Coco: Okay, guys, this is the end of the my first original FT Arc. Next will be Galuna Island :D And then after that another original arc. It's just a small one to add space between Galuna and Phantom Lord. It'll also be a space to introduced some OCs, two you are already familiar with: Jaser and Bastet (formerly known as Sanju, and her personality will be slightly altered, guys. Just warning you XD). I hope you like the chapter, and right after this will be the first chapter of Galuna island :D

"It doesn't look as if you're ready to call it quits yet, huh, pussycat?" Rizzo asked frowning.

The Nemean Lion, who was starting to look worse for wear, only snarled in reply as it crouched down looking ready to spring. Rizzo sighed. She doesn't like beating up on poor defenseless animals. It just wasn't her style. And this kitten looked ready to fall over. The hellfire certainly did a number on it. His pelt had large burns—some so deep they reached his hide. And while weapons couldn't penetrate its hide, it seemed as if the fire did some damage since the skin of its body was scorched black.

"Why won't you just stand down?" Rizzo asked as she switched her guitar out for her violin and bow. "This isn't going to end well for you."

Another snarl replied to her question causing her to shake her head. Well, if the cat insisted, she'd oblige. Rizzo started playing on her violin. The notes she played were long and dramatic as they went up in pitch. It was a suspenseful tune that had the Nemean Lion shifting uneasily on its paws as darkness seemed to creep into the jungle.

"Song of Absolute Darkness." Rizzo said.

Darkness then completely fell onto the jungle with the Nemean Lion's roar being heard far and wide. As the song started to come to a close, the darkness seeped away from the area. Rizzo brought it to a halt as the darkness left her body as well. She let out a break while looking to the large feline before it. It laid on the ground in a submissive manner while mewling like a kicked kitten. Rizzo opened her hands with her bow and violin disappearing. She then walked towards the Nemean Lion. It whimpered as she drew close. Rizzo crouched down in front of it while placing her hand on its head.

"Sorry for the rough treatment." Rizzo said pettings its fur.

She then stood while taking off jogging towards the direction that Lucy and Indy had went. She needed to catch up to them before they ran into the creature lying within in the tomb. She wasn't sure exactly what was inside, but she knew her guildmate would need help. Rizzo made it to the tomb with little trouble while guessing Lucy and Indy were already inside.

"Well, time to go in," Rizzo said while grabbing the flashlight from her bag.

She stepped into the tomb noting it was a kind of narrow passageway. Fighting in here wouldn't be easy if the entire tomb was like this. Couldn't think of that now though. She still needed to catch up to her friends.

Lucy looked around nervously as she led the way through the tomb following Indy's instructions.

"This document is a blueprint of sorts to the tomb after it was first created." Indy said as she was looking it over. "I'm sure things might not be the same since so much time has passed. But with this, we might be able to pinpoint where Laelaps's remains are thus finding her key."

"Good." Lucy said. "The faster we can get out of here the better."

Indy nodded in agreement since this place was rather dark and unwelcoming. She did enjoy an adventure or two, but she'd rather avoid the monster inside the tomb. Just then a loud bellowing noise rang through the tomb bringing the two to a complete halt. The two exchanged a glance then looked down the hall where the noise was coming from.

"What was that?" Lucy asked.

Her reply was another bellow—louder than the last. A gust of air also burst from the hall whipping their hair and clothes back. The floor then started to shake as if something was racing towards them.

"Whatever it is, it's coming fast." Indy said. "And I don't believe we have time to avoid it."

Lucy was afraid of that. However, despite her fear, she immediately reached for her gate keys. She grabbed Taurus's key while gripping it tightly. Just then the creature coming for them made it into the light. Lucy gasped looking up at the hulking figure. It stood on two feet like a man, but it's upper half was all bull. It took a swing at the two, but they managed to dodge its hooves.

"A Minotaur." Indy said. "Not good. They have enough brute strength to rip a grown man in half."

"Yeah, well I have a cow man of my own." Lucy said holding out her key. "Open Gate of the Golden Bull: Taurus!"

