Oommph!

Once again Shiryu finds himself hugging the concrete ground

“What the hell–

Ummphffkk!”

As he lifts his head back up to angrily exclaim, a running knee punts it right back down

“I didn’t forget you” grunts his attacker

Grabbing Shiryu by the neck he lifts him above him

“Natsu put him down,” Fuyu says in the most nonchalant way possible

“I was the one who took you out last night”

“I know but I rather pick on this thing than fight you or the chief right now,”

“I’m not a punching bag!” Shiryu yanks himself out of the orange haired man’s grip

Stamppkk!

And immediately gets kicked down by a flaming foot

“Yeah, because I can kick you to”

(This is getting tiresome, should I …)

“Enough of this Natsu I was going to test myself on Shiryu first!”

“Then show me your resolve” Natsu’s hair engulfs his flames along with his fists as he then dashes at his sister

“Ice golems” Fuyu conjures the animated statutes surrounding her

“And also, Ice–no actually…

Never mind,” the woman cancels her spell, causing the golems to disappear right as Natsu had jumped at one

Thud!

All the momentum causes him to crash into ground

“I am bored of this,” yawns the young woman

“You have fun with my brother I’ll see you around maybe” she gives him a plastic smile before trotting away

“No, I’m coming with–”

“–You heard the girl” Natsu already up, grabs Shiryu’s shoulder with his flaming hand,

“What is your problem!?” he aggressively pushes him back

“Revenge” shrugs Natsu

“From me?

I wasn’t the one that knocked you out, I was getting whipped last night by you and your brother,”

“Granddad said that you are a dragon, I want to test myself against you”

“I’m not that kind of dragon,”

“You resist my fire though”

“My scales are naturally fire resistant”

“Ok, well let me test the extent of that with my fire”

“Noooo…

Don’t you have a job or something to do here?”

“Who are you a stranger, let alone a monster to try and tell me what I should or should not be doing in my town?”

“Can I go after Fuyu now?” Shiryu groans those words out

“Stay away from that one she will turn you into one of her ice puppets if you’re not careful”

“She does that?”

“That’s only a little of it” Natsu outs his flames finally cooled off

(This guy seems simple enough)

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“Sir Natsu, can I ask you a question about your family?”

“Eh?

Go ahead”

“Why do you not love each other?”

“…Because that’s how it’s supposed to be, for us to be strong,

Are trying to get a class or something?”

“What class?”

“I teach the way of the warrior classes,” Natsu points to the some of the schooling buildings near by

“Nah, too much people over here, I would just end up getting attacked again,”

“Then fight back,

You are a dragon just like my grandfather right?”

(Scary old man)

“I’m not his kind of dragon either,”

“You are a queer chap Shiryu, we should have a real battle later to understand each other”

“Or talk like regular people…”

“Talk?

That is reserved for weak people, do you know if two gods of immeasurable strength had conflict the only way it could be solved would be a good old-fashioned fist fight?”

“I’ve heard the saying, it’s also true that the fight would have no winner only dead gods,”

“Hmn, that is what would’ve happened if Fuyu and I fought just now” Natsu proclaims confidently

(Not sure why)

“You fell easy to her requiem last night,”

“I was caught off guard, just as I was about to use my hear no evil she had to interrupt,”

“What does it do?”

Natsu smirks in a gloating manner

“By shutting myself off from the sounds around I go into a berserk burst of firepower, that makes me the most powerful person here for a few minutes,”

“Yet Aki is still the chief”

“Aki uses underhanded tactics to win fights, she could not take me on fairly, neither could Fuyu”

(Speaking of…)

Shiryu looks off in the direction the girl had headed, she has already disappeared

(Wasted too much time talking to this guy,

Now I have to risk walking around here alone)

“I wonder why Fuyu just left like that” he sighs out loud

“We don’t like being around each other much” Natsu replies already he begins to walk off

“Why?” Shiryu begrudgingly follows him

(I gotta get Aki to formally introduce me to the people here)

“That’s how granddad raised us,

It’s always a competition between the four of us, we are each other’s enemies”

“Do your parents not have a say in the matter?”

“Ha!

Parents?

Our father was the previous chief who died foolishly

And our mothers…

We don’t talk about it but if my memory serves me correct…

When we still small children…

Grandfather slaughtered them all right in front of us.”