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Lucy and the children sat in the dining room. When she first bought the house the dining room had one large long table in it but she removed it and got Laki to create smaller round tables to fill the space so it can be more personal and hold more students. In the centre of the room was an ice sculpture of the Celestial Spirit King that Gray made. He claims that it wont melt unless you put a magical flame to it, but Lucy has her doubts. Surrounding the sculpture is a large round table made by Laki that holds food from the Celestial world.
Each of the tables could hold up to 22 people perfectly. While eating their meals Lucy sat with the kids to try and get to know them and to start introducing them to Celestial spirits and magic. She summoned Aires to join them for their meal which amazed the children.
'Ok after we eat lunch I'm going to take you into the key room for you all to select your first spirit and I'll teach you how to summon and make a contract with them,' Lucy said smiling at the children.
'Lucy, I want a key to summon this spirit,' Jeromy said so sweetly that it broke her heart to tell him that he couldn't, but it was the first lesson that every Celestial Wizard must learn.
'Jeromy I'm sorry but you.'
'Ms Lucy please let me,' Aries said cutting Lucy off. 'You cannot summon me or any of the Zodiac for two reasons. Reason one is that we are contract to Lucy and only Lucy. And reason two is that the Zodiac keys and spirits are unique as there is only 13 of them.' Aries explained to all the children. Lucy smiled at Aries and mouthed a thank you to her to which she responded with a big smile as if saying its not a problem. Lucy looked at the green eyed boy with light brown hair and sore the disappointment in his eyes.
'I tell you all if you work hard and by the time I am ready to retire magic completely and I have no heir to succeed me I will hand my Zodiac keys down to the thirteen most worthy.'
When Lucy said this all the children faces light up like a Christmas tree.
'Can we go pick our keys now Lucy,' Ella said reminding Lucy so much of her self when she asked her own mother to teach her how to use Celestial spirit magic. A good five minutes passed of Lucy just staring at the girl remembering when she first learnt to summon a spirit in this very house.
'Lucy,' Aries said bringing her out of her daze, 'The kids want to get their keys now.'
'Yes lets go.'
Lucy led the kids down one of the cordials in the massive mansion to a set of massive double doors. The doors are made out of mahogany from Laki's wood make, decorated and impeded with stellanium, gold and other rare metals and gems. Lucy had extra money left over when looking for all the silver keys that she went a little over board with decorating some things in the mansion. She had hired Reedus to decorate the door with the materials to create a river of stars.
The children stood in aw of the massive beautiful doors before Lucy interrupted their trance.
'This is a room that only I, Capricorn and Loke can unlock. I have had my friends Levy and Freed put enchantments on the door and around the room to prevent anyone from entering without permission from one of us three, and even if you try to enter an alarm will go off alerting everyone and will not turn off until I turn it off. Who ever the perpetrator is will be removed from my school immediately. Do you understand,' Lucy said staring at all the kids with them all shaking their heads understanding. 'Ok, You may enter.' Lucy pushed the giant doors open revealing a large room with rows and rows of Celestial Gate keys. 'My spirits and I spent days organising this room what ever you do, do not mess it up! For now I'm restricting you to companion spirits. If you want to know where any certain keys are ask me or consult the table. Other whys they're organised by how much magic power is required to summon them in alphabetical order.'
'Why are we restricted to only companion spirits?' Allis asked.
'Yeah? I want the one that can teleport me places.' Albert said.
'the reason you're restricted to companion spirits is because they don't require a lot of magic power to summon them, and with the amount of magic you all have you could only maintain a spirit like the Canis Minor for up to ten minutes.'
After spending an hour in the key room all the kids have finally selected their first spirit. Six of them chose Canis Minor, five chose Leo Minor, four chose Ursa Minor, two chose Cetus, two chose Pavo and one chose Serpens.