Fairy Tail Minus One Chapter 7: End of an Old Era Part 2, a fairy tail fanfic

Chapter 6: End of an Old Era Part Two

(A/N: To the victims of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting, my heart goes out to you!)

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Back at the outskirts of Rosemary Village.

Queen Écarlate is struggling against 4 dragon opponents, Kamekus, Kamella, Krauser, and Primus. The Queen is noticeably injured and worn out from fighting 4 Dragons at once, however, stands defiant to the end, preparing to fight until she can't anymore.

"Tree Dragon Rooting Chain!" Kamekus chanted as he shoots Tendrils towards the queen but she is able to cut the tendrils into pieces however she's caught from behind by the former Fire Dragon King.

"Fire Dragon Wing Attack!" Primus chanted as he swings down his wings knocking the queen down to the ground with her face hitting the dirt hard with noticeable burns on her face, she manages to get back up from the brutal strike.

"It seems you're determined not to get wounded on the back as much as possible eh queen?" Krauser said to the queen as she gets back up defiant dusting dirt off herself.

"A warrior never lets herself get scarred from behind!"Écarlate replied as she pants hard from her exhausted energy.

"Very well, you will die a proud warrior! Fire Dragon Roar!" Krauser chanted as he shoots a powerful Fire Dragon Roar towards the queen but she deflects it away with her Hoshigami No Satsuki.

"Dividing Wing!" Écarlate chanted as she swings her blade horizontally and generates a powerful slash wave towards Krauser himself but before it can connect, the king counters the attack.

"Iron Dragon Scales!" Krauser chanted as he covers himself within iron scales to protect himself from the attack but he still gets a light cut.

"So you really have been killing other Dragons and stealing their powers?" Queen Écarlate asked the Dark Dragon upset at the immortally of the Dark Dragon King.

"I've killed 1,000 dragons to gain these kinds of powers. One of those dragons had a rare power to resurrect the dead which is what you see here. a resurrected Dragon from your former Protection Squad said to be the strongest Fire Dragon at his lifetime." Krauser explained to the Queen of Dragons as he resumes his assault onto her using his powers and abilities to his edge as well as the 4 on one edge over his opponent.

The queen hops around the open field evading the deadly claw swipes, talon thrusts and tail sweeps of her opponents while dodging small-scale versions of their roars. Each of their attacks coming closer to her and harder to evade as the queen's body is reaching near its limits as a human being.

Krauser then goes into his shell like body and starts rolling towards Queen Écarlate hoping to catch her off-guard but she evades the attack and parries the blows from 4 dragons trying to claw her at once and managing to injure them with her swipes cutting into their hands, managing to easily slice through the hard scales and tearing straight through the muscle tendons.

"Impossible, even 4 on 1, she's still able to fend us off?" Krauser said to himself as his confidence in beating the queen starts to decline and he starts to wonder whether he would even live. Krauser said to himself as his confidence in beating the queen starts to decline and he starts to wonder whether he would even live.

The queen then produces a shockwave knocking back her assailants a fair distance from her as she put her blade back in her sheath and generate a powerful Iajutsu draw which pulls the dragons closer to her as if they're being sucked into a black hole.

"What is this?" Kamella asked as she struggles to fight against the gravitational pull of the air pressure slash but it proves to be more futile than swimming up a waterfall.

"She slashed the space around her and slashed so fast that it created an air pressure vortex sucking us into the void created by her slash," Kamekus said to his sister as they try to resist the slash wave.

"This can't be good!" Krauser said to his minions as he tries to move around attempting to escape as Écarlate's blade glows with immense power around it generating a Crimson flame around it.

"Demon Crimson Blade Sakura: Dragon Slaying Divine Wind!" Queen Écarlate chanted as she swings her blade numerous times at high speeds slashing up the Dragons caught within her air pressure vortex and then ends the 100 slash attack with a horizontal two-handed swing slashing down each of the Dragons.

Écarlate powers down from her Bringer of War Gode Mode and draws her blade trying to catch a breather so she can assist her husband in combat who is currently locked in fierce combat with both Alexander Dragneel and Diana Leonidas who are outmatching him in a 2 on 1 fight.

"Looks like my wife did it! No, wait something isn't right here. If she killed the summoner of these spirits, why are the spirits still attacking? Crap, the summoner isn't dead. But that's impossible, there's no way any being could survive the full power of the Hoshigami No Satsuki. Honey watch out!" Charles shouted trying to warn his wife that his assailants survived the attack

But it's too late as Écarlate is shot through the chest by a finger beam from King Krauser that hits her so hard that she coughs out blood with blood coming out of her mouth and chest wound. Queen clutches her chest as her white dress is stained with the crimson dye of her own blood. Krauser manages to stand back up as well as all the other Dragons, revealing that his undead summoning Primus took the blunt of all the fatal attacks against Krauser and his minions as the summoning regenerated from being ripped to shreds by the attack.

"No, it can't be, impossible! You were supposed to have died from that blow." Écarlate said to her opponent horrified that her strongest move wasn't enough to kill the King of Dark Dragons.

"Now I know why you're called the Queen of Dragons. Unlike the last 7 generations of the Dragonv Bloodline, you've fully mastered the to the extent of your great ancestor Erza Hiro Mujika. It explains how my father fell in your hands. However, I have prepared for that day and instead used my undead summoning as a decoy to bait you into using that move." Krauser said to the queen catching her entirely off guard with his deceptive level of intelligence.

"So you had that planned all along?" Écarlate asked her opponent as she clutches her chest to try to slow down the bleeding but the blood from her wound rushes out of her body like a running faucet.

"Yep, the legendary Demon Crimson Blade Sakura: Dragon Slaying Divine Wind, a technique that can only be achieved by the true master of swordsmanship can slay any Dragon with a fatal combination of its air vortex pressure wave created by drawing the blade at perfect time to generate a vortex that would cause Dragons to become motion sick or immobilized and the blade itself carved from the scales of the legendary Sage Dragon himself forged with elements of a meteor which can pierce even the toughest Dragon hides. The problem is that even with that, a human still can't slay a true Dragon." Krauser explained to the Queen of Dragons now happy that he finally got the upper hand on the queen of dragons.

"What nonsense do you speak? I have you all lying in a state of near death. I might not have a lot of power left but I can still kill you all without breaking a sweat at this point." Écarlate said to her opponent as she stands there assured of her victory.

She then sees Kamekus breathe in air and absorb natural energy. He then uses Healing Magic to get Krauser and Kamella back into fighting condition while Primus regenerates as an undead zombie.

"I don't understand! How did you recover so fast?" Queen Écarlate asked the Dark Dragon King, her confidence of victory has been broken in more pieces than her body at her current state.

"Has it been this long since you fought an actual Dragon that you forgot we can recover our magic by absorbing our elemental affinity? Like I said, you might have the strength and weapon capable of killing Dragons, however, you lack the true power of one. Unlike humans who have frail, fleshy bodies. Dragons have tough scales to prevent and reduce injury to them even by other Dragons. Another example of human inferiority is that you can't recover your stamina whereas Dragons can and fairly easily depending on elements. A third problem is when you fight Dragon resistant to magic and has 1,000 Dragon powers in him." Krauser explained to the queen bragging about his immense power.

"In that case, I just have to!" Écarlate shouted as she desperately attempts to slay the dragons before they fully recover but it's already too late.

"Anti-Matter Dragon Roar!" Kamella chanted as she shoots a blast hitting the queen dead in the face with the roar knocking her down to the ground.

"They recovered so fast! No dragon I've seen can recover their magic this fast other than Belserion. Can these Dragons each be as powerful as Belserion?" Queen Écarlate asked herself as she struggles to get back up, fighting the fatigue of blood loss from her gaping chest wound and the stinging pain of a Dragon Roar to the face, her body racked with pain far worse than anything she felt before as her vision becomes burly.

"Dragon Tree Rooting Cage" Kamekus chanted as he traps the queen within a vine-like cage and restrains her arms and legs and forces her to drop the Hoshigami No Satsuki.

"No, the Hoshigami No Satsuki!" the queen shouted as she tries to resist against the tree vines but they grow thorns and which pierce into her skin and grip tighter on her body with a root around her neck.

"I won't do that if I were you. My Dragon Tree Rooting Cage technique is a powerful technique that binds my opponent with immense force and strength and increases its grip the more my opponent struggles and grows sharp thorns capable of piercing through Dragon Scales. Unless you want a closed casket funeral, it's best you don't try to resist that much." Kamekus explained to the queen as he grabs the sword with his tree tendrils and passes the blade down to Krauser.

