Chapter 1: The Beginning

Friday, June 12, 2015

12:04 PM

Pain was all that he could feel as he woke up and was trying to remember what just happened and why he couldn't see out of his right eye. But what he quickly realized was that he had more pressing issues to deal with, which was to get out of this burning house before it all came crashing down on him. So he struggled to get up on his feet while clutching his right eye with his hand, instantly realizing that it was really smoky and was starting to run out of air. He quickly scanned his surroundings and realized that everything was on fire, and that a beam was blocking the only door to this room, which meant that he wasn't going to get out that way. Realizing that if he wanted to survive he needed to get out of here right now. He noticed that one of the walls that were on fire looked like it was weakened because of the fire. Thinking that he might as well try busting through it, rather than sitting here and dyeing for sure, so he took off as fast as he could, and slammed his small body against the wall.

With a loud crash he busted through the wall falling onto his side, and instantly started coughing while trying to get some fresh clean air into his lungs. After laying there for a few minutes catching his breath, he started trying to remember how he got into this situation and where was his mother. Once he remembered what happened earlier today he started to cry and started calling out for his mother, while getting up on his feet and started looking for his mother.

Flashback:

It started out like any other day in his small peaceful little village; he woke up to his mother cooking breakfast for him, his favorite which is a lot of eggs and bacon. After finishing his breakfast, his mother asked him if he wanted to go with her to the market. His response was a quick nod to his mom while saying yep and reaching out to take his mother's hand, and then heading off to the market hand in hand. On their way there, they both said hi to all of their neighbors sometimes stopping to talk a little longer with some of them.

But he didn't mind at all he was just happy to be with his mother seeing her smiling and talking with their neighbors. She was his whole world, all he wanted was to see his mom happy, he never knew his father and only ever asked his mother once about him, which caused her to instantly look sad and tell him that she will tell him when he was older. After seeing her get so sad at just the mention of his father, made him decide then and there that he didn't need his father or even care that he was, because he left his mother and she was the only person that he now cared for in this world.

They then got to the market where his mother went about getting all of the food and other things that they will need for the rest of the week. Just as they were almost done, that is when it happened; the village was attacked by strangers. It was instant chaos, explosions and fire were everywhere, and just like that the villagers were panicking and running for their lives. But a few villagers remained calm and got ready to fight off their attackers, and that is exactly what they did. He honestly was really scared and didn't know what to do, but luckily he had his mother.

"Listen to me Natsu, I need you to run as fast as you can back home and lock yourself in your room. Are you listening to me, Natsu?" said his mother to him.

"Yes, but why are you not coming with me?" asked Natsu to his mother almost in tears.

"I need to try and help the village the other villagers, but I need you to go home." she responded back to him.

"I won't unless you come with Me." said Natsu while crying.

"Hey listen to me little bubby, I need you to do this for your mother, and I will be right with you in less than five minutes." she said trying to convince her son to run home.

"You promise, mommy?" asked Natsu looking at his mother no longer crying.

"I promise, soon we will be back together and we will never have to leave each other again." she replied back to her son.

"Okay." Natsu said while wiping away his tear with his shirt sleeve and then turning around and running for his home.

"Be safe Natsu, I will see you soon, hopefully?" she said as she summoned her magic and getting ready to fight.

As Natsu was running home he heard all of the screams and shout of the fighting that was going on. He also noticed that most of the houses were on fire or already destroyed while he was making his way back home, which caused him to increase his speed wanting to get home so that he didn't have to see or hear anything that was going on right now. But that wasn't meant to be, as he rounded the next corner he came face to face with a group of the strangers, but luckily they didn't notice his appearance on to the scene. What Natsu saw next would stay with him for the rest of his life, he watched as the outsiders started to ruthlessly start killing the villagers that have already surrendered, by either slitting their throats or shooting them in the head. Natsu instantly turned around and headed back to where he left his mother moments ago, not believing that he just witnessed the death of neighbors and friends that he and his mother have known for his entire life.

When he got back what he saw brought him to his knees, there right before him was his mother beaten and broken, being held up by the throat, by a behemoth of a man. That is when he heard the man speak to his mother.

"Man you had quite a bit of fight in you, I like that in my women, and it's boring if they don't fight back. Man, are me and my men going to have fun with you." said the huge man while chuckling and still holding Natsu's mother in the air as if it was nothing.

