Chapter 11: Happy and the Strauss's

Dear Lisanna

What can I say to my very first friend ever, well first off I am sorry that I am leaving this way but I am pretty sure that you understand why I have to leave. You were one of the few people at the guild who actually understood me and always believed me, which I guess, is why you and I became such close friends so quickly. Also I wanted to apologize that I was never able to return your feelings for me back then, but once again you always knew why I couldn't and just accepted it and actually encouraged me to tell her my true feelings. I was going to tell her, but then it happened and I thought that you were gone forever and it caused me to start second guessing myself and I decided that I should put everyone else's feeling before my own. This is why I never told her my true feelings, which I know is just an excuse but hey I have always been good at coming up with reasons of why I shouldn't express my true feelings.

So I have a huge favor to ask you, and I know that you would have most likely done this without me asking, but could you try and comfort Mira and Happy. They will probably be the ones that take this the hardest. I honestly don't have anything for you to tell them that I didn't already tell them in my letters to them, but I know that you will think of something. You did always have the talent of brightening anyone's day with a simple smile, which I hope you will use that gift of yours at the guild for the next few days, until they are back to their rowdy selves. Oh and just so you know I gave my house to Wendy and don't know if Happy will stay with her, if he doesn't could you please offer to him to stay with you, and I know that once again that I didn't need to ask you that because you consider Happy as your son. I am just really worried about him is all, and I would have taken him with me but I didn't want to take him away from the rest of his family, and I also have no idea what kind of trouble I will be getting into and don't want to put him in danger.

Now on to the gifts, so I have a few little gifts for you one is a special medallion that I had made with a little bit of my magic put into it, and if you or someone else is wearing it and focuses on the medallion when they really need my help, it will let me know that you are in trouble and give me the rough area of where you are at. And I will get there as fast as I can. The next gift is really lame actually but when I looked at a jewelry store I didn't know what you would like so I got you this weird mood ring, but hold on it is not a normal one, rather than changing colors it changes to different animal heads. It reminded me of your magic, haha but moving on, if you don't like it that is fine, that is why I also felt you some money, two million jewels to be exact. Oh and the final gift is something that you might not get if it works for Mira, it is a soul and I am confident that one of you two will be able to take it over with your magic. I told Mira in her letter that if it doesn't work for her, she should give it to you rather than selling it or throwing it away.

Oh and I know that it is not my place to be telling you this but I can't help myself. You need to move on from me, which I honestly can't really tell if you have or haven't, you were always better at reading me, but as I was saying you should be happy and try and find someone who will love you just as much as you love them. And who knows it might be closer than you think, and I am just throwing something random out there, but he might have blonde hair. A scar over his left eye is kind of grumpy most of the time and no pun intended but it might shock you to learn that I think that he really likes you. I mean he has been carrying around your last gift to him before we thought you died, for years even after it broke. But hey what do I know about those type of feelings, as the guild always says I am to dense for that stuff, but I know that you aren't, so you don't have to take my word for it. So make sure that you take care of yourself and I will see sometime in the future.

Love Natsu Dragneel

As soon as she was done reading the letter, she thought I moved on from you Natsu while I was in Edolas you idiot, she then looked up and couldn't help but notice Laxus standing at the bar and looking at what he had in his hands. In one of his hands was the pair of old headphones that she had given him and in the other hand was a pair of brand new headphones that she could only assume was given to him by Natsu. This caused a smile to spread across her face while she was looking at him, which was then seen by Laxus himself and it then caused him to slightly blush and put his old pair in his pocket while then putting the new pair around his neck. Laxus then made his way up to the second floor, while he did this Lisanna couldn't help think to herself that Natsu might be right and let out a little giggle.

She then thought about how Natsu had asked her to help Happy and Mira get over this, and he was right that she would of course do that they were her family. She then looked into the envelope that Natsu had left for her and took out the medallion and ring, and quickly slipped them on and the ring stayed the shape of a dragons head. Lisanna looked around for the two people that she was now concerned about the most, and the first one that she saw Happy who was crying on a table with Carla trying her best to console him. She then saw Mira who looked like she still hasn't moved from her spot after hearing that Natsu had left and her right hand was tightly clenched around the unopened letter from Natsu. This instantly made Lisanna concerned about her, so she made her way over to her sister, with the intentions to help cheer her up, but as we know sometimes that just doesn't happen.

