Fire's Desire

Chapter 2

No one said a word, for what felt like eternity for the dragon slayer, but was actually for three minutes straight, you couldn't even hear anyone breathing. Instead every pair of eyes in the room were on Natsu, but his was staring right into Master Makarovs' looking for something. What exactly? Natsu didn't know. He just wanted him to say something before someone else say something he was afraid to hear come from his Nakamas' mouth. Somehow Natsu manage to brake the staring contest he was in with the Master, stood up from his seat and started walking past him towards the door, watching the floor pass under him.

"Where are you going my child?" Makarov finally said softly stopping him in mid step.

"And where did you get that necklace?" Gray irrelevantly wondered out loud.

A solemn shadow fell over his face as he took off the pendant and tossed the item to Gray, not caring if he wasn't in the mood to play catch. "Found it after the battle. Here in the guild, where his body was." He deeply sighed.

Gray opened the pendant, with half the guild hovering around to take a peek at what was inside. And inside they saw a picture of a light blushed, grinning kid Natsu, who looked to be about 7 years old and a 10 year old smiley Zeref standing just behind him on his right side. Both wore a white tunics with a sash around the waist, only Zeref's were black and Natsus' was red, it appear to be a little big for his little body. Zeref wore dark brown sandals and a gold bracelet, they couldn't see the bottom half of Natsu body but they just assumed he had the same footwear and jewelry on.

He didn't say anything else just waited for everyone to finish looking at the image of the two boys. Eventually the pendant got to Lucy. Natsu watched how she admired the happy boys on the necklace enjoying how happy they must have been at the time.

"Geeh hee" Gajeel started chuckling unrelentingly, earning him an elbow to the side and a sharp gaze from Levy. "What!? That explain why he destroys half the city when he's on a mission. Gee Hee." The iron dragon slayer laughter stir something in the group of mages, and started an uproar of laughing, some more than others. Natsu didn't know what to think, he knew they would tie his recklessness with the given information, but hell, he didn't expect that they would laugh it off. He was slightly scared to turn around, believing that once he do their smiles and laughing would turn into repulsiveness and dreadful eyes.

A giggling among the ruckus gained him to turn around and search for the source "Yea but he's still our Natsu" Lucy looked at him, eyes full of something he can't quite understand yet, but he loved how they lit up in warmth "and we wouldn't change him for anything in the world." She ended in a genuine smile.

"You sure about that Lucy, flame brain here, might actually burn down a village one day" Gray said with a sly smile trying to help lighten his mood even just a little bit.

"What was that ice princess?!" Natsu said head butting the raven haired teen. "You wanna fight!"

"Bring it on you pyro!"

"Frost breath!"

"Hot head!"

"Pervert!"

"Ash for brains"

"Popsicle!"

Seeing the boys go at it like they just was 30 minutes ago brought the guild back to its normal chaos, and started a sudden brawl for the third time in that day. Soon everyone forgot about why Anna came in the first place, unfortunately for them she wasn't finish.

Clearing her throat trying to gather everyone's attention, so she can finish her explanation on her being there "Back to the matter at hand.." she was interrupted by a flying Elfman who crashed into a nearby table.