Dirty Little Secret
AN: Hello again, Reader-sama! In the last chapter, I asked you guys to answer this question:
Who are those people who attacked the guild?
The person who got it right was.. *drumroll* …
Mrlolcats! The answer was, Death March (They're from chapter 5) Well, congratulations! Let the interview start~!
Lanvia: How do you feel about NaVia?
Mrlolcats: I really like NaVia, even though they are a crack pairing (I don't like crack pairings), but they're soooo cute :3 They're an exception, in fact, they are one of my favourite pairings.
Lanvia: Haha! I see! Which do you prefer, GrayxJuviaxNatsu or LucyxNatsuxJuvia? And why?
Mrlolcats: I prefer GrayxJuviaxNatsu because I don't really like NaLu, I don't care if they're one of the most obvious pairings, I just don't like it, but I like when both options happen in the same fanfic (That's kind of weird, isn't it?)
Lanvia: I know right?! I totally agree with you! I promise to add more of that love triangle! I'm actually considering to add Lisanna/ Lyon to the complicated relationship.. but that's a story for another time! So, will you do the honors?
Mrlolcats: Lanvia does not own Fairy Tail or any of the characters! Hiro Mashima owns all of them!
Unison: Enjoy!
Chapter 12 "The Price to Pay"
Juvia, Natsu and Cana arrived at the damaged guild and saw all the guild members lying on the floor with bruises all over. Even the strongest mages got beaten up. The three of them stood there, shocked. Juvia places a hand over her mouth and tears started streaming down her face. Natsu pulls Juvia closer to him and wipes her tears, "Ssh.. calm down, Juvia. It's not your fault. It's those dumbasses that attacked the guild's fault! They are going to pay for what they've done to our nakamas."
Juvia sniffles and slowly nods. Suddenly, they hear a soft whimpering coming from the bar. Juvia walks over and prepares to fight but then, "Asuka-chan?! What are you doing back there? Are you hurt, sweetie?" Juvia picks Asuka up and places her on top of a table. Asuka wipes her tears and sniffles, "Mama and papa told me to hide, so I did. I wanted to help but I couldn't. I was helpless and now, mama and papa are hurt! It's all my fault! *sob*"
Juvia hugs Asuka and wipes her tears, "No, sweetheart! It wasn't your fault!" Asuka stops crying for a while and then widens her eyes, "Really?!" Juvia smiles and nods her head. Asuka smiles sweetly and looked down on her shoes. Natsu approached them and looks at Asuka, "Asuka, do you know where the bad guys went?" Asuka looks up to Natsu, she was about to open her mouth but a loud crash interrupted her,
CRASH!
A group of suspicious looking people stood there with smirks and frowns on their faces. An odd looking woman approaches them with a huge smirk on her face. Cana scoffs and crosses her arms. The said woman looks at Juvia and Natsu and licks her upper lip. Juvia widens her eyes in realization, Natsu looks at her and raises his eyebrow.
The woman opens her mouth and looks at the four of them, "Do you remember who we are?" Natsu just shrugs while Juvia raises her chin, "Death March.." she looks at them with horror and clenches her fists. The woman smiled, "Looks like the little girl remembers! Haha! You're probably wondering why we're here, correct?"
Cana rolls her eyes and chuckles, "No shit, Sherlock! Why are you here?! Why did you destroy the guild?! How did you even manage to defeat us?!" The woman laughs and stares at Cana with a smirk, "You must be Cana Alberona.. *giggle* The guild's alcoholic. We're here for revenge. Because of your silly guildmates, The Magic Council found out about Death March and disbanded us! Since then, we've been secretly gathering together and plotting to destroy Fairy Tail!"
The woman stopped and looked at Asuka who is hiding behind Juvia with fear and horror in her eyes. The woman smirks and walks closer to her. Juvia's jaw drops and her eyes widened, "Do not get any closer! Juvia's warning you!" The woman stops and looks at Juvia with a plain boring face, "You honestly think you can stop me? Well you're wrong! My name is Jezza Fenderson, one of the strongest mages in Fiore!" Her expressionless face quickly turns into amusement.
Natsu grits his teeth and chokes Jezza by her shirt, "Honestly, I don't freaking care who you are! All I want to do is beat you and your stupid guild up for hurting MY NAKAMAS!" Natsu screams and punches Jezza so hard that she got slammed hard to the wall. Natsu clenches and unclenches his fists as Jezza scrambles to her feet and laughs with amusement, "Nice try, salamander! You can't beat me!"
Natsu gets into fighting position and prepares to attack, "Fire Dragon's ROAAR!" He attacked her but she quickly backflips and dodges the attack. The other members of Death March prepares to attack, Natsu signals Cana and Juvia to attack them while Natsu handles Jezza.
Cana stares at the guild members and pulls out some of her cards, "Lightning! Reverse Tower! Lovers! JOLT OF FATE!" Cana sends the cards flying to the guild members and they got shocked by lightning and lays unconscious on the floor. Cana glances at Juvia, Juvia replies with a nod.
