A/N; Hey people I'm back with a brand new story that is about one of my favourite craic ships Natsu and Meredy/Meldy. This is a story about misunderstandings and betrayal and take place after GMG but before the Tartarus Arc so without further ado let the story begin and I hope you enjoy.

"How long? How long have I ran for...? How long has it been since they abandon me and how long has it been since I lost my arm?" were the thoughts of Natsu Dragneel as he lay up in a tree staring at his right arm that was now a magically enhanced metal prosthetic limb from the elbow down like Gildarts' arm.

"I realise I hurt them but it was like the Guild wouldn't even here me out like all of them were under some sort of influence… well I can't say all of them Mira, Lis and Elfman weren't there and neither were Laxus and Gildarts." He said clutching his metallic fingers into a fist.

Flashback

"What's wrong with everyone, what the hell is the cold shoulder for?" Natsu cried in the middle of the guild everyone there were giving the cold shoulder or stares that could kill. "You endangered the lives of your team Natsu, Gray and Lucy woke up from the mission they were on the other with you and had severe burns." Master Makarov said sternly.

"Hey I realise that I hurt them old man but it wasn't that bad, they had Gray and Lucy hostage as well as the villagers, it was either the burns or surrender and let them die what…" was Natsu response but he didn't finish as he felt someone's hand come into contact with his face. Erza Scarlet stood between the dragonslayer and the master after slapping the dragonslayer across the face.

"Erza?" "Natsu you don't know that, you made a rash, reckless stupid impulsive decision like you always do and ended up jeopardizing the lives of your teammates, Lucy's left arm and leg are almost completely covered in burns while most of Gray's chest is burnt. You may have saved us countless times in the past but that will never excuse your actions."

"But…" was all Natsu could say before he felt Makarovs magic surging. "You are hereby banished from Fairytail, I will give you one day to pack your things before we come for you. You have made an enemy of us Natsu and even if you were one of my children you shall receive Fairytail's wrath like any other enemy now go before I change my mind!" Makarov shouted snapping the Salamander from his daze.

As he left the Building teary eyed and confused his guild mark faded and he mind raced with what was happening. "What is happening? Sure I hurt them but if I hadn't they would have died why won't they listen? Why won't my family hear my words?" He thought as he walked down the street getting confused looks from the towns' folk. Then he remembered Erza's word "reckless, rash, stupid and impulsive."

Each word hurt him deeply itself, but coming from her made it hurt even more. "They won't understand me, they want me dead, they betrayed me… Fairytail betrayed me!" he growled at the thought that the people he was so close to wanted him dead but in reality that seemed like what they wanted.

Two months had passed since then and Natsu wanted to keep a low profile and had been doing well, no mages from his ex-guild found him yet so he figured he was doing a good job until he had run into the one Fairytail wizard he hoped hadn't heard about the News so he would be able to explain with the chance of death.

Natsu Dragneel ex-Fairytail wizard had run into Gildarts Clive Ace of Fairytail, most powerful wizard and in terms of who to be feared in battle he topped the charts. Luck was on the slayers side as Gildarts hadn't heard the news and fully understood where the slayer was coming from and wanted him to come back to Fairytail with him so he could straighten this whole thing out after he finished his newest decade quest but Natsu refused and explained he didn't feel at home in Fairytail anymore and so the two mages parted ways.

A month later and Natsu had discovered that Fairytail had done the unthinkable. "What did you bastard?" Natsu questioned the leader of a hooded group of figures. "You heard me pinkey, our guild received a request for your assassination under the clients Erza Scarlet and Makarov Dreyar but of course were a dark guild as I'm sure you can tell." The man declared in a dark tone. Natsu was frozen in shock, this wasn't the first Dark guild group he had fought he had fought numerous ones since he left Fairytail but this was the first he'd heard of an assassination request for him.

Taking advantage of his current state one of the Dark guild members jumped forward with a sword in an attempt to behead the Salamander. However Natsu snapped back out of his daze but not fast enough as he could only raise his right arm up in an attempt to block the sword but it only resulted in him losing his arm from the elbow down.

"RAAAGHHH!" he shouted out in pain, but had to recompose himself or he knew he would end up dead. Quickly he decided to use his roar to dispatch his opposing enemies in a quick fashion but collapsed afterwards due to the combination of the pain, blood loss and expenditure of magic.

