This story was written by me back in early 2016, but I abandoned this writing because I had become busy with real life things. I have decided to re-visit this story and edit many things, and maybe continue writing it.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything in Fairy Tail.

~Magnolia Train Station~

Normal POV

She was here, there was no going back. Would they forgive her for her choice? Even if they didn't she had to leave, this is the only way she knew how to deal with this sort of thing.

Lucy was standing in front of the Magnolia train station. She didn't know where she was going but she just needed to get out of this town before they stopped her, or if they even cared she was gone. Tears began forming in her eyes, recalling the moments that had driven her from leaving and leaving her memories behind. The blonde took in another large breath and exhaled softly before boarding the train that would give her a new life, new memories, and new friends.

Lucy touched her now plain right hand and brushed her fingers over it, there was no turning back now.

~Fairy Tail~

Flashback POV

Lucy was sitting on one of the many bar stools leaning her head against the cold counter. That's how she seemed to spend most of her days now.

Ever since Lisanna came back from Edolas everyone seemed to cast her to the side. The blonde was okay with it for the first couple of weeks because she thought that they deserved to spend more time together after she basically came back from the dead, but it's been months now and they still didn't notice her presence. It's not that she didn't try to get into the conversations, she did but when she did they didn't even glance at her or since she was even there.

She was left alone, only a few people would come and talk to her. Mostly Wendy and Carla but also Juvia, Gajeel, and Panther Lily would spend their time talking with her. She was thankful that all of them didn't know Lisanna because they all had come after the accident. Also, because she didn't want to lose the only people who would regularly talk to her.

She may have sounded selfish for it but it was true. She didn't want to lose any more people. It was hard enough seeing her team and guild push her aside but it hurt more when it came from the ones she loved the most, Team Natsu. They haven't talked to her in months now and no one seemed to notice that she wasn't there laughing and talking with them in their conversations. Seeing them all together without her hurt her but it hurt the most coming from one person, Natsu.

Her fire dragon slaying best friend, partner, and the person who first brought her to Fairy Tail. She felt something for Natsu and almost everyone in the guild knew that there was some sort of chemistry between them, but its changed ever since Lisanna arrived. She didn't blame Lisanna for what was happening because it wasn't her fault that everyone had forgotten about her. It was their faults.

As Lucy let out another sigh she heard footsteps making their way near her. She brushed it off and thought it was someone coming to order something and not even notice Lucy sitting there but this time it was different. She felt a slight pressure on her back like someone was poking at her to get her attention. She lifted herself up and turned around and came face to face with a toothy grin and a pink head of hair.

She was looking at Natsu and he was actually looking at her after such a long time. She was welling up with such happiness that she broke out into a huge smile. Something she hadn't done in a while. Natsu took a step forward towards the smiling Lucy and put his arm around her shoulder. She was feeling butterflies in her stomach as she slightly blushed under his touch.

"Oi, Luce!" Natsu said to her happily like the two months of him forgetting about her were just a weird dream, like it never happened, but it wasn't a dream to her.

"H-Hey Natsu, whats up?" She said with a nervous stutter. It felt like forever since he last talked or actually gave her attention and she loved it.

She just wanted to put the whole two months behind her and have everything back to normal and have everyone talk her. She loved her her guild like family and she was sure they loved her-

"We want Lisanna to join Team Natsu," Natsu said looking right into Lucy's brown eyes.

Lucy froze as her big brown eyes widened in shock. They wanted Lisanna to join their team? It felt weird to Lucy that they wanted Lisanna would join the team and she was worried that if she joined would they just ignore her more? Before she could answer Natsu cut her off.

"We want you to leave Team Natsu and have Lisanna take your place," Natsu said with a smile. Lucy felt her breath hitch and her eyes began to gloss over with tears. Those words coming from his mouth felt like a bomb ticking in her heart.

She couldn't speak as if everything around her was frozen in time. She desperately wanted this to be a bad dream and she wanted everything to go back to normal where he would never say those words to her.

She slowly took her hand off the bar table and brought it to her fair-skinned arm and slightly pinched herself. She flinched at the sensation and her heart sunk lower as her stomach began to twist and turn. This was real and they wanted her out of the team. Why though? What did she do to them to have them kick her out and replace her with Lisanna?

"W-Why?" Was all the blonde could manage to spit out. She was afraid to speak anymore because she could feel the tears begging to escape her eyes. All she wanted to do at this very minute was to run out of the guild as fast as she could and cry where no one could see her. She didn't want them to her her so weak, and because of them.

