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Chapter 3

Laxus sighed after disconnecting the call from Lucy, he knew she got hurt, but not how bad and that worried him. I should of just followed her. He has felt something for Lucy for awhile but kept his distance due to her feelings for the flame idiot. Now he wanted to help her heal, and have his chance with her. He decided to go home and get some sleep. Blondie said she would come back tomorrow, and she always keeps her word.

"Why wouldn't Luce let us go with her on the mission. She never does a mission with out us." Natsu yelled. Gray shook his head at how dense Natsu was.

"Sulphur dick, how can you not know why she didn't ask us to come? You told me once that you knew how Lucy felt about you, but only felt that she was kin to you. She needs time away from you because you're a bastard that couldn't let her know that you didn't feel anything but kinship for her."

Natsu growled, "I didn't want to hurt her feelings, popsicle dick."

"Well now you hurt her more by not telling her. Let's just hope she won't leave the group."

Natsu dropped his head to the table, Luce please come back soon.

-Next day, with Lucy-

Lucy groaned as she got up to take a shower before heading back to the guild. Well so much for staying a couple days, I told Laxus I would come back. I never break my promises. She slowly unwrapped the bandages around her stomach. Then took a quick shower, well as quickly as she could with how much it hurt to move. Once she was out, she had Virgo help her rewrap her wounds. Virgo took Lucy's bags to the spirit world until she got back to her apartment. She was happy to have the full reward. I have enough to get ahead on my rent by two months, and still have some left over!

A couple hours later, she pushed through the doors to the guild. She started to walk to the bar to get her strawberry milkshake. She tried to make it look like she wasn't really hurting, both physically and emotionally. Right before she made it to the bar, Natsu ran up and hugged her.

"Luce! You're back! Please don't go on a mission without us again." Natsu said, and didn't hear her gasping in pain.

"Na-Natsu let me go." When she noticed that he wasn't listening, she started to wiggle out of his grip, and Lucy-kicked him across the guild. She gasped and grabbed at her side, okay the kicking was a bad idea. Before she could ask for a milkshake from Mira, Laxus was picking her up and taking her to the infirmary, and was calling for Wendy to follow.

Laxus leaned against the door while Wendy looked over Lucy's injuries. She healed the cut on her face, then started to unwrap the bandages on her stomach.

"Shit Blondie! How are you moving?" All down Lucy's right side were bruises, and a five inch long gash that had been stitched. Wendy helped the gash, and removed the stitches. Then healed the three broken ribs she had.

"I'm sorry Lucy-nii I can't heal the bruises. I recommend you not taking missions for a couple weeks at least. I healed the ribs but not all the way, so they wouldn't be weakened."

Lucy nodded her head, "I can take it easy on missions for a couple weeks. But I am going to start some training. I can't just not do anything!" Laxus pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Blondie, you will not do any training until Wendy gives you the clear. If you will wait, I will personally help you with training." Lucy looked up at him in surprise.

"You will help me train?"

"Yes, but only if you wait until Wendy gives you the clear on training and missions." Lucy sighed and nodded her head in agreement.

"Laxus, I would like to speak to you and gramps about something." Laxus nodded and followed him to master's office. They knocked and waited until the got the okay to enter.

"Gramps, Blondie wants to speak with us." Makarov nodded and sat on his desk.

"What can we help you with child?"

Lucy took a deep breath, "I want to leave team Natsu and go solo. Right now it would be to hard for me, and I can't take the chance of getting distracted while on a mission, and possibly causing one of them to get hurt because of me."

"Are you sure you want to go solo, Blondie? You could always join a different team." Laxus said. Lucy shook her head.

"I want to go solo to work on becoming stronger, and doing the training with you will help too. Besides no other group would want me."

"Alright child I will do the paperwork to make it show that you are a solo mage."

"Thank you gramps. I'm going to go talk to them and let them know."

"Blondie, you could join the Thunder Legion. I know the others wouldn't mind." Lucy shook her head.

"Thank you for the offer Laxus, but I'm not strong enough to be on your team."

"Blo-Lucy, you are more than strong enough to be on my team, I wouldn't have mentioned if I didn't think you could handle it."

Lucy smiled, "Let me think about it for awhile. I do want to go solo for a bit, but maybe I'll want to join a team again." Laxus nodded in agreement to what she said.

Lucy left the office and headed down to where her now ex-team sat. She knew this wouldn't go over well. She sat down, and sighed.

"Luce, I'm sorry about hugging you like that, I didn't realize you were hurt." Natsu said with a frown.

"It's okay Natsu. I do need to tell you guys something. I just talked to Laxus and gramps about it. I am leaving the team and going solo."

"WHAT? NO, I won't let you leave the team!" Natsu yelled at her. Erza and Gray sat there in shock.

"Natsu you have no say in this, and it's already done."

"Is this what you really want Lucy?" Gray asked. Lucy nodded, and told them what she had told gramps and Laxus. Erza and Gray understood and reluctantly agreed, but only after making her agree to sit with them, and hang out. Erza still wanted her girl days and Gray didn't want his adopted sister to pull away from him. Natsu was the only one that didn't like that Lucy wasn't going to be on the team anymore.

"Erza, I was thinking this weekend, lets do a girl's spa day. We can invite Cana, Levi, and Mira to come with us!"

"Yes, lets do a girls day!" Erza said with a smile. Lucy told everyone bye as she left to go to her apartment. She decided that she could meditate until she got the clear for training. When Lucy got to her apartment she turned on some music to listen to while meditating, she changed into yoga pants and a tank top, and put on one of her favorite songs, Elements by Lindsey Stirling. She sat on the floor, crossing her legs indian style, and closing her eyes. She took a couple deep breaths, and searched inside for her magic. She slowly pulled some to form a small ball that floated above her hand. She made the ball move, and after a few minutes took her magic back into her. She then followed the steps Capricorn had given her to help make her magic containers grow.

After she was done meditating she took a shower, and made some dinner. She kept thinking about how Laxus offered to let her join the Thunder Legion. Should I join them? Laxus believes I'm strong enough, and being on their team would allow me to get know the Thunder Legion and maybe become real good friends with them. She sighed, and the more she thought about it, she wanted to stick with her original plan of being solo for awhile, but the she would join the Thunder Legion. Her last thought before falling asleep is that she couldn't wait to begin her training.