My vision became darker. I could hear him screaming my name. "Lucy! Pull yourself together!" I'm sorry Natsu… I'm sorry… I can't say goodbye. Darkness envelopes me into its cold embrace. I still can't believe… You are E.N.D. Don't hold it against yourself though. You never let things weigh you down. Eh? Natsu? Seems like yesterday. You finally asked me out. Our first date…. A wreck…. Because you were late. I was so mad…. Happy, that stupid cat, trying to get us together all those years… Don't forget…. The memories we shared, Natsu. Don't…forget…me…

A Few Days Before…

My idiot boyfriend's side of the story, which I later found out, apparently went something

like this.

"Hey, Natsu?" The blue exceed named Happy called from the top floor of his and his friend, Natsu's house.

"Yeah Happy?" The salmon-haired dragonslayer called back.

"Didn't you have a date with Lushi-san?"

There was silence downstairs then. "GAH! I FORGOT!" There was a loud bang as the front door slammed shut.

Fifteen minutes later, Natsu Dragneel stood in front of the coffee shop in Magnolia, sincerely apologizing to me, his best friend and brand new girlfriend. I guess I should explain a couple of things. I'm what you call a 'Celestial Wizard', I control physical forms of the star constellations you see every night in the sky. Leo, Virgo, Capricorn, Cancer, etc. But according to Happy later on, when Natsu and Happy got to the coffee shop, I looked as though I were about to summon one of my most powerful Celestial Spirits to beat Natsu up. Or, by the look of rage on my face, I might have beaten him up herself with my whip. And I would have too! Natsu Dragneel, dragonslayer, the hot-headed idiot, I made sure he was always scared of me and my spirits.

"You're late."

"I'm sorry Lucy!"

"You had better be! That's the third time you've stood me up on our first date. A date you set!"

"I'm sorry!"

I sighed. "Why is it when I'm supposed to be mad at you, I can't?"

Natsu smirked. "My devilish good looks?"

"Shut it. I have half a mind to sick Virgo on you!"

"Uh…" Natsu gulped. "Virgo?" Virgo is one of my most powerful spirits, and is better at using a whip than I am. She had given Natsu a beating when she had gone all Evil-Eclipse-Virgo. Natsu, for once being smart, realized he did not want a repeat of that encounter.

"Well then!" Natsu busted up laughing.

"What's so funny?!" I exploded.

"The look on your face!"

I glowered at him "Just order your food." Deciding once Natsu got on a topic he thought was funny, there was no use trying to argue with him.

Our date went like anything went with Natsu, he ate, talked with his mouth full, then burned everything in sight…. Including my backside.

"Waaaah! What did you do that for Natsuuuu?" I sobbed in humiliation as I sat in the back of the shop in a robe while the owner's wife tried to mend my skirt only ten minutes into our date.

"I didn't mean to Luce! I swear!"

"You didn't mean to burn my skirt off?! Yeah right, you perv!"

"Oi! I'm not Ice Princess!"

"You could of fooled me! You idiot! What made you think all of a sudden you were going to barbecue me?!"

"I-I didn't." he looked down. I sighed. Maybe I was being too harsh on him. I just remember that I was so mad. I pulled the robe tighter around myself.

"Natsu. What's gotten into you? You lose control of yourself faster than you used to."

"I don't know." "

Maybe it has to do with what Zeref did to you?" I asked softly

I was referring to the week before when we had fought Tartaros and nearly lost our lives. We were both still on the mend, but since Natsu healed faster, he had been able to leave the infirmary a lot sooner. Zeref had only flicked Natsu's forehead. I hadn't thought much of it. I didn't think much of it when that conversation occurred either. If only I had paid attention to the signs… Our friends wouldn't have been hurt, and I wouldn't be dying. Dying. That word… Sounds beautiful… The blissfulness of eternal sleep. Leaving all my worries, my problems, behind… Zeref, so bent on dying, was blind. Even he did not understand what unleashing E.N.D. would do to the world…