Natsu Dragneel

For Natsu's Edolas counterpart, see Natsu Dragion.

Natsu Dragneel sometimes incorrectly romanized as Natsu Dragonil, is a Fire Dragon Slayer, a member of the Fairy Tail Guild and leader of Team Natsu. He is the main male protagonist of the Fairy Tail series.

Appearance
Natsu is a average height, lean built person with tan skin, black eyes, and spiky rose-colored hair. He always wears a scarf that is detailed with white scales that was given to Natsu by his adoptive father, Igneel. Natsu has a scar on the right side of his neck, that is visible in the few instances he does not wear his scarf. His red member's stamp is located at the top of his right arm, just below his shoulder.

Throughout the series, Natsu's outfit mainly consists of a black waistcoat with gold trimmings over his chest with no shirt underneath, short white trousers that go down to his knees, a wide black wristband on his left wrist and sandals along with his trademark scarf. He has also been known to wear a rolled up comforter strapped across his back, though he rarely carries it in battle.

More images can be seen in Bonus Gallery

Personality
Natsu has a carefree and reckless nature and, despite his constant brawls with the other members of the guild, is a fiercely loyal and protective friend. He has a particularly close and competitive relationship with fellow members, Gray Fullbuster and Erza Scarlet, while staying at Lucy's house Erza revealed that the three of them even used to take shower together.

Natsu thinks things through in a straightforward manner that usually involves taking things "head on" which can aid him, usually accidentally. Even when faced with obvious or previous hostility, he rarely holds a grudge or negative feelings towards an enemy, usually seeing the good in them. Though, one of the people he did held a grudge with is Jellal Fernandes but after which, forgave him and even tried to defend him from the Magic Council as he considered him an ally. He has also been shown to occasionally feel compassion for his enemies, such as when Cobra was betrayed by Brain, Natsu appeared to feel bad for him and got mad at Brain for hurting his ally.

He suffers from motion sickness from all modes of transportation, including trains, boats, and carriages. It is to the degree that he can get sick from simply looking at a mode of transport or thinking about it. Natsu's motion sickness even goes as far as him getting sick from anyone carrying him, causing many characters to wonder if he considers them vehicles. The only "person" that Natsu can freely travel with and not get sick is Happy. One of the only instances that he didn't feel motion sickness on a "vehicle" (particularly in Nirvana to which it was a travelling city) was when Wendy casted a spell called Troia on him to recover his balance and equilibrium.

Natsu constantly tries to prove his strength to others. In the past, he has challenged both Erza and Laxus to a duel only to be defeated. Due to his reckless nature, any combat Natsu involves himself in usually ends with widespread destruction. Due to his continued desire for battles, Natsu develops and later shows great wit in battle, quickly identifying his opponent's weaknesses and forming strategies to block the plans of his enemies, even at times defeating enemies with just his wit and trickery without throwing a punch, such as against Toby. Natsu also seems to be very stubborn, hardly ever admitting defeat.

The mention of Lisanna was once a poor subject for Natsu. Whenever people brought her up to him he would get angry, tell them to stop, and immediately leave. Natsu also apparently sleept a lot during her supposed death’s passing. After her "death", no one in Fairy Tail brought her up to him out of respect for his feelings, this changed when Lissanna returned from Edolas.

Relationships
 Due to Natsu's insane and lovable personality, many members in the guild love Natsu. However, that love is also backed with slight fear of his destructive abilities as anyone outside the guild fears Natsu's capabilities and hates him for his destructive nature. However, Natsu has shown on several occasions that he is loyal and protective to his friends.

History
Natsu was found when he was a baby by Igneel, a powerful Fire Dragon who he calls his "Father", Igneel raised him and taught him how to talk, write, and use an ancient style of magic known as Dragon Slayer, in the Fire-brand. It's still unknown the reasons, but 7 years before the storyline, on July 7th X777, Igneel mysteriously disappeared, so Natsu started looking for him and still does currently. He then joined the Fairy Tail Guild, where he met his team-mates. When they were kids, Natsu and Gray fought every time they saw each other, so Erza had to stop them, until she was challenged by Mirajane, and they started another fight. Erza also taught Natsu how to read. One day, Natsu found an egg in the forest when he was training. Natsu took the egg to the guild and asked Master Makarov to make it hatch, but he reprehended him clearly stating that no magic could match the power of love of bringing a life. Natsu didn't understand until Erza explained it to him, when Mirajane suddenly challenged her to finish their fight, so they started to fight again. While watching, Lisanna offered to help Natsu to raise the egg until it hatches, which Natsu accepted happily. During that time, Natsu and Lisanna developed a very close friendship. One day the egg disappeared and Natsu freaked out. He started to fight with Mirajane who was making fun of him, until Elfman appeared with the egg saying that he wanted to take care of it but was too embarrassed to tell themElfmanenly the egg hatched and a blue cat with wings came out. Natsu then decided to call him Happy, because Lisanna noticed everyone became happy when he was born. A few years later (roughly six years), Natsu and Lisanna had a talk about how they were a "family" when Mirajane and Elfman told her that they had another S-class job. Lisanna asked Natsu if he wanted to go, but Elfman opposed stating that the man of the family had to take care of his own family. That marked the last time Natsu saw her until the Edolas arc.

Macao Arc
Natsu is first introduced suffering from his motion sickness after riding a train to Hargeon. The train stops and Happy gets off but Natsu's motion sickness ends up forcing him to ride the train twice as he remains on the train as it departs. In Hargeon, after receiving a tip that his missing foster father, Igneel, may be in the town, he comes across a narcissistic impostor, the fire mage Bora. Mistaking him for the real Igneel, he had rushed forward in hope to see him but instead quickly left dejected when he realized it was not him. For such a response, he gets attacked by Bora's legion of female fans and is given Bora's autograph. To this he remarks that he doesn’t want it, and is thrown aside by Bora’s fans. Through these antics he saved a traveling mage, Lucy Heartfilia, from the influence of Bora's illegal Charm magic which makes anyone unaware of the magic become infatuated with the user. In appreciation, she pays a meal for him and Happy and rambles on about her ambition to join a famous guild. They tell her they're looking for the fire dragon Igneel which she responds by saying that a dragon would never be inside a town; much to her surprise, this had not previously dawned on them. She goes to leave but Natsu feels he needs to repay her and offers Bora's signature which she immediately refuses.

Later that night, Natsu overhears that Bora is masquerading as a member of Fairy Tail and quite literally gate crashes the party on his boat, but since it is a vehicle he quickly gets motion sickness. Happy rescues Lucy and when his transformation wears off she finds her keys and summons the Celestial Spirit Aquarius whose powerful wave of water washes the boat ashore. When the rocking stopped, Natsu regains his vitality and smashes the skulls of two goons sent to attack him, declaring that he is from Fairy Tail and does not recognize Bora. Bora then mocks Natsu calling him a child and attacks with his fire magic. Natsu then merely consumes the fire, much to Lucy’s and Bora’s surprise, and remarks that he is fired up. He then fires out his Fire Dragon's Roar and strikes Bora down. Natsu then goes on a rampage, destroying a majority of Hargeon's port and flees when the military arrives. Happy runs with him and he drags along Lucy, telling her that if she wanted to join Fairy Tail that she should come with him.

Sometime later they arrive at the guild and Natsu immediately starts up a fight that swiftly evolves into a full scale brawl. This is eventually stopped with a yell from Fairy Tail's Guild Master, Makarov, who then reads out a list of various complaints from the Magic Council about the guild members. Makarov, however, burns the document and gives them an inspiring speech. Natsu feasts on a fiery meal before going up to the request board looking for a new mission. Romeo, son of Fairy Tail's Macao Conbolt, is worried about his father's late return and questions Makarov within Natsu's earshot but Makarov tells him to go home and wait for his father patiently. Natsu then smashes the request board, and leaves to find Macao in the mountains. Lucy goes with him and Happy, and they start walking through a snowstorm when their cart driver announces that he could go no further. Natsu, who was shouting for Macao, was suddenly attacked by a Vulcan. It soon notices Lucy and kidnaps her while she was inside her Celestial Spirit, Horologium. Natsu chased after the Vulcan and caught up to him but slipped. Regaining his composure, he demanded the "monkey" to tell him where he hid Macao; the Vulcan seemingly complied, pointing him in towards a hole, but pushes Natsu off the side of the mountain. When Happy rescued Natsu and the two returned to the Vulcan's cave Natsu mistakes Lucy's Celestial Spirit Taurus for another monster and sent him flying. He soon defeats the Vulcan, who is then revealed to actually be the man they're looking for, Macao. Macao almost fell off the edge of the cliff; it took the combined efforts of Happy, Natsu, Lucy and Taurus to pull him back up. Once up, they discovered he had a serious wound and Natsu resorted to burning the wound shut, saving Macao's life. They then returned to Magnolia, the town where the guild is located, and brought Macao to Romeo.

