"Hello everyone and welcome to another chap. of The Princess and the Dragon. Plz note that October apoligizes for the delay of this chapter. You see she is now finished recovering from her surgery and will be updating more often now! It's safe to say that she will be updating every 2 days, and once she is more comfortable she will bring it to everyday a new update :D" Lucy bowed.
"October does not own ANY FAIRY TAIL what so ever but she wished she did." Natsu added.
"Yea, sorry guys for everything! Now plz enjoy i made this chap extra long cause i love you all!"
"THIS IS UNEXCEPTABLE!" A voice resounded throughout the Dragneel castle, Lady Demune's to be exact. The evil witch which cast the unbreakable spell, grabbed her wine glass throwing it across the room. Only to collided with the wall beside her trusty servant Len. This action made the servant tremble in fear, as Demune tried her best not to lash out anymore at the server. It wasn't entirely his fault to be exact she should have paid more attention to the Dragon. Never did the queen think that the dragon would so easily leave his cave, she always thought that he would stay there for an eternity. What really irked her was that after almost decades of ruling this kingdom, why did fate chose to end his sorrow now?
"Len…" The queen spoke once again, making the servant jump.
"Y-yes De-Demune?" Len stuttered scared out of his wits.
"If you were a Dragon where would you go?" The witch spoke standing up from her chair, walking over to the window. Staring out to her beautiful kingdom she concurred years ago.
"I-I don't know M-My queen…" The man continued.
"Hmm…" The witch tapped her chin, thinking of a place were the blonde hag would take the Dragon. 'Did that Heartfilla child already figure out a way to break the curse?" The dark women thought silently, tweaking her brain for an exact place they would go it suddenly dawned on her. If they were to break the curse it wouldn't be easy. The curse can only be lifted by true loves kiss, and knowing the dense prince would never even think twice that the blonde was actually best suited for him. This might be an advantage for the evil witch she should not pass upon. If they were to find true love it would only mean that the princess would have to return home. To find suitors brave enough to even think about seeing a dragon, let alone buying the whole story of him turning into a dragon. She had to take advantage of the situation, if not all she has ever worked for to achieve would utterly fail all in the end.
"Len, fetch me the Dragon Knights." The queen demanded.
"But the D-Dragon Knights, doesn't that mean-" Len stopped himself before saying that dreaded word.
"Yes, we strike the Heartfilla Kingdom at dawn… If that little wench wants to hide her Dragon at daddy's castle so be it. Well just have to tear the castle down brick by stone brick." Lady Demune finished, waving her hand so Len can be dismissed. The servant bowed to his master and quickly scooted out of her study.
Running down the large hallway of the castle he finally reached a large doorway. On the top was an insignia of a dragon sewn on a certain type of fabric. Scurring down to the large wooden door he opened it with a small creak. "D-Dragon Knights?" Len stuttered. As he peaked through the small crack, it was pitch black, nothing was there. Suddenly a man emerged from the shadows, smiling evilly to the timid servant. "Boys we have company…" He spoke roughly.
Others appeared beside him all of them pouring out of the darkness. Their eyes were all blood shot red, their clothes brutally torn apart. In Len's eyes, they were just completely disgusting. A rotten odor found its way to the servants nostrils making him want to throw up everything he had engulfed that morning. Covering his nose he trembled as he watched all the men from below start making their way towards him.
"Oh look the Lady has brought us some new flesh…" One of the men spoke closing in closer to the servant.
"He looks rather tasty… I call the right arm!" Another said as he licked his lips at the thought of devouring Len's flesh.
"N-no wait I'm just here to pass on a m-message from the Q-queen." Len shook his arms frantically.
All the men stopped in their tracks, some started to shake at the mentioning of the queen.
"What does that bloody queen want with us?" A brave man shouted, insulting the witch.
"S-she sent me to f-fetch you all, T-the Heartfilla K-Kingdom holds something s-she wants." Len explained the best he could, being so timid never worked to his advantage. It only made him seem even more weaker then he already was.
"Sound like we have a war in our hands…" The brave man tapped his chin lightly.
"S-So will you d-do it?" Len stuttered.
"W-what will that witch give me and my boys in return?" He questioned.
"I-I don't know… I'm guessing supplies, food, an a-award of some sort." Len responded.
