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Heaven's Gate
Lucy developed this spell while searching an answer to summon Aquarius again without a key. When someone or something goes through the portal it comes in Lucy's own realm between Earthland and Celestial realm. In that realm everything moves faster, even time than on Earthland. When Lucy has found a place to return to she opens another portal to the Earthland. Rules, promises and contracts are everything for a Celestial mage. The rule said that only Lucy can walk freely in this realm. Any other need to have part of her magic to grant the permission to move freely in her realm.
Chapter 2
It was 4 a.m. and Lucy jerked awake. Plue was rubbing away the sleep out of his eyes, when he noticed the sudden movement from his master. He noticed that Cham had returned to the Celestial world and looked up. Sweat sat all over Lucy's body, with her hands she tried to remove her hair that was sticking on her face. A nightmare had rudely disturbed her night sleep. Her head was throbbing again. She walked to the bathroom and splashed some water on her face. She looked in the mirror and saw the fear still lingering in her eyes. The nightmare hadn't surprised her. Minerva torturing her before everyone's eyes. It's silly to still be afraid. She had forgiven Minerva for her actions a long time ago. Minerva had changed and she had changed. But the feeling of giving your fate to someone else. The feeling of being helpless, the feeling of losing control of your own surroundings. She shook the disturbing feelings away, took her medicine, that Porlyusica had given her and went back to bed. Plue kept staring at her. 'I'm fine. Just a nightmare Plue. Go back to sleep.' Hopefully she could get some extra sleep before the new day would begin.
Next time she woke up was because of the sudden alarm from her spirit Horologium. She took a shower and felt the stress of her earlier nightmare fading away. She looked how the drops of water were falling at the bottom of her bathtub.
…..Natsu…..
She stepped out, dried and changed into a blue short skirt and a simple blue white T-shirt. She cooked some oatmeal with some milk and added a couple different fruit in it. She ate it silently in the kitchen and gave Plue a couple pieces from the leftover sweet fruit. She laid down her dishes in the tub and filled them with some cold water. She pulled Plue in her arms and sat down in a comfortable stool, what was standing in the living room.
'Cancer?' In a couple seconds responded her friend to her call and stood in the room after the familiar golden light.
'Lucy-sama, how do you like your hair today, ebi?'
'Can you just comb my hair, like the old days with mom?'
The expression on Cancer's face soften. 'Of course, Lucy-sama.'
Lucy hugged Plue closer to her and sighed when the comb was stroking through her hair. The feeling relaxed her. Her thoughts were empty and she breathed in and out slowly. Her spirits didn't ask and time was flying by. Cancer kept stroking Lucy's hair slowly with a comb. The little pulling sensation, made a tingling feeling on her scalp. A tear left her eye and Plue looked up. She rubbed away the tear and smiled. Lucy looked at the clock and noticed she needed to leave. Cancer finished the combing and pulled her hair in a simply side tail. Lucy turned around and gave Cancer her brightest smile. 'Thanks Cancer and you too Plue, you can go back now. I will be fine.' Cancer and Plue nodded and returned to the Celestial realm.
Lucy grabbed her bag and pulled her right fist in the air. 'Alright! I can do this.'
Lucy sat on the train to Crocus. Magic books were lying around her. She was writing notes while reading some of them on the same time. A golden light appeared next to her. 'Your prince in shining armor is here, princes,' said Loke.
'What is it Loke?' asked Lucy while still taking notes. The charming smile on Loke's face changed in a concerned look. 'Are you sure, you are ready to see Natsu?'
Lucy sighed and closed her eyes. 'Is that the only thing that made you appear? Don't worry. It's been a long time, but I will be ok.'
He knelt down and placed softly his hands on her notebook. She opened her eyes and was looking straight into the eyes of her spirit Loki. 'I just want to let you know, that you aren't alone. We are concerned about you.'
She hugged Loki. 'Thanks, I will be ok.'
'Is Aquarius doing fine?'
He chuckled. 'She had been stalking Scorpion yesterday. Apparently was there a rumor that he had been talking to another girl.'
Lucy smiled. 'She hasn't changed one bit.'
The train was getting slower. She looked outside and saw Crocus lying ahead. Loki stood up. 'I will take these books back to the celestial realm. Call us if you need anything else.'
She nodded and saw him leave with the magic books. Her fingers were rubbing her keys and felt courage floating inside of her.
