Her End

"NO! NO STOP! STOP GRAY! NATSU NATSU!"

Lucy strained against the arms holding her back. The arms of her friends, the ones who were betraying her- betraying them both.

"Let me go! Stop! Stop!"

The tears blurred her vision of the scene in front of her. It had happened so suddenly, so out of the blue.

They had been looking for him. Zeref.

And when they found him, he told them everything. About how he and Natsu were brothers, how he revived Natsu from the dead... how he went through all of this for him... And that he finally was ready to repent of his sins. He wanted, planned, that Natsu would kill him. That's what he did to Natsu, made him into this killing machine that would be powerful enough to end him. Hence the name END.

The curse was released in a flash. One moment, Lucy was clutching Natsu's hand, taking in the horrifying information with him, supporting him. And the next moment, she had been pushed away from him. He pushed her away. Because he was transforming... into something more terrifying than anything they'd ever faced.

He became a monster.

He looked like a human-dragon hybrid. Horns protruded from his head, as did wings on his back. He was covered in red scales and black magic markings. And his eyes were not full of warmth and love, but instead had receded into slits of a cold-blooded murderer. Power radiated off of him, more power than even the black magician Zeref had.

He had made quick work of Zeref, finally ending his miserable lonely life. He had completed his mission- his reason for being.

And yet, now he was a demon programmed to kill.

So how would they end the END?

That's when Gray stepped in. That's what he had been working towards...

And Lucy soon figured out that Gray's research had concluded to nothing. There was no way to stop END without killing Natsu. If there were, Gray wouldn't be using such fatal attacks on him. And as soon as Lucy saw that he would kill Natsu- she lost it.

Nobody would take him away from her.

"LET HIM GO!" She screamed, breaking free from those who held her back, trying to run to Natsu. She needed to protect him. She wouldn't let them kill him.

Because she loved him.

Suddenly she was tackled to the ground, now only twenty feet from the huge fight of fire and ice.

"Lucy! Lucy stop this! Do you want us all to die?!" Levy hysterically shouted in her ear.

Lucy turned to her best friend, the dirtiest look of betrayal on her face. "Get the fuck off of me."

Levy looked startled, but refused to let her go so easily. Juvia was holding down her other side, tears slipping down her face as well.

"Juvia understands... But Lucy-san needs to see that this is the only way. Gray-sama doesn't want to do this either. He'll probably be killed in the process too. But it's the only way Lucy..."

"I will not let you kill him." Lucy slipped out from under their holds, standing shakily to her feet. She rose her eyes to them.

"I'm going to him. I don't care if I die. But I have to try. That's Natsu. My Natsu. And I won't let him die without trying to stop it."

Levy and Juvia were both crying by now. "Lucy... you can't! He'll just kill you!"

"I don't care. I'd rather die than live without him anyways." Lucy nonchalantly stated as she quickly turned away from them, running towards her lover.

Towards her END.