"Well since Lisanna is back you don't need to be on our team anymore and-" He sounded so carefree like this wasn't affecting him or anyone at all. Why would they do this to her?

"You were just her replacement anyways." He finally said as he plunged the final sword through her heart. She felt broken as if everything around her was shattering. Is this what they really thought about her? Just Lisanna's replacement?

"W-What do you mean?" Before Natsu could explain any further two sets of footsteps came towards her. She turned to her side slowly as she saw the rest of Team Natsu. Erza and Gray were both behind her with the person she least wanted to see at the moment, Lisanna.

"Did Natsu tell you yet?" Erza said as she came up from behind Lucy placing the palm of her hand on the counter as she sat beside the blonde. Lucy could only look down as she fiddled with her bottom of her skirt. She didn't have the courage to look them in the eye, but she still wanted answers even if she cried in front of them.

"W-Why? Why do you guys want me out of the t-team?" She couldn't stop herself from choking on her own words as the tears started to well up in her eyes and slowly make their way down her red cheeks. They didn't seem to notice her silent tears and she thanked Mavis that they didn't know, but she guessed that they didn't even care.

The next person who came up next to Lucy was Gray who was fully clothed which was weird, but he was bringing even worse news to Lucy's ears.

"Because you're weak, Lucy. We thought it would be a good idea to have Lisanna on our team instead." Gray said nonchalantly. Lucy flinched as that one word repeated in her mind over and over again. Weak.

She knew she wasn't the strongest person in Fairy Tail but they never had a problem with her strength in the past, so why now? Every emotion was going through her head. Anger, sadness, betrayal, determination, but all she cared about was getting out of the guild and far away from them. She couldn't stand to see their faces right now. If they really wanted her out of the team then fine.

"Okay." That's all Lucy said as she lifted up her head and got up from her seat shakily. She grabbed her purse and jacket from the back of the chair and put it on and started to make her way towards the guild doors but a group of people to the right of her caught her attention.

She looked over and saw the five people that helped her through these past months and she was grateful towards them. She sadly smiled at them all and they all looked at her with worry evident on their faces. Before she realized it, another tear went down her cheek but she didn't bother to whip it away as she turned back towards the guild door and made her way out.

~Lucy's Apartment~

Lucy slammed the door to her apartment not caring who heard the large bang. She couldn't hold it back anymore as her body went limp and she slowly slid down the back of her front door until she reached the cold wooden floor. She chucked her purse to the other side of the room as she cried in pain.

Her heart was aching and she felt sick to her stomach. She just wanted to run away from everything and everyone. She was breaking down as warm tears continued to make their way down her red and puffy face. She put her head between her shaking legs as she tightly gripped onto her blonde hair as she started to rock back and forth. Her cries were met with unbearable silence as those words continued to haunt her thoughts.

How could they do this to me? Why would they do this to me? Why was I crying over people who did something so horrible to me? Just why?!

After many hours of crying Lucy just couldn't cry anymore. She was still sitting in that same spot on the floor as her head was tilted and eyes with no light. Her face and eyes were still red and puffy and her hair was a mess. She was tired and wanted nothing more than to sleep away her troubles but she couldn't bring herself to move from her spot.

Her heart felt like it was ripped in half and It reminded her of the pain she felt when her Mother had died. It was so awful and to go through something like this again was something she never wanted to happen again. She closed her eyes but all their voices replayed in her head.

You're weak. You were just a replacement anyways.

She quickly snapped her eyes back open as she slowly got up from the floor and stood on her feet.

"No one and I mean no one is going to call Lucy Heartfillia weak." She said quietly but with rage evident in her voice. She didn't know how she would show them how strong she really was. Maybe she would leave Magnolia and train with someone, but that thought was short lived as five familiar faces popped into her head.

How was she going to leave the people who helped her the most through the rough time she had gone through. She had gotten to know all of them more these past months and It just didn't feel right to up and leave them. She was having an internal battle between her heart and brain. What was right? What was wrong?

She was starting to think too much and her head was starting to spin. She stared at her bed and slowly made her way over to it and flopped down onto it. She didn't care that she was a mess and still in her clothes. She just needed to sleep and think everything over when she had a clearer mind.

The sun shone on Lucy's sleeping face, but she slowly opened her eyes with a soft moan. She looked over to the other side of her bed and then the window by her bed. Both showed no signs of anyone ever being there. She sighed and thought she was a fool for even thinking that he would sneak in her house again. Natsu had stopped doing that a week after Lisanna arrived.

