S.R: HI guys. This is another one of the three stories I warn you was coming and yeah I know it's been more than a week (I said all three of them would being coming within a week of the last updated chapter for Fairy Dragon's Family). Blame the beta readers taking longer with these other two (especially the other one).

Natsu: What's so special about this one?

S.R: Well all the dragon slayers are more bad ass. I mean what if there was something beyond Dragon Force?

Natsu: Chaos?

S.R:

Stage 1. regular dragon slayer magic.

State 2. Dragon Style: Doubled magic strength.

Stage 3. Dragon Force: Doubled magic output and physical capabilities.

Stage 4. Dragon Drive: Doubled magic strength, enhanced physical capabilities, skin turns to scales. Stage 5. Evolved Dragon Drive: Doubled magic strength, enhanced physical capabilities, skin turns to scales, tier 2 dragon slayer skills are now usable.

Stage 6. Dragon Mode: Transforms into a dragon, has their magic power quadrupled, their senses are 20 times sharper, physical capabilities are now on par with dragons.

Natsu: Holy shit… but why?

S.R: Dragons are impossibly tough, I mean none of the dragon slayers could defeat a dragon during the grand magic games and their magic is supposed to do allow them to do that. They were too weak. Now with my stages I came up with it makes sense. It also allows for me to still call Acnologia a corrupted slayer and not a dragon. Now I'm not trying to make it so the dragon slayers are the strongest and unbeatable since everyone is getting buffed up to somewhat balance out this new scale. But I'm making it so you dragon slayers could actually go toe to toe with dragons like your supposed to.

Natsu: Anything else?

S.R: you could defend yourself from a dragon with stage 4, but it'd be a tough battle. Also there are requirements to being able to use the 2nd through 6th stages.

Stage 1. Basic- no requirements

Stage 2. powered up magic- must have perfect control over your magic (if you can't control it you can't use it properly and will go insane)

Stage 3. powered up magic and body- must be in peak physical condition (otherwise the increased strength will tear and destroy muscle)

Stage 4. powered up and scales- must have enough magic to maintain it (the amount of magic you have is not how strong it is. Magic strength is how powerful the spells are)

Stage 5. powered up, scales, second level magic- ? requirement (labeled this way because no dragon slayer has access to stage 5 yet other than Acnologia and he won't tell anyone anyway)

Stage 6. transformation- ? requirement (same as stage 5's parenthesis)

Natsu: I wasn't asking for more info on the dragon slayer abilities…

S.R: I know but I wanted to point out that I wasn't going to give you or the others the strongest forms for a while. But I do want to point out the pairing in this one. You, Natsu will be with Erza, Mira, and Ultear (just to shake my writing up a bit).

Natsu: different, but okay and doable. Is this one going to follow cannon?

S.R: Kinda… It'll start with when Gajeel lead you guys to the Dragon Graveyard from there I have no clue what I'm going to do with it, also it will be in Natsu's point of view for the most part.

Natsu: Alright. Let's do this. I'm all fired up!

S.R: FIRST I HAVE TO DO THE DISCLAIMER.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM FAIRY TAIL. JUST THIS STORY ALL BY ITSELF.

NATSU'S POV

"Where the hell are we going metal head?" I questioned Gajeel eager to see what had him acting so serious. He just grunted at me before saying we had another minute or so until we were there. Sighing I rolled my eyes and continued walking privately acknowledging Happy's musing as to this being something dragon slayer related as probable, and slightly irritated that Gray and Lucy were with us. I didn't have long to think on that before the cave path we had been following opened up into a gigantic cavern littered with bones. Wendy and I kept walking even after Lucy and Gray stopped since we were following the iron freak in slightly further to get a better look around.

"What animals could have left bones this size?" Lucy asked sounding confused. Shaking my head at her and replying in unison with Gajeel "These are dragon bones dummy." She fumed at us for calling her dumb, but was silenced when Wendy told her to be quiet "You and Gray don't belong here, and are lucky we didn't throw a fit about you coming with us… Gajeel do you know how old these bones are?" Lucy and Gray just stared at Wendy in shock over her sudden rudeness. Gajeel shook his head saying he didn't have enough light in the cavern at the time. I stepped up next to him and one of the smaller bones in the room. Creating a light in my hand I looked it over, having an actual conversation with Gajeel comparing what we noticed.

