Celestial Fire (On Hold)

Chapter 9 - The Rage Inside

The guild remained silent and lifeless as they waited. Erza was awake but was still in the infirmary as she had taken a lot of damage. But Gray... he wasn't looking so good. Wendy was in there with him, along with Porluschica, trying their best to heal him, but they'd been in there for hours. The ticking clock emitted an eerie atmosphere.

Tick...

Tock...

Tick...

Tock...

Bang...

The bell chimed at 10 o clock.

"Fuck this," groaned Natsu, getting up and heading to the door.

"Oi, Natsu, where are y-"

"Minna-San." The guild looked up to see that Wendy had emerged from the upstairs doorway that led to the infirmary.

"Wendy?"

"How is Gray-Sama?"

"He's fine," she smiled.

"Is he awake?"

She nodded.

Natsu bolted up the stairs, stopping to hug the little dragon slayer. "N-Natsu-San?"

"Thank you," he whispered, before running off down the corridor to the ice mage's room, in which Porluschica was just leaving.

"Oi, human, don't stress him out too much."

Natsu nodded and entered the room, leaning up against the wall by the door. "Finally awake, eh, Freeze Face?" Natsu smirked.

Gray rubbed his head and groaned. "What the hell happened?"

The smirk on Natsu's face faded and he walked over to sit on the end of Gray's bed. "Acnologia attacked you, you're lucky to be alive. The only reason you are is because of Wendy and the stressy woman."

"Where's Erza, is she okay?" he asked worriedly.

He smiled slightly, "she's okay, she's just resting."

He sighed in relief before asking, "you dreamed this, didn't you?"

Natsu looked away, ashamed, "I could've stopped this."

"It isn't your fault," he assured.

"Yes it is."

"No. It isn't," said Gray sternly, looking him in the eye.

Natsu felt uncomfortable under his stare and stood up to leave, "I'll leave you be, you need some rest anyway."

"Oi Natsu," he called, stopping him in his tracks. "Thanks."

The dragon slayer displayed his signature grin, "no problem!"

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Lucy tossed and turned in her sleep as the images of her friends in pain flashed into her mind. She stared, horrified at the crumbled remains of her guild after the explosion. Bodies had been thrown around like rag dolls, bloodied, bruised, beaten. Anger swelled inside her as she noticed the amused smirk on Acnologia's face as beat the life out of the last wizard standing. Her heart sunk every time that Natsu got back up, determined to carry on, but it was obvious who was going to win, and all Lucy could do was watch.

Her eyes opened and she bolted upright, the sweat pasting her bangs to her forehead and her chest continuously rising in panic. She took a deep breath and whispered "it was only a nightmare" to calm herself down. She swung her legs out of bed and grabbed some new clothes before heading to the bathroom.

After a quick shower, she paced down the hallway to find Mavis. Lucy had recently mastered air and wind magic and had just learnt water though she wasn't totally confident. But she could tell that those dreams weren't just nightmares. They felt too real, and if she didn't learn fire soon, then her nightmares will haunt her reality.

"Oh, good morning Lucy-Chan!" greeted the first master. "Lucy-Chan? What's wrong?"

"I just had a nightmare, that's all."

"Oh sweety, what happened?" asked Mavis, moving over to comfort her.

"Acnologia defeated the whole guild. But it wasn't just that, they felt too real to be just nightmares."

Mavis stayed silent.

"It's going to happen, isn't it?"

She turned away, remain silent.

"Mavis! Please! Tell me what you know!" she begged.

"He has already attacked Fairy Tail. Wendy, Charle, Cana, Erza, Gray..."

"Are they... okay?"

"As far as I know, the girl's are safe. As for Gray, the state he is in it will be a miricle if he is alive," sighed Mavis sadly.

A tear rolled down her face and her fists clenched. "But you can save him can't you? Like how you saved me?" the blonde asked desperately.

"I can't save everybody, Lucy."

"What do you mean?"

"You don't know it, but you're special. You're different from the rest of the guild."

"What? How?"

"You'll find out in good time, young one, for you have to discover it yourself."

"I don't understand."

"You will."

"Why is Acnologia even doing this?" sobbed Lucy.

"Because of Natsu."

"Eh!? Why? What has he done?"

"He wants to make him suffer by killing everyone he loves."

Lucy tightened her fists until her palms bled and the rage filled up inside. "Why? After all Natsu has been through. After he lost his father. Why? Why would he do sonething so cruel!?" she cried. "Why?!" That last bit of rage fueled the fire and a blanket of golden flames flooded around her, before dispersing in all directions causing an explosion.

Lucy stood there in shock as the flames died down and the room fixed itself magically. "Mavis, what just happened?"

"Well done Lucy-Chan! You have just mastered Celestial Flames!" she beamed.

I'm back with another chapter! Whoop whoop! Sorry I keep taking FOREVER to upload, but I do try my hardest. Also I've been noticing that my chapters are getting shorter and probably shitter, so sorry about that. But, I've been thinking ahead AND THERE IS GOING TO BE A SEQUEL! So I'm looking forward to that. Anyway, vote, comment, follow ♡ See ya next time.

And sorry for any typos, phones are hard to type on.