Hey guys! It's me Firestorm40 here with a whole new story for you all! I plan to go back to my other stories soon, I just wanted to try out this one. Let me know what you guys think. So without further ado, Enjoy!
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The sun shone brightly over the port town of Hargeon, clouds floated lazily through the sky and there was a faint smell of sea salt in the air. A large steam train pulled into the local station with a loud whistle and the sound of pistons releasing pressure. Almost as soon as the train reached a complete stop, one of the carriage doors was nearly ripped off of its hinges as one of the passengers eagerly leaped out with an excited yell.
"YEEEEAH!"
A sliver haired teen with electric blue eyes landed on the platform getting more than a few strange looks from the locals and other passengers. He was wearing a black, high-collared sleeveless shirt; Over this, he wore a jacket, this one half-zipped and white, with black on the bottom and a black hem on each sleeve. This jacket's collar was gray and folded back. Two wrist bands with a red edges and a white middle line were on his arms. He wore dark brown pants have very large, black pockets, and are held up by a red belt belt. His white shoes were gray on the bottom and top, with three black stripes on each side and yellow laces.
Finally, he was carrying a blue bag and also wore a necklace with a golden locket hanging from the chain. The most surprising was that he had three whisker markings on each of his cheeks.
The boy stretched happily with a huge grin on his face. "Finally made it. This must be Hargeon Town." He looked around for a moment before rubbing his head. "Looks more like a fishing town. Oh well, might as well look around for a bit."
The boy reached for his neck and traces his fingers along the surface of the locket, "I wish you were here with me...Lu."
Sighing, the slivernette clutched his bag and then slung it over his shoulder. "Alright, time to find that guild." Just as he was about to walk off, he spotted a strange pink haired boy laying on the hall floor, "Ugh..." The pinkette's skin was quite pale and he was groaning badly. The slivernette helped him to his feet by placing the sick boy's hand over his shoulder, "Here, let me help you up." The pink haired boy smiled at the assistance before his cheeks puff up like balloons and he looked like he was almost going....to....to.... "Uh, let's get you to a bathroom first!"
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Elsewhere on the other side of town, inside a magic shop, a young girl by the age of 16 or 17 was talking to an elder shop keep about something. She had a curvaceous figure and from the bottom up, she was wearing black calf high boots, a blue miniskirt, a sleeveless white zipped up shirt with a blue cross design and a black wristband on her right wrist. there was also a ribbon in her blonde hair, holding a lump of it tied into a side ponytail on the top right side of her head. Around her waist was a brown belt, as well as a couple of keys and a black whip with a heart-shaped point on a holster. Also, she wore a necklace with a sliver gem hanging from a string. She even had amazing vibrant brown eyes, as she looked at the elder merchant in front of her. This girl's name was Lucy.
"Huh!? You mean there's only one magic shop in this whole town!?" Lucy exclaimed, as she couldn't believe what she was just told.
"Afraid so, this town has always had more fishing folks then magic folks" The shop keep answered, causing the girl to sigh, "In fact, there are less than one-tenth of the people in town can use any magic, so I build this shop for wizards who happen to be passing through." The girl then let out a breath of air and hung her head in disappointment, "Aww, man ! So this whole trip was a waste of time " she said to herself in defeat. 'And doesn't appear 'he's' been here either.....I guess I'll have to look somewhere else.'
Seeing her disappointed state, the shop keep tried to reassure her " Now, now. Don't be like that, little lady. We most of the latest magic items" He then pulled out a small pink object from behind the counter to show the girl. "For example, this color magic that appears to be very popular among the female population. No matter what you're feeling that day," he proceeded to touch the circle in the middle of the object, causing a green magic circle to appear and his clothes green too "Your clothes will change colors to match your mood". The old merchant was so caught up in his own world, that didn't notice Lucy wasn't listening, but instead thinking to herself. "I already have one of those" she replied absentmindedly to herself, "What I'm really looking for are some powerful gate keys. You wouldn't happened to have a magic key, would you?"
"Hmm. As a matter of fact, I think I do. Give me a minute." The shop keeper said as he looked around of something that fit Lucy's description. He then pulled out a brown box and opened it, which showed a silver key inside. The blonde's eyes widen with excitement when she saw. "You're looking for a Celestial Key, right?"
"Of course, I am." Said Lucy. "I would love have this and add it to my collection!"
