Solomon's Child (Fairy Tail Fanfic)

Solomon's Child Part 28

Lucy couldn't help but sigh heavily as she watched yet another team run into the guild, grab a request off the board, ran up to the counter to wave the request in Mira's face, before running back out a second later before the doors could even shut from their entrance. It had been nearly three weeks since the incident with Jude Heartfilia was finished and things had been going back to normal...or at least Lucy assumed this was normal, as she still wasn't certain.

The Magic Council had swooped in only minutes after the massive airship crashed down, arresting everyone present, including Natsu Dragneel when he attempted to flee. It had taken awhile for them to get all the information they wanted from the Fairy Tail mages, as no one had a complete picture of what had happened. But by the time they had all their facts in order three council members had shown up at the makeshift holding area they had created for them.

From what Lucy learned the Council had thought that her fath-...that Jude Heartfilia had been thought dead by the magic council. To learn that he was not only still alive but had attempted to revive his institute...to say that they were surprised was an understatement. Surprised with a small side of grateful for Fairy Tail's aid. Council-woman Belno vowed to the blonde mage that they would continue to uphold their deal...a deal that Lucy had no memory of.

The blonde couldn't help but sigh heavily again, drawing the attention of the worried barmaid behind the counter.

"Oh my Lucy, that was quite the sigh there. Is everything alright?" The silver haired woman asked with what Lucy could only assume was genuine concern, at least she assumed it was as she didn't have enough experience with the emotion to tell the difference.

But she still understood that common sense dictated that one shouldn't worry their friends, so the blonde made sure to smile as she looked up at the barmaid. "I'm fine Ms. Strauss." Lucy began, flinching slightly when the woman's face fell at the mention of her name for reasons the blonde couldn't understand. "I was just...trying to remember."

Indeed, while the incident had indeed ended, the damage had already been done. Lucy's memories of her time in the guild known as Fairy Tail were missing, leaving nothing but a large blank in the place they had been. Her body, or more specifically the Weave woven into her very being, knew there was something wrong with her and had been attempting to undo the damage but the regeneration was slow going. She had only managed to retrieve a few scattered memories from right after she had destroyed the institute, nothing compared to what she had lost.

The Magic Council had offered aid in the retrieval of their memories, as according to them they did have a member of the Rune Knights who specialized in memory manipulation. In fact, it was this mage who would be working on Priscilla and Vincent in order to undo the damage on their minds...though they admitted that so much damage could take years to undo and that neither mage would be allowed to leave the Council's custody until they could deem them stable enough to be released. Lucy had intended to take them up on their offer, to go with the Council for however long it would take to undo what Jude had done to her. But the mages of Fairy Tail had immediately moved between her and the Council claiming that they would never leave her in the hands of the Council. A statement that made Lucy's chest clench in an unknown emotion. The young mage known as Wendy Marvel claimed that she would be more than capable of restoring her friend's memories, and the boys by the name of Gray Fullbuster and Natsu Dragneel had simply outright refused to allow her to leave with them, their declarations transforming the tightness in her chest into a warmth that was just as confusing.

And so, after a tearful farewell with her fellow institute survivors, Lucy returned to the Fairy Tail guild. She had been essentially under house arrest since arriving, having been under the constant ministration of both Wendy Marvel and the guilds apparent apothecary, a woman by the name of Porlyusica who absolutely terrified her to her core.