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Lucy Heartfilia sighed as she looked out the window of her house. The river which was in perfect view from her window was dazzling, beautiful even. The moonlight shone on the river, making it seem as if it was just a huge mirror.

They just got back from a job a few days ago, and as usual, Natsu ended up destroying a town again.

'The stars are so pretty,' thought Lucy. She was feeling very melancholy these days. The feeling grew stronger whenever she thought about a particular person, no, a dragon to be a bit more precise.

She was in the middle of writing a letter to her mother when a familiar pink haired dragon slayer and a blue flying cat came in through the window.

"Natsu?!" Lucy got up facing Natsu and his blue flying cat, Happy. They never entered her house the normal way. She was even on the verge of forgetting what was normal. The people surrounding her in her everyday life were very… eccentric.

"We got a new job, Lucy, the reward are really big!" They both chimed waving the quest paper in front of her face.

"Really? Show me that." Lucy was always in doubt whenever Natsu showed her a paper job request. There was always something fishy about it.

The job was fighting a group of bandits. The reward was big alright, but since Natsu had the tendency to destroy a town or two whenever he fought Lucy had wondered if they could really receive the actual amount.

"Well, the quest isn't too hard, it might go fine I guess?" wondered Lucy aloud.

Lucy noticed Natsu staring at her as if he wanted to ask a question. "What Natsu?" Lucy asked.

Natsu hesitated, "Well, I was wondering if Lisaana could come with us this time. I have been meaning to let her come along since she came back so..." He let the sentence delicately trail away. Lucy knew what he was going to say.

"Of course, she can come," Lucy said brightly ignoring the feeling which came whenever Natsu mentioned Lisaana. At this Natsu brightened and jumped with excitement. He grabbed Happy's paws and did some kind of weird dance.

Natsu and Lisaana had been inseparable these few days for some reason, thought Lucy with a slight twinge of… jealousy. Was this jealousy Lucy felt? She honestly didn't know.

Lucy yawned feeling tired suddenly, "Go back home Natsu, I want to sleep."

"Sure," Natsu replied and escaped through the window with Happy carrying him. Lucy felt oddly lonely once she was alone in the room; she got on the bed hoping to shake the feeling with a good night's sleep.

The night faded quickly as the day rose.

Lucy woke up; she peeled off her pajamas and looked at the clock. It was almost time to go to the guild. She put on her clothes and went to Fairy Tail.

When she entered the guild, as usual, she saw Lisaana and Natsu chatting happily together. Lucy didn't know why but whenever she saw them together her heart hurt. It wasn't the sort of a paper cut hurt, it was a dull ache which was more painful than a paper cut.

Natsu looked at Lucy and grinned at her, "Lucy, ready to go?"

Lucy smiled back in response and said hello to Lisaana, she looked around for Erza and Gray but they were nowhere to be found.

Approaching Natsu she asked where Erza and Gray were.

"They went on a mission a couple of days earlier. I was bored so I wanted to go on a mission without waiting for them." Natsu replied.

Without Erza, the jobs were always chaotic, but perhaps Lisaana could control Natsu from rampaging? Lucy wondered. Lucy didn't really know Lisaana but looking at Mirajane Lucy guessed that Lisaana would be a capable person.

Natsu feeling impatient, "We don't have time to waste, let's go!" he yelled.

Going on the job was a bad choice. Going with Natsu without Erza was a bad choice.

Lucy regretted going with Natsu, Happy and Lisaana.

Natsu burnt two villages, it was just fighting a small group of bandits so how did it go so wrong? Everything went wrong.

She had to pay the repair cost with the reward money. They didn't care at all of course. Lucy didn't know how she would manage to pay the landlady. Her palms sweated at the thought of her landlady.

Natsu was resting on Lisaana's lap. Since when did Natsu start to rely on Lisaana rather than Lucy? Lucy felt sick, she didn't want to feel these pains anymore. It hurt her so much.

Lucy really wanted to know why she was feeling these pains. She looked at Natsu's peacefully sleeping face. Lisaana was dozing off with her head bowed casting a shadow on his face.

