This is a story I have wanted to do ever since I watched the episodes in the 100s, it has lingered in my mind as an animation and a dream to happen in the anime! It's time for Lucy to shine!

Quick Summary:

Lucy, Natsu, Erza, Gray, Wendy, Happy, Carla,Gajeel, Lily, Levy, and everyone in the guild has gathered in Fairy Tail with the Master to speak about a major problem. The world is in Lucy's hands. Lucy's you ask? Because she's the strongest.

Everyone has no idea what's happening, everything went by in a flash as a blob of purple and black of dark magic rose into the sky, dispersing through all of the clouds, turning them to a greyish-brown color. The sky was swirling with such darkness, that with just one peek at it your eyes will literally start to bleed, it seemed like a nightmare in reality. All of their powers were gone, every wizard's magic just... Disappeared! Except for one... What was going on?!

=-=-Narrator's POV-=-=

As the sun rose, citizens of Fiore began to emerge out of their houses starting their day off working. Lucy shifted slightly feeling the warm light shine on her face, and her eyes began to open. The Celestial wizard slowly sat up, immediately noticing something. She felt a weight beside her. She turns her head so slow, a pigeon could land on her without being disturbed. Beside her was a half naked ice mage, Gray.

Her eyes widen in shock and she grabbed her pillow smacking the man with it onto his face repeatedly, screaming, "Gray?! Why the hell are you here?! Get out of my room!"

Gray scrambled out of the bed, ending up falling onto the floor, and groans. "Mmm... What time is it?" he stands up, running his fingers through his hair.

Lucy threw the pillow at him, her cheeks a slight red from frustration and maybe from looking at Gray's well built body. "Just get the fuck out!"

"Okay okay... I just wanted to walk you to the guild this morning." he yawned, stretching his arms out, "I'll wait for you downstairs." he headed out of the room, but stopped when he opened the door, turning his head to look at her with a smirk. "Nice pajamas by the way." he winked at her before exiting her room and going to the living room.

She blinked in confusion before uncovering herself from the bed sheets, revealing herself wearing just a matching bra and thongs. Her whole face heated up as if Natsu burned her face with his flames, "E-Eh?!".

She sighs, "I guess I fell asleep and ended up not wearing my normal PJs...". She got out of bed, surprisingly calm after what had just happened. Lucy took a quick shower, not wanting to make Gray wait any longer for her-

Wait a second... Why was she rushing to get ready for him? He did sneak in her room and slept with her without her knowing. Just, whatever.

After about fifteen minutes, she was dressed in her normal white, blue, and gold top and short blue skirt, her hair out, flowing down her back. She made her way to the living room where Gray was looking through her collection of books with his shirt back on, seeing her from the corner of his eye.

"You've got some interesting books."

"Well, they are my dad's."

Just hearing her mention her dad made his heart sink to the depths of the abyss, still feeling awful for her from what had happened, he can't even imagine how she felt when everything piled up on her all at once. He puts the book where it was from before turning around to face the blonde with his hands in his pocket, "We should get going."

She nods once in agreement, soon both of them were walking to the guild and as always, Lucy was walking on the edge of the lake. The wind was so cool, yet the sun's shine was so warm, it was a perfect morning. She looked up at the blue sky, seeing a small bright star that survived when the sun broke out. It was slowly vanishing. Vanishing... Vanish. That word seemed so familiar to her, like it was the first word she knew, like that word is meant for her to use. Suddenly a hand grabbed onto hers, the hand was bigger than hers and was colder. She escapes the gaze before she looked beside her to see Gray holding it, looking straight ahead.

"Baka.. Y'know you can fall."

She blushes slightly, "I know, I have good balance so there's no need to worry about me." she kept looking straight, trying to avoid looking at him.

After about ten minutes later, Gray had let go of Lucy's hand and were at the guild, he opened the door for her and she walked inside. Natsu saw her walk in with Gray and he headed towards him.

Natsu crosses his arms looking at Gray, "You're here early." he said looking at the ice mage.

"I was woken up unexpectedly. Well, it was sure to be expected."

"Huh? You don't mean by Lucy do yeah?"

"Why does it matter to you?"

"She's my best friend, that's why droopy eyes!"

Their foreheads were pressed against each other by then, Gray's shirt was off too. The mood around Natsu and Gray changed. Lucy sighs watching them before going to the backyard of the guild. That day she was planning to train her mind and her magic, in the Magic Games that battle between her and Flare won't escape her mind. It just won't go away. She didn't want this to happen again. She wanted to become stronger, she wanted to learn more ways of how to train. She pulled out her golden key and brought out the Celestial Spirit Capricorn, saying "Gate of the Goat I open thee, Capricorn!".

