Summary: When Lisanna returned from Edolas, she expected everything to be the way it had been two years ago. Some small changes, but nothing important. It didn't take her long to realize that she was wrong. Her best friend and crush, Natsu, had moved on. Moved on to the beautiful Lucy Heartfilia. Lisanna envied Lucy. Lucy, who had taken her best friend. Lucy, who was everything Natsu was capable of thinking of. Lucy, a sweet and wonderful girl whom Lisanna called her friend. Yes, Lisanna was sad that she had lost Natsu, but she would never do anything to harm Natsu and Lucy's friendship. However, a new member of the guild named Simra learns of Lisanna's troubles and decides to take matters into her own hands. Because of Simra, Lucy is left out and ignored by the rest of Fairy Tail. Lucy quits, and some time later she disappears from Fiore altogether. In Fairy Tail everything is fine, normal and almosteverything is happy, until a Sorcerer Weekly article about "Former Fairy Tail member Lucy Heartfilia" changes everything.

A/N: Well, here's another "Lucy leaves Fairy Tail" fanfiction. I'd like to say that this one is different from the others, better different, but wouldn't any writer. But really, I haven't read anyone with this plot, so I think it might be sort of original. Either way, I hope it is enjoyable and that anyone that reads it likes it!

Important: This fanfiction contains spoilers from the manga. If you haven't read it, you will be spoiled.

Disclaimer: I think it's quite obvious I don't own Fairy Tail, as I doubt Hiro Mashima writes Fairy Tail fanfiction.

Prologue

Lisanna sat at the bar, thinking of all the things that had changed while she was gone, her sister being a prime example. No longer the girl that did everything she could to get into a fight with Erza, but rather a sweet smiling, matchmaking angel that couldn't hurt a fly (she could, but she didn't look like it). Elfman had seemingly grown more confident and ''manly''. But what had changed the most, or rather, the change that had hurt the most?

Natsu.

Before her disappearance, the two of them had been so close. They had played together, laughed together, done everything together. And she knew it was stupid, but she had thought that was how it would be when she came home. Instead... Lucy Heartfilia. In Edolas the two of them had been so close, even though Lucy Ashley was constantly breaking every bone in Natsu Dragion's body, they had obviously cared about each other (Lucy Ashley would violently deny it, literally, but Lisanna knew just how close those two were). All the other relationships had been turned around there. Levy, Jet and Droy had been arguing and hostile. Alsack and Bisca had been all lovey-dovey instead of being shy. Everyone's relationship had been so different in Edolas, except Natsu and Lucy's.

"Earthland to Lisanna. I repeat: Earthland to Lisanna," the guild's newest member, Simra, said. Simra was a little girl, barely a year older than Romeo, and she practically worshiped Lisanna.

"Are you okay? Is something bothering you?" she asked, concern coloring her voice.

"No, Simra, I'm fine."

"Lie," Simra said, her face expressionless. Simra's magic let's her know if a person is lying or not, which could be quite annoying at times. Master believes that with training and time Simra could learn to use her magic to do more than serve as a lie detector, but Simra was very uninterested in the topic of training her magic and avoided it like the plague.

"Tell the truth. There is no point in lying to me," she said, silently challenging Lisanna. Lisanna sighed. She would would either have to tell Simra everything now, or she needed to come up with something so close to the truth that Simra's magic wouldn't detect the lie.

Lisanna decided the first option to be considerably easier, but she would rather not the entire guild hear her problems. Everyone knew how she felt about Natsu, Lucy had even asked if she should keep her distance for her (which Lisanna had politely declined, she knew how much it would hurt Natsu), everyone knows. Everyone but Natsu (and probably Romeo).

Lisanna indicated for Simra to follow her, and walked out of the guild hall and into the forest. They sat down, and Lisanna told Simra everything.

"... It's just that I feel like I've been replaced. I want to go back to the way it was before, before Lucy, but he is so happy now. And Lucy is so sweet to, I could never hurt either of them by wedging myself between them."

"Truth," Simra whispered. They sat in silence, each deep in their own thoughts.

Simra stared at the ground. This was different from what happened then, but still… she couldn't take any chances. She had to find a way to fix this problem, quickly. And so, she tried her best to come up with a plan on how to save Lisanna.

"I got an idea!" Simra shouted, full of enthusiasm. Lisanna looked at her with wide eyes. An idea? For what? Simra wasn't actually going to do something to try and get her and Natsu together, right? Because Lisanna knew that would never happen as long Lucy was there, Natsu's eyes were always glued to her. And she wouldn't try to harm Lucy, Lisanna had faith that Simra was a better person than that.

"No need to worry, I got it. In just a few days time, you will be happy again!" she laughed, bouncing away like the little child she was. Lisanna smiled, it was cute that Simra was trying to help her, but she didn't see what she could possibly do.

As Lisanna made her way back to the guild hall, she silently prayed Simra wasn't going to try something stupid.

Lucy felt awful. When she had woken up that morning, it had just felt like a little chill. She had eaten breakfast, felt a little better. Then, she stared coughing really badly, and realized she would be stuck in bed for a while. Which was kind of sad, as there was a party at the guild that night. Apparently Simra had invited everyone, believing she needed to send some formal invitation. She should have known by now there would have been a party either way.

The party had begun a half hour ago. Natsu and Happy had just left, they had hesitated, hoping she would feel better and come with them, but they had left when she reminded them that this party meant free food. Fish and fire food was the only words they seemed to care about, except Natsu also loved the word ''fight'', so that was all they did. Oh, and they also slept and broke into her apartment. Of course, Natsu was a great heater, but…

She did not just think that.

Anyway, what really bugged Lucy about this illness was how sudden it was. She had felt perfectly fine yesterday, not tired, or cold, or sick, or anything! What had happened that made her so ill?

A/N: Horribly short, I know. I can't really promise the chapters will be much longer, but I try to make each chapter between 900-1k words. Sometimes a little bit less, sometimes more.

Also, Simra is completely made up, she's an O.C. The story takes place before Tenrou Island, so Romeo is 6 years old (Simra is 7).

Please review and tell me what you think of this story. I apologize any grammar/spelling errors, as English is not my native language.

Please review, and know that I appreciate constructive criticism (especially grammar/spelling and plot holes and everything really)!

Update: I am currently doing a rewrite, when I'm done I will hurry and upload the next chapter. So, the quality might suddenly go down from one chapter to the next. I do at the very least hope the rewrite makes the story better.

Si-chan