Hey everyone! Well just to let you know I live in somewhere near Boston Massachusetts (I'm not telling you where I live…) so this May, I'm going to an anime convention called Anime Boston! I'm sorry but I won't be dressing up as any of the Fairy Tail characters but I will be dressed up as Kiba Inuzuka from Naruto! He's my favorite character XD! Also I want to dedicate this chapter to one of my friend's older brother Victor who died in a shooting last week.
Disclaimer: Hiro Mashima owns Fairy Tail since he created it…But if I made up a manga it would be called demon clash! Or Fire power! Or something like that…
Chapter 12: It's war
Lucy's POV.
I slowly fell to the ground as Natsu's arrow pierced me in the chest…Am I dead? Then why I'm still breathing? Wait no… my physical body is not breathing anymore…so I must be dead. Isn't the afterlife supposed to be covered with wildflowers, sunlight blasting through my eyes and everything is happy go-lucky. But I can still see everyone so…am I trapped in between life and death? Either way I waited for my time to come...
I can't hear anything but I can see Erza, Gray and the others mouths were open; they seemed to be yelling in protest. Master's forehead was beaded with his veins. I couldn't blink at all and my unmoving eyes look at the man who had shot the arrow at me. Instead of looking at the people who are shrieking at him, he looks at my still dead body. His eyes seemed to say something to me as if he knows I'm at the line between the living and the dead. He seems to say "wake up" which seems impossible to me. He continues to look eagerly at me until the guild's mouths stopped moving. Have I died yet? No they're looking at me. Why didn't the grim reaper come yet?
Erza's POV.
Natsu just shot Lucy; he doesn't deserve to look at her. How dare he hurt his nakama!? He is the least likely person to kill someone who he considered his friend. Why is he staring at her with not a single hint of regret? He seemed to be murmuring something to her. But then it hit me. I put my hand in front of the guild to stop their shouting. Master looked at me incredulously with shock.
"Erza what are you doing?" Then the thought hit him as well, but the others looked confused.
"What's the matter Erza!? He hurt our nakama!" Gray shouted and Juvia agreed with him as well. I glared at him immediately he stopped.
"Look at the arrow…" I commanded gently, pointing at the arrow sticking out of Lucy's chest. Her eyes were wide open, unblinking. At the end of the arrow was a blue gem which symbolizes Natsu's lacrima arrows… Natsu can choose to kill the person or not. Lucy is still alive.
Natsu gently crouched down after the commotion stopped and pulled it out of her chest. I can see oxygen refilled her lungs and she gasped out. Jose's smile disappeared from his face for the first time and he grimaced. Lucy's still eyes started to move and look at Natsu's gentle face above her and then at the guild.
Lucy is alive! I sighed in relief; I even dropped to my knees. My armor clanged as I dropped to the floor. Master also sighed and walked toward him. Natsu flinched at his movement and jumped back to Jose's side. Master looked surprised and immediately looked at Jose with anger. I stood up and walked over to Master's side. Jose still wasn't smiling; he was glaring at his so-called subordinate who didn't kill the girl.
Lucy tried to stand up but stumbled in the process. Luckily she fell in Gray's arms. Juvia looked like she was about to explode, I couldn't blame her; I just wish Gray noticed her feelings by now. What surprised me the most was that Natsu growled lightly at Gray as well? I could barely hear it because I was close to him. Unfortunately Jose heard it as well.
"Jose do you want war with us..." He said anger rising in his voice. Jose still looked angry at Natsu who is averting his eyes away from him.
"We do" he finished and finally looks at Master. I have my sword ready in case he attacks. I wait for Master's answer but Master already had one.
"Then get out of our home"
Natsu's POV.
I trudged slowly with Jose; I don't feel comfortable calling him Master Jose. He is quiet, too quiet. But he wanted me to kill her, HER! But I just couldn't. I clenched my teeth hard that it gritted against each other. Why did she have to interrupt! Even when I told them not to! Princess is so stubborn and I knew that… We arrived at our destination which was the castle where Princess lived.
We entered the palace gardens, home where Queen Layla had carefully placed each plant in the ground. Jose pressed a special part on the castle's walls and an entrance appeared (In chapter 1, Lucy used it to get out but somehow Jose knew about it). Immediately when we entered the room, a blond man whose arms were crossed on his desk looked up at us. Just like the day before…This is Princess's father.
He looked at us eagerly, there were lines underneath his eyes like he haven't slept at all and Jose shook his head like he did the day before. Jose does this to indicate that he hasn't found Princess but I know he already did... King Jude face fell and looked at me for confirmation. I freeze but I nod cautiously, this man is someone who Princess bad talks the whole entire time she was at the guild, why does he care for Princess then? He looked like he was going to a deep depression.
