Author's Note: Hello, here is chapter 13! This one may seem kinda slow because there aren't really any battles, but its still a fun chapter! I really enjoy the design of Lumiose City, and adding that with Lucy and her energy was really fun to write. Because of that; this chapter basically features her running around and enjoying the city, and I hope you enjoy it with her!

Also, I do not own Fairy Tail or Pokémon.

Chapter 13 - Enjoying the City of Lights

Lucy and her team had now made it through the challenging desert wastes of the Kalos Badlands, but now as the team made their way to the exit on the south side of Route 13, Lucy bumped into a rather tall gentleman with a black coat and long white hair.

He also wore several articles of clothing over his head which made it hard to see his face. Then the frightening disheveled man spoke up in a faint monotone voice.

"The Pokémon… The flower Pokémon… The Pokémon that was given eternal life…"

She looked up and the enormous derelict man in horror as she began frowning in fear for her life.

"…Elfman?"

The large man simply ignored her, and continued heading north with some odd sense of determination, all while mumbling something else underneath his breath.

Lucy was left in total confusion. "Well, I guess that wasn't him...haha" .

As she ignored that odd spectacle of a man, Lucy finally made it through the passage and stepped into the other side of the gateway to enter inside Lumiose City's North Boulevard. The blonde wizard opened her eyes widely as she took in the sights of the beautiful town that sat before her, equally as brilliant as the first day she found it.

"Ahhh...' She took in a large breath of self satisfaction for making it this far along on her journey, and swiftly ran down through the Magenta Plaza to heal her Pokémon in their PC sitting at the far end of the street.

However, as she finished up with her resting peace, Lucy left the PC and got a message from her fancy Holo Caster device sitting inside her now cluttered trainer bag.

"Hello, Lucy! I was notified by my message app that you just arrived in Lumiose! Why don't you come on over to the Lysandre Café in the Magenta Plaza and say Hi?"

Smiling, she shut off the device and took the invitation, while she also quickly ran over to the dark red café at the side of the exact same plaza she was currently in.

When Lucy got there she noticed it was rather elegant and far flashier than the other cafés around town. She also saw Professor Sycamore sitting at a table with two other individuals the moment she entered through the door. The first guest was a man with spiky red hair that obnoxiously stood up on top of his scalp. He also wore a very expensive black and red suit and a fair bit of facial hair covering his grim expression. To his right, the second guest was a rather young and very pretty woman with short brown hair and blue eyes; and she was sitting with the other two gentlemen at their table. She had on a short white trench coat with a white shirt and short pants, and she carried a white and pink hand bag hanging on her arm.

"Over here!"

As Lucy went to confront them all, Sycamore turned around, and stood from his chair to greet her.

The young Pokemon professor nodded with a small grin. "I was just having a conversation with my colleagues about Mega Evolution...Actually, I don't believe you've met either of these fine faces.

Sycamore let them stand from their chairs, and gestured to the man in the black suit with spiky red hair. "This man is Lysandre, of the very same name as this cafe!

Professor Sycamore continued. "This is Lysandre. He is the owner of this luxurious café and the inventor of the Holo-Caster. Isn't that impressive?"

Lucy went to meet the red haired man, but she felt rather suspicious when confronting him. Then Lysandre interrupted her thought.

"Oh! So it was you who received a Pokédex from the professor then…How wonderful!"

Lucy lowered her shoulders, and smiled as Lysandre seemed slightly nicer than she expected. He then carried on. "That is a wonderful thing, indeed. You are one of the chosen ones. I am Lysandre. I've tried to learn as much about Pokémon as I can to help build a brighter future. Professor Sycamore has taught me so much. Oh, I see you have a Holo Caster! Knowledge is power, after all. Put it to good use...

Sycamore actually added on from there. "That's right! The Holocasters are actually made in Lysandre's lab. Lysandre himself is of ancient royalty, and he uses his influences to try and make this region a truly better place."

She nodded along with everything they had to say, but still felt awkward with the brown haired woman smirking in the back ground during the entire introduction of Lysandre. Then, the tall red haired man jumped back into his current thought.

