Dragon Slayer Mating Season: A Fairy Tail Story

Chapter 8: The Author Herself

Lucy POV

It was finally over... I was back with my friends at the guild...

Not only did they save me from a disturbing future, according to Carla, but they also brought me back my usual clothes from my house... as well as my celestial keys. What is more, they also put me up to date with Levy, Gajeel and Laxus's current status... and just as I thought... they were all still missing along with their respective guard teams... Erza, Gray, Juvia, Mira, Lisanna... No one had heard from them since they left almost 2 days ago! And that certainly wasn't good...

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A-anyway...

Back at our guild, my friends confidently claimed to have planned the... ultimate strategy... against mating season. Strategy which basically consisted in having me inside the guild at all hours, and until the week was over... Yup! Quite a simple approach to be called the ultimate strategy if you ask me.

At any rate, we also spent the rest of the day just chilling around and celebrating the fact that I was safe and sound. Of course, we couldn't let our guard down due to mating season not being over yet... But given that even our master was now one of the many people protecting me personally, we genuinely believed that not even Natsu would dare to come.

Speaking of Natsu... Something still didn't seem right to me, because during those few and short-lived moments before escaping, I saw him... crying...

Seeing Natsu like that really disturbed me... So much that I couldn't relax myself unless I talked about it with someone, which of course I ended up doing. Wendy, Happy, Cana, Warren, Laki, Kinana... I even spoke with master Makarov. But they all replied to me in the same manner... That it may have just been a coincidence, that Natsu was crying from anger and not from sadness, or even that I just mistakenly saw something that didn't happen...

However... I knew that wasn't true...

I KNEW WHAT I SAW... or to be more specific... WHAT I FELT...

That's right... Ever since the moment I saw Natsu crying some hours ago, I've had this weird and disturbing feeling plastered in my mind! I didn't know what such feeling was, or where it even came from... But it kept telling me that Natsu was the actual victim in all of this... That he was in fact being continuously hurt due to some unknown reason that no one understood!!!

Furthermore, that feeling just kept getting stronger and stronger every second... Especially when, in the concerned mind that I had at that moment, I ended up asking Carla something I didn't think I'd ever ask. "Hey, Carla... W-would you mind describing your vision to me?" I suddenly told the tiny white cat, at the same time that she obviously startled at my question.

"But... Lucy..." Carla replied only to then be interrupted by me.

"Please... I need to be sure of something"

I knew I was probably going to regret listening to what Carla's vision was all about, but I really needed to do it! Not because I was interested in the sadistic plays Natsu put me through, but because I was interested in Natsu himself... His facial expressions... his actions... even his voice tone... I needed to know if something strange happened to him during those hypothetical hours he spent torturing me.

"Very well, here goes nothing" Carla finally agreed after insisting her a lot.

And so, she told me everything... All about what she witnessed in her vision... a pretty messed up and sick vision if you ask me, because according to Carla... Natsu tortured me in many different and... brutal... ways...

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He beat me up using my very own whip, leaving marks on my body with every hit...