"We'll keep looking your majesty, my new lead subordinate will help me look" indicating me as his subordinate. King Jude examines me, like he knows who I am. I look away slightly, averting my eyes from his sad ones. He folds his arms again and when we left his office, I can hear the sounds of his weeping through the door.
Jose is quiet once more and wouldn't even look at me. I cautiously walk beside him, Jose nods to a couple of King Jude's soldiers the ones who I burned on day 1 until we came upon to a part of a castle where Jose owns. 'Where all his members are…' I thought. Once we entered the room, Surprisingly in there was Sting and Rogue who were deep in their conversation, they looked up at us when we entered. When the coast was clear and the doors were shut. Jose lifted his arm slowly and abruptly punches me in the face.
I flew and landed in the nearby wall, chunks of it flew aside. The two dragon slayer's eyes widened as I coughed out in shock and pain swells up in my chest. But he wasn't done. He knees me to the broken wall and holds me by my throat, grabbing my air supply. I gasped and grabbed the hand he is lifting me with. A trickle of my blood drips from my mouth which he smiles at. He then throws me on the floor, cracking it in the process. I coughed out more blood which covers the already blood red rug on the floor. My blood is darker than regular blood because I have a different magic than anyone, that's probably why Igneel chose to teach me… 'Igneel' I thought as pain struck me again.
'I can't hit back, a servant never hits the master…' I thought of the small tattoo he gave me the day before, which seals my agreement with him... As I stagger up from the cracked floor, more of my blood drips from my back. He rushes to me and punches me multiple times before he grabs me by the collar.
"This is what you get for not killing her" He said without mercy in his voice. I clenched my teeth, my mouth filling with blood.
"I-I couldn't k-ill h-h-er" I gasped out.
"And why not?"
"I-I meant to s-stall th-them…I-if she was h-hurt then the-they'll back off" He dropped me to the ground and smashes his foot to my head. He placed his foot on my back to hold me down but lifts my head up.
"Excuses" he said, whispering that in my ear. Before he can hurt me more, Sting came rushing toward me and Jose, Rogue rushes after him. My eyes widened of shock. Are they stupid? Are they trying to get themselves hurt like me? Sting grabs Jose's arm which is holding my head and was trying to release Jose's iron grip from my head.
"Please Master Jose! he suffered enough!" He cried out but Jose made no intention of doing so.
"Master Jose! Maybe he was trying to say to you that the Princess can be used as the sacrifice!" Rogue joined in now helping Sting trying to take away Jose's hand. Why are they helping me? But Jose froze and released my head which smashes to the ground. I lift me head with difficulty as another wound appeared on my forehead. Jose trembles…Wait not from fear but from happiness. His creepy smile reappears from his face and grins at my wrecked body.
"You wanted her to be the sacrifice! What a great idea!" He shouts with glee and laughs loudly. Rogue helps me get up and I murmur my thanks to him. Jose continues to laugh but stops to smile at us. He motions Sting and Rogue to come closer; when they did he punches them like he did to me. Both flew back, I managed to catch them when they flew but I wince in pain as I did.
"That's for touching me while I'm in the middle of doing a punishment" Jose says, with the smile still intact on his face. I almost growled at him but Sting and Rogue got on their knees, they bowed to him and apologized. Jose looks at them with delight while I look at them with horror. But I will have to bow to him sooner or later.
I got on my knees and bowed to him with difficulty. I bent down until my forehead touched the destroyed floor, I ignored the pain in my stomach.
"I will prove myself worthy next time Master Jose!" I promised as I clutched my eyes tightly. Jose looked surprised but smiles again.
"I will definitely-"I stop mid-sentence when suddenly, my red blood gushed out of my mouth. Sting and Rogue looked up and rushed to my side. Jose laughs as more blood came out of my body and slumped on the ground.
"Go on, take him to the infirmary. I need to talk with the rest of them to inform them of our plans" Jose says. Sting and Rogue immediately pulled me up and dragged me out. I take one weak glance at Jose who was smiling directly at me.
"I'm looking forward to working with you Natsu-sama" He said as we left.
Later…
"Ouch! Watch it!" I cried out. Sting murmurs his apologies while he wraps a bandage over repeatedly over my wounds. I examine him, his light blond hair shining from the bright infirmary room. He was like before…I shook my head back and forth to get rid of that thought. Rogue stood in the corner and stared at me with confusion but continued to look at me and my wounds.
"Natsu-san?" I look at the blond teen. He stares at me curiously like how Rogue did. I raised an eyebrow at them, suspicious of why they keep looking at me. They seem to realize this and looked ashamed.
"I'm sorry but we can't believe you're actually here" Sting smiles happily with tears forming at the corners of his eyes. I flinched back at his tears but I winced again. 'When did they became like before?!' I thought and I looked at Rogue who was started to cry as well.
