Hey guy's I know I'm still working on a few other stories at this current moment in time but my real life is a little hectic right now trying to balance my work and social life, so I'm bringing to you this WHOLE! Brand new story! That me and my fiancé have been talking about and I just can't get the idea out of my head, so this story is brought to you by CureDream90 and Articdragonslayer!

Chapter 1 – Journey

The crashing of waves against wood was all that filled the air, on this clear night, slight rocking of the boat that was sailing the great blue sea, strong smell of fresh salt water surrounding the boat. Up in the night sky there wasn't a cloud in sight, but there shining like diamonds, letting the world know on how beautiful they shone against the black sky, was the stars. The deck of this boat was empty, most of the people aboard was asleep apart from one woman, golden hair cascading to her shoulders, honey brown eye's looking up at the stars, wearing a pair of black skinny jeans, grey t-shirt, and a black denim waist coat.

On her right wrist held her favourite black leather wrist band, Closing her eye's she could hear the waves in the distant, or small shuffling on the boat underneath her feet indicating that someone was awake, but at this current moment in time she didn't care, in fact the blonde was deep in thought, thinking back to two days ago when this journey across the ocean happened.

Flashback

Sitting on a train coming back from her recent job, curled up in the burgundy red seat was the same blonde haired girl, holding her stomach slightly pale. She let out a grunt as she heard a voice over the tanoid 'Next stop Magnolia, please be careful when leaving the train and mind the gap onto the platform, please make sure all personal belongings are with you. Thank you for your journey!'

Closing her eye's she waiting for the train to stop before standing up to move, once it did though she quickly picked up the purple rucksack and hurried off the train before taking a deep breath of fresh air before stretching out her lazy limbs from the long train ride.

"Well, that's another job done" Letting out a small sigh she began heading out of the station towards a well-known rowdy guild that was known for it's destruction and trouble, FAIRY TAIL, "I better let them know I'm back before heading back to my apartment for a nice long relaxing back" she shove her hands in the grey boot cut jeans, she had just returned from a solo job in clover town taking out a small dark guild that had been terrorising the town, demanding money and threatening to harm young children if they didn't get their way, fortunately the blonde saw the request fuming about it, and walked out of her guild to deal with the problem. The reward was 300,000 jewels, which would last her a good few months before needing anymore, so here she was returning 3 days after finishing the job and standing in front of the large doors to her guild.

Closing her eye's, she could hear how loud the guild members was, and someone shouting out "YOU ICE PRICK! COME SAY THAT TO MY FACE!"

Letting out a small chuckle, she missed being able to talk with the owner of that voice, he had been the person to bring her to the guild in the first place. Opening the doors with a large grin on her face "I'M BACK!" everyone turned to her and cheered raising their mugs "WELCOME BACK LUCY!" grinning she walked further into the guild her feet against the wooden floor boards, until she reached the bar, "welcome back Lucy, the normal?" giving a nod the silver hair bar maid began getting the order ready.

Taking the rucksack off her shoulder, sitting down on the bar stool, her eye's wandered around the guild Lucy loved so much, her friends and family before sighing again, until she heard a deep male voice behind her "Glad to see you made it back in one piece blondie!" raising an eye brow she turned her head slightly to see a muscular blonde with a lightining bolt scar going down his right eye, "Of course I did spark plug, and Your blonde to! Why are you over here bothering me?" he sat down beside her, placing a mug of beer on the table.

"Blondie this has been your 15th mission since jiji ((AKA Gramps)) has disbanded team Natsu for being such a destructive team you're in and out of the guild constantly, gone for a few days then back again to pick up a new mission before heading out again. He never disbanded your friendship with them idiots." She looked to the man, "I know that Laxus but ever since the team disbanded, not one of them has come to speak to me, so doing missions keeps my mind off it. Sure going solo is lonely but at least there isn't anything destroyed and I get the full reward to myself. Plus I like helping people out so more jobs I get, the more I help people."

Bopping his head slightly crossing his arms looking down at the slender woman, "While this maybe true but you also need to give yourself time to recouperate otherwise you are going to collapse on one of the missions you go on. Isn't that right Mira?" turning to the barmaid who'd dropped of Lucy's strawberry milkshake she nodded, "He's right Lucy I barely see you around the guild anymore"

Running a hand through her golden hair she smiled to them, "Alright I'll take a few days off before going out on my next job, I think I just finished the last decent paid one on the board anyway" the larger man let out a smirk, "I'll make you a deal blondie, you stick to 3 days of rest, and I'll pick us out an S-class mission to go on ok?" Lucy's eye's suddenly bulged out of their sockets, "Excuse me? Is THE! Laxus Dreyer wanting to go on a job with someone like me? I'm not strong enough for an S-class mission!"

