Natsu stared at his blonde haired teammate in disbelief. He could physically feel his heart cracking as the words echoed repeatedly through his mind.
"What... you mean..." but Natsu couldn't finish his sentence.
Lucy still looked at him, waiting for her questions to be answered. Just as Natsu was about to open his mouth to answer, the door opened and Porlyusica walked in with a scowl on her face.
"Come on child, you need to leave, I have to check on Lucy."
"She doesn't remember me, Porlyusica! Why doesn't she remember me?" Natsu looked at the pink-haired healer in despair and he could have sworn he saw her give him a sympathetic look.
She walked over to him and looked down at the boy that kneeled next to Lucy's bed. He looked up at her, his eyes pleading her to answer his question and Porlyusica felt something tug deep at her heart.
"Lucy lost all memory of ever having magic, since she's now human, which means that she also doesn't remember any mages she met as a wizard, so basically, her whole life has been forgotten. Which means, Lucy remembers nothing other than her name."
Natsu blinked slowly and looked back to his teammate and best friend sadly. She blinked back at him and her head tipped in curiously. Natsu smiled sadly and nodded up at Porlyusica. He stood quickly, making Lucy blink again in shock. With clenched fists he glanced back down at Lucy.
"Lucy Heartfilia, I, Natsu Dragneel, swear to you, that I will help you regain your magic and your memories of us together as a team!"
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Natsu stomped down the stairs to the guild halls bar, his fists were clenched and ablaze with an angry fire as he slouched at the bar.
Mira slid one of his favorite fiery drinks towards the slumped over dragon slayer along with a plate full of food. To the pretty white-haired mages surprise the boy didn't even pick his head up. She frowned sadly at him and rubs her fingers through his hair as comfort.
"Natsu," Mira whispered softly, knowing that he had heard her anyway. Natsu grunted in reply but didn't lift his head.
"What happened Natsu? What did Porlyusica say about Lucy?"
Hearing the soft spoken mage say Lucy's name he picked up his head. Mira's eyes widened at the sight of tears in the fire mages eyes.
"She said that Lucy doesn't remember anything. She can only remember her name, since she is no longer a wizard. Lucy lost all memories of ever being one. Which means her entire life."
Natsu bowed his head again, prepared to slump back into the table when he heard a gasp from beside him and several muttering voices behind him.
Levy sat next to him, her eyes wide and filled with tears and her hands covered what he assumed to be her open mouth. "Oh no, Lu-Chan?" She whispered helplessly before letting the tears fall.
When Natsu glanced behind him he saw that Gray, Erza, Happy, Wendy, Charla, Sting, and Rogue were all staring at him in shock.
"So, Lucy really doesn't remember anything?" Sting questions softly, his face showing a mixture of relief and sadness, making Natsu's fists clench hard in anger and he shot off the stool he was sitting on, making it clatter to the floor as the guild hall silenced.
"Don't you dare think that just because she's forgotten about what you did to her means that you're forgiven, you bastard!"
Natsu rushed at a shocked Sting, his fists flaming as he punched Sting in the face, causing the blonde-haired dragon slayer to fly across the guild hall and slam into the far wall with a loud crash.
Everyone looked between the two dragon slayers as Sting stood back up slowly, wiping away the blood that flowed from his cut lip. Natsu stood there, glaring at the place that Sting had stood before he punched him. He was breathing hard but his flames diminished and Erza grabbed him in a headlock.
He slumped down much to the requip mages surprise, but she kept her hold strong around him.
Sting walked back over cautiously, and Rogue and Happy asked if he was ok.
He nodded, wiping away a bit more blood that trickled from his lip. "Are you satisfied now?" He asked Natsu slowly, staring directly into Natsu's eyes.
"I will never be forgiven, whether Lucy remembers it or not. I will never forgive myself for watching as my teammate and girlfriend, nearly died by my own guild masters hand. She was stronger than I will ever be even before she had all of her power that you guys have told us about. She stood up with dignity and pride after nearly being killed. To me, she will always be a wizard, and I will never forgive myself for letting harm come to her as I merely stood by and watched."
"I'm just glad that she doesn't remember the hell she had to be put through in our guild. She doesn't need to relive those memories on top of the memories of the horror that she went through these past few weeks."
Natsu stared at the light dragon slayer in shock. His speech had struck a chord in Natsu and the rest of his team, along with the entire guild as they all stared at Sting. Some were sobbing as they thought about Lucy never having magic again. Others merely cried at how they had ignored her throughout her short time in the guild.
Natsu nodded towards Erza who slowly let him go and he walked forward. He held his arm out to Sting who looked at it and then back up at Natsu in shock, his eyes wide. Reaching forward he grabbed a hold of Natsu's upper arm and Natsu did the same to Sting's before he gave him a devious smirk.
