Sorry it took so long to post this chapter. I was really busy with school so I never got the chance to post this chapter. Sorry if it is really short. I hope you enjoy it!

Do fairies really have tails? Do they even exist... like them, this place is an eternal mystery... a never ending adventure!

In the last chapter:

Lucy's POV:

As I walked down the stairs, I put my hands in my pockets so no one would be able to see the missing guild mark. I walked slowly through the crowd avoiding flying chairs and beer bottles. While looking at their faces I had sentimental thoughts about having good times with all of them. After what felt like hours but was only minutes I reached the exit and looked back. It'll be a long time till I see this place again. I sighed again and left the guild with my hand up showing the Fairy Tail sign and silently crying.

One Week Later

Natsu's POV:

Coming back from our last mission was great! Also since we succeeded in capturing the bandit that was terrorizing the town. Even if we did destroy a church... and a few houses... and maybe destroyed a fifth of the village... and didn't get any money from it.

But the thing that I was most excited about was returning to Fairy Tail. It had been a whole week since I had Mirajane's food or had a fight with Elfman!

The rest of my group was chatting about how the mission went and what we should do after we return to the guild. I was walking ahead of them walking as fast as I could to get to the guild.

Then I came to stop in front of the large doors with the rest of the team far behind and opened the doors very fast and loudly.

"HEY EVERYONE! WE'RE BACK!"

Nobody's POV:

"Welcome back!" the whole guild yelled. The rest of the team showed up shortly afterward and were greeted again. They talked to everybody for a while except for Natsu, who was looking for the head of a certain blond mage.

Since she was nowhere to be seen, he talked to Mirajane.

Natsu: "Hey Mirajane?"

Mirajane: "Yes Natsu?"

Natsu: "Have you seen Lucy recently? I can't find her."

Mirajane: "Hmmmmm... I might have seen her a few days ago... I don't really remember to tell you the truth."

?: "You kids still haven't noticed?"

Natsu and basically everyone in the guild looked towards the counter to see Master Makarov sitting on the edge drinking a bunch of beer, again.

Natsu: "What do you mean? What didn't we notice?" his voice filled with curiosity and worry.

Makarov: "Lucy's been gone for about a week. She decided to part ways with this guild for a while. She's no longer a member of Fairy Tail."

Natsu and everyone else was stunned. They couldn't believe their ears.

Natsu: "She wouldn't have done that. She loves this guild too much. What would make her want to do something like that?" he asked trying to prove what their master said was a lie.

Makarov: "Well, being ignored by all of you was a large part of it. She wasn't having any fun here. And the part that was the last straw for her was to be taken off of your little group."

Natsu and the others were stunned again for the second time. They hadn't really meant to ignore her of course. They just didn't really think about it a lot. They were totally distracted by Lisanna's return that they hadn't realized they had been ignoring their newest member.

Natsu: "Well, shouldn't we go find her and bring her back? She's supposed to be a part of Fairy Tail, right?" asked after recovering from the shock.

Makarov: "First of all, she's probably long gone now, and second of all, it was her choice, it's not like she was forced to leave. None of you will go looking for her at all under any circumstance, okay?"

Natsu and the others couldn't do anything about that except for think about what they could have done differently so that Lucy could have still been there. And Happy started to cry realizing what that meant.

They would probably never see Lucy again.

2 years later

On the outside, the guild didn't look much different. It had the same colors, the same sign, everything was basically the same, except for the new paint job. On the inside though, it was very different.

The guild would sometimes go into a depressed silence whenever someone mentioned Lucy and then return to its normal cheerfulness. The only one that wasn't as happy as the others was Natsu. He would leave the guild whenever someone mentioned Lucy and stay out there for a couple hours and come back in acting normal.

An then on this specific day, to them, something amazing happened.

Erza: "Hey Natsu, do you want to go on a mission?"

Natsu: "Not really, no, maybe some other time."

Erza: "You should really come with us, it will be fun!"

Natsu: "No thanks."

Erza: 'sigh' "Okay then, I'll see you later then."

Natsu went back to eating again. He had been doing that for a while now, saying no to requests for going on missions. He only went on missions when he needed food money for him and Happy. Happy hanged around with Carla these days since he was "lovestruck" as they would say.

Whenever he went on a mission with his friends, it would remind him too much of the missions he went on with Lucy. Always chasing them, trying to help. And always standing up to help them when they needed her most, even if she was really scared.

Natsu: 'sigh' 'Stop thinking such depressing thoughts idiot.' he thought.

It was at that moment the doors to the guild opened. Everyone looked towards to the door to see who it was. No one could see the figure though since that person was wearing a cloak covering her whole body and face.

?: "Is your master here?"

Macao: "Yeah, he's in the office upstairs. Do you need him for something?"

?: "I have a message to deliver to him, if you don't mind, of course?"

It was at this point that Natsu started to pay attention since the woman wasn't from the guild. He looked up to see the figure in a long black cloak with a hood and was wearing black and silver combat boots. The person's face was covered by the hood so he couldn't tell who it was. When he smelled her scent, he froze.

Natsu: 'This scent... it couldn't be...'

Happy: "Something wrong Natsu?"

Natsu slowly stood up and stared at the figure in the cloak. 'It couldn't be-'

Natsu: "Lucy?"

Everyone looked at Natsu in surprise. Then when they made to connection between his words and what he was looking at, realization dawned on them.

Macao: "Is that you Lucy?"

Lucy: She smirked. "I guess it would be hard to trick that nose of yours, huh, Salamander?"