Acnologia, my Childhood Friend

Chapter 49

           

Chapter 49

Okay, I know many of you are craving a battle with Lucy, and I promise there'll be one. It's already at day 3, so not too far away, I think. Besides, it'd be no fun if I pulled out all the good stuff in the start, aren't I right?

Thank you, DesolationDeath, for helping me with the story

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

At Silver Tail inn~

Lucy's P.O.V

I hadn't ever thought this small inn we were in could hold so many people. Right now, our team, the teams from Sabertooth, Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale - with Sherry tagging along - were all in our little inn. It was also quite crowded here. And as Fairy Tail now was quit poor, we hadn't had the money to buy anything bigger or better than Silver Tail, not that we expected so many people to be here.

Currently I was sitting on Acnologia's lap at a table with Sabertooth. I guessed he was having a burst of possessiveness with all these other teams around and men he didn't know and I knew he felt the need to show I wasn't available, even if everyone already knew. 

Sabertooth was actually much like Fairy Tail, they all seemed like great friends. A little like Fairy Tail, or how I had known them to be anyway. I wondered what kind of guild Sabertooth was?

I wiggled a little around in Acnologia's lap until I found a comfortable position. He had his arms around my stomach, keeping me in place. The rest of our Team B was spread around, talking with the members from other teams.

Sting leaned in over the table, with a hand under his chin and the elbow resting on the table. He looked at Acnologia and I with curiosity shining in his eyes. "Say, Acnologia, what generation Dragon Slayer are you? A fourth one?" He asked Acnologia. I noticed from the edge of my peripheral that our conversation drew the attention from Jura as he made his way to stand behind us with crossed arms.

Rufus nodded. "Yes, I have no memory of a Dragon Slaying art quite like yours." He commented. "Also I remember you saying 'Dragon Strength' rather than 'Dragon Force', once again, I have no memory of that spell." He said. That guy was awfully perceptive. It seemed he was the brain of that team.

Acnologia shook his head with a little smile playing at his lips. "Not quite." He admitted. "Just like my cousin and a girl from our guild, I'm a 0th generation Dragon Slayer." He told them. I wondered how many time we'd told people this already.

Everyone furrowed their eyebrows, except the expressionless Rogue, who just stared at Acnologia. "Uhm, Acnologia-san?" Yukino asked. Acnologia and I both looked at her, I smiled at her. I'd learned that she was actually a Celestial mage, like me. I could feel it in her magic, that it was similar to mine, I was sure she could feel it as well. "W-what is a 0th generation exactly? And why haven't we heard of it?" She asked, getting less nervous as she spoke. "It must have come before the first generation, but I have never heard of it before." She commented.

Acnologia nodded. "Yeah, there's only a few of us and we have been trying to keep ourselves hidden for a long time, but we all know each other, because our Dragons did." He said. So, I guess he counted the other Dragon Heads as Dragon Slayers of 'his' generation too. It seemed he finally also remembered her first question. "The 0th generation is, as the number suggests, older than the first generation." He explained. "The second generation's pretty new, but the first is actually a bit over 50 years old." He told them. "In comparison, generation 0 is over 400 years old." He explained.

Funny thing was, there actually was a generation 0. What he said was completely true, the only reason that generation 0 wasn't so widely known was because, as Acnologia said, that those of them that there were left, really did try to keep themselves hidden and their Dragon Slaying art, to use Rufus' words, hadn't been recognized as a generation back when they didn't teach generation 1, so the numbering of it first started from generation 1. This was something Dravola had taught me one of the times I went with her and the 'team' to Earthland. I guess Acnologia already knew of all this being born a Dragon, he'd probably been told this long ago. Acnologia, the Savior of the Dragons, was one of the generation 0 Dragon Slayers, before he became a Dragon.