In a grand pasture safely hidden from the world, a little girl of seven is running around the wildflowers laughing for no reason other than pure happiness. Her silver eyes were shining bright and her smile is wide showing off her fangs. Her long blonde hair and long black tail is flying wildly behind her. Her midnight black wings are open enough to give her balance but not enough to pick her up into the air.
Chasing her is a cute ram woman with curly pink hair and running a bit clumsily, a pink haired maid wearing chains as bracelets with an expressionless face but toucan just tell that she's happy too, and a strange little snowman dog with a carrot nose. There isn't any particular game that they're playing. They're simply enjoying the warm summer day. Their game would've continued if a sudden roar didn't fill the air and was approaching fast. The child looks up and she smiles even wider and her eyes shine even brighter. She knows that roar anywhere.
Soaring down towards them is a monstrous black dragon with electric blue tribal marks. This is the Dragon King, Acnologia, the Chaos Dragon. His blood red eyes glares at the two women with the child making them vanish in a flash of light in fear. His eyes turns towards the child and instantly his ferocious face softens as the child runs to him happily as he lands in the meadow.
"Papa!" She cries. "You've returned! I missed you so much!" The dragon smiles with a soft chuckle as he lowers his head and says, "Hello my little starlight. I have missed you too. Look what I got for you." He opens his paw to reveal toys and books he knows she will love. The smile on her face makes the trip to the human village nearby worth it.
No one would believe that this devil dragon, who laughed as he murdered humans and dragons, that once had a desire of destroying the world, would give it all up and have a soft heart towards his only daughter, Lucy.
"Have you been practicing your magic while I was away?" He asks.
"Yes Papa!" Lucy answers, that smile still on her face. "Do you want to see?"
"Sure." He replies. She turns away from her father, takes a deep breath and roars, "Chaos Dragon Roar!" A stream of black fire with gold stars flows out of her mouth. A burn strip goes straight to the trees where it looks like a powerful bomb went off. She turns back to her father with a huge smile on her face.
Acnologia laughs as he looks at his child with pride. "That's my little hatchling!" He cries, and then he asks, "Now what about your mother's magic?"
"Papa, you know I can do it! You scared Virgo, Aries, and Plue away!" Lucy giggles.
He chuckles and says, "I want to see you do it."
She reaches into the pouch attached to her belt and pulled out a golden key. She chants the spell, "Gate of the Maiden, I open thee, Virgo!" She swishes and then turns the key as though opening a door. A golden light appears. When it vanishes, a woman with pink hair in a maid's outfit with chains around her wrists is left behind.
"Hello Little Princess. Punishment?" She greets with her emotionless face.
Lucy just giggles, "No Virgo. I just wanted to show you off to Papa. You can go back now if you want."
The maid spirit simply nods before disappearing in gold light like before.
"Only seven and you can summon a Zodiac Key. Your mother would be proud." Acnologia states causing Lucy to that sweet smile that only shows when they talk about her mother. Acnologia has told her everything that he could remember about that night. He even told her about his past and how meeting her mother changed him. He has kept no secrets from her. He cried when he discovered that she still loves him more than anything. He owes his entire happiness to his mate, Layla Dreyer. If it wasn't for her, he wouldn't be the dragon king he is today. He hopes that she's watching them from the stars and is proud of them.
They spent their day playing and training until Acnologia suddenly stops chasing Lucy and stares off towards the trees. The air feels fowl, the scent of death flies towards them on the wind, plants are starting to wither at a rapid pace and animals are dropping dead. Stepping out of the trees and into view is a handsome man with black hair and dark eyes. Lucy instantly runs to the dragon and hides behind one of his legs. She may not know who he is but she knows that he is dangerous.
"Well well, if it isn't the big bad Dragon King playing nice with a child. . .and from the looks of her I'm going to guess she's yours." The man starts glaring at the child, trying to figure out why she seems familiar until it hits him. "No. No. No!" He turns his attention to Acnologia who is glaring back, "You mated her, didn't you? You mated with that human Celestial Mage, didn't you?!"
"She accepted me! Gave me a reason live and have a good happy life!" Acnologia roars. "She became mine to love! Mine to protect! Even in death she still has that power over me! I still live because of this wondrously beautiful gift she left for ME!"
"YOU are mine! I forbid you from growing an attachment to her, I told you to kill her so she doesn't make you weak, and what do you do? You mate with her and created that THING!" The man snarls at the child with pure hatred and disgust. "We had a deal! We had a plan! What happened for making this world BURN!?"
Before Acnologia could say anything, rings of black energy forms around his legs, neck, and down his tail. He's suddenly is slammed down into the ground causing his child to scream in fear and shock. The man snaps his fingers and the dragon screams in pain.
"Papa!" Lucy cries.
"Lucy! Run!" Acnologia cries.
"No Papa! I'll save you!" Lucy shouts. She moves to fight but her father moves faster and places her inside a protective dome where magic can't enter and magic can't leave it either. Lucy instantly knew what her father did and starts attacking the dome with her fists and feet.
The dark man walks up to the child as the dragon roars in rage. He keeps telling the man to stay away from his daughter but he doesn't listen. The man places a hand on the dome and with a smirk that sends chills down her spine, he announces, "I'm taking your father. I'm going to make him do what he was created for. And then, I'm going to laugh as I make him kill you." The man expects fear from her but instead he sees anger as a tremendous amount of magic rolls off her. In a matter of minutes, the magic starts to weaken the shield until it shatters.
The man gasps as he backs away. He's been in that shield once before and it took him a day of constantly pumping the shield with his toxic magic before it broke when this child is able to do it in a mere couple of minutes. Could. . . Could this child. . . Be stronger than her father? Than HIMSELF?
"I don't like you." She snarls and then she roars, "Chaos Dragon Roar!"
Black and gold fire spews out of her mouth and flies towards the man. It hits him so hard and fast that he wasn't quick enough to dodge. Half of his body is covered in burns but the thing that not only shocks and scares him is the fact that the burns aren't healing. A child. A child was able to give a wound to an immortal that he couldn't heal. Now that is interesting.
Acnologia saw the look on the man's face. He knows what that look means. He has to protect her. He casts another spell around his daughter but this time, instead of creating a protection dome, he sends her away, back home where she is safe.
"Your daughter is interesting. I'll have to keep an eye on her growth." The man stated. He turns back to the dragon and a smile of pure evil twists his lips. "Now, what to do with you."