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Also, I would like to thank everyone who reads my fanfictions and takes the time to comment on them so I will be taking some time to respond to them and answer some of your questions.

To AsunaYuki88: No, I will not be giving Lucy any Devil Fruit powers. The main reason for this is I don't want her having to worry about being a hammer or seastone. I also think it would be against her character to eat a Devil Fruit.

And that was pretty much the only question for resent chapters. I will try to do this more often because to be honest, I probably wouldn't be doing this without your support.


When Lucy woke up, she decided to finish making contracts with the other four spirits. She grabbed the box and place it on her bed because she didn't want all the others distracting her or her spirits while she was making the contracts. Lucy liked them and all, but they could definitely be . . . excitable.

Grabbing the fourth key, she called out, "Open! Gate of the Telescope! I summon thee, Telescopium!"

After the light faded, Lucy was facing a telescope. Though she wasn't sure what she was expected when she summoned this spirit, she certainly was expecting Telescopium to literally be a 5 foot telescope with stick arms and legs. His body had three segments, the largest, which was also the lowest segment, made up the majority of his body. His stick arms stuck out from the middle of the bottom segment, and his legs came out from the edge of the bottom segment. The other two segments stuck up out of the top of the main part of his body. Telescopium's eyes and mouth were both just lines on the largest segment. If he had a nose, Lucy couldn't see it.

Telescopium bowed, which looked positively ridiculous with the other two segments of his head sticking up. "You summoned me, Lucy-sama?" he asked in a clear, formal tone. He straightened. "How might I be of assistance?"

Telescopium's mannerisms and speech reminded Lucy of a stereotypical butler. It made her slightly uncomfortable as it kind of brought back memories of the time when she used to be an heiress. She asked him the same thing she'd asked the other 3 spirits. He agreed to be her spirit and they formed a contract. The process went smoothly, unlike the other two nightmares. With that finished, she closed Telescopium's gate and grabbed the next key.

"Open! Gate of the Fire Bird! I summon thee, Phoenix!" Lucy called out.

A bright flame appeared before turning into a teenage boy. He looked about 15 but his large and joyful eyes combined with his playful smile made him seem even younger. His hair was red with a slight tint of orange to it and was slicked back, though long enough that he was able to put it back in a four inch ponytail. Phoenix's eyes were a beautiful sunburnt orange. He wore a gold patterned mandarin collar jacket with a red background, loose red shorts that ended below the knee with orange and yellow flame patterns on the hems. A pair of gold colored flip flops finished the look.

"Wah!" Phoenix said excitedly. "Amazing! I haven't had a key bearer in . . . well, a really long time!" he said with a happy grin. "You summoned me, so that means we're going to be friends right?!"

It took Lucy a second to adjust from the shift of tone and personality between Telescopium and Phoenix. "Uh . . . Yeah. I mean of course it does! So . . . would you like to form a contract with me?" she asked him.

Phoenix nodded eagerly. "Of course! That means we're officially friends!"

Lucy assumed that Phoenix's contract wouldn't take that long because he was very eager, unfortunately, it meant quite the opposite. Every time Lucy managed to get his attention, she could only keep it for about 5 seconds before he was either distracted by something in the room, or sidetracked the conversation to something else that was usually completely irrelevant or unrelated. Finally, with only a thread of her temper and sanity intact, Lucy finished making the contract and dismissed him in favor of grabbing the sixth key.

"Open! Gate of the Shield! I summon thee, Scutum!" she chanted.

This summoning appeared as a gold ball spreading out into a warped disk. Scutum looked like a round golden shield with arms and legs. He was approximately 3 feet tall. His face was in the center of the back of the shield, where the straps would have been, and his lips were set in a scowl, his beady blue eyes were narrowed, and his eyebrows, which looked like they were drawn on with a thick black marker, were furrowed, all together giving him a grumpy old man face. His arms were barely more than sticks, but his legs were thick and powerful.

When he spoke, his voice was rough and stern, reaffirming the whole grumpy old man thing. "The hell do you want?"

