Hey guys. This is the first chapter in three weeks that made me quite happy again. Although I must admit that it all could have been worse. I'm looking forward to the Dragon Battle things. I'm going to admit that Cobra won't be in here but I"m not at that point yet.
So let me tell you that this chapter holds spoilers to the Tartarus arc! It is about the Dragons and Acnologia. It tells you were the Dragons are. If you want to know: please go ahead, if you don't I totally understand.

SPOILERS AHEAD OF THE TARTARUS ARC!

Chapter 10: Magic Books and Dragons

It took us three quart of the day to arrive at the Magic Library. Also because we had to take stops. Asuka couldn't walk that much and Alzack was tired easily when he had to carry his baby girl around. It made me extra nervous. When we finally arrived in the Library I took a list out of my bag. "I need books about Dragons, Dragon Slayers, Lacrima, Acnologia, The Dragon King Festival, Zeref and Magic." Bisca stayed on the first floor with Asuka, who had fallen asleep. She would look for a book about Acnologia. Alzack and I climed to the fourth floor to find books about Dragons, Dragon Slayers and the Dragon King. We left the books there and continued to the twelfth and twenty-sixth floor to find the other books that I mentioned. With a huge stack we climbed down. I kept going, I had to find everything that I thought about.
There wasn't much information about Acnologia, the most I knew thanks to Laxus and the others, whom told me what happened. They were the only ones that survived an attack from that beast.

I kept working, even when it was in the middle of the night. Bisca, Alzack and Asuka were sleeping but I couldn't put it down. I had to go back to the Grand Magic Games as soon as possible. When I was done with the book of Zeref, which was the last one on my list, I had to hurry back up those stairs to find the book about Zeref's Demons. I only knew about a few. Like Deliora. The story was told to me by Happy. So I didn't know what he exaggerated. This book about the demons was very small, not much was known. It was actually only a bunch of names.
I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down the things I knew.
[x] Sting and Rogue gave off a Dragon Essence
This could be possible because they had killed their Dragons. Which Sting still didn't explain to me.

[x] Natsu and Wendy had given off the same Dragon Essence
However this was only when they used great power. However during the tag-battle in the Arena, I've seen Natsu his power but that wasn't even the greatest power I've seen from him. Why haven't I felt it before?

[x]Acnologia had turned into a Dragon thanks to the Dragon Slayer Magic. That's what stood in the book about Acnologia but also in the Dragon King Festival one. It was mentioned in the Dragon Slayers book and in the book about Magic. He wasn't mentioned in the book about Zeref or in the Demons of Zeref.

[x] Jellal had felt Zeref close by during the Grand Magic Games.

This was not much. I sighed heavily and this made my journey to here not much better. These were the things I already knew. Why weren't we changed into a Dragon? Because we hadn't killed Dragons like Acnologia? Sting and Rogue did but they possessed a lacrima, did the Dragon King have that too? What did I know about Zeref? Only his essence I have felt, I have seen him too though, not here of course. He had destroyed almost the whole Island, he must have called on the Dragon. Could he do that? I looked at the book: Demons of Zeref.
There wasn't much information about the last demon. The strongest called E.N.D. He was four hundred years old and he had fought Igneel. Nothing came out of this fight, no one has seen the Demon ever since though. Although Igneel had said that he had not killed the demon. Aaaah this was getting confusing!

I looked at Bisca, I wish I had nothing to worry about like her. Although she had a troubling start before she joined Fairy Tail, same goes for Alzack. I sighed at least they had each other and they could leave the past behind. I couldn't. I had to find the Dragons. I wish I could talk to Igneel, why had he raised Natsu? A Fire mage, just like E.N.D. Maybe that was Igneel's plan. To make a strong young bloke fight the Demon when he came back. But how could he left Natsu when he was so young, did that meant that Natsu his training was over? That would be weird because why did the other dragons leave. Especially for Wendy, she was much younger. Like Sting and Rogue, whom.. I counted.. were born in the same year.

