Here's the next chappy! It's absolutely redonkulous on how long it took me to update that chapter. My apologies, Well...here goes nothing.
Let's recap on what happened in the last chapter~
Gray shivered as he took a step back, memories from when he was a child took over. He fell down as he stared in disbelief. "D...Deliora... What is it doing here?"
"Deliora?" Happy looked at gray anxiously. This is the first time that happy has seen gray so frightened by a monster. Gray was known for being a cool and fearless stripper...Well mostly for being a stripper, but that isn't the point. Happy landed on his feet before looking at the huge beast incased in ice. Happy tugged gray's arm, trying to get him to move, but he was frozen with fear.
Happy suddenly remembered natsu and lucy and made his wings appear. "Gray, I'm going to go get natsu and lucy!" Happy didn't wait for him to reply as he sped down the halls to search for the two mages they had left behind.
Lucy quietly looked at natsu's back as they walked. Natsu had shrugged her off a while ago and she could tell that he was having a lot of difficulty in walking. "Natsu..." He stayed silent, though, lucy noticed that he slowed his pace and smiled. Natsu and lucy ambled their way down the hall before they came to a sudden stop. Lucy tugged his shredded cloak in an attempt to get him to face her.
Natsu turned ever so slightly, keeping his head down, "What is it luce?" Natsu watched as she looked down with a frown. "...Should we take a break?" Natsu tilted his head, "And why would we do that?" Lucy mumbled under her breath quietly, But natsu caught what she said thanks to his enhanced senses and sighed. "Look. I'm fine. Stop worrying about me okay?"
Lucy was startled when he replied and mentally face-palmed. 'I forgot that his hearing is better than the average person..' She crossing her arms and gave him a scornful look, "And why can't I worry about you? It was my fault that you were hurt in the first place. If I wasn't here than you wouldn't have any problems right?" Natsu stared at her in shock. "What are you talking about lucy?" Natsu turned fully so he was facing her. Lucy turned her face away and he followed, attempting to peer at her dishearten face.
Lucy didn't answer right away. She was carefully trying to think of what to say in this situation. Finally, she faced him, observing his reactions as she started to speak. "Natsu...Did...are..." "Lu-" Lucy clenched her teeth and whispered quietly, knowing that he would be able to hear her. "Are we being a burden to you?" Natsu stared at her with a blank expression. Lucy waited patiently for his answer, making sure to avoid his intimidating gaze. "...Did you just ask me if I think all of you are a burden to me?" Lucy could hear the hurt in his shaky voice.
Natsu stepped forward so he was directly in front of her. She gasped when he suddenly pulled her into a tight hug. Lucy gasped in surprise as she looked up at his face slightly. Natsu had this sad look on his face, it broke her heart to see him hurt. Natsu spoke quietly against her ear and tightened his grip, "Luce...Luce...I don't think you're a burden..I never once thought that you were...Maybe gray and erza...but not happy, and definitely not you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to communicate with everyone. If it weren't for you...I don't think i would have understood the meaning of 'friendship' and 'family'. If not for you, I wouldn't have understood what 'love' was luce."
'W-what?' Lucy couldn't believe what she was hearing. Natsu. The supposedly unsocial, and cold dragon slayer. Was indeed speaking to her with a very soft and loving voice.
'It...It almost sounds like he's trying to confess to me..' Lucy blushed as she silently relaxed in his warm embrace. Closing her eyes to the world around them, she focused on the beating of his heart. His heart that was thumping rapidly against his chest. She smiled and hugged him back.
A pink tinge crept it's way up natsu's cheeks. He felt rather embarrassed for saying what he said. But it was true that he never thought of her and happy as a burden. He couldn't help but smile as he nuzzled her head, soaking in her natural scent. 'So soft and warm..'
They both stayed like that for awhile, enjoying the warmth of each other. However, the silence was disturbed by the sound of flapping. Both natsu and lucy stiffened before turning to see happy flying towards them with a worried look.
Lucy pulled away from natsu just in time to catch happy, who rammed into her chest. "Happy? What's wrong?" Happy purred for a bit before looking up at the both of them, "Something's wrong with gray! And there's this monster incased in ice!" Natsu and lucy glanced at each other before they rushed over to where gray was.
Erza was lost. She was alone. and boy was she pissed.
Gray had disappeared on her as soon as they entered the stupid forest. Erza grumbled murderous words as she stomped her way around the area, trying to find any clues on his whereabouts. "When I get my hands on him i'm gonna..." Erza paused and looked back at the temple. The light had gotten brighter, Bright enough for anyone out at sea to spot. 'I wonder if natsu and lucy is alright..' Erza felt the air chill slightly and shivered.
She turned and looked around. She had a feeling that someone was watching her, so she summoned her sword and started to run. As she as she took off, movement could be heard in the bushes and trees. 'tsk. There's two of them?!' Erza stopped and threw her sword towards the bushes before she summoned another and sent it towards the trees. Black shadows jumped out and there in front of her were two males.
