AN; Thank you all for taking time out of your days and gracing my story with your eyes, reviews and love! Really, y'all have no idea how happy I am every time I see a new review. And it helps with the inspiration too! Ah I'm so happy I could cry, oh look I am.
coolman - Thank you man! You made my day.
OZ x OZ - Yep I'm aware that Minny is apart of Tartartos but I'm pushing everything canon in FT after the GMGs back a year so she'll still end up being part of Tartaros. And don't worry I've got a few solutions that will keep Kizaru his normal OP self but give everyone in Fairy Tail a fighting chance. Maybe. Kinda. Hopefully. And thanks for taking the time to read!
Winky Keaton - First thank you for the suggestions, they will definitely and seriously be taken into consideration and even if they don't become keys they'll fer sure be in the story. Also thank you for the match up fights those will be incredibly useful, and Laxus vs Kizaru will happen. And yes I've seen Akainu with his beard, I think it looks good on him, makes him look younger. Secondly thank you for the fighting techniques of the Admirals! That's going to save me a whole lot of time and trouble. That was very nice of you!
MrDarth151 - You and me both! I freaking love the Admirals, and Kizaru's my favorite, hell he's my favorite character in on piece period. He's such a troll! And I'm so happy that you think he's well written! I would hate to shout about how much I love him and then totally screw up his character. Hopefully I can keep it up. Really your comment makes me so happy! Thank you!
deathshade37 - Thank you!
GoodGuy - lol I'm flattered that you think so. Ahh Man I can't get enough of crack, but I hadn't really plan on having any romance in this story as I find I'm not a very good romance writer. LOVE reading it but writing, I'm like an awkward turtle. However there will be some pretty fluffy moments that I guess if you squint can see some romance in. But for this story Kizaru and Lucy will be just friends! Sorry!
Lightningblade49 - I was a little worried that I made it to short and originally I had this whole struggle planned out but then I thought 'Whoa this is an Admiral, Minerva would never be able to keep up with him.'
Cyricist001 - Gosh your name caused me so many issues trying to write it, lol! Thank yoooooouu! I'm glad you think so XD!
milleniumclone45 - Thank you! It makes me immensely happy that your expectations were fulfilled and even happier that you got chuckles from him. Yeah I never realized how tricky dialogue is, especially when you're trying to keep characters in character. Can't tell you how long it takes me to read over scenes with talking in it and debate over whether or not a character would say something like that. That's probably my bad that I didn't make that clearer. Yes it was just him, Minny and Mato around to hear that. And don't worry there will be issues with Kizaru wanting to kill people down the line, as Fairy Tail seems to be against killing most of the time.
MsWildLuck - Thank you!
RisingNight - Oh Lord Jesus! You have just given me a wonderful idea! Oh my God I had this one scene planned out but that suggestion... Oh God you! You're a wonderful person! The only downside is that it be won't for a while so I hope you can bear with me! But that! It will definitely happen!
Daxen123 - Ah it's no biggie! OK good, I would've hated that you read this and then have something spoiled or for you to be totally lost. But if your at Fishman Island then you should be good. I love Kizaru I can not lie. I'm hoping that he'll get more screen time, he's such an enjoyable character to watch. And I hope I can do his character justice with this story.
xlunatica - Yes I think I went out on limb there but I always felt Kizaru would be a pervert to some extent. I think it's his face. Ah I see what you mean I'll go back and try to make it clearer that he's simply taller than the folks in FT. And for the Logia bit that was totally my bad, I completely forgot that it only affects the user and no one else. I'll go back and fix that too. For the name part Kizaru has always come off as a little... unorthodox when it comes to his professionalism, for instance when he takes out the mangrove tree by accident or when he doesn't seem to care Luffy and Jinbei get away after Marineford. So I figured he'd be the kind of guy that would hate to go by titles or at the very least not enjoy being called a 'Yellow Monkey' by someone who's not his underling. Perhaps though I took too much liberty in his character and if you think so I'll go back and try fix it. I'm so happy that you liked his door. I was very proud of myself when I came up with the part. And I'm so glad your still reading the story despite my blundering!
TheBlackSeaReaper - Oh thank God. I was really afraid that Kizaru would be OOC, and I kinda feel like I'm taking a lot of liberties with his character. But I'm very happy that you think he was in character.
icefox94 - Don't you just love it when that happens? I think most people are more for the pirates. It would most certainly be interesting wouldn't it. Oh having three admirals, I don't think Lucy could survive it. I almost feel bad for Akainu I don't think he realized that worse thing he would have to face was not Whitebeard but a horde of angry Ace fan girls when he killed Ace. No one could fight that. And as for the Ace bit you'll just have to wait and see, I wouldn't want to spoil the fun for you.
On Soaring Wings - I'm so happy that you think so!
Xjustified - Yay free stuff!
Disclaimer: Any and all recognizable characters/reference/dialogue/items/music/etc. and other crap... probably ain't mine.
That Awkward Moment
"That awkward moment when you get in the van and there's no candy." - Someone on the Interweb
Lucy sat in a stiff wooden chair in the Master's office twiddling her thumbs as she waited for Makarov to finish his study of the key. Off to the side, Loke leaned against the wall of Makarov's office an unreadable expression on his face with his arms crossed. On the bookshelf next to him was the 'young' Master Mavis, swinging her feet and rocking side to side a small and mischievous smile on her face as she gazed back and forth between the key and Lucy.
It had been three days since the end of the Grand Magic Games, with Fairy Tail coming out on top, closely followed by Saber Tooth and Blue Pegasus. For the entire period of the Games Lucy had been bed ridden, partly because Polyussica wanted to be completely sure that her injuries had healed and also because Lucy was afraid that if was cleared OK she would have to fight again. And at the time that had been something she desperately wanted to avoid until she had more answers concerning the... problem.
