She walked along and people stared, did double takes. The tall woman wasn't actually stunning, beautiful, ugly...anything, her clothes were beautiful, immaculately made Stellan traditional garb is rich colors with intricate embroidery.

Even her blonde hair wasn't the reason, though that stood out in Seven where brunettes were far more common.

It was how she moved. Oddly, joints occasionally seeming to bend a little the wrong way under her clothes. Her eyes, when they blinked...did so very slowly, allowing long lashes that had little gems in them to sparkle.

Lucy was sitting in a streetside cafe. The weather close to the Capital in the suburb of Onrithen was gorgeous, it was about 72 degrees out, sunny with a breeze coming in from the ocean that was just two blocks away from where they were eating breakfast.

Onrithen was the merchant area of Draksden, the Oceanside area boasted the capitals docks for Sevens massive navy and their merchant fleets. A Skydock was visible above the buildings, most shorter than 5 stories and it was as busy as the shipping lanes of the docks. You could buy anything in Onrithen, and Erza was in heaven. They were resting a bit here, Lucy had been feeling a pull but like others, it was vague and hard to put her finger on.

White Sea had a branch in Draksden near the palace and the Lieutenant who ran it had a townhouse in Onrithen he'd offered for them to stay in and they had pounced on that. Having a comfortable house to stay in by the ocean in a beautiful well kept city by the sea was making Lucy send Laxus texts telling him he needed to look into sistering Fairy Tail with White Sea so their guild could grow (and she could have access to things like this because holy shit was she enjoying it.)

So far Laxus had just growled at her when she called or not replied to her texts...which really...he knew better, she was just going to keep bombarding him and now she had Natsu doing it because Natsu was adoring the Sevenese shifters, he was currently near the Palace at one of the training centers enjoying spars and Gray was gleefully sending pictures of his boyfriend getting himself put through his paces.

Lucy stared long at the picture of Natsu growling up at Anran, the Wolf General, 7 and a half feet of real Dire Wolf shifter his was the DNA that had enabled Seven to create The Pack and he was built, tan with long black hair and golden eyes and a body that would have sent Laxus to the gym to up his weight sets.

"You might not survive if you got that into bed with you…" Hestor said looking at what she was staring at.

"And the coroner would never be able to wipe the smile off her face...closed casket for sure." Vander had smirked from where he sat.

"Screw that, I want people to know I died happy." Lucy laughed and forwarded the pic to Cana and Levy...not the least bit surprised when they replied within seconds calling her names and demanding to know if that man would be, as Cana put it, "more likely to plow Natsu or you Lu?"

Lucy pursed her lips and Hestor sighed "You...the General likes women...sadly."

"Sad nothing...look what you married bitch." Lucy snapped nodding toward Kaleb approaching them, he'd gone to a shop nearby that sold Sevenese deerskin clothing. Seven deer...Lucy had learned, averaged 18-20 feet tall at the shoulder, were highly aggressive, and when their hide was tanned correctly the leather was extremely sturdy and, translucent. Breathed well and...holy mother of God Kaleb and Zen in it...

Kaleb was in a dove gray pair of the pants, Zen in black and both men...never missed leg day.

Hestor purred smirking over his coffee cup and reached out when Kaleb came to him to run a hand up his thigh "Oh...I do like that...do they have more colors?" He asked hopefully and Kaleb smiled at him "I have more ordered, and yes, any color you want they dye to order...I'd be very happy to see you in some."

Hestors eyes stayed on Kalebs lower half, his hand curling around muscle "I'm sure you would...I'll get measured and order some...oh I like the side laces...they'll be easy to get off…" he observed and Lucy chewed her lip, watching Zen turn for Vander to inspect the leather. Vander, was incredibly picky about leather, he made his own with his shadows and so had an amazing eye for workmanship, his wine colored eyes were narrowed critically as he inspected the lacings running down the side of Zens...muscled...sculpted thigh that the translucent black leather just...let you see every hint of definition…

A napkin hit her in the face and Lucy sucked in a surprised breath glaring at a smirked Hestor who had his hand curving over Kalebs ass and wasn't even looking at her yet knew she was practically drooling.

It was this...that the odd moving woman drew all their eyes from...that was how...strange she was.

