So I have written my first exam and had a little time to write something. Have fun with this!
"Hey guys, how have you been?", Lucy smiles brightly up at the four heads before them, her annoying Team mates for the moment forgotten. "Hello Princess, with what can we help you today?", Trevet speaks first. "Little human girl, good to see you again! And who are these scared looking guys behind you? And why is one of them groaning in pain on the ground?", Hayden grins at her. Calder and Niyol nuzzle her in greeting.
"You four, let me introduce you to Laxus, the blonde guy, Gajeel the one with black hair and the one on the ground is Bickslow. And he lays there because I kicked him for what he said. Oh and, Capricorn should have told you that these guys are my new Team mates, even though they seem to don't believe me. And the reason I called you is because I need you to play an Alpha-Monster. Here in the forest is a Dark Guild and their Master can control Monsters and an Alpha-Monster is able to break this control. My new Team is already fighting for a long time and I overheard the Guild speaking about attacking them soon, so we need to get rid of these Monsters so they can rest and then fight the Dark Guild. And we don't have much time, the Monsters are already near again and could attack any moment.", Lucy explains.
"Oh little human girl, this is the kind of job I like. Oh I can see it now, we are going to have so much fun together!", Hayden states with a feral grin. As next Calder speaks up,"Princess, we have something for you. You probably won't like it but for situations like this it could be really useful." "What do you have for me and why do you think that I won't like it?", a curious Lucy asks.
"Well we have this short sword for you so that you can decapitate us to set our other heads free. This weapo...", Niyol explains but Lucy interrupts him, "Wait what? Decapitate you? You are right, I don't like this! And I would never hurt any of my Spirits, even if the reason is to make you stronger!"
Behind them the three guys just stare at the scene before them. Decapitate to make them stronger? This Monster or Spirit already looks terrifying enough! Are they crazy?!
"Don't worry, Princess! This short sword is specifically made for this purpose and won't hurt us. From now on this weapon will appear at your side when ever you call us and then we can make the decision if there is the need for calling the other ones." While Trevet speaks Calder lowers his head to Lucy with the sword between his teeth, Lucy eyes the sword warily, "It really won't hurt you? You promise? I could never forgive myself if I would hurt any of my Spirits!"
"Hey little human girl, we promise! We would never lie to you about something like this. And we are very happy that you already care this much about us!", Hayden reassures her, his behavior completely different from normal. Lucy looks all of them in the eyes and then slowly reaches out for the short sword.
At the moment Lucy touches the short sword the only thing the three guys behind her can think is "She is really going to do it! and step a few steps back unconsciously.
The only thing Lucy can think about as soon as she touches the sword is how beautiful it is and the feeling it is giving of, it's as if the sword itself is telling her that it wouldn't hurt her Spirits. She admires the beauty of the sword, it's deep black with gold lining the sharp blade and has a golden star separating the blade from the hilt, before she turns her gaze back to Hydra.
And before she can ask a last time Hayden speaks up, "Now little human girl! We don't have much time before the Monsters are back!"
Without really thinking about it she let the blade whiz down at Hayden's neck and without waiting for a reaction she turns to do the same with Calder and Niyol. She is pretty sure that without the feeling the sword is giving her she would never be able to do this.
The guys watch this slack-jawed, never would they have thought that Lucy would be able to do something like that. She just decapitated her Spirit, three times!
"So, I don't know what will happen now, since I have never seen it before but maybe we should go back a bit.", Lucy smiles as she turns to her Team, what sends a shiver down their spines. All this right now is just too crazy for their sleep deprived brains to really comprehend. So they step back along with Lucy and watch as the three decapitated regrow along with three new ones.
"Hello Princess, it is a honor to meet you! I am Najm and can as you know control celestial magic. The one with yellow eyes is Rai and the one with ice-blue eyes is Korah. As far as I know, Trevet already told you everything you need to know, what is perfect since we don't have any time left. Maybe we will find another time to properly talk. You all should step back or rather try to find a hideout for the night while we deal with the Monsters. I can sense that your comrades are really exhausted and need to rest, if they want to be able to fight the Dark Guild tomorrow!, the three new head bow and then turn their attention to the forest and the incoming Monsters.
The new Team turns around and runs in the opposite direction, halting shortly at the end of the clearing to watch what is happening. They can hear the almighty roar Hydra lets loose and see the different elements attack the Monsters which try to run directly to the three guys, just like their order is. Seeing all the different elements just left the three guys staring with their mouths agape once again. They wake up from their freeze when Lucy pulls them along as best as she can with three big and heavy males.