For the entire time the guild was Cocrus, Lucy had avoided any mention of The Problem like it was the plague. Even when Natsu had desperately pleaded for Lucy too summon The Problem to fight, she steadfastly would change the subject to how well kept the marbles of the coloseum were until Natsu either gave up or something else distracted him. The rest of her friends though at first curious about the powerful new Problem, seemed to catch the drift that Lucy didn't want to think about It at the time and so mercifully didn't question her about it. Though Lucy did notice the furtive glances they would send to her keys from time to time.
Really she couldn't blame them, she was sure if one of them pulled some all powerful spell out from their butts then she would be curious too. However no matter how hard she tried Lucy simply did not want to think about The Problem. When she had been in bed that first night, Wendy sleeping on the bed next to her, and left with her own thoughts, a horrible realization had set in. That... person, not spirit but a person, had demonstrated power that could easily go toe to toe with Erza or Natsu. Maybe even Laxus. But there was no way... Erza was right in saying that spirits were limited by their wizard's strength, and Lucy was no where near that level.
And The Problem said he didn't even use magic! That it was his "devil fruit." What the hell was that anyway? Was it common where he came from?
Where did he come from? He said he hadn't even heard of the Celestial World, so did that mean he was from her world? But then he said he had never even heard of magic being used in real life, so did that mean... that he wasn't from her world? But if he didn't come from the Celestial World or the human world then where the heck did he come from? Edolas, maybe? Or was he a demon and just lying about being a human so he could eat her soul? Or was he telling the truth and honestly was as clueless as her? Were all of his kind so powerful? Or was he just an exception? How did he become connected to a key? Why didn't come to her summons until she was fighting Minerva? What was he like? Was he kind, smart, funny, and helpful? Or was he cruel, sadistic, evil, and mean? What was his favorite food? His favorite color? His hobbies?
Ohhh this was exactly the reason why she tried so hard not to think about The Problem. A whole lot of questions and not an answer in sight. So she decided to wait. Wait until the GMGs were done and over with, and they had returned home. The very fist thing she did, even before going home to unpack, was to head straight to the magic store that she had bought the key from. Only to find that, low and behold the crazy old coot had up and left town, conveniently while Lucy was away. To say Lucy had been mad would have been an understatement, the blonde had been furious, and crazy frustrated. Up to the point were she began to cry and the poor new store clerk had been forced to deal with a nineteen year old having an emotional break down.
Lucy was willing to admit that it was not her greatest moment ever.
After that Lucy had refused to leave her apartment for two days straight, not willing to see anyone, even her spirits. Natsu had ended up being forced to come and collect her and bring her to Makarov. Thus leading to their current situation. Both Mavis and Makarov felt that it would be wisest to have one her to answer any questions they might have.
"I can't explain it." Loke started. The other three looked at him in question, waiting for him elaborate further.
"If it weren't for the fact that I've never seen this key before and what you just told me I would think it's a normal key. There's nothing wrong with it."
"Hmm how strange. I'm not sure what to say though, I've had little to no experience with celestial magic, but what I do know is that whatever spirit or whatever that key summons it could be potentially very dangerous so we have to be very careful with how we go from here." Makarov quipped placing key on his desk and pushing it towards Lucy.
"Loke are you sure. His door was so... strange. There has to be something that you can tell us?" Lucy questioned hopefully.
"I'm sorry Princess but there's nothing I can do. I can honestly say that there's nothing strange about it... but well maybe..."
"Yes?"
"It's faint, barely even noticeable and I could just be imagining things, but the air around it... it feels different."
"Different? What do you mean?" Makarov titled his head.
"It's like how the air in the spirit world seems to be clearer for me than here in the human world but the air around that key it's not that totally different from this world's... It just... tastes saltier I guess. There's no other way for me to describe it."
"Well either way that doesn't seem to terribly helpful. If anything it leaves us with even more questions." Makarov sighed.
He glanced up though, to look at the first Master who had been strangely quiet up to that point.
"What do you think first Master?" Loke and Lucy looked up helplessly at the girl, giving her their best puppy dog eyes.
"I think the only way you're going to figure anything out is by asking that new friend of yours, Lucy." Mavis giggled behind her hand. This prompted Lucy to gaze down at the surprise, surprise, glinting key. Did it ever not glint?
"Lucy you don't have to if you don't want to.." Loke placed his warm hand on her small shoulder, flashing her a smile.
Shaking her head, her eyes glinted with determination and grip tightened on the key.
"No, I think Master Mavis is right. Besides I'll never get answers without him and I can kiss a descent night's rest goodbye with all those unanswered questions in my head. And anyway I don't think he has any reason to hurt us, at least he hasn't given any signs that he wants to." With those false bravado words, Lucy closed her eyes and focused her magic to bring her to Borsalino's door. The door seemed innocent enough but for some reason Lucy couldn't stop the redemption that she felt as she got 'closer' to it. Stopping a few feet away from the door, Lucy took a deep breathe.
"Borsalino? Um it's me Lucy. I was wondering if we could have that talk now? If your free that is." Not more than a few seconds later did Borsalino's voice echo through her head.
"Oh! Lucy-chan! It's certainly been a while, I was beginning to think that you weren't gonna caaaaall. Just give me a second, 'kaaayy?"
"Okay."
Lucy waited patiently waited for a minute, before she heard Kizaru give the all clear to summon him. Using her magic she 'opened' the door that was his gate and watched it open to a crack before she brought herself back to the real world. Opening her eyes she watched as Kizaru appeared and how Makarov and Loke immediately tensed up, while Mavis 'oohed' in wonder. The tall man blinked slowly a couple of times and then glanced at Lucy who he grinned and waved at. Lucy felt a little relieved at the seemingly friendly gesture but was still on edge about how he would react to their questioning. She observed carefully as Kizaru took in his surroundings cautiously, before bringing his gaze to rest on the other three people in the room.
