.:Recap:.

He saw what it was. Lucy's hair ribbon was tied to his arm, barely poking out from under his green sleeves. The younger boy's amber eyes then met with the Salamanders and suddenly looked alarmed. He turned and dashed away from Natsu as if he was hiding something.

"After him, Happy!" Natsu shouted as raced after the boy through gaps in the crowd. "Aye, sir!" Happy replied and flew above to keep track of the boy.

I'll find you soon, Lucy.


.:Present time:.

The dusky haired boy continued to run through the cobblestone streets between the old fashioned buildings. His jeans kept catching on his feet, but that would not stop him from his high speed escapade. Pedestrians managed to stray out of his way, however, their attention did not waver from the strange boy clearing a path around them.

I can't let them catch me for her sake, Koi thought desperately. I promised her. I can't let him touch me. Koi had to get rid of that pesky idiot before something catastrophic occurred because of the Salamander.

Koi was someone who didn't want to be acknowledged of. Actually, he didn't want people to know he existed. That ingrained belief of his was going down the drain as people gasped and pointed to him and his pursuer. To be more specific, pursuers.

He cursed under his breath as the blue one in midair said something unintelligible about his location. The pink one responded with something like," Yesh!" Then he swiped his fist in a wide arc to the sky as he raced to his target, suddenly motivated by his comrade. This man's expression was telling the amber-eyed boy that he wasn't going to daunt from capturing Koi.

Koi spun around with his sandals clacking against the street's surface; he needed to make a distraction of some sort for the Fairy Tail member.

An olden plain brown carriage parked at a corner of the intersection of the streets immediately caught Koi's attention. So with a flick of his thin left wrist, he sent the transportation means of ordinary humans flying toward the gaining pink-haired youth. As he ignored the frightened screams of the townsfolk, he flashed a smile. Koi positively thought, that should slow that moron down.

His smile then dropped into a frustrated grimace as the carriage exploded into flames and Natsu burst from the center of it. "Arrrghh, you're getting in my WAY, you little piece of-!" Natsu howled out as he charged onward, his pupils dilating in response to his adrenaline.

This was getting out of hand, so Koi Verdan took in a hefty breath and concentrated as he barreled through the densely crowded streets of the downtown section of the small city. In less than a few moments, people he passed began dropping to their knees.

Some held their heads while others had blank expressions as a reaction to their bodies' silent protest to the unnatural magic possessing their minds. It was a simple spell for Koi's standards. All it did was eradicate their memories of him.

There was a reason why Koi didn't want anyone to find out about him. Not because he was a no-good man. Not because he was greedy. Not because he was a mage.

It was what he, as a mage, was in. Many magic users sought the magic that he was master of. If it was made common knowledge, nobody's mind would be safe from the manipulative wrath of the magic.

Koi's magic was Memory magic, which granted him to do anything with a mind that he wanted to do. Memory Magic was a lost magic.


This boy was peeving Natsu off. First, the brunette sent the dragon slayer on a chase throughout a stupid little town filled with weaklings, or rather non-magic users, (What? Lucy told him not to assume that everything is weaker than he is, when a majority of it is…) which he had to plow through. Second, the mage smacked him with a carriage. Third, the younger teenager was spreading these weird glittering sparkles in the air.

Wait, why was he chasing the boy again? Natsu's sandals that were clacking against the cobblestone were now quieting down as he slowed down. He put a fist to his chin and began pondering what the heck he was doing.

"Natsu!" Happy shouted as he wrapped his furry blue paws around the Salamander's black vest and began lifting him in the air. Happy could see that something was going on below. It's not every day that the air sparkled for any reason. Well, except for when Charle talked to him, but sometimes there was this queasy feeling like he was going to vomit…

Natsu wiped his eyes with his fists, awakening out of his reverie of forgetting his objective. His eyes animated as he spotted the annoying brunette, and in haste he swung his feet as if he was using a swing. The pink haired male then pointed and spoke so that only his comrade could hear him," Happy, he's using some kind of spell that does a funny thing to my head, keep me airborne so that I can sneak up on him!"

"Aye!" Happy chanted back while he changed his flying pattern to diving above the running adolescent. Happy grinned as he released his partner and shouted," Surprise!"

Koi looked up as Natsu was launched at him with the clear expression of bafflement. This was not what he had anticipated. His desires of not wanting to be involved were over. His spell then stopped as he lost concentration. Natsu flashed his canines, his black eyes flashing with pride at catching up with his target.

Everything went black as the impact of both them initiated skin contact…


.:Memory Lane:.

It was so cold. Too cold. There was no source of warmth anything in the overwhelming darkness of the train's back cart. Nobody was in the room besides the luggage of passengers and himself. He didn't want to be here at ALL.

