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"Lucy looked over to Hibiki and says, "Get Wendy somewhere safe. I'll handle this one." Hibiki looked like he wanted to protest, but he must have seen her look of confidence for he stayed silent and took Wendy behind a few tree, away from the fight that is to break out.
Now with Hibiki, Wendy, Happy with Natsu, and Carla out of the way, Lucy turned back to Angel. She is grateful for the river in front of her, because she can bring out her strongest spirit.
"Sagittarius, I close your gate," she said, making her spirit leave in a glow of golden light. Lucy then pulled out her other gold key and jump for the water. "Open: Gate of the Water Bearer…Aquarius!" With her key in the water like it had a key hole to a door, a woman with blue hair, blue top, and blue fish tail came out of the river with a jar in her hands. "Take her out, and take me with her for all I care!"
Aquarius just smirked at hearing her command before saying, "You didn't even have to ask."
"I didn't?" asked Lucy confusedly.
"No…" A look of pure rage formed on Aquarius' face. She swung her jar with water while shouting, "I'm going to beat the heck out of the lot of you anyway!" Lucy braced herself for the giant wave that will slam into both her and angel, but it didn't happen.
Lucy was lost for a split second, but she hears Angel say, "Open: Gate of the Scorpion…Scorpio!"
Lucy should have guessed that Angel had more than one golden key, but for some reason she didn't. In front of Angel is a man with red and white hair, and his outfit is of the same colors along with some gold and black. He is shirtless, but has sleeves on his arms. Around his waist is a belt with his symbol on it, and baggy pants.
What happened next shocked Lucy even more; Aquarius snuggled up to Scorpio like he is her boyfriend. She later finds out that that is the case. Before the two left, Scorpio said that he has a date with Aquarius so they will be leaving. Angel didn't stop them, because it does take Lucy's spirit out the fight.
Lucy was shocked. She didn't know that Aquarius had a lover. She may have known if she hadn't been too worried about nearly being drowned by her own spirit every time she brought her out. You would think that with Lucy's ice powers that Aquarius would be a bit nicer to her. She isn't the whiny little cry baby anymore.
Angel slapped her in the face, sending her into the water while insulting her about not knowing the relationship between her spirits. Angel believes that due to this little problem that she is not going to be able to beat her.
'Okay, I may not know everything about what my spirits do in their free time, but how was I supposed to know that she had Aquarius' boyfriend?' Lucy thought frustratingly. She pulled out another golden key, this one having a lion head on it. 'Hopefully she doesn't have a close friend of Loki's with her too.'
Lucy jumped out of the water again while calling out, "Open: Gate of the Lion…Leo!" Leo, or Loki as many members of the Fairy Tail guild likes to call him, appeared in a flash of light in front of Lucy with his arms crossed in front of him, and a smirk on his lips. "Leo, I need your help in taking this one out."
"Leave it to me, Lucy," Leo said with a cocky look on his face, but it was whipped off after hearing Angel's next words.
"Didn't you hear me the first time? Knowing the relationship of our spirits are important." Angel holds up another golden key. This makes Lucy very worried. She has a feeling she know who's key that it. "Open: Gate of the Ram…" She was right. "Aries!"
The first words to leave Aries' mouth the moment she appears are, "I'm so sorry, Leo."
Both Leo and Lucy are in shock. Lucy couldn't make Leo fight someone he nearly lost his life for. That is just unfair. Leo doesn't want to fight his friend, but deep down, he knows he has to, and Lucy can see that in his eyes.
Before anyone decided these two will fight, Lucy demands, "How do you have Karen's spirit?!"
Angel patted Aries on the head while speaking, "Well I killed the previous owner. This one is my spoils of war."
Lucy may have seen Loki's dread and acceptance, but still wasn't going to make him fight. Since she is so focused on what is happening in front of her, she didn't notice Hibiki's mental fight with himself. The man wants to kill Angel for killing his lover, but he's fighting his want, because he started to feel Nirvana try to make him switch from light to dark.
Lucy looked down at Leo's key and was just about to close his gate, but Leo stopped her. She looked up at him questioningly.
"Don't down on me, Lucy. Aries may be an old friend, but with us having different masters we are enemies. We must always fight for ours masters," said Leo.
Aires continues, "Even if we owe that enemy a great debt, for our masters, we must defeat them."
"So that is why…WE WILL FIGHT!" both Aires and Leo exclaimed at the same time as well as moving for the first attack.
Leo got the first hit, making Lucy wince in sympathy for both spirits. Aires sent out pink wool at Leo in an attempt to slow him down.
Lucy couldn't bring herself to watch, she wants to close Leo's gate; she doesn't want him to have to fight someone he is close to just because that friend belongs to an enemy. Lucy was so distracted by her thoughts that she didn't hear Angel summon another spirit, this one being from a silver key.