The first one Kizaru observed, was well dressed and had some the spikiest hair he had ever seen and dark shades that covered intense eyes which glared mistrustfully at him. If Kizaru didn't know any better he would've sworn that the man was a member of the Cipher Pol. Finished with his assessment of the CP member Kizaru moved on to the other man. The first thing Kizaru noticed about the old man was that he must have some form of leadership over the other three as he not only had a large desk filled to the brim with paper work (and Kizaru pitied any man with that much) but also seemed to ooze authority. But not in way that Sengoku did, more like a... fatherly sort of way. The second thing he noticed was that the man had one of the most incredible mustaches Borsalino had ever seen. The old man was also ridiculously short, and not just compared to Kizaru but even to Lucy. The poor guy really must have shrank with old age, because he couldn't imagine being that short his whole life. This man also seemed to be wary of Borslino if his furrowed eyebrows and heavy frown were anything to go by.
In fact the only person in the room who didn't seem tensed by his presence was the young looking girl who sat on the book shelf with long blonde hair and wing looking things coming out from head. How strange.
His assessment finished, Kizaru placed himself in the chair next to the amusing blonde that was Lucy and stretched out, his long legs crossing and placed his hands to rest on his lap. Settled he looked to the blonde on his right to start. It took her a second but jumped when she realized that she was supposed to go.
"Right so, um, Borsalino the man standing is one of my spirits; Leo the Lion, but we all call him Loke. The man sitting at the desk is the third and sixth Master of Fairy Tail; Makarov Dreyar. And last but not least, the one sitting on the bookshelf is the fist master and founder of Fairy Tail; Mavis Vermillion. Everyone this Kizaru, also know as Borsalino." Lucy introduced.
"Hello Borsalino! It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm sure you and Lucy will go on many fun adventures together!" Mavis greeted warmly.
Kizaru raised an eyebrow at how warmly the supposed first master had greeted him but none the less smiled and nodded his head at her. The blonde sensing from the other Fairy Tail members that she should take the lead on this started.
"So Borsalino, I figured that before we do anything that we should first figure out where you come from. To do that I think it would be easiest to ask you simple yes or no questions and then we'll go from there. Sound good?" Lucy questioned. Receiving a nod from the man she began her questioning.
"Ok first off, you have no magic in your world?"
"Not that IIIIII've seen."
"Do the names Fiore, Seven, Enca, Ministrel, Stella, Joya, Iceberg, Sin, Bosco, Caelum, Bellum, Midi, Desierto, or Pergrande mean anything to you?"
"Nope!"
"What about Earthland?"
"Nada!"
"Edolas?"
"Nuhuh."
"Have you heard of the Magic council or Ruin Knights?"
"Nooooooo."
"I see... Would you mind describing your world? Like land marks or famous people, you know common everyday knowledge."
"Hmmm, well there's the old world and new world. The East, West, North and South Blue. The Grand line and The Red Line. The world is run by the World Government, there are devil fruits and sea kings, Schibukai and Yonko, marines and pirates. Looooots and looooooots of pirates. Generally everyone knows that, at least from my world." Lucy nodded and looked over to Master Makarov, who looked more than a little concerned as he let that information sink in. Loke too had a heavy frown on his face when the blonde glanced over at him, and Master Mavis just looked at Kizaru in wonder.
"Loke?" Lucy intoned gently because surely if anyone knew where Kizaru is from then it would be an immortal celestial spirit.
"I-I don't know of any place that he just described. He's definitely not from the Celestial world or the human one but... I don't think he's a demon either."
"Oh-hoooo! You thought I was a demon? Is it because of my devilishly good looks Lucy-chaaaaan?" He chuckled leaning into her personal space.
"T-this is serious!"
"Oh yes my looks are seriously good looking!"
"Would you please stop?!"
"Ahhh Lucy-chan, I'm sorry, I can't help that I was born this good looking!"
"Oh God help me..."
"What do you need help with Lucy-chaaaaan?"
"Ah-hum!" Kizaru's chuckling and Lucy's spluttering was cut off when Master Makarov cleared his throat. Out of the corner of Kizaru's eye he could make out a giggling Mavis and a glowering Loke.
'Ohhh someones jeal-ouuuuuus~!'
"If your done... It would seem that we were right in our guess that he's from another world entirely." Makarov said gravely studying Kizaru to see his reaction to the news. He watched as the flirty man's face flickered through an array of emotions going from confused to realization, weariness to acceptance, and finally mischievous and amused.
It was then that Makarov had a sinking feeling that this man would some how, some way give him one of the largest headaches he would ever feel.
"Is that sooooo... Then what do we now?"
"I think that's something you and Lucy need talk about." Mavis chirped jumping down from her perch while Makarov stood up. Kizaru could feel a shock go through his system as he saw short the man was. Was everyone in this world ridiculously short? Kizaru felt a shudder go through his system at the thought of living his entire life that short. Maybe it was something in the water...
The two masters shuffled to the door and out the room, just before the door shut though, Makarov turned back to the remaining three.
"We'll give you some time alone to talk about things. We're going to be waiting outside if you need anything." With that the door gently closed leaving the remaining people to their own devices. Kizaru turned to look at the two until his gaze finally settled on Loke.
"So you're a spirit? You don't look that special..." At this Loke's eye twitched and Lucy quickly jumped in before an argument broke out.
"Yes. Loke is a spirit from the Celestial World. The place that I thought you were from. He's one of the twelve golden keys. Well thirteen if you count Ophiuchus."
