Story: The Survivor
Summary: Before Fairy Sphere was activated on Tenroujima, Lucy's spirits sense that she's in danger and takes her to the Celestial Spirit World. Traumatized by the "death" of her nakama, she trains to become stronger and protect Fairy Tail in their absence.
Rating: T
Paring: None as of yet. Future Nalu
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail
A/N: Hello my lovely chickadees. After I finished the first chapter yesterday, I've been wanting to continue writing it. Also I didn't think people would like this story so much! 2 hours passes and I already had 10 follows! I had to put my phone on silent because of all the notices I was getting! It made my day! So thank you all for liking my story! Here's the next chapter!
Chapter 2:
Within a few hours, Lucy and the other council members arrived at the HQ for the Magic Council. She was escorted into the building and was led to the trial room for her audience. She was led to stand on a pedestal and looked up at the council leaders. As she studied the men, she noticed an old man smiling at her, and smiled back. The chairman cleared his throat.
"Lucy Heartfilia. We have received your request and application for our S-class exam, however we were not noted of your return from Tenroujima. Tell us, where are your fellow guild mates and master?" The chairman demanded.
She gave them a saddened expression. "My former master and guild mates were unable to survive the attack. It was only through my spirits that I was able to survive." She informed them.
"I'm sorry to hear that." The old man who smiled at her said.
"Now tell us, why do you think we should let you take the S-class exam when only about a month ago you weren't even a candidate." Another member said.
She smirked at the council. "For you it had been that time, but for me it had been five years since then." The council expressions grew curios and motioned to continue. "As you know, I am a Celestial Spirit Mage, and I was chosen by the Celestial Spirit King to be trained by the spirits of his world."
They looked at her with shock. "Impossible! That hasn't happened for hundreds of years! And if you did, then why can't we feel you're magic? History has recorded that past mages who were in your position contained so much magic that you could feel their presence!" Another council member exclaimed.
"I have learned how to suppress my power through my advanced training. Unlike the others that have been recorded, I was chosen to go even further in my training. And before you ask it is forbidden to speak of my training to those not permitted to. It is because of this that I want to help my guild by being able to take harder missions."
The council was silent for a moment. "Okay we will allow you to take the exam, but under other circumstances. You will battle our strongest mages and based on how you fair, you will be promoted to S-class or even Saint if you qualify. But just as a reminder, if reach to the level of wizard saint, you will be required to handle highly ranked missions given to you directly by us. If you refuse, we will strip your rank of S-class."
She glared at them. "Why?"
"Remember girl, you are getting the rank from us. We can take it and give it as we please. If you getting it from your guild, the master would have this responsibility, but as you already know, your guild doesn't have an official master yet, which is probably also why you came to increase your rank, to become master."
Lucy looked at them passively. She knew this would likely happen. But she knew what she was getting herself into. The council wanted to keep her on a leach because she was now one of the most powerful mage's, and they knew it too. She was glad they didn't know of her advanced training, because if they found out, she didn't know what they would try to do to keep her loyal to only them and not Fairy Tail. She planned to keep that a secret as long as she can, and never let them find out. She nodded her head in agreement and was led to another part of the building.
2 weeks later.
Lucy walked into her guild with a smile on her face. The others greeted her and congratulated her when they saw her newly acquired pin on the shirt she was wearing. She was now a wizard saint and master of Fairy Tail. She came home the night before when only Macao was left in the guild, still working on paperwork. He was the first to heat the news and slightly he didn't have the responsibility of guild master anymore.
She told the guild of her promotion and how she got was tested to get her rank. They were excited that she was able to get the rank of saint like the previous master, but slightly disappointed when she wasn't a loud to tell them her rank until it was officially announced by the council. It was when she was talking about how she had to go on a mission in a few months that Max noticed something.
"Hey Lucy where's your keys?" he asked.
She smiled. "Someone finally noticed. Due to my training I no longer need keys to summon spirits. I still have them in case I get an apprentice, but now they kept safe with Leo in the spirit world."
