The Dragon Princess

Chapter 2

Natsu POV:

Its been a week since Lucy passed away, her funeral was beautiful and everyone from the guilds we are close with came. I know that if Lucy was here she would have been deeply moved by all the things people said about her, Yukino was beside herself because she was now the last celestial spirit wizard who was capable of using the zodiac keys. She loved Lucy dearly and will miss her every day, everyone who came only had good things to say about Lucy. I walked into the guild and noticed that everyone was surrounding the stage waiting for master to start talking.

"Now that everyone is here I have some news, the Magic Council have asked us to hold a prisoner here until his sentence is carried out. They couldn't tell us how long the prisoner would be with us but we must be careful if we accept, they said the prisoner has magic that rivals Zeref himself." Master says holding the letter in his hands.

I ignore him and walk to the bar, sitting down I rest my head on the bar and don't talk to anyone. This is what I've been doing since Lucy died, in fact everyone has changed. Erza doesn't eat her strawberry cake anymore, Mirajane only offers small fake smiles, Grey doesn't strip, Juvia doesn't follow Grey around anymore, Cana doesn't Drink, Elfman doesn't talk about being a man and Wendy has grown up too. She isn't the childish carefree girl she once was, she now doesn't talk to anyone apart from Carla and she's been taking many solo jobs. She reminds me of Mirajane when she was younger.

"Natsu, how've you been doing?" Mirajane asks me walking over.

I give a grunt and then feel a hand on mine.

"She wouldn't want you to be like this." She says softly.

"I know that, but how can I keep living. Its like I'm trapped in darkness because my sun is gone..." I say looking up at her.

"I know, it was like this when we thought Lisanna was dead. It will get easier trust me, you just need to give it time, its only been a week since she died..." Mirajane says and then master begins to talk again.

"So were all in agreement? Then I will tell the council to bring the prisoner here in two hours, Freed go and set up magic blocking runes on the cell." He glances at Levy who has her nose in Lucy's book. "Levy would you mind helping? It wont take too long..." He asks.

"Yes master..." Levy says adding a book mark to the book. Its the only thing she'll read now.

I glance back at Mirajane and notice she's placed some ramen in front of me, the smell is intoxicating but I push the bowl away.

"You have to eat, if you don't eat it I'll force feed it to you." Erza says pointing a sword at me. "I wont let the person Lucy loved kill himself this way." 

I gulp and then take a small spoonful of the broth, the flavours cover my tongue and I find my self scraping the bowl clean. Happy walks over and sits next to me eating a fish slowly, he told me he wouldn't eat until I did so I guess he's savouring the taste of the fish. Grey comes over and starts talking to me, we've stopped fighting every chance we get and have actually accepted that were friends.

"Hey man, how's Lucy's apartment been treating you?" He asks me.

"Good, I've been keeping it clean because she hates mess...well hated mess..." I say sighing.

"Dont worry, there is a light at the end. It'll just take time to see it." 

I nod and then notice everyone getting ready for the prisoner, Erza sharpens her sword ready to inflict pain if needed, Master is instructing Freed on where to place runes and Gildarts has canceled his mission that he was going to leave on.

"Big fuss for a prisoner, I say put them in the cell and let them rot." I say balling my hand into a fist.

"Well if you want some fun when the prisoner gets here then you can do it through the hole over there." He says pointing to a cell window on the floor which you can see through to the cold damp cell. "He had it installed for when Cana was too drunk to go home, remember she would start swinging her magic all over the place and then a fight would start!" Grey says glancing over at Cana who is sipping a glass of water.

"Yeah those were the days...." Erza says joining in the conversation.

The guild doors then burst open and the magic council soldiers walk in, Lahar and Doronbolt are at the lead followed by a weird coffin type thing on wheels. Its standing upright and looks like the coffin that Jellal was in when we were fighting the Oraćion Seis. 

"Greeting Fairy Tail guild, have the accommodations been put into place?" Lahar says adjusting his glasses.

"Yes they have, now would you show us the prisoner so we know who were dealing with?" Master asks stepping forward.

Lahar nods at Doronbolt and he then begins to pull the chains off the coffin, he then pulls a key from around his neck and unlocks it. Lahar walks over and takes hold of one handle and Doronbolt takes the other.

"Before we show the prisoner we must show you the items the prisoner was found with." Doronbolt says taking a small wooden box from one of his men. "These were with the prisoner when they were found."

He passes the wooden box to master and he opens it slowly.

"What in the?!" He says pulling out...

"Lucy's Keys!" I yell running over to him.

"Wait a moment Natsu, there are more keys here." He says pulling out a large bunch of multi coloured keys, he holds them up and examines them. "What keys are these?" 

"We don't know, she was going to use one when we captured her." Lahar says and walks back to the coffin.

"She?" Erza asks.

"Yes." Doronbolt says pulling the two handles of the coffin.

The doors swing open to reveal....