Daybreak Arc
After Lucy gets settled into her new home, she finds that Natsu and Happy had shamelessly invaded it. While she scolded them, Happy sharpened his nails on the wall, distracting her from Natsu who peeks at her bundle of sheets. She dived for them, keeping them away from Natsu, and demanded that they leave to which Natsu refused. Giving up, she offered the two a cup of tea and teaches them a little about Celestial Spirits. For a demonstration on contracting with Celestial Spirits, Lucy summoned the Canis Minor Nikora which she named Plue. She showed them the procedures that Celestial Wizards go through to contract with Celestial Spirits, telling them that she doesn't break promises. Plue apparently suggested that they form a team to which Natsu agreed to and in turn Lucy does. Their first mission was to steal a book which involved the book's owner hiring a blond maid. Using the Celestial Wizard's words against her, Natsu gets Lucy to join him in the job which makes Lucy think Natsu prepared for it from the beginning.

When they arrived in Shirostume town, Natsu recommended they go to eat before their mission whilst Lucy went off elsewhere, declining his offer. Natsu and Happy were shocked to find that when she returned she was adorned in a maid outfit when they had only been joking about it. Regardless, they make their way to the client's house, where Kaby Melon detailed their mission and stunned the three of them with the announcement that the reward had increased ten times in value. Impassioned, they headed towards the mansion where Lucy was interviewed for the maid position by Duke Everlue. After she was rejected for being too "ugly", they resolved to sneak in to the mansion by having Happy fly them to the roof and Natsu melting a window, letting them in. Quietly, they moved around the mansion until they were confronted by Everlue's other maids who Natsu instantly dealt with. They then discovered the library and after a quick search Natsu located the book DAYBREAK. Natsu was about to burn it when Lucy snatched it from his grasp as she saw it was a book by the famous author, Kemu Zaleon, and begged for him to let her keep it.

Just then, Everlue literally dived up from the ground, having previously held back to see what they had been up to, and called on the Vanish Brothers to deal with them. However, Lucy declared that there was a secret in the book and ran off, asking Natsu to buy her some time. Everlue went after her, interested about the secret, and Natsu told Happy to follow them while he dealt with the brothers. After a brief fight with the Vanish Natsu quickly defeated the brothers and grabs the head maid when she began to move. Consequently, when Everlue summoned this head maid, who is actually the Celestial Spirit Virgo, he was pulled through the Celestial Spirit world back to the Human world. Lucy shouted for him to deal with Virgo while she defeated Everlue. He complied, delivering her a powerful blow.

Lucy made them return the book to the client where he found out the truth about the book, to whom the book was meant for, and the group decided not to take payment for the job (much to Lucy's dismay) since they didn't specifically complete what was asked for: "destroy the book". They began returning, Natsu realizing that Lucy's earlier protectiveness was because the bundle of sheets was a novel she was creating, explaining her knowledge of books, and she shouted at him to not tell anyone.

Lullaby Arc
Natsu returned to the guild and got into another fight with Gray, but Loke warned them that Erza had returned from her mission and they comically pretended to be good friends. Much to their dismay, Erza forced Natsu and Gray to go on a mission with her.

When Erza finally arrived at the train station, Natsu issued her an agreement that he would only go if she agreed to fight him when they returned, to which she agreed. On the train, Natsu got his usual motion sickness and Erza, in an attempt to make him feel better, knocked him out. The other members started to discuss their mission, but in the process forgot to wake up Natsu when they left, leaving him on the train. Kageyama, a member of the Dark Guild Eisenwald that the group was discussing earlier, tried to start a conversation with him. However, Kageyama attacked him and the two got into a fight with Natsu quickly getting the upper hand when the train stopped. During their fight, he noticed the Lullaby flute and before the train started to move again, jumped out of the train's window and into a magic four wheel vehicle driven by Erza.

They returned to the train station via the vehicle, causing Natsu to get motion sickness again, and requiring the assistance of Lucy (who was considered transport by Natsu) to drag him to the station. Although denied entry, they enter anyway and are confronted by the members of Eisenwald at the station platform. Upon hearing Kageyama's voice, Natsu was revived and saved Lucy from being harmed by one of Kageyama's attacks. Erza then ordered him and Gray to go after Erigor and the two agreed split up to find him.

As Natsu searched, he started destroying the walls to find him despite the fact that doors were right next to him. He is then attacked by Kageyama and after they exchanged a few blows, he quickly overwhelmed him and questioned him on the whereabouts of Erigor, just as Erza and company arrived to question him on how to dispel the barrier of wind around the station. However, to everyone's surprise, Kageyama is suddenly stabbed in the back by one of his allies and Natsu, in rage, attacked the assassin and tried to avenge Kageyama.

Team Natsu are then freed from the wind wall by Lucy's new Celestial Spirit Virgo who she apologized to Natsu for her previous fight with him and he quickly forgave her. Natsu then used Happy's maximum speed to chase after Erigor. After he ran into him, he proved himself powerful enough for Erigor to evoke his Storm Mail spell. As the wind armor caused Natsu's fire to be put out and stopped him from punching Erigor, Natsu became angry to the point of heating his flames using his emotions. Happy noticed the effects of the superheated fire on Erigor's Storm Mail and provoked Natsu to increase his fire's heat by appealing to his sense of rivalry with Gray. This sent Natsu into a rage, and he was able to defeat Erigor.

When the others arrived, Kageyama stole the Lullaby flute and went to the Guild Masters' meeting. The team quickly followed and was stopped from saving Makarov by the other Guild Masters while Makarov convinced Kageyama to give up. Since Kageyama refused to play the flute and finish off Makarov, the flute turned into a huge beast. Seeing this Natsu teamed up with Gray and Erza to take it down. Unfortunately, the team destroyed the Guild Masters' meeting place in the process. In the anime, they destroyed the entire town of the meeting place.

Galuna Island Arc
True to her word, Erza begins her fight with Natsu, but just as it warms up, Erza is arrested for property damage amongst other crimes. To prevent him from recklessly going after Erza, Natsu is literally transformed into a salamander and stuck under a glass. However, it is revealed that it was actually Macao who had transformed himself to give time for Natsu to smash into Erza's court hearing, crudely dressed as her, and proclaim that he is actually Erza which results in them both being imprisoned for a short time.

Due to Erza's arrest being a mere formality, Natsu and Erza are soon released. Natsu once again tries to fight Erza again but is swiftly defeated with one blow. Natsu then tries to pick a fight with Laxus Dreyar but is prevented from doing so by Makarov who says he isn't allowed up to the second floor "yet". Later on, Natsu breaks into Lucy's apartment, much to her annoyance, and tries to persuade her to go on a S-class mission, 'The Cursed Island', with him and Happy. She initially refuses but then agrees when she notices that the award includes a Golden Key. Unable to find someone to ferry them across, Natsu falls on the idea of swimming to the island but is soon stopped when Gray appears. Just as they begin to fight, one of the sailors who previously refused notices their magic and agrees to sail them across. Natsu then quickly knocks Gray out and drags him onto the boat. The sailor leading then suddenly disappears just before a tidal wave shipwrecks them on the island's shore.

With Gray now agreeing to help them, they go to their client, the mayor of the island, to find out about the curse affecting the inhabitants. Initially asked the impossible task of destroying the moon, they resolve to explore the island the next morning. In the forest they are confronted by a gigantic mouse, which they quickly defeat, and find a ruined temple. Natsu then stamps on the floor of the temple which causes it to crumble apart, which sent them hurtling down into a large cavern. The cavern contained a frozen demon Deliora and the mages Yuka Suzuki, Sherry and Toby. Gray tells them that they are going to stay put until the Moon comes back out and Natsu instinctively falls asleep at this news. Night soon arrives and they discover that the purple moonlight is hitting the frozen Deliora; they run up the surface to investigate and discover a ritual to free Deliora.

