A/N: Hello! So, I've never written Fairy Tail before, but way back when I first read it, this idea just got stuck in my head. (There's an adoptable on my list for it if someone wants it.) and I just couldn't get it out. There was another version of this at one point, but it got deleted one night when my computer did an update belly flop. I may expand more on this drabble set some other time, but for now, the idea's out. Please enjoy and drop a review if you can!
Challenge: Diversity Writing Challenge C60. Write an AU.
Warnings: Character death. Swearing.
1.
Natsu has no idea how the hell he's alive right now.
He's drenched, clothes torn to all nothingness (except the indestructible muffler), and the Etherion makes his stomach churn. But from looking at the face-down, unconscious blue-haired guy next to him, it's not hard for him to figure it out.
His knees give way and he coughs air and a little blood and debates passing out, but not before he screams, not before he roars like a dragon at the burst of pale blue of light that is fading into mere wisps a distance away. It is not Erza, it is not her, she is still alive, still breathing somewhere. He just has to find her, but his body is so tired that he can't move.
He yells for her, still sees her somehow, smiling, acting like she's going to be all right, like she's dying with dignity and really not going anywhere. Damn it, damn her, he was the one who was meant to make her crawl in defeat as his friend. Not this guy, not this dude who made her cry.
She is supposed to be standing here, looking down on him and waiting for him to get up.
He doesn't know how long he screams for. He doesn't know when he passes out.
When he wakes up, she's still not there.
Damn it.