Chapter 12: Surprise Visitors

Hey guys back again with the next chapter for all of you. This chapter is going to be a little different with the people who are coming into this chapter. I'm bringing five special quests that you all know very well and with these new guests there will be a lot of surprises for all of them. It's going to be so fun; I hope you all enjoy it for this chapter.

I don't own Fairy Tail or its characters, but all OC characters, new OC celestial spirits, OC exceeds, and especially all new magic attacks are all mine.

(Three Days Later Normal POV)

It was bright summer day in Magnolia, with the sun shining beautifully all around the city brightening it. The whole city was full of life and energy that it just made it so lively. It was probably one of the many beautiful days that usually happen around Magnolia.

But a certain group of dragonslayers didn't really like all of the beautiful sun that was seeping through their windows so early in the morning.

Lucy was in her bed sleeping peacefully with Anna close to her but then the sun came in and shinned brightly at her face, making her wince at how bright it was. She started moving around in her bed and then finally decided to get up so the beautiful sun won't fuck up her morning.

Lucy walked to the window and opened; she took a deep breath and sighed loving the fresh summer breeze that blew all throughout Magnolia in the morning. Lucy left went over to her little exceed and shook her so she could wake up.

"Hey Anna, it's time to wake up" Lucy said happily in a sing-song voice.

"Um, give me five more minutes' mama" Anna responded sleepily, snuggling into the covers.

Lucy laughed softly and shook her again softly. "Come on sweetie we have to finish packing everything in the house of Wendy's and some of Annabelle's stuff into their rooms and the house, so that means we have to get ready and get out of the bed" Lucy said to the tired yellow exceed.

"They can do it themselves, I'm tired I wanna keep sleeping" Anna said tiredly with a hint of irritation mixing into her voice.

Lucy sighed at how stubborn her 'daughter' can be in the morning, so she decided to use the one thing that would get her up always. "Oh well that's a shame, I was going to make your favorite breakfast meal this morning after you did such a great job yesterday, but you must really not want it" Lucy sighed shaking her head with a fake tone. "Such a waste of a good fish, I might even just go and throw it away so it won't spoil" Lucy said walking away from the bed to walk near the door slowly, waiting for her to get up.

"Wait! Were you seriously going to make my favorite fish meal today?" Anna shot up from the bed and asked her 'mother' the serious question.

Lucy giggled. "Yes I was, but now I'm going to throw it away because you don't want it and it seems like I said before such a waste" Lucy turned away but was stopped again with two small furry paws trying to hold onto her waist with all her little might squealing loudly.

Anna was happy and excited that she couldn't speak at how great her mom was and how great her cooking was, it was so good even when she did fish, which for her it was already good but it was better when Lucy made it to something better.

"Thank you, Thank you so much Mama; I can't wait for your fish, its so gooood" Anna said hugging Lucy and holding the word good out bit longer like Happy.

Lucy laughed, smiling brightly while taking her little 'daughter into her arms and hugging her. "Awww honey" Lucy kissed Anna's forehead and continued on. "Well I'm glad you're happy and that you like my fish so much" Lucy said to the cute exceed, who smiled at her happily.

"Now come on let's go take a bath and then we can go to the kitchen to go make you're special treat" Lucy said cradling Anna in her arms and tickling her stomach making her and Anna laugh happily.

"O-Ok just stop tickling me!" Anna laughed out loudly.

Lucy smiled walking with her 'daughter' in her arms to the bathroom so they can be cleaned for the day ahead. Lucy turned the water to medium hot so it will be comfortable for the both of them and even summoned Plue to join for more fun. When the water was filled to a good size in the tub all three got in and relaxed instantly, while also playing and bathing with each other enjoying the bath.

All three got out of the bath now partially damp; Lucy sent Plue back to the Celestial World while she requiped into a cute simple outfit with her hair in a high ponytail, a cute plain blue t-shirt and short boy shorts that went to mid-thigh for comfort. Lucy also requiped Anna a cute blue floral dress with a little yellow star in the middle of it, that made the little exceed absolutely adorable.

They both went down stairs noticing that Annabelle, Wendy and Carla were still asleep in their beds. Lucy thought maybe she could do something for them so they could have a good breakfast and good morning. Lucy started getting the ingredients and got cooking morning breakfast.

Anna knew that Lucy was going to be busy for a while so she went over to the Lacrima T.V. and started watching random stuff that caught her interest while she waited for the food to be finished.

Lucy was going to make a lot of food for her and the others but mostly for Annabelle and herself. (Lucy and Annabelle have the regular dragonslayer hunger appetite but eat it without a mess lol) She started to make pancakes, eggs, sausages, bacon, waffles, and to finish it all with Anna's favorite breakfast fishdish (Smoked Salmon Frittata) and whole lot of juice.

Lucy was thinking when Wendy and Annabelle were ever going to get up or breakfast would get cold on them, and she didn't want that after she worked so hard to make it for them. Lucy was about to go get Annabelle and the others up but she stopped when all three groggily started to walk into the kitchen yawning and walking like zombies the whole way. Lucy giggled softly while placing everyone's breakfast in front of them.

