Key to a Wolf`s Heart
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Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters. Hiro Mashima does. I only own the OC(s).
Summary: The story of the Mage Guild, Fairy Tail, moves along, but a newcomer arrives to bare his fangs for Fairy Tail, and seems to fall for a certain stellar spirit mage. Can she unlock his heart? Lucy H. X OC
Rating: T for Language, Violence, and Blood.
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"Wow, it`s huge!" Lucy said as she stared at the building in front of her, Natsu, Happy, and Raito. It was a three story building, with red, oriental-style roofs, and a gold mosque bulb on the top of the third roof. The sides of the building were painted cream, and the first story had red-trimmed windows, while the second floor had green-trimmed ones. On the side of third floor, there were three banners hanging off it, and the middle one held a banner with the Fairy Tail Guild symbol on it.
"Not a bad design," Raito said as he looked the outside over.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail!" Happy said as he jumped up in the air, while Natsu looked at Lucy and Raito.
So, our four travelers walked inside the huge building and for the first time, Raito and Lucy saw what someone would normally see in a guild. They saw people of varying ages, drinking, eating, and being merry. Men and women alike sat at tables discussing everything from their lives at home to the recent news. Many people also stood at the request boards trying to pick out a job request so they can get paid.
"Mira-chaaan! Three beers this way, please," one of the mages called out from his table. A silver haired woman with her bangs tied up into a ponytail bang, dressed in a nice red dress, and trimmed in pink ribbons along the top and waist of the dress with a pink bow of the same ribbon in front of her chest, and the dress was cut low enough so it showed her ample cleavage, simply smiled and nodded her head. This is Mirajane, the cover girl for Fairy Tail.
"Coming right up," she said as she carried a round, silver tray with the frosty beverages over to the table to serve them. She began to make her way back to the bar when another man stopped her. He was middle aged, had light brown hair styled in a pompadour-style, and was smoking a pipe. He waved down the silver-haired maiden.
"Mira-chaaan," he greeted her as she looked in his direction.
"Yes, yes, what is it?" she asked politely. The man brought his hand up, pulled the pipe out, and exhaled, blowing smoke which soon turned pink and formed in the shape of a heart.
"Let's go on a date next time." he stood out of his seat on the table and held his hand over his heart, like a love-struck teenager. Mirajane sighed, slightly annoyed at the matter, as she waved her hand around the air, dispersing the smoke hearts. She smiled mischievously, and in a small plume of smoke, she transformed into a portly, elderly woman (her dress stayed the same) which caused the man to freak out.
"Don`t you have a wife?" the transformed girl asked the man while wagging her finger as if scolding him.
"Dwahh! Don't transform into my wife!" he screamed and ran away, crying all the while. Mirajane giggled and continued on her way.
Suddenly, Natsu yelled at the top of his lungs, "We`re home!" his face suddenly twisting to anger and baring his fangs.
"Home," Happy echoed.
"Natsu, Happy, welcome back," Mirajane said in response to Natsu`s noisy entrance.
"You overdid it big time Natsu, I read about Harujoin in the paper..." a man with buck teeth dressed in a yellow jumpsuit said to Natsu from a far away table. "Completely to-" He was cut off by Natsu`s foot having a brief meeting with his face.
"Bastard!" Natsu yelled at him while ripping out some of the wood. "That info you gave me was fake!"
"My, now that Natsu`s back, the store might be torn apart," Mirajane said calmly.
"It`s already being torn apart!" the guy who was hitting on her earlier said shocked. After that, well, the entire guild broke out into a fight.
"Whoa, I really came to Fairy Tail," Lucy said in awe of that idea, barely noticing the fight.
"I`m finally here," Raito said putting both hands behind his head.
"Did you say Natsu is back?" a young black-haired boy, with a necklace with a small sword emblem hanging from it and with the Fairy Tail mark, in a dark blue, on his right pectoral, said as he stepped in front of Lucy and Raito. "Hey, let`s settle our fight from last time!"
"Grey, have you been walking around like that?" a brown haired woman pointed out as Lucy, Raito and Grey now noticed Grey was in his underwear. Lucy and Grey went into shock and Raito just laughed.
"Shit!" Grey said as he was looking down at his boxers.
"Another of those undignified guys," the woman said sighing, "that I really hate." She picked up a barrel of beer and began drinking it, sending Lucy into more shock and just made Raito laugh even harder.
