Hey guys! So I really thought I'd never ever write a fanfiction, but it's summer so why not. Thank you for actually reading this and hope you enjoy! (The image above is Lucy's home).

Fairy Tail and these characters belong to Hiro Mashima blah blah.

Lucy's P.O.V

I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock making it's dreadful noises. The smell of delicious pancakes, eggs and bacon lingered throughout the room, slowly awakening me from my sleep. 'Ergh, first day of school as a junior,' I thought to myself. I heard two knocks at my door, and a soft voice that followed.

"Good morning, Hime. Get up and get dressed, you don't want to be late on your first day!" My maid, Virgo, exclaimed.

"Good morning Virgo, tell mother I'll be downstairs shortly."

I get up from my large bed and walk to the bathroom. While looking in the mirror, I brush my long golden hair that falls near my waist and put it up in a regular high ponytail, brush my teeth, and check myself one last time, not bothering to put makeup on.

I got dressed into the Fairy Tail Academy uniform that consists of a white button up shirt and black tie, black blazer with white lining and an uncomfortably short black skirt. 'Jeez, principal Makarov can be a real perv sometimes...'.

As I tuck in my white button up, I look at myself again in the mirror one last time. Excitement runs through me as I think about finally being one of the upperclassmen. 'This means I will finally be able to be able to participate in the Fiore Mage Race, or, FMR,' I thought excitedly.

To explain from the beginning...it starts with all the upperclassmen competing against each other using their magic abilities to find out which is the strongest.

The top Male and the top Female will then be chosen and move on to the final and real competition, the FMR, which, rumor has it that it's extremely difficult.

The top schools of Fiore come together to compete in this race, though Fairy Tail wins every year and holds the undefeated title. It's also been my dream since I was a little girl to become the Female representative for Fairy Tail and to lead us to victory!

"Oh shoot, don't wanna be late!" In one swift move I grab my school bag and quickly head down the huge staircase.

"Good Morning Mother. Good morning Father." I greet my parents as I walk into the dining room for breakfast.

"Good morning," my parents say simultaneously. When talking to my parents, I have to be the most proper lady in the world. It gets annoying sometimes.

I quickly finish my breakfast, say goodbye and head out the door to walk to school.

"Yo! Luceeee!"

"Ugh." I say to myself, clearly not as happy as before. Here comes Natsu Dragneel, my rival and neighbor since we were just little kids. Though we are rivals, we still do everything together. You could say we're...frenemies?

Natsu lived in a very large house that could easily be called a mansion next to my own. The house had too many windows to count and towered over the field in front of the house. Although I would say that my house is way better than his.

Flashback to kindergarten

"Great Job Lucy! As always, one of the best in the class!" My teacher congratulated me for my outstanding job of mastering most of my celestial spells at ranks most fourth graders couldn't even do.

My celebrating was cut shortly though after a loud boom was heard across the room. All the attention was now on him. Fire Dragon Slayer, Natsu Dragneel. "Whoo! I finally mastered that last attack!" He shouts. The whole class and even the teacher was amazed.

"That was incredible Natsu! You did even better than Lucy!" Someone says in the crowd.

I stand there with my arms folded and a pout on my face. Natsu then sees my reaction and smirks right at me. Once all the fuss about his accomplishment died down, he walked up to me.

"Hah! I'm better than you!" He yells right at my face.

"Errrgh, it won't always be this way Dragneel, you're not that great."

"Yea yea, whatever. Don't get your hopes up shortstacks, it'll always end up with me in first place." He said with a toothy grin plastered on his face.

"We'll just have to see about that." I say with a smirk.

"Well then, I love a good competition!" He smirked back at me.

End of Flashback

From then on, we've always been competing in anything we could. It would always end up with either a tie or him winning. I could just never beat him! From test scores, to mastering attacks and spells, to even P.E! The only time where I won greatly against him was in cooking class...

Anything and everything was a competition with him. The worst part was, he had the same goal as mine, to compete in the FMR, which meant if we were to be the top male and female then we would have to work together in the race. Gross.

"Helloooo? Luceee?" A voice snaps me out of my thoughts. I looked up to see Natsu standing in front of me waving his hand in front of my eyes.

"Oh, hey Natsu," I say as I roll my eyes at his action.

"That's not a very polite way to greet your best friend." He says.

"First of all, we're not best friends, barely even friends that is, and second of all, since when are you ever polite to me?" I say calmly.

Natsu puts his hand to his heart and, in a fake way, he acts as if I hurt him. "Damn, why so feisty?" Then he leans forward and whispers. "Is it that time of month again?"

"No!" I smack him across the head while blushing from his dumb question.

"Hah, I'm kidding Luce! Jeez, you're too easy." He says while still laughing.

We keep talking until we end up racing each other to school. It ended up with him tripping me as always, making me fall flat on my face as he reached the front of the building. We got up and pretended like nothing had happened and went our own ways to enter the school.

Fairy Tail Academy was a huge building made up of different sections. The school had large courtyards where students would stand and talk until it was time for class. Over all it had a kind of medieval theme.

