice that cannot be melted."
Gray merely nodded knowing all this himself, but he waited for the other half of Makarov's reply.
"To my knowledge I never heard of anyone actually casting that spell. Nor have I heard of a way to reverse its effects." The master then rose to his feet and walked over to Gray. "So tell me why a young Ice Make wizard wants to know how to reverse its effects."
Gray was taken back by surprise while Naruto looked to the boy in wonder.
"Wow you're an Ice Make wizard? That's awesome!" The blond shouted in excitement. "You'll have to show me your magic."
Ignoring Naruto, Gray looked towards the master. "How did you know about my magic?"
Chuckling to himself Makarov began to speak. "It's fairly obvious with a boy your age traveling to different guilds asking about a dangerous spell. It's not hard to figure out you have connections with ice magic in some way. Besides ever since you entered the room the temperature inside has dropped, which normally happens when an Ice Mage is present. So tell me, who is the person that used the Iced Shell spell."
Gray looked down his hair over shadowing his eyes. "My master. Her name was Ur and she protected me from a demon that killed my family and demolished my home. It's my fault she is dead, I went after Deliora against her wishes, so she paid the price to save me. So I'm going to do everything I can to save her."
Makarov stalked over to the boy and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Listen..."
"Gray." Naruto chimed in.
Makarov smiled. "Gray, there isn't anything you can do for your master. She is gone, but there is one thing you can do."
"And what is that?" Gray asked in a weak voice, he had lost everything and traveled so far for nothing.
"You can continue to live with the life she sacrificed for you. Join my guild and make new friends and cherish the memory of your master. I believe it's what she would have wanted for you."
Tears started to run down Gray's face. "Do I deserve such freedom? Do I deserve a chance at happiness?"
"I believe you do." Makarov replied with a small smile, trying to cheer the boy up. "Why don't you have my grandson show you around the guild? In the meantime I'll get some paper work set up and get you a place to live in town."
Gray started to dry his tears and he looked over to Naruto who was giving him a friendly smile. "Alright I'll give it a try."
"Great, my friend is going to stay!" Naruto cheered happily, before his jaw dropped and he pointed a finger at Gray. "What the hell happened to your clothes?!"
Gray tossed his hands in the air and looked to the pile of clothes on the ground. "Aww you have to be kidding me!"
Makarov had a bead of sweat trickle down the side of his head. Gray was definitely going to make an interesting addition to Fairy Tail.
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(Two years later: X776)
It's been two years since Gray joined Fairy Tail and the Ice Make mage couldn't have been a better addition to the guild. Over the past two years he finally accepted Naruto as a friend and the two formed a very close bond. Gray was like a second brother to Naruto just like Laxus, but Gray was more relaxed and goofy while Laxus had grown to be more serious as the years went by.
Naruto didn't mind how his brother was changing as he would still do jobs with Laxus and the Thunder God Tribe. Though he found himself doing a lot more missions with Gray as well. He eventually started doing enough mission to earn himself the moniker Yōsei Kami or the Fairy God in other words. This name came from how the small eight year old behaved in battle.
Normally Naruto was a bright and childish boy who enjoyed life. Though in battle many of the dark mages he defeated described him in ways a child his age shouldn't be like. See in battle Naruto was ruthless and powerful, so powerful that most of his opponent believed he wasn't a child but some divine being sent down to destroy the wicked. Of course this wasn't true, but his name grew quickly in fame as he was the grandson of a Wizard Saint. Also his power was impressive to say the least for his age. So thus the Yōsei Kami was born.
Naruto enjoyed his title as he felt it fitted the future ace of Fairy Tail, but the child wasn't foolish. He knew his moniker was only a name and he definitely had his limits. He was strong, but there were plenty of stronger mages in the world. Like his grandfather, brother and current ace of Fairy Tail Gildarts just a few to name.
Though he didn't let that fact deter him, it only pushed Naruto to train harder, improving his lightning, fire and gravity magic to all new heights. He even beginning to grasp the concepts of wind magic on his own, leaving only earth and water magic on his list.
His magic wasn't the only thing that improved as his physical attributes had increased as well. This was thanks to all the missions and "friendly spars" he had with Gray and Laxus.
Though at the moment, Naruto was returning to the guild with Gray. They had just finished a mission which involved clearing a small band of dark mages out of a small fishing village. A mission which was a cake walk for the two young mages.