-0o0-
The finals had already started, when she looked down in the arena. 'One of the last guilds left standing in the finals is led by the overwhelmingly powerful Chrisack, Dullahan Head! Yet their opponents have won battle after battle with miraculous victories coming from behind! Skull Millione! Because this year's grand magic games are in an elimination format, these two guilds will go head to head with each other in the finals and battle to the top spot! Kapo,' the announcer said.
Lucy looked at them. This year guilds like Lamia Scale and Sabertooth haven't participated the games at all. They didn't had any reason to join the games. The strength levels in comparison of last year was enormous. It looked almost like a joke. Fairy Tail had just started to form again, but Lucy couldn't wait to participate again.
She smiled. It brought certain memories, good ones but also bad ones. The cheating of Raven Tail and the torturing of Minerva. But at the end they had won the games. She was brought back to reality when she heard the announcers cheering.
'Skull Million have won handily! An… An unbelievable…!'
'Oh my that was quite a shock…' said another announcer.
'Skull Millione are our champions and the odds… An Impossible 100 to 1 they've made a killing! Fiore's number one guild is Skull Millione! Kapo.'
Lucy felt a familiar magical pressure. She ran to the edge and focused her sight to the entrance of the arena below. 'Natsu…' She bid her lip.
'What's this? Everyone in the stadium is celebrating, but… What the…Hell is going on!? A Mysterious figure is making his way into the arena…' screamed the announcer through his microphone.
'Who the fuck are you!?' asked a member of Skull Millione.
A black cloaked figure was stepping inside the arena, and they noticed the temperature was rising.
'So you chumps are the number one guild in Fiore, huh?' said the black cloaked figure.
'Yeah what of it, bitch?' bitted the members of Skull Millione back.
'I'm your next challenger!'
Lucy could now see some glimpse of Natsu's face under that cloak. She felt Natsu's magic gathering inside of his fist and without thinking she raised her hand. 'Heaven's gate!'
A golden portal under Natsu was forming and went up. Natsu whole body was consumed by the portal before it and he disappeared. Another portal came under Lucy and she also disappeared. Outside Crocus near a lake two golden portals were forming, where Natsu and Lucy appeared. The magic power of Natsu's fist came out and shot an incredible force of flames. The lake in front of him was condensing and had moved out of the way by its force. 'Huh… What the hell is going on? How did I get here? Where are the strongest mages of Fiore? I want to fight them!'
He smelt Lucy behind him and turned around. His first look was confusing but later it turned into a smile. 'Yo, it's been awhile hasn't it? Lucy!'
Lucy had her head down and was clenching her fists. She walked to him. Drops of tears were falling down on the ground. She looked him straight in the eye, while tears kept falling. Her hand went out and she slapped him in his face. A red mark of her hand was visible and minutes flew by without a word. Natsu's hand went to his face while looking confused with a little bit of guilt. There must be a reason that she slapped her, even without knowing it he had the feeling he had hurt her. 'Lucy…'
'YOU IDIOT!'
He heard her teeth gnashing. '… how could you just leave me with a note. A NOTE! And the first moment I see you, you just charged in and attack the number one guild of Fiore. Have you lost your mind!?'
'Lucy I'm sorry. But you were crying that night and I didn't wanted…..'
'You just left me, like Igneel left you!'
Natsu's eyes widened by the realization.
'Do you know how long I have searched for you!? Do you know how much nights I have cried because of you!? Do you know I feel betrayed by you? What kind of a friend are you, you left me only with a note with an excuse that I was crying that night!?'
She looked at him with disbelief. Natsu couldn't say a word. The silence persisted until a blue exceed with wings came flying to them.
'How mean, Natsu, Lucy, to leave me behind!' cried Happy. Happy flew to Lucy and pushed his face between her chest. She felt her anger slowly fading away and with a hand she brushed the head of the blue cat. 'I'm sorry Happy, I couldn't spot you in time before Natsu would kill everything and everyone in the arena.'
Happy kept crying. 'But… Luuucccy… I was…straight.. beeehiind you.'
'Why didn't you show yourself then?'
'I waaaanteed tooo ….. scaaare yyyouu… buuut I cooouuldnn't. Yoouuu suuuudddeeennly ddiisappeared. Sooo meeeeaaan!'
