Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail,or the Dungeon and Dragons Themes, Golden Sun, or Final Fantasy themes and characters input into story.
A/N: The wait is finally over. I finally got around to this stories. I like to thank everyone who waited patiently and I apologize for the wait. Remember though you have to read at least the first eight chapters of Romeo Rising to get this stories. Enjoy.
You should read my other story, Romeo Conbolt: Fire Incarnate, basically Romeo gifted in learning different types of fire base magics
Chapter 2
Elcair
Two Week Later
A deer is grazing in the nearby forest outside Shirotsume (a town about a three days walk northwest of Magnolia). It been a mostly quiet morning for her and there has been no sighting of predators for almost three days in this area so she was free to graze in peace.
A twig snapping nearby rings through the silent morning air starling the young dove. As she explored her surroundings with a frantic look on her face she soon finds that not a single living soul is in her area of the forest. So after examining her surrounding for a few more seconds she returns to grazing…
Only for a dazzling beam to come streaking out of the forest and tearing through her midsection sending her to the ground. Soon the smell of her own charred and smoking flesh starts to become the last thing she would ever smell as she fights to remain conscious thru the pain.
As her vision starts to become blurry she see a human boy walking towards her. As he getting closer and closer she notices thru the waves of pain that his arm is starting to change with blacks scales like on a lizard starting to form on it. Soon the boy is standing over her with a somewhat sorrowful yet merciless look in his eyes and she finally see that his hand has turn into a claw. As the boy takes a knee next to her and put his razor sharp claw along her throat she hears him say…
"I'm sorry about this. I truly hope you live with long peaceful years in the next life", just before he effortlessly slash her throat. A quick painful jolt later and her world goes black forever.
An hour later Romeo is back at his campsite, which was nothing more than a small fire along with a sleeping bag he brought with him roasting some deer meat.
"Where to now Acno?", Romeo asked.
"I suggest we go into the nearby town and get some more supplies before moving on. Hunting is fine but I believe you already scare most of the game away. We were lucky you came across this one", Acnologia answered.
"Guess I should get going then", Romeo said as he put the black hooded cloak that he found the other day at an old abandon campsite around his body. It allowed him to move through populate areas without arouse too much suspicion. Mage or not a thirteenth year old boy walking around by himself is sure to draw unwanted attention. With that done he pack up his gear, put out the fire and was on his way into town.
The Town of Shirotsume
The hustle and bustle of the town reminded him of Magnolia. Even though he only been gone for two weeks it felt like a lifetime for Romeo. His Dragon-Slayer hearing pick up on bit and pieces of every conversation going on in the main part of town. His nose sniff out the fresh bread getting pull straight from the oven of the bakery, the roses that the local flower girl was selling, as well as the perfume being sold at the fashion store. The fact that these places were on the over side of the town square from him didn't even faze Romeo. Over the years Romeo had gotten used to his improved senses and even now he not surprise when he picks up on a hushed conversation that people were having even if they were trying to keep quiet about, or smell the silent fart that someone thought they got away with from across the room. It did take him awhile to figure out though why Laki would walk in some days smelling like Max, and Bisca would come in smelling like Alzack and vice versa. When he asked Acnologia about it the dragon simply chuckled and went back to napping.
Romeo was so deep in remembering past memories that he was shock when he heard a foretelling voice aim at him….
"One body two souls, woven together by a forbidden power. One a boy who remembers only half of his heritage. The other a king who built his throne on the remains of his enemies. The boy whose mother has done unto him terrible things, and who father burn his own wedding ring. The king who for countless years wander the lands near and far. For whom peace and happiness were close at hand only to be snatch away by war and violence."
Romeo turns to the sound of the voice to see a slender young woman of average height with amber-colored eyes. She had brown hair that with down the length of her back and was tied up at the end. Romeo also noticed several bangs were framing her forehead. Around her neck was a necklace with half a blue stone at the end of it. All in all she was quite attractive, but Romeo wasn't paying any attention to that.
