Lucy sighed contentedly in her bathtub, thinking over the events of today she smiled while scrubbing away the grime from today's solo mission. "70,000 jewels for this place was such a steal, it barely made a dent in the money I've accumulated over the years.

Finishing off her bath Lucy wraps herself in a towel heading to her room, frowning when she heard a noise in the living room.

"Yo!" Natsu greeted, reclining in her chair with chips and a drink in his hand. Happy waved at her while munching on a fish at her table.

"Yo, how'd you get in my house?" Lucy says heading to her room to gather clothes.

"Mira told us where you live so we came to check it out and hang with you, "Natsu looked round nodding his head in approval "Nice place you picked out, by the way"

"Thanks, it was a steal," Lucy says to the salmon haired fire breather and blue cat, now dressed in casual sleep were. "So, what do you want?"

"We wanna know about the magic you use!" Happy and Natsu yell simultaneously.

Lucy grins, "Well, as you already heard from Happy, I have two magics, Celestial magic, and Celestial Demon Slayer magic".

"Whoa" the dragon slayer says with wide eyes, "what's celestial magic?"

"Celestial Magic allows me to summon spirits from the celestial world and call them to battle, the golden keys are the most powerful while the silver keys are only mildly powerful. I can summon them using gate keys." She explained.

"Cool, what keys do you have?"

I have eight gold keys and three silver". Pulling out her key ring "You've seen Aquarius she controls water and Taurus the bull, already, I also have her boyfriend Scorpio he controls sand, Capricorn the sea goat, Aries the lamb, Cancer the crab, Gemini the twins, and Leo the leader of the Zodiacs. Those are just the gold keys, as for silver I have Lyra, a musical spirit, and cross spirit named crux.

"Did you say a crab" Happy said.

"I think she did, buddy."

"No, he's a crab spirit, not edible, and if you try to eat him, I'll burn your butt!" Lucy threatens, scaring both visitors.

"That's cool, you must be really strong to have all those" Happy says after getting over the threat.

"To use a golden key, you would need to use as much power as one of Natsu's dragon roars, if you want perspective" Lucy says

"Whoa" the salmon haired mage and cat say looking at each other, thinking the same thing, "Lucy's strong!"

"So, you said you're a fire Demon slayer, right, What's the difference between you and me?"

"Well, first off I'm a CE-LES-TI-AL Fire Demon Slayer. And not to brag but I was trained by Luce the strongest Demon slayer there was", lighting up a fist "and my magic gives me the ability to slay demons" Lucy says grinning.

"What!" Happy shouts.

"There's no way!" Natsu says in awe of his teammates power.

"Yup", after stunning the boys with her words, Lucy remembers something "but enough of that, if you guys want, I did just get a key from Hargeon, the Canis Minor gate key, wanna see how a contract is made."

Both mages nodded happily, "Aye sir!"

Lucy grinned at the enthusiasm not having shown many her magic in a while and happy to share the experience to anyone willing to watch or even learn more about it.

Natsu and Happy whispered to each other, "I hope it's not some blood pact." Happy whispered to Natsu.

"Well that sounds like a pain in the butt to me." Natsu whispered back.

She laughed, "Nah, it's nothing like that."

They sighed out in relief.

"I am a person connected to the spirit world. Thou shall answer my call and pass through the gate." As the key glowed so did Natsu and Happy's eyes, "Open, Gate of the Canis Minor. Nikola!"

A small white dog-like creature with a large pointy nose and no fur appeared in a flash of light, squealing balancing on one leg. "Puuun!"

"Aw, don't feel bad, Luce" Natsu consoled the Celestial mage.

The blonde smiled, "Don't worry, it didn't fail, this is exactly what's supposed to happen."

Happy stopped munching on his fish. "It is?"

"Yeah, it doesn't take much magic power to get them through the gate. Some other celestial wizards keep them as pets." She smiled.

"You know this whole pet thing doesn't suit well for me." Happy told Natsu.

