A Different Set of Keys
Chapter 1: Set Sail for Fairy Tail
Disclaimer: I own neither Fairy Tail nor One Piece they belong to Mashima Hiro and Oda Eiichiro respectively
A/N: *Sigh* Why am I doing this? I've already got two stories that I'm basically updating monthly, I shouldn't be adding another one. Damn this idea for not going away and being the most appealing one on the list. Well, another Fairy Tail crossover this time with One Piece. Been thinking about this one for a while, but lost the notes so I'm going to wing it. Will be updated whenever I want to procrastinate, have writer's block, or a decent chunk of free time in that order.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Demon/Dragon Talking"
'Demon/Dragon Thinking'
'Flashback'
Magic/Magic Item
Location/Time Change
Hargeon Magic Shop
"What?" A buxom young woman with blond hair and brown eyes stared at the shopkeeper in confusion. She had her shoulder length hair in a small ponytail on the right side of her head that was held up with a blue ribbon and was wearing a sleeveless white collared jacket with blue trim, a blue skirt, a brown belt that held a whip and a ring with several blue keys on them in different shades, and black high heeled boots. Her name was Lucy. "There's only one magic shop in the whole town?" She asked in disbelief.
"This town is more of a fishing town than a magic town. Less than ten percent of the town can use magic, so this shop is mostly focused on traveling mages." The shopkeeper explained.
The blond let out a sigh in disappointment. "Aw, this was a waste of time."
"Don't say that. Take a look around, I have all the latest magic in stock." The shopkeeper told her as he rummaged behind the self. "This Colors Magic is popular with the girls." He said as he held up a pink box that had two white buttons and the word "Colors" on it. "You can change the color of your clothes depending on your mood." He then demonstrated by turning his beige shirt to purple.
"I already have one." Lucy said as she showed it to him. "I'm looking for one of the Cabin Keys." She informed him while examining the various selves and casing.
"Oh? Not many mages try to use those anymore. Too difficult to use I hear." The shopkeeper commented.
Lucy soon found what she was looking for. "A Zoan Key, perfect!" She said as she held up a case containing a light blue key.
"Are you sure you want that? They're a gamble on both ability and usability, and you can only use one." The shopkeeper asked.
"Yes! I've been looking for one everywhere." Lucy said in elation. "How much?"
"20,000 jewel."
"I asked how much."
"I said 20,000 jewel."
Lucy climbed on the counter and struck a seductive pose. "How much is it really, you handsome man?" She asked with a wink.
Hargeon Streets
Lucy stalked through the streets in anger. "He only lowered the price by 1,000 jewel." She complained. "Is my sex appeal worth only 1,000 jewel?!" She cried in outrage and kicked a nearby sign, getting people to stare at her.
Lucy's attention was distracted by a couple of girls that were running towards a large crowd of people. "Hurry up, a famous mage is here." One of the girls called out to her friend. "It's Salamander-sama!" She squealed.
Lucy clapped her hands together in front of her face. "The mage that uses magic you can't find in stores? He's in this town?" Lucy asked no one in particular. She then followed the girls to see the famous mage.
Lucy pushed her way through the crowd and was soon able to catch sight of the man. He was tall and slim with spiky dark blue hair with a fringe that covered the upper left side of his face, dark eyes, and a small tattoo of set of stylized tongs facing outwards. Salamander was wearing a high-collared cape with two hollowed circles that have arrows jutting from them in multiple directions that is held shut by a clasp that looks like a flame, a white shirt, red pinstriped pants, polished black shoes, metal bracelets on his right forearm, and several rings. Salamander was surrounded on all sides by girls with hearts in their eyes.
Lucy stood frozen in the crowd. Her heart was frantically beating and she could feel herself blushing. Her thoughts where rushing erratically through her mind and she could barely think straight. 'Why is my heart beating so fast? What's happening to me?' Lucy wondered as she watched Salamander interact with the crowd. He glanced to the side and looked at Lucy, making her heart beat even faster. 'Is it because he's a famous mage? Is that why my heart is throbbing so fast?' Lucy tried to reason as she felt the pull of Salamander's charm. Lucy slowly started to get closer to the Fire Mage.
