Yo! Guess what? I don't like the Lucy in the anime (the way she dresses and stuff) so; I decided to keep it the way she is right now! Shoutout to Sakurako Nagasaki! She gave me the idea, and then I thought about it for like 2 days straight. So ya, I'm going to keep Lucy like that (look at Chapter 1) but I'm going to change her hair just a bit, not going to cut it though. Sorry if this chapter is not descriptive enough, I have a lot of homework and I really wanna give you guys something to read. Anyway, here's chapter 3! Enjoy!

Chapter 3 – What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

I woke up to quiet whispers, they were having a conversation but I could here them crystal clear since I was a God Slayer. Right before my mom died, she told me that she was a Celestial God and that one day, I will soon discover my powers. I didn't know what she meant then, but I remember nodding so she could save her breath.

They saw me and smiled, I smiled back. Then I remembered that they're probably hungry.

"Would you guys like something to eat?" I asked.

"Yes please!" Mirajane replied cheerfully.

I walked to the kitchen and opened my fridge, there was nothing in it. I realized that I had packed the small amount of food I had left on my way to Magnolia.

"Gomen, I sorta don't have anything to give you. My fridge is empty." I scratched the back of my head sheepishly.

"It's okay Lu-chan, we can go eat breakfast at a restaurant." Levy said.

I nodded.

After they left my apartment, I changed into a grey tank top and skinny jeans; I let my long hair alone. My bangs were almost to my eyes and I had side bangs that reached my breasts. I realized that my hair sort of looked like Erza's. We met at the front of the guild and walked to the restaurant.

We ate; we talked about random stuff and adventures from our missions. Then we started talking about boys.

"So, Lucy, do you have a thing for Natsu?" Mira asked, a visible smirk plastered on her gorgeous face.

In one second, my face turned into an oven. They giggled, I quickly regained my composure.

Well, Mira, why don't we fight fire with fire?

"So, Mira, is Freed your boyfriend?" I asked, a mischievous grin pasted on my face.

She, didn't blush, she knew what I was doing so it was time to take it up a notch.

"Oh no, we're just friends." She smiled.

"With benefits?" I asked innocently, this time she blushed. I was pleased.

It was time to leave so we all paid for our food.

As we walked out of the restaurant with smiles plastered on our faces, I saw something yellow. I wonder what that is. It started moving in my direction, why was it moving? Then I realized that it was hair. Who do I know that has blonde hair? Well, there's Laxus, Gemini when they copy me, Loke but his hair is darker, wait! No it can't be! I tried to hide behind my friends but as I turned around, he called my name.

"Luce!" Sting called and ran towards me.

I felt my heart shatter all over again, pictures of him and Minerva flooded my mind. I somehow mustered up the courage to turn around and look him in the eye.

"What do you want Sting?" I said coldly, I crossed my arms.

"Look Luce! My uh- my foot slipped! Yeah my foot slipped then one thing lead to another!" He said nervously.

That was the worst excuse that I had ever heard in my life. I took one step forward with my left leg and kicked him 'where it hurts' with my left shin. Then put on a worried look.

As sadistic as this sounds, seeing him suffer pleases me.

"Oops! My foot slipped!" I said in a sweet tone. Then I bent down to his level and whispered in his ear.

"Talk to me, touch me and even look at me and you will go through hell." I threatened in a venomous tone. I said it quietly but I knew everyone could hear. I turned around and gave Lisanna a look that meant 'let's go' since she was the one who understood me as well as Yukino did even though we only knew each other for 2 days. She seemed to understand and did what was told.

Timeskip At the guild

I mentally prepared myself so I could answer the questions they would probably ask. We entered the guild and greeted everyone, as soon as we got to a table, they bombarded me with questions.

"Who was that?"

"What was he talking about?"

"Was that Sting from Sabertooth?"

"What's your relationship?"

"How do you know him?" They all asked at once.

Erza shushed them.

"Lucy, was that the ex?" Erza asked. I nodded. She frowned, she seemed mad, but she controlled herself. The rest of the girls gave us confused looks.

