Price To Protect The World

Chapter 13

The small party or rather gathering had to come to an end when the bell rang but Lucy could honestly say that she hadn't been this happy in a while. A very long while. It seems like everyone had decided that they should take time to spend time with Lucy. During the breaks she was approached by Jellal, Meredy and Ultear along with Lamia Scale, Blue pegasus, Qutro Ceberus, Sabertooth, Mermaids heel and even the oracion seis members. Lucy was happy to be 'introduced' to them and get to know them even if she already knew everything they spoke about. It also cemented the fact that she needed to keep fighting so that they could one day go back home. By the end of the day Lucy was exhausted and wanted to sleep but she had other things to do first. Such as meeting with Loke.

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They decided to meet up at a cafe where they could get some food. Which of course meant that Lucy ordered a strawberry milkshake, it was never as good as Mira's were but she would make do.

"I spoke to Crux and even managed to get a message to the King and got a reply," as soon as Lucy heard this she waited with baited breath. "Do you know the reason you can't use celestial magic when you go through the portals?"

"Not really? I mean I thought it was just because there were restrictions," Lucy admitted.

"There are and there is a reason it seems. You know that us celestial spirits live in a different world than you correct?"

"Obviously," Lucy said, it was basic information that everyone knew.

"Well celestial mages have the ability to use keys to breach this world and bring someone out. The world that we are currently in, that your friends are happily living in, is much the same," Loke explained. "If you were to use celestial magic you would pull us from this world instead of the celestial world and that risks the chance of leaving tears in this dimension."

"Which the dragons and demons could use to get into this world which would defeat the whole purpose of it," Lucy said. She had been so glad when the Celestial King offered her his deal that she didn't even bother to ask for all the small details.

"Which means that you'll be able to learn a new magic and use it," Loke smiled but it was a bitter smile. Lucy didn't need to ask about it because she already knew why he had a smile like that. He didn't like that Lucy couldn't rely on them when in their normal world and she was getting hurt because of it.

"I know you don't like it and to tell the truth I don't really like it either. It feels like a betrayal to all of my spirits but I need to do everything I can to put an end to this," Lucy bit her lip.

"It's not a betrayal at all and I know that we will all understand because it means that there is a higher chance of you surviving this," Loke reassured her.

"I know, now I just have to figure out which magic that I can learn and use," Lucy said. There were a lot of options and she wasn't sure which would be the best to learn.

"Why don't we have a meeting with all your spirits and discuss it. Knowing you, you won't be able to choose since there are so many options so we can help you narrow it down. You can also discuss it with Natsu and others," Loke suggested.

"So long as everyone remembers that I can't learn something like dragon slayer or anything," Lucy chuckled. She can already hear Natsu's protests and see his rather adorable pout at being told that information.

"Of course," Loke nodded. That still left a lot of options and they would have to narrow it down so how.

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The options weren't getting narrowed down at all. It started with Lucy's spirits who offered their options. Capricorn believes that she should learn a magic that was largely combat related at its base so maybe a type of requip magic. Sagittarius likes the thought of Lucy learning a long distance magic so maybe guns magic. Virgo wanted her to learn either earth magic or some sort of sadism magic (the last one was firmly shut down instantly). Scorpio started off thinking that she should learn sand magic like his own but a glare from Aquarius had him agreeing with Aquarius that perhaps water magic was for the best. Cancer wanted some sort of hair styling magic but when it was pointed out that it had nothing to do with fighting he changed to watching some sort of cutting magic whether that was requip magic to use sword or simply critical cut magic it didn't matter. Taurus believed that a magic that would enhance Lucy's already wonderful body would be wonderful so muscle magic. Gemi and Mini were determined for Lucy to learn shape shifting or doubling magic so that she could join them in their fun games of changing into other people. Aries wondered if there was some sort of cloud magic but while there was Lucy didn't know anyone that could teach her so Aries stuttered threw suggesting defence magic as a second choice. Loke liked the idea of Lucy learning Light magic but knew that unless it was as powerful as Sting's Holy magic which was a type of light magic it would be no use. Instead he suggested that she learned ice make magic from Gray. Depending on if she took after Gray with magic objects or Lyon with making living objects or even Ultear with her roses, it would be both a good defence and offensive magic to learn. Even her silver keys had piped up, wanting Lucy to learn the magic most similar to their own so they were at a stand still. Everyone had their own opinions and Lucy wasn't sure which magic to choose even more now because she didn't want to disappoint anyone. So now she was going to ask her friends which magic they thought that she should learn and see what their opinions were.