"It might go without saying, but you are going to love Paris." A taxi driver said as she drove around a newcomer to Paris and showed him all the sights. "Does the Eiffel Tower even need an introduction? It's our best landmark, and Parisians weren't too sure about it in the beginning. Next, we have the Trocadero Garden. Did you know that the first aquarium was built in 1867, and that it's right underneath? We also have the Louvre Museum. It was originally used as a fortress to protect our city. These days, it protects our art. Speaking of protection, we have our own local heroes named Celestria and Salamondra." This newcomer to Paris seems to like it. He then noticed the Heartfilia Bakery.
"May we stop here? I never had a French pastry." The guy asked.
"You certainly picked a great place to try one." The driver said as she pulled over and the guy stepped out with him having silver wavy hair wearing a blue fancy top. He walked right in, ordered, and Layla gave it to him.
"You're in luck. They're fresh out of the oven." Layla said as she handed him some pastries. That was right when Lucy came running in.
"Sorry, Mom! I got held up!" Lucy said as she came running in and ended up smashing right against the guy with the pastries being crushed. "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!"
"It's fine, but are you okay?" The man asked.
"Yeah, but I should have watched where I was going." Lucy claimed. "Sometimes, I do get a little too ahead of myself. Mom, could you pull out another batch for..." She said as she didn't know his name.
"Lyon."
"Hi, Lyon. My name is Lucy. I haven't really seen you around here before."
"I just arrived." Lyon said. "My parents are away overseas, so I'm going to be staying with my aunt and her family."
"Well, that sounds nice. You're new and you've got your family." Lucy said, but Lyon wasn't so sure about that. Whatever he was thinking caused him to pull out a round piece of medal that was blue with a silver cross on it. "What's that?"
"Something my parents gave me. They're away a lot and...things aren't easy." Lyon said. Lucy felt bad for him and it sounded like he could really use some friends. That was when she grabbed a pen and paper and wrote down her contact information.
"Here." Lucy said. "My friends and I are meeting up later tonight. You can come, meet them, and make lots of new friends." Lyon took it and wrote down the same thing for her.
"Here. You can share with your family." Layla said as she handed them a new batch.
"Thank you. I'll see you later." Lyon said as he took it all and went on out. He seemed like a nice guy and Lucy thinks she's already made a good friend.
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Lyon
There was one thing about Lyon that Lucy wasn't aware of. His family were in the Allard Hotel. The truth is...they own the hotel. When he pulled up, he knew this wasn't going to be easy for him.
"Here. Share some with your family." Lyon said as he handed what was left of the pastries to the driver.
"Thank you, but don't you want to share them with your family?" The driver asked.
"No... They prefer sour to sweet." Lyon said. Lyon went on inside knowing he's in for a tough time. He went on inside and the staff appeared to be expecting him. Once he went inside, the butler took him straight to Janet.
"Madam, your nephew is here." The butler said.
"Lyon..." Janet said as she didn't really seem all that happy that he was there. "You look horrible. What happened on the flight?" Lyon didn't really answer as he wasn't sure what to say to his obnoxious aunt. "Too horrific to answer? I can't imagine. It's fine that you want to come live with us, but what happened at your boarding school? What about your parents?"
"My parents are away overseas, Aunt Janet." Lyon reminded. "Plus, the boarding school...wasn't exactly meeting with my needs."
"I see... Well, you'll love being in Paris." Janet claimed. "Take him to go see his cousin." Lyon was taken up to see Taylor and Taylor was examining him.
"So, you're Lyon. You're my cousin." Taylor said as she was looking him over with Lyon getting annoyed. "Oddly colored hair, but it actually looks good on you. It seems you're meeting the family standards...physically, at least. Phone!" Lyon handed over his phone and she looked rather disgusted to it. "Nope! You need more diamonds on it! Hold on. What is that?" She said as she noticed the medal in his pocket.
"It's something my parents gave me." Lyon claimed.