Erza took in their appearance. The shorter one of the two was a slim young man that had extremely bushy, squared black eyebrows, which was something that creeped her out. He sported a green coat that reaching down to his knees and dark, loose pants. The other one had animal features. the animal features looked like ones that belonged to the canine family. Both of his biceps were adorned by tattoos: the right one bears the kana Sashimi, while the other was adorned by a single, more elaborated one, which was the Lamia Scale guild mark.
'What the?' Erza pulled out a sword and pointed the tip towards the two mages with a glare, "What is lamia scale doing here?" The one with the bushy eyebrows examined her before smirking. He looked weird because of the eyebrows. "A fairy tail mage I see... Toby." "WHAT IS IT YUKA?" eyebrows, now known as yuka, glared at the one named toby. Erza was surprised when toby yelled.
'Does he have hearing problems?'
"Will you stop yelling in my ears you moron?" "Oooon!" Yuka shook his head and sighed in disappointment. "For now, we need to get rid of this fairy. Toby, go report this to the others." Toby saluted and scampered off in the opposite direction.
Erza clicked her teeth before drawing her attention to yuka, who was standing there with his hands behind his back. "How many more are there?" Yuka grinned and chuckled. "If you defeat me than I will tell you." Erza glared and got into a fighting position before launching herself towards him. As soon as she was in front of him, she swung her sword, however, yuka simply held out his hand and a blue barrier appeared, stopping her attack.
Surprised, erza jumped back. 'interesting...'
"Hahaha! This is my magic scarlet. You won't be able to beat me." Erza requiped to her heaven's wheel armor before rushing towards him. Yuka watched as she ruthlessly attacked his barrier. Erza kept on attacking when her armor suddenly vanished. She gasped and jumped back, looking down to see her in her normal attire. "I can nullify any magic attack. So you can't use those special weapons and armor."
"I see.." Erza walked over to him calmly and stood in front of him. Yuka curiously watched as erza pulled out her sword and placed the tip on the barrier. "Didn't you hear me? Magic can't work on-" "Shut up eyebrows. I'm in a very..very bad mood." Yuka felt enraged and sent a blast towards her. Erza requiped to her clear heart clothes and dodged. Erza had a very menacing aura. "I don't have time to be fightijng with you." She rushed forward and made a move, but his magic nullified the attack, changing her back. Yuka gulped as he stilled. The tip of her blade was near his neck. "H-how-?" "It seems like you were too focused on attacking me to notice that I summoned another sword. Blumenblatt!"
Erza charge at him, slicing him with two of her swords. When she flew past him, a bunch of her other swords attacked him. Yuka screamed before passing out. Erza changed back and cracked her knuckles. "Now for that dog." (A/N: Yea I know. I couldn't think of anything else and I know the fight was crappy.)
Erza quickly changed to her black wing armor and took off.
Natsu and lucy were sitting down against the wall as they watched gray silently. He was covering his face with his knees up. Happy was on lucy's lap, eating a fish silently as he glanced at gray and the beast every now and then.
Lucy didn't like the mood. It was so dark and unsettling. She stood up and took out a key, "We need to lighten the mood... Gate of the lyre, I open thee! Lyra!"
There was a ding dong sound and a young girl came out. She had Strawberry blonde waist length hair that curled at the end with a pink bonnet that was on top of her head. Her cheeks had round blush marks, and sported a long dress with heart prints by her waist. She also had small white wings and a large harp on her back. The spirit looked around curiously before looking at lucy. Her eyes brightened and she beamed, "Luuuuucy! It's been so long! I missed you so so so so so much!" Lyra gave lucy a big hug and nuzzled her.
Lucy chuckled and caressed her hair gently, "I missed you too lyra." Lyra giggled before pouting (Like this - ( =3=)-), "Why haven't you called on me lately? Do you know how lonely I was when I wasn't able to come out? Ah, but that's okay because I'm here now!" Lucy nodded, "Yes I know, that's why I called you out Lyra. Do you think you can lighten the mood a bit?"
Lyra glanced at everyone before nodding, "What song shall I sing?" Lucy thought a bit before smiling, "You can decide Lyra." Lyra's eyes shone with excitement, "Really?! I can choose what song to sing?" Lucy nodded and watched as Lyra jumped with glee. "Oh boy oh boy!" Lyra settled down and set the harp down. She thought carefully before placing her hands on the harp string. She slowly started to move them, creating a melody. Lucy settled down next to natsu and smiled.
Lyra soon started to sing. Her voice shook the air and sent shivers down everyone's spines. It was like her voice was drawing them in. Lucy's heart thumped loudly as she rested her head on natsu's shoulder. She felt embarrassed and a sudden rush of affection and joy took over her entire being. She couldn't believe that she had neglected Lyra for so long. She remembered when she first summoned her. Lyra was a very very joyful spirit.
