Hey peoplez. Here is another chapter ^^ hope you enjoy!
PREY AND PREDATOR
~10-BLOSSOM~
"I what?" Lucy whispered, as Natsu sat up against the wall, with difficulty, like as if he had fought. He clutched his heart.
"You...you fed off me." He said.
"No..that's-I eat human food!" She shouted, but then gasped. Natsu noticed, and gave a sarcastic smile.
"Yeah, you can feel what I'm feeling, right? Strange, isn't it." He said.
"Y-you're wary of me...yet you want to protect me..." she whispered. Natsu nodded.
"Lucy, you fainted, you had a fever, and your heart beat was sky high. Hunger. Newborn dragons, they have to eat a lot. Both times when you have fed off me, you have behaved exactly like a newborn." He said. "Help me get up please." He said.
"S-sure." Lucy said, got up, and then held out her hand. Nasu took it.
"Damn...what is it with you? Why am I so weak when you feed off me? You can have every single emotion...what are you..." he said.
"Confused is what I am. Can't you feel?" She asked.
"Not anymore." He said. "Ah!" He said, and took his heart.
"Natsu!" Lucy cried out, and held him up.
"You took...more than I thought you would..." He said.
"What if you feed of me?" She asked, as he sat down on her bed.
"No, it doesn't work like that." He sighed. "Lucy, try eating human food." Natsu ordered. She nodded, and ran down the stairs. She grabbed an apple, and bit into it. The sweet taste made her mouth water, and she swallowed.
"It's fine. I can eat it fine." She said, as she walked back upstairs.
"I don't understand..." he sighed. Lucy stood there for a while.
"I...I want to know the nutritional values emotions have on you. And on me, and human food for you, and human food for me." She said. Natsu frowned.
"You just spoke a foreign language." He said. Lucy sighed.
"Come with me." She said, and took his hand, pulling him up.
"Ouch..." he said, and held his head.
"Sorry..." Lucy said. He grinned at her. She lead him downstairs, to a small room which had a desk and numerous book shelves. "I am studying astronomy, but I had to study general sciences as well to be able to do physics. So I know quite a lot of biooligy and how the body works. You seem pretty human, so I am guessing your organs are in the same layout." She said.
"Wait wait. Don't dissect me." He said. Lucy looked round at him, and laughed.
"Dissect you!? Natsu I am not some mad scientist."stein's gate reference right there. Sorry back to the fic She laughed. He sighed.
"Okay." He said. Lucy walked over to one shelf, and bought out a book, laying it on the desk.
"Look." She said, poiting. "These are the nutritional values of an orange." She said. "And these are the nutritonal values for a sugary treat. Now if you look at what a human needs, the orange would be better for them than the sugray treat. I want to know what nutritions you need, and what emotions give you." She said.
"How the hell do you plan to do that?" He asked. She had a slight glint in her eyes.
"Why, starve you of course!" She said. Natsu looked strangely at her. "And also...my friend... she wants to become a general practitian. A doctor. She could probably run some blood test to see how it develops, and what your blood contains-"
"What, your friend? Was she at the campsite with you?" Natsu asked.
'Yeah...Levy..." Lucy said. Her friends... she had a fleeeting image of Cana, and..
"Sue, you can do all those things, under one condition." Natsu said.
"Hm?"
"I want you to find out who your parents are. We need to ask them about you." He said. But Lucy had walked to the window.
"Look, sunrise again." She said. "Come." She ordered, and she walked to the back doors. Natsu followed her, as she went outside, but he stayed back. The blossom from the apple and cherry trees was falling, around her, as she walked out into her back garden. The orange light threw her into a heavenly picture. Natsu could of just stood there, and watched her for ever. He enjoyed watching her...he...loved watching her.
"Come on!" She smiled, indicating him to come over. "You want to be a part of humanity, right?" She asked. Natsu grinned, and walked next to her.
"I told you, didn't I? Since I met you...things are becoming..."
"Beautiful." Lucy said, looking up at the sunrise.
"Yeah." Natsu said. He turned his head to her. "Beautiful."
"I am happy, Natsu." She said, and found his hand. She took it, and held onto it.
"Lucy..." he whispered. He put his oher hand on her cheek, and turned her head slowly, she looked slightly confused, her mouth gently parted, as Natsu kissed her. He had never really apreciated her soft delicate lips, her scent, or her touch. He broke their kiss, and looked at her. Never had he kissed without wanting to feed. And...he had kissed her...
"What was that?" She asked, as she slipped her hand out if his.
"A kiss." He said.
"Why?" She asked, taking a step away.
"Because I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I want to be more than a simple friend to you. You already have lots of friends. I don't, but I know if I did, you would be the thing that mattered most to me. You are the thing that matters most to me!" He said, as she took a step back.
