The guild is all fixed up and everyone has fully recovered after the battle with Panther Growl. Everyone was moving on from it like it never even happened in the first place. Orihime was just hanging around in the guild.

"Aw! What a nice day it is today." Orihime said with her fully relaxed. She looked around and was glad to see everyone was going on in their usual days. She looked over to one table and saw Lilly was alone with a book. She decided to go over. "Hi, Lilly."

"Hey, Orihime." Lilly greeted.

"What are you reading?" Orihime said.

"It's a book about celestial magic. I want to learn all I can before I get my first key." Lilly said. "I want to be just like my mother and have bonds with my spirits."

"But your mother is a celestial wizard. Can't you just have her teach you? Wouldn't she even give you a key?" Orihime said.

"She has taught me a lot and I do use her keys as practice, but I want my own celestial key." Lilly said. "I would like to take one of my mother's keys for myself, but I want to start out with my own instead of having a hand-me-down. I'm not even an official member of the guild because I don't have any spirits to help me out on jobs. In case you haven't noticed, I don't have the emblem anywhere."

"I guess I can understand. You want to start out on your own two feet." Orihime said.

"Exactly. That's why I'm waiting to be an official member until I have my own key to help me." Lilly said. "Of course, I'm still going to wait a while after that because I need practice." Orihime can see that Lilly was going to be a strong and independent wizard when she gets older. Orihime looked over to the side and spotted Suegaps. She's been a little worried about him.

"Legend Horse"

"Suegaps!" Orihime called out and got his attention. He looked at her, but he looked like he had faint circles around his eyes.

"Hey, Orihime." Suegaps said.

"I heard you tried to save me and Lucy from Grimmjow. I didn't get the chance to see if you were alright." Orihime said.

"I'm doing fine. I'm sorry I let you and Lucy down back then." Suegaps said.

"Are you sure you're doing alright? You don't look so well." Lilly pointed out.

"Yeah. You don't need to worry yourselves about me." Suegaps said and started to walk away. However, Lilly didn't think he was really telling the truth.

"Orihime, there you are." Ichigo said as he came up to her. "You ready? We got a job to take care of."

"Yeah." Orihime said, but noticed Lilly got right up and ran after Suegaps. "Lilly, where are you going?"

"I think something is up with Suegaps. I want to see what's really going on." Lilly said. She left things at that and went after him out the guild.

"Is there a problem?" Ichigo asked.

"I'm not sure. Ichigo, how well do you know Suegaps?" Orihime asked.

"Not that well actually. Although, he has been acting weird lately." Ichigo said and Orihime was starting to get a bad feeling herself.

…

Suegaps

Suegaps was walking through the streets of Magnolia and Lilly was careful to follow him without being noticed. Suegaps stopped and Lilly tried to stay hidden in fear that he knew she was following him. He didn't turn around though. Instead, he placed his hand against his side. Suegaps was really thinking about the strange pain that came out of nowhere when he was fighting Grimmjow.

'The feeling is only getting worse. I probably don't have much time left.' Suegaps thought and kept walking and Lilly kept following him. She found it strange that he went all the way to the hospital.

"Magnolia Hospital? What could be here?" Lilly questioned and went inside. She followed Suegaps and waited outside a door. She looked inside and saw he was standing by a hospital bed and some woman was in it. She looked like she was in bad condition and had an oxygen mask over her mouth and a crystal known as lacrima was connected to it. "Who is that?"

"Excuse me." Lilly was grabbed by the back of her shirt and lifted up by a doctor who did not looked pleased. He carried her out the door. "This is a place to help people. Not a playground." He dropped her out, but Lilly just pulled her eye and stuck out her tongue.

…..

The Guild

Lilly walked back to the guild and could not stop thinking about Suegaps. Something is wrong, but she couldn't tell what it was. She looked over to the bar and saw Ichigo and Orihime. She always did see Ichigo like a brother and Orihime was always there to help anyone.

"Ichigo, Orihime, I need to talk to you." Lilly said as she ran up to them.

"Hey, Lilly." Ichigo said.

"Is there something wrong?" Orihime said.

"It's about Suegaps. I followed him to the hospital and he visited someone. He's acting weird and I think there might be something wrong." Lilly said.

"What about me?" All three of them looked and saw Suegaps came back.

"Suegaps, are you feeling alright? You look pale and tired." Ichigo asked based on what Lilly said.

"I'm doing fine." Suegaps said. He looked over to Lilly. "Lilly, if I may ask, how's your celestial training coming?"

"It's fine." Lilly said as she tried to act casual.

"I hope you're holding a strong connection to spirits." Suegaps said. "You know some celestial spirits are based off the constellations and some appear during one of the four seasons. They might like it if you summon them on the season their constellation appears. It might be their favorite like mine is autumn."

"Why are you telling me this?" Lilly said.

"Oh, sorry." Suegaps said. "I always had a vast interest in celestial magic." Suegaps was about to walk away, but the mysterious pain came back and he practically hunched over. The pain was even worse than last time.

