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CHAPTER 10
Only Cana with her partner Lucy, Gray with Loke, Elfman with Evergreen, Levy with Gajeel, and Natsu and I made it to the next phase.
Master stood in front of us. A pleased look in his calm face.
"The final part of the trial will be to find the First Master's grave." He said. "Now go."
"Wait that's it? No hints gramps?" Gray protested.
Master said nothing just smiled.
"Well let's go!" Natsu said grabbing my hand, charging ahead into the woods.
"Natsu slow down!" I protested as he practically dragged me along. The trees going by in a blur.
Natsu pulled me along for about an hour, my breat coming in gasps. Natsu stop dead in his tracks. My arms fell around his shoulders to keep me up right.
"Umm.. Eyrx I don't think this is a good time to cuddle." Natsu said, he didn't remove my arms though.
"Then why did you stop?" I asked, removing my arms.
"I thought I heard something." Natsu muttered. Turning to face me.
"What do you mean?" I asked, puzzled.
"So what Gildarts said was true? That you tried to kill him?" Natsu asked changing the subject drastically, I noticed the slight tension in his voice.
I stared off into the trees, for a long time trying to collect my thoughts, choosing my words carefully.
"I was young and stupid. It was... It was after I killed one of the Ten Wizard Saints. I felt like I could do anything. So I took the job to kill Gildarts Clive. I had no clue who he was, but the bounty said he was powerful so I confronted him. And I lost. I went back to the guild, Riviori was furious. He tortured me for days on end, it was the worst pain I had ever expierenced. That is also how I gained... Th-this scar. Riviori said it would mark my failure for all eternity." I said, my voice strained from sadness. "Natsu... If I had known back then that I would join Fairy Tail... I would have never took the job!" I proclaimed, a tear running down my face, I fell to my knees. The harsh memory flowing back.
Natsu sat down with me, his arms embracing me tight against his chest.
"It's okay Eyrx... It's going to be okay." Natsu said, comforting me. "You don't need to cry. I wouldn't leave you because of your past. I love you too much, guppy." He said with a small smile.
I lifted my head, locking gazes with him. His smile stopping my tears. I smiled back giving a small laugh. I gave him a long kiss, standing uu and offered my hand to help him up.
"Now let's go find that grave!" I said, a large smile on my face.
We continued on through the forest hand in hand. Until we heard familiar voices. Elfman and Evergreen. It sounded like they were in trouble.
"Let's go!" Natsu said and ran off through the woods toward the sound of the voices.
We entered a clearing, Elfman and Evergreen lock in fear as a black wave came towards them. Natsu charged into them, pushing them out of the way. I rushed over to them, helping them up. We turned to see a young man, wearing all black. Tears running down his face.
"Who are you?" I asked. "How could you get on the island?"
"Natsu.." The young man muttered, renewing his tears.
"You know him?" I asked.
"What?! No!" Natsu proclaimed, to my suprise Natsu punched him, in the face hard.
The young man was not affected by this, though another tear ran down his face. "Get back! Please run!" He yelled, then released another black wave, Elfman,Evergreen and I jumped out of the way. Natsu took it head on.
"Natsu!" I yelled.
After the dust cleared, I saw him standing there, looking unaffected. Though his scarf was black.
"Natsu are you alright?" I asked him, when he walked over to me.
"Yeah, fine. Where did cry-be asked.
"Dunno. Seems he disappeared." I said. I turned to Elfman, "Well we have a grave to catch. See ya guys later!" I raced off with Natsu, leaving a bewildered Elfman and Evergreen behind.
Deep in the forest we stopped when we heard a large explosion. We looked up to see a red flare in the distance.
"That's the emergency flare right?" I asked.
"Die." An unfamiliar voice said behind us, I turned to see purple flames screimg towards me...