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"I'm ready" I said as I started walking towards Magnolia.

MAGNOLIA- Lucy's POV

At Magnolia I headed to town to search for a new house. Just as I was about to turn the way I used to walk to Fairy Tail I saw an apartment next to my old one. Perfect, I thought as I walked into the apartment. The apartment had two levels like my old one; on the 1st level was the lounge room, toilet and a kitchen. On the 2nd were 3 rooms and a toilet with a shower.

After I inspected the apartment I went to the manager which sold it to me for 70 000 jewels like my old one. I might not sound like it but I really miss my guild. I especially miss my team and my best friend. I signed there's nothing I can do now. I didn't go on a job for a long time so 80 000 jewels is all I had. I paid the rent and went to shop for clothes.

After shopping for some new clothes and supplies I went to take a relaxing hot bath. I went in and let my skin enjoy the warm feeling. I started to wonder what personality I need to have. I needed to be cold and emotionless. A sad smile started to appear on my lips. Tomorrow I'm going to be a completely different person.

I went out of the bath and went to the second room which was my room. I lie on my bed and put the covers up. A completely different person, those words kept ringing in my head. I shrugged them off and went to sleep.

Next day…

As soon as the light reached my face, my eyes were wide open. I headed to the bathroom to brush my teeth, wash myself, brush my hair and put on my disguise. I looked at the mirror and saw a completely different person. Oh I nearly forgot my name… than I started to wonder what my name shall be. "Oh I know!" I suddenly exclaimed. I stared at myself and tried to hide my emotions as much as I could. Yuka Ly, yes that's it, my name now is Yuka Ly. I stared at my now brown hair and green eyes and smiled, because I knew that this would be my last smile.

I got dressed and headed for Fairy Tail but then stopped on my tracks. I looked at my palm in relief, there's no Fairy Tail mark on it. I felt relieved but sad that I'm not a part of Fairy Tail anymore. I got myself together because from now on I can't let any emotion show.

So I emotionlessly walked to Fairy Tail. I'm wearing the same things as yesterday. I stopped in front of the Fairy Tail gates. Well here it comes…

Normal POV

Everyone was talking and drinking, it was as noisy as ever. Than everyone turned their heads to the now open door to see a brunette they don't know stand there, emotionlessly. She walked towards the office. Once she disappeared everyone started whispering about who that may be.

Lucy's POV

As I stepped through the door every eye was on me. But what made it worse is that I knew all of them and they didn't know me. I hid my sadness behind an emotionless mask and headed for the office to find master.

"Umm….. Excuse me do you need anything?" Mirajane sweetly asked, same old Mirajane.

"Yes, do you know where your master is?" I coldly asked. I saw Mirajane shiver.

"Y…Yes he's in the office" she replied quickly.

"Hn" I replied as I walked to the office. As I walked I could hear people whispering. I shrugged it off and went to the office.

I am in front of the office door. I knocked a few times and waited patiently. In a few minutes the door opened revealing the small master.

"Yes?" he asked in a serious tone.

"I would like to join Fairy Tail" I coldly replied.

"Really? Ok than come in?" he gestured his hand inside the office. I coldly walked in and sat on a chair in front of him, I crossed my legs leaned back on the chair and crossed my arms.

"Tell me, why you want to join here?" he asked. I knew that this was the test, if I answered it wrongly than I can't join, but also I can't answer the same way I did before or it would give it away.

"I need a job, also I want to have some place where I can feel at home, rather than my home, I also want to find a true family and friends that won't let me down. And I've heard that Fairy Tail is the strongest guild when it comes to family" I coldly replied, however all those words were true, hopefully master will say yes.

"What's your name?" he asked in that tone of his that I didn't like, but I didn't show him a single flicker of emotion.

"Yuka Ly" I boldly said.

"Well Yuka, welcome to Fairy Tail!" he exclaimed happily, while he was jumping up and down I said a silent "Tch" but inside I was probably as happy as he was. He explained the rules and dismissed me. I went out of the office. Everyone was looking at me now, confusion written all over their faces. I signed lifted up my right palm where there was a pink Fairy Tail mark. Everyone cheered and asked me all different questions, even Lisanna did, oh boy how much did I hate her. I shrugged all of their questions off when the Great Titania stepped in front of me.

"What is your name?" Erza my old team mate sternly asked.

"Yuka Ly" I replied. Everyone was surprised that I didn't even flinch in her shadow, nor that I had any emotion on me either when I talked to her. Erza studied me carefully before she put a small smile on her face and stretched out her hand to me.

"Erza Scarlet, nice to meet you" I shook her hand.

"Me too" I quickly said before I sat on a table. It hasn't even been 5 seconds before I heard another very girly voice in front of me.

"Hello Yuka, my name is Levy McGarden I hope we can be good friends" she smiled brightly at me.

"I'm sure we will" I mumbled back.

"We'll see you around Yuka Chan" she smiled brightly and walked off. I didn't bother to reply, but I did bother walking to the bar and I ordered a strawberry milkshake.

"Sorry I forgot to introduce myself I'm Mirajane" she sweetly smiled at me. I didn't reply to her either. Then she continued speaking," you know Yuka Chan, one of my old friends used to like vanilla milkshakes" she sadly said. I need to know what people think of me and this is a great chance.

"What happened to her?" I coldly and interestingly asked.

"Oh well, you see, she died 8 months ago" she sadly said, I could see her eyes tearing up. I couldn't bear to watch so I turned around.

"Hey Mirajane, even if she doesn't live now, she will always live inside your hearts, I'm sure of it" although I said it as coldly as possible, she still smiled at me.

"Thanks, I'm sure of that too" she gave me a warm smile.

"Whatever" I replied, while drinking my strawberry milkshake. Then suddenly Gray appeared next to me, shirtless," don't sit next to me, pervert" I coldly demanded.

"Hey who are you calling a pervert?" He asked slightly annoyed.

"You" I boldly said.

"By the way what's your name, your new right?" he asked with the annoyance gone out of his system.

"Yuka, and yes I'm new" not long after that Wendy came, I signed.

"Hey Wendy, meet the new girl Yuka" Gray said as he pointed at me.

"Hi Gray, hi Yuka, my name is Wendy and this is Charle" she said pointing to the white cat.

"Humph" she looked away from me with her paws crossed. I was about to say something when Happy tried to give Charle a fish. WAIT! Happy means Natsu and he's the one I want to see the most. Happy stopped at his tracks because he smelled something unfamiliar. He looked at me confusingly. I signed, he can be as dense as Natsu sometimes.

"I'm Yuka, who are you?" I asked emotionlessly.

"Im Happy" he happily said.

"Do you belong to anyone, cat?" I asked boldly.

"Hai, I'm Natsu's"

"Who's Natsu?"

" you don't know him, but you can meet him tomorrow, he's very cold though so don't be scared if he looks angrily at you, ever since his best friend passed away, he's been like that, he always blames her death on himself" Happy signed heavily," but I'm sure he'd still like to meet you" he said and went to catch up to Charle. Those words made me freeze; he blames himself because I died? He's cold because I died? What else doesn't he do? I signed heavily said good bye to everyone and went home.

At home I had a hot bath but it wasn't relaxing, it just reminded me more of Natsu. I went to bed, but I could hardly sleep. After an hour of tossing and turning I finally went to sleep, thinking that tomorrow, hopefully Natsu would show up.