His memories came back to him over night. He had shot out of bed this morning and the feelings that overwhelmed him, actually made him cry. The cold sweat from his stress chilled him. His heart was racing and the tears wouldn't stop. His hollow chest ached and he had no idea what to do with himself. He remembered everything. He buried his face in his hands and sighed. His shoulders trembled slightly. Worry, self-hate, and anxiety wracked his being. His eyes softened as he had begun to think of his memories.
He remembered how when she was twelve he had developed a more than friendly crush on her, his heart leapt at the thought. He had always saw her as untouchable and as a line that should never be crossed. She'd been hurt too many times in her life, so why should he do anything that could possible hurt her more?
He remembered the time when he was thirteen and she was eleven and she had been bullied and he beat the kids that bullied her to a pulp, he felt the anger resurface that he'd felt that day. She hadn't fought back for fear of hurting someone, so she had come home beaten and with a busted nose and an empty wallet. Laxus smirked as he remembered the look on their faces when he had come after them. He smiled as he remembered the look on her face… she had been excited that he'd gotten her things back, but frowned at him when he told her they were in the hospital. She had scolded him and told him he shouldn't hurt people unnecessarily. He'd laughed and told her that they had hurt her, so beating them to a bloody pulp was a necessity. She'd given him the most tear filled look on that one…
He remembered the time when she was fourteen and she had begun sparring with him again and she pushed herself far past exhaustion but she still stood there and continued to fight back until he gave in and she had been proud of herself, she had collapsed soon after and he took her to Poluschka. His chest swelled with pride as he thought of her and how strong she was despite her weak heart…She had proved him wrong. He had thought that with beauty, came weakness. She had proved him wrong. She had given him a run for his money and proved that she could be pretty and a fearsome opponent as well. Kind of the whole, you can have your cake and eat it too, sort of thing. He felt prideful to have had such a beautiful and strong woman by his side.
He remembered her fifteenth birthday when he had bought her the drawing of the golden dragon that still hung on her wall. Her eyes had been fixated on it the whole time everyone else was celebrating. She hadn't known who had given it to her, but she was grateful. While everyone else was standing around having fun, she stood there with the drawing and ran her fingers over the dragon's painted scales. He could tell that she was trying harder than anything not to break down and cry. He had walked over and in front everyone, he told her he had bought her the drawing, saying that he knew it would have some sentimental value. Her heart was showing in her eyes, her kind, loving, and gentle, yet fierce heart. Bared for him to see. He had felt moved that she would break down her wall for him.
When she was sixteen, he congratulated her on becoming S-class. He had thrown the idea of getting matching tattoos in the air. She had been nervous at first, but he had talked her into it and she happily agreed. He hadn't expected her to become addicted to tattoos though. She had become so in love with tattoos that she got one every year, she was always looking for ways to make herself look exotically beautiful, once going so far as to get her shoulder tattoo extended down the side of her ribs. It took all he could for him to talk her out of tattooing her chest, he really didn't was some perverted guy getting a good glimpse of her chest. He hadn't been able to stop the rib tattoo, which haunted him just because some other person saw her shirtless. The thought drove him nuts even now. When he had expressed his concerns about that and she laughed and called him jealous. In truth he was…
When she was seventeen, he had begun to develop more than a crush on her. He had noticed that every time he looked at her his mind would blur and his heart would race, now that would annoy this shit out of him. She had always asked him if he were ok because half the time he couldn't really speak because his mind was screwed up and he could barely breathe. He had always thought she was going to be the death of him…
When she was eighteen he had fallen in love with her, and actually admitted it to himself. Saying that, there was still no way in hell he was going to admit that to her. He knew she would never let him live it down. And now he knew she wouldn't, because she had cared for him just the way he cared for her…
When she turned nineteen, he tried pushing her away, but she stayed. He had tried to deny his feelings for her because it worried him that they had become so close, what if one of them were to die? He slowly disassociated himself with her, or at least had tried to, but she refused to let him go. Her looks…her smiles…they all refused to let him go. They refused to let him drift, because they kept pulling him in, even though he continuously tried to drift away from her, the way she looked at him and only him, told him she was never going to let him drift.