Lucy could remember the first song she had sung. She was with her mother at the time. The song she sung stuck with her and became something important. She would sing it for her mother who occasionally was stuck in bed because of an illness. Lucy felt a tear slip from her closed eye as she thought of her mother. She moved so she could hold natsu's hand, which surprised him greatly.
Natsu jumped when he felt small, soft, smooth, warm hands slip into his calloused ones. Her hair tickled his cheek as he leaned in. He relaxed when he smelt her scent. Natsu smiled softly as he listened to the song of lucy's spirit. Sure he's heard very nice songs in his life time when he went on missions, but at that time, he didn't exactly care for them. Now that lucy was here with him, Now that she's apart of his life, he's starting to see things in a different life.
To him, everything was black and white. There was no color in his life, everything was the same no matter what. People never changed. They had feared him. They all kept their distance. The only people he could think of that wanted to be near him was lisanna and happy. Happy was understandable because he had found him by accident. Natsu had found him near his house in the bushes. The egg was pretty big and had a very nice shade of blue, making patterns against the white background.
Natsu was around ten at the time when he had found him. Natsu smiled softly when he remembered how happy he was when he had hatched. He remembered when the blue fur ball beamed at him. Natsu frowned slightly as he thought of back then, what happened to him? Why was he like this now?
Natsu snapped out of it when he heard happy purred. He looked down and smiled. He glanced at gray before resting his head against lucy's.
Happy was...well, happy. The melody that Lyra was playing was enchanting. Her singing reminded him of lisanna. She used to sing for him when natsu ignored him. At the time, he could tell that natsu loved her. Happy shook his head and smacked his cheeks. He can't be thinking of lisanna. Natsu has lucy, and lucy has natsu.
Gray on the other hand was silent. He felt like he froze himself by accident. He felt like he was suffocating as he listened to what she was saying. The song she was singing struck something in his heart. A memory that he had locked deep in his heart was resurfacing, haunting his very soul. Gray shook as he covered his ears.
The memories from when he was a child was coming back to haunt him. 'Ur...Ur I'm so sorry..' Gray started to remember Ur, a very kind and strict woman who took him under her wing. He had lost his parents some time before, so he was wandering alone until he met her and lyon. Lyon was like a big brother to him. They used to cause mischief together. Gray shook his head and curled up into a ball. He started to remember how he had lost Ur. She had sacrificed herself to stop that monster.
And that monster was right there. Deloria. It took everything he had loved away from him. His family, his home, and Ur. He hated Deloria from the very bottom of his heart. Never in his life time had he thought that he would see it again. Gray shook as tears rolled down his cheeks. He sniffled softly and bit his lip, trying to keep himself from breaking down.
Lyra heard him sniffle and stopped playing. Lucy, Natsu and happy looked up to see gray slowly breaking down. His shoulders were shaking and his hand covered his eyes. Lucy jumped up and ran over to him, leaving behind a worried happy and slightly enraged, disappointed natsu. Lucy got on her knees and pulled gray into a tight, mother-like hug.
She glanced over at lyra and smiled, "Don't worry, it's not your fault Lyra." Lyra slowly nodded.
Despite what lucy just said, she felt guilty in making him cry. That wasn't her intention at all. She was singing a very cheerful song. In fact, that was the same song she sung for Layla and lucy. Lyra watched as lucy rubbed his back. Gray broke down once lucy touched him. Her touch reminded him of Ur even more. He clung to lucy as he sobbed. It took him awhile to calm down.
Lucy's shoulder was soaked as she pulled away. Lucy moved her head so she was looking at his face. Gray's hair shadowed his face as he clenched his hands together. "What's wrong gray?" Gray didn't really say anything for a few minutes before he moved his hand so he could use his Ice make magic. He placed a fist on his palm and muttered something. His hand glowed before a figure of a woman sculpture appeared.
Lucy looked at it curiously, "Who...?" "...Ur...My mentor...She was the one who taught me magic..." Lucy looked at him sadly, "Where is she now?" Gray slowly looked up and gazed at the ice surrounding the monster with dead eyes. "She's right there, She's the ice trapping Deloria inside..." Lucy gasped along with Lyra and happy.
Gray looked back down and little by little, started to tell them his childhood and who she was. By the end of his tale, Lucy hugged him again, causing natsu to growl quietly. "I'm so sorry..." Gray didn't say anything after that.
Lyra was in a thinking position before gasping, "Now I remember!" Everybody jumped as the looked at Lyra who smiled sheepishly, "I remember where Deloria originally came from. He's one of the demon's from the book of zeref." Lucy, happy and gray stared in shock while natsu narrowed his eyes at the name zeref. "Zeref? Seriously?" Lyra nodded. "Yes, seriously." She was about to continue when they suddenly heard a crunching sound behind them.
