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Chapter 3 is here and we shall see Lucy interact with dragons
Yes, dragon(s)
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The head slithered across the gold, eyes burning like fireballs colored orange with canyon-like pupils eyeing everything. It growled, this guttural growl and we held our breath, watching as we glanced from behind the pillar. It gripped more columns and the entire place shook, the stone pillars probably amplifying its movements so it created the tremors. Claws as white as... well bone cracked the stone and gleamed slightly from the light that bounced off the gold. Its crimson scales only gave off a more petrifying, terror filled atmosphere that we were standing in.
"Well, then," it spoke slowly, drawing each word that seemed to drip with annoyance. We felt a cold hand grip our hearts and we froze, completely terrified at the voice, "I know you are there."
It had a raspy, baritone voice, not exactly like he had a sore throat, but a menacing growl to it. A reptilian undertone let me know that it was a real dragon, speaking in an ancient voice full of power.
Quickly, I had Happy fly us up to the top of the building to escape the dragon. Grace followed in her air form and we waited, but nothing came up here.
"Are we safe?" Happy whispered and then the whole place shook again.
The dragon was here, serpent neck holding a head more reptilian than Acnologia's. It watched us, a scowl on its mouth showing rows of teeth that resembled curved, bone white swords.
"There you are," it said with satisfaction, but moved its head closer, frightening us more. "So tell me, who are you?"
"Uh, um..." I stammered and trailed off as all three of us shook in fear. "I-I'm Lucy Heartfilia, a Celestial mage."
"Celestial?" he spoke in a questioning tone and moved his head back quickly, looking around. "Empyrus!"
Suddenly, another pile of gold farther away burst open like a volcano as a dragon similar to Acnologia awoke, but this one was white instead of black with blue markings colored luminous.
"Why have you awaken me?" a feminine voice came from the dragon. "Wait, humans?"
"Yes, they appear to have entered the mountain," he spoke, looking back at us. "Such bravery is foolish as is such flesh tasty."
He opened his mouth and we stepped back in terror as his chest began to glow, burning orange light appearing from underneath scales and creating a pattern that went up his neck before appearing as a glow coming from the back of his mouth.
"Leave the humans alone, Malgrus," a gruff, ancient voice boomed as another dragon appeared from a mountain of gold.
He was more like this Malgrus dragon, but his scales were black with crimson markings. His underbelly was colored grey while his eyes burned like red suns.
"These humans intrude upon us and you would invite them as guests!" the Malgrus dragon roared, obviously enraged. "I will feast upon them!"
"You will do no such thing," the dragon, Empyrus roared, flying over to land next to the crimson dragon.
Her underbelly was colored golden with eyes that were like the sky, blue, but glowing intensely.
"We swore an oath to aid the humans!"
"You swore an oath," he boomed, his baritone voice sending fear into our hearts. "I was, but a fire drake of the north! The destroyer, the terrible! I razed kingdoms and feasted upon any flesh to come my way!"
"That is why we had you come here!" the darker dragon roared, flying over to land here too.
By now we were on our butts, all the shaking from them landing causing us to fall over.
"We were to sleep here until your brother's return!"
"My brother is unworthy! I am the true fire dragon!" Malgrus roared and breathed a plume of fire into the air.
It was like a giant column of flames that turned into a massive explosion on the roof of the place, burning brightly in plumes of hot smoke and blazing fire.
"Yes and we are the dragons of light and dark, the balance that keeps this world in check!" Empyrus retorted, a clawed hand gripping the crimson one's serpentine neck.
"Leave him be, Empyrus," the dark dragon spoke and turned to me. "Let us know who our guests are."
Their three heads moved over to us and we shook even more out of terror.
"L-like I said to, uh, Malgrus," I started, taking a stronger stance and forcing myself to stop shaking. "My name is Lucy Heartfilia, a Celestial Mage from Fairy Tail."
"Celestial Mage? I like her already," the Empyrus dragon spoke, but the other two scoffed.
"G-grace Phidel, elemental wizard," my friend squeaked and the Malgrus dragon moved his serpentine neck, pushing his head closer to us.
"Oh? Elemental, quite a rare magic," he rumbled and moved his head back, "but such power will not save you."
"And what of the feline?" the darker dragon questioned, looking at Happy.
"I-I'm H-Happy," our blue flying cat friend stuttered and the three dragons tilted their heads, well the light and dark one did, the crimson one growled.
"You dare mock us!" Malgrus roared, but the dark dragon clasped a hand on the back of his serpentine neck, pushing him down onto the stone.
"You run my patience thin, Malgrus! Calm your brash nature or else."
"Else what? What else could you do, then combat me, oh mighty Purgas," the crimson dragon roared with laughter and brushed the hand off his serpentine neck. "Now, tell us, oh happy cat. Why are you happy?"
