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Celestial Ties
Chapter 7: Loki's First Day Part 2
"Natsu?"
Lucy was overjoyed to see her best friend and was about to run over and hug him when she realized how close she was to Loki. She quickly darted away from him with a blush on her face, which made his eyebrows lift in curiosity.
'Could it be that she likes Natsu?' he thought as he watched the two stare at each other, Natsu with a confused expression and Lucy with her blush. He couldn't tell if the blush was her realizing that they were about to kiss or the fact that Natsu had seen them. Loki could also tell that Natsu's eyes held a bit of sadness and he started to wonder if Natsu would be his rival in love.
"How'd you get here?" Lucy broke the tension with her question, the blush totally gone from her face and a smile replacing her anxious look.
Natsu was about to respond when a huge wave of water crashed over them all.
"LUUUUCY!" Aquarius came swimming in with a furious look on her face and glared at Lucy. It was easy to find Lucy because everyone in the spirit world knew about Loki asking for Lucy's hand in marriage.
'It's only natural that he'd be trying to woo her now, stupid lion,' Aquarius thought before she began to angrily lecture her sister.
"HOW DARE YOU GIVE AWAY MY KEY!"
"Wh…what?" Lucy's answer seemed to piss the mermaid off more.
"YOU GAVE SOME IDIOT EARTH GIRL MY KEY!" She screamed in hatred, "HOW COULD YOU JUST GIVE AWAY YOUR OWN SISTER'S KEY?"
"Sister?" Lucy heard Natsu say as he scratched his head in confusion.
"Natsu, I left my keys back in the human world. Did you guys pick them up?" Lucy asked in horror. Just as she had collected all the zodiac keys, she would lose them all?
"Nope, I got them right here!" Natsu pulled out the keychain of spirit keys and handed it to Lucy as Aquarius watched on in furious silence.
"Aquarius's key is missing…"
"THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU, STUPID!" Aquarius was annoyed now and was about to wash everyone away when Leo interjected. He had been silently watching the scene from the tree. He knew that it was your Spirit World death to anger the Aquarius zodiac spirit who had royal blood. Even though Aquarius was just a spirit like him, she was still the perfect daughter to the Spirit King and got whatever she wanted like a spoiled brat, the reason for her attitude, no doubt.
"Aquarius, that is enough," Loki stood tall and his voice was deep with authority, like a true prince's. Aquarius quieted down at once. She couldn't stand against Loki since he was the strongest zodiac spirit, but she made plans to whine to her dad about it later.
"Lucy, did you personally give Aquarius's key away?"
"Of course not!" She defended herself with a furious look on her face. Aquarius had been one of her strongest keys and now that key was gone. Anyone would be angry if something like that happened.
"See, Aquarius, Lucy did not give away your key," he concluded with finality, "It must have just fallen off the key chain and someone else picked it up. Now go back to your mansion."
Aquarius glared at Lucy before departing in a furious rampage.
"Thanks Loki."
Lucy smiled in relief at the lion spirit which made his heart go wild. He loved her smiles.
"So, Natsu, how did you get here?"
"Umm….let's not talk about that right now," Natsu nervously scratched his nose and looked anywhere but at Lucy. He was afraid she might kill him now that he saw how angry she had gotten over losing Aquarius' key, plus he might have caused her a lot of trouble since he forgot how violent Aquarius could be.
Lucy was about to interject and demand an answer when Natsu distracted her.
"Lucy and Loki sitting by a tree! K. I. S. S. I." and he was attacked by Lucy. He got away and started to run as Lucy ran after him. Pretty soon it turned out to be a normal game of tag and Lucy and Natsu were laughing in delight as they ran after each other.
Lucy was so happy that she forgot all about the key that she had lost somehow and her question about how Natsu got there.
'Maybe she is better off in the human world with Natsu," Loki thought with sad eyes as he witnessed the exchange. He wanted Lucy for himself, but he also wanted her to be happy. It was a struggle with himself and soon the pride of the lion in him won.
"Well, nice seeing you Natsu," Loki picked Lucy up and held her in his arms, "But, we've got somewhere to be. Make yourself at home."
With that Loki teleported Lucy and himself to the place he had been planning to take her to after they ate, before Natsu came and ruined it all.
"Woah!" Loki heard an annoying voice and looked behind him to see Natsu.
'What a sneaky kid,' Loki thought with irritation as he put Lucy down in front of him.
"Wow!" her voice joined Natsu's in amazement as they both stared at what was in front of them.