That was when his mother finally noticed that Natsu had come back, and probably heard what the man was saying to her and she did not want him to see what was most likely going to happen next, that would be one of the worst thing for a son to see his mother go through. She wasn't going to let that happen if she could, and she also didn't want Natsu to get caught by these terrible men and probably get killed. So she did the only thing that she could, and that was to mouth out the words RUN to her one and only son, looking at her when she was in such a pitiful state, hoping that he would understand her and listen to her and maybe he just might get away.

When his mother mouthed the word RUN to him he just lost it, how could he leave his mother to be with this terrible man that was clearly hurting her and looked like he was going to continue to hurt her. He just snapped and just took off running at the man while shouting "Get your hands off my mom."

The man just turned around and just laughed at Natsu saying, "Or what, you are just a little kid?"

"Or I will kill you!" screamed Natsu at the other man, with rage clearly in his eyes.

"I would like to see you try!" the man responded as he threw Natsu's mother to the ground. Where she just laid there too weak to do anything, and had to watch her worst nightmare unfold before her eyes.

Natsu accepted the man challenge and ran at the man with his fist caught back ready to punch the shit out of the man. But that didn't happened, the next thing he knew, there was a blinding hot pain on his right eye and was launched back and the man laughing at him.

"You are just too weak boy, and because of that I am going to make you watch what we plan on doing to your slut of a mother, and then after that I am going to make you watch me slit her throat and bleed her dry like the bitch that she is." he said with a sinister smile on his face, clearly enjoying everything that he was doing.

That was just to much for Natsu to hear and he now truly lost it and snapped. He just started to scream and scream as all of a sudden he tapped into his magic, which was huge considering he was only four years old. It was flowing out of him causing the earth to crack underneath him, and causing a few objects to start to levitate around him due to his raw magic power. This caused the man and Natsu's mother to take a second look at him, both not believing that a kid his age could have the power level of your standard A-Class mage.

"Well look at that boy, you do have some power in you, if you only had some training you probably could have beat me with that amount of power, unfortunate for you, you didn't which means now you are going to die." the man said as he made his way toward Natsu. Once got near him, he punched Natsu right in the chest knocking the wind out of him and launching him into a burning building.

"NOOOO!" screamed Natsu's mother as she watched.

"Well if he didn't die from that hit then the fire will finish him off, so where we?" he said turning back to Natsu's mother.

End of Flashback

As he made it to the front of the building that he used to be in, what he saw scared him right down to his very soul, right there laying on the street was his mother naked and not moving. So he quickly ran to hear sliding to a stop right next to her already in tears calling out to her.

"Mom, Mom, Mom, please wake up.!" he shouted while slightly shaking her trying to get her to wake up.

"You got to wake up mom, please mom!" Natsu now said a little bit quieter.

"You promised mom, you promised that you would come back to Me." he said now at a normal speaking volume.

"You promised mom that you would never leave me again." he said now in a whisper, while balling his eyes out and hugging his mom, knowing that she wasn't going to ever be coming back to him.

He then sat there hugging his mother for what was going to be his last time, while crying his heart out, for what seemed like hours. He then got up and stood in front of his dead mother and screamed to the heavens while releasing all of his magic in one glorious blast. "I swear to you mother, that I will kill that man with my own two hands, if it is the last thing I do."

Natsu was then startled by the ground shaking beneath his feet and was startled to see why the ground was shaking. Standing right behind him was a huge red dragon, which just stood there looking at him with a questioning look on his eyes. They just stood there looking back at each other neither one of them saying nor doing anything for a few minutes.

"Are you not afraid of me child?" asked the dragon looking at the kid not believing what he is seeing right now.

"Why would I be afraid of you, I have already lost the only thing in my life that I have ever cared about. So please tell me what do I have to be afraid of, the worst thing that could ever happen to me already has." Natsu said to the dragon clearly not afraid of the dragon, and meaning every word that he just said.

"I guess you have a point there child, so could you tell me what happened here?" asked the dragon to the child.

