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Disclaimer: Hiro Mashima likes to troll a lot but he made an amazing manga named Fairy Tail!

Chapter 19: The end?

Lucy continued to cry as her mother's hand wrapped around her in an embrace. It seems like a dream, having her mom's warm hug again. Lucy tightly hugged her as if her mom would disappear if she lets go. But the Queen stayed where she was and that's when she knew her mom was actually here.

"There, there" Her melodic voice chimed like before as she rubbed Lucy's back slowly. "Momma's here, it's alright…" She comforted.

Erza gave a warm smile to the happy crying family. She felt an immense sense of joy for the sobbing blonde and she was glad to have the Queen of Fiore back. But everything seemed out of place.

Erza turned her head toward the debris of the once beautiful castle. She can't believe that the castle crumbled to pieces. But that can always be rebuilt. But a life can't be replaced. Natsu's death had been a shock to her like the rest of the guild. Natsu sacrificed himself for them while everyone watched as their nakama disappear from their eyes. He had saved everyone.

Natsu…

'He's gone, isn't he?' Her mind said. 'No' Erza answered herself. And she shook her head slightly, Natsu will always with them. In their hearts…

Mirajane rushed to the old man's aid who was groaning near the hole. She kneeled beside him and helped him rise from the ground gently. The master face was streamed with grime and his old eyebrows were scrunched up. Mirajane almost thought he was hurt somehow but then she notices Ji-chan's tears.

The old man's withered hand reached to his eyes and they stayed there. Mirajane held back tears. She had to stay strong for everyone. She felt like if she didn't cried, then people wouldn't feel sad… She knew some people are trying to stay strong like her but inside she felt weak. All she wanted to do is curl up and cry right there.

Everyone had the same thought in mind. Mirajane bit her lip and Master patted her shoulder. Mira's eyes widened and her blue eyes stared at the old man's. His teary eyes were solemn and they gave her the permission to cry.

So she did.

The white haired beauty sobbed in her pale hands and Elfman patted his older sister's shoulder. Erza who was on the other side of the hole, felt a small tear fall from her cheeks. Her right eye starts to fill with tears (Remember Erza's right eye is fake!) and the left one did the same.

Gray stared at the crying redhead. It would take a million years for him to see Erza cry and he didn't expect to see it so soon.

He feels a pit of anger in his stomach. Was the feeling of hatred toward the man who sacrificed himself to save them or was it because he wasn't the one who could've stopped him? Gray didn't know the answer to that problem and he doesn't want to figure out. Instead of crying, he starts to walk around. But not on his own control, he feels his willpower break and let a tear fall to the ground.

Sting didn't know what was true or not. He and Rouge was told to evacuate everyone in the castle from Natsu-san. Sting had just managed to get everyone when a large wind came. In the corner of his eye, he sees a bright light which was the R-system fade. Did Natsu defeat Jose? But there was no time to think, the castle made a loud groan and starts to fall apart. Sting's eyes widened. He didn't know what to do. He froze in that spot and if Rouge hadn't knocked some tumbling rocks, he knew he would've been squished.

Soon enough, the castle had completely fallen. Sting panted and he laid his back on the ground. He looks at the cloudy sky and sees a couple of flying birds and imagined them as dragons soaring through the sky. The thought makes him think of Weisslogia and his lips starts to quiver. Rouge lays down right next to him. He is clearly thinking of the same thing as Sting and they both stared at the sky together, feeling a sense of loneliness.

Somebody lays down with both of them to the shock to them was the two kids. Lector and Frosch didn't let their eyes meet with Sting's and Rouge's but at the sky.

"Sting-kun" Lector says as a small breeze makes his brown hair wave. "You're not going to leave us…A-are you?" Lector's voice breaks but he kept a calm face. Sting was shocked and the memory of him and Rouge first time meeting the kids, appeared in his head.

They were sad, lonely and hungry like them. And Natsu was the one to help them and all of a sudden they weren't lonely anymore. Natsu's kind act had made Sting realized that he actually wanted to be like the fire dragon slayer.

Sting shakes his head and he starts to tremble. They weren't lonely to begin with because they had each other. Sting reaches out his quivering hand to show that they're not alone. Lector stares at the hand and sniffled. He takes his tiny hand and placed it to Sting's showing a bond between them.

