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Lucy P.O.V.

I smiled politely at the two guards that stood beside the plank leading up to Bora's giant-ass ship.

Really, this ship was freaking massive.

Adjusting the red dress I wore, I continued onwards to the top of the ship where it seemed that most of the girls were.

They were all dolled up and looking pretty for getting shipped out to a slaving business. Not like they know that.

I weaved my way through the groups of girls drinking wine and laughing with each other. I wasn't really looking for something special, mainly checking over escape points in case this whole thing goes bust and I need to go Tia style to escape.

I love going Tia style.

My scrutinizing of the ship was interrupted when a hand latched around my forearm and began to tug me into the cabins of the ship. The whole while I was restraining myself not to cut off Bora's disgusting hand with the sword slung over my back; of course, hidden by my dress.

"Ah my lovely blossom, how lovely to see that you blessed me with your presence."

"Of course Salamander-san," I said demurely, "I wouldn't miss it for the world."

Bora nodded sagely and gestured for me to sit down in the chair opposite him. A glass of wine and two glasses apparently waiting for us on the table.

I watched closely as Bora opened the bottle, his two rings flashing brightly on his hand. Then a thought occurred to me. How the fuck has he got away with charming girls with these rings?! They're in plain sight for fuck's sake! How hard is it to realise the rings with the eye and heart is might have something to do with magic.

Stupid Fiore and its lack of common sense.

"A glass for a beautiful lady like you." Bora tilted a glass with dark red liquid towards me. Does he not know I'm underage?

"Thanks," I smiled, "but no thanks. I don't indulge on such drinks, I prefer non-alcoholic beverages."

I wonder how long it would take Bora to snap if I kept pushing his buttons?

The smile plastered on the scumbags' face seemed to slip slightly before coming back into full beaming mood. "That can be arranged m'dear." He beckoned over one of the cannon fodder that stood along the walls. "Can you get the pretty girl here some juice?"

"I'm on a no citrus diet," I interrupted.

A slight twitch came from Bora. "Well we can arrange it to be a non-citrus fruit dear."

I mock-pondered it for a moment before shaking my head. "No thank you. Fruit juice is bad for your teeth, and I'd like to keep my teeth as white as they are now." I showed the man my gleaming teeth with a proud look, trying to keep down the laughter that bubble up my throat.

"They are as bright as your whole being my pearl," ground out Bora.

I'll give him two minutes before he snapped.

One hundred and twenty…One hundred and nineteen…

"How about a soda then?"

Shaking my head again, I smiled brightly at him, "I'll have to decline again. Soft drinks aren't especially my thing."

One hundred and fourteen…

Bora's teeth ground uncomfortably as he stared at me, "well is there any foods I can get you my sweet?"

"Sweets sound good."

Bora relaxed slightly, thinking he could finally sort me out. "Well what can I get you? I have a wide assortment of sweets at your disposal, chocolate, ice cream, humbugs-"

"They can't have cocoa, glucose, sugar, flavouring, milk, caramel, or any additives." I frowned cutely, "I think that's all of my allergies."

A tic appeared over Bora's eye and I could see slight tremors going across his entire body.

One hundred!

"Why don't we settle for nothing then."

I frowned slightly again, "I guess so. Salamander-san-"

"Please." Bora gave a winning – not really – smile. "Just call me Salamander."

"Of course." I agreed. "I would just like to thank you for such a stupendous party you're putting on."

I could see Bora swell up in pride at my 'compliment.' "Well of course my petal! Only the finest for Salama-I mean, ladies as beautiful as you."

A smile threatened to split my face in half, but I held it in – albeit with a great amount of effort. "Pity you don't have anything a real party should have. There's no music. No amazing food to choose from. No actual hot guys I can dance with. You're not even entertaining your guests properly! I mean, hello, it's called being a host! And really you should…"

I could see Bora's face getting redder and redder with every passing statement I made. His teeth were grinding and his whole body was bristling in anger and wounded pride. Just a few more jabs at him…

Seventy…Sixty nine – HAH! Sixty nine! – Sixty eight…

A broad grin crossed my face. "And I haven't even gotten started on the fact that you seem to have poorly invited a celestial mage that is geared up to go straight up the ghetto on your ass!"

There was a stillness in the room at my comment.

The grin deepened to a smirk I only wore when making mischief with the gangs back home. Time to bring out the big guns.

I stood up and zipped down my dress in one smooth movement. The flash of red silk obscured Bora and his cannon fodder goons for a moment, until I emerged geared up in my badass battle outfit. Golden hair with red tips fluttering in a sudden breeze and my brown eyes staring fearlessly into my opponent Bora's.

