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The sounds of sirens, people yelling and screaming was all the bluenette could here. The officers telling her to come down from the roof and surrender.
Who the fuck do they think they are? Crystal's eyes were half open, her breathing was slow as she laid their in a puddle of her own blood. She stared at the orange haired man next to her, scowling at his dead body. She wasn't worried about the officers, hell, she didn't even care if they held her at gun point and unmask her.
All she cared about is how she was going to apologize for all the shit she put them all through. Especially bringing the milltary, the police, the fire department, the ambulance and everyone else. If she wasn't so naive...
If she wasn't so stupid to actually trust the man who took her innocence and broke her.
She would've actually enjoyed this vacation. So called "mission" when they were actually trying to cheer her up, it was getting close to that day afterall. Crystal frowned, her head hurt alot. She bruises and cuts burned from the cool breeze hitting it. It was sundown. Almost night. She cringed.
Her eyes were starting to close, she was drifting off into the darkness. Suddenly she heard someone yell her name, gunshots going off and shouting. Her eyes widened in alarm.
"CRYSTAL! I'M COMING, HOLD ON!"
Who was that? She couldn't even make out the person's voice. Sounded so familiar... She just couldn't seem to grasp onto it. The door to the rooftop was kicked open. All she was a pink blur moving towards her. It held her head and another arm wrapped around her exposed waist.
"Crystal? Crystal! Snap out of it come on!"
Crystal saw two off the pink blur but soon her vision wasn't as blurry. She could've made out the person.
"N-natsu...?" She asked softly, her voice dry from all her screaming and crying. Natsu smiled with joy as he held her closely to his chest, her face face blank.
"Thank Mavis you're alive! Jeez, I thought you were dead!" Natsu cracked a laugh.
"I... I heard gunshots... Are you okay..?"
Natsu nodded.
"Yeah, they tried to shoot me but couldn't! They can't even aim straight. You should've seen the look on their faces when they missed!" He grinned.
His heartwarming grin made her smile softly. The pinkette picked her up bridal style, trying not to hurt her too much, so much wounds on her fragile frame. He jumped off from the roof, landing perfectly on the ground. When Natsu was about to turn around, a gunshot went off, his eyes trailed to the officers who held up guns at him.
"That was a warning shot. Surrender now and face your penalty! We will not hesitate to shoot!" The captain said. Natsu growled lowly as he turned around to glare at them.
"The fuck is wrong with you people? Why the hell can't you just leave us alone! We ain't doing shit to you!" Natsu exclaimed. Crystal tugged on his scarf, her red tipped fingers leaving bloodstains on it but that didn't matter.
"You call killing people is nothing?! You all are monsters!"
"If we're the monsters the what hell does that make you! It's your "oh so great" Princess and King who created these guilds a long time ago! We're just doing our-!" Natsu stopped as he saw the bluenette slowly closing her eyes.
"Shit, she's losing consciousness..."
Natsu sighed and turned his back when he heard the guns up again. But this time, a small voice was heard.
"W-wait! Don't shoot them! They're not bad people!"
He turned around again. Crystal looked over to the girl, she had light brown hair and ice blue eyes, that girl she saved earlier.
"Riyoku you get back here young lady!" A dark haired woman called.
"Probably her mother..." Crystal said in her mind. Riyoku spread her arms out, shielding the couple from them.
"The blue haired woman saved me! She saved me even when she was hurt! She's not bad at all! Don't shoot her! And her friend might be good too!" Riyoku explained to the officers.
"Listen kid, assassins are not good people, they are bad people who need to be punished for their crimes." The captain said.
"They're not!" She ran over to them, shocking everyone. The captain signalled them to stand down. Riyoku smiled at the bluenette.
"I know you're not a bad person! You should go take care of yourself before it gets worst!" She grinned. Crystal was shocked herself, first time a citizen saw her and excepted her for who she is. Flaws and all. Crystal softly smiled.
"You're a good girl... Take care of yourself, okay?" Crystal reached out her hand and caressed her face.
"Go back to your mother..."
With those words, Natsu ran with her in his arms not caring about anyone else.
"We're going to see Master Makarov. We're leaving tonight.." Natsu told Crystal. She nodded sadly.
...
~At the outskirts of Sakura Island.
...
At the outskirts of Sakura Island, stood all the members who came on the trip. Nobody was there except for them.
"When do you think they'll be back?" Erza asked the short old man.
"They will be back soon, I'm sure of it." Master reassured Erza with a gentle smile.
The pinkette was running towards them until Crystal stopped him.
