Still The Queen

Candlelight

“Don’t cry.”

Natsu said to her.

The gentle sound of his words had an even mixture of rage dancing with them.

He was looking straight into her moist eyes when those words came out of his mouth, but something in her fair skinned cheek caught his attention. A trace of mark. A red mark.

The instant he saw it, his brows puckered.

His eyes went narrow.

Natsu wasn’t dumb enough not to know it was a bruise.

His onyx orbs that were once placed on Lucy’s brown ones shifted to the man in front of him.

“You,” the gentleness in his voice was gone, “Tell me you did not dare to touch a single part of her skin with those fucking hands of yours.”

His voice as he said it, had no trace of calmness anymore. And his eyes as he spoke, they were as dark as the future he had in store for the man before him.

A mocking chuckle came out of the enemy’s mouth.

“Oh don’t worry, I did not touch her,” he said with a smug smirk, “In fact, I slapped her.”

Natsu’s brows furrowed even more as if he wasn’t obviously angry enough. His hands that were already turned into knuckles started to go white.

“It felt pleasing, too,” the man chuckled again as he continued,

“I hit her hard right on that beautiful fa-”

But before he could finish whatever he was going to say, Natsu swung his fist straight into his face.

If everything went in slow motion, you could see his knuckles landing on the other’s nose. Breaking it and letting blood spurt out from his nostrils.

The man wasn’t expecting it at all.

He stumbled back and struggled not to lose his footing as the force hit him hard. His hand covered his bleeding nose as if on instinct. His face showed pain as he lifted his hand away and stared at the red color of blood on his palms.

The man wasn’t able to quickly process what just happened. It took him a moment to realize what had happened. All the while, his eyes were wide. Not believing that Natsu was able to break his nose with just a single blow.

He clearly underestimated him.

The man’s face lost the smugness in it and what replaced it was an obvious angered expression. An angry and humiliated expression.

“You knocked out my younger brother.” He glared at Natsu, he could feel the stinging pain from the inside of his nose as he said the words, “You will pay for it.”

Natsu stared back at him with the same dark eyes as he walked towards the man. Very much willing to get into a close hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

“I don’t even know who the hell you’re talking about,” he said dryly.

Hearing this, the man felt pissed.

He was doing all this for revenge, while his opponent didn’t even know what in the world they were fighting for in the first place. Another wave of humiliation crossed his face again.

“YOU ARROGANT LITTLE PRICK!” the man shouted as he lunged towards Natsu with his fist ready.

As his arm swung towards him, Natsu dodged it easily.

When the man lost his balance and his weight pushed his body downward, Natsu instantly kneed the man on the face.

It was enough for the man to fall on all fours on the floor, coughing out blood…with a piece of something that was white as well. A tooth.