Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)

New Things Learned, Fate Shall Turn

Lucy slowly opened her cocoa brown eyes while smelling the sweet aroma of warm sugary coffee in the air, and she had regained consciousness to see that the group of Sabertooth mages were all looking down at her with concerned facial expressions. She had collapsed near the dock because of using so much magical power to vent out her anger, wanting to be far away from the guy who had now been rather uncaring about the fact that she had broken up with him. Lucy could not believe that Natsu was simply going to move on with Lisanna without really feeling like he had lost an important girl, and the blonde mage had ran to the harbor.

She found herself to now be in a cafe, laying on a part of the booth that was near the table, and Lucy managed to sit up while feeling that her energy had been restored. She yawned softly, before her brown eyes truly caught the sight of Sting looking at her with a smile on his face. She did not know who he was at first, but then she began to remember his blond spiky hair and his dark blue pants. He had sat across from her while Yukino and Rogue had moved to another table for the white dragon slayer to explain everything to Lucy, since he was the team leader, and he had also slid a cup of hot chocolate to her side of the table.

Sting had heard every word about how Lucy had lost Natsu to Lisanna, and he wanted to know about what had happened. Judging by how she had a suitcase, he could guess that she had been on her way to a new town for a chance to start a new life. He had done some asking around in Magnolia to find out where Lucy had lived, and Yukino had taken the black suitcase back to Lucy's apartment. She had also unpacked everything while putting her clothes and food back in their respective places, but the rest of the things in Lucy's home had remained untouched for now.

The blue-eyed male smiled nicely at Lucy, not wanting to frighten her if she was nervous around new people, and he was only going to ask about the situation with Natsu when Lucy felt ready to tell him about it. He could tell that his flaming and hotheaded rival had obviously done something to cause Lucy's anger, but what was it? Sting continued to smile at Lucy, hoping for some kind of reaction from her, and he had actually made her feel a bit happy. Lucy smiled back slightly while gasping in shock, and she looked embarrassed while blushing a bit.

She had been able to put the pieces together pretty quickly, seeing that he must've been the leader of the team that had saved her life, and Lucy had to thank him. She had collapsed on the ground, and Lucy was pretty lucky that no one had tried to kidnap her or take away her keys while she had been unconscious. Fate had been kind enough to let some good people find her, and Lucy definitely had to show her manners to the team. She giggled a bit while Sting maintained his nice smile, and it was pretty nice to see that he was friendly.

Sting asked her in a calm manner while smirking a bit, "Are you really just going to stay quiet while you're talking with the person who picked you up after you collapsed near the harbor? That was pretty scary to see, Blondie, and you need to learn about controlling the flow of your energy. I heard and saw the emerald green blasts of your Wind Magic, and they honestly need work. You forced out a lot of magical power, and that's why you collapsed. Are you new to that Wind Magic, Blondie, or is it actually blowing you away?"

Lucy responded in a defensive manner while narrowing her cocoa brown eyes, having now seen Sting's personality, "I'm glad that you saved my life, but don't call me Blondie! You're blond, too! Besides, I was just remembering what had happened before I had passed out. I know that I'm new to the Wind Magic, and maybe I'm just not good at using it yet. I'm probably not good at anything that involves Caster Magic, especially since I was not even strong enough to satisfy a guy that I had been dating for almost thirteen months! He cheated on me, and I want revenge by joining Sabertooth!"

Upon hearing the last part of her response, Sting could not resist the urge to chuckle a bit. While he did admire her desire to have a motive, the white dragon slayer could tell that Lucy needed more experience before she could join a guild like Sabertooth. Even though Sting was now the master of the guild, he could not just let anybody into the guild. He would want to see what kinds of skills they actually had, since he wanted people that could help his guild win the Grand Magic Games next year. However, as his mind flashed back to Lucy's spells from earlier, Sting had a bright idea.

If Lucy was heading to the town of Rustboro, she might want to know that the mages there were not all about brute strength. They were not solely focused on showing off how powerful their moves could be, but they also did their best to make their moves look appealing as well. Showing off the beauty of certain spells would sound a bit weird to Lucy, but Sting knew that people who weren't good with power yet had always focused on polishing their moves to improve their strength. See, magic is alive in every mage. If the magic does not like how its spells are presented, then they will simply come out powerful while using up so much more energy than what's required.

