Ch. 7 The hurt
Gray and the others sulked, each step they made was dripping with dread. They had all, after Kiritan left with Natsu, had finish the job and were paid. Now they were walking towards the guild, they had yet to tell them what had happened.
Earlier they had all had an argument about whether or not they even should tell the rest of the guild about their encounter. Lucy and Elfman didn't see why they needed to tell them, they thought that telling them wouldn't change anything, but Gray and Lisanna thought that it wasn't a matter of use to tell the others but trust.
Gray was voted to tell everyone, though everyone was going to be there with him when he told, he was going to be the one talking. Gray, ever since being voted to talk, was going over how to mention it without getting smacked down by Erza's anger, so far nothing had come to mind.
Lucy and the others couldn't stop thinking about how broken most of the people's faces and hearts would be, especially Mira's. In other words a thick and heavy mood of dread was hanging over the group as the walked slowly through Magnolia.
The group was all so stuck in their thoughts of upcoming doom, that they didn't notice that they had reached the guild until the ran into the guilds master double doors.
"Oof!" Lucy exclaimed and fell back on her butt.
"Ugh!" Gray grumbled rubbing his head.
"Oww!" Lisanna rubbed her nose.
"What the-" Elfman started and stared at the doors of the guild, "Oh." Realization dawned on everyone, they had made it.
They all just looked at the doors, hoping that maybe this whole thing was a dream and that staring at them would possibly wake them up.
Lucy seemed to come out of their group trance first and gulped, "C-Come on guys, l-lets get it over with."
Gray nodded, and reached forward and opened the doors.
When the doors were open Gray and the others could see everyone. They were all staring at them as they walked in, some had fresh hope squished in their eyes. "H-Hey everybody." Lisanna waved.
"What took you all so long, you were due back hours ago!" Erza burst out of the masters office. "E-Erza! Sorry, we, I mean, we had things to talk about so we walked slowly from the train." Lucy's hands were shaking wildly, so she held them behind her back tightly.
"So? What happened, anything?" she asked.
Gray shook his head, "Everyone you need to listen!" Everyone gathered around the guilds double doors where their only source of hope at the moment was standing, getting ready to crush their hope once again.
"W-We made it to the train, heading toward the village", Gray took a deep breath, "We had...We saw Natsu." he had to force himself to look at Erza right before he said it.
At those last words, 'We saw Natsu…' The guild fell into chaos, Mira seemed to turn into a light bulb her eyes glowed so bright, Happy flew around Wendy's head, laughing with her in relief. Gajeel side-hugged Levy smiling ear to ear.
Gray hated it but it but he had to continue, "But it was too late, he was...he wasn't our Natsu anymore...he attacked Lisanna and didn't know who we were. He...wasn't Natsu." Gray focused on the material of his shoes.
Lucy however saw it all, every face as they fell revealing sadness, fear, and shock. Mira was the only one who didn't do anything, she only stared at Gray. Lucy didn't like how she reacted and would be sure to remember to ask how she was.
Erza, Wendy, Levy, and Happy all had tears in their eyes, "W-Why didn't you-" Erza was cut off by Lisanna. "Don't even, Erza!" she screamed, Erza's eyes flicked to her, confused, "Don't you dare try and act like we could have done anything! Kiritan showed up and took him saying that they were going to punish him if he saw us around him again." tears fell down Lisanna's face, "You don't know how it feels to have the person you care about most in the world attack you out of cold blood!"
Erza's eyes hardened, Erza did know how it felt, the same thing had happened with her and Jellal. But instead of mentioning that she walked to Lisanna and hugged her shaking and sobbing body. "I'm sorry…" she glanced at the others that had been with her with the encounter of Natsu,"You guys can go home and rest, have someone come with you." Erza glanced around, "Mira take Lucy, Leevy take Lucy, Gajeel take Gray home, and Wendy please take Elfman home."
Everyone called to help their friends home walked to each other, Mira seemed to be walking in auto pilot, she didn't speak she only looked ahead and walked with Lucy towards her apartment.
When the two girls made it to Lucy's house, Mira walked with her into the room. Now was the moment of truth, Lucy turned away when she spoke "Mira are you okay, you were the only one who didn't-" Lucy was interrupted by a thud come from behind her, she was taken back when she saw Mira was on her hands and knees, shaking.
Lucy was even more shocked when she heard sob, and drips of water fall to the ground right under her face. Mira was breaking down and Lucy had no idea of what to do.
Lucy finally decided that he only thing that was could do was try and comfort her, Lucy walked to Mira's shaking body, "Mira, hey, it's all going to be okay, we'll get Natsu, our Natsu, back." She got down on the ground next to Mira and wrapped an arm around the other girls shoulders.
"I-I-It's just he's like a b-b-brother to me! I care about him so much! And I know how much it's hurting you and everyone else that I feel sad f-for you g-guys that it all just builds up inside me and now this…" another sob wracked her small figure, "I just want everything back to the way they were!"
That night went through what seemed like a pattern, Lucy comforting Mira, Mira crying, the cycle didn't end until Mira, Finally thought Lucy, yawned, exhausted from the crying and the information she had received not 3 hours ago.
"Hey, Mira, how about you stay the night here, alright?" Mira nodded and Lucy lead her to her bed, hesitating, thinking that she sorta didn't want anyone else sleeping in Natsu's old spot on her bed, but quickly getting over it and leaving Mira in Natsu's spot on the bed, both snuggled up in the covers.
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When Mira woke she smelt eggs, and felt a new determination. She lifted herself off the bed and walked into Lucy's tiny kitchen, she sat at her mini table and waited for Lucy to finish cooking.
Lucy laid a plate of eggs and a glass of orange juice in front of Mira and where she was going to sit.
When Lucy sat she avoided Mira's eyes, "S-So are you okay, Mira?" she asked.
"Yeah," Mira's voice was scratchy from crying almost all night, "I'm personally going to, from now on going to go on every search, we will get Natsu back, if by force if necessary."
Mira had thought a lot last night and noticed that she hadn't help at all in searching for Natsu and now she decided she most definitely wanted to be there when they finally did find him.
I'm sorry guys about this awful ending, and there you go treeossakuras, this was mostly focused on Mira's reaction because I realized that most of you wanted to know how Mira would react, I hope you liked it. The next chapter of this awesomely epic story will be in the point of view of two people Kiritan and the new Natsu. So please review and thanx! Love you guys, until next time, Ch. 8! Remember review guys, it takes less than 10 seconds!
