A/N: This is a major rewrite.   

Lucy is no longer the Wizard Saint. I am making her a special case wizard that helps out the council.

Sorry for the inconvenience~

Please enjoy? 😢

Walking through the streets of Crocus, Lucy kept her senses on high alert. Being aware of her surroundings and batting every chances that she could come across, Lucy continues on her mission of key hunts and finding the missing links on her prophecy.

54 keys are now in her possessions. 6 golden keys and 48 silver keys had been collected and added to her ongoing, progressive collection.

As thrilling and exciting this adventure has been so far, it also has been frustrating for the lack of break and vacations. Almost day and night, Lucy had been the victim of a ruthless sleep deprivation. The prophecy that they had spoke of, the prophecy of the future, the celestial spirits were and still are restless. They had been putting pressure on the blonde girl on finding all of the keys before it was too late, to find the keys and find the missing links to the prophecy.

The pressure of the mission that was bestowed to the girl, and the trust that her mother had shown, Lucy vowed to do what she can do. She won't disappoint the spirit of her mother that may be watching her, and she'll make her parents proud.

Then she sensed a flare of magic and begun to surround Lucy. Lucy stopped dead in her tracks as she stared into an invisible wall that she knew was there. She raised her hand and touched the invisible wall, seeing a reaction of purple runes dancing in the air.

Then a swarm of soldiers in white appeared from behind the buildings and begun to surround the cloaked girl outside of the barrier.

"Who are you?" Lucy demanded, observing each soldiers that had their weapons raised.

A particular man that wore a different attire than the rest of the soldiers stepped forward with confidence. "I am Lahar of the council."

Lucy studied the man a bit more with a criticizing glaze. "And care to explain why you would go such length on containing me? As I recall, I haven't create a havoc on you people." Lucy scowled. She hated being contained like this, and she felt like it was an insult to be trapped like this, after everything she had gone through.

"I had been sent by the council to receive a mage named Gamma Ibis. I reckon that is you?" Lahar asked with his questioningly glaze set on the cloak girl.

Lucy sighed, remembering when she had first heard of the name that she had no control over. "I am the person that you seek. What you want from me?"

"The council would like to invite you to be in their presence."

Lucy continued to glare at the man beneath her hood as she took one step backwards, wondering if the intentions of the council were just as bad as the mages that had been trying to target her.

"As far as I know, they only want to offer you something. It isn't anything related to the destruction of your battles with other celestial mages. Don't worry, you're in the clear." Lahar reassured, sensing the tensed muscles under the cloak.

Lucy stared at the man some more before taking his word for it. "Alright. I'll over there then." She turned and opened her void.

"Wait! I was ordered to escort you back to the council!" Lahar cut in before Lucy could disappear from sight.

Lucy looked over her shoulder to glare at the man. "Don't worry. I'll tell them that you did your job." She jumped into her void before Lahar or the other soldiers could do anything else to her.

It only took Lucy three minutes to appear before the building of the councilmen.  The building resembled a giant castle, surrounded by protective shields and soldiers on patrol. Lucy walked to the front of the castle and made her way pass curious soldiers that merely watched the cloak girl sauntered past them.

Lucy  continued on and walked past the set of the doors that opened on their own when she approached it. Walking past the set of doors, she spots a strange, humanoid creature that resembled a frog, walking past door with sacks of books in its hands.

"Excused me, froggie. But can give me directions to where the councilmen are? Lucy called out, halting the frog creature in it's walk.

The frogman turned to Lucy with a scowl when she had said 'forggie'. "First, don't call me 'froggie. Second, why are you here?"

"I was sent." Lucy replied, trying her best not to stare that those weird eyes, even if the frogman couldn't see her staring at him.

The frogman seems to accept her answer, and told Lucy the directions on where the room of the council is. After receiving the direction from the frog, Lucy bid him farewell and made her way to the councilmen.

Couple minutes later, Lucy arrived at a giant set of doors. Without knocking, she pushed the doors opened and walked in, seeing at least 10 councilmen sitting in their seats, talking amongst each other. Some complaining, and some just casual talking.

