The thing about luck is that it swings like pendulum. It swings to good and it swings to bad. Lucy knows all about that since she's been swinging in both good spots and bad spots when it comes to her crush on Natsu. She's hoping it swings good for her today as she anxiously ate breakfast with her parents concerned.

"Lucy... Is everything okay?" Layla asked.

"Yeah. I'm just a little anxious." Lucy said. "Today we're making preparations for an upcoming fashion show held by Zeref Dragneel. You remember I entered a hat in a competition and Zeref Dragneel picked mine as the winner."

"Oh yes! That's the one your friend Natsu will be wearing." Layla said.

"You must be excited for that big debut." Jude said.

"I am, but I'm even more excited that I get to spend the whole time with Natsu." Lucy said as she was getting giddy, but she tried to calm down to try and keep her parents in the dark. "Anyway, I need to get going." She finished her breakfast and hurried off. She was excited one of her designs is going to be in a fashion show, but she's even more excited that she gets to spend the whole day with Natsu. "I can't believe this is really happening to me!"

"Believe it, Lucy. You deserve this shot." Stella said with her in Lucy's purse.

"I know. I was really lucky Zeref picked my hat that day." Lucy said.

"Luck might have had some part in it, but you're design was the best one." Stella said. "You're really talented and creative Lucy. When you stick to your passion, things have a way of working out."

"You might be right, Stella. Either way, I might need some luck myself. If things go well, I might get Natsu to actually go out with me." Lucy said. "Just thinking about it has my heart pumping." She was excited and hoped for a little luck, but some bad luck comes around; like how she ran into a trashcan and ended up tripping. "Please no bad luck today of all days."

...

The Fashion Show

Lucy made her way to the show as everyone was getting things ready for when that big day comes. Natsu pulled up with Jacob escorting him inside. Lucy was able to arrive and spotted Natsu. Just imagining Natsu wearing her hat has Lucy excited. If things go well, she could end up walking the walkway of love and life with him.

"Natsu!" Lucy called and got his attention. She hurried over to the inside, but Jacob stood in the way.

"Personal only are allowed inside at the moment." Jacob said.

"It's okay, Jacob. Lucy's the designer of the hat I'll be modeling." Natsu said. Once he clarified it, Jacob allowed Lucy to pass. "Glad to see you here, Lucy. These things are much better having a friend around. Come on. I'll show you around." Lucy's happiness and excitement continued to go up as she followed Natsu inside.

'Okay. Try and stay calm, Lucy.' She kept telling herself. 'I'm going to be with Natsu the whole time. I've got to try and keep it together. If this all works, we could actually be together.' Lucy was just hoping luck would be on her side. She's hoping to get the courage to tell her real feelings for him. In reality, Natsu showed Lucy around as people were making preparations for when the show happens.

"Here's the mainstage." Natsu said as he showed the runway. "Just imagine it. Soon, I'll be modeling a hat that you made yourself. You must be pretty excited."

"I love yo.. It! I love it!" Lucy said as she almost screwed up. "I love that my design is really going to be here. Anyway, the show is still weeks away. Why is everyone getting ready for it now?"

"My brother isn't really one for relying on luck, meaning he doesn't wait around. He likes to be ready ahead of time." Natsu said.

"Natsu. There you are." They looked to see Invel coming over as he carried a tablet with Zeref on it.

"Miss Lucy, I'm glad to see you made it as well." Zeref said. "As you can see, preparations are being me. I would also like to show you the design I have to go with your hat for Natsu." He showed a couple sketches of what he had envisioned for Natsu to wear.

"They all look amazing, but I'm curious about something now." Lucy said. "If I may ask, this is your fashion show that everyone is getting ready for. How come you can't leave your house even for this?"

"I have my reasons. Besides, there are things I must do at home." Zeref claimed.

"If you would both come with me, you can use this time to meet the other model." Invel said.

"Other model?" Lucy and Natsu questioned as they weren't aware who it could be.

...

Backstage

Invel showed them the way to the backstage. When they got there, they saw a familiar face with long white hair. It was other than Sorano herself as she helped herself to some water.

"Wait. Aren't you Sorano?" Lucy asked and got her attention.

"That's me. Nice to see I still got some fame going." Sorano said.

"You're the other model?" Natsu said.

"Don't be fooled. I know I'm beautiful like an angel, but I'm not the one who will be modeling alongside you, Natsu." Sorano said. "That would be my younger sister."

"Sister?" Natsu questioned.

"Her name is Yukino. She'll be joining you in the fashion show, Natsu." Invel said as he looked around for her. "There she is." He pointed to where she was and they spotted her. They saw a girl with short white/blue hair with a blue rose-like piece in her hair. She wore a white strapless top and skirt with white stockings. Being a model, this girl was beautiful. That's a piece of bad luck for Lucy if this girl gets to Natsu. They also saw her speaking with an older woman wearing a black power suit with flowing silver hair.

