Chapter 10

I'm sorry I've been so late in posting chapters.  I just have a lot of more stories to work on. X-X  Well, here chapter 10~!

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~Natsu's P.O.V.~

        "We're here!" said Lucy.  We stood at the entrance of a rather small village.  "This is the village where we had our job, Seasons Village."

        "It looks...kinda beaten up," I said as I looked around.  Some houses looked like they had been a witness to a fight and trees had black marks on their trunks.  Fields looked they had been burned and the cobblestone pathway was a little sloppy.  For some reason though, this whole place looked so familar.

        "Yeah, there had been a fight here," explained Lucy.  "There had been...some monsters that were sealed here and they had escaped, so we were asked to destroy these monsters."

        "Demons," I whisper.  Lucy looks at me confusingly.

        "What?"

        "Huh?  Oh nothing."  Where did that come from?

        "Does anything here look familar to you Natsu?" asked Jessie.  I looked around again.

        "For some reason...it does.." I mutter.  Jessie frowns slightly but nods.

        "Good," she murmured.  "How about you and Lucy go around the village while we go help the villagers clean up the mess?"  I could see Gray scowl but Erza shot him a look that made him put on an obviously fake smile.

        "Yeah, that's a great plan," gritted Gray.

        "So it's settled then," nodded Erza.  "Come on, we have some cleaning to do."  A golden light glowed around Erza.  When the light dispersed, she was in some kind of maid outfit [like the one in the picture].  I noticed Jessie roll her eyes.

        "Come on, let's go find some villagers," said Jessie.

        "Bye guys!" waved Happy.  The white cat, who I think was named Carla, pinched his ear.

        "You're coming with us too," she growled.

        "But I wanna stay with Natsu..!" he whined, but she didn't care.  She dragged him away along with the rest of the group.  Lucy and me watched them walk away until we could no longer see them.

        "Shall we take a look around?" Lucy asked.

        "S-sure," I answered.  We walked around the village just looking around.  Sometimes she'd ask me if I remember a certain spot or not, and I'd say yes and no.

        "What do you mean yes and no?" she asked me when I answered the first time.

        "I mean, this feels familiar, but I can't quite remember it," I tried to explain.  She nodded and we continued walking through the slightly destroyed village.  When we passed by an old small house, my legs stopped moving.

        "What's wrong Natsu?" asked Lucy worryingly.

        "I-I think I remember this place.." I muttered as I examined the small house.  It doesn't seem to be damaged by whatever happened, but it still looked old and the walls were slightly crumbling, showing that this was a very old house.  I slowly walked towards it and carefully opened the creaky wooden door.

        "O-oi Natsu!  This might be someone's house.." said Lucy as she caught up with me.

        "No one lives here," I observed, oblivious to her statement.  The room wasn't that big, but it had a lot of stuff in it.  There was a shelf filled with dusty books, and a glass coffee table in the middle of the room.  A baby carriage was right in front of the coffee table.  Pictures were framed on the wall, and there was a table surrounded by three chairs. There didn't seem to be any lights though, but it seems that this whole place had been left untouched since the former residents left.  I slowly walk into the house, examining every detail of the room.  Why does this place seem..so comforting?  I walk up to the baby carriage with Lucy beside me.  Of course, it was empty, except for a small blue blanket rested very neatly in the inside.  After observing the carriage for a couple seconds, I walked up to a picture that was framed on the wall.  It wasn't in the best shape, so it was a little hard to see some details, but I could make out the main part.  There was a a woman with dark brown eyes and long pink hair holding a baby that had messy pink hair, like hers.  Beside her was a man with black hair and crimson eyes.  The woman looked kind and pleasant and sweet, or atleast that is what I thought she'd be like.  No, for some reason I know she was like that.

        "Natsu, are you okay?" Lucy asked in a soft tone.  I looked into her golden brown eyes.

        "Why do you ask?" I whispered.

        "Because you're crying..."  I placed my hand onto my face, realizing I was.  I quickly wiped my eyes.

        "I'm fine," I murmured.  She looked like she wanted to say more, but closed her mouth and put her right hand on my shoulder.

        "Would you like to go out now?" she softly asked.  I nod, and we walked out of the house.  We went all the way to a field close to the village.  Flowers left over from Spring were scattered across the field, and the grass felt soft under my feet.

        "Why're we here?" I ask, confused.

        "I just thought you might want to take a break after all of that," she said as she stretched her arms.  I looked around at the field.  This feels..so familiar...  Suddenly my head starts throbbing and the world spins around.  "Natsu?  You alright?" I heard Lucy ask when she noticed me.

        "I..I.." My legs couldn't support me anymore and I collapsed onto the soft grass.

        "Natsu!" was the last thing I heard before my vision blurred, but it wasn't Lucy's voice.  It was a woman's.

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