Esta vida es tan sólo un viaje...💫

The queen can never be mad at them for long.

With her vision fading, she thought that for a second she saw Natsu dive into the water towards her, but that was impossible, he was a hundred kilometers away by now, they were travelling in two different directions. Still, as consciousness left her, she only let it, because she felt his warmth, or what she wanted to believe was his warmth. Despite not being able to remember the moment clearly, she knew that she had wrapped her arms desperately around her rescuer, as they pulled her back up to the surface. She wasn’t quite sure what had happened in the time that her consciousness was gone, but she did know that when she walked out of her tent, the whole lake and the area that she had been attacked in was gone, evaporated and burned to ashes.

Even now, as she stood with the other generals in the meeting discussing peace, she wasn’t sure what had happened. Part of her wanted to believe that the person who was standing the closest to the Secretary of Defense, Chairwoman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Prime Minister, at attention, like herself, in his ceremonial uniform was the one who had saved her, but she felt like that was just wishful thinking, because there was no way he’d be able to make it to her when he was a hundred kilometers away.

The captains of their enemy kept staring at her fiance with looks of disgust and hatred. She could kind of understand that, seeing how he was the general of the corps that had destroyed most of their regiments, in fact, he even destroyed some of the camps completely on his own, without the rest of the Dragon Corps. Still, they all sat in silence at that table, waiting for the one in charge to arrive. Her ears hurt as she heard the grandfather clock chime for the tenth time. Her legs were beginning to tell her that she had been standing still for too long, too.

After hours of waiting, their enemy’s captains said something along the lines of how their major general was busy, and could not make it. To postpone the meeting for signing the peace treaty until another date. The one who had the most authority signed the armistice, but the peace treaty still was yet to be signed. She took a deep breath as she watched from her peripheral vision their enemy leave. It was at least another fifteen minutes later before the Prime Minister, Secretary of Defense and Chairwoman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff left, as well. Slowly, the rest of the generals began breaking attention and taking their leave, but for some reason, her fiance, and the one who received those hateful glares the most, and the one who she felt might have saved her that day, months ago, still stood there at attention.

She broke attention herself, and made her way over to him, waving her hand in his face, but he didn’t look at her. She placed a hand on his arm, it was tense. She gently cupped his face, and forced his head down to look at her, “Natsu, are you okay?”

In a soft whisper he muttered, “They’re still here, Lucy…”

She nodded, “I’m sure they haven’t-”

“They hurt you.” He added.

She shook her head, “I’m alright now, Natsu. Relax, they signed the armistice, they can’t attack us, not now-”

“Shh.” He muttered.

She clamped her mouth shut, and stood there again, in complete silence for what felt like another fifteen minutes, before he relaxed, and gave her a peck on the lips and made his way out of the meeting room. She hurried after him.

“What was that for?” She asked.

“What was what for?” he asked, slowing his pace so that she could walk beside him.

“You getting all serious, and then just kissing me and leaving without saying anything?” She muttered, elbowing him in the arm.

He smirked, “Mhmm.” He stopped, and stood at attention. She followed suit, and watched as the Chairwoman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff walked by conversing with the Secretary of Defense. As soon as they passed them, he dropped his attention, and turned the corner, heading back to the small number of troops that they had brought with them to this meeting, “I wanted to kiss you, was there an issue?”

She shook her head, “No, not exactly, but when you tense up like that it makes me worry, Natsu. How-”

He suddenly stood at attention again, and she followed suit. He looked over at her, and broke his attention, with a laugh, “They were talking about something as they were leaving, made me concerned, that’s all.”

“Oh, okay.” She sighed, before slapping his arm, “Are you just randomly going into-” she cut herself off as he suddenly stood at attention again, and she copied him.

He relaxed, “Oh, gosh, Lucy, that’s hilarious. Anyway, I’ve got some things to discuss with my troops. Since this is the second time that they didn’t show up, master said that we can go back to our homes for the time being.”

She blinked, “Our homes?”

He nodded, and turned to her, kissing her on the lips, “So, I’ll see you later.”

She sighed, and shook her head as she watched him walk away, before turning heel, and heading to her own troops.

If he was being honest, he wanted to fly to the enemy headquarters, grab their leading general and slam their face onto the peace treaty as proof of signage. However, not only did he not know where the enemy headquarters was, or what their leading general smelled or looked like, but he was very strictly told by the chairwoman not to do that. Now that he was thinking about it, why didn’t he go searching for the enemy headquarters back then when he first proposed to Lucy… no, wait, why didn’t he go searching for it when he returned to the Dragon Corps after he confirmed that they were dating? He still didn’t understand why she didn’t think they were dating, but they were.

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