Hello! So this is my first Fairy Tail fanfiction. I've been writing Percy Jackson fanfics for about 3 years now but I thought it was time to try something new. I bought a Fairy Tail shirt today in Spencers and it all just seemed to work out. This is an AU but I'm trying not to make the characters to OOC. Lucy might be at first but I promise she won't be like that for long.

This fanfiction is sorta a mix of my two favorite Animes. Fairy Tail and Avatar the Last Airbender. There will be differences but I do use some of the same ideas from Avatar. It will still be its own story though and I really hope you guys enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize!

~*The beginning is most important part of the work*~

-Plato

Two men hurriedly rushed down the dark halls, their feet pounding on the wood floors and their breath coming out in uneven puffs. They both struggled to breathe properly as they ran to the back office but neither stopped to catch their breath or rest their aching bodies. Bruises were painted all over their skin and one ran with a new limp, clear signals it was a rough journey but they didn't stop or slow their pace. They wouldn't stop until they reached him. It was too important. They had been searching for so long.

Not bothering to knock, the heavier man slammed the door open. The old sign on the door reading Master fell to the floor from the force. A small man, in a somewhat silly orange hat simply stared at them from behind his desk. A small desk lamp lit his face but all you could see was a dry look and a raised eyebrow.

"Master." The smaller of the two men panted. He bent forward to rest his hands on his knees as he gulped in air greedily. His tongue hung from his mouth and dangled past his chin. The man's chest was burning and felt tight but he found words. "We found her."

The small man instantly stiffened and crawled out of his chair to stand on the desk. He was able to look both men in the eye from this height. His eyes were uncharacteristically hard.

"What did you say my boy?"

"We found her. We found Lucy Heartfilia."

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She had been running for so long and it was finally taking its toll on her; she was so tired. Lucy's body was sore and stiff as she tried to find a comfortable position on the ground. She tucked her knees up to her chest and rolled over to her side to try and warm herself in her dark, self-made tent. A bug crawled past her eye and Lucy let out an earth rattling shriek. As quickly as she could, she shooed the creature out of her temporary home and her brown eyes urgently scanned around her to make sure there weren't any more crawling around. Once satisfied she was alone and bug free, Lucy laid down once more. Her once beautiful and bright blonde hair was matted and caked with mud from her travels. Lucy had pulled it into a side ponytail to keep it out of her way.

The rock walls around her did nothing to warm her shaking frame. Lucy felt herself trembling from the cold wind and wished she had the courage to steal a blanket from the cart she passed an hour earlier. She couldn't afford it after buying her food and she figured having a full stomach was more important than warmth. As she shivered violently again she cursed herself and her morals.

Whenever Lucy found herself in a grim situation like this one, she always busied her mind with something else to distract from the hunger or the cold. It usually worked and after a while, she would simply drift off to sleep. Lucy normally didn't find herself sleeping on the ground, with a rock tent to protect her from the other elements. No, she could usually scam, work or pay her way for an actual room for a night before moving on again. Lucy didn't stay in one place for too long, at most staying for three days before she hurriedly continued on.

She had people looking for her; she knew she did. Lucy had seen the flyers and the news reports on the TVs in the stores. Many powerful and dangerous people were looking for her, wanting to bring her to another prison and study her and her abilities. Lucy didn't want to think about what she was; so far she hadn't met anyone else that could do what she could. Some nights she was glad; this meant she could consider herself special but other nights….Lucy got lonely. She craved for someone to understand her. The only person who truly did was gone now. And as far as Lucy knew –and she had checked- she was the last of her kind.

As long as she could remember and as far as she had read back, certain people in the world could control something others couldn't. Ninety percent of the world's population was filled with people who couldn't use or master bending arts….but the other ten percent could. Lucy had read about a man who could control electronics with a flick of a finger and a woman who could make herself and items around her float with her mind. Some bending was ranked higher among others; Lucy found herself in this category. She never bragged about it (in fear of being found by the men chasing her) but being able to control one of the main four elements meant you were one of the most powerful people in the world.

Lucy was sure there were at least three more people out in the world like her; the universe had made it that way. As long as there was at least one main element being bended, the other three had to be as well. It created a balance. At one point, Lucy hadn't been the only one to bend such an incredible element. Someone special had showed her how but she was gone now. It had been a little over ten years. Lucy's chest tightened as the memory- still as painful as the day it happened- flashed through her mind.

*Heartfilia Estate- Ten years ago-*

Layla struggled to hold back her giggles as a seven year old Lucy struggled to get herself into the correct position. Once she noticed her mother's smile, she sighed and stomped her foot in frustration.

"You're laughing at me!" She cried in embarrassment. Layla's smile softened as she quickly helped the young blond with her stance. Her feet were too close together. Lucy's cheeks still flamed but she quickly regained her focus and waited for her mother to tell her what to try next.

