She was never meant to stay in one place for very long.

She had memories of so long ago. She was there when stars were formed. She could remember dancing among them as a small child, giggling in delight when the light would come near and speak to her.

"Child," they used to whisper. "Come closer and play with us."

Their light would reach out as if to grab her and drag her closer. She would always avoid the tendrils of stars, leaping away with glee. She used to speak to them. One, she learned, was named Aquarius. When she asked why the star replied, "I know not, silly child. Just that I am, that I will be, and that I was."

She met many more among the stars, one named Leo, another Virgo. So many more and whenever Lucy would visit them they would seem so excited and happy. They wished for her to play with them for all time.

She decided, in a moment, that they were lonely.

It was dark where they were. She couldn't decide why it was so cold, and why the only light came from them, but she thought that with only themselves for company it must get rather lonesome. So she promised them that she would stay with them forever. When she made this promise most had shined brighter in pure happiness, but the ruler of them all, the King she liked to call him, shook his head sadly.

"It is not your destiny, my child," he had said quietly. "Though I wish it wasn't so, you will one day leave us."

They named her Lucy regardless of the King's words. It was strange, she had thought, to have a name. To be called something else other than 'child'. But, after hearing Aquarius and the others call her this, she decided, she liked it.

Once, she asked where she came from. Who she was.

"My child," the King said, because he never called her by her name. "I do not know. There are legends that a child would be spun from stars and light. That this child would meet another like it, built from stone and fire. But when that will be, and if that is you, is not yet known."

His explanation made no sense to her, so she decided to think nothing of it.

In her free time she liked to daydream that she had a creator, a mother she would later call it, with hair as bright as hers, and a smile as soft. She liked to dream that she one day her creator would come and play with her.

But most of all, she wanted to stay there with the stars forever. To never leave.

Fate, of course, decided to intervene, and the King's words proved to be true.

It was unusual, really. One moment, she had been playing with a star called Gemini and the next, she was gone. And it was bright. The brightness was unlike anything she was used to. The next thing she noticed was the warmth. And from there, was chaos.

Beneath her was a soft substance, an unusual shade of color, something she could not place. When she looked up, all she saw was light blue. Fear had filled her, something she was not used to. Foreign objects shot from below her, reaching towards the blue as if trying to escape.

Lucy walked for a long time. She could not judge the time, but when the sky darkened suddenly, she looked up. Even if she could not see them as clearly as before, she would recognize her friends anywhere. They were the stars.

Suddenly the loneliness consumed her and strangled her. She had broken her promise to her friends. Nothing hurt more than this knowledge. Screams tore through her throat as tears cascaded down her cheeks. She screamed for the lost friends, her lost family, for her lost home.

Animals, she would come to realize later, came out at the ruckus she had created. Their eyes observed her with an intellect that she could not hope to match at her age. Her screams turned to sobs, then to sniffles, and then into silence. Hesitantly, one on four legs came out and stared up at her.

She was too far gone to wonder what it was or what it could possibly want. All she remembered after that was the sound of her small body hitting the floor as she fell unconscious.

When she woke, she stared into a light blue set of eyes.

"Child," the voice whispered. "Can you tell me your name?"

Lucy frowned, confused, before a shot of pain rang through her. Child, what the King used to call me. Before she could muffle them choked sobs escaped through her lips as she curled farther into a ball. She did not want to exist anymore if it was not with her family.

"Child, tell me your name this instant," the voice commanded sternly. After a moment of silence the voice gave a tired sigh. Lucy heard something creak through the arms that covered her head. "You caused quite a ruckus, little one. You were screaming your head off, caused almost the entire village to wake. My name is Mira. It's lucky I found you, or else a wild animal might have gotten you, or worse, a wild man. You are very small after all. Won't you tell me your name?"

Lucy hesitantly peeked through her arms to see a woman sitting next to her, with hair as white as snow; she would later come to know the term. Her eyes were kind as she looked at her. Something warm fluttered through her at the sight.

"L-Lucy," she whispered, eyeing the woman like a scared animal. "Lucy, Child of the Stars."

After that, she had grown with Mira. She learned by human standards that she was maybe five years old, but age mattered little to her. When asked where she came from she always gave the same answer.

She came from the stars.

She got many strange looks for that answer but she didn't care. Everything was strange here, and she didn't like it. She wanted to go home more than anything. Every night she would go lie in the grass, and stare up at the stars, talking to them. Sometimes she thought she saw them twinkle, as if responding to her words.

Lucy didn't understand what happened to her or really anything around her, but Mira believed the tales Lucy would tell her. She called Lucy the Fallen Star. Lucy did not mind the title, because that meant if she had fallen, there must be a way to climb back up.

She lived with Mira for two years, she remembered. It had been a happy but scary time. She loved Mira like a mother, and Mira taught her many things. But fate once again intervened. She had been lying in the grass once again that night, staring up at her family, when there was a shift in the wind, and she was suddenly not where she was supposed to be.