All that morning she was focusing her mind, training it and balancing it with her magic. Capricorn couldn't believe that she has lasted all morning, letting her magic surround her, the wind making a thin barrier around her. Happy, Carla, and Lily witnessed all of this the whole morning, they were confused of what she was doing, what she accomplishing here. The Exceeds attempted to ask the Celestial Spirit, but all he ever did was put a finger against his own lips as to say to be quiet.

It was the afternoon now and everyone was wondering where Lucy has gone. They looked everywhere inside the guild and outside, but one place. Happy figured everyone was looking for her since her name was being repeatedly called. He flew to where Natsu is, who was looking under each table.

"Natsu!" the blue exceed lands on top of the table, smiling a bright smile as always.

Natsu hit his head from trying to stand up, hitting his head on under the table, "Ow!". He groans, lifting his head from under the table to face Happy, "Oh hey Happy! Have you seen Lucy? She was here this morning, but now she's gone."

He nods, "Yeah, follow me!", he flew to the backyard of the destructive guild to where Lucy was.

"Oi! Wait up Happy!" he runs to where he had flown off to, when he got there his eyes lands on Lucy who had her legs crossed, sitting in the soft green grass. Her eyes were closed with a serious look on her face. The wind around her wasn't visible like it was when she was training at the beach. Capricorn was still speaking to her, telling her to feel the air with her flesh, feel all of the magic around her.

Natsu watched her silently, having completely no idea what she's doing. There were signs that she was struggling tremendously and she lost consentration feeling too many presences, the wind calming down and her eyes opening. She panted roughly looking up at the goat. "There's too many presences... I couldn't concentrate."

"It's fine, you did an amazing job Lucy, you lasted longer than your mother. I've been in this world for too long, I will speak with you when I regenerate my magic. Farewell."

"Thanks Capricorn!" she smiled brightly as he disappeared, leaving behind golden sparkles in the air which had became one with everything.

She stands up with a confused expression, "Longer than my mother?" she mumbled to herself, looking up to see Natsu and the three Exceeds. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Everyone is looking for you." Natsu said, still confused himself.

"Carla, Lily and I were watching you all morning doing what ever you were doing, it was pretty cool." Happy said cheerfully.

"All morning?! Impossible! I didn't even last ten seconds when I was training at the beach!" her eyes widen in complete shock, realising how strong she has gotten.

"What were you doin' anyway?" Natsu asked her.

"Oh, I was training to become stronger. It's more for controlling my magic better, for it to become stronger, y'know?"

"That makes a little sense, but all morning? Holy shit..." Natsu was now surprised himself, knowing how hard it could've been to do that for hours. He could be able to do it himself, but he wouldn't be able to last as long as that Celestial mage!

"We should get back inside." Lily interrupted their conversation. They all nod and went back inside. Everyone in the guild seemed relieved seeing Lucy back, all of them piling questions on her, most of them being "Where were you?" and "What were you doing?". She got overwhelmed by all of these questions, but answered them anyway.

Natsu finally saved the day by pulling her out of the crowd. She sighed in relief. That was hell for her and she rest her head on his arm for a few moments before thanking him. "Thanks Natsu, you saved me there."

"It's no problem!" he grinned, "Wanna go on a job? It's your turn to pick."

"Sure!" she smiles and went over to the board where all of the jobs were.

=-=-Lucy's POV-=-=

This morning wasn't as interesting as I thought it would be. Well I did just sit in the grass and meditated all morning long. I wonder how I even managed that! I didn't make it to the ten second mark the last time I was doing it. How long did my mother last in the meditation? It probably was close to my record. But why was Gray sleeping with me in my bed? That pervert acting like he could come when ever he wants... He can at least ask if he wanted to sleep over! That would mean that Natsu and Erza would have to come along. Ugh! Concentrate on figuring out which job to do, let's see... Find a criminal for 2,000 jewels, hmm no. Guard train... No, Natsu has motion sickness, capture and destroy deadly dark item, for 1,000,000 jewels?! Perfect! That's enough for me to pay my rent for about four months and Natsu and Happy will have enough for food!

=-=-Narrator's POV-=-=

Lucy snatched the paper off the board, but was soon taken out of the teen's hand when the Master took it with his enlarged arm.

