, 6 Months Later

"ROAR OF THE SNOW DRAGON" I Inhaled the snow from my surroundings, and rather than placing my fists together I released the blast into a mountain of snow Bellaruse created for me to train on. But when my Roar hit the mountain, it barely made a dent, not even a snowflake was harmed.

"That was pitiful human. Do it again, and this time concentrate." Bellaruse said. I cursed under my breath, unsurprised that she said that. I cursed under my breath. For the last six months, i've been living on the top of this mountain, learning Snow Dragon slayer magic from BEllaruse's tome, and it's been pretty brutal.

(Flashback)

The first couple of weeks I had to sleep outside of the chamber because Bellaruse said that in order to use Snow Dragon magic effectively I need to become one with my element.

"Damnit Bellaruse, it's fucking freezing out here, why do I have to stand out here" I had said, she followed by saying in a rather annoying fashion

"Shut up human. THis is for your own good" *scoffs* yeah right.

I became frost bitten, it felt like every single part of my body had become ice.I started running around in order to try to keep my blood flowing, but it was futile, not because of the weather, but because everytime I tried to get back on my feet, Bellaruse would take control of my body and knock me back into the snow. I kept begging Bellaruse to let me back into the chamber, but she shrugged me off and told me to shut up.. again, and again., and again. I tried to keep calm, but it's tough to do so when your limbs feel like they. In an effort to save my life, I attempted to inch my way towards the chamber, only to hopelessly attempt to pry it open with what little strength that I have left to do so. SoonI lost the use of my legs, then my arms, and then I just collapsed to the ground. Then I heard Bellaruse whisper to me.

"Let your body become one with the snow. Let it shield you, let guide, may it aid you." The sharp cold pains that I had previously felt began to change into a simple cool tingle all over my body.

When I finally came around, I originally thought that I was back in Purgatory, but when I opened my eyes, I was still on . When I tried to get up I was met with some resistance. Put a little more effort into it, and I broke out of whatever it was I was I looked down to where I previously was I saw that I was wrapped in a shell of ice, like a cocoon in the form of a human. I asked BEllaruse why this happened, normally a human would die from this level of bitter cold. She said It was symbolic. She said The human ice cocoon was actually an egg. A dragon's egg. This egg began to form around me just as I was inches away from death, and created by Bellaruse's magic from her soul in order to start channeling the magic from nature and from Bellaruse's soul into mine. The magic then began to infuse with the snow around me and flowed into my body as I slept within the egg, and had begun transforming me into a Dragon Slayer. The snow inside of my body would give me the ability to inhale snow to use dragon slayer abilities. She was right, I felt incredible. The snow no longer bothered me, in fact, it felt welcoming. I could control it, like it had a consciousness of it's own waiting to be discovered. Along with basic Dragon Slayer spells, such as SNow Dragon Claw, Snow Dragon fist and other such spells, i've also learned a couple of exclusive spells unique to a Snow Dragon Slayer. Once such spell was the Snow Dragon's Tail WHip, which is used by manipulating the snow around me and making it into a tail, which could also be used to wrap my enemies in a crush them to death. Although, I may need a little bit more practice controlling that spell, considering that when I was practicing on a rock, I may have split it in half. I can also perform the Snow Dragon's Wings spell, which gives me the ability to cause extreme gale storms and allow me to fly. Last but certainly not least, I can use Snow Dragon Scales. This spell creates a barrier of dragons' scales to protect me from other mages spells for a certain amount of time, or until the spell's durability wears down. All of those spells I was able to learn like they were nothing, but mastering the Dragon's Roar is much more difficult than depicted in the anime.

"ROAR OF THE SNOW DRAGON" I yelled once more, my roar hitting the mountain with the exact same result, further angering Bellaruse.

"Do it again, and this time do it right human." she said.