"We're going to go easy today okay Lucy?" Layla moved to stand across from her daughter and professionally mirrored the younger girl's position. "I just want you to focus on pushing your rock forward instead of trying to lift it off the ground."

Lucy nodded hurriedly and scrunched her nose in concentration as she faced the boulder in front of her. It was noticeably smaller then her mother's but her mommy had assured her that in time, as long as she kept training, Lucy too could move boulders as big as the one in front of Layla.

Grunting as she shifted her hands, Lucy was disappointed to see her boulder barely shifted an inch forward. If it hadn't been for the slight rumble of the ground, Lucy would have doubted she moved it at all. Lucy tried again and mentally –and angrily- chanted move, move, move! in her head in hopes it would work.

Layla sighed as she watched her daughter lose her focus and lose herself to her anger. Lucy was normally well tempered and could easily meditate but during her training she could lose her cool if she didn't learn as fast as she thought she should.

"Lucy listen to me." Lucy glanced over at her but ultimately continued to glare at the rock in front of her. Layla held back another sigh and smiled patiently. "You won't move the earth with force or angry looks. You and I have a wonderful connection to the ground beneath our feet. Don't you see? We can move in harmony with one another. You just have to be patient and sturdy. Feel the Earth beneath your feet and wait for the perfect moment."

Layla demonstrated by taking a long breath, focusing on the large boulder in front of her and grunting as she thrusted her closed fists forward. The rock flew across the ground and into the rock wall behind it. Lucy stared in awe. It was a powerful attack; anyone at the end of that boulder would have been flattened.

"Patient and sturdy." Lucy murmured to herself. Once again getting into position, Lucy took a deep breath like she saw her mother do and shut her eyes for a moment. She could feel the solid dirt beneath her feet; her bare toes wiggled lightly in delight. She could feel the worms and bugs under layers of dirt, moving about and she could feel flowers' roots growing deep in the soil. When she opened her eyes, her small, closed fists flew forward just as her boulder did. The force was a lot less powerful then Layla's but it had made it to the wall just like the other one. Lucy shrieked in delight and ran into her mother's arms.

"I did it!" She cheered. Layla laughed and spun her daughter once in the air before setting her down. She ruffled her blonde hair affectionately, something she did quite often.

"Yes you did! Great job! You seem to be getting stronger each and every day."

Lucy beamed and quickly pressed her hands together and bowed. While Layla was her mother –her favorite person in the whole wide world- she was also Lucy's mentor and after every successful training day, Lucy was always sure to bow and thank her properly for her lessons.

Before Layla could return her bow, someone shouted for them from the house. Lucy's house always looked too big from the field and Lucy felt something shift in the air. She could feel something in the earth too; a lot of people were running towards them. Most of them were outside their mansion walls.

"Miss Layla!" A guard shouted desperately. He quickly rushed over to them, his armor clanking loudly. Lucy felt herself frown as she glanced up to see her mother glaring at something in the distance. Lucy tugged on her shirt sleeve but Layla didn't seem to notice.

"Geoffrey I need you to get Lucy and Jude to safety." Lucy stared up at her mother worriedly. Her voice usually so warm and caring, was cold and filled with distaste.

"But Miss Layla-"

"I can feel them Geoffrey. I know those bandits have once again come; their leader promised they would. Get our bending arts guards out here but first, I need you to get Lucy and Jude to safety while I hold them off. Lucy is our top priority."

"But Mommy I can help! You said I was getting stronger!" Lucy cried. She didn't like the way her mother sounded; she couldn't exactly understand what her mother was saying but clearly something was wrong. Lucy didn't want to hide with her daddy; she wanted to fight alongside her mentor. Geoffrey had taken her hand but Lucy pulled it free to grip the bottom of her mother's shirt. Layla gently brushed back Lucy's blonde hair and kissed her forehead, her lips lingering longer than usual.

"I need you to keep Daddy safe. You know he can't speak with the earth like we can." Layla told her daughter softly. Her voice seemed to break and Lucy found herself being lifted into Geoffrey's arms. Lucy liked the guard, he had played with her many times in the past and had even snuck her a few snacks during her study time but right now she desperately kicked and punched him as he began to pull her away from her mother.

"But Mommy!"

"I love you so much Lucy. You never forget that okay? I'll always be with you; both in the earth and sky."

Lucy hadn't understood what she meant at the time. She had continued to shriek and fight against Geoffrey's arms, even going as far to use her free hands to summon pebbles to smack his head. He didn't seem affected by it at all and had rushed her inside. The last thing Lucy saw before the dark tunnel blocked her vision was her mother being surrounded by multiple men; the earth barely protecting her from their vicious attacks.

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Jude and Lucy had mourned the next morning. Fateful guards had been lost, things had been taken and the property had been ruined. Lucy hadn't cared about any of that though. When night had fallen, a guard had crept into the safety room where she was hiding, tucked away with her father, with his head hung low and tears burning in his eyes. Lucy remembers feeling her father stiffen behind her.

