Disclaimer: I'm female so I can't possibly be Hiro Mashima.
Prompt: I loved this crossover so I decided to write an arc based on it. WARNING: spoilers ahead so I suggest reading or watching Ova 6 or Fairy Tail x Rave before continuing.
"Ehhhh? You have amnesia like I did?" Elie exclaimed, leaning forward with her ears perked.
Lucy,Natsu and Happy had met up with Haru and Elie at the casino while Gray and Erza went to meet Musica at a cafe. Once there, Lucy had suggested they find somewhere to eat while chatting and had ended up in a quaint resturant. Haru and Elie were informed of Lucy's memory loss over dessert.
"Yup. And apparently I have to visit places where I have made strong memories and find special keys that will help me regain my memory." Lucy swallowed a bite of her tiramisu cake and continued talking."That's where you two come in. Since Elie and I were friends, I must've made some good memories."
"I remember we had LOTS of fun!" Elie smiled, the brunette reminiscing over her times with the blonde, times that included thinking cats were bugs, finding out Lucy also had a Plue and of course, finding Natsu and Haru then battling a talking lottery machine. Good times, good times.
"Okay then! After we finish finding that key, Haru and I can finish our fight." Natsu grinned toothily at the spiky silver head who had a matching smirk on his face.
"Fighting again, Natsu?" Happy glanced up at Natsu from his fish cake.
"Hell yeah." Haru and Natsu both answered simentousely.
"Anyways, let's get looking!" Lucy interrupted. It was finally time to regain some of her old self again.
"So..where should we look?" Natsu yawned as he listened to Lucy patter on about locations and plans and all that stuff he himself had never really cared about. For Natsu there was only one plan: go all out or die. Though unfortunately force wasn't neede when it came to looking for keys.
Hmmmm, how annoyed would Lucy be if I just trashed the casino then searched the debris for her key...maybe too annoyed. Best not to risk it.
Entering the casino, the dragon slayer suddenly had an idea.
"Oi, Lucy. If we're going to a casino and were attacked by a lottery machine before, maybe your key is the prize in one of the machines."
"Eh." Lucy froze in mid-sentence and stared at Natsu with a bewildered face.
"Natsu finally has a good idea." Happy exclaimed.
"Hey! What do you mean finally!?" The aforementioned boy cried.
"Uh, maybe we should just get looking." Haru suggested at the same time Elie shouted,"Lucy! Is that what you're looking for?"
Everyone ran towards where Elie pointed and were elated (especially Lucy) to find a lottery machine wuth curly script announcing the Mahic Keys Game, insert a coin to get a chance to win a magic key! And one of the keys displayed from a window was...
"Hey Lucy, isn't that your Celestial Spirit Key Virgo?"
"I think it is Happy."
Lucy, hearing this hurriedly emptied her pockets and yelled,"Everyone! Dump out all your spare change, I'm getting my memories back!"
With newfound enthusiasm, Lucy,Happy,Natsu,Elie and Haru began inserting coins into the slots as the machine popped out various keys of all shapes and sizes: some detailed to ridicoulas perfection and others that were plain large and made of brass. Long handled keys and short handled ones,keys that were like dwarf sized pins and keys that were big enough to be stuck as the machine dropped them into a small hole. However, soon the pockets were emptied of all spare change except for one, small, lonely quarter in Dragneel's pocket.
"Dear Kami-sama, please let the next key be my key." Lucy prayed, squeezing her eyes shut closely in hopes that her prayer would be answered.
"We're all counting on you, Natsu." Haru slapped an arm around the dragon slayer's shoulder in support.
"Don't worry Lucy, even if you don't get your key back,at least with all these keys you can start a collection!" Elie looked at Lucy encouragingly who responded with a,"But I don't want a key collection!".
"Shhhhhh. Let me concentrate, I'm trying to put this quarter in!" Natsu shushed as the quarter once again slipped from his fingers. Everyone watched intently as he picked up the round silver coin and slowly,slowly...
"Isn't it kinda weird that my future is depending on a quarter?"
"LUCY!" The group groaned as once again the quarter slipped from Natsu's fingers.
"Sorry, sorry. Continue, Natsu."
Except...when Natsu inserted the coin into the slot, a golden Celestial Spirit key didn't pop out. Instead, a golden key with Ichiya's puckered up lips and face imprinted on it did.
"AAAAAAAHHHH! THE IMAGE IS BURNED INTO MY EYES!" Natsu screamed, running around in circles and covering his eyes.
"It looks like Ichiya is attempting to kiss you." Happy pointed out which only made Natsu scream harder.
"Stop it Natsu, you're making a scene." Lectured Lucy who was trying to restrain the fire mage.
"I don't even know this person but that dude has one hell of a creepy face." Haru commented, holding the key with only the tips of his fingers.
"Im dooooomed. Now I'll never get my key." Lucy had given up trying to restrain Natsu and instead focused on weeping hysterically.
"Oh. Lucy, don't cry. Look!" Elie waved around a small ticket that said:
One Free Try
Congratulations for being our hundredth player! For your free try, just scan the ticket under the scanner. WARNING:this ticket is only valid for one try.
Instantly after reading that Lucy's whole world lit up in delicious possibilities. Without even waiting for any kind of response, the blonde greedily snatched the ticket out of Elie's hand, quickly scanned it and, crossing her fingers, hoped for the best. When the key was popped out of the machine, she didn't even wait to see if it was her key. She just snatched it and clasped it so tightly that the edges dug into her palm. Slowly, slowly and so unlike the speediness of before, Lucy opened her palms so she could finally see the key.
She never got to.
