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Chapter 28

Levy stubbed her toe. Again.

She was startting to lose it out here.

"You okay, shrimp?" Gajeel was with her, as well as Tigerlily and Alena. Alena was shaking with worry over Ash, holding onto the exceed with the sword tightly. He just let it happen, keeping them in stride with the humans.

"What's with all the metal?" Levy asked, annoyed and in pain. "I know that we're on an island for dragons, and this is obviously the metal bit of the island, but still! This isn't how metal works!"

The ground was metal, the trees were metal, the little puddle they saw earlier was liquid metal- seriously, dragons are magical and stuff but still! This shouldn't be possible.

Not to mention the metal animals that kept looking at them weirdly. Gajeel already had to beat one away.

"Don't know, but im lovin it." Gajeel chuckled, tearing another branch of metal off a tree and eating it. "Weird how we both ended up here, and no one else…"

Levy crossed her arms, suppressing a shiver in her damp clothes. "Probably because im your plus one, mate, whatever, so whatever magic the island has put us together."

Gajeel paused. "What?"

"Lucy told us." Levy said in explanation. "It was surprising, but not completely impossible. Everyone knows dragons had mates, so it makes sense you guys might as well." She didn't bring up how red most of the girls became as Lucy explained, Levy as well.

Gajeel rubbed the back of his neck, flushing slightly at the thought. He went to say something, before his eyes fixed on something behind her. "Is that..?"

Levy turned around, looking around for what Gajeel saw. In a crevase, at least fifty feet below, something was slithering in and out of holes in the cave walls, circling around a large oval shape grey rock.

Levy gasped.

"Looks like we found our egg…"

Yukino never knew Libra to do this.

She was surprised when Libra first appeared, holding clothes up to her for her to change into. She couldn't really see Libra, but after she had put on said clothes (Some black spirit world clothes that she might keep) the blinding light darkened and she could see.

That's when she first saw Sting, ringing out his own damp clothes, wearing a matching black set of clothes like hers. He grinned when he saw her, and then they started moving.

And now, she had a little friend in the form of a bird made of actual light.

"For the fourth time, no, you can't eat it." Yukino said, sighing as she did. Everything in this place was made out of a white light, their black clothes being the only dark thing around. It was the only way they could see each other if they walked off to far.

Sting groaned. "But im hungry… it's just a bird!"

Yukino scowled. "A bird that's going to help us find the egg of the dragon that's going to cause us trouble in the future or cause trouble for our friends in the future."

Sting pouted, which caused Yukino to giggle as she patted the bird, which tweeted. The bird flew up, flying away.

"Let go a perfectly good snack." He now grumbled.

Yukino watched it leave. "Eating a live animal? That's a little morbid."

Sting crossed his arms. "Nothing on this island is alive, Yuki. All these animals are just light, made for light and white dragons and their young to eat."

Yukino didn't know how he knew this, and didn't ask. "Sting…" She pointed up.

On top of the skinniest mountain known to man, a pure white egg that shined golden light balanced impossibly on the tip of it.

The bird landed on it.

Needless to say, it fell.

Kagura found the silence between them the most comforting thing about this place.

As they walked in complete darkness, Kagura holding Rouge's hand so they wouldn't be separated (and Rouge could see, of course) she was humming in her head, a small tone in par to the dark animals that surrounded them. They would've traveled through the shadows, but that makes the shadow animals bite-y.

Not to mention the fact that Rouge was also carrying a pitch black (with purple undertones) egg half the size of him. That would be a little hard to move around with.

Kagura's free hand went to her hilt as she heard the monsters again, almost missing when Rouge spoke. "Up ahead, light. We must be at the edge of the shadow area."

A shadow wolf, barely able to be made out, howled, rushing forward.

Kagura sliced through one, letting go of Rouge so he could better hold the egg before moving forward, keeping them back easily.

From the side, a wolf lunged, and she went to move when a blast of black shadow roared past her, hitting the wolf, making it poof in a cloud of shadow smoke.

