On the woods of a forest, very far away, it was peaceful and quiet, the wind flow, the bird sings, the water flow, it was really a great area…..until-
*Gasp* Gasp*
A woman came out from the bushes, she was breathing hard as blood drips down her body, she was hurt, badly hurt. Her vision was getting dark, her footsteps were becoming sloppy, but she can't fall, not yet. Holding on to a ball of fabric, she continues to run.
She kept running, and running, after running through the woods, she got her destination; a river.
She fell to her knee, holding one hand on her wound on her stomach, she started to breathe heavily, her time is almost up. She stands up again, moving to a rock, as she moves it away, revealing that it was just a cover to hide things. Inside was a small basket, in the form of a floating boat.
She takes it out and walks next to the river, placing inside the fabric she has been protecting, placing it inside, tears began to fall down on her eyes.
On the fabric, was a small child, sleeping peacefully. It was obvious that this was the woman's child. She caresses the cheek of the child.
"My love….You're my most beloved treasure…. I will always love you, and I will be watching you from above…." she begins to whisper as she kisses his forehead and places a small book next to him. "Remember that mommy will always love you…. Take care…"
She pushes the basket away, the river took the rest as she slowly washes her baby being pulled away by the current. Disappearing through the waters.
She cleans her eyes before feeling a dark intent behind her, she slowly looks back to see a shadow of a human body. She gazed at it with fury.
"Oh, don't give me that look, is your fault that I have to do this." the shadow says with a deep rough voice.
"..." she stood silent.
"Giving me the silent threat meant, eh?" the shadow says, "Well, no matter, let's do this, shall we?" suddenly, a giant sword appear on its hand.
The woman suddenly was covered in a white aura and putting herself in a battle pose. "Don't expect me to go down easy."
"Heh…. You always were like that….. just try to stay alive for a while!" the shadow lunges at her.
The white aura increase more before the woman throws her arms forward, shouting, "White Dragon's Blinding Blast!"
A white beam blasts out from her palms and goes at the shadow, who raised his sword and made contact with the attack, they struggle for a bit before a blinding light cover everything.
-Two Days later-
The basket in which the baby the woman put in, was now on stuck against a rock. The baby commenced to cry, it kept crying and crying through all the day, it would seem this kid will not be rescued….. It's what I would like to say. Suddenly, the earth started to shake, like if it was an earthquake that was coming.
"Hmmm, so this is where the power I felt was coming from…" says a booming voice. The earth shakes even more as whatever it was making it, came out from the forest, or rather, it pushes them away from it.
Appearing from the shadows, was a big dragon, easily six times bigger than the forest, he had brown scales, several scars, two giant wings on his back. He was standing on his four legs.
The dragon giant claw picks up the basket, putting it back on earth. "Hmmm…. why is there a two-month child floating on the waters of my territory? And with this much power?" he asks himself. It's eyes land on the book that was next to him, "And what's with this book? It has so much demonic power..."
The wind around him flow a lot, it was almost like it was whispering something, the dragon closes his eyes before humming, "...I understand…." it says, like if he understood what happened.
The dragon looks down at the child one more time before coming to a conclusion. "Igneel, Grandeeney, and Metallica have already found their own humans, so I; Leonidas, the Earth Dragon King, will take in charge of this child, teach him everything, and give birth to another Dragon Slayer." the dragon, now know as Leonidas, looks up into the sky.
"Nature has told me everything, so whoever this child belongs to, I will take care of him from now, so be at ease." he says, before another blow of wind pass through.
Placing the basket in the palm of his hand, the child stops crying, watching the mysterious creature as the dragon looks back at him with his giant, round green eye. The child started to giggle while extending his tiny arms at him.
The dragon chuckled at the display looks like the child has taken like to him. He turns around as he walks back to it's home.
"Now then, what should I name you?" the dragon commenced to think of a name for this child, "I can't just call you 'boy' forever….." thinking and walking, he got to his cave. Just before he enters inside, the trees shake around, causing Leonidas to look at them.
"...Hmm, that's a good name…. very well, I will call him that." Leonidas looks at the baby, "Welcome to the Dragon world…. Nick Drake."
-Time Skip 10 Years-
It has been ten years since Leonidas, the Earth Dragon King took Nick into his care. Nick grow up a lot, he was still a kid, but he was having a great life with his father-in-law, he never knew his real parents, but when you got an awesome dragon to take that role, you aren't going to whine about it, right?
