Chapter 1

It has been two weeks since Fairy Tail started celebrating Lisanna's return from Edolas. At the moment, Lucy is starting to slowly feel more and more alone in the guild. Everyone has left Lucy to celebrate Lisanna's return. At first, Lucy didn't mind, but she soon started to feel neglected. Lucy now wears a usual outfit that was a black tank top, blue ankle length cargo pants, black boots, and a blue sleeveless hoodie jacket.

"Jeez, I can't believe that they're still partying. I mean, Lisanna does seem nice and all, but still." Lucy thought. She looked over to her team's table from the bar to see almost half of the guild surrounding Lisanna, who was continuously laughing at her friends antics, mainly Natsu and Gray fighting.

"Well, might as well get a job to pass the time. Again." Lucy mumbled.

For the past two weeks, Lucy had been taking easy solo missions. She walked to the request board and right before she was able to pick out the job, Lucy felt immense heat coming up from close behind her and she was suddenly sent flying until she fell to the ground.

"GAH!" Lucy cried.

Next thing she knew, she was on the ground, writhing in pain from a massive burn mark that was bleeding that covered all of her left arm and part of her coat was burnt. She was able to figure out that Natsu must've used his magic against Gray and Natsu missed his target.

"Natsu! Be more careful!" Erza shouted. Lucy felt some relief after hearing that, knowing Erza would scold Natsu for sure.

"Yeah, Flame Brain. You could've hit someone." said Gray. Lucy felt her heart sank after hearing that. Did they really not notice Lucy so much that she was practically invisible to them?

"Natsu, please try to be more careful. You may not be so lucky next time when someone may be standing there." said Lisanna.

"Hehe. Alright, alright. I'll be careful." Natsu said with his usual toothy grin.

Everyone then when back to their daily business. Lucy struggled to push herself onto her feet after being hit by Natsu's attack. She was able to get up, but she had to lean against the wall for support. She breathed heavily as she looked at all of her friends around Lisanna again.

"Alright, that's it. Tonight, I'm talking to Lisanna." Lucy thought.

After determining that, she had to drag herself to the infirmary and bandage up her whole left arm, shoulder, and hand. She also got out a new jacket that was just like her old one. Lucy then stayed in the guild until almost everyone had gone home, or got drunk enough to sleep on the floor. Soon after that, she saw Lisanna get up and begin to head outside. Lucy saw this and quickly ran after her.

"Hey, Lisanna! Wait up!" Lucy cried out. Luckily, Lisanna heard her and stopped walking and turned around on her heel. When Lucy caught up with her, she had to stop and catch her breath.

"Oh, hey. Lucy, right?" said Lisanna.

"Heh. Yeah, that's me." said Lucy, scratching the back of her head. Lisanna quickly noticed Lucy's bandaged up arm. Blood stained the bandages all over from underneath.

"Oh my god! What happened to your arm!?" Lisanna exclaimed. Lucy felt a slight spark of shock hit her when she heard Lisanna say that. She then calmed down and let out a loud sigh.

"Jeez. I guess my feelings are justified after all." said Lucy.

"Huh?" Lisanna said, slightly confused.

"Natsu's attack that he tried using against Gray this morning hit me and no one noticed." Lucy explained. Lisanna put her hands over mouth and her eyes widen in shock.

"D-don't worry about it, really. This is actually why I wanted to talk to you. Me being forgotten like that has been going on for two weeks now, ever since you came back." Lucy said sadly. She suddenly heard sniffing and soft sobs and when she looked at and saw Lisanna starting to cry waterfalls.

"Ah! D-don't cry! I swear I don't blame you for this!" Lucy said panicking.

"I...I'm sorry...It's just...it sounds like it's my fault...and you got hurt so badly...and no one noticed you..." Lisanna sobbed. Lucy hesitantly gabbed Lisanna's shoulder and pulled her into a hug. Lisanna was shocked by Lucy's action.

"Don't worry about it, really. I was ignored for almost sixteen years back home. Two more weeks won't kill me." said Lucy softly in Lisanna's ear.

More tears made their way to Lisanna's eyes and she wrapped her arms around Lucy's waist tightly as she cried some more. The two of them slowly stopped hugging each other. Lucy had to wipe away some left over tears on Lisanna's face.

"The reason why I wanted to talk to you was because, well, since everyone seems to pay so much attention to you, I was wondering if you could help me out a little." said Lucy.

"I'm so sorry Lucy...this is all my fault..." Lisanna continued to sob. Lucy let out another loud sigh, seeing that Lisanna just couldn't help but to blame herself.

"Alright, if you feel that bad about it, how about the two of us go on a mission together? Just the two of us." said Lucy.

"D-do you mean it?" Lisanna asked, slowly beginning to stop crying.

"Of course. Meet me at the guild tomorrow at twelve and we'll choose a job together." Lucy said.

"Alright, sure!" Lisanna said excitedly.

"Great, see you tomorrow." said Lucy as she walked past her, waving her hand.

"Right, and I'm still sorry Lucy!" Lisanna called out.

"Like I said, don't worry about it!" Lucy shouted back and she left Lisanna's sight.

Meanwhile, back at the guild after Lucy and Lisanna left, a mysterious man in a cloak came into the guild and made his way up to the Master's room.

"Damn. I can't believe how much stuff those brats have destroyed." Makarov mumbled as he sat on his desk, surrounded by piles of paper. He then suddenly heard someone knock on his door.

"Come in!" Makarov shouted. The door slowly opened and a man in cloak entered the room and closed the door behind him.

"Are you the master of this guild?" the man asked. His voice made Makarov guess that he was somewhere around eighteen or nineteen, and he looked to be just a few inches shorted than Laxus.

"I am. And who might you be child?" asked Makarov. The boy swiftly removed his hood and revealed a young man with white-bluish hair, like Yukino's, that was tied up in a pony tail that reached on his lower back. He had hair in between his eyes and on the sides of his face. Also, his eyes were a dark yet bright shade of purple.

"My name is Zander Kuziki. I would like to join Fairy Tail." he said firmly.