Starry Heavens: A Different Story
Author: AshK1980
Episode 003: Firebird, Monkey, Phoenix and Bull!
Because of the events of the previous episode, the Magic Council in the town of Era is discussing the problematic Wizard Guild known as Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail has gained quite the reputation in Fiore as a very destructive guild. Especially two young Wizards by the names of Lisanna and Setsuko who went all out against the fake Salamander known as Bora the Prominence who is known for being kicked out of the Titan Nose Guild a couple of years ago for bad behavior. While Lucy caused her own share of the damage to the Hargeon Port, Lisanna and Setsuko are the ones that made the biggest mess of all. They really overdid in their battle with Bora.
It was the next day after the events of Hargeon and the meeting with Lisanna, Setsuko, Happy, Shiro and their new friends Lucy and Aspen. As the group made their escape from the army, they made their night-filled trip back to Magnolia, the site of the Fairy Tail guild. Lucy and Aspen were back in their regular clothes after the night and were walking to the guild hall on foot.
But before all that, located in the town of Era, a large town, built around a high, rocky mountain. The mountain nested the headquarters of the highest authority in the world of magic, the Magic Council. The rocky mountain is located in the heart of the city, and features a jagged pathway that encircles the circumference of the mountain as an entrance into the Council headquarters. The town is surrounded by forestry and snow-peaked mountains, which can be seen from the Magic Council headquarters' meeting room. The building's appearance is that of an imposing palace, composed of both pure white stone and light blue bricks, with large, elongated windows with arched tops being placed over its walls, some complete with glass, others hollow. The front part is a large facade, dominated in its center by the entrance, consisting of a double door topped by a pyramid-shaped roof, adorned by a bas-relief portraying a naked male figure taking the hand of a naked female figure, with a large shell being placed behind them. The roof is sustained by two massive, rectangular structures, plus a smaller pair of columns directly at the door's sides. Leading to the door it was a staircase, split in two by a concave part in its center. At the entrance's sides, linking it to a pair of simple, rectangular towers, were two colonnades. Towering above the entrance were three balconies, with their lower parts partially hidden by the entrance itself; the central one was topped by a roof similar to the one topping the entrance, similarly adorned by a bas-relief, this one portraying the Council's ankh-like symbol, while the side ones were less imposing, consisting just of large, rectangular windows complete with light blue curtains. Sitting at the outer balconies' sides were two imposing, rectangular towers covered in hollow windows, with pitched roofs consisting of light blue tiles, and sections protruding outwards in the central part of each of them. Two more, similar towers were visible on the backsides of the building. In the building's center, surrounded by those four towers, was a round one, with its conical, tiled roof topped by a high, slender, golden decorative structure, extending several meters up in the air, and having curved protrusions jutting outwards from it.
Inside one of the rooms, the members of the Magic Council were discussing the events of yesterday. They each stood from one another, on top of a large light blue magic circle with their own magic circles they stood on top of.
"Those idiots from Fairy Tail have gone and done it again." spoke one of the seven members, a short old man with brown hair and a mustache. His tufts of hair resemble ears and what appears to be a light-yellow tail gives him a cat-like appearance. Like the others around him, he wore a many layered robe that belongs to the Magic Council his name is Michello. "This time they've destroyed an entire port!"
"What is the matter with them?" another member, a tall middle-aged man, who always wears small, round, dark shaded glasses, wears a white and blue Magic Council cloak, and has it with the hood up asked in response to the first member. He also has large thin lips and tan skin. He has black hair and huge sideburns that almost hit his lips. On his chin are small chin hairs. He also has small eyebrows that always point down. This man's name is Leiji.
"I'm actually quite fond of those dimwits and their crazy fair attitude." said a third member with his arms folded, eyes closed, and spoke in a calm cool tone. He dressed himself in elegant yet simple robes; consisting of a long white tunic with black stripes across the edges and on the upper part of the arms, a decorated collar, large straps connected to decorated buckles closing the inducement on the front over a dark shirt, and matching pants and shoes. He also sported a ring on his right hand's middle finger, and had a medallion hidden under his collar. This man's name is Siegrain.
Beside him, a fourth member, a small old man with thick flesh-colored eyebrows and a small toothbrush mustache that reaches halfway to his mouth groaned with his arms folded before adding on. His clothes were different from the other members, consisting of a brown long sleeve shirt with black vertical stripes and a black three-spiked hat, "They may behave like fools but we mustn't forget that they're an extremely capable lot." This man's name is Yajima
On his left stood one of two lone female members of the council, a pale-skinned woman with dark purple hair and brown eyes. She wore a white kimono with a short skirt and a yellow bow tied around her waist. This young woman had a rather voluptuous figure, and had her hand to her hip in a bored expression. This young woman's name is Ultear Milkovich.
"Yes, that's true they present quite the quandary." spoke up another member in the top of the room, a tall old man with a large gray beard and mustache. He has pointy ears and only opens one eye. On his head is a small bat-like creature. The elderly gentleman's name is Org.
"I think we should leave them be." remarked Siegrain in response to the others while smiling, "After all if it wasn't for those fools, think how boring this world would be."
Aspen and Lucy were smiling all the way to the Guild Hall. The groups of four wizards and two flying cats. Despite what people tend to think of little Happy and little Shiro, they are in fact wizards as well.
Lisanna and Setsuko looked toward their new friends and smiled, Lisanna opened up first to the two girls she met in Hargeon "So Lucy and Aspen, are you excited to be able to finally join an official Wizard Guild?"
"You know I am Lisanna," Lucy said to her new white-haired friend with a smile, "My goal was to one day join an awesome Wizard Guild."
Aspen smiled and spoke up, "you seem to be pretty powerful in your own right Lisanna, are all of the Wizards in your guild as powerful as you? If so, it makes me worry that I won't be accepted because of how my magic is perceived." The brown-haired girl looks toward the light blue-haired girl and white/blue flying cat as well. "Hey Setsuko, you seem to be just as powerful as Lisanna is. I don't know much about your type of Wizard except that they have a special kind of power to them that relies on the strength of Dragons. I mean that was some of the best Ice Magic I've ever seen in my short life. The only thing I don't envy about your magic is the fact that you get Motion Sickness every time you get on transportation. Does that kind of happen to all Dragon Slayers?"
Setsuko nodded sadly, "unfortunately, yes it does. We have two other Dragon Slayers in the Guild as well that suffer the same fate as me. Natsu was the same way. I wish there was a way I could get over that motion sickness, but I can't. It comes with the territory. Also, I may be powerful, but I'm not nearly as powerful as some of the other Wizards in Fairy Tail. Lisanna and I are strong, but we don't hold a candle to some of the other Wizards in Fairy Tail. I'm so happy we are not only getting two new friends, but two brand new members as well. I hope you enjoy your time in Fairy Tail, I certainly have."
"You think I'm powerful?" Lisanna asked through a giggle, "I'm not very powerful. The Firebird form you saw me use in Hargeon was only a partial takeover. After I lost my friend Natsu, I really wanted to honor his name. I took a mission one day thanks to a tip from my siblings. The mission I took caused me to venture far away from the Guild Hall. When I got to the place that the lead led me to, I came across a Firebird. I fought it for a bit, it seemed angry for some reason, eventually I calmed it down only to find something lodged between its talons, it was a thorn. The poor thing must've encountered it when it was flying too low. Anyway, once it calmed down, I pulled the thorn out of its talon and it thanked me by letting me take its power to use as a takeover. I haven't had it for very long, it's only been a year at most, so that's why I can only do a partial takeover with the Firebird. Anyway, I am far from being a powerful Wizard in Fairy Tail. You will meet most of the more powerful ones when we get there. I have a bone to pick with one in particular that sent Happy, Setsuko, Shiro, and me on a Wild Goose Chase. Truth be told, I knew that Salamander was fake, the second Happy and I came face to face with him. Considering he didn't look in any way close to what Natsu looked like."
"Hey Lucy," Happy said toward the blond, "where is your mom now? You didn't talk about her much at all. If you don't want to tell us about her, you don't have to. It must be hard for you."
Lucy sighed as tears started stinging the corners of her eyes, "my mom died almost seven years ago after some top secret mission. Apparently something else also happened that day on July 7, x777. After my mom's death, things between my dad and me just got worse and worse. Finally, one year ago, I finally had enough. I packed up my keys and my whip and as many clothes as I could take with me at once in my Suitcase and ran away. At the time I only had two spirits, Aquarius and one other. I gained another one shortly after I left home. I also bought three more Silver Keys when I was in Hargeon. I will show you them sometime."
"This salamander you talk fondly about Lisanna," Aspen said to the takeover wizard, "what was he like?"
"Oh you mean Natsu? Lisanna asked. Seeing Aspen nod, she spoke up, "Natsu was goofy, loving, kind, and determined at the same time. The supposed Salamander Bora the Prominence, had nothing on him. I hope you and Lucy meet him sometime. I'm holding out hope that Natsu is still out there somewhere watching over Happy, me, and our Guild Hall. I am definitely going to find him someday, you'll like him Lucy, so will you Aspen. He may be quite a bit more destructive than me, but I'm sure he is still as nice as I remember him. Anyway, let's get going, we should be at the Guild Hall shortly."
Lucy smiled and thought to herself with a blush on her face as she looked toward Lisanna with a smile thinking, 'Lisanna and Setsuko are quite the powerful Wizards. I still can't believe I didn't catch onto the fact that those two were wizards when I first met them. I'm just glad I'm finally getting to join the Guild of my Dreams, Fairy Tail. After reading so much about them over the past six years in Sorcerer Weekly, I think I'll fit right in at Fairy Tail. I can't help but wonder though, how does Aspen feel about all this?'
Aspen smiled as she followed behind Lucy and the others. The look that Lucy gave Lisanna wasn't lost on her, and by the look on Happy's face, it wasn't lost on him either. Aspen pondered what life in a wizard guild would be like. After being an orphan for so long, she hopefully found a place to call home. She sighed as she thought to herself while smiling, 'I can't believe that I have a chance to join an actual Wizard Guild. I honestly am not sure how the guild will take me being a Weather Manipulation Wizard. I really hope they aren't like so many of the other Guilds that rejected me just because of my Magic. I should really be proud of my Magic, Lucy herself even said that my magic was rare and one of a kind. Her and Lisanna also told me that it could be very useful in certain situations, not only for attacking, but changing the climate around us. I really hope I fit in really well at Fairy Tail. I don't know what I will do if they reject me because of my powers. That would be just really heartbreaking. I guess I will wait and see when we get there.'