He still drew out his words, making them rumble with ancient power. Happy activated his Aero Magic and flew up above me.
"M-my name is Happy, big dragon person," he spoke and the dragon actually smirked!
"Oh, quite an amusing name," he stated, moving around the stone, around the other dragons.
He was like a predator circling his prey, using his serpentine neck to make him look like a giant snake. The only reason we knew he wouldn't suddenly strike at us was the two dragons on either side of the stone building and the fact that he was a dragon as well.
"So tell us, intruders. Why are you here?"
"W-we're here because the village nearby is having trouble with tremors. We think you guys caused those tremors," I explained and the light and dark dragon looked at each other.
"It is the most likely possibility," the Purgas dragon spoke. "We dragons are massive, strong and mighty, but in our sleep we are restless unless content. Malgrus here has his gold while Empyrus and I... we prefer the free skies and large clearings."
"So... uh, well... um, could you leave?" I squeaked and the three dragon heads looked at each other.
Before either one could speak, Malgrus already struck at us.
"You dare order us to leave the mountain!" he roared, placing a clawed hand on the stone.
Bone white claws as long as spears struck the stone, clattering and digging up bits of stone. His underbelly followed revealing the blood red scales underneath. Lighter, crimson scales covered the rest of his body while going along his spine was this layer of coal black scales that I guess were for more protection. His arms were long, thin with wings attached to them, wait, I thought that was a wyvern.
"Y-you're a wyvern?"
That looked like it just infuriated him more as he roared in rage and breathed a plume of fire, blowing more rocks off the ceiling.
"You mortals are all the same, ignorant!" he growled as he swayed his head from left to right. "A wyvern is but a measly creature while we dragons are superior! The wyverns are no dragons, but they hail from the same homeland that gave us these bodies!"
We shook in pure terror, but he was calmed down by his dragon brother and sister.
"We apologize for Maglrus' rage," Empyrus spoke, her curved snout mouth opening and the lips moving. "He is as hot headed as his brother."
"Oh, that reminds me," Purgas rumbled and lowered his head so he was about the same level as us. "We haven't introduced ourselves, have we?"
These three dragons, white, red, and black all were like I imagined them. Their words were drawn out, using power to make them rumble with a reptilian growl as an undertone.
"I am Empyrus," the white dragon introduced in a polite manner, "Dragon of Light."
"I am Purgas," the black dragon rumbled with satisfaction at speaking his name, "Dragon of Darkness."
"Whoa," all three of us marveled in awe.
"And I am Malgrus the Terrible! The inferno! The Malevolent!" the crimson dragon boomed with pride and arrogance as he bent his head lower, making his long neck turn into a squeezed arch. "I am the Dragon of Fire!"
That statement completely threw off the terror I felt, making me confused.
"Wait, I thought Igneel was the fire dragon?" Happy said in confusion and immediately, Malgrus roared in our faces.
"Do not speak that weakling's name! He is, but a pathetic excuse for a king!"
"But it was him who was crowned and not you, Malgrus," Empyrus spoke, motioning her head at him. "Igneel was always more caring for the humans and more resentful for evil. You would side with our foes if they offered you even the smallest hoard of gold."
"Is it not in our nature to have an allure for treasure?" he growled, moving his head towards Empyrus, baring his sword-like teeth. "Is it not in our blood to be superior!"
"But it is in our mind to suppress such desires," Purgas stated in a roar and we stepped back.
The camp Virgo had made was long gone now and so we just stood on the stone building, just clear of any cover to hide behind if things got hot, pun totally not intended.
"Lucy," Happy whispered to me as the dragons argued, "we should go."
I nodded and we slowly stepped back to the ledge. Before we could jump, however, Malgrus' baritone voice resounded
"Where do you think you're going!" he spoke, his voice not exactly booming, but having this low growl to it.
"Uh, back to the village?" Grace squeaked nervously and he started moving across the stone, gold coins and jewels that were stuck to his belly coming off as he slithered to us.
"I think not," he rumbled and moved his serpentine neck back, "I think it is time we judge whether you will live... or not."
His chest glowed with heat, fiery orange color fading into existence from beneath his scales and growing up his neck before having it at the back of his mouth.
"So, Empyrus, Purgas, what do you choose?"
"We will not feast on the humans," Empyrus spoke first and Purgas gave a grunt in agreement.
Malgrus glared and glared at us, but one thing was certain as we all stood still, we weren't going out without him attacking.
"How unfortunate," he spoke and started moving back, "it seems I will have to make the decision myself."
His glow faded away, but returned in a brief second.
"How do you choose to die!"
He shot his head forward, but we jumped back right as his mouth snapped where we stood.
"Malgrus!" Purgas roared, but the fire dragon ignored him, swinging a clawed hand around.
His wing extended and nearly sent us flying if we hadn't jumped over it.