Right before Lisanna got to her, Mira took off in the direction of Team Natsu, which Lisanna knew was not going to lead to anything good. She was totally correct about that feeling, because Mira instantly started to rip into them saying things to them that if she wasn't so upset right now she would have never said to them or anyone else in the guild. After which she started to cry and then took off out of the guild. This caused Lisanna to instantly chase after her, just in case she needed a shoulder to cry on or someone to talk too.

Lisanna followed her all the way to their house, and once she got in there she knew that Mira most likely locked herself in her room. So Lisanna sat down next to Mira's door with her back against the wall, and just sat there a few moments and listened to Mira quietly crying in her room.

"Hey Mira, just so you know I am right here if you need anything." Lisanna quietly said to her sister.

She didn't get any response, and she honestly would have been really surprised if she did. So she just sat there quietly waiting for when her sister would need her.

Dear Happy

I am so sorry and I know that, its means nothing to you coming from me right now. But know that I left you because it was for your own good, if you came with me you wouldn't be able to see the rest of your family for who knows how long. You wouldn't be able to see Carla for who knows how long, which you and I both know that you wouldn't be able to handle for more than a month. It would be like you not having fish for that long, also it is probably going to be extremely dangerous but I know that you wouldn't care, which is one of the reasons why I love you buddy.

I also wanted to tell you that you were the best son that a guy like me could have. You were also so much more, you were my best and most loyal friend, always there for me when I needed you the most. Always able to cheer me up when I was down and always coming up with and doing crazy pranks and shenanigans with me, and always willing to go fishing with me and talk about whatever was on my mind. I will always look back on all of the memories that we shared together fondly; they were the best times of my life.

So I gave our place to Wendy along as she was fine with you still living there with her, which is if you even want to still live there. If you don't I am confident that Lisanna would be more than happy to take you in. I have left you three different gifts the first one is a new backpack for you, it is supposed to be able to hold up to ten times as much as it looks like it should be able to hold, it is some form of magic maybe something similar to re-equipping. The next two gifts are already inside of the bag, first one is five million jewels which I bet you will probably spend it all on fish. The second and final gift is a special medallion that I had made with a little bit of my magic put into it, and if you or someone else is wearing it and focuses on the medallion when they really need my help, it will let me know that you are in trouble and give me the rough area of where you are at. And I will get there as fast as I can.

So the last thing I have to say is that, after three months if you still want to come with me you can. But I have another suggestion that you will have to run by the Master if you choose to go with it, now here is the plan that I came up with, rather than leaving the guild and staying away forever. You will only come and stay with me for little times whenever I am nearby, it will at most last a month. You will still be a Fairy Tail wizard as long as it is okay with Master, and once you are done staying with me you will then be able to return to Fairy Tail.

I will get into contact with you when the three months is almost up, to see what we will be doing. So until then, take care and be good buddy.

Love Natsu Dragneel

After reading it all happy could do was cry for a few minutes, knowing that Natsu was gone and he wasn't going to see him for at least three months, and even Carla trying to comfort him didn't even help. He then wiped away his tears and decided that, that this was going to be the last time that he was going to be crying about Natsu leaving, so he summoned his wings and took off towards the bar. Once there he didn't slow down at all and quickly grabbed the bag that was left for him, because he didn't want to talk to anybody except for his fellow exceeds, and headed to the table with Gajeel, Levy, and Pantherlily, knowing that Carla would most likely follow him.

Once he was there he waited for Carla to come land next to him, he then told Lily and Carla what Natsu said in his letter.

"So will it be okay if I stay with you and Wendy?" asked Happy.

"Of course you can, it is your place too isn't it? So what are your thoughts about Natsu's plan?" asked Carla.

"I don't know yet, I was actually going to ask you two what you thought of it?" replied Happy.

"Well it is a really tough question. But I would probably leave with him and not come back." said Lily.