"These bones are too old to be our dragons. They're at least four hundred years old." I answered Wendy with a small smile. We just stood around awkwardly for a moment before Wendy jumped up "I have an idea. I need you two to back up a bit though" she said waiting for us to do as she asked before setting up an intricate magic circle. Standing in the circle she began to chant casting a spell I'd never seen before. Watching the spell work I noticed that after Wendy clapped her hands together a weird looking portal opened up and out stepped a semi transparent dragon. Realization dawned on me as I noticed it didn't make contact with anything. "Let's get down to business. Your a dragon soul that was summoned so that we could ask what happened here and you will answer because we are dragon slayers, not to mention my father is Igneel the Fire Dragon King" I spoke with authority taking control of the situation and preventing the spirit from playing any tricks on us.

"Aw, that takes all the fun out of things, but you must have very good instincts considering only Grandeeney and or any children she taught the magic to would know how to summon a soul or even that the spell was for summoning souls" the soul spoke. I nodded my head at the compliment before gesturing for the dragon to explain. "I was known as Zirconis when I was alive. And before I go on the only reason I'm answering your questions is because you are Igneel's son and while I may have disagreed with him on you humans I still respected him" Zirconis spoke. I bowed my head in thanks before asking "who could have been capable of carnage on this level, with dragons no less?!"

"That thing does not deserve to be called a who!" Zirconis growled out before saying "all of the bodies you see here are dragons that were murdered by a dragon slayer who became corrupted by power, transforming into a dragon himself. I hope that bastard gets destroyed just as viciously as he killed us." Widening my eyes in shock I look up at him realizing Zirconis was talking about Acnologia. "The black dragon, Acnologia did this" I stated for the others who seemed confused. Zirconis just nodded his head. Before anything else could be asked his image began to waiver. Wendy was straining to maintain the spell now, so sharing a look with Zirconis I told Wendy to let go of the spell. Zirconis bid us farewell as he faded out of existence. "Ice freak, Luce go on ahead of us" I told Lucy and Gray.

Gray was about to retort when Lucy grabbed his arm and started walking away.

A few moments later I heard Gray asking Lucy why they left and why the should listen to me. Snorting at his idiocy I turned back to Gajeel and Wendy. "I know you noticed it metal head. But you were so focused on holding the spell I don't think you did Wendy" I started receiving an apology from her that I told her was unnecessary. "He was hiding something. Plus the way he spoke so freely… There's no way it was just because his respect for your pops Salamander" Gajeel responded adding his two cents in as well. Nodding in agreement I crouched down to pick Wendy up "There's nothing we can do about it right now so lets go catch up with them. Go ahead and rest a bit now Wendy. You'll need some energy for the games."

As we walked out of the caves Wendy asked me if we should tell and or show Sting and Rogue from Sabertooth since they are also dragon slayers. Gajeel and I shook our heads at the question knowing Sting wouldn't listen or care, and Rogue would follow Sting. Knowing the importance of what we found and learned we did decide to tell Gramps. I knew Lucy would stay silent, but I'd have to force Gray to be quiet about it so Once we were back with the rest of the guild I started a guild brawl as a cover for stomping Gray into the ground. As we fought I told him in hushed whispers "Do not tell anyone about what we saw in the cave. It's really important and very dangerous knowledge." Gray got the message, and slowly but surely the brawl ended.

Everyone got chewed out by Gramps for causing such a ruckus, but we knew he was doing it for show since the brawl wasn't in the safety and comfort of our guild hall. Gajeel, Wendy, and I waited a few minutes before walking up to Gramps at the bar and silent shooing the others away. "Hey master, we found something we wanted to tell you about" I spoke using the word master instead of calling him Gramps so he'd know it was a serious discussion. He nodded and the four of us went into a private room that. "We found a secret Cavern under the arena. In that cavern is a graveyard of dragon bones" we told him, before explaining what we learned. "I can't do anything until after the games, as the council refuses to have a meeting while the games are going on" he commented bitterly.

"We figured that was the case, but wanted to give you the heads up." Gajeel replied with a sigh. "Since we can't do anything about it there's no need to stay riled up. Natsu I know how serious this is but I think you need to continue acting like an idiot so the others don't get suspicious." Gramps told us before directing his words to me. I chuckled to myself as I asked how he saw through my act. Giving me a knowing smile Gramps said nothing. Realizing I wasn't going to get an answer I laughed once more before we left the room we were talking in to rejoin the others. Thankfully Erza was the only one to notice our disappearance and reappearance. All it took for her to stay quiet was a shake of his head from Gramps. But she did glance at me a little angry to be left out, which told me she wasn't going to stay quiet for long.