"True. I'm a descendant of the king's younger brother. That being said, that story is 3,000 years old, so it might not be entirely reliable..but thank you none the less, Professor. It is vital that this world become a better place. And the people and Pokémon chosen to make the world better must work tirelessly to achieve this goal...even if it brings harm to an older way of life."

He finally turned to address the young girl standing as the fourth member of the group, and all while she seemed to look very entertained, Lysandre raised his eyebrow. "You played a young girl so wonderfully in your debut on the silver screen, didn't you Diantha? Wouldn't you rather remain young and beautiful forever and always play such roles?"

Lucy gasped at his forward comment, but the girl named Diantha waved it away with a sly grin. "What a strange question, Lysandre...Why would I want to play the same old roles forever? Youth may be beautiful, but it's not all there is to life. Everything changes. I want to live and change like that, too. So I look forward to playing different roles as I get older."

That answer made Lucy smile, but she quickly shook her head and realized how awkward it was to just sit here and listen to these characters hold a conversation without her. She also seemed too frightened to talk over Lysandre, because now he was choosing to respond to Diantha's remarks.

"You were chosen to be a movie star, correct? Isn't it your duty to be ever beautiful?"Everything beautiful should stay that way forever. I would make this world unchanging and eternal so all beauty will last forever...I would end the world in an instant so that beauty never fades...I can't stand the thought of the world becoming uglier."

Sycamore shook his head through the long pause of silence, and grinned with some inside sense of humor clouding his brain. "Anyway, Lucy. Congratulations on getting a hold of your Mega Ring, and on your first 4 badges!"

Lysandre clapped two hands together and nodded to that remark. "I would like to congratulate you as well. Mega Evolution is something I, too, would like to be able to use."

Then he finally turned to Lucy, and stepped forward with an embarrassed smile. "It seems I'm ruining the moment, Lucy. Take that as an apology for my taking up your time." He handed Lucy a mysterious King's Rock, and slipped by the entire group as he left his own cafe for some other mysterious destination.

After he left, the brown haired woman laughed looked right at Sycamore. "Wow, he's more of a character than some of the roles I've played in my films, isn't he? After all this time he still tries to argue the true meaning of beauty...As if this city weren't enough to hold his appetite?"

Sycamore nodded, but tried keeping his smile well intact. "What a passionate person, indeed. He's just like a blazing flame. Perhaps his pride in his lineage is what makes him burn so intensely. That being said, what Lysandre says is only one way to looking at things...It's not necessarily the truth, am I right Lucy?

He then straightened his attitude and slapped his cheek. "Oh, before I forget, Lucy! This is Diantha, one of the most accomplished movie stars in Kalos. She moves the multitudes with her excellent acting, and also trains on the side as an accomplished Pokemon Trainer!"

The brown haired woman stepped forward and looked up and down the body of the blonde trainer before her. "And you are Lucy, right? You have a lovely name, dear."

She also looked down to see Lucy had truly acquired a Mega Ring just like Augustine had told her, and that alone made her smile even brighter. "With Mega Evolution, I'm quite sure you hold strong bonds with each one of your Pokemon...They really are important to us all, aren't they? When I'm acting, I think I'm always trying to forge a bond between myself and the character I'm playing. If all I think about is how I'm nothing like a character, then I'll just hate playing it...But if I focus on what I have in common with the character and put myself in her shoes, I might be able to understand her. It's the same for people-or Pokémon."

Lucy nodded blankly, but started feeling more and more uncomfortable. "Great...nice to hear two back to back life stories of totally irrelevant video game characters."

Diantha didn't catch what Lucy actually said, but it made her giggle into her hand regardless. "Oh, never mind me! I'm just babbling about my own things..." She bowed to Lucy and her good friend, Augustine, and turned for the door in her leave. "Let's have a battle the next we meet, shall we? I'll absolutely be looking forward to it!

As Diantha left the large and elaborate cafe, Sycamore continued the conversation with Lucy. "Don't let her modesty fool you. She's actually a very famous trainer here in Kalos...Anyway I have to run off to run some tests. I just wanted to see you real quick to congratulate you on receiving the Mega Ring! That's very impressive, and it gets me one step closer to my research goal!"

He then stopped and handed her a map of the entire city. "In the meantime, stick around and enjoy the sites of Lumiose! When you're finished I would challenge the gym leader, Clemont at the Prism Tower."

