A/N: Hi guys, I'm back with a new story! This was actually inspired while I was reading 'Deal with the Devil' by amehanaa. Great story! Totally should read it. The Nalu feels xD
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL... NOR DO I OWN THE COVER IMAGE. ALL RIGHTS BELONGS TO THE OWNER.
A young girl in a pink dress is making a flower crown; one for her, and one for her friend. Once she was done neatly tying the flowers together, she placed it on her head and the other on her friend, smiling and laughing.
Everyday is like a sweet summer day. Spent almost entirely on playing in the garden and most importantly, they were always together.
Until... fire... FIRE, THERE'S A FIRE IN HER HOUSE.
As her dad and mom quickly evacuates the house with a sobbing girl, she reached out her hand as she gets further and further away from the flaming house.
"Stop... My friend is still in there..."
Lucy... Lucy... I'm coming for you... I love you, Luce.
*Gasp*
A young girl woke up startled from her dream, sweating through her clothes. Her hair stuck to her face as she tries to catch her breath. Gripping the bed sheets in tight fists, she took a quick glance around her room. Dark shadows still crept along the walls, hiding from her sight. When it was apparent nothing was out of the ordinary, she slowly lay back down and tried to rest her eyes for another few hours.
Lucy open her eyes to not be met with shadows but with sunlight in her room instead. Which was a relief for her after what she dreamt of last night.
It has been years since she's had the dream of a burning house and someone who always says those words before Lucy would wake up all of a sudden. Back when she was younger, she would always have the same dream over and over again.
While she always has the same dream, she can't really recall those dreams ever have happened in real life. Her parents had told her that their house did catch on fire, but no one was ever found in the house after the flames died down.
To this day, no one has ever called her 'Luce'. All the people and friends she has encountered with has addressed her by her given name, 'Lucy' or 'Ms. Heartfilia' or in special cases, 'Lu-chan'.
Ever since the day of the burning house, the Heartfilia family has moved to Magnolia where Jude Heartfilia is continuing his family business, still the workaholic that he is. Unfortunately, Lucy lost her mom shortly after the move.
After long years without a mom, Lucy had decided it was best for her and her current self to attend Magnolia Academy. That way, she'll be away from home but also able to live on her own, in her own dorm. Getting permission from her dad was an easy task. Being a workaholic he is, he couldn't spend time with his own daughter who is growing up before his eyes. And Lucy looked too much like her mother, Layla.
It was painful for the servants and for Jude in the house. But it was also painful for Lucy. Having to be reminded everyday that she was growing to become more beautiful and just like her mother every day brought sadness in her heart. Sometimes she'd even turn on the shower in her bathroom so she can let her tears fall, hoping that Ms. Sphetto wouldn't hear.
Today is the last day Lucy Heartfilia will ever wake up in this room. The room that's been her comfort and shelter for years after the accident and even when she lost her mother. Today is the last day she'll eat breakfast alone in a big mansion with bustling workers and her father somewhere in his study room.
Today is the last day she'll keep pretending to be Lucky Lucy Heartifilia and start being just Lucy Heartfilia.
It's the moment Lucy has been waiting for. Freedom. Friends. Happiness. And maybe a chance at love.
Tomorrow, Lucy will wake up in a dorm, in her own room - no roomates, no one to fight over the usage of bathroom in the morning - just her and herself. Sure she'll be alone too, but it's different. She'll have more freedom and she can finally become the Lucy Heartfilia she has written so much in her novels. The real Lucy Heartfilia.
Magnolia Academy is a pretigious academy and is known for their three pillars in which all the students that do get in are separated into those three categories: Intelligence. For those who are confident in their smarts, must take a test for that category. Second is athletic, for those who does well in sports. And third is the Academy for the arts. Many people can fit under this category. For example, those who does theatre, painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpting, reading, and writing. There are many more but those are the three pillars.
For years, the academy have divided each student into those three categories. But they have never ever found a student who is a triple threat. Triple threat meaning the student fits in all three categories.
Magnolia Academy started in XX93, older than Lucy has been alive! And for those XX years, a triple threat has never been found. So over the years, the status of the triple threat becomes higher and higher. And that is the exact reason why Lucy was able to obtain her room all to herself which included a bathroom for her.
In the year XXXX, Lucy Heartfilia is the first ever student to have achieve the triple threat status.
A/N: Yes it's short xD LOL... But I'm trying to get the story out there. I'll try to update at least once a week. I'll be aiming for Monday. But that's just the schedule for the summer.