"What rubbish," a large, white-haired man said as he appeared behind Lucy and Raito, giving Lucy a scare. "Yapping in the middle of the day, you`re not kids you know. SO SHOW YOUR MANHOOD WITH YOUR FISTS! So it all comes down to fighting after all!"
"Out of our way!" both Natsu and Grey said, as they punched him out of the fight, pwning him.
"That was quick," Raito said bluntly.
"It`s so noisy in here," said a young orange haired man with blue tinted sunglasses as he walked up. He wore a heavy green jacket, a Hawaiian style shirt under it, and black pants and matching shoes.
"It`s Loki, the top-ranked mage you want as your boyfriend!" Lucy said looking at him, and causing Raito to notice as well.
"I`ll go join their fight," Loki said in almost a sing-song voice to the two girls he had under his arms.
"Good luck!" the girls replied back in a similar tone.
"And that image is officially corrupted," Lucy said as she face-planted on the floor. "Why isn`t anyone here normal?"
"Normal`s overrated," Raito said looking at the fight and smiling. "I may have to join in myself."
"Oh, newcomers," Mirajane said as she squatted to see Lucy.
"Mirajane!" Lucy said surprised. "Kyaaaah! The real one!" she said in a moment of fangirlism before snapping herself back to reality. "Shouldn`t you stop them?" she asked as she pointed to the fight cloud.
"It happens all the time," Mirajane said calmly. "Don`t worry about it."
"Oh, dear," Lucy said sweating a little.
"Heads up," Raito said calmly as a beer bottle headed for Mirajane`s skull.
"And…" Mirajane began before she was hit to the ground by the beer bottle, causing her to bleed a little.
"Mirajane-san!" Lucy said crying over her laid-down body.
"I`ll get a towel," Raito said walking off a bit.
"Besides, isn`t it fun this way?" Mirajane said as she stood up, still bleeding.
"Here`s your towel, Mirajane," Raito said still calm as he handed Mirajane the towel.
"Thank you," Mirajane said as she wiped her blood off her face. Just then, Grey came crashing into the table right next to where Lucy was sitting. Natsu, a distance away, held up Grey`s boxers, making Lucy notice that Grey was naked.
"Gah! My underwear!" Grey said as his front faced Lucy.
"Don`t face this way!" Lucy said as she quickly tried to cover her face.
Raito quickly held up a second towel in front of Grey`s groin. "Good thing I grabbed two towels."
"Hey, you," Grey said looking at Lucy, "can I borrow your under…" BAM! He was quickly cut off by Lucy`s fist.
"No way I`d do that!" Lucy said shocked he`d even ask that. Just then, Loki quickly scooped Lucy up into his arms and picked her up.
"...Ah geez...people with no elegance are really troublesome, don't you think?" he said as he walked with her in his arms. "By the way, what modeling agency do you work for?"
"What the heck?" Lucy asked surprised.
"Men should fight with their fists!" the white-haired man said as he stood up in anger.
"I told you you`re in our way," Natsu said as he punched the white-haired man.
"Ah, so noisy," the brown-haired woman said as she sat on top of a rail. "I can`t even drink peacefully. "Guys, it`s time to end this." She pulled out a playing card of some sort and began to charge it with magical energy.
"I`ve had it!" Grey said as he put his hands together and a blue glow appeared around them.
"NUOOOHHHH!" the white-haired man said as his arm began to be covered in a stone-like substance.
"What a troublesome bunch," Loki said as a light began to glow from the ring on his right hand.
"Come and get me!" Natsu said as he ignited both his hands.
"Magic?" Lucy said shocked.
"Does it always get this intense?" Raito asked Mirajane.
"Not usually," Mirajane replied.
"That`s enough," a giant shadowy figure said in a moderately demonic tone as he walked in. "Cut it out you fools!"
"He`s humongous!" Lucy said as her face twisted into one of shock.
"Now that`s impressive," Raito said as he calmly looked at the giant figure.
"My, you were here master?" Mirajane said calmly looking at the shadowy figure.
"Master?" Lucy said in her mind shocked as everyone calmed down and dispersed.
"Hahahaha!" Natsu said laughing. "You all got scared! This match is my wi-!" he got cut off by the master stepping on him, sending his face into the ground.
"Newcomers?" the master said looking at Lucy and Raito.
