Lucy vanishes into nothing and Natsu's mind goes blank. He was wrong, so that meant-

Panic overcomes every other emotion in Natsu's body.

"Happy!" He yells and within seconds his little buddy flies in and latches on to his back, "We need to get Erza and fast!"

"Aye sir!" Happy exclaims as he speeds over to the other side of the cliff as fast as he can.

As the pair flies around the cliff, Natsu catches sight of his friend still falling, struggling to get out of the terrible table, knowing that within seconds she would crash down to the ground.

"Faster Happy!"

The exceed uses all the magic he can muster up allowing Natsu to get to his target. Erza finally breaks through the ropes and glides out of the table, but the pull of gravity continues to do its jobs right. Natsu and Happy hover over her, but she's already too close to the ground.

You can't save her...

"Erza!" Natsu screams to get her attention, reaching out his hand, but it was too late for the fire dragon slayer.

You already had your chance...

"Erza!" Natsu screams again as he witnesses her inches away from his grasp and plummeting into the ground indenting a prominent sized creator, while that image of Erza falling made an indent of its own in Natsu's mind.

He and Happy land in the creator and Natsu immediately wraps his arms around the unconscious, S class wizard, shaking in frustration and guilt. She was right. He chose Lucy before her in a time of need and this is the outcome. The truth hurt.

"Natsu!" Lucy yells from a far as she runs over to her two teammates, "Come on we need to take her to Porlyusica!"

Natsu looks up to see his blonde friend and sees her unharmed. Not even a scratch. The voice kept its promise. Lucy had been set free. She really was in a safe place. Natsu picks Erza up from the ground, her body goes limp, mouth slightly opened. Erza was harmed. She was covered with scratches and bruises. Lucy places her hand on his shoulder for some type of comfort.

"If you want, I think my magic is back so I can summon Loke or Capricorn to carry her over to Porlyusica."

"No, I'll to carry her over. Let's go."

With that the two wizards and the exceed race over to Porlyusica's tree house. The journey to the tree house was nothing but a blur for Natsu, Happy and Lucy, but the moment they were outside of the tree house waiting for the pink hair medic to tell them Erza's condition, it long and slow and painful. News broke out to Fairy Tail, about what had happened, and within a hour the rest of team Natsu was at their sides waiting.

The door slowly opens and Porlyusica exits out of her home. All four members rush over to her.

"Is she going to be alright?" Gray said

"She is fine, she just needs to rest. Although, it seems as if she was undergoing a serious amount of stress. Too much for her to be honest, it's going to take a huge toll on her body." Porlyusica said

"It must have been because of the fall, right?" Wendy said

Porlyusica shakes her head, "No, unfortunately that is not the case here. It seems like she suffered through a more mental stress, do any of you know how that would have caused it?"

This question forced Natsu to remember the moment on the cliff, Erza begging for him to save her. That must have put a lot of stress on her, the stress that he was not going to pick her. He looks down on the ground. Too ashamed to tell her that it was all his fault.

"There was that voice!" Lucy chimes in

"Voice? What voice?" Porlyusica said

"When we were together there was a voice that talked to us for a bit. Erza told me to ignore it, that it was trying to put my thoughts in a negative place. She told me that she had been locked up for a few days that voice must have talked to her constantly then."

"What would the voice say?" Wendy said

"I don't know, it didn't really say anything that caught my attention. Maybe we can ask Erza when she wakes up." Lucy said as she looks at Porlyusica

"As I said before she was under a severe amount of stress, she is both mentally and physically exhausted. She will be resting for a few days so I suggest you come back by the end of the week. I don't want you crowding me, so shoo."

As everyone began to head back home, they all knew that a certain pink haired guild member was not following them. He stays behind, looking at the tree house contemplating if he should stay until his friend woke up, he didn't care if he's stayed for an entire week. All he wanted was to be the first to see her when she woke up. To apologize and to make it up to her, or else this was never going to go away. This problem.

"Natsu, are you coming home?" Happy said tugging at his pants

"Sorry buddy, but I think that I'm gonna stay here."

Days passed by and Natsu continued to wait, there every once in a while a friend or two would come over to check up on her, but didn't stay for a long time. It wasn't until Gray pulled him up from the ground and forced him to go home.

"Come on man, you need to take a shower. She'll wake up when she'll wake up. I'll stay here in your place and if she wakes up then I'll get Happy to relay you the message alright?"

Natsu didn't want to leave, but he knew that Gray has a point. He needed to rest, take a shower, maybe eat a bit. Erza would probably be mad that he didn't take care of himself, because of her. Reluctantly, he agreed to Gray's suggestion and walked off to his house. Within a few hours after he entered into his home, Happy comes rushing over telling him that Erza awoke and that she and Gray were already on her way to the guild hall.

