First or Last Kiss?

~14~

 "Just tell me! Please, I don't understand a thing you're saying!" Lucy begged the man in front of her. His image was wavering and it seemed as if he was just a projection.
"I see no benefits in telling you, my dearest Heartfilia. All I can tell you is to listen to the melody." With that, the figure stepped back into the darkness. Lucy ran after him, but found herself falling into an endless pit.
Darkness. There was only darkness when she reached the bottom of it. Her eyes could not adjust to the black surroundings and she found the distant sound of roars and weapons clashing frightening to the bone.
Shivering, she called out into the dark,
"I-Is there anybody out there?! Help...help me!"
Her cries were shrill and desperate, similar to the ones she could faintly catch from somewhere outside.
"Lucy Heartfilia." A voice as clear as crystal spoke and Lucy looked up into a grand mirror. She could feel some memory of seeing it before prickling her senses, but she had no idea why.
"Speak, Lucy." The image in the mirror spoke and Lucy flinched backwards. Shuffling over the rough cobblestones and dirt.
"I-I.. Who are you?" she asked, carefully getting up. Her hands were moving towards her belt with Celestial Keys, but they weren't there.
"I am you. In the future, that is. Please listen to me," Her future self requested and Lucy stood frozen in place when déjà vu hit her hard.
"Dragons..." she began and the girl in the mirror visibly paled.
"Y-yes... "
Lucy began walking towards the mirror and looked at the girl inside of it. They resembled each other pretty well. Although she had certainly lost weight in the future and the eyes of her future self were dull. Missing the spark of life in those brown orbs.
There was another difference that Lucy hated to be reminded of.
"I have to sing?" Lucy asked and her reflection nodded. Lucy smiled shakily and placed her left hand on the cool surface of the mirror.
"Oh.." she exclaimed quietly when her image sadly placed her right hand against Lucy's left hand.
"I forgot..." Lucy whispered, eyeing her own pink Fairy Tail mark.
"Never forget again." The image of Lucy's future self vanished together with her last words in the air.
"No wait!" Lucy screamed, clawing at the mirror, but it crumbled under her touch.
"NO NO NO!! You haven't told me what all of this means!" she cried, scrambling down to cradle the broken pieces of glass.
"I need to know!!!" Lucy unconsciously squeezed the leftovers in her hands and yelped in pain. Frustration taking control, she flung the glass to the side and fisted her hands.
She cursed the colourless air in front of her and curled in on herself, blood flowing from the cuts on her hands, but not caring anymore.

"Lucy?" a voice rang through her head and she squinted into the morning light. Where was she?
"Lucy? Are you okay?" the same voice asked, now getting a worried taint to it.
"Wha.." Lucy uttered before realising where she was. Who she was. And most importantly, who the person next to her was.
"Sting!" she breathed and flung herself at the Dragon Slayer, who embraced her with less force than she'd hoped. After a short while Lucy untangled herself from him and sat back in bed with a strange expression.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling okay? Lucy, if it's about yesterday..." Sting rambled on, but Lucy could hardly hear it. She stared down at her hands, eyes widening at the sight.
"Are you listening?" Sting asked carefully and followed Lucy's line of sight.
"Shit! Lucy, what happened?!" Sting sprang out of bed and ran towards the bedroom to get a wet towel. Lucy shook her head in disbelief and stared at her hands, covered in blood. Her blood. The mirror shards...
"But how..?" she muttered and let Sting wash her hands carefully, afraid to hurt the girl more than she apparently already had.
"I.. Sting, I gotta see Wendy.." Lucy mumbled and left Sting on the bed while Lucy scrambled across the room to find her stuff before running out of the room, bumping into a sleepy Rogue on her way out.
"Wait! Lucy, why Wendy?!" Sting called after the blonde but she was already out.
"Sting?" Rogue muttered, walking into his room.
"What happened?" he asked and eyed the bloody towel.
"I have absolutely no idea," Sting answered and stared at the closed door.

*POV change*

"Please, Wendy, you must know what's wrong with me! Please, you know, right?!" Lucy pleaded the girl and the blue-haired mage looked up from the book she'd been studying.
"Lucy-san... I d-don't know, I have to talk to Porlyusica about this," Wendy answered timidly, the blonde seemed obviously stressed out.
"But... can't you at least tell me if the dream was the reason I got these cuts?" Lucy asked, holding her slowly healing hands out towards the smaller.
"No, I'm sorry... I can't tell you anything at this point." Wendy looked down in shame and closing the book, moved over to her bed in the hotelroom. After shuffling some things around under her bed, she took out some paper bundles and stuffed them in a lightblue backpack.
"What are those?" Lucy asked curiously and Wendy answered without looking up.
"The spells Grandeeney failed to teach me. I got them from Porlyusica before the Games, remember?" Lucy nodded understandingly and followed the Wind Mage outside the room.
"So... will Porlyusica know what's wrong with me?" Lucy asked once they'd descended the few stairs into the main hall.
"Lucy-san, there's nothing wrong with you. But yes, I think Porlyusica will be able to tell why you're having these weird dreams," Wendy answered and smiled at Lucy before taking off with Carla. Lucy watched the two disappear in the sky and sighed before heading back inside.

"Lucy-sama!" Lucy was greeted by Yukino's cheerful voice as soon as she entered the room.
"Yukino! I didn't know you were here," Lucy responded and took off her shoes before padding into the kitchen. Her smile faded when she saw with who Yukino was sitting at the kitchen table.
"Gray?" Lucy's voice was suddenly soft and she stepped back when Gray shoved his chair back and stood up.
"Lucy, will you just listen to m—"
"What the hell are you doing here?" Lucy yelled, and Gray wasn't the only one surprised by her burst of anger. Lucy frowned, noticing Yukino's worried glance and bit her lip before taking a deep breath.
"What are you doing here, Gray?" she asked again, much calmer this time.
"I-I wanted to talk," Gray answered and took a step closer to the Celestial Mage.
"There's really nothing to talk about, Gray. Can you please just leave?" Lucy's tired gaze found Gray's startling bright eyes and she had to restrain herself from crying once again.
She felt like she'd just ruined a perfectly good friendship with one of her best friends.
"Okay, I'll leave. But first, just hear me out okay?" Gray eyed Yukino from the side and the girl immediately understood what he needed and provided the two with some privacy.
Gray, not wasting another second, moved closer to Lucy and cupper her face in both his hands.
"Listen, I understand how you feel, and I know that you don't or just can't return my feelings. It hurts, yes, but I'd rather spend the rest of my life as your best friend than not spending my life with you at all." Gray's expression was anxious as he waited for Lucy to react, but she just stood frozen in place and looked straight back at Gray.
When the silence became too much to bear, Lucy said the first thing that came to mind and she'd probably regret saying it later, once she'd seen the look of hurt cross the Ice-Mage's face.
"I'm dating Sting." 

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*waves noodle arms at you* GUYS! Blue Exorcist Season 2 will be out in 2017!!! (Not Fairy Tail but another anime,  it's fucking awesome!)

 ANyWAys, I hope you enjoyed this cute little chapter!

~Iris :3