"Y-yes," Lucy said tearing up.
"Yes, sir," Raito said politely. Just then, the huge body of the master shrunk down to about 1/20th the size of his previous body.
"Well, it`s nice to meet you two," the master said holding out his hand. He had grey hair and a moustache that matched, and he wore a small striped hat with two pointed tails on it, and a pair of pointed pixies shoes.
"Nice to meet you, Mister…," Raito said smiling as he shook the master`s hand, while Lucy just stood in shock of how the giant she just saw turned into that tiny old man.
"Makarov," he said answering Raito`s question. Makarov then jumped up to the second level of Fairy Tail, but hit the rail on the way, and stood up on the rail. "You've done it again you fools!" he spoke gaining the attention of everyone. He then held up a large stack of papers. "Look at these documents I have received from the council," he said as he began to read them aloud. "First... Grey."
"Huh?" Grey answered.
"Good job on sweeping the smuggling organization," Makarov said beginning again, "but you walked around naked in town afterwards and ran away after stealing underwear that was being dried."
"Wouldn't it be worse if I was naked?" Grey said a bit flustered.
"Then why be naked in the first place..." the white-haired man muttered.
"Elfman!" Makarov said, getting the white-haired man`s attention. "You had a mission to escort a V.I.P, but attacked him during the mission."
"He said 'men are all about education' so..." Elfman said as trailed off, embarrassed, as Marakov shook his head.
"Cana Alberona," Marakov said, getting the attention of the brown-haired woman. "Drinking fifteen barrels of alcohol and charging it to the council."
"They found out," Cana mumbled to herself a bit embarrassed.
"Loki..." Marakov continued. ", flirting with council member Reiji's granddaughter. A certain talent agency charged us for damage compensation too." Loki just gave a sweat drop at this.
"Now onto...Natsu," Marakov took a deep breath as he hung his head low. Natsu suddenly looked sullen, as if he had just gotten sick. "You destroyed the Devon thief family, but also 7 houses along the way. Leveling a historical clock tower in Tully Village, Burning down a Church in Freesia, Damaging parts of Lupinus Castle, Nazunie Ravine Observatory collapsed and has stopped all operations, and lastly destroying half of Harujoin's port."
"Most of the articles in that last issue were about Natsu," Lucy thought as she looked nervously at Marakov.
Makarov continued to call off more names from the list. "Guys...the council members are angry at me all the time..." he said slowly, "but, fuck them!" He lit the papers on fire in his hand.
"Eh?" Lucy said surprised at Makarov`s actions.
"Interesting," Raito said in response to the recent happenings.
Marakov tossed the flaming papers down, which Natsu quickly snatched up and gobbled down. "Listen up. The power to overcome reasoning is born from reasoning. Magic is not a miracle. When the "Spirit" that flows within us and the "Spirit" flow in nature connects, they form an embodiment for the first time. You will need a strong mentality and a lot of concentration for that. I mean, pouring all your soul into whatever you do is the magic. If you keep worrying about the watchful eyes of the higher-ups, your magic will never improve. Don`t fear the fools of the council. Do whatever you think is right! That is the way of the FAIRY TAIL MAGES!" His speech sent the entire guild into a roar of energy and happiness.
"True words to live by," Raito said as Lucy looked around at all the mages being happy and free. Free, that was something she hadn`t been in a long while.
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Later, everyone was partying like no tomorrow, and Natsu was eating a special meal made for him, made of dishes that were still on fire, including the drink. "Hey, Natsu, you were called the Salamander in other towns, right?" one of the mages asked Natsu while he was eating.
"I think it suits him," another mage said commenting on the first`s question.
"If Natsu`s the Salamander, I wanna be the Catmander," Happy said spinning around on the table.
"What`s up with the "-mander" thing?" a third mage asked aloud.
"Are you sure you want it there?" Mirajane asked Lucy.
"Yes," Lucy said her right hand down on the table. Mirajane stamped her hand, and there was a pink Fairy Tail Guild Mark on the back of her hand.
"There," Mirajane said happily, "now you`re a part of Fairy Tail."
"Whoa!" Lucy said excitedly, causing Natsu to look up from his food for a second. "Look, Natsu, she gave me the Guild Mark!"
"That`s great, Luigi," Natsu said returning to eating.
