Dragon Prince

Chapter 1

Jambo Fellow readers.

I LIIIIIVVVEEE!!!!!

See you at the bottom of the chapter.

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Elevated heart rate, flushed cheeks, difficulty speaking, and shortness of breath.

No doubt about it, she had all the symptoms.

Lucy Heartfilia, was excited.

You might wonder why, which is understandable, and if you were to ask her in the simplest terms, she would answer you in a similar fashion. Today was the first day of the school year.

Now most people who have attended school for any period of time do not view this day as one that is worthy of such emotion, and Lucy was typically one of those in that group. In fact, the 17-year-old senior had done her best to skip a grade for the soul purpose of having one less 'first day' to endure.

She hadn't succeeded in that endeavor, a detail that caused her great depression for many weeks upon her realization of it.

School was horrible, the hours were too many, the teachers too strict and boring, (honestly there had to be a way to teach history, science, and literature that didn't put you to sleep), and all of her class mates were rich, air headed, snobs.

Of course, that was her old school, Sabertooth High, a rather exclusive private school. Her new school was Fairy-Tail High, another private school, but much more accepting, and she already had friends there.

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The young blonde had met Levy McGarden on a Tuesday about halfway through the last school year at the public library. It had been sheer coincidence, though they preferred to call it fate, that Lucy had wanted to reread 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians', and couldn't find her copy of 'The Lightning Thief,' at the same time that Levy found herself in a similar situation, the exact same situation to be honest.

It was also a coincidence that the library only had one copy that wasn't being borrowed at that time, and that the two girls reached for it at the same time. So far this sounds like a sappy romantic novel of a story, but don't worry, it gets better.

When the blonde and the bluenette grabbed the book at the same time, they immediately sent each other glares, each silently telling the other to back off, this book was their's. The glaring didn't last long, as it grew, quite quickly, into a physical fight, both of them trying to get the book without tearing it.

They were interrupted by the librarian's, rather loud, order for silence. And anyone who had seen that woman angry before, no matter how long ago it was, still suffered nightmares.

The once passionate war over the book ended with the two 'bitter' enemies hugging each other as if their lives depended on it.

It was Levy who suggested to the busty blonde that they call a truce and simply read the book together in the library, and it was Lucy who quickly, and whole heartedly, agreed with the petite bluenette's idea.

They found a corner of the building, that was as far away from the librarian as they could get, with a few chairs, and sat down. Levy was holding the book when they got there, so she started reading it, out loud, to Lucy.

It was when they got to the description of Mrs. Dodds transformation into the fury Alecto, that they got off track with the reading, and by off track, I mean completely forgot about it.

For it was at this time that Lucy made the comment, "Still not as scary as my algebra teacher was."

After Levy's (unnecessarily long, in Lucy's opinion,) giggle fit died down, the blonde went on to explain how her calculus teacher for this year, a man named Jose Porla, was an extreme creep, with to slick hair, unwavering eyes, so long as they were focused on something below your neck, and an oil slick voice that he seemed to think was charming. Just thinking about him sent shivers down Lucy's spine, and Levy wondered aloud how he managed to get a teaching position at Sabertooth, which was an all-girl school.