The Dragon Princess

Chapter 3

 You woke up near to a fire pit the next morning.

"I thought you never would get up." A voice said. You turned around to see Eincole looking worriedly at you. You looked down at yourself in shock. All of your cuts and bruises were gone. How did it happen, in such little time?

"I healed you." Eincole said, seemingly reading your mind. "Now that your up and at it, let's start training."

"Training? For what?" You said.

"If your my dragon child, you're gonna have to learn how fight, and use magic like one, right?" She said.

"Oh yeah."

It had been a couple months since you started training with Eincole. You had learned a deal of Water Dragon Slaying Magic, so much in so little time that even Eincole had been impressed. Almost as if you were born to learn this, she had said. All the magic you had learned wasn't easy. Despite her maternal nature, Eincole was very harsh on you when it came to training. There were many times when you doubted her, but in the end, it was all so that you could grow up and become an honorable wizard, as she had said many times.

Acnologia didn't take it well that a human was trained and loved by his mate, Eincole. He demanded that you show your combating prowess and fight him. After a hard battle with him, he finally accepted you as his child.

When it came to training, Eincole was a saint compared to Acnologia. He would work you to the bone, sometimes making you collapse of exhaustion. He'd sometimes beat you when you fail. It got so bad that Eincole would threaten him and they would argue a lot. You felt terrible. It would make you cry. Even so, you would remain loyal to Acnologia, for he was the father you never had, and for that you were grateful.

A year of training met that your magic range had grown. You could now slay Water, Earth, Ice, Queen, King and, Darkness Dragons, learned from your dragon parents. They stressed to you to not tell anyone about the latter three. Those were forbidden techniques that would cost you dearly if used at the wrong time. You also had the right to call yourself a dragon princess, even though it sounded silly to you.

Today, instead of training you and Ancologia were going to go visit a friend of his, Metalicana. He said he was a metal dragon (duh), and he had a son who he said was teaching magic to. You immediately got excited at the prospect of making a new friend. So, you and your father dragon set off, leaving Eincole to do as she wanted.

Once you and him got there and landed, you saw a large with many layers of metal on it. You also saw a small boy hiding standing him.

"Hello, Metalicana." Acnologia said. "Long time no see."

"Hey." He said. "Introduce yourself." He whispered to the boy. The boy stepped up to you, reluctantly. He had tan skin, black spiky hair, and red eyes. Although the tan skin was covered up by some pink stuff.

"Hey, are you okay?" You asked.

"What? What's wrong with me?" He said, rubbing on his face.

"There's some pink stuff on your cheeks."

"Huh?" He felt his cheeks. They were hot. Metalicana had told him stuff about this. Something about love? Could he love the girl in front of him? She wasn't that special. Sure she had a bright smile, and sure she had two, cute pigtails. Snap out of it, she's looking at you weird.

"That tint on your face is actually cute!" He 'tinted' even more. "Nice to meet you! I'm (y/n), a Water and Earth Dragon Slayer."

"I'm Gajeel, an Iron Dragon Slayer." A playful smirk gathered on your face.