Lisanna, with Happy on her shoulder, looks back at her two new friends. She sees a look of concern on Aspen's face, and what looks like a blush on Lucy's face. Lucy is smiling as well. Lisanna blushes at the look on Lucy's face. It definitely wasn't lost on her at all. She especially liked the way she handled herself in Hargeon. Lisanna couldn't help but think about her two new friends to herself, 'That battle would have made Natsu so proud. I know he's alive somewhere out there and I aim to find him. With my new friends Lucy and Aspen it would be even easier. I don't really know that much about Lucy's Magic. I'm not even sure if her magic is that strong. Though, from the force of that wave that sent Bora's Yacht into shore, I have a feeling that Lucy had something to do with it. As for Aspen, she comes off to me as a wizard that isn't too sure how her magic would contribute in certain situations. Lucy and Aspen, they're so nice. It's going to be so much fun to work with them. Those two are going to fit right into Fairy Tail. This Wizard's life certainly got a lot more full in the last day and a half. I can't wait for Lucy and Aspen to meet the others. Though, I think the two of them will probably think that Fairy Tail is insane with all of the fighting going on. I'm going to have a little heart to heart with Krov when we get inside the Guild Hall. Sending Happy, Setsuko, Shiro, and me on a wild goose chase, which was obviously a dead end. If Natsu were in my situation, he would probably start a huge guild-wide fight. I'm not going to do that. I have more self-control than Natsu. Besides, who knows maybe someone else will do what Natsu did. Shigeru and Chisame seem a lot like Natsu in their own ways. I'm just going to calmly walk in there and possibly slap Krov across the face knocking his bucktooth smirk off of it. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if Setsu ends up doing the same thing as me.'
Setsuko, with Shiro on her shoulder, as she looks toward Lisanna and the others, sees that all three of them are deep in thought. Shiro looks toward Setsuko, "Setsu, what's wrong, you seem like you're deep in thought about something. Is it about the battle we just had? I know you don't have motion sickness because we walked here. So what's the story Setsu?"
Setsuko caught on to Shiro's question, "It's that and a little bit more. I have a lot to think about. How about you and I head back to our dorm when we get back to Fairy Tail. That battle made me hungry again. I'm sure you're also hungry, what do you say?"
"I think that would be a good idea Setsu," Shiro said to her partner, then continued, "although, I think we should at least give Krov a piece of our minds. Maybe slap him across the face for giving us a false lead."
Setsuko nodded in agreement with her partner as she found herself deep in thought again, 'I'm still not sure what that Bora guy was trying to pull except to sell those girls, including Lucy and Aspen into Slavery in Bosco. Using Natsu's nickname was way too far as far as I'm concerned. I know I haven't been a member of Fairy Tail as long as Lisanna has, but I know that Natsu was very dear to her as well as the rest of the guild. As for Shiro's suggestion to slap Krov across the face, it does sound tempting. Though, that's as far as Lisanna and I are going to go. We aren't going to pull a Natsu and start a huge Guild Wide fight. We've got Gray to do that. I wonder, will Lisanna want Lucy and Aspen on our team? Those two certainly seem to be reliable. I would be honored to be on a team with those two. I can see it now, Lisanna, Lucy, Aspen, Happy, Shiro, and me going on missions together and having a grand old time. Yes, I know it means lots and lots of transportation, but as a Fairy Tail Wizard and a Dragon Slayer I have to deal with it. I didn't really catch any glimpse of Lucy and Aspen's magic, but I think they'll be just fine in the Fairy Tail Guild.'
Eventually the group finally arrived in Magnolia Town. As the Quartet made their way through the streets of Magnolia, they passed the Kardia Cathedral. Happy and Shiro were riding on Lisanna and Setsuko's shoulders respectively. Eventually the group made it from Hargeon to Magnolia and to the center of town where the Fairy Tail Guild Hall stood tall and proud and just waiting to welcome more wizards into the Fairy Tail Family.
The group arrived in front of a building consisting of three floors and incorporating several architectonic styles: it took on a shape reminiscent of a pagoda, with each floor being smaller than the one below it and sitting on the latter's roof. The roofs also bore great resemblance to those of real pagoda, consisting of extremely long, arched tiles lined up one after the other and possessing simple curved protrusions jutting upwards on the building's angles. On the highest roof, topping the summit of the building, sat a simple, round and pointed dome, highly reminiscent of those seen on Arabian buildings, which bore a flag on its point. The roof below the one with the dome, the middle one, housed a large banner with Fairy Tail's symbol on it, held up by a pair of vertical poles. The building's large entrance was again Arabian in design, with its shape being reminiscent of that of the dome on the summit, and above it was the guild's name, topped by a protruding, stylized heart shape and flanked by a pair of carved fairies. Stylized heart shapes were also visible on the frames of the numerous, large pentagonal windows located on each floor, with the top floor housing smaller, arched windows partially covered by banners.
"Well, Aspen, Lucy, welcome to Fairy Tail," Happy said to Lisanna and his new friends.
"Be prepared for your first look at the life of a Guild Wizard," Setsuko said while looking at the two newcomers.
"This guild can be a lot to take in at first," Shiro said to Lucy and Aspen, then continued, "but it grows on you. Believe me, Setsu and I know from experience, although we haven't been members of this guild as long as Lisanna has. We joined about a year or so ago."
"So," Lucy said to the group, "you and Setsuko joined the guild around the same time that I ran away from home. I guess that does make sense."
"Well we had an interesting day yesterday," Aspen said to their host and hostesses, then continued, "although, I have a feeling that things will only get more interesting from here."
"I think the two of you will fit in just fine here," Lisanna said with a smile, "especially after the display of power you two had in Hargeon."
Lisanna thought about doing what Natsu always used to do when they came home from a mission, kicking down the door. However, she thought better of it. She wasn't like the rest of the Fairy Tail Guild. She didn't actively enter fights unless provoked. She never started the fights either.
Lisanna opened the door and announced their arrival, "we made it back alive!"
"We're home," Happy exclaimed flying next to the group, he then smiled and announced something else to the group, "we've brought a couple of new friends to welcome into the Fairy Tail Family!"
"Welcome back Lisanna, Setsuko, Happy and Shiro!" Several Fairy Tail Wizards said to the group.
As Lucy and Aspen entered the guild hall, the two looked around and smiled. This was the start of their new lives as Fairy Tail Wizards.
Lisanna smiled as she and Happy entered the Guild Hall followed shortly by Setsuko and Shiro. Lisanna gently closed the doors behind her. Lisanna and Happy looked toward the rest of the Guild Hall, "Thank you so much for welcoming us. We appreciate it. Also, before you go and say anything, I know Setsu and I made a mess in Hargeon. We were chasing down a fake lead. We had to make a mess in Hargeon because the fake Salamander was not only staining Fairy Tail's good name, but my fallen friend Natsu's as well."
"Aye sir!" Happy exclaimed, having to put in his two cents as well.
The inside of the guild is similar to a large lunch hall, and mainly consisted of wood, possessing a parquet floor and a mezzanine held up by wood beams overlooking it. Several long benches and the related tables stretched across its length with a bar at the end.
Many more members greeted the Takeover Wizard, Ice Dragon Slayer and Flying Cats, "welcome back Lisanna and Setsuko! Can't forget about our friends Happy and Shiro too!"
On one of the benches were two young men of the same age. One of them had his back to the group and was facing another young man on the other side of the table. He was of average height with orange hair, kept jutting backwards at the sides of his head. He has a sharp face, a prominent, flat and defined nose pointing downwards, and distinctive teeth, with a protruding, sharp, triangular-shaped upper molar complemented by a chipped portion on the lower row, something which allows him to close his teeth completely despite such peculiar irregularity. He donned an open, light-brown coat with yellowish fur trimmings on its edges and sleeves, which reached down below his elbows. Below it was a high-collared purple shirt, with its collar mostly left open, which was sometimes seen left hanging over the checkered belt below it, with a rectangular buckle, and others tucked inside the buggy dark pants covering his legs, in turn tucked inside dark boots. He was sometimes shown with a bracelet composed of thin ropes around his right wrist, and a watch around his left. The most distinctive piece of his attire is probably the fancy, extremely high hat matching his coat, with a large brim and fur trimmings over its entire length, at regular intervals, plus a large furry ball on its top. The orange-haired wizard is named Jet. He specializes in Speed Magic.
The one the orange-haired young man was facing was a tall, slim young man with black hair kept in an unusual, distinctive hairstyle, with a tuft of hair on top of his head jutting upwards and then curving frontwards, being reminiscent of a plant's stem. His hair extends in a rounded form on his forehead, and was cut on both sides of his head, dark eyes and thin dark eyebrows pointing downwards at their outer edges; his rectangular-shaped face sported sharp features, with prominent cheekbones. His attire consisted of a simple white shirt, green checkered pants, and dark shoes with lighter soles. He also sported a pair of distinctive belts crossing his chest, each passing over one of his shoulders. These belts were reminiscent of bandoliers, sporting rectangular cases on them. This black-haired young man is named Droy. He specializes in Plant Magic.
Another person was sitting and talking with members of the guild, he was a tall man sporting curly, light orange hair. His outfit consisted of a large, white shirt fitting his chests size, with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, dark pants, dark, pointed shoes adorned by light crescent moon-like motifs on the inner sides, and a distinctive dark hat, with a large brim, a curved point hanging down on his left and a light orange band around it, highly reminiscent of those worn by fictional sorcerers. This wizard's name is Reedus Jonah. He specializes in Picto Magic.
Another member facing the returned group, a man of average height distinguished by his brown hair, which is kept in a pompadour-like style that protrudes frontwards from the top of his head in a large, curly and fluffy tuft. His eyes were closed, but he had light colored eyes. His physique is peculiar in the fact that, despite having quite a large belly, his abdominal and pectorals above it are well-defined. His outfit consists of a loose, light green shirt decorated by many motifs of stylized dark-colored flowers with five petals; a pair of pants cut down below his knees and held up by a light belt adorned by many black stars partially hidden by his shirt, and sandals held up by striped bands. His name was Wakaba Mine. He specializes in Smoke Magic.
"So Lisanna, I heard you went all out in Hargeon, have to go on and on starting trouble." said a slim man of average height with dark hair pointing upwards, bushy eyebrows, and very prominent upper central teeth, reminiscent of a rodent's. He wore a light, zipped sweatshirt with a high collar and dark lines running down the sleeves' upper parts, bearing the letter "J" on the left part of the chest. He also appears to be wearing light pants and shoes.
"Why do you insist on pushing my buttons, Krov?" Lisanna asked curiously with an angry look in her eyes as she ignored the man, and headed to the bar, "Why do you constantly confuse me with him? You know I am not like him now, please leave me alone, I really don't want to fight."
"I can't believe you are Salamander's friend!" Krov challenged the white-haired wizard, causing Lisanna to stop where she was, turned around, walked up to said rodent-faced wizard and slapped him across the face.
Lucy saw this and asked Lisanna a question, only to see her huff and head up to the bar. "Why did you go and do that Lisanna?" Not getting an answer from the girl, the Celestial Wizard followed her to the bar and asked the same question to Lisanna again, "Why did you go and slap him Lisanna?"