"Stop." She said.
"Lucy!"
"I don't trust your judgment. You can't understand love with such two dimesional thinking as that." She said, and walked back inside. Natsu sighed, and looked up to the sky.
"Stop laughig at me." He said, cursing the pink clouds. He walked back inside.
"Sorry." He said, Lucy was in the kitchen randomly sorting stuff out.
"Are you tired?" She asked.
"Yes." He said.
"Okay. Help yourself to the guest room. I am off to sleep." She said.
"Okay."
"Alright, good night. I mean morning. Oh whatever." She said, and walked up the stairs. Natsu sighed, and looked aound the room one last time. He went over to the mantelpiece, and looked at the pictures on it. More pictures of friends, some with her, some without. But one intrigued him a lot. It was of a much younger Lucy hugging a brown haired girl, they must of both been around five or so. The brown haired girl... she looked a lot like the girl who Sting had bought up... He put his finger on her face, trying to rememeber her name.
"Cana. Sorry, I will look after her." He said. He looked out to the grass outside. "George, and Melissa. Sorry." He said. He regretted every single person he had fed off. Every single one.
Morning became afternoon, and Lucy awoke with the sound of children playing outside, she yawned, and sat up, happy. They would go and see Levy this afternoon, to take blood tests. Lucy got up, and went to her wardrobe.
"Nothing beats the luxury of clothes..." she smiled, as she settled for a turquoise blouse and a black skirt. Once she was dressed, she went and nocked on Natsu's door.
"Hmm?" His voice came from inside. Lucy thought about last night...
"Hey, how long have you been awake?" She asked through the door.
"Twenty minutes. You can come in." He said. She smiled, and walked in. He was standing at the window, looking out. The kids were playing outside, on bicycles.
"Cute, aren't they?" Lucy asked.
"Yes." He said. He seemed dazed.
"Hey Natsu?" Lucy asked.
"Mh?"
"Tell me about your past." She said. He sighed, and paused a moment.
"I am a special kind of...dragon. Wendy, Gajeel and I are from the first generation. We are born from humans. That's how our kind started. A sort of virus, that infected us before we were even born." He said. "But, it's the food chain. Humans are overpopulating earth. What would mather nature do? Creat predators for them. I was born nineteen years ago, on the Twentieth of July." He said.
"You're nineteen years old?" Lucy asked. Natsu nodded.
"My mother and father didn't understand why I wouldn't react to anything as a child. Nothing at all. You see, our emotional range is built over time. I told you didn't I?" He asked her.
"Yeah..."
"So they asked doctors and a lot of specialists what was my problem. I was three when he came." Natsu said. "He came for Gajeel and I."
"Who is he?"
"Our savior. He told my parents I had an ilness that required special treatment. And took me away." Natsu said.
"Hold on, you spen hree years of your life living off nothing?" Lucy asked.
"We only really begin to become ourselves at four, when our first emotions are created, and that's when it starts." Natsu said. He sat on his bed. "This man bought me to his house. An amazing mansion, but only he lived there. I already knew most stuff, I was an itteligent kid, but he taught me more. He told me about my true nature, and he found what emotion I could have and how to counteract in. And in consecence I could rarely feed. I didn't have the knowledge I have know to give easy pleasure. I had to torture them so much that when it was over they felt pleasure. But it took me days. When I was fourteen, he said I was old enough to give easy pleasure. And then, when the time came, he said it was time for me to join the others. He bought me up to the cave, and I met Gajeel. There was someone else there. He was the first of us. Acnalogia, but...something happened to him. A victim escaped, and told the city about him. Naturaly, nobody believed them, but a small group went up and killed Acnalogia. A year later I was sent to find Wendy. She was four when I met her, her parent's hadn't gone to see anyone about her, and she went crazy having to discover how to feed herself. She kiled her parents, although she doesn't remember anything now. Then Sting and Rogue came. They came of free will, they are born from our kind, over in Europe, but they wanted to live with kids their own age. The luck they have..." Natsu said.
"Wow..." Lucy said. "I thought I had it tough. Where were you born?" She asked. Natsu laughed.
"On a sunny island." He said.
"Serioulsy?"
"No. I don't know. How do you expect me to know? Ba...whatever." he sighed, got up, and walked downstairs. Lucy sighed, and looked out his window again. The children continued playing, ignorant of the monsters the mountain held.
"We are going to see Levy today. My doctor friend." Lucy told Natsu.
"Okay." He said.
"You have shoes right?" She asked, not remembering seeing him with boots or anything in the caves, and not wanting too. Natsu rolled his eyes.
"Of course I do." He said, and picked up a scratched messed up pair of leather, what looked like army boots.