"Do you know how the Monsters where able to find you again? Can they smell you?", Lucy asks already planning their next step in her head. "I think some of them are able to smell us and the others follow them.", Gajeel answers. "Then I know what to do, you Slayers won't like it but this is probably our best chance to get away and search for a place for the night where they can't find us, so that you can rest."
Lucy touches her Keys and asks Virgo for the necessary thing for her plan. Virgo appears with a bottle full of perfume in her right hand.
"Princess, this is specially made so only the Monsters can smell it. And the smell will disappear automatically after a few hours or after bathing. Punishment?", Virgo states with her monotone voice and a slight spark in her eyes at the thought of punishment. "No Virgo no punishment. And thank you for this, this should be a great help!", Lucy smiles brightly at her before taking the small bottle and turning to the guys, spraying the perfume on them and her without asking.
"Oi, Blondie! What the heck are you doing?" "Oh calm down Laxus, will you? You won't even notice that I sprayed you but the Monsters won't be able to trace your scent." Lucy watches as both Slayers flare their nostrils and then widen their eyes in realization that she is right. Bickslow too watches this and can't help his cackle at their expressions, it seems that Lucy throws surprise after surprise at them today.
"So now that this is clarified lets search for a cave or something like that to rest for the night.", and with that Lucy turns around and stomps in the directions of the mountains, slowly really annoyed with her new Team mates, hopefully that will get better when they are rested and were able to speak about everything.
The three look at her walking form and notice the annoyance in her steps and decides to follow her quickly before she turns all Scary and dominating Lucy on them again.
Lucy leads them along the mountains in the direction of the Dark Guild, so they are not to far away from them to be able to maybe make a surprise attack the next morning when they all are well rested.
Luckily they don't have to search for very long before finding a cave for them, luck because it slowly begins to turn dark outside.
The whole time Lucy sustained Hydra's Gate open, giving them enough magic to fight all these Monsters and to slowly dominate them. She becomes regular updates on the situation from them.
And finally as they enter the cave they tell her that they were able to accomplish their goal and dominated all present Monsters. Lucy sighs as she feels the pull on her magic stop when they return to the Spirit World.
"So Blondie, will you finally explain to us what is happening? And what all this means?", Laxus asks with one eyebrow raised. "You know you are blonde too? And yes Sparky. Just wait a minute."
"Sparky?! What the hell? You will not...", Laxus stops himself as he realizes that she isn't listening. It looks as if she was deep in thought with one of her hands on her Keys. "Is she waiting for an attack or something like that?"
"Will that be all you need, Princess? I brought dinner for all of you with me. Aries will arrive shortly to make this place more comfortable. And Capricorn asked me to tell you that he advised you to meditate this night but not to try and build up a new link. He believes you can do that on your own to save you magic for the fight tomorrow. Punishment?", Virgo appears with several bags in her hands. "No that would be all Virgo. And please tell Capricorn that I will do as he said. And no, no punishment.", she smiles at her Spirit. "Then I will set up camp, Princess."
"No Virgo, you don't need...", but Virgo already started and was finished before Lucy could really finish her sentence and then disappeared back to the Spirit World. Just as she disappears Aries shows up and makes some beds from her wool for them, Lucy thanks her and then sends her back.
"So guys how about I explain everything to you during dinner?", Lucy grins at them as she sat down on one of the chairs in front of the camping table with all the delicious smelling food. She can't stop her giggles as the guys practically runs to the table and start to pile up food on their plates, she takes some herself and they just eat in silence at first.
"Bunny Girl, tell me how comes that you are seemingly in our Team now?", Gajeel starts first. "Before I answer this let me ask you something Laxus. Why didn't you answer your Com? Master and I tried to reach you since yesterday!"
"My Com?", he grabs in his pocket to take it out and then realizes that it's missing, "It's seems I must have lost it sometime during our fight. Why did you try to reach me?"
"Well Master wanted to tell you that I am your new Team mate and that he sent me after you to help you with this job. And yesterday and today we tried to reach you to find out were you are so that I am able to find you. And Gajeel, I wasn't at the Guild as the rest of you made the new Teams so I draw my number yesterday and got your Team. So you can either believe me or can call Master with my Com now.", she sends Laxus a challenging look over the table, trying to see if he really thinks she is lying.
"No no, Cosplayer, we believe you, don't we, boss man?", Bickslow looks at Laxus from his seat beside Lucy. Laxus just nods.