Lisanna sighed and shook her head as Lucy approached and asked the question, she gave her answer, "Ever since that incident two years ago where I lost my friend, that guy has been grating on my nerves, if he's not careful I'm going to blow, he's so annoying, I just choose to ignore people like that since I'm not a fighter."
"You could've fooled me by the way you acted in Hargeon," Lucy said calmly then realized that Lisanna may be wrong so she asked the white-haired girl another question, "What do you mean that you're not a fighter?"
"I already told you Lucy," Lisanna said as she ordered a drink from Mirajane, then addressed the blond, "The reason why I acted the way I did in Hargeon is because of the way Bora was throwing around Natsu's name in Hargeon. I was defending him."
Lucy nodded in understanding, "so you were basically running on adrenaline and anger am I right?"
Seeing that Krov was busy nursing his cheek, Setsuko slapped him on the other cheek with an angry look on her face. After the Ice Princess did that, she joined Lisanna and Lucy at the bar.
Lisanna nodded toward Lucy and smiled. Setsuko and Aspen then joined Lucy and Lisanna at the bar and got a drink. Happy and Setsuko were standing on the bar counter next to their partners.
"He didn't even look like Natsu! He was nothing but a dirty old man that wanted to use girls to turn into slaves!" Lisanna shouted back toward Krov, who was now nursing his other cheek from the slap that Setsuko gave him. "How could you say that was Natsu?"
"I was only passing on a rumor," Krov said as he got up only to be punched by a random Guild Member.
"It was just a rumor?" Lisanna asked angrily, then sighed, "that was a mean trick Krov!"
"Jeez Krov," Setsuko scolded, "you have no idea how much Natsu meant to her do you? I can't believe you would mess with her feelings like that. You deserved both of the slaps you received."
Lisanna then let her tears flow from her eyes as she buried her head in Lucy's shoulder. Lucy sighed, blushed and patted her on the head in a caring way as she spoke up softly trying to calm the Takeover Wizard down, "it's alright Lisanna, I promise that I will help you find Natsu."
Lisanna sniffled as she moved her blue eyes up to look at Lucy's brown eyes, "you really mean it Lucy? You'll help Happy and me find Natsu?"
"Of course I will Lisanna. You helped Aspen and me out with Bora, so it's only fair that I help you out in finding Natsu no matter how long it takes. I'll put my life on the line for you and Happy as well as everyone in Fairy tail."
"I will help you and Happy find Natsu as well Lisanna!" Aspen exclaimed happily from the other side of her. Lucy was on Lisanna's right side and Aspen was on Lisanna's left side. Setsuko was sitting next to Lucy.
"Really Aspen?" Lisanna asked through her tears, "even though you just met Happy and me?"
"Of course I will," Aspen said to the youngest Strauss Sibling, then continued, "I owe you just as much as Lucy owes you."
Realizing Lucy was still patting her on the head, Lisanna spoke up to the Celestial Wizard, still through tears as she was crying, "Lucy, please stop petting me on the head. I'm not a dog or a cat or some pet for you to cuddle with."
"Oops sorry Lisanna," Lucy said as she stopped petting Lisanna, "I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable."
"That's okay Lucy," Lisanna said still through her tears while blushing, "your shoulder is very comforting. Is it okay if I stay like this for a bit?"
"Sure Lisanna," Lucy said, also while blushing.
Lisanna continued to cry on Lucy's shoulder.
"You made Lisanna cry!" Gray exclaimed angrily as he pulled his hands back and prepared to do a spell, "one of the three sweetest girls in Fairy Tail is now crying because of your stupid fake leads! Do you have any idea how much Natsu meant to Lisanna? You don't at all do you?! I'll show you! Ice Make Knuckle!"
Gray has spiky black-colored hair and dark blue eyes. He is wearing a necklace resembling a sword with a stone in it, a metal bracelet, and a chain which is attached to the right side of his pants. Gray has a constant habit of losing his clothes. Gray at this point is wearing nothing but his boxers.
"Gray your clothes!" A young lady with long brown hair said to Gray as she was drinking down a keg of beer. The young lady that spoke up is a tall and slim tanned-skinned young woman with an ample bust. She has mid-back length brown hair with varying shades of color, two shoulder-length strands of hair frame her face, with the left one starting from a prominent, high fringe. She has large brown eyes and visibly long eyelashes. She possesses a very voluptuous figure, with large breasts and curvy hips. Her black Fairy Tail stamp is located on the lower left part of her abdomen, right above her hips. Her fingernails are adorned by nail polish of different colors.
Her shapely upper body is largely exposed, with most of her attire being distinctively scanty: her standard outfit consists of a light blue bikini top which features a camouflage pattern, a pair of Capri pants, with two bands hanging from each leg and a light belt covered in heart motifs loosely tied around the waist. She completes her general outfit by wearing a pair of high-heeled sandals. She also has a pair of metal bracelets adorning her biceps, bearing an incision composed of many "A"s, and three simple, round metal bracelets on her right wrist. This young lady's name is Cana Alberona, she currently holds the title of Fairy Tail's heaviest drinker.
"I don't have time for that right now!" Gray exclaimed as he continued to power up his attack.
As Gray said that, a light blue magic circle appeared underneath him as he slammed his hands into the ground sending multiple Ice fists toward the direction where Krov flew only to catch Happy and several other members off guard igniting an all out brawl that Lisanna and Setsuko thankfully decided to stay out of.
"It's not even noon and you're all fighting like babies!" A tall tanned burly man exclaimed as he came into the room.
He is a large, muscular man with tan colored skin, whose height causes him to tower over most of his fellow guild members. His long white hair is kept styled upwards in long, wavy spikes, and his dark eyes possess no visible eyebrows, and his rectangular, elongated face has a stitched scar running down its right side, crossing his right eye. His black Fairy Tail stamp is located on the left part of his neck. His outfit resembles that worn by fictional, Japanese high-school hooligans: it consists of a dark blue jacket with a purplish blue inner lining, held closed on the front by a line of large buttons, with similar buttons on the sleeves' back and the zipper located on the high collar left open. The back of his jacket is adorned by large, light kanji writing, which reads "The Greatest" and the jacket itself seems to be worn over a light red shirt. His outfit is completed by loose pants matching his jacket, held up by a simple belt, and traditional Japanese geta sandals, held in place by bands colored the same as his jacket's inner lining. This giant of a man is Elfman Strauss, Lisanna's older brother.
With no more parting words, Elfman jumps into the fight determined to fight just like a real man.
Mirajane then walked up to the group and smiled, "You and Setsuko did cause a lot of damage in Hargeon, but you had to do what you did to defend our friends honor," Mirajane said as she lowered her voice so only her and Lisanna could hear, "so any luck finding Natsu and Igneel?"
Tears that seemed to disappear welled up again in the Animal Takeover Wizard's eyes, she grabbed a hold of Lucy on the shoulder as she cried. Lucy blushed very lightly and just let Lisanna cry on her shoulder.
"I-I failed Big Sister Mira," Lisanna said, tears flowing down her face, her blue eyes clearly distressed as she looked into the blue eyes of her big sister.
Setsuko from beside Lucy heard what Mirajane said to Lisanna. Setsuko then spoke up, "It was nothing but a wild goose chase Miss Mira" Setsuko mentioned, then continued, "just some old man too full of himself to realize that what he was doing was wrong."
Mirajane nodded her ever present smile very visible as she nodded and addressed Lisanna and Setsuko specifically, "just try to cut back on the collateral damage next time?"
With her head still resting on Lucy's shoulder, Lisanna wiped away her tears and put on her smile that always seems to light up the room, I understand Big Sister Mira."
Mirajane smiled and went back to her rounds as the fight picked up a notch as Happy was knocked into the back of Lucy with swirls in his eyes, Aspen saw this and gasped.
"Setsuko, Lisanna Happy is hurt." Aspen said toward the two official Fairy Tail Members that were at the bar."
Setsuko and Lisanna looked toward the knocked out happy, picked him up and took him to the infirmary. Shiro and two other flying cats, a green one and a dark purple one followed Shiro, Setsuko, and Lisanna to the infirmary.
The dark purple cat with dark purple eyes smaller than Happy's was wearing a backless yellow sundress. Her guild mark is yellow and in the middle of her back. Her name is Roxie.
Along with Roxie was another cat similar to Happy, Shiro and Roxie who is also flying toward the infirmary, but this one is green. He is wearing nothing but a red knapsack similar to Happy's. His eyes are the same size as Happy's and are green. His guild mark is behind his red knapsack in the center of his back. His name is Terra.
Two other Wizards are also involved in the fight, one had green hair and one had dark purple hair.
One of the wizards was a young woman about Lisanna and Lucy's age, maybe just a tad bit younger. She has long mid-back length dark purple hair, and is wearing a low-cut purple sundress without a back and high-heeled purple calf-length boots. She also has dark purple eyes adorned with a light spattering of mascara which barely lengthens her eyelashes as well as a light layer of yellow eye shadow bringing out her dark purple eyes. Lastly, she also has an hourglass figure. She is about five feet eight inches tall. This young lady's name is Chisame Corona, a Poison Dragon Slayer. She is punching random Guild Members and smiling with her longer canine teeth showing very apparently. Her Guild Mark is dark purple and on her left shoulder.
The other wizard is a spiky green-haired well-built young man wearing a dark green camouflage tank top, with dark green camouflage jeans and around his waist is a black leather belt. He also wears dark green camouflage combat boots. It's impossible to tell how high his combat boots are because the top of them are covered by his camouflage pants. His eyes are also green like his hair. Just like the female, he smiled as he exposed his longer than normal canines. He is about six feet two inches tall. His name is Shigeru Sandarov, an Earth Dragon Slayer. His Guild Mark is dark green and on his right shoulder.
Both of these Dragon Slayers joined at the same time in x777. Just like Happy and Shiro, Terra and Roxie were born in x778.
While Lisanna, Setsuko, and Shiro took Happy to the infirmary, with Terra and Roxie following them, Lucy remained at the bar taking a drink. While all that stuff was happening, the fight got out of control. Gray had lost his underwear sometime during the fight. Shigeru had found Gray's underwear and was standing in front of him swinging said underwear around.
"Give me back my underwear you Green-Haired Freak!" Gray exclaimed toward the Earth Dragon Slayer.
Shigeru ran the other way, not even noticing that Terra had pulled himself away from the fight and flew after Happy, Lisanna, and Setsuko along with Roxie toward the infirmary.
Taunting Gray, Shigeru stuck his tongue out at him, "you have to catch me first Ice stripper!"
Gray eventually caught up with Shigeru and got his underwear back.
Chisame didn't even notice her best friend Roxie was gone either. She, like Shigeru, was too busy fighting.
While the fight was raging on, Mirajane got hit in the head with a beer bottle. This in turn caused the Fairy Tail Poster Girl to be knocked out, causing her soul to begin to leave her body.
