Super Psycho Love | By : Rhov Category: +. to F > Fairy Tail Views: 9712 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 15
Ending #2: Sad Ending
"I raped her!"
Gray's mind swirled. Flashes of memories randomly came back to him. He thought back to the ryokan trip the team had taken, just as he and Lucy were beginning to hook up. He had not thought much about it back then, but now Gray shivered to think that maybe Lucy knew something about Natsu's violent nature.
"I'm scared of Natsu sometimes. What if he gets jealous? If he tried anything, would you fight him for me?"
"If he dares to touch you, I'll kill that fucking flame-brain!"
Slowly, his cold eyes raised to meet Natsu's insane gaze. "You … youuu…"
"You heard me," Natsu said slyly. "She didn't go down easily, either. It's a shame, but I had to get rough. I broke her wrist, probably her back … I had planned to apologize to her later. It was her own fault, though. She fought hard, kept insisting she was in love with you. All lies, of course," he reasoned. "She's my mate for life, after all. I just had to remind her. I guess, in the end, you proved my point. I wasn't the worst thing to ever happen to Lucy. You were, Gray."
Gray covered his mouth as he felt ready to vomit. "Oh my God. What did I do?"
"Killed your girlfriend in a fit of rage," Natsu answered flatly. "It's a common story. How about I send you to the next life so you can be with her again?" A fiery magic circle formed around the Dragon Slayer's hands.
"Next life?" Gray mused, and a sardonic smile lifted his face as tears dripped down. "I don't deserve to be with Lucy in the next life. And neither do you."
The pose he took was familiar, legs spread, arms forward, stiff, and crossed in front in an 'X' sign, right arm above the left, right palm facing down; left palm facing up. A pale blue magic circle formed under him, so intense that it tinted the entire room. Natsu's eyes widened when he saw it. Powerful magic built up around Gray, and the whole room turned cold.
"Gray, no!" Natsu shouted.
"Neither of us should follow Lucy into the next life." Gray's face was surprisingly calm as he looked up at Natsu and saw the look of shock and silent protest on the young man's face. "This way, Lucy will be free from us. When she's reborn, she won't have two assholes like us who'd only hurt her."
The power built up. Magic circles formed around Natsu, four on each side and one above, boxing him in.
"Gray, stop!" Natsu screamed. "You'll die, too."
"Oh no, Natsu. See, I won't die. I'll become ice. I'll never move on from this existence, and I'll keep you frozen with me for eternity." Then he closed his eyes and whispered, "I'm sorry, Lucy."
"Like hell I'd let you!"
Natsu flung himself at the Ice-Make wizard in desperation. At the last second, Gray broke the stance and shot his hand out. There was a blue flash, and Natsu impaled himself on a spear of ice. Blood splattered out of his mouth as his remained good eye began to cloud over.
"Be happy I killed you the same way I killed her, you motherfucking sonuvabitch," Gray sneered, and he thrust the spear in even deeper.
Natsu coughed more blood, and it streaked down his chin and onto the white scarf. "Not … quick … enough."
Gray felt the burning. Natsu's flame-enshrouded hand had stabbed into his gut, burning a hole straight through his torso and out the back. Blood poured out, and Natsu chuckled at the final victory.
"Meet you in hell, bastard."
Gray yanked the spear out, and Natsu stumbled to the floor, falling flat on his back.
"Ladies first." Gray raised the spear and stabbed it right between Natsu's eyes, pinning his head to the floor.
Their blood covered the ground. Gray filled his wound with ice, but he could tell already, this was fatal. Natsu's aim was too good. Freezing it would give him ten minutes of life at best.
He yanked his coat on and pulled it together to hide the blood. His head swam as he stumbled through the streets of Magnolia. People looked oddly at him, but no one said anything to what they assumed was yet another drunken wizard.
"Gray!"
He looked up and saw Mira racing through the street.
"Oh God, Gray! I was so worried. When we found Lucy…"
"Lucy?" He was in a daze, numbed from blood-loss. Lucy. That was right. Lucy was dead. He had killed her.
"She's dead, Gray," Mira sobbed. "Oh God, I can't believe it."
"Easy, Mira," he said, realizing that her crying was attracting attention. "Where is she now?"
"Have you not found her? Thank God! I feared that maybe you had … uh, never mind," she said, ashamed that she had assumed Gray was the one who did it. "We discovered her body in the park. I placed a barrier around it so common people won't see it. Only wizards. That way the body won't be disturbed while Wendy races back to the guild to tell everyone."
"The park?" he muttered. "Dead. In the park." Flashes of his deed flickered through his memory, but it felt unreal. It was like looking through the eyes of someone else.
"I'm glad I found you. Now I'm worried, though. If you're here, who did that to Lucy?" Then she saw red on his coat. "Gray! Blood! Don't tell me…"
"Natsu," he blurted out. "Natsu … he … he raped Lucy."
Mira's eyes widened in horror. "What?"
