Revelations and a plan

"...what?" Alex asked, him and Lucy looking at the cat incredulously. Natsu, meanwhile, looked over Lucy, before coming to a realization. "Oh yeah, didn't see it until she stood up, but yeah, looks like he does, Happy."

Alex and Lucy both turned to stare at Natsu, who just pointed at Lucy's thigh. Our heads slowly turned to look at it. Inscribed there, in elegant writing (way more legible than Alex had ever made) was two words.

*Alex Cross's*

"Oh, I can't believe I never noticed that before. I guess you do own me."

For the second time that day, a snapping could be heard from Alex's neck as he looked at Lucy. Hurt like hell, but even through the pain, he couldn't just let this insanity stand without questioning it.

"How!? Why!? and how did the writing even get there!?" He shouted incredulously, getting a few looks from the other patrons. He was waving his arm emphatically in disbelief. How could any of that happen!?

"Well..." Lucy said, backing up an inch or two from his reaction. "Your name is on me, so that means you own me... isn't it normal to write your name on things you own?" she raised her arms in front of her in a motion to try and calm me down.

"But you're a person!" Alex responded with another flailing of his arm, when he suddenly spotted it, stopping his rant in shock: he was still holding the antique pen. Was that the reason? He definitely didn't remember writing it, but clearly there wasn't writing there before they sat down. Did, did the pen do this? He tried chucking the pen away, but it refused to leave his hand. After a solid minute of attempting to chuck it (including trying to pry it off with his other hand, which only made it swap hands, he eventually settled for putting it back in the requip pocket of his. This was way too much for him to take in right now.

"All right, we can discuss what happened about 'ownership' after that imposter get's his ass thrown in jail. does that sound good to everyone?"

"obviously it's good to me..." Lucy said awkwardly as she looked back towards where Natsu was. "But..."

"But what?"

"Natsu charged out a few minutes ago." Happy said, pointing at the vacant spot Natsu had been occupying before Alex had been completely derailed.

Alex pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration. "All right. I had this idea... but I was hoping Natsu would be available... Happy. Could you see if you can find him? We're going to have to improvise a bit..."

A bit later, Lucy was reading the magazine Weekly Sorcerer on a park bench.

"Bahahaha! Fairy Tail took down the Devon Bandit clan, but accidentally destroyed 7 private residences!? That's way too over the top!" She paused her reading to clutch her sides. After a minute of that, she resumed reading the magazine, reaching the Mirajine pin up section. "'The main attraction of Fairy Tail, Mirajine'... wonder if she's destroyed any buildings... The real question is, how do I get in? You supposedly have to be a really strong mage... can't they just do interviews!?" The blonde huffed, before breaking out in a broad, fangirly smile. "The Fairy Tail Wizard Guild... They're just the coolest!"

"I see, so you want to be a Fairy Tail mage?" Came a surprising voice from the foliage, making Lucy jump.

"S-Salamander!" She exclaimed as the fake mage from before climbed out of the bushes.

"You're a hard girl to find." He replied as he strutted out of the bushes. "I wanted to be sure that all the ladies of your beauty would attend my party."

"Just so you know, charm magic doesn't work on me. Since I realized that's what it was, it's useless to try it on me!" Lucy declared with an accusatory finger pointed at the man.

"I knew it! I took you for a wizard the moment I laid eyes on you. All right. No charms as long as you agree to attend my party."

Lucy huffed and simply walked away. "Who'd want to attend a party by a mage that needed charm in the first place."

"Wait! You... said you wanted to be a Fairy Tail mage, right?"

Lucy's walk stopped dead, the girl slowly turning her head back to face him.

"Have you ever heard of... Salamander from Fairy Tail?"

"I have! Wait, that's you!?"

"That's me! And if you attend the party, I'll put in a good word for you with the Master."

Lucy practically swooned into him. "This is going to be the most glorious party~! Which boat!? Can you really get me into Fairy Tail!?"

"Yes, but only if you keep quiet about the charm magic." He whispered to her with a wink, a hearty nod coming from the blonde looking at him. "As for which boat, it's the largest boat there. See you at the party~" he waved goodbye as Lucy waved after him.

Once he'd turned the corner, however, Lucy looked around and raised an arm into the air before fist-pumping twice. Immediately after that, Alex walked over to her from a nearby cafe. "He took the bait!" She cheered a bit as the two of them high fived.

"And the line, from the looks of things. Now we just need Natsu and he'll have officially taken the sinker." Alex nodded, looking over the cute and sexy girl next to him. "Hope we hear from him soon."

Now that they'd set things up for now, there was a bigger issue to address. "Can we talk somewhere out of the middle of the street?" He asked, and a few minutes later they were back on the bench together. "So, I don't fully understand... why do I own you again?"

"Because you're name's on me?" Lucy looked as confused as she had before. Alex was about to answer, when something interruped him.

-Gyahaha! Stop wrackng your brain! It's cause of me, obviously! You're welcome!-

"Who said that?!" Alex looked around suddenly, Lucy doing likewise. No one else seemed to have noticed otherwise.

"Weird... I heard it, but I also don't think I did..."

-Right you are, sweetcheeks! Can't talk with no mouth! Now, get this panicky idiot to calm down and this little pen can answer all your questions!-

Lucy looked back at Alex, who was looking dumbfounded. "YOUR THE PE-" he was cut off by Lucy's quick thinking as she planted a kiss right on him and hugged him for a bit, keeping Alex from shouting.

-Perfect, blondie! Nice use of tongue too- (Lucy blushed as she heard that in her head) -Now then, introductions are in order! The name's Write, and I'm a lost magic your ancestor made 200 years back, Alley Boy!-

The two of them froze in there surprise make out session at this, before breaing apart. -Aw c'mon! Don't stop on my account!- "What the-!" -All right, all right! I have more details to give and you need to stop shouting! Seriously, you two would look insane...- Write grumbled.

