It was a beautiful sunny day and as Lucy entered the guild hall with Plue at her heels she was greeted by the expected noise. What was not expected however, was everyone cheering for her as she walked in.

'What's going on guys?' Lucy asked.

Levy walked over to her together and gave her a hug. 'We are celebrating your one year anniversary of joining the guild! Mira and I have been planning this for a week!'

'Wow! It feels like so much longer with all the crazy things we have done!' Lucy smiled at all her friends, before realising that someone was missing. 'I should summon Loke if we are having a party, it has been ages since he caught up with everyone at the guild.'

Pulling out his key and twirling it around her fingers she called: 'Open, Gate of the Lion!'

There was a bright golden light and Loke appeared, however promptly fell over as a little girl cannonballed into his back. Everyone stared as Loke picked himself up and straightened his glasses, looking around the hall in a confused manner and then at the young girl who was also standing up. She appeared to be around Wendy's age, with short light brown hair that fluffed up in every direction, dark brown, almost black eyes and a dress that was rather plain besides the patchy colour of many shades of brown, grey and black woven together. The most unusual thing however, were two pointed dog ears on top of her head.

She glanced around with a bewildered and slightly terrified look on her face before spotting Loke and hurrying over to him. Clinging at his sleeve she asked 'Wh… where are we?'

Loke looked down at the girl and frowned, 'We are in the human world - the Fairy Tail Guild, but how did you get here?'

'I…I don't know', she whispered uncertainly, 'but maybe I fell through your gate?'

'Yeah… I suppose…. Oh!' Loke started suddenly. 'Sorry Lucy, you called?'

Lucy seemed to finally get over her shock at the unexpected appearance of the girl and the slight amusement of Loke face planting.

'Oh, um, I am having a party for, uh, one year since I joined the guild. I thought, um, you might like to join' she stuttered.

Loke's face brightened, 'I would love to!'. Then he followed Lucy gaze down to the young girl still holding his arm and trying to hide slightly behind his back. 'My apologies! This is Sirius, my little sister, the dog spirit.'

'Oh, like Plue?' Lucy asked glancing at her strange snowman-like dog who was dancing.

Sirius followed her glance and her face lightened as she saw Plue. 'Nikora!' she called out happily, letting go of Loke and crouching down with her arms out and hugging Plue as he ran into her arms.

'Puu-pun puuuun-pun-pun,' Plue said to her

Surprisingly, Sirius seemed to understand, 'yes, you're right. I shouldn't be here. I will see you at home later.'

Dropping Plue she got up and looked at Loke. 'Sorry for knocking you over, we can finish what we were doing later.' She turned, avoiding the gaze of any other guild members and began to glow silver. However, she was suddenly flung backwards and fell on her bottom with a short cry of pain.

Loke looked astonished. 'What happened?'

'I can't open my gate,' Sirius whimpered, 'maybe…. Since I came through your gate, I can only leave through your gate?' She looked at him hopefully.

'Sorry, I can't leave now. My wizard needs me, ' he said with a cheeky grin at Lucy.

Lucy glared at him and quickly cut in, 'you are welcome to stay until Loke leaves.'

'But….' Sirius looked terrified and looked around the room as if searching for an escape.

Loke looked down at her sympathetically. He kneeled down in front of her and looked her in the eyes. 'You will be okay here,' he promised. 'I will protect you and Nikora can stay with you and if you start to feel the pain from being in the human world, I will take you straight back to the celestial world, okay?'

She nodded slowly and he smiled. 'You can play with Plue and I'm sure Wendy will look after you too.'

'Of course,' said Wendy walking up and taking Sirius' hand with a big smile and leading her away with Plue following.

Hi, I'm ringtailpossum and this is my first ever fanfiction. I love fairy tail and I thought that the spirits and their world are severely overlooked in fanfiction. I hope you like it, please review and let me know how I went and if you want me to continue.

Disclaimer: I don't own fairy tail or the characters. I do own my characters who are Sirius, Chrissie and Gwador.

Also, I know that Sirius is actually a star and the constellation is called Canis Major but the name didn't work for me.