Chapter Three : What Lucy Stumbled Into
"I'm so glad you came blondie", the towering woman loomed over Lucy as a green magic circle lit up under her feet.
"What magic is this? I can't move!" Lucy struggled to tilt her head down only to see vines crawling up her body and enclosing her. She looked up and saw the vines came from the top of her attacker's head. Her hair is vines? Grossss!
"My plants will seal you up and dissolve you, and when they are down your keys will be mine to sell to the highest bidder. They are quite rare you know, I'm surprised you have zodiac keys as well. Just as well for me, I can sell them at a higher price as a pair", the plant mage turned away, "Be sure to tell your friends about our shop girlie". She laughed in a low, frightening way that made Lucy's stomach turn.
Lucy had to get out of this. There is now way that I am going out like this and letting that awful person sell my friends like that! She fought to move her crushed hand towards her gate keys and felt each one. I know thats Aquarius, that one feels like Horologium, Crux, Lyra, ah yes I've got him. "Open gate of the Great Crab! Cancer!" Lucy swiped the air with what was once her mother's key and summoned a man with red crab handled scissors, perfect for cutting through the vines. Once she was free the the woman screamed.
"How could you cut my hair you little brat! You will pay for that with your life!". Angered, the wizard's vine hair grew longer and thicker and threatened to enclosed Lucy once again. If it weren't for Cancer slicing through the thicket Lucy would be a goner.
"Cancer, get rid of the source, shave her bald!" Lucy grinned. That will stop her.
"You bet ya... baby", Cancer finished the hair cut and walked over to Lucy, "See ya later... baby". His gate was closed and the phony shopkeeper was collapsed on the ground.
"No, this was nott supposed to happen you little...", she was out cold. Wow, nice job Cancer! Lucy staggered as her knees wobbled and she herself collapsed on the floor. Opening up the Zodiac Gates are still tough. I was already exhausted from walking around the past three days too. She stood up after a rest and noticed the shop was a disaster. The shelves were no longer standing and the items turned out to be a facade.
Lucy looked back at the shopkeeper and saw a sparkle on the floor. She approached and realized it was a golden gate key! Was this the shopkeepers? No, she wasn't a celestial wizard she practiced plant magic. That means she was going to sell this with mine! How awful. What spirit does this key call anyway? Taurus the Golden Bull, I haven't seen him before. I will have to make a contract with him later there is no way I can open his gate now after this battle I've had. Wait... I just had a battle. I just had a battle! I was amazing! I defeated someone with Cancer! I can't believe I was strong enough to do something like that!
Lucy walked, slowly, out of the shop and continued to the nearest inn. She got one room for two nights of rest for a low 10,000 jewel. She sat on the bed and sighed. I got a new friend but was it wrong of me to just take it? No, she was going to sell him! That is no way treat a person! That was when Lucy decided to turn in for the night. She didn't realize at the time that she didn't need to call Lyra to get her through the night, and she didn't realize that she had not cried herself to sleep. Although as she rested her eyes, even though she knew she had gained a new friend, she couldn't help but remember ones.