BlackLynx17: FINALLY WE ARE AT OUR FAVORITE COUPLE! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MAY I PRESENT...


Elements Of The Heart


Chapter 11

Leaving Home


Now there was one Element that knew all, knew about every other Element and was told the truth about their world; that there wasn't a war, but a feud against Elements that caused them to separate. Those were the Fire Elements. Though they knew this knowledge, they were powerless to bring the Elements back together. Why would they want to in the first place though? After so many years they forgot about the other Elements so what did they matter? Fire Elements were the most daredevil Element there was out of all the Elements, the most free they liked to believe since they've forgotten about the Sky Element's existence. Division 3, Section Fire and Light. They were the last key to destroying the world, it was the next Division in the order though.

Their savior was a great flame that never flickered out no matter what weather, though the weather was always sunny. It was a warm place, the Fire Elements home, the ground paved with magma and lava rocks, volcanoes in every direction you looked, flames of different shapes and colors all around their Division with the most delicious flavors to them. They were the only Element who took colors from the other Elements before the separation, keeping some of their traditions and cultures as well. Like all Elements though, all they could eat was their own Element fire. It was said that the greatest tasting fire was that of their savior, the great Inferno. No one was allowed to eat it since it was their savior though, but that hardly stopped a young prince from sneaking over every chance he had to taste a bite.

"HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU! STUBBORN BRAT! STAY AWAY FROM THE GREAT INFERNO!"

Natsu yelled loudly as he was tossed into the sky and down the volcano, rolling around like crazy as his father threw him off and let him fall to his doom. This didn't faze him, he did this two, sometimes three times a day, and he quickly got used to the feeling of rolling over rocks and lava before landing (usually) face first at the bottom. Natsu couldn't help it though, he loved eating. Those flames were just so delicious, having them a few times before, and he just needed to have more.

"THANKS A LOT OLD MAN!" Natsu yelled when he stopped reached the bottom.

He leaned up and scratched the back of his head, wiggling his arms around. Standing up, he dusted himself off and started walking away to figure out his next plan to get to his savior. Thinking about it already, Natsu started drooling.

"Oh boy, I can't wait till I get my hands on him again."

His father was going to be more on guard now, he was always like that when Natsu finally got his prize, so maybe he should lay low for a while and probably not return home either. If he did a warning, a lecture, and a beating was sure to welcome him home. It wasn't uncommon that Natsu slept outside because he owned everything, he was the prince of these lands.

"OOOOOOH! I ate the flames of the savior today and they were OH OH OH SO GOOD! I'll eat the flames of the savior again and it'll be OH OH OOOOOH! SO !" Natsu sang as he made his way to his secret hideaway cave.

Unknown to him, he wasn't alone like he thought he was. As he jumped over rocks and across fires, he continued singing to himself as he walked towards his home for tonight. His secret hideaway was a small cave not so far away from his town, inside was a pillow and an endless sort of flames burning out of the ground. Nothing compared to their saviors flames though.

"OH! OH! OOOOH! Tomorrow I shall eat the flames again, and they will be SO, OH SO, SO SOOOO GOOD!" Natsu finished.

"Oooh! Oh! Oooh!"

Natsu blinked, looking around.

"Oh I ate the flames of the savior today and they were oh oh oh so good."

That... who was singing that?

"I'll eat the flames of the savior again, and it'll be oh oh oooh so good."

"Who's there?!" Natsu yelled out looking around.

There was no one there though, no one around, no one spying or looking at him. So it must have all been in his head then, right? Natsu shrugged as he started walking away again, completely forgetting about the voice. It must have been his imagination, Natsu had no idea his imagination sounded like a girl though.


Lucy Heartfilia walked with her bare feet across the light, humming a delightful melody to herself. She greeted the people around her with smiles, never really speaking since she was humming. This was her home, her country of Light. The Light Elements. Of course since the Element was light, everything in her hometown was made out of light. To the normal eye everything would seem bright, but to Lucy's eyes everything was as clear as well, light. Their homes and houses, neighbors and cities weren't bright lights, but (what could only be describe to in the simplest terms) were light crystals. Transparent, hollow, barely visible except for the outline. Everything shined a bright white color, from the buildings to the trees to the outfits they wore.

There was no such thing as rainbow colors here, though everyone knew of the ancient names of the colors. The only ones existing in this section though was white, light, bright yellow, and a strange, dark color they did not realize was called blue. Everyone here carried the blonde hair gene with bright yellow and rarely blue eyes to match directly.