Aspen saw this and gasped from her spot at the bar. She was waving her arms through the air in distress, "no don't die Mirajane!"
Fights continued to break out as Gray was now fighting Droy instead of Shigeru, Jet was fighting Elfman. Wakaba was sitting having a beer as was Cana. Gray continued to fight Droy with his Ice Make Magic as he continued to lose his clothes. Soon enough, he was in his underwear and Cana took notice.
"Gray! Your clothes!" Cana remarked as she continued to guzzle down a keg of beer.
Soon, Gray lost his boxers yet again, and was standing there buck naked. He happened to stop in front of Aspen as the new recruit gasped, covering her eyes, but peeking through the spread out index and middle fingers of her right hand. He then went on to ask Aspen an embarrassing question. "Um, this may sound a bit sudden, but can I borrow your underwear?"
"What? Heck no you perv! It's time you got a life and started bugging someone else!" Aspen said as she activated her magic, after she turned her stool away from the bar to look toward Gray, by crossing her arms over her chest. "Weather Climate Change! Intense Heat Warning!" As Aspen said that, a yellow circle materialized in front of her chest. The circle got brighter and brighter and eventually turned into intense heat in the shape of the Sun. The waves of sunlight bathed Gray, giving him a serious sunburn and sending him against the wall yet again. "Stay away from me you pervert!"
"You guys are so insensitive, a woman has needs." Loke said as he picked Aspen up off of the barstool Bridal Style. "These guys are so insensitive."
Loke is a young man of average height, distinguished by his delicate facial features and his orange hair. His hair is kept in a mildly short, spiky cut, with spiky strands covering his forehead, and other, longer ones jutting upwards from the top of his head. Loke's hazel eyes are almost always covered by a pair of azure-tinted sunglasses with a thin frame. His left ear is adorned by three earrings: a stud and two rings. His green Fairy Tail stamp is located on his back. Among young girls, Loke is widely reputed as a greatly handsome man, being top ranked as the "Wizard you want to have as a boyfriend".
He wore a green coat with a wide collar, complete with prominent, spiky, brownish-white fur trimming lining the hood, over a light red shirt covered in many flower-like motifs, black pants and whitish sneakers, each adorned by a pair of light green stripes. Not much is known about Loke's Magic. He is often seen using rings to battle in the Guild wide fights he always finds himself involved in.
Loke then set Aspen down on a bench as far away from the fight as he could then walked over to the two girls that he had his arms around earlier, "I am going to enter this fight to protect you my dears."
"Be careful Loke!" The two girls exclaimed.
"Don't worry, I'll be careful," Loke said as he put his left hand to one of his rings as he activated his magic. Only to be knocked up into the air by Elfman.
"Real men fight with their fists, Loke!" Elfman exclaimed as he punched Loke into the air.
Aspen is looking at a book with the most eligible bachelors in Fiore and sighs as she crosses off Loke's face from the most eligible bachelors list. "What a weirdo he's definitely off my list."
Gray and Shigeru, now fighting again, saw this and punched Elfman into the air. "You stay out of this Elfman."
The fight went on for a while as Aspen began to realize that Fairy Tail was filled with insane people, except for Lisanna, Setsuko, Shiro, and Lucy. Eventually, Aspen was able to make her way back through the fighting crowd to the same bar stool she was sitting on before once again. She then turned back to face the counter of the bar. She and Lucy then began to engage in small talk. No sooner had they began to engage in small talk, and they were interrupted by someone coming up to them. This young lady was named Mirajane Strauss, the poster girl of Fairy Tail.
Mirajane then addressed Aspen and Lucy at the bar and asked, "hey are you new here?"
Mirajane is a slim young woman of below average height. She has long, white hair which curls slightly at the ends, with two bangs framing her face and reaching down to her chest; her hairstyle's most distinctive trait is a short, upward ponytail obtained by gathering and tying the hair covering her forehead. Due to her always adopting such fashion, her hair seems to have adapted to it, with the hair on her forehead remaining pointed upwards even when not tied. She has large blue eyes and a curvy, voluptuous body, with large breasts. Her white Fairy Tail Stamp is located on her left thigh. Mirajane is widely known for her beauty, being Fairy Tail's drawing card and having posed many times for the Sorcerer Weekly Magazine. Mirajane's most commonly seen attire is a sleeveless, ankle-length maroon dress with a pleated skirt. The chest is adorned by a large, pink bow, and similarly colored trimmings frame the rather ample neckline, acting as straps, and circle around the waist. Mirajane also wears high-heeled shoes that match her dress, and she wears a small chain necklace with a blue oval gem attached to it around her neck, and a bracelet made of white flowers circling her right wrist.
Lucy and Aspen have hearts in their eyes as they look at her.
"It's Mirajane!" Both newcomers exclaimed as they saw her address them, "she's so pretty."
Aspen and Lucy look at the fighting as Lucy speaks up, "hey shouldn't you stop them?"
"It's always like this in Fairy Tail," Mirajane said with a smile as she remembers something about the two, "hey didn't you come back with Lisanna, Setsuko, Happy, and Shiro?"
The two girls nodded as Aspen spoke up, "yeah, we were wondering if we could join Fairy Tail."
"Sure, just wait until I get rid of my tray and I'll induct you once I get the stamp," Mirajane said as she went to serve some other Guild Members who weren't involved in the guild-wide fight at the moment. However, as she was making her way through the crowd, another beer bottle flew through the air and whacked her on the Forehead again. She was immediately knocked out as she fell to the floor causing all the beer glasses on her tray to break. This in turn caused beer to spill all over the place.
Suddenly giant footsteps were heard as a giant black monster interrupted the brawl.
"You brats are fighting like babies! Now settle down! I am very disappointed in all of you!" A giant black monster ordered in anger.
The huge monster looked around at his children. Most of them had spent their entire childhood here because they were runaways. As he was looking around he saw the girl that had just sent Gray into the wall with some sort of Weather Manipulation Magic? She can control climates? She is sitting at the bar with another newcomer. Now that was an interesting person to have in his guild. He also noticed the blond that was sitting at the bar next to the girl that had just sent Gray flying.
Mirajane was back up and moving and noticed the sudden appearance of Master Makarov, "oh, I didn't know you were back master."
"So I see we got a couple of new recruits." The black monster said as he began to shrink into a diminutive old man with a very prominent white mustache above his lip. On his head was a blue and orange jester-type cap. He was wearing a pair of pants, a white T-Shirt with a black Fairy Tail Symbol on it. Over his T-Shirt he wore an orange and blue vest. He then had a list of complaints that was piled high in his hand.
Aspen and Lucy saw this and gasped, "he's really tiny!"
"All of you need to watch what you're doing on your missions! I have gotten complaint after complaint from the Magic Council!" Makarov said angrily before he immediately switched to a smile and burnt the complaints to ashes. "But we are Fairy Tail! We have to continue to strive to get better. Forget what the Council says! Just keep doing what you're doing."
Makarov then turned his gaze toward the new recruits. "Hey young ladies." Makarov said as he addressed Aspen and Lucy. "When you are ready to be inducted please meet me in my office, or you can just have Mirajane induct you into the guild with the stamp."
Aspen and Lucy nod in acknowledgement as they continued to stare at the fighting in awe. They notice that Mirajane had gotten up as the two addressed the Fairy Tail Centerfold. "Um Mira is it?" Aspen asks as Mira nods and approaches her and Lucy.
Lucy then asked the Fairy Tail Centerfold a question "Shouldn't you stop all this fighting? Is Fairy Tail always like this?"
"It sure is! Isn't it fun! This is what Fairy Tail is all about." Mira said as she pulled out her Fairy Tail Stamp. "So what color do you two want your stamps, and where do you want them located?"
Aspen thought about the question for a second and reached her hand out to Mirajane as she bends her right hand under so Mira can get a better look at her wrist. "I would like it to be dark blue and on the top of my right wrist please."
Mira nodded happily as she took the stamp in her hand and stamped Aspen in the desired location. The stamp glowed for a second before Mira removed it. Once Mira removes the stamp, Aspen's new dark blue mark glows again and officially inducts her into Fairy Tail.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail Aspen!" Mira exclaimed happily as she was about to put the stamp away only to be stopped by the other newcomer. This one is blond with the Heart Kruz Vest and matching blue skirt. She then turns to her, "hey you're that other newcomer aren't you?"
"I am," Lucy said with a smile, then continued, "if it's not too much trouble could I join Fairy Tail too?"
"Of Course you can," Mirajane said to the other newcomer then continued, "what's your name?"
"My name is Lucy, I came here earlier today with Aspen, Lisanna, Setsuko, Happy and Shiro," Lucy said.
"Oh, yeah that's right," Mirajane said with her ever present smile, "I have to thank you for comforting Lisanna in her time of need. I would be honored to induct you into Fairy Tail. Where do you want your Guild Mark and what color do you want it?"
"I want it to be pink and on the back of my right hand," Lucy said with a smile as she held her hand out for the oldest Strauss Sibling to stamp it. As for comforting Lisanna, it's no problem at all. Even if we just met, I still see her as a friend of mine."
Mirajane smiled and applied the stamp to the back of Lucy's right hand. Once the stamp was applied to Lucy's hand, it glowed pink for a split second then stopped. Mirajane then removed the stamp as Lucy's new guild mark showed in all of its pink glory. The Celestial Wizard smiled happily from beside Aspen. Suddenly a bunch of Beer Bottles headed their way. The trio ducked out of the way causing the beer bottles to impact the wall behind the bar.
"That was way too close for comfort," Mirajane said as she continued to tend to her duties after she put the Fairy Tail Stamper away.
Lisanna, Setsuko, and Shiro, made their return from the infirmary after they found out that Happy was okay and sat down at the bar. Now that it was confirmed that Happy was okay, Roxie and Terra flew back over to Chisame and Shigeru respectively.
Seeing Lisanna go up to the bar along with Setsuko, Happy, and Shiro, Lucy and Aspen sat on either side of the two. Lucy and Aspen on the opposite side that Setsuko, Shiro and Happy were. Lucy was the closest to Lisanna sitting between her and Aspen.
Lucy addressed Aspen, Lisanna, and Happy "Hey Aspen, Lisanna, would the two of you, as well as Happy be interested in helping me find a place to live here in Magnolia? If the price is right, I think all three of us should move in together. Maybe we could find a place that the three of us can live at where we can split the rent equally. How does that sound?"
Lisanna, Happy, and Aspen thought about it for a while, Lisanna spoke up, "Sure, it's still early, I think the three of us could find a place to live in."
Lisanna then turned to Happy, "hey Happy, would you be interested in living with Lucy, Aspen and me, at least until we find Natsu. Once we find Natsu you can move back in with him. How does that sound?"
"Aye!" Happy exclaimed in joy, "it would be so much fun to live with all three of you."
Lucy then turned to Aspen, "Would you be interested in living with Lisanna, Happy and me if we can find a place for a decent rent that the three of us can split equally?"