"Bellaruse i'm trying the best I can, but I don't know what i'm doing wrong. THe other two spells weren't as hard as this one." I said. Snow began to form in front of me, first a small mass, then it began to take shape. THe snow began to form claws, then horns, a tail, then before I knew it, Bellaruse had appeared right in front of me, not in her true form, but still, her current form still looked downright terrifying. See, since she can at time control my body, she creates a giant snow dragon replica to act as a medium in order to test my skill, well either that, or she's about ready to chew my head off. She had spikes protruding from all over her body, he eyes appeared to be 2 big spherical chunks of ice, and she was white, white as the snow she was made of, obviously, she had once mentioned that her true scale color was blue, not white, I don't actually understand it but I'll accept it either way, I mean it's not like it really makes a difference.

"This is the fourth time i've had to appear in this inferior form to you human-"

"Bellaruse I told, please call me Ross" I said angrily

"Do not bark orders at me human, you are the pet, and I am the master" she said raising her giant snow claw to my face. "Besides, this shouldn't even be a problem for you, you have the soul of a dragon within you, that should allow you to use my magic more efficiently"

"Bellaruse, I don't know why, but this is far more difficult than the other spells that i've learned from your tome." I said trying to explain myself, but she just ignored me and proceeded to demonstrate how to correctly perform the spell.

"ROAR OF THE SNOW DRAGON" she shouted, which unleashed a torrent of snowy destruction towards the mountain of snow that I created. Immediately as the spell hit the mountain, it came tearing down like the Walls of Jericho(look it up). As the tower of snow came crashing down towards us, we just simply inhaled it, at least that's not a problem for me.

"*sigh* I don't know what's wrong. I mean i'm doing everything right and i'm trying my best Bellaruse" I said.

"Excuses, what kind of dragon can't roar?" she asked me. I've come to expect this from her. Bellaruse is somewhat narcissistic, and extremely overbearing. She expects absolute perfection for everything you do, no matter what. In fact the other day when I was trying to do push ups to keep myself in shape, she said and I quote, "You call that strengthening your body? Please, a baby dragon could do that, let me show you real training." The next thing I know she's controlling my body and forcing me to three tons worth of stones. It worked but still, I don't like it when she controls my body, but like it or not, we're stuck sharing the same body until I can master whatever it is that "ultimate spell" Bellaruse has in her tome.

"It isn't as easy as you think, teaching dragon slayer magic to a human is much more difficult than teaching it to a dragon."

"Ordinarily yes, but unlike most of those who've learned Dragon Slayer magic before you, you have a dragon's soul within you. You've have become a true dragon and must be adhered to a certain standard that dragons must abide by in order to become great" she said, each time releasing a sharp breath of cold air into my face.

"*scoffs* please, how would you know that, you've never had anyone to train with." I don't know what it was that I said, but whatever it was I said, it pissed her off, because the next thing I know, I was sent flying into the side of the mountain.

"Oh Jesus that hurt" I said clutching my head. "You wanna tell me what the hell that was about Bellar-" I stopped midsentence to dodge a now angered Bellaruse, who tried smashing me with her claws. I started running as fast as I could from Bellaruse, but she was too fast to outrun in that dragon clone medium. "Ok, ok, whatever it was that I said to piss you off, I take it back, I TAKE IT BACK!"

"THEN YOU SHOULD LEARN TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT THING YOU'RE NOT EQUIPPED TO UNDERSTAND." she bellowed, literally making the ground shake, and me fall down onto the ground. SHe hovered over me, bearing her snowy fangs down on me, ready to devour me in one gulp. "You. Know. Nothing, human. If you did you'd know why you must never, EVER, say that to me." She raised her claw, ready to turn me into mince meat, but instead of letting her slice me to death, I retaliated with an attack of my own.

"SNOW DRAGON KICK" I screamed, kicking Bellaruse away from me and sending her flying onto her back.

"'Bellaruse, you need to calm down. Whatever it was I did, I didn't mean to say it, but whatever's bothering you it cannot be worth kill the both of us again." I said.

"You.. know...NOTHING. SNOW DRAGON WING ATTACK" she roared. I easily dodged the attacks, but that only served to increase her anger to dangerous levels. SHe began spewing Dragon roars in every other direction, nearly hitting me a couple of times as well. I quickly realized that she wasn't aiming for me, she was aiming for the much bigger mountains above us. I knew this because the sound of rumbling came booming into my ears, so I turned around and I noticed that Bellaruse had started an avalanche that even a Snow Dragon couldn't inhale(and trust me that's pretty big).

