Fairy Tail Guild Hall, Mira's POV
A blinding light filled the room, followed by a loud thud. In the center of the room there was a pile of people, some of them being our missing guild members. "Erza! What happened?" I asked, rushing over to help her stand. "I'm not sure. We were fighting, and the students were defeated, and not long after, I followed suit. Next thing I now I'm waking up here." Erza said as she held her head. "Fighting who? And what students?" I asked. "We were fighting witches, and then Jackal showed up and wiped out everyone. The only ones left standing were-." Erza's response was cut off. "Who are you people? Where am I?" A voice asked. A little girl stood a few feet away from us. She had long blonde hair and an oversized coat draped her shoulders. Instead of a dress she wore a torn white short-sleeved button up shirt. "Your soul looks like Papa's. Are you a grim reaper too?" The girl asked, looking up at me. I gasped. She had dull red eyes that didn't really focus on anything. "Dear, this may seem rude, but are you blind?" I asked. "In a way. Mama said that when I was a baby a bad reaper came and cursed me. But I can still see some things. Like your soul! It's very pretty by the way." The little girl said. "Excuse me young lady, but what's your name?" Erza asked, crouching down and taking the girl's hands. "My name's Lucy D. Heartfilia. I'm 11!" Erza smiled. "You're very mature for your age. Do you have any siblings?" Lucy's face fell. "I had a little brother named Kid, but he died. Mama and Papa did too." The girl said. "But isn't your father Jude Heartfilia?" I asked. Lucy's eyes turned cold. "Jude isn't my real father, he's Mama's second husband. Besides, even if he was, he stopped acting like it when Mama died." Her eyes widened. "You can't tell anyone, they can't know that I still remember! If they find out I'll get in trouble again!" Lucy cried.

Loud groans were heard as the others woke up. Lucy turned her head and gasped. "N-Natsu? Gajeel? Ryos and Sting? Wendy?!" Lucy exclaimed, rushing over to the dragon slayers. They had all woken up in the same spot, and their heads shot up as Lucy tackled them in a seemingly bone-crushing hug. "Lucy? What happened, you shrunk!" Natsu exclaimed. "I did not, you got bigger! The last time I saw you guys Wendy, Sting and Ryos were five years old, and you and Gajeel were ten! By the way, how's your brother?" Lucy asked. "Lucy, I don't have a brother. And last I checked none of us ever met you when we were that young." Natsu said. "Yeah, and how do you know Rogue's real name?" Gajeel asked. Lucy's eyebrows pinched together as a frown formed on her face. "Natsu, you feeling okay? How do you forget...oh never mind, this is you we're talking about." Lucy sighed and shrugged her shoulders, causing several people to burst out laughing. "You got schooled by a ten-year old!" Gray said between laughs, holding his chest. "Hold on. Gajeel, Sting, Ryos, and Wendy. When we were younger, and I'm going to assume that I was hit by some kind of spell, so either I've been sent to the future or my age and memories have been reversed; do you remember what you did? And the promises you made to me?" Lucy asked. When they all looked confused, Lucy continued. "You marked me as your sister, and promised that we would all meet again one day and be like a real family." Lucy said with a fond smile. The dragon slayer's eyes widened. "And Natsu," Lucy turned to face him with a look that said more than we could see. "You promised that no matter what, no matter where you went, you were always gonna be my dragon." By this point Lucy was crying, a sad smile on her face as she tackled Natsu. "A-and...somebody made you all forget!" She cried. "But don't worry, I'll help you remember." Lucy said as she wiped her eyes.

After forcing everyone except for the slayers away from the area, and pushing all of the tables to the side, Lucy had the slayers stand around her in the form of a five pointed star. Holding her hands in front of her immense magical power leaked from Lucy's body, forming a black dome that surrounded them completely. After a few minutes the dome shattered like glass, disappearing from existence.

Natsu was holding a woman in his arms, and Lucy seemed to have disappeared. The woman had black hair with three white lines circling around the top. It fell in longs waves down her back, spooling on the floor around her. Her face was hidden in the crook of Natsu's neck as the two sat on the floor. Them, including the other dragon slayers, were all crying. "Gajeel?" Levy asked, walking up behind him and putting a hand on his arm. "I remember now..." He muttered with a distant look on his face. "Remember what?" Levy asked. "Do you have know what it takes to be a surrogate sibling to a dragon Shrimp?" Gajeel asked, turning his attention to Levy. "No. What does it take?" She asked.

