Natsu seemed to be in the what seemed like a dream but could still feel sick to his stomach, which gave him knowledge that probably Luce was walking around somewhere near him or probably sitting next to him..
Natsu began observing this new landscape before him that was weirdly a ice cream wonderland of different flavors of ice cream which just made him want to hurl more because it reminded him of the mint-chip smell he discovered earlier that day but was soon stopped by these cute puppies??
"Hello mister! Can you help us with our friend whose in trouble??!"
"Yes please! You look so strong I'm sure you can help our friend out"
"Yes yes yes, we tried digging her out but she was
really stuck inside the ice-cream cave we were playing in!"
*natsu overwhelmed by the 3 talking puppies that bounced with so much energy he just decided to stay silent and nod his head on agreement to follow them after*
They arrived at what seemed to be a big ice cream scoop of mint-chip ice cream, the irony…. And saw a claw foot sticking out of the ball of ice cream. It looked like a reptiles front foot that was surrounded by paw marks of the attempt of trying to dig their friend' out.
"Ok pups, stand back behind me while I begin melting this ice cream off your friend"
*the pups nodded in agreement and hid behind natsus ankles as he began breathing fire melting the ice cream down. Soon scales where able to be seen from the ice cream and wings?? To natsus surprise it was a baby dragon that managed to get stuck under the ice cream, but disregarding what was under the ice cream, natsu began to feel a feeling of panic and anxiety almost a state of hysteria as he stopped breathing fire and rushed towards the motionless little body of the baby dragon that was the size of a German Shepard*
"Hey! Wake up! Please come on your friends are here for you! You need to get up dammit! Don't go dying on me now"
*the puppies whined as they stood back in a mourning stance as they watch natsu began to cry out in a loud and whimper like way, it was almost how when he saw and held Lucy's motionless body when they where captured and tortured. No, he wasn't gonna lose control this time and he was going to do anything to save this baby dragon now. He began to pat gently on the baby dragons back as he faced her head downwards to try to get any ice-cream that probably got stuck in their airways but found it no use as it refused to move or make any sign of life*
Natsu began to sob now not knowing why he was crying like crazy when he never was really sad only if he had to witness a friends death or the death of his father. He began letting out his flames from his body and he attempted to warm the baby dragons body with his to give it the 'warmth' a living thing would produce as he clutched it close to his chest…
Soon he felt movement in his arms as he looked down the baby dragon had managed to finally open their eyes, they where beautiful with a golden color to their eyes and her scales where a rosey pink color now instead of a pale pink color. As he looked at the dragon in shock with a sudden stop to his sobbing tantrum. The dragon reached out its arm out twords his face and briefly said something before mimicking his sudden warrior cry. Natsu couldn't tell what the baby dragon had said but felt a huge feeling of relief now as he saw the baby dragon had woken up but soon felt the pull of his dreams coming to a end now as he fought to stay asleep for a little more time to ask questions as to why where they playing in a dangerous place especially a dragon in a cold place of all places!! He was sucked out of his dreams as he caught a glimpse of a young girl now with sporting pink hair like his call out to him with a huge missing fanged smile
"Go…dby.. DA…DY!!!"
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-Lucy's POV-
*gasp*
*lucy was a strong minded mage, anything that was thrown her way would be no big deal as she would bounce right back with a burning determination to fight back. But this, she didn't expect this to happen so soon… she could already feel a layer of anxiety coming off her as she looked at the little stick she had peed on earlier that evening. She recalled what happened after when she gave the results to levy that she was both overjoyed but also a bit sympathetic things had to take such a sharp turn so quickly.
