Disclaimer: First Chapter
Really busy day today, so didn't get much time to write.
Story Start!
'I thought I would be excited to meet Grandeeney, but I am feeling nothing but anger right now." Naruto thought as the group waited for the Sky Dragon to show up at the pick up location. The journey by foot to the mountain would be two days, but by air they would be able to get there in a few hours. That was what Myron had told him, and the reason they needed Grandeeney, because she would be able to get them there without ruining the element of surprise.
"You look tense." Naruto heard Yaqut say as the grown Fanalis sat next to him, and Naruto looked at the wild haired male with a smirk on his face. He had actually expected Muu or Razol to be the first people to try and talk to him at the moment. Yaqut pat Naruto on the back, before he noticed that it was anger that was flowing off of Naruto instead of a fearful tension that he had originally come to help out with. "Do you have an isue with getting help from a dragon?" Yaqut asked, and Naruto shook his head.
"Not at all, just this dragon. You know, my best friend is the dragon's child. A child that she ABANDONED! One way or another, this dragon will be answering my questions. I will see to it that I learn why she left Wendy." Naruto muttered, yet with thyeir super hearing everyone in the group heard what he had said. They couldn't help but agree with him, even though they didn't know Wendy. They each knew what it was like to not have parents, or to lose their parents. Unlike the other Fanalis that stayed in the dark zone at all times, they prefered to stay in the light.
"This Wendy sounds pretty important to you, is she your girlfriend or something?" Yaqut asked with a light teasing undertone to his voice, and Morgiana across the camp started to pay attention to the conversation. The others chuckled lightly when they noticed that she was just now focusing after hearing that part. The ground under her feet was starting to crack, and a few veins on her fist bulged slightly in frustration. Oh yeah, it was obvious that the dance last night next to the fire had affected Morgiana. To be matched in a dance, and be met move for move with a partner connected her to Naruto.
"Naw, Wendy and I are members of the same guild. Best buddies that go on missions together, she is a little weird with her blushing, but we don't really look at each other like that." Naruto said as he scratched his cheek awkwardly. In all honesty, he was never really sure what he felt about Wendy. He wasn't very good with his own emotions, but he felt really close to Wendy so that was something. Morgiana calmed down when she heard that answer, and she started to put on the female golden armor over her white dress. Just because she didn't where the armor normally, didn't mean she didn't have it.
"Hey Morgiana, you here that, he is single." Muu teased, before he was hit in the face and knocked onto his back by Morgiana when she threw a shin guard at his face. He sat back up and rubbed his nose with a grin, before tossing the armor back to her. She huffed and put it back on her shin, while turning her nose away from the tribe leader. Naruto raised an eyebrow at her behavior, before shrugging it off as something trivial. Everyone heard the loud sound of wings beating, before they all saw a white dragons land on the ground in front of them.
This is Grandeeney the Sky Dragon, a dragon that was much smaller than Titus the Earth Dragon, yet radiated a smarter power to her. The dragon was covered in a more bird-like scale structure, and her head was covered in fur. She had no horns on her flat head, and her jaw was wider than Titus' was. Like Titus though, she was muscled similar to a male would be when it came to the leaner chest of the dragon. She had human-like clawed hands similar to Titus, and her tail was longer than her main body. Her while body was white, and her eyes were a sky blue, pun intended. Her body was shaped for a more four legged stand, even though her front legs were more like arms than legs. Finally, her wings were a combination of feathers and fur. Overall she was a dragon with a distinct bird-like appearance, in contrast to the castle-like appearance Titus took.
"Grandeeney!" Naruto shouted as he jumped up on top of Grandeeney's head and started her straight in the eye with a look of anger present deep in his eyes. Grandeeney looked at Naruto with a calm relaxed aura about her in contrast to Naruto's aggressive aura of dominance. Hardely affected by his aura at all, which was impressive in it's own right.
"Ah, so we finally meet Byakko the White Tiger, killer of Titus the Earth Dragon. Or should I call you Naruto, the name Wendy knows you by?" Grandeeney asked curiously, before Naruto narrowed his eyes at the dragon with a look at showed that he wasn't affected by her jokes.
"You and I are going to have a talk about why you left Wendy, and you better answer me truthfully. What you did to Wendy was unforgivable, and if she didn't love you I would be trying to kill you right now." Naruto said with a tone that said he would truly be trying to kill Grandeeney for Wendy's sake if the girl didn't love this dragon so much. Said dragon understood this point, and closed her eyes before opening them as a sad look came over her features.
