AN: Please enjoy this one shot! It takes place a month or two after the GMG.
Lucy's POV:
It's been three years since I've last been at the guild.
Ever since Lissanne came back from Edolas, after being supposedly "dead" things had changed. Mind you, not a lot, but just enough to notice. Well, at least for me to notice… Most people must felt bad for me or thought I was jealous because Natsu had been hanging out with Lissanne instead of me. But on the contry to what most people believed I wasn't jealous at all… Even if Natsu did hang out with Lissanne, and not me.
But that's to be expected! I mean for the love of Mavis they were childhood friends and apparently childhood sweethearts, or they would have been if she didn't "die"… or hadn't disappeared. Sure I was upset that Natsu didn't hang out with me as much as we use to, but he disserves some time to ketch up with Lissanne. I don't mind if we barley go on missions together, it gives me time to finish my book for Levy… and after the GMG ended I've needed a break. But what really bothered me was that some people thought that I hated Lissanne. I could never hate her she was so kind and sweet… and we had became really good friends!
As most people suspected Lissanne joined Team Natsu, her addition made us even closer and stronger. But seeing her in action during our battles had made me feel pretty weak. I mean they had all been using magic since they were really little. So compared to them I was a newbie mage, and when you compare a newbie to a veteran the veteran is usually the one of top. It's true that it's not always like that, I mean just take a look at the battles Natsu and Erza fight… even Gray. They've all fought people who've had more experience and they won! They beat them for the guild, for they're nakama.
So I had decided to train and get stronger, I mean I wanted to be able to take care of myself and my nakama, just like they had been taking care of me and protecting me. I wanted to get stronger so I didn't have to always rely on someone else to rescue me. I wanted to be able to take huge paying jobs by myself…. So I could actually get the reward and pay my rent. Team Natsu was amazing but sometimes things got out of hand and they end up destroying something, usually all or a large portion of the town.
~ Flashback ~
"Hey Levy do you know any place that's good for training?"
"Sorry Lu-Chan I don't..."
"You could try the mountains in the north, that's where Ur, Lyon and I trained. I'm not sure if that be good for a Celestial Mage though... It's pretty cold and always snows up there." Gray said over hearing us
"What, Luce, you wanna train?! That's great! I'll go tell Lissanne!" Natsu yelled
"Oh no Natsu, you see I wanted to train-"
"Good idea Lucy, training sounds like a wonderful idea, I shall come too. I will pack my bags right after I finish my cake." I heard Erza say.
"Wait you guys, I was going to go train by myself."
"Well now we can keep ya company, weirdo!" Natsu replied
"No I wanted to go by myself, So I can get stronger and stop relying on all of you to save me." Lissanne walked over hearing our argument
"But that's what family is for, we help each other..."
"I know but I'd feel better if I got stronger, I'll be back in a year or so, don't worry! It's not like I'm never coming back."
~ Flashback End ~
I laughed, remembering how tricky, it had been to leave. I had to make sure Natsu couldn't track me down. Thankfully Levy helped me find a spell that blocked my scent. But still, it had taken me a week to get them off my back so I could get away. I mean the gang is awesome but if they had come with me, it would be the same as our missions. I would be relying on them for help, which would pretty much contradict the idea of training.
Hmmmm I thought out loud, I wonder if any things changed... Maybe Levy or Gajeel finally got up the guts to confess to one another. Or maybe Lissanne and Natsu hooked up., or perhaps Gray had finally come to term with his feelings and he and Juvia were going out. I chuckled at the thought, Natsu wasn't the only dense one when it concerned love… But at least Gray knows what it is. I smiled, hopefully they did, then maybe Juvia wouldn't have to think of me as her love rival. The train stopped and I picked up my pack and got off.
Oh how I missed Magnolia. The cute little shops, and the cobblestone streets... but most of all, Fairy Tail. I walked over to my apartment room and paid the land lady this month's rent. At first it seemed like she didn't recognize me, I guess I changed more than I thought. I was slightly taller, with long blond hair that went down to my mid back. I had it up in a pony tail with my bangs framing my face. I was wearing a maroon crop top T-shirt, with shoelace stitching on the sides, a thick brown leather bet with a buckle and my favorite skinny jean pants that had become faded and ripped from traveling. I also had on my usual brown leather boots. But attached to either sides of both my boots were little angel wings that when I gave the command would unfurl so that I could fly, they also let me move faster than I could have before, like when Natsu uses his fire to boost his speed. Besides the wings I had also picked up two daggers along my travels, though I don't know if they could be called daggers. The blades themselves were easily a foot and a half long, with a dark gray and bright white zigzag with a thin gold one in between. (AN: like in Soul Eater when Soul is in scythe form but different colors [dark gray and white with gold in the middle) The hilt was the same gold color as the zigzag. The daggers had a dark gray pommel and guard, the guard was like a sai's with two dark gray points coming from the hilt and a good sized opal in the middle of each pommel. The opal was a celestial opal different from ours, it let me store my magical energy so that I could reach into it and pull the magic power out to boost my strength. The sheathe was a bright white color, the two blades were attached to either side of my belt along with the whip that Virgo gave me during the GMG and my keys. Besides the daggers and wings I had picked up two dark gray metal wrist guards that were about half a foot long and enchanted so that barely anything could cut through them, they also had a spell on them so they could absorb most magic. This let me use them for blocking magical attacks and weapons.
The land lady looked at my curiously. Then recognition seemed to flash in her eyes as she said "Oh Lucy it's you, I was wondering when you'd get back. I couldn't recognize you with your cloak on!" I felt a blush creep across my face as I gave her the rent and said goodbye. I guess I had forgotten I had my cloak hood on. It was raining outside so I decided to put the hood back on, now I just need to remember that I have it on. As I walked towards the guild I though about how great it was to be back, especially since I didn't have to look for a new apartment! That would have been a real pain in the ass.
When I left I remember being worried about someone buying it as I trained. But when I told the land lady about leaving she said I could mail in my rents as long as they came in on time. So as I trained and traveled I had sent in my rent.
As I close in on the guild it starts to rain harder. I finally reached the doors and as I pulled them open a bolt of lightning slashes across the sky, lighting it up behind me making a loud crack. So loud that it got everyone's attention, even the brawls stopped. I quietly stepped in, head down.
"Someone shouted who are you?!" I looked up towards them, my cloak still shadowing my face. I pull the hood off my head chuckling.
"I can't believe my family would forget me so soon!" I said faining a hurt expression. Everyone just stood there (or sat) looking at me.
"What?" I say... "No welcome home hugs?"
Hey guys I hope you enjoyed my first one shot and completed story, sorry for not updating Stranded Love in a while... I've been super busy. But I felt bad so I wrote this on the way to Cape Cod. This means I couldn't update Stranded Love because I wrote this on my phone and since I was using my laptop for Stranded Love I couldn't update it in the car. But I'll try and update it as soon as possible. Please review and tell me if I should make this into a chapter story, by that I mean she'd tell the guild about her travels or something and then stuff would happen…. Oh yes and I don't own Fairy Tail (obviously, also where would the period go? After the parentheses or before? Heh heh sorry bad at grammar… -_-' id be nothing without spell check!)
