Hi and thank you everyone who read, reviewed, added to favorites/alerts. WildCard555 here with Chapter number 7 of Dragon's Tear. I was originally going to do a Jerza chapter until some of you pointed out this is a Nalu, and I realized Natsu has been out since chapter 3 and Lucy since early chapter 5. I then realized the Jerza chapter I was going to type didn't have anything in it that required it to be done as early as I originally planned. Instead I will hold off on it, and make it into a half chapter later on (for me a half chapter looks to be around 3000 words). So instead this chapter will show Lucy's reaction to the chain of events that will shape her next three years.
Lucy Ashley from Fairy Tail. Sorry I pissed you off. I'm just trying to develop Gray, and Erza's characters. This chapter will have Lucy's reaction. A time skip is coming. Just be patient with me.
Princess Happy. You'll find out what Erza did to Gray later on. gihehehe ^.^
Babblkyn1. Thank you for being the only person to give me some name ideas.
HoPe290. This Chapter will show Lucy's reaction. And I agree not cool of me to hold off on it, but the last chapter had key points to future chapters so it had to be done.
SoulMaka. I think everyone who has read my story wishes I didn't kill the baby. myself included, damn you Rellek.
Vampire-Fetish15. Just wait for the fight to happen. Why do you think I named my story Dragon's Tear?
Warning Rellek gave me some ideas for this chapter, more so the first half of it. Enjoy.
Additional Warning you might want to have some type of tissues next to you while reading.
You have been warned.
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Chapter 7.
The Nightmare?
In the middle of a lush green forest that felt familiar a young blonde mage found herself walking alone. "Where I'm I?" she asked as she continued to walk aimlessly through the forest. After walking for several minutes the girl found a small clearing with a narrow river running through the middle of it. At the site of the river she ran towards it to refresh herself. After drinking herself full she took a look at her surroundings. "Why does this place fell so familiar?" The girl stood up quickly, a little too quickly as she lost her balance and fell into the narrow river.
As quickly as she fell into the body of water she just as quickly stood up in the shallow waters coughing. Though only submerged for a split second water shot into her mouth and nostrils falling onto all fours a she gasped for air. After getting her breathing back to normal she looked up to see a pole sticking up from the river. "This is where I fought Angel." Remembering the white-haired Celestial Mage. "How did I end up in the Warth Woodland?" She began to ponder.
"Roar of the Sky Dragon!" Shouted a female voice sounding close by.
"Wendy?" The blonde mage began to run in the direction of the shout. In less than twenty seconds she found who she was looking for. "Wendy what are we doing her?"
"Lucy thank goodness you are here." Said The now teenage Wendy(19 years old. She pretty much looks like Edo Wendy now.). "I thought those strangers in the black cloaks lied to us." Wendy didn't even look at Lucy.
"What do you mean strangers in black cloaks?" She asked approaching her blue-haired friend.
"Don't get any closer to me Lucy!"
Lucy stopped immediately. Before she could ask anymore questions she saw that there were seven different colored magic circles surrounded Wendy. "Magical barriers. Shoka." Lucy looked in the direction Wendy was to see the short figure standing on the outside of the barriers. "Wendy what's going on here."
"Lucy you need to…" Wendy was silenced by a new barrier, but unlike the others on the ground this one covered her lips preventing the youngest dragon slayer from speaking. The other seven barriers quickly disappeared allowing Lucy to get close to Wendy as she violently tried to remove the newest barrier.
"Wendy what's wrong?" She asked grabbing a hold of the younger girl. After gaining a grip on Wendy Lucy soon felt all of the girl's weight falling against her.
Wendy finally turned her head towards Lucy with on hand still trying to remove the circle over her mouth, while the other one moved franticly from her neck and her chest. Her face was starting to turn blue as tears were starting to fall down both sides of her face.
"Wendy!" Realizing the circle was suffocating the girl in her arms did everything in her power to help her as she thrashed around in her arms falling to the ground. "Wendy you have to fight this." Lucy said as she moved one hand over the circle attempting to over power the barrier with her own magic, but alas it was to no avail. "Wendy please hold on." She begged as she felt tears begin to fall down her face as well.
