Her Secret (Nalu fanfiction) (Completed)

The Fire King Rank

What a great way to start a day! I saw a familiar fiery explosion off to my left and started running.

It took a few minutes, but when I got to the source, I yelled, "Hey Pops! Watcha up to?"

Igneel looked at me, eyebrow raised, and replied, "You finally woke up, huh? You always were a heavy sleeper. Anyway, I was testing out my roar. Haven't used it in a while."

"Luce said you wanted to talk to me about something in her letter. So, what is it?" He looked at me warily, then sighed.

"She was truly serious then, huh?" He shrank down big enough to carry me and took me to a nest, similar to the one he made when I was a kid.

"Yes, I do need to talk to you. About your rank." The word rank surprised me.

"What a-about it?" I asked nervously.

"I think we move your rank to something higher." He proposed.

"Like to a prince? But wouldn't I need to become an actual dragon?"

"No," Igneel answered quickly. "You wouldn't need to be a dragon. But I wasn't thinking prince… more like… King." I jumped back a little at the thought of being king. I was bearly a prince, let alone a king. To think that Igneel wouldn't be king tho... that's something totally out of the question. What would Luce think about it?

"K-King?! A-As in K-King of the F-Fire Dragons? M-Me take y-your job? NO WAY!!"

"Think before you speak, Natsu. You are reckless, destructive, and decisive. Perfect for the position." I didn't know if I should be offended or grateful for his comment. I stared at him for a while, but he wouldn't meet my eyes.

"C-Can I think about it?" I asked sheepishly.

"Yes. Now, go destroy stuff." He said dismissing me with his wing, looking off in a different direction. I left and ran to the closest deserted volcano.

"K-King?" I kept muttering to myself eating the flares from the volcano as they shot up.

"King. King! King?" I continued saying it in different ways, trying to make it fit me. No matter the ways said I couldn't think of taking Igneels rank.

Leaving the volcano with a full belly, still muttering to myself, I began wandering around watching other dragons brawl, destroy, and bicker. I slowed down my muttering as I started noticing more fighting the farther and farther I got to the middle of the realm.

"King….?" I said to myself for the last time and stopped in my tracks. A recognizable shadow flew over me. I looked up and saw the nightmarish wings of the only true dragon I have ever slane.

Crap, crap, crap, crap! I kept thinking to my self. I may have killed him once before but that was with the help of the other slayers... and Luce. Now I was on my own and, the worst part is, he has already died. I haven't… at least not yet.

"Acnologia!! You dare lay a finger on him and you won't wake up until next millennia!!" I heard Lucy call not far from where I was.

How did she know Acnologia was here? Why isn't she taking care of the business- Ohhhh... This WAS her business.

I stayed quiet, my mind racing with what Acnologia might do if he knew I was under him at this moment.

"Who says you can do that in the first place?" Acnologia answered slyly. Igneel had also figured out who had come to pay a visit. He pulled on my pants leg, the size of a lizard, and made me follow him to the volcano I was at earlier.

Igneel commanded me with seriousness, "Jump in." as we got to the top.

"I-I can't!," I whisper/yelled at him, still afraid 'He' might hear me. "I may be resistant to fire but I'm not resistant to lava! I'll die if I jump in."

"No, you won't. Trust me, son." He looked at me and took off. I watched as he left, fearing to take a lava bath. Still highly afraid I leaped in.

I hit the lava and splashed it up, but it didn't feel like you would expect. Instead of burning your bones it felt more like boiling water that you could breathe in. Surrounded by pitch blackness, I started swimming around. My right-eye caught light and started floating towards it. The noises of dragons fighting got louder and louder as I got closer to the light. Instead of being met with an orb, or some sort of actual light, I was met with glass. I looked out it to see if I could watch Lucy and Acnologia.

She wasn't her normal beautiful self, she was twice the size of her last transformation and was mostly covered in white and gold scales. Her eyes glowed a dangerous white, wing spread defensively, tail flicking left to right, and claws spread with magic power radiating off her. I was a little overwhelmed from here and I wasn't even near them! To imagine how much magic power she's giving off is unthinkable. I watched closely as Acnologia did the same defensive stance and released his magic energy. I was surprised that I hadn't passed out yet. There is nothing, in any world that I have been in, that was remotely close to this amount of power.

Acnologia struck first with a roar and swiped at Lucy. She dodged with ease and started her attack. Flying above him, she kicked him down to the ground, soon followed by a roar of her own. Instead of calling out an element as she had done with me, she yelled "ELEMENTAL-" before her attack. Acnologia wasn't getting up but Luce was still in that mega form. I could hear her mumble something but couldn't make out what it was. He started getting up but was having a hard time doing so.

"If.. you…. think that... I'm... going to… stay down… after… 1 hit.. then you are.. mistaken... " He said through clenched teeth loud enough to hear. She sighed and got ready to attack again with a smirk on her face.

"How about 2 then?" I know Acnologia couldn't die again but he might want to after this. Lucy put her hands together and closed her eyes, in a way that looked menacing. He saw this stance and looked as if he was going to wet himself.

"Don't even think about it… Ms.Lucy… "

She opened her eyes wide, shining so brightly it hurt to look at them, and told him, "I give you till the count of 5 to be in your realm, or… I will unleash the power that can kill you once again." I wasn't sure I has heard her correctly. She could kill him in the dragon realm?! The place was dragon spirits go once they're dead?! He spread his wings nervously and took off flying fast and far far away. She stopped her stance and started falling, her form dissolving. Igneel came swooping in and caught her before she could hit the ground. He looked over at me and motioned his head for me to come with him.