"What did you say?" is all Romeo has time to ask before the sound of gunfire fills the town square. Romeo had a fraction of a second to realize that the bullets were coming at him before he jumps toward the woman grabbing her and throwing both their bodies flat on the ground as the bullets fly overhead. Screams of terror filled the air as the townsfolk takes off seeking cover wherever they can.
"Come out, Come out wherever you are!", a gruff voice sounds out from the direction the gunfire came from, "We know you're here priestess!"
Lifting his head up a little Romeo spots a tall muscular man tan skinned walking those them. He had brown hair formed into a flat top on his head with sideburns and a beard along his face. He was carrying a mini-cannon machine gun lay across his shoulder while sporting a sadistic grin on his face. He also happened to have red armor covering his entire left arm.
By this time everyone in the area had already ran for their lives and the town square was deserted. It was just Romeo, the fortuneteller woman and the gun toting man.
"I wonder if that rumor of you being immortal is true. If it is then I love to test my baby out on you. You see I upgrade my baby here with a new barrel, some fine tuning calibration, and I want-Huh?", he explains before a confuse look dons his face as he quickly moves his head to narrowly avoid a Doomsday Blast that was aim at his head. It pass by so close that it singe his sideburns along with the rest of the hair on that side of his face. Using the temporary distraction of the man coming to gripes over what was just fire at him, Romeo quickly gets up and jumps toward him at high speeds using the extra strength behind his recently formed dragonscale leg to boost him forward. The man doesn't even have time to register the fact that someone was coming toward him before an elbow collides with his groin. The extra momentum behind the strike only triple the impact hit causing the man to fall to his knees in agonizing pain. The last thing he see is a fist covered in black and blue scales coming towards him before he feels a brief sting of wretched pain, after that he lose consciousness.
"Wow, that was a low blow little vermin", Acnologia commented.
"If fighting Velveno and Gajeel has taught me anything it that I should take advantage of whatever means necessary to come out on top. That includes sneak attacks and low blows", Romeo said, "I lacked power and experience against both of them and only manage to not get my ass-kick by catching them off-guard. I mean look at this guy. I hit him with a full blow to the face with a Dragonscale fist and he still breathing. And look at the size of his gun! Fighting fair would have got me seriously fucked up."
Indeed the man was still alive though only just barely if his shallow breathing was anything to go by.
"Guess all those muscles aren't just for show", Romeo murmured before he suddenly feels the hairs on his neck stand up and a certain inner voice yell "To your left!"
Without hesitation Romeo brings up his Dragonscale arm just in time to block a sword wielded by a long blonde hair chick with cold gray eyes and a smirk on her face. The attack's impact throws his hood off his head revealing his face to the woman.
"Ooo you block my attack. You're not bad for a little brat", she says as she jumps back a good twenty feet from Romeo. She looks over at the still unconscious body of the gunman and gives a harsh arrogant laugh.
"Ha! That what Cannon gets. I told him we could have easily snuck in a grab her, that there was no need for him to go trigger happy like that. But does he listen to me? Noooooo,", she explained as she turns her sight back on Romeo, "Seeing how you were just caught in the buffoon's crossfire and you taught him a lesson he won't ever forget I'm willing to let you walk away with your life if you just leave now kid."
"That awfully nice for a woman who was just trying to slice me up a second ago", Romeo stated.
"What can I say? You're lucky you caught me in a good mood", the woman says as she throws both her hands up and gives a shrug. In doing so she finally gets a good glimpse at her sword and her smile slowly turns into a crazed look. When Romeo look toward her sword to see what was wrong he see that a good chunk of the bladed side had been chipped off from where Romeo had block her attack.
"You. Little. SHIT!", the woman boomed in an outrage voice as her magic energy spikes, "HOW DARE YOU DESTROY MY SWORD?!"
And with that her entire body was covered in a bright light. A moment later after the light fades away Romeo sees her wearing an elaborate armor covered in gold with red clothing underneath. The upper half of her armor had a breastplate open in the center along with gauntlets with sharp claw-like fingers and pauldrons. The lower part of her armor consists of faulds and leg armor, each with a large wing, and talon-like feet. She was wearing a blue headband to top it off. But the one thing that came with her new armor that really concern Romeo was the large scythe that she held in her hands.
