Hope you all like it :). Worked hard on this :D
Play sad music during the sad parts to get the total effect. Sorry for spelling mistakes
I don't own Fairy tail. Unfortunately T^T.
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September 13th.
The outskirts of Magnolia.
8:50am.
The Fairytail assassins walked the streets of Magnolia. Talking and chatting as usual but they all came to an abrupt stop when they saw dozens of police cars in front of a dark alley. Police caution tape blocked all around them. Some of the officers came out of the alley looking like they've just seen a ghost, some even vomiting on the sidewalk. They all cringed at the sight. Crowds of people surrounded the tape, reporters videotaping as well.
What was so exciting about a dark alley way? This made the assassins curious. Very curious.
"What are all these people here for?" Lucy asked. Erza shrugged her shoulders with a confused expression.
"This can't be good. I'm starting to think that we should've stayed in Maiobushi for a while." Crystal suggested.
But, the smell! The smell that was coming from there! It was horrid. Was it a corpse? No, not that many police cars would be there if it was for just one corpse. Something else. Something big is in that alley and Crystal intended to find out. She pushed through the crowd of people and snuck underneath the tape. One of the officers held up their hand, forcing her to stop in her tracks.
"Stop right there ma'am. Only authorities beyond this point." The male officer said.
"Well. What's going on?" Crystal pryed the officer.
"We just found the location to where Blaze Kirishima was hiding out. What we found inside was even more tragic." The male officer cleared his throat, a disgusted look on his face.
"Did you say... B-blaze Kirishima?" Crystal repeated with wide eyes as she pointed to the alley. She got a closer look, a metal door with locks all around. Officers afraid to go in, fearing what they might find inside.
"We also found a unconscious, turquoise-blue haired girl inside a few days ago. She was taken to the hospital for all the wounds on her body. I still don't think she made it though. It's a possibly to cons-"
"WHAT'S HER NAME?!" Crystal was panicking, her eyes wide like dinner plates, her teeth gritted with a horrid expression on her face as she demanded the officer to tell her. The officer scratched behind his head, trying to remember.
"I think her name was... Lily Tsubaki. She was taken to Magnolia Hospital."
Everything in Crystal's world stopped. Everything in slow motion as those two words repeated in the back of her mind. Those two words would've been the end of her. Her eyes was still wide, her breathing hitched as she fell flat on the floor. Natsu and the others rushing through the crowd to her aid. On the floor next to the door, scratch marks and blood stains were there.
It made her sick to her stomach.
Her vision was slowly fading until someone was repeatedly shaking her, snapping her back to reality.
"Ma'am? Ma'am! Ma'am can you hear me?!"
"Crystal! Idiot just blacked out on us!"
"Should we call an ambulance?"
"Look! She's blinking! Is she okay still?"
Crystal rose from the ground, trying to catch her breath and calm down.
"I'm going to Magnolia Hospital." The bluenette picked herself up, a horrified and scared look on her face. She ran in the opposite direction, leaving all of them behind. She didn't care.
She didn't care that she left them all behind.
Run.
A action.
A verb.
That was all she had to do.
That word could save her life.
Save her childhood bestfriend's life.
Lily Tsubaki.
"She better be alive. She better be fucking alive! I'll never forgive myself if I let her die! Not another person! Not this time!"
Crystal ran through the crowds of the busy streets. Pushing everyone out of her way, the big white building with lots of windows and the red cross. Her destination. Crystal kicked open the glass doors and ran straight up to the counter where the nurse was. All the sick patients in the room were shocked at her.
"LILY TSUBAKI. ROOM NUMBER. WHERE IS SHE?!" The raging bluenette shouted, startling the poor nurse.
"Um... Floor 5, room 303-"
Without letting the nurse finish her sentence, she ran. Ran up so many flights of stairs, tripping and falling like the klutz she is. She stood in front of a white door. "Room 303, Patient: Lily Tsubaki. Approach with caution." Crystal took a breath, wiping all the sweat from her face. She slowly opened the door and stepped inside the room. The only sound that was heard was the heart monitor, beeping slowly.
The bluenette approached the sturquoise blue haired woman that laid in the hospital bed. A poisonous flower bloomed in her stomach as she felt sick again. The bluenette was reminded of the scars on her body, Lily had the same ones... but much worst. Crystal took a chair from beside her and sat closely to the hospital bed. The wounded woman turned her head slowly, a scar on her cheek along with bandages. The rest of her body was covered from neck down.
Lily Tsubaki is Crystal's childhood bestfriend. She has turquoise bluehair and cyan blue eyes and also flat chested. She was 18 when she met 13 year old Crystal. Now she's 28 years. Lily always use to stick up to her when bullies bullied her for no goddamn reason. Bloody hell, she use to chase them. Lily would always walk Crystal home from school and back to the guild. She didn't care that Crystal was an assassin either. They were sisters in a unique way.
Lily smiled weakly at the shaking bluenette.
"L-look at you..." Lily rasped. "All grown u-up. And still bigger than me... It's really a shame."
"Lily..." Crystal had tears in her eyes.
"So how's it been going...? I-I heard that you m-made so much friends... I'm r-really glad you're happy now..." Lily took her hands from under the covers. Her neck, hands and upper arms had stitches, red stained bandages wrapped around. A tube stuck out from her right hand, connected to a bag filled with red liquid that hung from the pole.
(Or whatever ya call it. -.-)
"Lily, I'm... I'm so sorry..."
"Sorry for what?" The woman raised an eyebrow at the bluenette.