Taurus appeared in a golden light while letting out a loud bellow himself. He grabbed his axe while turning towards the Minotaur.

"Listen, brother, there's only enough roooom for one booovin in Lucy-san's life." Taurus said. "That's me!"

He ran forward to attack the Minotaur who charged towards him as well. Taurus took a swing at the Minotaur, who despite his size, dodged the axe. He then put both of his fists together to hit Taurus in the back—slamming the Celestial Spirit into the ground.

"No, Taurus!" Lucy called out in worry.

Taurus grunted as he was pushed farther into the ground. Lucy glared at the Minotaur while grabbing her whip.

"Hey, smelley, over here!" She called while slinging out her whip to wrap it around the Minotaur's neck. "He's not the only one you're fighting."

Lucy pulled as hard as she could, which made the Minotaur to bellow in anger. It reached back grabbing the whip. Lucy gasped as it easily jerked her forward to slam her into the other side of the hall. She coughed as the air left her body.

"Lucy-san…" Taurus called in worry as she fell to the floor.

The Minotaur went to go after Lucy again, but Indy took action to help the fallen wizard.

"Rope Magic: Spider Net!" Indy casted her spell.

Ropes flew magically from the sleeves of her jacket to knot together to form a large spider like web of ropes that wrapped around the Minotaur. It roared angrily while trying to pull away from the net. Indy grunted digging her feet into the ground to hold the beast back as Lucy managed to get to her knees.

"Taurus, are you alright?" Lucy asked crawling over to her spirit.

"Lucy-san…Lucy-san…be careful." Taurus said completely out of it.

Lucy frowned knowing he wouldn't be able to fight anymore. She quickly closed his gate not wanting to put him through any more pain.

"Alright, Bull Man, let's see how you deal with this," Lucy said grabbing another key. "Open Gate of the Maiden: Virgo!"

Virgo appeared next out of the ground with her entrance causing a large hole that had the Minotaur tumbling in. It cried out in surprise while gripping the edge of the hole, which was hard with the net still around him.

"You summoned, Princess?" Virgo asked bowing.

"Yeah, let's teach this guy a lesson, Virgo!" Lucy said holding her whip tightly. "We have to hold on until Rizzo can reach us."

"As you wish." Virgo said as the Minotaur managed to climb out of the hole.

It ripped away the net from around it, which threw Indy in the air much as Lucy had been thrown.

"Indy!" Lucy called out in worry.

Lucy ran forward catching the professor in her arms while falling to the ground with her. Lucy groaned at the rough landing then gasped as a large shadowed fell over them. They looked up seeing the Minotaur leaning over them with a large pillar in hands. It bellowed going to hit the two women with the pillar, but it was hit at the knees by Virgo and at the head by Rizzo who finally appeared. The creature spun in the air then landed on the ground with a loud thud.

"Man, that was close." Rizzo said then grinned at Virgo. "Wait to go, Virgo. Pink power!"

She held her hand out to the spirit who gave a not-very-energetic-high-five. Lucy let out a sigh of relief when seeing her guildmate.

"You're here." Lucy said as she sat up with Indy.

"Told you I'd catch up." Rizzo said. "Sorry it took so long. That kitty wanted to play for a bit."

Indy just stared up in amazement at the pink-haired wizard. First she defeats an Amazon as if it's nothing. She declares a one-on-one battle with a Nemean Lion—a creature not even the locals fight willing—and she won. She didn't even seem to have a scratch on her. Were all Fairy Tail wizards this strong? Rizzo helped the two off the ground when the Minotaur was back to his feet suddenly. He bellowed in pure rage then swung at Rizzo. Lucy called out for Rizzo to watch out, and the pinkette barely had any time to dodge. She managed it though while rolling out of the way.

"Man, this thing sure is tougher than that cat." Rizzo said though she was grinning.

"Stop looking so happy about it!" Lucy snapped.

Rizzo just laughed then had to dodge that giant monster all over again. It was going to be hard fighting it in such a small space. She was a bit surprised that the beast could move so well in such tight spaces. She'd feel better if she could get it outside where there wouldn't be so much damage to the temple. She didn't want the entire thing collapsing on them.

