Hello fairies. First of all, this took AGES to edit. Sorry. I thank you for your extended patience.

Before I even start ranting I want to point out that they will be TWO chapters today. Yay. This chapter is shorter. The next is similar. Enjoy.

Secondly I want to ( briefly, pray mercy) go over summer plans. For your ease I've separated the rant from what actually pertains to the chapter, by a line, and the actual chapter by two lines.

So, I have at least two or three more LaLu plans. I have a Gerza/Jerza in plotting. I have a blue hair fic inspired by Shiawase-usagichan's art. I have written a letter to get approval to make sure that she's okay with it ( I don't like stealing people's thunder. Unless its name is Laxus.) I have a BixLisa in plotting.

That's just for Fairy Tail. If you're in the Bleach and Naruto fanons/fandom I got a couple Mayuri fics (yes, HIM) and as well as a HitsuKarin. For Naruto I got a GaaNa ghosting in and out of thought, and a SasuSaku.

But with highs come lows. I have two AP summer assignments at a combined total of over 120 paragraphs, easy. Don't let that bother you (that much).

So that's it. Hope to post again soon. Moving along...


Just a couple of things that need addressing. . The games proceed as (relatively) canon. The things that have changed will be addressed. Also, we will not be discussing the major events in major detail that are irrelevant to our causes i.e. Yukino's fight except the meeting after her (extremely appalling) dismissal from Sabertooth. We begin the night before the first day on the start of the fighting tournament. Or due to paranoia it's Lucy's fight with Flare. Spoliers for GMG. (Fighting dialogue if lifted if not modified from manga. I do not own Fairy Tail.)

OH. Yeah... that accent thing. It's going to less noticeable as time passes. You'll see.

-turns into a puddle at the thought of Laxus with a accent-

P.S. The whole magic thing has been earlier hinted at. When Lucy called Leo Shishikyuu. I'll explain at the bottom...


"Though I am very new to your family, I again thank you for allowing me to participate." Lucy said through the bathroom door. She was trying on her outfit for tomorrow, as tomorrow the fighting would start.

"Not a problem, Lucrezia. Besides, it's a good shot for Master and everyone to see what you're made of." Gray mumbled through the act of taking off his shirt.

She slid the door open. She had on dark eggplant cargoes on with a large section running down the sides vacant but hemmed, closed only by crisscrossed straps. A black tight shirt revealed her toned abdomen. The high-low hem of a layered purple and white cloak emblazoned with the Fairy brushed dark sandals. The hood was ornately embroidered and it did a good job of hiding her face. She was lucky that it had been long-established that the don't ask don't tell policy was active.

"It fits well..."

"Good. Take it, it's yours. Go and get some rest." Erza said, gazing out of the window longingly.

"As you wish," She bowed lightly "Titania." Before gathering her clothing and leaving.

The walk down the hallway through their floor in the hotel wasn't particularly peculiar except for Bacchus and Cana in one corner exchanging ale and kisses like cotton balls and daisies.

The door to their room opened about three seconds after she knocked, revealing a hooded Laxus. He slipped it off, moving to let her in.

No words were exchanged as she stepped inside, changed into more comfortable clothes and sat at the table with Laxus to eat.

Sausages and mashed potatoes were extremely comforting at the moment.

She didn't notice until she reached for her glass, the black velveeteen case on her right.

"Happy birthday."

She paused her dinner to open the case. It was golden chain necklace adorned with a thunderbolt smacked in the middle of it. Six diamond-shaped, convex, rose gold, "scales" spread from it, humming faintly with static.

She was too busy contemplating the cost of such accessory to say thank you. And when she finally did, Laxus thought he'd need to call the paddy wagon in the morning.

OoOoOoOoOo

To stand with them, felt glorious. The crowd silent with disbelief, dead last but there.

The first match of the day.

"Fairy Tail's Lucrezia...versus Raven Tail's Flare Corona!"

The crowd threw up a hooting, while the two women came forward. Lucy sized her up, before turning (with instigating flare) toward Laxus.