However, if a mage is smart enough to make the moves look beautiful while also combining power and creativity into the perfect blend, then the spells will work in much better ways. Lucy's spells seemed rather simple right now, but they could be improved to look pretty great. Besides, it would not be good for Lucy to have enemies heckle her in a battle for how much power she would be using up with brute force alone. Sting smirked a bit while having confidence in his blue eyes, and the plan had been fully thought out in his head.

Deciding that he would make Lucy stronger by helping her improve those new spells, Sting pulled out the green spell book from the left pocket of his blue vest. He had kept it nice and safe for Lucy, making sure that no one would steal something that seemed so valuable, and he set the book on the table. Lucy smiled happily while taking the green book into her hands, delighted that it was still safe. Even if Sting sounded a bit cocky and mouthy, he had been kind enough to take great care of the book for the past few hours while it had been in his possession.

As Lucy opened the green book, she also knew that her spells needed to not be as weak as they were before. They had to be molded into solid spells that wouldn't explode so easily, and Lucy's moves also needed to be made with more creativity. In that moment, she had a great idea while smiling with joy. If Lucy could not join Sabertooth yet, couldn't she at least help Sting's team on jobs to at least feel useful? She would even follow their training regimen, if she had to, and it would truly be a nice change from dealing with a guy who was dense like Natsu.

"All right, Lucy. If you think that you're so weak, then I'll train you and help you become just as strong as anybody in the Sabertooth guild. The training will only be tough if you make it be difficult, but you seem like a very smart girl. I don't know if you know this, but there's a big event in Fiore where you can show off the beauty and power of your spells. It's called the Grand Fiore League, and it's similar to the Grand Magic Games. I don't know the league's rules, but I guess that you'll find out about them when it begins. Anyway, we should go start your training." Sting told her in a calm manner while smiling nicely, wanting to use this as an opportunity to get to know Lucy.

The blonde girl replied kindly while getting out of the booth, smiling happily at how Sting was going to teach her some new ways to become strong, "Thank you so much, Sting! I can guess that you don't want me to look weak next to the other people in the Sabertooth guild, and I'll train hard with you! My spells need to be improved, for starters, and I know that you'll help me get them up to a decent level. I'm not going to let you down, especially since Yukino is a good friend of mine. I want us to be good friends, too."

Since Sting was now going to help Lucy become stronger, he left some jewels on the table to pay for his cup of sugary coffee and Lucy's cup of hot chocolate before they both walked out of the cafe. He was going to take the blonde girl to an ideal place for training, somewhere that she could truly hone her Wind Magic, and Lucy kept smiling happily while she followed him on a route that would lead the duo out of Magnolia. As Lucy's melon green book pulsated faintly with energy, she knew that her luck was finally starting to turn around. While things were starting to go well for Lucy, what had become of Natsu in the past few hours?

Meanwhile, at Fairy Tail...

Natsu Dragneel had been waiting for three hours now, wanting to see his ex come through that door to cause a big scene, and he was going to simply make Lucy think that she was crazy to say that he had been cheating on her. The fire dragon slayer's eyes shifted left and right while he sat at a table with Lisanna, and he had to wonder who could have been the rat that let his secret leak out to her. Natsu had wanted to tell Lucy in his own words, after he would've told Levy to write him the best apology ever known to man, but it looks like somebody else had told her the news.

His eyes glanced over at one table where Gray was trying to avoid being kissed by Juvia, and Natsu had to wonder if they could have exposed his cheating ways. Gray had been saying that Natsu was an idiot for doing something so devious to an emotionally fragile girl like Lucy, and the ice mage had actually been scolding him about it while knowing that the secret's days of being hidden were actually numbered. Natsu made a flame engulf his right hand to melt Gray for what he had supposedly done, but what if he hadn't exposed the secret to Lucy? It would be wrong to hurt an innocent person, and there was also no proof that Gray was involved in Lucy's earlier outburst.

Natsu changed his focus to Erza, since she had been close friends with Lucy. The two girls had talked a lot, sharing many things that ranged from fashion tips to dating advice, and that led Natsu to possibly think that Erza had double-crossed him to help Lucy know that she was just Natsu's girlfriend on the side now while Lisanna was his main lover. Even if he tried to interrogate the scarlet-haired woman about what she had been doing today and yesterday, the best answer that Natsu could possibly get would be a strong kick to the face while Erza would be giving him a serious death glare as well.