Lucy ignored his behavior, seeing Scutum as little different than Gajeel. Like all the previous spirits, he agreed to form a contract with her. At the very least the shield spirit gave her straight answers, Lucy was extremely thankful for that. Finally, after dismissing Scutum and attaching his key to her keychain with the other five obsidian keys, Lucy grabbed the seventh and final key.

"Open! Gate of the Fox! I summon thee, Vulpecula!"

This time there was a bright red light that formed into a fox before it faded to reveal a woman who appeared to be in her late teens, around two to three years older than Lucy. She had straight, long, red hair that was back in a ponytail. Some of it was allowed to hang loose on either side of her head and her bangs were brushed aside so they were out of her face. If her hair was down, it would have been able to reach down to the back of her knees. On the top of her head were large fox ears, replacing human ears, and were the same color of her hair. Her eyes were a honey brown color and were partially closed, making her look like she was planning something. The smirk didn't help matters in that area much. Vulpecula was wearing a plain, forest green kimono that ended end at mid-thigh and tied a brown oba.

Vulpecula wasn't saying anything, merely looking Lucy up and down. "Hi! I'm Lucy, would you like to-!?" Lucy cut off as Vulpecula suddenly groped her chest. "HIEEEE!"

She smirked and chuckled, removing her hands before Lucy could swat them away. "My my, you're a big one. It's been awhile since I've had a female key bearer. You're a pretty one too . . . " Vulpecula said thoughtfully. "Fufufu, I bet you have men just flocking to your doorstep."

Lucy covered her chest were her arms, blushing profusely. Seriously, first Cana, now one of her own spirits! "U-um, no . . . n-not really." she said.

That didn't seem to sit well with Vulpecula, who looked very disappointed. "Oh? Well that's odd. Anyway, you wanted to form a contract with me right? So, hop to it." she said.

After the first few questions, Lucy relaxed. Each question was given a careless, but none-the-less straightforward, answer. Finishing, Lucy dismissed Vulpecula, attaching her key to her keychain before head out to the deck of the Going Merry. It was there that she found, much to her horror, their ship was falling towards the sea below . . . and that the only thing saving them from plummeting to their dooms was a giant inflated octopus. She could practically feel the soul leaving her body.

"Good morning Lucy-swan!" Sanji sing-songed when he saw her awake and out on deck.

"It's nighttime dumbass. " said Zoro, not missing the chance to correct the Love Cook. It was true, it appeared that Lucy had slept all day and that it was already nighttime.

" . . . Why are we falling?!" Lucy exclaimed.

"It's the only way back down to the Grandline. The only safe way anyway." Robin answered.

Lucy supposed that made sense, they had been in the clouds of course. She was thankful that they seemed to be falling at a relatively safe pace. That must be because of the balloon octopus . . . Hey, she was a Fairy Tail mage, so it wouldn't exactly be the most surprising thing that she'd seen. It certainly wasn't the strangest thing she'd seen since arriving in this world. Sighing, Lucy glanced over to the side of the ship to check if she could see anything below. It was then that she saw several lights below them.

Normally this wouldn't concern her, but some of the lights were spotlights. Now this wouldn't normally concern her either, but since she was now a pirate, a fact and a label that she still found strange, the spotlights gave her a really bad feeling.

Her feelings were unfortunately confirmed when the balloon octopus suddenly deflated. There was a brief moment when the entire crew stared at each other in horror and/or shock before the ship plummeted down to the sea. Everyone screamed as the ship fell, Ussop, Nami, and Chopper more than others.

Thinking fast, Lucy grabbed the Ram Gatekey. "Open! Gate of the Ram! I summon thee, Aries!" she shouted.

"Please forgive me Lucy-sama, we're falling!" Aries squeaked shyly when she appeared.

"Mellorine!" Sanji shouted, hearts in his eyes.

"SO COOOL!" Luffy shouted. Lucy had a feeling Chopper and Usopp would be doing the same if they weren't screaming for their lives.

"I know! Aries, can you create a cushion for the Going Merry!? We don't know how much damage he can take!" Lucy shouted over the sound of everyone screaming and the wind rushing by.

"I-I'll do my best! Lucy-sama!" Aries declared. "Wool Cushion!"

