DRAGON SLAYERS
Prologue
With a thump, a head with auburn hair hit the table. A groan-like noise came from the person who currently had their head buried under their arms.
"Nami-chan, I think you should stop. You've been at it for over an hour." A brown and white cat looked up at the girl known as 'Nami-chan' with a very worried look on her face. It's true they have been searching for him for almost 10 years, without any luck, but drinking this much seems a bit excessive.
"Shaddup Ami" the girl started out with a slurred speech, not even bothering to lift her head, "It's only my twelf beer. Speaking of which-" The girl quickly sat up and looked around. When she found the target she was looking for, her hand shot up straight in to the air. "Ally!"
The woman who was summoned, walked over to the obviously drunk female. "Nanami, you're our best customer but I've never seen you drink this much. Is something wrong?"
With a pout Nanami turned her back to Ally and crossed her arms, mumbling what sounded like a string of curses. "You all must hate me." Once again, Nanami let her head 'thump' against the table. At this Ally and Ami, the brown and white cat, shared a look. Ami shook her head mouthing the words 'salt water' and with a worried glance at her best customer and a nod of understanding, Ally walked off. When the woman left, Ami reached in to a pocket hidden beneath her drunken friend's open skirt. Out of the pocket, she pulled out a cigarette and matches.
"Nami-chan, I think we should look for some new jobs." Under her breath Ami mumbled 'Since you drank all of our money this afternoon'. "But you need to sober up, a lot, before we do."
At this, Nanami raised her head and grabbed the cigarette and lit it with a rather upset look on her face.
"If I got just ONE good lead Ami, just one! All I need to do is find him and everything will be okay." Ally chose this moment to return to the two girls with two gallons of salt water.
After placing the two gallons of salt water on the table, Ally put her hand on the girl's shoulder. "I hope everything works out. I don't know what it is you're looking for or why you are, but despite all the money you bring in, it's upsetting to see you this depressed, so good luck." With a smile Ally turned around and left the two.
Nanami grumbled looking at the water as if willing it to turn in to alcohol. When she realized that, obviously, would not happen. She put out her cigarette with a sigh and grabbed the first gallon. In what seemed like miraculous speed, she finished the first gallon while glaring at her best cat friend, Ami.
"What? You're the one who spent all of our money! Now I can't eat any fish and it's all YOUR fault." At this, Ami turned away from her friend with a pout.
Nanami's face turned rather grave after hearing her friend say that. She wasn't being fair, sure she was upset after hitting yet another dead-end, but she shouldn't be so selfish, especially to the one who has been there for her throughout it all. As she put the empty gallon bottle down, she turned to Ami with an apologetic look on her face.
However, just as she was about to apologize, a certain conversation reached her ears.
"A Dragon Slayer? Hah! Dragons have been extinct for years now. It's a lost magic, no one can do it anymore."
Nanami could feel the blood pulsing throughout her veins, willing herself not to fight. Ami, noticing her friends tension looked at her. Why was she so tense? It was then, upon seeing her friends concentrated stare, that she noticed Nanami was eavesdropping. Looking around, she finally saw who Nanami was listening to. It was two men across the bar chugging beer, seeming to be having a good time.
"Yeah but that Salamander kid, he claims to be a dragon slayer. Apparently he can breath fire!" The two men shared a laugh, unaware of any listener.
"That's rich. So a kid thinks he is a dragon slayer just because he can breath fire?"
It was that moment.
The moment she would join their conversation.
Quickly, she stood up and walked across the bar over to the two men. She helped herself to a seat staring at the men. The men, who were a first shocked, looked at the girl with flirtatious smiles.
"Well hello pretty lady. What's your name?" The first man asked. She looked over at him, quickly accessing him. Mid to late thirties she decided. He had brown hair with a scruffy looking beard to match. He was a rather burley man who was at first glance rather fearsome. However, that 'first glance' did not scare or stop Nanami.
With a slight smirk she looked at the gruff looking man with a coy look. "My name is Nanami, what's yours?"
"My name is Arata." He then pointed at his companion. "This is Gavino." She looked over at the man, Gavino. He looked like a more agile man unlike Arata. He was also a bit leaner and had no beard.
"Would you like a drink?" The man Gavino asked. He had a rather high-pitched voice that did not seem to fit him and annoyed Nanami. So, she decided to not play around and get straight to the point.
"No." The men looked taken aback by her quick and curt response. "I am here to continue your conversation about a certain Salamander."
With a shared confused glace, the men turned to the serious looking Nanami. "Why's that?" Asked Arata.
"I am extremely curious about this dragon slayer you speak of."
The men shared a laugh, expecting her to join in at the 'preposterous' claim of the boy being a dragon slayer. Nanami's face however, remained straight obviously not finding the joke. With a quick cough, the men stopped laughing.
"Well," Gavino started off, "What do you want to know?"
