Hello again! Taking over my sister's story has apparently turned me into LaLu trash and I had this idea! Now I did have to do a good bit of rearranging with the cannon timeline to make things work, but we will go back and touch on things that were skipped over as we go. Everything up to Galuna happened mostly as cannon with the exception of Leo who never joined Fairy Tail, Phantom Lord hasn't happened yet and the Tower of Heaven is still currently happening in secret, the Battle of Fairy Tail has just finished but Lucy wasn't there for it. We will focus on Lucy and the Thunder Legion first, LaLu wont happen until later.

Also, HEED THE WARNINGS AND THE RATING! This has an M rating so we will get into mature subjects! In the first couple chapters alone we have some talk about drugs and this may be triggering to some people! I also won't hesitate with the sex! You don't want to read that then this is not the story for you!

So, I hope you enjoy my little AU!

I don't own Fairy Tail and y'all are crazy if you think I do!

Lucy Heartfilia sighed as she let her head drop against the train window, the dreary scenery provided by the rainy evening blurring into a whirlwind of gray and brown in front of her eyes. She was heading home from a solo job, back to Magnolia, back to Fairy Tail.

The blonde had only joined the guild about two months ago and already she had resigned herself to solo work. The two official, one unofficial, and one illegally accepted jobs that she had taken with Natsu and, eventually, Gray and Erza had shown her just how much working with a team would hinder her. After that realization she had very firmly declined Natsu's continued partnership, much to the fire dragon slayers dismay. It was a bit lonely but Lucy had her Celestial spirits by her side and a mission that took precedent over befriending destructive and undisciplined mages.

Lucy's mood dipped a little as her mind once again strayed to her mission. Her hand fell to the tarnished key on her belt and she stroked it gently, 'Stay strong. I won't stop until you are back with me.'

A flash of light heralded the arrival of her strongest spirit and she smiled at the well dressed lion as he took a seat across from her, "Hello Leo."

"Princess." He greeted with a small smile, "You know...he wouldn't want you to isolate yourself for his sake."

"I'm not isolating myself." Lucy argued, "But that team wouldn't have been a good environment to grow in. No rewards means my bills aren't payed which means I couldn't train to get strong enough for what is needed." She sat back as her eyes dropped to the dull key again, "I actually think he would be pretty ecstatic that I'm focusing on training."

Leo snorted, "You're right, he would be pleased. You're going to use his schedule right?"

"Of course." Lucy said brightly, "I need to adjust it slightly to work in time for you to train me on what spells and techniques Seireiō has granted me access to but other than that, the schedule has worked since I was eight, it will continue to work now."

"Maybe you can use that schedule to train up Natsu and Gray to help you." Leo hedged.

Lucy's face fell into a scowl, "There is no way I'll be able to focus on my own training if I first have to wrangle two dunderheads who fight each other every chance they get. They're very nice and I'm sure they would help if I asked but the sheer amount and range of their destruction can't be planned for with any amount of accuracy. I will not jeopardize his life with such idiocy."

Leo gave her a small smile, "Spoken like a true Princess."

Lucy lifted her nose and gave a little sniff, "Of course." She replied primly before she and Leo promptly slumped in their seats with laughter.

When the laugher died down, Leo began again with a slightly softer, "Princess..."

Lucy smiled at her spirit, "I know you're worried about me being alone Leo. If it makes you feel any better, I am not completely against the idea of having help, I just want to make sure that whoever decides to help me will actually be a help instead of a hinderance." the spirit dropped his head in defeat and Lucy moved over to sit next to him. "Besides," she bumped shoulders with the lion, "I have all of you with me and that means I'm never really alone."

Leo looked over to her with fond eyes, "You're really something Princess."

Lucy's smile turned to a mischievous grin, "It's the hair."

Getting off the train in Magnolia, Lucy was once again alone. Leo had returned home shortly before the train pulled into the station and Lucy couldn't currently call out her normal companion because apparently Canis Minors took their weekly dog pile/cuddle fest very seriously.

Lucy hummed to herself as she walked further into town. Her latest job had actually had quite a decent payout so she was sitting pretty on rent for the next two months with enough left over to get the rest of the necessities for several weeks before taking another job was required. It left her a nice chunk of time where she could train without worrying about money.

Feeling like a little treat and not in a rush since the rain had taken a break for the moment, Lucy made a side track in her journey home, practically skipping to the pastry shop to get her favorite strawberry cream tart.

Pushing the door open and stepping inside, Lucy froze almost immediately at the hateful glare she was getting from the little old woman who ran the shop. "Um, hello Mrs. Devro."

"Don't you hello me Missy!" The elderly woman snapped, "Get out! We don't serve your kind here any more!"

Lucy frowned, "My...kind?"

"Fairy Tail wizards!" Mrs. Devro shouted, picking up a broom and batting the bristles at Lucy's feet, "Now scat! I refuse to sell to a member of a guild who thinks fighting each other among the innocent common people just for a stupid festival is alright!"