"I would probably do that to." replied Carla.

"Really, you both would?" responded Happy.

"But Happy, me and Lily haven't been a part of Fairy Tail as long as you have, we don't have as many connections as you do here, so of course we would choose our dragon slayers." said Carla, trying to let Happy know where they were coming from.

"She's right Happy, and also you don't need to make a decision right away and you also don't know if the Master would agree to the second plan. If that does happen it seems like your decision will be made for you." said Lily.

"Your right Lily." said Happy just as Wendy came to their table.

Dear Mira

Wait that isn't right because Mira didn't read her letter right away, no she just stood there shocked that Natsu left the guild and all she wanted was this to be some sort of joke but that just made it all the more worse. Because she knew it wasn't a joke, he actually left the guild; no what made her mad was that he left her without even talking to her about his decision. She was mad that Natsu was leaving because of such stupid reasons but she was even madder at all of the people that caused him to have such stupid reasons, the main culprits were his team that were supposed to be his closest friends.

That just made her angrier, because she bet that they didn't even know that some of the things that they did to him, hurt him more than they could ever know. Yet somehow after spending so much time with him, it seemed like they didn't know him at all. The anger that she has been trying to hold in was just too much so she decided that she was going to let some of it out on those that were once part of the team called Team Natsu, and then marched right up to Erza.

"This is all of your our guys fault!" Mira shouted while gesturing at Erza, Grey, and Lucy.

Erza was about to respond but was cut off by Mira.

"No you will remain quiet while I am talking to you!" she once again shouted at Erza.

"You don't even realize how much you guys have hurt Natsu do you? Well I am going to tell you right now, all of the stuff that you should have already known about him since you guys have been teammates for three years now!" screamed Mira as she pushed her finger against Erza's nose.

"Did you know that the only time that I think that I have ever seen you say or do something nice to Natsu is after he has almost killed himself protecting you or the guild, and even then you have a very weird way of showing your concern for him. I mean yes Natsu is always reckless and I know that you are actually concerned about him and don't want him to risk his life like that again, but you show that to him by beating him up as soon as he wakes up from almost dying. How is that at all a good way of showing affection to him, also it is really stupid because it is not like he just almost died and you just give him more injuries. Which makes me also wonder why you always use beating him, when you are trying to teach him something, how the hell is that a good form of teaching and it also appears to not work with Natsu, I mean how many times have you beaten him up for the same thing over and over again." said Mira now a little out of breath, but she still wasn't done.

"And you Grey, I know that you two have always had your stupid rivalry, but you always had to push him just one step to far. I mean could you really not notice those days where he just wanted to be left alone, but I guess I already know the answer to that, because you would always still pick a fight with him anyways. I mean even me and Erza when we had our rivalry still gave each other space on days when the other one was just not feeling up to it, but no you didn't notice or didn't even care if Natsu need some time off from your stupid rivalry. And let's just say I am really disgusted with you after learning what Natsu went through when he was inside that mechanical dragon, did you not even think about what type of pain he might have to go through. Actually do you ever think ahead at all Grey? Now that I think about it I think that you might think less about the consequences of your actions, than Natsu has ever and the guild thinks that he is the reckless one." Mira spat out at Grey clearly pissed beyond belief with him.

"Now this is directed to the whole guild, did you guys forget that Natsu is a dragon slayer and that when you are at the guild he can pretty much hear everything even when you are whispering. He tries to not eavesdrop on everyone else's conversations but he can't help that his ears are that strong, which is one of the reasons that he seems to always be starting the guild brawls, it helps drown out everyone else's voices. Oh and if you are wondering, yes he was one of the reasons why I always seem to know about everything that is going on, but back to what I originally wanted to say about you guys not remembering about his hearing. Do you have any idea how it feels to always hear whenever your family or friends say something bad about you when they think that you can't hear them, always calling him a dense idiot, or saying that he is an annoying brat. I could go on, but you all know what you have said about him behind his back, and guess what? Did he ever do anything back to you guys, actually has any of you ever heard Natsu speak anything but the highest of praises about everyone in the guild?" shouted Mira so that the whole guild could easily hear.