"What?" Loki joked with a grin as his glasses glinted in the light, "You didn't think we had anything fun to do around here?"
In front of them stood the Spirit World's version of a water park. Instead of blue water, like earth, the water of the Spirit World was tinted pink and sparkled and glowed. Other than the beautiful water, this water park had all the basics of a water park on earth; water slides, wave pools, lazy rivers, etc.
"Oh look!" Lucy pointed with excitement, "There's Aries and Gemini!"
The Gemini twins looked over and upon seeing Lucy, decided on transforming into her with a skimpy bikini on and caressing her boobs.
'I'm going to kill those two later!' Lucy thought with rage as Natsu started laughing. Unseen by Lucy, Loki gave the Gemini twins a fierce glare and they changed back instantly to themselves.
'I'm going to kill those two later,' Loki thought with anger, 'Showing off Lucy's body like that to all the other guys here…although I did enjoy the view.' His scowl was replaced with a grin as he imagined that Lucy again.
Natsu's laughing and Loki's grin was stopped when Lucy's fists came down on both their heads.
"Awe, Lucy, but that was so fun.." Natsu was cut off by a glare from Lucy.
"Anyway, ready to go?" Loki asked with a smile.
"But, we don't have any swim suits." Lucy stated wisely.
"Oh, don't worry about that. There's a shop inside, I'll buy you some."
Lucy's eyes went all sparkly. She couldn't wait to see how cute the swim suits were in the Spirit World.
"Alright, let's go," Natsu boredly said, trying to look cool as he crossed his arms behind his head and walked ahead of them.
"Wait," Lucy regained herself and was now serious, "Natsu, you're a human. Don't you feel weak here in the Spirit World?"
Natsu stopped and moved his limbs around, then turned to Lucy with a big smile.
"Nope!" Lucy blushed, Natsu's famous happy smile always made her heart race.
"Must be because he's a Dragon Slayer," Loki concluded as his eyes saddened at the fact that the blush on Lucy's face was because of Natsu, "They seem to be ok anywhere they go."
"I'll race you there!" Natsu challenged both of them and took off running.
"Not fair!" Lucy whined as she took off running after him.
'She must've forgotten that she can teleport here.' Loki thought with a grin as he simply teleported to the ticket gate and waited for them both with a grin on his face.
They both finally made it to the gate, Natsu triumphant over Lucy, as she was doubled over and panting.
"What do I win?" Loki beamed at Lucy.
"you…ch…cheater…" Lucy got out through her panting.
"Wow, you need to get better in shape, Lucy!" Natsu patted her back and abruptly received a glare which made him back off a little.
"We'll talk about that prize later, since you were last," Loki kept his grin on and started walking to the gate. His face serious now, he turned to the window.
"Excuse me, I'd like to buy 3 tickets please."
"Leo?" A girl's voice came from behind the glass and Loki sweat dropped. He forgot that he had been a player once and had dated most of the good looking girls in the spirit world.
"Leo! Where have you been, sugar?" A woman with long purple hair opened the window and poked her head out, trying to get a kiss from Loki.
"Um, Stella, is it?" Loki nervously dodged the incoming kiss and put his card to her face.
"Would you please charge 3 tickets to this?"
Stella took the card with a glare since he had avoided the kiss.
"Fine, but it'll cost ya 2000 spirit instead of 1500." She swiped the card and threw it back in his face, then proceeded to run away and cry.
Lucy looked at the exchange curiously and a little happy that Loki had dodged the kiss, but also a little heated that this spirit apparently knew Loki before.
'They must have kissed before for her to expect one now,' Lucy thought with irritation. She was a little surprised how she felt about that exchange, but was interrupted by Natsu.
"What's spirit?" he asked Loki, which brought curiosity about it to Lucy as well.
"You guys really thought we wouldn't have an economy of some sort?" Loki sweat dropped as they shook their heads negatively but proceeded to explain anyway.
"Each person here works as a Spirit in the human world for the currency, we oddly enough, call spirit itself. The more we are called out for battle and the more we protect or cheer up our contractor, the more spirit we make. All that spirit gets stored on this card and we use this to buy things here."
Natsu and Lucy nodded in understanding as Loki gave them their tickets and they all went through the ticket gate.
"Look, there's the shop," Lucy pointed towards a shop with swim suits hanging everywhere, "Let's go!"
4 hours later
After hours of play time in the water park, they were all pooped and ready to go to sleep.
"Natsu, you can stay at my house tonight," Loki explained while taking off the hat he had conveniently bought so none of his old girlfriends would see him, "Lucy has to go back to her room at the palace."
