Hi guys thanks for the amazing reviews of last chapter :D I know all of you have questions to what the hell happened for the suspense and making you wait I am really sorry to you guys….i am not going to lie I couldn't stop crying
Happy: Why am I not here?
I am sorry Happy! Don't worry you will come up in the story! Not in this chapter, but the next chapter promise! *smiles*
Happy: Will I get fish?
No
Happy: so you will get all the fish! *gasp in horror*
No! I don't even like fish
Happy: YOU DON'T LIKE FISH! YOU MONSTER! *GASP*
Pantherlily: Fish hater
Whatever! :p …. I would like to thank NaLu Fan and to everyone that reviewed and I answered through private message! Lol you're the only one that reviewed that didn't have an account…sorry to the ones Gajeel scared off! :'( I will get him back when Levi is done with him.
Happy: So am I getting fish?
NO HAPPY! *yells*
Happy: WHAAAAAA! LUCY! LILMISSSHORTIE1 IS BEING MEAN TO ME! *FLIES AWAY CRING*
*SIGH* dramatic cat!...well NaLu Fan to answer your question if I am Gray and Juvia fan or Gray and Erza…to tell you the truth I think both couples are cute! Lol well to tell all you reviews the truth…I am kinda iffy on this chapter…so I beg you all to tell me your honest opinion of this chapter or I will serious believe that I did a horrible job :(
The bright clouds overlapped each other as a golden light came down slowly next to the unconscious blonde. The blonde laid unconscious on the clouds breathing slowly as her long blonde hair flowed all around her. Some would say if they saw her that she was sleeping beauty that was believed to be a myth. But no one can see her for she is in fact a spirit. A spirit that went through many sorrows in her years. Golden tears came unconsciously down her cheeks. The white long dress she wears flows all around her. She, the goddess of the spirits, died with no regret at all just sorrow of losing loved ones.
The golden light shined brightly as it revealed the body of the spirits mother. Layla. She floated to her daughter falling on her knees as she cried softly. The beautiful maiden cried and cried as she clutched her hand over her heart in pain. She kept repeating her apologies to her daughter for all the pain she went through.
"Lucy….if only you didn't have this fate! If only I could have saved you! Or at least given you longer time to be with the ones you love!" Layla cried as she grabbed her daughter's hands squeezing them to her.
Lucy's eyes immediately snapped open as she looked up. Golden tears still coming down from her eyes. Her brown eyes scanned around franticly only to see nothing. All she hears is the sound of sobbing. She quickly sat up and looked around her.
"Who…who's there?" Lucy stuttered her eyes looking everywhere. Layla looked down at Lucy in shock. "Why are you crying? Who are you?" Layla chuckled sadly as she looked at her daughter in sadness. Lucy looked up towards the sound of the chuckle to see a golden light floating in the air above her.
"So I am guessing it is true. You can't see me at all." Lucy's eyes widened once she recognized the voice.
"Mama?" Lucy muttered in disbelief as she stood up shakily. The long white dress flowed loosely around her the fine silk would occasionally touch her skin as she walked to the light. "If I am dead then how come I can't see you?"
"Well you see, Lucy. You can not see me for it is forbidden."
"What you mean forbidden? YOU'RE MY MOTHER! WHY THE HELL CAN'T I SEE YOU! I AM DEAD AREN'T I! IF I AM DEAD I SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE YOU!" Lucy cried as she yelled at the golden light that is her mother's spirit.
"Lucy! I don't know why you can not see me. All I know is that it is forbidden for the goddess of the spirits to see her mother due to your connection to the spirit king. Now I will demonstrate to you what you must do. Please pay close attention." Layla said as she led Lucy further into the mist of white.
"Where are we?" Lucy asked as she followed her mother through the mist of the white space. Lucy looked around confused. "Are we in the spirit world?"