"What's the matter?"
"There's something I have to do." She simply said as she jumped out of his arms, white needles striking painfully in her legs but limped towards the others.
"M-master..." She stuttered out. Everyone turned around, gasping at the wounds on her body. Her assassin suit torn up to bits, cuts and bruises on every inch of her body. Blood leaking from everywhere along with dry blood. Master faced her.
"I'm... I'm so sorry." She apologized with tears in her eyes, not having the courage to look him in the eyes.
"Ah child, you've been through so much lately but don't let it ger you down.." Master said. Crystal bent her head in shame.
"Yeah... Let's see a smile, Chrissy-chan." Crystal looked over to the voice.
"Levy..."
"That's my name!" She winked. "Listen, we understand what happened but there's not a single person here who thinks you're to blame."
Crystal gawked in disbelief at the short bluenette.
"No... It was all my fault! I was the one who set up the bombs in the hotel, I was the one who lead him to where we were staying, I was the one who put you all in danger! Because of me, you all and the rest of the city could've been killed!" She confessed. Everyone gave her a sympathetic look. Tears streamed down the bluenette's face.
"I... I... I'M SO SORRY! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!"
The white haired woman walked up to her distressed friend and embraced her tightly.
"I haven't the lightest clue of what you went through... Crystal, we forgive you. You beat Blaze so there's no reason for you to be sad..."
Crystal shook her head constantly and pushed her away harshly.
"NO!" She covered her face. "How can you all forgive me for all the shit I've put you through?! I almost killed Natsu... I almost-!"
"That doesn't matter now." Gray stepped in. "You saved the city, you sacrificed everything to save us. Look at you, all the evidence is on you. You could barely even walk."
"B-but..."
"Juvia knows that Crystal-chan didn't mean it. She knows that Crystal-chan misses her family and would do anything to ger them back. Unfortunately, the dead can't be brought back to life.." She said softly. Crystal frowned and clenched her fists.
"Crystal..."
She turned to see him. Makarov faced the sunset, his arms behind his back.
"Though we may not be able share our feelings of happiness and sadness entirely, we do share them at some point. That's what happens in a guild. One person's happiness becomes everyone's happiness, one person's anger becomes everyone's anger and one person's tears becomes everyone's tears. So there's no reason for you to feel guilty, so don't cry. You should already know how much everyone here cares about you..."
Crystal had her face covered by her hands crying.
"Hold you're head high my dear. Because you are a proud member of the Fairytail Family." He faced her and smiled.
Her tears dropped to the ground as she released her hands from her face, gritting her teeth. Crystal shut her eyes close then broke down in tears, falling to her knees. Everyone smiled, Erza sighed happily, Gray smiled and Lucy nodded. Juvia went over and hugged her, Natsu grinned widely.
"I'm so sorry... " She whispered as she held the bridge of her nose, sobbing quietly in Juvia's arms. Juvis ran her fingers through her hair in soothing comfort.
"Well I'm glad that's settled, The King and Princess would be furious for us causing so much damage. I hate to think it but I might even be facing... Prison time!" Animated tears flow down the Master's face making everyone sweatdrop.
"Master!"
...
Fairytail's Imfirmary.
September 12th
They all left Sakura Island that night without a trace. Everyone was happy to see their assassin members but was shocked at the state the bluenette was in. Bruises and cuts all over her fragile body. They all quickly rushed her to the imfirmary. Well to clean all the cuts, they had to send all men outside since they had to change her clothes. Obviously she couldn't do it herself. Wendy and Porlyusica gave her medicine, Cana and Erza patched up her wounds and Mirajane and Lisanna cooked for her.
It had been a few days since she was in the imfirmary. They always came to visit her and bring her gifts. She was grateful for her friends. Team Natsu (excluding herself), just came back from a 2 week mission. A knock came to the door. The pinkette opened the door and grinned widely at the bluenette who sat in bed. He stepped in and closed it.
"Morning Chrissy! Feeling better?! Came back as soon as possible to see how you were doing!" Natsu walked and took a seat beside her, lresting a plastic bag on the counter next to her phone.
"Good morning Natsu. How was the mission?" She asked sweetly.
Natsu rubbed behind his neck. "W-well.."
"Did you blow up stuff again? " Crystal raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah..."
Crystal giggled, Natsu finding the gesture cute. "Well that's sounds like you." She smiled.
The early morning sun shone upon her silky sky blue tresses, making it shine. Her red glasses sat upon her dark blue eyes, they were calm and peaceful. A gorgeous smile against her pretty pink lips. Natsu found himself blushing.