"Now back to you guys that use to be on Team Natsu. Do any of you know what Natsu's biggest fear is? I didn't think so, I am no longer surprised, I can see that none of you ever really tried to figure out what makes Natsu, Natsu. Well his biggest fear is being abandoned again, which if you think about it makes complete sense; you could say that he has already been abandoned four times in his life. The first was when his parents left him for who knows what reasons, the second was when Igneel first left him, and he didn't know why that happened until they met again, only for Igneel to die In front of him which is the ultimate form of being abandoned to Natsu because once you die there is no way to ever reconnect with them again. Oh and the third one was when we all thought that Lisanna died, and thank Mavis that you didn't, she was one of the few friends that Natsu had at the guild at that time. If you think about it that is probably one of the reasons that Natsu is always putting his life on the line for us, now I know that it is definitely not his only reason, but he doesn't want to be abandoned ever again and who can blame him." said Mira as her glare intensified for what she was about to say next.

"So how do you think he felt every time you guys joked about kicking him off of the team, and thank god you guys were always joking. Or that is at least what I told him, but now I am not too sure if you guys were? So this might just be me, but I think that the real reason that Natsu left Fairy Tail was so that he wouldn't have to deal with being abandoned again, which if it happened again it would probably destroy him, so he left before it could happen. And honestly I don't really blame him for thinking that I might happen." said Mira while completely breaking down and crying in front of the whole guild.

Mira then took off out of the guild while still crying and forgetting that Natsu probably left her a gift of some sort. All that she was thinking right now was that she wanted to be alone. So she made her way to her house as fast as she could and once she got there she instantly went into her room and locked the door, and then threw herself onto her bed and continued to cry while holding a pillow and being in the fetal position. She was glade to get all of that off her chest, even though it might have been a little mean to put the blame completely on the guild and Natsu's old team specifically, but right now she really didn't care.

After a little bit she heard Lisanna inform her that if she needed anything that she would be just outside the door. Mira didn't say anything back to her, she really just wanted to be alone with her thoughts, actually what she really wanted was for Natsu to be there hugging her and telling her that everything was going to be okay. But she knew that wasn't going to happen so she settled for being alone, she then started to think to herself. Natsu do you know that you are now doing the one thing that you were afraid of everyone else doing to you, of course you did you big idiot, which is I guess why you left letters and gifts for a lot of the guild.

Oh no I didn't get Natsu's gift to me, if he even left me one thought Mira now causing herself to become even more depressed. Well I guess the only way to find out is to read his letter to me, Mira thought as she took the crumpled up letter out of her pocket and opened it to start reading.

Dear Mira

I am really sorry about this and I promise that I will definitely come back to talk with you sometime soon, as long as you promise to not beat me to a bloody pulp like Erza used to do, when we were little children, actually she still tries to do that even now. Once again I am sorry that I didn't talk to you about this before I left, but if I had I know that you would have talked me out of it and I couldn't have that. I know that you don't want to hear this, but I think that this is something that was bound to happen sooner or later. It will help me mature and grow up, like everyone at the guild wants, and who knows after a while I might return and become a Fairy Tail Wizard again, if the guild still wants me then, that is."

So I also wanted to let you know just how special to me you are. You are probably the most important person to me at the guild, and have been for quite some time, I was willing to do almost anything just to see that gorgeous smile of yours. You have also always been there for me, which is something that I will be forever grateful for, constantly reassuring me and telling me that I could do anything if I put my mind to it. You were also always willing to listen to me, and oh how I loved just talking to you about anything, from what was happening at the guild to what my last mission was like. I really appreciated it, and it made me feel really normal which is something that I don't feel that much of at all, because I really only feel that way when I am with you, Happy, or Lisanna. So to some it all up you are really special to me and I will make it up to you somehow, for what I just did, I don't know how yet but I know I will think of something, I always do hahaha.

