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Celestial Ties

Chapter 8: The Truth and Plans


"Wha…?" Lucy was so surprised that she couldn't even finish her words, let alone close her gaping mouth or tame her ferocious blush.

Loki smiled up at her, amused at her surprise, and pulled out a black satin ring box. He proceeded to open it, wondering how surprised she'd be when she saw the beautiful moonstone ring it held inside. That's right; Loki had gone to the moon spirit and asked for a small piece of the moon to put on the ring.

Lucy's eyes turned into saucers when she saw the glowing ring inside; the ring meant to engage her to Loki.

'What should I say?' She thought in alarm when she realized Loki would be expecting an answer, 'I mean I love Loki and that ring is so beautiful, but we're only kids. We can't marry when we're so young!'

Lucy had made up her mind. Her eyes turned sad and she opened her mouth, fully intending to hurt the man she loved and refuse the engagement, but then fate intervened.

"Alright Lucy," Natsu came barging into the room; luckily Loki and her were on the balcony behind the curtains so he couldn't see them, "I got a ton of blankets, let's make a fort!"

Lucy's eyes went wide with alarm and Loki immediately got the point and stood up.

"Think about it," he whispered before he lightly kissed her again and then disappeared.

"Lucy?" Came Natsu's voice from inside the room.

"Right here."

Lucy smiled as she walked into the room, "What took you so long?"

"I met Virgo and I tried to fight her, only to find that my powers don't work in this world. Then I ran into an old friend of yours and he suggested we build a fort!"

"Wait, what old friend?"

"Puuun."

Lucy's mouth formed a huge smile as she turned towards the door to see none other than her dog spirit Puun.

"Puun!" She ran over and hugged the dog spirit, that started to shake with excitement like he always did.

"Puun puun puuuun!"

"Puun wants to start building the fort now," Natsu translated when Lucy gave him a confused look. She only sweat dropped at how Natsu could speak Puun language before smiling again.

"Then let's get to it!"

A half hour later, Natsu and Lucy were admiring the fort they'd made with pillows and blankets and any kind of furniture that they could move to the middle of the room. It was big enough to house two people and of course Puun. Lucy got done on her hands and knees to crawl through the entrance when something hit the floor with a thud.

"What's this?" Lucy looked back to see Natsu picking up the very same ring box that Loki had offered her.

"Nothing!" Lucy shrieked as she grabbed the box and put it in one of her drawers, so fast that Natsu didn't have any time to react.

"Come on, Luce. What was it?" Natsu used his sad eyes on Lucy, causing her to feel guilty and ashamed of herself.

"Just something my father gave me," she said without hesitation and then her eyes went big as she noticed her slip up.

"When did he give it to you? It must have been before you got kidnapped."

Lucy sighed, it was time to tell the truth.

"No, Natsu. I got it here in the Spirit World."

"What? So your dad is in the Spirit World too Luce? Do we need to rescue him as well?" Natsu was getting all fired up with his famous mischievous grin.

"Yes my dad is here, well my real dad at least, and no, no one needs saving, Natsu."

Lucy could see Natsu getting confused and she climbed into the fort. Might as well be comfy as she told him the story. Natsu followed in behind her and sat on the other side, so they could be face to face.

15 minutes later, Lucy had just finished telling Natsu the whole story.

"So, you're royalty, Lucy?" Natsu asked for the umpteenth time with wide eyes.

"Yes, Natsu," she replied again with annoyance, and again Natsu started laughing.

"Hahahaha, I can't believe someone like you is royalty!" Lucy ground her teeth together and started counting backwards from 100, "No wonder you couldn't ever walk for yourself and always had to be carried!"

"95, 94, 93….That's it!" Lucy couldn't take it anymore, that last sentence from Natsu had been too much. She picked up her whip and an evil smile formed on her face.

"What was that about you not being able to use your powers, fire boy?"

Natsu stopped laughing and gulped noticeably.

"Um, Calm down Lucy," Natsu inched backwards, readying himself to run for it, "I didn't mean to piss you off. I was just joking around."

Lucy started to laugh and Natsu sighed in relief.

"Hahahaah, I got you good!" Lucy wiped her tearing eyes and smiled at Natsu, "Ok, it's definitely bed time now."

Natsu and Lucy laid down and Natsu immediately fell asleep. Lucy started thinking about old times with her Fairy Tail team and wondered what had happened to them. Why weren't they with Natsu to "save" her?

'Maybe they forgot about me already,' Lucy thought sadly before dozing off as well.

The rest of the gang had arrived an hour later than Natsu to find Happy waiting for them with a girl named Lisa, who happened to be the Spirit Mage that helped Natsu.

Ezra and Gray had asked Lisa to open the gate one more time, only to find they couldn't get through and that Aquarius was as unforgiving and merciless as always. Lisa had thrown the gold spirit key back at Ezra and Gray, stating that she didn't want a spirit with such an attitude.

Seeming to find that only Dragon Slayers could get through to the spirit world, they decided to return to the guild and look for Gajeel for help. They started to talk about how Lucy could have gotten through the gate since she was human like them.

"Maybe Lucy is a dragon slayer too!" Happy had exclaimed. No one could disagree based on the evidence, but it seemed very unlikely to Gray and Ezra, especially since they couldn't see Lucy eating spirit so she could summon spirits.

Four hours later and they were finally at the doors of Fairy Tail. Ezra wasted no time and pushed opne the door so hard that they flew back and banged against the wall, causing all the members of Fairy Tail to stop talking and look over at Ezra.

"Gajeel, if you're in here, we need your help," Ezra stated as she walked in with authority.

"What do you want?" A voice rang out from the corner of the room. Ezra looked over to see Gajeel eating a pile of iron in boredom. Ezra walked over while Gray stood at the door and waited with Happy.

"Our team mate Lucy was taken to the spirit world. Natsu went after her and never came back. It seems like only dragon slayers are able to enter and we want you to enter the spirit world and bring back Lucy and Natsu."

"Not interested." Gajeel began eating his iron again.

"I'm sorry, but that is not an option." Ezra glared at Gajeel and was about to face him when the master turned into a giant.

"That's enough!" He demanded in his giant form. Once Ezra and Gajeel had gotten out of their fighting poses, he turned back into his small form and continued, "Gajeel, you will help them get back Lucy and Natsu."

"Fine." Gajeel grunted. It wasn't like he didn't want to help in the first place, he just wanted to pick a fight with Ezra. She was still the second strongest in the guild and Gajeel wanted her place.

"Let's go then," Ezra started to walk away.

"Ezra," the master called, making her turn around, "You cannot leave so late at night. Get some rest. You can travel back to Farla's cottage in the morning."

"But, master, we need to get Natsu and Lucy out of that world as soon as possible!"

"No," the master stared Ezra down, "Now go to your courters and get some sleep, all four of you."

"Fine. Be ready at 7am to head out everyone." Ezra commanded before she took off in the direction of the Fairy Tail women's dorm.

The others took off their respectable ways, Gajeel grumbling in dislike.


AN: No cliffy today! Hope you enjoyed the chapter Oh, and I looked online at Fairy Tail Wiki and it said that the iron dragon slayer was named Gajeel, but I have seen him being called Gazille a lot. If anyone knows which one is his real name, please let me know.

Coming up: What does Lucy decide to do that changes everything? What does Gajeel do that changes what Lucy changed? Yeah, kind of a head scratcher there, but you'll find out next chappy.

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