Lmao I don't even know what the literal fuck I'm even doing anymore. Instead of updating my old stories, I keep writing new ones like the idiot I am. Oh, well. At least my interest in writing shit is still as fresh as fucking ever.
Hello, guys, I'm here with my first pureship story, with the complete Nalu, Gruvia,Jerza and Gajevy package. (The crowd claps and hoots.) It's set in a medeival era, with magic as something very rarely seen and the bars being called taverns. Yeaaahh. I like these kinda stories. I hope you like this one!
18 years ago.
In the medieval world of Earthland, there was once a kingdom. The kingdom of Fiore prospered under the care of their just king and their kind queen. They lived in peace, trading with their neighbors, the Alvarez Empire, and with constant joy. The people lived in harmony, working during the days and singing and dancing in the nights. The king and queen watched over their empire with smiles on their faces and pride in their hearts. But it all changed when the queen, Layla, got pregnant.
When Layla was with child, she glowed like no mother had ever glowed before. It seemed like she was glowing with happiness, as the smile on her face indicated, but it wasn't long before people noticed that she was glowing a bit too much. In the literal sense.
Doctors from all over Earthland were called over to inspect the condition of the queen of one of the most powerful empires. Science, prayers, ayurveda, yoga; nothing seemed to work. It was such a bizarre condition; who had ever heard of a literally glowing mother? Was it her placenta that was imbued with light? Or was it her baby itself?
At long last, after a serious debate with his ministers, Jude Heartfilia finally agreed to send out foot soldiers to find the Witch of the Northsea Woods. She was rumored to be as beautiful as the stars themselves, with hair the colour of bone china and the wings of the fairies in place of her ears.
The soldiers returned with no news of the witch, breaking the hearts of everyone in the kingdom. The king ordered his most trusted guard to go on a quest to find the witch. Silver Fullbuster, otherwise known as Absolute Zero, the greatest hero that Fiore had ever seen, left behind his wife Mika and his year-old son Gray to search for the Witch. He scoured the Northsea Woods for any glimpse of the witch; a sliver, and he could catch her like a hyena could its prey.
He stayed in the Woods for 8 days and 9 nights until he finally found the witch. Astonished by her childlike appearance, Silver could only recognize her by the wings jutting out of her head.
She was kind; and she agreed to ride with him back Fiore to heal the queen. As they started their journey, a wyvern rose up into the sky after Silver's Pegasus. He dodged the fire and scratched the steely scales, but to no avail.
Silver did not return home to his family.
The Witch, Mavis, on the other hand, went to Fiore with the news of Silver's death and a heart affixed on help. She demanded to see the queen at once, so as to kill the root cause of her disease.
As Mavis reached the landing where Layla lay, 6 months into pregnancy - already looking as if she was ready to deliver the baby – she gasped in horror at what had happened.
The child, oh gods above, the child.
Mavis ordered for a midwife and a nursemaid to be brought into the room, and the baby – a girl – was delivered immediately. The cause for the glow was found immediately – the baby glowed with a golden light, unlike anything they had ever seen.
Layla only lived long enough to name the child Lucy before she gave in to death.
As Mavis told the horrified Jude the legend, his eyes widened, and then glanced in disgust at the newborn Lucy who had killed her mother. Consumed with rage and grief, he put her in the tower in the Dark Woods, with only a dragon to guard. The dragon was but a child at that moment; but Igneel's training had been completed. The pink scales, the fiery mouth – he would make a good companion for Lucy. But the dragon had a secret; a secret only his father Igneel knew.
After Jude had put Lucy down in the cot in the Dark tower, she smiled. And he said goodbye to the daughter who looked so much like her mother.
This is the story of a princess and her dragon.
Today.
ROAR.
Ugh. Natsu was such a show off. Lucy couldn't believe that he couldn't even keep his flaming mouth open that wide for that long. It was somehow hard to believe that he had the patience required to do that.
As Lucy sat on the balcony at the top of the tower that was her home, she crouched down as she tried to hide from yet another "champion" who had come to "rescue" her. To be honest, they were so annoying, like the way gnats were annoying in the summer season.
Natsu roared again, and Lucy could hear the "champion" pissing his pants. A pink dragon was not really intimidating, but Natsu managed to hold an amazingly scary roar for a long time, so it somehow worked. Lucy honestly didn't know how. Natsu was such a cinnamon roll.
"Is he hot?" Lucy asked from the shadows, and Natsu turned to give her a withering glare. She gave him a What? look, and Natsu bent down low enough for her to touch his neck and said, "He looks like another one of those pedophile oldies."
Ugh. Come on kingdoms. At least send a champion who's hot.
