Disclaimer: Hiro Mashima? Me? Nope. No. Nadda.

Prompt: Life is Pandaemonium and that's why its a panoply. In other words, I love p words.


Lucy Heartfilia was feeling a headache coming on. Since the Dragon Slayer and his cat had no idea where to go, the trio had ended up mindlessly walking around.

"How about we grab a bite?" Lucy offered lamely, the blonde fresh out of ideas.

"Let's go there!" Happy pointed at a restaurant that seemed to be doing well. It also had a special dish of fried fish sticks which, Lucy guessed, was probably why Happy chose there. Lucy saw a creepy looking old lady staring at her behind the kitchens door yet when she tried to tell Natsu about the lady, Lucy suddenly found that whomever she had seen was gone.

"May I take your orders?"

A few minutes after Happy,Natsu and Lucy had been seated and given menus a preppy looking waitress had come over.

"Fish sticks for me!" Happy cried with glee while Natsu argued with the waitress for a several minutes ("Noooooo, FIRE chicken!" "I'm sorry sir, but we only have chicken." "Then FIRE CHICKEN WINGS.") before finally agreeing on fire chicken legs (apparently they didn't have fire chickens nor fire chicken wings- only fire chicken legs). Lucy took pity on the poor, no longer preppy looking waitress and ordered just a tuna sandwich.

"I'll be right back with your orders." The frazzled waitress responded.

Within seconds, the waitress had come back with their food...and an invite.

"I'm sorry but the owner would like to see you...please don't hurt me." Lucy had to feel pity for the poor girl, she had to deal with Natsu and Happy- both of whom were looking longily at their food.

A "it's fine" and a generous tip was all Lucy left behind as she stepped into a dark, dank room. She shivered, the scene was something a little eerie and cause strange thoughts to flit through her head.

What if the owner is some crazy,weird person who has a fetish for torture? Or it turns out I was a notorious criminal and that the owner is some righteous cop and wants to-

"Hello." A slightly pudgy,short woman peeked out from a behind a door, bug eyes bulging,"I'm the owner of this restaurant and I'd like to thank you three."

Natsu scratched his head,"Do we know you?"

"Aye Natsu! It was a mission, remember?"

"Oh right!"

Lucy watched the scene unfurl confused, what was going on?

"Oh yeah, Lucy, we took on a mission to make this restaurant popular. Looks like we succeeded after all." Natsu finished with a toothy grin. Wait..mission? With her team? That meant...

"NATSU DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?!" A startled Natsu looked back at an elated and aggravated looking Lucy.

"Ummm, that we took on a mission to make this restaurant popular..?" The shaken pinkette replied hesitantly.

"Noooooooo," Lucy shook her head,"It means...THAT ONE OF MY MEMORIES COULD BE HERE AND YOU NEVER TOLD ME ANYTHING!"

It's self-explanatory itself but after that outburst, Natsu, Happy and Lucy spent the next two hours searching for a memory key but to no avail.


Author's Note

I know this chapter is short but I thought something would be better than nothing. Yeah, I suck.

Mallow Note

I have a headache. Period.