"Golden... keys?"
"Yes, these are Celestial Gate Keys. I use them to summon spirits who help me with a variety of things." Lucy lifted her key chain up to Kizaru and handed it to him although she warily watched him flick through them, like a mother who watched their baby be held by a friend. The tall man briefly studied each one taking in the designs and color of each until came to one with a familiar symbol. He thumbed the head of the key and then looked up to Lucy.
"This is how you brought me to your world?" Lucy nodded her head.
"Yes though your key is... a little strange."
"How soooo?"
"Well when I bought it was just so regular old key, but then I touched it and changed into that."
"Really? Hmmm when did you buy the key?"
"Oh ummmm about three weeks ago."
"Really? Hmm, that's strange."
"Why?"
"Because three weeks ago I bought this." He lifted his right and extend his pinkie away from the rest. There wrapped tightly around his long digit was a thick gold band and carved all around it's length were stars. Lucy felt her eyes widened in surprise as she jerked her head back to a grinning Kizaru.
"Did this ring happen to change when you touched it?"
"Yep!"
"What... What exactly did the person that sold you the ring look like?"
"Weeelll she was some old crotchety woman who was reeeaaally determined to get me to buy the thing. Had her hair in bun, was all wrinkly, really short, narrow eyes, pretty sure they were green. Said that I was destined to buy it. I went back to find her when I couldn't get it off but the damn woman had skipped town. I thought it was just some hoax but I don't think that's the case anymoooooore." Lucy leaned back into her chair with a disbelieving huff. She glanced back to Loke looking just as lost and helpless as she felt.
"Loke, have you ever heard of something happening like this?" She questioned desperately tired of dealing with question after question with nothing to show in the way of answers.
"I'm sorry Princess but... this is unheard of. Keys are only connected to spirits not to other objects, I would think it's because objects can be lost and if the wrong person finds them and then has the ability to traverse through worlds and could cause some serious problems. But you said you couldn't get it off?"
"That's riiiight. Damn thing is stuck on there good." Kizaru tugged at the ring for emphasis.
"OH! I know! Maybe Crux can tell us something!" Lucy looked back to Kizaru and who handed her keys back. She carefully selected the one she was looking for and pulled it out.
"Open! Gate of the Southern Cross! Crux!" Borsalino open mouthed watched in fascination as stellar magic was preformed in front of him for the first time. The wizened man found it surprisingly beautiful as light and sparkles flooded the room to reveal a snoring cross. The cross, other than fact that he looked like a cross had the features of old human man. And he was floating in mid air. That was kinda weird too.
"Princess, how can I be of service?" Crux intoned.
"I was wondering if you could tell us anything you know about celestial keys being able to summon people from other worlds?"
"Very well, give me a second please."
...
"Ah Lucy-chan, I think he fell asleeeeep."
"Oh no, that's just Crux going through his archives. You see Crux is an informational spirit. He can tell you the answer to just about anything you wanna know."
"...It's kinda sad that you've hung around him so long that you know what his sleeping and information finding looks like. Kinda creepy toooooo!"
"Wha- No it's not!"
"Princess." Both man and woman snapped their head back to look at the floating cross eagerly waiting to see what the spirit had found.
"I'm sorry I wasn't able to find anything." Loke barely stopped the snicker in time as watched Borsalino and Lucy simultaneously sink in their seats.
"Maaaan, that's such a let dooooown." Kizaru pouted.
"Tell me about it."
Taking pity on the both of them, well at least on Lucy that other guy not so much, Loke turned to Crux.
"What about objects connected to celestial keys? Specifically rings." Just as quickly as they sank, the human pair perked right back up and gazed hopefully at the floating cross. A few minutes passed as they all waited impatiently for his answer.
"Princess, I've found something."
"Really!?"
"Yes, there's not much on the subject but it seems to involve blood magic."
"Ooooohh that doesn't sound to goooood!"
"Not at all. It was band long ago during the time of Zeref and his followers. Apparently there had been a coven of witches that had heard of other realms and wished to gain access to them, and would preform rituals of blood magic and attempt to do so by joining celestial keys and another magical item." Crux responded.
"I'm confused when you say witches you mean wizards right?" Lucy asked titling her.
"No Princess, witches are said to be women who were cohorts with demons. There were very few that existed before Zeref's time but when he rose to power their numbers grew rapidly. However there still hasn't been any substantial information on them as they always conducted themselves in secret. The only thing truly known about them was that they were rabid followers of Zeref."
"Okaaaaay, I'm confused who's Zeref?"
"Zeref is said to be the most powerful dark wizard of all time. He's apparently created thousands of demons with the Black Arts that he's mastered and threw the world into chaos. And as far as we know has some how mastered aging as we encountered him during our S-class exams." Loke answered Kizaru.
"So it's this guy's followers that created the key and ring with blood magic? Do you think they could be dangeroooouuus?"
"It could be. But for now I sense nothing malevolent coming from either objects and since it seems that we don't have that much information I think the best thing to do now is to be careful at the least." Loke sighed heavily and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
"Thank you Crux you've been very helpful!" Lucy dismissed him and then stood in front of bewildered looking Borsalino, who was surprised at the blonde's suddenly cheerful attitude.
"If that's the case then there's little we can do for now. So I think the best way to proceed is to make a contract!"
"A... contract?" The Admiral question and leaned his head of to the side, his mouth hanging open slightly, observing the sprightly blonde.
