A/N: Hellooo i'm back after a long period of brainstorming, so for those who still read this fic, get ready for a plot twist! Also, i have my end of term exams coming up so i probably won't update for the remainder of this week and next week at all but the week after that is winter break and I'll have plenty of time to write. Yay!

Now to quickly answer reviews;

westerngoddess: Yep, Natsu was beaten. Here is the next chapter and I'll give you a very small hint about it; Lucy and Natsu fight. Hopefully that'll keep you interested...

bdonk: Yes. This is another "Lucy got kicked out of team natsu" story. If you have a problem with it then why read it? And don't worry about it being "barely different from the rest of the teenage angst stories out there" because every story is different in it's own way and especially this one!

Ms. Cookie Smugler: Nooooooo! I can't have one of my (hopefully) frequent readers lose interest in this story now. Don't worry about Wyvern's rep since I have a feeling that you'll be surprised at the turnout of events.

SakuMiChanNoGaara: I'm so glad that you liked the previous chapter! And thank you for being understanding about a writer's personal life being heavy! Hopefully, I don't make you (and other readers) wait too long for for the fight scene, I'm giving all credit to jfkkennedy since he was a massive help.

ImmortalMidnight: Thank you for liking this story! And like I said before, I'll try to update as often as I can.

Alaina Kuski: Yup! Natsu can be such a bakamander, can't he?

Now that the reviews are done, on with the story!

I don't own Fairy Tail! Hiro Mashima Sensei does!

~~O~~

"Lucy" Natsu gasped, shocked to see his former teammate before him. Lucy, however, wasn't all too excited for the sudden confrontation.

"Natsu? Wha-What are you doing here?" She asked as she backed away towards the door.

"I could smell your scent all over this guy here", he said pointing at Wyvern, his enthusiasm for his ex-best friend rising, "so I followed him and heard the both of you talking. Did you know that you can break glass with your voice Lucy!" Natsu had heard Lucy sing her childhood lullaby.

Lucy was frozen in place, one hand on the door knob and the other supporting her weight against the door. She hadn't anticipated that Natsu would have followed Wyvern but now she realized that she should have expected something like this to happen.

"Natsu... please... please leave" she whispered her demand whilst fighting the urge to let her emotions consume her.

"eh? Sorry, Luce, I didn't get that last part", Natsu tilted his head as if he was trying to figure something out.

"I said... please leave", lucy repeated, loud enough for him to hear. Natsu didn't say anything- he didn't even make a move- and that got Lucy worried. Well it has been a month. Natsu could've gotten smarter and GruVia could be a reality by now, Lucy thought to herself. She inwardly laughed at the thought, Natsu smarter? She looked up as Natsu took a few steps forward.

"Why do you want me to leave? We're teammates after all!" he whined, confused as to why she'd ask him something like that. The Lucy he knew wouldn't have tried to kick him out like this. In fact, she'd even give him food! Or at least, Natsu thought she did. In reality, however, she'd give him food because that was the only way to get rid of him.

"Teammates? You kicked me out of your team because apparently I was too weak to keep up with you guys. Natsu, you're the very last person I want to see right now and I want you out of my house now!" Lucy retorted.

"We never kicked you out because you're weak! I mean, you complain a lot and sometimes you do get in the way but that's not why you chose to leave! We all thought that you'd be safer and you agreed!" Natsu was getting even more confused than he was before.

"I chose to leave?! Natsu, you idiot, you, Erza, Lisanna and even Gray agreed that it'd be better for me to be off the team! Now I've found someone who doesn't think I'm pathetic and useless and there is no way I'm ever joining Team Natsu again- Which, by the way, doesn't even make sense! Erza was the one who formed the team so why in all of earthland is it called 'Team Natsu'?!" Lucy was shouting now. If she got angrier then she'd have no choice but to Lucy Kick Natsu out of her house.

"You're teaming up with that blue-haired bastard?! Why?! I-I won't let you!" Natsu yelled back, hurt that Lucy would say such things.

"Just be glad I didn't leave the guild entirely! in fact, if you don't go now then I will leave!" Lucy said in a calmer tone. Natsu was paralyzed with hurt and he didn't know how to cure himself.