"This dreadful blade that has been the bane of the Dark Dragon Tribe for decades," Krauser said to the queen as he chews on the blade using iron scales and then shatters the Hoshigami No Satsuki, breaking it in half. At that moment, the hope of humanity was shattered and the queen's despair becomes apparent.

"NO!" Écarlate shouted as she watches the divided blade fall down to the ground as if the blade was her own child as well.

"Another problem is that your power comes from a weapon. Thanks to assimilating the Iron Dragon Clans powers, I'm able to eat even the densest metals. Now you have nothing to contend against us with!" Krauser explained to the queen as the Dragons surround the queen who is binded by the roots.

Meanwhile, Charles is fighting against the two when he realizes that his wife is in danger.

"No it can't be, the seemingly unbreakable has been broken! This is very bad! It's bad enough my wife is out of her prime strength, she lost the only thing that can beat these Dragons. I can't afford to waste more time fighting these two!" Charles said to himself as he is considerably wounded from his fight with the two humans.

Charles goes to attack the mindless zombie-like comrades as they charge at him. Diana fires more arrows at the ground which ricochet around causing Charles to get distracted by the ricocheting arrows while he's caught off-guard from Alex's sword which slashes into his shoulder. Despite having no powers, Alex and Diana prove to be a match for even the mightiest wizards due to their superhuman strength and insanely high combat skill.

Charles desperate to save his wife starts to become sloppier with his fighting as he gets distracted by his wife being overpowered and outnumbered by the Dragons. He barely dodges a thrust from Alex's blade while barely avoiding a ricocheting shot that grazes his left leg. He staggers for a second and gets slashed across the shoulder with a powerful horizontal slash by Alex which put a considerable gash between both shoulders across the chest causing the King of Dragonv to stagger back. His body becomes weaker as blood gushes out of his wounds and his vision begins to blur.

"DAMN IT! IT CAN'T END LIKE THIS!" Charles shouted as he struggles to get back up but he's shot through the heart by Diana's arrow before he fully made it back up on his feet.

"Checkmate!" Diana said to her former comrade as he falls to the ground. He then sees Alex pick up a massive boulder and then drops it on Charles, seemingly crushing the weakened mage.

Meanwhile, the Queen is getting hammered repeatedly by blows from 4 Dragons despite being within her War-Bringer Mode, however, the physical pain she's enduring pales in comparison to the pain she's feeling at her husband being on the verge of death.

"CHARLES!" Queen Écarlate shouted as she barely evades the attacks distracted by the fact her husband is going to die, distracted by the fact she has no way of fending off and defeating the Dragon opponents.

"One down, one more to go! Once I kill you, the first thing I'll do is invade and destroy Dragonv once and for all!" Krauser sad to the queen as he slashes her across the chest with her barely evading the attack with the claws doing serious damage to her.

However, it's revealed that Alex crushed a clone and the real one barely escaped the attack and planning his ultimate spell with the arrow still embedded in his heart.

"I don't have much power left, the last attack really took a lot of blood out of arrow pierced straight through my heart, it's clear I'm a dead man at this point, however... I MUST MAKE THIS ONE COUNT! FOR DRAGONV! FOR MY DAUGHTER!" Charles shouted as he sets up his spell catching then off-guard and binding the zombie minions to the ground.

A giant meteor comes out of the sky that is a giant blazing fireball, a meteor large enough to cover the entire town of Mongolia. The fireball is coming straight from the stratosphere as it drops down towards the ground. The Dragons notice not only the meteor but a barrier placed around the field set up by Charles.

"The size of that meteor, it's the size of the meteor that nearly killed the Dinosaurs many millions of years back," Kamekus said to his comrades shocked to see the meteor of that size summoned by a human.

"To think a human can summon something of that size and magnitude," Kamella replied with her jaw dropping at the fact a meteor that size is coming at them.

"Not to worry, even if the human drops a moon on us, it won't be enough to kill us given our dragon scales resistance to magic," Krauser responded with an arrogant smirk.

Meanwhile, Écarlate looks at the meteor and shouts at Charles.

"What are you doing? Using such an attack at your state will kill you!" the queen shouted as she tries to stop him but she's protected by a barrier that restrains her from moving to protect her from the explosion

"Sorry honey but it's the only thing we got, even if this doesn't kill the dragons, it should leave them too damaged to fight back when the Dragon Protection Squad arrives here. After all, if dinosaurs can die them this, then so can dragons! Blazing Sky Heavenly Body Sema" Charles chanted as he combines his two strongest attacks to create a massive explosion that is so intense that the entire country of Fiore shakes from the shockwaves generated by the explosion but thanks to Charles quick timing, he set up a rune barrier that protected countless lives from the destructive spell.

However, despite condensing the explosion to a single point, the destructive effects of the attack can be felt across Isghal as a massive earthquake not only shakes the entire country but the whole world damaging buildings across Earthland.

Meanwhile in Midi

Zeref is teaching a class when they feel a massive earthquake shake the classroom with people running out of the building or taking shelter under a desk within the lecture hall.

"What's going on here? What could be generating this immense Earthquake?" Zeref said to himself as he takes shelter as well.

Meanwhile at Dragonv

The tremors could be felt across the ruins of Whitestone One as buildings already heavily damage collapse and everyone feels the tremors.

"The whole planet is shaking," Fredrick said to his wife.

"What's going on mommy? Is the end times here?" Rena asked her mother.

"No it's not the end times, it's the Legendary Magic King Uncle Charles after all your aunt Écarlate might be the strongest human in the world but your uncle Charles is a very close second. The dark Dragon Tribe doesn't have a prayer." Asuka explained to her daughter.

Meanwhile in Gappione

Buildings are shaking from the impact generated from the impact of Charles spell as Edokko shakes from the immense earthquake that occurred from Charles spell.

"This magic, could it be the magic king Charles Kinghtwalker? Such an overwhelming power." Emperor Shiergu said to himself as he is under a table with his daughter and wife as things fall down from the earthquake.

Meanwhile within the Isghal Skies

Ingeel is rushing towards the battlefield by himself at immense speeds having crossed straight through the Serenity Kingdom when he feels the immense shockwave and earthquake pressure wave within the air despite being thousands of feet up.

"This power, this is the Magic King's power! It's amazing how strong humans can be but ...On no this isn't good, I knew that attack was too strong for a human...It's already too late for Charles...Damn it I was too slow, we were too careless...I need to fly as fast as I can to reach Queen Écarlate before it's too late." Ingeel said to himself as he flies towards Fiore at top speed.

Back at Rosemary plains.

The barrier barely contains the intense inferno and heat generated by the impact from Charles most powerful enchantment spell as everything within the barrier has heated up to over 10,000 degrees with Charles himself being badly burned by his own spell. Écarlate watches in horror as her husband is cooked alive by the intense flames.

"CHARLES!" Écarlate shouted as she tries to break out of the barrier she's trapped in to save Charles but it's futile as Charles maintains the las of his willpower to prevent anyone else from getting hurt.

It's revealed that the Dragons were hit with such force that, they were knocked deep into the ground with the explosion punching a hole in the earth over 120 miles deep around the diameter of the entire Rosemary Village caused by a massive 5km meteor striking them at speeds comparable to lightning. The Hole is filled with smoke and fire to which even the dragons are choking due to the lack of oxygen in the ground and remaining oxygen burned up by the flames.

"Dragon or not, you need to breathe, by condensing the attack into the barrier, not only did I protect millions of people from dying, I also managed to bury them into the Earth's Mantle. Even with the undead Hope Primus, they can't withstand the heat too long, combined with the explosion over them, they will either die by the earth itself or when they get out, too weakened to possibly put up much of a fight...Just a shame I won't be there to see them fall..." Charles said to himself as he staggers over as the flames cool down and dissipate leaving the plain horribly torched as the inferno condenses into the hole.

Meanwhile at the mantle, the Dragons are within the trapped heat from the explosion which gave them mild burns except for Krauser and Primus, however, they're trapped within the mantle as the intense pressure of the Mantle combined with the smoke and flames from the meteor start to get to them.

"To think a mere human was able to push us this far into the earth with a single spell," Krauser said to his dragons.

"What an immensely powerful spell!" Kamella said to her brother as she's unable to move as the explosion manages to lightly burn her scales as well as the mantle.

"The heat is intense! Intense enough to harm even Dragon Scales." Kamekus stated as the intense heat is starting to get through him.

"Heat huh? Primus, eat it!" Krauser said to his zombie minion replied as his scales start to peel away.

Écarlate rushes to her husband's aid after his barrier disappears. Charles is fatally injured with 3rd-degree burns on half of his body.

"Charles, speak .to me! This can't be happening! NOT ON MY DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY OF ALL DAYS!" Écarlate said to her husband horrified at his injured state as she tries to get him stay awake.