While Natsu looked ready to start pointing fingers at anyone who could be a suspect, he still could not get over the fact that Lucy disappeared in a cloud of smoke. He had never seen any of her Celestial Spirits use smoke bombs, nor did Lucy ever have any on her for a way of defending herself. It felt like some wind had also pushed him back for a moment, but Natsu knew perfectly well that Lucy was not able to use any kind of Wind Magic. It was almost impossible for her to do that, so where did it even come from?

Lisanna looked up from a newspaper that she had been reading while she sat at the table with Natsu, and the white-haired mage looked a bit concerned about her boyfriend. She knew that no one in the guild would be that rude to leak the secret to Lucy, and everyone had promised the happy couple that they would not say a word about their affair to the brown-eyed girl. He had trusted them all to keep his affair under the radar, but there was something that Natsu greatly missed in his suspicions. When he had come back from the beach with his lovely Lisanna, he had kissed her on the lips while leaving Fairy Tail's doors open for Lucy to see it all.

She told him in a kind tone, taking his hands in hers while smiling softly to lighten the mood, "Don't let yourself get all worked up about this, Natsu. It was just our mistake to leave the guild's doors wide open, and Lucy must've seen us kissing. I doubt that she would know that the whole guild has been keeping it secret from her for six months now, and she'll probably look bad for accusing you about what had happened. Almost all of the guild members promised to be loyal to us in this matter, and Lucy will simply have to accept our relationship."

Natsu replied happily while looking into Lisanna's beautiful blue eyes, delighted that their love would possibly continue with nothing getting in the way of it, "You're right, Lisanna! Even though we felt bad about leaving Lucy in the dark, she'll just have to get over it and see us as a happy couple that deserves love. We are the perfect pair of lovers, and you even take me to my favorite places when we go out to eat. I always buy you the best gifts, and you always love them. We also work well together on jobs, and you look so sexy when you fight in that tigress outfit."

Lisanna blushed a light shade of pink from hearing that last part, and she really did have to wonder if it was really sexy. The younger Strauss sister had always loved working with Natsu, and their love was something that was wonderful to them. Natsu and Lisanna had even gotten really hot on cold winter nights, having the warmth and embrace of each other to feel comfortable as they would cuddle in bed together, and the duo had found a great amount of comfort from sleeping together. Their sexy sessions had even reached Happy's ears while he would be sleeping, but the blue Exceed always knew that kinky things went on in Natsu's room.

As Lisanna gave Natsu a kiss on the lips to make him be somewhat relieved of his paranoid thoughts, she really had to wonder why Lucy had not showed up today. When Lisanna had looked inside a window of Lucy's apartment, her suitcase had been fully unpacked while all of her clothes were now back in her closet. It had seemed like Lucy had changed her plans about heading to the harbor, as Natsu had assumed when he spoke of his meeting with Lucy earlier in the day, but neither one of them knew that the blonde mage was certainly not going to return to Fairy Tail.

They were waiting patiently for Lucy to come running through the doors with angry look on her face, guessing that she would be really angry with the guild for keeping Natsu's big secret from her, but she had not come yet. Lisanna was thinking that Lucy would be too sad to show up to the guild, and Natsu was hoping to simply watch his ex make a fool of herself by causing drama for everyone to see. It would be funny to Natsu, really, since he thought that Lucy would want to get back with him after apologizing for slapping him in public.

Lucy would not be so stupid to go back into the guild for a chance at being humiliated, and Natsu would be deprived of that type of fun for quite a while. Him and Lisanna had been waiting for Lucy to show up, but let's just say that the guild of Fairy Tail would be missing its blonde Celestial Spirit Wizard for a while. Natsu had been the one who made Lucy almost think of killing herself, and he was very lucky that she had chosen the non-suicidal path of revenge. Lucy was going to get stronger, faster, better, tougher, and she would eventually put the fire dragon slayer in his place.

In a grassy field...

Sting had taken Lucy to a grassy countryside that was far from the town of Magnolia, and he took notice of the white turbine windmills being here. In a place like this with a breeze occurring at many times, this place was perfect for Lucy to test out her Wind Magic. She was going to improve each of her spells into moves that could be much more useful, and Lucy smiled happily while she walked far away from Sting. She did not want to hurt her new friend with the spells that she would be dishing out, and Lucy also wanted to be impressive enough to measure up to everyone in the Sabertooth guild.