"Why does Lucy get a room at the palace?" Natsu whined, "I want a room at the palace too!"
"Oh right, you don't know yet do you," Loki grinned, "Lucy just happens to be the daughter…ouch!"
He was interrupted by a hit on the head. Lucy took back her hand and smiled dangerously.
"We'll talk about that later, Natsu," she looked at the mouthy lion spirit, "Maybe you should stay at the palace with me."
Loki sighed, he had lost the battle of keeping Natsu from sleeping in her room.
"But I haven't lost the war yet,' he thought to himself with a smile as he remembered how close Lucy had been to kissing him that afternoon.
"Loki, I'm still not very good at teleporting," Lucy confided with a blush, "Can you take us back to my room, please?"
"As you wish, princess." He got glared at for his slip up, but they both knew that Natsu wouldn't catch on to it since Loki called her that all the time on earth too.
The next second they were all standing in Lucy's room.
"Woah, Lucy!" Natsu started looking around wide-eyed, "You definitely have it good here. I thought you had been kidnapped and were being treated horribly!"
"Yeah, I'll tell you what happened tomorrow," Lucy nervously scratched her head, "For tonight, you can sleep in this room over here." She led him through the bathroom and into a different room.
"Ah!" Natsu whined childishly, "but I want to sleep in your room, Lucy!"
"Well, I guess you can sleep on the couch if you want."
She walked back into the other room and told Natsu where he could find some blankets and pillows.
As soon as Natsu was out of sight, Lucy's hand was grabbed from behind and she turned to face the one responsible.
"Come here," Loki gently guided her to her balcony.
"What's up?" Lucy asked lightly, confused why Loki was being so gentle all of the sudden. It was like that afternoon when they had almost kissed. A blush flared up on her face as she remembered that.
"I want to show you something," he pointed towards the weird, but beautiful, Spirit World sky, "Do you see those stars in the shape of a crown that glow brighter than any of the others?"
"Yeah," Lucy had seen that group of stars before, but hadn't made anything of it at the time.
"That's your father's star sign," he explained, "and the one on its left that looks like a lily was your mothers."
Lucy's eyes started to tear up. It was all so romantic, having glowing stars in the sky that signified the love that the king and her mother used to have, before her mother had sinned and gone to earth to be with another man.
"One day your father will turn back into star dust and see his love again, but that can't happen until he has someone who can take over the throne," he explained with sad eyes, "I know you really want to go back to the human world, Lucy."
"How'd you know?" she asked with curiosity since she hadn't said anything about it all day.
"I saw how sad your eyes get when you see things that remind you of earth and how happy you were to see Natsu."
"Yeah, I really miss it there, especially all my friends," Lucy's eyes got sad and misty, thinking about all her good times on earth, "I know it's selfish to say it, but I still want to go back to my old life."
"it's not selfish of you," Loki moved a piece of hair out of her face and brushed her cheek with his hand, causing a blush to form on Lucy's face, "It's only natural to want to go back to your old life when things change, especially since you will have more responsibilities here than you did on earth."
"Can't Aquarius take over and be the queen of this place?" Lucy asked in desperation, "Can't I just leave it to her and go back to my life, Loki?"
"Aquarius did not inherit the powers of the king. Only you can rule this place and keep it safe and in peace," Loki explained and then lightly joked, "Plus Aquarius would be an awful ruler!"
"You're right!" Lucy started laughing as she pictured everyone cowering in terror from the mermaid spirit. She looked back at Loki and saw his serious face with a slight smile and immediately stopped laughing because she got lost in his eyes. That's right, Loki had removed his glasses and he had the most beautiful eyes Lucy had ever seen.
"There's something else I need to tell you."
His voice sent delightful shivers down her back and he started to lean in closer with both his hands resting on the sides of her head.
"I love you," he whispered right before he closed the space.
Lucy was in shock, Loki loved her and he was now kissing her. Without any thought, since the kiss took that away from her, she responded. It was like time stopped and fireworks were exploding in the background. Then it ended, too soon for Lucy.
"I wanted to do this the proper way," Loki smiled at her and she got lost in his eyes again.
She was still in a daze when Loki kneeled to the ground in front of her.
"Lucy, will you marry me?"
AN: haha sorry I just love to keep you guys wanting more with a cliffy. That was the looooongest chapter I've ever wrote guys! Hope you enjoyed it
Tune in next Monday to find out what answer Lucy will give, as well as what happened to the rest of the gang!
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