Arthurs Note::I don't Own Fairy Tail::
So this story is taking place a little after the Edolas ark, but before the S-class exams (im currently watching that one). I'm not sure how long I'm going to make it yet, because it started off as a idea that just popped up so I thought I would type it up and see where it went from there. Please tell me what you think
I hope you enjoy it.
"I don't know what to do Mira." Lucy said with a depressed tone in her voice as she layed her head on the bar.
"What's wrong Lucy?" Mira asked worried about her friend she'd never so upset about anything other then being late on her rent payment. "Is your rent almost due?"
Picking her head up off of the bar the blond spoke, "No it's not that it's just..." she paused letting out a long sigh before she continued "Ever since Lisanna came back I feel like I'm not even apart of Team Natsu anymore."
"What do you mean?" Mira said confused.
"Well..." the spirit mage started explaining "Don't get me wrong I love your sister but ever since she came back Natsu and the others have pretty much been excluding me from missions."
"Oh come on that can't be true" Mira spoke with her usual upbeat tone.
"Oh trust me it is." Lucy continued speaking "Just a few days ago I was sitting over there"(her finger points to a random table in the guild)" with levy when Natsu, happy and Lisanna walked through the doors laughing.
~Flashback in Lucy's P.O.V~
"So Lucy when am I going to get to ready that Novel?" The blue haired mage asked "I cant wait to read it". With a soft chuckle I responded "It's still not finished but don't worry Levy when it is finished you will be the first one I let read it." I said reassuringly. "You'd better" Levy responded suddenly giving me a serious but joking stare causing us to laugh. Changing the topic she suddenly asked me "So have you gone on any interesting missions lately?" That question caused my smile to disappear and my tone to sound sad, "Actually I haven't gone on a mission in almost three weeks and with rent being due soon I don't know if I'll have it on time."
Just then the guild hall doors opened and a smiling Natsu, Happy and Lisanna walking in. As Lisanna took a seat next to Erza who was currently talking to Gray Natsu ran towards the request board and scanned over it to see if there were any good ones. Seeing one that peaked his interest he yanked it off the board and ran over to where everyone was talking.
"See Lucy it looks you will be able to make rent after all." She pointed over to where Natsu was as he showed everyone the request he picked out. Next thing I knew Natsu, Erza, Gray and of course Lisanna were standing in front of the guild doors when he shouted to Mira, "Hey Mira" the guild grew silent with the sudden outburst "Tell gramps we are heading out to take this request." He flashed the paper at Mira and she nodded and waved them off.
After the doors shut Levy looked at me with concern in her eyes "Hey Lucy how come they didn't ask you to come along with with them?" Letting out a deep sigh I responded, "I honestly don't know Levy. Ever since Lisanna came back they have been taking her along with them on missions and completely forgetting about me. This is the third time it's happened." Placing a comforting hand on mine she smiled at me and said "Don't worry if you need to you can come with Jet, Droy and I on some of our missions so you can make rent". "Thanks Levy" I replied back with a smile.
~End Flashback~ back to Regular P.O.V
"So you see Mira it's like I've become totally invisible." Lucy said with a frown on her face "I mean the first time I understand. Natsu was excited about having her back and probably wanted to take her along to show her what all she's missed. The second time it bugged me a bit but I let it slide. But this is 3 times now and I'm really upset about it. Like I said before I know Natsu is just happy to have her back but what's also upsetting is the fact that Erza or Gray didn't say a word about it to me." the blond let out a long sigh before she finished her sentence "I think I am gonna take Levys offer and join them on a couple of missions."
"Are you sure Lucy?" Mira asked with concern "Maybe you should talk to Gray and them about this first. I'm sure they don't mean to exclude you everyone's just happy to have Lisanna back."
"I know everyone is Mira I'm happy she's back. But right now is not a good time to talk to them about this. I know they don't mean to exclude me but even so this just needs to happen for a little while. And who knows" she stood up before she finished talking "maybe this time I can come back from a job request knowing a town wasn't destroyed in the process" she said with a faint chuckle as she walked towards Levy.
