Five years later

"Hey Luce? Luce? Where the hell did that damn demon go" a now fourteen year-old Lucy cries.

Eventually collapsing in a pile of leaves Lucy gives up realizing that she's been left behind, again.

"I thought I found someone who cared for me again, but like Mama they just left me behind." Lucy says beginning to cry. Suddenly a warmth begins to emit on her side, smiling Lucy's rubs her hands over her keys "That's true, at least I'll always have you guys by my side" Lucy says referring to her spirits. "But- now what am I gonna do?" Lucy asks her trusted friends, once she's fully done crying over Lucifer leaving her.

"Miss Lucy, might I recommend traveling as a solo mage for now." Capricorn says popping out of his key, deciding that now would be the perfect time to show up. "You may have the power, but you need the experience now."

"Tch, You should a let the brat figure that out herself." Aquarius, Lucy's closest spirit says, before agreeing with the sea goat.

"Oh, that sounds like a good idea," smiling after being silent for so long "And I know just where to go, Luce mentioned a place while we were training" Lucy says to her two most trustworthy spirits.

"And where might that be Lucy" the loyal spirit asks.

"Luce mentioned a country in the West that would give me plenty of fighting experience… it was called Alvarez" the teenager says smiling creepily like her old teacher.

Miss Lucy's strong but Alvarez, what was Lucifer thinking when mentioning that place to her? Capricorn all but thinks. I swear that Demon had a one-track mind when it came to be raising her.

Tch no use trying to change her mind, the mermaid thinks, rolling her eyes.

Both spirits look to another before nodding accepting there's no changing their masters mind.

"Well, it's gonna take a while to get there so be prepared for the journey" the mermaid says as she disappears back to the spirit world.

Looking around the forest Lucy sighs "Well I guess I better get a move on, who knows maybe I'll even find some more gate keys on the way" the Demon slayer says as she packs the last of the remaining things from her time with Luce.

A year and a half later

"RUN! it's the Ishgar Demon!" a rogue bandit yells, trying but failing to use his shadow magic to escape.

"Celestial Fire Demon Secret Arts: Purgatory Inferno" a blaze of flames considered hotter than the sun by those it touches and yet golden like the stars shoots out from the white cloaked figure decimating one of strongest dark guild in the Western continent of Alakitasia, Hell's Nightmare den. While this mysterious person continues to project flames from their entire body, they become momentarily distracted, giving the master of the destroyed guild time to sneak up from behind with the plan to finally rid of this person who has been going around destroying every Dark Guild in the Alvarez Empire.

"I've got you know Ishgar Demon, and when I kill you everyone will know the na-ack" words left unsaid as a man in a black suit pops up out of nowhere to knock him unconscious.

"Princess you really must watch your entire surroundings," adjusting glasses, "this brute almost touched your pretty vicious little head", Loke says bowing.

"Hahaha, sorry Loke, but on the bright side, another dark guild down" Lucy says with a toothy grin, celestial fire still burning bright around her.

"Tch, and what only a hundred more to go" Aquarius says in her usual annoyed mood.

Laughing Lucy looks around at the tied-up mages making sure all are accounted for before leaving. Well that was easy, let's hope the next one brings a better battle.

As the Demon slayer / celestial mage goes to leave the bandits she doesn't notice as one of the bandits wakes up catching a glance of her face.

"So, she's the Ishgar demon" Falling back the man's last thoughts are "How can someone so vicious look so innocent."

At the magic Council

"Do you really think bringing in this mage, and honoring them as a wizard saint, will really stop them from turning on us" a well-dressed man asks as he walks in on the middle of a heated discussion.

"Perhaps, perhaps not, but whoever this mage is they show a magical prowess that is far beyond anyone we have ever seen, Draco" rank four wizard saint Warrod Sequen says.

"Well then if that is the case what rank would you consider them" now identified as Dracos Hyberion number 2 rank wizards saint drawls.

"To be able to rid of over half of the dark guilds occupying Alvarez, including Hell's Nightmare one that even our strongest mages could not, and if our information here is correct hold the power of a demon slayer and celestial mage," looking to the shocked faces of his colleagues Warrod continues "I'd say they are worthy of fifth rank wizard saint" Warrod Sequen announces to the rest of the wizard council.

