LDS: Hey everyone! It's me, with some great news all of us can love to hear! DRAGON WARS IS FINALLY HERE! It took a lot of time to sort through all of your characters and slayers, and I found a lot of great and powerful slayers to put in this story. So, before we begin, let me say from the bottom of my heart; thank you for helping this story become possible. Now then, let's move on to chapter 1 of DRAGON WARS!
Lucy sighed softly, her head resting on the pillow her arms had formed on the wooden table she was sitting at inside Fairy Tail's Guild Hall. The blonde celestial mage had been sitting in that spot since the guild had opened that morning, and hadn't moved since. Why? Because Lucy Heartfilia was bored.
The feeling of boredom came as a complete shock to her when it first hit about a week ago. After all, Lucy was not a girl to become bored very easily. And when Fairy Tail, guild of the most brawlers and party-hard-idealists, had become her guild, the thought of ever getting bored there flew out of her mind faster than Happy out an open window after a fresh fish Lucy had just thrown out (worked every time she needed the little blue fur ball to get out of her room). And yet, here she was, sitting in the Guild Hall, positively bored out of her mind.
Of course, the blonde knew exactly why she was bored.
Two weeks ago, Grey, Juvia and Lyon had left for an important mission up north. Lucy hadn't heard most of the details, but it sounded as though one of the largest northern guilds was in need of assistance, and had asked Fairy Tail to send their best ice-and-water mages to combat a fire demon that was terrorizing the land. Somehow Lyon had caught wind of it and decided to tag along. The trip there was long, and facing the demon would be long and torturous, so the trio stated they would probably be gone a good three weeks, or hopefully less.
A week after that, the newly forged Dragon Trio of Fairy Tail left on a special mission near the ocean fighting a Dark Guild called Broken Rose that was causing more than a little chaos there. Natsu, Gajeel and Laxus had all been more than eager to fight the Dark Guild members once they got to their destination, but Lucy distinctly remembered all three of them begging Erza to let go of them before she threw them into the vehicle of their doom; the train. For the next hour, Lucy and the other guild members could still hear the Dragon Slayers' moans of motion sickness. Just thinking about it brought a small smile to her face.
However, with half of her original team gone, as well as the three strongest Dragon Slayers of Fairy Tail on a very long and dangerous mission, Lucy found the Guild Hall…abnormally peaceful. The worst of the brawlers were gone, Elfman and Evergreen were on a special mission somewhere not far from Clovertown, and the newest guild members were still struggling to adjust to the relaxed, almost sloth-like characteristics of the average Fairy Tail member. For a while, the peace had been nice…but five years of being a Fairy had made Lucy realize just how boring peace can be sometimes.
As if that wasn't bad enough, there weren't any big jobs on the job board. Most of the worst ones had been already taken by the new Dragon Slayers or Freed and Bickslow. And even the smaller ones, which Lucy could handle by herself, were being taken up at a dangerous pace. The ones left were too boring to even think about doing. I mean, why does an old man need help cleaning his library? Doesn't he have a maid or daughter that can handle it herself? Regardless, that was what Lucy saw whenever she looked at the job board.
Lucy's sigh slowly evolved into a low groan, and she rolled her head to the side so she could look out at the guild. Her gaze quickly became blank and uninterested, though, and she moaned again.
"Is everything all right, Lucy?"
Lucy's eyes widened as the voice came from right behind her. The blonde shrieked, jumping ten feet into the air and falling back into her seat with the look of a frightened cat on her face. The girl beside her grabbed Lucy's shoulder tenderly, her usually calm face wearing a small mask of panic.
"Lucy, are you okay?"
As the voice returned, Lucy felt herself sigh, slowly recognizing the soft, caring tone it carried. Smiling, she turned around and nodded to Mirajane, sighing.
"Yeah, I'm just fine Mira," she said softly, a small smile on her face, "you just scared me, that's all." Mira nodded, quickly hopping onto the spot on the bench right next to Lucy, smiling her one-million jewel smile.
"I see. So, why were you moaning back there?" Lucy frowned, and let out a small, nervous chuckle.
"Oh, well…I'm just a little bored, that's all! With Natsu, Grey, and the others gone, this place is a little too quiet for my liking." Mira nodded, sighing. Suddenly, a flash of brilliance leapt into her mind, and she grabbed Lucy by the arm, pulling her up to her feet.
"Well, we can't have that, can we Lucy?" Mira asked, smiling. "Come on, I'll take you out shopping! Hey, Alsay, you come too!" the white-haired beauty of Fairy Tail called, wrapping her other arm around one of the newest Dragon Slayers, Alsay Harbinger. The black-haired girl flipped her hair out of her red eyes and glared at Mira.
