Family End

"Wait! Stop!" I cried just before Zeref splashed me with the water he had created with his magic. Natsu laughed seeing this, just for his face to be hit with the water, shutting him up. I laughed seeing that, but quickly turned and ran away seeing Zeref turn his attention back towards me.

Zelda had a gentle smile watching her children playing around, at times like this she couldn't help but wonder if they should avoid trying to get their noble title back. This was the perfect life they were living, no scheming, no need to keep up images... it looked perfect... if only they didn't need to worry about the nobles.

While she was lost in her thoughts, she was hit with the water, causing her to pause. She looked at Zeref who had missed and had instead hit her. She narrowed her eyes while standing up,

"You messed up." She said while creating a magic circle, and in the air, a huge ball of water formed. Our eyes widened seeing this sight, and we quickly turned to flee. She smirked while slapping the wall of water to the ground, sending the ball of water flying forward, and swallowing us like a wave.

We were sent falling to the ground, wet from head to toe. We looked towards Zelda, who had her arms crossed with a prideful look.

"Get her!" Natsu screamed while running forward, and Zeref followed, charging a ball of water to launch at her. I was too embarrassed to tag along, although a part of me wanted to join in. I instead watched as Natsu jumped on Zelda, and Zelda played around and acted as if she was defeated by Zeref's water ball.

I smiled at this, before letting out a small cry as Noah suddenly appeared, grabbing me and putting me on his shoulders.

"is everything alright?" He asked to which I shook my head lightly while wrapping my hands around his forehead.

"Yeah... Things are so peaceful." I said with a smile, which made Noah smile lightly

"You are a bright kid... your growth is unmatched, you would surpass your old man in just a few years." He said with a smile. Over the past few days, I have been improving greatly, both physically and mentally, at the rate I was learning magic and ways to manipulate fire I would become the best in a short amount of time.

I looked at the sight of Zeref and Natsu still playing together. I smiled slightly, for this was my goal, the reason to grow stronger... and so, even when everyone was sleeping, I started to train.

I gave my body only 3 hours to sleep, pushing my recovery speed to the fullest. I only needed 3 hours of sleep, thanks to the amount of rest I needed being far less compared to others. At night, I pushed my body to the limits, before getting 3 hours of sleep. The next morning, I pushed my body once more, before eating a meal to fill my stomach.

From there, I trained with my father, learning fire magic, martial arts, and more magic theory from him. Every day, my body grew stronger than the last by a scary amount. This was thanks to my mother, who was giving me drugs every day to take in. They of course showed their side effects, as my mind grew unstable for a short amount of time, but it would disappear.

I found my physical capability improving by a great amount, I could breathe flames nonstop without trouble, my senses were sharper, and even something like my nails were growing stronger. It was as if I was a rocketship, shooting into the sky at blinding speed. 

The drugs had huge benefits, as they even helped me better learn magic. Something that should have taken me months happened in days. I formed my phoenix body 3 weeks into training with my parents. At that point, I was immune to all forms of attacks, but water and ice. Fire can also be used to combat Fire, by removing one of the three elements that a fire needs to burn, one could put out fire. But My fire burns using my spirit, making me immune to even fire.

I healed at extreme speed, for Zelda had boosted my recovery speed through her experiments. My natural recovery speed was huge, I could regrow limbs without the need for magic in a matter of 7 to 10 days. With magical energy, my recovery speed was scary, let's say for some attacks, I could heal faster than I could take damage, which gave the illusion of my skin being harder than iron.

My fist shot forward, just for Noah to smoothly dodge, countering my fist and kneeing me hard in the stomach. My eyes widened from the blow, while Noah spun me by the arm, and sent me flying into a tree.

"Close, you need to come up with your fighting style. Remember, you're small, barely up to my knees. Use that small body of yours to your advantage." Noah said to which I gritted my teeth and shot towards him. Noah smoothly dodged all my attempts to hit him, leaving me feeling like using my flames, but we were not using magic.

Noah had said that magic is good and all, but there would come a time when I would run out of it. it was best to ensure that I could fight with and without magic. In the end, I was beaten up and left to lay on the ground, out of stamina. But I had no injuries, as all of the injuries disappeared as soon as they arrived.

"Your stamina is great," Noah said hiding the fact that he was tired. I was just a kid, and my stamina was only growing every day. My body grew, adapting to every burden I put it under. thanks to the fact my healing capability was so high, I had to work under such high gravity that a normal human would be a pancake. 

