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Chapter Three

*Two Month Skip

"Thank you, Loke. I can't even begin to describe how much you've helped with this." I beemed happily, looking at my hands in pride. Somehow I'd gotten almost three years worth of magic in only two months, Mainly from Zeref giving me my full power a month ago. On top of that, Yukino gave me the remaining two gold keys - apparently, she wanted to try a different magic.

Of course, though, keys themselves don't make me strong. Thanks to Capricorn and Virgo, I've built my physical reflexes - and increased my mana supply. To the point of calling out five zodiac keys for two hours, that is. To top it all off, I somehow managed to get the Celestial God to teach me a bit about teleportation and space magic. Though, I can't use teleportation very well - only a few miles once or twice a day.

"No problem, Lucy. I'll be going now." Loke informed, bowing and disappearing when I nodded in response. I walked away quietly into the woods when I saw the light from the portal fade out entirely. Small noises were heard from all around me - birds singing songs, squirrels running about and climbing up trees, even fawns and deer wandering about. I sang quietly to myself, losing myself in the forest until I got home.

×Timeskip.

When I got home, there was a strange figure on my bed. A boy around my age with short, grayish black hair and a small black star mark under his right eye.
"...Hello?" I asked quietly, nudging him. After shaking a bit, he sat up and rubbed his eyes. When his eyes were finally open, he noticed me and smiled widely.

"Lulu!"

"Lu...lu?" I muttered in response, my eye twitching slightly as he hugged me tightly. "...Who are you?" I asked curiously.

"Zeref made me for you, I'm supposed to be your little brother Xiorion. You can rename me, though!" He yelled happily, chocolate brown eyes shining.

"Z-Zeref? Brother?" I yelped, trying to understand. When I finally did, I sighed, looking back up at him. "Okay. First - you can keep the name, but I'm going to call you Ion. Second - I'll enroll you into my guild tomorrow morning, but first let's get you your own area." I told him slowly, letting him absorb everything before I went toward the hallway and ran my hand over my empty closet door that was next to my bedroom. When I opened the door, it revealed an astonishing bedroom around the same size as mine with a black and white theme to it.
"There," I said happily. Pointing to his room, I waved goodnight. "We'll buy you some more clothes in the morning, and take you to the guild. Have a good nights rest meanwhile, though." I instructed, pointing to his clothes - which were bland. Just a white t-shirt and black jeans, no shoes.

"Sure!" he yelped happily. "But Lulu, before I go to bed, I wanted to tell you about my powers." He yelped again. "My powers are cool," he muttered before giggling and continuing. "I'm the snow god slayer - and I've mastered ice magic as well. I know the teleportation and space magic that you've been training with as well." He con
tinued happily, rubbing the back of his head.
I simply nodded before bidding him goodnight and going back to my bedroom. 'He's such a cinnamon roll,' I thought to myself before falling asleep.