"Not with a weirdo like Luigi here." Natsu responded.

Lucy "Pfft, says the guy with a talking cat."

Lucy couldn't help but go back to mimicking the spirits movements before going to pet it "You're cool."

"Puuun!" the spirit squealed as if in agreement.

Both intruders staring at their future teammate in awe at her weirdness..

"Alright contract time" Lucy announced, pulling a notepad out of nowhere. "Are Mondays alright?"

The Canis spirit shook its head.

"Tuesdays?"

A nod.

"Wednesday?"

A nod again.

"Thursdays?"

"There's not really that much to it, huh?" Natsu asked Happy as they watched the spirit say no to Fridays.

"Aye sir"

"Alright contract done!" Lucy said smiling.

"Pu-Puuun!"

"Hmm." Lucy rubbed her chin thoughtfully. "What to name you? That sounds good... no never mind…that won't either. How about… yes that's it! I'll call you Plue, how's that sound?"

Plue jumped up in joy.

Lucy smiled dopily as Plue wobbled over to her, "Yeah, Plue's perfect.

Well that was pretty easy." Happy said.

"Yep." Natsu said.

"It may seem dumb to you but it's pretty important for me," she said, " a celestial wizard's contract relies on the promise that's made between the wizard and the spirit. Which is why I always make sure I keep my promises to my spirits." She stated. I'll never forget your lessons, mama.

Natsu saw the distant look in her eyes but didn't comment on it, "Are you sure he's cool with that?"

Lucy looked down at the little spirit, "Do you want me to give you a different name, Plue?"

Plue shook his head.

"There's your answer." Lucy said to him.

"So even though his sign is the little dog he doesn't bark? That's kind of weird." Happy said.

"I'm sure people say the same thing about you Happy, seeing as how you don't meow like a normal cat would but then again, you're not normal cat so I guess it doesn't matter now does it." Lucy said pointedly. Plue jumped out of her arms and began moving back and forth.

Lucy tilted her head, "What is it Plue?"

Natsu got up from the chair, "Oh man you're right about that Plue." He said with a thumbs up.

"Pun!" Plue said doing the same thing.

Lucy stared in amazement, "You can understand him?"

Natsu stared at her.

"Something wrong?" she asked confused.

He stood back up grinning, "Alright then its settled, the two of you are gonna be a part of our team."

"The team!" Happy cheered.

Lucy looked at him, "You have a team?"

"Aye! Even though everyone in the guild is allied to one another some member's that get along well with each other form teams within the guild. That way jobs that maybe hard for one person to take can get done by a team." Happy explained.

"That makes sense" the blonde and Plue nodding their head sagely.

Lucy grinned. "Alright, I've only ever had the pleasure of my spirits as partners, so it'd be refreshing to have someone new as a teammate." Pumping her fist, as well as Plue, the little spirit seemed to have taken a liken to copying the celestial mage, Natsu noticed "Let's do this!"

"Alright!" Natsu cheered, slamming down a job request on her table, "And I already have a job for us."

"Shirotsume Town, don't know where that is…" Lucy scanned the job for more information. "We get 200000 jewels for taking care of a book from this Duke of Everlue… and it says this guy's hiring for a blond-haired maid".

"And Lucy's blond." Natsu told Happy in the corner.

"Aye! We can sneak her in as a maid!" Happy agreed.

"Hmm, I have done covert ops before with my spirits, so I guess this could work?" Smiling Lucy looks to the two in front of her, "Nice job finding such a well-suited job for us, this is easy money!"

Both mages sweat drop at seeing the blonde's enthusiasm at their prank.

Shirotsume Town

Man, I'm hungry!" Natsu complained.

Lucy looked at him, "Natsu, I'm curious about something. As a dragon slayer, can you eat your own fire?"

"Nah I can't. I can only eat other fire that's not my own." He said.

She nodded, "Ah, just like me I see." She then saw a restaurant just up ahead and pointed to it, "We can eat there Natsu."