The talks quieted down as they registered another presence in their room. The men turned to the girl with a questioning look.

"And you are?" One of the council man asked with frown.

"Gamma Ibis. Is what that they decided to call me. Now, I am here after being flanked by your man, Lahar."

"Ah, Gamma Ibis. We've been expecting you. But where is Lahar?" The other council men nodded in agreement, wondering where Lahar was.

"I  merely went ahead of them. But Lahar and his men did their job...now that I am here. Now my only question remains...why am I here?" Lucy inquired, getting straight to the point.

The council men was silent  for a moment before first councilman spoke up. "Gamma Ibis. We had heard many stories about you."

"And...?"

"We want to offer you a proposal."

"A proposal?"

"We wish to appoint you as a special mage that complete a mission given by us. Rewards will be high and you will have more privilege that regular mages do not."

"Hmm? Special mage? As tempting that does sounds, I must decline the offer." Lucy replied with a polite tone.

There were a moment of silence, followed by silent collective gasps from some councilmen.

"Will that be all? I must be going now" Lucy said before turning when one of the councilman decided to speak up.

"Wait, can you at least tell us why you don't want the title?" The councilman asked.

"Then tell me why you want me to have the title?" Lucy frowned as she turned to stare at the councilmen.

Before any of the councilmen could answer her, there was a loud laugh coming from a certain councilman, a man with blue hair and red tattoos over his right eye.

"You're quite smart, cloak girl! We just merely want to control you. Have you do dirty jobs for us. Nothing more, nothing else." The blue-haired man smirked.

"Seigrain!" Another councilman stood up with fury, glaring at the man with displeasure. "Don't sprout lies!"

Lucy planted herself in place, unmoving, as the council started to argue amongst themselves. She paid the arguments no mind and focused on the blue-haired man. She could sensed an anomaly, something that made him different from all the rest.

Yet he seemed so real and alive. She wondered how it managed to weave itself into a position of power.

Before Lucy think too much in it, a voice screamed a name that she was yet accustomed to.

"Gamma Ibis!"

Lucy forced herself back to reality and eyed the man that called her name.  "Yes?"

"We apologize for our..." One of the councilman said as he glared at Seigrain "Member." Then he turned back to Lucy with a smile. "But rest assured, we will not force the title on you. We are merely offering to position to you. And for the record, we will not have you do dirty jobs."

"May I ask why you chose me?" Lucy asked, wanting a more elaborate reasoning.

"To be honest, we need more wizards strong enough to fight dangerous guilds and protect the defenseless against a force of nature or any form of evil entities."

Lucy stayed silent for a moment before an idea sprouted in her mind. "If I were to accept the title, will I get anything in return?"

"Well...money?" The councilman frowned.

Lucy shook her head. "Celestial keys. I will do the missions for celestial keys only."

"Celestial keys...and not money?"

Lucy nodded.

The councilmen started to talk amongst themselves again, leaving Lucy to stand in silence.

Once they had reached to a conclusion, they faced her again, with a question in mind. "Before we agree, can you show your face?"

Lucy shook her head. "I'm afraid I cannot do that. Security reasons."

"Then can you tell us your name?"

"Gamma Ibis?" Lucy didn't really want to reveal her name just yet, not to these people. Especially with people like Seigrian.

The councilmen gathered again to talk and vote. After a few more minutes, they turned back to Lucy.

"We had come to an agreement. If you accept our proposal and complete missions that we offer you, a reward will consist of money and celestial keys. Deal?"

Lucy took in the information and debated on the pros and cons for accepting this type of job. 

"I suppose I could accept that proposal." Lucy said with a silent sigh. 

"Great! Now we already have a job ready for you."

Lucy regarded the man with a nod. "Make sure you have a celestial key waiting for me." Lucy paused for a moment. "Just remember, if you don't have a key ready, I will give you back my title and rain hell of those that did not keep their promises." Lucy threatened.

To Lucy, promises were the most important thing to her. A connection, a link, a hope. Celestial spirits treasured it the most as well, and taught her just how important they are. Lucy would die first before breaking a promise, or betray her loyalty to anyone that trusted her.

