Author's Note: Hello there! This is the very first story I've ever created. I've written one-shots before for school, but this is my actual first long story. English isn't my first language, and my brother is my beta reader. So if you find a sentence that's grammatically incorrect or just simply doesn't make any sense, please tell me and I'll fix it right away!

Almost all of the OC's I created for this story are based on and/or named after characters from other animes, TV shows, animated series or books. Some of them will be painfully obvious, some of them hopefully won't be. There will also be some easter eggs from these shows.

I'm a sappy teenage girl who loves love and shipping. This means there will be a lot of romance in the story, but it won't only be about that. The first chapters are going to be slow, meaningless and not serious at all, but full of character introductions. Kind of how it was at the beginning of Fairy Tail.

Please keep in mind that I started writing this way before the last chapters of the manga came out.

This is all I wanted to say before we start. Also, I don't own Fairy Tail or any of the characters my OC's are based on.

The Ridiculous Mission

"They're not 'key guys', they're Celestial Spirits!"

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The sun shone brightly in the summer afternoon, birds were flying around town and above the sea. At the docks, many ships could be seen ready to sail, with just as many arriving. The port town of Hargeon was swarmed with travelers and ship workers as always, and the town merchants and fishermen were happy to be busy with work. Two Fairy Tail mages were trying to push their way through the bustling streets.

'Are you sure it's this way?' asked one of them.

This person was a seventeen-year-old young man named Storm, who was the son of Gray and Juvia Fullbuster. He had a lean, but muscular figure, messy black hair and dark blue eyes. The clothes he wore made him look like an exact replica of his father, without the necklace. He instead had a silver earring resembling a cross in his right ear.

'It's definitely this way,' answered the other.

The other person was shorter and had a feminine figure. She was sixteen years old, and her name was Luna. She was the daughter of Natsu and Lucy Dragneel, which could easily be figured out, because of her chin-length pink hair and round brown eyes. She wore a middle-sleeved red shirt with a beige short-sleeved, knee-length dress over it, and light brown high boots. A pouch was connected to her belt, where she kept her Celestial Spirit gate keys.

The two came to the town because of a job request. The client was a rich woman, who put a pretty high prize for an easy job, which was to capture a group of bandits. Storm wanted to take the goldmine mission before someone else did, but Luna also had eyes for this mission. Next to the obviously (too) big amount of money, the reward included an unknown Celestial Spirit gate key, and Luna just had to have it. The others at the guild were surprised about them teaming up for a job, since they rarely ever talked to each other.

'It feels like we've already been here before,' sighed Storm. 'Every street looks the same.'

'You might be right,' said Luna, her tone slightly defeated. 'The shop might not even exist anymore.'

The two of them were looking for the only magic shop in the town before actually looking for the client. There was a key that Luna wanted for a long time now, but couldn't find anywhere. She heard the story of how her parents met many times, so her last hope was this town's magic shop.

'There it is!' she suddenly shouted.

The small building was hidden between two apartment units, its blue roof made it stand out enough for Luna to recognize it. They looked through the window to see an old man sitting by the counter, sleeping. They sweatdropped then entered the shop, and the chime of the bell tied to the door made the old man jump up so suddenly, that his pointed hat fell off.

'Good afternoon! It's so rare to see customers here, after all the town lives off the fishing business, not magic. How can I help you?'

'I'm looking for a silver gate key,' said Luna while looking around. She heard a sneeze and looked behind her to see Storm coughing in the middle of a dust cloud. The shelves probably weren't cleaned in at least a decade.

'Gate keys, huh? Those are pretty rare things. But you're in luck, because I have bought three just last week!' said the old man grinning, as he disappeared into the backroom, only to appear a minute later with a box in his hand, which he placed on the counter.

The box looked so old that Luna thought he took out some documents from a century before, but as he opened it, she realized he was just simply lying. The three gate keys that now lay before Luna were much older than a week, otherwise the dust on the box wouldn't be able to cause an instant coughing fit.

'Well, do you see the one you were looking for?'

'Yes!' she squealed as she picked up the middle one. 'The gate of the Canis Minor. How much is it?'

'30,000 jewels,' the old man said without batting an eyelash, and Luna felt her happiness quickly disappear.

'I'm sorry, I must have heard wrong,' she smiled politely. 'How much is it, again?'

'30,000 jewels.'

All hope inside Luna died as she accepted the unfair prize.

'Isn't that a bit too much?' asked Storm.

'As I already said, it is difficult getting by with working only at this shop,' explained the old man.

