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The woman and man had their back turned from each other, acting more childish rather than adults.
Eze sighed and started to cough slightly in order to grab his parents' attention. To no avail, it didn't work whatsoever.
"Mom, Dad, we have a visitor." said Eze.
The woman turned to face her son and a small blush covered her face. She turned her face away from the two blonde haired people and shook her head a few times. Her blush cleared away slowly and she turned to face them once again.
"Hello Lucy, Eze. Sorry for having to see that. I'm Amaterasu, or Ama for short. You could call me the Sun Guardian as well if you like." Ama nudged the man that stood to right and looked at him expectantly.
"Hi. I'm Tsukiyomi, or Tsuki as my wife calls me. Tsuki the Moon Knight. Pleased to meet you." said Tsuki. He gave the children encouraging looks and they knew what to do.
First came the little girl in blue. "Hiya Lucy. I'm Akarui the Star Burster! Nice to meet you. These are my brothers Drift the Sky Drifter and Kukan the Void Traveler. I think you've already met Eze right?" Kukan looked up from his corner and nodded while Drift grinned.
"Hi Akarui. Nice to meet all three of you." Lucy smiled at Akarui.
"Alright Lucy." started Ama. "I know you want to get this over with so let's go start?"
"If you don't mind Ama-sama," said Lucy.
Amaterasu nodded to everyone in the room who followed her out the door. Lucy trailed behind the children as she exited.
Ama looked towards the children and asked who wanted to go first.
Both Akarui and Drift raised their hands enthusiastically, but started to glare at each other when they noticed their hands went up at the same time.
Lucy giggled at their antics as the two kids reminded her of Gray and Natsu. Tsuki and Ama both smiled while Kukan remained emotionless. Eze grinned along as well.
"Hai, hai." said Ama. "You both can go at the same time. Ready?"
"Yup!" said Drift. Akarui nodded her head up and down quickly, all ready to show Lucy.
They both started to shout at the same time,
"Starry Sky's Burst!"
"Worldly Gust!"
Akarui's command began to form as little stars came down from above and burst into little sparks. The heat emitted from the stars hot. The sparks flew away as Drift's gust flew in. The force was strong and almost knocked Lucy off her feet. In order to keep in pride intact, she braced herself and fortunately kept her butt of the ground.
"Mine was better!" cried Akarui.
"Nuh-uh! Mine was the best!" yelled Drift.
"Nope! Stars are way better than a small breeze!" Akarui stuck her tongue out turned her back for Drift to see.
"Hmph! At least mine could take out your fire!" Drift turned around also.
The scene that played before reminded Lucy of the event that happened when she first saw the family.
Tsuki chuckled and proceeded to tell the kids they were really awesome in hope of stopping a quarrel before it got out of hand.
Akarui faced her father and ran to him to give him a hug. Drift gave his dad a high-five.
Eze saw this moment and called dibs on going next before Kukan can show any sign of wanting to go.
"Spark! Lightning Flash!" Electricity in the shape of a jagged triangle came speeding down and struck the ground. Lucy was paralyzed from head to toe, but only for a few seconds.
Lucy looked shocked so Eze started to explain.
"I can control lightning as well as electricity. Whether it's coming from wires or the sky itself, I have complete command over it. Also, paralyzing is something my lightning can do."
Lucy nodded, making sure to keep note of the things that learned from the family of six.
"Hmm, since Nii-chan's done, I can explain too!" exclaimed Akarui. "I can manipulate stars in any way possible. Making stars is easy-peezy too! I need to kill a star to make more though…" Akarui looked proud of herself and put her hands on her hips.
Drift didn't want his sister beating her in explaining, so he lightly pushed Akarui out of the way, he stood in front of Lucy.
"Lucy, I can use the sky for lots of things! Like making clouds into funny shapes, and making wind too! But Maya-chan knows how to do that way better than me." Drift pouted at his lack of control over wind.
"It's fine, Drift." said Lucy as she patted his head. "Good job. You too Akarui."
Akarui smiled and hugged Lucy. Drift just curled his mouth upwards and allowed his hair to be ruffled.
Their happy moment was interrupted something poked Lucy's side. Lucy looked down and was greeted by Kukan. Akarui looked surprised and started to run towards her mom.
"Mommy! Kukan just touched someone! Oh my gosh, it's the end of the world!" said Akarui while panicking. Akarui's mom sweatdropped at her daughter and tried to calm her down with a couple pats on her head. While this was happening, Kukan moved his finger towards Lucy and motioned her towards him.
Lucy complied and leaned down.
In a soft, and quiet voice he said, "I can make holes in space to travel through or keep something safe in. Say an opponent's fist was coming to you. I could create a hole and have his fist come out of the hole somewhere else. Teleportation is something my holes can do too."
Kukan drew an oval in the air and a void; similar to the one Lucy fell into hours earlier. He then grabbed Lucy's hand and brought her inside the warp of space. Inside, she could see countless galaxies and stars.
Lucy was amazed, but her awe was cut short when Kukan brought her out of his space.
"That was really pretty, Kukan." the said boy blushed under his hoodie and detached his hand from Lucy's.
