As I sat at my favorite bar stool I couldn't help but feel lonely, and who wouldn't if the people that they felt were their friends and family had been ignoring them for the last 5 months. 7years and 5 months if you count the time skip on Tenrou Island. No, I couldn't say that, after all Gray wasn't here and he hadn't ignored me while he was.

He had been sent on a 6 month mission by master right after the games. He hadn't done anything to me. He wasn't here to ignore me. He hadn't even started ignoring me. Even when Minerva was torturing me and it seemed that none of the other members of our team of guild except master cared he caught me when she dropped me. He even spent the whole time during the party after Fairy Tail won first place in the Grand Magic Games talking and laughing with me. So I could at the very least say that if he were here he wouldn't ignore me.

I sighed before going back to my original trail of thoughts.

It's not like I was sad. It was more of a feeling of disappointment. These were my nakama after all. As I recalled masters had once said to me "One person's happiness is everyone's happiness. One person's anger is everyone's anger. One person's tears is everyone's tears." If that was so then shouldn't have the guild members noticed my loneliness. Shouldn't they have noticed my tears? Shouldn't they have noticed my pain?

I silently laughed at the irony of it all. Instead of noticing my tears and pain they caused it.

It had all started around the time that Lisanna had come back. Don't get me wrong. I don't blame her for any of this. Instead I blame everyone else. It's not like it's her fault that she lost consciousness on that job with Mira and Elfman and got sucked into the anima that trapped her in Edolas. It was everyone else's fault for ignoring me and beating me up without noticing it however.

You see I had just been released from the hospital, which is where I also made my decision to leave fairy tail.

Now, you may be wondering why I was in the hospital, and why I had just suddenly decided to leave this place that I once called home. Well, it wasn't all that sudden. When you go on countless solo missions your mind has a lot of time to think, and well, based off of how everyone was ignoring me I was pretty much thinking and feeling that I wasn't wanted around. After 4 months of this you can pretty much imagine why a person would want to leave a place that they feel they aren't welcomed in. My belief that I should leave fairy tail was only strengthened by the fact that after I had come back from my latest job. I had just walked into the guild when I was punched by Elfman and his beast arm in the side.

Thanks to the hit I was thrown back, and ended up hitting a wall. I got up so that I could move out of the way of the fight but immediately felt a sharp excruciating pain in my side. I could tell from the pain that at least a couple of ribs had been broken, if not all the ribs on that side of my body.

As I slowly started to move out of the vicinity of the fight I was hit by what could only be Juvia's water slicer. Once again I had been thrown back against the wall, but this time I crumpled to the floor in a massive heap of limbs. Her attack had hit my stomach, which was now bleeding quite a bit. It wasn't a deadly blow though.

The next thing I know I was attacked by something that could only be an attack from Natsu. I knew this because the attack consisted of a lot of fire. I screamed out at the pain of it all, but it seems that no one had heard me. I could tell that I had been badly burned, and I also knew that now was the time to get out of there and head to the hospital.

I was finally able to stand after what was probably a couple of minutes but felt like hours due to the excruciating pain. As I was making my way to the entrance of the guild so that I could leave I was hit by Gajeel's metal arm pillar. His blow it the exact same spot where Elfman's attack had hit just a few moments earlier.

I knew that I was in bad shape now. I needed to get to the hospital soon, or else There would me major issues. As I slowly staggered my way on to my feet I looked up to just in time see one of Erza's swords coming straight at me. I was able to dodge it to the point where it didn't go straight through me, but I hadn't dodged it completely. Her sword had ended up slicing my other side.

I staggered slightly before clutching my side in an attempt to stem the bleeding. I was now making my way to the entrance of the guild. I was determined to get out of there before anything else happened. I finally made my way outside, but I didn't have the chance to relax. I made my way to the closest hospital as quickly as I possibly could. I had lost a lot of blood already, and I could feel myself starting to lose consciousness. I somehow made it to the hospital where I was able to get the attention of a nurse before passing out.

The next thing I knew I was in a hospital bed with my wounds all bandaged up. A doctor then came in the room and explained everything that happened. He told me that I would need to stay for a week and rest, and after thinking about everything that had happened I decided to leave fairy tail.

So, here I was sitting at my favorite barstool in the guild waiting for everyone to leave so that I could tell master what I had decided. Finally the guild members started emptying out. I took the stairs up to master's office and knocked on the door.

"Come in." I heard him say, and with that I walked into his office with a determined face.

"Yes my child, what is it that you need?"

"I wish to quit the guild, and go train to become a strong mage that doesn't have to depend on anyone." I said in a voice that left no room for argument.

"I see." He said. "Lucy, I want you to know that the only reason that I have agreed to this is because I know that everyone here in the guild has caused you massive amounts of pain, not only emotional but physically as well. Know that that is the reason I am letting you go, and that the reason is not the fact that you are not wanted here. Now give me your hand with the guild's mark."

I'm crying at this point, but I follow his orders and give him my right hand. He takes it into his and looks me straight in the eye before saying "Do you have any last requests as a member of fairy tail?"

I think about this a bit, and then I take a deep breath to calm myself down before saying "I don't want you to tell anyone I left unless they ask you. If they can't realize it on their own that I left, then they don't deserve to know what happened to me. You can only tell everyone I left if I somehow die."

"I shall grant you this last request as a member of the guild. Now, I'll send you off properly. Lucy there are three rules that I'm supposed to tell anyone leaving Fairy Tail. One: you must never reveal any sensitive information that could be used against fairy tail to outsiders as long as you live. Two: you must never use the clients you met through the guild to achieve personal gain. Three: Though our paths may differ you must always live out your life with all your might, never must you consider your own life to be insignificant, and never in your life must you forget the friends you held dear or those that loved you.", and with that he took off my guild mark.

I broke down right then and hugged master. The entire time he just hugged me back and pat my head. After I had calmed down he asked me "What are you going to do about your apartment and where are you going to go."

"I already cleared out my apartment off all my personal items and told the landlady that she could get another tenant. As for where I'm going I'm just going to take each day as it comes' but for my first stop I do have a destination in mind. I'm going to Celestiallus. (Made it up) The celestial city."

"Well then, I wish you the best of luck. Good luck my child. Know this though, if you ever wish to return then you are will be welcomed with open arms."

"Thank you mas- I mean Makarov." I got up and walked to the door. As I was walking out I looked back at him one last time and saw that he was crying while watching me leave his office. "Goodbye Makarov" I said with a huge smile that only caused him to cry harder, and with that I walked out of his office and the guild.

I went back to my apartment for the last time and I grabbed the bags that I had packed. I walked away from the apartment and to the train station where I bought a train ticket that would let me get to Celestiallus. I boarded the train and shoved my bags under my seat. I then made myself comfortable before I looked out the window. After a couple of minutes the train started moving out of the station.

I put my forehead against the window as well as my right hand. "Goodbye Magnolia" I quietly whispered as a single tear raced down my face. "Goodbye Fairy Tail."