He had to be a stowaway since nobody would notice him that way. Silently, he wished that he wasn't alone. If only he had friends.

Sighing, he picked at his battered clothing. His tunic was in disrepair, but all the rest of his clothes managed to stay barely niched. Before he had gotten on the train, he was escaping from evil mages. He frowned as his hand grazed the dusty carpeted flooring.

What good was it if he had great magic but no-one was supposed to remember him? Had it been worth it? Secretly, he wished he'd never accepted it and could've forgotten it had ever happened.

It was too late now. No returns. He had to accept this predicament or he'd never get anywhere.

He froze as he heard the door creak open and burst of light flowed toward him. He prepared his mentality for using a memory spell but silently gaped at his lack of magic power. It had slowly ebbed away that day at his overuse to escape.

Koi winced in preparation at who was going to be at the door. What were they going to do to him? Fear rushed through his veins as these thoughts buzzed through his head.

He blinked in surprise as the door soundlessly closed shut. A lantern bobbed, flashing the curvy body of a lady walking through paths between the mounds of luggage.

Koi cursed as she came within a few feet of him since he didn't have the strength to move out of the way. It sounded as though she had keys since a jingling sound emanated from her.

Turns out she wasn't looking at her, so she tripped and landed on the poor injured man.

See, whenever, Koi touches someone, he relives his or their memory and sometimes that other person also does as well. Also a negative effect of using Memory Magic.

So in an instant, the blonde's memory of her dearest friend was shown to him. Natsu, he thought silently as he became familiar with the man.

When the flashbacks were over, he opened his eyes to see that blonde girl was crunched over him with a frown mocking her pretty face. She had the loveliest chocolate brown eyes had ever seen. The distance between them made him flush in response for the lack of personal space.

"Are you okay? I AM SO sorry! I was looking for a place to ride the train so I wouldn't have to pay…" She said sheepishly while smacking herself in the forehead.

"It's-um-okay?" Koi stuttered in response to the young girl. He hadn't spoken to people in so long. So he most likely sounded like a retard. Yep.

But the blonde didn't seem like she cared. She seemed glad that she hadn't offended him. So she offered her hand with a sweet smile and softly spoke," I'm Lucy Heartifillia, a celestial mage, it's nice to meet you!"

That was the day he met a person that would become his first friend.


.:Present Time:.

"UghhghNghf." Natsu mumbled out. His head hurt. More importantly, he was laying on something. Something bony.

He placed his hands behind him and lifted his body in a sitting position. To his bewilderment he was sitting on the guy he had been chasing, whom of which was now glaring at him.

"You, Fairy Tail people seem to love to tackle me." The brunette adolescent hissed at him in anger. The dragon slayer curiously wondered why but remembered the memory that he saw. That wasn't his memory of Luce…

"That memory you saw wasn't yours, it was mine." The boy below him answered his thoughts. "I'm a memory mage so I accidently transferred a recent memory to you when you touched me."

So the boy DID know Luce. Was that the only time he met her? Why did he seem like he liked Luce…

The last question aggravated Natsu. Very much. He was half annoyed by Lucy since she basically had no idea what effect she had on guys, but mainly by that Koi guy for feeling that way. He fumed in jealously causing flames to flare around his body.

"Hey, idiot! You might want to get off of me before you start doing that, or I'll obliterate your brain. That is if you even have one…" Koi muttered as he shifted on the ground to get away from the Salamander.

Natsu stood up and pulled the lanky brown haired boy up with him. Koi kind of sweat dropped at the serious expression the pink-haired male was making. "You're going to tell me what you know about Luce, and help me find her."

"If I don't?"

Natsu held up his palm in response which held a series of dancing flames.


Hey, guys! I would've written sooner, but I had a funeral to attend to this weekend :( ... Next update will be faster! I promise :)

In this chapter, I decided to introduce a new character to help build up the plot of the story! I don't really like it being in Koi's point of view at the moment but that's so you readers can learn some of his background for his personality. Next chapter should be more Natsu, if not Lucy...:) For those wondering about Lissana, I accidently wrote her a bit OOC in chapter 2. But I can make a plot bunny out of that mistake so no worries (She's not evil or anything, but everyone has their faults when it comes to certain things)! Oh and with Koi's apparent attraction (?) that is just a plot bunny too since this is a Nalu story ^-^

Thanks for the reviews everyone! I enjoy reading all of your opinions and questions. Keeps me wanting to write more! I'm not responding to the reviews in this author's note of this chapter since I'm a bit pressed for time, I would if I could! I will next time!

-Alex