"Man Gray that mission was a real let down. I mean it took us three days of traveling for what? A twenty minute fight where the leader started to cry like a baby." Naruto whined in annoyance while he walked by Gray's side. "Laxus-nii gets all the good missions since he is S-class!"
Gray remained calm as always and placed his hands into his pockets. "Yeah I'll give it to you Whiskers, this was a waste of time. Maybe the master will let us take the S-class exams soon. I know I'm up for a new challenge. Beating on weak dark mages is getting old."
Naruto deflated at his ten year old friend's remark. "Yeah I know, it's like they want us to kick their asses or something. It's just gotten too easy, but I doubt Jiji-chan would let us take the exams. Laxus is sixteen and he became S-class a year ago. I'm only eight so there is no way he will allow me to take them. And I would bet that places you in the same boat as me."
Gray gritted his teeth as he saw the approaching guild in the distance. "Shit, that could mean it would be at least five years before I could move up."
"Maybe even longer than that. After all the exams aren't held every year." Naruto interjected, causing the mage to slump over.
"You have a good point."
Naruto held a finger up. "Also even if one is held and you are chosen as a candidate, who is to say you won't get beat out by someone else?"
Gray shot a glare towards Naruto. "Now you are just bumming me out jerk."
Naruto laughed as he placed his hands on the guild's doors. "Hey I'm only making valid points here."
"Yeah well the only people in the guild who could have a shot against me is you and your brother's little groupies." The ice wizard replied as he and Naruto walked into the guild.
As they walked they noticed Makarok talking to a girl with scarlet colored hair and an eyepatch. She was dressed in worn out dirty clothes, causing Naruto to take instant notice of her.
"Hey Jiji-chan who is that your talking to?" The Yōsei Kami asked, while Gray followed up behind, already stripped down to his boxers.
"Yeah master who is she?" The ice wizard asked.
Naruto sighed without even looking at his friend. "Gray your clothes." The blond pointed out, showing he was accustomed to this happening.
"Ah damn it, not again!" The black haired stripper yelled in embarrassment.
The unfamiliar girl brought a hand to her lips and couldn't help, but smile and let a small laugh pass through, causing Makarov to smile wide. This was as much emotion as the girl has shown in the past hour.
"Naruto, Gray, this young lady is Erza Scarlet. She is a friend of an old buddy of mine; Rob. She has come to Fairy Tail to become an official Fairy Tail mage. And Erza I'd like you to meet my grandson Naruto Dreyar and his friend Gray Fullbuster."
Gray tossed his hand in the air and muttered a "Yo." Naruto on the other hand acted a little different. He ran up to the girl at surprising speeds and held a hand out.
"Hi Erza it's nice to meet you! Since we already know each other's names let me show you around the guild. After all we are friends now!" The blond offered nicely, while not giving her a say on the latter.
"Friends? We just met." Erza mumbled weakly, showing she was still traumatized by something.
Gray slipped by Erza and whispered into her ear, causing the girl to go on edge by his closeness; something that Naruto and Makarov both picked up on.
"Just be his friend, trust me he's a persistent little guy. But a good friend when you get to know him."
Naruto grabbed Erza by the arm and started to drag her off. "Come on Erza we have places to be!" Naruto shouted happily as he walked off. Leaving the master and Gray behind.
Erza removed her arm from Naruto and retreated back. "I'm perfectly capable of walking on my own." The one eyed girl replied before continuing to walk.
Naruto shrugged his shoulders and started to point different areas out. "There is the bar where you can get food and drinks. Like ramen and strawberry cake."
Erza looked over to the side and titled her head. "Strawberry cake?" The girl murmured in confusion. She never had anything like that before, thanks to the old life she lived.
"Yeah it's pretty good, but nothing beats ramen!" Naruto explained happily before pointing over to where Nab was standing. "That's the mission request board where you can take a job for money. And that bastard over there is Nab, he never does a single job. Hurry up and decided on something already Nab!" The blond called the last part out towards Nab.
Turning around Nab waved the blond off. "I'm coming close to finding one!"
Naruto mumble a "Yeah right," and continued his tour. "Above you is the second floor which is reserved for S-class mages only. So don't even think about going up there unless you have passed the S-class exams."