"Let's go say hello." Natsu said as he walked on ahead with the girls following. As they moved closer, Natsu saw her face and it looked like there was something bothering her. "Hi!" He called and got the ladies' attention. "You're Yukino, right? I'm Natsu."

"Uh... Hello." Yukino said as she walked over to greet them, but she ended up tripping over a cable. Natsu acted fast and was able to catch her. Lucy didn't take that as a good sign. "Oh my! I'm so sorry!" She said as she backed away.

"Honestly, Yukino. Can't you go one day without causing trouble? You're a model now. Try and act with a little more class." The older woman berated.

"This woman is Vanessa. She's our mother." Sorano introduced.

"Well, it's nice to meet you, Yukino." Natsu said and turned to Lucy. "This here is my friend, Lucy. She's the lucky winner that designed a hat I'll be modeling."

"It's nice to meet all of you." Yukino said, but she seemed shy. Natsu could just tell that something was bothering her

"Natsu, perhaps you and Yukino should take the time to get feel for the stage." Invel said. "Your brother wants to make sure you and she are ready as well."

"I think that's a good idea." Vanessa said. "Yukino, try not to ruin everything for everyone." She walked away with Yukino feeling miserable.

"Hey. Don't listen to her." Sorano said as she tried to cheer up her sister.

"What was that about?" Lucy asked.

"Our mother doesn't tolerate failure or mistakes, but that's what Yukino does sometimes." Sorano said. "She says that Yukino is walking bad luck, but that isn't true." Hearing that, Natsu and Lucy couldn't help but feel bad for her.

"We should probably get going. Mother doesn't like to be kept waiting either." Yukino said as she head for the stage, but Natsu feels really bad for her.

...

The Walkway

"Okay. We're just trying to get you a feel for the runway. Just do what you normally do." Invel told Natsu and Yukino. Natsu had no problem doing that. He just walked down and acted like any model would. Lucy had stars and hearts in her eyes as she was getting a little preview of what will be in the future.

"Come on, Yukino. Try it out." Natsu said. Yukino was a little hesitant, but she saw her mother watching. She knew she had to do it. She took a deep breath and just started walking. Everything seemed good until she got to the end and tripped over her own feet and fell off. "Are you okay?!"

"I'm fine. It happens. I just..." Yukino tried to explain herself, but she accidentally bumped into someone. That someone had a picture of water with him and he ended up tossing the water in the air and it ended up splashing against a light with it short-circuiting. Earlier, Yukino was claimed to be bad luck. There might be some truth to it. "I'm sorry..."

"It's okay..." Natsu said, but he was a little surprised that all happened.

"Yukino, why can't you get your act together. Must you bring bad luck everywhere?" Vanessa said. "You're a model. Act like a model. Quit acting like such a failure and just do your job. How can you not even walk down the runway right?"

"Mother, stop!" Sorano said as she tried defending her sister.

"You shouldn't talk about your own daughter like that." Natsu said.

"She's my daughter. How I treat her is really none of your business." Vanessa said. "Yukino, for once in your life do something right." Yukino has been treated by her mother like that her whole life. She was embarrassed, humiliated, and much more. She couldn't take it anymore and just ran out of there. Natsu and Lucy felt so bad for her. Not one to just sit around from that, Natsu chased after with Lucy following.

...

Yukino

Yukino ran all the way outside. She couldn't take what her mother was doing to her. She stopped at a set of steps and just buried her head in her knees. Natsu was able to follow after her and sat with her.

"Hey. Are you okay?" Natsu asked, but that was probably a stupid question. "Don't let what your mother said get to you. She's wrong."

"No. I bring bad luck to others." Yukino said.

"That can't be true." Natsu said. Lucy was able to find them too, but she stayed back when she saw those two talking. "Everyone has a bad day or something."

"Perhaps, but I bring it with me." Yukino said. "I try my best to please her, my big sister tries her best to protect me, but it just doesn't appear to be enough. I'm just not good enough for my mother. In truth, I never wanted to do any of this. I don't want to be a model?"

"You don't?" Natsu said. "You're doing this because of your mother? Well, I guess I can relate to that."

"You can?" Yukino questioned.

"I'm doing this because of my brother." Natsu said. "You feel like you have to do this because they're your family. I want to please my brother, but I also want to do what I want to do."

"You really know how that feels, don't you?" Yukino said.

"I really do. What are we? Their fashion zombies?" Natsu joked. Yukino couldn't hold back a small chuckle. Lucy saw what was going on. Those two were making a pretty good connection. The connection that she wanted. "Still, my brother was lenient. I couldn't go to regular school before, but I do now. That's how I met my friends, one of which is Lucy."

