Hey everyone! I have an idea on how the sequel will go, as I've had the general idea for it floating around in my head for a while, but then I wrote 'The Worst Kind of Pain' and I decided the idea would be this fanfics sequel. However, I didn't know how I'd transition from this one-shot into the sequel, which will be a multi-chaptered story. However, thanks to one Natalie Reid I now know how to make the transition into the sequel! So, thank you so much Miss Natalie, may I call you Natalie?, for the idea, as it will make the continuation of this fanfic far easier! :)
Now, onto Natsu's POV!:
"LUCE!" I yelled as I ran over to my blonde teammate, a large smile plastered onto my face when I saw her turn her head to smile at me. I sat down next to her, like always, and we started chatting happily, like always, but the peace that surrounded the two of us was soon to be disturbed, unbeknownst to me.
"Natsu, can I talk to you?" I turned around at the sound of my second best friends voice, Lissanna.
"Sure Lis! Be right back Luce!" I said, shooting up from my seat. Lucy was smiling at me, simply watching me as she waited for me to come back, butmy focus was brought back to Lissanna when she grabbed me by the arm and led me about ten from Luce, and everyone else.
"Natsu, do you like Lucy?" She whispered into my ear, and I frowned.
"Of course I like her, she's my best friend?" She shook her head, her eyes closed and a condescending look on her face before she looked me in the eye.
"No Natsu, do you like like Lucy?" What Lissanna was implying hit me suddenly, and my eyes widened.
"No Lis, she's my best friend!" I said it like dating your best friend was a bad thing, because it was. If Gray and Lucy started dating, or Erza and Lucy, than team ethics would surely be destroyed.
"Well then... Uh, Natsu.. Will you... maybe..."
"Spit it out Lissa-"
"WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME?" She shouted out, her eyes clenched closed and her face scrunched up in embarrassment, a large blush overtaking her face.
"Lis." I said in shock, my eyes completely wide, and everyone in the guild was now staring in our direction, their eyes wide as well.
"It's o.k. if you don't want to Natsu. I understand." Lissanna said after not getting a reaction for a few moments, and what I couldn't handle was the sheer amount of disappointment and devastation in her voice. It was meer impulse on my part, as I couldn't stop myself from kissing her on the lips, the only thing I could think of doing in the situation I was suddenly thrust into by my second best friend.
Lissanna's arms immediately wrapped around my neck and she started kissing me back, and I could hear the cheers from my fellow guild mates all around me, congratulating us on our new relationship. When we separated Lissanna started blushing under all the attention she immediately felt as soon as she saw all the people surrounding us. My eyes immediately started looking for Lucy automatically, hoping to see her among the cheering crowd, but I couldn't see her alongside the happy faces and crudely gesturing hands.
My wandering eyes found her at the bar, smiling into a cup of alcohol, and I frowned, about to make my way over to her when I was picked up by the croud, and soon enough I was being carried, alongside Lissanna, towards the table I'd just been sitting with Lucy at. I was set down first onto a seat, and Lissanna was placed onto my lap soon after. Everyone was around us. cheering, gesturing and congratulating me on finally getting a girlfriend, and Lissanna for finally making me see that I was in need of a girlfriend, but Lucy didn't leave the bar once.
I watched her out of the corner of my eyes as I started talking with all the people around me, and after a bit they started slowly going back to what they'd been doing previously. I looked over at the bar again, only to see that Lucy wasn't there. Frowning, I looked around, only to see her exiting the building via the front door, just as I was going to call her back Lissanna wrapped her arms around my neck, and my focus immediately went back to the woman in my lap, who had become my girlfriend in a mere half an hour.
The next day, and the day after that, Lucy came to the guild, but I was always to preoccupied to talk to her, even though I wanted to. I noticed slight changes in her appearance whenever I could get a glance in her way, and each time she looked a little worse. Weeks went by, and I didn't even notice it, but I was apparently looking worse as well, because Lissanna started inquiring about my sleeping habits which, as of late, had been worsening, not that I noticed much or cared all that much.
