Author's Note: This is my first FanFiction Story, and I'm excited. There maybe pairings that you would come to realize, but this story isn't about that... at the moment. GaLe, NaLu, Miraxus, etc. Please bare with my inexperience at writing stories.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL AND ANY OF THE CHARACTERS, IDEAS, ETC. THE RIGHTS GO TO THE BRILLIANT "HIRO MASHIMA". I'M GONNA BORROW THE NAMES OF PLACES, AND MONSTERS/CREATURES, BECAUSE IT'S HARD MAKING UP NEW NAMES FOR PLACES, AND IT'S EVEN HARDER TO MAKE UP A NEW MONSTER/CREATURE THAT HASN'T BEEN THOUGHT UP OR USED YET.

CLAIMER: However, I'll Add Original Characters, And Monsters That May Seem Odd, And I'll Add Interesting Places, As Well As Other Interesting Groups, And Ideas.


(The events in this story takes place after the Grand Magic Games and the whole incident with the 7 Dragons)

Chapter One: The Unknown Key

~ Begins Within The Home Of Fairy Tail's Celestial Spirit Wizard ~


~ Lucy's POV ~

It was the start of another day as Lucy woke up with a smile on her face as she recalled the night of revelry she had. The Guild's celebration and welcome back party last night was a very enjoyable and interesting one to say the least. It was probably the most loudest and rowdiest of all the celebrations that she's ever been in during her time in Fairy Tail. 'Why wouldn't it be?', she thought to herself. They just came back from Crocus after the Grand Magic Games and winning the covenant title of "Fiore's #1 Guild". It's been 7 years since Fairy Tail was the strongest. They won back and earned that title once again. Lucy couldn't have been anymore happier.

'Hmmm...well I could be, if I had won my match against Flare.', her conscience telling herself as she frowned. Lucy quickly got out of her bed and walked over to her kitchen to prepare herself some breakfast. As she sat down to start eating, a lingering thought kept crossing her mind. 'Why didn't I win? Am I weak? Did I help my team at all during the games?', her thoughts raced around these questions, but she quickly shook them away and continued eating. She finished eating breakfast and went to her bathroom to take her morning shower and perform her hygienic ritual. When she got out of the bathroom with a damp towel wrapped around her body and another for her hair, she quickly went over to her dresser to grab a different outfit that she thought of wearing today. She thought that a difference in clothing might help her feel better today.

She dried her hair and combed it down. She dressed herself in a white sleeveless buttoned-down top with a black heart on the left side of the top which coincidentally situates atop her left breast and with blue and red criss-cross patterns all around as if hemmed there by random, a black and white plaid miniskirt which stops just above her knees, white socks, black boots, a blue brassiere and matching underwear, her signature belt which held her keys and whip. She then looked herself over in the mirror and grabbed two green ribbons to tie her hair up in her usual hairstyle, which consists of it being in pigtails. With her look complete, she grabbed a green bag that had her traveling money, and a change of clothes. She felt happy with what she picked and swiftly walked outside her door, locking it, and then headed straight towards the Guild, hoping that her favorite person in the world would be there to help cheer her up.

Before she walked into the Guild, she expected there to be a fight like there usually was, but what she saw was far from what she expected.

"Hi Lucy, Good Morning.", greeted Mirajane.

"Hey Mira, thanks, good morning to you too. Where is everyone?", she asked while scanning the entire Guild Hall to find only Mira attending the bar, Cana and Gildarts talking to each other in one of the tables, and Master Makarov sitting on the bar with his eyes focused on this weeks' cover of "Sorcerer's Weekly".

"They're either on missions, hungover at their respective homes, or they may still be resting after last night.", Mira replied with a smile, as she was wiping a mug with a white cloth.

"Oh okay...", Lucy said back. 'Maybe I should just go on a solo mission then since no one else is here yet. I can't wait for Natsu and the rest of them to show up. It may take hours and I don't feel like standing around.' Lucy thought to herself and she then decided to go on alone. She quickly went over towards the request board with a determined look on her face and found a request to her liking. It payed 200,000 jewels and it was to look for a lost item in the forest around Crocus. She went over to Mirajane and showed her the paper with the request.

"Wow Lucy, I thought you'd wait for at least one of your teammates before taking on a job.", said Mira.