When she turned twenty he had noticed she had taken a liking to completing her assignments and hanging out with her friends from other guilds, she had especially liked Quatro Cerberus. Their guild master was her friend and they would always chat about anything and everything. He wasn't jealous of them, not one bit. But the guild master he had vowed to keep an eye on, the man just gave him the whole 'I'm the type of guy that would steal your girlfriend' vibe. For no reason at all. He just didn't feel like losing to a guy about ten to fifteen years older than Luna THAT would drive him nuts.
He remembered, how on her twenty first birthday, the girls in Fairytail actually got her in a dress. He remembered how he wanted to rip every guy that looked at her to pieces, even though he wasn't allowed to be near the guild members. He was happy to see her that one last time before he had gotten the boot from gramps. He hadn't said goodbye, He figured he had left her in capable hands so he had moved along, a huge mistake on his part. Not long after that they had gone after oracion seis and then the S-class exams came up…he had only found out that she had been missing, three months after she had gone missing, when he had fought hades.
Her twenty second birthday...well...technically her twenty eighth birthday...he sat in get living room and waited for her to return home. The thunder tribe had somehow managed to make a cool birthday cake for her, although he thinks Evergreen did the majority of it since Bixlow and Freed can't cook, in the slightest. They could set water on fire by putting it in a pot alone…
He remembered that He had proposed to her...he was going to marry her. He was the reason she was crying, he is the reason she is in pain. These thoughts all sent his mind into a whirlwind of emotions. He stood and thought about what to do. Once he had decided he grabbed his coat.
He burst from his room and hopped over the banister, catching the guild by surprise. "What is it Laxus?" Gramps asked and he frowned at him. "I remember. I remember everything." Laxus said as he ran out of the guild hall. He knew exactly where he was going to go first, it didn't surprise him that they would be his first choice for information.
He headed straight for the lake with the sprites. He fell to his knees in front of the water. "Miru, Kai, Loki. I remember now...I know it's alot to ask...but I need your help. I need to find Luna." Laxus said and he saw the sprites right under the surface of the water, but they seemed different from nights before. They seemed like they were hiding from everything, the smallest movement sent them skittering away from the surface. If they were acting like this, something bad was going to happen.
They watched him carefully then hissed. "Feel it?" Miru asked. "Death come." Kai simpered. "What do you mean?" he asked and they skittered around under the surface of the water. "We sense it…" Loki said and he furrowed his brow. Loki waved a hand over the surface of the water and a dark, ominous aura surrounded him. "Death's breath…" the sprites hissed ominously.
The reality of what they had said, and shown him made his heart stop for a moment. That was the moment he realized that Death's breath….was coming off of him. "Are you saying I'm going to die?" he asked and they glanced at each other. Then they began to sing…the song was creepy and sounded like a warning or some sort of legend.
"Dragon slayer.
Dragon born.
This eternal war.
Dragon slayer
Dragon born
both wary of oncoming gore
Brought by dragon born
with mighty horns
and mighty roar
Dragon slayer
ends the gore
With mighty magic
And quick wit
Kills dragon born quick."
Miru, Kai, and Loki sang. Laxus furrowed his brow. "Who is dragon born? Better yet, what is a dragon born?" He asked and they frowned. " Luna... Dragon born. Laxus... dragon slayer." They said and vanished from the surface of the water completely, but not before a fearsome statement was made. The statement made his head spin and his chest tighten in fear and pain. "Laxus kills Luna." that was what the sprites said…that was the terrifying warning they gave. His head hurt and his mind was blurry, his vision blurred as well. "Damn it all…I cry too fucking much." He said punching the ground.
"I never figured I would find you here." Evergreen sighed. Bixlow and Freed standing at her sides. "How much did you hear?" he asked and they furrowed their brows. "Not a thing. What were you speaking to the sprites for?" she asked. "Information on Luna. Hey do you see a creepy dark purple fog around me?" he asked watching as the blackish fumes rose around him and assaulted his nose with their dark smell. They looked at him and frowned. "No...But I can smell death…is it hanging around you?" Freed asked and Bixlow was walking around him, grabbing at the air with a confused look.
"What the hell is this? I can see it, I smell it…but I can't do anything to dispel it…" Bixlow said and the other two exchanged glances. "So there is something there?" Evergreen asked, a confused look crossing her face. They had agreed upon returning to the guild, since most likely Makarov would be able to answer their questions.
