I managed to get this chapter in! Although it would be awesome, I don't own Fairy Tail that belongs to Hiro Mashima (he doesn't like to share).


~3 Month Timeskip! ~

~Lucy's POV~

It's been a few months since I broke the news to Astrid that I was actually her cousin. Saying she was overjoyed was an understatement. Now she smiled a whole lot more, and wouldn't leave me alone most of the time. And to my surprise, she started to train me harder.

"I know how you want to get stronger, and I'm never going to forgive those bastards after what they did to you, so I'll just have to make you strong enough to defeat your old team!" She had said.

She certainly seemed more enthusiastic about 'living' with me. It was like she was a whole new person; she even had a girly side believe it or not. But even though I'm her cousin, she still won't let me go to the nearby village.

"Why nooot ~?" I would ask in a whiny voice.

"Because I said so." She would simply reply.

"And don't you dare even think about sneaking off because I just got you back, and I will drag you all the way back before you could say 'Urano Metria'" She would give me another one of her famous death glares.

I was having a lot of fun here with Astrid myself. We would tell stories about our lives, and play the occasional game of tag. But Astrid's version of tag is a bit more…painful than what you're used to, I shuddered at the memories. We've become so close that we're closer than cousins, we could even be sisters.

I have greatly improved in almost everything; I can effortlessly climb cliffs, swim across rivers, and run faster, 16 miles an hour fast. And one time I even beat Astrid in combat practice, she keeps denying it, saying it was by chance but whatever. And the best news so far, I finally perfected my teleportation magic! It took a lot of time and effort, and trusts me it was a whole lot of effort. But I was able to transport myself from the waterfall to the cave in the blink of an eye. Astrid cheered and went to the village and bought a cake for celebration! It was a strawberry cake though, it reminded me of Erza and I wondered how they were doing.

There were two paths that they could have taken; one was to completely forget about me, not knowing I had left, and my existence gone forever. I frowned at that. Or, they could have found out eventually, and being the stubborn people they are, came looking for me. Ah, either way, I still haven't been located, so that's good.

"Hey Luce ~" Astrid walked up to me.

I was currently punching a tree. It sounds weird, but it's a certain tree with soft bark and pulp, so it's just like my own personal punching bag.

"What up Ash?" I wiped the sweat off my forehead and turned around.

"Do you want to go to the village later on?" She questioned with a wide grin plastered on her face.

"Eh, not right now, I'll be done with this in about fifteen minutes then I have to-"I paused, realizing what she had just said.

"Wait, what?! Are you serious?!" My jaw dropped.

"Uh, yeah. I wouldn't joke about something like this. Well, I guess I would…"

"But still, for real?" I questioned again, still not sure if she was just kidding with me.

"Ugh, YES Lucy." She sighed.

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go!" I ran off into the forest.

"Lucy!" She called.

"The village is the other way!"

"Tch, I knew that, I was just testing your observation skills." I walked the other way now. She sweat-dropped.

I couldn't just teleport myself to the village because I haven't been there before, according to Astrid, you have to at least seen the place you want to go to.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say. And we aren't buying anything, I just felt like taking a walk in some civilization, and it's also a reward for your hard work." She followed me.

"Geez Ash, you make it sound like I'm a dog." I grumbled stomping my feet in a pouting manner.

She just shoved me and said, "Sit, stay, roll over." And then she laughed.

I rolled my eyes and 'accidentally' pushed her into a tree.

"Why you…" She pulled leaves and sticks out of her hair. And then she lunged at me.

And we continued pushing each other into trees and bushes all the way to the village, I was so happy.


~At the Guild~

~Normal POV~

A few weeks after the search for Lucy had started, people started to go back to the guild, in need of Jewels, they had to take some jobs. Team Natsu on the other hand, kept up their search, still feeling guilty for what they have done. They would run out of money from time to time, and would walk instead of taking the train (Natsu was very grateful for this). During their search, Natsu and Gray would almost never fight anymore, Erza ate less and less cake, Happy would just sleep on top of Erza's pile of luggage, and Lisanna stayed behind at the guild. She felt that she was no help to them at all anymore.

Late at night when everyone was asleep, Natsu would look up at the stars, but that would just remind him of Lucy, and how much she loved her celestial spirits, so he focused on the gap in the stars, just like the gap in his heart that used to be filled with warm smiles of the girl he missed so much.

"Oh Luce, I'm so sorry." He would say every night as tears streamed down his cheeks.


~Village~

~Astrid's POV~

I watched in amazement as Lucy would run from shop to shop, dazzled by outfits at the tailor, pastries at the bakery, and the assortment of different Celestial Gate Keys that were on display at the magic shop. I mentally laughed, she was like a little kid, like the sister I never had.

