Hello again everyone
So Chapter 4
Lucy vs the mighty Malgrus, dragon of fire, the terrible, the stupendous, the dragon I based off of the amazing Smaug played by Benedict Cumberbatch!
So, yeah
Just imagine the description and whatnot, then imagine Peter Jackson Smaug's inquisitive and malevolent personality.
So anyways
We've got some OCs that will enter the playing field throughout the story
For now, we just have Grace
I know not if Lucy will be in Fairy Tail or join another guild
(P.S.- I ain't doing Sabertooth, to me, they're a bunch of imbeciles that I hate)
Now, let there be fire!
The night was dark, it was cold and long. The stars in the sky glistened and shined brightly with the moon as the lake calmly washed over the wooden poles that kept the large docks atop the lake. People walked around, holding baskets of food or simply standing against wooden walls as they talked. Then the oddest thing occurred, the water became calmer until it was still, the waves moving around the village. Few people noticed, but soon everyone noticed the stars and moon dim across a line as the birds and bugs that sang grew silent.
It was deafening as they all stood in silence and waited to see what would happen, then it did happen. A guttural roar like that of a crocodile's emanated from above and all eyes searched the skies for the source. In an instant, a shadow swooped above and the people yelled in surprise. Earlier the quakes had become more frequent and spiked at a climax, opening up the earth and consuming a whole building. Few within the area had be killed, but most survived. After that, everything came to a halt and the townspeople felt as if the stability of their land had become once more stable.
That was mere minutes ago, now, now a new threat was here. They all watched the skies, hoping to catch another glimpse of the mysterious creature and when they did, they screamed. People ran in all directions, headed for boats or the thresholds of the village's walls. Belongings were thrown into carts and children carried to the nearest safe haven. However, there would be no safe haven, there would only be wanton death that night.
The guttural growl came again and everyone froze, watching as the shadow swooped down again and everyone saw the light. The light burning bright orange from the creature's chest and if looked close enough, the person who observed would see the light of a burning heart seeping through blood red scales. With a single reptilian roar he let loose a blast of fiery death. An inferno came down upon them as the sound of its roar rang out. Buildings turned into burning skeletons, people were reduced to ash and bones, and the village was set ablaze like a torch.
"Men of this village!" a voice bellowed from above as the shadow circled, coming around to burn another street. "You have been charged with intrusion and attempted theft!"
Another blaze set another two rows of homes on fire, burning through wood and breaking into the houses instantly with the sheer force of each blast. Unlike the streams of fire from the wizards who could wield the element, this fire was far different. Instead of single streams or tornado like blasts, this fire was larger than streams, a thick river of flames that became a burning cloud of destruction. The dragon's breath exploded across the village streets or atop the water and lighting even that on fire with its magic properties.
"Your sentence! Death, by fire!"
Across the lake, Lucy Heartfilia sat upon the driver's seat, charging the magic mobile to get them around the lake. Dust clouds went up behind them as they drove, but they could not arrive fast enough to stop the dragon's onslaught. She moved her attention for only a second to turn her gaze from the ground ahead towards the village. They grew to the size of the magic mobile's wheels as she watched the evil she had unleashed tear apart the home of many with its power.
Fire and death rained down upon the home of men and women that night. It was lucky it was a fairly large village as the dragon had stayed to eradicate sections at a time. Most of the villagers had retreated to the unharmed areas, but could not leave as this place was at the edge of the lake. There they stood, watching as the dragon burnt down their homes and destroyed all they knew.
Suddenly, however, a new blast of fire shot up and struck the beast.
"What?" Malgrus roared from the skies, flapping his wings and snarling in rage.
Grace stood atop the magic mobile, feet slightly melted into the hood to keep her on. Bandages were wrap around her torso with a cropped, red leather jacket on top of it. She wore tattered denim shorts and orange high-tops as she held her ground on the metal roof. Her hair colored scarlet with orange streaks was put in a ponytail that flew in the wind. A red bow decorated with flames tied up her fiery hair, keeping it from flapping wildly behind her.