"Did she ever look this... Angelic?" Natsu thought. On that note, he took the bag off his lap and took out a white box. He handed it to her.
"Hope you like it! I know that you took alot of damage to your stomach and Mira said that you're allowed to eat these things now so open it! " Natsu grinned. Crystal smiled as she opened the box. A slice of sponge cake decorated with strawberries and creamy vanilla icing. A piece of chocolate sat right at the center.
"Natsu... It's beautiful, thank you but you didn't have to waste your money on me."
"Nah I didn't waste any money. You can walk properly and stuff now right?"
She nodded.
"But my hands are still a little sore, I did use them alot during the fight." She looked down at her bandage wrapped fingers, sighing deeply. Natsu let a smirk creep to his face.
"I'll feed it to you!" He smirked, getting up in the process watching the bluenette blush.
"I-I can feed myself!" She protested.
Natsu wiggled his finger and shook his head side to side.
"Nuh-uh-uh! You're hands are sore and I'm going to feed it to you cause I'm your friend and I'll get a fork from Mira!" He grinned.
"More like a pervert out of a anime scene..." She murmured. Natsu patted her head and went in her face. His hot breath tickled her nose, it was warm like a campfire and smelled like cinnamon. Honestly, she didn't have a problem with it.
"What was that?"
"N-nothing!"
"Good, I'll be back with the fork!" He walked towards the door and left. She sighed.
"Peace and quie-" Her phone rang, interrupting the silence in the room. Crystal groaned as she reached over to it and saw who was calling her.
"Good thing she doesn't have a phone like the assassins.. She'd be able to see me." She pressed answer and placed the phone by her ear.
"H-hey Yukiko-"
"HOW LONG ARE YOU GONNA STAY AWAY FROM SCHOOL I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL BEAT YOUR ASS WHEN I SEE YOU AGAIN, BASTARD! THE PROFESSOR'S BEEN ON MY TAIL FOR WEEKS! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?! YOU DIDN'T ANSWER ANYONE'S CALLS AND IM WORRIED! ARE YOU OKAY SWEETHEART?!"
"Welp, I just went deaf." The bluenette sarcastically said, rolling her eyes. "And yes, I'm fine Yukiko."
"Why aren't you coming to school!?"
Crystal bit her bottom lip. "I was on vacation." She lied.
"Oh so vacation's more important than College?!" Yukiko yelled.
"Jeez you're really gonna make me deaf with all your yelling. I just wanted to take a break. Ill be back by next week, promise. I'll even buy you candy." She smirked.
"If you think bribing me is gonna get you out of trouble, you're dead wrong young lad-!"
"Creampuffs and chocolate for a month."
There was a silence on the phone for a moment.
"Fine. But I'm gonna slap you still. Bye!~" With that, the phone hung up. Crystal placed it back on the small table by the hed but what she didn't know is that the pinkette was leaning against the doorframe.
"Who was that?"
His voice made her squeak but then breathed in.
"Oh, it's just you. And it's a friend of mine from College."
Natsu took a seat next to her.
"You go to College?" He asked, "Since when?"
"Since like, 2 years ago."
"What College?"
"Magnolia College or people call it, University."
Natsu looked at her in disbelief. "No fucking way! I mean, I went there but you? You're so much smarter than that school! Why didn't you go Crocus or Edolas?! Lisanna went Edolas, you can too!"
Crystal frowned.
"Well Lisanna had Mira pay for her schoolings. Master paid for me and Erza and well that was all he could afford." She explained.
"Uhuh. So I got the fork!" Natsu took the box from her lap and stuck the fork in it. Picking up a piece of the cake and putting it right beside her mouth. "Say 'ahh!'"
"I-I can feed myself Natsu!" She blushed.
"Want me to force you?" He smirked. Crystal eventually gave up and opened her mouth. This cake was heavenly. The sponge cake was so fluffy, the vanilla icing was sweet and light, the strawberries added a citrus flavor and the piece of chocolate kicked everything off.
"DELICIOUS!" She exclaimed. Natsu laughed.
"I knew you'd like it. A sweet thing like you is attracted to other sweet things. Its only natural." He smiled at her.
Did he... Did he just... Flirt...? Natsu Dragneel?!
She blushed 50 shades of Erza's hair, her face red from embarrassment as she fiddled with her fingers and turned her head to the side, looking at the open window, the white curtains blowing with the wind.
"Oi weirdo, you got something on your face."
