"Do you know this woman?" Makarov asked making Gajeel look at him

"Is she a friend of yours?" Erza asked Phoenix

"Um…i…" Phoenix looked at him, trying to concentrate, trying to figure out an answer to give, a good answer, but instead she found herself answering the same way she had been lately "I don't know."

Gajeel looked back down at her and sighed. "It must hurt forgetting all the time." Gajeel said as he stepped forward and reached out making her jump a little as he placed his hand over her left ear while she craned her neck a bit more this time to look up at him since he was closer to her now.

"Gajeel?" was all she said as she looked at him and he removed his hand and a bright smile crept onto her face.

"Gajeel!" she shouted happily as she looked at him. This time with recognition.

Gajeel stood leaning against the counter by Makarov as he watched Phoenix talk to Lucy, Natsu and Gray, along with Juvia who was clinging to Gray's arm. He wondered how long it had been since he last saw her. Six years? Yes. It had been exactly six years since he last saw her…and thought she was dead. "I think it's time you explain yourself more thoroughly. Who is this girl exactly?" Makarov asked

"An old friend of mine. Childhood friend if you wanna be more specific." Gajeel said still keeping his eyes on her

"Yet she didn't remember you" Makarov said "Not right away at least."

"It's always been like that. Things were normal with her once but it all started to change without warning." Gajeel said, but Makarov could see that even though he was in the guild he was far off, his mind was clearly elsewhere.

"I don't understand."

"Phoenix is a Dragon Slayer. A Fire Dragon Slayer."

"She was raised by Igneel as well?!" Erza asked surprised "Then why didn't Natsu recognize her?!"

"No…not by Igneel. There's another kind of Fire Dragon that was around during that time. A very un-natural one." Gajeel said making Makarov look at Phoenix in utter shock and then back at Gajeel.

"Atlas Flame!" Makarov said

"Exactly." Gajeel said

"Guess that should explain her odd appearance." Makarov said in thought "but that still doesn't explain her memory loss issue."

"It's because of her Dragon Slayer magic -" Gajeel paused looking away from Phoenix as he clenched his fists even though his arms were crossed.

"What is it?" Erza asked making him look at her

"Che, none of your business." He simply said and walked off somewhere in the guild. He didn't care where, but he just didn't want to be there anymore.

"Gajeel!" Erza said offended by his sudden rudeness and went to approach him about it but Makarov stopped her, placing his hand on her shoulder.

"Leave him, Erza. Clearly there is something about this reunion that's bothering him. Just give it some time. As of right now the girl seems to not be a threat of any kind, so let's make sure we welcome her. Let's have Mira handle things from here, huh?" " Makarov said with a smile and Erza just sighed lightly and nodded to his request.

Gajeel walked, he didn't know where but he did. Wherever his feet were taking him that's where he was going.

"Gajeel." he heard and looked behind him before looking down and seeing none other than his exceed partner, Pantherlily.

"What do ya want?" Gajeel asked and continued to walk, Lily behind him.

"Where are you going?" lily asked looking up at him

"Don't know, don't care."

"Aren't you going to talk to your friend?" lily asked confused "You haven't seen her in a while, I'm sure-"

"Honestly lily-" Gajeel began as he looked over his shoulder at the exceed "right now I'm just hoping that this is all some kind of nightmare I'm having."

Lily stopped his tracks as he watched Gajeel walk away more than confused. It was his childhood friend…wouldn't he want to see her, talk to her hang around her to make up for lost time.

'so why?' lily thought to himself 'why are you walking away Gajeel…what's wrong?...what aren't you saying?'

A/N: Hey hey peeps, since i'm in school right now i can't update as often as i would like, but when i do i'll try to put up at least two chapters at a time. anywho, thanks for reading. please comment and let me know what you think and please ignore any misspellings or typo's you may see.