Authors note :

Hello everyone, i am normally not a writer, but this story has lingered in my head for quite some time now, so i want to tell it. I hope you enjoy my first story!


June 25. X791, Magnolia

It was a beautiful evening in the town of Magnolia. The street lamps were starting to light as a young blonde girl walked through the normally crowded streets. Lucy Heartfilia was one of the many member of the infamous wizarding guild „Fairy Tail", she had long blonde hair down to her waist, beautiful brown eyes and wore her usual outfit, which consisted of a white-blue top with a bare midriff and a black skirt with matching thigh-high socks.

It has been 2 days since she and her partners returned from the 1 week long special training camp at the beach and she was feeling great, although she couldn't get her mind off of Natsu's weird behaviour after the first day of training. She herself couldn't remember very much of that day's evening. All she could remember was drinking sake with the rest of the girls and... Natsu carrying her on his back. After that everything was blurred out, the next thing she could remember clearly was the girls mocking her in the bath since she and Natsu were apparently missing for at least an hour.

Since that day it was clear to her that she loved the Dragon Slayer, she had denied it while the girls mocked her, but deep inside she knew they were right.

"What will i tell him", Lucy thought, as she made her way towards the forest, where Natsu and his friend Happy lived in a small house. Suddenly she stopped, as she saw the Fire Dragon Slayer sitting in a fancy restaurant across the street, he was all dressed up, suit, tie, everything – and across from him sat... a brunette.

Lucy just stood there in shock. „He is already dating someone.." she whispered to herself as tears began running down her cheeks and as she ran home she could not get the image of Natsu and that girl out of her mind.

"How could I be this stupid", she cried out as she arrived in her apartment, "Of course he is dating someone, he is kinda famous around here".

Now she couldn't face him anymore, she was too heartbroken. She gathered most of her belongings that fit in her luggage and started packing. "I have to get somewhere he can't find me, I can't bear to see him now". She scribbled some words of goodbye onto a piece of paper and left it on her desk before she left the apartment and walked out of the town into the wilderness... If she didn't leave any note the whole guild would be after her in a matter of days.

"Everyone, I am sorry... I just can't"

A week later : July 2. X791, a small village on the countryside

Lucy had wandered about the countryside for about 2 days before she settled down in a small village about halfway between Magnolia and the capital, Crocus. With some of the money she saved after her frequent missions with Team Natsu, she bought a small house and soon got a job as waitress in the local inn.

On the way there she had helped a traveling merchant with some bandits. As a reward for saving him he gave her some "Colors"-Magic, a magic item that allowed her to change her hair color, which was just the right thing for her, since she didn't want to be found by Fairy Tail.

She now had long brown hair, matching her eyes and always wore black fingerless leather gloves to conceal her guild mark on the back of her right hand. She didn't want to remove it, Fairy Tail was like a family to her, but she couldn't return there either, not after seeing Natsu like this.

She also needed to think up a new name. "How do I call myself now?", she thought. "Well, I think for a first-name I will use Michelle, after my dead 'cousin', but I will have to use something more generic for my last-name...". A couple minutes of thinking later, she decided to make her last-name "Surge", just like Edo-Gray's. "That should keep anybody from finding out I am here", she said.

It was a sunny afternoon, Lucy waitered at the inn, but she wasn't feeling very well. The atmosphere was fairly loud and the people were all very busy talking until... CLASH!

Everyone looked around, only to see the brunette waitress collapsed on the floor right next to a huge pile of shards.

Lucy woke up in a bed at the inn. "Where am I? What happened?" she asked.

"You collapsed onto the floor about 20 minutes ago Miss Surge" a voice from the opposite end of the bed said. There sat in a chair, the doctor of the village.

"Do you know why?" Lucy asked. "I haven't been feeling very well lately".

"Do not worry Miss Surge", the doctor said. "That is perfectly normal for a pregnant woman"

Lucy looked at him in shock. "Did you just say 'pregnant'?"

The doctor gave her a questioning look. "Did you not know? After inspecting you I would say you are about 2 weeks pregnant. Anyways, I have more patients to attend to right now. Farewell for now"

Lucy was panicking at this point. "Why am I pregnant?", she thought. "I have never slept with anyo-" That's when it hit her. About 2 weeks ago... that was about the first day of the training camp. And she was pretty drunk that evening. She and Natsu would've had enough time to... tears began running down her cheeks as she began to realize her situation. She was pregnant with the child of the man that she still loved, but that was dating someone else.


2 days prior : June 30. X791, Fairy Tail Guild Hall, Magnolia

"Good morning everyone!" Natsu screamed as he threw open the massive wooden doors of the Fairy Tail Guild Hall. "I have finally completed that stupid mission, damn that woman wouldn't let go of me" he complained.

"Well if you have a problem with handling women you shouldn't have accepted a mission that involved to fake a relationship", a white-haired woman behind the bar counter replied.

"Not my fault there was a 5 million Jewel reward placed on it Mira", the pink haired Dragon Slayer growled. "Anyway, has anyone seen Lucy? I wanted to talk to her before the Grand Magic Games begin"

Everyone in the Guild Hall shook their heads. Levy spoke up. "She wasn't in the guild hall for the last 5 days. I tried visiting her at home, but nobody answered the door."

Natsu immediately sprinted out the door as if the devil himself chased him. He felt something wasn't right.

He got to Lucy's apartment and entered through the window, which was always left unlocked. He immediately noticed that there was almost no scent of Lucy left in the room. She had to be gone for a couple of days by now. Natsu was puzzled. Lucy would never leave just like that without anyone knowing where she went. "What could have happened to her?", he thought just as his eyes caught a piece of paper lying in the center of Lucy's desk.


Everyone, I am sorry... I just can't face you at the moment.

My heart feels like it might shatter any second now and I just

can't take it.

I might return someday, but until then

Good Bye

Lucy


Natsu began to cry as he read the letter. She really was gone, he couldn't believe it. Why?

The Dragon Slayer went straight home after that. The next day after reading the message Makarov switched Lucy's place in Fairy Tail Team A for Freed Justine.

Everyone in the guild cried that day. Most of all the members of Team Natsu and Lucy's best friend Levy McGarden.

Erza and Grey were puzzled over the letter. Why was Lucy gone?

Gray spoke up. "I think I figured it out! Hey Flame Brain, get over here, I've got a question for you!"

"What is it, Ice Princess?", Natsu said, his head hanging low.

"What did you do over the course of the last week?", the Ice Mage asked.

Natsu replied slightly annoyed. "If I have to repeat it... I spent the last week faking a relationship with the daughter of some rich merchant, so she doesn't have to search for a husband."

Grey read the letter out loud. "My heart feels like it might shatter any second now. Is it clicking now Natsu? I say she saw you and got heartbroken!"

"No way!" Natsu responded. "So this is all my fault?" He began crying again. Lucy was gone and it was his fault.

"LU~~~~~~~~~~CY~~!"


Okay! That's it for the Prologue! I hope you liked it so far.