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Lucy and the rest of team Natsu woke up in the village. The mayor was in their room with their reward. Cosma was the first to wake up, she looked around the room, and blurted out. "Where's Celeste?" she asked. She flew around the room in search for her Dragon Slayer. Startled to realize that she was unalbe to spot Celest she paniked and her wing brushed alongside a stack of glass jars causing them to fall and shatter. This quickly alerted the rest of the mages. They sat straight up in their beds.
"Huh?" Natsu muttered, "What happened?"
Erza shook her head trying to recall the events. "We were fighting the spirits and Celeste protected us."
Gray scratched his head, "and there was an explosion and I don't remember much after that."
Wendy gasped, "Celeste must have been carried away in the explosion."
Lucy began to get out of the infirmary bed, "we have to go find her! " Cosma nodded, "Her last bit of magic sent us back to the real world."
Charla grew her wings and started for the door. "What are you guys waiting for? We need to go now." She scolded.
Erza stood up and asked Cosma
"Charla is right, Cosma do you know where she could be?"
Cosma shook her head, "The best thing we can do is to go back to the guild and start there." Natsu jumped up, "Let's go then! I'm Fired Up!"
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Too depressed to collect their reward Team Natsu went back to the guild not only empty handed but without a precious teammate. Lucy had sat next to Erza and sobbed on her shoulder, while Erza sat stoically comforting Lucy on the train. Natsu and Gray both were to everyone's amazement also calm and quiet during the return trip. Cosma kept a straight face and sat in the corner of the train and kept to herself. Natsu and the others raised up a search party to look for the missing dragon slayer. Mira and her sister and the Exceeds had taken air support, while the others searched on foot. Natsu had even gone to Sabretooth to ask for their help, as did Erza with Mermaid Heel, Lucy with Blue Pegasus, Gray with Lamina Scale and Cana and Wendy with Quatro Puppy. Even with the combined forces of all of the major guilds in Fiore they came up empty-handed. Days later when the guild returned to the dining hall without any sign of Celeste, it seemed that she had just vanished across the face of the world. Master had hung up a picture and named Celeste as an honorary member of Fairy Tail, everyone had assumed that she was dead and stopped searching.
As time went on Natsu and the rest of the gang just wouldn't give up. They spent hours and days trying to find their missing friend. Erza had cuffed Natsu in the head and scolded him for taking Celeste on an S class mission without consent from the Master, and Lucy looked at with disdain saying that this was the second time ever that he had done this, the first time taking her to the demon islands. Natsu had sat in the corner for days whispering to himself over and over again that it was his fault and he would never forgive himself. Lucy had to spend many hours with him trying to comfort him into coming back into the guild. Cosma had requested to postpone a funeral because she knew Celeste was still alive. Everyone had agreed and let the matter pass, especially the Strauss family because they understood the pain that Cosma was going through. They had been trough the same thing and were there to comfort the lavender exceed, though Evergreen had to slap Elfman for insisting that Cosma be a Man. Months had passed and there still was no sign of Celeste. Gradually even the rest of the team decided that Celeste was as good as dead and gave up hope and continued on with their daily lives. Cosma continued to search alone and ended up staying with Wendy and Charla for the time being.
No one knew that in a hut in the middle of Magnolia, Celeste lay sleeping in a coma. The hut itself was concealed using ancient magic and surrounded with large amounts of territorial magic preventing anyone from coming near it. Electra had created this protective sphere of magic to protect Celeste and herself from any enemies and bandits that may have come across the shack. Electra constantly sat on Celeste's bedside holding her hand and trying to keep strong. Electra had died once and she knew the pain the Celeste had felt and did not think that she could go through the same ordeal. But Celeste herself knew, even in her state of mind, that she would soon awaken from her state of unconsciousness, and suspended animation.
This is a short chapter I know, but I have a larger chapter coming up soon. I hope you guys liked it!
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