Lucy made chocolate pancakes, eggs, and sausage for Wendy and Carla; Annabelle got a huge stack of blueberry pancakes, some waffles, eggs, bacon and five pieces of sausage and Anna had her Smoked Salmon Frittata with some bacon and eggs. Lucy went back to get her breakfast, she had sort of what Annabelle had but with more waffles, some bacon and eggs with no sausage.

They all sat and enjoyed their breakfast while talking about things they need to do today or things that they were going to do today.

Lucy and the others finished in a good hour washing all of the dishes and went off to different parts if the house so they can finish all of the extra stuff into the right parts of the house and relax maybe today and go to the guild later in the day.

(2 Hours Later)

Lucy was off cleaning the house so it could look nice and Wendy and Carla were off getting groceries for everybody but Annabelle and Anna were sitting on the couch in the living room watching the lacrima TV and acting lazy as hell.

Lucy walked into the kitchen to get some water from doing all that cleaning but stopped when she saw Annabelle and Anna sitting there doing nothing on the couch.

"Annabelle, Anna, did you finish up the cleaning we told you to do upstairs?" Lucy asked.

"Nope" Annabelle and Anna said together with a blank look on their face still watching the lacrima TV.

Lucy's jaw dropped, she could not believe that both Annabelle and Anna didn't do anything to help besides sit down and for some reason Annabelle wearing a towel wrapped around her hair.

"One why didn't both of you clean upstairs like we asked you guys about an hour ago and two why are you having a towel wrapped around your head like that?" Lucy asked looking at the two.

Annabelle and Anna looked at each other and sighed. "Well we were about to then I decided to do something new for a change" she paused. "I changed my hair color!" Annabelle squealed with a big grin on her face.

Lucy looked surprised and partially shocked at what her friend did. "Wow really, what kind of color did you change it too?" Lucy asked nervously.

"I know what you're thinking but I promise you are going to love it just as much as I do" Annabelle said while grabbing the sides of the towel on her head. "Look" she quickly unwrapped the towel and let her new hair down to the bottom part of her back, almost like Lucy's, to show off her new look.

Lucy's eyes widened at the site of Annabelle's new hair color; Annabelle had her hair in light blond color that shinned like the sun and was as long as her hair but still shorter by a few inches, but the thing that caught Lucy's eye was that not only did Annabelle's new hair style and color looked absolutely gorgeous but that she almost literally looked like Mavis Vermillion herself and a person she once knew back when she was just a little girl.

"So what do you think?" Annabelle asked while twirling around to show off her new hair.

Lucy looked speechless and unable to move but for some reason she was able to say one thing that she never thought she would ever say in her entire life. "Is that you Lilly?" Lucy asked with wide eyes.

Annabelle looked at her questionably with her head titled sideways. "Huh, who are talking about Lucy?" Annabelle asked.

Lucy got shaken up by Annabelle's words and shook her head to forget about a certain memory that suddenly came to her mind out of nowhere. "No I'm ok Annabelle, you just looked like someone I used to know back when I was a kid" Lucy said laughing nervously to blow off the awkwardness in the air. "You look amazing with your new hair Annabelle" Lucy said smiling brightly at Annabelle.

Annabelle looked at her suspiciously for a sec then brightened at the fact that Lucy liked her new hair color.

"Aww thanks Lucy I'm really happy that you like it" Annabelle said walking over and giving Lucy a friendly hug.

Lucy returned the hug but for some reason she felt like this hug meant more to her for some reason than it ever has in all the time that she known the girl and for some reason that those old memories that she once had but where locked away somehow came back making her think about the one of the many people she cared about when she was a kid; Lilly/Lillian Mavis Heartfilia, her little sister.

Before she could get into asking or even thinking about her past memories with her sister and why that one of her best friends looked exactly like her when she was young, the doorbell rang surprising the three at who could be at their house so early in the morning and who could it be.

Lucy got out of Annabelle's hug and walked over to the door to see who it was. She got to the door but before she was about to open it some familiar scents blew past her nose letting her know instantly who was at her front door making her smile softly.

She opened the door widely smiling at the five figures standing there; Yukino Aguria, Sting Eucliffe, Rogue Cheney, Lector and Frosch from Sabertooth.

Yukino's face showed shock for a moment but then turned into full blown happiness at the sight of one of her best friends and for Sting and Rouge they had a look of complete surprise at the fact that Lucy knew who they were before she even opened the door. (This is the surprise visitors and there's more to come, but the reason why they were so surprise because they don't a peep hole, mostly because of their dragon abilities so they don't need it)

"Hey Yuki-chan! How are you, I haven't seen you in so long, how have you been and you even brought Sting and Rogue with you what very nice surprise" Lucy said looking at the new visitors at her front door.

"Yea I missed you too Lu-chan! I came here today to ask you something really important" Yukino asked.

"Well yea come in, I'll tell everyone that you're here" Lucy said while opening the door for everyone to come inside their new house.

Sting, Yukino, Rogue, Lector and Frosch looked all around the house and were really impressed that Lucy was living in a house like this definitely the magic that they thought she was using on her missions. (They'll get a surprise for themselves later haha)

They went deeper into the house going into the area of the kitchen seeing Lucy coming at them with someone following right behind being pulled along. Lucy stopped in front of them with a bright smile having some kind of childlike happiness fluttering inside of her big brown doe eyes of hers with some form of secret that looked like they were screaming to let out and told to the world.

