I'm up at the crack of dawn once more, prepared for training, but not what is to come after. I leave my tent, having slept on my training gear, and see two more spirits with the zodiacs. I approach the fire they set up to cook breakfast and I greet each spirit.
"'Mornin' Loke, Aquarius, Taurus, Lily, and Nori." I sit down and eat which ever animal the spirits have prepared today.
Let me explain some things before we get back into the story though, Lily is a tiger spirit. Her eyes burn a crimson color, far more scary than Gajeel's. She always wears a black dress with an orange, fur trim, and a winter shawl of the same pattern that's connected in front of her with an orange bow. She has wavy, orange hair that she keeps in loose pigtails in front of her. Her ears peek out through her hair, and her always moving tail sticks out the bottom of her dress. Now for something a little weirder, Nori is a cheetah, a BLUE cheetah. He doesn't like the fact that he's blue, so if you point it out, he uses his speed to kill, or at least seriously maim you. His dark blue hair is slicked back so that it looks like spikes curving around to the back of his head, he doesn't need gel to do this though, he just has to jog, yes jog, that's how fast he is. His slanted, predatory eyes are an aqua so beautiful it puts the ocean to shame. He always wears a black vest with a big, green zipper going up the front, and with another stripe on each side that leads to where is sleeves should be. He wears black track pants, with green stripes going up the sides of course, and green high-tops.
"Good Morning brat/princess/moos Lucy/Lucy!" They chorus back happily.
"Okay, what's on the agenda for today?" I ask, having finished a leg of whatever bird they cooked.
"Well first you have magic with me, then Taurus, and you've mastered Aquarius' trial so after that we battle. Then we go back to the castle and wait for the big news your mother wants to tell us, then you go home." Loke answers quickly, explaining exactly what needs to be done.
"Well then!" I jump up from my seat. "We need to get to work!" The spirits agree and stand up shortly after, I turn to Loke.
"How're we training this time?" I ask, hoping for something other than star charts.
"You've mastered memorizing all the spirits and where their stars or constellations are so we'll begin with harnessing your power." He replied.
"No more star charts!" I shout happily, jumping up, my fist raised above my head in celebration.
"As the daughter of the Celestial Spirit King, you can harness the power of the night sky and space itself." My eyes go wide for a moment, then I remember the last line of the prophecy and nod for Loke to continue.
"So for now I'll be teaching you simple things but first, you need to find your power." Loke sits down, his legs crossed on the ground and motions for me to do the same, I quickly catch on and begin to meditate. AN: How is it so EASY for them to meditate!?
I feel myself drifting into an inky blackness, drawn downwards, towards a force that feels hot, but freezing at the same time, something harsh, but also gentle. The opposites of space and night. I think, the sound echos around me, and with that sentence I'm drawn towards the power faster, I see it, the source of my power. At the bottom of the tunnel is a golden dragon, sleeping. At the end of it's tail is a star as dark as the night itself, it's wings look like the night sky on a clear night, the stars that dot its wing glowing ever-so-softly, and the constellations drawn with lines of red. The dragon lifts its head to show claws that look like ice, and it's now open eyes are beautiful. The whites are tinted slightly with a vivid auburn. The irises a glacier blue, and the pupils look like meteors."So you have found me, Lucy Tentai Dreyar Dragneel." The dragon spoke with a voice that commands authority, but is gentle at the same time.
"I have a feeling that you are the dragonslayer power my 'father' sealed all those years ago."
The dragon noted the aura that grew around me when I mocked Jude by the way I said 'father'. The aura was that of hatred and disgust, as if I was thinking of a slimy, gross, creature, not one of the most powerful men in all of Fiore. Though he is a slimy, gross, sales man.
"I am that power, I am the power of Ochita Hoshi, the fallen star, the dragon of space and night. I got upon the dragon, who then flew us back up the inky black tunnel, and when I awoke a blinding light faded inside me, showing my friends cowering behind things, shielding their eyes.
"I'm sorry for creating that light." As I apologized the spirits gasped, so in turn I looked at them as if they had three heads.
"Y-you have fangs Lucy." Nori stuttered, I raised a hand to my mouth and felt fangs.
