Acnologia, the Dragon King, was sitting down to lunch. His wife, Anna, was sitting to his right and laughing at their son's antics. His son, Serena, was reenacting his playground game with his utensils between mouthfuls.

And then there was a knock on his door.

"It's probably Michelle," Serena stated, "She wanted me to play with her and Thomas after lunch."

"Well, I'll go tell her that she needs to wait a little longer," Anna smiled standing up and going to the door.

Acnologia listened as Serena began to rant about what a great singer Michelle was when Anna walked in, "Acno, it's for you," she said cautiously.

Acnologia's senses sharpened as he tried to identify who was at the door - dragon slayers.

"Serena, stay with your mother," Acnologia ordered standing up and striding to the door.

"What's wrong?" Serena asked.

"Nothing dear," Anna said watching Acnologia go, her eyes told Serena she was lying.

The three Acnologia's stood at the door. Anna had just answered and told them that she was going to get her husband.

"This may be a bad idea," the first sighed.

"Oh, you think that after we've met the mate of this Acnologia?" the second scoffed.

"Shhh," the third hissed.

The door opened again and they found themselves looking at an angered Acnologia.

"Hello -" the first squeaked.

"You dare come to my house to challenged me?" Acnologia growled.

"CHALLENGE!?" the first squeaked.

"No no no no no, you've got it wrong," the third said quickly.

"You wanna go?" the second growled.

The first and third looked to the second.

"THE F*** IS WRONG WITH YOU!" the first shrieked.

"I know you didn't just scream in my face," the second growled.

"ANYWAY!" the third said stepping up to face the Acnologia, "We've not come to challenge you... I mean, that would be rather stupid seeing as we... are you."

Now the other Acnologia was confused.

"He's not lying. We're you from different dimensions and we'd like to ask you some questions," the second growled.

The other Acnologia looked at them - he knew they weren't lying - and then curtly answered, "No."

The door was shut at the Acnologia's stared at it shocked.

"Well, time to go," the first shrugged.

"Hell no, I'm gonna kill him now. You don't slam the door on my face!" the second growled stepping towards the door.

The third and first grabbed him and wrestled him away.

"He doesn't want to talk and I don't blame him. He probably thinks we're crazy. Now let's go."

So, they walked away from the house simply trying to keep the second Acnologia from turning around and destroying the home of the other Acnologia.

On their way, they passed a group of people heading the way they had left. It was fairly large and the people in it looked ready for battle.

As the two groups passed one another, both groups tensed.

The three heard the other group whisper.

"They look like him," one hissed grabbing his sword.

"No, they smell wrong," another with a bow said avoiding eye contact.

"Move forward," one with an ax growled.

"There's something wrong," the second growled once they were far out of earshot.

"I think that they were just a band of travelers," the first smiled.

"They smelled like blood," the third concurred.

"A band of travelers who recently killed something... humans gotta eat," the first shrugged hopefully.

"Dragon blood," the third growled.

The first sighed in defeat, "Or they're challengers that we're going to go fight."

"They're heading right for his house," the second growled watching the group go.

The three looked to each other.

"Serena... and Anna," the third realized.

And then they all ran after the group.

Anna was trying to fix Serena's hair. A hair tie was in her mouth and Serena was fidgeting.

"Can I go now Mama," Serena whined.

"Nu," Anna responded speaking through the hair tie.

"The less you fidget the sooner Mama will finish," Acnologia chuckled as he watched his son pout.

And then the ground shook.

Anna looked up fearfully and her gaze met Acnologia's.

"What was that Papa?" Serena asked fearfully.

"Probably nothing," Acnologia lied striding to the door. He opened the door and looked around. There was nothing but peace until there was a distant explosion of light. And then something crashed into a tree next to the house.

"Godd*amnityousonofanactual*inputword*I'mgoingtomurderyouallandI'lldoithappilyyou*inputwords*."

Acnologia ran up and saw himself, his angry self, had been thrown into a tree.

"You," the Acnologia murmured.

"Yes. Me. Whoopie doo. Now if you don't mind, I'm off to murder," the second Acnologia snarled jumping to his feet.

The other Acnologia stopped him.

