Chapter 1

Early morning In hage village

Two cribs are carrying babies as they are both sleeping peacefully in the early morning these babies are Asta and Yuno.

Looking over both babies was an old man with short gray hair and this man was the head of the church orphanage Father Orsi.

He was about to take in both baby cribs when he heard a rustling in the bushes in front of him.

Orsi was ready with his grimoire to defend himself when to his surprise out of the clearing was a woman with silver hair that reached to the middle of her back.

Her eyes were blue that She wore a simple tan dress with silver dragon patterns meeting in the middle above her stomach.

Orsi noticed in her arms was a little baby boy who was sleeping peacefully.

Upon further inspection, Oris noticed the women was fatigued and hadn't gotten much sleep but she kept cradling the baby in her arms.

Orsi with both cribs of Asta and yuno in his hands walked over to the young women.

"Miss, would you like to come inside with me and grab some food for you and the baby in your arms?"

The women nodded as she carried the baby in her arms with the utmost care as by the look in her eyes she was ready to give her life to protect the baby in her arms.

Orsi turned and quick questioned her once more.

"Is that baby yours?"

The women again without saying anything nodded to the man leading her inside.

The two adults along with the children they were carrying made it into the church as Orsi carefully set down the cribs of Asta and yuno as to not wake them.

His eyes then turned to the women as she sat down at the dining table he had shown to her when they came in.

He then noticed she was talking to her baby and since it was extremely quiet he was able to hear what she was saying despite her whispering.

"It's okay baby mommy's here for you even though my time is short I'll be here for you."

She nuzzled the baby into the crook of her neck as she flashed a genuine smile at her bundle of joy and to Orsi's surprise the baby in her arms smiled back even though it was fast asleep.

He smiled at the two before he went to the kitchen and made the young women a meal.

A couple minutes later

The young women now saw in front of her a plate full of what the priest had called pot potatoes.

She grabbed one and took a bite out of the potato with her mouth feeling dry after the first bite but she ate every single one with no complaints at all.

With her belly full of hot potatoes she sat quietly for a couple minutes before she looked up at father Orsi and finally spoke to him.

"Thank you for all that you've done for me and him."

She used her head to motion towards the baby in her arms.

Orsi nodded in response.

"It was no trouble at all but if I might ask how did you get here and what did you mean when you said your time was short?"

The young women had a contempt smile on her face before she looked at Orsi again.

"My name is Lapis and I was a shrine maiden in the village of Dracona."

Lapis then looked down at the baby in her arms as she kept talking.

"The baby in my arms is my son Shard Lazuli."

Orsi sat in silence as he looked at Lapis then down at shard who was still sleeping in her arms.

"So lapis if you're the mother then who's the father?"

Her blue eyes then became a downcast as she began to speak with a tone of sadness and regret.

"His father is Acnologia The black dragon."

This caused Oris eyes to widen in shock and surprise.

"Wait so his dad and your husband was a dragon!"

Oris then lowered his voice as to not wake up the three babies in the room.

"Me and Acnologia never got married but I loved him with all of my heart even if he did leave the next morning."

"Wait so he just had a one night stand with you and left?"

Lapis just nodded while Oris became upset at the notion.

"That's stupid he should've stayed to help you honestly the nerve of the bastard."

Lapis then shook her head at his anger.

"I know how you must feel but it's my fault because I couldn't stop him from leaving."

Oris was once again surprised at Lapis as she was blaming herself.

"So Lapis what happened then?"

"After I became pregnant with shard I became hated among my village for the act of sin I had committed but my fellow shrine maidens as well as some other villages even the chief defended me and let me raise him in the village until…"

Orsi noticed again as her eyes became a downcast once more.

"You don't have to continue if you don't want to."

"No, it's okay but thank you for the concern."

Lapis then kept going when she felt a pang in her body as she clutched her chest for a brief moment before going back to normal.

"During the night after I had given birth to shard a member of the village contacted the magic council and they sent rune knights to find my baby seeing him as a threat due to his father.

Flashback Dracona Village nighttime

Lapis was cuddling a baby shard in the bed of her house when a man entered wearing the attire of a rune knight captain teleported into the room.

The man in question was a lean-built man of average height with short, almost shaved black hair, with a slightly outlined widow's peak, and complete with mildly long sideburns. He has large, bright emerald turquoise eyes, and thin eyebrows. The left side of his face was covered by three distinctive scars: the shortest one that points diagonally upwards in his left eye's direction, and "connected" by the longest scar, diagonally in the other way, to the similarly oriented one which goes up to his forehead. Such scars harmlessly covered the man's left eyebrow and part of his hair, passing over them. Hanging from The man's left ear is a simple earring, with an elongated pendant attached to it.

