Hey guy's I know I'm still working on a few other stories at this current moment in time but my real life is a little hectic right now trying to balance my work and social life, so I'm bringing to you this WHOLE! Brand new story! That me and my fiancé have been talking about and I just can't get the idea out of my head, so this story is brought to you by CureDream90 and Articdragonslayer!

Chapter 12

Magnolia – Strawberry street

Steve woke up to the brightness of Magnolia's sun peeking through the pink curtains in the room, groaning slightly placing an arm over his eye's he groaned, "If I'm staying here…all this pink needs to go." He sat up to a fresh cup of his favourite tea next to his bed and a note at the side of him.

Jinksy

I've just popped out to the market, I'll be back before 9 if you find unexpected guests in the house, it just means my old team mates have broken in yet AGAIN! Make sure Natsu doesn't set anything of fire…. See you soon

Love Wonder girl

He smiled slightly pulling on some jeans and a long sleeve shirt, then pulling the sleeves up to his elbows, a pair of Nike Trainers and walked out of the bedroom slowly sipping his tea only to see 3 people and a blue cat sat in the kitchen, he had to blink a few times and then remembered the note, that her ex-team broke in often, "Good morning Steve, Lucy is just down at the market I hope we didn't wake you up?" spoke the scarlet haired woman, to his case he found it ironic that her last name was scarlet

"Morning, and no you didn't but I'm quite surprised Claud mentioned that you was a loud lot of friends…." The pink haired boy raised his head, drool hanging off his lips, "who's claud?"

Steve sat down next to Gray, with a curious eye's to the boy, "Oh right I forgot she goes by Lucy here, when she came to America she gave us a false name of Claudia, so that's who she'll always be to me." His eye's wandered over to the neat kitchen of hers, it amazed him on how tidy she was compared to back in America, must have been a rebel thing at the time.

"Lushy is a Weirdo, why change your name?" the cat spoke up from eating his raw fish, "No idea little buddy, she's always been weird hey! Think she'll want to go on a mission with us today?" he pumped his fist up into the air with a grin, "No can do Flame brain, our team was disbanded remember, she'll most likely have to pick one of us or go with Laxus." He had kept his eye's closed but he was sat there in his blue boxer shorts, "What did you say stripper!" "You heard what I said Tobasco breath!"

Both males stood up, Natsu's hands lit up in flames while Gray began to concentrate for his ice magic until they was both hit on the head with a frying pan, they both looked to Steve who gave a nervous smile, "Fighting isn't the answer, maybe if you just close your eye's and let the calmness of zen…"

He was cut off by Natsu growling his eye's hardened but that only caused Erza to speak up, "NO FIGHTING IN Lucy's home!" both males 'Eep' and sat down trembling, making the monk to smile slightly before drinking his tea.

Until he caught Erza staring, "I've never seen tea like that before, is it safe to drink?" before he could answer she took the cup out of his hand and drank some, before her cheeks flushed red, "I….its good…" he laughed slightly standing up, "would you like me to teach you? It's my favourite Peru Tea," he could tell she was telling the truth, he hated being a human lie detector at times but he loved it when people was honest with him.

"If it isn't too much trouble," with that he began gathering ingrediant's that he and Lucy picked up the night before and showed her slowly so she would understand. While their backs was turned, ice and fire was fighting again, but when Erza caught them they lied to her making Steve laugh.

"What's so funny boldie?" Natsu spoke, but he just smiled, "Your lying,"

"Am not!

"Are too!"

"How can you tell?" Erza spoke cutting both men off, but he didn't get chance to speak as Lucy walked through the door holding brown paper bags in her arm, he immediately began to help her, "because he's classed as a human Lie detector Erza, really annoying at times, but good thing is, he sucks at lying himself." "Oh thanks Claud, just spread it to the whole world…" she grinned a toothy grin and went over to her stove placing the flames on, "you know you love it Jinksy, now, pancakes anyone?" they all shouted a yeah and she got straight to work doing it the old fashion way, since there wasn't any electric in Magnolia.

Once breakfast was over and done with, Natsu jumped up straight at the chance, "Luce! Can we go on a mission today?" she sighed slightly sipping her coffee, "Maybe tomorrow Natsu, I have a few things to do today, oh and Jinksy, I got you a job at the guild, Mira could use some extra help behind the bar"

"Why do I need a job! I already have one!" frowning as he put all the empty plates in the sink, and began to do the dishes with Gray's help, they had become good friends since they met. "because Stevie, Magnolia doesn't have ATF, so unless Artie has a ping for you, then your officially out of a job, it will also make it easier for me to pay rent!" Steve noticed everyone sweat drop at the mention of rent, he'd ask about that later but for now he sighed, "Alright, I suppose I can do what are the hours?"

