Son of the Lightning Dragon
Chapter 3: Training
"Fairy Tail" Regular Speech
'Fairy Tail' Regular Thought
"Fairy Tail" Flashback
"Fairy Tail" Dragon/Demon/Spells
'Fairy Tail' Dragon or Demon thoughts
Fairy Tail - Stating of the year or a place
Summary: I was born into this world alone, knowing nothing but fear and despair. All that changed when he found me; he took me in and gave me a purpose, a reason to live for. It was because of him I was able to become strong, it was through his teachings that I might be able to achieve greatness. He was my teacher and my father, the dragon of lightning, Anorak.
West forest of Oshibana – Year – X777
"Oi, Anorak it's time to start training." Ryouta climbed up the back of the yellow dragon and punched in the back of the head being careful to not impale his hands on the sharp scales that covered Anorak's neck. "Hey are you even listening to me" Ryouta jumped off of the dragon and stood right in front of him. 'If he won't wake up looks like I'll have to try out the new technique I learned.' "Lightning Dragon Roar!" Ryouta sent a blast of lightning at the dragon and at the exact moment the bright yellow dragon opened its mouth and ate the lightning. The dragon began to get up while stretching out its massive wings and yawned.
"Although your power is getting stronger after only a year of my training you still aren't strong enough to pose a threat to anyone, not even that earth Dragonslayer girl that you find attractive"
"First of all I'm a lot stronger than you think and second of all I do not think she is attractive!" Ryouta shouted at the dragon while his face was just a tad bit red. Ryouta folded his arms and turned away from the dragon with a half-smile. 'I don't like Yui, she may be pretty but that doesn't mean that I like her.
"Hey, Ryouta, what are you thinking of. If you don't want to train I can go back to sleep." The dragon laughed as the child turned around quickly and stated that he wanted to train and that he was only thinking about the new moves Anorak was going to teach him. "Ok Ryouta time to train." The dragon turned around and pointed at a secluded part of the east forest. "Ryouta, I want you to demonstrate to me all the moves that I have shown you so far, and I want it done in under a minute." Ryouta stared at the dragon for what seemed like a second and then put on a serious face and shot a beam of lightning from his hand into the sky showing his readiness to begin. "One, Two, Three, Go!" Ryouta shot onto the forest floor and began speeding deeper and deeper into the dark forest.
"Lightning Dragon Roar" Ryouta sent a stream of lightning out of his mouth destroying a few trees and making a small clearing for him to use the rest of his magic. "Lightning Dragon Wing Attack" Ryouta spread his arms behind his back and streams of lightning enveloped his arm making a pair of wings constructed entirely of lightning as he whipped his body around in a three sixty turn taking out the remainder of the trees that surrounded his small clearing. The moment his attack was done Ryouta jumped up in the air and shouted, "Lightning Dragon Crushing Talon" Ryouta's right hand became cloaked with an electrical aura that spread out and grew into the makeshift hand of a dragon; Ryouta used the force of gravity to increase the power of his strike as he crashed into the ground creating a large explosion. Out of the smoke came Ryouta with lightning covering both of his hand as he ran out of the crater his previous attack he had made and shouted his final attack. "Lightning Dragon Blinding Spark" Ryouta combined both his hands into one and a ball of lightning about the size of a small child sprouted formed around his hands. Ryouta shot the ball of lighting at the nearest hill as the ball shot through the hill until it reached the middle of the hill and then expanded into a mini explosion leveling the top half of the hill. Ryouta walked back to Anorak admiring his handiwork but before he got to Anorak he tripped over a log that he had blasted away when he used his wing attack. Anorak stared at the young Dragonslayer before chuckling to himself.
'That kid definitely has potential, but at the moment that's all he has. He lacks grace in battle while also lacking power. His attacks may pack a punch to inexperienced mages or low ranking mages but the moment someone comes who has more experience than him I don't know how well he'll be able to handle it.' The dragon walked over to Ryouta who had chosen to sit on the log he tripped over while waiting for Anorak to assess his work. The dragon stared long and hard at Ryouta before speaking his mind. "Ryouta although you possess the necessary skills required to use these techniques you still have not completely gained their full potential, another thing; your speed is lacking along with your destructive power. Your roar alone should've been able to create a crater that required you to use three of the four attacks I've taught you. Finally, even though you're only twelve you have gained a deep understanding of my basic attacks and I think it's time for me to try to show you the more advanced forms of Dragon Slaying Magic." Ryouta stared at the dragon taking in every word before he finally acknowledged what the dragon was telling him.
"Wait, advanced Dragon Slaying Magic" Ryouta looked at the dragon with his head cocked sideways. "Are you trying to tell me you're going to teach me secret arts?" Ryouta's eyes started to shine with a dazzling anime light as he stared at the dragon.
Anorak looked at Ryouta with a look of humor at the boy's facial features but sighs and instead says, "Boy you are not ready for the secret arts and I wouldn't teach you anyway. I want you to learn those for yourself and change them to fit your style of fighting. The thing I will be teaching you is the second aspect of my lightning magic. It's called Lightning Dragon Thunder style. Now Ryouta, I want you to focus."
