Heeeey guys! So um, this is my first Fairy Tail fanfiction inspired after...you know... Aquarius left :( Although Aquarius didn't die, Lucy can no longer summon or see her. ALTHOUGH, I heard that later on in the manga Aquarius' key resurfaces somewhere in the world :))))
Anyways, back to the story, this is an AU where Aqurius actually dies(no hate pls, I love her) and Eclipse Aquarius takes her place as the new Water Bearer(I mean she already is for the Eclipse spirits). In the AU, Eclipse Spirits were actually the past forms of the Celestial spirits that had past away(inspired by a theory I heard). After Aquarius died, Eclipse Aquarius was resurrected to fill in the place of the Water Bearer. Soooo I guess in my AU, if any other Celestial spirit died their eclipse form would be resurrected to take their place(don't worry I won't kill anyone else tho).
After Eclipse Aquarius' fight with Wendy, she was soo cute and she apologized. It made me realize she actually isn't bad, just childish and wants to have fun. So I thought up this fanfic!
Oh and of course there will be ships ;) I won't actually ship Eclipse Aquarius with anyone. Well, I actually ship her with Wendy but it's more of a bromance for me(like they totally had a bromance during the Eclipse arc). I actually ship Wendy with Romeo! As for Scorpio and Eclipse Aquarius, I won't ship them cause of the physical age difference. And don't worry, Scorpio will recover in my AU.
Anyways ships to look out for are LoRies, WenAqua(bromance), ScorpAqua(normal Aquarius) and of course NALU. I might add other ships so look out for those too
So without further adieu..
Almost one year has flown away since Lucy broke the key that opened the Gate of the Water Bearer, Aquarius. The sarcrifice killing our beloved tsundere mermaid. And for what? For a one time summoning of the Celestial Spirit King?
But there was absolutely no other choice...
Which is why Lucy was forced to sarcrifice one of her spirits. That spirit being the feisty blue haired mermaid that offered to break her own key and to go through such a fate.
"Thank you", were the last words of the Water Bearer, before she faded into golden light. Never to be seen again...
Since then, those words had never left Lucy in peace. Nightmares of the mermaid, her screams, her tears, her last smile, her words, the golden light had haunted Lucy ever since that day. Lucy knew that Aquarius did not die in vain, final farewells were made, and that it was supposed to end that way for the greater good(it was what Aquarius would have wanted) but Lucy still couldn't quite move on. The depression Lucy was plunged into did not go un-noticed by a certain pink haired dragon slayer. Who endured Lucy's tears soaking his black waistcoat as she cried on his chest, he, in turn, would kiss her forhead and let her take it all out.
Natsu had become even closer to Lucy after Aquarius' death, sadly un-beknownst to the two for they had been more occupied with Aquarius' death than their actual relationship. With the help of the fiery boy, Lucy was beginning to slowly recover.
Meanwhile, in the spirit world, Scorpio has been, if not, more devastated after his girlfriend passed away. The usually laid back spirit barely talks, eats, or sleeps. Leo suspects the spirit of the Scorpion has resorted to drinking after catching him in the Celestial bar quite a few times. Despite many attempts to cheer him up, his celestial spirit friends couldn't budge him.
It wasn't just Scorpio. Aquarius' death made a hole in the Celestial Spirit world. Despite Aquarius' mean reputation(which Scorpio was still oblivious to), all other Zodiac spirits felt truely at loss even more so at seeing their master and Scorpio so devastated. Aries and Virgo were also close to Aquarius, being the female Celestial spirits they had made their own little group, and they felt just as much of pain after hearing the news of the sacrifice their blue haired friend had made. Leo spent hours with Aries, trying to counsel the emotional lamb spirit. When he wasn't with Aries, he was with Virgo trying to help the spirit of the Maiden, whose usually unemotional nature shocked everyone when she burst into tears.
Virgo's tears was the only thing that finally moved the Scorpion, who much to everyone's surprise, cried alongside the Maiden. It was Scorpio, not Virgo, who took the reassuring role. Despite crying, Scorpio held the Maiden and constantly reminded her that everything was going to be okay.
Not so soon after, the Celestial spirits built a memorial in Aquarius' honor. Which stands, beautiful adorned with many flowers and seashells, in front of a large white foundation with a statue of a mermaid with a urn pouring out sparkling water. The foundation sits in front of Aquarius's old, lovely home.
Leo had called a Zodiac meeting that day, and it wouldn't be long until it started. Leo was always the first one there, followed by Virgo who always arrived at the exact time, followed by the rest of the spirits who came a little later. As the leader, he felt it was necessary to be arrive early and sort things out, usually paperwork or schedules.
He had arrived at the meeting hall, and was now heading towards the table where meetings where held, his hands buried in his pockets, frowning. These Zodiac meetings, they weren't the same anymore. It pained him to know how sad his friends have become, and how gloomy the meeting hall was. It actually came as a shock to him that he missed the rude spirit, he missed how the pyscho would hurl her waves of water at him when he was just innocently flirting with her and the daily insult she made at him. He sighed, and tried to shake the negative thoughts out of his head.