Frosch bursts in tears and she wiped her tears with her green frog costume. Rouge gives her embrace and Sting grabbed Lector in a hug. Together they cried together but not in a sad way, in a good kind of way. They were glad that they were still together.

Gajeel sat there watching the little dragon slayer while Carla was trying to wake her up. Wendy's breathing was slow so it meant that she was sleeping. Gajeel tried to tell Carla that she was ok but Carla was the type of person who believes once she sees it.

'How annoying' Gajeel thought as he placed his hand on the side of the cheek and closed his eyes. He drowned out the sounds around him; they seem to be all crying sounds. "Tsk" Gajeel silently made the sound. But he focused on not hearing them at all. He can't see anything or hear anything, if he didn't move all of his limbs to lose the feeling of touch; this is what death would feel like. Did Natsu feel this when he had died?

Wendy's eye lids flutter and her mouth squirmed. Her eyes immediately opened wide and her little hands went to her throat as if Jose's hand was still strangling her. She realized that she ok but an unexpected hug from Carla knocked the wind out of her.

"C-Carla" Wendy whispered. The white haired girl was too busy crying her life out (Don't know if this is an actual expression) and Wendy gave a small smile, she gave the little girl a pat on the back.

"What happened?" Wendy asked looking around the battlefield. The castle was no more, everyone was crying, and the R-system was gone. Wendy hadn't seen much of it, it looked like they won. But why is everyone crying then? Were they crying happily because they won? Then why did they all have such a sad face? Wendy's little had starts to tremble. Carla released her grip from the dark-haired girl and puts her hand upon Wendy's as a sign of comfort.

"What do you remember first of all?…" Carla asked her wearily. Wendy gulped and she continued to stare at everyone's faces.

"Me, Lucy-san and Natsu-san were talking" Wendy started. "Then all of a sudden Jose came behind us and attacked Lucy-san but Natsu-san grabbed her out of the way. I walked backward but Jose mimicked my actions with his back facing me. I-I think he was covering his body with mine so Natsu-san and Lucy-san wouldn't know I was behind him… They were yelling at each other and I was getting close to the light…Suddenly Jose grabbed my neck tightly and held me up. H-he was cutting off my oxygen…I-It hurt Carla…It really hurt…" Wendy said and again she raised her hands to her neck. Carla took her gaze off from Wendy.

"W-what Carla? What happened?" Wendy asked and she started to scramble to her feet. Again, Wendy looked around, this time searching for a particular person. Her eyes wandered left and right quickly. She examined everyone's expression, no one would cry if they won. They would be sad if they lost someone…

"Carla, tell me" Wendy said and she placed her hands onto the shoulders of the white haired girl. Wendy's tiny lip quivered and her eyes started to flash with tears. "W-Where is Natsu-san?" Carla turned away and biting her bottom lip.

Should she tell Wendy about her premonition? That Natsu had died to protect them? But Natsu had always been like a brother to Wendy. But if she doesn't tell Wendy now, she will figure out later and that would depress her even more.

"He's dead" Gajeel said. Carla and Wendy's heads turned to face him in shock.

For once, Gajeel didn't wear his occasional scowl but he looked like he was thinking, the thought of losing a nakama can hurt more than you can ever imagine. Wendy's eyes leaked and Carla felt guilty. The dark haired girl's knees fell to the ground and she knew the feelings that her nakama are suffering now. Gajeel with his arms crossed, once again has closed his eyes and imagined the sense of death.

Mirajane watched as her hands fill with her own tears. Her heart ached and her tears never stopping. Everything hurt. Her younger brother was patting her shoulder with his huge hand. He held in own tears like she did before.

Mirajane didn't want her brother to be strong. Like Master said before, you can cry. She put her hands upon her brother's and she grasped them tightly. She held on like her life depending on it, she knows if she lets go she wouldn't forgive herself. Elfman gazed at his sister and wrapped his arms around his sisters. They cried together.

"Why are you guys crying?"

Mirajane and Elfman's eyes widened and they stared at the newcomer. Someone they didn't expect.

Erza arms grasped her armored chest and crouched down. Her stomach felt like it was going to explode. Her teeth clenched together to stop her tears.

The pain lifted and she felt okay again. Well, not that okay. The only thing that hurt was her armored soul. Natsu will always be in their hearts, then why does she feel like something is not finished.

Before she knew it, a familiar hand appeared in front of her.

