Just Misunderstood

Chapter 3

This is the Guild

Okay, I'm stretching out the timeline a little, because honestly I don't think every arc happens right after each other. So between each arc there is a few months. Like, it's been 9 months in the human world but only an arc has pasted. Does that make sense? Well, if it didn't I'm hoping this chapter will help clear up any confusion.


Lucy stretched her arms above her head as she rose from the bed. She glanced at the clock and was surprised that she had gotten up so early. It was four in the morning and breakfast wasn't for another three hours. She decided she would use this time to exercise a little before her second day of training. She happily walked to the closet and pulled out a black sports bra and a pair of spandex.

The blonde decide to shower when she got back and after she brushed her teeth she was off to the training ground. She was in the wing on the far side of the castle and she just followed the wall to the direction of the thrown room, knowing her way from there. The giant halls were empty and she wondered if everyone was still asleep.

"Do spirits even sleep?" She whispered to herself. When she had been walking for awhile she recognized the hall she was in. It was the zodiac spirit dwellings. Loke had quickly shown it to her on the way back from dinner. Each door was several meters apart and each one had the different zodiac symbols on each one. She eyed the Lion's door and decided she wouldn't bother any of her spirits.

She did know her way outside from there. She traced the golden plates on the wall and found her way to the exit of the castle. The training ground was right around the back of the large building, the training ground was easily as big as Magnolia. She was actually able to see all of it now that the King's body wasn't taking up more than half of it. But for the most part it was just an open field, but to the side was a row of training dummies. Lucy made a note to try her new teleportation spell on them. She decided to start with running, building up her stamina. Seeing how the training ground was as big as her entire town, she thought the running around it once would be a good start. After completing it once she stood in the place she started, her breathing was heavy but she wasn't nearly as tired as she thought she would be, so she thought she should do it again. And again, she found herself in the same position, she ran around this thing twice, that was easily around fifteen miles. Lucy guessed that it was so easy because of yesterday, working so hard, under the heavier pressure of the air, had really increased her stamina already.

"Hell, even sleeping here is exercise." she said. She was so grateful for the healing powers of the water. Lucy would be a bleeding, aching mess, if the water hadn't healed all of her injuries. It had even stopped the aching in her muscles.

She stood up straight and looked at the castle, Mustache Man would probably meet her out here once he was ready to start again. She lightly brushed Horologium key and saw it had been a little over an hour. She thought this would be the perfect time to try out her vortex spell on the dummies.

Lucy took a deep breath as she summoned her magic into her hand, it started off gold then purple devoured it and then it began to swirl and roll. She shot it at the closest dummy and just before it was going to collide with it, she released the magic. The vortex opened just inches away from the dummy and it was sucked into the swirling vortex. She opened a gate right next to her and the dummy fell out of it. In one piece.

Lucy smiled. "So, what's destroying the object is the orb as it collides. Not the actual action of it going through the gate." She said to herself, trying to get her thoughts in order. So, if she ever wanted to use it on her friends to transport them in battle she had to make sure to release the magic before it hits them.

"That would be difficult to control in the heat of battle," She mumbled.

"I am sure you could learn." A deep voice said right behind her. She squeaked and whirled around.

"Mustache-Man! Hey!" She giggled.

The man raised an eyebrow at the name. He was in his human form, and he found it quite amusing that he still towered over the small human girl. Lucy grinned and told him about her change in stamina.

"Yes, indeed. Your endurance should continue to increase. You will be much stronger than when you came," He said.

"Well, I'm happy I decided to come. It really is a game changer. Why haven't other wizards done this?" She asked.

"They have tried. Many have asked and I have rejected them all. None of them have proven themselves worthy. But, you, you have. Human girl, when you saved Leo the Lion, you summoned multiple spirits at once. Your resolve saved the leader of the zodiacs and a friend. You have amazing strength, and every single one of your spirits has vouched for you."

Lucy's eyebrows knitted together and she looked at the ground. She closed her eyes to keep the tears under control. She truly loved it here, she loved her spirits. Lucy was beginning to love the King as well. As if her was the grandfather she had never met. "Thank you" She whispered.

