Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)
I've decided to do another Lucy/Natsu/Lisanna story again, but this time things can be different than before.
At the Fairy Tail guild, a party had been going on for seven days to celebrate Lisanna Strauss returning from Edolas. It was a miracle that she had just been sucked into an anima taking her to Edolas, but what was an even bigger miracle was that she had come back. Everyone hadn't slept for a week, yet they still had energy to spare. Well, almost everybody did.
Lucy had been sitting alone at the bar all week, and for the whole time, everyone was completely ignoring her like she wasn't there. Even her team, Team Natsu, wasn't taking any jobs because they were too busy listening to the white haired mage tells stories about her adventures in Edolas. This meant that Lucy had to take a lot of solo missions; her monthly rent of 70,000 jewels wasn't going to pay itself.
Each time Lucy came back from a mission, she would have the occasional cuts and bruises. The only people that did acknowledge her were Wendy, Carla, Gajeel, Lily, Levy, and Master. Wendy would of course heal her injuries and Levy would keep her company, most of the time. Right now she was on a job with team Shadow Gear, Gajeel and Lily are off training somewhere, and Wendy is with Carla, also on a job, leaving her alone for a while.
Nobody had noticed her for five days, but she tried her best to not let it bother her and she didn't blame any of her nakama for it. After all, a long thought dead nakama just came back. She deserved this kind of welcome home celebration.
"Mira, can I please get a sugary cup of hot tea?" Lucy asked with a small smile on her face.
"Whatever, Lindsay." She replied nicely while smiling over at Lisanna, who seemed to be discussing something with Team Natsu at the moment.
Lucy sighed sadly at the fact that Lisanna was getting all the attention for people to not even remember the name Lucy Heartfilia. Still, Lucy did realize that Lisanna had recently returned from Edolas and they would do the same for her in that situation.
As she drank the sugary tea from the cup, Natsu came over to the bar with his signature confident grin and sat down on the barstool next to her. Lucy had remembered that today was the 1-year anniversary of her and Natsu becoming girlfriend and boyfriend, and she felt like reminding him. However, the next announcement would be much more climatic for their relationship.
"Hey, Luce." he casually said, as he put his arm around Lucy's shoulder, making her blush a bit. She knew that he always came to her when he was ready to go out on another job and she loved being with him wherever they went.
"Yes, Natsu?" She replied with a light pink blush on her face while smiling at him.
"I've been thinking, and I've decided that Lisanna needs to join the team. For us to not have too many members in our group, I think Lisanna should take your place." Natsu said in a serious tone, still thinking Lucy was fine with it.
"What? Why, Natsu?" Lucy responded, as the words her lover had just said were really shocking and hurtful.
"You aren't exactly the best when it comes to fighting, and I always have to end up saving you because you can't handle it on your own. The team is only as strong as its weakest link and you just keep the rest of us back. The team doesn't need to be dragged down by dead weight, you know." He stated nonchalantly.
Then, Gray and Erza walked over to the bar with Lisanna taking a seat next to Natsu on the other side of Lucy.
"Look at the bright side, Lucy. Now you can train more, so you won't be so weak. I'm sorry, but for once I have to agree with Natsu." Gray added in a cold tone, as he glared at Lucy.
"You guys think I'm weak? That's not true! I can be useful! I'm not weak… Erza believes me." Lucy said with her voice breaking, as her eyes were starting to water with tears threatening to fall down her face. Her body slightly trembled, and her hands were shaking the most.
"Actually, I agree with these two. You always complain about your rent, now you won't have to share the reward when you go on a job." She said harshly, taking a rough bite out of her strawberry cake.
Lucy couldn't believe the words that were coming from the people who she believed were her nakama. She felt betrayed, shocked, confused, angry, hurt, and many other negative feelings reached her heart that had a slight crack in it right now.
"Lucy, are you ok with Natsu's decision?" Lisanna asked with a smile on her face, as she kissed Natsu on the cheek. Seeing that made Lucy gasp in shock and breathe anxiously while more tears went down her face while she looked extremely unhappy and uncomfortable right now.
