Chapter 5

It has been 2 days since the fight between Lucy and Sting. And at the moment, Lucy and Juvia have found a place to stay which was an apartment that was not quite as big as Lucy's old one, but it was close. The rent was only 50,000 jewel a month which was less than her old one. They spent the 2 days getting all settled into their new home. So, today was their first day heading back to their new guild, Saber tooth. They were both wearing the same outfits they had on when they first came to the guild.

"So Lucy, do you think Sting will still be angry about you beating him the other day?" Juvia asked as she walked behind Lucy.

"Knowing that idiot, he's never gonna let it go." Lucy simply answered. They soon reached the guild and opened the doors to be greeted by many of the members, but Lucy was met by an annoying yell.

"Hey, Blondie! I want a rematch!" Sting said in her face. Lucy of course didn't even flinch.

"You're still blonde to Little bee." Lucy said as she walked past him and say down at an open table. A vein then appeared on Sting's forehead.

"I'm sorry about my friend. Really." Juvia said before following Lucy and sitting next to her. Sting was still watching them when he felt someone hit the back of his head. When he looked to the side, he saw Rouge standing there with an annoyed expression.

"What was that for!?" Sting shouted.

"Next time when someone comes into the guild, try to greet them properly." said Rouge. With that, he walked over to where Lucy and Juvia were sitting.

"Lucy." Rouge called out. Lucy then looked up at Rouge, as well as Juvia.

"What do you want?" Lucy asked.

"I hope you can forgive my stupid partner." said Rouge. He could've sworn he heard Sting yell 'Hey!" from a few feet away.

"Hmph. No matter what, you can only be irritated by an idiot like him. Not get angered." Lucy said without looking up at Rouge.

"The 'idiot' is standing right here!" Sting shouted right next to Rouge. Silence then fell between all of them.

"Um, why don't the two of you take a seat if you're not going anywhere?" Juvia offered. The twin dragonslayers just shrugged and sat across from Lucy and Juvia. That was about the time when their exceeds, Frosch and Lector, came over to their table.

"Hey, Sting. Who are those two?" Lector asked.

"Frosch is wondering too." said Frosch.

"They're new members of our guild." Sting answered. Lector and Frosch looked at Juvia and Lucy. Juvia smiled and waved at them while Lucy didn't bother to look at them.

"Hi. My name's Juvia." said Juvia.

"I'm Lucy." said Lucy.

"Hey, weren't you two part of Fairy Tail?" Lector asked.

"We used to be. But, they turned out to think of us like trash, so we quit them." Lucy explained. Suddenly, she felt something hug that was resting on the table. When she looked down, she saw Frosch wrapped around her arm.

"Frosch feel sorry for Lucy." said Frosch. Frosch began purr as he hugged Lucy's arm.

(A/N: I'm not sure if Frosch is a boy or girl, so I'm just making it a boy in the story.)

Lucy couldn't help but give a small smile at the small exceed. Even when she wasn't facing Juvia, Juvia knew that she saw Lucy smile.

"Lucy! Did you just smile!?" Juvia asked excitedly. Lucy's smile quickly disappeared as fast as it appeared. She also made the exceed let go of her arm.

"No, I didn't. I'm going to go train. Juvia, you can just relax for the day." Lucy said as she walked out of the guild, leaving Juvia with the twin dragonslayers.

"Sheesh. What's her problem? Ditching her best friend like that." said Sting.

"Don't say it like that. It's not Lucy's fault. She has a reason." said Juvia.

"And what is her reason?" Rouge asked. Juvia wasn't sure if she should tell them about it. She barely knows them. Not to mention that Lucy was irritated by Sting. But, she decided if anyone in the guild should, it should at least be them.

"Ok. When we were in Fairy Tail, Lucy was the first one to be ignored. I mean, no one in the entire guild would talk to her or notice her for months. It took me a few months to notice her as well, but I still became close to Lucy. It did seem that I began to be ignored as well, but I still had Lucy and she still had me. So, one day we decided it would be best that we go off and train for the up coming games and were heading to the guild. But, when we got there, we ended up hearing the entire guild calling Lucy weak, helpless, and useless. That must've broken her heart so much, that she doesn't want it to happen again so she shoved out all of her emotions." Juvia explained.

Rouge, Sting, Frosch, and Lector now had all of their mouths slightly hung open after hearing Juvia's whole story. The couldn't believe that Fairy Tail would treat their family so poorly, especially after what they had seen from Fairy Tail in the last Grand Magic Games. Now, it was Juvia's turn to receive an arm hug from Frosch. Juvia began to slowly pat Frosch's head.

"Man. Sounds like you guys have had it rough." said Sting.

"Yeah, we have. Anyway, I'd better go and find Lucy. When ever she does her training, she almost kills herself." Juvia said as she got up from her seat.

"Since I've got nothing to do, I'll come along." said Sting as he got up. Rouge and the others exceeds decided to follow as well. Juvia knew the spot where Lucy had found a giant lake a to train which was in private. There, she could train with Suirō as much as she wanted. After walking a mile or two, they reached the spot, but what they saw was both shocking, and impressive.

(A/N: HAHAHA! I love cliffhangers! :)