Chapter 10: Concerns of the Heartbroken
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Lucy: Oi are you the author here?
Uh-oh. How do they keep showing up here? Who's in charge of security? … Oh yeah its Gajeel, makes sense now.
Lucy: WHERE AM I IN THIS STORY? I MEAN THAT OC, OLIVE, HAS MORE SCREEN TIME THAN ME! WHAT THE HELL?!
Umm please calm down, unlike Natsu I won't hit you so please calm down.
Natsu: Lucy, quick get him off of me!
SHADDUP! (whacks him unconscious again)
Lucy: Lucy Kick.
AIEEEE! HELP!
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Lucy: Well I'm in charge now, so enjoy chapter 10! (Underneath her I'm writhing in pain.)
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The Next Day (Lucy POV)
"Open gate of the Goat, of the Twins, and of the Bull! Capricorn, Gemini, and Taurus!" I yell and the trio appear at the ready. I ready my whip and the four of us charge at Erza, our sparring partner for the day, as everyone watches; trying to forget the last few weeks. Even if it was only temporary. Capricorn rushes directly at her and draws her attention and her sword as he twists out of the way and kicks out at her head. She blocks with her forearm but is pushed back a few feet, but immediately recovers and stops Taurus's axe with her swords as she requips into her Heaven's Wheel Armor. She's getting serious, which is depressing since I'm only going at a third of my full power. "Oooooh! Heaven's Wheel Armor! Just for me? You shouldn't have."
I attack with my whip, striking out at he knee and grabbing on and pulling it out from under her causing her to become parallel with the ground as Gemini, transformed into Gajeel right now, comes in with blinding speed and throws a bone-crushing punch to her gut sending her crashing to the floor. A collective gasp escapes from the crowd as I'm able to land a down on her and most likely knocked her out. Or I would have had she not requipped into her Adamantine armor at the last minute, lessening the blow and allowing her to be ok. She stood up and took her stance, requipping back into her Heaven's Wheel Armor as she comes at me. She swipes at me with a sword and brings out another seven. I dodge her swipe and begin dodging the swords one by one, they move so slowly now that its not that hard to dodge them. As I dodged the last one by diving out of the way I put my hand up and cast a new spell, "Celestial Beam!" As pure magic power shoots out from my hand and hits her in the gut, knocking her back right to where Capricorn is waiting where he punches her up in the air towards Gemini who's now Pantherlily in battle form and he sends her flying down towards Taurus who catches her and throws her into the ground. Luckily for her she requipped into her Adamantine armor when I sent her back towards Capricorn, so she's not THAT badly hurt but is definitely not gonna get up any time soon.
As if understanding this immediately, Master calls the match and says, "Winner: Lucy!" I look at my watch and see that it took ten minutes to finish. That took way too long, but then again I was only using a third of my power and only used three spirits.
I sigh in fake satisfaction and walk over to Erza who's now sitting up in regular clothes again. "Hey are you alright Erza? I hope I wasn't too rough. Just wanted to see how far I've come with my training." I say holding my hand out and offering her my help.
She takes my hand and stands slowly and grimaces in pain as she does so. "I'll be ok. But wow Lucy I was taking you at about half strength and you were going at even less and still crushed me. I'm impressed!" she says giving me mock glory, lying through her teeth, she was going at least at eighty percent. I smiled at her and nodded my head in appreciation that was only skin deep, something I had been doing a lot of nowadays as I felt more and more ostracized by these guild members that I call nakama. Damn that pink haired bastard for giving me that reputation of being weak, I would give him a piece of mind if he were alive.
'I may have loved…ok still do even though he's 'dead' which is something that I don't truly believe. But I have a score to settle with him and unless I see a body I ain't buying that he's dead. I now have the stigma of being weak and needing his stupid ass to save me every time I fought, GODDAMN HIM!'
I am broken out of my reverie by Levy who runs up to me with Gajeel behind her, "Great job Lu-chan! That was amazing! Where did Erza go though? I thought she was still here…" I look around and realize she had skulked away with Jellal giving her a side-hug. Ugh, why does the guy I love have to be gone? And be the guy who assaulted me. UGH! Heart you suck so much right now.
I look at Levy and say, "Thanks Levy-chan, I'm a little tired right now, so I'm going home to take a nap ok?" I look at her and see her look a little concerned and reassure her, "Don't worry its just a stressful week and I wanna get some extra rest, Mira is due to be able to leave and resume the wedding planning schedule soon so I'm gonna rest up before that. Bye Levy-chan!" I say and turn to leave.
"Ok Lu-chan, take care of yourself" she says, and I hear the concern in her voice, not wanting to deal with this I continue on my way and walk down the streets of Magnolia.