She had gotten advice from Sting while they had walked all the way to the grassy countryside, and he told her that she needed to make her moves look great to help her Wind Magic bring out more of its power. That would help her in the Grand Fiore League, as well as the Grand Magic Games, and it would also help Lucy's moves become much stronger. Lucy also had to focus on not forcing the spell to show its power, so she had to relax her body and her mind while thinking of how she could improve each spell to make it useful without depleting so much magical power.

Thinking of her motive to become stronger, Lucy closed her eyes while she took a deep breath. She had to concentrate on how the spell would look, wanting its power to be in sync with the beauty and the effects, so she started off with her first spell of Wind Magic. This was the Bullet Tornado spell, but Lucy had renamed it to be Viridian Tornado while recreating it to be something that had a much better look. The effect would change as well, and Lucy put her hands together while getting every little detail right. Her energy was balanced in body and spirit, so she opened her eyes quickly before shouting out the spell with determination in her voice.

In an instant, five miniature green tornadoes of wind floated around in a circle while they surrounded the body of the blonde mage. These tornadoes grew larger with the high amount of wind in the area, and Lucy made them all head in five different directions to strike five white turbine windmills that surrounded her. Lucy smiled happily at the sight of her tornadoes causing large green blasts of energy to occur when they struck the windmills, and they did massive damage while making air come from five different directions to refill the stamina of their owner.

Her second spell had been known as Vanishing Breeze, but Lucy had changed it to a move that was known as Aerial Slice. This made the brown-eyed girl exhale a deep breath of air, before making a green aura engulf her right hand. Lucy slashed at the air with that hand, creating an invisible wave of air, and this wave grew with distance. It was powerful enough to slice through a windmill with ease, and the air wave had suddenly made a large blast of green energy occur when Lucy had closed her right hand. The aftermath had made five waves of air spread out, before converging together over the crater where the windmill once stood like they were hitting an enemy with tremendous force.

Lucy's third move had been known as Decimating Wind, and she looked up at the sky to use this attack. Narrowing her brown eyes, she unleashed a spiraling vortex of green winds into the air and molded the Wind Magic to the the point where it could absorb air to make the vortex grow much larger. It could obviously be used to strike foes that were airborne, and Lucy could also use this spell on the ground to destroy objects that were straight ahead in her line of sight or propel herself into the air to prepare for a pretty wicked attack. Quite an advancement in spells, wouldn't you agree?

As she panted a bit, Lucy smiled a bit while realizing that three spells would not be enough right now. She decided to create the fourth spell of Wind Magic, and this spell was known as Cloudy Day. This spell caused six clouds in the sky to fuse together to form one large cloud, and that cloud began to turn melon green before it released a large gust of wind that sucked up its targets! Two turbine windmills went into the cloud, before it imploded to make a spherical emerald green blast of energy transpire in the sky. The side effect of this spell had made an extremely large gust of wind blow through the area, but Lucy was able to inhale most of the wind before it could reach Sting to possibly send him flying.

Her fifth spell was named Feather Duster, and it was certainly not going to create a household object that she would use to get rid of the dust in the Sabertooth guild. This spell made the winds form giant green feathers that took the shape of a large square around Lucy, and this was a defensive spell that could be used to protect her from almost any attack. If a feather were to be hit by three projectiles, as an example, the feather of air would create three large green tornadoes that would head straight for the thrower of the projectiles to tear that person to shreds with their immense power.

Lucy's sixth move was known as Aerial Palm, and this spell allowed her to slam her left palm up into the air like she was hitting something. It actually caused a large mass of air to go upward, before coming down to the ground quickly to create six massive blasts of Wind Magic around Lucy. She covered her eyes while coughing a bit from all of the dust, but the smoke cleared up quickly to reveal six large craters in the ground. Lucy could only look amazed by what had been happening so far, and she was surprised to see that the spells were actually ascending in power so far.

With six spells out of the way, Lucy had kept her energy focused while she created the seventh spell of Wind Magic. It was called Wind Cannon, and this spell simply made Lucy unleash a large green beam of energy from her mouth. It spun at intense revolution speeds, going extremely fast while the beam headed straight for something to hit, and it had struck a distant rock while creating a loud explosion of green smoke. The attack had completely destroyed the rock, and Sting looked a bit shocked while sensing that its power level was nearly off the charts.