"Cool! Let's go eat!" Natsu said grabbing her hand dragging her inside the restaurant.

Inside the Restaurant

All three mages stuffed there faces with meat deciding a mission with a full stomach would be better than a mission on an empty one.

"When we're done eating, we'll meet with the client and discuss the job." Lucy said.

"Aye!" they both said mouth full of food.

"Don't talk with your mouth full." She scolded, with her mouth full.

They closed their mouths and nodded, glaring at the hypocrite.

She leaned back in her chair, 200,000 to destroy a book…this'll be a cinch!

In the Spirit World

"Sometimes I wonder how she managed to destroy all those guilds in Alvarez", Loke says taking a sip of his drink.

"It's the demon slayer in her, it's making her more stupid than she already is, I swear." Aquarius says.

"Nah ebi, Lucifer was just a really bad teacher." Cancer says chuckling, remembering when the demon tried to teach Lucy math, and ended up burning down half a forest to explain division.

At the Client's House

The two of them arrived at the client's house and were now sitting in front of him.

"My names Kaby Melon pleased to meet you." he introduced.

"He said Melon." Happy drooled.

"Oh man you have a tasty name." Natsu drooled himself.

Lucy rubbed her chin, "I'm more of a strawberry gal" she answered.

"Those are good too.…" they said.

Kaby chuckled, "Err, yes well those fruits are quite good..." These are Fairy Tails elite? "Ahem, continuing on."

Lucy stared at him for a moment when she finally registered her clients name, His name sounds familiar. I know I've heard it from somewhere.

"Well first things first," he started, "Allow me tell you about the job. It's straight forward really, Duke has a book called Daybreak in his possession. I would like you to burn it for me."

"No prob," Natsu said, "Heh, I'll burn the whole place down if you want?"

"He likes fire." Happy said.

Lucy sighed, "That's arson Natsu, we should just storm in and take it by force."

Miss Lucy, may I remind you that your mother would most likely disapprove of you taking anything by force, when there are better ways of retrieving an item. Capricorn says or as Lucy refers to him her voice of reason.

Pffft, yeah, okay. Lucy grumbles.

"So why exactly do you want us to destroy this book?" Lucy asks.

"Pffft, for 200,000 jewels who cares." Natsu stated.

"The reward has been raised to 2 million." He said.

Natsu and Happy's eyes bulged out of their head, "2 million?!"

Lucy looked at him. Alarm bells were raised in her head, Okay, 200,000 was normal but 2 million, What the hell is going on Melon?

"I'm sorry, I thought you were aware that the amount had changed." Kaby said.

"2 million split three ways!" Natsu had steam coming out of his ears, "Wow! I stink at math but that's a lot!"

"Wait I got it!" Happy said, "I get 1 million, you get 1 million, and Lucy gets all the rest!"

"That sure sounds fair to me." Natsu said.

"Aye!" Happy said.

"No, it doesn't, I'd only get like" pausing to count on her fingers…nothing brat, you'd get nothing, a voice in Lucy head says, really it was Aquarius.

"Nothing! we're splitting it evenly after the job," Lucy says glaring at the two.

Going back to the client Lucy asks, "Not that I care, because I don't, but why'd you raise the reward anyways?"

"oh, uh...Well…as much as it means to me, that book must be destroyed no matter the cost." He said clenching his fists.

Natsu's head caught on fire, "Oh yeah! I'm fired up now!" he said grabbing Lucy's hand, "Let's do this Lucy!"

"Yeah sure." She said letting him drag her away.

Back in the mansion Kaby had his head down, "Daybreak, it must be burned. It cannot be allowed to exist any longer."

Duke Everlue's Residence

The trio arrived at Everlue's mansion staring at a large gate.

"So how are we gonna get in if Lucy won't wear the maid costume?" Happy questioned.

Natsu shrugged, "Don't know, ask Lucy."

Said girl was looking around for some sort entry way they could use so they wouldn't be seen and found one. She smirked, "I know how we're getting in."