"Are you alright Erza?" A familiar voice said. Erza almost didn't want to believe it. She hesitantly looked up and she recognized the person. That moment when she did, she felt complete.

"I'm alright…" Erza smiled and she grasped the person's hand. "…"

Sting and Rouge laid there. Staring at the sky with misshapen clouds and flying birds. Dragons that soar with their wings outstretched, appeared in Sting's imagination. He wondered if they ever land or even let his hand reached out to them. Sting smiled faintly at the corners of his lips.

"What you smiling at?" Rouge asked, his red eyes filled with curiosity.

Sting flinched at Rogue's question and he chuckles slightly. "Hehe…I- Well I was- I was watching the clouds!" Sting said as his words fumbled as he stammered. Rouge gave him an unbelieving smile.

"Really? Which one? Can you show me?" Rouge asked casually not showing any mocking in his voice.

Sting's smiling mouth gaped open, Lector laughed at Sting's expression. Frosch was asleep on Rouge's lap while Rouge was trying really hard to not laugh.

"Hey!" Sting shouted. "Don't laugh at me! I was looking at that cloud!" Sting said his ears red from embarrassment. He pointed to a random direction and suddenly Rouge's eyes widened. Lector's hair spiked up in surprise.

"What?" Sting asked confused. He looked at the direction he pointed to and his mouth gaped open again but this time wider.

And a shadow loomed over them.

"GAHHH!"

Gray walked around wondrously until he almost fell into the hole. He rubbed the back of his head, not knowing how he got there.

This is where the spot where Natsu stepped in. He remembered all their fights with the pink haired man. All the cheesy name-calling they shouted to each other. 'Man they were cheesy' he thought.

The last face that Natsu gave them was not apologetic. Gray tried to picture that face again, the face that annoyed him to his very core. When the image finally came to him, he was silenced. Natsu's face looked happy…

Gray sighed as he unconsciously took off his shirt. He started to walk back to the fallen castle.

"Still have that stripping problem Gray?" A voice asked. He stumbled around, looking for his shirt when he processed the person's voice. The dark haired man froze and turned his head slowly to face the person. Later he smiled.

"I don't want to hear that from you"

Lucy missed Hoodie. Well, Natsu that is. She felt like her life was unaccomplished; Natsu had said he loved her. And she didn't say it back. Her tears didn't come out now. Her mom's patting didn't help then she thought it would.

"M-mom" Lucy's voice croaked. Her mom smoothed her blonde hair and shushed her quietly, like she did when she was little.

"Hoodie is gone isn't he?" Lucy whispered. Layla Heartfilia closed her eyes and silently nodded. Lucy dreaded that answer.

"But he is still with me right?" Lucy asked. Layla's brown eyes opened and she nodded again. Layla gripped her daughter tightly while saying:

"Always"

A hand touches Lucy's shoulder in a comforting way. Lucy turned expecting to see Natsu but instead she finds…

Her dad.

Her father, with the same sad eyes, is standing behind her. Lucy looked at him with surprised eyes but he wraps his arms around Lucy and his wife.

Lucy shocked when her deceased father is back along with her mother, are hugging her when there's supposed to be only one person was supposed to be brought back. What in the world was happening?!

Gray choked the name out as he saw the deceased person. She can't possibly be here. She's dead, he seen her die before his eyes. Now she's here.

The one who taught him Magic. The one who died when saving him from Deliora. The one standing before him was…

"Ur" Gray finished as the ice make teacher smiled widely. She crossed her arms over her tan jacket. Her dark short hair waved slightly as a breeze blew. Her smile mischievously widened as she looked at Gray's expression.

"You can't get rid of me so quickly!"

Erza grabbed his hand and she felt shock and immense joy. The man standing before him had made her heart flutter since they were trapped in the same tower.

"Jellal…" Erza whispered, even his name made her happy. The blue haired man smiled, making his tattoo on his right eye stretch.

"I'm back, Erza" he said.

Sting stumbled backward. The thing that had landed, took a large amount of space. Well, since there were two of them.

Sting's imagination wanders. The dragons that soared in his imaginary sky had finally landed. Rouge was the first one to react to the two creatures. Lector and Frosch stood with their mouths open. Sting's body trembled and he felt his tears start to fall again.

"Dad…" Rouge said, he ran to one of the creatures and he gave the dark scaled dragon a hug. The other creature turns its head to Sting and raised a scaly eyebrow. Sting flinched at the gaze and more tears started to fall.

