AN: Hey this story was originally posted on Wattpad but I thought it would be a good idea to post it here as well. I hope you guys enjoy it!

"Come on Lucy, let's go on a job," Natsu called out as he climbed through Lucy's window with Happy flying right beside him.

"Okay, I'm coming," Lucy called from inside of her wardrobe, walking out in her usual outfit she walked into her kitchen to see it already messed up and her fridge empty. Looking towards the two culprits with her evil glare she started making her way to them but before she could kick them out they scrambled towards the window and jumped out. Stomping towards it she slammed and locked it behind them before walking back into the kitchen with a sigh and started cleaning up their mess before heading to the newly made guild hall.

It's been a month since the battle with Zeref and Acnologia and Magnolia was starting to look like it used to with everyone helping with the repairs. Lucy had just given her spirits some time off because they all had helped so much during and after the battle, so she was just going to have to use her star dresses for jobs for now. Walking into the guild Lucy started making her way towards the mission board looking for something that would suit her.

"Found anything yet Lucy?" she heard Natsu ask from behind her and she hummed, looking towards one that had a 500,000 jewel reward and saw that the job claimed a big pack of wyverns were terrorizing a town close to their nest. Showing it to Natsu, Lucy then skipped over to Gray and Erza who were sitting at a table close by.

"Hey, you guys want to come on a job with me, Natsu and Happy?" Lucy asked them looking hopeful because of the way Natsu and Happy were acting this morning she could tell that they were only going to get worse throughout the day and she wanted some company.

"Sorry Lucy, I'm already going to a job that was requested of me," Erza said looking up from her strawberry cake briefly before going right back to it.

"I already promised Juvia that I would go on a job with her today." Gray said looking apologetic, "Surely you and Natsu can handle a job just the two of you," he exclaimed,

"The job isn't really why I'm asking, those two seem to be in an annoy Lucy mood today," Lucy said hunching her shoulders while she heard Erza and Gray laugh.

"Um excuse me Lucy Carla and I would be happy to go with you," Wendy said as she walked over to Lucy.

"Really Wendy, you mean it?" Lucy asked as she glanced tearfully at Wendy and Carla, after seeing Wendy nod Lucy threw herself at Wendy and latched onto her small form. Erza and Gray continued to laugh at the blonde's actions even when the two girls and exceed started making their way over to Mira to get the job signed off.

Lucy was holding Wendy close to her as she turned blue when the train started moving while Natsu fell face first onto the train seat across from them. "are you okay Wendy?" Lucy asked as she moved Wendy into a lying position only to hear her gurgle before holding a hand to her mouth.

"H-how come you n-never help m-me," Lucy heard Natsu grumble and she turned to him,

"Because Wendy came to keep me company, it's my fault she has to ride the train," she responded while Carla nodded her head. "I have an idea, open gate of the clock constellation, Horologium." Once Horologium appeared Lucy asked if he could hold Wendy for most of the train ride, placing Wendy inside of Horologium she saw that colour was starting to return to her face.

"Thank you, Lucy I feel much better, she said thankfully," Horologium said as he settled onto the floor.

"Your c-cruel L-Lucy," Natsu tried to say while Happy flew around trying to give Carla a fish.

The train came to a stop and Lucy picked up the now sleeping Wendy and made sure that Natsu was getting off of the train they started walking towards the Mayor's house while still holding Wendy. After getting the information from the Mayor they all started walking towards the forest where the nest of wyverns was.

"Star dress Taurus," Lucy called out as they got closer to the wyvern nest, Wendy took a position further behind Nastu and Lucy while Nastu ran headfirst into the pack of the wyvern.

Lucy used her extendable whip to tie some of the wyverns together and throw them into Natsu's path so that he would punch them with his iron fist.

"Sky dragon roar," Lucy heard from behind her and five of the wyverns got pushed back hit some trees.

"Nice one Wendy," Lucy called to her young team member as she changed her star-dress into Leo's. "Regulous kick," Lucy shouted as she kicked a wyvern that was heading straight for her.