"I would like that," Aspen said, she then turned to Lisanna, "hey what about Mira? Don't you live with her? What will she say about that?"
Noticing Setsuko and Shiro were still there, Lucy addressed the Ice Dragon Slayer, "Setsuko, if you want to, you can live with us too."
"Thanks so much Lucy, but Shiro and I are just fine where we are. We appreciate the offer though. Although, if we ever become part of a team with you, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that we would move in as well. Would that be okay if we decide to do that after all? Shiro and I need a little bit of time to think about it, but if you find a place with an extra room for Shiro and me to share, we would be happy to movin with you."
Lucy nodded at Setsuko and Shiro with a smile, then continued, "Hey no problem, we're friends now after all."
Mirajane smiled with Elfman right beside her, "I think it would be a wonderful opportunity for you and Happy to move in with your two new friends. I don't have a problem with it. I don't think Elfman has a problem with it either."
"No, I don't have a problem with it at all," Elfman said with a smile, "you don't need us anymore to guide you Lisanna, but you're welcome to visit your big brother and big sister anytime you wish."
Lisanna smiled really big and jumped over the bar and bear hugged her older siblings, "thank you so much Big Brother Elf and Big Sister Mira! That means a lot to me. If we find a place I'll come back and get Happy and my belongings."
Seeing that this was a tender family moment, Setsuko and Shiro Smiled. The two then headed back to Fairy Hills to think of what job they would take, and to discuss whether or not they would eventually move in with Lucy, Lisanna, Aspen, and Happy.
Makarov got fed up with all the rapid loud fighting. He was sitting on the bar next to Mira, who was standing behind the bar, and barely dodged out of the way when Lisanna bear hugged her siblings. Makarov knew that no announcement would be heard if he didn't quiet the Guild Hall down and at least stop the fighting for a little bit.
Makarov jumped off of the bar quickly and landed on the floor where he activated his Titan Magic and grew into that big monster of a man he was earlier, "WILL YOU BRATS QUIT YOUR FIGHTING FOR ONE MINUTE! MIRAJANE HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE!"
At Makarov's order, the Guild quickly quieted down. There was only one other Guild Member that could get the guild to shut up besides Makarov, and she was out on a mission at the moment. Makarov was scary when he was mad, but even his anger didn't hold a candle to a certain S-Class wizard. Once the Guild was quieted down, Makarov returned to his normal size and jumped back up on the bar counter, "thank you very much everyone, now Mirajane, please make the big announcement you wanted to make.
"Of course Master." Mirajane said with a smile as she turned to the Guild Members and addressed them, "Everyone," Mirajane said to the whole Guild Hall, then continued, "I would like to introduce everyone to our two newest Guild Members. Please give a warm Fairy Tail Welcome to Lucy and Aspen!"
The two aforementioned girls saw Mirajane motion to them to come up on stage and introduce themselves and what magic they use.
Lucy and Aspen happily obliged as Lisanna watched in Anticipation.
"My name is Lucy," Lucy said to everyone, "I use Celestial Magic. I will show you all my spirits later. I've also been working on another type of magic for quite sometime, but I want to keep it a secret for right now," Lucy said with a smile and a wink, then continued, "Right now, I'm just happy to be a part of Fairy Tail. I've always wanted to join Fairy Tail since I was a little girl."
Everyone smiled and cheered as they greeted Lucy from the floor. Now it was Aspen's turn to introduce herself.
"Hi everyone," Aspen said to the assembled Fairy Tail Wizards, "my name is Aspen and I use Weather Manipulation Magic. I really hope you will welcome me with open arms."
Aspen heard whispers around the crowd and got scared. She then let her fear fade away as everyone in the Guild Hall greeted her with open arms.
"Weather Manipulation Magic, Celestial Magic? Sounds to me like we just got two more powerful Wizards on our side! Hooray! I'm also interested to see what other type of Magic that Lucy has been working on for a while." The whole Guild Hall cheered as they all decided to start a Guild wide fight again.
Lucy waved her arms dismissively and smiled with a sweat drop on her forehead, "I'm not that powerful, this is my first time being part of a guild. I still have a long way to go."
Aspen nodded in agreement with Lucy and shook her head, "I'm not really that powerful either. I'm still learning, just like Lucy is. I have a long way to go as well."
Lucy, Lisanna, Setsuko and Aspen sighed and rolled their eyes and so did Happy and Shiro.
Lisanna turned to Mirajane and smiled, "well Lucy, Aspen, Happy and I are off to find us a place to live. We will see you later this afternoon."
With that the three girls and one blue Flying Cat managed to make their way through the crowd without getting attacked and headed out the door into Magnolia.
It didn't take the girls and Happy very long at all to find a nice place.
The house that Lucy, Aspen, Lisanna, and Happy found is on Strawberry Street. There is a canal with a stone bridge crossing it on the outside. Lucy and Lisanna's Landlady is a middle-aged woman, who likes to wear clothes that are too short and revealing for her age. These include high heels and a dress, adorned with a large amount of jewelry, pearls, sea-shells, giant earrings and numerous bracelets. The landlady also wears fur around her neck. The complimentary element of the whole outfit are giant thick-rimmed glasses. At first Lisanna, Aspen and Lucy were just looking for a small apartment, but found out that their landlady also owned several houses. She showed Lucy, Aspen and Lisanna a house that they absolutely fell in love with. It also allowed pets in it as well.
It is a two story Western Style House with three bedrooms, one and a half baths, a kitchen with a stove, refrigerator, and a fireplace. The full bath is upstairs along with two of the rooms while the half-bath and third bedroom is on the main floor. Lucy and Lisanna decided to take the two second level rooms. Aspen takes the lower level room. It is also fully furnished with a giant lacrima powered TV in the living room, so the three girls and one flying cat can catch up on the news and happenings in Magnolia and all around Fiore, a radio that is also lacrima powered, along with a sofa that folds out into a bed for guests. There is also a coffee table in the living room. There is also an arm chair that reclines and can be used as a bed as well, there is also a small end table next to the recliner. The walls of the interior are plain white in all the rooms. There is a bath and a shower combination in the full bathroom as well as the standard toilet. In the half bath is just a shower stall, sink, and toilet. There are no windows in the half bath, but there is a window in the full bath because it is located in the back portion of the second story. There is also a linen closet where Lucy, Aspen, and Lisanna can store all of their towels. There is even a room that has a Lacrima-Powered Washing Machine/Clothes Dryer combination. The house is also equipped with running water. It also has several bookcases that Lucy can store all the books that she gathered while she lived with Jude. It's a steal for 150,000 Jewel a month. Since three of them live there, they split the rent in thirds. Lucy pays 50,000 Jewel per month, Lisanna pays 50,000 Jewel per month and Aspen also pays 50,000 Jewel per month. Happy has a small bed in Lisanna's room. In Aspen's room is a bed, dresser, desk, and window just like in the other two bedrooms.
The exterior of the house is made of red cobblestone. It has a mildly sloping roof. The entrance-way to the house is adorned by double doors as well as a double storm door. The windows can be open to let fresh air in. There is also a sliding screen on the storm door that can be either covered by a window or not covered by a window. It is the perfect home for one person and two of his or her closest friends, or in Lisanna's case her two newest Guild Mates. It's a good thing the three found a house so quickly, because even though Lisanna loves her older siblings to death, sometimes she just needs a little space for herself. The house that she lives in with Mira and Elfman is made more for two adults and one child than three teenagers and one flying cat. It only had two rooms. Lisanna and Happy shared a room with Mirajane. Elfman, on the other hand, because he had gotten so big, had his own room. The six years she spent with her siblings were fun. However, it was time for her to move on. Especially since Lisanna had been taking a lot more missions than Mirajane and Elfman have been taking as of late.
On the outside of the front door was a wall-mounted mailbox with a flip-top lid. The house that the three girls were now renting together along with Happy had a good size backyard where they could relax after a tough mission. It had a fully furnished deck with a Lacrima-powered grill as well.
The three girls each paid rent for the first month at 50,000 Jewel a piece. Once they signed the paperwork, they headed back to the Guild Hall where Lisanna could get her and Happy's stuff.
There was still plenty of Daylight so the trio of girls and the blue flying cat decided to hang out at the Guild Hall before they headed to their new home.
Makarov is sitting on the Bar with Mira standing behind it when a young boy, no younger than six years old runs up to Makarov in tears.
"My Daddy isn't back yet master! He said he'd be gone for only three days and now it's been a week, you need to go find him! I want my Daddy!" The young boy wearing a black shirt and tan shorts with black tennis shoes exclaimed angrily. His hair was straight and short. His shirt had an S imprinted on the front of it. This was Romeo Conbolt.
"You have to trust your dad Romeo, he will be back! He is a Fairy Tail Wizard after all!" Makarov exclaimed angrily, "Now go home and have some milk and cookies or something."
"No! Send someone after him! He should've been back by now!" Romeo said as he punched Makarov in the face and exclaims angrily toward Makarov, "Stupid jerk!"
Romeo then ran out the Guild Doors and screamed out in anger, "I HATE YOU ALL!" With that Romeo ran into town.
Lisanna, Lucy and Aspen are at the request board. While the three girls are at the request board, they hear what's going on. Lisanna isn't happy and stabs the request board with her Tigress claws, chipping a piece off of it.
Lisanna then turned to her two new roommates and addressed them, "I'm going to go find Macao, do either of you want to come with me?"
While Lucy happily decided to go with Lisanna, Aspen decided against it. She was going to put what belongings she had in her suitcase at the home that the three girls shared now.
Lisanna understood and motioned for Happy to follow her and Lucy. As the two girls head toward the guild doors, a muscular wizard in tribal clothing glares at the retreating forms of the girls.
"Lisanna watch it you almost broke the request board!" The man in tribal clothing that said that was Nab Lasarro who spends the entire day pacing back and forth in front of the request board never taking a job.
"Happy, we are going to go find Macao! We owe it to little Romeo. I have a feeling that he will be a great wizard someday." Lisanna remarked to the blue cat, having replenished her strength from the most recent battle along with Lucy.
"What about Lucy?" Happy asked curiously.
Lucy smiled, giggled, and gave Happy a thumbs up sign, "of course I'm going with the two of you. I still owe you for helping out Aspen and me with Bora.
Lucy joins Lisanna as she walks out the door and motions for Happy to follow them.
"Aye Sir, I mean Ma'am!" Happy remarked as he followed the two girls out.
"Why does Lisanna wear that clashing scaly scarf with her outfit?!" Aspen inquired to no one in particular, Mirajane saw this and walked over to her.
"Well you see, a very dear friend gave her that scarf. A very dear friend that disappeared two years ago during a mission the three of us went on. My name is Mirajane Strauss in case you forgot," Mirajane said as she pointed to Elfman. "That's my little brother Elfman. He is also Lisanna's older brother.
"As Big Sis said, my name is Elfman Strauss. What is your name?" Elfman asked curiously.