Natsu, enraged by Lyon Bastia's command to Toby and the others to destroy the village, jumps out from hiding and attacks but is quickly stopped by Lyon's ice magic and pushed down a hill by Gray. Natsu returns back up the hill to find a beaten up Gray and carries him back to the village. When he arrives at the village, he falls into the trap that Lucy had previously placed for Lyon and his mages. The village is then attacked by Lyon's mages who use poison jelly to try kill everyone, but Natsu destroys a large amount of the poison with his Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame attack, and sends the rest to the outer skirts of the village. Natsu and Lucy are then confronted by Sherri, Yuka and Toby. . After Sherri and Angelica leave to destroy the villagers, Lucy accidently grabs on to Angelica and leaves Natsu to fight Yuka and Toby. When Happy decides to go check on Lucy to make sure she’s okay Natsu remarks that that’s fine and that he would take care of these two, and after a brief battle he defeats Yuka and tricks Toby into poisoning himself. The next day, Erza arrives and Natsu reappears alone going into the temple from earlier. After he went into the ruins he began breaking them to try tilting the temple so the moonlight won't reach Deliora. He then starts to fight Lyon, but midway through is interrupted by Gray who tells him that he'll fight Lyon instead. Gray attempts to use the powerful spell Iced Shell to kill both himself and Lyon but it stopped by a punch to the face by Natsu. Enraged at being ignored by Zalty, he chases after him and falls into another fight.

Their battle leads into Deliora's cavern where Natsu is shocked to find that Deliora's frozen prison is melting. Natsu eventually finds a way around Zalty's Time Arc magic and punches him away just as the ritual for Deliora's revival is complete. However, it is then revealed that Deliora had actually been long dead. They then realize, thanks to Erza, that the ritual had nothing to do with the villager's demonic transformations but that it was instead excess Moon Drip magic creating a barrier around the island, making the moon look purple and making the villagers forget that their demonic appearance is actually their true appearance.

Phantom Lord Arc
As they return from their S-rank mission, they find the guild destroyed. They learn from Mirajane that it was their rival, Phantom Lord. Natsu argues with the master telling him that they should fight back, but Makarov decides there is no point in getting angry with someone who attacks an empty guild, much to Natsu’s dismay. Later, they discover the heavily injured bodies of Shadow Gear's Levy McGarden, Jet and Droy nailed to a tree, and Makarov declares war on Phantom. They rush to Phantom Lord's guild and directly attack its members. When they arrive Natsu breaks down the door and the battle between the two guilds begin. When Makarov leaves to crush Phantom Lord's leader, Jose Porla, Gajeel Redfox joins the fight; he initially fights with Elfman before Natsu takes over and the two dragon slayers have a fairly equal fight. However, the fight soon turns sour when Makarov falls from above after losing his magical power. After witnessing the Master’s apparent defeat, Erza orders them to retreat, much to the dismay of Natsu and the rest of the guild. Just as they are about to leave, Natsu overhears Gajeel and a member of the Element 4, Aria, saying they had captured Lucy. He kidnaps one of Phantom Lord's members, burning him until he told Natsu where Lucy may be. Out of fear of further injury the member of Phantom Lord told him that she was most likely at their headquarters. Natsu sprints to it, shouting Lucy's name, leaping in the air and catching her as she deliberately fell from the headquarters's tower prison. Seeing as they were at the headquarters, Natsu wished to continue the fight but Happy and a tearful Lucy made him reluctantly agree to retreat. Back at the guild, Natsu consoles a depressed Lucy, telling her that Fairy Tail is her "home". The guild begins to quake and they go outside to see a gigantic walking building: Phantom Lord's headquarters, which unveils its powerful cannon, Jupiter. Jose then orders the cannon to be fired, but Erza requips her adamantine armor and resolves to stop it, despite Natsu and the rest of the guild begging her not to. The cannon is then shot towards the guild, but Erza takes the full brunt of Jupiter, and prevented it from annihilating the guild. Jose warns them that another such blast will be fired unless Lucy is given to them but every single one of them adamantly refuses. As a result, Jose tells them to shiver in 15 minutes of fear as it reloads. Natsu declares that he'll smash it before this happens; Happy flies them to the building but just as he is about to destroy the lacrima of the cannon, he is confronted by a member of the Element 4, Totomaru. Totomaru's element relating to fire, he is able to control any type of flame and causes grief for Natsu before he figures out how to overcome Totomaru's control and destroy the lacrima the moment before the cannon fires. Enraged, Jose orders for the walking building to transform into a gigantic mage; the transformation process caused it to temporarily turn into a vehicle, invoking Natsu's motion sickness, and Totomaru almost strikes him with his Rainbow Fire before the arrival of Gray and Elfman finish the Phantom member off. Happy rushes outside to see what has happened and informs them that the building has become a mage and is about to unleash a massively destructive spell. They then agree to split up to find the source of the magic. As Natsu is searching he meets the strongest of the Element 4, Aria. Natsu is dominated during the fight and nearly loses his magic via Aria's Void; he is saved by Erza who defeats Aria in one blow. Erza collapses from exhaustion moments before Jose announces (via loudspeakers) that they have captured Lucy. Erza shouts for Natsu to unleash his hidden power and protect them all. Natsu, inspired by this, discovers newfound determination and flames forward until he smashes through a wall and saves Lucy being impaled from one of Gajeel's daggers. The two Dragon Slayers then begin their lengthy fight. Although equal at first, Gajeel takes the upper hand when he eats the metal tiles and restores his health. This abruptly changes when Natsu gets to eat fire thanks to Lucy's Celestial Spirit, Sagittarius, and he simultaneously defeats Gajeel with his Crimson Lotus: Fire Dragon Fist and destroys his guild. Natsu falls due to fatigue but stays behind in the guild as Happy takes Lucy back to Fairy Tail. Natsu questions Gajeel about where he learned his magic; Gajeel replies from the metal dragon Metalicana who disappeared on the date 7/7 X777, similar to Igneel. Whilst reconstructing the broken guild, Natsu carries a great deal many more wooden beams than necessary and indirectly challenges Gray to carry as twice as many who accepts and does so for a short second. Erza calls on them to stop messing around before Loke gives Gray Lucy's keys (which she had lost when she was caught the first time). Natsu, Gray and Erza decide to go to her house for a short break but find that she has left to go home. They rush to her house and are relieved to discover that she was only going to see her mother's grave. When they return, Natsu and Gray overhear Lucy’s conversation about the punishment she received from Aquarius from Losing the keys, and ponders what expression Lucy would have if he made her butt hurt; he never follows through with this as he struck by a chair thrown by an enraged Erza. Her fury is directed at Laxus who derides the weakness of Shadow Gear. Natsu throws a fist at Laxus who effortlessly dodges and then leaves with the affirmation that he will make the strongest guild. Erza tells Natsu to leave him, and then proposes that herself, he, Gray, Lucy and Happy should do a job together: attack an illegal magic school. While doing the job, they destroyed half a stretch of road.

Loke Arc
Natsu and the others went to help a theater house by becoming actors for a play. However, Natsu's and the others' destructiveness caused the play to become apparently ruined, but, to their surprise, it became a hit anyway.

Later, Natsu and the others went to a Japanese-themed town and after defeating some troublemakers in the area decided to stay in the town for the night. During their stay, Natsu, Gray, and Erza got into a serious pillow fight. Gray apparently won, but Natsu wouldn't accept it so the two of them called on Lucy to decide for them. However, they got scolded by her instead. He later searches through the town for Loke, who had suddenly left Fairy Tail and became "Leo", one of Lucy's spirits. Loke belonged to Karen, a Celestial Spirit mage, but she died after he stayed in the human world too long and drained her magical power. This left him in the human world for three years and explains the "fear" that Loke has toward Celestial Spirit mages.

Tower of Heaven Arc
Upon discovering that Loke is a Celestial Spirit, Natsu expresses his desire to be able to summon a dragon, claiming he wants a way to test the extent of his Dragon Slayer magic. When Loke gives Lucy the tickets to a resort where he had previously reserved rooms for himself and his girlfriends, Natsu joins her, Erza, and Gray in a break from the jobs assigned at Fairy Tail. After spending a day of relaxation at the resort with the other members of the group, Natsu tries his luck at roulette in the casino, but is attacked by Wally Buchanen in the middle of the game, who tries to kill Natsu by firing his gun into his mouth.

After the abduction of both Erza and Happy, Natsu, incensed by Wally's attempt to kill him, assists the others (with the newly arrived Juvia Loxar) in tracking Erza by using his sharp sense of smell to follow her scent across the sea to the Tower of Heaven, despite getting a bad case of seasickness on the team's voyage. Upon arrival, the team uses Juvia's oxygen bubbles to sneak into the tower's basement through an underwater tunnel, and Natsu's desire for an open fight is fulfilled when they are challenged by the guards there. After meeting up with Erza, Natsu rushes off on his own to find Happy, and gets his revenge on Wally.