Professor Sycamore then turned to leave for the door. "Either way, enjoy the sights of the city, Lucy!" He smiled as he walked out of her sight.

"Okay! Now I'm all fired up!" Lucy smiled and let out a laugh of relief the moment she left the café, and ran off to enjoy the gorgeous sunny day sparkling ahead over Lumiose City.

As Lucy strolled around the town, she decided on letting one of her Pokémon follow her on her tour, and since Wendy in her Altaria form seemed to be the smallest and most mobile member of the team; she was the one who accompanied Lucy on her stroll.

"Wow this is amazing! It's so spread out! I bet there are a lot of things to do in this town, huh?" Wendy asked as she let out a big smile of her own.

Lucy met her emotion with an equal amount of happiness as she answered her companion's very important question. "Yep! And we're gonna try and do them all!"

They wondered about the streets enjoying the sounds and sights as they stopped off at one of the restaurants for a bite to eat, and soon after went out to test the locale at all of the famous shops scattered about town.

Despite her best efforts however, Lucy wasn't finding any luck with good shopping deals. She ran into her first bit of bad news at the exclusive Stone Emporium shop located on Autumnal Avenue.

"What? You're selling these for how much!? That's insane!" She then stormed off as she couldn't control her anger. One by one she tried going into every shop in town, and to her disadvantage, the poor trainer couldn't find any good shopping centers for discounted business.

"Ugh, I should have known this town would be expensive…" Lucy frowned as she slumped up against the wall of a random building on the street.

"Awe, cheer up, Lucy!" Wendy smiled for the sake of her friend. "I know, let's go to the clothing shop on Vernal Avenue! I bet that'll lighten your mood!" She cheered as she led Lucy to their next destination.

"Ugh, I have a bad feeling about this…" Lucy thought to herself as they walked away anway.

~Meanwhile, outside the Boutique Couture clothing store located on Vernal Avenue…

"Uh, we're sorry but we can't let someone with your style enter our store! Good Day!"

And just like that, Lucy was kicked out of the luxurious two-storied shopping center. As she sat on the streets, the un-stylish blonde trainer pouted with fists blasting through the air.

"Oh man! Why does everything in this town have to be so exclusive!?"

Wendy tried to answer but she felt too uncomfortable this time. Suddenly, however, Levy's voice could be heard through the microphone back in Magnolia.

"Oh, sorry Lucy! We left for lunch…oh did we catch you at a bad time?" Levy asked awkwardly as she saw Lucy lying on the sidewalks of Lumiose through the computer.

Lucy shot up and pleaded her case. "Oh, Levy! You have to help me! Tell me how to get more style!"

Levy paused as she didn't understand the request. "Umm, I'm not sure I know how to do that?"

She confessed in embarrassment as Cana looked at the open manual to her left, and quickly took the mic from Levy's hands. "…But I know someone who can help!"

Lucy then found herself walking into the Lumiose Press Building on Estival Avenue. There she was greeted by Alexa, the girl she met back in Santalune City.

Alexa smiled as she began to greet the blonde Celestial Wizard as she entered the office. "Oh! You're that kid-the one who came to see me! Hey, hey, so tell me... Has that Exp. Share been useful?"

"O-oh, yea I suppose?" Lucy thought Alexa the Lumiose City journalist would be able to help her find more style, but awkwardly nodded as she received a question regarding her Exp. Share instead.

Alexa waved her hand with delight. "You haven't forgotten about me, have you? I'm the journalist Alexa. I gather info about what's going on in Lumiose, and then I write it down. I travel the world to gather information, but Lumiose is my real stomping ground. And I don't just know the famous shops...I could tell you exactly how many Espurr are in every one of our alleys! I know everything about this city, so you just come to me if there's anything you ever want to know!"

"That's more like it! I need to find the easiest way to gain access to the clothing store!" As Lucy explained her case to the virtual avatar, the reporter smiled and gave her some advice.

