Chapter 7: Confusion

Kon'nichiwa, minna! ♥️

So here you go; a new chapter! I'm, as mentioned in my status, on vacation, so this chapter was written on my iPad, so if any of the content in this chapter looks weird, I blame the iPad.

No multimedia again. I might add one when I go home, but I dunno.

Enjoy the chapter! ^^

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Erza showed Lucy how to wash her hair, though Lucy kept mistaking conditioner for shampoo. At first Lucy had been a little skeptical about Erza seeing her naked, but calmed down when she reminded herself that Lucy and Erza shared a deep friendship.

"So Natsu told me that you had a dream about your past," Erza said, while she waited on Lucy outside of the shower. "Do you remember any of it from an memory?"

"No, gomene," Lucy mumbled, washing out the conditioner. "It was only a dream. I didn't even know it was my own mother in the dream." She sighed and turned off the water. Erza gave her a towel as the cold air hit her and she got goose bombs.

"You don't have to apologize, Lucy," Erza exclaimed, smiling slightly. "Natsu says that you are over working yourself. We're going to get your memories back!"

Lucy smiled back at Erza while covering herself in the pink towel. "Hai, arigato, Erza. I mean it. You are all so friendly to me, even though my mind work as a stranger right now."

"Well, Lucy," Erza said, smiling a amused. "We might be strangers to you at the moment, but you are still our friend." Lucy blushed slightly as Erza moved on to the next lesson... hair. ___________________________________________________________________________________

Natsu and Happy went ahead of the girls. They wanted to take the best, low paid job there was.

"Natsuu~" Happy exclaimed, flying over Natsu's head. "How are we going to be Lushee's memories back?"

"Don't worry, Happy," Natsu grinned. "I didn't wake up this early just to get a good job. Yesterday, before Lucy woke up, I checked the request board for missions, when I found, not just one, but two missions in Marnmouth! The same city as Lucy lost her memories. The first one is high paid, the one I wanted to pick if it wasn't for Erza, and the second one is a low paid. We just have to get it before anybody else. Maybe we can sniff up that bastards scent!"

"Hmmm… that's unusual." Happy muttered.

"What's unusual?"

"Natsu, you thought of something," Happy pointed out. "That's weird, it's not what you do!"

"H-Hey, shaddup, will ya!" Natsu yelled with the angermark on is forehead. They arrived at the guild where only Mira, Lisanna, Elfman, Cana and Master were. It's was only 5:45 after all. Natsu and Happy rushed over to the request board with enough speed to leave a cloud of dust.

"Oi, watch it, brat." Makarov exclaimed, coughing.

"Gee, thanks Natsu," Cana said, angrily, waving the dust cloud away. "Why are you in such a hurry anyway?"

"We have to get a good mission!" Happy exclaimed, looking over his shoulder. They stopped at the request board to search for the missions. In Natsu's horror, Mira had put up more then ten new missions, and the old ones was hid behind. Like an animal, Natsu began to scratch the new missions down. Mira and Lisanna shook their heads in amusement.

"Here it is!" Natsu yelled, showing Happy the request.

We need a few mages to take down some local burglars.The town the mission takes place in is Marnmouth.Reward: 30.000 jewels

"Erza said a low paid one," Natsu said with a childish grin. "A low paid one she gets."

"But what if we aren't allowed to go back there?" Happy said, worried.

"None of her concern," Natsu said, rejecting. "Erza has to learn that we don't do everything she says!"

"So I have to learn that, huh?" A voice exclaimed behind them. It sounded angry, yet amused.

"Uhh, someone is in trouble~" Cana sang. You could particular here her being drunk.

They both turned to see Erza had entered to guild, with Lucy behind her. She had dressed Lucy in her salmon red top, with a denim skirt and a brown belt. Her hair was down, except for one section, which was put together by a bow.

"E-Erza," Natsu said, with fake excitement. "H-How much... did you just hear?"

Erza looked serious. "That I wouldn't allow you to go a certain place, that it was none of my concern... uh, and I have to learn that you don't do everything I say!" She said it all in amusement. Like she was entertained by their panic. "So tell me, where was it I wouldn't allow you to go?"

Natsu tried to hide the request behind his back, as unsuspicious as he could, but unfortunately Erza watched his every single move. She firmly walked over to Natsu and grabbed the request out of his hand. Fast, as she was, she read it through and handed it to Natsu again. He looked confused at the hand.

"Do you think it's none if my concern, if we go back to the spot where our team mate was tortured?" Erza snapped, angrily. "Natsu, no. Pick another mission." She gestured at the request board as she turned around to Lucy, who was looking rather confused with the whole situation.

"B-But Erza..." Natsu exclaimed. He then turned to Makarov. "Old man! Are you just going to let her do that?"

Makarov was sitting on the bar table and uttered a small Hrmph. "I'm thinking, kid!" He was actually considering the possibility. "I think... that you should go. If you find this Elimar you may get Lucy's memories back."

"M-Master..." Erza exclaimed through clenched teeth.

"I trust you, Erza, to keep your team mates safe," Makarov answered. His eyes were closed and he didn't intend to open them. "But if you meet him beware of his powers. If you feel overpowered, retrieve! Do you understand... Natsu?"