The spirit, Caelum, fired at both the two fighting spirits, getting them in the chest. Lucy is frozen in shock and horror. She couldn't believe that Angel just attacked her own spirit. In the background, she can hear the Oracion Seis member cackling like she heard the best joke. Lucy ignored her though; she couldn't take her eyes off of the fading spirits.
Once they were both gone, Lucy felt fury course through her veins. She glared at Angel with hate, and feeling the water around her legs start to form ice shards. She grabs another key, but it wasn't any of her gold or silvers keys, no it was the red myth key with a lily on it that the Celestial Spirit King gave her.
With the red key pointed toward the sky, Lucy called out, "Open: Gate of the Sky Rabbit…Lupus!" A golden light with a red hue shines in the air above her. Appearing from the light in the shape of a ball is a white rabbit with red wrappings around the lower, thin arms and lower, strong legs.
Once the light vanished and the rabbit landed on their thick, strong legs with their arms at their side, everyone is able to see that there is a red top with no sleeves, and a snowflake-like flower with a dot in the middle in black on the front of the top. ((AN: Look up the Chinese Zodiac and look up the Rabbit. The symbol is on its leg.)) When they looked up they saw that the rabbit has pitch black eyes, no sclera to be seen.
"Hello Lucy, need me to help you beat this feather brain?" said a female voice that came from Lupus. If Lucy could see her face, she was sure that she would see a smirk on the rabbit's face.
"Yeah, but I'm fighting along with you. This woman shot her own spirit while she was fighting Leo," said Lucy with a dark expression.
Lupus shook her head while it is bowed down like she is disappointed in Angel. "Tsk, tsk… I always love to fight these kinds of people. They are all talk and no bite. It's fun to prove how weak they really are and that next time they should make sure they have the power to back up those words," she said with a sneer.
"You think I have no bite?" Angel said with an ugly smile. "Well then, we shall see about that. Caelum, could you get rid of this rodent for me?"
Caelum shot another energy beam at Lupus, but missed. Angel looked around startled; she hadn't seen the rabbit move. When she couldn't find Lupus on the ground she looked up and saw something white coming at Caelum. When that something landed with its feet first on Caelum, the robotic spirit almost smashed, but did get a nice size dent in its top. Angel can now see that the white blur was the rabbit she lost track of.
Lupus quick and lightly jumped off the spirit, and kicked it with one of her powerful legs. This kick sent Caelum flying into a tree. Once it hit the trunk, the spirit could no longer stay in the human world, so it returned home.
Lupus lands, and then jumps back to stand beside Lucy. "Now you can help me fight without worry of being shot at."
Lucy sweat dropped. "Thanks, but I could have froze that thing and stop it from firing in the first place."
Lupus grinned, "Maybe, but then what would you have done if it freed itself by melting the ice and snow?"
Lucy stayed silent at that. Lupus is right; the spirit could have freed itself by heating up. "Okay, well… Let's just get rid of this woman," she said.
Angel was in shock when she saw how fast that rabbit took out her servant. She pulled out her last golden key with the hope that Gemini was friends with this rodent. She needs to win this, she wants that red key. She didn't even know that such a key existed.
"Open: Gate of the Twins… Gemini!" Angel called out, summoning the two blue spirits from earlier. "Turn into Lucy Heartfilia! After that, get control of that spirit!" she demanded angrily.
The twins transformed into Lucy and tried to do as ordered, but there was a problem, the rabbit is not listening to them.
"Why isn't it working?!" Gemini asked in fright.
Lupus smirked evilly. "Shouldn't you know? After all, since you are in Lucy's form, you know why I'm not coming to you."
Lucy decided to take a little pity on the spirit and enemy. "The red keys are not your normal keys. They know just who I am and know that Gemini is a fake. They only listen to those who the spirit king gives them to," she told them.
Lucy, not waiting for a reply, starts her attack. "Winter Dragon's Roar!" Thick snow with small ice shards in it shot out of Lucy's mouth and heads straight for Angel and Gemini. Gemini tried to eat it since he is still in Lucy's body, but this backfired horribly. Since they are Lucy and Lucy was the one to use the roar it was like eating their other twin. They started hacking uncontrollably, so much so that they turned back into their spirit form.
Lupus was right behind them. She grabbed the two with her paw-like hands and made them clash into each other before letting go. After that she kicked them toward Lucy.
Lucy gave a silent apology prior to what she did next. She lifted her arms high above her head with them covered in white energy. "Winter Dragon's Wing-Blade Attack!" Her hands came down from above her head in a Y shape to meeting at her feet. A blade of ice shot forward in a V shape at Gemini. The two blades hit the duo, sending them back to the spirit world to heal and recover.
After Gemini was taken care of, Angel, who is frightened, is next. Lupus and Lucy move in close to her. Angel tried to run away, since she is out of spirits to fight for her and has not other magic; however, she fell in her attempt. When she looked to see what tripped her she saw that the cold from Lucy's magic froze the water around her feet.
