The Beginning

The bright sunshine shone on the vast mountains,Though he was seeing a spectacular scene, the young man's mood was not so bright.

The boy was about ten years old, with a handsome face and blonde hair hanging loosely on his shoulders. He was obviously an out-and-out brat, but his face was full of sorrow that was inconsistent with his age.

The boy's upper body only had a dark red scarf with dragon scale patterns, and his small body actually had some muscle outlines.1

"Haizel, come and duel with me. I will definitely defeat you today!"

The young man sighed, hearing the challenge behind him but still had no desire to move at all.

With a tilt of his head, the boy named Haizel dodged a small fist coming towards him.

"Hey! Let me tell you...Natsu, it's time that you finally learn your lesson!"

As he spoke, Haizel raised his arm and punched the other boy behind him in the face.

"Damn! I lost to Haizel again!"

The cherry-haired boy's eyes turned into spinning circles like mosquito coils, and he fell down.

But soon the cherry-haired boy jumped up, pointed at Haizel and said: "One day I will surpass Haizel, Remember it!"

After saying these seemingly cruel words, the cherry-haired boy turned around and ran away when he saw Haizel's raised fist again!

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Natsu is still so energetic!"

A loud voice came from above his head, but Haizel showed no signs of panic.

The shadow that had been covering Haizel suddenly moved. It turned out that the thing that was blocking the sun was not a big tree or a mountain, but a huge creature.

If you look closely, it's clearly a giant dragon with red scales, sharp teeth and claws.

It is this giant dragon that has been blocking the sun with its body and protecting Haizel.

Haizel sighed and said, "Igneel, don't pamper Natsu all the time. You should be strict sometimes!"

The giant dragon named Igneel let out a human laugh and said, "Stop saying such stingy words. Aren't you and Natsu both growing up very well?"

Haizel smiled and shook his head. Of course he agreed with what Igneel said. After all, he knew exactly what kind of person Natsu would grow into in the future.

Because Natsu's full name is Etherious Natsu Dragneel, and he is the protagonist of this world.

Yes, this world is exactly the world described in the comic Fairy Tail that Haizel once read, and Haizel has been isekai'ed into it.

Although there were many dissatisfactions in his previous life as a working man, God knows how devastated Haizel was when he saw a bloody mouth as soon as he opened his eyes and turned into a baby.

Fortunately, the owner of the bloody mouth is a being with wisdom and reason, and he is a giant dragon that only exists in fantasy worlds.

What's even more fortunate is that this giant dragon is still the most friendly existence to humans.

In this way, Haizel was adopted by a giant dragon. Because he had just traveled through time, he was thinking about what he should be called in this life.

And after learning that the dragon's name was Igneel, Haizel also knew what world he had come to.

Sure enough, when Haizel was three years old, Igneel came with a cherry-haired boy behind him, who was the protagonist of this world, Natsu.

By the way, Haizel's full name in this world is Haizel ryusei, which means Shooting Star.2

According to Igneel, Haizel appeared in front of him as a falling meteor.

And Haizel's body is also unusual. After finally traveling through, Haizel of course has his own golden finger.3

In addition to his familiarity with the plot and outstanding mental strength, Haizel also has a physique that can accommodate all attributes of magic power like a sea that accommodates all currents without being affected by it.

In other words, dragon-slaying magic will not have the side effect of dragon transformation on Haizel. That's why Igneel felt confident teaching Haizel dragon-slaying magic.

Unlike the young Natsu, the more mature Haizel learned more magical knowledge from Igneel and the teacher who appeared later, the female celestial mage Anna Heartfilia.

So of course, Haizel was much stronger than Natsu at this time because of this. Ever since Natsu started learning dragon-slaying magic, he has challenged Haizel six hundred and sixteen times, and so far he has lost all of them without being able to touch him even once.

But Natsu showed no sign of being discouraged. He was worthy of being a passionate protagonist.

Igneel lowered his head, and the young Haizel leaned next to him habitually. He and Igneel remained silent like this.

After a long time, Igneel broke the silence and said: "The time is almost up!"