"Isn't it, Lucy-chan?! I've been in there before and it's awesome! There's stars everywhere!" Akarui's eyes became ironically stars as she dreamt of the blue, yellow, and orange stars located in Kukan's space.
Lucy giggled a bit before thanking Kukan for showing his power.
When Tsuki realized all of their kids have gone, he ushered them to go inside the castle or they'll get hurt from what mommy and him were going to show Lucy.
"Aww, I wanted to stay longer!" said Drift. "Oh well, bye Lucy!"
"Bye, Lucy-chan!" shouted Akarui with her hands cupped around mouth to help her message become louder.
Eze waved a small wave and Kukan gave a small indication of his head to show he was saying goodbye.
"Bye minna! See you when I summon you! Or maybe when I take a stroll around Kanad!"
The door closed with a thud and Ama started to describe what she could do.
"Although my title says I protect rather than attack, my abilities can both be used as defense and offense. Here, I'll show you."
"Solar Wall!"
A small bit of the sun itself came from the sky and gather into Ama's hand. The energy swirled into a sphere as large as a baseball.
She then smashed the fist of her other hand into the orb similar to what Gray did when he starts molding his Ice Make magic. As a result, the ball got smashed into a wall of hot, glowing magma. A touch to this wall will most definitely burn someone badly.
"Along with the wall, I could also use solar energy to slash at an opponent. Tsuki, if you don't mind?"
"Okay, one second." said Tsukuyomi. Tsuki gathered lunar energy to create a dummy for Ama to attack at.
"Thanks. Now… Eternal Slash!"
Blades of fire materialized in Ama's hands and she began to cut the moon dummy. The guinea pig was not only caught on fire but was also sliced into shreds of moon rock.
'Rocks on fire? Is that even possible?' thought Lucy.
"Okay, Tsuki-koi, you show Lucy what you want show her. I need to go check on the kids. Nice meeting you Lucy!" Ama waved to Lucy before she opened the door and entered.
"Nice to meet you too! Well, ready when you are Tsuki," said Lucy.
Tsuki nodded and began to explain. "Knights can be used to defend while at the same time, they can be used to attack. Moon magic fits into the idea where it could be used to hurt and protect."
Before doing anything, Tsukuyomi created another clone and started to show what he could do.
"One way I could attack is to charge up a lunar beam and shoot it through the enemy. Whether it impales the enemy or not is up to you." He demonstrated this by saying, "Moon Laser, Impale."
The said laser shot out of Tsuki's hands and shot a hole straight through the dummy's stomach area. Smoke rose from the impact zone and wisped up into the air.
Lucy stared at hole in shock. Unbeknownst to Lucy, Tsuki started to chant a couple words.
"Moon's Defense, Trap!" Rods of lunar energy came down and began to plant itself into the ground. They were laid out in a way that they resembled the barbed wire laid around the perimeter or a school or jail.
"This here would keep an enemy stuck for a while. It takes about an hour for it to disappear, unless I command for it to go away."
Lucy nodded and thanked Tsuki. In hopes of getting an answer, Lucy asked, "Tsukiyomi, do you know who my next God is?"
To her luck, Tsuki nodded and beckoned her to follow. The man guided Lucy towards the edge of the cloud and told her to wait there.
"Have fun!" Tsuki grinned as he pushed her into the abyss.
"Nani!? Tsuki-san, you meanie!" Lucy screamed and screamed as she inevitably fell to her death. "Dang it, I wanted to do so much more in life. I guess life isn't fair in it's own way."
Lucy wrapped her arms around her knees and hoped she felt no pain…
Surprisingly, the abyss did have a bottom. 'Yeah, a bottom that I'll probably splat into… Goodbye world.' Lucy thought sadly.
However, to Lucy's astonishment, when she collided with the ground, no she didn't have a bone-cracking noise, but a soft 'poof' as she landed onto what seemed to be… a multicolored cloud?
Similar in texture and shape as the ones above, the cloud seemed abnormal. Half of it was a pure, white color while the other half was a color that was the darkest of any shade of black.
In the middle, the two colors seemed to be war, each of them fighting for dominance. They mixed around until it seemed as if they have both given up. It seemed like they both found peace, as what was once a two-color cloud, was now a single colored cloud. The now gray cloud floated away from Lucy and left her to wonder what to do now.
"Muahahahaha!" cried a voice from Lucy's right. "Come here, darling and face your fears!"
"Baka, like she'll get scared of that. Try harder will you, Aiko?" said another voice.
"Yea, yea, Hikari. I don't care! Let's just hope she gets here."
Lucy sweatdropped quite a bit as she got closer and closer. Through the clouds, Lucy could see that their body figures showed they were both girls and small at that. Their height was around Lucy's chest.
Finally, Lucy saw their faces and features. One had lengthy, black hair that trailed all the way down to her knees. She had a gray, long-sleeved shirt and to cover it was a midnight blue jacket. Silver leggings covered her legs. Attached onto her back was a scythe decorated with spikes and bones. The other girl was the complete opposite of the former female.
