With the moonlight shining overhead the sounds of leaves crunching and a young man grunting as his footsteps echo through the area can be heard with the roars of rage and anger of a large horde can be heard not too far from the previous sounds.
A young man with messy black hair and slitted red eyes ran as fast as he could with a large egg in his left arm.
Wearing a dark red scaled jacket with a necklace with multiple different colored scales and pants while wearing a black shirt with a sword strapped on his back, the young man continued to run with rage and hatred in his slitted eyes which glowed with power.
As the young man continued to run he heard a sound in front of him and came to an abrupt stop. From the trees multiple men and women wearing similar scaled clothing walked into the young man's vision causing the young man to growl angrily.
"There is nowhere to run. Give us the egg and we shall spare your life" one of the young men offered
"I will not, you traitor!" The young slitted eye man snapped
"Traitor? As if! These abominations must die, they are too dangerous to be left alive" One of the women sneered
"Those 'abominations' as you call them taught you this magic so you can save the Humans from being enslaved!" The young man with the red slitted eyes snapped
"It's their fault we even need to worry about being enslaved!" Another young man yelled in anger
"And yet you kill mere babies for power! You are the monsters now, not them!" The young slitted eye man snapped
"End this now Hadrian!" A voice ordered
The slitted eye man now known as Hadrian clenched his unoccupied fist in anger and turn to see a familiar face
"Acnologia, you are the reason for all of this!" Hadrian yelled angrily
The man known as Acnologia stood proud with his long dark blue hair and dark skin with a dark cloak over his torso while a portion of it showed off his muscles.
"Join us Hadrian. You are among the strongest of us yet you protect these monsters when we were meant to kill them" Acnologia said with a smirk.
Looking around Hadrian sees his once fellow Dragon Slayers surrounding him with a hint of insanity in their eyes but unlike Hadrian their eyes were not slitted.
Hadrian chuckles and shakes his head amused
"Me? 'One of the strongest'?" Hadrian asks with a dark chuckle
"What is so funny Potter!?" One of the traitorous Dragon Slayers demands
"You seem to forget who trained me" Hadrian says with a chuckle as his eyes flash blood red
"Oh shit!" Acnologia curses
"Fire Dragon King: Mode" Hadrian roars as his entire body is engulfed in blood red fire causing the trees nearby to spontaneously combust into ashes and the Dragon Slayers back up in fear from Hadrian's power
"Give us the egg!" Acnologia demands trying to hide his fear
"Goodbye Acnologia" Hadrian whispers as a single tear slides down his face "Fire Dragon King: Purgatory" Hadrian roars and a large explosion of blood red fire explodes from Hadrian's body and is unleashed upon the surrounding area burning and killing every single Dragon Slayer near Hadrian.
As the fire begins to die down Hadrian looks around with sadness in his eyes and falls to his knees breathing heavily as his blood red eyes turn back to regular red but then his eyes widen in shock upon hearing a low grunt of pain.
Looking to his right Hadrian sees Acnologia severely burnt lying on the ground.
Hadrian sighs tiredly and attempts to get up before falling back down to his knees
"Damnit, using Fire Dragon King: Mode is just too much for my magical container" Hadrian grunts in pain as he is running on fumes with nearly nothing left in his magical container.
Despite the difficulty Hadrian stood up and shakily walk towards Acnologia
"Are you happy?" Hadrian asks angrily
Acnologia coughs before chuckling
"You have always been the youngest of us" Acnologia says before coughing up blood "But you were always on another level" Acnologia chuckles with a smile on his face
Hadrian's expression darkens as he reaches up and draws his sword which was brought out of his scabbard with the metal scraping against the interior of the scabbard.
The sword is 4 feet long with its blood red blade shining with a line of runes glowing at the centre of the blade and its red dragon hilt glaring forwards with glowing blood red eyes and a dark handle with red scale-like straps around it.
"Is there a reason for your pointless rambling?" Hadrian asks with his now emotionless eyes.
Acnologia looks at Hadrian with pride and awe before coughing once more
"There he is," Acnologia coughs with a small smile on his face.
