Prologue:

It had been three fateful years since it all started, since everything went to chaos and the world she once loved was turned into a battle field of moaning decomposing monsters and rabid human beings focused solely on surviving.

Though she couldn't blame them.

Lucy had done whatever it took to survive, after the death of her family she no longer believed anything could brighten up the leftovers of the world she once loved. What she cared the most about had been taken away by those... things. They weren't people, Lucy knew that much. But she couldn't say people were any more humane than the monsters these days, they turned to cannibalism, killing, and stealing what others had saved to survive to save their own asses. And she hated it.

It was two years ago when Lucy lost her parents, and the memory plagued her like an incurable disease and never failed to remind her of her sorrow in the new world.

~~~~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Are you sure you have everything you need?" Layla, Lucy's mother said looking her over once again like she did every time Lucy went out on a run.

"Yes mom I'm sure" she giggled at her mothers worry and sheathed her sword and attached her whip to her belt before slipping her celestial keys into her backpack. Her father, Jude, watched her put on the last of her things and smiled cupping her face, his eyes filled with fatherly pride.

"Make it back to us okay?" he said softly resting his forehead against hers as she pulled him and her mother into a hug.

"I will" she whispered before smiling and turning around running off to begin her supply run.

"Lucy!" her mom called from their small camp in the forest below a mountain. "Be careful!" her father called out finishing off what her mother was about to say. Lucy smiled turning around to look at her mother and father and her unborn baby sister in her mothers belly.

"I will! I'll see you when I get back!I love you!" with a wave she ran through the forest and made her way into the small town of Magnolia. It would taker her two days to get there, one to scrounge for leftover supplies, and two to get back to her family. Only a week tops if she made good time plus this was her millionth time going to the town and she had her route already planned out. Once she got out of the forest she looked around and quickly rested her hand on her sword at her side carefully scanning the area around her before moving on.

Her father had trained her in hand to hand combat as well as how to fight with almost any kind of weapon she could get her hand on. Smiling she unsheathed the sword remember the training she had undergone. With a final smile and shake of her head she continued onward through the street into the town. Their hideout wasn't far but was concealed enough that nobody could find it easily unless they had watched them, but Lucy's father always swept the perimeter and made sure nobody followed into their new ground.

A week later Lucy returned to the camp filled with joy and pride at her weeks find, it was more than she had ever found and would last them two months at the least. Though she had to admit, it was a struggle to drag all these bags back, but she made it. Her joy and pride soon deflated when she returned to the camp and dropped everything she was so happy to have brought back to her parents and unborn baby sister.

The camp was torn to shreds and her parents lay in the middle of it. Their sweet little cottage they had build had been burnt in some places and wood had been broken off causing the roof and some walls to cave in on it. Their fire pit and supply hole her father had made were completely destroyed and when Lucy came closer realized everything they had worked so hard to get had been taken. Tears poured down her cheeks when she turned to the worst part of it all. Her parents crumpled, bleeding and broken forms lying in the middle of camp, her father was tied up his throat slashed and mouth stuffed with a gag while her mothers dress had been torn apart and her legs were wide open revealing to Lucy a horrifying image of what she could only believe played out. They had raped her mother and made her father watch while they ravaged the camp for supplies. She leaned down wails tearing themselves from her lips as she rested her hand on her mothers now slashed belly.

Gone. was the first word that came to mind.

They were all gone. And she couldn't bring them back.

Thinking back Lucy cringed wailing internally though her mask of no emotion shone on her face, after that day nothing she saw would make her smile again. Or so she thought.

Everything was taken away from her. How could anything come to mean something to her again, she wouldn't allow it. She had come across so many people who tried to take advantage of her again and again, and she did whatever she had to to make sure they didn't take away her purpose in life.

To survive this cursed world and live how her parents had wanted.

Of course she wanted revenge on those who killed her parents and unborn sibling, but she couldn't bear to think what turmoil that would cause her parents if she resulted to that. They would want her to live on and be as happy as she could. Even if it was a severe stretch for her after everything that happened, she still had to try, and try she would. She continued her days sweeping through towns and traveling the roads and paths that she came across.

She thought if she survived long enough this would all blow over. She thought she could remain emotionless until the new world, but a certain Salmon haired salamander would stop that from happening. And she had no idea just what fate had in store for her.

A/N I'm so sorry for making such a long prologue and sorry if it's boring but I just had to show everyone what my new story would be about. xD And don't worry this story is going to be different Lucy isn't going to be the helpless annoying brat I've seen her made out to be in so many stories on here that I've read. She's going to be strong, strong spirited, courageous, and in Natsu's eyes pretty damn sexy xD. Hope you enjoy this little turn of character and please leave reviews so I know how i'm doing. I'm going to try and update this one along with my other story "Do You Trust Me?" as much as I can with school so please be patient. Once again tell me what you think! LOVE YA! ~Alex.