Star Dress

Lucy instinctively took a step back. The rage that Caprico had just exploded with was more than slightly intense. It sounded like this guy and her mother had some kind of history together. But if there was, Lucy didn't know. As far as she knew, her mother and always been very respectively and kind to Celestial Spirits, it wouldn't make sense for one of them to have this much blind rage.

"Uh, I don't think I ever met you," Lucy said. Her Mother had told her about Capricorn, but not where the key was, or her past with the spirit.

"Your Mother admittedly didn't really screw me over the way it might sound," Caprico explained, "But you wouldn't understand! You have to die!" He then clapped his hands, as a couple of knights suddenly flashed into form, and launched at Lucy.

"Lucy!" Loke cried, as he sprung at her. Lucy just managed to jump out of the way of harm, as Loke blasted the enemies away.

"You can't escape me!" Caprico snapped, "Open, Gate of the Hunter of Belparaso: Samagui!" A man with a bow and arrow clad in hunter garb appeared, and notched an arrow and fired. Loke managed to block the arrows with his Regulus.

"No way I'm going to let you do that!" he said. Determined not to let Loke fight alone, Lucy held up her whip.

"I'm here too!" she declared, striking at Caprico, who caught the whip easily, and pulled Lucy over to him.

"Got you!" Caprico hissed. He then held up his fist, only for Loke to punch him in the stomach, and send him careening away. Caprico quickly recovered, and charged Loke again. The two began to parry each others blows, neither one fully able to get the upper hand. Loke would try to use Regulus, but he wasn't able to concentrate enough to do it.

During all of this, Lucy couldn't help but feel frustrated. She had stayed with Loke so as to her support him like a good Celestial Spirit Mage. As she weakly got up, using some ruins as support, she ground her teeth. Despite the personal vow she made during the stint with Oracion Seis, she hadn't been able to fulfill it, and fight alongside Natsu, instead of just letting him protect her. True she had been pregnant, but she had heard of mages who had went on missions while pregnant before, hell, in one Sorcerer Weekly edition, she read about a situation where a woman pregnant with triplets once slew a herd of vulcans. She was broken form her thoughts as her attention was pulled back to the fight between spirits.

"What are you doing, Capricorn?" Loke demanded, "I heard from Crux that you were indeed contracted to Layla. And now that Layla's passed away, your key should've fallen to Lucy!"

"I never knew of any contract," Lucy said, "What happened here?" Caprico clenched his fists, and began to shake slightly.

"Taboo," he finally said.

"Taboo?" Lucy echoed.

"There are rules in magic, both spoken and unspoken," Caprico explained, "And since I broke one of these taboos, here we stand. I'm a goat!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Loke said, "This doesn't make any sense."

"I sorely miss being human," Caprico said, "Looking back, this is a great opportunity to amend the problem."

"'Being human'? 'Amending the problem'?" Lucy said, "Just what the hell's going on?"

"You'll see soon enough!" Caprico said, holding up his hands, "Though I'm surprised your mom never mentioned me."

"Will you just answer already?" Lucy said.

"Again, you'll see soon enough," Caprico said, as he began to irradiate a dark aura. Loke quickly retreated back to Lucy.

"I've got a seriously bad feeling about where this is going," he said.

"What's he doing?"

"I'm not completely sure," Loke said, "But if what I think he's trying to do what I think he is, it might put both me and Capricorn out of commission."

"So what do we do?" Lucy asked, trying her best to keep her cool.

"I've got an idea," Loke said, "I'll admit its not likely to work perfectly, if at all, but seeing as we're Fairy Tail members, its not like we haven't done crazier."

"What is it?" Loke cringed, as he watched Caprico continue to stream with dark energy.

"There's an advanced for Celestial Spirit Magic, that can impart some of the spirit's to the summoner," he explained, "Normally only the Celestial Spirit King can fully impart the ability to someone, but it is possible for the summoned to give a more limited form of it. If it works though, you're strength would skyrocket for a time." Lucy listened to this, amazed at the sound of it. If it was true, then she could very possible be looking at the chance she had long wanted.

"Do it!" she said firmly.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm not going to sit on the side lines as my friends do my fighting for me," Lucy said, "I'm not going to be the one to tell Haru that his mother just ran and hid when an enemy comes. Do it!" Loke looked at her in silence, before taken ga breath, and put a hand on Lucy's breast.

*Smack

"Its part of the process," Loke tried to explain, rubbing his now crimson cheek.

"Oh yeah! How many girls have you tried to use this bit on?" Lucy said angrily.

"You think I'm so stupid as to try and grope you, with Natsu on the same landmass?" Loke said, "Trust me, this is part of it." Lucy didn't want to believe him, seeing as Natsu would probably complete obliterate Loke if he knew this was going on. But seeing Caprico apparently completing his preparations, Lucy figured she didn't have any choices.

"I'll tell you when I tell Natsu, so you can lay low for some time," Lucy said. With that, she gestured, and Loke pressed his hand to over Lucy's breast, and all of a sudden, Lucy began to glow.

"Too late, Leo!" Caprico said, as he sprung at Loke, tackling him away from Lucy, who remained still. Pinning Loke to the ground, Caprico held up his hand.

"Human Subordination: Humaraise!" he said.

"You know that doesn't work on me!" Loke said.

