Chapter 7
A Cure Has Been Found?!
"Lucy! LUCY!" It was no use shouting her name. He knew that, but he couldn't help it.. His one and only master, partner and friend just collapsed!
"Boy, what's the matter?" There, behind him to the right, a few meters of distance stood Joumur.
"Help me! She collapsed! She's sick, get her to a doctor!" Joumur stood frozen for a few seconds before regaining control over his own body and ran off.
"Lucy! Stay with me!" He cupped her cheeks and held them up before lifting her entire body and running to the closest table and laying her careful down. As he did, the doctor came running at full speed from the direction Joumur just disappeared a few minutes ago.
"Make way!" He shouted as he came running towards them.
As the doctor closed in, Terobilus backed up a little bit, giving the doctor more space.
"What happened?" The doctor asked as he started checking her pulse.
"She suddenly collapsed after getting up to fast after training with magic!" The doctor nodded as he did more tests at her.
"Carry her to my office, I'll have to take a few tests to try preventing this from happening again.. It's bad for her health."
He scooped her into his arms and walked beside the doctor, carrying her. "You can't prevent it from happening again.. Not even the best doctor can, her disease is very rare, and very deadly.." The doctor gave him a weird look before starting to walk faster, all Terobilus was looking at was his dear master, laying in his arms.
"I won't give up."
"Seriously you guys, there's something fishy going on here, Lucy disappearing, then suddenly Yukino from sabertooth deciding to give us a visit.. Call me naive and stupid, but I'm sure something has driven Lucy away, and I'm sure she, Yukino, knows what it is!" He tried to convince his friends.
"Look, Natsu. I'm sure there is a reason for her to leave, and I'm also sure she'll be back any time now to tell us." The raven haired ice mage told his friend in front of him.
The pink haired dragon slayer clenched his fists and stared at his feet. "Natsu.." Happy said, looking at his friend. Sadness and concern in his eyes.
After Lucy left them, their team mostly sat at their usual table, sitting in silence and eating.
"Natsu, I agree with Gray. I'm sure you're overreacting, Lucy may as well just be visiting someone.."
"Who?! She no longer have any family nor friends except us! Do you expect me to lay back and have fun while she may be in trouble?!" His team looked at him in surprise at his sudden outburst.
"BRATS!" He turned around, facing Makarov, fairy tails master. Standing at the railing where he usually stood when telling the guild something. But he seemed angry and sad, but more than anything - disappointed.
"DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'VE DONE?!" Fairy tail stared at him, waiting for him to continue.
"HAVE YOU SERIOUSLY NOT REALIZED WE MISS A MEMBER OF OUR FAMILY?!"They all turned around, looking around. They all turned towards him again after a while and looked at him curiously.
"WE HAVE LOST OUR ONE AND ONLY CELESTIAL WIZARD, AND TODAY I RECEIVED A TERRIBLE MESSAGE!" He looked at them all, they all looked around, searching for the Blondie, but she was nowhere to be seen.
"FOR AT LEAST A MONTH SHE'S BEEN GONE, HAVE YOU NOT REALIZED?!" A few of her closest friends that had noticed her disappearance nodded, while the rest shook their heads in shame.
"DO YOU KNOW WHY SHE'S LEFT US?" Every single member of the guild shook their head. Of course no one knew.
"She's left to never return.." They all looked at him, terrified. A single tear rolled down his cheek. "Lucy Heartifillia is dying, all alone. Without anyone to comfort her.." Natsu, Gray, Erza and Happy stood there, dumbfounded. Eyes widen and lips shivering.
"AND ALL SHE'S THINKING ABOUT MAY BE HOW WE CONTINUE OUR LIVES AS IF SHE NEVER WERE THERE!-" He looked down, tears overflowing and sobs were everywhere in the hall.
"I am really disappointed, really really disappointed. To think you wound do this to your family, right now, I'm ashamed to think we left a precious friend to die alone, and worst of all.. We lost our right to go after her the day she left the guild!" And with that, he jumped of the railing and went to his office.
"What have we done?" Levy said, out of breath as she fell to her knees, tears falling from her eyes.
"Lucy-san.." Wendy mumbled as she tried wiping away all the tears.
All they did was stand there. It didn't take long for Erza and Happy to cry. The tears spread like a disease and soon, everyone was crying.
Lucy..
Urgh.. Where am I?
It was cold, and dark and not a person in sight. She let her eyes fall to her hands, they were transparent.. She was fading away.
She had no energy to panic, nor to talk. But she got up anyway. She walked and walked and walked. Until she was a bright light far away. She ran towards it.
As she got closer, the light got bigger and bigger and other colors were soon in sight.
She reached her hands forward and touched the light. As she touched the warm light it grew bigger and bigger until it had completely eaten her and all she saw was a little girl with blonde hair and brown eyes picking flowers in a garden. And in the background was a huge mansion. But, something was odd with the girl, she kept smiling and smiling, but her eyes seemed so sad. So.. Broken.
"LUCY!" Out from the mansion came a man with blonde hair and a mustache running towards her.
"Father, father, look! I picked flowers for mothers grave!" He looked at her, disgusted.