Everybody turned there heads and saw three figures. There were two males, a female, and a giant blue rat. Natsu stood up, wincing in pain. Lucy immediately sent Lyra back and gripped her whip. Gray looked at the with suspicion as happy hid behind a rock. "Who the fuck are you morons?" The girl sweat-dropped as the leader chuckled. "WE'RE LAMIA-" The girl immediately whacked the one who shouted upside the head. He yelped before rubbing his head.
"That what I should be asking you. What are fairy tail mages doing out here?" "Oh my! I see that the famous salamander is among us. Such a treat." Natsu growled as lucy placed a hand on his shoulder. "We don't need to tell you anything." Natsu, under his cloak, clenched his said in pain. "How rude, we didn't introduce ourselves. I am Reitei. This is toby and Sherry." The one with animal features grinned while the girl waved, "This lovable animal is my pet, Angelica."
Lucy shivered as she looked at the rat.
"That ugly rat is you're pet? It even has clothes on! Disgusting lady!" Lucy gasped and covered natsu's mouth as gray nodded in agreement. "I thought I smelt something awful. So it was the rat. Doesn't it belong in the sewers?"
Sherry was twitching as angelica stomped her feet out of rage. Lucy smacked the both of them upside the head,"That was extremely rude! Apologize to the poor thing. It's not like it wants to look like that!" With that comment, angelica started to cry and scampered off.
Natsu, gray and happy applauded lucy who covered her mouth, "No- wait! I didn't mean it like that!" Sherry was red with anger and pointed at lucy, "How dare you say that to my poor angelica! I'll make you pay for hurting her feelings!" Gray whispered quietly to happy, "That thing was a she?" Sherry growled at them before lunging at lucy. Natsu was about to make a move but lucy started to run away.
Natsu panicked as he watch Sherry chase lucy. "Luce! Wait!" Lucy grinned as she looked back and showed him her guild mark, "Don't worry natsu! I can take her!" Natsu helplessly watched them turn the corner before gritting his teeth and turned to the other two.
Gray stared at reitei cautiously while he stood in front of natsu protectively. Natsu was surprised when gray got in a fighting stance, "I'll take you both on..." Reitei smirked before toby rushed past gray. Gray shocked, turned and tried to stop him, but reitei was already attacking him, "Ice make - Eagle!" Gray stilled as he watch the ice eagles fly at him. "Ice make- wall!" Gray blocked the attack before glaring menacingly at Reitei.
"How do you know Ice make?" Reitei chuckled, "That hurt, you don't even recognize me? Who did you think I learnt it from gray?"
'No way..Lyon?!' Gray made a fist and shook, "W-why?" "Of course...I'm here to surpass Ur! And the only way I can do that is by melting the ice surrounding deloria." Gray was absolutely furious. "Ice make- Hammer!" A giant hammer appeared and slammed the area Reitei was at. Reitei leaped away and started making animals to attack.
"LYON!" Gray made an ice sword and rushed towards him out of blind fury.
Natsu was being held up by happy, angrily watching gray fight reitei, or in other words, Lyon. Natsu didn't like this one bit. He looked down at toby who was jumping up and down, trying to scratch him with his claws. Happy looked at gray worriedly before natsu sighed, causing happy to look at him.
"Hey! What did you say about your claws?" Toby stopped before pointing at him with an angry face, "YOU FORGOT? MY NAILS CAN PARALYZE MY ENEMIES WITH ONE TOUCH!" Natsu smirked, "Would you care to demonstrate for me?" "OOOON!" Toby was about to attack gray before happy shouted, "Don't you think it's a little unfair if it's a two on one battle?" Toby paused and thought carefully, "YOU'RE RIGHT!"
Happy whispered to natsu, "He seems stupid.." Natsu nodded and tossed a rock at the wall, causing it to bounce off and hit toby's head.
It seems like it tickled his head cause he went to scratch it. Right after he dug his nails into his skin, He screamed as he was electrocuted. After a while, toby collapsed. Lyon saw this and face-palmed, "Idiot.."
"Happy, let's go find luce.." "But what about gray?" Natsu turned his head so he was glaring at happy. "Take me to lucy dammit!" Happy could see how worried he was. Happy nodded before flying in the direction lucy and sherry went.
Lucy somehow made it outside. She was currently running for her life because angelica was chasing after her.
"I'M SORRY YOU DAMN RAT!" That comment pissed off angelica more, causing her to jump above her. Lucy screamed and called out Taurus. He came out just in time to hit angelica away, causing her to faint. "Great job taurus!" "MOOOO! Anything for you lucy!" sherry was comically crying over angelica before jumping up.
She smirked and crossed her arms, "So you use celestial magic? Well this make things easy then. Doll attack!" Lucy looked at her in confusion, "wha-?" "Mooooo!" Lucy shrieked as taurus started to attack her.