Seeing a couple of wyverns running towards a nearby cave Lucy and Happy split off and followed them while Natsu, Wendy and Carla said that they would finish the others off. Running through the cave Lucy came up with a plan to take down some wyverns, star dressing into Virgos form Lucy set up some trap holes to lead some wyverns into in case there were too many. Telling Happy to hide and wait in case something goes wrong Lucy changed her star dress yet again into Taurus form, Lucy ran out and tied a couple up before jumping up and slamming her fist into the third one and watched it falls to the ground, not giving it enough time to get back up Lucy put all of her strength to kick it into one of her trap holes. Turning to face the last one Lucy didn't notice that the ones she tied up were breaking free of her whip. Too busy trying to get the last wyvern into a hole Happy swooped down and grabbed Lucy right before one could smash her into the cave wall.

"Thanks, Happy, that was close," Lucy said trying to steady her breathing. Now figuring out how to deal with three instead of one but before she could do anything fire started to engulf one of the wyverns and Lucy turned to the source.

"Right on time Natsu," Lucy called as Happy placed her on the ground just behind him. "Where's Wendy and Carla?"

"Right here Lucy," Wendy called from behind her as both girls came running up to them. With all three wizards and two exceeds staring at the last two wyverns, Natsu and Wendy started to combine their attacks when Lucy saw something further down the cave, thinking it could lead to some more wyverns Lucy decided to follow it. Making her way through the cave Lucy passed some old paintings, markings that she had never seen before covered the wall; one of them looked to be a star above a circle with a cross through it and a stripe of black in the middle, separating the two; dragging her fingers across the wall Lucy's eyes caught sight of an old rusted key sitting on top of a rock. Slowly walking up to it Lucy tried to see if it was a celestial key of some kind but it was too dusty, picking it up to blow on it she coughed as dust blew everywhere but before she could look at the key she suddenly felt like she was being pulled.

Dropping the key Lucy grabbed onto her stomach as she felt it twist and turn before she suddenly felt like she was falling. Landing on her back Lucy grunted as she sat up and looked at her and noticed that trees surrounded her. "Where am I?" Hearing muffled voices Lucy started making her way quietly towards them, summoning Gemini and asking them to copy one of the people without letting them know they were there. She didn't know if she landed near a dark guild and she didn't want to walk into unnecessary trouble.

Gemini came back and transformed into the man that they copied, "So where am I?" Lucy asked once she realised that Gemini was staying silent.

"Well Miss Lucy you are in a completely different world," the devious twins said still transformed.

"Seriously?" Lucy asked hunching her shoulders, "Not again," she said and sighed, walking back into the clearing that she landed in Lucy started thinking about what she should do, according to the information that Gemini gave her. She was in some kind of ninja-based world and that people had abilities similar to magic. The person that Gemini copied wasn't a ninja though, so the information was limited, apparently, she was close to a place called the Land of Lightning and there is a small village not too far from where she is now. Deciding to camp out in the forest for the night while Crux gathers all of the information that Gemini gained from the person they copied.

Lucy called upon Virgo to help her set up camp and she was surprised to find that she didn't have any difficulty calling upon her spirits in this world. Deciding to test her limits Lucy also called upon Aries to add wool to her tent floor for her. Lucy sent them both back half an hour later and was surprised and excited to learn that she was still almost full of magic energy. After eating what Virgo had put out for her Lucy decided to meditate as Capricorn taught her until she exhausted herself and went to sleep.

Waking up the next morning Lucy started packing away her campsite and noticed something was very different, everything looked much larger than what it did yesterday. Confused Lucy summoned Virgo,

"You called Princess?" Virgo asked and bowed her head, looking back up Virgo looked around for her wizard, "Princess where are you, is this some kind of punishment?"

Looking up at her celestial spirit shocked, Lucy finally snapped out of it, "Down here Virgo, what happened to me?" Lucy mumbled the last part under her breath.

"Princess, why do you look to be six years old?"

"Ehh!" Lucy yelled out and started to feel her face and look down at her body. "When did this happen?" She asked trying not to freak out, Virgo stood in front of her looking just as confused as Lucy did.

"Your magic power seems to be the same but your physical appearance has definitely changed," Virgo stated as Lucy started pacing.

"What am I going to do? I am in a different world and I'm in a helpless body." Lucy yelled trying to come up with a coherent thought but kept panicking instead.

"Princess if I may just continue to find out as much about this world as you can and try to find a way back to Fiore, I'm sure we can worry about your size another time," Virgo stated while handing her a strawberry smoothie to try to calm her down. Disappearing for a second before coming back with clothes from the celestial world in her new size. (Just like Wendy's celestial outfit.)