All councilmen looking at the final picture of a blonde girl grinning viciously at her defeated foes, with a man in a black suit on her left and a scorpion on her right.

With one thought in mind, where did this girl come from?

Three years later

" And just why are we heading to magnolia?"

"You already know why Lucy, you've been traveling for years, it's time to settle down, take a break" her lion spirit replies.

Sighing the demon slayer relents, agreeing that after all she has done in Alvarez, making her way back to Fiore and looking into joining an actual guild sounds nice.

"But why Magnolia" Lucy asks again.

"Do you remember the guild I was in before you saved me from my certain death?" Loke says smiling at the tall blonde.

"Hmm, not really, most of my memory from back then is yelling at stacheface and earning your loyalty, which thanks again Loke" Lucy says winking at her spirit.

Laughing at the girl's tenaciousness, he shakes his head, "Well yeah interacting with the spirit king is a pretty big deal so I'll let it slide, but to remind you, I was a part of Fairy Tail Fiore's strongest guild".

Nodding her head Lucy let's Loke continue.

"I think you'll fit right in with their destructiveness, and they have a dragon slayer so maybe he knows the whereabouts of Lucifer" Loke says trying to make Fairy Tail sound a bit more enticing.

Sighing Lucy thinks it over, she really enjoys being a solo mage, but being a part of a guild would probably be nice too. Uh making decisions are such a drag, she thinks.

"Fine Loke, I'll join, but only because I'm pretty sure you want to go back to Fairy Tail and as celestial mage I promised to do whatever I could to make all my spirits happy", Lucy says casually, ignoring Loke's shocked face at the blonde doing something just for him.

"So where is this place, I'm hungry and that guild has to have food right." Lucy says at this point her only objective is getting food in her stomach.

"Well first we must stop in Hargeon to get some supplies, then we can get back on track to our way for Fairy Tail" Loke announces.

Fine, Fine, as long as I get something to eat, I'm good" Lucy says as they enter a town. "Hmm, a magic shop I wonder if there's a gate key in there?"

"So, she's heading for Fairy Tail, Lahar?" a council member asks.

"Yes, it seems as though her soloing days are over."

"It's amazing you were even able to locate her back then and get her to talk with you Warren" a member says.

"Yes, well even then she didn't seem to really know what we were honoring her with" Warren laughs, remembering the girls confused face when being told about her status and all it entails.

"For someone so powerful, she seems quite dense" Draco drawls.

"I don't know, from what I've heard she's quite strategic when taking down guilds " a young man states.

"Hmm. She's quite special that one" Warren says sagely.

The old shopkeeper looked up when his customer entered. The girl had blond hair with some of it tied in a tail at the back, and was wearing a white cloak with black pants, and matching combat boots. She also had a wrap on her left arm which piqued his interest, but she looked like one mage you didn't want to mess with.

"Oi, old man." She greeted. "You got any cool stuff in here?"

The man began to look around. "I did get some new stuff recently, but not many people in Hargeon use magic, so I mostly have things for traveling mages."

"Do you have any gate keys?" Lucy asked him. "Preferably strong ones?"

The man brightened. "I have the white dog key, but I'm pretty sure it's not very strong."

Lucy shrugged. "Whatever, I'll take it. How much?"

"20,000 jewels"

The blonde couldn't help but let smoke out of her mouth at the blatant thievery this old man was trying to pull.

"Excuse me, but how much did you say it was", a puff of fire breathed out of the girls' mouth.

"Did you have to threaten the man for a 15,000-jewel discount, Lucy" Loke sweat drops.

"Yup that man was trying to rip me off, so I had to show him who was boss." The girl says head held high.

Sighing the lion spirit smiles at his master antics, never change princess. "Well I'm off Lucy, need some rest if I'm going to join you when you get to the guild" the spirit says before disappearing.

"Hmm".

Lucy snapped out of her reverie when she noticed a multitude of girls running somewhere. "What the hell's going on?"