She was interrupted when a muscular young man with spiky pink hair and dark eyes that was wearing a red coat and wrapped up comforter over an opened black vest with gold trim, white pants that stopped just below his knees, black sandals, and a white scarf with a scale pattern on it burst through the crowd shouting "Igneel!" The young man stopped and stared at Salamander with a confused look on his face. "Who the hell are you?" He asked.
Lucy felt her love disappear at his words and Salamander gave a start at not being recognized. He made a grandiose motion with his hand and gave off a dazzling smile. "Maybe you know me as 'Salamander'?" He suggested. But the man had already started to walk away in disappointment at not finding who he was looking for with a strange blue cat with a white belly and tail tip that was wearing a green backpack. "You're gone already?!" Salamander yelled in surprise.
The man was then attacked and beaten by several girls in the crowd for the disrespect he had shown Salamander. "That's enough. He didn't mean anything by it." Salamander placated the girls, making them instantly go back to fawning over them and Lucy glare at him in anger. Salamander approached the man and gave him his autograph. "Here's my autograph. Feel free to brag about it to your friends."
"I don't want it." The man's reply got him beaten up by the girls again.
"I have some business at the port, so I have to be off." Salamander excused himself. He snapped his fingers and summoned purple fire that carried him off. "I'm having a party on my ship tonight and you're all invited." He called out before leaving.
"Who was that guy?" The man asked aloud.
"He was a creep." Lucy answered as she walked up to the man and cat pair. "Thanks for earlier." She told them, and got confused looks as a result.
Restaurant
Lucy sat across from the man and cat as they rapidly devoured both food and her savings with the meal she was treating them to. "I'm Lucy. Nice to meet you." Lucy uncomfortably looked on as the two messily ate. "It's Natsu and Happy, right?"
"You're a nice person." Natsu said through a mouthful of food.
"Thanks, but slow down. You're sending food everywhere." Lucy said with a shaky smile. 'There goes the money I saved.' "That Salamander guy was using a magic called Charm. It attracts people to you, even against their will. It was banned years ago, though." Lucy explained. "Thanks to you barging in I was freed from Charm. So I'm treating you to lunch as a thank you."
"I see." Natsu said while he was clearly focused on his free food. If the blond girl wanted to feed him that was fine by him.
"I'm actually a mage too." Lucy said. "I'm not part of a guild yet, though." Lucy then went on to explain what a guild was to herself as the cat and man weren't listening to what she was saying and only made the occasional comment to act like they were paying attention.
Lucy finally wrapped up what she was talking about, something about a popular guild she wanted to join. "You talk a lot." Happy noticed.
"You were looking for someone earlier, weren't you?" Lucy asked.
"Aye, Igneel." Happy said.
"We came here because we heard that a salamander was in town, but it was the wrong person." Natsu said in disappointment.
"This Salamander didn't look like a fire dragon at all." Happy pointed out.
"I totally thought it would be Igneel this time." Natsu said.
"What kind of person would look like a dragon?" Lucy asked in disbelief.
"Igneel isn't a person. He is a dragon." Natsu explained with a straight face.
Lucy flinched back in shock at that revelation. "Why would a dragon be in the middle of a town?!" She demanded from them. Natsu and Happy both raised a finger to give a reason, but stopped in shock as they realized that Lucy was right. "You just now noticed that?!" She yelled at them. Lucy put some money on the table and started to leave. "I have to go, but you can take your time."
Lucy stopped at the exit and looked back to see Happy and Natsu on their knees with their foreheads touching the ground. "Thank you for the meal!" They called out in synch.
"You're embarrassing me!" Lucy yelled at them. "It's fine. You helped me already, so we're even."
"But we don't feel like we helped you." Natsu said. He then had an idea. "You can have this." Natsu offered Lucy the Salamander signature.
"Don't want it!" Lucy yelled as she slapped it out of his hand.
