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Summary: After a month since returning from Edolas, Lucy feels that she wasn't of much use, and when their friends needed her the most she wasn't really able to help them, thus, she decided that she will leave Fairy Tail for a year to train herself and become more powerful, but what happens when she meets with the last dragon on Eartland?
Chapter 3 – Uranus, The Dragon.
"Dra… Dra… Dragon!" Lucy yelled, she was trembling under the sight of such a powerful and beautiful being, It's eyes were looking at hers as if they could see into the deeps of her soul. Ironically enough, Lucy was able to see her whole life pass in front of her. Her Mother, how she died, how she fought with her father so much, how she escaped, her joy when she made her first contract with a celestial spirit, when she arrived for the first time at town Hargeon and met Natsu, how he saved her and invited her to the Fairy Tail, how all the members of the guild welcomed her just like one of their own. Then it she saw their fights with Eisenwald Guild, Phantom Lord and their element four, the Oracion Seis, their trip to Edolas and the Exceed there, and lastly, the faces of Natsu, Happy, Gray, Erza, Wendy and everybody in Fairy Tail. Tears started to form under Lucy's eyes but she was able to keep them at bay.
The Dragon noticed how the Lucy's mood changed rapidly, fear, sadness, happiness, joy, and fear again, however, the strongest emotion of them all was her happiness. It seemed as if it every emotion was being over clouded by it, 'This might be the one', the dragon thought.
The Dragon was curious about the girl she had in front of it, and in an involuntary motion, it turned its head to the side, like a cat would do. Lucy who was still looking into the Dragon's eyes felt a few tears trek down her cheeks, so she looked down and with her hand she tried her best to clean it. She was trembling and was scared like hell, 'Is this it? If so, then I have no regrets, although I would have liked to see everybody else before dying', she thought.
Lucy suddenly shook her head, 'No! What am I thinking? I promised I would return, and so I will'. She started to move towards a log nearby, the Dragon still looking at her curiously, Lucy, with the help of the log was able to stand up.
The Dragons eyes widened a little at that, every human that it had encountered either passed out from sheer fear, froze there without able to do anything, or simply went nuts and attacked everything that moved. But this girl, she was moving, albeit sloppily but still she was, and not only that, she was facing it, she stood battle ready in case of an upcoming attack. 'This might be the one after all!' The dragon thought excitedly.
Lucy noticed that the Dragon seemed surprised, or at least that's how a human looked surprised, sort of. The Dragon moved its head down a little, causing Lucy to move her left leg back, she was ready to evade and the Dragon seemed pleased by that.
Suddenly, the Dragon attacked Lucy with its tail, but Lucy was able to avoid it in the nick of time. The tail crashed against several logs, breaking them into several pieces and sending splinters everywhere, Lucy landed on her knees and placed her arms in front of her face to protect her from any splinters that might have come towards her, but was lucky that none did. Once she removed her arms from her face, Lucy gulped at the demonstration of strength, she stood again, still trembling, and positioned herself ready to evade another attack.
The Dragon chose to charge against her this time, head first so it's forehead could hit Lucy in the chest. Lucy jumped out of the way, evading me majority of the hit, but her left leg was caught by the scales that surrounded the Dragon's right cheekbone, this caused her to change her trajectory, redirecting her towards a tree nearby.
She crashed with her back against said tree and then slid to the ground. After a minute she was able to move again and go on her knees, but coughed some blood. She stood once again, cleaning the blood that remained in her lips and chin with the back of her hand.
The dragon was amazed that she could still move, but was really taken back when he noticed the look of challenge present in Lucy's eyes. The Dragon relaxed and moved extended its neck to its full height. The Dragon then opened its mouth and a voice that seemed to come from nowhere and from everywhere at the same time shocked the place, "Relax human, this one won't hurt you", it said, the voice was grave and feminine, and it carried a warm and relaxing feeling.
Lucy was shocked, her eyes widened, her mouth dried and her chin would have fallen down to hell if it was possible. After a few minutes, she recovered from the shock, and with a trembling voice she said, "You… You can talk?"
"Of Course I can, why wouldn't I be able to?", the Dragon said with smiling, Lucy thought that the dragon seemed to be telling the truth, but didn't relax just yet, "If you mean no harm, why did you attacked me then?" she asked.
"Because I need to test you, and you passed", the Dragon stated simply, as if it was an obvious answer, Lucy's expression changed to one of confusion, "Test me?" she said, she was relaxing her position, and the trembling was diminishing. "Yes, you see, you are not the first human that comes here, but every human that comes here passes out, can't move or simply goes crazy and starts killing everybody." The Dragon said.
