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Gray's POV
Please. I just found you after three years Lucy. Don't disappear on me again without a single word. I couldn't handle it. I thought as we all chased after her in the general direction that we saw her go in. She was already out of sight.
"Split up," I heard Jura yell "we can each look for and cover more ground this way." A moment after those words left his lips everyone just started running in different directions.
I ran as fast as I could. My throat was burning and I couldn't breathe deeply. I wanted to stop, but if I stopped I wouldn't find Lucy. I pushed myself harder and urged my legs to keep going. I couldn't stop now. Not when she was so close. No, I wouldn't lose her this time.
I was running on silent feet. I had gotten really good at the whole stealth thing on all those S-class missions I did. I was thankful for that now. It was possible that if Lucy heard my footsteps she would start running in an attempt to get away from me. She would probably worry about it being Natsu, Erza, Wendy, or Gajeel that was chasing her.
I heard a sob and a sharp intake of breath come from somewhere to my right before another sobbing like sound was produced again. I slowed down and walked towards the direction of the sobbing. I quietly made my way over to the source of the sobbing. What I came upon made my heart break a little.
Right in front of me was Lucy. She had her back against a tree and her head held up at a bit of an angle. Cascading down her face were tears. That made my heart clench at the sight, but not break. What broke my heart instead was what she was saying while she was crying. "Oh dear gods it hurts. Why does it still hurt? Why do I feel pain when I see them? They seem as if they've completely forgotten who I am. Why? Why does it have to hurt so bad even after all this time? I can't do this. I thought I was almost ready to see them. Oh dear god I was wrong." She screamed the last part before slowly sliding down the trunk of the tree, continuing to cry the entire time.
I felt tears slide down my own face. She was hurting and I couldn't do anything about it. I felt like I was letting her down. She was my nakama, it was supposed to be my job to protect her and keep her from hurting, and I was completely failing at it.
She pulled her legs up to her chest and put her arms around them. She then put her head down and cried while hiding her face in her knees
I wiped my eyes before I silently walked up in front of her before crouching down and quietly whispering "Lucy".
At this her head shot up. Her vision was probably blurred by her tears and couldn't make out my face. She could however tell that we were very close and tried to push herself away from me, only to realize that her back was against the tree. Before she could do something like kick me in the chest and send me flying backwards so that she could escape I spoke in a soft and pleading tone "Lucy it's me, Gray. I'm not going to hurt you or drag you back to the guild. I respect your choice about leaving the guild. I have no right to make you come back when it was my fault you left. If I hadn't gone on that mission or I had completed sooner I could have been there for you, but I wasn't. I'm so sorry." On the last sentence my voice broke.
I could see the shock in her expression. "G-gray?" She asked with shock.
"Yeah Lucy. It's me. I'm so sorry, Lucy. I'm so sorry Lucy. I'm so sorry." I said again.
"Gray" she said softly. "It's really you." She said quietly,
"Yeah Lucy, it's me. It's one of your nakama. I'm really he-" I was cut off when she suddenly lunged towards me. I landed on my rear and was able to stop myself from hitting the ground by putting my hands out. I was dazed for a second. When I snapped out of it and realized what just happened I started to turn red.
Lucy currently had her arms around my neck in a tight hug. She was on her knees and in the space between my legs. I could feel her hot breath in my ear as she whispered to me "It's really you. Oh, I've missed you. You are the only reason I regret leaving Gray. You shouldn't feel sorry or blame yourself for me leaving. Never blame yourself for that. If it weren't for you I would have left sooner." She said as she pulled back. She then put her hands on my shoulders. Her face a few inches away from mine. Her gaze held mine as she continued. "Don't you dare ever blame yourself. Do you hear me? I won't allow it. You are one of the kindest people ever. Don't ever think that any of this is your fault."
I could see the sincerity in her eyes. I slowly nodded my head. I didn't trust myself to speak. Not when she was this close to me. My heart was racing in my chest. I'm surprised that she couldn't hear it. After a moment she seemed to realize our position and quickly stood up. Her face was red.
She then held out her hand to me and helped me up. I got up and looked at her. Then I started laughing. I could see the confusion and shock in her face which only made me double over and laugh harder. After a couple of moments I calmed down enough to speak. "Sorry about that. It's just that this all seems like some sort of messed up dream. I can't believe that after three years of you not being gone you're finally here. In front of me. God I've missed you so much. Now that you're here and hearing what you just said. It feels as if you never left Fairy Tail. That you never left me." I see her face become a mask of shock. It takes me a moment to realize what I've said. As soon as I do I turn a deep shade of red and start stuttering like an idiot.
