It's been a while haha! First off, I want to say I'm sorry about leaving so suddenly. I've been on a hardcore fanfiction spree, just reading a whole lot to get a feel of what kind of story I can create, vocabulary, description, all that shiz. I've finally found inspiration and have a clear image of a story that has been clinging on me! And yes, it's another about Lucy, but I'm sure this will be better than my other stories, I'll need your opinion to see if I've improved or not.

Also, I got most of my inspiration from a few Sting x Lucy fanfictions. Deathsembrace137 is an amazing writer, the best work I've read including Nicole4211 and leoslady4ever. The three are so talented and gave me an idea, just by reading their work, of how I can improve my writing.

P.S: I'll probably be barely posting things, but since I can type 2,000-5,000 words super quick, hmmm I'll make this a long series! Oh, and this story is a cliché so... Lol. (we hope!)

I do not own Fairy Tail.


Chapter 1: Not Fair


"Lucy!" Salamander screams to the top of his lungs as he lunges out of his own battle to only jump into a new one. His own eyes witnessing his favorite blonde getting beaten to a pulp by a strong, bulky man who had crumbs in his long, prickly beard of what seems to have been from his lunch. The mage used palm magic, just like Bacchus's magic. Lucy had her hands up to shield her bruised face, kneeling before the member of the dark guild to surrender. He only smirked to see the girl trembling in front of him, seeing the fear in her eyes. His gaze trails down the Celestial Spirit mage's body, pausing only for a second at her cleavage, watching her chest move up and down in a slight abnormal way as she pants made his smirk widen after licking his lips slowly, revealing the old trash's yellow and crooked teeth as he raises his hand to finish off the pitiful girl. His palm was about to reach the trembling hands of the blonde, her eyes close shut, waiting for what is about to end up happening.

W-what?... she thought when she still feels the pain around her body and feels nothing that contacted to her sweaty skin. What happened? One of her eyes slowly open to only see an amused smile of the one and only, Natsu. Her eyes drift off to the left of him to see the old geezer burnt to a crisp with two other dark guild members and her hands dropped to the ground with a sigh of relief with a mixture of annoyance. He had to save me again. I really am weak, aren't I?

She looks up from the ground to see Natsu holding a hand out for her to take with a worried look plastered onto his face. "You okay, Luce?" he asked. She responds with a nod as she takes his hand to stand up, all the while avoiding his gaze that was burning through the side of her face.

"Well done everyone." the rest of Team Natsu, Gajeel, Lily, Wendy, Carla, and Levy joins the two. All of their eyes widen at the sight of Lucy's condition. "Lu-chan, are you okay?! You got really beaten up!" Levy asks with a panicking look. Wendy rushes to Lucy's side and raises her already glowing hands right above her face, the discoloration of the bruises becoming Lucy's originally smooth skin once again.

She sighs and smiles reassuringly at everyone. "I'm fine. I've dealt with worse." They all nod at her after Wendy finishes up healing her. "Let's tie these guys up, receive our money, and then get back home." Erza demands. "Yessir!", they shout with a bright smile before getting back to work.


Team Natsu and the other three who tagged along sat at a table in a train, releasing a sigh. "Thanks for the pills, Wendy!" Natsu puts a thumbs up with a bright smile stuck on his face, looking at his favorite little dragon slayer. "You're welcome." She replied.

"Yeah, they're working really well so far, how long do they last?" Gajeel asks with a raised pierced eyebrow. "They last for eight hours, but when it wears off you have to wait an hour before taking another."

Natsu groans and begins to sulk at hearing the bad news. "No fair!" he whines with a small pout. Meanwhile, Lucy had pulled out her journal and was writing tediously with her pencil. She then paused, mouthing her words before beginning to right a few more words while smiling to herself. Lately, she's been writing poems that go with her story, but they ended up being songs. The songs soon became personal songs of her daily life. The one she's working on right now is one of her strongest and most powerful songs. When she write these kinds of things she is in complete bliss, she puts everything in her mind in the corner and leaves an empty spot in her mind just for this.

"What are you writing, Bunny girl?" Gajeel asks her from across from her and Lucy's head snaps up with a bright red blush on her face, "N-nothing!" She covers her page with her hands.

"Hm?" He smirks widely, "It kind of looked like you were writing some songs though." Lucy looks down and her head falls onto the table in defeat. "You got me..." He looks at her journal that was covered by her soft hands. "I didn't know you were into writing music. Can I see?"

