The Heart of a Slayer
Chapter 1
AN: I am so excited about this story. I recently finished the anime for Fairy Tail and began the manga where the anime left off! I love Fairy Tail it is awesome! Any way this is just a little story that popped into my head. I know for sure I'm going to continue into the Tenrojjima arch but how far after that I am not sure!
I hope you enjoy my little tale! PLEASE REVIEW!
Disclamier: I don't own any of the characters Fairy Tail or plot story lines. That all goes to Hiro Mashima-sensei!
ENJOY! =^-^=
"Aquailious was my beginning. There was nothing before her. She didn't find me in the woods or save me from death. She was my mother in every sense of the word. AND YOU KILLED HER!" a young red-headed teen screamed at the enormous black and blue dragon. Acnologia stared down at the tiny speck that seemed to be talking. What he didn't expect from the dirt under him was an impressive amount of magical energy. He had just dealt with a different speck a day ago now he was dealing with another.
"YOUR DEATH WILL BE BY MY HAND! WATER DRAGON ROAR!" the teen screamed and shot a jet of boiling hot water right into his eye.
The dragon roared in outrage and pain. The boiling water had just blinded his left eye. No one in 400 years had ever hurt him.
"I'M JUST GETTING WARMED UP!" the teen ran up the dragon's leg and straight for him wings.
"WATER DRAGON CLAW!" she screamed and pierced through the leathery part of his wing with more boiling water and dragged her claws all the way down his wing ripping it to shreds. Acnologia wiped his head around roaring once more in pain.
The teen ran under him to where his soft underbelly was exposed. She inhaled and let lose another boiling jet of water that blew a hole into his exposed belly. He roared once again in pain and outrage. He slammed his body down but missed her as she barrel rolled out of the way. She ran to his left side and started attacking him with spell after spell. Each shot more intense in heat then the other. Her pain and hatred in every shot. The dragon took off to the sky with great difficulty and let lose a jet of black flames and she let lose a jet of boiling water. She put the rest of her power into that last spell. She knew of course that there was no way her roar could compete with his but she could lessen the damage she would take and hope to survive. As she was hit by the black flames she smile and went into the welcoming darkness knowing that she hurt him. She had hurt the dragon that had not been touched in 400 years.
"Momma! Momma!" a small redhead girl with small delicate hands and dimples ran up to a lake in the middle of a mountain valley.
The lake rippled and a small dragon with blue sparkling scales and a kind warm face popped up. She blew water in the young girls face. The little girl giggled as she bounced up and down.
"What is it Laela?" the dragon chuckled. The girl smiled and swirled her hands in circles around each other. A small ball of water form and continued to grow until it was as big as she was. The young girl then stepped into it and began to blow bubbles. As the bubbles reached the edge they popped.
"Look momma... my bubbles... can talk!" the girl giggled as each bubble held her words. The dragon chuckled and patted the young girl on the head.
"Sweet Laela always playing. Young Natsu was a bad influence wasn't he. Your control over water is very good though! Someday you will be very powerful. I bet you could beat that hot head," the dragon smiled.
The girl dispelled the water and ran to the dragon hugging her face.
"I will kick his butt! I love you Momma!" the girl squeaked.
"Alright, alright now we must work on your control of the temperature of your water. I want you to try make this water freeze," the water dragon instructed.
Laela nodded and began. Though she may have loved to play Laela was a prodigy. When she trained she was amazing. Though it was her first time she had already cooled the water to the edge of freezing.
"Good you are almost there a little more," Aquailious coached.
Sweat began to form on Laela's face but she continued. The water before her began to crystalize when a roar erupted above them. Laela jumped and dispelled her water before running under her mother.
"Momma is that uncle Igneel?" Laela whispered.
"No little one that is not! Hide in the lake quick!" Aquailious nudged her to the water.
"Stay under the water and do not come out until he is gone!" Laela nodded and jumped into the water. She hid in the underground cavern at the bottom of the lake. She saw black fire and sparkling water shoot across the surface of the water. She felt the ground quake at the power of the dragons at the surface.
The world slowly quieted and Laela swam to the surface. Laela had been underwater for about 2 hours waiting for the fighting to end. Being the daughter of a water dragon breathing underwater was second nature. She reached the surface and screamed. Her valley, her home was destroyed. On the ground a few yards away laid the body of her mother. The smaller dragon had no chance. Laela ran crying to her broken mother.
"Momma! Momma!" she screamed. Aquailious gave a shutter breath as she heard her daughter's screams. The dragon knew she was dying, but she had protected her daughter to the end.
"Laela oh my sweet Laela," the dragon sighed as the child snuggled up and hugged her mother's neck. The dragon pulled her broken wing over the small child and covered her as the rain began to fall.
"Momma we need to get to uncle Igneel! He can help you Momma!" Laela cried into her mother's neck. She wasn't dumb she saw the gashes that litter her mother's body. No healer could get to them in time.
"My sweet Laela, I was not supposed to leave you like this. I was supposed to leave you with Natsu. You two were supposed to keep each other strong when Igneel and I left," Aquailious brought her claw to her heart and opened it.
"I leave you with this. My heart with be yours and you can grow into a very powerful Dragon Slayer. Find Natsu and be strong my beautiful sweet Laela," the dragon rubbed her face against her child before pulling out her heart and pushed it against her child's chest.
