The 'Blood' Dragon Slayer

They all gazed at it, though it didn't seem to notice them.

"Woah…"Happy said.

"A…dragon?" Lily questioned. It was looking around, as though it was being cautious of something. Natsu slammed his fist against another.

"All right! I'm all fired up! Let's get some answers out of this bozo!" Natsu declared.

"Don't think you're going off without me!" Gajeel added. They were about walk forward, when Sienna and Lily pulled Natsu and Gajeel back, making them scream. They crouched down behind a rock that bent over so it covered their heads, but had several gaps in it, roughly 40 feet from where they had just been.

"Hey! What was that for?" Natsu asked antagonised. Sienna snapped her head up.

"Why do you think, moron? We've only just got here and you're already trying to pick fights with dragons!" she complained.

"I don't see the issue here! If we're dragon slayers then we can slay dragons!" Gajeel said half mockingly.

"But, we don't know how strong each specific dragon is. Charging straight at them will get us nowhere," Wendy added.

"I agree. We should analyse our situation first," Lily commented.

"Yeah. Look, our magic is used to slay dragons yes, but we have no idea how strong each specific dragon is, so if we are where I think we are, then we need to take it slow," Sienna explained.

"So where is here?" Happy asked.

"Man, that Shin Hirako guy better explain this to us, if we ever find him again," Natsu stated.

"At a guess, we're in a place where all the dragons disappeared to 7 years ago. How many dragons exactly are here, and whether this place actually links to Earthland we'll just have to find out along the way," Sienna added.

"Great, so when did you become the prophet around here?" Natsu moaned.

"Shut up! I'm just giving you my opinion!" she yelled.

"Hey guys! I think it's moving," Gajeel said. They stopped arguing and looked through the gaps to look at the dragon. It creped out of it's hiding hole, revealing its entire body. It was quite large with dark purple scales that faded to black. It looked magnificent. It was flying straight, until a black dragon, out of nowhere attacked it from the side. It lost its balance in the air and flew down diagonally until it hit the ground and skidded along it, stopping just before the rock that the group were hiding behind. Another black dragon then appeared and landed on the ground.

"Pathetic as always!" he grunted. The black dragon that attacked him before then landed next to him. The purple dragon stood up and shook the rubble off of him.

"I…I apologize," it replied timidly.

"You…apologize?" one of them roared. It then lifted on to its back legs and launched its claws into its shoulder. The purple dragon fell back down to the ground again in pain. The other dragon then proceed to bite him several times in the neck. The purple dragon roared out in pain.

"Man, you really are a sorry excuse for a dragon! Hey what do you think, shall we kill him now?" one asked the other.

"Yeah, there's no need for someone like you to exist!" Sienna looked to her right, thinking she'd see Natsu, but he wasn't there. She looked shocked.

"What do you guys think you're doing?" Natsu's voice said. Sienna looked dumbfounded.

"Oh please tell me he's not thinking of doing what I think he's gonna do," she muttered. Natsu was standing on top of the rock the others were under, arms crossed, looking angry.

"A human?" one questioned.

"What has this got to do with you? And how the hell did you get here?" the other asked.

"As for the question for why I'm here, I'm here to find a certain someone. But as for the first question…" His eyes looked stern. "Well I just don't see how you could kill someone just for being weak, especially someone who's almost the same as you!"

"What was that?" one of them retaliated.

"Natsu!" Sienna called out. The others joined him on top of the rock. "What do you think you're doing?"

"There's four of them?" one questioned.

"Whatever, they're just stupid humans after all," the other responded.

"Stupid humans? You got it wrong pal! We ain't any ordinary humans, we're dragon slayers!" Gajeel proclaimed. The four of them stood tall, ready for a fight. To wizards, they would have looked strong, but to the dragons they looked at them as nothing more than pests.

"So what? You can spout a load of crap for all I care, but the simple truth is that no human can match the power of a real dragon!"

"That tears it! Natsu? You know what I said earlier about taking it slow?" Sara asked.

"Yeah,"

"Forget I ever said it!" she said. She then jumped off and started running towards one of them.

"Oh you fancy dying today, huh?"

"Secret Dragon Art: Water Lances!" she called. A flurry of jets hit the dragon sending it stumbling backwards. It groaned in pain.

"Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" Natsu yelled out as he attacked the other dragon.

"Arr! You little brats are gonna pay for that!" he roared. Gajeel then joined Natsu in taking down one dragon and Wendy went to help Sienna. The purple dragon lay on the ground looking at the dragon slayers fighting.

"How can they posses such power? It's as thought it's a fight between 2 sets of dragons rather than 2 dragons against 2 sets of humans…." They all yelled as they preformed their last attacks. The two black dragons fell to the ground with a bang.

"We were…beaten….by….humans…?" one wheezed.

"This is the strength….of…Dragon Slayers…." the other whispered before they both fell silent.

"All right! That's two down!" Natsu proclaimed. He then went onto one knee, in exhaustion.

"Hey you okay?" Sienna asked.

"Hang on a second, I'll heal you," Wendy offered. He shook his head and pointed behind him, at the purple shaded dragon.

The dragon opened its yellow eye. He saw that it was now almost sunset.

"Huh? What's going on? I was hurt before, but now, it feels fine, kinda nice actually…." he thought. He turned his head and saw Wendy working on his shoulder. She noticed him waking up and turned her head to look at him.

"Hey! How you doing?" Natsu's chipper voice questioned. He was standing fairly close to his face, clearly not phased by him. The dragon screamed out. He then tried to stand up, looking terrified. "Woah, hey calm down!"

"N-n-no! I don't want any trouble. Please, I'm sorry!" he responded panicking. He stopped thrashing about as a pain ripped through his shoulder.

"Please, stop moving. You'll only hurt yourself," Wendy warned. He looked down at his shoulder and saw it was almost healed.

"W-Why did you…?" he asked.

"Why not? You were injured and we thought it was unfair them attacking you like that for no good reason," Natsu replied.

"But, I-I never asked you to,"

"It doesn't matter. We couldn't stand by whilst you were being hurt like that, so we decided to help. That's what we do best really," Wendy remarked.

"But, how did you get here?" he enquired.

"To be honest we're not sure either. We just sort of ended up here," Natsu said.

"I see," He then looked around. "So where are your other friends?"

"You mean Sienna, Gajeel? They went off to try and find somewhere to sleep tonight and Carla and Lily tagged along," Natsu answered.

"Aye!" Happy added.

"So, you don't have somewhere to stay?"

"Nope, but we'll find something," Natsu responded.

"Well, i-if you really wanted to…would you like to come back, we me?" he asked shyly.

"It's okay. We don't mind sleeping in the great outdoors," Wendy commented.

"That may be in the human world, but here, tons of dragons roam at night. You'll never survive the night…" he pleaded. Natsu took a moment before his face lit up.

"Well that's okay with us! Once we're there we can trade stories, all right?" The dragon nodded. "By the way, I'm Natsu, this is Happy and that's Wendy. What's your name?"

"I'm err…. my name is Kiyoshi," he responded. (NOTE: Kiyoshi in Japanese means 'Quiet')

"Pleased to meet ya!" Natsu smirked.