She had on white everything! A white dress and sash made up for pretty much the whole outfit. In addition, her blond curls were intertwined with ribbons. White converse were her choice of footwear.
"Uhm, hi? I'm Lucy." said Lucy, unsure of herself.
"We know your Lucy. I'm Aiko the Shadow Theif and she's Hikari the Light Bender. Can we just get this over with?" Aiko crossed her arms and rolled her eyes. Hikari sighed and apologized to Lucy.
"Sorry, Lucy. Aiko always acts like that." Hikari looked sheepishly at Lucy.
"It's fine, Hikari." replied Lucy.
"Good to hear. Do you mind if we show you right here? Our home at the moment isn't really the best sight to see…" Aiko tried to hold in her laughter but failed to do so. She fell down and curled up into a ball while laughed her head off.
'Something tells me that Aiko is the reason why…' thought Lucy. Anyway, Lucy agreed to Hikari's request and she looked very happy.
"I'll go first. I wanna get this over with and get outta here." said Aiko. "I can manipulate the shadow of anything and anyone. Essentially, when I'm in control, there's nothing they can do." Aiko demonstrated this by closing her eyes and poof~! Somehow, her shadow connected with Hikari's shadow. Aiko waved and at the same time Hikari waved as well. Aiko once again, closed her eyes, and her shadow retracted.
"Bye!" said Aiko as she waved her hand. She ran out before Hikari could grab her hand and drag her back.
Hikari blew a raspberry and apologized for Aiko's actions. "I guess it's my turn. I can manipulate light and do many things with it. For example, I can make rainbows or bend the light coming off a light source like a lamp."
Hikari twirled her figure and a miniature rainbow appeared in her hand. "Light can also be used to burn things too. Like clothing for example." Hikari pointed her finger towards her thigh where the rim of her dress ended. The fabric started burning away slowly. Once her point was shown, she stopped burning her dress and waved her hand over the dress to repair it.
"Did you get all of that?" asked Hikari.
"Yup!" said Lucy as she nodded. "Thanks for showing!"
"You're welcome, Lucy. Alright, to the next god we go! Follow me!" Hikari brought Lucy over to a ladder that led Lucy back up to the Sky Domain. "Go up there and Eze should be waiting for you up there. He'll take you to the see the Twins, Maya, Dawn, Melody, and Kitana. Good luck climbing!"
Hikari left Lucy to stare up at the tall, tall, ladder. 'It's like 200 feet high! How does she expect me to get up there! I have high heels!' Lucy hung her head in defeat and glanced at the ladder once more. 'The faster I go, the faster I get this over with!'
After Lucy climbed up about 100 rungs, she began to feel fatigue.
Lucy panted as she stopped to rest a bit. She looked up and then below her and it looked like she made no progress whatsoever!
"Grr. At this rate, I won't be able to meet the final eight gods! Not to mention, I'll probably be late for the S-Class exams too! If only someone could fly me up."
Lucy stood there, hands of the rails, thinking of anyone she knew who could help her.
"Hmm… Bingo! Apus could probably fly me up! Mieru!" Grabbing Apus' key, Lucy shouted, 'Gate of the Paradise Bird! Apus!
"Caw!" Her flaming friend appeared right beside her and surprised the daylight out of Lucy. Unfortunately for Lucy, she let go of the ladder.
"Ahhhhh!" Lucy flailed out her arms and moved about in hope of stopping in descent towards the ground.
"Lucy!" yelled the bird. "I got 'cha!" Apus swooped down and nose-dived towards Lucy. Right before Lucy hit the ground, Apus got under her and Lucy landed softly on the fiery bird.
Lucy sighed a breath of relief as she hugged Apus tightly. "Thanks Apus! I could've died there!"
"It's nothing Lucy. Now, was there a reason why you summoned me?"
"Hai. Do you mind flying up to the clouds? I have someone waiting for me there."
"Sure! Hold on tight!"
Lucy held on to whatever she could. Grabbing onto the bird's feathers, Lucy leaned her body into Apus. Apus began a steep ascend as he glided at a 90 degree angle up. Lucy held on tighter scared she'll fall.
…
In a matter of seconds, Apus brought Lucy back up to the Sky Domain.
"Thanks Apus! For taking me up here!"
"You're welcome, Lucy. See you another time," replied Apus.
Lucy waved a small goodbye wave to Apus before he left. Once he vanished, Lucy walked along the edge of the clouds, hoping to find Eze quickly.
"Hmm, hmm, hmm." hummed Lucy as she walked. "I wonder where Eze is…"
Lucy neared the edge of the cloud, and something golden exploded in front of her.
"Ack!" Lucy jumped back in surprise.
"Haha! You're welcome, Lucy." A familiar blond appeared in front of Lucy, grinning.
Lucy didn't look amused when Eze laughed his butt off. To teach him a lesson, Lucy brought her fist down to Eze's head.
"Ite!" yelled as he rubbed the red bump on his head. "Meanie, Lucy!"
"You should scare someone like that, Eze! You deserved it." retorted Lucy.
"Fine, fine. Anyways, you know where I'm taking you right?" asked Eze.
"Yea, Hikari told me. That's why I'm here." said Lucy.
