How To Train Your Dragonslayer

Chapter 2

A/N: Here is Chapter 2. I enjoyed writing this one so I hope you enjoy reading it. I'm not sure if this is a good length for chapters, so can try making them longer. It would probably mean they come out later though, so there's that. Anyway, I'll let you read the story now...

The week passed too slowly. All Chelia could think about was how Laxus and Cobra were doing with the Dragonslayer hunt. Everyday, she would talk to Romeo about it, hardly giving him a chance to say anything. Romeo honestly would rather she just shut up and be patient, but he didn't want to lower her spirits, so he just allowed her to talk at him all day.

At last, it was Sunday, the end of the week, and Chelia bounced out of bed at 7:00, about three hours earlier than normal. She grabbed a bunch of foods from the kitchen, and then ran to Romeo's house. His dad, Macao, answered the door sleepily, clearly having just got out from bed. He didn't bother asking why she was here, simply stepping out of the way, letting her bound up the stairs to Romeo's room.

"Wake up, Romeo!" Chelia shouted in the boy's ear. He jolted out of the bed and fell on the floor, making his friend burst out laughing.

"Chelia? What are you doing in my bedroom?" Romeo demanded.

"Come on, we gotta see that Dragonslayer the guys got for us. And put some clothes on, you're not impressing anyone with that underwear."

Romeo turned bright red and grabbed the blanket off his bed to cover himself. "Fine, wait downstairs. I'll just be a minute."

"OK." Chelia skipped out of the room.

The two teens dashed over to Laxus and Cobra's cave. They stopped when they heard growling noises from inside. Laxus stepped outside.

"Good, you're here," he said gruffly. "We got one. She's a pain in the ass, though."

"Thank you so much!" Chelia beamed. Pushing the bag of food into the blond man's arms, she wandered inside, Romeo close behind.

"Oh, hey, Chelia," Cobra greeted. "And your friend, can't remember his name."

"Romeo."

"Yeah, that."

"What's that noise?" Romeo asked hesitantly.

"A Dragonslayer, what else?" Cobra laughed.

"She sounds angry as hell," the boy commented.

"Cause we got her tied to a post," Cobra smirked.

"Well, whatever," Chelia interrupted impatiently. "Can I see her?"

"Be our guest," Cobra answered, gesturing to around the corner where the Dragonslayer would be waiting.

Chelia went forward immediately. As she rounded the corner, she finally saw the thing she had been waiting for all week.

She was... well, a lot more like a dragon than Chelia expected. She was hunched over on all fours, and snarling and roaring like she was trapped (Chelia supposed she kind of was). She had long blue hair that probably would have been soft and beautiful, had it not been matted with dirt and mud. She had long canine fangs, as well as long claws. There were patches of her skin, especially her back and arms, that were covered in shiny blue scales. There were tufts of feathers on her wrists and ankles. She even had elongated shoulder blades, like there should have been wings if she was a bit more dragon. But the thing Chelia was drawn to the most, were the Dragonslayer's eyes. They were a soft, hazel brown, but narrowed in such a hard expression, that Chelia couldn't help but feel a little bad.

The... girl? was also wearing an oversized tank top and shorts, most likely from Laxus.

"Well, what do you think?" Laxus asked.

"She's beautiful," Chelia breathed. "Does she have a name?"

"Nah, Dragneel doesn't name his experiments and she doesn't know enough words to name herself. She does have an experiment number though." Laxus pointed to her right arm where there was written "M4-RV-3LL".

"Kinda looks like 'Marvell', right?" Chelia suggested.

Laxus grunted. "Yeah, but Marvell ain't exactly a name."

"OK, it can be her last name," Chelia decided. "As for her first name, I'm getting some pretty strong 'Wendy' vibes from this girl."

"You are?" Romeo asked.

"Yep, that'll be it. Wendy Marvell!" Chelia held her hand out to 'Wendy', not really sure what she expected to happen, but they always did it in the movies, right?

Well, she hadn't expected Wendy to bite her finger. "Eeeoowwww!" she squealed pulling away. "Hey, that's not nice."

"It's her instinct," Laxus told her. "Right now, you're nothing more than a threat to her."

"Right," Chelia agreed. She grabbed a bread roll from the bag she had given him earlier and held it out to Wendy. "Gotta make her like me, right?"

Wendy snatched the bread out of her hand and tore into it. She looked like she hadn't eaten for days. To be honest, Laxus and Cobra did too.

"I know, let's have lunch. I mean, we're all hungry, and it's better to work on a full stomach," Chelia said.

The meal was rather quiet, no-one really saying anything, just watching Wendy eating in a messy, animalistic manner. She wasn't making it easy for them to see the human in her. The next time Chelia offered the Dragonslayer a piece of food, she had an idea.

