Key to a Wolf`s Heart

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Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters. Hiro Mashima does. I only own the OC(s).

Summary: The story of the Mage Guild, Fairy Tail, moves along, but a newcomer arrives to bare his fangs for Fairy Tail, and seems to fall for a certain stellar spirit mage. Can she unlock his heart? Lucy H. X OC

Rating: T for Language, Violence, and Blood.

-X-

"Ehhhh? There`s only one magic store in this town?"A young blonde girl cried in dismay as she looked at the small store. She wore a white sleeveless shirt with a blue collar and a blue cross across the front of it, split halfway down by her cleavage. She wore a blue skirt and had a blue ribbon in her hair, which tied some of her hair to her right in a ponytail.

"I`m sorry, but this town has better business in fishing than magic," the shopkeeper answered. "Only less than 10% of this town`s people can use magic, so this store has more of a focus to traveling mages."

"I think I`ve wasted my time," the blonde girl said as she sighed heavily.

"Please don`t say that and have a look around," the shopkeeper said sweetly. "We have plenty of new items in stock." He grabbed a small book. "This Colors Magic is popular among girls. It lets you change the color of your outfit depending on your mood!"

"I already have that one. I`m looking for gate keys, though," the girl replied. "Strong ones."

"Well, that`s an uncommon request," the shopkeeper replied.

"Hey, is that, Nikora, the Canis Minor?" the girl queried, pointing at a small silver key.

"Yes, but it`s not very strong," the shopkeeper replied.

"I`ve been looking of that one! So how much is it?" the girl asked.

"It`s 20,000 Jewels," he replied quickly.

"I wonder how much it really is," the girl said, changing her tone a bit.

"It`s 20,000 Jewels," the shopkeeper replied, undaunted.

"I wonder how much it really is," the girl said as she leaned forward and emphasized her breasts to the old man.

"It`s 19,000 Jewels then," the old man said, still staunch.

"Fine," the girl a bit upset said as she paid the man. Just as she finished the sale, the door opened and rang the bell at the top of the door.

"Oi, Shopkeeper-san, is my stuff fixed yet?" said the young man who walked in. He was about six feet tall, had cobalt blue hair, which was kind of spiky and hung down to his shoulders, and bright green eyes, and wore a Black shirt which was like a waist-length vest, but with t-shirt length sleeves, and trimmed in red, and it revealed his abs and pectorals easily. He also wore a brown empty sword sheath on his back, trimmed in an emerald green metal. His pants were a pair of white shorts trimmed in blue, and he wore a pair of combat-style sandals on his feet.

"Oh, Raito-san, you`re back," the shopkeeper said perking up. "They`ll be ready in just a moment, I have to put on the finishing touches you asked for." The shopkeeper ran into his back stock and the newly introduced Raito began to browse the shop a bit.

"Wow, he`s so HOT! Just look at his abs," the girl said in her mind. "I wonder if he`s dating anyone…"

"Hey," Raito said to the girl making her snap back to reality, "may I ask your name?" He held out his hand formally. "I`d introduce myself, but the shopkeeper beat me to it," he said while smiling. The girl giggled at his comment.

"I`m Lucy," she replied. "So you`re a mage, Raito?"

"Yeah, but I haven`t joined a guild yet," Raito replied.

"Same here," Lucy said. "We seem to have a lot in common."

"Here`s your equipment, Raito-san," the shopkeeper said handing a large bundle to Raito over the counter. Raito unwrapped it, and revealed a pair of silver fingertip-less gloves trimmed in a strange, blue metal around the knuckles and back of the hand, and the back of the hand had an engraved crescent moon inside an engraved rectangle, and a sword, with a silver blade with the same emerald green trim as the sheath running down the center of the blade, looking like repeating, yet mirroring crescent moons with a line running down the center of them, and at the top of the hilt was a Blue wolf head and a gold crescent moon hanging off a small chain at the base of the hilt, which he placed back into his sheath. "All done, at your request," the shopkeeper said smiling.

"Thanks," Raito said as he pulled out a bag of Jewels and placed in on the counter. "Here`s your payment, and a tip for your courtesy and promptness."

"Thank you for your business," the shopkeeper said as Raito put on his gloves.

"You wanna continue this conversation outside, Lucy?" Raito said smiling as he walked out towards the door.

"Sure, I was done looking anyway," Lucy said smiling and following him outside. "Maybe I finally found a guy I can date!" she said in her mind.

-X-

A few minutes later…

"Something wrong, Lucy?" Raito asked her as she was looking a bit sullen.

"How could my looks be worth 1000 Jewels?" Lucy said as she angrily kicked a sign near a restaurant.

