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A new Lucy

Chapter Seventeen – Healing what was broken

I woke up in the guilds infirmary with Laxus asleep in the bed next to mine, he didn´t look injured though so I safely assumed that he was just here to keep watch over me. I didn´t know how long I had been out of it but at the moment it wasn´t important, the only thing that was important right now was to talk to Draco about how we were going to perform the unison raid that would cure Natsu and Lisanna from the poison that kept making them try to kill me.

I was almost seriously thinking about sneaking away to summon Draco without waking Laxus first but luckily his eyes opened before I actually could decide whether or not to do it.

"Lucy you´re awake!" He exclaimed loudly before I was suddenly wrapped in his arms as his hands kept trailing up and down my back. "I was getting worried about you, how are you feeling?"

"I feel fine, amazing actually. I feel strong, like I could take on the entire world on my own and win." I told him and left a trail of kisses from his ear and down his neck.

"Whoa Lucy hold your horses, at least wait until I can take you somewhere more private." He told me and grabbed my wrists to keep me from trying to undress him right then and there. He was even sounding a little shocked.

"Fine, just hurry up." I pouted but silently cherished the way his arms tightened around me before he activated his lightning teleportation and took us away from the guild infirmary.

When the world around me turned back to normal I saw that we were in a forest, next to a natural hot spring. I turned around in his arms and after pressing a long kiss to his lips I asked him.

"Where did you take us?"

"We´re about seven miles away from Magnolia, I found this place years ago and I come here when I want no one to find me. I thought you would like the hot spring." He looked me straight in the eyes as he said that and I smirked at him before starting to pull off my shirt.

"Oh you´re right about that."

Lemon Warning

It didn´t take long until all of my clothes were in a pile on the ground and I stood naked before him, feeling more confident than ever before. I stepped into the water but stopped when the warm water lapped at my belly button, my back was facing Laxus and I looked over my shoulder at him while I dragged my now wet hands up my stomach only to stop and squeeze my breasts while I teased him a little.

"Are you going to join me or will I have to… entertain myself?" He responded by growling and dropping all of his clothes in under thirty seconds, because thirty seconds after I had spoken he was in the water with me, kissing me senseless.

"Oh god I´ve missed this…" I moaned as he nipped at my throat and I dragged my nails down his back.

"What are you talking about? It has only been a few days, a week at the most." He said before picking me up and wrapping my legs around his waist before he walked towards the deeper end of the pool.

"I know but while I was unconscious I reviewed my entire life, with much attention on all the bad parts, so it feels like much, much, longer." I admitted and focused my gaze on the tattoo on his chest so I wouldn´t have to meet his eyes.

"I´m sorry you had to suffer through that but it was by your own choice." He told me quietly and I could tell that while he was sorry I had been suffering, he was also still not happy that I had unlocked my second origin even though he accepted it.

"I know and I would do it again if I had to." I confessed before clasping my hands behind his neck and kissing him deeply to get him back on track. His large hands were supporting my weight by my thighs and I arched into him, longing for him to be as close as physically possible.

He grunted when I bit down on his bottom lip but his hands inched up to grasp my ass so I knew he liked it. The water was now lapping at my chest and Laxus had reached the other end of the hot spring. He pushed me against the stone and grabbed my wrists in one of his large hands and held them above my head, the pressure of his hips against mine the only thing that held me up.

His other hand grasped my chin and tilted my head up before he dove in for a kiss that made my toes curl and my inner muscles clench in anticipation. Without breaking away from the kiss he placed himself into position and only let me up for breath when he begun to push himself inside of me slowly, letting me feel every inch of him as he was enveloped within my warmth.

I moaned and whimpered as I clung to his wide shoulders, my head thrown back in ecstasy as he slammed himself into me repeatedly. It didn´t take me long to reach the peak for the first time but Laxus never let up on his pounding as I convulsed around him and soon I was climbing towards my second.

When I climaxed for the second time he followed me into the bliss and I could feel his muscles quivering as he continued to hold me up through both of our orgasms.

End of Lemon Warning

My arms were wrapped loosely around Laxus neck and my head rested against his strong shoulder, my entire body trembling lightly in the aftermath of our love. After a few minutes he let me slid down to stand on my own two feet but kept a steadying arm around my waist as we headed back towards the shallow end of the pool where our clothes were waiting.

We dried off with some towels that had mysteriously appeared, most likely the courtesy of Virgo, and redressed in silence before Laxus used his lighting to teleport the two of us back to the guild hall.

He had teleported us to the large training area in the so called back yard of the guild and told me.

"I know you´ll want to summon Draco and talk about how to do the unison raid to cure the Flame Freak and Lisanna. We´ll meet up with the raijinshuu when you´re done with your spirit and see if they have had any luck with getting rid of the pesky assassins." He then sat down in a patch of shade and closed his eyes as if meditating, obviously prepared to wait for me. I smiled at the vision he made and turned around to summon my spirit.

