icefox94: hey everyone! It's icefox here with another story! I know I shouldn't be starting another story when I already have enough ongoing stories to work on, but when you get writer's blocked, you have to do something to unstick the writer's block, right? This is my solution. Since my problem is how to write the next chapters, not what will happen, it's a good solution if it works. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Sounds infuriating, right?

This story is a little different than my usual stories, for those of you reading this because you are following me. I mean, the style is the same, I basically only have one writing style, but the story itself is slightly different than my usual plots. While browsing the crossover stories here on fanfiction, I came across a challenge to do a crossover of one piece and fairy tail where Lucy hears of these legendary keys that she has to go through hard trials to obtain. These keys turn out to be the Strawhats. It sounded interesting to me and I have read one or two stories like this already that weren't very far into the story, so I thought I'd write my own.

So, anyways, enjoy the story. I didn't really know how to introduce Lucy to the keys, so I had her find the first in a magic shop that is run by a family of OCs. They will probably only show up here for these purposes, but they are partially Italian, so there are a few Italian words mixed in with any Japanese I throw in there. The translations and the meanings of all the names will be in an authors note at the end of the chapter. I don't speak either language though, so if I get anything wrong, please tell me and I'll fix it. ^^

also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ICEFOX! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! XD

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima and One Piece is owned by Eiichiro Oda. As much as I would like to say otherwise, the only characters I own are the family that runs the magic shop.

Chapter One: New Keys

A bell rings above the door of a shop as a blond carrying a shaking creature enters the small building.

"Hey Lucy-chan!" a young worker shouts from the back room of the Mythic Ankh magic shop as she hears the bell above the shop door chime.

"Hi Hime-chan! You have anything new?" questions 17 year old Celestial Spirit Mage Lucy Heartfilia, not bothering to ponder for the seemingly millionth time how the worker knew it was her.

"Puu-puun!" Plue says happily from his summoner's arms.

"Hi Plue!" Hime greets happily as she walks out from the backroom behind the counter holding a box of merchandise.

Torahime Dokarai is the daughter of the Mythic Ankh magic shop owners. She is a beautiful curvy young woman with wavy hip length hair, golden brown eyes, tiger ears and tail, and enviable latte skin. The slightly muscled teen says she's not a magician, but her senses are almost better than Natsu's Dragon Slayer senses and her catlike reflexes are inhumanly graceful and quick. Lucy believes her tigress looks are more than magical fashion accessories, a theory that is strengthened by the fact that the rest of her family has not-so-human features as well.

The tall tiger woman gently sets the box on the counter and turns her golden brown pools to the blond mage. "Actually, I think we do have a few new things coming in today. My brother will be here shortly with the new shipment if you wouldn't mind waiting."

"Sure." Lucy agrees with a smile. Hime flashes a sharp toothed smile at her friend and gets to work restocking the small shop's shelves.

"So, how has your mother been?" Lucy inquires curiously as she watches her friend work. Hime pauses to tie up her tiger striped hair and looks back at her friend.

"Surprisingly well. It took her hardly any time to adjust to losing her sight. Her eyes were always weak from being an albino, so I guess that prepared her for going blind."

"Does she still have the flu?"

"No, she's better now. She might get sick easily, but she's very stubborn. I think that intimidates any illnesses that are unfortunate enough to bother her." Hime jokes, tiger ears flicking at some random sound out of Lucy's hearing.

"Sounds about right. She's always so strong when I see her, it's almost unbelievable that little things like colds and whatnot actually bother her."

"I know, right? For as long as I can remember, she has always seemed very strong to me, even when she was sick." Hime agrees with another smile, carefully crawling up a bookshelf one handed to place a medium sized cauldron on top of it. Lucy bites her lip as she shifts her gaze between the feet and hand gripping the shelves as well as the slim tail wound around a nearby pole holding up a banner. She knew the intricate poles holding up the banners that pointed out the contents of the store were very sturdy, having been put up for the main purpose of holding onto them in case of accidents while working high up, but Lucy still worried that Hime would fall and hurt herself one of these days.

"Yeah... oh look, your brother's back. Looks like your parents are with him." Lucy says as she looks out the windows of the store, relaxing slightly as Hime looks as well and hops off of the bookshelf.

"Welcome back. Did we get anything good for the store?" Hime questions as the only woman of the trio holds the door open for the two men laden with boxes.

"We're back." The woman says with a kind smile, turning her head to stare at Lucy with cloudy wine red eyes, having frightful accuracy for a blind woman. "Lucy is here as well? How have you been, bambina?"

