'Who's voice was that? Kind of sounded like happy's...I can't see anything, where am I, It's so dark…'
Happy flew out of the house and went to find Gray, it didn't take long considering he was still walking to his own house. "GRAAYY!" the raven turned around just as Happy flew into his chest, crying.
"Happy?! What's wrong?" a bubble of panic washed over him as he thought the worse of what Happy was about to say.
"I't Natsu! He suddenly fainted! I..I couldn't wake him up Gray!"
Gray hugged happy and ran straight back to Natsu's place. He barged into the house and was shocked to see the dragon slayer slumped against the wall with his head hanging down. He ran over to the unconscious dragon slayer and shook him by the shoulders.
"Natsu! C'mon man wake up!"
Not a sound came from him, not even a snore to reassure Gray that he was only asleep. The raven then picked him up so that his head could rest against his chest. "I'm taking him to the guild, maybe Wendy can do something to help him"
Happy nodded but he looked quite worried.
Gray found it hard to run while holding the dragon slayer in his arms but he managed it somehow. While on the way to the guild he had noticed an intense drop in temperature as there was no heat radiating off the dragon slayer at all at the moment, he began to panic and pushed himself harder.
Once in the guild everyone turned their heads to look his way considering he almost kicked the doors off its hinges. As soon as their eyes met the figure laying in the ravens arms everyone rushed over to help.
The ice mage made his way up to the infirmary and layed Natsu down on one of the beds just as Wendy, Master and the rest of team Natsu rushed in.
"Gray, what happened to Natsu?" Lucy looked just as worried as Happy did.
"I'm not sure, he was unconscious when i got to his house. Happy came after me and said he had fainted." there was no hiding the worry in his voice.
Erza moved over to the bed where Wendy was casting her healing magic on the dragon slayer. "Wendy, how are his vitals?"
The younger wizard hesitated for a moment before speaking "he does have a cold, which is why he got sick faster than normal on the train...but that's not all…"
Gray listened to the young girl as not to miss a single word she had said but what she did say frightened the ice mage and his whole mind went blank after hearing a gasp escape every one's lips.
'Man I feel like i've been walking for hours..is there no way out of here...i'm actually a little frightened, it's so dark I can't even see my hands or anything in front of me...why is it so dark? I can't even use my magic...Where am I?'
Wendy left the room after she had said that she cannot heal Natsu and apologized for it. Everyone smiled at her with a sympathetic smile before saying it's okay. Master left to contact Porlyusica in hopes that she may be able to do something to help the dragon slayer but returned saying that even she couldn't do anything to help him.
Everyone else left the room to go an find anything that could possibly cure their friend except Gray. he stayed for a bit longer. He touched Natsu's forehead which still had heat radiating from it showing that he indeed had a fever so the raven let his magic flow over the area in hopes to bring that fever down. It didn't work.
Gray sighed and picked up Natsu's hand, realizing how cold he felt sent more fear coursing through the raven. "C'mon you flaming idiot, snap out of it, this isn't like you, you're not supposed to be cold, you're a frickin' fire mage for crying out loud!" No response came.
'Wait i think i heard a voice...sounded like Gray...why is Gray here? GRAY?' -no response- 'hmm, he never said anything...wait I hear it again...is he telling me to snap out of it? Snap out of what?'
There was a blinding light that filled the darkness and suddenly Natsu could see Gray but he also seen something else...He seen himself laying still on a white sheet, and Gray was holding his hand pleading him to wake up. Natsu could barely hear what the raven was saying but he got bits and pieces of his words. 'Natsu please….you can't….need you….don't go!"
Natsu was now standing next to Gray "Gray i'm right here! I'm not going anywhere!" he tried to touch the ice mage but his hand just slipped right through him.
The dragon slayer took a step back and looked down at his hand for a moment which happened to be transparent..he then looked over at his still form on the bed.
'N-no...this can't be happening….wait I don't even know what's happening...Am I dead? No i can't be dead I was on a mission with the team then i came home and eveything went dark...and now i'm here...I thought I heard Wendy speaking earlier...i can barely remember what she said...but i thought i heard her say that she couldn't do anything to help me...she couldn't what….couldn't save me? Save me from what!? I can't remember!...Gray...I'm sorry..I don't know what to do...I want to wake up but i don;t think i can...Gray...i'll come back...i'll come back to everyone...i'll come back to you…'
Something cold seemed to go right through Gray and caused him to shiver..he also thought he could hear Natsu's voice telling him that he was right there...sure he was right there, right there laying on that bed looking lifeless as ever. The dragon slayer's breathing had become uneven and he jumped up to go find the others.
The projection of Natsu followed the raven down to the guild hall and watched as Gray asked all around the guild to see if anyone knew of a way to cure the dragon slayer. No one knew that they were being watched considering they could not see the dragon slayer but he could see all of them.
Erza, Lucy and Levy all sat at one table flipping through book after book trying to find anything that could cure their friend..sadly anything they read came up short and no one could find a cure.
Gray rushed over to them "Guy's have you found anything yet?" They all shook their head and the raven ran his fingers through his hair in frustration and panic.
"How is he Gray? Did anything else happen to him?" Levy looked at the raven as she spoke
"His breathing is uneven now...i don't know how long he's going to last.." fear clearly evident in his voice.
Happy came flying into Gray's chest and clung to his shirt. The ice mage wrapped his arms around the blue exceed and hugged him. "Will Natsu be okay?" The little thing was crying as he looked up at Gray.
The raven sighed but didn't want to lie to the exceed.. "I honestly don't know happy…But we are all trying to cure him"
They let go of each other and Gray found himself smiling sympathetically at Happy. "Sit with the others and try to help them out..i'm going to keep asking around to see if anyone else may have found something."
The Master was flipping through a few books while talking with Porlyusica through a lacrima vision.
"That little brat overdid himself Makarov...he may not come back from this one"
"I know, but everyone here is family, I will not let one go that easily...It is my job as the master to make sure that everyone is safe."
"I'm just warning you...but I will help if you so need it...i do have a few books here that i can lend you."
The Master nodded, told her to come over right away and then he turned back to his own book as he heard a 'tsk sound and the lacrima shut off.
'Natsu...We'll get you back...I promise...You're a part of Fairy Tail….and we don't give up that easily…'
At that moment everything went black, all lights were off, there were screams and sounds of objects breaking. When the lights came back on everything was a mess the entire hall was destroyed. Erza looked at Gray "Check on Natsu!"
Gray nodded and ran up to Natsu's room and stood in the doorway completely shocked. The room was completely ransacked and almost every item was either flipped, torn or broken but what scared the ice mage was that Natsu was gone.
What did you guys think of this chapter? I wonder who took Natsu. You will find out in the next chapter. hehe!
Also feel free to toss ideas my way, they are always welcome, and the more help i get the faster i can get to the next chapter!~