"Mmmmm, There are rumors thought, that the people who come here either can't remember anything about that or simply don't ever return", Lucy said, wondering if they were true or simply were rumors to scare the travelers, "Ah, that, they are true, I was forced to erase the memory of the people that came here so I could remain hidden for a while longer, and I had to kill a human that went crazy, sadly, he had already killed half the crew he came with", the dragon said with a sorrowful tone.
Lucy relaxed once she heard that, apparently, the worse that could happen to her is for her memories of the island to just vanish, which wasn't good, but was better than dying. She neared one of the trees that were nearby to sit, but when she was about to sit, she felt something brush her legs, "Ahhhhh!" she shrieked and jumped but landed badly on her butt, "What was that!" she yelled. The Dragon laughed at her before answering, "It's a cat, it came here with some of the guys that I had to erase their memories and never left", It said.
Lucy looked around and found the cat hiding behind the remaining of one of the trees the Dragon had destroyed. Lucy was surprised when she noticed that it was Roda, the same cat that Aria lost, and the one she was supposed to get for her. She stood and walked towards the cat slowly, "Roda, Come", she said, and started whistling the animal. When Roda heard its name, it turned around and showed her head behind the log she was hiding. Lucy extended her hand, allowing a little space between the tip of her fingers and the log, Roda carefully jumped over the log and started to near Lucy's hand. Once she was close enough to it, she started to smell the hand, and after a bit, she was brushing herself against Lucy's legs again.
The Dragon Chuckled slightly when the cat was brushing against Lucy's legs, "You seem to have a good hand with domestic animals", it said, Lucy turned to face the Dragon again, and scratching the back of her head she shook it, "Not Really, From where I come from there's a talking cat, so really, a normal one isn't really hard to treat. By the way, you said you had erased the memories of everybody that has seen you, will you be erasing mine?", Lucy said, the last question with a nervous expression, after that, she headed towards the log she was going to sit before the cat incident and dropped herself, leaning her back onto the tree and caressing Roda who sat aside from her.
The Dragon tensed a little at her question, 'She seems rather relaxed knowing that she might lose her memory… perhaps…' the dragon thought, "That depends, Why are you here?" it asked Lucy, "Oh, Sorry, haven't even introduced myself right? I'm Lucy, a Celestial Mage from Fairy Tail, nice to meet you, I came here because some rumors back at Hargeon town said that there was something here, guessing they meant you, and I thought I should investigate and try and become more stronger", she said with a smile.
The Dragon nodded and made a sound that indicated that it was in deep thought. After a few minutes, the Dragon neared Lucy and closed the distance between them with its head, and started to smell her, "Wha… What are you doing?" Lucy asked, freaked out, but the dragon ignored her and kept smeeling her, 'Mmmm, She smells like Igneel… and… Grandine?, but it's really faint, I wonder…' The dragon thought, "Do you happen to know any other dragon?" it asked Lucy.
Lucy looked up to the retreating figure of the dragon; she shook her head "No, I don't… But… Back home there are a few friends of mine that were raised by dragons… Let me think… I believe they were, Igneel… Grandine… and Metallicana" Lucy said counting with her hand as she mentioned each dragon name. The Dragon's eyes widened at the mention of those tree, 'She knows them! She IS the one after all' the Dragon thought excited.
It showed a grin so large that some teeth were allowed to be seen from the outside. Lucy by that time had reached for her bag and retrieved a can of fish for her to eat, "I'm hungry, you want some?" she said as she opened the can and dropped some food to Roda who was trying to rob the can from her hand.
"No Thanks, by the way, my name is Uranus" the Dragon said, Lucy nodded as she started to eat like she had never eaten before. Uranus looked at her with a thoughtful gaze, "So, you want to become stronger", she asked, Lucy nodded as she chew her food, "How long do you have before you have to return home?" Uranus asked Lucy.
Lucy swallowed what she had been chewing and had a thoughtful look on her face, "Mmm, Around 11 months and a half" she said, and then continued to eat her food. Roda had already finished and was now sleeping aside from Lucy. Uranus looked at the sky for a few minutes, and then, out of the blue, "How about if I train you in the arts of the 'Dragon Slayer' magic in that time?", she said.
Lucy who was drinking a nice big gulp of water, turned her head away from the dragon quickly and spitted the water she had in her mouth, she started coughing and after a little bit she was able to breathe normally again, "What?, You Serious?", Uranus Nodded, "Yes, but you told me you were a Celestial Mage, I won't teach you anything unless they all of them agree", Lucy looked at her with dreamy eyes, she wanted to train and become stronger, and she met a Dragon who would like to train her, how better could it get.
"Alright, give me a minute to talk to my spirits" Lucy said, then she removed her Key Ring from her belt and holding all her keys minus Caelum's key, which was in her pocket she chanted, "I am the person who connects the roads between the Celestial realm and the Physical world, thus I request a meeting with the spirits I am contracted with", Suddenly, a blinding yellow light surrounded Lucy, and when it dissipated, she was nowhere to be seen.