They quickly made their way to the guild, but he seemed out of it. His chest ached and all he wanted to do was lay somewhere and mope and cry for her. He could've sworn he had seen her in the corner of his eyes but when he turned it was Lucy.
" Laxus...are you ok? You seem a bit... jumpy." She said and he sighed. "I remember what Luna is to me. I still loved her, even if I couldn't remember her..." He said and she frowned. " so what are you going to do?" She asked and he shrugged. "I guess if she isn't back in a week I will go find her. If daisy comes home alone...I leave immediately and I will drag whoever will go, with me." He said and she smiled slightly. "I will go too." She said and he nodded.
They made their way into the guild and Makarov greeted them. " gramps. What is a Dragon born?" Laxus asked and Makarov's eyes went wide. " so you know?" He asked and Laxus furrowed his brow. " what do you mean, so I know?" He asked his voice angry, threatening even. "That Luna is a Dragon born..." He said. "the sprites told me she was. They also sang this." Laxus said and handed Makarov the paper he had written the lyrics on since they wouldn't leave his head.
"A Dragon born is a person who was born half dragon. Poluschka is a Dragon born from Edolas. Luna is a Dragon born from our world...like Acnologia..." Makarov said and Laxus' eyes widened. " but Acnologia is a dragon." Lucy said and Makarov sighed. " he used to have a human form. He changed. Luna can change too, but I have told her not to or else we may take cautionary measures." Makarov said. "you mean...kill her?" Lucy asked and he nodded.
" does she know she is a Dragon born?" Laxus asked. " no I raised her to think she was a dragon slayer, just so everyone else would think so too. That's why, even though you give your all. She is still stronger than you. And if anyone found out what she was...there are mages that will use the beast tamer marionette magic and control her of they can get her to change. One guild is Dragon Heart." Makarov said and Laxus fisted his hands. "I'm going to go find her if she isn't back soon." Laxus said and Makarov sighed.
"Dragon slayers kill Dragon born. That's what the song means. With mighty horns, and a mighty roar, the Dragon born will destroy. With mighty magic and quick wit...the Dragon slayer kills the Dragon born quickly." Makarov said add Laxus stepped out of the doorway. " then I leave now. I need help. Who would come with me?" Laxus asked before he stepped completely out of the door.
Natsu, Erza, Wendy, Gajeel, gray, Cana and Lucy stepped forward. "Juvia will accompany you!" Juvia exclaimed and ran after them as they exited the guild. Makarov stared at the group with pride and worry. He had no idea if they could make this happen. He'd felt the power that flitted through fiore, they day before he lost contact with Luna completely. She'd been with Bacchus and by the time Bacchus figured it out, Luna was gone and Daisy was left in his care…
Carla figured this was a good time to let them in on the vision she had. "I had a vision last night." she said and they looked at her. "I saw a dragon...it was huge like Acnologia...but gold, and it could cast four different colored spell circles, and a roar stronger than the etherion..." Carla said and her eyes hit the floor. " it looked like Luna atop the dragon with another mage. But Luna's eyes were gold...I don't know how the dragon came about...but I'm sure Luna was on that dragon." Carla said and Laxus frowned. " and there was a gold mark on Luna. It was of a Chinese style dragon. It was on her left shoulder..." Various said and Laxus looked at her in shock.
" that's not Luna. That's the master of Dragon Heart! Gramps had a hunch that she was Edolas Luna, but we couldn't prove it. That Luna had been searching for a dragon. If she couldn't find one...she would create one using a Dragon born. And she is the one who attacked me. I thought it was Luna at first, but her eyes flashed and we couldn't run fast enough. She is dangerous when your guard is down." Laxus said and the group felt the ominous feeling wash over them. " they are going to use Luna...to destroy Fiore..." Lucy said her voice and eyes trembling with fear.
The group looked at Laxus and he was calm. But then he tossed his head back and laughed, but within that laugh was pain. The tears fell and his lightning crackled and his teeth gnashed together as he strode forth, not daring to say another word to the group.
/ with Luna.\\
Luna cracked her eyes open and saw a woman who looked exactly like her frowning at her, but her eyes were gold and not blue. "So you are Luna Sparks of this world, the infamous Dragon born." The woman scoffed and forced Luna to look at her. "Who are you?" Luna asked and the woman laughed.