"Yep! You see as a Celestial mage I make contracts with spirits. Contracts set guidelines of when they're available, what I can and can't call them out to do, or any special needs I have to meet in order to summon them, things like that. Spirits are living beings too ya know, and they lead lives just like you and I, so contracts are set in place so I don't abuse them whether it's intentionally or unintentionally. And I realize that your not a spirit but as Celestial wizard I promise to follow the contract just as rigidly as if you were!" Lucy placed a closed fist over her heart and nodded seriously not realizing how adorable she looked with her lip stuck out like that.
"And what if I don't want to make a contract with yooooouu?" Kizaru narrowed his eyes at her as the girl suddenly deflated with the most soul crushing look on worked it's way onto her pretty little face. Loke shifted from leaning to standing fully and the lion's shoulders tensed as a low growl echoed through the room.
"Then... I understand. I'm sure you have other things to do in your world and that it would be a pain for me to call on you randomly. I'll never bother you again, I promise." Lucy looked to the ground waiting for the rejection. However the tall man simply sat there studying her taking in every tick and twitch that crossed her face, how her soulful brown eyes seemed almost gold in the sunlight, every strand of blonde hair tucked neatly in place in pigtails, the slope and curves of her body, and the way she stood tensely waiting disappointment. In that moment Kizaru carefully weighed his options not truly comprehending how his next words would forever effect himself, the girl in front of him, and their worlds.
"I'm an Admiral so there'll be a lot of times where I'm busy, but I'll also be out at sea a lot with nothing to dooooooo. So I think it's best if you just call me and I'll see if I can come or not. You can use me in anyway you like, and I mean anyway." Kizaru leered at her, a playful smile decorating his face. Lucy either ignored or didn't notice the suggestive comment as she perked up like a flower in sunlight, a beaming expression on her face.
"Really!? You mean it?" She clasped her hands together in front of her and couldn't help as she leaned towards him hopefully. Borsalino couldn't help but let a deep throaty chuckle well up in his chest and found himself surprised when he smiled gently at that young woman.
"Suuuure! Why not? It gets long and boring on a boat out at sea. Lonely too and being around such a pretty young thing like yourself will help eeeeaase that loneliness." Kizaru wiggled his eyebrows suggestively also leaning in closer to her. He was incomprehensibly satisfied when he saw a pretty red blush spread across her cheeks and heard the deep growl come from his right. Still the young woman couldn't stop the cheek splitting grin that plastered itself on her face.
"So is there a kiss to seal the deeeaaalll?"
"N-no that's it."
"Reeeeallyyyy?"
"Yes."
"That's disappointing."
"...Why does everyone say that?"
Suddenly Kizaru rose from his seat nearly causing Lucy fall over at the movement. She leaned back to look up at Kizaru who looked down at her with a grin.
"Soooooo what's Fairy Tail?"
"Hmm? Oh! That's right you don't know anything about wizard guilds. You see Earthland is a place filled with magic that's used for the simplest of tasks or used professionally. Fiore, a country in Earthland, is a place that heavily uses magic and wizards live all around. So there are guilds which are, I guess you could say they're like clubs or organizations were wizards come together to find work, family, friends, and adventure. Fairy Tail, my guild, is one such place and the best if you ask me! Everyone here is so close and always there to support you, and there's never a dull day!" Lucy's eyes gained a far away look she spoke lovingly of her guild and Kizaru quickly found himself growing increasingly interested in meeting the rest of the wizard guild.
"Can I get a tour of the place?"
"Sure! I'm sure everyone's anxious to meet you as well. You certainly left an impression on them." It was true the minute she had stepped through the guild doors this morning all eyes had been on her until she went up stairs. It was obvious even to Natsu that she and the master were going to discuss her newest 'spirit' and she was sure that everyone down stairs would squirming in their seats waiting for the outcome.
"Woooow I feel like a famous celebrity!" Kizaru joked, of course in his world everyone wanted to get a glimpse of him, being a feared Admiral and all that, well not everyone, some just wanted to run the hell away. However he couldn't but smirk at the prospect of making his mark on this new world.
"Loke did you want to come too?" The spirit in question almost said yes but then a sudden thought struck him.
"Lucy how were you able to hold Crux's, mine, and Kizaru's gate open?" The blonde blinked in surprise and then gasped.
"Your right I didn't even realize it..."
"Are you not allowed to doooo that?"
"It's not that I'm not allowed, it's just that it's hard. Wizards only have so much magic they can use at a time before they deplete it and have to recharge. We refer to this as our magic levels and depending on your magic level there's only so much a wizard can do. Celestial gates are held open by my magic and I've gotten to the point where I'm able to hold two open at once but I've never held three open... but..." Lucy pinched her chin between her index finger and thumb in thought.
"Now that I think about it the only time when I ever feel my magic being used when I call you out Borsalino is when I open an close your gate."
"It must be blood magic stuff." Loke waved his hand in the air.
"Hmm ah well no use dwelling on it now. Time to meet all your frieeeends~!" The tall man gently gripped the crook of the girl's elbow and she found herself being dragged out by the lazy admiral.
Makarov and Mavis looked over as they heard the door open just in time to see Kizaru phase through the upper half of the door way while his lower half walked through normally, dragging Lucy with him and Loke glowering behind them.
"Well how did it go?" Makarov asked as the trio darted past the two masters. Lucy turned back to wave at them and giggled nervously.
"It went it good- Borsalino could you slow down, my legs aren't as long as yours- I'll tell you about it later." And with that the three disappeared around the corner to go down stairs where a thunder of voices drifted up. Kizaru slowed his pace and let Lucy go so she could take the lead as they began to walk down the stairs, the wood groaning at Borsalino's weight. When they reached the bottom Lucy stopped and looked up at Borsalino and gestured to her nakama.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail!" The Admiral looked around his mouth hanging open and eyes full of surprise as he observed the mess that was Fairy Tail. The only place that seemed to be calm was the bar area where a beautiful white haired woman was wiping the counter down. Lucy noticed this little haven too and decided that would be the best place to let Kizaru get a scope of everything and let people notice him. She led Kizaru to a spot in front of Mira and took a seat on one of the bar stools, Kizaru settling next her, though he sat at an angle as his legs were too long to cramp into the space between bar and stool. Lucy noticed that Loke had gone off into the crowd. Probably to find Gray.