"Suegaps!" Lilly called out and everyone gathered around.

"Are you alright?" Orihime asked.

"I'm fine." Suegaps said.

"You're not fine. You look like you need some help." Ichigo said as he tried to help him up, but Suegaps pushed him off.

"I said I'm fine. Leave me alone." Suegaps said and began to walk off. Now everyone was starting to get worried about him.

"Something is wrong and it's only getting worse." Lilly said and decided to figure out what is going on.

"Lilly, wait!" Orihime said and she went after her.

…

The Dragneels

Lilly decided to head straight home, Natsu's old house, but was expanded when he and Lucy got married. She came running in with her mother already there and Orihime ran in with Lilly.

"Lilly, you're back? Orihime, what are you doing here?" Lucy said as she wasn't expecting either of them.

"I don't have time to explain, but I think Suegaps is in trouble." Lilly said and ran straight for her room with Orihime following her. Lilly ran in and was surprised to see Nagato was in there.

"Hey, sis." Nagato said.

"What are you doing in my room?! Get the heck out!" Lilly said and literally kicked him out by kicking him in the stomach and knocked him out.

"Are you taking kickboxing lessons from Mom?" Nagato said, but Lilly slammed the door shut.

"Was that necessary?" Orihime asked.

"He and Igneel are always annoying me by coming into my room without permission." Lilly said. "Right now, I'm worried about Suegaps. I came here to try and think."

"But how can we help him if we don't even know what's going on?" Orihime said. She leaned against a bookshelf, but she caused it to move and a book hit her in the head. "Ow. What hit me?"

"That's just an old book about the constellations." Lilly said as she picked it up, but spotted something. The book opened to a page about a certain constellation and she was starting to put all the pieces together as she read over it. "Orihime, I think I figured out what's going on with Suegaps."

…

Suegaps

It became dark out and Suegaps was out on his own. He was in the middle of the woods and stared out into the starry sky that was above.

"Lovely night, isn't it?" Suegaps turned around and was met with Lilly and Orihime.

"Lilly? Orihime? What are you two doing out here?" Suegaps said.

"We know what might be going on with you." Orihime said.

"I told you that I'm fine." Suegaps said.

"No you're not." Lilly said. "Suegaps, I followed you around all day and I figured what's going on. That talk you gave me about celestial spirits; you have a vast interest in celestial magic because you're part of it. You're really a celestial spirit. Suegaps isn't even your real name. When you unscramble the letters in your name, it spells Pegasus, the horse that flew into the stars. There is a Pegasus constellation, an autumn constellation. That's why you told me all that stuff from earlier. Tell me if I'm wrong." Suegaps didn't say anything, but he actually smiled.

"You're pretty smart for someone your age, Lilly. You're just like your mother." Suegaps said. "Everything you said is true. I am a celestial spirit. Pegasus is my real name. In fact, I'm a rare and legendary spirit for my key is blue."

"Blue?! There are tons of keys that are silver and the zodiac keys are gold." Lilly said. "I've never even heard of a blue key."

"A Pegasus is a horse with wings. So you're like a legend horse?" Orihime said.

"I suppose that's one way of putting it." Suegaps, now known as Pegasus, said.

"But you don't even look like a horse." Orihime said.

"Not all celestial spirits look like animals." Pegasus said. "Lucy has tons of spirits that have a human appearance just like Leo, Virgo, or Aries."

"That also explains what's been going on with you. It explains why you look tired and weak." Lilly said. "Celestial spirits can't last long in our world just like how humans can't last long in the Celestial World without celestial clothing. Your life force is draining."

"Is that true?" Orihime said.

"It is. Celestial spirits need the help of their key holders in order to stay in the human world, but their power is drained when they use their magic. If you don't return to the Celestial World, you'll use up all your life force and die." Lilly said.

"I'm aware of that, but I'm afraid I can't return." Pegasus said.

"Why not?" Orihime said.

"My mother told me about Loki, aka Leo the Lion, and that he took a human appearance because he was banished from the Celestial World for years." Lilly said. "What reason do you have?"

"It involves the person my key holder. Her name is Luca." Pegasus said.

"Luca? I followed you to the hospital. Is that who was in the hospital bed?" Lilly asked.

"Yes and it involves this." Pegasus said. He lifted up the side of his shirt and showed the girls something that scared them. He had a something like a star tattoo on his side and it looked like cracks made from magic were coming from it and it was spreading through his body.

"What is that thing?" Orihime said.

"This mark on me is practically a curse and if I return to the Celestial World, Luca will die." Pegasus said.

…

Ichigo: You know, you're actually a lot like Lucy, Orihime.

Orihime: You really think so?

Ichigo: Yeah. You're willing to do anything to help your friends and you're so kind hearted. The only difference is that you're less violent.

Orihime: Thank you, but how violent can Lucy be?

Orihime/Ichigo: Next time: Curse of the Stars

Ichigo: Just don't make her mad that she actually wants to kick you. Natsu knows that better than anyone.