"For a dragon to mark someone as their sibling, you have to pass a series of tests. Each set of tests vary by dragon, but they are essentially the same. They tend to be test of endurance and loyalty, and they are almost always failed, especially when it comes normal people. Not that Bunny is anywhere near normal, even for a mage. Anyways, not only did Bunny pass my tests, she passed their tests too." Gajeel said, glancing towards the other dragon slayers. "I don't get it, why would her passing your tests be such a feat? Lu has a tendency to befriend people wherever she goes." Levy stated. "Because passing an iron dragon's tests is next to impossible, due to their nature of being, well, iron, when it comes to letting people into their family groups. It's essentially the same thing as trying to break Gajeel's iron scales, for lack of a better example." Rogue explained. "Yeah, well, Bunny did that too..." Gajeel shrugged. "SHE BROKE YOUR SCALES?!" The guild exclaimed. Natsu and Sting burst out laughing. "She had Aquarius hit him with a tidal wave, and at the time his scales weren't as strong." Wendy said, shivering at the memory.

"O-okay, so in other words, Lucy has always been a scary bad-ass, got that. But how did she get the rest of you to agree?" Cana asked. The dragon slayers shrugged. "Well, as mini-Bunny said, Wendy, Sting, and Ryos were all five years old, so it wouldn't have been as hard. She became the big-sis figure to everyone after that. Well, everyone except for Salamander." Gajeel smirked. In that moment Natsu's face was redder than Erza's hair. "Oh? And why not?" I asked, a sly grin forming on my face. "While our minds said "Big Sis", Natsu's, even if he wasn't entirely aware, screamed "Mate", and that was that." Sting said. Natsu was now literally steaming. "What's a mate?" Romeo asked. "A mate is a partner for life. Every dragon has one, it's just a matter of whether or not they ever find them. In a way you could say it's like marrying someone." Wendy said. "So, did Lucy have a say in that?" Romeo asked. "Oh, of course she did, she agreed to it! I believe her exact words were "I'll be your reaper, but we have to wait till we're grown-ups, 'cus I'm pretty sure Papa and Mama would come back from the dead to take your soul." or something like that." After Wendy said that Natsu burst into flames. Gasps of surprise were heard as most of us watched in horror as the girl in Natsu's arms appeared to be getting burnt. "Juvia, quick! Put out the flames!" I shouted. Juvia just gave me a funny look. "Why? Love-rival is fine. Love-rival enjoys Natsu's flames." She stated as if it was fact.

Looking back at the pair I realized she was right. The girl was in fact fine, and cuddling closer to Natsu in her sleep. "H-huh?" Cana asked. "Juvia said Love-rival enjoys Natsu's flames. Juvia doesn't have to put out the flames, because Love-rival won't get burnt." Juvia said. "A-alright, if you say so...but what happened to Lucy?" I asked. "She's right here." Natsu said, gesturing to the girl in his arms. "But she looks nothing like Lucy! And she's several years older!" Romeo exclaimed. Natsu blinked, and the flames dispersed. "Oh, right! Hold on." Natsu said, turning and sitting the girl against the wall. "Time to wake up." He said in a surprisingly gentle tone, shaking her shoulders. "Go away Kid, I already graded the exams..." She mumbled, swatting away Natsu's hands. "Don't make me get Stein...I'm sure he'd love to try a new experiment on you..." Natsu said.