"Great, a requip mage that bipolar and has an unhealthy obsession for sharp objects. I wonder if she likes cake?", Romeo thought as he takes a battle stance.
"NOW DIE!", as the girl takes off into the sky and dives down at Romeo, the scythe high above her head.
Romeo brings dragonscale arm on to block the hit. He successes in stopping the attack from doing any damage to him but the sheer force of the attack sends him flying back thru quite a distance thru the air. Flipping in mid-air to land on the ground he ends up sliding on both his arms and legs. As Romeo comes to a halt he fires off a blast at the oncoming woman who simply leans to the side in mid-flight and lets the blast going sailing past her.
"You'll have to do better than that kid to stop Coordinator, The requip mage of the Magic Guild Carbuncle!", she announce while raising her scythe once again for another go.
"Her scythe can't get past my dragonscale but the power behind her strikes is enough to send me flying. I got to think of something quick here to counter that." Romeo thought as Coordinator comes in for another blow.
Romeo readies himself as the scythe comes in on his dragonscale arm's side. You can only imagine the look on his face when the scythe suddenly reverses in a circle pattern over his head and was all of a sudden coming down on his unprotected side.
Romeo narrowly avoids getting slash in two as he jumps back to avoid the hit. Unfortunately the blade left a bloody cut across his chest but Romeo was given no time to see how bad it was as Coordinator proceeds to unleashing a barrage of strikes against him all the while laughing manically.
Between blocking and dodging slashes Romeo had little time to plan let alone perform a counterattack.
"She doesn't let up for a second, does she?"
"You need to stop focusing on just using your dragonscale arm for blocking and punching and start using it for something else", Acnologia suggested.
"Like what?!"
"Oh I don't know like grabbing! You fast enough to dodge her strikes so you should be fast enough to grab them!"
And just as Acnologia said that, Romeo saw Coordinator bringing her scythe down onto of his head. With all the strength he could muster he shot his dragonscale arm up, claws open catching the blade and stopping the tip of the it from coming with a mere inch of his head. Squeezing his claws around the blade he shatters the front part of it before her very eyes. The shock look on her face was soon replace with one of pain as Romeo lands a solid hit to her unprotected gut with his dragonscale arm while her guard was down. Through pure willpower she retains consciousness and she able to jump back away from Romeo all the while still hold the broken scythe in her hand
"Y-Y-You bastard!", she staggers out thru the pain, "I'll skin you alive for this."
"Talk shit after you survive this fight", Romeo said as his eyes started to glow white.
Coordinator takes off once again into the air and is soon hovering above Romeo hundreds of feet in the sky.
"You think because you broke part of my scythe I won't keep using it?! Think again you little piece of shit! I'm going to slice you within an inch of your life then I'm going to cut your dick off and shoved it down your throat then put it back out thru your asshole!" she screamed as she power dive toward the Dragon-Slayer.
"Such an elegant woman", Acnologia commented.
Removing the dragonscales on his arm and having them reappear on his right leg Romeo position himself for his attack. Putting his left leg forward and his right leg back he takes a deep breath.
"Hope this work." Romeo thinks to himself, "And thanks the gods she took to the skies."
"Oh I hope this works too."
And with that Romeo opens his mouth and began to gathers spirits energy.
Coordinator sees him doing this but in her rage all matters of common sense were thrown out the window.
"DIED YOU FUCKING BRAT!", she screams as she readies her scythe with an insane look in her eye. But then she sees something that instantly makes her start to regret this course of action.
It started out a just a huge swirl of black and blue lights. But then it started to take shape around the boy. She couldn't tell if it was real or not. She could see thru the figure and see the ground beneath it as well as the boy. It's the shape that it took though that really grabs her attention. It was one of a creature that hasn't been seen in this part of the world in over seven years. A beast of legendary might and power who had wipe out entire nations. His name still strikes fear into the heart of men everywhere even powerful ones. The creature that her parents use to tell her as a child would come gobble her up if she wasn't a good girl. This gave her terrible nightmare. And the main attraction of those nightmares was looking at her with terrifying white eyes and his mouth wide open.
