Here's Chapter 2, two chapters will be posted today
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Chapter 2:
Lucy woke up the next morning to the sound of birds chirping. She slowly opened her eyes; the sun was shining bright in the room. There was a slight breeze she could feel coming from her open window. She shivered a little and stood up. She walked over to the window and closed it.
"That was a crazy dream last night" she said to herself. She turned around and her eyes widened. The window was open? The window was closed when she got home, that could only mean.
"I…It wasn't a dream" she said. She began to cry and put her hand on her head. She ran to the bathroom and took a quick shower. She ran to her closet and put on an outfit similar to her normal one. She put on a white top that went just past her breasts, leaving her toned stomach exposed. It had no sleeves, and it had a single red line going down the middle of it. She wore a red mini-skirt that went halfway down her thighs. She put on her normal brown belt that held her Keys and her whip.
She ran out of her apartment as fast and headed to the Guild. Her heart was beating fast as she ran. All she could think about was Natsu; tears started falling from her eyes. Why did Natsu have to leave? Why couldn't he just stay with his family? Why couldn't he stay with her? She burst through the doors of the guild and looked around.
"Is Natsu here?" she asked tears falling from her eyes.
"Lucy-san we haven't seen him since yesterday" Wendy said. Lucy started shaking her head and she closed her eyes.
"Lucy what's wrong?" Mira asked from behind the bar. Lucy began to cry and everyone gathered around her to try and comfort her. Before Lucy could say anything Makarov got their attention.
"Listen to me my children!" he yelled from the banister on the second floor. They all looked up at him.
"I have received a letter from Natsu" he said, all of their eyes widened. He pulled out a piece of paper and cleared his throat.
"Master I want you to read this to everyone for me. I'm leaving; I don't know where I'm going or when I'm coming back. I don't even know if I'm going to come back. I can't hurt my family again, if I lost control and something worse happens to one of you, I couldn't live with myself. Master I'm sorry about everything, leaving is the last thing I want to do but I have to learn how to control this first. I know you will be angry with me, but I'd rather you be angry than hurt my Nakama. The next part of this letter I'm going to be addressing a few individuals, you can read it to them alone or in front of everyone. It doesn't matter to me.
Gajeel I'm not sure if Metalicana talked to you about finding our mates. I just wanted to tell you don't screw your chance up like I did. We had that long talk about who we liked, and I think you should just tell her. Don't hold off and screw up your big chance like I did.
Icicle Brain, we always gave each other a hard time. It was fun though and if I ever see you again I'm gonna kick your ass. All joking aside though, Gray I think of you as my brother. You're always there for me, we fight all the time, your one of my best friends, I'm glad to call you my brother. And one more thing just ask out Juvia already, I know you two like each other so just do it.
Erza I'm actually going to miss all of the times you hit me. Erza you're like a sister to me and I'm going to miss you a lot. One day I will beat you in a fight, you can count on that.
Mira make sure Master doesn't do anything bad. Try and keep him in line. And your brother, make sure he doesn't get in trouble. I'm gonna miss talking to you if I ever need anything. I'm gonna miss all the yummy food you make, most of all I'm going to miss your smile, and how you can brighten up any room by just being there.
Elfman I hope that my decision is manly enough for you. If it's not I'm sorry, but I can't hurt my Nakama ever again. Take care of your sisters for me. You will always be the manliest man I've ever met.
Lisanna please take care of Happy for me. I'm sorry that I'm leaving you like this, but I need to do this. I never told you this before but I've liked you for a long time. I was going to ask you out before you went on that mission and then we all thought you were dead so I didn't get the chance. I remember the day you asked me if you could be my wife one day. I don't think that will ever happen, but I will always care for you.
Happy, you are my best friend in the whole world. I'm sorry I left you, and I'm sorry I couldn't take you with me. We've been through a lot together and I know that no matter where I am I will always love my little cat. Take care buddy; I hope to see you soon.
