Hello! As you can see, I'm starting a new story! Yay! :D I've actually been planning this for quite a while and have mentioned it in my other story, Heartbreak, that I'll be writing this story when I'm finished Heartbreak... Buuuut, change of plans! To makeup for my lateness on the chapters in Heartbreak (Screw you writer's block! ;-;), I'll be starting this story. But there will be a slight change to this. I feel like it wouldn't be interesting with Gajeel, even though I looove him so much, but I think Sting would make this really interesting! Of course this is a YAOI! So turn away now if you don't like yaoi! This is your last warning!
The setting will be a few months after the GMGs.
Anyway, this will be a Male!Lucy x Sting fanfiction. Not sure how long this will go, but we'll see! And I'm not sure if I'll add any lemon, I'll let all of you decide, even though I don't think I'm that good with it.
Another thing, I might not be able to post that often, school and all, but I'll try my best to get bits and pieces and write a little on my free time during school in my special notebook specifically for my fanfictions!
Enough with my rambling, LET'S GET TO THE STORY! SUGOI SUGOI!
I do not own Fairy Tail.
We All Have Our Secrets
An irritated groan broke through the relaxing sounds of the birds tweeting outside, along with the rustling of bed sheets as a figure of blonde hair opened her eyes to glare at the demon spawn who woke her up from her slumber as she was wrapped up in her warm covers. The lacrima alarm clock. Before it can even beep again to further annoy the wizard, a clenched fist was brought upon it, slamming it into nothing, but a broken mess.
She released a sigh before sitting up, not taking notice of her covers falling off of her to only end up on the floor. The wizard slid her hand that was on the mattress to the spot next to her and frowned at the cold spot there, instead of the familiar lingering heat she was so use to.
She pulled her hand away and completely climbed out of her bed to head to the bathroom, shutting the door behind her as she walked towards the bath tub. She fiddled with the knobs to adjust the water coming out of the shower head to her desired temperature before stripping her clothes off, tossing it into the hamper, and stepping into the tub for the hot water to land on her silky smooth skin. She sighed contently as she felt her fuzzy mind begin to become more alert and her body to relax.
Taking her strawberry soap, she lathered her body cleaned as her thoughts wandered off to her boyfriend, Natsu.
Yes, Lucy had a boyfriend, and it was the one and only Fire Dragon Slayer, Natsu Dragneel. Everyone expected this and weren't all too surprised when they announced it a year ago, but they were happy none the less. Now that she thought about it, and her mind is clearer, today was their one year anniversary! He probably ran to the guild like a mad man to ask Mira what to get her as a present, knowing him. Unlike him, she planned ahead and had already gotten his present from a job she took, while the team went on one themselves to catch up with Lisanna.
She frowned at the thought of the youngest Strauss sibling. During Lucy and Natsu's relationship in the year, Lisanna had came back from the 'dead'. For a while, Natsu wasn't as close, maybe for a week or so, but she understood and was complerely fine with it. It's his childhood friend he thought was dead we're talking about!
The good thing is, is that after that whole scenario, Natsu went back to her side and took her out on a date to make up for him not being with her for a long time. Ever since the day after that date, she couldn't help, but feel someone glare daggers to her back while she was talking to Natsu.
After washing her hair with her vanilla shampoo quickly, she rinses her hair and body off before turning the knob to stop the water. She reaches out from behind the curtain to take a small towel and dry her hair, wrapping the towel around her head to keep her hair up and away and to keep from new droplets of water to land on her body.
Lucy took the bigger towel to dry her body off before wrapping it around her and stepping out to look at herself in the mirror... which was fogged up. She sighs and uses her hand to wipe it away to reveal her reflection. The blonde picked up her toothbrush and continued her daily routine as her thoughts wandered off once again.
For the past month, Natsu had been acting strangely. On missions they take alone, he would wander off some where, saying that he wanted to look around the town by himself. A few times when she came to the guild in the morning, Natsu wouldn't be there. She would ask Mira and she would say that he went on a short mission, which surprised her. He never goes on short missions when he goes solo. Almost one hundred percent of the time, the short missions on the board don't have fighting or any type of violence in them at all. And the last thing that always made her sad, is that every day for that whole month, she had been waking up to a cold, empty spot next to her.
