Sorry for not updating sooner, but CoLu Week has been taking up my time on top of my crazy work schedule and just silly life things in general. Hope you enjoy the chapter and if you have any ideas you think would work well somewhere in the story I am always open to suggestions, so feel free to drop a comment or PM me. Thanks for the continued support

Lucy and Cobra woke from their hour nap feeling better than they had earlier and the fact that Cobra was even able to sleep baffled him still. He wasn't sure if it was because she was kin or because it was just Lucy but he wasn't complaining. The two moved in perfect sync around the room to freshen up before Lucy followed the poison slayer to the terrace where he smelled the food. They were greeted by Arman, Evergreen, and a man Lucy hadn't met yet but felt an instant connection with and walked over to him as he stood. He was easily as tall and broad as Laxus, but his smile and brilliant dark blue eyes told her of a kindness that she hadn't felt before. His shoulder length black hair looked good against his tan skin and his open vest showed all of riveting muscles. Lucy was pretty sure she forgot to breath for a minute there.

"Figlia di Draco?" The man asked Lucy if she was the daughter of Draco because he could smell her celestial magic.

"Sì, nomen meum est Lucy. Figlio di Nurem?" Lucy asked the man if he was the son of Nurem since she felt a familiar power coming from the large man.

"Si. Cristoff est nomen meum." Cristoff introduced himself to Lucy

"Alla luce delle stelle ti rivendico come mio." Lucy placed a kiss to the man's chest as a the same gold eight point star that was on Cobra now showed up on Cristoff's upper left pectoral. Cristoff grabbed her right wrist and kissed the inside of it and where his lips once were was now a white waxing crescent moon with a pink stargazer lily within the crescent.

"Paulo stella you are now my kin." He wrapped her up in his arms and realized how much he felt like home.

"Sorry to interrupt, but what just happened?" Evergreen and Arman were sitting there looking quite perplexed, causing the other three mages to laugh.

"Tink had taken Cristoff as kin by placing an unbreakable celestial bond upon his person. She literally claimed him using starlight, which is the same as what she did with me." Cobra explained as he went to sit down.

"Now my little star will never be alone and will always have a family here in Bosco." Cristoff smiled and kissed Lucy's head who nuzzled into his chest.

"Does this mean I now have a new daughter now that she is kin? Arman asked with wide eyes and a goofy grin on his face.

"Yea Dad. You have another child to spoil rotten." Cristoff smiled at the man then handed Lucy over to him.

"You my precious star will never have to be worried about being left behind again. I know you are suffering from the battle with Tartaros, the disbandment of Fairy Tail, and whatever happened to you before and during your capture, but know that every member of my family will be there to help you. Cristoff is my third oldest son, a Lunar dragon slayer and unstoppable healer."

"Plus with you being kin you shouldn't be affected by his moon drunkeness." Evergreen giggled from behind her fan watching Cobra smirk and Lucy raise an eyebrow. "When the full moon is out Cris gets a magic high and emits a shit tonne of sexual pheromones that brings all sort of people to him."

"I am usually locked up with several people to help ease my desires for three nights; the night before, during, and after the full moon. Unless Van is the one looking after me, then I cause huge orgies to happen all around me." Cristoff smiled at his father who shook his head.

"A horrible decision on my part that I will never repeat again." Arman laughed causing Lucy to look around at the four mages.

"Don't worry Tink. With some time you'll get used to the open sex talk and Boscan culture."

"So what do you have planned for after supper Dad?"

"Xally will be home and is hoping to head down to the beach to help with Kelpie Sea horse migration back into Boscan waters." Arman said putting Lucy in a chair next to him and scooping up some of the food Mr. Elan had brought in.

"Xally is one of Arman's adopted daughters and is also a water mage and a healer, but not to the extent Cristoff is. She works as a doctor at the Pelerno Hospital in the NICU finishing up her last year of schooling." Cobra filled in when he heard Lucy's unasked questions.

