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Chapter 17: This Heart-Breaking War

"If it's a wound received for you, it is a wound I need."

-Princess Nike to King Livius,

Chapter 4 pg. 47,

Soredemo sekai wa Utsukushii.

"...Natsu?" Happy looked up curiously at his partner/long time friend. "What's wrong?"

A tried looking Natsu sat beside Happy, with having the suspending magic bracelet, it weaken him considerably, but at least he still had his physical attributes. "...The Noahs have been quiet lately..."

"Well...that's easy to understand since you can't really escape anyway..."

The duo became silent, with only the distance of dripping water filling the quiet cell...Wait?...Dripping water?!

Natsu stood up fast, making himself slightly dizzy, as he quickly went over to the door, to peek out of the bars. He looked back and forth between the passage ways to his left and right. "Natsu, what-?"

"Shhh. I hear something."

The sound of dripping water upon the stone floor grabbed both of their attention as it seemed to be getting closer and closer. That's when he picked it up, the scent of someone he has seen in a long while.

"...Lucy..."

There she was in front of him, breathing heavily with all the running she had just done. Her hair was a mess and her usual clothes were replaced by a dress, that made her look almost like a doll.

But none of that matter to Natsu, all that matter was that she was here, safe and sound. If only there wasn't these bars to separate them, he would be protecting her with all that he could, even if he currently didn't have magic.

"Lucy! Your okay!" Happy exclaimed.

"Yeah..." She looked up at smiled at them. "...I'm fine-" Lucy suddenly grabbed her arm in pain.

That's when Natsu noticed she had been hiding her arm from his view. "Lucy, did they do something to you?"

Her hazel eyes said everything, they had indeed hurt her. Natsu felt a growing rage for what the Noahs had done to her. "I'll kill them! I'll kill them for hurting you!"

"Natsu!" Lucy yelled at him.

"They've hurt you, Lucy. They should pay for what they done to you." Natsu could feel his anger come over reason.

"Natsu..." Lucy put her hand on top of his through the bars, making him calm down some. "...Don't...please don't kill anyone...it won't change anything."

"But they hurt you."

"No they didn't. When I broke free of the chains, I had twisted my right wrist." She answered, indicting the sprained wrist by showing him.

Natsu let out a sigh of relief, that he did not know he was holding in. However, he was still worried about her injury.

"Where are the Noahs now, Lucy?" Happy asked.

Lucy looked carefully back and forth down the dark dim hallways. "I don't know but, I suspect they will be here any second." She pulled out a couple of keys from her dress. "I grabbed these when nobody was looking." She began to try every key with the lock. "You'll be out soon..."

They both watched her as she handle the task with just her left hand. "Almost there..." The lock clicked open. "Got- Ahh!"

"Lucy!"

The steel door slammed open as Natsu rush to save Lucy. "You'll stop if you care for the princess's life."

Natsu and Happy stopped, glaring up at Sheril who had Lucy in his grasp.

"Let her go!" Too bad he couldn't use his powers, or he would have burn the creepy guy to a crisp by now.

Sheril shook his head and tighten his grip on Lucy's wrist, clearly hurting her. "Not till you go back into your cage like a good little dragon. And we'll forget this all happen."

"Like I will!" Surprising Sheril, Natsu suddenly punched him, making him let go of Lucy and confusing him for a few seconds.

During the confusion Natsu grabbed Lucy's hand. "Come on!" They began to run throughout the halls, with no direction in mind, only wanting to get far away from the crazy Noah.

A/N: Hoped you enjoyed! No this is not the whole chapter, if your thinking it is, it clearly states at the top that it is just a preview. After conversing with one of my reviewers I've decided to redo the whole fanfic, of course maybe after I finish it. The reason I've been gone for so long...school, more school, distractions, family stuff, school, uta no prince-sama, Karneval, Fairy Tail Anime on temporary hiatus, and depression of D. Gray Man going on a official hiatus. (So much that last night I had a dream that the new chapter had come out...if only that were true...)

I've been trying to get Natsu's personality down so I tried writing the rest of this preview while listening to Fairy Tail character songs. (It worked with my new oneshot.) Well anyway I probably won't be updating till sometime next week (the start of summer break). I'm having major writer's block and lost of motivation on all of my stories, mostly cause of major finals and being too much into a Karneval, Uta no Prince-sama, and Nancy Drew mood right now to do anything else. (Yeah just bought the new Nancy Drew game#28: Ghost of Thornton Hall, so creepy and fun that I can't stop playing.) So I may have the rest of the chapter by tonight. (Depending on some family plans today and distractions.)

I want to thank KHMugiwaraRocks15 and CrazySarahify for reviewing and to everyone else who is still reading and following.

Have a great day and Read and Review Please!

Also I have uploaded at least one oneshot recently:

May Our Paths Cross Again- Nothing was said. Nothing was heard. Nothing was whispered. As they disappeared into the night, leaving no trace of themselves behind. War is unpredictable, something that Lavi has mentioned so many times. If being a Bookman always means being that serious and heartless, then why was Lavi's smiles always so genuine? Lavi x Lenalee, Lou Fa x Allen x Road, Miranda x Marie, etc.