After the Dragon Queen left Lucy decided to open a portal to her apartment so she could get changed and ready to face the world and make a name for herself. She walked into her apartment and changed into black shorts and a black shirt. Over the top she put on a cloak to hide her face. After she finished she looked in the mirror and saw that even though her magic and eyes have changed her hair was still blonde. Her hair reached her hips and had gotten wavy over time of constant flying, fighting and meditating. She called out her celestial spirit Cancer and instructed him to do her hair. After Cancer was done Lucy now had black hair still the same length and with red streaks running through it. She pulled out her earphones that played music even if it wasn't plugged into anything. Lucy now had a staff that she carried around everywhere and the staff made it easier to do a lot of things. It keeps most of her powerful aura inside of her, it casts large spells, it turns into a sword and it can call out her celestial spirits. Never after she got the staff from the Queen had the Dragons seen her without the staff. When she was ready she walked out of her apartment and walked to the train station. People were staring at her because of her black cloak and her black and blue staff. But Lucy just ignored them and went on the next train leading to the heart of the dark guilds.

'Excuse me Ma'am where is your destination?'

Lucy looked up slightly and saw that there were many people staring at her and that there was a train conductor leaning over her trying to see her face. Lucy ducked her head lower so he couldn't see any more than he should and the mumbled.

'To the heart of the dark guilds'

Not surprisingly everyone gasped and stared at Lucy even more and the train conductor visibly paled.

'I am going to destroy them so don't worry.'

Everyone sighed in relief and now everyone was smiling at Lucy. They had wanted the heart of the dark guild gone. The heart of the dark guilds was surrounded by a powerful magic barrier that killed anybody if the touched it except for the people in a dark guild. The dark guild members came to the villages close by the heart and took away the kids to go and work for them in the farms so the members could eat. Now that Lucy had told them that she was going to destroy it they all loved Lucy. But none of them actually spoke to Lucy because they were all still nervous about her with her black cloak and her staff.
After hours of sitting on the train it had finally stopped and a train conductor nearly bounced over to her to tell her it was time for her to get off. Even though that sounded mean and cruel Lucy knew what he meant so she didn't take it to heart. She stood up and walked out of the train and headed towards the sign that said keep out or you WILL die! Lucy ignored the sign and just walked past it.
When she reached the barrier she put her staff in front of her and her and mumbled be gone! Lucy turned her staff into her sword and put it on her belt that was waiting for it and then walked forward. Not long after that a line of dark mages were in front of her and when they went to go at Lucy she just poisoned them all with her poison dragon slaying magic. Just as she was about to move forward again another line of dark mages appeared in front of her. Lucy got bored after a while of dealing with these weak mage and so she just let out another tenth of her magic power and they all dropped to the ground. Lucy smirked and once again when she went to move forward more people appeared in front of her.
Lucy was about to knock them out but the one in the front held up his hands.

'We are not dark mages. Because you dispelled the barrier and got rid of the mages we came to take them away so you could go.'

'Who are you?'

'I am Lahar of the Knights. You are powerful would you like to come and join the knights now that you have completed your work here?'

'This is not what I came for.'

'It's not. What else is here?'

'Never mind. Take these mages away and I will contact you straight away. Before then just stay there it will be dangerous what I am getting and I don't think that you could handle that much power.'

Lahar nodded and was about to leave when he realised that he never got the girls name.

'Excuse me but what is your name?'

'My name is Dara.'

'Dara…'

'Heart.'

'Alright Dara Heart I will be waiting.'

Lahar turned around and disappeared. Lucy turned around and started to walk towards the heart of this small town. By the time she had gotten to her destination it was night but Lucy didn't care and started to look around for the objects that were here.
Lucy looked in a small house in the back of the row of houses and saw exactly what she was looking for.

'Lahar.'

As soon as Lucy mumbled this she bent down and picked up a gem and put a barrier around it and the other powerful object. She then placed the gem inside of her coat and waited for Lahar to come.

'Have you found them?'

'Yes there they are there. I took a gem that I needed, don't worry there wasn't much use of the gem to anyone else except me and that was the only thing I took.'

'Alright.'

Lahar turned around and picked up the objects and noticed that Dara had put up barriers around them.

'Dara.'

Lahar turned around and expected to see Dara but she was gone.