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In a far faraway land, lived two different countries in the opposite ends of the world. One was in the West, and the other was in the East. These two countries were each ruled by its own kingdoms, who were constantly battled with each other. They put their soldiers 24/7 at the border to make sure no-one from either one of the country trespassed.

The Dragon Country lived their peace in the West, ruled by their powerful and wise king, Igneel Dragneel. The king was married to a graceful and gentle queen named Grandine Dragneel. Together, they were blessed with four children. The eldest was Zeref Dragneel, also known as the Dark Commander. He was strong and merciless in battlefield and anyone who dared to oppose his soldiers were doomed to face death. But he was compassionate towards those who were weak. He was married to the kingdom's talented tactician, Mavis Vermillion. Together, they kept the country away from bloody battles.

The second was Natsu Dragneel, a playful and rowdy prince. He was a strong knight just like his brother, but he lacked patience and was always hasty in doing things. He was never afraid to attack head-on during battles. He was given a troop of brave soldiers who didn't fear death. Unlike his brother, Natsu currently didn't give a damn care of having a wife. He was only 22 years old—2 years apart from Zeref—and he didn't want to follow his brother's step in getting married early.

The third child was Wendy Dragneel, the only princess of the family. She was 10 years younger than Natsu and she was born because Natsu kept pestering their parents to give him a little sister. Natsu was really happy when she was born. She was the gentlest out of the three and she hated war the most. She looked the most like her mother, while her two older brothers looked so much alike with their father.

The youngest was Rogue Dragneel, and he was still 8 years old. He loved his brother Natsu so much and he would always find him to play. Just like his older sister, Rogue hated war so much. He couldn't understand at all why would his family responded to the war warning they received. Surely there was another way to solve every problem without a war.

The Dragneel family had ruled the country for centuries. Under their current royal family, the country reached its highest prosperous. Other countries feared them in battles, except for one country who constantly tried to seize them.

The Celestial Country who was ruled by the Heartfilia family. However, unlike Igneel who was compassionate, Jude Heartfilia was a cruel king. He ruled his country with fear. He set a high tax to his people, robbing them everyday from their money. He made his people worked so hard to feed him and his loyal noble families. He was married to an arrogant and selfish queen named Eileen Belserion. Both of them were very power-hungry, resulting their efforts to conquer as many countries as possible. The only remaining country they hadn't manage to conquer yet was the Dragon Country. No matter how talented and powerful their soldiers were, they could never beat the Dragon Country's soldiers.

Jude and Eileen had three children. The first one was a 24 years old selfish daughter named Jenny Heartfilia. She didn't care about her people or anyone else except herself. All of the money she received from the high tax her people paid was used for her own luxury. While she spent her money in glittering jewels and clothes, her people were suffering in poverty more and more each day.

The second one was a spoiled prince named Eve Heartfilia, three years younger than Jenny. Just like his older sister, he didn't care about the people at all. He would always spend his time by wooing every noble woman he found and loved to throw parties in the castle. He also loved to torment his maids and humiliate them whenever he could.

The youngest one was a prince named Sting Heartfilia. Unlike his older siblings, the 8 years old prince actually loved his people. He loved to spend his time in the town, visiting houses to houses and communicated with his people. He always tried to save his people from their ever-growing poverty as much as he could. He hated his cruel parents and his selfish siblings, but he loved his older sister, the only one that he took as his sibling.

The illegitimate third child of Jude named Lucy Heartfilia. She was born when Jude had an affair with Layla, one of Eileen's personal maid. Eileen sentenced Layla to death out of anger, but decided to keep her daughter as her play toy. Lucy might be a princess by blood, but she was certainly not a princess in the royal family. Only Sting—who was 10 years younger than her—who loved her so much. He loved to spend time with her, listening to her singing and story telling. Lucy also cared for her step-younger brother so much.

Lucy longed to get out of the country and ventured the outside world all by herself. She longed to be free from the royal family's torment on her. She was forced to be their personal maid 24/7 and would always get slapped everyday. She didn't want to be a part of the Heartfilia family, she just wanted to be herself.

Maybe, one day, she would be able to be free and looked at the blue sky whenever she wanted.

It was a new morning for the royal family of the Dragon Country. It was a peaceful morning with the blue sky and the birds chirping. It had been quite awhile after their last war with the Celestial Country.

Natsu stretched his body and got out from his bed. He walked towards his window and opened it. He breathed the fresh air in and smiled contently. Now that the sky was so clear, Natsu decided to take a ride on his horse.

Natsu took a bath and went out of his room. He was wearing a red cotton shirt with white pants and black boots. He walked down the stairs and was about to open the main door of the castle when a cheery voice stopped him.

"Out for a ride?"

Natsu turned his head and was faced with his sister-in-law's smiling face. "Yeah!" he grinned back. "The sky is so blue right now, I'm taking Sagittarius for an adventure!"

Mavis laughed at her full of spirit brother-in-law. "Be careful, okay? Don't forget to come back as soon as you can or Rogue will cry his hearts out because you leave him for too long."

"I will!" Natsu nodded and went out of the castle. He greeted the guards and walked to his horse's stable.

A white stallion neighed and Natsu popped his face into its view. "Hey, Sagittarius," Natsu grinned. "what a nice sky today, huh?"

Sagittarius neighed once more, as if it was asking Natsu to take him out.

"Sure thing buddy," Natsu opened the door to let his horse out. "let's have a fun ride today."

Natsu took his horse out to the open field and hopped on to it. Sagittarius neighed while flapping its wings then it started to run. It spread its wings wide open then leaped up, flying up high in the sky.

"Woohoo!" Natsu screamed in delight.