"That blonde girl?" Yukino asked.

"Yeah. In fact, you like her." Natsu said. "She might be a clumsy and stumbles with her words, but she's a great girl. She's a great friend. I have a feeling you're like that too." Yukino thought she was. She never met anyone who seems to really understand her. "I know your mom is tough on you, but you probably have it easy compare to me. I lost my parents and my brother practically keeps me away from others half the time because he's worried something would happen to me." That was when Yukino slipped back to misery.

"Maybe I should just stay away from others." Yukino said. "I should just be isolated. That way no one will suffer from just being around me. I'm just bad luck!" She was starting to feel miserable again, but her misfortune is actual fortune to another.

...

Black Wizard

This was why Zeref stayed back. He knew someone would feel something like this and he plans to use it.

"Poor girl. She feels like she's bad luck? Well, we can certainly turn something bad into some helpful." Black Wizard said as he had an etherious come to his hand and gave it dark power. He released it into Paris. "Fly, my evil etherious. Let's turn her fortune around!"

...

Yukino

Natsu tried to cheer her up, but it's not good. The etherious flew over and it entered the rose piece in her hair with her being connected to Black Wizard. Natsu and Lucy saw that happen and knew it wasn't good.

"Omen, I'm Black Wizard. People think you're bad luck? You'll show them what bad luck really looks like. Why should you be the only one to suffer? In exchange, you must bring me the miraculous of Celestria and Salamondra."

"Yukino, don't listen to him!" Natsu said as he tried to reach her, but she wasn't listening.

"No more good luck or bad luck. People will only have the luck I allow." Yukino said. She accepted Black Wizard's power. When she began to transform, Lucy and Natsu hurried to transform. Lucy hid behind a column and let Stella out.

"Stella, Twinkle!" Stella was pulled into her earrings and allowed her to become Celestria. As for Natsu, he ducked inside an alleyway and let Igneel out from his shirt.

"I got to save Yukino." Natsu said.

"You two looked like you were making a real connection." Igneel said. "Sounds like you might have met your match." Igneel was implying something, but Natsu didn't get it. There was no time for it either way.

"Igneel, Fire Up!" Natsu had Igneel pulled into the ring and he became Salamondra.

"Yukino! Where are you?!" Sorano called out as she looked for her. When she stepped outside, she spotted Yukino as Omen. Omen wore a black body suit with a rose piece on her chest. She also wore heeled boots with white fur down the back. Omen also wore a black mask over her eyes. Her hair was longer with her having cat-like ears and tails. The rose piece also turned into a black rose and was being used like a whip. "Yukino?"

"Not anymore, Sorano. I'm finally being what mother wanted. I'm walking back luck. I'm Omen." She introduced herself as she was acting joyful, the kind of joy one would get from the suffering of others. She lashed her hip around and launched thorns from it. The thorns hit Sorano and she ended up falling down the stairs, hurting her leg, and a bird flew over with it dropping "something" on her. "When I'm done, good luck won't even exist anymore." Omen twirled her whip around and launched thorns from it. Whenever someone was hit by the thorns, they were afflicted by a curse that could only be described as bad luck. She was about to continue until she felt Celestria's whip came around her arm and stopped her.

"Stop this now." Celestria said as she and Salamondra arrived.

"I know every rose has its thorns, but this is nuts." Salamondra claimed. Omen placed her whip in her other hand and lashed at them, but they moved away and avoided that whip. "Listen, I know you think you're bad luck, but that's not the case. Everyone just has a bad day."

"When I'm done, bad days is all what people will have. Even you two!" Omen said as she launched thorns at them, but the two of them got moving and tried to avoid getting hit.

"Those thorns seem to inflict people with bad luck when they get hit." Celestria said as she was analyzing the situation. "If we get hit by those, who knows what will happen. We might actually lose our miraculous."

"That rose whip has got to be where the etherious is, right?" Salamondra said. "Any idea as to how we get close enough to grab it?"

"Working on it." Celestria said as she was trying to figure out how to do that without actually touching it. Omen wasn't going to let them escape so easily. She used her whip and swung around with her landing in front of them.

"There's nowhere to escape. Bad luck is a power that you can't avoid." Omen claimed. Salamondra didn't like seeing her like this. He couldn't wait around too much.

"Sorry, Celestria. I'm ending this now." Salamondra said as he just charged in.

"Salamondra, no!" Celestria called, but it was too late.

"Dragon Fire!" Salamondra called on his power and tried to burn the whip now, but Omen twirled it around and launched a few thorns with them hitting Salamondra. Now being cursed by bad luck, Salamondra tripped on his own feet. He rolled against the ground like a wheel until he hit a car. His powers were used on the car as well and resulted in it exploding with Salamondra being blown back from it. "Not...fun."