He simply offered a single sentence, with the heady accent they've picked up.

"Just do it." His statement accompanied by a turn back to the stands, cloak billowing behind him, generously hiding the fur-lined coat.

With a curt nod. She turned the buxom woman. The participants cleared out.

During the declaration of the rules, she couldn't help but overhear what the woman was muttering herself.

"Blondie..." She had remembered that she pulled her hair into a braid that ended up slithering up to hang out of the front of the hood, but didn't have a clue why she sounded so menacing.

"Fight!"

She quickly detached the longer portion of the cloak. The layered hem now falling to her rib-cage. The bracelets shone morphing into,

"Alpheratz: Bracers of Shishikyuu."

The golden gauntlets shone brightly on her arms. The crowd roared again. "A celestial brawler? I've never seen one!"

"Kingyuukyuu," Taurus showed up by her side, skipping the comments about her lovely figure for the seriousness of the match. "Tenkatsukyuu," Scorpio shone in, already riled up. Again the crowd roared. She could summon a spirit without the incantation?

"Thank you for coming. Now, friends." The spirits and their mistress settled into a fighting stance. "Let's fight."

The battle became a flurry of hair and starlight. It got to the point when Scorpio left for her to summon,

"Kyokaikyuu!" Cancer was summoned to snip down the volley of hair coming her way with a claw and fangs of a wolf.

She was becoming drained. But she stood stronger than when she started.

The scarlet woman walied at the maiming of her precious locks. She drove them under the earth.

Lucy had anticapted the low blow before. But the hair wasn't coming for her.

Flare pointed at it, red locks waving daintily next to the small Asuka.

Before she could say a word, she was bound in scarlet ropes with a Raven Tail mark nearly burning her hand. She glanced over her shoulders. Laxus singed the lock of hair and swept the child underneath his cloak.

Unafraid to go ahead now, she summoned another Spirit.

"Soushikyuu..." Gemi and Mini popped up.

"Help me out with that." The spirits transformed into her, except the new form was only in the longer cloak from before and a black skimpy bikini. Of course the crowd had a collective nosebleed.

They were immediately pacified when starlight began to illuminate the room.

"Ten wo hiraki." Gemini had thier hands upon the Lucy's shoulders channeling their energy into her. "Ten wo hiraki."

The chant continued. Orbs of colored starlight flooded the arena.

She swayed slightly, trying not to become enraptured by this.

"Hiraku...UranoMetria."

The starts hummed with energy before disappearing.

She was stunned, needless to say. How? Gemini had left the moment the spell was cast.

She slumped to the ground, defeated. The crowd jeered.

She felt strong arms, lift her up, and carry her battered body out of there.

"You did good, Blondie."

XxXxXxXx

The rest she was supposed to getting in Fairy Tail's private infirmary was taken up by questions. About her and her magic.

"You know you remind of Lucy," Levy spoke, reading a book at the same time. "she was in our guild, but then..."

Everybody sent a cold glare toward Natsu and Lisanna.

"Instigate." A hushed whisper from the giant sitting next to her. She could feel his glare through both their hoods.

"Well, who is this Lucy? We may have seen her in our travels."

The explanation wasn't too lengthy,but it invoked deep memories than she'd buried a while ago.

"We all hope she'll send something soon. A year and nothing but the memories." Alzack sighed, fixing his daughter's hair.

"...That is unfortunate, but perhaps hanging on to what you do not possess isn't healthy..." Laxus spoke, shaking the conversation at its core with such a cryptic warning. After a harsh murmur among the Fairies they all scuttled out of there.

"I'm tired." Laxus got comfortable in the chair, resting his head on the edge of the cot.

"You should be Laxus, after wandering so long."

They both shot up.

Gajeel and Wendy stood near the door, looking pleased.

Well, more Wendy, because the moment Gajeel opened his mouth.

"I'm not covering for you. You reap what you've sown."


Addendum: The details come later. Lucy has gotten to the point where all she needs is the key in her possession and to call out the spirit's formal name to summon them.