"Damn it! I knew I should have stayed!" Natsu yells at he almost sets his roof on fire.

But as he was about to put his foot out the door, he freezes.

What makes you think that she wants to see you?

This voice was different to Natsu, for him it felt more warm and welcoming, for him it felt like it was just his guilty conscious talking to him. He shakes his thoughts and runs out the door, he needed to see her. He needed to talk to her. He needed to know that everything was going to be alright between them. He needed to prove that voice wrong.

"Hey wait for me!" Happy cries as he tries to catch up to his foster father.

Natsu kicks the guild hall doors open and instantly spots Erza Scarlet, covered in white bandages, sitting at the bar, in the middle of eating a piece of strawberry cheesecake. Mirajane was in front of her with her usual comforting smile, talking to her about something as Gray, Lucy and Wendy were sitting around her. Gray was the first one to look up at the doors and sees Natsu. He leans in a whispers something to Erza. Erza nods and starts to get up. This action causes Natsu to stay in place, was she trying to avoid him? Did she not want to talk to him?

You hurt her...

He tries to ignore the voice. He sees Erza with an arm around Gray, using him as a crutch and Natsu thought that it should have been him. If he didn't leave, he would have been with her right now. He decides to meet them half way. The moment he reaches a foot away from her, he stops and stares. Erza's face looked as if her energy was drained from her, she looked tired.

"Erza, I'm so sorry." He said, trying to figure out what else he could say to her. He knew that just saying sorry wasn't enough, he wanted to do something else to prove it to her, but she gives him a faint smile.

"It is alright Natsu. I do not blame you for your decision. I should have already known it was going to happen."

There it was, there was the sentence that gave Natsu all he needed to know. Things were going to be different between them and he doesn't like it.

"Erza, please let me at least help you." He said as he reaches towards her, yearning for a certain touch for comfort. For hope.

She slightly coils back.

" Please do not worry about me. I'm just need some time to rest and Gray is already here to help. You don't need to do anything Natsu." She said as both she and Gray walk around their team leader and head towards the doors.

Natsu keeps his eyes on his scarlet haired friend, with a panging feeling in his chest.

Looks like you lost her...

It has been a few days since Erza fully healed and yet she and Natsu haven't had a single conversation with each other. She had been avoiding him, it was obvious and it's been killing Natsu more and more. At the moment, he sits with Lucy, Happy, Carla and Wendy trying to figure out what their next job will be. As Lucy was talking about how close her rent was coming up, Natsu spots Erza walking over to Mirajane handing her a piece of paper. He frowns at the sight.

Looks like she wants to go on a solo mission today...

He gets up from the table and walks over to the bar, the moment Erza exits the guild, an action that did not go unnoticed by the people at his table. They watch him talk to the beautiful bar maiden for a few seconds. Nothing seemed to be in the unusual to them, but they knew he went up there for a reason. Natsu finishes his talk with the older Strauss and calls up Happy. They too decided to go on a solo mission today and walks out the door.

Lucy and Wendy with Carla in tow, walk over to Mirajane to figure out what was happening.

"Hey Mira, what was that all about?" Lucy said

"Hmm? Oh! You're talking about with Natsu!" She smiles brightly, "Well when Lisanna disappeared after that S class mission, Natsu got a bit protective and worried about the rest of his friends who went on S class missions. Since I decided to retire, Erza was really the only one who he cared about going on the missions. So he would ask me where her missions were and he would take a mission closest to hers or the same place, just in case. Then time went by and he realized that she could take care of herself, so he and I would calculate how long her missions would take for her to come back.

"So if she didn't return by the calculated time she would have gone and find her?" Wendy said

"That's right!"

"And what it looks like is that he's going back to that routine. Does he think that Erza's not going to be with us anymore?" Lucy said as she tries to put things together.

"I don't blame her, " Carla said, "What has happened to her has practically broken her trust with Natsu."

"Carla!" Wendy warns

"I'm sorry child, but I am only stating the facts. As of right now Natsu is not a dependable to Erza."

"If only I wasn't there. We could have avoid all this, " Lucy said as she sits down at the bar and lays her head on the bar table.

"Oh, don't put this on yourself. Whoever did this has been planning this very carefully. He chose both you and Erza for a reason." Mirajane said

"yes, I conqure. Whoever this person is, knew that the key component for Natsu to lose in that situation was you. If this person wanted either Mirajane or Elfman to lose then the person for them would be Lisanna. It would not matter who else was the other victim if Lisanna was there they will always chose her," Carla explains to both Lucy and Wendy.

"Everyone has that one person Lucy and out of all people Erza's the one who would understand that the most." Mirajane said

"What is that?" Wendy asks

Mirajane gives her a small smile, "Because believe it or not Natsu is her person."