The New Natsu

In the small town of Magnolia every citizen was lined up along the roads to watch the parade. All the food venders were selling out and games were set up on every street in celebration. Children were playing as peopled waved as the heroes started walking down the road to a castle like structure at the end. These heroes were none other than the Fairy Tail mages! They have just returned from winning the Grand Magic Games and saving the world from a hoard of dragons and an untimely demise! The streets were full of people cheering on their heroes!

"Elfman is such a MAN"

"Cana was such a badass blowing up that device with that mega attack!"

"Erza Scarlet it was so amazing how you took on those hundred monsters!"

"Gary you're so HOOOTTTT"

That one caused a certain water mage to send a small tidal way toward those fan girls and wash them into the canal.

"Juvia is beautiful when she uses her magic!"

"OI Lyon SHUT THE HELL UP!" yelled back Gray.

But of all the cheering there was one person being praised more than anyone else.

"LOOK IT'S THE ONE WHO DESTROYED THE GATE AND SAVED US ALL, AND BEAT THE TWIN DRAGONS OF SABERTOOTH!"

"NNNAAATTTSSSSUUUU!" the crowd roared to the fire dragon slayer as he walked behind everyone else. He smiled his toothy grin and waved to some of the girls yelling his name, causing them to over-fan girl and faint. He laughed at this causing a certain celestial mage to elbow him in the gut.

"Oi what was that for Luce!" Natsu whined only getting a "humph" in reply from the blonde.

The entire town seemed to be enjoying the return of the heroes and the wizards themselves were enjoying the attention. That is all except for three.

Master Makarov and Gildarts were watching the entire show play out as they walked back to the old guild, a frown plastered on both their faces.

That was 4 weeks ago.

Natsu wished that those day would return. The days the guild was laughing as a whole, when he was picking fights with Gray, breaking into Lucy's house, the times that he actually enjoyed being in Fairy Tail. These were the thoughts going to the salmon haired boy's mind as he had his head down on a table watching the rest of the guild live their daily lives. Brawls still happens, everything was the same, but he wasn't allowed to be part of it.

It all just changed in just one day.

Flashback

"Oi popsicle ever actually think about wearing your cloths one day!" yelled Natsu to his frienemy.

"At least I can actually think flame brain!" retorted a half-naked Gray as the two clashed heads over the table.

"Wanna go stripper!" Natsu said as he brought his fist back.

"Hell yeah match stick!"

"You're going dow-"

"Natsu what are you doing!" yelled the Master as a giant fist crashed down on Natsu.

"I'm about to beat the shit out of Gray gramps what does it look like!" yelled Natsu as he squirmed from under the fist.

"You are not allowed to fight ANYONE ANYMORE!"

….

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SAY GRAMPS!" roared Natsu as he struggled to get out from under the fist blowing fire out of his mouth.

"NATSU SHUT UP" *clank* and armored hand smashed into the back of Natsu's head effectively making him stop as a knot grew where the hit landed. "You heard the master no more fights. Or else" Erza said as she let out a dark aura.

Flashback end

And ever since then he wasn't allowed to fight anyone inside the guild. Of course at first that didn't stop him but as soon as he would start to make a move wither a giant fist, armored hand, of a bit of crash magic would put him down quickly, this happened whenever he did something the other thought was "unsuitable for the hero of Fiore". Natsu hasn't fought anyone in two weeks and he was now only seen siting in the edge of the guild watching the other guild members with a stare that none of them have ever seen before. For two weeks now the normal onyx eyes that held so much joy have been replaced by a set of orange ones that seemed to be full of so much power. No one knew what was happening but every time they would ask Natsu he would return to normal and try to act like he used to. This of course would bring upon Erza, Master, or Gildarts to straighten him out.

And today was just another day it seemed, the guild was having another brawl, excluding Natsu, Cana was is a drinking match with Wakaba, Levy and Gajeel were huddled in a corner one reading the other eating a bowl of iron. Happy was with Wendy and Carla like he usually is now since the changes in Natsu started to happen. No one knows why but one day Happy came to the guild acting like he had seen a monster and since then he has been avoiding Natsu, basically living with Wendy. And Master was sitting on the bar drinking while Mira gave him another mug.

Then the doors of the guild blew open by a powerful kick. Natsu walked into the guild, his eyes were Orange now like they have been.

"Natsu what have we told you about kic-"Erza started to scold Natsu until he turned his stare upon her. She looked into his eye and froze. She didn't know how but she knew those eyes held so much power.

Natsu just walked past her, his eyes turning back to onyx as he walked to the center of the guild and looked at Master Makarov. "I think it's about time you explained you're treatment of me." Natsu said to Master in a tone that none of the members have heard before. It held so much authority and sounded just so unNatsu like since it held no room for any humor.

"WHAT THE HELL GIVES YOUTHE RIGHT TO TALK TO MASTER LIKE TH-"

"Hush Gray I'm talking to Makarov I will entertain you later." Natsu cut Gray off.