This was Doranbolt of the rune knights and he along with Lahar been sent to dracona about a tip-off of acnologia's son so they naturally went to investigate except what he saw in the room wasn't what the report of a vile monster born from the black dragon and he knew that the child in the arms of the women wasn't going to be able to live a normal life due to who his father was so he did what he believed would be the right thing.

"Ma'am I take it that's your son?"

Doranbolt pointed to the bundle the shrine maiden was cradling in her arms tightly.

"If you're here to arrest me I knew it would happen eventually."

Doranbolt was surprised since most mothers wouldn't go without a fight but she was contempt and knew it was going to happen too.

Doranbolt looked her dead in the eyes.

"I'm going to have to ask you to come with me."

Lapis smirked.

"I'm afraid I can't my body's too weak to move. I haven't gotten out of this bed since I gave birth to him."

Then Doranbolt carefully lifted her out of the bed as she was still carrying the baby and he then teleported all three of them out of the house but to the surprise of lapis they were on the outskirts of the village as he pointed east.

"Head that way you'll make it out of fiore by the next sunrise.

Surprised by his actions lapis questioned him.

"Why are you helping me?"

"Because I believe that everyone deserves a chance to live even if he's the son of acnologia he deserves that much."

Lapis smiled at Doranbolt before he saw her leave east towards who knows where.

Flashback end

Oris then came to the conclusion that her journey from Fiore led her to the orphanage by chance.

"So Oris I have a request for you as I can assume this is an orphanage?"

"Yes, it is."

Lapis just smiled down at her child with a look of sadness.

"It looks like my story ends here."

Oris looked at her confused by her statement.

"You've said that before that it was the end of your life what do you mean?"

"Well after Acnologia left and shard was in my womb even though he wasn't fully developed he was still exerting a lot of magic power too much for my body to handle so it was slowly taking away my life but I didn't mind so long as I could bring him into the world and into my life I'm happy."

Oris was once again surprised by lapis's words he then noticed that lapis handed shard to him as he now held the baby dragon slayer in his hands.

"I want a better life for him one where he can be himself and not just the extension of his father."

Lapis then handed Oris two things the first object was a gold locket that when opened showed a picture of a smiling lapis and a less than happy acnologia in human form and the second object was a sheets of paper with dragon slayer magic spells written inside it as well as a few spells from lapis that he would need to learn.

Lapis then looked down at her son as tears streamed down her face as she smiled at her baby boy one last time.

"Never forget shard I will always love you and be with you live your life long and well my little dragon."

With her last words, Lapis died on the couch with a smile on her face much to Oris's sadness.

He then picked her up and gave her a proper burial out in the back of the church as he looked over the three babies he would now have to take care of as part of a family.

Over the course of 15 years passing by a lot had happened in hage village. For starters shard for the longest time chose not to talk with the other orphans and instead chose to read and practice the spells form the book that father oris gave to him from his mother. One day young asta and yuno followed him to his mother's grave and at first, shard almost pummeled them both until yuno played peacekeeper and explained why they had followed him and shard explained everything that he knew to asta and yuno and he even showed them his magic which impressed both boys. Asta and yuno both agreed they would help shard since they were family and soon after that the three of them formed a bother bond. Time passed and the church received help from a nun named sister Lilly who asta immediately fell in love with and asked her to marry him only for him to get punched by a fist of water that sent him right into the ground which caused yuno to be concerned while shard laughed his ass off hysterically.

15 years later

Asta, Yuno and Shard are all now teenagers and help around the orphanage when they can.

Yuno had become a quiet boy with a strong affinity for wind magic, whereas Asta had become outgoing and competitive but he had yet to show any magical ability and has relentlessly trained his body instead. As for shard he had mastered a good portion of the dragon slayer magic from the book from his father and a few spells from his mother and he'd become much stronger thanks to the physical training he had done which was much more dangerous than asta but was still effective as asta's training.

Shard unlike yuno had become more vocal in the past years about mostly everything but what he enjoyed most was watching asta get pummeled by sister Lilly countless times and to him, it only got better each time.

However, everyone in hage knew what was coming up which was a magic ceremony to receive Grimoires suited to their abilities.

Shard was leaning under a tree relaxing when he saw asta once again training his ass off and yuno was being quiet and being flat out rude to Asta as shard saw it anyway.

"You know you guys are making a big deal over some book right?"

Asta stopped doing push-ups and looked shard dead in his face.

"This isn't just SOME book shard it's the very thing that will help me become the wizard king."

Yuno then walked over to shard as he stood next to asta.

"You're only saying that it's some book shard because you don't need one to use your magic."

Shard smirked and got up from his resting spot under the tree.

"Look all I'm saying is I wish both of you the best of luck in getting your grimoires and stuff."

Asta just smiled as he and shard fist bumped while yuno just walked away.

Then the three boys and the rest of the orphanage heard a bell which signified the ceremony was about to start.