"Looks so bland and boring. That doesn't even look like real silver." Taylor said. "This is what a winner carries." She said as she showed her collection of jewelry. "These are the trophies in life. In life, there are winners and losers, and we're only winners in this family. If you're going to be a part of this Life can be like a jungle, and you need to be the emperor of that jungle. Show all the losers that you are superior in every way. You need to cold and cool like ice. Either you walk over them like a cold emperor or you'll be the one to be crushed." Lyon can tell he's already not going to like this. "If you want to be part of this family, you'll have to earn your place, and that's where I come in. I'll be your mentor. Rule one: your father does what you say when you want it. Daddy!" She called.
"Yes, honey!" Aidan said as he came in that very second.
"I want the limo painted pink before school!" Taylor demanded and just slammed the door shut before he could even debate on that request. "Since my father is your uncle, you can use him. Rule two: always have your minion with you. Where's yours?"
"Uh... Back home... Couldn't bring them..." Lyon said for something Taylor could take. All she did was gasp.
"Fatal mistake! Never go anywhere without your minion! Observe." Taylor said as she opened her closet and saw Samantha doing Taylor's work. "Is my homework done?"
"Sorry, Taylor. It's taken a longer than I thought, but my eyes have adjusted to the dark and..." Samantha explained before the door was closed on her.
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The Limo
"Now, there's one more thing: a patsy. A patsy is someone for you to make miserable for your own entertainment." Taylor claimed as the two of them were riding towards the school. "If you're good enough, they can last a lifetime. I have one, but she certainly knows how to annoy me. With two of us, we can put her in her place." Taylor is trying to teach Lyon to be more like her; but as he looked out the window and saw Samantha struggling to keep up, he can tell he's just heading to trouble and can't avoid it. Soon, they arrived at the school. "Listen up, losers!" She called and got everyone's attention "This here is my cousin Lyon. That's his name until we can get him a better one. How fortunate for you that someone of my blood is gracing this school."
"Cousin?" Cana said. "Great. As if Taylor wasn't bad enough. Now we've got to deal with someone who shares similar genes to her?"
"If we're lucky, he might only be partially as rotten." Erza said as they all thought having someone else like Taylor was going to be a nightmare.
"Relax, girls. I met him earlier and he's nothing like Taylor. He seems like a nice guy. I don't think we have anything to worry about" Lucy said as she was sure Lyon would be himself.
"Now, you're going to need to find your future partner. Someone who is rich, good looking, and is just the whole package." Taylor said. "See him?" She said as she pointed at Natsu. "That one is mine. His name is Natsu, so you keep that in mind. We'll find you a less beautiful version since I'm clearly the better looking one. Oh, and here comes the patsy I told you about." She said as she saw Lucy come over. "Let her have it good and you really are family." Lyon wasn't sure about this. "Still loafing around, Little Miss Baker?"
"Hi, Lyon. I didn't know Taylor was who you were talking about earlier." Lucy said as she just ignored her.
"What?! You've met her?!" Taylor said.
"Yeah... We met..." Lyon said as he wasn't sure what to do. "This clumsy oaf bump into me earlier, gave me some lousy bread, and didn't even know who I was. Of course I threw out her lousy gift because I have great taste. She clearly wasn't thinking, assuming she even has a brain." Lucy couldn't believe this and seemed crushed. Samantha and Taylor seemed pleased with what Lyon did, but Lyon wasn't happy about it himself.
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Macao
"Find a spot in the middle of the admission. Let me see..." Macao said as he tried working on getting Lyon admitted to the school.
"This might be a good idea to use what I've taught you." Taylor said.
"Actually... My parents should have called ahead about this." Lyon said, but Taylor glared at him indicating she wants him to use what she told him. "Of course, I could call my uncle and let him know how useless you are!"
"Wait! Here it is." Macao said as he was saving his own skin. "Lyon Vastia... Yes, we have you admitted. Welcome to our school." Macao said. At least Lyon is in, but he's not pleased with how he did it.
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The Art Room
"It's so weird." Lucy said as she and her group were in the middle of an art class with all of them working on paintings. "Lyon acted different than he did earlier. He was so nice."