"At least you would able to attend the party...Too bad the next day it would also be a funeral as well...My meteor managed to completely destroy the undead humans and plow the Dragons into the mantle. Even with Hope Primus, it would them no good if the summoner of the undead is incapacitated by the lack of oxygen and high pressure of the mantle and there's no way his minions are surviving." Charles explained to his wife only for them to see the dragons fly out of the hole Charles left with only mild burns on them minus Krauser and Undead Primus

"Impossible! They survived the Earth's Mantle with barely a scratch!" Écarlate shouted as she looks at the horror she's up against.

"We can't win...They're too strong! Even Mother Nature itself and the power of the Earth's Mantle wasn't enough to kill a Dragon. The only way to beat them is with the Hoshigami No Satsuki but they destroyed it. Now we as humans have no chance against them. I guess this is the end" Charles said to his wife as his life starts to fade from his eyes.

"No, don't say that! Don't act like you're dying on me! YOU CAN'T DIE ON ME! CHARLES! WE HAVE A DAUGHTER TO RAISE TOGETHER! DON'T DIE ON ME! DON'T DIE!" Écarlate shouted as he heart fills with despair as her husband of 12 years is now dying in front of her eyes.

"Écarlate, you're the most amazing woman I've ever met, no the most amazing human being I've ever met. Being with you for the last decade and a half has shown me new worlds and worldviews I can never imagine. ...Tell Irene that her father didn't die in vain." Charles said to his wife as his final words before all life from him fades and his body becomes cold.

Primus emerges out of the flames not only unscathed from the blast but powered up from the attack.

"Not bad, you almost had us with that one. Using a very powerful attack to push us into the mantle of the planet, very clever. Had we've been lesser dragons, it would've been enough to kill us instantly between the meteor and the Mantle however you're husbands biggest mistake was using an attack made of fire. Thanks to Primus, not only did we survive the intense pressure and heat of the Mantle but we now have the power to kill you and your husband's final attack only handed the keys to your execution." Krauser explained to the queen as she cries over the cold dead corpse of her husband.

"No this can't be happening! Why ? WHY ON MY DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY? YOU'RE ALL GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!" Écarlate roared as he anger reached her peak and she powers up to levels beyond what she's done before.

"How cute, you forget that without your legendary Hoshigami No Satsuki ,you're merely an insect to a Dragon regardless of how powerful you are." Krauser arrogantly mocked.

"Maybe so, however, if I'm going to die, I'm taking you with me! I won't let you destroy my country Dragonv." Écarlate replied as she prepares to fight her dragon opponent, including a powered up Primus.

"Weren't you paying attention, human? You can't hope to hurt the scales of the Dragon with magical attacks. In order for a human to have any chance against a Dragon, they have to be 10 times stronger than the dragon they're fighting. I'm the pinnacle of Dragon Strength as you've seen here, you're nothing to me." Krauser explained to the queen with his arrogant demeanor.

"WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!" Écarlate replied in furious anger as she dashes at the 4 Dragons using the last of her power to fight the legendary S Class Dragons

She fights against them for the last time and starts to hold her own a bit despite not having the Hoshigami No Satsuki in her procession using her raw combat skills to evade and dodge attacks despite her body tiring and losing stamina from the blood loss of her wounds powered by the rage of losing her husband and the only thing pressing her body to continue fighting is the will to defend humanity and to protect her daughter.

She clashes fists with the fists of dragons 20 times the size of her as he hers get hurt punching at the scales of dragons with cuts and bruises appearing on them for each blow and her bones feel they're at the brink of shattering, in spite this she's able to clash evenly with Primus in a direct fist fight despite him being amped by Charles Blazing Sky Sema as the queen blocks his blows powered by her own rage.

Primus goes for a tail whip but the queen dodges the attack seeing it come from a mile away. She then sees Kamella come at her with several claw swipes aimed at her head with the intent to decapitate her but she barely evades the slashes with her quick reflexes as they inch closer to her neck and avoids a charging headbutt by Krauser who she tricks into headbutting Kamekus in the stomach with the blow giving her enough time to shake the Dragons off.

"Goddess Purgatory Spar." Queen Écarlate countered as she crosses both hands over her chest before slashing forward with a downward "X" motion which creates a shockwave that knocks back the Dragons despite not being able to pierce their scales.

"I told you, your efforts are completely useless!Now Die!" King Krauser said to his opponent as he charges his Dragon Roar in his mouth.

"It's now or never!"Sword Body Style: Warth of the Purgatory War God!" Écarlate chanted as she dashes at full speed into Krauser's mouth and then exits the Dragon through the back of his skull horrifying his Dragon minions and the Dragon himself. The skull of Krauser's resembled the victim of a brutal headshot with a high caliber rifle as blood shoots out of his skull as well as fragments of his dragon scales.

"What? How!" Krauser asked with him barely able to talk as his skull has been pierced through.

"Your scales might be mighty against magic, however, your insides aren't. Now YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO CHARLES!" Écarlate shouted as she dashes towards the King of Dark Dragons moving at enough velocity to ensure her next move would be fatal to him.

"Damn it, not enough time!" Krauser shouted as he's unable to evade the incoming attack as death.

"I just need to hit him one more time to ensure his death. My body feels like it was nearly broken to pieces from the last hit, no matter, if I can kill him, Primus would be at peace and ..." Écarlate said to herself but before she can complete her internal thoughts, she feels intense heat in front of her.

"Fire Dragon King Demolition Fist!" Primus chanted as he punches the queen and engulfs her frontal body with intense flames as the attack generates an explosion which sends her flying into the ground with her body getting 3rd degree burns almost instantly within the front of her body with 54% of her body burned.

"Anti-Matter void!" Kamella chanted as she uses a black hole like attack to trap the Queen of Dragons within the void making her unable to move as her body is already racked with pain from colliding with a Dragons body and from the burns.

"Tera Climate!" Kamekus chanted as he uses a powerful explosive wave generated by the roots to engulf the queen within a massive explosion further damaging her body to the point she's virtually immobilized by the end of the explosion itself.

"And now.. to finish this off!" Krauser chanted as he then sets up his spell while the queen struggles to get back up with her seriously wounded body.

"Damn it...It can't end like this!" Écarlate said to herself as she pants heavily from the injuries within her body

"Eternal Flame!" Krauser chanted as he shoots a massive wave of fire from his mouth which hit's the queen with intense heat causing her to be burned with agonizing pain as she struggles to hold back the attack with her arms but her arms get burned badly and she collapses to the ground.

However, despite being burned and bloodied up by the attacks, the Queen of Dragons stands back up with her white dress covered in blood and her body covered in a crimson dye of her own blood with her blood matching her scarlet hair. Her body is at its breaking point, far beyond the limits of pain a human can handle. Her breathing becomes heavy and noticeably taking a strain on her, her vision is heavily blurred from the blood loss as she fades in and out of existence and her body starts to go numb as her body struggles not to succumb to shock.

"How can anyone have survived those attacks? Not even other S-Class Dragons could've survived that assault. It makes no sense, you have no dragon scales or the lungs of a Dragon yet you stand and fight?" Krauser asked the queen of dragons as it feels like he was staring down a ghost, his spine freezes in horror seeing his opponent still stand defiant.

"I already told you. don't underestimate humans. We might not be as mighty as Dragons but we have the same fighting spirit. That's why I believe humans and Dragons can coexist...Which is why I'm prepared to give my life for ending your attempts of ruining our alliance." Queen Écarlate explained to the dragons as she goes for her last-ditch attack using the last of her life force in her attack.

"I'm not letting you attack me again," Krauser said to her only to see her slash the air at high speeds again which causes all 4 of the Dragons to be pulled in a void catching them off-guard.

"Impossible, she did the Demon Crimson Blade Sakura: Dragon Slaying Divine Wind without the Hoshigami No Satsuki. How is that even possible?" Kamekus said to the others shocked to see the queen this skilled enough without her blade.

"Because I'm one with my blade! Like I said, I'm taking you with me! Demon Crimson Blade Sakura: Dragon Slaying Divine Wind" Queen Écarlate chanted as spins around like a tornado and uses her fingernails like claws as she goes into the gaping wound in Krauser and does serious damage to his internal organs and bursts through the chests, spewing blood all over the badly burned grassy plains.

"Krauser!" Kamella shouted as he falls to the ground appearing to have died from the attack however he's in a comatose state.

The queen emerges standing from the attack, however, her chest has been lacerated and impaled by a Dragon scale that went straight through her heart while she was tunneling through the insides of the Dark Dragon King. Primus completely disappears from the plane of existence now that Krauser is incapacitated as well as the blasted remains of Alexander and Diana.