The king smiled softly at the young girl and looked back towards the castle. "Breakfast begins in a couple hours. We will continue to work on your dragon slaying magic until then."

Lucy wiped the few tears that stuck to her cheeks and smiled. "Yes, sir!"

~JM~

Lucy groaned as she shut the heavy doors of her bedroom. Her muscles ached and she cringed as she heard her wrist crack unnaturally. The King and Loke had worked her right up until breakfast. She had barely had time to eat before the Lion and Virgo had captured her and brought her back to the grounds. They continued working, even going through lunch.

It was now late afternoon and they had just given her a small break so she could heal. She quickly made her way to the bath and filled the tub, while that was filling she walked to the shower and stripped her clothes. She rinsed the dirt and sweat of of her skin, then quickly turned the water off to see the tub full.

She turned the faucet off and proceeded to submerge herself in the healing water. She sighed in relief immediately as the hot water soaked into her wounds and soothed her muscles. Lucy stayed like that for awhile. She thought about what she had learned today.

The spirit king had taught her more about the slayer's roar, and how it related to the jewelry that she had received. He had explained that she was welcomed into the spirit world at anytime, and with her new transportation spell she could teleport there. That way she could breath in the celestial energy.

He also mentioned that another celestial mage could give off enough magic for her to inhale. Both were pretty inconvenient but she knew that it was a magic not of the human world. So all she could do was find ways to work around that small detail. Lucy had been able to release the Celestial Dragon's Roar but she couldn't control it at all.

It had started off small and really weak, but as she learned where exactly to focus her magic it got stronger. She still had trouble hitting exact targets but she could at least produce the attack. Lucy sighed as she heard the distant noise of Leo banging on her bedroom doors. She rolled her eyes and wrapped a towel around herself as she stepped out of the bath. She lightly jogged to the door and opened it for the impatient lion.

"Lucy! We gotta hurry. The Ki-" He stopped as his eyes laid on her body. A deep blush rouse to his cheeks as he looked away.

Lucy rose an eyebrow. So the little lion, who seemed lecherous, was actually blushing? She laughed as he waved his hands in shooing manner. She walked back to the bathroom as he walked into the room. He plopped down on the couch, his usual gracefulness forgotten.

"Geez, my princess. Please have some shred of decency." He said aloud.

She laughed from the closet. "You have never complained before."

His blush deepened, "That's in the human world. Here is different. That's like, me going to your home and complaining that your naked. Like, it's your house. But here, it's my home, and beautiful naked girls in my home, get me a little flustered." He almost pouted.

She peeked her head out of the door, "But this is my room."

"I know. It's just weird okay? We spirits have different customs. Since we exist on multiple planes of reality each world is considered something different. The human world is your home. The spirit world, is mine. I don't know it's a territory thing. It's hard to explain." He said.

By this time Lucy was done and she patted his shoulder, "Okay, got it" She said with a slight smile.

The two made their way to the training ground, and continued their training with the King well into the night.

~JM~

Natsu scowled at the Iron Dragon Slayer next to him. Both of them covered head to toe in bandages. They sat to the side as the Fantasia Parade commenced. He ached all over from the battle with Laxus.

Laxus was a monster in battle, Natsu had to admit that and he was actually kind of happy he had the chance to fight him seriously. Even if it was with the help of Gajeel.

He watched as the different floats rolled by and he almost jumped in and walked behind them. He decided against it, he wasn't feeling great and his heart was still aching. He missed Lucy.

It had been almost six months since she had left and he hated that they still had three more months.

The Iron Dragon got up and limped over to the Master's float and the started talking. Natsu couldn't really find the energy to listen in. He smelled Laxus near, he was about to get up to see what he was doing. He was banned, he shouldn't be anywhere near the guild. He had hurt them. But he stopped as everyone threw their right hand into the air, pointing there fingers like a 'L'.

And as if someone was talking he heard, "Even if I can't see you. No matter how far away you may be… I will always be watching over you."

He couldn't help but imagine it in Lucy's voice. He let tears leak out of the corners of his eyes.

That day more than one dragon slayer left that parade with tears in their eyes.

