No one's Pov.
While the group enjoyed their free time, Lucy was busy reading a book that the girls couldn't understand.
"Lucy, what is the title of that book?" Wendy asked. She watched the blonde reading the book very attentive.
"It's an ancient book from a sacred library my mother owns…" Lucy replied, her eyes never leaving the pages of the book. Wendy took a closer look at the written language but couldn't figure out what it says.
"I'm unfamiliar with this language…" Wendy whispered. Lucy's ears perked a bit.
"This language is known as Celestia. It's a dialect that the dragons of the Heavenly Kingdom would use to communicate with other dragons. It's never been used or heard in Earthland, which is probably why you can't understand the language." Lucy replied to Wendy's question.
"I see, what are you reading about at the moment?" Lucy side eyed the girl beside her and smiled.
"I'm reading about Ankhseram's curse." Lucy's response left Wendy shocked.
"That unbreakable curse?" Erza suddenly butted into their conversation.
"Unbreakable might be going a bit overboard…" Lucy responded. The two girls looked at Lucy as if she were a lunatic.
"Are you saying that you can break this curse?" Erza asked, stunned.
"There is a chance, I'm just furthering my knowledge on the damn curse," Lucy responded. She closed the golden cased book and snapped her fingers. The book disappeared within seconds.
"Let's get ready, it's starting to get dark…" Lucy glanced at an opened window to see the sun slowly descending.
"Right, let's see our dragon friend," Erza responded and walked out of the room with Wendy and Carla.
*The Ankhseram curse* Lucy thought before joining the two outside. When Lucy joined with the two, they saw the boys, most notably, Natsu and Gray butting heads with one another. Erza cleared her throat causing the two to back off.
"We should be prepared for anything that happens. Lucy, you try and reason with the dragon, if that doesn't work then we'll have to eliminate it, understood." Erza stared at Lucy who nodded in response. The group headed towards the bath where they were greeted to heavy steam and an empty bath.
"Man, a bath sounds good about now." Natsu groaned only to receive a punch from Erza.
"Focus. Now, where do you think he's at.." Erza scanned the bath. Lucy looked at Erza to see her already in a towel.
"Focus ey," Lucy mumbled. She stared at the steam before looking up at the sky. The steam was making it hard for the group to see anything.
*Since when did the spa produce this much steam…* Lucy thought while tugging the collar of her shirt. Wearing a black suit really wasn't appropriate for this occasion. Wendy was fanning herself with Carla trying to bear with the piping steam.
"What do we have here?" Lucy's ears perked up at the sudden language. She glanced up to see a pair of red eyes staring down at the group.
"So the owner has finally brought his puppets to come to deal with me...HAHAHA!" his roar rumbled the sky. Erza re-equipped into her Black Wing Armor.
"Lucy, you're up." Erza glanced at Lucy. The blonde gave a subtle nod and stepped forward, careful of not falling into the bath.
"I am Lucy Heartfilia, daughter of Elara Celest. What business do you have here in this spa." Lucy asked in the ancient language that the group couldn't understand.
"The Elara Celest...such a liar, every dragon knows that Elara is still trapped within the cosmos. BE GONE MORTAL!" the dragon let out a loud roar before sending down a blast of fire towards Lucy.
"My my, is this dragon treating my princess unfairly?" another voice came through the steam before another blast was sent towards the dragon's blast. The blast of fire connected and instantly clashed causing a large explosion. The steam was blown away during the impact of the blast. As the steam cleared, a figure was standing in front of Lucy.
"Impeccable timing as always, Inferno." Lucy folded her arms and smirked at the man standing in front of her. He looked to be the same age as Lucy's mother. He had orange hair with the end tips being a bright yellow color. His hair color represented the literal image of fire. He wore a fitting brown jacket with sleeves that end around his elbows. He wore dark brown pants with black suspenders that loosely hung from his hips. He wore black leather gloves with a cross stitching design around the wrist area. His jacket had a golden flame design sown into the left side of the jacket. He ran his hand through his fiery hair and popped his jacket's collar.
"How are you my princess." he turned around and knelt down in front of Lucy. Natsu and the others were glaring at the man's sudden behavior.
"I'm doing fine Inferno, I never expected you to appear in Earthland. In your human form, nonetheless." Lucy smirked at his attire.
"Well, I made a pact to keep you safe. Besides, I've been meaning to hunt down this dragon for a while." Inferno turned his head slightly and dangerously smirked at the dragon figure looming over the establishment. Inferno turned his attention towards the group and stared at the boys who stood a good foot apart from Lucy.
"Hmm, a nice set of boys you have there hime-sama" Inferno teased. Lucy jabbed his side making him fall into the bath.
"If you're here to tease me then you've definitely come at a bad time," Lucy responded back. Inferno made his way out of the pool and heated up his body, causing the water to evaporate from his clothes.
"Lucy, who is that?" Wendy asked, cautiously.
"Oh, everyone, this is Inferno. The first elemental fire dragon." Lucy explained.
"The first?" Gray asked, puzzled.
"Yes, I'll explain more about that later, for now, we've got to deal with this dragon." Lucy turned around, ready to fight. Inferno held out an arm in front of Lucy, pausing her from further actions.
"Allow me, princess. I've been meaning to dust off my fighting skills. You know to compete with that lion spirit of yours." Inferno held up his hand and ignited a small flame around his palm. Lucy recalled her lion spirit, Leo and Inferno having a competition on who was better, it was completely annoying.
"Whatever you say…" Lucy looked at him, confused. Inferno bowed before jumping up in the air and clashing with the dragon. The dragon's figure was finally visible as soon as Inferno made contact with it.
"Matte, I wanna join too!" Natsu yelled. Erza stared at the new guy attacking the dragon and decided to join in the fight. She flew towards the dragon and started attacking. Happy carried Natsu towards the dragon where Natsu went dragon frenzy all over the dragon's body. Gray and the other guys decided to join in on the fight leaving Wendy and Lucy in the bath.
"Should we join them?" Wendy looked at Lucy with a troubled look.
"You can, besides they'll need your support magic. I'll be waiting for the right time to strike." Lucy mentioned. She smiled at Wendy and nodded towards the dragon.
"You be careful now dear," Carla exclaimed before carrying Wendy up in the air. Lucy folded her arms and watched the bizarre range of ice, fire, and lightning attacks striking the dragon from various sides.
"Now shall we get started?" Lucy smirked and started glowing.