Author's Note- This story will be up to date with the manga, not the T.V. series, possible SPOILER WARNING applied. Music will be involved, so I ask, when the song comes along please take the time to look it up and play said song. Also, a personal request, please don't judge or criticize which songs I choose.

WARNING!: Major OOC will occur in this story.

Thank you,

Archangel-Angelo

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fairy Tail, or any of the music included.

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End

"The first song I will be singing is one that has a very important message behind it." Lucy spoke into the microphone, staring out over the crowd of people in front of her, "Only a few days ago, I left my old guild, Fairy Tail."

As soon as Lucy finished, someone out in the crowd yelled out, " Yeah, 'cause you're such a fucking weakling!"

Lucy's face turned a bright red as that was shouted out. That had been Grey, obviously still pissed at her. Just like the rest of the guild, no doubt. She still remembered what happened like it was only a few days ago.

Of course you remember it like that, it did happen only a few days ago! Idiot! That was Warren, using his telepathy to listen in on her thoughts. And apparently deal a verbal beat down as well.

5 Days Ago~

Lucy knocked on the door to Makarov's office, "Master! May I come in?"

It was a few seconds before Fairy Tail's master finally answered, "Yes, please come in Lucy."

Lucy opened the heavy oak door and walked in. She took around the room to see that it was, to her surprise, neat, clean, and tidy. She had always thought that her master's office would be more a secluded hurricane disaster than this organized one. Although, looking back now, I guess that was pretty out there. The blond thought.

After her quick look around the room, the teenager walked up to Makarov's desk and stood there. Her heart beating furiously against her chest. This had to be the most difficult thing done in the world, ever. As Lucy tried to calm herself down, Makarov looked up from the papers on his desk, sighing at the stack that still had to be done.

"All this work is going to be the end to me." He grumbled to Lucy, "If not that, then the guild not winning at the tournament will."

"That's why I came to you, actually. About the guild and the tournament." Lucy quickly stated, trying to make this as quick and painless as possible.

"Oh? And that is?" The old man questioned, he did not like where this was going.

"Well-" Lucy began, but was cut off by the screams and yells of anger right outside the door.

Before he could even get out of his desk chair, the doors to Makarov's office were slammed open by none other than Erza; followed by Grey, Natsu, Happy, and almost every other Fairy Tail member there at the guild. Lucy squeaked in fear. she attempted to back up, only to be met by the desk behind her.

The office was filled with all of the guild members, seeing as how most of them left while the guilds strongest were trapped on Tenrou Jima Island for seven years. Lucy looked around at all of them, each face she saw was painted with the look of pure anger and hatred. And every one of those faces were looking directly at her. Every single one but a select few. Mainly Wendy, Mirajane, Cana, and Levy. As well as Charle and Gajeel, who was standing behind Levy, his arms around her comfortingly. Their faces wore the look of sadness

"What is the meaning of this? I demand an answer!" Makarov shouted. He didn't like yelling at his precious children like that, but he wanted an answer, and he wanted one now.

Erza was the first one to speak up, looking at her master directly in the eye, "I, along with the rest of the guild, want Lucy to be severely punished!"

Makarov was in shock. Never, not once, had anyone come up to him and request for another guild member to be kicked out. And now, here before his very eyes, was almost every member of Fairy Tail, and they all wanted the same person out. Lucy, what did you do?

"Alright, now why do you want Lucy punished? Explain yourselves!" Makarov, was confused, what could have happened to make everyone so angry at Lucy? "I want an answer now!"

"I can explain." Makarov looked to his left to see Lucy, surrounded by angry faces, all looking at her.

"She doesn't deserve to speak, she'll only protect herself with lies!" Someone shouted. Everyone shared their agreement, the most eager being Happy with his trade mark "Ai!"

Everyone started to scream and shout, all kinds of hurtful things toward Lucy. There were ones like "Punish her!" and "She don't deserve to speak!". Quickly, Makarov came to anger and shouted, "All of you! Shut up and get out! You four, stay!" Makarov pointed to Erza, Natsu, Grey, and Lucy.

Scared for possibly having to face the wrath of their master even more, everyone but the four pointed out, left the office. Their lives practically flashing before their eyes. Now the only ones beside Makarov that were left were Lucy, Erza, Natsu, Happy, and Grey.

