Hey guys i'm back! I want to apologize for disappearing for a really, really, REALLY long time. I had a lot of things going on and even now it'll be hard to start keeping up with this fan fic because i work and school and just its hard BUT i will sure as hell try my best. This fanfiction is based on my number one couple Gajeel and Lucy. I really hope you guys will enjoy reading it as i will possibly enjoy writing it so lets get started. P.S. I do NOT own fairy tail at all. 3

Change. To make or become different. That was what she needed. She needed to change. She was twenty three, still dressing like a silly little high school girl in her short ass skirts, her tank tops that could hardly cover her breasts. She always thought she looked cute but no, she looked like a hooker and she knew she did. So she changed. She became different, but she didn't become different on her own though.. She had a little bit of a help.

Waking up at four in the morning, Lucy heartfillia got out of bed and started her daily routine. She took a nice warm bubble bath with her spirit plue, before taking a shower to rinse off any extra bubbles that may have lingered. She washed her hair with her favorite strawberry shampoo that had a little tint of vanilla to go along with it. Once she was done she walked into her room and stared at herself in the mirror, eyeing her body.

She thought that she had a nice body but some people always thought otherwise but she just said fuck it and ignored them. Going through her closet she eyed her clothing that no longer had the short skirts and tank tops that couldn't keep her breasts hidden. She reached for a pair of light blue ripped skinny jeans along with a black long sleeved crop top that was tight and made her upper half look amazing. She grabbed some black and white vans putting them on before staring at herself in the mirror.

She admired her body turning side to side before nodding her head. She went to her make up desk and quickly put on her wings and a light color lip gloss. Checking herself out once more in the mirror she decided she looked good and grabbed her keys leaving.

Lucy enjoyed her walks to the guild because she always called out her spirit Plue to keep her company. She looked seeing the little dog wobble and being cute. Picking him up she carried him in her arms as they slowly made their way to the nosy… very nosy… guild hall.

Pushing open the door she made her way to Mirajane, while saying good morning and hello to people.

"Good morning Lucy. What can I get you?" Mira said with a smile on her lips.

"Can I get a strawberry smoothie please" Lucy replied

"Of course, and your outfit is different than normal is everything okay?" She asked with concern laced in her voice.

"Yeah Mira everything is fine. I just thought I need a big change in my life."

"Okay well… don't change to too much okay?" With a nod Mira went back to make her smoothie

Lucy's eyes watched around the guild her head tilting as she looked for a certain team. Apart of her change was she wanted to quit team natsu. After lisanna had came back she felt truly unwanted around the team. They stopped offering her to go out on jobs and have her around. They paid more attention to Lisanna than her. She couldn't blame them but at the same time… She could.

Hearing the sound of the doors crashing open jumped her out of her thoughts. She looked up to see the exact team she was looking for. Taking a deep breathe she stood up and walked over to them.

"Hey Luce, can we talk?" Natsu said while the others avoided her gaze.

"Yeah sure, I actually had something to tell you guys too." The blonde replied with a nod knowing where the conversation would lead

"Oh really? Then you can go first." Natsu said with one of his big goofy grins.

"I'm quitting team Natsu." She was short, blank and straight to the point, this caused the team (now ex) to look at her in shock along with the rest of the guild.

"Wait what why?" Erza said as she pushed Natsu aside. This earned a small smile from the blonde girl

So now she cares… "I'm quitting because don't think I belong in team natsu anymore."

"What are you talking about Luce?" Gray finally spoke up

" Ever since Lisanna came back all you guys have done is completely ignore me. You leave me out of everything. Going on jobs, or out of the plans. The rewards you guys either split between yourselves, or give me hardly anything. You." Lucy said pointing to Erza "you told me to leave because you and Lisanna are having girl time. When I asked to join you told me no. When I asked you the next day to go shopping you completely blew me off for her. This hasn't happened just once either, it's happened multiple times…"

Lucy's eyes went to gray. "Gray, when I asked to train with you, you told me to find someone else because you and Lisanna were training. You don't even come over anymore when I need someone to talk to or anything." She finally looked over at Natsu. "And you. You don't even talk to me anymore. You don't look at me, you don't acknowledge my existence anymore. You blow me off every time for Lisanna. You tell me you're always busy with her or you want to spend more time with her..."

"Now look. I don't blame Lisanna for anything because she didn't do anything wrong, I don't really blame you guys either because everyone missed her but it hurt. I want to change. I will not be the weak or useless heartfilia anymore. I'm going to change. And the first few steps are changing my clothes, attitude and leaving a team that doesn't appreciate me."

With that Lucy bowed and went back to her seat sitting down sipping her strawberry smoothie as everyone stared at the now shocked team. No one had expected her to leave the team. Don't get her wrong. She loved team natsu, but.. they just didn't love her anymore

"Well shit. Didn't think cosplayer had it in her to actually leave Team Natsu." Bickslow spoke seriously causing Evergreen to give him a small nod in agreement.

"Well I think she did the right thing. Why would she stay with a team that ignores her? That's not okay." With another firm nod she went back to fanning herself.

"I must agree with Miss Ever on this one. Lucy deserves to be treated better and deserves to be on a team that doesn't chose someone else over her, if they did come back from the dead." Freed spoke as he flipped through a book.

Other people began to murmur about the incident that happened. Everyone was in the guild except for a certain red eyes dragon slayer and his exceed.

After finishing her smoothie Lucy got up and walked to the request board looking for a decent job. While scanning the board for a couple of moments a certain job catches her eye. The job is decently paid, and it's a very simple one. All it says is to find a book in a cave in the woods. Doesn't see that hard. Taking the job she walked over to mirajane, who looked uncertain.

"Mira, I would like to go on this job please."

"Lucy… are you sure you want to do this. It's not too late to back out." Mira whispered

"Mira. I'm fine. It's a simple job and I want to go solo. I want to get stronger." Lucy spoke.

"But Lucy you ARE strong-"

"Then why are you acting like I'm weak?" Lucy cut mirajane off upset. "You tell me that I'm strong but the way you act is making me feel weak. You make it seem like I can't do a simple job without getting hurt or something. I love you Mirajane but this is my decision and I would really like it if you support me." Lucy spoke with a little desperation in her voice.

"I…. I just… okay Lucy. But be careful, have a nice trip.." Mira hesitantly stamped the job and handed it back to her.

"Thanks Mira" nodding the blonde grabbed the job and headed to her apartment getting ready to pack and leave for her job.

Little did Lucy know that the job she had picked wasn't as simple and easy as she thought it would be. And nor did she know who she would encounter and the challenges the two of them would face ahead in the future but hey. They're Fairy Tail, they can handle anything.

Okay guys! That's all for this chapter. I know its short and im sorry but im super sleepy buuuuut I hope you guys enjoyed it and I will try to update as soon as possible. Favorite follow and leave a comment. Some people know I do in fact read and take the comments to heart and use the ideas. Bye bye for now! 3