"Water Jigsaw!" Juvia transforms her body into a swirling mass of water slicers and slices her opponents like a saw. Jezza looks slightly irritated and opens her mouth, "You guys are so worthless! Do I HAVE to do everything myself? Ugh!" Jezza holds her hand close to her chest and whispers a spell, "Shadow Beam.. ATTACK!" Just then, a swirl of dark shadows come together and forms a huge black whirlpool.
The whole guild turned pitch black and the aura turned dark and cold. Juvia gasped and pulls Asuka to safety. Natsu and Cana stood there still and froze on the spot. Jezza laughs and signals the shadows to attack. Natsu dodges the attack with a flip and ducks under a table. Cana didn't manage to dodge and got hit right in the stomach. Cana screams in pain as the blood splutters to ground. Juvia's eyes widened, "Cana! NO!" Juvia places a hand over her mouth and then, everything went dark.
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Juvia awoken and all she saw is the blood splattered bodies of her guildmates. She flinches and places a hand over her chest. She felt a hand on her shoulder and she freezes. She couldn't move. She tried to scream but all that could be heard is the sound of muffling, "Mmph! Mmm..mmph.. UMMPHH!" She turns around sees Natsu. She sighs in relief and glances over to the unconscious Cana.
Natsu places a finger on his mouth, "Ssh.. listen, we've been captured. I've got a plan. Just play along." Juvia nods and tries to wiggle out of the rope that is tied on her body. Natsu sighs and rolls his eyes, "Just use your water body and just melt out of it or something!" Juvia turns her body into water and slips out.
Juvia stands up and massages her sore hands. Natsu places his hand on her shoulder and glances over to the unconscious master. Juvia sighs and looks at Natsu with sad eyes, "How.. did we get here?" "That ratchet witch casted dream knock on us and dragged all of us here. Damn witch!" Juvia's face turned even more pale than it usually is, her eyes full of worry as she searches the whole room, "Wh-where's Asuka-chan?!"
Natsu points to the other side of the room where it is shown that Asuka is all tied up and unconscious with her parents. Juvia sighs of relief and looks at the beaten up Gray. Natsu scoffs and glares at the fainted ice mage. "We need to find a way out of here. So I can beat the crap out of that ratchet witch!" Juvia shooks her head slowly as she circles around the room to find a way out.
Natsu did the same thing until a slight sting strikes his left arm. Juvia gasps and runs towards Natsu, "Natsu-sama, are you okay? It's bleeding.. and so is your right leg." Natsu looks up and nods, "Yeah, I'm okay. I sorta got hit back there, nothing serious though! Let's just.. *grunts* .. find a way out!" Juvia nods and helps Natsu scramble to his feet.
They continued poking around just then, Juvia found some sort of air vent covered by a metal shelf, "Natsu-sama, Juvia thinks that we can get out this way! But.. we need to get rid of the metal shelf, it's covering the way out!" Natsu nods and approaches the air vent, "No problem! Fire Dragon's CLAW!" The metal shelf got torn up and so, the air vent was open.
"Juvia will go first! If it's safe, Natsu-sama can follow afterwards." Natsu scoffs and stares at the ground, "I told you, I'm fine!" Juvia cups his cheeks and kisses his forehead, "No, you're not. Just.. do what Juvia says, okay?" Natsu grunts but agrees to the plan. Juvia ducks down and enters the air vent. She makes her way out and signals Natsu to come after.
After escaping, they found the guards outside the vent, "*gasp* The guards are here! We have to lay low to make sure they don't find us!" Natsu pulls Juvia down and they hide behind a pile of boxes and old newspapers. They look around and notices the place. The room is dark and creepy, the place is covered with blood, the people glares at each other! Yes, it was Death March's old guild hall. "Juvia thought that the guild was disbanded." She said in a soft whisper. Natsu looks at her and replies with a nod, "I thought so too."
The guards leave the room and so, the only people there were Natsu and Juvia. "They're gone. Let's head out." Juvia nods and they ran to the other room. The room was dark as well, but there was something different about it. "Where are we?" Juvia looks around in a panic to find a way out or at least a light. But there was nothing to be found. The place was empty and it looks like nobody is here.
Just then, they hear a familiar laugh coming from nowhere. They turned around and saw Jezza behind some steel bars. No, it wasn't Jezza who was trapped.. they were trapped. After realizing what's happening Natsu ran to the bars and punched it as hard as he could.
CLANK!
It didn't work. The steel bars remained unaffected. Natsu screams at the top of his lungs while Jezza stood there with amusement. Juvia covers her ears and lets out a small whimper. "It's no use. You guys are trapped. *laugh* Told you, nobody can beat me!" Jezza walks away amusingly leaving the two of them inside the bars screaming for help. Natsu approached the bars and finally realized, "We can escape.." Juvia stops and froze, "Oh yeah.. Juvia forgot.." Juvia approached the bars slowly, "Water Slicer!"
