A little experiment/ publicity stunt I'm doing. Details at the bottom.
In the realm known as the Dimensional Gap, a world of endless boundaries filled with swirling colors of every shade and pigment imaginable only one breathed. This being known as Great Red the True Dragon was a power nearly unmatched in all three realms that his home world linked together.
The key word being 'nearly'.
There were only two beings that the Great Red could not beat, at least not fully. One was the Infinite Dragon God Ophis who while not quite his equal in terms of strength could still more than put up a fight and was the only one other than Great Red himself that the concept of death did not apply to.
The other was the Beast of Apocalypse 666 who was the True Dragon's equal in every way, with its unlimited energy nigh invulnerability, high speed regeneration and immense physical strength the only solaces that the Great Red had about the Beast was that it could in fact be killed unlike him and that the now deceased God of Abraham had sealed the monster away at the end of the world.
And it was these two beings that lead to his current dilemma. Ophis had begun scouring the human world in order to recruit high level fighters in an attempt to create an army capable of helping her defeat him and banish him from the Gap, and while so far her 'Khaos Brigade' was currently small and overall worthless in the eyes of the Dragon it was steadily growing in numbers and power.
Then there was the decedent of Lucifer, Rizevim Livan Lucifer who wanted to find and release 666 from its prison for reasons Great Red had yet to learn, which was made worse when Rizevim joined Ophis and her forces giving them a substantial boost in power when he brought the Old Satan faction with him.
The Dragon of Dragons knew that he could not beat both 666 and Ophis should they somehow team up against him and unlike his counterpart Great Red couldn't exactly go around recruiting his own army. Not that he even wanted to, he had a reputation as being the strongest existence and like anyone who had such a far reaching reputation he knew people would stare at him should they meet, and he hated people staring at him.
'What I need is some shmuck who can fight on the same level as a high level supernatural being and is used enough to dragons that they won't stare or try to kill me for being a non-human' The Great Red thought to himself. Sadly, he knew that such beings were few and far between in the universes bordering his home what with his reputation attracting any upstart fighter who thought that just because they had some fancy Sacred Gear or secret attack or some other bullcrap they could beat him.
'Well if close to home doesn't work, let's try checking out some foreign powers.' The Dragon thought to himself. The humans did it when they needed more fire power, so why couldn't he?
With this in mind, Great Red cast his gaze deeper into the Dimensional Gap, looking beyond the three realms that directly connected to his home and instead into the realities that held weaker connections to it many barely even brushing the edges of his home.
The True Dragon looked into countless worlds seeking his ideal candidate to help him defend himself from Ophis and 666. He saw mortals that laid waste to worlds, gods that overstepped their bounds in search for more power, demons that were so vile that even the original Lucifer would have recoiled in disgust, but none of them were what he was looking for.
Then he found him. A mage that wielded the fire of a dragon, one whose mystic energy was comparable to one of the stronger Satan and rising still. The Great Red could practically taste the potential held within the dragon like human's body. Yes, he would do nicely.
Natsu Dragneel, a pink haired young mage in his late teens stood above the slowly cooling corpses of his final opponents, the blue haired dragon slayer of apocalypse Acnologia and Natsu's own brother the red eyed demon maker Zeref Dragneel.
"*Pant pant* FUCK! *pant pant*" The dragon slayer chocked out, it had taken almost four hours of constant fighting but he had finally done it, he had defeated both of the strongest mages in all of Earthland single handedly. And this was after facing down Zeref's army, and several members of the Spriggan Twelve, namely Argus and Larcade Dragneel the two strongest members!
Now however the war was over. All four of his opponents were defeated and he was going to live, though the injuries he had sustained in his last battle were going to keep him stuck in bed for the next couple of weeks while he healed.
'Next stop, the guild hall.' Natsu thought with no small amount of happiness. He was finally going home; after everything he had been through the last few days he was finally going to get to rest his weary bones and get some food in his belly. He just hoped the others were in good enough shape to join him. He could tell they were alive, he was still able to sense their magical energy, but from the feel of it several of them were in even worse shape than he was- which was saying something seeing as the only reason he was still on his feet was due to his draconic body from being a first generation dragon slayer.
'Still hurts though.' The pink haired fire mage thought to himself as he began to drag his bare feet out of the crater his last attack had created, 'didn't there used to be a mountain here or something?'. "Screw it, food first damage report lat-" and just like that the fire dragon slayer vanished without a trace.
The Great Red stared at his new recruit drifting limply before him in the Gap. 'Maybe I could have made the extraction a bit gentler…' Great Red admitted. "Oy, Pinky, wake up." He demanded. The mage however just snorted and seemed to try and turn away from his voice. For a moment Great Red was certain that he had heard the mortal mutter 'five more minutes dad'.
The True Dragon twitched, "WAKE UP!" He demanded whacking the slayer upside his head.
"GHA! That hurt asshole!" The now awake wizard yelled at the dragon, "And who the hell are you?! I thought all the dragons were gone!" Natsu continued when he saw just what had woken him up.
