Fairytail- Losing me to Find Me

Chapter 9 - The Last week, I will always love you.

Hello everyone & happy new year! 

-   I apologize for the late chapter; since my last posting, I have been writing and revising this chapter in an effort to write it as I had imagined. I have a few notes and disclaimers for this chapter, as usual, without further ado. Have a pleasant day and a wonderful week as usual!

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Note's

Since many people, including myself, enjoy listening to music while reading, here is one that I thought fit this chapter's focus on Juvia, Lucy, and Natsu.

Hymn for the missing: By red:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5JyBOy5rhElkYixpDpbPn6?si=2ad1b99627a14a41

Lucys Sliver Key's Situation

As I already mentioned, I like to focus more on celestial magic than have her learn new techniques. Consequently, it makes more sense for her to expand her repertory with sliver keys because it is both rational and more friendly to the magic core.

Now comes the technical aspect. Because I don't want it to appear like I'm just buffing her up with celestial magic and the situations with the keys, I opted to use random generators with it. Therefore, if the generator land on yes, she will receive a new key when she enters a store, and that key will be chosen at random rather than by me because you can't truly pick and chose them since you have to find them. 

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The bravest thing I did, is a mystery.

I ran here and there conflicted, of who I am.

But at the crosswords of you and me, I ran.  

One week ago

(Filler Fluff) 

Early the next morning, Natsu awakened to the first ray of sunlight entering Lucy's room. He studied all the things he hadn't noticed before, like how her hair wasn't as golden, how her cheeks weren't as plump and rosy, but thin and hollow. The way her skin didn't look like it was freshly kissed by the sun, instead, it was pale almost a sickly pale. The way her room didn't have a present smell of strawberries and vanilla anymore. The way her room had mirrors turned around, the overflowing food on the counters wasn't there. And their photo above her desk was turned down.

Just what had he done to her, he thought as he took in all the small details because of him and his actions. "Had she stopped eating because of what I said?" he thought making himself sick, swallowing the vomit in his mouth, was she not eating because of him, feeling disgusted in himself he looked away guilty.

Taking a few moments Natsu looked at Lucy, despondent, and saw something he hadn't seen in her in weeks: comfort. She was sleeping next to him, her face without a grimace, but with a faint grin on it. Just how long wasn't she smiling he wondered.

Natsu studied her face remembering all the details of her face, worry lines and all. With a sigh, he looked away and covered his eyes he knew what he had done had been to push her away. Despite the fact that he didn't intend for her to take what he said to heart, she did. His beloved girl had been replaced by a stranger who was unable to look him in the eyes without averting her gaze. He was aware that it would hurt, but he never imagined it would be this bad. He burnt guys on fire for inadvertently staring at her, hugged her when she sobbed, and yet he was the one who caused her the greatest suffering because he was unable to express his feelings.