~JM~

It was several weeks later when Natsu sat on the train. He was dreading the trip but he needed to go on this mission. He was headed to Hargeon, he looked at the mission form in his hand and he grew sad. It had been exactly a year since Lucy had joined the guild. He knew that that wasn't the case with her. After all, it had been a little over two days for her.

He groaned as the train begin to move and he was startled at the same time when a little girl tripped and the boxes she was holding in her hands came crashing to the floor.

"Are you oka-?" He tried to ask but had to stop as he felt his dinner come up.

The girl scrambled up and bowed. "I'm so sorry!" She said, her long blue hair touching the ground as she leaned forward. She looked up and flinched as she saw the man keeled over over on the bench. "Are you okay!?" She asked.

All she got was a few gurgling sounds in response.

"Is it your stomach?" She asked as she set the boxes across from him.

Natsu nodded frantically.

"Oh! I have just the thing then. Can you sit up?" She said.

Natsu slowly set himself up and held his stomach as this girl grabbed his temples, immediately he felt relief and he sighed. Soft blue swirls cover both of them. She pulled away. "How's that?"

Natsu sprang to life. "That was amazing! Oh, my god, I feel great! How'd you do that?!"

The girl backed up and blushed, looking anywhere but his eyes, "I-I am a mage," She said in a small voice. "It's a spell."

"Oh so am I! A mage, I mean," He gushed. "I'm Natsu."

She stuttered, "I'm Wendy."

~JM~

Lucy's knees gave out as she shouted her last roar. She watched from the floor as it hit Loke straight on and into a few dummies that were behind him. She smiled as she had finally gotten it. Lucy then realized that she did indeed hit her friend, head on, with all her might.

"Loke! You okay?!" She shouted across the distances. All she got was a thumbs up through the rubble. A gentle smile graced her lips.

"That was good. You have finally done it." The King praised.

Lucy breathed heavily as she tried to stand, even with her newfound stamina she had trouble. They had been working her for fourteen hours straight, well she couldn't say they were. She was working herself. Loke and the King had tried to get her to rest, but she needed to keep training. This was her last day, she couldn't waste it. She was already halfway through her third day, and she had finally reached her limit. Going on very little food, no sleep and pushing her magical and physical capabilities, was finally getting to her.

The King walked over and pulled her up. "We only have a few more hours until you have to leave. But now that you have reached your limit, it's the perfect time to fuse your magic."

Lucy cocked her head. "Fuse my magic?"

"Right now you are capable of producing offensive magic. But that is not what your magic was originally made for. It can cause a strain on your body if you are not in this world. So I have made this." The King opened his and a beautiful purple lacrima manifested. "This is a lacrima fused with Celestial Dragon Slaying Magic, it will regulate your magic and ultimately make you stronger. The reason I have not mentioned this sooner is because I was hoping that you would not need it, but now I have realized that your new magic will not survive in the Human World."

Lucy nodded, she understood, but she had a bad feeling.

"The only way a magic lacrima can be placed in a human body is by force. It can not be magically transported or added. It is a very painful process that will leave a scar."

Lucy thought for a second. She needed to do this. She needed this power to protect her friends. Even though she hated the idea of a scar on her body, she believed that it was definitely worth it. "Do it"

Loke closed his eyes, he was standing behind the king, his jaw clenched. He looked away. Loke's fists were clenched hard but his sides.

"As you wish," The King snapped his fingers and all three of them were in a different room. The walls were tall and the room was empty besides a small bed in the middle of the room. The King explained how the process would go and how Loke would be the one to actually place it. The King was large even in his human form, he was standing nearly eight feet tall and he didn't trust that he would be able to gently handle the human girl.

Lucy laid on her stomach and crossed her arms and laid her chin on them. Loke stripped off his jacket and threw it on the ground.

"I'm sorry Loke. I know you don't like this." Lucy said. She saw the way his eyes were hard and his face upset.

"Of course I don't like this. You're my princess. But if it has to be anyone, I want it to be me. I don't trust anyone else with this." Loke said, as he rolled up his sleeves and he glared at the king as he pulled up the Lucy's shirt.

The King was surprised. Leo had just glared at him. The loyal, lion did something that a soldier would never do to their king. The Celestial Spirit King figured that the lion truly did not want him watching.