"No need for jobs today, Lucy." he said with a smile.

"Huh? Why not?"

"Ehh? You haven't heard? Gildarts is coming back and we're all having a party!"

"Really? But... I still have to pay my rent, and I still have some that I owe." she groaned remembering the land lady telling her the amount of money she needed.

"Ahh, you can do that tomorrow! I'll save the job for you." his arm returned to normal and went back to the bar.

~7:00 PM~

There was a rumble throughout the guild and town, Gildarts is back! Everyone watched the door anxiously for him to walk in, but they were facing the wrong direction. Gildarts walked in from the wall to their right, the bricks becoming cubes and scatter on the floor. As soon as the strongest mage in the guild saw Cana he ran to her with his arms open. "Canaaaaaaaaaaaa!~"

Cana held out her hand out so Gildarts was stopped from it pressing hard on his face.

"Rejected." everyone said in unison.

The master made a hardy laugh, "Let the party begin!"

Everyone cheered with joy, everyone drank some booze with each other, chatted and just had a great time! Cana defeated maybe about seven people at a drinking contest. All of those who were defeated were passed out on the floor next to Cana, who's cheeks were a bright red.

A couple of hours have passed now. Cana challenge her own father, Gildarts, to a drinking battle. He accepted and currently he's giving it all he's got, both of them drinking from a barrel. In the meantime, Bisca and Alzack were snuggling and smooching each other. Those two could start fucking any second now at this point from how much they drank.

Lucy sat at her own table, her arms wrapped around Plue. She could join everyone and have fun, but things have been on her mind. Like the word "vanish" it seemed so familiar to her, she tries to brush the thought aside by trying to talk to Plue, only getting the response from the shaky spirit, "Puu-puuuuu!"

She sighs and was interrupted by the confusing conversation from a half naked guy sitting across from her at the table. It was Gray.

"Bored too, huh?" Gray asks with a sigh as he looked at the drunken people around both of them.

She nods in response, "Yeah, I want to stay sober so I'm avoiding the drunks."

"I'm surprised that there's still half of the guild not drunk..." he turned his head to look at her after finishing his sentence.

"I wish there was something to do." she groaned, getting annoyed by the continuous screaming and whining from Natsu at the bar.

"Hey Lucy?"

"Hm?" she looks at him."

"Can I borrow your shirt?"

"Eh?! Hell no!" she yelled at him, looking at him as if he were completely insane.

He shrugs, "I guess it can't be helped... If only we switched bodies again~" he smirks, remembering when they switched bodies and he nearly took his shirt off.

"Pervert." she simply said, staring at him.

"I'm not a pervert."

"Prove it."

"How am I suppose to do that?"

"Exactly." she stood and looked at the job board. God, is he really interested in me? she thought to herself, I seriously don't get him at all. What does he even like about me? Why am I even thinking about this, even if I did like him Juvia would... I don't want to think about it. But Gray, he protected me by using himself to do so, Natsu does the same... But- WOAH! WAIT, GET YOURSELF TOGETHER. We're friends, that's what friends do and he was just teasing before.

Her thoughts were intrupted by a girl with white, flowing hair, smiling softly. Mirajane. "Your face looks like a tomato."

Lucy covered her cheeks, not understanding why she was able to say that with a smile, "I'm just hot, that's all."

"Oh? Were you thinking about Natsu? Or Gray?"

"Eh?! W-What?!"

"I knew it!" she giggles, "What did he do this time?"

"Why?" her blush began to brighten.

"I think you two would be an amazing couple, I'm not sure, but it would be so cute!" she dazes off in her imagination, a tint of a pink color on her cheeks.

Lucy sighs, "Well, he came to where I was sitting at and we had a small conversation... Then he asked if he could borrow my shirt. And then, he said 'If only we switched bodies again.'

"Sounds like he was just being a perv~" she smirks a little, giggling again. "It could be a compliment though." Mirajane was called by her big brother Elfman, "I'll talk to you later." she waved and went after her brother.

She looked to her side and saw a group at a big table, the group had Natsu, Gray, Mirajane, Elfman, Levy, Gajeel, Erza and the Exceeds. Natsu noticed her staring and he grinned, waving her to join them, "Come on Lucy! Join us for truth or dare!"

She sighs while walking to the table, knowing she had no choice but to join them, since she'll be forced too if she didn't. Everyone watched her for a moment as she sat down between Elfman and Levy.

It was Mirajane's turn to ask, "Gajeel-san, truth or dare?" she asked with a sweet smile.