"I've been good." Lucy answers almost shyly, ducking her blushing face behind Plue.

Kumori Dokarai is the textbook definition of grace. Her every movement flows like water from the way she flicks her wavy cloud white hair out of her face to the way she walks, and her smiles could turn anyone pinned with one into a little puddle of happy goo. She is a tall curvy woman like her daughter with beautiful wavy hip length hair, large triangular black tipped white ears, a fluffy black tipped white tail, ashy tan skin slightly lighter in tone than her daughter's and dark red eyes clouded over in blindness. Like her daughter, Kumori also has claws and sharp teeth, though she was more leaner built than Hime.

"I think we got some good products this time." the taller of the males says as he places his boxes on the ground out of the way. "Hey Lucy. Are you here as a customer or a guest today?"

"Customer, if you have anything worth the few Jewels I have after rent and food." Lucy replies, frowning at the amount she has had to pay in food that month from constantly replacing what Natsu and Happy eat. The man winces in sympathy for her, having heard the complaints before.

Bomani Dokarai is the man of the Dokarai household. He is a tall muscular man with short tiger striped hair, the orange a little darker than Hime's, dark amber eyes, tiger ears and tail, and mocha colored skin opposed to Hime's latte pigments. Being so big, both height and muscle wise, people always seem to be intimidated at first, but when they take the time to get to know him, they soon discover that he is a very kind man, more of a teddy bear then anything. He doesn't become the tiger his animal appendages suggest unless someone he cares about is threatened.

"Your friends eating you out of house and home again? Do you need any food?" Bomani asks worriedly.

"Are you eating well enough? You know you are always welcome here, whether it is to stay a few nights or share supper with us." Kumori says, closing her sightless eyes in a serene smile as she opens one of the boxes on the floor.

"I don't want to impose."

"Lucy-chan, you wouldn't be imposing. Chiyuki obaa-chan is half Italian, so Kaa-chan learned to make more than enough food for one more person. We probably have more food on leftover night than you have in your entire fridge." the younger male says monotonously as he hands a medium sized box to Hime. "Hime-nee, get these entered in our inventory so we can sell them. There's a few things in there that Lucy-chan will probably want to buy."

"What's that I hear? Is that my baby brother Koori trying to order me around with that annoyingly monotonous voice of his?" Hime says as she cups one hand around her ear.

"Scusi sorella." Koori says in Italian, not at all sorry sounding. Hime rolls her eyes and does as her little brother asks.

If Hime takes mostly after her father, than Koori Dokarai takes very much after his mother and grandmother. The young man is built with the lean figure of a runner like his mother with pale skin, spiky ice white hair, ice blue eyes, and fox ears and tail. Kumori was born to an Egyptian father and a half Italian/half Japanese mother, so even though Koori looks adopted, his genes simply skipped a generation. Lucy has seen a picture of Kumori's parents before: a beautiful pale woman in a kimono with raven black hair, icy blue eyes, and white tipped fox ears and tail standing next to a handsome man with dark skin, slightly shaggy black hair, dark gold eyes and the ears and tail of a jackal.

"What do you have that I would like?" Lucy questions curiously, staring at the box Hime is currently going through.

"You will see." Kumori says mysteriously as she hands a pentacle necklace to Bomani, who scribbles on a piece of paper before hanging it up with the other jewelry.

"But I don't wanna wait..." Lucy mutters with a pout.

"Puu-puun!" Plue says comfortingly from his summoner's arms. Lucy smiles down at the shaking dog spirit in thanks, deciding to set him down in order to help the family catalog and stock their new items. Not even five minutes later, the blond mage hears her friend gasp.

"Lucy! I think I found what Koori was talking about!" Hime exclaims excitedly from the counter.

"What is it?" Lucy exclaims back, shooting up from her position on the ground next to Kumori.

"Get over here and find out." Hime says with a smile, writing something into her list of inventory. Lucy needs no more incentive to hurry over to the counter and stare at the small objects in her friend's hand in amazement.

The sea foam green objects are two metal keys, the same size as her silver and gold keys. The bow of the first key almost looks like a pirate jolly roger, using a cartoon-ish skull for the main focus. Sitting atop the skull's head is a purple cowboy hat and fanned around the entire head are four arms. Engraved on the blade of the key is the word OHARA with a simplistic picture of an open book on each side. At the bottom of the blade is a pair of wings partially unfolded. The second one is slightly different. On one side of the bow is a white ram's head and on the other side is some sort of lion flower? The face made Lucy think lion, but the pedal looking shapes made her think dandelion. On the blade of the ram side is a white border on each side, curling up and out at the top and bottom like clouds. Hanging between the bottom curls is an anchor. On the dande-lion's side of the blade is white and red stripes for a border, curling up and out at the top, but staying strait at the bottom. Between the two inner red lines is a paw shaped anchor.