It happened suddenly. It was like any other day, I was talking to Lissanna at our usual table when Lucy walked in, and as I started moving my gaze over to my best friend, whom I I belatedly recognized as she got halfway to the bar, when I felt arms wrap around my neck and lips on mine own, and my eyes closed and instinctively my own arms wrapped around Lissanna's middle. To most people, the light gasp that made its way out of Lucy's lips was none existent, but thanks to my hearing I heard the slight inhale of breath that went in just a tad too sharply, and the smell of salt hit my nose when I zoned in on Lucy's scent.
As my lips parted from Lissanna's I saw Lucy making her way out of the guild, even though she'd just came in, and I stood up to go after her, only for Lissanna to grab my arm.
"Where are you going?" She asked sweetly, and even though I had a horrible, absolutely dreadful feeling in the pit of my stomach, I still sat down next to Lissanna and started talking to her again. As Lucy's scent got farther away the more dread I felt, and just as I started calming myself the first loud screech reached my ears. I shot up from my seat and ran out the door before anyone could inquire what I was doing, my focus on the screeches of pain that seemed to be coming from the way Lucy's scent went.
Dread, a horrible mass of black creeping up on my mind hit me as I drew closer to Lucy's scent, to the screeches and cries of pain. Salt and the smell of icing and salt hit my nose as I rocketed into the clearing that held Lucy and mines special place, and my blood ran could, and all I felt was guilt, oppressive, horrible guilt as I stared at the maimed body of my best friend, who lay in a large puddle of blood.
I rushed over to her side, but I could already see that she needed Wendy immediately, because the injuries littering her body were far worse than anything I'd ever seen on the woman before me. Her chest was cut deeply with crescent shaped marks, hair was covering her hands, and blood was running from her right wrist. Her mouth was surrounded by red liquid, which I immediately knew was blood, but what gave me hope was the fact that she was still breathing.
I quickly picked her up, moving softly to try not to jostle her, and as soon as I had her in my arms I took off, running as fast as I could to try and get her to Wendy. Hope filled me as I smelled the other dragon slayers getting closer, including Fairy Tail's little sky dragon slayer, and I would have smiled had Lucy not been so hurt and beaten up in my arms. I felt my hope soaring to new heights when I saw them Gajeel and Wendy and Lily and Carla all rushing towards me...when I felt Lucy's head, which she'd miraculously kept up till then, fall back onto my arm.
I immediately froze, mid step, collapsing to the ground on my knees as I placed Lucy down, my hands frantically searching for her heartbeat.
There was none.
Wendy reached me and Lucy then and I pulled her towards Lucy, tears springing and streaking down my face as I desperately tried to reassure myself that Lucy was alive, that she was alive and well and that she was going to fucking smile at me again, like she used to before I started dating Lissanna, when I smelled Wendy starting to tear up.
"WHY?!" I yelled to the sky as I felt a pain like never before soar throughout my body, and a ball of despair knot itself in my throat as I knew then, for a certainty, the my Luce was dead. I roared to the sky in pain, a feeling I'd never felt so intensely before that moment, and as I let out my screams of pure agony I just couldn't allow myself to hear Wendy's fellow screams, tears and sniffles as she sobbed over Lucy's body.
I didn't care when Gajeel started crying even, for at that time I was already setting my body aflame, kicking and punching trees as I took out my anger, my desperation, my fucking pain out on the trees, clinging on to the small hope that I'd be able to release the sudden stress through such means, but it was all useless, just fucking useless, just like how useless it was to think that I'd ever see Lucy's smile again, or hear her laugh, or hear her reprimand me. Just like it was fucking useless to think I'd ever see her hold Happy again, or gaze into my eyes with her joy blatantly obvious in her light, honey brown orbs.
Screams crawled out of my throat and hit my ears like wrecking balls, and as my vision became too blurry to see I just collapsed, my tears and sobs becoming absorbed by the ground beneath me.
The funeral of Lucy Heartfilia was held two days later, and no one, not even those who didn't know her, we're happy that day. The moment Natsu saw Lucy's spirits carrying out their former master, tears weld up in his eyes, and his throat burned. Lucy looked beautiful, even in the bitter state of death, and everyone present was awed by how much she looked like an angel. But then again, Angels don't die, they are eternal and stay by the people they are loyal and love. Why couldn't you have been an actual angel Lucy, then I wouldn't have to see you like this, I thought all too bitter over what happened, the wound still fresh and sore and throbbing.