Haizel was silent for a long time and said with a trembling voice: "Is there no other way?"

Igneel did not answer, but his silence already given Haizel the answer.

The origin of everything is the existence named Acnologia, the dragon-slayer mage who completely transformed into a dragon and became the Dragon King.

Acnologia, who was originally just a human, had everything taken away by a dragon he trusted, so he was driven by hatred to practice dragon-slaying magic with the intention of annihilating all dragons.

But as his dragon power gradually awakened, and as he killed more and more dragons, he finally transformed into the black dragon. At the same time, he also lost all human emotions and rationality.

He is already the true incarnation of destruction, the dark wings that swallow up the light.

At that time, some people realized that Acnologia would endanger the security of the entire world sooner or later, and they had to be prepared.

Among these people were Zeref, who was later known as the Black Mage, and Anna Heartfilia, who taught Haizel and other children.

Especially Zeref, who lost his parents and younger brother to the dragon, and later continued to prepare to destroy the Black Dragon King.

Not only humans, but the group headed by Igneel among the dragons also formulated a plan.

The plan is for Igneel and the other five dragons to teach the chosen children dragon-slaying magic. After all, against the giant dragon, only dragon-slaying magic can do some damage.

Then Anna Heartfilia and her descendant Layla Heartfilia jointly activated the Eclipse Gate in two eras, sending these children who represented hope to an era filled with magic four hundred years later.

In order to avoid the side effects of dragon-slaying magic, Igneel will use the Soul Dragon Technique to enter Natsu's body to create antibodies that inhibit the dragon seed.

Of course, that was also to put an end to Acnologia when he will meet him again four hundred years later.

After all, because of Acnologia's dragon-slaying magic, all the dragons had actually had their souls extracted and killed. Choosing to sleep in children's bodies is also the last resort.

But this also means that Igneel will have to say goodbye to Haizel and Natsu, and the next time they meet will be a real farewell.

Although Igneel is a dragon, Haizel can feel his sincere love for Natsu and himself, and he has already regarded him as a relative.

Sometimes Haizel also envied Natsu, who could always be so carefree without knowing it.

Igneel could feel the sadness on Haizel's body, and suddenly said: "Don't be so disappointed!"

Igneel stretched out his claws, pointed the tip of his claws at Haizel's chest and said, "I will always keep an eye on you and Natsu! But you will have to work hard from now on. Natsu is a problematic child, and So I have to ask you, The elder brother, to take care of him." !"

  Haizel looked at Igneel and nodded solemnly.

  ...

The separation was so unexpected. One morning, when Haizel removed Natsu's legs from his body and walked out of the cave where he slept, there was no trace of Igneel.

Although he knew that Igneel was now in Natsu's body, Haizel still couldn't help but feel a sadness.

Just when Haizel felt lost, a blond woman appeared in sight.

"Teacher Anna!" Haizel greeted listlessly.

The person who came was none other than Haizel's teacher Anna Heartfilia, the most important executor of Igneel's plan.

Anna also understood Haizel's mood, reached out and touched Haizel' head and said, "Thank you for your hard work!"

Anna understood what Haizel was carrying, and at the same time she felt even more sorry for her most mature student.

Haizel shook his head and said: "This is Igneel's decision, and it is also my commitment to him! It's nothing hard!"

After saying that, Haizel turned around and walked back to the cave, carrying Natsu with the sleeping bag still hanging on his nose.

"Teacher Anna, let's go!" Haizel said firmly.

Anna nodded and took Haizel to the predetermined place.

In front of him is a huge portal, so huge that a body even as huge as Igneel can pass through the door at will. The door was engraved with astrolabe and pointer patterns, which looks particularly spectacular.

Eclipse Gate, a super magical tool created by Zeref uses the power of the stars to locate a different time and space, thereby achieving the effect of traveling through time. It can only be opened with the help of twelve zodiac keys in Celestial Spirit magic.

In front of the door, four equally young children were already waiting there. They were all sleeping deeply like Natsu.

Anna looked at Haizel and the other five children and said, "Now, let's go to the future! Four hundred years later!"

(End of chapter)