The Second Chance ..
Au - Story
Disclaimer; Don't own Fairy Tail , or it's characters.
Summary;
Everyone deserves a second chance, right? So it wouldn't be wrong ..
" If you want to be dead and not here, I will stop this pain , Natsu .. "
Chapter I .
[ Boot up sequence.
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Complete
Start memory diagnostic.
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No data found, install data?
Yes
Data/DS/777XIF Downloading
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Complete
Start memory diagnostic.
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Vitals initializing.
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Magic Core installation check.
Magic Core Found. Booting. ]
Eyes blinked open, everything completely blurry at first before they focused, a large bright light being the thing they were welcomed too. White blurs popping up as they slowly sat upright, being stopped by the metal contraption that kept them down at the waist, covering what would have been their most private area.
"Subject 777XIF is online." A voice caused them to turn, blinking to try and find it. Subject 777XIF; that was who they were. Turning again they caught their reflection, a male, late teens, tanned skin with impressive muscles, and completely nude. Dark eyes blinked back at him as he took in his appearance, spikey rosy pink hair sitting on his head, looking almost styled and almost lazy. "Tell the director all Subjects are online, and are responding well."
Another year, another failure.
God she was tired of these experiments, her father always failed. They was amazing, but he never had it out counted correctly, and it always ended up with self destruction or worst, a back turn. Sighing, the blond was checking a magazine , before she almost fall out of the chair when the speakers turned on and she heard what she had been waiting for.
Subject 777XIF is Online.
Feeling her heartbeat increase right there, the door flied up, revealing a blonde old man smiling at her, before he offered his hand to her, and they headed over to the tower, where she knew the subjects was. Watching through a movie camera's view, she felt her lips turn to a smile, before she felt arms around her waist, a soft hug from her own father.
" Lucy, your experiment is awake. "
It was weird. He knew he was no older than maybe three weeks? But he knew everything he should have known, even if he decided that he didnt want to use it all, thanks to those little numbers that he always 'saw' flying around in his 'brain', his personality was just some random mix of other types, randomly selected by numbers. And, it felt odd. He was not much more than a fake human, if even that, and he knew that already, even if he didnt want to let that on right now.
Basic tests were performed, motor skills, speech, reading and writing, and 'magic', that odd thing he could do with some kind of fire inside of him. He didn't know, other than he could light himself on will, and other things.
Sitting now in his new room, which was likely no more than a cell, he was picking at the clothing they had given him, itchy, and more like a uniform, his 'Name' 777XIF printed on the front. He would have really liked a real name…
Turning when he heard the door slide open he blinked, she was different to everyone else, she… was amazing.
She felt happy and proud over her idea had actually worked. Not like she would create human robots or something like that, but trying to make a human body to work with help of technology, it was a dream she so long had worked on , and now, today it finally had succeed. Watching the papers of the notes she had of her experiment, she stopped outside the door, where he was.
Sliding the door open , she shut it behind herself, before her eyes meet his, a smile got born on her lips, and she walked over to the couch, sat down across him, while she write on the block, and then meet his eyes again. " 777XIF, how are you feeling? "
He watched her close as she walked into the room, words and numbers flying up over his eyes as she did.
[[ Lucy Heartfilia
777XIF Project Head
Level 20 clearance. ]]
He frowned a little as she sat and wrote something, more tests? He didnt want to have any more damn tests.
"Sick of tests." His voice sounded very unimpressed as he lean't back into the chair he had been sitting in and sighed, wiggling a bit as the clothes felt uncomfortable on his skin. "And these clothes itch." Or he was told they were supposed to itch.
Pausing for a moment he looked at her close, a frown still set on his face. "And I have these… images… in my memory."
They were odd, things he shouldn't have had.
[[ Speeding along the road, fast, too fast.
Black, white and red lights.
"He's loosing a lot of blood."
"We'll risk brain damage, he needs to get to the O.R now."
A beep, long and loud.
"Start compressions."
"Natsu, you need to say with us, okay? We're going to help."
"Time of death, Twelve PM, June 7." ]]
She watched him in silent, before she write down something again, and all of the sudden put it away. " I see, well they shouldn't itch, are you sure you feel it, or did something told you to feel like it is itching? " , she asked, ignoring to speak his 'name' this time, feeling she treated him more like a robot in that way, when he was before a original human.
Frozen right after he talked about images, she looked at him, before coughing a little low, a faint blush on her cheeks got born, but she didn't notice or felt it.