Lucy sat up slowly from her bed and looked down at herself. She was still in yesterdays clothes and she didn't smell that great either. She forced herself to stand up and take a shower even though it was the last thing she wanted to do. Once she was done with her bath and put on a fresh pair of clothes she made her way over to her couch and sat down looking up towards the ceiling.

Her stomach growled but she ignored the noise as she didn't feel like eating or doing anything. She only thought more and more about the event's of yesterday and her crazy idea of leaving Magnolia behind and training, but the more she thought about leaving to go train sounded more and more appealing. She started going over the thought and was left with many questions. Who would help her train? What would she practice training? Close combat or her Magic? Maybe both?

She sighed as she shook her head. She wanted to prove to everyone that she wasn't the weak and fragile girl that they thought she was, and she began to think about the possibility that they wouldn't even realize if she was gone or not if she left. It's not like she would be gone forever. She would probably come back in a year or maybe two if she wanted to keep growing.

Lucy nodded to herself as she finally made up her mind. She was going to leave to train.

She pushed herself up from her couch and made her way over to her small desk and sat down, and pulled out several pieces of paper. She started writing things that she wanted to do while she was training, but after a while, she started to stray from that and began writing letters She didn't know what compelled her to write letters to everyone but she somewhat felt better as she wrote all her feelings onto paper.

When she was done with the letter's she addressed them to Gajeel, Panther Lily, Wendy, Carla, Juvia, the guild, and finally Team Natsu. She didn't know what made her write one to Team Natsu but after getting all her feelings out on paper somewhat helped and she wished dearly that once they read it they would finally feel how she felt.

Lucy put the letter into her purse that she threw the other day and then took a good look around her apartment. She guessed that she should pack all of her things away but she was stumped on where she would store everything. Before Lucy could think of something a sudden golden and bright flash came from beside Lucy and when she looked the light disappeared and a person was left standing there.

"Hello Princess, Punishment?" Virgo greeted as Lucy sweatdropped. Lucy didn't understand why she always asked to be punished.

"No Virgo," Lucy replied back to her. Virgo was in her maid outfit and had her steel cuffs around her wrists with chains hanging from it. She still had her same light pink pixie haircut and blue eyes, and pale skin.

"Why are you here, Virgo?" Lucy asked. She never summoned Virgo so she must have gone through the gate on her own occurred.

"I am here to collect your things, Princess." Virgo said as Lucy looked at her with her eyebrow raised, "You are moving are you not Princess?"

Lucy understood what she meant and nodded her head.

"You are welcome to place one bag of your items in the Celestial World Princess," Virgo said. Lucy sighed as she thought. One bag huh? Well, she better just packs the essentials and put everything else that she owned somewhere else, but the question was where? Then it dawned on her. She would just send them to Fairy Hills and put it all in storage.

Lucy started to grab the essentials of what she might need like clothes, toothbrush, hairbrush, snacks, and some jewels. Everything else she would be putting away in storage. Lucy gave Virgo the bag as Virgo took it and bowed to her, and disappeared in a golden light.

Lucy huffed and thought about what she needed to do now. She would call some movers to take everything from her apartment to Fairy Hills. She guessed that it was now time to speak to Master about her plan to leave but she was nervous. She was anxious about whether or not Team Natsu would be there in the guild or not. She didn't want to see them since the heartbreak was still fresh.

Lucy grabbed her jacket and purse and made sure she still had the letters she wrote in her purse. She planned on giving them to Master so he could give it to everyone one else later on once she was gone. She made her way over to the front door and slipped on her shoes, but before heading out the door she looked over her shoulder and looked around her room one last time. She sadly smiled as she recalled all the fond memories she had in this very apartment. She was going to miss it but she knew it was time to leave. She grabbed onto the handle of the door and took in a breath of air as she slowly exited and closed the door behind her.

She felt the wind go through her hair as she walked down the sidewalk on her way to Fairy Tail. There were groups of people walking past her, laughing and talking about their day or just random things. Lucy was once again going through her thoughts and questioned herself that if she making the right choice?

She was beginning to become frustrated. They were supposed to be her family and she just couldn't understand how they could treat her like that. She trusted them and they just ripped it up to shreds. Was this supposed to happen to her? Was she supposed to be alone and not have someone there for her?

