Training

The next day, Shun woke up and found himself in an unfamiliar forest, he was startled when he saw the Dragon near him and remembered the events from yesterday. His expression turned sad as he remembered about his mother.

Before Shun started to cry, the Dragon growled at him as it stated, "Shut up! I didn't save you so that you could cry in sadness. If you are sad then remember this feeling, remember that scene, burn it in your heart, trainer harder so you won't lose anyone."

Shun heard it's words and held his tears, he didn't let a single one of them flow out. After he was slightly calm, he wondered, "Where am I? What are you? I want to go back to the village. Father, where is my father?" In the end, he was only two years old child, so it couldn't be helped.

The Dragon nearly flipped when it heard "What are you?" It was about to reply that Shun's face flashed with a realization and jumped back with a shriek, "Y-you, you are a giant Lizard!" The Dragon's expression was full of disbelief, he couldn't even think that the noble itself was actually called a Lizard.

Seeing the disbelief expression on its face, Shun thought that he was right and puffed out his small chest, "I knew it! Mother told me all about you. I am not scared of you, just an overgrown blue lizard."

Suddenly, the Dragon had an urge to destroy something, but it knew that it couldn't afford to waste it's power and tried to remain calm as it spoke, "Enough with the jokes. I am what you humans call a Dragon. Right now, you are in a forest. And no, you cannot go back to your Village. It is already destroyed."

"A lizard's words always lies. You are planning to take me to your cave and eat me after adding salt, right? Let me tell you, I didn't take a bath yesterday. I smell a lot. Go find some other kid."

Shun just went on saying what came to his little mind. The Dragon was utterly dumbfounded at the words of this little kid. It even questioned just what the hell was with the weird imagination of this little kid. Just what were the humans spreading about dragons.

Not wanting to get angry at the words of a young child, the Dragon asked one last thing, "Your Name is…" Shun heard it's words and lightly smiled as he stated, "Shun… My name is Shun! I forgot my last name."

The Dragon grinned as he listened to his name and declared, "You will be my child from now on. I shall make you the fiercest Dragon Slayer in history!!" It's words resounded far and wide, and some birds flew up as they heard the prideful voice of the Dragon…

"NO WAY!"

A mighty voice reached the ears of Shun, "My name is Zagnivol, the Azure Dragon… Wait… Did you just reject me!"

"Of course, I would. You just kidnapped me out of nowhere. Suddenly say something like strongest dragon slayer and shit like that which sounds like a lot of hard work."

"You Buffon! People would die to be my child and my Dragon Slayer. Even among the Dragon Slayers. I am one of the strongest. That Fire Dragon Igneel and Apocalypse Dragon Acnologia aren't my matches at all! No one except that damn Dragon God..."

"Now, this is an order. Let this Flame enter your body, do not resist it; otherwise, it would consume you!" Shun didn't understand the reason but his body tensed on reflex as he saw the beautiful Azure Flame.

His eyes sparkled as he sees Azure Flame, "Will I be able to do that if I become your dragon slayer!?"

The question surprised Azure Dragon, Zagnivol. He didn't think Shun would be more interested in the colour of the flames. He didn't seem to care about power at all.

A cunning smile appeared on his face, "Yes… Yes… You can indeed do that if you become my child. But since you will be my child, you must listen to me. Otherwise, I will go and ask someone else."

Shun's face immediately turns to that of disgust as he stares at Zagnivol, "Don't you feel shame conning a cute little child like me? My mother told me to stay away from such con masters. I never thought I would encounter one so soon."

Even though he said that his gaze lingered on the Azure Flame. He seemed reluctant to make his decision. Only after 10 whole minutes of thinking, he relaxed his body and let the beautiful Azure Flame enter his body. Suddenly, he felt a large amount of strange energy inside his body…

He felt pain, pain at his body being burnt from inside, pain due to his cells being consumed by that blue flame. He felt the urge to resist, but the Dragon instructed not to resist. This was the only time he decided to trust the Giant Blue Lizard...