Mirajane finally looked up and when she did her pretty blue eyes widen at the sight of the tall man that sat next too Lucy. The man grinned lethargically at the busty woman's reaction and waved lazily at her. Lucy smiled at Mira when the woman turned her startled gaze to Lucy.
"Mira this Admiral Kizaru, also known as Borsalino. Borsalino this Mirajane Strauss but everyone calls her Mira. She's got a younger brother and sister around here somewhere..." Lucy trailed of looking behind her to see if she could catch a glimpse of either of them but proving unsuccessful. Lisanna was understandable but if she couldn't find Elfman then Lucy worried for her eyesight. She shrugged anyway and turned back to the other two.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Borsalino. You're one of Lucy's new spirits? I don't think I've heard of one them having a ranking?" Mira greeted sweetly.
"Well you see Mira, Borsalino here isn't a spirit, he's human just from another world." Lucy answered.
"What? I didn't even know that was possible."
"You and me both."
"Well then Admiral I hope you treat Lucy well. Because if you don't..." For the briefest of moments Kizaru felt the makings of a shiver run down his spine as a creepy aurora emitted for the still sweetly smiling woman.
"Don't worry Mira-san I plan on treating Lucy-chan veeeeeeerrry well." He grinned suggestively.
"Unless you want to be treated well too?" What could he say, he loved the ladies. Now if only he could get them to love him back...
"What kind of question is that? Of course I wanted to be treated well!" Kizaru looked at her in shock, could it be...
"Mira-san I don't think that's what he meant..."
"How else would he mean- Oh! He meant it in the naughty way. In that case I think I'm good." Mira blushed and looked to side and Kizaru felt his grin slide back on his face. Now that was a reaction he was more used too.
Suddenly Kizaru felt wind rush past him following in the wake something large as was thrown past his head and into the Strauss sibling. Kizaru's face fell in surprise and blinked slowly before both he and Lucy leaned over the counter top to look where Mira was being crushed under the weight of heavily muscled man with white hair.
"Mira-san! Are you okay!?" Lucy asked worriedly. The older woman smiled happily nodding her head and assured man and woman that she was fine before passing out. Just as she did so the man that Kizaru assumed to be Mira's brother shot up from the floor startling the two by standers.
"Natsu! Look at what you did! Get over here so I can show you how to be a man!" The white haired man bellowed before plowing though the counter. Seriously there was broken wood and everything.
"Don't encourage him Elfman..." Wakaba sighed from his perch next to Macao.
"Bring it on Elfman! I'll take all of you on!" Natsu cried as fire spouted forth from his mouth.
"Natsu! Watch were your pointing that thing!" Grey yelled. Immediatly this caught Nastu's attention and the two entered to another screaming match which of course evolved into another brawl which ended up drawing everyone into another guild wide brawl. Kizaru watched all this with rapt fasination not used such chaos.
"Oooohh I see what you mean by never having a dull day." Kizaru quipped and he barely heard Lucy sigh as he watched a large amountof people suddenly dog piled on man with numerous amounts piecrings.
"I'm sorry you have to see this Borsalino. They tend to get a little... to excited."
"Ah don't worry about it Lucy-chan. It's a nice change of pace from the strictness of the Marines." At this Lucy looked over to the lounging Admiral and blinked at him curiously. Off in the distance she could hear Elfman screaming about Laxus not being a real man for not joining the fight.
"What do you mean?" Kizaru spared her a glance before focusing back on the tangle of limbs where large amounts of sand had become involved. Oh look there went the CP member flying into a wall. Kizaru couldn't help but grin evilly at his pain.
"I mean that the Marines are a lot stricter on how they conduct themselves. Fights will sometimes break out withing grunt ranks but the highers neeeever have brawls like this. One because Sengoku and Sakazuki-kun are such hard asses and God help anyone who pisses them off and two because the amount of cost in damage repairs would be too high. So from Rear Admiral and up brawling is usually out of their system. Unless you're Vice Admiral Garp."
"Oh." Lucy, in Kizaru's own magnificent opinion, said cutely. Immediately the light Admiral's attention when from watching the pinkette yell at a muscular blonde guy with a badass looking scar, and to the beautiful beauty beside him. True he had only been in her presence for a very short amount of time but he was quickly finding that watching the blonde think things through was becoming a favorite pass time of his. Emotions would flood across her face as she thought things through and the expressions she made were either really freaking adorable or ridiculously amusing. Yes, Kizaru thought as her face contorted into an expression of horror, he had definitely made the right choice in agreeing to act as one of her 'spirits.'
Lucy meanwhile did not notice how closely she was being watched by the amused Admiral, instead too caught up in the feelings of horror, wonder, confusion, and suspicion. The girl concentrated hard as she attempted to put two and two together from what the Admiral had just said. For starters, from what she had seen of Kizaru he was insanely strong and incomprehensibly fast and she had a sinking feeling that wasn't even his true strength. And the way he talked about this Sengoku and Sakazuki made her believe that they were either in equal in rank or his commanding officers. So then it would be logical to guess that they were either as powerful or more so than Kizaru. Thus Lucy gained a new found fear of the world that Kizaru came from because surely if it produced such monsters then it must be a harsh place. One that she hoped she would never visit. Still that didn't stop her from being immensely curious about it. However she controlled herself ,afraid that she would become an annoyance to her new spirit if she pestered him too many with questions.
