Fairy Tail - Twilight Empire

Chapter 38 - Cavern Dragon Slayer

Everyone agreed that there was something special about the Dragon Graveyard, something mystical more than just the memories and what it represented. For the spirit of a woman to be trapped there...maybe, just maybe, there were other spirits trapped.

Draconic spirits.

"Now what makes you think you can bring someone back from the dead?" Gajeel asked.

"Seems an awfully powerful spell, something that even Master Makarov would struggle with," Panther Lily said.

"Wendy is an exceptional wizard in her own right," Carla said. She crossed her arms.

Wendy nodded. "Thank you, Carla." She focused her attention on her friends. "I can't bring the dragons back from the dead. I think that's impossible, especially because of how old these dragons are. Their bones are hundreds of years old. Anyway, what I can do is summon the spirit of a dragon, or any creature, so long as it's within the range of my spell."

"Where'd you get a trick like that?" Gray asked.

"Miss Porlyusica taught it to me," Wendy said. "A long time ago, now. Right before Tenrou Island. Maybe she wanted to see if I would be able to speak to First Master." She waved her hands. "I'll need some room to make the spell large enough. Carla, can you help me find a stone that I can use to draw a magic circle?"

"Aye," Carla said, getting Happy's hopes up for a second before she dashed off. Happy stayed atop Wendy's head while she searched for a good enough clearing.

To cast the spell, Milky Way, she'd need plenty of space and a darn-near-perfect magic circle. And a lot of concentration. With Natsu around, that'd probably be pretty easy. It was a sad, sort of mean, thought, but this would help them in the end.

Besides, Kip was insistent that they rest for the day. The city didn't go to sleep at night; if anything, security heightened. They were all too wary of assassins and thieves and held to a tighter curfew than Clover Town. Sneaking around would make them sitting ducks. However, catching the dreary guards off-kilter in the morning when they were between shifts? That was the time to strike.

So, may as well talk to some dragons. Wendy hoped to at least summon one.

Carla returned with a decently sized stone after a few moments away. She had that look on her face: she'd just had a vision. Wendy was surprised to see it. She hadn't mentioned any visions in their return from Tenrou, and Wendy mostly chalked that up to some sort of magical interference from coming forward in time. Maybe she really hadn't had any until then.

"What is it?" Wendy asked, creating the first arm of the magic symbol she had to draw. Carla floated overhead.

"Don't talk to me during the inscription, dear girl, you'll break your concentration," Carla said.

"Carla."

Carla huffed. "Fine. It was a vision."

"I almost forgot you had those, Carla," Happy said, rolling over on Wendy's head. "It makes you so special."

"It's hard to explain. It was blurry, yet so overwhelming. I saw a shadow, and then a wall of crystals, before it all bathed in blood and then...shattered."

"Shattered?"

"Broken, into a million pieces, before it was all gone in a vacuum."

"That's not much of a vision," Happy said. "You didn't see any people?"

"The clearest image I could make out was of a man. He was the blood. He was bathed in it. Maybe he had wings."

Wendy pursed her lips, finishing part of the inscription. "Sounds scary. I wonder if it's someone we know."