AN Thanks for all the reviews and everyone reading! It is getting into some of the training and I hope everyone will like the spells I want Lucy to have. I am trying to tie it all to her celestial origins. There will be a Natsu POV in the next chapter! Any ideas/comments would be greatly appreciated as well as criticism.

It was brought to my attention that the betrayal part of the story might be confusing to some. My story will eventually lead to a betrayal from the guild. I wanted to make sure I put the betrayal in the summary incase others are tired of or didn't want to read another betrayed story. It hasn't come up yet because I want to build the relationship between Natsu and Lucy as well as go through the training so you can see what her new spells are and such. I hope that clears things up.

I do not own Fairy Tail.


Chapter Four

Lucy's POV

-Back at the mayor's house around the afternoon time-

"Wow you two are quick! I wasn't expecting you back for a couple days. Now we can begin training." The mayor says gleefully, clapping his hands together in excitement.

"Welcome back dears. I hope the mission wasn't too hard. I am baking some cookies. They will be done in a little bit. Glad to see you made it back safely," Carina says. 'Here come sit and tell us about the mission. Natsu your books were moved to the floor closer to the couch."

"Thank you Carina, and the mission wasn't too bad. We had fun on it. We got lucky that the guild was already on their way here so it saved us a lot of time. Having Natsu excited to begin training made it fast to defeat them." I say with a smile towards Natsu. He smiles back, but goes back to reading one of his books he picked up when Carina pointed to where they were, both of us missing a gleam in Carina's eyes. "Thank you for your concern," I tell her. She kind of reminds me of Mira with her concern and loving personality. At the same time this thought made me shudder a little bit.

"Anytime Lucy, I must get back to my baking though. Have a good session dear," she says as she leaves.

"Now Lucy, first I need to see where you are at in your summoning. I need to know what keys you have," the mayor says redirecting my attention to why we are here.

"I have ten of the zodiac which are: Aquarius, Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Sagittarius, Leo, Gemini, Aries, Scorpio, and Capricorn. I have five silver as well, Crux, Horologium, Lyra, Nikora, and Pyxis," I say lovingly as I gently rub my fingers across my keys. They radiate warmth at my touch showing they have the same feelings.

Looking back up I can see the mayor gaping slightly. "I knew you had a good collection of keys, but you have a lot more than I thought. You are a very rare person indeed. Now I have a request. I would like you to call out Capricorn. I want to talk to him about your training. I am sure he would like to be back here too; he was here many years ago."

Nodding silently, I grab Capricorn's key. "Open the gate of the Goat! Capricorn!" I chant while feeling my magic pulse and pull as Capricorn comes through his gate.

"Good afternoon Lucy-sama," he greets like usual and bowing.

"Hello Capricorn. This is the mayor Orion, and we are at Esther City. Do you remember being here?"

A fond smile graces his lips as he dips his head in acknowledgment. "Very much so Lucy-sama, though that was many decades ago. I am glad it is still doing well here."

"E-excuse me. Capricorn?" The mayor asks, obvious excitement in his voice. He slowly rises to his feet, bowing deeply to Capricorn. "It is an extreme pleasure to meet you. After all this town and its history is here because of you and the rest of your world. I am an archive mage, so I know almost everything about the history of this city. I am glad I got to meet you, there are many stories written about you and your kin."

Looking at Capricorn you can a surprised look on his face, not used to people acting this way with him. Comprehension shows on his face. "It is a pleasure to meet you as well. I am assuming that being here at this city with Lucy-sama, as well as you knowing the history, you are going to train Lucy-sama to learn the celestial spells?" He asks knowingly.

"Yes! I have been looking for the perfect celestial mage to pass on these secrets to and I believe that Lucy here is the best person to teach them to," the mayor states with confidence.

The moment is interrupted with a loud growl. Looking over to find the source of the noise we see Natsu holding his stomach with a sheepish grin. Next there is a poof of gold as Virgo stands there with a tray of food for Natsu

"I have been keeping track of your eating times Princess, as well as the slayers. I hope it was okay I brought an early lunch for the slayer and I will bring more when you are done with your conversation for everyone. If it was not okay, I must take punishment accordingly." Virgo says emotionless, but her eyes give her away. Capricorn and I sweat drop at her while the mayor looks a little horrified. Natsu, who was busy stuffing his face, rolled his eyes at her. Smiling lovingly at her "No Virgo, but thank you for bringing the food. Natsu wouldn't be able to concentrate while being hungry. I greatly appreciate it."