"Sure, why not I have nowhere to go anymore. So Mr. Dragon a whole bunch of strangers came to my village and started to kill everybody. I tried to go home but I couldn't, because of them so I came back for my mom. But when I got back to her a man was beating her up, so I tried to stop him but I was too weak, that's how I got this wound on my face. He then told me that he was going to kill my mom in front of my, which caused me to freak out. And during that I felt this new power that I haven't felt ever before, but then I was hit into that burning building by the man and then passed out. Too only wake up later and come out here to find my mother dead." said Natsu looking like he was dead inside.

So it was this little pink haired boy that released those two bursts of magic that I felt earlier, which is incredible for his age, some mages never get to that level of magic even after training their whole lives, thought the dragon. He could become a great wizard if he is given the proper training, I should see what he plans to do thought the dragon.

"So kid what do, you plan to do?" asked the dragon.

"I don't really know I do know one thing that I will definitely do." replied Natsu.

"Oh and what is that boy?"

"I am going to kill the man that murdered my mom." he replied with absolute certainty.

"And how do you plan on doing that boy?" asked the dragon, honestly curious about the boys plans.

"I don't know, but I know that I will do it, because it was my last promise to my mom, and I was taught to never break your promises." said the pink haired boy with determination in his voice.

"Interesting, how about I help you out with that goal of yours, and train you in the way of the dragon." replied the dragon.

"And why would you do that? And what would you be teaching me?" asked Natsu.

"Because I see potential in you boy, and to your other question all that I know about the world, but the main ones will be how to fight and use magic. So how does that sound, are you interested?" asked the Dragon.

"Okay as long as it makes me stronger, Mr. Dragon." replied Natsu.

"If I have any say in it you will become the strongest mage the world has ever known. Oh and what is your name boy, unless you are fine with me calling you boy all of the time?" said the dragon to the boy.

"It's Natsu, what's your name Mr. Dragon?" asked Natsu.

"Igneel, now hop on my back Natsu so that we can go start your training." replied Igneel.

"Wait, can we do one last thing before we leave here?" asked Natsu.

"And what would that be Natsu?" asked Igneel seeing no reason for Natsu wanting to stay in such a place.

"I need to bury my mom. If that is okay?" said Natsu looking a little down.

"Of course you can, do you need any help?" asked Igneel, feeling sorry that Natsu already had to go through such terrible things at such a young age.

"Yes please." replied Natsu.

"Where would you like to bury her?" asked Igneel.

"Over there on the top of that cliff edge if we could, it was her favorite spot to have picnics." replied Natsu, while remembering all of the picnics that they had up there on that cliff together.

"No problem at all Natsu. Hop on." he said while scooping up Natsu's mother in one claw and motioning for Natsu to climb on to his back with his head.

Once he was on, Igneel took one big leap and soared over to the cliff edge with his majestic wings flapping. Once there he let Natsu off to show him where he wanted the grave dug, which Natsu pointed to a spot next to a lone near the edge, with one swipe of Igneel's claw the grave was dug. He then lowered Natsu's mother in and then covered her up with the dirt. Igneel decided that she at least needed a headstone, so he quickly carved one out of a nearby rock and placed it at the head of the fresh grave.

"Do you want anything put on it Natsu?" questioned Igneel.

"How about, Best Mother a Boy could ever have." responded Natsu.

"That sounds great, I am sure she would love It." said Igneel as he set to carving that on the tombstone.

"Here I will give you some time alone with her to say your goodbyes, you never know when you will be back here." said Igneel as he walked off to give Natsu his space.

"Well mom, I ran into a dragon and he seems pretty nice, I know it sounds crazy but they do exist. His name is Igneel and he has agreed to teach me and take care of me so that I can fulfill that promise I made to you. He also said that I could become the strongest wizard in all of Earth land, doesn't that sound awesome. I just wish you were still here to see him and be with me like you promised. It's okay I know that you didn't mean to break your promise to me, but its okay I will never break one of my promises just like you taught me. So I guess this is bye for now mom, but I promise that I will visit sometime I just don't know when, so bye again." said Natsu.

"I'm ready to go now Igneel." shouted Natsu.

"Are you sure Natsu, because from here on you are going to be put through the toughest training possible?" replied Igneel coming back up to Natsu.

"Yes I promise." said Natsu as he climbed onto Igneel's back.

With a small chuckle Igneel took flight and so began the training of Natsu, who letter became known as the Salamander.

End of Chapter

Author's Note

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