"I understand, and once Tundrama has been killed I will answer any question you have. Wendy picked a good person to become friends with. I have been watching her, and I have seen how much she cares for you Naruto Uzumaki." Grandeeney said as the other Fanalis jumped up and landed on her back. Tundrama was not a dragon to be joked with, and they needed to get to the fight before said dragon noticed their presence approaching. The element of surprise as the most important thing when fighting against a powerful dragon. A long range dragon like an ice dragon has the advantage over the Fanalis, but they had the advantage in close range with their metal crushing strength. Ice was MUCH weaker than metal, even the ice of a dragon would fall before the vast physical strength of a Fanalis.
Dragons may be immune to most magical attacks, but physical attacks worked on them. The only reason that humans didn't know about that was because they didn't have the strength needed to damage a dragons scales. Fanalis weren't human, and they had such strength to damage a dragons' body. Yeah, the damage wasn't as big as most would like, but they still did damage. Magic damage and physcial trama were two different things, and they prefered the second to the first.
"I am sorry to bother you Sky Dragon-san, but can we get going. The sooner that beast is taken care of, the sooner we can celebrate." Muu said with a small grin on his face. The level of the celebration was equal to the level of the last kill they made, so killing a dragon would mean that the celebration would be so epic that they would all wake up with hangovers. That would make things so epic if they all woke up in weird positions. Normally getting piss drunk was something that they were only allowed to do on amazing nights of celebration.
"You are a weird one as well Muu-san." Grandeeney commented, but none the less she took off into the sky with all of them on her back. Naruto on the other hand prefered to sit on her head, and her eye shifted up to him with a curious glance. Naruto noticed this, before he sighed and looked at thoise blue eyes the dragon had.
"You really hurt Wendy when you left her, so your explaination better not be half assed." Naruto said warningly, despite the fact that Grandeeney was a dragon. Naruto stood up and walked over to the group of Fanalis before sitting down with them. It would still be a few hours until they reached Tundrama, so the best way to spend that time was a bit of relaxation and bonding between teammates.
"Flying sure is freaky huh?" Razol asked as she looked off the back of the Sky Dragon, befor immediantly shivering. Right now they were above the clouds, with their Fanalis constitution letting them breath easier than a human would. Naruto still noticed that none of the others seemed to be very comfy in the sky, but then again none of the others had the ability to fly.
"Never doing this again." Myron said with a shiver herself, and she made sure to not look over the edge of the dragon they were on. The least affected of the group besides Naruto was actually Morgiana, while Muu had his eyes closed so as to not tempt himself to look. He really didn't like the thought of falling off of this dragon.
"... So what were all of your first kills?" Naruto asked after a moment of silence, and with the question taking everyone's minds off of the fact they were miles in the air they remembered the first creature they killed.
"Slave owner, killed him by using my pinky to put a hole in his head." Rohroh said fondly as he held out the pinky he used to kill his old 'master' with. Naruto sighed, and regretted asking the question before Razol chirpped up with a grin on her face.
"My first kill was a really big Wyvern! That bastard gave me this scar." Razol said as she pointed to the sticthed scar acoss her chest. She grinned lightly when she noticed that Naruto's eyes stayed there for a second before going back up to her eyes. Yaqut went next as he rubbed his nose confidently.
"My first kill was a Cerberus, the giant dog nearly took my arm with it. I ripped out it's tooth and used that to stab it in the heart. Stupid dog got lucky with how well it did." Yaqut said with a small blush when he remembered how he nearly died getting his first kill. Myron smirked at him, before she touched her thumb to her chest to draw attention to herself.
"My first kill was a S-Class Mage that had tried invading out lands. One kick to the chest was all it took to kill her." Myron said confident that nobodies kill would be more impressive than that. Muu chuckled at her bragging, before standing up and taking a heroic pose. Looking at them all with a grin, he pointed up at sky.
"Your kills may be impressive, but my first kill will put all of your to shame! My first kill was a genie, and those people are TOUGH to put down!" Muu said with a grin on his face, and everyone around him started clapping at his first kill. Naruto then stood up and looked at Muu with a grin on his face.
"Giant snake, at easily as long as a tree is tall. Thick enough to compete with Grandeeney here, and do you know how I killed it... I blew that snake punk up from the inside out! It ate me, so I made it pay!" Naruto bragged, before Razol put him in a headlock again. Naruto struggled dramatically, before Grandeeney pulled them apart with her tail. She wasn't about to have Fanalis fight on her back, not when they were up at a height that would cause her a lot of damage if they fell.