"Kelpie's migrate to our cooler waters in the summer to mate, but return to the warmer waters around Midi during the winter months to raise their young. They have a horse head and two front legs with wider hooves to help swim, but where you'd normally see two back legs you see a tail. They are all different colors and sizes, but are ruled by the Stallion who is said to be the biggest and most brilliant looking stud." Cristoff explained further to Lucy's delight. "Xally goes to help make sure the foals don't get lost from their mother or that poachers stay away since their scales are worth a lot of jewel."

"That's amazing," whispered Lucy in awe. "Do you think I could go out and help her too?"

"But Lucy you can't swim in the deep waters like Xally can." Evergreen stated while she picked at her salad. Lucy snorted and crossed her arms over her chest.

"I can do a hell of a lot more than you think Ever. And you," she pointed to Cobra, "will be staying out of those memories." Cobra glared at Lucy as he went to listen to her soul only to be flung backwards out of his chair. "Some things are private and I will not tell a soul until I'm ready."

"Damn Tink. When did you figure out how to create a mental fortress like that?"

"Capricorn helped me train before I was captured. Wanted to make sure I could protect myself so he trained me in hand to hand as well as mental barriers, Virgo helped me with my controlling my whip better, and Taurus helped me with building up my stamina. Plus a couple of other new surprises along the way." Lucy smirked while finishing up her strawberry cheesecake.

"So a family trip down to the beach it is then!" Arman exclaimed happily. "I don't know if anyone else will be joining us, but we should change into clothes that we don't mind getting wet then we'll meet at the back entrance and head out together." Lucy and Evergreen went back to her room and Virgo appeared with an emerald green two piece bikini with a canary yellow wrap for the fairy mage and a royal blue two piece bikini with a white wrap for her keyholder. They two girls excitedly changed and were giggling when they met up with everyone else in the foyer. Lucy noticed a petite woman with long black hair talking to Cristoff and assumed that it must be Xally, but she was surprised to see mahogany haired man with a braid over his shoulder talking with Arman. Are all of his children drop dead gorgeous and sexy as fuck? Cobra wrapped an arm around her shoulder laughing at his kin's thoughts.

"Lucy I would like you to meet my oldest and only biological son, Farron. He's a sound mage and works at the embassy with me. Farron and Xally this is your new sister since Cristoff has claimed her as kin." Arman smiled as Xally vaulted herself into the blonde mage.

"Zadi is going to flip when she learns about you! We have been drowning in testosterone for years and are more than ready for more women to be part of the family." Xally enthusiastically told her new sister.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Lucy." Farron grabbed her hand and pressed it to his forehead before kissing the inside of her wrist. "A hand to the forehead how we welcome people and a kiss to the inside of the wrist is how we welcome family. Unless your Xally, then you try to take out family at the knees."

"Hey! It's not my fault I'm the smallest Pradesh and you are all fucking giants." Xally pouted beside Lucy, but Lucy linked her arm in Xally's and smiled into her aquamarine eyes.

"We have some Kelpie's to go help!"

"Right you are! Off to the beach we go." Xally jumped onto Cristoff's back and yelled, "Onward donkey! Moon jump us to the beach."

"Xally do I look like a donkey."

"Nope, just an ass." She smirked as everyone else laughed at her joke, including Cristoff.

"You're lucky I love you Xal." Cristoff made everyone hod hands as he moon jumped them to the beach. Lucy was surprised to find how similar it was to when Laxus used his lighting to get them places, granted he'd only had to do that with her and Bickslow once. The waxing gibbous moon was high in the sky surrounded by the beautiful twinkle of millions of stars. The calm waters of the sea looked like the night sky was painted onto it, the whole thing took Lucy's breath away.

"So what's the plan?" Lucy asked after she stopped staring at the scene before her.

"Cristoff will take the four of us to that large rock a few miles out, so that we can watch everything from above and Cristoff can tell me if he hears any of them in danger, hurt, or going off on their own. We are going to use Cobra as a stand in for Kaleb since he'll be able to hear me if I need it. Evergreen I'll get you to patrol the skies and keep a look out for poachers and get rid of them," Xally evilly smiled to Evergreen whom returned it in a conniving manner. "Dad will stay on the shore with Farron and use their sound magic to keep Kelpies away from the shore and the chance of beaching themselves. Lucy you are with me in the water. Lets move out team!"