Nick began his training at the age of four, following the instructions of Leonidas, Nick started to build a physical body so that he could use magic. He began to run three miles while caring magic weight seals, punching bag rocks with his fists and head, and even snapping trees in half. This routine continued for almost a year before Leonidas decide he was ready and began to teach him his magic. It took Nick several tries to finally adapt to the magic.
When they weren't training, Leonidas taught the boy about the knowledge of the world, about not to get cocky with his magic or against his enemies, the current currency of the human world, the food and interactions with them. Nick also asks about the book that came with him, however, Leonidas was in the dark about it. The boy didn't know why, but something tells him that, the book was important for him. So he always took care of it, cleaning it and reading it, although he couldn't understand the contexts.
On one of those days, Nick was listening to Leonidas, before asking something that made him curious for a while, "Hey Dad!"
"Hmm, what is it, boy?"
The kid crosses his arms, "I have been wondering….. How do you know so much about the world?"
"Hmm? What you mean?" the dragon hums at the question.
Nick rephrased the question, "I mean….. How are you in touch with what's happening around the world up to this day?" he looks at his father, "I mean, you never have gone to a town and you hardly leave the forest, so how do you know?"
The Dragon King hums, "Ah yes….there's a reason for that." Leonidas says, "You see…..I'm synchronized with nature."
Nick turns his head to the side in confusion, "Nature?"
Leonidas nods his big head, "Yes, as long as I have been alive, nature has been my ears and eyes, they have told me everything that's going on around the world." at that moment, the wind passed through, "In fact, right now, there's a battle between a Golem and a wizard from Lamia Scale."
"What?! The young kid shout, "That's so awesome!"
"Yes, Nature can be a great ally in battle, that's the great thing about an Earth Dragon King."
"Then….. Nature is my greatest ally?" the kid asks.
"Yes….However, you must be one with nature to be able to do it." Leon says.
Nick looks at his father, "Dad! What do I need to do to be able to be one with nature?!"
The Dragon chuckles, the kid will try anything new that he hears, "It will take a lot of training, it could take everything you have to do it….. Do you want to try it?"
"Yes!" Nick says without a hesitation.
"Fine….will start tomorrow on that training," Nick shouts in excitement. "Now, to finish today's teaching…. Let's discuss an important thing….. dragon's mates!" the dragon says with excitement.
"...Dragon's mates?"
-July 12th, X777-
Today is an important day, but not in a good way.
"DAAAAAAAAAD!" Shout a young boy with brown hair while walking around the forest, "DAD! Where you go?!"
Five days ago, Leonidas, the Earth Dragon King had disappeared. Five days ago, Nick woke up and couldn't find him. The boy has been desperate to find him. He searched everywhere, every single place he could.
Nick rest against a tree, holding in hand something on his hand, a small brown dragon scale of his father, he looks at it with teary eyes. Around his neck was the small book he had with him.
"Dad….. why did you leave me?" he asks himself as dark thoughts cloud his head, "Was I…. not good enough for you?"
He shook his head violently, "No! I…..I…." an image of Leonidas appear with him smiling together. "I refused to believe that his smile was fake!"
He looks at the scale in hand, "You wouldn't just disappear without telling me…..That's why I will find you!"
He looks up into the sky, "YOU HERE?! NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL FIND MY FATHER!" he shouts so hard, the wind ran away.
After using some a threat he had, he used to make a necklace for the scale and put it in his neck. Picking anything of his personal, putting it in a bag. Nick pick a direction and began walking, trying to find a clue about where his father had disappeared too.
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Days became weeks, and weeks became months, the young brunette had cover mountains and caves, towns and city, even lakes. No sign of his dragon, still not giving up on it.
One day, he came across a village next to a mountain, thanks to Leonidas knowledge, he knows how to act and where to go to get supplies. Entering a shop, he bought a few things, once he did, he looks inside a pouch in which he carries jewels.
('Damn, I'm running out of jewels,') he thought, seeing so little green crystals. ('I need to get more, but how?')
He continues thinking of a way to get more money when he overheard two men talking.
"Hey, did you hear about what the wizards of Fairy Tail did?" the first one ask.
"The one that they destroy half a town to get some dark mages, or the one that they almost cause an earthquake close to Era's Magic Council?" the second one ask.
"No, this time, they burn to a crisp an entire church, just so that they can capture one guy!"