"You!" She grabbed a random girl and swung her around to face her. "Tell me what's going on. Now!"

"Salamander-Sama is in town!" The giddy girl squealed, not even noticing how she was treated. "Hurry or you'll miss him!"

Lucy frowned and let the girl go. "Salamander?" She rubbed her face trying to think of who the hell that was, remembering from Loke someone with that name being in Fairy Tail.

"Well, he seems popular." Lucy observed as she watched girls flock towards one spot. "Didn't think Fairy Tail mages were such show offs" slightly reconsidering joining such a guild.

"Move." The girl muttered, shoving past the crowd. "Get lost. You too. Out of my way." She pushed past the last two women and looked at Salamander.

"Huh." She frowned.

"This isn't worth my time." She muttered. "You'd have to be an idiot to fall for that Charm spell he's throwing around. Guess that explains why so many weak fangirls are here."

"Igneel!" Someone shouted, catching her attention. "Igneel!"

Lucy looked back towards the scene and watched a pink-haired boy frown at the fake Salamander. "Who are you?" She heard.

Hehe, funny... She thought, as she watched the horde of women stomp the boy flat.

"Now, now." The pretender soothed. "I'm sure he didn't mean to insult me." He scribbled something down on a piece of paper and handed it to Natsu. "Here, you can have my autograph."

"I don't want it." The boy pouted, before the beating recommenced.

"He doesn't understand women at all, does he?" Lucy asked herself. "Lucy neither do you" Loke tells the girl telepathically.

"Hey, I do too!", stopping mid walk to argue with herself her romancing skills, the fake salamander begins to speak.

"I appreciate the attention, ladies." The fake smiled charmingly once Natsu was sent flying. "But I have some errands to run, so please excuse me." He leapt on a wisp of purple flame and soared away. "We're having a party on my ship tonight!" He shouted, fading away. "So please come!"

"Well, time for lunch" Lucy announces, stopping halfway when a hand tugs on her cloak

Lucy looked at the salmon haired boy" Huuungry".

The girl looked at him weirdly, reaching out a hand to help Natsu up. "You're weird. I like you! Come on I was heading to go eat"

"YOSH! Come on Happy, the nice lady is feeding us!"

"You're nice" Natsu choked in between bites of food.

Lucy swallowed her horde of food before speaking. "Yeah, I saved 15000 jewels today, so I'm feeling generous. And for some reason I feel a kinship to you."

"Aye!" Happy mumbled around his fish.

Lucy sweat dropped as food kept flying everywhere because of the three of them. "So, you're Salamander, right? I'm a mage too, you know."

Natsu eyed her suspiciously. "How'd you know I'm a mage?"

Lucy shrugged. " I could sense your power. So, who's Igneel? And why were you searching for him in Hargeon?"

"Igneel was the person who raised Natsu, we thought it might be that Salamander here, turns out it wasn't" Happy says.

Natsu paused his eating. "Ya that guy didn't even look like a dragon at all. I bet he can't even breathe fire or fly." Natsu grumbled to himself as he crossed his arms in disappointment..." Natsu finishes slumping.

"Why the hell would you think a dragon would be in the middle of a small town, even I'm not that dumb." Lucy said.

Coming from the same person who made us accept that mission in that small village to take down a fire breathing monster because you thought it might be Luce., Aquarius remarks.

Shut up you overgrown fish, Lucy thinks.

Natsu frowned at that, "Oh, we didn't think of that."

"I guess I'll be going." Lucy stood up and put a few bills. "It was nice meeting you."

Every head snapped to Natsu and Happy as they knelt in front of Lucy, bowing and thanking her for the food as tears ran down their cheeks.

"What!" The blond yelled, sending them into a wall with a kick. "Stop making a scene!"

"So that's Fairy Tail huh, they seem to cause a lot of trouble, huh?" Lucy mused to no one as she reclined on a park bench, studying a copy of Sorcerer Weekly. "Sheesh. That Salamander guy destroyed the Devon Thief family and seven houses belonging to townsfolk along with it." Guess I would fit in after all.

