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LUCY HEARTFILIA

It has been three years. Three long, long years since Natsu and Happy left the guild without telling anyone where they were going.

Not even telling me where he was going.

I admit, it hurt to see him go, leaving the guild without so much of a goodbye, but I knew he left for a reason. Not that I completely agreed.

The guild was never the same after that. To the outside perspective, the guild might have seemed the same to most. We still laughed and partied and got drunk, but if you looked closely you could see the subtle changes that would often occur. The one happily drunken Gray would go be about to scream out a certain name before he remembered. An angry Erza would call out Gray's name, then as she was about to speak another, she would stop herself and proceed to scold him for fighting. It wasn't just them either. It was Mira, Elfman, Fred, Wendy, Carla, it was everyone.

Even a blond-haired girl who would walk home half expect a pink-haired boy to already be passed out in her bed.

It didn't happen.

After a year, and Natsu had still not come back we stopped waiting on him. A guild exchange program had started where you'd be sent off to another guild to train and learn about life there. Most of Team Natsu greedily took up the offer to go. Erza had been sent to Mermaid Heel while Gray, Wendy, and Carla were all sent to Lamia Scale. When they left I was the only Team Natsu member to stay behind.

I would still talk to both Erza and Gray, even if it was mainly by phone with the occasional drop in from the two of them. The last time I talked to them they seemed to be doing well. Wendy and Carla, however, would come and stop by at least once a month with their new friend Sherria Blendy to check in on me and the other members of the guild.

I had started to go and take jobs with Team Shadow Gear and you could say I was an official unofficial member of the team. Not that Jet and Droy would ever say I was, wanting it to stay between just them and Levy, even though both Gajeel and I were with them on every single mission. Life was good and looked like it was getting back to normal, well, as normal as it ever was.

Well, that was until Natsu came back into town and the whole place was turned on its head.

a/n: Hey guys! Welcome to my story, I hope you enjoyed the prologue. Natsu will be coming in next chapter so look out for that.

Hope you have a good day, guys!

All the love,

me ️

edited: 7/25/16