The shop keeper then said, "Well, I'll give this to you for twenty thousand jewel."
Lucy then grabbed the box, hugged it between her breasts and said, "Thank you, sir. I'm so happy that..." Her excited facial expression turned to a look of both confusion and slight disappointment. "Wait, how much did you say it was?"
The shop keeper then said, "About twenty thousand jewels." Lucy's heart shattered when she heard that, because she didn't have a whole lot of money. So she thought of only one thing to do in a situation like this.
"Aw, does it have to be that pricey?" Lucy asked as she got on top of the counter and very seductively with her left hand behind her head and her right hand on her hip, making the shop keeper sweat a bit. "I mean, you wouldn't charge a beautiful girl like me twenty thousand for a simple little key, would you?" The shop keeper then started to think.
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The slivernette boy was now walking down the street with the pink haired boy who looked much better after they exited the train, "Wow, I didn't know that someone could have such a major motion sickness." The sliver haired teen stated.
"Yeah, if you hadn't helped me out I would have been stuck there for more rides!" The pink haired boy said in a fearful tone.
The sliver haired teen chuckled a little at his new friend's dramatic words before recomposing himself, "So anyway-"
"Natsu! I found you!" A blue cat suddenly appeared and flied up to the pink haired boy. "I saw you still on the train and-"
"Cool, talking cat!" The slivernette exclaimed.
"AHHHH!" the blue cat screamed in fright from hearing the sliver haired boy yelling.
The slivernette then rubbed his head sheepishly, "Sorry about that. It's been a while since I seeing talking animals...or flying blue cats..." he muttered the last part quietly.
Natsu nods in understanding, "It's fine! This is Happy, my friend. Happy this guy is... uhh...hey, what was your name?"
"Roxas...Roxas Eragon." Roxas grinned happily. "Anyway, I have to go now so I'll see you two later." he said as he turned around and began walking away.
Natsu waves at him as did Happy, "Hope we will meet again soon Roxas! Next time, I'll pay you back for saving my life!"
Roxas made his way through the port and began to look around the town. "It's a real shame Lu isn't here. She probably would've spent most of her time looking for a magic shop." He laughed a bit as he began to walk across a bridge and kept looking around.
At the same time, Lucy was walking across the bridge from the opposite direction, but with a scowl on her face.
"I can't believe this." Lucy said as she walked down the bridge in frustration. "That guy only lowed the jewels to fifteen thousand. Is five thousand really all my sex appeal is worth!?"
The two teens where so caught up in their own worlds that they weren't paying attention to where they were going until they collided into each other, with Roxas landing on Lucy.
"Oww...that hurt." Roxas groaned, as he tried to use his hands to push himself up. That is until he felt something soft. "Huh? What's this?" He then squeezed the object. "It's squishy." Roxas gave the object a few more squeezes before realization hit him. "Wait, is this..."
Slowly looking up, Roxas realized that he was unintentionally groping someone breasts, or in this case Lucy's breasts.
Lucy took notice of the position they were in, as well as where Roxas hands where. They stared at each other for a few seconds before Lucy did the one thing any girl would do.
"Kyaaaa!" She screamed, slapping Roxas so hard that spit flew out of his mouth and he was sent flying to the opposite side of the bridge with a crash.
"Ouch!" Roxas said, sitting up a bit before rubbing his left cheek, which had a red hand print of it. He then looked over at Lucy, who was now covering her chest while glaring at Roxas with red embarrassed face.
"W-what the hell?!. Who do you think you are, trying to cope a feel!" Lucy screamed at him.
With the pain in his cheek now gone, Roxas wave his hands in front of him. "Ahh! M-My bad! That was an accident! I didn't mean to grope them!"
"Yeah right!. I don't believe that!" Lucy shouted, before pointing a finger at him. " I bet you're some pervert who falls on girls on purpose just to touch their chests!"
"It really was am accident, alright? Look, I wasn't looking where I was going either. Then all of a sudden I-" Roxas began, until he caught sight of the sliver gem hanging around Lucy's neck. The slivernette's eyes narrowed as he looked at it for a second before looking back up at the blonde. As he looked at Lucy closely, suddenly an image of a small young girl with a pink dress and blonde hair tied up in a small ponytail flashed through his mind. His eyes widened as a name came to his mind.
"Lucy, is that you?" Roxas asked in shock. "Are you Lucy Heartfilia by any chance?"