"What?! No way!"
"And that was their new recruit, a dragon slayer!"
"Ha! Is so true, Fairy Tail is the strongest guild there is!"
The two men laugh as they continue to walk away, Nick heard everything they said, his eyes were surprised at hearing another dragon slayer but more important, about the guild.
('Fairy….Tail?') he thought as a memory return to him.
-Flashback-
"Hahahahaha!" Leonidas laughs so hard that the cave was shaking. A small Nick came running at him.
"Dad! What happened!?" he asked his father.
"Oh, just hearing some wizard from Fairy Tail doing destruction again." the dragon says.
"Fairy Tail?" the young brunette was confused.
"Remember what's a guild is?" the dragon asked, receiving a nod from the brunette, "Well, this is the best guild in all of Fiore! They follow their own path, no orders or control. They are my favorite guild in all of Fiore!" Moments later, the wind flow through his ears, "Oh, another one just blow up half the port on the east side!"
"Really? That's so cool!" says Nick with stars in his eyes, "I want to be a Fairy Tail wizard too!"
"Hahahaha! And you can. Maybe when you're ready, you can join them in Magnolia!"
"All right! Dad, fight me!"
"Hoh, you're asking me to beat you again?"
"This time, I'll win!" Nick shout at his father before jumping at him to fight.
"1780 times you said that to me boy!" the earth dragon roars as Nick got close to him.
-End of Flashback-
Nick was now walking up to a man, "Excuse me, sir?" the man looks at him. "I was wondering if you could tell the direction to Magnolia."
"Magnolia? It's just on the other side of that mountain over there." the man points at the mountain away from the town. "Is a couple of miles, but by foot, it will take at least a week."
"I see…. Thank you!" thanking the old man, Nick run pass him.
It has been two days, Nick walked to the near mountain to get to Magnolia, however, the brown haired had no idea to how to get over the mountain safely. As the dragon slayer got close to it, he saw a big manor up ahead. Deciding to ask for help, he approaches the giant building.
When he got there, his jaw meets the ground, the manor was bigger than any cave up close. He walks up to the door, he knocked in a few times before somebody opens up.
"Yes?" says a small voice, coming out of the door was a young blond girl with brown eyes, same age as him.
"Excuse me, sorry to bother but I would like to know if you could lend me a map?" he asks the girl.
"Oh! Yes, actually I have a map on my hand's right now!" the girl says, showing him a scroll.
Nic took the scroll, "Thank you so much….em, what's your name again?" he embarrassed scratch his head.
"My name is Lucy Heartfilia." she says with happiness.
"Lucy…...that's a lovely name!" Nick comments. "And it suits you since you're cute!"
The blond girl turn red of embarrassment, "W-what?" she squeaked out.
"Huh? That your name suits you since you look cute?" the brunette asked in confusion. "Was I supposed to not say anything?"
"N-No! It's okay….. thanks for the compliment," she said with a small smile.
"No problem." he returns her a smile before opening the map and looking at it, "Hey, could I know where are we on the map?"
"Sure," Lucy looks over his shoulder, "We are in this area," she places her finger on the map.
"I see," Nick nods as he looks at it, "So, Magnolia is really close…"
Lucy looks at him in confusion, "Are you going to Magnolia?" she asks him.
"Mhm, I'm planning to become a Fairy Tail wizard!" he says with a smirk. Lucy looks at him in wide-eyed. An image of Fairy Tail's mark appears on her mind.
"Hey, you OK?" Lucy returns to reality when Nick's face was close to hers. She immediately moved away, blushing in shades of red. She nods at him saying that she's fine, causing him to raise his eyebrow, "You're a weird one." Lucy pouts when she hears that, "but that's cute of you."
The blond becomes red again, "Well, I'm off! Nice meeting you, Lucy!" he says while walking away.
"Yeah! It was nice meeting you too….what was your name!?" she yells at him, never getting his name.
"Nick Drake!" he says, walking backward while waving his hand, "I hope to see you again Lucy!"
She waves back at him, "Of course! Let's meet again Nick!"
With that Nic disappear from the blond's view as she closes her door, a maid looking at her with a smile.
"Did you make a friend Mistress Lucy?" the blonde blush a bit but smiles. She nods at her before going to do her own things. Until the rest of the day, she was happy in her life as she thought of only two things: Fairy Tail and Nick Drake.