"Hey, Professor, why won't you go looking for that key?" Rizzo asked Indy. "Lucy and I can keep this thing at bay while you're doing that. We need to get it and get out of here. All this fighting might cause this place to collapse at any second."

Lucy's eyes widened realizing Rizzo was right. They needed to hurry up and find that key. They didn't want the entire place falling on them.

"Right!" Indy said nodding. "Please, be careful!"

"You too!" Lucy called back.

Indy hurried up to run farther into the temple as the two Fairy Tail wizards turned to fight the Minotaur.

"You ready for this, Lucy?" Rizzo asked as the two friends stood side-by-side.

"Yeah!" Lucy said.

Rizzo nodded her head then snapped her fingers with her guitar appearing in her hands. Lucy held her whip firmly in hand as Virgo waited for her next orders. The Minotaur bellowed at them as it charged forward.

Indy ran quickly through the tomb trying to find any sign of that key. She needed to hurry. There was no telling how long Rizzo and Lucy could hold off that beast. Not to mention, the temple might not even hold out that long. A large blast of power shot through the temple causing Indy to trip forward. She went rolling across the ground with a wall being the only thing stopping her. She cursed as her face smashed into the hard stone.

"Ow." She said while pushing herself to her knees. "That must have been Rizzo's doing."

She then blinked when noticing a light. She looked up see an alter that had a large stone statue of a dog sitting on what looked like a large box. A coffin? But it wasn't the statue giving off the light. It was the key hanging around its neck that was making the light. A key that seemed to be made of stellanium.

"There it is." Indy said as she stood onto her feet.

She walked around to the front of the statue to get a closer look at the key. She couldn't believe it. They really found it. A key of the Primordial Zodiac. Indy carefully took the key down from the statue. Now she can start planning her next search for the rest. What a find this is, and Indy was certain that Lucy would be pleased. Indy heard screaming coming from where she had left, and she knew she had to get back to her friends.

She was about to hurry back to them when she noticed writing on the wall. Writing she had never seen before. And it didn't seem as old as the temple itself. Did someone make it this far into the temple? If so, why did they leave the key here? And who would risk themselves to come this far inside just to put these words on the wall. They had to be important. She looked back to where the sound of fighting was happening. She knew she needed to return to her comrades. However, she couldn't just leave without taking note of these characters on the wall.

Indy quickly knelt down to get inside her bag to collect her notebook and charcoal. She didn't have time to write it all down, but hopefully she could just copy it with these tools. She had to hurry. So she quickly set to work.

Lucy let out a huff as she once more dodged the raging Minotaur. It was really mad now. And Lucy already sent Virgo back to the Spirit World. Lucy wasn't sure if she'd have the magic power to summon another spirit. Even if she did, if the spirit lost, she'd be on the ground unable to do anything. And it was impossible for her to summon Aquarius without water. What was she going to do?

"Hey, don't look so worried." Rizzo said grinning at her friend. "We're not done by a long shot."

She then slammed down on the strings of her guitar sending out a loud sound wave that pushed the Minotaur several feet back. However, it kept on its hooves this time.

"Tough bastard." Rizzo said then switched to a new instrument.

This one was a trumpet made of gold that gave it a beautiful glow. Lucy got a bad feeling in her gut as Rizzo took a deep breath.

"Song of Slumber." Rizzo said.

She started playing a sweet, soft tune on her trumpet that nearly had Lucy falling over in shock. She was trying to slumber the beasts into defeat?! The music continued with a white mist coming from the trumpet. It swarmed around the Minotaur who bellowed and tried to swipe at it. However, the mist continued to cover the Minotaur who started to wobble on its hooves. It bellowed softly in protest while starting to stumble into the walls.

"Whoa, it's working!" Lucy hissed under her breath.

She didn't think it was going to, but the beast continued to look more tired at the song continued. Its eyelids were drooping as it teetered back and forth before finally stumbling forward. It hit the ground with a loud thud that sent Lucy and Rizzo up in the air a bit. They landed back on their feet as Rizzo finished the song. The Minotaur slumbered on with loud snoring leaving through its nose.

