The Sixteen Elemental Dragons

New Friends

~The Next Morning~

Everyone that wanted to go assembled at the guild hall. Their party consisted of the dragonslayers, Lucy, Levy, Mira, Erza, and the Exceeds.

Once everyone was present, everyone, except Fuyu, was transported into Chaos' void ring.

Afterwards, Fuyu and Chaos nodded to each other and began their swift journey to the dig site.

~An Hour Later, At The Dig Site~

"Are you sure they're almost here?" asked an older male, his voice gruff but calm.

"Yes I am, they are two hundred and ten kilometers away and moving fast. They will arrive within three minutes time." replied a very young woman, her tone somewhat childish, yet serious.

"If you say so..." added the man before sighing loudly and laying back against a rock.

~Meanwhile~

Natsu and everyone inside the ring were practicing, increasing the capacity of magic energy they could hold, just in case this endeavor turned out to be a trap.

Fuyu and Chaos were beginning to get annoyed with how long the journey had been until they ubruptly stopped at a ridge in the dirt.

Below them, two people were sitting around among the stones, seeming to be waiting for someone.

Fuyu and Chaos dropped down into the small man-made crater and let their friends out of the ring before approaching the two strangers.

"Nice of you to come, Fairy Tail," spoke the woman, "My name is Chikyū Mirthwell. A pleasure to meet you all." Chikyū then bowed with a smile, her long, silver-colored hair shimmered from light of the sun overhead. She wore a black jumpsuit with a set of armor that was made of a white metal with a pair of shoes that resembled Lucy's old boots.

"Hello. I'm Matoshi Barimata, but you can call me 'Mat' for short." said the older male. His spiky, bright red hair had a somewhat glow to it in contrast to Erza's. He wore a a long sleeve, blue shirt and brown trousers along with a pair of shoes like Chikyū's.

The Fairy Tail wizards introduced themselves in return, showing them kindnessfor the two's respect for them.

"Now that we all know each other, let's get down to business. We are mages of Lamia Scale and found something that easily caught our attention. In the ruins are ancient writings on the walls." said Mat, a slight tone of nervousness in his voice.

"What kind of language is it?" asked Levy, excited she might get to learn something about a long lost culture.

"That's why we got you all. The language isn't mentioned in our current recorded history, but Mat and I have been able to make some assumptions on words and letters due to how often the symbols repeat and are used. The task seemed like a game to me that I'd play back in my childhood." explained Chikyū.

"Your...childhood?" questioned Lucy.

"Well, may we take a look at it ourselves?" Fuyu asked quickly, cutting off any response to Lucy's question. He seemed to be acing strange after hearing what Chikyū said.

"Sure, but the ruins are very delicate because they have been dated back to around four hundred years ago." responded Mat before he and Chikyū turned to lead them inside.

The mages followed their new friends inside, walking into the cool, damp air of the old architecture.

Passages made of rough stone were dimly illuminated until blue stones embedded in the ceiling overhead shone the way. The light allowed the faint inscriptions upon the ancient stone to be seen easily, which gave every dragonslayer there a quick flashback to their pasts.

"These are...draconic runes..." mumbled Wendy in surprise.

"So~~~, how did you all discover this place?" asked Fuyu.

"We were on our way back from another excavation project we finished a month ago and stumbled across it when Chikyū, here, fell through a small hole into one of the chambers." Mat explained.

"Did you have any trouble wile working here?" Erza asked, scanning the walls like she was looking for something specific.

"Actually, we had quite the handful of trouble while our excavation team worked on this place. Several groups tried to take over this place, but the main worry was a strong wizard who goes by the name of Sora Evans. He uses devilslayer magic and shouldn't be taken lightly." replied Chikyū. Her voice shaking as she said his name.

Devil...slayer?" Chaos mumbled, wearing a wide smirk for a few seconds, then hid it away before anyone could take notice.

"Ah-ha~! Everyone, welcome to the ancient civilization of dragons, Schlange-Welt!" shouted Mat as he stood in front of the others, holding his arms out to his sides.

The room was large and cylinder-like with three passageways, branching off in different directions, that were an equal distance apart from one another. In between the openings were long bookcases, filled with scrolls that made up a rainbow of the color spectrum as you looked around. It was beautiful...

"Wow~! This place is amazing!" Levy exclaimed as everyone filed into the room, becoming enthusiastic at the sight of the dragonslayers' ancestors' home.

"Indeed, it is. I just hope that man, Sora, doesn't find this pla-What in the world?!"stated Mat in agreement before abruptly shouting when the ruins began to shake, making some of them wobble and/or fall down.

A meager area of the roof near the center of the room caved in and revealed a man dropping in through the said whole.

"I found you~~~!!!" the stranger shouted with an overconfident smirk on his face as more mages came in through the opening using ropes and stood behind the strange man.

A/N: Sorry for taking so long to update, I'm sure you all were eager to read the next chapter and are mad with me for breaking that promise, but seriously. Finals. Suck. and I hate them... I will be posting sparing over this break due to family matters and I hope my friend and Co-author, Chaos, can reply to my message that I sent her. IF she does, I can post a lot quicker since my plans will have some more confidence behind them from the added support she and most of you give me. Thank you all for reading so far and I hope you enjoy the story. I will probably make it around 40 chapters long, but can continue it if that doesn't give me enough time or people want more. If you have an OC, please submit it...im running out of ideas here... ;-; See you all again soon, hopefully.