"W-What are you crying about?!" I yelped in surprised. They became crybabies again! And they're 18! Why? How?
"Because they miss you" a new voice said. I turn to the voices and there was a little boy and girl about same age as Happy, maybe younger.
The boy had a reddish-brown hair and the girl had green hair covered by her frog costume? Sting wiped his tears away and looked at the children.
"Lector! Frosch! When did you come in?" Sting said but his voice sounded stuffy.
"A while ago…" Lector said, eyeing me while the girl, who was Frosch, was playing with her frog costume.
"This is Natsu Dragneel? The man who is your friend and who saved you? He's the one you guys keep talking about?" Lector said wearily like he is suspicious of me. Sting nodded and smiled at the little boy.
"Who are they?" I pointed at the kids, while Rogue wiped his tears.
"They're our nakama. We found these two. 9 years ago, when we were on an expedition for Jose" Rogue explained. Lector jumped into Sting's arms and Frosch jumped to dark-haired mage. Lector started calling Sting the strongest while Frosch was laughing along with Rogue. The little kids…they remind me of Happy…
The dragon slayers sensed my mood and stopped what they were doing.
"Natsu-san! We can catch up now, now we can be together again!" Sting said trying to cheer me up.
"But that doesn't help the fact that you killed your Dragons…"I said quietly. Sting stopped smiling.
"Natsu-san let me tell you a secret…"
I look at him while his head was bent down, his face shadowed.
"We didn't kill our dragons... Weisslogia and Skiadrum are still alive…" Sting lifted his head and started to cry again. My eyes filled with shock.
"B-but I saw you kill them" I said remembering the time. Rogue shook his head.
"Those were illusions caused by Aria-san, Rustyrose-san and Rufus-san" Rogue said. They were the same kids I met 12 years ago, I found this relieving.
"B-but..." Rogue stammered. "Jose actually took t-them… H-he still has them! But we haven't finished our duty yet! So we can't get them back yet! We didn't finish it for 10 years already!" Rogue started to hyperventilate. Sting was clutching and head trying to block out the sounds from his head. I didn't know they suffered that much…They didn't kill their dragons…So I attacked them for nothing (Chapter 8). I put my arms around them, trying to calm them down. I grabbed Frosch and Lector too into the group huddle.
"Don't worry" I said. "I'm going to help you finish the R-system…"
(Anyone forgotten what the R-project is, It stands for revive and it's in the Tower of Heaven ark where Jellal was trying to revive Zeref)
Normal POV.
In a conference room in Jose's part of the castle…
"I welcome you all to this meeting today!" Jose clapped his hands to get the others attention. Some of them groaned but most of them were serious and acted like grown-ups.
"First of all, we agree on Lucy Heartiphilia, princess of Fiore, be the sacrifice for the secret R-project?" Jose asked a few of them nods in agreement while some thought it out.
"Why the hell are we going to use a weak pathetic as the sacrifice!? We could've used Erza or something?!" (Ohhh the irony…) Giemma said, pounding his fist on the table.
"Patience Gemma, That weak pathetic person is the princess of Fiore, she contains special powers" Hades said sighing. "All I want to do is see Zeref…" he added.
"You guys will get everything you want after Zeref is revived but first we need to stop Fairy Tail from interfering…" Jose promised.
"Oh! My old guild?" Hades asked surprised as some of the people snickered at his reaction.
"Yes, your old guild had been a nuisance to me for a while…" Jose said but Hades *tsk*
"We need to send someone to stop those pathetic ants!" Giemma shouted.
"Quiet Giemma you are making me have a migraine" Ivan said rubbing his temples.
"Shut up! Then you should defeat that guild because you are the son of that old man!"
Ivan was about to say something but Jose grimaced at all of them. The meeting hall was silent.
"Anyway" Jose continued. "I need to introduce to you the general of the forces that would be leading the attack…" He pointed his hand to the door when a man entered the room.
A man wore a cape that reached above the ankles, his buttoned coat had an open sleeve to reveal his muscled arms and to show his two designs on each of them. He had two accompanies waking beside him. He had a badge that says general applied to his coat. He also wore long pants and military boots. And…Pink spikey hair…
"Let me introduce…Natsu Dragneel…He will be the one who decides who dies or not"
End of Chapter 12
How you guys like the chapter? Lucy is going to be the sacrifice?! Gasp! Read the next chapter to see what happens next. I felt bad when I was hurting Natsu… Hope you guys review, follow, or favorite this story thanks!
Coming up next Chapter 13: Switching sides
Will Natsu have to kill the others?
Why does Jose wants to revive Zeref?
Will Natsu go back to Fairy Tail? Hence the name of the next chapter maybe or maybe not!
FAIRY LAW! And all the heroic music comes on and boom and bam!