"Again, its taboo!" Caprico explained, "But it should be said that those who aren't subjugated…" A shadow then appeared over Caprico.

"Fuse!"

"Wait! Your a human in Capricorn's body?" Loke asked.

"My name is Zoldeo!" the shadow, opposed to Caprico, said, "And now I'm going to get out of this stinking goat!" With that, the shadow struck at Loke, and seemed to ask into him. Caprico collapsed to the ground, unconscious. Loke then seemed to rise to his feet, cracking his neck.

"At long last I've got a human body again," Loke, no, Zoldeo said, "I'm Leo, and I'm contracted to Lucy." He then grinned.

"All I need to do is kill her, and…." Suddenly, Zoldeo was kicked in the side, and sent careening into the rubble. He looked up in shock.

"Sorry to have to do this, Loke. But you'll probably thank me later." Lucy was now eating a black dress, with a sash around her waist. Her hair was tied up in a bun, and she had black shoes. On her breast, where Loke had put his hand, was the symbol of Leo.

"That's…," Zoldeo stuttered, "Star Dress!"

"So that's what its called?" Lucy said, as she looked over the dress, "This is pretty cool." She then smiled, and clenched her fists.

"I certainly feel tougher!" With that, she sprung at Zoldeo again, who tried to block, only to be punched in the stomach, and smashed right through the rubble he was laying in.

"This is awesome!" Lucy declared. She then looked at her hand.

"I wonder…" She then concentrated on her hand, and all of a sudden it lit up. It was the power of Regulus. She then grabbed Zoldeo by the collar, and heaved him into the air.

"Time to make like my landlady, and eject you!" Lucy said, a line she'd come to regret in hindsight (it sounded like good in the moment), "Regulus Lucy Punch!" She then sacked him in the stomach, creating a beam of light that pierced straight through the . Zoldeo let out a scream of pain, as the same shadow from before was spat out through the beam of light. The shadow then concealed into a man with long, messy black hair, and cuts going up his mouth. Meanwhile, Loke's body faded away, back into the Celestial Spirit world.

"So you're Zoldeo?" she asked, putting her hands on her hips. Zoldeo looked around, and at his hands.

"I'm… I'm back!" he said happily, "Finally I'm…" He was silenced when Lucy lifted it him by his leg, holding him upside down.

"Maybe I should go get my boyfriend," she said, "Give him something to cook!"

"Wa… wait Ms Lucy!" Zoldeo said, waving his hands, "Let's talk this over!"

"Why?" Lucy asked, glaring at him, "You possessed two of my friends. What should I be doing?"

"You…," Zoldeo stopped, as he began to feel strange. To Lucy's shock, and Zoldeo's horror. The dark mage began to fade away.

"No!" he cried, "Please! I don't want to disappear! I don't want…" He then completely seemed to vanish in Lucy's grip. The blonde let out a gasp.

"Its finally over," she said. With that, she started to fall over, only to be caught. Lucy looked up, and saw… Caprico holing her.

"Forgive me for these previous trespasses, Ms. Lucy," he said, in a far more respectful tone, "This is a terrible shame."

"Don't worry about it, Capricorn," Lucy answered with a smile, "Not your fault."

"It quite possibly is," Capricorn said, "You see, 20 years ago, your mother, Ms. Layla had to retire from magic. As a result, Aquarius, Cancer, and myself were passed on to three of Layla's most trusted servants. Zoldeo was among them; all three keys were to be passed to you when you came of age. Zoldeo initially followed the promise, but he slowly became consumed by darkness." He then looked at Lucy, and smiled at her.

"You truly are Layla's daughter," he said, "I will be nothing if not happy to serve you as I was always meant to." Lucy smiled right back.

"Right back at you!" she said. With that, Capricorn faded away, and a golden key materialized itself on Lucy's key chain. She looked at it and smiled, and then also looked at Loke's key.

"Gray's going to be pissed," she said.

(somewhere else on the island)

"Why do I suddenly feel completely screwed over?" Gray asked.

"Never mind that," Cana said, "I just hope Lucy's alright."

"Even if she and Loke can't take that goat guy, Natsu's probably out looking for her anyway," Gray said, "Don't worry, she'll definitely be fine." Cana made a face. So much for their partnership; she should've stayed back with her and helped. But what's done was done, and the brown-haired girl couldn't stop now.

"We should split up," she said, "Spread out and see if we can find the others. Natsu's probably looking for now, anyway."

"Really?" Gray asked, "Shouldn't we be sticking together?"

"We'll cover more grown quicker if we split up," Cana said. Gray didn't like it, but figured that it wouldn't hurt to find the others, especially in a time like this.

"Alright, be safe!" With that, the Ice Mage dove into the forest. Cana watched as he did, before taking a breath.

"Sorry Gray," she said, "But I won't ever get this far again. I've got to finish." With that, she started running down the path she remembered Lucy telling her.

Note: So as to give Lucy more fighting capability, I decided to give her Star Dress earlier. It should be noted that this is not the perfect version.

Sorry about how short this chapter was, but I figured that this chapter should be predominantly about the fight. As I said in previous chapters, for the sake of moving this forward, and not just recycling canon, I won't be showing certain fights, namely Juvia vs Meredy, and in all likelihood, Gray and Ultear. Unless someone can give me some ideas to alter them.

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