***And part two is up. I do not own Fairy Tail, nor its characters or its storyline.
I need to make my summaries desirable or something. Or is fanfiction losing it's fame? Is it an international thing, this, with a decreased amount of writers as well as readers? My friend told me the other day that all her favorite writers have gone into hiatus, as in they have all but stopped updating their stories. Is there a new site I do not know about?***
There were bad days and good day while I was alone, and that time, before my fairytale came to be, was a dark time, but also a necessary time, forming the one I was today. I remembered crying a lot back then. But always alone. Never in front of people. For I hated letting people see my tears. My father rarely saw me crying because of it. He KNEW that I cried, but he did not see my tears often.
I think.. I think Fairy Tail was the first to actually STOP my tears. They were the ones to teach me how to turn my tears into willpower.
But with them gone... my willpower left. When the ground betrayed me, I felt betrayed by the world itself. I felt betrayed, and mocked, since fate also decided to give me a single witness, that witness being the person that I had fought beside over and over and over again.
Of course, having fought beside him so many times... I should've known. He was an idiot. He was an idiot that beyond anything else acted on pure impulse without really thinking things through.
So the ground was slippery. I was about to head towards him, when I just.. slipped, and fell backwards. In the middle of a sentence. And even though it all happened really fast, I still noticed a lot of tiny little bits, not entering my brain quite chronologically, though it all fell into place upon being noticed.
I felt the ground give in, and I felt my gaze going from cave to the sky, the dark sky where all I could see was snow. Snow everywhere.
Then I remembered his look when I lost my footing, and I remembered the sound of his running feet, then I was back to the dark sky with the falling razor sharp snow.
Then I remembered his face as he neared me. I remembered the wind as the world was both over and beneath me. And then, after all that, my body seemed to notice the applied pressure around me, something it first now chose to wonder about and then resolved as all the clips and images fell into place in their proper places in space and time.
"Natsu what aRE YOU DOING?!" i yelled as I felt his arms around me, the two of us falling freely down into what might as well be the pits of hell. The fact that he took the leap with me did NOT make anything better. And of course, he didn't answer. Perhaps didn't he hear me through the wind and the snow and the flowing adrenaline.
And how weird was it then, that in between falling and remembering falling, and being scared and shocked and annoyed and.. and... I felt warm. And safe. Even though we were falling to our deaths.
"Hold on." he said then. He said it into my ear, and I... I closed my eyes, and let the idiot that had jumped with me take over.
Not another word was said as we made it back to the village beneath Mt. Hakobe. I was over talking. The stranger that just happened to be in the same guild as me had saved me.. again. And I was leaving the mountain severely chilled, and the wait for the train once more made us enter the inn that by now had all the food I had ordered earlier ready for us. For the idiot hadn't eaten. Idiot. And again, I was sitting next to him, clad in a blanket and with hot coco in my hands.
"Your lips are blue," the waitress commented.
"Coco will help me warm up. And Natsu, stop being gloomy." I replied, took a sip from my cup, grimaced when I burned my tongue.
"I'm not gloomy!" he retorted, and I raised a brow at him.
"You are. You're staring into space. Why am I not being splattered by excess food? Why aren't you eating?" I asked back.
"Who were with you on that picture?" he asked, waved a hand at the picture wall.
"My partner was." I replied, blew on my coco in hopes of cooling it some. Not that it would help me much. My tongue was already burnt.
"Where is he now?" he asked further, and I got a tad suspicious. How did he know it was a he? And why did he sound.. almost jealous? Or perhaps was it the gloominess. Probably was.
"We haven't really talked in a while. I messed up." I replied, took another sip of my warm drink. It was better now. Less scorching. And everything felt better because once more everything was seemingly normal. We were sitting here, like we so often used to sit somewhere after a mission, with a lot of food on the table in front of us. And of course, the mission had included a close call, but not really a close call. We both survived. When the boy was just looking at me, I bowed forward, took a piece of bread, chewed it thoughtfully, swallowed.
