Sorry, this chapter is really short.
I was having trouble thinking if I should make a bad ending for this story. I ended up throwing the thought out of the window.
This chapter will be another heavy reading part but the next chapter should be better.

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My head hurt. My chest hurt even more and the world felt heavy.

My eyes burned from crying that seemed to have lasted for the longest time yet it felt like I could cry for another eternity.

How could it be that one life ended like this? So peacefully, without pain, without any words of goodbye?

It was wrong because it was him we were talking about. It was Natsu. He wasn't supposed to go like that.

It hurt to watch his pale and unmoving face but I couldn't tear my eyes from him.

I put my both hands over his chest and pressed my fingers softly on the soft fabric of his shirt. I could feel his muscles and I trailed my hands down, just taking in how his body was built.

I needed it right now because in the back of my head I knew what moment was approaching. A light fabric would appear to cover his cold body and his face so I could never touch it again. I didn't want that.

If I couldn't have him back again, alive and well, then I would at least want to keep him with me forever.

I realized how mad I sounded. No one could keep a dead body with them. That's just how it was.

But what if I didn't want to let go?

My hands trailed lower until I found his ribs in his side. I gently trailed my fingers over those bones like they were the most fascinating thing in the world right now.

I sighed and something told me to look at his face again, to face the reality.

So I did.

For a moment I thought I saw his eyes open ever so slightly, but that hopeful thought was soon broken.

He was forever silent and unmoving and I would never see those eyes open again.

I straightened myself and ran a hand over my face.

This had to be a dream. A nightmare. This couldn't be happening. The young, powerful mage Natsu Dragneel- dead?

How would the world go on from now on? How would the guild act? Natsu was, unbeknownst to himself, currently acting as a figure of the Fairy Tail's spirit and all the guild stood for. What about now? Were the people just supposed to go on knowing that someone with power far above theirs- and not just magically- was forever gone?

I remembered the time when we had thought that Lisanna had died. Would the same happen now? A few people, including me, would change forever but we would just have to go on living? That felt wrong.

"Natsu.. You can't be gone...!" I told the boy but got no response.

My shaky hand reached towards his face and rested upon his forehead. Cold.

I felt the need to touch him even more and I trailed few of my fingertips over his temple, down towards his cheek before I found myself touching those blue-tinted lips. I ran my thumb over his lower lip softly.

A cold realization hit me again.

Those lips would never turn to smile again.

"Gray!" His voice echoed in my head as I remembered his bright smile.

I didn't want to hear it.

I thought I wasn't able to cry any longer but I was wrong. The painful tears rose to my eyes again and I gritted my teeth.

I put my hand on Natsu's forehead and rested my head on it.

There was nothing I could say anymore. I could only ask why or try to deny it but the truth was there before me.

Death.

I let out a pained gasp and tears rolled down my cheeks. I closed my eyes.

This was the last time. This was the very last time I would pray.

'But God, if you are there somewhere, please...I beg of you... bring him back...'

But like many times before, my prayer wasn't answered as I found as I opened my eyes.

I felt a tear drop from my eye on the face below mine and the drop splashed on his cheek before it gathered into a droplet again and trailed down his cheek.

I stopped crying.

I suddenly felt cold inside. I didn't feel as sad as before. Just... angry. Not at Natsu, no, not ever. At the world.

The world had stolen Natsu from me.

No one, no one, would ever understand that. Not anyone in the guild, not Master, not Erza or Lucy, not even Happy, who was Natsu's best friend. No one but me.

"Don't worry Natsu, I won't let you go." I told Natsu gently and brushed my tear away from his face. No tears belonged to that face any longer.

"I won't let go. I'm not going to watch you burn." I wasn't sure what I was thinking but I knew that there was no way this was the end.

No one could stop me.

I would get Natsu back, one way or another.

I felt a part of me ask: 'what are you willing to do for him?'

Everything.

Yes. Everything.

I realized that I sounded crazy.

Was I truly willing to do even the ultimate act so that Natsu could be with me again?

I wasn't sure but I was sure of one thing.

I hated this world that created something as sad as this.

Natsu was dead. He could never see the world again. The place he called home- the guild- along with its people had been stolen from him.

He could never go home again.

And a home without Natsu was no home of mine.

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