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POV: Natsu
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or the idea of this story. I'm just the writer.
A story for a friend, by a friend.
"What do you want for breakfast," Lucy asks, her voice slightly muffled from behind the door that leads to a sort of refrigerator.
"The usual," I mutter while staring down at the holographic 'newspaper' emitting from my silver wristband.
This invention was created a few decades back which started off as a simple touch screen watch that connected to your cellular device. After a few more years of innovation the 'watch' started becoming thinner and soon enough you didn't even need a cell phone to use one. Now it's just a simple silver bracelet that basically does anything you need like surfing the web, yes that's still around, reading book or any other formal writings like the newspaper. It also doubles as a phone, planner, calendar, GPS, camera, etc…
In a way it's more handy and convenient than having to carry a cell phone around because you don't have to ever take it off. You could shower with the bracelet on and absolutely nothing would happen to it. You could even try to run it over with a car and it wouldn't even scratch from how indestructible it is. Plus, you don't even have to touch it in order to open up any applications. Since it is slightly connected to your nervous system through wireless waves just a thought can have you looking at your newspaper to watching a video in seconds.
When this invention first came out I was one of the first in line to get it. Lucy told me that I was crazy since she thought it was just another human invention done just to get money out of us, a feat that I have yet to get out of.
Lucy emerges from the refrigerator and walks over towards the microwave. She leans against the edge of the counter while she waits for the premade food to finish warming up. Her arms are crossed across her chest and she's staring out of the nearby window to her right.
She hasn't said much to me since we woke up this morning still wrapped in each other's arms. I can tell that she's not angry anymore, but her body language tells that she's not all too comfortable to say anything. Maybe she's a bit wary of setting me off again and this only makes the guilt inside of me grow more uncomfortable, especially since I haven't been able to summon up the courage to apologize to her over blowing up about that small matter.
Before the silence between us can get uncomfortable, the alarm signaling that our food is ready and Lucy is quick to get it to the table. She places a warm bowl of oatmeal in front of me as I shut off my 'newspaper' to dig in to my meal.
I stare at my food for a bit before a thought pops in my head that has me looking up at Lucy and asking her, "You know what would go great with this?" causing her to look up mid-bite at me with a curious expression, "Some real apple pieces."
She's frozen with her spoon in her mouth as she stares at me with that same curious look. It isn't long before a smile forms around her metal spoon as she nods enthusiastically and removes her spoon from her mouth, "That does sound good," she murmurs while stirring her food gently making steam rise off of her food, "Unfortunately any type of organic food has been nearly impossible to grow because of the increase in pollution in the air, water, and ground," she murmurs sadly. As if I didn't know that already.
Yes, this gorgeous, beautiful world that we've lived in since we can remember has been turned into a disastrous wasteland. Familiar bright blue skies and starry night skies lie hidden behind thick clouds of smog. Clouds once so white now float in ominous dark gray smoke that threatens to rain down burning acid and hardly allows any light to filter through. It's gotten so bad that at times we even have to wear protective gas masks to prevent us from getting poisoned from the air.
Water once so clear and pure can barely even sustain any life within its toxic fluid. It's so poisonous to drink from unless you clean it through days of painstaking filtration and adding even more chemicals to 'purify' it.
'Healthy' artificial food has basically taken over the whole human population's meal. It is so hard to get any real fresh produce that if you actually find it you'd be even luckier to know that it isn't polluted in any way. Real food is basically extinct.
Animals are just as scarce as clean water and air since after the last standing forest was demolished there have been less homes to house the poor animals. In fact, if you were to go out on the street right now and ask a child what a wolf or a bear was they'd probably look at you weird and run off while calling you crazy. Poor kids don't even know what a blue sky really looks like or the sensation of clean fresh air filling your lungs instead of dirty air that just makes you cough vigorously.
To me, living in this new era was far worse than living back in the dark ages. At least then we still had wilderness and bright clean skies that were filled with cotton white clouds. Oh what I wouldn't give to have a clean juicy red apple and clean air.
Even so, I do have to say that things have been getting better here on Earth. I've heard, and read, that the pollution on the ground is slowly starting to clear up. Probably in no time soon everyone should be able to start planting crops again to grow real food. We'd finally be getting rid of this flavorless artificial stuff the government calls 'edible food.'
