I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL HIRO MASHIMA DOES.

Year X784

It's been 9 years since they last saw the Salamander a S-class wizard. He had taken a 100 year quest, 1 year after becoming a S-class wizard.

The job was to meet a noblewoman named Aibis seeks a party to slay the Serpent of Sunaisi and retrieve its eyes. Moreover, the party must complete the quest amidst a war. The thing was that this quest was stationed in another country which was located no where near Fiore. It would take a long time to get there because the Salamander could not take transport, it made him get very bad motion sickness.

The Serpent of Sunaisi has been said to be one of the most powerfulest monsters to ever breathe air on Earthland. According to legend it has 8 heads and 8 tails all joined onto one body, which would allow it to see in all most all directions making it easy to counter or dodge an attack, it also has the power to poison its enemies and use water at will making one of the few creatures that could actually use magic effectively like a dragon. The Serpent has to have lived for hundreds of years killing anyone who comes near the lake, people have reported seeing a green reddish coloured snake near the lakes edge, which it would immediately go back into the water and disappear.

The Serpent is said to live inside a cave that is at the bottom of a lake, anyone who has tried has never returned, either drowning in the water trying to look for that cave or never making through the forest which surrounds the massive lake. The forest is it's own mystery a lot of people have died just going into the forest, only to found dead, killed by poison but they can never find the where the poison comes from only little hills that come out the ground, which could easily be mistaken for a hole a rabbit could of dug scouring for food.

In the forest.

Trudging through the forest was man wearing a black cloak with some orange tinting on it, he had black fire resist combat boots and around his neck was a white scaly looking scarf which blew in the wind, the man had onyx coloured eyes and salmon hair. He was the one the only Salamander, Natsu Dragneel S-class wizard of the mages guild Fairy Tail.

"Ugggh, I hate going through this forest, it's so thick of vegetation" Salamander thought to himself. It seemed like he had been through this forest before.

As he was walking through the forest cutting plants and vines out of his way with his sword which was slightly burning any of the plants which surrounded him, turning the tips of leaves a charcoal colour, but they were not catching fire. "This sword that Erza gave to me is really handy, I cant just cut through these plants and not have to burn down the whole forest" he said to himself with a sigh "but i still want to burn down the forest i haven't been able to find anything worth fighting since I last came here" Natsu said as kept swinging his sword cutting the plants.

As Natsu was making his way towards the lake, he decided to have a rest for 30 minutes or so but before he could take his knapsack off and sit down he heard a lot of rustling from the tree tops which surrounded him. Natsu started to sniff the area around him trying to catch the scent of what ever it was, he was standing there for about 30 seconds until the wind changed, which made Salamander smile.

Natsu pulled off his knapsack which was securely strapped to his back, he held in his right hand and then a small yellow light came from he back and it disappeared but in his right he held the same sword from earlier. The sword was of similar design to Erza's black wing armour sword but instead of purple colouring around the hilt of the blade it was orange and had yellow going through the middle with a black coloured hilt and it was shorter so he was able to wield in in one hand.

As he held up his sword a multiple dark creatures jumped of the trees landing right in front of the Fire Dragon Slayer, as Natsu looked at them all he could do was grin, because he was looking at atleast 80 Forrest Vulcans. It seemed that Natsu had gone through their territory destroying their homes with his sword.

Natsu just stood there waiting for he Vulcans to attack, as on queue the Vulcans all ran at him trying to punch and grab Natsu, but he expertly dodged and countered their attacks with his sword which was glowing with a red aura and with his fist which was covered in orange flames.

As he was dodging all the attacks that the Vulcans threw at him he was quickly taking down multiple enemies at a time. In under 3 minutes there were at least 10 Vulcans left, they soon released that they had know way in winning as their number had severely dropped and that this man had not taken a hit from any of them.

As the Vulcans started to retreat they were stopped by flames surrounding them, which made them turn around to look at the fire mage, who had his hand flat out pointing at the group vulcans with a bit of fire coming out of his index finger, which is what started the ring of fire, but none of the plants were burning or catching fire and the actual ring of fire seemed solid as you could not see through the flames.

Natsu started to recall his ringer back into his first and ase he did this the ring of fire started to get closer to the Vulcans until it completely engulfed them. Once Natsu's finger had finally regrouped with his fist the fire had dissipated and all that was left was a bunch of burned Vulcans unconscious lying on top of each other.

"Hahaha, that was a fun little fight" Natsu said while picking up his knapsack off the ground and sending his sword back to his pocket dimension. Just as he did that a small hole opened up just a few metres from Natsu, the sound of the dirt moving caught the Dragon Slayer's attention, which made his eyes grow go wide. As soon as he had seen the pile of dirt move he jumped into the air summoning fire beneath his feet to propel himself into the air and land on a tree branch which was above the cleared area he was just in.

As soon as he got to the branch he looked back at the ground to see the poison spew out of the hole and cover that area he was just in killing almost all the Vulcans which Natsu had just knocked out. "Damn it" Natsu yelled as he watched the creatures die in front of him, "lucky i got out there, even with my fire that poison can still do some damage before i could burn it off" Salamander said to himself.

"Hmmmm, so he knows im back" Natsu said to himself as he started to climb the trees trying to get to the top. As Natsu got the tallest tree in that area he looked over to where the lake was.

The lake was only a few kilometres away, but the thing that caught Natsu's eyes was the massive creature that was floating in the middle of lake looking straight at Natsu.

As Natsu was looking at the serpent a massive stream of water was flying at him, but it only evaporated as it reached him due to the heat Natsu was putting off his body.

Natsu just climbed down the tree and started walking towards the lake. "Ready for round three, Yamata no Orochi" Natsu said with a smile on his face.

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