Natsu's reaction was entirely instinctive. He saw how the shadow sword came out of the man in front of him in a slow motion, reaching for it like his life is on line. He can make it in time, he thought. But as he reach for the sword it passed through his palm making his heart skipped a painful beat.
"Lu-" Before he could finish the blonde's name, he heard her piercing scream hurting his ears and felt a hot sensation inside his heart. Before he could look back, his long time partner and friend the blue exceed let out a crying scream and so does Wendy.
"Lucy/Lucy-san!" He couldn't move his feet, he saw how her brown eyes that's always full of passion and determination is now slowly losing its life like it's being sucked out as she fall down on the ground. He looked at them, wide-eyed and trying to breathe.
He's late.
Too late.
Everything inside of him was bloody hot flame anger and rage, but most of it was throbbing sense of pain and anguish. But he stopped thinking for a minute and started to think that maybe, hopefully, that it's not the blonde mage in his time the one that looked so lifeless, that it scared him more than losing his life. But as he fixed his gaze on the body lying on the floor, it was her.
Her.
His Lucy.
Her body looked so lifeless, as she cough red hot blood from her mouth. He then saw how the blonde mage from the future started to disappear in a yellowish light as she said three words. His heart throbbed in a more painful way as he fixed his gaze down on the blonde.
"I want to have more adventures..." Those were her last words. He closed his hands into a ball so tight, that he could feel the pain. But no, nothing can match the pain that he's feeling right now.
In fact, he felt more dead than the blonde mage who's lying on the cold hard floor right now.
"Now no one will close the door, the future will be changed." Said by the man who came from the future. Natsu felt his jaw shaking, while thousands of her memories are slowly making it's way in the dragon slayer's mind.
"Natsu! Check it out! I've got the mark of Fairy Tail now!"
"I don't want... to run away by myself. Because no matter what, I'd rather be together with everyone."
"It's always more fun when were together!"
"I believe in you."
He pressed his lips together and let out a loud roar as he felt his own anger and pain in his own flames. He glared at the man in front of him and sent him flying across the hallway, still feeling very numb and dead inside. The man from the future looked up, and saw nothingness in the fire dragon slayer's eyes as tears started to fall down nonstop.
"I promise."
Protect the future...