"Even you superheroes can't fight it." Omen said. She used her whip at him again, but Celestria used her own to block it. The two of them kept lashing and cancelling each other out.

"You just had to be so reckless." Celestria scolded Salamondra.

"I'm sorry, but I had to do something." Salamondra said.

"For now, just try and sit still. With you being cursed with bad luck now, this could go very badly for us." Celestria said.

"Right." Salamondra said with a salute, but he accidentally hit himself in the eye. Now it's all on Celestria, but her getting hit could result in their defeat.

"You might as well just give up." Omen suggested.

"Not happening. The thing about luck is that you never know how it's going to swing. Open the Celestial Gate!" Celestria used her powers as she knew some good luck will come their way no matter what. The item ended up being a sword. That could actually be beneficial for the villain depending on where this goes. "A Cancer sword? Oh boy." Celestria can just imagine how bad this will go. Omen kept the attacks going. He kept thwapping her whip at Celestria, but Celestria used the sword to block each of her attacks. Celestria did her best to avoid getting hit while also trying to figure out how to use the sword.

"Any day now." Salamondra said as he hoped Celestria would use it soon.

"I can't figure out how to use it." Celestria said as she wasn't seeing anything. If she can't figure out how to use the sword, she can't beat this enemy. Omen acted by wrapping her whip around the sword and tried pulling it out of Celestria's hands. Celestria held on as tight as she could, but Omen was stronger. She pulled the sword of Celestria's hands and kept it away from her. "No!"

"Yes!" Omen said as she nearly hit Celestria with her whip. Black Wizard can see victory. Omen was ready to finish them as he threw her whip around, but something happened. When Celestria blocked the whip, it left some cuts in it. The whip being thrashed around made the tears wider. When she pulled her rose whip back, it snapped and broke apart. "What?!" All of them were dumbfounded by what just happened. Omen's rose just broke apart with the etherious flying out. Celestria thought that was weird, but she went with it as she took her own whip out.

"No more evildoing for you, little etherious." She activated her whip when she snapped out of it. She threw the whip and caught the etherious with it. "Gotcha! Bye-Bye, little guy." She released the etherious into the air and grabbed a hold of the sword. "Miraculous Starlight!" She tossed the sword into the air and the stars were unleashed. People were free from the curse and restored to normal. Yukino also returned to normal.

"Where am I?" Yukino questioned.

"That was weird." Salamondra said. "Still, pound it?" He offered. Celestria raised her fist, but gently punched Salamondra in the face to make it look unlucky.

"Oops." Celestria said with them having a laugh.

...

Black Wizard

"This time you really were just lucky, Celestria. You're luck will run out eventually." Black Wizard said. One can't rely too much on just luck. Black Wizard surely doesn't.

...

The Fashion Show

Yukino returned to the fashion show, but her mother still blamed her for all that happened. Feeling bad for her, Natsu walked over to Yukino and tried to cheer her up.

"You okay, Yukino?" Natsu asked.

"Yes. I'm just sorry all of this happened." Yukino said.

"It was just a bad day. It's nothing to get so bent out of shape about." Natsu said. "These things just happen." He tried, but it looked like he was failing to cheer her up. Not one to leave her like this, he grabbed a pen and paper and wrote something down. "Here. This is for you if you want to talk." Yukino grabbed the paper and was shocked.

"Is that your phone number and email address?!" Yukino said.

"Yeah. I'm sure we can be great friends." Natsu said. Yukino was amazed by this. She couldn't believe it. "Come on. We can still make this practice look good. I'll help you." He held out his hand for Yukino. Yukino blushed with what Natsu was offering. She took his hand and the two of them went out together. They walked out on the stage and Natsu never let go. They walked together, stood together, and actually looked good together. That last part was what Lucy noticed and it upset her.

"You okay, Lucy?" Stella asked from her purse.

"Those two look great together. I was hoping this would be my lucky break with Natsu, but it ended up being Yukino's." Lucy said.

"I say they were both lucky because they found someone who seems to understand themselves." Stella said. That didn't exactly made her feel better. "Don't worry. I'm sure you'll get your chance."

"Excuse me. You're Lucy, right." Yukino said and got her attention. "Come up and join us. Let's try and make this fun at least."

"Great idea. Come on." Natsu invited. A little shocked, but Lucy took the invite as she went up with the three of them and still managed to have a great time. The thing about luck is that you never know how it's going to go. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad. Most of the time, you just need to work with it and don't let the bad parts get you down. Sometimes something bad can lead to something good. For Yukino, it looks like it lead to her making some friends.