Star Light, Star Bright

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima

Star Light

Lucy Heartfilia was engrossed in one of her favorite activities: staring up at the stars and constellations decorating the night sky. Normally she does so with a happy heart, looking for the shapes that represent her friends from her keys and contracts like her mother taught her, spending time appreciating that she was born into a family with Celestial Magic.

Tonight was different. Tonight she studied the heavens with a heavy heart and saddened eyes.

Ever since they returned from Tenrou Island and then winning the Grand Magic Games and fighting the dragons so much has changed in the guild that she loves with all her heart.

Gray finally accepted Juvia's confession and returned it in kind after nearly dying for her.

Lisanna and MiraJane paired up with Bickslow and Freed to everyone's surprise at the first pair and relief over the second. No one had any idea that the younger Take-Over sister and the pervy Sith Mage had feelings for each other while everyone knew that Mira and Freed were meant for each other.

Bisca and Alzack decided to start trying for a sibling for Asuka.

Nab of all people finally accepted a job, having finally found the one that only he could do.

And so the world turned and life went on in the guild and Fiore.

Star Bright

Except for some of them, things would never be the same again after that last battle against the dragons.

Yukino's death nearly destroyed Sting, giving him a new maturity and desire to set things right in his guild: starting with taking over and casting out Jiemma and Minerva.

All of the dragon slayers were affected, their powers growing and changing after receiving an influx of power and dragon abilities from the magic of both the slayed dragons and from the magic that brought them forth.

And then there was perhaps the most changed of all: herself, Lucy Heartfilia.

Being forced to harness the power of the 12 Zodiac and the 13th Gate Key in order to bring forward the dragons through space and time changed her and her magic irrevocably. It created a bond with the keys and the Celestial spirits themselves that has never been seen before. No mage in the history of Celestial Magic has possessed the 13 Keys, not even the first Celestial Mage. And melding with them in order to close the gate and force the dragons back into their own time…let's just say there's little difference between Lucy and her Zodiac spirits anymore.

She can summon them with a thought if she likes or simply call up their power for her own if she prefers.

Having her magic raped and twisted in such a way, harnessing her to that machine, created something that was never meant to exist.

Lucy became a living Star.

Only instead of being up in the heavens, living in the Celestial Realms with Loke, Aries, Lyra, Capricorn, Plue, and all the rest she's here on Earth.

A lost Star, wandering the world all alone, cursed to have only glimpses of what should be her home through her friends.

No one is sure what would happen if she should die.

Will she rise to the heavens, come home to the Celestial Realm for good, have a new Key forged that will give her access to Earthland?

Or will her Star simply be extinguished?

A tear runs down her face as she stares up at the starry night sky. Through her bond with them she can feel her spirit friends send her love and comfort and hope. Her wonderful family of stars and spirits.

First Star

Sighing, Lucy knuckles away the lone tear.

Months have passed and her friends are adjusting as best they can. She worries for her Dragon Slayers more than for herself.

Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Laxus, even Cobra, Rogue, and Sting now that the last three have proven themselves to be true Slayers and good men. The seven of them were all changed by the dragon battle. Word reached her, a warning from Draco the Dragon Spirit by way of Loke, that they've become more dragon-like, have inherited an instinct from their improved magic that was never supposed to be theirs.

The instinct to take a mate.

Cobra, Rogue, and Sting already have taken mates with Cobra mating Kinana, and Rogue and Sting having jointly mated a powerful healing mage from their guild.

Wendy is still far too young to have to worry about it and when the time comes it's already apparent to everyone that Romeo is the young Slayer's desire.

But…

With Lisanna taken by Bickslow, MiraJane with Freed, and Levy finally accepting Jet…

Who is strong enough and brave enough to mate with her friends?

I See Tonight

Natsu needs someone who understands his fierce loyalty and can give him the same in turn. Someone who won't snuff out his sweetness and won't try and curb his wild nature. Someone who can love Happy as much as the Slayer does.

Gajeel deserves a woman who can accept his past without judging him for it. A woman who can bring out the softer inside of the tough man hidden by his metal scales and sharp edges. A woman who will challenge his iron control and force him to love as fiercely as he protects.

And Laxus…

Laxus may be the hardest and most challenging of all. He needs a challenge and understanding of his mistakes like Gajeel. But he also needs someone to bring out the sweetness that fuels his awkwardness like Natsu. He needs a highly sensual mate to match his own desires but one who will give him the sense of family he's fought so hard for. A mate to respect him and worthy of his respect in return.

Wish I May

Where in the world would three women like that be found?

All three of them need to be loved, all having been let down and abandoned by their fathers they need a true, loving mate who can heal their deep inner wounds.

They need the perfect, unconditional love that only comes from a soul mate, their perfect half who would never be whole without them.

Wish I Might

An ugly, selfish part of Lucy rears up over contemplating the ideal mate for the Slayers. She feels a connection to each of them and the idea of losing not just one but all of them to other women hurts her deeply.

Laxus while initially rude and power-hungry has always made Lucy aware of her own appeal as a woman and while pervy at times has always been the one man who has never been shy about expression a real, honest, attraction to her. He's fought beside her and fought to defend her against Raven Tail during the GMG, even coming to visit her in the infirmary. He's always been a man who's treated her like a woman and not a silly girl.

Gajeel tortured her but never broke her. Upon joining Fairy Tail he took her apart from everyone else and apologized while also expressing that he found her to be the strongest person he's ever met. The only one he couldn't break. He made it up to her and gave her confidence in her own strength as a person in ways another person never could. He's her friend and she's one of the only friends she has, something she is fiercely protective of, determined that no one abuse the trust of the tough dragon slayer.

And Natsu…

Natsu is her best and closest friend. He's her Natsu. He deserves nothing but the absolute best. And who will ever live up to that?

Have This Wish

Staring up at the stars Lucy remembers a little chant her mother taught her once upon a time. A simple, silly thing, but sometimes the best things are.

Perhaps if she's lucky someone up above might hear her and smile down upon her, knowing the great depth and breadth of emotion that sent up her wish to the heavens, and granting it for her and through her raining blessings down upon her friends.

All she wants is for her friends to be happy.

Surely that's not too much to ask?

After everything those three have done and all the good they will continue to do, they deserve nothing less than to be happy, to have their hearts' desires.

I Wish Tonight

Mouth firming she nods once, determined that she will do it, even if it comes to nothing. At least then the wish will be out there and maybe, just maybe, someone somewhere will hear it and answer her prayer for her friends.

"Star light, star bright,

first star I see tonight.

Wish I may, wish I might,

have this wish, I wish tonight.

I wish…that the male Dragon Slayers of Fairy Tail, my friends and nakama Natsu, Gajeel, and Laxus each find their true, one soul mate before their instincts cause them to take whatever female happens to cross their paths when they go into their heat. I wish them happy as they can only be with their true loves.

Wish I may, wish I might, have this wish, I wish tonight."

Even if it means none of them find their happiness with her and she spends her life alone.

Because as much as she loves those three men, she would never be happy with another.

A/N: Thoughts? This is just the set-up for my Lucy as a mate/Lucy-Harem fic. Not sure if I'm going to keep going with it or not, just an idea I had brewing in my mind and thought I'd put it out here and see if anyone likes it.