I woke to a bright light. There was a light warmth on my hand and I turned to see pink on top of it.
"Nat… Su?" I didn't know what that meant until what I realized to be hair, pink hair rose up off my hand, and the face underneath it rose. The man grinned at me, and called out the door.
"She's up! Luce's up!" He turned and looked at me with kind eyes and said something.
"You probably don't recognize me. Do you?" He looked sullen for a moment, then cheered up again.
"But, in a few weeks you'll be back to normal! When we played that prank we didn't realize about the bond!" At that moment a man with ginger hair came in. He was wearing a suit and had a pink-haired maid following him.
"Lucy! You're just as you were before Layla…!" He looked over-joyed at the beginning but once he said 'Layla' he looked sad.
"Poor Princess." Said the maid. "She didn't know, we should have told her of her past."
"No." Said the pink-haired man. "She needs to remember it herself. That's the only way to break that seal." The definity in his voice scared me it reminded me of a man with a cold face.
"Ana?" I asked, a face like my one flitting around in my mind.
"No Princess. Ana is not here right now." Said the maid.
"Now Virgo, you know that's exactly what Layla said… That night…" The ginger man said the last part hushedly.
"You're right Leo-sama, you may punish me now." Said the maid called 'Virgo'.
"Is that what you were going after Virgo? You know better than to resort to those under-handed tactics." Said the man called 'Leo'.
"Le… Oh? Vir… go?" I say, the names rolling familiarly of my tongue.
"Good job Princess-sama! You can say our names!" She jumped and clapped excitedly. I turned my head to the obviously annoyed pink-haired man.
"Da… Ddy?" I ask. His face turned red and he stammered.
"N-No, I'm Natsu. Nat… Sue." He tried to explain. I sat up and turned to him.
"Daddy." I say firmly, reaching out to play with his hair. He sighed.
"I suppose this is how you felt when I called you 'Luigi' when we first met." He sighed again.
"Fine… I'll be your's and Anastasia's Daddy until you guys are back to normal." Leo and Virgo looked surprised. "But only because these guys have to go home." He said quickly.
"We've done this before Natsu. Let us look after her again." Said Leo.
"No." Said Daddy. "You'll draw on her power and that might stunt her return. But, if you stay on your on power you'll die." Leo looked surprised by the smartness of Daddy, but he quickly frowned, realizing that Daddy's words are true.
"Okay Natsu, we'll go, but I WILL visit. And if a hair on her head is harmed I will open Aquarius's gate." Leo didn't sound to happy about leaving so i tried to comfort him.
"Leo, I be ogay. Daddy will prodect. Say hi Aquarie, I miz her." My pronunciation was bad, but what I said as true. I hope that that makes him feel better. I think with a grin, then he and Virgo disappear in clouds of light.
"So Lucy. You remember the spirits, huh." Spoke Daddy.
"Aquarie and me like bath-time, I can call her!" I say the last part proudly, clapping my hands."I know you can, but let's not, okay?" He answered. I nodded. She can be scary… I think, not noticing that Daddy had begun to carry me downstairs.
"Hey, Luce's up!" Daddy called, I noticed all the strange people. They're not really strange, I mean, no one is as strange as my spirits, they're looking at me as if they know me, it's scary. I think this while grabbing Daddy's scarf and curling up tighter against his chest, I try to bury my face in his scarf, I had managed to unloop on end so I could hide my face from the people. They were crowding around us, calling me cute, picking on my Daddy, calling him names. So I did the one thing I could, I turned to face the men, one raven-haired, the other one with lots of peircings. I glared at them, to which they called me cute, so I grew my wings and dive-bombed them. This surprised them and Daddy laughed so I did flips for him, circling and swooping, some cats, three of them, joined me, we flew around, and I flew to my Daddy, right into his arms. I curled up against his warm chest, it's heat and the rhythmic beating of his heart soothing, within moments I was asleep.
~~~~ Levy's View~~~~
I was using tracker to find Anastasia, or Nashi, depending on who you were, when I heard Lucy scream, it broke my concentration, tracker disappeared when I turned sharply to the direction of her scream. I ran as fast as these short legs would take me, wich is surprisingly fast, to where Lucy was. I arrived at the guild hall to see Natsu holding a bawling baby-Lucy, with a gold and blue magic circle above her.
"What's happened and happening to Lu-chan?" I ask, shoving my way around people to reach Natsu, who was obviously scared.
"There's a bond between her and Anastasia, also the third seal is breaking." It was Master who answered me. Natsu stood and spoke, hi voice hollow, as if everything happy had been sucked out of it.
"I'm taking her up to the infirmary." He spoke briefly, not saying much, but a lot at the same time. He was probably telling us not to follow, touch Lucy or bother him. He spoke once more.
"I'll call when she wakes, but only Leo and Virgo can come. Once that's done we'll come downstairs." That hid no secret meanings, it was simply that. He carried the adorable baby that is Lucy up to the infirmary, the gentle heat rolling off of him dried her tears as soon as they fell. He's doing that deliberately. He's controlling his heat so that she's comfortable and he can't see her cry. I think level-headed, knowing how much he hates to see Lucy cry, or be in any sort of pain. Makarov spoke once more.
"Listen-up you brats! It was a prank! Nashi is actually Lucy's sister and before Anastasia was sent off a bond was placed between them! That explains Lucy's current state which makes it even more urgent that we find the other twin! She has no memory of us and may fight back, but if any harm befalls her it happens to Lucy and Vise-Versa! Now scram! Go look!" He ordered, pointing out towards town, we all ran. Trying to find one small girl, in Magnolia, with plenty of places for her to get hurt. And if she gets hurt so will Lucy, that's plenty of motivation for the guild. Right? What am I thinking? Of course it is Levy! That's more than enough! And with those thoughts the hunt began again, even more intensely this time with the new-found motivation.