Lucy looked shocked that the boy somehow knew her name. "H-How did you know my name?" she questioned in a scared tone, reaching for her keys, just in case.
Roxas looked shocked for a second before a huge grin appeared on his face."It's me, Roxas! Roxas Eragon." He told her before showing her the locket hanging around his neck. "You gave this too me when we were little, remember?"
Lucy froze at the name. 'Roxas? It couldn't be...' She thought as she closely looked at the boy for a second. Soon an image of of a young boy with the same sliver hair and eyes popped into her head, wearing the same locket. then widened to their maximum. His eyes widened when he spoke up. "R-Roxas?"
"Yo." Roxas waved with the grin still on his face.
Still shocked, Lucy slowly got up from the ground before walking over to Roxas and...started to pull his cheeks.
"What are you doing?" Roxas asked in confusion.
"Checking to see if you're the real Roxas, because I still don't believe I'm seeing you." Lucy replied, pulling the boy's cheeks a bit more.
"Of course it's me!" Roxas told her, laughing at the blonde's antics.
Lucy stopped pulling his cheeks and thought for a minute. "Let me try something..." She said, reaching over and rubbing the whisker markings on his right cheek, causing him to purr. "I see you still got magic hands, Lu."
Lucy stopping rubbing his cheek before she leapt at Roxas and hugged him tightly. Roxas, happy to see the girl, hugged her back. He then felt Lucy's shaking a bit, indicating that she was crying. "Lu?" Roxas asked, but Lucy just clung tighter to him.
"It's you! It's really you! I missed you so much." Lucy muttered in the slivernette's shirt as she continued to sob.
Roxas smiled brightly at the girl. "I missed you too." He said, as he rubbed the blonde's back. He then let go of Lucy and held her at arm's length. "You've really changed a lot, Lucy. No wonder I wasn't able to recognize you at first, you became even more beautiful." Roxas said with a toothy grin.
Lucy then gained hue of red to her cheeks at the comment before forcing it down. "You've changed too...the last time I saw you, you had short hair and would always drag me around to explore." She giggled.
"Those were good times." Roxas said with a chuckle. "How long has it been since we've seen each other?"
"About 10 years." Lucy said, rubbing her arm.
"Oh yeah..." Roxas said, before the two fell into silence. Not that it was awkward.
Roxas then perked back up. "Hey, how bout we go grab a bite to eat and catch up?"
Lucy smiled. "Sounds great." With that, the duo headed off across the bridge.
"So how have you been doing after I was...gone?" Roxas asked, rubbing his head.
Lucy looked down at the ground. "It's been really depressing. Ever since Dad kicked you out of the house, I couldn't help but worry about you. I always wondered what you were and hoped that you were safe. I was afraid something had happened to you. Even the servants were worried about you." Lucy said. "I tried to get Dad to allow you to come back, but he always refused. Ms. Spetto and the others were really sad that they couldn't do anything to prevent it."
"Mmm...Well, how bout I pay them a visit later? Maybe she would be happy with a surprise visit." Roxas said with a grin.
"I'm sure they would love that, Roxas. Mom would too..." Lucy said as a sad smile formed on her face as she thought of her deceased mother.
Roxas' smile instantly disappeared at that bit of news. He stopped walking and looked over to see Lucy fingering the necklace. "How are you holding up?" asked Roxas.
"It still hurts, but not as much as it used to." Lucy explained. "Besides, I know she's in a better place and still watching over me."
Roxas nodded slowly as he listened to her. He remembered Lucy's mother, Layla. She was a very kind woman and the closest thing he had to a mom.
"I'm sorry. I should have been there to comfort you more." Roxas said.
"It's alright Roxas, there was nothing that could be done." Lucy said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "Anyway, sometime after you left, I couldn't stand living at that house with Dad anymore, so I left."
Roxas became quiet for a moment. He remembered Lucy's father, Jude too well. The man put all his effort into his work, that he never spent time with his family.
"Roxas?" Lucy called out, noticing how quiet he got.
"Huh? Oh, sorry, Lu. I just got lost in thought." Roxas said, sheepishly. "So what are you doing here in Hargeon?"
Lucy pulled out the sliver key that she bought at the magic shop and began to explain. After hearing her story, Roxas tried not to laugh. "So you tried get a better price for Nikora's key?"
Lucy pouted at him. "He was going to make me spend 20000J! I had to do something. But all I ended up getting was a 1000J discount. Stupid old man."
