Hi guys! This story takes place *SPOILER*
after the death of Lucy's father. Enjoy!
Lucy woke up early, which was odd seeing as how it was a Sunday morning, and ever since the Guild Wars incident, Master Makorave had declared Sunday as the, "Sleep in, and don't destroy things' day. However, the sun was shinning, the air smelled fresh like spring, and the warm, soft body next to her fought off the despairing remnants of winter.
Wait a minute... Lucy thought, her eyebrow twitching in annoyance.
Body?
"NATSU!" Lucy screeched when her hand found a fluffy silver muffler tangled in her blankets, and a sleeping pink haired dragon slayer sprawled across her bed. Natsu groaned and turned away from the blonde wizard.
"Lucy, don't scream. It's no destruction day." He mumbled, pulling Lucy's expensive comforter over his head, and nuzzling down into the warm bed.
"Oh I'll show you destruction you lazy freeloading lizard!" She said dragging her teammate out of her bed.
"No wait Lucy!" He shouted as she pulled him off the bed, and grabbed a leather pouch off of her desk, pulling out the first key she got her hand on.
"Open, Gate of the scorpion!" She shouted.
"LUCY WAIT I'M SORRY!" Natsu yelled scrambling off the floor, and jolting for the door, but it was too late. A red, and white haired man appeared from thin air ready for combat.
"Kill him!" Lucy growled. The man smirked, knowing that his wizard didn't actually want him to kill the dragon slayer, but scare him off for the time being.
"You got it boss!" He yelled. Natsu screamed again, tears in his eyes as he went flying from the magical gunshots of scorpios tail.
"I can't believe I have to endure this punishment with you!" Lucy said, pulling her mop from the worn wooden bucket, and dropping it back down on the floor that she and Natsu had been ordered to clean. The blast from Scorpios tail had knocked down a wall of her nearby neighbors apartment, and of course, the compensation fell to Fairy Tail. The Master was greatly displeased. Not because he had to pay for the damages, but because they had not obeyed the rule of 'No destruction on sundays.'
"Then maybe you should just let me sleep in your bed whenever I want!" Natsu spat back. Lucy huffed and turned around.
"And why should I? Don't you have your own bed! Freeloader!" Lucy shouted, throwing down her mop. Natsu jumped up from his seat on the floor, and got close to Lucy's face.
"I'm the freeloader? I basically paid for everything in that apartment!" Natsu yelled, glad nobody went to the Guild on Sundays anymore. So nobody could witness how upset he got over the blonde wizards comment.
"Whats that supposed to mean?!" Lucy yelled. "I bought everything in that apartment with money I earned on OUR jobs!" she spat in her teammates face.
"You hardly did anything!" Natsu yelled. "All you day is wave around a key, and hide behind a real magic user!" Natsu shouted. He was so caught up in his anger he didn't even notice the hurt look come onto her face.
"OH YEAH?" Lucy yelled, reaching for her keys, but instead having her recently discovered celestial caster magic take over, and the zodiac calendar flickering in her eyes.
"Well as least I don't run around looking for a dragon that left ten years ago!" Lucy yelled. I suppose one could say that was the breaking point for Natsu, and his resolve and concentration snapped.
"Well at least Igneel is alive! At least he cares for me!" Natsu yelled. Lucy's eyes widened, and the flickering light disappeared from here eyes, and she took a step back, accidentally tripping over the mop bucket. Natsu followed after her, a gleaming look of revenge in his eyes.
"You should be thankful that we even give you part of the cut! Besides being eye candy, or something to distract the enemy with, you don't really serve much of a purpose do you?!" Natsu yelled. By now Lucy's eyes had over whelmed with tears, and her entire body shook. Natsu breathed hard, and his narrowed, stone like eyes finally registered his words, and his shoulders slumped and eyes softened. He reached down to the fallen spirit mage.
"Luce, I-"
"Ice Make-Fist!" a shout cut him off, and a large fist made of solid ice perturbed from a ice-make wizards hand, and right into the side of his face. Natsu flew back into the wall, and groaned, glancing up at the ice-make wizard who's eyes were full of disbelief and anger. Turning from Natsu, the ice wizard turned to Lucy. Who was crying senselessly, and shaking her head.
"Lucy," Grey muttered. Natsu heard a faint, "Don't touch me." from the blonde girl, before she turned on her heals and ran out of the Guild. Once she had left, the air in the building dropped in temperature dramatically and Gray's eyes hardened into Ice once more, and he turned to Natsu, who struggled to get off the floor. Grabbing the dragon slayer, and shoving him against the wall.
"How dare you speak to her like that. How dare you say she is useless? Do you know how many times she saved your life? DO YOU EVEN KNOW?" Grey shouted into Natsu's face. Natsu looked away from his friend/enemy and at the floor.
