The entire room began to spin as Lucy took in the new information that Levy had given her. She stared at the wall on the opposite side of the room, unable to focus on what all the others were saying and doing.

Both Natsu and Sting gave outraged cries of annoyance. Even Erza and Rogue looked irritated while Gray frowned down at the floor. Natsu glanced over at Lucy, suddenly remembering that these were her keys, and even though he didn't know much about them, he knew that they were really important to her.

Lucy felt a hand brush her shoulder, snapping her out of her dazed stare at the wall as she looked at the pink headed boy now staring down at her with his hand on her. He sighed and knelt down next to the bed, shutting his eyes before letting out a soft breath and opening his eyes again. With a fierce determination in his gaze he clenched his fist.

"Lucy, I swear to you, we will help you find your spirits, so- oi! D-don't cry!" Natsu stuttered looking panicked as he looked back at his guild mates. They all stared at Lucy who had tear stains streaming a path down her cheeks.

"I'm sorry," she sobbed unable to stop, no matter how hard she wiped at her eyes and cheeks. "It's just that, I don't remember these Spirits." Everyone glances at each other in despair as Lucy sobbed and Levy stood up, rushing to the blonde's side to comfort her. Erza went to her other side, being surprising gentle as she helped Levy try to cheer up Lucy.

The boys looked completely out of place, none of them liking that Lucy was crying and they all seemed uncomfortable as they stood around. Each of them were looking at anything other than the girls on the bed.

Finally Lucy's cries began to subside and when she wiped her eyes there were no new tears to make a new path down her face. She looked at everyone, making sure to stare them each in the eye for several moments, smiling softly as she nodded.

"Thanks for helping me you guys."

Nastu smiled at that, pleased to know that she was going to be alright, though something felt wrong. That smile didn't reach her eyes like it usually did, and Natsu could tell that Lucy was hiding something.

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A few days passed before Lucy was physically well enough to travel, and even though Natsu was growing restless he knew he had to wait. He couldn't go on this adventure without Lucy, or the others for that matter.

Levy had pleaded with the master to let her go with the group to look for Lucy's keys, but much to her dismay, the master denied it and even Lucy seemed disappointed by the news. Now the ones accompanying Lucy were; Gray, Erza, Sting, Rogue, Happy, Natsu, Wendy, and Charla.

As the group walked out of the guild hall, with farewells and good lucks sounding from inside they all wondered just how long this mission would take. None of them had realized that just outside the doors of the guild, Lucy had stopped and was looking up at the place that she had been holed up in for nearly a month.

She felt something tug at her heart as she looked at the guilds emblem, same as her hand, blowing in a flag above the door. It was almost as if every over of her being were screaming at her to remember, and she desperately wanted to. She focused hard on the waving flag as it shimmered softly in the suns light, hoping and praying that maybe something would come to her.

Just as she was about to give up a memory flashed in her mind, an image of her sitting at the bar, talking to a beautiful woman with white hair as she made her a strawberry milkshake.

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"So Mira, why is the guild called Fairy Tail?" Lucy had asked, her mouth drooling at the pink delectable drink that the other girl had set down in front of her.

Mira gave her a kind, happy smile as thought for a moment before she answered her question. "Well, our first guild master, Mavis, named the guild. The name of our guild is a question, do fairies have tails? Or not? Do fairies even exist? You see, Mavis always wanted to go on adventures, so having the name be a question is like we're all always on an adventure to find the answer!"

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Lucy's eyes blinked open as the memory faded and she looked back up at the flag and the name of the guild.

"I promise Mavis, I'll go on that adventure with our guild." Lucy promised out loud, unsure of who she was talking to.

Just then the sound of feet pounding cobblestone drew her attention back to reality and she looked behind her to see Natsu running at her with his arms high in the air. "Oi! Luce! What are you doing? We almost left without you!"

Lucy smiled and hurried to catch up with Natsu, listening to him talk about a fight he nearly one with Sting while they had been walking. As he spoke Lucy looked back one last time and she gasped, seeing a small girl hovering just above the guild halls flag with her arm stretched up high and her thumb and pointer finger stuck out.

"What's wrong Lucy?" Natsu asked and she turned her attention to him for a second, but when she turned to look back at the guild, the figure was gone.

She shook her head, "nothing, just thought I remembered something."

"Oh man! I sure do hope you get your memories back! I miss you when you were all tough and scary! You were so cool, not that I don't like you now it's just-," but Lucy didn't hear anything else he said as her mind wandered back to her memory and the strange floating girl on top of the guild.

She glanced down at her hand, putting it in the same pose the girl had and Natsu, having noticed movement looked down at her and smiled.

"Hey! You remember our guilds hand sign!"

Lucy looked up at him in slight shock, her head tilted to the side as she gave him a confused glance. "Hand sign?"

"Yeah! It means, 'even if I can't see you, no matter how far away you may be, I will always be watching you.' We hold it up to people when we say goodbye for a long time." Natsu held his hand in the same shape and smiled softly.

