Chapter 15:

Memories of Fear

Lucy Pov.:

*TIME SKIP 36 minutes later*

Loke and I were fighting back, I was using my wipe and Loke used his regulus magic. "Give up and let me take your memories," Munin said.

"No," I yelled.

"Memory magic: Fear," Munin said then the memory of Acnologia flooded back to me and fear took over me and my legs gave out on me. I was shaking as I remember his roar and my gave head to try to stop it. After that the memory of the battle with Flare came and I was shaking even more. The next memory was the water battle with Minerva and felt myself gasping for air as I shook even more. The memory following that was me as a little girl being dragged away from my after she passed yelling in fear that she would never return to me which never did. And finally the memory of everything that during the dragon attacking the capital of Fiore and now the fear of those memories was eating at me.

"He'll never remember," Munin said and that sent me over the edge and I was shaking and my heart was racing at inhuman like speed.

"LUCY," Loke yelled as he turn around wrapped his arms around me and I coughed up blood.

"I see, Acnlogia, Flare, Minerva, and dragon attacks," Munin said while I coughed up more blood, "You've face fear so many times but you fear that he will forget about you just like your father did and you also fear death because of you lost your mother at an early ageand you are afraid that you do the same to your family..."

"Lucy," Loke whispered and he hugged me tighter, "You need to relax or you'll have a seizure or something."

"I don't know… if… if I can," I replied as my shaking was still uncontrollable and then coughed up more blood.

Natsu Pov.:

I had felt a stinging sensation on my right side of my neck for the past 40-50 minutes but it seemed to increase in past five minutes. Emiko noise twitched as she sniffled the air. "Natsu, I smell blood," Emiko told me. I sniffled the air and smelt the blood then my eyes widened as realized and I thought, 'That's Lucy's blood. Lucy is in trouble.'

(Author's note: In my version of dragon mating, the dragon slayer can tell when there mate is in pain by getting stinging sensation in place that their mate's mark is. I'm sure you figure out the rest.)

"We need to hurry," I replied, "It smells like Lucy's blood." Emiko nodded and we sort of ran in the direction the blood sent was coming from.

*TIME SKIP 8 minutes later*

I reached the source of the blood and heart screamed, I saw Loke hugging Lucy and Lucy was shaking violently as she coughed up more blood and she paled. "Look, who it is, the dragon-lover boy," a male voice said then I saw a guy who look somewhat familiar.

"Natsu, Lucy needs you," Loke said as he looked me with nervousness and worry, "Please take her. I need to get back to the spirit world."

I set Emiko down and I ran over to Lucy and took her from Loke. "What happen," I asked and I stared at Loke.

"I'm not really sure. That memory wizard placed a spell on Lucy then this started happening to her. I'm sorry Natsu, I failed to protect her again," Loke replied as he held back his own tears and he started to faded a little, "I'm so sorry Natsu, I have to go." Then Loke disappeared and Lucy coughed up even more blood.

"I'll tell you what happen," the familiar guy said, "I brought out memories of her worst fears and her body is not reacting to it very well. She is having a seizure as we speak."

"Na… Natsu," Lucy spoke as tears spilled out of her eyes at an unbelievable speed, "Is that you?"

"Ya, I'm here Lucy," I said and I held her close.

"No, you're not you yet," she said and she coughed up more blood.

"Don't say that Lucy, I'll always be me no matter what," I told her and I held her tighter.

"You're right but I may not be here when remember everything about me," Lucy replied and her tears slowed a little.

"Lucy, you'll be fine," I said as the stinging sensation in my neck increased.

"Don't know if your right," Lucy said then she coughed up more blood, "I'm just really scared right now."

"I know," I responded.

"Natsu, do you remember the Sakura tree you up rooted for me," Lucy asked.

"Actually, I do," I replied with a smile.

"Thats good," Lucy said just before she coughed more blood.

"Lucy, don't die on me, please," I said as I felt tears bubbled up in my eyes as the stinging sensation in neck increased.

"Natsu, you don't remember this but you told me you loved me," Lucy spoke and my eyes widened, "And you marked me as your mate. You must be feeling a lot of pain, I'm sorry."

"For you, its worth the pain," I said as I stared at her, "I think I've known this whole time that I love you."

"How," Lucy asked as she still shook.

"My heart kept doing weird things when some stuff happened around you," I replied, "Even now, its screaming at me because you're in pain and I don't know what to do to stop it."

"Oh, Natsu, I," Lucy said but before she could say anything more, I crashed our lips together and something big started to happen.

Dear Readers,

You all are probably mad at me for ending the chapter here, I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself. Please tell me what think of the chapter in review and yes you could even make a list of how mean I am for ending this chapter with a cliffhanger. Thanks for reading and review, til next time.

From,

Lavawings