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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. Once they had gone a long ways they stopped to take a breather.

"...A...Are you okay?" Happy asked Lucy.

"Yeah...I'm fine.." Lucy answered, smiling holding onto her right wrist.

"Here." Natsu handed her a strip of cloth.

"Eh? What is this for?"

Natsu looked at her confused. "What do you mean? I gave to you for your wound."

"Oh...Well thanks, Natsu." She lightly blushed as she struggled to put on the cloth around her sprained wrist. Seeing she was having trouble, Natsu helped her with it. Feeling the burning touch of his hand against hers, cheeks reddening in the process, trying to avoid any eye contact with him.

"There that should do it." He stated, letting go of her hand. His face then turned to confusion and a hint of worried. "What's wrong, Lucy? Do you have a fever?"

Lucy moved away from Natsu's approaching hand. She could hear the faint sound of Happy laughing in the background. "I'm fine...I...I just need to cool down from the running..is all."

"Oh okay."

The tiro walked along the corridors, searching for a sign of a exit. The heavy silence was never-ending, both not knowing what to say or even how to say anything.

"Hey..."

"Um.." Natsu looked over at her.

"Hasn't it been really quiet lately."

They stop walking and looked around. "Yeah...since we've escaped..shouldn't they be looking for us right now?"

"That's what I thought..."

Happy joined in. "Well maybe they just want to keep it quiet."

Lucy thought hard for a moment. "I don't know...seems almost like they want this happen..."

"Hey I smell food!" Natsu pointed out excitedly. Lucy's eyes widen as Natsu opened a nearby door.

"Wait!"

"And did you know that when flamingo's are babies they are actually gray?"

"Really!" Levy looked up at Lavi with sparkling eyes. "Wow! You can remember all that just looking at the page. Your really smart!"

"Ah...well I wouldn't really call myself that smart..." Lavi seemed to be embarrassed by the fact he was getting so much praised.

Two envious and jealous glances were stolen their way from time to time, at how they got along so well.

Lenalee sighed with a frustrated huff and turned back to flipping through a random book, that was filled with different language, that Lavi could probably understand, only if he was helping her. She glanced angrily at the redhead laughing with Levy, not that she had a problem with the blunette, but he was acting 'too' familiar around her.

"Baka! Get back to work! We have no time to diddly-dally around!" Bookman exclaimed, getting onto his apprentice for slacking off.

"Hai! Panda-jiji!" And the result...the usual 'Panda K.O.'.

Lenalee smiled slightly at the scene and shook her head, returning to the book she currently held, he was still the same Lavi she knew and...loved...A sudden sharp pain ran through her head, gasping, the pain left her after a while. She wondered what that was all about.

"Oi Shrimp, how do you read this?" Gajeel asked, obviously feeling as jealous as she was, even though he doesn't even understand his own feelings.

Levy sighed and walked over to the Iron Dragon Slayer, leaving Lavi to his own decisions. "For one thing your reading it upside down." As she took the book from his hands and flipped it right side up to give it back to him, their fingers touched, resulting in their cheeks turning pink. "Now..."

The bookworm begin to explain everything to him about reading, to which he claimed that his dragon parent how to read. And the conversation/argument went on from there, with all their awkward moments in between.

"Aren't they just cute together?" Lenalee stated, walking up to Lavi, trying at least make small talk.

"Uh? Um...I guess..." He watched them with a uncertain green eye. Of course, he doesn't understand what love is, so how would he even know? Lenalee thought helplessly with a depressing expression.

She felt someone put a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, Lenalee." Her shocked violet eyes met a worried green. "Are you okay?" Red covered her face immediately at their sudden close proximity and she backed from his touch.

"I-I'm fine!" She yelled out suddenly, silencing everyone in the room, even surprising herself. "I-I d-didn't mean..to..!" Lenalee held her head suddenly from a massive sharp pain.

"Lenalee...?" Lavi was coming closer.

"Stop! Don't touch me!" She backed further, her mind and emotions were going haywire, she couldn't think at all. The only thing running through mind was 'run', 'get away', and 'why am I doing this?'.

Noticing the rejection in his eye, her heart began to hurt too, she didn't want him to hurt, to feel abandon and rejection, like she was feeling right now. Her eyes widen at all the emotions and thoughts running throughout her entire nerves, pain, rejection, jealousy, hurt, rage, and...heart break.

They stood there watching her, as she was in pain, not even moving to help. She could see the helplessness and fear pass through their eyes, accompanied with confusion. Why don't they help her? Help her escape all this pain?

"...Hel...m..." She struggled to let the words out, her throat burned like crazy and felt dry. Her vision was failing her, all she could was the dark outlines and blurry spots. The last thing she saw...the heart-breaking expression of the redhead she had once 'loved'.

A/N: Hoped you enjoyed! Yeah...that last part was not a part of my plans. I had just planned for a LavixLenalee and a GajeelxLevy part, then I came up with this at the end...I think it's the result of listening to Miyano Mamoru's songs while writing this.

Well the reason I've been gone for quite a while school...and my family went on a trip last weekend, before school even ended, and it was pretty fun and exhausting. I got to go on a ship for my very first time and it was the U.S.S Lexington, when we first got on it it was storming, too bad we never got to see the ghost, we we're all excited to see too...And luckily I survived, I have a fear of heights, ever since my first and last vist to the Opera, I think I may a fear of closed spaces too now...But what was great about that trip was I got to study for my History final the next day...not that I really need to anyway.

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