You're Warm (Fairy Tail)

Form

You're Warm

Chapter 28: Form

She found herself walking around a blackened world with nothing other than judgmental whispers echoing around her like those never ending waves belonging to the seas and oceans. Nothing could be seen clearly within arm's reach, and surely there was nothing for her to see that really mattered in her life.

Aimlessly walking as the whispers continued, Lucy rubbed her arm as she looked around with fearful eyes. She didn't know who they were talking about, but for some reason, her gut told her that it was her that was in the circle of attention.

   Being raised from a family so well-known. She should have gotten used to the murmurs and whispers swirling behind her, but she lost of all that when her parents left her, leaving her all alone in the vast world.

Although the world was too big for only a person to live, it was far too suffocating for everyone to live in one same world where each person is toxic to another.
What she believed in was a toxic, poisonous world. A world that slowly kills one another through the worse weapon of all... Words.

She could hear their insults clearly, and she wanted to escape it all. 

Slowly, the dark space began to fade into white where Lucy sighed in relief as she looked down to her hands. "I really don't want to open my eyes..." she whispered, slowly curling her fingers towards her palm.

Closing her eyes, she took in a deep breath and looked up to the white sky with a saddened smile. "There's nothing left for me out there..." she told no one in particular where she turned to no particular direction and walked until she felt an invisible wall in front of her.

"At least in this place... There's no one that will hurt me and expect me to do the impossible..." she muttered under her breath before she turned and rested her back against it. Her knees bending, she sat on her bottom and tucked her knees under her chin and sighed.

"I hate the world..." a faint voice of hers echoed.

Lucy looking out to the white space, she frowned and tilted her head to the side. Inside of her heart, she too agreed with the voice which kept on repeating itself in her mind.

The world that she lived in was a world filled with lies and hatred. Indeed, she really did hate the world.

"Everyone in the world should die. If everyone isn't here, then I won't have to deal with this," the voice whispered again where when she blinked, a younger version of her stood in front of her with a ball in her hold.

"I did nothing to make God angry... Why did he make our life like this?" the young teen questioned before raising the ball high into the sky. With a blank expression on her face, she slowly turned her attention to the older blonde on the floor.

"Ne... You understand me, don't you? It is a fact that we're the same person with the same mind."

Lucy bit the inside of her cheeks and frowned to the younger version of her. Legs starting to hurt as she slowly eased her legs apart, she glanced up to the white sky once more before looking back down to herself.

Although she hated the world, she really didn't want everyone to die just because of her though.

Trying to open her mouth to reply to the younger Lucy, she furrowed her brows when she found that she couldn't move her mouth. Strange... Was she paralyzed?

"I don't want to leave this world... But I want to find 'him' and be together with him..." the younger version of her whispered before her body shifted into Belladonna. Still holding to the ball, she looked at her with her blank eyes.

Even though they appear to be blank, as Lucy stared into Belladonna's eyes, she saw something else that no one else could. "Why do you look so sad?" she asked, staring into her eyes where Belladonna hovered back a bit.

"This world should fall into the depths of the ruins. Nothing should be blocking me from him..." Belladonna whispered before Lucy pushed her body up from the floor and slowly took a step forward towards her beast.

"You never answered me... Why do you look like you're about to cry?" she said where Belladonna looked at her before slowly dropping the ball where the area below her rippled and turned into black.

Belladonna hovering under a black spotlight, she slowly lowered herself to the ground where within the next blink of an eye, there sat a tear-stained girl looking at the blonde with her long dark-purple hair scattered on the floor.

  "How can you see me in this form?" Belladonna asked in her human form.

Lucy taking another step forward, she hesitated for a moment before noticing the growing plants surrounding Belladonna were growing and withering away. Her heart aching for some reason, she carefully approach Belladonna and went on her knees.

She really didn't know much about this person, but for some reason, she felt a really close connection with her. "Were you the one protecting me all this time?" she asked.

Belladonna wiped away her tears before she began to look around, unsure if she would burn for reaching out to the light. Her blue eyes holding uncertainty, she slowly nodded her head before getting onto her knees. "Why can't I reach him? Why are we defected?" she questioned as she raised her arm out as if reaching to the blonde.

Retracting her hands, she bit the bottom of her lips. "Is he going to reject me? Why can't I sense him?!" she yelled before she slowly got up on her feet where the wilted plants wrapped themselves around her waist where it began to take form of a long skirt.

"I can't find him! He won't let me see him with my own eyes! Where is my mate?! Where is my fated one?!" she screamed. 

Her glowing eyes looking at Lucy, she snarled. "The entire world is stopping us from meeting him! Let me free! Let me find our mate!"