Taking a deep breath Lucy nodded her head and took a big gulp of the smoothie, "at least this isn't the first time something like this has happened," Lucy grumbled as she gave her camping gear to Virgo and sent her back to the spirit realm. Walking in the direction that Gemini had pointed her in, on her way to the land of lightning. Silently communicating with Crux, Lucy was soaking up all of the information he was giving her and thought that it would be for the best if no one knew about her spirits. Deciding to lay low in this ninja world, and find a way to get home.

By the time the sun started to go down Lucy was one town over from the land of lightning and decided to stop for the night when she realised that she didn't have the currency of this world so she decided to camp out once again. Waking up before the sun came up Lucy started walking into the town and walked towards a bakery to see if they were willing to take her on for work, when she asked the young woman at the cashier she said that they weren't hiring but that Lucy could try the blacksmiths down the street because they were looking for apprentices but she also warned her not to get her hopes up because she was still a child.

Walking into the blacksmiths Lucy looked around and saw that it was actually a weapons shop and figured that the blacksmith was in the back. "Excuse me, anyone, here?" Lucy yelled trying to get someone's attention, cringing at her squeaky voice. Turning to her left when she heard a loud cough and started walking towards it. "Excuse me?" Lucy called out again,

"What is it, what do you want?" A rough sounding voice replied,

"Um, I'm new in town and I heard about your apprentice position and was wondering if you were willing to take me on?" Lucy asked as she turned the corner and spotted the man sharpening a small triangular knife.

The man looked at her before he started laughing, "a fragile ankle biter like you, a blacksmith?" He stuttered put before laughing all over again,

"Please? I really need the money, I'm homeless right now!" Lucy begged and looked hopefully up at him and added tears to her eyes hoping for some sympathy,

"Nice try kid, but no." Lucy frowned at this and sighed trying to think of a way to get him to accept so she wouldn't have to summon Gemini for hours on end every day, not only is that risk but Gemi and Mini have their own lives too.

"What if I could prove it to you?" Lucy asked,

"And how will you do that?" The man stated already bored with the conversation,

"If I can use at least two of the weapons in your shop successfully you take me on," Lucy stated confidently, she saw a bow and arrow set as she walked in and she was without a doubt that she could find something else to use.

"Alright I'll accept but you have to use them to my standard, if not it's back to the streets."

"Deal," Lucy said instantly and lifted her hand for him to shake, he looked at it for a second before he took it and shook it once before putting down what he was doing and lead her to the back door which held unfinished weapons and a forge in the back right corner, he led her to the left back corner that had a door. Opening it he leads her through and saw what looked to be a small training field with targets and tree stumps lying around.

"I'll set this up while you look for those weapons kid," his tone was bored and Lucy started to get nervous, wondering how much this body of hers could do considering she couldn't use her fleuve d'étoiles because he would be able to tell that it wasn't one of his designs. Walking towards where she saw the bow and arrows and picked out one that was the same height as her and a quiver with ten arrows that could be buckled around her waist. Testing the strength of the string to make sure that she could shoot and aim properly, she then went on to find a whip that she could use. Coming upon a white whip with a golden handle and crackle Lucy picked it up and examined it, testing its weight and length before walking towards the back.

The gruff man whom Lucy had yet to know the name of turned to look at her and looked at the bow and arrow slightly nodded to himself but when he looked at the whip he looked like he was trying to hold back a laugh. Ignoring him Lucy looked at the targets across the field and set up her shot, taking a deep breath Lucy let go of the arrow and it hit right in the centre. Taking out another arrow without turning to see the reaction of the man, Lucy tried to duplicate the results, letting go of the arrow she saw it land right next to the first arrow, still in the centre circle.

Taking a hold of the whip that Lucy had picked out she moves towards the tree stumps and prayed to Mavis that it worked, she uncurled the whip then sent it towards one of the stumps having it wrap around it before she used the whip to throw it across the field. Lucy sent the whip out again to yet another stump and landed a hit on it, making a loud cracking sound as it did. Taking a deep breath of relief at knowing that her body didn't affect her skills as bad she thought it would but knowing that it wasn't the best she could do, she turned to the man who was now staring at her in an unnerving way.

He turned around and started walking towards the door that leads back into the workshop and Lucy stood there staring at him before sighing and looking at the ground, "You coming or not ankle biter?" Lucy looked up suddenly at the statement and started smiling before running towards the man and following him into the workshop.