"Are they Celestial Spirit keys? I've never seen green ones like these before! I've only seen silver and gold ones!" Lucy exclaims once again, eyes glued to the units.

"They are special keys, similar to your Golden Zodiac Keys, known as the Green Pirate Keys. Given the rarity, they're almost priceless, but since you are practically family now, we will give them to you for the low price of one dinner at our place." Bomani explains with a grin at his offer. Lucy turns her wide eyes to the smiling tiger.

"You're giving them to me?! I couldn't! I have to give you something for such rare keys!" Lucy denies. Kumori shakes her head at this.

"We are not giving them to you, bambina. We are trading them for spending quality time with you. To us, that is more than enough, considering how busy you always are. If you want the keys, you will come home with us after work, eat dinner and dessert with us and socialize before being sent home with the keys and leftovers. I know it is asking a lot of you, but I am positive the price is not that unreasonable."

"Besides, you are always helping us with the store without asking for anything in return, so you've racked up quite a bit of credit." Bomani continues.

"And you can't forget the trials." Koori adds in.

"Trials?" Lucy parrots, turning curious brown eyes to the pale fox. "What kind of trials."

"It is dependent on the spirit. They are trials you need to go through in order to gain contracts with them." Kumori informs. "For a bard, it may be as simple as singing a song or as difficult as writing your own music and performing it with all of your heart and soul. For a combat oriented spirit, it may be physical challenges similar to an obstacle course or showing your resolve to succeed while being placed in a tough situation."

"Either way you put it, you have already paid plenty for the keys and you will have to pay more in the future, so just take them in return for a meal with us. You deserve it." Hime finalizes with a fond smile.

Lucy stares back and forth between the four family members she has come to know since moving to Magnolia and feels her eyes begin to swell with happy tears. Before becoming a part of Fairy Tail, Lucy would have never guessed that there were such nice people in the world. She still has trouble believing it when situations like this come up.

"Th-thank you! I will join you for dinner tonight!"

(Later that night)

"I knew it." Lucy says with a sigh as her apartment building comes into view and she sees the light on and her window open.

"Be careful Lucy-chan! It'll be completely dark soon!" One of the ferrymen calls from his boat, getting ready to go home as the blue, purple, and dark pink sunset becomes more and more of the glittering indigo blanket of the night sky.

"Thank you! I am!" Lucy calls back while balancing effortlessly on the ledge between sidewalk and river. She walks up to her building and climbs the stairs to her apartment. Pulling out her keys as she steps up to the landing, Lucy unlocks her door and is unsurprised to see Natsu in the kitchen area raiding the fridge with Happy hovering next to him, one of Lucy's newly bought salmon in his mouth.

'Well, at least they're consistent. I just wish they would help me with food expenses every now and then, or at least bring their own food over if they're going to be eating here all the time. They know how hard it is for me to make rent every month.'

"Lushy! You're bahk!" Happy shouts around a mouthful of fish.

"Don't talk with your mouth full, stupid cat!" Lucy scolds as Natsu's head perks up and smiles widely at his friend.

"Lucy! Where have you been? Me and Happy were starting to get worried!" Natsu exclaims as he hops over and hugs Lucy tightly. Lucy blushes at the close contact and glares at the Fire Dragon Slayer.

"Yeah, you looked real worried half buried in my fridge." Lucy drawls as Natsu lets go of her and allows her to move away from the curtain she used to block off her kitchen. The busty blond pushes one of her two containers of leftovers from the Dokarai family dinner into her friend's hands on her way to put the other into the fridge before heading back into the main room.

"We were going to look for you if you weren't back by the time we were done eating." Natsu explains as he looks at the plastic container curiously. "What's this?"

"You know that magic shop near here called Mythic Ankh?" Lucy questions as she sits on her couch.

"Yeah." Natsu answers as he joins her. "It's a small shop owned by a nice family that looks like animals, right?"

"Yes. I befriended them when I first moved here. They invited me over to dinner tonight and that's some of the leftovers. Tonight the main dish was Rotini pasta, but there's also some bread sticks and stuff in there."

"Man, this stuff smells amazing!" Natsu exclaims, mouth watering at the noodle, sausage, tomato, onion, garlic, black olive, and basil mixture all held together by tons of stringy clumps of mozzerella cheese. "You handed this to me to eat, right?!"

