You're Warm (Fairy Tail)

Enraged Beings

You're Warm
Chapter 31: Enraged Beings

In the end, Natsu decided to go after Erza and Gray's constant bugging. They wanted him to go and fix their mistakes, and honestly, he really wanted to apologise to the blonde that he happened to destroy over the past years.

He never wanted to throw water at her when he first saw her again after many years. He was actually happy to see her standing in front of him.
When he saw her again, he wanted to hug her and ask her why she hasn't been eating properly. He truthfully wanted to question her lifestyle - Was she eating enough? Was she getting enough sleep?

On that very day, what made him annoyed was that, even though Sakura hardly met the blonde, she was already overprotective over her. It's true that she was the one that opened his world about mates, but he wasn't expecting her to lash out at him when he threw water at Lucy.

When he was bullying her in class, he actually wanted to tell them all the opposite - About how smart she was in her subjects. Whenever she was told to stand up to read, he was amazed at how fluent her English was. 

What made him agitated but guilty was her answer to Miss Laki's question. If he was hurt and was at the brink of death... Would she plead for him to stay alive?

That day when she was attacked - No. Enough was enough.

He had to reject her or she'll -

Something stirred in his heart. Something in his chest was painfully throbbing as he tried to recollect his thoughts. 

He had to re-

"Do you really want to think of that word again?" a voice questioned in his mind.

Natsu stopped midway through the magic tunnel that he and Knight were using to get to Sakura and Lucy. His eyes wide as he could hear that familiar voice again, he looked up in confusion with his hands to his ears.

That voice... It couldn't be, he thought as he tried to think of a reason to why he heard Igneel's voice. His father was long gone from the face of Earth, so why did he just hear the old man's voice?

"I'm only the remnants of who I was... Son, why do you want to separate from the one who you'll truly love?" Igneel's voice questioned once more where Natsu looked down to his sandals.

His arms dropping limp as he stared down to his ten toes, he couldn't answer the old man. No matter what, he just had to reje-

"I didn't raise you to reject your fated one, Natsu. Lucy was the one that I saw you walking down the red carpet with - Not with Lisanna. Never have I felt this ashamed..."

Natsu opened his mouth but no words came out as he tried to answer his father. The old man was ashamed of him, but for what reason?

He was never the one to ask questions, so why were all of these questions swimming around in his head? See? That was another question to all of his questions.

"Dragons are stronger with their fated other. For you to not want your other - Are you insane? I don't care if Lisanna tries to hunt down you and your friends... There was a reason why I took Sakura under my wing," Igneel spat in his mind.

    "She is someone that has the same kind of blood as ours. We are dragons. She was someone that you were able to talk to, but you are too stupid to realise her importance to our family and magic."

That's when Natsu began to walk. His head still down, he glanced to the side to see Knight carefully analyzing him. "Who are you to Sakura?" he asked.

The wolf lowered his ears to his head and growled. Slowly opening his mouth, words began to flow out. "You do not need to know about my relationship with Sakura," he snarled.
  "You lost the chance to know everything about us wolves. You were too foolish to see everything in front of you."

"That wolf is right. You lost the chance to know more about your family. You were too blinded to see everything in front of you - The truth was there, but you looked to the other direction."

The end nearing as Knight began to walk faster, Natsu looked up. With a blink of an eye, he widened his eyes when he saw Lucy screaming bloody murder as Sakura growled out loud with her eyes glowing brightly in frustration.

"Loke! Put a towel in her mouth!" Sakura bellowed as she used vines to hold back the flailing blonde that managed to break half of the upper half of the crystal.

Loke snapping his head to the crimson, he looked at her in horror. "I know that I should be all loyal and listen to you but does it look like I'm willing to lose a hand?!" he cried out in mock desperation where Sakura glared at him with narrowed eyes that were in slits.

"Does it look like I'm joking right now?!" she yelled where Lucy screamed once more as her skeleton wings struggled to break through her skin.

Sakura gritting her teeth, she forced herself to grow more vines. "I'm so sorry Lucy... But I need to stop you from getting taken over!" she cried, controlling the newly sprouted vines over her wings that were struggling to free themselves.

Tightening her vines around Lucy's back, the blonde screamed even more with her eyes closed. It's been ten minutes since Lucy's beast tried to free itself from its master's body. Ten painful minutes of Lucy screaming with her trying to restrict her movements. All of those animal-like screams and wails were painful for a beast like her.

   If any beast had the same fate as them... Then they too would understand the pain and want for their fated other.

"Alpha!" Knight yelled.

Sakura turning her head to meet eyes with Natsu's, she gave out a sigh of relief before noticing the guilt in his eyes. Widening her own as Loke managed to place a towel in between Lucy's teeth, she tiredly dropped onto her knees with horror on her face. "You cannot be..." she whispered as tears rolled from her eyes and down her cheeks.

After all of these years, she finally saw the heart of Natsu Dragneel. She finally saw the true face of her cousin... "After everything that I told you too..." she whispered once more before she stared at him with empty eyes.

Without her noticing that her vines and roots were ripped apart by Lucy's strength, she remained on her knees as roots shot up from the ground where it pierced through her body. Being held up in the air as the complex root system held her there, she felt the tingling sensation throughout her entire body where she sadly smiled. "A perfect, slow-death punishment for a failing mentor like myself," she chuckled to herself before coughing out blood.

She could taste her metallic plasma in her mouth as a thin stream rippled through her trembling lips.
The roots of Atropa Belladonna are the most toxic parts of the plant. With its poison flowing through her veins, all she could do now was stay there limp like a rag doll tangled high in the air.

"Sakura!" Natsu bellowed as he ran forward where whipping roots stopped him from approaching. Loke and Lucy's spirits all backing away as Knight and Drancer growled out loud with their eyes glowing, their eyes all watched as the roots containing Sakura rose higher to the air.

Lucy's magic breaking the remaining crystal, she remained levitating with tears still rolling. With one final whimper, Belladonna emerged from behind her back in her skull form where Sakura's beast emerged as well.

"Where's my mate?!" Belladonna screeched where Sakura's beast snarled at her before giving out a rumbling roar.

  "How dare you poison my tamer!" the crimson dragon bellowed with glowing eyes.
"What type of beast dares to poison those that are trying to help?!"

Sakura's dragon beast snarling as she was about to tackle Belladonna, Sakura hissed. "Stand down. This is no longer our fight," she weakly scolded.

Her dragon wanting to disobey her command, Sakura narrowed her eyes as she tried to pace her breathing. "The thing wants her mate. Her mate is there... This is no longer our control..." she groaned as she tried to focus her eyes on Natsu that was staring at her with a pale face.

Listening to her command, Sakura's beast went back into rest as Sakura winced to the poison making its way to her head. This was going to be a long, long day, she thought before closing her eyes.
She felt her heart slowly struggling to pulse as she heard the final call come from Natsu's mouth. Her mind getting fuzzy, she let the rest of fate do its job as Knight and Drancer shifted into their human form.

"Sakura!"