Author: Whoa~ I was going to do it shorter! I know I'm late with this one! I had to decide a lot of things and I'm sure it's not even good… It's my third challenge and I had messed it up already *cry*

Well, disclaimer: Everything belongs to Hiro Mashima, the idea is Sakurako Nagasaki's (she was the one to publish the challenge, please, don't be disappointed with me Sakurako-chan) but the story is mine (the words) and the image is mine too! (I know you know because it sucks as well *Laughs*)

Enjoy with the prologue and wonder what is going to happen in the next chapter where the action really begins!

Prologue - The hooded girl

Since she was a little girl without real experience in the real world, she had attracted unwished attention over herself and her differences with the human being.

"Don't go to the outside." Her mother used to say. "And don't go to the room in the backyard."

The room in the backyard… She remembered it. She went once, two years after her mother's death. It was a big room, separated by white grilles. It was dark and humid, and there was a man inside, he was young, with pitch black hair and amber eyes, his skin was pale and he was wearing a straight jacket and white baggy pants.

"Who are you?" The little girt asked, she was ten years old and she was always alone. "Why are you here?"

"You are not suppose to be here, little girl." The man was looking straight into her eyes. "Layla's daughter."

"My name is Lucy. Who are you?" She asked again and this time, the man laughed.

"My name is Vladimir, I'm Layla's mate."

"Then, you don't know." Her little hands were trembling as well as her lower lip. "Mommy is dead, she had been dead two years now."

And the man started to cry in the loneliness of his prison.

Vladimir. The name flowed in her mind for a second before she bowed her head, the hood covering her head created shadow that hide her eyes too. Hargeon was a nice place, really nice, the smell of the sea, the soft breeze enchanting her senses. The noises of people captured her attention and her heart began to race when her eyes meet a man who was saying he was Salamander.

For a second she fell, until a pink-haired boy broke the spell – just for her – the others didn't know the reality and started to shout to the poor newcomer.

"Hey, thank you for saving me! That stupid man… How could he? Let me treat you to some lunch!"

And there started her great adventure! He was Natsu and his cat Happy (a freaking talking blue cat!) and she was Lucy, the hooded girl whose dream was enter Fairy Tail, the most amazing guild of mages in all Fiore.

"Have you found a place to stay already, Lucy?" She had met Mirajane – Mira-san – and she was so kind and cheerful.

"Yes, I thought about living at Fairy Hills but it is really expensive and…" good excuse to not wanting to live in a palace with all her friends, like Levy-chan. "… I want some independence too."

"Then is the rent cheaper?" She nodded and looked around, it was time to go on a mission by herself, but she couldn't do that. "It's ok."

A lot of things happened while she was still a newbie and she understand better and better how complicate it was to be different. Starting with the Duke Everlue, when Natsu pretended her to apply for the maid job…

"Let's team up, Lucy! We had chosen a miss…" A roundhouse kick send them into crushing the wall.

"Get out of my house!" Lucky Lucy, she was wearing a towel on her head and a long bathrobe.

"But…Lucy…" She was stronger than she looked and when Lucy realised her mistake, well, she let them go. "We have a mission!"

She accepted the mission because she had used too much force and they could have been injured – if they had been normal – and went with the two idiots to a mission 'because she was blonde'.

"Natsu! Lucy is weird! She really thinks she is a maid!" His owner, Natsu, nodded, looking weird at Lucy.

The maid outfit was really weird, her knee skirt, her long sleeved t-shirt and her… hood.

"Why are you wearing that?"

"I'm going to apply for a job, I need to disguise like a maid!" She knew about what was talking Natsu. "Hello~? I'm here for the job…"

"Who are you?" A big pink-haired gorilla asked from behind.

"I'm Lucy. I'm here to apply for the maid job…"

"But you're ugly!" An arrow through her head and the word repeat itself in her head like an echo 'ugly, ugly, ugly…' "I accept just the most beautiful beauties amount beauties!"

Her body began to shake, her blood boiling and the idiot smiling…

"And what is that hood? You can't apply for a job wearing clothes like that…" A growl, a non human growl, shut him. "There is a best around here? Let's go, my beauties, before it attacks us!"

How sweet vengeance it was… But they didn't get the reward and it was a failure. Lucy looked around, there wasn't anyone near, she didn't smell anyone, was she safe now?

Then came Galuna Island, she had the opportunity to say what was she but she skip it.

"Aren't you hot with those clothes?" She was wearing long jeans and a long purple jacket with hood. "We are in an island."