"I can't believe that worked." Lucy whispered since she didn't want to chance waking the monster.

"Well, I could have just beaten it down, but I figured this was the best way to defeat the big guy without bringing the temple down on us." Rizzo said.

Lucy just smiled glad it was all over. And that at least one of the pinkettes she calls her friend has some kind of brain.

"Well, we better go find the Professor." Rizzo said as she sent her trumpet back into her separate dimension. "We need to get out of here before the cow wakes up."

Rizzo started walking farther into the temple with Lucy quick to catch up. She held tightly onto Rizzo's arm while looking around as if something else might pop out wanting to attack them. They didn't have to go much farther in before they found the good professor who was copying down symbols from the wall.

"Hey, Professor," Rizzo said waving to the slightly older woman.

Indy jumped then turned to see Rizzo and Lucy standing there. Neither one of them looked to worse for wear, which had her wondering if they decided to just escape the Minotaur.

"You two are alright." Indy said smiling. "Don't worry. I am almost done. We need to hurry before the Minotaur catches up, yes?"

"Well, he should be done for a bit a least." Rizzo said. "Just as long as the spell holds on him."

Indy paused in what she was doing to look at Rizzo with wide eyes. Rizzo took down another monster? Just what was this woman?

"So, Indy, what are you doing?" Lucy asked as she let out of Rizzo.

Indy snapped out of her thoughts remembering she still had to copy down the characters from the wall.

"I believe I might have found a clue to the next Primordial Zodiac Spirit." Indy said as she quickly returned to her work. "At least I think that is what the characters mean. They were placed here after this temple, and I cannot think of another reason why someone would come here to risk their lives just to write a message on this wall."

"Wait, are you saying you already found one key?" Rizzo asked scratching the back of her head. "Does that mean Laelaps's key really was here?"

Indy paused in what she was doing to nod her head as she smiled. Lucy's eyes widened no believing it. She and Rizzo then watched as Indy pulled a key out of her pocket. It was a beautiful key made of stellanium that glowed brightly in the dimly lit tomb.

"So beautiful." Lucy said in awe. "They do exist. It's so hard to believe, but they really do exist."

Lucy then took the key gently as Indy offered it to her. Lucy looked down at the key before gently hugging it to her cheek. Rizzo smiled glad things worked out. And nothing was completely destroyed this time. That's always a plus, isn't it?

After all the excitement in the tomb, the girls had returned to the village. The villagers had been so awed by their bravery and their discovery of Laelaps's key. They had thrown a party for the people of Fiore on their last night on the island. But now they were back home, and Lucy was telling everyone about their adventure as Rizzo was sitting with Natsu, Happy, and Gray.

"I can't believe you got to fight monsters without me!" Natsu complained. "I would have shown that Minotaur what for!"

"You stupid Pyro, if Rizzo had gone all out on that thing, she would have collapsed the temple on all of them." Gray pointed out. "Though I'm a bit surprised she hadn't gone ahead and went all out."

"Are you saying I have no self-control or something?!" Rizzo demanded from across the table. "You want me to punch your teeth in, Frosty?!"

"As if you could." Gray scoffed.

The two growled at each other while bumping their foreheads together. Some of the guild laughed at the pair as Natsu cheered for Rizzo to kick Gray's ass. As the two slung insults at each other, Mirajane looked to Lucy.

"So, Lucy, have you made your contract with your new spirit yet?" She asked.

Loke, who was sitting as far away from Lucy as possible, looked over to listen into the conversation.

"Yep!" Lucy said smiling. "I made it as soon as I had enough magic energy left to summon her! I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful spirit like her, Mira. I can tell we're going to be great friends!"

-FLASHBACK-

"So you're available whenever?" Lucy asked as she looked a the spirit in front of her.

