Remember Me Please

Chapter 7

Keys and Recontracting

After the delicious stew that Mira helped me make, "Thanks Mira, that was very enjoyable." We smile at each other, and there is this warmth in me that makes me feel like we were very close before. "Mira, were we close… you know, before my memories got lost?" I ask, taking a sip of my lemon water.

"Yea, you were friends with everyone, you loved everyone as much as they loved you." A tint of pink roses in my cheeks and I feel a bit interested in the me before I lost my memories. Mira takes a book out from the bar table cupboards. It was wrapped in leather and bonded carefully in string. The book itself was thick, the name engraved to the leather cover. "Here, you lent it to me before you left for the job. You said it was your favorite book. I finished reading it just yesterday, this might help jog your memory a bit." She smiles again, but this time there was a sad hope.

I take the book with two hands and observe it. The title I couldn't pronounce since it was blurred. "Wow, I must've really loved this book, the title's even blurred."

"Yea. You read it everyday for at least once. You bring it to the guild, to jobs with Natsu-"

"Jobs with Natsu? Don't we do jobs ourselves?" I ask, still a bit confused by the term "jobs".

"Oh, sometimes there are jobs that are too much for one person, so they pair up or group up and split the money after they finish. You and Natsu were a team right after you guys met." She explains as she takes away my dishes and starts washing them. I nod slowly and look at the redhead who is staring at the job board and talking to a huge guy that looks a bit native american.

"Thanks again Mira." I pipe up, then take the book and walk over to where Natsu is. "Sup?" I ask, a bit awkwardly since we just met and he seems to know a lot about me.

"Oh hey, I was just about to come over. So you met Mira huh?" He asks pointing over to her. I nod and smile at the same time.

"She's very sweet and pretty, why doesn't she do jobs as well?" I ask, interested in why she would choose to stay at the bar as a bartender, when she could earn money doing mage jobs.

"Don't underestimate her, she's very, very powerful. She's an S-class wizard! That's her brother, Elfman" He points to a big dude, like seriously, big dude, with the same white silver hair that spikes up and a stitch going from his eye halfway to his ear. "Then there's her sister, Lisanna." He points to a girl who looks just as pretty as her sister, but with short hair and bigger, prettier eyes. Suddenly, jealousy sparks within me as she smiles brightly and waves at us.

"Ohh, interesting." and that is the only two words that I could say after trying to contain that unanticipated feeling. "So have you found a job? I heard we were a team." I ask, trying to get closer to the person who was my friend before.

"I think we should contact your keys first, and train you to be as good as you were before - I don't want you hurting yourself again." He says in a dead serious tone. I have never seen him relaxed or happy, just worry and concern. Something was missing.

"Sure, wait what do you mean by keys?" I ask, confused.

He takes a silver ring out with both golden and silver keys attached to it, each of them were shaped differently and it did not look anything like a normal house key. The golden one's were in the shape of the astrological signs and the silver ones were something that I couldn't make out.

"Follow me, we'll summon them outside." He says, leading me to a park not far from the guild. A tree stand in the middle of the park, with short neatly cut grass. "Okay, take one of the keys from your pouch." I follow his instructions and do so, I take a key out with the aquarius sign on it.

"Okay what do I do now?" I point the key towards Natsu and he realises what key I'm holding. He runs over and takes the key out of my hand.

"How bout we leave that one to last?" He says, sighing in relief as he put it away in his pocket. I take out another key, this time it's with the taurus sign on it and lift it in the air.

"Now what do I do?" I ask. His eyes widen again from the key that I was holding and takes it out from my hand again. "Let me guess, leave that to second last?" I ask, taking the key back and placing back into my leather pouch.

"He's a bit… handy. Here." He takes out the one with the Leo sign on it. "Use this one." I take the golden key out of his hand and lift it in the air. "Now say, Open! Gate of the Lion, Leo!" I look at him weirdly, as if any normal person would say it. "Okay, now I know how you felt when I laughed before." He murmurs.

Alright, something is better than nothing. At least I could connect with my mother, that beautiful lady in my dreams who gave me my name. "Open! Gate of the Lion! Leo!" I automatically turn the key ninety degrees right, as if opening a door.

There was a bright shine that came through and it sounded like doors were opening and stars were coming out from it. I could feel the energy go through the air. I blinked a few times to get used to the light until it goes away. "Yo, Lucy, how's it going?" A voice speaks in the washing light.

The light leaves and standing at the center of it, was a man, with light brown hair that spikes up, and a suit that fits him a bit too well. He looks like the type of guy who plays with women. "Leo." Natsu says in a very serious tone. They share an intense stare and Leo nods as if he was just receiving instructions.

The playboy kneels in front of me. "I am Loke, one of the twelve golden zodiac keys. Shall we head to creating the contract now master?" He asks in a polite way that also sounds strict. This was totally different to the atmosphere he gave off when he first arrived.

"What do I do now?" I whisper to Natsu. He shrugs his shoulders.

"Well, I only saw it once but..." He tries to reenact the making of a contract on the floor which for some reason, I did before. "You ask them what dates they are free to serve you I think." I nod slowly and do so.

"What dates are you able to come to the real world?" I ask, wondering why I knew they weren't living in one. Loke looks up with a huge smile on his face and behind those brave eyes, you could see a tint of sadness. I wonder why.

"Any day. Oh and also expect me to appear even if you hadn't summoned me." He says, snapping himself out of that strict and polite self that he was. "Natsu! How's life these days! It's been like forever!" They have a little bro chat at the side as I stare at the Leo's key. Somehow.. I feel like I should treasure them, that I had some kind of relationship with them.

"Loke.." I get his attention. We stare at each other, our eyes getting wider and wider. "Have we ever gone intimate?" I ask absentmindedly. Loke falls backwards in absolute shock whilst Natsu has this sort of angry face that doesn't seem angry… I don't know what to call it.

Loke suddenly stands up again, readjusting his glasses that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "Now, now, now" He stutters. "Why- why- why would you say that?" He asks, trying to lean on the tree but missing so he falls back to the ground as Natsu comes closer with his whatever-that-is face.

"Yea, Luce, why would you ask that?" He asks as well, while stepping on Loke.

"I just felt this sensation that we were close… that me and these keys were close." I try to explain, not knowing what damage I caused just now. "I don't know, I think I could remember emotions… like feelings that I have with people. Like Mira, I sensed that we used to be very close."

"So you're saying that you… remember?" Natsu asks, letting Loke go and helping him up. "Well that's great!" He says, overjoyed. "Do you remember anything about me? Oh yes, this is a huge step, we gotta tell master!"

"Natsu, you're scaring her." Loke points out as he sees my freaked out face.

"Oh, yea, sorry. So do you remember me now?" He asks his face getting closer to mine.

I step back.

"Sorry. But I don't."