As I near my apartment I see the fishermen looking at me and murmur to themselves like they do now, no longer thinking I need a reminder of the past. I sigh and continue to walk up to my apartment, the landlady not bothering to stop me as she senses the mood I'm in. She has turned into a second mother for me and has really grown to care for me as a daughter now. I summon Plue and walk into the apartment and call out, "Happy, are you here?" …no response, good I can rest in peace. I take off my shoes and walk to the kitchen and open the fridge, still slightly not used to the fact that Natsu hasn't eaten everything in sight yet. At the mental mention of his name my mood dampens even further as I prepare a salad with chicken for lunch. I miss him I truly do. I wish I could see him and hold him and wake up next to him like I did daily all those years ago. I fight back the tears, not wanting an even soggier salad as I put a good amount of vinaigrette on it and take the salad with me into the main room so I could watch the TV lacrima and enjoy a little afternoon to myself before hell resumes.
Not paying attention to where I was going, I bumped into the table and knock over a photograph on it, which shatters the glass. Cursing to myself I grab the broom and clean up the glass, as I put the glass in the trash I walk over and pick up the picture and see that it was a picture of Natsu and I. It was from the first mission we ever did and it was my undoing, I feel the strong surge of emotions coming from my heart and I fall to my knees and begin to cry my eyes out, sobbing loudly and shaking from the painful memories his name causes me to have, the nightmares he causes me to endure, the place in my heart he refuses to leave. I feel a hand on my shoulder as I see Loke trying to comfort me, he pulls me into a hug and I bury my face into his chest, crying even harder as I then sense the others coming as well, Capricorn, Scorpio, Virgo, Aries, Gemini, Taurus, Sagittarius, Cancer, Crux, Horologium, Lyra, Pyxis, and… even a shrunken down version of the Spirit King. I try to compose myself but fail and continue to cry as they all come around me and bring me into a big group hug, trying to send their feelings of sadness and of comfort into me. I manage a broken thank you, but continue to sob as I feel Loke carry and lay me down into my bed and tuck me in, giving a small kiss on my forehead and says, "Don't worry princess, you'll find him again, then we'll show him what when you hurt a celestial spirit's master. Now sleep and rest up, you have a busy day ahead of you tomorrow." He says as I feel the crash after a very long cry and fall into unconsciousness, sleep being a release from the pain.
(POV Change to Spirit King)
"Come, we must leave my old friend in peace so she may rest. Then we will discuss this issue of hers in great detail." I say as the rest nod and close their gates, with me following closely behind.
"Now Leo, what can we do about this?"
"I honestly don't know, Natsu is dead, so Jura Neekis says but she refuses to believe it. I honestly have no clue what to do…" I say as tears form in my eyes, "And seeing her in all this pain, it truly breaks my heart and I have no clue how to fix all this."
"… I have an idea." I tell him, "And it would be at no cost at all, it's something I've been meaning to do. Aquarius, please come here, quickly now." I ask as she quickly steps forward. "I have learned that the Celestial Blacksmith is finally back from his journey of 1,000 years, I want you to go and take your key to him and have him repair it. Tell him I have commanded this. And give him this note as well." I said passing her the note.
"…" She looks at me, eyes filled with tears of joy and happiness. She hugs my leg and rushes off to his workshop where he has just arrived.
"Wow spirit king, this awfully generous of you," says Capricorn, "Thank you for your support of meh master." He says bowing.
I look at him and smile, and tell him, "She won't just be your master soon enough."
Several Hours later (POV Change back to Lucy)
I awaken eyes puffy and my vision blurry, as my vision clears up I see someone I had not seen in seven years standing before me. "AQUARIUS!" I yell and hug her, and to my surprise she hugs me back, I pull back to make sure I'm not dreaming and ask, "How are you here right now?"
She looks at me and smirks, "Because of this." She says and holds out her hand, in it is her key completely repaired and good as new. Tears form in my eyes and I almost start crying again, but she cuts me off saying, "No more crying! You shed enough water to use it as a medium for me, geez calm down. There's one more surprise for you." She says, putting her other hand out and in it is a new key I have never seen before. "It's the key of the Spirit King and like your key of the paladin, it can only be used by you and your descendants. The key is bound to your bloodline." She says as I stare in awe at this key, its platinum like Paladin's and has a little crown on it, signifying that it is indeed his key.
"Thank you, Spirit King, for everything" I said as I put the keys onto my chain and stand up, with a new look on the day, today was now a top ten day for me. Suck it crappy feelings of love.
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A/N: Lucy: sniffle…that was so sad!
See why I didn't want to write about you, your story is very depressing here and almost made me cry while writing it. So now that you have been given an entire chapter to yourself, can you please go back inside my brain and stay there. And take Natsu with you! Whew, ok! I'm back in control here! So what did you think? Pretty tissue worthy huh? It was tough writing this one and I teared up myself as I always do when I hear a really sad story like Lucy's is right now. KEEP REVIEWING! I'M REALLY FEELING THE LOVE GUYS! READ AND REVIEW! ADIOS!