"Mrs. Devro I don't understand," Lucy tried, backing away from the bristles with her hands up in surrender, "I've been away..."

"I don't care!" The little old lady snarled, "I'm sleeping in a roofless house because of your stupid guild! Now get out!"

Lucy scurried out of the pastry shop as quickly as she could despite her confusion. She knew that she missed the Fantasia Parade because of her mission but she'd never heard anything about some sort of fighting game and usually fights were kept within the guild hall. Looking more closely at the structures around her, Lucy could actually see evidence of magical battles.

"What the hell did I miss?" Lucy muttered to herself.

Before the blonde could ponder much further there was a scream from ahead of her and Lucy's head whipped toward the sound. Her intelligent brown eyes sweeping the thinly populated area for potential threats even as her hand dropped to her waist to grip her whip.

To her confusion, all Lucy could see was two little wood cylinders spinning over the street and a hysterical brunette running away from them with her hands clutched dramatically over her head.

Lucy frowned and walked toward the two cylinders, passing the hysterical woman in the process. As she drew closer, she watched the cylinders duck down to another passing citizen and chant, "Help! Please! Help!" But the man simply ignored the funny little wood creatures.

As soon as Lucy stepped into range, the two creatures flew over to circle her and repeat their request. Lucy smiled at them cautiously and held out her hands, "Easy little guys. Come here." She called gently, she waited patiently as the two bobbed uncertainly for several long seconds before lowering themselves into her hands. Lucy took a moment to examine the little wood beings. They seemed to be little tikki totems, both with intricately carved faces and little wing like carving extending from their sides. The smallest fit easily into her palm and had a sharp red mask, a small green nose, and bared teeth. The other one was slightly larger and had slitted eyes, a large round green nose, and a pink lipped frown. "Well aren't you two just adorable?" Lucy cooed, the two shook a little as if startled. "What are your names?"

"Pippi." The smallest squeaked out.

"Peppe." The frowning totem answered.

"Nice to meet you!" Lucy greeted, "I'm Lucy. What did you need help with exactly?"

The two totems rose sharply from her hands, "Bickslow!" They chirped, "Need help! Please!"

Lucy frowned a little, "Your friend needs help? Are they hurt?"

"Sick!" Peppe answered. "Help!"

Lucy gave them a serious nod, "Alright, can you lead me to them? I'll do what I can."

"Yes! Yes!" The two chanted, whirling around Lucy's head before darting off toward the next building.

Lucy followed quickly after the two totems as they rounded the building on to a lesser used side street before ducking rather suddenly into an alley. Lucy tensed a little at the alley but continued to move forward, with a little more caution than before.

She wasn't sure what she was expecting to find in that alley but a grown ass man with wild blue hair rocking back and forth, cuddling a garbage can, and staring down a seemingly petrified cat as his eyes glowed green sure wasn't it. Above the man's head was the two totems Lucy had met as well as three others, all hovering protectively around the man on the ground.

"Sweet stars." Lucy breathed, creeping forward slowly, she looked up at the totems. "What happened?" She could feel a magic pressure laying heavily around the man, it was quite substantial. "Is this a new magic he's lost control of?"

"No." Pippi answered, spinning back over to her. "Sick."

"A reaction to something then." Lucy threw out, "Was he poisoned? Did he get hit with a spell?" She finally made it to the man's side, careful to avoid the path of his glowing gaze. "I assume he usually has control."

"Yes." Peppe responded, "Took something."

Lucy frowned, "Took something? Was he sick before hand?" She didn't want to touch the man before she knew what she was dealing with but she did use her close proximity to look for signs of illness or injury, she saw nothing but some signs of long term stress and the more obvious current distress.

"No." Pippi answered.

Lucy raised an eyebrow at the totem and took a leap of logic, "So what? He took some recreational drugs?"

Pippi lowered itself closer toward Lucy, "Don't know."

"You don't know if he took drugs?" The blonde asked, "Has he never taken any before?"

"No. Drinks."

Lucy pursed her lips to hide her frustration, "He's only drank before?" Lucy knew she likely wouldn't be able to get an actual reason out of the little totem but there was one thing she was wishing wasn't the case. "Don't tell me he just took stuff off some stranger at a club or something."

"Paper!" Pippi chirped.

"Lump." Peppe added, joining Pippi in front of Lucy.

The blonde frowned, "Paper..." she hated translation jobs, "did the paper have a little picture on it and go on his tongue?"

"Yes!" Pippi answered.

"And lump..." Lucy started, looking over to Peppe, "from what little I know I'm going to say...a mushroom of some kind."

"Yes." Peppe answered.