The King chose to respect both of them and he turned around.

Lucy was glad that she changed into a normal t-shirt, it would have been really awkward if she had stayed in the sports bra, knowing Loke would have had to ask her to completely take it off.

Loke pulled her shirt up so it was bundled around the blonde's neck. He pressed a hand in between her shoulder blades where she wanted it. He slowly unclipped her bra and slid the piece of cloth out of the way.

He sucked in a breath as he picked up the lacrima. The smooth magical glass was cold in his hand. He knew that the glass would magically melt, and her body would absorb it but it still irked him that such a large piece of glass was being placed inside of her body.

"Are you ready?" He whispered.

She nodded. They both took a deep breath and he quickly used his magic to slice her skin. Lucy stifled a scream as she bite down hard on her arm. Loke pushed the lacrima into the wound and he watched as the glass came into contact with her blood and it began melting into her skin, the purple and gold swirls traveling deep into her body. A scream ripped from her throat as it burned, the magic boiling her blood. Loke tried to push it in further but stopped when she jerked and more screams left her mouth.

"Leo, don't stop. That will hurt her more." The King said, he was by their side in an instant, to hold down the Blonde's shoulders.

Loke shut his eyes and forced the lacrima in all the way. Her screams shattered his heart and when she suddenly grew quiet Loke panicked.

He whipped around to see her face and lifted her head, her eyes were closed and sweat dripped down her face. Loke let out a breath when he felt her heart beat on her neck.

"She did it," The King said. He snapped his fingers and a chalice of water appeared. He poured that on the wound and the skin knitted together. It took a couple minutes for it to heal completely and after it did, all that was left was a jagged scar on her creamy skin.

~JM~

Lucy woke up in her room. She was immediately greeted by Virgo. The spirit was opening the drapes on the massive windows. Lucy tried to move but a loud gasp left her mouth as her shoulders stung. Her entire body ached and she almost had trouble calling out to Virgo.

"Princess, please hold still. You're still sore." The maid said as she rushed to Lucy's side.

She groaned and sat up, "I didn't think it was going to hurt that much. How long was I out?"

"A few hours"

Lucy's eyes went wide and she dropped her head in her hands. "I slept through the rest of my time."

"Yes, the King has told me to prepare an outfit and wake you" She said as she gestured towards the clothes laid out on the other side of the bed. Virgo helped Lucy out of the bed and rubbed water on to Lucy's wound after she had removed her shirt. Lucy automatically sighed as the water worked on soothing the skin on her back.

Lucy dressed and Virgo escorted her to the throne room. The King was back in his normal form and Lucy was glad to see the giant man again.

"Lucy, you have trained hard. You have grown so much stronger. You are now the first Celestial Dragon Slayer and I have enjoyed every second of your presence. I hope to see you soon."

Lucy said goodbye to her King and her spirits. She looked around, at the beauty of this world. She would miss it, but she would be back.

"Thank you so much," Lucy said.

"You ready my princess?" Lucy turned to see Loke bowing slightly with his hand out.

"I think I am. Take me to see my family," Lucy's voice was soft and she was so happy that she was going to see her guildmates again.

She grabbed the Lion's hand and they began to shimmer away. She had asked Loke to take her straight to the guild so she could surprise everyone. When she opened her shut eyes she was confused to see an empty plain. The ground was gray and lifeless, the only movement was the small bubbles that were slowly drifting up from the ground. Dark clouds were still in the sky and Lucy looked at Loke to see his eyes wide.

"Loke? I thought you we're bringing us to the guild." She said, her heart was beating hard in her chest as she watched his expression.

"Lucy...this is the guild."


So with this chapter I'm almost caught up with the original. The next chapter will mostly be about the other in Edolas, I've had quite a few people ask me about how everyone is going to escape Edolas without Lucy and Mystogan doing the whole 'magic pill' thing. I hope all your questions will be answered soon.

The whole Wendy and Natsu interaction is a reference to Episode 49. In the manga it's actually qualified as being an OVA, but both of them are called 'The Day of the Fateful Encounter'

Thanks for reading! I do not own Fairy Tail