Chapter 3: A New Beginning

RECAP: Lucy sat down, her legs hanging off the edge of the small board walk, and pushed the stone into the ocean. along with herself.

Lucy wasn't scared. Not when she pushed herself off. Not when her last glimpse of the world was the surface of the ocean. Not even when she fell unconscious as she was falling to the ocean floor. She was at peace with her time. She did not fear death, for as long as her family, her nakama, were happy, she was happy.

But as the rope was cut off from her, as she was brought up to the ocean surface, to the welcoming sea air. She unknowingly met the person that would steal her heart, and the person whose heart she would steal.

He had seen her run away from that building crying. He had followed her here to the docks, watched her tie herself up. He knew what she planned to do, and if that was what the girl wanted, who was he to stop her? But when he saw the smile that was on her face before she dove, he couldn't stop himself from diving in after her.

He had seen many different attempts such as these on his travels. Many of the people who committed them did have smiles when they did this, but those were delirious smiles, ones of a person who thinks they have nothing to live for. But not her smile, her smile was of a person who fully knew what they were doing, fully knew the consequences, and was perfectly fine with it. The smile of a fully sane person, or at least not depressed person.

That's why he dove, to save the life of one who shouldn't throw that life away, and the person he loved, the person he fell in love with on the chance of one glance.

Lucy awoke with a startle. The first thing that came to her mind was, How am I not dead? She looked around the room and saw that she was in the only bed. The walls were a light pink, as were the curtains on the window The trim on the top and bottom of the walls was a light yellow. And the floors were a shade of pink as well, only slightly darker than the walls.

She finally noticed the man in the corner sleeping in a chair. She couldn't get a good look at him be cause of the way he was sitting, but he had to be quite old. He had snow white hair that reached at least half way down his back. As Lucy realized the situation she was in, she began to panic, Where am I? How did I get here? Who is that guy? Who put me into these clothes? While she was trying to find all this out, she accidentally bumped the bed side table and squealed.

Waking the man up from his apparently light slumber, Lucy cowered under her covers, peeking an eye out to watch. As the man stood up, she saw how young he really was. He wasn't old at all, he was only about eighteen, only a few years older than herself. His hair actually reached the bottom of his back, and he was actually quite muscular and at least 6'3". When he turned around to look at her, she saw a scar that ran right across his eyes. Besides that he was actually quite handsome.

Can he see? Lucy thought, watching the man from under the covers. Apparently he could because when he turned she saw that his eyes were a deep, piercing cerulean blue. When he saw her, a warm smile crossed his face as he walked over. He sat down in the chair that was apparently just to the right of the bed. How much of this room did I miss? The blond wondered.

"It's nice to know you're finally up. You're quite the fighter, you had only just fallen unconscious by the time I reached you." The handsome man said. He looked at her and somehow she knew that he didn't mean harm.

"Um, who are you? And where am I?" Lucy asked. She could tell that she was going to like this man.

"Oh, sorry, totally forgot we don't know each other. Okay, well, um." The man said as he scratched the back of his head. He's not very good at this. It's actually kinda funny. Lucy giggled at the thought.

"What's so funny?" The man asked? His face turning the shade of light pink.

"Oh! I'm sorry! It's just... you remind me of myself a bit, you know, weird." Lucy giggled again, struggling to keep under control. When she finally finished, she looked over to see the man trying to stop himself from laughing any further as well. "Sorry about that."

"It's okay, you were right, you are weird." He joked, obviously enjoying their time together.

"Hey!" Lucy complained, then playfully punched the man in the shoulder. "Look at us, it's like we're life long friends yet we don't even know each other's name." Lucy pointed out.

"That's right, well..." The man stood up and then knelt down to one knee. He scooped up Lucy's hand into his and said, "Styxx Rivier, a pleasure." As he finished he kissed the top of her hand and returned it to the bed.

Lucy, amazed by the introduction, went red in the face. At seeing this, Styxx's face went red as well, only two shades deeper. "I'm sorry, was that too much, i always try to make a good first impression." Styxx quickly blurted out, he then started whispering to himself, "Man, I'm such an idiot, I should've known it was too much."