-I know what your first questions are, Alley Boy, so I'll answer them now. Yes, using me to write your name on things makes everyone believe you own them, like Hot Blondie over here. No, I can't act fully on my own, I can only move the hand holding me a bit to write based on my user's desires. It is NOT permanent and can be undone, but also requires using me to do so. And lastly, there IS a price if I don't get used regularly. You get all that? Or you need to take notes?- The last part sounded almost mocking.

Alex took the time to process all this. That was a lot to take in... he manifested the pen, looking at it. -Hello, Alley Boy! Yup, that's this handsome devil you're holding.-

"So..." Lucy interjected, pondering. "I wasn't always owned by you... looking back... it does make sense... first time we met, I thought you were a cute awkward guy..." Alex blushed a bit at her reply. "But why would you want me specifically."

-Cause you're hot, cute, and nice, duh! He wanted you, so I gave a helping hand!- Write snickered.

"BUT I- I didn't want to own her!" Alex protested, remembering partway through not to be yelling.

-I don't see the difference.- came the pen's reply. -I'm here to help my user get their desires, snd the one who made me bound me to his family's blood, aka you.-

Alex sighed. He really wanted to argue this more, but he felt like the pen was a true foriegner to the idea of morality. "So, how do I undo this?"

-Hold your horses, kid. I know you want to get out of this as soon as possible, but you got a thing to stop tonight, right? Stopping an imposter mage? I know you were waiting for Natsu, but haven't seen him in a bit, have you?Well, if you want to take this guy down, I'm going to need to give you a primer on my other features~-

"Other features?" Alex tilted his head at that.

-Got your interest, eh? Don't worry, there's plenty of time to prepare for your plan as well. Now, here are some basics...-

Alex was frustrated as he watched Lucy board the boat from his hiding place. As much as he was happy to finally do some actual magic, having signed Lucy was still weighing on his mind. But, Write had said all he had to do was cross out the writing with him (it?), and since they had to deal with this jackass, these needs came first.

In any case, he waited till the crew picked up the box he was hiding in as they loaded up the ship. It wasn't much, but it was the easiest way on board, since they had left it unattended for a bit. Now all he had to do was wait...

Once the boat had started to move, Alex managed to extracate himself from the box and started moving, making sure to keep out of the eyesight of the crew. His newfound knowledge made it clear he could incapacitate one or two with the pen, but a group would be more difficult... Now where was Lucy...

*CRASH*

Probably near there! Alex abandoned stealth, now running to investigate. When he got there, he saw Lucy flying out with what looked like wings, a shocked crew including the fake Salamander... and the real one, who was keeled over and looked like he was going to be sick.

"You won't get away!" The fake shouted, a wave of purple fire rising from his hand and firing through the hole Lucy just escaped through. "Stop her! If the council gets wind of this we're screwed!"

Alex grinned as he continued to go unnoticed. 'Too late for that! Already sent them a letter with what we already knew.' He thought proudly, until he saw one of them raising a gun to shoot Lucy.

"Oh no you don't!" He shouted, charging in and tackling the guy before anyone could react. Of course, now all eyes were on him.

"Who are you, a spy for the council? Or just some dumbass!? Whatever, kill him either way!"

"Got it, Bora!"

"Idiots! Don't use my name!"

Finally had a real name for this guy, but no time for that now. Using Requip to put Write in hus hand, he held the gunner by the neck with his other arm as he wrote a note on the other guys arm.

*Alex Cross's Gun arm*

"Shoot to wound them!" He shouted into the gunman's ear, the guy in question unable to control his arm as he started putting a few bullets in people's legs. It was going well, until the gun ran out of ammo. "Crap." It looked like Alex was going to need Plan B after all...

Suddenly the water around the ship erupted into a chaotic wave, sending the whole ship flying back into town and getting beached on the harbor shore!

"Owowowow..." Alex winced, his body stinging a bit from the inpact, having fallen face first. Though his head felt nice, having landed on something soft. He shifted his head a bit before pulling himself up to get a look at what he landed on...

It was Lucy's breasts.

"Umm, sorry."

"It's okay, Aquarius washed me over here too." She said with an adorable blush across her face. "I'm just glad you're not hurt."

"Thanks... I'd be more than happy to remove the writing if you-"

"No!" Lucy blurted out, raising her hands in front of her, before her blush got even bigger. "Um, I mean, I know now that you only own me cause of the writing, but I've been thinking. It stopped Bora from branding me earlier, when he finally saw it. And I wouldn't have to worry about creepy guys hitting on me..." She looked to the side. "So, as long as you're nice to me, I wouldn't mind keeping it for a bit..."

Alex Cross was speechless for a bit. "Are you sure about this?" He asked nervously. Lucy replied with a curt nod.

BOOM!

Turning their heads, they saw natsu and Bora fly out from the ship, both weilding fire magic. It definitely seemed like Natsu was winning as the battle commenced.

"Amazing..." "Truly amazing..."

"But..." "But..."

"HE'S GETTING CARRIED AWAY!"

"THE HARBOR'S A WRECK!"

"Aye."

"That's all you can say to this!?" "Wait, Happy? when did you get here?"

"All right! What's all this then!?"

That last one came from an armored man, leading what seemed to be an entire armed **** marching their way.

"It's the army!!"

Alex didn't even get a chance to respond before they both were getting dragged away by a running Natsu.

"Why are you dragging us into this!?" Alex finally managed to yell out.

"You guys wanted to join Fairy Tail, right?" The pink haired fire mage looked at them, grinning. "Then come along!"

Lucy and Alex looked at each other, before nodding and exchanging expressions.

"Okay!!!"