A Tale of Broken Earth chapter 1: Every Story has its Start
AN: This is my second fanfiction. You are welcome to check out the first, but it isn't finished yet.
This will be mostly a story about my OC: Siegfried Exeus. The ship I want him to have has yet to be determined.
If you have any ideas, send it to me in either a review or PM me your idea. That said, on to the story.
Enjoy the story, and I love all you guys.

Chapter 1: Every Story has its Start

(Siegfried POV)
I awoke feeling nothing but harsh, unimaginable pain all over my body. All I remembered from yesterday was a massive killing blow, then a strange experience like fading away from where I was.
I opened my eyes and saw a small array of small cats poking and prodding my body and tending to my wounds. I looked down to find a very long, healing wound stretching from my left shoulder to the right side of my pelvis.
"So, the stranger has awoken at last." I hear a voice say, turning my head to the right seeing a small white cat in a very elegant gown. I try to speak but all that came out was a very weak and raspy
"Is that...a...talking cat?" "I'll have you know, we are Exceeds. I'd like you to call us Exceeds rather than cats." came an extremely snappy response from the elegantly dressed Exceed.
Still raspy, I said "I'm sorry miss, who are you?" "She is the queen of the Exceeds, Queen Shagotte!" Shouted a very old Exceed. "Cheif Advisor Excellus!" shouted the queen.
"This traveller is our guest, and our salvation!" "Permit me to ask, but what does this human have to do with our salvation?!" cam the voice of Excellus. "Unless he is the one you spoke of in the premonition."
"What premonition? Can you see the future?" I said with an extraordinarily confused look on my face. "Yes child, I have the power of future sight." said Shagotte.
"Why am I your saviour? Was I meant to remove some great evil plauging your people." I said, bringing the premonition back into question. "The premonition I saw was a human who looked exactly like you fighting the great monster Andalumos"
said Shagotte, placing a paw on my shoulder as I stood up and tried to walk, leaving me to stumble and collapse flat on my face. This got me some support to get me over to a closet containing some all black clothing in
my size and a very strange axe-ish weapon with various pulleys, that when I tried it out, it turned into a broadsword blade. "Holy Moly, that's a very strange weapon." I said with extremeely large and childlike eyes.

I got dressed in the strangely well fitting clothes and strapped the axe-sword to my back and headed to the throne room. "Queen Shagotte, I am ready to venture out and eliminate Andalumos."
"Child, I pray for your safe return." The Queen said with a slight smile. That was that, I headed out on my way to hunt down the monster.

Time Skip (4 hours later.)

I reached the cave in which Andalumos resided and shouted out "Come out, great beast!" "Who seeks to disturb my rest?" came an extremely deep and frightening voice with deep yellow eyes.
"Are you here to try and defeat me?" "Yes, now come and fight me!" I shouted out and I saw the great beast crawl out of the cave, revealing a great dragon that looked to be made of stones.
I drew out my axe-sword and put it into the broadsword mode and started to strike Andalumos with the blade.

Time Skip (7 hours later)

I grew tired with the fighting and I was bleeding very heavily in many places including my right eye, leaving me half blind. "Child, stop, you are far to tired to fight me without perishing." said Andalumos.
Breathing heavily and bleeding heavily too, I stop trying to fight and collapse on the cave floor and then subsequently black out.

Time Skip (3 days later)

I woke up bandaged and feeling very sore all over. "Child, you have awakened at last. Now, it is time to tell you the truth. I am not any great monster, for I am the mighty king of the Earth Dragons, Korrag."
I heard the dragon say. "Now come with me and I will teach you the almighty power of Earth Dragon Slayer Magic." "What...Why am I...your choice?" I asked weakly. "You are a child of great potential, you are a very excellent choice for having survived the power of my attacks for so long.
Now, tell me your name, I am curious as to who you are." Korrag said. "I-It's Siegfried Exeus, mighty dragon." I responded with a slight stutter and hesitation. "Please, either call me Korrag or father. I do not wish for you to keep calling me mighty dragon."
Korrag said in a strange response.