The younger girl looked at the woman trying to save her with eyes filled with sorrow. Her face was getting paler by the second. She was losing all of her strength fast. Unable to say a word she weakly raised her right hand as high as she could.
Lucy quickly grabbed a hold of Wendy's hand with her free hand. Sadly knowing she couldn't remove the barrier herself she hugged Wendy to her chest. "Please don't die on me. Please Wendy don't die." She said with a shaking voice. In only a moment she felt Wendy's grip on her hand disappear as it slipped through her fingers. Lucy tightened her hug on Wendy's lifeless body with both of her arms. "WENDY!" she shouted as more tears fell down her face.
Lucy continued to hold onto her friend's body as she continued to cry. "Why? Why did you have to die?" Her shouts nearly incoherent.
"Lucy is that you? Asked a rough tired male voice.
Barely hearing the question just asked Lucy looked away from Wendy as she saw a tall man with long black spiked hair using a tree to keep his balance. His skin was covered with cracked metallic scales. "Gajeel?" She saw that the metallic dragon slayer was banged up with cut and bruises all over his exposed upper-body where the metal no longer covered him up. She was about to tell him about Wendy until she saw a giant shadowy figure appear behind him. "Gajeel look out behind you."
Before the Iron Dragon Slayer could turn around the shadowy figure grabbed a hold of the back of his head lifting the man nearly three feet off of the ground. Gajeel franticly tried to break the hold thrashing his limbs around fighting for his life. "Lucy get out of here." He screamed with a weary voice.
"I cant leave you like this." She protested getting back to her feet.
"You have to."
"Time for you to die Dragon Slayer." Said the giant figure in a gravely voice.
"Tell Levy I Lo…" Before Gajeel could finish a sickening cracking noise filled the air. Gajeel's body went limp right before his killer dropped him to the ground.
Without realizing it Lucy found that her legs had started to move on there own as the images of her two Nakama's lifeless bodies laying on the ground became smaller as the distance between them and herself became greater. Once their images disappeared behind the trees she turned her tear covered face in front of her so she could see what was in front of her. 'Why? Why is this happening?' She thought continuing her run until she saw a new image that added more tears to her already soaked face. "Oh my God, No."
Before her hung a crucified Erza. Half of her long scarlet hair covered her face looking down at the ground with lifeless eyes. The Requip mage hadn't a single piece of metal on her sans for four swords pierced through her wrists and ankles that held her to the tree. Her once beautiful white blouse was now matched her scarlet red hair from the blood coming out of a large cut from one side of her neck to the other.
Already knowing her friend had already passed on the next world Lucy reached up towards Erza's bloody neck failing in her attempts to find a pulse. "I'm so sorry I couldn't save any of you." Her words choked out through sobs. Lucy moved her hand from Erza's neck to her eyes as she closed them for the last time for her. Doing this sapped Lucy of the last of her strength as the weight of the images of her three fallen Nakama dropped her down on all fours. Tears free falling down to the ground. "Please stop this. Stop hurting my Nakama."
"Don't worry only two more remain. It will soon all be over. He he he." Echoed a female voice.
"Please no more. I can't handle the image of any more of my friends dying." She begged.
"Can't handle the images huh? Perhaps I should just let you hear the one named Gray's final moments. He he he."
"No you can't kill him he has a child on the way." Lucy lifted herself off the ground.
"Do you have any last word before you die Mr. Fullbuster?" A calm voice asked sounding like it was coming from all directions.
"Go to hell you self-righteous Bastard." Replied Gray's heavily breathing voice echoed from all directions as well.
"O Holy Host Above, I call upon thee as a servant of Jesus Christ, to sanctify our actions this day, in preparation for the fulfillment of the Will of God."
Lucy's eyes widened. "No." She recognized those words. Those were the last words a priest had spoken to her mother right before she passed away when she was a little girl. It was the Last Rites Prayer.
"I call upon the great Archangel Raphael, Master of the Air, to open the way for this to be done. Let the Fire of the Holy Spirit now descend that this being might be awakened to the greater world beyond and the life of earth and be infused with the power of the Holy Spirit." There were brief pause every now and then between his words. Most likely from dodging Gray's attacks.
"Hold still!" Gray shouted, as his breathing sounded more labored.
