Fairy Tail: Sweet Nothing, Pt. 1

Chapter 1: The One That Got Away

Lucy's POV

I walk pass the streets of Magnolia. It seems like any other ordinary day in the city. Everybody seems to be having a good time. Well everybody but me. I guess it's because it's Valentine's Day. I do have a special someone; it's just that his heart belongs to another. All I could say is that she is a lucky girl, which is the weirdest thing because I'm not jealous, I'm just brokenhearted.

With every second I get closer to the guild. My heart aches in pain just thinking about what I am about to do. But I think it would hurt them more than it would to me, which is why I don't want Makarov to tell anybody. While thinking about this I don't even realize that I'm just a few feet away from the guild. I wake up and realize this when I bang my head against the door to the guild hall.

Everybody looked at me. I'm guessing that they noticed my despair from the expression on my face. I hear somebody scream my name but I just keep walking towards the master's office. The moment I open the door I see him sitting on his table with his eyes closed. When he sees me, his face enlightens then he gives a frown.

"What's wrong Lucy? Everything alright?" I can't help but start crying. It's could already tell that this is going to be very hard for me. To leave my family in my past. But I have to.

"I've decided that I want to leave the guild for a while." I start sobbing quietly. I look up and I see a tear run down his face.

"Well alright then. I guess it's time to let one of my children go. But remember, when you leave this guild, you will have to follow three rules. One, you must never reveal sensitive information about Fairy Tail to others for as long as you live. Two, you must never use former contacts met through your being in the guild for personal gain. And three, though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all of your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends who loved you. Now give me your hand." I raise up my hand it and give it to him. I see the guild mark slowly fade away from my hand.

"I hope we meet again child. Now remember, you will be missed and you have been loved for nine years. I hope that you know that even though you are gone. You will always be in this guild's thoughts, memories, and heart." His words make all of this a bit lighter on me. I left a few more words for him and the guild and before he knew it I was gone.

I walk through the back door of the guild and walk back home. I walk into the sunset with a small smile on my face. I turn around and take one last look at the guild. The master's words pass through my head again, I hope we meet again, but in my thoughts, I respond back to him, I know we'll meet again. I wave goodbye at the guild and start walking away, remembering all the precious memories that I shared with the place and my friends, no, my family.


Natsu's POV

I wonder what had been bothering her on that day. She had nothing but a sad look on her face. I think I saw a tear run down her face. When I called her name she didn't even look at me. She just kept walking, walking away from the hall, walking away from her friends, walking away from me. She went right into the Gramps's office, but never came out.

After fifteen minutes or so, he walked out with tears running down his face and went to talk to Mira. She then joined Gramps bedridden in sadness, and a feeling came to me that all the tears he was laying and the sudden change in mood of Mira had to do something with Lucy. Had she died? No. Gramps wouldn't have ever come out of his office if that happened. I stayed like that for the rest of the day.

The next day came; Gramps seemed to have been in better shape than he was the previous day. Then he stood up at a table. He had said words that made my eyes start to tear up.

"Lucy will no longer be with us, she has left the guild. She has decided that she needs to choose her own path. She said she will one day come back, but that for right now, you don't need to worry about her." It pained me to know that Lucy had done something like that.

After that day, the guild had a hollow. Nobody ever fought again. Gray never stripped, Erza always spent time with her self and I just stopped being, bold. When we went on missions it seemed like there was nothing to save. The money didn't really matter. So we just stopped going.

There would be days where I would cry myself to sleep just thinking about the possible danger that she could be in, it sort of felt like there was no reason to live anymore without her in my life. When nobody was around I would scream her name and start crying, I never knew that my life was so empty without her, I never knew that she was that important to me. I knew that if somebody found out, they wouldn't understand. They wouldn't understand how much it hurts.

This same cycle happened day after day, week after week. It never stopped. But what hurt me the most was that, the last time I saw her, she herself looked like she was in pain. But that was five years ago. It yet again is February 14, and all my Valentine's Day presents are on my table, along with a card for each year. And like every other night I would just hope for her safety every night. And I would wait for her to come back, to come to the guild, to come back to her family, to come back to me. And like that my eyes would close shut, and a dream about her would follow. and under my breath I would mutter the name, Lucy.