We walked around for a little bit more, and despite what I had said earlier, we ended up buying some new clothes and a pair of earrings for Lucy. I got a black leather bracelet, and we had some ice cream before the sun set.

"Oh. My. God." Lucy said, and I looked over.

"I can't remember the last time I've had ice cream! This is like, real food! It's so good!" She devowered the whole thing in less than a minute, I sweat-dropped.

"Eto…we should get going now." I said, "Even this place has mosquitos" I swatted a few away and ended up hitting Lucy in the head.

"Oops, well it's your fault you were in the way." I shrugged.

"My fault?!" She kicked me in the shin.

"Okay, now you're just being childish." I crossed my arms and turned my head away.

"Says the one who got strawberry ice cream with rainbow sprinkles on the top and a pink cone." She retorted.

"You got the same thing!" I shouted.

"Well- oh yeah…" She grumbled.

"Haha, see? I'm the superior one here." I held my head up high.

"Tch, whatever you say, race you back to the cave!" She took off running.

"You know we can just teleport ourselves there!" I shouted after her.

"Um, well, that's what I was going to do I just wanted to get in the forest first, don't want people freaking out when we suddenly disappear right?" Hmm, she made a good comeback.

"Hurry up then, let's get going! I jogged towards her. And as I hid in the trees, I pictured myself in the dark cave. 'I haven't had this much fun in a while' I thought as I opened my eyes to see Lucy, already passed out in her bed from exhaustion. I smiled.


~Lucy's POV~

I woke up and went out for a morning jog. It was awfully foggy today. About halfway through I heard a noise, like someone was watching me. Well, there were tons of weird animals in this forest, especially those snake things from before, I never did find out what they were, Astrid said she never heard or seen them before. Then I heard a noise, like someone, a human, was following me.

"Astrid? Astrid, if this is another one of your tricks then I-" someone grabbed me by the waist and put a gloved hand over my mouth.

"Mmph!" I tried to scream but it was no use, the persons grip was way to tight.

Suddenly, I had an idea, I closed my eyes and thought of the cave, I almost immediately popped in there and I swear I could hear the guys gasp of surprise when I disappeared, I smirked. But then I remembered the situation.

"Yo Astrid, wake up!" I shook her.

"Geez, Lucy, I'm getting up." She rolled over in her blankets.

I sighed and put my hands on my hips.

"Well I think you should hurry because I'm pretty sure that a guy just tried to kidnap me..."

"What?!" She sprung out of bed.

~Astrid's POV~

I flew out of bed at these words. They're here already? How did they find me? It must have been what I was at the village with Lucy. Urgh, I shouldn't have shown myself out in the open, Stupid, stupid, stupid! Now Lucy could be at risk too!

"Lucy, pack your bags were leaving, NOW." I commanded.

"But why are w-" I cut her off.

"It's those guys, the ones that were after me when they burnt my house down." I snapped.

Lucy made a silent "O" with the shape of her mouth and began to pack when we heard footsteps echo through ought the cave.

Oh god, I can't just teleport out to somewhere save and leave Lucy all alone, we haven't been to the same places except for the forest and the village. Then I remembered,

"Lucy, the city you lived in was called Mangolia, right?"

"Y-yeah." She replied.

"I think I've been there before when I first escapes the fire and ran away, do you know that bookstore near the fountain on the corner of Mulberry Street? I want you to go there, leave your stuff and teleport yourself." I demanded, she was still new to the teleportation, so she can't carry more than herself and her clothes.

"O-Okay." She was gone in a flash.

I grabbed the items closest to me, stuffed them in a bag and followed her.

~Normal POV~

Despite what Astrid told her, Lucy still had no idea what was going on. She walked through the rows of bookshelves, touching the books' spine as she went by, then she heard something fall on the ground.

She turned around to see Astrid breathing heavily (not exhaustion, but because of panicking) and a backpack of what seemed to be their belongings.

"Phew." Astrid gave out a half-hearted laugh.

"Sooo," Lucy said. "Mind telling me what's up?"

Astrid sighed.

"Well every once in a while, the people who burned my house down end up finding me again, then I have to move to another place to live, Last time it was at the foot of Mt. Hakobe."

"Oh, so now we have to find a new place?" Lucy asked.

"Yeah we do, they probably went through our cave and confiscated our belongings."

"Awh, I never finished that cake you got me, I worked pretty hard for that you kn-" She stopped, her face unreadable.

"Luce? You okay?" Astrid waved her hand in front of Lucy's face.

"My keys...Astrid! I forgot my keys!"


Oh no! Lucy forgot her beloved keys?!

What will happen?

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