"Cool! Can you summon one?" Droy asked her. She nodded to them.
"Open gate of the Lion. I summon thee, Leo." She said. The others looked at her in confusion, they didn't understand what she was saying. A few seconds later, the familiar form of Leo appeared in a gold light. Her fellow guild mates stared at Leo. He looked the same, yet different too. His hair was a slightly darker shade and a little more wild then it used to, his body seemed a little more fit, and there was a soft glow from his body that wasn't there before.
"Lucy, I see you're back at the guild." Leo smiled to her. He looked at the other guild members. "Yo, how has everyone been?" he waved to the others.
"Loki, you look…" Jet tried to explain motioning to his body. "Shiny."
Leo gave him a looked at him with a deadpan expression. "Yeah, when spirits are summoned in their original language and summon, they return in their original forms. This is mine, as you see I don't change much, but you should see some of the others."
"Original language?" someone questioned.
"Yes" Lucy looked at Leo, he nodded. "I had to learn their language and several other ancient languages in order to be able to summon them to their fullest potential. As time passed from the beginning of the pact between humans and spirits, the bond between them strained as they began to lose trust in each other. This caused spirits to weaken and at certain points in time, only certain parts of their power peaked, and others weakened. So if there was a situation where only one of their powers are needed, I can summon them to where only that particular power is peaked. But since I was able to learn their language and the ancient language where the pact was made, I'm able summon them from when they were most powerful."
"Wow… can you only summon the spirits you have the keys for?" Laki asked.
"No, I can summon any spirit I know. I lived in the Spirit world for years so I can summon a lot of spirits." She replied.
Leo brought out his mini "I love Lucy" flag and commented "Isn't my summoner the best."
7 years later, the time Tenroujima returns.
In the hillside of Magnolia was a small tavern that bore the symbol of Fairy Tail. Throughout the years, Lucy had finished multiple jobs for the Magic Council and was able to pay off and own the original guild hall, however it was decided to move into this small tavern for various reasons. The first was that the number of guild members has only increased by one since Macao and Lucy removed the unserious guild members, so she felt there was no need to have such a big guild hall for their now small guild. The second was that she wanted Fairy Tail to have a second location incase anything happened to the guild hall like with what happened with Phantom Lord. And finally, the guild hall held a lot of memories and some of the members couldn't be in the hall without getting sad, so the second location helped them deal with the absence of the other members.
The inside this tavern was some members of Fairy Tail sitting down having a drink. On one table was Jet, Droy, and Max talking about their most recent missions. On another was Laki, Kiana, and Bisca talking about the newest fashions in style. Reedus was in the corner painting. Nab was by the mission board like always with Vijeeter near him. On the table next to the girls was two kids, one was Romeo reading a book, and sitting across from them was a little girl by the name of Stella, who was drawing pictures with crayons. And lastly, sitting in the table closest to the bar was Wakaba and Macao who were talking about Twilight Ogre, who wouldn't stop bothering them about buying their original guild hall. The only two members who were on missions was Warren and Lucy.
Lucy was on, yet another mission for the Magic Council. The Council soon found out that Lucy had good diplomatic skills and would give her missions that were in other countries. These missions could take 2 weeks to 4 months depending on the country. She left the previous week to the kingdom of Pergrande. She told them that this mission could take up to four months and left her adopted daughter, Stella, in their care. Lucy saved Stella two years previously on one of her missions in Bosco. Bosco was a country known for slavery, and Stella was running from slave traders when Lucy found and saved her. After Lucy saved her, she stuck to Lucy like duckling would to their mother. Lucy soon fell in love with the then four year old and adopted her. Because Lucy has long missions, she gave her old keys to her so if incase she's in danger, she could grab Leo's key and her would come and help her.
Stella was a sweet little girl once you got to know her. But because of her trauma with the slave trade, she doesn't trust anyone until her mother says she could. When she meets new people, she would refuse to talk to them and just hide behind one of the other guild members or friends of her mother. If you managed to get her to talk with out her trust, she would be rude and most likely insult you. However, if she trusts you, she was the sweetest little thing there was. She was now the age of six and has been enjoying her new life with Lucy and Fairy Tail these past four years.
