The next morning, Alex sat up and let out a large yawn. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he looked around the weird infirmary in confusion. Then it all came back to him; the book, that teleportation spell, and meeting the Fairy Tail wizards.

Grinning, he got off the bed and grabbed his red sweatshirt, not bothering with the zipper since it was broken at the bottom whenever he zipped it up. Snagging the book off the table next to him, he walked out to the main Guild Hall.

Walking out, he saw a couple members of the magic guild walking around. He'd met a couple of the Wizards the day before, but only recognized a couple of the ones there. Deciding to get breakfast first, he walked over to the bar and sat down next to a brunette woman around his age. In her hands was a barrel of beer that she was drinking directly out of.

"Hey Alex. How are you?" asked the woman behind the counter.

He smiled back politely. "I'm great, thanks Mira." The boy set his book down. "Do you think I could get some breakfast?" he asked.

She giggled at how awkward he was. "Sure, wait right here."

While she went to the kitchen to get some food for him, the drinking woman looked at him. "So, you're the magic-bomb kid, huh?" Alex's nervous chuckle answered her. "Well, if Master Makarov wants you here, who am I to argue?" She held out a hand. "The name's Cana Alberona. And you?"

He returned the handshake. "I'm Alex Darmetko. It's nice to meet you."

Smirking, Cana reached over the counter and grabbed a couple of mugs and poured some of her beer into them. She then proceeded to hand him one of them. Being polite and unsure of Fiore's drinking age, he accepted the offered mug. The wizard raised her mug to him and he followed suit. "Welcome to Fairy Tail, kid." With that, she downed her mug in a single go.

Still polite, Alex hesitantly brought the mug to his lips. Taking a sip, he found the taste a little strong, but still good. After taking a larger sip, he set it down as Mira brought him breakfast. "That was good," he said. "I'm not sure I'll always drink, but still. It's good."

The silver haired woman shook her head. "Really Cana? Already trying to get the new guy to be your drinking buddy?"

"Hey, I was just being polite Mira," replied the young woman.

Shaking his head in amusement, Alex looked at the stack of pancakes he was given. Pouring on some syrup, he dug in to the delicious food. Swallowing his first bite, he smiled at the bartender. "This is great, thanks Mira."

"You're welcome!" beamed the wizard. She looked behind him and smiled even more. "Oh, hey Lucy."

Turning around, he saw the blonde wizard walking over whiling yawning. "Morning Mira." Sitting down, she looked at Alex as he washed down his food with a sip of his drink.

"Hey Lucy," he said. "Sleep well?"

"I guess. I woke up to find Natsu and Happy raiding my fridge this morning," grumbled the blonde girl. "I can't believe they keep doing that," she muttered.

Alex could only pat the girl on the back in comfort. "I'm sure if you try hard enough, you can get them to stop."

Sighing, she looked at him while Mira gave her a plate of eggs. "What about you? How was your first night here?" she asked.

"It was alright," he said. "Kinda forgot where I was at first, but then I remembered. And as I waited for breakfast, I wound up sharing a drink with Cana."

"Wow, she must like you then," said a bushy haired guy that appeared next to him. He was wearing a black suit with a pair of sunglasses covering his eyes. "Cana never shared her beer when I was here."

Alex yelped and fell back against Lucy when the man appeared. "Who the hell are you, and where did you come from?"

Lucy laughed a bit. Man she has a nice laugh. "This is Leo, one of my Celestial Spirits, but everybody knows him as Loke from when he was exiled here in the human world. He's the only one who really enters the human world whenever he feels like it."

With a serious look, the man pulled Alex away from his spot against the blonde. "I'm going to have to inform you that you were a little bit too close to Lady Lucy." He pulled the embarrassed blonde into his chest. "Only I, her humble guardian and the victim of her beauty, may be so close to her perfection."

Whining, she pushed the Spirit away. "Loke! What did I tell you about doing that? More importantly, why are you here?!"

He took her hand and held it close to his heart. "Forgive me, my Princess. Your beauty was so blinding, I forgot my purpose here." He turned back towards the eating boy as he reached into his suit jacket. He pulled out a clenched hand and held it out facing down, waiting for Alex to hold out his hand.

The red-clad boy took the hint and held out his cupped hands after putting down his utensils. With the boy's hands open, Loke unclenched his fist and dropped its contents. Three metal objects clinked into his hands, confusing him greatly.

Pulling back his hands, Lucy gasped when they saw three silver keys in his hands. The first was ocean themed and had a sea serpent's head for a tip. The pearl setting at the end had a blue sea serpent silhouette. The second was wolf themed and ended with the head of that very creature; its pearl had a howling wolf shadow. The final had flames and bird wings on the handle, with it ending with a bird's head. The stone's pattern was a flying bird.

