As the sunbeams of twilight danced around the floor of an apartment building, a busty blonde teenager sat down counting money. "Hm hmm that should cover rent and food for the next two months, and some extra to go shopping, but it's best to keep on doing some jobs to sustain more." Then there came a RUMBLE GRUNGLE "Hmm, getting hungry." As she went to look in her refrigerator there was only some eggs, milk, and a tub of yogurt. In the pantry there was only flour, spices, and coffee."Oh great, I forgot to go food shopping this week." When she grabbed her purse and a fist full of dollars, she reached for the door handle but looked at the clock to see the hour hand pointed at the 7 and the minute at the 6. "Oh crap, 7:30 the farmer's markets are closed at this time on a Sunday. Maybe I can still go out to eat." Then came a BOOM! And droplets of water began to flood the streets. "Oh great!" She pouted. "Stupid weather report, didn't even tell me about a storm, I'm stuck here with nothing to eat, and I can't summon Virgo to make me anything because it's a Sunday."

When she buried her head into her legs a giant glow came right in front of her and out of it came a tall young slender, yet muscular man with a ginger mane, wearing a black suit and a red tie. On his handsome face was a pair of azure sunglasses which he lightly pushed up. He then crouched down to the busty maiden and picked up her face. "Lucy, I heard my beautiful princess in distress. What seems to be the problem?" As Lucy slapped away his hand, she got up and pouted again with furrowing eyebrows. "Loke, I don't need your help. Plus how can you hear me in the celestial spirit world?" Loke draped his arm around Lucy's neck. "Now don't pout my dear, I can sense these kind of things. After all it is my duty to help my princess as her knight in shining armor." Lucy freed herself from the spirit. "Loke, can you cut that out for once? Besides, I don't need your help." Then came a RUMBLE GURGLE. "It seems your stomach disagrees my dear. Come, I bought food from the spirit world for tonight." Lucy sighed as she saw the bags of sparkling food, and felt her stomach bubble again. "Fine, but tomorrow I'm on my own."

As Loke bought the bags of spirit food into Lucy's kitchen, Lucy got up and got out a knife and peeler but Loke's hands made her let go. "Please Lucy, you need to relax a little, let me." As Lucy backed off Loke began preparing and slicing and stirring and peeling every bit of food he had with him. Within a decent amount of time, Loke presented his mage with a plate of sparkling beef curry with a sauce that was smoother than the finest fabrics in Fiore. On the side was a plate of Carbonara coated with a sauce that was so creamy, it slowly dripped form the pasta. For dessert was a chocolate mouse that was as light and fluffy as a rabbit's tail. "Only the best for my princess." Said Loke taking a slight bow. "Thank you Loke." As Lucy took the first bite, she slowly pulled the spoon out of her mouth and savored the flavor of the curry. Pretty soon she started munching away at the curry and within minutes it was gone. "So, is it good princess?" Asked the lion. "Loke that was amazing, is all spirit world food that good?" Before he could answer the question Loke pushed over the plate of pasta. "Try the carbonara, it's just as good, and I'll join you too." Upon the first bite, Lucy had the same reaction when she had the curry. Every bite, was at a turtle's pace and the savory flavor slithered down Lucy's throat. As she was eating her eyes drooped and only stopped when she heard a SCRAAAPE! "Oh my." Loke glided the fluffy brown dessert to his wizard. "Now for the dessert my dear." Lucy simply dug her clean spoon in the fluffy substance and began to slowly suck on every spoonful. When they were done, Loke snapped his fingers and the plates disappeared.

As Lucy began to sip water, Loke remarked, "Now that you're fed, would you say that you enjoyed our date?" Lucy instantly spat out the water and started to breathe in shortened lengths. "DATE!? Loke, I was just hungry you never said we were on a date. Besides, we're not dating!" Loke held the mage's hand, "Ah, but I see it differently Lucy. Don't you even remember that one day we need to share our bond of love?" Lucy slapped away the lion Spirit's hand. "There is no bond like that Loke. Listen, you're a celestial spirit I am a human. You will live forever and I will die someday. Please, try to accept this but I just don't think that dating you would work out." Loke quickly shot back. "But Lucy, I will only date you and I only have room in my heart for you." Lucy sighed and her eyes rolled. "Look, the thing is you are a great guy Loke but please, I am tired so just go back to the spirit world please." A faint light started to encase the spirit, "And I shall, my princess." When the light fully encased him and disappeared he went along with it. With that Lucy brushed her teeth, settled in the hot steamy water of her bath tub, dried her damp body when she was done, slipped into her pajamas, and slid under her bed covers before she drifted off into dreamland.

