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Chapter 72, Well, its been a while. I can't tell you how busy I've been. As I grow older and finish up my last years in high school I seem to be running more and more out of free time. Makes sense and saw it coming, but it's still annoying because my sleep time is going out the window.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

""Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it." - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Normal Pov

She stood in a cave absent of all light and sound. A figure stood before her, shadowed by the darkness but the presence of her own soul was unmistakable.

Movement, and a strike to her shoulder. Pain flared in warning causing Lucy to close her eyes and breathe in deeply.

"Feeel my presssencccce, hear it in your bonessss, tasssste it through your earssssss," Cian's voice whispered in the darkness. Lucy relaxed her shoulders but kept her stance tense for strike. Eyes closed and ears listening Lucy felt the darkness close around her in an embrace.

A strike followed by a dodge. Something coiled around her ankle and she was sent sprawling on her back caught off guard.

"You are darknessssss. Use it," Cian whispered.

Lucy wasn't sure how to. Was she supposed to send her magic to the darkness or bring the darkness to her magic? She didn't even know how to do either.

"Ssssshadowsss are infinite just as light can only be sseeeen with darknesss."

Lucy focused on all that surrounded her. She breathed deeply smelling something that did not belong within the dark. Cian, no doubt. Her ears strained as scales slithered against the rock and tasted the chilly air upon her tongue. Pushing her magic to her skin she allowed her body to embrace the darkness and a shiver swept through her flesh as dark threads wrapped around her arms, her legs, her face, and her entire body.

"You are darknesss itsssself. Control it!"

Cian leapt at Lucy, his shadowy tail nearly wrapping around Lucy but instead hit nothing. There was no Lucy, only the darkness which wrapped thickly in the air.

"Good. You now have darknesss in you, embracccce it and you will risssse!

Lucy felt herself one with the darkness. She was no longer Lucy, no longer a mage, no longer human. She was merely darkness itself.

As though she were the death knell itself to the light of dawn.

"In order to grasp and master the power of a dragon you must become one yourself - or at least be one in your soul as your body is very much not. Begin with the ash of my flame within you and allow it to spread through your body as it brings life to your veins and powers your very heart to beat."

Lucy meditated on his words and opened her eyes to find herself no longer in the dark cave but now in a land that looked very much like the one where she first met Grahkrindrog, Jade, and Winter.

"Breathe deeply, flex your claws against the grass and sharpen them against the ethernano rocks. Breathe deeply and feel the power build inside your lungs. Feel every individual blood inside your body from every rib to the bone of your tail as it moves one with the rest of your limbs. Open your eyes and analyze your surroundings as you taste the air with your tongue and listen to the very ants that crawl beneath your feet. Stretch your muscles and feel the jagged spikes that protrude from your flesh and serve as a second defense to your strong magic resistant flesh. Move to the rhythm of your heart and follow the tempo with each breath. Feel your wings against your side and reach the sky with them. You are a dragon, your soul is that of a dragon's but your body is not."

"Imagine your human body stand next to you now as a dragon, place your body inside the dragon and create a new shadow of yourself." Lucy's duplicate blinked at her as she separated herself from her dragon form and watched in wonder as her dragon was slowly absorbed inside her duplicate's body and where a shadow hadn't once been suddenly appeared once more but instead of being a shadow of Lucy's body it was the shadow of her dragon.

"Absorb the magic and traits of the dragon you wish to use as your power and give it to your flesh and blood so that the two magical bodies can be joined."

Lucy did so and watched as her onyx eyes were washed out with a beautiful Satan blue turning her white sclera as black as night. Her canines lengthened to fangs and tongue split while her pupils slit from orbs. Black scales appeared on random areas of her arms, legs, neck, and face as her dragon's blue aura rocketed around her body in power. Flaming blue wings made of her aura attached to her back while black aura claws covered her nails. Black aura horns curled from her forehead while her ears stretched outward and sharpened at the ends.

Another limb appeared through her blue aura and shaped into a tail which slithered deadly behind her. Lucy watched her duplicate roar sending a shockwave burst through the land until her aura retreated back into her skin and her duplicate disappeared from existence.

"You are doing well, but still have much to learn. Prepare yourself, Lucy."

Charcoal feet crunched gravel beneath as muscles flexed quickly leading Lucy away as fast as possible. She breathed heavily but quickly with every breathe, eyes darting everywhere unfocused. A volcano erupted in the distance and a scream echoed throughout the land. Lucy leapt, bloody hands grabbing unto the ruins of a building which banner was long burned off yet the faded symbol of a guild burned her eyes while she climbed unto the roof.

Something swooped at her overhead and Lucy only just barely fell to the side to avoid the razor sharp claws that would've gone right through her given the chance. She looked up from where she had fallen seeing a massive black dragon land behind the building she lay. Piercing blue eyes met her as her instincts told her to run and when a fireball of ashen flame erupted towards her she barely had time to jump off the building, her body landing painfully on the cement below.

She didn't have time to embrace the pain however because as she looked up the dragon was rearing its head back for another fireball. She barely got to her feet and sprinted forward feeling flames lick the back of her heels as she did so. Running and hiding was hopeless but evading was all she had to survive.

She ran dodging behind ruins and running between alleyways while her chaser always came narrowly close to killing her. Her legs were burning and her heart felt like it would jump out of her face while her tongue tasted copper but she knew this moment of pain would be worth months of survival. So with a mighty push she shoved herself forward and continued her run, blonde hair turning black from the ash and slapping her face as she ran.

Light shown from the end of the alleyway she was in but as she came closer it felt off somehow. She didn't understand the feeling until she looked up to see the face of the dragon looking down at her, wings shieling the outside world while its claws gripped the building holding it on.

