The Dragon Father

Day 1 of Training

"Okay kids, let's take a test," Acnologia announced to the seven dragon slayers who were eating around the table. A collective moan went up. Two lives, eight hundred years alive... well alive and then reborn, and the children never change.

"What kind of test?" Rogue asked

"You'll like it Regal," Acnologia growled

"It's Rogue," Rogue corrected.

"Okay, first I want to see how well you all can read," Acnologia explained trying to ignore the fact that he had already forgotten most of their names.

Another moan went up around the table.

"Second, I'm going to assess your skill level," Acnologia smiled.

"How are you going to do that?" Sting asked.

"Read this and find out Sling," Acnologia answered handing him a job request sheet.

"It's Sting," Sting corrected.

"Read," Acnologia ordered clearly annoyed.

Sting sighed, "um... w...w...e...we r....r...re....qu...qu.....i....r...." Sting was struggling.

"Require," Rogue helped.

"Yeah, what he said, reequir." Sting nodded.

"Okay, Rogue, your turn," Acnologia sighed.

Rogue took the paper from Sting, "We require the help of many capable wizards to e...l...i..elimi...nate, eliminate-" Rogue began.

"Good, Gajeel you're up next," Acnologia nodded.

Rogue handed the paper to Gajeel. He looked at the paper with disdain.

"This is stupid," he said.

"Too bad, read it," Acnologia ordered.

Gajeel rolled his eyes and looked at the paper "to eliminate... the...d...da...dar...dark... g...g...g... grapefruit!" he growled and threw the paper towards Natsu. Natsu caught it and began to read.

"To eliminate the dark... gulf so we can eat food and beat up people!" he cried proudly. Wendy looked over his shoulders.

"Nope, not even close," Wendy said.

"Yes it is," Natsu argued... his hair caught fire for what must have been the billionth time that morning

"It says; we require the help of many capable wizards to eliminate the dark guild under the name Demon's Breath. Any wizard who takes on this task will be rewarded handsomely," Wendy read.

"Well done Wendy," Acnologia commended. Grandeeney obviously wasted no time educating her.

"So we're gonna attack another guild?" Erik asked.

"Yeah, Demon's Breath has been a problem, the magic council is asking for help. I figured that it would be a good way to train your guy's senses and magic," Acnologia nodded.

This put everyone in a good mood... well until they found out they had to take the train... no one was happy about that. During this torturous train ride, Acnologia used his magic to reach out to the dragon seeds in the seven dragon slayers. Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue had all been raised by dragons that had formed the dragon seed inside of them. It was the same relationship as Erik and Laxus with Acnologia himself. As such, Erik and Laxus also had a dragon seed inside them. Acnologia tried to suppress the dragon seeds in all of them; he did not want to be dealing with seven grown dragons... that would be very bad.