"So you want to get discounts and gain access to the clothing boutique, huh? No problem! All's you have to do is earn more style." Alexa then took a piece of paper and wrote down several addresses and as she handed the note to Lucy she began to explain. "Head down the street to North Boulevard. That's the boulevard that runs around the northern half of Lumiose City, of course. The popular destinations on North are the Battle Institute, Hotel Richissime, and...oh forget the rest for now! Just go around and try hitting up these hot-spots. If people notice you experiencing these places, than you're sure to gain more style."

She then handed Lucy the paper and waved her hand once again. "If you want a tip on where to start, try heading to the luxurious Hotel Richissime for a chance to work a few quick jobs there. That way, you can also earn some extra spending money as you crank up your style!"

"Wow, thanks Alexa! I'll do just that!" Lucy said her farewells and took the advice as she fled for North Boulevard to try her hand at the Hotel Richissime.

When she got to the hotel, the attendants gladly took her request.

"Oh absolutely, we'd love to have you work for the day! Come on in!" and just like that Lucy found herself in the day time employment of the Hotel Richissime.

They had her perform everything; from room service orders, making beds and cleaning rooms, and even managing the hotel lost and found. Even though some of the chores were challenging, Lucy really enjoyed herself on her min mission, and even learned a few extra tips for the game.

As the day finished up, the crew congratulated her on a hard day of work.

"Oh wow! That you again for your help, Miss! Please, if you need any extra spending money in the future, feel free to stop by again!" They then smiled and sent her off with a huge reward.

Lucy grinned as she left the hotel and clenched her new reward firmly in hand. "Oh yea! Maybe this won't be that hard to do after all…?"

She appeared to be dead wrong, as she tried entering another store, and instead of receiving a discount she still met everything at face value.

"Grrrrr WHY CAN'T I JUST BUY THINGS IN THIS TOWN!" The poor Lucy let out a loud yell as she began to sob hysterically.

Then, Levy spoke up after conducting a full afternoon of research. "Hold on I've figured it out! It turns out that the whole style system is actually based on style points received in the game. As you go around and complete tasks and activities throughout Lumiose you are given a certain amount of points, and as you gather points you'll eventually earn enough to do different things."

The blue haired bookworm explained with satisfaction as Lucy began to smile. "Okay, that sounds a lot better! Can you tell me how many I have now?"

Levy stopped to check Lucy's in-game statistical data. "Let's see…you currently have 5 points from talking with Alexa, 3 points for each of your Hotel jobs, 3 points for the lunch you had at Restaurant Le Yeah…"

Lucy interrupted. "Oh yea, that place! I'm glad Wendy came in with me, because they didn't even serve the meal until I battled them!" She rolled her eyes as her friend continued.

Levy laughed as she went on. "Yea…anyway that alone is 17 points, plus you and Wendy stopped off at the Lumiose Museum which is another 1 point, and finally you met with Sycamore in the Lysandre Café, which is also another 1 point! So now you should have a total of 19 points!"

Lucy looked puzzled. "How much until I start getting discounts...or better yet, how much until I gain access to the boutique!"

Levy thumbed through her notes. "It says 25 will grant you entrance into the boutique, so you still need 6 more."

Lucy thought for a moment. "Hold on, so you said I get points just for buying things, too? No matter how cheap…?"

Levy replied. "Yea, that's what it says. A lot of these objects will even give you two points!"

Lucy turned around and showed off a suspicious grin as she began rubbing her hands together. "Well then, I think I just broke the system…"

She quickly ran to the Poké Ball Store located on Autumnal Avenue, and walked over to the glass counter and began tracing her figure across the glass screen of the display case. Soon after her search, Lucy found the cheapest item on the shelves at 200 Poké Dollars.

"Give me one Premiere Ball, please!" But after she received her item, she then went back and ordered two more separate items.

After conducting her three individual purchases, Levy laughed. "Wow, Lucy that actually did it!"

"Hooray!" Lucy smiled and ran straight for Vernal Avenue. "Clothing here I come!"

As Lucy was finally granted entrance into the shop, she began trying on several outfits. Just then, the computer crew also got a call over their communication lacrima.

"Oh, hey look Cana! It's Nigel!" Levy smiled as she alerted her brown haired friend.

Cana rolled her eyes and laughed. "Uh-oh, here we go…better tell him where our trainer is."

The Card Mage grabbed the communication controls on the CPU and continued with the message.

