I PROMISED A SHOUTOUT AGES AGO but here's a Shoutout to Miss Daydream! Thanks for supporting this story :D It's been over a month yet again XD So, here's chapter ten for you all.
Natsu: Lucy, this is for you. I have to destroy the guild
Lucy: Hold on, I'm coming...
Lucy's POV:
I had to go back the guild.
My arms ached from rowing so much, the muscles straining with each circular movement. My brows was lined with sweat, and a throbbing headache was pounding in my head. But I pushed on, because I had to go to the guild. To Natsu.
Biting my lip, I row faster as I see the Fairy Tail guild come into my vision. My eyes widen as I see the orange surrounding it, hot flames licking the dark sky, dancing and swirling in the wind. "It can't be..." I mutter under my breath, and my exhaustion is forgotten quickly. Fire eats up the wooden exterior of the guild, and something lodges in my throat.
Natsu would destroy the guild.
That's what Wendy told me Carla said.
My heart sinks as I near the port. The very same one that I had departed from the previous night. To think that my fellow guild members went after me so quickly, so swiftly. Because they cared about me. Well, it was time for me to finally repay the favor.
Biting my lip, I pull up to the port and tie my boat to the wooden post stationed there with hurried hands. Taking a deep breath, I harden my resolve before breaking into a dead sprint, my eyes centered on nothing but the burning guild before me.
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No one's POV:
The building before him burned into his eyes, a sight never to be forgotten for a long time, he was sure. A scar in his memory. Natsu stares with teary eyes, shaking slightly as he gazes at his guild. The guild he destroyed. The guild Carla said he would destroy. It hurt, every second of watching the flaming pieces of wood fall, watching the hot fire dance below the dark sky above.
When was it suddenly nighttime?
Well. Something about his world seemed a bit dark ever since Lucy was taken, anyway.
He swells his large lungs again, preparing to release another fireball when an all too familiar voice calls out to him. "Natsu!"
His heart skipped a beat as a pair of slender arms reaches around his waist. A face pressed itself between the hot shoulder blades of the man, and Natsu wouldn't dare turn around. It couldn't be.
"Natsu," repeats that sweet voice, and something sticks in the pink hair's throat. "Don't do this anymore."
"I..." he says, and that's all he's able to say. His throat had dried out long ago. Can he even form words?
"Look at me," Lucy says, and Natsu balls his fists.
"I can't. I destroyed the guild, and. You. You probably hate me, and-"
The blonde runs around, in front of the Mage, and ducks her head to look at his bowed face. "Hey," she begins, "do I look mad?"
Natsu stubbornly refuses to look at Lucy. It's not until her pale hand finds his rough, battle worn cheek and tilts it towards her that he does. Lucy's breath stops as she finds a few tears in his dark orbs. "It's alright, Natsu," she whispers, stroking the skin with a soft thumb. "It's alright. You did what you thought was right."
Natsu inhales a shaky breath before wrapping his arms around her, surprising the teen, and pulling her close to him. "I'm so happy," he mutters into her hair, and Lucy smiles in his warmth. "I'm so happy you're safe."
"You were doing all this for me, no?" Lucy asks, and there's no need to clarify on what exactly was the 'all' Natsu did. The dragonslayer nods sadly, his gaze flickering to the burning guild in front of him. "I'm an idiot."
"Yeah, you are," Lucy agrees, amusement in her voice. She leans out of the hug, to look at his face fully. "But you have such a big heart."
Natsu still looks unconvinced. Grateful, but unconvinced, and the blonde schools her face into a pout at his stubbornness. "Lucy, honestly, I'm sor-"
His words are cut off with a pair of soft his on his. He hums approvingly and places his on her wide hips, pulling them closer to him. Lucy's left hand joins her right on the pink hair's face, tilting her head for better access to his lips. The blonde blushes deeply as her name was murmured by the pink haired, a wanting, soft, whisper. At that, she breaks the intimate kiss, eyes reeling, cheeks aflame. Natsu stands there, almost as if in a trance.
"Uhm," she begins, suddenly extremely nervous, hyperaware, and very embarrassed. Natsu blinks a few times before saying, "Wow," so bluntly that Lucy flushes further.
"W- What?" she asks defensively, and the sadness from Natsu had dissolved into bliss. He smiles, that large, goofy, boyish one that Lucy swears she didn't fall in love with.
She had.
"Lucy," he says with that grin still plastered onto his face. The blonde blinks twice. "Thank you."
The girl smiles widely. "Anytime..."
The flames behind them roar louder than ever, reducing the hall they once called Fairy Tail into nothing but ashes. The people inside have long abandoned it, and they stood on the opposite side of the building. The night sky above twinkled with various stars, shining upon the couple entwined in each other's arms.
"...Natsu."
...
The Fairy Tail wizards weren't prepared for the explosion.
The heat, debris, and flames smack them all at once.
