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POV: Natsu
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or the idea of this story, I am just the writer.
A story for a friend, by a friend
"Oh I'm sorry, am I in your way," I hear a delicate voice ask as I look up from the baby to look into his worried mother's green eyes.
"Not at all," I say as I straighten myself up and fix the strap of both my guitar and book bag which have started slipping down my shoulder, "I was just passing by and saying hello," I then say while waving at the baby whose large eyes dart from his mother and then to me. How strange we must look in his young eyes.
"Well you turned out to be a social butterfly, didn't you," she asks towards the baby in that high squeaky voice you just can't help making around babies. It makes me wonder where we get the urge to do such strange things, though I have done it myself from time to time. An instinct to reassure is probably the best explanation I can give.
Smiling, I wave at the lady who waves in return before taking the handles of the stroller and walking off in the opposite direction as me. I head off towards my shop and unlock the front door before stepping inside while hearing the familiar jingle of the bell overhead. Once inside I flip on a nearby switch that has the lights flashing on making the front room look dim and cozy. Beside the window I flip another switch that has pixelated lights flashing against the front window of the shop that dance in colors of red and blue before forming the words 'OPEN' in the middle of the window. It's my own modern version of the neon lights they used to have in stores back when neon lights were actually a fad that later slowly died out.
Closing the door behind me, I unstrap both my bag and guitar as I make my way towards the back room to drop my things off in my office. As I pass by a few things I fix the ones that are out of place before ducking into the back room and turning a corner near the back into a hallway that leads into my office. Once inside I drop off my things in a nearby chair before making the journey back to the front of the store.
Journey.
Smiling at my own thoughts, I begin to wonder what kind of day awaits me today.
Hopefully it's a good day.
"He's crying," I say while popping into the new cave we have started staying at for a while now, "He won't stop," I insist to the blonde who is busy grinding some leaves together near the entrance to the cave.
"What did you do," she asks in a tired tone without looking at me and I'm more than shocked at her words.
"Nothing," I argue feeling completely betrayed by my own partner. How could she think that I did anything wrong?
"He hit me," Happy wails next to me making me jump from his sudden appearance, "H-He threw a rock and it h-hit me," Happy cries harder while holding his head with large tears rolling down his face leaving streaks where dirt clings to his cheeks.
Lucy quickly puts down her things before opening her arms wide giving Happy a silent signal to go towards her. He doesn't wait long before he runs into his mother's arms and buries his head into her shoulder, his crying only getting louder. When Lucy looks up at me she glares at me with dark cold accusing eyes that make me shiver in fear. It's the same look she always gives me whenever I do something wrong or when Happy runs crying towards her, even when most of the time it really isn't my fault.
"It was an accident," I pout while crossing my arms across my chest and leaning on the wall of the cave, "I was trying to hit a birds nest and I missed. He got in the way and got hit," I explain while keeping my eyes trained on one of the trees outside instead of my partner and child. When I don't hear anything from her I turn to see that her attention is solely on Happy who clings to her with strong tiny hands. Her head is shaking slowly, but the anger from before is almost gone.
Cradling the small child in her arms, I carefully watch as Lucy stokes the small bump on Happy's head with gentle fingers. She wipes tears away from his eyes and murmurs soft things that I can't quite hear. When she's done assessing the damage done she places a warm kiss on Happy's head making his crying lessen to soft blubbers. She then hugs him closer and rocks back and forth while doing that strange noise things she likes to do. Humming I think is what she likes to call it.
Watching her from where I stand I can feel my frustration slowly start to go away with the soft noise. Her humming always tends to soothe not only Happy but me as well. At night her humming is all I can hear before falling asleep curled up next to both of them next to the fire with Gray and Juvia sleeping not too far away with their new baby Snow. Happy likes it when she hums and always asks her to do it before he falls asleep. I like it also but I've never openly admitted it like Happy, and even Juvia, have.
Looking closely at the two, I notice how big Happy has gotten since the last time I've seen him closely. He's big enough that he doesn't fit all that well in Lucy's arms like he used to and at times Lucy has had trouble carrying him. Even when I carry him I can tell that he has also gotten heavier and it's a weird thing to notice because in my head he is still that small helpless baby that was barely even the length of my arm. Now he is tall enough that he reaches my thigh and he only seems to keep on growing. Lucy says that Happy might one day be even taller than me, but even I have taken notice to the worry in her eyes when she says that.