They looked at her, "How?" they asked.

"Like this, improvised move, "celestial jet fire boots!", before they could even blink Lucy was shooting up the side of Everlue's mansion, golden flames shooting out of her feet.

Natsu and Happy sparkled at their teammates moves, "She's so cool!" Happy said.

"We really know how to pick em' right Happy," Natsu said grinning as he repeats Lucy's exact move shooting up the side of the mansion until he meets his teammate at a giant window.

Lucy gave a toothy grin when she saw Natsu and Happy get to the top towards the roof where the highest windows were. Having arrived at their destination Lucy explained the plan to Natsu and Happy. "We're gonna sneak in, find the book and then burn it."

Natsu crossed his arms, "Hmm. I like it! Let's go Happy"

He brought his finger up to the glass setting it on fire melting it away slowly, "But seriously, I expected more of a take them by storm you know. I think we should've just busted through the front door."

Lucy shook her head, "Nah, too much work. It's best we sneak around, get the book and get out, but if it turns out we got to fight then by all means, we go at it."

"Aye!" they both said.

They got inside the mansion sneaking around and looking in each different room, but they didn't see the book anywhere.

"Are we gonna have to search every room in this whole stocking place?" Natsu complained.

"Looks that way." Happy said.

"Uh, what a drag." Lucy whined, not liking that there was more work to be had.

"I say we should just take a hostage and force them to tell us where the book is." Natsu suggested.

"Aye!" Happy agreed.

Lucy sweat-dropped, "I mean it could work but two things wrong with that. One, this place looks dead so no one to take hostage and two, That's something only a dark guild would do, and we are not a dark guild. Try to be stealthy like a ninja." Lucy says as she puts her cloak around her face. Drawing looks from the two.

They blinked at her, "Like a ninja…" Natsu said.

Lucy stopped moving, "What, do you not like ninjas?"

Just then the floor moved, and four maids appeared from down below, "Intruder alert Virgo!"

"Let's crush them girls!" Virgo said.

"Guess we've been found." Lucy sighed "How lame".

Natsu moved, punching the four maids, "Ninja power!"

Virgo went on the attack shooting up in the air, "Flying Virgo attack!"

Lucy acted quickly pushing Natsu out of the way, "Celestial ninja Punch!" she cocked her fist back and punched the gorilla woman in the stomach sending her flying towards the golden statue of Everlue making her crash into it.

She felt her shoulders being grabbed and she was spun around facing a worried Natsu, "You alright Lucy?!"

She nodded, "Of course I'm okay. No need to worry." she felt him squeeze her shoulders slightly.

"No can-do Luce, we're a team so I got to worry!" Natsu said with a grin on his face.

Smiling Lucy shakes her head, "Oh. Well as your team mate, I'll worry for you too"

"Hey what about me!" Happy says with giant tears coming down his face.

"Don't worry buddy with me and Luce we'll always protect you so there'll be no need to worry about you, right Luce?"

"Right" Lucy says smiling at her weirdo teammates.

Library

They arrived at the library and saw that the Duke had a lot of books stored here. Lucy was amazed by how many books he had, "Who would've thought Everlue's was a major book worm."

"Let's start looking." Natsu said.

"Aye sir!" Happy said.

They looked around searching many titles but didn't see the book anywhere. Lucy sighed, "I didn't know people liked books this much."

"Found it!" Natsu yelled, waving a golden book in his hands around.

She turned to him and sure enough he had the book Daybreak in his hands grinning in victory, "Look its sparkling!"

Lucy jumped down from the ladder and looked at the book in Natsu's hands, "Its Daybreak."

Natsu's hand was set on fire, "Alright time to burn it." but before he could Lucy grabbed the book from him inspecting it.

"So, Kemu Zaleon wrote this book." She said.

"Say what?" Natsu questioned.

"Zaleon was a great wizard and an amazing novelist from what my spirit is telling me," she told them, "This must be his last work before he died."