"Oi, I wouldn't ask if I didn't think you was strong enough, 15 missions blondie, and 10 of them was dark guilds taken out by your hands alone, I damn well think you're strong enough for a mission with me" He flashed her a smile and leaned down, "An I'll get to see that body of yours in action, Maybe get some action myself" suddenly a hand was in his face pushing it away, "No way in hell sparky would I ever give you some action! Pervert! Although you have a deal on the mission, if there's one with any celestial key's pick that one" rolling his eye's he sat back taking a sip of his beer, "Deal I'll let you know the details tomorrow on the mission"

Looking around the guild, Natsu and Lisanna was sat talking at one table, Gray was stripping trying to start a fight with the rose haired boy.

Erza was at another table eating some strawberry cake while talking to a midnight blue haired man, smiling Lucy knew that Erza always had feelings for him she had just been waiting till his name was cleared before making a move on him.

Finishing off her milkshake, "Well I think I'll head to the market before heading home for dinner and a bath, and bed since it's DR Dreyer's orders I get some rest before our big mission together," she winked sticking out her tongue at him.

"Stick that tongue out anymore and I'll show you where it can go Blondie," hitting him on the back of his head, she gave another wink "In your dreams Dreyer, in….your …Dre-" her words was suddenly cut off when she suddenly leaned forward hissing in pain from her right side just below her ribs.

"Blondie? Oi! Lucy are you ok?" he stood up slightly frantic, drawing attention to them from other guild members.

"I'm….fine…" she hissed threw the pain, she went to stand up but was knocked back when another intense pain shot through making it feel like she shattered a rib, her knee's buckled underneath and began heading to the floor before the dragon slayer managed to catch her.

"Looks like you may have been injured on your last mission WENDY!" at the sudden commotion, the former members of team Natsu suddenly crowded round stopping the small blue haired dragon slayer getting to her patient. "Luce! What's happened! What did this prick do to you?"

"ME! I didn't do arse hole! Blondie was just about to head home when!"

Laxus stopped speaking to Natsu when he felt Lucy's grip on his arm tighten, looking down at her face she was breathing threw her teeth holding just below her ribs, "I …wasn't injured on my last job….. this…. This is something else…" Her eye's snapped open and them honey brown orbs was wide, "No….it can't be…"

Everyone was confused, when Erza reached out to touch her friend, Laxus pulled back keeping a protective hold on Lucy, while giving her a slight glare, "Lucy, if you was not injured on your mission, then how are you in pain? What can't it be?" "Laxus, Jiji's office now!" was all the blonde replied and Laxus quickly pushed passed with Lucy in his arms towards his grandfathers office.

Once the two left, Erza looked over to Mira for an answer but before asking, she could see the silver haired woman just as shocked and worried for Lucy than she was. Sure Erza felt guilty that she hadn't really spoken to Lucy in a little over two months but she still considered the girl her little sister.

Upstairs in Makarov's office

Makarov sat completely shocked, his grandson had kicked his door open carrying Lucy in his arms then ever so gently laying her onto the sofa before kneeling down and pushing some hair out of the girls eye's, sweat glistened on her forehead as she held her ribs in pain.

Suddenly snapping out of his shocked expression he stood up and walked around the dark brown desk over to the two youngsters, "I don't mean to be rude my boy but what's going on? Who hurt Lucy?" a low animalistic grown left his grandsons lips before turning to Makarov, "I don't know jiji, she was fine one minute then the next she's in pain, and it's not due to her mission. Blondie what's going on?"

Taking some deep breaths, she looked to the two then her eye's settled on Makarov, "Jiji, I know this is sudden but…. I need to leave the country for a while" both male dreyers looked to her in shock, "Why my child? What's going on?"

Biting her lip slightly, she didn't know how to tell them closing her eye's she took in a deep shaky breath noticing on how hard it was to breath, "before I came to Magnolia, I … I was in America, South Dakota to be exact….. I … became best friends with someone and I …. I think he's in danger, he's hurt…. I can't really explain it but I'm still connected to him… I don't know how because I thought we destroyed the item that connected his pain to mine but I can feel it. He's injured and I need to go to him."