"No. We are not in the spirit world. We are in the Mist of Clouds. It is a special place designated for ones that are in the transition of passing on. This is also the realm between worlds. I will lead you to the demon door, but understand you must close and seal all the demons on earth in there. You must restore order, Lucy. "
They continued to go on in silence not speaking a word as they walked through the mist. Layla felt herself continue to get sadder for her daughter's fate. She knew Lucy was strong, but she really didn't expect her to be this strong. Her daughter lost everything and she still refuses to cry.
"I am sorry Lucy…" Layla sighed sadly as tears ran down her cheeks. She is glad her daughter can't see her like this. She wouldn't want her to.
"For what?"
"For the fate that you have to go through. For everything that has happened to you." Lucy immediately stopped and faced her head down using her bangs to hide her sad face. Layla turned to look at her daughter to only have her heartbreak more at the sight. Not one tear went down Lucy's face as she looked back up at her mother with determination.
"Don't say sorry to me! I chose this for myself! I decided I will take this path of pain! I decided for myself that I will not cry or be sad! I decided I will save everyone no matter the price!" Lucy spoke confidently to her mother.
Lucy's eyes widen as she saw Layla's spirit flicker showing her mother's proud yet sadden look. Layla walked in front of her daughter to cup her cheek. Lucy's brown eyes continue to widen as her mother's spirit became clearer showing her mother's angelic face to her. Layla smiled at her daughter.
"You are stronger than I thought! I am proud that you have such ambition and bravery. I have always watched over you ever since I died. It still amazes me how strong and independent you have become. Even though you don't know, but you have cried your tears when you were unconscious. The golden tears that is equivalent to a thousand tears it is said. It is said that those tears are cried from the purest of saddened souls. The tears of the sadness of the Earth. The tears of the goddess." Layla sighed sadly looking down as she kept going. Her spirit form slowly going back to the golden light in Lucy's eyes.
"You're wrong… I am not as strong as you think...I want more than anything to run crying for everything I lost…but I can't let myself do that because now my nakuma are fighting for their lives and it is my responsibility to save them." Lucy spoke loudly as she clutched her hand to her chest above her broken heart. Layla turned to her daughter and smiled weakly.
"We are here." Lucy looked past the light of her mother to see the mist separating revealing a door. A black door with blood surrounding it. Shadows surrounded the door as if mocking that it is open.
"This is the door to the demon world?" Lucy spoke feeling her heart race in fear as the door's evil aura made itself known to her. Just then Lucy felt a warm glow on her hand. She lifted her hand to her eyes to see a red a black key form from the glow. "A key?"
"Being the Celestial Goddess you have every key to any realm. You can open and close doors. When you near a door to one of the realms the key only appears to you." Layla exclaimed.
"If the key only appears to me then how did the demons open the door and leave it open?" Lucy asked as she continued to the look at the door with her confidence rising.
"No one really knows how. The Spirit King suggested that it was because they influenced the gate keeper to become a demon also and be their leader. Besides you there are gate keepers in each door that can only open and close their designated doors." Layla explained as she looked at her daughter.
"All I have to do is close the door and pick a spirit who is capable enough to watch over the door?"
"Yes."
"Ok!" Lucy said with determination as she walked towards the door slowly. The growls and screams of the demon world echoed through her ears. Her heart raced more with every step she took towards the door. Her hands trembled against the key as faces of demons and skulls appeared from the door. They looked at her with hunger and thirst. "Now is not the time to be afraid, Lucy!" She whispered.
The demons in the door continued to stare at the blonde goddess as she lifted her hand towards the door. Her body glowed red while she closed her eyes lifting the key. The demons shrieked in horror at the sight of the key coming closer to the door.
"You have disrupted the balance of good and evil in earth and you must be punished. THE ONES WHO EXITED AND WENT TO EARTH TO DISTURB THE PEACE ARE HEREBY BANNED FROM EVER RETURNING BACK. THEY MUST LIVE THEIR HORRIBLE ETERNAL LIVES BURNING IN THE GOLDEN FIRE OF PURITY IN THE DEMON WORLD. IF EVER ANY OF THEM TRY TO ESCAPE AGAIN THEY SHALL DEAL WITH ME PERSONALLY!" Lucy yelled as the demons screamed in agony. Black shadows immediately warped around Lucy screaming. The demons from earth immediately gone as they were all forced through the door. Their screams echoed through the door as it lit in golden fire.
