Natsu's warm hands held the thrashing and screaming blonde laying on the ground. Wendy's hands however hovered over Lucy's body, a cool blue mist forming underneath her hands signalling that she had begun Lucy's healing process. Behind the two focused mages, Erza and Gray held to dark mage that had caused Lucy so much pain. The celestial mage began to quiet, resolved to whispered whimpers and her body began to still once again.

"There's so much damage here that I'm not sure I'll be able to fix it all. We need to take her to Porlyusica when I'm done." Wendy said hurriedly, not looking up from where her hands where her hands were healing her blonde friend. Natsu nodded at her but then when realising that the sky dragon slayer wasn't looking at him he spoke.

"Just do the best you can." He said in a strangled voice. Tears ran down his face as he turned his gaze back to woman that held his heart. He smiled slightly when he saw Lucy relax as her body was slowly being put back together. Finally when most of her wounds seemed to be healed Wendy's magic cut out and she fell backwards into someone's arms. Behind her, Gajeel was knelt holding her upright.

"I think she's done flame-ass, we'd better get your woman to the pink haired witch." Gajeel said, a lot softer than his usual tone. Even one if Natsu's rivals could tell that this was tough for him. From the looks on the rest of the guilds faces, it was tough for them too. Someone in the crowd cleared their throat and the Fairy Tail mages moves aside to real their petite master.

"Natsu, you and your team get Lucy to Porlyusica and we'll handle this situation." The master said, as he walked over to the fire dragon slayer and placed a comforting hand on the boys shoulder. Natsu nodded jaggedly and wiped his face clear of tears although almost instantaneously fresh tears dribbled down his face. He adjusted his grip on his lovers body and forced himself to stand with her resting in his arms.

"I'm coming too. Lu-chan is my best friend." A petite blue haired mage stepped out of the crowd and towards Natsu and his team. Another blue haired girl stepped up beside her.

"Juvia wishes to join you too. Juvia owes a lot to love rival and wants to make sure she is okay."

The master nodded at the two and stepped aside so they could join Team Natsu. Gajeel, who was now carrying Wendy, and Pantherlily stepped towards the group, looking at the master as if daring him to tell them they couldn't go. The master sighed and nodded at the stubborn man and his exceed and allowed the group to walk past him and out of the double doors. The room became silent as all of the remaining Fairy Tail mages stood looking around the room, not knowing what to do. That was until some of the dark mages began to wake up and groan.

"What are you brats waiting for?! Gather them up! Now!" With that, the Fairy Tail mages began to collect all of the dark mages whilst the master made a call to the magic council.

After rushing away from the Medusa's Wrath guild hall, the group quickly came to a stop at Porlyusica's home in the forest. Natsu continued on into the house whilst the rest of the mages waited outside, knowing the healer would not take too kindly to lots of visitors. Natsu stepped into the house, pushing the door open without knocking and dodged out of the way of a broom that would've hit him in the head.

"Oh not you again. What now?" the pink haired healer looked at the celestial mage in Natsu's arms and immediately recoiled. "Has your healer managed to heal her at all?" she snapped. Natsu nodded and walked past the woman, who made a noise of protest at his rudeness. Natsu ignored her and instead placed Lucy on the bed nearest the door and rearranged her body in a comfortable looking position. The healers angry expression softened slightly as she witnessed the delicate way that the dragon slayer was arranging Lucy's body. She stepped forwards and began to examine the girl, checking if there were any wounds that would cause any danger to her. After a quick examination the woman turned to Natsu abruptly.

The fire mage stared back at her, daring her to tell him to leave. Porlyusica huffed and spoke to the devastated boy.

"If you're not going to leave then you need to help me." Natsu raised an eyebrow at her, curious as to how he could possibly help. Then she said the worst possible thing she could've said.

"You need to cauterise her wounds."

After many tears from the pink haired fire wizard and yelling from the healer with the same colour hair, Lucy was finally out of the woods. Together they had managed to heal her as best they could and from Porlyusica's relentless checking up on the celestial mage, something that Natsu was glad for, they could tell that Lucy was getting better and there was no longer a threat on her life.

Eventually, the old hag had allowed the rest of Lucy's friends enter her home but had drawn the line when the rest of the guild had shown up, demanding to see their nakama. Just as she was getting ready to kick everyone out, even the patient, Lucy woke up. It wasn't one of those smooth and quite moments like in the movies where the person just opens their eyes. It was a lot more dramatic than that, which wasn't surprising as it was Lucy after all.

It started with a groan, which the team didn't take as a sign of her waking up at first as she had done it a few times in the many hours that they had been at her bedside. Then she started the scrunch up her body. Natsu was holding her hand softly at the time even though he wanted to grip it so tight his hand and hers would be moulded together so that she never left his side again. He noticed that she was pulling her hand away from and shot out of his chair.

"Lucy? Are you awake?" he said quietly. Lucy murmured and whimpered pulling away from everyone and in turn pulled at one of her wounds. She froze and gritted her teeth, fighting the pain. Slowly, she unscrunched her eyes and looked around at her friends, he eyes finally finding Natsu's. The room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"Na-Natsu." Lucy spoke, her voice more hoarse than usual. Natsu smiled at her and tilted his head, wondering what she had to say. "Thank you."

And then Natsu kissed her.

And that is the end! I know, I'm terrible for being gone for like 4 months but I had a lot going on. I hope you can all forgive me. I hope you are all happy with the ending. I will see you in my next story (which I will pre-write before posting so I don't take an AGE to finish it).

Byeeeeee