Hello! Sorry for the long waiting! It has been, I think, practically a year since I haven't written a new chapter… I am truly sorry for that… Well at least, this was the final chapter for this fanfiction. Yes! Another one completed! Finally! Hope you'll enjoy it! I will update soon! This time it's true!

The run back home was fastidious. Tears streaming down her pale cheeks blurred her vision making it impossible for her to see clearly the path ahead. As she wiped yet again the salty water covering the major parts of her face, she looked around and didn't recognize her surroundings. As if, she hadn't come here before at all…

Oh great! Now I am lost!

TAKATA! TAKATA!

"The beast shall die tonight, pierced by my blade, his head resting atop my chimney as I dance with the woman he loved!" yelled a young drunk man which voice couldn't be mistaken.

No…NO!

"The great Sting shall deliver the world from the monster, from that atrocious lover stealer, from that hideous thing that shouldn't be born. Oh Sting the Great shall save us all!" yelled a young man clearly helped by some humongous drinks.

Lucy, panicked, hid behind the nearest tree and for a second stopped breathing. Realizing these people were too drunk to even comprehend one of the words she soon would be enunciating, she relaxed a bit and started thinking about her next move.

He is stronger than these bastards. Surely he can win! I mean he's got the woman he loves by his side, his future Queen. She has everything he would ever deserve. She is rich, young, beautiful…

"Ah Mistress Lisanna surely did the nasty job well! Convincing these poor idiots that she was to be King Natsu's betrothed. If he were to be a little bit more intelligent, he would have known that this girl he loves so much has been exiled by her father for falling in love with one of her servants… What was his name again … Bickslow? Such a shame they had to be separated since he had to keep serving the King while she had to live the rest of her life in the streets trying to survive… If that Bickslow dude hadn't been our superior, that little rotten thing wouldn't have had our fucking help! Godammit! Life is just unfair!" cried Lector, the effects of alcohol working their way in his system.

"You should have seen his face! Judging by the letter Lisanna wrote to me after the departure of Lucy, he was crying like a baby yelling he was madly in love with Lucy and that she was the only one he wanted to have in bed with him… Another reason for fucking killing him! As if I would let him near her enough for him to contaminate her with his ugliness and do those perverted things with her! I am the savior here and he the villain! It has always been that way!" Roared Sting

Lucy suppressed a cry of joy. The blush spread to her whole face as she took in the information she received thanks to these guys so drunk they probably couldn't even standstill. She might still have a chance left at happiness.

He loves me? Me, a peasant that has no money to give and that is okay looking? Me, the clumsy girl who didn't take her chance at a first kiss from that guy she thought was her soulmate? Me, the girl that said so mean things to this guy, that didn't even bother to listen when he was trying to explain, to claim his innocence…What is so good about me that he could actually love? Look at him with his beautiful fuzzy smile, his awkward answers to questions, his rising temper, his devastating power, his warmth, his comforting personality… That guy… is beautiful

"Anyway, Lucy will be better off with me! I mean, I am prettier this guy… For an instant, I must admit that I really thought her bullshit about finding this guy attractive was true… That is… until I understood the true motives that were hiding behind that cute and inoffensive little creature… the craving for power. That little bitch was pretty clever! After marrying that disgusting pig, she would have everything she has ever wanted. A place to stay and a lot of fucking money! But she'll have that with me anyway. After I slay that cocky bastard, half of his fortune will go to me as promised in this letter from Lisanna. Plus, when I'll fuck Lucy, I'll make sure to do it in the living room where is hanging head will be standing, just a friendly reminder that he could never win against me." Sting kept on saying, praising himself more and more just to please his enormous ego.

The anger rising in her chest, Lucy ignored his atrocious comments.

I have to do something and quick. That letter he talked about, maybe if I can get it… And arrive there before them…

I guess I don't have a choice but to do this…

Lucy got out of her hiding place and when straight to Laxus, a seductive fake smile plastered on her face. Before he could do a single move, she pressed herself against him and in a tight embrace searched for the famous letter in the most subtle way possible.

"Hey there pretty babe" he purred as he closed his arms around her. She suddenly started to suffocate not liking the proximity of their bodies knowing perfectly what that guy was capable of. As she slid her hand into one of his side pockets, she felt a little paper folded.

The letter!

As she pretended to listen to his total garbage about him being the best person on Earth, she slid slowly from his arms and created a safe distance between the two while hiding the hand keeping the letter behind her back.

"Why are you so far away from me? He questioned, anger rising in his voice as he tried to close in the distance between them. Though, each and every step he took in, she would took a step back to keep away from him as far as possible.

Suddenly, one of the drunkards asked out of the blue: "what is it you are hiding behind you?"

