Author: I'm going to update the last chapters of this omakes' series now! Four chapters and then I'm going to start another story *smile cruelly* where Lucy is going to suffer!

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Hiro Mashima and I don't gain anything with this.

Omake XXII – Another day.

Lucy woke up and she felt a wave of hate. Then the sadness and the sorrow came. Lucy didn't want to get up and face the reality. It was July, 7th. But she wasn't the only one suffering on this day. Fifteen years ago, Grandine, Metalicana and Igneel had disappeared. Her Dragon Slayer friends must be suffering too… She couldn't be selfish and kept mourning over her dead mother when they had been suffering as long as her. So… she wiped her tears and smile warmly at her reflect. She had to be strong, at least for a few hours until her train were about to leave to Acalypha to see her mother. She thought Natsu would be looking for mission to search for Igneel, Wendy would be reading Grandine's techniques while Gajeel would be munching iron and ignoring everyone.

But she was disappointed when she went into the guild and everything was dark and sad and… the three Dragon Slayers were sitting at the same table, no looking at anyone, they were silent and the air around them was filled with anger and sadness. Lucy walked to the bar where Mirajane was cleaning a clean glass.

"Good morning, Mira-san. How are you?" Lucy's smile faded when the white-haired bartender shot her a teary look. "What's wrong?"

"It's the day." Lucy didn't understand it at first but when Mira's eyes travelled from her to the centre of the guild's darkness, if fit perfectly. "July, 7th."

"Yes, I know. Why are they so… sad?" It wasn't the right word but Lucy used it anyways.

"Lucy, don't you remember? It's July, 7th. Today is the day when dragons disappeared." Now Mirajane was looking with disapproval at the blonde mage.

"Ok, they disappeared fifteen years ago, I know. But I don't understand why they are so sad." Wrong choice of words. The guild was totally shocked at her statement, even Natsu was looking at her like she had said something horrible. "What? It's true."

"Lu-chan, I think you should be more careful with you words. You're not being polite." Levy tried to make her think about her behaviour and the shorter woman touched the Celestial Mage's arm to calm her.

"What? No! I'm being really polite." But seeing how everyone was judging her with their eyes, she wasn't a criminal. "You are here, darkening our guild with you sadness and your mourning. You are acting like cowards when you should be out there looking for them. But you're not doing anything."

Natsu's eyes were filled with angry fire and Gajeel grabbed her by the neck of her shirt.

"And what would you understand about this, bunny-girl? You had everything and you ran away from it." Gajeel wasn't a softie but now his words were poisonous. "You can't understand what today means to us."

"No, it's you the one to blame! How can you be so brave and now you're here crying like a pussy?" Lucy wasn't thinking straight, that for sure. "Are you serious? I'm disappointed."

"No, Gajeel-san!" Wendy stopped his punch just when it was about to hit Lucy. "Lucy-san, you don't need to be that hard with your words."

Lucy laughed bitterly and a tear rolled on her cheek. She couldn't understand it.

"I thought better of you." She wiped it and breathed slowly in order to calm her own pain. "Stop crying and fight! Go to look for your parents! They are waiting for you somewhere! At least your parents are alive…"

Natsu understood everything. Lucy wasn't being rude because she was mean. But he couldn't say anything because Lucy had left already. It was today. The dreadful day. July, 7th wasn't just the day when dragons disappeared and they weren't the only ones suffering.

"She is right at something. Natsu, you should take a mission and search clues. You would have been doing it before the time skip." Gray said from the bar. "Juvia, can you go with Lucy, she is suffering too."

"Why would be bunny-girl suffering today?"

"Her mother died 7 July X777." Erza was looking for a job for Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy. "Today is a bad day for her too."

"I'm going with Lucy too. I can't look for Igneel when Lucy is suffering alone. That is not Fairy Tail's spirit."

Natsu ran out of the guild following his partner's scent and soon Happy followed him. Gray and Erza too… they were a team and they would be with their mates always. But when they got to Acalypha, they stopped. Lucy wasn't alone. And she wasn't with Juvia either.

"Rogue, thank you for being here, you too, Fro." The Shadow Dragon Slayer and his exceed were with Lucy.

"No, thank you for inviting us." Fro jumped to Lucy's arm and hugged her. "We should go."

Her friends were shocked, Lucy didn't see her but her companion did see them and nodded to them.

"I think Lucy is well-accompanied." Erza smiled. Since the games, Rogue had been acting differently and Erza approved him as Lucy's protector. "Let's go. We have a mission to do."

Team Natsu left the train station. At the end of the day, Lucy was again at Fairy Tail, Team Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy were too there.

"I'm going home." Lucy said getting up.

"Wait, Lucy, I'll walk you home." Natsu walked with her. "I'm sorry. I forgot today wasn't a good day for you either."

"Don't worry, Natsu. You can't forget that your father is still out there waiting for you to find him. My mother is no longer with us, with me." Natsu hugged her. "And you won't be mourning with me every year, right?"

"No, but I should be more considerate. But you have a good friend now, right? That Rogue…"

"Oh, shut up!" Lucy blushed and smiled, hitting him lightly on the shoulder. "He is a good friend, indeed. And he went with me to meet my mother."

They talked and Natsu ended up sleeping on her bed. At the end of the day, 7th July was just another day.