Hello everyone! Let's head on over to the seventh chapter! ^-^
(Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima)
No ones pov
"YES! I win! Happy you suck! I'm the be-est~" Natsu shouted out while doing a victory dance although he was still sitting in bed.
"You definitely cheated! It's impossible! I always won in this game!" Happy shouted back.
"Well looks like I got better..or you just got worse." Natsu said with a large grin on his face.
"You were just lucky! You just won one out of all the times we have ever played." Happy said and crossed his arms. "I bet you won't win this one!"
"You wish!"
"Natsu-san I think Lucy-san isn't feeling well.."
"Hm? Wendy what happened? Is Lucy ok?" Natsu said, his facial expression changed immediately.
"She threw up all of a sudden and now she is taking a bath." Natsu and Happy looked at eachother for a second and then shrugged because they both couldn't think of a reason.
"Is it because she ate something?" Happy asked. "She definitely should eat more fish!" He said and took one out of his green pouch and bit into it.
"Well we can always ask her when she comes out of the bathroom." Natsu said.
"Aye!"
At the guild
"Gray! Erza!" The Master said with a slightly raised voice so that everyone stopped what they were doing.
"Yes Master?" Erza said while walking over to the counter where the Master was sitting.
"What's up old man?" Gray said.
"So. Tell me. You both went to visit Natsu and the others. What happened?" The Master asked.
"We actually wanted to go and check up on them now." Gray said and asked Mira for a drink.
"Well I'll come with you this time. I want to see Natsu myself. Not even Porlyusica could do anything." The Master said and set his large beerglass on the counter.
Lucy's pov
Ah this hot water feels so nice. I'm so sleepy..I don't think I can stand up to come back out of bathroom. I've never felt so exhausted in my life, everything was just too much all of a sudden. The bath is the only place I can fully relax.
"Lucy-san are you ok?" I heard Wendy say "You've been in there for more than an hour."
I look at my hands, they were all wrinkly more than ever..I guess I should come out now.
"Yeah. I'll be out in 10 minutes." I said and stood up, missing the warm water already.
No ones pov
"WHAT!" Natsu shouted after removing the bandages on his right shoulder. "This can't be!"
"Natsu calm down." Happy said.
"I can't! This is the worst thing that can happen! Wendy can you heal it?"
"Sorry I-I can't."
There was a still not fully healed scar across Natsu's red guildmark. He never had and injury on his guildmark, some of them were even really close.
"W-why?" He asked.
"There is some kind of dark magic that stops my healing magic when I try to use it."
Natsu was defeated. With the wound over his guildmark he could't feel content.
"Why, why, why ,WHY ME! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!" Everyone jumped at his sudden outburst, not daring to say anything.
Lucy came into the room, all dressed up but she looked tired with all the dark circles under her eyes and she dragged her feet while walking. Overall she felt like a complete mess and all this noise wasn't helping it.
"What is happening here?" She asked with her voice sounding like as if she just woke up.
Natsu was sitting cross-legged on the bed his elbows on his knees and his face buried in his hands.
"Luce can I talk to you for a second?" Natsu asked after he calmed down.
"Sure. What's up" She said.
"Alone" Natsu said while looking down so he didn't have to look into Lucy's eyes. Now she was really curious.
"Uhm.. Wendy I put something to eat on the table you can go and start breakfast now."
"Sure." Wendy said while smiling slightly and walked out of the room with Happy and Charle, closing the door behind her.
"So..What is it that you wanna talk about?" Lucy asked after she sat down on the chair next to the bed.
"Do you know what is happening to me?" His eyes were still shaded by his bangs.
Lucy felt uncomfortable, which she never was with Natsu around but she wanted to forget what happened before. Forget the nightmare she had and forget the morning after.
Lucy felt dizzy and tried to stop it by massaging her temples. Her stomach was empty and her mind full of questions. Anxiety was slowly claiming her body and she started to shiver.
"Natsu.." She said. Her voice was trembling and she was struggling to speak. "I had a dream."
"What kind of dream" He said, still not looking up although he felt that Lucy wasn't feeling well. No, he knew it.
"A nightmare." It was really hard for Lucy to talk about it. She felt hot tears stream down her face.
The blonde brought her hand up to her face to wipe the tears away.
"Huh..-sniff- I thought I was all dried up already."
"Wendy told me that you weren't feeling well.." He said as he started to fiddle with his hands.
"Yeah..I'm actually kind of sick..remembered the nightmare I had and just had the urge to throw up."
"What happened in the nightmare?" The dragon slayer asked feeling that Lucy tensed up. "If you don't want to talk about it then-"
"You died." Lucy blurted out. Seconds later she completly broke down, loud sobs and sniffs filling the room. "I'm sorry -sniff- I couldn't hold back anymore..the tears -sniff- just won't stop. But I still want to talk."
"You sure?"
Lucy nodded and wiped her face with a tissue.
"I'm kind of terrified.."She said as her body tensed up and her fingers started to play with the hem of her skirt.
"Of what?"
"In my dream you couldn't use your magic for whatever reason and you were being choked...the morning right after that you woke up and were struggling to get air. All the injuries you had in my dream appeared on your real body."
Natsu finally looked up to Lucy his eyes digging into hers. "What does that mean?"
"I don't know but now when you are sleeping there are always wounds appearing out of nowhere since the beginning of all of this."
"Who was I fighting against?"
"This guy that was immensely strong. I could never see his face, only a large evil grin." Lucy said still not breaking eye contact.
"Your guildmark.." the blonde said her eyes now concentrated on the wound across Natsu's guildmark.
"Did this one appear out of nowhere too?" He said and put his left hand just above the injury.
"Yes.."
*Ding Dong*
"That should be Gray and Erza." Lucy stood up but after taking just one step she was stopped. Natsu got a hold of her tiny wrist. The blonde now looked back to see Natsu look down to his lap. The dragon slayer that was always the happiness of the guild seemed depressed and lost. Seconds later he slowly let go of her wrist and sank into the bed making Lucy face his back.
Omg I'm sorry for not updating for so long :S
I will try and write longer chapters from now on, more than 1000 words is long for me so.. ^^
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