After finally arriving at Millianna's room, he tries on a cat-themed costume head but finds that it is stuck. When Wally tries to ambush him again, he is saved by Millianna, who believes that Natsu is a real cat and doesn't want Wally to hurt him. He is nearly killed again when Wally convinces Millianna that he is not, in fact, a cat, and the two attack in tandem, but he is saved by Happy's return. He ends up defeating both mages by using a joke-move, the "Ultimate Strike: Kitty in Pain" to invoke Millianna's pity and make her release him from his bonds, allowing his magic to return and beating them with a single attack using his Fire Dragon's Wing Attack.

Following Jellal Fernandes's beginning of the Paradise Game, Natsu tries to cheat by using Happy's magic to fly to the top floor directly, but is intercepted by Fukuro. Natsu tries to fight him, but Fukuro takes advantage of his motion sickness to incapacitate and then swallow him, thus absorbing his Dragon Slayer abilities. But the final stages of absorption are stopped by Gray, who, in a rage due to Erza's condition, defeats Fukurou with his Seven Slice Dance, freeing Natsu from his stomach.

After the fight with Fukuro, Simon takes Natsu and begs him to save Erza. Natsu refuses at first, saying that Erza needed to defeat her own opponent and that was something he didn't want to interfere, but he changed his mind once Simon told him that she can't defeat Jellal. He also states that she is still trying to save Jellal and that Jellal will take advantage of her emotions. Simon displays his concern Erza might take advantage of the Etherion to die and take Jellal down with her, which made Natsu reaching his boiling point asking Simon where did Erza go. After the Etherion was fired, Natsu managed to arrive just in time to save Erza from being absorbed into the R-System lacrima and tells her that they need to finish their job otherwise they won't make to Lucy's rent on time. She tells him that she can't move, to which he comically tickles her. Erza then tells Natsu to leave and not to fight Jellal because he will only lose, and she tearfully begs him to listen to her. However, Natsu picks Erza up, asking her why she is like that and telling her that he'll win this fight, subsequently knocking her out. He turns back to Jellal, accusing that he was the reason behind Erza crying and he didn't want to see her like that. Natsu tells him that he will fight him so Erza can return to her usual self.

Natsu fights Jellal and seems to dominate over him before Jellal reveals that he wants to know the Dragon Slayer abilities. Natsu tries to predict a now serious Jellal's movement, which fails and results in Natsu getting overpowered. When Jellal talks about that the damage that he had dealt to the tower, Natsu takes advantage of his words and destroys most of the lacrima. He tries to fight Jellal once more only to be defeated. Jellal prepares to finish off Natsu, but Erza steps in (having recovered), hoping that he won't attack her, but Jellal tells them that it doesn't matter anymore and launches his attack on them. Much to their shock, Simon stepped in and sacrificed himself to protect them. Seeing Erza's condition and Jellal mocking Simon, Natsu attacks Jellal and starts to eat the Etherion, causing him to enter Dragon Force. Jellal attempts to use Abyss Break, but fails due to a wound caused by Erza, and Natsu takes that advantage and defeats Jellal.

Natsu faints after the battle and Erza carries him, but she realizes that the Etherion went out of control and will soon cause a giant explosion that will kill everyone around them. Erza decides to sacrifice herself to save everybody when Natsu woke up. He asks Erza what is she doing, to which she replies that this is the only way to save everybody and she can't imagine the world without Fairy Tail or her friends. If she can save everyone, then she will do it without any hesitation. Erza gives Natsu her farewell as the tower explodes. After Erza saw a vision of her funeral and realizes that she made a mistake, she wakes up and realizes that she is alive and sees everyone running towards her. She notices that Natsu is carrying her, and he lets her down while stating that they are the same. Natsu, in tears, tells her not to do something like that ever again. Erza promises Natsu that not risk her life again and gives him a genuine thanks, coming to understand that she needs to live for her friends.

Natsu sleeps for three days straight, temporarily waking up after Gray insulted him, and then feasting during the night. He sets off his own brand of fireworks in farewell to their previous enemies, Wally, Millianna and Shô.

Fighting Festival Arc
Natsu returns from the tower to find the guild rebuilt and two new members: Juvia and Gajeel. Provoked by Gajeel, he started a huge fight with him which quickly includes the other members. Later, he started to suffer from some side-effects from absorbing the Etherion during his fight with Jellal. He left for home but instead slept in Lucy's bed. Later he returns temporarily to hunt a Sorcerer Magazine guy that he believes is destroying his reputation.

During the Festival, Natsu was still dozy as Evergreen froze the participants of the Miss Fairy Tail contest. Laxus, along with his bodyguards, the Raijinshuu, announced his "Fairy Tail battle", threatening to kill the girls unless everyone joined in, effectively making them hostages.

Natsu was suddenly rejuvenated by the prospect of a battle royale between guild members, and was back on his destructive feet. He leaped forward to attack Laxus but a quick electric shock from Laxus dealt with Natsu. Swiftly getting back on his feet, he sprinted to join the fight, but was unable to leave the guild due to Fried Justine's enchantment (which affected Gajeel the same way). It is believed that, due to their Dragon Slayer magic, they are unable to get out of the guild. He then tried to free Erza with Gajeel by heating her up. Inadvertently, they succeeded, but not without Erza punching them both for their carelessness and then running out to fight. Her reappearance in the battle came in tandem with the arrival of Mystogan. Despite Makarov's worries, Natsu still had faith that Laxus wasn't going to harm anyone. However, Laxus himself cast serious doubt on this when he threatened to destroy the entire town by activating his Hall of Thunder in response to losing his hostages after Evergreen's defeat at the hands of Erza. Levy, now released from the stone enchantment as well, offers that she can break the barrier, allowing Natsu and Gajeel to enter the battlefield, and eventually manages to do so.

Natsu eventually finds and confronts Laxus at Caldia Cathedral and was just in time to catch a glimpse of Mystogan's face, which looked exactly like Jellal. Erza asks Mystogan if he is Jellal, but Mystogan denied this and said he only knew Jellal. Natsu then challenges Laxus, and while initially indifferent to him, Laxus starts to take him seriously after Natsu manages to score a few hits. As Erza leaves to deal with Laxus's Hall of Thunder, Natsu chides Laxus for not really wanting to carry out his plan and that he just wants his grandfather to give in (whom neither realize has fallen deathly ill) as well as having faith that Erza will stop the spell, despite Laxus' thoughts otherwise. Natsu's faith is proven as they see a report that the Hall of Thunder has been stopped due to Erza and the recovered Fairy Tail members. Though the town is spared from the Hall of Thunder, the inhabitants are now threatened by an enraged Laxus as he goes berserk.

Natsu holds his own for a few moments but is soon overpowered. Gajeel then joins in, saving Natsu from a finishing strike, and both reluctantly team up to fight Laxus. After a few assorted combos of Metal and Fire Dragon Slayer techniques, after the smoke clears, a still-unharmed Laxus remains unimpressed and offers to show them both "true Dragon Slayer magic". Laxus releases a lightning version of the Dragon's Roar, inflicting critical damage to and paralyzing both Natsu and Gajeel. Laxus attempts to use the extremely powerful Fairy Law to kill everyone, both from the guild, as well as the whole of Magnolia, but the attack fails.

Fried, still injured from his fight with Mirajane, appears and explains it is because Laxus's heart doesn't see the Fairy Tail members nor the people of Magnolia as enemies. Laxus vows to change the guild but then Natsu gets up, ready to stop him and prove that his comrades are precious to him. Natsu is then beaten into the ground by Laxus but keeps getting back up. Laxus is about to kill Natsu with another Lightning Dragon move, but Gajeel absorbs it by using himself as a lighting rod. Finally, Natsu comes back with a flurry of Fire Dragon moves in an eight-hit combo, defeating Laxus. Victorious, Natsu stands tall and yells at the top of his lungs.

After the fight, most of the members were recovering from the brutal beatings they had taken, Natsu included, whose mouth was bandaged shut, muffling his speech. When Laxus showed up at the guild to see Makarov, Natsu yells (his muffles translated by Gajeel) at him that he didn't consider the two-on-one as a fair victory, and that he wanted a rematch with Laxus. However, instead of the usual comeback, Laxus merely waved after the guild without facing them, earning him a confused glance from Natsu. Despite his injuries, Natsu takes part in the Fantasia parade in a fire-blowing float.

The following week, his injuries healed, Natsu confronts Makarov about Laxus's excommunication, but is stopped by Erza. When Lucy worries about her lack of money, Natsu suggests they take a job, making her weep in joy. The next day they, along with Happy, Erza and Gray prepare to leave to find and capture the escaped convict Velveno. Lucy suddenly darts off - confused, the others follow her but find that she is okay and had almost literally defeated a whole guild by herself.