The steel bars got ripped apart like paper and so, the both of them escaped (AN: They sounded so stupid in the last part XD) They looked to the left and right trying to find some way out of there. They found big wooden doors and so, they decided to open it. "*grunts* It won't budge! I think it's locked. Oh wait.." Natsu kicked the doors wide open, revealing a wide open space. The guild was located in the middle of the forest so there was trees and bushes everywhere and there was a cliff right in front of them.
Just as they thought that they finally escaped, a few people from Death March awaited them. A big tall blonde haired guy walks up to them and grabs Juvia by the neck. Natsu felt anger rising up and then, he exploded. "FIRE DRAGON'S ROOOAR!" The roar came out amazingly strong, the attack hits the tall blonde guy right in the stomach and made him fell flat on the ground, unconscious.
The other members' eyes widened in shock to see one of their strongest mages was knocked out by some.. dude! They gritted their teeth and ran to Natsu, preparing to attack him.
"SPARK WHIP!"
"FLAMING CARDS!"
"MAGIC WIND PALM!"
"PURPLE FLAME!"
They were about to attack until,
"WATER LOCK!" All four of them got trapped in a large sphere of water. They tried to scream but only muffles were heard. A clapping sound was heard and so, the both of them focuses their attention on the dark figure.
Jezza stood with a smirk as she claps her hands together, "Bravo! You managed to defeat my strongest mages! Now, you have to go through me.." She places both her hands to her chest and she whispers the same spell she did the last time, ".. shadow beam.. ATTACK!" Like last time, a swirl of dark shadows combines themselves into a large whirlpool of destruction.
Natsu gasps and leaps, avoiding the attack. Juvia backflips away and casts another spell, "Water Nebula!" Two waves of water rush up and blasts Jezza into the air with tremendous force. Natsu was amazed but decided to help Juvia beat Jezza, "Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade!" Natsu ignites his arms and generates long torrents of flames from them, which move to hit Jezza in a spiraling formation. Each connecting strike seems to generate a powerful, burning explosion.
The explosion was so powerful that Jezza was finally defeated.
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After a while, a few of the magic army arrives to arrest Jezza and the other guild members of Death March. While the soldiers arrest them, the Fairy Tail guild is trying their best to remember what happened. Five soldiers are trying to make sure that Jezza doesn't escape from their grip. Jezza tries to wiggle out and glares daggers at Juvia and Natsu, "I'll get you! I'll get you both!" Jezza screams louder, louder and even more louder.
She succeeds to wiggle out and—
"SHADOW FORCE!" A dark magic blast comes out of her palm and is heading to Juvia's direction. And then,
Everything felt like it was in slow motion..
BAM!
Juvia got hit.. she was thrown straight of the cliff. Everything. Seemed. So. Slow.
Natsu tried to grab her but it was too late.. she fell. The guild members gasp to see their beloved water mage fall to her death. Asuka's eyes widened and tears streams down her face. Cana cried, Mira cried, Lucy cried, Levy cried, everyone cried.
Natsu and Gray just stood there. Shocked. Their face was expressionless. Their eyes were blank and their mouth was wide opened. Just then, tears started to drip down Natsu's face. And then, he screamed. He screamed until he couldn't anymore.
He jumped down the cliff and backflips safely to the ground. He looks around and sees a lock of blue hair and a ripped up Alice costume. He pulls Juvia's body close to his as he felt blood dripping down from her face.
Juvia's eyes were lifeless, blank, full of nothingness. Natsu presses his lips hard on her's. Juvia opens her mouth, much to Natsu's surprise. "N-Natsu…-sama.." her voice came out as a soft whisper. "Juvia! Y-you're alive?!" Juvia forces a weak smile and cups Natsu's cheeks, "Juvia's.. Juvia's going to die soon, Natsu-sama.. J-Juvia w-wanted to tell Natsu-sama something.." Natsu leans closer to her and hugs her body tightly.
"J-Juvia.. Juvia wanted to say.. that.. Juvia.."
"Juvia.."
"…loves.."
"..N-Natsu..-sama.."
That was her last words before her body limped to the ground and her heart has finally stopped beating. Her smile never faded away.. Natsu breathed heavily and shook his head frantically. Tears streams down his face. His bloody face. He cried and he couldn't stop crying. And then, rain poured down.
One by one dropping to the ground gracefully. Natsu couldn't take it anymore. There was only one thing that he could do..
Scream.
"NOO! JUVIAAA! COME *hic* COME BAAACK! PLEAASE! I.. I.. I LOVE YOU!"
AN: I.. killed Juvia.. I'M SUCH A MONSTER! PUNISH ME NOW! *hic* This was so heartbreaking to write.. like.. seriously guys.
So.. no.. this is not the end. YET. But the next chapter will be!
But do not fear! Because, after this story, there'll be a sequel called, 'Time Travelers'
So, stay tune for that and well, yeah!
Thanks so much for reading! I love you all so much! Please review to show me that somebody is actually reading this crap.
Love,
Lanvia.