"Hey guys I want you to meet a good friend of mine" Lucy looked back slightly to look at her and pulled her arm up front to present her to Sting and the others.

"Ow Hey, could you stop pulling so hard and I can introduce myself you know" Annabelle said looking furious at her friend/roommate, she turned to look at her new guest and looked at Sting and Yukino with a blank and slightly miffed look but when she turned to look at Rogue her breathing stopped for an instant when looking into his mesmerizing red eyes.

She kept starring at Rogue for a good couple of seconds before she had to look away so she wouldn't blush or look like a total dolt In front of everyone, especially in front of Rogue who was staring at her just as much as she was staring at him.

"H-Hey um my name is A-Annabelle, n-nice to meet you" Annabelle smiled at Sting and Yukino but did a small shy smile towards Rogue but no one caught the change, but a certain Celestial dragonslayer did and was so planning to tease her about it later.

"Hey! It's nice to meet you too, my name is Yukino Aguria" Yukino said. "This is Sting Eucliffe and this is Rogue Cheney" Yukino said pointing at the two slayers introducing them.

"Yo!" Sting greeted happily.

"Hello" Rogue said blankly but in his eyes showed sort of an interest for the Dark dragonslayer.

"This is Lector, Sting's exceed" Yukino continued. "And this is Frosch, Rogue's exceed" Yukino finished introducing everyone.

"Hello I'm the exceed to the Great Sting-kun, nice to meet you" Lector said bumping his chest and talking in proud and sort of admiration for his dragonslayer partner.

"I'm Frosch, Frosch thinks so too. Frosch is happy to see meet all of you" Frosch said cutely.

"Ok great now that everyone knows each other-" Lucy said but was stopped by a yellow flying exceed floating in her face with her small arms crossed over her chest with a cute pout on her face.

"Hey what about me Lucy, you didn't even tell them who I am" Anna said.

Lucy laughed at Anna's childlike behavior, which never ceases to amaze her when she gets like this being an exceed how she acts on a daily basis, but the looks on Sting, Rogue, Yukino, Frosch, and Lector's faces were absolutely priceless.

Lucy was bursting with laughter at her 'daughter' who wanted to get some attention. "Ok I'll introduce you, guys this is my best friend, my 'daughter' and my exceed Anna" Lucy told everyone.

Anna smiled "Hey everyone! I'm Lucy's exceed alright and I'm really happy that I got to meet some of Lucy's other friends" Anna cheered happily.

Lucy smiled at Anna but was interrupted by Sting and Rogue getting really close up to Lucy's face with hard stares, which was kind of freaking Lucy out.

"How do you have an exceed, you're not even a dragonslayer" Sting and Rogue asked at the same time looking at Lucy closely.

Lucy was about to answer them but were pulled back by Yukino and Annabelle because they were too close to her. "I don't know you guys but don't you know what personal space is?" Annabelle asked the Twin Dragonslayers, pulling back Rogue while Yukino pulled back Sting.

"Yea you guys that was really rude, I'm sorry Lucy that these two haven't been properly trained in certain forms of manners" Yukino said laugh lightly at her two teammates, Lucy giggled at her friend's joke.

Sting glared at Yukino and Rogue gave her one of his looks but stopped when he noticed someone else was holding him back, he looked back to see the girl he had been staring at before was holding him kind of closely and staring back at him making him feel warm inside for some reason.

Rogue stared back at her again and was getting lost in her bright emerald green eyes thinking how brightly they shined; Annabelle was getting lost and mesmerized how red and dangerously beautiful they were looking like they held something that she never saw in a another man before and she kind of liked it.

They stood there staring at each other for a while but pulled out of it when Lucy and the others started talking again, they looked at each other one more time before turning away with a small blush on both of their pale faces.

"Ok no more teasing Sting and Rogue I wanted to know what was so important that you all had to come all the way from where Sabertooth is to here in Magnolia?" Lucy asked the three with a small smile.

Yukino stopped laughing and then gave Sting and Rogue a look communicating through looks and some head nods between them, then she looked at Lucy with smile which confused her because of the little silent interaction that they had together.

"Well Lucy I have to give you something that is very important that I hope you except but could Annabelle take Sting and Rogue around the house like tour so we could talk privately?" Yukino asked.

"I'm not leaving Yukino, I already told you that I wasn't going to remember" Sting said while wrapping one arm around her waist protectively and pulling her up close to him.

Yukino blushed slightly. "O-ok fine just don't say anything unless we let you ok" Yukino said sternly but failed with her blush still on her face.

Sting smirked down at Yukino and started to lean down and nibble on the top part of her ear softly. "Ok whatever say cutie" Sting whispered in her ear making Yukino blush hardly and Lucy and Annabelle to gawk at the two because of what the two heard from Sting, (Because of their dragon hearing) especially Lucy, who was wondering why was Sting doing that and if maybe that they could possibly be dating each other?

Lucy shook her head stopping her train of thought and was going to proceed with the talk that they were going to have with Yukino.

Lucy looked at them a little awkwardly and was trying to get their attention. "Um Yukino are we going to talk or do you to talk to Sting first?" Lucy asked.