"Well, if it`s any consolation, I think your looks are worth more than 1000 Jewels," Raito said sweetly.

"Thanks," Lucy said snapping back to normal. "That was sweet of him," she said in her mind. "Maybe he would make a good boyfriend."

"A famous mage is in town!" a young girl screamed as she ran towards the middle of town.

"It`s Salamander-sama!" another screamed as a few more girls ran in the same direction as the first girl.

"Salamander?" Lucy said aloud. "You mean the mage who can use fire magic you can`t find in stores? He`s in town?" Just then, Lucy grabbed Raito`s left arm and ran towards the other girls. "Let`s go see him!"

"Why are you dragging me along?" Raito asked, a bit shocked at Lucy`s actions. They stopped behind a crowd of girls screaming loudly. "He seems popular."

"I wonder if he`s good-looking," Lucy said forgetting a moment about Raito right next to her.

"Salamander" stood in the middle of the crowd, his hair swept to one side of his head, and he was wearing a large cloak with a design on the sides, and he was wearing a few rings. "Why is my heart beating so fast?" Lucy asked herself in her mind. "What happened to me?" then "Salamander glanced a look at Lucy, causing her heart to beat even faster. "Is it because he`s a famous mage? Is that why my heart is beating so fast?"

"Something about this doesn`t smell right," Raito said in his mind as he saw Lucy`s mood change," and I think it`s this guy`s talent with women." He grabbed Lucy`s shoulder, snapping her back to reality. "Hey, Lucy, you alright?"

"Yeah, I`m fine," Lucy said blushing a bit at what happened. "His hands are so firm, yet gentle. They feel so nice," she said in her mind.

"Igneel!" shouted a pink-haired boy wearing a black vest, puffy shorts, black sandals, and a very unique scale-patterned scarf as he pushed his way through the crowd. "Who are you?" he asked sending the other girls in the crowd and Salamander into shock.

"You may have heard of me," Salamander said smoothly. "I`m Salamander." The boy however, had already left, causing many of the girls surrounding Salamander to attack him. Salamander tried to give him his autograph, but the boy refused. Salamander left on a pillar of flame, stating he was going to have a party on his ship, and invited all the girls.

"That`s not him," said a blue cat wearing a green backpack.

"What is he?" the boy asked sitting down after getting thrown away by the crowd of girls.

"He`s a bastard, that`s what," Lucy said as she stood behind the boy, causing the boy and the blue cat next to him to look up at her and Raito behind her.

"Hey, why don`t you two have lunch with us?" Raito said enthusiastically.

"Us?" Lucy said, blushing a bit. "He was going to ask me out for lunch?"

-X-

At the restaurant…

"This wasn`t exactly how I pictured my first date," Lucy said in her mind a bit disturbed at how fast the boy was eating several dishes at once. Raito just sat next to her cutting his food politely and calmly eating.

"Yurhhh ah naiz burzon," Natsu said as he stuffed his face.

"I`ll assume that means "You`re a nice person"," Raito said as Lucy just stared in disbelief.

"Yhup yhup," Happy said as he stuffed a fish into his mouth.

"You`re Natsu and Happy, right?" Lucy said nervously as she held up her hands in an attempt to block the incoming food splatter from Natsu`s eating. "I understand you, so eat slowly. I can`t believe that guy was using "Charm" to attract all that attention from girls. That`s disgusting."

"That was banned several years ago, wasn`t it?" Raito said as he set down his tea. "Because the nature of the magic affects people`s hearts, right?"

"Yeah," Lucy replied. "If it weren`t for Natsu interrupting him, and you, Raito, I`d have stayed under his spell."

"I shee," Natsu said still stuffing his face.

"We may look like this, but we`re mages too," Lucy said to Natsu nonchalantly.

"Oh," Natsu said still eating.

"But either of us hasn't joined a guild yet," Raito said calmly reclining in his seat. "Guilds are places where wizards gather to share info and take jobs, and I`m guessing she wants to be in one, in order to call herself full-fledged wizard. I`ve got a specific place I need to go, to fulfill a promise I made."

"You`re right, and I`m sure I can join one, and then I`ll be able to take jobs and get paid," Lucy said confidently. "But what did you mean by a promise?"

"That`s a story for another day," Raito said mysteriously as he looked out the window into the sky. "So who are you looking for?" Raito asked Natsu.

"Aye, we`re looking for Igneel," Happy said.

"I heard that Salamander was coming to town," Natsu replied a bit disappointed, "although it was the wrong person."

"This salamander didn`t look like a salamander," Happy said.