"O-oh…uh…no. Th-that's n-n-not w-wh-what I-I m-m-meant." At this her expression of shock turns into a confused look.
"N-no, I m—mean t-t-that I w-was s-s-sad th-th-that y-y-you l-left..." And then the perfect cover story idea pops in my head. I fold my arms over my chest and look away before saying, "I mean I was sad that you left me, one of your nakama. When everyone was ignoring you while I was still there we ended up talking a lot to each other. You learned a lot about me and vice versa. You slowly became my best friend. When you left, I lost my best friend. I've missed you." Once I finished I looked back at Lucy to see that she looked a bit disappointed and her brows furrowed, but that was quickly replaced with happiness.
"I can't believe you're here in front of me Gray. During these last three years I've constantly thought about you…and master" She tacked on almost as an afterthought.
"Yeah, same here." I said with the blood starting to flow properly and the blush receding. "Gosh, it's been 3 years. How have you been? Did you get stronger?" At this she raises an eyebrow, Then I remember her defeating the master of the guild. "Oh, wow. That was a stupid question, but here's another. Are you that Star Fighter person that's been taking down all those dark guilds by themselves?" At this she turns sheepish.
"Um, yeah, that's me." She says while putting a hand around her neck. Then her eyes turn to me. "My turn for the questions now. How have you been? What's gone on these last three years?"
"Well, I became an S-class wizard for start." She looks at me with her eyes full of pride. I suddenly perk up under her attention. "Master and I talk a lot, sometimes about missions, sometimes about you, and sometimes just about random stuff. I find myself getting angry at the other guild members a lot. I hate being inside of the guild with them not realizing that you left. I just kept going on missions. It became a pattern. Go on missions, S-class exams, more missions, Grand Magic Games, more missions. I stopped talking to everyone. Whenever I saw them I would get mad that they hadn't realized you had left. I couldn't be near them or else I would end up fighting with everyone, and if that happened I would have to explain that I had attacked them because I was angry at them for making you leave. If I did that then I wouldn't be able to keep your last wish as a Fairy Tail member. So I'm kind of not in the loop about what's been going on with all of them. That's about it really. What about you? What have you been doing these last 3 years Lucy?"
At that she sighed. "Well, I've been up to a lot. Where should I start?"
"How about the reason you left? I don't know why you left."
At this her eyes turned wide and she asked in an incredulous tone "Makarov didn't tell you why I left?"
"No," I started slowly. "He said that if I found out what the last straw was that made you decide to finally leave then I would end up beating everyone up. So I've been in the dark. What happened Lucy? What did everyone do to you that made you finally decide to leave?" I asked wanting to know why she left me and Fairy Tail, her home.
She was about to say something when I heard Hibiki's voice in my head. I made a motion at her to wait for a moment while he was speaking.
"Hey everyone, any luck finding Lucy?" I looked at Lucy before telling her that It was Hibiki speaking to me with the use of his archive magic. I told her that he was asking if anyone had found her.
After a chorus of no's I asked Hibiki a question. "Hey Hibiki, the other members from my guild aren't in on this conversation right now, are they?"
"No Gray. No one from Fairy Tail except you is able to hear this. Why?"
"Keep the connection going. I'm going to be back in a minute." I said before turning to Lucy. "Lucy, that was Hibiki. Everyone, except the other Fairy Tail members are searching for you right now."
"They noticed I was gone?"
"Yeah. They asked and I told them that you left the guild. Once again, they are looking for you as well. Is it okay if I tell them that I found you?"
"Sure, go ahead and tell them I'm with you. I'm fine with that. "
"Okay." I said before heading back to the conversation with Hibiki and everyone else. "Hey everyone, it's me again. I've got news for all of you. I found Lucy. Where are you guys?"
"I'll upload a map into your minds about where to meet up. That way the other Fairy Tail members won't be able to find us. See you guys in a few." He said uploading the map to the destination into my mind before breaking off the connection.
I turned to Lucy who said, "I take it that where all meeting someplace minus the others from Fairy Tail." I only nodded my head before she said "Lead the way."