"Good, so let's go?"
"Yea, I'd appreciate it." Eze walked towards east and Lucy trailed behind him. After five minutes of a silent stroll, they reached another floating cloud island. There was a gate that separated the two clouds and on it was a sign that said:
The Silverina Forests
Beyond the gate were trees similar to the forest that Hymn and Ivy lived in. However, this forest was more diverse. Other than plants, there were animals and little streams of freshwater. Fruit trees dotted the creek's sides as they provided food for the animals.
Eze opened the gate and a creaking sound was heard. Eze flinched and opened the door quickly to limit the sound the gate off.
"Who lives here Eze?" asked Lucy. 'Might as well know who they are.' thought Lucy.
"Well, about… 6 people I think live here. There's Melody the Sound Bringer, Dawn the Animal Whisperer, Mia the Earth Fairy, Mina the Healer, Kitana the Swordswoman, and Maya the Wind Messenger. Mia and Mina are twins by the way."
"Wow. That's a lot of people living in one place!" exclaimed Lucy.
"Yeah. Kanad's smaller than you think, actually," said Eze.
"Oh." said Lucy. "So when are we going run into them?"
"In maybe five minutes. They all live in one place, so it'll be easier for you."
"Okay."
Finally, they reached their destination. Rather than having a home that was on the ground, their dwelling was up in the trees just like a tree house. Wood was cut into blocks. These were used as support to hold up the weight of the floor. A spiral staircase led up to the home.
The floorboards creaked as Lucy and Eze went up. They reached the top in a matter of minutes and knocked on the door. A girl with red hair and headphones opened the door.
"Hi Eze." said the red haired girl. "You must be Lucy!"
"Hi Melody." replied Eze. "And yeah, this is Lucy. I'll leave her in your hands okay?"
"Okay!" chirped Melody. "Come in Lucy. All the other girls are waiting for you!"
"Okay." said Lucy. Melody opened the door further in order to let Lucy in. Lucy stepped in and saw five girls lined up in a neat row.
"These are my lady friends!" Melody pointed to each of them as she announced their names. "I'm Melody. Duh! And these are Mia, Mina, Dawn, Kitana, and Maya."
Mia was clad in a green sweater along with a lime skirt. On her head was a mop of dark green hair, tied into twin ponytails. Transparent fairy wings were fastened to her back. She also had brown hemp bag tied around the wood colored belt that was around her waist. Little sparkles sparkled out of the opening every once in a while.
Mina had a light blue dress on. It went along nicely with her dark blue, neck length hair. Her sleeves were not on her shoulder and curled a bit so that it stood out. Embroidered designed were stitched onto the dress. On Mina's left side, there was a slit to show her thighs. A small bunch of lavender was tied into her bangs and in her hand was a staff with a glowing, white crystal ball at its tip.
Kitana was wearing a black dress of some sort. Kitana kept her black hair simple by tying it into a low ponytail. Lucy couldn't tell as a black cape covered most of her clothing. The only thing she could see clearly was three katanas secured at her waist. They were all sheathed in decorative scabbards.
Dawn's lavender hair went awkwardly with the orange spaghetti strap that had a red bow in the middle of the shirt, but that made Dawn unique. Furry ears, Lucy assumed they were real, sat on Dawn's head. To go along with her ears was a furry tail as well. Her shirt was tucked inside a skirt that was white. See-through silk covered the skirt like a veil for the final touch.
Melody had an appearance that seemed just like Hatsune Miku only with a different color palette. In place of Miku's teal tie and gray vest was a red tie and blue vest. Melody's hair was let down in order to make room for her red tinted headphones. On her back was a red guitar that seemed to have no need for an amp.
Last but not least was Maya. She had a black dress that was rather long as it reached slightly past her knees. A red sash was tied around her waist and on her hands were elbow length, fingerless gloves. Interestingly, in her hand was a gigantic fan that had black wood framing.
"Nice to meet you!" said Lucy as she bowed.
"You too!" they chorused. Lucy smiled in response.
"Alright! We're gonna show you what we can do one at a time okay Lucy?" exclaimed Melody.
"Okay! Where are we going to do this?" asked Lucy.
"Outside should be fine," said Kitana.
"Good thinking Kitana! I call showing her first!" said Mia.
"I'll come with!" shouted Mina.
"Okay, okay! Let's go!" yelled Lucy.
"Last one there is a rotten egg!" said Mia, racing to get down to the ground first.
Mina raced out the door, hoping to beat her sister. "Wait for me!" yelled Lucy, laughing.
Lucy raced down the steps and quickly caught up with Mina. Only a couple steps ahead was Mia.
Mina and Lucy were shoulder to shoulder, as they turned right to descend the next flight of stairs. Too bad Mina chose now as a good time to trip! Mina missed the step that she was on and came tumbling down the stairs. Lucy didn't know the tumbleweed that was about to crash into her from behind and just kept hopping steps. Mina crashed into Lucy seconds after her fall. They both picked up speed as the hit and each and every step. An 'Ouch!' was heard every now and then when one of their body parts collided with the wood in a hurtful way. At last, their rolling came to a stop when they reached the end of the stairs.