"Taurus! What are you doing?!"
"Mooo! I-I can't stop! Forgive me lucy-wucy!" Lucy was getting tired as she dodged his axe. Lucy slipped and landed roughly against the ground. Taurus used this chance to swing at her. Lucy covered her face and waited for the pain to come. To her surprise, she felt warm, strong arms instead. She looked up and smiled, "Natsu! Happy!"
Natsu had this pain expression as he growled at taurus. "Natsu, wait! Taurus is one of my spirits!" "Then explain to me why he was attacking you!" Happy lifted the both of them up just in time as taurus swung his axe down, "Rampage!"
Lucy was trying to think of what to do before gasping, "Natsu...I have an idea. But you have to listen." "Lu-" "Listen!" Natsu closed his mouth as he watched lucy. "I can do a forced gate closure on taurus. The only thing is...I.. Haven't exactly succeeded in closing their gates yet." Natsu was about to say something snarky, but lucy stopped him.
"Can you distract sherry for a bit? I can try to do it then." Natsu didn't bother to move, or say anything. Lucy sighed and muttered an apology before jabbing his broken arm. He groaned in pain and dropped her. She grabbed taurus's key and tried to close his gate.
Sherry laughed, "That isn't possible! A mutual agreement between a Mage and the Celestial Spirit is needed to close the gate blondie." Taurus jumped at her and was about to hit her.
"LUCY!" Sherry cackled as she sent a wood doll at natsu and happy. "Go back taurus! Go Back!" Lucy closed her eyes just as he striked. Lucy shook before slowly opening an eye. The blade of the axe was an inch away from her neck. She gulped as she watched taurus burst into golden particles. "Mooo! Forgive me..."
She succeeded! Lucy fell down and shook. '..I..I thought I was going to die...' Natsu sighed in relief as sherry stomped angrily, "I'm getting tired of you! You...you blonde bimbo!" Sherry summoned a rock doll and sent it towards lucy. Natsu grew angry and smashed it to pieces. He landed in front of sherry with a murderous glint in his eyes. "Not on my watch you bitch." Sherry gulped before natsu punched her in the face, making her fly backwards into some trees.
Sherry was unconscious by the time she hit the ground. Lucy feel to her knees in exhaustion as natsu limped over to her. Natsu stared at her, making her feel uncomfortable. "...what?" Natsu bit his lip before pulling her into a hug, "...How dare you make me worry like that..."
Lucy blushed. He was worried? 'No, he was happy that you were almost killed by that cow of yours.' Lucy sweat-dropped.
Happy laid on natsu's head tired, "I'm glad that we made it in time.." Natsu nodded, making sure to nuzzle lucy's head. He took a deep breath and sighed, taking in lucy's intoxicating scent.
Natsu was in a daze before he snapped out of it. He stiffened when he heard rustling behind them and turned. Erza came out with a pissed off look, dragging a guy with giant eyebrows behind her. Lucy gasped, "E-erza!" "Where's gray?" Lucy looked at natsu who looked away.
Happy spoke up, "We left him behind. Right now, he's fighting the leader..uhh...I think gray said his name was..Lion?"
"...It's lyon, happy..." Lucy glared daggers at natsu, forcing him to look down. Erza was about where to ask them where he was exactly when there was a loud explosion in the distance. They all looked towards the temple and saw smoke. There was a roar, causing them to look up.
The gasped, well, lucy gasped while erza stiffened. Happy yelped and natsu...well he just stared with a blank look. "is that..?" Happy pointed at the dragon, "There's Gray and Lyon!" everybody looked and saw them on top of it, fighting it out with ice magic.
Gray was getting tired. He most likely used up too much magic when they were in the temple. He could see that Lyon was getting tired as well. "You've gotten strong gray. Ur would be proud." Gray grit his teeth and hissed, "You have no right to say her name Lyon! How dare you!" Lyon chuckled, "silly silly gray. You are naive! I was doing this to prove that I can surpass her! So what if she sacrificed herself to beat deloria? It won't matter if I'm able to destroy it myself!"
Gray shook as he listened to what he said about Ur. "Ur was a great teacher. She was like my mother. She treated us like her own. She would be disappointed because of this!"
Lyon frowned and sent three ice beasts towards gray. He counterattacked with weapons. "I'm powerful gray! You can't beat me! I was with her longer than you after all!" Gray dodged some ice eagles and started to think before taking a deep breath, "But it seems like you've forgotten one thing. One important thing that she taught us." Gray got in a fighting position and made an ice sword. He dashed towards lyon and sliced him, "You're magic is unstable because you only used one hand. She had taught us to use both."
Lyon fell down, clutching his side in pain. "No! I was suppose to be better than you!" Lyon felt a pull in his magic as the dragon shattered. Gray had blew the head off. They both quickly fell down and landed in the sea.