I took her hand and started to guide us towards the location of the meeting. We walked in silence. We were about 5 minutes away from the meeting spot when she cleared her throat causing me to stop and look back at her. Her face was a nice shade of scarlet that would match Erza's hair. I raised a brow at her but thought that she looked so cute while blushing. She then looked pointedly at our hands. Mine was currently holding hers. I felt a flush creeping up my neck and I quickly let go of her hand. "Uh…um.. sorry about that. My bad." I said turning my face away from hers hoping she wouldn't notice the blush that was making its way onto my cheeks.
"Uh..oh..um..no problem…none at all." She said.
I just told her to follow me and then I turned my back towards her and started marching forward. Oh my god! I'm an idiot. I should have acted cooler and played it off. I didn't even notice that I was holding her hand. It was so soft. Her hands were so petite and her fingers nimble. Her hand felt warm in mine…DON'T THINK ABOUT IT! If I thought about it then I would only end up blushing in front of her again. Gosh, I must seem like an idiot to her.
We finally made it to the meeting spot. Lucy right behind me. "Hey you guys. We're here." I said getting everyone's attention. It seemed like everyone was frozen. No one moved. Lucy and I just stood there staring at everyone while the others just stared us down. It was Sherry that made the first move.
She ran straight up to Lucy and engulfed her in a hug. Lucy's eyes went wide at the sudden reaction. Come to think about it when you looked around everyone had that same reaction.
"Sh-Sherry" Lucy mumbled.
Sherry pulled back from the hug and looked Lucy straight in the eye. "Gray told us about what happened. I'm so sorry. No one should ever feel as if they are unloved by their family and nakama. I'm so sorry that you had to deal with that pain."
Everyone was shocked, and no one made a sound as the two girls spoke.
"Sherry, I don't know what to say. Why are you comforting me though? I thought that you didn't like me." Lucy said in a voice laced with confusion.
Sherry shook her head at that "Lucy, it's not that I don't like you. It's what you make me feel that I don't like. You're beautiful and smart. You're always give everything your all as well. You're a very pure and kind hearted person. When I'm around you I feel inadequate. Like I'm not good enough. I don't like that feeling. It makes me feel small and inconsequential. I envy you that confidence, intelligence, and beauty you have."
At that everyone's eyes went wide. Did we hear her right? She envied Lucy? That was shocking news.
Lucy looked at Sherry in disbelief. "Sherry. What the hell are you talking about?" Sherry then looked at her like she was crazy.
"Lucy, everything I said right now was truly how I feel. I'm not a good person unlike you. You're better than I am. That's the tru-" Sherry was cut off when Lucy suddenly slapped her.
Now all of us had our eyes bulging out of our heads. Did Lucy just SLAP Sherry? What the hell was going on? Did we enter into a reverse world without my noticing?
Lucy then grabbed Sherry's shoulders and angrily said to her "Are you insane! Never let anyone make you feel bad about yourself." Then Lucy pulled Sherry into a hug before continuing with "Sherry you're amazing. You're a strong and capable mage. You're beautiful and lively. You're amazing the way you are. Never let anyone tell you or make you believe otherwise." Lucy then pulled back from the hug and looked Sherry straight in the eyes, before continuing in a soft tone. "Sherry you're perfect as you. The ironic thing is that I envied you as well. You were, no you are strong. You are never afraid to speak your mind. You are a kind hearted person that has suffered. You are amazing in every way. And that is the truth." Lucy finished in a huff.
All of us just looked lost. From confessions, to slaps, to hugs. I never imagined that one person could act so bipolar within a span of 5 minutes. Everyone sweat dropped at the girl's sudden mood swings. Never shall we understand girls. They're so complex.
Sherry just looked at Lucy for a moment while Lucy did the same with Sherry. No one moved. We were all waiting to see what would happen next. With girls there was no telling.
Sherry was still looking at Lucy when she started crying. At this Lucy gave her a sweet and kind smile. At this Sherry completely broke down. She lunged towards Lucy who had opened her arms up in a hugging gesture. Lucy put her arms around Sherry and held her. She then lifted one hand and patted Sherry's head while whispering comforting words into her ear.
No one moved. We had no clue what had just happened. We could only tell that it was important. That's about it. We had no clue what had just passed between the two females of the group and we had no desire to find out.
After a couple of minutes Sherry finally calmed down and pulled back from Lucy's embrace. Sherry then looked at Lucy, who smiled at her, and returned her smile. They then turned to the rest of us. They just stood there smiling as if nothing had happened just a few moments ago.
