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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Natsu awoke with panic clear on his face and tightened his arms on reflex to try and reassure himself that a faceless monster hadn't taken Lucy from him like it had in his dream, his panic grew when he realized his arms were empty. His eye opened wide as he sat up looking around trying to locate the warmth he craved to hold close, he frowned not seeing her and smelt the air for any trace of her. He pushed himself up and stood catching her smell light in the air and followed it into the streets of Magnolia, it became harder to follow as it's been mixed up with that of the town folk as they went about their lives unaware of what was going on with the guild. Her scent, however, faint it was at times led him to her apartment where it seemed to mix with something else and vanish again. He checked her entire apartment just to reassure himself, but finding no trace of her there his earlier panic returned full force. Where was Lucy? Why hadn't she said anything before she left? Was she coming back? What if they couldn't find her? What if she had another attack? With these questions in mind, he ran to the guild hoping to form a search party with anyone who had already arrived./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Erza awoke with a yawn not long after Natsu got up and began waking everyone else so that they could get on with the day's business. While the others all went their own ways, some to the guild directly, some to go home and change first, Team Natsu- minus Lucy and Natsu of course- headed for the guild to wait out the missing members of their party. Erza had chalked up their absence to Lucy wanting to shower in her apartment and Natsu having followed. She would later come to wish that had simply been the case./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Natsu burst into the guild just as the others had sat down at their usual table. The guild looked at him with interest as he stormed over to his team, his face stricken with worry "Lucy's gone" his voice trembled with emotion as he spoke, his voice barely above a whisper, "I followed her scent to her apartment but she must have worn a perfume or someone else's clothes when she left because it masked her scent too much" the guild was set on edge by his words "I don't know how long ago she left, she could be anywhere by now damn it!" Erza stood and put a hand on his shoulder with a frown on her face./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"He looked up at her, almost expecting her to be mad that he'd lost Lucy, however she simply sighed and shook her head "Use the communication lacrima and see if any guilds can spare anyone to help us look, it's only 10 now, we'll regroup here around noon to meet anyone who comes over from other guilds so they know what is going on" she turned to face the guild letting her hand drop from Natsu's shoulder "The rest of us will form search parties and go over the entire town, Lucy is unfit to be on her own at this time, some of you know why and others of you do not, do not ask us as it is not our place to say why just find her and bring her here!" the guild resounded with a shout of acknowledgment and set about forming small groups of two to three mages. She turned back to Natsu "I leave the other guilds to you, take this time to calm your emotions, after go back to her apartment and see if you can pick up her scent again" he nodded heading towards Makarov's office where the lacrima was kept. Erza followed him with her eyes until he vanished inside before walking over to Wendy. She smiled at the younger slayer "Wendy, I want you to stay here in case someone finds her, while I don't think we'll return with her injured it would be good to be prepared just in case" with a small nod from the girl Erza turned her attention to Grey "Let's go find our celestial mage then."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Makarov kept a close eye on Natsu while he called Lumi Scale and Blue Pegasus as they were the closest guilds, but neither guild could spare even a mage to help Fairy Tail at the moment. The master could see the gears turning in Natsu's head about who else could he call that wasn't too far away, Makarov was about to take pity on the dragon slayer when Natsu snapped his fingers and began to call someone else. He watched in amusement as Natsu let out a loud yell as the other party answered much to the other party's displeasure. With great joy, he listened to Natsu bicker with Sting of Sabertooth until the other agreed to come help with the company of Rouge. As soon as they were done discussing details Natsu was out the door again heading off to Lucy's apartment. Standing alone in his office Makarov smiled "Bring back our missing brat soon" he said to the empty air./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Wendy watched the doors with eyes filled with hope as the hour struck noon, she stood as the door opened and in walked Levy's group, the first to arrive back, but when Levy met Wendy's eyes she shook her head. Even with Gajeel on her team, they were unable to locate the missing blond. Wendy nodded and trained her eyes back on the door, but as more groups poured in it was the same. Natsu was the last to return to the guild hall and after seeing that everyone else had also returned empty handed he punched the door hard enough to splinter it. He growled, his frustration clear, "I don't see Sting or Rouge have they arrived yet to help us look?" he sighed looking around. Collectively the guild gave him a negative on their arrival. With another sigh, he took a seat with Erza and Grey and rested his head on the