"I found him. He confessed. Bragged about it! Fucking bastard!" he sneered. "He wasn't working things out with Lucy last night. He was raping her! Torturing her!" Gray broke down in tears. "Lucy … she was innocent. And … and I thought she … but she didn't. It was Natsu. He hurt her. He…"
"Then, the blood?"
"His. Natsu's. I … I killed him. I'm sorry. Maybe I should have restrained him until he could be arrested, but … but I … he did that to Lucy. To her! And here I thought … I thought she … oh God!" he sobbed, collapsing against Mira's chest.
Mira hugged him. "Oh Gray! This went so out of hand. I can't even think … this just isn't real. Oh God, I want it to be a nightmare."
"It is," Gray sneered. "And we can't wake up!"
"Gray," she sighed.
"Where … where's Lucy? Where is she?"
"The park, by the big oak tree. You'll be able to see her through the barrier."
"I … wanna … hold her."
Mira nodded with saddened understanding. She pulled out a paper charm. "This will let you enter. Where is Natsu?"
"The old steel warehouse, westside of town."
"Thank you. I need to put a barrier around his body, too, until authorities come." She looked sad. "Don't leave Magnolia, Gray. You'll need to face an investigation, but after this, I doubt you'll be arrested."
"Investigation?"
"For killing Natsu," she explained gently, worried about his dazed confusion. "I'm sure it was self-defense. He must have threatened you. You're all beat up."
Gray touched the hidden wound to his stomach staunched with ice. "He was trying to kill me. We … we all … we were teammates. Friends. Nakama. What the hell happened?" he asked faintly, gazing at distant memories of happier days. "How … how did it end up this way? Fairy Tail … everything. It wasn't ever supposed to be like this. Why did Natsu … w- … why … to Lucy … why did I…?" He broke down into fresh tears.
"He went insane. You did what you had to do." She really worried about Gray blaming himself for Natsu's death.
Gray's wet eyes gazed out blankly. He felt his life slipping away faster. "Gotta find Lucy."
Mira saw how dazed he was. She hardly blamed him. After being forced to kill a teammate, and then finding out his raped girlfriend was dead, she was shocked Gray could function at all. "Stay by her, Gray. Promise me that. Don't leave town."
"I promise, I'll stay right beside her." He walked away, and he heard Mira race off down the street. "For all eternity," he whispered to himself.
He walked slowly to stretch out his life. He felt the chill inside him of Death approaching, and he needed to slow his movement so as not to hasten the end. Finally, he came to the park and saw the shimmer of magic. Most people around did not seem to notice. A few small children pointed to it, probably children born with magical abilities, but since their playmates saw nothing, they assumed it was their imagination. Gray walked up to the barrier, placed the paper charm against it, and his hand slid through. He stepped inside, disappearing from sight.
Inside, Lucy laid in the same spot. It was obvious Mira and Wendy had moved her a little, inspecting the horrific wound that completely took out her heart.
Gray walked forward with tears in his eyes. Now that he looked more, he saw bruises on her wrist and legs. She had been horrifically tortured. In his rage, he saw none of that before. He knew now, she had been a victim of something hideous. She had probably been hiding in this park so she could cry and brace herself for the outcome of the crime.
Gray didn't know! All because of an assumption and his own unquenchable anger, he lashed out without getting a chance to hear her explain things.
"Why didn't you blurt it out?" he whispered. "He raped me. Three words would have stopped me. Was it so hard to say? Was it too shameful to admit? Oh God, Lucy!"
He collapsed beside her, too weak to stand now. He lifted her limp body, sobbing into her golden hair, and stroked his hand over the cheeks that now felt cold even to him. Gray shook his head, refusing to believe the truth. She had been assaulted, she was probably terrified and in pain, ready to fling herself to Gray for protection from Natsu, and he betrayed her in the worst way possible.
Had his trust in her truly been so shallow? He did not for a second truly believe that she wouldn't have had an affair. Just a rumor, a hint, the naive words of a young cat, were all it took to freeze his heart.
Gray began to shake at the horrific truth of his crime. He had done something far worse than Natsu.
"Lucy!" he shrieked as his frozen heart shattered into pieces.
Gray wailed, and he was glad the barrier shielded him from the world outside. All around him, life was moving on. No one saw. No one heard. No one knew that a beautiful life had been ended, and a love had been sundered apart. It was Lucy's birthday and a gorgeous July morning. It felt like nature was mocking him.
"I'm sorry," he sobbed, clutching her lifeless body close to him. "Oh God, I'm so sorry. You're in heaven, and Natsu's in hell, and I'm stuck here. Why?" he screamed.
He sobbed as he felt her cold limbs slowly stiffening more. She really was gone.
Lots of people wandered in the park now that breakfast was over. Couples, families, parents with their children, so much happiness, the sort of life Gray had wanted with Lucy, yet now he would never know that joy.
With trembling hands, Gray pulled out the small gift box he had bought and opened it. A diamond ring shined brilliantly.