I continued with everything because I couldn't give up right now. I had to find the answer. I gasped when I read the pages of Metalicana, Grandine, Cordelia and Igneel again. They literally disappeared. They left the spot where they always have been.
I sank down on the chair, not realising that I had stood up. I stared at the page of Cordelia. Those were my words. I told someone that my foster parent had left. There was no trace of her. I couldn't feel her through the earth. I couldn't see anything like footsteps, no tree was scratched because of her flying. She was simply gone, nowhere to be found. Like she was gone into the earth..
I stared at the last sentence. Gone into the earth.. but I must have felt that. I was never good at tracing or body links until that day. Because I scanned and scanned and scanned the whole surface of Fiore. I placed my elbows on the small desk and let my head sank into my hands. I started to shake and I bit my lip not to cry. I had found her, I had found Cordelia. I wasn't 100% sure, I must check on Gajeel if he possessed the Essence of Metalicana as soon as he used some great power. I must try it, Dragon Force for example. I must feel it. Inside me something was stirring, I fell of the chair and pushed my hands against my heart. I could feel it, a sweet warm glow coming from inside me. A humming like Cordelia did when she was happy.
I felt happy too, but I know it wasn't me humming. I stared out of the window. The sunrise was already setting in. Was I getting insane because of the lack of sleep? I didn't want to know it for sure. I had to wait for Bisca to wake up, unless I was dreaming. This was the most confusing day of my life, okay maybe that was my arrival in Edolas but this was a close second or maybe even first.
The sunrise seems to disappear before my eyes and I rubbed my eyes and tried to look at it again and again. My body was feeling heavy so I couldn't get up. What was going on? The whole world became black: "Bisca!"

I closed my eyes for a few seconds and opened them, I kept repeating this ritual for a few times but everything was still black. No, not true there was a small green star a few feet away. I stood up and walked that way, my body was still heavy but at least not that bad anymore. Where were Bisca, Alzack and Asuka? Slowly I got used to this heavy body, it was not something I wasn't used to, I remember the heaviness and lack of sleep during Tenrou and the days after that. I could walk in a quicker pace and slowly start running. "Who is there? Show yourself!" I yelled, nothing happened. "I'm a mage of Fairy Tail. I will kick your ass!" I heard someone chuckling although it didn't sound human. "Would you?" A big mouth full of sharp teeth showed up in front of me, a Dragon snout. The scales were emerald green and it looked like the dragon was smiling. My heart fluttered and I couldn't keep myself from crying. Man how many times have I already cried this week?
"Don't cry my little one, unless it is out of happiness.", "It is, it is." I tried to wipe them away but how could I after fourteen years of secretly hoping, stood before me: The Earth Dragon Cordelia. "How can you be here? Out of nowhere in the library?" She laughed, which is a weird sound if you have never heard it. I knew it, it sounded as normal as I remembered to me that is. "I'm not in the library." I placed my hand on my heart and she nodded. "I'm so glad you found out. Igneel didn't want us to tell you. But you found out by yourself."
I felt an anger surge going on inside me. "So you were inside me, all the time but you didn't tell because of Igneel? I never meet that guy so I don't care. Why were you inside me anyway. Isn't that weird, I was only ten! How could you do this?" She immediately stopped humming and smiling all the way. She turned her face so she could stare at me with one eye. "What have you learned about Acnologia?", "That he turned into a Dragon." I still didn't get the fact what this had to do with me, I wanted to yell at her that I didn't plan on killing dragons. But she was faster in answering, besides her stare was quite scary. "We, the Dragons, hid in the bodies of our children to prevent them from turning into a Dragon. We were making an anti-body for you. I cannot leave you yet because it is still not save."
I was in shock, trembling and my heart was beating rapidly. Anti-bodies? To protect us? "You could have left a note." I said a bit pissed off, I didn't feel like looking at her anymore but I could feel her stare. "I don't feel like talking to you now." Which was so weird, I thought that I would be happier to see her after fourteen years but I wasn't. Besides I felt betrayed, she was inside me all this time. Apart from that it meant that it was the same for the others. "Sting and Rogue too?" She nodded and I turned my back to her. However everything was still black, how would I get back?