"O Lord Jesus Christ, Most Merciful Lord of Earth, we ask that you receive this child into your arms that he might pass in safety from this crisis. As Thou has told us with Infinite compassion: Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And, whither I go ye know, and the Way ye know. So let it be done!"
"He's running out of time." Lucy said to herself as she began to run aimlessly through the forest trying to find Gray before it's too late. 'This prayer has six parts. Gray only has three left before it's over. Please let me get there before it's too late. The next step is asking for regrets.'
"Do you have any regrets child?"
"Don't go acting like I'm already dead. I won't go down until I draw my last breath." Breathed Gray as he smacked his hands together. "Ice-Make Floor, and Cold Excalibur.
Lucy felt the air around her become colder as she continued her search.
"By this sign thou art anointed with the Grace of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and thou art absolved of all past error and freed to take your place in the world that He has prepared for us."
'Only one part left until it's over.' Lucy thought as she burst into full speed praying to herself to get there in time to save Gray. The sounds of quick slashes filled the air.
"And thus do I commend thee into the arms of our Lord of Earth, our Lord Jesus Christ, preserver of all mercy and reality, and the Father, Creator. We give Him glory as we give you into His arms in everlasting peace, to be prepared to return into the denser reality of God the Father, Creator of all. Amen. Amen. Amen."
Silence filled the air. The silence stayed put for long agonizing moments. The temperature of the forest returned to normal. Lucy leaned her arms and face against the nearest tree. "I couldn't make it in time." Her words barely even audible to herself. She didn't know what was worse. Seeing the bodies of her Nakama void of any life, or only being able to hear them without for sure knowing they had passed on into the afterlife. Either way the felling was absolutely unbearable.
"So was that a little more bearable Blondie? He he he." Laughed the feminine voice.
"How could it be. The result are st-still the sa-same."
"Don't give up on us now Blondie there's still one more to go. He he he."
"Natsu." Lucy pulled herself away from the tree. She wanted to run in hopes of finding her love, but the muscles in her legs were burned out so she could only walk. "I can't lose you too. I just can't lose you." Lucy didn't even want to imagine what her life would be like without Natsu. In a few minutes Lucy saw smoke coming up in a short distance. "Natsu." The Stellar mage somehow found the strength to jog towards the smoke finding what she was looking for.
Natsu and Seyru were facing each other in the middle of a clearing. Natsu who had his back to Lucy had his entire upper body was exposed drenched in sweat taking in deep heavy breaths. Seyru's white long sleeve shirt had one scorched sleeve, while the other was missing; the only other damage on him was a single cut over his right eyebrow covering the eye with blood. Over a dozen trees surrounding the clearing were set ablaze with more quickly being set aflame as the wind helped the fire to spread. The ground was soaked with several chunks of earth missing from the ground.
"Looks like we have a spectator Pinky." Seyru said mockingly to Natsu.
Natsu only stood where he was trying to catch his breath.
"Natsu please stop fighting." She begged as she approached her love from behind. "I can't lose you like I did the others."
"Get Away From Him." Seyru ordered Lucy
She placed one hand over his shoulder. "Natsu let's…" Lucy stopped talking when she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen. She looked down to see that Natsu had dug all of the fingers in his right hand into her abdomen. "W-W-Why?" She felt herself going into shock seeing blood pouring out of her wounds. She looked up to see Natsu's eyes staring into her, and it frightened her.
His eyes were pure crimson red, not his wide adorable oxy-black eyes. The black eyes that looked so gentle no matter what the rest of his body language was saying. No these red eyes had the look of pure hatred in them. Not one ounce of mercy could be found in his usually caring eyes.
"Are those the eyes of a dragon?" Lucy asked. She felt herself slipping in and out of consciousness. 'I'm I dying? Did Natsu just kill me?' "No!" She heard Seyru's voice. Lucy felt something warm, no something hot cover her tear soaked face. She looked down at Natsu's chest to see that Seyru had driven his hand through it.
"Those are the eyes of the Destroyer." Seyru pulled his hand out of Natsu's chest.
The world felt like it slowed down as Natsu fell into Lucy's arms. Having no strength left in her Lucy was forged onto her back with Natsu on top of her.