Erza nodded in understatement.
"And now for my favorite part." Naruto chuckled mysteriously as he took off towards the guild's back door, walking outside and running towards a small river bank. They arrived at just the right time to see the sunset.
"What is this?" Erza asked as she walked up from behind.
Naruto took a seat by the water and smiled. "This is where I come to train and clear my head. So I figured this would be a great place to the end the tour. And an even better place to find out what pain is within your heart."
Ezra's lone eye grew wide. "What are you talking about?" The girl asked in a weak voice.
Naruto patted his hand against the ground. "Take a seat and I'll tell you."
Erza hesitated for a moment, but eventually did as she was asked.
"I might be young, but I can easily tell something is wrong. You act all depressed and alone, while your trust for others isn't the best. I mean you about attacked Gray when he got too close. So tell me Erza, what happened to you."
Erza looked away. "I can't..."
"Erza-san you need to open up to someone." Naruto shot back quickly, causing Erza to look towards him and take a deep breath.
"I was a slave." She began weakly, as she started to zone out and remember all her pain and hardship. "I've never had anyone to call a friend or family until I met my fellow slaves; who experienced the same hardship as me. Though during a rebellion one of my friends changed. He turned... I just don't know."
Naruto looked over to Erza and noticed her tears. "Shhh Erza you don't have to say anymore. We can talk about this in time when you are ready." The small child explained while moving a hand to brush her tears.
Though as his hand passed Erza's eye patch it began to glow a luminescent green. Then before Naruto or Erza could even make a proper response, the green aura flew onto Erza's eyepatch, before quickly disappearing.
"What in the world?" Naruto mumbled in shock as he jerked his hand back to inspect.
Erza on the other hand slowly brought her hands trembling to her eyepatch. Then as she removed the patch, she gasped in surprise.
"You... You healed my eye. I can see again." Erza revealed before barreling into Naruto and giving him a hug. "Thank you." Then as she backed away Naruto saw her healed eye flash red, before shifting to its normal color.
Naruto was still too surprised to even think of a response. He didn't know any type of healing magic; epically one that could restore a fully damaged eye. All the blond knew was that he needed to speak with his grandfather immediately.
"Excuse me Erza, I have to go find my grandfather." Naruto explained as he rose to his feet. "Please keep what happened to your eye a secret for now." He added in before running off, leaving a confused Erza behind.
"Well this is an interesting twist." Mavis mumbled to herself, as she was watching her son the entire time. "What other surprises does my son hold within himself?"
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(One year later: X777)
It has been one year since Erza had joined the guild and Naruto had healed her eye. Like he said, Naruto went straight to his grandfather and explained everything. This brought the master a great deal of surprise and even caused him to look over Erza's eye. He found nothing wrong with the girl showing that Naruto did truly heal her eye.
This lead the master to believe Naruto had another type of repressed magic. Though unlike his gravity magic, this was some kind of healing ability that could reform an eye. Which was no simple feat, making the master wonder what the limits of his healing magic was. It even made him wonder if it was a healing magic at all. Though until he got the answers he wanted he forbid Naruto and Erza to speak a word about what happened. He didn't want people taking advantage of his grandson when he didn't know the draw backs yet.
Naruto and Erza easily agreed to the terms Makarov set, promising to keep what happened a secret. So for the last year, no one knew of Naruto's newest abilities beside a select few. This secret caused Erza and Naruto to grow closer as friends, referring to each other as siblings. This relationship grew even further when Erza revealed her full past to Naruto and Naruto only, causing the blond to swear that he would always protect his older sister.
The two would even do missions together and sometimes Gray would tag along, causing the ice mage to form a friendship with Erza as well. Though they worked together, they were not an official team as Naruto enjoyed working with Laxus as well. So for now the blond worked with various other mages throughout the guild.
Though when he wasn't working a job or spending time with his friends and family, Naruto continued to train and his training over the years has taken a serious spike. He had given up on learning water and earth magic for the moment as he needed to find a teacher for those fields. But he improved his other magics and was currently learning how to use two types of magic at the same time.
So we join Naruto in the backyard of the guild, meditating ten feet in the air thanks to his gravity magic. In his left hand he had a spark of lightning dancing in his hand while in his right hand there was a bright red flame flickering about.