She smiled and looked at Natsu again. Her eyes were red from the crying and she felt tired. The tiredness not only came from the sudden intense emotions, but also from multiple spirits she needed to hold back, who were trying to force their gates open. Even now she felt her anger for Natsu, but time will tell if she could forgive him. He is a dense idiot, who was indeed planning to make a ruckus and Fairy Tail would probably get the repair bills from it, plus all the extra complains. She needed to get this idiot home and she planned to do so. Minutes past and Happy was still crying his lungs out.
'Let's go home, Fairy Tail is waiting for you guys, ' said Lucy slyly.
She held out her hand in front of Natsu with a slight smile on her face to cover up her red eyes. He hesitated and looked at Happy to avoid her eyes. 'I'm sorry Lucy. I didn't know…..I….I…..'
With hesitation he looked up again to meet her eyes, but instead of her eyes he saw her back.
'Let's go home to Fairy Tail,' she said softly again while starting to walk away. Natsu followed her without saying anything in return.
It was almost evening when they were back at Magnolia. They both had been silence in the train. Natsu motion sickness was also a reason for the silence if he had wanted to say anything, then he couldn't.
On the walk from the station to the guild, Lucy had finally the feeling to say something. 'I presume you did noticed our guild marks were gone for almost a year. Master Makarov had disbanded the guild a day after you left. He also disappeared and no one knows where he is. The guild has just started again a couple months ago by Laxus. Not everyone is back yet, so we are still small at the moment.' She looked at Natsu for his reaction while they were walking to the guild. Surprisingly there was no reaction at all. 'Natsu?'
'I know what happened….I heard it from Sting and Rogue while on my training.'
'Oh…. ok good.'
….
She felt an awkward silence and grabbed two silver keys. 'Open the gate of the Chamaeleon,
Open the gate of the Canis Minor, Chameleon and Nikora.' Two small golden lights were appearing. Chameleon quickly sat on his old spot on Lucy's shoulder, while Plue walked side by side next to Happy. Natsu watched the lizard form spirit making himself comfortable. 'Who is your new friend?' he asked with a slyly smile.
'This is Cham, Cham this is Natsu. He is one of my silver keys I got this year.'
'Hi Cham, nice to meet you.' Cham was looking up at Natsu and jumped at his shoulder. Natsu jerked back by the sudden movement. The spirit felt very light weighed. Suddenly his black cloak was getting invisible with the parts of his body under it. Only his feet, hands and head were still visible. 'WHAA… what happened?'
Lucy laughed. 'He likes you. He has the ability to make persons and object invisible.'
An idea popped out of his head. 'Like a ninja?'
'Huh,' said Lucy like she has lost it. 'Uhm kind of, yes.'
Natsu wrapped his scarf around his head and put his hands in each other to make a ninja sign. 'We can't have them discovering us - the gozaru, Nin Nin!' Cham was hissing in return and made both him and Natsu completely invisible.
Lucy held back a chuckle and looked around her. They were nowhere to been seen. Happy and Plue were still walking side by side. Lucy sighed and felt suddenly a couple hands tickling her. She laughed out loud. 'Naa…. tsuu….. Stooop it!'
'Hey Lucy, what are you doing?' asked Happy while staring at the amusement sight. Lucy was now laughing louder until she could feel her lack of oxygen.
'She lost it,' said happy well shrugging. The tickling stopped and Lucy laid down on the ground to catch her breath. Happy looked up when someone was grabbing his tail, but he saw no one.
'Ghost!' screamed Happy in fear. Wings appeared on his back when he was trying to get away. But the grip on his tail kept him in place. Natsu was laughing. Happy was completely scared when suddenly only the part of Natsu head became visible. Foam came out of Happy's mouth. 'How mean Natsu, scaring me like that!' screamed Happy when he comprehended what just had happened.
'Sorry Happy, this is fun,' said Natsu smiling.
But his fun hadn't last for long. He felt a fist punch on his head, that smashed him on the ground. 'Don't use Cham for those kind of things,' said Lucy irritated still trying to catch her breath from the tickling experience.
'But Lucy isn't Cham…' Happy said before Lucy grabbed the exceed's lips and forcefully stopped his speaking. 'Shut it, stupid cat.'
'Lmhy ym hmnii.'
'I'm not scary!'
Cham made them completely visible and jumped back on Lucy's shoulder.
They were standing before the new building of Fairy Tail. It almost looks like the old one, from a year ago, but then less big. Natsu opened the doors and screamed: 'Oy minna, I'm home!'
