The adventures of Elf Jellal
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14: The joyful creature and Nirvana.
They had spent two days climbing the tree, it was really unfortunate for them since Skylark couldn't teleport them, up to the top because they had never been there before much to exceed annoyance.
They all had to listen to the Exceed, complain about waiting for 'slow pokes' to finally reach the top.
Well excuse them for not having the ability to fly and the lazy Exceed refused to help them speed up the process by carrying them all, one by one to the top.
Anyway by the time, he and his friends got up there, he had leveled up quite a bit however the rate was much slower than it was last time. Ryo thought it was because the higher the level he got the more difficult it got to earn 'Life experience'.
"Whoa, guys check this out!" Skylark shouted, in his humanoid form.
They gave their arms the final push to lift their entire body weight up only to come face to face to what looked like a farm.
The teeth of the Goblin general were now proudly on Ryo neck with the stone, after all the Goblin general was his first important kill and that made him want to keep it as a momentum, after of course, he found a way to get rid of the smell and stop it from rotting away.
"What is this?" Sayari asked, the first to attempt to look around, it was clearly a farm but what it was actually growing looked very mysterious.
" I think this is the fruit that Draco wants us to get," Stella said, pulling whatever was buried in the ground up to reveal a fruit like none other.
The fruit was black however just by looking into it, was like you were seeing outer space itself.
" What a weird looking fruit. Do you think this is editable to us?" Ryo asked, pulling one out of the ground.
" Quite blabbing Nickle and grab as many as we can before the 'owner' gets here and decides that were tonight's dinner" Skylark said and they all shuddered at the reminder of the band of Goblins.
" Hey, I reckon once Ryo becomes a dragon slayer, he could eat these without any drawbacks" Logan said, also plucking a couple out and Ryo was suddenly reminded that all the dragon slayers seemed to eat their own element so why not him too?
"WHO'S, THERE!? YOU BETTER NOT BE THAT DRAGON AGAIN!" A voice boomed and they all redoubled their efforts to grab as much as they could then jump off the tree.
They would be lucky to walk away with a few scratches at least.
Then footsteps were heard and they couldn't resist turning around to see what monster they were going to be facing next.
They had full expect to face a monster that seemed to crawl out of the depths of hell itself.
This was far from the truth.
Instead, they were met with a pint-sized pipsqueak with gray skin, what looked like a white beard, big eyes and red pants like stockings.
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?
The thing gave them a smile and hummed a tune when it saw them.
"How-URK!" That was the sound it made when Ryo dropping his Iron Club and crushed the creature.
Compassion-300
"Let's grab the fruit and leave," Logan said, not caring that they just killed a small adorable creature in cold blood.
"Hey, that wasn't very nice," An all too cheery voice said, with mild annoyance.
They turned around.
The creature was fine.
Logan throw, one of his knives at it.
"Okay, it must be dead now," Skylark said, turning into his humanoid form and pulling one of the special fruits from its safe hole, the rest want to join him.
"Can you stop trying to kill me!?" The creature yelled, pulling out the knives and the wounds healed automatically.
Ryo, Logan, Stella, Sayari and Skylark all had one thought.
This thing needs to die, properly.
" Hey, guys, let's try tearing this thing apart," Ryo said turning the rest to the rest of the group.
"I'll take it legs!" Sayari said, suddenly calling on her power and the thing suddenly found its legs encased in ice.
"I'll take the right arm!" Logan said, pinning the right arm with his knives.
"I'll take his left" Stella said, tree bark suddenly encased the creature right arm.
" Skylark, let's try to out our moves on it. This thing would make a great practice dummy" Ryo said and the Exceed smirked evilly while the creature paled.
"N-now hold on. Can't we discuss this like normal people?" The creature tried to reason, the next thing it know a lightening encased Fist slammed into its stomach.
"LIGHTENING FIST!"
A shockwave erupted and smoke appeared, when it did finally calm down, it revealed half of the creature blown to bits.
