A New Path

Dragon arrived outside the cave with his following just behind him. They were all following him like loyal puppies at this point. They had all seen his speed and magic capabilities so they were bombarding him with questions and he even got asked to take some of them in as disciples. He of course refused and he started to get very annoyed about all the questions. All he wanted to do was deal with the problem that was the message from god.

"You're back!" The young woman from earlier came running. She had been standing at the entrance with a worried look the entire time. She calmed down immediately when she saw Dragon walking out of the cave with the rest of the prisoners.

"Of course. They were even weaker then a dragon so there is no way that they could be a threat to me at all." Dragon said with a calm tone. His rage from before was gone now. It was not his first time meeting someone completely evil so he adapted quickly and went back to his neutral look.

"AH! Mister have you fought dragons??" A boy came running after he heard what Dragon said. He had an incredibly excited look on his face, but under that you could see that he was still terrified. Dragon was a master at reading people, and this little boy was hurting badly inside.

"Be more respectful Lucas! He saved our lives.!" The woman scolded the boy quickly, clearly afraid of offending the man that saved them.

"Sorry, big sis!" The boy said and hung his head in depression.

"It's okay. It was just a question on his part. And to answer that. Of course i have, it was a mountain far west from here." Dragon said while patting the boys head kindly.

"Oh, that was really you? You're a pretty hard man to find, Sir..?" Another young man that looked to be in his 20s walked up to Dragon.

"Portgas D Dragon. Please call me Dragon." He said and shook the mans hand, not bothering commenting on the hard to find part. That was kind of his whole point in remaining moving all the time.

"Nice to meet you Dragon. My name is Elijah Parson. I am a member of the Magic Council and we have been tracking you for some time now. As i said, you are a very hard man to find. Mind if we have a little chat?" He said with a friendly tone. Dragon detected no malice, only wariness from the man so he accepted the offer.

"Everyone, take a break for a while. We will continue journey forwards shortly" Dragon made sure his voice reached everyone here before he beckoned for Elijah to continue speaking. The boy and the young woman were looking at Dragon with stars in their eyes now that his kill on the dragon was confirmed.

"We are establishing a group of highly skilled mages to work in line with the magic council. They are to be called the Ten Wizard Saints. We would really like you to consider this offer." Elijah said, still holding his friendly tone towards Dragon. There was also a lot of respect in his tone. Not just anyone can kill a dragon and this huge man was one of the few that stood a chance against a dragon.

"hm, what benefits would this bring me?" Elijah immediately became happy because this meant that he was considering the offer.

"Quite a lot, but a few would be that you will have better standing with the council. Certain actions may be overlooked, as long as it's nothing major of course. This would mean more security for your guild, Fairy tail i believe it is." Dragon reacted to that.

Because he was going to leave eventually, he could do this to make sure that the guild had some more benefits. The guild had grown on him and this was the least he could do for them.

"I agree! On the condition that my position isn't number 1. That would mean more responsibility and that is something i don't have time for." Dragon said finally.

"I see, though you will have to come over to headquarters since i can't make you an official Saint here. I hope this is acceptable." Elijah bowed slightly, now very happy because of Dragon's response.

"That's fine. I'll swing by in one weeks time." Dragon said and stood up. He and Elijah had walked a bit away from the group to talk about this. This was still confidential.

"It's time to go everyone. Follow me, as we will have to walk to the nearest village." Dragon made his voice spread out by using his wind magic. Another handy trick that he had picked up from that magic.

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