Caged Dragon

Chapter 8

(Levy POV)

I was writing the last rune to free Lucy from her chains, as soon as the last purple rune was complete and the enchantment had disappeared. Lucy started to move to Natsu. She put her wrist really close to the dragon's muzzle and the dragon inhaled, fire burst out of the bars of the dragon's muzzle, melting the chains around Lucy's wrist.

"Lucy, are you okay?!" I yelled running to her, by this time the metal had melted off her wrist. I grabbed her wrists, expecting to see severe burns, only for there to be red marks from where the hot metal was.

"I am fine," Lucy assured me. I continued to stare at her wrists in disbelief.

"H-h-how?" I asked her, stuttering in shock.

"No flames can ever hurt me," she told me and then proceeded in having Natsu melt the chains of her ankles as well.

"Doesn't that hurt at all?" Gray asked her, "I can cool down the burns," he continued to say, creating a chunk of ice in his hands.

"Nah, I will be fine, the redness is already disappearing," she told us, showing her wrists to us, her skin was back to its pale color. Natsu pulled his head up to look down at Gray with a dragon like smirk, it looked like the dragon was gloating.

"I don't like that dragon," I heard Gray say, Natsu growled something in return.

"Natsu that's not nice," I heard Lucy tell Natsu, hitting the dragon on the side.

"What did he say," I asked her.

"He said the feelings mutual, Ice Pervert," Lucy translated.

"Why you, Firebrain," Gray shot back, Natsu growled at the ice mage.

"I am not translating that," Lucy said, I wonder what Natsu said.

"How come I can only understand what Gajeel is saying while you seem to be able to understand all the dragons?" I asked her as the two continued to fight pf insults and growls.

"Time," she told me, "I have spent many years with these dragons so I can understand them, don't worry though, give it a few days and you will be able to understand all of them."

"Okay," I told her. The fighting between the fire dragon and the ice mage was starting to get out of hand, so Lucy stepped in. 

 "Now behave Natsu, we don't want Erza over there to come over and stop this little quarrel between you and the ice mage." The moment Gray heard Erza's name he stopped his insults and started to sweat.

"And if you don't stop Natsu, -" Lucy told Natsu, whispering the last bit so that I couldn't hear her. Natsu stopped growling and then he laid down. Lucy turned her head towards Freed.

"How is the enchantment coming along, Mr. Freed?" she asked him.

"It is going along fine, Miss Lucy. May I ask you more about your special runes afterwards?" Freed asked her, "Like if you can fuse the rune types."

"Well, I am pretty sure that you are going to need a mage that uses regular runes and another that uses special runes, because it is hard for a special runes mage to read the mage runes," Lucy explained to him, "But it is a good idea."

"That's good to know, Miss Lucy, now I must get back to work," Freed told her and returned to his notes.

"Can you show me some of those runes?" I asked her, she nodded her head and reached for the bag that Gajeel and I brought in. She dug inside the bag, I heard the sound of something crashing into something inside the bag, and she pulled out two pens, a golden one and a red one, then closed the bag.