Hey guys I'm back with chapter 4, thank you heaps for all of your feedback I never expected Little Light to gain this much popularity so fast.
Fairy Tail does not belong to me but to the mastermind Hiro Mashima.
Anyway onwards with chapter 4.
Edited *5,9,17
"Gate of the Golden Bull, I open thee, Taurus!" Lucy shouted, as the key began to shine, before the light suddenly disappeared, leaving the celestial mage feeling slight dizziness and confusion before realization of what had just happened took over "My magic isn't working" she whispered as fear began to overtake her, looking upwards just to see Kachi walking towards her grinning. "Natsuuu" Lucy shouted knowing that right now she couldn't fight Kachi alone.
" hehe What's wrong sweetheart, felling weak already? That's too cause I'm just getting started" Kachi smirked as he began to summon more small rock shards from the ground moving his arms directing the shards so they were directly aimed at his enemy "Now be a good girl and give me the vase, and just maybe I'll go easy on you"
'Crap, what can I do, my magic isn't working for some reason, I've only opened Crux's door today so why am I so drained, it feels hard to move, this isn't good I feel so helpless without my magic, and there's nothing I can do, somehow I have to protect this vase and wait for Natsu and the others to break through….Wait that's it' Lucy suddenly regained her confidence as she reached for her waist, grasping her celestial whip. 'Please work' Lucy internally begged as she pulled the whip from her belt.
"Fleuve d'étoiles" Lucy shouted as the whip began to glow and extend to its full form, smiliny victorious at this new revelation Lucy turned to the bandit "Like I'll ever give this vase to a scum like you and disgrace the Fairy Tail name" Lucy shouted as her confidence returned.
"That's the spirit sweetheart! Shard Rain" Kachi yelled as he sent the earth shards surrounding him sending them directly towards Lucy, who braced herself for the on slaughter of rocks.
"Fleuve d'étoiles" Lucy yelled again as she extend the whip, breaking the shards mid-air, however, the small action left her feeling exhausted and her eyes widened as she noticed that Fleuve d'étoiles beginning to dissolve into thin air.
"Wha..No! Why is this happening? Why can't I use my magic?" Lucy spoke out loud to herself as her earlier panic began to overtake her once again. She wished that she had brought her old whip along with her, seeing how her magic is disappearing. Lucy, now overcome by the fear of having no magic and was no longer paying attention to her opponent, which had proven to be a fatal mistake.
"Haha, I see that a fairy has broken its wing" Kachi chuckled as he watched the mage panic. "I guess this is going to be easier than I thought" Kachi raised his hands, calling forth his rock shards to attack the panicking mage.
'Shard Rain!'
"Fire Dragon Iron fist" Natsu yelled as his hand was engulfed by flames, slamming them into the rock wall, creating a small crack. "Dammit why won't this wall break" The mage yelled in frustration as he punched the rock wall again and again. Natsu's panic rose as his sensitive hearing picked up the sounds of screams filled with pain. "Shit Lucy, please…just please hang on, I'm coming!" Natsu angrily whispered to himself, landing another powerful punch on the large rock wall. The small crack turned into a small hole, firing up the salamander's hopes, but his small victory was shortly broken, upon smelling blood. As soon as the smell hit his nose, Natsu recognized the scent, it was Lucy's and considering the strength, there had to be a lot of it.
"Crimson Lotus, Fire Dragon's Fist" Natsu roared, shattering the rock wall with one punch. Natsu felt his heart stop as the dust settled. There in front of him, was Kachi holding the vase, smirking victoriously himself as he loomed over a fallen figure…Lucy! Anger and fear overcame Natsu as he saw his wife lying on the ground covered in deep cuts, with her hands covering her stomach, as if she was hoping to protect her child…their child, but what scared him the most was that she was currently not moving, Lucy wasn't moving! Flames began to surround Natsu as his anger towards the man who dared hurt his wife; his mate, grew at a rapid rate.
"How dare you!" Natsu muttered dangerously in a low voice catching Kachi's attention.
"Well well… it seems you managed to break through my wall however you're too late I hav…." Kachi lost his voice as he turned to see who the intruder was, only to come face to face with the enraged Natsu, whose dragon traits were brimming with power, completely surrounding him with flames, as well as having scales appearing on his face and arms.