Lucy sighed, "Mixing drugs is beyond bad. Especially for a first timer. It looks like he's entered some kind of zone out and used his magic accidentally." She cocked her head as she assessed her subject with the new information. He was completely unreactive to her presence beside him but she knew not to touch him without him being aware of her presence. His magic was steady and unchanging through his state however and Lucy theorized that his magic must take a concentration that was hyper enforced by the zone out he was experiencing. "Alright," she looked up at the totems again and noticed that the other three totems had joined the first two, "he's just experiencing a bad trip. He's completely zoned right now and I need to break it before I can help further. When I break it he might become violent but I promise I am not hurting him. Can I count on you guys to hold him back if he lunges? He could hurt himself and that is not the goal here."

"Yes!" Pippi chirped happily but was almost instantly bopped by another totem, this one with dark green eyebrows and angry looking eyes above a round pink and red mouth.

Lucy watched the interaction between the totems and figured that this one was the leader of the little group. "Calm down." She started placatingly, "I won't do anything unless you're cool with it. What's your name?"

"Pappa." Came a gruff reply.

"Hello Pappa, I'm Lucy." She greeted softly, "I only want to help. Before I can help any more or even get him to acknowledge me I have to break his lock on the cat." She slid off her jacket and folded it over her arm, "I'm not even going to touch him. I'm just going to break his gaze with my jacket. Can I do that?"

Pappa bobbed in place, silent for almost a full minute. "Can't look."

Lucy nodded, "I assume that it's a magic applied with eye contact." She reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out her sunglasses, "Will these block it?" She asked.

"Yes." Pappa said before the totems as flew back to circle the man.

Lucy smiled as she stood and slid on her sunglasses, "What did you say his name was again Pippi?"

"Bickslow!" The totem chirped.

"Right." She positioned herself behind the cat, "Nice and easy then. One...two...three!" Lucy lowered her jacket right between the cat and Bickslow.

The effect was immediate.

The cat let out a yowl and bolted with it's tail fluffed up to twice the size of normal. Bickslow jerked backward suddenly, dropped his trashcan, and slapped a hand to his eyes with a yelp, only the presence of the totems kept his head from hitting the alley wall behind him.

Lucy slowly put her jacket back on and watched carefully as Bickslow slumped against the wall, his breathing picking up quickly as he started to tremble. "Bickslow." She called gently, he flinched and clamped harder over his eyes. "Easy. I need you to breathe. Deep breath in for me." She said softly, he complied shakily. "There you go now let it out nice and slow." She sank low in front of him as he did as she said. "Good job." She praised.

"Who?" He started shakily, his voice hoarse.

"I'm Lucy Heartfilia and I am here to help you." She explained softly, "Can you look at me? Please? I promise I have glasses on."

"H-how..." he stuttered.

"Your cute little friends told me." She answered, "Pippi and Peppe found me and led me to you so I could help."

"No one knows their names." Bickslow stated mournfully.

"I asked for them. It's only polite." Lucy hummed, "Now, can you look at me? I need to see if the drugs are still affecting your magic."

"No!" Bickslow suddenly shouted, making Lucy jump a bit, "I can't!"

"Yes you can." Lucy reassured him, still keeping her voice even despite her racing heart. "I have sunglasses on. It wont affect me." She stayed patient, letting him take his time.

"O-ok." He finally conceded, before slowly lowering his hand and looking at Lucy with glowing green eyes. A frown came over his face, "A...goat?"

Lucy giggled as she took in Bickslow's face and tentatively felt the magic that was now focused on her, "To others I'm sure that would be an insult but I will take it as a compliment, especially since you can most likely see my soul right now. Though technically it's 'sea goat'." Bickslow was looking at her in shock, she cocked her head, "You are a Seith mage right? They tend to have a very distinctive feel to their magic."

"I don't...I can't..." Bickslow stuttered, his breathing starting to pick up and his stare growing wild. He jolted wildly as the first of a light drizzle hit him.

"Easy." Lucy called again, "Bickslow you need to breathe." The man's started to brush frantically at his arms as the rain started to gather. "Calm down, it's just rain." She tried to soothe but it didn't work, his shaking just got worse.

Lucy pressed her lips into a harsh line, "Bickslow!" She snapped, making his gaze snap back to her. Lucy wrapped her magic snuggly around her soul before carefully lowering her sunglasses to make eye contact with the seith mage. "Deep breath in." She ordered, her glowing golden eyes never wavering from his glowing green ones. He took a deep breath on her order, his eyes wide. "Now out." She said sternly, he followed once more. "Again."

For several more minutes Lucy directed Bickslow through breathing while blocking his soul magic with her own. She continued until his shakes had lessened and his breaths were even but by then the rain was really starting to pick up.

"Good job Bickslow." She praised, still not breaking eye contact. "Now we need to get you out of this rain. Can I to take you to someone or would you rather come to my apartment?"

Lucy didn't know it, but this complete stranger's choice would set her on a path to not only complete her personal mission but also to create a family and find love along the way.