Hey everybody, PARADISE.x here! You know, the ever beautiful and forever clever one! NEVER PLAY AMNESIA ALONE! Amnesia is a game that scares me...the guy in it rapes people...

ANYWHO, enough of my constant fear of dark things (that includes most Japanese people...no rasicium intended...).

And a happy birthday to you too, SPAZZ! Thanks for the sweet review! So, in honor of you, I am dedicating this chapter to you, my friend! Think of it as a birthday present...a very cheap present that took me almost an hour to make! Har-har!

Now on to chapter seven of this amazing story that we all call Circus de Fairy Tail!

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Its loud. Too loud. Everywhere around her, there was noise. Too loud. Too. Loud! Lucy grumbles in her sleep and shakes her head, trying to shake away the noise. Maybe if she ignored it, it would go away...

But this it wasn't. It was persistent and completely annoying. It nagged at her ears, cut into the semi-nice dream she was currently absorbed in. It wouldn't go away. It was squeaky. And for some reason, it thought she had fish!

"H-Happy...go away..." Lucy mutters, scrunching up her nose in an adorable manner. She feels a prod at her shoulder and the squeaky voice exclaims,

"Lucy...give me your fish!" Happy exclaims, prodding her again.

This time, Lucy's chocolate brown eyes open and she narrows them in anger. "Happy! I don't have fish, so leave me alone!"

"Natsu told me you did!"

"Do you smell any on me?!"

Happy ponders this, before coming the conclusion of, "Well, no, but you do smell faintly like fish!"

Lucy bolts up from her spot on her soft and plush bed to stare at the blue-furred Exceed, "Happy...damn neko!" Lucy screeches and she dives at Happy, trying to either squish him or throttle him to death. The cat bolts out of the way, screaming in terror.

"Natsu! Lucy's trying to kill me!" Happy cries, darting out of the room through the still broken doorway. He flies over the rubble as Lucy sprints after him, her jumping over the fallen stones. Happy races down the surreal hallway, Lucy hot on his furry heels.

"Come here, you're only making it worse on yourself!" Lucy screeches, not stopping even after they entered the main room of the guild. Eyes locked on the two as Happy flew out of her reach, going up into the rafters in the ceiling. Lucy snarls, left eye twitching in anger. "Coward! Your magic will run out and you will fall! I can wait!"

"Oi! Lucy-san! What's the problem?" A deep voice calls to her.

Said woman turns her head to face Gray, who looked bored but slightly interested, "The damn neko said I smell like fish!"

"I meant it as a compliment, Lucy!" Happy cries from the ceiling, still flying around. Lucy faces him again and growls, deciding against using her wind magic amulet to fly herself up there. It would use up way more magic than the shadow one because she wasn't as mastered in it. She would have to work on that later...

"Ah. Poor cat should learn to keep his mouth shut." Gray nonchalantly comments. He looks up at the terrified cat, shakes his head, and walks off, leaving the angry Lucy to be...well, angry Lucy.

Two minutes later, Lucy gives up, her anger had faded and she felt sort of sorry for the cat. She 'tsk's and walks away, yelling up to Happy, "I'm not angry anymore. You can come down now."

Happy complies, floating down and sighing in relief when Lucy made no sudden movements towards him. He ventures off, searching for Charlie.

Lucy come up to the recently cleaned bar and sits down on a stool, "Hey, Mira-sama, may I have a drink please? I don't care what..."

Mirajane looks up from the beer glass she was cleaning with a white rag and smiles, "Sure, Lucy-san! Coming right up!" Her voice is cheery and sweet, warming Lucy's heart.

I don't think I've ever heard someone so nice...and to think her old nickname was 'She-Devil'... Lucy thought to herself, a small smile on her beautiful face. "Thanks, Mira-sama!"

Mirajane hurries off to get her drink, leaving Lucy to look around. She glances around the guild, noting how many people there were. When her eyes reach the east wall, her eyes connect with a brown-haired woman's who was holding a large barrel of what looked to be some sort of tanish liquid. But the way her eyes were sort of glazed over, she could tell it was a strong liquor. The woman smirks at Lucy and winks, before taking a large swing from the barrel. Lucy looks away, coming to face a mug filled with hot chocolate, white marsh mellows floating on top. She smiles thankfully at Mirajane and takes a sip from the mug, basking in the warm feeling of the liquid as it slid down her cold throat. "Ah..." She felt as if nothing could ruin this moment...

Nothing but an annoying fire-breathing boy and his cat. Lucy groans when Natsu slings his arm around her shoulder and gets in her face, "Hey, Luce! Oo, hot chocolate!" He suddenly grabs it out of her hands and takes a big sip. Lucy stares at her empty hands, processing what had happened.

Realization in three...two...one...

"NATSU, GIVE ME MY DAMN HOT CHOCOLATE BACK!" Lucy screeches, hitting Natsu on the head, causing some hot chocolate to go down the wrong tube. He starts coughing as Lucy takes the drink back. She wipes where he put his mouth on and takes a sip of it, sighing in harmony again.

Meanwhile, Natsu was on the floor choking. People gathered around him and wondered if they should help.

"Gray-sama, help him!" Juvia says, eyes sparkling at the thought of her Gray-sama heroically saving the day.

"Oh, hell no, I don't want to put my lips on that thing!" Is Gray's automatic comeback. Juvia pouts and looks away.

Suddenly, Erza bursts from the crowd and kneels over Natsu, "I shall save this poor man!" She declares, molding into a heroic pose. She pinches Natsu's nose with her fingers and opens his mouth. She puts her own on his and breaths out into the hole. A few seconds later, Natsu coughs up the brown liquid and stutters out, "L-Lucy-y...what the Hell?!"