She didn't regret anything that's for sure, she loved natsu no matter what and was actually relieved hearing that he had only begun to become motion sick was for the reason that he 'loves' her very much a dragon slayer would take over all the symptoms of pregnancy the moment their mate conceived. The same thing would work the same if the dragon slayer was a female too their human spouse would carry the symptoms for them. She chuckled as she remembered now how levy looked at Gajeel with a death glare after he disclosed this information to Lucy infront of her, heck she knew levy was gonna beat Gajeel till next Monday for not loving her that much… she sighed again as she took another look at the stick and decided to put it away in a safe place of her drawer that contained her letters she would write to her mother from time to time, sure she never expected to mail them but it was comforting to think maybe her mother can read through her writing someway and know she was doing well.*
Lucy got up from the chair making sure she didn't wake natsu who was carried by Gajeel and flopped on Lucys bed without care and had bid farewell. She stared now at natsu as the sunset caressed his cheek and hair playing funny illusions with his pink hair that seemed to glow a yelllow gold tone with a hint of pink that his hair was. She began fantasizing of how their baby would look with blonde and pink hair? Would it be like a rose gold color? Shiny and glowing in a rose pink color? She chuckled and fan-girled a bit just thinking about how amazing it was to have a child with her love of her life.
But then… she was startled from her seat as she saw natsu begin to cry in his sleep… wait why is he crying???…
'Is he having a nightmare?? Maybe he's probably feeling worse now that I'm near him like this… I should get some space between us before he wakes or else he might throw up on my bed too..'
*the thought left her to sweat drop a bit so as she got up from her knees by the edge of her bed from where she had kneeled to stare at his face suddenly a strong grip took hold of her wrist and she was pulled into a bear hug to natsu's chest. He began whimpering and mumbling words that she couldn't quite make sense out off but suddenly as fast as he began whimpering like a puppy he had stopped… with a big sigh he took he clutched her harder now and sniffed her hair that managed to land on his face when he yanked her to him. She stayed frozen in place wondering why is he acting so weird now and almost inhaling her 'scent' he had deemed 'disgusting'. As she now began to wiggle out of his grasp she heard him suck a breath in almost as if he was loosing strength to hold onto something she pushed her self now up from his chest to look at him and was only met now with wet golden eyes filled with despair…*
"Natsu?… are you… ok…?"
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"... no, Luce…? s-she was … so young…. So beautiful…
No … I'm not …. oka-…"
*his sentence seemed to have collapsed as he began to sob uncontrollable now as he remembered the cold lifeless little body of the baby dragon he had held in his dream and began to crush lucy into a embrace..
Lucy didn't know what was happening but, his emotions were so damaged that she began to cry too… maybe it was the hormones but she felt a sense of lost when she heard natsu say that same word he had called her 'beautiful' that morning…
She stayed with natsu crying into each other's embrace comforting each other with the others tears. It became almost like a sad conversation between lovers*
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After a gloomy afternoon, lucy and natsu had fallen asleep after their moment and laid their on Lucy's bed embracing each other. After some time natsu had let go of Lucy who was sleeping soundly on top of his chest finding comfort in his abnormal body temperature almost as if it was a 'need' she wanted to have for herself. Natsu being in a peaceful slumber after having episodes of passing out and waking up to vomit whatever his stomach can scrape from his insides, was exhausted but after a few pinches and having a hard time to breathe in his sleep he managed to awaken from his sleep to find who was restricting his breath.
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-Natsu's POV-
*I had begun to wake up for what felt like the 10th time that day? I just feel like my body has been hit by a train or if I went to go play fetch with aconologia, the twist was that I was the thing he would 'fetch' was me, and after being thrown like a rag doll.
'Groans'
Man, I'm really out of shape. I need to start up my training again…*
Natsu began to sit up to try to stretch his soar neck that hinted he had slept wrong in a uncomfortable spot in Lucy's bed and headboard. But soon found a weight restricting him from getting up and soon saw his charming lucy sleeping on his chest nuzzling a bit in between his chest.
'Wow, how is she so cute even though she's asleep on top of me crushing me to death'
*he let out a small giggle which hurt him because he was still in a awkward position where his neck was killing him now and his chest was being pressed down my Lucy's weight.*
'Hmm… I wonder why I'm not getting motion sickness now that Lucy is this close to me? Maybe it's only when she's moving or awake? No it can't be that… it was probably something I ate today in the morning that got my stomach upset *sigh~* I should really start listening to luce about checking expiration dates haha-'
*he froze in his train of thought as he noticed another new scent he hasn't smelled in a long time… vanilla?? No it's not that… this scent was a bit citrusy and more of a sharp sweet scent. If fire mixed with flowers can be a scent this would be the scent. It's as if someone had flared up a flower on fire to release the flowers greatest pontential. He wouldn't lie, the smell was much better then luce's new mint-chip perfume she put on this morning. This one definitely suited luce better. He was then stunned from the daze as he felt luce stir awake now and lifted her head now to look at him with her glossy puffy beautiful dark eyes.*
"Hi.."