Lucy frowned slightly, a fine crease settling above her eyebrows. She leaned back in her seat and looked out the window. As the mountains rolled past by Lucy could fully appreciate the view outside for the first time.

Once they arrived at Fairy Tail, the guild shook with fear. Erza was in an extremely bad mood. Natsu cowered behind Lisaana as Erza's loud voice boomed over the guild.

Erza had lectured them so much that Lucy's ears were still ringing after she finally reached home.

Feeling tired, Lucy flopped herself on her bed. She didn't even bother to change her clothes. Lucy closed her eyes and was quickly asleep.

When the first rays of the sun hit her house she was still asleep. Lucy woke to the grumbling sound of her stomach. She groaned and fell out of the bed while glancing at the clock. It was almost time to go to the guild.

She had some breakfast and went to the guild. The guild was rowdy in the morning as usual but she didn't see Natsu and Happy anywhere so she asked Mirajane.

"Oh Lucy, they went on an another job," replied Mirajane. Mirajane didn't quite look at Lucy as she was wiping a dusty glass.

Lucy felt unsettled. Usually, they would go on quests together, She asked who Natsu went with even though she already knew the answer.

"Natsu went with Lisaana and Happy," Mirajane replied, her eyes cast down as if she were ashamed. Her voice caught slightly when she said her younger sister's name.

Lucy pursed her lips and nodded slightly, wondering about this outcome. Natsu never excluded her on jobs. Lucy crossed her arms and looked down at her feet, he would never exclude her on any jobs but now she wasn't so sure.

There were always exceptions… Lucy thought.

Lucy sighed and went to the job request board. She slightly hummed to herself as she scanned the tattered papers which were pinned to the board.

She finally saw a job which was suited to her. It was about finding a book… perhaps this will do.

Lucy thought of her first quest, it was also about finding a book and burning it. She laughed at the memory when Natsu made her wear a maid costume.

She would do this job, and the reward was okay on a second thought. She went to the counter and submitted the paper.

Few hours later she was in front of a big house. The house looked grand but eerie thought Lucy as she knocked on the door but no one answered it.

"Hello?" Lucy tried the door and was surprised to find it open. She peered in, the house looked like as if no one used the house for decades.

Stepping back, she thought what if this job was a hoax. Her heart was beating wildly against her chest. She was about to turn back when she heard someone crying. It was coming from the house.

Stepping in cautiously she traced the sound to the second floor.

Lucy hesitated but ventured to go upstairs. The stairs seemed really fragile, Lucy was careful about where she was stepping on. She reached the second floor when the crying got louder. Lucy gulped and opened the door timidly.

Inside the room, there was a little boy sitting on a chair. Lucy walked towards the boy, something did not feel right.

"What are you doing here boy?" Lucy asked.

There was no reply, she peered into the boy's face when she saw that the eyelids were closed.

Cautiously she touched the boy. He wasn't breathing. The temperature in the room seemed to drop so suddenly that Lucy shuddered.

The boy's head rolled back to reveal a rope mark across his neck. The mark was an angry color of red, Lucy saw. She stifled a scream; Lucy's heart was pounding, if the boy here is dead then who was crying?

She felt her knees tremble, Lucy felt scared. She was about to get out of the room when a loud crash from the downstairs made her scream.

"Lucy!" A voice called down from below. She could hear the sounds of hurried footsteps.

Natsu.

"What happened Lucy?" He looked from Lucy to the boy sitting in the chair.

His face paled in realization, "Come on Luce, let's get out of here."

Lucy merely nodded and before they went out of the room Lucy cast the boy's corpse one last glance. Perhaps she was being paranoid but she thought that the boy's head rolled a bit facing her and looking-no, staring at her in an eerie way.

When they were outside Lucy crumpled. Natsu panicked, "Lucy!" She had no strength in her knees, she made a weak grunt.

Strong hands lifted her up, Lucy looked at the person, Erza. Gray, Happy and Lisaana were there too. Anxiety was written on their faces.

Her eyes were starting to cloud, Natsu's worried face was blurring. Lucy slipped into unconsciousness. The last thing she could hear was her name.

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