Lucy's Pov

"Na-tsu," I croaked out. He was no longer there. I cringed in pain as I reached out my arm to grasp him, even though he had left me there.

How did it come to this?

I sat in the guild, no-one talked to me again today. I sat in my own little corner of the guild. Watching everyone have a merry time without me. How long had it been? Three? Four months since Lissana came back? I don't know anymore. I lost track. It was lonely. I sighed. I watched as Gray and Natsu got into another brawl, somehow managing to get the whole guild involved yet again. Tables and chairs were flying everywhere, along with the few unlucky mages who were getting tossed around. I then saw a chair swirling towards me.

"Owww," I said as I rubbed the front of my head, blood was dripping down my face. Damn.

I saw Natsu walking over with Lissana clinging onto his arm. She looked like a leech. Stuck on him and sucking out his friendliness towards me.

"Yo Lucy?" He said with a slight questioning tone. Glaring at me. Had I done something wrong?

"What's up Natsu?" I asked, trying to sound casual.

"We want you out of our team," I expected him to say that. I had been readying myself to hear it for awhile now. Yet I still felt tears drip down my face.

"Why?" I asked.

"You messed up our last four missions! Don't you remember!?" Natsu roared at me. Lissana was glaring at me.

"I haven't been on a mission with you guys since Lissana came back!" I retorted. It was true, I had gone solo.

"No use lying. But eh, Lissana?" Natsu asked the leech.

"Yes Natsu?~" She asked with a cutesy demeanor.

"Can we go on one mission with her to show her how bad she messes up everything?" Natsu asked.

"Ugh, fine" Lissana said as she walked off to get a mission. So the leech can detach from its prey, eh?

Natsu glared at me while Lissana was away. "Here~" She said as she re-attached herself to his arm.

We left. I was walking a few paces behind them and we went on the train. It was supposed to be a quick mission. But a hard goal.

Defeat a dark mage who was blowing up buildings in Clover town.

I watched the two fall asleep on the other side of the car, I then fell asleep as well.

We met up with the mayor who directed us towards the area the mage was hiding out in. We went in and he immediately started shooting explosive magic bullets at us. Chasing us out the door and into the forest. Natsu ran slowly carrying Lissana who was screaming that it was fun. We are running for our lives. Honestly how dumb can a person get. Natsu isn't even trying to attack the mage. He could easily defeat him. The two idiots were whispering to eachother about who-knows-what. I was distracted and I couldn't reach for my keys fast enough before one of the mages bullets hit me in my thigh. and another in my wrist. I screamed out in pain as I collapsed. The bullets made small explosions. But big enough to blast my leg and hand off. I screamed out in pain. It was unimaginable. I have never felt more pain. Natsu then decided it was time to fight back and punched him, knocking him out. I was on the ground.

"See!? You messed us up! You're terrible, screwing with our missions. Have a nice life, though it won't last long." Lissana said as she hugged Natsu, who smiled. She turned into a bird and flew off with Natsu in tow. Leaving me where I am now.

'I really don't have long do I,' I thought to myself as I heard rustling in the bushes. 'Damn. Well at least they can end it quicker.' I saw a man in a cloak pop out of the bushes through my blurred vision. I now could no longer feel the ground. "SHIT!" the figure yelled as they rushed to me. I couldn't see anymore and closed my eyes.

'Goodbye world,'

?'s Pov

I was walking in the forest listening to my soundpods. It had been a long time since I was kicked out. I've been a nomad for quite awhile. It was boring. Suddenly I smelt a familiar scent 'Strawberries and vanilla and a whole lot of. . . blood?' It was a crud-ton. Burning my nose from over here. I looked in the direction the scent was coming from and instinctively ran towards it. 'Damn! That's too much blood to be healthy!' I ran faster, raising an eyebrow at an abnormally large bird carrying something flying away from where the smell was coming from. I sprinted through some bushes and saw a blonde woman on the ground. Barely conscious with her WHOLE F***ING LEG AND HAND BLOWN OFF?

"SHIT!" I yelled. She needed medical attention, fast. I ran towards her and could have sworn I saw her smile slightly before falling unconscious. You're not supposed to fall unconscious. " .Shit." I repeated. 'Can you say anything else!?' My mind asked myself.

Up close it was even worse, she was in a puddle of blood and her severed leg was lying slightly further away. Her hand was missing 'She won't be needing that leg' I thought to myself. If I remember correctly she was Lucy, celestial spirit mage. She beat Bickslow, girl packs a punch. Celestial wizards often communicate with their spirits through their keys. I grabbed them. "If you things can hear me then f***king come out and help your master!" I yelled. Immediately two spirits came out. One in a maids costume with chains around her wrists, she had pink hair and a stoic expression. The other was Loke. . . what?

They turned and saw Lucy and quickly fell into a panic. The pink haired one disappeared for a second and reappeared with a shitload of medical supplies. She started patching her up while Loke held his master to make it easier for the pink haired one to bandage Lucy. She seemed pretty good at this.

"Laxus, did you see who did this?" Loke asked. I shook my head. "I ran here after I smelled blood, I figured her keys could hear me so I called you. Thank god I did,"

Loke was silent for a while while pinky finished bandaging Lucy. She was covered in blood and so were her spirits. They seemed unfazed though.

"Hime will be fine, but do not move her for a few days, she may reopen her wounds. I will look for something for her missing limbs in the spirit world,"

"Thanks Virgo, you may go. I'm going to stay with Laxus for awhile," Loke said. Virgo nodded and disappeared.

Loke slumped against a tree. I don't blame him.

"I can't thank you enough, Laxus,"

He surprised me, I raised my eyebrow at him and he smiled slightly to himself.

"Lucy means the world to me, no, us. All of her spirits care for her deeply. If you hadn't come along, then. . ." His voice trailed off, he was choking on his own words. He was crying.

". . . then she would be gone by now. I don't know how we would get over it. She saved my life and I love her, we all do. I'm so glad that she was alive. So glad." He looked up at me. I could visibly see how worried he was, and how grateful he was to me. His eyes were red and had visible bags under them. His hair was messed up and his suit was rumpled. It looked like something else was bothering him.

"I really didn't do anything, " I said as I looked up. This was a bit awkward. Loke shook his head. "No, you saved her. You saved her when I couldn't, I'm glad that someone could. Now I just hope she will wake up and smile at us like she normally does. She has been down lately,"

"Why?" I asked, for some reason, I was genuinely curious.

"The guild. . . they shut her out. A girl came back, Lissana. You remember her? She came back, and everyone started to ignore Lucy. She went on solo missions, she sat in the corner of the guild alone. People started to verbally abuse her, then physically. We had to watch, we couldn't do anything. She rarely cried too. She was so strong. I admire her,"

I was shocked, that wasn't like the guild I knew. All about nakama and friendship. They even got through to me! How could they do this to one of their own?

I was angry, furious even. Me and Loke talked for awhile on what to do. We decided that we could stay with her all the time til she wakes up. Then we would help her. She needed it. I don't even know why I care. Blondie had struck something in me. I was racking my brain to figure out what. I eventually gave up. Pinky returned at night and helped us set up camp, then she left with Loke. I put a blanket on Lucy and soon fell into a troubled sleep.