Emotionless
Chapter 43, 4.000 Years Into The Past
Alright so here we are on the newest crazy chapter of my story. Hope you guys don't get too mind blown ;D
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Two Years Later..
When Lucy has passed through the Eclipse Gate with the dragon in her grasps she felt like the world was flying past her, everything was a blur and every second she could feel the weather turning hot and cold. The different smells of time; forest, desert, death. It all flew by her and soon everything stopped and she was starring at a land where the dragons ruled alone. Mountains were painted white by snow and grass covered the land. Dragons drank by the lakes or perched up apon the mountain sides.
The dragon she had taken in with her was pulled from her grasp and sent hurdling inside that time, and as she tried to get a better look on the land, she too fell inside the realm and the portal shut closed behind her before she even had time to blink.
It was then she realized just how screwed she was. She was in the dragon's times back in the beginning of time, and there were trillions of dragons here. Her time when the dragon's took over Fiore was child's play compared to this. Where the world is their home and she was probably the first human in existence before them.
So of course she looked like a rare kind of meat.
The moment she hit the ground the dragon's looked up at her before zeroing in on her and she took off in a run. One would think a dragon would just swoop in and pluck her off from the ground before devouring her, but Lucy still had her magic, and every time a dragon got too close they were hit with a black energized whip.
Cliché.
So she did what her ancient cave man species did (even though they don't even exist in history yet) and lived in caves, wore animal skin clothing from Sabers and the occasional decorative skull here and there. She looked like your regular ol' classy cave man, or women in this case.
She would admit though, that it is quite amusing living in the dragon's time and yet to be eaten. After all, it's not every day you're living in the dragon's land actually alive and not dinner. Not only that, but she was able to truly appreciate the landscape before her, and even the beauty of the dragons.
If she ignored the fact that they were mostly man-eating dragons. Not all were though, and those dragons were herbivores or strictly fish eaters (the fish were the size of sharks or even whales). Lucy often hung around them, and had become a sort of dragon-friend to them.
Best thing that she loved (or would if she could feel) was when she would sit on their backs and they would fly through the skies. It was the best feeling in the world, and the predators of the sky would ignore her if she rode on the back of one of their kin, or even in the mere company.
They wouldn't dare attack one of their own after all.
It was strange in a way for Lucy, she who hated dragons and had been hunted by them as she was hunted down in her own future actually enjoyed the company of the dragons in this time. Though maybe that was because the land was still the dragons' and they weren't fighting over it to reclaim the lands once more, because man wasn't in their way this time.
She would feel slightly bad for them in the upcoming future where all her dragon friends and all the others will be dead. From the look of things the dragon slayers' dragon parents haven't even been born, meaning she was further back in time than she could ever dream to be.
Not that mattered to her really, two years ago she jumped into the Eclipse Gate over a dragon to save her world. Now, she was living among dragons wondering if she really saved her time or if everything is frozen with her absence.
Time Travel is strange that way..
In any case though, she hasn't exactly had time to search for an Eclipse Gate that may not even exist yet. She wondered if man created that Gate or if time created it in itself. It was a mystery, and probably one to never be solved.
Currently morning as dawned over the land and Lucy is just waking up from her makeshift rock bed. Yawning, Lucy cracks an onyx eye open before groaning and stretching out her limbs and rolling off the rock with a thump.
Letting out another groan she picks herself up with the support of her left arm before patting the rock and walking out of the cave she has been inhabiting for the recent couple years. Her eyes squint against the pure but bright rays of the golden sun before adjusting enough to see the beauty of the land before her.
She then slowly lowers herself down the rock hill of the mountain her 'home cave' is on and makes her way to the water stream. At first she just splashes water on herself but when she feels a sudden shove on her back she goes flying belly-flop forward into the stream.
Lucy immediately pushes herself back above the water to be met face to face with a jaded green dragon, moreover it seemed to be grinning at her with amusement in it's eyes.
Lucy let out a huff of mock irritation before grabbing ahold of one of the horns of the dragon that lifts its head to pull her completely out of the water and on the land where she flops ceremonially unto the ground.
Lucy flips her soaking wet dark blonde behind her and chuckles. "Not funny Jade, not funny." Lucy said, and yet she was in a full-blown laugh not a moment later. The dragon now presumed Jade, nudged it's head against Lucy's side causing her to fall over on her back leaving her to stare into the dragons silver eyes.
Lucy can't help but smile, even though she cannot feel, her body just cannot help but smile. "Well, I'm definitely awake now. Thanks." Lucy says sarcastically and receives a snort from Jade. "Alright, Haha, laugh it up now." Lucy said as she picked herself up before bringing her only hand up to the dragon's cheek, who leaned into her touch and closed her eyes.
After a minute of peaceful silence the two pull away and Lucy turns to look into the sky. "I will never get over the true beauty of this place." Lucy says and gets a sudden nudge in the shoulder by the jaded dragon causing Lucy to roll her eyes and turn to Jade. "Sorry, you're more beautiful." Lucy says and Jade smirks at her, before rolling it's neck back in a stretch.
"Yeah, now it's your turn to wake up. It's too bad I can't throw you into the water and see how you like it." Jade huffs at Lucy's statement before walking off over to her nest underneath a very large tree that was half the size of a mountain, and began 'fishing' in the river for breakfast.
Lucy shakes her head while chuckling before walking to her usual fruit tree where she grabs a purple-red pineapple sized fruit and immediately sinks her teeth into it, moaning into the taste of it.