Seyru walked over to the fallen mages as he looked down into Lucy's eyes. "I'm so sorry Lucy. I should have killed him sooner." For some strange reason he looked sorrowful at the blonde.
Lucy felt her vision began to darken. She knew she should feel absolutely crushed right now, after all who wouldn't be filled with sorrow after watching four of your closest friends and the love of your life die right in your arms. Instead she felt empty. Was this her minds way of protecting herself from a tsunami of sorrow, and giving her peace in her final moments. There was only one thought running through her head that truly eased her passing. Soon she would be reunited with her Nakama and parents.
Lucy quickly sat up tossing the blankets that were covering her to the other side of the bed. She was wearing a long-sleeved purple shirt that was several sizes to big for her as it came down her legs halfway to her knees. Panting heavily in cold sweat. "Was it all just a dream?" She asked pinching herself to check. "No it was all just a nightmare." She tried to reassure herself.
She then used her sensory magic to see how her baby was doing only to find it missing. "That's right." She remembered everything that happened before she passed out, while hugging her abdomen. "My baby is gone." She sobbed as tears formed in her eyes. Memories of that blocked kick invaded her mind. "I sacrificed it to save Natsu." Then the memories of her nightmare swept over her. "Or was it Natsu actions that lead to its death?" Both images continuously flashed in her mind.
The Blonde grabbed a hold of her head with one hand as the trail of thoughts was giving her a headache. "Was it all my fault?" She asked herself. Both images had one thing connecting them. She had gotten in the middle of the two wizards knowing both of them were capable of tearing her to ribbons. "I'm I the reason my baby died?" She quickly slapped herself. "How could I think that? No true mother would do anything to hurt their own child."
Still no matter how she looked at it the fact remained the same. The baby was gone regardless of who was truly responsible for its end. Lucy buried her face into her knees as she hugged her abdomen again with both hands as she began to bale tears.
After what felt like hours of crying Lucy heard the door to the room she was in open up. She saw a man with long black hair holding something in his arms; it was the man who caused her to shed all those tears. Her instincts told her to keep as much distance between them as possible, but instincts she acquired through years of home invasions took over. "Intruder!" She shouted as she launched a spinning back kick.
"What?" he said unprepared to block the kick aimed at his face. The force of the kick forged him to drop the tray of food he was carrying, while knocking him against the wall. "This is my house." He said as he slid down the wall.
Realizing what she just did, and to whom Lucy realized she most likely just started a fight. A fight she felt she had no chance of winning in her current state of mind. Before leaving the room she tried to find her celestial keys, but couldn't find them. Seeing that the door was wide open she bolted out the door into what looked like a kitchen/living room. Not paying attention to the details of the new room she quickly looked for the door that would let her outside of Seyru's home. After a couple of seconds she found the door, and quickly turned the handle leaving the house with no way of contacting her spirits.
"Hold up, you're in no condition to go outside yet." Seyru shouted.
Not listening to the man Lucy ran out the door. Outside of the house Lucy saw that tropical trees surrounded the small house. The ground was covered in ankle high grass that was tickling her bare feet. Looking to her left she saw a beach that was being hit by the flow and ebb of the tide. To her right she saw a forest of tropical trees.
Despite only running a short distance Lucy already starting to feel exhausted. 'How long have I been asleep for?' Never being too physically strong herself compared to her guild mates she had always had good cardio.
"Hold up Lucy. You've been asleep for a week. Your body in nowhere near ready to go out side yet." Seyru said exiting the entrance of the small house.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" She yelled as she burst into a run at full speed into the tropical forest.
"COME BACK HERE!"
Unlike the nightmare she had just woken up from after running for only two minute the stellar mage felt herself slowing down as she dodged trees that were getting in her way. 'This is weak. I know I can run a lot longer than this before slowing down.' She started to feel dehydrated.
"Lucy where are you?" Seyru's voice sounded close.
Lucy urged he legs to go faster, but they refused to go any fast than a jogging speed now. Feeling like she was going up hill the entire time Lucy felt a sharp pain in her side making itself known forcing the blonde into a walk as she held her side. Her breathing became more labored as the air around her felt muggy making her sweat even harder.
"There you are."