"It is an honor Princess. Call me if you need anything or want to give me punishment." With that she vanishes just as quietly as she came. Looking at the mayor I can see he is trying to figure her out.

"Does she always act like that? You don't punish her do you?" He asks a little scared of my answer.

"No! I have never punished her and I refuse to. I don't know why she wants to be punished." I nearly shout.

"If they are your spirits, can't you just order her to stop and she has to listen to you?"

I gape at him horrifyingly. Anger quickly replaces shock at his question. "Yes I could do that Mayor Orion," I say bitingly. "I refuse to take away her free will. That is her personality, they all have their own and I refuse to try to make them change. They are my friends, not things I can control. If that is how they are, I accept them no matter what. I will never wish for my friends to change who they are or do something they don't want." I say heatedly, my chest rising and falling rapidly with anger. I can feel a gently touch on the back of my hand and start to calm down. I look to see Natsu looking at me with worry, but a small smile on his lips.

Looking back at the mayor I can see him grinning widely as well as Capricorn having a soft smile. Confused I just stand there, trying to figure out why they look so happy.

"I knew it! I knew you were the perfect person for this training! Sorry Lucy, but I know that a lot of the time, celestial spirits are mistreated, and I was just testing you to see how you would react to my cruel question. Now, I can see you have had Capricorn out for quite a while and I am impressed, but these spells require a lot of work." Turning to Capricorn the mayor talks to him "I asked Lucy to call you out for a couple of reasons. First I wanted you to know what is going on here. I also wanted to meet you," he adds a little sheepishly. "Lastly, I would like your help. You know Lucy's magic ability the best and you know what spells I am wanting to teach her. I would like your help with her training. I think she would be able to relax and grasp her training more with your support."

Tilting his head in acknowledgment, "of course I will help with Lucy-sama's training. She will need to meditate to expand her magic containers as well as train physically. Leo and I can help with her hand to hand combat, and I will ask Virgo to make healthy meal plans to give her the nutrients she needs."

"I want to help Luce too! We are in this together!" Natsu says smiling while patting his belly and belching from the food he consumed.

"I will take my leave now Lucy-sama and I will inform Virgo of your meal changes for tomorrow." As Capricorn leaves I hear the Orion calling Carina back into the room since he remembered that Virgo was bringing lunch. Virgo appears minutes later with more food than before.

"I have brought a few things for you to eat Princess. I was unsure as to what the mayor and his wife liked, but I knew that the slayer would eat what is left. I also brought you this," she pulls a glass from seemingly nowhere and hands it to me. Taking a sip, I close my eyes, moaning at the taste of the smoothie and give Virgo a bright smile, completely oblivious of Natsu looking uncomfortable. Although Carina greatly enjoyed watching the interaction. "Oh my gosh Virgo! This is delicious!"

"I was informed of your diet change, but I thought you would like to have one last smoothie before your training." Getting a little teary eyed at her for always thinking of me I give her a big hug.

"Thank you Virgo, for everything." She gently squeezes me back before excusing herself to leave.

"You know I'm surprised Loke hasn't come out yet. He would have been whining that you didn't give him a hug," Natsu snickers while eating more food. I go to refute that statement, but can't come up with anything. Looking at Natsu I can see that he knows he won.

"Who is Loke?" The mayor asks while Carina hands him his plate of food, a look of interest on her face too.

Before I can answer the man in question is coming through his gate, "I have arrived Princess, shall we go on a date tonight so I can admire your beauty and perhaps convince you to love me?" Loke asks while kneeling and kissing the back of my hand. I hear a low growl but ignore it as I pull my hand away.

"Uh…no. Loke this isn't the time. There is someone I want you to meet though." Turning towards the mayor I can see he is confused. "Orion, this is Loke. Or as you might know him, Leo the Lion. Loke this is the mayor of Esther City, Orion and his lovely wife Carina."

Loke freezes at the mention of Esther City. Looking at him I can see he has a blank face. "Um Loke? Is everything okay?" I ask hesitantly.

