Pairings: Natsu x Lucy and other wonderful surprises. Shall be revealed as we go.

Timeline: After the GMG's arc. Give or take seven years.

Warnings: None other than mild cursing, violence, sexual themes and some gore. Perhaps a wee bit of confusion.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail

Authors Note: Soo have an inkling to start another long running series haha. This one is a wonderful Nalu fanfic I concocted so I hope you enjoy! (Although I shouldn't be starting anything more… oh well…)

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If there was one thing that Lucy was ever positive about in her life, it was this moment was precious. She had no time to waste.

Glancing at her partner, she squeezed his hand. He seemed to understand. Footsteps thundered on the floor above them. His eyes bore into hers, praying for her to stay silent.

This mission was stupid. They should have never gone on it in the first place. But it was a way for Lucy to prove herself and he would never deny her this simple request.

"Is this the end?" Lucy whispered, inching closer to the male. He never took his eyes off her.

"No," he said slowly, quietly, "we still have many more missions to go on."

Lucy nodded, her lips moving with no words coming out. The two mages closed their eyes and fell into nothingness.

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Disoriented, Lucy sat up right, pressing her palm against her forehead. It throbbed beneath the soft skin. She forced her eyes shut, trying to keep out the faint light pouring into the room through the window.

She felt awful. And to be honest, she really couldn't remember much. The information inside her brain was clipped and what was there flopped around making her feel even more bewildered than before.

The only two question on her mind were, where was she and how did she get there? Well, perhaps there's a portion of her too screaming how the hell did I forget everything? But that's not entirely important at the moment.

What was important was the fact that there was a fully grown human male next to her, half naked and sleeping soundly. Lucy did what any other woman would do in that situation.

She screamed.

Lucy tumbled from the warm embrace of the sheets, landing on the floor. The man sat up, sleepily rubbing his eyes, his hair sticking up in all directions. His eyes focused on her, pointing accusingly at her.

"Look lady, I don't know who the hell you are, but you're one of those perverts I've heard about, aren't you?" he demanded, glaring down at her with sharp black eyes.

The blonde shook her head, "You've got it all wrong! You're the pervert! Who are you?"

He smirked, and then it faltered as he chewed on his lip. "I don't… Oh! It's Natsu!" he said, proud he could remember. Natsu? Why did that seem so familiar? Lucy shook her head.

"Well, I'm Lucy," she replied, hugging her arms about her tighter. She just felt… empty. Other than her name, really everything was fuzzy. Of course she had her basic functions intact, but damnation who was she really.

"Okay, Luigi, whatever," Natsu said. "I don't know what's going on, but I have a feeling you had something to do with it."

Lucy arched her eyebrow defiantly, "Oh yeah? Maybe you're the mega-pervert and it's your fault!" She thought for a moment about what he said. "Hey! My name is Lucy not Luigi!"

Natsu waved his hand off, flopping back down on the bed. Lucy felt a tug in the back of her brain. Luigi? Where was that coming from?

"Right… okay," Lucy muttered, getting up to sit next to him. "Logically, we must know each other or why else would be both have forgotten basically everything? There's something we need to figure out though. It's why on Earthland did we forget all of our memories?"

The pinkette shook his head, "Dunno. But hey, do you think we're mages?" Lucy pursed her lips, scanning her visible skin for guild mark and even considering searching in herself for magical energy. She checked over him and found nothing either. Both were bare of marks.

"Maybe, but wouldn't we be in a wizard guild if we were?" Lucy questioned, and Natsu waved her off.

"Dunno," he repeated himself, "but I'm hungry. We should go get some food." Lucy glanced at her surroundings. A single double bed, a chipped dresser with a splintered mirror, littered clothing items and hair ribbon. The walls were painted deep red, with a plush carpet.

Lucy tapped her chin, getting to her feet. She shot Natsu a suspicious look and he closed his eyes, feigning sleep. Lucy rolled her eyes and quickly changed from the skimpy nightie to jeans and a halter top.

"I liked the other outfit better," Natsu called from his position on the bed, sliding his arms into a jacket. Lucy shot him a dirty look, before rummaging around in her bag. No jewels.

Should she have reacted differently? Probably, but when you're in a room with another person with amnesia, it doesn't seem so scary all things considering. Though she still didn't know what to make of the situation.

Tentatively, she called out, "Natsu, do you have any jewels on you?" He froze, having just one leg in his white pants. His hand dove into the pocket of his pants and whitened.

"Check my bag." He slammed his foot into his other pant leg, ripping open drawers.

Lucy nodded, frantically tearing through his luggage, as well as hers again. They only managed to scrape together two hundred jewels. That wasn't going to go very far.

Her mind was running a mile a minute. Housekeeping could get to the motel room any time now and they hadn't the funds to pay. Plus, she was stuck with Natsu until they could figure out anything about their identities.

For some reason though, Lucy thought as she cast Natsu a sidelong glimpse, it didn't seem right to leave him. They must have a connection.

"Let's escape through the bathroom window," Natsu said, and Lucy's bag she'd been holding plummeted to the floor.

"What?" she snapped, bending down to retrieve her fallen items. Natsu's black eyes sparkled.

He cracked his knuckles, "Oh you heard me; we have to escape. We don't have the money and I'm hungry. This is enough for a small meal. Let's go, now." Lucy weighed her options. For one thing, she was hungry and didn't want to forfeit the last of their jewels over this, but, it was still against the law.

Drawing on her last nerve, she lobbed his backpack at him, "Let's go before I change my mind."