Everyone took off towards their locations and sat there waiting for Xally to give the command, but the water were still. They all sat around for a half hour waiting for anything to happen. Lucy had learned that Xally had been doing this for seven years now with a goal of meeting the stallion one day since no one else had seen him before. She had started doing this when she had been walking along the beach around midnight since she couldn't sleep and found a Kelpie mare on the beach. She helped the sea creature back to the ocean with her magic and stayed there all night to help another three that had come too close to the shore. She started researching their migratory patterns and how frequently the groups came around. Turns out the stallion liked to keep his group together so the three hundred or so Kelpies travelled through on one night and one night only. Xally had it down to a T now.

"I hear them coming." Cristoff said standing upon the rock, so Evergreen shot a green flare up to signal Farron and Arman to start their end of the process, then went to patrol for poachers. Xally jumped into the water and waited for Lucy to join who jumped in shortly after her. Once Lucy hit the water she called forth her Aquarius star dress and started to swim after the water mage. Things were going smoothly when Cobra called back to the two women and telling them that Evergreen had found poachers that had a couple in nets and unfortunately there were too many for her to help on her own. Xally sped off intent on wrecking havoc on the the men who thought they could get away with this, so Lucy went to help the captured Kelpies.

Lucy found two mares and three foals trapped within the net, but was having a hard time cutting the ropes loose. Xally sent a huge wave onto the boat that tossed all the inhabitants off, while Evergreen started to throw fairy bombs at it with the hope of sinking it. Xally told Evergreen to go back to Cobra so that he could relay messages since she was their fastest mode of transportation right now. Lucy had managed to get the last piece cut before the ship began to sink deeper into the water, but part of the net wrapped itself around a foal and was dragging it down. Xally immediately went after it followed by Lucy after she made sure the other four were free. Cobra was listening to the two women and began to tap his foot. He didn't like this, not one bit. He could feel Xally start to panic and then felt her mind go blank.

"Ever you need to go back for Xally. Something isn't right because I can't hear her anymore!" Cristoff looked over to where the girls once were, extremely worried. Sending a prayer to any deity whom would listen to keep his sisters safe. Evergreen was flying in circles around where the four Kelpies were waiting for the last foal, but couldn't see her two friends anywhere. Suddenly the bright blue hair of Aquarius came to the surface holding an unconscious Xally in her arms.

"A piece of wood from the boat struck her and knocked her out. Princess kept her safe and alive, but the healer should look at her." The mermaid said as she helped Evergreen hold her down. "Oh no. This isn't good!" With a poof the spirit was sent back to it's realm. Evergreen hovered there for a minute before she raced to get Xally to her brother. Cristoff was relieved to see Xally safe, but the amount of blood coming from her head was concerning so he moon jumped the four of them back to the beach to heal her. Arman and Farron came running wanting to know what happened, so Evergreen told then what Aquarius told her.

"Where's Tink at? I can't hear here anymore!" Cobra was starting panic the moment he realized that he couldn't hear a single thing from her.

"Ugh. Why is my head throbbing?"

"You were hit by a piece of wood from the boat, so Lucy had Aquarius bring you to the surface." Evergreen quietly told the water mage.

"So where is she now?" No one said a word. "Where is LUCY?!"

"Cris I think you should . . ."

"Ah, right. Sorry Xal." Cristoff placed a hand on her head and made her fall aslepp, but not before she flipped him the bird. "Now what?"

"Lucy is resourceful, just give her a few minutes and have faith." Evergreen suggested while twisting her fan in her hands. They all waited with baited breaths before the waters began to ripple before them. Out of the water rose the largest Kelpie that had ever seen. He looked to be twenty feet long and weighed about two thousand pounds with a jet black mane, navy blue torso and head with glowing green eyes. The scales on his tail were beautiful dark shades of green, blue, and purple that glimmered under the moonlight. As he turned from facing them to his side they saw Lucy weakly holding onto the giant sea horse and waving at the them slightly.