Following the man that Lucy now new as Axal-Sensei, around as he showed her where everything was and the spare room that she would be staying in. Axal-Sensei said that she could live with him as payment for the apprenticeship. Telling her of the schedule and her workload for each morning as he walked on, trying to memorise where everything was and what he was saying, Lucy couldn't help but think that the workload was a lot for a six-year-old but she didn't think it would be easy.

"You will wake up before dawn every morning and fill up the scrap metal crate ready for it to be melted down and reshaped. You will preheat the forge, clean the tools and set them up before I wake up. You will also be organising and putting away the weapons. Lastly, you will be cleaning anything in the store that needs to be cleaned until your lunch break." Axal-Sensei never stopped talking as he walked and Lucy made a mental note of everything he said before silently giving the information to Crux in case she forgot, she asked Horologium to set up an alarm and asked him to estimate how much time each task should take in her current condition.

Axal-Sensei stopped walking when they reached the shop and turned to her, "how much do you know about weapons?" He asked her,

"You just saw it," Lucy said cheekily, Axal-Sensei sighed and started mumbling under his breath.

"Okay looks like I'm going to have to spend time teaching you about them before you can start making them. I'll give you rundown on each weapon in the shop and I want you to memorise everything before the end of the month." Lucy made a mental note about it to Crux and swallowed loudly because Horologium just told her that the end of the month is two and a half weeks away.

The old man smirked at her nervous form, "You can always quit kid," he pointed out, "you'll be back on the streets if you can't memorise everything anyway." He added just to see her start sweating, never having known anything about weapons except for what Sagittarius taught her. 'I really should have asked Erza to teach me when I had the chance'. Lucy thought to herself.

"You will have two hours after dinner for free time but then you'll have to clean and pack everything away." Axal-Sensei finished explaining before walking towards where the dining room was. There was no lounge room but there really was no need for one with all of the work that needed to be done.

Walking her towards her room he looked at her again before continuing, "If you can remember everything about the weapons by the end of the month you can decorate this room however you like, you can even paint it." He stated although he looked doubtful, Lucy nodded anyway and ignored the look, she knew she could do it but she was going to have to cheat a little and use some magic.

After making the bed in her new room Lucy started dusting and cleaning the room top to bottom. It was full of dust and looked like no one had ever used it before. Deciding against asking Virgo for help no matter how tempting Lucy could only communicate with her spirits until she trained more so that they could help her without being seen. Touching Horologium key and realised that she still had an hour until Axal-Sensei said to meet him in the workshop Lucy asked Crux to gather as much information about weapon making as he could and to be ready to take in as much information as possible for when Axal-Sensei explains. Lucy also contacted Gemini and asked if they could copy Axal-Sensei when he goes to sleep so that the information can be repeated if necessary.

Smiling at the thought of her best information gathering spirits and how willingly they were to help her get back to fairytail. Walking down to the shop once again and started looking around at all of the weapons admiring all of the designs and the variation in them. A triangularly shaped knife, similar to the one that Axal-Sensei was sharpening yesterday stood out to her.

This knife's handle was pure silver but had the constellation of Aquarius engraved on it. Feeling her throat close up Lucy tried to hold back tears, now that she was in this world it would be even more unlikely to find Aquarius.

"That kunai was a part of a set once." Axal-Sensei's rough voice came from behind her. "It was the first complete set that I made, one day the place got ransacked and the rest were stolen. That was the knife I was working on that day so it wasn't on display yet." He explained.

Lucy turned to look at him after taking a deep breath to hide her emotional state. "It's beautiful," she whispered to him trying not to think about the past.

"It's the constellation of Aqua..."

"Aquarius, I know," Lucy interrupted him and turned away from the knife, still trying to forget. "So what weapon will I learn about first?" She asked and started walking towards him, he looked at her confused for a moment before shrugging it off and walked over to the swords and started talking. Crux capturing every word while Lucy was trying to remember as much as she could with her mind elsewhere.

That night Lucy got Crux to record all of the information that was gathered into a book for Lucy to read and she studied until Axal-Sensei said it was lights out. 'Apparently, I have a curfew now'. Lucy thought to herself as she settled in for the night.