The only ones who had a different eye color, a color they've abandoned the name brown and replaced it with the name Royal Inherit, was royalty. It was decided long ago that the Royal Inherit (brown) colored eyes was royalty from the great Light Pillar, this section's savior. Lucy has read these things millions of times in books, so she couldn't help thinking about these things as she walked through her lands.

She wondered what it would look like to see color as she hummed. Green, purple, red, orange, aquamarine. The names sounded cool, pretty, but all Lucy could imagine in her head was light. Beautiful, bright light. No matter what the other colors, light would always be the best one. Hands down.

"Yo! Princess Lucy! Been a while since you've visited your loyal subjects."

Lucy turned her nose up and glared, "Sting. Why do you always tease me so?"

Sting shrugged, "just because."

"That's hardly a reason," Lucy huffed taking a break from her walk.

She sat down where she was standing and was immediately supported by light. "And what do you mean its been a while? I always visit my people every single day, your just not there to notice me."

"Aw, Lucy wants me to notice her. Well I'm noticing you now and let me just tell you, you look real nice in that gown. Is it new?"

Lucy snorted and rolled her eyes, completely used to Sting's flirtation. After all they were childhood friends, growing up and being raised together. Royalty meant nothing in this Element, only fancy words. Here everyone was free and equal, no woman better than any other man. Knowledge and material possessions were shared with one another, a peaceful environment all around each and every Element. In the Light, there were no shadows or darkness. With only the light shining over you, it was so easy not to succumb to any of those. Everything became crystal clear and honest in the light.

"This old thing? I only ever wear it every single day. Honestly Sting, why do you toy with me so?"

"Because it's my job to keep you on your toes." Sting said with a grin.

Lucy stared at him and shook her head, "do you know you have to be the first Light Element in history to be able to lie in a thousand years?"

"I know right? And I'd be such a very good liar if it wasn't for the shadow that always followed me." Sting said looking behind him.

While nothing but light appeared behind Lucy, Sting had a dark shadow casting behind him that followed his every move.

"Shadows only appear to liars, start telling the truth and it'll disappear."

"But if I tell the truth then everyone will know the real me, and I'm saving that for just y-o-u." Sting winked.

"The more you lie, the darker the shadow becomes. Legend has it when a shadow has become truly dark, it swallows you up and spits you back out in the Shadow Element where you never see the light of day again."

"And that's exactly what it is, a legend."

Lucy giggled and Sting grinned, rubbing the back of his head.

"Okay Sting, how would you like to join me on the rest of my tour around the city?"

"I thought you'd never ask." Sting said.

Lucy stood up and continued her walk with added company. It was nice not to walk alone, though she knew Light Pillar was always by her side.

"So I heard you singing you know, what song was that? I couldn't recognize the tune." Sting asked.

"I don't know, I was walking when I heard someone sing it and started singing it myself. I can't remember the words though no matter how much I try, just the tune." Lucy said and started singing.

"Creepy, maybe tomorrow they'll sing again."

Lucy shrugged, "maybe."

"So putting the polite conversations aside, how has the Princess life been going? I hear your father has been pressuring you to find a groom."

"For no reason at all. There are no wars in Light Country, if it wasn't for Mom I believe he would have married me off when I was younger."

"Aw Lucy, he's your father! I think he just wants to know you're taken care of."

"I can take care of myself, thank you very much." Lucy pouted.

"I'm sure he'll see it your way, sooner or later. You always win the arguments between every and anybody. Princess."

Lucy rolled her eyes, "stop Sting. You know how I feel about that word."

"What, Princess?"

"Yes, it's nothing but a title. I'm no better than anyone else who lives outside the castle and for me to get married just because of that title is ridiculous! I wish Dad could see that, matter of fact I'm going to tell him that upon returning home. We are all equal Daddy, I am no better than anyone else so why should I have to marry so young when others don't? Dad, aren't we all the same? Titles don't mean a thing, so neither should marria- No, no, hmm. Dad-"

Sting sighed and rolled his eyes, mad that he got her started. Now Lucy wouldn't stop practicing reciting until she got the words to her little speech just right. Maybe he could slip out, yeah. She obviously wasn't paying attention. Sting stopped walking and waited until Lucy was out of sight before walking away with a kick in his step. He loved Lucy, she was very important to him, but when she got into her ranting zone Sting wasn't nothing more to do than to run in the opposite direction of her.

Lucy didn't notice Sting was gone until she screamed out in success! Finally finding her perfect lecture! She turned to tell Sting, noticed him missing, and glared long and hard at the spot where he should have been.

"Sting, the next time I see you I'm going to-" Lucy let the sentence die out. She had more urging things to deal with, like her speech with her Dad Lucy nodded and started to head home, reciting it over and over again to the tune she heard while walking.