Oración Seis Arc
As Lucy is short on paying the rent, Natsu, along with Gray and Erza, help her by taking jobs as waiters and waitresses in a magical restaurant. However, Natsu spends most of the time eating the food rather than serving it, and after all the work is done, supports a rather bloated figure. They return to the guild to find a drawing of the various factions of the Dark Guilds and the current strength of the Balam Alliance. Makarov then picked him and his team as delegates to go after Oración Seis.

As he ventured to the meeting point, he met The Trimens and Ichiya Wanderlei Kotobuki who were Blue Pegasus's delegates. He, along with Gray, is not impressed with them. Soon, they meet the Lamia Scale Guild members to join them and he becomes even more unimpressed in the form of two old foes, Lyon and Sherry, and one of the Ten Wizard Saints, Jura Nekis. However, as he meets the Cait Shelter Guild member, Wendy Marvell, along with her cat Charle, he gives an impression of recognizing Wendy's name. Later, he runs out looking for the Oración Seis to take them all on one on one.

After the Oración Seis find them, Natsu is beaten by them and nearly killed until Jura Nekis arrives to save him and the others. As they discover Erza's poisoned state, Charle suggests that they find the captured Wendy, who is revealed to be the Dragon Slayer of the Sky, and Happy so she can save her. With this, Natsu runs off with Charle and Gray, asking Charle along the way what element Wendy consumes using her Dragon Slayer powers, which happens to be air. Natsu wonders if it is tasty to which Charle replies she doesn't know, though Gray conjectures that it is the same as inhaling. They continue their search, only to find and beat the Naked Mummy Guild. After discovering Oración Seis's hideout, Natsu goes on ahead while Gray fights Racer. As he arrives, Natsu is met with a shock that Jellal is revived. Natsu takes his time to take Wendy back to Erza so she can heal her. Hibiki Laytis helps Natsu bring Wendy to Erza and she is healed. Suddenly, Nirvana is revealed, and Natsu rushes headstrong to stop Jellal.

On his way he runs into Racer's personal guild Harpuia and defeats them easily. Natsu then finds an unconscious Gray floating in a river and tries to help him, but when he gets there a raft pops up out of the water and Natsu's motion sickness takes over. Gray gets up, acting strangely, and prepares to make a killing blow. Lucy and Hibiki appear, halting Gray as the raft comes to a stop; despite this, Natsu still feels the effects. It is revealed that Gray was actually Angel's Celestial Spirit, Gemini. Lucy faces off against her and wins, but rapids suddenly appear and drag her and Natsu (by the raft) down the river and down a waterfall. He later wakes up on dry land along with Lucy to notice that Virgo has been taking care of them by treating Lucy's wounds and changing their clothes by her own will. Sherry, who has murderous thoughts due to Nirvana, appears suddenly and is about to attack Natsu and Lucy when Gray crashes in and holds her down, and Lyon shows up to be alive as well, making Sherry revert to normal. Natsu along with Gray and Lucy are caught up in the activation of Nirvana's second stage; they are later seen climbing up one of its legs.

As Natsu's motion sickness kicks in, Happy arrives to help him so as he flies to stop Brain, Cobra takes to the skies as well to battle Natsu. As the two begin to battle, Cobra stays ahead of Natsu by reading his thoughts but Natsu overcomes this by fighting on instinct. Natsu becomes shocked as he realizes that Cobra is the Poison Dragon Slayer.

However, he learns that Cobra is actually artificial like Laxus so Natsu fights to defeat yet another artificial Dragon Slayer. After being infected with some of the poison, Natsu becomes enraged that Cobra considers all dragons extinct and tries to defeat Cobra again with a huge roar that shatters Cobra's sensitive ear drums. However, Cobra survives only to be defeated by Brain. With this, Brain reveals that he plans on using Nirvana to turn Natsu evil so he can serve him, but the timely arrival of Gray, Lucy and Jura save him. After Jura deals with Brain, Wendy and Charle arrive and Wendy heals Natsu's poison while temporarily curing him of motion sickness.

As the team is led into a trap by Brain, Natsu becomes enraged to see Jura nearly killed from defending them from it. When the seventh member of the Oración Seis, Brain's staff Klodoa, appears to him, Gray, Lucy and Happy, Natsu is unfazed by the fact that he is a talking stick and waves around him demanding that he stop Nirvana.

Klodoa, however, frees himself from Natsu's grasp and tells him of their plan to destroy Cait Shelter so Nirvana cannot be resealed. Klodoa then starts whacking but then abruptly acts nervously (due to Midnight's defeat at Erza) as he tells that since all the Oración Seis members have been defeated, a new side of Brain will emerge, codenamed Zero. This new personality then appears himself; Natsu comments that Zero's magic feels disgusting, and attacks him when Zero easily smashes through Gray's Ice Shield. Zero dodges Natsu's attack and delivers a powerful one of his own, knocking Natsu down. After some encouraging words, Natsu wills himself back up and goes to Lacrima #1.

However, Zero awaits him and the two battle fiercely. Natsu even stops a spell Zero thought couldn't be stopped. Suddenly, Jellal appears and delivers a powerful magic blast to Natsu, shocking both he and Zero, the latter asking if Jellal had regained his memories. In fact, Jellal's memories had not returned, but he does remember Natsu's name and calls him the ray of hope. The magic blast was actually a powerful fire attack intended to give Natsu back his strength. Initially, Natsu refuses Jellal's help and even proceeds to attack him. Taking advantage of the situation, Zero fires another spell at Natsu. Jellal defends him by taking the full force of the blast. This prompts Natsu to accept the Flame of Rebuke from Jellal to defeat Zero, and he receives a large boost in strength and speed. In his Dragon Force mode, he manages to beat Zero (after some initial trouble controlling his power) and destroys the Lacrima Crystal along with the other five mages in each leg of Nirvana.

At last, they manage to stop the Nirvana and the Oración Seis once and for all, but the celebration doesn't last long as the newly reformed Council shows up to take away Hoteye and Jellal into custody. While Natsu and Wendy protest against this, Jellal, Erza and everyone else could only look on sadly.

Natsu tried to take Jellal back by force and attacked the council guards, but was stopped by Erza. He later appears at Cait Shelter and got a new outfit to replace his torn up one and learned about Cait Shelter's disturbing secret. Natsu showed joy about being on a boat thanks to Wendy but quickly got sick again when her magic wore off. He returned to Fairy Tail and tried to tell Elfman about his battle against Cobra.

Edolas Arc
After finding out that Gildarts Clive was on his way back, Natsu and the rest of Fairy Tail prepared for his arrival. Even the whole town gets ready, dividing in two in order to avoid Gildarts accidentally smashing through private houses. Upon Gildarts's arrival, Natsu immediately challenges him to a fight and charges at him only to get deflected into the ceiling, where he comments on how strong Gildarts is. Gildarts invites him to visit him a bit later at his house. When Natsu and Happy arrive, Gildarts jokes about Natsu's relationship with Lisanna, but is shaken when Natsu tells him that she died two years ago while he was on his mission. Natsu tries to leave, but Gildarts mentions that he ran into a dragon while on his mission. He says it wasn't Igneel because it was a black dragon, not a red one. He recounts that he fought it and that it was the reason he failed the quest. Natsu decides he will go to the sacred mountain, Zonia, where Gildarts encountered the dragon, in hopes of learning where Igneel is. Gildarts stops him and shows him the wounds he received from the dragon, having lost his left arm and leg and an organ. Natsu runs out after saying a Dragon Slayer could defeat the dragon, tripping and falling into a pond before reminiscing about Igneel.

While asleep, the Anima absorbs the guild. Only he, Wendy, Happy, and Charle are left behind because of their Dragon Slayer powers. Here Charle explains about "Edolas", a parallel world. Natsu then plans to go to Edolas to save the guild. As he goes to the Edolas version of Fairy Tail, he becomes amazed as he sees how everyone is so different. He then gapes at how scary the Edolas version of Lucy is from her counterpart.

Edolas Lucy quickly realizes who Natsu is, likely confusing him with the Edolas Natsu, and hugged him asking where he's been before punishing him. Later Edolas Lisanna shows up and Natsu quickly sheds tears of joy. Just as he was about to hug her, Edolas Lucy kicked him in the face and he soon hears Charle saying that everyone here is not from their guild and that they are their Edolas counterparts. Just as he was about to search for his friends, news of the Fairy Hunter arrived and the guild had to transfer away. He later learns that the Fairy Hunter is none other than Edolas Erza, and that to get his friends back he probably has to fight her.