Lucy flipped the page over to see a white-haired teen modeling. "Oh, this Mira Jane girl is pretty.

Lucy gave a large smile. "There's no denying it, Fairy Tail is the best!" She exclaimed.

"I see." The fake Salamander popped out of the bush behind her bench. "So, you want to join Fairy Tail."

"Huh?"

"I've been looking for you, you know." The man continued. "I really wanted to invite a beautiful lady such as yourself to my party."

Lucy scowled. "Get lost, weirdo."

"Wait up!" The poser shouted as he ran after her. "I can get you into Fairy Tail!"

There's something weird about how insistent he is. Lucy frowned. Maybe I should see this thing through, just in case he's up to something. But I reeeeally don't want to.

"Lucy". Her Lion spirit scolds.

"Fine." Lucy sighed. "I'll come."

"Great!" The man grinned. "Just come to my ship this evening and I'll get you in Fairy Tail for sure!"

Lucy sighed again as the guy flew off on his weird fire. What a drag.

"So, your name's Lucy, huh?" The man smiled. "That's a very nice name. It suits you."

Lucy gave a bored nod, sprawled out on a sofa and reading her magazine.

"You don't act like most girls I've met." The pseudo-Salamander observed. "You're very... different."

"Hmm, Lucy scoffed. "Yeah, well Lucifer said that to be different is to be great"

The man sweat dropped at the name referral before pouring her a glass of wine. "Here you go, a festive drink for a festive party."

"Sure." Lucy grunted, drinking it and requesting another. "Uh that was disgusting what the hell was in that".

"Why-how the hell are you not knocked out." The poser says nervously. "That drink had enough sleeping serum to knock out a wizard saint".

"I've immuned myself to that type of stuff", yawning she speaks again, "now can you tell those grunts of yours to come out" Lucy says taking another drink of the spiked wine.

"Lucy stop drinking the wine already" Loke says popping out annoyed with his master.

"But I'm thirsty?"

"Yes, but you also have to defeat these jerks" igniting his fist "and while you won't get knocked out by the serum, you aren't immune to getting drunk" Loke says pointedly.

Caught up in their argument they fail to notice the fake Salamander call out his henchman.

The host snapped his fingers. "You heard the lady. Come out!"

"Guess it's time men, let's get the weirdo." The leader observed, holding up a branding iron. Before he or the others could act, however, Natsu crashed through the ceiling.

Lucy stared. "What in the...?" Taking advantage of the distraction, a thug yanked her keys out of her hand and threw them out into the sea.

"Damn Salamander!" Lucy screamed, punching the same man with a golden fist, she turns to Natsu who was rapidly turning green from motion sickness. "Loke and I had this covered! What are you doing here?"

"Grr, whatever." "Just deal with this guy, I need to get my keys back." Before the fake Salamander could react, she ran up to the railing and jumped over it into the water.

"What a drag, I have to take care of an annoying guy on a boat and save Natsu." Lucy says once she gathers her keys. Whatever, at least I get to see Aquarius. Laughing Lucy grabs the key she was looking for. Plunging the tip of a key into the water she shouts "Open, Gate of the Water Bearer. Aquarius!"

A mermaid-ish woman appeared next to Lucy, carrying a vase filled with water.

"Tch." The spirit scoffed. "What do you want you fire breathing brat?"

"Hey", Lucy shouted at Aquarius.

The woman sighed dramatically. "Hey, what?"

"Don't take that tone with me, Aqua!"

"What are you gonna do about it, hmm?" You're in my domain squirt" the spirit says smirking.

Grumbling the blonde looks away, "Nothing"

"Indeed." Aquarius gives a grin. "Seriously though, what do you need this time?"

Lucy pointed at the ship. "Just blast that back to shore."

The woman nodded and prepared her vase. "Too easy."

Aquarius swung her vase and a huge whirlpool formed under the ship, swirling it around and around until the churning suddenly ended and the ship was sent hurling to the shore with a large wave bearing down on it.

"Done. Hey, how the hell did you survive that death trap without getting motion sickness?"

"Mind over matter?" Lucy says innocently.