Laela stared in amazement when a magic circle appeared around the heart and it began to shrink and be pushed into her chest. Laela felt her heart beat race and then slow as the beats began to match and her mother's her became one with her own.
Aquailous's clawed hand fell to the ground and the sparkles in her scales dulled.
"Momma? Momma? MOMMA!" she screamed.
Laela's eyes shot open. She looked around in search of Acnologia. To her surprise she wasn't lying on the ground but on a large man's back.
"So you're awake?" he stopped and set her down on the ground very carefully. She looked herself over and found she was covered in bandages. Her skin was blackened and she looked like a burned crispy person.
"You should be dead you know," the man knelt in front of her as he went about changing her dressings.
"Water," she rasped out.
"I was amazed with what I found. I mean you had to have done damage with all that dragon blood on the ground," the older man unwrapped more bandages.
"Water," she rasped again.
"And where I found you! You were in the middle of a circle of devastation. You had to have taken that blast head on. I mean really..." he looked up as a hand interrupted his babble.
"Water...I need ...to get to...water," she whispered fighting to speak. The man stared wide eyed and handed her a bottle.
"There is a lake not far from here, this is what I have for now," he nodded for her to take it. She poured the water into her hand. The man was about to stop her when he noticed the water staying in her hand. She slowly brought the water over the worst of her wounds and began to heal them. She was panting after the worst of her burns were healed.
"Maybe that isn't a good idea, you should save you strength," he went to take the water away but she stopped him and took a long drink. Secretly healing the internal damage to her lungs and such.
Laela stopped and handed it back to him panting a bit more.
"Laela," she said offering her hand.
"Gildartz," he said gently taking her hand and shaking it.
She tried to stand but was brought back to the ground by the really strong pull of gravity. That's what she told herself anyway.
"Hey maybe you should take it a little easier. I can bring you home just tell me where," Gildartz offered.
"I need more water to heal," Laela said simply. Gildartz nodded and pulled her up on his back before starting his trek to the closest water source.
"So how did you happen on that beast? He came out of nowhere when I was on a mission. Bit my leg and arm right off before I knew what happened. I was heading back to my guild when I came across you," he said trying to learn how this teen got there in the middle of an obvious fight with a dragon that nearly killed him.
"I searched for him. Had I gotten to his other eye or even his wing. I almost had him. I'm sorry momma," the girl whispered. Gildartz was taken back by her answer and he was about to ask more when the wetness of his shoulder stopped him. The teen cried into his shoulder for a short time before passing out again.
They made it to a small mountain lake in pretty good time. He woke Laela up and set her down on the ground.
"Is this ok?" he asked.
"It is perfect," she whispered still raw in the throat. "Can you set me down in the deepest part of it?" she asked looking up at him.
Gildartz shrugged and picked her up bridal style and carefully brought her to the lake he found. He walked to about waist deep water before she stopped him.
"This is far enough, if I don't come up for a while I am fine," Laela smiled before diving into the water.
Gildartz shrugged and sat on the shore for a while. After about 5 minutes and still no signs of Laela resurfacing he got worried. Gildartz was about to jump in when he saw the water ripple and Laela pop out of the water. She stood in the middle of the lake right on top of the water looking at the clouds that rolled by.
Gildartz stared at her in amazement. Not more than half an hour ago she was at deaths door and here she was after a dip in a random lake good as new. Her long coppery hair was no longer covered in mud and burnt ground. He could barely tell the color under all of the mud. Now it was clean silky and braided. Her burnt cloths were discarded and replaced with what looked like animal hide pants and an animal hide tank top that hugged her well-built body. For a girl her age she was well sculpted and muscular yet still feminine. She was obviously a fighter and hunter with the knives that were now attached to her legs. There also sat a bow and quivers strung across her back.
She looked back at him and smiled sadly. Her eyes were a soft grey that held a lot more pain and knowledge than a girl her age should have.
She began to walk across the top of the water and stood in front of Gildartz.
"What guild do you belong too?" she asked politely in a beautiful smooth wind chime like voice. He was mesmerized by her.
"Only the best in Fiore, Fairy Tail," he smirked when her eyes lit up.
"Natsu Dragneel is in that guild correct?" she asked with excitement.
"Yes he is? Do you have business with him?" Gildartz asked a little wary. He may have saved the girl but Natsu was a part of his guild and he would never sell him out.
"He is the closest thing to family I have left," she sighed and looked to the sky again.
"Family but Natsu was raised by a..."
"Dragon and not just any dragon. Igneel, who happened to be my uncle. I was raised by a dragon as well. My mother was the water dragon Aquailious. That's why I was after Acnologia. He killed my mother," she had her eyes trained on the clouds as Gildartz let it sink in.
"Well then I guess I should bring you to him huh," Gildartz started walking toward his guild. Laela giggled and whistle highly out of the blue. Gildartz raised an eyebrow.
"What was that for?"
"You'll see," she smiled and kept her eyes on the sky. A bright reflection caught her eye and she whistle again. Diving down from the sky a silver falcon landed gracefully on her shoulder.
"This is Soul Silver. She has been with me for a long time," she smiled as the falcon rubbed its face into Laela's.
"Alright is that everything now miss attack a dragon walk on water falcon owning girl?" Gildartz chuckled.
"I believe so lead the way," she said politely.
So they set off for Fairy Tail.
AN: THERE IT IS! The beginning on my new story. Hope you liked it!
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