Disclaimer: I don't own anyone from the Fairy tail franchise, all rights to the series belongs to their creators...I sort of own Nashi, though or this version of her.

True love shines


The Fairy Tail guild was bustling with life.

Everybody was joyful and the members couldn't have been happier with the life they led, especially not after Natsu and Lucy had started dating, gotten married and were now expecting their very own child. Of course everyone was shocked to hear that the Fire dragon slayer was about to be a parent with Lucy and they felt intrigued and couldn't wait to find out what kind of parents the two would make together...especially with Happy living with them.

After a few months, though, Lucy and Natsu had started to come in less and less and Natsu seemed to grow very protective of his pregnant mate. Natsu even insisted on going on solo missions to pay for the baby's potential expenses...but it seemed more directed at funding Lucy's entire pregnancy as a whole and he seemed to be coping shockingly well as a henpecked husband.

One day, though, during the Summer, that the two decided to make an appearance.

"Careful, Luce, take it easy...!"

"Natsu. I'm pregnant. I'm not helpless."

"I know that! But you could get hurt, the baby could get hurt! You sure you don't want me to carry ya?"

"For the hundredth time, I'm fine! We both are."

"Okay...just promise me that the second ya feel anything, you tell me and then I'll take ya to the hospital."

"Alright, I promise."

Natsu and Lucy strolled in through the entrance as he carefully escorted his wife through the double doors of the guild, practically glued to her side the whole time.

Lucy waddled through the doors of the Fairy tail guild, a hand delicately resting on top of her severely swollen stomach. She hadn't felt this good in ages because she was now carrying a tiny little miracle that always made her heart soar into the air...but that did mean that her back would constantly cramp up and her swollen feet would throb.

He led the celestial Mage over to one of the nearest tables.

The pregnant Celestial mage slowly sunk into the seat, the pink-haired Fire wizard helping to lower her as carefully as possible.

Lucy couldn't help but sigh as she settled on the stool.

Ever since she had gotten pregnant, he would treat her as though she were made of porcelain. Sometimes it could be quite embarrassing to be treated like this but she knew that it was just because he cared and she couldn't wait to see how he would act when the baby was born. She settled both hands over her swollen belly and felt her unborn baby kick —it felt strange but it made her feel on top of the world whenever she felt those signs that her baby, her beautiful baby, was alive and very strong.

Lucy perked her head up and smiled over at Levy, whom had just noticed the Celestial wizard walk in and proceeded to stroll over to the same table and then settled herself down on a seat just opposite to her.

The blue-haired solid script mage smiled joyfully as she greeted.

"Lucy! How are you doing?"

Lucy giggled as she replied with her cheeks flaring with a cherry red blush, "I'm doing fine, the baby is kicking like you wouldn't believe."

It was while she conversed with Levy that Wendy, Lisanna, Erza, Carla and even Cana had decided to join in on the chat as they all flocked around the pregnant mage. They chirped and gossiped merrily about the unborn baby growing inside of the Stellar wizard and she couldn't help but feel so happy as she eased even more into the seat.

Levy smiled while she tilted her head to one side, "So Lucy, when's the due date?"

Lucy merely smiled back happily at her as she absentmindedly rubbed her severely swollen stomach. "Any day now. We can't wait until our baby's born, can we Natsu?"

She didn't get a response to her question. This made her look down towards her tummy and she was was shocked when she saw her husband knelt in front of her, he closed his eyes and rested his left ear against her pregnant belly. Natsu seemed to have been in a blissful reverie (evidenced by the mere fact that he was purring away like a cat) as he seemed far too happy and distant to notice everybody else in the guild gawking at the awkward romantic display.

A bright red colour decorated the Celestial wizard's cheeks as she watched this scene with a happy heart...but she couldn't help but feel a slight pang of embarrassment too.

Natsu nuzzled his wife's baby bump and he could hear the heartbeat of his unborn pound softly against his ear. He couldn't wait until he could hold his child for the first time and he really couldn't wait to be a father, but at the same time he felt a bit anxious about it. What if he turned out to be a terrible father? He knew that he probably wouldn't ever be able to live up to his own father, Igneel, when it came to parenthood but he wanted to at least become half of what he had been to him.

Could he do it?

"So did you guys think up of any names?" Gray came up and asked.

Lucy glanced down at Natsu, whom froze and looked back up at her.

