She noticed that after managing to train her control over Ethernano it took much less power to summon her zodiac spirits. She could now summon two at the same time, which according to Papa Crux is not something a normal child could manage. However, she would have difficulty actually summoning two spirits during a fight.
She had been right, controlling the power was needed to control the magic. It was time for the second step ... tree walking.
Her schedule changed a bit, instead of training with a leaf, she would sneak out of the mansion at night to go to the forest. The konzern was so big it had its own cemetery, a forest, a lake and a small village where the servants lived.
She would run up trees and fall down every time, her butt cheeks were black and blue from the falls. It took her three weeks of constantly running and falling to managed to stick to a tree. Seeing results once again made her proud of her stubbornness.
Tree walking was amazing, she loved to be able to just be upside down on a tree branch like a bat. The blood went to her brain if she stayed too long like that, but it just made her feel alive.
After that was done, it was time for water walking. Of course, falling into the lake various time, in the middle of the night, in the winter wasn't exactly healthy. She got a mean ass cold, but she managed to finally walk on water almost like freaking Moses walking through the red sea after four weeks.
Lucy had been in this world for about six months now, and she was proud of her accomplishments. She could now summon two zodiac keys and two silver keys at the same time. Papa Crux was amazed at her and even added her ninja training method into his records for its amazing results.
However her body still needed physical training, and she wanted to find more keys. It was time for part two of her plan- escape this place.
First, she needed money, jewels- which were the currency here. She also wanted to finish reading the library before leaving, many of the books were rare and she would never have another opportunity.
Although Jude was super rich, he wouldn't just hand over money to his despised daughter so Lucy had to take things into her own hands. She decided that since she was training ninja skills she might as well thieve her way through the mansion and steal. Technically she was the heiress and everything belonged to her anyway.
She took a few objects and woke up two hours before her usual time schedule, managed to sneak out of the mansion and went to the nearest village, which was about 15 minutes away by foot. Of course, she had Cancer change her hair into blue, like Aquarius's, before leaving the mansion so that nobody would easily recognize her and wore simple clothes.
She managed to sell all the objects in a pawn shop, the old man even told her to come back again if she had more goods. Surprisingly nobody questioned her about her age or about how she got the things, it must be a mage thing. After all, in this world, a kid with magic could possibly destroy a town.
Before going back she found a small magic shop and decided to take a look. It was old and full of dust, but then again this was a small village and not many people could actually use magic.
"Can I help you deary?" A cracked voice called from behind the counter.
Lucy looked up and saw an old woman, that looked like an evil hag mind you, looking at her with a creepy ass grin.
"Depends." She replied casually, a hag wasn't going to scare her. "Do you have Celestial keys?"
"You think my little old shop in the middle of nowhere would have rare magical objects?" The hag asked, arching her eyebrow.
"Forget it then." Lucy replied with a shrug, she hadn't had that much hope.
"Do you need anything else?" The hag asked before Lucy left the shop. "While this is a magic shop I have all types of things in the back."
"Is this the part where you offer me candy?" She asked with a deadpan expression. When the hag didn't even twitch, she let out a mental sigh. This shit hopefully wasn't a Hanzel and Gretel type of thing. "Do you have anything on martial arts? Hand-to-hand combat or something like that."
"I have something like that." The woman replied, before retreating to the back of the shop. Several minutes later she returned with a worn out scroll in her hand. The hag put it in the counter and showed it to Lucy.
"This is an old thing I got in an action a while back, it's about some type of martial arts called 'panther strike' or something. It's 5000 jewels, take it or leave it." The woman declared, looking Lucy in the eyes.
She put herself on her toes and looked at the scroll. It showed various katas and forms, she could tell it was all about speed, agility, and reflexes. For a small girl, this was perfect.
She dumped the jewels in the counter and left the shop in a hurry. It was almost time for the maids to wake her up, she needed to quickly return. She had made 10000 jewels and spent half of it but she was content, she now had something else to focus on.
She continued to steal and sell things from the mansion, at least once a week. Just to be sure she had Lyra keep the jewels in the Celestial Spirit world for her, she didn't want to be caught after all.
She gave the martial arts scroll to Papa Crux who then helped her start with a suitable speed and reflexes training, she couldn't start with the actual forms before reaching a good level of speed. It mostly involved Taurus and Cancer throwing things at her and Lucy had to dodge. It was a crude method but it worked wonders.
