Chapter 71

Natsu emerged from the lake while holding a six foot long fish with starry scales, it keeps wiggling around but it couldn't even move a finger of Natsu.

"Whoa~! Is that-" Happy stared at the fish in Natsu's hands as his eyes widened in shock.

"The Star-Chasing Salmon, yeah." Natsu answered, as Happy's eyes turned into stars.

"Y-You actually have it here?! It is said that this fish can only be encountered and not sought! I remembered someone posting an S-rank quest with 8 million jewels as a reward just to have this fish."

"There is an underwater cave hidden down below the lake, there are many of this fish there," Natsu then smiled and patted his head, "You actually know so much about this fish, as expected of my partner, so knowledgeable."

"Hun, hun, if it comes to fish, no one is better than me." Happy patted his ċhėst with pride, his eyes not moving away from the salmon in Natsu's hands.

Natsu nodded before turning his gaze to the fish that keeps 'dancing' around in his hands as he raised it and flicked its head.

The fish struggled for a few seconds before it stopped moving, an imaginary soul escapes its mouth.

Satisfied, Natsu smiled and threw it to the ground, but Happy, who is now in his demi-human form, caught it before it could even fall to the ground, he glared at Natsu with hatred.

"How dare you! Treating a treasure like this as if it was a trash you can throw around!" Happy then hugged the fish as he ċȧrėss it lovingly, "Don't worry, you'll get the best treatment soon. You can't bring out your real flavor if you aren't treated with care."

Natsu just laughed seeing that. Then, he suddenly saw Kagura walking out of the house towards him.

He raised an eyebrow and ask, "I know you aren't that tired but, why aren't you resting?"

Kagura smiles and shook her head, "I'm fine, I just wanted to ask where can we take a bath?... In private?" She added the last words when she saw Natsu pointing at the lake.

"A bath huh~" Natsu turned towards the lake and stomped his feet, as a ten meter tall wall made of rocks emerged and splits the lake into two.

(A/N; Did any of you forgot about his earth magic?)

Then, he created another wall in all of its side, but with two two-and-a-half meters tall and one and a half meter wide rectangular shape hole, enough for a human to fit through.

He even made a small house where they can change their clothes, making it look like a hot spring resort.

"There." Natsu smiled before looking at Kagura, who look dazed seeing everything that Natsu did.

She then quickly snapped out of her daze as she moved her gaze towards Natsu, who has this smug grin on his face.

Her cheeks twitched as she used the handle of her sword to poke Natsu's eight-pack abs, "Don't get ċȯċky, you won't see me look like that ever again."

Saying so, Kagura then turned around and head back towards the house, leaving Natsu and Happy alone.

"Natsu~ Do you have any more of this fish? I think that this is not enough?" Happy asked, gaining Natsu's attention.

Natsu stared at the six feet long salmon and couldn't help but agree with Happy. For ordinary people, this fish should at least last them for several days but he could eat it alone and he still wouldn't be satisfied.

"Then, I'll go catch some more. There is entire school of Star-Chasing Salmon down below."

Few minutes later, Natsu brought another two Star-Chasing Salmon along with a five meters long fish with golden scale.

With his level of strength, he can even survive underwater for a hours and he would still be okay.

Happy immediately recognized the gold fish as the mythical 'Golden-Scaled Royal Cod' which also has the nickname of 'King of all Fishes' after its sighting a century ago, no one has ever managed to see even a shadow of it ever again.

Happy didn't expect that he actually see, and will even eat two incredibly rare and priceless species of fish.

Natsu asked Happy to bring all these fishes inside the house and ask Ultear and Kagura to cook it.

Happy nodded his head, he couldn't wait to taste these fishes, with the help of two of the greatest cook he knew, the taste of the fish will surely increase by leaps and bounds.

Natsu immediately went towards his room, took a new set of clothes from the baggage that Ultear and Kagura prepared and wore it.

Its a sleeveless plain-black shirt and a black long pants.

"Meh, they will just have to bear sleeping on the floor and sofa."

Of course he will be sleeping in bed, its his house after all, he was also pretty sure that Kagura and Ultear will share the bed with him, his bed is even wide enough for five of him, as for the others, they'll make do for what they have.

Natsu walked out of the room and went towards the living room, where all the boys aside from Happy are gathered.

The girls are in the kitchen, helping Ultear and Kagura to prepare the food.

"This house of yours is pretty comfy Salamander, I think I can live here for the rest of my life." Gajeel said while leaning his back on the chair.

Natsu sat at an empty chair and glance at Gajeel, "You really won't call me master?"

"Gehee~! Though I don't hate calling you that, I still prefer on calling with your alias." Gajeel replied with a smirk.

"Yeah, Gajeel is right, but as a sign of respect, I think I'll just call you Fourth." Panther Lily, who is sitting on the table said as he glanced at Natsu.

"I think I'll stick to flame-brain, I'll just call you master when something serious is happening." Gray said as he glanced at Natsu.

"Fufu~ even though you are mine servant, since you are the guild master, then I'll call you that," Alex said.

"Why are guys even talking about this?" Laxus asked before taking a glance at Natsu, "I wanted to ask what kind of training program did you plan to strengthen 'our' representatives?"

Natsu just smirked hearing Laxus' question. He leaned back and used his arms to support his head before replying.

"I was thinking of asking you guys to hunt for 50 S-rank magic beasts and forced you to battle a saint-class beasts."