I stood outside of the ruins of my old guild fairy tail and I could still hear the screams of my former guild mates as they were burned and killed in this building. I was the last one the soul survivor of fairy tail all because I was coward for the first time in my life I was afraid to help my family I natsu drageenel was afraid to fight, the thought sickened me.
Never again would I fight with gray, fish with happy, drink with Cana or challenge erza but worst of all I could never tell lucy how I felt I could never kiss her or tell her how much she meant to me because I will never see her alive again.
The tears escaped from my eyes before I could stop them I fell to my knees and cried haunted by the ghosts of the past. For a long time I had hope that the first master Mavis had saved them like she had saved us on Tenrou Island. A year had past and Mavis had come to me telling me that my friends were dead and their was nothing she could've done.
I didn't blame Mavis she was just as broken as me I blamed myself there was so much I could've done but didn't. Before I could catch myself I begain to fall into the deep hole that was the memories of that day.
It started off as a normal day I had broke into Lucy's house and decided to sleep with her after all her bed was so comfortable and warm unlike mine that was damp and starting to rot because of my lack of cleaning habits.
Lucy had yelled at me and told me to get out as she pushed me out the window my head hurt from the impact of the fall but not as much as a punch from gildarts.
I decided to go to the guild happy flying behind me. "Lucy is a devil I just wanted to finish my bath," happy was angry because he had snuck into Lucy's bath in the hopes of getting clean when Lucy had come in and freaked out at him for not leaving.
"Want to go fishing later?" happy's attitude changed from depressed to well happy the same moment I asked the question. We never did go fishing after.
"Hello everyone," I called as I walked into the guild I was greeted by different voices all welcoming me back.
I walked to the bar chatting happily with happy as we waited for lucy to walk into the guild hall. my eyes widened as the smell of death and tears meet my noise.
"Zeref," I whispered and the guild became silent.
"What about him?" Mira was in front of me with another bowl of curry in her hands.
"He's here," her eyes and every other pair of eyes In the guild widened as the guild doors exploded.
Behind the smoke stood zerfe in his arms was Lucy's lifeless body I could smell her sweet vanilla and cherry sent mixed with her foul copper scented blood.
It was that moment that I broke the silence that had fallen. "LUCY!" I screamed tears running down my face I looked at zeref but couldn't find the strength to become angry all i could feel was sadness total mind destroying sadness it was like someone had stabbed me in the chest and ripped out my heart.
If anyone had expected me to rush into a fight they were disappointed i fell off my chair and landed in a broken heap on the ground crying and sobbing almost unaware of what was happening around me.
But I could still see zeref drop Lucy's body to the ground I could still see the look of pain on her pale face I could hear zerfe's cruel laughter echoing around the guild mixed with the cries of my friends.
I could smell the fire before I could see it, it smelled like darkness and suffering and I knew I couldn't eat this fire without the risk of being taken over by the darkness.
The fire spread quickly and for a moment I wondered if anyone was going to get Lucy's body out before the flames took her body away from me.
I struggled to stand and could see that zerfe had blocked off all the exits with his dark magic. The only way out was to knock out zeref and the magic would disappear.
as all the guild members attacked him I felt like I should help when I could see how bad we were losing but something stopped me.
I looked over to Lucy's body and found it engulfed by the flames, it took all i had not the vomit at the stench of burning flesh.
"Natsu!" A voice brought me back to the fight is was grey. "Snap out of it ash for brains we need yo-" he was cut off by a wave of black magic effortlessly slicing him in half the copper stench was over powering as grey coughed a few drops of blood landing on my cheek.
I fell once again to the guild floor I could hear the sounds of my family being cut down one by one around me as zeref continued to laugh. "Is this the best you can do fairy tail," he laughed mockingly. "Your nothing but little weak pixies."
"We are stronger then you!" Gramps stood in the center of the guild I looked at his determined face and let my spirits rise only to be cut down again when zeref destroyed all my hope. I gathered what little strength I hand and ran to the bloody heap that was once gramps.
There was a hole in gramps stomach created from a single punch, zeref had killed gramps with a single punch. I was frightened I could now feel something other than sadness and sorrow I was afraid, afraid of zeref of what he could do, afraid of what would happen if he tried to stand up to him.
I couldn't move I couldn't speak I could only fall for the third time that hour, was it only an hour it felt like a life time from the time happy and I were talking about fish, what happened to happy anyway? I wondered.
A bloody blue fur ball caught my attention and I knew he must have been chaught in the battle i closed my eyes blacking out unable to feel the pain of my sorrow any longer.
When I woke up zeref was gone but so was the rest of the guild. I stood up and looked at the smoky remains of my family I could see Ezra's armer blackened with smoke and stained with her blood the image of her losing her life brought tears to my eyes.
I tried to run from the guild when I tripped on some iron piercings most likely from gajeel I could imagen him being cut down trying to protect levy. On my left almost a foot from my face were Lucy's keys i reached out to take them and when I did I cried i couldn't protect her I stayed there and cried for hours holding the keys to my chest.
I would've stayed there longer but people started to gather around the guild wondering what had happened, not wanting to answer their questions I stood up and walked. i walked all the way to Lucy's apartment relieved to find it untouched so i stayed there for a long time Crying and grieving over the girl that never knew how much I loved her.
I was pulled back to the present by a hand one my shoulder I knew who it was without turning around. "Go away mavis," I snapped still crying.
"There is something I need to tell you," Mavis now floated in front of me.
"What is it," I was angry no matter what she said it couldn't bring back my family.
"Zeref died," I was surprised and strangely glad at the same time.
"How?" I asked a little less angry The tears starting to dry on my face.
"The magic council." She wastraightforward and to the point.
"So I don't even get my revenge," I looked down in my hands I held Lucy's keys i should've buried them with her but I couldn't let go of her i even moved into her apartment I was so afraid I would forget her.
"You need to move on and find happiness somewhere else," Mavis was right she was always right. "You can be the next master and rebuild fairy tail," I smiled for the first time in a long time As her words sunk in images of a new fairy tail laughing and fighting together filled my head.
"I would like that Mavis I would like that a lot," I had plans and I was going to honer my family by living on.
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