DISCLAMER: This work contains somewhat graphic violence and gore. I do not own fairy tail. All characters from this story belong to Hiro Mashima.

All of Team Natsu was out on a mission after defeating Tartaros. They were going to dispose of a few unwanted criminals in Crocus. They were in mid chase for a man who had stolen one million jewel from the mayor of Hargeon. Lucy rounded a corner, Happy flying centimeters behind her. The thief was a few feet ahead, slowing down only to turn back and throw something at the pair. Lucy and Happy barely dodged the objects as they flew past them. Lucy was gaining on the thief with every step she took. She finally was close enough and jumped on him. As she wrestled him to the ground she neglected to notice the broken bottle he had picked up right before the fall. Lucy felt a sharp pain all throughout her abdomen. She screamed as she looked down to see Crimson staining the area around her wound. She fell off the uman clutching her stomach, her blood painted her hands as well at the pavement as it dripped out of her. She fell to her knees and screamed again. She felt shards of the broken glass left by the bottle drive themselves deeper into her body. Lucy could feel her vision giving was to darkness as she heard Happy scream for help. She heard Natsu yell her name, and she got a glance at his scared face before everything went black.

Natsu held Lucy as she struggled to stay alive, his hand were coated in red as he tried desperately to stop the bleeding. Wendy came up behind him and tried to heal Lucy as fast as she could. Natsu spotted Erza and Gray as they sprinted towards them. He didn't say anything, he just gave them a desperate look as if to say, 'Help me!' The thief was already long gone by the time Natsu and the others had gotten there. Erza was filled with rage by the thought of someone getting away after all of this, but she knew she couldn't go after just yet. She had to stay here with Lucy and the others.

Wendy cried as she healed Lucy's wound, knowing no matter how fast she went, Lucy might still die. She had lost almost three pints of blood already. If they didn't get Lucy to a hospital soon... She would die. Through her sobs Wendy instructed everyone on what they needed to do. Because the palace was closer than the hospital Wendy had Erza and gray run ahead and see if the princess would let them use the infirmary. Carla and Happy hoisted the other three an carried them to the palace as quickly as the could. Natsu held onto Lucy as tight as her fragile state would allow him. There was no way in hell he was giving her up without a fight.