"Now EAT, idiot," I muttered as I settled back into my seat, moving my legs towards me, secure under blankie. He stared some more in silence, before a grin spread across his face.
"You smell funny," he said, and I saw a glimpse of confusion in his eyes as he said that. Confusion, since he, perhaps, I didn't dare get my hopes up, but he MIGHT be remembering SOMETHING. ANYTHING. And I smiled. I smiled one of my old smiles, because that meant that going up in the mountains might've not been such a waste after all.
"Okay, people, let's commemorate this with a memorable picture this time!" an old man with thick greying hair said. The same artist, and I looked up at him, just as I felt the warm arm of the Salamander snaked its way over my shoulder and brought me closer to him.
"EAT." I ordered again, and he sent me a strange look before he started eating, without letting me go.
FLASHBACK
You will be no one. Nameless. Worthless. They will not recall your deeds. HE will not even remember your name. I cannot take your memories anymore, little princess, but I can take the rest of your fairytale away.
FLASHBACK END
"Come on. We're back in Magnolia and on SOLID ground. Get up," I attempted to order the bloated corpse-ish entity on the ground, on the train station.
"You're just faking this aren't you because you've had some secret breakdown no one knows about," I muttered to myself as I hoisted the blobby being on my back again and headed for the guild. He groaned as a sort of reply and I snorted.
I helped him along for a few paces, contemplating on what to do next when I decided that today was enough for a while. I wanted to go home, curl into a ball, and maybe read a book in utter silence. Maybe eat a sandwich. I needed to go to the shopping mall first, of course, but it beat going back to the guild, where people would be partying and laughing and drinking, without knowing more than the fact that I was a newbie, a newbie that joined the guild a week ago.
So I dropped the guy, lucid just around now, and he stood there looking at me in that same odd way.
"I'm going home now. Cheer up, Natsu. Beat Gray to a pulp or something. Go on a mission with Team Natsu." I said, punched him lightly on the shoulder, then started walking towards my home. I had places to be. I had things to fix up. Didn't mean I shouldn't try to cheer up my friends when they obviously needed it.
"Team Natsu doesn't exist!" he yelled after me, and I lifted a hand in goodbye.
"Does too!" I yelled back as I continued walking. Stupid idiot and his stupid ways.
"Lucy?"
"KYAAA!" I shrieked and jumped to the side since Natsu suddenly was there beside me again.
"What?" I asked him, stopped walking and held a hand on my chest as I attempted to calm my racing heart. He almost gave me a heart attack!
"Ah.. nothing. Are you coming to the guild later tonight?" he asked.
"Probably not." I replied. Then I stopped dead as something occurred to me.
"Why not? Come!" he coached, and I looked at him. He didn't seem to notice the change in mood. How long had I been admitted? I HAD been out of the hospital for nearly two weeks now.
"Oh. Okay... I'll think about it. I just need to freshen up some." I said then. Turned and started walking again.
"Lucy?" he asked, and I held back another scream, kept walking this time.
"Hm?"
"Can I..." he stopped talking, looking uncomfortable. I felt uncomfortable. So I sighed, gave in.
"Fine. I'll come with you." I grumbled and turned around, started heading for the guild again. I noticed him walking beside me, his hands behind his head.
"I'm hungry." he stated, and I sighed. Of course he was. Even after all the food he had eaten, he was hungry.
"Natsu!" Happy the cat yelled as we entered the guild, and I continued on after the Salamander was distracted by his feline partner, towards the mission board.
What to pick. I needed something that was quick and that covered at least the 70.000 jewels it would cost to pay off the rent this time around.
"Lucy saved me. YOU left me to DIE!" I heard in the background as Natsu and Happy was having another one of their fights. Ignore it. They'll figure it out. This is Happy and Natsu. They'll figure it out, or better yet, Lisanna will work it out. In the meantime I needed to find a job.