"I still was unable to kill the dragon, even with exploiting their weaknesses, even with my best...Can we truly defeat dragons...Even at my prime...I never felt on their level...Even if we gained power greater than dragons, our body would eventually lose that power whereas a dragon is always strong...Irene, I'm sorry...Sorry for being weak." Queen Écarlate said to herself as she struggles to stand.

"That bitch, she almost had Krauser, is this the legendary power of the Queen of Dragons? Even without the Hoshigami No Satsuki, she almost killed Krauser and even her husband was powerful enough to almost bake us in the mantle...Time to make sure she joins her husband." Kamekus said to himself as he sets up some roots only to be interrupted by his sister.

"The Dragon Protection Squad is approaching, we need to get the King out of here. He's in critical condition. The Queen put her entire life force into her final attack. she's actually the one who is dead but if we don't get our leader back to safety, everything we worked hard for would go in vain."Kamella explained to Kamekus as she picks up her dying boss and they both fly away from the battlefield.

Ingeel and Grandeeney arrive at the scene with Irene hoping off Grandeeney's back only to see the horror around her. While Rosemary village was spared destruction thanks to Charles Rune Barrier, the Entire Rosemary Plain region surrounding the town has been reduced to a blacken ash wasteland with a massive lava filled hole caused by Charles las ditch attack going to the mantle. She then sees her dad lying on the ground motionless, he's succumbed to the wounds within battle.

"DAD!" Irene shouted as she grabs onto him and within second tears rain down on the scorched ground.

"This is awful, we were too late!" Grandeeney shouted as despair sat into her as well.

"Grandeeney, please heal dad!" Irene shouted desperate to save her dad despite the fact it's far too late.

"Sorry, my dear Irene but we're far too late. Your father bled out long before we even came here with the arrow having served the vital artery between the Heart and Lungs ...He's dead Irene!" Grandeeney explained to Irene the horrible reality of the situation.

"DAD!" Irene shouted as he heart is shattered by the fact her father is dead and she looks her her mother." Mommy!" Irene said to her as she goes to hug her only to see her hands covered in blood hugging her."MOMMY!" Irene then looks at her mother

"NO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" Ingeel said to himself in horror as he sees the dead king and soon to be dead queen.

"Sorry, Irene...I wished I was a bit stronger than this...Don't be too sad my young child... As I said before...Everyone dies eventually...I died protecting you and everyone you loved...You are the future, my dear daughter... One day you would rise as the new Queen of the Dragons and carry on the legacy our ancestors fought for centuries to maintain." Queen Écarlate explained to her daughter as he body becomes weak, her vision becomes blurry and things start to become dark.

"DON'T SAY THAT MOMMY! GRANDEENEY CAN HEAL ANYTHING! SHE CAN! YOU CAN'T BE DYING!" Irene shouted.

"There's nothing I can do Irene!"Grandeeney replied with tears in her eyes feeling helpless to save her king and queen.

"You gotta least try!" Irene shouted.

"I'm sorry,...My injuries are too severe to be healed at this point. With the energy I exhausted to wound the King of Dark Dragons, I pushed my body far beyond the limits of any human. Combined with these injuries, I'm beyond repair." Queen Écarlate explained to Irene with her weakening voice as death starts to set in.

"If the Hoshigami No Satsuki is broken, then how can Irene take up your mantle?" Ingeel asked her.

"The can always be repaired, it's going to take several years for it to be rebuilt to its former glory but it can be repaired. Ingeel, you and Belserion are now tasked with helping my daughter achieve the strength needed to protect this land ." Queen Écarlate said to Ingeel as she hands over the broken halves of the legendary Hoshigami No Satsuki.

"Damn it, if only I came a lot sooner!" Ingeel shouted.

"Don't blame yourself Ingeel, if anything had you came here sooner, you would've met the same fate as me and Charles. Krauser had the ability to bring back the dead and resurrected your late father to fight me within battle." the queen explained to her strongest member of the Dragon Protection Squad.

"He can revive the dead? I never heard of such a power!" Ingeel asked the queen.

"So that's how powerful the enemy was? It explains why even the queen couldn't prevail against them." Grandeeney stated.

"Combined with the emotional trauma of facing your father, you were lucky you were a bit late... You are the future Ingeel. If my daughter were to face herself in this kind of situation, I want you to protect her at all cost and if Belserion passes away, I want you to take up the mantle of Commander and Cheif of the Dragonv Army." Queen Écarlate said to Ingeel, giving him her last decree as Queen of the Dragons.

"I see, thanks, Queen Écarlate," Ingeel replied as tears formed in his eyes.

"Grandeeney, you would be the acting queen of Dragons until Irene is ready to take up the throne. You're the strongest woman within the kingdom now that I've fallen and as an actual dragon. When Irene becomes queen, you would be her top advisor. Belserion would be acting King of Dragons until Irene marries a man of the caliber need to take the throne." Queen Écarlate said to Grandeeney, giving her the title of Acting Queen of Dragons

"Don't worry my queen, I won't let you down," Grandeeney replied as she cries on Ingeel's shoulder. The queen then turns to her daughter to say her final words.

"Irene... everything from this point on is up to you!...Just remember the rules my dear daughter...don't care what other people think about you, be yourself. Be fearless, be loyal. be strong...Eat your vegetables and train every day and have your cakes as desserts...Wash yourself every day and never slack on your training...Even if you have a child in peacetime...My biggest mistake was not having my guard up at all times... Also, continue to practice using Caster Magic, I was never very good at Caster Magic.." Queen Écarlate said to her daughter as her vision becomes blacker and blacker and the pain in her body ceases.

"Stop this! I don't want to lose you! This has to be a nightmare or something!" Irene shouted as tears drip down her eyes as her heart starts to break.

"Also remember the three rules when you're an adult. Remember to always pay others for a favor they do you for you...Remember to live life to your fullest and do whatever you want as a young adult regardless of what people think...And find the right person for you to marry, one who can protect and one who can protect you" Queen Écarlate said to Irene as she starts to be unable to feel Irene's hug at this point and her hug was soft.

"NO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" Irene shouted as she tries to take bandages and try to patch up her mother but the blood seeps through them.

"Sorry Irene but this nightmare is reality...I wish to be with you more my dear daughter...However, my time is up! Irene, I love you, with the bottom of my heart...Unfortunately, it's time we part ways...Farewell, my daughter!" Queen Écarlate said to her daughter as she hugs her for the final time as blood drips all over Irene's face as her mother dies standing as she hugged Irene for the last time.

"Mother...Mother! MOTHER!" Irene shouted as she emits a very loud heart-jerking cry that can be felt by the dragons coming close by.

The other Dragons including Belserion, Victor Heartfilla, Kajeel, Anna, and Erenjack arrive at the scene of the battlefield. They all surround the fallen queen who is standing like a statue dead from blood loss.

"She died standing!" Grandeeney said to the other dragons with tears in her eyes.

"She died warriors death!" Metalicana replied trying to hide the tears from his eyes.

"If one we were stronger! We could've prevented this from happening." Skiadrum said to his partner who hugs the dragon as he cries.

"We were careless and arrogant, we could've avoided this if we didn't take our training so lightly," Weisslogia replied with tears in his eyes.

"The Dark Dragon Alliance struck hard this time. 5 years ago, they murdered the two strongest humans outside of the Dragonv Royal Family and 5 years later, they killed the King and Queen themselves." Zeusei explained to the other dragons.

"However they didn't go down, not without a fight. The Queen appeared to have drawn a lot of blood from her assassins before going down."Venomisky replied as he observes the large pool of blood and broken scales as well as flesh fragments and organ fragments scattered across the field.

"How could this happen in such a beautiful day? Has god forsaken us? "Victor said to everyone as he tries to withstand his tears.

Irene's POV

My mother died a warriors death. It is said that the bravest and most fearless warriors die standing. My mother prevented the next Dragon War that day and prevented the death of millions by taking down the Dark Dragon King Krauser, however at the cost of her own life. Fortunately, my mother exploiting the weakness of Dragons internal organs was able to gravely injure the Dragon King and leave his elites badly injured as well.

King Krauser was incapacitated within a coma for 10 years despite my mother not wielding the Hoshigami No Satsuki. Without him, the Dark Dragon Tribe didn't dare attack Dragonv again until their leader recovered from the coma for he was the only Dragon mighty enough to defeat the entire Dragon Protection Squad, a force that has kept Dragonv and the royal family saves for centuries.

