Story: The Survivor
Summary: Before Fairy Sphere was activated on Tenroujima, Lucy's spirits sense that she's in danger and takes her to the Celestial Spirit World. Traumatized by the "death" of her nakama, she trains to become stronger and protect Fairy Tail in their absence.
Rating: T
Paring: None as of yet. Future Nalu
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail
A/N: Hello my chickadees! Welcome to my second story! My first one is still in progress and is a Katekyo Hitman Reborn fic, feel free to read it if you want. Enjoy!
Chapter 1:
On Tenrou:
They never dreamt this would, or even could, happen. It started out normal. They were just competing in the S-class exam, but then Grimoire Heart attacked. But recently, a lot of things haven't been going to plan. So, as usual, they defeated their enemy and continued on home. But then the nightmare came. Never in their lives did they expect to encounter Acnologia, the proclaimed Dragon King. After attempting to fight him, they all joined hands hoping to join their magic and escape. Then everything went black for the members of Fairy Tail.
With Lucy
Lucy slowly became conscious and was confused. She didn't recognize her surroundings, and noticed from the material that she was in clothes from the spirit world. She looked around and noticed a window in the room. She walked to the window and looked out of it. She slowly backed away from the window and fell on the floor in shock. She wasn't on earth. The window gave the view of the place's sky, but it wasn't like any other sky she had ever seen before.
The sky was literally full of stars, some big some small, and had multiple asteroids with structures on them. The "earth" of the asteroids, and what she thought was the planet she was on, was in hues of purples and blues. She heard the door to the room she was in open and turned her head. Relief filled her when she saw the familiar figure of Virgo. She quickly got up and was crushed in a hug by her spirit.
"What's wrong Virgo?" she asked when she was released from the strong hug.
"We were worried for you, hime. We were worried that you were hurt."
"Why?" she asked slightly confused but she felt a sense of dread.
"Don't you remember what happened on Tenroujima? Sagittarius was able to come to us in time and we managed to save you before Acnologia was able to kill you."
Her eyes widened, the events from before filling her head. She looked at Virgo with slight desperation. "What happened to the rest? Are they here too?"
"Come on, hime. Leo wants to talk to you."
"Okay." She followed Virgo out the door and led her to another room which Leo was currently in.
The room was a very spacious room that had a huge pair of double doors that seemed as big as the Spirit King. In front of the doors pacing was Leo with sadness and worry etched on his face. He looked at them when he heard their footsteps. He immediately hugged Lucy in the same fashion as Virgo. She hugged them back and her eyes watered slightly. "Leo, where's everyone?"
"I'm so sorry Lucy." He said, his voice filled with grief and sadness. "We were only able to get you out in time. The force of the roar was too strong for most of us to handle and only Horologium was able to get you into him and bring you here to Celestial Spirit World in time before Acnologia destroyed the island." He held Lucy as she burst into tears.
After a few minutes she looked up to Leo, tears still streaming down her face. "How long have I been here?"
"In our time, a few days. But in Earth land time, it's only been a few minutes. The time runs differently between the two worlds. One day in Earth Land is the equivalent to about three months here. (A/N: for this story the time difference is switched.) News of Tenroujima hasn't reached your fellow guild mates yet. I'm sorry we couldn't save the rest on Tenrou Lucy. I wish we were able to." Leo said sadly.
Lucy looked at Leo and shook her head. "It's not your or anyone else's fault. Thanks to you and everyone else, I'm still alive." She said the last part with a heavy voice and more tears streamed down her face before more sobs shook her body and she clutched Leo in a hug again.
Leo held Lucy till her sobs somewhat calmed down. He lifted her head to look at him. "Lucy the Celestial Spirit King wants to talk to you. I don't know what for, but he's been waiting for you."
She wiped her eyes and nodded. Leo led her to the huge doors that she saw earlier and led her inside them. Beyond the doors was a huge throne room which had a huge throne that held the Celestial Spirit King.
"Thank you for bringing her Leo. You may leave now." He told Leo. Leo nodded and left the room.
It was now just the Celestial Spirit King and Lucy and the room. She looked at the king and the king studied her for a few moments. After he studied her, he got up from his throne and shrunk in size. She now came up to his chest instead of looking like an ant compared to him. He approached her and she felt his arms bring her in a warm hug. "I'm sorry for your loss." He told her. More tears streamed down her face as she started to cry again. His hug reminded her of the way her father used to before her mother died, it made her feel safe and warm. He soon pulled away from his hug and looked at her. "I'm sorry if this is too soon for you but I wanted to give you a proposition." She nodded her head to continue. "I haven't given this chance to a Celestial mage in hundreds of years, but I believe you deserve this opportunity. Unlike recent Celestial mages, you genuinely care for your spirits and don't use them as weapons or tools. Not only that but you also saved my leader of the Zodiacs, and for that I give you the opportunity to get trained here in the Celestial Spirit World in the ancient arts of Celestial magic. Unlike most people think, Celestial magic has been around on Earth Land for several millenniums and there is a lot more to it then the keys that are only used today. However I must warn you, this will have effects on your body."
"What kind of effects?" she asked.
"Due to the high concentration of Celestial magic in our world, your body will change to adapt to it. Former mages who have had this training had their magic increase exponentially, and have slowly stopped aging here like the spirits who live here. You will also be able to access the dormant Celestial magic on Earth Land causing you to age slower than your fellow humans on Earth Land."
