Hello, everyone! I am back with another chapter and I hope that you will like it!

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"Ah, that was close." The blonde leaned back into a wall, breathing heavily. She had just ran from the guild to where she is now but is glad that no one seemed to follow her.

Although that may be the case, she's currently hiding in an alleyway for extra measures. She wanted to stay out of the way of civilians, fearing that they might be affected by whatever plague she's bringing around.

Also, not more than a few minutes ago while she was running, a light bulb had appeared in her mind and she managed to deduce how her friends were affected.

It's because they made contact with her!

Talking alone won't trigger it but as soon as someone made contact with her, the magic played its role.

To further prove it, she remembered back to her encounter with Laxus and the Thunder God tribe, where Laxus was affected after he patted the top of her head whereas Bickslow wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

Then, Freed and Evergreen were not affected because throughout the whole thing, they didn't make contact with her, they just talked to her.

The same with Gajeel, she may had been deep in thought but she did notice when he accidentally bumped into her when he was getting up though at the the time she chose to not say anything about it.

And with the rest of her guildmates, she had accidentally knocked down and bumped into a lot of them during the brawl so there's that.

However, she still doesn't have the slightest clue as to why this is happening to her. Could it have been something she ate? Something she sniffed? Or worst of all, did someone cast a spell on her?

She ran her fingers through her blonde hair and sighed, she needed to fix this situation somehow. She can't just hide forever! Furthermore, she won't be able to find her true love then!

Her hand then had unconsciously reached down to grip her scarf but then she realised that it's gone. She cursed to herself, she must have lost it during the fight or when she was too busy running away. She really liked it too. She hoped that she lost it at the guild so that she could go looking for it the next time she goes there.

She looked out at the street on her left, there wasn't that many people around so she decided that she would try to walk home without running into anyone, and try to find something relating to her situation in one of her many books.

"Well, it's now or never." She stepped out into the light carefully, making sure to steer clear of everyone's path. She walked down the familiar path with ease, making it to her house successfully without any casualties. Thankfully, she wasn't too far from it.

The moment she walked through the front door, a weird feeling tugged at her. She closed the door and squinted her eyes, is there something wrong in her house? Or rather, someone.

She made her way up the stairs quietly and slowly, placing a hand on her whip when she stood directly in front of her bedroom. It's never bad to take extra caution.

With a deep breath, she opened the door and walked in with her guard on, only to be greeted with the sight of her teammates lounging around her room.

"Yo, Lucy!"

"Welcome back, Lucy!"

"Hey, Lucy!"

The blonde shrieked, flailing her arms up in the air. "I knew it!" The requip mage is casually drinking tea at the table whereas the blue exceed and his owner are playing games by her bed and lastly, the ice mage is sitting at her writing desk, flipping through her notes while wearing close to nothing.

She sighed, how did they even get here faster than her? Granted she took a pit stop for a while but that didn't even take such a long time. More importantly, why are they here?

"Why are you guys here?" She questioned out loud as she snatched her papers from the hands of the ice mage, shaking her head at him. Fortunately, she was not in the mood to kick someone today. Though, she might have to find a way to make her teammates leave since she needs to do her research in peace and quiet.

"Well, I wanted to find you to give you back your scarf," He pulled out the scarf from only God knows where and held it up, the blonde's eyes filling with happiness. "then I found these two looking for you too and we all came to the decision of just waiting for you here." The others just nodded their head to support the explanation.

She sweat dropped at the last bit, somehow thinking that they're just finding a reason to break into her house. She then grabbed the scarf from his hand and hugged him gratefully, which caused the ice mage to blush at the gesture. He quickly cooled down before she could see it.

"Thank you, Gray!" Her face fell as soon as she realised what she had done, she had just made contact with him! She backed up worryingly, is he going to act different now?

But wait. She bumped into him not too long ago and he seems fine at this moment. She then turned to look at Erza, who also seems normal in her own way, wasn't she affected at the guild?

"Hey, Erza?" The requip mage placed her teacup down after hearing her name being called, humming in acknowledgement. The blonde walked over to take the seat opposite of the red haired mage, crossing her arms over her chest.

"How are you feeling? Do you remember what happened at the guild?" She questioned curiously and the requip mage shook her head.

"Truth be told, I don't remember anything or much from when we started fighting until we were out of the guild. It's strange, it's like a chunk of my memory is gone."

The blonde nodded, analysing the new information in her mind. So, anyone who is affected won't remember what they did or said while under the 'spell'. That's sort of a good thing in a way, she's sure some of them would die of embarrassment if they knew what they had done.

"It was so weird, everyone couldn't remember why they were outside or the fact that they were chasing you. Way to ruin a good brawl, Luce." The fire dragon slayer piped in, though his main focus is still on the game he's playing with his blue exceed. Wait, where did they even get that? "Aye!"

The ice mage's eyes widened after hearing the fire mage's words, he didn't know that they were after the blonde. "They were chasing you? Why? Is that why you were running away?"

The blonde buried her face in her cupped hands and sighed, nodding her head. "I think something is wrong with me." A hand reached out to pat her shoulder, and she looked up to see that it was the redhead in front of her. "What's wrong, Lucy?"

Her eyebrows scrunched in confusion and she waited a few moments to see how things unfold. Is the 'spell' a one time thing only? How is Erza not affected like she was at the guild now?

She figured maybe the 'spell' wore off when she was out of sight which is true. It kind of makes her feel relieved knowing it would be a one time thing only.

Or maybe, she's no longer bound to whatever was causing the whole mess? Her gaze then unconsciously dart towards the pink scarf she left on her writing desk and she decided that she wanted to try something.

She wrapped the scarf around her neck, which earned questioning looks from her teammates. 'What is she doing?' Ran through their thoughts. It's not even cold in the room.

She then proceeded to walk back to the table and touched the requip mage. In an instance, the redhead is on one knee, an arm outstretched while the other folded on her abdomen, a charming smile on her lips.

"My princess, would you like some cake?" Natsu, Gray and Happy's jaws dropped to the ground, blinking their eyes in disbelief. "Aha! So this is the culprit!"

The blonde took off the scarf and observed how Erza snapped out of her daze in confusion, wondering how she ended up on the ground. "W-What?"

The blonde then wrapped the scarf back around her neck and touched the other three, waiting patiently for a reaction from them.

The ice mage and the dragon slayer just gave her questioning looks while Happy flew into her chest with a huge smile. "Lucy, do you want a fish?"

She wondered why the two boys are not affected, maybe the magic doesn't work on everyone? Nonetheless, she pushed the exceed away from her chest and pulled off the scarf, watching as the effect wore off.

"E-Eh?" She bit her bottom lip and held the scarf up, this was the only thing that was different about her today and is glad to know that her assumption is correct.

"What did you do, Lucy?" "What just happened?" The two boys asked aloud, not understanding anything that was happening.

The blonde placed her hands on her hips and smiled, she is going to find out what's the deal is with the scarf and she knows exactly where to start.

"Erza, Natsu, Gray, and Happy, I need your help."