The seventeen-year-old celestial wizard Lucy Heartfilia, who wants to join the Fairy Tail wizards' guild, is nearly hypnotized by a flirtatious wizard named Salamander into becoming one of his admirers. She is inadvertently saved when Natsu Dragneel and his cat-like partner Happy approach him, mistaking "Salamander" for Igneel, a fire dragon they are searching for. Although Lucy buys the two travelers a meal as thanks, they feel indebted and promise to properly repay her. Later, Salamander tells Lucy that he is a member of Fairy Tail and invites her to a yacht party in exchange for membership, intending to smuggle her and other young girls he has kidnapped. Natsu and Happy rescue Lucy again and expose Salamander as an imposter named Bora. Natsu defeats Bora with his dragon slayer magic, revealing himself to be the real Salamander and unwittingly destroying the port in the process. He then invites Lucy to join Fairy Tail, which she happily accepts as they flee from the intervening army.