A/N: This one shot has spoilers from the new FT episode. Just putting that out there. Also, this takes place after the Battle of Hogwarts. There will be a part two with another POV. See if you can guess who that will be by the end of this one shot.

Check out the fanfic this one shot is based on, Mysterious Fates!

(Crossover: Harry Potter, Fairy Tail, Suite Life on Deck and Cardcaptor Sakura. If you know three out of four, you're good to go!)

Enjoy!

A Beloved Spirit

Subha's POV

The S.S Tipton was quieter than usual. The cruise ship would be usually bustling with activity, especially at this time of night. But zip, zilch, nada. The ship was docked at New Orleans so almost everyone was exploring the city, including Hermione. For the time being, the Tipton-owned five star cruise ship was almost as empty as my heart. And considering what happened to me over the last few months, that was a bit of an understatement.

As I was on the Sky Deck of the ship, I sat down on one of the dock chairs and took out the Aquarius key that I found the year the DA was formed in the Room of Requirement. Shortly after the Second Wizarding War, when I asked Lucy Heartfilia (a Celestial Spirit wizard who was the final owner) about Aquarius' broken key, she told me that she had to make a sacrifice to save the guild but couldn't tell me more without tearing up. Natsu and Juvia however, later told me that a former dark guild called Tartaros was trying to wipe magic off the face off Fiore by using a magic government weapon called Face and how Fairy Tail put a stop to it. Unfortunately, it came with an immense price for most of the guild members. One, turns out that that one of the members in Tartaros was a necromancer and was controlling Gray's father's dead body. Juvia had to kill him in order to kill Silver Fullbuster and have his son Gray come to peace about his past. Natsu, meanwhile, lost his dragon foster father Igneel during the battle after being reunited for only a few hours. Lucy, while trying to save the rest of the guild, exhausted her magic and eventually had to break Aquarius' key to summon the Celestial Spirit King and free everyone.

Talk about sacrifice. And I thought I had to give up a lot during the Battle of Hogwarts.

I never really examined the key over the past two years I was trying to survive in. The handle was pretty enough. The center of the bow was white, stamped with the crest of the Water Bearer, colored in blue and a heart on its base. The blade, however, was non-existent, with only a curved edge to show that it, well, existed.

"Ooooh, shiny!" a voice screamed. I jumped, nearly having the key drop from my hands. I looked up and at the terrace, was good old London Tipton. Her long, dark glossy hair was streaked with blonde highlights. She wore a ridiculous hat that must have been from the local gift shop.

"Stupid sea school," she started to grumble as she walked down the steps to where I was sitting. "Stupid Bailey..."

I had to stifle a laugh. Bailey made her wear that? "Jesus, London. What the hell did Bailey do to you?"

"More like what Mr. Moseby made me do." She got off the last step right before her heels gave away and broke, falling flat on her face. Groaning as she got up, she said, "Getting him to play the piano in front of a group of people is harder than you think." She picked up her purple heels, which were now broken and then back at me. "Is this why you refuse to wear stilettos?"

I rolled my eyes. "I couldn't pull off stilettos if my life depended on it, Tipton."

"Oh whatever. I'm gonna make you wear on at one point."

"You give me stilettos, and there will be a dead body with your name on it. Like seriously, you've known this for seven years."

London hesitated and took a step back with her hands up in truce. She then sat down beside me as I went back to examining the state of the key. It still looked fairly new despite it being centuries old.

"Hey, is...that a Celestial Spirit key?" London asked warily.

I nodded without recognizing that London came from a wizarding family and would know this in an instant. Yeah, her mum was a wizard but due to her divorce from Mr. Tipton, who got full custody of London, had refused to let her go to a "magic trick" school. (Her father's words, not her mum's.) How do I know this? I actually saw her mum during the Battle of Hogwarts and after Voldemort was finished, she came up to me and told me the truth about London being a witch.

London sat there, deep in thought for once as she watched me. "Subha?"

I looked up. "Yeah?"

"You said that you knew my mom, right?"

"I - well - yeah, I mean, I saw her, alright. She did survive, London."

"Yeah, but what did she tell you?"

I hesitated. "The...truth."

"About what?"

"Just...you know...stuff."

"Did she tell you why she divorced my father?"

I was silent. Of course, I promised her mother that I wouldn't say anything but London was a lot smarter than most people gave her credit for. Sure, she acted dumb but that didn't mean that she wasn't hurting inside. Finally, I said, "Yeah...she did. She told me that your father didn't want you to go to Hogwarts and that there was a possibility that you may not have even inherited magic powers from her. That was proven false when you got your acceptance letter and your father was...not happy."