Thinking about it now, sometimes when I'm coming back from a hunt with Gray I'll find Happy playing nearby with Lucy sitting beside Juvia and her baby. Sometimes, more times than most, I'll catch Lucy watching Happy with a worried look. It's almost the same look she'd give when Happy was still a baby and he'd cry more than he does now.
None of us knew how to care for a baby and even the others were at a loss for what to do to make the small thing stop crying. Happy's wails would get so loud that you could hear him close to the edge of the forest and the cave only seemed to make his crying sound louder. At times he'd turn as red as the apples that Lucy liked to pick and that only seemed to make her more uneasy.
Eventually, though, Lucy began to get better at keeping Happy from crying too long. Somehow she'd learned when Happy was hungry or just simply tired, looking back on it he was always sleeping. From one day to another she just knew what to do while I, on the other hand, have done little to really help. Instead when I can't figure something out that has to do with Happy I'll always go running towards Lucy so that she can fix things. Because of this Lucy became very protective of Happy and she holds a bond with him that is clearly not like the bond that the two of us hold for each other. Juvia says that it is a bond that a mother and her child only have with each other and that men would not understand, but the truth is that I did understand. I've not only noticed it with Happy and Lucy, but with Juvia and snow along with the nearby animals who have babies of their own.
Lucy's humming stops and I look to find Happy asleep in her arms with a few strands of hair wrapped in his still tiny hands. She smiles as she places a soft kiss on his forehead and stroking his hair lightly before trying to get up, but I can tell that with his size now she is having a bit of difficulty. Even when she is standing it is sometimes hard for her to lift him up.
"I'll take him," I say as I push myself off of the wall and hold my arms out to receive the sleeping boy.
Lucy looks up at me for a few moments before letting me reach down to take Happy from her arms. I wrap my hands securely around his sides before lifting him up effortlessly and hug him close while leaning his head on my shoulder while wrapping his small arms around my neck. After Lucy gets Happy to let go of her hair I walk a bit deeper into the cave towards a small nest of leaves and animal fur that we use to sleep and gently place Happy on it.
I run my hands through his unruly blue hair which is long enough to reach his shoulders which has leaves and twigs stuck between them here and there. I remember when his hair was nothing but soft blue fuzz on his head and how much softer it had been then. His hands have also gotten longer but are still small enough that my whole hand can cover them. He can also walk and run with his legs that with time became strong enough for him to move on his own when back then all he could do was just lie down. There's also his voice that used to only cry and wail before words started pouring out slowly like rain. He has grown and that kind of scares me and I can't exactly explain why and I'm pretty sure that it is the same fear that Lucy holds within her.
Seeing him do things on his own now makes me feel happy because I have been able to teach him many things, but watching him slowly not need me and Lucy as much leaves a bad feeling within me. Also, the more he grows and learns leaves me feeling a bit lost. Not because I feel he might one day disappear but because Happy, unlike Lucy and I, has someone to teach him while we had no one. We learned on our own while he just waits for us to explain before trying it and succeeding faster than we ever could.
It's not a bad thing, however. In fact I'm more than proud that he learns faster than I had because it shows how well I can teach him and how well he learns. The only thing it does is make me wonder where Lucy, Gray, Juvia, and I really come from. Because like Happy came from Lucy and I it makes me wonder if we came from someone else or do we just… exist?
Were we made from the dirt of the earth or the birds in the sky or even the animals on the ground? Did a mountain explode and somehow create us or did we have a mother and father before like Happy and Snow and just couldn't remember?
How did we come to be?
I guess that's just an answer that I'll have to wait for someone to give me.
{This innocence is brilliant
I hope that it will stay
This moment is perfect
Please don't go away
I need you now
And I'll hold on to it
Don't you let it pass you by}
- Innocence – Avril Lavign
So I believe this is a relatively short chapter, but I couldn't squeeze any more ideas from my head for this, but hopefully you all enjoyed it anyway.
Finals at school are FINALLY over which means more writing and updating time for me. Even if I still work I get time to write during breaks or whenever I'm not busy filing papers or out for errands. Either way I'm glad school is over for the semester and now all I need to worry about is whether I passed or not, but I'll stress about that on Friday when grades come up.
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