Lucy appeared in a blue room, it had no ceiling, allowing a perfect view of the night sky and it's stars, it had several couches and it was a rather large room, there sat every spirit Lucy had contracts with, Loke looked up and noticing Lucy he stood from the couch he was sitting on and neared her and placed a hand over her shoulder, "Lucy!, to what do we owe the pleasure!" he said, giving an smile to Lucy, "Hi, Loke, I came here to talk to everybody, so if you don't mind sitting again, I need to talk you all something" Lucy said smiling back.
Loke nodded and returned to his seat, once he sat Lucy stood in front of them all, "Hi, Everybody", she said, asking for the attention of those who weren't paying attention to her, (Mainly Aquarius, and Scorpio). Once Taurus noticed Lucy he stood up, "Oh! My Lovely Lucy!, Your body is as hot as ever!", he said. Lucy blushed, "Thanks, Taurus, I need to talk to all of you so please, pay attention", she said.
"As all of you know, I left Fairy Tail for a year so I could train myself and become more powerful, however, right now I found a Dragon, Uranus, and she asked me if I wanted to train with her to learn Dragon Slayer Magic, however, she also asked me to get your approval, and thus, here I am. I understand it might be kind of hypocrite of my part, and maybe even selfish, but I really want to become strong enough to be able to protect my family, my friends and my spirits" Lucy said smiling.
The spirits all looked to each other and started mumbling to themselves. Lucy was really nervous and after a few minutes, Loke stepped in front of all of them and smiled, "We understand why you want to become more stronger, we agree with what you want to do, you've treated us better than any other person has, and you are our friend, just remember, whenever you need us, we'll be there" He said.
Lucy smiled back and had to stop the tears that threatened to come forth from her eyes. She felt… Happy, "And don't dare to call me during your training, I'll be on vacation during the whole year with my boyfriend!" Aquarius said. Lucy smiled at all of them and waving her hand she returned to the physical world.
With a 'poof', Lucy appeared where she had been before disappearing; the dragon, who was resting aside from the asleep cat, stood once she noticed Lucy's arrival "So?, How did it go?" the Dragon asked Lucy.
She nodded, "They agreed" Lucy said with a smile. The dragon nodded at that and looked serious, "Well then, we should start don't you think?" the dragon said grinning evilly, Lucy's expression changed, she was rather scared at that evil grin the dragon had, "My Training is really hard, so you better be prepared".
Lucy's expression changed at that, she got nervous due to the dragon's evil grin, "No… Now?" Lucy said nervously. Uranus nodded at that as his grin grew even wider, "Yes, we don't have too much time so… We might as well use all the time we have" she said, eyes sparkling. "A… Alright" Lucy said, "Wh… What will we do?", she was moving her hands nervously, and looking around for something. "Mmmm, You are already a Mage, so I believe you know the basic of magic, right?" Uranus said, Lucy nodded energetically at that yet she was still nervous, "Well then, let's start with stamina training, I want you to run around me until I tell you to stop, and don't dare to stop and rest before that, or you'll run even more" the dragon said, and motion Lucy to move a few meters away, she nodded, indicating Lucy to start. As Lucy started to run, Uranus started to chant something.
After an hour of running, Uranus allowed Lucy to rest and eat something, she sat for around 10 minutes to catch her bread and then started to eat what she had on her backpack, after she finished eating, Uranus looked at her grinning, "So, how are you felling?" she asked, Lucy looked up from her position pale from the tiredness, "Tired" was all she could say before her head dropped again, "Don't worry, you will get used to it in time, for now rest, it's already late so let's return to the cave and sleep, tomorrow I will wake early" the dragon said.
Lucy walked as if she were some sort of zombie towards the cave following Uranus and Roda. Once there, Uranus laid on the floor and rested its head on her paws, Roda followed suit and laid aside her, and Lucy leaned against a wall to help her sit, and after that she laid on the floor.
Uranus turned his head to where she was and turned his head in confusion, "What are you doing?" she said, Lucy turned a little, "I'm going to sleep", she said with a sleepy expression, and then yawned. Uranus chuckled at that, "Come, sleep with me, I bet it's warmer than the floor" the Dragon said smiling kindly. Lucy nodded and slowly stood, walking towards Uranus in a slowly manner, she dropped right aside from her belly and leaning into it, near Roda, and with that, she was asleep. Uranus chuckled again and with her tail she created a barrier between Lucy and the rest of the cave, and then, went to sleep.
Thats it, i hope you liked it, Next chapter will focus on her training. It might take a little longer because i started classess again so... Yea... Review...
I'd like to apologize to those who read my Rosario Fanfic for not updating lately and starting this one, but im working on that one too, i wont leave it unfinished, i'll try to update soon on that one.