Chapter 3
Lucy P.O.V
Lucy was so scared, she didn't know what was happening she was still crying and her chest still ached, Levy had dragged her outside. 'It isn't safe outside! Why did Levy-chan bring me out her she said herself that the dragon wants me, why would she do this?' these thoughts kept whizzing around her head worried about what would happen if the dragon found them she didn't want the dragon to find them! At this thought it felt as though something had stabbed into her chest the pain at the thought that the dragon wouldn't find her confusing the blonde and she heard the dragon roar once more it was close, Lucy screamed to the sky but it was cut short as Levy's free hand clamped over her mouth.
Levy P.O.V
"No, Lu-chan I know you're scared, all those stories we were told as children, of the dragons taking innocent girls from villages and hurting them, torturing them, they aren't true Lu-chan! Once the dragons sense their mate they only have the urge to protect them!"
Slowly she removed her hand from Lucy's mouth and the blonde exploded.
"How do you know Levy? How could you know? You aren't mated to a dragon!" Lucy was frantic, "Your engaged for goodness sakes! How could you send me out there to that beast that is probably going to eat me? I cant believe you would do that to me!"
"Lu-chan breathe if you start to panic the dragon will think your in danger and come after me" she said in a soft voice in the hopes that the blonde would listen, "Lu-chan do you remember when I met Gajeel? Exactly one year ago? How he suddenly appeared after the dragon attacked and wouldn't leave my side for the rest of the dragon mating season? How if I so much as drank my water a little too fast he would go into a panic thinking that I would choke?"
She could the blond thinking about all this and how it did seem strange at the time but how he settled down after the dragons mating season ended but she just brushed it off since he seemed so normal afterward.
"Lu-chan Gajeel is that dragon that attacked last year. He is that dragon, and he is my mate. That year just before the mating season started I went through the same thing that you are now, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't keep down anything that I ate, and when it got closer to mating season my chest started to ache like your is right now."
"When Gajeel came into the town to find me and we all found shelter, my chest ached more than ever and I didn't know what was happening my chest hurt so much and i screamed out for help, though at the time I didn't know who I was calling out to, the people I was sheltering with threw me out because they thought I would attract the dragon, and they were right, but when I was thrown out I was so scared I didn't know what to do, I tried to keep silent scared that the dragon would find me but the ache in my chest got worse with every passing second until I was screaming out again, and that's when he found me"
"Lu-chan, at the time he was a dragon in dragon form but even then I could see the fear and pain in his eyes as he looked down at me, I could feel the worry and love rolling off of him in waves and for some reason despite how frightening he looked and how scared I was his presence there calmed me."
"He tells me now that he was so worried about me, that he could feel my pain as I could feel his, and it wasn't until he could see me and confirm that I was in no physical harm that he was able to calm down enough to use his magic to create a semi human form and it was after he marked me as his that he was calm enough to take a full human form. Lu-chan that is the Gajeel you know today"
Levy felt weak after her rant, and was swaying on her feet slightly, she needed to get to Gajeel soon, before he felt her weak state and reverted back to his dragon form until he found her and knew she was safe.
Lucy POV
Lucy was so confused how could Gajeel be a dragon, he wasn't a dragon Lucy had seen the dragon that attacked that year and it was huge, there is no way that it could have suddenly, magically, turned into a human and stopped terrorising the village just like that!
But after listening to Levy's recount of what happened last year she started to believe the blue haired bookworm but she was still scared what if the dragon here now wasn't like Gajeel? Lucy looked again at her blue haired friend who was now swaying dangerously on her feet.
"Lu-chan I need to go find Gajeel now ok? I get weaker the longer I spend without him and he can sense how I am at any time so I need to go to him before he worries to much and tares down this town a second time trying to find me." at this levy cast a stern look at Lucy "and you, need to go to your dragon, I'm sure you can feel his emotions right now, he needs you Lu-chan, go find him."
"Ok Levy-chan" Lucy sniffled still terrified out of her mind but calm enough to trust her friend, she had never lied to her before so why would she now when it was something so important, "ill try find him."
With that Levy smiled encouragingly, turned, wobbled slightly caught herself on a wall nearby and began to follow it back to the house she shared with her dragon on the outskirts of town.
Once Levy-was out of sight the blonde shattered the blue haired girl was right Lucy could feel the emotions rolling off of her dragon, worry being the primary one at the moment. Lucy still crying started to walk not knowing which direction she was supposed to be going in just letting instinct guide her.
Dragon P.O.V
'Mate calling for dragon.'
Sniffing the air the dragon caught onto a hypnotising scent, he knew could only come from his mate, stretching his wings out, flying faster following the scent the dragon roared.
'Mate close, dragon be with mate soon'
Lucy P.O.V
Lucy couldn't walk any further the tightening in her chest was not easing it was getting worse her mind was a mess she couldn't think straight, panic starting to swell inside her again but this time at being what would happen if she didn't find her dragon. 'How hard could this be? I should be able to see it already; it's a freaking dragon for crying out loud!' She was clutching at her chest again holding back a pained moan as the feeling got worse, it now not only felt so unbearably tight that she was struggling to breathe but it was as if someone had taken a white hot branding iron and was lighting her blood with it, the pain seared through her heard and every vein in her body and she could not help the wretched cry that left her lips, reminding herself of a dying animal that is caught in a trap and is unable to tear itself free and only causing itself more pain every time it tried.
She fell to the ground in a crumpled heap no longer being able to support her own weight, her vision was starting to blur from the pain, the cobblestone street doing nothing to cool her burning skin, she tried to bring herself to stand and keep moving but only succeeded in making the fire within her flare hotter and make her cry out again louder this time, she had nearly made it onto her hands and knees when her muscles gave out on her and she fell onto her side her vision slowly going dark, she struggled to keep her eyes open.
