…How long as it been since I last updated this story? Three months ago?
I apologize for the lack of updates to this one, as I will admit the recent chapters, like how some of the recent reviews pointed out, is just nothing but drama at the moment. I thought I would get through this part of the story quickly and get back to the more humorous or action pack stuff, but apparently I got stuck because I wanted to show them trying to get pass their recent failure of saving people and from seeing the corrupted Grandeeney.
However, I will try to no longer get stuck or procrastinate and get passed this drama part so we can get back into the more light hearten stuff and the action… even though I still need to get the remaining women to officially get together with Natsu still, but I think that will be easy for me.
Anyway, enjoy, or not, I don't care you all have your opinions.
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Chapter Sixty Seven: Angelica and Marcel
"Uh… how far are we heading from the camp?" Angelica asked the light blue haired woman who will one day give birth to her, who stopped walking as she looked around them.
"This should be a good spot for us to stop at. I don't want us going to far out from where the others are at so we don't get lost." Yukino replied back to short silver haired female.
The mother and future daughter duo weren't in any spectacular place or anything, they were still in the forest where they were all camping out, with the trees still surrounding them blocking out the night sky. By Yukino's request, she wanted to talk to her daughter she will one day have with Natsu in private, and so the Celestial Mage from Sabertooth and her future child went out into the woods to do just that.
"Don't worry mother," Angelica tried to assure her while puffing out her chest trying act all happy despite their recent failure earlier in the day, "With my great sense of smell, no matter how far we go out I can lead us back to the camp." She stated with a smile, though Yukino could tell it was a fake.
"Angelica…," Her quiet tone got the silver haired woman to widen her eyes in a bit of surprise from seeing the sudden serious yet concern look and tone the other female from Sabertooth had, "Listen… I know I may not be the best at when it comes to trying to assure or cheer someone up, but-."
She was cut off when Angelica lifted her hand up in a stop motion, as Angelica started to speak with a faltering smile on her face.
"Mom, look, I know you're worried, but I'm fine. We're all fine. Sure we may be down in the dumps right now, but this isn't the first time we have failed to save people, this isn't the first time we were unable to prevent something horrible from happening. It hurts yes it does, but we will get over it like we always do." Angelica tried to assure Yukino without worrying her, yet that seemed to have done little as the light blue haired woman across from her seemed even more concern and worried from what she just heard her and Natsu's future daughter just told her.
"Angelica, you're not fine, and that's not something you should be afraid to admit. There's no weakness in showing sorrow." Yukino tried to explain to her.
"Mom, I can assure you, I'm fine, and we will all be fine." Angelica once more tried to not make her younger mother worried, which didn't seem to work.
Yukino knew that what happened earlier was bothering and getting to Angelica, but the silver haired woman refused to show it, trying to keep it all in. Just like Natsu, a trait that their daughter got apparently from him, as he would try to lift everyone else's spirits up yet refuse to be a burden to everyone else.
"Angelica… the demon who lead the attack…," Yukino knew that this wasn't something Angelica would want to hear, but the Sabertooth Celestial Mage had to know why her daughter reacted to the Eredar's words earlier in that way, "He mentioned someone named Lucas-."
"Stop," Angelica cut her off once more, this time loosing her smile as both a sorrowful yet angry look appeared on her face, surprising Yukino from the other female's sudden seriousness, "Please… I… I don't want to be reminded of that… not again…" Angelica lost her angered expression as she turned away with a frown with a tear threatening to spill from one of her eyes.
Yukino, refusing to let her future daughter suffer through whatever was plaguing her, merely walked up to the silver haired future woman before pulling her into a hug, surprising Angelica as Yukino started to speak in a quiet yet comforting tone.
"Angelica, please tell me… I need to know what happened, I can't stand seeing you like this." Yukino whispered in a small yet comforting tone like a mother to her small child.
Despite her best attempts to resist this, seeing her mother speaking to her and trying to comfort her like this was all it took before more tears started to stream down her face, before Angelica then proceeded to hug back as she was now crying out loud, not caring who else may hear her as Yukino continued to try to comfort the now crying short silver haired woman.
"It's my fault!" Angleica cried out as the tears continued to pour from her eyes, "If I didn't leave the town that day, or if I had only brought him with me, he would still be alive! He wouldn't be dead!" She stuttered out while her eyes continued to work like a waterworks as she cried out.
Seeing her react this way got Yukino to shed a few tears herself, it was clear to her that whoever this Lucas guy was, he was someone who was really close to Angelica, someone who had most likely fell to the Legion back in the future.
"Shh… it's okay… it wasn't your fault, it wasn't your fault…" Yukino whispered in a motherly tone to her, trying to calm Angelica down.
No other words were spoken, as Yukino merely continued to let Angelica cry on her shoulder, a silent stance to let her know that she didn't mourn alone, to take as much time to let it all out as she needed.
'WITH KAMIKA AND MARCEL'
Kamika was lying on the ground, the grass slowly breezing due to the cool air despite the trees that surrounded her, as the black haired woman looked up at the night sky through a clearing of the leaves of the trees above her. A troubled look was on her face as she didn't move her eyes from the sky above her, lost in her own thoughts.