Romeo and Wendy you two are like my little brother and sister. I just have one thing to say to you though. Romeo, just ask out that girl you like already, everyone knows who I'm talking about and that you like her so just do it.
Laxus and Gildarts if you two are there I just wanted to let you know that I entrust the protection of the guild to you two. Make sure everyone and everything is okay. Or I'll kick your ass if I see you two again.
Lucy I don't know if you know this but I've always cared about you. The first day I met you I thought you were just some annoying girl who wanted to be in a guild. When I got to know you though, you turned out to be a smart, funny, caring, loveable person who puts other people in front of her. I know that you have a hard time paying your rent and everything so I left you a little present under my bed in my house. It's just some money I got from my last mission, the reward was 10 million jewels. That should be enough to keep you at your house for a while.
Lucy I never told you this, or anyone this. I love you Lucy and I always will; I've liked you for a long time. I finally realized I did and it slowly turned into love, I don't know how you feel about me but I just needed to tell you. I'm sorry I couldn't do it last night but I didn't want to say it to your face while I look like this. I'm sorry that I hurt you and I promise it won't ever happen again. I'm sorry Luce; just remember I'll always love you" Makarov said, he folded the note back up and sighed.
He looked around at everyone and most of them were wide eyed or crying. Mira, Lisanna, Lucy, Romeo, and Wendy were all blushing from what Natsu put in the letter. Gray, Erza, and Gajeel looked mad at Natsu for leaving, but sad at the same time for the same reason. Happy was in too much shock to do anything, Laxus just had his arms crossed and he was sitting down at a table.
"We have to go and get him!" Erza yelled.
"I agree with Erza, we have to go find that idiot!" Gray yelled.
"We can't let him just leave" Lisanna said.
"Yeah let's go get Natsu" Romeo said.
"Come on let's go!" Lucy said. They heard something smash and they all turned to see Laxus standing up; the table he was sitting at was broken.
"All of you just shut up!" he yelled. Everyone's eyes went wide.
"All of you are just so stupid. Natsu chose to leave for a reason, we just have to accept it!" he yelled.
"Laxus we can't just let him go, he's part of our guild" Cana said.
"She's right Laxus" Gray said. Laxus shook his head and sighed.
"No she's not. All of you are just getting all mushy because of what he put in the letter. The fact is though Natsu made the right choice. He figured that if he lost control he would hurt someone, so he decided to leave. He is a true man!" Elfman said out of nowhere. Lisanna and Mirajane walked up to him.
"You can't be serious brother" Lisanna said. He simply nodded and didn't say anything.
"I agree with Elfman and Laxus" Gildarts said coming down the stairs.
"Gildarts, when did you get here?" Erza asked.
"That doesn't matter. What matters is none of you go after Natsu" he said.
"We have to" Gray said.
"No you don't, you heard what he wrote. I intend to keep all of you safe" he said walking to the door, joined by Laxus.
"If you want to leave, you'll have to get through us" Laxus said. No one moved they just gritted their teeth and lowered their heads.
"Natsu is gone, and that is sad, but we have to move on. He did this for us, and I'm sure he wouldn't want us moping around. So let's just go on like nothing happened" Makarov said.
"How can we go on like nothing happened?" Lucy asked yelling at Makarov.
"Natsu didn't confess anything to you. It might be easy for you to just move on, but I can't do that so easily" Lucy said.
"I can't…because…I…" she trailed off.
"Come on Lucy just say it. You know how you feel" she thought to herself.
"I LOVE HIM!" she yelled. She turned and ran past Laxus and Gildarts. They started to go after her but Makarov stopped them.
"Don't, she won't go after him. I guarantee Loke will stop her" he said, they both nodded and they all watched as she ran down the street.
"Natsu…why did you leave...you had to know I felt the same way about you" she said to herself, tears were running down her face now. She ran to her house and slammed the door behind her. She ran into her room and cried into her pillow.