"Maybe one day soon we can plant our own garden again," Lucy perks up in her seat, her eyes ablaze with that familiar determination that says nothing in this world will stop her from getting what she wants. It's a look that I've missed seeing on her.
Swallowing up the rest of my meal not bothering to use my spoon anymore, I stand up to drop off my bowl in the nearby sink. As I pass by Lucy I duck down and kiss her on top of her head after asking, "What about a whole forest?" Her eyes glisten with excitement with any and all pain from yesterday's argument completely gone.
"Promise," She asks while bouncing up and down in her seat like an over energetic child who was just told that they could get any toy they wanted from the toy store.
"Promise," I answer after dumping my bowl in the sink and then wrapping my arms around her from behind and planting another kiss on top of her head while murmuring, "Let's build a perfect garden."
Too bad, unbeknownst to us, that day would never come…
"Natsu!" I look up from my work to find Lucy waddling towards me with her arms filled with strange round things that continuously fall out of her grasp, "Natsu look," she exclaims while dumping the strange new objects down on the ground beside me. She then proceeds to plop down next to me before reaching over and snatching up one of the strange round things and tearing the object open with her hands causing it to release a weird smell.
I watch her intently wondering what she's doing until I watch her lift the thing to her mouths, "NO!" I screech before slapping the weird smelling object from her hand. Didn't this idiot know better than to eat strange things? She should know by now that we don't eat something unless one of the animals nearby eats it.
Lucy, utterly shocked, stares down at her hand where the object had been with confusion before staring at me accusingly. Without warning, she furiously grabs a different round object and takes a bite out of it before I can stop her. She viciously chews the object in her mouth before swallowing and sticking her tongue out at me. Afterwards she stands up and stomps away from me with her hands curled and shaking at her sides while she mutters words to herself.
For the rest if the light she stays out of my sight clearly mad at me for doing what I did. I don't go after her, since I'm far too fearful of being hit with a stick again, and it isn't until the sky blooms colors that she returns just as furiously.
Her arms are filled with stranger objects than before and her eyes are filled with a strange light that I haven't seen before. In a way it makes a strange chill run up my back and has me rooted to my spot like an unmoving tree. When she reaches me, she stops in front of me and holds out a red thing and shakes it at me clearly telling me to take it.
"Fruit," she grunts while shaking the red thing at me again, "Eat," she insists while pushing the object onto my chest forcing me to grab it in case she tries to hit me with it next.
I stare at the red object in my hand not fully trusting if this thing is good or not. To prove a point, Lucy takes the fruit from my hand and bites it before handing it back to me. I unwillingly take the 'fruit' back from her and stare at it a little longer while she continues to chew her piece. It doesn't take much more urging to convince me to take a hesitant bite of my own.
Flavor, unlike anything I had ever tasted before, blasts through my mouth much sweeter than a current of water. It was so foreign, and yet so… delicious that all I wanted was to eat more of the strange 'fruit' that Lucy had found.
Apples would be the name of the first fruit I would ever eat in this fascinatingly strange world.
{Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
It hung heavy on the tree above your head
This chaos, this calamity, this garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me; I'll set you up against the stars}
- Wine Red – The Hush Sound
So when I was writing the rough draft for my story along with my friend, which basically consisted of events we wanted to take place in their past, I got the idea to add the 'forbidden fruit' into the story, but in my own way. Since Lucy and Natsu are technically our Adam and Eve in this story I thought it would be a great idea to mash the two stories together. What do you guys think?
Shout Outs
Great thanks to my Fantastic Favorite...
- Nikter
To my Fabulous Followers...
- Risa98
- Nikter
And to my Fantabulous Reviewer...
- Splendora Lopez = I did the idea from the manga/anime where she's always kicking Happy and Natsu out of her apartment every time they break in. I thought it would be a nice touch and I'm glad you liked it. Yes I have read the recent chapters and I can't stop fangirling over what's happening. I love that part where Gray tells Juvia that after the fight he'll finally give her an answer (I screamed at the top of my lungs and my mom gave me a 'what the f*** look'), but I have a bad feeling about Natsu. After what Lucy said I'm so scared something bad might happen to him, but hopefully Mashima doesn't do something drastic or he'll have to be running for the rest of his life. Anywho, yes I definitely ship Mavis and Zeref. They've been one of my side OTP's since that small scene after Fairy Tail returns to magnolia after the games. I actually had a feeling that there was something between them.
Well that's all the shout outs for today.
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Until next time my lovelies.