"We wonder if you would like to-" I interrupted Loke. I know what I heard but I just couldn't believe it. Me, as the Queen of the Celestial Spirits?
"Why me? Don't you have the king already?"
"Yes, but…" Loke looked at Aries anxiously again.
"But what?" I stared at Aries then back to Loke, waiting for an answer. After a few seconds, Loke looked at me seriously, cleared his throat and continue "he vanished and ever since that time, everything went crazy. The silver keys and spirits are starting to vanish and so is Aries."
"Aries?" I looked at Aries who was just staring nervously at the bed. Now that I looked at her longer, she kind of has no legs now.
"We don't know why Aries is vanishing since she is a golden key and we don't know if she is the only one who is a golden key that is going to be affected by the king's disappearance." Loke added.
"Can't you handle it? I mean you are the leader, right? Plus, I'm just an owner. I know that I'm not fit to be a ruler." He grabbed my hands and held them high, looking at me with those sorrowful eyes.
"Please, Lucy. Yes, you are just an owner but you are one of the best owners a spirit can ever have. You fight for us and we fight for you. You hold 15 of the best gold and silver keys and you treat us far more than what an owner treats us. You treat us as your friend, not just a spirit that you can summon because you are our master. You believe in us and we believe in you so please, please be the Queen of the Celestial Spirits." He placed both of my hands down and stands up. He pulled a bracelet from his pocket then gave it to me. He looked away whilst readjusting his glasses; I guess he doesn't want me to see him cry. I looked at the bracelet; it was beaded with white pearl with a ruby on the center. "Just tap the ruby and that will summon me any moment. Keep that bracelet safe. If the ruby gets broken, I can't know where you are. Let me know if you've made up your mind." He then vanished, followed by Aries and Pluto. I sighed and lay down. I held the bracelet high by holding one of its pearls and stare at it.
I remember, that time, when Loke almost died in my arms. I did everything just to see him alive again. And now, he is doing the same thing with the others. It's the greatest thing Loke has ever done with his pure heart. I can feel Loke's sadness and his struggles into getting the Celestial Spirit Realm back together again. I can feel the pain if ever a spirit is no longer there anymore. Not just his pain but I feel everyone's pain.
Suddenly, I felt like water droplets landing on my face. 'What's this?' I quickly touch the side of my eyes and realized it was just tears. "Silly me, it was just tears." I wipe it off then took a deep breath. I got up, wore the bracelet and said to myself "It's alright Lucy; you're doing the right thing." Then left the room.
I guess the place that I had been sleeping in all this time was a castle since there are long and well-decorated hallways, heirlooms that are displayed at the side, paintings on the wall, and each door is well decorated and carved with initials on top of them. Like a castle in medieval times with a hint of style in the Victorian Era.
Just as I was about to open the door with an L on top, someone called me. I turned around and saw Aries.
"Hello, Aries."
"Have you made up your mind now?" Aries asked nervously.
I nodded then said "I'm going to be the Queen of the Celestial Spirits." I can see Aries's face lit up with joy. She hugged me while saying "Thank you, Lucy. You don't know how much this means to me." I couldn't say anything so I smiled instead.
Narrator's P.O.V.
When they broke their hug, they went to the library where Loke is.
"Loke?" Aries opened the door to find Loke reading and Crux 'thinking' on the second floor.
"Lucy, have you made up your mind yet?" Loke said while closing the book that he was reading. He jumped off the railings and made a swift landing on the floor.
"I decided that I am going to be the Queen of the Celestial Spirits." He hugged Lucy while saying thank you just as what Aries did. He broke their hug and said "Virgo." "Yes?" Lucy flinched upon hearing Virgo's voice and her body appearing so fast.
"Take her and dress her up, we will have a celebration later for the Queen. Also inform the others."
"As you wish." Suddenly, Lucy was being carried by Virgo to the other room bridal-style.
While Virgo is dressing up Lucy, Loke and Aries continue finding a reason and a solution.
"Do you think she will be able to handle it?" Leo shoutingly asked Aries since she's on the second floor while he was on the third.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean," he jumped off the railings again while holding tons of books and joined Aries. "If ever she fails, will you be okay with that?"
"Why are you asking me that? I know that I'm disappearing and all but I trust her and if she fails and I fully disappear, at least I know that she tried." Aries smiled at Leo.
"You're right." Leo smiled back while tousling Aries's hair.
Lucy's P.O.V. (at the same time as Leo and Aries started to talk)
As Virgo finally puts me down, she told me to wait while she finds something that suits me. I looked around while standing in one place as Virgo had told me. It was a huge room, at least five times bigger than my apartment, with velvet covering and a flower pattern on the walls and floor. There was a white, circular plate that is at least six feet in diameter that I am standing on in the center of the room. There was also a huge mirror resting on one of the walls and clothes on the other three sides. I can see that I was not wearing my sundress anymore but was wearing light blue and white striped pajamas. After a few minutes of waiting, Virgo chose three gowns.
"Let us try this on first." The first one was a rose colored princess gown with an off shoulder and three ruffle lines at the end of the gown, a cerise belt and a scarlet kitten heel. "Too plain." Virgo said.
The second was a desert sand mermaid gown with a halter that has a leaf and stem pattern to the side and up at the end of the gown and a beige peep-toe ankle strap platform shoe. "I can't even move in this." I commented.
The third was a palatinate blue ball gown with a strapless sweetheart neck line, royal pattern with swirls, curls and rhinestones cyan belt and an azure almond-toe pump shoe.
"I think it suits you, master." Virgo commented so I picked this one. After putting the other dresses in their place, Virgo took a chair and let me seat on it.
"I will call Scorpio to style your hair."
"Did somebody call me, ebi?" Once again, I flinched on how fast they appear.