"That's crazy. Taylor's attitude is so toxic that she managed to corrupt her cousin in just a few hours." Erza said.
"We've got to get him out of there!" Cana said.
"But what are we going to do?" Levy said. "What if that's how he really is?"
"I'm sure the Lyon I met earlier is the real Lyon." Lucy said as she was certain on that. "Let's start by figuring out what's going on. Just leave it to me." She claimed as she believes she can get through to the real Lyon.
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Taylor's Room
After school, Taylor and Lyon went back home and Taylor was doing her usual thing: going through her closet and trying to find something to wear. Lyon just sat on the bed and felt lousy until he heard his phone and saw he got a message from Lucy.
"I can tell that you weren't acting like yourself. You can still meet up with me and my friends. We can talk about what's going on and we can help." Lyon made sure Taylor wasn't looking.
"Sorry. I promise I'll explain later." Lyon texted Lucy, but that was when Taylor came by and saw what was going.
"Are you texting Heartfilia?!" Taylor said. "I warned you that you need to be the emperor of this jungle! Walk over others or you will get walked on! Either you be part of MY family, proud to follow MY lead, proud to be who you really are; or you clear out!"
"Are you done?" Lyon questioned. "This is just part of my plan. She thinks we're friends, but I really plan to humiliate her in front of everyone." He claimed with Taylor gasping in delight
"Brilliant!" Taylor said and tried to think of something. "Now, what to do? A wad of chewing gum? No, did that. Throw mud on her? No, too simple and messy for me. Ooh! Something totally disgusting like bugs or mice coming at her locker!" While she was scheming, Lyon tried to sneak away. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going outside. I want to work on my tan." Lyon said as he got out of there, but he felt horrible for how he's acting. Lyon went up to the roof and pulled out his medal. He felt horrible for how he's acting, but he doesn't know what to do. His parents wouldn't be proud of him either, but what if this is all he can do. Luckily, there was one member of the family that was concerned about him.
"Is everything okay, Lyon?" Aidan asked as he could see Lyon was struggling. "Did you know that when I was younger, I wanted to make movies? That was who I really was, but my family made it clear that to earn my place, I would have to go into politics."
"It's not easy, is it?" Lyon said as he felt miserable and alone. "At my old school, I had trouble making friends. I always felt like I was on the outside looking in. All I want is to find a place where I feel like I belong."
"Let me show you something." Aidan said as he showed him a cellar on the roof. "This is where I keep my old dreams." He opened it up and showed scripts, headshots, and more of a director. "It can be a lonely place where your own family doesn't accept the real you. I had to bury a huge part of who I was just to feel accepted. If you want, you can place something in here." Lyon didn't want to, but he feels alone. All he has is his rotten cousin. In order to feel accepted, he took his medal and placed it inside. As the cellar closed, Lyon truly felt alone as he has to turn away from who he really was.
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Black Knight
"A lonely heart that feels he'll never be accepted for who he really is, not even by his own family." Black Knight said as he could sense the misery and knows just how to make Lyon feel better. "Welcome to Paris." He took an etherious in his hands and filled it with dark power. "Fly, my evil etherious, and evillize his torn heart!"
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Lyon
The etherious made it's way to the hotel. It went into the cellar and went into Lyon's medal. Once that happened, Lyon was connected to Black Knight.
"Cold Emperor, I'm Black Knight. I'm giving you the power to become the coldest emperor like your cousin says. You shall be the one that rules over all with your fierce and ferocious creatures of ice."
"Life is a jungle, but I will be the ruler of this jungle!" Lyon claimed.
"That's right. In return, you must bring me the miraculous of Celestria and Salamondra." Black Knight claimed. "Now, seize your throne and rule over all!" Lyon accepted his power and ended up transforming with Aidan running off in fear. Cold Emperor began his attack for his reign, starting with the restaurant in the hotel. Once he stepped in, everyone one took notice from his white cape and blue tunic with him wearing a monster-like helmet over his head that had horns and a purple hair piece.