As he and Lucy looked at the keys, Loke put his hands in his pockets as he stood there. "Three of my friends in the Celestial Spirit World wanted me to give you their keys. Their names are Hydra, Lupus, and Phoenix."

"Huh? What do you mean "their keys"?" asked the boy.

Lucy's eyes brightened at being able to teach the new guy. "Well you see, the Celestial Spirits are magical beings who represent the constellations." She pointed towards Leo as he talked with Mira and Cana. "Leo is one of the Zodiac Keys, and their leader at that. He's the strongest of them all, and they're all really strong. The only one I have as strong as him is Aquarius, but I can barely summon her." She held up his three keys. "Silver keys like these are pretty common, but you have three of the strongest silver keys."

He looked at them in wonder while Lucy inhaled her eggs. "So, what do I do with them?"

Pushing her empty plate towards Mira, the young blonde stood up and grabbed his free hand with her right, and the book with her left. "We're going to summon them and you'll form your first Spirit Contracts." As he began protesting, the blonde dragged him through the empty back courtyard and to the sandy beach.

Arriving, she let go of him and allowed him to rub his wrist. "Damn girl, you've got one hell of a grip," he muttered. He then held up Hydra's key. "So now what?"

"Well, if I remember what Aquarius told me, Hydra is like her and needs to be summoned in water." The blonde then pointed to the ocean. "So put the end of the key into the water and say: "Open- Gate of the Water Serpent: Hydra"."

Sighing, he went over to the edge and placed it in the shallow water. Taking a breath, he did as the Celestial Mage said. "Open- Gate of the Water Serpent: Hydra!" As he shouted the Spirit's name, he twisted the silver key as though it was in a lock. After doing so, the water swirled as a blue light formed in the vortex.

When the light dimmed, a guy was standing in the water. His long hair was dark blue and went down his back. His bare chest was covered by a dark blue vest with light blue trim. There was a golden belt around his waist, and that was the end of his human features. Below his waist was a long, dark blue sea serpent tail that had three fins along its length with a fish fin at the end. His hands each had webbing in between them and the fingers ended with claws. In place of ears, he had fin-like objects that resembled ears.

He looked at the boy holding his key and groaned as he stretched. "Finally," he muttered. "I had to put off my date until that playboy lion did like I asked, and he couldn't have done it any faster."

Lucy sweatdropped at his comment and tone. "Yup," she muttered, "this is definitely Aquarius's little brother."

The Spirit's ears twitched at her comment and he looked at her. "Hey, I recognize you," he said. "You're Aquarius-nee's forever alone master."

Lucy felt as though an arrow was shot through her at the Spirit's remark. "Yeah, I have Aquarius's key."

"Umm... Not to be rude, but can we get back to why I summoned you?" The Spirit glared at him and sent shivers down the teen's spine. "N-Not that we have to, Mr. Hydra sir!"

As he panicked, the Fish-boy grinned. "Relax, kid. I'm not as temperamental as my Onee-chan. I have some control and actually feel there's hope for you to not turn out like Blondie. Just remember, I've got rules on being summoned." He started counting his rules on his fingers. "Only summon me in bodies of water, I have the first week of every month off, and if I have lover-boy tell you I've got a date, give me three days afterwards before calling me."

Alex sweatdropped and Lucy sighed at how similar he was to her first Celestial Spirit. "Uh, sure," said the red sweatshirt boy. "I accept your contract." As he said that, he felt a comforting warmth from the key in his hand. "Well, so lo-"

"GIANT FISH!" shouted a young voice. The two saw a small blue blur go flying past them and into the oceanic spirit.

Hydra screamed as he started swinging his tail around. The two then realized what caused the Celestial Spirit to freak out: Happy was biting his tail in an attempt to eat him. As the little cat bit down on the sea serpent's tail, the Spirit screamed and thrashed his tail around to create big waves near him.

"Happy, let go of him!" shrieked Lucy. "He's not a fish for you to eat!"

Alex grabbed a hold of the little blue cat and tried to pull him away from the male Spirit. "You stupid cat! Don't eat my Celestial Spirit!" Unfortunately, the boy couldn't keep his grip and was sent flying while the cat held onto the merman. With a final yell, the Spirit created a final swirl of water to remove the little cat and vanished into the Celestial Spirit World.

Groaning, the boy sat up and saw his Spirit had left. Shaking his head, he saw Happy next to him in a worse state of daze. Growling, he whacked the little feline over the head. "Baka," he muttered. Looking around, he spotted Lucy and blushed immediately. She had gotten the brunt of Hydra's waves, so her primarily white top was soaked through and her pink bra was clearly visible through the wet material.

Lucy was confused at the boy's reaction, until she looked down and saw the state of her shirt. Screaming, she wrapped her arms around her ample chest in an attempt to make herself decent. Acting on instinct, Alex shrugged out of his sweatshirt and ran over to the soaking wet girl. Taking the garment, he placed it over her shoulders to help cover her. Now he had his black shirt on display.

