Acnologia Retires

Chapter 5

Author's POV

Gildarts couldn't believe his eyes after seeing who was in front of him. The black scales, blue glowing markings, and pale eyes. Gildarts stood in a defensive position ready to attack or dodge if Acnologia were to attack him.

After standing there for what felt like hours, Acnologia nor Gildarts made any signs of movement towards the other. Gildarts was confused as to why Acnologia wasn't attacking him but just laying there looking at him or at least he think he was.

After an intense staring contest, Acnologia huffed a breath and turned his head away from Gildarts, showing no interest in prolonging the unfair fight with the human, then laid his head down still having it turned away from Gildarts.

Gildarts on the other hand was shocked and his confusion increased rapidly. It's shocking to see The Dragon King, who disappeared 200 years ago, taking no interest in killing someone and confusing as to why the dragon showed up so suddenly and here on Mt. Zonia of all places.

"Get out", Gildarts thoughts were cut off when a soft, deep but rough voice spoke from inside the cave. Gildarts looked up at the dragon, that was laying in front of him with a look of shock plastered on his face.

"Wha-you can talk!" Gildarts asked, shouting. Thinking that it wasn't possible for a dragon to talk.

"No. I can bark, asshole", Acnologia replied sarcastically while lifting his head and turning to look down at the orange, who backed up a little.

"EHHH!?"

"Get out"

" Huh, w-wait! I have a question" Gildarts said, wanting to confirm the suspicions he's having and get rid of the waves of confusion he's currently drowning in.

"NO! GET. OUT. NOW!!!" Acnologia roared as his patience was thinning.

"Where have you been?" Gildarts asked, gathering every ounce of courage and confidence he had left, after being yelled at by the black dragon.

"Huh. What's that supposed to mean?"

"What I mean is I heard that you disappeared after wreaking havoc and committing mass crimes for over 200 years" Gildarts replied, gaining a bit more confidence and relaxing his stance to talk to the dragon, who didn't seem like like he was interested in having a brawl with a human. "Disappeared?? What are you implying?" Acnologia asked feeling uncomfortable, frustrated, and confused with the conversation he was currently having.

'God, I can't believe I'm talking with a mass murderer', Gildarts thought.

"Do you know what year it is?" Gildarts asked Acnologia, to confirm his suspicion of the black dragon. "Don't answer my question with another question, you insolent human," Acnologia growled at Gildarts, feeling more frustration building up with his unanswered question. "But do you?" Gildarts asked the dragon again, "Yes, it is x499", Acnologia replied in a 'duh' tone.

"Oh my god", Gildarts gasped. Not believing what he heard. "What?" Acnologia asked, feeling like he'll have a heart attack if orange juice, Gildarts, didn't answer him.

"Y-you...I- *sigh* You caused destruction for 200 years, then you vanished for the next 200 years..."

"....."

"It's the year x781 now..."

"............"

After such revelation, Acnologia became silent, trying to comprehend what in Jesus' fucks name did Orange say while staring at him. Confusion built up inside Acnologia as his thoughts were all over the place.

'what?'. ' no...it was x 499'. '200 years...did I travel through time while I was asleep'. ' but...how?'.

Acnologia came to a conclusion, that was no doubt a fact, that he slept for 200 years, Acnologia felt like destroying the whole world at the moment. Though, unknown to him, the black dragon was slowly reverting back to his human form.

Gildarts stood there, completely silent, looking at the dragon, who have been still and in a daze for so long that the sun had already set and was now peeking behind the snow-covered mountains. He was alarmed when the dragon suddenly smoke was come out of the dragon and was shocked to see a dark skin man with blue, long, fluffy hair, blue tribal-looking marks on his face, and sharp, sapphire eyes.

"You, what's your name?" Acnologia asked, snapping Gildarts out of his shock.

"Uh... I'm Gildarts Clive" the said man replied.

"Alright Killmarts, you're not lying are you?" Acnologia asked, giving 'Killmarts' the 'I-will-kill-you-if-you're- lying-to-me' stare. The black dragon refused to believe the conclusion he had come to and was wondering if someone had placed a spell on him when he wasn't aware but then again, magic doesn't affect him. Well most magic, not all.

"It's Gildarts..." "Don't care" "...and no I'm not lying to you". Gildarts finished his answer, telling the truth. Acnologia could smell if someone was lying or speaking the truth and right now 'Mr. Clove' was giving off the scent of honesty.

Acnologia felt like screaming and you know what, he did just that.

*Inhale*

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!"

Time skip ( brought to you by chibi Acno kicking a tantrum and Gildarts sweat drooping )

Gildarts POV

'Damn, my eardrums almost paid for that'

I'm rubbing my ears to stop the ringing, I'm sure that the people in the village heard that scream, no it sounded more like a roar than a scream. At least he is done now.

This leads to now, I'm sitting by the large campfire staring at the blue gloom that's laying in the corner of the cold cave. After he was done kicking his tantrum, he just went to the corner. What a huge mood swing...

I don't really know what to do in this situation. Do I leave and pretend I didn't just experience this phenomenon or ask if he's ok? I'll feel guilty if I were to leave without helping, even though he's a mass murderer.

*Sigh*

"Hey, Acnologia, are you okay?"

"...."

He didn't answer, now I'm even more worried. Is he really taking this so harshly? I got up, walking towards him with careful steps and when I got closer, like about 3 feet, I called him out again. "Acnologia". Still no response.

I got closer to him and crouched down, asking again while tapping him on the back. "Acnologia~ you good man?" This time I got a response but a tiny one, "mn". I kept tapping him but I didn't get another reaction from him, so I decided to take a risk no one will.

I placed my hands under him and turned him over on his back. He had his eyes closed and he was...sleeping? I tapped him on his chest, no reaction, poked him on his cheek, still no reaction. "I guess he is sleeping but he's cold, really cold" I muttered to myself. I looked at the fire then back at Acnologia, I tried to pick him up from under his arms, but goddam, he's heavy. Finally, I picked him up, swung his right arm around my neck and placed my left arm around his waist then walked over towards the everlasting fire.

I laid him down near the fire and sat a bit further away from him. I looked out of the cave to see night has come and the moon had risen high in the sky, casting a glow in the cave and lighting up the entrance. How beautiful it was to look at.

I laid down when I felt myself dozing off, and after a few minutes, I finally fell asleep. Unaware of the glowing sapphire eyes staring at me.