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Ch. 1

Sitting alone in the darkest part of the forest in Crocus, Lucy sat up as another nightmare hit her. She sighed and took the bottle of water from her backpack and gulped it down in one go. Shaking her head in frustration, she rubbed her forehead before picking up her tent. She sniffed her surroundings before she growled in annoyance.

Damn it! He's here again.

Lucy snapped her head towards the intruders location before running on the other side of the forest. She sighed heavily before stopping and faced her intruder with a raise brow.

"What now, Mest?"

"You're gonna go with me, Lucy." Mest said, sternly. Lucy glared at him and said, "And what makes you think that I'm gonna comply with yer request?"

"It's not a request, Lucy. Its an order."

Lucy laughed mockingly. "Since when did ya became my master? As far as I'm concerned, I'm no longer a member of yer guild to which I might add, that disbanded almost a year ago."

Mest glared down harshly at her. "You think Master Makarov wants to disband the guild?! He had a fucking purpose why he did what he did. And here I think that your the most sane person in the guild aside from Laxus!"

"You don't know what I had been through, Mest!" Lucy accused pointing a finger at him.

"Then tell me! Fucking tell me everything so I can fucking understand! Just so you know Lucy, your not the only member in the guild who had been hurt during our battle with Tartaros! Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy lost their dragons! Erza had been tortured almost to death! Gray had to fight his own father. Everyone's struggling Lucy. Everyone's striving to change, to become more powerful to protect our family." Mest said, staring at Lucy with worried eyes as he saw the Celestial wizard struggling with her rage.

A moment of silence before Lucy laughed at him, her eyes darkening. "Family? Is that what you call family? Ever since my mother died, I forgot what family is. Until I met Natsu. He brought me to Fairy Tail, my dream guild. He introduced me to his family, Mest. After that, I felt I was alive. And then Tenroujima happened. We remained as a family. We've been struggling ever since coz we're fucking wizards. It's like an occupational hazard. Then that Tartaros shit happened," Lucy wiped the tear that slipped her eye. "I thought we'd remain strong like we always do."

"But they gave up! They all fucking gave up! We didn't even comfort each other, Mest! They just left after Master disbanded the guild. And my team mates, no one said fucking goodbye! Well, Natsu did. Guess what he said at the letter he left 'Take care of the guild, Luce'. What the fuck right? He and the others wanted to train and left Magnolia...and me? He wants me to stay and watched the crumbled guild! I wrote them letters, all of them. Asking them where they are so I could just take visit. But no one had the audacity the reply to my messages. I was stumped. It fucking hurts ya know. They were my family..but it's like my dad all over again." Lucy laughed mockingly again and rest her back on a tree, staring at Mest's eyes.

"So I left of course. A month without replying to my messages, I gave up. Traveled around and read some magic books to enhance my skills. Found this ancient book and learned to do the trick like Laxus's dad. You asked me before, as I remembered, you asked where I got my scar."

"D-Don't tell me.." Mest said in horror. "You implanted Lacrima on your eyes?!"

Lucy smirked. "Why yes. Its almost a year now, everyone will be back again. You should head back, Mest. I won't go with you and Wendy. Let her be in Lamia Scale if she wants to."

"You knew.." Mest trailed off.

"Of course. Like I said, I traveled and search for Lost Magic and put a seal on my lacrima. I found everyone. They're all strong now, stronger than before. They might put a good fight on their next war." Lucy scoffed before her eyes zoomed past over Mest's head and she smirked. "My my, lots of birdies chirping around, no?"

"What?" Mest asked, confused.

"Crime Sorciere, behind you."

Mest's eyes widened before seven figures landed in front of them with cloaks covering their faces. They all removed their cloaks and stared at Mest's eyes before nodding.

"It's been a while." Jellal murmured. He took a glance at Lucy who's busy having a stare down competition with Cobra. They all looked amused before Lucy smirked at the Dragon Slayer.

"Can't hear my thoughts huh? Sucks to be you then." Lucy shrugged before picking up her backpack. "Well, see ya later."

Lucy was about to walk away when, "What you said Lucy-san, is it true?" Jellal asked with concern. He and the others of course heard the entire conversation and was surprised at the revelation she just thrown out of her comfort zone. Looking at Lucy now, he knew she just changed so much. Even her style in clothing had changed. Before, she wore this skimpy outfit that show too much skin. But now, she's wearing a tight black jeans, with a white tank top covered by a leather jacket. Her hair reach above her waist and she have this scar running down on the left side of her eyes, obviously where the lacrima was implanted.

Lucy scoffed. "Of course. Why would I lie about it?"

"You changed so much, Lucy." Angel whispered, quite shocked at the sudden change of her fellow Celestial wizard.

Lucy looked away. "Shit happens when yer so called family leave you behind. On the brighter side of this all, I heard that you guys will be pardoned soon huh?"

Several heads snapped at Lucy in shocked. Even Midnight was staring at her. "What? Its not like ya didn't know. Erza, Gajeel and Levy are working at the renewed Magic Council. They are all asking to pardon you, giving you guys a three months probation with several Rune Knights watching over you."

"Erza..." Jellal said softly. Lucy smirked and waved at them.