In this fire form, she spouted great blasts of fire up into the sky at the dragon. Being the dragon of fire, Malgrus felt nothing but his own essence smashing into his scales, but it did the trick in distracting him.
"Why not use water?" Happy asked from next to Lucy.
"She said she can't send water that far, but the fire will keep going," the blonde mage answered as their friend continued firing.
Thrusting her fists forward, she sent fireball after fireball at the crimson menace, but they had little effect other than offending him. He snarled, glaring as they sent his own element back at him, he, the would be king of flame! With a great roar that resonated throughout the burning town, Malgrus dove.
He swooped down and shot his power at them, burning a great trench through a row of homes. The dragon breath ignited the ground and nearly destroyed the magic mobile. Fortunately, Lucy had halted the car and Grace had hastily changed into her water form, sending up a shield of liquid to halt the flames. When they halted, they looked above to see Malgrus flying high up into the sky as to flip over and dive once more.
Quickly acting, Lucy sent Happy into the village to rescue villagers with Grace as she herself began summoning her spirits.
"Open! Gate of the Water Bearer, Aquarius!" she shouted and her grumpy spirit burst forth from the lake.
"Now this is just an insult!" the water spirit yelled as she sent a wave to wash out the dragon fire sitting atop the water. "You better have a goo-"
"Shut up!" Lucy screamed at her and for once the water bearer obeyed, well more of stopped in surprise at her contractor's sudden rage. "Open! Gate of the Archer, Sagittarius!"
The horse costume wearing bowman appeared out of his gate, saluting with his right hand as his left held his prized bow.
"Moshi moshi!" he called, but Lucy ignored him as well as Aquarius' confused look.
Pointing up at the sky, she sent their gazes at the malevolent dragon headed straight for them.
"Stop him!" she ordered and the spirits wasted no time.
Out of either fear or obedience, Aquarius swung her urn and with it sent geysers of the lake water up into the sky. Swinging his body and swerving about in the air, Malgrus kept his glare set on the insignificant blonde human who dared to attack him. He was like a flying serpent, slithering through the sky as he continued downwards. However, at the last second he changed course, heading to his right... straight into the heart of the town.
With a loud crash, Lucy covered her head as fire and burning objects flew above, landing around her. Looking up, her eyes widened in fear as flames danced around the dragon. Malgrus smiled, his long, reptilian head making it all the more terrifying. His face was not soft, nor was it fleshy, no, it was scales and bone, giving him the resilient look and actual strength of an apex predator. He opened his mouth, rows of white swords in his upper and lower jaw.
"Well, it seems you have the audacity to continue challenging me," he spoke, his baritone, reptilian voice sending terror into her heart. "Will you continue your little charade of playing hero? Or shall you die now? Either option will only lead to one conclusion, fire!"
He raised his head aloft his serpentine neck, bending it back as he took on a superior stance. His right hand was on the ground, four fingers gripping earth and stone, opposable thumb included. Each finger ended in a long claw, like spears that were mostly blades. Before they clattered on stone, now they cut into it and carved it apart. His left hand rested on a building that seemed mostly intact, but it was revealed to be burning from within the moment he smashed it into the ground.
"Well then? Will you try to escape the flames? Please do, running prey always amuses me," he laughed with a sadistic smirk and Lucy stepped back, but quickly regained her courage.
"I won't run," Lucy claimed, using the harsh words thrown at her by her ex-teammates to spur her golden heart.
"Then you will die with the rest of these pathetic villagers!"
With that last word, the dragon opened up his wings, raising his arms into the air and stretching his bat like wings. Large leathery flaps colored a light crimson were lit by the flames around the monstrous menace. The glow within his chest shot through his scales, emitting lines of burning orange across and beneath his scales. Shooting his head forward and flapping his wings once, he sent a great gust of wind that propelled his dragon breath at the last Heartfilia.
Aquarius sent up a wall of water as Sagittarius shot several arrows. As the fired collided with the shield of liquid, each arrow flew overhead and collided with the dragon's hide. Each one broke, snapping on his scales as he watched with glee.
"I... can't... ah!" the water bearer screamed as the water exploded into flames and she was sent flying from the force, flashing back to the spirit world as she used all her magical power to stop the attack.