"Haha! I beat you guys!" roared Mia. Mia turned and faced the stairs only to be greeted by a pile of limbs and hands.
Mia fell into the pit of laughter as she realized the predicament her sister and master were in.
"A little help would be nice, Mia." said Mina. Mia paid no heed, as she was busy laughing.
"You're such a meanie, Mia." Mina carefully took Lucy's legs and removed them from her own legs. Mina stood up and offered her hand to Lucy.
"Thanks." said Lucy as she grabbed Mina's hand. "Are you ok Lucy?"
"I think so. I feel a little sore though," muttered Lucy. She stretched around to try and ease her sore muscles.
"Hey! I can fix that! Plus, I'm showing you my powers while I'm at it!" exclaimed Mina happily.
"Oi! I called first though remember?" Mia pointed out.
"Baka! She's somewhat hurt! I can't ignore an injured person!" said Mina.
Mia sighed in defeat. "Fine, fine. Make it fast though! I wanna at least go second before someone from the house comes."
"Hai, hai." Mina looked at Lucy. "I can heal every single wound and injury possible. Resurrecting someone is easy too! But the person who wants the dead human alive must lose something very important to them and can only bring them back for an hour. It could be a human or object. Object is more preferred however. Also, have you met Ivy yet?"
"Yeah. I have." replied Lucy. "What about her?"
"Either me or her can heal her poisons. Surely, she told you that right?"
"Now that you mention it, yes. She did." said Lucy, not seeing the point in this conversation.
"Okay, good. Just making sure." Mina started poking Lucy's legs arms and thighs. Lucy started looking at her questionably.
To answer her question, Mina said, "Where is it hurt? You didn't say where."
"Oh!" exclaimed Lucy, finally understanding. "Hmm, it's sore around my calves and ankles."
"Okay, give me a second." Mina one of her hands and laid it right above Lucy's ankle.
"Calming Burst!" said Mina. A blue, pulsating glow came from her hand. Mina swept her hand over the ankle. The soreness that Lucy's ankle once felt was now gone. Mina repeated the same process with the remaining ankle and calves.
Mina clapped her hands to get rid of the invisible dust. "Finished!"
"Wow, thanks Mina!" said Lucy, grateful that the soreness was gone. "Now I can walk without worry."
"You're welcome. Now, if you can see, Mia is becoming rather impatient. I'll send the next one down when she's done. Bye!"
"Okay, bye Mina! Nice meeting you!" declared Lucy.
"You too!"
"Finally!" cried Mia. "She's done! That took forever!"
Lucy laughed a bit. "Okay, Mia. Your turn. Are you ready?"
"Yup! Well, I can control the blooming of plants hence the "fairy" part of my title. But rocks are more my thing. Watch!"
Mia brought her fist down hard on the earth. Rocks from the impacts were flung into the air, but were stopped as Mia held her hand up. "Rock-Hard Defense!"
The rocks that were once in the air were now in front of Mia forming a tightly packed wall made of rocks. "See? This baby here is somewhat impenetrable. Look, I'll prove it!" Mia looked towards the tree house and shouted, "Hey Melody!"
A mop of red hair popped out and said, "Yeah Mia!"
"Can you give me one of your Sound Waves and aim it at the wall please?" requested Mia.
"Yeah, sure! One sec! Lemme adjust my headphones!"
"Kay! Thanks!"
"Yea, welcome!" A few clicks were heard as Melody adjusted her settings. "Alright! Ready!"
Melody turned her head to face towards the wall. "Sound Wave!" Small pulses of techno music made their way towards the wall. Although they weren't visible to the naked eye, the effect that they made towards the wall was clear as day.
The rocks vibrated due to the sound but stayed intact. "Thanks again Melody!"
"Welcome!"
"See Lucy?" asked Mia. "This wall is indestructible. Except from me of course!" As proof, Mia poked the wall of rocks. In no time at all, the wall of rocks crumbled and all that was left were pebbles.
"Reform!" said Mia
The rocks magically began to pick themselves up and rearrange so that they were neatly packed into the ground. The crater seemed like it was never there.
"Alright! That was fun!" said Mia. "I'll go call down the next person okay Lucy? Wait here for a bit."
Lucy nodded in affirmation and stood patiently. 'I wonder what time it is..' she thought. Lucy leaned her back on the trunk of a random tree and let her mind roam free. She thought of many things as she waited.
*poke poke*
A few pokes to the cheek brought Lucy out of her thoughts.
"Nice serious face you got there Lucy." Melody stuck out her tongue and brought her hands to her hips. "You had me waiting for a couple minutes Lucy."
Lucy facepalmed. "You've been her for a couple minutes and didn't bother poking me earlier, Melody?"
"Oh." said Melody. "I didn't think of that." Lucy sweatdropped. "Oh well! It's my turn now! Hmm, what to show, what to show."
An imaginary light bulb appeared above Melody's head. She brought her finger up to make it even more dramatic. "I know!"
Melody took her hand and put it on her back. She grabbed the guitar carefully and turned it to the guitar was now in front of her and ready-to-play.
