Same day chapter, because if I don't do it now I will get distracted and forget what I was doing! Anyway, I own nothing, enjoy!
Year 777
She had been woken by the communication lacrima next to her bedside. Her husband tightened his arm around her waist as the noise woke him. As she answered, the imaged of a lizard like person swam into view. The panic in his voice was clear as he told her of what events were happening at the palace. The man pleaded for her to come as they needed all the celestial mages they could find. The woman's husband leaned over the lacrima angrily stating his wife would and could not help them, as she had given up her keys. The lizard man continued to plead as a hand came to rest on the man's face. She had to go. She knew she was sick and not long for this world, and before she left it she wanted to help. The man begged his wife to reconsider, but she just held his face in her hand.
Soon the women stood at the front door of their mansion. She kissed her husband reassuring him she would be alright, and to tell their daughter she loved her and she would be home soon. With a last embrace she departed toward the capital. As she traveled bright lights seemed to shoot across the sky. They did not seem to be meteors, so what could they be, and had anyone else seen them.
The magic vehicle sped on, soon closing in on Crocus, two more lights shot into the sky. They seemed to have come from the castle. Whatever those things were they did not bode well with her. When they entered the city all seemed well, but when the woman stepped into the castle she was met with guards and servants running about in hysteria. Has she stepped further inside her body became heavy, and her chest tightened uncomfortably. What was happening? And then there it was, a giant archway with doors spread wide. At least ten other celestial mages stood around with their spirits in front of them trying to close the doors. She clutched the only key she had kept, the one she had left in her daughters care, Aquarius. Would she still be able to summon her? Did she have the strength?
Another light burst through the doors as she placed the key in a goblet of water. The mermaid came from the cup ready to complain about being summoned from another strange place when she spotted the form of her previous owner. Shock, anger, and worry marred the spirit's face as she yelled at the woman for being foolish. The woman smiled weakly and told the spirit that she wouldn't do it again, and to help the others. With a last glance at the golden headed woman, she released her power upon the door.
One last ball of light escaped as the doors were sealed. The mages and inhabitants of the palace rejoiced knowing that they had stopped a danger they didn't quite understand. One mage lay unmoving upon the stone floor. The others took noticed and gathered around her. Her old spirit friend cried as she began to fade into the celestial world. The woman on the ground mumbled a few words before closing her brown eyes forever.
"Protect Lucy for me…"
Around the country balls of light landed, some in mountains, others in forests, but all far away from where humans might live. There, small figures laid upon grass and dirt next to dwellings that seemed to have been untouched by time. The dragons that had raised these children like their own were nowhere to be seen, but a faint glow came from each child's chest as they slept on under the stars.
Author's note: I'm treating most of the dragon slayer's as orphans except for Acnologia's kid. Acnologia never returned after leaving so the child does not really remember their father, and he had left the child in the other dragon's care. Probably should have included that in the first chapter, but eh.