"But what if we have a chance to get her mem..." Natsu was interrupted.

"Okay, let me say it another way," Makarov said with an tired expression. "If you feel so over powered that it might hurt your team mates, retrieve. I don't want to hear another word about this!"

Natsu considered a comeback, but said instead: "Okay, arigato, gramps! We'll be extra careful." He then turned to Erza. "Go wake Pop circle and Wendy up, we're leaving at 12 o' clock!" But when he received one of her death glares he said instead: "I mean, if you want to. Maybe you should sit down, get a drink or..."

"No I'll go get 'em," She said with a calm voice. "But I still think that this is a bad idea!" She then turned around and walked out of the guild, leaving Lucy alone behind. She looked confused, again.

"Is this whole situation okay with you, Lucy?" Mira asked from the bar.

"Yeah..." Lucy mumbled, not comfortable at all. "It's just... I don't know what happened to me except for the fact that my memories was stolen by this Elimar guy. Other than that, I don't know. I don't even know how he took them...!" A muscular arm was put around Lucy's shoulders. Natsu...

"Well, Lucy," He said with a smirk painted on his face. "Then let me tell you that, when we're on the way... to Marnmouth." ___________________________________________________________________________________

Natsu had forgot one important thing; he couldn't talk when they were on the train. His mouth was full of his breakfast... in a liquid form.

"What is wrong with him?" Lucy asked, half thinking that Natsu was going to explode. She sat beside Natsu, with Happy curled up in her lap. Erza, Wendy and Gray sat on the opposite seats.

"He's a Dragon Slayer," Gray explained. "They get motion sickness, and it's entertaining to look at."

"S-Shut up, Pop circle..." Natsu squeaked. Gray let the insult fly by, not wanting Natsu to barf on him.

"But isn't Wendy a Dragon Slayer too?" Lucy asked.

Wendy smiled. "I think it's because I have healing abilities. Maybe it secretly heals me too?" Lucy smiled back at her. It was weird. She wasn't as uncomfortable with Team Natsu then the rest of the guild.

Natsu whined something not understandable as the speaker said that the next stop was Marnmouth. She looked up at the rest of the team. Gray was looking out of the window in boredom, Erza was calculating something in her mind and Wendy petted Carla on her forehead.

"C-Can you tell me what happened on that day?" Lucy asked them. "I have been curious since I woke up and the name Elimar was thrown at me."

"Of course, Lucy," Erza said, smiling. "If anyone deserves to know then it's you." Wendy and Gray nodded in agreement.

And then they took turns telling Lucy what happened. She listened carefully, ending up being terrified, yet fascinated. ___________________________________________________________________________________

They arrived in Marnmouth not short after they had told the story. It was about 5:45 PM and Natsu and Happy was complaining about their hunger. In Natsu's case it was understandable. He had thrown his breakfast up twice, if that's even possible.

The city was as they all remembered it - or nearly all of them. Lucy was still thinking about the name. Who would name a city Marnmouth? It was a weird name, that didn't match the city's beauty.

Erza found a hotel they could stay in for the night. It wasn't to expensive, but not shappy either. The lobby had a red theme. The walls were a reddish color mixed with brown, while the floor was made out of red marble. Old couches were placed against the walls and had dark wooden tables in front of them.

They checked in and figured our where everybody should sleep. Natsu and Gray got a room as long away from each other as possible. There was no way that those two could or would sleep together. Erza and Wendy slightly discussed who was going to sleep with Lucy. It ended up being Wendy and Carla. Erza shared room with Gray.

"Tomorrow we can begin the mission," Erza exclaimed. They were sitting in Lucy and Wendy's room. "But for now, do whatever you want." She turned to Natsu and Gray. "Except if it involves you two fighting." Gray and Natsu exchanged angry looks at each other, but then pretended to be best friends.

When Natsu and Happy had gone out to find a restaurant and Gray had gone to sleep, it was only the girls back in the room.

Wendy turned to Lucy. "Is there anything that you want to do, Lucy?"

Lucy thought about that for a moment. "No, you can just go out. I brought some books from my apartment, that I probably already read." Erza let out a giggle.

"Okay, but don't go out of the hotel then," Erza said. "Gray is sleeping down the hall, if there is anything go wake him up, okay?" Lucy nodded and the two girls, three including Carla, went out.

Lucy walked over to her bag and picked up a book called "The Unstoppable". It sounded interesting and… familiar. It drove Lucy mad that everything looked familiar, but she couldn't remember from where. It also annoyed her that she couldn't think of anything from before she woke up. Her brain was simply empty when it came to memories. Suddenly a cold breeze hit her. She looked up from the book and saw the window was open.

Huh? she thought I don't remember opening a window.

"Hello, Lucy," a voice said from the door. She turned her head in the direction and saw a man. Not just a man. He had medium long, black hair, reddish eyes and was wearing a cape. He didn't just look familiar... Lucy remembered him! Elimar!

"Did you miss me?" Elimar asked with an evil grin on his face. This was really bad!___________________________________________________________________________________

O-oh! Elimar is back! What do he want this time?

Figure that out in the next chapter: Friends by heart

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