A/N: Just kinda an idea i had floating in my head so figured i'd put it out here lol. anyways hope you enjoy cheers. Disc:don't own fairy tail or the characters.
Lights in the Dark
On the outskirts of a moderately sized town named Oshibana surrounded by an eerie forest filled to the brim with lifeless tree resides a large stone structure less run down then its surrounding environment. The building appears to be well maintained which is especially surprising considering the inhabitants, a group of dark mages known across Fiore as Eisenwald has made this place their guildhall.
Inside the stone, halls lie living quarters with a certain blonde girl lying about lazily on her bed, the only light in the room from the small half circle barred window in the stone wall. "*sigh* I should probably get out while I can. Far too many holes in Erigors' scheme for it to go off without a hitch. Then again I could stick around for the fireworks sounds amusing at least." spouts the girl as she starts playing with a set of keys consisting of gold and silver variety.
"You know they'll show up, especially now that I never came back. You sticking around is reckless and could wind you up in jail Lucy." said a man with an orange main in a suit as he appeared in a flash of light trying to contain his discomfort for the situation.
"Yeah I know Loke, but you can't tell me you're not a little interested in seeing these fools crash and burn" the blonde named Lucy replied with a slight chuckle waving off his unease.
"Lucy I re-" he was cut off as her smile fell and her look turned serious.
"I know Loke, it's not like I can leave this instant. We'll wait for the commotion when the wheels start spinning, unnoticed by your friends entirely, hopefully." the last word being muttered under her breath.
"They're no longer my friends I have sw-" loke attempted but was cut off by lucy raising her hand for him to stop.
"Loke they were your family for 3 years, that doesn't just go away, you're a living being, not a tool your emotions are stuck with you no matter how hard you try to, so cut the crap." lucy snarled at the spirit. Instead of deterring him these words only brought a smile to the zodiac leaders face.
"Thank you and best of luck princess." replied the lion spirit as he disappeared. Causing his keyholder to 'tsk' at the nickname.
Leaning back as she shuts her eyes attempting to get some rest before "all hell breaks loose" as lucy would say. As she slowly drifts off to sleep she thinks of the day she met her new (in Lokes words) "dashing prince" and a soft smile creeps onto the usually stoic face of the blonde.
Flashback
"Hmph. Is this all you bozos have to offer? I honestly was hoping for a bit more of a fight." proclaimed a rather zealous ginger wearing sneakers, cargo pants with a green coat and sunglasses as he stands over numerous dark mages who lay defeated.
"*sigh* Really!? You guys couldn't handle the pretty boy over there!?" exclaims a rather agitated blonde girl adorning a slightly baggy black t-shirt with a red star over the right shoulder, navy blue skinny jeans and black combat boots as she walks towards the ginger putting her hair in a ponytail.
"Hello, gorgeous. You know I'm not too fond of harming such a beautiful face so if you would kindly stand down that would be best for both of us." Loke states flirtatiously as Lucy rolls her eyes at his comment.
"Whatever let's just get this over with." says Lucy stoically as reaches for her keys. "Open gate of the Golden Bull Taurus" she mutters as a large humanoid cow with a battle ax appears before the blonde.
"A Celestial Wizard?!" shouts Loke with wide eyes staring in disbelief. While Taurus stares at his keyholders foe with solemn eyes. Eyes that did not slip by the blonde.
"Taurus are you okay do you want to sit this one out?" Lucy whispers out only for the two to hear the usual poker face blonde bear a face of worry for her friend/spirit which brought a smile to a certain gingers face.
"Yes miss lucy" is all the cowman replied With no pervy comment lucy knew something was up but trusted her spirit
"You really care for your spirits huh gorgeous?" states a still smiling ginger.
The statement caught the stellar mage off guard but quickly covered up her shock with a condescending tone. "Kinda my job as their wizard pretty boy. All Celestial Mages care for their spirits." she states matter'o factly. The ginger averts his eyes and says something she can't quite make out but the face Taurus made said he felt sorry for the mage. "Well let's get this over with Taurus." To which the only reply was him charging forward swinging his large ax directly over the Fairy Tail wizards head. Catching him off guard Loke barely dodged the blade and stumbled from the aftershock of the impact. Lucy took this as an opportunity to strike with her whip knocking the sunglasses off of Loke and leaving a large bruise on his cheek. As he was getting up the bull spirit charged again swinging his ax down on the ginger. Loke rolled out of the way using his glowing rings to hit the bull through the chest sending him to the celestial realm. Charging faster than the summoner could react the ginger was in front of her preparing another glowing punch. Just before it made contact the fist stopped causing the blonde to look at her opponent in question. "You okay dude?" was her half-hearted question.
"No" was the gingers simple answer it came out pained like he was barely able speak with his fist still raised and eyes covered by his bangs, this all made the blonde more uneasy with the situation.
