So this drabble prompt was based on Gajeel seeing Rogue die.
Goodbye~
The Eclipse project was a failure. Chaos and panic engulfed the city of Crocus as all the onlookers of the Gran Magic Tournament began fleeing for their very lives. The entire destruction of the city was inevitable. The guilds that were participating in the games were now scattered about the arena as it began crumbling around them.
Gajeel Redfox looked frantically for his partner PantherLily and for the short blue haired bookworm. They weren't on the stands were they were not too long ago. Perhaps they had already escaped along with the rest of the guild. But Gajeel was still standing in the middle of the arena in the manmade structures that were created for the final match.
The iron dragon looked around to see if he could see anyone else from Fairy Tail but the only person he could see was Rogue, the shadow dragon slayer from Sabertooth. He was stumbling towards Gajeel but something was wrong. He was holding onto his side and onto a very large object that was sticking out of him. Blood was pouring from his side as he walked towards the iron dragon.
Gajeel could see that he was gravely hurt, but he hesitated about going to help him. He was a member of Sabertooth after all and was so determined to surpass him that he would have done anything to do so. Gajeel turned and started to run off but he stopped...something was telling him not to. "Damn it all" he said as he clinched his fist and turned back around and rushed over to the shadow dragon. Rogue looked up through his blurry vision to see the iron dragon coming towards him.
"...Gajeel" he said as he coughed up a large amount of blood. His legs gave way as he felt himself falling towards the ground. Surly the impact would push the object wedged in his side in further and kill him immediately. But he didn't fall, he was caught by someone. Rogue opened his eyes to see that Gajeel had caught him in the nick of time. The iron dragon laid Rogue down on his back.
"...why...why did you try and save me just now?" he asked the iron dragon.
"Even though you're a cocky and bullheaded son of a bitch you're still a dragon slayer" Gajeel said as he looked around for any other signs of life as the arena continued to collapse.
Rogue could hardly believe his ear. The one man whom he looked up to so much when he was a kid was trying to save him at the risk of losing his own. "Leave me..." the dragon said. I m done for."
Gajeel looked down at the shadow dragon and saw that he had already lost a large amount of blood. He knew there was no chance of Rogue surviving, but he could at least be there for his young apprentice. "You may think that I don't really remember you, even after I was gone for 7 years...but I do" he said to Rogue. "You were as stubborn then as you are now" he said with a smirk.
Rogue looked up at Gajeel, he could a tear stream down his cheesk as his eyes got heavier, his vision starting to fade. He smiled at the iron dragon. "I would liked to have surpass you... even if only for a moment..." he muttered.
Gajeel nodded "I'm sure you would have too" he said as he grabbed Rogue's hand, as if congratulating him on his success.
Rogue felt his eyes well up "Thank you...senpai" he said. "Please...take care of...Frosch..."
And with that, Rogue closed his eyes for the last time as his arm went limp, falling from Gajeel's hand and onto the ground. Gajeel rose up, looking down at the lifeless body of the shadow dragon slayer. "Don't worry kid, I will" he said. The arena continued to crumble as Gajeel was forced to make a break for it, dodging the falling debris and jumping over the crevices that were now opening up in the ground all around him. He had just enough time to look back to see Rogue lying there at peace before he was engulfed in a large body of smoke.
