There was a light knock on Lucy's door, the sun was shinning in through the small window just above the bed.

Lucy let out a groan. She had stayed up for hours talking to Loke last night. Which to her now seemed like a mistake considering she was still drained.

She forced her eyes open though. Knowing she really had no choice in the matter. This was all her idea anyway.

"Luc, you awake?" A voice that matched only Gray, sounded at the door.

"Y-yes!" She replied through a harsh yawn.

Lucy pushed herself up. Using all her strength to get out of the bed. She pulled the covers off her body and let her feet dangle off the side.

"Alright, Erza and Lyon are already down stairs. Come when you are ready." He spoke before she heard nothing more from the other side of the door.

Lucy stretched her arms out and arched her back, letting out yet another yawn. Eventually she stood up, rummaging around in her pack for her clothes.

She was almost to tired to put them on correctly but after a few minutes she figured out which hole her was was supposed to go in. She latched her keys into their holster underneath her dress before pulling her pack over her shoulder.

After making sure she had left nothing behind, she exited the room and walked through several hallways and a flight of stairs to get to the bottom floor.

Everyone but Levy and Eva stood in the front room waiting patiently. Lucy walked up to Erza who greeted her with a smile.

"Good morning, Lucy!" She chimed, clearly fully rested.

"Good morning, Erza." Lucy answered with a faint smile.

"This is the last time we will be sleeping indoors until we reach the capital." Gray spoke with a soft yawn.

"Really?" Lyon questioned, he sounded a bit disappointed.

Lucy nodded. "Yes, the route we are taking has no real towns or cities on it until then."

"Such a shame. But I see your reasoning. With less cities and towns there is far less distraction." He replied.

Just then Levy and Eva came down the solid stone stairs. Levy grinning from ear to ear.

"The closer we get, the more excited I am to see the Library! Thanks for letting me come along, Lu-chan!" She beamed, plopping herself next to Lucy.

Lucy flashed her a smile in return. "I'm glad you came, Lev!"

"Alright, everyone is here. Let's head out!" Erza demanded with a bold look on her face.

Everyone nodded and followed her lead out of the guild. Then they began their normal chats, considering there wasn't much to do on the road.

"Aye, Lucy!" Lyon spoke as he slowed down to reach her at the back of the group.

Lucy flashed him a warm smile. "Hey, Lyon!"

"So it's official, you and I are cousins! It's amazing, I've never had any real family before!" He beamed, the thought of family used to make him cringe, now he had a mother and a cousin.

Lucy felt pity toward him, only because she knew what the felt like. Being alone. "It's been roughly twelve years since I've had family. I know how hard it could be."

They were both on the same page. Neither had family for most of there life. Friends, yes. But it wasn't the same. Family is a much deeper bond they were deprived of too young.

"What's you story, Lucy? What is the reason you are searching for the Library. You could have just simply hidden for the rest of your life. But you are seeking out something in order to change the world, there has to be a reason." Lyon questioned.

Lucy felt it was necessary to tell him. No matter how hard it was on her. Her was now family after all. Knowing about each others life came in the package.

"It's quite a long story. But it seems we have plenty of time, so alright." She took a brief pause.

"I don't remember much about my childhood, because for me it ended at age five. But most of the things I do are worth remembering. Eva had a sister named Layla, who married a man named Jude Heartfilia. He was a very wealthy man and loved my mother dearly. After four years of being together I was born. " Lucy started off with the basics.

"He knew that my mother was a wizard and that she was a wanted fugitive. Her only crime was the use and possession of gate keys. Like my mother before me, I was born to be a Celestial Spirit wizard. We lived together in my Father's estate, no one suspected a well respected man or woman to be a Celestial Wizard. When I got older, my first memory was of Eva and my mother..." Lucy had difficulty replaying all of it in her head but she did her best.

"I had no idea what it meant, seeing as I was only three then but Eva begged my mother to give me over to her. She believed it wasn't to late to save me from my fate, since I didn't even know what magic was yet. But mother refused, her heart believed I would do great things with the magic I was born with. " She paused, watching Lyon for emotions on his face.