In the Grimoire ceremony building

Shard was looking over the crowd in the building saw a lot of people mainly nobles and other commoners but out of the corner of his eye he saw a man with long red hair with a red jacket and he didn't like the way he smelled at all.

He just rolled his eyes and saw that the grimoires were being passed out to other people but then he saw a grimoire go to Yuno with four clover leaves instead of three and he smiled at the dismay and anger it caused the other nobles.

However, when asta didn't receive a grimoire everyone started laughing at him and yuno did nothing as shard clenched his fist in anger as he then heard the insult of a noble name sebas who mocked asta with no remorse.

Shard got up from his spot as was about to walk over to the noble when he felt Father Oris hand on his shoulder.

"Shard let it go asta's tough you know that."

Shard then grabbed his hand and moved it off his shoulder and walked over to the noble his hair covering his eyes.

"Oh, I'll let it go alright."

"Hey, smart-ass!'

Sebas and everyone else turned around to see shard slowly walking towards him.

"Hey look it's another commoner and this one didn't enter the ceremony since he has no magic like that Los-"

Before he could finish Shard drove his fist into his face sending him crashing into the grimoire bookcase.

Luckily he held back as to not kill the poor fool.

This caused a bunch of murmurs to start throughout the ceremony building.

"I don't believe it."

"That guy just punched a noble right in the face."

"Who is that guy?"

Shard satisfied walked out of the building as the ceremony was now over but not before he heard asta's vow to get stronger and try again no matter how many times it took. And he smirked as he left.

Shard then noticed the guy he saw in here earlier had left but he still had his scent so he was going to investigate.

He then saw the same guy from earlier who had yuno in chains.

"Hey let yuno go and give him back his book!"

As soon as the man turned around shard was able to get a better look at yuno's captor.

The man in question was a tall man with a lean build. He has messy and wavy long black hair. One of his distinguished features is his burn mark on the left-hand side of his face.

He wore a full dark-colored bodysuit with a pair of belts he used to carry his chains. He also carried a pouch strapped around his right thigh to carry his grimoire. His boots were dark-colored with a pair of belts that hold each of them together. Additionally, he covered his attire with a cloak buttoned together around his right shoulder.

Shard looked at the man with a scowl.

"Look I'm not going to repeat myself so why don't take your crap and go hom-"

Before he could finish chains appeared to impale him but shard quickly dodged them with insane reflexes.

Shard turned around before a chain hit him in the dead in the mouth.

The man who still had yuno in chains began to laugh.

"Haha, stupid boy that's what you get for trying to play hero."

Then to the surprise of the man but to yuno's enjoyment, the chains began to turn into blue magic energy as shard began to eat the magic to the older man's shock.

Shard wiped his mouth in satisfaction.

"Ah well, I gotta say those chains were a bit bland their pal maybe use something else for a little bit of spice next time."

The man's face was one of shock while Yuno who was still imprisoned just smiled.

"What the hell! How'd you do that?... you shouldn't be able to eat magic like that!"

Shard just cracked his knuckles and then his neck as a toothy grin sported his face.

Shard then took a runner's stance as he rushed the man at blazing speed.

"You're just rushing to your death!"

The man's grimoire flipped open again as more chains began to burst forth at shard only for the young dragon slayer to dodge.

"Let's see how you handle this!"

Then shard's fist was then cloaked in a blue and black colored magic aura.

"Black Dragon…."

Behind shard was a silhouette of his father acnologia as a dragon.

"... Hard Fist!"

With his fist cloaked in the blue-black magic aura he delivered a strong right hook to the man as he sent him flying into a far wall.

Shard's hearing then picked up a sound of running coming towards the alley but the person was just asta.

"Oh hey asta."

Asta came running into the alley looking at the scene in front of him.

"You guys okay?"

"Yeah don't worry about us man besides I just beat that guy into the ground easily."

Then when shard turned around a spike chain impaled his shoulder and wrapped him up against the wall.

"What the hell?"

"Shard hang on I'm coming!"

Asta then found himself getting stabbed by many chains and pinned to the wall as the man kept mocking him.

"Bastard I'll rip you in half!"

Shard kept struggling to get out of the chains that had bound him only when he heard yuno first insult him the praise him by saying how asta was his rival.

Then to the surprise of both Yuno and Shard the atmosphere changed and then a black and dirty covered grimoire appear in front of asta as he drew a big sword and then nullified the magic chains to the surprise of the man.

Shard then smiled as Asta beat the guy easily as he got up and held his grimoire proudly.

"Good job Asta I knew you'd get one of those books."

Shard just smiled at asta and yuno as he brought them both in for a hug as he smiled.

The three brothers just fist bumped together.

Asta then smiled before he raised his fist in the air full of joy and excitement.

"Guys let's go to the capitol so one of us can become the wizard king!"

"Alright!"

Yuno just smiled.

"Sure guys."

The sun then set as the three friends now had a goal in mind… to become the wizard king.