"If I haven't left you... If I wasn't so selfish... You would still be..." Crystal squinted her eyes shut, letting the tears fall. A soft sigh was heard.
"You were always a crybaby, you know? Crying for every little thing. It's not your f-fault, baka." Lily rolled her eyes. Crystal looked over to her.
"It is-"
"How long are you gonna beat yourself up like this?!" Lily shouted, rising from her bed but only fell back down, coughing out blood unto the pillow.
"Lily! Hold on, I'll get the nurse!" When she was about to get up, Lily pulled her back down with the little strength she had.
"D-don't... My time's up already." Lily shook her head.
"W-what do you mean "my time's up already"?!" Crystal held unto the sides of the bed. Lily smiled, tears came dow her face, burning the scars and open cuts on her face.
"You know exactly what I mean. Nobody lives forever. People die, it's a natural thing."
"Don't talk like that!"
"You aren't a little kid anymore."
"Lily Tsubaki! You're not dying on me!"
Crystal placed her small hands up to her face, crying. Gritting her sharp fangs.
"Y-you always stood up for me! You...!" She couldn't finish her sentence.
"How long are you gonna keep crying, eh? You have your friends." Lily reassured her. Crystal frowned, taking off her glasses to wipe the tears.
"What is it all a-about? Memories? That I stood up for you? Bullshit. You're a strong girl. You know I'll always care about you. Even from beyond the grave." Lily smiled.
"A life without you is like a broken pencil... It's, pointless! You... can't do this to me..." The turquoise blue haired woman reached up her pale hand to Crystal's face.
"I need you to be strong for me... This is a big favor I'm asking of you. Promise me you'll do it."
"D-depends on what the favor is..."
"I... I need you to pull the plug on my life support."
The bluenette's jaw dropped, her pupils small as she shook her head vigorously. What they both didn't know was that the others followed them here. Natsu stood behind the door, listening closely, feeling terrible and sorry for his teammate. The others sat down on the bench that was next to the door, heads bent.
"NO! I'LL NEVER DO IT! I WON'T!" Crystal argued.
"S-so. Do you want me to s-suffer? Lily pryed the bluenette. Crystal felt the guilt in her chest. She was right. She'd only suffer if she was alive from all the horrible, indescribable things that happened to her after Blaze set her free to do his dirty work.
"B..but... Lily... I-I..."
"I give you permission..."
"Lily..."
"Crystal, Please."
Crystal squinted her eyes shut, her bottom lip trembling but she nodded. Sniffling in the process.
"I want you to know... That I'll always love you like a sister I never had... Lily Tsubaki."
Crystal got up shakily on her two feet and walked to the opposite side of the bed. A machine hooked up to her, she stooped down to the black plug that was connected to the wall. Her heart racing a million miles an hour, her breathing hitched as she pulled the plug.
Crystal got up, crying oceans of tears. She sat next to the smiling Lily.
"I'm proud of you..." Her voice was softer. "You did so many..." Lily took a deep breath in. "Many great things..."
Crystal stayed silent.
"You accomplished the unthinkable. Defeated Tartarus... Won the Grand Assassin Games... So many wanted people you and your friends defeated as well, so much m-more that I can't even explain..." Lily softly smiled with tears in her eyes.
"To think... That lonely little girl I found on the playground could accomplish all that over the years I was locked in that dark room... You gave that bastard what he deserved..."
Crystal hicupped, her tears streaming down her red cheeks as she listened.
"I'm... so proud of you, Crystala... Your parents would be t-too..." Lily's eyes were half open as the heart monitor started slowing down as well.
"It's dark... I can't see you... Is it night, already?" Crystal held her cold hands.
"Y-yeah. It's night..." Crystal lied when it was actually 9:00am in the morning.
"N-no wonder it's so dark... and cold..." The tears that were wielded up in her cyan blue eyes strolled down her face, in her ears. Crystal squeezed her hands tightly.
"I...wanted to say something... Your birthday's in October... I just wanted to say..."
The heart monitor started slowing down more.
"Happy Birthday... Crystala Dragnela. Live your... life to the fullest... with your friends..."
Lily's hand turned limp in the bluenette's hands. The heart monitor stopped beeping, a straight line against the screen. Her eyes softly closed, a gentle smile against her thin lined, pale lips.
Crystal's soft sobs were heard throughout the room, echoing like a sad song that played on the piano. The hospital door opened slowly, making a creeking noise. Crystal turned her head and saw the pinkette standing in the doorframe, a frown against his lips.
"N-natsu... Is it really true...?" She questioned the pinkette.
He walked closer.
"What's true...?" His voice was gentle and soft.
"That... That I only leave a trail of sorrow and despair behind...?" She looked up into his eyed with her tear stained own. He shook his head. She got up and clenched her fists, her sky blue bangs covering her eyes. Crystal slowly walked over to him.
"Then if not... Then why... Why..." She fell into his arms crying, Natsu wrapped his arms around her, one of his hands on top her head.
"Why am I crying and feel so guilty?!" She buried her head into his scarf.
"None of this is your fault Crystal.. Don't blame yourself..." Natsu rubbed her head in a soothing, comforting way.
"It's all my fault... I... I don't deserve to live anymore..."
"Don't talk like that..."
"It's true and you know it..."
Crystal dug her nails into the soft fabric of his white scarf. Natsu pulled her away just enough to see her face. He wiped her tears.
"Don't worry... We're all in this... Together... I'm here for you..." Natsu sadly smiled at the bluenette and pulled her in close to his chest. Crystal closed her eyes, the tears falling silently as Natsu held her close.
"I'll always be here for you..."
Then, everything went black.
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