The smell of smoke filled her nose and immediately she started coughing which did not help the matter. Glancing around through squinted eyes she took in her surroundings.

Flames, great and wild surrounded her, as bright as the stars used to be. Terror consumed her and she could no longer move. And that was when she heard pounding on the ground, so loud it petrified her to her very veins. And then a ginormous beast was approaching and with a shout she was scooped from her place on the ground and shoved onto the creature.

"What are you doing here, little girl!" the voice barked angrily. "This is a battle ground; it is not a place for children! How did you even get here?"

"I-I don't know," she whispered, too afraid to turn back and look at the speaker. He grunted but said nothing as they sped on, away from the fire and into the night.

It was what they called the 1300's but she didn't pay much attention to titles. When asked her name by the man she had responded, "Lucy, Child of the Stars."

He had snorted, like what she said made perfect sense and he didn't like to think about the consequences.

He was a strange man. She learned his name was Gray eventually, and he lived in a place called Rome. Living with him was even stranger than living with Mira. He was cold and distant, but he seemed to care for her. Why else would he let her live with him in his home?

She still talked to the stars and told them that she would find a way to get back to them. They just twinkled sadly back at her.

She told Gray where she came from, the stars, and he had just shook his head, muttering something about the gods and their punishment. She had no trust for the gods Gray would talk about but decided not to voice her opinions. She had seen how women were treated when peeking her head outside the door of her new home.

Gray told Lucy that it would be best if she not set one foot outside lest the fate of death become her. Children were not safe in Rome, especially girls, and she willingly agreed. Lucy stayed there for one year.

When eight, according to the people, suddenly she was transported to another time, and then another. Each time she lived with someone else, someone new. They all took care of her, and each time she left someone she realized she was being moved through time.

She kept the name Lucy, Child of the Stars. But she also was called other things, like Fallen Star, Angel, Sun's Heart. They all marveled at her hair. They said it reminded them of the stars.

She told them that the stars were much more beautiful and bright, that everything about them radiated light. The older she got, the less anyone listened. And the more she forgot.

She was seventeen now. It was year 1878 in America, and this time, instead of living with someone else, she was by herself. She realized eventually that she could not live among normal people anymore. She was too strange, her talk and walk too different, her hair far too strange.

Lucy used to be admired for her hair, now she was called a freak. So she lived in the woods, avoiding people. Each day passed in loneliness, each day wishing to go back home.

Lucy's hair had grown longer, and many would call her body beautiful. She did not notice. Her mind was too lost in thoughts of returning home.

And that's when it happened. Fate once again intervened.

A boy, maybe a year older than her by the looks appeared. His hair was a light pink, his eyes a sharp green with canines like knives. He had taken one look at her, standing in the woods, and whispered, "I've found you."

An emotion so complicated and mixed rose within her and against her will tears started to flow down her cheeks. She could not look away from the boy.

"What is your name?" he asked quietly, taking a few steps closer. Lucy could not move her body backwards like her mind told her she should.

"Lucy, Child of the Stars."

It had been a line repeated so often that it started to loose meaning, but standing here, staring at this boy as she answered him, all of it suddenly hit her in one hit. She was Lucy, Child of the Stars.

The boy's eyes widened as a grin split his face. It looked so positively happy that her own lips twitched in response. She could not remember the last time she had smiled. Had it been when she last danced with the stars, or when Mira would tickle her into fits? Everything after that had been dark, and terrifying.

"And your name?" Lucy whispered. Unsure why, something inside of her was afraid of the answer. His smile softened.

"Natsu, Child of the Earth. It has been so long, Lucy."

And then it came like a rushing river. She remembered him. It was like a long ago memory, something she had almost forgotten. Before she had met the King and the other stories, there had been a Before. A before of happiness, a before of love. And in that Before, there was Natsu.

They knew there time was coming to leave each other, to start their lives over. But they promised to meet up again, no matter the cost.

And that promise had been fulfilled.

Without another word she rushed forward and crashed her body against his, his arms enveloping her small body to pulling her closer.

"I've been searching for you, Lucy," he whispered into her hair. "I never realized it, but I've been searching time and space for you."

She nodded through the tears. "I had forgotten, but I still searched. I thought it was for a way back to the stars, but it was a way back to you."

His grip tightened. "No need to look any longer, child of the stars."

"Once, there had been a child born from the stars and light, a girl who danced in the sky. Once, there had been a child born from stone and fire, a boy raised to protect and fight. They met one night, when a star touched the earth, and, love was born. When they existed it was called the Before, but the After was coming soon, they could both feel it. The After would disrupt everything, they knew. They made a promise, that when the After occurred, no matter what, they would find each other. Even if that meant traveling through time and becoming human. Whatever it took, they would be reunited.

"And so it came to be, once again, the Child of the Stars met the Child of the Earth, fulfilling their long ago promise."


Hello, so this is a story that suddenly popped into my mind and I don't know I'm proud of it. I might post another chapter about Natsu's experience and everything if I get good enough feedback. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed (this story is what happens when I don't sleep XD)

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