Angel looks up to see Lucy now in front of her with a spear made of ice pointed at her neck, and the rabbit standing there with claws that should not be on such a creature.
"Do you yield?" Lucy asked demandingly.
Angel didn't say anything.
Lupus smirks, "That's okay, you don't need to answer. I'll make the decision for you." After the rabbit finished saying these words, she made a chopping motion with the side of her paw-like hand to the back of Angel's neck, which knocked the Oracion Seis member into the water unconscious.
Lucy allowed the spear to melt as she bends down to pick Angel up and out of the water.
"I say we just leave her here," said Lupus.
"She'll be left by that tree," Lucy said while pointing at a where Hibiki and the others are hiding. "We will have to tie her up though."
Lupus shrugged her shoulders while her arms are crossed in front of her chest. "Well, she's not my problem anymore. I'm going home. Call me if you need me." In a flash of red-ish, gold light, Lupus disappeared.
"Lucy…!" The blond-haired girl spun around at the sound of Happy's voice. The blue cat come flying at her with relief, like he didn't believe she would be okay. Once he was right in front of her, he flapped his wings one more time to launch himself onto Lucy's chest.
After a few moment of reassuring himself, Happy lifted his head and looks Lucy in the eyes. "Why didn't you tell us that you were a dragon slayer? How are you a dragon slayer?" he asked.
Lucy hesitates with answering those questions, but then a thought appeared in her head.
"I'll tell you, but you have to promise that you will not tell anyone else," she said.
Happy became thoughtful at this. Lucy as sure he was thinking if he could do it or if there is someone he would tell. Finally, he answers, "I could hide it from everyone, but I won't be able to with Natsu. He should know about you being a dragon slayer since he too is a dragon slayer. I can't hide something like this from my close friend."
Lucy had a feeling that Happy would want to tell Natsu, but at the moment she can't have him know. He would not be able to keep his mouth shut. She knows that he would try, but he's not good at keeping quiet on this sort of thing. She doesn't want her powers reaching a certain someone's ears for as long as possible.
With a sigh, Lucy turns to Hibiki and asks, "Is it possible to make him forget what we just spoke about and what he saw while I was fighting?"
Happy opened his mouth to protest, but Hibiki cuts him off, "I could use my Archive Magic to delete the fact that you're a dragon slayer. It is like cutting something out in a video. I'll just have to do some editing so he doesn't question the memory." Lucy nodded her head in thanks, and lets Hibiki get to work on Happy.
Hibiki walks over to the blue cat and summons his magic computer. Magic tendrils come out and plant onto Happy's head. Happy's eyes glaze over like he is in a daze while Hibiki types away at his computer. On the computer, Lucy can see her fight from Happy's point of view. She watches as the archive magic user deletes the dragon slayer information, and replaces the gaps with trees getting in the way of the fight.
For when Angel was defeated, Hibiki cut Lucy out and made it seem as if Lupus just straight up knocked the woman out instead of demanding she yields.
After Hibiki was done, the tendrils leave Happy's head, and the blue cat fell over asleep.
"Is he going to be okay?" Lucy asked with concern.
"Yeah, he'll be fine. This is just the side effect of the memory deletion. The target sleeps so their mind can process the information as true," said Hibiki in reply.
Lucy nods, and then turns to focus on him. "Can I trust you not to tell anyone until I'm ready to explain?"
He smiles at her. "Yeah, you're secret is safe with me. May I ask though why you are hiding it?"
"It's a long story. Maybe some other time after this mission is over," she said.
Hibiki nodded in acceptance. "Alright, let's wait for these guys to wake, and then we can get a move on."
"Yeah, good idea."
TBC
Try guessing who's ears Lucy doesn't want to hear about her powers. ;)
The first part of the fight was boring I'm sure, but while writing it I realized that Leo and Hibiki look like they could be twins. I probably noticed that before and I just forgot, because I'm sure I have come to the conclusion before. :/
While writing Lupus' looks, I had to draw her. I couldn't think of what to add to her design, but once she was in front of me I added the shirt with the rabbit symbol. I'll make sure to draw another picture for you guys to see what she looks like.
Harry: I was not in this chapter. That has to be a first.
Enj/Dark: No, I don't think it was… Was it? :/
Natsu: Not even she knows.
Zeref: You try remembering every chapter you wrote in a fanfic this long.
Enj/Dark: Yeah… I don't remember, but I think it may have been sometime when Natsu was fighting Gajeel.
Voldy: That was a long time ago.
Harry: I think she might be right though…I may have been missing in one of those two chapters.
Zeref: You may not have been in them as a person, but I do believe that you were mentioned at least.
Natsu: That means that this chapter might be the first time he was neither mentioned nor seen in. Anyway, please review! XD
