DISCLAIMER

So cold, so cold, so cold.

Lucy knelt in the snow, but it wasn't the snow that was making her feel cold. She was numb to that, and the cold was coming from the hole in her heart. Someone had forgotten to close the window and now the cold was slowly making its way right through her body.

It's so cold.

The warmest presence in her life,

the thing that meant the most to her,

the person who was more of a home to her than her apartment ever could be was gone.

He was gone.

Lucy had shut his eyes, and now Natsu lay there, his lips blue and his salmon coloured hair dusted with white as he lay there in the snow. The rest of her guild mates stood behind her, and Lucy could faintly hear a chorus of sobbing. As far as she could tell, Happy was crying the loudest out of all of them. She was crying too, of course, but her throat was too sore and was incapable of making any noise.

They had just finished battling a foe so powerful and awful that Lucy couldn't even say his name without becoming frozen and stiff with fear. But that didn't matter now, because he'd taken Natsu, and he was gone now.

He had taken Natsu from her, and now piece by piece, she was shattering.

Like cracking ice, she was falling apart, and the cold she felt was hurting.

My dear, dear Lucy. You see now, don't you?

The world becomes cold when the sun goes out.

A/N: Teehee, sorry?