Only one spell was left now, and Lucy had inhaled tons of air for this move. It was going to be her last resort move, in case she ever encountered any powerful enemies that could withstand the combined power of the other seven spells, and this move was known as Sky Tower. It did not call for Lucy to do anything, but it caused the winds to take the form of a large emerald green serpentine-like creature. This creature was high in the air above Sting and Lucy, making both mages look a bit scared, and Lucy's new creature had fired an extremely large towering vortex of green winds down onto the ground from the heavens!

Before this move could hit the ground, Sting had quickly ran towards Lucy to get her out of the way. She had obviously put lots of magical power into that spell, thus explaining why she hadn't moved right away, and her attack had created a tremendous emerald green blast of energy that obliterated all of the windmills and grass in the area. The strong winds from the attack had sent Sting and Lucy all the way back to Magnolia, and they both had a painful landing while rolling down a street together. Sting planted one hand firmly on the ground to stop their rolling, and they landed right in front of a bakery that sold delicious pies.

Sting could tell that Lucy had given it her best efforts today, based on how she had made the book's Wind Magic work well together with its properties of Molding Magic. He could sense that her power had been nearly drained from using that final attack, and Sting smiled proudly at her for keeping calm while listening to the instructions of her new friend. He may have only been watching her test out the spells, but Sting was seeing exactly how they worked. He was glad to know that Lucy made some good selections, wise spells that would definitely help her out, and he just had to congratulate her.

"Nice going, Lucy! That last move of yours was totally unexpected, but your spells looked pretty good while they also seemed like they could do some massive damage. It would be a little too fast for you to move into Sabertooth on the first day, but don't worry! I'll come to train with you every day, and we're going to get you into tip-top shape! I swear, Natsu won't even know what he threw out! You're just so awesome!" The white dragon slayer told her with a happy look on his face, as he got off of her while helping her stand up.

Much to Sting's shock, Lucy actually looked him with tears welling up in her cocoa brown eyes while sobs began to wrack her body. She hugged her new friend tightly while crying, and he looked a bit concerned while hoping that compliments from the supposedly strongest dragon slayer in Fiore were not seen as insults to Lucy in any way. She had continued to cry while sniffling, and the blonde mage could only continue to let out her emotions as tears were streaming down her face. Sting had not done anything to upset her, but it was actually what he had done that was causing Lucy to cry.

She had never heard such kind words from Natsu before, not even a single ounce of praise whenever they had done jobs together, and he had never been willing to go out of his way to help her improve in anything. Sting had actually congratulated her, taught her a way to make her use those spells better, and Lucy had even created new spells that were powerful. Sting had really made Lucy feel happy, making her feel encouraged by wanting to see her do well, and she also felt like he would not be a secretive friend who would hide things from her.

"Thank you, Sting. I'm just so happy that fate made me meet a friend who wouldn't be fake, and I was only awesome today because I followed your strategy. You're a better friend than Natsu, since you probably don't cheat or make everyone in your guild keep secrets about your little anniversary, and don't even get me started on what I'd do if Natsu decided to eat their celebratory cake in the same room as me." Lucy replied nicely while wiping the tears away, as she released her friend from the hug with a kind smile.

Sting made a puking sound as his guess about what Lucy would probably do, and he even said how the vomit would give a cheater the literal taste of their own medicine. That little statement made Lucy giggle a bit, and Sting was glad to see that smile of joy on her face. He was good at sensing how people felt sometimes, and Sting wanted Lucy to feel like she was not alone to be a nervous wreck over the fact that Natsu and Lisanna had started a relationship. As Lucy looked down at her pink pajamas, blushing pink while noticing that she still wore her pajamas in the afternoon, she still smiled while waving goodbye to Sting and running home.

As Sting ran back to the coffee shop to meet up with his teammates, he thought to himself while smirking in a confident manner as some satisfaction entered his blue eyes, "Lucy might've seemed a bit defensive at first, but she's actually pretty cool when she's calm like how she was today. Training with her will be fun, and I'll have to admit that she can create some good stuff."

How was the 4th chapter? Did you like it? Sorry for the late update, but my stupid ex actually tried rubbing her new relationship in my face yesterday. I seriously want to knock her out, and I was so totally mad. Aside from that, I changed up the plot a bit from my original intention to not reveal too much. By the way, eight spells does not make Lucy overpowered. Just like in my last story, you'll see people who can survive barrages of spells and strike back hard. Anyway, standby for the update!