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Porlyusica huffed. "It's not that simple. Her memories appear to have been taken from her. For her to remember anything, we will need to reclaim her memories first."

"But...how do we find them?" Wendy asked sadly, eyes gazing imploringly at the pink-haired woman. Under Wendy's innocent gaze, Porlyusica softened.

"Well...I hear dragon slayers are quite good at finding things."

To state that Lucy was confused would be an understatement.

All she knew was that one minute she had been surrounded by rushing light and the next, she had woken up surrounded by strange mages she only knew through magazines; the mages of Fairy Tail. She was just waiting patiently for someone to explain everything to her but her patience was running thin. This strange pink-haired woman kept saying her memories were taken but Lucy had no recollection of being kidnapped or taken so how could her memories have been taken? While the mages talked, Lucy took the time to glance around the room. Some flowers stood in a vase on her bedside table, where a newspaper lay. Lucy sat a little straighter. It should be the year X784, according to Lucy's memory. If the mages were telling the truth…

Lucy took a deep breath and peered at the newspaper. Her eyes widened.

X791.

The truth didn't slowly settle around her. It slammed into her like a tonne of bricks and didn't seem to understand the concept of shock. Seven years had passed… the pink haired woman was right. Lucy could feel herself slowly sinking into a bottomless pit of despair so she drew her thoughts away from one problem to another: her memories.

According to Porlyusica, her memories had been taken. By whom, she had no clue. She didn't exactly have that many enemies but she assumed that the Lucy with memories did. Her memories had been taken with a rare spell called Rememoria, where an individual's memories were stolen, buried in the mind or, in some extreme cases, forever lost. Because it was so ancient, hard to cast and could only be undone by such rare properties, it had only been used about five times in the history of magic. No on in Fairy Tail knew much, if anything, about it, not even a blue-haired bookworm named Levy (who was apparently one of her best friends. It wasn't that hard to imagine. Lucy liked her instantly). The Master had had to look through the oldest volumes in the Fairy Tail archives to dig some information out. Porlyusica was also a big help. Combining the information of one of her books and the Fairy Tail books, she came to the conclusion that Dragon Slayers would be able to reverse Rememoria. According to the books, only Dragon Slayers could collect and retrieve the memories of those cursed with Rememoria, as long as there were memories left to retrieve, but if the memories were not collected within a year, they would be lost forever. The books didn't say how many Dragon Slayers were needed for the procedure but Porlyusica figured the more helpers, the better. Three months of their time had already passed but without knowing who had taken them, they had no leads. To Lucy's immense surprise, most of Fairy Tail had taken up the task of searching with tremendous vigour and to Lucy, who didn't remember a single one member, it was the kindest anyone had been to her in a long time. Since Mother was here, her brain thought treacherously but before her thoughts could stray into the dangerous territories of 'home', Lucy felt all eyes on her.

"Huh?"

The Master chuckled. "We were just saying that while we looked for the solution to this Rememoria we should try to trigger your memory by having you spend time with some of your closest friends."

"Oh, that sounds good. Thank you," said Lucy, her face flushed. The mages looked expectantly at her and she felt her face grow warmer at the attention. "Um...sorry, but I'm not really sure who they are…"

There was a sudden clank of metal as Erza stepped forward, eyes gleaming with determination. "I'm sorry, Lucy. My name is Erza Scarlet. We are in the same team, as well as Natsu Dragneel and Gray Fullbuster."

"Hey!"

"And Happy."

Both men grinned at her when mentioned but Lucy couldn't help but notice the hints of sadness in their expressions and the smiles that didn't seem to reach their eyes.

"We'll go around to some places, yes? I think a stop to Lucy's apartment first would be good. Her keys are there and they haven't visited today, so they must know something is different," Erza continued, taking charge and allowing no room for argument. Then, what she said sunk in. Her keys! God, Aquarius was going to kill her for being weak...or thank her for the three months she could spend with her boyfriend. But strangely, Lucy felt more powerful. She felt connections with many more keys than she had at Hargeon Port and couldn't wait to meet them all. Well, re-meet them.

"Alright! Let's get outta here!"

"Not so fast!"

With a mighty fist, Master Makarov stopped Natsu's steps and squashed him flat. Lucy, alarmed, was about to ask if he was alright but decided against it when everyone continued to look on in indifference.

"Porlyusica, anything Lucy should avoid? Any medicines to take? Herbal remedies?" asked Makarov, apparently not seeing the dark look on Porlyusica's face.

"NO! Move it! I hate humans...always ruining things. She shouldn't do too much physical exercise as her body is still weak from her three month coma but apart from that, she can do pretty much everything she did before."

I'm right here, you know, Lucy thought with a sigh. But she smiled at Erza and her new (or old) team. "Alright, let's go then!"

"Aye!"

"This is my apartment!?"

Lucy stared around at the small, homey apartment and immediately fell in love. This was perfect! She felt a comforting sense of familiarity and security as soon as she stepped through the doors and knew that this was definitely her apartment. And on the table...lay a manuscript. She must've written down that story she'd thought of.

"Yes. Although we often come here too." Erza smiled at the blonde and looked around the room as if it were her own. Gray had already stripped and was currently on her bed (why were Fairy Tail mages so weird?) while Natsu was rummaging around the kitchen. You guys sure made yourselves at home, Lucy thought. Her eyes landed on a small pouch on her desk, silver and gold metal twinkling in the sun. Her keys. Erza followed her line of sight.

"Ah, your keys. They've been very worried about you. I think you should summon them."

"Okay…" Lucy stepped forward hesitantly and her fingers curled around the warm keys. There was a piercing, golden light and she shielded her eyes, blinded.

When she opened them, she nearly fainted.

Standing in front of her were about fifteen spirits. And ten were...Golden Gate keys!? How had she gotten so many? She had all of them apart from Libra and Pisces and each spirit looked at her warmly.

"Lucy! Your nice body is back!"

"Punishment, princess?"

"I'm sorry! Welcome back!"

"Pun-pun!"

Lucy almost dropped the keys in surprise at the warm welcome when a figure in a suit with orange hair stepped forward. "Lucy, my love, things have been awfully quiet without you." He pushed his sunglasses up. "Welcome back!"

Gray rolled his eyes at the theatrics of the spirit but Lucy took a step back. "Um...I'm sorry…but I'm afraid I don't remember most of you…"

There was a small silence. Erza explained the current situation to the spirits and Lucy felt a pang of sympathy as the spirits expressions dropped.

"Levy and most of Fairy Tail are currently looking for some clues as to who took them. As soon as we get a lead, the Dragon Slayers will help retrieve the memories. That is the plan, anyway," Erza finished. The spirits all looked forlornly at Lucy but she managed to smile back at them.
"Hey... I may not be able to remember you but I know that we're friends. I can feel it. I'll be back in no time!" Lucy thought it was strange that she was the one who'd lost her memory but comforting everyone instead of the other way around but before she could ponder the thought, her apartment door flew open. A man named Jet stood in the doorway.

"You have to come to the guild. There's been a lead!"