Aspen smiles and introduces herself to Elfman again, "My name is Aspen. It's very nice to meet you.
Having caught a glimpse of what Lisanna did to the Request Board, Aspen asked the Fairy Tail Cover Girl a question, "Hey Mira, why was Lisanna so angry when Romeo stormed out? Why did she attack the request board?" Aspen asked curiously.
"I think it's because she sees herself in Romeo," Mirajane said to the Weather Manipulation wizard, she then continued, "I also think Lucy wants to help too. I don't really know much about Lucy, but like a lot of the Guild Members here, she may be a run away. As for how Lisanna sees herself in Romeo, our parents died a long time ago leaving the three of us to fend for ourselves. While we did stay in some villages from time to time, something always happened and the three of us were kicked out of one village, town, or city, after another. Eventually, the journey of the three of us ended up here at Fairy Tail. We've been members here for six years now. Setsuko, the other person you met in Hargeon, she just joined the guild last year."
Aspen nodded in understanding, then continued, "Well thanks for your insight Mira, I appreciate it. Anyway, I'll see you later, I have to get my stuff and start moving myself into our new home. See you later."
With that, Aspen, securing her backpack to her back and carrying her overnight bag with her as well, headed back into town to move into her new home that she will be sharing with Lucy, Lisanna, and Happy.
Lisanna was still angry at Macao. Lucy saw this and turned to Lisanna
"Who is Romeo's father and where is he?" Lucy asked curiously.
"Romeo's father is named Macao Conbolt." Lisanna said to the blond newcomer, then continued "I think everyone said he was on Mt. Hakobe doing a mission."
Lucy straightened up her backpack on her back, then turned to Lisanna, "where's Mt. Hakobe?"
"It's quite a ways away," Lisanna said as she put her hand to her chin thoughtfully, "we will probably need to get a carriage, unless we can find a way to fly there."
"Well, I did purchase three gate keys in Hargeon before I met you and Setsuko," Lucy said with a smile as she pulled her three newest Silver Keys out of her skirt pocket.
"I still have to make a contract with them," Lucy continued, "I could show you how a Celestial Spirit Wizard makes a Contract with a spirit if you want me too. That way we could fly to Mt. Hakobe on one of the spirits."
Lisanna giggled and smiled, "Lucy, we live together now, you can show me how to make a contract with a Celestial Spirit later. We have to go find Macao now."
Lucy Face-palmed and giggled, "oh yeah that's right. I momentarily forgot that we now rent a house together with Aspen. So how do you propose we get there?"
"We'll get there somehow," Lisanna said as she looked around, she then spotted a carriage parked on the side of the road, she saw someone getting in it and flagged him down, "hey sir, can you take us to Mt. Hakobe? We have a lost friend to find."
The stagecoach driver was caught off guard by the white-haired girl asking him that question, but happily obliged. Lisanna, with Happy on her shoulder along with Lucy, got into the stagecoach. Once they were inside the stagecoach took off toward Mt. Hakobe.
Eventually the trio of wizards arrived at the foot of Mt. Hakobe, unfortunately they would have to trek the rest of the way up Mt. Hakobe on foot.
"I'm sorry ladies, this is as far as I can go," the stagecoach driver said, "you and your cat have to go there on foot."
Lisanna and Lucy nodded regretfully as they spoke up, "thanks for taking us this far."
"You're very welcome," the driver said, "good luck finding your friend."
"Thank you very much," the two girls said happily as they waved goodbye.
Feeling the storm pick up, Lisanna and Lucy shiver.
Lucy then has an idea. She pulls out one of her silver keys, this one with a Clock-face on it, "Open! Gate of the Clock Constellation! Horologium!"
As Lucy said that, a golden magic circle appeared in front of her. Once the magic circle appeared, just like with Aquarius, Lucy stuck the key inside the magic circle and turned it to the right after tossing it into the air and catching it. Once she turned the key, Horologium appeared at the foot of the mountain.
Horologium is a tall brown grandfather clock with long, black arms, a glass case, a Roman-numeral clock at the center and a small face at the top with slit eyes and a thin, twirly, mustache-like mouth. The glass case serves as protection for the one who is inside and Lucy usually uses this to protect herself from the cold. This case prevents anyone outside from hearing what the person inside is saying, so Horologium repeats everything the person inside says and then follows with a "...he/she/they say/s." In the case of multiple people inside he will make specific details on whoever is currently talking.
"Tick-Tock!" Horologium said as he posed, then addressed Lucy, "how can I help you Lady Lucy?"
"Horologium, I was wondering if you could carry all three of us inside you up Mt. Hakobe." Lucy requested of her spirit.
"I could try my dear, but if it gets too crowded in there I'm going to have to return to the Celestial Spirit World leaving you in the cold," Horlogium said, then continued, "don't you have a Winter Jacket with you or anything?"
"I do," Lucy said to the clock then looked toward Lisanna shivering, "I'm not sure about Lisanna though."
"Lucy," Lisanna said to her new friend, "you don't have to do this for me, I can take care of myself. Did you happen to forget about my Fire bird form from Hargeon?"
"No I didn't Lisanna," Lucy said to the white-haired girl, "but you might need your magic on the way up there."
"So will you Lucy," Lisanna said to her new friend, "Horologium has got to be using a lot of magic being out like that."
Lucy sighed she knew that Lisanna was right, she also knew that it would be a tight fit with two teenage girls and a flying cat inside of Horologium. Lucy knew she wasn't going to win this argument.
"Okay," Lucy said to her new friend, "I understand Lisanna, we won't use Horologium."
Happy then gets a Cheshire cat grin on his face, "no need to send the clock back Lucy, I will get inside of it!"
Before either Lucy or Lisanna could object, Happy used his max speed to speed past the two girls and enter Horologium.
Lisanna and Lucy face-palmed and sweat dropped as Horologium spoke up, "I guess I will carry the cat then."
With that, it was decided that Happy would be the one on the inside of Horologium.
"It's so warm in here! Says the blue cat." Horologium said as he translated for Happy.
Lucy and Lisanna just rolled their eyes and smiled knowing that it would be quite the interesting trip up Mt. Hakobe.
Lucy sighed and rummaged through her backpack and smiled, she had found two Winter Coats inside. She pulled both of them out and threw one toward Lisanna as she put hers on, "Lisanna, you look to be about the same size as me, so you can use one of my winter coats."
The one that Lucy threw toward Lisanna was pink to match her outfit. Lisanna gratefully accepted it and put it on. It fit her perfectly, "Thanks Lucy it fits perfectly!"
"No problem Lisanna," Lucy said with a smile, "you can keep it. It's nice and warm isn't it?"
Lisanna nodded and smiled, "it sure is Lucy! Thank you very much!"
"You're welcome, Lisanna." Lucy said as she put her winter coat on. It matched her outfit perfectly just like the one she gave Lisanna matches her outfit as well.
"Thanks Lucy, I love it!" Lisanna exclaimed happily, "I'm nice and warm now!"
Lucy giggled as her Lisanna, and Horologium, who was carrying Happy made their way up the mountain.
The group got halfway up the mountain and Horologium's time ran out leaving Happy in the snow shivering. "Hey where are you going clock man?" Happy asked through shivers.
"Sorry my young cat friend but my time is up," Horologium said as he vanished completely back to the Celestial Dimension.
"Macao! Macao!" Lisanna exclaimed, then continued, "where are you hiding Macao?"
A white monkey then plowed down the mountain and tried to grab Lisanna and Lucy. Lisanna was able to dodge, but Lucy wasn't so lucky. Before she could even reach for her keys, the big white monkey grabbed her and squeezed her tight around the waist and swung her over his shoulder. In the process, Lucy's keys fell off into the snow and so did her whip. Helpless, and with no way to defend herself, Lucy was stuck on the big white monkey's shoulder as he ran up the mountain carrying his prize. This big white perverted monkey is known as the Mountain Vulcan.
The Mountain Vulcan possesses a monochromatic color scheme, with its fur colored white and its pectorals, abdominal muscles, hands, ears, and facial features colored black. The lower half of its body is a darker shade of black and the decorative pattern on its arms consists of five black circles on each arm, which are composed of black tufts of fur. This species of Vulcan is notably depicted to live in large packs. However, this Vulcan seems to be only one, but it's a strong one.
"Lucy! No!" Lisanna exclaimed worriedly as she saw that Lucy's keys were on the ground along with her whip. The Takeover Wizard turned to Happy, "Happy, we have to go save Lucy. She's our friend! We can't let that pervy monkey get away from us! Happy, can you fly me up the mountain?"
"I could try Lisanna, but no promises," Happy said with a sad look in his eyes, "I will do my best to fly after Lucy. However, I have to watch out for wind gusts and stuff that may knock me off course."
"That's understandable, Happy," Lisanna said as she put Lucy's keys and whip in her bag, put her bag back on her back, then raised her arms up so Happy could wrap his tail around her waist. Once Happy's tail was secure around Lisanna's waist the flying cat used his fastest speed to fly up the mountain. The duo got about three-quarters of the way up the mountain and Happy's wings vanished causing Lisanna to fall in the snow along with Happy. However, before Happy fell in the snow, Lisanna transformed into her Tigress form, caught Happy in her arms and landed on her feet. "Happy, are you okay? I'm sorry I made you fly me all that way."
"Hey don't worry Lisanna, I'll be fine," Happy said reassuringly to his partner, then continued, "it was just a lot farther up the mountain than I anticipated. So let's go save Lucy and smash that Vulcan and make him tell us where Macao is! Once we rescue Lucy, all three of us can work together to take that pervy Vulcan down! Let's get going Lisanna!"
"Right Happy," Lisanna said with a smile as she dropped down to all fours and ran up the mountain slope with Happy riding on her back. "Don't worry Lucy, we're coming to save you and then we'll all three find Macao together!"
In a matter of minutes, Lisanna and Happy made it up the mountain and entered the cave where the Mountain Vulcan had taken Lucy. When the duo entered the cave, the two saw Lucy pinned against the wall and the Vulcan hovering over her like the love-struck perverted monkey he was as he banged his chest in a dominant fashion, "Woman! Woman! Woman! My woman!"
"LISANNA, HAPPY HELP ME!" Lucy screamed out loud as she was hoping for her two friends to get to her soon. "I don't want to be the Pervy Monkey's wife!"
Hearing Lucy's cry for help Lisanna and Happy entered the cave, Lisanna in her Tigress form as she rushed toward the pervy monkey, "hey monkey brain let Lucy go and tell me where Macao is!" The contact of Lisanna's Tigress Claws knocked the Mountain Vulcan away from Lucy.
"Thanks Lisanna," Lucy said with a smile, "you wouldn't happen to have my keys would you? I couldn't find them when I was able to move and I can't use Phoenix or Aquila because I don't have contracts with them yet."