"What's a jungle without a few animals, and what's an emperor without some royal pets." Cold Emperor said as he was granted the powers of ice. In doing so, he made tigers out of ice and they acted like they were alive. "Play time, kitties." He said as he snapped his fingers and sick his tigers on innocent people with them all running in fear and terror.
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Taylor
Meanwhile, Taylor was just enjoying herself by looking at herself with a bunch of selfies. She was enjoying it until she saw Cold Emperor in the background.
"Hey! Who said you could photobomb me?!" Taylor called.
"I'm taking your advice, my dear cousin." Cold Emperor said. "If life really is a jungle, I'm going to be the one that rules over it."
"Lyon?" Taylor questioned.
"Of course, not even you will be safe from my wrath." Cold Emperor said as he made more beasts out of ice and sent them to attack her. Fearing for her life, Taylor ran out of there as fast as she could. She made it all the way to the hotel, but Cold Emperor chased after her. He jumped out of the building and formed a giant ape made of ice and went after her. Taylor even swiped a taxi from some people and told the driver to get out of there with Cold Emperor coming after her.
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Heartfilia Bakery
The driver kept trying to escape from her cousin, but he was gaining on them. When the ape grabbed a hold of the taxi, Taylor ditched it. As luck would have it, she ended up at Heartfilia Bakery and ran straight inside.
"You two! Protect me!" Taylor said as she shoved both Mr. and Mrs. Heartfilia outside and into Cold Emperor's way, but he froze them in an instant. Taylor kept trying to run and made her way up the building with Lucy hearing someone coming.
"Quick! Hide!" Lucy told the kwamis with all of them scattering. Lucy ended up being surprised when saw it was Taylor in her room. "Taylor?"
"Don't just stand there, Heartfilia. Help me with the door." Taylor said, but that didn't stop Cold Emperor. The giant ice ape tore open the wall and tried reaching for Taylor, but she ended up pushing Lucy in the way instead so Taylor could save herself.
"What's going on? Who are you?" Lucy said as the ape held her captive.
"I'm Cold Emperor, the new emperor of Paris." He claimed.
"That voice... Lyon!" Lucy said with shock. He then heard the bell of the bakery and saw Taylor trying to run again. Cold Emperor went after her and took Lucy with him.
"Christi, teleport to Igneel. We need Salamondra." Stella said.
"Are you sure? That is dangerous." Christi claimed.
"We don't have a choice. I'm going after Lucy." Stella said and flew after her holder.
"Voyage!" Christi used her powers and flew straight to Natsu's room.
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Natsu's Room
Christi flew straight through a portal, but since she used her powers without a holder, some of Natsu's stuff was pulled into the portal and no telling where they ended up.
"Hey! My meat!" Igneel cried.
"There's a supervillain! Celestria needs you! So sorry about your room." Christi claimed.
"No worries. Celestria will fix everything. Igneel, Fire Up!" Igneel was pulled into the ring and allowed Natsu to become Salamondra.
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Cold Emperor
Taylor kept running for her life with Cold Emperor chasing after her on his ape. Taylor kept running until she found herself near the Seine River and spotted Gajeel's houseboat with Gajeel and his band down on it.
"If you really want to be like me, I'm not the one you should attack. It's them! Those losers!" Taylor said as she was planning to sacrifice them to save herself. "If you really want to be a winner, you have to crush those who are weaker and beneath you. Those who don't shine like me."
"That's not true!" Lucy said. "There aren't winners or losers, especially when you have people you care about and who care about you. Taylor doesn't know what she's talking about because all she cares about is herself."
"Way to break the ice!" Salamondra said as he showed up with the two ready to fight.
"Wait." Lucy said as she thinks she can get through to the real Lyon. "Lyon, you don't have to be like Taylor. It doesn't matter if your fancy, rich, or not. I'll be there to help you. My friends will be the same. You can be who you really are here." It seemed like she was starting to get through to the real Lyon, but Black Knight was the one getting in the way.
"Cold Emperor, I can feel you wavering." Black Knight said. "Do you want me to remove your powers? Do you want to feel isolated with nothing?"