"Finally! I finally came out of that mountain!" Nick says after walking a long way, finally getting out of the mountains. He takes out the map, "According to this, I should be arriving at Magnolia in two or three days." The dragon slayer commenced doing some stretches before walking through the forest in front of him. He found himself on a clearing area, coming to a stop in there.
('It has been long since I did some training….Yosh! I'll take today to make sure my magic isn't getting rusty!') he thought as he stood in the middle of the clearing. He picks some rock pebbles from the ground and put it in his mouth, crushing them like candies. He could feel the magic building inside him, he looks at a direction, before taking a breath.
"Earth's Dragon…." a dark green light commenced to come out from his mouth as he shouts, "Roar!"an intricate, glowing dark green circle appear in front of him, a tornado of rocks and earth shooting out. It went directly through the direction he was looking, covering everything with it. When it died down, it revealed destruction on its path.
Nick smiles at it, "Yep, still got it!" he runs to a large tree, stretching his arm back as a dark green light comes from his fist.
"Earth Dragon's Seismic Fist!"
With all his strength, he punches the tree, causing it to break apart and being sent flying backward. "This one is okay as well! Yosh! Training time!"
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Nick began training for the rest of the morning day, when he was done, the area was badly damaged, one wouldn't believe it came from a small kid. Speaking of the brunette, he was on the ground, legs crossed as he breathes heavily.
*Hah...Hah….Hah….* he wipes some sweat off his face, "Few…..I think….I'm good for now….. But, I improved a little."
"Hmm, so this was the power I was feeling came from."
Nick stood back to his feet, turning around as he ready himself to fight after hearing a voice, only to be surprised that the one who spoke up was an old man, short height than him and the amount of magic energy coming out of this man.
('Holy Shit! This old man is as strong as Dad!?') Nick thought, putting his guard up and sweating.
The tiny man raised his hand up, "Fear not my lad, I have come in peace," he says, standing in front of him. "Could I ask, what is doing a young boy such as yourself in the middle of a forest?"
Nick didn't speak immediately, "I'm…. just training."
The old man hums, "I see, that explains the magic I have been feeling while walking by." he looks at the brunette, like if he was trying to determine something. ('Hmm…. this lad has the same power as Natsu…. could it be that his also a Dragon Slayer?')
"...Is something wrong?" Nick asked the old man.
"Nah….. tell me lad, are you by any chance a Dragon Slayer?" he asks.
Nic looks at him in surprise, telling the old man that he was right. "H-how did you know?"
The old man chuckles, "I have another dragon slayer in the guild, you have the same magic as him."
At hearing the word 'guild', the brunette looks at him in shock. ('Guild? Those he mean-?!') "Guild, do you mean Fairy Tail?!"
"Why yes, why you ask? Are you interested in joining?"
"Yes! Definitely!" without hesitation, Nick shouts.
The old smiles at it, "And why do you want to join?"
"Well….. Dad said that's where the best of the best wizards in all of Fiore is." the brunette says.
"Hahahaha! Well, he's right, my guild is really the best!" the old man says with pride, surprising Nick.
"Your guild? Who are you mister?" Nick, ask the old man.
"My name is Makarov Dreyar, the guild master of Fairy Tail." the man known as Makarov says, shocking the brunette. "Now then, how about you come with me and make you an official member of the guild?"
"Eh?" Nic looks at him more surprised, "For real?! I can join?!"
"Of course, as long as you have magic, anyone is welcome." Makarov turns around, "Now then, shall we leave?" Nick didn't hesitate as he picks his belongings and walks next to Makarov, "Tell me, lad, what's your name?"
"I'm Nick Drake."
Makarov looks at him, "Nick Drake, eh? That's one peculiar name you have."
The brunette scratches his head, "It's the one my dad gave me."
The master nods in understanding, "And I believe your father was the one who taught you magic." Nick nods at him, he began explaining about his father and his time with him. It was a long story, enough for them to reach Magnolia, they were now in front of Fairy Tail's guild hall.
Nick looks at the building with fascination, "So this is Fairy Tail?"
Makarov nods, "Yes, this is our pride and joy."
"Do fairy have tails?" Nick asked, seeing the emblem.
"Who knows?" The master walks up to the door, "That's one big mystery."
He opens the door, and once he did, the dragon slayer was welcome by a lot of wizards laughing, fighting and argument with each other. Everybody stop doing what they were doing when they hear the doors opening.