"Tell me where it is, I'll get it myself." She still wasn't looking at him. Natsu cupped her face making her face him.
"Here."
He pressed his lips against hers, licking her lips of the sweet flavor of the vanilla that was on. He pulled away, biting her bottom lip when he did so.
"Got it." The pinkette smirked slyly.
Crystal's face was bright red, steam coming out of the top of her head. She slipped out of bed, stumbling but stood up straight.
"Y-yeah um... I gotta go do stuff... now..."
She picked up the white box and scurried towards the door but was onky grabbed and forcefully pushed to the wall beside the door, making her drop the box but the cake was fine.
"Where do you think you're going?" He asked huskily, his face so close to her that she could practically taste his breath. Crystal gulped as she moved her hand towards the door, trying to reach for the doorknob. He pinned her hands above her head and snaked his other arm around her waist.
"I-I... I um..." She gasped as she felt a warm, wet tongue across her neck sending shivers up the bluenette's spine. She squinted her eyes shut as she waited for what to happen, a bright pink blush imprinted on her cheeks. Instead, she heard chuckling.
The bastard. Was. Laughing. Crystal opened one eye and saw Natsu laughing at her then he grinned widely.
"Oh lighten up. I was just teasing." He stuck his tongue out at her. Her eyes were wide, her jaw dropping. She felt like an idiot. She felt so dense.
She felt like Natsu when he didn't get romance jokes.
"E-eh?!"
"When we were on the mission, Gray dared me to make you blush really hard. I guess I took it too far."
...
~flashback after the fight.
Gray and Natsu sat down at the steps of the house they were staying at.
"Oi flamebrain."
Natsu looked over to the bare chested man.
"Yeah snow fairy?"
"I dare you to make Crystal blush really hard when we get back. 5000J if you do." He smirked.
"Challenge excepted!"
The flashback ended.
...
"I was an idiot to think otherwise." Crystal sighed in her mind. Natsu held her chin in his fingers, raising her head up.
"Hey come now. We can still finish if you want..." He purred.
"PERVERT!"
Crystal picked up the box and huffed at him as she opend the door and walked outside. He followed behind her.
"Hey! You're not mad at me are you?"
She hmph-ed and walked down the stairs of the second floor. There she was greeted and welcomed with compliments.
"Hey Chrissy, you feeling any better?"
"Juvia hopes that Crystal-chan is rested!"
"How are you feeling?" And so on. She smiled at everyone who cared about her wellbeing. She felt special and warm inside. Crystal went over to the bartable where she sat down.
"Good morning Crystal! Feeling better?" Mirajane smiled.
"Morning Mira! I feel fine, don't worry!"
"Liar." Natsu simply said.
"I'm fine, baka!" She snapped.
Natsu had his arms crossed and raised a brow at the bluenette.
"She's not fine. Her hands are sore and she has a high fever." Natsu told the white haired beauty.
"I'm fine!"
"Liar."
"Idiot!"
"Want me to make you blush again?"
Crystal instantly shut up and narrowed her eyes.
"Yeah I have a fever, so what? In perfectly fine. Just sign me out Mira, I'm going home. I don't want to burden you anymore." She said.
"Crystal..."
"I said, sign me out Mira." She saif firmly. Mirajane sighed and took out a piece of paper and pen from under the counter, she gave Crystal the pen and paper.
"Just sign your name at the bottom of the paper."
She signed her name at the dotted line at the bottom of the paper. "Thank you Mira."
"Make sure to come back whenever you need to, okay?"
Crystal nodded and sat up from the chair. Natsu placed a hand on her shoulder, looking the other way.
"You could go home, I have to talk to Gray and the others. Won't be back till evening."
The bluenette shrugged her shoulders and proceeded to walk towards the guild doors.
"Are you sure you can go home by yourself?" Gray asked, concered for his dear friend. She had bandages wrapped around her head and arms. Her jeans were covering the ones on her legs. Right when she was about to push open the door, she stopped.
"Do I look like a child? I take care of myself. I did so ever since I was little, don't ask me again." She mumbled coldly and walked out the door.
"Fine then, be a bitch." Gray pouted. "She'll be fine once she gets some rest."
"Hopefully. This is getting close to that day, we have to watch out for Erza and Crystal." Mirajane warned.
"Yeah..."
The bluenette walked the busy streets of Magnolia, people glancing at her from time to time. She didn't like the attention, she just wanted to be alone for a while. Once she reached Strawberry Street, the fishermen that were sailing in a boat on the river. They called over to her.
