Disclaimer: Yeah... It's Hiro Mashima who came up with the characters in this story. However I own the plot of the story, and that's what matters.
Author's Note: I've decided to write one of those wonderful alternate universe fan fictions in which all the people in Fairy Tail are normal high schoolers. (Well sort of... you'll see.) Just so you know, my knowledge of Japanese culture could fit in a thimble, so I'm writing this as though they live in the good ol' USA.
Graduating high school.
Lucy was so happy to have done it. Now she could go on and live her life. She had absolutely no obligations.
Or so she had thought...
As everyone in school reminded her every single freaking day, Lucy was an orphan. So she had been adopted by a couple that couldn't have children. Lucy loved them just as much as she had loved her parents, and loved her as much as her parents had loved her.
She walked into her home, greeting her adopted parents, "Hello Mom, hi Dad! Good to see you!"
"Hello dear," Lucy's mom cheerily said.
"Hey kid!" Her dad said, smiling, "You're sure happy today!"
"Why wouldn't I be?" Lucy asked brightly, "Now I'm free to do whatever I want with my life!"
Instantly the smiles dropped off of her parents faces.
"What's wrong?" Lucy questioned, her face losing some of its cheer too.
Lucy's father was the first to speak up, "Honey, you're real mom told you that she was the queen of an island, and that you were the princess, right?"
"Yeah, but she was just making that up. Lots of moms tell their children that they're princesses..." Lucy trailed off nervously.
"She was serious Lucy," her father explained, "And you're apparently engaged to the prince of a different island."
"No! That's not true!" Lucy protested, "You're making a joke and it's not very funny! I want to live my own life! I refuse to do what someone else tells me to do!"
"We're serious," Lucy's mom said, "And darling I also wish it wasn't true. I wish with all my heart and then some. We love you so very much."
Lucy knew that it was true. There wasn't a thing she could do about it... yet.
"Where is it?" she asked, "When do I leave?"
"It's an island off the coast of California. Your flight is tomorrow morning. A car is going to pick you up." Lucy's mom was crying at this point, and Lucy realized that she was too. "We want so much for you to not need to go! We love you so much it hurts, and now your being ripped away from us!"
"Let's not cry," Lucy said, drying her tears, "We should be happy in the time we have left. Now, I should get packed up for my... trip. Will you guys help me?"
"You won't need a thing," Lucy's dad said sadly, "Like we said, your a princess now. They'll provide for you."
"Oh," Lucy was dumbstruck, but quickly recovered, "I'll need things to remind me of you guys, right?"
"You're right!" Lucy's mom smiled at her through the tears, "We'll give you pictures, and a couple of other things, just so you'll remember."
"I'm going to bring some of my clothes too, because there is no way I'm going to wear some of those stupid princess dresses!" Lucy replied.
The family of three laughed.
After a hasty packing job the night before, Lucy stood in front of her house, with her parents, waiting for the car to pick her up.
It finally showed up, a long sleek stretch limousine that looked out of place in the dirty neighborhood.
Lucy was beginning to have an idea of just how rich she supposedly was.
As she started to clamber into the car, her mom grabbed her hand, pushing a small black jewelry box into it.
"This has been in the family for generations," she explained to Lucy, "I always thought that I would give it to you, my daughter, on her wedding day, just like my mother gave it to me, but that's not possible, so here you go."
"Thank you Mom." Lucy was shocked, her adoptive mother was giving her a family treasure.
Her mother seemed to read the look on her face, "You are, and always will be, my daughter." she said, "I hope you will call us, and tell us what the island is like."
"Of course," Lucy smiled. "Maybe I can even invite you to my wedding!"
"I wouldn't miss it for the world!" her father said.
"I love you both," Lucy said, "Forever and longer!"
"We love you more!" they said in unison.
"Your Highness, we have to go," the chauffeur said, "Your bags have been loaded into the car already."
"Oh, okay. Thank you, but... my name is Lucy, and I'd like you to use it. Goodbye mom, goodbye dad." Lucy hugged her parents and climbed into her car. Tears were streaming down her face as she quietly wept.
At the airport Lucy was told that she didn't need to bother with bags. Someone else would handle them.
She just nodded and sniffed. It hurt to be taken away from her real parents.
A pink-haired boy and his cat were waiting for her at the gate.
"Hey Lucy!" he called, "It's good to see you!"
"Who are you?" she squawked, "How do you know my name? Why is your cat blue?"
"Hm..." the boy thought for a minute, "I'm, Natsu, Happy and I work for the Fairy-Tail household. We're here to escort you."
"What's wrong with being blue?" the cat asked, "I happen to like that color."
"Kya!" Lucy screamed, "Your cat can talk!"
"Technically, I'm not a cat!" Happy told her, "I'm an exceed!"
"What's that?" Lucy was so confused at this point that she didn't care if exceeds were winged control freaks from another dimension.
"We're a breed of animals that have a higher amount of intelligence than other animals." the cat explained.
"You're a funny person, Your Highness," Natsu said, "I think we're going to be best friends!"
"Really?" Lucy asked. She had never had a friend before. "Oh, and feel free to call me Lucy, because that's my name."
"Really... Lucy" Natsu said, grinning at her, "Now lighten up, because you're going home, not leaving."
That hurt Lucy more than anyone could possibly imagine.
She was leaving her real family behind. And going to her biological one. Home would always be with Kathy and John Jennings. Nowhere else.
"No!" she cried, "Home will always be here! The place I'm being dragged to today will never be home as long as I live!"
"Eh? Why are you so sad?" Natsu asked, "What's wrong?"
"Have you ever been taken away from your family?" Lucy rounded on him, furious, "Do you know what it's like? To have your parents ripped away from you, and nothing you can do to stop it?"
"Yes!" Natsu yelled, "I know exactly what it's like! Everyone who works at the Fairy-Tail household has their own sadness to carry with them! You can't act like your the only person who's lost something!"
"You're right," Lucy said, sniffling, "I'm being selfish. I'm not the only person in the world who lost something. It's just... I lost one set of parents when I was ten, and now I'm losing my other parents. I'm sure everyone who works for the Fairy-Tail family is really nice, but I will resent them for taking away Kathy and John."
"I lost my father, Igneel," Natsu said, "So I understand. Just don't treat everyone as though they don't know sadness. You must look forward to tomorrow."
"That was a very smart thing for you to say Natsu." Happy said, "That's not like you at all."
Lucy laughed as Natsu protested. She didn't like what had happened in the past, but she was ready to face what was ahead. She was going to give the snobs up in the Fairy-Tail household a heck of a time. She grinned and boarded the plane.
While on the airplane, she looked down at the small black box in her hands.
She wouldn't open it yet.
It was too painful.
The End (of chapter one/the prologue)
Lucy seems like she's psychologically disturbed in this. Her emotions change so quickly. Oh well...
Chapter Two (In which Gray and everyone else will probably show up.) is almost finished! Sadly, I need to sleep, so I couldn't finish in time to post it today.
Just so you know, I am not going to do a love triangle between Natsu, Lucy, and Gray. It may seem that way in this chapter, but someone needed to meet Lucy, and I couldn't think if anything funnier than someone sending Natsu to escort Lucy, even though he would have to go through several types of transportation. Especially if Erza was trying to get back at him for breaking something.
I'm also working on the latest story for Moments to Remember, but this one is giving me trouble. I have myself am idea that will take me forever to get right, so don't expect much on that end.
Everything else is complete, unless anyone has any objections...
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