"Die mortals!" he roared and breathed a plume of fire, burning the stone and anything else that got touched by it.
"You will cease this madness!" Empyrus snapped and smashed her hand on his neck, but this time he forced her off.
He swung his arm and sent her stumbling back into a pillar. His barbed tail came up and slapped Purgas in the face, sending him down into the gold.
"I will not be commanded by weak imbeciles!" he boomed and opened up his wing arms, stretching out the pale red leathery wings and crimson spines.
He flew off the stone outcropping, over us and down towards the valley/sea of gold where he landed on another stone outcropping, facing us.
"My teeth are swords!" he boomed, smashing his hand on a pile of gold, clenching it. "My claws are spears!"
We backed up as the glow in his chest and in his mouth returned.
"And my wings," he paused to glare at us. "Are a hurricane!"
He swung both his arms up, extended the wings, and smashed them back down as he breathed fire, shooting the whole column-like inferno at us. Natsu's dragon breath was like a thin tornado coming out of his mouth, this dragon's own breath was like a massive pillar of fire that turned into a cloud of explosions that kept expanding.
"Get down!" Empyrus yelled as she got over us, shielding us from the fire.
Her wings, large and curved with leathery feathers kept us from feeling the heat, if only for a second as the fire poured over us. Suddenly, Purgas appeared and opened his mouth, letting out a roar as a blast of condensed purple gas shot out. It was like a hose, shooting a torrent of water, but this gas, apparently explosive gas because it acted like Malgrus' fire. Both dragon breaths created a massive explosion and eventually both dragons stopped.
"You've gone mad, Malgrus," Empyrus spoke, brushing off soot and ash from her back.
"No, oh mighty dragon of light, I am very sane and very angry!" he boomed and turned around. "If it was the village that sent these humans into my mountain, then it will be I who pays them a visit!"
With that, the fire dragon turned around, crawling across the stone, then gold towards the exit.
"No!" we screamed and he stopped, just stopped and stood there for a moment before his serpentine head curled, turning his head towards us.
"You are for them?" he questioned, his mouth slowly opening in an inquisitive look.
"Y-yes," I said, getting some hope that maybe he'd cut this out, "those people are innocent, they're just regular people, just regular families with parents and kids. They don't deserve anything bad!"
He stared at me for a moment before his mouth closed and his burning orange eye narrowed.
"Good," Malgrus spoke, "then you can watch them die!"
With that, he turned back and started crawling again. The mountain shook with every strike of his clawed hands or feet hitting the ground and his underbelly slithering on the ground.
"Don't do this, Malgrus! The humans do not deserve death!" Empyrus roared as she flew towards him.
Grace turned into her air form and grabbed me, flying us towards the dragons as Purgas and Happy followed.
"You do not command me, Empyrus. I am Malgrus, the Terrible!"
"And we are the balance!" Purgas boomed as he landed in front of the crimson dragon.
From what I could see now, the dragon of darkness held a pretty close resemblance to what Natsu depicted Igneel as.
"You will back down or else!"
"Else what? We have been over this, Purgas," he growled and started moving left to right in a mocking manner. "Both you and your sister have sworn to never truly harm either dragon or innocent human. I, however, have never sworn such an oath and therefore the ultimate force of desolation!"
"But we will stop you from leaving this mountain!" he roared and aimed his head up, firing his dragon breath.
Empyrus joined him, firing a breath of white magical energy with streams of gold spiraling around it. Both dragon breaths blasted apart the roof above Malgrus and he gave a cry of surprise. Stepping back, standing on his hind legs the crimson dragon tried to get away as both dragons melted stone and raw gold and poured rubble upon him. We flew back as more rubble came down, burying Malgrus.
With one last roar, he disappeared underneath the dust and stone, just gone. Both dragons of light and dark turned their heads to me now, both holding looks of weariness.
"We are sorry..." Empyrus trailed off as she looked at me, "that you had to witness that tragedy."
"He was a big meany!" Happy remarked loudly and the two dragons sighed before slowly walking over to us on all four of their legs, their sixth limbs falling back onto their backs.
"He was only angered, enraged," Purgas spoke as he put a clawed finger up to his chin, "but at last he will rest in peace."
"But you swore not to harm dragons, right?" I questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"He had forgotten that we swore to never truly harm an innocent dragon," Empyrus answered and we sighed in relief for some reason.
"So... why are you here?" I asked and they looked at each other.
"We have resided here for some time," the dark dragon began and moved to stand at the entrance to the sea of gold. "After the call went out for all our kind to disappear, we came to this mountain once owned by one of your human's magic guilds."
"Magic guild? I've never heard of a guild in a mountain."
"It was a fairly old guild," Empyrus said and nodded at the large stalactite with the star symbol on it. "Your people knew them as the Star Legion."
"Star Legion?"