Yukino blushed again and pushed Sting when he started to chuckle at Lucy's question. "N-No, No I'm fine and I'm ready to talk to you, let's get started" Yukino said slightly smiling at Lucy and glaring at Sting for being so touchy-touchy.

"Rogue do you want to go on a tour with Annabelle around the house?" Yukino asked Rogue hoping he'll accept her offer.

Rogue looked at Annabelle for second thinking over the idea and he again, for some reason, decided he would do it, mostly to get to know more about Annabelle.

"Ok, I'll go with her" Rogue responded with a small smile at Annabelle making her look away with a blush.

Lucy was surprised and happy, One for Rogue smiling and especially at Annabelle and Two that Annabelle is agreeing and blushing at Rogue's smile. Lucy decided in her head she was totally going to tease her about possibly having a crush on Rogue.

"Ok you too I hope you have fun, oh and Annabelle don't have too much fun" Lucy said with a sly smirk and wink before leaving with Yukino, Sting, Lector and Anna.

Annabelle looked at Lucy with a major blush and shocked expression then turning into pure rage for even making a joke like that. "Lucy!" Annabelle yelled at Lucy, she pointed her finger at Lucy's butt with some of her dark dragonslaying magic and shot at her.

"Ow!" Lucy yelped out holding her butt from the pain of Annabelle's magic blast, she turned around mad that her shot her right in her butt but then smirked again when an idea came to her head that she knew that Annabelle would totally hate.

Lucy used her magic with her finger and drew a dazzling star heart with Annabelle and Rogue's first letter of their names written with a plus in the middle, mostly saying Annabelle and Rogue love each other or want to be together. Lucy was laughing. ('R+A' lol)

Annabelle was shocked again and Rogue was wide eye and blushing madly, Annabelle had enough of Lucy's stupid joke so she let her dark magic to seep through to show Lucy how serious she was if she didn't stop making those jokes about them. Lucy's eyes widened in partial fear and she ran quickly out of the room so she wouldn't have to deal with her wrath.

Annabelle calmed her powers down and sighing how dumb her friend can be when she gets with her love life, but before she could even try to calm down completely someone spoke who she thought wasn't even watching or even in the room at the time of the accident.

"You use dark magic?" Rogue asked looking at Annabelle with wide eyes.

Annabelle had her eyes wide too but sighed knowing he caught what her magic was, which nobody knew besides Wendy, Lucy, Carla, Anna, Master and Mira but no apparently a couple more people will know what her magic is.

"Well in a way I do use dark magic but a little different" Annabelle said trying to explain what her magic is without yelling it out.

"What do you mean?" Rogue asked her.

Annabelle opened her mouth then closed thinking if she should tell him what her magic is or not.

Rogue must have read Annabelle mind or something because he told her something that changed her mind of not telling him about her magic. "I won't pry if you don't want to talk about your magic, I trust if Lucy is letting you live here with then you must have control over your magic and that you're not evil" Rogue said with a small smile towards her.

Annabelle smiles back and finally decides if she wants to tell Rogue about her powers.

"I'm a Requip mage and I'm the Dark Dragonslayer" Annabelle tells Rogue.

"You're the Dark Dragonslayer but how?" Rogue asked.

"Truthfully I don't know or even remember how I learned it but one day me, Lucy and Wendy went on a mission one day and was fighting off a dark guild and fought a guy who used dark magic who attacked me, but I survived it by eating the dark magic around me" Annabelle paused to catch her breath and continue talking to Rogue. "And that's how I found out about my powers, since then I've been training with my magic and gotten stronger because of it but I also have my Requip magic so I only use my dragonslaying magic when I really need it, I haven't even told my guild yet about it beside my Master and Mira" Annabelle finally finished explaining to Rogue about her magic.

"Ok then that makes sense but if you really are the Dark Dragonslayer then prove it" Rogue said crossing his arms across his chest looking at her carefully.

"Ok but I don't know how I can right now without eating any dark magic, and we definitely don't have any stash of it in our house or something" Annabelle says sarcastically holding her hands too her hips.

Rogue starts to laugh and smile softly at her reaction making Annabelle blush but with a smile on her face.

"Well then I think I can help you with that little problem" Rogue said kind of smugly, he holds out his hand and his Shadow magic forms all around it like a dark mist.

Annabelle's eyes widen in surprise then started to dazzle in amazement at what magic Rogue was doing in his hand. "What kind of magic is that?" Annabelle asked him.

"Shadow Dragonslaying magic" Rogue told her with a smile.

"You're a Dragonslayer!" Annabelle partially shouted.

"Yea I am and I'm not the only one, Sting is also a Dragonslayer, he's the White Dragonslayer" Rogue told her.

"Wow that's so cool!" Annabelle smiled brightly making Rogue feel a warmth he hasn't felt since he was with his Dragon or when he met Frosch.

"Yea, well go on then eat up" Rogue said holding his out for her to eat his magic making her for some reason blush.

"Ok, well down the hatch" Annabelle says while opening her mouth to suck his magic into her mouth, she slurped it all into her mouth and swallowed it down with no effort, like it was the simplest thing in the world.

"Mmm that was really good! It's like eating smooth and yummy chocolate, your shadows taste awesome!" Annabelle says gulping the last parts of Rogue's tasty magic down her throat.

Rogue blushes. "T-Thanks, I'm glad you liked it" Rogue said.