"Happy … birthday," he snuffled. "This is why I left town, left you all alone … with him. It was a surprise. I was going to ask you to be my wife. I wanted to propose to you in the guild, in front of all of our friends. I actually wasn't sure if you'd say yes. We haven't been together that long. Maybe you'd feel you still needed time to think about something this big. Still, even if you told me no, you'd at least know I was serious. Or, I thought I was serious," he muttered sadly. "I thought I loved you enough. Maybe I was the one who needed more time." Gray slid the ring onto Lucy's limp finger. "You can't say yes or no now. You can't … but now … we'll be together," he said, laughing weakly. "I won't see you in heaven. I don't deserve that. I'd probably go to hell anyway, and I really don't want to see that flame-brain bastard ever again. I can't go anywhere. So … so I might as well…"
He could no longer stand, but with Lucy's body lying in his lap, Gray summoned up his magic, held his arms out ahead of him, crossed one over the other, and a glow surrounded him. Firm in his decision, Gray swung his arms out and said those two fatal words for any Ice-Make wizard.
"Iced Shell!"
As the ice took over his body, he closed his eyes. The pain made him smile. He deserved this. For betraying Lucy, for killing Natsu, for all of his sins, he deserved this.
"Sorry, Lucy. I don't want them to see what he did to you. I don't want them to remember you looking like this. They should remember good things." He hugged her body close to him. "I'll remember. I'll always remember!"
He expanded the magic, so that both of their bodies became ice. Lucy's cold skin frosted, her lips crystallized, and her limbs crackled. As Gray's skin, muscles, and bones slowly turned into ice, he gazed at Lucy's face, and once again he could hear her laugh.
"I love you, Lucy," he whispered. He kissed her as his mouth also froze over. His grasp on this body faded away. He pressed his head against hers and gazed at her face as the skin froze and began to crack. "It's okay, Lucy. It … It hardly hurts." He flinched as the ice began to take over his blood. "Now we'll … always … be … together…"
Slowly his body was coming undone, drifting away like snowflakes. He felt no cold, no pain, nothing at all. He was conscious of this, yet all he saw in this icy existence was Lucy's smiling face. It wasn't heaven, but it made Gray content.
If he could spend eternity staring at the memory of her smile, that was good enough.
"Lucy…"
Suddenly, both bodies burst outward into a mass of ice, shattering the magic barrier and startling the people in the park. At the last second, Gray forced the very last bit of his personal ice moulding magic into the Iced Shell spell, making his final and greatest piece of artistic sculpturing. The two bodies became fused into a giant ice statue of a frozen heart with icicles hanging where Lucy's blood had been dripping.
That frozen heart can still be seen in Magnolia's park to this day. Some say that on July 2nd, the voices of Lucy Heartfilia and Gray Fullbuster can be heard singing a song from within that permanent, icy heart.
Something lately drives me crazy,
Has to do with how you make me
Struggle to get your attention.
Calling you brings apprehension.
Texts from you and sex from you
Are things that are not so uncommon.
Flirt with you, you're all about it.
Tell me why I feel unwanted.
Damn, if you didn't want me back
Why'd you have to act like that?
It's confusing to the core
'Cause I know you want it.
Oh, and if you don't wanna be
Something substantial with me
Then why do you give me more?
Babe, I know you want it.
Say that you want me every day,
That you want me every way,
That you need me.
Got me trippin' super psycho love.
Aim, pull the trigger,
Feel the pain getting bigger,
Go insane from the bitter feeling,
Trippin' super psycho love.
Pull me off to darkened corners
Where all other eyes avoid us.
Tell me how I mesmerize you.
I love you and despise you.
Back to the crowd where you ignore me.
Bedroom eyes to those before me.
How am I supposed to handle?
Lit the fuse and missed the candle.
Damn, if you wanna let me go,
Baby, please just let me know.
You're not gonna get away with leading me on.
Say that you want me every day,
That you want me every way,
That you need me.
Got me trippin' super psycho love.
Aim, pull the trigger,
Feel the pain getting bigger,
Go insane from the bitter feeling,
Trippin' super psycho love.
Say you want me.
Say you need me.
Tear my heart out slow
And bleed me.
You want me.
You need me.
You're gonna be with me.
I know you want me too.
I think you want me too.
Please say you want me too
Because you're going to.
Say that you want me every day,
That you want me every way,
That you need me.
Got me trippin' super psycho love.
Aim, pull the trigger,
Feel the pain getting bigger,
Go insane from the bitter feeling,
Trippin' super psycho love.*
A/N: * lyrics from "Super Psycho Love" by Simon Curtis and part of the AMV.
The ice heart sculpture is on the bookcover image. - http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/119/8/7/super_psycho_love_ch__1___graylu_fanfic_by_rhov-d5e3s5m.png
No text: http://fav.me/d8ur7q9
Of all the possible conclusions I came up with for the open-ended AMV, this was my favorite, sad but bittersweet.
Concluding this is what I think most people want. Unless you love tragedy!
NEXT: HAPPY ENDING
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