Lucy devours two before making her way back to Jade, who was munching on a shark-sized fish and casually leaned on her side, feeling the warmth she gave off through her scales. Lucy closed her eyes for some last minute sleep and was later nudged away to be met with Jade's mock of annoyance silver eyes to her own onyx ones.
"Ready then?" Lucy asks sleepily and without waiting for an answer climbs unto Jade's back, where the dragon in return hopped slightly causing Lucy to immediately grip the horns of her body in panic before glaring at the back of Jade's head. "Alright, fine. I'm awake already, how many times must your do that?" Lucy grumbles receiving a slight hop from Jade for teasing leaving her to sigh mercilessly.
"Sorry, sorry." Lucy says, apologizing half-heartedly.
Jade rolls her silver eyes where Lucy could not see before walking forward a few steps before flapping her wings and slowly rising into the sky, with Lucy holding on to her back.
It felt like she was slowly flying into the sky with Happy, but more comfortable and more free. Happy had a tendency for digging his claws into her shoulders for a better grip. Lucy banished the thought from her mind, not wanting to be reminded of the world she left and instead focuses on the sky, where the other dragons have flown into to awake their sleepy-heads. Though these were the early birds, for some were still sleeping lazily on the ground, their claws over their heads to block out the noise. Lucy smiled at this, and whispered something in Jade's ear who smirked and immediately launched into the sky at a 90 degree angle without a second thought.
The reached above the clouds in less in a minute, and by then Jade was already flying in an arch before diving straight down, with Lucy screaming in excitement all the way down. Jade suddenly does a spin before a loop with Lucy hanging on with her life.
Jade suddenly let's out a roar, the blast forming a small mountain which she lands on before leaping off and soon their spiraling over the sea, Lucy watching as the water dragons spray water on each other, or flipping around with tricks. By the time they reached the desert two dragons were building sand castles and dragons with their roars before running into them destroying them.
Soon they were flying over mountain ranges, the snow dragons re-frosting the snow on their nests with a few sparing glances at Jade and Lucy before returning to their strange hobby. When they flew down lower they were met with the icy waters where the dragons were sliding on like ice-skating or blowing ice lances at each other before hitting them back. It reminded Lucy of baseball but with clubs.
Eventually they were flying over volcanoes where the fire dragons were sleeping lazily in the lava caves or were eating piles over piles of meat. Jade made a noise of disgust at how they ate like pigs while Lucy couldn't hold back a snort of laughter catching the attention of the fire dragons that stared at them dumbly before shaking their heads and returning to their ways.
By the time they were near the grasslands they were suddenly approached by a storm where lightning was randomly striking the land, causing craters to form. They noticed the silver and yellow scaled dragons zapping each other with their lightning trying to impress the purple and grey scaled dragons that weren't paying any attention to them causing both Lucy and Jade to laugh.
After passing the last mountain towards the grasslands they were met with the sight of many black dragons trying to keep their area black while the white dragons were trying to corrupt their side into a holy white. A lone metallic dragon roared at the black and white dragons causing a brawl to erupt between them causing Lucy and Jade to roll their eyes at the sight.
And then, they were back in the grasslands. Jade landed easily next to all the other green dragons that ranged from emerald, jade, moss, light green, army, dark green, etc. Lucy leaped from Jade's back as she mingled with her dragon friends before making her way towards a lone dark green (almost black) dragon with onyx eyes. The dragon looked back behind her before kneeling on it's side, allowing Lucy to lean on his side.
"Hey, Winter." Lucy told the dragon, watching the sky as it turned a golden blue as the sun began to fall. The dragon snorted quietly at his name, given to him by Lucy because he was the only earth dragon that went out during hibernation in the winter.
"Still can't believe it's been two years." Lucy said quietly causing the dragon to shift slightly to get a better conversation with her. "I've counted each dawning sun and it's actually been two years. Though it hasn't felt that long, I know I can't stay here forever." Winter doesn't say anything, knowing Lucy needs to get this off her chest, and instead listens quietly.
"I know I'll have to return to my time, and yet I don't want to leave you and Jade or the other dragons. You make me feel when I cannot feel, doesn't make any sense I guess." Lucy pauses before looking into Winter's eyes. "I still haven't seen the Eclipse Gate, yet I know it's here. It has to be..."
Winter shifts slightly and pushes Lucy lightly in the side causing her to look at him in curiosity. Winter looked into the sky at the sun, and Lucy followed his gaze before letting out a questioning "What?"
Winter snorted before looking over at Jade and the others. "Oh." Lucy says stupidly. Winter huffs before nudging Lucy slightly before relaxing his head against the cool grass.
"You'll always be with me, I know.. It's still hard to think about though." Lucy whispers before closing her eyes and leaning back against Winter's cool dark green scales and takes a nap.
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Lucy awakes on her feet to the sound of a growl from Winter, looking forward she is met with the largest dragon she has ever seen in her entire life. Before her stood a dragon that was triple the size of Winter and as wide as two dragons side by side. The dragon had black scales with red spikes, it's eyes an interesting blue color staring at Lucy.
The dragon let out a warning growl at Winter and the others that were defying him, and slowly but reluctantly the other dragons kneeled to him. Lucy widened her eyes realizing what the kneeling of the dragons meant, but also where she knew this dragon from.
This was the dragon that she had brought with her into the Eclipse Gate two years ago, the same on that had devoured Kira whole. She hadn't seen this dragon since, and figured it fell into a different time. Though now seeing it, and the others kneeling she knew immediately he had been here the entire time, but it was also the lord of all dragons.
He was the Dragon King.
Okay, there we are.
How is it? Didn't expect it did you now?
Next chapter will be in soon. It's my spring break now so I have lots of time without worrying about school.
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The Reaping Wolf