"I am Luna Sparks, the dragon slayer." She said and Luna looked at her. " I'm a dragon slayer." She said and the woman laughed. " Dragon born, sweety. Dragon born. Big difference. Shame how you were taken out so quickly..." She said, looking over her curiously. She lifted her face and looked directly into her eyes. "Lightning Luna is all tapped out eh? Say…the one you lent your magic to that…" Edo-Luna paused and licked her lips with a taunting look in her eyes. "Is he that incredibly sexy beast, y'know…the blonde one with the tattoo? He seemed to think I was you until he saw my eyes." Edo Luna said and Luna narrowed her eyes at her.
"first off…what is a Dragon born?" Luna asked from under droopy eyes, but then her head rose up and the hatred in her gaze made Edo-Luna grin. "Secondly…if you are the one who hurt him I will tear you limb…from…limb. This time you won't get the drop on me." Luna said and Edo-Luna grinned excitedly. "Well to put it simple a dragon born is half human, half dragon. Lunaria was your true mother. Dragons have human forms too, y'know... and how are you going to do that when you're all tied up. I'm not. And I could just walk up to your beloved Laxus, and…" She said then swiped a knife from her belt and ran the tip of the blade across Luna's chest to stop over her heart. "Give him just a little heart ache relief…put him out of his misery." she laughed and Luna grit her teeth, a feeling of hopelessness gripped at her soul.
"Oh and meet Christa, a mage with beast tamer magic. Rare abilities she has..." Edo Luna said with a smirk as a green haired woman walked out from the shadows. Edo Luna held up a hand with four multicolored lacrima between her fingers. "and here's a warm welcome to Dragon Heart." Edo Luna said and walked behind Luna and screamed as the first one, a dark blue one, was shoved into her back by her right shoulder. The second one was shoved into her left shoulder, it was red. The third was white and was placed above her left hip. The fourth was gold and was placed above her right hip.
Luna screamed as the magic was forcefully placed into her body, the unwelcome magic reacted with her own and she could feel it clashing. "Water…wind...fire... and lightning…what do you plan by mixing those dragon slayer lacrima?" Luna screamed as the pain overwhelmed her. Edo-Luna just laughed as Luna writhed in pain. Her teeth had sharpened and had split open Luna's lip. Luna bit down on her upper forearm to silence her own screams. Blood trickled down her arm as she glared at Edo-Luna with white eyes.
"So vicious! If you increase the power of a Dragon born at a massively rapid rate, you forcefully create a dragon, and even if the lacrima are removed, the dragon born can still transform. I'm aiming for a lovely firestorm dragon. Don't you think that would be wonderful?" Edo Luna said. Luna spit blood in her face and smirked, despite the pain that was caused her to bite deeply into her arm... "You can't force me to do anything." Luna said she Edo Luna grinned. "Thai. You know what to do." Edo Luna said and a back eyed child with white hair walked around behind her and started forcing the energy from the lacrima to course through her body quicker. Forcefully activating dragon force. And setting the atmosphere of fear, her screams echoing into nearby cities…
/Back with Laxus.\\
They rushed straight for the Dragon heart guild hall, but familiar faces cut them off. "raven tail." Natsu growled. Blacksnake had lunged for Natsu, the small animal for Laxus, and Ivan was readying a spell to wipe them all out, but someone took them out before Laxus' group could make a move.
"Laxus. If you ever let Luna go again, I will take her from you." A familiar voice said and an all too familiar blonde landed before him, half dressed as usual. " so you heard the roar as well?" Sting asked as Rogue walked up to Sting with Orga close behind. " roar? What roar?" Lucy asked fearfully. Sting furrowed his brow. "It sounded like a dragon…we were passing through here and we heard it. It was loud, and sounded familiar." Sting said and lector tried to comfort Frosch.
"It sounded like it came from the dragon heart guild...I could have sworn I heard Luna before it though. They are known for doing weird stuff concerning dragons…they came about after the Acnologia attack on Tenrou Island." Sting said with a hand on his chin in thought. "Say...someone said something about a dragon born once. I had no idea what that meant…but they said they needed one for some firestorm project." Sting said and Laxus grit his teeth audibly.
