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Chapter 6
Natsu's POV
My body feels sluggish and my heads pounding; I hear metal face talking something about Master and filling me in. I groan, "Ugh.. fill me in on what?" I crack open an eyeball, "Where the heck am I?" I look around the cell and walk out the door to see we're in a familiar room I just can't place it.
Then feel a hand on my wrist then my forehead, "Nastu how are you feeling?" Wendy looks at me with concern.
"Screw how he's feeling! How the hell is he even awake?! I was told flame-breath would be out until tomorrow. There's no way that old bat messed up that potion." Gajeel bellows, growling and pointing a finger at me.
"Wanna go screw head!" I growl moving around Wendy; instead she grabbed my arm. "Why are you so upset Gajeel? I know Ms. Porlyusica made it special just for Dragon Slayers. Let me examine him and then we can let me know what happened."
"He's worried about the other slayers, the potion was supposed to be used on them too. And if Natsu already woke up what if the other's weren't in their cells yet?" Laxus calmly explains.
"What he said," Gajeel grunts.
"Other slayers? What the hell is going on?" I demand my magic flaring up aaaaaaannnnddddd nothing. No flame, no smoke nothing. "What the HELL?" I look down and there's that stupid cuff from Tartarus.
"Oh! It could be the fire in his belly!" Wendy taps her finger to her chin. She completely ignores me freaking out and turns to the others, "since Natsu's naturally warmer than everyone else I bet that has something to do with it. We didn't even think of tailoring that potion to each specific slayer." Wendy's slowly working herself up.
Gajeel pats Wendy on the head, "No sweat kid it'll work out. I doubt the others will be able to burn through it."
"QUIT IGNORING ME!" I bellow only to have a hand slapped over my mouth. "SSSHHHH," Gajeel looks around the room and I follow his gaze to see runes fading from the ceiling. "If you get too worked up in here Salamander those runes will take you out."
I lick his hand to get it off of me, "screw it your dead Lava Breath!"
"Now, now my children we don't have much time." Master looks over the room then nodding to a small table set up. After we take our seats, "so what's going on Gramps?"
"I'm going to get to that, however I have to say I'm surprised to see you awake Natsu Porlyusica made that potion twice as strong for you."
Wendy gasped, "But I thought they were all the same! Natsu let me check on you it was weird that you burned through the normal potion but a double dose is really bad." She reached for me and hissed pulling back her hand. "Natsu I can't even touch you, your burning up!"
"Huh?" I look at myself and sure enough I left hand prints burned into the table, "What the..?"
"Hmmmm seems like something really is going to happen. Not that I doubted Cana's cards, but it seems to be out of your control ay Natsu?" Gramps walks over to me with his hands behind his back studying the burns. "I think you'll need more than a few of those sealing stone cuffs."
"First I need some answers Gramps everyone else knows what's going on."
"Alright, alright! Cana came to me last night and told me all dragon slayers were going to go berserk, destroying all of Fiore. She told me we needed to keep the slayers from all meeting up together. However she wasn't able to determine what exactly causes the change just that it happens within the next few days." All of us quiet, hanging on every word, waiting for him to continue.
"I sent Erza and Mira with a potion to Crime Sorciere for Cobra, they have reported Cobra went into a cell at the Magic Council willingly. Yukino agreed that Sting would have to be knocked out, while Rogue was willing to be caged. So that just leaves our Slayers; we used our resources to create this special cell with Gajeel's assistance. I will let him tell you the things you need to know, however you need to be aware that he does not know everything. We kept quite a few very lethal things from him. Nothing we have will kill you however you must understand you cannot leave this room. I apologize for this but it is for the safety of the entire countries citizens." He bows to us looking sad.
"No worries Gramps!" I grin, "we understand." I see all of us nod and smile at the old man.
"Gihi, now for the fun part; first as you can see Tartarus gave us some lovely ideas. We each have sealing stone cuffs, Freed brought 4 for each of us. I thought he was being a worried wort so I only put one on myself and Salamander. But seeing as its already not holding him in check I guess we should put them all on." I scowl at Gajeel but kept silent waiting for him to finish.
"Now Freed said if we get too rowdy the runes in the room will disable us and lock us in our cells for an hour." Gajeel explained looking already annoyed at the prospect.
"Oh!" Wendy giggles, "So it's like a time out."
Laxus just grunts and waves his hand for metal head to continue. "Before any food can appear a gas will fill the room taking away our senses. He didn't tell me how the food would get here and I didn't ask. Our senses will return to us within moments. Now our cells have some of our personal things in it for "comfort" (lug nut emphasizes this with finger quotes) as the Rain Woman put it." This caused all of us to smile knowing Juvia would put her foot down about making sure everyone was comfortable.