"Get inside and leave the gardening to the servants." He slapped her hands and the flowers fell to the ground. He stepped on them and the small girl started to cry.
"I said.. GET INSIDE!" The girl ran as fast as she could towards the mansion.
Lucy just stood there, watching the scene. I remember this.. This was a month after mom's death..
Suddenly, the image of her father faded away and she soon stood by a window inside the kitchen.
"Ugh.. *Sniff* Kwugh.." The small girl sat with the table, crying as she looked into the soup in front of her, trying to wipe away the un-necessary tears until she gave up and let her hands rest on ether side of herself.
"Why did mama die?" Lucy watched herself cry in her reflection, until it was unfocused by the small waves that came when her tears dripped into the hot soup.
"Mama.."
"Miss Lucy, are you crying again?" A voice said from the door.
"N-no.." She wiped the tears away roughly and faked a smile as someone entered the room. The old man smiled sadly at her. He came closer to the table and hugged the little girl very carefully. Like she was glass that could shatter by the simplest touch.
"I just bought a new book, you can read it tonight!" She nodded as he left the book at the table and left the room.
That night she read the book out loud for herself before going to sleep-.
"The tale of a dragon..." She flipped over to the next page.
"Once upon a time there was a beautiful farm girl that lived on the south-side right outside the kingdom Buisqut..
She was so beautiful every single woman that had ever seen her envied her, specially the wicked witch that lived inside the big forest that surrounded the east side of Buisqut..
One day, the witch heard rumors about the prince she was madly in love with- they said he had fallen head over heals in love with the beautiful farm girl, Sariya that lived south for Buisqut.
She was furious, so the witch decided that as a revenge, she would curse them both.."
"She summoned one of the strongest dragons she knew and asked him what to do to curse them..
Then the dragon said:
Let me take care of it, I'll curse them both to death!
The witch seemed delighted with the answer she got and gave him permission.
That night the dragon entered his human form and went first to the farm girl's house. He knocked three times on the door before be got an answer.
As he entered he found the girl making dinner.
What brings you here, traveler?
She asked the dragon. The dragon was soon captured by her beauty, and only a week after he asked her to marry him. Sariya had grown to love him over the few days and said yes.
When the witch heard the dragon had failed her, she was even more furious than ever before and decided to summon another dragon.
This time, the dragon fulfilled it's duty and first cursed the prince. then Sariya.
As this happened, the first summoned dragon was out of town, looking for somewhere they could get married, and when he returned to find his lover sick in bed, coughing blood and weakening for each day that passed - he got mad and decided to kill of the witch that had caused this." The little Lucy wiped of a few tears before flipping to continue reading.
"When the witch was killed he left the town to find one of his oldest friends to ask of his advice.
There is a way to save her, but it's very difficult to do this..
JUST TELL ME WHAT DO DO! I BEG YOU! The dragon begged his friend,
OK, my old friend.. You have to enter another dimension and find the ones that cursed her, and kill them. Take their blood and return within' a week. Then make her drink it and she will be cured. But if you don't hurry she'll die before it due to weak body or to much blood loss.
That's a lot of difficult stuff to do in so little time.. The dragon sighed, But I'll do it if I can save her.
And so the dragon left for the other dimension and started searching for the one that cursed his lover.." She flipped to the next page.
"Five days passed fast, and he didn't seem to find the dragon he was looking for.
Every second of the day and night he searched for the guilty one, and on the sixth day, he found him.
He had been hiding out in his human form, in this dimension he was known as 'the ripper', he was payed to kill and got the nickname from the way he ripped his victims to bits.
After an long and difficult battle the dragon finally managed to kill the guilty one and took his blood.
But as he returned, it was already to late. The entire town had fallen to ruins. No survivors.
As he ran to his lovers house he found her dead in her bed. She looked to peaceful he could have thought she was just sleeping. And she was indeed sleeping, caught in a deep slumber that she should never awaken from.." Wet spots on the pages, one more and one more, one after another. She flipped the page to the ending.
"And so, to make sure the disease didn't kill any more humans, he sealed the entire kingdom of Buisqut away. He created a mountain that covered it all, and to hide the entrance he put a waterfall in front of it. And so, he lived on in the kingdom, alone for all eternity.
The end." She closed the book and more tears made it's way from her eyes.
"So sad, even though he went through all that trouble she still died.." And so, everything surrounding Lucy disappeared and she slowly opened her eyes.
"Lucy!" Teroblius smiled as he saw the blonde mage open her eyes slowly, getting used to the light. He hugged her and after a few seconds released her to look at her.
"Tero, have you ever heard of the fairy tale 'the tale of a dragon'?" Her voice was shaking and hoarse. He thought about it for a while. When he didn't answer she decided to tell him about the book.
"I read it when I was a kid, it was about a beautiful girl named Sariya that lived in a kingdom named-"
"-Buisqut.." He finished. They looked at each other in surprise as they realized the same thing.
"We may have found the cure..!" They both exclaimed at the same time, smiling.
There was still hope.
OMG! Finally done!
Had so much fun wrighting this chapter ~
Hope you enjoyed it! ;3
-Nofir