I'm back with chapter 20. Please R&R and I shall see you at the bottom of the page.
POV: Lucy, Narrator
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
I reach the edge of the alleyway where she is at, but I'm too late. I watch as a gleaming silver knife digs into Levy's abdomen making her cry out in pain. The knife is then pulled out and with a blink of an eye the shadow disappears leaving Levy sprawled on the cold wet ground with blood blooming like an opening flower painting her kimono and making a puddle on the cold pavement below her as she clutches her stomach in pain. Her breathing has grown heavy and it seems to be slowing down and it looks like it's getting harder for her to keep her eyes open.
Then an endless void of darkness consumes me.
"LEVY!" I cry sitting up and opening my eyes searching all around me for the short blue-haired girl in the alley that we should be in. Strong warm arms wrap around me restraining me as I continue to search blindly.
"LUCY!" a deep voice yells over my screams, "Lucy, calm down," I stop thrashing allowing my eyes to adjust to my surroundings as I blink away the tears that have blurred my eyes, "What's wrong?"
I look into Natsu's deep amber eyes that look down at me with worry as he holds me close to him, "Oh Natsu," I cry burying my face into his chest, "Sh-she's gone," I feel him stiffen slightly as I continue to sob our uncontrollably, "I w-was too late and now sh-she's gone,"
"Who's gone?" Natsu asks while tightening his grip on me.
"Levy," I whisper, "Sh-she died r-right in front of m-me and I c-couldn't do anything about it,"
Natsu rocks me back and forth leaving the room in silence with the only noise coming from some chirping birds nearby, "It was just a dream," he finally murmurs stroking my hair and I push away from him wondering how he could say that when we were sitting in the middle of…
My room.
I stare, confused, around at my room feeling disoriented as my head starts to hurt from my bewilderment, "Th-that's impossible," I whisper turning to look back at Natsu, "I was at Balsam Village with the girls, Levy left us when we were at the restaurant and I followed her so she wouldn't be alone. I found her in an alley with someone and she looked happy, and then…"
"It was just a dream Lucy," Natsu insists removing his hands from my shoulders grabbing my hands, "I saw Levy this morning before I came to see you and she's perfectly fine," I shake my head unable to process this knowledge.
"But we went to Balsam Village…"
"Lucy," Natsu insists sounding a bit desperate, "Listen to me, you haven't left Magnolia all summer. I know because I've come over to your house since we left school a few weeks ago and you haven't left your house all this week," his eyes look pleading and I can't but notice his eyes slightly glancing at the window nervously.
"It felt so real," I finally murmur as he gives me a small smile before hugging me back toward him while smoothing down my untied hair.
"Most nightmares do," he whispers with a defeated sigh, "Well I better go," he then says pulling away from me quickly while jumping on my bed heading over toward the open window, "I'm going out with the guys today so I won't be around for a while," he says and I nod staring at him as he effortlessly jumps out of my two-story window landing safely on the soft grass below.
I lean over the window sill watching him land gracefully and then dust himself off before looking back up at me with a smile. He waves and then dashes down the garden toward the dorms next door disappearing around a corner.
"I don't believe you," I whisper to Natsu's already retreated form, and I didn't believe him. For once since I met the pink haired teen I didn't trust a single thing he said to me just a few minutes ago.
On any other occasion I could have thought it to be a simple horrible nightmare, but there were a few things that said so otherwise. First, Natsu wasn't as cool and composed as he usually is since he kept on trying to plead for me to agree that what I had was a nightmare. Second, my memory doesn't recall ever spending this past week with Natsu, if not, he's been gone this entire week since Levy got back saying that he was going to give me time to catch up with Levy and see what what going on between her and Gajeel. Lastly, what I had was indeed a nightmare, but not one caused by my mind if not by reality. I watched Levy die, and then someone knocked me out.
The bump on the back of my head tells no lies.
"She knows," Freed murmurs with his arms crossed tightly across his chest as he watches Lucy close the window to her room, "She knows he's lying to her,"
"How can you tell?" Bixlow asks from a tree branch not too far away watching as Freed points at the blonde. She has a look of utter confusion that's mixed with understanding as she gingerly touches her head, "Oh, I see. So Natsu hit her too hard in the head last night, huh?"
"That moron, look what he's caused along with that other buffoon Gajeel," Evergreen huffs, "To think that those two are experts at doing this and they can't even keep one girl from suspecting too much,"
Both males nod, "You all know what must be done now," Freed sighs shaking his head sadly and the other two stare at him with the same sorrowful expression, "Either he finds a way to keep her from going any further than this, or we'll have to really intervene,"
"Understood," and with that they continue to watch over the young Heartfelia.
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