"How dare you hurt my mate?" Natsu yelled in an almost beast like voice as he threw himself at the thief, hitting him with strike after strike leaving substantial burns on the man's body, Kachi tried dodging the attacks barely escaping the enraged dragon slayers fists. It wasn't until Kachi was nothing but a bloody pulp, who was just barely breathing, that Natsu began to regain himself, his flames dying down and his scales disappearing as he calmed.
"Lucy!" Natsu quickly turned his attention to his wife before rushing to her side, carefully picking her up and placing the unconscious mage into his lap, tears had begun to fall from his eyes at the thought that both Lucy and his unborn child could be gone 'Lucy…Lucy. Please... Wake up Lucy' Natsu began to panic as the mage was not responding and he began to think of the worst.
It was cold. Very cold, Lucy slowly opened her eyes and looked around only to see darkness. She couldn't move, as her whole body felt numb.
'Where…where am I? Dead? But how? ' Lucy silently whispered in confusion as she couldn't recall the events that had led her to this weird dark and cold place, she shivered as she felt the coldness begin to embrace her, suddenly she felt her whole body turn warm. 'Warmth? Is it possible that this is how it feels to go heaven' Lucy pondered, suddenly felling a small drop of water fall onto her left cheek, the mage felt a small amount of strength return to her, as she was able to lift her hand to wipe her cheek, however as soon as she did more water had fallen onto her, Lucy simply stared at the water that was on her hand 'Rain?, hmm why does this all feel so sad, it's like the sky here is crying for me, but why?' Lucy questioned herself.
'Lucy….'
'Huh, a voice? Why does it sound so familiar and sad?'
'Lucy please'
'There it is again it sounds like Natsu?
'Please wake up'
'Wake up, what does he mean, am I sleeping? Lucy thought suddenly everything that had occurred came rushing back to her. The mission, retrieving the vase, being separated and the fight with Kachi. As these memories had begun to flood back through her mind the dark world she was in was turning to light as pain also flooded her body. Silent screams had racked through her body as the pain hit forcing her back to reality.
Pain reacted through my entire body as I slowly began to open my eyes, even the simple action proved to be a tough task due to the lack of energy in my body, my vision was blurry but I could faintly make out the unmistakable pink hair that belonged to my dragon slayer, as my eyes focused better I was able to make out the worried expression he held and the tears that streaked down his face, I knew than that my injuries must be horrible for Natsu to be driven to tears like this.
"Na" I opened my mouth hoping to call his name to reassure him that I'm still here with him, but instead my throat dried up the moment I opened my mouth resulting in barely any sound to come out.
"Na…Na…tsu" I manage to croak out although it was barely I whisper I knew that Natsu's sensitive hearing would hear it, and I inwardly smiled when he suddenly looked up at my face, relief instantly showing on his face
"Lucy" Natsu practically shouted in joy as he hugged me closer to his body "don't ever scare me like that again Luce" He whispered into my ear. Slowly and painfully I raised my left arm high enough so that it could rest on Natsu's hair instantly catching his attention.
"He..y..i'm..ok..plea..se..stop..crying" I choked out slowly in hopes to reassure my husband that I was just fine, except I knew I wasn't, I could already feel my body dropping into unconsciousness and by the way Natsu is staring at me I could tell that he didn't believe me.
"Shh Lucy, stop talking ok just focus on staying awake" Natsu silently whispered grasping my hand and as he carefully shifted my body so that he would be able to access my injuries to figure out which ones were worse than others. As consciousness was leaving me I had begun to worry
'What about our baby' without realizing it I had tried to slowly moved my right arm to the onto the small protruding bump on my stomach, Natsu must have noticed my actions cause suddenly my hand was enveloped in warmth as it was covered by his as he carefully slide our hands over my body to my baby bump.
"Don't worry, Luce, its ok, there's only a few small scratches here nothing serious" He told me as I let a small sign of relief. I know that I should stay awake but now that I knew that the baby should be ok, the idea of sleep seemed oddly ideal, just before I closed my eyes I noticed two figures running towards us however sleep overtook me before I could make out who it was.
