Fire and Gold (Nalu)

Chapter 7 ~ Fix you

This chapter contains mild medical procedures, if you're squeamish about that sort of thing them be advised to skip this chapter. :)

"Gray, you're naked!
"Shit!"
"Who ordered the root beer?"
"Over here!"

Makarov overlooked the hustle and bustle of his guild from his usual place atop the bar with a smile. He watched closely as his children happily chattered away in their groups as they ate and drank, the rowdiest table however being the one with Erza, Gray, Cana, Juvia and Wendy on it.

Cana drunkenly squawked about how her boyfriend was cheating on her with Gray, the boyfriend in question being the alcoholic beverage in his left hand. He smirked, before downing it all in one fail swoop making her cry out a call of war and in her drunken state going straight for the ice wizard's jugular.
"I swear ice boy... one day I'm gonna-"

"HEEELPPPPPP!!"

The guild's lively conversations quickly died down when they heard the outcry of Happy, who came flying into the guild; one wing heavily bruised and the other in tatters.

"Happy?" Erza questioned as she quickly rose from her seat, "what in the world hap-"
Before she could finish, the exceed's wings gave out and he fell to the floor with a little thump, tears streaming down his face.

"The council took them!!" He cried as the others ran over to him,
"Who, Happy? Natsu and Lucy?" Mira quickly asked, beckoning Wendy over to heal him, who looked down at the blue cat in worry.

"Yes! A-all we did was search for the staff, y-y'know the one in the job request?"
She nodded, her face contorted. Makarov came over, his wheelchair squeaking slightly as the wheels turned round and round.
"What happened, Happy?" He said slowly, looking down on the injured exceed before him.

"Well..." he sniffed, "we found the staff like that wizard wanted, then we kept hearing strange stuff in this forest we were in so we ran a load and then turns out the people making the weird noises were the council. We tried reasoning with them but then they sprayed us with this weird gas that made my eyes, my ears and my wings stop working properly and I collapsed. When I woke up, my wings were like this and Natsu and Lucy were gone, the council must have taken them, we gotta go help them now!"

"Gas? When Gajeel and I worked at the council, they never used anything like that to detain someone." Levy said, her brows crooked.
"But they did! I swear they did!"

Makarov ran a hand through his beard, "Surely Jura wouldn't... Happy, are you sure it was the council?"
"Yes! They had the uniform and the sceptres and everything! Plus, Lucy would have been able to tell if they weren't the real deal!"

Makarov paused, his face scrunched in thought.
"Master?" Erza began, worry plastered on her face.
"Alright. Set off, brats! We're going to Fiore's magic council!"

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Natsu's POV:

"It's okay, it's okay!"

I don't know what I'm doing. I'm panicking. I can't think straight. What am I supposed to do? How do I help her? How do I make her pain stop?

I'd ran through the forest I'd jumped into from atop that prison for ages, yet no where seemed safe enough to put Lucy down. Everywhere was dirty, overgrown and damp.

At that point she'd woken up again, and the pain in her back made her burst into floods of tears once more, screaming and clinging onto me. All I could do was keep running, my own tears blurring my vision. If they got a hold of her again, god knows what they'd do.