"Is there anything else that would come from this training?"
"When you complete the training, you will only be able to use Celestial magic. You will not be able to use any other form of magic, which is why we teach you how to access Earth Lands Celestial magic. There is one other thing, but I can only tell you at the end and if you're chosen."
Lucy started to think about this. She wasn't sure if she wanted to stop aging, but if she does it, then she can get stronger and protect her remaining and future nakama. She also knew this was a once in a life time chance, and as he said to her, it hasn't happened to anyone else in hundreds of years.
"I'll do it." She said with conviction.
The Celestial Spirit King smiled. "We'll start your training tomorrow."
20 days later Earth Land Time (5 years in Celestial Spirit World time)
Fairy Tail was falling apart. All of their time, effort and money went into looking for their missing members. The less serious members who joined just to get good jobs quit as all of their money went into the search. The more serious members were almost out of money to fund the searches and were asking the council to fund their searches instead. They also were going to be in debt by the time the guilds mortgage payment was due. Their moral was at an all-time low and their guild hall just brought more pain than solace. Macao, who was acting as temporary guild master, was doing all he can to keep the guild together and still search for the missing members.
It was 20 days after they announced the destruction of Tenroujima that someone walked into their guild. There were very few people in the guild. Out of the members who remained more than half were on another expedition to search for the missing island. They never looked up from their positions, thinking that it was their fellow members coming back from yet another failed search. Macao was sitting at the bar where people now served themselves and was working on all the required paperwork from the Magic Council. Macao was focused on his paperwork until someone tapped his shoulder. He turned to address the person trying to talk to him and choked.
"I'm home." Lucy said in a small voice.
"LUCY!" Macao screamed and tackled Lucy.
The rest of the guild looked up in hope. They repeated the actions of Macao and joined the group hug. Lucy smiled at her guild mates when they finally freed her from their hug. Her training had changed her appearance some. Her hair was now to her waist, her eyes now held a certain vibrancy that they hadn't before, and she was now lean instead of just skinny. Her body also held some kind of foreign aura that they couldn't place, but she still somehow looks like the Lucy that left to Tenroujima almost a month ago.
"Lucy! Where have you been? Where are the others? Why do you look so different? What happened on Tenroujima?" various members questioned her at the same time.
"Calm down, I'll tell you what happened when the rest of the members come back from the search. I want to tell you all when everyone is here. What happened here?" she asked when she started to look around the dirty guild.
It was Macao who answered her question. "Ever since you guys disappeared we've been frantically searching for Tenroujima or any sign of where you might be. We've putting all of our resources into the search and some members were fed up of us using their mission money on the search and quit. We've been losing money and more members." He said with a sad voice. "But Lucy, please just tell me this. Are the others okay?"
She looked at him with a somber face. "I'm sorry Macao."
Two days later.
"We're back." Came the disappointed voices of the search party.
"Welcome back." Said a voice familiar to them.
The group looked up in shock. "Lucy!" like two days previously, the group tackled the blond in a group hug.
"Alright! Alright! Calm down, Lucy now that they are back, can you tell us what happened?" Macao asked her.
She took a deep breath. "During the S-class exams the dark guild, Grimorie Heart attacked us. We were able to defeat them and decided to head back home. But before we left Acnologia attacked us. We tried fighting back but we lost. As a last attempt to survive, we joined hands trying to summon any defensive magic and return home, and after that it was all black. I woke up in the Celestial Spirit World and it turned out that Sagittarius told the others what was happening. They tried to save the others but they only managed to save me because of Horologium. The Celestial Spirit King offered me training in Celestial magic and I accepted. The time there is different than Earth Land so to me it's been 5 years instead of twenty."
The guild was quiet until Macao asked her another question. "What do plan on doing now?"
"I'm going to take the Council's S-class exam so I can do the stronger missions."
"Lucy you know if you pass you become the guild master through rank, right?" Macao asked. He didn't want the position, but he also felt that she was too young to be under that stress.
"I know, but I want to." She said. "Plus, I already sent in my request yesterday."
"What!? But you just got here! They probably don't even know you returned yet!" Wakaba exclaimed.
"I know, I did it because they would accept it faster than if they knew I was back."
"How long would it take you to do them?" Romeo asked.
"It depends on the person." Lucy said.
"Good luck then Lucy. Make Fairy Tail proud." Macao said to her.
Three days later.
The guild members of Fairy Tail had given up on the searches after Lucy returned from the Celestial Spirit world and was working on the status of the guild. Lucy and Macao met with all of the members individually to see who was completely loyal to the guild. Whoever was not was removed from the guild. With Lucy back and her knowledge on how to run businesses, she was helping with fixing the guild's financial issues.
Four days after Lucy sent in the S-class request, officials from the Magic Council came to the guild. Lucy was in the master's office, working with Macao when a guild member barged in the office. "Lucy, officials from the Magic Council are here to see you."
"Okay I'll be right down." She got up from her chair and walked down to the guild hall. She saw uniforms from the Magic Council. "Hello, how can I help you?" she asked pleasantly.
"Lucy Heartfilia. You are being summoned by the Magic Council. You are to come with us." The told her.
She nodded to them and looked back at Macao and Wakaba who were behind her. "Told you. See you later." They waved goodbye as she left the guild.
A/N: and that's a wrap! I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any comments or questions feel free to review! Till next chapter.