Sting looked up and saw Laxus looking completely angered. He frowned and sighed. He definitely remembered Luna, there was no doubting that. He sighed and shrugged his shoulders lightly. "Their guild hall is off that way. We can get there quick if…we…." He began and saw that Laxus was already gone. "Hurry…"
Laxus sped off as he reached the guild, he saw Luna, but she wasn't Luna. "Luna!" Laxus yelled and her eyes met his. Her tears were pained but the recognition in his eyes made her heart hopeful. "You remember?" she sobbed and he nodded. She had no more time to talk as her screams intensified and her pain became unbearable. . He stood back as the roar ripped from her throat and the chinks in her dragonoid armor melded together and it shone a bright gold as her size increased. The rest of them made it just in time to see the tears fall from Luna's eyes as her teeth grew and her bones cracked and broke and get face became the large jaws of the dragon that hovered over them.
"Kill me Laxus! Oh god Laxus kill me!" Her voice screeched from the dragon's mouth. " beast tamer! Dragon marionette." A green haired woman said calmly and landed on Luna's head. Luna's eyes became dark blue, as if her soul was gone. Under the skin on her back, you could clearly see the lacrima.
Lucy narrowed her eyes and summoned Blaze. " yes?" She asked, but her gaze met the dragon's and she needed ask nothing more. " you could possibly change it back...or do you wish to decimate it?" Blaze asked. " that's my friend Luna, she needs our help." " if you can gently remove the lacrima, the energy used to change her should dwindle, but your best bet is to aim for her underbelly, put her out of her misery." Blaze said and Lucy shook her head.
"if we can't remove the lacrima, then we will decide on what to do. But we must save her, for his sake." Lucy said and pointed at Laxus who appeared in the verge of tears his hands were fisted at his sides and his shoulders trembled. Sting and his group showed up and sting ran straight up to Luna and looked her in the eyes, her breath hitting him like wind from a severe storm.
" Luna!" Sting yelled and the dragon blinked at him. She sniffed once in recognition, but with the twitch of a finger from the beast tamer mage, Sting was sent flying by the large golden scaled tail that swiped for him. His eyes went wide when the tail made contact, he felt things move in his torso that shouldn't move, and before he could say anything, blood sprayed from between his lips. He hit the ground and rolled to a stop nearly five hundred feet away. "Sting!" Rogue and Orga yelled as they saw him hit the ground.
Laxus watched with pained eyes as Luna was controlled and she couldn't do anything about it. He looked the dragon in the eyes and he crackled with electricity. "Kill her." He said and the group looked at him in complete shock. Natsu looked at him in hatred. "What are you thinking Laxus! There is still a way to save her." Natsu yelled and Laxus glared at him with angry tear filled eyes.
"God dammit Natsu!" Laxus yelled, catching them by surprise. "None of us are strong enough to help her! Remember Acnologia?! We can't help her unless we kill her. If there were any other way you damn well know I wouldn't lay a finger on her to hurt her!" Laxus yelled and it hit Natsu like a ton of bricks.
"Alright. We will kill her, to save her." Natsu said and coated himself in fire. Luna raised her head and her eyes were grateful. Edo-Luna was laughing from her place leaning against Luna's horns. "You honestly think you can kill her? Not with all the lacrima I put in her, there's no way. "Edo-Luna laughed.
Cana stepped forward and threw her coat on the ground. "Blaze, I need you to get Luna on her back feet. Everyone else, try taking out the beast tamer. And Kill Edo-Luna." Cana said, her eyes angry and filled with tears as her fairy glitter spell began to glow. The group understood and began to try and do as told. Wendy was already crying. Gajeel was not happy with the revelation of the plan, Natsu wanted to burn everything.
The green haired woman laughed at their attempt to steel themselves for their attempt to kill their friend. "Luna…Dragon fire oblivion." She said and a large circle with one large golden ring, and three smaller inner rings appeared before Luna's large jaw. The second ring was blue, third red, center white. The rings began to spin as a light formed in Luna's mouth. Luna's head reared up and faced directly upwards. She let out a window shattering roar and hundreds of thousands of multicolored lights rained down from the sky and imploded everything they touched.
