FATE
Summary: Fate brought them together and Fate gave them happiness. But Fate just had to be cruel and take the girl away, seperating them. Still, the girl comes back. How will she survive against the game of Fate?
Main Pairing: StiCy or LucyxOC
Rating: T for SafeT
Genre: Romance, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Humor

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T own Fairy Tail! If I did, StiCy wouldn't be a crack pairing! I'll definitely put in more moments! KYAA! XD

Here's another chapter! :D Since it's summer vacation here, I have nothing to do. So, I decided to update! Well, I promised myself I'll update last Thursday, but I got lazy and distracted. Hopefully, this chapter would satisfy my... "guilt"?

And thanks a lot Psyka, Retreat, Madeline-chan09, DragonPrincessXx, and Caught in a love triangle! Your reviews fired me up to finish this as soon as possible (even though my laziness got in the way)!

Oh, and I forgot to add that Fairy Tail got their former building back, the BIG one, in the previous chapter. My bad... On second thought, I don't think it's anything important...

This chapter is the start of the drama, the actual start of the story (Chapter 1 was basically a...Prologue?).

If there are any grammatical errors, I'm so sorry T_T ... English is my second language, after all.

Oh, and I'll be putting in some POVs :) And here's a warning: this chapter would be sad.

Chapter 2: Cruel Fate Part 1
"You've got all of us behind your back. We'd never let anything happen to you."

Normal POV

3 Months after the GMG
October X791

Lucy sat on her usual place in front of the bar, drinking her strawberry milkshake while Mira wiped the bar counter. She was thinking about everything she has experienced while being in Fairy Tail. From her first mission with Natsu, to the Grand Magic Games, to when she and Sting became a couple, to Sting and Rogue quitting Sabertooth and joining Fairy Tail. She smiled at some thoughts, got irritated at some, and even almost cried at some. I'm getting too emotional, Lucy thought.

"Hey, Lucy," Mira suddenly asked, making the blonde celestial mage flinch a bit after being so deep in thought. "I've been wondering..." she trailed off a bit at the end, earning a raised eyebrow from the younger girl.

"Why Sting?"

The question almost made Lucy choke on her drink. "Huh?" She stared at Mira cluelessly. What the heck is she talking about? "I mean, why did you choose Sting? You know... why not Natsu? Or Gray? Or Loke? Or Dan? Or-" Before she can continue, Lucy cut her off.

"Wait, wait, wait, Mira," Lucy paused for a bit, took a deep breath, then proceeded with her explanation. "Natsu's my best friend. He's special and all, but that's it. Gray's a special friend, too, but Juvia will drown me forever if I even dared to get close to him." Mira laughed, then signaled Lucy to continue. "Loke's a spirit. Any kind of romance between spirit and mage is a breach of the rules, not that I like him more as a friend. And Dan? No offense, but NO WAY.

"As for Sting..." Lucy trailed off and smiled. Mira looked at her and smiled, too, already getting a clue on what her answer would be like. "He's different. He made me feel much more special. Sure, I get annoyed at him with his nickname 'Blondie', but I find it sweet, too. He's adorable when he pouts and gets jealous!" Lucy laughed and her smile widened. She looked at Mira. "It's because I love him. That's why I chose him."

Mira smiled at Lucy's response. She was happy to see the blonde in this state. Lucy started changing ever since she met Sting and ever since they became a couple 3 months ago. She was much happier and her smile became more radiant, all thanks to that certain blonde dragon slayer.

Sting sat on a table, not far from where Lucy was. He was sitting with Rogue, his two exceeds, and the rest of Team Natsu. Through his dragon hearing, he overheard Lucy's response to Mirajane's question and smiled.

"Hey, stop smiling to yourself. You look weird," a certain flame-head remarked.

An angry tick mark appeared on Sting's forehead. "The hell did you say, ash brain!?"

Gray laughed. "Bwahaha, the bastard called you ash brain, flame head!"

"Shut up, Ice Queen!"

"Who ya calling 'bastard', perverted popsicle!?"

And just like that, they started another ridiculous brawl.

Rogue POV
I just sat there, watching the three of them bicker over something useless, not that they bickered over something anyway. My "source of amusement" was interrupted by a pissed-off Titania, however. I snickered after seeing the lumps on their heads.

I'm glad me and Sting joined this guild. I've always wanted to join a guild that shares a bond in between their members, their nakama.