"No one will rule over me. I'll rule over them." Cold Emperor claimed.
"No, Lyon!" Lucy called, but he went through with the attack and unleashed his ape again, but Salamondra got in the way as he jumped down to the feet. He extended his staff and used it to trip the ape with it collapsing, shattering to pieces, and allowed Lucy to escape.
"That's not enough to stop me." Cold Emperor claimed as he used his powers and formed a dragon this time. Lucy hurried off and took cover behind a building.
"Lucy! There you are!" Stella said as she finally caught up to them.
"Stella! Am I glad to see you! Stella, Twinkle!" Lucy had Stella pulled into her earrings and turned her into Celestria. She transformed at a good time because just as Salamondra jumped away from that dragon biting down on him, the ice dragon swung its head up and knocked him away and caused him to crash against a wall.
"I'm a fellow dragon. Where's the love?" Salamondra asked with Celestria joining in the fight.
"Sorry for the wait. I got held up. Are you okay?" Celestria said as she helped him up.
"You've got other worries!" Cold Emperor said as he held out his arm and unleashed a swarm of ice dragonflies at them, but they moth jumped out of the way in different directions. Cold Emperor tried attacking Celestria with the dragonflies, but she kept moving around. Salamondra moved around and jumped straight at Cold Emperor to strike with his staff, but Cold Emperor formed a shield of ice and blocked him. Celestria tried throwing her whip at him, but Cold Emperor used his ice to deflect it. He had his dragon attack again right at Salamondra, but Salamondra jumped out of the way as the dragon's head smashed into a building.
"We're not getting anywhere like this. I'll use my Dragon Fire on his ice sculpture." Salamondra said as he was ready with it.
"No. It be pointless. He could easily make another. We should use it on the object holding the etherious." Celestria said.
"But where is it? It could be in anything." Salamondra claimed.
"Maybe this will give us a clue. Open the Celestial Gate!" Celestria used her powers and ended up getting a crowbar. "A Taurus crowbar? How can this help?"
"Look at you! You can't even be a great supervillain!" Taylor called. "The only fabulous thing about you was that stupid medal of yours! At least it looked like silver, despite how tacky it is!"
"Medal?" Celestria said until she remembered she saw it earlier. "That's it! I bet the etherious is in the medal she's talking about."
"But I don't see it." Salamondra said.
"Maybe because it's not on him. Follow me!" Celestria said as she took off with Salamondra following.
"You are utterly useless and utterly ridiculous. I can't believe I share DNA with you!" Taylor said.
"Enough of your big mouth!" Cold Emperor said as he held out his hand. He enjoyed the chase, but decided to just end it as he froze her.
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The Allard Hotel
"Lyon is Taylor's cousin, and Lyon moved here!" Celestria said as they ran into her Taylor's room. "That medal has to be around here somewhere!" The two of them looked around for the medal, but saw no sign of it anywhere in Taylor's room.
"I don't see it." Salamondra said.
"He must have his own room!" Celestria said as the two of them ran out of there.
"Celestria! Salamondra!" Aidan called as he came out of hiding in the closet. "Is it safe to come out?"
"Mayor Allard? What are you doing in there?" Celestria asked.
"I hid in here when I saw Lyon transform." Aidan said.
"You saw it happen?!" Salamondra said.
"Do you know where his medal is?" Celestria asked. Aidan and the heroes moved quickly to the roof of the hotel and hurried to the cellar.
"Promise you won't tell my wife about this." Aidan said, but there was no time as Cold Emperor was coming. Celestria tried to get the cellar opened, but it was jammed.
"Nowhere to run now!" Cold Emperor claimed as he made his dragon grow. "I shall rule over all!" He had his dragon attack, but Celestria quickly realized what the crowbar was for. She jammed it into the cellar and got it open. Once she spotted the medal, she grabbed it and broke it into pieces with the etherious flying out and Cold Emperor's attack stopping.
