Little Lion Boy

by MagicConan14

Tsuna's job is to seal seven boxes with the Vongola Ring he's been given...and somehow master magic at the same time. It's his duty as a Guardian, after all...Idea originally from kyogre-ana but used with permission. AU.

1. Prologue

Little Lion Boy

I've gone and dropped Superhero Project for an offer I just can't refuse…I've been given permission to elaborate on a magical girl AU idea from Kyogre-ana him/herself! (If you want to see the idea for yourself, then check post/84840290970 on their tumblr.)

WARNING: I don't own the characters in this fic or the original idea. I'm simply using what I've been given to do a story.

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- Prologue -

In the 16th century, a hunchbacked balding man was putting the last finishes on his latest creation – a magic box containing one of 343 powerful beasts. The other 342 boxes, in all the colours of the rainbow, sat around his workroom, filling up the available space and blocking out some of the light from the window.

In front of him were the blueprints for each one bound into a simple book, and as he picked it up and read his name on the front cover ('Geppetto Lorenzini') he trembled for a second. Not because he was cold, but because of the fact he was entrusting them to the local mafia.

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A young man with blonde spiky hair had snatched ten of the boxes from the mafia. Making a fist and shoving his ring – dubbed the Sky Ring due to its sunset-orange, almost yellow flame – into the hole in the top of the box, he sighed.

"Giotto! What do you have there?" called his pinkheaded friend G, running up to him. The blonde man – Giotto – noticed that G's scars had receded slightly ever since one of the box creatures had incinerated part of his face, giving them the appearance of flames.

"Our new job," Giotto told him, handing over a red box to him. "If you will recall that I gave you that ring yesterday," G pulled out the mentioned ring and admired the engraved tornado for a second, "you will find it has the power to seal away the beast that burnt your face." With relish, G stabbed his ring into the top of the box.

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By the time of Vongola Nono many years later, the job had fallen to the Guardians – people chosen by the mafia to wield the special Rings that Giotto, G and five others had used – to seal old man Geppetto's boxes. To become a Guardian, there was only one requirement...and that was to be able to use magic. Not stage magic, but the other variety.