Chapter 3: Goodbye, my love

LUCY'S POV
it was already morning and I had already gotten done using an open bath in the town just in time. Natsu popped out of the tent "LETS KICK SOME DARK GUILD BUTT!" Too...much...energy...for me...to...handle.

I smile anyways "Yeah let's go!"

Me and Natsu start to head out to the place that we figured to be their usual hang out "So we're on the west side of the forest and their hang out is on the east side of the forest and they'll be there at 12. It's going to take us at least 30 minutes to and find the place at least maybe less with your nose. Its 11:30 we should get moving "

Great we're 30 minutes behind schedule because SOMEONE thought it would be faster to split up but ended up taking more time and we arrived at the same place at the same time! Now we're hiding in a bush! "You sure they're not already in there?" I whisper to Natsu

"Yes I'm sure, I can't hear or smell anything from insi-"

I look at him concerned "are you ok?"

Natsu's big grin shows up on his face "They're here" I see them walk up and I look back to Natsu... Damn it he's gone.
NO ONES POV
Natsu runs up to a guy and punches him with his dragon slayer magic, the guy goes flying. Lucy stands from the bushes "DAMNIT NATSU WE'RE SUPPOSED TO OBSERVE TO SEE THEIR MAGIC!"

"Oops"
We walked towards the guy Natsu punched and was immediately knocked out "well at least they aren't tough!" Natsu yells out and I grunt, he's lucky this time! I walk towards the guy to verify that he was the guy on the wanted poster. Yup, this is Karou he has blue hair and a distinctive scar over the left side of his lip. Another guy appears Lucy's gasps and readies herself with her hand on her keys "OPEN GATE OF THE LION, LEO!"

Loke appears "what can I do for you sweetheart?"

I point at the big muscular guy "can you take care of this guy please?"

Loke looks at the guy and fixs his cuff of his dress shirt "sure, I'll defeat this guy with the power of love~!" he pushes his sunglasses up, another guy in white makes his way in the cave, or their hide out.

I look to Natsu who looks back at me for reassurance so he can go after the guy "Just go I can handle him!" I give Natsu a reassuring smile and he nods back and goes into the cave "Where were we?" I run towards the big muscular guy with my whip in my hand helping Loke out.
NATSU'S POV
I look back at Lucy one more time, she'll be okay and start sprinting in the cave trying to look for their Master. I know he's in here I can smell something faint. The cave goes down at a steep angle, its pitch black. I keep running trying my best not to fall face first, the smell is getting stronger. I see a light getting closer and I know he's here! I reach the end of the tunnel of the cave and find myself in this big underground mining thing, I covered my nose and gag a bit. "What the-" I was cut off by a guy laughing a bit "you like it?" I look at him and see him wiping blood from his pale hands with a rag. I exam him, he looks kind of albino except that his left eye is blue and the other red. He was wearing a white suit that hadn't looked like he had gotten any blood on it. I try to hold down my gag again and my heightened sense of smell isn't helping, what the hell is that horrible smell! I look to the wagons and my eyes widen, they were filled with human body parts... Female body parts and they're all categorized. Each legs with legs and arms with arms... I gulp and heads with heads. The women's heads still had they're expression on their faces.

"You monster!" I snarl at him pulling my attention from the poor women's bodies, he chuckled "Yes," he walked over to the heads wagon and picked one up that had looked like it was just ripped from the rest of her body. Her black hair was a mess and her eyes rolled in the back of her head.

"My dear you look just awful!"

The Master moved the strands of hair from her face "There! Now you look presentable for our guest of honor!" My bangs covered my eyes and his look of amusement turned to disgust very quickly and he tossed the head

"I don't really fancy playing dolls with them, once they're dead. They're boring," he sighed and I started to shake with anger "Once they don't have their voice anymore I can't have fun hearing them sc-"

I launch myself at him with my entire body engulfed in flames "SHUT THE HELL UP!" I managed to punch him in the face once before he jumps back and wipes his mouth "My...you're fast"

I growl "THEY WERE PEOPLE! THEY HAD LIFES AND YOU USED THEM FOR YOUR OWN INTERESTS!"

He smirked, "BASTARD!" I yelled while I charged at him again using my dragon slayer magic. "FIRE DRAGON ROAR" he moves out of the way and runs in my direction. I feel a big impact on my left cheek and I feel myself go flying into the wall. I look at him with blood coming out of a deep cut on my cheek, why isn't he using magic? I charge back at him trying my best to hit him with my dragon slayer magic, this isn't going to work. I'll only get hit in if I go up close without using magic, he'll take me less seriously which will be his down fall. We then proceeded the battle with just using our fists. I was panting and he was just laughing, by now both of us were equally injured as there were a few bruises here and there. He still had that stupid fucking smile on his face and I keep getting angrier and angrier. I feel my body heating up dangerously, he had started to laugh and back away at a safe distance.