"Okay, Lucy. See this guitar here? This is where most of my music comes from apart from my headphones. While I can play actual music on this thing, I can also use this to let out vibrations into the air. A.K.A, sound waves. Like this."
Melody strummed a chord on the guitar, her pick gliding easily over the strings. As she plucked her strings, Lucy felt small tremors release, moving freely in the air.
"Music transmits to my headphones while I play. With my headphones, I can adjust the speed and noise-level of it. I can then release the sound for all to hear. Watch." explained Melody.
Melody strummed another chord while at the same time adjusting the settings. At the click of the button, the sound coming from the guitar sounded amplified when it came from the headphones.
"So all in all, I can make music, and amplify it to a greater level. Also, my music has a hidden ability. Depending on the frequency, I can tune into someone's brain and meddle with his or her thoughts, rendering their thought process useless. Got that?"
"Yup!" said Lucy. "Sounds awesome!"
"Good to hear. I'll give verification and then tell Kitana to come down."
Strumming one last chord and amplifying it, Melody aimed the sound towards Lucy's head.
Immediately, Lucy's head started to feel funny. 'What is this? I can't seem to focus on one thing! What's Melody doing? Is her name Melody? Why am I here? Is she a friend?"
To halt the confusion that Lucy felt, Melody stopped picking her guitar. Lucy's uncertainty faded. Sadly, Lucy was stuck with a headache after that.
"Yosh! I'll go get Kitana now!" Melody waved a bit just before going up the stairs.
Lucy gave a weak wave back before rubbing her temples to ease her headache.
'Ugh. This headache's going to be a pain later.' concluded Lucy.
A movement in Lucy's surroundings alerted her. She felt relief once she found out it was just Kitana.
"Hi Kitana." Kitana nodded in response.
"I'm sorry Kitana, but I have a small headache right now. Could you please do this quickly?"
Once again, Kitana nodded and began clarify what she could do.
"Each of my three swords has a unique names. (1) Kogane no Yuki, Kagami no En, and Kami no Ōkami. Kagami can create illusions. Kogane is an elemental type. She creates snow and has control over it, similar to Yuki the Snow Maiden. Kami no Ōkami was once a God like us. However, he did something to upset Izanagi so he was sealed into this sword. He can be released under my command and can spew explosive flower petals." She presented the sword quickly and then bowed towards Lucy.
"Thank you for your time." she leaped up into the air and landed at the very first stair step at the top. "I'll send Dawn and Maya down."
Lucy blew a raspberry and thought, "More waiting… Yay!'
The breeze picked up as Maya floated on her fan down to the ground.
"Hi Lucy."
"Hi Maya! Hi to you too Dawn!" said Lucy.
"Hello Lucy." said Dawn.
"Who will be going first?" questioned Lucy.
"I'll go!" called Maya. "Here I go." Maya took her fan out and planted it into the ground in front of her. "I can control wind, duh! I can direct wind anywhere, really. I use this fan here to create wind for some of my offense attacks. For example…"
Maya picked up her fan and held it in a position behind her with both hands. "Sickling Sweep!" Maya swept her fan from the right to the left and air currents were created. A dangerous wind blew towards a tree, hopefully void of any life form.
"Wait, no! Maya! There's a squirrel in there!" exclaimed Dawn.
"Ah, there is? My bad!" apologized Maya.
The wind cut up the tree's branches and made stray leaves fall to the ground. Scratch marks were made as the sickling wind cut the tree. If all went well, the squirrel may be unharmed.
Worriedly, Dawn carefully crept towards the burrow that was made in the tree's trunk. Dawn poked her head into the hole to find the squirrel huddled into a corner, scared.
"It's okay, Mr. Squirrel." cooed Dawn as she coaxed the animal into the palm of the hand. "Maya stopped making wind. You can come out now."
The squirrel squeaked and cautiously sat in Dawn's hand. Dawn petted the animal with her finger as she explained to Lucy.
"I have a skill that makes me able to communicate with animals on a different level. Asking a horse for a ride, or a snake to bite someone comes rather easily. In addition to this, I can shape-shift into any animal. Such as…"
Dawn's figure suddenly disappeared and in place of the female God was a baby dragon. "Aww!" exclaimed Lucy.
Dawn then reappeared and the baby dragon evaporated away.
"So yeah." concluded Dawn. "That's it, pretty much."
"Thanks for showing Dawn, Maya!" said Lucy.
"You're welcome, Lucy. Alright, Maya will take you to Scar and Karma while I go on back to the house." planned Dawn. "Bye Lucy!"
"Bye!" While Lucy and Dawn said their farewells, Maya planted her fan flat onto the ground and ordered Lucy to get on."
"Hold on tight!" Maya opened her palms and blasts of air shot out of them from who knows where. The fan, Lucy, and Maya were then lifted into the air.
"Whoa!" stumbled Lucy as she fought for a strong stance so she won't fall.
In a couple seconds, they were at the height of the tallest tower of the Sky Domain's castle. "We should get to Scar's in a couple minutes. You can go ahead and take a power nap or something. Walking around for four hours can be pretty tiring."
