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11:00am
Magnolia Hospital
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"It's been 2 weeks since Sleeping Beauty hasn't woken up yet, find out next time on-"
"Shut the fuck up, Gray. It isn't funny." The pink haired male rolled his eyes, taking a towel that was resting in lukewarm water and ringed it out in the bowl. He placed it on the sleeping, sky blue haired woman's forehead.
"Dude, come on, I'm trying to lighten up the mood. You've been here ever since her surgery."
A low growl escaped his lips, "Lightening up the mood, my ass... And I told you not to talk about that."
"Well it is something to talk about. You haven't exactly told us what happened, all you said was to meet you at the hospital. We still want answers."
"Gray, you're pushing your boundaries..." Natsu pulled the covers gently off of her body.
"Can you leave? I need to clean off her skin."
The raven-haired man sighed, "Alright, alright. I'm going down to the cafeteria to get a drink, want anything?"
"Water, thanks."
Gray gave his friend a worried look before exiting the white room. Once he left, Natsu got up and opened the door to make sure he was gone and that nobody else would come and disturb him. When she saw that nobody was there, he closed back the door and walked back to the bed.
Natsu sighed, slipping off thin material short sleeves from her shoulders and pulled it down a bit, he took the damp cloth and gently rubbed it all against her neck and down to her collar bone. She didn't move an inch.
It's been two weeks since Crystal went into a coma. Natsu hasn't left the hospital since, not after her surgery...
That surgery and her coma left him a broken man. He couldn't bare the thought that Crystal might never wake up again... Neither that his baby, that wasn't even born yet had to die... From that bastard, Taskimada.
What was he doing there anyways?
Why did he have to do that to her? She was innocent... She was perfect...
Then he had to go ruin their happiness. Natsu growled lowly.
As he was about to pull the thin, green material down further off of her body, three knocks came to the metallic blue door of the hospital room. Natsu groaned, pulling her sleeves back up to her shoulders and placing the towel back into the bucket of water.
"Come in."
The door opened, a man in a white coat came in, holding a clipboard. He had black, curly hair along with grey eyes.
"Mr. Dragneel? I told you about this already, we doctors have staff to clean her body."
Natsu shot the man a glare, "To hell with that. As if I trust her with you people, you couldn't even take her out of the coma she's in. I'll do the job, thanks."
"Mr. Dragneel..."
"You wanted something, Doctor...?" The doctor could tell the pinkette was getting impatient from the tone of his voice. He sighed.
"I told you about the insufficient rooms in the Hospital, correct?"
"Just get to the point already."
"Always so impatient..." He mumbled under his breath, "We have to take Mrs. Dragnela-"
"Dragneel." Natsu corrected.
"Righttttt... Mrs. Dragneel. We have to take her out of the hospital to deal with patients that are actually awake and not in a coma."
Natsu gave a light laugh, "So you're giving up on her, huh? Figures, as if you doctors actually care."
"No, sir. We care about everyone here but sometimes you need to sacrifice others so others can live, we can't assure you that she'll wake up."
"Yeah... Sacrifices... Like you know all about that. If you did, you would've kept her..." Natsu growled, "Even when I'm already depressed, you're taking her out of the hospital?!"
"Please understand."
"Oh, I understand that you're a complete jackass."
"I can call security."
"Call them. Let's see if they'll be able to pry me away from Crystal. I'm staying right here, and so is she." Natsu folded his arms, growling at the doctor like a wild animal.
The doctor let out a sigh, "She knew this would happen."
"She?"
"Stay here, I'll go get her."
"Where else am I gonna go then?" Natsu walked the doctor walk towards the door and peep his head outside, he saw him nod and heard a familiar woman's voice. Her scent was familiar as well.
Strawberry cake and rain...
The doctor opened the door and let the woman in. It was a scarlet haired woman who had her hair in a ponytail, she wore a white shirt along with black pants and held a bag. She also had dark circles under her eyes, she looked as if she hadn't slept in days.
"Erza... Wow, you actually agree to this?"
"We can take her back to..." Erza cleared her throat, "Back to Mirajane."
"And you still agree to this... Erza, she can get up at any time now! We just have to wait!"
"Comatose patients can take up to years to wake up, we can't give you that kind of luxury, Mr. Dragneel."