"Please style master's hair while I go inform the others about the celebration." She said then left. Scorpio played with my hair a little, thinking about what style he is going to do then begin.
The first one was a Fallera hairdo. I kind of like it but it doesn't match with the dress.
The second was a French braid bun with a hydrangea resting on top of my left ear.
"I think I'll pick this since it matches the dress and holds all of my hair."
"You pick nicely, ebi." After that he left.
I stand up and walk to and fro thinking what I will do after the celebration is over.
'Hmmm, I should make the time here and the Earth realm the same so that I will know what is happening here and there but what will I do about them disappearing?'
Suddenly, I heard a knock on the door. I opened it and saw Loke. He was wearing the same thing, a black suit and red tie.
"Are you ready, milady?" he smirked while offering me his hand; I blushed. I could feel my face colored like I'm a human-tomato hybrid.
"S-stop calling me that." I stuttered. I accepted his hand and we went on to the balcony.
In that balcony, I could see their entire world. It was a beautiful scenery that I will never forget.
"Everyone," Loke started "Cheers to our new Queen, Lucy Heartfilia!" everyone began cheering and dancing to the song that was being played while some of them are eating exotic dishes. It was a very wonderful scene to look at, even if it only lasts just for a night.
Still Lucy's P.O.V.
While they are enjoying themselves, Loke ask if we could discuss something on the library.
Library
Aries and Crux were still there when we got to the library. She was seating on a couch on the ground floor while Crux is still there on the second floor 'thinking'.
"You look beautiful, Lucy." Aries said.
"Thank you, Aries." I smiled. I sat beside her while Loke sat across from us in a chair.
"We already found out what was the cause of the spirit's disappearances but we still don't know what happened to the King." Loke started while opening a book. "It states here that before the soon-to-be-former King or Queen dies, he or she must find an heir who will take over as the new King or Queen. When the former already finds an heir, he or she must give the crystal necklace, which holds the power, to the heir after taking it off. Said necklace must be worn at all times, if not in use, the current ruler must place it into a box that will sustain the necklace's power. Put in mind that the box can only sustain it for three days. If ever that the he or she was not able to wear it after the former takes it off or place it in the box when not in use or take it off from the box in less than three days for any reason at all, the Celestial Spirit World will fall into chaos. Such chaos will start from the weakest among the spirits then to highest until all of them are completely terminated. If ever that the necklace were to be given to the wrong person then that wrong person will have consequences. Said wrong person can either be good or bad, as long as the former did not pick that certain person and he or she wore the crystal necklace, he or she is considered the 'wrong person'. There are no specific consequences that will be given if ever the chaos will begin. Said chaos can be stop if the new and suitable heir will fix the problem and put the Celestial Spirit World back to its normal state.
If ever the former dies without finding an heir, then Leo, who is at the top among the 12 golden Celestial Spirits, must find someone suitable." Loke closes the book and continued "So if we don't obtain the necklace, the chaos will not stop."
"Why don't we find the necklace then?" I ask.
"That's the problem. Since the King likes to play games, he placed games and traps into his room. We need someone who knows cryptology and is smart enough to play the games."
"How about Wendy, Levy and Freed? Wendy can play while Levy and Freed can decipher it."
"Will they be alright with it?" Aries asked.
"I don't know. I should send a letter about it. By the way, I have a plan."
"What is it?" Loke asked.
"How about we change the time here so it will be the same as the time on Earth?" He was thinking hard then stands up and walk to the second floor.
"I think there is something written here about that." We followed him to the second floor and when we got there, he tossed me a book. "It says there that if the current King/ Queen establish a new rule or changes it; the Celestial Spirits are unable to go outside the Celestial Spirit World for a day or so, depending on how large the change will be. That book contains all the rules that were established here so it's really helpful." I looked at the book and it says 'I' and below it 'Rules'.
"That is only Volume I, there are lots more." He added then pointed at a section which contains the same book but in different roman numerals.
"There must be up to a hundred books!" I said to myself.
"You better start now or else your head will hurt tomorrow." Aries said.
"What will happen tomorrow?"
"You'll see." Loki added then smiled. I looked at the book then to the section of books.
"If my head will hurt tomorrow. I should go to sleep."
"Right, about that. Virgo."
"Yes?" This time I didn't flinch, I was getting used to how fast they appear.
"Take her to her room."
"As you wish." She carried me again in bridal style, jumped off the railings, made a swift landing then ran as fast as a jaguar.
We stopped at a door with an L on top of it, I guess that's the one I was about to open earlier. Virgo put me down and I opened the door. It was just like the dressing room but this time it had a huge circular, Auburn bed, a vanity table, and a piano. It also has a door linking to the bathroom and to the dressing room that I was in earlier.
"Good night, Virgo." I said as I enter me room.
"Good night, master." And off she went.
I placed the book down on the bed and took a bath. After that, I wore a plain yellow nightgown. I lay on the bed with my back up and my front body at the bed then started reading. The book was all about the introduction of how this book was made to maintain the peace and order of the Celestial Spirit World and how the crystal necklace was made and what power it holds. After an hour of reading, I finally finished the book. I guess I must have dozed off since when I wake up the next morning, I was properly laying on the bed with the book at the nightstand.
Hello guys!
I don't know if I'm going to put a link to where the drawings are but if you understand what Lucy was wearing then I won't put a link anymore. Just tell me if you guys didn't get the picture.
I don't know what's it called, the thing with Levy and Justin deciphering it. I researched it and it was Solid Script? Just tell me if you guys know.
Also, tell me if there is anything wrong like that person didn't do that 'cause I hadn't really keep up with the updates for the new chapters and episodes of the story.
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Lilith Jae for proofreading the following chapters after this; and
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