"True. I'll take a quick nap. Wake me up when we get there, Maya?" asked Lucy.
"Yea, sure."
"-ucy! Lucy! We're here! Wow, you sure fall asleep fast!" said Maya. "Come on!"
Lucy grumbled and turned to her face away from Maya. "Fine then!" said Maya. "You are sooo gonna get it!"
Maya took her fingers and prepared for assault. "Tickle, tickle!"
Lucy moved in her sleep a bit before reacting to the tickling. Lucy took her hands to try and block Maya but she kept on tickling. "Ahh! Okay, stop it! I'm up, I'm up!"
"Good!" said Maya. "Alright, get up Lucy. I'll take you to Scar now."
Maya grabbed Lucy's hand and led her to a very, suspicious cave.
"This is where Scar the Destroyer lives. You might want to be careful because he can be quite sadistic and mean." Maya then pushed her towards the entrance of the cave and said 'Good Luck!' before quickly leaping onto her fan and leaving. Lucy sighed. 'I hope he's not scary… Or creepy.'
Lucy stepped into the cave and walked along the carved hallway. Torches were fixated to the walls lit up rather dim walkway.
"So you're here finally," said a voice, creepily. The voice came out from seemingly nowhere. "You took forever, you know." He had on a fur-trimmed cape and seemed to walk flauntingly with it on. His hair was jet-black and gelled so that it curled at just the right angle.
"Erm, are you Scar the Destroyer?" asked Lucy.
"Yes, I am. I'm surprised a fine lady like you knows my humble name." said Scar.
"Oh shut up, Scar! Don't scare the lady!" scolded a new voice. She seemed to have robes upon robes of fancy fabric piled upon her. She also had a walking stick and seemed fairly old.
"Fine, mom."
"Sorry about that Lucy. Scar can be an idiot sometimes. I'm Karma the Fortune Teller."
"Nice to meet you Karma. You too Scar." Lucy bowed.
"Yes, yes. Enough with the formalities, let's go destroy something!" said Scar as he smiled a sadistic smile.
"Hush!" said Karma as she swatted Scar with her stick.
"Lucy, we'll be doing this in the human world. It is almost 4. About ten minutes until then."
"Really?!" Lucy's eyes went out of their sockets. "This is terrible! I might be late! Erza's gonna kill me…"
Karma laughed a short laugh. "Fear not Lucy. You'll make it in time. I can see it."
"Huh? How do you see it Karma-san?" Lucy was quite confused.
"I'm a fortune teller, sweetie. I can see the future."
"Oh! That makes sense!" said Lucy.
"Alright, Scar. Take us to the human world."
"Hai, Kaa-sama. Come on, Lucy!" Scar put his hand out and made a portal back to the human world. "Step on in."
Lucy, Karma, and Scar all stepped into the portal and were whisked away to Magnolia.
"Brats! The time has come again that the S-Class trials shall begin!" shouted Makarov.
Roars of agreement and celebration ringed in the guildhall. "Alright, the seven guildmates who will be participating are…"
"Wait, Jii-chan! Lucy's not here yet!" yelled Natsu.
"She isn't? Lucy's usually here when it comes to important things like the-"
Makarov was interrupted as a bright light flashed in the middle of the guild. The guild was completely taken off guard as they shielded their eyes.
The light faded away after a few seconds and in the middle of the spectacle was none other than Lucy herself! By her side were unfamiliar people in Fairy Tail's eyes.
"Hi minna! I'm sorry for the flashy entrance." said Lucy as she looked at her friends sheepishly.
"No worries, child. Everyone needs a flashy entrance every once in a while."
Lucy smiled brightly as Master.
"Lucy~! Thanks for that fish this morning!" said a very familiar exceed as he floated towards Lucy.
"You're welcome, Happy." Lucy patted his head while Happy expressed his gratitude. "Now, Master, do you mind if I leave for five seconds? I was doing something for the past couple hours and I'm almost done! Scar here is the only one left really, to explain."
"Sure Lucy! Finish up quickly though. I was just about to announce the S-Class participants."
"Thanks! Come on Karma, Scar! Let's go!"
"Lucy… Scar's going to do something really ba-" Karma was never able to finish her sentence.
"What are you talking about, Lucy? We could do it right in here!" Scar took out a small scepter from underneath his robe. "Earth Tremors!"
At first, nothing happened. Lucy looked at Scar and Karma confusedly, but Karma only told her to wait.
And then, it came. An earthquake as strong as getting a number 10 on the Ritcher Magnitude Scale, shook the guild. A large ravine split the building in half as mages scrambled to get on a side.
Pieces of the ceiling crumbled off as the earthquake came to a halt. The effect was devastating. The ravine was about ten feet across from one half of the guild to the other.
Makarov looked pale as if he had seen a ghost moments before. Erza was in shock along with the rest of the guild.
"Are you kidding?" said Max, one of the guild members. "I know we won last years GMG and all, but that money isn't going to be enough to repair this!"
"Lucy…" said Erza as she built up anger to throw at Lucy.
"Mou, it was an accident! Actually, blame Scar!" Lucy stated the facts quickly, fearing Erza's wrath.