He sighs, "Truth..." he said as if he wasn't interested in the game.

He must've been dragged into this game I suppose, Lucy thought.

"Do you like Levy-chan?" she kept the sweet smile on her face as the Dragon Slayer's eyes widen, a slight blush on his cheeks. Levy had the same exact expression. Behind that sweet smile of Mirajane's is just a woman who wants to make people suffer to being forced to say things in this kind of game.

"Hmm.. Who knows?" he said plainly, looking away from everyone. Levy looked down in attempt to hide her blush.

"I guess I can't force the question out of you, it's your turn to ask." she said pouting.

Gajeel looked at everyone before talking, "Bunny-girl, truth or dare?"

"Who are you calling bunny-girl for?!" she sighs, "Dare I guess..."

"I dare you to fight Natsu." he said with a smirk, "We never saw you fight Natsu before, give it a shot."

"What?! No no no no no, I have no chance of winning!" she said with wide eyes, standing up. Even though she's been training, she still has no chance! One shot of his flames can knock her out. "Come on Luce! Try it, I'll go easy on you." Natsu stood, smiling brightly.

"Try Lucy." Erza said while eating a slice of her cake, "You should see how much you've improved."

Her eyes widen even more, she knew something like this would happen, she knew it! But she didn't know fighting Natsu would even pop up in Gajeel's mind! But, she'll at least try.

"Fine, I'll give it a shot." Lucy mumbles. Natsu smirks, standing up now. His fists being consumed in flames, "Yes! I'm all fired up! I can finally fight with Lucy!"

"Take it outside, we don't want the guild to get anymore damage."

They both nod and head to the doors, the group following behind both of them. Once they were a far distance away from the guild, they separated a far distance from each other. "Go all out, Natsu." Lucy said with confidence.

"If you say so, don't blame me if I singe your hair." he smirks, consuming his fists in flames.

Lucy started off with a move, "Gate of the Bull I open thee! Taurus!" the Spirit appeared holding his ax tightly in his hands.

"I'll protect that nice body from being burned, Lucy!"

"Yeah yeah, just go all out on him." she said as if she was getting sick of the cow's perverted ways.

"Mooooo!" he swings his ax into the hard ground, causing a large amount of it to rush towards Natsu, but of course he dodges it by jumping high up into the air. As he was up there, he made his move.

He filled his mouth up with the scorching flames, putting his hands to his mouth he says, "Roar of the Fire Dragon!", letting out the fire towards the summoned Celestial Spirit. This caused Taurus to get knocked out easily, being caught off guard.

Taurus groaned, "I'm going home..." he disappeared, going back to his world.

"What?! Already?!" Lucy's eyes widen watching him disappear, Natsu dove down towards her with fists covered in fire, "Brilliant Flames of the Fire Dragon!"

In a flash, Lucy pulls out a key out of her pouch, opening a gate "Gate of the Clock I open thee, Horologium!" Horologium appears, capturing Lucy inside of him. Just in time for the fierce flames to pass by when Natsu clapped his hands together to create an explosion.

He lands on the ground, now getting serious as he watched her exit the small space of the Spirit, letting it go back to his world.

Getting caught off guard as she watched him go away, Natsu charges for her "Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon!" he punches her in the stomach, the pain soaring through her whole body as she flew into the air, dropping hard onto the ground.

"Hang in there, Lucy!" The floating blue Exceed, Happy, called out to her.

She manages to stand up, shaking an incredible amount from the pain. This pain didn't compare to the amount she had with her other battles. Lucy pulled out a gold key, holding it out in front of her, "Gate of the Lion I open thee, Leo!"

Leo appears right next to her, "You called... Love?"

She sighs, already regretting summoning Leo, "Take him down for me."

He looks at her opponent and his eyes widen, before they start to get serious, he didn't believe she was actually fighting Natsu, the guy who fought two other Dragon Slayers alone. His fists began to glow as bright as a star and he charged at Natsu when he started to charge at him. The group that was watching the battle between two best friends began to cheer for Lucy and Leo, trying to give them support. Both of them took numerous hits, but Leo was done for when Natsu made his second Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon, the force of the punch sliding him onto the ground back to Lucy, "I'm sorry.. Lucy..." he starts to vanish, going back to his original world.

"It's okay Leo, you did great." she says smiling.

Once he left, she felt an emptiness in her, she felt weak. She had used too much magic in a short amount of time. She uses another one of her Zodiac keys, "Gate of the Crab I open thee- Ah!" she was interrupted by a hard kick in the face. She fell to the ground, twitching.