Saying that the guild was shocked would be an understatement. "What did you do with Natsu?" Erza yelled from behind him. Already equipping a sword and pointing it at Natsu.

He simply glanced over his shoulder "I am Natsu, sheath your sword Erza." He responded coolly. "Now Master I am here for an explanation of my treatment."

Makarov slowly put down his mug "It seems that my plan worked so I will tell you, I am not personally proud of this plan but it was the best one and it was necessary."

"I'll be the judge of that." Natsu replied still not drifting from his powerful tone.

"Alright" Makarov sighed "Natsu you are the hero of the eclipse gate, and the Grand Magic Games. But you are also to wild and childish" Makarov opened his eyes as stared down at Natsu "You have saved the world once so when it will need to be saved again people will call on you. They will need a man who will lead them not a child. Everything that I have done this past month has been to make you mature. There are thousands of children looking up to you as a hero, you need to be that hero and make a fire within them to be a hero like yourself, not some child that destroys every town with a smile on his face. I did this so that you would grow up Natsu, We all did this for your own sake." Makarov ended while staring at Natsu.

"So this whole thing was to change who I was, to change me into something that you thought would be better? So my old self was not good enough for this family?" Natsu retorted coldly causing the entire guild to lower their heads in guilt as the truth of his words hit them.

Then something strange started to happen, Natsu started to chuckle. "Make a fire within the kids you say? If only you knew" Natsu said chuckling.

Makarov raised an eyebrow "What do you me-"but was cut off as Natsu shot a pillar of flame straight into the air through the roof.

The whole guild fell back at the sudden show of power. And it was gone as soon as it started. "Hahaha well it was fun being like this but I guess it needed to change. I hope you are ready for this, cause in two days it's all about to change and get quite fun." Natsu laughed as his eyes turned orange and he walked out of the guild.

"W-W-what the hell just happened!" yelled Lucy as everyone started to get up.

"I don't know but I feel like something big is about to happen" replied Makarov as he hopped up to the second floor and went into his office.

The guild remand shocked as they started to put things back.

"What the hell was that about?" asked Gray as he put a table back and sat with Erza, Lucy, Juvia, Wendy, Happy, and Carla.

"All of you are in for a really big surprise." Happy muttered lowly.

"What do you mean?" Erza asked the Blue exceed.

"There is a lot more to Natsu then you think." He simply replied. "I'm going to go back home with him." He said as his wings appeared and he flew out of the open doors of the guild.

"What the hell was that about?! It was kind of creepy..." Lucy said shaking.

"I wonder what it means though. Natsu-san has always seemed a little different." Wendy replied thoughtfully.

"Well that because the Flame Brain is just a weird kid." Gray chimed in as if it was obvious.

"No there is something else, Salamander has always had a weird smell to him." The rough voice of Gajeel said as he walked to the table and sat by Wendy as Levy sat by Lucy.

"You smell him? Isn't that sort of gay?"

"I CANT HELP BUT SMELL ALL OF YOU WITH MY DRAGON SLAYER SCENSES! I CANT HELP IT!" retorted Gajeel as he slammed a fist on the table.

"Gajeel-san is right though, Natsu always has had a weird scent..." Wendy added shyly.

"Well what is so weird about it?" Levy questioned.

"Well... it smells like-"

"-Fire-"both dragon slayers said at once.

"How is that weird? He is the fire dragon slayer after all." Lucy pointed out.

"I'd agree with you but he doesn't have any other scent. All you can smell is fire." Replied Gajeel

"Everyone has several scents, humans, animal, your spirits, but Natsu-san only smells like fire." Wendy clarified seeing the confused faces on the others

"Wait so you're saying he doesn't smell human?" asked Lucy quite shocked.

Gajeel looked over at Wendy before responding "He doesn't smell like any creature I've ever encountered before, human, demon, or monster."

"Than what the hell is he?" asked Gray.

"I don't know, but I think we will find out in few days. I wonder what this "fun" is he was talking about"

"There are a lot of questions today and not many answers." Erza said as she closed her eyes. She opened them and looked to the side "maybe we pushed him too far. I honestly miss the old laughable Natsu." She said with a frown.

"What is done is done, there is no turning back." I voice boomed behind them causing the group to jump and look back at the master.

"Two days he said. In two days we will have our answers." The master said as he sat on the bar. 'I hope I don't come to regret pushing the boy this far' he thought to himself.

/In Desierto, a country south of Fiore (it's a real place in their world look it up!)

A hooded figure sits in an outcrop of rocks with his bag to his side. He's eating what seems to be a rabbit when he suddenly feels a strong magic to the north. As he looks up he sees a pillar of flame in the distance that only last a second.

The man smiles as he finishes his rabbit then stand and slings the bag around his should. "So we meet again after so long, this will be fun." The man says to himself as he chuckles slightly and starts to head north.