I fell to my knees and became very nauseous, what was going on? I repeated the ritual of closing my eyes and opening them again. Cordelia became blurry and when I looked she was merged with another green person. Bisca looked at me with a tiny smile and a worried face. "Luka?" She asked but I couldn't really answer. How did she merge with Cordelia? Was she like the human form of my Dragon? The same as Porlyusica-san. No way, when I opened my eyes for the next time, I lunged forward. Why did I feel so horrible? I looked up at Bisca whom held my upperarm. "Stop!" She yelled and then I realised we were in a carriage. We immediately stopped moving and my stomach calmed down. "What is going on?" I stepped out to get some fresh air. "Going on?" Asuka said and I tried to smile at her. "We would like to know too," Alzack said and he and Bisca looked worried at me. "I found out where Cordelia is." Was all I wanted to say about it now and Bisca seemed to get the hint. "You have been asleep for almost half the day. We didn't know at first if we should move you. You looked quite sick." I raised my eyebrow, if I looked quite sick why put me in a carriage. "In the end we decided to go back to Crocus since you wanted to be there." Bisca finished but Alzack added that it took him quite some time to find a carriage. "We have to hurry, I have to tell the others what I-" It was like someone knocked me on the inside. "okay, okay, I won't tell yet." Cordelia stopped stirring but Bisca and Alzack looked at me confused, "Sorry, I can't tell." I stepped into the carriage before they could say anything else. I pulled Asuka on my lap. "Did you have a nice trip?" I asked her, because I wanted to distract me from talking to the other two. Asuka told me about her part of the story. Soon after that the carriage started again and I tried to keep breathing in through my nose and out through my mouth, so I kept control over my motion-sickness. I didn't need to act like Natsu, who was really exaggerating. I tried to listen to Asuka, while a thousand thoughts went through me. I had found the Dragons but I couldn't tell anyone. Not even the other Slayers, who were looking for them. Not Sting and Rogue about the good news. I could do nothing with the new information that I had. I wondered what would happen if I told Natsu, what could Cordelia do? She was inside me!

I wondered what was happening at the games, was it already over? Did Sting win? Did we win? Who was fighting and what about Lucy? Did Jellal and the others find Zeref? What was going on?
The carriage stopped but when I looked outside we weren't even close to Crocus. I stepped out at first and corrected myself, we were at the verge of Crocus and it looked horrible. The sun was already down but I could see enough, there was a big full moon that reflected enough light to see by. I heard people scream. I stamped my foot on the ground to make a quick scan. The whole city seemed to be in panic, I could feel a lot of magic going on. Dragons?!
I quickly stopped the body link and looked at Bisca and Alzack, "They are in danger. There are Dragons down there." Alzack pointed up. "Not only down." He grabbed Asuka and I followed him and Bisca down to the city centre. I could tell them which way to go, to go to the other Fairy Tail members. They were split up, some were at the Light Palace Mercurius and some were alone, I couldn't sense all my friends, like Natsu. I found the biggest group at one of the outskirts and we headed that way. I felt Laxus there. I quickly continued my scan although it was a bit difficult because of the running, but I need to find Sting too and Erza, Ultear, Lucy, Wendy, Hibiki, I went on and on. "Don't tire yourself out to much." I nodded and quickly stopped to find the others. I ran past Bisca and Alzack, so I was in front and hurried to my friends. "Hey!" I yelled as soon as I saw them. I saw Laxus, Lisanna, Evergreen and a lot of others. They all stopped and looked at the four of us coming. Where was Juvia? Levy? I saw them soon after that.
I ran to Laxus and I wished I could just casually ask how the finale of the Grand Magic Games was but there was no time. A huge fire dragon showed up in front of us. "Attack!" Master yelled. His flames were powerful but I stood my ground for now.