There was some conversing between the men under him. Others started to complain as it was to low of a bargain if they were to give up their lives for a queen they didn't even pledge loyalty to. While others had nothing to complain about, they mostly thought it was at least something instead of nothing. The brave man from earlier stepped forward as speaker for him and his fellow warriors.
"As long as my men have good eating, and new clothes. That's all we want in return for our services." He said with a nod, while his men cheered behind him. Great full their finally able to get out of that rat hole and see the sun again.
Len smiled bowing to the men as he turned in his heels, making a break for it trying to escape the awful smell that was now etched in his nose. As he ran towards his master to report news of the Dragon Knights.
~0~
"Erza-Chan! It's Levy-Chan open up!" Levy knocked. Still no response came from the door, Levy had already knocked three times rhythmically. It was strange for Erza not to answer.
"I guess no one's home…" The book worm sighed leaving the cabin.
Walking down the path she came from, a rustling came from the bush's near the forest. Making the Levy jump from a fright, as the figure surfaced from the woods. Only to reveal her Red haired friend. "Oh my Layla! Erza you scarred me to bits…" The bookworm exhaled calming herself down.
"Sorry Levy, did you bring the book I told you about?" The red head asked.
"Oh yes I did. But what's the sudden urgency for this book in particular?" Levy said as she pulled the book Erza requested from her sack.
"Follow me…" Erza motioned as she disappeared once again.
The baffled blue haired woman followed, curious onto why Erza was interested in such a silly child's book. And to what she was doing in the woods anyways? Following the red head as they twisted through the trees, she followed her into a large open plain. That's were she saw… it.
A large red dragon, did she say large. No humongous red dragon. But his size didn't matter to her at that point it was the fangs that were poking out of his giant snout. All that came to the blue haired woman's mind was it eating her alive. Picking her bones out of its teeth, like when a bit of corn gets caught he would just flick her out like yesterdays Chinese food.
"KYYYAAA!" The book worms scream echoed throughout the forest, as birds flew out of their trees. Even some of the people of the kingdom heard the blood curdling screech, but non the less to busy to even give in another look to who was in trouble. As the woman screamed, Erza put a hand over her mouth to silence her. Lucy stirred in her sleep as the Dragon followed her suit.
Cracking his eye open Natsu saw the knight with the book worm. As he rose his head high to the new visitor, it earned yelp come from Levy, against Erza's hand. "Don't scream he wont hurt you." Erza whispered, in a warning tone. As the Knight pushed the bookworm towards the Dragon, Natsu watched as Levy built up somewhat a bit of courage.
Levy was scarred to her wits, but slowly approached the Dragon. The book worm had always read in books that dragons ate humans, but others say that Dragons are meant to be friendly and docile creatures. Stretching out a hand to pet his snout, she lost all feeling in her feet. Making them feel like jelly.
Natsu could feel the blue haired woman tremble, making his puff smoke out of his nostrils. As Lucy rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, she watched the Dragon's head hover. Slowly descending down to something blue.
Levy felt something rough against her skin, making a shiver run down her spine. She knew she had made contact with the dragon, or though he made contact with her so to speak. Finally she seemed to be warming up to him. It was like petting a lizard of some sorts.
"Levy-Chan is that you?" Lucy slurred.
Natsu turned his head towards Lucy's direction, ' I got to say for a weirdo she's pretty cute when she wakes up' The Dragon thought to himself.
Levy perked up, tears started to form at the sight of her best friend. "PRINCESS LUCY!" The bookworm screamed as she ran into Lucy for a hug, almost losing his balance as Levy's impact was pretty strong against the blonde.
"Oh Levy-Chan I missed you!" The blonde squealed.
The dragon watched as the two friends broke their embrace. "So your Levy?" Natsu spoke nearing his head towards the blue haired woman. Levy jumped as she ran behind Lucy for protection.
"Don't worry Levy this is my friend Natsu." Lucy spoke as she reassured the blue haired woman she wouldn't be eaten. This made her friend relax a bit.
"H-Hi Natsu-San!" The woman stuttered out.
The Dragon exhaled, "Hello Levy."
"We'll we should probably get back to the task at hand." Erza waved at the group, as she examined the book cover to cover.
"What's that Erza?" Lucy questioned.
"This will answer all of our problems…" The scarlet haired knight said a matter a fact.
"How isn't that a dumb book?" Natsu said doubtfully.
"It's not dumb it's a book about-" Levy stopped herself in mid sentence.
"The Dragon Prince… Natsu this story is about you!" The blonde said.
