Between The Pages

Chapter 1

Hello reader, I see it is this story that you've chosen to read. I must say that I'm very grateful to you for choosing this story because I'm the one who wrote it and I can assure that every word written in this story is true though if you choose not to believe the events that had taken place in this story then that is your choice but this story is very real and I know because I played a big part in it. My name Is Natsu Dragneel and this is the story of me, my sister, and our adventure in a world called the Labyrinth.

Before I begin this story I suppose I should tell you a little about myself and my sister. I was born to Igneel and Grandeeney Dragneel, Dad was a business man who worked in advertising and Mom was a typical house wife. They were good parents and they took care of me but things weren't really interesting for us then my sister came into our lives.

Juvia was her name, Juvia Lockser and even though we don't share the same blood she'll always be my sister. Her father was a writer and her mother was an actress, she loved watching her perform on stage. She and her father attended almost every show her mother was in and sometimes she would go backstage and play dress up with some of the costumes. She wanted to be an actress too and her mother often talked about mentoring her in acting but unfortunately that was never going to happen.

It started one cold night in January, Juvia and her family were driving home from another one of her mother's shows but they were driving in icy weather and their car skidded off the road, tumbling down into a rocky ravine. Her parents were killed but she received only a cut on the forehead. Mom and Mrs. Lockser had been friends since high school, Juvia didn't have any living relatives, and Mom had always dreamed having a little girl so she adopted her into our family.

At first all Juvia could do was just sit around quietly, looking emotionless but then again wouldn't you be the same way if you were six and had lost your entire family? Then she started just staying in the room we gave her, playing with her toys and reading her books. She would occasionally speak to me but we didn't really bond until that time she caught a fever a month after she arrived, she had to stay in bed all day which was boring so I decided to entertain her by putting on little shows with her toys. She laughed at my shows and that was the first time she had laughed since the accident. Three weeks later when I broke my leg skate boarding and was bed ridden for six weeks she read me stories. By the time my leg had recovered the two of us had become as thick as thieves.

Life was simple for us when we were children. We just went to school, did our chores, and spent the rest of the day playing games. Juvia was always so very imaginative and she had an extreme love of fantasy and theatrics. She would write plays and we would perform them for our parents, other times she would make up stories and tell them to us. As for me I was more into sports and while she never was a big fan of them she would always go outside to play football, basket ball, or soccer with me and Dad. Of course she stunk but we didn't care we were having fun. Yes childhood was great but when we became teenagers that's when things really got hard.

As expected puberty sucked for both of us but the results were worth it. I became extraordinarily handsome, the ladies adored me but they didn't really show their adoration that much. But despite my boyish good looks I had trouble in high school, I struggled in my classes and I couldn't get good grades. It's not like I didn't try I just couldn't understand the lessons. Juvia had her share of trials too, she did well in her classes and got way better grades than me but she had trouble socializing with our class mates. The other girls always made fun of her and would spread the nastiest rumors about her for no reason at all but if you ask me they did it because they were jealous of her. My sister is a very beautiful girl, much prettier than those mean little witches who bullied her. I swear if they weren't chicks I would've beaten them up.

But our high school life only plays a small part in this story. This story is mostly about us and our adventure in the Labyrinth. What is the Labyrinth you ask? Well at first I thought it was just a story but I later found out that it was all too real and we found ourselves getting very involved with two of it's main characters. The Goblin King and his sister.