Roxas then sent her a grin. "Well, if it makes you feel any better, I think you're a lot sexier than 20000J."
Lucy's face turned bright red at that before she lightly shoved Roxas. "Sh-Shut up." She muttered, looking away to hide her blush. "Anyway, what what about you? What have you been up too? Did you you ever find Arceus?"
Roxas gave off a quiet chuckle. "No, I looked everywhere for him, but no luck. After I left, I became wandering mage, I went from town to town to explore and perform jobs that people don't want to pay the extra added cost of hiring a guild to do it. Though I hear about one guild in particular. I was on my way there to join it."
Lucy was about to ask him which guild he was talking about when suddenly, they heard a commotion nearby as a group of fangirls ran by.
"Did you hear? The great fire mage Salamander is here!"
"No way! Really!?"
"Salamander!"
Lucy gasped "Salamander? THE Salamander from Fairy Tail is here?" She squealed in excitement and ran off towards the crowd.
"Oh yeah, I've heard of him." Roxas said, putting a finger to his chin. "He's a mage that uses Fire magic."
"Come on, let's go check it out!" Lucy said, grabbing the slivernette's arm and followed after the fangirls.
"Hey! Wait a second!" Roxas called out. In his mind, he knew something didn't feel right about all this.
When they reached the crowd, they fought their way to the front and found a man wearing fancy robes signing autographs.
Roxas' eyes narrowed at the guy. "That's not the Salamander." He said and looked over at Lucy, only to frown when he saw her eyes had hearts in them as she sighed dreamily. 'You've gotta be kidding me...' Roxas looked back at the popular man again and felt something weird in the air. 'This feeling... A spell?' Roxas thought as he put one hand on Lucy's shoulder, then brought forth some magic from his vast reserves.
With a burst of magic, the weird feeling disappeared and he looked at Lucy again to find her now glaring at the man in the middle of the crowd.
"Are you alright, Lu?" Roxas asked with a raised eyebrow.
"That guy is using an illegal magic called Charm." Lucy said without looking at him.
"Yeah, I noticed." Roxas nodded.
While they weren't looking, a boy with pink hair had snuck in through the crowd and ran up to Salamander. "Igneel! Is that you?" He shouted, gaining the attention of the whole crowd, including Roxas and Lucy. Roxas then realized that it was the same guy from the train.
As soon as the boy's excitement had come, it vanished and he started to walk away in disappointment. "Another dead end huh?"
The crowd didn't seem to like this and began to beat him up, and Roxas couldn't help but laugh. "Poor guy, he should have known better than to mess with fan-girls."
Seemingly satisfied with their beat-down, the girls walked away in a huff.
Roxas approached the man and looked at him closely. "Hey! Don't I know you from somewhere? You look really familiar-"
"Well I have to take my leave now!" He was cut off by the 'Salamander'. Who flew up into the air with purple magic, but not without giving a court wink at Lucy in particular. "I hope you all consider my offer of joining me for a party on my boat at the port!" He laughed as he flew into the sky.
Lucy began retching in disgust. "I can't believe I was fooled by Charms magic! What a creep!" She continued retching as the crowd dispersed. After that, the duo walked over to the fallen boy and helped him up.
"Hey, you okay? That was quite the beating you took." Lucy asked in concern.
"Yeah thanks, what was their problem? Name's Natsu by the way." He greeted with a bright smile.
Returning the smile, Lucy introduced themselves. "I'm Lucy, and this is Roxas. Those people were under the effects of an illusion spell, so don't take it personally."
"Yo, man. Good to see you again!" Natsu said, grinning at Roxas.
"Same here." Roxas grinned back.
Lucy looked surprised that two already knew each other, though before she could ask, both Roxas and Natsu's stomachs growled rather loudly.
"Ugg..." Roxas grumbled while holding his stomach. "I was in such a hurry this morning I forgot to eat."
"Same..." Natsu said, also holding his growling stomach.
Lucy sighed and pointed towards a restaurant. "We can talk while we eat if you want."
"Yes please!" They both said in unison.
"Can I have some fish?"
Lucy looked down to find a little blue cat wearing a backpack.
"A talking cat!?" Lucy yelled out in surprise.
"Hey Happy. Good to see you again" Roxas bending down to the cat.
"Aye!" The cat replied, holding up a paw.