Just as quickly the look is gone and I am being swept off my feet. "Of course everything is okay Princess! Being here means you are going to train. Now how about we meet at eight tonight to go to dinner to talk about your training?" I sweat drop at his one track mind.

"Put her down Loke." A low commanding voice says. Turning towards Natsu Loke raises an eyebrow at his glare. "We don't have time for you to be distracting Lucy. She needs to train." There is a silent conversation going on between Natsu and Loke. Loke finally sets me down. "Of course I do not want Princess to be distracted. I will be here to help you train. I am going to talk to Capricorn now so I can see what he would like from me. Goodbye Princess."

Turning towards the older couple I begin to apologize. "I am sorry about that. My friends come out on their own all the time."

Orion chuckles, "it is okay Lucy. Please sit and eat so we can talk begin training a bit after. I do have a question though, why do you call Leo 'Loke'?

So while we eat I begin to tell the couple the story of what happened to Loke and how I received his key. He stared wide eye at me in awe the whole time through the tale. While Carina sniffles a little at the cruel way that the spirits were treated.

"See I told you that you were strong Luce." Natsu says and he gently pats my back.


"Okay now, I would like to see how many of your spirits you can call out and hold them for. We can do that in the back yard here and afterwards I will show you to the house you will be staying at. From tomorrow on we will train there because it has a big open field for you to train in." The mayor says as he stands to lead us to his back yard.

"I will be out in a little bit once I finish the cookies. They should be done now and I need to decorate them. Have fun training Lucy!" Carina leaves and we go to follow the mayor.

As Natsu and I are following I tug slightly on Natsu's shirt to get his attention. "How is the reading coming along?" I ask quietly.

"Well… there is a few things I don't understand. I was going to ask you later when we are alone to help me with it." He replies looking a little downcast.

Grabbing his hand, I gently squeeze. "There is nothing wrong with that Natsu. There are still words I don't know and have to write them down to look them up later. I planned on reading all of the books the mayor picked out for you so I can help you later anyways. Just mark the page on something you don't understand and I will help you with it."

Squeezing my hand back he gives me a grin that lights up his face, "thanks Luce! You're the best!"

Walking out to the backyard we see the mayor waiting patiently for us, a knowing look on his face. The backyard is a good size. Flowers all around the edges with a big opening in the middle. There is a bench that Natsu goes and sits on while reading more of his book. The mayor points to the middle of the yard for me to stand in to give me space while he stands close to Natsu. I see them exchange a few words before the mayor turns to me.

"Okay Lucy I want you to start with your silver keys. This will help me determine what spell to teach you first based on your magic power." I nod in understand and grab on my keys.

"Open the gate of the Canis Minor! Nikora!" Plue comes through his gate dancing "Puu-puun"

"Hey there little buddy. I am assuming everyone knows what is going on?" He nods his head and starts to dance around. This is why I called him first. He can help keep me calm while I try to call out my spirits. I grab another key, "Open the gate of the Southern Cross! Crux!"

"Hello Lucy-sama. We are all aware of what is going on, and I will offer my services anyway I can," the old spirit says.

"Thank you Crux." I call out Lyra next and I can feel my magic draining. I call out Horologium after. Small beads of sweat make its way on my face. Lastly I call out my last silver key Pyxis. My breathing becomes a little labored by the strain of keeping the gates open. Luckily they are just watching me and not using any magic. If they were to use magic I wouldn't be able to keep their gates open. Taking a deep breath, I grab Virgo's key to summon her. I can do this.

"Open the gate of the Maiden! Virgo!" Since Virgo is a golden key the pull on my magic is stronger. I know I can't keep the gates open much longer. I hunch over with my hands on my knees. I notice Virgo does not greet me in her usual way, but I can see the concern in her eyes. She must know that I need to concentrate seriously. My breathing is still labored. This is all I can do? I really am weak, but I can't give up. I can call out one more. I straighten up and reach for another key but I falter. My hearing is dulled and my sight gets blurry. I can hear shouts but they sound so far away. I struggle to remain standing. My heart clenches at the panicked voice I hear. I can see someone running towards me, a frantic look on their face, shouting things I can't understand. Blackness creeps in the edges of my vision before fully taking over and the sensation of falling is the last thing I feel.


End of chapter four. I hope you enjoyed it!