"Alright Naruto you have this." The blond mumbled to himself, while he slowly moved his hands closer together. "Just focus, picture the elements mixing in your hand."
Slowly the fire and lightning started to bond and become one; causing Naruto to smile. "Almost there." Naruto spoke happily as a bead of sweat went down his forehead.
"Hey kid what the hell are you doing up there?" A loud and unfamiliar voice shouted.
Naruto was caught off guard by the loud voice and he lost his concentration. This caused the magic in his hand to explode and send him rocketing into the ground.
"Shit!" The blond cursed as he smacked the ground and got up on his feet. He quickly noticed the culprit behind his mess up. He was a boy around Gray's age and height, with spiky pink hair and a scale pattern scarf. "Don't sneak up on people jerk!"
The unfamiliar boy walked up to Naruto and held his hand out. "Hey I'm Natsu, my dad was a dragon and I'm a Dragon Slayer. Wanna fight?"
Naruto tilted his head at the strange boy's rather quick introduction. "Sure why not." Naruto replied as he shrugged his shoulders while planning to pay Natsu back for interrupting his training.
Natsu brought his arm back and smirked, instantly coating his fist in fire. "Fire Dragon..."
"Fall." Naruto mumbled as he lowered his hand, causing Natsu to slam into the dirt. "I win." The blond declared as he walked off.
Natsu growled as he felt the large force holding him down release. "Oh yeah? Well your back is turned." The dragon slayer yelled as he charged forward.
"So?" Naruto asked without turning around. He simply moved his hand to the right and Natsu flew into the river, making a loud splash as he crashed into the water.
Naruto smirked as he walked towards the guild's doors. He was enjoying his little payback too much. "3...2...1."
"I'll knock your block off jerk!" Natsu declared right on cue as he jumped out of the water.
Turning around Naruto started to spin his finger around in a circle, causing Natsu to levitate and spin midair. "I don't think you will." The blond replied, spinning Natsu so fast he started to have the Dragon Slayer motion sickness. "Bye now."
Natsu stopped spinning in air for a brief second, but that didn't last long as he went sailing backwards into the river once more.
"Shit!" Natsu screamed as he floated to the top of the river. "Why can't I hit you!?"
Naruto giggled and took notice of the Fairy Tail emblem on the boys shoulder, concluding he was a new member to the guild. "I'm just better than you it would seem." Naruto taunted in a playful manor, trying to get a rise out of Natsu. "And the name is Naruto by the way. Naruto Dreyar and welcome to the guild Natsu."
Naruto then gave a wave and walked into the guild where a scolding red head was waiting for him.
"Naruto... Were you picking a fight with our newest guild member?" Erza asked in a commanding tone, causing Naruto to retreat backwards.
"Erza-nee you know I would never do such a thing." The blond tried to reason, even though the scarlet haired girl didn't buy into a word he said.
"Oh really then why are you backing away from me?" The elder Mage asked in a sickly sweet voice. "Do you need punished?"
Naruto looked around the guild for help, Gray noticed what was happening and already took off in the other direction. His older brother Laxus watched from the corner with some mild interest; as he didn't plan to help Naruto either.
'I'm screwed.' Naruto thought to himself while taking a hard swallow.
Suddenly the doors to the guild flew open and Natsu came barreling in. "I got you this time jerk!" The pink haired Mage declared as he threw a blind punch forward. Making solid connection with Erza's left cheek.
The guild fell in silence as Natsu slowly realized what he had done.
"Poor guy." Gray mumbled from across the room.
"First day and he's already a dead man." Laxus laughed to himself.
"Well looks like I'm off the hook. Thanks Natsu." Naruto mumbled in a low voice while sneaking away.
Natsu slowly moved his fist back and gulped. "Sorry..."
"Oh you will be." Erza growled with fire in her eyes as she dragged Natsu off by his scarf. "I'm going to teach you some manners!"
"Someone help me!" Natsu cried out, but everyone looked the other way as hell had no furry like a pissed Erza Scarlet. A fact Natsu was about to experience first-hand.
"Hehe you'll fit in just fine here Natsu." Naruto mumbled to himself as he watched the boy be dragged off in horror. "That is if Erza-nee doesn't kill you first."