"Here Lucy, maybe this will help." He pulled on the zipper and sighed when the very end came undone after he helped her into it. Standing up straight, he extended a hand to help her up. "Maybe we should summon my fire Spirit next."

"Happy, speak to me!" shouted Natsu as he ran to the small cat. "Are you okay?"

"Aye..." mumbled the little fur ball.

Natsu sighed in relief before turning on the two Celestial Wizards. "Hey!" he shouted while spitting fire. "What did you two do to Happy?!"

"What did we do?" shouted Alex, a bit of fire forming in his hands, unnoticed to them all. "That damn cat of yours attacked my Celestial Spirit and tried eating him! Besides, the Spirit is the one who did it!"

"Yeah right," said the furious Dragon Slayer. "Happy would never do something like that!" He raised his fist. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Swinging, he tried hitting Alex with the burning limb.

Dodging down, Alex swung his fist at Natsu. "Fire Fist!" A fist of blue flame struck the attacker in the chest and shocked all of them into stopping. "Did I...just use fire magic?" asked the confused youth.

Lucy just shrugged as she held his sweatshirt closer to her body. "Considering what we witnessed when you got here, you're probably capable of all kinds of different magic."

"She's right," said a girl's voice. "I can feel all sorts of magical potential in you." The trio of wizards looked at the new arrival and took in her appearance. The girl's hair was cut short, so it ended around her chin, and was fire red with orange and gold highlights to look like fire. Her shirt was red with an orange fire burst on the front and had small orange jewels on the ends of the sleeves and hem. Her shorts were rather plain, being made of a dark red material and ending at her knees. Her shoes were simple black boots. What really gave away her basic identity was the pair of large red bird wings with orange feathers folded up on her back.

"Let me guess," said Alex. "You're my second Celestial Spirit, Phoenix."

The girl clapped before pointing at him. "You got it, Boss." She did a theatrical bow. "I am indeed the Celestial Spirit of the Fire Bird; the red hot Phoenix!"

Alex couldn't help but crack a smirk at the girl's theatrics. "You know Phoenix, something tells me that we're going to be the best of friends."

She laughed. "Sorry Boss, but don't get any bad ideas. I'm Hydra's girl."

Alex's eyes widened at her statement. "Wait. So a fire bird spirit is dating a sea serpent? How does that even work?"

She laughed. "That's for us to know, and you not to, Boss." She then raised one finger in the air. "What you need to know is my terms. Don't summon me in the rain, and I have the same days off as Hydra."

Alex made a mental note about her terms and nodded. "Alright Phoenix, I accept the terms of your contract."

Smiling, she went wide eyed when she remembered something. "Oh yeah, Lupus wanted you to know he has no restrictions. He wanted to save you the trouble of summoning him for that."

"Why?" asked Lucy. "I thought he would want to meet his Key's new owner."

Phoenix waved a hand. "Naw, Lupus doesn't really want to. Besides, he's busy with the other Spirits right now. He said something about getting payback on Gemini over a prank or something."

"Well, I'll be sure to look into summoning him," said the rookie wizard. "Thanks Phoenix."

"Sure thing Boss!" With a final wave, the winged Spirit vanished in a flash of golden lights.

With her gone, Natsu's eyes lit up. "Hey, if you've got Celestial Spirits, that means you have some magic to use."

"Yeah, why does that matter?" asked the boy.

Lucy gasped when she realized what the Dragon Slayer was getting at. "You can officially join Fairy Tail!" exclaimed the blonde.

"Exactly!" shouted Natsu. Not waiting for Alex to respond, the pink haired teen dragged him into the Guild Hall again and over to where Mira and Master Makarov were talking. "Hey Gramps, can Alex join Fairy Tail?"

The short man looked at the three of them. "That depends Natsu. Is he able to use his magic yet?"

Alex stepped forward. "I am, Master Makarov. Loke gave me several Gate Keys, so I now have contracts with three Celestial Spirits. I may have a long way to go with my other Magic types, but I can at least get a start."

The old man nodded before smiling. "Very well then. If that is the case, I see no reason for you to not join Fairy Tail."

Mira smiled as Alex and the Guild Master shook hands. Taking the Guild Stamp out of her bag, she walked over to him. "Well Alex, where would you like your Guild Mark?"

Thinking real quick about it, he held out his right forearm. "I'd like my Guild Mark here, so I can raise my arm and show that I am a Fairy Tail Wizard." Smiling, Mira stamped his arm and he felt a light heat as the Mark was stamped on. When she pulled it away, he had a dark purple fairy on his arm.

Natsu and Happy cheered as the Dragon Slayer patted him on the back and Lucy hugged him real quick. "Welcome to Fairy Tail, Alex." His smirk widened. "Now let's get to work!"