With one silent scream, Lucy,Natsu,Elie,Haru and Hapoy were whisked out of reality and into a familiar setting.
"Geez, how did Natsu get lost again?" A familiar head of candle flame yellow hair showed up, an annoyed look marring her pretty face as she walked together with a blue cat.
"The carriage we were riding in was a disaster. The moment we entered town the horse panicked and ran off." The cat, who's name was Happy, was trying to spot the boy they were hunting down as he was walking down the street with Lucy, the blonde.
"Ugh. I wish we could hurry up and finish this job sooner- I want to go sightseeing." Lucy huffed, crossing her arms as her annoyance meter went up. If only Natsu hadn't gotten lost they might've already finished the job and she would've been free to do whatever she pleased.
"Why don't we finish the job ourselves?" Happy suggested.
"We can't. The job description says its an incredibly powerful mage."
Suddenly, the duo were interrupted by a brown haired girl who leaned down and, with a curious expression on her face, stared at Hapoy and questioned out loud,"Eh? What kind of bug is this?"
"BUG?!" Happy cried as his dignity was pulled out from under him. He was a cat, not a bug! Happy ducked behind Lucy's legs feeling close to tears,"Lucy, I've been called a bird before but never a bug!"
"Who..who are you?" The blonde was suddenly wary of the strange girl who'd called Happy a bug. Lucy herself had to admit that, while Happy did sometimes seem like a bird, he most definitely didn't resemble a bug.
"I'm Elie." The brunette, who now had a name, looked up at Lucy and smiled. "Hey, have you seen a guy with silver hair that's all messy and spike somewhere around this town?" Elie asked whilst making wild gestures around her head.
"Nope..we're looking for a guy with pink messy and spiky hair." Lucy sighed my having been reminded of her current dilemma.
"Oh, so we're both looking for the same thing!"
"But the boy we're looking for has pink hair."
"Anyways, can I have this bug, pretty please?" Elie asked.
"You better behave or I'll knock you into next week." Was Lucy's reply.
"More importantly can we knock of the whole 'bug' business?" The victimized and disheartened cat begged as he lay there limp and captured in a cruel grasp.
After Happy had been realeased, Lucy and Elie sat down on a nearby bench to chat. Lucy found out that Elie was traveling the world (in a carriage that supposedly had rapid head motions) because of her amnesia. Their talk was interrupted by two creatures coming their way.
"Elie-san! I've been looking everywhere for you!" A strange jelly shaped thing coming rushing over along with his white, carrot-nosed friend.
"Puuuuun!"
"Ah, Griff! And.."
"Plue." Lucy and Elie said at the same time. The two stared at each other before Elie hugged Plue closely and exclaimed that Plue was hers.
"Ahh, Plue-sama I'm so jealous!" Griffin, the jelly shaped creature exclaimed.
"Amazing! Lucy cried in shock. "You're a Celestial Spirit mage too and not to mention you named your Nikora the same thing I did!"
"What an amazing coincidence." Happy said while staring at the blue blob and wondering if it was a jelly.
"Yaya! It's another beautiful woman! Let's demonstrate our relationship with a big squishy hug!" Griff floated towards Lucy who shrieked and wrapped her arms around herself protectively.
"The Jelly spoke...is this a Celestial Being too?" Lucy pondered out loud, still wary of the perverted jelly who reminded her of Taraus. However, as Elie started playing with Griff and Plue, Lucy noticed something. Gesturing Happy over, the Ceestial Spirit mage spoke.
"Huge tits, Heart Kreuz clothing, two staves.."
"It sounds ridicoulas but do you think she could possibly our assigned target?" Happy whispered, finishing Lucy's train of thoughts.
"But she doesn't seem like a bad girl at all." Lucy glanced over at Elie who was happily holding Plue and repeating over and over:"Kitty,kitty,kitty. Happy is a kitty not an itty bitty bug."
Lucy decided to see if Elie was their target or not.
"Hey Elie? Do you like casinos?" She asked tentatively, hoping her new friend was really just a nice person.
"Yup, I love them!" Elie exclaimed.
"You really need to hold yourself back." Griff added.
Lucy mentally screamed, horrified as she realized Elie was her target! And just when she made a new friend she had to now take her down.. Happy and Lucy debated over whether or not they should take Elie down by themselves since she was supposed to be a strong mage but before they could continue weighing the pros and cons, a loud explosion sounded.
"What was that?" Lucy swiveled around to look where the sound came from.
"It came from the casino." Elie answered.
"Should we go check it out?" Griff asked.
Arriving at the casino, Lucy found a familiar sight: Natsu fighting with a silver haired boy, unaware of the chaos and destruction he was causing. He didn't even listen when a giant,stick-in-the-wall sunflower to,d him to stop. Natsu only relented, when a fist punched him in the face along with the poor other guys face.
"Natsu, what the he'll are you doing here. And you, who ar you waving that big sword around?" She mushed the two males heads together. "How dare you interrupt my winning streak." A familiar voice boomed as from out of the dust appeared a busty red head in a bunny suit holding two wooden staffs.
"Erza!" Natsu cried out in terror.
"Hey, you mentioned a woman going crazy in the casino.." The silver head trailed off. He never got to finish his sentence.
"PREPARE YOURSELVES!" Erza screamed as she began her torture session.
In the middle of it all was Lucy and Elie with Bappy,Griff and Plue. "I'm sorry I ever doubted you Elie." Lucy muttered as she watched the painful beatings.
Authors Note
I'm writing this in the middle of the night and since im getting kind of tired I'm ending this chapter. Because itsLucy's memories, naturally you wouldn't seeNatsus pArt of it which is why some scenes were missing. Anyways, good night! My typing is already getting sloppy.