"Lunch till the guild closes, Now come on, Artie is waiting for us."

With that everyone left Lucy's place

Fairy tail guild hall – magnolia

Once reaching Fairy tail, Natsu immediately broke the doors of it's hinge, "WHERE HERE!" everyone either waved or groaned at the price of fixing the door yet AGAIN! Lucy and Steve made their way to the bar seeing Pete and Myka, "Hey how's your first night in Magnolia?" the blonde god slayer spoke, while Mira already knew her order, went to fetch the pink milkshake.

"It was strange but good, Laxus had a guest room for us to stay in, but he was mumbling something about how Mates are supposed to live together now." Pete spoke while sipping his decaff tea, "Yeah, well he should come right out and ask me, I'm not going to invade his privacy by moving my things in without his permission, I wasn't raised that way." Pete moved closer in, "How was your raised then?" he suddenly regretted asking that question as her eye's darkened with sadness and pain, no one really knew Lucy's past and she preferred to keep it that way, she took off her white leather jacket, and stretched, "maybe I'll show you the heartfilia Estate sometime, I saved up enough money these past few months to buy it back."

But before they could ask the blonde was lifted out of her seat into a man's arms, inhealing her scent, "Bout time you got here blondie, that weird woman in a suit as been hounding me all morning asking for you" she couldn't help but laugh and kiss his lips, shocking members of the guild, before Natsu saw the Mating mark. He knew that Lucy was off limits to every male in the world now, he sighed sagging his shoulders, he had lost his chance to mate with her himself.

"oh Mrs Fredrick? Well we better get too it, Jinksy you stay here, Mira will show you how the bar works and I hope your strong enough to carry Cana's barrels of beer." He looked over to see a woman in a blue bikini top just casually lifting the barrel up drinking from it at only 11am! He groaned, this was going to be a nightmare, but a gentle hand placed on his shoulders making his heart thumb slightly seeing the owner with gentle blue eyes and a motherly smile on her face.

"I'll make sure he's not murdered on his first day Lucy, you get going, Master and Artie said they'd be in the basement." With that the two blondes and even Gray took off, but before Natsu and Erza could follow, Pete and Myka was asking them to show them the town, especially a book store for Myka.

Fairy Tail – Basement

When reaching the last step to the basement, Lucy couldn't help but laugh at Artie for pacing the floor, she could have sworn she saw smoke with how fast he was moving, looking up he threw his hands up in the air, "about time! Do you know how long I've been waiting for you to get down here?"

Lucy rolled her eye's and walked over and knelt down to Makarovs level, "I hope Artie hasn't been too hard to handle Master, he gets flustered when he's away from his WIFE! For too long" Makarov couldn't help but laugh slightly, "That's quite alright my child, he has been explaining to me about how things function in this warehouse, but since we don't use electricity I warned him that everything will have been changed to convert it to use magic instead of Electricity, so my boy here doesn't have to fret about frying anything!" she giggled slightly standing back up and turned to Artie, "And you! Have to calm down dude, the warehouse has already made it's new location it's not just going to hop again, despite the dark mages in Fiora, Magnolia is the safest place for it to be held. Especially under the Fairy Tail guild."

He was about to speak but she raised her hand, "No pooh bear, Master Makarov is one of the top 10 wizard saints, he will not let this place be ent-" she was cut off by a magical pull coming from the other of this wooden door, "Lucy? Is everything ok?" she walked forward and placed a hand on the wood, feeling a surge of magical energy enter through her body, "it's calling me…" Artie raised an eye brow, "Calling? The warehouse?" she shook her head and pushed the doors open, she began to sprint through Arties office, and down into the stacks, all three males took one look at each other and began to run after the blonde, shouting her name but she did not stop, not until she reached a black vault door.

She took a deep breath and looked at the security pad next to it, it had changed from a number lock to a rune spell, one that she was thankful for Freed teaching her. She scanned the magical code and smiled just as the three males reached her, "Claudia! Do NOT! Op- oh damn why does she never listen!" she had just finished the last of the encrypted code and the door slowly creaked open.

