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Chapter 1

Lucy sat in the guild looking around, thinking how some things never change as soon as she heard Gray and Natsu start their normal fight. Sighing, she took a sip of her strawberry milkshake and looked up to the second floor, hoping to see him. No one knew of her crush on the Rune Mage. She had a crush on him for a couple months now, even though she really hasn't talked to him.

He was sitting up at the normal table with his nose in a book. Bickslow, Laxus and Ever sitting around doing what they usually do. Laxus with his eyes closed and his sound pods on, Bickslow and Ever arguing about something. Lucy shook her head and went back to drinking her milkshake, and thinking how she was going to need to take a mission soon to pay her rent.

"Luce! Lucy! Watch out!" Was shouted by Natsu and Gray. Lucy turned, eyes going wide as she seen their attacks hurling towards her. She dived out of her chair, barely avoiding being hit by the attacks. They both ran over to her to make sure she was okay. She waved them off saying "I'm fine. But please be more careful!"

"Hey Natsu, would you want to go on a mission soon?" Lucy asked. Natsu beamed saying "Heck yeah!" Natsu drug Lucy over to the request board. They looked through the board and Natsu pulled one down and showed it to Lucy. She looked it over; the reward was 1,000,000 Jewels and a silver key. The request was to take down a small dark guild. Lucy thought about how she would be able to get ahead of her rent and save some money. She nodded to Natsu who took the request to Mira to have it approved.

"Natsu is your whole team going?"

"No way! Just Luce and me."

"I won't approve this unless you have at least one other member going with you!"

Natsu sighed, "Fine put Ice Princess down. Oi, Ice Princess you are coming with me and Lucy on a mission. We leave tomorrow."

Gray nodded, and asked what the mission would be. Lucy, Natsu and Gray sat around planning when to meet at the train station to leave. Lucy waved at them before going to her apartment to pack for their mission.

The next day…

The three mages got off at the train station in Balsam Village. The first thing they did was go to the Mayor's house who had requested help. After talking to the Mayor, they headed to the inn to grab a couple rooms.

"Okay I think we should do some scouting tonight to see what we will be up against, and then come up with a plan to take them out tomorrow." Lucy said.

Natsu frowned "Awe Luce, that's no fun! I'm all fired up and ready to fight!"

Lucy shook her head and stated that they needed to be prepared. Begrudgingly Natsu agreed. That evening Natsu, Gray and Lucy headed to where the dark guild was located, once they got there, they hid in the trees. "I hear at least 40 mages in there." Natsu stated.

"We still need to be careful tomorrow." Lucy said as they decided to head back to their hotel.

What will happen in the next chapter with the dark guild?