"Nice to meet you." Roxas said, shaking the cat's paw and casually started to walk towards the restaurant with Natsu and Happy, leaving Lucy standing there at a loss of words.
"He accepted a talking cat, just like that?"
Roxas looked back and saw Lucy just standing there. "You okay, Lu?" He asked her.
Hearing him, Lucy snapped out of her stupor. "Huh? Oh yeah. I'm alright." She then ran up to caught up with him.
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Roxas was eating a small pizza while Natsu ate... every single meal from the menu. Lucy watches in both disgust and amazement at speed and tenacity of the pink haired boy's hunger,
"Wow I didn't know there was another bigger eater like me around!" Roxas chuckled.
Lucy giggled as she enjoyed the two boy's comedic interaction before turning to Roxas with a smile, "Thanks for helping me out back there, Roxas, I didn't realize that the fake Salamander was using an illegal charm ring."
"No problem." Roxas said, grinning at her.
"Are you two a couple?" Happy asked, eating a fish.
Lucy blushed bright red at that and shook her head. "N-No! We're just friends is all!" She stuttered out.
Roxas then looked over at Natsu. "So how did you know he wasn't the real Salamander?" He asked the pinkette as he wolfed down food.
"Because the one we were looking for is Igneel." Happy replied.
Getting a little depressed look on his face, Natsu took a small bite out of a sandwich as he turned to Happy, "We heard there was a Salamander in this town, so we came, but it turned out to be someone else."
"We could tell he wasn't a real Salamander just by looking..." the blue cat added in, causing Roxas to raise an eyebrow in confusion and Lucy to sweatdrop.
"I was so sure that it'd be Igneel...man, what a letdown..." Natsu muttered as he took another bite.
"S-see he isn't a real Salamander just by looking? What do you mean?" asked Lucy, still bewildered from what the two just said.
"Yeah, from what I heard you guys say, it sounded like it was just some person..." Roxas began, "What else could this Igneel be?"
"Hmmm..." mumbled Natsu as he became a little confused, "We aren't looking for a man...Igneel is a real dragon..."
"W-WHAAT!?" was all Lucy could get out as she began to think to herself, 'Okay...I'm sitting here with a talking cat, and a crazy person...what a day!'
"That's really cool." Roxas said with a grin.
"AND DON'T MAKE FACES LIKE YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF THAT!" finished Lucy as Natsu and Happy sat there dumbfounded. Lucy sweatdrop at their new friends' simple minded understanding while Roxas just chuckled. Roxas then places a huge amount of money on the table and stood up, "Well, at any rate, We should going now. Half of the money is for Natsu's meal and the other half is for Lucy."
Lucy smiles a bit crazily while looking at the money, but still manages to look back and ask, "How come you're giving me money, Roxas? Not that I'm complaining."
Roxas chuckles, "That's for the money you lost at that magic shop. See you guys around." With that he and Lucy got up and waved goodbye.
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"Hey, Roxas?" Lucy asked, as she was walking through a park with her friend.
Roxas looked over at her. "Yeah, what's up Lu?"
"Earlier you said you were going to join a guild, which one was it?" Lucy asked, though she secretly hoped it was the one she was trying to join. She just reunited with her childhood friend and she didn't want to separate from him again.
"Oh yeah, I was planning on joining Fairy Tail." Roxas said with a grin.
Lucy looked at him in shock. "Really!? That's the guild I want to join too! It's the reason I'm on this trip!"
Roxas chuckled. "Wow, what a coincidence. Hey, why don't you come with me? That way we can hang out like we used to."
If it was possible, Lucy's grin smiled grew even bigger. "Really!? Alright!" she exclaimed happily, pumping a fist into the air, much to Roxas' amusement.
They were both startled when a man walked out of the bushes behind them. "What was that?You guys want to join Fairy Tail?" Salamander asked coolly.
Roxas pointed an accusing finger at him. "Dude! Not cool! Who randomly comes out of bushes like that!?"
Lucy folded her arms and glared at the man. "What do you want, Salamander? If you think that Charm spell will work again, you're dead wrong."
Salamander smirked." I heard you wanted to join Fairy Tail, is this true?" He asked with a glint in his eye, one that Roxas instantly disliked.
"I don't like this guy, Lu. Let's leave." Roxas said and started walking away, but he was quickly cut off by Salamander.
"Wait wait wait!" He said frantically before regaining his cool. "I'm having a party tonight. If you show up I can probably get the master to let you join."
