My mute Mate

The Battle

Natsu's P.O.V

I watched as the male in front of me slowly gathered himself up off the floor. His hood that was on his head falling off. He had bright red hair, or at least it looked like that to me anyway. Zatori looked about the same age as us. I could see behind him that there was an indention in the wall from where I had punched him so hard. It honestly made me smirk knowing that I was going to crush him and he wouldn't know what hit him. "Where is she? Give her back to me now and maybe I won't incinerate you." I growled out to him.

He was now standing tall in front of me. His lips quirked up into a smile. "You? The puny fire mage is going to try to incinerate me, the great Zatori? Please, you make me laugh." He chuckled out. This only caused my blood to boil more. Now this fool was insulting me.

"That's it. I'll just pummel the answer out of you!" I screamed at him as I lunged at him again. Both my fists lit with burning hot flames. I swung my arm as quick as I could, but he ducked down dodging my first punch. Turning my body midair I used the wall to propel off of. My head right above him as I cried out, "FIRE DRAGON ROAR!" There was no way this punk could dodge this attack.

I landed close to where I was originally standing before I had lunged at him. The fire from my attack slowly dissipating. To my amazement Zatori was still standing there. A smile plastered onto his face. Not a single singe mark on him except on his face from where I had punched him across the face. "Are you amazed little fire mage? You should be. None of your little fire attacks are going to work on me!" He called out to me.

I gritted my teeth. This wasn't the first time that I had faced someone that had used my fire to their advantage at first. My mind vaguely remembering that weird samurai looking guy when we had first rescued Luce from phantom lord. I had overcome him using my flames and I would find a way to defeat this son of a bitch too. Nothing was going to stop me from getting to my mate.

Out of nowhere I felt a squeezing pain in my arm so tight that it felt like my arm was going to fall off. I growled in annoyance. I knew exactly what was going on, knowing that someone was grabbing her arm so tight that it caused pain, but I pushed the pain aside. I couldn't let this stop me from getting to her and saving her from whoever was causing her pain. Zatori looked at me in a moment of confusion. This was just one of the many signs that I knew for sure that this bastard wasn't truly Luce's mate. "What's wrong little dragon? Frustrated that you're little flames didn't cause any damage?"

I scoffed. Can we just hurry this up already! Luce needs us! My inner dragon screamed at me. He had a point. I didn't want to take too long with this fight because in the back of my mind I could still feel that Luce was in pain. I rushed at Zatori again, my quick thinking leading me to believe that distance attacks weren't going to work. That I was going to need to make physical contact with him to be able to cause damage.

I lunged at Zatori again. I was tired of messing around. He tried to dodge my attack, but wasn't able to move away quickly enough. I landed directly on top of him. My body sitting on his torso. He was effectively pinned underneath my body. I started throwing flamed fist after flamed fist at his face. Each one causing damage. His face started to bleed as I continued to hit him repeatedly. "You. Will. Never. Take. My. Luce. From. Me. Again!" I screamed at him. Between each word I punched him again and again.

When I finally stopped punching him he was laying unconscious beneath me. Completely out cold. I slowly climbed off of him with a huff and looked behind me. Erza, Gray, and Wendy had taken care of all of his minions. Wendy was looking at me with concern like she had never seen me this upset.

"Natsu-San are you ok?" Her small quiet voice asked me. I could tell she was concerned. I didn't want to make the one I looked at as my little sister worry about me.

"I'm fine Wendy. He just pissed me off. Now lets go save Luce." I smiled at her. Now that my adrenaline was starting to slow down I could feel Luce's pain starting to creep into my body. My head began to throb, my arm screaming at me almost feeling like they were going to fall off, sharp pains on my legs like cut marks. My blood started to boil once again. The last feeling sensation of the cut marks made me pissed.

I turned away from them and began to run up the stairs, pushing through the pain. I'm almost there Luce. Just wait five more minutes for me.

Lucy's P.O.V

The man who stood before me and claimed he was Zatori's father had been torturing me ever since the sound from downstairs. We still sat outside in the garden and I was still sitting in this chair strapped down. Zatori's father dropped the knife that he had used to cut my legs, but the evil grin he wore on his face. He walked forward and grabbed my chin making me look up at him. "You will speak to my son once he gets here and you will mate with him and bare an heir for our empire. Do you understand me?"

I was panting in pain. There was no way that I was going to do what he said. So I gathered up everything I had in me and spit into his face. He jerked away from me in disgust and quickly raised his hand and slapped me hard across the face. I cried out in pain. It stung so bad that my eyes started to prick with tears.

The door behind us burst open. I couldn't tell who was standing there since I was facing away from the door, but in my heart I knew it was him. I knew he would always come to save me. I watched as two swords flew and pinned the man to the wall. Erza was here. I sighed in relief. My vision starting to go somewhat blurry.

I could feel the warmth from him as he came up quickly to the chair and unlatched me from it. Quickly, and gently, pulling me into his arms. "I'm here Luce. I've got you, just try to stay awake for me a little longer. Wendy hurry please!" I heard him call out as my eyes were slowly starting to close. I tried to fight it, to stay awake, but it was becoming hard. I heard Wendy's small footsteps approach quickly and immediately felt the warmth from her healing.

I closed my eyes completely and just let the warmth keep me content. "Don't worry Natsu-San. She just needs rest. We should get her back to the guild and I'll do another healing session then." I felt my body be lifted, assuming it was Natsu carrying me, as we finally left that hell hole that I was held captive in. As I drifted off to sleep in his arms, his body heat keeping me warm, I gave a small smile on my face.

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