Love and sins

Chapter 1 - The accident

Natsu was on his way towards the outskirts of Magnolia with Erza, Gray, and Happy. Erza and Happy carried a bouquet of flowers while Natsu and Gray had a few candles. Each one of them bore sad expressions on their faces. But their feeling could never be compared to Natsu. While they only felt loneliness and hurt, he also felt guilt. The others also felt guilt, but not as much as the fire mage did. But after all that's happened, you can't blame any of them for feeling that way.

It has only been a week since that incident. Where they lost something that can never be replaced. Something that has already become a great part of their lives. They lost someone who was most dear to them. Their beloved nakama, or rather, a part of their "family".

Lucy Heartfilia.

They could all remember that incident so well. Almost half of Magnolia's population were killed during that time, but Lucy was the only mage who did. Other than that, it seemed that she was the one who suffered the most terrible death out of all those people; her death was un-fair and could have been avoided.

They arrived at a clearing, where a large gravestone was placed in the middle. There, a list of names were carved. Of course, Lucy's was among those names. So many had died in that incident that the mayor decided to do a mass burial. At first, a lot of people were against it, but in the end, there was nothing they could do. Erza and Happy placed the flowers in front of the grave as Gray and Natsu lit the candles.

Soon, everything came back to them. Memories of that incident came flooding back.

A neighboring country has declared war a month ago. They started to attack different cities in Fiore, and among those cities were Magnolia. They had tried so hard to defend it. Every single member of Fairy Tail tried to fight off the soldiers, but they had very strong mages. Not even Erza could match them. Gildarts and Laxus managed to fight them off a bit. Crime Sorciere fought along with them, and that was how they saved half of the city's population, but that was all they could do. But something happened during that fight.

FLASHBACK

Natsu was trying desperately to fight off their opponent at a mountain next to Magnolia, Lisanna and Lucy by his side. Their opponent was a tall man with bright red eyes and black hair. He uses a similar type of magic as Sherry from Lamia Scale. He can control anything that isn't human. Including Lucy's celestial spirits. Though it didn't matter at that time, because Lucy had lost her keys and all she has now was her whip.

"Hehehehe, you think you people can beat me?" the man smirked. "None of you can even lay a finger on me!"

Then they were attacked by a rocks that took the shape of humans. But they were outnumbered, there was no way they could have won.

"Ngh! There's no end to them!" Lucy said.

"But we have to try our best.....!" Lisanna said as she was transformed into a tigress. But then she was changed back into her normal form.

"Lisanna?" Natsu said, turning to the young female.

"I'm out of magical power!" she said. And then, suddenly, one of the figures pushed her into the cliff. Fortunately, she was able to grab on and started dangling at the edge of that cliff. She wasn't sure how much longer she can hold on to it.

"Natsu! Help!" she cried.

"Lisanna!" Natsu yelled as he ran to her rescue. But then, he heard another call for help.