The truth was that coming up with a name had been a constant subject of conversation between the two, Happy had even came up with a couple of suggestions! They had come up with names for boys and names for girls and with almost every name there was a reason for objection on both Natsu and Lucy's parts, eventually they just decided to wait until the baby was born to name it.

Natsu chuckled nervously as he gazed up at the group.

"Heheh...we're actually gonna wait until he or she is born until we come up with a name."

The two Fairy tail wizards went silent for a few moments until Lucy seemed to suddenly brighten up and say "Natsu, dear, can you get me something?"

The fire wizard was on his feet within seconds. He had basically bounced up to full attention as he saluted her, his expression silly yet serious as he appeared to resemble a solider in the army. The pink-haired dragon slayer was at full attention as he awaited to hear what it was exactly that his mate needed from him and he prepared to make a run for it the second that the subject of her request flew from her lips.

Lucy smiled adorably at the pink-haired pyro.

"Can you please get me a drink?"

Natsu nodded and basically made a mad dash to the bar so he could go and fetch his wife something, Mirajane would be sure to keep him busy for awhile.

It wasn't even five seconds after Natsu had left that Lucy closed her eyes and sighed as she hung her head.

Everyone sat at the table had noticed the deflate in the Stellar wizards posture.

"Are you okay?" Wendy asked gently.

The Celestial wizard nodded, her own hand laying on top of her swollen stomach while she proceeded to explain.

"I'm happy that Natsu is excited and all but I think he's going a little overboard...I can't even go to the bathroom by myself without him getting jumpy nowadays."

The women and Gray looked at each other. It seemed understandable that Lucy was feeling a tad suffocated by an obsessive Natsu and it was even more understandable that she needed some time to herself so she could just sit back and properly breathe without someone breathing down her neck every second of everyday.

Bisca shrugged her shoulders. "When I was pregnant with Asuka, Azlack wouldn't leave me alone for a second either."

Then they all heard someone scoffing from a nearby table and they, including Lucy, couldn't help but turn their heads to investigate who scoffed and why they were eavesdropping on their conversation and they found Gajeel stood with his back against a pillar, his arms were crossed and he had a rather bored yet dismissive expression on his face. He cast a cursory glance to the table stacked with the one pregnant and other fairy tail wizards with disinterest...with the exception of Levy.

"It's normal. Dragons get very overprotective of their mates when they're about to lay their eggs, and it seems to go double for us Dragon slayers around their mates..."

That seemed to make sense. Natsu was probably just overprotective out of instinct to protect his mate and his unborn, that combined with the fact that he's going to be a first-time father would probably amplify his paranoid behaviour.

Gray suggested "We could just clobber the idiot to leave you alone?"

Wendy frowned in response to the ice wizard's suggestion.

"Is that necessary, Gray?"

"I'd say so!"

Erza shook her head and suggested as a wicked yet sly spread across her lips. "Why don't some of us stay here at the guild while one of us keeps Natsu busy?"

"Keeps me busy with what?"

Lucy and the others almost jumped out of their skins when they heard that question as they each glanced up and saw Natsu stood over the table with a glass of water tightly grasped in his hand. He had a look of confusion and perplexity on his face as it seemed that, in spite of his heightened sense of hearing, he hadn't heard any of the conversation that had been shared. Everyone thought long and hard to try and come up with an excuse to try and get the pink-haired fire wizard off their scent.

Before anybody could answer, though, Gajeel decided to intervene and he grabbed a tight hold on to the Fiery dragon slayer's shoulder as he started to shove him out towards the door. His face was purely serious as he grasped so tightly to Natsu to prevent him from wriggling free that he could dislocate his shoulder should he have squeezed hard enough.

"C'mon, Salamander, you and me are gonna have a little combat session."

Natsu cried out, looking back desperately at Lucy as he struggled in the iron dragon slayer's unrelenting tight grip. He didn't want to be dragged out and to be separated from his wife who could start going into labour at any moment! What if she needed something while he was out?

"Waitwaitwaitwait,no,mywifeneedsmepleaselemmegooo!"

Gajeel smirked as he pulled the struggling pink-haired dragon slayer along out the front door and all Lucy could think about was that she was finally going to have a break from her persistent husband and she couldn't wait, besides she couldn't help but think that Natsu needed a break too.

But nobody knew how hectic everything was about to become.


A/N: This is going to be a short story about the birth of Natsu and Lucy's daughter.

I hope you guys like it.

:)

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-Chloemcg