Dragon

Dragons (ドラゴン Doragon) are extremely powerful and intelligent creatures that live in Earth Land.

History
All other facts and stories about dragons were collected in one book called Dragon Historia. One of the stories listed there tells the story of a dragon who supposedly destroyed an entire country by itself.

July-7-777
On July 7, X777, all of the dragons disappeared one day and went to an unidentified, uninhabited region for unknown reasons.

Strength and Intelligence
They are extremely powerful creatures, so powerful that a form of Magic had to be created to combat them. Even Gildarts, who was considered to be the most powerful Mage in Fairy Tail under Makarov and later the candidate for the next Fairy Tail's master, was defeated by Acnologia, and he claimed that no human could defeat one, further evidenced when all the Mages participating in the S-Class Wizard Promotion Trial on Tenrou Island fought it, but were soundly defeated, with Gildarts claiming that it was just playing with them.

From what Wendy has said, dragons are extremely intelligent. They are able to speak the language of humans and can thus impart their knowledge and communicate with them. Some, however, do not seem to be satisfied with the fact of having to make contact with the race, which they consider to be inferior. In such a situation at all would not go into discussion with people and show a quite remarkable ignorance pointing in their direction.

Dragons and Humans
To the events of the year X784, society does not believe in the existence of dragons. However, the destruction of Tenrou Island caused by one of them, called Acnologia, changed their view on this issue.

Despite their destructive nature, some dragons, such as Igneel, Grandeeney, and Metalicana have been said to care for humans to the point where they raise orphaned human children as their own. While raising the human, they teach them Dragon Slayer Magic to make the human more like them.

The situation is somewhat different in the case of the Black Dragon. In contrast to the others, he did not obey the will of the Dragon King and has not left the world of humans. Gildarts described him as "the enemy of humanity", as confirmed by his subsequent behavior, when without warning and any particularly reason appeared on Tenrou Island and later tried to destroy it.

Known Dragons

 * Igneel the Fire Dragon
 * Metalicana the Iron Dragon
 * Grandeeney the Sky Dragon
 * Acnologia the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse
 * Vicelogia
 * Skyadrum