East Forest of Oshibana Year – X777
"Yui, my daughter, you have grown strong in the way of Earth Dragon Slayer magic." A dark brown dragon looked down at a field of flowers and grass and looking up at the dragon was Yui and she looked at the dragon with a gleam in her eyes at the praise as Terra the Earth Dragon was not one to give compliments so easy. "Now for the rest of your training my young one, I must tell you the truth. I will be leaving you to fend for yourself in a few days. I tell you this because I know you will be strong and you will be able to handle me being gone. I have known and cared for you for the past 6 years and even as a small child, you showed a strong will and a passion to protect." The dragon stared at the young girl looking for any sort of reaction but Yui stood tall and stared at the dragon with a face that betrayed no emotion. "Now I know that all though you look at me with eyes that have no emotion I know that in your heart you feel betrayed and scared. You wonder why I must leave, why I must betray you like I have. I can't tell you my exact purposes for leaving but I will tell you that I do not wish to leave you. I only wish that I could stay by your side till you wish to leave me. The only thing that I can think of giving you before I leave is imparting a new type of magic and the day before I leave, something you can remember me by other than my magic. The new type of magic I wish to impart to you is another part of which the earth does. The earth not only creates and destroys, it also heals and mends." The dragon looked at Yui to see if she was following, once she noticed that she was still paying attention she continued on. "The power to be able to heal yourself using the earth is quite helpful, but it does have its weaknesses. Just like the earth requires other natural sources to heal you must rely on others to be able back you up in battle for the amount of time it takes to heal. That being said this technique is not to be used in one on one battle." The dragon continued to speak about the properties of healing magic while elsewhere in the town of Oshibana.
Oshibana Town Year – X777
Ren was walking around the streets of Oshibana handing out a few more of the gems that he had gotten from Ryouta a while back when they had first met. Usually around the end of the day all of the bad and wicked souls would crawl from their cracks and crevices to prey on the souls of the weak. Ren was rushing home to escape the madness that was Oshibana at night. Ren began a full sprint back to his house as he was only a block away when out of the darkness a hand grabbed his arm and pulled him to the ground. The person that had attacked him put his hand behind him and pulled a knife to Ren's throat. "Hey kid you might not know me but I sure do know about you, by the way I was there when your parents died." The man snickered at the boy under his grasp as the child looked at him with extreme hatred. "Yeah although it was my partner that did it I watched as the life seeped out their bodies, oh and I stole this." The man pulls out a necklace that had a small black lacrima attached to the end of the necklace. Ren stared at the lacrima for what seemed like an hour while listening to man drone on about how it seemed interesting that their bodies were pointed away from him almost as if to protect him. After Ren realized the importance of the necklace he thought back to what his mom had told him when he was six.
Oshibana Town Year – X773
In Ren's house the day before his parent's death Ren was sitting in his mother's lap reading a book while his father was upstairs sleeping. Ren turned around to look at his mother while noticing that she had a necklace with a black lacrima on the end of the chain. "Hey mom, why do you have a black lacrima around your neck?" Ren's mom looked at him with loving eyes preparing to tell him a story.
"Well my little Ren that question would have to date back to when our ancestors were born. Our family is descended from a race of wizards that weren't born with an innate ability to use magic. They were able to gain the abilities through a source called a lacrima. They were able to implant this magic power inside of them through multiple ways. Some achieved it by eating it, others by absorbing its essence through science. They tried to see if it was possible to absorb more than one type of magic but when they did their bodies denied the magic and destroyed them. That is one of the many faults with the way our magic is used." Ren looked at his mother with a questioning glance wondering whether or not if she has gained magic like that. His mother laughed quietly and smiled at him before saying, "No me and your father do not have those magic abilities due to the worst side effect of gaining magic this way. The magic when used at times of extreme stress or extreme sense of emotions no matter what the emotion is, whether it be hate, sorrow, love or happiness. This magic tends to try and take over the body and engulf it until nothing is left but the essence of this magic. So far the only known way to get rid of this trait is to find a way to control that power with an iron will or find another way that rids one of the negative portions of the lacrima that feeds on emotions." Ren's mother paused to take a breath before continuing the story. "Now this lacrima is one of the last ones from when our ancestors had used them to gain magical powers."
Oshibana Town Year X777
Ren stared at the lacrima realizing the power it held and started to formulate a plan to get it out of the man's hand until the man hung the necklace right in front of his face. Ren pushed his head forward shocking the man into moving the knife as Ren bit down and swallowed the black lacrima. The man backed up as Ren's body started to convulse and violently shake until it stopped. The man began to crawl towards the young child at a slow cautious pace until out of nowhere Ren shouted in a voice that was not his own. "Stand back pitiful human, for the sins you have committed I will destroy you and all those you hold dear." The man stared at Ren before laughing out loud before replying.
"You; destroy me. You're nothing but a pitiful excuse for a child that was lucky that he survived the night his parents died." The man laughed some more until Ren lifted his hand towards the man's arm.
"I warned you, Shadow Make: Spear" A spear of darkness shot out of Ren's hand and impaled itself inside the man's shoulder. The man screamed out in pain as the darkness spread throughout his body until it completely surrounded him. "Now prepare to die, Shadow Make: Sword" a sword of darkness appeared out of Ren's arm as he charged the man covered in shadows and impaled him through the heart. The man from Dragon's Talon let out one more shriek before he finally died as the shadows released him blood seeped out from the wound on his chest. Ren began to walk forward before he passed out.