Gajeel noticed the glance as well but mistook the angry red that just barely graced her skin as a blush. Snorting at whatever he was thinking he turned to me "Hey Salamander, looks like Titania's got her eye on you" I just decked him as I mumbled to myself "I wish that was the case..." forgetting that the metal freak was also a dragon slayer, only to have him wrap his arm around my neck and drag me off to a corner signaling for Wendy and Laxus to join us.

"What do you want?" Laxus asked gruffly seeming annoyed at being distracted. "You might not be a first gen dragon slayer like us but you still have the same instincts and bond with us. We might not show it but the four of us have a deeper family bond than the others do. You know that as well as we do" Gajeel started before continuing "As such we need to have a little talk with Natsu here."

Laxus's eyes widened as he realized Gajeel was being serious. He nodded his head in agreement while Wendy just asked why we needed to talk. "As you two know Natsu has marked Erza as a potential mate. But now he won't man up and talk to her about it" he explained.

Wendy squealed quietly telling me "You two would be sooooooooo cute together, not to mention she'd make an awesome older sister" indirectly calling me her older brother which brought a smile to my face. Laxus smirked at me as he commented "I don't know about what Wendy said but, if you're too weak to tell her how you feel-" before I cut him off "Considering one thing you guys seem to have forgotten it's not quite that simple." Wendy just cocked her head to the side in thought as Gajeel and Laxus both gave me a questioning look. "As the son of Igneel I'm not just the Fire Dragon Slayer. I'm the Fire Dragon King Slayer. As the King Dragon Slayer I also inherit the trait of having multiple mates. That means Erza isn't the only one I'd have as a mate and who in their right mind would be understanding of that?" I questioned, without mentioning that Erza wasn't the only one that was marked as a potential mate of mine.

Laxus nodded his head in understanding as Gajeel grunted in acknowledgment, but Wendy reached over and poked me as she said "If she felt the same for you she'd have to be understanding of that, because it'd be share you or loose you!" As she finished speaking she looked up at my face only to make an eeepping sound. At this point we realized that we were so focused on the talk that we didn't hear the guild slowly going quiet as someone listening in on us was sharing the info with the guild as a whole. Turning my head I saw Warren standing behind me with his eyes closed and a smile on his face as he used his telepathy magic to share the conversation with the guild.

It took him a second to realize there was no more talk in the guild hall period, before he opened his eyes and saw my glare. Paling Warren turned away from us and ran like a bat out of hell. Before I could give chase Erza had made her way to my side, grabbed my shoulder, and dragged me into a room for a not so private talk considering with my enhanced senses I knew Wendy and a few others had their ears on the door listening in.

ERZA'S POINT OF VIEW

"Natsu I understand your point I really do but Wendy is right. If the people you want as mates love you as well they'd have to understand and share you or they'd loose out on the chance to be with you. All you have to do is explain yourself. So please don't hide your feelings from anyone, it wouldn't be fair to them." I told Natsu as I held his gaze in mine. After a moments silence he sighed and said "Alright. Erza you are one of the women I love and want to be with, but I can't be with just you as its not in my nature to have one mate thanks to being a Fire King Dragon Slayer… But don't force yourself to do anything. I don't want you to feel obligated to since someone told you before I was ready to tell you. I'm fine with whatever you want but please don't force yourself to or fake anything for my sake."

Smiling at his honesty I pushed him into a chair and sat on his lap "Listen to me here Natsu. I'm not going to fake anything or force myself to do something. I like you, yes that is true. Love you? I don't know, but I am willing to give us a try. As for sharing you, that is fine with me. You've done so much for me the least I can do is consider your feelings and be respectful of them." Natsu just smiled back at me as he wrapped his arms around my waist and gave me a hug. "Thanks Erza. I'll tell you more about things later, but for now it will remain private because we have some people listening in" he said as we heard some squeals through the door.

Nodding in agreement, I stood up and offered him one more smile before walking out of the room and yelling at people for listening in. Most of them apologized but Wendy gave me a hug calling me her big sister which brought a smile to a lot of peoples faces including my own, but Mira just gave me a halfhearted smile and thumbs up. "It's almost time for today's games to start, so we'll celebrate your new relationship when we come back" Master said after glancing at the clock.

S.R: This was supposed to be longer, but my beta reader told me I had too much going on in one chapter and to cut it where I did after fixing a few things (namely changing some of the vocabulary). Any who see y'all next time!