Makarov placed a hand on the elder males arm, "She's in a trance, and whatever that trance is we cannot break it, otherwise there maybe consequences to our actions" they just followed Lucy into the dark vault, and standing there next to a stone pillar was Mrs Fredrick, holding in her BARE! Hands to Arties confusion was a dark purple key, it glinted with little light there was in this room, he had remembered collecting that key back 30 years ago along with the blondes mother, saying it would be safer to keep it in the warehouse until further notice.

Lucy finally stopped in front of the woman and reached her hand out, snapping out of her trance, she looked around and noticed the Key in Mrs Fredrick's hands, when her fingers traced the smooth design of it, she smiled to Mrs Fredrick, "There was a gate key in the warehouse the whole time?"

"That is correct Agent Donovan or should I say Heartfilia now?" she smiled shaking her head, making her blonde locks go from side to side, "You can use Donovan if you wish," As Mrs Fredrick was about to hand the key over, Artie finally spoke up, "Don't touch that key! Put it back in the box Mrs Fredrick, we do not know the properties of that key yet!"

Raising her blonde eye brow, Lucy turned to the man, "this is a celestial gate key Artie not an Artefact, I should know with me being a celestial mage" "But this one isn't gold or silver! It's effects could kill you! It did when your mother and I collected it from a small boy who tried to use it" she sighed opening up her brown leather pouch bringing out a blood red key with similar design, making his furry eye brows go wide, "You have another one! Put that into the inventory right now!"

"I think not Artie, after all I'm now contracted with Ifrit, the demon lord of fire, These are called the Hell Keys, key's to the 6 demon lords, and if I am correct the one Mrs Fredrick is holding, is that of the demon Lord Mephesto, Demon lord of time." Before he could do anything Lucy grabbed the key, feeling a pulse of magic enter her body.

"You can't stop blondie old man, once she gets sight of a gate key, there is no stopping her, I've not seen how these ones are contracted though," Laxus spoke crossing his arms, "We should get out of the dark vault, I do not know on how big this spirit is, or how his powers will effect the Dark Vault," with that Lucy walked out of the Vault avoiding the white circles on the floor, in that motion everyone followed, while Makorav took one last look around before shivering and left, getting a bad magical vibe off all the artefacts.

Once they got far enough away from the Dark Vault, Lucy stood in a battle form, holding the key out and placed a hand over her chest, "I am linked to the path of the Underworld Now, O Celestial spirit of time and space, answer my call as I create the pathway connecting your world to mine!" using her teeth for a moment, she bit her thumb open allowing blood to be formed, swiping the key quickly across it she shouted forward, "OPEN GATE OF THE DEMON LORD OF TIME AND SPACE! MEPHESTO!"

Without a second later, a bright purple light blinded everyone apart from Lucy, she couldn't keep her eyes off the light, as a shadow formed of someone sitting…. In none other than a FLOATING CHAIR?

She had to blink, the demon in front of her had long purple hair, with a white top hat, a white suit and purple gloves, his nails was painted purple and his teeth was sharp like fangs, from behind him was a black tail that curled round slightly waving, he took a sip of the tea in his hands and looked towards the person who summoned him, "OH my! Finally! A master worthy of summoning me! Mephesto! It is a great Honour to meet someone so beautiful!" he gave a quick wink only to hear a warning growl from Laxus, he stood up and bowed slightly holding one arm behind his back and the other around his front, "I do apologise, I did not know that you was mated"

Lucy blinked a few times then smiled, "Hello Mephesto, my names Lucy and please do not call me master, we are friends, my other spirits call me either Miss, Lady or Princess…" he stood up, mouth gaping open, "Lucy? Lucy Heartfilia? The Celestial God slayer?" she gave a nod and he suddenly grabbed her hands and spun her around.

"MY THIS IS JUST ABSOLUTLY WONDERFUL! I get to be contracted to the Princess of the celestial world! Your mother spoke very highly of you!" at them words she was taken back slightly, "You knew my mother?" he gave a quick nod, "I did not only know her, but I was the one who insisted that my key would be hidden within this Warehouse, she spoke great promise about her daughter being the mage that would be strong enough to wield the demon lord keys! And I can already sense that you have made a contract with my younger brother Ifrit!"

The blonde mage stepped back blushing slightly scratching her cheek, "I doubt I'm that strong but I'd love to work with you, and maybe reunite all the hell keys, so to finish the contract, am I right to assume you need to place your mark on me like Ifrit did?" That made Laxus snap his head to the woman he mated with, and the purple haired demon nodded, "That is correct my dear princess, I see that my brother has already taken the mark of your heart, that sly dog, oh well this cannot be helped." He shook his head and smiled to her, "What days are you free, an what magic do you use?"