"Ugh where am I?" Natsu said quickly raising his right arm up after suddenly being able to feel fingers. For the second time that day he was shocked beyond words as now in place of his hard he saw from his elbow down a metal prosthetic limb like Gildarts'. "What happened to me?" he said to himself. "Ah good you're awake, thank goodness I found you out in the forest so I rushed you back to my infirmary, we have limited supplies so I was only able regenerate your bones and not your arm I'm sorry." Said a young women who had short brown hair, Blue eyes and looked to be in her early twenties.

"No don't apologize you saved me, I really am greatly, it would have been a pain to only have one arm so thank you, you don't know how much I mean it." Natsu said bowing his head towards the women. "Anna my name is Anna and you're very welcome Mr.?" she said turning the last part into a question. Not wanting to give his name he quickly thought of another "Dragion, Haru Dragion but just call me Haru." he said mentally patting himself on the back.

"Oh Haru that means spring doesn't it, that's a lovely name." she said with a warm smile. "Does it I had no idea, anyway I have one question is this thing magically enhanced cause I would still like two hands to be able to use my magic you see I'm a fire mage." He asked "Don't worry that arm is a top of the line model that has a resistance to every kind of magic, I remember my Parents made one for a crash magic wizard some seven years ago who lost his arm and leg in a battle against some sort of creature even though the wizard had enough magic power to decimate a mountain in the blink of an eye. So you should be able to use your fire magic with that arm no bother. Anna told him smiling pointing to the ruins on the side of the arm.

Flashback end

"Three and half months huh, I wonder if Anna is okay because if she got in trouble for helping me or worse God himself won't be an obstacle." He said grinding his teeth in anger. "Maybe I'll visit her another day but right now I need to fix my pressing issue of money, if I can do some jobs here and there I can get myself some cash so I can eat something decent, fish almost every day is getting boring. Oh yeah the little bit I have left let me see… 600 jewel about enough for a standard bottle of hair dye but what colour?" He said to himself trying to think of a new hair colour that would suite him.

"I'll figure it out after I do some work." He said before walking off in the direction which he believed would take him to the nearest town. On his Way he caught two familiar scents and started looking around frantically until he saw a castle upon a distant hill, taking a sniff of the air he caught track of the two scents once more. "They're definitely up there maybe they can help me unless Erza has already got to him. Well it's worth a shot." He said before bolting for the castle.

After a few minutes he reached the Castle entrance and by the looks of it the place was deserted but he knew better a dragon's nose never lies. Knocking very loudly on the front door he then shouted "Oi Jellal Meredy it's me Natsu, I need to talk to you, just hear me out!" he shouted at the castle. After a moment or two Meredy poked her head out window and looked down "Oh Natsu it really is you, how you doing!?" She shouts down to him who only responds by raising his metal arm in the air.

"Oh my god hang on I'll get Jellal we'll be down in a minute okay." She shouts in a worried tone. "Take your time Meredy I'm in no rush." He replies.

Up with Meredy

Pulling her back into the room she ran down the hall to Jellal room and burst into the room. Jellal was taken by surprise at first but upon seeing the look on Meredy's face he opted to let her explain. Catching her breath she managed to say some words in between puffs. "Jellal…Natsu…here…need help…you follow…" was all she said before running to the gates of the castle with Jellal following close behind.

Opening the Doors of the castle they see Natsu with his arms folded leaning up against one of the various castle walls. "Good to see you guys is it alright if we talk about something?" He asked still hoping word hadn't reached them. "Of course Natsu, but the next you find me a Jellal's hideout try not to scream our names loud enough for the entire of Fiore to hear, we're still criminals after all." Meredy said half-heartedly.

"Wait you guys haven't heard yet?" he questioned the pair. "Heard what?" was the reply Jellal gave him. "Ah man I told Erza to tell you, doesn't matter well after the fight with the dragons the king was told of your involvement and has dropped all charges against you and will allow Crime Sorciere to became a legal guild, that would also mean you could get new members that would greatly help in your efforts in taking down dark guild neh." Natsu said with a grin knowing he would hit a sweet spot with Jellal.

Said blue haired man was currently shocked, as was Meredy they both had their mouths agape trying to form words which lasted for about a minute until Jellal finally recomposed himself. "Even if what you say is true Natsu we can't become a legal guild not after what me and Meredy have done we can't because…" he stopped when he felt a heavy metallic hand on his shoulder. Looking at the hand he saw it indeed belonged to Natsu but was made of metal.

He was about to ask what happened to his hand when the dragonslayer spoke up. "Stop beating yourselves up, you've made a couple of mistakes in the past so what we all have. Everyone deserves a second shot at trying to make a life for themselves, you cannot change your past, you may never be able to move on from it but you can accept, our pasts don't make us who we are what we do in the here and now does, at least think about it before you just blatantly refuse okay." Natsu said with a smile his voice carried an understanding but wise tone to it which was common when he spoke in these sort of situations.

