Acnologia, my Childhood Friend

Chapter 54

           

Chapter 54

So... Day 4 everyone. What'll happen after all this drama we've been having lately?

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Disclaimer: Since I forgot this thing last chapter, I double disown Slowpoke's work today. With tears flowing down my cheeks.

With Fairy Tail A~

Gray's P.O.V

It'd been weird with Lucy yesterday. She'd easily beaten everyone and everything on that MPF-thing, but when she battled that Raven, she lost. Granted, she did do well against the guy, the outcome might as well have been the other way around.

But that was what was weird about it all. I could clearly feel her magical pressure from where I stood on the balcony. Thing was, it wasn't just the Celestial magic I'd always known, something else had also been playing in the background. Something different. It felt like it was so much stronger than the Celestial magic. More dangerous. And most of all... More bloodthirsty. It had been almost animalistic.

Also the way she acted at the end of that battle. I guessed the Raven said something to her, which pissed her off, but the reaction she gave was far beyond Demon Lucy. And let me tell you, when she did that, you really had to watch yourself. But whatever she did back there was much worse. At that very moment, she was far stronger and wilder than she could ever be with Demon Lucy. It was a side of her we hadn't met back seven years ago... When we were still a team.

To be all honest, I was still beating myself up over the way we'd pushed Lucy out of the team. No... That was a too kind way to put it. The way we'd done it, it was way too mean. I can only imagine how much it had hurt her, if she ever felt the same way about all of us, as I had with her and the rest of Team Natsu. Excluding the Fire Idiot himself. Why had we even named the team after that idiot? It made no sense!

Anyway, even though she said that she'd already forgiven me, I sure hadn't forgiven myself yet. I doubted I ever would, the way it was right now. I of all people should know what it felt like to be left behind by the people you love.

I was separated by Ur through her sacrificing herself for my sake - which is bad enough in itself - I can't even begin to imagine how it must have been for her. We were literally telling her we didn't give a damn about what she felt. Well, that was probably what it had looked like from her point of view, when it all happened.

We could have delivered that message in a much nicer way. One that wouldn't have hurt her as much. One that wouldn't have made her run away the way she did...

Right! That cave she had gone to back in that little town. It was right inside the eerie forest, the Fire Idiot had been able to follow her scent and back to some clearing. That was where her scent disappeared, apparently. At that point, as far as I remember, I couldn't take all of their idiocy, but why was that again...? Damn it was such a long time ago.

Ah, right... I remember it now. Natsu hadn't been able to recognize her scent, neither had Erza. Seriously, I'd heard about how often he broke into her home and slept in her bed with her, while she was sleeping. One would think he could recognize her scent everywhere, but that day, he took idiocy to a whole new level.

So I wandered off, away from those people, and then I fell over that cave. Of course, back then I hadn't been sure Lucy had been in that cave. But what made me consider it was the fact that the nest-like thing that lay in it had been completely pushed down, as if someone - or in this case, something - had been using it lately.