"Who is this Scar person? Is he a friend?" Erza changed into her Heaven's Wheel Armor and began to slowly walk towards Scar.
"I'm Scar the Destroyer, one of Lucy's keys. You know, a god?"
…
Silence blanketed the guild as they took in that information.
"You own god keys, Lucy..?" asked Erza.
"Hai." said Lucy in a small voice.
"Why is it that you couldn't tell us this before?"
"I didn't have time."
"Master, do you know of this?"
"Yes, the Spirit King told me a day ago. I was going to make her tell you brats about it when I was announcing candidates." replied Makarov.
"Oh." said Erza.
"So, am I off the hook?" asked Scar.
"NO!" yelled Erza. "You damaged the guild and shall pay for it!"
"Erza!" said Makarov, sternly. "You can't hurt a god."
"Gomen, Master." Erza bowed in front of Scar. "Please forgive me."
"You are forgiven. Now, about the ravine… I must go. Bye Lucy! Come on, Karma."
Karma and Scar left Lucy to her fate and returned to Kanad. Cautiously, she turned her head towards Makarov and held her head down as she awaited her punishment.
"Hmm… Surely, Lucy, you have a god who can repair this?" asked Makarov.
"Sadly, I don- Wait! I do!" Lucy brought her head back up. "Mieru!"
Lucy grabbed a key and said, Seal of the General of Time, I release thee! Shunkan!"
The man with the large pocket watch appeared and waited for commands.
"Hi Shunkan-san. Could you restore the ground please? Scar destroyed it by accident and not a single thought crossed his mind about fixing it."
"Sure. Reversal of Time; Restore. Done. Bye Lucy." Shunkan disappeared with a stoic expression on his face.
"Alright! Fixed it Master!" said Lucy.
"Good now, with that said, I think now would be a good time to ann-"
Too bad for Master, the guild threw an uproar and began to interrogate Lucy.
"Luce! How come you didn't tell me!" yelled Natsu. "I'm your teammate right?"
"Woah, Lucy! When you said 'God keys' I thought you meant fishy gods!" said Happy.
"Hmm, congratulations Lucy. You deserve it. Also, sorry for being so rough on you about the ravine." said Erza
"I demand an explanation later, Lu-chan!" said Levy.
"Huh, bunny-girl became stronger!" said Gajeel.
"Good job, Lucy." said Gray as he patted Lucy on her back.
"Although love-rivals, Juvia wishes to congratulate you." said Juvia.
…
"Silence!" shouted Makarov as he brought down an over-sized fist for emphasis. "As I was saying before I got interrupted, I would like to announce the S-Class candidates for this year's exam.
Natsu Dragneel!
Gray Fullbuster!
Wendy Marvell!
Cana Alberona!
Elfman Strauss!
Lucy Heartfillia!
and Gajeel Redfox!"
Cheers erupted as the candidates received applauses and congrats'.
"We'll leave in two days time, so for now, everyone please pick your partners for the trials." After saying his final sentence, Makarov left and went into his office.
"Yosh! Gray, you are going down this year!" exclaimed Natsu. "I'm fired up!"
"No, you're going down, pyro! I'll get that S-Class Mage title!" yelled Gray.
"Nah! I'll get it, ice princess!"
"Matchstick!"
"Slanty eyes!"
"Droopy eyes!"
"Enough!" shouted Erza. "Did you two not hear Master? Go get your partners already!"
"Aye~!" said Gray and Natsu in unison.
Lucy giggled and headed towards Levy. "Hi Levy-chan! I was wondering if you could be my partner or has Gajeel taken you already?"
"He hasn't, Lu-chan! W-what makes you think that he has?"
"Hohoho, no reason!" Lucy laughed evilly. "Is that a yes, Levy-chan?"
"Yup!" replied Levy. She clasped Lucy's hands with hers and said, "I'll definitely help you win that title Lu-chan!"
Lucy grinned. "Thanks, Levy-chan!"
"Come on, Happy! You're my partner! We're gonna beat Gray's face in!"
"Aye!" said Happy as he floated up towards Natsu.
"No, you won't! Juvia! You're going to be my partner for this!" Gray said.
"G-Gray-sama, Juvia isn't ready for this!" said Juvia, rubbing her cheeks to lessen her blush.
"Wendy, I'll be your partner. I don't want you to end up with one of those barbarians." said Charla, strictly.
"Okay." replied Wendy
"Lily." Gajeel called out for his exceed.
Lily nodded in response.
"Mira-nee, I'll be with Elf-nii!"
"Okay, Lisanna."
"Cana, do you have a partner?" asked Laki.
"Nope, mind being mine?" asked Cana.
"Sure! My Wood Make will definitely help you!" said Laki.
"Has everyone chosen partners yet!" asked Makarov.
"Hai!" they chorused.
"Okay, please head home and get packed. This year's trials will most definitely be surprising." Makarov had a devil-ish smile as he motioned his hands towards his children to encourage them to get out of the guild. "Good luck!"
A/N:
1: Kagami no En: Mirror's Edge
Kogane no Yuki: Golden Snow
Kami no Okami: Divine Wolf