Natsu's Point Of View

We heard a ring and Gramps pulled out another lacrim. He pressed a few buttons before the screen came on with Kalmte.

"She threw a dagger at the screen, didn't she?" She said and put her head on her hand.

"Yup." I heard Happy say.

"She isn't there?"

"Yup."

"Anyways, what do you know about the guild that's after Lucy? All we know is who and a little on the guild." Gramps said.

"Well, the name of the dark guild is called Dark Night. They have been attacking villages, they kill the men but keep the women and children. We haven't been told or found out what they are doing with them. They won't stop till they get what they want. That's pretty much what I can tell you."

"You don't know why they want her or what they want in all this?"

"No, she didn't tell me.”

“I just wonder why she told you but not us.”

“She told me some of the stuff that happened. From what I know there's a lot that happened and she blames herself. She can't see that it wasn't her fault but she doesn’t believe me.”

“What happened?”

“It isn’t my place to say, she’ll tell you once she’s ready.”

“Anything else you can tell us?”

“On the guild, no but I do ask that you watch Lucy, please. I worry about her, there's a lot that she didn't tell me. I know for a fact that she has a lot on her shoulders. Just watch her for me, make sure she doesn't do something stupid.”

“Alright, will tell you any information we get.”

“Ok, bye.” the call ended.

“Erza, Gray, Natsu, Levy, Wendy, and Gajeel try to find Lucy,” Gramps asked.

“We’ll find her, Gramps. No need to worry.” Gray said and we head out the guild. We walked into town.

“Why did he pick me? I don't want to try and find Bunny Girl.”

“He did it so you could use your nose to find her scent.” Gajeel didn't say anything else. We walked around town looking for Lucy but we didn't find her. We started heading back to the guild once the sun started setting. As we got closer to the guild I saw someone sitting in the clearing we have next to the guild. We towards the person and saw that it was Lucy.

"She was here the entire time?" Gajeel shouted. She turned and looked at us and Lucy wasn't in control, Guardian was. 

"Maybe if you paid attention to how faded the scent was then you would have found me." She snapped. She thought bout it for a minute before saying,

"Sorry, it was not right for me to snap at you. I was still angry from before." She looked at the sunset. We all walked over to her.

"Why are you in control?" Erza asked.

"Lucy needs…. Time, she says. Although I believe she just needs to process all that has happened."

"That's understandable cause we just called her and suddenly she's here, telling us what she didn't want us to know," Levy said.

"Well, that's true but before you called her, we were running. Dark Night is persistent on what they get. If it wasn't for Yukino for calling us, we would have been captured."

"Why are they after you?"

"They, they." She seemed she wanted to say but couldn't.

"There is a reason why Lucy didn't tell you and why she left. Why she stayed away, not asking for help even though she needed it. From what I could tell, she didn't want you guys to be involved. From the two years we were away, there has been a lot of... deaths. She didn't want any of you to die for her. She rather be on the run than see any of you get hurt. She cares deeply for all of you. She sees you all as family and she doesn't want to lose her family again."

"So how much don't we know?"

"A lot," We didn't say anything.

"Simply, there is more than you know." She said and stood up. She dusked off whatever dirt was on her and looked at the sun as it was halfway done.

"Come on, let's go inside and continue talking bout what we are gonna do." We all started walking but we didn't see Lucy or Guardian walking with us so we turned to look back at her. She stayed there for a few than turned and started walking towards us. We walked into the guild. She sat at the bar while we somewhat surround her.

"So what's our plan?" Erza asked.

"Well, for now, they don't know where I'm at so that gives me time. The best that we can do is just be ready for anything."

"So that's it, we are just gonna wait here till they found out that you're here?" I said angrily.

"Yes,"

"Why don't we go and fight them already?"

"These are not the same people we gone against, Natsu." She said and stood up.

"So, we have won every battle. We even won in a fuckin war. Why are you just going to sit around and not doing anything?"

"Because I know if we go against them, you all would be DEAD." She yelled. You could see a little color appearing in her hair and a little blue appearing in her eyes. She ran her hand through her hair trying to calm down.

"Guardian,-." 

"Just stop." She said, walked to the door and slipped out. I was bout to go after her but Gramps stopped me.

"Leave her, they need time to calm down. We'll continue this later."  Everyone started talking and enjoying the rest of their night. I asked Mira for some food. I want to go after her but she needs time. I stuff my face with the food. Once I was done I picked a quick fight with Gray. After Erza bashing our heads together I head on home. As I was walking home I looked up at the sky, the moon was a full moon and the stars were shining so brightly. Once I got home I changed out of my clothes and laid in bed. 'What are you hiding?' Was my last thought before I fell asleep.

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