Disclaimers: I do not own Fairy Tail, Dungeons & Dragons, or Pathfinder.

A/N: So I'm dealing with some issues right now but I was able to get off enough for a preview along with a short preview for Elemental Spirit Mage.

Preview

Fire and Ash

Fonaar was chowing down on the remains of one of the wild boars he killed when the wind shifted and he caught the whiff of a foreign scent. He lifts his head up, using his long tongue to lick all of the blood from around his face as he sniffs the air, trying to pinpoint the new scent. Whoever it belongs to must have recently arrived in the area.

From what he could go off of, the scent smell akin to a volcano, a mixture of fire and sulfur.

The dragon took one long sniff and his eyes widen in shock. He could smell both Romeo's and the new arrival's scent and they had nearly the same potency, indicating that they were at least in the same area of each other. He lets off a feral growl, knowing that the only reason he was eating so far away from Romeo was that the boy apparently couldn't stomach his eating habits but now it seems that that was a mistake.

But there would be time to dwell upon that later, he had to move. Quickly.

"And there's mommy and daddy. Juliet and Rosalina", Romeo said as he drew stick figures of his family in the dirt while he waiting for the dragon to finish eating, "Me and….Fonaar?", he slowly said as he looks closer at the drawing that was supposed to resemble his friend.

"Would mommy and daddy let me keep him? He is kind of big", he tells himself.

The boy stares at the ground for a little awhile, taking in the drawing while wondering just how he was going to convince his parents to let him keep the dragon because even at his young age he knew that Fonaar wasn't going to just go away so easily.

"Be alert, young Wild Master. Danger is near.", he suddenly heard a voice call out to him.

Romeo snaps his head and began looking all around. He swore he just heard the same voice he heard at the temple and when the giant spider attack. But where was it coming from?

"Fonaar? Fonaar?", he began calling out, hoping that the dragon was nearby.

As if on cue Romeo turns and spots the familiar figure of the ash-coated dragon bounding toward him in a hurry. His eyes were narrow, his claws were extended out and his teeth were bared.

"Fonaar?", Romeo says right before the dragon leapt into the air. The boy watches as he soars over him and as he follows his movement he caught sight of something large and red just out of his direct line of sight.

Turning his full attention to whatever it was, he is shocked to see that it was another dragon, and not even a second later witnesses Fonaar crash into it with a roar that nearly shattered his eardrums.

Back at Magnolia

Enno stood frozen in surprise while looking out the window in front of the kitchen sink with a thousand-yard stare, the plate that she was washing slipping out of her hand and landed back on top of the others she had yet to clean.

For a moment in time, she wonders if she heard correctly what her oldest child just said to her. A quick glance over her shoulder confirmed that her husband couldn't believe what he just heard either as he pulls the newspaper that he was reading down to look at his daughters.

"Juliet, dear", Macao began after recovering, "Can you say that again?"

"Can't Romeo just stay there at that village he's visiting?", the eldest Conbolt sibling repeated, prompting a nod from the youngest, "Does he really have to come home once he's done with Grandma Porlyusica? It's not like anyone really misses him here."

Macao slams the paper down, rattling the table and startling the two girls.

"Young lady, who put such an idea in your head? Who have you been talking too?"

Enno couldn't help but feel a little joy swell in her heart at the knowledge that Macao knew that his daughters wouldn't have come up with such a ridiculous notion on their own. He knew them too well and easily realize that someone else must have planted it in their young minds.

Her daughters were smart but they weren't that smart.

Juliet at least had the audacity to look away but her eyes went straight to Enno's whose were narrow in anger.

"Look at your father when he's talking to you", she orders, and Juliet reluctantly turns her head back to face Macao.

"Bickslow", she confesses, causing her father to stand up and exhales sharply.

"What are you going to do?", Enno wonder.

"I'm going to have a talk with that man, what else?"

"That might get Laxus involved", his wife warns, worried for her husband's safety.

"He won't do much even if he does because then the old man will get involved. He is already on thin ice with him as it is", Macao reassured her as he walks out the kitchen and out the front door, leaving Enno alone with her daughters.

"You two go to your room and think about what you did", she tells them.

"But mom-", both girls start to say.

"No buts, go now!", Enno snaps and with that, Juliet and Rosalina scrambled up the stairs and out of her sight.

The mother then places a hand on her forehead and rub it, trying to calm herself down.

"I can only hope that Romeo is having a fun time with Porlyusica", she tells herself, "I would hate for him have to come back to all of this in a sour mood."