He yelled out "Jay!" I look back at the entrance where he had been looking, nothing. I hear footsteps and I see the bulky guy, no! I see Lucy over his shoulder unconscious and had a bit of bruises and marks on her.

I turn to 'Jay', I growl "What did you do to MY LUCE!"

He snickered and the Master answered in his place "He merely beat her, she was weak. You should've seen this coming, I can just tell by the amount of magic I can feel from her, though she might not be good in combat I bet I can find some uses for her" he walks slowly to his servant/subordinate where he now just no dropped her to the ground rather harshly. I growl again but he ignored me, he crouched down to Lucy's side and moved the hair from her face.

"My you'll be a wonderful edition to my doll collection, you'll fit right in once I'm done with you!"

My blood boiled "IM NOT GONNA LET YOU LAY A FINGER ON HER! FIRE DRAGON ROAR!" He got out of the way and Jay picked up Lucy and ran toward the other direction and stayed there out of the line of fire.

"What are you going to do about it? OH! How about a wager? If I win she'll be my precious doll and you'll have to watch as I do what I want with her and if you win then she stays yours"

"tch. Lucy isn't something you can just wager on she's mine and mine alone and I'm going to kick your ass and leave with her, FIRE DRAGON WING ATTACK!" My fire burns everything and anything that was in its path.
LUCYS POV
what is that?
DOON
DOON
I feel the ground shake, what was I doing again? I move a bit and open my eyes a bit and then my memories started to come back. I open my fully and try to move more, but I can't my body's too hurt and just feel so…tired.
DOON
I look where the sound was coming from and I see Natsu fighting with this strange man. Natsu looks tired and the other guy looks pretty hurt too but not as tired as Natsu was. Natsu attacks him again, and the other forms a black magic sphere in his hand aiming at Natsu, but he quickly dodges.
DOON
DOON
The shaking causes some dust to fall from the ceiling. I look around me to see if there's anything to help me up, I quickly notice the bulky guy right next to me standing up observing the fight expressionless.

"I've played long enough, I think it's time to end this!" I look back the strange guy in white as he covers his left eye "EYE OF DESPAIR AND PAIN"

Natsu stays put for a second to see what his magic had done and then "GAH!" Natsu falls to the ground screaming holding his head "AHHHH" I try with all my strength to get up but collapse each time, my body feels really weak with the amount of physical and magical energy I had used during my fight.

No matter I try my hardest and each time I fail I feel my vision start to blur as tears up build up in my eyes "STOP! LEAVE HIM ALONE"

The guy that's guarding me looks down and kicks me straight in the ribs, I cough up some blood. This guy really did a number on me. I can hear Natsu still screaming in pain, I look up to them again another black sphere formed in his hand which caused him to stop his torture. Natsu barely dodged it, it had hit his leg and blood now gushed from it. Natsu had tumbled to the ground, and the guy had looked more than a bit agitated.

With Natsu barely able to move as he bled the man in white gritted his teeth and said with a harsh tone "Now die!" He covers his right eye "eye of death!"

Death... I look to Natsu still huddled in pain but manage to look at the guy head on, I look back at the guy in white and at my capturer. Everything was moving so slowly, the pain just left my body and I can feel adrenaline kick in my body as I reach for my whip. The guys beam in his eye grew brighter and brighter, I knock my capturer off his feet and as he lands on the floor I kick him in his face knocking unconscious.

I get up and run towards Natsu, "NATSU!" The beam was bright...just so bright. I had to turn away a bit, but I kept running and yet somehow I was able to see him clearly.
NATSUS POV
I guess this is it, I'm sorry Luce. I close my eyes as everything goes white. The light I see through my eyelids got darker, I open my eyes to see Lucy standing directly in front of me, arms and legs spread apart. My heart ached, "LUCE WHAT ARE YOU DOING GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
NO ONES POV
The beam was finally launched, it was too bright to even see anything and to even hear anything through the rumbling, but Natsu and Lucy clearly made each other out. Tears started to run down Lucy's cheeks.

"NO!" She started to sob, her head still facing forward "IT'S MY TURN TO SAVE YOU! AFTER ALL THIS TIME IT'S ONLY BEEN ME…BUT NOT ANYMORE!"