"I want to ask you a little challenge for you too, if you don't mind?" Annabelle asked.

"Like what?" Rogue asked her, feeling intrigued at what the challenge she wanted him to do.

"I want to see if you are really the Shadow Dragonslayer, meaning you have to eat my darkness" Annabelle said explaining the challenge to Rogue.

Rogue thought about it and he thought it wouldn't be a problem doing the challenge at all, especially him being a Shadow Dragonslayer and all.

"Ok fine" Rogue said.

Annabelle smiled and held her hand and concentrated while making a thing of black and bluish Dark magic form in her hand.

"Ok go and eat up yourself Mister Shadow Dragonslayer" Annabelle joked with a small smile on her face.

"Ha-ha that's very clever but I'm going to eat it and you'll eat those words" Rogue said sarcastically at first then went into full determination at trying to prove to her that he was the Shadow Dragonslayer, he opened his mouth eating the dark magic kind of quickly but still enjoying every little bit of it.

When Rogue was done he swallowed it down and smiled widely. "Man that was probably the best meal I had in a long time, it tasted soft and sweet but it also tasted really nice and rich at the same time, Thanks for that Annabelle your magic taste great" Rogue sends a genuine smile at Annabelle showing her that he was telling her the truth.

Annabelle blushed but still smiled at Rogue's compliment, it gave her warm butterflies in her stomach but she liked every minute of it.

"Well I'm glad you liked it and now I know that are you truly a Dragonslayer and that you're the Shadow Dragonslayer" Annabelle smiled at him.

"Frosch thinks so too" Frosch said with her little green hand in the air and smile on her face. (A lot people thinks that Frosch is a boy but for this story I would like her to be a girl because of something later in the story but you'll have to wait and see what it is ;P)

Annabelle smiled brightly picking up the pink and green exceed off of the floor and hugging it closely to her.

"You are too cute! I love your little Frog outfit it's absolutely adorable!" Annabelle squealed over Frosch.

"Frosch thinks so too" Frosch said while hugging Annabelle back.

Rogue was smiling at the two liking how much Frosch was liking Annabelle and that how well she was treating her in the same, he just couldn't shake the feeling of wanting to be closer to this girl and he didn't want to because he made him feel something her hasn't felt in a long time and he was going to enjoy it.

"Ok if you're done I would like to see more of your house" Rogue said trying to get both of their attention.

Both Annabelle and Frosch stop hugging and start laughing at each other, Annabelle walks over with Frosch in her hands smiling. "Ok, ok were doing and I would be gladly like to show you around the house good sir" Annabelle said with a British accent and a small bow and curtsey.

Rogue smirks at her and then starts to think maybe he should play along. "Thank you for your hospitality Princess" Rogue grabs her hand and kisses softly, liking the feel of his lips on her hand he looks up again. "It would be pleasure to be escorted by you in your lovely home" Rogue smiled back at her, Annabelle was blushing but smiled so they could start their tour.

"Frosch thinks it would be fun to see your house too" Frosch says while floating in the air.

The three smiled and laughed together, Annabelle looped her arms up with Rogue's and started walking around the house seeing everything and getting closer by the minute with each other.

(Living Room, Normal POV)

Lucy, Sting, Yukino, Lector and Anna were sitting there on the couches and chairs talking about what's been going on with their lives until Lucy finally remembered why they went here and started talking in the first place.

"Hey Sting, Yukino what did you guys needed to talk about that was so private and also what did you need to give me anyway?" Lucy asked looking at the two.

Yukino stopped smiling and a had a frown on her face while Sting looked at her sadly, Lucy looked at them confused at how the atmosphere changed so quickly because of one simple question.

"Hey Yukino are you ok?" Lucy asked.

Yukino sighed and looked at Lucy again with a really serious expression. "Lucy I need to ask you a favor of something" Yukino asked .

"Well of course anything, what do you need me to do for you?" Lucy asked Yukino.

"I want you to take my Celestial Keys" Yukino asked looking Lucy dead in her eyes.

Lucy sat there completely stunned at what Yukino was asking her, she couldn't believe that she wanted her to take her keys again but before she answered like she did last time she had to figure out why.

"Why, why do you want me to take your spirits Yukino?" Lucy said.

"Because you need them to complete the Zodiac and you'll be able to use them way better than I ever could since I got them" Yukino explained.

"But Yukino this isn't right, you love your spirits just as much as I do, why would wanna give them away again?" Lucy asked again.

Yukino opened her mouth and closed it again, Sting saw her hesitation and decided to continue for her. "She wants to give them away because she doesn't feel like her spirits deserve her like they would to you" Sting explained.

"That's crazy you totally deserve your spirits more than anyone especially me, don't give away your friends they need you just as much as you need them" Lucy said trying to change Yukino's mind.

"They'll need you more now definitely with your journey, besides you're the only Celestial mage that has gotten almost every key of the Zodiac and now I'm giving you the final ones to complete" Yukino says while pushing the three keys towards Lucy across the coffee table. "And now you'll be the first one in centuries to have all twelve of them with you, you'll be the strongest Celestial Spirit mage ever" Yukino told Lucy hoping she'll take her offer.