There was no sign of Laxus or his group, nor was there any sign of Sting, Rogue, or Orga. Edo-Luna laughed and Christa made Luna take flight. They were headed to the blooming capitol; they were going to decimate the king first…
Luna's eyes went wide as she felt someone, or more specifically more than one person hanging from her tail. Cana stood on her hip and aimed fairy glitter at her wing. Luna nodded slightly, as to not catch the attention of her captors. The bright flash of light blinded her and her left wing was completely obliterated. Luna went spiraling to the ground, with only a roar of pain. Cana, Sting, and Rogue, made a move to jump off of her, the nekomander making it priority to catch them.
Luna's eye went wide as the water power drained from her Sting grinned at her, a blue lacrima in his hand, as she went spiraling quickly to the ground. Laxus swiftly grabbed her by the other wing and he sent her spinning the other direction. Christa made Luna send a lightning dragon roar at him, which Luna rolled her eyes at because Laxus had eaten it, much to Christa's surprise.
Juvia made it rain and the moment Luna hit the ground her feet sank into the mud, which Gray froze as soon as all four of her feet were stuck in the mud. Natsu couldn't do much other than aim for the fire lacrima. Blaze set forth on fighting alongside Lucy with Edo-Luna. Edo-Luna dropped her posture and with one hand by her hip and the other in front of her face she grinned. Her arms swung up and around to the sides, a lightning orb around her. "Catastrophic sphere," she said and the sphere expanded in a bright light.
When the light faded, Christa and Edo-Luna stood atop Luna's head once more. Lucy was unconscious on the ground thirty feet away, her clothes tattered. Wendy was up against their guild hall, unconscious. Gajeel was worn out, having actually been hit by the Dragon fire oblivion. Natsu grinned as he hit the ground his outstretched hand holding the red lacrima within his grasp. "So this is dragon slayer magic in a lacrima. I'm guessing red equals fire, right?" Natsu asked and Luna huffed a dragon laugh.
He looked at the lacrima once more, and then ate it whole. Laxus held the golden one in between his fingers. That meant there was only one lacrima left. The wind lacrima. Christa made Luna rear up and Cana grimaced and used fairy glitter in a very precise manner. The tiny pinpoint beam shot straight through Luna's left hip and Luna's pained scream roared from the dragon and she fell over. The wind slayer lacrima was destroyed. Edo-Luna grit her teeth and lunged for Cana, but before she could land a hit, a beaten and battered Luna stood in front of her dragon like eyes filled with hate. Her scales still showed. Her left arm was still that of a dragon's, but small like a human's.
Her teeth were still sharp, she was mid revert. She was changing back, but she wasn't fully there yet. The horns still protruded from her skull and she held her right hand over her left hip a small bullet sized wound going all the way through. Edo-Luna stepped back as Luna closed in on her. Luna's leaned over onto Edo-Luna and grinned. "You tried, and failed. I told you. You can't get what you want." Luna whispered and blood trickled from Edo-Luna's lips as the look of shock and pain crossed her face. "Dragon born scum, I changed you to bring him." Edo-Luna said with a smirk as the life in her eyes faded away to leave a bronze color. Luna pulled her now human arm from her opposite's dead form, slinging blood all over her as she did so.
But before they could get settled, a spine chilling roar rippled through the air. Luna stood on weak legs. Her skin rippled as the dark dragon showed itself. "This time I will end him." Luna screamed as her form began to change. Laxus laid a hand on her shoulder and lent her his element. She smiled at him as he hit the ground to sit and watch, tired and worn out. "Don't count us out just yet. We plan on helping!" Natsu yelled and Luna grinned weakly.
Her bones shifted and everyone watched as she forced herself to change, without the lacrima. This made Laxus worry a bit, but seeing as the situation called for it, he wouldn't stop her. Luna could control herself as she rose her golden head to level out with Acnologia. "This time, my friends will not be in danger." Luna growled at him but he chuckled a dragon like laugh.
"This time, I won't miss little dragon girl." He growled back and they began hissing and swiping at each other as they walked in circles around each other. It was a standoff to see whose resolve was stronger. Luna looked like a more traditional Chinese dragon, even if one wing was gone and her tail tattered, while Acnologia looked like a whole different type of dragon, like the ones you would see in a scary children's book. His rounded head had beady little eyes and a big mouth, while Luna had large blue eyes that could pinpoint any movement and two rows of sharp teeth on both jaws.