"Acnologia", Coordinator whispers in a hushed tone before she hears...
"ROAR OF THE APOCALYPSE DRAGON!", is heard as Romeo unleashes the energy he gather at her. Upon leaving his mouth the beam expanded greatly producing a huge beam heading straight for her. The force of the attack is so great that a crater is produce underneath Romeo at the moment the unleashing his signature attack. As he struggles to keep the beam from sending him flying the pressure of the blast pushes down on him. Luckily his dragonscale leg was able, though barely, to handle it keeping him from completely collapsing from under the weight. Market stands were blown away from the sheer might of the roar. Windows were shatter all across town, and anything that wasn't inside or bolted down was sent flying. It at this moment Coordinator finally realizes the beam coming toward her was going to end her life if she didn't move quickly. She spins to the right in hopes of completely dodging the blast but she miscalculated her spin and spun away half a second too late.
The consequence for her miscalculation was the fact that her whole right arm up to her shoulder was caught in the path of the blast. Her wails of pain could be heard all over town as her arm along with the scythe were both erased from existence and the sheer heat of the attack cause her to be cook alive within her armor. She could feel the armor sticking to her body and merging with her skin as she plummets to the ground screaming the entire way.
As the beam sailed past her it travels for almost a mile before finally detonating in a spectacular explosion that fill the afternoon sky and dispersed the clouds. The townsfolk who witness this marvelous demonstration of power were in awestruck of it as well severely frighten by the fact that this attack would have decimate their town if Romeo had use it while Coordinator was on the ground. But that pale in comparison of the fear they felt when they too saw the silhouette of the Apocalypse Dragon appear right before the attack.
Coordinator hits the ground with a heavy thump still screaming from being baked alive within her armor. The only good thing that came off this whole ordeal was the blast's heat cauterized her shoulder thus insuring that she wouldn't bleed out.
As she flailed around on the ground in agony she cursed Romeo with every fiber of her being.
"I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THIS! YOU'LL BE BEGGING FOR DEATH WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU! I DON'T GIVE TWO FUCKS IF YOU ARE A DRAGON-SLAYER! I! WILL! END! YOU!", she raved in a pain voice as if just talking was becoming difficult for her. It was then that a muscular arm appears and heaves her up. The one call Cannon seem to have regain consciousness while the two were fighting and seeing first hand the destruction that Romeo can bring he decided to use his brain for once and cut his loses. He takes off with the still cursing Coordinator in one hand and his gun in the other. Before long they were out of sight and for Romeo out of mind.
Romeo doesn't even try to pursue them as he was sweating profusely from unleashing the attack. He was struggling just to stand up and pretty soon he wouldn't be able to keep that up. He sensed a presence nearby and glances over to see the fortuneteller staying there with a look of shock on her face. Romeo also notices that she was now holding in her hands a yellow birdlike creature with a large head with a small tuft on top. It had a small beak and round eyes, as well as small wings which probably didn't help it fly. To complete it looks it had small feet along with a even smaller tail. It too has a look of shock on its face.
"Might… I have… your name?", Romeo asked between breaths.
"Eclair", the woman says she then looks toward the bird, "And this is Momon."
"Well Eclair… I think it time you answer my question, don't ya think?", Romeo advised before passing out and falling to the ground.
As Eclair looks upon Romeo lying on the ground she says the following words…
"The boy with the strength of a powerful king, and the powerful king with the strength of a boy. What was destiny's reasoning in why these two completely opposite beings were joined as one, I wonder?"
A/N: Finally Romeo getting some action. Elcair, Momon, Cannon, and Coordinator are all characters from the Fairy Tail Movie Phoenix Priestess. Next chapter is how the guild is taking Romeo's departure. Of course his father and Wendy will have it the worst. Tell me what you think. Also had a hard time describing the Dragon Roar part.