New Moon (Fairy Tail Version) [ON HOLD]

Chapter Seven

We had barely gotten through the trees before he stopped a few feet away from me.

Some walk.

I looked behind me anxiously, still able to see the house. I turned back to him as he hesitantly turned to face me.

His eyes were low, not reaching mine as I waited for him to say something. For once, I didn't care how fast my heart was racing and how loud it must have been for him. My reaction felt warranted.

He leaned against a tree, and finally locked eyes with me. His expression was calm, but his eyes were dark, slight circles laid under them as if he hadn't slept at all last night... But I knew it was because he was behind on hunting.

I didn't like the look on his face and desperately wanted to get out of these woods, this atmosphere. "What's going on, Natsu?" I asked, my voice strangely relaxed considering I felt really jumpy.

He blinked and changed footing, "We have to leave Magnolia."

My heart skipped. I inhaled, my body expelling a string of shakes. I thought I was prepared... But I couldn't help but ask, "Why?"

He hesitated, "Laxus is supposed to look at least thirty by now... People are starting to notice too much."

My eyes widened. I thought the point of leaving was so his family would be at peace, not because they had to start their settlement cycle all over again. Why did we have to go if they were leaving anyway?

I stared up at him in confusion and he looked down at me coldly.

"Um..." I sighed, "What about the spell? Over the town?" I hadn't forgotten about the spell the Dreyers placed over Magnolia to fit in with the memories of its community. Couldn't they fix its citizens' thoughts about them?

"We only use it to fit into the memories of a society," He explained softly, "We don't want to force ourselves into one too much, to control people's thoughts of us. It goes against our morals, and could risk our exposure."

"It would make things a lot easier." I replied, slightly lost in thought.

Natsu sighed, "We're not normal, Lucy. Our strengths have their consequences. The largest one being we don't get to have an easy life."

His words shot felt like a shot through my heart. I had to swallow the lump in my throat from how bitter they sounded. I blinked, not in surprise of this knowledge, but still in shock of their reason for leaving.

"Okay..." I said finally, "Okay, I uh... I gotta think of something to say to Jude."

I rolled over my options. I'd been an idiot for not thinking over this in every way. With the idea of us going to college next year, it would've been easy to explain our absence... But his family was leaving to start a new life. How could I explain my departure with them?

I huffed, a small part of me knowing just up and disappearing would be easier than having to explain why I would be gone. I looked up at Natsu, perhaps he had a better idea...

But then I saw the same cold look in his eyes. I furrowed my eyebrows at him, starting to get angry with his distant attitude... And then a certain possibility shot through my head. A possibility that maybe I wasn't meant to tell Jude I was leaving... A possibility that maybe...

A wave of nausea came over me as I realized I'd misunderstood.

"When..." I started again, the question feeling like glass cutting up my throat, "When you say we—"

"I mean my family and myself." He finished swiftly, like he'd been waiting to say it this whole time.

I stared at him wildly for a moment before my head started to shake slowly. He waited patiently as his words sunk into me. It took a while... probably longer than it should have.