I explained what had happened to me at the guild-who-shall-not-be-named, occasionally breaking down. They all said that they'll help me get through it. I smiled, a genuine one, not a fake smile that I had on while I was at the guild-who-shall-not-be-named. (I'm starting to feel like a wizard at Hogwarts because of the guild-who-shall-not-be-named.)

"It's ok, as the song goes, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." I said calmly.

"Lucy-chan! We should go on the mission Natsu wanted to go on!" Lisanna said joyfully.

"Okay"

Lisanna called Natsu over and he showed me the mission.

Defeat a monster lurking in the forest

Needs 5 or more to defeat the creature.

Reward: 500,000,000 and an unknown celestial key

At EverPine Valley

Look for Ume Kageyahi

My eyes, grew wide at the reward part. And almost immediately accepted but I tried to keep my cool but failed.

"YES!"

Lisanna P.O.V

"YES!" I heard, then Lucy started jumping up and down like a child and we all giggled at her.

"I'm going to get a new key!" Lucy shouted with glee.

Wait what? What did she mean by getting a new key? Then, Natsu voiced my thoughts.

"Hey Luce, what do you mean by getting a new key?" Natsu asked, and then Lucy stopped jumping and faced him.

"I'm a Celestial God Slayer, which means that I can summon celestial spirits and attack with a golden light." Lucy explained as if talking to a child.

"Oh" Natsu said while his mouth was making an O-shape.

Ohh that made sense.

"Ok, enough with the talk meet at the train station in 30 minutes, if you're late, you will receive punishment." Erza said in an official tone.

Timeskip At the train station

Lucy's P.O.V

We were all at the train station, Erza wasn't here which surprised me, then in the distance I saw her walking towards us with an extremely large cart filled with luggages. I sweatdropped. I checked my watch to see that it had only been 29 minutes and 50 seconds, by the time she reached us, my watch turned to the next minutes. Wow, she really is on time.

"Here, I bought us our tickets." Erza said, then gave us our own tickets.

"Train 2 leaving in 5 minutes."

Two…

Sting had said that we were the perfect two…

Stay strong Lucy, don't let the number two bring you down!

"Lucy, are you ok?" Lisanna asked, worry laced with her words.

I snapped out of my trance.

"Oh sorry, kind of spaced out there." I said sheepishly.

They seemed to look past it but Lisanna didn't, she knew that something was bothering Lucy but she didn't want to seem pushy.

"Ok, then let's get on the train." Natsu said cheerfully.

Timeskip At EverPine Valley

The whole train ride was a hellhole. Natsu was vomiting the whole time while trying to insult Gray, Happy was complaining the whole time about wanting to eat fish. By the time magic got involved in the fight between Gray and Natsu, I swear all hell broke loose. Erza was in her Heaven's Wheel Armor and had swords pointed to their faces. Judging by the looks on the passengers' faces, they were frightened. Natsu and Gray had stopped fighting and Erza had transformed back into her usual armor. They were still frightened, I caught a glimpse of myself in one of the windows, a deadly aura was seeping out, and my bangs hid my eyes.

And now here we are with no idea of where to go, great, just great. Natsu was holding the map upside down while spitting insults at Gray, Erza was looking at the map, too deep in thought to even notice the two idiots fighting. Lisanna was trying to stop the fight but so far, no success. I on the other hand, went to a shop- keeper and asked for directions. She gave me the directions and I came back to the group smiling. Gray and Natsu were still fighting so I summoned my favorite swords, Yin Yan and appeared behind them, I put the swords in front of their necks.

"Stop fighting or I will cut you up." I said with a demonic tone.

They stopped fighting and I almost jumped for joy.

"I have the directions." I announced in a monotone voice.

They snapped their heads toward me so fast that I'm surprised it didn't rip off of their necks.

I told them the directions and started walking.

"So Lucy, tell us about your past." Gray said, turning his head towards me. All gazes were directed to me.

"Well let's see, where should I start? Oh, I know, ok so when I was younger, my mother died. My father became cold towards me and was always caught up in work. The maids were my only friends. So I ran away and joined a guild, they betrayed me and now I'm here." I explained.

They looked at me in pity, one thing I hated, being pitied by others. I remember my mom telling me that empathy is better than sympathy because no one wants pity.