"So I am a dragonslayer now." As I said this sentence spells popped into my head, as if Hibiki was downloading them into my mind.
"Is Hibiki here?" I ask.
"What would you want with the playboy?" Asked Loke, disgust in his voice.
"You're a playboy too and because it felt like he was downloading spells into my mind." Loke looks shamefully at the ground for the first part, then seems to understand for the second.
"He's not here, you were just experiencing the immediate response to learning first gen dragonslaying without a dragon, or years of time." I 'oh' in understanding and face the forest, anting to test a few of the spells.
"CELESTIAL FREEZE!" I shout punching a tree, it freezes and I try another on it.
"CELESTIAL BURN!" I shout, causing the ice to shatter, breaking the tree, then the ice melted and the pieces of the tree burnt to bits.
"Wow." Was all that was heard in the silence that followed my display, courtesy of Aquarius.
"I-I think you have magic down." Loke finally stutters, still mostly in shock. Taurus, noticing that it's now his turn un-freezes himself from shock and gets ready for today's lesson.
"Miss Lucy, there are weapons you don't have to carry, I'm speaking of course, of yourself. Today we'll be focusing on hand-to-hand combat." Taurus explains, once again so serious that he drops his bovine-ish pronunciation. I get into my fighting stance and hold my hands, in fist form. Taurus prepares himself for my attack. He glare at each other for a few seconds, but then I run forward, apparently I was too fast for Taurus to register so I got a hit on his gut, causing him to go back a few inches. He kicks and I go flying, so I charge again, right hook, kick, punch, Lucy-kick, trip, I win. Of course between these steps to my plan Taurus got a few hits in, although I did dodge most of them. Taurus, having lost our fight, bandaged himself and got ready for our big battle.
"Okay Lucy, it's 5 vs 1." Says Loke, I nod, signaling that I'm ready. The zodiacs charge, Loke gathering light in his hands, Aquarius holding her urn, preparing a river, and taurus holding his axe at the ready. Just as they attack I run, dodging their attacks and placing myself behind them.
"METEOR SHOWER!" I yell, and rocks fall from the sky, knocking out the zodiacs, which left me with Lily and Nori. Nori runs to the side, barely even a blue blur, and gets in one good hit,but before he can run away he gets caught up in my whip and thrown to the ground, by the time I'm done with Nori, Lily has disappeared, using the patterns on her skin as camouflage, but I sense her and lash out with both of my whips, one grabbing each arm, and pull her out of the woods, straight into my knee.
"I WIN!" I shout throwing my hands into the air. The spirits stand back up again and congratulate me then head over to the tents to nurse their wounds. I run over.
"SORRY! Was I too rough?" I ask, helping them with each of their wounds.
"No, not at all, it was to be expected that you'd beat us up pretty badly, I just didn't think it would be this quickly." Assured Loke, I sighed with relief.
"In any case we should head back to the palace." Said Lily. We agreed that we would head over once they finished dressing their wounds.
We arrived at the castle a while ago, so I'm now wandering around in a lame attempt to figure out the lay out. I stumble upon the kitchen and hear my stomach growl, so I get myself an apple. A very sweet one, one so sweet it's practically candy. I then go back to wandering around, and find my room. Figuring that it would be a good idea I start to pack, changing into my usual clothes and packing my training ones, my new weapons, some dresses, and books, and a picture of my mother and father. As soon as I finish my mother walks in.
"Here you are Lucy. I need you to follow me."
"'Course Mom." I say, jumping off of my bed. I follow her through the maze of a castle, into a room with nothing but a lacrima on a table in it, along with two chairs. Layla takes a seat so I take the one across from her.
"Lucy, I have bad news." I did not like where this was going. "The security on Zeref's creations have gone up, not only do you need a Celestial Summoners blood." I shivered thinking of all the times I've been kidnapped for that reason, Layla continued.
"But also that of a dragon, and you hold both." I stared at her in shock.
"Follow me, I need to show you another thing." She got up and I followed, still in a slight daze.
We stopped in the garden and my mother started to transform, until she was a dragon.