"Uh..." Lucy picks her head up from the table, avoiding his gaze. "I dunno, some of them are really personal." she flips through some of the pages and stops at a few pages where they were filled with notes and lyrics. "This one was originally a poem at the start, but I ended up turning it into a song after a couple of verses." she hands the decorated journal to Gajeel, who scans through the notes and lyrics with wide eyes.

"Never had much faith in love or miracles... Never wanna put my heart on the line. But swimming in your world is something spiritual. I'm born again every time you spend the night-" Gajeel read through it out loud, but was soon interrupted by Lucy shaking her head frantically, attempting to grab the journal back. "Don't say the next verses out loud, please!" she begged. I nearly forgot about the next verses! This only made him smirk and continue, keeping the journal out of the blonde's reach. "Cause your sex takes me to paradise. Yeah your sex takes me to paradise." Gray nearly chokes on his water hearing those verses, including Erza who was eating a slice of cake. "Damn, Bunny girl. I don't know what was on your mind while writing this one, but this is really good. You know how to play guitar too?"

Lucy snatches her journal back and hugs it to her chest protectively, "Not really, I know how to play piano though." Wendy joins in the conversation after she pride Carla's paws off of her ears. "Lucy, can you sing us one of your songs?" Lucy giggles, she never thought anyone would be interested in hearing her sing one of her songs.

"I don't think I'm a good singer, but I'll record it on my lacrima and give it to you when I get my hands on a piano again. "Just don't show it to anyone else, but Carla... please." she pleads.

"Can I read one of your songs?" A shirtless Gray asks with a curious look on his face. "Gray, your clothes." Lucy deadpans at him, letting out a sigh as she watched him frantically trying to find his missing shirt. He slides it back on after finding it and clears his throat, "Anyway, can I?" Lucy nods and flips through her journal. She never knew anyone, but Natsu and Happy would want to read her songs. She stops at a page and hands it to Gray. "It's kind of depressing since I was pretty down at the time I... never mind." She says before looking away. Shit... I wrote this song when it was my mom's birthday. What a way to make me more depressed than I already am. Nice job Lucy!

Gray blinks at her and shrugs before looking down at the journal. Gajeel tries to sneak a peak at the page as the ice mage read out loud. "How can you see into my eyes like open doors? Leading you down into my core where I've become so numb, without a soul my spirit's sleeping somewhere cold. Until you find it there and lead it back home." he finishes off. "What made you come up with a song so depressing, Bunny girl? Were you on your period?" The iron dragon slayer teases her with a big smirk on his face.

"That's none of your business Metal Head." she snaps back before snatching her journal and putting it away. "Tch. Boys... Thank God I don't have a brother."

"I think of you as my little sister, Lucy." Gray smiles at her, "I thought the song was good even though it was kind of depressing, but whatever. I bet it would have made the flame brain cry."

"Hey! You wanna go droopy eyes?!" Immediately the temperature rose in the train as Natsu stood up with his fist covered in fire. "Hell yeah! Bring it squinty eyes!" the temperature continued to rise and drop at the two arguing. Erza sets her fork down and yells, "Enough!"

They immediately sat down, "Aye..." the two said in unison.

Lucy chuckles, "Thanks, onii-san." Gray's eyes widen in surprise before they softened. He holds his head up with his elbow on the table and his hand under his chin while looking at her. "No problem, nee-chan."


LUCY'S POV

When we all got back to Magnolia I some how ended up dragging Gray and Gajeel to my house and leaving everyone else behind at the train station. "Oi, Lucy! Where the hell are you taking me?!" Gajeel yells at me right before we climb the steps of my apartment, pulling out a key to unlock the door. I throw them into my apartment... literally... having them end up laying on the couch with a shocked look as I ran to my room to lock the window, just in case Natsu breaks in. I sigh in relief as I dropped my bags and go back to the living room where I threw Gray and Gajeel in. Now I feel bad for them, dragging them into my house without asking. They're definitely confused, but right now, they're the only ones I can trust with what's going on in my mind and what I plan to do about it. The others would just freak out. I mean, I'm sure Gray would do the same, but he wouldn't overreact.

"Bunny girl! Why the hell did you drag me here?" Gajeel asks as the ice mage stripped his shirt off unconciously with one swift movement. He looks really ticked off... "I'm sorry... I just..." I sigh deeply. How am I suppose to explain?

