Chapter 10: Silence Doesn't Help the Pain
Everyone ran into the room as soon as Lucy had fallen. Natsu was the first to get to her side. He lifted her face out of her pool of blood and checked for a pulse. It was faint and slowing down, but her pulse was there. Lucy's breathing was shallow as Natsu picked up Lucy and put her in Erza's arms.
"You need to get her back to a hospital or Fairy Tail quickly. You go too, Happy. Gray and I can handle this bastard. Then we'll pick up the reward and head to the guild, okay?" Natsu said. It was obvious to hear how pissed her was that someone has hurt his nakama. Erza sighed and looked at Natsu.
"I can't leave without you two. So I'll bring Lucy to a hospital then come back. If you're done before I come back go to the hospital," Erza explained. Gray and Natsu nodded, they then turned around to face Sir Evergreen. He was laughing like a maniac at the sight of all the blood. Gray and Natsu looked at each other, gave a slight nod, than charged at Sir Evergreen.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist," Natsu yelled as he charged. Anger shown in Natsu's eyes, a look that showed that he was ready to kill or horribly injure the man in front of him.
"Ice-Make: Lance," Gray yelled. He extended his arms forward. When he did this, long curved lances of ice shot out at all directions; their goal was to impale Sir Evergreen from where he stood. Sir Evergreen dodged Natsu's blow, but was hit with a few of Gray's lances.
One of Gray's lances had ripped the entire right sleeve off of Sir Evergreen's shirt. Another had cut deeply into his left leg. A third lance had nicked the man's cheek, and the last lance that had hit had barely touched Sir Evergreen's stomach.
"Damn it! Again," Natsu yelled as he tried the same attack. Once again, Sir Evergreen dodged the blow. Natsu kept using the attack until it was a flurry of fists of fire and dodges.
"Try something else you idiot! Ice-Make: Ice Cannon," Gray yelled. This time, a bazooka-like hand-held cannon made out of ice formed in Gray's hands. He then fired a cannonball made out of solid ice towards Sir Evergreen.
"I was just about to you stupid snowman," Natsu yelled. Natsu then waited to see what would happen to Gray's cannonball. Natsu wasn't stupid enough to attack when ice was heading at the enemy. Natsu was smart enough to know that fire melts ice and that ice turns to water. Water isn't going to be a real damage dealer in this battle. Sir Evergreen was hit in the stomach with the cannon ball. He slammed into the wall and coughed up blood. He fell to his knees, but stood back up and laughed histerically.
"It'll take more than that to get rid of me! Forbidden Magic: Shadow Ball," Sir Evergreen yelled. Darkness came from the shadows around the room and into his hand in the shape of a sphere. Sir Evergreen then threw the sphere towards the two boys. Natsu dodged the attack, but Gray was hit full force in the stomach.
"Crap," Gray coughed when he felt the sphere make contact with his stomach.
Natsu glared and charged at the man in front of him, "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" His fist made contact with Sir Evergreen's stomach. Sir Evergreen was slammed against the wall. Natsu then continued to pumble Sir Evergreen with punches. After several punches, Sir Evergreen fainted from the amount of damage he took.
Natsu then threw Gray over his shoulder and dragged Sir Evergreen by his collar. Natsu walked out of the mansion and headed to the hospital. When he got there, he met up with Erza. Erza had collected the reward and all of their luggage. Lucy was still in the hospital, her room was 309. Natsu left Sir Evergreen tied up with the luggage. Gray then woke up and stood up by himself.
"Is Lucy doing ok," Gray asked Erza.
"No, she's in critical condition. The only thing they can do here is wrap up her wounds so they don't bleed as badly as they were. She needs to be brought back to Fairy Tail as fast as possible. Let's go grab Lucy, she should be all wrapped up by now," Erza said. The group of three walked into the hospital and went to room 309.
Happy was in the room, sitting on the bed next to a fainted Lucy. Happy sighed as he looked at Lucy. Her eyes were closed and her breathing was shallow. Her cuts were covered in bandages and slowly turning red from her blood soaking into the bandages. Everyone was quiet as they looked at Lucy. Erza picked Lucy up and headed downstairs.
Natsu, Gray, and Happy followed behind Erza. Erza carried Lucy to the train station with Gray and Natsu pulling the luggage. They then got onto the train and sat down. Natsu didn't complain about the train ride for once. Everyone was quiet on the ride, there wasn't even a sound.
Although everyone hoped that the quiet would make everyone forget, but it seemed to do just the opposite. The ride to Fairy Tail was awkward, and no one tried to start a conversation. It was unnatural for everyone, but none of them could be happy when their nakama was hurt.