Lucy looked up at Zeref. He was wearing what he had been wearing when she first met him. His dark coat swirled around his body when he walked. But this time, Lucy noticed something else. She can be very observant when someone's not trying to kill her. It was the way he walked, talked, the way he held himself. The way he looked up at the rain and seemed to say, here I am. I'm here. I've done what I've done. Now take me. He was so... Sorrowful... Lonely...ready to... Die. She went back to drawing the runes he had directed her to. She cast him another rueful glance. She shook her head. No need for any bad thoughts. She was getting Gray back. That was good. Above her Zeref stilled. She stood and brushed off her pants. He looked at her with his wise eyes that had seen the ages pass between his lifespan. And he smiled. Not evilly, not scarily, but he truly smiled. One that said, I'm here, I'm proud of what you've done. Zeref reached out his arms, and wrapped them around her. He hugged her. Her eyes widened. "Thank you," he whispered. "Thank you for never giving up, not on me, not on the world, not on anyone. You're mother would be proud." She Lucy was confused. She shook from the cold in the rain, in herself. "Meneliza finoella purreza," he whispered. Lucy gasped as the weight was lifted from her body. As her immortality was gone. As she was human again, like Levy, Juvia, and Eren. "Goodbye, Lucy." And Zeref pushed her from the circle of runes. He began chanting. The runes glowed gold. The rain pounded down harder. And it dawned on Lucy. The meaning of the runes, the words of farewell. Everything. The spell being used- it was saying give one to take mine. All of my immortality, used to grant a life, normal, and wonderful. "No!" Lucy screamed. "You don't deserve to die, you saved- no you don't need to stop!" She pounded on the glowing wall the runes created. "Please stop! STOP!" Zeref turned to her, and had a small smile on his face. "Thank you," he said. He looked past her, as the runes glowed brighter, making his body dissolve. "Mavis, my love, I'm coming." Lucy fell to her knees. She screamed. And a bright flash encased the land. Time around Lucy seemed to stop. She was suspended in the air, whiteness around her on all sides. She felt a hand on her shoulder. She raised her head from her hands, and looked back at the first master of Fairy Tail. She smiled kindly at Lucy. "This is what he wanted. He just wanted to save a life rather than take one, and he did. He got his wish. It's okay Lucy, it was his time. He was ready to leave. So don't be sad. Be ready to fight for what you want. For you're friends. Just like Fairy Tail." The white around them started to fade. Mavis looked at her, fading as well, and with Zeref at her side. "Thank you, Lucy."
It happened when Levi was running, looking for Lucy. They had split up, Levi and Eren in one group, Mikasa and Juvia in another. The feeling of weightlessness overcame Levi. He gasped, out of breath, and stopped running. "Levi?" Eren had caught up, concerned. "What's wrong?" Levi looked at him. "I'm human." he smiled. His immortality was gone. He looked at Eren. "She did something, Lucy did, and it's something right." And he grabbed Eren and kissed him, with the rain surrounding them. Eren was cold, shaking from the rain, and he was probably getting mud in Levi's hair, but he didn't care. He could grow old with Eren. They could be together, love each other with no boundaries. Before, that's what was holding Levi back. The thing keeping him alive was slowly killing him. The fact that Eren would die before him, without him, stopped him, made him crazy. And now he was mortal. He could love Eren, be with him. The joy was overwhelming.
Lucy looked up. The rain was slowing, and she could actually see five feet in front of her face. A figure was lying on the ground, a figure with dark hair and was missing a shirt. She laughed at the irony. Stripper for life. "Gray," she cried, running towards him. He blinked, "L-Lucy?" She jumped into his arms, a giant sob-fest. "You're actually here. You're alive. Gray, I missed you so much." He smiled into her hair and pulled her into his lap. "I missed you too."
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