Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)

At the Fairy Tail guild, Lucy sat alone at a table while she was drinking a cup of tea. Her brown eyes showed a slight bit of trouble in them while she saw many other members of the guild sitting at a faraway table where Team Natsu was located. They were listening to a story told by Lisanna Strauss, mostly due to Natsu having romantic feelings for the silver-haired mage. He always preferred her being on the team instead of Lucy, mainly because the latter was incredibly weak.

Lucy didn't have any fighting skills in close combat like Lisanna did, and she wasn't good at long-range techniques like Erza was. She couldn't even measure up to Natsu or Gray, and she was always relying on her spirits these days. The other members of Team Natsu always had to do all the work on the difficult jobs, and Natsu always had to save Lucy whenever she got captured.

The blonde mage couldn't stand the fact that she had been inferior to Lisanna, despite the fact that she hadn't even accepted Natsu's offer to join the team. Lucy had loved Natsu's company, even when he would break into her apartment to eat her food or take a hot bath. She had been ignored by him, and everyone else in the guild when Lisanna had returned from the world of Edolas.

Ever since her return, Team Natsu had been too caught up in her stories to even take a job. This meant that Lucy had to take lots of solo missions where the difficulty was at a low level with low pay. Her rent of 70,000 jewels wasn't going to be paid magically, unless she had Money Magic, but she sadly did not possess that kind of magic.

Every time Lucy returned from a job, she would be dirty and have bruises. Wendy would heal her injuries, and Levy would be concerned for her. Gajeel would talk to her for a bit, but then fall asleep in the middle of the conversation. Right now, he was off training with Pantherlily. Levy was on a job with Team Shadowgear, and Wendy was on a job with Carla. This meant that Lucy would be left alone for a while, and she sadly sighed.

Natsu shouted while he stood up and looked amazed, "Lisanna, that's so incredible! You're strong enough to take down a blizzard monster with one slash of your claws? Join my team! Take Lucy's place, please! We don't need that bitch!"

Those words made Lucy widen her cocoa brown eyes, and she froze in shock from hearing those harsh words. She could see Natsu looking at her for a split second, before turning back towards Lisanna, and he gave her a look of confidence while taking her hands in his. The young Strauss sister blushed a light shade of pink while seeing the admiring look in Natsu's eyes, and a smile slowly formed on her face.

"Of course, Natsu! I'd love to be fighting side by side with you." Lisanna replied happily, smiling a bit while she gave the fire dragon slayer a soft kiss on his left cheek.

The stellar mage looked like she wanted to scream from seeing the man she loved get kissed by a woman other than herself, and she immediately stood up from her chair with an angry facial expression. Lucy had told Natsu several times that he had been in love with her, and he had always acknowledged and respected her feelings. He even kissed her on the lips when she told him the 14th time, so this was like a total backstab to Lucy.

"Natsu, you jerk! I loved you, and I still do! This is betrayal!" Lucy yelled angrily, throwing a nearby bottle of alcohol at Natsu's head.

He replied nonchalantly while looking at Lucy with hardly any emotion on his face, "Be quiet, Luce. All you do is yell at me, and you're a useless piece of crap. On jobs, we always do the work while you hide in your clock spirit. When you get into trouble, the team gets endangered with me always saving your weak ass. Face it, Lucy. You're the weakest person in this guild, and I don't have any use for you."

Those words doused Lucy's anger, and she became saddened by the reality of what he was saying. She was always the weakest link of Team Natsu, the burden that weighed them down on the difficult jobs. When it came to a life or death situation, she wouldn't exactly be the one who could be strong enough to save the others. Even though she couldn't fight, would her love reach Natsu?

"Natsu, please... I'm in love with you. You are the man I want to be with. I really care for you, Natsu. I'm begging you right now. Please don't kick me off the team." Lucy pleaded while tears began to form in her brown eyes, her body trembling from the hallucination of Lisanna towering over her.

He seemed a bit startled by her feelings, but then his face changed to a more serious look. He didn't want Lucy on his team because of her inferiority to Lisanna. She really was worthless to him, and he proved it by mercilessly stabbing her feelings with a knife. He cupped Lisanna's face in his hands, giving her a gentle kiss to show her that he wasn't going to look back at what he had abandoned.

"Lucy, you really are dead weight to the team. Most of the time, we all get incapacitated. Even on tough jobs, you have the audacity to run away like the pathetic coward you are. You're a pawn, Lucy. You're nothing more than that, and that is something unchangeable for someone as pitiful as you." Erza explained to her while giving her a death glare.

Gray added in a cold tone, as his eyes were fixated on the blonde female as well, "Lucy, you never even help us on jobs. You always complain about sharing the reward money, but now you won't have to. You're useless, and easily replaceable. Honestly, before Team Natsu goes on our first job with Lisanna, just disappear. Come here tomorrow, and we'll chase you out of here like the weakling you are."

Hearing those brutal things from her teammates were like earthquakes making chasms in Lucy heart, breaking it apart into fragments with every word. It began to shatter slowly while Lucy's tears fell to the ground, and the shattering accelerated when she caught sight of Natsu and Lisanna kissing while they began to remove each other's clothes.

She could only feel hurt, angry, betrayed, manipulated, and more negative feelings that were tearing her heart apart. Natsu was going to the erotic level with Lisanna, just because they knew each other for so long, and he would leave Lucy on the level of flirting? Cheating was certainly wrong, and Lucy started sobbing while putting her hands over her eyes.

"He kissed my lips.. I loved him with my deepest feelings, and he steps all over them like they're nothing... Like I'm nothing..." Lucy thought to herself with a look of emotional pain, before the deadly glare on Erza's face told her that she was off the team for good.

The shattered fragments of Lucy's heart began to put themselves back together, only with the memories of Team Natsu being darker. Lucy had to wonder if they were ever really her nakama, if they had only truly kept her around until Lisanna returned from Edolas. They had probably never even liked her, and every happy moment that Team Natsu ever shared with Lucy was now like one lie after another. They were now telling her to leave Fairy Tail, or suffer physical wrath tomorrow like an unwanted intruder.

She didn't even think about looking back at her teammates one last time, before running out of the guild while screaming in agony and terror from her heartbreak. Lucy didn't even want to see them around the town of Magnolia, or its surrounding areas, so she knew what she had to do for her to possibly stay alive. Lucy didn't even notice that the downpour of rain caused her hands to become wet and slippery, dropping the ring that had all of her Golden Zodiac Gate Keys on it.

When she quickly reached her nearby apartment, Lucy opened the door and ran to her desk. She wrote a note to her landlady that she would no longer be paying the rent of 70,000 jewels per month, crying while her right hand trembled slightly as it held the pen down against the white piece of paper. She was alone now, and Lucy definitely had to leave Magnolia tonight.

She had pure sadness in her cocoa brown eyes while she packed up some food and clothes into a black suitcase, wondering where she could possibly live now. It wasn't like she had friends in nearby places, and Fairy Tail would probably be searching high and low for her trail. Knowing Natsu, he'd make sure that Lucy didn't interfere in his love with Lisanna.

The blonde mage had made haste with packing everything that was needed, and she turned off the lights before leaving her apartment for good. Under the harsh and cold pouring rain, Lucy pulled her black suitcase behind her while she ran to the train station with the ambition of leaving Magnolia to find strength, nakama, and love.

How was the 1st chapter? It's been a while since I've written anything, and I wanted to try my hand at it again. I will update when I have free time, by the way. Criticism and reviews are appreciated, and let me know your thoughts on this story. :)