April 27,x381 would go down as the day of the Crimson massacre. What was a perfectly sunny day with beautiful pink, white and bright red cherry blossoms became a day of darkness with rain wetting the cherry blossoms and turning them dark red. One minute I was planning to celebrate my 11th birthday with my parents, the next minute, I watched as my parents died in front of my eyes and I was powerless to do anything about it. The death of my parents was only the beginning of the world of hell my life has gone through. Looking back at it all, it seems I was actually cursed by the late God Queen Aresala and her curse was a way to get revenge for her defeat in the Amazonian War. The death of my parents was the first thing that broke my innocence, however, thanks to my friends and family, I was able to endure the pain. What' sad is that the death of my parents would be one of the 5 events that would send me over the deep edge and make me become the woman known as the Scarlet Despair with the 5th event being so horrific, it turned me into a mass murderer overnight and made me one of the most feared names in history.

Irene's POV

May 11, X381

My mother and father were to be buried in the courtyard of the castle where all the royal family members were buried at. Every one of my family members has been buried in the vast courtyard with their spirits living onto the place. It was as if I was stuck in a horrible nightmare and I couldn't wake up from.

Being the most powerful Royal Family with at least 16 other royal bloodlines running through our veins from the 8 generations of Monarchs, we had one of the largest gatherings for a funeral to exist. Over 6,000 people worldwide were part of the Dragonv family bloodline, most notably The 500 family member strong Kinghtwalker family attend from Fiore and countless other members of my family too big to recall at a young age.

What I know is that the Dragonv Royal Family had many faces that I barely recognized outside of family meetings and gatherings. All I knew were people that were the closest to me and visited my family the most. Amongst the people I've recognized was my Cousin Rena dressed within traditional Zenith Dress and Scarf all in black alongside Aunt Asuka and Uncle Frederick who was wearing his Yakuma and his Rabbi robes made for a funeral. Being that Asuka was the last surviving sister out of the 5 who were born from the previous ruler, she took the death of her last surviving sister almost as hard as I did.

"I can't believe that she's dead. My sister! She was so strong and powerful!" Asuka cried as tears fall down her eyes with her husband holding her.

"She was a brave woman and a powerful woman. I owe my existence and the existence of the Zenith people on her brokering the peace deal between Gohra, Carbia, and Jechiro for allowing the Zenith to return to our homeland we lost nearly 1,500 years ago." Frederick replied as he found it hard to contain his tears.

"My sister brought happiness to many people's lives. She helped save the Human/Dragon Alliance from collapse, she defeated the Dark Dragon Tribe and brought unity and peace in both Middle Earthland and united Gaerica as a country. Compared to her, I'm merely in her shadow just helping to manage things. It was hard enough losing my mother and father to the Dark Dragon Alliance, it was hard enough losing 3 of my sisters to war, now my surviving sister is dead as well.." Asuka replied as she wipes her tears with a cloth grieving that she's the sole survivor of the Dragonv 5.

Also in attendance was my closest friends and their family members. Kajeel and Erenjack with his family members from Seven alongside his blonde hair, blue eye wife Maria Redfox, formerly known as Sandusky of the lower Sandusky lower noble family who helped financed the Redfox Blacksmith business, Yamu with his parents Kenji and Tsuki who both worked for Kajeel. Linda Lockser with her parents Margaret and Jameson Lockser with 400 members of the Lockser Clan, Sal and his family members and Rio with his family members all paying their respects to my fallen parents.

"She was quite the reckless woman with a worrywart for a husband but it was because of their great efforts, we're able to enjoy this long era of peace. Because of her, I went from a simple farmer to Grand General of the Dragonv Human Defense division and became a wealthy man with my own Blacksmith business and fell in love with a woman who understood me. I'm going to miss her." Kajeel said to his wife as he tries to repress his tears.

"Same my dear...Same." The wife replied as she also breaks down in tears with her makeup being smudged by her tears.

"The Lockser Clan has owed its service to the Dragonv family for centuries, I wish there was something we could've done to have helped saved the Queen and King from their fate. Even though our magic can't hope to hurt a Dragon, it could've helped save the lives of the Queen and King had we saw this attack coming." Maragert said to her friends as she walks towards the coffins and leaves flowers on them.

Everyone of my thousands of family members left their flowers on my parent's coffins until the coffins resembled a garden plow. It was a beautiful sight of flowers gathered within one location, it would've been so beautiful if it wasn't so tragic and depressing

It was at that moment Victor Heartfilla riding on Grandeeney arrived with his daughter Anna came to the burial site and came to exhume the bodies of my parents while they get buried into their gravestone. I refused to believe a woman as mighty as my mother and a man as Titanic as my father could fall to anyone...Needless to say, I didn't accept the death or what really was very well.

"We're here to honor the life of Queen Écarlate Hirio Mujika Dragonv Kinghtwalker and King Charles Dragonv knightwalker, the two leaders who have helped bring over 12 years of wealth and peace in the continent of Isghal. Charles Nightwalker was the mightiest mage within the world, even more, mighty than myself when it came to elemental magic and enchantments and his immense power helped Fiore overcome countless battles but it's not as much as his courage and bravery that paved the way for a great world. Queen Écarlate was a mighty woman who was the spiritual reincarnation of Queen Erza, the very first ruler of Dragonv who founded this great nation. She shared the queen's devotion, bravery, passion, and love of fighting for what's right and will go down as the greatest swordsman to ever live. Her heart was as pure as gold and her beauty rivaled that of mother nature...We will miss you both! And now for a moment of silence for our fallen heroes." Victor said within his funeral speech as he tries to hold back the tears from his former comrades.

It was at that point I snapped and broke the moment of silence and kicked the coffins and started removing the flowers of the grave.

"I HAD ENOUGH! THIS IS NOT REAL! MOMMY AND DADDY ARE STILL ALIVE DAMN IT!" I shouted as I kept wanting to deny the reality around me.

"What are you doing Irene? You can't open those coffins!" Victor shouted at me as he grabbed me but I refused to let go of the coffins as I try to open them.

"Irene what are you doing?" Anna yelled at me as she grabs me.

"THEY'RE NOT DEAD! THEY CAN'T BE DEAD!" I shouted.

"WHY CAN'T YOU FACE THE TRUTH IRENE? THEY'RE DEAD!" Anna shouted at me as she tries to pull me off the coffin but I won't budge from it.

"LET GO OF ME! MY PARENTS ARE STILL ALIVE!" I shouted back trying to hold on by Victor grabbed and pushed me off the coffin.

"Sorry, Irene but this is the reality of the world. Some people.." Victor tried to explain to me.

"SHUT UP! THIS IS A NIGHTMARE, I'LL PROVE IT BY GOING IN MY BED AND WAKING UP AN THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN! MOMMY AND DADDY WOULD BE THERE FOR ME!" I shouted as I ran away from the funeral unable to accept reality and went into my room and go to my bed trying to wish away reality.

3 months later

Traumatized by the death of my parents, I remained secluded from my friends and family in a deep state of depression. I remained in a state of denial, denying that my parents were dead and simply stood in my bed, hoping I wake up from this terrible nightmare. It got so bad that they were force feeding me to eat because I was denying my food and water. I remember the pain of trying to resist against people who were trying to protect and nurture me.

Of all days for them to die, it was on my 11th birthday. My mind remained traumatized by the horror that occurred, however considering what was to come from my life from this point on, this pain was merely the beginning of my transformation into the dreaded Scarlet Despair.

Berelesion one day came to my room to talk to me again. I haven't left my room for 3 months, staying in my bed for over 3 months. My hair grew long and unkempt and I smelled worse than an owl house latrine because I refused to bathe, thinking I was still in a horrible nightmare.

"Irene, you alright?" Belserion asked me going into the large passageway meant to fit dragons in.

"This isn't a dream, is it?" I asked him with tears forming in my eyes just now coming to that horrible realization that my parents died.

"Sadly not! Your parent died as brave heroes to the land! Your mother wouldn't want to see you moping here locked in this room feeling sorry for yourself." Belserion responded trying to snap me out of my depression.

"But it's hard to think my mommy and daddy can die! They were so strong and brave! Have you found the people who killed them." I asked Belserion with a tone of vengeance within my young mind wishing that I wielded the blade my mother wielded to finish the job against the dragons who took her life.

"No I haven't, we searched for them, we did find them but there are too many forces against our own and without a strong leader like your mother, we can't launch an effective counter-assault," Belserion explained to me but as expected for someone of my age, I cared very little about whether it was possible to avenge my parents, I wanted to do it with little regard to what happened to me.

"I want to avenge my mother and father and I want to get the strength to do so!" I said outright to my Dragon Grandpa clenching my fist in anger.

"Vengeance dulls the blade, Irene, Hate creates more hate. You must understand this lesson much like your mother did when she lost her parents. You need to fight to protect your friends from suffering the same fate, not obsessed with hatred." Belserion said to me trying to calm me down with my anger boiling over which was then replaced by deep sadness.

