My first story... it probably sucks and I have a feeling I might be copying someones idea but I don't know if I did, so I would like to know as soon as possible so that I can take this down if I need to.

And I haven't decided if there is going to be any romance in it yet.

Also I do not own anything. All characters and settings-even inanimate objects belong to their rightful owners who created them.

Lucy's Point-Of-View

It was a really nice day when I woke up this morning but I was feeling restless. I kind of wanted to go to the guild and get a job request off the board, maybe one that isn't dangerous or over exerting but requires some exercise to burn off that feeling. So I get up and take a shower then get ready for the day.

As soon as I walked out of my house I heard a voice that sounded like Natsu yelling, "Lucy! I got us a job! Hurry and pack so that we can leave soon!"

Turning I see Natsu and Happy barreling towards me with Wendy, Carla, Gray and Erza walking behind them, I move out of the way so that the two don't tackle me in their haste to reach me. As they crash to the ground behind me I turn to the four who were less likely going to harm me in excitement, "It's like you read my mind. What kind of job is it? Can I see the request paper?"

Once the words were out of my mouth Natsu almost jumps on my back to show me the paper in his hand. Looking at it I shouldn't have been surprised with how dangerous it was, being that it was an s-class mission, but the payment was a good amount to split it into 100,000 jewels for each person. The job was to take out a small dark guild that has been kidnapping people and terrorizing the town. What made me happy was that the paper said the guild was far away from the town and any neighbors so if the team gets carried away we won't have to pay for any property damage which would mean we can keep all the money we earn.

"Okay, give me an hour to pack and we can leave. But, I don't want to take any chances and lose all of our reward money, we will spend our nights outside of town! So you all should go get your tents and pack food while I get ready and we will all meet at the train station in about two hours." I stated, not caring that I sound out of character when I agreed to go, so I turn around and go back into the building and up to my apartment to pack and grab my tent.

A little less than an hour later I grab my keys and whip then make sure my apartment is locked up and start to head to the station. On the way I stop at the market and buy a cart to carry my stuff in, I also bought food - while making sure to buy it in double knowing that Natsu might run out of his food - and finish my travel to Magnolias' Train Station. Once I get there I realize that I'm 30 minute's early, so I bought all of our tickets and sat at a bench to wait for everyone.

Wendy and Carla were the first to show, Gray showed up next looking grumpy with an equally grumpy Natsu - they both had pretty large bumbs on their heads - and an extatic Happy trailing carrying a fish behind them, Erza came a few seconds later with her wagon looking like it was bigger than my apartment squeeking loudly behind her. I pass out our tickets and we board the train - after Erza almost bludgeoned the train conductors head in for trying to refuse to carry her luggage because of its size and weight.

Once the train starts going and Natsu is unconscious in Erza's lap, Gray turns to me and says, "You seem almost too excited for this mission, usually you try to get us to choose a different one."

Erza agreed with him also putting in her thoughts, "Gray is right, you are normally unwilling to go on an s-class mission unless the reward has a celestial key in it, or if it's reward is a lot of jewels."

"Which the request does not have either of those things, so I would say it is very unlikely of you to want to go on this mission." Carla cut in with her own suspicion.

It took me a moment to respond, "To be honest, I don't know why I wanted to go on this mission. When I woke up this morning it felt like I had this...expansion of energy that's got me worked up for something that I can't quite put my finger on."

"Well I guess that makes sense, because every once in a while I feel really energetic before a mission, sometimes it's a nervous energy that something bad is going to happen or a victorious energy of feeling like something good will happen." Wendy added, whether it was to stop Gray and Erza's questioning or to make me scared of something bad happening I couldn't tell.

A few hours later we arrive to the town that posted the request and met with the mayor, after talking with him we all start to head to the forest that the dark guild is hiding in. We stop half way to set up a camp and rest for the night and in the morning we pack but leave our things and go to take out the guild. It would have been a quick in and out mission but turns out the dark guild was bigger than the town knew.

As we were fighting I noticed that my team had the upper hand, I had Taurus destroy the guilds hide out and Erza chose to fight their master while the rest of us took out the members. For a moment I paused to look and make sure that our team was fine and noticed that I couldn't see Wendy anywhere, so I tried to get to Natsu to tell him if he has seen her.

On my path to Natsu, I froze after hearing a scream, I instantly knew that it was Wendy and charged after the sound not hearing Natsu call my name. Running into the trees I heard Wendy scream again and saw her in a clearing clutching her head and looking like she was seeing something that wasn't there.

Once I got to her I clutched at her arms and yelled her name hoping to break her out of her trance. I looked around and noticed a women in a dark red robe starring straight right through me to Wendy, it looked like she didn't even know I was there.

As I got up to make her stop what she was doing to Wendy, I grabbed my whip and poised to strike at her. But a voice cut through the trees around us, "That won't work. Lucy Heartfilia."

"Who's there!? How do you know my name?" I demanded as I turn quickly while making sure to keep Wendy and the woman in my sight.

"I've had my eyes on you since you stepped into town, Ms. Lucy." The voice sings. I couldn't tell if the voice was male or female nor which direction it was coming from.

"Really? Then why didn't you do anything when my team and I were asleep last night? It would have been a perfect time to stop us from attacking your guild." I counter, trying to buy me some time.

"That wouldn't have been fun now would it?" The voice sings and I heard a slight waver in it and instantly connected the dots.

"I guess that wouldn't be fun." I returned, playing along, as I concentrate the voice becomes more male-like and sounds like it's right next to the women in the red robes.

"You're starting to get it! That makes me veeerrryyyy haaaappppyyyyyy..." It hisses as I slowly tighten the grip on my whip.

"Me too!" I yell as I open my eyes from the trance and quickly raise the whip to slam it down on the woman in red then quickly to the man that is a few feet away from her, both dark mages collapse in pain. I then notice that Wendy was also broken out of her daze and trying to shakily stand up so I help her.

As I helped Wendy up I suddenly heard Natsu, Erza, Gray and the exceeds yelling our names, turning to them while holding Wendy, Natsu screams at us to look out and I turn to the two dark mages only to see them finish chanting a spell while pointing at me and the dragon slayer who was half-conscious in my arms. Then a bright light blinds me and everything goes dark.

I don't know when I'll get the next chapter up but it should be up sometime between now and next weekend.