"..uh.. hi?"
*natsu and luce giggled a bit after what seemed like a awkward pause between the two till luce decided to break the ice.*
"So… are you feeling better?.."
"Hm? Feeling better in what way? If your asking about the motion sickness, yes I feel better it seemed that I just ate something bad that didn't sit well with my stomach. *sigh* I should really listen to you now about eating junk hahaha"
*lucy felt a tug at her heart how he was so oblivious to why he was feeling like this, but decided to let it pass and wait for a better moment to tell him the news. She was more worried about what he had been dreaming for him to cry so much that afternoon.*
"Not that natsu, I was talking about the nightmare you were having… you woke up delirious and crying.."
*natsu stopped chuckling and remembered the dream he had and blushed a bit starring at Lucy's window to find a way to hide his embarrassment from luce.*
"Ah. That. Well… it wasn't a nightmare exactly… I don't know what it was but, I just felt so sad in that dream that I woke up I still thought I was in it…"
"Oh! So it wasn't a nightmare? Can you please tell me?… I'm actually curious what could have made you cry like that."
*natsu began to scramble his memories as lucy got up from his chest to give him room to sit up now as she mimicked him in sitting positions on her bed across from him waiting for him to find the dream he forgot about.*
"Hmm… I remember it had to do with ice cream… and puppies-"
*lucy couldn't help a laugh escape her lips as she imagined natsu crying because either a puppy had drooled on him or played tug a war with his scarf*
"Oh hahahaha… don't tell me the puppy was being a bully to you to cry."
"No it wasn't that…. The puppies weren't even the reason I was crying…"
*there was a thin slice of tension to what natsu had said that worried lucy after seeing the sad expression that he had in his face when answering her.*
*sigh* "to be honest with you luce, I remember only parts of what I was dreaming and what made me cry was seeing a little girl lifeless in my arms…. I don't know why but seeing her .. little body not moving, got something in my heart throb in a painful way somewhere. It still feels so unreal.."
*lucy was a little taken a back by how natsu sympathized with someone he dreamt up being dead for a second, there was a pause till she saw natsu's eyes glimmer with warmth again with the next part he said*
"… but I managed to save her somehow with my fire.. *small smile* she looked so cute smiling so wide that I can tell she was missing a few fangs, I felt as if she was a little sibling of mine just watching her light up with happiness"
"Well… that's kind of a good dream then right natsu?"
*natsu chuckled a bit showing off his prized fangful mouth grin as he looked at lucy now*
"Yes. It was so great I didn't want to leave my dream just yet… I was mostly worried about her and the puppies the little girl was with, I know it's not something real but I can't get over the feeling of not seeing that face again..it's scary"
*lucy blushed a warm tone now, not caring if natsu notices as she thought
'Yeah maybe you will see her again someday..'
She shifted from her spot to move next to Natsu now to lay her head on his shoulder to give and take some comfort.*
"Don't be so worried about it Natsu, it just goes to show that even when your in your dreams you always saving the day.."
*natsu raised a eyebrow at that point and smirked deciding to change the atmosphere a bit as he turned towards Lucy ambushing and pinning her down in a playful thud on her bed.*
"Damn right! Just know you mean everything to me Lucy. Now. I haven't had much time today to 'play' with ya"
*a sudden evil smirk appeared on natsu's face as Lucy knew what he was planning to do now.*
"Don't. You. Dare."
"Hehehe.."
*As Natsu suddenly made a mad dash to tickle Lucy in the stomach and any weak points he was so familiar with when a sudden gush of wind came threw the window making the two jump at a sudden figure appearing outside the open window frame.