Seeing right through me, their full attention is on me, definitely knowing there's something wrong. "What's wrong, Lucy?" I let out another sigh and sit in my favorite comfy chair next to the couch.

"It's just that, I need to talk to you... Like, y'know advise, your opinion, and stuff." I avoid their piercing gaze at me as I try to explain. "Why didn't you ask us back in the train station?" Gray asks with a raised eyebrow.

"If I asked you, everyone would have gotten worried and try to help me... and if I did try to tell them what I'm gonna tell you they'll freak out." She sweat drops when she imagines how Natsu would react, "Natsu would probably burn my apartment to a crisp from yelling at me if I told him..."

"Then tell us already if it's that important." Gajeel crosses his arms.

"I'm your brother, I won't yell at you." Gray reassured me. I still have a bad feeling about this. I take in a deep breath of air before speaking, "I want to leave the guild... temporarily."

Their eyes widen in shock, "You want to what?!" They both say in unison and arubtly stands up from the couch. "I knew you were going to freak out..." I mumble with a sigh. "S-sorry..." Gray apologizes and sits back down, including Gajeel. It looks like they're really trying to calm themselves down. "Why would you want to do that?" Gray asks.

I look down. "In almost every mission... I'm the one being saved and beat up the most. I'm the weakest in Team Natsu... They should have someone strong and useful instead of someone that needs to be saved every time." I look back up to see them staring at me in disbelief. "I want to train for at least a year when I leave."

The silence after I finished my explanation was so quiet you can hear a pin drop. Should I say something or wait?... "Lucy..." Gray finally breaks through the silence which made me jump a little. "I don't think you're weak at all. You're really strong for someone who has only trained for only five days in three years." A sad smile appears on his face."...I really don't want you to leave, but it's your decision."

"Me too." Gajeel joins in, "I mean, it's temporarily so it's not like I'm gonna miss you or anything." He looks away when he failed miserably trying to lie. "Anyway, it is your decision. Do whatever you want." He shrugs, "Oh and if you're going, when you come back write a song with me."

I giggle and gave them both a sad smile, "Thanks you guys..." I feel a wet droplet of liquid roll down my cheek. I wipe it off and realise it's a tear. I'm crying? Just as I think that, streams of tears roll down my cheeks and I begin to sob. "I'm gonna miss you guys so much..."

"O-oi Bunny girl, don't cry..." Gajeel panics a little seeing the Shrimp's best friend cry in front of him, he had no idea what to do. "Lucy, don't cry." Gray walks over to me to hand me a tissue.

"I'm sorry." I sniffle as I wipe the never ending tears away with the tissue. "You guys should go home now. I have to start packing again and write a letter." The ice mage and iron dragon slayer nod. They both knew I needed some time alone, so they stood and grabbed their bags, waving a farewell before leaving my apartment.

I lock the door behind them and go to my room where a glistening ball of lacrima sat on my desk. I pick it up with both of my hands to look at my reflection. Now to get my hands on a piano...


"Thanks Virgo!" I close the gate of one of my Celestial Spirits. Virgo really did go a little over board with the packing though... I was planning on packing food and water in a back pack myself as Virgo packed my clothes and bathroom items. I should have known she would know that I wanted to do it, but I'm still grateful.

I look around my now dull looking room. Even though it was annoying when Natsu and the others break into my house, it's actually fun. I'm going to miss those days. I'll miss Natsu sleeping in my bed. I'll miss him and Happy stealing food. I'll miss all of those fun, yet annoying times. One year is way too long...

I make my way to my once cluttered desk to pick up my journal and organized pile of paper of my story to put in my back pack. My eyes then land on the ball of lacrima and a sealed blank envelope. I let out a small sigh and carefully set the two things in my back pack before zipping it and swinging it over my shoulder. All I have to do now is give the five hundred thousand jewels that I managed to get out of the reward from yesterday to the land lady then go to Fairy Tail to talk to the Master. I check the time to see that it's six o'clock and then I hear a knock on the door. Huh? Team Natsu are the only people who know where I live, but they always barge into my house through the window...

When I got to the door I unlock it to find two well known mages of Fairy Tail. Gajeel and Gray.


And done! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter, took me two days of my free time, but hopefully I'll be able to get the next chapter in by tomorrow or the day after. Probably some where next week. Anyway, please review of what you thought about this chapter, I would really appreciate it!

-Sugoi! Sugoi! (~•3•)~