"I can join Fairy Tail!?" Lucy beamed, but Roxas seemed skeptical.
"I don't know..." Something sounded a little off about all of this and Roxas didn't like.
"Yes, I am a famous mage from that guild after all. Just come to my party and you can join." He said and he started walking away, but not before glancing back at Roxas. "Oh, and just the lady, no men allowed." With that he disappeared back into the bushes.
'Well I didn't want to go to your stupid party anyways...' Roxas thought with a scowl and turned to Lucy, who was just standing there.
"Are you alright, Lu?" Roxas asked, putting a hand on the blonde's shoulder.
"If I go to his party I can join Fairy Tail." Lucy spoke before looking up at the slivernette. "But what about you? You also want to join Fairy Tail and I don't want join without you."
"Don't believe what the guy said, Lu." Roxas said, as he glared at the place Salamander stood. "He seemed sketchy. If he really wanted to get you into Fairy Tail, why would he need you to come to a party where only girls are just allowed?"
"Yeah, that's true." Lucy said, when she suddenly got an idea. "Alright how about this? I go to the party, act like bait so he can take me to his ship. That way, I can figure out where he is and you can follow from a distance."
"Are you sure, Lu?" Roxas asked.
Lucy turned and smiled at him. "Yeah. Also, I know you'll be there to protect me and save in case he tries something."
Roxas just shook his head at her with a smile of his own. "Alright then. But one other thing..." He said, getting Lucy's full attention and pointed at the necklace around her neck. "In case something goes wrong, pump some magic into the gem, and I'll be there as quickly as I can."
"Okay." Lucy said, clutching the necklace tightly.
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Lucy, who was now wearing a maroon dress with black high heels and a red ribbon tying her side ponytail, was walking around with Salamander. She then said, "Wow, this is pretty nice." 'For a someone who uses Charm spells on people...'
"It sure is." Salamander said as he sat down at a throne in the ship. He then looked at a woman in a blue dress and had brown hair. "Hey, make yourself useful and get the lady here a drink."
"Of course, Salamander." Said the woman. "I would do anything for you."
"Actually, I'm not thirsty." Said Lucy. "So, you'll get me into Fairy Tail, right?"
"What?" Asked Salamander. He then realized that he did promise her that. "I...I mean, yeah, I...I can totally get you in."
This made Lucy suspicious, so she asked him, "Uh huh, well, since you're a member of the number one guild in Fiore, what's the name of their model?" Lucy knew the answer was Mirajane, a white haired beauty, but she wanted to know if he knew.
Salamander then started to sweat and asked, "Um...Their model?" Lucy nodded yes to him. "I...I've known her for a while. I...I'm not that good with names though. I...I think it was..."
Then the doors open and a man walked in, carrying unconscious forms of the women who had been invited to the 'party'. Lucy, with shock on her face, said, "What's going on?" She asked, standing up.
Then one of the bandits came in and said, "We got two more hotties, just like told us to do, boss."
Salamander, with rage in his eyes, screamed, "YOU IDIOT! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING THEM TO THE LOWER DECK, NOT IN HERE!"
"I knew it!" Lucy yelled, catching Salamander's attention. "Roxas was right! You were never going to get me into Fairy Tail! You were just going to make me into a love slave! Well, it's not gonna happen!"
Salamander then smirked and said, "And how are you going to stop me? I have you keys." He then held up Lucy's key ring, shocking the blonde because she swore that she put them in her purse. "I gotta say, never thought I would've come across a Celestial Summoning wizard before. But without these keys, you can't summon any of them, I'd say you're pretty much powerless."
'Think again.' Lucy thought as she looked down at her necklace. Touching it, she began to pump some magic into it, to signal Roxas.
Salamander then looked out the window and said, "So, here's what's going to happen, you're going to fall in love with me and become my slave and you're keys, well, let's just say they're be going a lost treasure at the bottom of the water." With that, he threw Lucy's keys out the window, though if he had paid attention, he would've noticed they never made a splash.
Suddenly Roxas broke the windows of the ship and knocked out a few of the men, before setting his gaze on Bora. He then held up Lucy's keys with his right hand. "You know, it's rude to take things that don't belong to you." He said, twirling they keys.
Lucy was so happy to see him that she said, "Roxas."
Roxas then turned to the girl, smiled and said, "You okay, Lu?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Lucy nodded.