"It`s Lucy!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Raito, are you all moved into your room?" Mirajane asked Raito, catching his and Lucy`s attention as he walked in.
"Yeah, it`s perfect Mirajane," he said smiling at her. "Just the right size."
"Is he always this friendly with every girl he meets?" Lucy asked herself quietly as she was watching this scene.
"Where do you want your mark, Raito?" Mirajane asked as she held up the stamp.
"Here," he replied pointing to his right forearm as he held it up with his fist clenched and his fingers towards his face. Mirajane stamped his forearm, and when he set his arm down, the now Emerald Green Fairy Tail Guild Mark was upside-down on his arm. "Thanks. May I call you Mira-chan?"
"Sure, go right ahead," Mirajane said smiling and blushing a bit.
"I thought he was into me," Lucy said crying a bit over the situation.
"Where`d you find such a cutie?" the smoking man from earlier asked Natsu as he stared lovingly at Lucy.
"I envy you," another mage said as he laid his arm on top of the other man`s head, "I wonder if she`d join my team…"
"Hey Natsu, where`re you going?" a third mage asked Natsu as he got up after finishing his meal.
"Work, cause I got no money," Natsu replied as he walked towards the message board. Natsu was about to take a job for 160,000 Jewels to exterminate some thieves, but then he heard a boy named Romeo crying about how his dad hadn`t come home yet from a mission. Marakov said not to worry, but Romeo punched him in the face and ran off.
"It`s very strict here," Lucy commented on the scene.
"Master is like that, but he`s worried about Macao too," Mirajane said still calm.
"Is Macao Romeo`s dad, Mira-chan?" Raito asked.
"Yes," Mirajane replied.
"I wish he`d cut it out with the Mira-chan stuff," Lucy said in her mind as Raito began to walk off towards the exit. "Raito, where are you…?" was all Lucy could get out before she and a few others heard the sound of breaking wood. Natsu had smashed that request he was going to take back into the board, leaving a crack in the request board with the request wedged into the crack.
"Hey, Natsu," a guy dressing in what looked like Native American garb said to Natsu while pointing at the request board, "Don't break the request board!" Natsu however, paid no attention, and just picked up his bag and continued walking. "Master, Natsu`s gonna do something bad…"
"I bet he`s gonna go help Macao," Marakov said slowly. "And I think that newcomer, Raito, is gonna do the same thing. Stupid kids. If they do that, it`s only gonna hurt Macao`s pride." He bit down on a pipe with two ends in it for smoke to flow out. "But no one can decide what they can do, so just leave them alone." Lucy asked what Natsu was up to, and Mirajane explained that he saw himself in Romeo, and that Igneel was his foster father, who raised him, and taught him how to live, but one day, Igneel just disappeared, like what was happening with Romeo and Macao. As Romeo was walking home crying, Raito put his hand on Romeo`s head and squatted down to meet Romeo`s crying eyes.
"Hey, Romeo, I may be new here, but we`ll get your dad back here safe and sound," Raito said comfortingly.
"We?" Romeo asked. Just then, Natsu passed Romeo and Raito and quickly patted Romeo on the head.
"Yeah, me and Natsu," Raito said looking ahead towards Natsu. "We`ll be back soon, so don`t worry about your dad." With that, Raito picked up his bag and walked off to catch up with Natsu.
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The Next Morning…
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"Next time I`ll visit Mira-san`s house," Lucy said as she daydreamed like a fan girl as she sat in the wagon along with Natsu, who was motion sick again, Happy, and Raito.
"Just don`t steal any underwear and stuff, 'kay?" Happy said.
"Who would do that?" Lucy exclaimed.
"Why are you here anyway, Lucy?" both Natsu and Happy asked at the same time.
"What? Does it bother you?" Lucy asked.
"Of course," Happy said. "A lot."
"I`d like to know myself," Raito said calmly.
"Because it`s a chance to help out Fairy Tail," Lucy replied with stars in her eyes.
"She wants to raise her reputation," Happy said in his mind. "I`ll bet that`s it!"
"Transportation really doesn`t agree with you, does it?" Lucy rhetorically asked Natsu as he laid down, fighting back the motion sickness.
"You need to try eating ginger before, Natsu," Raito said looking at him. "It`d help at least a little."
"I need to find a place to live after we rescue Macao-san," Lucy said changing the subject.
"You can live with Natsu and me," Happy said bluntly.