The flame continued on its path and the archer threw himself in front of it. Lucy was sent flying back even further than Aquarius, landing hard on the dirt as Sagittarius used his magic power to push back the pillar of fire. Everything was spinning and tilting while she felt warm, sticky liquid run down the side of her face. She wiped the blood a bit, hissing in pain once she touched the wound. She got up slowly, leaning against the magic mobile beside her.
Turning her gaze up, she was met with a smirk from the dragon. His sadistic expression conveyed all the rage and hate and joy he felt at the moment, all the glee at killing and slaughtering these innocent people. She started walking, knowing she couldn't escape this. Might as well go out as a sacrifice to buy time for the villagers.
She raised her arms, ready to stop the flames in vain as he breathed in deeply. His dragon roar emitted and a blast of fire came at her, searing pain only moments away. Her life flashed before her eyes, her birth, her mother's death, running from home, meeting Natsu, being on Team Natsu, all their crazy adventures, and then being dropped for being weak... this is really how it ends?
Suddenly, she felt power course through her, new power unlike anything she ever felt. It wasn't raw, but it was strong, as strong as the power she felt from Master Makarov when he used his titan magic to fight Acnologia. Opening her eyes, she watched as the burning orange and fiery red light came closer, but her eyes were quickly drawn to her marked arms.
On her right arm, the fluid and smooth lines glowed golden while on her left arm they glowed a bright red like fire. Within in an instant, two magic circles came from her open palms and a being ran from the left. A pattern of sharp, almost evil looking markings that appeared on the magic circle gave way for a thin man in black cloth and a black cloak that flew forward with translucent, skeletal wings like those of a ghost. His cloak and black cloth clung to his thin body, but he wasn't skeletal thin, more like he was actually that size. In both hands he gripped a large, intricate scythe with a blade made of a pitch black metal with dark steel as the shaft and black cloth wrapping where he gripped it.
The mysterious spirit swung his scythe, cutting straight through the dragon breath and dissipating it into nothing. His attack did not seem to exhaust him, neither did it stop him from thrusting a hand forward and sending a burst of shadows at the beast. The attack disappeared before it hit Malgrus and it was only after Lucy noticed the dragon's surprise did she realize it was only to falter him.
"What?" Malgrus gasped, his reptilian tone giving it a husky aspect as he looked from left to right as where the fire had dissipated. His shock and surprise soon turned into rage as he fired another dragon breath, using even more might than before.
Lucy watched with awe as the raven winged man landed softly, then slammed the end of his scythe into the ground. The shaft of dark steel cracked the earth, but he did not falter as he stood there, only stared forward as the fire bounced off his pitch black cloth. The magic circle in her right hand glowed intensely as another being appeared, this newcomer a young woman who had seemed to just enter her adulthood.
Her curved, generous body was clothed in white cloth and golden armor, wings like those of a dove on her back as she wielded nothing but the glowing blue markings on her exposed arms. If Lucy were not in a life threatening situation, she might've thought how the men would goggle and drool at the small derriere covered in white cloth or her decent sized chest, but at the moment all she could think about was how holy she appeared.
The angel like being raised her arms and the markings on either limb glowed brighter as a massive magic circle appeared before her. Glowing luminous blue with markings that moved clockwise in and around the circle, it was a glorious sight at the moment. Malgrus watched in shock and confusion, looking from one newcomer to the other before narrowing his eyes.
"Ah, I see," he growled, watching the trio with a glare. "Those fools, Empyrus and Purgas gave you their power, didn't they?"
Lucy stepped back, knowing these two people she apparently summoned could probably deal with this.
"Orders, master?" the angelic being questioned with a voice like honey, so innocent and Lucy blinked, shocked at the words.
"W-what?"
"What would you have us do?" the thin man asked, his voice gravely and ancient.
"Uh, um..." Lucy trailed off as her thoughts shot around in her head, but they all came to a halt and reorganized as she saw the crimson creature start to move.
