Acnologia, my Childhood Friend

Chapter 22

Chapter 22

Welcome back - wait for it - Translations! .-. Ae, they're back again. You guys, you have to learn a few new words! So do I...

Besides that, Frosch' gender has finally been revealed! It's a she! ^_^

I apologize for any grammar errors that I have made! R&R!

Disclaimer: I'm still waiting for Slowpoke to make his final decision.

Earlier that day, in the Dragon Realm~

Acnologia's P.O.V

It was Lucy's and my day off, finally. This past month had been quite tough for me. A week after returning from Earthland after the scouting with the rest of the Head Dragons, Deamunas found I had gotten much better at hitting my targets. I didn't want to brag, but I could hit all targets spot-on every time now, even in my Dragon form. It had really helped imagining the targets to be Summer Dragneel...

How did I know how he looked - you might ask. Well, apparently Lucy had forgotten the bag she had stored in the Spirit World and asked Virgo to bring it back with her. That all happened before I showed up though, when I found her, she had tears dropping from her eyes and was looking at this picture in her hands.

It was the picture of all her Nakama - as she called them - from Fairy Tail. It was taken not long after her return from Edolas under the rainbow sakura-tree, so even the newest members like Wendy was on it. Just by looking at the picture, you could easily see what Lucy meant when she tried explaining just how lively her guild was. The people were hanging in the tree, sitting on each other's backs and one was even holding up a sign saying 'Only manly men is in pictures!', that one, I quickly figured from Lucy's stories, would probably have been Elfman, with the weird obsession with men.

I could hardly recognize any of them, even with that damn commercial from the one week with Lucy back seven years ago, they had all changed so much and many new members had joined. Summer didn't have that Neko back then either, Happy - was it?

She had told me how much she missed those good times she had with them, reassuring me she was having lots of fun in the Dragon Realm too quickly after saying that. I knew she was, but Lucy being Lucy, she missed her friends, even if they had ignored her like they had.

Well anyway, that was how I came to learn of Summer's looks, and sent a blast straight into his head several times during training.

The past week has been completely different though, as I've been practicing real Dragon magic.

Three weeks ago~

Acnologia's P.O.V

"Oi, Acnologia!" Deamunas called for me, just as I was about to destroy another Summer.

I turned and looked at Deamunas questioningly. "Yeah, what is it Deamunas?" I asked. Why would he stop me now?

He smiled at me, a genuine smile, not a smirk. "You have gotten a good aim now, so let's get to the next part of training. You already know how to make a Tarakona's Haruru (Dragon's Roar), right?" He asked as if it was the simplest thing in the world.

I hadn't tried it ever before in my life, due to never figuring out how to. I shook my head at my friend. "Káo (No), I haven't. My father's training, remember?" I reminded him. He tended to forget how my father would work with letting me figure everything out myself. Over this month, I have realized how - dare I say it - wrong my father had been by not teaching me this kind of stuff. I was so far behind everyone else!