"I didn't mean it." Natsu muttered. "And besides she will forgive me, I just need to give her a little space." Natsu said. Grey scuffed and threw the pink haired boy to the ground.
"I hope for her sake, she doesn't" he spat, and walked away.
Lucy's house!
"I knew I was useless." Lucy muttered to herself. "I knew they didn't need me." however she thought Natsu felt differently. She had never really been a very powerful wizard. Suddenly the vision of when Lucy had accidentally turned herself invisible came to mind. Rushing to her fairy tail family for help, and finding out that they talked jokes about her behind her back. Tears pricked her eyes, and she collapsed on her bed. What could she do? Not even her new family wanted her, and both her parents were dead. Lucy sat up, sniffling softly, and glancing down at her fairy tail mark on her hand.
She had chosen to wear it proudly on her hand due to her word as a spirit mage. She rose her right hand whenever making a promise. It was her promise to fairy tail. It was her promise to herself. But now, it seemed pointless to have. Not even Fairy Tail wanted poor lucky Lucy.
By then Lucy had made up her mind, and glanced around the room. She had a small backpack used for traveling, but that was almost it. Her eyes drew toward her closet, and she remembered something important. Flinging it open, Lucy found what she was looking for. It was a cloak. One her mother wore when traveling from different merchant guilds. Lucy stripped from her colorful revealing clothes, into a comfortable pair of traveling pants, and grabbed a roll of bandaging tape off her upper shelf. Her large breasts would only get in the way of traveling, and make her back hurt. She slowly bond her chest, and watched as they pushed up against her collar bone. It was harder to breath, but easier to move. She then slipped on a pair of wooden sandals, and pulled the cloak over her shoulder. Tying it, and pulling up the hood.
She glanced in the mirror. She didn't quite recognize herself, but glanced down again, and strapped her keys, and whip to the hip and covered them with her cloak. She slung on the back pouch and tapped a note on the door addressed to her landlord. Stating once and for all, that Lucy Heartfillia was not coming back anytime soon.
"Go apologize to her right now Natsu Dragneel!" Mira said. Natsu scuffed, and Erza clamped a hand down. Hard. On his shoulder.
"Natsu, Lucy is a vital member of our team. Don't you remember how she took down Angel when non of us could? At least not with Gemini on her side." Erza said. Natsu looked away, and sighed. He wanted to apologize to her, but he felt so bad about what he had said that he didn't know if he could face her, and her big, sad brown eyes.
"I don't know Erza, maybe we should take a job first. I need to get my head cleared." Natsu muttered. Erza's eyes went dark, and she glared at him.
"I will not accompany you on any missions without Lucy." Erza snapped and walked away. Natsu gulped.
"Natsu!" A sweat voice called to him. Natsu recognized it as Mira's, and glanced up.
"Huh?" Natsu asked.
"Go apologize to Lucy." Mira said sweetly, before opening her eyes which were a dark violet demon color.
"NOW." She growled, a crack suddenly splitting down the middle of her right eye. Natsu screamed, and ran away.
"AH! DEAMON MIRAJANE!" The whole guild turned toward Mira, who's eyes had turned a different color, and her long white hair flowing upward.
"AH!" Everyone screamed. "THE SATAN SOUL!"
"Lucy left?" he asked the women who had claimed to be her land lord said. She stood at a short 5 feel tall, with messy purple hair, and a chubby figure. Easily over 40 in age, and looked a little to angry at the world. The women nodded.
"Little thing said she wouldn't be needing the apartment anymore." Shock rang up Natsu's spine, and his eyes went wide. What was this women talking about... Lucy... Lucy left? Natsu nodded in thanks to the women and, quickly ran out of the building and right into the fairy tail guild hall.
"Lucy is gone!" He shouted as soon as the had slammed the doors open. All the muttering and laughter stopped and all eyes turned to Natsu who was panting heavily from his run.
"She is gone!" Natsu repeated. "Left her apartment, and only took a few things with her!"
"We have to find her!" A voice in the guild shouted. Many others rose up in agreement, and Natsu nodded.
"Yeah you guys are right!" Natsu yelled. "Erza, Gray! Wendy! Come on! We have to go look. Does anybody have a map of Fiore? Natsu asked.
"Enough!" A voice shouted. Natsu stopped scampering about and turned to the voice. The leader of the guild, Master Makorave.
"Master..." Natsu said. The master looked down from where he sat on at his usual place in the guild.
"The Fairy Tail celestial wizard Lucy Heartfillia came to me earlier to day with the most peculiar request." The old man began. "And I granted that request." He finished.
"What was it, Master" Erza asked, her hands balled in fists at her side, and here eyes wide with anguish. The master glanced down at his children, all starring at him, in want. Want of an answer. Where did their beloved Lucy go?
"Lucy has gone of a decade quest."