"Not good enough... I'm not growing fast enough." I said while looking at my palm, I was so weak. How was I going to kill a dragon? I sighed while getting up, and returning home with Noah at my side.

"You go home, I should go see the village head," Noah said while walking off, I just nodded at him and watched him leave. I was about to head off, but I paused as my mother called for me. 

"So, how is your training? Anywhere you find yourself lacking?" She asked with a smile, to which I thought for a moment. Was there anywhere I was lacking? My flames were powerful, I thought they were going to be weak since Phoenix flames shouldn't be strong, yet they were strong. So powerful, that at times I had lost control of them. 

I could heal from anything, and Zelda theorized that I could even heal if my head is destroyed, or my heart is destroyed. She didn't know, and she could be wrong. 

"My body although is strong..." I said with a frown, to which Zelda nodded in agreement. My biggest weakness at the moment was my body. Zelda had flaws in trying to make me as durable as dragons or even devils. She had to give up, as the risks were too great there, so like all phoenixes, I was fast but not physically capable. But I was still physically powerful, as a 3-year-old, I was already stronger than the adult men without the need for magical energy.

"Yeah, but that is too risky," Zelda said with a sigh, she was scared that I would become more demonic or something. So, she only had my capability boost by a small amount, but that small amount meant that I should be in good condition for years to come.

"Yeah, but other than that, I'm good," I said softly, to which she nodded while we headed home. Zelda looked at me before sighing, danger was around the corner. The king was dead, she didn't know how he died, but their shield was gone. Without their shield, it was a matter of time before their death came.

The new King would be the King's eldest son, and he would be put on the throne in a few days. She sighed once more, she wanted to just flee. But that would just be foolish...

"Roar!" Zelda's world instantly froze at the cry of a dragon, her whole being froze, as every inch of her being realized what was coming. She slowly looked towards Dragof, and there a dragon was shooting over.

'They didn't even give us a week.' Zelda thought while grabbing my arm, and with everything she had, she turned into a shadow, shooting towards her house.

"Natsu!" She screamed, and she didn't have to look for long as Natsu was outside, looking towards the roar with an innocent curious look. She grabbed Natsu, giving us zero chance to think before she shot off... just to instantly freeze as the dragon landed in front of her.

It was a huge dragon, with Gray and White skin. The dragon was easily taller than 5 stories tall, which made it even more scary

"Lady Zelda, where are you heading in such a hurry." The Dragon asked showing off its sharp yellow teeth. Zelda stepped backward, holding us behind her.

"Haha... I can't play sadly. it would be a shame if anyone ran off and ran their mouth." The dragon said before shooting into the sky and opening its mouth. The whole village was set on fire in just a few seconds.

"Mom?" I asked not understanding how the dragon knew us, Zelda bit her lips, she knew it was pointless to run. She looked at her husband who was running over toward him.

"... Natsu, follow Ryu. Ryu protect Natsu, run away as far as you can." Noah said while putting on a forced smile. But we all knew we would die, running from a dragon was nearly impossible.

"I-I can fight," I said although I was scared, I couldn't just run. This was my reason for growing stronger. 

"Ryu please, run, protect your brother," Zelda said with tears in her eyes. Seeing that, I couldn't help but start crying. While biting my lips, stopping myself from crying, I nodded while holding Natsu who was in tears.

"Oh, where are they running?" The dragon which was already done burning the village down asked, landing before us. it mockingly laid on its stomach, looking at us like the ants we were.

"We can work together, I will be the shield," I said in a low voice, to which Noah gritted his teeth. He was going to shake his head, but Zelda spoke.

"Okay... but you must leave when I say so," Zelda said to which I nodded lightly. Noah was unwilling to use me as a weapon, but he still nodded, while ordering Natsu to leave. Natsu was too scared to just run, this forced Zelda to knock out Natsu while creating a shadow monster that grabbed Natsu and flew off.

The Dragon smirked at this, it got up, wanting to go grab Natsu, but Zelda controlled the shadow, having them hold down the dragon, while she grabbed me. Dragons were powerful, but the biggest strength of a dragon was their high magical resistance, and she knew I could bypass that defense.

'You have the magic of dragons infused into your Fire Phoenix Magic. You can harm it, now, aim for the wings.' Her voice entered my head, and I wasted no time as I used the Fire Phoenix Roar, unleashing a golden and red beam toward the wing of the dragon.