"Whoa!" Skylark said, looking at his fists, he was really starting to like the new ability he gained.
" Hey, that hurt!" a cheerful voice said and they all looked to see the creature whole and well.
" What is this?" Logan asked he had never seen a creature regenerate that fast.
"Guys, cover your ears!" Ryo said.
"What are you-" Sayari was cut off.
" SONIC SCREECH!" without warning, they had just made it in time, to cover their eyes while the creature had absolutely no idea what was going on and got a full blast of it.
It's entire body exploded and scattered all over the place.
" You could have at least gave us time to prepare" Skylark yelled, his ears ringing from the assault despite having covered them.
"Guys, you might want to see this" Stella said and they all looked downwards to find the creatures body parts being somehow drawn to one another like a magnet and become whole once again.
" Are you done, attacking me yet?" The creature said.
Why won't you die!? They all thought, with annoyance.
" It's been a while since I've had visitors. Please, come in and I'll make you something" The creature smiled and they exchanged looks before shrugging, they had nothing better to do and they still had to find a way to kill the creature.
# Inside the hut#
" Please come in" The creature said and they all found the hut very cramped and barely containing all of them inside.
They looked around to find, pictures on walls and a stylized mini kitchen.
"Would you guys like something to eat? Perhaps some fish guts or elephants tongue?" The creature asked and Stella turned slightly pale while the other were shocked that someone would offer them something like that.
" No thank you" Ryo said, politely declining while the creature gave a look of disappointment while putting back the giant tongue it had managed to get out of one of its cupboards.
" Sorry if the place looks a little messy. I wasn't expecting visitors" The creatures said, in the annoying upbeat voice of his and they were starting to see why Draco wanted this thing dead so badly. " Did that Dragon send you?" it asked, surprising them.
"How did you know?" Sayari asked, giving the creature an assessing look.
"Please, that beast was going to try this sooner or later" The creature answered.
" So you know why were here then." Ryo said, "Then you should know that were after the fruit"
"Yes the fruit." The creature mused. "Did you know that it has special properties that could help increase the Magic core itself?" surprising all of them. "However anyone who eats the fruit, ends up dead or crazy from having their core tempered with. I have no idea, how that dragon can eat it"
" Well mister sir" Stella said, not sure what to call the creature. " We need to bring some back with us"
There was a long outstretched silence between all of them.
"Okay" The creature said finally but they didn't start celebrating yet. "However, you must do something for me" it said and they all gave it a confused look.
"Follow me"
# 20 minutes later#
"Be careful this is an acid lake, the only way to get through it is by a special kind of boat." They all turned to the only boat docked to find it had a massive whole in it."As you can see, it's seen better days"
" No problem, old man. We can fix it up, right guys?" Logan said.
"What do mean we? None of our magic will work with Acid as our opponent" Sayari said, bursting Logan bubble.
But the Red flamed haired kid wasn't done yet and had a comeback which he said, smugly. " Don't we have a certain person who could shape shift it an air balloon and get us across?"
He's right! They all turned to Skylark who suddenly found the ground very interesting. "What?" he asked, forging confusion.
" Skylark, please do this" Sayari pleaded and Ryo saw something flash in the exceed eyes.
Ryo smirked, having just found out, Skylark weakness were girls.
" Fine" Skylark grumbled and changed forms to that of a leopard skinned air balloon.
"Amazing" the creature let out.
They all boarded the 'Skylark air balloon Express', ignoring the Exceed shouts before he was forced to fly up and be controlled by chubby hands.
" Which direction, old man?" Logan asked while the other sat comfortably.
" Um just keep going, straight and you should see a small rock" The creature said.
"Seriously? A rock can survive out here. Amazing" It was now Stella time to say it, while she snuggled close to Ryo who was trying to distance himself.
"Hey old man, I think I see it. I'm going to land" Skylark yelled and a moment later they found their air balloon gone, dropping them on solid rock.
"Which way old man?" Skylark asked.