The giant red dragon's chest puffed out in pride as he answered the dragon mage, "I am the True Dragon Emperor, the most powerful of all dragons, Great Red!" He called out in a boastful voice.
"Lame."
"What?"
"Your name. It's lame."
"No it's not!" Great Red defended, after all he had given himself his name after coming into existence.
"Yes it is. What kind of name is 'Great Red'? It's not even a real name!"
"Shut up Pinky!"
"MAVIS DAMN IT, MY HAIR ISN'T PINK! IT'S SALMON!"
"SALMON IS A SHADE OF PINK DUMBASS!" Hey he lived in a world of endless colors, of course he knew a few things about the art element.
"NO IT'S NOT!"
"Look around you, you moron, I live in a world that is just a bunch of swirling colors! I think I know what I'm talking about!"
Natsu blinked as the dragon's last statement registered in his mind. Slowly the fire mage turned his head taking in the site of the world he now inhabited. Then he freaked out.
"Holy shit! I'm dead!" Natsu screamed, panic rising in his heart, "Erza's gonna kill me!"
"Oh, for fucks sake. You're not dead stupid." Great Red told him, "I pulled you from your home dimension to recruit you."
"Oh." Natsu said now much calmer, "For what?"
"My counterpart, the Infinite Dragon God Ophis is assembling an army in an effort to defeat me and drive me out of my home. Obviously I do not want this to happen, so I have called you here to make a deal with you. Serve me until such a time when Ophis and her army are no longer a threat and I will move your Book here where no one can find it or use it against you."
Natsu's eyes widened at the mention of his Book, with the death of his brother he thought only Happy and himself knew about his connection with the book of E.N.D.. "How do you know about that?" Natsu demanded of the dragon.
"I am the dragon of dreams and illusions, I have the ability to turn fantasy into reality and see across different planes of existence with relative ease. Seeing the connection you have with that Book wasn't exactly hard to do."
Natsu gulped, that was quite the resume of powers. "What happens if I refuse to serve you?" Natsu asked the dragon emperor wearily.
"Then I send you back to your home world and send your Book to a realm known as Heaven, a realm that shuns all forms of sin and darkness. I fear your Book being comprised of demonic energy will not last long in such a place."
Natsu gulped again, 'So basically I either follow this guy's lead or die. Well that's a no brainer.' "One question, what about my friends?"
"What about them?" Great Red asked in turn, "Many will not survive more than a day at most due to the extent of their injuries, and the rest will simply assume you died a hero's death fighting your brother and the tyrant dragon king. You will be missed, but they will move on in time."
Hearing that his friends will soon be dead saddened Natsu. After everything they had been through, finally defeating Zeref and his armies and bringing peace back to Fiore and they didn't get to enjoy it. "Can you save them?" Natsu asked, "Can you save them and tell them I am alive at least?"
The Great Red gazed at the teenager before him for several long moments in complete silence. Then after what seemed like hours to the young mage nodded his head, "Very well, if you agree to serve me I will heal your friends and allies and I will make sure they know you are alive." Great Red agreed before waving his clawed hand causing a ball of light the size of Natsu's head to form. "Speak what you want them to know into this sphere, it will record your words and deliver them to your friends and heal them at the same time." The dragon explained, "And be quick about it, I want to get started."
Natsu nodded before facing the glowing orb and speaking in a clear voice, "Everyone… I'm sorry. Zeref and Acnologia are dead as are Argus and Larcade. We won but… so many of you were going to die, and I… I couldn't take it. I made a deal with the Dragon Emperor, he is the dragon of dreams and the true ruler of all dragons. He agreed to heal you in exchange for my servitude and my assistance in defeating another dragon. I don't know how long it will take, I… I don't know if I'm ever going to come back home. I'm sorry. Please, don't waste your lives trying to find me, I'm gone. Just know that I am alive and that I will always consider you all my family. Goodbye." By the end of his message Natsu had become a crying wreck, the full implications of his contract with the dragon emperor sinking in as he explained it. He may never see his friends again, his family. They would live their lives going on new adventures and facing new hardships that he would not be able to share. They were for all intents and purposes gone forever.
Great Red waved his giant hand again, sending the sphere of light to deliver the message and fulfill his end of the agreement. "Quite whining boy. You have work to do."
Okay for those of you reading this and don't know, this story was chosen by people who have read my other stories and every chapter one or two polls will be put up that will decide how the story will play out. This is in an effort to make it so that there will be no hated twists or decisions that will make readers stop reading. So if you want a say, be sure to vote.
Next chapter will have Natsu making his entrance into the DxD universe to save Shirone (Koneko) from devil prison and his befriendment of her Kuroka. However before the next chapter can be posted I want one thing to be answered: Do you all want there to be bashing? And if you do, who? The options are Issei, Rias, both, none, or right in your different choice in your review.
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PS: The rating of this story will be changed to M next chapter (Its a DxD story after all), its T right now so people will see it when they enter the category.