He stroked the purple goatie on his chin, "Hmmm, I use time and space magic, but I can also use clown magic too, its really fun when you want to entertain the children." He demonstrated by in a poof of smoke, he was on a large yellow and red ball, juggling pins. "as to what day's I am free, I'm avalible at any time apart from the times between 3-5 every day, that is my private tea time unless you wish to join me for it."

A moment later the clown act was finished and he floated down to her, placing his hand on a patch of bare skin, that her red vest didn't cover, "Are you ready? Mine wont hurt as much as Ifrit's did but it will still hurt." She nodded and closed her eye's, a second later Purple magic immeted from his hand, going round in a circle, she had to hold back a small cry of pain before he finished and once he did, there marked on her perfectly smooth skin, was a purple pentagram, along with an infinity figure going through the middle.

"now that the contract is complete, I must leave so you can replenish your magic, goodbye for now my dear princess, until next time!" and he vanished in a puff of smoke.

Lucy wobbled a little bit on her feet, before Laxus caught her, she was slightly drained but turned to both elder males and Mrs Fredrick, "that's two key's down and 4 to go, I wonder if they all knew my mother?" Makarov crossed his arms, it was the first time he had seen a celestial mage contract being made, and this one seemed to be more intense then when Lucy explained the others, "I do not know the answer to that my child, but he seemed to be a strange one"

She chuckled and nodded in Laxus arms, making Makarov get a dreamy look, "yes he does, Mrs Fredrick, thank you for giving me this key, it means a lot to me" "That Agent Donovan, is my pleasure, I'm just glad that one of the things Layla left behind went to her daughter, now I understand you wish to continue being a free mage until the time is right to become the caretaker?"

The blonde gave a nod and the woman smiled, "then we can hold off for another few years, I will retire when you feel ready for it, I can see for the time being that you have a lot going on in your life, and I look forward to working with you, Agent Drayer, and Agent Fullbuster in the future" both males blinked, as Gray looked to the woman.

"Whoa, when did we become agents?" "As of today, my agents do not hold magic, and I think it's time for them to retire themselves, since we are in Fiora, I think it's only right to have strong mages protect the warehouse, do you not agree?" The African woman spoke, taking off her glasses, making Gray shiver slightly, "That seems like a wise choice Mrs Fredrick, is it just these two boy's or would you like me to recommend two others for the task also?" spoke Fairy Tail's master, she looked down at the old man and nodded.

"Alright, I will choose two people from the S-class, as this could be where the Artefacts could be on S-class missions, their names are Erza Scarlet and Mira Jane Strauss, I will speak to these two in private, as for now let's go and have a drink, I'm sure Lucy will need something to give her an energy boost" they all nodded and left the warehouse, apart from Artie who sat down at his computer, he handed both males a Farnsworth and explained to them how they worked. Pocketing them, and left.

Upstairs guildhall

Steve had just handed a tall white haired male some food when he noticed the people coming up from the basement, when he saw how drained Lucy was, he hopped over the bar and rushed over, "Claud? you ok what happened?" he just saw her grin and point to her hip, "You made another demon contract? Which one?" "Mephesto, Demon lord of time, speaking of demons, how's it going with Mira?" she gave a slight wink seeing the pink dust on his cheeks, "great! She's a good teacher! And so good with patience! She wants me to teach her the ways of Buddhism"

Hearing the excitement in his voice, Laxus grinned, "Does someone have a small crush on the Demon take over?" frowning slightly he crossed his arms, "She's no demon," he suddenly melted, "She's an angel…." Lucy couldn't help but laugh, slapping him on the back and then leaned her weight onto him, "Just get me over to that bar, and grab me an extra large chocolate milkshake lover boy!" Laxus stayed back smiling at the siblings, when he heard his gramps speak, "She's perfect for you my boy, I hope in the near future, you'll give me grandbabies!" he grunted, but smiled more, "Yeah, she'd be a wonderful mother gramps… a hot one at that."

Shaking his small head he grinned, "that you are right my boy….Mira! a beer for an old man please!" "Coming right up master!"

In this moment of happiness though, in the dark corner of the shadows, someone grinned, "let your family be happy for now….as the time will come to finally put out that light of Fairy tail and let the demons roam around for good….. the Great demon lords should be on our side…not that pathetic blondes."

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Who is this dark mysterious person after Lucy's life?

Will she find the other 4 keys?

Will Steve ask Mira out?

And will Laxus get his babies?

Lucy wolf slayer 90 over and out!