"Lucy! Dammit wake up" Natsu yelled at his wife as he noticed her eyes closing, although he knew that she wasn't anywhere near as badly injured as he originally thought he knew that without immediate treatment they could be fatal especially since she can't stay conscious.
"Natsu, what's happened here" Erza yelled as she and Gray ran towards the couple both carrying minor injuries from the battle that had occurred.
"Shit, Lucy!" Gray cursed as he saw the injured body of his teammate.
"Natsu do you know if Lucy packed the first aid kit" Erza quickly asked taking charge of the situation as Gray rushed to where Lucy's discarded bag was in hopes of finding the kit.
"Yea but she's going to need more than just a basic first aid kit" Natsu stated as he stared at the older women, cradling Lucy to him.
"I know that Natsu, I noticed a small hospital back in Florish town, I trust that you can get Lucy there the fastest, however we should wrap her wounds to avoid any further blood lost and to insure that Lucy isn't injured any further" the scarlet mage replied in a soft voice knowing from experience that Natsu can be easily angered in situations such as this and its best to talk to him calmly.
"Right I got the first aid kit, I also brought over a blanket to wrap around her in case you have to go through bushes" Gray puffed as he re-joined the group.
"Right thanks, Gray go gather up the 'Chi Brothers' while Natsu and I treat Lucy" Erza softly spoke to the ice alchemist as he went to deal with the thieves. After seven minutes Natsu and Erza had finished wrapping Lucy's wounds in bandages. Natsu stood holding his mate who was now wrapped securely in the blanket.
"Get Lucy, back to town as fast as you can, Gray and I will meet you at the hospital after dealing with these three, Natsu good luck" Erza informed the man who only nodded before taking off in the direction of the small town, fuelled with desire to save his wife and unborn child.
Natsu sat outside the small room, with his head in his hands trying his best to not think of the worst; it had taken him only an hour to reach the town and only five more minutes to find the hospital. The moment he ran inside the small building he had started demanding immediate assistance, after one of the receptionist saw the state of Lucy she instantly called for nurse's to take the women into surgery to check for internal wounds and to provide stitches for the deeper cuts. When Natsu went to follow the people carrying his wife away he was stopped by one of the nurse saying that only patients and employees were allowed to pass through the doors and that he had to wait in the waiting room while Lucy was in surgery.
That was almost three long painstaking hours ago, as each minute continued to tick by Natsu's worry grew. He feared for Lucy's wellbeing and he feared for his child's and he could only blame himself.
'Dammit, why wasn't I there to help her, why did I let that bastard touch her, I should have never agreed to let her go on this mission, I wouldn't have cared if she was angry at me or even hated me, anything would have been better than having this happen' Many similar thoughts had crossed Natsu's mind since he was told to wait in the empty room, he felt his body temperature rise as his frustration at allowing this to happen grew, Suddenly he felt a cold gentle touch on his shoulder looking up he noticed Erza standing next to him with one of her armoured hands on his shoulder.
"Natsu, calm down, she's going to be ok" Erza spoke in a soft tone.
"Yea flamebrain, you should consider controlling your temperature you're melting the seat and that'll be coming out of your share of the reward money, I don't think Lucy going to be all too happy about that' Gray argued in hope's to cheer the idiot up. As Natsu looked over his companion's he quickly noted that they were both lightly panting and sweating showing that they had obviously rushed over here as soon as they had finished the mission.
'Whatever icefreak' Natsu retorted towards the ice mage.
"So I'm guessing you haven't heard anything yet" Erza regretfully butted in knowing that the question had to be asked for her and Gray's benefit.
"No not yet and she had been in there for about three and a half hours now" Natsu replied in a low voice as soon as he finished talking however he suddenly lifted his head as he saw a figure approach the small room.
"Excuse me, are any of you two males a Mr. Dragneel" A young nurse asked as she entered the small waiting room. Natsu instantly got to his feet as the nurse called his name.
"That's me, is Lucy ok, what about the child" Natsu quickly bombard the poor nurse with questions.