"It's just so hard to not be filled with hatred. My mother did nothing wrong to anyone, she wanted to help people and she was murdered alongside my father, they helped alot of people and yet they're killed needlessly. I want to make them pay for what they did to my parents." I shouted at my Dragon Grandpa with tears dripping down my eyes.

"I know how you feel Irene. I too lost my parents a long time ago. The Dark Dragon Tribe massacred the Sage Dragon Race and I was filled with hatred." Belserion explained to me reflecting on his past.

"You lost your entire Race?" I asked him.

"The Sage Dragons were a legendary class of Dragons which were small and few but because of our abilities to absorb and utilize plasma energy and pure Ehterano energy. We were very few in number due to our lack of ability to procreate."Belserion explained to me accidentally revealing things that a child shouldn't know about.

"Procreate?" I asked him naive about how the birds and bees were formed.

"Nevermind, I'll explain that as you get older, anyways on to my story," Belserion replied as his face turned red out of embarrassment.

"So how did you get your revenge against the people who killed your race?" I asked my dragon grandpa curious about how he dealt with his assailants.

"I didn't, or rather couldn't. Even with 1,000 years spent training, my power was not enough to oppose the Dark Dragon Tribe. I amassed Dragons in an attempt of a rebellion against the Dark Dragon Tribe but it failed and I was left for dead despite training for 1,000 years. All of the Dragon Resistance fighters died except for myself." Belserion explained to me as he reflects on his own tragic past.

"Then how did you survive?" I asked him wondering how he overcame the experience.

"A legendary swordswoman who hailed from the country of Gappione saw me and put everything she could to attend to my aid. After recovering from my wounds, she challenged me to a duel and her strength was incredible enough to defeat even a Dragon in battle. As a gift of her bravery and courage, I used the broken scales from my body and gave them to her which she forged the blade along with elements found from a crashed meteorite forming the Hoshigami No Satsuki." Belserion explained to me which for that moment took my mind off the sadness of losing my parents.

"So whatever happened to the legendary Sword Mage?" I asked him with childlike joy.

"She fell in love with a Man part of the Dragonv family and had a child. The Dark Dragon Tribe and humans who served then weren't happy with the past me and Satsuki forged to create a world of humans and dragons living in harmony and fought a war against us. Her daughter Erza Hiro Dragonv was forced to kill her mother in a fight who was brainwashed to become a minion of the Dark Dragon King. Before she died, she enchanted her soul into the Dragon Blade and it became the Hoshigami No Satsuki, a blade named after the greatest swordsman to ever live, Satsuki Hiro Mujika, the woman of 100 blades." Belserion explained to me.

"100 different blades? Ridiculous. it's unheard for anyone to wield 100 swords in combat." I asked dumbfounded by what I was hearing.

"The 100 sword style is controlled by telekinesis. Satsuki, when she was 15, began her journey to collect and destroy 100 demon sword plaguing and causing chaos to the world 600 years ago. She purified and reforged 100 swords and merged it into one blade and sought to fight the strongest beings in the world." Belserion said to me explaining to me the power and swordsmanship of the Legendary Satsuki.

"That sounds very cool, was mommy ever able to achieve the 100 swords style?" I asked him.

"Sadly no, your mother lacked Caster Magic skill and instead developed magic that made her body like a blade to make up for it," Belserion answered bluntly.

"But I'm not that good with a blade and I'm more interested in Caster Magic from my father's side and yet it's useless to harm a Dragon with! Mommy says I need to have pure sword mastery in other to be able to fully utilize the power of the Hoshigami No Satsuki." I explained to my dragon foster father wondering how I can maintain the full power of the Hoshigami No Satsuki.

"And she's right, however, you also need to have a decent level of magic mastery to utilize the powerfully. Your mother had the raw strength to use the blade but lacked caster magic skill. If you can get your magical prowess and combine it with strength, you can wield the full power like your ancestor once did." Belserion explained to me as he thinks of the past.

"I wish mommy and daddy were here," I stated sadden by the fact they died before my sweet 16.

"We Dragons have a say within Dragonv. The legendary Dragon God Bahamut said to have been amongst the creators of the One Magic said that a brave and pure-hearted human being can be born again and reincarnated into the same spirit. Many believed that your mother was the direct reincarnation of the Legendary Swordsman Satsuki Mujika. You must focus on becoming a queen to restore order within the land and fight the inevitable war on the horizon." Belserion explained to me.

"War? Didn't mommy kill the leader?" I asked him.

"Nope, he's been comatose. According to our intelligence reports, it's going to take at least 15 years for him to wake up from the damage done to his body. This buys us more than enough time for you to become as strong as your mother." Belserion replied with a look of grave concern.

"But mommy failed to kill him, what if I'm not strong enough?" I asked him lacking in confidence.,

"Your mother's biggest mistake was not training after childbirth. Had she had the same strength used to slay Krauser's father Morton, she could've beaten all 4 Dragons and saved her husband. You're too young to take up the mantle queen yet, however, if you train for the next few years, you will become a queen unlike that before you." Belserion explained to me filling me with confidence, it was the speech I needed the most.

"Very well then! I will become a queen that my mother would be proud of. One in which when she's reborn anew in the future, she would read the textbooks and see the great legacy of Queen Irene Dragonv." I replied hoping for a better future.

"I was thinking, perhaps you can train within the country of Zen with Uncle Fred and Aunt Asuka and spend time there first. Once you get over your trauma and achieve true peak strength of a human, you can return to Dragonv and take up more advanced training and become Queen of the Dragons." Belserion said to me.

"What about the Kingdom? Don't they need a leader?" I asked him.

"I will take over as the de facto leader of the kingdom given I'm the strongest and wisest being capable of leadership, Besides the last thing you need is to be thinking constantly about your parent's death. If you spend some time with your aunt and uncle, you would not only get stronger but also recover from your emotional trauma. Tomorrow I'm flying you to the country of Zen." Belserion replied as he uses his delicate claws to tuck me into bed with his massive claw without cutting me by accident being the gentle giant I've known him to be.

"Okay then!" I replied starting to feel better.

"Your mother and father might be gone but they're spirit lives on. If anything according to the dragon religion of Tserkov' Drakona (Russian For Dragon Chruch), the great Dragon Bahamut would reincarnate the spirits of your parents down the line and your mother's soul would live on.I have faith that one day, you will probably meet your parent assuming you ever live as long as a dragon." ingeel explained to Irene as he starts to leave the room.

"I wish I couldn't die, I wish that I would meet my parents again and I wish I had the strength of a dragon," I said to myself as I fell asleep on my bed.

Boy, there's a reason the "Be careful what you wish for" motto exists, for the most part, everything I've wished for came true.

The Next Day

July 28, X781. I packed my sack of clothes and go on Belserion's back and prepare my journey into Middle Earthland. The flight between Whitestone One in Dragonv to Exodus within Zen took only 4 hours to get to the Holiest country within the world. By contrast, it would've taken a month at best with a horse carriage.

We arrived at the country of Zen, a country recently founded as a lost kingdom and said to be the birthplace of The Temple of Zen and Zentopia. The country itself was a stark contrast to Dragonv. Dragonv was so massive that it would take nearly twice the size of Isghal to fill up the massive country, by contrast, Zen was so small, that it was only as large as the distance between Crocus and Mongolia. Another difference is the heat, the burning sands, and deserts within and surrounding the country where an unpleasant shock to my system as I'm used to the much colder climate of Dragonv.

I was instantly welcomed by my distant family members as my aunt hugged me.

"We've been waiting for you Irene..how are things with you my dear niece?" Auska asked me as she clutched me in her hug, her hug was notably more gentle than mommy's hug.

"Welcome to Zen my niece, here you will begin your training as Queen of the Dragons." Uncle Fred said to me as he made it clear the reason I was here given he was the no-nonsense type of guy.

"RENA!" I said to Ren as I rushed to hug her.

"IRENE!" Ren responded as she hugged me

"How are things with you cousin? I heard you would be coming here but didn't expect you to be here so fast." Rena asked me wondering how I got here fast.

"You know Belserion is known as the fastest dragon in the world. Despite being so old, he can fly across the entire world in a day." I answered stating how fast Belserion was.

"How was your day of school Rena?"Asuka asked her daughter as she hugged her, unlike my mother, she didn't nearly kill her daughter with her hugs.

"It was you're going through the training with dad? Good luck with that, my father doesn't play around with training. You might want to eat and get as much rest as possible." Rena said to me warning me of the training hell that was to come.

Rena wasn't kidding either. After having an excellent dinner and going to bed at 9 P.M. like my mother taught me to, I was rudely awakened at 4 A.M. by my Uncle.

"Wake up Irene!" he said to me shouting at my ear causing my ear to vibrate.

"But the sun hasn't risen yet!" I asked him.