London leaned back on her chair. "I remember - or starting to remember...bits and bits of my childhood. I see...mom telling me stories...something about the Three Brothers..."

I nearly choked on my smoothie. The tale of The Three Brothers was one I knew all too well. Hearing that it connected to the Deathly Hallows didn't help the creepiness factor of the story when I was young. "Did she also tell you about Fairy Tail?"

"I - yeah, I think she did." She glanced at the key that I was holding. "How the heck did you find Lucy Heartfilia's keys of all things?"

"You're really quick to change subjects, Tipton," I said, not really in the mood to talk about exactly how I got her keys. "Anyway, there was another reason why your parent split."

"Yeah?"

"She did it to protect you. When your father refused to send you to Hogwarts, she left you in your dad's custody on purpose." I put my hand on her shoulder. "Hey, your mother may have many faults and took away your earliest memories but know this: she went into this war because she wanted you to live like you're living now. She really does love you, London."

London sighed. "Yeah. I guess. Do you think I should-"

"London, where are you?!" a voice shouted. "Honestly, do you really think that you can escape trying to help Mr. Moseby?"

"Ugh, it's Bailey," London groaned. She stood up and slouched-walked to the steps. "Later."

I gave her a salute. "Later. I hope Pickett doesn't kill you."

London gave a small smile and then disappeared to the top floor.

I exhaled and looked at the stars in the sky. I met most of the Celestial Spirits alongside Hermione and when I found the keys in the Room of Requirement, I used the opportunity to talk to them, mainly Virgo and Loke. Holding Aquarius' key, I walked up to the railing, controlling the smaller waves in the water to the ship's height. Without thinking, I put in the tip of the key into the wave of water I created.

The weirdest part? It started glowing.

Now alert, I remembered the spell Lucy used to summon her spirits. My mind started to race. If the key is glowing...

I started to chant the spell, "Open, Gate of the Water Bearer! Aquarius!"

The glow got brighter as I heard a ding-dong, like a doorbell, and I saw a something form on the key. It looked very much like...alright. Someone's playing a joke on me. Either Sakura was playing a prank on me with her ILLUSION card, or the key was forming a fin-like blade. Next thing I knew, I was blasted backwards by my own wave of water. The body of water wrapped around me and lifted me into the air.

"Honestly," said an irritated voice. "Of all the people to be summoned by..."

I shook my head and in front of me, was a spirit who was a literally a royal blue mermaid, with the long, blue fish-tail, light blue hair that reached up to her waist, curvy body, and a large bust. She had blue eyes that seemed to have no pupils. She was also wearing a dark blue bikini top and on each arm, she has a golden armlet and bracelet. In addition, she also had a headband, three piercings on her tail, and a golden belt at her waist. A dark blue tattoo resembling the Aquarius zodiac symbol rested right under her collarbone. With one arm, she was holding an urn.

"Please tell me that this is my sister's ILLUSION card," I pleaded.

Aquarius gave me an even more irritated look as she glared at me. "You know, I'd thought that the person who summoned me would know her own power."

"Hold up," I said to her, "I thought that Lucy broke your key to summon the Celestial Spirit King! And now, you're here - what - I...so what you're saying, is that you repaired your own bloody key?!"

The water spirit nodded as though I had finally said something intelligent. A mix of emotions started to boil inside me. I felt amazed that I was actually able to meet the spirit of my favorite element, for one. But there was something else as well. Anger and resentment. Yeah, as much as I was ecstatic to meet Aquarius, I was kind of pissed off at her.

"You know..." I started to say with my head down, trying to hide my slight fury, "Lucy was really upset that she can't see you again."

For a moment, Aquarius faltered. "Tch. S-So? Why should I-"

"You should care, Aquarius!" I retorted fiercely. I pulled my head up and faced her. "She told me about how she's been your owner ever since her mother, your former owner, died of an illness and got passed down to Lucy. If you repaired your key and was able to be summoned again...why didn't you do that to begin with? You could have saved Lucy some grief when she still had your ever loving key!"

For the first time since I saw Aquarius, her confidence and irritation crumbled. Her blue eyes widened and then she looked at me as though she was going to drown me. But it faded about a minute later and a single tear trekked down her face.

"You honestly think," Aquarius whispered and her tone was actually gentle for once, "that I wouldn't have done that if I could?"