"Natsu, you big dope" she said.
Back at the Guild:
"Master did Natsu talk to you at all?" Gildarts asked closing the door to the Master's Office behind him.
"Briefly" Makarov said.
"What did he say?" Gildarts asked. He pulled something out of his pocket and handed it to him.
"What is this?" he asked opening up a piece of paper.
"This is the mission he wanted to go on before he stormed out of her yesterday" Makarov said. His eyes widened as he looked at the paper. He pulled out another piece of paper and handed it to him.
"That's the rest of the letter he gave me. I didn't want anyone else to know, but he wrote down something else" Makarov said. Gildarts opened it up and read the rest of it.
"Master this last part is for you, if you decide to show anyone be my guest. Just make sure you don't show Lucy, Happy, or Lisanna. I don't want you to worry but, while I'm gone I'm going to be looking for Zeref. He seemed to know me somehow when I fought him. I need to find out how he knows me; I don't know when I'm coming back, or if I will come back so if I don't goodbye and thank you" he finished reading it and sighed. He looked at the job request from the board that Natsu was going to go on. It said the reward was 100 million jewels for a black haired man, with a long black coat. He uses strange black magic and is very powerful, wanted dead or alive.
"So Zeref is on the move" he said. Makarov nodded and sighed.
"You already know not to say a word to anyone" he said, and Gildarts nodded.
"Okay I won't say anything. I'm going to go on a mission though" he said.
"Which one are you taking?" Makarov asked.
"Personal mission, I'm going to keep an eye on Natsu for a while" Gildarts said. He opened up the door to leave and then turned his head slightly.
"If that's okay with you" he said.
"Fine, I want reports every now and then" Makarov said. Gildarts nodded and left the room; he closed the door behind him and walked down the stairs.
"What did Master want?" Erza asked as he got to the bottom floor.
"None of your concern" he said and he walked past her to the door. Lisanna walked up to him with her hands folded together.
"Gildarts, can you please find Natsu and bring him back home?" she asked in a whisper. Gildarts put his hand on her head and sighed.
"Sorry Lisanna, you heard the old man" he said, he saw the look of sadness come over her face and he sighed.
"I'll tell you what though. If I come across him on my travels I'll convince him to come back" he whispered to her. She smiled and hugged him.
"Thank you" she said, he nodded and walked out the door.
"I could always try that. First I have to find that knucklehead first" he thought to himself.
Lucy's Apartment:
"Are you okay Princess?" Loke asked appearing in the room.
"It's nothing Loke" she said. He noticed how sad she was and sighed.
"I know everything is not okay" he said. She sat up on her bed.
"Natsu left" she said. His eyes widened.
"Why did he leave?" he asked. She put her hands over the scars on her arm. She explained everything that happened the day before.
"He said he didn't want to hurt his Nakama ever again, so he left" she said. He put his hand on her shoulder.
"Lucy I think Natsu made the right choice" he said, she just looked up at him and sighed.
"I know, but I just wish he didn't leave. We could have been happy together if none of this happened" she said tears falling from her eyes. Loke wiped her tears away and pulled her into a hug.
"It's going to be okay Lucy. He'll come back, and when he does you can be together" he said. She cried into his chest for a while.
"Thank you Loke. I just wanna be alone for a while though" she said.
"As you wish Princess" he said and then he vanished. She rested her head on her pillow and sighed.
"Natsu, how could you not think I had feelings for you?" she asked herself.
Back at the Guild:
"I can't believe he just left" Mira said cleaning a glass. Gajeel, Lisanna, Wendy, and Levy were sitting at the bar. Gajeel slammed his mug down on the table.
"Another one Mira" he said, she nodded and grabbed his mug.
"Do you even care that he's gone?" Lisanna asked. Mira put the mug down in front of him and he just looked into it.
"I do care. I know exactly what he's going through" he said, he took a sip of his beer and they all just looked at him.
