Hargeon Town

The sunless sky covered the woods over the treetops which created a canopy. There was a gentle breeze, creating the single sound of rustling leaves. Not a single person was seen at the sight, but a cave.

Cave was deep inside. It wasn't bright but it wasn't even dark, light lacrima did its job lighting up the cave. Deep inside the cave there were two children sleeping soundly. One of them was a strawberry blonde girl and another one was a pink hair boy. The girl shuffled her body waking up from her peaceful sleep. But when the girl woke up there was a frown formed in her face for not seeing someone specific beside her.

"Igneel?" She mumbled under her breath but her low and raspy voice echoed around the cave.

The girl rushed out of the cave after not getting any reply by her only guardian. "Igneel" she again shouted but again she got no response in back, not even a single roar from the sky. Waking up from strawberry blonde's screams, the pink hair boy came outside the cave rubbing his eyes. "Why are you shouting, Mei" he asked. His tone was raspy afterall he just woke up from his sleep. The girl frowned upon seeing the boy awake."Sorry Natsu, I didn't mean to wake you up, but Igneel is nowhere to be seen and he isn't even replying my calls for him." Natsu was about to say something but Mei cut him off saying, "I know I shouldn't be worrying about him for not seeing him for fews minutes, but he used to wake us up early morning before the sun rise, but today, it's afternoon right now and he still didn't woke us up" Hearing the pink hair boy noticed his surroundings and noticed that the girl was right. "I am scared Natsu." The strawberry blonde looked at pink haired eyes with despair in her eyes. Natsu didn't understand what emotion was in her eyes but understood the fact that girl was scared beyond anything. "He must be in this area let's find him together. He won't be abandoning us this soon." She nodded in response.

Both of them separated in different way. Mei went to east side of the forest and Natsu went to the west. The only thing good about this was that they were familiar with the surroundings and chances of them getting lost was negligible. After few hours of wandering around and searching for him both returned to the same place where they started from.

"Did you find him?" the strawberry blonde shoke her head in response, trying her best to hold back her tears.

"Igneel this isn't funny, come out" the twelve year old girl shouted in open sky bursting into tears.

The girl jolted awake. Sweat drops were on her forehead. She puts her hand in her face, realising that what she saw was a dream. Her sudden actions woke the pink exceed beside her.

"Did you have a bad dream?" The pink cat questioned.

It was a calm day, and they were resting at the side of a large oak tree, in the middle of woods which was on their way to Hargeon town. The sun was above them creating a shadow of the tree over them. Breeze was gentle. Rustling of leaves was heard.

"Yeah, I did. Did I woke you up? I am so sorry." The strawberry blonde apologized and put the pink cat in her lap gently rubbing her fur gently.

"It's alright Mei, what matters right now is you. Are you alright after the dream you saw? You can tell me if anything, I am always here for you" the cat said rubbing her own fur against the strawberry blonde's hand.

"Nah I am fit and fine. Leaving my dream aside let's go Hargeon town. Maybe the Salamander in the rumours is Natsu. It's been a long time since I last met him. I want to see how big he has become." Mei said setting Luna in ground and picking up her backpack, which she was using as a pillow to sleep.

"Let's go then" Luna said opening her small wings and flying at head level of Mei. She closed her wings once she sat on Mei's shoulder.

Walking out of the forest they saw a town with train station. "Okay I guess it will take half an hour for us to reach there in train. You okay with it?"

"Yes if you okay with it." The pink cat said in response. The girl nodded stating that she heard her friend. The train station wasn't much far from where they were standing, it would take 5 minutes to reach the train station.

**Time skip**

Finally after trip of half hour the girl and her exceed reached the town.

Hargeon is one of the Fiore's ports and also one of its most beautiful old towns. The town is more prosperous and renowned in fishing rather than Magic, because only 10% of the people in the town have the ability to use Magic. Like any port city, it has its own large marina, located in the southern part of town.

"So, Where is this Salamander of yours?" The pink exceed asked messing with the dragon Slayer's hair. "First of all, he isn't my Salamander, second we two treat each other like siblings though I don't say it aloud and lastly I have no idea about where he would be right now, so the only thing we can do is roaming around." She said to her exceed without removing her eyes from the streets.

After few seconds of wandering around for few minutes, two girls passed beside the dragon Slayer and the exceed yelling "I can't believe he really came to this town." "I agree I even heard he is famous fire mage." The girl's talked to eachother, unknown to them someone else was also listening to their conversation.

The Dragon Slayer and exceed looked at each other "That's must be him" both of them said in unison.

They ran behind the girls, which lead them to crowd of girls. The man was hidden by the bunch of girls. After all pushing - pulling of girls she reached the centre of crowd, noticing someone totally different then she excepted.

"You are Salamander!??" The girl asked the man pointing the finger on him. "Yes lady. I guess you want my autograph. Here you go." He said handing her his autograph. The other girls were going crazy and that's when the notice the charm ring in man's finger. Smiling awkwardly the dragon slayer thanked him, getting out of the crowd.

After getting out the crowd and walking few steps away from the crowd, she started to stare at autograph. "What are you going to do of it?" The exceed asked dragon slayer. The quickly burnt it down until it turn into ash. "Nothing" she said looking at her exceed and smiling at it innocently.

In process they walked past to the one they were supposed to be real Salamander.

...The world is surely small...

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