"Is he scared enough already? I'm hungry. " Lucy said, and Natsu nodded as he rose up once again. He gave a roar full of fire to indicate that the so-called champion was gone, and Lucy could get up now.
"Honestly, these guys are so bothersome." Lucy said, putting her escaped golden hair back into the messy knot. She then turned to Natsu and said, "Can you please turn back now? It's really weird seeing a friend turn into a pink dragon."
Lucy could've sworn that those cat-pupiled eyes just rolled.
She rolled her own pair as she saw Natsu turn back into a human. Lucy assumed that it would be fascinating for some people, but she had seen Natsu do this so many times that it didn't even surprise her when his giant dragon body started shrinking into a boy her age.
"If your friend is a pink dragon, Luce, you need to get used to him turning into one." Natsu said, looking at her in his you so dumb way that always pissed her off. She had half a mind to slap him upside the head, but ultimately decided against it.
"Come on. You'll love the lunch today." He said, flashing that endearing grin of his that always made her do whatever he whatever he wanted her to. Actually, that grin could do anything. It could create world peace, it could get them firewood, and it could get them free food. Natsu was the only one who could leave the tower, and he made sure to rub it in her face every day. And then he'd grin and Lucy would forget it all like the sucker she was.
Lucy fell into step beside Natsu as he led her into the pantry, and groaned as his arm fell onto her shoulders. "Good, huh?" he said, looking at her with expectation, like a dog did after you threw a stick. Not that she would know, of course. Lucy only knew what she did about the outside world through Natsu's stories.
As Lucy looked at all the food, she fought to keep herself from drooling all over the pantry floor. Oh, was she going to knit Natsu a new jacket for this. The draughty pantry was suddenly completely restocked, and it wasn't just full of the kind of shit they sometimes had to eat. Oh, no, the food was completely amazing – trout, caviar, chicken, beef and literally every kind of meat to ever be found on Earthland. Natsu had probably gotten all of that for himself, since it sat separately from the pile of goodies that Lucy couldn't wait to get her hands on. Strawberries, chocolates, vanilla flowers, sugars of every imaginable color, candies, oh god. Natsu was going to get a new pair of pants too.
Lucy squealed in delight and rushed over to the jar of chocolate to stuff some into her mouth. She was usually the one who had to beg Natsu to eat a little civilly, but now she was glad he was such a caveman. She could stuff her face and get her fingers dirty and she knew Natsu wouldn't give a damn.
As Lucy stuffed her face with chocolate (and heard Natsu do the same beside her) she started thinking about the outside world again. All that Lucy had ever seen was the trees surrounding her tower, and the small stream that passed through it. The animals she had seen included birds and dragons, and she didn't even know what being around other people would feel like.
"Is something wrong?" Lucy heard Natsu's voice echo in the lonely castle before she turned to him, smiled, and said "Why would something be wrong?"
"I don't know, you aren't eating. If you're not hungry, I could always just…" Trailing off, Natsu made a move to grab Lucy's food, but like hell she was going to give it to him. Pulling it against her chest, she stuck out her tongue and told him to stay away. He was going to walk around naked if he even touched the chocolate.
He raised his arms in defeat, and resumed stuffing his face with trout. He really loved fish, something he had picked up from the blue cat who liked to hover outside the tower windows. It was very fond of Natsu, which had prompted Natsu to 'adopt' the cat, even though it could not come into the castle.
The cat always flew in a way that made Lucy laugh in delight, a fact that had prompted Natsu to name him 'Happy', for the happiness that he brought into their lives.
Lucy, bored of the same taste of the chocolate, got up to boil some vanilla flowers in water. As she did, the tower shook with the greatest rumble she had ever heard. The walls trembled, something that should never happen to a massive, ancient stone tower, because the chances of it falling were extremely high.
Lucy screamed as she ducked, prompting Natsu to rush over to envelop her in his arms. Chunks of stone were now falling from the sky; a bit a blue sky was visible. The falling rocks threatened to crush them, to turn their skulls into bone flavored pancakes, when Natsu changed.
Lucy, having seen the pink dragon all too many times, was scooped under his wing, enveloping the princess in darkness. The rumbling was even greater under the safety of Natsu's wing, but it was a strange sort of peaceful, prompting Lucy to think about something else.
Didnt increasing the surface area of his body make Natsu more vulnerable to the falling stone? Lucy couldn't let him do this to himself; she couldn't lose her only friend to something as stupid as shitty rock. She had to do something to stop him from doing this.
She tried to push the wing off her back; the usually light wing did not budge. Figures, since Natsu had probably already anticipated that Lucy would want to leave from the protection he offered her. The princess pushed at the wing with all her might, groaning under the weight, but it showed no signs of moving from where it rested.
