Chapter 26: Dawn
Lucy awoke to the sound of banging on the dungeon doors. "Nggh?"
The door opened and in walked Draco, covered in a different black suit of armor. It made his broad tall stature even more menacing.
"Put this on. You'll need it." He tossed her some type of scaled armor.
"When the Gods bid a war against us, this was the armor we used against Poseidon. It will protect you if anything goes wrong. Now get ready. We have to discuss the plan."
The guards handed Lucy the armour and helped her put it on. He looked at the little bear wrapped in her blanket.
"Did this little beast rip this off you in the night?" Draco snarled at her.
The little bear glared at him angrily.
"Let me go... Big brother was going to introduce me to his owner in a few days...I want to see her silver hair..." She grew teary.
The guards just kicked her to shut up, and closed to cell behind her.
Lucy looked back at the girl with a half smile and a wink. The girl's eyes widened at her as she reached out for Lucy, but the door slammed shut.
Draco looked down at her with a confident grin across his jaws.
"Good, you survived the night with the little rat... The mounts are ready. Let's go..."
He walked out to the fiery courtyard of his household. It was huge with no walls really, just huge black metal spikes that towered into the copper and black, scorched sky.
There before them was a huge fleet of black, green and red wyverns, armoured up with saddles. Some had intimidating war paint and flags on them all displaying Draco's insignia.
"We don't ride horses into battle little human... We ride war dragons..."
These were much larger than the Draconian people, much more fierce, but smaller than the dragons on earth. One of his advisors hopped onto his, and jests,
"Let's see the Lions match up to our wyverns in battle! Ha! I hear they still ride horses like the rest of the scum!" He snorts ungracefully.
Draco was confident, he dragged Lucy up onto his mount with him and positioned her uncomfortably behind him. His long thick scaled tail ran around behind her to keep her in place and his wings were folded neatly across his shoulders. He looked back at her.
"You will need to get Aquarius to let us in..." They rose off the ground and within a flash his entire fleet were airborne and soaring through the stars.
Even though Lucy was 'tainted', She still had a fear of heights, but this time she didn't react as they took off towards 'The house of the water bearer'. She could feel Draco's tail twitch on her back, and the wind stinging her face. Her blonde hair whipped backward as they soared through the stars. It wasn't beautiful to Lucy anymore. The stars she learned about when she was a young girl no longer interested her. There was only one thing on her mine. Death.
"House of Aquarius up ahead!" Shouted one of the soldiers after a brief period of annoying chanting from the ranks.
"Circle the top! and I shall land! You know what to do!"
Draco leaned forward, motioning the wyvern to land. Going down was more painful than taking off. Lucy felt as if she was going to fly off like a piece of paper in the wind. Her face was turning red from how harsh the winds were. She shut her eyes, thinking back to the many times Leo caught her while she was free falling...The way he held her and their first kis-"ooooft!" Her mind went blank as she shook her head, rage flowing back through her body.
They had landed on the sea foam colored stone ground. It would have been magical to anyone, even the most evil, but Lucy didn't even take her time to look around. Her mind was set in the mission at hand.
Draco leapt from the saddle and helped Lucy down roughly. It's more like he jerked her down like she was a rag doll.
"You can get us in correct?"
Lucy turned to him and gazed up with a confident smirk.
"Of course... I do own one of them now don't I? And I'm sure word spread about my kidnapping. Aquarius will be delighted...errr..somewhat happy...hmm..she'll be happy I'm alive."
Draco raised his brow in confusion at her and went to speak but Lucy interrupted.
"She's not very fond of me. Another reason why I'm helping..."
As they landed the door flew off the mansion with a hot jet of water. Aquarius stormed out, furiously.
"How could you get yourself caught by this scumbag?!" She gritted her teeth, "Do you know how worried-" She stopped as Draco walked up,
"Lovely to see you again too... We need to talk to your father.." Draco snarled.
"You're not coming in." She was fuming.
On their table was an open letter from the house of Leo. One of the Aquarius household quickly picked it up and burned it and joined her outside. A tall blue haired woman, older and more scary looking than Aquarius stood beside her. "Get away from here Lucy, you're in danger..."
Lucy held her head down and laughed at the blue haired woman. "Heh...I'm in danger?" Her laughs grew more hysterical and louder as she whipped her head back up and locked eyes with the woman as if she meant to pierce her soul.
"You're the ones in danger..." Aquarius inhaled sharply as stared down at Lucy with an unfriendly look.
"And what's that suppose to mean-"
"Shut it Aquarius...I demand you let us in!"
"Tch! Forget it! I refuse!"
"As your owner I demand it!" Lucy stepped towards her grit her teeth, snarling.
"What's gotten into you?! Leo dump you or something?!"
"Don't speak that name in front of me. He's nothing but-"
The ground began to shake. Lucy turned to Draco, to confirm her suspicions…
As Loke woke up, his eyes were stinging.
"I wonder if the humans ever managed to settle a score and win a war in one day like I plan too... " He muttered with a frown as he walked over to his curtains, drew them back and walked out on to the balcony where he stood with Lucy before. He gazed out at the horizon, the sun hadn't even begun to rise yet in this part of the universe.
"...No matter where you are Lucy, no matter the consequences I am going to find you, bring you home to safety and get out out of the hands of Draco. I am going to bring him down with my bare hands if I have too..." He gripped the rails tightly in anger.