Back to Romeo and Fonaar

The momentum behind Fonaar's lunge was so great that it sent both dragons tumbling across the field and down a nearby hill, both of them roaring while doing so. It was the sound of their fierce battle cries shook the boy out of his stupor as he ran over to the top of the hill looked down only to be greeted by an amazing and terrible sight.

Fonaar and the red dragon were circling one another, their eyes fixated on the other's movement.

"Who are you to prevent me from satisfying my hunger?! Who are you to stand before I, Shageyi, Scourge of the Northern Ualisd Mountains?!" he heard the red dragon boasts as she spread her wings wide while doing so all before giving an ear-splitting roar to the sky with a stream of fire coming out afterward, "ANSWER ME!"

For all his worth, Fonaar didn't seem the least bit intimidated by the speculate Shageyi put on, if anything it only causes him to be more on edge, spreading his wings as well while arching his stinger up so that Shageyi could see it.

And see it she does as she lowers herself to the ground and prepares to pounce.

"I will ask one last time", she growls, "Who are you? I would know the name of whose soul I am about to send to Tiamat as an offering."

Finally, as though he was fed up with all of her talking, the ash-colored dragon speaks and lets out a growl.

This causes Shageyi to tilt her head at him, for she was completely caught off guard by what she heard.

"What did you say to me?", she says. Surpingsly, this was not as means of a threat, but because she was sincerely confused.

"I said, I go by Fonaar and you need to leave before I get mad", he growls again.

"Okay, Fonaar. Answer my question and I promise that you will receive a quick death in response.", Shageyi says as she once again begins to circle him, her movement mimic by the male dragon in response. The red dragon only momentary takes her eyes off her opponent long enough to spare a brief glance up at Romeo who was still watching from his spot at the top of the hill, "Who are you to speak to me in the Dawn Tongue? Do you think yourself above me?"

Now it was Fonaar's turn to tilt his head in confusion, "What's the Dawn Tongue? Also, that's two questions."

Shageyi's eyes narrow in anger and two streams of fire snort out of her nose, "First you dare to hinder my hunt, then you proceed to talk down to me and now you mock me?! I will feast upon your flesh and reduce what I don't devour to ash!", as she lets out one last roar and charges at Fonaar.

The male dragon reacts to this with a swift spin and a powerful tail whip to the side of Shageyi's skull, the impact so heavy that the sound of it carries throughout the area and almost knocks the red dragon off her feet. As she tries to regain her balance, Fonaar takes advantage of this and rushes her, colliding with her torso. The power behind this blow lifts her off her feet and sends her sailing through the air, only coming to a halt once she impacts a nearby tree. As the tree snaps in half underneath her weight, Shageyi finds herself rolling across the ground once more for a short while before coming to a stop.

Suddenly both Wild Master and companion felt a pulse of energy surge through the surrounding area and the temperature dramatically increases as they watch Shageyi slowly get up. Fonaar takes note of the trees surrounding the red dragon and how the leaves, branches, and even the bark started to slowly flake off and burn away in mid-air. Memories of last night began to play in his mind and he instinctively knew that this fight was going to be far more difficult than all the previous ones he had in the last few days.

Shageyi stood to her full height, spreading her wings before rearing up on her hind legs. She then brought her legs down with a thunderous crash, smoke instantly rising from the soles of her feet.

Once more, her gaze briefly fell on Romeo and for that moment in time, the child truly knew what fear was. He thought he knew what it was that day in the temple or the night of the spider attack for less than an hour ago, he considered those two incidents to be the most frightening of his short life. But that fear was different than what he was feeling now. That was him merely being afraid, but as the red dragon's eyes bore into him he was terrified beyond belief. This was a fear that was etched into him and dated back to the dawn of men, back when they were merely playthings for the first masters of this planet and were hunted for food and sport. It was primal, it was instinctive, it was in every living human on in this world. Romeo could feel a warm liquid traveling down his leg but he paid no heed to that.

All he knew is at this very moment was that Fonaar was the only chance he had of living long enough to remember that intense new feeling.

"When I send your soul to Tiamat it will be as though it came from the depths of nine hells themselves!", Shageyi growls as she turns her attention back to Fonaar, flames spewing out of her mouth with every word she spoke, "And once I'm done with you, the human is next!", as a flood of fire came rushing out of her maw and straight at Fonaar.

A/N: Hopefully I can get to this soon after Romeo Rising.