Completely random thing - if I ever get married, I want to get married like Elizabeth and William in Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End just because, let's face it, that was an awesome wedding. XD

I do not own Fairy Tail! It belongs to Hiro Mashima-sama! :D

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It was the next day after my fight with Gray, and I was walking through Magnolia, my supplies for the mission inside of my bag that was on my back. Happy was floating along side me by use of his handy dandy Aero Magic, his mind focused on something. On what, I wasn't sure, but he was certainly focusing on something. I felt a little weird, myself. It was a strange sense of loss, like something I treasured just went missing out of the blue. I didn't think about it too much. I probably just missed something in my bag that I could go get after I met up with Gray at the Guild Hall.

"Natsu, are you sure that Master Makarov gave us a mission?" Happy finally asked. So that was what was on his mind.

"I told you, Happy!" I replied, "Gramps gave us a mission yesterday! We have team up with Gray of all people to go beat up some bandits that robbed a rich guy's place."

"Gray?" Happy questioned, looking at me in confusion.

"Yeah, you know," I frowned. "The guy who strips all the time and uses Ice Magic."

"I think you were dreaming," he told me a bit worriedly.

"I wasn't dreaming!" I defended.

"Then who's Gray? Your imaginary friend?"

"I just told you who he was! He's a real person, I swear. Geez, Happy, your memory must be getting worse if you don't remember that icecube."

Happy just shook his head at me, sighing. "What am I going to do with you, Natsu?" he asked more to himself than to me.

"What is that supposed to mean?!" I snapped, shooting flames from my mouth.

"Oh, nothing!"

I grumbled something to myself, seeing the Guild come up into view. I picked up my pace, wanting to get this mission with Gray done and over with. I only took the job cause it would pay for my food for the next week or so, not because I wanted to be with the jerk. Not to mention that Erza persuaded me to just shut up and take the job. (And by persuaded I mean she glared and yelled at me and it scared me into submission, though I would never admit it out loud. She almost pulled out a sword on me.)

I went inside, noting how Happy instantly went to find Wendy and Carla. With a simple shrug, I looked around for Gray. Not seeing him, I couldn't help but frown. He was never late to go on a mission before. Maybe he got sick with a cold or something. Eh? Eh? See what I did there? Ah, forget you. I found it funny, myself.

Seeing Lucy sitting by her lonesome, boyfriendless self at the bar talking to Mira-Jane, I decided to go and ask her if she had seen Gray. It didn't hurt to try, right? Maybe she had seen him and could tell me where he was.

"Hey, Lucy," I greeted. She looked at me in surprise.

"Oh, hey, Natsu," she nodded. "What's up?"

"I'm looking for Gray," I told her in response. "We're supposed to go on a mission together, but he isn't here. Have you seen him?"

"Who are you talking about?" she asked me with a small frown. "There isn't anyone named Gray in the Guild..." She looked at Mira-Jane who looked somewhat baffled. "Do you know who he's talking about, Mira-Jane?"

"I feel like I should, but I don't know," admitted the white haired woman as she picked up a glass to clean. "Maybe Master knows where this person is, Natsu."

"Alright, thanks Mira-Jane," I nodded. Man, first Happy and now Lucy and Mira-Jane? What has gotten into everyone? Gray couldn't have just been wiped from everyones' minds! I mean, I remember him. Maybe Erza did too, but judging from a quick glance at her sitting in the corner by herself, agitated by something, I decided to just go ahead and go straight to Gramps. I didn't feel like becoming a Dragonslayer shish kabob, today, after all.

I found him sitting with his legs crossed, his staff across his lap, and his arms crossed across his chest on the counter of the bar. He was thinking to himself, but I needed to talk to him. "Hey, Gramps," I said, catching his attention. When he hummed for me to go on, I asked him what I had asked Lucy. "Have you seen Gray anywhere?"

"Gray?" Gramps asked me with a deep frown. He looked up in thought. "I don't know who that is, Natsu."

"I fight with him all the time!" I cried out, finally beginning to get annoyed with nobody knowing who I was talking about. I mean, seriously? Who can forget that stripping show-off? Was this some sort of sick joke that everyone was trying to pull on me? I wasn't finding it very funny. I was beginning to get fired up in agitation. "You know, the guy who strips all the time and we always have to tell him to put his clothes back on and he freaks out cause he never notices when he strips! He's an Ice Wizard and he does this," I held out one hand sideways in front of me and smacked the side of my fist into my palm, "and says 'Ice-Make' something or other! Gray Fullbuster, come on! You know who he is, Gramps!"

"I'm sorry, Natsu," apologized Gramps, "but there has never been a member of the Fairy Tail Guild by the name, let alone Gray Fullbuster."

"What are you talking about, Gramps?!" I cried in annoyance. I stopped short, however, when I felt an armor clad hand on my shoulder.

"That's enough, Natsu," Erza told me, lightly squeezing my shoulder. She then looked at Gramps. "I have a vague idea as to who he is talking about. Let me handle this, Master." After Gramps nodded his approval to her, she dragged me off towards the infirmary. She then sat me down on one of the beds, looking down at me with her arms crossed. "Explain."

"Explain what?" I asked her.

"Who Gray is to us. I feel like I should remember him, but every time I try to think about him at all, my head starts to pound and the pain distracts me."

My eyes widened slightly. So... It wasn't some joke? Everyone really did forget? "He's our friend and team mate," I told her. "He helped with the Eisenwald incident, the cursed island place..." I continued to list off what all Gray had done with us, noting that with every mission I listed off, the more and more pain that crossed Erza's face, as if she was trying to remember. I then told her what all I knew of him and who he was to me and to her both, going a bit into personal levels.

"He was a friend...?" Erza whispered to herself. She then slammed her fist into the bed behind her, effectively smashing it in half. "How can I be so forgetful? Especially of a friend...! Natsu, I beg of you, punch me until you are satisfied. Don't hold back, either..."

"Erza, that won't do either one of us any good, and you know it," I told her with a sigh. I shook my head then looked back up at her. "I want to know. When we went to fight those Dark Guild guys with the Allied Guilds, was there someone by the name of Lyon in the Lamia Scale Guild group? I need to know."

"I do seem to recall that there was someone there by that name," Erza told me truthfully, already over the whole 'hit me' thing. "Why do you ask?"

I stood from the bed. "We're going to go do the mission I was given right now together, and then we are going to go find Lyon. He's the only chance we have of finding out what happened to Gray."

"What makes you think that he will have the information that we need?"

"He grew up with him. If anyone knows Gray as well as I do, maybe even more so, then it's Lyon. He should remember him, even if everyone else doesn't."

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~Usagi