WAH! Sorry for not updating any of my stories. There's just so much floating up in my head it's hard to sort through them all. Here's one thing I managed to pull out. SO without further ado, I present…Chapter 1!

Chapter 1: The Mission

Nighttime in a dark cave near a certain mountain:

"I'm going now," the girl said. "Remember, if I don't come back send someone to come get me because I'll probably be asleep." The group of people were in shadow.

"Yeah, but who?" another girl asked. "Only Celestial Mages can enter the mountain, right?" An evil smile spread across the first girls face.

"Lucy Heartifillia of course. If I'm not back send her, got it?" she demanded.

"Okay," a boy agreed. "We'll get the Fairy Tail girl." The first girl left then. The boy sighed. "I wonder if the Heartifillia girl will die on that mountain…"

Nighttime in the Fairy Tail guild:

Lucy let out a loud and painful sneeze. She was currently sitting in the back of the guild next to Natsu with the rest of the strongest team. They were currently debating going on a new mission. Ever since the games ended, the guild had gotten many requests.

"Eh, you okay, Lucy?" Gray asked.

"You're not getting sick, are you?" Natsu continued. "We can't go on a mission if you're sick!"

"Would you like me to take a look at you, Lucy-san?" Wendy offered.

"No, I'm fine," Lucy declined. "Someone's probably talking about me behind my back." Natsu glared wondering who would dare talk bad about Lucy.

"Well, just to make sure, we won't go on a mission for two days. So if you are sick, it will show itself before we leave," Erza decided. "Are we all in agreement?" Everyone nodded. "Alright then, you may leave." Everyone immediately dispersed.

"You sure you're alright, Lucy?" Gray asked. Lucy nodded and went to speak to Mirajane.

"Hey Mira!" Lucy greeted. The barmaid turned around and smiled when she saw Lucy.

"Ah, Lucy, what can I get for you?" she asked.

"Strawberry smoothie, please," Lucy ordered. Mira quickly got the smoothie then leaned in close while Lucy began to drink.

"So…" Mira began, "I hear Natsu fondled your breasts during the big battle." Lucy spewed out her drink. Mira pounded on her back to help with the coughing fit that followed.

"Wha-WHAT?!" Lucy screeched when her air passage was clear. This turned a few heads.

"I heard Natsu-" Mira began to restate before Lucy cut her off.

"Shh!" Lucy had noticed the eavesdroppers and quickly hushed the barmaid. "I heard you!" she hissed. "I'm going to murder that cat. First Cana, now you…" It seemed simply killing the cat wouldn't do this time.

"So what'd you do?" Mira enthused pulling Lucy out of her murderous thoughts.

"I punched him in the face," Lucy stated dryly. Mira sighed in disappointment. Lucy sighed in relief as Mira walked away. That was a huge bullet she just dodged. Before Mira could recover and question her further, Lucy finished her smoothie and left.

"Why are you here?!" Lucy shouted in outrage when she saw Natsu in her living room. Wait…Natsu…"Where's the cat?" she asked with a murderous expression on her face. Natsu backed up when he saw it.

"So that's why he didn't want to come," Natsu responded. "What did he do?"

"He told Cana, Mira, and GOD KNOWS WHO ELSE you fondled my breasts! And he conveniently left out that I punched you immediately afterwards. So now Mira's probably going to jump to conclusions again!" Lucy yelled in outrage. She had said all of her tirade at once and stopped to catch her breath. Natsu blinked.

"Uh…what?" he asked in confusion. Lucy glared at him.

"Never mind," she hissed. "Get out. I'm going to bed." Natsu then proceeded to lie down on the couch and say:

"Goodnight." Within seconds, he was asleep. Lucy sighed in defeat before going to get ready for bed.

Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, Erza and Gray were all sitting at a table in the back of the guild (Happy was still nowhere to be found).

"So how are you feeling, Lucy?" Erza asked.

"Fine, I told you, the sneeze didn't mean anything," Lucy answered.

"Does that mean we can go on a miss-," Natsu's question was interrupted by a loud banging sound when the master's door flew open.

"Lucy! Wendy! Pack your bags! You're going on a mission!" Makarov's voice boomed. The two girls looked up at him while Natsu cheered over the new mission.

"Yay! Finally! A mission!" he yelled.

"Sounds interesting," Gray commented.

"Well, if the master demands it, I guess we have no choice," Erza conceded.

"When did I say you three would be going?" Makarov corrected. "This mission is strictly for Lucy and Wendy." Natsu pouted at that.

"What is it?" Wendy asked.

"Come to my office," Makarov replied. The girls quickly complied. Almost immediately after the door closed, the rest of team Natsu pressed their ears against the magically sound-proofed door.

Lucy found herself staring at the door.

They're there, aren't they? she thought.

"They're standing there…I can smell them," Wendy confirmed.

I knew it! Lucy thought. Ignore it…Ignore it…

"So, what's the mission?" Lucy asked successfully resisting the urge to smack the people outside the door.

"The mission requests a celestial mage to go onto the sacred Celestial Mountain and retrieve their friend," Makarov explained. "It says Sky Dragon Slayers can also enter the mountain. I want you two to go on this mission so you can become independent from the group, especially you, Lucy. You've never gone on a single solo mission before. I think that you could have progressed much faster than you have had you gone on solo missions as well as team missions. Just look at the other members of your team." Lucy seemed to become depressed at this.

"Then why am I going?" Wendy asked.

"She'll need your help finding the girl," Makarov elaborated. "After all, it is a mountain." Lucy and Wendy nodded.

When Lucy came out, she was seriously depressed and Wendy followed closely behind her desperately trying to cheer the girl up.

"Come on, Lucy-san! I'm sure he didn't mean it that way!" Wendy tried to reason with Lucy to no avail. They passed their friends without so much as a glance.

"What's wrong, Lucy?" Natsu asked. Lucy stiffened and turned to him with a killer glare.

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" she screamed before kicking him in the face and running out of the guild. Erza turned and glared at Natsu while the rest of the guild watched Wendy chase after Lucy in shock.

"What did you do?!" Erza roared holding Natsu by the collar. Everyone turned to them. Natsu looked scared.

"I don't know!" Natsu yelled. Erza then knocked him out.

"MASTER!" Erza called going up to the office. She slammed the door behind her. No one dared go in.

"Come on, Lucy-san," Wendy was pleading. "It'll be fine! We'll go on this mission and have fun while getting stronger." Lucy sighed in resignation.

"Okay," she agreed. Wendy grinned.

"Great, let's pack! Remember, the mission paper says no skirts or dresses!" Wendy nearly cheered. Lucy changed into white shorts and a pink tank top. Once they finished packing, they grabbed her bag and headed for Wendy's room at Fairy Hills.

"So Lucy got upset because you called her weak?" Erza nearly growled in rage.

"I didn't call her weak," Makarov defended. "I simply stated that she would be stronger if she had gone on solo missions." Erza thought for a moment.

"I'm going to go talk to her," she declared. Erza then left the guild. She now knew why Lucy blamed Natsu. It was because the idiot would invite himself along whenever Lucy took a mission, especially if she was going alone. It really was his fault.

Lucy and Wendy had just finished packing Wendy's things. The girl looked so cute in blue shorts and a white t-shirt. She was just adorable.

"Okay! Let's not waste any time and go right now!" Wendy cheered. With that said, the two left for the mountain, though, Wendy felt like they were forgetting something…or someone.

"Where's Wendy?" Carla asked Cana.

"She chased after Lucy," the drunk girl replied.

"Oh, she'll be fine," Carla sighed in relief. "I'll see her later then."