Two updates in one day?! *Gasp* Anyway, so sorry about not doing other stories. I've already got a lot to do and I would prefer to focus on one story at a time.
~Back at Fairy Tail~
Almost one year had passed since _ had died, life seemed to have gone back to normal. With _'s death, the guild wasn't quite as lively. Natsu stopped challenging Gray and often sat at the bar by Mirajane or wouldn't even show up. Lisanna had chosen this time to try to flirt with Natsu, but he had already found his mate and wouldn't even look at anyone else. But, he felt like such a failure, the male dragon is supposed to always protect his mate. Igneel would not be happy with him, he gave dragons a bad name. Natsu got off the stool at the bar, having brought himself down to an all time low, he wallowed out to the graveyard and sat next to _'s grave. People thought he had lost his mind because he would talk to the headstone and act like it was _ while also wrapping his scarf around it. Natsu felt his eyelids become extremely heavy. Eventually he gave in and fell asleep, Happy flew over to him and covered him with a blanket from _'s house which hadn't been sold yet so she still technically owned it.
~Natsu's Dream~
Natsu looked around and noticed that the world had gone up in flames. Ash and dust replaced what was once clean air, he could hardly breathe. Slabs of concrete began to hail down from the sky, they all avoided Natsu for some reason. He was very confused as to why they were falling until,
"AAAAHHH! NATSU!" _ screamed, she sounded like she was in the worst pain of her life.
Natsu ran over to the origin of the scream, "_! WHERE ARE Y-"
He saw _'s legs sticking out from underneath some of the concrete. He tried desperately to push the concrete off of her but no matter what it wouldn't move. No amount of fire or force would move it. His eyes widened when he heard a dragon's roar, he didn't want to leave _'s body behind but he didn't need to. The dragon came to him,
"IGNEEL!" Natsu yelled in delight of seeing his dad.
Igneel did not seem pleased when he saw Natsu, in fact, he blew fire at Natsu. When the fire hit Natsu, words began to swirl around in his head with an eerie tone,
"You failed. Failure. You couldn't save her. She's dead because of you." The voice taunted.
He fell to his knees, reflecting over those words. It was his fault, had he not let her go in alone she would still be alive. Depression filled his heart and he fell from his knees into a face down position onto the dirt. He laied there for what felt like forever and when he finally did look up, he saw _. Only, she wasn't the same. She wore a black cloak with the hood up and held a scythe just like the actual figure of death. She kneeled down to him and smiled in a demonic manner,
"You killed me, so it's only fair I get to take your life. Don't you agree?"
"Yes…"
Natsu sat up, following _ to a grassland and along the way he would look at the sky and see flashbacks of their time together.
(FLASH BACK 1)
A sudden weight hits her and forces her to fall back. "Sorry!" The boy with pink hair held out his hand to her. "Get your hand out of my face" _ said to him with a monotone voice. He smiled in his goofy way and grabbed her hand, pulling her up, "I can't leave a lady on the ground like that!". _ looked at him from his pink spiky hair to his sandals. "You don't seem to be the gentleman type," _ snapped at him. He let go of her hand and got into _'s personal zone, sniffing her neck and her (H/L) (H/C) hair. She growled and brought her foot up, kicking his chest and literally knocking the wind out of him as he flew back 10 feet. He coughed and stood up, "HEY! YOU'RE A-"
(END OF FLASHBACK 1)
(FLASH BACK 2)
"Thank you for the warm up." _ said with a devious smile. Mirajane hesitantly walked up to _ and said quietly, "W-where would you...l-like your guild mark?"
_ pointed to the left side of her upper chest, lowering the neck of her shirt as Mirajane stamped a fairy tail symbol that was black with white design (Whatever design you want). Natsu watched her, blushing when she lowered her shirt. In fact, all the guys in the guild watched. She noticed them and shot them a 'I will not hesitate to kill you' look.
(END OF FLASHBACK 2)
The last flashback was probably his favorite.
(FLASH BACK 3)
Natsu growled at her stupidity and looked around to make sure no one was spying on them. He lowered the collar of her shirt while he held her against a wall to stop her from struggling. He bit down on her neck, so hard that she began to bleed. _ yelped in pain and her hands turned into fists.
"N-Natsu! O-Ow!"
He mumbled while biting, "Stop moving."
_ stopped moving and Natsu let go of her neck, she clamped her hand over it. "W-WHAT THE HELL?!"
He put his forehead against her's, "Shhh, someone might hear us."
_ whisper-yelled, "What the hell Natsu?!"
(END OF FLASHBACK 3)
~End of Dream/Next Day~
Hearing someone call out his name, he jolted up into a sitting position to see the owner of the voice. It was simply Happy, the blue exceed flew over to Natsu and landed on his head,
"Let's go back to the guild!" Happy said in his happiest voice he could make in order to try to cheer Natsu up.
"Okay." Natsu replied with no enthusiasm.
Natsu and Happy walked back to the guild, Natsu had reluctantly removed his scarf from the headstone and put the blanket back in her house. He walked back through the doors of the guild to see a cake with her black and white Fairy Tail mark. This cake was supposed to cheer him up on the one-year anniversary of _'s death. However, all it did was make him even more depressed than all the previous days combined. Gray walked up to him and hit his back,
"Stop sulking around, Flame Breath! If you want a girlfriend, we can find another girl for y-" Gray was cut off by Natsu punching him in the jaw. Natsu returned to _'s grave and placed a single (favorite flower) on the space in front of the headstone. Once he had done that, he turned around, his eyes adjusting to the darkness of the night. He looked up into the sky to notice a new set of stars that appeared in front of his eyes, they aligned into the outline of a scythe. Natsu continued to look at these stars that were brighter than any others and a gust of wind picked up around him.
Natsu: MY ONE MATE IS DEAD!
Me: I'm sorry, sweet heart.
Gray: I'm a jerk at the end.
Me: Yes, yes you are. Anyway, I'll update yet again pretty soon because let's be honest...everyone hates cliffhangers.