'Then get another job, old man, 'cause what you're doing is called ripping people off,' snarled Storm, and Luna put a hand on his arm, signalling him to stop.

'I'm sorry for wasting your time, mister,' she said in an apologetic tone, before she dragged the grumpy Ice mage out the door.

'It's not like he doesn't have time to waste,' grumbled Storm, then noticed Luna's sudden change in mood. 'You really want that key, don't you?'

She only nodded in response, and Storm sighed before pulling his wallet from his pocket and giving her half of the price. Her eyes widened and she looked at him with a questioning gaze.

'Go buy it, you can pay me back some other time.'

Her head bobbed up and down as she rapidly nodded, which made Storm smile. She rushed back into the shop and came out five minutes later with a new silver key and a bright smile on her lips.

'Thank you so much!'

She skipped over to Storm and gave him a hug. He stiffened and awkwardly put his arms around her, patting her back. She instantly pulled away, her cheeks pink with embarrassment.

'S-Sorry,' she muttered, looking away.

'Yeah, uh,' said Storm as he looked into another direction as well. 'C'mon, let's go and talk to the client.'

She timidly nodded as Storm took out the mission flier. They walked in awkward silence until they reached the client's obnioxiously large house. Storm put the flier away, rang the doorbell, and the gigantic doors immediately opened.

'Bonjour, Sir and Madame,' greeted them the butler standing in the doorway in a heavy accent.

'Hello,' said Luna with her timid smile. 'We are mages from Fairy Tail. We came to accept the job.'

'Very well. Follow me, s'il vous plait,' said the butler as he led them through six hallways, three staircases, and Mavis knows how many rooms, before finally stopping in front of one.

He knocked on the door and opened it after an „Entrez" was heard from inside. He led the two mages in the room, then bowed before leaving and closing the door. The room they stepped into was an unexpectedly small study, with shelves full of colorful and probably expensive books. On the opposite wall were two windows, between them was a fireplace, with a desk and a chair in front of it, and two couches sat at each side of the room.

On one of the couches sat a middle-aged woman, matching the room's colors with her dark red dress and brown coat. She brushed her dark hair out of her face as she looked up from a book she was reading, and her icy blue eyes turned warm as soon as she saw Storm and Luna.

'Well, hello! I'm Madame Maxime. You two are Fairy Tail mages, right?' she asked in a slightly better accent than her butler.

'Yes, we came because of the job request,' answered Luna, smiling politely.

'Great! Let me tell you everything.'

She made them sat down and did just that, she told them everything. And when she meant everything, she meant her entire life story. She told them what her parents did for a living, how her husband was the biggest business man in the fish processing industry, the words her son just learned to say, and so on. Luna seemed to listen carefully, but Storm tuned out the unimportant parts, and especially when she used those weird foreign words. He got the information they needed for the job, though (group of bandits has 30 members, the leader can use magic, they steal from travelers and disturb the townspeople).

'Where can we find them?' he asked in a bored tone, aware of the heated gaze she sent him because he just cut her off from telling them where she bought the dress she was currently wearing.

'In an abandoned building near the forest.'

'Thank you, we'll come back after we've captured them!' said Storm as he quickly stood up and left the room, not wanting to hear her talk any longer.

Luna stared after him, then she got up, bowed to Madame Maxime, and hurried after Storm. She found him waiting for her in front of the house with a grimace on his face, that made her giggle. He lifted an eyebrow at this, but she just shook her head, taking a map out of her pocket.

After asking numerous people and turning the map around for a few times, they found the building Madame Maxime was talking about. It was oddly quiet and deserted. They looked at each other, Storm shrugged, and Luna took a step to enter the building, but the moment her foot touched the ground, a magic circle shined to life.

'Watch out!' shouted Storm as he tackled her to the ground, away from the exploding magic circle.

The explosions seemed to stir the bandits up, because soon all thirty of them stood face-to-face with the two mages. Their leader was standing on the top of the building with his arms crossed. Storm's eyes narrowed as he saw the ugly bald guy's confident smirk.

'Open, Gate of the Eastern Horse, Bumi!' yelled Luna with a jade key in her hand.

The sound of a doorbell could be heard as a big brown pony appeared seemingly out of nowhere. She huffed before running towards some bandits, stomping them down, using her magic to turn the dry earth into mud to blind her opponents.

'Ice-Make: Ice Geyser!'

Storm was faring just as well with his share of targets, proved by how the ice spikes he just created impaled every single guy that was standing in close distance.