"No more evildoing for you, little guy." Celestria activated her whip and could now catch it. "Time to de-evillize!" She twirled it around and caught the etherious with it. "Gotcha! Bye-Bye, little guy!" She said once she released it. "Miraculous Starlight! She tossed the crowbar in the air and used the magic stars to cause all the ice to vanish and everything restored to how it was. Cold Emperor was placed on the roof and became Lyon again.
"Pound it!" The heroes celebrated. Now that the battle was over, Celestria used her new abilities and formed a new blue charm with a snowflake on it.
"Here, Lyon." Celestria said as she gave it to him. "Keep it with you so Black Knight can't manipulate you again, and remember that you aren't alone. You don't have to act like a cold emperor."
"Thank you, Celestria. I've heard you were something special." Lyon said as he took the charm. She also gave him his precious medal and hopes that Lyon knows he can be his real self.
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Black Knight
"I don't care if I have to make an emperor, a monarch, or whatever! Eventually, you will bow to me Celestria!" Black Knight claimed.
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Gajeel's Houseboat
Soon, it was party time. Lucy and many of her friends were at Gajeel's houseboat like Lucy said. Lyon took her offer and arrived with him climbing on board.
"There you are! I'm glad you made it." Lucy said when she spotted him. Taylor and her mother were actually spying and expected Lyon to do something to humiliate Lucy. "Everyone, this is Lyon! He might be Taylor's cousin, but he's really nice."
"I'm... I'm sorry about before." Lyon said as he regretted his act and was being truthful. "I thought if I acted the way Taylor would have liked, she would have accepted me. I just wanted to be accepted by my family. My parents love me, but I don't get to see them that often since they're always away overseas. Back at the boarding school I went to, everyone did seem nice to me, but I always felt out of place. People kept their distance from me, almost like they kept me at arm's length. I couldn't take it anymore, which is why I came here. I just want to feel...accepted." All of them felt bad for Lyon and wanted to him to feel welcomed. That's why they all gathered together and made him feel welcomed.
"We're all like a family." Erza said.
"And you can be a part of it." Cana said.
"You do belong here, Lyon. Welcome to Paris." Lucy said as Lyon really felt it and became part of the party.
"Wait. What is he doing?!" Taylor said as she watched. "Is he actually enjoying being around there?! He's going to get infected with all their lameness! Mommy! Do something!"
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The Allard Hotel
Lyon did enjoy himself at the party, but Taylor wasn't happy with him. It didn't matter to her that they were family. When he got back, the three of them were waiting for him.
"Daddy! I order that you send him back to wherever he came from!" Taylor said with Lyon getting annoyed with her. "He is an embarrassment to the whole family! I tried to be a mentor to him and he completely disregarded everything I taught him!" She claimed and then turned to him. "You had your chance and you blew it! You will never be like me!"
"I don't care. I would rather be the real me than be like you." Lyon said with Taylor offended.
"Daddy! Send him away!" Taylor ordered.
"Well... I..." Aidan said as he wasn't sure what to say.
"Is there a problem?" Janet asked.
"Well, with all the paperwork and everything that got him here and to send him back, it could be months before we could send Lyon anywhere." Aidan said with him being nervous. "I could at least put him in a different room."
"One that's smaller than mine!" Taylor insisted. "Also see to it that we don't cross paths! It's bad enough my class knows we're related now!"
"Of course! Of course!" Aidan said and ushered Lyon out of there and saved both of them.
"Thank you, Uncle Aidan. Promise you won't leave your dreams in that cellar." Lyon said with Aidan glad he has one family member that's supportive of him.
"Let me show you to your new room. You'll love it." Aidan said as they started walking.
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Lucy
Lucy was now at home and was ready for bed. Before she dozed off, she heard her phone alert her.
"It's a message from Lyon." Lucy told the kwamis and read it.
"I want to thank you for all that you've done for me. You were right. I can be myself here because I know you and your friends will have my back. I'm glad I met people like you. For the first time in my life, I feel like I found where I belong." Lyon is in Paris now. Although he had a rough start, he's already found tons of friends and can be who he really is.. Paris is now his new home.