"Wait!" Cobra grabbed Lucy's arm surprising the both of them. He let go immediately before asking, "Why can't I read your thoughts?"

"Because I'm not lettin' ya." Lucy snapped. "I want my privacy ya know. Anymore questions?"

Mest looked thoughtful for a moment before walking towards Lucy with hard eyes. The latter narrowed her eyes in alert. "You can't knock me out like the last time, Doranbolt." Lucy growled and he knew she was damn serious. "That can only happen once. I can punch another teeth out of you if you damn touch me again."

"Calm down, woman!" Mest snapped before sighing. "A month from now, Fairy Tail will return..."

"Fuck, I know that already..!"

"Let me finish, goddamnit!"

Lucy fought a smile before nodding. "I won't pursue you anymore, I'll leave that to your team mates. But I have one request though."

"I'm not gonna sleep with ya, scumbag."

"Fuck you."

"Oh right, yer into kids. Pedophile."

"One more fucking word, I swear to all the deities out there..."

"Aye. Don't get yer panties in a twist." Lucy smirked and stuck out her tongue, annoying Mest in the process.

"One day, I'm gonna knocked you out again."

"Aye. In yer dreams perhaps."

"Anyway, my request is I want you to stay with Jellal and the others for the mean time." Mest smiled cheekily. "I want daily reports on how your progressing with your training."

Lucy's eye twitched before standing in front of Mest and pulled his cheeks apart. "You're one cheeky bastard aren't ya?" Lucy smirked evilly before sending a black vortex at Mest stomach slamming him into a tree.

"Always be on alert, Mest-san." Lucy chuckled before mock saluted him. "I'll stay with them for a while but I won't send ya a report."

Mest groaned before sitting up. "Yeah, fuck you."

Lucy rolled her eyes and glanced at her temporary team mates who's gaping at her in milk shock. Even Midnight and Cora were stooped at her behavior. Lucy shrugged and walked ahead with Angel and Meredy in her tow. Once the girls were out of sight, Jellal stared at Mest waiting for an explanation.

"Watch over her. She's..fragile. Even if she's like that, the real Lucy is still hiding in her comfort zone." Mest started.

"It seems like she can take care of herself." Racer suggested.

Mest shook his head. "She's not herself. That's a different Lucy. The lacrima is changing her personality, she can't control her magic yet."

"Ya mean that black vortex thing?" Richard asked.

"Aside from that." Mest nodded. "She put seals on her lacrima, and by seals, I meant magic seals. She said she found Lost Magic and implanted on her lacrima. She almost destroyed a forest in Hargeon."

"Hargeon.." Cobra trailed off before his eye widened. "That place was almost in ruins! News said that a wizard destroyed their place. In just one blow. The metal freak and the solid script wizard tried to look for the culprit but they couldn't find it. Why did the Iron rod didn't remember Blondie's scent?"

Mest shook his head solemnly. "Like I said, something changed with Lucy. Even you can tell right? Her scent didn't linger here. Its like, she wasn't even here in the first place. Lucy's dangerous. I volunteered to look for her since Erza and the others were all aggravated by the fact that they couldn't catch their culprit. I already knew Lucy's past. I just acted innocent so you guys can hear the story yourself."

"Why would you do that?" Jellal asked, stooped.

Mest chuckled. "Because she's also the dark wizard you guys had been hunting off. Also known as Black Lionheart."

Simultaneously, Racer and Richard gasped. Jellal's jaw dropped as well as Cobra and Midnight. "L-Lionheart?" Jellal choked at his own saliva.

"What the fuck? You're fucking serious?" Cobra snapped before listening to Mest's soul, without a doubt, he was telling the truth. "She's..what the hell! I can't comprehend this shit!"

"A dark wizard as the same time, she's not." Midnight mumbled. "It'll be hard to train that power of hers. We need information on her implanted lacrima. We don't want casualties in our group. Only Erik know's some medication."

Mest nodded standing, still clutching the part where Lucy had blast him. "This shit hurts. I'll let Wendy look at it. Next week, I'll send a copy of Lucy's magics. And please, help her." Before anyone could reply, Mest disappeared from their sight.

Cobra groaned and looked at his guild's Master. "Well? What the fuck are we still doing here? We better let that Blondie welcome to our guild."

"If I didn't know Erik any better," Richard started. "I'll say this is what we call 'love'." Cobra shouted a loud 'fuck you' before disappearing from the forest. Racer soon followed with Richard on his tow.

Jellal sighed and walked along with Midnight who's in deep thought for the very first time which is a shock to Jellal. The Heavenly Body wizard was having the time of his life where he had seen so much changed at Lucy which is Erza's dear sister, and the fact that Erza was trying to pardon them with her authority as the head of the reformed Rune Knights, and first time seeing his guild mates having a very comical expression when Mest explained them everything from the concept that Lucy was their culprit as well as the Magic Council, yep, today was one tough day for him as a Master of his independent guild. Well, like Cobra said, its time to welcome a temporary member of his guild.

Author's note: Aye. Gomenasai. I know I've been the most idiotic author since I'm not finishing the stories that I've been doing, but this one, I promise. There will be updates if I received some reviews. I deleted the Rogue-oniichan since I'm starting to write a good plot for it. Forgive me, please? I'll make it better this week.

Aye sir.