Lucy POV

"So, you ready to train?" Zoro asked me, but it sounded more like a challenge to me.

I grinned, "Hell yeah."

So we made our way into the training room, "So, how are you going to train me? Do you have a devil fruit?" I asked.

He just shook his head, "No, but I can help you focus your mind and get you used to your new, powers."

He sat down with crossed legs and his hands on his knees, I copied his actions and did the same, "Now, do you know what your devil fruit is? And what it makes you?"

I nodded, even though he wasn't looking at me. He probably just assumed that I knew, because he continued.

Zoro POV

My eyes were wide open as I watched her focus, her body almost seemed transparent but faded in and out. Could it be she ate a water logia type? Is that fruit even possible?

"Are you in control of yourself?" I asked, she gave me another nod, "Okay then, open your eyes."

Her eyelids fluttered open revealing her giant brown eyes, "Okay then, Hold up your right hand and imagine a ball of water floating just above."

She concentrated and slowly a lump of water rose and grew bigger and just as it was about to separate it burst and splattered onto both of their faces. Lucy looked up at me, a sheepish grin on her face and burst out laughing causing me to smirk.

All concentration lost, they had to start over, so I repeated the instructions and she was finally able to do it. So she decided to slowly spin it and it moved in the direction towards her. She stopped the spinning and made it spin the opposite direction, towards me. She seemed so happy with herself that I began to smile more. Similar to Luffy, her smile was truly contagious, or could it be that I was smiling for a different reason?

About 30 minutes later we came out and we were both completely drenched. Let's just say, Lucy made the water ball a bit too big, and rose it a bit too high and she lost control of it.

We both picked out spots on the side of the deck near the railing. Lucy was sitting on the railing facing the water, she looked calm but her knuckles were white from holding on so tight.

"Lucy," she looked over at me, "Are you going to use your devil fruit to fight?"

"Of course, but I just don't know if-" she started muttering and I couldn't understand what she was saying.

"Say again?" I asked.

"I don't know if I should stay here. What if I start to miss my home and can't go back? What if my celestial spirits aren't allowed to come here for some reason…" she stopped talking.

"Well, the decision is yours, I'm sure Luffy's going to try to force you to join the crew." Lucy laughed, and looked much happier now that we weren't talking about her world.

Back in Fairy Tail…

"The S-Class tournament!" Master Makarov announced, "The last one didn't go so well, so we can only hope this one is successful."

Some people laughed but most stayed silent in anticipation. Makarov looked at his list that he's been keeping since the Grand Magic Games, "Natsu," Natsu cheered as loud as possible and blow fire out of his mouth.

"I'm fired up now!" he said with a smirk.

"Gray," Makarov said calmly, Gray just smirked, he didn't have uch of a reaction, he kept it cooool…

Makarov squinted as if trying to read his scrawled handwriting, "Lucy, has anyone seen Lucy?" he asked, since not even he had. People asked their neighbors, and everyone was confused, "Natsu, have you seen Lucy?" Makarov asked, since Natsu was probably one of Lucy's best friends.

Natsu shook his head, "I haven't seen her since," he thought for a second, "A little after the Grand Magic Games when Lucy went off to train and that weird dude came to the guild."

"Weird dude?" Erza questioned, she hadn't remember this.

"Yeah, with the uh teal hair and, uhhh, he only had one eye." Natsu said, "He actually said he was an old friend of Lucy's."

Then Levy spoke, "Is it just me, or is anyone else having weird blank outs, like yesterday when Loke visited, I can't remember anything about it."

There was more talking around the guild. "Well, aren't you the best friends ever? Anyone would be glad to join this guild. But you guys, Lucy wasn't happy, so I had to free her." He faked sympathy, "But now you've gone and lost the little bitch!" he yelled.

"How- powerful are you? To have cast a spell on all of us?" Erza asked.

"Oh, I had help, but I'm still strong enough to beat you all to a pulp!" he threatened with a grin on his face.

"You're insane!" someone shouted from the crowd.

"That I am missy, and I'm proud of it." Then the man fell down and a cold breeze echoes through the guild.

The mages were prepared to fight, but the man woke up and asked a question in a completely different voice, "Where the hell am I?"

OOOOOH, what happened to the old man? I'm just going to confirm that this story will be ZoroXLucy vs NatsuXLucy…. How did he curse him? All will be revealed in the future! *maniacal laugh*

~Jessica D.