Hey guys! Sorry for the inactivity but life has been busy for this Junior but I haven't forgotten about this lovely place! Lately I've been noticing people adding me to their watch list and favorite my past stories so I feel inspired and motivated to write another story for you guys!
So this story was inspired by Gayle Foreman's books If I Stay and Where She Went. Please take note that the plot of this story will be similar to the two books but not completely. There will be minor plots added unto the story that are completely mine.
As for my updating schedule I'll be doing what I normally do. I will update once a week, not every seven days, but once in a week. It could be early or late, depending on my free time and how much my brain can think of.
Now for my little notes I always put during the beginning of my chapters!
On a Side Note:
Words in italics - thoughts/ text in a book in this chapter
Everyone should know the drill by now! TenshiYuki 21 does not own Fairy Tail or its characters, all rights belongs to Hiro Mashima. The main plot of the story was inspired by Gayle Foreman's If I Stay and a little bit of Where she Went so I will credit them as well so I will not be sued for copyright!
So now that that's out of the way, here is your FIRST DOSE of Come Back to Me!
Chapter One: The Mission
Lucy's P.O.V.
"Time to set off for work!"roared Natsu as he dragged me to the request board. We had just came back from a minor mission delivering a large amount of pigeons from a pigeon trainer to a pigeon sender and Natsu wasn't satisfied with our little "adventure", but frankly I was.
"Natsu can't we rest a bit before we head off again?" I complained but he just laughed it off.
"Come on Lucy where's your sense for adventure?" he chuckled.
"I left it back in the other village."
"Then we'll stop by the village to take it back!"
My sweat dropped and gave up arguing with him. Despite my fatigue I did enjoy every mission with this man.
Natsu skimmed the board before picking up a request, "Here's one! Capture a winged, baby Tervelis for the sake of research!"
I frowned, "A Trevelis? That's a bit dangerous Natsu especially for you. It's a monster that lurks deep in underwater caves and guns its enemies with water. Maybe we should check another request."
"If it's dangerous then it's a better reason for us to go!" Natsu beamed.
"You guys are leaving on a dangerous mission without us?" said a voice behind us and we turned to see Gray and Erza.
"We should tag along with you if this Trevelis can douse your flames" mocked Gray.
"I don't need your help Gray! Lucy and Happy's all the help I need!"
"Aye Sir!" cheered Happy and plopped unto my head.
I suddenly flushed crimson as Erza cleared her throat and the boys fell into line, "Gray's right Natsu, Lucy might not be able to support you on her own against a B- Class monster."
As Natsu reluctantly agreed, I sighed in relief. At least Erza and Gray would be with us in this journey and Natsu and I won't have those awkward moments when we were alone.
I'm not completely sure why but lately Natsu and I have been growing distant, despite all the time we spent together. I suspect that this was because Natsu would talk about nothing but Lisanna during our missions. I like Lisanna and all, but hearing Natsu praise her so much made me feel… I'm not sure how to explain it.
Nonetheless having more people on a journey was always more fun. So as the paperwork was completed we decided to head home to rest and pack up to leave in the morning.
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"Aaah it's great to be back in my own right huh Plue?" I stretched and watched my little canine spirit twirl in circles.
"Puun~ Puun~" he chimed as he shakes his way to my bed.
I giggled as my made my way to the kitchen to fix us up some dinner. Surprisingly I ate my dinner without any break-ins from Natsu and managed to change out of my day clothes and into some comfy PJ's.
I climbed into bed with Plue as he sucked on the caramel apple I made for him. I lay down and hugged my celestial spirit and was about to drift to sleep when I suddenly thought about our mission.
I sat back up and lifted Plue up in front of me, "Trevelises huh Plue, do you think we can handle them?"
Knowing he wouldn't answer my question I set him down and made my way to my bookshelf. I was pretty sure I had a book on water monsters crammed in here somewhere.
Heavy Spices Manual, Heating Serpents, Sleeping Sligs, aha! Under the Sea Monsters!
I carefully pulled the book free and sat back down in my bed while Plue sat next to me. "Let's see what we can learn from this Plue!"
I flipped through the pages of the book until I found a section on the monster, Trevelis.
Trevelis:
A B-Class monster that lurks in underwater caverns and occasionally surfaces to cause mischief, their special lungs allow them to breathe water as well as spit them out to act as an attack towards enemies. Little is known about these monsters but they are believed to only misbehave during their adolescence years or when parenting a young.
There are two kinds of Trevelises: the winged and the wingless. The winged Trevelis are the rarer of the two and little is known about them or their young.
Currently there is no weakness of these mischievous creatures.
The next page had an illustration of the monster. They were similar to dragons but smaller. They had no claws whatsoever, but they make up for their viscous fangs. They're wings looked more like decorations since they were puny. They could never hope to fly with those things. I wonder what were they used for.
I spent the next few minutes staring at the picture before falling asleep.
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"Great job, Ice Princess, you let it get away!"
"I let it get away? Who could barely grab a hold of it?"
"I could have if it just stopped diving underwater!"
"That's why I'm saying I should freeze the lake before we attack it again!"
Hmmm that sounds like Natsu and Gray. Are they fighting?
"And I'm saying that we should just beat it to a pulp so we don't have to waste time!"
"How can you beat it? Your flames can't even touch the Trevelis!"
Trevelis? Were we on the mission already? I looked around. Everything was hazy, but I could see that we were at a lake like Gray said. The three of us were in the middle of the lake standing on a block of ice that Gray probably made for us to stay afloat.
I was about to speak up when I heard another voice.
"That's enough you two!"
Natsu and Gray quickly stiffened and Erza sighed. "Instead of bickering we should find another way to capture the baby monster."
Suddenly the ice began to shake and next to us, not one, but two Trevelises emerged.
"Great mom and dad showed up."
The three of them managed to fend both of the monsters out, but a small baby snuck up on the ice right behind Natsu.
As a dragon slayer Natsu immediately noticed and turned around to face it.
"Hey guys! I found the baby!" as he was about to pick it up, the baby Trevelis lashed its tail out on Natsu, impaling his stomach.
Natsu clutched his stomach and the monster yanked its tail out of him and ran back to its parents. If I wasn't scared out of my mind, I could have sworn it was laughing.
I could feel myself running towards him, and I saw Gray, Erza, and Happy doing the same.
Natsu! I gently held on to his head and I could see that the wound was deep. Blood was flowing out of him and it didn't look like it would stop anytime soon.
"Natsu!" I finally heard myself speak, "Natsu hang in there!" Erza quickly paddled us back to shore and we were about to strap him up unto Happy so he could be brought back to the Guild quicker, but I felt him turned cold. I was afraid to look, but I did. I looked into his eyes, and instead of seeing those beautiful onyx pearls, I saw an empty void deprived of life.
"NOOOO" I woke with a jolt and clutched unto my bed sheets. I could feel the sweat running down my face as I slapped myself awake.
It was just a dream, I assured myself. Quickly, I grabbed the book I left beside me last night and looked at the photo of the Trevelis once again. This time I focused on the tail for any sign of it being a fatal weapon. But there was none. The tip had no scales on it, nor was there any blades attached to it like the baby Trevelis had in my dream.
I sighed; relieved that perhaps my imagination was playing tricks on me. Unable to go to sleep I packed every essential item I needed for the mission into my bag, but I could not shake the feeling that this mission would go horribly wrong.
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