AUTHOR'S NOTE

I'm back! Before you read this chapter, you should know first that this story is a NALU fanfiction BUT...IT'S NOT A NALU ROMANCE STORY.

This story portrays the love and trust of nakama and family. My friend told me that my story is boring. And I told him,

"SERIOUSLY? IF YOU'RE A TRUE FAIRYTAIL FAN, THEN YOU'D KNOW THAT NATSU MAY BE DENSE AND CLUELESS...BUT HE WOULD NEVER BE AS DENSE AS TO KICK LUCY OUT OF HIS TEAM AND GET REPLACED BY LISSANA. NATSU ISN'T LIKE THAT. HE VALUES FRIENDSHIP AND FAMILY MORE THAN ANYTHING. SERIOUSLY, CAN NATSU DRAGNEEL BE A BAD GUY AND DO THAT TO LUCY ON PURPOSE? NO! HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT ON PURPOSE. NATSU CAN BE TACKLESS BUT NOT ON PURPOSE. HE SAYS THINGS DIRECTLY BECAUSE HE IS DNESE AND CLUELESS. IT MAY BE IN A PLAYFUL WAY TOO BUT NEVER INTENTIONALLY

ALSO, LISANNA IS NVER EVIL. WE'VE SEEN EPISODES THAT SHOW THAT LISANNA CARES FOR THE GUILD. THERE IS NO EPISODE SHOWING THAT SHE IS JEALOUS OF LUCY AND WANT TO GET RID OF HER..ETC...I'VE READ ALOT OF FAN FICTION THAT INCLUDES LISANNA USING MAGIC TO GET RID OF LUCY.

SERIOUSLY, DO YOU ACTUALLY THINK THAT LISANNA CAN HURT LUCY IN THAT WAY? I DON'T THINK SO."

And he shut up cuz I was right. Also, it's MY fanfiction so it's MY story so in the story world, whatever the author says goes. Another thing, there are reasons why I made this story and one is becasue the past, present and future happenings are all in the sequels I'm still making.

So anyways, in the flashback, you'll see Natsu saying bad comments but he didn't mean it on purpose, it's more like he was trying to notify this person in a casual way. A direct approach. But misunderstanding comes after. So enjoy the chapter minna :D

RECAP

"Felina is down for the count." Says Cherish. "you're lucky that she was just a weakling. Just a puppet to master Zero"

"Y..you ...g..guys are sick." Lucy weakly says. Her energy has slowly been draining her. The Onyx insignia grew another root on the left side. It went down her arm, to her shoulder and stopped on her neck. The mark is slowly eating her body up. Soon she will become a human crystal.

"let's see who is up against who." Says Cherish

Lucy didn't want to see nor hear anything. She closed her eyes and tried to sleep away her problems, only to be met with flashbacks.

Lucy's POV

I ignored every comment Cherish says at her comrades shown on the crystal ball. I closed my eyes and tried to sleep my problem away. I think sleep is what I need to get my energy back. As I watched the blurry vision of the crystal ball, I see pink. Pink...pink...natsu...

Flashback

4 motnhs ago...

Do you get that feeling that someone so close to you leaves you without this person noticing that he/she left you? Well that's what I'm feeling now.

Here I am sitting on the stool drinking my strawerry milk shake. I gazed behind me to see my friends. Well I don't know if I should call them that right now. It's been a week and they've been ignoring me.

As I look behind me, I see Natsu and Lisanna having a heated conversation and Natsu seems to be enjoying was eating her cake infront of Lisanna, Gray was stripping as always and sitting infront of Natsu and Happy was sitting on the table next to Lisanna muching on a fish.

That use to be where I would sit but someone else is there. I know Natsu and Lisanna are childhood friends and I would never get in between they're friendship. I gave natsu some time to catch up with the old times with Lisanna so I could go on missions alone to pay my rent. I guess I gave him too much time, enough time to make him forget that I was his partner.

He and Lisanna have gone to 3 or 4 missions this week without telling me. I feel hurt. I've never felt this feeling towards a friend. I feel this when I face danger but never my 's stabbing my heart repeatedly.

I went up to Natsu and asked him if we could go on a mission together. "Hey Natsu,Let's go on a mission. I picked out this great job and the reward is huge." I smiled fto get his attention.