Everyone in the guild were jumping at him and welcomed him home. Lucy shook her head and saw Laxus, Lisanna and Mira at the bar and walked to them.
'So everything went ok, I see,' said Laxus while taking a nip of his scotch.
'For stopping a ruckus, yes.' Lucy sighed. Lisanna gave her a hug. 'I have missed you girl. You are too busy. First paperwork and now missions.' Pouted Lisanna. Lucy smiled slightly to Lisanna. 'Sorry Lis, I have missed you too.'
Lisanna wasn't pleased in a bit and was looking angry at Laxus. The main reason she couldn't have fun with her best friend. 'No more spy missions! You're corrupting her.'
'Hi…hi….' Waved Laxus uninterested to Lisanna. The anger was crawling out of her body and Lucy chuckled sheepishly.
'Why don't we have another girl day? Levy is still out on a mission, so it will be just you and me Lisanna?'
Lisanna mood was like a roller-coaster. 'Really? That would be so much fun! We can go to the bathhouse and watch hotties all day long. I have found a new secret spot. Take Cham with you. Really girl you need to enjoy life as long as you can.'
'Lisanna!' screamed Lucy embarrassed.
'Who is corrupting who?' mumbled Laxus softly while grinning. Lisanna extended her tongue to him. He just simple shrugged. The boldness wasn't anything new for him. At the time when Lisanna was still too young to go with Mira and Elfman on a mission, he had baby-sit Lisanna a lot.
When Lucy was freed from the struggling hug, she went sitting next to Laxus, placed Plue on her lap and ordered a beer. She normally wasn't a drinker, but she really needed a beer.
'Lucy dear, what kind of ruckus was our Natsu making?' asked Mirajane to get back on the subject.
'He wanted to fight the number one Fiore guild in front of everyone's eyes.'
Mira placed down a beer and smiled. 'Oh well, Natsu wouldn't be Natsu if he didn't wanted to try that.' Both Lucy and Laxus nodded and sighed. They heard the crunching of tables. A fight had already started between Elfman, Natsu and some other members. Tables and chairs were flying around.
'Shouldn't you be stopping this. The repair bills will be enormous,' asked Lucy to Laxus while they were sitting with their back to the fight. She took her first soak of her beer and already was there a pink flush from the alcohol spreading across her cheeks.
'Let them be for ones, he just came home,' said Laxus while taking his own good soak from his scotch.
Cham hissed. Lucy looked around and saw a chair flying her way. 'Heaven's Gate.' She, Plue and Champ teleported just in seconds before the impact. The chair that should have hit Lucy had hit Mirajane instead. She laid down on the ground while her soul tried to free herself from her unconscious body. 'Ah Mirajane, I'm so sorry!' said Lucy with guilt.
Another chair had hit Laxus in his back, that was followed by a table. Wrinkles were forming on Laxus head. Natsu just got back and he is already making a ruckus in the guildhall. He knew he should have asked Freed to place runes in the whole building, then only on the training grounds. Thought Laxus. Seconds later Natsu ran with his fist up to Laxus. 'Fight me, Laxus!'
In a fractal of seconds electricity was sparking around Laxus fist and he knocked Natsu out in one swoop. 'It's Master Laxus for you Flamebrain and you are still nowhere near my league,' he said with a cocky grin on his face, trying to hide his annoyance.
Lucy suddenly laugh. Everyone saw the warmth in her laugh they hadn't seen in a year. The old familiar feeling was finally back and they were getting the urge to laugh as well. It felt like the old feeling from the past hadn't be gone for years.
'Welcome party for Natsu, let's drink!' yelled Cana.
Yeah Natsu is back! First of all I like Natsu. He is a sweet dense idiot and can bring a smile on your face, he is really good in lighting up the tension. But that note, that was a big nope for me. I still think it is hard to believe the way how Lucy had responded in the manga or anime. Cry about it and it was over. In my eyes he did the same to Lucy as Igneel did to him. He disappeared one day without saying goodbye or anything else. I used Igneel as an example so that he would understand his own mistake. Knowing how Lucy have felt.
If people were curious about Lisanna pervy thing. In my eyes she had almost died on that mission with Elfman and Mirajane. And in combination her brother and sister are a bit overprotective, she really try things her own way and enjoy life as it is. You live once(if you don't believe in reincarnation) and you need to take the fullest of it.
This is it for this week, next week the updates will be normally again, on Tuesday and Thursday. I want to wish everyone a really nice weekend.
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