Instead of letting Wendy take it, she said very loudly and clearly, "Cookie!", waving said cookie in front of her face. Wendy made a grab for it, only for Chelia to pull back. "No. Cookie." She showed the girl the cookie again. "Cookie."

Wendy stared with a wide-eyed look of confusion.

"Come on! Say it. Cookie!" Chelia said again, starting to feel a bit stupid.

"Cuh-kee?" Wendy tried.

"Yeah! Cookie!" Chelia lit up again.

"Cookie!" Wendy said louder. Chelia happily gave her her prize and Wendy snapped it up, immediately shouting again "Cookie!"

The pink-haired girl laughed. Laxus made a grunt of approval. "Damn. You actually got her to say something."

Romeo grinned. "This is starting to look a lot more possible now."

"No joke," Cobra smirked. "Keep at it and you might have her forming sentences in less than a month."

"Oh, definately," Chelia boasted, suddenly feeling a surge of confidence. "Let's do this, guys!"

"Cookie!" Wendy growled.

A week passed. Chelia and Romeo visited the Dragonslayers every day, checking up on Wendy's development. It seemed to be going well, but as Cobra pointed out, there was quite a big problem.

"How is Wendy going to tell anyone she's human if she can only list food names?"

Chelia gave this some thought. "Right, I think it's time."

"For what?" Romeo asked.

"For Wendy to go outside for a walk." She did look ready to move after being tied by her ankle in a tiny house for a week.

"Are you sure? She might run away."

"I've got an idea," Chelia announced. "Let's tie her wrist to Laxus's so if she tries anything, he can just pull her back."

"OK, then," Romeo agreed. He felt better with Laxus's protection. He still didn't fully trust Wendy, but he was impressed with her progress.

"Wendy!" Chelia called. The Dragonslayer had now realised this word meant she needed to give her attention to someone. Her head turned slowly to face Chelia. "Wendy, we're going to go outside now."

"Out...side?"

"Outside." Chelia pointed to the cave entrance.

Wendy lit up. "Outside! Outside, outside!"

Chelia laughed. "Guess you have been stuck here a while."

It took some effort to tie Wendy's wrist up and wrap the other end of the rope around Laxus's. It was clear she wasn't keen on being bound up and she instantly jumped up when the one around her ankle was cut off.

Finally, they managed to get outside and Wendy started to roll around in the mud happily.

Romeo whispered in Chelia's ear "When do you think we should introduce her to baths?"

The girl giggled. "Let's let her enjoy this first. Besides, we came out to teach her more words, so we gotta do that too."

Romeo laughed. "Fair enough."

"Wendy!" The girl turned with a questioning look in her eyes. "New word: mud!"

"Mud?"

"Mud." Again, Chelia pointed to the mud on the ground and all over Wendy. A look of understanding crossed her face.

"Mud! Mud, outside. Mud outside!"

"Yeah, you get mud outside. Is it good?"

"Good?" Wendy stared.

"Yeah, is the mud good?" Chelia smiled, showing she meant something happy.

"Mud good... Mud good! Outside good!"

"That's good," Chelia grinned. "Look, tree!"

Wendy looked at the tree. "Tree. Good tree?"

"Yeah... They're pretty good." Chelia had the feeling the word "good" was being overused a bit.

"Hey, y'know, you haven't learnt my name yet!"

"Name?"

"Yeah." She pointed at her friend. "Wendy."

"Wendy."

"Right." She then pointed to herself. "Chelia."

"Ch-chel..." Wendy couldn't quite pronounce it.

"I know, it's a tough one. I don't know why I'm called that. Let's try again. Chelia."

"Chel-ia?"

"Yes! That's it!"

"Yes!" Wendy repeated enthusiastically. Laxus laughed. Chelia forgot that he and Romeo were still there.

"You're doing well, kid," he told her. Chelia smiled happily.

"Wendy. That's Laxus." She pointed at the blond. Wendy looked at him.

"Laxus."

"Yeah. His name."

"Laxus...name." Wendy then pointed at the tall man. "Laxus!"

"That's right! And he," she pointed at Romeo, "is Romeo."

"Romeo."

"Yeah."

"Wendy, Chelia, Laxus, Romeo," Wendy listed, pointing at each person.

"You got it!"

Wendy smiled. "Yes! Good!"

"You're very good!" Chelia beamed.

"Food?"

"Hmm? Oh, OK," Chelia replied. It was probably time to go back anyway. They all went back to Laxus and Cobra's cave to eat dinner. They even untied Wendy's ropes and, surprisingly, she didn't make any attempts to escape. Chelia and Romeo decided to stay the night, both texting their families to say they were sleeping over at the other's house.

Chelia watched Wendy sleep for a while before dozing off herself.

A/N: So, there's Chapter 2. Thanks for reading :)