"Ochita Hoshi." I say, recognizing my mother's form as the dragon at the bottom of the dark tunnel.
"That is my true name, and my blood is in your veins, making you a zero gen."
"So this is the dragonslayer power of a child of a dragon.""Precisely." My mother stated, transforming back into a dragon.
"How? Aren't you Makarov's daughter?"
"Yes, but the reason he doesn't speak of my is because of his wife, a dragon. He married a dragon, but her blood was only transferred into me, not Ivan, and during our birth, she died." Layla said sadly, the story making perfect sense now.
"I see, but what about the seals?" I ask.
"Yes, a guild called Devil's Snake wishes to unleash Zeref's demons to become the rulers of the world." She said.
"Do you know anything else?" I ask, wishing to know as much about our foes as possible.
"Only that all the members were once members of the council, or wish to take revenge upon the council." She replied solemnly, wishing she could give me more information. I sense her sadness and come up with a plan to make her happier.
"Could you show me how to make a pair of earrings like mine for Ana?" I ask, she immediately lightens up and grabs m hand, running to a secret, underground room, hidden under one of the rose bushes that make up the maze. She asks me to light a fire in the fire pit at the center of the room, which I happily do while she pulls out rubies and silver. She then explains to me how to melt them down and mold them with my bare hands, which no longer feel the heat of the fire I made, probably because it's my own magic. The end result is a pair of earrings, exactly, down to the last detail, like mine. From one of the drawers a pull out a small black box, covered in intricate, golden designs. Having placed the earrings in the box we head back to the palace, discussing meaningless things until we arrive at my room. Picking up my bag I speak to my mother.
"I love you, and thanks for the warning about the Devil's Snake guild." I hug her and open another portal, one that landed me directly behind Natsu.
I hug Natsu, startling him, which caused him to scream, which caused the guild to look at us, which caused them to scream.
"Lucy/Bunny-Girl/Lu-chan/Luce is back!" I cover my ears firmly, disliking the pain that the noise caused. They stop screaming when I shush them, or more likely, when they sense the power radiating off me. Makarov slides down the banister and walks over to me, he hands me three bracelets and a necklace.
"Here child, you'll need these magic limiters." I take them gratefully and put them on. I then kneel down and hug him.
"I met her, and I'm sorry about your wife." I whisper, and the master starts to cry.
"So you met Ochita Hoshi, and my wife is a different matter, as she will always be in my heart." I hug the master once more and ask a very important question."Where's my twin?" The guild points to Happy who flies in a few circles around the guildhall before stopping in front of me.
"She's with someone she liiiikes!" He answers in his usual, annoying fashion.
"Who might that be?" I ask, he shakes his head.
"She hasn't told a soul." He says, and I see his thoughts, and memories.
"Oh, she's with Rouge." I say, Happy jolts back in surprise.
"H-how'd you know?" He asks, shocked.
"If I look at someone long enough I can see their thoughts and memories." I reply simply.
"Evergreen!" I call, and she comes over. "Where do you get the glasses that stop you from turning people to stone?" I ask.
"Magic shop about two blocks from here." She replied, having heard my conversation with Happy, just like the rest of the guild. I walk out the door and head over to the magic shop she spoke of.
~.o0O Time Skip O0o.~
"I'm back!" Lucy shouts, bursting through the guild doors to see her sister. She approaches and speaks the strangest thing to say to a tin you haven't seen in a year.
"How was your date with Rouge?" To this Ana turns a million different shades of red.
"Well in any case I have a present for you." Ana's blush dies down considerably and waits, very excitedly as Lucy pulls a black box out of her bag. Lucy holds it in front of Anastasia and opens it, showing two earrings, exactly like Lucy's. Anastasia looks as if her heads going to burst with excitement, and she does, she squeals so loud and high pitched that she breaks all the glass that isn't reinforced with magic in the guild hall.
"I'm glad you like them." Says Lucy simply, ignoring the destruction that surrounded quickly put in the earrings, not noticing her canines elongating. Lucy pulls out glasses and put them on her twin, no one except, Levy, Natsu, Erza, Happy, Wendy, and Laxus telling them apart.
"Now, tell me what happened while I was gone."