Malgrus smashed one clawed hand down on a building, reducing it to ash, burnt wood, and fire. His other hand did the same to another building and it continued as he crawled across the ground. His hind legs, while not long like his arms, they were large and muscular, smashing footprints into the dirt and dragging along any remnants of anything stepped on. His serpentine neck kept still, holding his head that bore an enraged expression as he quickly moved towards them.
"Stop him," she murmured and took a more courageous stance, "take him down!"
My new spirits nodded and the girl turned to the man.
"Brother?" she called and he took a stance with his scythe.
"Hold him still, I will lay the blow," he replied and shot up into the sky with his ghostly wings.
The girl stood her ground, moving her legs slightly apart while putting her right hand forward and drawing her left back. Malgrus kept going, his movement becoming faster and faster as he approached the two.
"Die! Like your kin!" he bellowed with pure, unadulterated rage before roaring causing a colossal dragon breath to emit from his mouth.
He did not stand still as he breathed fire though, no, he swung his head and flooded everything before him in a blaze of burning death, bathing anything and anyone in front of him. The girl jumped forward, thrusting both arms up as if pulling something out of the earth and suddenly a large shield of luminous blue magical energy appeared in front of her and Lucy. The celestial mage watched as her newest spirit protected her, but felt terror as the shield began to crack.
The girl was gritting her teeth, keeping herself form crying out as her feet was being pushed back. Small trenches in the dirt being made as Malgrus' most powerful attack pushed her back. Malgrus did not close his gaping maw as he continued to breath his blazing river. Lights colored orange and red and yellow danced across anything that stood.
By now, most of the town was burnt or still burning, homes crashing or had already collapsed into burnt wood and ash. The survivors had left the village, watching from afar as the Fairy Tail wizard stared down her terrible foe with a newcomer. Happy watched in terror and shock, unable to move from his position atop the wooden wall with Grace standing next to him.
"Death from above!" a yell came and Malgrus' burning eyes looked up as he continued his onslaught, seeing a small shadow come down.
He quickly drew his head up and moved the inferno in the way of the first spirit, turning his black cloak bright orange as the flames bathed him. The arrogant dragon, however, received a surprise as the spirit slashed an opening to escape the pillar of fire. Diving further, he slammed the end of his scythe's shaft into the dragon's snout. Malgrus was stunned momentarily as pain overrode his rage.
Gripping a crimson scaled, clawed hand on the end of his snout, he roared in pain. The mysterious man descended after that, landing next to his apparent sister and new master.
"What did you do?"
"Every dragon has a sensitive spot between their nostrils," the black cloaked man answered, leveraging his scythe on his shoulder in a relaxed manner. "It's like the bridge of our noses, hit it hard enough and you feel it."
It was only several moments after he spoke that Malgrus recovered, glaring at them. He let one of his reptilian roars out and used another dragon breath, this one less powerful than the previous as that one was one he used all his strength in. The blast was easily cut in half by the first spirit's scythe and following that the second spirit flew up. The young girl flew swiftly, pulling her arms up as they glowed and suddenly a sword comprised of magical energy glowing luminous blue was in her hands.
She attempted to slash down, but the dragon had seen it coming. Retracting his wings, he swung his right arm, fire consuming his four fingered fist.
"Fire dragon iron fist," Lucy murmured as she recognized the attack.
The girl's attack was deflected by his own and right after that he planted the fist into the ground before spinning. His barbed tail came, slashing at the girl who blocked with another magic energy shield. He slammed both clawed hands down, shaking the earth and causing cracks to appear where lava began to rise.
"I control fire itself, mortals!" he boomed, smiling in sadistic glee as the molten earth came closer to the surface. "Any and all aspects of my element our mine to control!"
The angel came back down, grabbing Lucy and flying her up as the ghost winged one also flew with them. Magma consumed the ground and ate the magic mobile. Trees were instantly set ablaze and turned into fuel for the molten earth.
"How do we stop him?" the Celestial mage breathed in desperation and suddenly the lithe arms around her waist grew tighter.
She looked up at the spirit holding her who had removed one arm to point at the dragon's chest.
"The fire dragon's heart is its only weakness, but it is protected by his scales that are stronger than any known metal," she spoke, answering her question, but also adding more despair.