table./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Wendy followed him to check his hand trying to focus on that rather than her growing concern for Lucy least she starts crying. A dull murmur took over the guild as people began to exchange information as to what they found and where they looked. No one heard the shouting in the streets heading toward the guild, but Natsu and Wendy smelt them before they even reached the door. Rouge and Sting had arrived, and they had Lucy with them from the smell of it. The next moments were a blur of movement as they came in drawing all of Fairy Tail's attention, Natsu and Wendy rushed them taking the passed out blond from them and hurrying her to the infirmary to be checked over without even a thank you to the two sabers. The rest of the guild was torn between going to check on Lucy and finding out where the sabers found the missing mage. Erza was the first to act out of the others by going toward the twin dragon slayers "Natsu must have been desperate to have called you, and for you to have listened, none the less, thank you for your aid in finding Lucy, it gave us all the scare to find her missing." she bent slightly at the waist toward them./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Sting frowned at the re-equip mage "We didn't do it for him, nor you guys. We did it because it was blondie and we as a guild owe her after last GMG, but if you really want to thank us explain to us what the hell is going on. Blondie just started crying so freely before she passed out it was a little freaky, she didn't seem that emotionally weak before, it's so out of character for her" Rouge didn't add to what Sting asked, merely nodded to show he too was curious about it./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Frosch stepped out from behind her slayer "Fro is concerned about the pretty blond fairy too!"/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Erza shook her head unsure what to tell them, as she herself had noticed it the night before but didn't know why. The doors behind the twin slayers opened again to reveal Porlyusica "I can answer that one" she huffed entering the hall "when those idiot's she calls a team brought her to me the other day I gave her a medicine that was different then I usually gave her, unfortunately one of its side effects is that if causes emotions to become unstable." the old mage sighed "Now if you have no further questions I'd like to go check on Lucy, assuming you actually found her and aren't just wasting time standing around chit chatting" Sting and Erza shook their head and gestured toward the door Natsu and Wendy had gone through with the blond./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"AN: This feels way longer of a chapter then it probably is, hope you enjoy I guess *shrug* also had to call out Lucy's crying because it bothers me trying to read the parts I wrote over a year ago/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Natsu awoke with panic clear on his face and tightened his arms on reflex to try and reassure himself that a faceless monster hadn't taken Lucy from him like it had in his dream, his panic grew when he realized his arms were empty. His eye opened wide as he sat up looking around trying to locate the warmth he craved to hold close, he frowned not seeing her and smelt the air for any trace of her. He pushed himself up and stood catching her smell light in the air and followed it into the streets of Magnolia, it became harder to follow as it's been mixed up with that of the town folk as they went about their lives unaware of what was going on with the guild. Her scent, however, faint it was at times led him to her apartment where it seemed to mix with something else and vanish again. He checked her entire apartment just to reassure himself, but finding no trace of her there his earlier panic returned full force. Where was Lucy? Why hadn't she said anything before she left? Was she coming back? What if they couldn't find her? What if she had another attack? With these questions in mind, he ran to the guild hoping to form a search party with anyone who had already arrived./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Erza awoke with a yawn not long after Natsu got up and began waking everyone else so that they could get on with the day's business. While the others all went their own ways, some to the guild directly, some to go home and change first, Team Natsu- minus Lucy and Natsu of course- headed for the guild to wait out the missing members of their party. Erza had chalked up their absence to Lucy wanting to shower in her apartment and Natsu having followed. She would later come to wish that had simply been the case./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Natsu burst into the guild just as the others had sat down at their usual table. The guild looked at him with interest as he stormed over to his team, his face stricken with worry "Lucy's gone" his voice trembled with emotion as he spoke, his voice barely above a whisper, "I followed her scent to her apartment but she must have worn a perfume or someone else's clothes when she left because it masked her scent too much" the guild was set on edge by his words "I don't know how long ago she left, she could be anywhere by now damn it!" Erza stood and put a hand on his shoulder with a frown on her face./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"He looked up at her, almost expecting her to be mad that he'd lost Lucy, however she simply sighed and shook her head "Use the communication lacrima and see if any guilds can spare anyone to help us look, it's only 10 now, we'll regroup here around noon to meet anyone who comes over from other guilds so they know what is going on" she turned