The Sixteen Elemental Dragons

The Need To Train

~Three Days After Fuyu Returned~

"I know the arm won't grow back, but damn! Can't this wound hurry up and heal all the way already?! It itches like hell!" cursed Fuyu in his thoughts. He and the other dragonslayers, minus Cobra, who had gone back to the Council, and the twin dragons, who returned to Sabertooth, were sitting at a table, chatting about themselves and the past few days.

Natsu stood up quickly with a smirk as a lick of flame escaped the corner of his mouth. "Guys, we should go training together...that'll be fun and would power us up quicker than doing it alone! Not to mention the fun we'd have doing it!" exclaimed Natsu happily, to which everyone nodded. Fuyu went and got the Master's permission and they all headed out to a nearby plain to train.

Little to Master Makarov's knowledge, none of them would show up for a whole month.

~In The Plains Where The Dragonslayers Are Training~

Wendy, Fuyu, Ellie, and Chaos were all focusing on increasing the amount of magic energy they could hold by meditation and focusing their minds and bodies on the energy all around them.

Meanwhile, Natsu, Gajeel, and Laxus took it upon themselves to start an all out brawl, which Laxus happily shocked the metalhead one attack at a time out of the competition, but eventually lost to Natsu.

"Hey Fuyu, wanna spar with me?" asked Laxus confidently. The man knew that water was a good conductor, and if snow was crystallized water, then he thought Fuyu wouldn't stand a chance.

However, Laxus had another thing coming when Fuyu accepted and took his spot. "Okay you two! Ready, Go!" yelled Chaos as their referee, starting their match.

"Lightning Body!" shouted Laxus, covering himself with a veil of electricity before flying towards Fuyu.

The snow mage smirked as he made the area within ten feet of himself start turning into snow. Laxus, unknowingly of his fate, drew closer to the boy, but rebounded from the snowy barrier. "What?!" asked the lightning mage angrily.

"Well you see, Laxus, that your thinking since snow is crystallized water and water is a good conductor of electricity that you'd be able to defeat me easily? Sadly, the only problem with that philosophy is that not all water is a good conductor. My snow is pure water, mixed together from the hydrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere, and doesn't contain any impurities that could help carry that electric current. That's why you bounced off a soft wall of snow as if it were solid stone while be electrified..." answered Fuyu intelligently. "I know my weaknesses and I don't regret losing my left arm either..." he said with a hint of coldness near the end. Their bout raged on for several minutes, but ended abruptly with the lightning mage kneeling in defeat.

"Nice fight, Fuyu!" said Chaos, a smile covering her face.

"Thanks..." he simply replied before giving the woman a high-five.

"Oi! Oi! Chaos! Let's fight! I've wanted to fight you ever since Fuyu said how powerful you were!" shouted Natsu.

Chaos gave a slightly blushed glance towards Fuyu, wondering what he had said before turning her attention back to Natsu. "I'm game for a match. However, I won't make it easy for you to win, Natsu!" she said with a slight smile.

The two took their spots and soon enough the round started with Chaos shooting forward as a blur and kicked her opponent, making Natsu slide back several meters.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!" exclaimed Natsu, shooting a horizontal pillar of flames from his mouth towards the woman.

"Sound Dragon's Shockwave!" screamed Chaos, kicking the air in front of her, which sent a barrage of air waves as a counterattack.

The two attacks collided and fought for dominance, but dispersed rapidly afterwards and left behind a moderate-sized cloud of dust.

They continued their bout of equal force where Chaos scored one or two physical blows at a time while Natsu got a few flames at a time to land on its mark.

"Natsu, do you honestly want to continue this fight?!" asked Chaos, putting the fight on hold.

"Of course! Give me everything you've got!" Natsu quickly replied.

Chaos sighed quickly and vanished after the dust settled, putting the fire mage on edge.

He looked to his left, right, and even behind himself, but couldn't spot the woman anywhere.

"You didn't look up..." said a faint whisper from Chaos, hovering just above the boy's figure. "Sound Dragon's Roar!" she screeched loudly, causing a beam of intensely vibrating air to pummel Natsu into the dirt and create a small crater with him at the center. She had easily overcome his keen senses and reflexes with her sheer speed.

"Chaos wins!" shouted Fuyu, getting a round of applause from the other spectators for the sound mage and a groan from the defeated Salamander.

Natsu stood up slowly and got a pat on the back from Chaos. "You're too fast for me to even sense. Jellal wasn't even that fast and he said his speed was like that of a meteor flying through space." He complained.

"That doesn't even give off an actual measurement of speed while the speed of sound is quite the large number." She chimed with a smile, brushing some of the rubble and dust from his shoulders and hair.

They walked back and rejoined their comrades, finding out that Gajeel, Wendy, and Mina had made a delicious lunch of cherries, pork sandwhiches, and canteens of water.

Natsu made a fire to go with his food, stealing some wood from the fire they'd used to cook the pork which made Wendy laugh and got Gajeel to come within an inch of starting another brawl.

A/N: I loved having Fuyu return and got the idea from Lisanna coming back to surprise Mirajane and Elfman. I hope you all are enjoying the book so far and have a wonderful day/night!