So, you all better love me because I took time out of my Christmas to write part of this chapter! Anyway, how was your Christmas?

Natsu: Terrible.

Me: Yesterday you were saying it was the best one yet.

Natsu: Well, that was yesterday, today is today.

Me: ...

Well, let's get back to the story before you all kill me for "killing" Natsu.

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Fairy Tail or any of the characters.

Recap:

They were awoken when they heard a high pitched scream. Wendy was pale-faced and screaming.

"What's wrong Wendy?" Gray said while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

Wendy started to cry while she was working on Natsu.

"Natsu's heart stopped."

Chapter 9

"Natsu!" Lucy yelled, looking back at her partner who was eating some of the flames around him. He almost used all of his magic when there was an explosion due to one of Sagittarius' arrows, that was on fire, puncturing a large gasoline tank. He ate the fire from the explosion, knowing that now, it was not his fire. Though, he couldn't do anything for Lucy, and she's about ready to pass out due to magical loss.

"I'm coming Luce!" Natsu ran with all his might to reach the place where Lucy was battling an unnamed monster. It was about forty-feet tall, and it had wings, though it preferred to stay on the ground, as they had figured out through the last few hours of fighting the beast. It's teeth were taller than them both combined. It's tail was about fifty-feet long, with giant spikes arching off of it. At first glance, it looks like a dragon. But as you note its' actions on certain thing, you find that it is nowhere near being a dragon. Though, it puts up a remarkably hard fight.

Natsu realized how far away he had gotten from them in just a matter of minuets. The monster raised its paw to swipe Lucy away, a blow that would defiantly kill her in the state that she's in. He knew even with his fast speed, he would not be able to get there in time to push Lucy out of the way, so he did his second choice. He ran a bit more and jumped into the air, luckily he had jumped off a short cliff, so he was far above them, and yelled:

"Roar of the Fire Dragon!" The attack was aimed at the beast, and it hit the target square-on. The beast tumbled backwards, and fell into the stream that was right behind him.

Natsu landed on the ground. He turned his head from side to side, looking for his blonde hair friend. He didn't see her. Since looking didn't work, he decided to call out for her.

"Lucy? Where are you, ya weirdo? Let's go home!" He yelled, starting to get concerned. He waited a minuet. No answer. He started to panic. Lucy always complained about how she wanted to go home fast after a job. Either she was playing the cruelest joke in the history of man-kind, or something was seriously wrong. He tried not to think of the latter. Because looking for her and calling didn't work, he was going to use his sense of smell. Why didn't I think of this first? Natsu thought. He inhaled deeply, knowing his friend's scent like the back of his hand. What he smelled concerned him. Sure he could smell her, but it was covered up with the sent of burnt skin and burnt hair. He tensed. No, no, no. Natsu thought. He followed the sent until he found her.

The sight made his heart drop. A good portion of her skin was burnt, and the tips of her hair were burnt. She was curled up in a ball, clutching her knees to her chest. She was silently crying. She heard his footsteps and looked up, and offered him a smile. She winced at her sudden movement. Natsu knelt down beside her, knowing two things he wouldn't be able to admit. The first being that he had done this to her, the second being that she wasn't going to live through this one.

"Lucy," Natsu said, not knowing what was going to happen after this. He wouldn't be able to bring her any help in time to save her.

"Natsu," Lucy said, causing Natsu to break out of his thoughts and look at her. She brought up one hand and cupped one of his cheeks with it. "Don't worry. Just keep on smiling, for me."

He couldn't take it. She was just going to accept the fact that she was going to die. He let out a tear, just one, and it rolled down his cheek and chin, and landed on Lucy's face. This was the first time she had ever seen him cry. She closed her eyes, and her heart stopped.

Natsu noticed that she wasn't breathing anymore. "Lucy. Lucy! Don't leave you weirdo! They're expecting both of us at the guild! Who's house am I going to break into now with Happy? Who's going to finish your book that I secretly read sometimes? Just don't leave!" He was shaking now. His best friend, was now dead. Because of him. Because of his magic. Because of his light. Because of his heat. Because of his fire. Because of him.

Just when Lucy "died" his heart stopped. It took Wendy about twenty seconds to get his heart working properly again. Erza and Gray watched the whole thing, wondering why Natsu's heart would stop. Even Wendy was confused on that. It's not everyday that Natsu's heart just stops. Once his heart was fine, Wendy plopped down on the floor, panting.

"Wendy, do you know why his heart stopped?" Erza said, coming to no conclusions on her own. Maybe the little Dragon Slayer would know more about these things than her?

Wendy shook her head. "No, I don't know why his heart stopped. One minuet he was fine, the next, well, his heart stopped!" Wendy's mind was trying to find all she knew about heart failure and stuff that was similar.

"Don't worry about it to much, Wendy. What's important right now is, if that happened to Natsu, then what about Lucy?" Gray said, knowing that this was most-likely going to happen to Lucy. Only worse.

"Lucy!" Wendy ran over to the blonde hair mage, and sure enough, her heart stopped to. Wendy got right to work.

Lucy's dream was a lot like Natsu's, except that there was no explosion to give him any fire. Yet, somehow, he got separated from them, but not by much, just a bit.