Hopefully these gifts that I left you will be a start to making it up to you. So all of the gifts that I left you are all in one of the smaller chests and will only open to your touch. The first gift is a pair of diamond earrings and necklace that I thought would look beautiful on you, but that is just my opinion and I have never been really good with fashion especially when it deals with women. The next one is something that is extremely rare and don't even know if you will be able to use since it is not a demon soul, but I believe that you will be able to use it. It is the soul of a dragon from a very long time ago, and don't ask me how I got it, I will tell you that some other time. Now if you aren't able to use it, which I highly doubt will happen, I informed Lisanna that if it didn't work for you that you would let her try it, but just so you know she doesn't know that I gave you a dragon soul. All she knows is that I gave you something that you might not be able to use, so if that happens you will then give it to her to try.

So the last present that I have for you, is a special bracelet. I have been giving most of the people who received letters some way of contacting me, but yours is one of two that I am giving that will allow you to actually speak directly with me. In order to call me all you have to do is push down on the gem in the mouth of the dragon, and as long as I am free it will set up a telepathic link between us, oh and it will draw off of your magic to accomplish this. Now on my end I have a device that allows me to turn on or off these calls, if I have it set off it probably means that I am doing some sort of mission or something like that, if that is the case my device will show me that I missed a call from you and I will try and call you back and soon as possible. I am told that for you to answer a call from me it is the same as you calling me just touch the gem when the gem flashes, it should feel like my magic as well. The last and final thing that this bracelet can do is mainly for me since I will always be concerned about you while I am not around, is that if it gets destroyed or can no longer detect your magic it will pretty much send a distress signal alerting me of your last known location, and then I will be there as soon as possible. And if you are concerned about sleeping with it on it should be able to still detect your magic as long as you are in the same room, it can change its size so it can fit anyone. The final feature of the bracelet is that it will only come off if you want it to come off, unless someone breaks it of course, let's just hope that it never happens. Because if it did I don't even know what I would do to them, let's just say it wouldn't be pretty.

Oh and the other person who has something similar to this is Wendy, and I told her that if you two could keep this a secret that would definitely be appreciated. And like I told Wendy feel free to call me tonight, which I can guarantee that Wendy will do, but also feel free to call me whenever you feel like it. Well I guess that is all that I have to say for now, so I guess I will talk with you whenever you decided to call me.

Love Natsu Dragneel

After Mira read that she couldn't help but let out a small giggle and thought, still same Natsu concerned about someone else and wanting to help them feel better if he could. She also had a small smile on her face as she thought to herself. I see that you still have a problem confronting your own feelings, but who am I to judge I still have the same problem as well, but I am going to change that the next time we meet Natsu. She now thought while having a determined look on her face. She then sat up on her bed and wiped away her old tears and cleared her throat.

"Hey Lisanna, did you happen to bring a chest back with you?" asked Mira.

"No, was I supposed too?" questioned back Lisanna.

"No, it was Natsu's gift to me and I was just hoping that you grabbed it after I made that scene at the guild." replied Mira a little sad.

"Well if you want, I could go back and get it for you?" asked Lisanna.

"It's no big deal Lisanna, we can always get it tomorrow when we go back there." said Mira as she now opened the door.

"You're right, well is there anything you want to talk about?" asked Lisanna still concerned about her older sister.

"Yeah if you wouldn't mind, could we maybe talk about some of your favorite stories and memories of Natsu?" said Mira as a small blush made an appearance on her cheeks while for some reason looking slightly nervous.

"Sure, Mira I would love too." responded Lisanna as she sat down on Mira's bed, and patted the spot next to her, signaling for Mira to sit next to her.

Which she did and then the two sisters started to talk and reminisce about their pink haired dragon slayer friend. They continued to do this for a while laughing at all the fun that they had with Natsu, that is until the doorbell rang and interrupted them.

"Well I wonder who that could be at this hour?" asked Lisanna.

"Well there is only one way to find out Lisanna, let's go see who it is." replied Mira as she headed for the door.

End of Chapter

Author's Notes

Well I am not completely happy with how this chapter turned out, specifically Mira's part. I feel like I might have built it up with some of the other chapters and don't know if I delivered well enough. Well, what's done is done and it could have also been a whole lot worse. Well as always feel free to leave me a review and if you want you can tell me if I did deliver on this chapter.

Until the Next Chapter

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