"So then, what do you say we team up one more time and help Lucy get her memories and her magic back!"
Sting nodded in approval and gave the same smirk as the rest of Team Natsu and Rogue smiled and nodded as well.
"Yosh! I'm all fired up now! Let's go tell Lucy the plan!" He jumped up into the air and they all took off running up the stairs into the infirmary.
"Lucy!" They all shouted as they barged through the door.
The girl squealed in shock and hid under her covers so that only her eyes and forehead shown above them.
"Uh? Who are you guys? Oh wait, you said you're Natsu, right?" She asked slowly as she lifted her arm to point at the pink haired boy with a smirk on his face at the front of the group. Natsu nodded quickly and smiled wider glad that she remembered him.
"I'm Sting! I'm a light dragon slayer and your former guild and teammate!" Sting exclaimed, pushing past Natsu with a wide smile.
Lucy nodded thoughtfully, "right, Porlyusica told me all about how you guys are wizards and there are different guilds. But why are you saying former guild mate? I'm not a wizard."
The gang glanced at each other and then looked back at the confused Lucy.
Erza steppes forward, extending her hand to Lucy who cowered at the redheads intense gaze. "Lucy, I am Erza Scarlet, Fairy Tails requip mage. You used to be a wizard before your magic was taken by an evil mage while we were on a job unfortunately."
Lucy had grabbed Ezra's hand in greeting and Erza bowed to Lucy. She could tell that Erza blamed herself for whatever had happened so Lucy smiled comfortingly and nodded.
Gray walked up next and grabbed Lucy's hand, bending at the waist to kiss her hand. "Gray Fullbuster, I'm an Ice Make mage," He said, smirking against the blushing blondes hand.
Natsu and Sting growled at Gray and he chuckled as he walked back to stand next to them, smirking and pleased with himself.
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Juvia sat down at one of the stools in the guild, drinking an ice coffee when her heart clenched and she sputtered, coughing as she choked on her drink.
"Juvia? What's wrong?" Lisanna asked, patting the water mage on the back as she coughed.
"Juvia does not know, it feels as though something terrible just happened. But Juvia can not figure it out." She shook her head as she glanced around the guild hall slowly and the shrugged going back to her drink.
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"Rogue, I'm also a former team and guild mate of yours, I am the shadow dragon slayer." The black-haired mage introduces himself to Lucy who smiled.
She may not have remembered him but she could tell he and her would get along really well in the future.
"I'm Wendy! And this is Charla, I'm the sky dragon slayer!" A little blue-haired girl said holding a white cat who smiled and nodded to Lucy. Lucy smiled and nodded back, noticing that these introductions were making her feel a lot better.
Finally a tiny blue cat flew into her chest. "I'm Happy! I was your best friend and I missed you so much Lucy!" Lucy smiled happily at the little crying ball of fur in her arms and she pat his head.
"Hi Happy." She said, making the cat cry louder and burrow deeper into her hug.
To Lucy having these people standing around her bed smiling felt right, she just wished she could remember them.
"So Lucy, rest up! Because as soon as your better we're going on an adventure!" Happy said, glancing up at Lucy with watery eyes.
Lucy stared at the cat in slight shock and then glanced up at the other people in the room that all stood smiling and nodding at Happy's words.
"Adventure?" Lucy questioned looking towards Natsu, who to her, stood out the most.
"We're gonna help you get your magic and your memories back!" Natsu grinned.
Lucy looked at him as tears formed slowly in the corners of her eyes.
"Uh oh! Natsu you made her cry!" Happy whines nervously as he stared up at Lucy.
She chuckled softly and shook her head, "I'm just happy, Happy."
She looked up at the rest of the people in the room again and nodded with fierce determination, "let's do it!"
"Yosh! I'm even more fired up now!" Shouted Natsu happily, igniting his fist and Lucy stared in amazement.
"Lucy, here, we figured this should help jumpstart your memories." Erza stated, handing Lucy a leathery pouch which Lucy took excitedly.
"These are your keys, they hold your Celestial Spirits, you would summon them from the Celestial Spirit World." Erza went on as Lucy took the pouch.
When she opened the pouch she frowned and looked back up at her friends in confusion.
"There's nothing in here."
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Ok, guys, this is for real one of my favorite chapters! I seriously love Sting's little speech... Totally fangirling over my own writing but oh well! The Cursed Princess is taking me longer than I thought to write the first chapter, so I am truly sorry for the delay between the two! I want it to be really good but I just can't word anything correctly on it. So it'll be a bit longer than I was hoping!Again really sorry!