Lucy sat at a table in the Fairy Tail guild, drinking her delicious strawberry milkshake, she sighed and contemplated on the matter; no one had been talking to her at all since Lisanna had come back from Edolas a few months ago.

Ever since her return, everyone had been ignoring Lucy like she was some replacement for Lisanna. The only people who talked to her were: Wendy, Carla, Gajeel, Pantherlily and Mirajane. They acknowledged Lucy's existence but they were never around since Gajeel and Pantherlily were training on their own up in the mountains meanwhile Wendy and Carla were on jobs and Mirajane was kept busy by carrying heavy loads of beer across the guild for Cana, which was a bit saddening since she could only stare at Natsu in hope that he would finally talk to her.

Since everyone else on her 'team' ignored her like she was nothing, she had to take solo missions, much to Mirajane's disagreement. She started off with very small requests like finding objects for nearby towns which was around 20,000, around a quarter of her rent. Then from there she started to do higher level jobs which includes; fighting bandits, etc. She didn't have the courage to do the S-Class quests though since she knew she wasn't strong enough for them.

Out the corner of her eye, she noticed Lisanna blushing while Natsu whispered into her ear. 'Get a room' Lucy thought disgustedly. Is that all they ever did nowadays? Her thoughts came to a stop when Natsu got up and started walking to her, with his famous smirk plastered on his face.

"Hey Lucy!" he beckoned when he had enough distance between us. "Hum?" I grumbled weakly. "Lisanna wants to be a part of our team, but no one else has a team full of 5 members and err... well if we were to split the reward money by 5 on any job there wouldn't be enough for your rent money." The blonde's eyes widened. 'Are they replacing me with Lisanna now?'

"So what does this mean? You're replacing me with Lisanna now huh?"

"Heh, you don't understand do you? Let me spell it out. Y-O-U A-R-E W-E-A-K. Got it? All we do is save your pathetic ass on missions because you can't save yourself, plus you always moan and complain about rent money."

The blonde's eyes widened in shock, desperation and disgust. 'They'd really do that to me, wouldn't they?' she thought in sadness. Natsu snickered as he made his way back to his table, where Erza, Gray and Lisanna sat.

"So I was a replacement, well so what? I'M THROUGH WITH THIS GUILD!" Lucy stood up, breaking her chair and ran to masters office while spilling tears. Everyone was shocked at her outburst, even Cana stopped drinking. Erza slapped Natsu hard while Lisanna just sat there, frozen.

"WE NEVER AGREED TO THIS, NATSU DRAGNEEL!" Erza screamed enraged. Lucy was like a sister to her, since she reminded her of Millianna.

"You're so selfish, it's disgusting! You could've let Lucy be on the team as well but NO, Lisanna is the only one you care for don't you?"

"Erza calm down!" Gray tried pulling on the rosette to make her sit down, but to no avail the rosette was too strong for him to handle.

Lucy's POV:

I can't believe he would do that. I thought he was my nakama for Christ sakes! Now here I am standing outside master's door, sobbing like an idiot. Way to go, Lucy Heartfilia!

I wiped the rest of my tears away before knocking gently onto the door.

"Come in child" he beckoned. 'He knows it me?'

"What brings you here, Lucy?"

"I'm taking a break from the guild. Can you remove my guild mark please?"

"Why child? Why must you leave?"

"It's because Natsu. He..."

As I told Master Makarov why she wanted a break, his eyes narrowed in anger.

"I understand, but listen on out here! One: You must never reveal sensitive information about Fairy Tail to others for as long as you live. Two: You must never use former contacts met through your time being in the guild for personal gain. Three: Though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends who loved you!" He exclaimed while slowly releasing some tears as he erased my mark.

"May Fairy Tail live on in you young one!" He waved as I muttered a sincere thank you before walking out of his office.

I made a b line for the door but got caught in the diversion.

Natsu and Lisanna were kissing.

I felt my heart shatter twice. My stomach twisted in agony and I gasped as tears strolled down my already pale face.

"Oh sorry Lucy just was learning new techniques unlike you." He sneered indecently as he looked me up and down and muttered something which I could quite not hear but the word sounded like 'filthy.'

I felt like collapsing. I ran past them making sure to push Lisanna on the way as I shattered the doors making my escape. Escape from my home, my life and my ex love; Natsu Dragneel. I hated everything in existence there and I had sworn revenge and decided on my new goal;

To get stronger. To defeat him. To show him what I'm made of and that I'm not some dumb blonde who hides behind her spirits.

Watch out, dragneel… You've angered a force that shouldn't be reckoned with.

I clenched my fist as I hopped onto the train, releasing only a few seconds ago I was at the guild.

'Well I've already improved on my speed haven't I?' I contemplated, pretty impressed at my improvement of speed I had made in a short few minutes.

The train slowly departed; heading to Clover town. From here on out things are going to be very different!