Before she could dig herself a deeper hole of misery she was now standing in the front of Fairy Tail. Lucy sadly smiled as she thought about how she was going to miss this place even though her recent memories were not something she wanted to remember.

Lucy took a deep breath and headed inside the guild doors and much to her surprise the guild wasn't loud like it had been yesterday. She scanned the building and barely anyone was in the guild. She quietly stepped into the building but only a few people glanced her way but went back to what they were doing. They didn't even smile or wave to her and Mavis did that hurt her more than anything right now.

Lucy looked around and didn't see the familiar ex-team of hers. That's probably why there weren't many people in the guild and why it was so quiet. Most people went on missions since Team Natsu wasn't there to make it interesting. She walked up to the bar to see a familiar barmaid cleaning the mugs. She had her white hair down as always with that small ponytail in the front of her head and she was also wearing her maroon colored dress with light pink trimming.

"Excuse me, Mira?" Lucy said getting her attention. Mira lifted her eyes to look at Lucy and raised her eyebrow and gave her a quick hum in response. Mira had changed a lot and was no longer that sweet Mira to Lucy. She seemed to want nothing to do with her and she was also seemed to grow impatient with her whenever Lucy spoke to her.

"I was looking for Master, do you know where he is?" Lucy asked cautiously. Mira sighed as she put down the glass mug in front of her and pointed her eyes upstairs and said nothing else to her as she began to wipe the mug in front of her again.

Lucy sighed and looked up to the door that Mira looked at and Lucy knew that was his office. She backed away from the counter and started to make her way upstairs towards his office. With every step she took she felt her nerves more and more, and her heart was starting to race. She walked up to the brown oak door with the master's name on it and knocked on it as she heard the faint sound of someone moving around coming from inside.

"Yes come in." Lucy heard his mumbled tone from behind the door. She grabbed the doorknob and twisted it open revealing her lovable master at his desk facing herself. She turned around and closed the door behind her and then walked up to the old gray-haired man. He nodded his head for her to sit down in the chair in front of him and she did as he asked.

"So, what brings you here, Lucy?"

~Inside The Guild~

So bunny-girl needed to talk to the old coot huh? Interesting, Gajeel thought.

Him, Panther Lily, Carla, Wendy, and Juvia all sat at one of the tables away from everyone else near one of the walls. Panther Lily and Carla were speaking with each other and Wendy and Juvia were talking with each other as well, but Gajeel was eying everyone in the guild. All of them were on edge though after what happened yesterday with Lucy and Team Natsu.

Gajeel and Wendy heard everything that was said because of their dragon hearing and even heard when Lucy started crying. Gajeel wanted to go over to them and pound in all of their faces but everyone held him back from causing a scene. He felt bad for Lucy, or as he called her, Bunny-Girl. He would expect that kind of betrayal back at Phantom Lord but he never once thought it would happen at Fairy Tail since they swore that they loved everyone in their guild and how their family was so important. He started laughing to himself and shaking his head. They were all hypocrites.

What got them all worried about the blonde is when she left yesterday. She looked their way and they had all seen the way she looked. The red and puffy eyes, the small tears making their way down her red cheeks, and the way she looked utterly heartbroken. Gajeel thought that they were all disgusting people.

"What do you think Lucy went to go see the Master about?" Wendy asked them all nervously. Wendy took is hard yesterday after Lucy left. She heard everything and when she saw Lucy the way she was, she couldn't help but cry in sadness for the blonde. Wendy looked to Lucy like a sister, and she couldn't stand seeing her so broken.

"I presume it has something to do with the events of yesterday," Carla said as she looked over to her dragon slayer friend who only sighed. Gajeel knew it had something to do with yesterday, but what could Lucy and the master be talking about?

Gajeel couldn't hear them from where he was and he knew he wouldn't be allowed on the second floor. He eventually sighed and closed my eyes as they all waited for Lucy to come back from her visit with the Master. Whatever was happening up there was definitely important.

~Masters Office~

Makarov saw the petite girl sitting in front of him as her head hung low and her hands were shaking. There was something troubling her and he just had to wait for her to spit out what was on her mind. He sat there for another minute and gave up on waiting and once he opened his mouth to say something he heard her muffling something, but he couldn't hear her clearly.

"What was that?" He asked her. She fidgeted in her seat once again.

"I would like to take a leave of absence from Fairy Tail." Makarov sat there in silence as his eyes went wide and jaw went slack from what he just heard her say. She wasn't serious, was she?

