Please enjoy chapter two, even though there's still a lot of repeating, but just pay attention to the changes ^^,

Chapter 2: Heartfilia

Please read this carefully. Our precious rubies have been stolen, we already know that this thief was a strong S-mage, with the name, "Gary the Gray". His abilities are unknown, and we know he's going to try to sell them to the Heartfilia family, at least, probably the Heaver family as well. These are the families that are rich enough to pay a fitting price.

Mr. and Mrs. Smallhill.

Natsu had just given the request to Lucy, so she could read it for herself. After the few seconds it took her reading it, she searched her mind, but couldn't find any memories regarding "Gary the Gray".

"Hey! Gray, you sure you haven't stolen any rubies?"

Natsu was almost already trying to examine him, which wasn't that hard. He still hadn't any clothes on.

"My name isn't Gary the Gray"

Gray talked patiently, almost as if he was talking to a child. Sounded confident, and not like a person who was undergoing a body search, totally naked.

"It's Gray Fullbuster, and I hope you've realized that I don't have any rubies on me".

Natsu turned to Lucy again, he grinned and then took her hand and randomly ran out of the guild's headquarters. Screaming something which contained see you soon bastards.

This means we have to go to my dad's ground. I really don't want to meet him. But I'm probably one of those people who will be let into the ground. They have gotten a more strict security lately… It will not be very pleasant. But I get the chance to visit my mother's grave.

Lucy was mumbling and thinking to herself. Even though Natsu was right beside her, he didn't pay attention to her deep mumbling. He was in a conversation with Happy about whether or not flying was better than walking.

"Those rubies are the purest in the whole world? Didn't they have any kind of security around them?"

Happy's question took both Lucy and Natsu by surprise. Natsu looked at his blue friend with eyes that showed his amusement.

"They are the purest, and the security should be good too, but maybe this guy is really strong. Who knows…? "

Lucy answered. Still lost in her mind.

Somehow Lucy managed to get Natsu on a train. He lied on the seat, upside down. His face had a faint green color. Natsu didn't have any tolerance for transportation, and used Wendy as much as he could to heal him from motion sickness. But she was out on a mission with Levy, Gajeel, Jet and Droy. So for now he had to deal with this motion sickness. Not that Lucy could understand how he could lie like that on the seat, she also would have been sick if she did that. Of course it also would have caused her to flash her underwear.

Lucy had started to memorize her childhood, and her father. How her mother died only 29 years old. Her mother also was a celestial mage, just like Lucy. They had the power to open gates between different worlds, with special keys. Her mother had passed on three of her celestial spirits to Lucy, Aquarius, a moody mermaid like spirit, Capricorn, a human/goat spirit, and Cancer, a crabish man. When Layla Heartfilia died, Lucy was left alone with her father, who didn't pay much attention to her anyway. So at the age of 15, she simply ran away from home.

But right after Lucy had joined Fairy Tail, her father tried to get her back. He tried to force her by using another guild. Causing a war between Fairy tail and the guild, Phantom Lord. She could not forgive her father after this, and decided to cut all ties with him. The worst thing was that he only had wanted her back to get her to marry a boy, for economic reasons. Today that would have been completely unreasonable, for other reasons than pride, and such.

With all her strength Lucy finally got Natsu on his feet, and jumped out of the train in the last second before it departed. With both his feet on the ground, Natsu finally was totally clear again. With Happy besides him he started walking proudly, while laughing hysterically.

"Why are you laughing?"

Lucy asked out of curiosity.

"Happy just told me that as long as I couldn't walk of a train by my own, I had no chance in beating Erza. Happy is so funny!"

The train had probably killed some of his brain cells, he had forgotten how extremely scary and powerful Erza was. The strongest female mage in Fairy Tail.

"Anyway, which direction leads to the Heartfilia grounds?"

He had stopped completely and was now throwing Happy in the air to get him to look for the Heartfilia residence. Lucy sighed, she knew perfectly well that Happy could fly, but Natsu probably had forgotten that too. She just followed the mark that clearly said: "The residence of the Heartfilia family".

Soon a security passage occurred, behind them they could see the residence, it was big as a castle. The Heartfilia family was the closest to a royal family in Fiore. While there wasn't any actual royal family in Fiore, and when it came to money, the Heartfilia family had lots. Behind the residence were mountains, you could almost see the snow on the top of them. They made a perfectly and neat frame to the whole scenery. The pathway was decorated on both sides with Sakura threes. They were in full bloom and made a beautiful tunnel filled with a pink light, and everywhere inside the tunnel small Sakura leaves were falling.

In front of the residence was a big statue of a girl looking alike Lucy, only with big angle wings and her hair tied up. On the grave you could she roses and cards. Lucy could almost see the little pink paper she once had left there, with a tiny heart on it. The security guards let them in, almost right away, after checking if it was the real Lucy. Natsu looked at the residence with big eyes, and Lucy could see that he was just as shocked as he was last time. She looked her childhood in the eyes, and walked towards her old home ready to meet the person she used to call dad.

As you see, Jude Heartfilia did never go bankrupt. Which I find important, which I of course will try my best to explain through the story.