"Of course I did." Lucy says, only sounding slightly offended. "And of course it smells amazing. Kumori was taught by her mother how to cook and her mother's father was a professional Italian chef."

"Awesome! Happy! Bring me a fork!"

"Aye sir! Here you go Natsu!"

While her uninvited but still welcomed guests chow down on Italian leftovers and raw salmon, Lucy pulls out her new keys and studies them. Natsu sees the keys and slows his insane pace.

"You got new keys too?"

"Yeah. They were in a new shipment of supplies for the store. They actually gave them to me. They knew I wouldn't be able to afford them, so they traded them for having me come over for dinner."

"Sounds like you robbed them." Natsu says bluntly as he shovels more pasta into his mouth.

"How rude! They're the ones that suggested the trade! I tried to give them Jewels for them, but they refused!" Lucy yells angrily.

"Alright! I'm sorry! So, what spirits are they?"

"I don't know, I haven't made contracts with them yet. I just know that they're special keys like my gold Zodiac keys." Lucy explains, tracing over the wings and engravings on the blade of one of them with her fingers.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Make the contracts!" Natsu demands, too curious to wait to see the spirits in battle.

"Yeah! Make the contracts!" Happy shouts. Lucy stares at the two and shakes her head.

"Honestly! Last time I made a contract when you were around you said it was boring!"

"You live too much in the past Luce!" Natsu says confidently.

"Yeah! Live in the present Lucy!" Happy adds.

"Alright! Fine! I'll make the contracts!" Lucy shouts.

"Yay!" Natsu and Happy shout at the same time. Lucy sighs and stands up before walking to the center of the room. She closes her eyes in concentration and holds the one sided key out in front of her.

"I'm the one who connects the paths to the Celestial Spirit world. Thou shalt answer my call and traverse the gate. Open!" Lucy chants as a gold magic circle appears beneath her, slashing the green key horizontally across her chest, then vertically in front of her. The motions award her the sound of a bell like most summonings, only this one sounds closer to a bell that would be heard aboard a ship. A golden magic circle similar to the first appears on the floor in front of Lucy, with purple, blue, and white lights shooting up from it. The lights form into a ball of light, which morphs into a humanoid shape. When the light fades, the trio can see Lucy's new summon spirit.

The spirit is an older woman, maybe around Aquarius's age, with black waist length hair, deep ocean blue eyes, and light skin almost dark enough to call tan. She is wearing a purple short sleeved jacket half way zipped with a white rose design on the left side and a pink floral sari skirt tied at the right side, showing off her curvy body that would make an hourglass jealous. Perched atop her head is a pair of sunglasses, a light purple bag is hanging from her left shoulder, and protecting her feet are pink high heels. She would almost look like a normal human if it weren't for the large brown and black wings protruding from her shoulder blades.

"Hello ma'am. My name is Lucy Heartfilia and I would like to form a contract with you." Lucy says confidently with a friendly smile on her face. The woman smiles as well, reminding her of Kumori, and nods her head.

"Hello Miss Summoner. My name is Nico Robin. I will form a contract with you if you promise to look for the other 8 keys like mine. They are my friends and I would like to reunite with them." The summon spirit, now known as Robin, barters.

"Of course I'll look for them! I already have one." Lucy agrees excitedly, holding up the other key. Robin nods at this, her surprise at seeing the key briefly shown only by the flash of emotion in her eyes, and looks at the young mage expectantly. "Now that you have excepted the contract, would you mind telling me a little about yourself? I'm afraid I don't have any knowledge of the Green Pirate Keys."

"Is that what they are being called? How amusing." Robin muses to herself with a small giggle. Lucy tilts her head curiously at this, but if the older woman notices her confusion, she makes no indication of it. "I am a Black Barn Owl summon spirit, but my main talents lie with my Devil Fruit powers. My powers lie with being able to grow extra limbs on any surface within my sight." Here, she demonstrates this by growing more arms from her elbows and fanning them out, even growing a few arms at Lucy's and Natsu's shoulder's to pat them on the head, making them jump and making Natsu shout and fall over.

"W-what is a Devil Fruit?" Lucy asks after she calms herself down from the surprise and helps a complaining Natsu up from the floor. Robin smiles in amusement at the couple's reaction before replying.

"A Devil Fruit is something from the world I come from. When one eats a Devil Fruit, they gain special powers, but they lose the ability to swim and become weak and paralyzed when submerged in water. I ate the Hana Hana no Mi, so I can grow limbs practically wherever I wish, but I lost the ability to swim in the process."