They finally met up with the rest of the group and everyone looked around, it wasn't till Lucy asked a question that she thought held a simple answer, that everyone realized something major.

"So uh, where do we start?"

Everyone stared at Lucy as if she had grown two heads, and then at each other as if they didn't know how to process the multiple heads. Lucy looked between all of them and cane to a realization.

"YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING?!" She screamed, wincing in pain as her ear began to ring at the sudden loudness.

"Luce? You ok?" Natsu questioned, noticing the pained expression on her face, but she waved it off, making the boy frown slightly and shrug looking around the group. They all eyes each other, waiting for one of them to come up with a plan.

"How about we go to her family? Obviously there's gotta be something there right?" Gray asked and Erza nodded in agreement.

Lucy looked at Sting and Rogue who gave each other pained expressions before turning to face Lucy. "Ah, Lucy, we can't go see your family." Sting said quietly as he rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

"Y-your mom died when you were young," Sting continued, "and your dad, well he wasn't a really good man, but after he left the house you guys lived in, he went to Acalypha and worked at a merchant guild, where you guys began to patch things up. But, he passed away, while we were trapped in the demon for 7 years. I'm sorry Lucy."

When Sting finally finished everyone looked at Lucy, waiting for her to react or say something but she only looked down at her shoes and nodded sadly. "Thanks for telling me, Sting." She replied with a sad, soft smile.

The rest of the group started to think about it again when Happy flew up so he was eye level with everyone, "who here knows Lucy better than Lucy does right now? Past Lucy!" Happy said with a proud smile. Everyone looked confused and Charla rolled her eyes at the stupid tomcat.

"Don't be stupid Happy," Gray said as they started to discuss what to do next.

Happy slumped back down to the ground with a sad face, "well I was gonna say that we could go to Lucy's apartment to look for clues."

The people in the group froze and glanced down to where the miserable little cat stood, his head bowed. "Happy! You're a genius!" Natsu said, hurrying over to pat his little buddy on the head.

Happy grinned up at the praise and even Erza nodded that it was a good idea, and so the group headed off to Lucy's apartment, goofing off as usual.

Once at Lucy's, and after the creepy landlady had yelled at her, they went inside to search through her things. Lucy was oddly drawn to her desk, feeling a sort of protectiveness over it. She didn't want the others to look through it for some reason.

With Lucy looking through the desk, Wendy, Charla and Happy looked around and under her bed. Natsu Gray and Erza looked by her dresser and inside it. And Sting and Rogue took the closet and bathroom.

Lucy was just about to open one of the drawers to her desk when she heard a strangled cry and sputtering. Turning around to look she saw that everyone had stopped what they were doing and were all looking at her dresser.

"What? Did you guys find anything?" Lucy questioned as she hurried over to see what everyone was looking at. In Natsu's outstretched arms was a pink lacy thong and Lucy's cheeks flames brighter than Natsu's fire.

"Kya! Don't go looking through my underwear drawer!" She screamed, keeping her wince at the loudness hidden while she snatched the garment from Natsu's clutches. Everyone was gaping like a fish, their faces all the same color as Lucy's. Charla covered Wendy's eyes but even Charla was blushing.

"H-how, how do you possibly wear those?" Erza stuttered and Gray coughed. Natsu and Sting were both a blushing mess as they looked everywhere but the dresser and Lucy huffed, throwing them back into the pile and slamming the drawer shut.

"I'm not answering that."

After the whole underwear fiasco, the group got back to searching, leaving the now forbidden drawer alone.

Lucy went back to the desk, still feeling a pull to search the drawers. With slight hesitation she opened up the bottom drawer and gasped. Inside were thousands of letters, all addressed to 'Mom.' Lucy assumed she had written these for her mom and grabbed a few of them, biting her lip as she opened it carefully.

The date in the letter was still fairly new and her eyes scanned over her own handwriting, feeling weird that she didn't remember writing any of it.

Dear mom,

I joined a new guild, it's called Fairy Tail. Why it's called that? I have no idea. Everyone is so nice to me and always trying to be my friend. But I just can't let them in, I can't get too comfortable here, not after what happened in Sabertooth. Something tells me that if something like that happens again, this time, I won't recover. These people, this guild, could be my real home, and that will just hurt so much more. Sorry for making this depressing mom! I love you, I wish you could meet my guild mates, especially Natsu, I think you'd really like him.

Love, Lucy

As Lucy finished the letter, droplets appeared on the page and she hurriedly wiped her eyes. When she looked up, no one was searching through their designated areas, they were all staring at Lucy in surprise.

"What's the matter Lucy?" Happy asked, worried about his friend as he walked over.

She looked down at the blue cat and smiled softly, wiping her eyes again with a shake of her head.

"Guys, what happened to me in Sabertooth?"

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Hi everyone! I absolutely love reading all of your comments and feedback and predictions! Seriously they make my day so keep them coming! Anyway I really hope you like this chapter cuz I think it's definitely one of my favorites! Ill try and update again soon for you guys as a Christmas present :)