" W-what kind of I-images? " , she replied, notice he was watching her close. Begging in her mind for eternity, it wasn't such images from when she had .. tested his body, especially down there, as washing him, checking if water could damage , but so far he had been more human then a robot, and she felt more and more proud of herself and her idea.
He wiggled a little when she spoke about his clothing, feeling them itch again. "I dont know, they just feel… itchy." He complained, scratching at a place on his back where it seemed to be the worst. "And I dont like them. They're too, tight." He kind of felt that he liked more freeing clothing, and he didnt know why, more coding, likely.
He blinked at her blush, it didn't make much sense to him, so he let it pass. "Well, uhm, I dont know how to explain them really.
But I can hear voices, and its dark, but before that its kind of like I was maybe moving, really fast? …And someone calls me Natsu."
Natsu. That was his name, not 777XIF. It was… right.
"…Natsu…" He muttered low, trying to make sense of it all.
Looking at him for a bit, she picked up the block where she was writing down something once again, before put it beside her on the couch, facing him. " I see .. ", was all she said, cupping her cheeks in her both hands, she leaned forward a bit, watching the pinkette close,before she nodded slowly to his other words.
" Well from the start. You are not a robot, and we, or well I named you 777X, because it was the year of - " , she started, before a low bzz interrupt her, making her pull away, fish up the silver mobile of hers.
" Heartfilia. Yes, no sir. Aha .. w-what?! .. B-but aren't Scarlet free? I see .. No sir but, .. Fullbuster?, ah .. okay, yes, yes bye sir. "
The blondes face turned paler then ever, before her eyes widen larger then their normal size, when the conversion of this phone call to her was over, she didn't faced the pinkette, just muttered out low.
" Take of those clothes .. I'm the control for you health and all .. "
"I'm not a-?" He was cut off by her call.
Not a robot.
Then… w-what am I? The thought echoed over and over in his head as she spoke on the call, barely even registering when the call was over, only working on those robotic impulses as she told him to undress, doing so as if she wasn't even in the room, his eyes distant as those same words echoed over and over.
Not
a
Robot.
"…What am I?" He whispered low, it kind of hurt. Was he really a human? Just like she was? Then had he actually… A low growl left his throat, as he stood there in just those pants, snapping his head to her with a glare and a dark and angry look in his eyes. "Get - Out."
She fixed the papers, hearing him dress, as she didn't even faced him, embarrassed enough it was her project, so even her own father, which had been the one who called her , had let her be the healthy checker, and all.
Jumping a bit in surprise of his sudden low growl, she turned, faced the glaring pinkette, with such angry eyes, as she fast looked away, write down in the block again, before swallowing hard and faced him with a serious face.
" I'm afraid I can't. You listen, you learn. I'm the one who saved you, so don't be such a jerk! ", she replied back, her eyes so serious, it was hard to tell if she was angry or picking a fight with him.
"Get out!" He yelled again, some of those flames they had forced inside of him sparking out around him, still growling and glaring in her direction, as the flames licked and sparked at the clothing he wore and the furniture around him, as he placed his hands on his head and shook it back and forth. "Get out! Get out! GET OUT!"
He was becoming hysterical, almost tugging his hair out of his head. He wasn't a robot, he was a human, a human that had died, a human they had used for some strange experiment without him wanting to? He was pretty sure he wouldn't have wanted this, he did want this.
The flames died, and he fell to the ground on his knees, whimpering a little. "I don't want this. I don't want this."
Lucy didn't moved, either did she cared about those pounds on the door, telling her to leave the room now! But she didn't flied away. Putting up a hand to the voice in the earphone she had connected around the left ear of hers, she spoke back to him. " False alarm, tower. ", before she canceled the call, ignoring the flames as they appeared and then died out.
I don't want this . I don't want this.
Walking over to the knee-sitting pinkette, she got down on her knees as well, before her arms moved on her own, without her concept. wrapping her arms around his body, she pulled him into a hug, her eyes closed.
" Natsu, you can feel this, right? My heart beat, the warmth from our own bodies.. " , she whispered, stroking the back of his hair softly, like a mother would do to her crying child.
He struggled, he didn't want to be touched, he was just some experiment, some monster made for something he didn't even know, they hadnät programmed that into him yet.
They could program things into a human… or was he even that anymore?
He struggled a little more, even though the hand stroking his hair was calming him some, like an old memory that had been removed, by them, or by his apparent death, he didn't know.
