Summary : Fate always has its way to make things fall into place, that's what she always believed. It was a new day in Fairy Tail and everything seemed usual when suddenly, Lucy exclaimed, "I'm going to take on a solo mission." This solo mission was unexpectedly the start of a new spark in her love interest.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does~


Yes, today was the start of a new day and nothing seemed unusual. The guild, Fairy Tail, located in the town of Magnolia was as rowdy as ever. A blonde figure opened the door to the guild with a crack and peeped inside to make sure there was no flying furniture heading in her direction. After she made sure of this, she opened the door widely and stepped inside, inhaling the scent of freshly baked cookies and cakes. She walked towards the bar and sat down, greeted by the barmaid, Mirajane.

"Morning Lucy, " the white hair barmaid greeted and placed down a plate with a slice of strawberry cake and a glass of vanilla milkshake in front of the blonde.

"What's with the strawberry cake today? That's quite unusual." The blonde, also known as Lucy commented while taking a bite out of the cake in front of her and sighed in satisfaction. "This is really good by the way, Erza would really love this."

"Actually, Erza was the one who requested me to make this yesterday." The barmaid, also known as Mirajane replied as she turned to her back and started wiping some plates and glasses and placing them in the cupboard. "So what's new?"

"Nothing," Lucy sighed as she took a sip from the milkshake, "My rent is due in a week and I still don't have enough jewels to pay them."

"Why not go on a mission then?" Mirajane offered as she turned to Lucy and gestured her to the mission board, "A lot of request has been coming in lately. You should really check and see if any of them suits your interest."

"What's this about interest I'm hearing about? Did Lucy find a new love interest?" the card mage with brown hair walked over to both Lucy and Mirajane and sat down beside the blonde.

"Sadly no, we were just talking about Lucy going on a job." The barmaid replied, she was also known as the matchmaker in Fairy Tail so anything that relates to love interest, she would be the first to know.

"Oh!" the card mage, also known as Cana exclaimed, "What about, we do some fortune telling for you?" she turned to Lucy, excitement evident in her eyes.

Lucy held up a hand and stopped her, "We did that once before and remember where it ended up? Besides, it will happen when it happens so I have absolutely nothing to worry about," Lucy flashed her a smile and showed her a thumbs up.

"But there's no harm in trying," the card mage argued and held out her cards holding it in Lucy's direction and asking her to pick one.

"Fine," the blonde said in defeat and pick out a card as she was instructed and handed it to the card mage. "What does it say?" the blonde asked in excitement. Even though she was against doing it, somewhere deep down, she had always believed this sort of thing and so she really wanted to know what her fortune holds.

"Well this is interesting, but sadly I can't tell you Lucy." The card mage held the card between her index and middle finger and pointed at Lucy, "Just a word of advice: Go with the flow," she smiled mischievously.

The blonde haired mage pouted and crossed her arms, "That's unfair but anyway, I need to find a job. See ya," she waved at the two mage and walked over to the mission board eyeing every inch of it before spotting the one job that sparked her interest. She read over it once more and nodded, yep, there was no better job that suits her more than this one.

She walked over to the bar and asked for approval. Once the barmaid had stamped the paper, she walked off. Just as she was walking towards the door, the fire dragon slayer approached her, "Where are you going, Lucy?" he asked and soon, he was followed by the ice-mage too.

"I'm going on a solo mission," she explained blankly.

The ice-mage who was drinking water immediately spurted out and choked, "What? Why? Are you really Lucy?" he began frantically shaking her and held up a hand on her forehead, "You're not sick are you?"

"Yeah Luce! Are you sick? Do you want me to heat you up?" the fire dragon slayer raised his hand and lit it on flames as he offered.

"You idiot, she would be more sick if you did that," the ice-mage commented as he glared at the fire dragon slayer in rivalry.

"No she wouldn't, what would you know about it, ice-brain?" The fire dragon slayer retorted as he glared back.

"Hah, what did you just say?"

And just like that, both of them were back into a fight as they previously were. Lucy tried explaining them but since they couldn't be bothered with their fight and arguments, she sighed and thought that it was pointless and resumed walking out of the guild.

Once the guild door was heard closed, both the fire dragon slayer and the ice mage then realized they had lost their chance in asking the reason to Lucy going on a solo mission. They started blaming each other before both of their stomach growled. Putting a pause to their fight, both of them walked over to the bar and took a seat before being served by the barmaid.

"So what's with Lucy taking a solo mission anyway?" the ice-mage asked in curiosity.

"Oh, you didn't know?" the barmaid asked and got a 'no' as a response. "This particular job wants only one girl member from this guild to go."

"That sounds really suspicious.." the ice mage commented and stood up, "Let's go and make sure she'll be okay Natsu," he said and was about to walk away before he was stopped by the barmaid.

"There's nothing to worry about Gray, this job does not require any fighting. In fact, I think Lucy is the perfect person for this job."

Gray was hesitant but sitting back down, he questioned the barmaid, "What do you mean?"

Before she could reply, he was interrupted by the card mage who was sitting and hearing their conversations the whole time, "Interesting fact. So I read Lucy's fortune before and listen to this: She will meet a fateful encounter today."

"Cana, didn't you say that the last time and it turned out to be wrong?" both the ice-mage and the barmaid raised an eyebrow at the card mage.

"I'm not done," Cana replied, "This fateful encounter will be someone we are not familiar with,"

"Not familiar with? There are lots. Be more specific."

"I'm sorry, let me rephrase that, This fateful encounter will be someone we all hate." Before Gray could interrupt, Cana held up a hand and stopped him, "He usually comes in a team but just today, as fate has decided to bring them together, he will be alone."

"However, there will be an exception. If anyone else decides to come and interfere with how this should be going, the fortune might be messed up so I would suggest you both," Cana said as she pointed to both the fire dragon slayer, Natsu who seemed to be enjoying his food and not at all paying attention to the conversation and the ice-mage, Gray, "-to stay out of it."

Gray clenched his teeth. He didn't like this, the thought of Lucy having a fateful encounter with someone they all hated. He stood up and walked away from the bar.

"What do you think he's going to do?" the barmaid whispered to Cana.

"I don't know but there's nothing much he can do," she smirked in reply, "Whatever he does, it states here in this card," she said as she held up the card, "That whatever happens, both of them will meet."

"So why did you say-" Mirajane asked in confusion.

"To make things more interesting," Cana replied simply, "-and also to give Gray a heads up warning to let him know that he might be too late to make a move on Lucy now. But of course, it still depends on his action so I guess, let's see where things will go…"


JLeoxx: First Chapter done! Did you think it was a bit too rushed up? I'm sorry about that but I was called by my parents to sleep already so I did have to rush things a bit. Review and tell me what you think and also, make a guess on what the job is to make things more interesting! Don't forget to favorite and follow too!