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NatsuxLucy

Chapter 4: I didn't need to be saved...

"Let me go! I don't need to be saved! Not now, not ever!" Lucy screamed.

She thrashed and kicked from her restraints. She was held captive by the Prince. The stupid prince who thought he could just burn through the forest, the cave she had called home for more years than she could count.

"Oh but, Princess, you do." he smirked coolly at the girl.

Oh fuck you! she'd thought but what could words do? She was completely helpless. She cried out to Natsu as she was being pulled away. Grey turned around to return into the battle currently happening between Natsu and the other knights.

Grey called over a knight, a bit taller than her, clutching both her arms behind her back, holding her in place. She could just see from a distance how the fight was going and she couldn't do anything but cry and curse.

Stupid defense lessons Natsu didn't give me enough practice with. she thought.

She saw as Grey lunged forward, sword in hand towards the dragon boy. Natsu barely dodged the attack. He was tired and she was tired. And she was tired. They thought that they'd be able to walk away peacefully but just as they were about to rest, Grey and his knights jumped on them.

Their surroundings aflame from all the fire spouting out of the pinkette and the earlier damage the royalty has made.

Grey stepped back, Natsu was panting, his back hunched, turning around to eye his enemies if they were to attack. He was drenched in sweat from fighting, his bangs fell over his eyes that were utterly beautiful despite the situation they were in. On the other hand, Grey stood tall, a feet away from Natsu, smiling devishly at the vulnerable teen.

"Tsk tsk tsk. Dragon boy, you're too weak to fight back. You're pathetic, I haven't even used my powers yet. Just give her up already but don't think that whatever I offered you awhile ago is still on the table." The ice mage mocked.

"I won't give up just yet. You haven't seen what I can do just yet." he smirked like he wasn't talking to some asshole who's trying to kill him.

This seemed to tick Grey off. He gave a small nod and all the knights charged at the pink haired boy. The knights seized Natsu and he seemed too exhausted to fight back. He tried to fight back but it the knights didn't even seem fazed from the battle that had just taken place. They held onto him tightly, his head hung low.

"You're all talk, kid." Grey said harshly as if he wasn't just the same age as them. "You're pitiable. You could've made a great deal with me. Maybe you could've been my knight and you could see how I would kiss your princess out in the daylight as you watched." Natsu snarled, still, he was out of breath and weak. "You do realize I can't let you live after this anymore." Grey paced in front of Natsu then stopped. He lifted his sword, pointing it at Natsu.

"Stop! Please..." Lucy whimpered.

Her heart clenched but she couldn't look away. Natsu's face lifted staring at her as if to say everything's going to be okay. But she knew it wouldn't.

Before Grey thrusted his sword into Natsu, the raven haired man yelled over to the knight holding Lucy into place saying, "Erza! Get that brat out of here! We don't want her to see how we kill her dragon." He said dragon as if to make fun of what she bragged earlier about this boy being a dragon was nothing but a bluff.

"Natsu!" she fumed. "Do something! Don't just look like a fool over there! You're much stronger than this! What are you doing!?" she shouted, craning her neck to be able to see Natsu as she was being pulled away. "I love you! Please..." she called out, crying to herself as she was out of sight.

She heard Natsu roar behind her, she felt the heat of his fire as he did so. She pushed herself to turn around. There, she saw the boy finally turning into a dragon. She gasped at the spectacle as did the knight gripping onto her. The knights appear taken aback as well and tried to hold on but he grew bigger and bigger.

Natsu's pupils obtained red specks in his normally just onyx eyes. His skin acquired red scales that shined under the natural light and the fire. His hands and feet turned into claws, wings sprung from his back as well as a tail from his behind. He was on all fours as he glared at the intruders, at Grey, growling dangerously at them.

He swung his arms and the knights flew. He spewed fire towards Grey and Lucy expected that it burned the man into crisps. She wished. She prayed.

Lucy thought that they may actually get to escape again. Escape for good. After this whole ordeal, she and Natsu would run. Run into the mountains, into the sea, into the sun if they had to. It was a mistake that she stayed here where she would be seen, that she would be recognized. It was a mistake that they went into a small village for her birthday. Then all this would've never happened. And she and her dragon would be safe.

At the moment, a glint of hope flashed in her eyes buy it was short lived as she saw Grey drive through the fire completely unscathed, jumping high enough to plunge his sword by the dragon's left chest.

Everything paused. Everything stopped except for Grey who landed gracefully on the ground. All she could hear was the loud thumping of her heart in her chest. Natsu shrunk back to the size of a man, bouncing a bit from the ground as he fell. He coughed out blood, laying limply, staring at the sky.

She felt a river of tears stain her face. Her knees felt weak and she fell if not for Erza holding her up.

"No..." she whispered, her head bent low. She felt as if her heart was ripped off of her. "No!" she screamed as she saw Grey pull out his sword from the dragon turned back into a young man.

Grey sighed as he saw the fire-breather's writhing form.

"You shouldn't have done that." he said as he turned to Lucy, looking at her almost sympathetically. "Let's go." He ordered the remaining survivors, walking towards the grieving blonde.

Grey was in front of Lucy as he nodded to Erza to let her go. Before Lucy fell, Grey carried her bridal style, even if Lucy was reluctant, she was too weak and too broken to fight back.

"You're a monster. A murderer." she whispered. "I hate you..." she seethed to the man, looking back for the last time at the boy on the ground, probably bleeding out to death.

Grey said nothing as if he regretted doing all those malevolent things he'd just done. He lay her in the carriage before climbing in himself, looking out the window.

Lucy stared disgustingly at the murderer. "I didn't need to be saved." she murmured completely exhausted before falling off into sleep forgetting the scene that had just taken place, forgetting the misery that was just about to. At least for a little while.

Dang... This is sad... But! Don't worry guys, I got this. I got this! Don't kill me please. I really didn't want to 'kill' off Natsu, so just wait. We'll see what happens. :D Oh yeah! Sorry if I don't update that fast, I was reading Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell and I absolutely love it! I couldn't stray away! You should totally read it as well. But yeah, sorry.

-Lara P.

P.S. Also, I'm so happy I was able to at least pass a college! *sigh* I'm waitlisted but yeah... okay bye!