She snapped at him and he snapped at her. Her teeth dug into his longer neck, her neck was short and hard to bite at. The humans below did all they could to avoid the large feet threatening to stomp on them at any given moment. Juvia made it rain and Gray made the rain turn to ice and become sharp, like senbon. Laxus made lightning strike Acnologia, catching him off guard. Erza equipped her purgatory armor and rushed at Acnologia's legs.
It didn't seem to help any, but Luna was grateful, it was all she needed to get him distracted. Using her horns, she dipped her head and then jerked her head up into his and sent him sliding backwards. Cana tried to get him with fairy glitter, but missed and it burned across Luna's back. Luna screamed out in pain as Cana collapsed from over exertion.
"Your humans are weak. They are pitiful." He snorted and she snapped at his neck again. He struck her with his tail and they both began to shrink. Gajeel sent a roar straight for Acnologia and it hit, but did no damage. Acnologia was human first, but he still spoke in his dragon tongue. Luna hit her dragonoid armor and they exchanged blows. He dropped down into a similar stance as she rarely used. His black hair covered his bright blue eyes, but the devilish smirk and stance meant trouble.
She followed suit. "Secret art of the dragons: Dragonfire catastrophic sphere!" they both yelled and their arms followed each other's movements. Their movements were swift and Luna's friends barely had time to find protection before the golden sphere clashed wildly with the black sphere. When the dust cleared, they were both in dragonoid armor with huge dragon like swords clashing fiercely.
They stirred up a bunch of dust then as well, creating a cover for the dragon slayers to lurk in the dust until they could attack. Gajeel took a chunk out of Acnologia's blade, while both Natsu and Laxus managed to land a hit on him. Their lightning and flame covered fists connected with his face and sent him flying.
They looked about ready to cheer, but Luna changed forms and lunged into the dust area. A large thud and a roar signaling that the two dragon born were going at it as dragons once more. Luna's wounds were wearing down on her, but she didn't relent. She managed to get him on his back, but his claws cut across her stomach and she howled in pain. She shoved him back down and relentlessly tore at his stomach with her claws.
Luna ripped his incisors from his mouth while he was still in dragon form before he could revert back to human, his stomach torn open and his mouth wide. Trophies for the pain and suffering he caused. He hit the ground clutching his stomach in pain. She walked over to him and crouched by him. He seemed to be in a lot of pain. His eyes screamed pain and she frowned.
"You deserve no sympathy, black dragon of the apocalypse. You chilled my friends to the bone, ruthlessly tried to slaughter them… It doesn't feel very good does it?" Luna asked her voice and eyes sympathetic. He looked at her, his mouth bleeding from where she'd removed his sharper teeth, and his eyes filled with hate and confusion. "Why do you pity me?" he growled, actually in human dialect this time.
"Because I could have ended up like you, alone, hurt, and angry. But, I'm not alone, I'm hurt…but I'm not angry. You could have been happy too, but for eight hundred years…you were alone. You aren't alone now…let me ease your pain." She said and leaned over him. He had jerked away at first but her lips sparked with lightning, and he relaxed a bit. Her lips touched his forehead and his pain eased away, his eyes slid shut and his heart stopped.
Luna smiled slightly as she stood and faced her friends, they cheered and then she fell back. "Thank you, everyone." She said with a smile. Laxus rushed forward and caught her. He almost cried. Almost…but her snores made him laugh. He laughed until he couldn't breathe. "It would be you… most definitely. It would be you to fall asleep after something like this…Natsu is going to rush around and say he fought two dragons. But you…you go to sleep." He laughed and ruffled her hair.
"Home dammit. I want to go home." Luna whined as he ruffled her hair. Erza had taken out Christa and now had her in restraints. Juvia stopped the rain and Gray hit the ground. "I spent more time avoiding dragon feet than I did fighting!" he yelled. "Juvia made it rain…" Juvia said, just as gloomy. Natsu walked over and helped Lucy up. "So is Luna ok?" Lucy asked then turned to look at Laxus and Luna, but turned away just as fast. "Yup they are a-ok." Lucy said and sighed. The kissing couple only parted for him to throw her over his shoulder and begin to walk away.
Lucy glanced over at Sting, who watched the couple in jealousy. His eyes showed his sadness, but it was obvious he was jealous. He turned swiftly and slung an arm around Rogue's shoulder, taking one last glance at Luna, his eyes filled with envy. "I won't let her go that easy."