"Mrs. Dragneel's procedure has been successful, due to her pregnancy it proved rather difficult to treat some parts of her body, which is why the procedure took a few hours, however she is now resting in her own private room and isn't expected to wake up until another few hours, there is no need to worry about payment we had received a call earlier from the museum stating that they will pay for all fee's, unfortunally due to the late hour we can only allow Mr Dragneel to stay here" The nurse informed the group in a professional matter.
"We understand, thank you for all your help" Erza thanked the Nurse. "Natsu, Gray and I will head back to the guild to inform them about what's happened" Erza toned changed as she saw the concerned look on Natsu's face.
'"but what about the child' Natsu quickly questioned the nurse; Natsu felt concern for the child since the nurse didn't mention anything about thier wellbeing as she was discussing Lucy's outcome.
'The child?' The nurse questioned raising an eyebrow 'So that means you don't know' the nurse said in a joyful whispered as she stared at the group of mages who all looked confused at her playful tone.
As I slowly opened my eyes, I instantly notice two things, one that all the pain from before was gone and it was much easier to more and secondly I was in a small unknown room however upon further inspection I came to the conclusion that I was most likely in a hospital room. I slowly pulled my body upwards so that I was now lying against the back of my bed in an attempt to get a better look at my surroundings. I didn't have to look far before I spotted my dragon slayer leaning on my bed, head in his arm's sleeping. Smiling softly I placed my left hand in his pink locks ruffling them slightly. Natsu tiredly mumbled as he opened his eyes, lifting his head upwards so that he was making eye contact, I smiled lightly as I saw the relief in his onyx eyes
"Lucy, you awake" Natsu said in a relieving soft tone.
'Yea' I smiled back at him as I shuffled to the right side of the bed signalling him to follow. I watch him climb into the bed before carefully wrapping his hands around me so that I was facing his chest and his head was resting on mine, as I stared into his chest I could feel tears begin to form as the feeling of guilt began to grow "Natsu, I'm sorry, I was stupid, I should have never had asked to go on a mission, not only did I put my life in danger but our child's, I'm sorry" I couldn't hold the tears in anymore as I sobbed into Natsu's harden chest. I barely registered that Natsu's arms had moved and that he was now holding each of my cheeks and facing me.
"Lucy, stop it, please it's my fault, I wasn't there to protect you, I let this happen" Natsu said in sorrow filled voice.
"Natsu, no, none of this is.."
"Enough, please" I winced as he raised his voice, soon he moved his right hand pushing my hair away from my neck to reveal a small tattoo like mark of golden flame circled by a red dragon, the mark Natsu had given me the first time we had spent the night together "Lucy, this mark is shows that you are mine and that no one else can touch you, but it's also a reminder that you and any family we have" Natsu paused to slowly moved his left hand to my stomach "that It is my responsibility to protect you no matter what" Natsu finished as he stared at me. My eyes widen in sudden realization, the baby!
"Natsu is the child ok" I quickly asked needing to know only to feel confused as he looked at me with a giddy smile and a raised eyebrow
"the child…oh I guess you wouldn't know" Natsu laughed
"Natsu? What's going on" I cautiously questioned.
"Well for one thing they're perfectly fine and weren't injured" Natsu continued to smile
"They?"
"Yup Lucy your pregnant with twins" Natsu smile couldn't grow any further as he watched his wife's face turn to a look of amazement
"Twins?"
"yea twins" He repeated. At first I just stared at him as I processed this news suddenly I felt a smile equal to the size of my husband appear on my face.
']"Twins huh yea that explains why I'm bigger than Bisca ever was haha" I chuckled as Natsu pulled me closer placing a small loving kiss on my lips.
"Yea and I think we should also consider re-planning our extensions" He grinned.
'Yea' I yawned silently "Hehe sorry I know I've been sleeping all this time but I still feel so tired" I yawned again
"It's ok Luce it is about 3:30am, and yea I starting to feel a bit groggy myself" Natsu grinned at me, I quickly cuddled up against him both of us had smiles planted on our faces as we both let sleep once again overcome us.
Whew that took a lot longer to write than I thought it would
Haha hope you all enjoyed reading chapter 4, sorry if the whole battle scene wasn't anygood
Anyway thanks for reading please feel free to rate and review
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