When they saw the looks on our faces they just looked at each other and collapsed into a fit of giggles. Every guy there (which consisted of the entire group except the two girls) just gave each other confused looks. I during this time couldn't help but think about how cute Lucy's laugh was.
Once the girls pulled themselves together Lucy greeted everyone else, but when she saw the 3 guys from Sabertooth she just quirked an eyebrow and looked at me.
"They're okay. Acted high and mighty for a little while, but ended up calming down later, that was when we found out that they're actually pretty cool." I quickly explained. She just nodded her head and greeted them. After introductions were done we just sat down on the ground and started talking.
It was Jura that spoke first after the introductions. "Lucy-dono it is good to see you. How have you been, more importantly where have you been."
Lucy just looked up towards the sky for a moment before looking back at all of us. "I've been good. As for the where? That's a tricky question. I've been to a lot of places."
"Hey Lucy," said Sting "Why did you leave Fairy Tail in the first place? What did they do to you?" Everyone nodded and looked at Lucy. I was curious to the answer as well.
Lucy got a sad look in her eyes as she explained "It's not so much as to what they did. It's the fact that they didn't notice they were doing it. They never noticed what they had done to me. That was what caused me to leave."
"Yes, but what did they not notice they did to you?" That came from Lyon.
"I guess it would just be easier to show you instead of explaining it entirely." She said while standing up. She then lifted her shirt to the point where here entire midriff was exposed, stopping right under her…chest area. What we saw horrified us. On Lucy's right side was a huge scar, as well as on her stomach. Her left side didn't have any scars, but it didn't look right. She had obviously been dealt a blow that had a ton of force behind it. The worst part though were seeing the scatters of burn marks everywhere.
All of our eyes had gone wide and Sherry was covering her mouth while crying. Lucy was looking down. Her eyes cast down. She wouldn't look up. I was mad, no I was beyond mad. I was enraged.
"How did this happen?" I asked slowly getting up. My voice had a dangerous edge to it.
She still wouldn't look up. Everyone was standing by now. Sherry had walked over to Lucy and Stood by her side with an arm around her shoulders and the other rubbing Lucy's arm. She refused to answer. I slowly walked towards her and asked her again when I was right in front of her. "Lucy, how did they hurt you?"
She still wouldn't lift her face up, but this time she answered. "The guild was having one of their usual brawls. I got caught in the crossfire. Elfman got me in the side with his beast arm and sent me flying. The next attack was Juvia's water slicer. It caused the gash on my stomach. Next came Natsu's fire. After that came Gajeel's metal arm pillar. After that was one of Erza's swords. It was one of their stupid brawls Gray. I just got caught in the crossfire. They never even noticed me as I walked out of the guild bleeding. They had no clue that they had done it. They never noticed that they left me for almost dead. I ended up passing out in the lobby of the hospital. Right before I passed out though I was able to get the attention of a nurse. They never even noticed they did it." She finally looked up and stared me dead in the eye. "They never noticed that that day they broke my heart. I believed that Fairy Tail was my family, my home. That day they proved me wrong." And with that said she let tears spill down her face.
Everyone was shocked, and everyone was getting angrier by the second. I wanted to beat them all so badly. They're would be no escaping my wrath. Everyone was brought back from their angry trail of thoughts though when we heard a heart wrenching sob. Lucy had now sunken to the floor with Sherry being dragged down by her. Lucy had brought her knees to her chest and had put her head on them and sobbed. Sherry did her best to comfort Lucy. I walked to her other side and sat down right beside her. I then started comforting her as well. Everyone else just sank to the ground with a look of sadness.
Once Lucy had calmed down we started up the conversation again.
It was Sherry that asked the next question. "Hey Lucy, once you left Fairy Tail what did you do next."
"Well, I went to a place called Celestiallus. I thought it would be a good place for me since I'm a celestial mage and the place was nick named the celestial city. When I got their I got hungry so I went into a restaurant. I saw a statue of Aquarius and Scorpio there so I called them both out just to show them. After they left the manager of the place came out and wanted to let me eat for free because I was the owner of two of the celestial zodiac. I refused because it made me feel as if I were using my nakama to make my life more convenient. I ate, paid, and then left. I found out that I was being followed. I kind of confronted this person. She offered me a deal and I agreed to it. She trained me for a year our time. After that I went and joined a different guild, so that I could earn money."
"Who was the person that trained you?" asked Ren.