The guild members were calmly chatting when they heard a noise outside their guild. The members stood up and walked outside the guild to see who their visitors are. When they walked outside they were greeted by the Blue Pegasus's ship, Christina. Over the years, Lucy has managed to maintain Fairy Tails relationship with other guilds and managed to gain the respect of the current strongest guild, Sabertooth. Their relationship with the new strongest guild was a rocky one. They only respected their master, Lucy, because of her strength and knowledge. Apparently, one of the requirements of her training was to learn all of the history of Earth Land and was able to help the guild learn more about the physical consequences of being a dragon slayer. Even though they respected Lucy, they thought nothing of the other members, and only treated Stella with some kindness because she was Lucy's daughter.
They waited for the members to disembark their vessel and land on the ground. Stella giggled when she saw Ichiya fall off Christina. She also ran and hugged Hibiki, who was still a good friend of Hibiki. They waited for the men to finish some of their little bit that they do with all girls and asked what everyone was curious about.
"What are you guys doing here?" Macao asked.
"We came here with some news. Since we were able to fix Christina, I have been using it to study the different levels of magic in various locations across the country and sea. On one of our expeditions in the sea I noticed an increase in magic one certain location." Hibiki told them.
"What do you mean?" Wakaba asked cautiously, not wanting to misinterpret anything.
"What we mean is that Tenroujima still exists, men. Where's your master?" Ichiya asked.
"Mommy is on a mission." Stella told them.
"What time will she return?" Hibiki asked, knowing her missions could take a long time.
"She said the earliest she could come is until the end of the Grand Magic Games, and that's if the mission ended early. Her lacrima only works until she reaches the country of Stella and she's in Pergrande." Macao told them. "But she left me in charge until she gets back. I'll send some members to check out the location."
"Good luck, men."
With Fairy Tail a few hours later.
"Man, I can't believe after all these years, they finally show up." Wakaba commented
"But that doesn't mean they're still alive." Romeo said.
"Romeo!" Macao exclaimed.
"Who's coming back?" Stella asked, pulling on Macao's pants to get his attention.
"Old nakama, Stella." Macao told her gently.
"So their good people?" she tilted her head.
"Yes sweetie, one even used to be your mom's best friend. Do you remember from the stories?"
Her eyes widened a little bit. "Yeah! His name was Natsu, right?"
"Ye-"before he could answer the doors to the tavern crashed open.
"I thought we told you we weren't going to sell you anything!" Macao yelled at the Twilight Ogre mages who barged into the tavern.
"Yeah but master got tired of waiting and decided to take it by force with your precious master gone." The leader said. The mages were about to start a fight when the leader of the group was suddenly kicked forward and crashed against the wall before the other members were knocked out.
The members who stayed behind looked at the entrance with tears as they saw their no longer missing nakama.
"We're home!" Natsu said happily.
"Sorry it took so long!" Happy said.
"What's with this small guild?" they heard Makarov comment.
"What happened?" Vijeeter asked them.
They soon explained what happened on Tenroujima and Natsu asked a question that had been on his mind. "Where's Lucy? Jet said she managed to escape."
"A lot has changed in seven years Natsu. She's on a mission in Pergrande for the Magic Council." Macao said.
Makarov's and the S-class mage's eyes widened. "What is she doing there?" Makarov asked.
"Since you guys were gone, and she returned from her training, she's been promoted to Wizard Saint." The Tenroujima group were shocked.
Natsu felt something pulling on his pants and looked down to see a little girl with white hair and purple eyes. "Are you mommy's old friends?" the little girl asked.
Natsu looked at her in confusion. "Who are you?"
"Stella Heartfilia." She said.
A/N: Here's the next chapter! I actually really enjoy writing this story. I'm actually going to start writing the next chapter after I post this. Sadly, Lucy's not going to show up for a few more chapters. But as said she's on a long mission. Till next chapter my chickadees!