Lucy woke to the alarm clock that Horologium set up for her the next morning and jumped up when she realised that she had work to do. Quickly getting dressed and putting up her hair she ran down the stairs and grabbed an apple from the kitchen table. Running into the workshop to preheat the forge like Axal-Sensei showed her and then going over to the pile of scrap metal in the corner. Wondering how she was going to lift it in her body, Lucy grabbed as much as she could (which wasn't a lot) and heaved it over to the crate. Taking note to ask Capricorn to help her with muscle building after the day is over.

After filling the crate Lucy was already exhausted but went and got out Axal-Sensei's tools and started cleaning them with the supplies that he instructed her to use. After setting them up the way she saw them yesterday Lucy heard the roof creek, meaning someone was walking around upstairs.

Racing into the shop she grabbed a duster and broom and started cleaning, hoping to be done before Axal-Sensei opened up. Putting away any stray weapons she saw lying around as she goes. Lucy didn't look up as she heard the door open but she did when she didn't hear any more footsteps.

Lucy saw Axal-Sensei staring at her and she was started to get a little creeped out. Sweat-dropping a little Lucy went back to sweeping the shop, but she stopped after five minutes when she realised he was still there. "Good morning," Lucy called out to him cautiously, not really knowing what to say.

"I thought you would still be asleep," he replied, not returning her greeting.

"You said you wanted things done before you woke up," Lucy stated like it was obvious, momentarily forgetting that she was meant to be six, not eighteen.

Without replying he went into the workshop, probably looking around to see if anything was incorrect or not done. Lucy went back to work while stating everything she knew about the weapons that she went passed and Crux telling her if she was right or wrong.

Time skip a few hours

Wiping the sweat off of her forehead from lifting a sword that was twice her size onto the mount on the wall Lucy heard her stomach grumble. Noticing that it was lunch already Lucy went to the kitchen and made herself a sandwich before she heard the door open. Looking towards it she saw Axal-Sensei walking to the table and plopping himself onto a chair. "Would you like one Axal-Sensei?" Lucy asked showing him her sandwich to which he nodded, handing him her already made one she started to make another for herself.

Finishing her lunch Lucy looked towards Axal-Sensei and asked him for something else to do because she was finished cleaning the shop. Looking slightly surprised he said that she could have some free time, excited Lucy ran out towards the training field and mentally asked Capricorn to teach her something without summoning him. Little did Lucy know that Axal-Sensei was watching her do the exercises that Capricorn was talking her through.

Over the course of the next week, Lucy kept exceeding Axal-Sensei's expectations, although he never admitted it and most probably never would but by this time Lucy had almost memorised all of the weapons in the shop, the parts and attachments on the weapons and what they were made out of. Lucy didn't know if she was going to be asked all of this or not but it was better to be on the safe side, she wanted to take notes on how Axal-Sensei made them as well but hadn't had the chance as of yet.

Lucy had also started wearing training weights on her arms and legs but they were only 5kg each. Capricorn had suggested them to get her use to heavy lifting and said that he would make them heavier each week but he wouldn't tell her how heavy he was going to make them. Every time Lucy trained in basic martial arts Axal-Sensei would watch her but never make himself known.

Lucy had yet to do any more research on Ninjas but she did end up finding a scroll on chakra on a shelf in the workshop. Lucy hasn't made any progress in that either but she has been meditating every night, Capricorn has a theory that since magic is so similar to chakra that it would be hard to distinguish the difference between the two. Today while Lucy was training in the small field Axal-Sensei finally made himself known, he walked out onto the field and stood in front of her just as she was about to punch the tree log. Looking confused at him she stopped,

"Is there something you needed?" Lucy asked wondering if she forgot to do something before her break.

"Hit me," was all he said, blinking up at him Lucy was startled.

"Excuse me?"

"Hit me," he said again, shrugging Lucy got into her stance and lunged at him punching him in the stomach before getting back into position. "I don't know why I expected more," Axal-Sensei said after she relaxed her stance. Frowning at him Lucy looked at him slightly annoyed.

"Thank you for that, like I didn't already know that I suck," was all she said but on the inside, she was screaming mad.

Shaking his head, Axal-Sensei looked amused, "You know I was a taijutsu and weapons specialist back in the day," he said to her looking smug,

"Okay, good for you," Lucy said and turned towards a different log, not noticing Axal-Sensei frown and slightly sweatdrop.

"I can train you if you want," he said suddenly before Lucy could throw a punch. Turning she looked back at him,

"Really?" After seeing him nod Lucy smiled and turned towards him fully, "Okay great, one question though, what's taijutsu?" Axal-Sensei anime dropped to the ground at her question and should have thought this decision through more.