Aquarius burst out laughing. "Yeah right. You made Loke give you a motion sickness pill again didn't you, you know those are gonna wear off the more you use them, right?"

Shrugging the demon slayer looks away "better than dying on that piece of crap". Smiling the mermaid goes "We'll, I'm done here. Don't call on me for the next week, I'll be going on vacation with my boyfriend. You know, that thing you'll never have?"

"I'm single by choice!"

Aquarius laughed again. "Sure, Lucy." She told the girl as she disappeared.

"Ah, the rocking stopped." Natsu straightened up. "You. Are you a mage of Fairy Tail?"

Looking from the port, Lucy sighed. "What a waste, getting all riled up like that over one crook." She muttered.

The faker sneered. "And if I am, then what?"

Natsu scowled and threw a random thug at the man. "I'm Natsu of Fairy Tail, and I have never seen your face before!"

"That mark." A badly beat-up grunt wheezed, staring at Natsu's bare shoulder. "He's the real deal, Bora-san."

"Don't call me that, you idiot!"

"Bora of Prominence." Lucy muttered. "He got kicked out of the Titan Nose guild because he used magic to steal."

"Aye." Happy agreed, floating next to her head.

"I don't care if you're a bastard or a damn hero." Natsu growled. "I won't forgive you for using our name!"

"Shut up, brat." Bora sneered and blasted Natsu with purple fire. "Heh, that showed him."

"That's just awful." Natsu announced as the flames were somehow sucked into his open mouth. "I've never eaten such disgusting flames before. Are you really a fire mage?"

"So, another slayer huh." Lucy commented. "I wonder if he knows where Lucifer is".

"Who's Lucifer?" Happy asked.

"The demon who taught me my magic".

Happy sweat dropped "A demon taught you celestial magic? I thought that was a holy type of magic"

"No, my mother taught me my celestial magic, Lucifer was the demon who taught me my Celestial fire demon slaying magic, but then disappeared 4 years ago."

"Whoa Natsu's dragon disappeared seven years ago, how weird is that?" Happy says.

"Pretty weird, I was gonna ask if he knew where Lucifer was, but since the time periods don't match up, I'm guessing not"

"Yeah, we don't know. But you must be pretty powerful if you have two types of magic!" Happy exclaims.

"Uh, I guess so" Lucy says scratching her chin.

Happy couldn't help but think one thing "Her and Natsu would be great friends!"

"Aah." The pink-haired boy wiped his mouth. "That hit the spot."

"What the hell?" Bora shouted in fear. "He just ate fire!"

"Now that I've eaten, I'm all fired up!" Natsu yelled, before putting his fists in front of his face and taking a deep breath.

"Bora-san, I've seen him before!" One of the thugs shouted. "That pink hair and the scaly-looking scarf... he's the real Salamander!"

Natsu roared as he blew out a gust of flame all over the battlefield, before jumping through it with a flaming fist and nailing Bora right in the face. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

Bora screamed in pain as he shot through several walls, bringing down an entire row of buildings.

"Natsu learned this from Igneel." Happy explained. "It's dragon slayer magic. He can eat fire and use it for power like a dragon!"

"That's cool and all." Lucy remarked as Natsu spewed out more flames for some reason. "But he took down half the city. Who's gonna cover this."

"Aye!"

"That didn't answer my question cat."

A contingent of soldiers rushed into the city. "What is the meaning of this?" The commander yelled at them.

"Crap, I got to go", Lucy shouted, heading to run off in a random direction before Natsu grabs her.

"I heard you wanted to join a guild, come on I'm taking you to Fairy Tail! Your weirdness is gonna fit right in there!"

"Aye sir" Happy yells flying next to the two slayers running towards a new adventure.

Well Loke guess we're almost to our new home, Lucy thinks as she continues to get dragged further away from the destroyed town.

As you can tell Lucy has a laid back devil may care attitude, thanks to Lucifer of course. She's kinda lazy when it comes to actually having to do stuff. That was a small taste of the type of moves she uses and in this story her and Natsu will still be best friends. I kinda edited some stuff so the council met lucy already and that's how she got her status. Realized I jumped around so hope this is better.