Lucy opened the cabinet door, which was the mirror, to reveal some random medical necessities, but her eyes took no notice to them as they land on a specific pill bottle. Instead of it's normal orange-yellow type of container, it was blue. She reached her hand out and took it into her grasp and opened it, sighing when she saw the golden tablets. No matter how many times she looked at them, the memories always crashed into her mind. Her deep secret that she would never tell a soul about.
She was actually a boy.
It's a long story, but it all started when she- or he- yeah, let's go with he for now. It all started when he was eleven years old. He had a normal life as a heir. Loving parents, classes, oh, and assasins.
One day, he was just playing around outside, finding rocks, flowers, and things that looked interesting to him. The thing is, he accidentally went a little too far in the forest, giving the assasins an easy kill, but of course, they didn't want to get caught, for there are guards nearby and most likely watching him still. That's why there was a trap in the shadows, done by only a mage who uses Shadow Magic to kill the boy.
Lying in those same shadows was something shiny. Being the curious child he was, he rushed over to it to see what it was that was reflecting the sunlight off of it. When he entered the shadows, he felt a slight pulse of pain go through him. He was surprised, but shrugged it off as nothing as he knelt down to look at what was shining. It was just part of a broken glass bottle.
He frowned and stood up, about to go further into the forest, until he heard his mother call for him. He obediently ran back to the garden, but he didn't notice his shadow flicker out for a moment.
After one week, he became very ill. His skin was pale, his big brown eyes were more lifeless, and the magic radiating from him was decreasing in a very slow rate if you concentrated. Layla spent the next few days, looking through the library after their private doctor couldn't find out why he was so sick. The woman finally found the cause of it after four days. After witnessing his shadow flicker out for a moment, she figured out that their was some type of dark shadow clinging onto his, slowly draining his magic away, like a parasite. In other words, his life force was being eaten away by his own shadow.
This spell is a forbidden spell used in Shadow Magic, called Soul Drain.
He was at death's door when his mother finally found a spell to get rid of the shadow.
"I found it! I finally found it!" Layla came rushing into her son's room with an old and slightly torn book with a leather type of cover, grabbing a chair to sit beside his bed.
The boy's eyes open and he slowly turn his head to look at his mother, "Mama?..." He said weakly.
"Oh, Luke, sweetie, I finally found the cure! You'll be better in no time... but..." She frowns as she looked down at the spell book on her lap.
"What's wrong, Mama?" He asks, lifting up a hand to weakly set it on her's, letting a weak smile tug on his lips as he felt her warmth.
"It's just that, when I cast the spell... After a while, you won't be able to see me anymore." She says softly, giving him a sad smile as she moved her hands to hold his cold, pale hand in them.
His eyebrows furrow as he shook his head, "What do you mean? I don't understand, Mama..."
"Sweet heart, when I cast this spell, you'll be all better, but... I'll get what you got when I do it." Layla said softly.
Luke's eyes widen. His mother is going to die? He quickly shook his head, "Mama, don't do it! I don't want you to die!" He says as tears began to form and threaten to fall.
"Luke, sweetie," She sighed, "This was my choice, okay? What happens won't be your fault. I'm doing this, because I love you. I want you to continue living a life. You have a future, and I want you to live to reach that far. I want you to make new friends, have adventures, and make memories."
The young Heartfilia let his tears flow down his cheeks like a river as he shook his head again, "Mama, please... I don't want you to leave..."
"Please let me do this. Promise me that you'll take care of Aquarius and Cancer for me. Promise me that you'll find friends." She begged.
Luke sniffled and thought about it for a minute before nodding, "I promise."
She cast the spell just like she said she would. He was better in no time, but Layla was slowly becoming more ill.
During this time, Luke's magic became unstable. The shadow had somehow damaged his magic container, causing his magic to leak out in dramatic waves every so often. This sudden drain in magic makes him collapse and pass out. A magical healer had came to find out how to fix it, but she had said she didn't have the ingrediants to make the pills. With that, she had left. This resulted in Layla summoning her spirits in request as her dying wish to make the pills needed for him to live a normal life.
On the seventh of July, on X777, Layla Heartfilia passed away, holding her crying son's and husband's hand.
Three days later, Luke's new spirits appeared suddenly in front of him. Aquarius was holding a pill container that was blue. They had told him that the pills would keep his magic stable, and the Spirit King personally allowed it, wanting to complete his mother's dying wish.