Next she explains them everything about the Dark Guild she found and their plans. They nod and listen to everything she says and you can see the shame in Laxus eyes that he didn't think more about this job, he is the S-class mage and should know better than this. It seems that Lucy really saved their asses.
"By the way, Blondie, what was that earlier? I mean this whole sudden dominating thing. And your eyes were different and now that I think about it you had this glow on your chest.", Laxus asks, wanting to finally know what happened there.
Lucy flushes as she remembers her behavior earlier, "I... uhm... That was some kind of next step in my magic, my Spirits told me about yesterday. Through my connection with the stars I am able to build up links to the different constellation and can use the magic from the constellations I am linked with. The link manifests as a tattoo somewhere on my body, when I activate the link the tattoo glows, that was the glow you saw earlier. My eyes look different because of this too. I am not using the magic from the Spirits rather really the magic from the constellation. You never know what magic I gain from the link. And yesterday I build up a link with the Leo constellation to be able to fight better on this mission since it's S-class. But I have such a strong bond with the constellation and Spirit, that I also gained some Lion instincts, like hunt, protect and dominate. Furthermore this strong bond leads to me having these instincts in a lessened way even when I deactivate the link, that is why I have now golden orange specks in my eyes. Since I only have this link since yesterday night, I didn't have time to learn and control these instincts. So during the fight and when I dominated you Laxus, these Lion instincts took control and I couldn't stop myself from doing what I did. I am really sorry Laxus! And I hope that you will forgive me! I will do my best in the future to not let this happen again, but I believe it will need sometime before I can fully control these instincts, especially when I have activated the link."
All of them look at her amazed, never before have they heard of a Celestial Mage who is able to do something like that. This is really amazing! And how can Laxus be really angry at her when he knows from experience how hard it is to control new instincts, it was the same with his Dragon instincts after the Lacrima was implanted. Even now it's still sometimes hard to control his instincts.
"It's alright, Blondie, I forgive you. And I am too sorry for my behavior earlier, I don't really know why I behaved the way I did. I shouldn't have laughed at you and should have let you finish.", he looks down in shame, remembering how he behaved towards her earlier, this was not how he is now. Yes he might be still an asshole sometimes but he has changed and doesn't look down on his Guild mates anymore.
"It's alright Sparky, you were probably just exhausted and couldn't think anymore. But I really hope that won't happen again, I hate it when someone looks down on me and my Spirits. I know many think that I am weak, especially after my failed attempts at the GMG, but I am not!", she speaks with fire in her eyes.
"We know Bunny Girl, especially after today. Gihi!", Gajeel grins. "Yeah, we know, the GMG doesn't count because you were cheated on! And what is it with this nickname? Sparky?", an irritated Laxus asks.
"Well you keep calling me Blondie, even though you are blonde yourself. So it's just fair when I have a nickname for you too, Sparky!", she just grins back. Laxus grumbles but doesn't say anything back, for now at least, he is to exhausted to have a discussion at the moment.
"So Cosplayer, tell me, do you want us to sleep on this pink wool?" "Well yes, you all doesn't seem to have your own bags anymore and believe me this wool is so soft that you don't want to sleep on something else ever again. So you guys take a nap and I will go out to meditate.", without letting them say anything else she stands up and moves out of the cave.
Like the other night Lucy settles down and starts her meditation. She knows that it would be wise to, again, do this without her second origin because of the fight tomorrow. She slowly releases her magic and let the magic pressure build up around her and somewhat feels as the winds moves faster around her.
Inside of the cave the guys can feel the strong magic pressure and at first think that they are under attack. They hurry outside and are greeted with Lucy sitting on the ground, wind whipping her hair wildly around her. Maybe they, especially Laxus who until now had the least to do with her, should reconsider their previous thoughts about her. Yes they told her earlier that they don't think that she is weak and they really don't think of her as weak but this right now is so much more magic then they expected from her. Especially Laxus had his doubts about her true strength, not being weak doesn't automatically mean strong. They thought she was on a normal level maybe even a bit under a normal level since it seems that her magic is always drained so fast but they can feel that she is still releasing more magic, building up more pressure around her.
They all have one thought, "Maybe I was wrong about her strength. She has so much more magic than I ever thought possible from her. But how does it come that she always seems to have problems in fights? At least that is what you hear from her Team..." And then they remember what she said about her old Team looking down on her, maybe there is more to this than they thought.
They watch her a little longer and then decide to go back in and get some sleep.