"There it is!" The creature exclaimed, happily grabbing his medallion thing.
"Um, guys is it me or am I getting shorter?" Logan asked.
"You're not getting shorter. Were sinking!" Sayari said, thinking the medal was the only thing holding this piece of land up.
"Skylark?" Ryo asked, hoping the exceed would just do it.
"Yeah, hold on" Skylark morphed and they all rushed into the air balloon, just in time to see the whole rock be devoured by the acidic lake.
"Yes! With this, I can finally go home!" The creature exclaimed, kissing the medallion and couldn't wait to see it's true home.
They all sat in comfortable silence, thinking that their mission was complete, when something occurred to them.
The creature still had to die.
"Below, is an acidic lake, right?" Skylark said, suddenly smirking knowing that it wouldn't be long before the rest catch up to what he was thinking.
They all turned to the creature.
"What? Why are you all looking at me like that?" The creature asked with unease.
Suddenly the creature found itself lifted off its feet and thrown into the sea.
They all watched as the creature struggled until it's last breath before becoming part of the lake.
" Well, we got the fruits! Let's make Ryo into a dragon slayer!" Logan yelled, happily and they all exchanged smiles while Ryo and Skylark exchanged looks knowing they were finally going down the path to becoming truly strong.
# several days later#
" Draco, wake up" Stella said, while she and the rest poked the sleeping dragon which make Draco growl in annoyance.
" Considering your poking me, right now. Can I assume that happy go lucky creature is dead? and you got my fruit?" Draco asked, lazily and was quickly presented with the fruit that he loved more than anything in the world.
Draco eyes lit up and they all watched in shock seeing the lazy dragon dig in and suck the very life out of it like it was a balloon full of water.
"Oh, yeah, baby. That's the stuff!" Draco yelled, fully enjoying the fruit goodness.
Someone coughed and he was suddenly reminded he wasn't along and four snot nosed brats and one Exceed was currently watching him in amusement.
He hid his embarrassment well underneath a mask. "Well since the brat has completed all the challenges. I guess a promise is a promise. I will hold my part of the deal" he said, obviously not liking the idea but his tone of voice were ignored by the group who were busy celebrating and giving each other high fives.
" Oh, right! Time to get strong!" Skylark said, in obvious excitement.
"Hold it" Ryo said before eyeing the dragon sceptically. "You will teach me how to avoid being motion sick like what Sayari dragon taught her, right?"
Draco kissed his teeth, he had been hoping to just teach the kid some stuff and leave him to suffer the terror of motion sickness like most of the other dragon slayers. " You got me there brat. I will teach you but you must be willing to do anything I tell you to do, no questions asked" in a strangely serious tone.
" No problem!" Both Ryo and Skylark said with determination blazing in their eyes.
Draco smirked.
"I like that look in both of your eyes. Get ready to go through hell"
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It's been five years since that day.
As expected all his friends had evolved while he was stuck in body of a child that was barely classed as a child.
Him and Skylark had improved leaps and bound with Draco until the day when they were knocked unconscious by the lazy dragon and found in the market square with a note and whistle with no sign of the dragon in sight.
It turned out, Draco finally got off his lazy bum and want to join the other dragons when he should have done years ago but to stop them from ranting about it, Draco had given them a flute that had a special connection to the spiritual world and they can call any dragon they desire with it.
He know many dragon slayers would love to get their hands on the flute if only to see their adopted parents again.
However he had stopped caring about that the dragon slayers after he was shown the 'Passage Of Time' and became it's guardian, a position which Draco was more than happy to dump on him.
He wondered what effect this would have in the future when Lucy goes back in time? Will she seek him out so that he could open the portal to the past?
Only time will tell.
He was know a full, fledged dragon slayer without the motion sickness with an Exceed like no other to accompany him by his side.
Over the years, the kingdom was shocked when his father announced that Rei was going to be the next in line to the throne and probably because of the high expectations and the pressure that came with protecting everything he cared about.