"Open! Gate of the dragon, Draco!" I called out and felt the immediate drain on my magic, however not as much was drained as the last time I summoned this particular spirit.

The giant dragon appeared before me and seemed to smile with his eyes at me when he realized that I had been successful in unlocking my second origin.

"Well done Miss Lucy! I knew that you would be able to do it, I suppose that you are eager to learn about the unison raid that will cure your guild mates?" He inquired and I nodded my head and smiled at him.

"Oh yes please Draco! I would like to cure them as soon as possible, what do I need to do?"

"You will need to connect your magic to mine and then your instincts will take over and do the rest. However, I must warn you that doing this unison raid with me will likely drain you enough to make you fall unconscious even with your second origin unlocked, it is that powerful."

"Okay but how do I connect my magic to yours?"

"I will guide my magic to yours and when they touch your magic will latch on to mine so that won´t be a problem. If you want to you can fetch your guild mates and we can do this right now if you want to?" I shot a look at Laxus, pleading with him to allow me to do this now. I knew that he would want me to wait until tomorrow at least but the sooner I could get this done the sooner I could have some answers to everything that seemed to happen all around me, with the assassins and whatnot.

"Oh fine… I will go and get Master and the rest of the raijinshuu and then we´ll do this…" He answered reluctantly but I didn´t care about that since it was finally happening. I was almost bouncing with nervous energy when he finally returned with Master and the others, Natsu and Lisanna in tow. Though when the latter two spotted me they started to struggle against their bindings to get to me but to my surprise Draco ordered Freed and Bixlow to knock them unconscious for our unison raid.

"I thought they had to be awake for this to work?" I asked Draco and turned to face him.

"No there´s no need for them to be awake, the spell actually works even better if they´re not. That way there´s nothing that can interfere with the spell as it works its way through their bodies and it will spare them any discomfort that might otherwise occur."

"There´s no chances of this spell harming them further, right?" Master asked Draco as we readied ourselves for the spell.

"No they won´t be harmed by the spell, it is made for flushing out evil and dark magic from their bodies and their minds and nothing else." Draco assured him before telling all of them to stand to the sides and slightly behind him as we started the spell.

I stood in front of Draco, between his front legs, his head casting me in shadow as I felt the first tiny tendril of his magic reaching out to mine. My own magic happily latched on to his, it felt kind of like when you put a magnet on your fridge, when our magic came close enough to the others it was easy to mesh them together. As the magic started to swirl around us in shimmering bright white rays of light words came to me, and while I had no memory of knowing them before, I just knew that they were the correct ones to help me heal Natsu and Lisanna now.

"With the approval of the gods in our favor, we get the strength.

Underneath the watching eye of the sun and the moon, we stay on our path.

Our faith in this endeavor is fuel by the stars in the sky, and the diamonds hidden underneath the earth.

From the wise man of time, we get the knowledge.

From the kind mother of nature, we embrace the change that is needed.

And with the kindness in our heart we make it happen."

When the last word left my lips all of the magic that was surrounding us gathered in front of me in a ball before shooting towards Natsu and Lisanna, going through both of their chests as a solid beam of white light.

That was all I saw before falling unconscious.

When I woke up again the world around me was surprisingly peaceful and calm. I could feel that a lot had happened since I fell unconscious and I silently wondered for how long I had been out. Draco had warned me that I would probably be out for the remainder of the day but it felt as if more time than that had passed.

I was alone in the guilds infirmary but I could hear the low murmur of voices coming from downstairs so the guild hall was open as usual at least. I sat up in the bed and looked around for Laxus, I was surprised that he wasn´t by my side but not worried, not yet at least.

A knock on the closed door drew me from my thoughts and I looked towards the door just as it started to open. When I caught sight of familiar pink colored hair I tensed up and felt my heartbeat quicken. Natsu stood in the now open doorway, watching me with wide eyes for a moment before a smile split his face and he rushed towards me.

When he came to a stop next to the bed I was occupying I couldn´t help myself, I flinched away from him, not daring to trust that the spell had worked and that he wasn´t about to try and hurt me again. Natsu noticed my reaction and his smile fell a little but did not disappear entirely. He sat down on the bed next to mine and told me quietly.

"It´s all right Lucy I won´t hurt you. Your spell worked, Lisanna and I are both back to normal." He smiled at me again and this time I smiled back, relief flooding through me and relaxing my tense muscles.

The union raid spell I had done with Draco had fulfilled its purpose and I had my old Natsu back. But things would never be able to go back to the way it was before everything had happened and I wondered if he realized that.

"Hey Natsu..?" I asked hesitantly and waited for him to meet my eyes with his own curious ones before I spoke.