"Why would you trade your ability to swim for magic? As cool as magic is, not being able to swim is a pretty big handicap." Natsu interrogates as he crosses his arms over his muscled chest.

"Because not being able to stand any mode of transportation is so much better than not being able to swim." Lucy counters with a roll of her eyes. While Natsu yells indignantly at Lucy for her comment, she ignores him and turns her curious brown eyes to the amused blues of the winged spirit. "So, what did you mean by "the world I came from"? Are you not from the Celestial Spirit world?"

"No, I am from a much different world." Robin says, eyes darkening slightly at the change of topic. "My friends and I were separated by a mysterious force. We thought we knew what that person's powers did, but we were so ignorant... Darkness engulfed us and when I next awoke, I was in the Celestial Spirit World and my friends were no where to be seen. Again. I met up with the Celestial Spirit King and he told me he had met with some of my friends and gave us all the same offer to become celestial spirits until we were reunited and able to go back to our own world."

"I guess that makes sense." Lucy agrees with a thoughtful nod. "Humans are not supposed to be allowed in the Celestial Spirit World, so he probably did that to keep with the laws. It would also help you and your friends out because Celestial Spirit keys travel a lot. There aren't many Celestial Spirit Mages anymore though, so that will in turn make finding the keys slightly harder."

"Why would less spirit mages make finding the other keys harder? Wouldn't that make it easier since there are less people looking for them?" Natsu questions, having gotten over his anger already. Robin looks towards the fire dragon slayer and shakes her head.

"Less people using the keys means less chances of finding the other people in possession of my friends' keys. Since there are less Celestial Spirit Mages, there are less people using gate keys. If someone possesses a Celestial Spirit key and doesn't use it, how are we going to hear about the unit?"

"There's also the possibility of someone finding one and thinking it is a pretty necklace or something." Lucy adds as she holds up her key ring to show everyone. "Aquarius, Lyra, Aries, these are all really pretty stylized keys that can't open any doors. If someone who wasn't familiar with this sort of magic were to see them, they would probably believe they were just jewelry or key chains."

"They are really pretty." Happy admits as Lucy attaches her key ring back to her belt and frowns as he sees a pondering look on her face. "Lucy? What's wrong?"

"I think I might have a way of making it easier to find them though." Lucy says, almost to herself. Robin, Natsu, and Happy look at her curiously as she stares back with hesitant determination.

"How are you going to make it easier Lucy?" Happy questions.

"I can use the Grand Magic Games."

End Chapter One

Author's Notes

You guys should know what -chan, -san, -nee-chan, -obaa-chan, etc. mean, so I'll just translate things you are less likely to know.

Torahime: Tora means tiger and Hime means princess, so put together, her name is tiger princess. I know, real subtle, but I like it.

Dokarai: an Egyptian/Arabic Surname that means Happy.

Bambina: an Italian word for "little girl". It's basically the same thing as adding -chan to the end of a girl's name

Kumori: means "Cloudy" in Japanese

Bomani: "Warrior" in Egyptian/Arabic

Koori: Japanese for "Ice"

Scusi: "I'm sorry" in Italian

Sorella: "Big sister" in Italian.

Chiyuki: Japanese. The most popular translation seems to be "Little snow" but I prefer the translation from the manga Millennium Snow "One thousand years of snow" with "chi" being "one thousand" instead of "little"

Also, for those of you who aren't familiar with my stories yet, at the end of each chapter, I make a list of music I listened to while writing or typing out the story, and if I didn't listen to music for whatever reason, I will make a list of songs I like that I would recommend in general to anyone, trying my best not to copy songs mentioned in previous chapters. Here is this chapter's list.

Songs

Håll Om Mig (Hold Me Now) by Nanne Grӧnvall (also a great Princess Tutu AMV)

Fuego by Bond

I Don't Care, I Ship It by notliterally (also a great AMV called Ship Happens by Vivifx)

Witch Activity by TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND (Witch Craft Works)

Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind composed by John Rutter

In the Palace~ Agitato by Yoshihisa Hirano (Hunter x Hunter 2011)

Earth Song by Frank Tichelli (not Micheal Jackson. Completely different song! .)

Servante du Feu (Servant of Fire) by Michiru Oshima (Sora no Woto/Sound of the Sky)

Less Than Three by Becky

Invoke Magic by Yasuhara Takenashi (Fairy Tail)

What's My Age Again? By blink182

Already Over by Red

The Rage Beat by Kotani Kenya (Gravitation)

We Go by Hiroshi Kitadani (One Piece)