His hands were still tugging on his own hair, panic was still taking over him, until she said his name, his real name, and he relaxed into her hold. "…I can feel it." He whimpered back, he was warmer than her, he knew, but he could hear her heartbeat, was his even beating now?
Slowly he pulled his hands way from his hair, one flopping down over her shoulder, and the other on his still bare chest, where he knew his heart was supposed to be, and he felt… nothing.
She hugged him closer, while a soft shudder in a wave washed over her, making her eyes flutter closed, and after a while, she pulled away, stroking his left chin softly with her right hand, while the eyes of hers had soften, looking back to his dark ones.
After a while of silent between them both, she placed a soft kiss on his forehead, whispered something in his ear, before she got up from the floor, took her block and pen and left.
" If you want to be dead and not here, I will stop this pain , Natsu .. "
He lean't into her touch a little, as if it was something he had forgotten, the touch of someone else, soft and caring. Before a blush hit his face as she kissed his forehead.
[[ "Baka Flame head!" A voice giggled, someone tapping him on the shoulder, a kiss, a soft kiss…]]
He blinked, another memory from before? W-Was it her voice he had just heard? He looked over at her again, ready to question her, to ask her about the image he had just seen, but she was already near the door, and those words had come from her mouth.
"…I dont know…" He whispered back, looking away and down at his hands. "…Not many people get a second chance, right?"
She sighed , a hand on the door handle as she was about to push it up, only to frozen a second, hearing him whisper back to her, and she turned to face him.
…Not many people get a second chance, right?
Looking at him over her right shoulder, she gave a soft smile, even if her eyes reflected pain, sadness. " No, I'm afraid not .. ,Salamander .. " , she whispered back, and pushed the doors up, walked out, and then locked it behind her, leaving the pinkette alone in his cell room.
Stopping a steps away, she leaned her head against the cold wall, as she breathed hard.
He is dead already, even if he looks like him now, it's his body, it's not Natsu .. not the Natsu I know from before .. stop act like this .. !, she scowled herself, feeling her heart quicken up on the pace again, as she slapped her cheeks with her hands. " Yosh! , I need something to eat ! "
He watched her leave, and he had more questions than answers. It wouldn't have been her. Couldn't have been her.
He shook his head. It was stupid, he'd just placed her in a spot because the data was blank.
Yeah.
Pulling himself off the ground he looked down, still in just those pants, but the shirt was off, and he felt more comfortable now, so he felt he'd leave it that way, and Miss Heartfilia,had told him to take them off, anyhow.
Sighing he looked around, still the same old cell, white walls, locked door, bed, sofa, chair, treadmill and bench press. With nothing better to do in the lonely room he walked over, to the press, locked the weight into place and started pumping, he felt at ease like that, as if he had always done it.
And likely, he had.
Still affected by the pinkette in her mind, she ended up with just a sandwich and a bottle of lemon water, as she entered her own 'office' , checking the notes, she sighed, took a sip of her lemon water bottle, and then almost spit it out when she stared on the notes from earlier and from about two weeks ago. It was such a high difference, between the red cells and the white cells. Swallowing the sip she had taken, she put the tap on the bottle, before grabbing a older note, making her almost cough up the piece of sandwich, she had just swallowed.
" 36 centro of white cells, three months ago .. , as the red cells was 59 centro, which means a miss of 23 centro of cells .. , but two weeks ago, the white cells was 66 centro, and the red cells was just 40 .. ", she talking more with herself, while the pencil on her sketch block scribbled over and over, down her count outs, as she stared on the numbers she had counted out, as a finish number.
Could it be .. true?
She didn't knew the answer .. and the only way to find out, was to find it on her own, even if she wanted it or not.
" I will kill him if he is going to laugh .. " , she growled for herself, changed from those big glasses, pulled on one of those dresses, she never used before, but always got from her father to be more 'woman - like', the this nerd cover she had , because of her smart brain, always hiding her body under those lab rocks, it was sometimes hard to know if she was a woman or a man. Pulling up her hair, and fixed herself, she left her 'office', and walked off to the cell, where 777XIR where.
He worked like that for awhile longer, before a slide on the door was open and some very mushy looking food was slid in. Sighing he stopped his work out and stood, taking the old, scratchy shirt and using it to wipe himself down before he looked at what they would call 'food'.
They cant expect me to live on this shit? He thought to himself as he looked it over, before something that had been covered peaked his interest, taking the tray over to the small coffee table that sat near the chairs he set it down, opening the cover as he sat, and his tongue skirted out to lick his lips.
Fire. And he wanted to eat it.