Rouge stopped.

The roar didn't stop though.

The energy flew through the air, turning around before flying straight towards him.

Kagura moved forward, Rouge standing his ground, albeit slightly confused. The energy hit the egg, the egg absorbing it before letting out a blast of energy, dissipating all of the attacking wolves.

Then the egg itself moved, rustling as a crack appeared in it's shell.

"What?!" Kagura almost screamed. "I thought it was a stillborn?!"

"So did I!" Rouge's voice was still soft, but higher with panic in it. "It absorbed some of my magic- but that shouldn't of done this!"

Another large crack. "Why is it hatching so quickly?" Kagura paced, before moving to the other side of the cracking egg.

"I don't kno-"

The egg bursts open.

On a beached ship, two exceeds slumbered on, not knowing anything was happening to their twin dragons.

Wendy loves this place.

Not only was watching Carla and Happy fly around, but she was walking on clouds. She couldn't trip and fall! Happy days!

She skipped towards a mountain peak, positive that the egg would be up there. Happy and Carla had already seen it, but they couldn't carry it themselves. Wendy would have to help them.

She hopped, bounding almost 10 feet into the air before landing softly to the ground. Low gravity was great as well.

She definitely had the best story of the place, frolicking around, playing with the air birds and air elephants. Air elephants Seriously?

The only hard part of her journey was getting the egg to the middle of the island.

...Where was the middle of the island?

Lucy was sweating. Hard.

"Wow, look at me, im Natsu." She grumbled. "Im the fire guy, i love fire so much, i can just roll around in it. Oh, look at me, rolling around in it, completely dry with no sweat. Aren't I grand?"

"Luige, you know I can hear you, right?"

"Look at me, I don't sweat and I have great hearing!" Lucy was annoyed.

Natsu just laughed, hopping towards another rock, ten feet ahead. Lucy, not as magically inclined towards this, had to work a little harder, but the risk made her not mess up.

Fire water. Of course fire water, since this place just looooved fire. Not lava, fire. Fire. Water.

This doesn't make any sense!!!

Lucy's losing it.

She grabbed Natsu's hand, letting him help her forward past a particular hard jump. The rocks were like lily pads, but bigger and sturdier.

They could see the egg up ahead, nestled in a little dip in the fire water. It looked molten, the multicolor of lava, and strangely beautiful.

"This isn't to bad, right Luce?" Natsu, ever the optimist.

"When we get through this… I'm taking 12 cold showers at home." Lucy said, hoping forward. Behind her, she could see Virgo, newly summoned by herself, skipping along the rocks like it was nothing. Then, she just vanished. Probably just a way of telling Lucy that they could of used Virgo to get through this. Lucy groaned.

"When we're done-" Natsu jumped forward again, close to the end. "-I'm going to brag to Ice Prick. He'll never beat this one!"

Lucy was dehydrated, with how much she was sweating. She had been panting by now. "Lets… just make it there… first."

Natsu frowned, turning around. He hopped back, before picking Lucy up and carrying her the rest of the way.

Storm fell to the ground, jolting awake when the horse finally vanished.

Ash tried not to laugh.

They had made it to the center, a clearing of flat grass only 100 feet in diameter. It was amazing, though, to see. Like standing in the center of a pie, you could see every slice of pie. But each pie slice is so different, and there are at least 20 slices of pie.

Ash wants some pie.

In the very center, a stone pillar with a dragon carving. Besides that, though, the place was barren.

"That's weird…" Storm said after a moment, getting up on one hand.

"What?"

"Well… from what I know, dragons are really big." Storm started. "This area is not nearly big enough for a dragon. Maybe some baby ones, but not a big one."

"True." Ash said. Looking at the carving. "I think this is man made." She moved forward, running her hand along the stone. "It says something in some language."

Storm came up to look at it, placing a finger on a word. "That looks like a-"

Everything went black.