Natsu felt tears building up, "PLEASE LUCY!" Lucy started to speak in more than a normal tone but less than a scream so that he can hear her still as he tried to reach out to her but the pain in his leg was too much.

Natsu knew that there was most likely poison from the magic attack in his leg "its ok, even if we-..." Tears pouring out of Lucy's eyes and her voice cracked a bit, but even so she stood firmly and looked straight ahead with determination "even If I could change this by not meeting you... I wouldn't... Not for the world because by not meeting you I wouldn't have met anyone I know now and... That's not something I want! So I'm okay with this... I'm okay with this, I don't blame you. I wouldn't want to have it any other way"

And just a second before it hit she turned her head to the side to smile and whispered something that seemed inaudible, but Natsu caught it. He wouldn't miss is for the world and as Natsu tried to reach out for her he yelled with all his might as the tears left his eyes "LUUUUUCYY!" It was too late. But just for an instance before she was swallowed in the light she somehow reminded Natsu of an angel and then another idea crossed his mind and he had to wonder... When will I wake up from this nightmare? There was a gust of wind that made Natsu fly back as it hit Lucy and after a few blinding seconds the light had vanished. He looked around to see where Lucy was and he saw her laying on the ground, her clothes now tattered and ripped, the bow in her hair now gone. He quickly scrambled to his feet and crawled to where she now is.

He picked her up and cradled her "Luce!" She didn't wake up at first "LUCE!" Her eyes opened, he could tell that she was in a pretty bad state. Her eyes had looked like she couldn't see anything at all, she weakly reached out to Natsu's face and he grabbed her hand. Natsu started to sob "I LOVE YOU TOO!"

Lucy looked a bit shocked and smiled sadly "y-you're just... Saying that... Because..."

He shook his head "NO! I've always loved you! If this hadn't of happened I-I had already planned to tell you! THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END THIS WAY!"

Some more tears started fell with between the two, Lucy wiped away Natsu's tears that he had tried to stop...for her. He looked at Lucy again and he knew she was getting weaker by the second, her breathing had become ragged and her grip around Natsu's hand had lessened. Lucy knew she didn't have that much time left, her eyelids felt heavier with each breath she took.

"I-I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" Natsu had start to mutter as he buried his face in her neck. He felt her body weaken.

"Natsu..." He looked up with his face covered in blood, boogers and tears. His eyes showed so much sadness, she smiled at him and with her last bit of strength she said in an almost whispered like manner "d-don't...be..sad"

With that the little bit of strength she had left was just…gone. Her eyes now closed as her face stayed emotionless and she was now completely limp in his arms "Lu...ce" he started to shake her a bit with a shocked expression on his face "Luce...wake up... Please... Don't leave me..."

He buried his face in the crook of her neck, he smelt her scent starting to fade away and looked up as tears threaten to fall again "Luce!" he cringed as he tried to keep the tears from falling but failing "AHHHHHH!"

He held her tightly and started to shake as he held her and cried painfully. Never had he imagined he'd feel this much pain in his entire life. His heart hurt so much like someone had literally ripped it to pieces, he kissed her forehead and cradled her, as he repeated her name "Lucy Lucy Lucy… my-"his eyes started to burn again as even more tears fell "Luce".

He didn't care about anything that was happening around, he was in too much pain to think. The cave had started to collapse from the spell and the Master was nowhere in sight, the only thing that mattered to him right now was Lucy. He didn't give a damn if she was dead or not or that he was going to either die from blood loss or the poison that was implanted in him, he wasn't going to leave her, not for a second time. Nothing was going to keep them apart, not for anything in the world he was going to spend his last few moments on earth with his Luce. He felt a few more rumbles and he kissed her forehead again with his tear stained face, I can't imagine my life without you...so I'm coming with you and I won't let anything happen to you anymore. Natsu looked at his beloved one last time and hugged her tightly as he protected her body from the now falling ceiling. He smiled slightly but his tears never stopping as he remembered of the time when they first met at Hargeon and how she freaked out when she found out that he was fairy tail Mage after when he saved her from those guys that tried to sell her off as a slave, I guess I loved you even then. The entire cave collapsed and all he could think about was all his memories and days he spent with Lucy, and his gripped Lucy a little tighter as he felt a presence of a huge boulder right above him. It kind of amused him at the moment, at this moment normal people would probably panic if they knew they were going to die right now, but not him because Natsu knew that he had to die if he wanted to see Lucy again. He was okay with that, just like Lucy was…just like Lucy…Lucy.

That was the day both Lucy Heartphilia and Natsu Dragneel died.