Prologue

Author's Note: So, I originally posted this story on Qoutev, but I figured I'd put it on here too~ :3 

Lucy's P.O.V.Since I was little, I've wanted to be a part of Fairy Tail. Now, I am. Thanks to my best friend Natsu. Natsu is a fire dragon slayer, or better said Salamander. The games are over now, the eclipse portal was closed off, which stopped most of the dragons (all but seven, which are gone. Sadly, none of the dragon slayers managed to slay a dragon) and Natsu and I along with our guild are returning things back to normal. Or, at least that's what we're calling it until we think of something better to define our lives. I know everyone wants everything to go back to the usual, I get that. But... in the midst of everything going down at the games, I realized something. I am in love with my best friend, Natsu. But he is with Lisanna, so its not like I can ever tell him how I feel. No, my unrequited love for him will die along with me, because as much as it hurts to say it, they are happy together. I cannot even imagine ruining that. 

Part of me resents Lisanna for being missing for those three years and then just being accepted back like she had never left. The other part of me scolded myself. She is nice, one of my best friends now and would do anything for Fairy Tail. Maybe I feel this way because I'm no longer a part of Team Natsu. I was replaced with Lisanna. Even though Natsu asked me to stay, I told him I thought he and Lisanna should get a chance to hang out more, and with that she gratefully took my spot. Gray and Erza are still part of it, but Happy has been going on jobs with Wendy and Carla. Carla and Happy are practically a couple, though they have not announced it yet. I think its him with the cold feet (well, cold paws) to be honest. He looks like he's going to pass out every time she takes his paw in front of Natsu. Since Lisanna moved in with him, Happy and Natsu don't spend a lot of time together anymore, I guess they're growing apart. Happy lives with me, I might add. 

Yes. 

I know what you're probably thinking. 

After all the times I told him not to fly in through my window- to knock- I invited him to live with me. It's mainly because he looked so miserable while he stayed with Lisanna and Natsu.

As for me, I go on solo jobs now. I mastered celestial magic and can even summon the King, though he does that out of fondness for me. He confessed that I'm like a daughter to him, and once I pass, he wants to turn me into a celestial spirit. If that were to happen, I'd choose to look as I did when I first joined Fairy Tail. Not that it's a big deal. I mean, I fight a hell of a lot better now, but I miss who I once was sometimes. I miss being saved by Natsu. I miss being picked on by Happy. I miss how things were. More often than not, I feel lonely. Since Levy and Gajeel announced they were mates and got married, they have been gone on their honeymoon. In no time, I'm sure there will be little blue-haired dragon slayers running around the guild. Elfman and Evergreen are together, and in the six months we have been back to the guild, they've become inseparable. Juvia and Gray are close now, but he still seems oblivious to her feelings- okay, maybe he is a little bit aware of them, but you'd never know it. Erza and Jellal have been secretly dating, not so secret with Mira telling everyone. Never the less, for most people, everything is working out and falling into place.

Except for me. 

I am the girl who is unnoticeably becoming something of the marvelous. I am the girl who is taking on more jobs than any current Fairy Tail mage. I am the girl in love with a guy she knows will never love her back. And I am the girl that will always be the useless one that almost cost Fairy Tail the games. My name is Lucy Heartfilia, and this is how my story begins, aside from everything that came before now and led up to this.