Anger.

She never felt so much anger, she knows she told him to go all out and she knows that she's going to get hard punches and kicks thrown at her. But that kick crossed the line, the kick felt like the hair whip of her enemy Flare, it was so painful and hot she wasn't able to bear it, but she stood up with no problem. Magic surged through her body, closing her eyes and concentrating. Everyone fell silent, confused of what the blonde was doing. Feel the air, feel everything around you with your flesh. Those words from Capricorn popped in her head, she never felt this strong before. It was like magic itself was creating something itself! That's exactly how it felt! She opens her eyes, glaring at Natsu with such a serious look. The same look she had when she was battling Flare.

"She's getting serious now..." Mirajane finally said, breaking the silence.

"Yeah, I sense a whole different kind of magic around her." Erza replies.

"She's screwed." Gray said while crossing his arms, doubting that the girl will win at her condition.

Natsu stared back at her, this wasn't her. She's acting differently from any other battle. Natsu runs in lightning speed towards her again, his fists were so hot and buried in such large amount of fire, his hand can just burn off. "Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon!-" he was about to punch the teenager's injured face with such a great amount of speed, but it was his turn to be interrupted. Lucy caught his fist in her hand, his eyes widen as if they were to pop out of his skull, because the impossible became the possible. Her whole body became consumed in bright blue flames, as bright as the blue morning sky. Everyone's eyes widen in shock at the sight. She punches the powerful Dragon Slayer at his stomach, the amazingly bright blue flames burning Natsu's shirt off. He slouches from the extreme pain, struggling to stand up straight. She lets go of his fist, pushing him so he can stand up straight as he tries to find his balance, but his face was greeted with a roundhouse kick from Lucy.

She knocked him out and his eyes were spinning.

She won?

But how?...

Lucy looks down at her hands that still had a little spark of the blue flames. "H-Huh?..." she fell to her knees, nearly all of her magic drained out of her. "I won?" She looks up to see the faces of her shocked comrades.

"Hidden Magic... Is real?" Erza stared at Lucy, not believing anything she saw.

"I-Impossible! I thought that magic was destroyed! It's the most powerful magic of all!" Gray said with such wide eyes, "Lucy, fight me!"

"No!" she immediately answered, "But... What's that? Hidden Magic?"

Erza begins the story as she picks up Natsu, "When magic was born, there were four different elements. Wind, earth, water, and fire. Those are the most powerful kinds of magic. The first kind of magic born was called Hidden Magic. The most powerful among all magic. It was so powerful, that wizards took advantage of it, they created deadly dark magic items with it, such powerful things, that it can erase everyone from this world. There was a myth that only one wizard can inherit the magic, but it was unknown who inherits it unless they unleashed it with a great amount of concentration and anger. I guess that kick really got to you. It was also believed that the wizard can do other magic, become a different mage, for you it would be a Spirit mage."

"So that means I'm stronger than... You? And Gildarts?"

"Not necessarily, for magic yes, but if you had more skill with your magic it's a possibility."

She stands up, staying completely silent after hearing that sentence for a few moments. "This can't happen, I'm a Celestial Spirit wizard! Yeah! I-I don't have Hidden magic! I'll force myself to believe it." she picks up the golden key that she dropped when Natsu attacked her unexpectedly. Keeping a fake smile on her face. "I'm going home, I don't want to talk about this anymore, see you guys tomorrow." her smile turns into a slight frown and starts to walk back home, the small group watching her leave until she was no longer visible.

"Gray." Mirajane says with a slight frown.

"What?" he turns his head to look at her.

"Can you go make sure she's okay? She can't handle this alone, and I think she would want to talk to someone about this." she said worriedly, completely understanding how Lucy may have feel. Too much information was put on her of some thing about the most powerful magic and she was the only one who had it, the only wizard among all of them. This must've been too much on her.

He now understood what was up and nods and went after Lucy, jogging to her house. It felt like he could read Mirajane's mind, well partially. But he understood why she doesn't want to be the most powerful like Natsu does. She doesn't want to change. She wants to be what her friends knew her as her, not the most powerful wizard on Earthland.

Omg, I hope you enjoyed that. At the battle I was kind of giving up... I'm still a little rusty at the detail, but I gave it my all! Please review and such if you want to read more of it :D

While you're reviewing, give me some ideas, as for like battles or some romance, because that's what I'll be adding into this.

I'll be writing Chapter 2 soon!