Hadrian sighs and raises his sword ready to end Acnologia before he pauses
"Harry come on" The voice of a young Acnologia encourages
Hey wait up Logia" little Hadrian's voice echoes
"Don't call me that!" the voice of young Acnologia exclaims but Hadrian remembers that little pout that Acnologia would always make
Hadrian's hand along with his sword begins to shake before he sighs and lowers his sword which hits the ground slightly digging into the dirt
"Don't make me kill you, Acnologia. We were friends. The best of friends" Hadrian says practically pleading
Hadrian watches as Acnologia looks away from him, unable to look at him in the eyes.
"Why do this? Your Dragon parent took care of you. He raised you. Why be the monster you have sworn to destroy?" Hadrian questions confused
Acnologia struggles before looking at Hadrian
"I wanted to be more. To be something more" Acnologia answers and Hadrian's eyes widen upon seeing a rune on Acnologia's shoulder
"It can't be. Your?" Hadrian asks shocked
Acnologia looks away with a small blush on his face
"Not many people would consider me a leader. Have you seen the way that the people like me, in command were treated?" Acnologia asks
Hadrian sighs and shook his head confused
"So all those times?" Hadrian asks leaving the question in the air
Acnologia nods
"That was me" Acnologia answers with a slight blush on his face
"What a mind fuck" Hadrian states shocked
Acnologia chuckles a little
"But why didn't you tell me?" Hadrian asks confused
"What would you have said if you found out?" Acnologia asks
"I don't know" Hadrian admits with a shrug
Just then sounds of yelling could be heard a fair distance away
"How many did you bring to kill me?" Hadrian asks angrily
Acnologia shook his head with tears welling up in his eyes
"I could never kill you," Acnologia whispers, looking down at the ground.
Hadrian sighs and looks at Acnologia
"Goodbye Acnologia. I just hope that we meet on better terms should we meet once more" Hadrian says as he sheathed his sword
"No, please don't go" Acnologia pleads nearly breaking down
With the egg in hand Hadrian runs away from Acnologia and the Dragon Slayers who were heading towards his direction.
What seemed like forever Hadrian leaned tiredly on a nearby wall of stone
How much further must I go to keep you safe? Hadrian wondered looking at the egg in his arm.
Just then the wall slowly began to open revealing a large entrance
"Wow" Hadrian says amazed
Let's hope this isn't a trap Hadrian thought as he went inside the cave which immediately closed behind him
"That's not good," Hadrian mumbled to himself.
With no way back Hadrian moved forward. The walls were rough and remained crooked and misshapen, but it soon began to become smooth and manmade.
Reaching the end of the hallway Hadrian looks around in shock, the area was large with multiple tools and a cauldron along with many books
Seems I have stumbled onto a laboratory Hadrian thought surprised.
Looking at all of the equipment Hadrian couldn't help but be amazed by the advancement that the individual who did this made.
After what seemed like hours of looking around Hadrian sighed and sat down on a chair and pulled out a picture from his pocket.
At the side of the picture was him with his hand on top of a young baby's head while the baby was being held by a beautiful young woman with long dark blue hair with dark skin with clothes which showed off her voluptuous body.
The memory of the rune on Acnologia's shoulder came to Hadrian's mind. The gender changing rune. It was used on female Dragon Slayers to stop them from going into heat too early. When a female Dragon Slayer goes into heat they have only one desire. To mate with who their Dragon side chooses. But if the female Dragon Slayer is not ready for the process it could lead to disastrous results. But when the female Dragon Slayer reaches the age of 13 it is removed to allow the female Dragon Slayer to mate with the partner their Dragon side chooses. The men go into heat as well but they don't go into it until their 13th birthday
I can't believe that this entire time, you were the one my Dragon side chose Acnologia Hadrian thought shocked.
The young baby in Acnologia's arms was Fleamont Potter, named after Acnologia's father. Fleamont… His and Acnologia's child.
Who would have guessed I impregnated my best friend Hadrian thought with a slight chuckle.
Standing up once more Hadrian wanders around the laboratory until he found an odd looking set of runes in a circle
"Someone was planning to do a ritual" Hadrian mumbled to himself
But which one? I don't know any of these runes Hadrian thought fascinated.
But within seconds the runes began to glow and entrapped Hadrian in a bubble of green energy and before Hadrian knew it, he was frozen in time. Holding the Dragon egg and within the egg was the child of his Dragon father. Igneel the Fire Dragon King.