Caged Dragon

Chapter 9

(Lucy POV)

"I can't believe it! We are free," I told the dragons, they roared in agreement.

"How long have you been there?" The fat man and the skinny man asked, if I remembered correctly, they were the ones fighting about Levy. They have been very quiet lately. I had thought that something happened to them.

"I don't really know, maybe a year or two," I told the two. I released a deep sigh, "But it feels like it has been so much longer than that." I started to walk up the stairs out of the room with the cells, my keys in hand. There was no way I am going to put them in that fish smelling bag, Aquarius would kill me, even if she is being nice right now. I walked down the hallway, the larger dragons struggling to get out of the doorway until Gajeel showed them how to get out the door. Sting, Rouge, and Wendy followed after them, then Kinana along with the mages followed. We walked through the house until we reached the front room, small streams of light came from the boarded-up windows. I approached the door and pulled the door open, light flooded through the doorway blinding me momentarily. 

When I could see it again, I walked outside. For the first time in what feels like years, I saw the sun and felt the grass rub against my feet. I looked at Gajeel and Wendy, is this what it felt like when they first got out of this place, I watched the sun shine off of Gajeel's scales and Wendy smelled the grass. I looked at the others and I could see each of Rouge's scales in the sunlight. Natsu stood there in the field spreading his wings out wide for the first time since he was chained. Static electricity came off of Laxus's mane as he shook head around wildly, Sting was rolling around in the green grass staining his white scales with green stains, Cobra was sitting in the grass with his eyes closed listening to the surrounding sounds and thoughts, his long body stretched out in the sun.

"How does it feel to be out?" Levy asked me, I turned around and gave her my biggest smile.

"It feels amazing, it has been so long since I have seen the sun and felt the grass," I told her, falling down and laying on the grass making grass angels to prove my point.

"What are you going to do now?" the old man asked, I turned and looked at him and then started listing my thoughts.

"First, we're going to head to the parent pack, and tell Igneel and the other dragons there that we are okay. Then we are going to find Happy and the other Exceeds," I told him, I wasn't going to tell him that we are going to head to Fairy Tail for Laxus.

"Happy?" Juvia asked me, "Is he a blue cat that can fly and talk?"

"Yes, do you know him?" I asked her excitedly.

"Yes, he and another flying cat named Carla live with a boy named Romeo in Magnolia, where Fairy Tail is located. Juvia remembers him because he once asked Juvia to use her magic to get fish out of the canal for him to eat." Juvia told us. Yep, that sounds like Happy alright. 

When Carla's name was mentioned, Wendy quickly turned her head in Juvia's direction and started to squawk questions to the water mage about the health of Carla and the other Exceeds. Of course, Juvia couldn't understand the young dragonling and she was scared out of her mind at Wendy's sudden change in attitude until I translated Wendy's questions.

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Author's realization-

After reading back on the other chapters, I realized that I made it so that Cobra was always a dragon, but I am going to change that so that he has been an artificial dragon since the people that implanted him with the dragon lacrima killed his parents, which was before he could remember, so he always thought he was always a dragon until Natsu and the others pointed it out, so it isn't much of a difference.