Park
Lucy sat on a bench and read the Weekly Sorcerer. "Fairy Tail caused trouble again." She mentioned aloud and laughed at what they had done. "Oh, Mirajane did the photo spread this week." Lucy admired the pictures of one of her idols. "How do you even get into Fairy Tail? Is there an interview?" She wondered. "The Fairy Tail guild is so cool!"
"You want to join Fairy Tail, do you?" A familiar voice said.
"Salamander!" Lucy said in surprise as the mage popped out from a bush that was behind her.
"I've been looking all over for you." He said. "I wanted to personally invite you to the party on my ship tonight.
"Your Charm won't work on me now." Lucy declared. "It won't work on people who are aware of it."
"I knew you were a mage when I first saw you. It doesn't matter, just come to my party."
"I'd never go to a creep's party." Lucy said as she turned her back on the mage. "You used your Charm to become popular."
"That's just a test. I just want to feel like a celebrity during the party." He explained with a smile.
Lucy started to walk away from Salamander. "For a famous mage you sure are an idiot."
Salamander chased after her. "You wanted to join Fairy Tail, right?" He called out, making Lucy freeze. "Have you ever heard of Salamander from Fairy Tail?" He asked.
Lucy started to nervously sweat. "I have." She turned around to point at him. "You're a Fairy Tail mage?"
"Yes. I could put in a good word to the master if you want to join." He offered.
Lucy got really close to Salamander with hearts in her eyes, making him back up in discomfort. "Sounds like a great party." She said.
"You have a really simple personality." Salamander noticed.
"Can you really get me into Fairy Tail?" Lucy asked with sparkles in her eyes.
"Yes, just don't say anything about the Charm." Salamander told her.
"Okay!"
"I'll see you at the party." Salamander said before he flew off on his purple fire again.
Lucy watched him leave with hearts in her eyes before she realized that she had been tricked. She soon forgot about that in her joy to be able to join the guild of her dreams. All she had to do was be nice to that idiot, Salamander, until she was in.
That Night, Salamander's Boat
Lucy sat in a private room across from Salamander. She had changed into a dark red dress for the party and was pretending to enjoy the mage's company. "Lucy? That's a lovely name." Salamander complimented her.
"Thanks."
"Let's start with a toast." Salamander suggested as he poured some wine. He snapped his fingers and the wine started to float in the air and formed little spheres. "Open your mouth and let the pearls of wine enter." He said in an attempt to be romantic.
All he managed to do was creep Lucy out. But she steeled her resolved in order to get Salamander to get her into Fairy Tail. As the droplets came closer to Lucy she noticed something off about them and quickly swiped them away. She stood up and confronted Salamander. "That was Sleep Magic."
"How did you notice?" Salamander asked, with no attempt to hide what he had been trying to do.
"Don't get the wrong idea! I want to join Fairy Tail, but I'm not going to be your girl." Lucy said.
"You should have just gone to sleep peacefully so you wouldn't get hurt." Salamander darkly said.
The curtains were thrown back to reveal that all of the women were asleep and had been captured by the crew. Two of the men grabbed Lucy's arms and held her in place. "What's going on?" she demanded.
Salamander had lost his charming personality and was now showing a darker one. "Welcome to my slave ship. Be a good girl and stay quiet until we reach Bosco." He told her.
"Bosco? What about Fairy Tail?" Lucy asked.
"You're our merchandise now. Give up on Fairy Tail." Salamander said.
"We got a good haul this time, Salamander-san." One of the crew members said.
'How could anyone do this?' Lucy thought in disbelief. She reached for her keys, but Salamander snapped his fingers and used his magic to take them from her.
"Cabin Keys? That means that you're an Oceanus Spirit Mage." Salamander noticed. "That's a hard magic to use. But it only works if you make a contract with the spirits so they're useless to me." He casually tossed the keys out of a porthole and into the ocean.
'So this is a Fairy Tail mage.' Lucy bitterly thought with tears in her eyes. 'Abusing magic, tricking people, slavery.' "You're the worst mage ever." Lucy told Salamander.
Salamander and his men laughed at her words. Suddenly, Natsu broke through the ship's roof and glared at Salamander and his men. "Natsu!" Lucy said in surprise as she wiped away her tears.