Gray grabbed lyon and brought him to the shore. He and Lyon coughed up water as lucy and erza ran over. "Gray!" Gray looked up and gulped when he saw erza. Lucy looked at erza with a 'calm down' look. She huffed as she glared dangerously at him. "Next time you disappear, I'll kill you." Gray nodded quickly as he sweated bullets. Lyon made a fist and slammed it in the sand. "You...This was your fault." Gray glanced at lyon with a sad and hateful look. "This is all your fault..You're the reason why she died!"
Lucy was about to say something when gray beat her to the punch. Natsu placed a hand on her shoulder. "She was protecting us...You know that deloria took everything away from me. I...I wanted to do something about it.."
Lyon listened silently, remembering Ur's expression when she turned herself into ice. He remembers what she told the both of them.
Flashback~
"UR!"
"UR NO!" Lyon and gray were on the ground crying as they watched Ur make an X with her arms. A magic circle surrounded deloria and herself.
Lyon got up and tried to run to her, but gray pulled him back. "Gray! Let me go! We have to stop her!" Gray looked down, tears streaming down his red cheeks. Lyon was shocked when they were blown backwards. They both looked up and saw Ur start to disappear. Ur turned slowly towards them and smiled a sad smile.
"Lyon...Gray...Take care of each other. I Love you both so so much... Remember your training.. Even though that I'm not here...I'll be watching you both as you live your lives.." Ur's right eye turned white and a crack appeared over it. "I Love you both.."
"URRRRRR!"
Ur disappeared, white sparkled flew in the air, surrounding deloria. They watched as deloria slowly froze over. Lyon fell to the ground, crying his little heart out as gray cried silently.
Lyon and gray would never, ever, forget the day when she left them. Lyon trembled as he silently cried. Gray had a haunted face, he knew it was his fault. Lucy walked over and placed a hand on his shoulder. Gray looked up at lucy and sighed quietly. He then smiled softly and muttered a small thank you towards her. Gray went over to lyon and helped him up. Gray was about to say something when there was a sudden boom and a giant monstrous roar.
Lyon and gray froze, a shiver went down there spines. Natsu had grabbed lucy and hid her in his cloak as he looked at the temple.
Erza was shocked when she saw the monster destroy the place. "What the f-"
"D-deloria..." Gray gripped lyon's shirt and brought his face towards him, "If we all die, know that this is your fault. I'm going to take that son of a bitch down, and avenge my family." Lyon grunted as he was thrown to the ground. "Gray! Don't!" Lyon jumped up and followed gray into the forest. "N-natsu! We need to go after them!" Natsu didn't want to go. He didn't want lucy to fight anymore. He looked down and flinched when he saw lucy's big doe eyes looking at him in worry.
His heart stopped as he stared. It was absolutely insane on how adorable she looked, However, before he could do anything, Happy picked them both up and started to go in their direction. Erza was right behind them. "Happy!" Happy flinched at his tone but ignored it. Lucy wrapped her arms around his neck in an attempt to keep from falling. "Right now, the both of them are in danger! We need to stop them natsu!"
Natsu sighed in defeat before happy dropped them. Lucy shrieked in fear, closing her eyes and hugged natsu for dear life. Natsu chuckled quietly in her ear as they landed in a tree. "Luce. You can look now." Lucy opened an eye hesitantly before looking around. Natsu laughed to himself before jumping down. Erza and happy landed next to them, seeing that they were close to deloria.
Gray couldn't stop himself. He felt like he wasn't in control of his body. He knew that lyon was behind him. He absolutely knew that what he was about to do was insane. But he couldn't let it roam free.
Gray and lyon stopped in an open area, somewhere that was close enough for them to physically attack deloria. Lyon was on his knees huffing. Gray stared at deloria exhausted. They both watched as it made its way across the forest. Lyon stood up straight and made a fist. "..what should we do?" Gray didn't answer him. Instead, he walked so he was in front of deloria. Lyon stared in shock as he watched gray get in a stance similar to Ur's when she was fighting deloria.
"Gray! Are you mad!? Don't do that!" Lyon broke into a sprint as the others came out of the forest. Lucy gasped as natsu rushed over to them. Gray was breathing heavily, shaking as he started to glow. Lyon sped up, "Gray!" He tackled him out of the way as deloria swung down. Hitting the spot where gray was.
Natsu stood in front of them protectively as lucy ran over. She took out a key and started to chant. An old grandfather clock came out and opened a door. Lyon and lucy helped gray inside because he passed out from using too much magic.
Lucy also shoved lyon in there, closing the door and told Horologium, Which was the clocks name, to go straight for the village. He nodded and walked off. Erza ran over and pulled lucy away from natsu, pushing her and herself behind a large tree. "Wha-?" "It's best when we're not near him when he roars.." Happy nodded as he hovered over them. Lucy tilted her head, "Why?" Happy sighed. "He IS the chaos dragon. You most likely didn't see it last time when you guys where falling."