"Exactly, we're going to begin our exercises early, get used to this routine because every day except the Sabbath and Zenith Holidays, you're going to train like this. Now get into the bathroom and put on your clothes, we're going to train." Uncle Fred commanded speaking as if he was a military drill instructor.

After getting my bath, I was at the castle with my uncle outside leaning on a Palm Tree.

"It seems you're ready!" My Uncle asked me.

"Ready for what?" I asked my uncle.

"Your first part of your training. You and I are going to jog across the entire Scared Desert to Stairway city and run up the legendary stairway to Heaven Ziggurat." my Uncle said to me which filled me with dread. Cross the entire Scared Desert Region that makes up most of the area in Zen and much of the area in Gohra, it would been too much.

"But that's too much of a jog. It would take us nearly 2 days to cross that on foot." I explained to my uncle whining about the insanity of treking the deadly desert.

"The reason Zen is known for its legendary mages is because of the harsh conditions we train under, how else your mother became the strongest human in the world. She treked this very desert herself in her journey to become the strongest." My Uncle explained to me.

"Mom treked this desert?" I asked him.

"Yep and ran up the Ziggurat. At her peak of training, she completed the exercise she developed in less than an hour." My Uncle confirmed.

"Under all that conditioning? My mother was something else...Very well, I'll try my best." I replied as I began my trek leaving Exodus and heading to Stairway City, needless to say, it was not the least bit pleasant of an adventure.

The first problem I faced was the lack of mobility around the desert's sand, it slowed my movements down so much given it was so much of it. Naturally, it didn't faze my Uncle because he got used to trekking this terrain. The second problem was the sandstorms and sand blowing everywhere which blinded me and put sand in my mouth causing me to repeatedly cough.

Third and most obvious problems were the burning heat when it reached sunrise and even worse during the Afternoon, the heat beat down on me as if I was within a brick oven and the most frightening part was the lack of water. I nearly knelled over from lack of water within a few hours of trekking the desert. Had not for my Uncle teaching me a vital part of survival in the desert, I wouldn't have made it.

"The Catcusses within the desert store drinking water in them, very useful for trekking the desert and you're on the verge of dehydration."He said to me as he poured a jar of the water he collected into my clay cup and I drank it down.

"So are we there yet. "I asked him hoping that I would get a yes.

"We still have around 150km to go." He answered bluntly.

"You got to be kidding me, all this waking and we're not even halfway there," I answered horrified at the reality I was up against. I walked for 6 hours and was nowhere close to Stairway City. It would the longest trerk I've experienced.

The danger was also around the corner in every direction. Middle Earthland was well known for being one of the least hospitable places on Earhtland. Giant Killer Scorpions the size of Bulls roamed around seeking their prey, Killer Gekko creatures roam around as well and even Catci mutant monsters disguise themselves as catcus to ambush their prey but the most dangerous were the illusions that many fell prey to trekking the desert.

Nighttime was frigid as hell, the scorching heat of the desert was bad enough with my body being badly sunburned from the scorching heat and having to rehydrate myself with Cactus Water several times and finding Oasis streams as well but combined with the frigid temperatures of the desert at night comparable to that of Dragonv's average temperatures, it was too much for my young body to handle.

After toughing out my journey, we finally made it to Stairway City within Gohra, the largest city within Middle Earthland within 36 hours of my training. The city was around 1/5th the size of Whitestone One but had a lot of beautiful architecture silmair to Exodus. Stairway City was the oldest and most inhabited city in the world. Built around X7,250 BZ, it was one of the oldest cities in existence with the Stairway to Heaven built more recently by the Askerhami Tribe to reach out to their god Asekrhamn in Heaven. The Giants built their own monument the Giant's Temple in which they worshipped their God Nephilmin, the creator of the Giant Race.

"Man this city is so vibrant and rich," I said to Uncle Fred.

"This city was around longer than any civilization before it. Many rumor that the legendary One Magic could also be within this city itself hence the people of the Askerhmani Faith constructed the Stairway to Heaven Ziggurat hoping to find answers while the Giants built their temple to find their god Nephilmin." Uncle Fred explained to me

"Do I really have to climb all of that? That Ziggurat is enormous!" I asked my Uncle.

"Rest up a bit, then you climb the Ziggurat," he answered bluntly.

After resting my body for a few hours within the town, I climbed up the massive Ziggurat that was half a kilometer wide and a quarter Kilometer wide. The massive Ziggurat was half the size of the Grand Babolyan Ziggruart Ur within modern day Kari known as the Ur Empire in my days. The jogging up the massive stairway was torture to my legs as it took me 2 hours to reach the top where I passed out.

My Uncle then appeared on a Giant Severant Clas Dragon named Edk who had brownish yellow scales blending with the Desert sand where the next part of my training began.

"What's next Uncle Fred?" I asked him worn out from climbing up the Ziggurat.

"You're next job is to learn how to ride a Dragon at high speeds."He answered as another dragon appeared on the Ziggurat and I hoped on it's back.

"An Average Dragon's true speed can reach up to 20 kilometers per second, too much for most humans to handle without training. Instead, we'll start with 1km/sec as the default speed that you need to travel. You need to travel to 3 locations and drop off these boxes and come back here without falling off. The Grand Ziggurat within the Ur Empire, the " My Uncle said to me.

"What if I fall? " I shouted horrified at the fact I'll die.

"Don't worry, I'll catch you. You can trust me master Dragonv." Edk replied as I hoped on the Dragons back with a saddle on me. Sooner than a flash of Lightning, the Dragon rocketed off, cross the same distance I crossed the desert in less than 3 and a half minutes, I struggled to hold onto the dragon only to fall off the dragon. Thankfully Edk was fast enough to catch me mid-fall and save me.

I fell of Edk a grand total of 20 times within the trek between Carbia, Dama, and Ur barely able to deliver 3 boxes in the chaotic trip. One within the Grand Cusrader citadel within Cabira, a territory held by Zentopia since the last Crusader war, the Grand Ziggurat of Ur in the Ur Empire and The Grand Central Mosque in Dama's capital city Damascus, a religious shrine built that is said to be where the Messiah would return or what the Askerhamni believe as Saladin.

The dragon moving at 1 kilometer per second was 3 times the speed of sound, it was like riding a horse with the speed of a Jet Fighter. Belserion at his maximum peak can travel up to 3,000km/sec, enough to cross Isghal in a spilled second but he can only do that in short bursts while his maximum travel speed was around 150km/sec ,Dragons traveling people travel under the sound barrier to safely travel most humans to avoid killing them by them falling off.

After an hour of pure chaotic travel, I landed back at the Stairway Ziaagurat woozy and throwing up my lunch all over the scared Ziggaruat. Uncle Fred gave me a towel to clean up so I can undergo the next extreme training.

"Ready for the next training regiment?" My uncle asked me as I pant.

"Please tell me it doesn't involve running or flying," I answered worn out.

"Nope, this time it involves you doing more swordsmanship and strength training." My Uncle stated, at first it felt like a breath of fresh air, no more trekking the desert or trying to fly across several countries.

Little did I know, my sparring partner was a Giant known as Akhin Des Sema, a Giant known for extreme strength and power, as expected by warrior Giants, he's able to defeat and even kill Dragons. He had nappy hair in a fro like fashion with tan skin common within the region with a mustache and beard wearing a tonga and wielding a scimitar the size of a small building.

He towered at the same size as Belserion himself, ablet nowhere near as powerful as Belserion or the Dragon Protection Squad but strong enough to easily defeat a lower tier Dragon, he was the bodyguard of King Canan, the Legendary King of Giants who was arguing with Uncle Fred about training me. The King was an elderly looking giant but fairly muscular with a much paler complexion compared to most giants in the region given he's from the north, he wore a toga and a crown and had long white hair, beard, and a mustache.

"But she's merely a child, grown humans can barely handle my brave knight Akhin in a fight, what thinks it's a good idea to train a child with him." King Canan asked my Uncle perplexed that he would send me to fight a giant

"She's the daughter of the former Queen of Dragons, we need to train her to be as strong as her mother," Fredrick replied.

"Why didn't you say so, still don't you think she's a bit young for this training?" Canan asked my uncle.

"We don't have many options here, she's the key to saving the entire human race. The Dark Dragon King will retaliate in a few decades, we must get her to her mother's level before that happens." My uncle replied.

Before I knew it I was up against a massive giant warrior. Fear and dread overwhelmed me as I was staring him down however he declined to fight.

"You're not ready to fight a Super Giant yet...Instead, you will fight against a lower class Giant to test your strength." the Giant Warrior said to me.