Just then, Master's voice resounded in the guild hall, silencing everyone.

"Team Natsu, Sting, Rogue, come to my office NOW!" the voice boomed. Immediately after that, I stood up and followed the others to his office.

In Master's office

We gathered in front of Master's desk. Due to his small size, the amount of his paperwork, the height of the desk and chair, he was hard to see...

What am I saying?

"What is it master?" Erza asked, breaking my useless line of thought.

The Master cleared his throat before continuing, "I have an urgent mission for all of you. I would like to grant you all the task to bring down and capture a notorious dark guild in the west, Midnight Dread (A/N Pretty lame name, don't you think -_- ? ). They have been robbing several towns and killing some innocent locals. Majority of the population of nearby towns are already scared of them. That's why I would like you brats to destroy them." He looked at each of us, observing our reactions. I kept my calm and stoic face as usual. "So are you all up for it?"

"Hell yeah! I'm all fired up!" said the ever-so-enthusiastic Salamander.

"I'll go to make sure the flamebrain doesn't mess things up."

"What did you say, Stripper!?"

"I said-"

"CUT IT OUT!" Erza boomed. Then she turned from the scared Natsu and Gray to the Master. "Of course, Master."

"Yes, Master," Lucy replied.

"Well, if Blondie's going, I am too." Said the idiot, Sting.

"Sure." I said. I didn't have anything else to do, anyway.

(A/N Wendy and Charle was on another job, so they won't be taking part on this mission)

An hour later... On the train going to Settia Village...

Lucy POV

I looked around. I couldn't see anything, but darkness. Darkness was everywhere.

"Hello? Anyone?" I strained my ears, trying to pick up any sound. Faintly, I heard something.

Sob...Sniff...

"Huh? What was that?" I said to nothing in particular. I knew I heard something. Then the sound came again, louder this time.

Sniff...Sob...Lucy...

Wait, what? Okay, now I'm officially creeped out. Who was speaking? I sensed a light behind me, so I turned around and headed for it. I went through it and raised my hand to shield my face from the blinding light. After a moment, I heard the cries again. I put down my hand and took in my surroundings. I was at a cemetery and it was raining.

"Why am I here?" Then I noticed my friends gathered in a crowd not far from me. They were all wearing black and their heads hung low. I approached Levy who seemed to be the nearest to me.

"Levy-chan...who d-died?" I had a hard time saying that last word. She didn't answer, but she kept her head hung low and continued sobbing uncontrollably. Gajeel, who was next to her, also had a sad expression, which was a rare sight.

I decided not to press on further and walked nearer to my team who was in front of the crowd. On the way, I saw Rogue. I looked at his face and noticed that he was crying. His face was shadowed by his long shaggy hair, but you could see he was crying by the stream that was flowing down his chin.

Rogue crying... Just who died? No. C-Could it be...?

I moved forward, slowly. I studied my team's expressions. Natsu was on all fours, crying rivers. Gray was trying to hide his tears by looking up, but to no avail. Erza was hiding her face with her scarlet hair, but it was obvious she was crying. Wendy was sobbing and Charle and Happy were trying to comfort her. It didn't work because they were crying, too.

Finally, my eyes locked on a figure farther away from them. He was crouched down, hugging the tombstone like it was his only lifeline.

Sting...?

I walked slowly up to him. Due to the rain, I didn't understand what he was muttering, so I tried to get within his hearing range. I was right behind him when he said in between sobs, "Luce, why? Why did you have to leave? Why?"

My eyes widened. W-What? Did he just-? No. M-Maybe I heard wrong, I thought. I crouched down beside him and put my hand on his shoulder...but my hand phased through.

W-What? My h-hand...

Tears started welling up in my eyes. Scared, I slowly averted my gaze on the tombstone. Even with the pouring rain, I could still read the inscription:

Hear Lies The Angel Loved by All
The Lucky Angel of Smiles
Lucy Heartfilia
X767-X791

"N-no..." The tears started flowing down my eyes. I quickly turned to everyone. "I-I didn't die, everyone! I'm right here! Don't cry, everyone!" I turned around again to Sting. "S-Sting turn around. I-I'm right here. I'm not dead. I didn't l-leave you." I reached out again and tried to hug him, but I just passed through him.