Rei had evolved.
Something that shocked many to no end and his brother no longer looked around similar age than him in fact, he looked to be in his early adulthood, mostly likely from all the energy that had been bottled up for so many years so his brother skipped preteen and teenager.
He hadn't never seen his brother look so happy and his parents celebrated like it was raining Exceed eggs.
He wore dark bloody red knee length shorts with a jet black shirt over a bloody red jacket with bits of black on the collar bone and cuffs with black laces boots while Skylark fur coat was gone in its place were bandages on his chest and arms which he had dubbed as 'cool' especially in his almost human state which still had the tail but he could always cover it up and pass as a regular human who bore a striking resemblance to a child version of a certain Lightening Dragon slayer no less.
But Ryo wasn't going to give him a heads up on that, he wanted to see Laxus face while the exceed parades in his humanoid form.
"There you are!" Logan shouted, having been searching for what felt like hour was really twenty minutes."What are you doing, locked up in here?" having found Ryo sat on the floor surrounded by hundreds of books while Skylark had made a make shift bed out of a couple of them.
" Five more minutes" came mumbling out of his mouth, unfortunately it was not meant to be and he found himself lifted up and slung over Logan shoulder who could pass as a seventeen year old thanks to having evolved. Instead of Logan short fiery hair it had grown quite a bit, bangs in the front while the back was tied back, he wore baggy knee length blue pants with matching top and a flock coat with a blade surrounded by all the elements on its back, gone was the baby fat in its place was tall lean muscle and a slim face, although his pointy ears had grown quite a bit in length.
" Hey, what about Skylark?" He asked, glaring at the Exceed who was sleeping so peaceful.
"Leave him" Logan said, in a sing song voice. "Let's go on an adventure!" and Ryo thought, if Natsu and Logan meet, they would be best friends instantly.
He sighed and said, "Fine but at least put me down. I promise I won't make a break for it"
Logan stopped in his tracked and exactly considers it before smiling once more and saying. "Nope!"
Knowing there was no way to change his mind, he opened the book he managed to grab and continue reading it, he found himself absolutely fascinated by the theory behind how Evolution works and hoped that one day he would crack it and evolve like everyone else.
"Where here!" Logan beamed and he looked around to find they were in the grand hall, it was just as the name implied it was huge and on the side, an inn for travelling Elves. Like just about everything here, it was made out of trees and tree bark. There were two super long tables side by side with each other in the middle of the room where Elves were coming in and out and striking up a conversation.
"Logan, Ryo! Over here!" Sayari shouted, she too had gone through another evolution and the results had some of the male Elves drooling over her while the female looked at the males in disgust while shooting glares at the Ice and water Dragon slayer.
Logan started to walk over and Ryo tuned out the not so quiet whispers of passing Elves, who were talking about his brother and how he was still so small.
He wondered if this was what life was like with Rei, having been small for so many years.
No wonder, his Nii-san looked so happy.
"Sup Sayari! So Stella not here yet?" Logan asked, taking a seat opposite her while Ryo sat next to him, in his own little world.
He didn't see Logan Sayari exchanged worried looks, lately he had become obsessed with evolving, it seemed like Rei was the one that kept him from obsessing about his body but now that Rei was out of the picture and everyone was expecting him to follow in his brother footsteps.
It was taking a toll on him.
Luckily, Stella came to the rescue.
"Hey I guess what I just heard!" Stella said, bring interesting news, she too had evolved and could pass as a sixteen year old, who had evolved in all the rights parts that counts so nobody could deny, she was no longer a child anymore "All the best guilds in Fiora are doing something interesting!"
"Really!?" Logan said, it was rear for them to form an allegiance with each other so whatever could make them help each other out must be big.
"Have you, guys ever heard of something called, Nirvana?"
Nobody saw how Ryo paled when Stella mentioned Nirvana.
And scene!
Finally moving onto the original Fairy Tail story line! With this comes a new arc! Just what will happen next!?