~About half an hour later~
The guild doors slammed open with Erza and levy walking in front and Natsu and Gray arguing behind them. "Alright thanks Levy" A somewhat more cheerful Lucy spoke as she headed for the guild doors. Walking past the group Erza and Lisanna greeted her only to get a smile as a response. After passing the girls she walked through the still arguing males making her way out. Something inside her at that moment felt more betrayed by those two more then anything. Stopping their argument for just a moment they both happily greeted her only to receive silence as she made her way to the door way. Confused as to what was wrong with Lucy they decided to put their argument on hold long enough to speak with Mira and see if she knew anything about it.
"Hey Mira" Natsu spoke as he sat in one of the seats at the bar with Gray right behind him Erza was a couple of chairs away eating some cake. "Do you know what's wrong with Lucy? She seemed like she was upset about something."
With her usual cheerful tone she explained everything Lucy had told her. "WHAT!" the pink haired mage shouted as he slammed his fist onto the counter. The ice mage sat there silent but clearly he was upset about the whole situation. The sudden outburst caused the guild to fall silent. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE IS GOING TO BE JOINING LEVYS TEAM" his tone still angry and shouting "SHE"S PART OF TEAM NATSU." he protested. Placing a hand on his shoulder Gray spoke "Calm down Natsu! Shouting isn't going to help anything". Natsu suddenly giving Gray a angry glare and continued shouting, "HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN GRAY? IF ANYTHING YOU SHOULD BE JUST AS UP SET ABOUT THIS AS I AM.
"Believe me Natsu I am upset about this but shouting will get us no where." Gray spoke calmly " And besides you heard what Mira said Lucys upset and..."
"He's right Natsu" Erza interrupted placing her hand on Natsu's shoulder telling him to calm down "Without realizing it we have left Lucy out of our last 3 job requests. I don't blame her for being upset" she spoke with a frown on her face. "If you knew why didn't you say something about it?" The dragon slayer said in a calmer tone with anger still in his voice as he glanced from Erza to Gray.
"We're not the only ones to blame for this Natsu." Gray argued. "What are you talking about?" Natsu's said a bit confused. "You are as just much to blame for this as we are" Gray explained. "Think about it how much time have you been spending with Lucy since Lisannas been back? Since shes returned you two have been spending a lot of time in that little hut house y'all built together back then."
Hearing those words come from Grays mouth Natsu shot up saying "We're going to talk to Lucy. Come on Happy" he said with determination in his eyes and sadness in his heart. "Aye sir" the blue cat replied back flying after him and Gray and Erza not to far behind.
~In front of Lucys house~
"Why won't this window open?" Natsu shouted as he struggled to pry it open. "Because its locked idiot" the ice make mage stated "Lucy obviously doesn't want to see us right now and clearly she knew we would try to barge in and talk to her."
"LUCY!" the pink haired boy started shouting, "IF YOUR IN THERE OPEN UP! LUCY!"
"NATSU" Erza shouted getting the dragon slayer to stop his shouting "That's enough!" she demanded.
"Erza's right Natsu" the dark haired boy spoke "Let's just wait till tomorrow and we can talk to Lucy then."
"No!" Natsu protested against what his friends were saying "We need to talk to Lucy. She's our friend. We have to..."
"That's enough Natsu" a frustrated Erza interrupted him "Lucy is hurting. Don't you get that?"
"That's exactly why we..." Natsu tried to argue but was interrupted again. "What we have to do is give her some space."
With Erza's tone getting scarier by the minute told Natsu to let it go and just wait.
Lucy Natsu though to himself Did I really get so caught up in the excitement of Lisanna being back that I forgot all about you?
~Lucys P.O.V of everything going on outside~
As my towel hit the floor I slowly slid my body into the hot bath trying to ease my mind of all my problems and relax. Earlier when I got home the first thing I did was make sure all my windows and my door were securely locked because if I know Natsu as well as I think I do as soon as he learns why I am upset he will charge in my house and try to talk me out of joining Levys team.