"I swear Lucy," Lisanna said with a smile and a wink, "you would be completely lost without Happy and me. You're lucky we picked up your whip and keys after you were taken."
Lisanna took off her backpack, took the keys and Whip out of it then put it back on her back and tossed the keys and whip to Lucy. Lucy was able to catch them with skill and clip them back on her belt.
Lisanna couldn't help but tease Lucy a little bit, but she did it playfully so as not to offend her new friend and roommate, "I swear Lucy, if Happy and I have to save you all the time, this partnership between the three of us is going to get old fast. You think being away from your house for a year would help you become more self-sufficient."
Lucy pouted cutely with a blush on her face, "well excuse me for getting taken by a giant white pervy monkey that caught me off guard!"
Lisanna giggled as she patted Lucy on the head and blushed, "oh come on Lucy, I didn't mean to offend you. I was just trying to have a little harmless fun with one of my best friends. Is that too much to ask?"
Lucy bowed to Lisanna apologetically, "I'm so sorry Lisanna, I didn't mean to upset you, can you ever forgive me?"
"Jeez Lu, calm down will ya, I'm just joking around with you, you don't have to take everything I say so literally." Lisanna then winks and smiles at Lucy.
Lucy rolls her eyes, "I'm sorry, until yesterday I didn't really have any friends except for my spirits. Wait a minute, did you just call me one of your best friends? We just met, so how can we be best friends already. Although, I do like the sentiment. I see you as one of my best friends as well. Along with Setsuko, Aspen, Happy, and Shiro. Come on, let's find your friend Macao."
Lisanna realized that Lucy was right as she was so caught up in the moment of trying to comfort Lucy that she almost forgot about the Vulcan. "Right, let's do this Lu!"
"Right!" Lucy echoed.
"Hey Monkey Face, we're looking for a friend of ours, Macao!" Lisanna exclaimed, then continued, "I know you can understand me! He's a human man."
"Man?" The Mountain Vulcan asked as he pondered and jumped up and down banging his chest and dancing all over the place. He then pointed toward an exit of the cave.
"I think he's going to tell us, come on Happy let's go see if he's there." Lisanna said as she ran toward the exit. Lucy and Happy gasped, "Lisanna! Don't go there, it could be a tr..
Before Lucy and Happy could get the last of the word trap out, the Mountain Vulcan pushed Lisanna out the exit causing her to fall down the cliff.
Lucy rushed over to the cave and called out Lisanna's name, but to no avail. "She can't survive out there! That monkey is going to pay!"
Lucy then looked toward Happy with pleading eyes, "please Happy go find Lisanna! I don't know what I would do without her. And besides, for some reason I have a big fear of what Mirajane will do to me if something ever happened to her Little Sister. I will take care of this Pervy Monkey!"
"Aye Aye Lucy!" Happy exclaimed as he flew after Lisanna, "I will be back shortly with Lisanna. No worries."
Lucy nodded as Happy flew out the exit. Once she knew that Happy was on his way, she turned around faced the Vulcan and threw her coat off and onto the ground, "okay you Pervy Monkey! You're going down! It's time for you to meet one of my closest friends!"
Lucy then pulled a golden key off of her key ring that had an engraving of what looked like some sort of symbol that was shaped like a bulls head, spun it in the air, caught it and sliced it through the air, "Open Gate of the Golden Bull! Taurus!"
A blue magic circle appears in front of Lucy as she sticks the key into the center of it and turns it to the right. Just like with Aquarius, a figure started slowly forming out of the magic circle in front of Lucy. The Taurus symbol on the base of the key glowing brilliantly. Once Lucy finished turning the key a humanoid bull-like creature appeared out of the magic circle.
Taurus is an extremely tall, heavily muscular and athletic humanoid whose physical features are highly reminiscent of a bull, as his theme implies. His body is covered in a black and white pattern similar to that of Holstein Frisian cattle, and the upper part of it, from the waist up, seems more massive than the lower one. His head is bovine in shape, with small, elongated ears jutting outwards from the sides of his head, and a pair of horns, testifying him as a bull, sitting on top of it. He has dark eyes, and his flat nose bears a large golden ring in it, similar to those worn by real bulls. His muscular chest bears six teats: two on his pectorals and four on his upper abdominal area. The tail sprouting from his back, ending in a dark tuft, is rather small, if compared to the large mass of his body. Taurus' massive body is mostly left bare: he's shown wearing a dark inducement, similar to a pair of swim briefs, covering his groin, held up by a red, studded belt, with a circular, thin, golden metal buckle, with a pair of curved protrusions jutting outwards from it in its upper part. He also wears simple dark boots with lighter upper edges, consisting of three lines circling his legs, and has a red belt circling his neck, to which a golden cowbell is attached. His forearms are wrapped in bandages, and he wears brown finger-less gloves. Crossing his chest diagonally and passing over his right shoulder is a large, plain dark belt closed by a simple buckle, to which Taurus attaches his signature ax when he's not using it.
"Cow?!" The Mountain Vulcan asked as Taurus appeared in front of him.
"I should warn you Monkey Boy, Taurus is the most powerful Celestial Spirit I have a contract with!"
Seeing Lucy standing in front of him, Taurus gets hearts in his eyes as he speaks in a love struck tone of voice, "Oh wow Miss Lucy, I almost forgot what a nice body you have! Why don't you come give me a big smooch."
Lucy closes her eyes as she places her right palm on her forehead, "oh yeah he's a big perv too."
Seeing the Bovine Celestial Spirit the Mountain Vulcan glares at Taurus with a look of contempt on his face, "No Touch my Woman!"
"Your woman?!" Taurus exclaimed as he glared at the giant white Pervy Monkey, "them's fightin' words you Monkey!" When Taurus said the word Monkey, he elongated the o's so it sounded like he was mooing with in the word monkey.
"Get him!" Lucy ordered her Celestial Spirit.
Grabbing his ax, Taurus jumped up in the air spinning it above his head like a parade leader would swing a giant baton. Once the Celestial Spirit had a good hold on his Double-Bladed Ax, also known as Labrys, Taurus landed hard on the ground slamming his ax into the cave floor kicking up ice and snow. However, the Mountain Vulcan dodged the barrage of ice and snow with excellent speed.
"Oh wow he's fast!" Lucy exclaimed in shock.
Out of the corner of her eye, Lucy saw a fiery blur enter the fray as what looked like fiery talons impacted Taurus causing him to do a back flip in the air and slam into the ground. This in turn caused him to lose his ax.
"Lisanna?!" Lucy exclaimed in shock as she saw her roommate bust in and take Taurus out of the fight. "Where did you come from?! How did you survive out there?"
"I did what you asked me too Lucy," Happy said to the Celestial Spirit Wizard, "I went out and saved Lisanna."
"I appreciate it, Happy," Lucy said to the blue cat.
"Looks like this is the end for me." Taurus remarked as he was on the ground with stars surrounding his head in a fit of dizziness.
"Epic Fail!" Lucy exclaimed as she looked toward her fallen spirit with Bulging eyes.
"So Lucy," Lisanna said to the blond Celestial Spirit Wizard, "why are there more monsters now than there were when I left?"
"Seriously Lisanna, did you have to attack my Celestial Spirit? Are you always so impulsive?" Lucy asked.
"Oh, that bull was one of your spirits?" Lisanna asked with a Sweat Drop on her head, "I'm so sorry Lucy. I guess I thought I was attacking that big white pervy monkey."
Lucy rolled her eyes and face palmed "it's okay Lisanna, just try to be a bit more observant with your surroundings next time? Now I have a knocked out spirit and that Pervy Monkey is still up and kicking."
Lisanna chuckles out of embarrassment as the Vulcan jumps up from behind her and tries to slam his right fist down on top of Lisanna.
Sensing the situation, Lisanna spins around and blocks the attack. However, the impact from the hammer fist strike from the Vulcan sends Lisanna flying backwards.
"Now you listen up!" Lisanna exclaimed after she put her crossed arms down after she had them above her head and glared at the pervy monkey, "I consider everybody in the Fairy Tail Guild my friend. Whether it be Gramps or Chisame, big sister Mira, those annoying jerks Gray and Shigeru,"
Lucy sees this and sighs and Lisanna continues, "Happy, Setsuko, Lucy and Aspen too, they're all my friends."
Hearing what Lisanna said as she looks on, Lucy blushes and smiles as she continues to watch the fight.
Lisanna then continues where she left off, "which is why,"
After Lisanna said that a reddish-orange magic circle appeared underneath her feet as she jumped up in the air with her Talons ablaze and kicked the Mountain Vulcan into the air, and exclaimed, "I'm not leaving without Macao!"
Before Lisanna could finish the job, the Mountain Vulcan landed with a loud thud on the cave floor shaking the entire mountain and causing several Icicles to fall down on the ground kicking up Ice and snow. The impact caused Lucy to lose her footing as she was thrown up into the air.
In her partial Fire Bird Soul she was glaring with pupiless eyes toward the Mountain Vulcan as she smiled, "I may not have as strong fire attacks as Natsu did, but just like with Natsu, your Ice Attack has no effect on my Partial Fire Bird Soul."
As the dust cleared, it revealed to Lucy and Lisanna that the Mountain Vulcan had Taurus's ax.
Lisanna and Lucy both gasped, as Lisanna was the first to notice, "oh boy, that's not good."
Lucy responded immediately after Lisanna as she looked on with wide eyes, "he got Taurus's ax!"
Still in a daze, Taurus pleaded with Lucy, "please be careful Miss Lucy."
The Mountain Vulcan swung Taurus's Ax toward Lisanna as she went down to one knee and captured the ax with her Tigress Claws that she had activated to give her a better grip.
Lucy was over trying to snap Taurus out of his daze by shaking him both hands, "please Taurus you've got to go back! If you go back beyond the gate, your ax will disappear too."
While Lisanna was holding onto the ax with her Tigress claws and pads, the heat from her partial Firebird Soul began to melt the ax as embers dropped into her mouth.
"Wait a minute, the heat from Lisanna's partial Fire Bird form is melting the ax?" Lucy asked in awe with a blush.
"Aye Sir!" Happy exclaimed.
"Now I've got a fire in my belly, however, it still won't be enough to subdue this Vulcan. Lucy, I need your help!"
Eventually, Taurus acknowledged the plea from Lucy and returned beyond the gate, but not before Lisanna was powered up as much as she could with her Fire Bird Soul.
Lucy knew she had to help Lisanna, but couldn't figure out how as she thought to herself, 'Seriously, I have to find a way to help Li, I would try to use my other power, but I'm still not sure if I can conjure something and have it stay for very long. My only option at this time to help Lisanna is my Phoenix Key, it may be less of a drain on my magic than using another one of my Zodiac Keys. However the problem is, I have yet to make a contract with Phoenix, I have no choice, I have to give it a try.'
Having made her decision, Lucy pulled out her Phoenix Key as she told herself something that she had to do, "As much of a magic drain as it was to summon Taurus, I have to do something to help Lisanna out! I have to! I just have to find the strength to help Lisanna somehow!"
