My first Fairy Tail Story to publish. Woohoo! This story is going to be a little different. It's kind of a Choose Your Own Adventure like mixed with Alice in Wonderland. This first chapter doesn't have it, but future chapters will have a choice that you the reader will vote on. Those decisions will affect the story later on. At least that's what the plan is.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. I do own this crazy plot.

Thanks to Ego Amorem Deum who has been helping me beta the chapters!

Chapter One

It was a beautiful summer day, a day where the comfortable heat and humidity created the perfect temperature for relaxing, which was exactly what Lucy was doing. Of course she wasn't alone in her endeavor to relax. Her two partners Natsu and Happy were also enjoying the day. Currently they were in the forest by the river where the boys could enjoy their favorite past time, fishing. Lucy didn't fish. There was no way you were going to get her to touch a fish. Nope, Lucy preferred to enjoy her favorite past time, reading.

She was halfway through her book when the argument began. She wasn't really listening, but when Happy threw down his fishing pole and flew off in a huff she looked up from her book. Natsu sat there shoulders hunched in anger as he continued to fish. She placed her bookmark to hold her place as he closed her book to walk over to Natsu.

"What happened?" she asked sitting next to him, her feet hanging over the river.

Natsu didn't say anything. He just glared at the water. Lucy didn't say anything for a few minutes, just stared out across the river. Finally, though, she opened her mouth to ask again when he answered her.

"It was nothing but a stupid argument." The dragon slayer responded grumpily.

"Cooked vs. Raw?" she asked and saw him nod. Lucy hid her smile and laugh that wanted to be free. "You know Natsu, you could always catch more than one fish. That way you can get the cooked one and Happy can have his raw. You guys never only catch one fish."

Natsu turned his head and glared at her. "What if we were only going to catch one?" he asked at her through narrowed eyes.

Lucy glared right back at him. "Cook half and keep half raw." She replied as she stood and went back to her seat by the tree. "Just so you know the baits gone." She opened her book to continue reading, but she opened the book pages before where her bookmark was.

She pretended to read while Natsu stewed in silence. The only sound that could be heard was the periodic flipping of pages. She was getting close to where she left off when Natsu stood and with a sigh took off into the forest to look for his wayward partner.

Smiling Lucy continued to really read. Those two couldn't stay mad at each other for a long period of time. They'd be back and fishing again in no time.

Lucy looked up at the sky watching as the sun was slowly slipping below the horizon. They had never come back! Those idiots had left her and the two fishing poles while they were god knows where! Stuffing her finished novel back in her satchel she picked up the fishing poles and began walking back home. Boy, was she going to give it to them when they showed up at her place. She'd Lucy Kick them out the window!

As she walked it grew darker and she was having a hard time seeing where she was going. She knew she might be in trouble when she passed through a tight grouping of pine trees. Did they pass pine trees on their way to the river? She couldn't remember, but now it was so dark that she could barely see in front of her. She was still on the path so should be heading in the right direction. Everything looked so different in the dark.

Did she have a light stick? She fiddled with her satchel hoping she had that magical gizmo, but sadly she was out of luck. Biting back a curse she kept moving down the dirt path slowly. She called out Natsu and Happy a few times hoping they would answer her, but she was also out of luck on that one as well.

"They are so dead." She muttered as she kept moving. Tree branches seemed to getting closer and closer to the path and it almost felt like fingers grabbing at her hair and pulling her clothes. She tripped and went headlong through a thicket of either shrubs or small trees, she wasn't sure, since she tripped again and nearly fell. She smacked her knee on a tree and yelped. She pushed through the rest of the thicket and found herself in a small clearing that was lit softly by the slowly rising moon.

If she were comfortable with sleeping outside by herself she would have stayed until morning, but she really wanted a bath and her warm and soft bed. Looking around the clearing she tried to see if there was another path that she could take to lead her out of here. She refused to admit that she was getting frightened and she would not act like a weak little girl. She didn't need to rely on anyone to get her out of this mess. She could do it herself.

Walking into the clearing she looked up into the sky to see the stars and see if she could get her bearings. She quickly located Ursa Major and turned her eyes to where it pointed to Ursa Minor and the brightest star, Polaris. Using the North Star she gauged where she was and slowly turned in the direction she needed to go.

No wonder she was lost. She had moved farther from Magnolia not closer. Note to self, remember the light stick and a map. She pushed past some branches and started back towards home. Every so often the moonlight shone through the trees and she could see where she was going much easier.

"My eyes must have gotten used to the light now", she murmured to herself. It was so quiet that she felt the need to voice some of her thoughts to fill the silence.

Up ahead she thought she saw somebody. She squinted into the darkness, but couldn't make out who it could be. She sped up a bit in her walking keeping her attention on the dark shape in front of her. IN retrospect she should have been paying more attention to where she was going because she tripped over a large tree root that had grown out of the forest floor.

That wasn't the worst of it. Nope, not at all.

Since she was tripping she didn't have the balance to save herself as she fell headfirst and got two surprises. The shape she saw was nothing more than an oddly growing tree. Secondly, the reason this tree had roots growing out of the ground was due to the steep rocky hill it was perched on. It was this hill that she fell screaming and rolling, cutting herself and knocking herself senseless all the way down.

When she landed she knew that she was probably bleeding, her breath was knocked out of her, and she had no energy to get up and move. In fact, taking a nap here was probably her best bet. As her eyes closed she thought she heard her name being called, but darkness was much more seductive in its call and she succumbed easily.