While her spirit was working her way through them, Luna was surrounded by five bandits. She took in their position before jumping up, doing a flip and kicking one in the face. Her target flew twenty feet before hitting a wall, not from the force of her kick, but because of her Air magic. She only just started learning it a little while ago, but it was enough to power up her strikes. She waved her arms to send the other four flying as well.

There were seven remaining members, all of them looking unsure and a little bit afraid. Actually, one of them had pissed his pants simply by just looking at his buddies getting thrown left and right. When Storm glared at them, that one guy shrieked and passed out.

'We surrender!' said another one, and the six bandits raised their hands. 'Just don't hurt us, please!'

'What kind of bandits are you, anyway?' asked Storm clearly amused.

'That's what I was going to ask as well!' yelled a deep voice from behind the last six.

They turned around and started shivering in fear as they realized their boss was standing next to them, his previous smirk was gone and his hands were clenched in fists. His glare met Storm's gaze and he raised his hand to write in the air. Luna's eyes widened.

He uses Letter magic!

'Kan!' shouted the leader as he finished the kanji, creating a beam of energy heading towards Storm.

'Ice-Make: Shield!'

The shield made of Storm's ice broke upon impact, but it was enough to block the Orient Solid Script spell.

'Bumi!' yelled Luna, pointing at the bald guy.

'Roger!' she called back and dashed in his direction.

The leader suddenly looked terrified as the animal spirit was running towards him at a high speed. He let out a scream before trying to escape into the building, but Bumi got to him faster.

After putting the bandits in jail and going back for their reward (Madame Maxime was not happy to see their faces again), Storm and Luna were walking towards the train station as the setting sun painted the sky orange and purple. Luna was happy to add a new key to her collection, the only problem was that she didn't know what kind of key it was. It was jade green like her other jade keys, but the handle was carved to look like a black cat was climbing up on it. But the most curious things were the cat's eyes. An eyesocket was carved for them, and its „eyeballs" were two rubies.

Luna insisted that she only needed the gate key, but Storm gave her half of the money, stating that she deserves it, as her spirit was the one who took down the leader.

'This is yours, then,' she said as she gave him 15.000 jewels back. 'This is the money I owe you for helping me buy the silver key.'

He nodded and put the jewels away. After arriving at the station they bought their tickets and waited for their train to arrive. This gave Storm time to think, and to realize this job turned out to be fun. He never really partnered up with anyone before, if you don't count Luna's brother, who was his best fr- I mean rival. And he never really talked to Luna either. It wasn't that he didn't think her magic was powerful enough, because he knows about the strength of Luna's mom, and he saw today at first hand how strong Luna actually is. She was just simply the timid little sister of his be- rival.

'Hey, Luna,' he tapped her shoudlers gently, to which she turned her head to look at him. 'Even though the job was a joke, it was still more fun than if I'd taken it alone. So thanks, I guess.'

'You don't have to thank me,' she chuckled. 'You let me come to this job and I recieved two Celestial Spirit gate keys! So thank you.'

'I suppose it's a start of a friendship, then,' he stated as he held out his hand.

'Yes, it is,' she responded, took his hand and shook it.

A sharp whistle resounded in the station, signalling all the people waiting by the platforms, that their train has arrived. Storm and Luna got up and boarded the train, but when they sat down, Luna sweatdropped.

'Uh, Storm?'

'Hm?' he hummed, looking out the window.

'Your clothes,' she said sighing, and Storm's eyes widened as he looked down to see his boxers.

'WHAT? When?'

He quickly ran by the conducter who was about to close the door so the train can depart, but Storm pleaded him to give him a few minutes to find his lost clothes. Needless to say, the two mages were able to depart only an hour later with another train.

„The Jade Keys open the gates to the Eastern Zodiac. They are the only spirits who aren't named after constellations or planets, and the only ones who have their keys made out of a gemstone. This means that they are on a different level than the other spirits. Sometimes they are considered the strongest branch of celestial spirits, inferior only to the Celestial Spirit King. Many argue about that however, because there are some spirits that aren't as strong as the others. It is also part of the reason why their keys are so hard to find."

„The Platinum Keys open the gates to the 8 Major Planetary Spirits. They are said to be superior to the Gold Keys, but inferior to the Jade Keys."

„The Bronze Keys open the gates to the Minor Planetary Spirits. These spirits are all appear as young children and teenagers with unbalanced magic, who represent the 7 Deadly Sins. They are slightly weaker than the Major Planetary Spirits."

– A Study on Different Branches of Celestial Spirits, by Will Neville

The quote is from Fairy Tail episode 3.

The study by Will Neville is written by me. :D