She feels silly, but opens her mouth while sort of facing the sun. She feels eyes looking at her, but tries to ignore them as she tries to gather in the sunlight. Before long, she starts feeling frustrated.

"Relax. It will get easier when you get the hang of it. Later when your control is managed, you might be able to spin the light into balls and eat those, but that is one of the last things that you'll be able to learn. I'll teach you later."

"Spin it? Like yarn?"

"I was thinking more of the lines of cotton candy that Aires makes back home, but I guess so."

"Candy floss! Perfect imagery, okay." She imagines that the sunbeams are no more than a silk worm's silk and starts weaving them together until it is thread's thickness, and then braiding them until it is thinner yarn. Okay, now to make it, it swirls super fast, right? That would be like what he was doing at the guildhall. Swirling. How would that be? Just around and around? No, or you'll just get a wrapped cord or an easy mess. What I need is a ball, pieces going every way to stay together, but generally the same direction. Organised chaos. In spherical form, it would have to be moving like...like...huh. Like what? They aren't steady or I'd finish with the yarn thing and make a yarn ball. Moving constantly, consistent sphere. Oh, it is right there too! It's a...hmm. Mom had one, had a fairy inside and glitter all around and it looked like it was sno- a snow globe! Perfect! So the strings are all thrown around randomly in harmony like a snow globe. Lucy smiles, which has Draco wondering what is going on in her head.

Then he noticing her hands starting to glow. Eyeing them closer, he is surprised as balls of light are formed over her palms, twirling to keep form. Is that magic, or light? He leans closer to sniff them and figured out that it is sunlight. They almost look like replicas of the sun, just made of light and not all of the other elements. But how? I haven't taught her this. They get to be decent sized and slow down to a stop, keeping their shape as they fall right to her hand.

"It worked?" She is looking at her hand in disbelief.

"How did you do it?"

"I didn't know if it would."

"What were you thinking about?"

"Well, I was thinking about what you showed Romeo at the guildhall."

"That was magic though, not sunlight. We weren't even outside."

"Doesn't the same process work?"

"That isn't the point. Maybe you should show and tell me what you can do."

"But I didn't know that."

"You're calling it beginner's luck?"

"I guess so. I was just imagining it and it turned out right." She holds the little ball up and inspects it. The ball is about the same size as an apple and she tosses it between her hands.

"It's holding steady?"

"I think so. Catch!" She tosses it at him and he easily plucks it out of the air with his front claws.

"That's interesting. It obviously has enough to it that it didn't drift in the air and it felt like it had some impact, but it is as light as air. And it stayed together out of your hands." He thinks about it. "Can you make another one?"

"Sure, it should be faster this time since I know what I'm going for." She whips one up again and it turns out the same.

"Alright, you can eat that one. I'm going to see how long this one lasts untouched." He rolls it over to the people waiting and watching. "Don't touch it, just tell me when it falls apart," he instructs them.

"What is it?" Freed asks.

"Sunlight. Didn't you hear him?"

"I, uh, made it so only you would hear me."

"So it seemed like I was having a conversation with myself?"

"It allowed me to just focus on you."

"This is sunlight?" Freed asks, looking at it in wonder.

"Yes." Lucy holds up the ball she has. "Do do I just eat this like normal food?"

"I don't know how well it would work out cooking with it. Just eat it like you would a normal fruit."

"If you say so." Lucy lifts it to her face and is about to eat it. "Are you sure?"

"Of course."

She takes a bite out of it and the flavour floods her. It is like honey, fruit, and something she can only describe as spring and summer all wrapped into one thing. "Woah. This tastes awesome."

"You're able to eat it fine? No uncomfortableness?"

"I think so."

"Okay then, finish up. We were working on something else, weren't we? Find the dragon part and push it out, and stretch it, like a muscle before you jog."

"I've never really been one for jogging."

"Really? Your legs look quite muscular."

"Yes, really."

"Well, the concept still applies." She continues to eat her light ball. "After a few days of stretching it out, you won't have to anymore since it will be stretched to you. Your other dragon slayer friends didn't have to do this part because they grew up with this magic. Now find, push, and stretch outward. It will end up feeling like a bubble around you."

"Got it." She closes her eyes and easily finds the night-like feeling and floods her body with it again. Feeling discord in her body, she silently summons Loke and Gemini before it eases again. Her focus shifts better onto her dragon magic and pushes it out of her skin and beyond in one blow. It hasn't left me like I thought it would. Not like a balloon that is hallow on the inside as Aquarius's magic does, but more like an indestructible water balloon that is six feet in diameter. A thick, membrane-like thing all the way around of magic, but it feels like it is also floating around the space and in me. It feels like I could just float with it.

"Now hold it for as long as you can. You can still hear me, right?"

"I can, Draco."

"Good." Draco walks over to Gemini, who has transformed into Lucy. "How is she doing?"

"Fantastic. Her thoughts are a little funny, but that seems to be just how she imagines the magic is. Says it is like she is floating in a huge water balloon or something."

"Is that normal for her to think of funny ways to describe things?"

