Hiya again!
I don't own fairy tail…
Enjoy!
Natsu had weird dreams that night.
He was smaller than he was now, and was running across a green field.
"You can't catch me!" He screamed in delight, staggering slightly from laughing. Suddenly, a strong gust of wind knocked him over and left him lying on his back, giggling.
"Got you."
Natsu opened his eyes and saw himself staring at a red dragon, who seemed to be smiling.
"That's because I let you." The young dragon slayer said, sticking out his bottom lip. The dragon laughed and it sounded like distant thunder.
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Gray dreamed of Natsu that night.
Gray looked around the blank landscape, wondering where he was; the ice mage suddenly spotted a familiar pink haired mage in front of him, about ten metres away.
"Natsu?" Gray breathed, walking foreword. Natsu didn't react in any way and stayed where he was, facing away from him.
"Natsu!" Gray yelled louder and started to sprit towards the dragon slayer; still, he didn't react. Gray ran faster, feeling like Natsu might disappear from his view.
And that's when the ground started to split beneath him, threatening his path towards Natsu.
"Natsu!" Gray cried out desperately, jumping over cracks. Natsu still didn't turn to look at him.
"Natsu! Come on!" He yelled, now tripping frequently. He could feel himself slowing down; the cracks in the ground were expanding open- some of the gaps were already too big to jump across.
He wasn't going to make it.
It would
Only
One misjudged jump was all it took, and the ice mage was falling down into blackness.
"Find me…"
Gray turned his head towards the voice. Natsu's voice.
Pleading.
Gray felt tears spring into his eyes.
"I will Natsu!" He screamed, tears spilling out of his eyes as he fell, "I will find you!"
-#!-#!-#!-#!
Gray woke up in a cold sweat. He slowly starting to register where he was whilst he sat up in his bed.
He was in his hotel room, alone.
The ice mage brushed some of his hair out of his face and closed his eyes, reflecting on his dream.
"Natsu…" he muttered.
A knock on his door pulled Gray from his thoughts.
"Gray?" Erza's voice was slightly irritated and had a sharp, bossy tone to it.
Just great. He really needed to get told of by Erza right now.
"Gray!" She said, louder, "I want everyone ready in twenty minutes!"
"Yeah…" Gray said and found that his voice was horse from shouting.
Probably from his dream.
The ice mage heard Erza hesitate by the door, then leave.
"Great." Gray muttered, pulling off his bed sheets. He wasn't shocked to find that he somehow managed to strip his nightclothes off in the night; the pieces of clothing were lying at the side of his bed, discarded.
Stupid habit.
Gray groaned to himself, reading the time off the alarm clock on his bedside table.
Stupid job.
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"I had a weird dream last night." Natsu said as he and his friends were picking up their belongings off the floor of the alleyway they had slept in for the night.
"What was it about?" Haru asked from his left, swinging his rucksack over one of his shoulders. Natsu shook his head at the memory, which was already fogging in his mind.
"A dragon." The dragon slayer said casually, and began to walk out of the alley. Mika let out a short burst of laughter.
"A dragon!" She said, eyes sparkling, "I waaaant one!" Myron walked past her, yanking her ponytail, causing her to cry out. He walked beside Natsu, and scratched his head.
"Doesn't sound too fucked up…" he said, stifling a yawn. This caused Natsu to yawn shorty after.
"What made it weird?" Rinn asked, herding Villain the right way out of the alley. Yuki was walking behind him pulling her bag onto her back.
Natsu saw the first slits of daylight and shielded his eyes slightly.
"I was very small." The dragon slayer said, raising his voice a little to get heard over the early morning crowd, "and I was playing with him."
"Now that's fucked up." Myron laughed and put on his shades. The group turned left and started walking into the unknown.
"Not that much." Haru said, pushing up his glasses. He then brushed his fringe out of his face before continuing. "Though the weird thing is that Creeper was actually socialising." He finished with a grin and a friendly shove at the dragon slayer.
"True." Yuki said. Natsu laughed. Last time he came across someone (yesterday night) his friends started to have a random conversation with him. It turned out he was a tourist, who was stopping off at this place for a while.
Natsu wanted to speak to him- he really did- but when he tried, no sound came out. He went completely mute.
"Why were you small?" Haru asked. Natsu shrugged.
"How's he meant to know, genius?" Rinn asked, doing his signature eye roll.
"Hey hey hey!" Mika said, leaping in front and pretending to split Haru and Rinn up, "no arguing! We have food to find!"
"Or just steal." Yuki said.
"I like the term 'permanently borrowing'" Haru added, wiggling his eyebrows.
"Sounds better." Natsu concluded. Myron stuffed his hands in his red hoodie.
"Because we never would do anything like that." He said, grinning.
The friends laughed, earning stares off passers by.
"Wha' about tha' place?" Mika asked, giggling weakly, and pointed to a small shop placed in between two larger buildings. It looked left out.
"Looks like a good place." Myron said, "What do you think, Zap?"
Haru hummed in thought.
"As long as we have a place to run to…" he said finally. Natsu grinned.
"Come on then! Let's go!" He yelled, running ahead of them. Mika started to run with him happily and beckoned her friends to follow.
"Just what I like- running." Haru sighed as he watched Villain dart off with his tongue hanging out. Myron started to run after his dog.
"Come on, slow coaches!" He yelled.
"I am not slow!" Yuki yelled angrily, and she started running after him. "I can run a million times faster than you!"
Rinn and Haru looked at each other sadly.
"We better get going." Rinn said.
"Yup."
And they ran, reluctantly, to the food store ahead of them.
Sorry this is so short- I've had a mental block…