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Shattered Dragon, Frowning Clown
Prologue: Lonely Nightmares
'I will always be here. We will walk the skies together forever.'
Birdflight,
Super Edition: Firestar's Quest,
By Erin hunter.
A young pink haired boy tossed and turned on a bright colored bed appearing to have nightmares. A girl with blonde hair watched him with concern in her soft brown eyes. She sat in a chair that was at the bedside, "Natsu..." She whispered as Natsu seemed to be in pain.
"Lucy...what's wrong? Why are you up at this hour?" Happy said flying up to her to be at eye level.
"Well I can't really sleep with someone in my bed. And well..." Lucy watched as Natsu moved around roughly as he was fighting. "...I can't really wake him up."
Happy watched in concern too and it seemed his wings and ears drooped down a bit. "Natsu's been having these kind of nightmares for about a month now. Every time he wakes up in the morning he seems so scared and frightened, I asked him what's wrong. But all he does is acts like he notices me there for the first time and smiles like nothing happened."
"If he knew that every night he has these nightmares, then why did he stay here?" Lucy asked confused at Natsu's actions.
"Natsu said that even in reality he can't escape the nightmares and that somehow when he's with you the nightmares disappear from his thoughts." Lucy blushed at that sentence. "So he came here to rid the nightmares from his mind. Actually trying to get some peaceful sleep after a month of this."
"So that's why he's been acting so strange lately. I mean he hasn't even been very ecstatic when going on a mission. It was almost like he was avoiding going on missions." Lucy ran her fingers through his spiky pink hair which was surprisingly soft. The action calmed him down a bit. "Why didn't he tell me? Aren't I his nakama?"
"Natsu doesn't like to get anyone involved in his problems. Also Natsu doesn't like being alone. After Igneel left him alone in the world, he developed a fear of being alone. So that's part of the reason of joining the guild, he hated being alone so he joined to find Igneel. But after a while he gained friends and now he's not so lonely. But living in that little cottage by ourselves is a little lonely. That's why when you joined Lucy he started to come over to your house. He said that being around you, he felt safer and not as lonely as he felt before." Happy said with a grin on his face as he said the last part.
Lucy blushed and removed her hand from Natsu's hair. "So that's why he tries so hard when he's fighting, he doesn't want to lose his nakama has he did when he lost Igneel." Lucy held Natsu's hand and lowered her face to where her blond hair covered her eyes. "He's just like me..."
"uh?" Happy looked at Lucy confused.
"I lost both of my parents so I'm alone in this world too. When I lost mom I was really lonely that not even the servants that were very friendly could get rid of it. So that's why I ran away and found Fairy Tail, just even being here for a short while made my loneliness go away. But when I found out that my dad wanted me back and even almost destroyed the guild in the progress, I didn't want anyone to get involved. But everyone who pulled through made have confidence to stand up to Father. But when he lost everything and turned pretty much good and after seven years I went back to see him and found him dead..."
Tears fell slipped down her face and landed on the sheets of the bed. "...I was suddenly alone in the world. But then Natsu came to cheer up and pulled me away on another mission. Then I realized I really wasn't alone, I had Natsu and all my other nakama." Lucy wiped away a tear with her free hand. "You know at first I was really annoyed that you guys were always sneaking into my house. But...I didn't realize how happy I really was until Father died, and now I always expect to see Natsu's smiling face when I open the door. Because I...I..." Lucy tightened her grip on Natsu's hand.
"You like him don't you, Lucy?" Happy said cheerfully.
"Shhhhh not so loud you cat!" Lucy said shouting softly as much as she could without waking up Natsu, with a blush on her face.
"Oh you didn't denie it that means you do like him." Happy said with a mischievous grin on his face. "Wait till Natsu hears this!"
"You better not tell him or I'll sic Erza on you." Lucy said with a evil glint in her eye. "Or maybe I'll tell Carla all about your embarrassing secrets."
"Fine. Fine I won't tell, Natsu."
"Good..." Lucy yawned and looked at the clock to see it was around midnight. She looked to see Natsu was sleeping peacefully now, she smiled thankful that Natsu was finally getting the sleep he deserved. And she felt happy that she was the cause of it.
She climbed in bed but instead of facing the opposite direction, she wrapped her arms around his right arm and leaned her head against his chest. Falling into a deep sleep very shortly afterward, with Happy not far behind with him sleeping on their pillow. Who knew this would be the last in a long time that anyone would see Natsu Dragneel 'The Salamander' again.
Allen tossed and turned roughly like he was fighting for his life. "Walker! Wake up!" His sliver eyes snapped open at those words, his breathing was rough like he had been truly fighting.
Frightened sliver eyes looked up to Link who had woke him up. "I'm sorry...Link." Allen sat up and hugged his legs to his chest.
"Walker you've been having these nightmares for a month now." Link sat down in a chair close to the bed. "What are they about anyway?"
"It's the same nightmare over and over again every night. I...don't really understand it myself but in it we're all fighting with everything we got. But it's not enough and all my nakama every one I've met here at the Order is dieing and I can't stop it. There's other people too...strange people with powers like us Exorcists. They all have these symbols on their bodies somewhere. They also lost people on their side too. There is a big huge roar like a...dragon. Then that's when the nightmare starts over again."
"A Dragon roaring in this day and age is impossible, Walker. Just forget about the nightmare and go to sleep. So we can both get some rest. Anyway a nightmare is really all your minds imagination." Link said getting up from the chair and going back to his makeshift bed on the floor.
"your right..." Though even if Link's words did give him some comfort. The nightmare really didn't feel like his imagination. It felt some sort of premonition. Why would the same nightmare happen every night if it wasn't something important.
Allen laid back down and tried to go back to sleep with Timcampy resting next to him in comfort. Comfort that made him feel like he wasn't alone and it made the nightmares go away for that one peacefully night.
Who knew this would be the last in a long time that anyone would see Allen Walker 'The Destroyer Of Time.' again.
A/N:I know I should be working on The Stranger. But I had to write this down since I just got the inspiration for it. I am working on The Stranger despite writing this prologue. I just finished watching the most recent episode and I just finished reading the most recent chapter of Fairy Tail. And for some reason this idea popped up in my mind. I hope you like it, I think my writing has gotten a little better. And if you had noticed I am a huge fan of NaLu (Natsu x Lucy). Since I had put a paring type in for Fairy Tail I was gonna do one for D. Gray Man like a Allen x Road for this prologue. But I couldn't think up one so I'm going to be doing that probably later on. R&R. Next Chapter 1: The Case of The Missing Nakama.