At these words, rage build up in the eyes of Sting. He snatched her arm from behind her back and pulled her in the direction of a little carriage he had brought that was pulled by two young black horses. He then open the door of this cage and pushed her in with brutality as he locked her in. In this act of anger, he forgot wholly about the letter. He only kept fuming as he and his servitor climbed both on one horse and whipped them without any mercy obligating them to advance faster than they ever did before.

At the yelp of pain coming from the horses, a cry of multiple people came from behind. Villagers were coming armed with whatever things they found that could cut or hurt. Some were coming with metal shovels, others with torches, knives…

Lucy barged on the doors begging these people to open them. But her demand was ignored as it was muted by the cries of villagers that had come from other countries, some of them exiled by what Natsu used to be, a merciless King.

They marched for a good thirty minutes when they suddenly halted as Lucy supposed they had unfortunately arrived at the castle. Together, they cut a tree down and combining forces took each a part of it and push with all their might against the wooden door. It easily opened to a hall empty and totally quiet. As an awkward silence took place upon the villagers, Lucy took her chance and yelled at the top of her lungs: People! Run! Natsu! Please save yourself from the real beast! Save yourself from Sting while you can! Please! I don't want them to hurt you!

Sting knock on the door hard and told her to shut herself up or he would hit her. But lucy had enough of hiding.

"You pretend to be the savior and the grand hero, but all you manage to do is it a woman while she is defenseless, locked in a cage where you placed her. You call this King a beast, a monster, but my friend is far from that. He is kind and remorseful for all the bad things he did before. He was planning to give food and shelter to any person who needed it because he as a heart. He is generous. People, villagers! The monster is laying in your troops. He, Sting is the monster! He beats woman and who knows what he will do once he has children… And that is if a woman is ever crazy to put these fragile creatures in the arms of such a bloody monster…

To these words, he open the cage door and brutally took her out, practically throwing her on the ground as he came closer snatching away a piece of metal and a torch from two different villagers.

"I am going to close that dirty mouth of your forever", he yelled as he approached both things from her, as she stayed on the ground still hurt from the impact.

"No you won't! There's nobody hurting my mate here!" a familiar voice responded from the door entrance. As people turn around, a monster was approaching, a ball of blazing fire getting bigger and bigger at each and every step he took.

Lucy smiled at that remark. As he looked upon her, he grinned softly, his eyes still puffy from the crying.

"Nice to see you back, but prepare, because it was the last time you left me!" He said hearts practically appearing in his eyes.

At that precise moment, Sting took out a sword and an axe from behind his back and charged him.

"Looks like this could hurt" he said his serious face back.

As the axe drop toward his, he seized it in between his hands and made it melt within seconds. Furious, Sting started slashing randomly with his sword as Natsu tried his best to evade them all. The villagers, witnesses of the violence of their supposedly hero, were uncertain of their choice's side. At this, Lector, took out his own sword and lift it toward a young man that had a broken arm but had decided to come either way to protect his family from the threat.

At this, Lucy place herself in between the two making Natsu lose his concentration and push her aside to take the blow at her place. Fortunately, it didn't penetrate a vital region. Hurt and a bit bloody, Natsu took out the sword from his shoulder and tossed it away for a villager to pick it for self-defence.

Looking at some of the blood pouring from his wound, he looked at Lucy that was petrified over that wound.

"Happy! Bring her and the villagers inside to safety. This might not end well."

"Yes master!" He said bravely, trying to avoid stuttering as he conducted everybody inside.

As the turn of Lucy came, Sting pull her arm.

"Oh no babe, you are not going anywhere!" he laughed mischievously

"Leave her alone"

"Oh really! Did you know that this little girl here pretends to be interested in you only for the throne and your money? Did you really think she would fall for you? I mean look at yourself!"

"Don't listen to him! That's not true at all! You are probably my only friend! I would never do this to you!"

"See! She doesn't perceive you as a lover… She would return the apparent feelings you feel towards her!"

Lucy stopped talking shocked by what had came out of Sting's mouth.

"That's a lie as well!" she answered, stuttering.

"Then prove us otherwise! Tell us that you love him babe! Go ahead! Scream it out loud I want to hear it!"

Pure hurt reverberated in the eyes of Natsu as he gaped at Sting.

"Too late!" he exclaimed as he took the opportunity and plunged his sword in the heart of the unmoving beast shocked by what he thought was unrequited love.

Natsu looked at the sword that was entering deeper and deeper in his chest, but that pain, was nothing compared to the emptiness he felt rising in his chest. The little butterflies that fluttered happily in his stomach every time he would hear her pronounce his name, they were all falling down the pit of it, flushed away. The accelerated movement of his heart was slowing rapidly as it was getting cold and hard as rock.

His reserve of energy leaving his body, he looked at Sting as he smiled and dropped to his knees. As Sting was about to go fetch a sword to cut Natsu's head off, something pierced his heart from behind.