[[ Magic Core levels - 50% - Manual refill required ]]
Not thinking twice he scooped up the strange contraption that kept the fire burning, breaking the seal before experimentally licking at the flame, before his body seemed to work on impulse and he had swallowed the whole thing.
[[ Magic Core levels - 75% - Automatic refill starting ]]
He felt warm inside as he ate the rest of what they would call 'food'. He could eat fire, and it had tasted good. Really good.
She stopped at the automate, fishing out a dollar, as she got a bottle of just water back. Taking it, she gave the cell door a knock, knowing this time on the hour, everyone got food, it was a bad time for her, but still a good time to do this, without no one could see her dress so different then usual. Pulling the hood closer, when she heard a low grunt as a answer, she slide the door open, stepped inside, and shut it behind her, before she turned around, and faced the pinkette.
Hearing the knock confused him, they never knocked before, so he just grunted in their direction, before turning when the door shut again, blinking out at her standing there, dressed like that. "M-Miss Heartfilia?" He questioned in a whisper. He hadn't expected her to come back today, actually, they had told him he wasnt going to see anyone else at all.
And calling her Miss Heartfilia seemed, wrong. Like he knew she didn't like that name at all.
She watched him while a shock flied by his face, as his whisper reached her. " God, stop call me that, say Lucy, alright? " , she replied back, until she just froze right after, looking away, while a soft blush got born on her cheeks.
Why did I even said that?! God I'm a Idiot!
Calming down a bit, she sat on the couch of his like earlier, her legs over the other, as the dress she was wearing, smeared around her woman forms in a sexy and revealing way. " Never mind, " she muttered out, before she pulled off the hood she had used, letting down her blonde hair, she always had in a bun high up in the back of her head.
"Sorry." He muttered, but it wasn't that he could help what he had been programmed to say. He supposed anyway. It was confusing to him, what was he more of, human or programs.
He blinked as she stepped in, that dress was very, revealing.
[[ "Dad wants me to be more like a Lady, I guess?" ]]
He mentally shook his head, it wouldn't be her from these strange memories, he had just placed her there, because she was the only female he had seen after waking.
"Is there something wrong?" He questioned carefully at the way she had muttered, watching as her hair fell and framed her face.
He liked her hair. It was soft and - how did he know that?
She looked up from her hands, and to his way, before shrug her shoulder. " Yeah I know, just tired of if .. sounds like a old devil oldie, ya know? " , she replied back, before she hit her forehead with her hand.
IT'S NOT NATSU! SO STOP THIS TALK LIKE IT'S HIM!
Checking her nails in silent, before looking up at him again. " Ah no, I just .. uh .. thought you wanted se- company? ", she answered him back with a soft smile on her lips. " Daddy wants me to be more like a Lady, So I guess I would dress up this time, so he could be 'proud' .. "
He blinked again when she hit herself on the head. "…Not really." He replied, it was the truth, he didn't know. All he knew was that she didn't like it, like that weird feeling had told him.
Slowly he walked to sit beside here when she asked if he wanted 'company' in such a strange way, there was more to it than that. "You shouldn't do that." He began, the words coming from some strange place inside of him. "You should do what you want. You're you, not what he wants you to be, right Luce'?" He stopped, blinking, bringing a hand to his mouth for a moment.
It had almost felt as if, he was someone else for a moment.
"I - I knew you, didnt I?"
Watching him close, as he slowly walked over to sit beside her, she looked at him, and then suddenly froze, when he started to speak.
It wasn't the words, it was ..
Without she even got a chance to react on her own movement, she now had pinned his hands above his head to the couch, as she looked down on him, panting hard, like she just had been out and running for a big while. Her eyes so soften in the color, as it almost looked like they would melt out any moment now, as her lips was parted to a small O, and her cheeks light pinky.
I- I knew you, didn't I?
Looking down on the shocked pinkette under her, she could only watch him, unable to speak a single word, and either gave she him a chance to react, before her lips claimed his.
He gasped out when she had pinned him on the couch, her panting above him and looking at her with those eyes, those strangely familiar eyes, like he had seen them like that a thousand times before. Her lips in that tiny O.
"Lu-" His voice was cut off as she claimed his lips, his eyes widening for a moment and his hands flexing to get free.
She's yours, whats the problem?
A voice, his own, echoed in his head and he closed his eyes, sinking back into the sofa some as she kissed, kissing back, his lips following her lead, his hands relaxing in her hold even though he wanted to hold her back.
