A.N. So I have slowly been writing this with no real plot in mind, it's more of a side thing that I have been doing when stuck up on my other projects. There is an OC in this story so quite a lot of things are going to me majorly different than in canon, but hey this is a fan fiction so I can do pretty much whatever I want to. Now there are some things that you should all know about, 1) yes Lucy is still going to be friends with Natsu, and yes he is how she ends up in Fairy Tail, but she is not so dependent on him. 2) Lucy is going to enter the guild a lot stronger than in Canon, both she and my OC, Lilith, have been training in magic since they met each other. OK, those are the only two things that you all need to know and this concludes our abnormally long AN.

Lucy Heartfilia had grown up as a pampered princess. The servants of her father's home had always adored here and fawned over her. They showered her with affection after her mother died and her father began to neglect her, they would be her friends and playmates, but they would all eventually have to leave her. After all they still worked for her father and they would have to take care of their own household chores, so Lucy would often have to entertain herself. It is on one such occasion that we join in our beautiful hero.

Lucy had been playing in the garden with one of the maids when the woman had gotten called away, probably to clean up whatever had just made a horrifying shattering sound somewhere in the house. The young woman had quickly had to abandon the game of dolls that she had been playing with the little girl and run to the house, leaving Lucy alone, staring after the woman as she ran. The eight year old heaved a soft sigh and looked down at the doll she held in her hands.

"Oh, Michelle, do you ever think you and I will have anyone our age to play with?" she softly asked the doll, not really expecting any reply to be made, and so we shall forgive her for the startled jump and small shriek she let out at the sound of a voice speaking from somewhere above her.

"Who's Michelle? Oh, is that the doll, you know if you want I can be your friend!" Lucy looked up at the branches above her with wide brown eyes, catching sight of a rather dirty looking girl about her age, maybe a little older. "Hi, I'm Lilith, though my dad called me Lil' Flower, er, well, he's not my real dad, he's a dragon, but, you get the point…" the strange girl in the tree rambled on, trailing off and pushing a lock of rather gross looking black hair behind her ear, though we can't really be sure its black with the amount of dirt in it.

"Michelle is my doll, I'm Lucy, it's a pleasure to meet you Lilith," Lucy got over the shock of seeing a strange girl in a tree rather quickly and smiled up at the girl in the tree, holding up her doll to show to the other girl.

Lilith smiled back at the girl and climbed down from her perch in the tree. Absently she pulled a twig from her hair and frowned at it as if wondering how it got there before she tossed it to the side. "So then, Lucy, oh and Michelle, what do ya say, wanna be friends?"

Lucy tilted her head to the side slightly before giving the brightest grin she had since the death of her mother a year previous. "I would love to, but…umm…maybe we should get you to a bath before we play? Or maybe we should just get you a bath later?" the eight year old trailed off with a slight frown on her face, looking far too serious for a girl her age.

For her part Lilith seemed to roll with what the blonde before her was saying.

"Actually a bath sounds like it would be wonderful, if you don't mind that is," Lilith placed a hand on the shoulder of the other girl, giving her a gentle smile to keep her from freaking out overly much.

"Yeah!" Lucy cheered, throwing her hands into the air yet still somehow managing to hold on to her doll. "Let's go!" with that she grabbed hold of her new friend and dragged her towards the house in a roundabout way so that the two would not be stopped by any of the servants.

TTWT

"So why are you all alone?" Lucy questioned Lilith later that day as the two children lay side-by-side on the ridiculously large bed that Lucy called her own.

Lilith sat up a little, propping herself up on her elbows and tilting her head to look down at the younger girl beside her. "My dad, the dragon I mentioned earlier remember? Yeah, well he disappeared last July, he left me a neacklace, but that was it…no note or sight or scent of him since, I haven't given up looking though…"

"Oh…sorry…" Lucy frowned, glancing over at the girl beside her. "Mummy had to go last July, but she had to go to heaven, or maybe she is a guardian angel for your dad now…wherever he is…"

"Yeah, maybe," Lilith looked over at Lucy and smiled softly. "I think we could be really good friends, don't you?"

"Mhum. We can be best friends."