Just as I was about to get completely relax I heard some faint shouts coming from outside my house. Still sitting in the shower I tried to listen as best as I could which wasn't as hard because Natsu was shouting most of the time and in frustration caused Erza to shout back. I had a feeling Gray was there but I wasn't for sure because I never heard him speak. As they continued their argument I could feel my heart slowly breaking. There they were 'my friends' worried about me but at the same time they were the exact reason she was upset in the first place.
I just need sometime away from them to think about everything and with Levy, Jet and Droy I can do just that and with that I let out a long sigh as I just finished my bath. Grabbing my towel I wrapped it around my body and walked out of the bath. Just as I stepped onto the bathroom floor I noticed the shouting had stopped much to my relief. After I dried off and put on my pajamas and went to sleep
~End of Lucys P.O.V~ ~The next day Normal P.O.V~
That morning Lucy woke up and walked into her bathroom to freshen up before she headed for the guild to meet up with Levy so they could choose a job request. About half an hour later Lucy finished tying up her hair and headed out the door. As she twisted the knob and opened the front door she suddenly halted noticing there was a certain dark haired mail standing in front of her door.
"G-Gray!" she said a little surprised to him standing there.
"Hey Lucy" he responded with a smile "What's up?"
"What are you doing here?" she asked. She didn't expect any of her friends let alone Gray to be waiting at her door if anything Natsu seemed more like the type to do something random like that. After the whole conversation outside of her house last night she was hoping they would be at the guild waiting to talk to her.
"Well we came by last night to talk to you but when you didn't answer the door I decided to come to your house earlier enough to talk to you before Natsu bombarded you with questions." Gray explained. "Can we go somewhere to talk?"
"Actually" she she said trying to find a way out of it. "I can't because I told Levy I'd meet her so we could decide on a job request." As she said that she could see sadness in his eyes and even though she wasn't ready she decided to give in. Letting out a soft sigh she spoke again. "But I can be a little late" grabbing his hand she guided him inside and they sat on her couch their hands separating almost as soon as they sat down.
For what seemed like forever there was silence between the two. If he doesn't say something in the next five seconds I'm gonna get up and Leave. Five. Four. Three. Two.
"I'm sorry Lucy" he suddenly spoke knocking the blonde haired mage out of her own thoughts. "Huh?" she said a bit confused.
"I'm sorry. You have every right to be mad at Erza, Natsu and Myself." The ice make mage spoke apologetically "We never meant to leave you out of any of the job requests. We were just so caught up in Lisanna being back somehow we forgot to include you. I know it's no excuse. Lucy our team is nothing without you. You are as much of an importants to our team as everyone else."
Placing a hand softly on his knee she spoke "Gray first off... Your clothes." Somehow during his apology his shirt had came off. Watching him scramble to put it back on she continued "Gray I understand why you guys did what you did" Hearing those words come from her mouth caused Gray to look at her with a bit of confusion. "I get it. Lisanna has been apart of Fairy tail since she was a kid. Going two years thinking she was dead must of been hard on everyone and then for her to suddenly reappear who wouldn't be excited about something like that." He could see the tears building up in her eyes. "Trust me I'm not mad. It's just..." she paused for a minute wiping the tears from her eyes before she continued "That for a split second I felt like my spot in the team was being taken over. Because lets face it Lisanna is a stronger wizard then I am. Without my keys I'm useless."
"No!" Gray blurted out. Hearing Lucy downgrade herself right in front of him upset him. "Don't you say that about yourself Lucy. I have seen you do plenty of amazing things with or without your spirit keys. Even though Lisanna has been apart of Fairy Tail for a long time to me she could never replace you. Without you our team is nothing. With all of our magic combined if you aren't there with us our group would feel empty." Somehow in the process Grays hand had moved on top of the hand Lucy had played on his knee and started squeezing it hard enough to let her know he didn't want her going anywhere but not to the point where it hurt her.
Before she could say anything her front door slammed open.
That ends Chapter 1. I am working on chapter 2 right now.
PS: I am a NaLu and a GrLu fan so i cant decide which one she ends up with yet. I might throw in a LoLu moment but im not sure yet because even though they are also cute together he is her celestial spirit. Only time will tell I guess. Thanks again for reading and let me know what you think