"What is going on?" he demanded.

"What do you think? Challengers you idiot. They were heading to your... our, house and so we intervened," the second growled.

"Are you all dense, they came expecting to fight the king of the dragons not three -" the Acnologia began.

"Dragons? Newsflash buddy, we're Acnologia too. It's only the first who's pitifully weak the smart one and I have some serious power, now move," the second demanded, "I left loudmouth McStupid and SmartyMcTattoo fighting a whole bunch of strong idiots."

"I can't let you fight a fight for me," Acnologia growled.

"I am you stupid. Anna and Serena are just as important to you as they are to me no matter where they come from. Those bastards came ready to massacre and something told me that they weren't going to go all "sunshine rainbow happiness" when it came to Anna and Serena. So MOVE. Get Anna and Serena out of the way -" the second snarled.

"INCOMING!" someone shrieked.

The second looked up just as the first Acnologia fell on top of him.

"THE ACTUAL F-" the second screamed muffled by the first's body.

"I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA DIE!" the first shrieked hugging the second.

"GET OFF OF ME!" the second snarled.

The first got off and looked at the other Acnologia, "Hello again." 

"Where'd you come from!?" the second growled rubbing his head and standing up.

"Uh, the sky," the first answered pointing up.

"Well no sh-" the second began.

"DUCK!" the first shrieked.

The second was hit by a magic attack and sent flying.

"Ooooooff, that's gonna leave a mark," the first flinched as he watched the second knock down a few trees as he flew.

"Where are they," the other Acnologia snarled looking around.

"Well, well, Dragon King," a dragon slayer smiled emerging from the trees, "We meet again."

"You've got to be kidding me," the other Acnologia hissed.

"Whoa, you two know each other?" the first asked.

"Other me," the other Acologia snarled looking back to the first, "Get Anna and Serena to safety."

"But - " the first began.

"Now," the other growled.

"Alright!" the first nodded running away, he turned back, "HEY!" he called.

The other Acnologia looked to him.

"I'm going to call you Me #4.... or Four for short okay!?" the first asked.

The other Acnologia looked at him puzzled.

"OKAY!" the first cheered, then he took off towards the house.

"So," the dragon slayer chuckled, "Who are your new friends?"

The other Acnologia chuckled, "What friends? The only comrades I see are me, myself, and I."

The dragon slayer laughed, "Good to see you still retained your sense of humor. But we'll see who'll be laughing after this."

"ME! I'LL BE LAUGHING YOU *INPUT WORD*!" the second roared rushing forward and slamming into the dragon sayer without warning. 

Meanwhile, the third Acnologia was holding off a group of ten dragon slayers. He remained in human form and was dodging magic attacks while rushing the mages. He was able to get two in the dirt and eat a powerful spell that boosted his magic. Even he had to admit, these dragon slayers were rather powerful.

The first Acnologia opened the door to the house, "HELLLOOOOO!?" he called running through the house. "ANNA!? SERENA - AAAHHHH!" the first shrieked when he turned the corner and saw Anna with a frying pan ready to hit him.

KA-BANG

The first Acnologia fell to the floor, "You are very strong woman. Very strong," he squeaked the indent of the frying pan on his face.

"You better tell me where my husband is - " Anna began raising the pan again.

"WAIT WAIT WAIT!" the first cried flinging his hands up to protect his face, "IT'S A SUPER LONG STORY BUT HE SENT ME TO HELP!"

"Mama," Serena yelled fearfully looking out the window. Both the first Acnologia and Anna looked to the window and saw a group of three people running to the house.

The first stood up rubbing his nose, "Miss... I'm here to help... now let's run... quickly and like, NOW!"

Anna looked doubtful.

"He smells like Papa, Mama, I think we can trust him," Serena said running up and grabbing Anna's dress.

Anna slowly lowered the frying pan, "Alright... let's go."

Then a magic attack broke the window and nearly hit the first Acnologia.

"QUICKLY!" the first cried running to the back door. Anna and Serena followed.

( Aannnnnn I'm sorry this is so late. I've been distracted and haven't worked a whole lot on it. Sorry. I'll try and stay on schedule *nervous laughter*. )