The spirit in front of Lucy was a young woman with dog-like ears sticking out from her head and a long black tail behind her. She was tanned skin like the locals of Kea. Her eyes were a brilliant golden color as well. She wore an outfit similar to the Amazons that Lucy and Rizzo met earlier. She even had a golden laurel around her head. However, the leather belt around her waist came with leather strips that fell down to partially cover her bottoms. She also had golden-armored wrist bands on her arm. She carried a shield in one hand and a spear in the other as she stood tall before Lucy.

"Yes, whenever you need me all you must do is call." Laelaps said.

-END OF FLASH BACK-

Lucy pulled out Laelaps's key to look at it fondly. Loke stared at it as well while feeling as if someone was trying to rip his heart from his chest.

'Laelaps,' He thought sadly as he looked down at the table. 'How long as it been…since we last laid eyes on each other?'

As if reacting to his thoughts, Laelaps's key glowed slightly in Lucy's hand. Which had the blonde blinking. Why did she get the feeling Laelaps was said? Before she could give it much thought, she gasped in shock as she was plowed over by Rizzo who was thrown into her by Gray. She laid on the floor in pain as Rizzo sat up.

"You stupid icicle!" Rizzo snapped. "Watch it! You made me hit Lucy!"

"That's your own damn fault, Pinky!" Gray retorted.

"Say what?!" Rizzo demanded.

As the pinkette jumped Gray to continue their brawling, the rest of the guild was soon thrown into chaos as Natsu and a few others got involved. Lucy whined sitting against the bar as she wondered why she dealt with such hot heads. As she waited for it all to be over, Laelaps's key continued to glow.

'…this guild seems like so much fun…' She thought. 'Fairy Tail…I believe I will like it here with my new master…'

A few days passed at Fairy Tail with things returning to normal. Rizzo and Natsu were being uncharacteristically quiet, however, which had the guild a bit on edge. However, they hadn't caused any trouble as of late, so they left to two friends alone. Speaking of those two, they happened to be sitting at a corner table of the guild this very moment. Happy was with them, of course, as he ate the fish in front of him.

"So, it is time?" Rizzo asked grinning.

"Oh yeah." Natsu replied as he grinned in return. "We've been training super hard, and it's time we put it to the ultimate test."

Rizzo's grin widened. This was good. She was hoping to get around to it. They have been training hard as Natsu said.

"It's time…to take…an S-Class Quest." Natsu said. "After that Laxus will have to take us seriously. And so will the Master."

"Not to mention, Gray and all those other punks will be so jealous." Rizzo added.

Natsu nodded while feeling even more pumped up for this job. It's what they've been training for ever since Laxus ran his big mouth after the incident with the Magic Council. This would shut him up for sure.

"So, it's decided then." Natsu said. "Tonight's the night."

Rizzo waited with Natsu later that night as Happy was away picking out just the right job for them. Rizzo was sure Happy would pick a good one too. When she heard flapping, she lifted her head up seeing Happy coming towards them. She nudged Natsu who looked up grinning.

"So, Little Buddy, get a good one?" Natsu asked.

"Aye!" Happy said holding up the flyer. "And it's one Lucy can't refuse!"

Rizzo still wasn't sure about involving Lucy on this since the blonde obviously didn't share her and Natsu's sense of adventure. But on the other hand Rizzo liked working with Lucy since she was so much fun. And if the reward on the flyer was true, Lucy definitely wouldn't be able to refuse.

"It had the smallest reward out of the ones on the board too!" Happy continued. "I'd figure that'd be best since it's out first S-Class Quest."

Rizzo nodded thinking that was best, but 7 million jewel was still a lot of money. Natsu was nodding in agreement as he took the flyer from Happy.

"Great!" Natsu said. "Let's go show, Lucy! I doubt she's home right now, but we can get some training in while we wait. Time to get stronger, so we can kick Laxus's butt when we get back."

"Right!" Rizzo said winking.

She looped her arm with Natsu to tug him down the street since she was so excited to get started. Natsu laughed at her excitement as he hurried along with her. This was their first big job. They were going to kick ass and totally rub it everyone's face when they got back. They first just have to get to the island before anyone realizes what they've done.