"The fire of the goddess's anger." Layla whispered in horror as she saw Lucy's hair turned to golden fire as her body glowed red. When Lucy turned to her Layla gasped to see Lucy's brown eyes now bright yellow with anger. A lone golden tear went down Lucy's cheek as she closed her eyes.
"I saved them!" She smiled weakly as she looked up. "My sacrifice was worth it." Lucy whispered as golden tears continued to fall slowly down her cheeks. Lucy lifted her hand to wipe a tear. She stared at the tear on her hand with her original honey brown eyes. "Why am I still sad?"
"Lucy there is something I must show you!" Layla said looking at her daughter with sorrow knowing what she must show her. They walked for what seemed like forever to Lucy. "I have told you before this place is a place designated for people in transition to pass on. "
Lucy stared in shock as the mist moved revealing the bodies of the fallen comrades running and laughing. Lisanna squealed while she ran from a laughing Mira. Elfman chased them saying stuff about being manly as Juvia threw water at them. They looked healthy and happy as if nothing happened to them. Their clothing looked like it was made from the finest silk. Lucy continued to stare in sadness until she saw Levi and Natsu laugh while they talked with Juvia. Lucy's heart raced as she saw Natsu and Levi. Golden tears came down her eyes as she tried to go to them.
"WHY!...why is Levi and Natsu here! Why!" Lucy whispered in horror as she continued to take staggering steps towards them. "No! ….they couldn't have…..WHY!"
"Lucy they can't see nor hear you! It is no use, my child!" Layla mutter to her daughter as she stood next to her. Lucy looked up at her mother with the golden tears still coming down. Her mother's spirit body flickered again revealing her mother to her.
"There has to be some way to save them. Please. I beg you! I have to save them from the fate I went through! Please momma! Please! THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE FOR ME! ESPECIALLY NATSU!" Lucy sobbed. "LEVI-CHAN, NATSU! MIRA! ELFMAN! LISANNA! JUVIA!" Lucy cried out their names as she continued to cry. Lucy's body glowed as wind blew furiously around her.
"There is a way, but I don't want you to go through it." Layla sighed as she looked at Lucy's pleading eyes.
"Anything! Momma I will do anything to save them!" Lucy begged as she stared at her mother's light. Even though she can only see a little flicker of her mother. Lucy can tell that she has a worried expression.
"Lucy the only way you can bring them back to life is by going to Earth and forcing their spirits to reunite with their bodies. You will also be brought back to life with this."
"Really that's all I have to do!" Lucy exclaimed thinking that she will be able to that.
"But it comes with a cost, Lucy!" Lucy turned to her mother with worry. Layla looked at her daughter with pain seeing her daughter's broken expression.
"What can I possibly lose."
"If you do this…Lucy. You will still have the amazing powers of the Celestial Goddess and will still be the Celestial Goddess. But YOU WILL lose your memories! Memories of your father and I. of Fairy Tail. Of Natsu. Of yourself. Of everything." Layla said sadly refusing to look at Lucy's shock face. "You will lose them. They will be locked in your brain unable to be remembered while you wake up miles away from them! I'm sorry! There is no other way!"
"I will lose all my memories." Lucy repeated in horror as her eyes widened. She doesn't want to lose her memories. Memories of her mother when she was young. When she first met Natsu. When Natsu and Happy took her to Fairy Tail. When the phantom guild attacked Fairy Tail in order to kidnap her. Everyone in Fairy Tail risking their lives for her. Her family. All the adventures they have had. All their laughter and joy. All her memories of them.
Lucy turned to see her dead Nakuma still running around and laughing. Not knowing of her presence. Not knowing that they are dead. Tears when down Lucy's cheeks, but not golden tears. These tears were the color of pain and sorrow these tears were the color of clear. They were salt water tears. Human tears. Lucy looked back at her mother with determination. It is either save them or lose her memories.
"I decided!"