Lucy and the Definitive... Cat?

We Gotta Talk

Hiro Mashima owns Fairy Tail. This version of Corvus, Belial and all the demonic world building is owned by my brain.

Sorry it took a few extra days, been busy AF this week with work and other things. Alas we have the weekend, good time to catch up on some shit and double check my stories to make sure I'm not winding too far away. Last thing anyone needs is a disjointed story to try and follow.

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Natsu held his sleeping friend, ignoring the spot of drool forming on his bare chest. He gave a weak smile to Meredy who looked as if she was finally able to breathe. She took his hand and pressed a light kiss to it.

"You're okay," she whispered before turning her red eyes up at him. He could see a bit of puffiness still lingering around her face and dried tear marks crusted against pale skin.

"Thank you," he managed.

She sniffled, "I should have gotten there earlier."

Meredy dropped his hand and wiped her cheek capturing a wayward tear. Natsu rubbed Lucy's back with one hand and reached up to pull gently on a lock of her long pink hair. "You got there. You saved our butts." He saw movement as Corvus walked into the room followed by a frazzled doctor who was running a hand through his disheveled brown hair.

Corvus put a hand to Lucy's back, missing Natsu's slow moving one. "I can take care of Queenie."

Natsu chuckled, "Queenie?"

The Raven spirit grinned, "that was a total Queen move and you know it."

Meredy nodded and Natsu could only picture how Lucy would have stormed into the room and let them have twenty levels of hell if they got in her way. That was such a Lucy thing, no matter how hard something was, she never gave up and never let her own weaknesses define her. She'd been through so much and each time she came out of it harder but kinder at the same time. It always confused Natsu how she was built that way. Knock her down and she would get up to either hug you or kick you into the next year. Sometimes she'd do both.

"Where will you take her?" he asked as Corvus picked her up and held her in his arms. Lucy snored as she nuzzled against his shoulder and he stepped to the side to let the doctor come closer to the bed.

"Celestial Realm, she can recharge there in like an hour."

"Is that safe?" Meredy asked.

Natsu ignored the doctor who was checking his pulse and reeked of a few ounces of coffee mixed with cheap whiskey. "I trust ya Corvus, just get her back to Mard."

"I got this," Corvus nodded and turned to leave the room. Natsu watched them leave and refocused on Meredy who was strangely staring at the white speckled floor. She wrinkled her nose and curled her top lip in disgust.

"What?"

"This thing you threw up, gross. It looks like a black slime ball covered in fur," she jumped back and pointed at it, "it moved!"

Natsu pulled his arm away from the doctor and leaned over the small white bed. He watched the thing twitch and took a sniff, it smelt like his blood, a bit of something sweet and a lot like death. "Meredy, grab a cup or something, we gotta get that back to Mard."

"Huh?" she asked as she took another step back.

"He'll know what that is, he's a demon." Natsu looked back at the doctor, "we done here?"

The doctor nodded, "I can't explain it."

"Magic, Lucy used magic to heal me. That," he pointed at the black ball, "was a magical poison."