Lucy, who had been about to lose a few more tears, gasped as her body was enveloped in a soft golden light.
Gray Fullbuster sat upon his chair at the Hall of Ministers in the Heartfilia kingdom, bored out of his mind. He listened to the king drone on and on about expenses and taxes and other shit the knight had absolutely no interest in.
He picked his nails until the meeting was dismissed, and was the first one out of there, his mouth stretched out in a massive yawn. Gray felt wrung out; his body was resisting even the urge to yawn because of its stupid tiredness.
Gray walked down the stone walls of the castle as he searched for something interesting to do. Training was out, since he had spent the last night doing exactly that. Girls were out since he always blushed when one even showed her undergarments, let alone be naked.
So he went down to the game room, hoping to find some source of entertainment.
Entering the game room with another yawn, he marveled at the rich maroon furnishings that decorated the lavish place, complete with dark red sofas and fluffy pillows on the floor. His eyes roved around the room, trying to find something of interest. After a long while of looking at pool tables and chess sets and golf mini-courses, Gray finally settled on playing the pianoforte situated at the corner of the room, probably pushed out of the way to create more space for golfing.
Settling himself down on the cushioned piano chair, he placed his fingers above the keys of the instrument, contemplating the piece he should play. Finally settling on Franz Schubert's Ave Maria, he gently pushed down on the keys and began to play.
Gray had not played the pianoforte ever since his mother had died. He was clangy and heavy on the keys at first; the sound produced was most horrible. But as he tried to flow through the piece, his movements became smoother, his finger moving more loosely and his stiff shoulders straightening themselves out.
He dissolved himself in the piece; it was perfect for the situation the kingdom was currently in.
Ave Maria, maiden mild,
safe may we sleep beneath thy care.
Safe may we sleep, Gray scoffed in his mind. Yeah, sure, sleeping safe while the greatest dark wizard of the millennium was attacking you. Talk about a joke. Even the king had no idea why Zeref was attacking Fiore along with the Alvarez Empire, but a rumor had been spread that he wanted the Great Witch Mavis. It was all the worse, since Mavis was nowhere to be found.
The murky cavern's heavy air
Shall breathe of balm if thou hast smiled.
Yeah sure, Franz. Just lay it on thick. The piss poor state of the kingdom, as well as the smell of excreta spreading all over wasn't going to change. People were losing jobs because of the poor economy and high taxes, and all this money was being sent to the Generals leading the wars. Gray himself had accepted when the king asked to reduce his salary, but there were soldiers who would never risk their lives if not given the promise of a safe life after retirement.
Foul demons of the earth and air,
From this their wonted haunt exiled,
Shall flee before thy presence fair.
Oh yes, because Zeref's demons were just flying away, cowering in fear. The golden kingdom terrified them, with all the corrupt officials and black markets. Honestly, now this song was just mocking the kingdom.
Fuck this. Gray was going to play some pool.
As Gray positioned his cue against the white ball (whose name he did not know), a figure swathed in gold and white finery strode into the room. Jude Heartfilia was dressed in a tunic, covered by a cape bearing the Heartfilia symbol, a key. Gray dropped the stick immediately and almost fell onto the floor in a bow. The king made a vague hand motion, gesturing for the knight to rise up.
Gray stood, a hand curled in front of his heart and his head bowed. Jude liked his formalities, but he had, on many occasions, told Gray to stop being so uptight. Well, Gray was only uptight in front of the king, as could be gathered from the time when he had danced on a tavern table naked, as a dare. Elfman was never going to let him forget that.
"What brings you here, Your Majesty?" Gray asked in a clipped voice, hoping for some kind of mission. Gildarts had sent him back from the battlefield because he was apparently not "built for war". Bullshit, but there was not much Gray could do against the kingdom's most powerful knight, a position previously held by Gray's own father.
"I want you to go to the Dark Woods and bring me my daughter." The king commanded, looking as regal and as expressionless as ever.
Gray's face lost all color as he looked up at his ruler, saying, "Where, Your Majesty?"
"The tower in the Dark Woods that have my daughter captive. Bring her to me, and I will send you back out to the front lines, to fight alongside Gildarts."
As Gray contemplated this, the risk of going into the Woods seemed to diminish in comparison to the glory that could be won. Sure, the Dark Woods were full of dragons and wyverns and other creatures he did not even know the names of, but going back out to the battlefield to fight with his mentor would be enough to make him do this task. But before, he had to know…
"If you do not mind me asking, Sir, why exactly do you want your daughter back? I thought she was cursed." Gray looked at the ground again, afraid of the king's wrath. But Jude Heartfilia simply sighed, and said:
"Only she can save us now."
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