Time Skip(4 years later)

I woke up in the same cave I had spent the past 4 years in looking at Korrag. "Child, I have taught you all I can. Please, eliminate me to become even more powerful." he said with an odd smile."Korrag, why?" I asked.
"You are a true dragon slayer, but if you wish for the world to recognize it, kill me." He awnsered. I quickly tried to kill him, leaving him barely alive to tell me something very important.
"When I die, a dragon's spirit will appear. Breath in all of the spirit, it will be worth it." Then, Korrag passed on and the spirit appears. "Time to breath in the spirit, i guess."
Then I sucked up all the dragon spirit, and that's when it got very wierd. I started to change, my body becoming scaly and stone-like, a pair of wings sprouted from my back, long claw-like items stretching from my fingers and toes
and my eyes developing an interesting yellow and hazel tinge to my already blue eyes and my teeth all grew sharper with my hair developing a brown tinge to my already blood-red hair.
Then came the worst of the changes: I could feel my mind shattering and eliminating my feeling of being human and leaving me laughing like a maniac. "What..is wrong with...my...head?" I said clutching thesides of my head.
I then decided to return to the castle as the deed had been done, their Andalumos has been eliminated. Even if it took 4 years to do so.

Time Skip (4 hours later)

I returned to the castle where I had started from and went to the throne room. "queen Shagotte, I have returned from the cave of the mighty Korrag." I told the queen. "Who is Korrag, is he the great monster Andalumos?" The queen responded.
"Yes, fair queen." I awnsered. "He told me that he was the king of the earth dragons and that he had also been transported here by an anima spell many years ago." "Did you eliminate him?" The queen asked.
"Yes miss, it explains the reason why I look very different from what I do before I went to the cave and fought the dragon." I awnsered. "It also explains my multiple scars all over my body." "So, that is why your body looks like you've been through many battles." The queen said.

Time Skip (2 days later)

I was immersing myself in the Extalian culture, when a white Exceed and a short girl with dark blue hair being attacked by many of the Extalians in a town square.
I flew over to the square and tried my best to stop the attackers. "Why would you attack these two, you've already accepted a human into your city?!" I shouted at all the gathered Exceeds.
"That Exceed is a fallen and we hate humans. You are the only one we like because you saved our entire people from that great dragon you fought with for 4 years." They all shouted back at me.
"Fine, if that's how it's gonna be then fine. EARTH DRAGON...ROAR!" All the Exceeds in front of my attack all were blown away and a huge cloud of dust remained over that spot a few miles long.
I sighed and turned to the girl and her Exceed who stared at me with stunned suprise. "You're a dragon slayer too!" Shouted the blue haired girl with great enthusiasm. "Silence child, I have a few questions for this one myself." Said the white Exceed who looked very similar to Queen Shagotte.
"I'll give it to you straight. My name is Siegfried Exeus, I am an earth dragon slayer, my dragon was the king of the earth dragons, Korrag, I killed him and absorbed his spirit which is why I look like I do,
the Exceeds like me because the dragon Korrag had been plauging them for many years, and I as well as Korrag are here because we were sucked up by an Anima spell. I left 4 years ago, Korrag came here many years beyond that." I said leaving the white Exceed in stunned suprise at my brutal honesty.
"Siegfried, is all of that true?" She asked. "Yeah, all of it, 100% of it." I awnsered. "Firstly, my name is Carla and this is-" Carla said before being cut off by the girl.
"My name's Wendy Marvel and i'm a sky dragon slayer!" Wendy said with an extraordinary level of excitement. "It's a pleasure to meet you!" Said Wendy and Carla. Wendy was very excited and Carla had a large amount of apathy towards me when she said it.

Time Skip(Back to Earth-Land)

I had landed back onto the land with a loud thud. I felt like I had broken a leg. Next to me I saw an Exceed with bright red fur staring at me. "Mister, are you ok?" It asked, leaving me clueless on the gender.
"I'm fine but, who are you?" I asked looking the Exceed all over as if to see if it was hurt. "My name's Altai and i'm a girl!" She said with her hands on her hips and her head high in the air, seeming very proud of herself for those two facts.
She was dressed in black pants and an olive green blouse. I then got up and started limping to the east. "What do you expect to find that way?" She asked placing a paw on my left leg.
"A guild." I told her, very bluntly and matter-of-factly.

That's that. What a cliffhanger, right?
See you all in the next chapter.
Love you all!