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(One year later X778)
It has been a whole year since Naruto and Natsu had first met. And since their first encounter the Fire Dragon Slayer was determined to beat Naruto in a fight, considering he constantly challenged the blond to a fight which would also end in Natsu being thrown through the air or smashed into the ground. Well that is what would normally happen if Erza didn't intervene before most of their fights could start.
She was the buzz kill of the guild and always tried to enforce people to behave better. Doing so in a way that struck fear in every single guild member; well besides Laxus. But he just really didn't give a shit about most things unless it involved his brother or the guild's reputation.
Though back to Erza she kept Natsu, Gray and Naruto under a close watch and would punish any of the three boys if she saw them fighting. This caused them to act rather nervous and too friendly around her, even though Naruto could easily dispatch Erza by holding her in the air with his gravity magic. He was too afraid of his surrogate sister to do anything like that.
Regardless that Naruto and Natsu had their fair share of scuffles as did Gray, deep down the three were best friends and grew extremely close over the past year. Though Gray and Natsu were too prideful to admit their friendship. At times Naruto would refer to Gray and Natsu as older brothers and then other times he would call them annoying bastards. Truly they had an interesting relationship, but the three of them never once took a job together. This mainly due to Natsu and Gray's pride once again as they didn't want to say they needed one another's help.
And speaking of jobs, currently the guild's favorite blond haired ten year old was busy traveling down a long dirt road with one of his favorite people; his older brother Laxus who he hasn't done a job with in months.
"So Laxus-nii are you excited for this mission?" Naruto asked with a large smile, looking up to his older brother.
Laxus who was well within his teens and established as a powerful S-class mage shrugged his brother off. "This mission seems pretty boring to me. Not like the usual mission I'm accustomed to."
Naruto deflated. This is why they haven't done any missions together recently as all the missions Naruto can do, Laxus views as weak and a waste of his time. So Naruto had to practically beg for his brother to go on an A-class quest with him.
"Come on Laxus-nii we are hunting down a demon. Doesn't that sound exciting?" Naruto asked again, trying to make his older brother enjoy the mission a little more.
"If this demon was anything special we would be the ones being hunted. Not the demon, so I feel like you should have had this one on your own. You are not weak like the rest of the guild, you are a Dreyar." Laxus replied in a disappointed tone.
Naruto ignored the comment about weak members of the guild and frowned. "It's not that I need your help. I just want to spend some time with my big brother. You are always too busy to train with me or do a job with me like when we were younger."
Laxus looked down to his brother and sighed. No matter what kind of front he put up trying to act as if he didn't care or he was too good, he truly care for Naruto as he was Laxus's only weakness. Well, that and transportation.
"Hey don't be so down Whiskers." Laxus spoke with a small smile while ruffling Naruto's hair. "You and me have a demon to catch."
Naruto smiled and looked up, his brother always came through for him in some way. The blond wished that other members of the guild would see the mage like Naruto did. And maybe Laxus would see the guild the way Naruto sees it. But for now, Naruto was going to enjoy his time with his brother.
"Yeah we do Nii-chan."
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(Chapter end; Next time. Chapter 2. The Demon Family)
So here is my new side project which is a challenge from my friend Mellra. So I'm curious as to what everyone thinks of chapter one. I wanted to introduce some of the important characters that will be in the story in this chapter. And I wanted to make each introduction unique and different instead of hi my name is such and such let's be friends. But I'd say you have a lot of questions regarding certain topics of the story so let me iron some out.
1. Naruto's magic is as followed.
Gravity Magic- think Nagato's (Pain) ability to push and pull objects while also having the ability to increase or decrease the gravity in certain areas and make objects levitate or control where direction they go.
Elemental Magic- Naruto will eventually be able to use fire, wind, lightning, earth and water magic. But for now he can only use the first 3.
The healing magic he used one Erza- this isn't like a healing magic; it's much different and in time you will see what it really is.
Undiscovered ability- read to find out :P
2. Next chapter will continue where this last one left off. And chapter 3 if everything goes according to plan should be in the cannon timeline where Naruto will be at the age of 16 and he will be one of the youngest mages of the guild.
3. Finally, some might wonder if Naruto will discover who his parents are. Well of course he will, but when and where is a secret that only I know.
4. And finally this will be a Millianna pairing.
Thanks for reading and please tell me what you thought of the first chapter. Have a good day!