"All my life I have been scared of you! Not anymore! May you go in hell for what you did!" she screamed. And with that, Lucy twisted the sword in the wound.

He didn't take long to die, but for Lucy, he had already stayed alive for too much time.

She then approached Natsu who had fallen own in the dirt face first. She quickly lifted his shoulders and placed him on his back. The wound was deep and blood was oozing from it. He didn't have much time left.

Natsu wouldn't look at her. So she breathed heavily knowing it would be her last chance to tell him everything.

"Natsu… Yes, you are my dearest friend, but at the same time, you are more than that. You are the guy I wished I would wake up beside every morning. You are the one I wish would smile while looking at me…

She broke into tears

"You are the one I would have loved to have kids with, the one I would have spent the rest of my days with, the one who possess my heart and will always have it, but mostly, you are you will always be my one and only."

"Natsu, I love you more than everything. I love you with all my heart and soul. I have been madly in love with you since the very day you looked at me, because I felt what real love was."

"I will always be yours…"

She then pressed herself against him and cried on his shoulders as he lay there motionless and smile-less.

"So that bastard really did it!" an infantine voice said.

Lucy turned around and saw a little blue haired girl that strangely looks like a kid standing close, her little wings batting rapidly as she held a little stick ended by a star in her right hand.

Is life really mocking me?

"Girl, step aside."

"No! You won't touch him. Leave him alone!"

"Do you wish to see him alive again, yes or not?"

"Yes of course! But that's impossible! It would take a miracle!" she sobbed as she caressed his face.

"I am a miracle lady! Now step aside and let me, Levy the enchantress, do my work!"

Sceptic, Lucy, finally decided to step aside knowing nothing worse could happen to him considering he was in fact already dead.

The little girl started pronouncing weird incantations and the body of her beloved started glowing and getting high into the air. He then started shining in various colors. As Lucy looked in awe, she noticed how the shape of the body was changing. The horns were slowly disappearing and the scales as well leaving smooth tan skin to replace it.

As the metamorphosis ended, Lucy didn't at first recognize the body lying there in the dirt. It was pink haired and slowly starting to move. The human was still dressed in Natsu's clothes except they were a bit too large for him since the thing now standing before her was way thinner than before.

The thing then sat and looked directly at Lucy and turned his head right away since he had died before hearing her love confessions.

"Girl… That's the same dude ya know… So hum, yeah, have a nice day." And with that she disappeared before Natsu could even make eye contact with her.

She stood there for a good minute red as a tomato realizing what had just happened. Natsu was still looking away, baring the love rejection badly.

She then made her decision and without looking back jumped softly on him. Surprised flared his face as she clutched his face in both her hands and pressed her lips fiercely on his in a war kiss. His onyx eyes grew wide at the surprise but quickly closed as one of his hands traced the line of her spine and the other played with some of her hair.

She took quickly pulled away in his point of view, but at the same time, he didn't really care. She had kissed him, which meant in his primitive language that she loved him that he wouldn't sleep alone at night. These simple things were enough to make him the happiest man on earth.

"Did you know that pink was my favorite colour?" she asked him as she twirled around own if her fingers one of his messy bangs.

At first he didn't understand what she meant… And finally, the reality hit him as he looked at his body turning which had turned back to normal.

"That little witch did respect her promise then" he whispered as he looked at her mate and kissed her yet again. He bit her lower lip accidently as a fire ball burnt his butt and a little voice echoed in the sky: "I'm no witch! I'm an enchantress"

Natsu didn't dare say anything after that fearing she would burn him yet again. Lucy was laughing really hard at that and even thought his male ego had been damaged, it felt good to see her laugh so hard.

"Natsu!" a little blue cat yelled as he and all the domestics of the castle barged outside fully transformed back as human beings.

"Guys!" He yelled as they all came around the two love birds and held them tightly in a big family hug.

"It seems I missed out on something" Lucy said confused as she hugged all these people that she used to know as ovens and furniture.

"What about we speak about all that inside?" Natsu suggested

Then, he looked at all the villagers and grinned widely.

"Come in! I am sure you guys are starving" he said and they all went inside.

And, they lived and happily ever after.

-X-

"But papa, you skipped about like fifteen pages! I saw you!" yelled a little blonde haired kid

"Sorry, mature content for adult in these pages… You are too young for that and I don't feel comfortable reading this to you! I still don't understand why you wrote our story in that book Luce and entirely!"

"I love that book! Plus it helps me remember all the nice moments we've had together… at least some of it!" Lucy said.

While the parents were discussing, Nalu's best friend, Happy and Charle's kid, was viciously taking the book away and flipping through the pages.

He cleared his throat and started reading: Then the King took his wife to the bedroom…

"Hey don't read that!" yelled Natsu as he snatched the book away red in the face.

Indeed, they did live and happily ever after with … a whole lot of children.