At least, that's how I imagined it.

A flash of light shimmered through the air as I drew my sword and pulled out Cenas's key. "Who wants to get wild?" My right eyebrow cocked up. "Tia style."

Fifty two…Fifty one…

And all hell broke loose.

3rd Person P.O.V.

A scream of rage came from Bora as he glared at the bitch celestial mage that stood so cockily opposite him.

The blonde's face dropped slightly in a mocking pout, "awwww. I was twenty seconds off. I was so sure that you were going to snap at two minutes, this sucks."

"Shut up bitch!" Snarled Bora, "do you really think that one puny celestial mage is going to stop me." He opened his arms dramatically, gesturing at the horde of men that were circling the blonde. "And my legion of-"

"Cannon fodder."

Bora's mask of rage twisted into a confused one, "wha-?"

Lucy waved him off, "noobs like you wouldn't understand. Just continue lording over the fact that you have a bountiful of cannon fodder ready to kill off, and I'll just prepare to kick your ass."

Suddenly a loud smashing sound interrupted the scene, wood splintering off from the now broken roof. In the centre, a flash of pink and white seemed to glow ethereally.

"I heard someone say that they were the Salamander of Fairy Tail."

Lucy tilted her head as she stared at Natsu who was crouched on the ground, fist planted into it. "He actually looks kind of cool…"

"Ugh!"

Her lips twisted up in a smile as the dragon slayer slumped over and went green due to the gentle rocking of the ship. "Though, when he does that, not so cool."

"HAH!" Bora laughed at Natsu scornfully, "the hero of the day gets travel sickness! How lame is that men?!"

The surrounding men laughed along with their boss and began to advance on the comatose Natsu. Pounding their fists in a menacing manner and yelling things out like, "we'll bash him up real well boss!"

"Leave it to us!"

"We'll crush this puny kid."

"He has pink hair! So lame!"

Lucy rolled her eyes as she cocked her hip to the side, "I believe it's salmon. And also, haven't you forgotten about little ol' me?"

Bora flapped a hand at her dismissively. "You're just some female, and we all known that females are weak, whether or not their mages."

The smile on Lucy's face instantly slid off and she stood ramrod straight. "What was that?..."

Laughter came from Bora who wasn't even looking at the blonde. "Females are weak trash who are only good for being maids and a quick shag."

"That's it." Lucy snarled at the disgusting man. "You're fucking dead."

She raised her hand with Cenas's key in it and slashed it downwards, a flash of light emitting from it. The glow died down and revealed the leather vested torso of a handsome, dark male that blended into the hindquarters of a chestnut horse.

Cenas let a smirk cross his face as he took in Lucy's angry expression. "So who was the idiot that either insulted us spirits or females in general?"

The celestial pointed at Bora who was watching his men start to beat up on the pink haired mage who was still comatose on the ground. "This dickwad has insulted women! Take the stupid cannon fodder, and I'll take him down old school style!"

"As you wish Lucy-chan."

The centaur calmly drew his bow from the quiver on his back and notched several arrows. "It has been a while since I have had target practice." He cantered into the throng of men and began firing arrows off faster than the eye could see.

"Don't hit the dofus getting bashed in the centre Cenas!" Lucy called over her shoulder before drawing a dagger in her left hand and hefting her sword in her right. "Let's get wild!"

She leapt forward and slashed down at Bora's exposed back, but the mage had been faking paying attention and easily darted to the side to avoid it. Lucy followed after him, the knife flashing in a stab that was deflected by the purple flames that sprung up around Bora's body.

"You think that you could defeat the great Salamander of Fairy Tail whelp?!" Bora flung a stream of flames at Lucy which were deflected by her sword.

"Don't lie to me!" She yelled at him before lashing out in a front kick to the chest that slammed Bora back from her. "You are not Salamander of Fairy Tail! You're just a two-bit fire mage who stole the name!" Lucy panted lightly from her rage before flicking the dagger in a throw that pinned some of Bora's gaudy clothes to a wall of the ship. "And who even says whelp anymore?!"

"Stay back!" Bora raised his hands up in front of his face, traces of fear in his eyes. "I-I'm a great and powerful fire mage that can defeat you whenever he wants!"

Lucy sighed lightly as she stood in front of him, "don't lie to me."

There was a flash of light, followed by another.

Happy was rather confused.

He knew that Natsu wouldn't be able to fight very well since the ship was a form of transport, but Natsu had still asked him to fly them across. Apparently that creepo from early was saying that he was from Fairy Tail, but Happy hadn't seen him around the guild before. The creepo was lying!