Lucy sat there thinking about Yukino's offer very carefully; Lucy could be the only Celestial Spirit mage to have the full collection of the Zodiac but it would take away Yukino's best friends and her magic, Lucy would never would want that to happen to her friend. So she thought for a while longer and came up with the perfect idea that will solve this and make both of them happy.

Lucy smiled at the two making both Yukino and Sting to look at her worriedly, mostly because earlier she was refusing Yukino's offer but now she looks like she's hiding something from them.

"I have a way for you to keep your magic and for me to get the keys" Lucy said.

Yukino was wide eyed at what Lucy just said. "Oh my god really!? How I thought that when you give away your keys you mostly stop being a Celestial Spirit mage" Yukino asked.

"Well no but I have a gift for you Yukino that you're going to love" Lucy told Yukino holding out her hand with a pale yellow circle glows over her hands. "Requip: Release Keys of the Chinese Zodiac!" Lucy said with the magic glowing brightly.

Yukino and Sting covered their eyes from the shining light but opened them again to see a set of twelve ruby red Celestial Spirit keys sitting in a circle right in front of Yukino.

Yukino couldn't believe what she was seeing a whole set of keys were sitting right in front of her but they were Lucy's so she couldn't take them even if she wanted too.

"Yukino I want to give all these guys here, this is my or used to be my Chinese Zodiac set that I want to gracelessly give them to you for not only giving me the full parts of the Zodiac but also giving them up even though I know how hard it is for you give up your friends and life like that" Lucy said giving her the Chinese Zodiac key set in her hand.

Yukino looked at the keys with shine of happiness at the gift her friend was trying to give her and how a strong presence came from the keys that felt warm just like the regular Zodiac did when she had the other three keys. Yukino couldn't express the happiness and thanks that Lucy brought her that no one else has did before.

Yukino ran over to Lucy pulling her into a big hug with her head laid on her shoulder and with tears running down her pale cheeks onto Lucy's clothes. She was beyond past joyful she was grateful in every form of the word that not only her friend gave her new keys but she also gave her chance to still do her magic and get even stronger than she has ever been in a very long time.

"Thank you, Thank you so much I couldn't even express to you how happy and grateful I am because of you giving me your keys to help me get stronger with myself and my magic" Yukino said happily with more tears coming down her face. "I truly thank you Lucy, Thank you so much" Yukino said hugging her tighter.

Lucy smiled softly at her friend hugging her back. "I knew you didn't want to give everything you ever got from your spirits so I gave you a chance to start a new and keep doing the thing you love the most, being with your spirits, your friends and especially your magic" Lucy explained feeling happy that she could give her friend a new start with her life and not have the feeling of regret and sadness take over her in the future.

Yukino and Lucy were hugging out Sting was sitting back liking the fact that Lucy did that for his girlfriend and happy to that she won't have to give up her magic or stop going on missions with him and Rogue, which in his mind would of surely messed up how things would go on missions when he wouldn't be able to watch over her or see her anymore.

Sting watched how the two hugged it out a little more and Yukino attached her new keys to her key ring. Sting, Yukino, Lucy, Anna and Lector talked with each other about more adventures that they all been on and bringing back that happy mood they had before when they came in the house before.

(Annabelle's Room, Normal POV)

Rogue and Annabelle toured practically all around the house showing him almost everything there, even about the certain rooms in the house like Lucy's room and Wendy's room but she never once told him about her room, until now.

Annabelle opened her bedroom door for Rogue and Frosch to come in and stopped when Rogue stood there like a statue, not moving anywhere which made Annabelle mentally cursing herself for showing her room to him because he didn't like it. Annabelle frowned at the thought but then pushed it away when she thought 'why should I care what he thinks about my room, it's my room I can do whatever I want in it' but felt deep inside she still didn't want him to think badly of her room even tho she won't admit it.

"So" Annabelle paused to ask. "Do you think it looks nice?" Annabelle asked but regretted it and mentally cursed again at how she asked that question from him.

A minute went by with Rogue still looking at the place and standing still in the middle of her room, but finally turned around with a blank expression on his face giving her really bad signs thinking that he didn't like it, making her feel a little deep inside for some reason.

Rogue noticed her quick sadness and wondered why for a second but then gave a thought that maybe she actually cared for what he thought about her room and maybe she actually might like him as much as he likes her.

He knew it was crazy to think he could like someone like that so quickly but she brought out a side to him he never once thought that he had before but never once wanted to end it when he was around her; he liked how she would be sarcastic but she would be blunt to the point that you thought it was funny, he liked how she had such a nice and warm personality but could have deathly killer attitude when say something that pisses her off, he liked how beautiful she looked but never said once that she was or even believes it herself that she is and finally he likes her how she was so different in some ways but was also so much alike on others with personality and things that they do.

He couldn't understand it but he liked it even though he never experienced this kind of feeling before he for some reason wanted to know more of it and that meant he would have to be with Annabelle more and he had no problem with that, definitely knowing that he could have a little more fun with Annabelle and maybe get in few teases along the way.

"Well I really like your room" Rogue said with a smile on his usual blank face . Annabelle was standing there shocked then smiled brightly at Rogue's comment and started to walk around the room for a second before lying on her bed looking at Rogue while he sat in a chair with Frosch sleeping peacefully in his arms.