"Lu-chan!" I heard one of my best friends Levy yell out to me. She ran towards me, along with some of my other friends, Juvia, Erza, Cana and MiraJane. I walked toward them as well trying ignoring the fact that Natsu was fighting with Gray again causing a bunch of yelling, as usual.

"Hey guys! I yell back at them.

We end up walking and talking.

"How does it feel to finally be one of the upperclassmen?" Erza asks Levy, Juvia and I. MiraJane, Cana and Erza are already Seniors, a year above us. Last year for the FMR Erza was the female representative for our school with Laxus Dreyar, who graduated.

"Feels great! I'm so excited! We'll finally be able to participate in the FMR!" I say in reply.

"Juvia is excited, but nervous as well." Juvia states, talking in third person. She only talks like that when she's nervous. She then runs off yelling something about finding her beloved Gray-sama.

"Lucy, I have a feeling you'll be the female representative for our school, I mean, you are the smartest and strongest after Erza." Cana says in a drunken slur as everyone agrees with her statement. Cana always seems a little drunk, though we're all used to it.

(I know in the anime Lucy might seem not as strong but in this story she uses more of her own powerful attacks and spells and doesn't count on celestial spirits to do it all, but her spirits will still be in the story, just not a big part, you'll see. Anyways, she's really strong.)

"Well, after all my training, I know I'm gonna beat Natsu this year. It'll be great!" I proudly exclaim.

"Uh Lu-chan...are you forgetting the point? A male and female will be chosen to compete. You both are most likely going to make it and-."

As I hear those words, my excitement is crushed and I cut her off. "Ugh, don't remind me Levy. I'll beat him in something either way."

"Okayyy, whatever you sayyy Lu-chan." She says, not convinced.

As we walk into the building, and then to homeroom, I'm pretty sure I heard MiraJane mumble something about how "it's not fair" and then something about Nalu babies....but I let it slide.

I walk into class and just as expected, I'm in the same class as Natsu. The only seat left is next to him!? Oh great...this happens every single year. 'I have the worst of luck', I thought and took my seat beside him and he immediately turns to me.

"Hey Luce! Did ya hear the news?" He seemed excited to tell me whatever it is.

I shook my head no.

"We're starting training pretty soon! I think tomorrow!" He explains. "Can't wait to be first place as usual!" He says and then winks at me.

"Ugh, ya' know, I've been training really hard. Besides, sometimes we tie, but I know I'll get better rankings than you this year." I try to sound as confident as I can.

He starts to laugh. "Aw Luce, that's cute, but ain't gonna happen." He notices me pouting and laughs some more.

Then the door opens and our homeroom teacher walks into the classroom.

"Yo. The names Gildarts Clive. You guys can call me Mr.Clive and I'll be your homeroom teacher this year." He says with an easy and chill tone.

"I realize that I should get down to explaining some things. Training starts tomorrow. You're first two years here were a lot about magic history and some training too, but, this year it'll be mostly training for real. Tomorrow will be the first test of your magic ability, so be ready for that. I expect great things from our class this year."

With that, the bell rang and we were off to our next classes of the day. I have every class with at least one friend in each. Though, the sad part is that Natsu is in every one of my classes.

Timeskip to after school

Natsu's P.O.V

'God, today was so boring,' I thought. Every class was mostly just the teacher talking and explaining what will be expected throughout the year. I have every class with Lucy and we barely got to compete in anything today besides P.E., where I clearly beat her in every sport. Though we did almost wreck the whole gym from getting too out of hand, like always.

I waited for Lucy at the front of the school so we can walk home together as usual.

"Hey Natsu." She greeted as she walks towards me.

"Hey. Ya' ready for tomorrow? I'm so gonna get a better ranking than you!" I proudly exclaim.

"Whatever Natsu." She says in a cold tone.

"Anyways, race ya' home!!" I start running, with her running right after me, quickly meeting my pace.

I do the usual where I trip her, she falls flat on her face, and I end up winning. Yet, she always agrees to racing me.

"Errgh, it's never fair, you always trip me!" She says while dusting herself off. "That's the only reason why I loose!"

"Hmm," I say with a pondering expression while looking at her. I then look down at her chest and smirk.

"Maybe it's your huge chest that's weighing ya' down Luce." I say smirking. She gasps, then uses her little arms to cover up her chest while blushing madly.

"Sh-shut up! Perv!" She yells, still blushing like crazy.

I laughed at her cute expression. I've always kinda liked Lucy ever since we were kids, but she obviously hates me most of the time.

"Ugh, anyways, see ya' tomorrow!" She says as she walks towards her house. I say bye as I walk towards my house as well.

Excitement races through my body as I think of training tomorrow. 'We'll just have to see what happens.'

Okay, so I know it's kind of slow but I promise it'll get there. It's my first fanfiction anyway, I've never written anything before so, sorry if I suck. Y'all just gotta wait cuz it's only the beginning. Please comment feedback on how you think the story is cuz I really wanna here from you guys! Anyways, if this ends up being liked then I'll write more! Love ya guys! 💩😙