A large, thick layer of pink wool appeared on the ocean below the Going Merry. The wool safely and effectively broke the ship's fall before disappearing with a poof and letting the ship drop a short distance into the water, and the ship was left none the worse. That wasn't the bad part though. The Going Merry had made a loud splash noise when it fell into the water, and now all of the spotlights Lucy had seen were now focused on the Going Merry. They had landed right in the middle of a Marine Base.

Someone told them to stay where they were, but everyone on the crew took one look at each other and split, abandoning ship so they wouldn't be caught. They could always get the ship back. Lucy had dismissed Aries and jumped into the sea, swimming to shore.

Gasping and a little tired from the swim, she groaned as dragged herself ashore and realized her clothes were wet. Lucy was about to summon Virgo and ask her for some dry clothes, but she realized she was at a naval base, so it would probably be best to try to blend in. That being said, she managed to find a Marine uniform that fit her . . . generous figure, and began looking around for the others.

Thankfully no one questioned her, though she did spot a few of the younger marines ogling her, they quickly scampered off when she spotted them. Then she started down a hallway that had a lot of doors leading to other places on the base. She was about choose a door when she spotted a familiar head of green hair. Zoro, apparently not noticing her, choose another door to go through . . . then came back a few minutes later through another door. Lucy, unbelieving of just how bad the swordsman's sense of direction was, watched him do this for about 20 minutes before finally grabbing his hand and taking him through a door of her choosing.

"Oi oi, what are you doing?" asked the annoyed swordsman.

"Doing the favor. If I left you alone you'd probably would have kept on going in circles for hours, as bad as your sense of direction is." said the irritated mage.

A nerve in Zoro's temple twitched. "My sense of direction is just fine! And I wasn't going around in circles! The base kept turning around on me!"

Lucy gave a him a look that told him she wasn't buying it. "Sure, because inanimate, not to mention solid, walls can just move around to confuse you." she said as she kept walking. "And why aren't you at least wearing a disguise?"

"I don't need a disguise." Zoro grunted.

"You need one if you don't want to get caught!" Lucy shouted at him.

Zoro opened his mouth to retort, but Lucy stiffened as she heard the voices of some marines that had heard her shouting, then the sound of footsteps telling her they were coming to investigate. Blood draining from her face, Lucy clamped her hand over Zoro's mouth and pulled him into the nearest unlocked room.

Barely daring to breath, she listened to the marines as they walked down the hallway, keeping her hand over Zoro's mouth. After the footsteps passed the room they were in and proceeded down the hallway, Lucy let out a sigh of relief and finally removed her hand from Zoro's mouth.

" . . . What exactly do you think you're doing?" he asked. His voice was at a normal volume, but to Lucy it was almost as if he was shouting, given the situation.

"Shh!" Lucy hissed. "Don't talk so loud! You're going to get us caught!" she whispered.

"By who?" Zoro asked, lowering his voice to a whisper all the same. "They've already gone past us and this is . . . a little uncomfortable." he pointed out.

Lucy wondered what he was talking about until she noticed that things did seem a little . . . cramped. The room Lucy had dragged him into wasn't it a room . . . it was a closet for cleaning supplies, and not even a very big closet. She hadn't noticed because she'd been pressing against him in an instinct to make themselves as less noticeable as possible, but now that she wanted to put as much distance between them in this tiny space as possible, there wasn't much room to do anything else.

The mage found herself blushing furiously at the situation she'd gotten them into, and she was thankful Zoro couldn't see her face in the dark. Unknown to her, Zoro's cheeks had their own pink tint to them. "S-sorry, I'll open the door."

" . . . That'd be a start." he said.

There was the sound of the handle being jiggled as Lucy tried the door. "Uh Zoro? . . . It's locked." she said, the mortification she felt clear in her voice.

"What? That's bullshit! Let me try!" said Zoro, reaching for the handle himself.

He gave the handle a firm jiggle, but it barely budged. Refusing to be stuck in this suggestive, not to mention embarrassing position, he turned the handle so hard it snapped off. Before the more cautious Lucy could yell at him or stop him from what he was going to do next, he punched the door down and slipped past Lucy into the hallway.

