Chapter 25: I'm scared

"Whatever I have done I am sorry!" Small whispers were carried out through the room. I couldn't understand what they were saying but from the tone of everyone's voices, some of them sounded confused.

My chest hurts, I probably shouldn't push myself this hard. "I don't know what I did to make you guys hate me but please forgive me!" I apologize from the bottom of my heart. I hear steps coming closer and closer to me, every time a foot goes down, my heart beats along with it. I have my eyes squeezed shut so I didn't know who was going near me so I just hoped that they wouldn't hurt me.

"Hey…" This person suddenly takes me by the chin and forces me to open my eyes, I was met with dark onyx orbs piercing into my eyes. "Why should we stop being mean to you? Your weak and you know it yourself" Something isn't right about Natsu, the look in his eyes are different from usual, this isn't the Natsu I know.

"I know I'm weak!" I scream back at Natsu, he flinches slightly from my sudden reaction.

I'm scared

"Still!" I grab onto Natsu's scarf with both of my hands and pull his face closer to mine so that we are only a few inches away from each other.

I don't know what's going to happen to me

"I still want to be friends with you guys!" My voice echoed throughout the whole guild. My eyes started to brim with tears but I tried to suck them back in and hold them.

I'm scared that this might not work

My eyes are shaking, my whole body is shivering from fear, what if I don't make it in time? "…" Natsu stays silent and just looks into my eyes, we stay in this position for a few minutes. Fairy Tail was dead silent, an eerie atmosphere ran through the guild, it felt as if anything could happen any minute.

"Stay away from Natsu!" Lisanna squeals to me trying to act all innocent, she shoves me with great force away from him. She had her hands up in a horizontal line as if she was protecting him. "You deserve no love from him!" Lisanna's eyes are full of hatred, I guess she hates me with all her might.

"I'm not asking for Love! I'm asking if we could be friends again!" I shot back at her, I only get a glare in return. Natsu opened his mouth wanting to say something but nothing came out of his mouth.

"W…W…Well! He doesn't want to be friends with you anymore!" Lisanna stutters between her words, she clenches her teeth and continues to give me her death stare. I decided if I wanted to get my message to Natsu the best way is for me to ignore the fact Lisanna was there and shout at Natsu "Natsu! Why are you horrible to me sometimes but so sweet to me at random moments?" I move my head to look at Natsu but Lisanna gets in the way again still having her arms up.

Natsu clutches his head, "Do I hate Lucy? No I can't hate her she is Luce" When I heard say Natsu say 'Luce' I felt like breaking down. It's been so long since he has called me that. I cover my mouth and try to reach my hand out to Natsu.

"Ahhhh… So this is what happened huh?" A long sigh ran inside the guild from the doors. I turn my head arounf to see Asami and Kaimu standing there. Kaimu had his arms behind his head in a cross while Asami had her hands on her shoulders. "Lucy, they don't hate you. There is something controlling them, it's not the girl with the white hair." His crimson colored eyes travelled around the room and he just smirks. "I can't believe that they fell for a small trick like this, I thought it was something more serious" Kaimu giggles playfully while closing his right eye.

"What do you mean?" I was confused, if they didn't hate me then what was going on? Asami flicks her hair to the side and smiles at me, "Basically there is a curse that has been casted on them, it's quite easy to uncast the spell but quite hard to find out if they are under a curse." I ran up to Asami and Kaimu "Then you guys found out that they were under a curse?" Kaimu shakes his head in disagreement. "Thank Sting for this, he's the one that asked us to verify if his theory was true" Kaimu says with a bored tone.

"Sting…" I smile at the thought of him. He is always helping me in someway. "How do we get rid of this curse?" I crack my fist ready for some action. Kaimu wags his finger at me "We use my magic, of course!" Kaimu proudly said while trying to force himself not to smile.

My eyesight starts to go blurry, I hope I can be friends with them before it happens…

A jet black magic circle starts to orbit around Kaimu as he says ancient words while having his eyes closed. I could feel the magic he was using, my hair and everyone in the guild started to flutter from the wind being created. Everyone's eyes were locked on Kaimu as we stared at him with Awe. Kaimu forces his eyes open and white magic circles appear in Kaimu's eyes and suddenly, an extremely bright white light was created from him. I covered my eyes with my arms to protect myself from being blinded.

I stared around the guild after the light dimed down. Everyone with the exception of me, Asami and Kaimu were on the ground, passed out. I hear groans ring throughout the whole guild from them wincing in pain. I hear Natsu get up "Luce? I had a terrible dream, I said really mean things to you" Natsu gives me signature grin. I lower my head a cover my mouth, I shed exactly three tears and stop. "Welcome back Fairy Tail!" I shout while having a tint of happiness in my voice.

Fairy Tail all got up and stood in one whole group, they all had the look of guilt. "Lucy! We are sorry!" They all said in synch while bowing their heads towards me. I feel an arm wrap around my neck, I turn to see a pair of dark blue eyes staring at me, Sting winks. "Things worked out?" I smile happily and give him a small nod indicating we fixed things. Asami and Kaimu were behind me and they were fist pumping.

I say it's okay and its not their fault then Lisanna steps out in front of me. "Lucy, I feel horrible from the way I treated you…" Lisanna had her eyes covered by her bangs, she was gripping on to her shirt so hard that it looked like her shirt was about to be torn. "Well of course I can't forgive you right away but right now I'm just glad that I can be friends with you guys again." I giggled lightly while rubbing the back of my head.

"Lucy, I'll tell you the reason why I fell into the curse so easily" I stopped rubbing my head and put my arms back down on my sides. "I'm was actually really jealous of you Lucy! You are really pretty and smart plus you use cool magic and you make friends easily. I wanted to be like you so much that it got to the point where I was annoyed how perfect you were. However when I look at you now, I really want to be your friend instead of your enemy. You are like the light in our guild!" I exhale and smile at her. "Lucy! Can I be your friend?" She extends her hand out to me. I take her hand "Of course"

"Luce…" I look at where the voice was coming from "Natsu…" Sting tightens his grip around me and gives Natsu and terrifying glare. Natsu doesn't back down and looks at Sting in the eye "I need to talk to Lucy for a moment" Sting growls at Natsu's statement but stops and sighs. "Fine then, since you are off that curse I guess it's okay. However! She is my Girlfriend" Sting emphasizes on the word 'Girlfriend' sticks his tongue out a Natsu. I don't get why though.

"Lucy… I'm sorry for everything that I have done. Can you forgive me?"

My eyesight blurs for a second, everything is going flashing.

"Natsu, I was hurt by you but I can't stay mad at you forever, because I wouldn't be in Fairy Tail without you. Shall we pinky promise?" I stick my pinky up in front of him. "What type of promise?" Natsu sticks his pinky out as well. "Swear to me that you won't fall under the darkness again!" Natsu just giggles and intertwines his pinky with mine.

"If you tell a lie, drink 1000 needles, and cut my finger" We both laugh like the old times.

"Hey everyone… I'm glad that I made up with you before it happened!" Everyone looked at me "What do you mean by it?" I start to shed tears but I smile "Thank you for being my friend! And Sting?" He turns around to face me. "Yeah? What's wrong?" Sting came over and hugged me. "Thank you for loving someone like me"

Sting's POV:

I watch as Lucy's body falls slowly to the ground, her eyes were soulless when they were closing, tears still running down her face and her smile didn't disappear.

"LUCY!"

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Thanks for reading! Sorry for the late update as usual, so as my celebration of 100 reviews for the first time, i made this chapter longer than usual!

Looks like Lucy was hiding something! What happened to her? Find out next time!