I aspire to one day owning Fairy Tail... it has not happened yet.


Like the rest of the palace, the meeting room was large and ornate. The Thunder Legion was seated on one side of an extravagantly carved oak table while Princess Hisui and Yukino were on the other. So far, there had been nothing but awkward pleasantries and Laxus was getting sick of it.

"So the old man is afraid Blondie is going to die from too much magic energy." Hisui stared at him wide eyed and Yukino squeaked started by the sudden statement. Freed sighed, Bixlow smirked and Evergreen ignored all of them, they were use to his antics.

"We are trying to understand her magic better, there is a startlingly insufficient amount of information about celestial magic. We have been through Miss Lucy's notes but again, there are far too many holes to make heads or tales to come to any conclusions. Mr. Leo gave us a few hints but as Celestial laws hinder the exchange of information it was for from sufficient and rather vague." Leave it to Freed to know what to say... Even if he was a bit long winded.

"Celestial mages tend to be very secretive" Yukino apologized. "There are so many people out there would would abuse the spirits that, through the ages, those with potential for the art were carefully monitored to try and prevent tragedies like what happened to Leo and Aries. But there are so few of us left that it doesn't really make a difference any more if things keep going the way they are, celestial magic will be a lost art." Evergreen was now staring wide eyed at Yukino and Bixlow had stopped smirking; Freed had even paused in his frantic note taking. It was not an everyday occurrence for a Magic for to be lost.

"Also the Fairy Tale Guild has proved itself time and time again." Hisui continued. "The least we can do is relieve your worries about a comrade. We will answer what questions you have. My father was adamant that if I wanted to be a mage I become a Celestial mage so he brought many historians, scholars, and sever celestial masters to teach me. So I know a lot about the history and technicalities of the magic even if I am not a powerful mage Lucy and Yukino."

"And," Yukino interjected. "while I am not as powerful as Lucy, I am still up there on the celestial mage scale."

Freed was in his element now. Pen and notebook ready, Laxus could see the hundreds of questions swirling in the mage's mind. "Princess Hisui, if I may ask why was your father so adamant that you become a celestial mage? Also if you are not a powerful mage how were you able to operate all twelve of the Zodiac keys?"

"Because we are royalty. And that is how the keys were originally meant to be used." Hisui answered simply, as if that should be obvious.

Freed looked taken aback and even Bixlow quirked an eyebrow, not that you could tell behind the mask. "What does that have to do with anything?"

Hisui and Yukino exchanged glances. "You mean Lucy does not even know that? Or are you the ones missing information? I knew she lost her teacher young, but that is basic celestial lore."

Freed bristled. "If she does know it she has not written it down, and form the looks of it, she wrote everything she knew down."

"Hmmm," Hisui considered this. "very well then, this may be boring but a history lesson is in order." Freed looked like he was about to jump for joy.

"First," Yukino interrupted again "how much has Lucy told you about summoning the spirit king?"

"The spirit king can be summoned?" Freed immediately quipped back."Why would Lucy know anything about that?"

This time pure shock was written all over the Celestial mages' faces. Hisui was gaping like a fish even as Yukino recovered.

"At Tartaros," She clarified "Lucy summoned the Spirit king."

It was the Thunder Legions turn to gape.

"How is that possible? How do you know?" Laxus may have come off as harsh but Tartaros was years ago. How long had Lucy had that much power?

"Every celestial mage on the planet could feel when it happened." Hisui stated.

"We don't know how she did it, the technique has been lost to time. But it was not difficult to figure out it was Lucy who summoned him."

There was a very long silence.

"This is getting no where" Bixlow snapped. Apparently Everyone was on edge.

"Right." Yukino shook herself and continued. "The Celestial king was not one of the original 88 gold keyes."

"I thought there were only 12 or 13 gold keys." Freed Interjected, apparently back into his territory.

They looked at him like he had grown two heads.

