Sorry for the 3 month hiatus, it wasn't planned, but it happened. Work, too many holidays, and um other animes, had gotten involved. I wanted to apologize with a super long chappie, but I didn't want to drag it too long. Thanks for letting me know that people still care about this story. We are getting close to the end, and I feel like no one is expecting the true finale of this story. Remember I am POOR, so Hiro Masima-sensei owns Fairy Tail.
Menacing eyes drowned Lucy in an ocean of guilt, it seemed her return to Fairy Tail had only caused chaos and despair. Her beloved master's sudden collapsed only confirmed her doubts. Everyone in the distraught guild hall seemed to accuse her.
Ill intensions, jealousy and betrayal were suffocating the usually insecure Lucy, she wanted to return home on her own term, she wanted to privately ask her guild father for the freedom to run away, but Rogue and Sting stole that from her. Instead of taking everything step by step, disappearing from the guild and Magnolia, she was just being propelled out of both.
At some point during Lucy's mental breakdown, Rogue exited the guild with his master.
"What are we gonna do now? We can't stay here, and Rufus is going to mess up eventually trying to remember everything he thinks is right. We can go snatch blondie in the middle of the night and get escape these Fairy-turds." Sting informed his twin dragon slayer, who seemed to be miles away from this conversation.
Of course we are going to steal OUR mate, we're going to devour that body and make her forget about that scum, but little Rogue aren't you being exceptionally behaved?
Rogue growled loudly at what his shadows were insinuating. There was nothing more than he wanted then to castrate the rapist, yell until his eardrums burst. The quiet rage he held back had his mouth bleeding from clenching so hard on his cheeks and tongue. Gajeel was going to pay and he didn't need anyone remind him.
And when did you allow Sting call our mate, blondie?
"I never allowed him, I'm gonna get that bastard. She's mine!" Rogue yelled furiously as he pushed Sting and ran off to find Gajeel.
Sighing at the crumbling sanity Rogue displayed, Sting just looked at his position with wonder. Why did he agree to come, why was he acting like he was part of this mating? He didn't love Lucy, he just wanted her. Rogue could care less about love, all he wanted was some stupid idea of family. Getting up from the cobblestone floor, Sting felt that following Natsu might lead him to the answers he was seeking. There was too much strife in his head and he needed someone who feigned idiocy to guide his path.
You really plan on leaving her alone? Don't you know her guild mates are gonna eat her up alive? We can't let the baby suffer because that woman is a whore.
"Can't you shut the hell up! Lucy's no whore, the baby will be fine, the father though won't be." Rogue ran off trying to find Gajeel with his inferior tracking skills.
Forgiving Gajeel for the one occurrence was difficult enough, but the second time, while he was mated to the woman was an insult. 'Couldn't you just tell me? I never wanted to kill you, but now… I must!' The dark haired youth thought as he prowled the streets for Gajeel.
Brown eyes scanned the guild for her mate, but he was nowhere to be found. She wanted to leave, and he was there to pick up her crumbling pieces, not abandon her when she most need him.
Laughing lightly at how difficult her life has always been, she had to face everything alone. This time, there would be no melancholy good-byes, or heartfelt moments, only regrets, now all her feet wanted to do were to run away. The tender eyes of her guild mates were replaced with overwhelming hate, some with pity and pride, her home had become hell and it was only getting hotter with every passing second. Between the raging hormones, depression and guilt, Master Makarov's sudden heart attack was the last straw, her clenched fists and trickling sweat indicated that she believed to cause his critical condition.
"You can leave if you want, just be careful Lucy." Erza whispered tenderly, interrupting the self-destructive thoughts of the blonde. Wide chocolate eyes stared at her scarlet haired friend in shock. 'Even Erza…' Lucy thought as her friend continued to automatically pet her blonde hair; nodding her troubled head, Lucy understood one thing clearly, even Erza accused her. Casting the last of her last hopes on the power of friendship, the Celestial mage picked herself off and she regrettably left before her bipolar friend acknowledged Lucy's guilt.
Quietly she removed herself from Erza, moving stealthily through the concern crowd; each step away from her guild father felt like a knife to her heavily stabbed and bleeding heart, she wanted to run to his side. Lucy wanted to summon her spirits and heal him, expedite Wendy's arrival, be useful to the one person who truly believed in her. With the current standing, she understood as clear as day, that none would let a murderous adulterer anywhere near their precious master.
Lucy finally reached the liberty outside the accusatory guild doors and the Magnolia air never felt so relieving. Everything she had endured in these couple of days were starting to tear away at her soul and all her attempts of fixing her mess were blowing up in her face. She couldn't go running to Gajeel and approaching Rogue at the moment seemed inappropriate, as she still probably reeked of her Iron Dragon Slayer. Taking difficult steps away from the guild, Lucy found speed in her movements and ran towards the train station, where no dragon slayer would follow.
She needed to runaway, her original plan was always the best and it was her weakness that allowed her thoughts to be swayed by Evergreen.
"We gotta runaway Heartfilia, no turning back." The blonde cried running down the streets of Magnolia, refusing even to gather her things and accidentally running into anyone who would sway her.
Lost in her worries, Lucy finally reached the boisterous station. Time seemed to drag on for the emotionally distraught Fairy Tail wizard, who just wanted to be anywhere but here, but no amount of worrying and panic was going to expedite her long wait in line.
After half an hour in line, the Celestial Wizard had her ticket to freedom in hand, her next stop would be anywhere but here. She needed to disappear and this time no one was going to sway her decisions, and she had enough of Gajeel's magical energy to last her until the birth of their child. Biting the inside of her cheek, the blonde regretted immediately everything that had led her here, if only she was stronger, more determined and honest, she would be happily home at Fairy Tail and giving her child the life that Asuka was having.