Upon escaping the Fairy Hunters, Natsu revealed that they came from Earth Land to save their guild, which surprised the Edolas Fairy Tail members. When he requested to know how to get to the Capital, just about everyone tells them to give up on that idea as it is practically suicidal. However, even after hearing the history of Edolas on guilds and their master, Natsu wasn't faltered and firmly said that he will save his guild and his companions. This shocked everyone in the guild, especially Lucy. Upon receiving the direction to the Capital, Natsu got sidetracked and wanted to capture a small, frog-like creature and give it to Earth Land's Lucy as a gift, in which Happy says it's a bad idea. The capture, however, was unsuccessful as an extremely large frog-like creature appeared, and they were forced to run away when they realize that they can't use magic. Out of nowhere, Edolas Lucy saved them, and tells them that she came with them because the area was dangerous, and not because she was worried. Upon hearing that, Natsu says that she's Lucy after all, in which Lucy responded by saying that was a twisted logic he was thinking.

Later, the group makes their way into the Town Of Luen, where Natsu purchases a magic sword hilt from a secret magic black market. When the Edolas Royal Army discovers them, he immediately puts his weapon to use, sending streams of fire at the soldiers. However, they themselves have used a magic shield against his attack, and Natsu finds that he is unable to use any more magic due to it being limited in Edolas. He then manages to escape for a short while with the rest and is shocked to find out that Earth Land Lucy has managed to find her way into Edolas with the help of Mystogan.

Eventually, Natsu and the group made it to Sikka, where they decide to spend the night. While eating, he watches the two Lucys arguing about their bodies, in which Natsu retaliated with why they were taking a bath with their counterpart. The next day, while listening to Edolas Lucy explaining that a race called Exceed existed, they saw an airship that belonged to the Royal Army. Natsu wanted to ride on to get there, but with a mention from Wendy that she can't perform Troia here, he said that that was a bad idea after all. Watching Lucy fail to summon the correct Celestial Spirit due to Loke on a date, Natsu and Wendy decide to battle with their weapons fully recharged. They were defeated in matter of moments, however. When the airship flew off and they almost get captured, all hope seemed lost until Edolas Natsu emerges with his vehicle and escapes with the group. Experiencing motion sickness, he listened to his counterpart introduce himself as Natsu the Fireball.

Arriving at the outskirt of the capital of Edolas, Edolas Natsu threw everyone out. He explained that he doesn't want to fight the capital as it's extremely foolish, and said that the only reason why he even did them a favor is because the Edolas Lucy requested him to help. Before Edolas Natsu had the chance to leave, Earth Land Natsu pulled him off his vehicle and asked why he won't get motion sickness, to which his cowardly response surprised everyone else. Earth Land Natsu then commented on how Lucy should treat his counterpart better, even though she was only trying to introduce herself to his counterpart. Although Edolas Natsu said that they won't win against the Royal Army, Earth Land Natsu only gave a smile of confidence, saying that they will rescue their friends and companions from the enemy. Later, inside the kingdom, they found the Lacrima, which is guarded by the Royal Army. While listening to the king's speech, they noticed that parts of the Lacrima had been removed, and when the King chipped off a bit of the Lacrima, Natsu nearly lost it had Lucy not held him back. Later, when Charle devises a plan to sneak into the palace, they take a path into an abandoned mine and once they make it out, they are captured by Edolas Erza. Natsu looks on shocked at Happy as the soldiers bow down to Happy and Charle. Natsu and Wendy are locked up in a jail cell; Natsu asks the guard what happened to Lucy. After hearing the guard saying that they will execute her, he becomes furious and threatens to kill them if they touch Lucy. The guards later revealed that the Exceeds' mission was originally to assassinate the Dragon Slayers, but has been changed to capture them instead. Natsu is next seen unconscious as Byro prepares to extract his and Wendy's Dragon Slayer magic. When Gray and Erza save Lucy, Happy, and Charle from Erza Knightwalker, Gray gives an unconscious Natsu an Ex-ball, a food that allows Earth Land wizards to use their unlimited magic in Edolas. Upon waking up, Natsu sees his power restored, breathes out fire, and rushes to stop the Fairy Tail Lacrima from colliding with Extalia.

He eventually runs into Wendy, Charle, Lucy, and Gray. At first Natsu is confused about the situation until Lucy and Wendy explain that Earth Land Gajeel, Gray and Erza showed up. Now cleared up, the group splits into two; Natsu travels with Lucy and Gray and asks where the king is. Gray and Lucy suspect in some important place, but Lucy starts to wonder since the courtyard and prison were in such strange locations for a castle. Natsu then says that, in short, the place has a strange layout. Lucy responds saying she wouldn't be surprised if there was an amusement park, and coincidentally there was one right in front of them. Sugarboy and Hughes show up, stating how much they want unlimited magic and prepare to fight Natsu and the others. Hughes starts off by dropping a ship on Natsu, Gray, and Lucy which is blocked by Gray's Ice Shield. Natsu then attacks Hughes, demanding that his comrades be returned. Hughes denies Natsu and uses his weapon, Command Tact, to get Natsu onto a roller coaster which debilitates him. Gray throws Lucy onto the coaster to help Natsu, but the coaster track ends in a small lake. Hughes talks of how awesome Edolas magic is and why it can't be allowed to run out, which infuriates Natsu as they are killing Fairy Tail and the Exceeds just for unlimited magic. He says the important thing is they are living things, that "These are lives, dammit!" Lucy proceeds to use Aquarius to attack Hughes, but Hughes' control of anything in the park overrides Aquarius' control of the water, and he collapses a large amount of water on Natsu, Lucy, and Aquarius.

The two are washed into the Monster Academy. Natsu finds Lucy inside a coffin that can change ones clothes, so he devises a plan to have Lucy distract Hughes with a sexy bikini, which ultimately fails. Hughes controls the monster dolls into attacking them, driving Lucy away from Natsu. As Natsu is getting beat up by the monsters, he becomes enraged and the form of a dragon could be seen in his smoke and fire, causing Hughes and his monster army to back away in fear. He is seen later punching Hughes through the Monster Academy sign, knocking out Byro at the same time.

Natsu later meets up with Lucy and when Coco tries to give them a key to the king's plan, he is surprised but is then caught off guard when Sugarboy glides past them and steals the key. After going after and defeating Sugarboy, Gray catches up with Natsu. When he catches up, Natsu is a little surprised to see the key destroyed, but then learns that Gray can create a replica and that they can use it to turn everyone back to normal. Shortly after, Erza Knightwalker (actually Erza Scarlet in disguise) shows up and captures them. He is later seen seemingly unconscious and tied up, being taken by Erza past a gate to where the cannon is. Erza tells Gray to create a duplicate of the key; they were secretly trying to hit the lacrima with the cannon, but when the plan fails (because of Gray not knowing how to use the cannon), Erza tells Natsu to move, knocking out some of the soldiers and taking the king as hostage and ordering the soldiers to change the target of the cannon to the lacrima itself. Erza Knightwalker appears from above and attacks Erza, releasing the king and returning the cannon to its original target. When firing the cannon, Lucy arrives with Coco on a Region to take everyone to Extalia and stop the lacrima.

When the strength of the mages was not enough, the entire population of Extalia, including the queen, to the surprise of many, went to help and suddenly the lacrima disappeared, leaving some smoke and the mage Mystogan there, who explains that thanks to them he was able to find an Anima large enough to send the Lacrima back to Earth Land and return everyone to normal. He then reveals himself as the Prince of Edolas who Pantherlily saved many years back. Suddenly, Pantherlily is attacked by Erza Knightwalker, who was going to attack the Exceeds with a group of soldiers on Regions. When Mystogan tries to stop Erza Knightwalker, the king appears inside an enormous dragon-like machine called Dorma Anim, which nullifies all external magic attacks. The king orders the soldiers to capture the Exceeds and then shoots a magic beam from the Dorma. Mystogan uses the Triple Magic Rune: Mirrored Water to deflect the attack back to it, but it doesn't have any effect. Dorma Anim shoots again and takes Mystogan down. When the king is about to attack again, the Dorma Anim is suddenly beaten 3 times, revealing Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy, who had decided to take on the king, leaving the rest to deal with the soldiers.

Wendy casts a spell on Natsu and Gajeel while they fight with the Dorma Anim, making them faster and stronger. The king then fires some tracking missiles after Wendy, but Natsu intercepts and destroys them. When the king is about to shoot again, Gajeel hits the missiles before launch but gets hit by the tail of the Dorma. A group of missiles is fired again, but these ones explode before Natsu can hit them. The king gets surprised when Natsu eats the fire of the explosions while Gajeel starts eating the tail of the Dorma. Suddenly the Dorma changes color as well as a gain in power as the king states that he is going to "Drain all the fighting spirits".

