"Lucy!" Natsu shrieked. He tried to reach for her outstretched hand but he couldn't. He felt as though gravity was pushing him down. Everything seemed to go in slow motion. He could see Luffy trying to reach Lucy too. Everyone else was too occupied trying to gain what little strength they had left. Natsu could say he was in the same shape as the rest of them but he had to keep trying. He had to reach Lucy! Lucy was a teammate! He couldn't leave behind a teammate! Memories of what recently happened before the battle flashed through Natsu's head but he couldn't think about that at the moment. All he could do was think about Lucy's life that was in jeopardy.

"Natsu!" Lucy called back. She tried to reach for him; she tried her hardest but then she let her slender hand drop to her side.

"Lucy! I can't reach you!" Natsu shouted in a pleading way. The cave seemed to collapse around them. The crystal Lucy had been stuck to with magic had begun to shine brighter. "Lucy! Reach out to me!"

A boulder crashed down in front of Natsu. Immediately he jumped over it. Lucy didn't look his way and held on to the crystal. "No, Natsu. Just go. Forget about me. I'll be fine."

"Damnit, Lucy, don't do this now!"

"Natsu, I said go! I told you I'm fine! We reversed its power! I'll be okay!" Lucy knew she was lying. She knew she wouldn't be okay; not without Natsu, not without Fairy Tail … "Just leave me be! I deserve this!"

The crystal was now pure white. It's light radiated throughout the cave. "Lucy!" The light splashed in Natsu's face. Everyone became engulfed with its shine. Natsu tried to see but he couldn't. He felt as if reality had drifted away when suddenly he felt a warm liquid drop reach his face.

Lucy?

"Natsu!"

Natsu's head jerked up in response. "W-What?!"

Happy sat up with a yawn. "What time is it?"

Natsu got up from his messy couch and gazed outside the window. There, standing in the shade of the tree, was Lisanna. She gave him a wide grin. "Come on, sleepy head! Erza and Gray are waiting!"

Natsu's stomach growled. "Are we going on a job?"

"Yeah," she replied. "Erza found us one."

Natsu nodded. He stepped away from the window and he and Happy got ready. A few minutes later the pair walked out of their house still a little tired. "I hope we eat something on the way."

"Good morning Lisanna," said Happy sounding cute.

"Good morning, Happy." She glanced at Natsu. "You seem out of it."

"Huh? Me?" Natsu asked. "I guess. I think I had a bad dream last night."

She gave him a look of suspicion as the three continued walking towards the road. "You think? What was it about exactly?"

Natsu was about to answer but then stopped himself. What had it been about exactly? He couldn't remember anything. All he could remember was something wet. "I don't know …"

"Well that's weird."

"Yeah, I know."

"Hurry up you three!" Came Erza's voice. She and Gray gazed up at them with impatience.

"Come on, we've wasted enough time waiting on you fire breath," said Gray turning to go the other way.

"Hey!" Natsu growled.

"Now, now Natsu," Erza scolded.

Happy and Lisanna smiled as they headed out for their job.

Luffy sat there extremely bored. There was nothing to do. Sanji was working on a new recipe, Nami was reading more magazines, Zoro was … probably sleeping, Usopp was polishing up his tools, Franky and Brook were who know where and Chopper was off somewhere probably reading with Robin. Luffy let out another sigh and lay on his back.

He frowned at the sky. Something didn't seem right. What was the feeling he was getting. Was he hungry?

"Hey, Luffy?"

Luffy glanced over to his side to see Lucy standing over him. "What's up, Lucy?"

"Oh, nothing," she said. "You just seemed extremely bored."

"Well, I am," he told her and continued to stare up at the clouds.

"Well, so am I. Can you keep me company?" Before Luffy could answer she sat next to him. The strange feeling that something wasn't right was back.

"Luffy, do you have dreams?" asked Lucy out of the blue.

Luffy thought about. "Yeah, I do. Actually I had one a few days ago. I was in this fancy place and there was a table full of meat and Sanji and Nami were serving me!"

Lucy giggled. "That must have been a good dream."

Luffy grinned. "It sure was!"

"Hey, were you two talking about me?" Lucy and Luffy turned their heads to look at Nami. One of her eyebrows were cocked.

"Of course not, Nami!" Luffy smiled.

"Alright, that's good. Also, captain, we need to get some supplies. We're almost out of food," Nami told Luffy. "Did you want to stop in Fiore?"

"Fiore?" Lucy and Luffy asked in unison.

"Yeah, it's one of the countries on our course to the new world."

"Alright!" Luffy jumped to his feet. "Let's head for Fiore!"