Lucy looked behind to see Seyru had caught up to her not even looking the slightest bit winded. She turned her head back to see that a clearing was coming up soon. Adrenaline kicking in the stellar mage found the strength to jog again as she headed towards the clearing.
It was no real clearing. It was just the edge of the forest. With fifteen feet separating the forest from the edge of a cliff. "Great I'm trapped." She said looking down the cliff seeing it had to be at least two hundred feet to the jagged rocks at the bottom that were being pounded by the high waves of the ocean.
"There's no point in running." The man pursuing her said exiting the forest. "If you haven't realized it yet you're on an island." Calmly approaching the young woman.
"Stay back." Lucy was standing on the edge of the cliff.
"Okay, Okay I won't come any closer just calm down." Seyru raised both of his hands up. "Let's just talk."
"Talk about what?"
"Your future."
"My future. You ruined my future. If it weren't for you I'd be starting a family right now."
Seyru looked away with a guilty look on his face. "Ruined it or saved it?"
"Ruined it." Lucy answered angrily.
"Do you remember what I told you before Leo first struck me?"
Flashback
Lucy using the last of her strength spat at his face.
"Defiant even to the end. I like that." He gave an evil smile.
"You can never crush a fairy tail wizards spirit." Her words no loader than a whisper.
"So much magic, and determination at this young of an age." Not bothering to wipe the spit off of his face as he moved his mouth just over her ear. "I apologize for that initial kick that killed your child. But I wonder. Did I save you from mediocrity?"
Lucy felt a strong urge to cry despite her body unable to produce anymore tears.
"If you had had that child you would have hit the an early ceiling for your potential. But now that it's gone perhaps now you might be able to reach your true potential."
End flashback.
"Yeah I do. You talked about my potential with my child gone."
"You could one day be on the level of the ten saint wizards. Maybe even higher."
"I don't care about power. I just want to be with my Nakama."
"You mean your Nakama that have been holding you back." He shot a serious glance at Lucy.
"Holding me back. They've never…"
"Please they wouldn't even let you try to fight me." Lucy tried to protest, but Seyru cut her off. "Now tell me is that because you were pregnant, or would they have done it any ways.
Lucy could see it in his eyes he already knew the answer without her having to say a word. "They wouldn't have let me either way."
"Then perhaps it's your Nakama's fault your child is dead."
"No that's not even…"
"Think about it. They probably hardly ever let you fight no matter how banged up they are. The only time you get pushed in when you a separated from everyone else."
Lucy thought of all her major battles especially her most recent against Seyru. 'He's right the only time I ever get to go all out is when I'm separated from everyone else. Even then half the time they still somehow run in and give me a hand in finishing of the fight.'
"The look on your face is telling me I'm right." Seyru smirked. "It they had allowed you to get pushed then maybe they would view you as someone who could fight along side them, instead of someone to watch them as they do the real work. Maybe then you might have fought me alongside your teammates, and maybe even beat me."
His words were starting to give Lucy a headache. All of his point she found was hitting the nail right on the head. Yet she didn't want to listen to him because of all the pain he caused her. Her emotions were being strained. "Have my friends really been holding me back? Could I have saved them if they weren't constantly saving me? Are they to blame for my lose."
"Kind of funny and sad at the same time really. In your case being saved by those you love caused you more pain than what they saved you from."
'That's right they always save me.' Lucy looked behind herself looking down at the water below her. "Natsu please catch me." Lucy yelled as she leaned back so far that it forged herself to fall down the cliff.
In Magnolia Hospital.
Natsu finally woke up after being unconscious for a week. His right hand shoot straight up into the air as if he was trying to catch someone. "Don't worry Lucy I'll save you." He said sitting up off his bed, only to fall back into the world of dreams.
"SHIT!" Seyru ran to the edge of the cliff. "Earth-Magic Gathering Armor." He cast right before jumping after Lucy. With the additional weight he quickly caught up to Lucy in her free fall. Once he caught up to her he pulled her in close to his body, and turned her so his back was to the jagged rocks below. "Earth-Magic Craft." The armor he had made shot out from underneath him making an earthen plank that dug into the side of the cliff. Once the earth dug into the cliff it extended itself out to catch the caster as he hit the earth plank stopping the fall thirty feet before the two would have hit the water and rocks below. The sudden stop combined with Lucy falling on top of him drove the wind right out of his lungs.