"This is going to be harder than I thought." Yukino muttered.

"Let's get through the King's story the keys should be explained as well as a few other things." Hisui reasons. "I will try to keep it as brief as possible."

The Celestial King was originally a human King back when the lost magics were still being created and developed. He was one of the greatest Kings thought history though his name has been lost as so much else has. Not only did he rule over most of this continent but he was also an honest and noble man who cared for his people.

One day a mage, Lucifer, was trying to tame one magic as a whole rather than breaking it off a piece and creating a lost magic. This went poorly to say the least and the accident that ensued resulted with tearing open a hole in space time linking the celestial world our own. Lucifer was overjoyed by this and sought to enslave the spirits he found.

Leo escaped and sought out help for his people. He found the human king, who readily agreed to help saying it was a travesty of nature and humankind for anyone to treat another being in such a manner.

"Long story short, Lucifer got his but kicked the permeate tear was closed and the king befriended the celestial spirits." Yunino's interjection actually made freed jump and drop his peen. "To show their gratitude and eternal friendship to the King and his descendants, each of the constellations gave the King a key, a gold key."

"Before he died," Hisui continued a little stiffly. the king was offered a place among the stars as their ruler. The king accepted and divided the keays among his children. Each child got their own set. We don't know what all the sets were but a good example would be the Zodiac. Together they are a complete set and when contracted as a set they are easier to use and much more powerful.

For hundreds of years the keys and celestial magic was a sign of true royalty. But eventually all of the king's descendants were killed and the keys scattered through the land.

The spirits are still looking though. That is why most of the constellations split their presents, creating multiple keys for themselves, to try and find any one who is truly capable of wielding them.

"The zodiac had a different philosophy." At least Freed didn't drop his pen this time. But Hisui did send Yukino a hottie look. "They thought that if there was any one worthy left the best way to find them would be to stay at full strength, be difficult to use, so they could single them out."

"So gold keys are compleet keys." Evergreen clarified, intrigued by the story.

"And Keys were suppose to be used as a set." Freed continued. "Why is this not common information?"

"It is not all that uncommon," Hisui said apologetically "but it is often misplaces and History or even fiction."

"Is it really that different opening keys as a set versus not." Bixlow asked. Of all their magics his was probably the closest to Celestial magic. He wanted to get a better idea about the difference.

"Thinking about it this way." Yukino began "When you are summoning spirits you are opening a door." The Thunder Legion subconsciously needed as one.

"When I had all 13 zodiac keys,"Hisui continued "I had to pick the lock and open the door because I didn't have a contract."

"When you are opening a silver keys door, you have to pry it open with a crowbar and keep it open while someone is trying to force it closed. But you only have to keep it open enough for the spirit to get through." Freed was hanging on every word frantically scribbling notes.

Yukino nodded picking up the metaphor. "When you are opening a Gold keys door you have to pry the door open with a toothpick and keep it open with ten people trying force it back closed. But again you only have to keep it open enough for the spirit to get through."

"When Lucy casts a spell though," Laxus was getting kind of tired of this trading off thing. Was it that difficult for only one of them to talk" "you have to keep that door open all the way. It is a lot of energy to expend all at once. Kind of like ripping the door off its hinges."

"What about Lucy's star dress?" Laxus asked. He had seen her do it once or twice and it was definitely a power boost.

"Star Dress? What is that?" Laxus narrowed his eyes. That was not a good sign.

"She garbs herself in the magic of her spirits and fights alongside them." Freed supplied.

There eyes went wide.

"She is using Stardust... She has a physical form for her stardust no less..." Yukino had started to mutter nonsense and was showing no signs of stopping. Laxus was about to say something when Princess Hisui beat him to it.

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"Holy Shit"

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"PRINCESS!" Yukino cried apparently started out of her stupor.