"So do we have a battle plan?" Morgiana asked as she spoke up, and everyone looked at Naruto, mostly because he was the only one that had fought a dragon and killed it. Naruto scratched the back of his head with a sheepish grin, before he looked away from them.
"I just kind of brute forced my way against the dragon last time, and my friend used her support magic to increase my strength." Naruto said, before Grandeeney commented with a playful tone to her voice. With her ebing the kind of person that liked to point fun at peoples wounds, he should have seen it coming. Wendy had told him that was part of her personality.
"Yeah, and how did Wendy take it that her magic nearly ended up killing you? You Fanalis are extremely weak when magic is rampaging through your bodies. Very few healing magics can be used on your race without you reacting badly." Grandeeney pointed out, and Naruto raised his fist and pounded it into Grandeeney's back. Of all the dragons, she had the weakest defence because of her lack of true scales. The fact she had a lot of fur instead of scales made her very weak to physical attacks, but also very resistant to magic attacks. That was why she twitched in pain for a moment, before going steady with her flying patterns again.
"It isn't Wendy's fault she almost killed me. She hadn't know about my weakness before that point, and if it meant protecting her and my friends I would have gladly died." Naruto said coldly, before he forced himself to smile again. He looked back at his race, before he saw them all looking at him with understanding or proud looks. They all understood the weakness of being weak to magic, a trade off for their amazing bodies. The only one that had never suffered from magic had been Morgiana, since she had never had a reason to use it. She hadn't even had it forced into her before.
"Spoken like a true pack member, you know what, when we celebrate out victory over the dragon I want to talk to you about something important. Until then it will have to wait." Rohroh told Naruto, while Morgiana looked at Naruto with a small blush on her face. She was taken with his words and the conviction in them. In her eyes, he was truly worthy to be a member of the Fanalis race.
"Yeah, I am totally going to get you drunk." Muu admitted, and everyone looked at the leader of their group like he was an idiot. Myron sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose in irritation over her brothers poor choice of words. Naruto just laughed a bit, before he was punched in the arm by Yaqut.
"If we are getting drunk, then we should make it a guys bonding night." Yaqut said, and the three women of the group looked at the men with twitching eyebrows. Did they really just suggest that they leave them out, because of their gender?
"You know we can drink just as much as you, so how about we turn it into a guys verse girls drinking contest?" Razol waggered with a grin on her face, while both Myron and Morgiana shook their heads in annoyance for a moment. Mostly because neither of them wanted to get into a contest that would get them drunk, when neither of them were fond of drinking. Then again, getting drunk might be fun if they really do kill the dragon.
"Count me out. Somebody has to stay sober." Rohroh said with a feral grin on his face, or at least it looked that way like always because of the chunk missing from his face. Naruto grinned at how comfortable everyone seemed with each other, before he stood up and went back to the head of the dragon to think to himself for a bit. Without Wendy, he only had his own power to use against Tundrama. Sure, he had grown stronger since he had fought against Titus, but he still didn't know how to activate his white tiger aura.
Something that he had named as the 'Byakko Mode'. He knew it had something to do with his magic, but he was honestly a little scared to try it again. He had done that compeltely on instinct, so he didn't know if he could use it at will.
'Last time it was Tiger vs Dragon, but now it looks like it will also be Fire vs Ice added onto it.' Naruto thought as he looked at his shackle weapons. These were his only true secret weapon against Tundrama, along with his dagger. Felling something press against his neck, he looked to see Morgiana touching his nec with two fingers.
"Good to know you are still alive... care to tell me what has you troubled?" Morgiana said as she sat down on top of Grandeeney's head with him. She had been concerned for a moment when she had seen Naruto's face take on a more thoughtful appearance. Even she could tell that Naruto wasn't the kind of person that thought before a fight very much. He seemed like a person that thrived in the middle of combat.
"Nothing is wrong... you know, normally I would be so thrilled for a fight like this. I can't help but feel like something is... off though. Like something is still missing." Naruto explained, and Morgiana would have tried to say something, before they all felt the air suddenly drop a few more degrees. The two of them shared a look, before they nodded. This could only mean one thing.
Tundrama was close.
Chapter End!
Naruto and Grandeeney will have a 'chat' about Wendy, and Naruto will demand the answer out of her. Now though they had more important matters, like facing a dragon that is actually at full power unlike Titus. Yes, the Ice is weaker than Earth, BUT Ice is a better long distance. It also has a good effect short distance. Next chapter will be the battle between the Fanalis + Grandeeney vs Tundrama.
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