In a flash the girl was up, aiming a kick at Natsu's chest. Natsu skidded across the room, arms crossed in an attempt to lessen the blow. "Do that...and I'll be breaking your spine again!" A voice said. Turning our attention to where the girl was several gasps echoed throughout the room. The girl's blood red eyes were focused on Natsu, however we were all focused on something else. Two large scars trailed across her stomach, and judging by the size it was a miracle she was still alive. "You're not wearing any clothes!" Wendy squeaked, who was currently covering Romeo's eyes. Her statement seemed to pull the girl out of her trance as she looked down. "Oh. Well damn, it happened again. Sorry..." The girl said. In a flash she was wearing a tube top and shorts, as well as a pair of leggings. She was also wearing a pair of combat boots, all black. The girl turned and picked up the coat off the floor and put it on. "Now then, what...SHIT!" The girl exclaimed as she took a glance around the room. Before we could say anything she jumped up into the rafters. "What are you doing?" Natsu asked. "Natsu, where are we?" She asked. "Fairy Tail...oh." Natsu said quietly. "I don't understand. What does being here have to do with what you're doing right now?" I asked. "Well, Mira, I'm more than sure that none of you want me here, if anything you all probably want me dead or in prison. Anymore questions?" The girl asked. "Would you mind telling us who you are? And why we'd want you dead?" I asked. "What do you mean, who am I?" She asked. "You're in Reaper Mode, they don't recognize you!" Natsu said. The girl blinked. Then started laughing. "R-Reaper Mode?! Is that what we're calling it? Alright, I'll bite. Give me a second." The girl was hard to see due to the shadows, however that problem was solved quickly when she jumped back down, holding a ring of all to familiar keys in her hand, which had an awful scar on it. She now had blonde hair that was pulled into a side pony tail that almost touched the floor, held up by a blue ribbon. A dark realization dawned on us as she looked straight at me with her blood red eyes, and staring back I realized something else. Her eyes held seemed to be staring right into my soul, and little-Lucy's words echoed through my head. "Your soul looks like Papa's. Are you a reaper to?" "In a way. But I can still see some things, like your soul! It's very pretty by the way." And then just before she cast the spell. "You know, your souls are all different, but they share the same sense of regret. Maybe if you apologize, they'll forgive you. I know I would, you all seem nice."

Lucy's POV
They were all staring at me, and it seemed they understood who I was now. "I know you guys hate me, so I'll-!" My words were cut off as they tackled me from every angle I could think of. "WE'RE SORRY LUCY!" They shouted. The overwhelming smell of tears hit my nose full force. Not knowing what else to do I dropped into the shadows, moving to the back of the room by the bar. "Hold on! Why are you all apologizing? It makes no sense!" I shouted. Mira was the first to walk up to me, wiping tears from her eyes. "We treated you horribly, and then sent you away, even though you didn't deserve it. And for that we're sorry." she said. "But, what about when I attacked you? You're not mad?" I asked. There was no way they would just forget about that. "I think we all know that that wasn't you. I'm just disappointed in myself that I failed to see that at the time." Mira replied. "We're also sorry we ignored you for so long. And then we had the nerve to call you weak, when in reality you're one the strongest people we know." Cana said. "You have no idea how literal that statement is." Levy said. Before anyone could ask, the guild hall's doors opened, revealing Bisca and Alzack. When they saw Natsu they rushed up to him, shaking his shoulders. "Where's Asuka?!" Bisca asked. "Calm down. She's with Gramps and the others, probably playing with the dragons." Natsu said.

Normal POV
"What do mean she's playing with dragons?!" Alzack exclaimed. "Luce?" Natsu asked turning to her. "Yeah Natsu?" Lucy asked. "Can you bring the others back here?" Lucy put a finger to her lip in a pondering matter. "I've never opened a portal to or from Earthland before, but it shouldn't be much different. Now then, open, Gate to the Dragon's Domain!" Lucy shouted. Once again a stone dragon appeared, only this time it seemed cheerful. "Who seeks passage?" It asked. "Celestial dragon Lucy. Please send the humans over please." Lucy said calmly. "Right away Your Highness." The dragon said before it shattered. A moment later Master Makarov walked out with Asuka on his shoulders, followed by Evergreen, Bickslow, and the five exceeds, the portal closing behind them. "Mama! Papa!" Asuka shouted, running over to her parents, pulling them and everyone else in the room out of their shocked trances. "Celestial Dragon?!" Romeo shouted. "Your Highness?!" Cana yelled. "Here we go again..." Kid groaned, moving to help Liz and Patty. It was in that moment that the Fairy Tail mages realized that they had visitors. "And who might you be?" Mira asked. Natsu and Lucy sighed. "Before anything else, let's get introductions dealt with..."


Sorry it took so long to update, and Merry Christmas! (Or Happy Holidays.)

~Dragon-Sensie