The souls of the dragons were inside the dragon slayers and connected to each other by a spell created by Zeref. The dragons can use it to communicate between each other as well as see what the dragon slayers are watching as well. Zeref had also placed a lot of other spells just in case which can allow communication with outside forces although is limited. Plus, the time inside can also be easily controlled as well.
So, while the entire discussion had happened inside among all the dragons, the dragons made sure that it happened really quickly so only a few seconds had passed in the outside world.
"Natsu, have you ever heard of the name Anna Heartfilia?" Layla asked the question bringing the attention of everyone.
'Isn't that the name of one of our ancestor's' Lucy thought as she had heard that name once in a discussion with her mother.
"Anna?" Natsu had a confused expression for a moment and then.
"aaahhh" Natsu immediately held his head.
"Natsu are you okay" Lucy asked worried about his condition. But just as she put her hand on his shoulder.
"Oww" Lucy whipped back her hand
"he's burning guys" Lucy shouted even more worried
"Gray use your ice" Erza shouted
"Got it" he said but just as he was about to use it.
Thunk!!
Natsu fainted and fell down on the ground.
"Natsu wake up" Happy tried to shake him but a simple touch was hot enough that he was not able to hold out for long.
"Gray"
"Got it Erza"
"
"Take him to Lucy's room, it's the closest right now" Layla said seeing the condition Natsu was in right now
Everyone immediately took Natsu to Lucy's room and put him in the bed. Gray immediately used his ice magic to freeze the entire bed and created blocks of ice all around to reduce the temperature of the room.
"This will do for now" Gray sighed but looked at Natsu
'what the hell is up with that, he is not radiating temperature, his body is holding it inside and only with direct contact does it transfer. But even if you ignore that, his temperature right now has surpassed anything he had sent my way in our matches before.
To just maintain the ice, he is laying on right now, I have to continuously supply it with magic'
Gray thought as he put an arm on the ice. Erza noticed it and knew what was happening. Then she turned towards Layla.
"Miss Heartfilia, you are Lucy's mother so we will trust you. But please give an explanation for what is happening right now"
"Mom, what's happening" Even Lucy was a bit worried about what was happening right now and was thinking of whether to summon Aquarius to further cool Natsu down.
Layla seemed to be thinking about what was going on right now. As an experienced celestial wizard, she was able to detect soul magic from Natsu the moment she mentioned Anna and right now, Natsu's soul seemed to have retreated deep within his being as well. Anna had explained everything to her seeing that there were a lot of problems which were explained to them by Karna all those years ago.
Anna seeing that there were chances of things going wrong, decided to tell everything to Layla as well so that two people can act towards the target of killing Acknalogia. Anna had gone to find methods to kill the Dragon while Layla was given the responsibility of pushing things forward if things come to it.
So, she had decided to push Natsu a little bit, but even she did not expect something like this to happen.
'It seems my meddling had spurred Igneel to act, well we will only know about it after the young man wakes up'
"You don't need to worry about his condition right now, he will be asleep for sometime but he will wake up soon"
"But it still does not explain why he did what he did right now, plus who is this Anna Heartfilia" Erza asked a bit suspicious
"When Natsu wakes up, he might answer to you"
"that's not- "Erza was not able to complete her question because suddenly Natsu woke up shouting
"Hey, you bastard explain more, you can't just stop now" Natsu began to shout and then saw that he was sitting somewhere different than before
"why is ice everywhere and why being everyone standing like this and where am I"
"""" Natsu"""" everyone cried out in relief while Layla asked a question
"Natsu did you meet Igneel"
"yeah I did" Natsu replied which made others freeze in the room "wait, how come you know that, can you read minds" Natsu asked surprised.
Layla just smiled and looked at Erza
"Miss Erza you can keep your worries away, even if it does not look like it, Natsu has a bit of a connection with the Heartfilia family, and the earlier question was just so to help Ntsu on his search for Igneel. But please forgive me, due to certain reasons I will not be able to diverge more information right now" Layla said with a smile.
Erza seemed to have been satisfied with the explanation for now and it seemed like Natsu also has no questions as well.
"Natsu, did you really meet Igneel" Happy asked as he had been with Natsu since childhood, looking for Igneel with him during every mission they had taken.
"Yeah I did, he told me to be stronger if he wanted to meet him face to face' he replied with a smile
"Really" Lucy asked with a surprised face.
"plus, he also told me a lot of other things as well, something about a wind dragon and Karna as well"
"Karna, what did he say about him" even Erza was intrigued right now as the dragon mentioned one of their guildmember's name.
"he said.." Natsu began making everyone including Gray to come closer and listen
"oh, I forgot" Natsu said while scratching his head.
"""" what"'"" everyone including Layla had their eyes popped out with that reply.
Inside the soul
"What the hell" Igneel was getting a headache
A/N- hope you like it and every 100 powerstone get extra chapter of Jason.