Zeref curses, backing away from the explosion swiftly, landing gracefully about a healthy ways away. His livid eyes glance up, and anger pulsates through his body. "What do you think you're doing, Y?"
The green haired girl didn't know what she was doing, either.
Her arms were outstretched, taking the brunt of the explosion, burn mark scarring her young arms. Gritting her teeth against the pain and tears, she faces Zeref fully. "My name," she begins with fiery anger, "is Devvy."
The black wizard raises his eyebrows at the statement, but the rest of his face is schooled into an impassive expression. "Why did you come back? Do you wish to die?" he asks quietly, and the woman before him chews her lip thoughtfully.
Lucy had saved her when she had spent years in his hell, serving this false king, so why the hell was she back here? What did she want with this place?
Maybe. Just maybe, it was...
"I've come to take my revenge," Y says, and the words surprise the both of them. Gritting her teeth, she forces her arms forwards, folding all of her fingers save for her forefingers and thumbs. She makes a triangle, angled at the black wizard. Zeref narrows his eyes, slowly approaching. "What is that?"
"I have no obligation to tell you, Black Wizard," she says with as much courage she can muster.
The dark haired tsks, and, sensing the gathering of a high magic, deftly moving out of the way before a strange light emits from the girl's open palms in the shape of a triangular prism. Zeref's eyes widen as the light shapes itself around the rock it just to happened to hit, forming and reshaping itself, until the rock was snug inside of the light. Then.
It disappears.
"That's a nasty power of yours," the man notes as Y breathes heavily, lowering her hands. The woman's whole body looks exhausted from that one attack, and her body sags ever so slightly. She raises her head, hard eyes glaring at the darkness stating to emit from the wizard. "You've angered me," he says, and the tendrils of death travel towards her at a speed faster than light.
Y takes a shaky breath in the last millisecond she was allowed of life. Well. It'd been good while it lasted.
She crouches, cowering, covering her head, but no pain comes. Instead, a shadow comes over her, and long red hair tickles her arm. "You've done well," comes the powerful voice, the soothing voice. "It's our turn now."
Y gulps loudly before attempting to stand. She finds a strong arm gripping her own. And her brown gaze comes to land on a shirtless muscled man, who smiles grimly at her. "We're from Fairy Tail," he explains. The dark haired male pats the woman's tired shoulder reassuringly once straightened, and walks to stand next to the swordswoman.
"We're going to help you," another voice says, much younger and more feminine. Her long blue hair is styled into high pigtails, and she is followed by two winged cats, blue and white respectively. The line stands in front of Y protectively, and the sight brings tears to her eyes.
"What are you people doing?" she whispers. "You're here for Lucy, right? I was the one who brought her here!"
Looks of surprise flicker across their faces, and simultaneously, Zeref reaches out to touch Erza's heart, a mere breath away. The swordswoman draws back, pulling her sword from within her numerous armory at her disposal, and begins to battle the demon. "Everyone!"
The heads of those in the cave turn as Zeref almost lands another blow on the woman, and if he manages to, then her immediate death would be unavoidable.
"Fairy Tail, surround on all sides and attack. You! Charge up your beam again, and fire! That's surely the only thing to save us now."
Y blinks for a moment, and realizes she was being addressed. She didn't even know the woman, for crying out loud, but something, something told her to just trust the red head.
But even that skilled woman didn't know that whoever successfully seals someone with the power will die.
Gritting her teeth, the woman gets into position, palms in a triangle, pointed towards Zeref, who was currently being kept busy with the flurry of attacks the wizards were inflicting on him. Y sweats, and she knows that Zeref is easily winning, and quickly, easily.
The plan was never to beat him, but instead, for her to seal him. And for that, those people put their lives on the line. They placed their lives in her hands, and she was sure to take the opportunity once it arises.
It did, after all, go hand in hand with her revenge, even if it meant dying.
It was only a moment, a moment to find the perfect second that even Zeref wasn't guarded in. Everyone had that one weak second, it just took finding. Well.
She found it.
And fired.
And just in the nick of time, too. Those dangerous tentacles were a mere breath away from that ice wizard's chest when the light hit him, surrounding him, forming around him.
The same thing was happening to her, and unlike Zeref, she didn't fight it, but rather. Embraced it. The Fairy Tail wizards seemed to know what was happening, and they immediately rushed to her side. "I'll heal you now," said the blue haired girl, bring her small hands to Y's face. The dark eyed woman within the confines of the shrinking seal smiled. The seal was no bigger nor smaller than Zeref's and it was only getting smaller. There was no escape.
"It's ok," Y says. "I was able to finally get my revenge on him, thanks to you all."
"Hey...what's your name. Earlier, Zeref was calling you 'Y'...that can't possibly be your name, right?" asks the ice Mage.
Why would he want her name? With the last life of breath in both her and Zeref, she squeezes out the syllables. "Devvy..."
The Fairy Tail wizards watch in stunned silence.
"...It's Devvy."
Then silence.
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