When the sun's beams shot through Lucy's window again, Lucy rose out of bed, adjusted her hair, and used the remaining eggs, milk and seasonings she had to make herself a meal. After eating, she changed into a fitted lime green shirt, light pink fingertip length skirt, and brown ankle boots. She then tied up her golden hair into a side ponytail, with a ruby red ribbon, grabbed a small white purse, a fist full of money, and went outside. "Excellent, the sun is out and the farmer's market should be open." One hour later Lucy came back with several bags filled with food, and began to place every scrap she had into her fridge and pantries. While she was putting a bottle of a red liquid in the upper pantry her right foot began to loose traction and it was soon followed by her entire body. As she was about to fall, a hand managed to catch her from behind. "Careful gorgeous, I don't want my princess to bruise herself." Lucy rolled her eyes at that voice and faced the hand's owner. "Thank you Loke, but I can take care of myself, I wasn't about to hurt my body. I just slipped a little." Loke then helped his wizard dust off a little and claimed, "Ah but Lucy, this is my way of being a gentleman, I wish only to be chivalrous not chauvinist my love." Lucy sighed again. "Loke, last night was not a date, and while I do appreciate you being a gentleman, don't call me your love." As the light began to encase him again, he waved goodbye, "Okay, see ya around beautiful." And disappeared.

Afterwards, she went out of her apartment and approached a giant building with a symbol that matched the same one on her hand and entered the front door. "Hey everyone." She cried. She was greeted back with hellos from the sparsely filled hall. Within seconds a blue haired teen about an inch or two shorter than her and a smaller breast size. "Hey there Lu, I thought that you already had enough money already." Said the bluenette putting her hand on Lucy's shoulder. "Oh I'm just here Levy. You know that I will never get tired of this guild." Lucy giggled. "I can see that. Anyway, I'm going on a solo job." Then Levy jetted out the door and waved back to her friend. "See ya later Luce." At the bar counter Lucy sat down on a stool and faced a curvaceous woman wearing a long red dress and had white hair. "Hey Lucy, just hanging around today?" "You guessed right on Mira." The both giggled. "Say Mira, I kinda need some advice." Before Lucy could finish Mira jolted to finishing, "Boy trouble?" Lucy sweated slightly, "How'd you know?" Mira responded with just two words,"Lucky guess." Lucy groaned slightly, "It's Loke, he's going around my life doing stuff for me, last night he cooked me dinner because my shelves were empty and he wanted to call it a date. Then he caught me when I just slipped. How do I get him to realize that I'm not really into him?" Lucy put her head between her arms and Mira lifted her head up. "Now come on, I think you two look pretty cute together." An electric shock then traveled up Lucy's spine and her eyes turned white as her face glowed red. "Calm down Lucy, since you don't want him to be your boyfriend just imply that he is only your friend a lot." Lucy started to smile, "I guess I'll try it out."

THREE DAYS LATER

Right behind a pile of knocked out men, a salmon haired teen boy with a white scarf picked up a knocked out gang member."Now, we'll be taking that gem you've got." After the salmon haired teen had a Ruby the size of a pingpong ball in his hands, he tossed it in the air and caught it, "Great job huh Happy?" He asked a flying blue cat. "Aye, it seems that these thief catching jobs are pretty fun, huh Natsu?" He simply high fived Happy. "You said it little buddy, now let's see how Erza, Gray and Lucy have done with their share of bad guys." Minutes later a long red haired woman and a black haired man with no shirt on approached Natsu and Happy. "Hey guys, I got one of the gems. What about you?" Natsu presented the ruby to both of them. Afterwards, the red haired mage in armor pulled out an emerald the size of her eye, "No wonder the owners of these gems called for our help, that emerald is huge Erza." After Erza put the emerald away Natsu turned to the shirtless black haired mage, "Gray?" The black haired mage with no shirt on presented a diamond the same size of Natsu's ruby. "This was the second most priceless one in his collection. All we need to do is see how Lucy is doing." The gang then started to walk South. Meanwhile, In another location, Lucy was also in front of knocked out gang members and held out a gold key as Loke blew at his glowing hand like a smoking gun. "All taken care of beautiful." He then dug around the gang members and found a pink gem the size of a doorknob. "Thanks for finding that gem Loke, you're a good friend." Lucy emphasized to Loke. "Not a problem, it reminds me of your eyes." He then tossed the gem to Lucy before dissolving in light,"Take care gorgeous." Lucy was left with a red strip on her face. "Oooooh, you've got a nice boyfriend huh Lucy?" Mocked the flying blue cat. "He's a friend Happy. Anyway I got the pink diamond back, the client's most valuable gem, let's get our reward and go home."