Lucy stared and Zen grabbed Vanders shoulder before he could rise...the Shadowquip more than happy to go fuck with the odd woman and find out more but he stilled when Zen nodded toward Lucy, whose eyes were glowing...and Lucy wasn't looking at the odd massive woman, no...she was staring at the elegant, slender beauty of a...man? It was hard to tell, their garb didn't make it clear, but whoever and whatever they were, they had silvery hair and beautiful dark eyes and a faint impish smile as they walked along slowly some 20 feet behind the woman, watching reactions to her.

It was then Lucy blinked, noticing a woman sort of sneering at the tall woman from where she was stepping out of a store across the way...she had the thought that...some of the people in Onrithen had been a little...more uppity, the wives and significant others of some of the wealthier merchants in particular...and this had to be one because her clothes were Elluris and even had "Custom" embroidered at the shoulder...which the woman had to have asked for because Custom work from Elluris was ridiculously expensive and...Elluris didn't tag it as custom...they tagged nothing as "Custom" yet Lucy had seen that on clothes here…

"Dominic says some cities have clientele that want the world to know they've had clothes custom made for them...he and I both think it's crass and below trashy but he says the customer gets what they want." Hestor had said when they had seen it a couple of times.

Lucy narrowed her eyes but said nothing, she didn't need to...the person following the odd woman, their eyes snapped to the sneering lady and...her eyes glazed over and she suddenly started dancing...just...dancing...like a ballerina...leaping around and doing things her body looked like it really didn't want to do...the man coming out the door behind her made a sound "Evelyn? What on Earthland are you…." then his eyes glazed and he was dancing with his wife...which looked REALLY odd with his large belly...because toe stands...he had to break toes…

Hestor dropped his coffee staring with his mouth open a little….

It cascaded from there. One by one people who reacted with less than kindness or concern joined the dancing couple, a group of men starting to play leapfrog, two actually raging while they did so, screaming obscenities that they would find and kill who was making them do this.

Others started playing pretend instruments. The whole area descended into chaos and Lucy watched the diminutive, lovely Stellan move to their cafe and quietly sit at their table, taking Vanders drink right out of his hand and Vander didn't stop him, blinking and glancing around watching to see if anyone had noticed the connection yet between the tall woman and this silver haired person now plucking a roll from Zens plate before sitting back to watch, eyes occasionally glowing a bit as another ill tempered person got added to the mess.

"Not trying to stop me." They observed quietly finally looking at Lucy.

"I see why you did it…" Lucy admitted and while maybe she wouldn't take such measures? She didn't have that kind of magic…

"You agree?" They asked

Lucy nodded "I do...we've seen some of these people in this district get pretty...uppity. Some downright mean...a lesson in humility where the whole world sees them being far from graceful? Is probably good for them."

"I'm Nunygo...the Puppet master." The beautiful...spirit...yes Lucy knew it as sure as she knew this was up there with one of the oddest things she'd ever seen...Nunygo was a spirit...the one she was looking for.

The spirit smiled at her. "Find a way to get my centerpiece out of here without damage? And you will have my key."

Lucys eyes widened and she looked at the tall woman who moved so oddly because Nunygo nodded toward her. The "centerpiece" was...a puppet, she could see it now, it explained everything...but...so many of the dancing, playing, leap frogging people in the square were centering their ire toward that puppet that was dancing gracefully among them...when Nunygo stopped...which Lucy was certain would be soon...they would go after that puppet.

She smirked then "Any resource I have?" She asked the spirit who smiled slyly "Indeed, I would want no master who would not use all they had available in a difficult situation…"

Nunygo suddenly vanished, and the first woman who had started dancing staggered to the ground and screamed "I'm going to...destroy...the one who did this!"

Lucys hand shot out to Vander, grabbing his arm "Van…" she hissed looking at the giant puppet that clattered to the ground...it's strings cut. And one by one the people Nunygo had commanded were being set free.

Vanders eyes sharpened and he smirked, looking sideways at Lucy "I don't work for free…"

"What do you want?!" Lucy demanded in a growl.

"Some fun...later...promise me that. You know what kind I like." Vander replied and Lucy bit her lower lip as the woman was getting to her feet and limping toward the puppet.