Natsu walked up to the doctor, glaring at him, "You can take her off that bed... Try and see if you'll have fingers left..."
"Is that a threat?" The doctor seemed amused.
"Do it and find out if it is, Doc..." A devilish smirk came to his face.
"Natsu, come on. I don't want to have to drag you anywhere."
"Erza, listen, stay out of it."
The scarlet haired woman sighed, "Yura misses you... She needs you right now, not to be here with her comatose mother and looking for false hope that she'll wake up."
"Are you saying she's not going to?" Natsu stared at Erza in disbelief.
"Of course not. I have faith that she'll wake up. But carry her home, we have all the medical supplies for her. And then you can actually get some sleep, you look terrible."
"You ain't lookin' too hot yourself."
Erza walked up to him, placing a hand against his broad shoulder, "Come home, Natsu. We all need you..." She peeked over to the bed where Crystal laid in, "Do you think she'd want to see you like this? Sleep deprived and depressed about her? Crystal doesn't even like us to have tears in our eyes because of her, do you think she would be happy with you looking like this?"
Natsu frowned, "You expect me to be all carefree and happy-go-lucky? When my fucking mate is in a coma and my unborn child... Is ... And..." He ran his fingers through his messy hair, "I'm not gonna put on fake smiles to make you happy, Erza."
"Not me... Her, come on. Please, Natsu."
His dark eyes looked at the sky blue haired maiden then back at Erza. With a loud sigh, he finally agreed to it.
The only reason he did it was because of her...
If it was up to him, he'd fight down these doctors to make her stay. Nobody else mattered, just her and her alone.
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3:10am
Natsu's House
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After Natsu agreed to take her out of the Hospital, he wasn't exactly willing to let her stay at the guild and leave him to go home. So everyone decided that he should take her to his house after he cleaned and tidied the place up for a comatose person to live in.
He hadn't gotten any sleep. Roughly seven hours a week, one hour a day. It wouldn't be a good, healthy sleep anyways, nightmares would only be the first thing he would dream. Always.
Since their house was burnt down and practically destroyed, Natsu took Crystal to his house where he originally lived that had mostly trees and hills nearby. She was lying on the pull-up couch he had since he didn't have a bed, he always use to sleep in the hammock, Yura slept there instead since she had no where else to go. It's only natural that the brunette would want to stay with her father.
Even so, Crystal had to have these clearish fluids hooked up to her 24/7, as Mirajane told him, she needed to be fed like how she normally would eat, time, 8:00am, 12:00pm and 6:00pm. They had to hook her up to a feeding tube that brings the fluids and nutrients directly to her stomach. She had to be watched all the time, she's supposed to be in intensive care unit of the hospital to be watched constantly.
But we all know how that went out. Porlyuscia told him that she'd come over from time to time to check up on Crystal. Porlyuscia also told him to try to prevent bedsores coming to her body from lying in one place too long.
It's stressful and frustrating to everyone...
The pinkette let out a sigh, he was tired, yes, but he wasn't going to let this comatose beat Crystal, she would wake up eventually and he would be right here to witness it.
It was pouring heavily outside, the rain beating against the glass windows.
"You know... Right about now you'd be in my arms, sleeping... 'Cause of the rain, you'd be cold..." Natsu gave a light chuckle, "Kinda funny how I... Remember the little things about you. Just the little things that count, you know?"
"What am I even doing..? Can you hear me? If you can, hurry up and wake up... You're tearing me apart here." He placed his hand on hers, "When you wake up, all my attention would be going to you... We'd spend so much time together and always be at each other's side... I'll protect you..."
Natsu sulked his shoulders, looking down at her stomach, "Since I obviously couldn't the first time..."
From all the noise from the rain and thunder, his hypersensitive ears picked up another sound. Knocks.
He raised an eyebrow, "Is someone actually at the door...? I really don't have the energy to fight anyone..."
Natsu got up from his sitting position and walked towards the door, he opened it to see a scarlet haired woman drenched in water holding a bag.
"Erza?"
"The rain came down when I was halfway here..." She blew some of the wet strands of hair out of her face, "Mind if I come in?"
"Well-"
"Thanks." Erza walked in quickly, Natsu closed the door.