"Miss Lucy?" a voice called, and I grabbed a flyer, turned around.
"Ah. I payed my bills. I'm pretty sure I payed THOSE bills, right?" I asked the boy, a boy with a long ponytail keeping his black hair at bay, and wearing white hospital clothing. He just glared at me, making me shrink back.
"We found your charts today, you know. Do you know what they said?" he asked, and I grimaced.
"Ah... you found the charts." I said. I thought I'd hidden those. Hidden them well. Should've burned them. In retrospect, I definitely should've burned them.
"You were supposed to be admitted for over a month." he started.
"But I'm alright. See?"
"You were suffering from.."
"I AM ALRIGHT." I yelled in order to stop him from continuing
"Is there a problem, Kirk? It's been a while since you last came in talking about letting out Fairy Tail members too early." Master Makarov commented from his place on the bar counter. I'd never seen Kirk to be honest, but he might be one of those that just came and went every so often. There were quite a few of those. Since I used to be surrounded by friends I didn't always notice those people. I did now, however, especially since this particular person was referring to me, in front of me, and very loudly.
"Lucy no last name escaped..."
"Walked out.."
"ESCAPED from our hospital without a word..."
"I left a NOTE, and money to pay my stay off."
"She left the hospital without telling anyone, and after being admitted with most of her bones and organs broken, damaged or ruptured! What is WRONG with you people!" he almost screeched. Yeah, I should've burned those charts.
"I heal fast!" I tried defending myself. Wendy had been in too and helped me get better too, something that it would be.. awkward, mentioning.
"I GIVE UP! Come back when you realize that your broken body isn't going to keep functioning!" he exclaimed, tossed his hands in the air and left.
"Does he do that.. often?" I asked after he was out of the building. Master shrugged.
"Every now and then. We get our fair share of injuries in this guild. Usually it is about Natsu, Gray or Gajeel, though," he said, didn't seem all that worried. Then he set his eyes in me.
"What did you do, though?" he questioned, and I paused.
"There was a Festival in Hargeon last month, wasn't there?" I asked as I read through the flyer, my apparent new mission.
"Yes, Natsu had a mission there. The house with all the firework exploded and half a block was caught up in the explosion because of it." Master replied.
"Yeah, I bet Fairy Tail took the blame for that one too." I laughed as I made my way over to Master, handed him the flier.
"That day I was in an accident, and I was gone for a while. It was when I woke up again that I got to know that my guild was gone. Now I have rent to pay, so I need you to approve this, so I don't get kicked out of my apartment," I said, simplified the process.
*You will be no one. Nameless. Worthless*
Like hell I would be. I would just check up on all the places I had been, and if I found nothing there, I would keep looking. A Fairy Tail mage never gives up. Master Makarov Dreyar signed it off, said something about his children being resilient bastards and I was heading for the doors again. That was when I felt the drain. My magic was depleting fast, and I felt myself pale in the middle of the room.
"LOKE." I said firmly, and the moment after he was there.
"Darling, it really have been too long!" he said, but I sent him a killer glare.
"Is Draco attempting to summon himself again?" I asked, started breathing heavily as the drain was getting stronger. And Loke grimaced. He GRIMACED.
"Stop him. Stop him RIGHT NOW, or I'm going to..." I fell to my knees.
"Yeah.. about that. He's already here.. somewhere."
"WHAT?!" I yelled.
"He's been in this world for a few hours. Don't worry, Virgo is looking for him and we'll find him sooner or later.."
"That aside, WHO is summoning themselves then? Draco is usually the one to rage off with too much magic and then end up on the other side of town. SOMEONE is doing that now!" I said through clenched teeth.
"Hm. Aquarius is taking care of Phoenix, AND Hydra. Have to be Orion. Orion has been restless lately, and you know how she is when she's.."
That was when I lost consciousness.
***I have noticed thos the majority of all chapters in this story ends in cliffhangers. Oh well. Shit happens. And I REALLY need to make my summaries desirable.***