Natsu swung an arm around my shoulders and so did Gray but on the opposite side.

"Don't worry Luce we'll still be here for ya." Natsu flashed me a grin.

I smiled. They're becoming more and more like family even though it's only been two days. We reached Ume Kagayahi's house. It was just a brick house with nothing special. Gray rang the doorbell. Not long before a girl who looked like she was sixteen opened the door. She had long, wavy, raven hair, she had emerald green eyes and she had on a simple tank top and shorts.

She looked at each one of us; she looked at Natsu and sent him a flirtatious wink and smile. She looked at me in disgust and eyed his arm which was still around my shoulder. For some reason, she made my blood boil; Lisanna saw how angry I was and smirked. Wait why did she smirk? Does she know what's wrong with me? I brushed it off and turned to the girl at the front.

"Hello, you must be the Fairy Tail mages, am I correct?" We nodded.

"Ok then, follow me." She opened the door wider and lead the way, winking at Natsu the whole time, you would think that there's a pile of dirt in her eye.

We reached the living room, where an old lady sat I'm guessing she was Ume; she had on a yellow dress and a gray, knitted sweater. She had silver hair and hazel eyes with flecks of gold, she was beautiful. She was sitting on a brown couch; across it was a mahogany tea table that had a doily on it. There was a tea cup on there too. The walls were a light green and they had white curtains, there were pictures of the girl and Ume on the walls but what caught my eye was the one with a boy, who looked fourteen in one of the pictures with them. He had light brown hair and had the same eyes as Ume but with flecks of green.

"Ah you are the Fairy Tail mages, yes?" She asked quietly.

"Yes." Erza responded.

"Well, I'm Ume and this is Jade." She said gesturing to Jade.

"I'm Erza, this is Lucy, Natsu, Gray, Happy and Lisanna." Erza said pointing to each one of us.

"Ok then, well there is a monster in the forest that stole my grandson one month ago, Jade had tried before but hasn't found the monster. I need you seven to go with Jade to search for the monster and bring my grandson back." She smiled warmly.

"Ok then, but do you have any description of what it looks like?" I asked.

"Well, I caught a glimpse of green before, my brother, Jacob was kidnapped and I had passed out." Jade said.

"Why don't you sleep here for the night and then in the morning, you can go and complete your mission." Ume suggested.

We nodded.

Timeskip Morning

We were walking towards the woods, about 1 kilometer away from the house. So I decided to ask Jade what her magic was. But Erza beat me to it.

"Jade, what is your magic?" Erza asked.

Jade grinned proudly.

"I am a Celestial Mage, I can-"

"We know what Celestial Magic is." I said.

She narrowed her eyes.

"Fine, I'll have you know I have 20 keys." She said, obviously thinking that she was strong, but honestly, she was pretty weak. I smirked.

"I bet you that there are silver keys." I said. She looked confused.

"Stop smirking, you probably can't do any better." She retorted in a bratty tone.

"Oh really then." I showed her my key ring filled with all my silver keys and all the twelve zodiac keys. She looked at them in admiration but then changed it into hate.

"Tch." Was all she said then turned to start flirting with Natsu. She wrapped her arms around his left arm, Natsu looked annoyed. She noticed that and started rubbing her flat-chest on his arm.

"So what is your magic?" She tried to say seductively but it ended up sounding like a dying horse.

"I use fire magic." Natsu said, obviously annoyed.

"Oh, no wonder why you're so hot." The girl with the voice of a dying horse said. I almost laughed.

Then, all of a sudden, a monster appeared out of the ground, leaving a fat tunnel.

Hello! Everyone, I am so, so sorry, I couldn't update on Sunday! I was really busy! Anyway, I am working on what Lucy looks like now, so I will send you a link when I finish it. And any SAO fans here? Did you see the episode, the one where the where battling the monster then it just suddenly went to the ending song? I raged at that moment. I will swear on my life that the next chapter will come out soon.

Review? Like? Comment? By the way, GO ON MY PROFILE AND VOTE ON THE POLL! PICK WHICH PAIRING! Oh and sorry if Sting was OOC, I haven't read the manga! That's it!

Peace out!

-DDA