The new form of the Dorma Anim grants it a huge increase in power, turning the tide in the king's favor. Gajeel decides to try some different tactics, revealing they hadn't been using full power because they didn't know what could happen. All three of them attacked at once with their respective roars, but it had almost no effect. The king proclaims victory, saying that althogh they have infinite magic, it takes a while to recharge after its all used up. Natsu gets up, saying he'll use tomorrow's magic. Gajeel gets up and pins the Dorma Anim's leg down to the ground, telling Natsu to attack and that he was the only one who could do it. Natsu tells Wendy to aim a roar at him to boost his speed and succeeds in tearing through the Dorma Anim.

Seeing the islands falling and a tip from Nadi about Mystogan and Pantherlily's conversation made Natsu decide to dress up and declare himself as the Great Demon-Lord Dragneel. Showing up with his servants and a tied up Faust on the Royal Capital, he declared that he was the one responsible for taking Magic away from Edolas. He commanded his servants to destroy the streets of Royal Capital. Mystogan showed up, saying that there's no reason to fight anymore with the king defeated, but Natsu didn't listen and revealed Mystogan's lineage towards the masses. The Great Demon-Lord then taunts Mystogan to either fight him or he will destroy the whole city.

With Mystogan's arrival, Natsu taunted by demonstrating his magical power to the powerless prince and the crowd in order to setup the perfect scenario. Though Mystogan continued to doubt the success of the plan, Natsu didn't listen and starts a fist brawl against the prince. Knowing that Mystogan was still lacking confidence, he further taunt him to fight seriously, which caused him to receive a kick in the face. As the brawl continued, Natsu began to tell Mystogan the three rules for leaving the guild as the final departing ritual.

With the final rule finished, Natsu fell with a smile while hoping to see him again one day. With their bodies beginning to glow because of Anima, he, along with Gajeel and Wendy pretended to be suffering to further convince the crowd that Prince Jellal has defeated them. When the crowd can no longer see them, they gave a bright smile as a sign of good luck.

Afterwards, Natsu and the others cross through the Anima and see that their guild and Magnolia are back to normal. They get another surprise when they see all the Exceeds in Earth Land as well. However, after learning the truth involving the 6 year mission, he bears no grudge against them and they part on good terms. As they are about to head back to Fairy Tail, Pantherlily (in a smaller form) shows up, asking to join their guild. He pulls a suspicious person he caught out from behind a bush. Natsu then gets a major shock when he saw that it is the Edolas Lisanna, and wonders how and why she is in Earth Land. However, he is extremely happy when he figures out she is in fact the Earth Land Lisanna. With this, he helps her back to her siblings for a tearful reunion.

S-Class Trial Arc
With Lisanna back in the guild, Natsu is very happy and running around. Gajeel wants Happy to fight Pantherlily and Charle, but instead Gajeel and Natsu end up fighting. Eventually they get the whole guild into a brawl. Days later, Natsu rushes to the work board to get jobs for the upcoming S-Class Wizard Promotion Trial. The next day, Natsu is chosen by Makarov to be a participant along with Gray, Juvia, Elfman, Cana, Fried, Levy, and Mest Gryder. Later, he was commenting to his team and other members he'll not hold back just because they are his friends as he pick Happy as his partner. He is then seen when Happy calls him for dinner, saying he for sure become a S-Class mage.

As the participants head towards the island, Natsu is again affected by motion sickness and is upset that since Wendy is on another team, she can't cast troia to cure him. Shortly after the master arrives to explain the rules of the first trial. After hearing and realizing the boat stopped, Natsu tried to head towards the island first. However Fried used a rune on the boat, which prevents everyone from leaving for 5 min, though Levi and Gajeel and also Evergreen and Elfman were able to rewrite the rune, so only 5 teams were trapped. As soon as the rune was released, Natsu and Happy flew to the island and Natsu chose path E, out of the remaining 4, since he believed E stood for Erza and that he wants to fight her. They continue down the E path, Natsu believing he will definitely fight Erza here. The path opens up revealing Gildarts who says Natsu has bad luck for running into him and that he hates holding back. Happy thinks it's over for them, but Natsu says that now he's really on fire, excited to fight Gildarts. Natsu instantly charges to fight Gildarts, despite him not being able to hold himself back. Despite numerous attacks, Gildarts easily overpowers Natsu using Hand to Hand Combat. Natsu then tries his Dragon's roar, but Gildarts then uses his dis-assembling spell on Natsu and he turns into numerous mini versions of himself.

However Natsu hasn't given up and intends to continue fighting, and believing that with this many of himself it should give him a better chance to beat Gildarts. This somewhat impresses Gildarts since Natsu is the first opponent to come at him in that state. The hoard charges at Gildarts, jumping on him, pulling his face, and setting his head on fire. The S-class mage's patience runs out and he turns Natsu back to normal. Realizing that this was his best chance, Natsu uses his strongest attack: The Crimson Lotus Exploding Flame Blade. But the attack does nothing more than push the crash user back a few feet.

Gildarts states that he's willing to let Natsu pass, but the Dragon slayer protests saying he wants to go on. Gildarts tells Natsu he's missing something important, and he's no going to hold back anymore. The crash mage releases his magic aura that is felt over the entire island. Natsu realizes that if he takes one more step, Gildarts will crush him utterly so he backs down knowing that he cannot win. That's when Gildarts explains that the whole purpose is for a person to find their weakness and facing it, and not only has Natsu passed, but Gildarts was willing to fight with him in the future.

Natsu showed up after Cana and Levy, while sitting a distant away somewhat sulking. Although Natsu passed the trial, he was still greatly affected by Gildarts words. Shortly after Gray and Elfman arrived and the master said its time to move on to the next trial, he announced that he officially challenges Gray, Cana, Levi, and Elfman for the S-class title, which everyone almost immediately agrees to. Including Lucy for shouting that she was going to make Cana into an S-class mage.

With the second trial starting, Natsu is the only who seems to have no problems with facing the giant beasts, even asking one for the location of the first masters grave, though they don't know anything about it either. Just as Natsu and Happy discussed a possible location, they remember the geography of the island and how the top seemed a bit strange. So they decide to fly there to check it out, but along the way they meet up with Elfman and Evergreen confronting the Killing Mage. Natsu managed to save them by making them duck in time to avoid the Killing Mage's killing magic, destroying the landscape around them. Despite the Killing mage calling out to Natsu, he doesn't seem to recognize who he is. Happy arrives asking Natsu why they weren't heading towards to top of the island. Natsu and the others get up and notice all the trees are dead around them. Natsu and Happy immediately realize that it was the Killing Mage's magic that did this. Apparently under the impression that the Killing Mage was an enemy who was there to obstruct their path, Natsu shouts to him that outsiders were not allowed on Tenrou Island, and then demands that he goes away. When the Killing Mage states that he was anticipating Natsu's arrival, Natsu somehow interprets this declaration as a challenge and rushes towards him and punches him in the face. At this point the mage realizes that Natsu still hasn't become strong enough to kill him. He starts crying, but then he feels another burst of his black magic coming and tells Natsu and the others to run. Natsu realizes his magic takes away life and tells everyone to run away. As Elfman and Evergreen run, Natsu stays despite Happy's plea not to. Natsu emerges okay and realizes the boy has disappeared. Happy then notices Natsu's scarf has turned black. Happy wonders if Igneel gave him the scarf so he would be protected and just now, it had given its life to save Natsu. Natsu gets pissed since it was the scarf his father gave him as also he starts loudling out about fashion on his clothes, making the others think that Natsu cares about fashion and things like that.

Later Natsu was seen with Happy noticing the warning signal that was launched by Erza who announce that the exam on hold and everyone must enter the battle formation. Natsu along with Happy start thinking who is the enemy. Natsu wonders if its the killing mage they previously saw. Natsu then states no matter what, he will make anyone messing with Fairy Tail will pay. Natsu and Happy continue through the forest when they hear the battle noises from Azuma and Wendy and co. Natsu then sees a column of fire from one of Azuma's attacks and runs towards it knowing that nobody in Fairy Tail can use that type of magic. When they arrive, the perpetrator has disappeared and he confronts Mest, whose memory control magic has worn off. Soon after, the Grimoire Heart members arrive from the bubbles released by Caprico and he prepares to fight them, although he is temporarily distracted by the rippling shock waves from Makarov and Hades's battle. He proceeds to defeat most of the members, but Zancrow shows up and incinerates the rest of them for being too weak. Zancrow then launches his flames at Natsu, who, realizing that he is unable to consume them, is heavily wounded. Zancrow then explains to Natsu that he is a God Slayer, and is thus superior.