"I want to know where he is." The two men once again looked confused. Why would this little girl want to know where a 'dragon slayer' was?
Gavino, the one obviously who knew where the 'dragon slayer' was, was the first to respond with, what he thought, a seductive smirk. "Why? What do we get out of it?"
Ami, who was next to Nanami the whole time simply sighed and shook her head. Men. They seem to enjoy pissing her friend off.
Just as the cat predicted, a sense of anger started to radiate from the woman. "I have some questions for him that are of no consequence to you. You get nothing but your life."
The men laughed amused at the girl. Who did she think she was? The three of them stood up, with the two men towering over the short girl. Not even bothering to look up, Nanami clenched her fist, attempting to calm herself down before she once again made a mess of things.
"Little girl, do you honestly think you can beat the two of us by yourself?" The men looked over the girl's body hungrily. She had long auburn hair tied in a ponytail and greenish eyes. Around her neck was a necklace that held a jade gemstone. She didn't bother wearing a shirt, only having a blue sports bra covering her large breasts. As for pants, she wore black skin tight shorts that were covered by a blue and green open skirt that showed off her left, very toned, leg. Across her waist was a light blue belt that was obviously holding a long sword to her back.
"I should be asking you two idiotic men that." With a glare she finally looked in to the eyes of the now irate men. There was a stare down between the three of them, tension rising in the air. Feeling this, the bar quieted down watching them.
At this moment Ally decided to walk over to them. "Hey guys, whatever trouble you're having, please take it outside."
Nanami, respecting Ally's wishes, turned around and headed for the door, Ami quickly following with a relieved sigh. When Nanami didn't hear footsteps following, she turned and looked at the two men who were still standing and glaring at her. With a condescending smirk, she looked at them, making it seem as if she were looking at bugs needing to be squashed.
"I knew you two were little bitches." Hearing this Ami sighed. Nanami was such a trouble maker. Leaving it at that, the duo left for the door. Seconds after leaving the bar, she turned around with a smirk on her face looking at the two red-faced men.
"How about this, cry-babies, when I beat you, you tell me where the Salamander kid is." She didn't even bother looking at them as she took out a cigarette and lit it.
"And when we beat you?"
Nanami looked at Arata with a hard glare, exhaling the smoke.
"You won't."
As soon as the jab to his pride registered in his mind, Gavino was the first to react. With a smirk he released a wave of water in Nanami's direction, who upon seeing this laughed.
"That's IT?!" Almost doubling over in laughter, she realized how irate her opponent was. Damn, she had to defeat these idiots without knocking them out. As the water crashed upon her, Gavino smirked. The little brat thought she could beat him.
However, he ended up watching as the water that was supposed to be crushing her disappeared as she drank it all.
"You got some dirty ass water. That didn't taste good at all." She frowned while wiping water from her mouth, a little depressed about the fowl tasting water.
"W-what?!" With this, Arata pushed Gavino to the side, and with a swipe of his hand sent bubble like water magic her way.
Wave. With a quick thought she dogged them.
"A water user and a wave user. That's quite pathetic. You picked a fight with the worst person, ya know that? I was hoping for some sort of battle." She took another drag of her cigarette and then crossed her arms, an annoyed look crossing her face.
"Nami-chan, you're too violent." Flying in the air, Ami sighed. Nanami always tended to let her temper get the better of her.
With a 'tch' sound she turned and looked up at the flying cat. "They started it!" Nanami exclaimed while pointing at the men. "I just asked a simple question!"
Ami only sighed and shook her head.
The two men who were watching the exchange became irtate at the fact they were being ignored AND underestimated my a mere cat and a little girl. While Nanami was in conversation, water pellets and vibrations sent through the air headed her way.
Not even bothering to look at the attacks, dodged them with ease. With another annoyed glace, noticing they made her put her cigarette out, looked over at them. "You know, it's rude to attack people while they are in conversation." With this, the two men charged at the female.
Punches were thrown at her, kicks were aimed at her and magic attacks were sent her way. Every. Single. One of them were easily dodged without her even using magic.
The two men, almost out of magic and out of breath looked at the female who was simply looking at them, hands on her hips with a rather bored look on her face. She was mocking them.
With a last shot of pride, the two sent their most powerful magic in her direction. She needed to end this battle quickly despite how fun it was playing with the two men. With a smirk, she muttered three words that ended the battle; "Ocean Dragon's Roar". As soon as she said the words, a large amount of water was released from her mouth easily and successfully hitting her targets.
The two men, paralyzed, looked up at the female who was now looking down at them.
"W-who are you?" An amused Nanami looked down to Arata, who now shared a terrified look with Gavino.
"A dragon slayer."
NOTE; This is a beta chapter. If reviews are bad and I receive negative feedback on the progress of the story, I will stop writing. So please, let me know what you think. I am already done with writing this story and, if feedback is positive, I will upload a new chapter every Thursday. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it.