"Zoro you idiot! Someone might have heard that!" Lucy shouted at him.

He stretched carelessly. "So? I got us out didn't I?"

Annnnnd that's when Lucy heard the sounds of rifles being raised. "Why does this stuff always have to happen to me?"

• • •

To make a long story short, Zoro and Lucy both ended up in jail with Usopp, who already there when they got there. Then a marine had been thrown in there with them, Zoro pretended he was part of the crew as the other marines had assumed, then head butted him unconscious so he'd shut up. Zoro had even come up with a name for this "crewmate", and it made Lucy wonder if Zoro wasn't more clever than he let on. Anyways, after that fiasco, Lucy and Sanji came to rescue them . . . unsuccessfully.

So then Luffy and Sanji were thrown in with them, but fortunately they were able to escape with the use of the dials Usopp had gotten from Skypiea . . . we're just not going to mention the scent dial that was filled with . . . yeah. Anyway, Lucy managed to get back her confiscated keys, and Zoro got his swords back. They managed to make it to a bridge where they were absolutely swarmed by marines.

They ended up falling down into the ocean because Luffy ended up destroying the bridge . . . okay, Lucy's spirits helped with that too. Deciding that their best bet would be to get to the ship, they began heading for the docks where the Merry was at, according to Usopp. Unfortunately, when they got to the dock, there was an ambush waiting for them. Luffy got trapped under a seastone net, but Nami and Chopper showed up with a doctor, whose name was Kobato. Kobato volunteered to be used at a hostage in order to thank Chopper, and because of that they were able to get onto the Going Merry.

They sailed out into the bay, the marines letting them go even after one of them grabbed the doctor. Robin showed up later and gave them a map of the base, and they decided to hide the ship in an abandoned dock while they formulate a plan to get their treasure back. Usopp took it a step further and used the junk in the abandoned dock to disguise the Going Merry as a marine ship. They split up into two teams, one would go with Nami to retrieve her waver, and the other to take back the treasure. Chopper was left behind to guard the ship.

Lucy, Zoro, Luffy, Robin, and Usopp were ambushed in the area the treasure was supposed to be in. However, they were saved when the same marine they had been thrown in jail with opened the doors foolishly and let them escape. When they made it back to the ship, Nami had been successful in retrieving her Waver but was disappointed when she found they hadn't found the treasure. Figuring it must be in the base commander's office, she took Luffy with her to get it.

Surprisingly, they were actually able to make it back with the treasure and so they made their escape. Until they got stuck one the reefs that were at the entrance to the bay the marine base was nestled in. The marines started making their way towards the ship, then Luffy revealed he still had the balloon octopus, which had been stuffed in his pants for some ungodly reason Lucy really didn't want to know, so with Usopp's help, they were able to formulate a plan to escape. Using a combination of dials, they managed to blast the ship into the air, and used the balloon octopus to "fly" safely away from the marine base.

During that time, Zoro found himself staring at his hand, remembering how warm and soft Lucy's hands had been. He hadn't noticed it before while she was dragging him through a maze of hallways, but he now he could definitely remember the slight warmth that had spread through him from their joined hands. It was a very strange feeling for him.


And there you have it! Sorry if that wrap up at the end was a bit rushed, but it was getting a little long, I was tired, and I didn't want to spend more than one chapter writing it. Now, I know this is a filler arc and I don't intend to include filler arcs until I can use them to help advance the romance between Lucy and Zoro, speaking of which I hope you liked the little Lucy/Zoro moments in there. Also I will not be doing anything for the Davy Back Fights, because I never though of it as an important arc, and it is one of my least favorite arc, the only one I don't like in fact. I also don't see any opportunity to advance the romance.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed and please leave a review.

P.S. I would absolutely love to see fanart of this pairing, but there doesn't seem too much fanart of Zoro and Lucy (that I can find anyway). So if you guys have fanart or know of fanart for this pairing, please sent me a link either via PM or in the comments. I know is a little finicky of links, so just put a space somewhere in the link.