"Who cares? Let's burn it already!" Natsu said.

Lucy shook her head, "Not yet. Not until I find out the real reason behind this mission, no one raises a quest this high in the middle just because… and besides, the Duke's on his way here".

They were confused by her words until they heard a sinister laugh, "Well, what do we have here?" someone burst through the floor revealing it to be Duke Everlue himself.

"So, you thieves are looking to take Daybreak away from me, are you?" he said.

"See slowpoke this is happening because you took too long." Natsu said but then noticed that Lucy wasn't even paying attention to them and a giant goat in a suit was now reading daybreak while Lucy kept watch."

"Your reading the book right now?!" they all yelled.

"I've had enough, how dare you put your filthy hands on my possession's! Now, come forth! Vanish brothers!" the library split in half and revealed two men.

"You called upon us sir?" the bald one asked.

"Can you believe these little punks are from the Fairy Tail guild? Talk about a bunch or runts." The other man said.

"That sign means they're from the Southern Wolves. It's a mercenary guild." Happy pointed.

Natsu cracked his knuckles, "So you got body guards do ya?"

Lucy's eyes widened, when Capricorn whispered something in her ear "Wait, really so this is…? "Indeed, it just might be." Capricorn says. Moving from her spot she touched Natsu's shoulder getting his attention, "Take care of these two while I give Capricorn time to finish decoding the book. He might have found a hidden secret."

"Right." Natsu nodded.

She ran towards the white door and closed it right behind her but Everlue heard her words.

A secret? It must have slipped by me somehow; it could be a treasure map or something. He thought.

He sunk beneath the ground; "I'm going after the girl and the goat, and make sure the pink haired one here doesn't leave in one piece!"

"Yes sir!" they both said.

Natsu turned to his friend, "Happy go on and help Lucy."

"Are you sure you don't need me here?" Happy asked.

"No thanks, I'll be just fine."

Happy nodded and flew off to go find Lucy.

"You sure are confident for a little guy. Maybe we need to put you in your place." The blue haired man said.

Natsu cracked his neck, "Let's go then."

"Heh, you're out your league kid." The bald one said, "This will be over in ten minutes.

10 minutes later

"Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!" raising both arms in the air he finished off his opponents in 10 minutes.

"Aw man its over already? Did I overdue it again?" Natsu asked no one then shrugged, "Oh well, guess I'll just go check on Lucy and Happy."

"N-no mercy…", "Sorry mama" the two mercenaries said before passing out.

With Lucy and Happy

Lucy and Happy were currently in the sewers underneath the mansion, both keeping watch over the spirit whose attention was on decoding the book, which they figured out had a hidden message placed on the book. "Hey Capricorn, you almost done" Lucy asked

He sighed and closed the book, nodding. Having read the entire book and now understanding why this book was so important to the client.

Happy looked at the goat, "Did you figure it out?"

Giving a small smile. "Yes indeed, and I think your client Kaby, Miss Lucy will be surprised when he sees the hidden secret of this book."

"Or you can just tell me the secret, goat" They heard a voice say. It took only a moment for him to determine where it was before Capricorn jumped out of the way.

"Nice try, but I have good reflexes. Better luck next time." He said.

"Why you …!"

Before the man could react, Lucy had already ignited her hand "Since you went to all the trouble to follow us like some creepy old dude you better give me good fight. She put the book in her bag beneath her cloak. "Hope you don't mind helping me out here, Capricorn".

"Not at all, Miss Lucy".

"Dual magic, but how? The taut man says frightened for a moment. "No matter I have Virgo to help me take care of you, once she's done with that pink haired boy."

"Nice try, but you couldn't even take on Happy". Lucy taunts, her magical aura rising as she prepares to fight the chubby duke.

A vein popped from his head, "How dare you! Boy Yo Yo Yo Yo!" a magic symbol appeared on his back and he dived into the earth.

"What did he just do?" Happy blinked in confusion.