"Well, she's a writer. Not published, but the imagination is still there. That is how she made the little ball earlier."

"So she can't tell that her balloon idea was spot on and that she really is floating on the inside of it?" They look at the blue mass of energy that is surrounding a floating Lucy. Every so often it looks like there are yellow streaks going around it.

"No, she thinks it is all in her head."

"That is the physical manifestation of her dragon magic?" Freed asks Draco.

"For the most part, yes. When she works in her celestial magic later, there should be more yellow. Leo, Gemini, Aires, Nicola, Capricorn, and myself...six spirits, four being Zodiacs, and she can still make a ball that is two yards wide. Incredible. It won't take her long to complete this after all if she is already working with six. Is she pushing herself too much, Gemini?"

"No obvious signs of strain, her heart is steady and her breathing is slow, like she just concentrating on her magic. She doesn't know how long it has been, but she doesn't feel tired. But she-ha!"

"What?"

"She was wondering if we just left with her sitting in a clearing, meditating." Draco is about to all out to her, but Gemini stops him. "Wait, I can hear me speak."

"But she is halfway across the field," Freed says.

"Her senses are coming in then. With all that stretching, they are going to appear," Loke points out.

"Oh no," Draco says.

"What?"

"I thought they would come gradually or I'd have to teach her, but if they are coming in all at once..."

"How do we stop her?" Loke asks, instantly understanding the problem.

"We can't. Gemini, change to someone else."

"Why?"

"Just do it."

She huffs and turns into Draco's human form. "So that's why. And you're right about not getting her out, but we could try letting her disperse it herself."

"How?"

She turns to Lucy. "Hey Princess! It's Gemini here. Open your eyes."

"You sound like Draco."

"I am Draco. Now open them, sweetie." Lucy laughs and opens her eyes, and they go super wide in shock and wonder.

"What is this?"

"It's your magic."

"It is so beautiful. It is like I'm flying through the night sky."

"That's pretty cool. Listen, your dragon senses are about to catch up with you."

"Is that why I can hear you fine when you're speaking normally?"

"Yes, and it is going to hit you like a freight train any moment now. You need to dissipate this or reign it in before that happens."

"How do I do that?"

"Bring in as much as you can first, then shoot the excess into the sky, straight up."

"Wouldn't that be a little suspicious?"

"It may, but if it is this active when your senses hit you, you could hurt all of us as you loose control of it. It would be like letting a pack of dogs loose on everyone."

"Great," she says sarcastically. "That was a smart move."

"Could I write runes for you?" Freed asks. "I could put up a safety shield."

"Good idea, Freed." Master says and Gemini turns into Freed, assessing him.

"No, this is not good. You don't know enough about what you are deflecting or how to describe it to be useful right now, but," she changes to Aires. "Wool wall for a perimeter may work. Go around the field."

"Alright!" The real Aires puts her hands up and mutters apologies as she makes a pink cushion around the field, attracting the attention of the two at the other side.

"What's going on with Blondie? Why is here two of Freed?"

"Two of-" Freed looks at Gemini to see that she has definitely turned into him again.

"What? I like your hair."

"This is not the time to be fooling around, Gemini," Loke warns.

"What is wrong with providing a little comic relief to the situation, Leo? Princess Lucy is going to be fine. She is going to reign it all in."

"You can't know that. She doesn't even know how."

"She'll figure it out, just give her time."

"We don't have long."

"Patience, Draco; she's got this. Aires is almost done with the barrier, but I'm sure we won't need it. I have trust in my girl."

"I do trust her."

"Yes, to learn magic. Add more faith to that trust. The bubble is already shrinking." They look back over to find it true before Taurus, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Cancer, and Virgo appear. After that, the magic shrinks quickly back into her. "I would teach her using them in tandem soon, but all us Zodiacs are out now." After it is into her, Lucy stands.

"I did it. Hey guys, I-ah!" She falls to the ground while clutching her head.

Laxus speeds over to her to pick her up and she cries at the noise of his footfalls. "What is wrong with her?"

"Holding her magic caused her to get her extra senses extra quick and it is overpowering her."

"What can we do?"

"Nothing."

"But it didn't hit me like this."

"You got it gradually as you grew and adapted to it. It is hitting her full blast right now and she doesn't know how to dampen it or ignore it."

"So teach her how."

"That is something I cannot, but I'm surprised her spirits are still here, all of her Zodiacs too...she had the clock guy too, right Leo?"

"Horologium? Yes."

"Lucy, call out Horologium. He should make it bearable until you get used to it by steadily increasing your senses." She follows the loud command quickly and is wrapped up into the grandfather clock.

"'Thanks, Draco,' she says gratefully." He says like an unbiased narrator.

"Not a permanent thing. Just get used to it bit by bit. For now, put the Zodiacs up so you can maintain Horologium until you are ready."

"'Okay,' she affirms understandably."

"Horologium, I am asking you to clear your schedule for as long as this takes. Can you do it?"

"I am certain it will be possible."

"Good. We will continue when you have been acclimated to your new senses."