Author's Note: I know, I know, I am going to get angry, angry, reviews but I have decided to continue and rewrite P.O.B. I have changed a lot since I wrote this story. I am a better writer and storyteller, but also, I am a different person. So, this chapter is rewritten and a little longer. I will be continuing this trend every week. If there is a change I will notify you. I am working on an actual novel so a lot of time goes towards that. But I feel like it was worth time to resurrect an old love. See you at the bottom of the work!


Just another day for me, the now forgotten member of Fairy Tail. Everything was going well before and even for a while after Lisanna got back. Things went well for Team Natsu and I. Lisanna joined us on missions and it became a frequent "thing." It seems that because of those missions, the others became less and less aware of my existence.

One mission was the cause of majority of the problems. The mission was routine: get rid of a group of bandits that were terrorizing a town. Everything went well, until instead of watching my back as Natsu was tasked with, he got distracted with what Lisanna was doing. I ended up with a large gash on my side because I was cornered. I laid there bleeding for a while. Not Erza, Natsu, or Gray seemed to notice me. Finally, Loke appeared and brought me into town to get healed. The team found me an hour later and had the audacity to say it was my own fault for being "too weak." After that it became easier for them to forget about me.

I was going to tell them more about me too. About the Dark Spirit Keys and about my family heritage, honestly, I didn't see the point anymore. Starting from today I was going to make my peace with Team Natsu and go on my separate way. I would keep my secrets to myself about the fact that I had a half-brother in the guild and that I knew more about what had happened on Tenrou Island that what I was willing to say.


I lace up my boots and look at myself in the mirror I was wearing blue shorts with fishnets under them and a beautiful black and white patterned shirt that I loved. Grabbing my keys, I left for the guild with more hopeful outlook on how my life was going to be.

Walking into the guild was harder than I thought it was going to be, I still was staring at the doors after 5 minutes when finally, I make my feet move and walk into the guild. I catch my brother's eye and flash him a sad smile. It seems that sad smiles are becoming more and more normal for me.

Team Natsu was at the bar their laughter making its way to me. My aches at the sight, I wish that was something I still felt I was a part of. Natsu now saw me as weak and a lesser person because of it. Then there was Lisanna who saw me as some sort of competition for the attention of the guild. It couldn't be denied that me and her were similar enough that I could see why we she felt that I filled a place that was meant for her. Then Gray and Erza were quiet bystanders through all of it.

I reach them and offer a greeting. "Hi guys" I spoke quietly. They all smile in reply but then Lisanna opens her mouth.

"Oh Lucy, I thought you have been out of town on a mission." Her face beaming with a smile.

That smile and comment would have been fine if I hadn't been at the guild unable to make myself talk to them every day of the last week. Something snaps in me and before I can stop it the words slip out.

"Why are you guys such assholes?"

My cheek is burning and there is Mira standing in front of me with her hand raised. "How dare you?"

Now I felt all that anger, betrayal, sadness, and hurt bubble to a boil. I start to laugh, I laugh without happiness.

My laughter tempers and I speak, "I dare because I am over it! These last few months I have been mean comments from Lisanna, being ignored by my own team, and not a single person seems to care that I am drowning in myself. So, I am done with Team Natsu and I think I am done with Fairy Tail. This place should be somewhere I feel safe and it is no longer a safe place for me.

Without an order from me a dark spirit appears and he releases his powers. The guild erupts with the screams of Team Natsu sans Happy. Part of me, a dark part, didn't want him to stop. Nonetheless I stand there frozen. Finally, Freed's voice calls out.

"Lucy stop Metus" His hand is on my shoulder.

"Okay…Metus enough go home." Metus is a tall man with black hair in a butler suit. He simply smiles and disappears.

Freed was my half-brother that story is a long one. Freed was my mother's child, she had him before she married my father. My mother's heritage was that of a another long story. My mother was known for taking care of children without family. That was why there were other children, now adults that I knew. Bickslow was my cousin from my aunt's side he came to live with us after she had died. Another was Gajeel who came to live with us shortly after Metalicana's disappearance. It seemed that Freed had brought Gajeel to live with us as my mother's dying wish. Though my father didn't like that my mother dared to take in "filthy children" so they were not allowed at the mansion and lived in a large house at the edge of the property. I didn't see them often especially after mother died it seemed that after her death they all went their own ways. Freed and Bix to Fairy Tail. Gajeel to Phantom Lord. Others to other places.

I was pulled out of my thoughts by Bickslow's voice as he spoke. "Wow Little Lu you must be pissed for a dark spirit to slip out."

I roll my eyes and in reply I got his creepy smile. Everyone looks so angry at me. I hardly had a moment to explain what had happened when Natsu, Erza, and Gray lunge at me. Before they could get to me though they were all pinned down. Gajeel, Bickslow and Freed were the ones holding them down.

"Don't even think about laying a hand on her, Fire Brain. She didn't mean to hurt ya, even if she should after how ya all have been treating her." Gajeel was angry I could tell from the tone of his voice.

I still remember when my mother had introduced me to Gajeel, in all honesty he looked a lot different before he was covered in piercings. Gajeel bonded with the boys that lived at the small property. During the whole Phantom debacle, it seems that Gajeel didn't fully remember me from when we were younger, even if he did I truly don't know if he would have held back any. That darkness that laid in his heart for so many years needed a serious wake-up call for him to be snapped out of it. But here he was as protective as he had been when we were younger.

Natsu bows up, "Why are you protecting her after she just attacked us? She is such a weak coward!"

"Because believe it or not she isn't weak nor a coward. I ain't letting you lay a hand on her, she might as well be family." That got a reaction out of nearly everyone.

Sighing, I scratch the back of my neck. "Did you really have to mention that, Gajeel?" I look to Freed and Bickslow, "Guys could you let them up, your just making things harder." They seem reluctant but they let Gray and Erza up. Natsu still lays under Gajeel's weight. Neither of my ex-team mates move to attack, they just stand their stunned.

After a moment Erza speaks, "Lucy we demand to know what is going on and why you attacked us."

Once again someone else interrupts my chance to speak. This time it is Freed. "We can explain some of that, I am a Lucy's half-brother and Bix is Lucy's and I's cousin."

There was a collective gasp and I resign myself to the idea that I should've known that cutting ties was going to be way harder than it should be. Why would it not? Everything in my life tends to be harder than it should be.


Did you guys like it? Hope you did that took me like three hours to appropriately rewrite. I changed Lucy to be more in character. I changed them all to be more in character. Though you all will get to see Lucy be her bad-ass self in the future along with the other characters that will come. I also gave you a better backstory for the origins of Lucy's relationship with the boys. Please review, leave hearts, and follow, my dear lovelies. – Madeline H.R.M.