"He's using diving magic. Not bad I guess, but I'm still not impressed." Lucy sighed. Everlue popped out from underground hoping to strike her but she avoided every attempt by twisting and doing backflips. She jumped a few feet away from him. "Uh, what a drag." Delivering a kick to the fat Duke tossing him into the sewer walls.

"Now the story makes sense. This is a horrible tale about a disgusting man called Duke Everlue." The goat glared.

"You serious?" Happy said.

"I don't know if I'd called the protagonist trashy, but yes." He picked himself up and dived right back underground, "The story itself is crap! It was written by the great Kemu Zaleon! Inexcusable!"

Lucy flipped out of the way, "Your arrogance really disgusts me. You forced him to write this book, didn't you?"

"Arrogant? That word doesn't begin to apply. To tell my story is in honor, no matter what the circumstances."

"So why blackmail him?" Lucy questioned.

"Blackmail?" Happy questioned.

"What's the big deal? He just needed some extra encouragement that's all."

Her eyes narrowed, "Oh really?"

"Any fool would jump at the chance to have me as their muse, but had the audacity to say no. So, I told him to either write the novel or your family will lose their rights to citizenship." He snickered.

Happy gasped, "But…then none of them would be able to join the guilds and make a living. Do you really have the power to do that?"

"I have to power to do anything!" he said bursting from the earth, "I got him to write it didn't I?"

Lucy glared at him, anger beginning to take over because of the man's cruel words.

"But then he turned a great man like me into a hatched job?! The nerve of that fool!"

"Get over yourself! It's true that he wrote about all the pain and torture that you put him through. But the chapters about what you did to him are only the small part of the book, in fact its secret has nothing to do with you." she said, repeating everything Capricorn revealed to her.

"Tell us Lucy!" Happy asked.

"What the devil do you mean?" Everlue demanded.

"There's no reason for you to know," she said, making the room heat up with golden flames surrounding the girl.

Everlue brought out a golden key of his own when he saw the rise in power, "Open! Gate of the Maiden Virgo!"

"What the? He's using the same magic as you do Lucy!" Happy said.

"Tsk, gross".

Virgo appeared from underground with Natsu on her shoulder, "Huh? Lucy? Happy? What's going on?"

Lucy blinked in surprise, " How did you get here?"

"Well I saw her moving and grabbed hold of her next thing I know I'm here." He explained.

"Hold on then that would mean…" Lucy started.

"He was able to pass through the spirit gate with Virgo." Capricorn said.

"I thought that was impossible to do?" she questioned.

"As did I".

"So, what do I do now?" Natsu asked.

Lucy looked back to Natsu, "Well first off get off her then let Capricorn take care of the rest."

He grinned, "You got it!" jumping off Virgo he landed safely next to Lucy.

"Virgo! Take out the trash!" Everlue commanded.

"As you wish master!" Virgo charged at Capricorn.

"Capricorn, you know what to do!" Lucy grinned.

He nodded, "Of course, Miss Lucy." As if teleporting in front of the spirit he began kicking her in the face sending her back. Appearing before her again and again, with a barrage of punches.

"Holy cow! Lucy's spirit is so strong!" Happy said.

"No kidding! I'd like to fight him myself!" Natsu grinned.

Lucy shook her head, "Nah I wouldn't recommend that, Capricorn's pretty strong." Looking to where her spirit was fighting only to see he was finished. "Oh, that was fast."

Capricorn walked away from where Virgo fell on her back defeated, "I have finished the task you have given me Miss Lucy." He bowed.

Lucy smirked, "Nice job! Now then that leaves only you."

Everlue was paralyzed with fear. This girl's spirit was able to beat Virgo without any problems! And she was burning with such hot flames, He knew he was finished.

Lucy rushed at him, "Now then, for my special move: Celestial Hell flame sucker punch" punching him right in his face sending him hurling in the air and landing to the ground unconscious with his nose and lip bleeding.

Capricorn smiled, shaking his head. "Luce taught you that move, when Aquarius and I weren't around didn't he."