When he took it, he never thought he needed to live the rest of his life as a girl, being that that was the pill's effect to keep his magic balanced as his magical container was being repaired.
It had been five years since that day, and during those five years, he had perfected his act of acting like a girl. Yes, act. Which meant, he never gets a chance to just be his normal guyish self when he was around people.
Of course, he was forced to tell Natsu his true gender, which was harder than he thought it was admitting to Mira that he was bisexual.
It was after Lucy had confessed to Natsu that she was in love with him and he had returned her feelings. She was a sobbing mess after that, but managed to calm down. The blonde sniffled and spoke, "Natsu, before we do anything, I need to tell you something important. So listen carefully, okay?" She looks up at him.
He was confused, but nods, "Yeah, what is it?" He asks.
Lucy sighed. She thought she would be able to do this, just say it, but the words are stuck in her throat. Why was it so hard to just say three simple words? Three words that she had been keeping deep down for five years of her life.
She mustered up some courage and squeaked out, "I'm a guy."
Natsu blinks down at her with wide eyes before bursting out laughing. Lucy looks up in confusion. Why was he laughing? Oh no, did he some how find out already?! But that's impossible! There's no way that- "That's really funny, Lucy! But even if you were a guy, I would still love you, no matter what. Even if I'm not gay." He grinned.
Tears began to form as her bright smile tugged at her lips, "Really?..."
He nods, "Girl or a boy, I would still love you, no matter what."
Now that she thought about it, he doesn't exactly know... At least she has proof that she had told him and had gotten a huge weight off of her shoulders.
After popping the gold tablet in her mouth, she drinks the glass of water she had filled as her thoughts were wandering off. She let out a sigh after drinking the whole glass, setting the now empty glass aside for the next day.
When she left the bathroom, she felt the effects of her medicine as the seal around her container where it's damaged strengthen, while her body maintain that of a girl's. The other week, she had a check up with the magic healer, and she had told her that her magic container was almost completely healed. Her job was to continue taking the medicine until the seal disappears by itself once it had completed it's job in fixing the damaged container, in other words, when she suddenly turns back to a guy.
Just in case that does happen, Virgo and some other spirits figured out a way for her body, along with her clothes, to change so when she turns back to a guy, she won't be in a skirt, which will be really helpful if she were in public. It was a type of temporary Re-quip Magic infused into the pill to revert her girl clothes into boy versions that would fit her size. It cost some of her own magic, but that wasn't a big deal at all.
Lucy went to her drawers and slid open two of them. She took out a pair of undergarments and a pair of clothes before dropping her towels and putting them on. The blonde then stood in front of her mirror to make sure she was presentable, smiling at her outfit.
Although she was actually a guy, he had picked up the love for fashion and shopping. Who knew that doing girly stuff like that could be so much fun?
Today, she was wearing a short ruffle sleeve white top, a black mini skirt, black knee-high combat boots, and had a black ribbon tied with her signature side pony tail. She felt that something was missing, until her keys caught her eye on her desk. She face palmed and went to her desk where her belt was safely set at. She strapped it on before going back to the mirror and nodding in approvement of her look for her and Natsu's one year anniversary.
Lucy giggled as she thought about her boyfriend dragging her out of the guild to take her out on a date as she picked up a little black box that can fit in her hand, containing Natsu's gift.
After grabbing an apple, she made her way to the guild. The blonde ate her small breakfast as she balanced on the edge of the canal with her shaking spirit following behind her with a smile. She waved in reassurance to the fishermen who gave their worried shouts as she was on the way.
When she made it to the front of the guild doors, she had finished and thrown out the remaining part of her apple, before she closed Plue's gate after saying good bye to him. She kept her usual bright smile plastered onto her face as she pushed the doors open, "Good morning every-"
Lucy's whole body froze and her eyes widen into saucers at what she was seeing. Please let this be a dream... Just a horrible, horrible dream...
There, standing right in the middle of the guild hall, were Natsu and Lisanna. They were in each other's arms with their lips locked together.
Is this just a nightmare?
I finally finished the first chapter! Sheesh, school has to hold me back from posting this chapter sooner.
Anyway, tell me what you think about the first chapter! Give me your honest opinion, or any tips or advices to help me improve my writing! Remember, I'm still learning, and hope to improve it for all of you sugoi fans!
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