Caged Dragon

Chapter 16

(Lucy POV)

It has been almost a week since we came to Magnolia, and the only one of us to head to the Fairy Tail guild was Laxus. 

We have been busy with building our dens. Gajeel, after recovering from me fixing his wings, has been digging out his den. Metal dragons of all types like to live in the ground, it is closer to their food source. He had been using his iron pillars to support the large burrow. Gajeel was a large dragon, roughly half as tall as the Fairy Tail guild in the forest. Yeah, apparently the guild had two guildhalls, the main one, and the wooden shack of a guildhall that they use when major renovations or repairs are being made to the main guild hall which is quite often from what I hear.

 When I checked on how progress on his den was going, he had finished the main room of the den, the one where he sleeps in, and he was working on the mate's own room, the mates of dragons tend to have their own space but they usual sleep in the same room of the dragon, and the food storage rooms. Wendy was working on her den as well, I told her that it had to be somewhere where I could reach, with the help of Natsu, my spirits or the Exceeds, so she made her den in between four tall trees, with plenty of intertwining branches. Her nest was shaped a bit like a bird's nest, except for the dome that was made of her feathers and many large branches, it had an open space no other defined rooms, but there were a few balcony-like platforms outside of the nest, with hanging bridges connecting them together. Sky dragons always have a messy bird nest structure to their dens, but they were neat on inside, they make their dens in high areas so that they can be closer to their food and so they can feel the wind. 

Cobra made his den in, and I don't know how he found one in this forest, a swamp, poison dragons love swamps, I don't know why they just do. He made a hut for Kinana and he made a burrow in the swampy waters, I didn't go there to see this, I had Kinana take pictures, his burrow was made up of leaves and mud, it would look like a mess to someone who had never seen a poison dragon nest, it made a bowl like shape when the construction was complete. 

For Rouge's den it was in the cave, a dark damp cave, he didn't really do anything with the den once he found the cave beside make a bed from animal skins. While Sting's den was the complete opposite of Rouge, it was in an open clearing where the sun was always in, and he used his feathers and hair along with multiple other things from the surrounding nature, to make a nest. 

For Natsu's and my nest, he built ours in the center of all of the other nests, Natsu knew where the nest would go based off of instincts. It was a dome structure it had an opening at the top that let light through the roof, there was a pad of animal skins for me, outside of the den there was a hut that we rebuilt for me to have room of any books that I wanted and a space for me to continue writing my books. There was a lot of space in the hut so we also decided to use it as a meeting room for the pack. Finally, we come to Laxus's den, he made his nest closes to the nest for the guests, he got iron pillars from Gajeel to use as lightning rods, and other than there being metal rods coming out of it looks almost exactly like the other nests for guests, and that there is a small space for his mate. 

We were still making adjustments to the nest, like getting wood for making fire for Natsu and other things for the nest, but we were almost done with the den, but Laxus had already gone to Fairy Tail so he wasn't helping us. He better come back with poison for Cobra, for skipping out on finishing the den, again.

(Laxus POV)

I had left the town hall, after getting the mayor to let me buy poison for Cobra without the authorities getting mad, so Lucy won't Lucy kick me into outer space. I then walked over to the Fairy Tail guild, and entered the guild.

"Laxus, welcome back," Mira told me, and I walked over to the bar.

"Hi, Mira," I told her and I sat down.