The Lost Bride

~School again?~

Mizuki's POV
"W-Where am I? The bedding feels familiar and the clock is ticking... Wait... CLOCK!?" I sprung up off the bed and looked around at my surroundings. I was back in my school dorms and noticed that my finals where already graded and on my desk.

"Caius let me come to take my finals and then he brought me home. I remember that" I mumbled to myself.

"MIZUKI! HURRY UP!" I heard someone yell.

"Coming" I replied as I grabbed my backpack and ran out the door, but I still felt sick to my stomach.

I knew that I had to find a way to take a pregnancy test in secret or else rumors would spread like wildfire. When I walked to school I saw a bunch of my teammates waiting for me with my uniform.

"Basketball started again. You were voted team captain again" Kai said

"Th-That's amazing" I said, but to be honest I really didn't want to be captain or do basketball.

I knew they were beginning to stare so I decided to see how fast they really where. "Don't we have a test today? Also was it Marcus or Michelle yelling near my door?" I asked. I then watched as they all ran.

I happened to notice that my teammate, Kyle hasn't shown up, but that's when the truth hit me. Kyle and a few other had died in an accident the day after Basketball season was over. Their headstone was on the school grounds as a reminder to be careful after games. No one even dared to talk to me about it, but all I knew was that we have new teammates and they aren't as nice.

In class all I could do was watch the clock and time myself before I felt like vomiting, however the teacher noticed and now I have to stay after class. This normally never happens, I used to be an amazing student and I still am, but I guess not knowing if you are really pregnant or just getting sick can really mess you up.

"Koichi, you use to be an amazing student before and after your mother died. Why are you so distracted now?" Mr. Harold asked.

I couldn't make out an answer the last thing I knew everything was a blur and I fell to the ground. I felt like I had just died and was slowly returning back to my body.

"W-What happened?" I asked.

"You fainted and you have a fever" My nurse replied.

"Caius, please come find me soon" I thought to myself.

Caius's POV
I had a blast talking with Natsu and his team members, but I still missed Koichi and everything about him. He's taught me many new things like basketball, school and worst part losing a loved one. I held tightly to the basketball he had brought with him when he first came to Eustil and I didn't want to let it go.

"Was that his?" Gray asked.

"Yes it was" I replied

"My father used to know the owner of that school. The owner is still alive, but.."

"He's not?" I asked cutting off Lucy.

"That's right. My father died a while back when the others and I got stuck On Tenrou Island. We got stuck there for seven years" Lucy replied looking down.

I gave her a hug and told her that Koichi would have done it, but he wasn't here. I saw from the slits of my eyes that Natsu was looking at the Karina fruit and then I knew he wanted to eat it.

"Don't do it. You'll die Natsu" I said giving him a strong warning

"Caius I ate something called 'Ethernano' and that's poison to us and I'm still alive" Natsu replied and grabbed one.

"Natsu for the love of Mavis, will you listen, If Caius says it's poisonous then don't eat it" Erza said smaking the Karina fruit out of his hands.

I smiled then let out a sigh of relief before I heard "No fair, How come Gray got to eat the Karina fruit".

I sprung to my feet and said "He can die from that! We have to get the Raisa fruit. But I will go alone, Natsu stay here and take care of him. That Karina fruit does strange things to your loved one"

I then packed up a bag and left my home to go to the place of the beastman in search of the Raisa fruit once again and this time I was going prepared.