"I totally believed he might be here too," Natsu said still disappointed.

"How could a human look like a salamander?" Lucy asked.

"He`s not a human," Natsu replied. "He`s a dragon."

Lucy was shocked at this, and Raito just stared a bit at the two of them. "There`s no way a dragon would be in this town," Raito said calmly, which sent a look of shock across Natsu and Happy`s faces.

"You just realized that?" Lucy said shocked as well, while Raito just snickered at this. "Well, I have to get going." She began to put some Jewels on the table, but Raito stopped her.

"Don`t worry, I`ll take care of it," he said calmly while still in his seat. "I hope we meet again, Lucy, and soon." He flashed a quick smile and she returned it. Just then, Natsu and Happy jumped out of their seats and bowed their heads to the ground to Lucy.

"Thank you for offering to pay for our food!" Natsu said.

"Thank you!" Happy added in.

"KYAHH! Don`t! You`re embarrassing me!" Lucy said flushing a bright red. Natsu tried to give her Salamander`s autograph, but Lucy said no one would want that. After she left, Raito looked right at Natsu and Happy as they sat down again.

"Before you start eating again, I have a few questions to ask you," he said mysteriously.

-X-

Later in the park, Lucy sat reading Weekly Sorcerer, a magazine for mages. "Fairy Tail caused trouble again? What did they do this time? They destroyed the Devon thief family but also destroyed seven houses in the process…"She laughed at the event and rolled on the park bench. "Mirajane is covering the gravure," she said as she looked at a picture of a silver-haired girl who had some of her hair tied up in a unique way."I wonder how I join Fairy Tail," she asked aloud. "Do I have to learn strong magic? Do I have to go through interviews? Mage Guild Fairy Tail is the best!"

"I see. You want to join Fairy Tail," Salamander said as he popped out from the nearest bush, giving Lucy a shock.

"Salamander?" Lucy said as she looked at him a bit upset.

"Man, I`ve been looking all over for you," Salamander said smoothly. "I really wanted to invite a pretty girl like you to the party on my ship."

"Well, first off, your "Charm" won`t work on me anymore," Lucy said scolding Salamander. "The weakness of "Charm" is knowing about it. If you`re aware of it, it`s powerless."

"I knew it! I knew you were a mage when I saw you," Salamander said. "If you just come to the party, I`ll be happy though."

"Yeah, right," Lucy said walking away.

"Wait, you want to join Fairy Tail, right?" Salamander said making Lucy hesitate. "I`m sure I could put in a good word for the master, if you want." At that, she warmed up to him instantly.

-X-

Later that night…

Lucy couldn`t believe how stupid she`d been. Salamander had been running a slave ship, which was going to enslave all the girls on board, and had tried to give her a sleeping drug, had stolen her keys, and thrown them out the window. She was being held against her will and about to be branded a slave for life. "Is this a mage of Fairy Tail?" she asked herself in her mind.

"Any last words?" Salamander asked her.

"You`re the worst kind of mage, asshole," she said crying. Just then a green blast of energy shot through the window and hit Salamander`s hands, knocking the brand out of his hands and burning a henchman. A few green slashes were made in the wall, and it was kicked in by a figure no one could make out. The figure ran forward and knocked out the two guys holding Lucy and picked her up, and she immediately recognized who it was. "Raito!" she said in awe. "Why are you here?"

"The knight in shining armor always comes to save the damsel in distress," he said comforting her and causing her to tear up a bit. Raito, with Lucy in his arms, jumped back a bit, and just as he did, the ceiling had a hole made in it by Natsu.

"Natsu!" Lucy said as she wiped her eyes.

"No, I can`t take it," Natsu said as he hunched over, looking pale and nauseous.

"That`s a bit lame!" Lucy exclaimed.

"How the hell did that brat from earlier fall from the sky," Salamander asked aloud.

"He`s already got motion sickness," the henchman said, looking at Natsu.

"Lucy, what are you doing?" Happy asked as he flew on a pair of wings.

"When did you get those wings?" Lucy asked looking at Happy.

"We`ll tell you later," Raito said calmly as he held Lucy up. "Happy, take Lucy and help her find her keys." Happy picked up Lucy. "They should be over that way," Raito said as he pointed out where Salamander had thrown the keys. "Got it?"

"Aye," Happy said as he flew Lucy off.

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Salamander asked Raito as he watched Lucy fly away.

"Maybe this will give you a clue," Raito said as he unsheathed his sword, and everyone around him besides Salamander and Natsu, who was still sick, recoiled in fear.

