Is this a Game?
Natsu Laughed, but he showed no signs of amusement. "An odd request Luce, you want to leave only if I go too?" He chuckled again, but this time he did smile deviously. "Why is that?"
Lucy wanted to scream 'Because I love you! I could never see Fairy Tail the same way without its pink-haired idiot I love.' But the words were muffled by the knot in her throat.
"I will accept your deal." She said.
Or is this a Joke?
"Very well then," He snapped his figures and torches sparked to life, bathing the room in a glow of orange and yellow. "Take a seat and let the interrogation begin."
Lucy took a seat on a velvet fainting couch, and Natsu sat in an armchair across from her. The room was round but very spacious, and it was thanks to the torchlights that Lucy was able to make out this was a bedroom. A blush crept up on Lucy's face, thinking how she could have barged in while Natsu was naked.
"I'm waiting," Natsu said.
Do We Play?
Lucy shook her head and quickly regained her thoughts. "Why did you make them attack the city? you have an army, and yet you put our friend in danger by making them fight for you."
"You must remember I mentioned before that my powers, after 400 years, have grown a bit unstable. Why waste the opportunity to get back into practice? Though don't misunderstand, I would never let one of my fellow guildmates die. I could resurrect them with a simple snap of my fingers."
"But you could have sent someone else." Lucy snapped. "You could have failed to resurrect them."
Natsu shook his head. "Not once have I ever failed, Luce. Not. Ever." He said in a more serious tone. "Now it's my turn to ask the question."
The blonde braced herself, but what he said nearly made her fall over from shock.
Do We Laugh?
"Did Leo and Virgo let you out of your room?"
What kind of sick joke was this? Did he have no intention of making her lose the game?
"Yes. I promised to stay in the castle and not try to escape if I was allowed to look for my friends." She twisted her hands in her lap nervously. "Will you punish them?"
He leaned his head to the side and shrugged. "I could, they disobeyed me, but I didn't exactly say you couldn't move around the castle, jut that you couldn't leave it. Unless," he added, "you were running around trying to escape?"
Lucy shook her head furiously. "No! No, I wasn't, I-" The smile on Natsu's face told her he never meant what he said and rage filled Lucy's veins once again. "You jerk. Stop playing around."
He held up his hands in defense. "Just lightening the mood."
"Ok, my turn." Lucy snapped, crossing her arms. "What do you plan on doing now that you have defeated Zeref and have taken control of the capital?"
"Well, I have many missions to complete Luce, such as taking control of this world and reforming it into the paradise Zeref had envisioned it for us."
Paradise? Lucy's brows furrowed.
Tell me what is this Path,
We are Forced to Take?
"That look tells me that you don't understand?"
"I don't understand how this is a paradise?" But she had to admit the idea sounded interesting. The feared END and Zeref were trying to create a new era, one of peace? The stories say differently.
"Why do you think I've been changing the minds of our friends? Demon, dark magic, even the evil has a purpose, you just call us tyrants or maniacs because you don't share our views. That is my mission, Luce, to make everything better by changing their minds."
"But their memories-"
"Are left untouched. I simply make someone fear the anger of their Lord, make them forget hostility and pain. I give them new views and choices."
Lucy felt she understood what he was saying, but there was a question eating at her. "Do you think anyone would think this is evil?"
"Is it wrong?" Natsu shrugged. "There will always be someone who thinks something is wrong. But you have to ask, if they think it's wrong to want peace by sacrificing something, then what will they do to gain peace? Talk? Well not everyone will listen. Write a song? There are those who will never hear it or don't understand what the song is about." He paused, letting his words sink in. "Monsters are only created when someone is afraid, but of what? Teeth, claws? Or is it death?"
If we Choose Wrong
If we Choose Right
"I don't know—" Lucy clasped her hand over her mouth realizing she had just lost the deal.
Natsu smiled. "Looks like I win this game, Luce."
Lucy cursed herself for letting him tricked her...but what now? She had to do whatever he wanted.
"Luce," He leaned closer so that his nose brushed hers. Lucy could feel the hot air around them, she noticed the black tattoos forming on his skin, the scales cracking along his neck and cheeks. She felt a fire start inside her when his black eyes stared at her with raw emotions. Eyes that were Natsu's.
She leaned in closer.
Suddenly Natsu's lips were on hers, and Lucy knew she was falling into a hole she couldn't climb out of.
What Will Happen?
Even in the bliss of this stolen kiss, Natsu peeked over to his window, sensing the dark creature just along the horizon. A creature he had once thought dead. His next two conquests were right in front of him, but the one he held right now was closest, all he cared about was conquering this one.
What's at stake?
Natsu deepened the kiss, snaking his arm around her and pulling the blonde closer to his chest, then his free hand cupped underneath her jaw to gain more access to her lips. Lucy's nails dug into his shirt, making him growl with pleasure.
She was his, even if Lucy didn't know it yet.