"LUCY!" They all exclaimed and raced to the water only to be splashed at by the beast. He did the same thing when they tried to get closer to the celestial mage. Lucy patted his back to calm him before sitting up and slipping into the water so that the male Kelpie could steady her with his muzzle. The two slayers listened to what she was whispering to him and were completely shocked. She kissed the animal then walked the rest of the way to the shore when it was shallow enough to do so and was picked up in Farron's strong arms. Cristoff came to look over at him and Lucy just brushed him off.

"The only that might need healing is my right ankle." Everyone turned to look at her foot and was shocked to see it rubbed raw and bleeding profusely.

"What happened down there luce stellare?" Farron's calm voice washed over her, watching Cristoff try to heal her ankle.

"I was able to get four out of the five Kelpies free of the net, but one of foal's tail was caught in the net when the ship started to go down. Xally raced after the poor baby and I eventually went after her. The ship seemed to break apart under the pressure of the water and a board flew out of nowhere knocking Xally out, so I called a spirit for help and made sure Xally was taken to Ever." Lucy yawned while explaining what had happened. "I went to helped to free the Kelpie, but my ankle got tangled in the net and it started to pull me down fast. I started to see spots and was losing the grip I had on my magic, so with what I had left I used the water magic and sent out a distress call. I never expected the stallion to be my rescuer though, and I am not sure how he got me out but I feel as though he used his super sharp tail to cut the rope away."

"But we heard you talking to it as if it was talking to you. How does that work?" Cobra asked because he was mostly confused with that.

"Aquarius is a mermaid of the sea and when I borrow her powers to change into my stardress I am able to use her water magic, but can also talk to any creature of the water." Lucy yawned again, her eyes felt heavy suddenly.

"What the hell is stardress Tink? Tink?" He looked at her in Farron's arms to find her soundly asleep and sighed knowing he's have to wait until morning to get that answer.

"Here dad you take Xally, because she's going to be right pissed when she wakes up to realize she missed seeing the stallion." Cristoff handed his sister to his father and picked Lucy up from Farron's arms doing a healing scan to see if he missed anything. "I'll moon jump us back home, but I'm going to spend the night with Lucy in case she suffers from any dreams so that I can help her sort it out if need be since she won't be in a healing sleep anymore." No one could argue with Cristoff's logic so the all linked hands and headed home from the beach. Once there they all went their separate ways with Cristoff bringing Lucy to his room, but wasn't sure what to about changing her out of her wet bikini and wrap.

"Excuse me Master Cristoff, but perhaps I could be of service?" Cristoff turned to see a maid standing in the middle of his room and was hoping this was one of her spirits.

"Virgo?"

"Yes Master Cristoff?"

"Just Cristoff please and yes if you wouldn't mind helping our paulo stella into some dry bedtime clothes I would be grateful."

"Of course." Virgo bowed slightly, gently bringing Lucy to the washroom where she put her in a tank top and shorts. Virgo couldn't help the smile on her face seeing that her Princess was slowly beginning to heal her heart and mind from the past several months. In no time at all she would be back to her normal self and figuring out why she was kidnapped at all.

"She all ready Cristoff." Virgo layed Lucy on the king bed and pulled the covers over her. "Anything else you need tonight?"

"No thank you Virgo. I'll see you around." Virgo pooffed back to the celestial world and Cristoff put on clean boxers before crawling into bed and pulling his kin to his chest. He had only known her for a few short hours and already she had almost been taken from him and that didn't sit well with him. Why do I feel like you are going to a magnet for all kinds of trouble, good and bad paulo stella? Cristoff drifted off into a light slumber in case Lucy called out to him while she slept.

Words in Italian:

Figlia di Draco - daughter of draco

Figlio di Nurem - son of nurem

Si - yes

Alla luce delle stelle ti rivendico come mio - by the light of the stars I claim you

Paulo stella - little star

Luce stellare - starlight