At first, the dragon was going to ignore my attack, but when it saw the phoenix flames, it jumped up in shock, which led to the dragon being hit. The dragon roared in pain, the attack being super effective against it on its shoulders

'Your flames are infused with both devil and dragon magic, it's not just effective, it's even more effective on dragons than normal dragon magic.' her voice entered my head, causing my eyes to glow with determination. I looked over towards Noah who pulled out a sword and shot towards the dragon which he aimed to stab in the eye, but the head shot up, even so, the sword stabbed into the scale of the dragon, leaving the Dragon roaring in pain as the sword was enchanted with dragon magic.

'The wings again.' Zelda ordered while she controlled the shadows, to wrap around the leg of the dragon, knocking the dragon off balance while I let a Fire Phoenix Roar towards the wing, hitting the wing and causing a hole to appear within it. I moved my head, having the hole enlarged. but the dragon used its arms to block the attack, leaving it roaring in pain as the flames burnt its arm.

Zelda and Noah moved. I did as Zelda asked, letting out the Fire Phoenix Roar when I was told, breathing in flames to restore my energy, and kept attacking... but although we were winning at first, the dragon only needed to land one good attack.

Zelda and Noah knew this, so they were aiming to blind the dragon. Noah managed to hit both of the dragon's eyes, and blinded it with the held to Zelda, after Zelda threw me to the side, and had a summon shadow monster grab me and fly me away.

"W-what are you doing! we could win!" I screamed, to which Zelda smiled lightly,

"Live a long life." She said, ignoring the dragon that was flying into the sky, although it was struggling with its one wing, it jumped up there and quickly reached the clouds at record speed.

"We love you, look after Zeref and Natsu for us," Noah said, hugging his wife, while a beam fell from the sky. Through horrified eyes, I watched as the whole village was destroyed, it was like a nuclear bomb was set off, and the shock wave leveled everything, and soon reached me, slamming hard into me, and sending me rocketing away, shooting through countless trees which soon followed me by the shock wave.

The force almost knocked me out, but I recovered fast, plus my nose caught a scent. I turned and saw Natsu. I quickly shot toward Natsu, using the tree to jump ahead of the shock wave, catching him just as the shock wave hit him. I shielded him, and when we were about to hit the ground, I quickly turned, hitting the ground hard with my back.

Coughing up some blood, I looked at Natsu who was fast asleep. But he had hit his head hard and was currently bleeding. but I wasn't given much time to think as the dragon came falling toward us, ready to launch the same attack that leveled a whole village in an instant, upon us.

"Y-you!" Hatred filled my eyes, the phoenix flames covered my body, but they were slowly transforming, losing their golden red color, and turning a black red. The flames shot off my body, forming into a ball that focused on my palms before I launched it toward the dragon.

the dragon which was about to launch the attack at me, was hit by the beam, and it instantly roared in pain. The flames like a curse didn't just burn and disappear, no, those evil-looking flames stayed glued on the dragon, burning it alive.

"Die!" I roared while running towards where the dragon was going to fall, the dragon sensing this, opened its mouth, and breathed a breath attack towards me. I opened my mouth, wanting to devour the flames, just to freeze as the dragon burst through its own created attack while covering its palm in water. It wasn't skilled in water, but it knew a thing or two about phoenix.

I was sent rocketing away, slamming hard into the ground, coughing up a mouthful of blood from the impact. But I got up the next instant, already fully recovered. Again, the dragon endured the pain of the evil flames that were not disappearing. The dragon opened its mouth, shooting a beam toward me. But it missed, leading it to land behind me. The explosion came shooting towards me, and I instantly ran towards it at full speed for Natsu was going to be hit by the explosion.

"Natsu!" I screamed, being sent flying away by the shock wave, I looked at Natsu who flew away, his body injured. I quickly summoned the phoenix flames, wanting to throw them on Natsu, but I froze seeing they were the black ones. I tried to turn them back, but they were not listening to me.

"Please, turn back," I said just to be slammed hard from behind. Dragon Claw slammed me down heavily in the ground, while the dragon madly attacked me, each blow being deadly. The dragon believed killing me would put out the flames... but to its horrors, even after sensing I was long dead, the flames didn't die down.

The dragon by that point was weak, it turned and ran towards Dragnof at high speed, knowing they could help it. The flames were slowly burning it away, and by the time it had neared Dragnof, it dropped dead to the ground, breathing its last... the flames burned until nothing remained, not even Ashes