"I didn't say you could come in."
"Too bad. I knew you weren't gonna kick me out, despite you being all depressed, you still have a heart." Erza reached into her bag and grabbed a towel, drying out her hair and skin.
"You do realize it's 3 in the morning, right?"
"And you do realize you should be sleeping at this time, right?"
Natsu folded his arms, "Touché."
"Anyways, what are you doing here?"
"Can I just see if Crystal and you are okay? I came to see how you both were doing."
The pink haired male rolled his eyes, groaning, "We're fine Erza."
"You're not fine, Natsu. I've known you for years, you can't just bounce back from something like this." Erza placed the towel down, letting her towel-dried, scarlet hair fall down her shoulders.
She walked over to the pull-out couch where she saw Crystal lying. Her chest raising slowly from every breath she took. The scarlet haired woman frowned as she looked back at Natsu who was doing the same thing.
"The truth is, I actually came to see how you were doing," Erza softly admitted.
"Me?" Natsu frowned, "How do you think I'm doing?"
"Horrible."
"There should be a new word for how I'm feeling right now... Came to see how I was doing, huh? I'm managing... Kind of."
"I know that you're beyond broken... I came to see that you didn't do anything... You know what I mean," Erza looked at him, "I know how drastic you can get."
"Really, Erza? I may be depressed but I'm not suicidal..." The pinkette stared back at Crystal, letting a small smile come to her face, "Knowing that some day she might wake up... That enough is worth living for."
"What about Yura?" Erza asked, raising an eyebrow at the sleeping girl in the hammock,
"I'll live for her as well, she lost her family or mother... At a young age. In a way, Yura kind of reminds me of Crystal in a way. The family part, at least."
"You have to live for everyone, Natsu."
"Erza, if you came here to lecture me-"
"No, no. I honestly came to see if you were alright," Erza smiled, "I wanted to see if you were okay, as I said before."
"I'm just peachy, Erza. Just peachy. But seriously, I won't do anything like that."
"You promise me?" Erza walked up to him, looking at him with her sleepless eyes, "Promise me..."
"I..." Tears formed in the pinkette's eyes, "I can't make a promise I can't keep..."
"Natsu..." The scarlet haired woman wrapped his arms around him, she felt his teardrops fall on her shoulders and soaking into the material of her long sleeved shirt.
"I wasn't there to save her... It's... It's all my fault..."
"You did the best you can, Natsu..."
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"That alone is enough. She'd be proud of you."
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Fairy Tail Guild
2:00pm
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"My children! As you all you know that one of our precious comrades are in a state of unconsciousness as of now!" The short old man stood on the second floor of the guild where everyone was looking up at him.
"And that left some of us in a state that which we thought all hope was lost, including myself and others. It's evident on their faces but I shall not call names," Makarov narrowed his eyes, "This had led to Crystal not being able to do certain things, as you all know that Crystal was pregnant for a time being as well but unfortunately, the pregnancy was terminated."
Some people gasped and murmured while others, like Natsu kept their heads low.
"It was terminated by the well known dark assassin; Taskimada. We may never know why he did it, we may never know what happened during the period that Crystal was inside that burning house. I had some people help me look through the rummage of the house but we found almost nothing except for a necklace and her Blue Fire Dragonslayer sword."
"But this has gone on long enough!" Makarov yelled, "Taskimada has been on the loose long enough and deserves to be stop! It ends here when he placed one of our own in a Coma!"
"Gramps..." The pink haired man clenched his fists, his veins pulsing through his forehead as he looked up at Makarov with sharp, cold, black onyx eyes, "THIS MEANS WAR!"
Everyone else shouted and yelled in agreement with Natsu, pumping their fists up in the air.
"Yes, indeed Natsu! We shall rage war upon the dark guild; Demonic Flame, and we shall end this trail of bloodshed and death that is left behind! Certain people would be chosen to go up against him and his guild, they are very powerful but know that everyone will be fighting! We could be looking for as powerful as The Nine Demon Gates since his guild has more magic users. Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Gray, Wendy, Mirajane, Gajeel, Levy, Juvia and Cana, please meet me upstairs!"
The names of the people he called followed him up to the second floor and into his office.
