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Celestial Ties

Chapter 1: Capricorn; the last key

Lucy stared down at the key in her hand in amazement as the rest of her group celebrated their victory on the mission they just completed. She ignored them all and just kept tracing the golden key over and over with her finger, still not believing the truth that sat before her.

"Luuucy! Luuuuucy!"

"Huh?" She responded to Natsu, whose face was now lit up since she had finally responded. She wondered how long he had been trying to get her attention and noticed that her other team mates were looking at her with inquisition as well.

"What new spirit did you get?" He replied with glistening eyes, "Is it a dragon! Can I fight it?"

It was clear that Natsu didn't know much about stellar spirits, and wouldn't ever bother to learn.

"Natsu," Ezra spoke up, lecturing Natsu, "That key is golden which means it's a zodiac key. There are no dragons in the zodiac."

"Hey, how many of those do you have now, Lucy?" Gray inquired.

"Tw-twelve…," she stuttered with udder disbelief.

"Twelve?" Ezra gasped as Gray and Natsu just looked at her in confusion.

"Make a contract, Lucy!" Natsu goaded her on, still not catching the fact that this was the twelve, and final of the very rare golden zodiac spirit keys that one could ever possess.

Lucy finally snapped back to reality and a big smile showed on her face, luckily they were by a lake and so she walked into the lake before activating the key.

"Gate of the Capricornus. The mighty Sea-Goat. I, Lucy Heartfilia, stellar spirit mage of fairy Tail, call to thee to cross over!"

As soon as the incantation was finished, the sea-goat Capricorn appeared in all its half fish-half goat glory.

"Lucy Heartfilia," Capricorn's authoritative voice rang out, "Congratulations, princess. You can finally return home."

'Geez, what's with all these spirits calling me princess?' She thought to herself, before the last thing that Capricorn said was comprehended.

"What? Home?" She looked around to see that her friends were also confused at Capricorns words.

"You mean like back to Fairy Tail, right Mr. Fish-goat," Natsu toothily smiled at the silly spirit as Happy sat on his shoulder and tilted his head while drooling over the fact that Capricorn was half fish.

"No, I mean returning to your rightful world, Princess Lucy."

Before anyone could fathom what that would even mean, there was suddenly a bright light as the gate to the spirit world opened. Capricorn quickly picked Lucy up and disappeared into the gate as it closed behind them.

"Hey!" Natsu was the first one to speak up after the weird incident, "Where did that half fish half goat thing take Lucy?"

Fire erupted from his mouth and hands as he tried to open the gate, which was nothing but thin air by now, and save his best friend from the weird creature that stole her.

Gray was the second to snap out of it and started pounding the thin air with his ice hammer.

"Stop." This one word from Ezra was enough to make them both stop their actions and look at her with wide eyes.

"We need to think this through, but I'm pretty sure that Lucy is now in the Spirit World. To rescue her, we're going to need to go back and talk to the master."

After a fight with Natsu and Gray about gathering information, they finally agreed to do it Ezra's way, after they both had plenty of bruises and were dubbed unable to fight at least.

Meanwhile Lucy had indeed been transported to the Spirit World. In fact, she was now standing right in front of the grand palace that the Spirit King took residence in, which she could only guess by the lifelike statue of him in the front.

"Princess Lucy," Capricorn held out an arm towards the palace in front of her, "Welcome home."

Lucy took one look at the palace, figuring out for herself what it meant that she was home and fainted right in the middle of the Spirit King's statue.

AN: Thanks for reading everyone. I won't be updating too often as I work 9 hour days and only get a chance, if any, on the weekends. Therefore, I'm sorry in advance if I make you wait too long for an update =O Anyway, please leave me reviews as I still don't know whether this fanfic will have a major pairing of Loki X Lucy or Natsu X Lucy. Cast your votes and have a good day :)