I froze. "Wait, what?"

"Yeah. Even now, I only have a few minutes. You, as Jodha's descendant, helped repair my key because you hold some Celestial magic within your elements. However, I can't stay long-"

"Wait, what do you mean by that?!"

Aquarius sighed. "Celestial magic. You were born with it, embedded in your elements. Jodha's daughter, Meena was learning magic from her step-uncle, Clow Reed, who used the sun and the moon as a source of magic power. And according to Loke, when Lucy found out, she taught Meena a way to channel her some of her magic into Celestial magic."

"So that would explain why I was able to use Sakura's converted cards," I realized. "With Sakura inheriting Clow's cards and her source of power coming from the stars-"

"-you are able to use your sister's cards as well. But here's the thing: once I go back, the key will go back to the state it was in before you met me. Meaning-"

"I can't ever see you again," I managed to choke out. "Just like Lucy couldn't."

The water spirit nodded. "The only reason I'm here is because some of your magic temporarily made the key go back to it's original state. The rule was that a broken key could never summon a spirit again. With your magic mixed in with the power of the stars, it made the rule null for a few moments."

Aquarius let me down gently onto the sky deck. "Quite honestly though, when you first found all of our keys in the Room of Requirement, I was not happy."

I crossed my arms and shrugged. "Of course. Why am I not surprised?"

"Smart ass," Aquarius grumbled. "You are definitely tougher than Lucy, that much is obvious."

"Humor me."

Aquarius smirked. "I been watching over you in the Celestial world ever since your brother formed the DA. Virgo and Scorpio kept me updated and I had a mirror that let me see everything that's been happening to you over the years and help you out when I could. I'm part of the reason you survived the bloody war, especially after every stupid thing that you did over the year with that Ginny girl and Hermione. And for the record, Hermione was on the most dangerous mission that year. I fueled you with some of my sustaining magic so that some of the Death Eaters couldn't kill you."

"Some?"

"Yeah, I tried my best to protect you from that Bellatrix maniac. Even with Virgo and Aries's help, it was the worst mistake I ever made."

"Gee, thanks for the concern," I responded sarcastically.

"You get my point."

"Ha ha."

"Subha?" a voice sounded out. "Who are you talking to?"

"Crap," I muttered. "Oh, it's just Hermione." I glanced at Aquarius. "Do you want to meet her or..."

"Nah, I'm good." Aquarius lifted her urn over he shoulder. "Have fun being roommates with her."

I rolled my eyes as Aquarius started to glow a binding yellow. The realization of what was happening hit me like a ton of bricks.

"You - You're going back," I stammered.

Aquarius smiled, a single tear racing down her face again. "I told you, I only had a few minutes. You're not always alone, Subha. You just need to look." She looked up and smiled as though she saw something that I didn't see behind me. I decided not to see what that was. "Don't die on me, Patel."

Thanks, Aquarius, I thought to myself as she went back to the Celestial world. The key in my hand no longer had a blade again.

"Subha?"

I turned around and found Hermione standing at the entrance of the sky deck. She was wearing the exact same ridiculous hat that London had, along with a few goodie bags from the local town.

"Oh wow," I said as I glanced at the huge bag at her side. "You did not shop light, did you?"

Hermione rolled her eyes as she set down her bags onto a nearby table. She took off her hat and then promptly threw it into the ocean. "If you want to blame anyone, blame Marcus. To be honest thought, I would have if you or Ron had come. And you know Ron wasn't coming because New Orleans is hot as hell. By the way," she said as she pulled out a box of food and two spoons, "I brought gumbo for the both of you."

Instantly my day got better. "I love you, Hermione."

"You and Ron always say that," Hermione said as she handed me a spoon. "By the way, who were you talking to?"

I took a mouthful of gumbo and warmth spread throughout my body. "Aquarius."

Hermione's brown eyes grew bigger than her eye sockets. "Say what now? But didn't Lucy-"

"Yeah, she did." I took another spoonful and swallowed. "But...it's a long story. I found out more about my powers."

"Really? What did you find?"

"Um...it had to do with Celestial magic. But can we take this to our cabin? I don't want anyone else knowing about this right now."

"Yeah, you have a point." Hermione sighed. "Ron will probably overhear and then there's a fifty percent chance that we will be screwed. Besides, I've been in New Orleans all day. At this point, I'm just looking forward to my bed."

We gathered everything and put them into her bags. With Aquarius' key around my neck, we both dashed like mad to our cabin.