"Maybe is because you're an Ice Mage, but it's not that hot." It was hotter than hell, she was sweating and sticky but she couldn't take her clothes off like that. "Gray, your clothes."

It was funny to see her naked nakama looking for his clothes. Nice abs, nice ass and a long… Let's said he was well equipped.

"Here! The demon is around here!"

"Vladimir, please, help me now!" She begged in her thought, there was a lot of voices in her head, but her father wasn't there. "Please!"

While she was running, she remembered the next step she took with her friends, the next opportunity she had to tell them the truth. Well, Gajeel discovered it when he caught her during the Phantom Lord attack.

"Are you a cosplayer?" He started to pull her tail to drag her to the guild base. "It seems that you are not what you seem, gihihi…"

Gajeel enjoyed torturing her, not only beating her as hard as he could – because she was tougher that she seemed to be, but because she was cocky with him.

"Gajeel, you are going to kill her!" At least, he let her had her hood on while torturing her.

"And? I will say it was you who did it." Her ribs received the next attack, and then her stomach. "And you will pay for it."

Natsu saved her.

"Natsu… save me now too!" Her attackers were nearer and nearer with each slip she had.

"Fire!" Arrows landed around her and she ran faster, trying to hold back her tears.

"I don't care about dresses and money!" She confronted her father… not her true father but her paternal figure. "And if you try to attack Fairy Tail again, we will consider you as our enemy."

And she left him, running towards the backyard, where her mother tomb was. Wearing her usual attire, she asked her mother for help and luck.

"Lucy!" Her friends called her and she thought that maybe she could let them know… she looked at the cage where her true father had been held for almost fifteen years and decided to keep her secret.

So many opportunities… why didn't she told them? Why? Loke and Gajeel knew, Loke was her spirit, it was pretty obvious that he would know and Gajeel… He nearly tore her tail out! So cruel! But they kept it for her, because they owned it to her. The next one to know was Bixlow. Such a joke he was!

"The cosplayermaniac queen!" His eyes allowed him to see human souls "Are you sure that you're just a cosplayer?"

The point was at 'human', all he could see was the lines of her soul, nothing more than chaos and darkness in her soul, because she was not human.

"Gate of the archer, I open thee…Sagittarius!" He didn't understand why she used human magic when she can do a lot of things with her true power. "Shoot at those things!"

"No, my babies!"

But he didn't say anything either… He hadn't told anyone about Loke, he wouldn't say anything about the Cosplayer Queen either. Ok, maybe he wasn't a joke but an ally. She had put so well her own act that she had forgotten about the lacrimas, she could have destroyed almost as much as Erza if she had tried with her real form.

"We got you, demon!" More shouts came from ahead her, from behind and ahead… Was she trapped? No! "Turn to the left, she is heading towards the cliff!"

Angel was beating her, Wendy was off, like Hibiki… Nobody could help her and her spirits didn't have to suffer because of her, Natsu was too groggy to understand what was happening around him and Lucy let it go, her full strength, her powers shoved everything around her and destroy everything. Her arms started to metamorphose into her real form… and Hibiki placed her hands on her neck…

"Be still… it's a greatest spell, I'm sure you are going to be able to use it…" Information flowed in her head like a river…

"Survey the Heaven, Open the Heaven… All the stars, far and wide… Show me thy appearance… with such shine. O Tetrabiblos… I am the ruler of the stars… Aspect became complete… open the malevolent gate. O 88 stars of the heaven… Shine!" With each word the magic through her was becoming wild and strong, with that power her sealed powers… "Uranometeoria!"

Her sealed powers, her true power was what kept her going into Nirvana, she had to act really weakened because of Happy, but she could have done it without help, thanks goddess that Gemini, Scorpius and Aries made a contract with her after all and they could stop Nirvana.

"Somebody helps me…" It was a plea cry, nobody was going to help her in this situation, not against normal humans. Neither the demons nor Fairy Tail.

Then it was Edolas, she would have stayed in Edolas if she had had the option back then, because even if at first she thought that Edo-Lucy was normal, until she said that no, she was a demon too, but since there wasn't magic in her world, she had a normal appearance not like her with her demonic physic.

And finally… it came to Tenroujima when she was going to help Cana to become a S-class mage and then she could tell Gildarts the truth.

"Aren't you hot with that jacket on, Lucy?" Almost everyone – Loke, Fried, Bixlow, Gajeel, Natsu and Juvia – was wearing the less clothes possible, but Lucy still was wearing a jacket with hood, long baggy jeans and a beret, she was… well… hot but she didn't tell that. "Why is so hot!"

"I'm okay with it."

If only she had known… Acnologia messed everything.