Lucy felt that she had stopped, and that someone had caught her. Filled with joy she opened her eyes as she hugged the person who saved her. "Thank you Natsu I knew you would…" She then realized the person who saved didn't have Salmon pink hair or oxy black eyes. No he had midnight black hair with azure blue eyes. "You're not Natsu." She quickly got off of Seyru and crawled as far back as the earthen platform would allow her.
"Who else would it have been." He was breathing heavily. "We're the only two people on the island right now." He turned himself over so his stomach was to the platform.
"Why did you save me?"
"Remember I told you I needed to talk to you about your future." He said as he stood back up. "More specifically your next three years."
"My next three years?"
"Yes. I had Samuel the man with silver hair give your guild a message."
"What was the message?"
"That I wanted a rematch with them in three years, and to make sure they would accept I had my team take you as a hostage."
Lucy remembered the nightmare she had just woken up from. 'Could that nightmare have been a premonition instead. Does I mean we are all going to die in three years?' "Why would you want a rematch? Didn't you beat most of us already?"
"Yes I did, but I haven't felt so alive in a long time when I fought you, Pinky, Scarlet, and Stripes."
"So you took me prisoner so you could fight them again in three years. To feel alive again. They would have accepted that without you taking me hostage."
"True, but they wouldn't have had the same type of motivation."
"They're the most motivated guild on Earthland."
Seyru looked up at the sky. "You fight better when you fight for those you love."
"Do you expect me to just standby as you fight my Nakama." Again remembering the images of her Nakama's lifeless bodies.
"That is completely up to you." He turned his gaze back towards Lucy. "And the choice you make right now. I was originally going to say you had two options, but after what you just pulled I'd say you have a third options." The earth platform began to rise up higher above the water stopping just twenty feet from the top of the cliff. "Option one. You can continue your jump into the ocean, but know that this time I won't save you this time."
Lucy looked down too see they were over one hundred feet above the ocean and jagged rocks. If she jumped this time it would be the end of her.
"Option two." He made a long chain appear next to himself as he crouched down to pick it up with his left hand. "You can be my prisoner by the traditional means for the next three years."
As strongly as she felt against someone giving up on his or her own life, being a chained up prisoner for three years didn't sound much more appealing. "What's my third option?"
Seyru extended his empty right hand out towards Lucy. "I can train you for the next three years so you can try to obtain your revenge."
Lucy looked at him curiously. "Why would you train someone you plan to fight with in three years, and what's stopping me from getting my revenge on you in your sleep?"
Seyru simply smiled at the last question. "Absolutely nothing would stop you from killing me in my sleep. However this island were on is uncharted, and only a handful of people in the world know about it. And believe me if they find this island without me on it they'll kill anyone left on this island. On top of that this island is constantly being hit by the waves below you right now. Any attempt to escape it would be futile."
"So there's no way off this island." 'And killing him would essentially be suicide.' Lucy didn't know how much more depression she could handle. "But still why offer to train me?"
"Consider it my way of paying you back for taking the life of your child. Regardless who is at fault it truly is it was still the end of my foot that ended its life."
"You think you can be forgiven so easily for what you have done?
"No I don't, nor do I ever expect it. Now what's your answer."
Not liking her first two options Lucy slowly extended her right hand and placed it in Seyru's open right hand. "I'll wait three years to get may revenge." She said as she pulled herself back onto her feet.
"Good choice Lucy. Your training will begin in one week. Until then I suggest you use that time to prepare yourself, heal yourself, and mourn for your lose because if you bring any weakness into training it could cost you your life."
Lucy nodded her had before looking away from the man she just made a deal with. 'Natsu please don't stop loving me, and this time I'll be the one to save you, all of you.' Lucy had just given herself a new goal. She would become strong enough so in three years she could stop her nightmare from becoming reality.
End chapter 7.
For anybody who needs a hug after this chapter know I would give you one if I could and pat you on the back telling you everything is okay.
I apologize for any and all grammar and spelling mistakes that I missed. Next Chapter Natsu will be waking up, and his reaction towards this great tragedy.
Hope you all enjoyed this chapter.
WildCard555 Out.