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Chapter Seven - A Fluffy Filler

The next morning I woke up, still feeling exhausted. Checking my magical container, I wasn't surprised to see that it was only about halfway full.

After all the jumping around I had done yesterday, that wasn't very surprising. After the meditating with Laxus, Juvia, and Cana, I had jumped to a set of ruins somewhere in the mountains between Magnolia and the Heartfilia Konzern.

Once I was there, I had gotten some food and water from my requip space and used the tack to find the key of the Maiden. It was in the ruins of some treasure, and I couldn't help wondering how on earth Everlue had gotten his grubby little hands on it.

I had looked at the treasure around me and sighed, glad that I had worn shorts and that I had expanded my requip space. I spent the next hour or two getting down and dirty, putting treasure and jewelry and other unknown magical items in my requip space. To my surprise, other than the Virgo's key, I had also found several other keys, though I didn't know what they were, and one of them looked a bit odd. Those keys were buried pretty deep, though, so it took a while to get them out of the dirt. I put them in my requip space and put it out of my mind until later.

After that, I had changed into a dress from my requip space and wiped myself down with some water and a towel. That being done, I teleported to the Heartfilia Konzern and had a long conversation with Layla Heartfilia.

After that, I had teleported back to the ruins, so I could take a bit of a rest, and ate some food while looking around for anything else that I had missed. Looking around again, I found some books I had missed the first time around, and stored the tomes into my requip space, which was starting to get pretty full.

After that, I regained enough energy to teleport home, took a shower (kinda) and collapsed back into bed.

Looking at the clock near me, I couldn't help but notice that I had nearly slept until eleven. I got out of bed and decided to exercise/expand my magic.

Running outside, I couldn't help notice that, despite my depleted magical power, my container had gotten bigger. My requip space had, too, though I think that has more to do with me shoving it full of junk.

As I ran, I focused on the feeling of my muscles moving, my blood pumping, and my magic flowing. I felt in tune with my body, and it upped my strength and adrenaline. After I was finally exhausted, I stopped and looked at the house, realizing that I had run at least nine or ten laps.

Proud of myself, I went inside to shower (for real this time, not just wiping off dirt like last night). After I had finished and felt extremely clean, I changed and made a sandwich before teleporting to the guild.

"Ohayo minna!" I said as I walked into the training room. Laxus, Juvia, and Cana were already there.

"Where were you?" Cana asked. "We were worried."

"Sorry, I overslept, and then I had to do a few things. But I'm here now."

"Where does Onee-sama stay?" Juvia asked curiously.

"You know, that a good question," Laxus said, before turning to me. "Where do you stay? None of us know where you live."

I smiled and laughed. "I'll take you there sometime. Have you guys already gotten some meditation in today?"

They all nodded.

"Good!" I said. "Because I found some treasure last night, and I wanted to go through it with you."

That being said, I opened my requip space and dumped everything on the floor. Well, everything except the keys and books. I'd go over those later.

"That's a lot of things," Laxus said, staring at the pile.

"Hahaha, treasure!" Cana jumped in and immediately started going through things. Juvia leaned closer to some of the jewelry that was there.

"What's going on?" a voice called.

We turned and saw Makarov standing by the door.

"Onee-sama brought us treasure," Juvia said, holding up a necklace with a small sapphire pendant on it, in the shape of a raindrop.

I smiled at her. "You should keep that one. It matches your eyes."

Her eyes shone as she hugged me. "Thank you Onee-sama!"

I laughed. "Alright, let's try to find one with an amethyst."

"Why an amethyst?" Cana asked.

"For you, silly," I told her. "Your eyes are purple!"

She blushed, but she joined us on our search.

"Where did you find all of this?" Makarov asked in amazement.

I smiled at him. "I told you to be on the lookout for Gate Keys. Anyway, I did a locator spell for Virgo's key yesterday, and I found this stuff with it."

"Hey, Jiji, what's astral project mean?" Laxus asked.

"Where did you read that?" I asked.