"You lose," Grahkrindrog spoke before his claws plucked her up from the ground and he launched into the sky with Lucy screaming all the way, stomach bleeding as his claws dug into her with every struggle. Suddenly she was thrown high into the air above him, but as she glanced down she deeply regretted the action as he saw his head reared back and mouth open awaiting his meal.

With every foot she fell she felt her will breaking and tears falling from her eyes before her vision went goodbye as the mouth of the magnificent creature clamped close with her inside.

Burning, that's all she felt at that moment. Fire burning off her flesh, ash filling her lungs while her eyes clouded from darkness. She screamed, she roared, she was falling. Then there was cool serene, washing her veins and cleansing her corpse. Eyes opened in the darkness revealing silted electric blue eyes. Light shined against the darkness, pushing it back and suddenly all the pain had vanished and she was reborn.

Blue and black scales glittered against the light, ginormous wings tucked burst from the flash of her back and folded against her body as she lifted her head revealing a dragon's face where black horns jutted out and framed her reptilian face. She breathed in a lung full of water which exhaled out her gills that jutted out from her rib cage shielded by her strong long legs of webbed feet.

She had become the draconic blue version of the lockness monster as she reared her body back before reeling back. Her body tore through the stomach of the beast which had devoured her and spread out her wings with the retreat of her head back, before roaring out a stream of liquid fire then shook her head and let out a final roar of victory. This was followed by a silent graceful flip as she leapt through the air leaving Grahkrindrog's body falling to the ground below and spread her wings lifting her into the sky where she cut through the clouds above disappearing deep into the atmosphere.

She stood back in her own inner world, Grahkrindrog standing alive before her while she confronted him with her own dragon entity. He smiled at her as their similar eyes gazed into each others. "Congratulations. You have been born as a dova, one of us. However in order to harness yourself to all of your power you must train consistently. The power you now possess holds great potential but comes at a great cost, one you've willingly decided to uphold. Use this gift well Lucy, there will not be a second chance," and with his last words to her his body exploded into wisps before fading away from the world and into history.

Lucy turned back around, her dragon form retracting from her revealing her human body once again while her dragon disappeared into the sky. Lucy smiled revealing new sharpened teeth, electric blue eyes in place of her previous black, and a grace with every step.

Her spirits stood around her with Kei standing before her. He bowed to her before he and the others faded away from her mindscape leaving Lucy breathing in the fresh air of her world before she too disappeared, returning to the world which awaited her return.

Normal Pov

Though blinded by a human Riisovzun floated proudly in the air as he gazed down at the defeated human beneath the rubble inside the crater before turning his head to where he knew the human's friends had fled. As he lifted his snout to breathe in their scent to follow however all he could smell was the strong salts of the ocean. He roared in anger and flew forward a few meters looking for a trace but could not find even a hint of human scent.

During his rage the sound of rock shattering below went unnoticed to him.

Blue flames burst from out of the crater and lit the cracks which had expanded from the ground. Blood that once lay splattered across the land began to move towards the crater, creating a large pond that slowly glided down the hole. A moment passed until all the blood disappeared from sight and suddenly hands flexed, digging fingers into the earth beneath. Eyes opened revealing glowing electric blue eyes followed by the spine bending allowing the body to straighten back to standing. Her mouth opened revealing razor sharp teeth before a roar erupted from her lungs followed by a wall of blue fire around her.

Riisovzun as though just noticing the commotion glanced back but without his sight he had no clue as to what was happening until he literally felt the impact of a punch beneath his belly throwing him higher into the air as pain shot through his body. In front of him stood Lucy, silted blue eyes glaring straight through his soul while flaming blue wings stretched across her back keeping her afloat in the air. Sharp four inch nails extended from her fingers while fangs protruded from her mouth in anger. Lucy let out a yell before launching at Riisovzun who flung his tail at her in defense only to have her arms wrap around his tail and literally throw him up in the air before following the move with a downward thrust of her leg unto its head sending it rocketing to the ocean below in lightning speed.

When his body hit the ground he let a mighty screech as a serpent attempted to take a bite out of him. Lucy laughed above before opening her palms and flipped her wrist so her hands faced upwards allowing power to light her veins before a lance of flames spread to her fingers. Lucy smirked before bringing her hands together combining the flames then moved the sphere to one hand which she launched back before throwing forwards sending a blue comment at her opponent who desperately roared a stream of purple shock back only to watch in fear as the comet cut right through the lightning and exploded right in his face sending him tumbling back on his back further sinking into the water.

Lucy then darted downwards grabbing ahold of Riisovzun's throat before he could drown then promptly threw him to the island where he landed on his side, exhausted and wounded. When Lucy landed in front of him Riisovzun stayed down, submitting himself to defeat. Lucy's flaming blue wings vanished as she knelt down next to his head.

"Tell me, why are you submitting yourself?" She asked with an arm resting against a knee. The defeated dragon looked at her, closed his eyes, then spoke, "I am no match for your strength, a disgrace to my own kind..."

"No," Lucy began causing the dragon to shift slightly to her in question. "I meant why are you allowing a human to control you, isn't that the disgrace you are feeling?"

"The human male which controls me... captured me and placed me in a cage to be tamed. Pretending to be so would allow my release. I thought I would do as he asked before taking off, but seeing as that had went..." Riisovzun said, not bothering to switch into his own tongue.

Lucy sighed before nodding. "I'll allow you to go free," the dragon relaxed. "However you must do something for me first. It will benefit you as well, getting rid of the man who made you feel so enslaved."

"...what did you have in mind?"

And that's it for this chapter. Comment, tell me what you thought of this chapter. As neither of us have heard from each other in a while.

Sincerely,

-Gothic Rain