"Luce you can't leave Fairy Tail! That's why we want you back on the team! You just got back from a century quest and you want to hang out with that bastard?! We want you back because you're strong!" Natsu's pathetic attempt at an arguement only infuriated Lucy further.

"Natsu, are you saying that Erza and Gray know I'm back?! And that the only reason you want me back is because I've gotten stronger?! Right now, I hate you so much I wish I had never met you in the first place!" After a long moment of silence, Natsu opened and closed his mouth, sighed and eventually gave in.

~~O~~

Lucy breathed a sigh of relief. She was glad that he left after she threatened him. She looked outside and saw that it was sunset. Time for a bath, she thought.

Lucy fished out some clothes from her wardrobe and drawers, placed them on her armchair and then stepped into the bathroom, recalling how much she had missed her scented shampoos and refreshing soaps. She turned on the tap and smiled contently as she waited for the tub to fill up. Once filled, she climbed in and drowned her emotions in the warm water.

She hadn't realised how long she was there, because the next thing she heard was a soft tap on the door.

"Lucy? Are you ok in there? You've been there since that pink-haired guy left", Wyvern had been awake for most of the conversation and was worried about Lucy. He stepped back as he heard the door open and saw Lucy come out. His face turned beetroot red once he saw that she only had a towel wrapped around her body. Lucy was equally as embarrassed. Her normally pale cheeks were now pigmented with pink. A chilly breeze swept through the open window, causing Lucy to sneeze. As she caught her sneeze in her hands, her towel slipped. Wyvern eyes widened and he turned around embarrassed at the fact that he had caught a glimpse of a very bare Lucy. Lucy squealed in embarrassment as she grabbed the towel from the floor and pushed Wyvern out of the room.

Once Lucy had changed, she opened the door to find Wyvern sat down next to the doorframe, his blue/silver bangs shading his eyes. She sat down besides him and stared at the opposite wall. For a while, no one said anything but soon enough, Wyvern broke the silence.

"S-sorry", he mumbled.

"For what?" Lucy asked, wondering what he had done wrong. Then, she realised what had happened a few minutes earlier and she immediately started blushing. She glanced at Wyvern, waiting for his reply.

"I-I saw you w-without c-clothes. It wasn't called for a-a-and I even stared for a second", he replied, barely audible and not meeting her gaze. Lucy giggled as he admitted to have looked a little. To Lucy, he didn't seem creepy, just innocent.

"Have I told you about the time when Natsu-the pink-haired mage that was in here a while ago- walked into the bathroom while I was having a bath?" Lucy waited for his reply before continuing the her flashback, "well I was was tired from returning from a mission and my bath was overdue, so I stepped into the tub and relaxed a bit..."

As Lucy recalled that day, she had to force away her tears. On the one hand, she never wanted to see her former team again, especially Natsu and Erza but on the other hand, she wanted to set things straight with them as well. Lucy was drowning in an angry sea of emotion but luckily, Wyvern decided to become the lifebuoy that would help her float her way to the gentle waters, where everything was peaceful.

Once she had finished, Wyvern stood up and commented on the time. "It's dark now, maybe you should get some sleep, since you've had a long day?"

"I am tired but you were the one who got into a pretty heated fight", Lucy rose to her feet as well and the pair made their way to the bedroom.

"Hmmm... Why don't you take one of the new rooms? They should be as big as my room and have the same sort of lay out", Lucy suggested when the time came to worry about sleeping arrangements. She wouldn't have minded sharing a bed with Wyvern since he was warm and didn't try anything, but she had no reason to share a bed with him since the building was now hers.

"Okay. Are you sure it's alright?" Wyvern was nervous. It was the first time anyone had ever shown him that much kindness. Even his parents shunned him. Keep those thoughts away, idiot! he thought, pushing the dark memories away. He thanked Lucy and went to chose a room.

~~O~~

Lucy woke up to the sound of her alarm clock. She hadn't heard that sound in a while and found it more surprising than annoying. After a few lazy minutes of lying awake in her bed, Lucy got up and did her morning routine. Once she had finished her changing out of her pyjamas and into a suitable outfit, she exited her bedroom and went to wake up Wyvern.