Natsu had asked Happy to drop him right above the roof of the ship, saying it would be a cool entrance. Happy had obliged, and had watched as Natsu had landed, looked awesome, looked lame, and got beaten up by a bunch of goons.

But what the hell was up with the horse thing!

Happy was watching the goons beat up Natsu and debating whether or not he should go in and save him; when suddenly, arrows began flying out of nowhere and taking the men down.

Then a horse-man walked? Cantered? In.

"What the hell are you?!"

The horse-man glanced up through the hole in the roof to see a blue cat with white wings staring down at him. "I'm a celestial spirit. What the hell are you?"

"I'm a cat!" Happy said angrily, "can't you tell."

Cenas merely blinked at him. "First cat I've seen that could fly." He then turned away from the cat and picked up the groaning Natsu that was still trying not to throw up.

Happy began to get nervous as the horse-man began to walk away with Natsu slung over his shoulders. "Hey! What are you doing with Natsu!"

"My summoner simply wishes to see if he is alright."

The horse-man began to walk away from the cat, going further into the room and out of Happy's view.

Happy had no choice but to follow.

He floated over the unconscious bodies of the men the horse-man had defeated. The room wasn't even destroyed at all, something that was rare when Natsu was around.

Or any Fairy Tail member for that matter.

The horse-man suddenly stopped and stared at something. Happy followed his gaze to see the blonde from earlier on that day dressed in weird clothes and fighting against the creepo with swords, just like Erza.

Happy shivered slightly, he just hoped that she wasn't as scary as Erza.

"This is not going to end well…"

Happy looked curiously at the horse-man before turning back to the fight. The blonde had thrown a dagger with surprising accuracy and had the creepo pinned against the wall. She then raised the sword to the side, her stance more rigid than before.

"Oh heavens…" Sighed the horse-man as he stared at the scene with sad eyes. "Not again Lucy-chan."

Happy didn't know what he meant, but then the blonde swung her sword for the creepo's neck.

"What is she doing!"

The bright flash of the sword curving through the air was overshadowed by the golden flash that appeared next to it. The flash died down to reveal the sword inches away from the creepo's neck, held their by a fluffy orange tail. The blonde simply held the sword as she stared at the spirit that had appeared before her.

It was a busty red-haired woman in a light orange kimono who possessed orange and black tipped, furry ears and a foxy tail that was curving around the sword. Her fox ears were right on top of her long red hair and the bangs from the hair slightly shadowed her slanted indigo eyes.

"Hello mistress," the fox-woman smirked.

Lucy grip slowly relaxed on the blade as she studied the woman in front of her. "Vulpecula, the little fox I presume. I wonder how you managed to open your gate when we haven't made a contract."

The fox-woman, now known as Vulpecula, giggled lightly behind a hand. "Oh that's cute mistress! Opening gates is easy for spirits whose summoner has enough magic power, or is a big enough beacon that we can easily open a gate by our own magic. And mistress, the magic you always have surrounding you is a big enough beacon that spirits whose keys you don't possess can feel it."

A nod of understanding came from the blonde, "fair enough. What days are you available Vulpecula? And what abilities to you have available?"

"Call me Vulp," giggled the spirit. "I would be more than happy to be summoned any time, us silver keys don't get much of a chance to be summoned you know? And as for my abilities…I am able to use illusions to deceive, trick and exploit my summoners' opponents. I am also able to raise the level of my summoners' sex appeal!"

Lucy blanched slightly, "yeah…I don't think the second ability is really needed."

"Of course not!" Vulp clapped her hands excitedly, "you're already one sexy woman! That leather vest! The tight material! Ohhh wow~"

"We don't need you having a moment in here Vulp," deadpanned Lucy. "Really not needed."

"Uh," Bora interrutpted them meekly. "What about me?"

The sword was hovering right next to his throat and the man was not very comfortable with a weapon that could easily kill being so close.

Not comfortable at all.

"Oh yeah." Lucy laughed nervously as she retracted the sword, "sorry about trying to kill you. I guess I'm so use to killing off bandits and other scum like that out in the wild that I forgot that there were laws and crap that didn't let you kill people, and stuff like that." She laughed nervously again before sheathing the sword completely. "I guess I'll hand you over to the authorities, along with your cannon fodder." She paused slightly, "and I guess I should go find those other chicks that you put to sleep to sell off."

"How?..." Bora looked at her, dumbfounded. How had she known that he had done all those things?! This bitch was obviously more powerful than he had originally thought.