Now I was on the floor, on all fours, crying. "I'm not dead...I'm not... Everyone... wake up..."

"You ARE dead."

I quickly looked up and saw a black figure. I couldn't see him clearly because of my tears. Or was it a she?

"Accept the fact."

Accept what? I'm not dead! I looked around. There was nothing again. Only plain darkness.

"You are dead, Lucy Heartfilia."

No, I'm not...

"You're dead."

No...

"Dead..."

No...

"Lucy."

NO.

"Lucy!"

NO!

"LUCY!"

Normal POV

Lucy's eyes snapped open. The train had stopped for the moment. Everyone was looking at her with sad and concerned faces. Then she felt a hand brush past her eyes. She looked to her right and her brown eyes met Sting's deep blue ones.

"What's wrong? Are you akay?" he asked.

"H-huh? Of course I am."

"No, you're not. You were whimpering and crying in your sleep," Gray stated.

"Eh?"

"Lucy, tell us your nightmare," Erza said.

"T-there's no need to-"

"Just tell us, Luce. It would make you feel better." That was Natsu.

"B-but-"

Then she felt a hand cup her cheek and wipe the remaining tears. Then the hand cupped her chin and tilted it to face the owner who sat beside her, Sting.

"Tell us, Luce."

Lucy stared at his eyes. It was full of concern and worry for her well-being. She looked down and reluctantly told them her nightmare. Everyone was quiet, and for that moment Lucy felt scared, though she didn't know why. Then the next moment she found herself in her lover's arms, holding her in a tight embrace.

The first to speak up was Erza. "Don't worry, Lucy. We won't let anything happen to you."

"Erza's right, Luce. We'll definitely protect you," Natsu said.

"Yeah, Luce. Although I'd hate to admit it, the talking charcoal's right," Gray followed, earning a glare from Natsu.

Rogue simply nodded in acknowledgment, being the man-of-few-words he is.

"See, Luce? You've got all of us behind your back. We'd never let anything happen to you. Especially me." Sting looked deep in her eyes, expecting a reaction. He sighed in satisfaction after Lucy nodded.

Lucy turned to face her comrades.

"Thank you, everyone."

In the forests around Settia Village...

"So this is Midnight Dread?"

Currently, the gang was deep in a forest, and in front of them was the base of Midnight Dread. It wasn't a large building, but it looked intimidating enough with its dark colors and spine-chilling patterns. The group walked towards the doors and kicked the door open (Natsu was the one who did the kicking honors, though). All the faces in the room turned to them. Then they ran towards the group of mages and attacked.

Natsu rushed forward and went all Fire Dragon's Iron Fist on whoever blocked his way.

Gray attacked a group of mages with his Ice Make: Lance.

Rogue's Shadow Dragon's Roar did a number on them.

Erza easily maneuvered herself through them with her Black Wing Armor.

Lucy summoned Taurus to take care of some.

Sting attacked with his Roar while protecting Lucy at the same time.

Half an hour passed and they already took care of all the mages on that floor. They heard clapping, and looked up to see a cloaked figure standing on the railing of the second floor.

"Who are you!?" Natsu asked, or more specifically, shouted.

The figure smirked and took off her hood. The cloaked figure was a she, and she had long black hair until her hips, and intimading red eyes.

"I'm this guild's Guild Master, going by the name of 'Soul'," she introduced.

"'Soul'? What a wierd name," Gray commented, snickering.

Soul just smirked and took out a pitch black dagger (even the blade is black) with red patterns and a long black katana.

She chuckled. "Well why don't we get this party started?"

Everyone got into their battle stances.

"Gladly," Erza smiled slyly.

(A/N)

CLIFFHANGER! There goes the second chapter of my first fanfic! Well, not really my first... It's my first published fanfic. I have more, but I don't plan on posting it :P

Was it long? (Random Person: No shit, Sherlock.)

I planned to make it long so that I could take away the guilt of not fulfilling my promise (to myself) to post it last Thursday... But it actually turned out to be shorter than Chapter 1 :( .

And, what's the point of Rogue's POV? O_O Honestly, I don't know. I just wrote it. Strange...

I don't have much confidence with this chapter because it's my first time writing something this... sad. And my Microsoft Word isn't working so I'm quite sure there are mistakes... Anyway, please tell me what you think by including it in the reviews! And in case you have some questions (anything), please feel free to ask!

See you on Part 2! :D