Lucy was tiered and she knew that she was going to have to get some rest soon or she was in some serious trouble. She had her normal brown whip out, because she didn't think to ask Virgo for the Fleuve d'étoiles. Now, she was really regretting that. It would at least let her get a little distance from the monster while still having a great effect. With her normal whip, the beast just looks like it was annoying it.

"Natsu!" She yelled, knowing that she was going to need help. She didn't want to seem weak, even though she felt like that most of the time, but she wasn't going to be able to bring this thing down by herself.

"I'm coming Luce!" She heard Natsu yell. She felt relived. If the two of them work together, the will be able to bring this thing down. The moment she let her guard slip just a little, the beast raised it's paw. When Lucy saw it, she froze. A horrible fate coming into her mind. She wanted to call out for Natsu, but her mouth was dry and she couldn't move. So this is how it's going to end, huh? Lucy thought. She might be seeing her mom sooner than what she had thought.

Just as the beast was about to swing its arm, she was push out of the way. She fell into a tree, but she didn't care how much that hurt. She wanted to help out Natsu, because she knew he was the one who push her out of the way. She looked back at the fight, and saw Natsu flash her a weak grin and did his "Fire Dragon's Roar" and hit the thing square on, but no before it swung its arm and sent him flying into the side of a nearby hill. On impact, you could hear a 'crunch'. Lucy panicked. She scrambled up onto her feet and ran to where Natsu was. She didn't care how much her legs protested. She was going to get over there, no matter how much it would cost her.

When she got there, she gasped. Never in her life had she seen that much blood. It was terrifying. If Natsu wasn't going to die of magical loss, there was a good chance he was going to die of blood loss. Then there's the fact that even Lucy had heard the crunch of bones, and she was guessing that it was part of his spine. She knelt down beside him, holding back tears. If I had just been stronger, she thought.

Natsu looked up at her and offered a grin. That's when she lost it. Tears were streaming down her face.

Natsu painfully lifted a hand and wiped the tears from her face. "It's no fun when you cry, Luce." He let his hand fall beside him, not even trying to cover up the pain that he was feeling.

In between sobs, Lucy said "Natsu." A stray tear ran down her face and fell onto his. He sighed, closed his eyes, and died.

Lucy noticed that the rise and fall of his chest, that she would always get mesmerized by, stopped. "Natsu! Don't die on me! We can get you help, just wait! Don't leave me alone!" Soon the tears seemed to flow like streams off her face. She just couldn't believe it. Her best friend, is dead. Because of him saving her. Because of her inability to be useful. Because of her being weak. Because of her.

This time, it was when Natsu "died" that Lucy's heart stopped. It took Wendy a full minuet to get her heart to work again. When she was sure that Lucy and Natsu were fine for now, she fell to the floor. Two of her friends had just almost died under her care. She stayed like that for a few minuets, and then sat up. Erza and Gray were looking at her with worried expressions, and she realized that she had just randomly fell on the floor, with no warning.

"Erza-san, can you go get me some food, please? I would do it myself, but I don't want to leave these two in the condition they're in." Wendy hoped that she wouldn't anger the Titian.

"Of course." Erza walked out the door and down to the bar. She wouldn't tell Wendy no, because she technically just had Natsu and Lucy die. That would take a toll on anyone. "Mira? Can you please make Wendy some food?" She said, more like an order than a request.

Mira just smiled and said "Sure." She walked into the kitchen behind the bar. Mira knew what little Wendy usually ate, so it was no worry trying to find something for her. A few minuets later, Mira walked out of the kitchen with a plate full of food. "Here you go, Erza."

"Thank you. And, do you by any chance know where the master may be?" She wanted to know if the master knew anything about the heart-stopping. If her assumption is right, he does, and he's not going to tell anyone without a little force.

"No, he ran out of the infirmary and then said he had to go do something and left the guild."

"Oh." Erza, then walked back up to Wendy and gave her the plate of food. "Here you go. Eat and rest some then get back to work."

Wendy nodded and started eating her food. Erza turned to Gray, who was just standing there in his boxers, again.

"Gray, your clothes." Erza said. As routine for when this happens, he yelled, then ran around trying to find his clothes. Then a few minuets later, he returns with his clothes on. "Now, we have to figure how much longer this will be going on."

"I don't know, Erza, all of this is pretty complicated." Gray said.

"He's right, Erza-san. Even though I've tried to figure exactly what the spell is doing to them, I just can't find it!" Wendy stated, now knowing there might not be a chance to give them more help than she already is.

Erza sighed. She had hoped Wendy found at least something to give them a clue of what they're going through. Apparently not.

As if on cue, Natsu shot up. He was sweating and looked like he was on the verge of a mental break-down.

"Lucy."

Does this make up for everything? I hope so! Anyway, I want you people to come up with a name for the mysterious beast that was in their dreams!

Me: Now, Natsu. Are you happy?

Natsu: Well, now that I'm not dead, yeah!

Me: Good, because I don't need you burning down anymore of my house!

Natsu: Sorry, Johny. Maybe if people review, you won't be so mad?

Me: Maybe.

Natsu: Please review if you want to save me!