"Not now Lucy, Lisanna was about to tell me her adventures back at Edolas. You wouldn't mind going alone woun't you?" that stabbed me bad. I just smilled fakely at him

"y..yeah..sure...I can don't mind"and Natsu smiled brightly at me.

"Great! We can go next time..so continue on what you were saying Lisanna" Natsu asked Lisanna while she was talking to another guild member. He brushed me off. Natsu declined my offer. He never declines missions I ask him to go with me..till now.

Why do I feel so left out? I looked at the guild before walking out. The atmosphere is different. Natsu and Happy hardly talk to me, Gray and Erza talk to me but only short conversations cuz theyy're sometimes busy and other times, they just don't want to...or maybe don't want to talk to ME...the guild is also like them, I try talking to them but only for a short time then they ignore me after. It's like I'm out of place. The only people I talk with always were Mirajane, Levy, Wendy, Charles, Juvia, Lily and even Gajeel. They keep me company when I needed someone to talk to me.

After my mini daydream, I walked out of the guild, when I got home, I started packing some of my stuff for the mission I'm taking to pay my rent. Actually, I'm loaded. I paid my rent early. I have enough money to pay my rent for 5 more motnhs. My food storage is full and even my clothing. As I was packing, I started having thoughts of my friends.

How Natsu would sneek into my room through the window, how Happy would eat all my fish, how Erza would take a bath in my bathroom and how Gray would open my drawer and read the the novel I was writing.

Those were some good times. They were annoying but I loved them. I didn't have time to thhink of these memories. I had to concentrate on my mission.

TIMESKIP

I was finally done after two days. The mission was to find these bandits stealing the jewelry of the jewelry shop. I recovered the missiing items and arrested the criminals. I was tired and hungry. Right now, I didn't want to ride the train back to Magnolia. I don't want to face my lonely sanctuary again. So I decided on walking. It will take three days but I don't care.

Passing through a forest is easy. There were no thives, no wild carnivorous animals and no wizards. I was at peace passing through this forest. Something caught my attention straight ahead. It was flyer stapled on a tree that says,

HELP WANTED

MESSENGER AND DELIVERER

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SAID JOB, PLEASE GO TO RAVIE FALLS

I didn't read the rest of the flyer, I just skimmed. A messenger huh? I ripped the piece of paper and shoved it in my bag. Then I continued my journey back to Magnolia.

TIMESKIP

Another week has passed and everything in the guild is the same as before. Natsu has n't gone on a mission with me this week. When I got back from my last mission, Mira told me that Natsu,Happy,Erza,Gray and Lisanna all went on a mission without telling me. Mira also told me that Natsu was looking for me. I asked her why..but she doesn't know.

I felt a pang of jealousy in me when I think of Lisanna with the team. I feel like I've been replaced like a toy. The new toy got replaced by the old toy. I went back home. I couldn't contain the tears any longer. I cried myself to sleep that night.

TIMESKIP

Another week has passed and everythinghas gone wrong. I keep running away from my problems by going on multiple missions. I just want to leave so I won't see a happy Natsu and Lisanna together laughing and sitting together in the guild.

My countless missions have made me smarter recently. I learn alot of things from my missions. Knowledge has been fuelling me and feelings have been weakening me.

Right now, i'm staying away from the guild for a day or two or three. I just finished a mission hours ago and now enjoying a quiet and relaxing time in Fiore's national public library.

I went to every section of the books that talks about the stars, meteors and other heavenly bodies. It was around 9 pm. I spent the whole afternoon in the library. I was about to go back to my table and get my bag but something caught my attention.

I heard a faint roar. And then a small light was shining on the dark parts of the library. Nobody else was around so I followed the light. I followed it left and right, up and down the library until it stopped at an old moldy shelf filled with ripped books and bug infested shelves.

I caught sight of a book. It was gold but dusty. I blew on it and the dust flew away. On the cover of the book was a girl with blonde hair, wearing a princess or a warrior kind of outfit and there was a dragon whose skin was black as the night above.

I got curious of this book and went to take it home. The librarian said that I could have this book since it is old and torn. She says it's child's books. But to me, it was something more...I don't know why. I'm about to find out soon once I get back home.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

So did you like the 1st part of the flashback? It's not much but it's enough to fill you in the details so I'll see ya next ime.

Bye bye minna! :D