"I need all of you to get your head in the game. I know that Crystal being in the condition she's in is traumatizing to you all..." Makarov looked at Natsu, "Some more than others but if we want to get revenge for our nakama, we need to train. And train like we've never trained before, you 10 will be training the hardest."
"But I don't understand, Master. What exactly is so special about this dark guild? For one, they barely show their faces to the public," The blonde questioned.
"My dear Lucy, they are magic users. 10 of them, excluding Taskimada which is the Master. Now we don't know much about certain members, I have a little bit of information but I shall try to get more." Makarov cleared his throat as he went into the top drawer of his desk, taking out a file filled with papers and pictures. He showed them one of a young girl who had blank eyes along with very, very light blonde hair. Almost white.
"Her name is Maya. Maya the Wind Goddess of the Skies."
"Wind, seems like a perfect challenge for Wendy," Cana said, looking at the young bluenette, Wendy nodded in agreement.
"But she's just a little girl..." Gray sweatdropped.
"She may look little but I can assure you that she's older than every one of you combined, including me."
"Oh..."
The scarlet haired woman picked up a photo that was in the file, it was a girl who had dark pink hair that was in a bun with hair flowing down in the back of it. She had some types of paper between her fingers that had Japanese symbols on it.
"Haruka Yuuki. She uses types of paper that she throws at you with traditional Japanese words written on it. Whatever word it is, for instance "explode", it will explode on you."
"Is she a magic user?" The petite blue haired woman asked.
"That, I do not know. I only got a bit of information and these pictures were hard to come by."
"Whatever, screw all these people." Natsu growled, "It's Taskimada I'm after."
"I don't think that's a good idea, Salamander. Cheerleader always wanted to beat him for herself," Gajeel objected to his decision, making Natsu click his tongue at him.
"Crystal-chan always talked about going after Taskimada herself since he killed her family and other innocents. Juvia stands by Gajeel-kun's decision."
"Well Crystal isn't here, now, is she? That bastard put my mate in a coma, he killed her family, he killed thousands of people and he killed my unborn child. I'm not letting that fucker live, when I see him, he'll wish he never fucked with Fairy Tail. With us."
"Now listen, flame-for-brains, Crystal would be pissed at you if she found out you killed him."
"Besides..." The white haired beauty interrupted, "Taskimada has blue flames, it may be more powerful than yours Natsu."
"Blue flames ain't gonna do shit, I can't wait to see that bastard's face and burn him to a crisp."
"Alright, alright, settle down," Makarov disturbed them, "These magic users aren't exactly born with these. There's something called a 'lacrima'. These lacrimas are inside of you phones that gives it other features other phones don't have. Taskimada has been traveling around the world looking for these lacrimas because they are beyond rare. Some are plain, is the magical ones you have to look out for."
"These 'larcrimas' are located out of Japan?" Lucy asked.
"They are said to be here since ancient times but nobody knows the real reason why and how they got here. It's scattered throughout the world. These magical lacrimas can be converted into magical energy and can be transferred into the human body."
"How do you know this, old geezer?" The raven haired man raised an eyebrow.
"Because Laxus has one inside him."
"Artificial then."
"But is still very powerful. I'm going to try and find these lacrimas for you 9, excluding Natsu since he already has his Fire Dragonslayer magic."
"You know..." Everyone turned to face the pinkette, "You never actually told us how you got it."
"It's a lacrima, had it in me since I was small," Natsu shrugged his shoulders with a nonchalant stare.
"Makes sense."
"Anyways, while I'm finding these along with some other members of the guild, you all will be training your asses off." Makarov smiked, "For Crystal, for everyone."
They all nodded.
"Now go."
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"I'm home, Porlyuscia," The pink haired male walked through the wooden door of his house, looking inside and saw the old pink haired woman sitting by the pull-out couch that Crystal laid in.
"You're back early. I thought that Makarov would've kept you back a bit to talk to you."
"Well he did to all of us," Natsu looked around, "Where's Yura?"
"Yurachiiro's sleeping in the hammock."
"Really?" Natsu made his way towards the hammock, seeing the sleeping brunette curled up in a ball like a baby.
"Get your rest sweetie, you're gonna need it," Natsu bent forward and placed a kiss on her forehead, walking towards the bed where Porlyuscia and Crystal were.