He held up an oddly shaped helmet. "There were instructions on how to use this inside, and it says it's for astral projection."

"I would like to keep that," I said. It would come very handy in the future.

He handed it over to me and I requipped it.

"Oh, Cana-san, I found it for you!"

Cana and I turned to look at Juvia, who was holding up a necklace with a small amethyst pendant on the end. It was in the shape of a pendulum crystal.

"There, Cana, that's yours to keep. And, for now, I think I'll hold onto the jewelry. Especially for when the others join us."

"Others?" Cana asked.

I smiled at her. "I already told Juvia, but over the next few years, I'm sure we won't be the only kids to join Fairy Tail. So it wouldn't be fair to keep these jewels all to ourselves."

"Okay Onee-sama," Juvia said happily. "But first can we find one for you?"

I laughed at her. "Sure."

Cana started searching, and Juvia went to join her. Makarov went to look at some of the other artifacts.

"Oooooh, this one is pretty," Cana said. She held up a necklace with a large diamond pendant on it.

"It's perfect for Onee-sama!" Juvia said happily.

I shook my head. "Guys, I'm not going to wear a diamond necklace every day, even if it is beautiful."

Juvia frowned, but Cana remained stubborn. "Then at least promise that you'll keep this, and wear it to special guild occasions."

I smiled at them. "Alright."

The girls cheered.

"What about this one?" Laxus asked.

"Hmm?" I asked, looking at him.

"You're searching for a necklace that matches your eyes, right?" He held up a small chain with a moonstone pendant cut in the shape of a circle. It caught the light and shimmered.

"Wow!"

"So pretty!"

I blushed. "Yeah, thanks." I took it from his outstretched hand and put it on. Juvia and Cana put theirs on as well.

"I would like to take a longer look at some of these things, Elle; maybe have a few friends look at them."

"What friends?" I asked.

"A man named Yajima, and another named Warrod."

I nodded. "Yeah, those guys have always been in our corner. I'm fine with that. What would you like to hold on to?"

He separated a few weapons, several pieces of jewelry, and some odd, small shaped boxes.

"Alright," I said. "Just tell me what you find!"

He nodded and left to move the stuff to his office. I turned back to what was left (which was mostly jewelry). "We done?"

They all nodded.

"Alright," I said, requipping the items into my inventory. "Let's eat."

I went home a bit earlier that day, around three, so I could get a good look at the old tomes and the keys I had found. In addition to that, I wanted to see if I could start producing the elements for my Planetary Spells.

On the trail back home, I requipped out the keys.

The first one I looked at had a fox on it.

I tried to think of all the constellations I could.

Damn it, Elle, think.

I knew it started with a V…. Veculpa, Vapelcua, Vulepca…Vulpecula, that was it!

Vulpecula, the Little Fox. I think.

I looked at the next one. Looking closely, I was able to see a bird.

I just about groaned.

There are like…six or seven different bird constellations.

There's…Corvus the Crow, Cygnus the Swan,…um, a dove, a peacock, Apus the 'Bird of Paradise' (no clue what that even means), a toucan, a crane, an eagle…and the Phoenix. Does a phoenix count as a bird? Well, it's called a 'firebird', so I'm counting it.

Fucking nine. Why the fuck are there nine bird constellations. Do astronomers have any imagination at all? Honestly.

I squinted at it. By process of elimination, I'm pretty sure it's the eagle.

What was it's name? Ohhhhhhhh…it started with an A…and it definitely had a q…

Aquarium.

I snorted. Yeah, sure. Aquarium the Eagle, definitely.

Oh well. Aq-something the Eagle. Pretty sure there's at least one book on Celestial Magic at home, so maybe I can find the right name in there. If not, I'm sure Layla would know.

The last one had two dogs on it.

The fact that there were two dogs, made me think that it was the Hunting Dogs. Canis Ventanaci

Okay, that's definitely not right.

Oh well, I was almost home.

I glanced at the last one. I recognized the symbol, but not the metal.