"Stylish." Lucy said sarcastically at the black leater mess. "Put them on. We're going." Lucy said, and went downstairs. She grabbed her keys, and waited for Natsu downstairs. He had his black sleevless jacket in his hands.
"Shame. I'll miss you." He said, and threw it onto the couch. Lucy smiled, and rolled her eyes.
"Come on. Don't freak out, but this city is pretty big."
"Shit..." Natsu sighed.
"What?" Lucy asked.
"Okay, you are in a bakery with no baker, an array of the most delicious treats ever, you know you shouldn't, but when you see the most perfectly delicious...um...starwberry thing, you break. So you better hold me back if we walk across someone with emotions as good as yours." He said to her.
"Why starwberries?" Lucy asked. Natsu frowned at her.
"Is that all you have to say?'
"Yeah, why starwberries? They are my faviroute." She said.
"I know. You smell of strawberries and vanilla." He said,and walked to what he presumed was the front door.
"I'll hold you back, don't worry." Lucy said. She opened the door and the laughing children sounded louder. Natsu bit his lip, sensing the young innocent emotions...
"Natsu." Lucy said. She had her eyes closed. "I am feeling your emotions. Stop." She said sternly. Natsu tore his eyes away from the young humans and nodded. They walked through the quiet neighbourhood, Lucy guiding him so they avoided the crowded areas.
"Where is it?" Natsu asked.
"Other side of town. We have to take the bus."
"The bus? What's the bus?"
"Commmunal transport. A lot of people." Lucy said. Natsu groaned.
"Walk." He said.
"No. Bus. Unless you want to arrive there at midnight."
"Sure. Let's arrive there at midnight." He said. Lucy sighed. She took his hand.
"Concentrate on my emotions, okay?"
"I can't feel them!" He growled.
"Just imagine!" She shouted back. They walked out onto the avenue, people bustling in all corners, sounds of car horns, dogs barking. Natsu gasped, he was...scared. he couldn't hear anything with so much going on, all the scents, all the emotions, it was too much, too much noise, he looked all around, Lucy's hand had slipped out of his, and he was scared, he closed his eyes, and held his breath.
"Hey." A voice said right beside his ear. He opened his eyes, single out her voice, her scent, imagining her emotions.
"Lucy." He said.
"Come on. Ignore them. They aren't here." She said. He nodded, straigtened up, and looked at her. He focused everyting on her. "Come on. Our bus." She said.
They got to the bus stop, Lucy thankful it wasn't as crowded as usual. The bus came, and they got on, and sat down.
"No." Natsu whispered. He felt his heart race, the pain in his stomach and throat.
"What?"Lucy asked.
"That brunette with the short hair." He said, pointing to a woman the other side of the bus. "She's got so much pain already. Terminal illness." He said. Lucy looked at her.
"Natsu." She said. Natsu's hand were clamped hard down on hers. "Don't."
"I'm not." He said, his eyes on the woman. He closed them, inhailed, and breathed out. "But I'm hungry..." he whispered. He got up. Lucy pulled him back down.
"Stop." She said, and yanked his colar towards her. She kissed him, letting out the pain she had created. Natsu was immersed by her, and couldn't feel anyone else. Their mouths didn't seperate as they usually would, so the blue flow wouldn't show. People on the bus turned their heads away, at what looked like a passionate kiss. Natsu put his hand on her cheek, and pushed her slightly away, telling her he understood. She stopped giving, and slowly, they leant away from each other.
"Better?" Lucy whispered, noticing he had his eyes fixed on her, not the brunette.
"Better." He said, and smiled at her. Lucy tried to feel his emotions, and she sensed he had lost interest in the other girl.
The rest of the bus journey went well, and, as the sun began to set, they arrived at the other side of town, near a quieter neighbourhood, and much richer.
"Levy lives near here." Lucy said, as they walked off the bus.
"Long walk? Many people?" Natsu asked.
"No. Practically nobody can afford around here. Levy is lucky; she gets to practice he studies at home, thanks to the fact her mother, a researcher, has her own private lab in their house." Lucy said, as they walked.
"Her parents? Won't they be surprsied having a girl and a dragon type human thing walking into their house?" Natsu asked.
"Her parents are often away. I remember last time I saw her that she said she would be spending next month on her own, and asked me wether she should host a party or not." Lucy said, a they turned a corner, big grand houses on each side of the road.
"A party?" Natsu asked.
"People listening to music, dancing, and getting drunk." Lucy said. It gave Natsu a vague idea, and they continued walking.
"Here it is." Lucy said, showing him a house. They walked up the steps to the large front foor, Natsu behind Lucy, and she pressed the bell next to the deep green front door.
"Coming!" A voice from inside shouted. The door opened, revealing the young blue haired girl. She looked, astonished at the blond, before putting her hand to her mouth, tears forming in her eyes.
"Hi Levy. I'm back."
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