"It may take a few hours if I wait, and I don't have the patience today. I feel like doing something by myself, you know?"

"Yeah, I know what you mean. Who knows when the party died down last night. You're approved. Let me just write it down on the log book and you'll be good to go." When Mira finished scribbling down on the book, she looked up at Lucy and gave her a winning smile and said, "Good Luck and come back safely."

Lucy smiled back and said, "Thanks, I'll be back later."


~ Mirajane's POV ~

Mira waited until the doors were closed and told Master Makarov, "That was rather un-Lucy like of her, don't you think?"

"Did you see that look in her eyes earlier? If I had to guess, then I'd say that our Lucy wants to become stronger."

"I just hope that she doesn't do anything reckless. I know that she lost in her match at the Games, but she shouldn't be too hard on herself. She tried her best. She only lost because the right people didn't see the outside interference.", Mira said with a worried face.

"Don't be too worried. She's not like Natsu. She thinks before she acts. We know that she can handle herself quite well, and all we can do for her now is to hope for the best."

"You're right.", Mira said with confidence and a lingering concern showing in her face and the sound of her voice.


~ Lucy's POV ~

Lucy arrived at Crocus by train, after the several hours she rode in it, bored out of her mind. She then got off the train and headed for the location of the person that requested the job. After 15 minutes, she arrived at the front of an antique store with a bland sign saying, "The One And Only Antique Store In Crocus", and then walked inside to find an old man behind the counter greet her with a smile.

"Hello there young one, how may I help you?

"Hi, my name's Lucy. I'm from Fairy Tail, and I'm here about the request that you sent us.", she said with a smile as she showed him the Fairy Tail symbol on her right hand.

"Ahhh yes, that's right. I'm Goranthe, and I'm the owner of this fine store. I'd like for you to find a special antique key for me. It's a topaz colored key with unknown runes etched into it. The caravan that was headed here with more antiques was attacked by Spectral Wolves a few miles northeast of the city. No one was hurt too badly and the Wizards we hired did their job. The odd thing is that when the fight was over, and after they investigated the battlefield and recounted for and checked the caravan, everything was accounted for, but the only thing that was missing was that key which was locked safely inside a specially crafted box that concealed magical energy."

"Why would Spectral Wolves take something like that? Why was it inside a box like that? What is this key?", Lucy fired off her questions with curiosity laced in her voice.

"Well that's the odd thing. I don't know. Those antiques were sent here because my friend who collects them wanted to know if they held any value, history, and any magical properties. It's not odd to come across unknown magical items every now and again, but I've never heard of that type of monster in particular ever being attracted to magical items."

"That's true. Okay. I'll try to find this key for you. Thanks for telling me as much as you can about it. I hope I can solve this mystery and get that key back."

"You're welcome young one, please take care.", said Goranthe, as he smiled and waved goodbye.

"Thanks, I will", said Lucy, as she waved back while smiling. She then headed to the direction that the old man; Goranthe, told her while thinking of a strategy as to how to find such an item. 'I'll just backtrack to where the attack occurred and I'll start from there.', she decided.


~ Lucy's POV ~

Lucy arrived at the area and found traces of a battle all along the route and walked to where it started. She reached for two of her Golden Zodiac Gate Keys and raised them both in her left hand.

"Open, Gate of The Lion and The Archer,

Leo and Sagittarius."

Two bright golden lights appeared, after she called her spirits and as the lights faded, she smiled as she saw her two spirits there standing in front of her.

"What shall we do for you? Moshi-moshi", Sagittarius asked while saluting Lucy.

"Yes Princess, how can we be of service?", Leo added with a flirty smile.

"I need both of you to help me look for a key. The antique store owner told me that it's a topaz key etched with runes. Spectral Wolves attacked a caravan carrying antiques, but that key is the only thing that they took." After Lucy was finished, both of her Celestial Spirits looked at each other as if they knew something about it. Lucy caught it and promptly asked them with a questioning tone, "What was that look? Do you two know anything about this key?"

"We aren't exactly the right spirits to ask. Moshi-moshi.", Sagittarius stated.

"I'll go back to the Spirit World so that you can talk to Crux as soon as you summon him. He started researching it as soon as you mentioned it to us.", Leo said. Leo then disappeared in a flash of golden lights.