But it definitely wasn't silver, that was for sure.

Looking at the symbol again, I nodded.

Oh yeah. That was definitely a unicorn.

Monoceros the Unicorn. That one I knew.

I reached the cabin and unlocked the door, going to the table and setting down the keys. Before going to the study, however, I decided to requip out the books I had also found. Maybe there was something in there I could use.

Three heavy tomes thudded onto the table, letting some dust waft into the air.

I looked at their titles.

Spirit Compendium

Power of the Planets

Celestial Spells

I blinked.

"Holy shit!" I yelled. I felt like I found the Celestial goldmine, or something. As much as I wanted to go through these books, I was also really worried about there being something else left at the site.

I tried to breathe. If there was anything else at that site, it would've been buried deep. Next time I see Lucy, I can take her to the site and she can summon Virgo to see if there's something else there.

I wondered if there were any other sites like that one.

I tried to clear my mind, and grabbed Spirit Compendium.

Opening it, I looked at the Table of Contents.

An Introduction

The Seven Platinum Keys

- A Summary

- Draco

- Hydra

- Cetus

- Phoenix

- Monoceros

- Pegasus

- Corvus

The Zodiac and the 13th

- A Summary

- Aries

- Taurus

- Gemini

- Cancer

- Leo

- Libra

- Virgo

- Scorpio

- Sagittarius

- Capricorn

- Aquarius

- Pisces

- Ophiuchus

The Silver Keys

Index

Well, I guess that answers what metal it is. Platinum.

I wasn't surprised that the silver keys weren't listed – considering the amount, they probably all have much shorter types of summaries.

I opened it to the introduction.

…Celestial Spirits can be summoned…doorways to another world…different personalities…

Blah blah blah, I already know about Celestial Spirit Magic.

I flipped forward until I found the section on the Platinum Keys.

A Summary

The Platinum Keys are the Strongest Keys that are forged. In order from Strongest to Weakest, this section will explore each of them in depth. Even the weakest of the Platinum Keys is at least on par with Leo the Lion, the Leader of the Zodiac. It takes much energy to summon them, so much so that the top five have never been summoned, and the sixth has only been summoned once. The weakest of these keys, Corvus, has been called much more, but it still takes almost twice the amount of magic for summoning a Zodiac.

I looked up from my readings to glance at the keys. The section said it would explore them each in depth from strongest to weakest, and looking at the table of contents, it is easy to rank them in that order; Draco, Hydra, Cetus, Phoenix, Monoceros, Pegasus, and Corvus.

The Platinum Key I had belonged to Monoceros. This book says that the strongest five have never been summoned, and Monoceros, while the weakest of those five, still fit that category.

That means that if Lucy can summon Monoceros, she will be his first summoner!

Flipping forward to Monoceros's section, I skimmed through it so I could find the power requirement to summon him.

My jaw nearly dropped. It seemed upon par to four Zodiacs at once, and five to fully utilize his power.

Holy shit.

Well, at least it's the unicorn. Lucy is still a young girl, and she would love to play with a unicorn (how many girls get a pet unicorn?). If I tell her about this key, she'll build up strength so she can summon him and play with him.

I looked at the three silver keys, then flipped forward to the silver section. Vulpecula would be in the end, since it was in alphabetical order. And if I was right about the eagle, it would be right near the beginning…there.

Aquila the Eagle. Known for lightning magic.

Cool.

Reading the mythology behind it, the book said that Aquila was Zeus's messenger before she became a spirit.

That explains the lightning.

I looked ahead to the Cs.

Oh, there it is.

Canes Venatici. The Hunting Dogs.

So that's how you spell it.

I read on. Known for tracking magic.

What a surprise, I thought sarcastically. I flipped ahead for the Vs.

Vulpecula the Little Fox…magic unknown.

Huh.

I shrugged and closed the book. I'm sure Lucy would appreciate a copy of this, so in my free time I'd make one.

Also, that way I'd actually be able to read it through.