"I know I know, I apologies." Hisui said hastily. "But for that, without a fill set.. She would have to" There was a pause as she visibly struggled to find words. "tear a hole through the wall with a pillow. No one has ever been able to do that without a complete set of keys before. I knew she was progressing fast but that is unreal."

Laxus gritted his teeth. That was the whole problem wasn't it.


The past couple of days had been hard. Lucy had been practicing her Spirit Vision as much as she could over the past few days. She had gotten better at it, accessing the power quicker and holding it longer without completely draining her magic stores; but there were still some major problems. Mostly she couldn't see non sentient objects. She had a plethora of bruised from running into things or tripping and falling, to prove this fact.

Natsu had been helping a lot. He was also surprisingly understanding of the situation. She had told him everything. It was the first time she had actually, told the story of Tartaros. She had cried, a lot actually. But he was comforting and didn't even make fun for her. He had even been helping with her training.

Lucy wished Natsu was here today. Master had sent Him and Gray to investigate an incident with another guild a few days journey away. Lucy was really hoping that they would work everything out. There had been a lot of tension between the two ever since the END thing. Even if the both said they didn't care, they obviously still did.

Lucy shook her head and focused again. She was in the guild and nearly everyone was gathered around to watch. Lucy smoothed out the map again. It was huge spanning the whole table and had cost her a pretty penny to get. But for once, Lucy was not strapped for cash. With all the jobs they had been getting lately, her rent was paid for the next four months and she still had a sizable spending account. But any ways, Capricorn had finally agreed that she was ready to cast that distance location spell. Apparently she needed a world map for this. And the whole guild wanted to watch.

She was not sure how this worked or if it would even work. Capricorn had assured her that there would be no damage if the spell misfired. She would just deplete her magic stores.

She closed her eyes and reached for her the door. She ripped away the barrier and struggled to keep the door open, it was still difficult by herself. Lucy vaguely wondered if she should have called Gemini after all.

"Survey the starry heavens, Open the heavens" she spoke "All the stars, far and wide Show me thy appearance, With such shine"

She could feel her magic taking effect.

She had opened her eyes as some point but her vision was not working.

"Oh, Tetrabiblos, I am the ruler of the stars. Reveal Yourselves to me."

She felt her consciousness extend far beyond her body brushing with hundreds of spirits. It was a strange sensation the let her with a sense of vertigo.

"Open thy malevolent gate. Oh. 88 stars of the heavens, Shine. Revelare Stellae"

And with that she allowed to door to close. Lucy found herself back in reality with a crash. As her knees gave beneath her. A bit to her surprise, Juvia was the one to help her up, apparently she was finally over the whole love rival thing now that she was actually dating gray.

Glancing over the map she Grinned. There strewn across it were hundreds of silver sparks and 13 gold ones. She grinned. If she had been looking for another key, she might have been in some trouble but she had lucked out.

About where the Fairy Tale guild was there were 9 gold sparks and several silver ones piled on top of each other. By Crocus there were 3 gold and several silver. Lucy vaguely noted that there were a few rather large piles of silver sparkles scattered over the Fiore, probably other celestial mages. Then there was the single gold spark. There were a few silver sparks near by but not close enough to be in the hands of a mage. Lucy felt her heart sore for a moment. It was good to know she could still get Aquarius back. But as she studied the map in more detail it felt like her stomach dropped below her feet.

"Aquarius... is at the bottom of the ocean."


Hello everyone! I am sorry about the absence... and lateness. But unfortunately school trumps all when it comes to my time.

KaixinPhoenix ~ Thank you! And good question. It is not! There will be a rant about that eventually but for now just know Cain is the only one with that ability. Lucy will be leaving in a chapter or two. It depends on how much other stuff is going on. I have a feeling the Natsu Gray thing will take longer than I want it to.

Gold9516 ~ Thanks! I actually started using biblical names because I am terrible at coming up with them on my own. But they are starting to grow on me so I think I will stick with it.

Ashaley the shadow night ~ I am so glad you are enjoying it!

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