"Hey! Master return!"
"Welcome back, master!"
"There's a kid with the master!"
Makarov greets his Wizards as he looks back at the brunette, "Nick, welcome to Fairy Tail."
Nick could only smile, just by seeing the inside, he could tell that he's going to love it here.
"Now then, where do you want your mark?"
"Right here." Nick raises the sleeve on his right shoulder. A stamp was planted in, placing a green Fairy Tail mark.
"There, you're now an official member of Fairy Tail!" the maid tells Nic who was looking at the mark with fascination.
"Thanks!" he says to the maid before looking around the guild.
"Hey! Watch where you're going, matchstick!"
"What you say, snowball!?"
Nic attention was brought on two boys at the same age as him, one had pink hair on his head and the other one was…. walking in his boxers.
"You hear me! Are you deaf or is your brain made out of fire too?!" says the stripper.
"Says the guy who's wearing boxers, put some clothes already!" says the pink haired boy.
The black haired boy looks down and shrieks in shock, "Dammit! Why is this keep happening?!" he shouts, looking around for his clothes.
The pink haired rolls on the floor in laughter, "Hahahahaha! You're really an idiot!"
The black haired growls, "That's it! I'm kicking your ass!" he shouts before slamming his fist on his hand, and a light blue circle appears.
"Bring it on!" the pink haired shout as fire appears on his hands.
The two of them began to fight. Nick watches in shock and fascination, watching the magic of them. Suddenly, the black haired created a cannon made out of ice, shooting at the fire wizard, who deflected with his fire hand. However, it was now going directly at Nic.
"Shit!" he says before crossing his arms together on his face. The ice collides, exploding on him.
"Gray! Natsu!" an angry voice yell, causing the two boys to flinch. "What have I told you about fighting!" they quickly wrap their arms around each other while sweating and forcing a smile on their faces. The voice belongs to a scarlet-haired girl, same age as them, wearing an armor.
"W-we weren't fighting Er-Erza!" the one call Gray shouts.
"Aye!" the one call Natsu says.
Erza was really angry, "Yes you were, why else is the new kid cover in ice?!"
The two boys were confused at what she was talking about before hearing a cough, they turn to see Nic cover in ice and coughing a lot.
"That's one way to start the first day." the brunette shakes the ice off him. Gray and Natsu sweat as they slowly look back at Erza who was releasing a deadly aura.
"Looks like I have to punish you two again." she says as a whip appears on her hand.
The brunette was oblivious to the screams that were shouting as the ice got in his ears and was trying to get it out. When he did, he only saw the two boys on the ground with lumps on their heads.
"I apologize," the red-haired appear in front of him, "Those two can….be quite troublesome sometimes." she bows her head.
Nick raised his hand, "Don't worry about it, it didn't bother me at all."
Erza looks at him in surprise, he wasn't bothered? "Why it didn't bother you?" she asks in curiosity.
Nick explains, "Well, my body is resistant to any kind of temperature." he tells her.
"I see….." she mutters before remembering that she hasn't introduced herself, "Ah, where are my manners? I'm Erza Scarlet." she says, giving her hand.
Nick shakes her hand, "Nice to meet you Erza, I'm Nick Drake."
The scarlet girl looks at him in curiosity, "Nick Drake….. what a peculiar name you have."
Nick chuckles at it, "And so I have been told, my dad was the one that gave me the name."
Erza nods, "So, since you're new here, do you have any questions, I can answer anything you need to know."
Nick raised a finger up, "There's one thing I would like to know." Erza looks at him, "Is your hair color natural?
Erza raised an eyebrow, "My hair has always been this color, why?" she asks, almost like in a demanding voice that make several spines go off.
"Well…...is just that you look beautiful with it." The brunette bluntly says.
It took a full minute for the scarlet mage's eyes widened and make her face red. "W-what?!"
Everybody that was close enough to the two of them had jaws on the ground. Nick just looks at her in confusion, "I say that you look beautiful with your scarlet hair."
Erza became even redder, "Is something wrong? You look red." Erza's eyes meet up with Nick's green eyes up close.
She quickly moves away from him, "N-No! Everything is fine! Is there anything else you would like to know?!" she says, almost in a desperate way. Nick shakes his head, "Good! Then, I'll be off!" in a matter of seconds, the red-haired walk away, disappearing into the crowd.
Nick looks at the direction she disappeared, "...Did I say something wrong?"