The dragon has arrived, and the kids are sprinting with a less than stable Cole Wingheart and two little girls to take can of, please enjoy!

Romeo was caring Asuka piggyback, Jack had Kylie on her back, and Wendy was running ahead with Cole, who was insistent that he was fine.

"Guys...it's starting to rain and we still haven't spotted the dragon or a single other person!" Romeo called.

"Well what else do we do but keep running?" Jack grumbled as she continued, legs pumping, Kylie bouncing on her back.

Cole had dodged around a large boulder, the second he did, they all heard him scream.

"LOOK OUT!"

He dove back around the boulder and ran toward them as a blast of nightmare energy shattered the moss covered boulder.

Cole turned on his heel and backed up to be next to Wendy, Jack and Romeo catching up.

The dust of the boulder cleared to show a trio of dragon spawn. They towered ten feet in height each and bent over heavily to rest their front arms on the ground, they were wingless and had heavy plates of black and gold covering them, and a pair of glowing red eyes peered out from behind a large horn like armored piece.
"This thing is like Motherglare!" Wendy yelped as Romeo backed off from the dragon, Asuka clutching tightly to his vest.

"Guys..." Romeo mumbled, unsure if he should run or not.

"Cole, take Kylie." Jack handed the boy Kylie without a thought, the little girl huffing about how she could walk herself and Cole yet again wincing, before realizing his absorbing power by contact was still malfunctioning.

Jack stepped up in front of all of her friends.

"You guys make for the castle, I can hold them back." She ordered.

"No way we're leaving you here!" Wendy cried.

That was when a flash of lightning illuminated the sky, and the heavens opened out into a downpour.

Water ran down Jack's face as she fisted her hands, the three dragon spawn's bending to spring.

"Wendy...please go." Jack looked over her shoulder and smiled.

"I can handle a few little dragons."

With that she snapped her arms across and a huge curtain of twisted thorny vines wove into a wall, cutting the dragon's off from the rest of the ground.

Leaving Jack on the side with the spawn.

"JACK!" Cole shouted as sound of combat drifted to their ears.

Wendy squinted against the pouring rain to see the over the top of the wall, to see a silhouetted figure, wings spread wide, hundreds of feet in length.

"Oh god..." She staggered backwards, her heart hammering in her chest, tears mixing with the rain.

"There it is." She raised a trembling hand and pointed as the dragon neared.

All of them dropped and covered their heads with their arms as the monster swooped over them, roaring mightily and straining their ears.

Kylie and Asuka wailed in fright, Romeo clutched tightly to Asuka and Cole to Kylie, and the dragon passed over them, on it's way to the castle.

On the other side of the wall, Jack had taken notice of the dragon.

I teased Wendy for not being able to beat THAT? God, I'm an idiot.

She thought to herself as she armed herself with vine weapons and bent her knees.

Maybe I can pay her back by not getting killed by these things.

At the Draconem Heart castle.

Jellal backpedaled in the air when he first spotted the creature, hovering hundreds of feet above his home he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

Shivering from his soaked jacket, he decided to signal instead of wasting time to fly all the way down. He ripped his white Nehru jacket from his back and flew downward while waving it in the air.

On the tower, Natsu was squinting up at Jellal's sudden movement, and that was when he spotted the shadow of the dragon shooting just above the clouds.

"IT'S COMING!" Jellal screamed as Natsu turned to face toward the crowds of battle prepped wizards on the lawn of the castle and lined across the turrets.

He roared, blasting a funnel of fire into the sky, and instantly he heard chanting spells, he saw the flight wizards beginning to lift off of the ground, he saw the exceeds rising up as one.

"Jellal is signaling! It's battle time people!" He shouted as he slid down the rail of the ladder, through the room in the tower, and ran down the stairs.

He slammed across the drawbridge as the monster that haunted his nightmares for the past year.

"Shadowlogia."

He breathed.

The monster slammed into the protective dome, and all of the people on the lawn and on the castle walls winces as one, would the spell hold out?

The dragon reared back on his haunches and flapped it's wings twice to carry it upwards, it came smashing back down hard and shattered the spell, it landed on it's rear legs in front of the castle as the wizards on the ground began firing rapidly, exceeds carrying close combat wizards including a 'wildly' screaming Bacchus hurtled upward.
The dragon, with pure black armored skin and golden swirls all across it, spread it's wings wide and screeched.

Out of the forests, hundreds of dragon spawn came bounding at their mother's call.

"CHARGE!"

Erza lead the offensive wizards as the nearest exceed plucked her up and flew at the dragon, dropping Erza on it's back.

Once she landed she made for it's face, dealing punishing blows that managed to crack the armored plates on it's back with her dual swords.

In her Japanese cloth armor, barefoot to grip the scaly, rain slick surface.

She struggled to the peek of the mammoth dragon's head, fighting against the rain and the howling wind.

She at last reached the precipice at the top of the raging dragon's head, she equipped her black wing armors sword and struck hard, wedging it between two armored, scaly pieces on the towering monsters head and trying to make some sort of wound.

The creature shrieked, tossing it's head and bucking once, sending Erza flying.

She shrieked as she fell from the hundred and fifty foot dragon's head.

The fiery haired mage hurtled earthward, ex-quipping her sword as her arms flailed wildly, trying to find something, anything to break her fall.

That was when a flash of gold dropped from the sky and raced under her, catching her from her deadly drop ten feet from the group, pulling up hard, her savior hugged her tightly.

Erza had clenched her eyes firmly shut, and opened them only when she realized she wasn't dead or mortally wounded.

"J-Jellal?" She stuttered, shocked.

Jellal smiled softly.

"I've done many things wrong in my life, and you've forgiven me for those sins. Not everyone at Draconem wants to be enemies, some of us wish be become friends. Some...even wish to be more."

Erza felt a blush warm her cheeks, eyes wide, she swallowed several times before feeling her voice return under her control.

"T-Take me back to the top again."

Jellal nodded, swooping in a graceful arc towards the nightmarish creature once more.

"Just promise you won't go falling off again."

Erza's heart gave a flutter, even beneath this driving downpour, even listening to this behemoth dragon's screeching.

Despite all of that, in his arms, she felt perfectly safe.

"I wouldn't worry." She said as she turned her head to face the dragon, who was being pummeled with spells as her spawn thinned the wizards's numbers down below.

"After all." She looked back into Jellal's eyes.

"I know you'll always to catch me."

He released her, and both the fairy and her heart soared.

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