"I´m really, really happy to have you back you know that right? But I don´t think I can be on the same team as you again, I´m sorry… We can still do missions together just not all the time and…"

"Lucy your rambling." Natsu interrupted me when my voice started to get high pitched and stressed out. I stopped talking and looked at him to see how he would react to what I had told him.

"I understand Lucy you don´t have to fret. Lisanna and I have had plenty of time to talk about what we did while our magic was poisoned and how it would affect the relations we have with the rest of the guild and with you in particular. We understand that you won´t ever be able to forget what we did and what we caused to happen and we don´t expect you to forget it. We realize that we will have to earn your trust again and that it might be hard won this time. But we´re so happy to be free again, to be us again that anything else kind of gets pushed into the background. You were the one who saved us Lucy, despite what we had done to you and because of that anything you want from us will be yours if it is in my power to do so."

I just looked at him with a slack jaw and wide eyes. I could tell that he was completely serious about everything he said and the genuine worry and shame and sorrow I could detect in his eyes and in his voice made my heart ache for him, my happy little sun who only wanted everyone to be happy… I smiled a watery smile at him as a few tears fell silently from my eye before promising him.

"Your right that I won´t ever be able to forget, but give me enough time and will be able to forgive. You were not yourselves after all and despite everything I still know you well enough to tell that you would never had done what you did if you had been yourself. But we´re still friends Natsu, you were my first friend and will always be my friend no matter what. We´ll get through this." He smiled back at me and the world felt right again, like everything was as it should be. But then I remembered something he had said that didn´t make sense.

"Wait a second what did you mean you and Lisanna had had plenty of time to talk about things? How long was I unconscious? And where is Laxus?" Natsu´s smile faded away until he looked at me with a worried frown marring his forehead.

"Exactly what I said, we have had a lot of time to talk, it´s been a month since you did the spell on us. Everyone was really worried since your dragon spirit apparently had told everyone that you would only be out of it for about a day but then your phoenix spirit showed up and explained that all the stress you had been under since this mess began had finally gotten too much and that you wouldn´t wake up until your mind had a chance to recover and heal."

I hid my face in my hands, had I really been unconscious for an entire month? I shuddered and felt a warm, comforting hand land on my shoulder before Natsu gently shoved me to the other side of the bed so he had space to sit down next to me. He kept his arm around me and I curled up next to him, feeling warm and comforted. But the feeling of complete safety wasn´t there anymore…

"Where´s Laxus?" I asked him again, looking up at him and feeling both small and slightly vulnerable. I wanted Laxus to be here and tell me that everything would be okay again.

"He´s in Crocus and testifying against Manto, his trial should be over by now so Laxus will be back some time tomorrow. Apparently Manto had a marriage contract stating that you would marry him after you turned eighteen signed by your father but after Phantom Lord failed at bringing you back your father had apparently destroyed the contract and told him that you would be free to marry whomever you wanted to when you were ready for that. Manto had then spent up until now planning how to get back at you for that and that´s why he sent the assassins, he figured that if he couldn´t have you no one could. When Laxus found out that was what he was planning he took his team with him and destroyed what was left of the guild, bringing Manto to the rune knights for a trial. Manto will spend the rest of his life in jail, Laxus testimony is just a formality."

I was stunned by the reason for this entire mess and suddenly it all felt so pointless. I had been forced to live through hell just for that? A sob left me and Natsu´s arm tightened around me.

"It will be okay Lucy, I promise." Natsu told me and at hearing him say that I lost control and started to cry in earnest. I cried for everything I had lost, everything I had suffered through and for everything that will never be the same again. Then I cried myself to sleep.

When I woke up again Natsu was gone and Laxus sitting in a chair next to my bed instead. Just seeing him sitting there, waiting patiently for me to wake up brought tears to my eyes and I threw myself off the bed and into his lap, wrapping my arms around his neck and crying into his shoulder.

Everything was finally over and now I could really relax and enjoy my future with this amazing man that were gently rubbing soothing circles on my back and whispering comforting words into my ear as he let me cry.

"Will everything be alright now?" I asked him when my tears dried, just to be on the safe side.

"Yes, everything will be alright. Natsu made me promise to tell you that when you are ready he wants to go on a mission with us and the raijinshuu, apparently he feels the need to get to know his best friends new team." That made me laugh and for the first time in months I was excited for the future and what it would bring. As long as I had Laxus by my side and Natsu back to his normal happy self I could conquer the world if I needed to.

AN: Hey guys I´m so sorry for the long wait and the somewhat abrupt ending. This was not what I had in mind originally but I have completely lost interest in this story so I just wanted to finish it. If anyone wants to use any of my ideas from this story feel free to do so, I don´t mind. And if anyone has questions feel free to send me a pm. Thanks for everything guys! Love C.