And here's the third volume of my story. I fixed a few things in my last story. All the characters in this story I made up by myself. They may remind you of characters from another series. Like Cooro's name sounds similar to Cooro from +Anima. Their names may sound similar, but that doesn't mean they're the same.

Cooro and Aōyami started their journey together up the mountains in search of the Rainbow Hane-Sakana. It turned out Aōyami was good company. She and Cooro had lots of things in common. They both liked music that was composed by a dead artist; others still alive included members from Fairy Tail who liked to perform. They also liked sweets, animals, reading, and trying to make friends. It turned out however that Aōyami was better at making friends then Cooro, and it made him sad.

The path up the mountain was steep. Cooro, who never had much time to even go outside and exercise like all the other kids, he had problems breathing from all the aerobics he was going. He could feel his lungs, mouth, and even nostrils starting to turn cold. The path was also icy. One wrong step and Hyde would slip on ice.

" You told me you come here often, Aōyami?" Cooro asked while he trudged up the icy hill.

" Yep," Aōyami replied with a smile. " At first it was pretty lonely, but that's all cleared up now that you're here."

" Are you ever attacked by any wild animals?"

" Almost all the time. Their so scary and they want to eat me. I can only escape them by using my magic."

" Tell me, what kind of magic do you use? I don't have any magic, my sister uses Taboo Magic, her friends use Celestials, Gun, and Absorption Magic. So what kind of magic do you use?"

" Sorry." Aōyami turned around and stuck her tongue out at Cooro. " It's a secret. Something I can't tell anyone. If you want to see it you should stay close to me and hope we're attacked by a wild animal."

" Eh, that's going a little too far-" Cooro was so distracted Aōyami that he didn't see the ice under his feet. Cooro slipped on the ice and almost fell too his death. They travelled up so much that falling would be a long way down, and Cooro didn't think there was anything, not even a stud like him, waiting for him below. " Help me!"

" Hold on!"

Aōyami saved Cooro's life. From her one piece dress she took out a scarf and whipped it at Cooro. Luckily for her Cooro was able to grab the scarf. He dangled on the end of it as Aōyami pulled him up. There was the occasional moments where one of Cooro's hands slipped off, the scarf moved back and forth like a pendulum, but Aōyami was able to grab Cooro and pull him to safety.

" Hey, be a little more careful, would ya," Aōyami said with a smile on her face. " I wouldn't want our friendship to end when it just started."

" F-Friends...?" Cooro stuttered after hearing the noun he was searching for. " Are we really friends?"

" Of course we are. We're helping each other out, aren't we? That's what I think friends would do. And best of all we are on a journey together, aren't we?"

Cooro wanted to lavish Aōyami. Never once had a girl, other than his sister and her friends of course, had ever smiled at him. Aōyami had a nice smile. She could warm everyone with her smile. As Cooro looked at her he felt like he wanted to smother her with flowers. Like he was born to smother her in flowers.

" Friends-"

" We better stop lolly gagging. We have to get you those Rainbow Hane-Sakana, don't we? Just hold her hands on my shoulders. I'll lead the way."

XXX

The journey wasn't as treacherous as Cooro originally thought-and it was all thanks to Aōyami. They were already halfway up the mountain. She helped him through the open crevasse in the terrain and through the lenticular bad clouds. The only thing left was the altitude. Cooro didn't know if they would be able to get that far, but Aōyami's smiling face reassured him.

" She's so brave. I want to be like her someday."

Aōyami stopped all of a sudden. Cooro wondered why that was. He was about to raise his voice and ask her, but he soon found out as a snowball came out of nowhere and hit him in his stomach. It was a good thing it was just the stomach. Cooro's sister warned him that a snowball to the face may contain ice and could hurt you. The person who threw the snowball was...Aōyami.

" How did that feel," Aōyami asked Cooro. " It felt cold, didn't it?"

" Aōyami, what was that for?" Cooro asked.

" Oh, it's just a little something to lighten your spirits. The journey upwards from her is going to be a lot more dangerous. So I want to have as much fun as you as possible. Think fast!"