Makarov heard about what happened yesterday and he was ashamed that something like that happened in his guild, but he was more upset at that fact that they treated her like that. She is so important to the guild and he just didn't understand why she would want to leave.

"How long would you be leaving us, Lucy?" He finally said to her. She looked up and looked him in his eyes. He could see how this affected her. Her eyes no longer held that spark of light and her beautiful smile was nowhere to be found on her pale skin.

My poor child. I wish there was something I would've done to prevent the sadness of this young lady, he thought sadly.

"Maybe a year or two. Depends on how long my training takes." She said. He nodded his head as he finally understood her reason for leaving. She was going to go train. But he wanted to know the reason behind it. Was it because they had called her weak because he knew that was far from what she was. She was strong physically and mentally, but coming from her closest friends at the time probably hurt her a lot. He could start to feel his eyes getting blurry. He was loosing one of his children because of three fools.

"Okay, let me see your hand." He reached out his hand over his desk and she put her right hand over his. He pulled out his other hand and put it over her pink guild mark. There was a yellow glow that encased from their hands and as soon as the yellow light faded away so did her guild mark. He released her hand from his and he saw the now bare right hand.

He felt heavyhearted as he looked up towards her and felt a twinge in his heard as he saw her eyes beginning to water, but she quickly whipped them away. He hated to see his children cry. She looked at him and smiled softly to assure him that everything was alright, and before she left she stood up and looked inside her purse. She pulled out five envelopes and gave them to him.

"I would like you to give these letters to the people they're addressed for. The ones that are for Gajeel, Panther Lily, Wendy, Carla, and Juvia, please give them theirs in a few hours after I leave and it would be best if they read theirs together in your office. The other ones are addressed to Team Natsu and the whole guild. Please give them out once they ask or In two months." She said.

He took the letters slowly as she turned around and headed to the door. She turned around and waved to him with her now blank hand.

"Goodbye Mast- I mean Makarov." She said as she sadly smiled. He nodded back to her as she left his office. He looked down at the letters she had given him and noticed there were wet spots forming on them. He brought his hand up to his face and felt the warm wetness of tears making their way down his cheeks. He was crying.

~Guild Hall~

Everyone at the table was waiting for Lucy to come out of the Master's Office, and as they heard the door close from above them everyone perked their heads up at the sound. Their eyes hit the stairs as the blonde came walking down with heavy feet. They all had their eyes on her and something caught Carla's attention. She saw that Lucy was looking down at the floor as her left hand covered her right hand. The hand that had her pink guild mark Carla noted.

The first person to get up to go see Lucy was Wendy. She got up from her seat and walked over and called out to Lucy who's head shot up. When she saw who was in front of her she softly smiled. Lucy walked up to Wendy and began to talk to her about something that they couldn't hear. Carla decided to stand up and go over there for herself. She spread out her angel-like wings and flew over to Wendy and landed on her shoulder. The blonde noticed Carla and smiled fondly at her.

"What were you and the master talking about?" Wendy asked curiously. Lucy looked rather uncomfortable as Carla noticed her tightening the grip on her right hand.

Did something happen to her hand? Carla thought.

"A-Ah nothing!" I was asking about a job." Lucy nervously smiled as she tried to shake off the awkwardness. They all saw that she looked to be back to normal, like the whole ordeal of yesterday never occurred. Carla knew that something seemed off and before her thoughts could take over Lucy starting speaking again, "Well, I have to get going. I will see you later!"

The blonde started to go around them but Carla wanted to ask her what was wrong with her hand and if she wanted Wendy to heal it, but as soon as her paw hit Lucy's shoulder a flash of darkness went over Carla's vision and she saw something absolutely horrific. She was panting heavily and was breaking out in a cold sweat once the nightmare had ended. Wendy and Lucy were both looking at her in worry, but Carla could only look at Lucy with worry and dread.

There was no way that was going to happen to this Lucy. It couldn't be true but my visions have always been right but I knew this couldn't be true, Carla thought still in shock.

"Are you okay Carla?" Wendy asked worriedly. Carla could only nod as she continually stared at the blonde in front of her with a puzzling look. Before I could talk to the blonde about what I had just seen she said her goodbyes to all of us and turned around. She walked out of the guild and Wendy turned to Carla once again.

"What happened Carla? Did you have a vision?" Wendy asked. Carla nodded her head as she started shaking.

There was no way that would ever happen to our Lucy.

I hope you all enjoy this series and please leave me your comments on anything I should try, something I might have messed up on, or if you just want to show this story support! Thanks for reading!