Lucy shot a toothy grin at the goat spirit "Luce said sucker punches are a very effective method for battle wins."

"I suppose they are." He says hiding a smile and saying goodbye.

He bowed, "Until next time." He left in a puff of smoke.

Lucy saw Virgo's key and walked over to Everlue and took the gate key from him, "You won't be needing this anymore, so I'll be taking Virgo away from you. Besides, I can already tell you haven't been treating her well anyway." She looked down at the fallen Duke in disgust.

Natsu and Happy approached, "Lucy that was awesome! I didn't know you could send people flying like that! You've got to fight me when we get back to Fairy Tail!"

"Aye! I wanna see you guys fight to!" Happy said.

Lucy yawned, " Nah, I don't think so., I don't fight unless needed too." She looked over to the fallen spirit and knelt down, " Sorry for having to use Capricorn on you Virgo. Why don't you go back to the spirit world and rest up?"

Virgo opened her eyes and looked at her, "I thank you. Lucy. I entrust my key to you," she said fading away in a golden light. Lucy stood up with a dopey smile on her face as she hooked her new key on to her key ring.

Natsu and Happy had smiles on their faces, which soon disappeared when they felt their whole surroundings shake. The three of them watched as the whole building came crumbling down around them.

Natsu had his hands behind his head, "Wow Lucy, a few days and already you're acting like a true guild member! You are definitely gonna fit in with us!"

"But, aren't we supposed to not destroy stuff?" Happy asked in confusion.

Lucy shrugged, "He was a jerk anyways" looking at all the damage the trio had done to the Duke's mansion.

At Kaby's House

"When I had my spirit read Daybreak, he couldn't believe it was written by Kemu Zaleon. He was appalled by it believing there's no way he would have written something so bad." Lucy said.

Natsu shrugged, "Yeah, so?"

"So, that's how he knew there must be a spell on it." she said giving the book to Kaby who took it from her.

"But I requested this book be destroyed. Why on earth are you handing it back to me completely unscathed?" he questioned.

"If you really wanna burn it then I'd rather you do it yourself. I'm not gonna waste my flames on something so valuable" Lucy told him.

"Valuable. Doubtful! I never want to see it again!" he gripped the book in anger.

"I understand how you feel about this book Kaby, you want to protect your father's legacy. Because your Zaleon's son, aren't you?" she said.

Natsu and Happy blinked in surprise.

"Yes... that's true." He said, looking down.

"Have you read it yourself?" she asked.

"No…I…I could never bring myself to do it. My father told me it was garbage." He said.

Natsu got angry, "You were just gonna burn it?"

"I was."

Natsu grabbed him by the collar, "Without even bothering to see what's inside?! It's the last book that your dad wrote right?! Some of us would kill for that kind of memory!" Lucy grabbed him by the back of his shirt and tossed him on the couch angry herself.

"Shut up and let him explain himself!" she yelled. "Well? Explain yourself" Lucy glared, also feeling the same emotions as Natsu.

Natsu saw the look in her eyes and kept quiet.

"Please, that book caused my family great heartache and shame. It was thirty-one years ago." Kaby started telling the story, "My father came home suddenly and said, "forgive me son." I demanded to know where he was for three years without ever contacting us. He said "somewhere I'll never return. It's all over now. After he said that he picked up a cleaver and cut his arm off."

Natsu and Happy flinched.

"And then?" Lucy asked.

"You're not bothered?!" they yelled.

"I told him off for agreeing to write that book for the Duke of Everlue and called him a sad excuse for writer and said he wasn't much of a father either. Not long after that my father passed away, however the anger and betrayal I felt towards him lived on." He said sadly, "But as the years passed by me that anger slowly turned into remorse, and now…it's too late for me to ask him for his forgiveness."

Natsu didn't say anything he had his back to him with his arms crossed.

"So, I decided to make amends by destroying the final work that caused him so much unhappiness. This is the only way…the only way I can preserve his legacy." Kaby said.