to face the guild letting her hand drop from Natsu's shoulder "The rest of us will form search parties and go over the entire town, Lucy is unfit to be on her own at this time, some of you know why and others of you do not, do not ask us as it is not our place to say why just find her and bring her here!" the guild resounded with a shout of acknowledgment and set about forming small groups of two to three mages. She turned back to Natsu "I leave the other guilds to you, take this time to calm your emotions, after go back to her apartment and see if you can pick up her scent again" he nodded heading towards Makarov's office where the lacrima was kept. Erza followed him with her eyes until he vanished inside before walking over to Wendy. She smiled at the younger slayer "Wendy, I want you to stay here in case someone finds her, while I don't think we'll return with her injured it would be good to be prepared just in case" with a small nod from the girl Erza turned her attention to Grey "Let's go find our celestial mage then."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Makarov kept a close eye on Natsu while he called Lumi Scale and Blue Pegasus as they were the closest guilds, but neither guild could spare even a mage to help Fairy Tail at the moment. The master could see the gears turning in Natsu's head about who else could he call that wasn't too far away, Makarov was about to take pity on the dragon slayer when Natsu snapped his fingers and began to call someone else. He watched in amusement as Natsu let out a loud yell as the other party answered much to the other party's displeasure. With great joy, he listened to Natsu bicker with Sting of Sabertooth until the other agreed to come help with the company of Rouge. As soon as they were done discussing details Natsu was out the door again heading off to Lucy's apartment. Standing alone in his office Makarov smiled "Bring back our missing brat soon" he said to the empty air./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Wendy watched the doors with eyes filled with hope as the hour struck noon, she stood as the door opened and in walked Levy's group, the first to arrive back, but when Levy met Wendy's eyes she shook her head. Even with Gajeel on her team, they were unable to locate the missing blond. Wendy nodded and trained her eyes back on the door, but as more groups poured in it was the same. Natsu was the last to return to the guild hall and after seeing that everyone else had also returned empty handed he punched the door hard enough to splinter it. He growled, his frustration clear, "I don't see Sting or Rouge have they arrived yet to help us look?" he sighed looking around. Collectively the guild gave him a negative on their arrival. With another sigh, he took a seat with Erza and Grey and rested his head on the table./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Wendy followed him to check his hand trying to focus on that rather than her growing concern for Lucy least she starts crying. A dull murmur took over the guild as people began to exchange information as to what they found and where they looked. No one heard the shouting in the streets heading toward the guild, but Natsu and Wendy smelt them before they even reached the door. Rouge and Sting had arrived, and they had Lucy with them from the smell of it. The next moments were a blur of movement as they came in drawing all of Fairy Tail's attention, Natsu and Wendy rushed them taking the passed out blond from them and hurrying her to the infirmary to be checked over without even a thank you to the two sabers. The rest of the guild was torn between going to check on Lucy and finding out where the sabers found the missing mage. Erza was the first to act out of the others by going toward the twin dragon slayers "Natsu must have been desperate to have called you, and for you to have listened, none the less, thank you for your aid in finding Lucy, it gave us all the scare to find her missing." she bent slightly at the waist toward them./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Sting frowned at the re-equip mage "We didn't do it for him, nor you guys. We did it because it was blondie and we as a guild owe her after last GMG, but if you really want to thank us explain to us what the hell is going on. Blondie just started crying so freely before she passed out it was a little freaky, she didn't seem that emotionally weak before, it's so out of character for her" Rouge didn't add to what Sting asked, merely nodded to show he too was curious about it./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Frosch stepped out from behind her slayer "Fro is concerned about the pretty blond fairy too!"/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Erza shook her head unsure what to tell them, as she herself had noticed it the night before but didn't know why. The doors behind the twin slayers opened again to reveal Porlyusica "I can answer that one" she huffed entering the hall "when those idiot's she calls a team brought her to me the other day I gave her a medicine that was different then I usually gave her, unfortunately one of its side effects is that if causes emotions to become unstable." the old mage sighed "Now if you have no further questions I'd like to go check on Lucy, assuming you actually found her and aren't just wasting time standing around chit chatting" Sting and Erza shook their head and gestured toward the door Natsu and Wendy had gone through with the blond./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"AN: This feels way longer of a chapter then it probably is, hope you enjoy I guess *shrug* also had to call out Lucy's crying because it bothers me trying to read the parts I wrote over a year ago/p