Sagittarius neighed and flapped its wings, keeping the two of them steady in the sky. The morning breeze felt so nice and fresh. Natsu could see miles and miles from up high.

Sagittarius was not a normal horse. No normal horse existed in the Dragon Country anyway. He was a mix of a horse and a dragon. Sagittarius had a horse body with a long fat tail just like a dragon. It had wings on his back and two pairs of a dragon's fangs in its mouth. Natsu received it on his 17th birthday from his mother, and ever since, the two of them were inseparable. Natsu would always take Sagittarius for a ride—or rather, a fly—every morning.

"Whoa, I can see the Heartfilia's tower from here!" Natsu whistled. "They sure have lots of glittering jewels on their castle!"

Sagitarrius neighed in irritance, as if it wanted to say that the glittering jewels were too much for its liking.

"I wonder why the Heartfilia is so stubborn in trying to conquer our country when they already had so many glittering jewels. Talk about being greedy." Natsu muttered. "Man, I hate that royal family a lot. Not to mention their skinny soldiers! Is that how they try to conquer a country? By placing lots of skinny young soldiers in the front line?"

Sagittarius neighed again and tilted its body to the side, flying away from the Celestial Country. Sagittarius knew that they had flown too close to the border, and if they crossed it, it would mean a war in the early of the morning.

"Alright buddy," Natsu patted his dragon-horse. "let's fly somewhere far from here."

Sagittarius neighed in agreement.

Lucy looked up when she heard a neigh from faraway.

"What is that?" she mumbled while squinting her eyes. She stared at the blue sky and her chocolate eyes met with a rather big shadow. "Is that...?"

Lucy couldn't tell for sure because it was too far away, but she guessed the shadow she saw was a dragon-horse. The creature that existed in the Dragon Country.

Lucy sighed. Lucy had never tried flying before, she wondered how it felt. It must be nice to be flying so up high in the sky. To feel the wind blew her hair, to feel the cold air on her skin, and to see miles and miles away. It must be beautiful.

"Who am I kidding..." Lucy chuckled then sat down under the opened windows. She leaned her back to the wall made of stone and sighed once more. In all her 18 years, she had never been stepped out of the castle. She had always been inside, being a maid for her family, especially for Eileen and Jenny. The only place she could be alone was here, at the highest level of the tower where her room was located. It wasn't exactly a room, but it was a place where she could sleep. Not on a comfy bed of course, because all she had as a bed was an old mattress, the same mattress her mother used when she worked here. There were no windows at all, only an opened hole at the wall. When it rained, the room would turn so humid and made Lucy shivered out of cold.

Being an illegitimate child meant Lucy would be treated as a trash for the rest of her life. She wouldn't have those fancy dresses and those glamor shoes. She wouldn't have the best meal for three times daily everyday. She wouldn't be invited to those parties and balls. She would just stay inside the castle and worked her ass off so that she wouldn't at least be humiliated. Lucy sighed once more and smiled. Well, whatever her situation was, she was glad to be born anyway. Not that she had ever seen her mother because she was sentenced to death right after Lucy was born. But Eileen was kind enough to give Lucy a photo of her mother—or a slut, as she called her—so that Lucy would always remember that she wasn't mean to be born. Not that she would need that to remember her status, but Lucy was nonetheless grateful.

Lucy took out a pendant from beneath of her clothes and opened it. On the left side was a photo of Sting and on the right side was a photo of her mother. "Mom, I saw a dragon-horse just now," Lucy whispered. Whenever she could, Lucy would always tell her mother what she had seen that day or she would just talked about her dreams and other stuff. Lucy knew her mother could always hear her, even if she weren't alive anymore. "it was so big and I would really love to try riding on it sometimes! I do wonder how it feels like to be so up high in the sky. I hope one day, my dream will come true, Mom."

Lucy smiled and closed her eyes while leaning her head back to the wall. She could almost hear her mother replied her with a soft voice.

Of course it will, honey.

Natsu had just finished brushing Sagittarius's fur and gave it some carrots to munch on when Rogue ran to him.

"Natsu-nii!"

"Oh, hey, Rogue!" Natsu smiled while lifting Rogue up. "How's my little guy today?"

"I had a fun walk with Happy!" Rogue said while petting a sleeping blue kitten in his arms. "We saw this small mushroom and Happy munched it! Though he spit it out immediately! I bet it tasted bad!"

Natsu laughed. "Mushroom tasted better if you roast 'em."

"But Happy doesn't like roasted meals! He likes everything raw, especially fish!" Rogue pouted. "Anyway, Father is looking for you."

Natsu raised an eyebrow. "I'm pretty sure I'm not being mischievous these past few days."

Rogue giggled. "Father said it's an important matter! He requested your presence as soon as you can!"

Natsu sighed. "Well, alright then. Will you escort me to the throne room, my brave prince?"

"Of course!" Rogue said. "Off we go, my brave knight!"

Natsu laughed again and made his way to the throne room. He greeted the guards and they let him in.

"Mother!" Rogue leaped from Natsu's arms and ran to his mother who was sitting on the queen's throne.

"Come here, my sweetie." Grandine smiled and lifted Rogue to her lap. "Did you enjoy your fly today, Natsu?

"I did, Mother." Natsu smiled. "Father, I heard you requested my presence."

"Yes, my son." Igneel replied.

"I believe this is an important matter?"

"Correct."

"Is this about another war invitation from the Heartfilia?"

"No. Well, yeah, it's an invitation from the Heartfilia, but it isn't about a war."

Natsu raised an eyebrow. "Then what is it?"

Igneel fished out an enveloped letter and showed it to his son. "It's about a peace treaty offer."

Done !

I can't believe I managed to write this one out !

This is the first time I have ever written an fairy tale AU, and I'm super excited :3

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