Author's note... Hi again... Sorry for the wait I've had writer's block *Don't hurt me!* But don't worry I'm planning on typing a few more chapters today. Enjoy and review.

As always Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima

Chapter 13

Truths and Jeweled Keys

As the dust settled from the explosion Lucy heard Master call out.

"Is everyone all right? Are the children safe?" He was answered by the groans of the many Guild members who had been knocked around by the explosion. Lucy tried to move and felt someone's arms around her. She heard a grunt and felt a weight shift off of them, and she looked up to see Laxus leaning over her, and looked to her side and saw a table that had been on top of them. Laxus must have grabbed me and shielded me from the blast. She stood up and looked around and saw tables and chairs thrown around from the blast, she saw Elfman turn back into his human form to make sure all the children were okay.

"Man that tasted horrible!" Lucy looked over and saw Natsu rubbing his stomach. He must have eaten the flames from the blast just not the force of it.

"All right Brats! Listen up!" Makarov yelled from atop the bar. "Lucy, Laxus, Erza, Wendy, Gray, and Freed! My office! Now! The rest of you, clean the place up!" He hopped off of the bar and made his way to his office, the six of them following and closing the door behind them.

"Okay Master, why am I here?" Gray asked as he leaned against the wall, glaring at the,. "I had nothing to do with what happened last night."

"Neither did I," Freed added as he, too, leaned against one of the walls.

Makarov sighed. "That may be true, but you were there after the train accident, and we now know that the two incidents are connected."

"Wait, Gray was there?" They all looked nervously at Lucy and Makarov nodded.

"Yes, Gray was one of the ones we sent after the wreck to fight if the monster came back." Erza started. "He was the one who figured out it was a group of mages, not a monster, who wrecked the train."

Lucy paled at the thought. "So that means..." She looked over at Laxus, wanting him to tell her it wasn't true.

"We have reason to believe that you are being targeted, but by whom we don't know." Makarov said sadly.

"So why did you call all of us her?" Wendy asked from beside the door.

"Well, after what happened last night and just now, I don't want Lucy to be on her own. I want one of you to be with her at all times."

"What about when I go to the bathroom?" Lucy squeaked.

"Don't worry Lucy, Wendy and I will keep an eye out for you." Erza stated.

"Okay..." She wasn't sure she liked the idea of being watched all the time.

"I could stay with her during the day." They all turned to Laxus, shock on all their faces. "What!? We are dating now, so it wouldn't seem to weird to the other members, and if she wants some girl time all she has to do is ask."

"That does seem like a good idea, Master. He could go with me on jobs and keep an eye out for whoever is after me."

"Then its settled. Laxus, you will keep an eye on Lucy." He looked over at his grandson, who nodded in agreement. He then looked at everyone in his office and they all nodded. "Okay! Now that everything is settled, OUT!" They all quickly hurried out of the office and into the recently cleaned guild hall.

Lucy turned to Laxus when they reached the bottom of the stairs. "So...we're officially dating now?"

"I guess," he answered with a grin. "Now I can do something without being called a pervert." Before she could reply his mouth captured her's, and she forgot what she was going to say. After a moment she pulled away, slightly flushed.

"Laxus..." she breathed as he made his way down her neck. "Can we do this later..."

"Why?"

"We're in the middle of the guild, and people are starting to stare." Laxus lifted his head away from her neck to glare at whoever was staring, causing Macao and Wakaba to move to a new table across the hall..

"What's wrong with making sure everyone knows that you're mine?" He asked with a sly grin, pulling away.

"Nothing. I just don't want an audience. Today also is the day I train my magic with Capricorn."

"Does it have to be today?"

"Every two weeks I train with him, I can't skip now. You could always come and watch, there's always a crown anyways. It should be interesting." Lucy twisted out of his arms and made her way to the training field. As she went towards the center she saw most of the usual crowd had gathered to watch. Most of the children were there along with Levy, Gajeel, Erza, Max, Laki, Jellal, Bickslow, Natsu, and Romeo. Most of them had come to watch her train, some of them had just finished with their training. She watched as Laxus stood off to the side of the group and crossed his arms.

All right. Time to train. Lucy went through her keys and got Capricorn's and summoned him. In a flash the Goat appeared.

"Hello, Lady Lucy, are you ready for your training?"

"Yes, what is it this time?"

Capricorn thought for a moment before answering. "I want you to summon as many of your spirits that you can, starting with your silver keys. I will stay to monitor your progress, but no group summons, only one at a time, if you will."

Lucy nodded and concentrated her magic, and one by one she started to summon her spirits, starting with the ones she had the longest. One by one they appeared before her, Crux, Horologium, Lyra, Plue, Pyxis, Centaurus, Delphinus, Canis Major, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Pegasus, Lupus, Vulpecula, and Canes Venatici. She then started to summon her Zodiac keys, but was only able to summon Leo, Aries, and Virgo.

She then looked over her spirits and smiled, she was surprised she was able to summon so many of them at once.

"Well done, Lady Lucy. I see you've gathered many spirits, even some of the jeweled silver keys."

"Jeweled keys?" Lucy looked down and sure enough several of her silver keys had a small jewel set into them. "What is different about them?" She was curious now, and Capricorn turned to her spirits.

"Would the regular silver spirits please leave." There was a flash and most of the spirits had disappeared, leaving Centaurus, Delphinus, Canis Major, Ursa Major and Vulpecula.

"So these are the jeweled silver keys, but why are they jeweled?" She asked, looking over the spirits.

"They are jeweled because they are, in some way, related to the Zodiacs. They are stronger than the normal silver keys, but not as strong as the Zodiacs. They, also like the Zodiac, only have one key. Not everybody realizes this, they believe them to be ordinary keys." Capricorn explained and turned to the spirits. "Vulpecula, as you know, is the younger sister of Virgo."

Vulpecula smiled from where she was hugging Virgo's knees. "Delphinus, if you haven't noticed, is the younger sister of Aquarius." Lucy looked at the spirit and noticed the family resemblance. Delphinus looked like a younger, kinder version of Aquarius, but instead of blue hair and scales, hers were a light green. She was also holding the arm of another spirit.

It was a young man with messy brown hair and glowing yellow eyes. He wore only a pair of ripped black jeans that showed off his toned, tanned body.

"The young man Delphinus is holding on to is her boyfriend, Ursa Major, and one of Leo's cousins. The man next to them wearing the white horse head is the younger brother of Sagittarius, Centaurus." Lucy nodded, seeing the resemblance. Centaurus looked like Sagittarius except for having a white horse head and he was blonde. She then turned her attention to the last spirit.

It was a young girl who looked to be about ten with long black hair and pointy black dog ears peeking out from underneath. She had chocolate brown eyes and was wearing a simple black tank and a pale blue knee length skirt. Lucy walked over to the girl and got down on eye level with her.

"Hi, Cani, which one are you related to?"

"I'm Gemini's cousin." Cani answered in a light voice. Lucy turned to Capricorn.

"Is that it for today?"

"Yes it is. Continue working on your magic, and please keep finding more of us spirits. It has been decades since there has been a Celestial Mage as kind or as powerful as you."

With that the spirits disappeared, once the left Lucy fell to her knees. She didn't realize how much magic she had used. Some of the onlookers rushed forward to help, but Laxus got to her before them.

"Are you okay?" Laxus asked, concerned.

"Yeah," Lucy panted. "Just out of magic."

"Well, that is to be expected." Came a voice from behind them, and they turned to see first master Mavis standing there.