He released the control from his body, and his body fell down without any power in it. Slowly and slowly, his whole body turned black as every single cell inside his body was burned off by the Azure Blue Flame.

Zagnivol was astonished that not a single scream was released from the boy's mouth, he was holding back by trying his best. He wondered if he could take such unbearable pain and not make a single sound in response.

He couldn't, but he had seen a Miracle happen in front of his eyes. He softly spoke, "Time for you to be reborn my son…!" It released another Azure Blue Flame, but this time it was a lighter coloured Blue Flame.

It cleared away the black cells that covered Shun's body and suddenly started to mass-produce large amount of Cells that contained Dragon's energy. Shun's body was like it was releasing a new sense of life, his life force also continued to get stronger.

His every single organ had evolved and had become much better than before. Zagnivol looked at his tired expression, and he declared "Rest now!! Because your hell will start tomorrow…"

Actually, there was another reason, it was because his body had just evolved and it would be good for him to get used to it. And sleep was the best way for now…

~~~5 Years Later~~

A young boy was sitting on top of a cliff with a calm expression, he was thinking about his life since he met Zagnivol. In these years, he learned one thing, the Dragons were ruthless creatures.

His everyday life was anything but easy.

When he had turned 7 years old, he was asked by Zagnivol to go and climb the tallest mountain in the area within 3 hours. The problem for Shun was that the hill was too steep, he would step one step forwards and two steps backwards.

Sometimes, he would also fall down and earn other injuries along the way, he would also be trained by that sadistic Dragon who didn't seem to hold back at all.

He could light the Azure Flame very quickly but controlling it was proving to be complicated. The power inside his Azure Flame was also incomparable to the energy in Zagnovil's Azure Flame.

Regardless of all that, he could also feel himself growing as a more influential person, he felt the improvements which motivated him to train even further. He could now control the fire as he pleased and could also use all the basic techniques of the Azure Fire Dragon Slayer.

The techniques in which he had some problems were the Secret Arts, they were quite difficult for him as he couldn't release such intense energy required for the Secret Arts. He had complained thousands of times to Zagnivol that he was still a kid, but he would always receive a reply, "The magic comes from the feelings, try harder…"

He was half-assed in terms of performing them, so he was quite happy with his progress. As he glanced down towards that, he saw a Black Haired Man moving towards the Zagnivol…

A thought occurred in his head 'Does that person have a death wish? Does he not know that this is a dragon?'

He rushed towards the black-haired person as he called out to him, "Hey, you… Don't go near it." The Black-haired guy turned towards as he was surprised to hear the voice of a human near him, he saw that it was a young boy of 7-8 years old.

He has short Blue hairs, neat and tidy and a small and cute face. He raised his hands as he urged him, "Don't come near me…" Shun was confused after hearing his words, but he ignored them as he neared the black-haired guy.

Suddenly, the Black Haired guy's eyes widened as a Dark Magic was released from his body. He whispered, "No...I don't want to kill him. No!" he exclaimed in an authoritative voice, but the Magic didn't listen to him and continued to release the Dark Magic from his body.

It was so strong that it destroyed everything on contact, the trees, grass. As soon as that Dark Magic neared Shun, and suddenly a mysterious Azure Aura was released from his body, and it clashed with the Dark Aura and dispersed it!

Feeling this Dark Aura and the Azure Aura, Zagnivol opened his eyes, he knew who had come! Meanwhile, the black-haired man glanced towards Shun as he asked him, "Who...Who are you?"

His question caused Shun to lightly smile, he answered him, "Shun...My name is Shun. The Azure Dragon Slayer!" His words caused the Black-haired man to experience some shock, he didn't think that Zagnivol would actually decide to have his own Dragon Slayer.

Shun was also curious about the name of this stranger and asked him with a strange expression, "What is your name mister…?"

The black-haired man gave out a small smile as he replied. "Zeref…!"