Summary:

This story takes place like Lucy's father never went and tried to find his daughter – in a way he is a good guy. Distraught about many things, Lucy runs away from Fairy Tail with hopes that someone won't try to. The guild doesn't give up in finding her though, trying hard to bring her back. When a boy with light colored orange hair, comes to the guild many things are pieced together as they try to find his mother. Please don't hate it...I don't own Fairy Tail - only this story, my words, and my character...you can guess it later on when she shows up!

Chapter One

There are only a few reasons of why you would want to see Master Makarov personally. The first would probably be that you wanted to join the guild, Fairy Tail. The next was to inform him of disastrous events that would be coming to destroy Fiore. The last was to request his approval to leave the guild and possibly never come back.

At an early hour in the morning, a certain Celestial Stellar Spirit Mage gave her hand to the master of her guild, tears running down her cheeks while his face looked strained. He didn't think that the girl in front of him would think of leaving the guild – none the less do it. If the other mages knew she was leaving there would have been uproar, such as there will be when the girl decides to break it to a few confidents.

It was going to be hard for her without her strong nakama to look after her and make sure that she stayed safe. The girl was promising to get stronger though and that was the only reason in which the master was allowing this to go any further. If it were anybody besides this blonde child, he would have told them to stay.

Taking a deep breath, Master Makarov asked, "When will you leave?"

"Tonight" was her quick answer, clipped and short. The master cringed at her abrupt word, wondering if she wanted to leave that quickly.

"To where?" he inquired.

"Anywhere but here is fine," she told him.

Curiosity crept upon everyone, even the strong guild master as he tried to ask the reason why. The young mage shook her head, causing a flare in his head that told it had to do with something personal.

Sighing, he declared to no one but the two of them:

"Lucy Heartfilia, you have my permission to leave this guild – whether or not you come back is not my concern, as long as you are safe."

She stood outside of the tall, luminous and ornate building which she called home, thinking it all over in her head. If she stayed then she was going to be the cause of Fairy Tail's near end. Everything would most definitely be better if she left – that was for certain, Lucy knew it. Everyone would go back to normal; the normal of when she was not there.

Lucy pushed open the door that led into the giant dining hall – the dining hall she loved being greeted by was loud and playful; it seemed to be in its usual mood. Hoping that her hooded cloak was not too conspicuous was all the girl could do to keep the thought of leaving from her mind.

Mirajane looked up at her from behind the bar, brightening up and smiling crazily with her hand waving her over. Her locks of long silver hair were bouncing up and down as she tried to beckon Lucy to hurry up. Knowing that she might not want to miss what was coming up, the blonde walked faster to her chirpy friend.

"Where in the world have you been Lucy?" Mira asked in a motherly tone. "You weren't in your apartment or on a mission so don't try and lie."

Lucy slightly laughed, realizing that her friend's concern was very close to the one that once belonged to her late mother's. There were going to be a lot of things that Lucy was going to miss from this guild.

"I've just been doing a few errands here and there," the blonde replied with a shining smile. "I'm sorry to make you worry."

The bartender sighed and threw down the cloth she was using to wipe off a few smudges on the glasses, to wipe her own hands. Pinching her lying friend's cheeks, Mira asked again with a demonic look in her eyes. Once again Lucy said she had been doing errands for money, sweating a little from either the look she was given or the pressure of lying.

"Those are missions and missions are the thing missing from your job file."

"Non-magic related of course Mira," the 'child' of the two informed. "I didn't like any of the jobs on the board this week."

The oldest Strauss sibling's eyebrows shot up due to doubt in Lucy Heartfilia's story but shrugged with a rare-seen annoyance. Though she was still curious about her friend's mysterious disappearances over the few days, she didn't want to seem like she was trying to pry into Lucy's life.

A rose haired boy bumped into the girl's conversation, dragging a different girl along with him – both of them laughing about something. Saying sorry to her without recognizing her face, he plopped down into the seat next to her; his silver haired friend still giggling over a joke.

Lucy froze as she heard his voice ordering something to drink from Mira, a voice that had told her so many things. Things most people would want to hear and things that were normally the thing that would keep them up at night with the thoughts of sweet dreams. Whilst for her, she had nightmares of, featuring him and people trying to get rid of him.

All of those dreams came from after that night when he told her all about it. All of the things he had always wanted to say but couldn't have said before without any courage. It'd been a good night to sleep in – had it not been for those torturous nightmares.

Mira, knowing from the tense aura Lucy seemed to be giving off, came up to ask her younger sister, Lisanna, if she could help out with a few things in the kitchen. The sibling excused herself from her friend's presence to see what her sister needed.

While he was abandoned for a few minutes, Natsu Dragneel noticed, finally, who was sitting next to him and struck up a conversation as casually as he could with her. Fiddling nervously with his drink, he tried looking at her in the eyes but felt as though if he did she would go away. He was fearful of that the most but he didn't feel the need to admit so.

Lucy could feel her heart beating fast as the boy next to her struggled to talk to her without discussing things like what happened just a weeks ago. Her emotions could go from casual to anxious in just a matter of seconds with him. Recognizing his intentions to try and keep things normal between them, the girl went and played along.

Of course though, she didn't have to recognize him so much now did she?

In a matter of minutes, the both of them were laughing as they reminisced old memories on various jobs that would have kept them laughing had Lisanna not come back. Seeing as she was though, Natsu immediately began to talk with the darling girl after saying a few words of goodbye to Lucy. The lovely mage waved with a sad, longing smile at him while he walked away from her without knowing that she wasn't going to be there tomorrow.

She wished that he didn't have to say goodbye so easily.