[[ "Its just a short trip. Really. I'll be fine!" Laughter, cheerful and bright.
"Natsu, its really wet out there. Are you sure?"
"Of course I am Luce'! I'll be careful. Its not like I haven't ridden my bike in the rain like this before. Remember that night when I-"
"Just go you pervert!" ]]
Lucy would never done this with anyone except him - Natsu Dragneel. They had a secret relationship and he was a personal Guard for her, god his kiss, so familiar, so feisty, always drive her to the edge of doing what he wanted. Feeling him kissing her back, she slink in her tongue through his spread lips, rolling it around his own one, like a erotic dancing couple.
He moaned a little, the kiss was so familiar, like something welcoming, like he had come home after a very, very long time. His tongue moved with hers like it knew this dance well, one it had done so many times before. His hand flexed once more and he pulled them free of hers, from where she had pinned him so he could place his hands in her hair, soft, silky, just like that strange memory had told him.
It was so confusing, and so right all at the same time. He had wanted the chance to ask her questions, but now, he didn't know the first thing to ask.
[[ "Dont call me that, I hate it. Just Lucy."
"Okay! What ever you say Luigi. Heh."
"LUCY!"
"Yeah, I know, I was just playing with you Luce'."
"L-Luce'?" ]]
Hearing him moan just a little, made her gasp, kissing deeper, as she felt his fingers in her hair, ruffling and massaging the scalp of hers softly, making it send pure pleasure all the way down to her toes. God she had missed this! Touching his chest side, her eyes shots open, pulling away fast, as she just stared at him, shaking like never before. Grabbing her head, she tried to calm herself.
The Scar. The Crash. He died.
He blinked when she was gone, his eyes opening as she was now on the other side of the room, her hands had touched…
He followed the trail she had made, feeling that long scar that sat down his front. That had made her move away. Grunting pain shot through him as another memory shot through him, but no images, just pain, a lot of pain, as if something was pressing its way inside of him, fast and hard. It made him gasp and pant before it was gone, his heart, or what was there now, beating hard and fast.
"…S-Sorry." He whispered out. She did know him, knew him. They had been… close. "I - " He stopped, what was he supposed to say?
Sorry that I'm the body of your dead boyfriend who has some of his memories but isn't really him anymore?
Yeah, that didn't seem like a good idea.
She was still shaking, as she looked on her hands, like she saw something disgusting on them, as she fall down on her knees, staring at the floor under her, while tears find their way out, and landing into the small pud, she had created.
The Crash, Blood, Pain ..
⊰" Natsu! Come on don't screw with me, oi Natsu! "
No answer.
" I-it's n-not f-funny N-natsu! "
Still no Answer.
" NAAATSU! "⊱
She didnt seem to hear him as he spoke, and all he could do was watch as she fell the the ground, tears in her eyes and looking at her hands like there was something wrong with them.
His body moved on its own, but that wasnt odd, what was odd was that he had this feeling, deep down, that he wanted it to. In a few steps he was in front of her, hands holding her face and tipping her upward.
And again, his voice spoke without him waiting it to, his lips moving as if they were someone elses.
"I'm not gone, Lucy. I'm here. Trust me."
She shook even more, the rain, the scream, everything flashed by her face, as she was staring down on him, his body, such a big metal piece deep inside him on the side. She needed to pull it out, she needed to stop the bleed-
She felt hands cupping her face, and slowly tipping her head upwards, making her look away from the floor, and into those familiar eyes.
I'm not gone, Lucy. I'm here. Trust me.
It was like everything frozen up around her, the screams as the sound of rain and lightnings cracking up in the sky, disappeared, while the bloody body was gone, as the blood on her both hands. The tears still falling down her cheeks, she watched him.
" N-na- Baka! ", she yelled, before throwing herself into his arms, sobbing once again. " B-baka , n-never s-scare m-me l-like t-that! "
He held her, still those phantom movements and those words that he didnt know where they were coming from. "You saved me, okay? So stop crying… please, Princess. I don't like your tears." He pulled her back, rubbing some of the tears away with his thumb, still not his own movements, but he wasn't sure if she could tell that.
"Its hard with all this… stuff… you've stuck in here. But I am here, okay? Just help me come out. Help… well.. me, understand." He was talking about himself, another side?
Maybe the person that was talking now was the real Natsu? …Who he was supposed to be.
And then those movements were gone, his body his own again, a warning signal flashing in his mind for a moment.
[[Magic Core: Unstable Low Levels.]]
"L-Lucy. I need fire."
.. R & R.
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