"…That cobalt blue hair, the green eyes, that sword, that green aura, the gloves! It`s Raito, the Emerald Wolf!" a random henchman said as he jumped overboard.

"He`s a wandering mage who takes down any evil he comes across!" a second random henchman said as he too jumped ship.

"They say anyone who crosses his path dies without knowing it!" another random henchman said as he and several others followed the example of the first, and second.

"The Emerald Wolf, here?" Salamander said in shock, but then he snapped back to reality and looked at Lucy and Happy. "I won`t let you get away!" he said as he began to summon flames to shoot them with. In a split second, Raito appeared in front of him, and sent the fire mage into awe at his speed.

"And I won`t let you do that," Raito said as he sent an uppercut right to Salamander`s jaw, easily fracturing it and knocking out a tooth or two.

"Damn it," Salamander said as he readied himself for a fight.

-X-

Lucy and Happy were underwater, after Happy`s magic ran out, trying to find her keys. "Where are they?" she said in her mind. "Ah, there they are. I`m glad they were on such a shallow place."She and Happy surfaced and she stuck a gold key into the water. "Open, door to the treasure vase palace, Aquarius!" she said as she summoned a blue-haired mermaid carrying an urn of water.

"Woah!" Happy exclaimed excitedly.

"I`m a stellar spirit mage," Lucy explained to Happy. "I can use these keys to summon stellar spirits from another dimension. Now go Aquarius and use your power to send that ship to the coast!"

"Tch," Aquarius said.

"Did you just say "tch"?" Lucy exclaimed.

"Let me tell you one thing," Aquarius said very moodily. "If you drop the keys again, I`ll kill you."

"Sorry," Lucy replied meekly. Aquarius then gathered up a large amount of water in her urn, and then swung it at the boat sending it to shore, and Lucy along with it.

"A boat crashed ashore!" a bystander said looking at the grounded boat.

"What`s going on?" Salamander said covered in bruises and small bleeding slash marks, and regaining his ground, although Raito didn`t seem to budge an inch and was untouched.

"It stopped," Natsu said beginning to regain his composure. "The rocking stopped."

"I better go check on Lucy," Raito said as he calmly sheathed his sword and began to walk away.

"Hey, we`re not finished yet!" Salamander said as he prepared another fire attack.

"It`s fine," Raito said turning his head to face Salamander. "He`ll take care of you," he said pointing to Natsu as he got up.

"What were you thinking?" Lucy yelled at Aquarius angrily. "How could you flush me along too?"

"I flushed the ship, too," Aquarius stated holding her head. "My bad."

"You were aiming for me?" Lucy exclaimed.

"Lucy, are you alright?" Raito said walking up to where Lucy, Happy, and Aquarius were.

"Yeah, I`m fine," Lucy said calming down a bit as Raito helped her up.

"Is this your boyfriend?" Aquarius asked in an almost big-sister tone.

"No, he`s not!" Lucy said embarrassed to have Aquarius say that. "Why`d she have to say that in front of him?" she said in her mind.

"You`re a stellar spirit, right?" Raito asked Aquarius. "I`m Raito," he said giving his hand for a handshake.

"I`m Aquarius," Aquarius replied taking the handshake happily.

"Why are you getting along with him?" Lucy asked shocked.

"I`m actually an Aquarius by astrology," Raito said smiling at Lucy.

"Are you a stellar mage?" Aquarius asked. "If her contract goes up, I`d like to have a backup plan." Lucy broke into tears at hearing this.

"Sadly, I`m not," Raito said kindly. "Just try to be a little nicer to Lucy. She seems like a nice girl."

"He thinks I`m nice?" Lucy said, blushing a bit.

"That`s fine," Aquarius said finishing her conversation with Raito, "but don`t summon me for a week. I`m going on vacation with my boyfriend." She began to disappear. "With my boyfriend."

"You don`t have to repeat it!" Lucy said angrily in response.

"Let`s go check on Natsu," Raito said as he began to walk back where he was fighting Salamander.

"Aye!" Happy said as he jumped up and sat on Raito`s shoulder.

"This may be a good day after all," Lucy said smiling while thinking of Raito. "Natsu, are you oka…" Lucy said as she walked in the entrance of the room where Natsu and Salamander were staring down. Natsu took off his coat and Salamander ordered his men to throw Natsu off the boat. "Leave it to…"

"Don`t worry, he`s got this," Raito said stopping Lucy.

"I forgot to tell Lucy that he`s a mage, too," Happy said bluntly.

"What!" Lucy exclaimed in shock.

"Are you a mage of Fairy Tail?" Natsu asked Salamander while the henchmen charged at him.

"What of it?" Salamander asked.