Back at Magnolia town, the gang had their pockets filled with their share of the reward money and all four of them went their separate ways when they got to the town square. As Lucy was walking on the cobblestone road near the river again, she decided to do a little balancing on the edge. "That's dangerous Lucy!" Called a man on a boat. "Oh I'll be fine." Responded Lucy. However, on one of the steps she was taking, her foot missed and her body started to gravitate towards the water, "Gahh!" Screamed Lucy. Before she hit the water, a hand grabbed her right wrist and she gravitated back to the cobblestoned road. "Careful beautiful, you don't need to get wet." Lucy faced the hand's owner, "T-thank you Loke." She told the lion spirit before he disappeared again. Two girls then walked by, "Like wow, I wish I had a boyfriend like that." "Totally, some girls get it all." Lucy felt a jolt go through her spine and walked like a robot to her apartment. "Hey, Lucy why not let your boyfriend open the door for you." Called the man in the boat. Quickly, Lucy shouted back, "HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!" and slammed the door faster than Jet on a good day.

NEXT DAY

As Lucy was browsing the request board the lion spirit appeared once again, this time he was next to a brunette carrying a barrel and wearing a blue bikini top. "So what do you say Cana? Want to go on a job together for old time's sake?" As Cana put down the barrel, she grabbed it and said, "Sounds good, might be a good chance to hang out with Lucy's boyfriend." Happy flew over, "Ah ha! I knew it Lucy! You are in looove!" A mage sticking his tongue out faced a green haired mage with a red coat,"Told ya he was the cheerleader's boyfriend!" Pretty soon the entire guild hall began to repeat the word 'boyfriend.'The word began to echo in Lucy's mind, ricocheting like a super ball. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHH!" Lucy screeched. As everyone turned heads, Loke approached the blonde haired mage. "Lucy, are you okay?" Lucy then slapped him away and her eyes turned white as she started to glare. "NO! I'M NOT OKAY! FOR THREE DAYS I HAVE EMPHASIZED THE FACT THAT YOU WERE MY FRIEND AND NOTHING MORE!" Loke, stumbled back, "W-what are you trying to say?" Lucy took a deep breath, "YOU ARE NOT MY BOYFRIEND! AND I DON'T WANT YOU AS MY BOYFRIEND! YOU'RE JUST A PLAYBOY SPIRIT!" Loke felt his insides shatter like glass, "I guess I'll see you some other time then." The lion stuttered as he flashed into the spirit world.

Inside the gleaming dimension Loke's legs moved like a windup toy in motion, and his feet dragged as his upper body sulked and was completely motionless. "Big brother Leo, are you okay?" Asked a pink haired maid. As she waved a hand in front of him, Loke kept on dragging his feet. "No response." A tall goat man then saw the dragging lion spirit. "Virgo, appaaarently Leo needs some time alone." Within minutes Loke located himself into an ivory building and lied down on the floor next to a picture of the blonde mage and clung the frame to his chest and tears leaked from his eyes.

Back on Earthland, Lucy had a bit of a spring in her step, "Well, that takes care of that." Pretty soon Cana asked the blonde, "Hey Luce, don't you think you were being a bit harsh on him?" Lucy rolled her eyes and groaned, "Harsh? This kept on going for three days straight,nobody left me alone, and everyone kept on teasing me about having him as a boyfriend, it was embarrassing." Mira came over carrying a tray and stated, "I don't know Lucy, I've known Loke during his playboy days and he's not used to being spoken to like that by a girl." Levy soon followed, "Yeah, Lu don't you think you were being a bit harsh. Of all the time I've known Loke, he's never been one to take words like that too well, and looking at the way he went back into the spirit world, you really broke his heart." Lucy's eyebrows began to lower and she started to fumble her hands. "Guys, I need to go now." As she exited the guild hall her head started to sulk a little. I broke his heart? It can't be that bad.

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Ouch it seems that Lucy borderline shot down our favorite lion. I wonder what will happen to him in the spirit world.