You're Warm (Fairy Tail)

Reality

You're Warm
Chapter 34: Reality 

She felt completely in sync with her beast for the first time. Their hearts beating in sync, she could feel their minds merging together as she slowly lifted her hand to reach out to the dragon in front of her.

His eyes... They held so many emotions. Like an open book that she would always spend majority of her time reading, she felt his eyes held every piece of information she needed. Something that she never knew about her beloved beast that happened to steal her heart within seconds of eye contact.

She gasped when he lowered his head, allowing her to touch his cheek to which she tensed. The beast in front of her wanted her too, its eyes held love, happiness, but most of all regret and pain. It knew that its master was being stubborn, but it wasn't going to let his actions completely lose her love for them both.

"You're so beautiful..." Lucy whispered as she felt their connection. Their eyes staring into one another, she felt her tears filling up her eyes.

It pained her to know that Natsu didn't want her. It killed her beast to know that he didn't want her as well.

He didn't want a murderer. He wouldn't want a damaged thing where he had a beautiful girl standing behind him.

"I'm glad that we're able to meet you finally," she whispered once more as she let the tears fall. Her ears and mind ignoring the low whimpers from the dragon, she rubbed his sharp cheek with her thumb lovingly. She was honestly thankful that she was able to meet the beast that was supposed to fated with her own.

Natsu's beast was a majestic creature. His beast emitted a powerful aura, and her beast felt protected to have it so near to her presence.

Slowly blinking her eyes where her tears touched the ground, the remnants of the crystal shattered where she fell. Her tears creating a large puddle with her in the middle, she lifted her head and sadly smiled to the dragon staring at her with pained eyes. Looking away, she removed her hand from his cheek where Belladonna vanished.

"I guess this is goodbye," she said to herself, not knowing that Natsu was looking at her.

The boy wanted nothing but to embrace her, but he couldn't. Hearing a snicker behind him, he turned to only find Lisanna snickering to Lucy's despair. Her arms wrapping around his body, she coiled herself like a snake holding its prey. 
Her lips near his cheek, she was about to kiss him where suddenly Lucy snapped her head up with a threatening glare where Belladonna emerged from her body once again, but this time in her human form.

"You will not touch him when I'm still around!" she bellowed, coming towards the woman with a dagger made out roots in her hand.

Swiping the air, she gritted her teeth when Lisanna pulled back and grinned. "He's not yours. He rejected you," she spat, watching Belladonna widen her eyes in anger to which she lunged forward.

"His dragon wants me! He wants me! You cannot take him away from when I'm still here!" she yelled, jumping towards the white-haired female where her beast came in between, flicking her back into a boulder. Growling, she was about to run towards Lisanna and her beast until suddenly, she felt her connection with Lucy hold her back.

Belladonna's head snapping to look at Lucy, she tensed when she saw how hard Lucy was trying to hold her back with tears in her eyes. "Please stop... It won't change his mind if we were to hurt her..." she pleaded, making Belladonna drop her arm to look at her master in disbelief.

It pained them both to know the truth.

"Lucy... I..." Natsu stopped himself, but his heart was throbbing in pain as he watched the puddle around Lucy grow bigger which began to flow through the cracks.