"Her name is Izuza. She likes to wear black skirts and fishnets. She usually is in a short sleeve tee, but sometimes she half sleeved shirts as well. She has wavy black hair with purple and blood red streaks in her hair. She usually wears a collar around her neck. She has a couple of rings on her fingers as well. She always wears this one set of leather fingerless gloves and this one pair of combat boots. She seems kind of intimidating based off of her appearance, and at first she gives strangers a bad attitude, but once you get to know her you find out that she's actually really sweet and a bit of a ditz sometimes. Another thing that you should probably know about Izuza is that she has no memories about her childhood. She can't remember a thing."
"That's horrible. Where is she now" asked Ogra.
"I can honestly say that I have no clue. She moves around a lot." Came Lucy's quick reply.
"MMMEEENNN~" Ichiya suddenly screamed. "It is getting late and we must head back and deliver the dark guild members to the Magic Council. We must sadly cut this conversation short."
"Ichiya's right." I said hating to leave Lucy. "I have to get back and beat up the others as well for what they did to you. The cat's out of the bag now that they've seen you, so Gramps shouldn't have a problem with me beating them up."
"Can I help you with that?" Asked Sherry. As soon as she said that everyone else added that they wanted to beat up my guild members as well.
"Sure, the more people beating up my guild mates the better." I replied joyfully.
As soon as the words left my mouth Lucy broke out into a fit of laughter. "God…y-you g-guys… are t-the…b-best." She said while trying to calm herself down.
We all grinned at what she said. We then all got up slowly. I'm pretty sure that none of us wanted to go and leave Lucy, but we had no choice.
As if she could read our minds Lucy said "Don't worry you guys. I'll be seeing all of you pretty soon actually. This isn't good bye. It's more like 'See ya later'." As soon as she said we all calmed down a bit. "Anyways, I had better get back before master starts freaking out and stuff."
"We'll see you around Lucy" Sherry called as our group started to walk away.
"Definitely!" shouted Lucy in response. Everyone had now left except me, and Lucy I turned towards her and pulled her into a hug.
"I'm going to miss you. Fairy Tail just isn't the same without you in my opinion." I said quietly.
"You'll be fine without me," she said pulling back from the hug. "and besides, you'll see me soon enough. Like I said Gray, this isn't good bye. I am definitely going to see you later."
"I'm looking forward to our next meeting then." I said. I turned my head away from her.
"Same here she said quietly. I turned my head back towards her to only have her lips meet mine. I was shocked, and apparently so was she. She had probably been going to kiss me on the check when I turned my head.
I suddenly found myself kissing her harder, what surprised me was that she was kissing me right back. I deepened the kiss before we both broke off gasping. I saw her touch her lips with a faint smile upon them as well. I could tell that I had some really goofy grin plastered on my face. We then looked at each other and turned slightly red, but neither of us stopped smiling.
"That was…wow." She said.
"Totally with you on that."
She smiled at me one last time before saying "I'll see you around Gray." She started walking away but stopped and turned back to give me a huge smile.
Holy crap, she's beautiful. I returned her smile before I watched her turn and walk off. I then stood there for a few minutes thinking about what had just happened before smiling and making my way towards everyone else.
Once I reached there I saw everyone including the other Fairy Tail members. It seemed that the Magic Council had already taken the dark guild members. I felt all the giddiness and joy from the kiss a few moments ago slip away and become replaced with anger.
I stalked towards the group and was met with Natsu and Erza standing right in front of me.
"Hey stripper, who was that girl you guys all went tearing after." Natsu asked me. I simply ignored him and walked straight towards. "Oi, don't ignore me when I'm talking to you.
Why not, you ignored Lucy didn't you? I thought to myself. I stayed silent though and just joined the others who were all ignoring my guild mates as well.
"Why don't we go now? We should all be getting back to our guilds." I said to everyone.
"Oh no," came Sherry's reply "When I asked you if I could help you with your guild mates I was serious. Everyone else here feels the same way as well. No arguments Gray, we're all going with you to Fairy Tail."
I smiled at this. "I would be happy if you and everyone else here assisted me in this matter."
"Good. Let's go then." Sherry said and walked into the Christina. Everyone else, including the other members of Fairy Tail, walked in behind her.
As the Christina rose into the air and turned towards the direction of my guild I couldn't stop myself from thinking about what my guild mates had done to Lucy, and I was pretty sure that Everyone else but the other Fairy Tail members here were thinking about the exact same thing.
Get ready Fairy Tail. I'm on my way, and when I get there you're all going to get one hell of a beat down, and that's a promise.
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