They all peeked from behind the tree and watched natsu jump up. He took a deep breath, filling his cheeks with air. A black and purple magic circle that was the size of deloria's face appeared. "Chaos Dragons Roar!" Just like last time, a powerful black and blue blast came out of his mouth, swallowing deloria and everything nearby. Everyone was blown back by the sudden explosion that happened. Lucy groaned in pain as she sat up.
She rubbed her head slightly as she looked up, blinking away debris. She was absolutely shocked when she saw a large, darkened path. Everything in that particular direction was gone. It was like half of the forest and deloria wasn't there in the first place. Lucy slowly stood up as she looked around. In all honesty, she was a bit terrified that natsu could do something like this.
'If he wanted to...He could have destroyed the entire guild.' Lucy felt a chill run up her spine before shaking her head. She knew that natsu would never do that. Unless...
Lucy jumped when natsu cleared his throat. She spun around and stared at him as he crossed his arms. Natsu had this sad look on his face as he looked down. Lucy guessed that he thought that she was terrified of him now because of the roar he did. Lucy chuckled silently and simply pulled him into a gentle hug. This gesture surprised him greatly. Normally, people would have backed off if they had witnessed that.
But lucy was a different story. She didn't run away from him. Well, maybe in the beginning. He scowled at the memory of their first encounter. Natsu was glad that that he met her. He wouldn't trade anything for the world if it meant that he could be with her.
Lucy pulled back and tugged him along. Erza, happy, natsu and lucy made their way back towards the village.
Lyon sat quietly besides gray, thinking to himself. Gray was still out like a light. Lyon didn't understand what had made him do that. Did he really want to surpass Ur? Would she have been upset because of his actions? Many questions flooded his mind as he sighed. He glanced at gray, he remembered how happy he was when they had found him. It was like he had gained a brother. Lyon smiled before standing up.
He couldn't really stay. He needed to leave before those fairies got back. Deloria was gone now, so he would leave, allowing them to finish what they all came here to do.
Lyon walked over to the entrance of a tent they were currently in. He never thought that gray and himself would meet after Ur left, but here they are. Lyon paused in his steps before going back to gray. He took out a necklace that used to belong to Ur and set it on his chest. The necklace was a silver cross.
Lyon muttered a small farewell before leaving the place for good. He made sure to rally up his teammates before going back to their guild.
Gray woke up with a start. He had a dream of Ur. she was there with him and lyon, demanding them to take off their clothes. They were in the middle of training and such. Gray smiled softly before sitting up. He grunted in pain, his side was throbbing. Something fell on his lap when he moved. Confused, He looked down. Gray's eyes widened in shock, he was taken aback when he saw a necklace. Not just any necklace though.
"Ur..." Gray picked up the necklace carefully. He could feel her presence in the necklace. He hunched over, tears started to escape his eyes.
Lucy had stopped everyone from going in as they watched gray cry to himself. Lucy was like that when she was a child. Just like how that necklace was a reminder for gray, her keys were a reminder for her.
Lucy, and everyone jumped when Moka appeared out of nowhere. He was about to scream when erza covered his mouth. She picked him up and started to run away from the tent, the rest were on her tail. When they were far enough, she released him and immediately started to talk, cutting him off, "Yes we know. We're working on it." The started to get dark, causing everyone to look up at the purple sky.
There was a sudden shriek of terror, making them jump into a fighting stance. Villagers slowly started to change into demons. Moka exclaimed out loud, "DESTROY THE MOON! DESTROY IT OR IT'LL BE TOO LATE FOR US ALL!" Lucy and everyone glanced around at the demons. Happy raised a paw, "How come we're not turning into demons?" Everyone stopped dead in their tracks. Lucy hummed in thought before agreeing, "That's right! We're not being affected by the moon." Natsu sighed as erza nodded.
"But...How?" Moka looked at them in wonder.
"It's not the moon that's causing all of this."
"Gray!" They all turned so they were facing gray, who was limping towards them slowly. Lucy went over and gave him a hand. "What do you mean that it's not the moon causing this?" Natsu stepped forward with a bored expression.
"Of course it's not the damn moon you morons. The moon isn't capable of doing that at all." Gray nodded in agreement, "The thing that's causing all of this is moon drip." Everybody in the village gasped in shock. Moka marched up furiously, "It can't be! We have been doing the moon drip ritual for years!" Gray sighed in frustration. this old man was giving him a headache. Natsu saw this and started to speak, "the Moon Drip ritual had a side effect of leaving residue Magic over the island, causing it to crystallize and cover it in a magic dome. Which is the reason why it the moon looks purple."
Lucy and erza nodded in understandment. "So..." "That means we just need to destroy this magic dome?" Natsu nodded.