"You?" Bora asked as he panicked in terror.
Roxas then tossed the keys to Lucy and said, "I believe these belong to you." As the rest of the men were about to attack, Roxas seemingly stood there, before some of them dropped to the floor with bloody noses of missing some teeth.
Roxas cracked his knuckles and said, "Wow. Seven hard punches and most of your crew in already out cold . Jeez, and you call yourself a strong wizard when you couldn't even sense my near the ship. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised at a fake."
Salamander's expression changed to surprised and scared. Lucy, however, was confused, so she asked, "What are you talking about?"
"I know I seen this guy before. He's not Salamander." Roxas said as he pointed at the faker, shocking Lucy. "We actually met the real Salamander, Lu. He had pink hair and a scaly scarf. You have neither of those things. I bet you don't even have the red Fairy Tail guild mark on your right shoulder like he does."
"Oh crap." One of the bandits said. "He's on to us, Bora."
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Bora yelled in anger.
Lucy then said, "Wait a minute. Pink hair? Scaly Scarf?" She then remember Natsu, who she just met recently and was in shock. "Natsu!?"
Bora, who now had a vein about to pop out of his forehead and dark energy coming out of his body, said, "That's it. I've had enough of you!" He then snapped his fingers and more men came out of nowhere. Roxas and Lucy stood back to back, seeing that they were surrounded. But Roxas knew he could take them.
Th crew was about to attack, when a few fire balls come from the side and hit all of them, blowing them away.
Natsu then came through with Happy holding his back, because if he were to be on the ship, he would get sick. Natsu then saw the Roxas and Lucy, "Hey, are you guys alright?"
"Natsu! Happy!" Lucy exclaimed. She then looked at the Fox Slayer. "Oh yeah Roxas, you were right about this guys. Nit only was he an imposter, but he was going to me and the other girls his slaves."
When Roxas heard this, he became very still and looked at Bora. He then said, "So you took the name of another person so you can manipulate the hearts of others, lied to Lu about getting her into Fairy Tail and try to turn her into a slave...."
"So what?!" Yelled Bora. "They're just women. They deserve to be used! Nothing more, nothing less!" That was the wrong thing to say in front of Roxas.
"You stupid..." Roxas said as he started glowing white. "...selfish..." The ship then started to rumble, making ever one confused.
"Wha...what's going on?" Bora asked in terror. "Is this magic coming from him?"
"...heartless..." Roxas said as he started glowing brighter. Natsu, thinking it was something dangerous, grabbed Lucy while Happy took them both and flew away. Bora panicked and used his fire magic to get himself out of their leaving his crew behind. "...BASTARD!" His entire body as well as inside the ship was engulf in the orange light coming out of his body.
Happy manage to teleport close to the docks, but not close enough. Happy realized that they were inches away from the docks and said, "Oh, sorry Lucy!" Natsu shouted as Lucy the started falling.
"Don't worry! I got this!" Lucy yelled as she took out of her gold keys with had the symbol for constellation Aquarius. She then yelled, "OPEN! GATE OF THE WATER BEARER: AQUARIUS!" When the key hit the water, a vortex appear and then turned into a wave that carried the her to a shore of a beach right by the docks.
"It wasn't really me." Lucy explain. "It was actually...oh no." Her face then turned to horror. She then saw a beautiful mermaid with long light blue hair, dark blue eyes, a black wave tattoo above her bust and a blue mermaid tail. She wore a blue bikini top with white outlines, a light blue skirt like clothe held by a gold belt, gold arm bonds, gold wrist bands, a gold head band with a silver front holding a purple raindrop jewel, and crystal earrings.
Aquarius then said in anger, "I thought I told you not to drop my key!"
"I'm sorry." Said Lucy.
"Honestly, I can't stand you sometimes. It's amazing that I still have a contract with you." Said Aquarius. "What do you want now?"
Lucy began to stutter, "I'm...uh..."
"Lucy!" yelled Natsu from a distance as he flew with Happy holding his back. As he landed, he asked, "Are you alright? Sorry about dropping you."
"It's fine." Lucy waved him off before realization hit her. "You!" Lucy said, catching Natsu's attention. "You're the real Salamander!"
"Aye!" Said Happy.
Aquarius was about to head back until she sensed something coming. Then in a flash, Roxas appeared, catching the other's off guard. He stood on the ground, his sliver bangs shadowing his eyes.