Annabelle closed her eyes relaxing at having Rogue's presence and scent calm her in ways nothing has done before. Rogue smiled at the fact that she trusted him enough to sleep around him so calmly but he wanted to go and mess with her.

He put a sleeping Frosch down on the chair he was sitting on and got up walking slowly over to her, to see if she was in a deep sleep or just in restful state, but he went closer to see. He looked at her captured by how peaceful and beautiful she looked when sleeping. He leaned in with his face almost a good couple inches away from hers checking out every detail for his eyes to remember. He saw her calm pale skin, her round cheekbones, her soft pink plump lips and her soft sunlight blond hair that shined so brightly when the light hits it. He let his hand move a free strand of hair from her face to show more of her beautiful face to his eyes.

Rogue wished that this moment could last forever but was suddenly cut off by a two pairs of emerald eyes and an awaken Annabelle.

Rogue's voice caught in his throat, he didn't know what to do now with Annabelle looking right in front of him like that with her beautiful eyes of hers.

Annabelle leaned in close to Rogue's stiff figure, she got to his ear and whispered something that shocked and brought a new desire inside of that he never had experienced before. "You know that I'm dragonslayer too, I heard you before you got on the bed" Annabelle said with a sly small on her lips.

Rogue was taken back for a moment surprised that she caught him watching her and that he forgot that she had the same powers and abilities like him, but it caught him even more is that how he didn't recognized that she was faking or not fully asleep.

"W-Why didn't you try to stop me from" Rogue gulped. "Looking at you?" Rogue asked staring into her eyes.

Annabelle started to blush slightly but still not taking her eyes away from his. "Because I was curious to see what you were going to do" Annabelle answered blushing madly now telling him the truth.

Rogue looked at her with surprised and slight interest that she would actually wanted to know what he wanted to do to her.

"Well do you want to know what I wanted to do to you" Rogue asked with a small blush on his face. Annabelle looked at him and couldn't find the words to answer his question so she just went with a small nod to give him an answer.

Rogue leaned in closer, his eyes half lidded looking at her with a new found passion, his lips inches away from hers and their noses practically touching, he looked right into her eyes and seeing the same fire he had in his and finally decided what he wanted to do since he met her.

"This" Rogue said kissing her lips softly.

Annabelle was surprised at first but soon melted into the kiss feeling the same feeling that Rogue was giving her into the kiss, she slowly lifted her arms up his body and wrapped her arms around his neck to pull him closer and deepening the kiss.

Rogue was holding one hand on the back of her neck while the other hand was the side of her hip making it so he could be closer to each other, kissed her with all the feelings he could but still didn't know why he wanted to kiss her so bad but right now he wasn't going to question it when she was kissing him like this, so he continued passionately kissing her and feeling her soft body closer to his lean and muscled frame.

Annabelle was in a state of pure joy and happiness at feeling his lips on her and that to feel that he wanted her just as much as she wanted him and probably like her he might not have known why they were doing this all of a sudden but they didn't want to worry about until they needed to.

They laid on the bed making out with each other with their tongues slowly battling for dominance against another, but after going almost ten minutes of now stop kissing they both had to part away from the other to catch their breaths before they passed out.

They stared at each other not taking their eyes off the other, when they finally got their breathing back to normal they had to ask the dreaded question that could break or start what the two just went through with each other.

"How did that happened?" They both said together with blushes on their faces.

They stared at each other and they started laughing with Rogue on top of Annabelle and Annabelle under Rogue holding each other like they've know each other for years.

"I wanna know what happened between, I'm not saying it was bad but I'm just wondering how did we go from being friends with each other to something way more?" Annabelle asked laughing softly, still holding on to Rogue.

Rogue chuckled. "I don't know but I never felt this clam with another person since I've met you and I actually really like it" Rogue said smiling down at Annabelle happily.

"I feel the same way" Annabelle said smiling up at him, she leaned in to Rogue closing her eyes while for Rogue was copying her action too kissing each other softly.

They both parted from each other smiling but then reality kicked in for both of them and they realized something very important, how were they going to tell everyone what happened between them?

Annabelle face frowned when she realized this and had to stop whatever was about to happen between them and try to figure out what they were going to do about their new relationship with each other.

"Rogue we have to stop this" Annabelle said while pushing lightly on Rogue's chest.

Rogue looked saddened by her words and lifted himself up to let her up and to maybe gets some answers on why she wants to stop what they just started together or tried together.

"Why, why do we have to stop what we feel for each other?" Rogue asked looking at Annabelle, confused by her words.

Annabelle looked at Rogue and saw the confusion and partially hurt in his eyes, she shook her head knowing that she didn't explain to him further and messing up on how she explained. "No I meant that we should take it a little slow, we don't know all that much about each other and we aren't even dating" Annabelle explaining to Rogue fully.

"Well I get that but if it's only that we need to get through then let's get to know each other, let's date, let's go out on date, anything because I never felt this way about another person before and I don't want to lose you because you're not ready to start a full-on relationship with me" Rogue said taking a deep breath o continue. "For you I'll wait until you're ready for me or ready to be with me in a relationship together because I think I know why I feel so close to you than anyone else that I've met in my entire life, you're my mate" Rogue said smiling at her looking at her with emotion that has never been seen on Rogue's face before.