Lucy grabbed Crux's key, raised it with her left hand and said,

"Open, Gate of The Southern Cross,

Crux."

A golden light appeared and as it dissipated, she sees Crux floating in the air with his legs crossed while dozing off, but she knows that he's actually searching for information about the key.

"Ahhh..., that's interesting!", Crux shouted and told Lucy, as he woke up from his research.

"What? What is it Crux?", she asked.

"That key seems to be a very powerful Gate Key that'll allow certain Celestial Wizards to visit a secluded part of the Celestial Spirit World. It emits very powerful amounts of magical energy. Be careful if you ever come into contact with it. You never know what might happen when a Celestial Wizard like you holds it. That's all the information that I could find.", Crux answered.

"That's very interesting. I hope we can find it. Thanks Grandpa Crux."

"You're welcome. Call me when you need more info on other things, bye for now, I've got some sleep to catch up on.", and as Crux finished what he said, he disappeared in a flurry of golden lights.

"Open, Gate of The Lion,

Leo."

Leo appeared again in front of Lucy.

"That was more info than I thought he'd find.", said Leo.

"That's alright.", Lucy smiled at them both. "Let's find it first, then we'll worry about the details later."

They followed Lucy as she walked into the forest where a trail of footprints that looked like they belonged to a four-legged monster led them through a darker part of the forest. They kept walking for what seemed like 30 minutes until they heard a rustling sound. They then heard growls all around them. They put their backs against each other, so as to not leave any openings in their flanks. Sagittarius readied his bow with an arrow drawn, Leo was in his battle stance, and Lucy got her whip; Fleuve d'étoiles, ready in hand.

"I see 6 Spectral Wolves in front of me. Moshi-moshi"

"There's 8 in my side. How about you Princess?"

"I've got 5 to deal with. They're getting closer. Are you ready, you two?", she asked with a smile.

"Yes.", they both answered.

And as if on cue, the wolves attacked all at once. Sagittarius shot one arrow after another at the incoming wolves, making sure that they get taken down with only one shot by aiming at their heads, while Leo took down a few with his powerful kicks and punches. Lucy kicked one wolf in the jaw knocking it out and lashed out with her whip to keep the other ones at bay.

"Regulus Punch."

After Leo chanted those words, his left fist glowed and then he launched his attack, taking out 5 wolves at once.

A wolf almost bit Lucy when it launched at her, but then she tried something that she always wanted to. She jumped onto the wolf as if it was a springboard, she then launched into the air and lashed her whip at the remaining wolves' eyes, blinding them. She then landed on top of two wolves, knocking them out, and then she wrapped her whip around one of the blinded wolves and used her momentum to throw it at the last blinded wolf. She and her spirits took out the rest of the wolves, making sure none escaped them.

"That was easier than I thought.", Lucy said, after wiping some sweat of her brow. "Let's search all these wolves before any of the ones that aren't dead wake up and attack us again."

After a few minutes of searching, Leo walked over to Lucy and handed her a key that matched the description that Goranthe gave her. "We'll see you later Lucy. We've been here long enough. You need to replenish your magic energy. Call us anytime.", said Leo.

"Until we meet again. Moshi-moshi."

"Thanks you two.", she said while smiling at them.

They then vanished in a display of golden lights. Lucy dropped her gaze and looked at the peculiar looking key in her right hand. Before she could start walking back to Crocus, the runes etched on the key started glowing brighter and she felt a tug on her wrist. She tried to let go of the key, but she couldn't. She was tugged deeper into the forest by a force that she couldn't explain. After a minute of being dragged against her will, the tugging feeling stopped, and Lucy found herself at a clearing in the forest. A blinding light took away Lucy's sight for a few seconds and when she got it back, she found herself staring at a towering azure gate that radiated magical energy in the middle of the clearing. 'This is not looking good for me. And it seems like I can't use magic or scream for help.', Lucy realized. The only thing she could do was look shocked, scared, and panic silently. The gates opened slowly and Lucy felt the tugging feeling come back. She was swiftly pulled into the gates and they closed behind her. The gates suddenly disappear in the clearing as if nothing happened...


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This chapter has been updated, and proofread on (04/18/2015)

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