"There is a bathroom in each cell cause no one with our nose needs to be contained in a funk… right Salamander." I feel his eyes glaring at me, "yea yea." I wave him off.
"Security wise you cannot open any doors that includes the other cells. You can open your own only if it allows you to. Every cell is also equipped with a silencer so if you don't want anyone to hear you, you can activate it. There are lacramas everywhere and someone will always be listening or watching them. There is one lacrama for us to use when bored, along with board games, some movie lacramas, and books."
Master nods, "very good! Everyone in the guild knows what is happening, expect those out of missions. They will be informed upon their arrival and added into rotation for watch duty. No one is going on any jobs for the next week or so, at least not until this matter is resolved. I'm having the Exceeds stay in the guild for the time being so no need to worry."
I smile knowing Happy would be in heaven, getting to stay the night with Carla. Master ensured we had our cuffs on then brought in some food. "Natsu I'm sorry you have to spend your birthday in here, but Mira and I agreed you can have whatever you want to eat for an entire day as our way of making it up for missing the party we originally had planned."
"Nah just move the party back gramps and maybe some of Mira's Ghost Pepper Cake!" I grin at least Luce won't miss out on it then. Plus maybe I can trick her into eating some cake; her face would be priceless!
As we all settle in for our stay I hear Wendy sigh, "time is definitely going to move slowly in here. How will we know what time it is or even what day it is?"
I see Laxus making his way to the small living area set up for us and he picked up a lacrama. He started fiddling with it and grunting in annoyance before setting it back down in front of Wendy. She looked at it and smiles, "Thank you so much Laxus!"
Curiously I got up to see what exactly he did for the Wendy only to find the Lacrama showing the view from the top of the guildhall overlooking the lake. It wasn't perfect but it definitely helped, I smile and ruffle Wendy's hair earning me a giggle.
Once we all ate dinner and I was practically bouncing off the walls with energy, "Oi metal face wanna spar?"
"Gihi, let's see how far we get before we get chucked into our rooms!" We moved the couches aside to make room as Laxus grumbles calling us idiots but still sits back to watch.
Back in Crocus…..
Lucy and Levy are both frustrated and excited at the new information they had come across. While it was more than they had known before it was still so little and left them with even more questions.
Dragons and Their Slayers
Content
1. Different Types and Categories
2. Physical Attributes
3. Dietary Needs
4. Mating
Lucy's POV
Levy and I of course immediately jump to the 4th chapter to find it only had one page. Our shoulders slump but continue to read:
Dragons do not have a single mate nor do they raise their young together. Meanwhile Slayers have only one true mate and are destined to find them. We have heard mention the Dragons had made a deal with the *Fates so they would not be turned away from their society. They say Dragons have done this in hopes it will assist in preventing dragonification as to be accepted by one of their own kind helps Slayers remember they are human.
Dragon Slayers have a special ceremony for claiming their mate and once done it cannot be undone. It is said that in this ceremony the intended mates exchange a piece of their souls forever binding them together. This will allow the souls to find each other in this life and everyone here after.
Normally the finding of one's mate is done only after the Slayers body has gone through maturity. Please see Chapter 2 for Maturity stages. If a slayer has met their mate before maturity they will simply develop a strong friendship due to lack of hormonal drive.
I must apologize as this is all the information I could collect on this subject.
*Fates are as mythical as Dragons themselves are beings that assist in weaving the destiny of the world
*Note* While not much is known about Dragon and Slayer breeding habits we have discovered there is an entire book written on this subject alone however it is on an island no one seems able to find.
Levy and I exchange a frustrated look and quickly flip to Chapter 2 hoping the Physical Attributes would help. Sighing in a little relief their seemed to be a little more information:
Chapter 2 Physical Attributes
Dragons while each kind has specific attributes they all have a great many in common. Individual attributes will be listed amongst their category and kind in Chapter 1. While the first Chapter was more focused on dragons themselves this will focus more on Slayers.
Dragons have life spans in centuries although rarely see old age due to power and territorial struggles. ….
I sigh looking at levy who is engrossed into the chapters ahead. I get up and grab my wind reader glasses off my desk and hand them to her. "Sorry Lev I'm way too tired to read all of that, could you do a quick read and give me some highlights."
Levy shoots me a happy grin, "thank goodness I was starting to skip words trying to find the important stuff and you know I hate doing that!" She snags my glasses and is off to the races flipping through not just chapter 2 but the entire book. I get up, grab our plates, and set them outside for the room service to pick up. Once I resituated myself on the bed Levy snaps the book closed and lets out a sigh.
"Well…."