In the battle, Zancrow's boast proves true. Natsu questions Zancrow, believing that he wasn't taught by God. Zancrow believes that Hades is close to a God and received Lost Magic from "God". After that, Natsu starts making fun of Zancrow for learning magic from a human as he learned from a Dragon. Then he casts a Brilliant Blaze as Zancrow casts a Kagutsuchi and beats Natsu's Brilliant Flame and along with Natsu he attacks Wendy, Happy, Charle, and Lily. Natsu then uses the Fire Dragon's Roar attack, but it was easily eaten by Zancrow (who remarks that they are tasty and strong flames). He uses the flame's power to attack Natsu with the Fire God's Bellow who is blown to Makarov's location. Natsu sees Makarov's dire condition trying to save him and figure out who did it, but Makarov says to Natsu to lead everyone off the island to survive. Zancrow tells Natsu that Master Hades did this and taunts him, saying his fear is that of someone faced with absolute being. Natsu states his fear is different from being in awe of someone's greater power but fear that he won't be the one who defeats Hades. His anger reaching his peak, Natsu gains a significant power-up that makes Zancrow nervous.

Zancrow scoffs at Natsu's claim to defeat Hades, saying he will stop Natsu from doing that. Natsu is quicker and stronger in this fight, but Zancrow says he isn't even hurt by Natsu's flames. Zancrow uses his magic as Flare Halberds that cut many trees in sight; however, Natsu is able to avoid the attack and uses a large log like a hammer to smash Zancrow into the ground.

Zancrow is able to get out of this attack and traps Natsu in the powerful Fire God's Supper. Natsu tries to find a way to eat it, but suddenly, Makarov grabs Zancrow with his Giant Arm. Makarov yells that he will grind Zancrow to nothing if he continues hurting Natsu. Zancrow then envelopes himself and Makarov's hand in black fire. Even though he's in pain, he actually uses more power to attack Zancrow. Natsu yells for him to stop, but he says that he won't let go, that this is the power of family. Hearing this, Natsu nullifies his magic power (making Zancrow believe that he dies) to create a vessel to eat the God's flames. Natsu thinks it was just a special way to eat flames but Makarov is amazed at Natsu's instinct to do this. Makarov let's go of Zancrow, as Natsu says he doesn't want to die, nor anyone else to die. He wants everyone to go back home to Fairy Tail, and unites the flames of Dragons and Gods in the Dragon God's Brilliant Flame attack, heavily wounding Zancrow but not knocking him into unconsciousness.

Natsu says they should fight and Gildartz taught him there are times when they should retreat but now isn't one of those times. He says that now is the time to make them pay for messing with Fairy Tail and to feel the full power of their guild. Natsu appears to fall over after saying this. Shortly after that, Wendy (with the cats watching over) is seen trying to heal the wounded Makarov and Natsu. However, she can't properly heal Natsu yet, as Makarov notes that the evil staining his muffler is tainting him.

Natsu then suddenly wakes up, to the delight of Wendy and the cats. He is told that his muffler and clothes have been fixed, and thanks Wendy. He then perks up as the scent of the man he met on Galuna Island (known before as Zalty) reaches his nose. He heads off, noting that the person is close. When he reached Zeref, he was unconscious, and Ultear had disappeared, feeling Natsu's approximation. Suddenly sprout in the ground grew into a giant tree, that almost hit Natsu. Then he sees Ultear sitting on the one of branches. Natsu recognizes her as "that one guy", and mildly accusing her as a cross-dresser. Ultear denies this and clarifies that she is assuming her true form; she asks where his future will go. In short dialogue she reveals that she is a leader of Seven Kin of Purgatory, Ultear Milkovich. Ultear also asks about what plans does Fairy Tail have for Zeref, making Natsu aware of the Killing Mage's identity as Zeref, much to his and Happy's shock, and says that she must repay debt, bearing in mind that Natsu had hit her on Garuna Island. While Natsu was trying to climb the tree, and complaining that Grimoire Heart appearing interrupted exam, she hit him with orb and he recoiled from the tree. After that she produces many orbs and attacks Natsu with her ability "Flash Forward".

Natsu is next seen when he intervened when Kain was about to kill Lucy, and kicked him in the face and sent him flying over to Ultear. Natsu asks Lucy what she was doing there, and she asked him the same and thanked him for saving her. Happy remarked that Lucy was sent flying over in their direction rather ungracefully, to which Lucy asked if there was a "cool" way to be sent flying.

Lucy then asked Natsu if he had an opponent too, to which he replied that Kain was his opponent and that Lucy couldn't take him. She then said that she wasn't taking him, and that it would be a close fight even for Natsu. Natsu replied that it wouldn't be and that he would take him down. Happy then stated that now Natsu had two opponents, and Natsu said that they had added an extra member themselves. He then said that he would put the trial and hold and that they should form a team, Lucy said that it was nostalgic, Happy said that it made him think of when they first met, and Natsu remarked that he was all fired up. Lucy and Natsu then high fived and she and he both remarked that they should defeat them. After Kain witnessed this he stated that he wouldn't forgive them because they were getting all flirty and hot.

Magic and Abilities
Caster Magic User: Natsu has shown to be one of the stronger members of Fairy Tail. He is well adept with his Dragon Slayer magic and makes use of it in many different ways in combat. He incorporates the flames he ignites into his fighting style, greatly increasing the damage of his blows. As such, Natsu's magic revolves around the usage of fire that can spout from any part of his body. Natsu's ability to eat flames gives him immunity to most types of flames and allows him to spew fire from his lungs. This fire is exceptionally strong - equivalent to a dragon's fire - being able to burn even through metal. He can even use his flames to create a propulsive effect. The type of fire he uses can be changed, for example; it can be solidified to cling to surfaces.


 * Fire Dragon Slayer: As with all Dragon Slayers, he can consume his respective element, with the exception of that he has created, to replenish his energy reseves. The heat of his fire can increase in temperature, which is proportional to Natsu's emotional state. Natsu subconsciously used this against Erigor, his flame's heat significantly rising as he got more and more enraged. This is also called the Flame of Emotion.

Enhanced Smell: Natsu has an enhanced sense of smell like all the other Old-Style Dragon Slayers. His smell is so enhanced that he could tell that Kaby was poor, despite the fact that he was using his friends mansion to try to trick them. He also was able track Ultear despite the distance between them.

Enhanced Durability: Natsu's has shown himself to have incredible durability. He managed to take continual assaults from Erigor and still stand up to fight. In his fight with Cobra, Natsu displayed a resistance against Cobra's poison. Natsu even survived being shot point blank in the mouth by Wally.

Expert Hand to Hand Combatant:Natsu often uses his Dragon Slayer magic in combination with punches, kicks, and even headbutts to combat his opponents.

Items/Weapons
Igneel's Scarf: It is a scarf given to Natsu by Igneel, he always wears it to remember him. It is a white scarf that has scales on it. It is something similar to a charm that protects Natsu from harm. It protected Natsu from Zeref's death magic twice, but the exposure to the death magic turned it black. During the time when it was tainted, Wendy was unable to heal Natsu. In order to heal him, she had to reverse and remove the tainted evil within the scarf.

Edolas Magic: Sealed Flame Blade: When Natsu couldn't use his Dragon Slayer magic in Edolas, he fought using an Edolas form of magic in the form of a destructive flame blade. (Formerly)

Early Concept


In the short-story version of Fairy Tail, Natsu wasn't a human, but a spirit with horns. Natsu as the "Great Demon Lord Dragneel" greatly resembles this design. The original color for Natsu's clothes was supposed to be red. However, Hiro Mashima decided to change it to black because he wanted a better contrast between Natsu's fire and his clothing.

Trivia

 * Natsu's name is originated from the Japanese word, Natsu, which means summer.
 * Natsu is one of the representatives of Fairy Tail in the game Sunday VS Magazine: Shuuketsu! Choujou Daikessen!, the other being Lucy.
 * It is shown that Natsu and Happy have their own house but still choose to show up at Lucy's apartment all the time. The inside of Natsu's house is extremely messy and has a tree growing inside of it.
 * Natsu and Happy collect items to perserve the memories of missions (i.e Lucy's maid costume, the fake Salamander signature, a souvenir from Galuna Island, etc.)
 * Hiro Mashima said that Fire Dragon's Iron Fist is Natsu's signature move.