Lucy just noticed the actions around her and looks up from the delicious hot chocolate, "Eh? What happened?" She looks at Natsu's still slightly purple face and exclaims, "Natsu, what happened?! Are you okay?!"

Lucy watches as everyone face-plants and cocks an innocent and well-trimmed eyebrow, "What?"

Natsu coughs out, "N-nothing, Lucy..."

Lucy smiles and turns back to her hot chocolate, getting lost again in it's murky depths.

Natsu rolls his onyx eyes and stands up, wiping his mouth of Erza. He cautiously approaches the blonde female that was Lucy Heartphilia and sits besides her, "Uh...Lucy?"

Lucy takes a second to acknowledge him, "Yes, Natsu?"

"Gramps wants you to go to his office and talk to him."

Suddenly, everyone who heard was 'oooh'-ing like she did something wrong. Lucy shoots them a look but still gulps, "Did he say what for?"

"No." Natsu replies.

Lucy sighs and picks herself up from the chair. Natsu and Happy fallowed behind her like a pair of lost puppies, which was ironic because Happy was a cat.

"Why are you two fallowing me?"

"Cause we have nothing else better to do?" Happy says, although it sounded more like a question.

"Whatever." Lucy deadpans, and she walks down a hallway that lead to the library but cut off into a different hallway. At the end of that hallway, there was Master Marcov's office door. When the three reach the door, Lucy knocks quietly.

"Come in." Master Marcov says through the door. Lucy, Happy and Natsu enter.

The room is large, all centered around a gorgeous fire place that sat in the far wall of the room. Before that was Master Marcov's desk, where the owner was sitting at. There were two chairs in front of his desk, Lucy took one and Natsu sat in the other. Lucy looks at Master Marcov expectantly if not nervously. Natsu just looked around, probably debating on how fast things would catch fire in here.

Master Marcov looks up and smiles, "Hello Lucy, Natsu."

"Hi, Master." Lucy squeaks.

"Yo, Gramps!" Is Natsu's rude reply. Lucy elbows him in the ribs, only hurting herself in the process. Natsu pretends to be hurt, which causes her to pout. Master Marcov watches this exchange with interest. Natsu hasn't been this teasing with a girl in a long time...ever since-

"Hey, Gramps, we gonna get this show on the road or what?"

"Oh? Ah, yes, yes. Lucy," Lucy perks at her name and looks at Master Marcov, "It's time you get your Fairy Tail symbol."

Oh, God. Lucy had totally forgotten about that. If they gave her one, they would find out she was in a different guild! The second she puts one on, her old Thieve's Guild one will be forced off her skin in a very painful manner. It would hurt like Hell, and Lucy knew she couldn't just hide that, especially since it would be ripping off her skin.

"R-really? Are you sure I'm ready? I-I mean, I've only been here, what, two days? I can't possibly be fully accepted..." Lucy manages to get out through her shock.

Natsu looks at her curiously, "Of course you can, Lucy! You're a Fairy Tail member now!" Then he flashes the most handsome fanged grin she has ever seen and she feels her knees go weak.

"U-uh..." She stutters, blushing madly, "I-I don't know..."

"Nonsense, Lucy!" Master Marcov cuts in unhelpfully, "I will put it on now!"

(I know Mirajane put it on in the anime, but just bare with me.)

Lucy starts to panic. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! Damn you, Marcov! She thought to herself as her eyes twitches, "O-okay..."

"Excellent!" Master Marcov says, a smile on his old and wrinkly face. There is a pop! and suddenly there is a Fairy Tail guild insignia floating in the air. "What color do you want it?"

Lucy gulps and says, "P-pink..."

"Where do you want it?" Marcov asks as the insignia turns from white to pink in a second.

She holds out her right hand, back facing upwards. Her hand is shaking, much to her dismay, Stop it, stupid hand! She screeches at it in her mind. As the guild insignia slowly comes down, she feels her heart rate go quicker and quicker, and she starts to sweat bullets. Its gonna hurt...!

And that it does, when it attaches to her skin. White hot pain races through her, going from her hand to her back, where her Thieve's Guild insignia was located. She resists the urge to scream bloody murder and instead says in the strongest voice she could muster, "C-can I go to my room p-please? I forgot-t some-ething I n-need with me..."

Natsu looks at her worriedly before glancing at the Master. Master Marcov nods and just like that, Lucy is gone, out the office door and down the hallway.

She couldn't feel anything but the pain. She couldn't hear anything but her own thoughts screaming in her head. She could barely see in front of her. When she turns down the hallway, she faints for a second, before coming to and picking herself off the floor. She limps into the main guild room, trying to look as normal as possible.

"Congrats Lucy on getting the mark!"

"You're one of us now, Lucy-san!"

"Congrats, Lucy-san!"

She barely hears the compliments and cheers as she heads to her room. She smiles a pain filled smile at everyone and nods-that hurting too- before tripping into the surreal hallway. Somehow she manages to get to her room, that now had the words 'Lucy Heartphilia' written in bold ink across the door where 'VACANT' had been. Lucy coughs, noting blood in it. Not good. She needed to be in privacy now! She heaves open the door-When did that get fixed?!- and slams it shut behind her. Her breathing was coming in short pants now as she rips her shirt off, loving the feeling off cool air on her bare shoulders and back. She could feel the skin ripping and it hurt.

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Thats the end of chapter seven! Haha, cliff hanger! haha. So close to my b-day now! Haha. Review if you want the next chapter! And say happy birthday to SPAZZ! Hahahaha.

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