I then did battle with one of the lower level Giants, despite being fodder class for his division, he was easily far stronger than most humans. I desperately attempt to avoid his blows, he was fighting me unarmed to my Uncle's request and he was clearly holding back against me. It was clear the gap between myself and the giant was huge but despite the large size of the Giant, he managed to surprise me with his blinding speed and knocked the sword out of my hand with enough finesse with his bare hand, he didn't accidentally injure me with his slap.

"Okay, that's enough for today." Uncle Fred said to the Giant as he goes to check on me.

"Man, that was hard.I have to do this every day?" I asked Uncle worn out.

"No this was to test your conditioning and your current level. This test would be done once every month to measure how much you've improved as we do the actual training. Which will be swordsmanship training and Enchantment training. I understand this training might be hard for you and if you want we can wait until you're older to handle this." My Uncle explained to me as he explains my training regiment, however, I ignored my pain in my body and pressed on.

"No, I'll do this training now. The fate of humanity rests on me to be strong enough to combat the Dark Dragon Tribe threat. I'm the only one who can wield, I'm the only one who can lead the Dragon Army into victory. If I slack now, I'll not be able to stop the Dark Dragon Tribe. I'll press on and become as great as my mother was." I replied stubbornly ignoring my body's limitations.

"You truly are your mother's child. I warn you though, I only guided you with this test to test your conditioning, the next time around, you must erk to Gohra alone, fly the dragon alone and battle the Giants with weaponry and you must do this once every month until you become strong enough to do this task effortlessly, when you're able to do this, you can claim the throne as Queen of Dragons and begin your next step of training." My Uncle said to me upfront stating that even tougher training awaited for me.

"I understand and I'm determined to make sure my parent's sacrifice wasn't in vain," I replied as I prepared for the next stages of training.

For the next 4 years, I spent my time training within the country of Zen with my Zenith uncle and my Zenith aunt. It was within Zen where I began my training to becoming the best Queen to live, Little did I know, the textbooks that would've documented the greatest queen to live Irene Hiro Mujika Dragonv Belserion would be lost in time due to the Second Dragon War and the events following that war that lead to a period of darkness in humanity. Almost all historical text from X381 to X397 was lost in a sea of hellfire and destruction.

X381 to x397 became known as the lost generation within history. What started off as fairly peaceful became the bloodiest period in human history prior to the Grand Magic Dark Age, The following events afterward with Zeref and Ancologia, plunged all of humanity into 100 years of darkness.

My mother's reincarcerated soul would never read or learn about my adventures, how I've made Dragonv even greater than it was under my mother or how I almost successfully brought an era of global peace...Instead, my name was almost removed entirely from the history books and the books that do exist demonized me in the worst light for the victors of history are the ones who wrote the history books.

Another thing I would've never imagined is that I've become immortal and unable to die of aging. I've watched countless civilizations collapse and all due to war and lived long enough to see my mother's spiritual reincarnation..Little did I know, the reincarceration would come in a completely different form.

400 years later

Irene's POV

"I don't care if you're my mother, I would obliterate anyone who gets in my way and anyone who threatens the Fairy Tail guild and my country."

Queen Écarlate my mother was spiritually reincarnated in the form of my very own daughter, Erza Scarlet. My grandmother Goldstein was a Zenith of Bosocan Descent who's mother name was Bosocan for Scarlet, it came full circle that the one who would lead to my own death would be none other than my own daughter, Erza Scarlet.

What led to this dark path? How in the earth did I ever fought my own daughter who was a spiritual reincarnation of my very own mother? What led to the corruption of my soul and what led me to decide to take my own life? Could there be a way to prevent this? I drift within the darkness as I head to another fragment of my memories, my teenage years. The years that would help me develop into the woman I am today!

To be contintued

(A/N: Whoa sorry for the long chapter but considering this is a vital part of Irene's character development. Yeah, this chapter was as action-packed as I wanted it to be. Yeah, the Dragon Fights as seen here were to showcase how powerful the S ranked and High Ranked A Class Dragons are within this fan fiction and as you can see, Victor Heartfilla and Charles Knightalker could barely put a dent in these Dragons despite being the most powerful human mages.

Speaking of the Dragon War, Primus is Ingeel's father a loosely based Expy of Optimus Prime who in the first Dragon War was the strongest dragon in that war aside from Belserion. Belserion despite his old age at this time can easily defeat all 7 Dragon protection squad members due to superior strength and experience, however, expect dragons under his teaching to catch up.

As for the deaths of Queen Écarlate and Charles Kinghtwalker, they are the first calayaist in Irene's transformation into the twisted evil mother from hell. As Irene eluded, there are 5 moments in her life that pushed her to a point of ultimate despair, she went full genocidal Given canon showed us 3 moments of her despair which was Belserion's death, her husband's betrayal and her turning into a Dragon. That leaves one last one which I'm going to leave it to you to guess.

Also while Écarlate might be dead, expect a few more appearances of her to interconnect with Irene more alongside her father. Boy talks about going down swinging on both their parts. Despite being outclassed, Charles was able to nearly cook the dragons using a massive meteorite to smash them into the Earth's Mantle as a final attack. As for the queen herself, Queen Écarlate's signature technique is based on, you guessed it Himura Kenshin's Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki: The Ultimate Technique of Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu, yep a slash so fast and powerful it generates a black hole like void to trap enemies in to get slashed up. What better way to go down swinging. Écarlate essentially attacked the mouth of Krauser and did so much internal damage to Krauser, he got knocked out of the plot for a decade and a half. Like Linkara once said " If you're going to kill a character, you need to have them at the peak of awesome and badass before killing them off" and boy did I succeeded on that front. Take Notes Mashima, this is how you make a final stand.

Also, the Dragon Krauser is an obvious Expy of Bowser with the brains of Dr. Eggman or Dr Wily. His Eternal Flame is basically a souped-up version of Bowser's signature Fire Breath from the Mario Games, his shell covering his body is based on Bowser and he uses Dark Magic like Bowser. As you learn later on, he would be essentially the main antagonist within the Irene backstory past prior to Ancologia and like Ancoloiga has powers of other Dragons.

And why yes there's a reason why Askua Corona has that name, that's the mother of the distant ancestor Flare Corona. I figure to just make Erza and Flare directly blood-related given there is no backstory on Flare's parents at all. The backstory I'm working on is having her parents die in a shipwreck with Flare being the sole survivor and raised by Giants. Don't worry about Flare, I intend to use her how she should've been used in canon, how you ask?Well can't tell you everything now, can you?

Queen Ecaratle( Rusty) 37,502 MPF base, 48,000 MPF using Sword Body Magic, 53,333 MPF full power without Hoshigami No Satsuki, 81,666 MPF using Hoshigami No Satsuki. 81,000 MPF using her lifeforce energy to become one with her blade

Krauser( Young) 81,000 MPF with immunity to any possible form of magic

Hope Primus:48,000 MPF base, 61,666 MPF using Flames of Emotion, 74,666 MPF using Fire King Mode. Magic resistance up to 90,000 MPF

Belserion: 48,000 MPF base, 74,666 MPF full power, Magic resistance up to 90,000 MPF

Kamekus: 42,667 MPF base, 68,266 MPF full power, Magic resistance up to 80,000 MPF

Kamella:42,000 MPF base, 66,666 MPF full power, Magic resistance up to 78,000 MPF

Charles Kinghtwalker: 38,533 MPF base, 72,000 MPF full power, 80,000 MPF casting Blazing Sky Sema

And for those wondering about the energy of the planet itself, here's a separate power level for it.

Earthland(Planet) 40,000 MPF Continental Crust, 88,000 MPF Outer Mantle, 120,000 MPF inner Mantle, 150,000 MPF Outer Core, 200,000 MPF Inne Core.

Charles plan to kill the dragons using the earth itself seemed sound in theory given the Mantle has pressure millions of times greater than the surface with extreme heat and lack of oxygen which can theoretically kill even Dragons. Not to mention the Earth itself isn't a magical spell so in theory dragons have almost no immunity to the attacks. Had not for Krauser 'summoning Primus, Kamella and Kamekus would've been dead and Krauser would've been so severely weakened surviving the mantle even Grandeeney could've killed him.

And yeah I couldn't resist having Irene's temper tantrum be reminiscent of Natsu's denial of Erza's death during the Tower of Heaven when Erza had a Near Death Experience moment. As for Middle Earthland, enjoy that glimpse of it and Irene's training for next chapter we cut to Irene returning to Dragonv to become queen of the dragons. Also, the over the top training is based on Roshi training Goku and Krillin in Dragon Ball. Anyways this is the last you would see of child Irene as we start off next chapter with Teenage Irene and the start of the second Arc of the Fairy Tail One Series, New Queen of Dragons Arc, which would be much more focused on Dragons. Anyways stick tune for more chaos and madness.)