Sunlight [Sting Eucliffe]

Chapter 28 ☆彡

"This sure is spooky..." Lucy trailed off, clinging onto Natsu. Gray, Wendy, Gajeel, Lucy, Natsu and I were following the Iron Dragon Slayer. "Ahh!! What is that?!" Lucy screamed, pointing to a creepy looking dragon. "Luce, that's a dragon." Natsu laughed. "We're here." Gajeel said. We all stopped. Something flashed in my head, but before I had time to see, it was gone. I rubbed my head. "What the hell is that?!" Grayy yelled. "Animal... bones?" Lucy mumbled. Natsu shook his head. "Dragon bones."

"Why is there a graveyard under here?" I asked. Gajeel shook his shoulders. "This place confirms the exsistance of dragons." Lily said, "What's goin' on here?" Nastu asked. "The hell I know." Gajeel said. "I wonder if something happened here." Lucy mumbled, "These are so many." I sighed, looking around to get any clues. I saw a shadow, but then it disappeared. I stopped, and glared at the place I saw it. "Nikko, what's wrong?" Lucy asked me, I shook my head. "Nothing." I said. "Maybe if Igneel is here..." Happy mumbled and Carla glared at him. "Happy!" She yelled. "I'm sorry!" Happy gasped, covering his mouth. "No, that's okay. He's not here." Natsu said softly. "Our dragon's disappeared 14 years ago. The remains here are much more ancient." Gajeel explained. "Huh. Milky Way..." Wendy mumbled. "Milky Way... It's the one Porlyusica-san taught me, one of the Secret Dragon Slayer spells..." Wendy said, "'Listen to the voices of the dragon souls that continue to the heavenly river'. I thought it was some sort of attacking magic, but it seems I'm wrong."

"Maybe this is what it's referring to." I smiled, "Wendy, you think you could do it?" Wendy nodded hesitantly, "I'll try."

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"That'll do it. Everyone, please back away a bit." Wendy said, I took the wooden stick from her hands, and I stood next to Lucy. "Wandering Dragon souls, I would recieve your voices. Milky Way!" Wendy said, her hands in the air. The magic rune around her began to glow, blue and green. The hue was fascinating. As the magic began to spread out throughout the graveyard, Lucy complimented the view while Natsu and Gajeel grinned at the sparkles. "The bones!" Lucy yelled, hidig behind Natsu, Gray walked in front of me, as a shield. "Wendy, are you okay?!" Gray yelled, "I'm looking for the Dragon souls. The wandering residual thoughts here are so ancient and tiny..." She mumbled, then he eyes whindened as a gasp esacped her lips. The magic began to shine harder, while everyone blinded their eye's, I grinned at the light. "I found one!" Wendy yelled, she began to join her two hands together, focusing her magic. Wendy grunted, and Carla looked at her worried. "Is that a soul?" Lily asked. "Wendy!" Happy yelled, then a Dragon hand came out, and Lucy gasped as she hid more into Natsu's back. "HAHAHAH!" The dragon laughed, as it's ghpst came out into our view. All of us screamed, as the dragon still laughed at us. "Seein' that shocked face on human face's never gets old!" The dragon grinned, he somewhat looked familliar, and my head throbbed. I gasped, as my body hit the ground hard. Gray quickly ran to me. "H-Hime!" The dragon suddenly yelled. "Who are you?" I mumbled, my vision swaying. "I am Zirconis..." And that was all I heard before I blacked out.

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3rd person POV

As the team continued to listen to the dragon speak, they were shocked. "It's weird, that girl looks like our Hime!" Zirconis laughed loudly, "But aren't you really old?!" Happy asked, "Nikko is only 17." Lucy nodded, "If you say she looks famillar, THEN IS NIKKO AN IMMORTAL?!?!!" Lucy screamed. Gajeel rolled his eyes. "She's been with you guys before I even joined. If you've seen her before me, and before the Tenroujima, it isn't possible that she's immortal." Gajeel grinned. "What happened here?" Carla asked the ancient dragon. "There are a lot of dragon remains here." Happy stated. "We summound your sould so we could learn the truth." Lily added into the questioing. "I have nothing to say to humans! Go away!" Zirconis closed his eyes, while looking up, not looking into the team's eyes. "I'm a cat!" Happy waved his hand. Zirconis grinned, "Okay, then. It happened over four hundred years ago."

"Your absoulute rules are pretty loose." Gray sweat dropped. Natsu lughed loudly at Grays comment for once. "Dragon's were once rulers of this world. We thrived, flying through the air, racing across the land, and swimming in the sea. Everything in the world belonged to us. Humans were no more than our prey. But, there was a foolish dragon who objected to our reign. That one spouted nonsense about building a world where we could coexist with humans. Eventually, between the dragons who agreed, and the ones who disagreed, a war began." Zirconis said, his smile off his face. "I fought as one who disagreed. I have no fondness over human. But there was this one human, who I had trusted. She looked exactly like your girl." Zirconis said. "That girl's name was Nikka Ciela." Lucy gasped, "But the girl we know is named Nikko Cielo... The girl you knew, the end of her first and last name only ended with an 'A'..." Lucy trailed off. Wendy looked at the ancient dragon with wide eyes. "Nikka had the same body, facial structures, hair, and eyes. Only, Nikka had longer hair, and it wasn't as curly as yours. Nikka, she saved the dragons who disagreed. As we were about to plan an attack, she was the child of my ol' pal Akahikari."

"That's Nikko's dragon's name!" Gray yelled. ZIrconis grinned. "She was merely a child this, no more than eight years old. She caught me snoopin' around, and told Aka. Later, Aka confronted me, and the little girl somehow persuaded all dragon's to get along. Thus, making most dragon's have a human partner. And so, everyone knew her as the Dragon Princess." Zirconis grinned, "I wasn't fond of it first, but I had Nikka too, as my human. I raised her with my two hands with Aka... But our happiness ended in seven years..." Zirconis mumbled, "Nikka was killed when she was turnin' 17, and there was a human. He murdered Logia, and claimed his name was Acnologia... I hated him, he... He killed Nikka... She was the first to learn dragon slayer magic, and was named princess, and as the dragons put our human in the war, he murdered her. He was ruthless to anyone. The dragon's he killed... He bathed in their blood, then his skin turned to scales, and his teeth turned to fangs, then he became a dragon..."

"A-Acnologia..." Lucy gasped, her ears not believing what they heard. Lucy shook in fear. "I fear to even say that name. That's what Dragon Slayer magic leads to. The dragon's resting in peace here... Were all murdered by that man. Though human, he became the Dragon King. The Dragon King initated another war. That was the Festival of the Dragon King. And that king was Acnologia. A dragon with pitch black wings, unlike any other dragon... As he started the war, he cursed on Nikka's grave, and spit on it. Then he dug up her dead body, and shredded it to pieces." Zirconis said.