"Did you give her lunch already?" He asked.
"Yes, I did. Also, she's been in this dress for such a long time, you should change her," The old pink haired woman suggested, looking at the light green hospital dress she wore. The hospital let them keep it, they had over hundreds of them afterall.
"Yeah, I should," Natsu walked over to the pile of clothes, he left some of his clothes here and well, the rest got burnt in the fire. He took one of his black shirts and went back over to the two.
The bluenette was short, it was like a dress on her 5'6 body compared to Natsu's 5'9 body. The pinkette let out a sigh as he placed the shirt down, he thought about how he was going to get this off her when she had the tubes in her hands. Natsu looked Porlyuscia.
"We have to take out the tube in her hand in to take it off."
"That won't be necessary, Natsu. Can't you just cut it off her body? She needs to be on these fluids all the time, not one second can go by when she's without it."
"Fine, fine," A small flame lit on his finger, he raised her up gently and burnt off the sleeves around her both her shoulders, ripping it off but was still cautious about the roughness. The small flame burnt off the neckline of the light green dress, leaving it strapless on her bust.
From here, it would be easy.
Porlyuscia raised her up so that he can pull down the thin fabric off of her fragile body. He pulled it all the way down to her stomach then he stopped at her lower abdomen. There was a large scar there going across that was rigid, still red, it wasn't fully healed yet.
This made his stomach churn, to know what the scar was from... Was just... Heartrenching for the pink haired male, he grimaced and gritted his fangs, still staring at the scar.
"Sorry, I..." He paused, "I need to go outside for a bit, you change her."
Natsu's fingers traced over the fresh scar, tears threatening to come to his dark orbs but he held them back. Instead, he got up and walked out the front door into were the trees and hills were.
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"DAMMIT!" Blood rolled down the pink haired man's knuckles as his fist rested upon a tree, scaring away some if the birds that were in it.
"SCREW THIS! SCREW IT ALL!" Flames erupted around him, burning some of the plants and trees, making some of the trees fell to the ground with a loud thud that scared off the forest animals.
He was pissed, he was angry.
He didn't know how to control it... She was always there to help him.
But now that Crystal's not here, what was he supposed to do..?
The pinkette sighed, his flames dying down as he fell to the ground on a pile of dried up leaves.
"Crystal's in a coma, Taskimada is no where to be found and the guild's depressed. I'm depressed..." He rested his hands on his face, "I need to let off some steam... Maybe I should go on a mission by myself before we have to train... Yeah, I should. What do you think, Cr-..." Natsu stopped himself before he could finish the sentence, instead, he stared up at the branches and tall trees that covered most of the blue sky.
"Shit, now I'm all depressed again."
The sound of leaves crunching next to him made him turn his head, a small, brown squirrel was walking towards him with an acorn in its paws.
"Squirrel. Hello there, you probably heard me being all loud and such."
The squirrel tilted its small head, looking at him with its beady eyes.
Natsu frowned, "You remind me of when Crystal and I use to come here when we were teens..."
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"Don't scare it away..."
"Alright, alright,"
The young bluenette teen gave him a handful of acorns and different types of nuts, carefully approaching a small family of squirrels. Natsu held out his hands to the squirrels but they only ran away.
"I hate this."
"You have to be gentle and calm, Natsu," She took some of the acorns that were in the little pouch she carried around her waist and inched towards them slowly, putting out her hands and waited for one to come.
The littlest squirrel left the family and went by Crystal. The little creature hesitated before taking an acorn from her open palms and scurried away back to its family. The bluenette gave a slight giggle.
"See? You just have to be patient," Crystal smiled at the pink haired boy.
"Yeah, whatever..." Natsu pouted, turning away while blushing.
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"Those were the days when we didn't have to worry about anything... I wish I could just go back, just to see her one last time... Awake... You understand, little squirrel?" Natsu looked at the squirrel.
The squirrel came closer and dropped the acorn near him before running off somewhere in the bushes. The pinkette took up the acorn and looked at it.
"That's nice, I guess... Maybe you did understand me."
Natsu softly smiled, "That's actually the first time I've smiled since... That... Thanks little squirrel. I needed someone or... Some thing to talk to."
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