Natsu grinned wickedly and led her to the bathroom, into the blue tilled room. With a clenched fist, he balled a towel around it and punched the glass. It shattered, falling through to the other side. Lucy shook her head, annoyed. Natsu bent down, lacing his fingers together to give her a boost. Lucy nodded politely.

"Excuse me." She stepped on the stepping stone her provided, his large hands wrapping around her small sneakered feet. She gripped the ledge, and with his assistance, slithered out the window, swung her legs around and dropped to the ground lightly. Within seconds, Natsu joined her.

He grinned at her, "Now what?" Lucy glared at him, slapping his arm.

"What do you mean 'now what'? It was your harebrained idea to jump out the freaking window!" Lucy snarled, punching him again.

Natsu swatted her feeble attempts away, "Would you relax? I was joking. Of course we run." He locked his fingers around her wrist and yanked her along as he began to run. Lucy remained silent, knowing she was unfortunately an accomplice to his evil schemes.

Now it was unbelievably awkward when the two rounded the corner and they found themselves in the staff parking lot. Workers were pulling themselves from their cars, staring at the two very suspicious individuals.

Natsu dusted some shards of glass that remained on his pants and waved to the workers, "We got a bit lost on our morning walk. Can you point us in the direction of the exist? Someone wanted to go shopping." Natsu made a largely exaggerated gesture in Lucy's direction. The blonde waved, barely supressing the spiteful glare she felt growing.

A man laughed, dressed as a bellhop. He couldn't have been more than eighteen. "It's over there." He pointed to the gates. Natsu saluted him and dragged Lucy with him though the parking lot.

Before they made their escape true, Lucy paused to wave to the workers, "Thank you!" His grip on her wrist grew increasingly tighter till the point where Lucy had to yank it away from lose of circulation.

"I think we're far enough away now!" Lucy snapped, rubbing her tender wrist. Natsu stopped and turned back to smirk at her.

"We'll never be far enough away. I can smell food, let's keep going," Natsu said, jerking his chin in the direction he claimed he could smell food.

Lucy's eyebrows shot up, "You can smell food?" Lucy took a whiff of the air and frowned. It smelt like pine sap and dirt. Natsu rolled his eyes.

"Trust me would ya?" he retorted, jogging in whatever direction, adjusting his bag on his shoulder. Lucy huffed, dragging her bag along the dirt ground as she followed him.

"It's not like I really have a choice in the matter, Natsu!" she called, her gait sliding into a jog as she attempted to catch up with him.

They hurried along for minutes, the silence a welcome change to their hectic morning. Soon, the scent of greasy sausages and rich coffee was strong enough for even Lucy to smell.

A diner with a few burnt out neon lights greeted them when they came over the top of the hill. Lucy narrowed her eyes in the pink haried man's direction.

"How in God's name did you smell this?"

Natsu shrugged, "Dunno. Must have a great schnoz." Lucy rolled her eyes and walked away from him and into the diner first.

A few customers were here and there, all with slicked back hair or skimpy clothes. A plump woman was working behind the counter, humming a cheerful tune as she served a rather frail looking man coffee. Her deep set eyes were as warm as her skin and her hair was neatly pinned up on her head.

Lucy took a seat on a stool, dropping her bag to the ground. Natsu entered not to long after she sat down, joining her at the counter.

"Miss," Lucy ventured, drawing the attention of the waitress. She smiled to the man and floated over.

"What can I do for you two this morning?" she inquired, pulling two coffee mugs out from under the counter. She filled it with the steamy liquid. Lucy wasn't even going to bother asking her how she knew she was with Natsu.

"Can you tell me where exactly we are? The country I mean," Lucy clarified her original thought. Natsu nodded in agreement, but from the look in his eyes, he could really care less.

The woman laughed boisterously, "My, how can you not know? We're in Enca my dears." Enca… The name rung a bell from Lucy's memories. It was an island south of Sin. It was one of the farthest most countries in all of Earthland. But something didn't add up. It didn't feel like she was from here at all.

Natsu sputtered, "We're where? How'd we get here? Lucy this doesn't feel right. We're from somewhere else, right?" Lucy had to give him props for catching on.

Mariana, as proclaimed by her now visible name tag, frowned, "Now what do you mean? How could you not know where you're from?"

Lucy wrapped her fingers around the warm ceramic mug, "We have amnesia." Mariana's eyes widened in understanding.

"I see…" she tapped her chin. "Check through your bags for anything that might trigger memories. I'll get you two something to eat."

Lucy wanted to smack herself, "Why didn't we think of this sooner?" Natsu shrugged, unzipping his bag and began to dig around. Sure they tore through their stuff in search of jewels, but this time, it was for an inkling of who they are.

Natsu pulled out a scarf and immediately wrapped it around his neck. Lucy raised an eyebrow at him but continued to search nonetheless. Lucy felt something hard in the pocket of one of her skirts. She slid her hand in and felt something cold. Realisation dawned on her.

In fact, the same look was on Natsu's face when he stuck his hand in a pair of his pants. They each pulled out rings. Natsu's was a simple silver band and Lucy's was similar but with diamonds and sapphires embedded in the metal.

Mariana returned with steaming plates of eggs, sausages and toast. She let out a low whistle.

"Well I'll be damned, you two are married!"

Lucy dropped her ring.

Well, well, well, predictable is predictable, right? Oh you do not even have a clue what I have in store for you haha. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter to 'Amnesia' and that'll I'll see you again soon!

~Emerald~