Erza looked up before requipping to her Giant armor. She looked at natsu and gray. Gray and natsu seemed to get the idea and got in a fighting stance. Erza threw a spear towards the sky. Gray sent his ice lances while natsu jumped up, using his roar. Their attacks made the sky crack. After a few seconds, the entire thing shattered into millions of tiny tiny shards. Everyone Ooo'ed at the display. It looked like glitter as it rained down.
"Um...guys? Why didn't they change back?" Everyone looked at each other sadly. Natsu shook his head and ruffled lucy's hair up, "That's because they're originally demons. They just take on a human form so they don't scare others that come by to visit." Lucy gasped before nodding in understandment.
Moka shook, they were demons? That means... Many of the demons had burst into tears as it dawned on them that they had murdered their loved ones. Natsu pulled lucy into a hug, covering her eyes from the heart-wrenching cries. It was absolutely heartbreaking to see. All of a sudden, the sound of laughter could be heard from above. People looked up in surprise.
"Hahahaha! I'm glad to see that everyone has their memory back. Am I right fellas?"
"Yea!"
"B-Bobo!?"
They all gasped. Moka fell on his butt as he gazed up at bobo. Many couples, teenagers, and children cried tears of joy as they ran to their loved ones. "bobo was Moka's son?" Bobo nodded. He landed and hugged his crying old man. "I should apologize for making you all go through all of this. but I thank you so very much for helping us." Lucy beamed a bright smile. "I was able to save all of the demons that had regained their memories. Salamander, Thank you. You may have this."
Bobo walked over to lucy and handed her a book. Erza, a new sword. Happy, a bucket load of fish, and Natsu received a brand new cloak. Gray was taken away so he could be patched up.
Moka jumped for joy, "Let's all have a feast to celebrate!"
"YEA!"
Lucy clapped in excitement. "Let's stay! Can we join them? Pretty pretty please?" Lucy looked at natsu with puppy dog eyes. Natsu stared at her before looking away with a grunt, causing Lucy to grin and cheer before running over to some girls with erza. Natsu smiled slightly before going in the opposite direction.
Happy flew around and partied. Lucy and Erza had gotten new clothes and was in the middle of dancing with some of the boys. Gray was chatting with a few girls as he relaxed on a bed. Natsu was asleep on a tree branch. After about 3 hours of partying, They all headed home.
Natsu was carrying Lucy home. Erza and gray separated from them as soon as they had reached land. Lucy had fell asleep once she touched the ground.
Natsu walked, thinking of what had happened today. Lucy nuzzled his chest and sighed happily. Natsu blushed because he heard lucy mutter his name. They soon reached her apartment. Natsu leaped through the window and set her on the bed. He looked around the dark place in wonderment.
Natsu went to the kitchen and started making some food. Yes, he could definitely cook. He taught himself when he was a child since nobody was with him. Or liked him for that matter. He had made sweet, sticky, spicy chicken with rice and some other stuff.
Natsu thought carefully as he ate some of the food he made. He wasn't able to eat anything at the island because of his personality. Lucy had offered him some when she found him, but he declined and went to sleep.
He sighed to himself as he put the food away and cleaned the dishes. Natsu walked around her apartment, glancing at everything curiously. He stopped at her desk, seeing an open journal. 'A diary?' He used to think that diaries were stupid. What was the point in having on in the first place? He picked it up and skimmed through it, taking his time.
He suddenly stopped at one page near the middle.
'Dear Diary, You won't believe what has happened to me today! I just met THE Salamander! I even had his scarf. His name is Natsu Dragneel. I was afraid when I first met him. I thought that he would hurt me because I had his scarf, but I was wrong. He was very kind to me. He helped me when I was in trouble. I've been with him for a few days and I've seen many sides of him. There was also this blue flying cat named happy. He was so cute! He's a bit protective of natsu. Happy had told me many stories when they were younger. I also joined fairy tail mama... It's a dream come true! I'm grateful that I was able to meet these guys, they had changed my life.'
There was more to it, but natsu stopped. What he just read was enough for him. Lucy and happy really cared for him, and he was extremely grateful. He couldn't help but smile softly at the sleeping lucy. He took off his cloak and soundlessly walked over to her, slipping under the covers and pulled her closer to him. Happy crawled so he was above natsu's and lucy's head. Lucy buried her face into natsu's shirt and sighed.
Natsu's heart thumped against his chest as he planted a kiss on her head. Natsu tucked her head under his chin before looking out the window. There were lot's of stars out, shining brightly. The stars glow reminded him of lucy. He closed his eyes and fell into a peaceful sleep.
'Thank you lucy..'
Heyy! Okay, so I won't delete this story guys. I just can't when so many people enjoy reading this. This took me at least two weeks to finish. I hope you like this new chapter, and yes, the fighting scenes are crappy. Oh, and I'll change the title later or something, that was all I could think of.