Leo was about to sit in his seat, when-
"Hi!" The voice of a little girl greeted him. It startled him so bad he fell into his seat. The girly voice giggled, then stopped.
"Aquarius is sorry she scared you, Aquarius didn't mean too", the girl pouted, lowering her face a bit. The girl sat before a lovely gold object that had 'Aquarius' and the associated zodiac symbol engraved on it. Aquarius' old seat.
Aquarius? Leo thought.
"That's okay", he responded, trying to compose himself, but failing,"but...who are you?"
The girl looked at him for a moment, before her face lit up.
"Leo-sama!" She smiled, eyes wide and bright. Before slipping from her seat, and running with her arms open towards him. Before Leo knew it, the girl caught him in a tight embrace.
"...uhhh, Leo remarked awkwardly, not sure about what to do. Here he is, being hugged to death by some little girl he didn't know. He tried to gentle wiggle out of the embrace, when he heard footsteps. The sound of footsteps stopped.
"Leo!", The familiar voice of...Virgo called out. Shoot, was it time for the meeting to start?
"I don't mean to pry but I think you should choose partners of a more appropriate age", The maid stated, arriving next to her seat with the gold 'Virgo' engraved object before it.
"I am not dating her!", Leo snapped, panicking in the young girl's grasp. The younger spirit finally let him go, much to his relief, before turning her attention to Virgo.
"Virgo-chan!", she exclaimed, before tackling the maid into a sudden hug. The maid was startled for a moment before regaining her usual composed self. Virgo looked over at Leo, who sighed at finally getting the girl away, he also had no idea who this girl was.
"Excuse me, but who are you?," Virgo asked, her hands by her side, not returning the hug at all. The girl released Virgo at the question,
"I'm sorry, Aquarius knows you guys are the new us, but you look so much like my Virgo-chan and Leo-sama that Aquarius couldn't help herself", the girl once again delayed the question, looking at her feet and saying comething competely random, 'her Virgo and Leo?',"Aquarius knows you guys aren't them, definetely not because my Leo and Virgo aren't very affectionate. They wouldv'e scolded Aquarius if she hugged them like Aquarius did to you guys. Again, Aquarius is sorry..."
Leo stared at the girl in shock, why does she keep saying her Virgo and Leo? Looking at girl, she had light blue hair tied into two pigtails, big blue eyes, a gray and blue dress, white long gloves, legging with black shoes, and the same familiar tiara around her head. Looking at her dress, it had...the Aquarius symbol on it. The girl has an unmistakenly similar appearence to Aquarius as well, only much younger. She looks like the same girl Lucy had described to them...the girl she called 'Eclipse Aquarius'.
"You're-", Leo and Virgo spoke simultaneously.
"Aquarius", the girl finished their sentence.
"But-", Leo started, confused by the entire situation.
"It's a long story", Aquarius huffed.
"By all means, Leo and I would like to hear this story," Virgo stated, composing herself.
"You see, I am the past form of the Water Bearer, Aquarius was respawned after the current, or your, Aquarius died. There are past forms of all Zodiac spirits, but these past forms are deceased. You guys may know us as the 'Eclipse Celestial Spirits'."
Virgo turned to Leo, "Does she mean the spirits that Hime-chan fought?"
"I think so..," Leo mumbled, turning back at Aquarius, pushing his glasses closer to his face,"...Uh okay, so you're the past form of Aquarius respawned? How did this happen?"
Aquarius raised a brow, and put a finger to her chin, lightly tapping. "Aquarius doesn't know...Aquarius remembers waking up and finding the Celestial Spirit King. He told Aquarius what happened to your Aquarius, and that he resurrected me to take her place. The Celestial Spirit King also informed me that there are new forms of the Zodiac Spirits, which are you guys, so Aquarius won't know any of you and you won't know her. My master is someone named Lucy Heartfillia, and that she owns 10 Gold Keys including mine. The Celestial Spirit King also mentioned there was a war between Lucy Heartfillia and her human friends againts us, the 'Eclipse' spirits as the Celestial King told me we are known by...that's all Aquarius knows, or at least remembers."
"I see...", Leo said, put his thumb and index finger to his chin in thought.
"What do you suppose we do, big brother?", Virgo pipped in, her hands clasped together and on her lap.
"If it's the Celestial's king will, then we may as well take in the girl. I guess she's the new Aquarius...", Leo, mumbled, shoving his hands into his pockets.
Virgo nodded, and in a softer voice asked Aquarius to take a seat in her assigned chair to which she obliged. Many footsteps could be heard in distance, the others have arrived.
"THAT'S AQUARIUS?", Every spirit yelled in unison with the exception of Leo, Virgo, and of course, Scorpio. Scorpio just kind of, stared in disbelief upon Leo breaking the news. The Lion had been observing the Scorpion this entire time, watching how he was taking the news. He remained the only spirit not talking, even quiet Aries spoke more than he did. All spirits were present and seated in their assigned seat, including Yukino's spirits Libra and Pisces, who only came when there was a meeting. Lucy had other spirits too, but since they were silver keys, they couldn't attend Zodiac meetings.