Her hopes were quickly dashed as the pink haired man became motion sick. "I can't handle it after all." He muttered.
"So lame!" Lucy yelled.
Happy floated above the hole in the roof on a pair of white feathery wings. "Lucy, what are you doing?" He asked.
"I was tricked. He said that he could get me into Fairy Tail." She explained. "Wait, you have wings?"
"We'll talk about that later." Happy said as he flew down and picked Lucy up with his tail. He then flew them both back out of the ship.
"What about Natsu?" Lucy asked.
"I can only carry one person at a time." Happy informed her.
"I won't let you escape. Prominence Whip!" Salamander called out. Streams of purple fire chased after the pair forcing Happy to take evasive action.
"Dammit. Stop them. We can't let the Council find out about us!" He told his men. They brought out guns and started to shoot at Lucy and Happy.
"Listen, Lucy." Happy began.
"What could it possibly be at a time like this?" She asked as bullets whizzed around them.
"I'm out of magic." Happy's wings disappeared and the pair fell into the ocean.
"You shitty cat!" Lucy yelled before she hit the water.
Lucy searched the ocean to find her keys so that she could save Natsu and the girls. She found them conveniently caught on a rock formation still in shallow water. Lucy swam back to the surface and looked at the ship with a smirk. "Here I go." She pulled out a dark blue key with a sun symbol on the end and the teeth that were three triangles. "Open, Cabin of the Sea Knight, Jinbe!
A large blue fish-like creature appeared in a flash of blue light. He had a stocky build with two gill slits on either shoulder, a bulbous nose, heavy yellow eyebrows similar to an oni's, white sideburns that were also similar to an oni's, a small black tuft for a beard, black hair up in a topknot and shoulder length with two silver stripes going through it, a bulbous nose, angular lower lip that, an underbite that allows his two large lower fangs to be outside of his mouth, thin arms, and webbed hands and feet. He was wearing an orange kimono that had a black and white squares on it, a purple obi like a belt, and geta sandals. "What do you need, Lucy-dono? Jinbe asked.
"I need you to beach that ship." Lucy answered.
Jinbe nodded and sunk under the water. Soon the ship was quickly propelled forwards by a large column of water lifted it out of the ocean. Happy watched on in shock as the large ship crashed into the beach. Jinbe then popped up next to them. "Is there anything else you need?"
"Can you please give us a ride to the shore?"
"Of course." Lucy grabbed Happy in one hand and used the other to hang onto the back of Jinbe's kimono. He sped through the water with ease and dropped Lucy and Happy off in shallow water.
"Thank you, Jinbe." Lucy said with a slight bow.
"Anytime, Lucy-dono. And be careful with your keys." The large fishman reminded her as he returned her bow and disappeared in a flash of blue light.
"I will!" Lucy promised. She then clenched her fist in victory. "I did it! Now the girls are safe."
"Ah! We forgot about Natsu." Happy said. Together the pair rushed off to the ship to help the motion sick mage.
Natsu stood on the side of the ship and glared angrily down at Salamander and his men. Lucy and Happy arrived to help him, but stopped when they saw the dark look on his face. "You're a Fairy Tail mage?" Natsu asked Salamander.
"Of course. Get him." Salamander ordered. Two of his larger men charged at Natsu.
He casually took off his jacket and faced off with them. "Let me get a good look at your face." He told Salamander, who gave off a confident smirk.
"Oh no, I should help." Lucy said as she grabbed her keys.
"It's okay." Happy told her as he ate a fish while sitting on her shoulder. "We forgot to tell you earlier, but Natsu's a mage too." He casually mentioned. Lucy stared at the cat in shock with her jaw open. Who the hell forgot something important like that? Especially after she had gone on that long rant about magic, mages, and guilds?
Natsu easily backhanded the two men and stared at Salamander with a furious disgusted look. "I'm Natsu from Fairy Tail!" He yelled with his red guild mark prominently displayed on his now exposed shoulder. "And I've never seen you before in my life!"