"Happy, that includes you!" The master declared.

"But-" Happy started. He wanted to be there when Lucy was punished.

"Out! Now!" The old man yelled.

Happy quickly flew out of the room, but not without first saying, "Bye-bye Natsu! Bye-bye Loser Lucy! Hahahaha!"

Lucy quietly whispered, " Happy..."

Now that all of the chaos was cleared for now, the Fairy Tail master quickly swooped into action. Since, there weren't nearly as many people in the room now, he lowered his voice substantially. "Now tell me, why do you want Lucy to out of the guild?"

He was very curious, he had grown close to Lucy even though she was still new to the guild.

"I can explain master, and I swear to tell only the truth." Erza spoke with a steely edge in her voice. It was obvious that she was struggling to keep herself from yelling again. Erza took a step forward and prepared herself. "It was only a few days after we began our training for the tournament, we had started right away, all of us. Everyone was working diligently to get stronger. On about the fifth day, one of Lucy's spirits appeared before everyone. Virgo, I believe, if I remember correctly."

"Is this correct so far Lucy?" The small man asked, hoping to discover the problem quickly. Lucy stood there, and merely nodded.

Erza continued on with the story, eyeing Lucy while doing so. "Virgo had come to invite us to a welcome back party in the Sprit World. We did not know this at the time though, since she told us that there was an emergency there. We had agreed to go and help. When we had arrived was when we discovered the truth. We had decided to stay for the party, thinking it would only be a few hours, a day at most."

Makarov now looked to Lucy for what she had to say so far. Again all she did was nod. Now Natsu and Grey were watching Lucy as well. Curious as to why she still hadn't spoken up, or try to defend herself at all.

Erza was nearing the end of her story now. "But when the party had finished, we were talking about the training to come, looking forward to continuing. That was when one of Lucy's spirits, I think it was Virgo again, told us that time flowed differently in the Spirit World, and that all of our training time was already up."

"What!" Makarov exclaimed "You only got in a few days of training!" He was furious, he couldn't believe that even after all the hard work everyone else put in, the people who were to compete in the Grand Magic Tournament were partying!

"Yes, though thanks to people that we would prefer go unnamed, we were able to increase our power level." Erza had finished her story and stepped back to her original position before hand.

Once again, Makarov looked to Lucy to hear what she had to say. To his surprise, she only nodded for a third time. "And what does this have to do expelling Lucy?" He asked. Apparently missing where she came into all of this.

This time Grey spoke up, writhing with anger, "What do you mean by that? This has everything to do with Lucy!"

Now it was Natsu's turn to speak, "Lucy didn't warn us about the difference! She didn't say anything about it at all! She was perfectly fine with going! She must want us to lose the tournament!" He practically screeched that last sentence out.

Makarov was still unconvinced by how this was Lucy's fault, but he still tried to think of a way that would make her happy along with everyone else. He was just about to tell them his plan when Lucy whispered, barely audible to everyone else, "Their right."

Everyone turned to stare at Lucy, shocked to hear her say that. Makarov moved so that he was standing right in front of the scared blond girl. "What do you mean?"

"Their right, partly. Yes, it's my fault we're in this mess. I'm the celestial mage of the guild, I should've known what would happen. I was fine with going because I was excited to see the Spirit World, as a celestial mage, that's very important to me." Lucy explained, only a slightly louder than before. "But I didn't... I don't... I really want us to win the tournament, not lose.

That's why I came to you as soon as we got back master. so that I could explain to you what happened, to tell you that's it all my fault." As Lucy said this, Grey, Natsu, and Erza silently cheered behind the back of their master. The powerful old man only looked down to the floor and grimaced.

While the eery silence continued, Lucy was motivating herself for what she had to do. Lucy thought, I should've known they would have told everyone, I should've known everyone would get mad if they... when they found out, and that's why I must do this. Not for me, not for my selfish wants. No. I have to do this for the guild, for everyone here, for my friends, for my nakama.

"Master." With that one word, everyone looked up to see Lucy, not trembling, not crying, not whimpering, but standing proudly. "I deserve a punishment worse then what any of you think." The blond stopped as she faced each and every person in the room. "I betrayed my friends, I betrayed my guild, I betrayed my family. That is why," Lucy paused momentarily, trying to find the right words to say, "that is why this is the beginning of the end for my Fairy Tale."