"I'm so sorry sir." The guard mumbled, his head never lifting. Lucy had felt like someone punched her in the chest; she couldn't breath and from the looks of it neither could her father. He hadn't cried in the moment but Lucy didn't see him for an entire month. When he finally did emerge from his bedroom, his face had been puffy, red and swollen from thick tears and he had barely glanced at her.

For ten years, Lucy was ignored by him; her own father wanted nothing to do with her. Lucy had stopped caring and turned her focus to something that actually mattered. For ten years, Lucy continued to train in secret. She had snuck out at night, slipping past the guards and returning to the training grounds her mother had taught her in. Lucy had never forgotten what her mentor had taught her and she wasn't going to tarnish her mother's memory by refusing to continue her training. Layla had always wanted greatness for Lucy and Lucy was determined to give it to herself.

Lucy had run away when her father had found out what she had been doing. He had seen the scuffs and dirt on her shirt one morning and demanded she take a walk with him outside. Once surrounded by dirt, Jude had thrown a rock past Lucy's head, just for her to scream and freeze it in the air. Insults had been thrown and there had been so much screaming her throat had been raw for days. Lucy had been trapped in her room when she realized she couldn't live the life her father envisioned for her. He was talking arranged marriages and business meetings for her; he didn't have the connection to the earth like she did. He would never be able to understand her like Layla did.

So once she was sure no one was below her bedroom tower, Lucy had lifted her hand and called the earth to her aid. The earth had rumbled and shook but a tall rock staircase appeared, Lucy grabbed her prepacked bag and hurried down them. Lucy couldn't force herself to run past it. She only paused once, to stare at the large statue of her mother, her mentor and her best friend. Her grave was always beautifully decorated with bright flowers and Lucy delicately picked one. All these years later, Lucy had finally understood what her mother had meant. She was in the ground, Lucy looked up to the starry sky and smiled. Layla was resting peacefully where she was most comfortable but she was watching her daughter from above. Forcing herself to say goodbye, Lucy once again used the earth to scale the large walls and she disappeared in the night without so much as a fleeting glance behind her.

Lucy's been running for a year now.

People were looking for her; trying to hunt her down. Lucy knew that.

But she knew her father wasn't the one to hire them.

A low rumble sounded in the sky and Lucy sighed as she punched the ground. The mark on the back of her right hand seemed to shine for a second. A clear simple of the Earth element was embedded in her skin; something that's been there since her birth. As her fist connected with the ground, another layer of rock appeared around her to keep the heat in and the cold out. Grabbing the flyers and a flashlight from her bag, Lucy read through them quickly. She had grabbed the job flyers off a nearby tavern wall in hopes she could make enough money for both food and a blanket for tomorrow night. Finding nothing with the batch so far, she almost gave up hope until she read the last one. It had caught her eye with the strange design on it. All four main elements –earth, air, water and fire- swirled together in a circle.

Ultimate Element still not found! The Ultimate Element possesses an incredible ability only one chosen bending arts mage can master. If anyone knows anything about them, please speak to your nearest Bending Arts Guild. The world is falling to the monsters being summoned and we need the Ultimate Element to stop dark forces.

Lucy's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. She had never heard anything about an Ultimate Element before and the flyer gave little information about what the person actually did. Saying whoever it was, was the key to stopping all the monster attacks though meant serious business. The world had been slowly succumbing to dark guilds and their monsters as people with bending arts abilities were dying off. Lucy bit her lip as she tried to make sense of all of it.

She froze when she felt something shift in the ground. Someone was right outside her earth tent. She had been too distracted reading, she didn't feel them earlier. Lucy clenched her fists and prepared to strike the ground to form a tunnel but someone had punched both her rock walls and sent them crumbling to the ground. Surprised by the powerful attack, she had frozen and that was her downfall. Two men were staring at her in disbelief before realization passed over their faces.

"Lucy Heartfilia." The taller man whispered in awe. He was the one who most likely punched her walls down; he was incredibly beefy and Lucy held back a shiver. He could probably break her in two with just a finger. Realizing he knew her name; Lucy stood up. This was someone who was sent to find her.

Crap.

She lifted her arms to prepare to defend herself but before she could, she found something holding them at her sides. It was too strong for her to break through. When she glanced down, small puppets were grinning back up at her and Lucy scowled. She lifted her head to see another man staring at her, a finger raised in the air. He was the one controlling the puppets. When their eyes met, he stuck out his long tongue with a gleeful sneer. The larger man was speaking frantically into a radio.

"Yes! I'm telling you the truth! It isn't manly to lie! We've found Lucy Heartfilia; Lady of the Earth and we're about to bring her to the Master. Our year-long hunt is finally over. "

Double crap.

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Thanks for the support!

-Katie