Once she had found which room he had chosen, she knocked gently and entered. Wyvern was still asleep, his hair slightly wild and all over his face. His mouth was slightly open and he was snoring quietly. He must've been tired from yesterday, Lucy thought. She gently shook him and he sat up, rubbing his eyes like a small child.

"Hey, get ready. I'll make breakfast and then we'll head down to the guild. I think we need to make you some new friends" Lucy smiled at him before leaving the room. Once she was out, Wyvern flopped back down onto the pillow.

After leaving the apartment, Lucy and Wyvern walked in a comfortable silence to the guild. They had almost reached the guild hall when Wyvern felt like they were being followed. Instinctively, he walked closer to Lucy and glanced behind him. No one. He frowned and turned back around and continued walking.

Once they arrived, Levy and Wendy immediately ran up to the pair and the group walked to an unoccupied table. They were deep in conversation when the guild doors flew open again. All heads focused on Gray and Erza as they stepped inside. Erza walked up to Makarov's office to report the completed quest and Gray headed towards the table where Happy and Lisanna sat.

"Where's Flame Brain? I thought for sure that we had walked into the wrong guild when I didn't hear the idiot's rowdiness", Gray joked as he sat down, ordering a drink from Mirajane. Lucy inwardly thanked whoever controlled fate that he hadn't seen her. Although Gray was the one who didn't make a choice about Lucy being off the team, he didn't oppose to the idea either and that hurt Lucy, although she wouldn't have minded if he did see her. He was bearable when he wasn't stripping.

"He's still sleeping. Natsu had a rough day, especially when he was beaten up by the new guy", Happy answered.

Lucy looked around the guild and felt something or someone was missing. Gajeel was in the shadowy corner of the guild eating iron, Mirajane was behind the counter whilst she talked to Elfman, Happy had his fish, but there was still someone missing. Then it occurred to her who that someone was.

"Where's Juvia?" she asked Levy, who froze at the question. The truth was that she didn't know- no one did. Levy told Lucy all that went down at the guild when Lucy had been away.

~~Flashback~~

Juvia searched the hall for her beloved Gray. When she had finally caught sight of him, she slowly walked up towards him, holding a letter addressed to him behind her back.

"Gray-sama! I have something for you-" she was cut off by the anger she saw in his eyes.

"Leave me alone!" he growled.

"Why is my darling Gray being so hurtful all of a sudden?" she asked, still very lovesick despite the death glare that was aimed straight at her.

"I told you to leave me alone! And don't address me as if I belong to you because I don't!" Juvia took a step backwards, shocked at what she was hearing.

"Infact, don't talk to me at all! Can't you tell if someone doesn't like you back?! If you're that desperate, then I suggest you go and hook up with Lyon!" Gray turned around and stormed off towards the notice board whilst Juvia stood there, staring at the floor. Once her mind had processed what had just happened, she walked off, outside the guild, like a she was a lifeless puppet being pulled by strings.

~~Flashback End~~

"No one has seen her since then. I have tried to visit her apartment but she never answers. Lu-Chan, I'm very worried about her", Levy finished off. Lucy bit her lip as she thought about where Juvia could be. Her thoughts were interupted when a certain re-quip mage walked up to their table.

"Lucy, is that you?" she asked.

"Yes, it's me. Nice to see you Erza, how have you been?" Lucy asked politely.

"I must say it's good to see you too. I've been great, thank you", she replied before walking off. Lucy let out a sigh of relief before asking Mira if she could have a chocolate milkshake.

Wyvern, knowing the reason Lucy was currently distraught about, did all he could to lighten up her mood. "Lucy... what does chocolate milkshake taste like?"

Lucy blinked in surprise before smiling brightly. "It tastes like heaven! How about I buy you your first one and then we can celebrate!"

"Celebrate what?"

"Your first time trying milkshake, of course!" Lucy immediately cheered up. She was glad that Erza hadn't seem to care too much of her return. Two down, one to go, she thought

A/N: So that was chapter six. I hope you guys enjoyed it and please review.

As I mentioned earlier, this is probably the only update for the remainder of this week and next week since I will be busy studying for exams, so I'll be updating pretty regularly after that.

Thank you to those who followed/ favorited this story! It's nice to know that people like reading my work.

Well, that's all I have for now. See ya next time!

BYEE