The Dragon Slayer's Mark

Chapter Two

"WHERE IS SHE?" Makarov, Laxus, Loki, Carla and Wendy heard Natsu's roar and the blast that they were sure had left the buildings door hanging on its hinges. Lucy had been put into a very deep sleep once Wendy had arrived and begun to heal her as the blonde girl had woken up screaming in fear so she could have been a danger to herself unless put to sleep. Laxus had appeared not long after that, informing them that they should be prepared for Natsu's anger as he had been furious when the blonde male had informed him about what he knew.

Wendy glanced up at the master, her hands still hovering over the mark on Lucy's neck; her expression was pained and worried. "If he comes in here like that, he risks hurting her health if she becomes stressed," she informed the other participants in the room.

Makarov nodded and swiftly departed from the room, Loki was sitting on a chair by her head, gently brushing her cheek with the back of his fingers as if he were in a daze, not really aware of who else was around him. Laxus was leaning against the wall, attempting to look unbothered by what was happening, he grunted lowly, "Seriously stop whimpering like a puppy, I thought you were meant to be a lion, we're all worried about her," he stated gruffly.

The man who the insult was aimed at glared harshly at the male blonde, "She's my master, and you have no idea what I appeared to, it was honestly one of the worst things I've ever seen, so I can't even begin to imagine what she had been feeling at the time."

"You're her spirit right? I thought you were able to sense what the holder of your key was feeling?" Wendy looked up in confusion, a brief frown crossing her small, tired, face.

"I usually can, I have no idea why I couldn't feel her distress… I'm such an idiot, if I had been paying attention to her needs I would have been able to come out sooner," the lion moaned and dropped his head into his hands, his orange hair flopping down to hide him further.

"It's not your fault, maybe there was something stopping your connection?" the youngest Dragon Slayer suggested.

"No, it is my fault, she's my master, my everything, I should have known to come out sooner," he muttered, Wendy opened her mouth to say more but the infirmary door swung open to reveal their small master and Natsu, the latter was shaking in rage, his fists clenched so tightly so they could see the tendons standing out, he seemed to be barely holding in his flames as every so often a wisp flickered up his arm, his eyes where narrowed and dark roving over the room until he saw the blonde laying asleep in the bed.

"He's right, it is his fault," the pink haired man growled harshly, not even bothering to look at the lion. He stalked forwards, coming to a stop next to Wendy, and roughly grabbing the blonde's hand. Loki growled low in his throat at the gesture but didn't say anything, Wendy, on the other hand, slapped his hand away with a sharp swipe.

"It's not his fault, and don't be so rough because she's fragile at the moment, she doesn't need any stress, she can still hear you," Wendy snapped, surprising all the participates in the room bar Lucy. "If you can't behave, then you'll have to leave, you'll only make her worse."

"Sorry," he grudgingly muttered, "I just…" words seemed to fail him and his anger simmered into something that was more like worry and fear. Wendy pulled her hands away from the blonde and instead picked Carla back up in her arms who had appeared to have gone back to sleep, and looked at Natsu.

"She'll be waking up soon," she informed them, waves of wariness rolling off the petit girl's body and it had Natsu, Laxus and Loki pricking to attention. She was only a young girl, being woken up in the middle of the night to heal Lucy, and it was starting to take a toll on the poor girl. "I think I might need to sit down for a minute," she murmured.

"Why don't you lay down on one of the other beds, child, we'll wake you if she gets any worse," Makarov suggested, placing a small hand on the girls shoulder, she nodded warily and softly walked over to the bed opposite to the one Lucy was lying in, immediately she curled up onto her side and her soft breathing evened out.

A light moan had Natsu's head snapping up to attention, Lucy's eye lids flickered with the tell-tale sign that she was waking up. Her nose scrunched up as if in pain before her eyes opened, they immediately sort out Natsu's own dark orbs. "Y…You came," she whispered, her throat was hoarse and it had the pink haired man wincing, he reached out and once again took her hand, only this time more gently.

"Of course I did Luce, I always come, I told you that didn't I?" he forced a smile onto his face, his thumb lightly grazing over her knuckles as she tightened her grip on him.

She shook her head, whimpering at the pain that lanced through her shoulder and neck despite Wendy's healing, "I-I called for you… and you didn't come," her voice hitched as the violent memories flashed across her eyes and she bit back a cry. "Were where you?" her eyes bore into his, fright crossing her features as she gripped him tighter in fear he might disappear.

Rough fingers slipped into her other hand, squeezing gently, her head lulled to the side to see who had taken her other hand only to see her loyal lion sitting there, a pained smile tugging at his lips. "I found you though," he murmured.

"Loki!" she couldn't fight back the cry of his name as she tore her hand free of Natsu's and threw it around the lions neck, not caring about the pain the movement cause her, she only wanted to be in the safety of her spirits arms.

"I'll kill him," Natsu snarled as he watched the way the blonde clung to Loki, the way her fingers gripped into his clothes like she couldn't bear to be parted from him. "I'll fucking kill that sick bastard," he once again clenched his hands together in rage, barely fighting back the flames that so desperately wanted to escape his body as he caught the scent of salt drifting from the blonde that was shaking in her lion's arms.

"I left him pretty much unconscious in her apartment," Loki looked up, over the blonde's hair, and narrowed his eyes as they met with Natsu's, "She wouldn't let me do anything else, but damnit Natsu, finish what I started, or I will."

"I'm coming to," Natsu jerked his head around to face Laxus as the older man's words left his lips, "I want that sorry bastard to regret even thinking about my little sister," the scarred man's words surprised Natsu, but none the less the pyromaniac nodded and swung back around so he was facing the door.

"Let's go."

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Ah! I know it's short but it was bothering me so much, I needed to get up what I had done because I just couldn't find it in me to continue as this chapter. At the moment, my time has been taken up with revising for mocks and GSCEs and my new kittens have been bugging me for attention.

I also recently received some really bad news on Friday, my great aunt had passed away last Monday and the hospitals not given us the full story, also one of the horses at the stables had to go to a new home so I've been mourning over her, it's not been a good week for me and that's why I haven't been updating anything.