Chapter 1
Over in the town of Magnolia in a large corporation within an enormous research facility, a team of scientist were doing research on dragons. In this world of Fiore, humans and dragons all co-exist together. However, dragons usually keep to themselves, preferring to be in their natural territories and away from the company of humans. Dragons in this world were basically just natural animals. They were peaceful animals, but will attack if they are attacked themselves or provoked.
What these scientist were doing with these dragons was taking care of them while performing some experiments on these amazing animals as well. In a more precise way, the scientist took in dragons that were very sick and the reason for these experiments was to test a drug that scientist hope will be the cure for cancer.
Cancer had been one of those type of diseases that most people think is incurable since they have had years to even find a cure. People decided not to get their hopes up and just accept that in life there are diseases that can be cured and some are not meant to be remedied. However, these team of scientist discovered something interesting about dragons and found out they too carry a disease that is similar to cancer.
By taking in these sickly dragons and studying the disease inside of them, the scientist used samples of the cure on the dragons to see what the results would be. In the first few years the results were not so good and many dragons died. But by learning from their mistakes and improving on the remedy, a few test showed an improvement of the medical drug.
As of now, scientist were checking up on a dragon named Katla, a very gentle creature who proved very sick. A month ago, it seemed like she wouldn't make it. But thanks to the drug, it looked like Katla may live to see another day.
Lyon Vastia, one of the scientist came into Katla's pen to feed her some food. He pressed a button to dump an enormous bag full of meat as Katla rushed in to feast on it. Lyon started writing down on a piece of paper on Katla's results, from how she eat, from her health and to her energy level.
Lucy Heartfilia, the scientist in charge of developing the drug to cure cancer, was watching from the window from inside the building. She pressed a button inside the building to talk to Lyon from a microphone they put inside the pen.
"So, how is number 9 doing?" Lucy asked.
"If by number 9, you mean Katla, she's doing great," Lyon replied. "It's amazing to what she can do and what this drug has done. She's eating like a horse and like everyday she's full of energy."
"Did you check her to see if there are any signs of the disease, just to be sure?" Lucy asked.
"Yes, I did," Lyon replied. "I checked about twice and no sign of that disease inside of her. This is incredible. At this rate, we'll be able to have the cure for cancer in no time."
"Let's not get carried away just yet, Lyon," Lucy told him. "I need to look at the results and see how long it's been since we gave her the drug." Lucy looked through the papers to check the results and wanted to make sure they were right.
Analyzing things very carefully, Lucy couldn't believe what the results were. Nine months had already gone by since they gave Katla the drug and scans showed no signs of the disease coming back. In fact, there were no traces of it left. To Lucy it was like a miracle just happened.
"Oh, my gosh!" Lucy gasped. "This unlike anything I've seen before. I have to show this to the boss." Wasting no time, Lucy ran out of the lab to show her boss on what the results were on Katla.
The one in charge of the corporation that Lucy worked at was none other than Precht Gaebolg. Though a successful businessman Precht Gaebolg was, he was not exactly the smartest person people met. At times he proved to be narcissistic, ambitious, arrogant, greedy and selfish person and hardly treated Lucy with that much respect.
Lucy did admit he can be a hard head at times, but she was willing to prove herself to Precht and gave him the results he wanted to hear.
"Mr. Gaebolg, it's unbelievable!" Lucy blurted out with excitement. "Number 9's health has approved excessively. I mean her energy and metabolism has even boosted to a great degree."
Ignoring Lucy and signing some papers, Precht replied, "This will have to wait, Ms. Heartfilia. I'm busy at the moment."
"Unfortunately, no it cannot wait, sir!" Lucy told him firmly. "And I am not leaving until you see these results."
Seeing as he had no other choice, Precht decided to look at the results, hoping Lucy did not disappoint him. Looking through the results one by one, Precht was impressed, but he was not exactly satisfied.
"Very impressive, isn't it, sir?" said Lucy. "I mean just one dose and her disease is completely cured. What's also amazing is that the drug not only cures the disease but improves the body's health to such an incredible degree."
"You've indeed delivered results, Ms. Heartfilia, but one successful test on one dragon is not enough to convince me. Let me also remind you about the last two subjects who improved, but ended up failing in the end."
"Well, the last two subjects were a minor setback, but I'm positive on this one, Mr. Gaebolg," Lucy told him. "I mean number 9 has improved a lot better and she's lasted this long for nine months. From what I was able to calculate, I would say the drug is ready. So, with your permissions, sir, I would like to begin begin human testing on the drug."
"It's going to require more than just my permission, Ms. Heartfilia," spoke Precht. "You're going to need approval from the board as well. There's a lot of money riding on this project of yours. You only get one shot at this. I want no disappointments."
"One shot is all I need, sir," Lucy assured him. "Trust me on this. Once the board sees my results, I guarantee you that they will be speechless."
Precht sighed and gave Lucy his answer. "Alright. Since you seem so sure about this, I'll allow you to show your research to me and the board as well. However, a word of advice, Ms. Heartfilia, I want you to keep your personal emotions out of this. We invest in results, not dreams."
Lucy did not like when Precht had to bring the subject up and knew who he was referring too. She try not to let Precht get to her and knew she had to keep a clear head on this and just play along with them.
"Yes, sir," Lucy responded.
Feeling excited about this, Lucy manage to gather the videos, the test results and all the other research material she was ready to present to Precht and the board. About two hours later, the board was gathered to hear Lucy out.
Lucy had the videos and research material ready and began to present and explain everything. The first thing that popped up on the video were the images of the previous subjects, numbers 7 and 8.
"As you can see with Dragons 7 and 8, we gave a dosage of the previous drug, which showed some improvement. However, a month later the dosage wore off and dragons 7 and 8's health deteriorated."
The image videos of Katla then appeared on the screen.
"Afterwards, we moved on to Dragon 9, where we made an improvement on the drug and gave her the same dosage. The drug that we created and gave to the dragon is called CNCR-818. From what we discovered in the test, the drug improved the dragon's health as we hoped to expect. But it did more than just that. The drug has the ability to wipe the disease completely clean, but also improve the body's health and metabolism where the individual can almost eat anything without worrying about their condition.
"In conclusion, we've deduced this drug as being the perfect cure for cancer. When I say that, I'm not bragging. I mean that very absolute. At long last, we finally found a cure to the disease."
Precht and the board members were quite intrigued with the results and as Lucy expected, they were indeed speechless. They all began to chat amongst themselves, considering if Lucy's drug was indeed ready for human testing.
Disclaimer: I would like to confirm that I do not own the film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, as it is the property of film director Rupert Wyatt. Also I do not own Fairy Tail either, since that happens to be the property of Hiro Mashima.
Notice: Just to verify, this is based off the new reboot of Planet of the Apes, except I'm using the idea of dragons in this story. I do hope you enjoy this version of the story and I'm looking forward to hearing your reviews.