Cooro was nearly hit by another snowball. He sidestepped out of the way before being it. Just when he thought he was safe another snowball was thrown out of nowhere and hit him behind his head. Aōyami pointed fingers at Cooro and started laughing at him. Cooro, about to do the same childish tricks, swiped snow off the ground and made a snowball with it.

" Now it's my turn. Think fast!"

Cooro was just as fast throwing snow as Aōyami. Listening to the words of warning his sister gave him, Cooro aimed right at Aōyami's one piece dress. The now splattered on her dress and dripped off of her. The moment the snow touched the ground, Aōyami, having a smile that looked like a cat, picked more snow off the ground and threw it at Cooro.

" Let's play!'

Cooro and Aōyami started playing their game; they both wanted to win. After throwing what seemed like the one hundredth or two hundredth snowballs at each other they nearly lost track of what they were doing. Cooro was the only one who was level-headed. His mind, as big as it was, couldn't stop him from having fun with a girl who made him feel like he was...human.

" I don't want this to end. I want to play like this forever-"

Cooro's hand slipped after Aōyami accidentally threw a snowball right in his face. What Cooro didn't see before was a cave in the mountain. Out of the cave came a Vulcan. Vulcans appear to be large, anthropomorphic monsters that resemble primates. This one was white-furred and had black polka dots all over it.

Cooro's snowball fell down and splattered all over the Vulcan's face when it turned around. Needless to say the Vulcan didn't like the cold snow one bit. When it saw Cooro, its eyes burned in anger like a burning campfire, and it daunted Cooro.

" I understand now why my sister said never to hit people in the face."

The Vulcan saw Cooro to be the one responsible. Like a gorilla the Vulcan banged its chest and roared from its mouth before it got on both its arms and legs and charged straight towards Cooro. Cooro was scared. Having no magic and no physical power he had no chance against the Vulcan. He shielded his face with both his arms awaiting for when the Vulcan would finish him.

" Noooooooo!"

Aōyami jumped in and saved Cooro at the very last second. She ran straight up to him and pushed him to the ground before the Vulcan could lay its hands on him. Cooro and Aōyami both fell on the snow with Cooro the first to land and Aōyami rolling to his right side. Before they both fell on the ground, Cooro could almost believe he saw Aōyami crying for him.

" Aōyami." Aōyami was shaking everywhere as she tried standing up. Aōyami was in terrible shape like Cooro, but she wanted to protect him from the Vulcan. Seeing this, Cooro was getting nervous. " No, Aōyami, stop! Don't do it! Those things are very powerful!"

" Don't you think I already know that? But I don't care. What kind of friend would I be if I didn't help a friend when he's injured? And now...you're going to see my magic for yourself."

Aōyami clapped both her hands together forming her incantation. Her magic required lots of focus and drained her after she used it. While performing her incantation Aōyami's body glowed bright purple. The Vulcan saw the light and took it as a challenge. He charged straight for Aōyami and prepared to punch Aōyami with both its fists.

" Aōyami!"

" Kitsune Shadow Clone!"

Aōyami split in two. Before the Vulcan could hit her she split into two people; herself and herself. The Vulcan missed the two Aōyami's by hitting between them. The two Aōyami's soon split into four, then eight, and finally one more split out. All nine Aōyami's were angry. They jumped on the Vulcan and bombarded him with their fists.

" Is this really Aōyami's magic? It's so powerful."

Aōyami soon defeated the monster Vulcan. All nine Aōyami's picked the Vulcan up, carried it to the part slope where the bottom of the mountains was, and they threw the Vulcan down the mountain. Cooro gawked the moment he saw what all nine Aōyami's did. Eight of the Aōyami's soon disappeared in a puff of green smoke and only one Aōyami, the real Aōyami, appeared.

" Phew. I was afraid that the Vulcan was going to take over my body. Good thing that's done."

" You just kill a creature!" Cooro shouted. " I don't care what it was. I don't want to see any animal getting hurt!"

" Oh relax. Vulcan's are strong. I'm pretty sure this one has found a way to survive. And since it's gone let's go check that cave it was in."

XXX

There was virtually nothing of profit in the Vulcan's cave. Just some banana's that were covered in ice, bones of small animals it had eaten, rags, and baskets. Just when Cooro was about to leave he saw an egg lying in one of the baskets. Cooro reached for the egg, but it was Aōyami who pulled it out. The egg was lavender like Aōyami's hair, had white dots on it, and a heart-shaped crest on the top.