"Dad, titles like King, Queen, Prince and Princess are exactly that, titles. If you strip all the titles away then what you are left with is who we all are, Light Elements. Marrying me off to somebody is completely insane because even if I'm your daughter first, I'm a Light Element second and Light Elements don't do that. If I am to marry, I want it to be for love like you and Mom did. So I hope you'll reconsider this marriage thing, if not forever then at least until a later time. I am only 16 after all, there is no rush." Lucy pleaded her case.

Her mom was shining bright, nodding her head and smiling. "She makes a good point dear."

Her dad on the other hand had quite the scowl, "she makes a point alright, whether it's good or not is in the eye of the beholder. Lucy, I know how much this bothers you, so I'm willing to extend your time. You have this obsession with love, you have this belief that we're all equal, fine then. For the next year, until this date exactly, I'll postpone your marriage in order for you to go out and find 'love'." King Heartfilia said.

Lucy's eyes sparkling, bright lights laminating around her. "Really Daddy?!"

"Thank you dear." Queen Heartfilia smiled resting her hand over hers.

"From this day forward you are stripped from your title as Princess of the Light and are here by sentence to live out the year down in the cities with the rest of the citizens since you believe we are all equal. There you shall receive no help from us and will have to live and work on your own, trying to find the love you wish to marry. At the end of the year if you aren't able to find someone to marry, you shall return home and I will hear no more of this ridiculous complaints."

Lucy blinked while Queen Heartfilia gasped, taking her hand away from her husband.

"Dear! That's too drastic! We shall do no such thing to our daughter!"

"I accept Daddy, and thank you for this opportunity." Lucy smiled.

"Lucy! Are you listening to yourself?! I am not having you move out of this house, do you hear me?! Now I am Queen and the two of you are going to come to some sort of an agreement that WE ALL are happy about."

"Mom, this is what I want though. A chance to live with the people, I wouldn't mind. Dad is just giving me freedom and it's a fair offer. I want to go out and look for love, he's been generous enough to give me a year. If I can't find it then it's alright, I wouldn't mind coming back and seeing things his way. It's not like you can never visit? Or I can never visit? Thanks Dad, I'll get my things and depart at once." Lucy said.

"LUCY! YOU ARE NOT DOING THIS!"

"Let her go Layla, it is our way. I love you Lucy and I hope you find what you are looking for." Kozen said.

Lucy walked up to her dad and hugged him tight, "thank you."

"Lucy, Dear, that's it! Fine! I'm going with you!" Layla said standing up from her throne.

"Layla-"

"Now don't you Layla me! I am not leaving my daughters side, no! She's too young, too fragile, too beautiful. Aw Lucy, don't leave." Layla cried out.

"Mom, give me a chance. Let me try this and in a week when I'm all settled in my new home, I'll come for you to visit and stay. But please though, let me start this journey on my own."

Layla whimpered and wiped her tears, nodding her head. "We'll make an announcement today about your departure, all Elements will know of your journey and shall help you along the way."

"No Mom, if you do that then suitors will come from every corner of the light for me. I need to do this on my own, if you are to make an announcement say the king had decided to let his princess travel around to the farthest places of the light to visit and hear the needs of the people for those who cannot visit him."

"Our daughter is smart, that way she'll be welcomed and cared for." Kozen said.

"Lucy, if you get tired or lost come straight home. Please don't do this." Layla cried.

"Mom, this is going to make me happy. Please let me go, I couldn't bare to leave you in tears."

Layla took a breath and closed her eyes shut, turning away.

"If you must then, I permit it. Go Lucy, and hurry before I change my mind."

Lucy giggled and gave her mother a kiss before she ran down the halls into her room, gathering up the things she would need for her journey. Kozen and Layla sat alone in their throne room, one in tears while the other deep in thought.

"This is all your fault." Layla cried.

"If I remember correctly, you were able to find me the same way. By journeying out in our Element and exploring around."

"I had a home and family to return to, Lucy will have no one."

"Not no one, Sting. I'll arrange for him to watch over and make sure she finds a place near him if anything happens. He'll report back to us."

This seemed to calm Layla's nerves, she still disliked her husband though.

"She's only 16, does she really need to find a marriage partner?"

"I love Lucy dear, I want to know she's taken care of. Yes 16 is young, but if I am to chose someone who she doesn't know I want to give her time to grow to love him. A lifetime is just that, a very long time."

Layla sighed and nodded her head, hearing her husband wise words. She still didn't like them though.

"I still don't like this."

Kozen didn't know what else to do but to keep quiet and let his wife rant.