"So how do we take him down?"
"Trauma," the death look-a-like stated, spinning his scythe in his hands, "we may not be able to break through his scales or hide, but we can break what's inside."
Lucy smiled and nodded as an idea came to mind, ready to end this long struggle. As they dived down, the sun rose over the far off mountains, dawn's light claiming the land. Malgrus glared up at them before extending his wings and began to rise off the ground. Both forces flew at each other from above and below.
With a scream, Lucy pulled out her whip and swung just as they flew past the dragon. The whip wrapped around the dragon's closed maw and he was stunned in shock at the sudden closing of his only slightly ajar mouth. He tried tearing off the whip, but the girl and man who had been summoned grabbed his arms, holding both of them back and causing him to plummet.
Lucy closed her eyes as she fell, her life once more flashing before her eyes. Her death did not come, however, as a small blue cat with white wings flew up and caught her.
"Happy!"
"Hi Lushy!" the cat greeted as he flew her slightly up to slow their descent. "You beat the dragon!"
He was right and Lucy knew it as she watched the crimson creature crash into the ground, flattening a whole section of the village. The monstrous menace was dead, finally dead and now every villager was cheering. Grace ran up to Lucy as Happy set her down on the ground.
People gathered around her, patting her arms or letting children hug her. Women were kissing her forehead, men kissing her hands, and everyone was just congratulating her.
"You!"
Lucy looked down in surprise as the short leader of the village ran up to her, his face red with anger.
"You made that dragon attack us, didn't you!"
People murmured and looked at her with confusion as the little man continued his rant.
"This was all a trick, some kind of sick joke! You wanted to kill us all so you told the dragon to come after us!"
Hands went forward to grab Lucy and she stepped back in fear, but instead of grabbing her they grabbed the short man.
"We've had enough of your greed!" people jeered and dragged him off to who knows where.
"Well..." I trailed off and both my friends shrugged. "I guess we did it."
"Yeah, so... what now?" Grace asked and this time it was Happy and I who shrugged.
"Hey Lucy?" I looked down at happy as he tugged on my sock. "Where'd your spirits go?"
I blinked in confusion until I realized he was asking about those two spirits I accidentally summoned. We all searched the skies, but I didn't see any young girl in white or thin man in black. All I found was a dark sky in a blanket of smoke and grey clouds.
"I don't kno-"
I didn't get to finish as my arms glowed again and the magic circles appeared. Out of them came portals and out of those came the spirits.
"Apologies, master," the girl spoke as she bowed slightly, "we were forced to retreat as our magic ran out. The dragon was one of our hardest opponents."
"W-wait, who are you guys and where did you come from?" I asked, just done with all the surprises today.
"I am Evangelica, simply Evangelica," she introduced, bowing slightly once more before straightening up to gesture at her brother, "and he is Shaze."
"Sha'ze, Shh-Ah-Zay!" the elder sibling yelled in frustration and placed a near skeletal hand up to his face. "Forgive my sister, she is more blunt as she is effective in battle. We are, er- hm, how should I explain this."
"Beings tied to the elemental balance of light and dark," Evangelica suggested and he snapped his fingers, pointing at his younger sister.
"Yes, that's it. Before we were just a normal pair of siblings, then the dragons took us in," Sha'ze explained while waving his hand in a casual manner. "Empyrus trained Eve here with Sacred Light magic, I got trained by Purgas with Sacred Dark magic."
"Wait, isn't dark magic evil?"
"No, no it isn't," he stated, poking my forehead with a bony finger. "That's black magic, that kind of evil puts the world out of balance. Light and dark magic keeps it in check."
"So, you guys are Celestial Spirits?" I questioned again and they looked at each other, as if having some kind of telepathic conversation.
"Yes, in definition, I would suppose," the Evangelica confirmed and looked at the sky.
"How're you Celestial Spirits though? I thought the dragons gave you to Lucy, and you don't have keys too!" Happy exclaimed and Sha'ze began explaining.
"We do have a key, that's our new master," the Sacred Dark magic user explained, "and as for how we are Celestial Spirits, well, you see... hm..."