Annabelle looked at him with tears in her eyes smiling uncontrollably with Rogue's words, they touched her heart like no one else has and she didn't freak out or feel afraid to find out she was Rogue's mate because in her own way she knew it was true, she never would of done that with another person she just met so it had to be the only explanation. She jumped on him wrapping her arms around his neck and falling on top of him on her bed holding him close to her.

She looked up to his face with a smile and Rogue responded by smiling back at her with the same expression. "I'm glad that I found my mate and I'm really glad that it was you" Annabelle said.

"Me too, more than you could ever know" Rogue said.

They leaned in again and kissed passionately and then sitting on Annabelle's bed laughing and talking the entire time until the day ended and when Rogue would have to leave with his team.

(Late Afternoon, Normal POV)

The day was slowly coming to its end and the day for the dragonslayers and the celestial mage was coming to close but one that they will never forget, because not only did they get closer like they did back then they also learned more about one another throughout the day, even agreeing to seeing each other next time if there not busy.

Rogue and Annabelle got to know more about each other in those couple hours they were in Annabelle's room and Annabelle got even closer with Frosch making them look like a loving family when you looked at them.

Lucy, Yukino, Sting, Lector and Anna were also getting really close again after so long; Sting started bragging about how strong he's gotten since the Grand Magic Games and Tartarus, Yukino was talking about all the adventures and missions she went on with Rogue and Sting and even mentioned how she and Sting got together, Lucy told about what happened when she was gone doing her training and what happened when she got back which shocked Yukino but also shocked Sting and totally amazed him as well, finding out that not only did they find out about Lucy's new magic but also that Lucy is his cousin (cousins by dragons), Lector took a real liking to Anna but she explained to him that she was interested in someone else making the red neko sad but understanding and moving on from it, they sat and talked all day and when Wendy came back with Carla and Rogue and Annabelle came down stairs to see everybody it just made the fun even better.

They all walked to the door and looked at each other happily while giving everyone a hug and saying a quick goodbye.

"I hope you all get back safe ok you guys, I wanna be able to see you again after this" Lucy joked at the guest.

Sting laughed. "Of course with the Great Sting Eucliffe everyone will be perfectly safe" Sting gave a toothy smile.

Yukino shook her head smiling softly at her boyfriend. "You're impossible, I swear I wonder sometimes how you get that big ego of yours from" Yukino said giving him sideways glance.

Sting leaned in to nuzzle the side of her neck with a smirk on his face. "Aw but you know you like it" Sting whispered in her ear hotly.

Yukino blushed and pushed his face away making Sting and everyone else laugh.

"Man I can't wait until we can do this again this was the best break I have ever had and it was so much fun" Wendy said smiling brightly with Carla in her arms.

Everyone nodded agreeing with Wendy's words, but Yukino told everyone that they needed to go so they can get a move on to get back to Sabertooth in decent amount of days.

They all got into a group hug and gave out a final goodbye hugs to each other, Annabelle and Rogue looked at each other with mixed emotions of happiness, sadness, longing and hope knowing that even when faraway from each other they'll find a way to be together so they hugged one more time and looked into each other's eyes leaned in close for one final kiss.

Lucy and the others were completely surprised by the two but for some reason they didn't ask they just let them have their moment before they started asking questions.

Rogue and Annabelle parted away with their heads touching each other and smiles on both of their faces saying a silent goodbye and getting out each other's warm embrace.

Lucy walked them out of the house saying goodbye to all of them and telling them to come back once in a while so they can hang out again.

They waved nodded and waved goodbye going to the trains station so they could go back home, back to Sabertooth.

Lucy went back into the house seeing a blushing Annabelle, a smiling Wendy and an evil grinning Anna and a sly grinning Carla looking at the poor girl with questions and jokes ready to fire when ready.

Lucy walked over to her friend with a sly smirk and looked dead into Annabelle's eyes asking the question they've all been waiting to hear and ask Annabelle that night. "What's been going on with you and Rogue?" Lucy asked.

OMG I want to say to all of you that have been waiting so long for my story I'm so sorry for not updating sooner but my computers is so slow now to the point that I can't write a full sentence without it saying "Not Responding" so it's been a pretty long and hard couple of weeks for me writing this story.

But I finally got it finish for all of you and I made a new shipping which I think is totally cute in my opinion and in my mind, Ranna or Rannabelle! I made it and I think it's a cute pick but I would like to see what you guys think about it and maybe giving out more shipping action for you all.

I also have some big plans for the next couple of future chapters (like chapters 14-16) because they will be filled with some stuff that you probably never expected yet but I hope you all like it in the end.

I didn't want Yukino giving her keys and not have any magic so I at least let her have her magic still just with her own keys that she can use for herself and I loved making Yukino and Sting together they look like a cute couple to me.

But I hope you all liked this chapter even if was a bit longer than most but still I worked on it at school so I did pretty good on my part because I'm way more busier as a Senior this year.

Oh a sorry for the rush at the ending but I had to at least finish this week before Christmas started or I wouldn't all of next week but I hope you all enjoy.

Next chapter will be called Chapter 13: Secret Dates and Fiery Missions I hope you all enjoy and can wait for next chapter it's going to be so much fun. See you all next time Review, Follow, Favorite and Share Otakulover43 out PEACE .