Lucy saw the silhouette of her friend in the dust cloud he created. She then asked, "Roxas?" When the dust finally clear and Roxas lifted his head, everyone saw that Roxas was different, well as far as his eyes were. The once crystal blue orbs were now orange gold with the pupil slitted like a cat.
Roxas turned and looked over at his friends, who were shocked at his eyes. He then asked, "Hey are you guys alright?" He then looked at himself and was shock to see what he looked like.
'Interesting. The guy looks really familiar.' Aquarius thought before going back to where ever Lucy took her from.
"That's it!" Yelled a male voice, catching the groups attention and they saw Bora, who was excreting purple flames. "I've had it up to here with all of you!"
Natsu cracks his fist eagerly, "Alright, now it's-" "Hold it."
Roxas interrupts Natsu as he looks at Bora, "Hey, Natsu...let me handle this. I want to see if this guys is even a warm up."
The boy pouts and huffs, "Fine, but only because you payed for my meal earlier."
Roxas smiles at the granted permission, "Alright, come on. I don't go easy on people who mess with others minds or my best friend."
The faker smirks as he sends powerful stream of purple fire. Roxas stood there calmly, not moving an inch as the flame impacted with him.
Lucy eyes widen as she saw the boy take the hit! But was further shocked her was that Roxas had a hand out to stop the blast and stood in the same place uninjured.
"What!? How!?" Bora exclaimed in shock.
Roxas smirked while cracking his neck, "I admit, that your spell packed a bigger punch then I anticipated... but it's no match for this!" Roxas' body began to glow orange and was radiated with lots of magical energy, "Come at me, bro!"
Lucy eyes widened awe and the magic she was sensing. 'That magic...it feels so familiar!'
Seeing the powerful mage before him, Bora became very nervous as he jumped in the air and made a magical circle appear while he was in midair, "Providence Flame Buster!" The spell took the form of purple fireball that was as huge as the ship that had almost hit Roxas previously.
Roxas then said, "Prepare to get wretched." before his fists were engulfed in white-blue flames. The fireball came flying at him, but Roxas punched through it, causing it to explode.
"Whoa, look at him go." Said Happy as Natsu cheered Roxas on while Lucy was looking at Roxas. She couldn't believe how strong Roxas was since she last saw him. It made her admire him a lot more than she already did.
"Nine-Tails' Whip Attack!" Roxas yelled as nine blue, flame-like magic tails appeared behind him and sent Bora flying away.
"JUST DIE ALREADY!" Bora yelled, barely getting his feet back on the ground as he created another fire based attack. "RED SHOWER!" Roxas deflected the fire balls aimed at him without any trouble.
Bora then asked in fear and shock, "What the hell are you?"
Roxas smirked at him. "Name's Roxas Eragon. A Nine-Tailed Fox Slayer."
He then engulfed his fist in blue flames and yelled, "Nine-Tails' Sacred Fist!" A silhouette of a massive fox with nine tails appeared behind Roxas as he then charged at Bora and punched him so hard that he flew a couple buildings and finally hit a bell.
Roxas landed on the ground, smiling at his handiwork, "Hmm...Not bad, but you could use use more training." His orange gold eyes then changed back to their natural blue color.
"Roxas!" Lucy said as she did a charging hug at Roxas, which made him grin. "You were amazing."
Roxas then sheepishly smiled and said "Thanks, Lu."
"Awesome, that was cool! Hey, Roxas, let's fight!" Natsu yells, not noticing the angry mob coming for them.
Roxas jumps down while looking at Natsu who thought he was going to take his offer to fight, "Natsu Dragneel...the Salamander of Fairy Tail... I'll take up that match..."
"Sweet!" Natsu cheered.
"I hate to interrupt, but the Royal Army are coming." The group then saw what Happy was talking about and saw that Roxas destroyed a lot of stuff just because of one punch and the towns' people are pissed.
"Whoops...I think I went a bit overboard." Roxas said, rubbing his head.
"Ah oh." Natsu said as he grabbed Roxas and Lucy's wrist and started running. "Let's get going, Happy!"
"Aye, sir." Happy said as he grew his wings and followed Natsu and Lucy
"Hey, wait a minute!" Roxas yelled as he and Lucy ran with Natsu while an angry mob of people ran after them.
"Where are we going?" Lucy asked.
Natsu gave them a toothy grin. "To Fairy Tail!"
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