Back at the guild

People were running around everywhere even though they looked like they hadn't slept in years. They were shouting and looked to be holding in tears, suddenly a giant hand smacked into the ground and everyone went silent and looked towards their guild master who was in his wheelchair.

"My children it has been over a week since our Lucy went missing and have yet to find a trace. I have sent a word out to other guilds for them to keep an eye out but I feel as if it is time to call back the search parties and take a break." Master Makarov said gravely, hesitation could be heard in his voice as if he never wanted to say this.

"What are you talking about gramps? We have to find Lucy!" Natsu yelled furious from the first floor.

"And we will, but everyone here is tired, stressed and worried. We can think and search better after a good rest, but I make this vow. We will find our Nakama or we will die trying!" Makarov said sternly knowing that it wouldn't calm the boy but it would at least make him determined to find his teammate even if he has to rest.

Back with Lucy

"Achoo!" Lucy sneezed and hoped that she wasn't coming down with a cold on her first day of taijutsu training after Axal-Sensei explained what taijutsu was Lucy was more determined to train and exercise, to be able to surpass a master would probably take her years the way she was going.

Axal-Sensei changed her stance and told her to focus more on her legs then her arms and taught her how to kick the tree stump. When Lucy asked when they were going to move onto different techniques and adding arms into training, Lucy got the shock of her life.

"Once you have destroyed the tree stump we'll move on." He simply stated before going back down to the workshop and told Lucy not to come inside for dinner.

After multiple failed attempts to even land a scratch on it with her kicks Lucy sat down to think. When Axal-Sensei explained how taijutsu worked he mentioned that chakra wasn't allowed to be used (not that she could anyway,) but without it, she probably will never be able to destroy the stump. The only other way was to strengthen her legs but that could take months, according to Capricorn and using her Taurus star dress would probably be obvious. With leg strengthening being her only option Lucy asked Capricorn to increase her weights and to start giving her leg exercises until she could find another way to do it.

Struggling to lift her feet off if the ground due to the adding weight Lucy started to try doing laps around the field only to keep falling over. By the end of the day, Lucy had worked herself up to speed walking around the field before she had to go back inside for dinner.

For the next few days Lucy worked in the morning and trained with her legs after lunch then cleaned up and meditated after dinner before going to bed, by the time the fifth day of her new training with Axal-Sensei came around Lucy had managed to break off a layer of bark to the tree stump and run five full laps around the field. Feeling more determined than ever Lucy asked Capricorn to increase her weights yet again, and do her training all over again.

"Axal-Sensei how do you use chakra?" Lucy asked that day at dinner, "I mean, I understand in theory but I haven't been able to use any externally."

"I don't sense a lot of chakra coming from you so either you have too little and have to increase the amount or you need to have it unlocked. There are people who can't use chakra at all and rely solely on taijutsu," he explained and Lucy frowned wondering if she would be able to use it considering she isn't even from this world.

"After you've destroyed that stump I'll see if I can unblock it or give you ways to increase it though, so if you want to use it that badly I suggest you hurry up." Axal-Sensei said sternly, "and don't forget that you have to tell me what all of the weapons are in the shop in two days." After saying that he got up and washed his plate before going to the bathroom most likely to take a shower.

Smirking slightly when he left the room Lucy almost laughed because she knew that he was trying to scare her. When she probably could have recited everything to him a few days ago but wanted the extra days just in case, feeling confident about the test Lucy washed her plate and went down to the workshop to start cleaning up.

Two days later Lucy was standing in front of Axal-Sensei as he stood leaning against the wall smirking down at her looking confident that she wouldn't be able to remember all of the information he told her just over two weeks ago. Lucy started leading him around the store reciting what he told her about each weapon, while also adding what materials were used for each one only stumbling a few times when Axal-Sensei asked her a question about some of the weapons and was suddenly glad that she had gone the extra mile in her studying. By the end, Lucy was standing confidently in front of him even though she was internally screaming with nerves.

"So do I pass?" Lucy asked him after standing there for a few minutes. Axal-Sensei sighed with a defeated look suddenly appearing on his face, as if finally accepting that she was probably going to be one of the best apprentices to take on, despite how annoying he found her.

Patting her on the head he said, "You pass ankle biter," before turning around and going back into the workshop. Lucy touched her head where his hand use to be and smiled before going back to work.