"Oh, yeah! I almost forgot! Listen up, everybody! This is the day that I met the love of my life, and we have such good chemistry! Let's cheer once more for me and Lisanna Strauss, everybody!" Natsu shouted happily, before looking into Lisanna's eyes and giving her a passionate kiss on the lips.
By this point, the emotional crack in Lucy's heart had grown large enough to break it into a million pieces and she put her hands over her crying eyes to save herself more pain from watching Natsu's lips pressed against Lisanna's. She had loved Natsu with all of her heart, and now he stomped on it like she meant nothing to him.
How could he just throw her away like she was trash? How could Natsu kick her off the team, and expect her to be okay with it? How could he leave her for another girl, just because they knew each other for a longer period of time?
Lucy tried to hold back the tears as much as she could, and without even thinking, she gave Natsu a hard slap in the face. He had just cheated on her, after all. Lucy knew he'd be angry with her, but would he show a slight bit of sympathy if she were crying her eyes out?
"What the hell is wrong with you, Lucy? What did you do that for?" He asked in an amazed tone, not realizing what he had done.
"It hurt me deeply when you kicked me off of the team, Natsu! You made things worse when you kissed Lisanna, too! Natsu, I thought I meant something to you! Don't you even care that today is our 1-year anniversary of our relationship?" Lucy told him while she trembled in sadness as she still cried.
Natsu's eyes widened at first, but then they went to a much more serious look as he replied, "Sorry, Luce. I won't take back what I said. Lisanna and I knew each other long before you came along, and I won't hurt her feelings!"
"You don't care that you're hurting my feelings right now, but you'd do anything to make Lisanna happy? You don't care about how much I loved you?" Lucy replied softly while the tears temporarily receded, and her blonde hairs covered the unhappy look in her brown eyes.
Natsu told her with an angry look on his face while clenching his fists, "Stop being so selfish! Think about how I feel. If you like me, you should have said so earlier! Now, I've made my choice and can't turn back! Lucy, stop thinking about yourself! Stop being a selfish, whiny, spoiled baby about this! Are you crying because you scold me like a bitch most of the time, but you can't handle it when someone does that to you?"
Lucy felt like she had just been stabbed repeatedly in the heart with every word Natsu had said, and she couldn't even resist crying at this point. He had showed her his feelings for Lisanna to be true, and he didn't even care that Lucy felt like a small insect that had just been crushed by Natsu, Lisanna, Gray, and Erza.
"Natsu, I'm sorry about slapping you." She managed to say, as her throat constricted a little while she cried.
"Don't even try that hypocritical shit with me, Luce! You know what? I'm through with this crappy argument that's getting nowhere. I can't get you to listen to reason because you're just useless! You can't even understand how you act like a spoiled princess who lets everyone else do all the work while you just act like a bitch! That's all you're good for, and no one wants you here!" Natsu shouted, as he grew angrier with Lucy being upset over Lisanna and not just accepting this whole thing in stride.
His last sentence resonated in Lucy's mind for what seemed like an eternity, as she stood there perfectly still with her head tilted down and tears falling from her eyes as they made rivers down her face. Natsu had just displayed his true feelings toward her, and Lucy felt like her whole world had come crashing down.
Lucy was hyperventilating now, her body threatening to give way from under her. She could feel the world spinning in a whole new way, but this time, it was like her entire being was being rewritten. She felt as if her entire friendships with the members of Team Natsu were being reshaped, the tones and tenses behind every spoken word gaining new meaning, darker meaning. She felt her whole mind revolt against her as memories old and new re-mastered themselves with new purpose, every syllable holding some new malice or harm, and it made Lucy weep.
She didn't even bother to look at them, as she ran out of the guild while crying loudly and covering her brown eyes with her hair. While she ran back to her apartment, rain poured down heavily from the dark clouds that had obscured the blue sky and Lucy screamed up at the sky in agony at what Natsu had said and did to her.
She could only walk through the harsh downpour of rain that seemed endless, as it came from the large dark clouds up above. Lucy let out a sigh when she turned back to hear Natsu and most of the other guild members partying like nothing had just happened, and she then realized that no one cared for her at all.
How was Chapter 1? I may update daily or weekly, depending on when I have free time. Criticism and good reviews are greatly appreciated for the next chapter, and for possible pairings and ideas later on. Anyway, let me know your thoughts on this!