"Empyrus was the Sacred Dragon of Light," Evangelica spoke up, hands behind her back and head bent back slightly to look up at my face, "and Purgas was the Sacred Dragon of Darkness. Both of them represented all forms of light and dark including the stars in the sky and the black void that keeps them there."
"Oh, well, I think we get it," I said and the two Celestial siblings nodded.
"Anymore questions?" Sha'ze asked and I thought on that and finally got one.
"Okay, where did Purgas and Empyrus go?" I asked and they looked at each other again, this time with pained faces.
"We... we do not know," Evangelica answered with a slightly cracking voice. "That was a secret they never shared with us. All we know is that the dragons were ordered to leave humans to their mortal affairs."
"Indeed."
We all froze as that raspy, reptilian voice spoke. Slowly, I turned around and watched with fear as Malrgus' eye opened revealing his burning orange eye with a canyon of a pupil, like an intricately designed slit.
"Hello," he greeted with rage and seething hate, "I see both Empyrus and Purgas spent no time in giving you the power to stop me."
"Y-you're... you're alive!" I yelled in terror and he rumbled with laughter, not moving his body, but just his mouth to speak and his eye to look.
"Yes, I live, did you think you could kill me? A dragon?" he inquired and I shook my head causing him to laugh again. "Good, you have common sense, now let me tell you, Lucy Heartfilia, that I owe you a debt."
"Uh, owe me?"
"Yes, out of the many dragons and men and monsters who have fought me, only you have been successful in defeating me," he spoke in his ancient, baritone and reptilian voice, holding his oddly charismatic charm to it. "I owe you a debt for it is honorable of a dragon of my power to do so."
"Oh, well, I guess you could give us a ri-"
"I think not," he spoke and began to rise, rubble and burnt wood falling off his black spinal spines, "the debt is repayed with I obliging your earlier request. I shall leave this land and all its inhabits be, but I will roam this kingdom of Fiore and I will one day feast upon your flesh."
With that he began to move and I could hear gasps or screams from outside of town, but I ignored them.
"Wait, can you teach me how to use this... this... new magic?" I asked and he looked down with a smile.
"The power gifted to you is strong, Fairy Tail wizard," he snarled and I stepped back as his serpentine neck moved his long head towards me. His horns gleamed in the light and his crimson scales began to be far more visible in the sun's rays. "Even without attempting to sense your magical power, I can feel it washing over me. Raw power, emanating from your core, a raw power only refined when used!"
"So, it's dragon slayer magic?" I asked and he began laughing this hearty, humor filled laugh that shot terror into all our hearts since it was also laced with malevolence and pitiful amusement.
"No, no it is not," he said and leaned his head towards me again. "You summoned two spirits known as the Angel and the Demon. A sibling pair of children Empyrus and Purgas stumbled upon and cared for, but they did not teach them to wield the magic to slay our kind, they instead gave them the power to live as they had been dying."
I looked behind me to see both Sha'ze and Evangelica squirming, holding their hands or twiddling fingers.
"Those two became Celestial Spirits, spirits gifted to you, Celestial Mage," he sneered and moved his head back, "but that was not the only power you have now. No there is another, the power over light and dark, a power that you will need."
"I will need?"
"Yes," he breathed looking up into the dark sky still filled with smoke, "a darkness is coming. I can feel it in the fire, sense it in the earth, taste it in the air and water."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean to say, that you are alone in this coming conflict," he stated and flapped his wings, flying up and opening his mouth. "I will need a feast before I go."
Instantly, all the fires still raging began moving towards Malgrus as he consumed them. Just like Natsu, he feasted on the flames and soon every single speck of the burning element was gone leaving behind ashes and burnt stuff. With that said and eaten, he flew off into the beyond, out of our sight and hopefully out of our lives.
Done
So, there's the conclusion
I really made this action packed, didn't I?
Well, I love it
Malgrus by far is one of my favorite creations
Because
1- He's based off Smaug
2- He's a friggin' dragon
3- He's evil as flip!
So anyways, I loved making this
Christmas season is coming around so I hope you all have that winter holiday
Which ever one you celebrate
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Lord Revan Flame