"You do Gajeel-san?" Wendy asked, he took another sip and nodded.
"Something similar happened to me, but fortunately for me it happened when I was younger. Metalicana was still around, so he helped me through it. Salamander has to go through this alone, which scares me" he said, they all looked at him in shock.
"So does that mean it's going to happen to me?" Wendy asked, and he shrugged.
"I don't think so. You are too kind hearted, but you never know it could happen. If it does I'll help you through it" he said.
"So why didn't you help Natsu?" Levy asked. Gajeel lifted up his shirt revealing two slash marks going from his lower abs to the top of them.
"What do you think I tried to do when Laxus and I went after him? I tried to get him to calm down but he wouldn't calm down" he said, he put down his shirt and chugged the rest of his beer.
"One more" he said, Mira nodded and took his mug.
"I've never truly been scared in my entire life, but when I saw the killing intent in his eyes. I don't know what happened to me, I felt fear" he said. Levy put her hand on his shoulder.
"It's okay we were all scared, you don't have to be ashamed" she said, he nodded and looked at her.
"You know Natsu was right" he said.
"Right about what?" she asked.
"I should just tell the girl I like, that I like her a lot" he said, she lowered her head a little.
"Oh, well then go on and tell her" she said turning to leave. He grabbed her shoulder a little tight but she was fine with it.
"What are you doing? Aren't you going to tell this girl you like her?" she asked.
"I thought I just did" he said, her eyes widened and she turned to look at him. His normal foxy grin was spread across his face. All the girls at the bar just stared at the two. He stood up and stepped closer to her.
"Gajeel?" she asked.
"So Levy, will you be my girlfriend?" he asked. The girls sitting at the bar all went wide eyed. Levy's eyes widened and she just looked up at him. A smile slowly grew on her face and she hugged him.
"Of course I will" she said, the girls all clapped and smiled. Suddenly the doors to the Guild flew open and everyone turned their heads to see who it was. There was a man with a black cloak on, from what they could see he had short black hair and it was kind of spikey. He had a hood on that concealed most of his face so they couldn't see who it was. Gajeel stepped in front of the girls sensing something wasn't right.
"What's wrong Gajeel-san?" Wendy asked.
"Something's not right about this guy" he said.
"Just stay behind me" he said turning his fists into iron.
"I'm looking for Natsu Dragneel" the man said.
"He's not here" Gray said.
"Gray your clothes" Erza said, he looked down and yelled. He ran to the other side of the room yelling.
"Natsu isn't here, is there something you need?" Erza asked.
"I have no need for any of you. I just want Natsu Dragneel" the man said. Laxus walked behind the man and crossed his arms across his chest.
"He's not here, so I guess you can leave now" he said. The man turned to face him and nodded.
"I guess I can, good day to you" he said. The man started to walk out the door when Gajeel stepped in front of him.
"What's your name?" he asked, the man lowered his head.
"You do not need to know my name" he said. Gajeel got a little mad and put his hand on the man's shoulder.
"Tell me your name and I'll let Salamander know you stopped by" Gajeel said. The man pushed past Gajeel and walked out the door. Laxus stopped Gajeel from following him.
"Don't do it, I know you sensed it too. Something isn't right about that guy. I wouldn't fight him, at least not in Magnolia" Laxus said, Gajeel nodded and walked back over to the bar.
"Where's Happy?" Lisanna asked looking around.
"I found him" Elfman said walking up to her. Lisanna looked on top of his head to find a sleeping Happy. She giggled and eventually everyone was chuckling at the sight. The little blue cat was sleeping nice and comfortably on his head. Elfman sighed and just sat down at the bar.
To Natsu:
"Igneel, what's happening to me?" he thought to himself. He had a long cloak on that went down to the floor and he had the hood up so no one could see what he looked like. He clenched his fists.
"I have to figure out what's going on with me" he thought to himself.