" Can you hear it, Cooro?" Aōyami asked. " I can feel a heartbeat. There's something in this egg. Something that's going to be hatched. "

" Really?" Cooro asked. " That's good to know. Maybe its an Exceed creature I've read about like Happy from Fairy Tail."

" No way. Maybe it's a dragon."

" A dragon's egg. That seems highly unorthodox. It seems more like an Exceed creature's egg."

" Who care's what kind of egg it is? This egg must've been taken from it's parent's since Vulcan's are mammals and mammals don't lay eggs."

" Birds do? A word for mammals that lay eggs is Monotremes. So do platypus's and echidna's."

" Who cares? This egg has no parent's to raise it. That means we'll need to be it's parent's."

" Hey, your right. Well, maybe you should take care of it because my sister isn't really fond of us keeping pets, except Chibii Roxie's petty pet dragon. I guess I should be the dad and you can be the mom."

" No way. I want to be the dad and you can be the mom."

" Why am I the mom and your the dad?"

" Because I'm strong like a dad should be and your cute and smell nice like a mom should."

You think I smell nice?" Cooro was flustered with Aōyami's last remark. His cheeks turned red and he covered them with his hands. I think we better carry on with our mission at hand-"

Outside a storm was brewing. The storm was raging so fiercely that Cooro feared he would freeze like a popsicle the moment he walked outside. With no other options, Aōyami took the lead, grabbed Cooro's right shoulder, and she gently squeezed it.

" I guess we'll have to wait for the storm to pass, mommy. Why don't you sit with your husband so you can warm both our bones. Let's not forget about our child. We have so much we should talk to him about."

Cooro and Aōyami were all alone while outside there was a violent storm brewing. Cooro however remembering his firescout lessons built a bond fire out of bones he found lying in the snow. Bones were made of calcium and phosphorus. All Cooro had to do was ask Aōyami nicely for her to build a fire and she breathed fire out.

" This is cozy, isn't it, Aōyami," the meek Cooro said trying to help her get through the storm.

Aōyami didn't say anything to Cooro. Aōyami only held the egg she and Cooro found together in her hands, rubbed the shell gently trying to search for a heart beat, and prepared to say something comforting to the egg.

" Hello. I'm your mommy," Aōyami told the unborn child hoping it could hear her. " I'm going to take care of you."

" You do like to take care of that egg, don't you, Aōyami." Cooro's small cheeks tinted red seeing how warm and nurturing Aōyami looked under the firelight.

" Yes. I'm going to raise it mono E mono."

" Hey Aōyami."

" Yes."

" Have you decided on what you going to call the baby?"

" Huh? No, it never occured to me. Why are you asking me this now, Cooro?"

" I just thought if it was a boy or a girl...I want to tell it how much their mother cares about them."

" Cooro..." This time Aōyami's cheeks tinted red at the sight of Cooro's face in the light. She smiled. " I think if it's a boy I would name him Suno since looking at him reminds me of the sun. And if it's a girl, well, I think I'll name her Clare."

" Clare? Why Clare?"

" Cooro, Clare, I just think the daughter should be named after her father."

" I think that would be just...great. You would make a great mother, Aōyami. Er, Aōyami, I was wondering...have you ever been with a boy before?"

" Huh? What do you mean?"

" I was wondering if maybe you have ever had someone that you really care about. Do you know anybody like that."

" Of course I do. He is always there for me. He's very caring, and one time when I was trapped in the woods even though he was just as scared as me. He went all the way there to help me."

" He sounds like a pretty good guy. A much better guy then me. So you you two ever, you know, kissed?"

" Kissed? What are you talking about?"

" I was wondering if you've ever exchanged lips to each other. That's what you do to someone you care about, isn't it-"

Aōyami surprised Cooro. She touched his chin with her soft hands. Then to Cooro's great surprise she leaned her face forward and...smacked him on his back. Her brawny hands were so strong it felt like Cooro's spine would break just from the first three hits.

" Your stupid. I'm referring to my father. He was always there for me and my brother Danvin."