He was losing his cool, and he didn't like it. It felt similar to when he used his grand fathers ring before, to fight Natsu. But that was different to the new one. Loke was told that he took that form to seem less scary to humans so that he may serve them one day, slowly the Leo's got less and less frightening and more charming each generation at a time. Loke loved humans, Loke loved Lucy more than anyone in the universe and the thought of that disgusting old dragon taking her as a prisoner made him sick.
The lion swiftly got changed and headed to the courtyard where others waited, leaders from other houses waited with him in this dark morning. "Fetch the mounts... We'll ride to the water bearers house..."
Back in the house of Pisces, the household were scurrying around, gathering armour. "We have to help! We must go to the house of Leo and join their arms.. Yukino.. It would be safer if we took you home. Being here will only drain your energy and make you sick..." The mother said to her cautiously.
Leo and his friends had left the courtyard. Sagittarius had provided Great War horses for a lot of his side, but the Leo's had something else up their sleeves. They road far up the front with light Armour and valiant red and gold trimmed cloaks. Loke hated wars, despite being trained his entire life for combat.
"Take formation..." His commander blew a horn which roared through the air. "We're almost there...Be aware of the Wyverns... Cloak us Leonis..." Loke asked his brother.
In response, Leonis shone white light over them which made it hard to see the due to the shimmer. It seemed as if the sun was rising on the horizon. Loke had planned for just the right timing.
The ground rumbled at their approach. The Leo's had a lot of allies. The zodiacs were on his side. The 12 golden houses were the strongest in the celestial world but that alone was a tough fight against the fabled world eater dragon (or so the legends suggest). He needed more than numbers to take him down. The rest of the army, the zodiacs could deal with, but Draco himself... That proved to be a problem. Draco had done a similar thing to Leo and sought after his ancestors too. This made him a terrifying opponent.
They had approached, and the sight that met Draco's eyes shocked him. The lions were not riding horses…
He looked as if he'd just seen a ghost. Lucy looked to where his eyes trailed off to. In the distance, was Leo riding...a lion?!
The lions were the size of horses, they were fully trained war Lions, bred and made for battle under the Leo sigil. It was a well kept secret. The Lions lead the army towards Aquarius's home.
The others followed behind, charging towards them. Without any hesitation Lucy darted over to Draco and ripped the sword from his side and hopped back onto the wyvern like it was nothing.
"Draco! Get to the house of the snake and get them ready. I can deal with Leo. He trusts me."
She snapped the reigns and was quickly airborne again. Aquarius was dumbfounded by her actions, unable to speak, just watch.
Lucy shot towards the direction Leo was coming from. The sword drawn at her side. You could sense the pure hate flowing out of her. Her eyes blackened and vision hazed.
"LEO!" She leaned forward, rocketing straight towards him. "Transform..." Her armor glowed black as her attired changed into a pair of black leather shorts with a matching top, and a red cape that had the dragons symbol embedded on it. Her boots had black scales with a blood red trim. A trait of Draco's sword. She had heard him speak about it throughout the night.
Loke locked eyes onto Lucy and approached. "Lucy! " He paused and came to a sudden stop as her armour changed.
"...Why are you in World eater armour…?" He stared at her in horror as she glared back and hopped onto the Wyvern.
"Lucy...What are you doing...?" He looked back at Aquarius who had the same horrified look on her face. Draco laughed hard, and hopped onto another.
"You want a battle little lion, deal with your human first..." He cracked the reins and they disappeared out of sight, heading towards the house of the snake. The other 10 zodiacs remaining had caught up to Leo and were all on horseback. These were very tall horses with light battle armour. Pisces and her son strode up cautiously. Leo's lion growled at the Wyvern Lucy was on, who hissed back at her.
Loke stroked his head and calmed him. "Easy boy... You'll get your chance..." Loke hopped off. He was hardly wearing any armour, just a thin layer on chain mail, with a majestic sword to his side. He had a helmet to his side which he had removed to get a better view. Loke approached Lucy cautiously.
"We came to save you from Draco... All of us... What's with that look on your face?" He tilted his head. He really didn't have a clue what he did to piss her off.
Behind Leo were the leaders of each house who stood to back up Loke. But behind them was a great army, with many different flags flying on spears. It was quite intimidating.
"Are you upset I didn't tell you I was supposed to take over the king's role? Because really, it's very unlikely to happen... And I don't want too.. I thought you'd understand..." His ginger hair flowed in the wind as he cocked his head up to her. Aquarius's house opened and more soldiers poured out, ready and waiting behind Lucy's water bearer spirit.
Lucy hopped off the wyvern, irritated by his words and pointed her sword out to Leo fiercely. "You bastard!" She yelled,
"You used me!"
She took a step forward causing Loke to take a step back. His mount growled heavily at Lucy, yet she didn't budge.
"You took away the innocence of those human girls...AND YOU TOOK IT AWAY FROM ME!" Lucy roared.
Her grip tightened around the end of the sword as she charged at Leo, about to strike him, but luckily he managed to block her with his own blade in a frantic panic. Their blades clashed loudly, causing Leo to take another wary step eyes met. His was filled with passion, yet hers was filled with hate, regret, brokenness.
"I trusted you Leo...Draco was right...Lions truly are manipulative.. AND A TRUE TYRANT TO WOMEN AND GIRLS! I HEREBY RELEASE OUR CONTRACT LEO! I DON'T WANT YOU ANYMORE!" Her nostrils flared as she ripped her Leo key from her side, and swiftly cast it aside into the deep black darkness of oblivion.
"And I will kill you Leo...even if it kills me..."