She opened her eye's looking to the master of the guild, he seemed to be deep in thought "Hmm, I've heard about other countries that don't co-excist with Fiora, so I don't know the dangers over there, but my child if you feel you must go, I cannot stop you but I do have one condition" Laxus couldn't believe what he was hearing, one minute he was agreeing to going on a mission with the blonde, now she was wanting to leave the country due to some phantom pain she was having.

"…You can't be serious Blondie, you can't travel in your condition!" concern wrapped around his voice, she reached a hand out and cupped his face, "When one of my friends is in danger I will always…. Be there… I need to go Laxus please understand, he's like my brother…."

Makarov looked between the two seeing the effection that they had, he had noticed his grandson slowly becoming friends with the light of their guild after he disbanded Team Natsu 2 months ago. She had began to break down the walls that his grandson had built away from himself and his friends, not even the Thunder god tribe knew Laxus that well.

"Laxus, My condition is that you will accompany her on this journey, if you need to put a team together as well then only take with you who you think is best for this, but I advise trying not to take the destructive ones."

Lucy looked to Makarov and smiled, "we won't need a team, it's just to visit an old friend, for all I know he could have just fallen off a ladder again, he got stuck up one once that was 10ft in the air." She couldn't help but laugh slightly at the memory of it. "When will you be leaving?" asked the elder Dreyer, she looked up to Laxus, his face pleading for her to rest but she sighed, "we leave tomorrow it will take 3 days by boat to get to America and if I'm correct they only leave once a day at 10am, so buzzer boy don't be late."

The lightening dragon slayer scoffed a little bit, but smirked, "I won't be late, after all you promised me dinner tonight, and maybe some dessert after" but only to receive a weak punch to his chest a second later, " Get your mind out of the gutter you pervert! An I never agreed to make you dinner! I'm not your wife!"

He picked her up gently off the sofa turning to his grandfather who suddenly seemed to have passed out on the floor with a nose bleed, most likely thinking of Lucy naked, he grunted "Hey old man! Note it down that Me and blondie here are taking a month long S-class mission, That way the Flame idiot and stripper doesn't try to follow" with that he walked out, down the stairs, quickly stopping for Lucy's bag before ignoring everyone and carrying the girl out of the guild down to strawberry street where the celestial mage lived.

End of flashback

So now here she was looking out into the vast darkness of the night, Laxus was currently in the room they had rented for the night trying not to throw his guts up from the motion sickness. It had slightly gotten to her too but the strong will of wanting to get to America as fast as possible made her push the Emotion sickness down.

That was until she felt the keys on her hip warm up and an all too familiar hand being placed on her shoulder, "Loke…." The male, leader of her Zodiac spirits walked to her side watching his master. He could see worry, slight pain and concern deep within her brown eye's, but he also saw something else…Determination, "Lucy, we all felt your pain the other day, and we know no one injured you, we are all confused and concerned….i'm concerned what's going on?"

Lucy sighed leaning on the railing of the boat, "I'm not too sure yet Loke, I wish I knew but I have a bad feeling about something… and I have a feeling that an old friend of mine is in danger. I .. can't reveal yet on how I know but I need to get to South Dakota quickly." The lion spirit leaned his back against the railing looking up at the stars shining in the sky, "Well just remember you have grown more powerful with the help of His training…. But… don't forget that us celestial spirits will be there to protect you also."

She let out a soft smile to her friend, "Thank you I know I was surprised when He offered to train me, but I will never forget about my friends, i can promise you that, and I never go back on them. You know that one," she stood up and took one more look at the night sky before looking back to Loke, he was just handsome, his orange hair stood up on ends, and pointing slightly to look like ears, his suit made him look wealthy and his glasses accompanying the suit made him look dashing. "I can also promise you this Loke, America is completely different to Magnolia, I can assure you that you will be quite shocked on how they live, but for now I best go get some rest, tell Aries that I said hi for me will ya?"

She noticed a light blush that dusted his cheeks before straightening his tie, "Anything for you princess, an I will have to see this AMERICA for myself, goodnight" he leaned over giving her a slight kiss on the cheek before disappearing in the same golden light he had appeared in.

She took one more look at the ocean before her eye's hardened, "I'm coming Jinksy….just hang in there dude..." was the last words she spoke in the cool crispy air before heading off to a restless slumber.

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And that is the end of chapter one! I hope you like it and I know it's a lot different to what I usually end up writing! Why does Lucy have these phantom pains ?

Who is this friend she has that no one knows about?

Why is Laxus being friendly with her?

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The next chapter will be out tomorrow!

For now though Curedream90! Over and out!

I do not own Fairy tail! All that credit goes to Hiro!