Salamander, his men, and Lucy stared at Natsu in shock. The pink haired idiot that suffered from motion sickness yet willingly jumped on a boat to fight people was a mage of the famous guild, Fairy Tail? It was ridiculous, but his guild mark meant that it was the truth. As one of Salamander's men pointed out. "He's real, Bora-san." The man said while accidently letting Bora's real name slip out.
"Bora, Bora of Prominence." Happy identified Bora now that he knew his name. "He was kicked out of Titan Nose's guild for stealing a couple of years ago."
Natsu started to stalk towards Bora and his men. "I don't care if you're a good guy or a bad guy, but I won't forgive you for tarnishing Fairy Tail's name."
"What are you going to do about it, brat?" Bora demanded as he sent a wave of purple fire at Natsu that engulfed the Fairy Tail mage. Lucy started to go to help Natsu, but was blocked by one of Happy's wings.
Bora turned to make his escape now that he had burned Natsu to a crisp. "These taste awful." Natsu's voice said. Bora turned back and was stunned as the mage stood in the fires as if he wasn't effected by the flames at all. "Are you really a Fire Mage?" He questioned. "This is the worst fire I've ever eaten." Everyone but Happy yelled at the sight of Natsu actually eating all of Bora's fire. He finished eating and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "Thanks for the meal." Natsu said in a tone that was anything but thankful.
"Fire won't work on Natsu." Happy informed them in a creepy voice.
"I've never seen that magic before." Lucy said while still in shock.
"Now that I've eaten, I'm all fired up." Natsu said. "Here I come." He puffed up his cheeks and placed his hands in front of his mouth like a funnel. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu sent forth a stream of flames from his mouth that blazed through Bora's men.
Natsu faced off against Bora with fire surrounding them on all sides. "Bora, I've heard about him. Pink hair and a scale-patterned scarf. This guy is the real…"
"Salamander." Lucy finished in surprise.
"Remember it well." Natsu began as he rushed at Bora. "This is what a true Fairy Tail mage is like! Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu shouted as he slammed a flame covered fist into Bora's face that sent him into the ground.
"Eating and punching with fire? Is that really magic?" Lucy asked.
"Dragon lungs for breathing fire, dragon scales for resisting fire, and dragon claws wrapped in fire. An ancient magic that gives him the properties of a dragon. Originally used to fight dragons, Dragon Slayer Magic." Happy explained as he and Lucy watched Natsu ragdoll Bora across the port. "Igneel taught it to him."
"Isn't it weird that a dragon taught a human Dragon Slayer Magic?" Lucy asked.
"But you didn't doubt it!" Happy accused.
"It's amazing… but he's going overboard!" Lucy yelled as Natsu destroyed the town along with Bora.
"Aye!"
"Don't you "Aye" me!"
A bunch of men in armor carrying shields and spears appeared. "The army?" Lucy said in surprise. The girls that had gotten away earlier must have called them. Or someone reported the obscene amount of destruction that Natsu was causing.
The destructive mage noticed them and grabbed Lucy's hand to drag her along while he made a hasty exit. "Crap, let's go!" Natsu told her.
"Why do I have to run?" Lucy questioned as she was literally dragged through the air by Natsu.
"You wanted to join Fairy Tail, right?" Natsu asked with a toothy grin.
Lucy stared at him in shock before returning his grin. "Yes!"
Together, the three mages ran away from the army and onwards towards new adventures.
A/N: Alright, usual deal. I take from both the anime and manga when writing these fics so there will be differences. This fic will be Lucy-centric since it will mainly focus on the Oceanus Spirits. As stated earlier, this fic won't even be a priority and will just be for screwing around when I'm putting off any kind of work or have extra time and nothing to do. The Celestial Spirits have been replaced by the pirates of One Piece, but not with the same abilities. For example: if I can change the character's abilities with no real negative effects, such as Scorpio not being Crocodile even though they both use sand, then I will. I need a beta for this fic that will mainly be for grammar and spelling mistakes and to maybe bounce an idea off of for later stuff. PM if you want to beta or if you have a questions that you want answered immediately, later.