"Lu-chan!" Lucy was brought out of her revive when she heard her pixie like friend, Levy call out her name. Both Lucy and Kizaru turned their heads to where they heard the shout and watched as Levy ducked and dodged through the rowdy crowd. Levy approached Lucy with a friendly smile and wave but cast a quick but curious glance towards Kizaru.
"Hey! Long time no see! You've been cooped up in your apartment for so long we all thought you had died!" Levy joked teasingly. Lucy laughed light heartily before nodding her head to the chuckling Admiral as he watched Laxus beat the living snot out of Natsu.
"I was postponing having to deal with him for as long as I could. I was, well a little intimidated by him." Lucy whispered to Levy, trying to keep the Admiral from hearing her embarrassing confession. Little did she know that Kizaru's hearing was above average and thus allowed him to hear every whispered word as clear as day. Though it was nothing too surprising, as he had guessed from her unease that she was at least somewhat scared of him. Deciding he would let the two catch-up in private for now he focused all of his attention back on the creepy woman that shot water at anyone who got to close to the ice guy. Man this guild was hilarious.
"I don't blame you his height alone is scary as it is!" Levy nodded seriously.
"And how he took out Minerva so easily!"
"He didn't even break a sweat!"
"But you know Levy, that wasn't the scariest part. It was right before he and Minerva started fighting. It was like he became a different person."
"What do ya mean?" Levy asked eagerly.
"I mean... It's like how Natsu or Gajeel get excited for fight, you know how focused they seem to get? Expect I don't think he was excited for the fight itself but more for the fact that he was about to pound someone into the dust."
"Like blood lust?!" Levy gasped equal parts excited and terrified.
"Yeah! You know for a second there at the end, I thought... he was gonna kill Minerva." Lucy trailed off nervously. As if having a ridiculously strong spirit wasn't enough but that he also seemed to have no problem with killing people. It scared Lucy in ways she had never imagined. Nervously Levy glanced back over at the seemingly peaceful Admiral who held a small grin as enjoyed the spectacle before them. Other than how he looked like he enjoying the huge fight there looked to be nothing wrong with him. Abruptly he turned his head back to the girls and Levy let a small 'eep' when he winked at her.
"See something you liiiiiiike?" He flirted shamelessly and his grin only widened when he heard Lucy sigh.
"Borsalino this is Levy McGarden. Levy this Admiral Kizaru, also known as Borsalino." Lucy introduced.
The two strangers greeted each other, Levy nervously, and Kizaru amicably.
"So Kizaru, what do you think of the guild so far?" Levy asked politely.
"I think this place fuuuuuun! I especially like that fire guy Natsu, he seems to be a riot! But that Elfman guy's manliness scaaaaarrrreees me." Kizaru said frowning completely serious. The two girls glanced at each other before bursting into a fit of giggles that had Kizaru nervously glancing back and forth at the two girls. If there was one thing that made his hackles rise it's when two girls start giggling. Nothing good ever came from giggling women. Especially when they hid their faces behind their hands.
"Whhhhhaaaattt?" Kizaru whined. They were laughing at him, he knew it.
"I-it's nothing Kizaru-san!" Levy said airily still trying to keep her giggling under wraps. Kizaru however did not believe them and strained a nervous smile at them pleading with his eyes for them to bring him into light. Lucy took pity on him and through her giggling informed him.
"It's just that... what you just said sounded so weird!" She chuckled. Kizaru's eyes widened and his mouth feel open in mild horror before his face quickly rearranged itself back into it's default expression of amusement.
"I just meeeaaaannnt that him screaming about what a true maaaaannn is kinda weeeeeiiiird." Kizaru scratched the back of his sheepishly. The girl's continued to chortle and Levy leaned over to Lucy pretend to whisper conspiratorially.
"Me thinks that someone's just a boy who can't handle being a maaaaaaaan." Levy mocked. Kizaru suddenly leaned over to the two waving his hands in front of him and began to sputter about he was too a man but was rudely interrupted when a thick muscled finger was shoved into his face.
"You! What kind of Man is afraid of being a Man! It's totally un-manly!" Elfman bellowed, and Kizaru just looked at him, not believing that his masculinity was being questioned by someone he had never meet before. To his horror the rest of Lucy's guild was watching the two men's interaction, all of them snickering or in full blown laughter. Great public humiliation. Really he had hoped that when he got to the rank of being an Admiral he wouldn't hsve to worry about this stuff. However he sighed and then smiled innocently (or as innocent as he could get his face to look) at the man before him and closed his eyes in a peaceful manner.
"I'm noooooot! I just said that you yelling about knowing what a true man is must mean you spend looooooots of time around other men." He opened his eyes back up and grinned at Elfman in a knowing manner. The people around them burst into a fit of laughter as Elfman's face flushed red hot and began yelling angrily at Borsalino trying to defend himself but doing a poor job at when all Kizaru did was hum disbelievingly at Elfman's every argument.
Off to the side Lucy laughed happily relieved to see that her new spirit and guild-mates were getting along for the most part. However something still tingled the back of her mind, warning her that she should exercise caution when dealing with this man. For the most part it seemed to be unfounded fears but still... There was a certain harshness to him, an underlining mean streak that could come out easily if he was provoked. Though as she watched Nastu holler into an ever grinning Kizaru's face trying to get him to fight him, she decided that it couldn't possibly be that big of a deal. Surely if someone that could only chuckle at Natsu's excitable personality then they couldn't be that mean of a person.
Right?
Right.
Maybe.
Poor Lucy didn't realize what she was in for.