"If you`re seriously saying that, I`ll pull out your whiskers, little kitty," Lucy said a bit ticked at that comment.
"Well, Lucy you could always…" Raito began saying before the cart halted to a stop.
"It stopped!" Natsu said as he quickly recovered from his motion sickness.
"We`re here?" Lucy asked as she began to get out.
"Well, I guess I`ll tell her about the Fairy Tail dorms later," Raito said in his mind as he got out. "They`re pretty expensive though, at 100,000 Jewels rent."
"This is as far as I can take you," the driver said as a snowstorm raged on.
"What`s going on?" Lucy asked surprised. "There`s a snowstorm in the mountains, but it`s summer!" Natsu and Raito just stood in the storm, not even flinching, save to wipe some snow from their faces. "It`s cold!" Lucy exclaimed having a delayed reaction to the weather.
"It`s cause you`re wearing so little," Raito and Natsu both replied at the same time.
"Like you two can talk!" Lucy said looking at their indifference to the storm.
"Then I`m heading back to town," the driver said as he pulled away.
"HEY! How are we supposed to get back?" Lucy yelled at the driver as he drove off.
"She`s really noisy," Natsu said bluntly.
"Aye," Happy said as he sat in Natsu`s backpack.
"Yeah, but she probably didn`t expect any of this," Raito said in her defense. "She is just starting out after all."
A bit later, Lucy, Natsu, Happy, and Raito were walking towards the mountain in the storm. Lucy was shivering, and Natsu, Happy, and Raito were still fine. "Can I borrow that blanket?" Lucy asked Natsu as she shivered in the cold.
"Here," Raito said as he pulled his backpack in front of him. "If you want to wear something, take my cloak. It should help."
"Ah, warmth," Lucy said as she wrapped the cloak around herself. "It`s so soft, where did you find this?"
"It was in a town I passed through in a bazaar," Raito said still walking. "Lucy, aren`t you coming any further?" Natsu and Happy looked back and saw Lucy standing where she was when she wrapped Raito`s cloak around herself.
"I`m not moving one m-m-m-m-more st-st-st-step," Lucy said through her shivering. "It`s-s-s-s t-t-t-too c-c-c-cold!" She pulled out one of her gate keys. "O-o-open, door to the clock! Horologium!" A flash of light went by, and there stood a grandfather clock, but it had simple thin arms and legs, and a face with a moustache atop the clock.
"Whoa!" Natsu said in awe.
"It`s a clock!" Happy said, stating the obvious. Lucy crawled inside and shut the door tight.
"I`ll stay here, she says," Horologium said, in place of Lucy.
"What did she come here for?" Natsu asked aloud.
"Speaking of which, what job did Macao-san come here for, ", she says." Horologium asked for Lucy.
"I`d like to know too," Raito said looking at Natsu.
"You two came here without knowing that?" Natsu said surprised. "It was 'To subdue the monster "Vulcan".'" Lucy`s face twisted to one of fear.
"I want to go home, she says," Horologium said.
"Yeah, go ahead, says I," Natsu replied.
"Aye," Happy chimed in.
"A Vulcan," Raito said as he walked to catch up to Natsu, "I`ve always wanted to fight one of those."
"Is he crazier than I thought?" Lucy said in her mind looking at Raito.
"Macao!" Natsu shouted into the snowstorm. "Are you here? Were you done in by the Vulcan?" Just then, a huge black monkey with silver fur and black spots running down its arms came down the mountain and tried to slam Natsu into the ground.
"The Vulcan!" Happy exclaimed. The Vulcan then ran past Natsu, Happy, and Raito and went straight for Horologium.
"A human woman!" the Vulcan said looking through the glass in Horologium`s chest at Lucy, causing her to freak out. Then the Vulcan carried Horologium and Lucy off, leaving Natsu, Happy, and Raito behind.
"So he can speak, huh?" Natsu said licking his upper lip.
"I mean SAVE ME! She says," Horologium said in Lucy`s place.
"Great, now we gotta save Lucy and Macao," Raito said holding his hand to his head in frustration.
"Aye!" Happy said agreeing with Raito`s statement.
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Chapter Two is done. Please read, review, and comment!
Next time, Natsu, Happy, and Raito go to save Lucy, and find out what happened to Macao.
Tsugino jikan made! (Until next time!)