"Let me get a good look at your face," Natsu said still calm just as a henchman was about to grab him. "I`m Natsu from Fairy Tail, and I`ve never seen you before!" he said as he shoved aside the two henchmen who tried to grab him.

"What?" Salamander said almost shitting his pants.

"Eeeeh?" Lucy said in shock as well.

"Yeah, Natsu`s a Fairy Tail mage," Raito said calmly.

"Why didn`t you tell me?" Lucy asked Raito.

"I just found out during lunch, when they were bowing down to you," Raito replied calmly.

"He saw my guild mark," Happy said bluntly. "It`s on my back."

"That mark, he`s real Bora-san!" a henchman said, as he looked at the Fairy Tail Guild Mark on Natsu`s right shoulder.

"Shut up! Don`t call me by that name!" Salamander, now Bora, said to his henchman.

"Bora, from Prominence," Raito said calmly. "He was banished from the mage guild "Titan Nose" a while ago."

"I heard about him," Lucy said a bit distraught. "He committed several crimes using magic and was banished."

"I don`t care if you`re a bastard or a good person," Natsu said his face seething with anger. "I can`t forgive you for using our name!"

"Whatever! You`re just a noisy brat!" Bora said as he shot a wall of flames at Natsu.

"Natsu!" Lucy said trying to help Natsu, but Raito and Happy held her back.

"Awful," Natsu said as he stood up covered in so many flames, only his silhouette was visible. "These taste awful. Are you really a fire mage?" he said while eating the flames, of all things. A look of shock passed over both Lucy and Bora, while Happy looked normal and Raito just smiled and laughed out loud. "Thanks for the food," Natsu said wiping his mouth.

"What… WHAT IS HE?" Bora exclaimed as his pants turned a bit brown after seeing a man eat fire.

"Did he just eat fire?" several of the henchman said in shock.

"Fire doesn`t work on Natsu," Happy said bluntly, again.

"I`ve never seen such magic!" Lucy said in amazement.

"Now that I`ve eaten, I can feel my power," Natsu said hunching over a bit. "Here I COME!" he said as he held his head back and took a deep breath.

"You`ve never seen magic like this," Raito said causing Lucy to look at him, "because Natsu is the real Salamander."

"Karyuu no Houkou!" Natsu said as he breathed fire right in the enemy`s faces.

"He`s Salamander…" Lucy said in awe of Natsu`s strength.

Natsu gathered some flames into his right fist and prepared a punch. "Remember it well, this is a real Fairy Tail mage!" he said as he slugged Bora over the head.

"Eating and punching fire," Lucy said in awe, "Is it really magic?"

"His lungs breathe fire, his scales dissolve flames, and his claws wrap in flames…" Happy began saying. "This magic makes the users body turn into a dragons, and it`s an ancient spell."

"What?" Lucy said in shock, again.

"It`s dragon slayer magic, taught to him by Igneel," Happy said calmly.

"It`s weird a dragon would teach dragon-slaying magic, isn`t it?" Lucy said confused.

"But you didn`t deny it!" Happy said with a strange look on his face.

"Karyuu no Tekken!" Natsu said, punching Bora with a more powerful version of his punch from earlier, and knocked out Bora cold, as well as destroying part of the city.

"Isn`t this a bit overkill?"Lucy asked tearing up.

"The port looks a little damaged," Raito said calmly.

"Aye," Happy said calm as well.

"How can you two be so calm?" Lucy said upset at their attitude towards the situation.

"What`s with all the commotion?" the captain of the squad of soldiers who came to the fight scene asked.

"The military!" Lucy said aloud. Then Raito picked her up in his arms and ran off alongside Natsu and Happy.

"Crap, the military," Natsu said as he ran.

"Why are you guys taking me?" Lucy said crying a bit.

"You wanted to join Fairy Tail, right?" Raito asked her, which stopped her crying. "Well, that`s where we`re going."

"Why are you going to Fairy Tail?" Lucy asked.

"It`s a part of that story I said I`d tell you later," Raito said smiling at her.

"So come with us," Natsu said smiling at Lucy.

"So shall we?" Raito said giving his comforting smile to Lucy.

"Yeah!" Lucy said perking up while Raito still ran with her in his arms, and Natsu and Happy running in front of them. Together, they all ran off towards the guild, Fairy Tail.

-X-

Well, that`s it. Chapter one is done. Well, I hope you guys like my OC Raito, the Emerald Wolf, and that this gets as much love as Brand New World, my One Piece fanfic.

Next time, we arrive at Fairy Tail, and wackiness ensues.

Tsugino jikan made! (Until next time!)