It was late when the pair of Lucy and Borsalino made their way out of the guild after spending the majority of the day introducing Borsalino to Fairy Tail. In that time Kizaru learned the true meaning of hyper. Though that wasn't to say he didn't enjoy himself, because he found the guild's rambunctious behavior to be a nice change of pace from the strictness and order of the Marines. Although he couldn't imagine having to deal with the child like guild day in and day out. He did learn many things about his new... companion, like how she adored to read and was currently writing a book, her other spirits, about 'Team Natsu' (who she assured he would meet soon)and their habit of destroying almost everything, her daily struggle with rent, and other things. He also learned that Makarov was a perv, sweet Mirajane was known as the 'She-Demon,' that a man named Bickslow seemed to take after Doflamingo when it came to his tongue, Natsu could eat fire, Gray could make ice like Kuzan, and there were 'Dragon Slayers,' and the guild had four if you counted Laxus. Truly Kizaru found this to be an interesting place with each passing second and that was only the tip of the ice berg!
Lucy found her place on the stone ledge next to the water canal and she began her balancing act. She looked from the corner of her eye to observe Kizaru's reactions to Magnolia, but the only emotion he seemed to express was his grinning amusement as he swiveled his head around taking in the architecture. In the few hours that she had known him, she noticed that the only expressions that seemed to ever cross his face was amusement, shock, surprise, and that stupid perverted grin. She couldn't help but wonder if he was always like that or if the maliciousness she had seen from him a week ago was his true personality.
In fact now that she stopped to think about it, she wasn't really sure what he was like. The only two things she could say confidently say about him was that he was a pervert and that everything seemed to amuse him. What if he didn't like her? Did he have family? Was he a good leader? Or was he cruel? It was these questions and countless more that plagued her mind as she strolled next to the subject of her thoughts.
"Be carefully miss Lucy, you don't wanna fall in!" Lucy absentmindedly waved to the boat men as they passed by.
"They're right you knnnooooow." Kizaru chirped. He had been so silent that she almost forgot that he had been there. Kizaru seemed to pick up on this as he grinned teasingly at her.
"You forgot I was here didn't yoooou! Lucy-chan, I'm hurt!" He feigned, clutching his chest in fake pain and placing the back of his hand on his forehead while dramatically looking off into the distance. The blonde giggled behind a dainty hand at his antics and he soon joined her with his own deep chuckles.
"Sooo what were you thinking about?"
"Hmm?"
"Before, you were very deep in thouuuuught!"
"Oh I wasn't thinking about anything."
"Tsk Lucy-chaaaan, you're not a very good liar. Yooouu were thinking about meeeee weren't you?" He winked at her playfully.
"Okay, yes. But not in the way your thinking!"
"Mmhm." He hummed disbelievingly.
"I was just wondering about the Marines and how high up an Admiral is."
"Ah I see, well that's less exciting. Hmm let me think. Well my world is essentially run by the World Government, the Navy or more commonly know as the Marines, is it's military force. At the bottom of the Marines you have your regular grunts and lieutenants, in the middle there's the captains, commodores, and rear-admirals, and then at the top are Vice Admirals, Admirals, and finally the Fleet-Admiral who's the head of the Marines." Kizaru lifted his hand and used his fingers to number off each level. He couldn't help the somewhat proud grin that spread across his face when Lucy looked up at him with a new found admiration.
"So then you're... You must be ridiculously powerful if you're that high ranking!"
"Ahhh Lucy-chan~! You're making me blush!"
"But it's true isn't it!? I mean if you're that high up then have to be!"
"Ah ha I don't knoooow!"
"How many Admirals are their?"
"Threeeee."
"See! You've got to be crazy strong and you know it! Your just pretending to be modest!" She playfully swatted him on the arm and earned herself more chuckles.
"Your riiiiight." He agreed un-modestly. Lucy just shook her head at him smiling and looked up to realize that they were at her apartment. She stopped and jumped down from the ledge and walked over to her front door. He followed her until she turned back around to face him and she lifted her arms over her head to crack her back. She then looked back up to the ever grinning Admiral who was enjoying the sight in front of him.
"Well I guess it's about time you got home. I'm sure someone noticed that you were gone. Sorry about that." Lucy smiled sheepishly. He waved her apology off.
"Don't worry about it Lucy-chan. They're big Marines they can look after themselves for a few hours." He joked. Suddenly though Lucy looked down and poked her fingers together nervously, causing Kizaru to frown slightly in mild concern.
"Um Borsalino can I can ask you something?"
"Suuuuure."
"When I first tried using your key why didn't you come?"
"Lucy-chan you're a Celestial wizard so your used to magical stuuuuff. But I'm not, so when I felt and heard someone in my head, I was little concerned about my well being. Powerful I might be but that doesn't mean I'm invulnerable." Lucy nodded her head in understanding.
"But then why did you help in the fight against Minerva?"
"I don't know, cause I had nothing else to do, I felt bad for you, and it seemed like the right thing to do at the time." Kizaru shrugged happily. Lucy considered his words for moment before nodding tucking them away for further analyzing for later.
"Okay!" She chirped and Kizaru felt himself smirk.
"Well I'll see you late Lucy-chhaaaan!"
"Mmhm!" And with that the tired but happy blonde closed Kizaru's gate sending him home. With the tall man no longer there to worry about the blonde turned on her heel to walk back into her home. After such a long day she needed a shower and then sleep, which she predicted would be long and peaceful.
Whew so there it is, another chapter. This one was a pain to write cause I lost like half of what I wrote and then had to gp back and re-write it, but I did it! I know it's a lot of talking and not a lot of action is really happening but we have to get the ground work down. Hopefully next chapter or the chapter after that will be a little more exciting. So thoughts? Mistakes? Plot holes? I'm here to make this story as enjoyable as possible as I can for you, so just tell me what you want to see more of or whatever.
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