Lucy didn't acknowledge the word from Bora and rummaged underneath her clothes until she withdrew her hands with a coil of rope in them.

"How?.." Bora stared at her in bewilderment.

The fox-woman next to him tapped him on the nose lightly. "It's called being a woman! We have many mystical powers that men like you will never understand!"

Bora couldn't reply as he was busy with being trussed up by the blonde mage.

Cenas let out a sigh as he watched his summoner calmly truss up the villain they had been fighting. "Thank the heavens she didn't kill him."

Happy looked at him worriedly, "she actually would've killed him?!"

"Of course," came the reply. "That's what you do if you wish to survive on the roads and the wild. Sometimes you have to kill in order to stay safe."

The blue cat didn't reply as looked after the blonde who was disappearing behind a door, apparently going to wake up the other captive females.

There was a prolonged silence between the two spirits, villain, and cat left in the room. That was, until Vulp spoke up.

"How the hell are we going to get back to the port?"

"That was actually a lot easier than expected," Lucy commented as she watched the law enforcers of Hargeon drag away Bora as well as he accompanying cannon fodder. "I just wish that I could get a single word of thanks from anyone! It's not like I didn't save those women from being sex slaves, and yet they have the audacity to blame me for ruining their chances with the 'Salamander!' What bitches." The blonde continued to grumble as she made her way away from the chaos that had erupted around the port of Hargeon after she had managed to turn the ship around and sail it back to the port. Members of the public had quickly grabbed the nearest law enforcers after Lucy had explained the situation, and Bora and his men were quickly being locked up for their bad deeds. The women kidnapped were all being comforted and getting ready to head back to their homes.

Meanwhile, Lucy was currently kicking the ground softly as she walked away from the scene. She had done a good deed tonight, and she guessed that was good enough. Yet, her main objective…That was an entirely different story. Natsu and Happy had been lost in the chaos after she had Cenas place the still out-of-it mage on the ground out of the way. Happy had sat next to him as she sent Cenas and Vulp back to the spirit world, then losing the two Fairy Tail mages in the throngs of people that had come from nowhere.

"Guess I'll never join a guild," Lucy muttered as she made her way around a corner of a street that led away from the port. "Maybe it would be better if I helped from the shadows…But Lucy's dream…"

"HEY! HEY BLONDE CHICK!"

Lucy froze at the loud bellow resounding from behind her.

"AYE~ WAIT UP BLONDE CHICK!"

Said blonde chick turned to see a grinning Natsu racing towards her with a floating Happy in tow.

"Oh," she said, rather surprised. "Hello Salamander."

Natsu ruffled his hair slightly before turning up the grin to full beam. "I heard you saved all those people on the ship and defeated the bastard who said he was from Fairy Tail! So…um, yeah. Thanks a bunch!"

Lucy narrowed her eyes slightly, this did not sound like something Natsu would normally say. He was being much to kind to her, he was rather brash and bordering rude when he first met Lucy. What was he playing at?

"That is quite alright Salamander. I was simply suspicious of Bora's ring charms he wore and apprehended him like any other wizard would do." Lucy bobbed her head slightly, "it was really nothing."

"Nothing!" Natsu slipped an arm around Lucy's shoulders and continued to grin at her, "Happy told me you totally pummelled that bastard! Well, I could've totally done it easily! But that was a nice job for a-"

"If you're about to say what I think you're about to say Salamander," said Lucy dangerously. "I will make you a female permanently!"

Nervous laughter emanated from Natsu as he tightened his arm around Lucy, "I was just joking! Besides, just call me Natsu!"

"Lucy." The blonde's mouth twitched in a smile, "what is it that you wish from me Natsu?"

The dragon slayer slid his arm from around her shoulders and gripped her arm tightly. He began to pull her along, Lucy stumbling slightly before quickly catching up to him. "What are you doing Natsu?"

Natsu turned to face her with a massive grin on his face. "I heard you wanted to join a guild!"

Shazzam!

Finished like the actual episode does, but without Lucy, Natsu and Happy running from Royal guards.

Actually, it's nothing like the original storyline. This is officially an AU I believe.

Awesome!

If there's anything I've gotten wrong here (I haven't re-watched the series in like six months) then just tell me! It's awesome that I already have nearly ten reviews, it's been a pleasure to write for this fandom. It's one of those anime that isn't massively talked about, yet everyone seems to have watched it.

Aye for Fairy Tail!

And Lucy in the newest chapters! Did not see that coming! She's basically Aquarius now! Mind fucked, really.

Anyway, shakka to you all and peace out!