"S-so this is… the dragon from the s-story?" Levy pointed out dumbfounded.
"Yes, Lucy will give you detail after I find out something first." Erza planned.
"Like what?" Lucy questioned.
"Maybe some clues about this mysterious curse. And another of the 'fake' prince Natsu that has been ruling over the Dragneel kingdom for quiet some time now. The information in this children's book might have some hidden context about what the other Natsu is planning." Erza explained to the group.
"According to the date it was released was over a few decades ago maybe a couple hundred years back. Whatever we find in this book must be facts of an eye witness that was actually there." The knight finished.
"So that means whoever wrote this book-" The dragon stopped, speechless.
"Must have known about Natsu's transformation years ago!" The blonde finished.
"Then why the hell didn't they help me back then?" Natsu cursed.
"I don't know… The only thing said about the author was he left initials for a name. See?" Erza opened the book pointing directly to the two words written there.
"W.M? Hey Natsu do you know anyone with those initials?" Lucy questioned.
"….Only one." Natsu's voice cracked. The large dragon turned his head while his body trailed behind. Leaving the timid bookworm, blonde, and the knight alone.
"Follow him Luce… He might need you in a time like this." The knight patted Lucy's shoulder.
The princess nodded, getting up from her feet she ran after the dragon. Watching the blonde pick her way through the wood, Erza turned her attention to the book worm.
"Do you own any other book with these initials?" The knight asked.
Levy perked up, "Well, no… But I have done research on the author. All that was said about her to be exact, was the date she was born and the date she had died. That was it nothing else was said about her, it's like everything had been erased." The book worm responded sadly.
"I see…" The knight nodded.
'I just hope Lucy and Natsu are doing ok…'
~0~
"Natsu! Where are you?" The blonde cupped her hands around her mouth to make a speaker. Shouting her dragons name throughout the forest, finding a dragon was harder than she thought. That's when she quickly spotted a moving red figure, a tail looked more like it.
"Natsu! Thank goodness." Lucy smiled as she ran up to the large lizard. Turning around to his massive face tear's made a steady stream down his scales. His lip quivering, a whimpering noise coming out of his mouth.
"Are you ok?" The princess continued as she began to stroke his snout in a circular motion.
"S-She…" The Dragon said through sobs. It was hard to understand a babbling dragon all you would mostly hearing is snorts and a growling noise of sorts.
"Shhh… Its ok now breath for a second, now who is she?" Lucy soothed.
"Those initials…Their Wendy's. My little sister, Wendy Marvel." Natsu finally spoke.
Lucy held back a gasp. Her eyes went wide at the discovery of that he actually had a sister to begin with, but more so the pain he must be feeling of losing her. Lucy knew that feeling of when a loved one you care so deeply about has passed.
But it was unfair for Natsu to be living like this! 100 years or maybe even more, his sister waited for someone to figure out the damn book and save her older brother. Lucy was just a few years to late.
"S-She WAS MY SISTER! SHE DIDN'T DESERVE THIS!" Natsu shouted, his heart completely broken. Loud sobs following his suit.
"Well then prove it…" Lucy held her head low, bangs covering her eyes.
"W-what?" The dragon shocked Lucy had such a cold reaction.
"Prove it to your sister that her death wasn't wasted… She wrote that book to save your life, to let you live out of sorrow. Now its your turn to return the favor. Prove it to her that your life is worth living!" The princess shouted bravely.
Natsu blinked, 'Sis…'. A image had ran through his mind of his late sisters face. The raven hair curled into pigtails. The same brown eye Lucy has, but the smile she always gave him. That was something he always worked for everyday of his life. Just looking at that smile made his day.
Quickly snapping out of the past image, Natsu smiled down a Lucy. The blonde was only trying to cheer up the dragon the best way that she could. She was never giving him the cold shoulder but she was giving him the hope he needed to carry on.
"Thanks Luce." Hearing the Dragon's voice made Lucy's head shoot straight up.
"I have to stop these tears, I'll save them for when we break this curse…" Natsu finished.
Lucy looked up with hopeful eyes, glimmering that she had finally done something right for a change.
'Thanks sis for everything…' The dragon smiled, as a breeze carried leaves danced around the prince.
'Life isn't measured by how many tears you shed, its measured by the quality not the amount.'
"Were almost nearing the conclusion of this dear story find out what happens next in: Chapter 9 WAR!