"No. Thanks." she seethed at the Take-Over mage, struggling to tear herself free from Mira's grasp. Mira only laughed lightly and continued to pull the two girls towards the Guild Hall doors.
"Come on, it'll be fun! And, I bet it will help you get over your boredom really quick!" Mira laughed, pulling the bitter Dragon Slayer and flustered Celestial mage out into the bright sunlight.
Little did the trio know that their days of being bored were about to end.
The large iron train slowed to a stop, steam and smoke billowing out of the engine in a cloud of smog. Many men and women stepped on and off of the train as it sat at the station, waiting for passengers, but five figures stood out of the crowd the most.
The first was a tall man with dark blue hair that came down to two sideburns on either side of his face. He was build like a tank, large and formidable, and strapped across his back was a huge blade that appeared to be made from iron and a giant monster's jaw. He wore a brown, fur-lined jacket with dark black pants and fur-lined boots, and his entire right arm was covered in a thick steel armor.
The second was a young girl with pale blue hair and stood about half the height of her first companion. A sly smile was plastered on her china-doll-like face, and her two bright yellow eyes sent shivers down the spines of those that passed her more than a cold winter day. She was wearing a short pale blue dress that reached mid-thigh with a pair of black, short short-shorts, and long white boots that reached her knees.
The third was by far the strangest in the group, and appeared to be a young man. However, it was impossible to truly tell, because his entire body, from head to toe, was wrapped in dark purple cloth like a mummy, and in his left arm was a large, ancient looking book that was covered in a strange, cryptic language. He wore what appeared to be a white trench coat-cloak with red fur along the edges, and red and black clothing underneath.
The fourth, leaning on the third's right shoulder as he struggled to keep from falling, was a young man that had long, spiky white hair that spiked up in different directions. His eyes were mismatched, his right eye blood red, while the other was icy blue, and sheathed on his right hip was a smaller version of the blade strapped across the first man's back. He wore a white and blue winter jacket, with what appeared to be a chainmail shirt underneath, light armor on his right arm and even less on his left, and a pair of black battle greaves, and steel combat boots on his feet.
The last member of the group was a small brown cat that was walking on its hind legs and wore a large pair of glasses. In its little paws was a large textbook bound in leather, which it was feverishly reading as it walked in front of the other members of the group. After a moment of walking, the cat finally closed the book, looked around, and muttered, "So, this is the place?"
The white-haired young man at the back of the group grimaced, pushing himself weakly onto his own feet. "It better be, Homer, because there is no way in hell I'm ever getting on that death trap again!" His pale skin turned ghostly white, and he shuddered. "Just thinking about it makes me feel sick."
"Just try to relax, okay Byakuren?" the mummy-wrapped young man beside him instructed, patting Byakuren lightly on the back. "Deep breaths, in and out." Byakuren nodded slowly to his advice, while the light blue haired girl in front of them snorted.
"Jeeze Sven, stop pampering your boyfriend, would ya?" Byakuren glared at the pale girl and whipped his short jaw-blade out, the tip just a centimeter from her nose.
"I dare you to say that again, Janice," he growled, a bit of ice forming on the edge of his blade. Janice only smirked at him and rolled her eyes.
"I said that Sven should stop pampering y—"
"ENOUGH YOU TWO!" the last member of their party shouted, grabbing his huge jaw-sword's hilt and swinging it out. "I HAVE HAD IT WITH YOUR BICKERING! SO JUST SHUT UP FOR ANOTHER FIVE MINUTES, OR SO HELP ME I WILL SLAY THE BOTH OF YOU THIS VERY MOMENT!"
Needless to say both of the shorter members instantly fell silent, though Byakuren still held his sword in his left hand. "Y-yes, Bjorn…" the two muttered out shyly and stupidly. The giant nodded firmly and turned back to the cat at the front of the group. Homer nodded and opened his book again.
"Anyway, carrying on with the real reason for why we are here," the cat said, glaring at the two youngest members of the group as they continued to silently death-glare each other, "Magnolia is home to the legendary Fairy Tail Guild. Their guild has a large amount of Dragon Slayers in it. Our task is to seek the Fairy Tail Guild and find these Dragon Slayers. Failure is not an option we can allow! Do you understand?" All four of the mages nodded firmly. "Good. Now, split up and begin searching. Bjorn with Janice, Sven with myself, and Byakuren…" the cat turned to where the white haired mage had been standing, only to find it empty and an only slightly shocked Janice beside it. "…will be alone…again."
Sighing, the four turned back to the city and, breaking up into their teams, headed back down into the streets, looking for any sign of Fairy Tail, whether it was mages or the Guild Hall itself.
The hunt was on.