Time passed by quickly, and soon enough it was her ninth birthday. She only remembered it when her Celestial Spirits congratulated her. It seemed like nobody else remembered Lucy Heartfillia still even lived in the mansion. The library maid gave her a small smile but that was it. It might have been different for the original Lucy, she would have wanted attention and fought for it. Bodysnatcher Lucy, however, didn't mind being invisible, she enjoyed the freedom that came with it.
After that she decided to throw herself into her training, the sooner she felt she was strong enough to leave she was out of this mansion. She decided to continue training her Ethernano, and used a new exercise that involved balancing sharp pointy objects in the tip of her fingers while rotating them.
It took concentration, and she got cut a few times but after a while, she managed to do it. It was while doing this that she realized that focusing her Ethernano in her fingers made them stronger and harder to cut. Thinking about it she remembered one of her favorite Naruto characters of all time- freaking super strong Tsunade Senju.
Tsunade had such amazing chakra control that she could build up chakra in her hands, arms and legs and release it on contact with a target, causing severe damage. All of her thoughts went out of the window. If she could do something similar with Ethernano she would be able to fight along with her spirits.
From then on she decided to try and built up Ethernano in her fists and see how it would go. It could work, or maybe it wouldn't but she wanted to try it either way.
On her tenth birthday, she decided it was time to leave. She had a lot of money after selling things every week from the mansion, she had already finished all the books in the library thanks to gale-force glasses and she had already started on 'panther strike' but she only mastered the first three set of kicks. However, her decision came from the fact that last week she had managed to punch a rock into smithereens with her fist. That and she heard the maids talking about her future wedding to some rich asshole, yup it was time to hightail out of here.
It took her a whole year, but she could build up Ethernano in her fists to fight. Papa Crux gapped at her for a whole minute after seeing her destroy a rock bigger than her with just a punch. Lyra wanted to learn it too, apparently, it looked awesome.
She also managed to build up Ethernano in her legs, but not as much as in her hands. Other than focusing power and releasing it she had also managed to enhance her muscles with it. When using it she was much faster than normal, but she still couldn't make it last for more than two minutes.
After giving all of her belongings to Lyra, who would keep them safe in the Spirit world, Lucy called Cancer. It was time to leave, she needed to change her appearance.
"Cancer, it's time for a wild makeover." She said, smiling at the Celestial Spirit.
"What do you want to change ebi?" Cancer asked, pushing up his sunglasses.
The hair had to go, the blonde was too recognizable. Lucy also knew she had to try and change her face a bit, maybe with glasses like Superman or something. When she thought about how she wanted to look, she was undecided.
She wanted to honor Tsunade since she totally stole her technique but Tsunade was blonde too, it would look too much alike. Pink, like Sakura, was also off the table because of Natsu- one person with pink hair was enough.
She had light brown hair in her past life, but it was too near blonde for her liking. Black, would be great except for the fact she would look like a emo since she had such pearly white skin. Having rejected black, only white came to mind.
She thought about it and found that there was another character she loved as much as Tsunade- Jiraiya- who also happened to have marks on his face, which could disguise her face probably better than some glasses.
"I want white hair Cancer, make it long and a bit wavy." Lucy said with a grin, she always thought anime characters with white hair we're kind of cool.
Cancer did his magic on her hair, and soon enough her hair long white hair touched the end of her back. "What else ebi?"
She definitely didn't look like Lucy Heartfillia anymore, which was the whole point of doing this, but her face was still a risk.
"Do you think you can turn makeup into something permanent?" She asked curiously. I always thought the face marks on Naruto were dope.
"Yes ebi, Celestial Spirit Makeup can last for as long as you like. Even forever ebi." Cancer replied.
"Can you make two red marks on the bottom of my eyes, going down." Lucy asked, pointing at her face. "I want them to be unremovable."
"Yes ebi." Cancer replied, before pulling out a brush out of nowhere with red paint on it. Lucy looked up and Cancer quickly painted her face.
The Spirit gave her a mirror and she was surprised. The red marks weren't like Jiraiya's. Maybe she had explained herself wrong, but under each eye, she had two red marks that looked like fangs. It was different, but she had to admit she liked it. It's like the Inuzuka marks mixed with Jiraiya's, nice.
The marks plus the white hair, she looked absolutely different. The marks actually pulled more attention to her eyes and made her face as a whole look different. Nobody could compare her with Lucy Heartfillia now.
Her looks where done, now she just had to choose a new last name to live by. This one was easy. Since she couldn't honor Tsunade with her looks she would honor her through the name.
She would be a Senju, Lucy Senju.