"My weakness will be your strength. Hopefully you will take after both of your fathers." Lucy tenderly caressed her growing child, and with tears drowning her eyes, the Celestial Wizard boarded her train to a destination filled of loneliness and regret.
As the final train out of Magnolia for hour departed, the twilight painted the evening skies in hues of orange and pink, reflecting on the past morning and transitioning to the impending blues and darkness of the night.
The once crowd-filled happy city was waning down as the trials and tribulations of the earlier day disappeared.
Within the guildhall of the Fairy Tail guild, the overwhelming fear of losing their beloved guild father consumed their turbulent present.
All the drama concerning Lucy, Gajeel, Levy and Rogue was easily forgotten the moment Wendy finally arrived and immediately headed to the infirmary. The young sky dragon slayer diligently struggled with her magic to repair the damage inflicted to Master Makarov.
"This is all Lucy's fault. If the little witch just kept her legs closed and stayed as the village nun, he wouldn't be in this condition." Bickslow commented as he chugged down on some beer as his babies chanted 'village nun' over and over.
Erza threw Happy at him to get his attention, and before he ran off his usually foul mouth, the Fairy Queen glared at him so viciously that the black seith wizard could only apologize for his insolence.
While Erza kept the peace, Laxus was nervously pacing back and forth in front of the infirmary room's door. At times like this the Thunder Legion would be by his side, but Ever went off somewhere and the other two thought that leaving him alone was best.
"When I need ya Ever, your usually here, why now do choose to leave me alone?" The future guild master thought as he stopped his pacing and perched himself against the infirmary door. At first the intimidating lightning dragon slayer was allowed to be watching, but the second he caused Wendy to lapse in concentration, she threw him out.
Understanding the child's reasoning, he didn't hold it against her; she had all her right to be violent and agitated when trying to save his grandfather. Now that he wasn't barking orders to Wendy and he wasn't seeing the old man struggle to breathe, the events of the day were starting to make too much sense and there was a perplexing variable that really started bugging him.
Usually when the old man ran off, it took days for him to come to his senses and call his grandson back. Lucy hit him hard, but she wasn't the first to quit the guild, all the drama with his beloved children he would have resolved it, but something else had to happen.
"Ji ji, your sad, but I know you were fine when you ran off." The large man ran a pensive hand through his short blond soft spikes.
The events of the day replayed countless time in his mind, but whatever caused the old man to breakdown so quickly, it most of been truly horrendous by the way he wailed for his grandson. 'This doesn't smell like Lucy's doing, Gajeel wouldn't do anything to Ji ji, he considers him his savior, so what happened?' Laxus thought as he slid down the infirmary door, taking a seat on the oak floor, when he noticed the small trail of pebbles on the ground. Remembering how distraught Makarov had been picking up all the pebbles from the ground, the Lightning dragon slayer decided to further examine the peculiar rock.
Laxus gathered a couple, weighing them studiously in his hand, all he could determine that is was some type of stone, it didn't look particularly interesting, but upon sniffing the perplexing catalyst, his stormy eyes widen in horror.
"Ever…" Laxus whispered lifelessly at the small rocks in his hand, as tears accumulated in his eyes already mourning an event that he had yet to prove true.
While Laxus was trying to keep strong and not run out of the guild in search for his beloved friend; everyone else in the guild was continued to be oblivious to just about everything. They didn't understand that neither age or Lucy had any contributive factor in their beloved master's breakdown.
In her empty apartment a certain dragon slayer waited hour after hour, for it's owner to return, but she never did. The transition from day, to evening, and to night and the very pregnant blonde refused to come home. Growling and unknowing the situation, the dark haired man marched his way to Fairy Tail.
"Oi where the hell is bunny girl?" Gajeel belched out to the mourning room, unaware of his master's critical condition.
Erza pulled him to the side and informed the Iron Dragon Slayer of the latest occurrences within the guild and that's when it him. Lucy disappeared... Again.
Bowing his head, he apologized for his uproar and without any notification ran out of the guildhall. Levy's eyes followed her fiancée as her fragmented heart continued to break. She didn't have to ask, she already knew by his body language, he was going to chase after Lucy, the harlot who let him revel in her virginity. Grinding her teeth in rage, she pretended that everything was okay, she wholeheartedly worried for her master and Gajeel and Lucy's affair only destroyed her from within, never scaring her superficially.
Following the scent of vanilla, earth and cinnamon, Gajeel traced the blonde's trail to the train station. Frustrated at her method of transportation and his patience for staying in her apartment building for so long, the iron dragon slayer stared at the train schedule.
'If I was bunny girl, where would I run too?' The raven hair man asked himself, until a ghost-like wave underline the city of Crocus.
"Bunny you're making me into such a horrible person.…" Gajeel laughed quietly in defeat.
The iron dragon slayer took off his engagement ring and threw it behind his shoulder.
"I'm not going back." Gajeel sighed as he refused to look back. He was going to throw caution to the wind, and chase after the woman he had ever loved.
Darkness, void, abyss are words that are synonymous with the night, but alternative meanings can also be synonymous with hell, death and feelings of deception.
See Rogue, our beloved Gajeel is chasing after your whore… we told you to stay with her.
Rogue heard his chatty shadows whisper into the night as he found a familiar silver ring glittering in the darkness of night. A visible scarlet eye, shone lividly as he crushed the piece of jewelry Gajeel swore he never would remove into dust with a shadowed fist.
"The bastard, his father and the witch are all gonna die." A sinister smile adorned Rogue's face as he finally snapped.