After a few moments in silence, the blonde went to speak but was cut off by her opponent started becoming transparent fading in and out while collapsing to his knees.
"What the hell?! What are you doing?!" exclaim a now hyperaware blonde as she frantically looks around the would be battleground as if the answer would be lying there for her to find.
"Looks like our fights cut short beautiful" dryly chuckles the fairy tail wizard as his figure fades in and out of transparency.
Lucy being in her near frantic state thanks to adrenaline and curiosity begins to notice the type of energy or rather the fading of it coming from her former opponent. "What's happening to you?" she asks with a mix of concern and confusion as in her mind the pieces just don't fit together.
"Dying is the simple answer" Loke responds figuring there's not much else he can do so might as well give her answers.
"Why don't you just go back?" The blonde states in the same tone one would 'don't touch hot things to not get burned'.
The dying spirit before Lucy has a moment of shock then a simple smile crosses his face. 'Damn smart and beautiful did I have to die now?' the sound of a throat clearing snaps him out of his thoughts. Loke realizes he hasn't answered her and he goes on to tell the girl of his last master and her cruelty to him and his kin, of his stand to make her release them and how his actions killed her and his punishment for that. The lion recalls his tale with a sad smile not wavering in his actions against their mistreatment but saddened by his former masters' fate. A loud snort interrupts his thoughts
"Tch that's just plain stupid." she says in a bored expression. The lion spirit has a look of utter shock he bared his soul to her and she just disregards his misfortune, maybe he misjudged her capacity for cruelty. completely unaware of his moral dilemma Lucy carries on. "I mean if you were wrong then how are spirits supposed to deal with people who are cruel to them. This Karen lady is lucky she's already dead or she and I would have a little conversation on how she treats her friends." the blonde rants cracking her knuckles as the smile returned to the Lion spirit's face. "And that stupid rule is bullshit, saying that you killed her is stretching it if anything what she did was not respond to the change of contract that you proposed so if they want to get technical she made a novice mistake that you couldn't help. They want to get technical then they are just Wrong!" finishes the blonde as her words progressively rose in volume to where she was basically shouting at random things.
Then everything just stops, a rock Lucy kicked in her pacing froze mid descent, and the skies darken to reveal a starry sky. Loke has a look of borderline terror why the blonde just looks confused muttering something along the lines of 'have I been talking that long?' a dark vortex appears that channels the light of the newly revealed stars as the light gathers a figure of a Knight emerges in cyan/aqua, (teal maybe? Could be turquoise? whatever) from the vortex to stand before the duo easily dwarfing them as he compares to mountains. "Leo the lion, for your actions against your keyholder you have been hereby banished from the celestial world. This is irrefutable." 'Did he come here just because Lucy called him wrong?' his thought get cut short with a rather interesting claim.
"That's a load of Crap and you know it stache face!" The giant spirit's eyes widen at the defying tone and somewhat disregarding the nickname given to him. "Loke did nothing wrong and you know it. Hell even if you want to say he indirectly killed her I could say she didn't finish adjusting their contract and made a rookie mistake that got her killed" Lucy states not deterred at all knowing that the being before her is the Celestial Spirit King. "Even if you want to ignore the loopholes how are spirits supposed to deal with cruel sadistic keyholders? Just take it? Aren't you supposed to protect your people? Yet here you are punishing someone for doing just that." as Lucy throws flaw after flaw at the Celestial Worlds law a bright light emits from the girl giving a radiance similar to that of a new star, as her spirits no her friends formed at her side willing to fight for there keyholder and kins life.
As the light faded with the spirits, the Celestial King nods at the girl's words, Touched that she speaks so highly of his old friend after only knowing him briefly and understanding his circumstances enough to be willing to fight for him and make a good argument. "Perhaps the circumstances were unavoidable, her fate was her own. This once I will make an exception. Leo the lion, for your actions I hereby order you to serve the blonde girl Lucy Heartfillia, protect her with your life as she fought for yours."
"Guess you do deserve that crown stache face." Lucy states with a smile at his empathy for his friend. The Celestial Spirit King chuckles and gives a smile at the nickname the young summoner gave him.
"Farewell, my friends and let the stars be your guide" the king responded as a farewell and the light of day return with his departure. A bright light shines from Lucy's hip where her key pouch lay she reaches for the newest key one the ring and smiles as she turns to her new friend.
"We can work out a contract later but I think you need to rest up. Close gate of the lion." the lion spirit begins to depart in much brighter light then before, Lucy hearing his sincere 'thank you' before the light disappears entirely.
Present
With a loud crash Lucy is immediately up and alert, she looks around her room to find no threat but still hears the commotion from the rest of the guild building as she lets out a sigh. "Let's hope this all goes well." as she gets ready for Erigor's new scheme.