" Y-You have a brother? What's he like."

" Exactly the same as me, although he likes fighting way more than I do. One time we were in the woods we were attacked by a Vulcan. Father came to us and saved us. Ever since then I wanted to become strong just like him. He says to become strong our best chances are becoming members of Fairy Tail just like him. What about you?"

" What about me, Aōyami?"

" Have you ever been kissed by a girl? Are there any girls in your life?"

" There is my sister and her friends, but other than that there really aren't any girls in my life. No girls ever really want to be around me."

" That's too bad. Your really fun to be around. So I'm guessing you've never kissed a girl before?"

" Er, yeah. I never kissed anyone in my life. Not even my sister or my mother have ever kissed me."

" Then I guess you wouldn't mind...kissing me?"

" Kiss you, Aōyami?"

" Of course, doofus. Chances like these only come around once in a lifetime. Are you sure you want to miss this one, Cooro?"

Aōyami gave an okay. She just stood still, closed her eyes, waiting for Cooro to make his move. Cooro was nervous. Giving in to Aōyami's temptations Cooro leaned his head forward and prepared to kiss her. What he felt however was something cold freezing his lips. As Cooro opened his eyes he found Aōyami laughing at him with snow on her fingers.

" Ah! Cold!"

" Sorry. Couldn't resist. My kisses are cold, aren't they?"

" There only cold because I thought you cared about me, Aōyami. I thought you were differet."

" What are you talking about? Cooro, aren't we just having fun?"

" That's not how I see it, Aōyami. You look like a bully when you did that. Why..."

" Why what, Cooro?

" Why do people hate me, Aōyami? Why?"

" Cooro, I'm sorry. You know...when this baby wakes up it's going to need both a mommy and a daddy. But I think it will also need a little brother or sister. Do you think maybe...when we're older Cooro...we can have that baby?"

Aōyami's cheeks burned red brighter than they did before and she fiddled with her fingers looking at Cooro. " We could live together in a house, just the four of us, I'll cook the meals and you work for the money, we can have family game nights, read them bedtime stories, and at night..." Cooro's cheeks burned redder than a tomato, but before Aōyami said what he thought she would, she stuck her tongue out at him. " I'm just kidding."

" Yeah..." Cooro put on his best act trying to hide his embarrasment. " I knew that. We're just kids after all. It's not like kids ever get married."

" Yeah..." Aōyami's cheeks tinted red again. " What kids ever do?" Aōyami's stomach grumbled. She was hungry. " Excuse me but I have to eat."

" I'm sorry but I don't see any food."

" That's okay. There's plenty of food on the ground."

" On the ground? What are you-"

Before Cooro could say another word Aōyami walked towards the fire as she licked her lips. It was to Cooro's shock and utter surprise that Aōyami ate the flames. Instead of burning her she just ate the scorching flames without any problems. There was only one other person in the world who could do something so extraordinary. And he think he had an idea.

" Your last name isn't really Raggera is it, Aōyami?"

" Hmm." Aōyami stopped eating from the fire and stared back into Cooro's eyes. " If you're wondering, no, my father wasn't Natsu Igneel."

" It's not? But what about the whole...you know..."

" It's because I was raised by Natsu Igneel. He raised me and my brother Danvin. He taught us both about his magic Lost Dragon Slayer Magic: Fire Dragon Slayer Magic. I really like it."

" You really know Natsu Igneel? What's he like?"

" Flamboyant, hotheaded, kind, sometimes a little thoughtless, and destructive. But I'd rather he raise us then anyone else in Fairy Tail. He was even raised by a dragon named Igneel. But it's sad."

" Sad how?"

" After he taught me to speak, read, write, and use his magic, he left us. I haven't heard anything about him in over a year."

" That's sad. I know what you must be feeling."

" You do?"

" Yes. My parents left me when I was young. I haven't heard word about where they are or anything. If it weren't for my sister I would be completely alone. What about your brother? Is he there for you?"

" My brother? He left. It's nothing big. He's just going away for two days to a fire land for a Fairy Tail request. And you know what." Aōyami looked outside the cave. There she saw the storm had lifted. " We should really get moving. If we don't move soon we might miss the Rainbow Hane-Sakana, would we?"