"I promise." Lucy said, her magic shifting to seal that promise and in the next instant Vander vanished into the shadows and the large puppet had sinister shadows whirl up, lifting it up and lashing out viciously, the woman and the other people who had been closing on the puppet screeching and falling back, scrambling to get away from the Puppet whirling in a vortex of black shadows.

"I am Duke Everlue of Fiore! You've all pissed me off with your shitty trade deals! Give me shit again and I'll do worse!" A dark voice (Vanders) came from the shadows, the dolls eyes flaring red before it and the shadows vanished and the square was silent for a few minutes.

Lucy gaped like a fish...Duke Everlue was a serious pain in her ass...had been trying so hard to keep assets he'd swindled her father out of...and now...a huge collection of wealthy powerful merchants...some of them pirates...thought…

Hestor chuckled "I think he's annoying...infuriating...obnoxious...but he always delivers."

Kaleb watched as the people in the square started shouting around "Duke Everlue! I know him! Fat...filthy slimy piece of Fioran aristocracy! He tried to take a silk trade deal from me!" one said.

"Well...he's about to have a really bad fucking day because I'm gonna do a fuck load more than give him shit…" One of the men who had been forced to leap frog snarled as he pulled out his com.

"Really pretty interesting...how trade politics go...little attacks to gather power...sometimes they go wrong you know?" Vander said, suddenly there in his seat again and Lucy looked at him, stared at him for a few moments as Vander picked up his drink, his signature cherry coke with rum and a scoop of vanilla icecream, licking some icecream off his straw before spearing it in and sipping his drink.

Lucy lunged into his lap, some of his drink spilling before Zen grabbed it out of his flailing hand to avoid getting covered in the stuff himself as Lucy kissed the man silly.

"Seems she won't likely mind giving him his fun." Hestor chuckled leaning against Kaleb once he'd recovered his fallen mug and holding it up to signal the waitress to bring him more.

"Ladies dancing, lords a leaping...even pipers playing...I was wondering how much of an army Lucy was going to end up with...this...I did not expect at all." Kaleb said quietly.

"Never expect with Celestial spirits...sets can be anything...and the moment you form expectations...the game is changed, it's the nature of the magic." Hestor said watching Lucy bury her hands in Vanders hair, the shadowquip recovering and getting his arms around her and his legs set to make sure the chair didn't flip over and put them on the floor.

Zen set Vanders drink down and picked up his own, warily watching the angry people in the square who were starting to organize their efforts.

"Well...looks like Duke Everlue won't be an issue she'll need an army for soon, I'd feel bad for him, but I've heard plenty about what all he's done during this trip.." The big man said and Kaleb nodded.

"Yeah...Dads been trying to help Lucy get it all under control but the guys just dirty as hell with lots of contacts as dirty or dirtier than he is so…" Kaleb shook his head.

Lucy heard them..they were right...she hadn't regained her childhood home yet, hadn't been able to hardly avoid creditors coming after her for debts Everlue had laid on her father that weren't even his, construction for things he had no involvement in...wages to workers he'd never hired...it was terrible and Vander...in one stroke...using what Nunygo had started...had just possibly at least given Everlue enough trouble that Arman and Lucy could finally get around the Dukes legal teams and free her and her families remaining assets from the marriage deal Everlue had ruined her father over.

He'd been a constant, flippant, light hearted, sometimes obnoxious but Gods help her he was always just...sexy...the red streaked thick black hair, the well toned body in skin tight black leather...the full lips almost permanently in a faint smirk...Vander looked like he plotted and planned wickedness every waking moment and his actions...well...really just proved he mostly did just that.

Glitter bombs in Hestors suitcase...painting Natsu and Grays faces with gaudy make up in their sleep...hiding Erzas recently purchased cupcake baking trays so the redhead nearly tore an inn apart and he could leave and go out dancing after she'd imposed a curfew he didn't agree with.

He denied it all...as long as Zen and his aura of honesty wasn't too close, otherwise he said nothing and just looked...wickedly innocent…

Nunygos key formed in her hand as she was enjoying Vander warm lips under hers and she smiled. Maybe this did cover the last of the set? She'd have to find out...and until then? She would watch Everlue finally get some of the hell he liked to hand out, and...she'd happily deliver the fun Vander had asked for….