The blond, embarrassed by the introduction, heard this and quickly applied her rich girl etiquette. "The pleasure is all mine, m'lord Rivier. My name is Lucy Heartfilia."

Heartfilia? Why would the Heartfilia daughter try to kill herself? Maybe he really did actually die. When Styxx realized this, he looked up to see her smiling at him, in her eyes he saw that she was happy, but that something was bothering her deeply. "I'm sure you don't want to talk about this, but it's going to come up eventually. We should get it out of the way quickly." Styxx was worried that Lucy would over react if he didn't step carefully. "Why did you try to kill yourself? Why did you attempt to commit suicide?"

Lucy was worried. How would react if she told him the truth. She herself didn't even know why she did something like that. She had mustered all her courage on the way to guild just so she would be able to leave without breaking down. I guess I broke down in a different way. Lucy thought. The blond looked over at the white-haired teen. He seemed sincerely worried. Touched by this, she told him her story.

After a good ten minutes of explaining, she finished her story. "And that's why I did what I did. I don't know why I took it all the way to suicide, but... but... I just don't know. I thought I was strong enough but I guess not."

"I still don't see how that was your fault. It's true that getting a chance to go to the Spirit World would be huge for anyone, especially celestial mages. Besides, the Spirit World is supposed to be a forbidden place to humans. Why would a beautiful girl like you ask about something like the flow of time there? I don't think anyone would think to ask a question like that." Styxx explained his point. He was angry at the members of Fairy Tail, Why would they think that this was Lucy's fault?

"I think you might be right. I was scared, I already knew that, but maybe I was more scared then I thought." Lucy admitted. It felt good to tell someone this.

And as the the young girl told this to Styxx, she felt something inside her. Something warm, and fuzzy. It felt good. She only felt this with only one other person. Natsu. Lucy looked down, her smile fading at the thought of the pink haired boy.

"Is something the matter?" Styxx asked worriedly. Lucy had suddenly gotten sad and depressed.

"Oh, no. It's nothing. Just remembering someone from my gui-" Lucy stopped herself, she wasn't used to not being a part of the guild yet. "Just remembering someone from Fairy Tail."

"Is it that pink haired kid? The one with the scarf?"

"Actually, yes. how did you know?" Lucy was curious as to how Styxx knew.

"He ran out just after you did. He screamed your name than ran down another street. He looked seriously pissed."

Lucy chuckled at what Styxx told her. It sounded like something Natsu would do. "Is he your boyfriend or something?" Styxx asked.

"What! Ew! No! No way!" Lucy shouted. "He's just a friend. An old friend now is all." It was true. Ever since Lisanna came back, she realized that Natsu could never be hers. She didn't hate either of them for that, no, she only realized that what she had dreamt about was that, a childish dream.

Some how, at the thought of dreams, she finally noticed that she didn't know where her Spirit keys were. Lucy looked around frantically for them. No, I can't lose them again. Aquarius would kill me if she found out!

"Um, do you need help?" Lucy heard, she looked to Styxx, a quizzical look on his face.

"Do you know where my keys are? They were in my bag when I had jumped." Lucy was still looking around her, really starting to panic.

"Your bag right?" Styxx was now on the floor, searching underneath the bed. After a second, while still looking underneath the bed, he held up her pouch with the keys inside. "Here you go. And here is your whip... a whip? Wow, I would never be able to use that."

He was still under the bed, looking for something else. Placing all of her stuff on top of the bed. After some silent moments passed, Lucy finally asked, "What are you looking fo-"

"Ahah! Here they are! Okay, here is your giant rock." He placed the rock on the floor where Lucy could see it, "And your still slightly soggy rope." He placed the rope on the rock, then stood up and faced Lucy, smiling.

"Why would you keep that?" Lucy asked, creeped out, pointing at the rock.

"Cause now, if you try to do something like that again, we have something to tie you to and tickled." He joked, trying to look menacing.

Lucy laughed at that, then asked about the rope, "Is that what the rope is for too?"

Styxx smiled at her happily and said, "Maybe. As my best bud always says, 'You can never have enough rope'." Laughing at that last part.

Lucy laughed as well. For the next hour or so, she and Styxx talked, found out about each other, and unknowingly strengthened the love between them. Lucy was already forgetting her old guild.