"She wanted to teach you Ice Make instead didn't she?" Lyon questioned.

Lucy nodded, amazed that he had guessed such a thing. "It wasn't hardly two years later did it all fall apart. Aunt Eva had told my mother it wouldn't be long before they found us and she was right. My parents and I fled, leaving everything behind. My mother entrusted her keys to a spirit of hers named Capricorn. He was to return them to her when we reached Aunt Eva's house. But, before we got there, we were caught by soldiers who had completely surrounded us. They killed my parents on the spot but just before a spear pierced my heart, a man that stood nearly thirty feet high broke the circle around me."

Lyon said nothing but she could tell he had a thousand things to say. Gray had the same reaction when she had told him the same thing.

"He fought for me, after he nearly took them all down the soldiers agreed to spare my life but I was to be imprisoned for the rest of my life. Before the soldiers hauled me off my gave the man a locket that was around my neck. I wasn't big enough to know just what he had done for me but I knew I had to thank him some how. After that I was taken to the Magic Council's maximum security prison, where the worst of criminals went. I was the youngest of course, only five. It was two years before the guards there did to me what they did to the other women. As a seven year old girl, I was raped by men in their forties and fifties and the other inmates in the cells near me laughed and pointed their fingers."Lucy had a knot in her stomach as she was reminded how many times she had been violated.

"The council knew but did nothing. Later they added a new squad to patrol my hallway. They were the worst of them all, the sickest of pigs. As punishment for inmates trying to escape they would have to use my body as a sex toy while the squad had their fun watching. It was at that point I wished that man hasn't saved my life. Then, one day everything got surprisingly better. Capricorn had managed to sneak into the prison. He handed me a silver ring with twelve golden keys and several silver ones dangling from it. He told me what they did and that each one unlocked a gate to a friend that my mother had fought with all her life. Over the years I called out each spirit. They treated me so nicely and most of them showed me love. Loke, the gate of the Lion, became my closest friend." A faint smile flashed across her lips but vanished just as quick.

Lyon was speechless. When he first laid eyes on Lucy, she looked like a girl who had lived a calm and lovely live. But even her childhood was filled with nothing but pain.

"For twelve years I only stayed alive because of my spirits. As every maximum security prisoner, I was sentenced to death. Years before I would have been fine with it but now I had some one who loved me. I couldn't let them take my life away. When I told my spirits they were furious. It was the last straw for Loke, he decided it was time to leave. Which is exactly what we did. He waited until it was late and used several of my spirits abilities to sneak me out without being caught. I remember the feeling of the grass between my toes for the first time. I felt so alive. I ran and ran and never looked back. I stayed with Loke in a little cabin for several days before the Magic Council found us. I was forced again to run as my spirits fought without me. That's when I found myself in Magnolia." Her story suddenly became very recent.

Even though to her and everyone else it felt like such a long time, it had only been a little over a month. Everything had changed so fast. Lucy did care what happened at this point, as long as she didn't have to go back there. Lyon listened carefully, engulfed in her tale as if he was reading a book.

"I had passed out in the woods just outside of the city. Two guards men had found me and decided I matched the description of the girl who had escaped. Once again a man came to my rescue. He's standing with this very group too. Natsu scared away the guards and took me in. He cleaned me up, fed me, and had my wounds healed. He introduced me to the guild and that's when I met Master Makorov. Master took me in privet and told me I was safe, that I didn't have to worry. Before he began telling me a take of a young girl he saved from a terrible fate. It was then he pulled out the same locket I had given to a man twelve years ago, with two perfect pictures of my parents. I had met the man that was responsible for my life. He accepted me into the guild but some didn't. Natsu was among those who opposed my presence because of something his father had told him about my kind. He kicked me out of his house and Gray took me in. He have me the idea to check the library at Fairy Tail for anything on Celestial Wizards after a month of me doing all I could to win Natsu's acceptance. I needed to know the truth about my magics past. I found nothing but this book." Lucy held up the book on the library.

"I read about the library and decided it had to hold something to make all this pain and reflection come to an end!" Lucy finished, a clear tear rolling down her pale cheek.