Lucy reached deep down inside of her to grab her remaining magical strength and then some. Determined to help her friend and new roommate out, she held her key out in front of her as Magical Power started to infiltrate her being as a golden yellow magic circle materialized underneath her feet. Concentrating as much remaining power as she could, a golden yellow glow surrounded her ebbing up from the magic circle underneath her feet, "I call upon thee in the world of the Celestial Spirits! I beckon you to my side at once! Heed my call! Pass through the gate!" as she spoke her words, a Silver and Reddish Orange Magic Circle appeared in front of her as Lucy threw the key up into the air causing it to spin. Grabbing the base of the key with the imprint of a bird with Rainbow feathers on the top of its head, she stuck the key into a magic circle and turned it to the right, "Open gate of the Mythical Bird! Phoenix!"
Out of the Magic Circle appeared a magnificent red bird with a rainbow feather crown on its head and rainbow tail feathers at the base of its back. Once the bird appeared a bed of flames materialized underneath its feet. On top of the flames hovered a magnificent twelve feet six inch bird that spread its wings proudly as it began to speak.
"Who summons me? I must know." the bird asked then said in a sultry female voice.
"I did," Lucy said to the Silver Key Spirit, "Can we deal with the contract at a later time? My friend needs your help now. Could you give her fire power a boost?"
The Silver Key spirit looks at the situation that Lisanna is in and sees her trying to take on that Mountain Vulcan. Seeing the desperate place that the Takeover Wizard is in at the moment, Phoenix nods, "I understand miss. We can iron out the contract details later. Time to kick some butt!"
Lucy nodded and pointed toward Lisanna as she called out her name, "Lisanna, jump on the Spirit's back. She will give you a big boost in fire power. Firebird and Phoenix working together, we should be able to take out that pervy monkey with one shot."
Lisanna smiled and nodded as she jumped off the ground and landed on the back of the Celestial Spirit on her stomach with her Firebird Wings spread out as far as they could go. The Phoenix also spread her wings out wide as she addressed Lisanna, "hey kid, if I were you I would hold on tight. I'm about to do a barrel roll so hold on as tight as you can!"
"Right Phoenix!" Lisanna exclaimed as she did as she was told.
Lisanna and Phoenix lit their wings ablaze as Phoenix glided into a barrel roll heading straight toward the pervy monkey.
"Fire bird Phoenix flaming Barrel roll Ambush Attack!" Lisanna and Phoenix exclaimed together as the two of them plowed into the pervy monkey slamming it into the wall knocking it out.
Once the pervy monkey was knocked out, Lisanna let go of the Phoenix, jumped up into the air, switched to her Tigress form and landed on her feet. Lucy then smiled as she swung one of her newest Silver Keys through the air sending the Phoenix back into the Celestial World.
Having exhausted her remaining magic, Lucy landed on the ground in a squatting position with her left hand resting on the cave floor.
"We beat it together! All of us!" Lisanna, Happy, and Lucy exclaimed together, then cheered in unison, "yay!"
Lucy then realized something as she spoke up, "um wasn't this pervy monkey supposed to tell us where your friend was?"
Lisanna and Happy Sweat Dropped and so did Lucy and then chimed together in unison, "oh man we totally overdid it!"
"It seems," Lucy said to her comrades, "that this monkey isn't going to do any talking right now."
Just as the trio was pondering how to get information on where Macao is, a golden glowing magic circle engulfed the Vulcan's body causing it to shrink down to something or someone much smaller.
Once the golden circle vanished, where the Vulcan once was, a slim, mildly muscular man of average height with short, straight, long, spiked, slicked back dark blue hair. He has linear dark eyebrows, dark eyes, and a prominent nose with a flat, rectangular front. The lower part of his face is covered in quite a large amount of stubble, which includes a thin mustache. He is considered to be quite attractive amongst women. He was wearing a knee-length white jacket, often kept open, with a wide, dark purple collar and matching edges, with the sleeves kept rolled up. The sleeves of the simple, dark shirt he wears underneath this jacket are visible sprouting from the latter's own sleeves, and reach down below his elbows. He dons brown, pinstriped pants held up by a lighter-colored belt bearing a snake-like pattern, with a simple, square-shaped buckle, partially obscured by his shirt, and a very distinctive pair of shoes, adorned with a leopard pattern. Around his neck Macao wears a large, serpentine necklace, which is held up by a chain.
"Wait a minute," Lisanna gasped, then continued in shock, "that's Macao!"
"You've got to be kidding me!" Lucy exclaimed with wide eyes and a surprised look on her face, "that pervy monkey was your friend Macao the whole time?"
"I guess that Vulcan must've taken him over." Happy states.
"Taken over?" Lucy asked with a confused look on her face.
"Aye, Vulcan's survive by taking over the bodies of their victims. They're evil ugly body snatchers."
"Oh wow," Lucy gasped in shock.
"It looks like he put up a good fight before he was taken over though," Happy stated.
After the Vulcan had lost control of Macao's body, the Fairy Tail Veteran Wizard lies flat on his back on a blanket that Lucy and Lisanna spread out for him.
Lisanna was on one side of the blanket, while Lucy was sitting on the other side with a first aid case out. Where were either of them keeping it? It must've been in the packs the two were carrying.
"Macao! Don't you dare die on me!" Lisanna pleaded, "I don't know if I can take the loss of another close friend! Romeo's waiting for you! Open your eyes!"
Lisanna's pleading apparently got to Macao as his eyebrows twitched and his eyes slowly opened. Macao then saw Lisanna and spoke up, "Lisanna."
"You're okay!" Lisanna exclaimed happily as Lucy giggled happily at the fact that Macao woke up.
"I'm so pathetic," Macao said as he addressed Lisanna specifically with Lucy listening, "I defeated nineteen of those brutes!"
Lucy gasped as Macao continued, "but the twentieth, that's the one that got me. I'm so angry with myself! I'm embarrassed to go home and face Romeo."
"Don't be like that Macao," Lisanna said trying to cheer Macao up, "you beat nineteen monsters."
Lucy stares in shock as she thinks to herself 'No way, there were twenty of those giant monkey things?! And he took on the job all by himself?!'
Lisanna smiles and reaches out for Macao's hand as Macao grins and grunts, "now let's go home, your little boy's been waiting for you."
Lucy continues to stare at Macao with a blush and an infatuated look on her face as well as a grin as she continues to think to herself, 'they're amazing, I can't even begin to compare my mediocre Magical Talent to them. Although, I have to say, Lisanna and I make an excellent team. We helped turn Macao back to normal. I can't help but wonder if Aspen will work as well with Lisanna and me as I did with Lisanna. I still can't even begin to compare myself to those two, but I will still continue to do my best and not give up no matter what!'
Happy sees the grin on Lucy's face as he hovers behind her, "why are you grinning like that Lucy? It's creepy."
Lucy heard this and came out of her thoughts as her eyes went pupil-less and lines of annoyance formed underneath her eyes. She also had a grin of annoyance on her face as well, "I'll show you creepy! Watch your back!"
Romeo is sitting in the middle of a set of stairs as a bad memory enters his mind's eye of some bullies teasing him about Fairy Tail.
"Fairy Tail Wizards are a joke Romeo!" One bully said to him.
"Everybody knows that they're just a bunch of drunken cowards!" The second bully taunted him
"I'm going to be a knight when I grow up, not some dumb Wizard!" the third bully said to him.
Another unseen bully taunted Romeo as well, "yeah they're dirty and they smell like booze!"
In another memory Romeo finds himself face to face with his father.
"Please Dad go to the board and take a job," Romeo pleads to his dad in distress, then continues, "I can't handle all this teasing anymore!"
Macao looks at his son with a wink and a smile, "sure!"
Romeo is sitting on the same stairs wiping his tears when an all too familiar voice calls out to him.
"Hey Romeo!" Lisanna exclaimed as she called out his name causing Romeo to look toward the voice.
Lucy and Lisanna are in front of him with Lisanna letting Macao lean on her shoulder.
Romeo jumps up from his seat and tackles Macao, "I'm so sorry Dad!"
"No, Romeo, I'm sorry." Macao said.
"It's okay, I can handle it! I'm a Wizard's son!" Romeo said to his father as he hugged him.
"Next time those bullies pick on you," Macao started happily, then continued, "this is what I want you to say to them, can your old man defeat nineteen monsters all by himself, because mine can!"
Romeo looks back toward his dad and smiles with tears in his eyes.
Lucy and Lisanna are looking on with tears in their eyes as they turn around and head back to the guild.
As Lisanna, Lucy, and Happy are leaving, Romeo calls out to them, "Lisanna, Happy Thanks for your help!"
"No problem Romeo!" Lisanna exclaimed.
"Aye!" Happy exclaimed back.
Romeo then turned to Lucy and addressed her as well, "Lucy thanks for helping them bring my daddy back to me!"
Lucy turned around and smiled with a blush on her face and a happy look in her eyes. She then waved and giggled as she and Lisanna made their way back to the Guild Hall with Happy flying close behind.
July 4th, it was sunny, followed by a Blizzard then sunny again. I never imagined that I would not only join a Wizard Guild, but make so many new friends like I've made already. Being in Fairy Tail is going to be so much fun. I'm so glad I met Aspen, Happy, Lisanna, Setsuko, and Shiro.
It's sure nice to have two new friends joining our Fairy Tail Family. I'm sure that together, Lucy, Happy and I will find Natsu someday. I just know that he is still alive. I aim to find him no matter how long it takes. With Lucy and Aspen now part of Fairy Tail, it will be a heck of a lot easier.
July 4th, my first day as an official member of the Fairy Tail Guild. I really do hope that I get to go on more adventures with Lucy, Lisanna, and Happy. It would work wonders for me. Considering I am still a Rookie Wizard, I could use all the training I could get. I wonder if that stripper person will help me with my Weather Manipulation Magic. It's really fun to change climates for the sake of attacking. I just can't wait until I go on another job with Lucy and Lisanna! Being a part of Fairy Tail really is a blessing in my book. I am really glad I met Lucy, Lisanna, Setsuko, Shiro, and Happy!
Well what is in store for Lucy, Aspen, and Lisanna now? Find out as Starry Heavens: A Different Story continues.
The End of the Macao Arc
To Be Continued In...
Arc II: The Daybreak Arc.
Author's Note:
AshK1980: This is the second rewrite of this chapter. I realized I was focusing too much on Lucy's secondary magic, Star Make. The first few chapters at this moment are planned not to have much, if any reference to her Star Make Magic. I mean keep in mind I gave her two additional silver gate keys that she purchased in Hargeon along with the Canis Minor Key. What's the use of having additional keys if she doesn't use them. While I did add the involvement of the Silver Mythical Bird Phoenix Key, I tried to keep this a bit closer to Canon than I did originally with this chapter.