"I also won't do any mission if a key is not involved." Lucy added, just to get her point across.

"Y-yes...I understand. But rest assured, we have a key already ready. Now, all you have to do is wipe out one of the major guild. They call themselves Oracion Seis." The councilman hesitated a little, a little fearful of the cloaked girl.

Lucy narrowed her eyes before activating her mystic senses, to determine if they do have keys in their possessions. she sensed 6 keys: Orhicuchus, Lacerta, Musca, Hydrus, Pavo, and Aquila. Lucy will inwardly smirked, seeing how strong some of the keys were.

"Oracion Seis? A Dark Guild? And you want me to kill them or arrest them?" Lucy asked

"Arrest them if possible."

Lucy nodded slightly. "I expect a key to be ready to be collected when I come back." She then opened a void and quickly disappeared into it before anyone else could anything else. There was nothing else to say, as there was nothing to change or complain. Lucy now set off to start searching for a dark guild.

...

Dark guilds was not foreign to her, as she had faced them many times during her key hunts. Now she needed to find one. Which will be difficult as tracking is not in her field.

She summoned on her spirits to help her with that. "Open, Gate of the Hunter! Canes Venetic!"

In a puff of golden light, a humanoid dog appeared with a howl.

Any berries, woof?" Canes growled playfully with a grin.

Lucy could only chuckle. "No. But I can give you some later if you help me out with something."

Canes looked at Lucy with a grin, showing his fangs. "Very well. What will you have me to do, woof?

"I need to track a Dark Guild called Oracion Seis. The last sightings of them was around here." Lucy explained.

"Woof! Tracking! It's been so long since somebody asked me to do this! Woof! So excited! Woof Woof! I will definitely help you! Woof!" Canes howled with excitement as he jumped around with joy, ready to get to work.

Lucy smiled at the enthusiasm of the spirit. "Well then, we should get  started then."

"Of course, woof!"

...

It was hard, and it wasn't hard. Oracion Seis was located ways away, couple of days away, as Canes had concluded from the tracks that he sniffed out. Thankfully, getting there wasn't a problem.

Lucy quickly used her void to teleport to the site that Canes spoke of. Now, only couple miles away to where Oracion Seis should be, Lucy readied herself as she watched Canes panting with excitement.

"Woof! I'm sure you can take care of the rest. Thank you for calling me! This was the most fun I had in ages! Woof!" Canes barked.

"Glad you had fun. Now I need you to go back now. I need to follow them, or I'll lose their tracks."

"Woof! Good luck, Princess!" Canes howled before complying, disappearing back into his world.

With the spirit now back to its world, Lucy was left with the opposition of uncertainty. She didn't have a proper plan to properly attack this particular job. She did some research on the guild, only to find that it was only composed of six members. She couldn't properly concentrate with Canes howling with excitement with every second.

So she was a bit unprepared.

So improvising was her only chance. But she needed to observe the members head on.

Lucy started to walk forward to where Canes had pointed to. After ten minutes of walking through trees, branches, and bushes, she suddenly sensed them.

The waves of celestial spirits were nearby, or more accurately, golden keys were present. Lucy grinned as she realized that she would get more than she bargained for, and it was perfect for her.

Aries, Scorpio, Gemini, and Caelum were the spirits that Lucy had identified. She was particularly excited because Gemini was the one spirit that she will mostly need during her missions of the prophecy. But she needed to defeat the current owner first. 

Then Lucy stopped dead in her tracks as she sensed more magical energy, which was heading straight toward her.

"I can hear it. The sounds of your defeat."

"A white cloak...Hmph."

"Money will be needed to beat this mysterious cloak person."

"It must be quick."

"Zzz."

"What is your business?" The man with tattoos and a staff stepped forward with frown.

Lucy observed each spirit with criticizing glaze as she studied and guessed on what they may be capable of.

"I'll be taking you to your new home, which is prison." Lucy smirked under her hood. 

The man with the staff smirked. "Oh? I like to see you try when taking on my five men directly."

Lucy only smirked under her hood. "A challenge is just what I need."

A/N: This is part one. Part 2 will be up very shortly

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