It was late in Magnolia, the streets were empty and the only signs of life were coming from the cities favorite guild, Fairy Tail. The guild was dying down for the evening. Outside of a waitress and the cook, there was a small group chatting around the table. Levy and Lucy were talking about books, Cana was drinking her barrel of liquor and talking with Gray and Happy, Juvia was hiding behind a pole glaring at Cana, and Natsu was passed out, snoring.

Slowly people started to leave, until it was only Lucy, Happy and Natsu. Lucy and Happy were talking about how they never wanted to eat flying fish again, when Lucy realized how late it is was.

"Well, I've got to get going Happy. I'll see you for tomorrow's mission." Lucy said getting up and leaving.

"Bye Lucy." Happy Replied.

Right as Lucy walked out of the guild she had the urge the fall asleep and then she noticed the hand on her shoulder. There was a man dressed in his PJ's and had a pillow in his other hand, and two his left was a young girl with dark green hair, wearing a deep blue dress.

Lucy didn't have the chance to yell out, because the urge to sleep overcame her and she fell to the ground causing her keys to slip out of her pouch. The young girl grabbed onto both Lucy's and the man's arm and with a small flash, they vanished.

Loke tried to go through the celestial door, but was to slow in getting to the human world to save Lucy. She vanished as he appeared and without her keys, Loke couldn't locate his beloved contractor. He picked up the keys from the ground, and angrily let out a mighty roar.

After letting out his rage, Loke turned around and ran into the guild to wake up Natsu. Groggy and surprised to see the spirit in the guild, Natsu went to ask Loke how he's been, excited to see his old friend, but was quickly interrupted.

"Lucy was taken!" Loke shouted.

Three Years Later

Natsu hadn't changed that much, except for he was much more powerful and he was barely ever at the guild, because he was always on missions. When he was at the guild, it was to pick a mission and go.

Natsu had also become an S Class wizard opening up more missions to him. He was always on missions away from town so he could look for both Igneel and Lucy.

Happy started to stay at the guild to help out by giving messages to the mages out on missions, and Gray and Ezra were always out taking missions also, to help out those who needed help, but they also believed that Lucy was out there somewhere and if they kept going all over the place, they would find her, or clues to where she was.

One of the newest missions on the mission board was only a day's walk away from Magnolia, that Natsu took. It was closer than what he was use to. The only reason why he took this mission was because of Master Marcarovs request it, and there wasn't any interesting jobs to take.

The mission was a simple task to Natsu. It was to take out a local Mafia that had started to bully the shops a few months ago in Onibus. The goal was to take the leader alive, with as many of his cohorts as possible, and let the local police arrest them.

When Natsu had finally made it to the city, the locals had pointed him in the right direction to where the thugs had run their operations from.

Without discretion, and without a plan, Natsu kicked down the door and was greeted by twenty or so men who were not happy about the intrusion. There was only few mages, and none of them were very tough. All the men tried to stop him, but Natsu was to strong. They were all passed out on the floor within a few minutes. The fire mage hadn't even used his magical power yet.

Finally he made his way to the man who was in control of all these thugs, a Lizard man named Adleburt was counting his money that he forced from the local business, as fees for working in his territory. The man looked similar to a lizard, his teeth were sharp and pointed and he even had a blue lizard tail.

"Well if it isn't Natsu." Adleburt said not even looking up.

"I've come to close you down." Natsu said as he started to attack.

Adleburt still wasn't even paying attention to Natsu, except to block his moves with his tail. Adleburt had a special kind of magic that allows his tail to block physical attacks, but unfortunately for him, it doesn't block magical ones. Fire engrossed Natsu's hands as he started to attack with his magical power. The Lizard man was knocked out with the rest of his crew.

Natsu had tied them all up, threw them in a wagon and dragged them off to the local police station. After getting a slip of paper from the officer, Natsu started to make his way down the shop owners who put in for the mission, to tell them he had completed the mission, but on his way to the shop, he saw a familiar pony tail in the crowd.

The blond hair was all pulled up, but it was much longer than Lucy's ever had hers. He couldn't help but to follow her. As he followed her, he grabbed the Celestial keys that were tied to his neck. Examining her from the back, Natsu could tell that the lady he was following was more conservative on that she was wearing, than Lucy would be.

He thought for a second that it couldn't be her, but Natsu's instincts though, told him to follow her. Then he got a good whiff of the air. The aroma in the air smelled just like Lucy, but with a fragrant rose perfume along with it.

He was ready to run over to her, but just as he was about to run over, the woman suddenly called out to man in the crowd, "Takeo!"

A man that looked to be around 25 responded by waving to the blond girl. Takeo made his way to the blond girl by the river that Natsu had been following. He walked towards her until he was a few feet away from her, when she leapt into his arms. He twirled her around for a few seconds, and that's when Natsu was able to get a glance at the girl he had followed. It was indeed Lucy.