There was a silence in the group both Jellal and Meredy were taking in Natsu's word both quite shocked that the food loving only lived for fighting dragonslayer could say such words. The silence remained until Meredy spoke up "Okay Natsu we'll think about it, but I take it whatever you're here to talk about involves your arm there doesn't it." She said to the dragonslayer who was now clutching the metallic limb with his other hand.

"We can talk inside, I'll make some tea" Jellal said in an almost emotionless tone. Walking in Natsu took in the sights of all the paintings that were still intact one of which particularly caught his attention. The painting was of a dragon that he immediately recognised as Acnologia coming down from the heavens breathing fire upon someone that appeared to be blocking the legendary dragon of the apocalypse. He stared for a minute before Jellal and Meredy called him over to sit down on a chair opposite them across a table.

"So what is so important you need to talk to us about it?" Jellal asked curiously as he prepared the tea. "Makarov and Erza have issued a warrant to all the dark guilds for my assassination" Natsu said in a stern a calm voice. Upon hearing both names along with assassination Jellal drop the tray in his hands causing all the cups to shatter. "What did you say?" he shakily asked shock laced throughout his as well as Meredy's features.

"I suppose I better start from the start." He said and then started to explain the whole predicament in every miniscule detail he could recall. After Natsu's story Jellal had a very worried explanation on his face. "You're right Natsu, the way they reacted it wasn't very Fairytail there was no understanding just assault. You say that Laxus, Gildarts and the Strauss siblings weren't present at the guild and that you met Gildarts while on the run who thoroughly understood your predicament didn't you?" Jellal stated at first but then questioned to make sure he had his Facts straight.

"Yeah, I've been on the run a little over 3 months now and a month ago I found out about the assassination request but I assume they've been going on longer seeing as had been attacked by dark guild members for the last 2 months however the last attack was when I found out about the request. "He said his voice just audible however both of his friends could clearly hear the sadness in his voice.

"Natsu I don't think the Fairytail members did this out of their own will to me this sounds more like the work of an extremely powerful mind control or memory spell, but if all of Fairytail was affected that would be a different story, they must have been in close proximity of the guild when casting the spell otherwise Gildarts would have probably attacked and killed you. Even so I'd have to say for a spell the powerful to control so many powerful wizards at once is was most likely a wide-range spell probably with a range of all over Magnolia, that would result in why Gildarts didn't attack you and if the Strauss siblings and Laxus were outside of Magnolia like he was then it is very likely they weren't affected." Meredy deduced using all the knowledge her mother figure Ultear had passed onto her before disappearing.

"You really think so?" Natsu said raising his head slightly as a glimmer of hope finally appeared from the darkness. "Yeah if my theory is correct that there is someone still within Magnolia all that has to be done is to find him and defeat him" She replied with a reassuring smile raising her right hand an index finger to the side of her face. "Okay

"That sounds great and all but even if it wasn't of their own free will I don't think I could ever return to Fairytail, yeah someone was manipulating them but in Fairytail the bonds between our family are what is most important, being the strongest Guild means nothing without bonds and when they are destroyed those bonds are nearly impossible to re-forge. That said I do want to still help them but if I go anywhere near Magnolia I could easily be attacked by the guild so I have another suggestion." He said while letting out a long sigh.

"What is your suggestion then?" Jellal asked as he leaned forwards on the chair he sat on. "Well there are two, the first one is that you and Meredy go find him and beat him and the second is that if luck would be on my side that we manage to come into contact with Laxus and Gildarts on their way back to the guild and let both of them take care of it but for now the first option seems to be the best." Natsu said to his companions with a renewed vigour. "I agree that would be the best option, so Meredy and I will set off immediately while you stay hear should all go to plan we will be back by nightfall and I take you don't want me saying anything about your where abouts." Jellal said with a hint of sorrow in his voice he knew that this was a hard and trying experience for Natsu and truly felt sorry for him.

"More or less just tell that you saw the information about my assassination in a dark guild you took down, I'll be waiting till you guys return and by the way there isn't a bath in this place I haven't been able to get one in a while?" Natsu said to the pair before asking the completely unrelated question about bathing causing to seat drop.

"The bath is the second door on your right when you take the first set of stairs and as long as you're sure about not saying anything about you then I guess it is fine." Meredy said looking back at Natsu through the entrance of the Castle. "Meredy, Jellal thank-you so much for doing this, I may not ever be able to go back to Fairytail but at least I still have my connections to all my friends." He said following up with his signature toothy smile that made the Sensory link mage's heart skip a beat.