"No hug for me Sting?" He said, snorting out smoke from its nostrils. Sting's light blonde hair covered his eyes, concealing his expression. His lips curved into a smile. He felt his face stretch widely and he knew he might've looked weird but he didn't care. He ran like Rouge did, with his arms flinging around. He smashed into the white scaled dragon and gave his 'Father' a hug.

"D-dad…" Sting said with drops of tears streaming down his cheeks.

Weisslogia and Skiadrum chuckled to each other and they drape their scaly black and white wing over the two dragon slayers. Lector gave a smile to his friend and Frosch started to jump around.

"Parents always come back to our children" Weisslogia muttered.

Mirajane stared at the mirror. The girl that stared back looked almost exactly like her well except she had a shorter hair style and a few inches shorter than Mirajane. The 'other' Mirajane had her hand on her hip almost like a diva and gave a gentle smile to the actual Mirajane. They had the same blue eyes.

The mirror shattered but the person stayed.

"I'm back, Mira-nee, Elf-nii" Lissana said and gave them a small wave before. Mirajane and Elfman still stayed still like a statue. Lissana stared at them in confusion.

"Are you guys al-?" Her chiming voice was interrupted by her older siblings who tackled her in a hug. She was knocked to the ground with her brother and sister still on top of her.

Lissana was surprise and she stared at them with a bewildered look on her face, but she smiled again. She wrapped her arms around them as widely as she could and returned the hug.

Her blue eyes start to water and she felt them fall.

"I'm home…"

Gajeel and Wendy felt the atmosphere change. Every sad emotion had suddenly turned happy. 'What was going on?' Wendy thought. Carla felt something flash before her eyes. Was it another premonition? No it was the sun that was coming out of the clouds. The battlefield was lit up by the rays of light.

"I bet you're wondering what is going on?" A voice interrupts the dragon slayer's thoughts.

Their heads whipped behind them to see a dragon. It wasn't Metallica or Grandine. The red scaled and fire blowing monster known an Igneel perched on top of the rubble of the castle. He held a piece of the rubble in one claw and looked like he inspecting it. He started to toss it up and caught it, the cycle repeated.

"Everyone is being revived" Igneel said casually as he threw the rubble behind him and it made a loud crash as it landed. Clearly he was bored with it.

"What you mean, Old Man!? The R-system can bring back one person!" Gajeel shouted to the dragon. Igneel snorted, making large, red flames spew out.

"You don't know Natsu's true power metal rod!" Igneel said and his gold slits eyes narrowed, making the iron dragon slayer click his tongue in annoyance.

"He has a special blood" Igneel said. "Natsu, himself can bring back thousands of people with a single drop of his blood" Igneel said and Wendy's eyes widened.

"Does that mean Natsu-san can come back as well Igneel-san?!" Wendy asked as she gripped her fists together tightly. Her eyes pleaded with the red dragon's.

Igneel gave her solemn look and shook his large red head. Wendy's hopes collapsed and she loosened her grip of her hands. Igneel lifted his two claws and use one fingers each, to touched Gajeel's and Wendy's hearts.

"But he is always in you guys" Igneel said and he gave a toothy grin. Wendy smiled lightly but she began to cry again, her smile still intact. Gajeel was silent.

Lucy had heard everything. The conversation between Natsu's foster parent and the dragon slayers, confirmed her suspicions. Natsu isn't coming back huh?

She knew that was coming.

Secretly in her mind, she thought Natsu will pop up behind her, scare her out of her wits and laugh about her silly reaction. 'He's alive' she thought but it was not possible.

"Sorry Princess but I can't keep my promise" Natsu said to her with his grin plastered onto his face. That face, Lucy would never forget. Lucy smiles lightly to herself. She is in love with that man and he is the only one who captured her heart.

"Can't keep our promise?" Lucy muttered silently as she brushed a blond strand behind her eyes. The man that she loves is always in everyone's and her heart.

"Natsu you already kept it" Lucy said as she smiled lovingly at the sky as if Natsu is smiling down at her right this moment.

Final chapter of "An arrow through the heart"…or maybe not!

Instead of the quote question, I want everyone to vote yes or no to continue this story. If you say yes, I already have some ideas for the next chapters. If no, Natsu will always be with Fairy Tail! And that's a happy ending for either answer!

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