Aquarius, smiling and swinging her legs in her seat, grinned. "Yup!",
"Yay! Now we got a new friend to play with!", Gemini cheered, flying around a giggling Aquarius.
"How Aquarius missed Gemini!", Aquarius remarked, "She hopes Gemi is nicer and Mini is not so scared all the time."
"It's to utterly bad Aquarius doesn't have a beauoooooooooootiful body anymore!", A perverted cow no other than Taurus commented, earning a glare from Scorpio.
"Hehe, Aquarius' Taurus was always so serious and calm!", Aquarius rememered, " He said gentleman don't play games."
"He, he. She cute..", Aries quietly stated, immediately blushing and shying away from the rest of the crowd.
Aquarius, however, heard the comment and ran into Aries' arms. The lamb spirit blushed but shyly returned the hug.
''Aquarius missed Aries-chan, even if she was a big meanie head!", Aquarius said, snuggling into the shy spirit. Leo chuckled, and mumbled a low "Cute."
"Aries-chan and Aquarius used to play for hours! Aries-chan always won and would rub it into's Aquarius' face! Aries-chan was a meanie to everyone, except maybe for Leo-sama. Aquarius thinks she liked him though."
Both the spirits of the Lion and the Ram blushed at the comment, earning a few grins from the rest of the spirits.
"She is too immature for my son!", Mother Pisces critized earning a "Mother!" from Son Pisces.
"She sure is a big contrast to our Aquarius", Libra commented with her usual unassuming and flat expression, "Think she'll be as active as our little Gemini?"
"Hopefully..", answered Capricorn, pulling out a poetry book out of nowhere,"I can teach her to grow into a fine poet and a nice young lady."
"I hope she's as nice as she seens. Our other Aquarius was ...not so cheery,", Sagittarius commented, chosing his words carefully.
"Sagittarius-kun!", Aquarius cheered, tackling him in a hug," Aquarius could say the same for you! My Sagittarius was always so serious, he never wanted to play with me!"
"Okay Aquarius", Leo chuckled, which turned Aquarius' attention and she finally freed the poor suffocating centaur spirit.
"Hm?", Aquarius hummed.
"Does Lucy know about this yet?", Leo asked, pushing his glassed to his face(he does that often).
"Uh...no, I haven't been summoned yet. I'm not sure if she even realized that a new key has resurfaced", Aquarius responded, looking shrugging.
"Do you know where your key has resurfaced?", Leo asked again.
"The Celestial King said a new key has appeared where Lucy usually keeps her keys."
"So on her chain", Leo concluded, "Or her drawer, sometimes she keeps her keys in her drawer."
Aquarius shrugged, and Virgo just nodded. The Lion the turned his attention to Scorpio, who had been sitting in his seat without saying a word.
"Scorpio?", Leo called, drawing the Scorpion's attention.
"Yes?"
"You're okay, right man?", Leo asked, he was honestly worried on how Scorpio was taking the news.
Scorpio just stared at him, to which Leo continued to give him a concerned look. Aquarius, oblivious to the tension in the room, turned to Scorpio and instantly smiled wide.
"SCORPIO-KUN!", she gleefully cheered, running into the quiet spirit's arms. The Scorpion spirit, startled, did not know how to respond.
"AQUARIUS MISSED YOU SO MUCH, WE USED TO BE BEST FRIENDS. WE PLAYED WITH YOUR CARDS EXCEPT YOU WOULD ALWAYS BEAT ME, YOU ALWAYS BEAT EVERYONE. I MEAN GEMI AND MINI WERE MY FRIENDS TOO BUT GEMI WAS A MEANIE AND MINI WAS TO SCARED-", Aquarus bombared the Scorpion and bear hugged the now suffociating spirit. Capricorn was the one who had to pull the excited blue haired spirit away from the poor Scorpion.
"Now now, little one, don't kill the poor man!", Capricorn stated, grinning at the enthusiam of the new spirit.
"...best...friends?", Scorpio's words were barely audible.
Aquarius was about to reply when Cancer put a hand on her shoulder.
"I think it's best you not know, baby," The Crab suggested, snapping his scissors. Leo walked up to both spirits, "I agree, at least for now."
Aquarius raised an eyebrow, clearly confused as Leo put a hand on her shoulder, patting lightly. "Now I think I should perhaps pay a visit to Ms. Heartfillia and tell her about our newest member. That is, unless she already figured it out already."
Before Leo could use his magic to go to the human world, Virgo stepped forward.
"Leo, our meeting!?", Virgo chimed in. Everyone else groaned and went back to the meeting.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there's chapter one for ya. I'll try to continue the story, but I'm sort of busy with school almost starting and all. Also I thought I should mention I don't check my grammar so please don't critize me to harshly haha. I know I put up a sad mood at the beginning but I'm trying to make it more comical so yeah.
Just in case ya didn't know, Aquarius speaks in third person and I might forget at times to make her speak that way.
Sooo yeah, bye guys!