"Yes, as far as we knew they were once famed, but after some internal struggle they disbanded," Purgas stated and moved his head to look at the gold. "How unfortunate it was for them to leave behind their treasure. This is what drew Malgrus here and we were drawn by him."
"So, you guys went into hiding here?" Grace asked and they all nodded.
From the light of the moon pouring into the area we were in from the massive doors we had opened to get in, we could get a better look at the pair.
Empyrus was just like Acnologia, tall, large, large bird like wings with leathery feathers and a barbed tail plus a mastodonic look. Her scales that covered her upper body were white like snow with the light blue markings going across them. The white dragon's eyes glowed blue, but she had a more gentle look to her than Acnologia did. Her voice reminded me of the First Master, kind and caring.
His head was triangular with horns and fins on the sides of his head, scales colored pitch black and the rest was a grey. Crimson markings went over the black tales and his wings were like Malgrus', just like bat wings. He resembled the kind of dragon Igneel was, or what I assumed from Natsu's description. His eyes glowed red with power and his voice was low, strong, and filled with a sort of compassion.
Both their claws and teeth were pure white and their bodies had gold and jewels embedded in it, probably from their long naps in the golden sea.
"So, what now?" I asked and they looked out at the door.
"Well, seeing as we are causing harm to the humans nearby, I believe it is time we search for a new home," the dark dragon answered and began moving, walking up next to his sister. "It has been an honor, Lucy Heartfilia. May you walk the blessed path."
I nodded, not quite sure what he meant by 'blessed path', but I went with it. However, before they could reach the door, something happened. The stone rubble shook and in an instant, Malgrus erupted from it.
"Argh!" he roared, his voice cracking in a booming tone as he broke free while feeling pain, I guess. "Blessed path? Blessed path!" he continued to boom as he began crawling at a fast pace. "These humans will walk the path to extinction!"
At the moment he finished his sentence, he burst through the stone wall, breaking through the exit. Rubble flew and clouds of dust filled the air as he landed outside. Then, he jumped up, extending his wings as he twirled, and then he began to fly.
"Oh no," Empyrus gasped as we watched the crimson dragon disappear into the night, a shadow that barely blended into the dark blue of the sky.
"Stop him!" I shouted, but they shook their head with a depressed expression, both of them.
"We are sorry, but now he is outside of our domain. By fighting him, we would endanger the village," Purgas mournfully spoke and turned towards me, keeping his eye locked on me. "However, there may be a way."
"W-what do you mean?" I stuttered, walking back as the two dragons walked towards us.
"You can defeat him," Empyrus said and raised a clawed finger to point at me. "We will give you the means to do so."
"B-but he's a dragon! A big, fire breathing dragon!" I shouted and they nodded before lifting off the ground, wings flapping and keeping them afloat.
"Prepare yourself child," the female dragon spoke and launched herself.
I screamed as I put up my arms to protect myself, but suddenly, she disappeared. I blinked, but then Purgas did the same and in a flash he was gone. Both dragons had flown through me like ghosts, but they just disappeared into me... wait, into me? Into me!
Immediately, once that thought was finished, I felt pain erupt in me like my blood was lava and burning knives were being shoved down into my stomach. My arms glowed, markings burning into them like invisible brands were on them.
On my right arm, a set of curved, intersecting lines that spun and smoothly ran up my arm to my shoulder. They burned a bright, luminous blue as they continued to sear into my skin. The pattern went over my right arm, just making this intricate pattern of curves and sharp ends.
On my left arm, a set of sharp, blade like markings appeared. Burning a searing orange color, I continued screaming as the markings just branded my arms. These markings were more... sharp, more blade like, taking on the shape of sharpened ends and evil looks.
In mere moments, I passed out, just slipping into darkness.
"Lucy!"
"Lucy!"
"Lucy, wake up!"
My eye snapped open and I shot up, on the ground with a sore body. I groaned, rubbing my head, but when my eyes caught sight of the markings running up and down my arm I started freaking out.
"Wha-what! What happened to me!" I screamed in fear and confusion, rubbing at them.
"We already tried doing that, Lushy," I heard and turned to see Happy standing next to me, Grace also standing with him. "The dragons disappeared after they gave you those markings.
I felt my mouth open and form an 'o' out of surprise, but soon it was replaced with terror when I remembered the dragons. Two were gone, but the third was still heading towards the village.
"The village!" I shouted and jumped to my feet, running towards the massive breach where Malgus had torn through stone to get through.
Rubble lay everywhere with the walkway seemingly unstable. Dust was still in the air and the wall was broken with an enormous hole in it. Outside, I watched in horror as a shadow descended upon the village. I guess fate was the real thing that woke me up because we all witnessed a pillar of fire erupt rows of houses in flames. None of us could see the people running and screaming right now, but we knew they were and that just spurred us into action.
"Time to slay a dragon," I said and started running outside.
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