Quickly turning her head forward so that Natsu couldn't see the blush on her face Meredy felt her surroundings go blank as she plunged into thought. "What was that, why is my heart beating so fast I barely know the guy, sure he good looking NOOO! Stop thinking like that Meredy just because he has an amazing body doesn't mean…ahhhh! What wrong with me?" Meredy screamed internally at her inner debate on the dragonslayer's looks causing her face to redden and not notice that Jellal had taken her hand.

"Hold on tight Meredy" he said before crouching.

"Eh?" Meredy sounded finally coming back to reality only to hear.

"Meteor!" Jellal shouted activating the spell causing the two to rocket off towards Magnolia.

"AAAAHHHHH!" was all Meredy could scream out the insane speeds muffling the scream and her voice somewhat but Jellal still managed to pick up bits and pieces like "Jellal I hate you so much" and "slow the down or I swear to god I'll kill you" but he pay attention to what she said instead out his newly found humourus streak increased his speed muffling Meredy's screams further.

Back at Crime Sorciere current base

Natsu was out back behind the castle in the few weeks he had his new arm he had yet to test it out to see if it was durable enough to fight with both physically and magically so decided to take it for a test before he would go for a bath. Eyeing up a boulder he got in a fighting stance and started breathing in a rhythmic fashion before leaping forward and slamming his bare metal fist into the surface of the boulder.

Upon impact no damage apart from the initial fist print seemed to be present on the boulder which was a 3 metres wides and 5 metres high. Retracting his fist he could see that no damage had been done to the prosthetic limb and so was pleased with its first performance, but was even more pleased when cracks started to extend throughout the boulder from where he hit it. He stood there with a grin taking pride in his handwork as he watched it fall apart. "Not bad for the first test run, now how will yo do magically?" he said with his attention directed towards his gauntlet like fist.

"Okay I'll start off with the basic and work my way up to lightning flame mode." He said to himself before nodding. Walking into a clearing he cast he cast spell after spell repeating two or three times if he didn't think it was strong enough. Before Natsu knew it the sun was setting and he was preparing his final spell for the last time. "Advanced Dragonslayer's Secret Art; Crimson Lotus Exploding Lightning Blade!" he roared out swiping his arms in a circular motion the left covered in lightning while his prosthetic right arm was coated in flames.

As both arms swung in a circular motion the lightning and Flames met and fused together proceeding forward tearing up the earth and then exploding on contact with a hillside sending shockwaves throughout the area. "Damn I'm totally drained, at least this thing held up so I won't have to worry about that during a fight or something. Ah man better take that bath before Jellal and Meredy and Meredy get back." He said with a sigh at the end not knowing what to expect from their endeavours.

After making his way to the bathroom and getting into the bath he had drawn himself he had to admit that it was damn nice for a place that looked so runned down. "Aw man it feels nice to actually have a bath for a change." He said aloud as let his body sink beneath the water. He was in total relaxation mode when he was sure he heard the doors of the castle slam shut but shrugged it off as the wind, oh how wrong he was.

As he went back to relaxing he then heard the familiar voice along with words that filled his mind with dread from past experiences. "Jellal you go find Natsu and tell him the good news I'm off for a bath." Meredy said in a sing song voice. Natsu started panicking but was unable to do nor say anything when Meredy burst into the bathing in nothing but her birthday suit stark naked the day she was born giving the dragonslayer a full frontal view of everything.

Meredy had yet to notice him as he hadn't made a sound but upon opening her eyes she saw the dragonslayer sitting in the bath trying to contain a nosebleed with his face the same colour as Erza's hair. Both mages were frozen in pace for a few secs as a comical gust of wind dragged along a random tumbleweed from somewhere. It was all silent neither mages moved nor made a sound until Meredy covered herself up with whatever she could before summoning several teal swords surrounding Natsu and shouting loud enough for all of Fiore to hear

"PERVERT!"

Okay that's this chapter, not sure if I've done it right but for my idea most of what happened in this chapter isn't the main story, as I'm sure you've all guessed where I'm going with this but in case some of you haven't then I won't say. All I can say is that later chapters if story gets poplar enough will involve shit with the Tartarus arc which in the anime right is better than I expected although it can't compare to the anime it's still for the anime which until recent episode had practically if not zero blood spill tolerance and that's why the manga is better because they make the characters look so much more badass, Anyways show the story a little love if you like it, aren't enough craic pairing stories of Natsu and Meredy/Merudy/Meldy till next time if there is there is one hahaha…ha…ha:(