You're Warm (Fairy Tail)

Unite

You're Warm
Chapter 33: Unite

"It's too dangerous to remain on ground," Sakura whispered where her knights looked at her. The crimson still being cradled as they all jumped into the air, they levitated with their eyes locked onto the crumbling floor below their feet.

"I seriously don't want to risk my life, but if Lucy's in danger then I have to act."

With a strained groan coming out of her lips, Sakura forced her body to use magic. Her eyes glowing as she created a large, sturdy ice floor which caught pretty much everything, she sighed in relief when she noticed Lucy uninjured before fainting in Knight's arm.
Sweat covering her body from pushing her body to her very limit, she hoped that everything will be back to normal when she opens her eyes again.

Both knights watching everything from above, they narrowed their eyes on Belladonna who was breathing heavily below. Their eyes watching every single detail from body movements to the very tense of a muscle, they remained calm as they observed the confrontation.

It wasn't there battle but they knew very well what their master expected them to do while she's out like a light.

"How dare you kiss him! He's not yours!" Belladonna wailed as she swung her scythe towards Lisanna.

Expecting a satisfying  show of blood splattering everywhere, she felt her blood boil when she couldn't withdraw her scythe. In front of her, but in between both girls, Natsu stood there with his hands holding the blade.

His arms slightly shaking from the amount of force she's using to pull back her blade, he grew determined to prevent any bloodshed from happening.

"Stop it!" he yelled as Belladonna forcefully tried to pull back her blade. For some reason, he was much stronger than what she expected until she finally realised how his strength managed to rival with hers.

Lucy's beast staring into his eyes, she saw the one that she wanted to reach out to, but then noticed something. That one that she yearned for was in the same position as its master, meaning that it's providing that unexpected strength to its master that happened to equal with hers.

"You want to protect her?" Belladonna whispered, her voice slightly weak where both wolves growled.

There was no reply and Belladonna felt her heart shattering even more as her strength on the blade slowly decreased. Her body moving away slowly, she slowly sank to the ground in defeat. "Everything they've said... It was right - They're right..." she whispered.

Looking down to her hands, she narrowed her eyes and imagined the crimson blood all over them. She was indeed unworthy...

"Of course no one wants me... What was I thinking by obtaining my mate through force?" Belladonna asked herself before slowly lifting her head to look at Lisanna. Her body unable to withstand the heartbreak, she gritted her teeth before realising the tears that were falling.

She was no longer that terrifying beast that belonged to Lucy Heartfilia. In front of everyone knelt a young woman with long purple hair. Heartbroken she looked with dull eyes and a very pale body.

In front of everyone's else, there knelt a woman that looked weak and fragile. As if a single touch could make her crumble to the ground, she stayed there staring at her wet fingertips.

"Why did I even bother? Why couldn't I just accept the truth and find someone else that would want me?" she whispered weakly before slowly rising where she swayed a bit.

Sadly smiling to Natsu, she could see the beast within him staring at her with pained eyes, "It's not your fault. It's my fault for being a murderer and a faulty thing."

The girl looked over to her master and took a step towards her where a voice told her to stop. Slowly looking over her shoulder to see Natsu looking at her with an indescribable expression, she frowned deeply. "There's no need to feel guilty. I just thought... That maybe someone out there would accept me as who I am. Of course no one wants someone like me - I have nothing to give..." she reasoned before turning her attention back to her master.

Belladonna wanted nothing other than to seal herself  back into a seed and never sprout again. Originally, she was how she was right now, a beautiful blooming plant that had a human form. 

Each passing day, she watched as her master's pride and emotions crumble, making her hallow and weak - Each passing day, Belladonna allowed the darkness to consume her - A beautiful plant that was poisonous became poisonous all over where it became an unstable monster.

She stopped in front of Lucy and slowly reached out to her cheek where she faltered. Not wanting to poison her own master, she dropped her arm and looked down to the icy ground. "Just what am I even?" she whispered where Natsu watched her in conflict.

He could feel something inside of him moving around. It was like it wanted to reach out to her.

Perhaps that thing inside of him was something like Sakura's. It seemed to be the case when his body wanted to bow his head to the crimson dragon that he saw.

"You're indeed foolish! She's crying because of us! Are you really rejecting her?" the voice inside of his head questioned.

   "We're able to fight against Lisanna - Sakura isn't weak. Everyone is strong... We can focus on our mate and make her happy while protecting her..."

Natsu stood there. He didn't know what to do when he saw the vines slowly covering Belladonna's body.

"She's never going to wake up. She's not going to recognise us as her mate - She will forget about us! She might find someone else to fill in that void that we're supposed to fill!" the voice boomed where something within the pinkette's body snapped.

"If you don't want her! Then let me embrace her for the first and final time before she leaves us without knowing our embrace!"

A large red dragon appearing in between Natsu and Belladonna, it lowly growled where Belladonna jumped with Lucy slowly waking up. Both girls staring into the dragon's onyx eyes, they felt peace and the world slowly stopping.