I do not own Fairy Tail. This is an alternate universe from Hiro Mashima's work.
Chapter 5:
The next day when Lucy woke up, Natsu was already awake which was odd. He was a heavy sleeper so it was unusual for him to be awake before her. She walked over to him as she ran her fingers through her hair.
"Good morning." Lucy said to him. He looked up at her with anger in his eyes but said nothing back before walking to the cave's opening. She scowled as he walked away from her.
The blonde looked at him as she wondered herself what the heck his problem was. But nothing came to mind as she took an apple and started to eat it. Lucy looked up at the cloudy sky and started to think about Igneel's letter.
As the day went on, Natsu continued to ignore Lucy and said not one word to her. By lunchtime, the blonde was tired of it and stomped over towards the pink-haired pouter.
"Listen up, Natsu. I don't know what has you so mad today. But if I didn't do it, stop taking it out on me. If you want to talk about it, let's talk about it. However, this chip on your shoulder has got to go." Lucy told him but he didn't move a muscle.
"Are you listening to me?" She asked as she reached out and grabbed his shoulder. He grabbed her hand from his shoulder and looked at her with a fierce scowl on his face.
"Leave me alone." Natsu growled at her as he squeezed her hand. Lucy whimpered a bit at the pain and tried to pull away from him.
"Okay. Just let me go." Her brown eyes were watering with tears out of fear and pain.
The pink-haired boy let her go and walked off to another part of the cave. He felt a twinge of guilt and regret from releasing this anger on her but this was all new to him. What was this turmoil inside his heart?
Around dusk, Natsu decided to apologize to Lucy from his bad mood earlier and walked towards her. She turned around as his footsteps gave him away. The look in her eyes was fear and a bit of panic, the same look as when she first arrived to the cave.
"Look, Lucy. I wanted to apologize for earlier." He spoke softly to her.
But Lucy just put her hands up and backed up towards the cave's opening.
"Please…stay back." Lucy said softly as she started to cry.
"Why? I'm trying to apologize for hurting you and scaring you earlier." Natsu took a step forward not realizing how close she was to the edge of the cave.
"Just stay back." She said louder and took another step back.
"Watch out!" He said to her as her foot slid over the edge. Natsu watched in slow motion as she fell out of the cave and started a long fall down. Before he realized it, they were both falling as he reached out and hugged her to him.
The pink-haired man wanted to protect as best he could, even if they both died. Lucy held onto him tightly as she closed her eyes while they fell to their death.
But when they realized that they were still alive, they opened their eyes slowly and looked around. Under them was the scales of a fire dragon.
"Igneel!" Natsu shouted, happily.
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