Chapter 1: Who is she?

Natsu and Lucy were laughing at talking as usual in the guild of Fairy Tail when suddenly they heard the guild doors open. Everyone turned their head as they heard it and they saw a girl wearing a cloak walk in. She was quite tall and had long dark chocolate hair that covered one-third of her face, no one could see her eyes because of her cloak but the dragon slayers smelled dried tears.

The girl walked towards the bar over to Mirajane, the barmaid. "Hello! Welcome to Fairy Tail! How may I help you miss?" The white haired woman asked politely.

"Hello, I am Annette… I-I've come to ask if I could maybe… j-join this guild?" The girl asked quietly. Mirajane grinned.

"Of course you can! Fairy Tail welcomes everyone with open arms!" With that, Mirajane grabbed the Fairy Tail stamp from under the counter.

"Wait Mira," Natsu growled. The pinkette stood up and walked over to the girl to sniff her. Annette stiffened as she felt him sniff her, she had heard of this man, he was very powerful indeed and she had idled him for as long as she could remember. "Sorry, just making sure she wasn't a threat." He said as he sat back down. The girl's shoulders relaxed slightly as she looked back over to Mira and saw the lady give her a smile. She smiled lightly back; it was the first time she had smiled for a long time.

"Alright, anyways Annette, oh I love that name!" Mirajane squealed, "It sounds so different!"

Said girl giggled softly, many people said her name was interesting, she really didn't mind, she thought of herself as different. And to her, different was good.

"I think I'm talking too much," the barmaid said as she looked at the other girl. "Where would you like your stamp anyways?" She asked and she saw the brunette think.

"On my… l-left hand please…" She said to the older woman, the lady nodded and asked again, "Which color?" Annette shrugged and replied, "Surprise me." With this she saw the lady stamp her left hand. She smiled and looked at her left hand to see that the mark was golden, she was finally apart of her dream guild.

As this was happening Natsu and Lucy watched curiously. Who is this girl? Why is there a feeling of such strong power coming from her? Natsu thought curiously. When he had gone to sniff the young woman, he saw her eyes for a brief moment, they were brown, just like Lucy's but, instead of the shimmer of happiness Lucy always had in hers, Annette's were dull and seemed like they've seen enough for a normal human to break and go insane.

Lucy on the other hand was thinking about the girl, Annette, Annette… why does that name sound so familiar?! She thought, when Mira had squealed that name, Lucy felt something in the back of her mind tug. "Ugh" She murmured.

"What's up Luce? You okay?"Natsu asked worriedly.

"Nah I'm fine, I think I'm just a little tired." She replied, hoping that she sounded convincing. Natsu nodded and looked back over to his new guildmate who had just finished talking to Mirajane and was now being surrounded by people trying to meet her.

"You wanna go over and meet the new girl?" Natsu asked. Lucy shrugged and got off her seat. "C'mon Luce! We'll go home right after we say hello!"

Lucy sighed, "Fine… but let's make this quick, my head hurts." She let herself be dragged over to Annette by Natsu and plastered a fake smile on her face.

She looked at the girl and froze. The girl looked back at her with seemingly almost anger in her eyes. That's when all the memories flooded back to her.

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"Hey Lucy?" The young version of Annette asked as she held hands with Lucy.

"Yes Annette?" Young Lucy repied.

"Will we be friends forever?" The brunette asked. The blonde grinned.

"Best friends!" She said happily as she hooked pinkies with her best friend.

They laughed happily together as they ran about the Heartfilias garden as Layla watched them with glimmering eyes.

A few years later…

"GO AWAY" The now older Lucy yelled through her door at Annette.

Annette whimpered, ever since her best friend's mother died, Lucy hadn't talked to her other than yelling at her to go away. She cried everyday. She cried because she missed the old Lucy, the one who swore that they would be best friends forever. And she cried because she didn't like to see Lucy in such a broken state.

One night Lucy stared out the windows of her bedroom and saw a little bracelet in the corner of her windowsill. It was Annette's. Without thinking, she grabbed the bracelet recognizing it as the bracelet Annette got from Layla before she died. Angrily she stretched the bracelet as far as she could until she heard it snap and all the beads falling of and rolling onto the floor. She dropped the string and closed her eyes, falling into a deep sleep.

The next day Lucy went out to her mother's garden to relax, but Annette was in Lucy's room staring at the broken bracelet. Layla had been like a second mother to her, and this bracelet was the only keepsake she had left of Layla's. Tears poured out of her eyes as she ran out of the room, she left the Heartfilia Mansion and never went back.

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Lucy's eyes widened, she could see the anger in Annette's eyes clearly now. She turned and ran out of the guild and towards her home. She heard people yelling towards her asking her what happened but she ignored them and kept running. When she reached home she quickly locked her windows and her door and sat down at her desk. She was scared. Scared to face Annette. Scared of what Annette would do. Scared that she could never go back to the guild because Annette was there. She felt a tear roll down her cheek as she took out a piece of paper to write to her mother. But she couldn't seem to lift her pen. Her hand felt heavy, just like her heart did. So instead she went to her bed and cried herself to sleep.

Back at the guild…

"What happened to Lucy?" "Whoa, where did she go?" "Is she alright?" "Does she know Annette?" People were whispering questions to each other after they had seen the celestial mage run out of the guild after seeing Annette. Natsu on the other hand hadn't seen the angry look Annette had given Lucy but knew that something was up.

He ran out of the guild to find Lucy, figuring she would be at home. He climbed up the wall over to Lucy's window and saw that Lucy was sleeping with tears drying on her face. He tried to open the window but he couldn't. He wanted to smash it but he knew Lucy would be kicked out for destroying the property. He sighed, looking back at Lucy's tear stained face, he walked back to the guild. He hoped that he could be able to get something out of Annette to figure out what happened.

A/N: And there we go! The first chapter to my third story! Hopefully you guys find this interesting and will continue to read. Also I hope you guys can give me some suggestions on what type of magic Annette should have, I have an idea but I'm still debating on in. Don't worry I'll be updating Finding Out soon! Bye my little angels! Make sure to review!

-FTAngel signing out!