Lucy sighed, "Man, you're an idiot Kaby."

They all looked at her.

She sighed again, "Kaby look!" as if hearing her words, the book glowed purple blinding Kaby.

"What's happening?!" he yelled.

The words Daybreak lifted from the book, "A spell has been casted on this book, it's the work of the wizard Kemu Zaleon or should I say Zekua Melon." Lucy said.

"A spell?" Kaby questioned.

The words Daybreak spelled a different word. It spelled…Dear Kaby.

Kaby saw the words, "Dear Kaby…?"

Lucy smiled, "That's right, this book is his letter to you. Disguised behind a spell that rearranged all of the words, so no one else could read it."

The book glowed brighter and opened the letters coming out of it and surrounding all of them.

"Wow…" Natsu stared in awe.

"Pretty…" Happy said.

"He didn't stop writing because he was ashamed. He stopped because he had finished his masterpiece. A novel containing everything he ever wanted to say to his beloved son, and when you read it the way he intended its easily his best work ever." She explained. Or at least that's what Capricorn told me, Lucy sweat dropped.

Kaby had tears in his eyes then he remembered his father's words before he died.

"I thought about you the entire time I was gone."

The book closed and descended towards Kaby's open hands.

"And now that the spells been broken you can read it for yourself." Lucy smiled.

Kaby got on his knees hugging the book closely, "Thank you father. I swear that I will not let any harm come to this book."

Natsu turned around putting both hands on his head, "Well, I guess we won't be collecting that reward."

"Aye!" Happy agreed.

Lucy smiled, "You're right Natsu, I guess we won't."

"Huh?" Kaby questioned.

Natsu turned to him, "We were supposed to destroy it. We didn't finish the job."

"Even so, let me do something." Kaby insisted.

Lucy pointed to the book, "If you want to do something then keep that book close to you and cherish it. After all, it's the final piece your father left to you, someone he loved very much." She said smiling sadly walking away Natsu and Happy following her.

Natsu waved his hand, "Lucy's right, thanks for offering but we don't want it."

"Are you guys sure?" Happy asked.

Natsu cocked his head to the side, "I think it's time we all go home, that means you too Mr. back home."

Mr. and Mrs. Melon smiled at them as they walked away.

Nighttime at the Campsite

"So Natsu, how did you know they didn't own that house and were only renting it?" Lucy asked.

"Their scent didn't match the house it smelled like something else." He answered stuffing some fish in his mouth.

"I see," she said taking a bit out of the fish in her hand, "So you can detect scents and stuff like me, huh?"

Natsu nodded his head "Yeah, I also have really good hearing"

"Same here."

"Cool" Natsu says grinning.

Natsu rubbed his chin, "Hang on a sec, why did you have your spirit read the Kaby book?" looking to the blonde, why not just read the book yourself and find the secrets?"

Lucy turned her head "Well, the thing is, I don't really like reading , but Capricorn does, and when I saw that it was Kamu Zaleon, I knew it'd be a win-win because I remembered during my travels Capricorn constantly telling me abut this guy " laughing at the memory, "And i'm not that good when it comes to needing to read things."

Happy tilted his head, "You're lazy Lushie."

She shrugged, "You can thank Luce for that, he was the epitome of lazy. The only time he did things was when he was teaching me magic, other than that he was extremely lazy and it kinda rubbed off on me"

"Wow, Luce sounds as weird as you" Natsu laughed.

"Yeah, he was great" smiling Lucy went to lay on the ground, " Well, I'm going to sleep. Today was a drag."

Natsu blinked at her, "Seriously just like that she goes to bed?"

"Lushie's funny." Happy giggles.

Natsu shook his head at Happy and grinned in agreement.

Hope this chapter is better...getting close to meeting Erza. Did some editing, hope Lucy doesn't sound too dumb now. Also I looked up who Shikamaru is and not my intention to make Lucy like him, it's just how she ended up lol.