"Hey loser! I hope you're trip's going lousy!" She chuckled loudly into the mic as she tried lightening the mood for Nigel on the other line. "Oh by the way, Levy's been drinkin' all your booze from upstairs!"

"CANA!" Levy jumped up and reached for the mic. "Don't tell him I was the one that drank all your bottles of alcohol!"

There was a long pause over the microphone as the other voice continued.

"Ahem, sorry, but Nigel's not here yet…He just told me to go ahead and start the message."

The two girls both then looked down simultaneously to see Panther Lily sitting alone in a hotel living room chair on the other side of the visual call.

The two exceeds sitting with Cana began laughing by themselves as Nigel finally came in from the other room with luggage bags in his hands, and he set them down and took the mic from Lily.

"Hey gang! Any of you miss me, yet?" He said with a laugh, but realized something was happening back home.

Cana smiled awkwardly, and took full control of the view. "Uh, well only a little bit...ahem...so how's the meeting?"

He frowned. "Eh, really boring actually, but we just finished up! Anyway I just wanted to catch up on the game before we left for the train. How's everything going?"

They all paused as Happy sheepishly spoke up from behind the entire group. "Um, well…Cana and Levy let Lucy hacked the style system in Lumniose City!"

"HAPPY!" Levy held her hands up to her face, while Cana grabbed the bottle opener and swatted the poor cat upside the head. he fell over, and the entire Magnolia crew sat in silence to wait for Nigel's response

However, Nigel had to stop entirely just to collect the message.

"O-oh…how did she do that, exactly?" He asked with concern and curiosity.

Carla the exceed chose to respond. "Because your idiot writers had it set to give her points for every cheap purchase in the city; which made it very easy to break the 25 point threshold for the clothing store!"

Happy laughed as he rubbed the sore spot on his aching head. "Yea, now she's making a mess and buying a ton of cloths at the store!"

Nigel panicked as he shouted back to the crew.

"NO! She needs to save her money for the end! I can hack in clothing for her at any time, but I CANNOT touch the money system or regular items!"

He had to pause again just to spend time assuming the worst. "Plus since this is still the Beta Version I imagine she'll has access to nearly every single article of clothing...all from inside Lumiose! Those idiots never set it up to only sell certain items at different shops! I'll have to hurry up and get back before she bleeds the whole town dry!" He quickly shut off the receiver as the team paused in silence.

Then, they were interrupted as Lucy came out from the changing room, and it appeared she had bought enough clothing to change out of her sporty look and into a new design.

The new, fresh trainer wore a beige cycling cap with white rimmed sunglasses on her head, a bright yellow smock top that match her light blonde hair, dark brown (olive) cross-laced shorts, and brown boots that matched her eyes. She also carried a pale pink hand bag to go with her guild emblem, and she had her hair tied back in a single pony tail, courtesy of the game's new style settings.

She smiled proudly and performed a spin for her computer audience. "Well, I'm ready to go now! What's say we go get that 5th badge?"

Lucy grinned with oblivious delight, and began humming the small tune that usually greeted her inside the lobby of every Pokemon Gym. Then, as she left for the door of the shop, her friends all stopped and turned to the mouthy blue cat.

Happy spoke alone over the group and voiced the universal thought on everyone's mind.

"Yep…that's our Lucy."

Well that was light hearted! It was also very Fairy Tail-esc! If you wanna know how I chose to soundtrack my writing for this chapter; I used two songs from FT Soundtrack Vol. 1. First, when Lucy left Sycamore and began walking around town, I played the "Lucy Theme" in the back ground as I wrote the scene. It has a nice bounce in the melody and it also featured an accordion which really in a way fit the "French" them of Lumiose (not trying to offend anyone, I like it!) Also, when she went in to work at the hotel I played my personal favorite sound track "Busy Streets" to help write that scene (the violin/fiddle in the first half is one of the greatest melodies I have ever heard.)

However, I am sad to point out that recently I took a visit to YouTube to play some FT songs, and I noticed that a good portion of all FT content is being blocked, and practically every song from the old series is down. This makes me really, really, really sad...

Anyway, I cheer up! In the meantime, look for chapter 14 tomorrow!