The Pink Dragon and His Princess (NaLu)

Chapter 36; All that was Needed

~The E.N.D~

Song; Soothing Music

Lucy blinked open her thrumming eyes.

There was no battlefield. No death or destruction. Only darkness in every direction. There was nothing underneath her feet yet she was walking suddenly, her steps echoing into the unknown. Her pastel pink dress trailing after her like wings from a magnificent bird.

Lucy came across a mirror so large that it started from the ceiling and ending at the floor. Behind the mirror, and reaching for her desperately, was Natsu in his Dragon form. Lucy rushed forward and slammed into the glass that was blocking her from him. She pounding on the glass with her fist, screaming his name with tears in her eyes, lips quivering.

So close.

The glass did not give.

Lucy slid down the glass with a broken sob. She leaned her shoulder up against the clear surface and looked to Natsu with watery eyes. The Dragon shook his horned head and offered her a smile in the hopes that she would return it. When she didn't, Natsu lifted his scaly hand, and pressed it to the glass beside her cheek. Lucy raised her own hand and placed it against the cool glass over his own.

She could almost feel the roughness of his palm against her own soft one.

Lucy's tears overflowed and rushed down her cheeks in rivers. She just wanted to touch him. To hold him and take care of him. But she could do none of those things. She was trapped on one side while he was on the other. Lucy couldn't even talk to him or hear his voice, his mouth moving, but he was completely muted.

They were both stuck on the wrong side.

CRACK!

Lucy screamed, jerking back when the mirror gave a shudder, and Natsu melted away with wide eyes that showed horror in them. Lucy cried out, banging her fist against the cracking glass, wanting him to come back to her- Her reflection suddenly showed.

Lucy's reflection was frowning at her and so was she. Lucy gasped when her reflection began to move, brown eyes locked on the glass as she raised her hand, and touched the mirror on her side with the tip of her finger. Lucy hesitated, staring down at the hand that was undoubtedly a perfect copy of her own, and raised her hand to do the same.

Instantly, the mirror shattered completely, and Lucy jerked her hand away, but her reflection did not.

She only remained standing there, staring, with a wide, crazed smile on her face. "Doesn't it feel good to be empty?" She giggled, placing her arm around her stomach, bending over some with wide eyes, other hand in her hair, tugging at the golden locks until they were torn free. "Doesn't it?!"

This was not her.

This was not Lucy. It couldn't be. It was the corrupt magic that she thought she needed. She had been wrong. She herself was enough. She had always had been.

Lucy had finally found someone to fight for and keep her breathing.

With a scream, Lucy spun on her heel, and smashed her foot into her reflection's stomach-breaking through the mirror and falling into the other side. She was caught by strong arms speckled with red scales that shifted and glittered. She closed her eyes, feeling the weight lift from her shoulders as she tipped her head up, and smiled softly with a tear running down her cheek.

Lucy reached out and curled her arms around Natsu. Warm, kind, lovely, magical Natsu.

"I missed you..."

She felt a talon trail down her spine and a taloned hand folded around her throat.

"I missed you, too."

Lucy stiffened and looked up-

E.N.D smiled down at her, his eyes swathed in Hell's fire, and his sharp teeth bared.

"Hello, Luce," his psychopathic expression turned into one of fondness. "I hoped you would come back to me."

Happy 2018!
I swear I'm going to finish this book even if it kills me! 2018 is the year I finally finish this monster! Thank you all for reading and commenting all this time ^.^
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