Around Lucy's head was a circlet of blue, thornless roses that were specially breeded in the northernmost part of Fiore, and she wore a multi layered white lace robe. Around her waist was a brown belt, and my eyes widened when I saw that Lucy's celestial keys were still attached. They love her so much that they don't want another master? When they placed her casket onto the raft that floated on the water the water started glimmering especially bright, like they knew they were carrying someone important, and with that Lucy's spirits pushed the raft off far enough so it could get caught up in the current, and then we all stood back to watch Fairy Tail's former celestial Mage float off with the current.
Everyone had decided to Lucy wouldn't be buried, but when no alternative ideas had come forth I had told mine own thought, that we could let her float off in the stream that led away from my and Lucy's special place, and everyone else had agreed. So now, the place that I had found Lucy dying was the last place we'd all see her body as it floated away from us, and we all couldn't help but wonder what we could have done to save the blonde as we watched her float away, her hair fanned out around her like a halo and the blue roses in her hair pronouncing the paleness of her skin.
The farther Lucy's body got the more self pitying I felt, and when her body disappeared from my sight I fell to my knees and hunched over, my hands fisting the dirt as I cried silently, my body shaking with sobs. Everyone slowly left, even happy, but I refused. I stayed well into the night, just crying as I wondered when everything had gone so horribly wrong for Lucy to do this to herself and us, and when my body couldn't produce any more tears I stood up shakily and started stumbling home. However, I didn't notice how I passed my home by, and I didn't realize that I had till I stood outside Lucy's apartment door, because that's when it hit me.
Out of instinct, out of necessity for hope and nostalgia's sake, I jumped up to the window and climbed into Lucy's room, and a ball of pain lodged itself in my throat again as I smelled vanilla icing with a hint of strawberry, Lucy's scent, hit my nose all of a sudden, making me feel like Lucy was going to walk in through the door any second, look at me, and kick me into a wall, but after waiting for a while, I remembered that she was dead, and wishful thinking wouldn't help. I threw myself onto her bed, like I had so many times before, and as I inhaled her scent that lingered on her pillow I slowly drifted off to sleep, I imagined a world, a time that felt so very long ago when Lucy was still alive, breathing, smiling.
I smiled into the pillow as I nodded off, but it was not a smile of pain or sadness. It was a smile filled with happiness and joy. And it was hiding every ounce of pain that I was balling up inside.
Hey guys! So there you go, the second chapter, and this was all thanks to ones review guys! Huge thanks to Natalie Reid for the idea, and you all should thank her if you enjoyed this, for this was all her idea that I expanded on! Anyways, for the sequel I have two ideas, and I want you all to cast your votes on which sequel you want. I might not even use your votes, depending on how I feel, but if you give me good reasons, or at the very least one good reason to go with either of these two endings, it'll make me want to chose them more! (Wink wink!):
Sequel 1:
Lucy gets a second chance at life, in which she retains all her memories from her previous life, and said memories get transferred into her body at the time of Natsu bringing her to the guild for the first time ever. This promises to be a long fanfic, and while it would be hard to think up a beginning, I already have the ending in mind.
Sequel 2:
Everyone else in Fairy Tail, which doesn't include Lucy, gets sent back with their memories into their old bodies, and said bodies are existing when Natsu first takes Lucy to Fairy Tail. While I can already see a first chapter for this one, I can't see much else for this sequel idea. This also promises, most likely, to be a fanfic, just in case you wanted to know.
Cast your votes, and while I'm leaning more towards sequel 2 at the moment, I'll most likely go with the first idea since it would be easier to write. However, if you want one of these endings done make sure you make your wants and opinions on the matter known, as they'll make an impact! (Big or small. Don't judge!)
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I hope you poll in!
Chow for Now! Peace:)
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P.S. I have no idea if anything in my author not above made sense so... Whatever. Love y'all!