"Oh that is definitely not good." I said. "Bellaruse what the hell were you thinking" I turned around to notice that her snow dragon medium had disappeared, confining her back to my body. She then proceeded to make me slap myself in the face...again

"Move human, I will not go back to that black void, and if I do, i'll be stuck with you for the rest of my existence, now get moving" she ordered. Quickly I ran my way across the field, trying to reach the chamber. I pulled as hard as I could, but the damn thing wouldn't budge an inch.

"Bellaruse any time you wanna open the hatch would be appreciated."

"Oh right, I forget, it senses you are an inferior bei-"

"GODDAMNIT BELARUSE JUST OPEN THE DAMN THING BEFORE WE BOTH DIE AGAIN" I screamed. SHe stayed silent and the hatch opened up, I swapped inside and shut the hatch, right as the rumbling of the avalanching snow running across

The Town of Magnolia, Same time, Walking away the guild.

Lucy stopped in her tracks, hearing the loud roar coming from somewhere in the distance. Lucy was wearing a black shirt underneath mauve colored vest, with a pair of gray jeans and strapping brown boots to boot (see what I did there :P) with her key satchel strapped to her jeans.

"Hmmm there it is again. Maybe I should head up to Mt. Hakobe right now" said Lucy. She looked down to a job request form she had gotten from the guild. It reported that there have been some unnerving sounds coming from somewhere in . A reward of 70,000 Jewel She had seen it in the guild for the past six months, but no one would take the job. Some of her guildmates had stated that it's probably nothing more than a bunch of Vulcans screaming at the top of their lungs, but Lucy thought differently. Normally Lucy wouldn't consider approaching such a task, but she needed the money badly to pay her rent. The reason being, Lucy hasn't spent much time in the guild ever since-

One Month Ago

"LUCY?!" yelled out Natsu as she was approaching the guild. They had just gotten back from the Edolas affair not too long ago, and everybody, especially Mirajane and Elfman, was celebrating the return of Lisanna. Lucy had lazily made her way to the guild, worried that the whole place was going crazy over Lisanna's return. Natsu was waiting with Erza and Gray and…..Lisanna? Lucy had known that she used to be part of Natsu's team, so it wa no surprise to her that Natsu would ask Lisanna to be part of the team again, but it's what came next that surprised her.

"Sorry that i'm late guys, I overslept" said Lucy lying through her teeth, secretly she preferred if the rest of the team kept her out of this mission.

"Uhh, yeah actually Lucy, we were kinda hoping that you weren't going to show up" this catches Lucy off guard, why would Natsu say something like that. "See we've been talking and we thought that it would be best if Lisanna took your place on the team".

'W-wait what? You're replacing me?" Lucy said in shock. She looked over at GRey and Erza, but both had turned their gaze away from the scene.

"Yeah, see, since you aren't as skilled in fighting as the rest of us are, we always end up having to save you." Lucy couldn't believe what she was hearing. Natsu continued to list off all of Lucy's shortcomings, her complaining on the rest of the team to bail her out of most situations, how she's too weak to hurt an enemy herself. but the one that struck her the most was when Erza stepped in and said:

"It would also be nice to not have dead weight holding the rest of us back."

Lucy tried her best to fight back the tears in her eyes through all of it. Lucy may not fight like the rest of them, but she knows she's a damn good mage, but right now, all she felt was a sense of failure, mixed bitterness, rage and sadness

"So we think it would be best for everyone if we went our own ways so that you can improve your skills. That isn't a problem isn't it?" asked Natsu. Lucy felt her heart break, but she summoned the strength to make a smile and say

"No, it isn't." the New Team Natsu quickly smiled especially Lisanna, "Hope you guys work well together."

(Return to the Present)

The thought of that memory crossing her mind made her cringe. Tears began to fill up her eyes again, some of them even fell onto the now crumpled job request form.

"SO i'm weak am I" she said tossing the request form to the side, with her whip in hand and a serious look on her face, "Well then, it's about time I proved you four wrong."

Writer's nOtes- sorry this one took so long, i've been fighting a nasty cold so there's that. Once I get better, I'll post more regularly. Until then Bye bye :P