"There you are mother," Marcel's voice got her attention, as the Paper Blizzard Magic user turned her head to see her and Natsu's future son arriving before the black haired male stopped walking as he merely saw his mother lying on the ground, "For a moment I thought I lost track of you."
"Marcel," Kamika started to reply back, as her eyes connected to her future son's own brown colored ones, "Are you feeling alright?" She asked him, knowing that no doubt he and his siblings were all feeling down and probably angry at themselves for what happened earlier, then again everyone was probably feeling this, herself included.
"I should be the one asking you that mom." The Lighting-Fire Dragon Slayer replied as he walked by a nearby boulder before sitting on it, his eyes not leaving his mother.
Kamika didn't reply immediately as she merely looked back up at the nigh sky, as Marcel looked up to see the night and dark sky as well.
"You know mother," Marcel started to say, getting her attention once more as she looked back at her and Natsu's future son, "It's alright to feel angry you know from what happened earlier."
"…I have killed people as my job as an executioner, I have took down many criminals and evil-doers throughout my time serving my country. Yet all of these recent events may be the first time I actually witnessed first hand how monsters like that actually commit their monstrosities." Kamika told Marcel. Sure one can't really compare the Burning Legion to simple murderers or rapists or the like, but it doesn't change that it was one thing to hear about something horrible, it was another to actually witness it first hand and failing to stop it.
"I've grown used to it," Marcel started to say, as he looked back up at the night sky with a small frown on his face, "Ever since the Legion's first Invasion on our world when I was a little child, throughout my life I have seen horrors that even the most bravest of men and women would falter and fail to withstand against. From seeing entire nations and cities being wiped cleaned of life, from seeing people abandoning hope and joining the demons either for power or for the mere sake of survival, to people who may not join the Legion, but threw away their morals to commit heinous crimes like murder or rape, all because they believed that the end is going to come eventually by the demons." After all, why would someone try to follow laws and strive to do good if they believed that the world will end by the demons? If the end comes, might as well go out doing whatever they want regardless of how horrible the action may be.
Kamika couldn't help but wonder something as she looked at her and Natsu's future son, as the female Garou Knight spoke up once more.
"Did… did you or anyone else ever had to do something you wish you hadn't done? If the future end up being so bad, did you ever had to take an action you wish you didn't have done?" Kamika asked him, if such horrible things took place in the future, then did he, or did her future self or any of the others had to do acts that forced them to make hard decisions?
"Yes," Marcel answered without even wasting a second, as he stared directly at his mother as he went on to explain, "My brothers, my sisters, myself, you, father, our other mothers, and our aunts and uncles and others we know have made many hard choices for the survival of the rest of the world. Sometimes those choices got innocent people killed, so that many, many more could survive. In our eyes, it's better to sacrifice the minority if it means saving the majority. Men, women, children, many have died by either the demons, regional warlords that begun to pop up after the first Invasion, ordinary criminals, or even by our hands in order to save many more people."
That got Kamika to be surprised. She knew she shouldn't be, but it was hard for the woman to even think about killing innocent people for the sake of many more lives. The future was that bad that they had to make those decisions, all because of the demons of the Legion arriving on their world?
"…How… how do you manage to handle it?" Kamika questioned him, as she as of right now couldn't even fathom to imagine making a decision like that. Marcel looked back at her with his frown becoming a smile, albeit a small one.
"Because we all know that no matter what we do, we do it for the sake of the world and for those who continued to live on. We continue to strive and fight so we can have peace. We fight for those who have fallen who died in order to save our world. Will we always save everyone, no. Will we always win a battle, no. Will we have times when we are down, and wonder why do we even bother to keep on going, yes. But no matter what, we will continue to strive for a better and peaceful world, free of the demons of the Legion and of the other monsters that hurt those we care about. If we are to die, we would all rather die fighting for what we believed in and standing in defiance against the horrors that seek to bring an end to all we care about. That is what it means to keep on going." Marcel explained to his mother, who was surprised from all of his words he told her.
'If we die, father, we would rather have it on our feet, standing in defiance against the demons of the Legion! If we are to die then let us die with the thoughts that we would fall saving as many lives as we could! If we die, then let us die with you!' The voice of Daron rang through Marcel's mind, remembering during the Second Legion Invasion of their world when they were only around twelve to thirteen years told, convincing their father and mothers to allow them to take part in the war to help protect and save their world from the demonic war machine.
Kamika couldn't stop herself from smiling at her future son from his words. He was right, no matter what they all go through, they can never give up or back down, for no matter how many victories or losses they may have or gain, as long as they keep on going, then that was enough to help defend everything they care about.
Alright, hopefully the next chapter will wrap this drama stuff up then we can go check on other characters who are not around everyone else to see how they are doing. Yes I may be slow at getting through this, but sometimes patience is required after all.
Anyway, what did you all think? Good? Bad? Let me know.
See you all next time, whenever that will be.