Author's Note: Yuuki~desu! I know I told you guys there wouldn't be any new chapter for a week, but somehow I suddenly got inspired. Also, today is mu birthday so I decided to celebrate it this way. This chapter is about very important moments in Luciana's past :)

Ages at the beginning:

LUCIANA - 153

ACNOLOGIA - 153

Chapter 15: Despairs of Past

"Ace-niisan! Ace-niisan!" I chirped while running after my midnight blue twin. He turned to me, frowning.

"Luciana. How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that? My name is Acnologia, not Ace."

"But Acnologia is too long!" I pouted. The dragon before me just sighed.

"So how did you even think of calling me Ace?" I grinned because I knew he gave in.

"Ace. A C. Those are first two letters of your name." He eyed me a bit suspiciously.

"You don't like it?" I wasn't about to call him something he didn't like to be called. He was my beloved twin brother. What's more, he was always my brother. In every cycle. In every life. Along with Igneel, we were Siblings of Souls.

"Let's make a deal. You can call me Ace, but in exchange, I will call you Lu."

"Okay." I agreed instantly.

171 years later

"Come on, Lu. Why don't you play with us?" I was lying under a big oak, watching my adoptive sibling play with my biological ones.

"I can't." I shook my head and turned to Acnologia with tears in my eyes.

"Of course you can. I'm not leaving you here alone. And you can't hide from me the fact that you want to play with Wallia."

"I can't." I whispered, burying my nose into my front paws."The moment I join in, Igneel will trip and break his wing."

"Is that what you saw in one of your visions?" I nodded.

"Lu..."

I wiped tears away from my eyes and smiled brightly at my older brother. "Don't worry about me, Ace-niisan. I'm okay. You go and play with them in my stead. I'll be okay."

He didn't look convinced, but left anyway.

640 years later

It was a deep night and everyone was sleeping. I tip-toed around the dragons sleeping on the cave's floor and entered the night.

My heart was aching again and the sense of loneliness was overwhelming. I flew down the mountain and sat down beside the river.

It was so hard to breathe... I was gasping for air, tears running down my cheeks. My vision was slowly fading and my legs gave away under me, allowing me to collapse onto the grass.

I couldn't hear anything except the frantic beating of my heart and blood rushing through my veins. With the last bit of my strength I clutched onto my aching chest. It felt as if there was a big gaping wound there. Then, I fell into oblivion.

"Lu! Lu! Luciana!" someone was shaking me. I didn't know what the person wanted but I wished he just left me alone. I felt so apathetic. I was empty. I couldn't care less if I died now. Maybe it would even free me from this emptiness...

"You can't die! Come on! Wake up! Open your eyes!" I didn't understand. Why is that person saying I can't die?

"Luciana, don't you leave us! There are so many people who care about you here. Igneel, Grandine, Wallia and the grey still unhatched egg. Didn't you say you wanted to take care of the little one inside?" The egg. That little innocent soul inside. Yes, I wanted to see it grow up, grow stronger... I promised to protect it.

Suddenly, there was a ray of intense light piercing the numbness surrounding me. I grabbed for it, pulling myself out of the oblivion and emptiness.

My eyelids felt like lead. I was surprised I even managed to open them.

I turned my gaze to the dragon standing above me. It was such a familiar shape tha I knew who it was without even seeing his face.

"Ace-niisan..." I whispered.

"Thank goodness you woke up. I thought you would really let yourself disappear." answered Acnologia, his voice shaking.

"What...?" I was trying to roll to my side and stand up but my body wouldn't move.

"It's okay. Don't move. You have to rest a bit."

"What?" I asked him again.

"Do you remember what happened to you before you passed out?"

"I had all those awful feeling inside me... There was so much pain and loneliness, I couldn't breathe. I felt as if I had a big hole in my chest and it wouldn't close..." By the time I finished, I was crying openly. Something I never did.

"Shh. You're alright. I'm here with you." He was licking my face, trying to quiet me down.

"It's him, isn't it." I asked my twin when I finally found my voice again.

He looked so solemn and sympathetic when I said it, I knew I was right.

"Why, Acnologia? Why did he leave me? We are Soul mates. One spirit. So why did he abandon me? Why has he chosen to be reborn as a human? Does he not love me anymore?" I was wailing and sobbing and I didn't care.

"I do not know, Sister. I do not know..."

954 years later...

I knew I was racing with time. I flew at my full speed to the capital city, all the while images of destruction and death repeated in my mind. He can't have done it. I didn't want to believe Igneel's words.

Acnologia has always been the most sensible of us. The one who was never confused. He couldn't have been fooled by that twisted god.

I was nearing the main street, when I saw him. Acnologia. My brother. My twin. My Soul Sibling was there, setting the country on fire, ruthlessly killing humans we were supposed to guide and teach..

"Ace-niisan!" It has to be an illusion. It has to be a trick of some sort. "Ace-niisan!"

I was right behind him when he turned around and slashed at me with his claws. Shocked, I didn't even try to dodge the attack. It hit my wing and sent me falling to the ground.

He didn't spare me one single glance as he continued with the massacre. My heart shattered at the same moment.

First Vernon and now Acnologia. They're all leaving me.

I was so tired of loneliness, of being hurt... I closed my eyes and hoped the fall would kill me and let me rest in peace.

2 days later...

"I'm not going to leave you." said Igneel gently. I gave him a bitter smile and left. He meant it, I knew, but I didn't dare believe in his words. His mind could change. Just like Vernon's and Acnologia's has. Maybe not now. Maybe after millennium or two.

I retreated back into my realm. Place only I could enter. Place where no one would betray me.