"Back from another job, Crystal?" They called her. She turned to face them, she forced a smile.
"Oh no no. I fell down really badly." She lied.
"Tell Lucy we said hi!"
"Will do!"
Crystal waited until they were gone then pulled out her keys. She opened the double doors and went inside but stepped on something. She looked at her feet and saw mail on the floor. The sky blue haired woman picked it up and read it. She smiled.
"He paid my water and light bill. I'll have to thank Natsu for that."
She placed the mail on her living room table then walked upstairs to her bedroom. Crystal looked around her room, it was the same way she left it.
"So he didn't touch anything..." She went over to her desk with all her books and papers were. She took a piece of paper from the stack and a pen. The bluenette jumped as something came on her lap, she looked down and sighed in relief.
"Happy... Don't scare people like that..." She giggled at the cat. This is Natsu's cat, Happy. He has blue fur and is very mischievous. He's usually in Natsu's arms or on Lucy, Mirajane and Crystal's laps. Happy always likes to eat fish and always tries to give them to Carla, Wendy's cat. Zhe picked up the blue feline and placed him on the floor.
"What mischief have you been up to, eh Happy? Better not scratch any of my stuff or else Natsu will pay for your crimes." She smiled and went back towards she was doing. Happy jumped up on the desk and sat there, he meowed. The woman petted his head.
"I guess Natsu was here this morning and ran to the guild to see me... You must be hungry."
Happy purred into the palm of her hand.
"I'll get you some fish right after I finish writing." Crystal placed the black ink pen on the paper and started writing. When she was finished, she signed her name at the bottom and sat up, stretching her aching limbs.
"Come on Happy." The cat followed behind her to downstairs in the kitchen. She stood in shock at all the dirty dishes, food and garbage everywhere. A vein popped out of the bluenette's head but calmed herself down.
"I'll deal with him when I get back." Crystal went towards the fridge and opened it. At least there was alittle bit of food in here. She took out a fish and gave it to happy where he munched on it.
"Good boy." Crystal walked back upstairs and Happy followed with the fish in his mouth. Crystal grabbed her purse from the bed, her phone and some money.
"I know you can understand me, no scratching anything. I'll be back before dark, okay?" She picked him up and hugged him. She placed him on the bed and went to the door, she closed it and left the house.
"Just going for a visit."
..
~2:00pm
Strawberry Street, Crystal's House.
...
Natsu, Gray, Erza and Lucy entered her house.
"Crystal! I'm home!" Natsu yelled out to her but got no answer.
"Are you sure she's home?" Titania asked the pinkette.
"Yeah she said she was going home." Gray said.
"Empathis on "home"."
Nastu sweatdropped. "Empa-wha?"
"Natsu, the big people are talking." Lucy shook her head in disappointment.
"I'm older than you and Erza!"
Erza glared at them both, making them shut up.
"Anyways, search the house. We'll look for her."
Natsu and Lucy took upstairs while Erza and Gray took downstairs. The upstairs of her house had three bedrooms, her and Natsu's room and two empty ones and of course the attic on the third floor. Natsu searched their bedroom while Lucy searched the others.
"She's not here!" Natsy yelled to Lucy.
"She's not in these rooms either!"
Natsu groaned as he ran his fingers through his hair, sighing in frustration. He looked to the bed, seeing a blue cat sleeping on it, the skeleton of a fish by him.
"How did I not notice this before?" Natsu went over and picked up the sleeping feline and held him in his arms.
"So she was here if you had fish..." Natsu thought. The others came upstairs.
"We searched everywhere, she's not here and no way in hell she would be in the attic." Gray said. Erza was in a towel, her hair up in one.
"Seems like she's not home." Erza nodded to herself.
"Yeah, no shit Sherlock." Gray sweatdropped.
"Well we haven't checked the bathroom yet." Everyone gulped.
"If she's in there... We're screwed." Gray opened the door with a bright red blush on his face.
"Sorry about this but-" He looked to the bathtub and saw Natsu sitting in it.
"Nah she ain't here."
"When did you get in here?!"
"Guys... You might wanna see this..." Lucy said shakily. Everyone went next to her and saw the paper she held in her hand. Lucy's hands were shaking.
"She said, she's going home..."
Everyone was starting to get worried.
"No... She couldn't mean that... But this is her home..."
A loud bang on the wall made everyone jump in alarm. Natsu's eyes dark as he growled lowly, pieces of the wall fell from his hands from the force he used, Happy still in his hands.
"If she does what I think she's gonna do, she's got another thing comin'. We have to find her, now."