I opened the book of Celestial Spells.

Opening it to the index, I quickly found Urano Metria (the only spell I knew) and flipped through until I found that page, hoping to find others like it.

I read a bit of it and then sat back, surprised.

…What the hell did I just read?

I looked at it again. Still there.

I rubbed my eyes. Sure enough, looking back at the book, it read something that somewhat scared me.

…Urano Metria is considered the weakest of the offensive Celestial Battle Spells…

I flipped until I found the list of 'Celestial Battle Spells', from Weakest to Strongest

Offensive Celestial Battle Spells, From Weakest to Strongest

Urano Metria

Urano Metria Tabulae Rudolphinae

Coelum Stellatum Christianum

Harmonia Macrocosmica

Firmamentum Sobiescanum sive Uranometria

Uranometria Nova*

I looked at those spells.

Why weren't any in English?

I sighed. "Fuck it," and flipped to the last one (considered the strongest), wondering why it was starred.

Uranometria Nova is the only known Telescopal Celestial Spell. At full power, it is able to pinpoint any distance and cause an explosion of magical power. This has only been cast successfully once, and was the inspiration for the Magic Council's Etherion Canon, which, despite their tries, has only been able to replicate around half of the magical power at most.

…what.

What.

WHY THE FUCK DOES A SPELL LIKE THAT EXIST? HOW DOES IT EVEN EXIST? HOW WOULD THAT EVEN FUCKING WORK?

A sniper spell that had the power of two Etherion blasts and maybe even a Jupiter Canon thrown in?

I quickly continued reading, wondering how on earth that was even possible. No human body could hold that much magical power, it would be insane!

The equivalent of casting this spell is about equal to summoning all of the Zodiac at once. However, the caster is not the exact person casting the spell. They are more of sending a signal to the Spirit King and the Celestial Realm, and summoning the power of the stars together. The caster does not use their magic energy to produce the blast, merely summon it and point it at a certain destination. This is the full power of the stars, and, as such, is the most destructive Celestial Spell to exist, and should only be used in times of extreme emergencies. While he is unlikely to do so if the caster sends out all the magical power needed (as that usually means that the situation is an emergency enough) the Spirit King can stop the gathered power from going off, and break off the spell. However, this will only happen if it is summoned for something trivial, and would be complete overkill.

I stared at the book in awe. Could this be an alternative for Lucy? Would she be able to do this instead of sacrificing Aquarius's key?

My spirits fell as I looked at the spell again. No, it wouldn't, because we would all be caught in the blast if she was to do something like that.

I gritted my teeth. I would find an alternative. One way or another, I would find a way to stop the pain and suffering caused by Tartaros. Lucy won't have to sacrifice Aquarius, Erza won't be tortured, Gray won't lose his father, and Natsu and the other dragon slayers won't lose their parents.

If there wasn't a spell that could do what I was asking….well…then I guess I'd just have to make one.

Uranometria is the name of the first visual star atlas, and the rest of the spells are all star atlases as well. In the order they are in (weakest to strongest) they are also in order of creation. Many atlases were considered updated versions of the previous ones (Uranometria 2.0), which is why they're considered stronger. The last one is a telescopal star atlas, which is why I made it a snipper spell.

Considering the amount of energy and matter that make up stars, I do not think it is a stretch to have a spell like this. On the contrary, I feel like this spell is severely underestimating the power of the stars.

As we all know, Lucy has nowhere near the power requirements for this. Sometime in the future, she may, but it will be far off, and even then, I'm not sure she'll end up casting it. If she was too try it anytime soon, however, she'd surely die in attempt.

As for the Platinum Keys, I am not the first to do a second/stronger set of keys. I've seen sets of four or ten or eight or twelve and they've been platinum or titanium or diamond.

I chose Platinum because when it comes to musical records, Platinum is considered higher than Gold.

I refuse to believe the Zodiacs are the strongest spirits.

Sorry, Loke. I love ya, but you're not stronger than a dragon. Get over it.