A Fairy Tail Oneshot

FTP: I've had this idea going in my head since the premonition of Lucy in the collapsing Mercurious and the singing and yes so read and let me know of your opinions.

Summary: Watching my nakama get so worked up for the child was intriguing, but our duty was to stop Zeref and as much as it pained us we couldn't meet them yet, especially her, before meeting Lu-chan and the brats we have to stop Zeref so Let the games begin (Nalu Involved)

Lucy and Natsu: Fairy Tail is of Hiro mashima, FTP does not own anything! Enjoy the story

Let the Games begin

I watched my hooded companion fidget all day long; it was the first day of the Grand Magic Games Tournament of the year X791 but it was the first time that my friend had seemed to restless watching the tournament. I saw her fist clench and her chocolate brown eyes never leaving the Fairy Tail stands.

I knew very well how she felt as my eyes first landed on salamander and then shifted to the blond next to him. We had attended every single game, watching and waiting, we had felt the presence of the black mage Zeref but he never showed up and now that we were ever so close those little brats had to show up.

I looked at my other two nakama both hidden under their cloaks hood as we all were and saw them as tense as much as I was but only she seemed to be restless.

"The next is the battle," we heard the announcer call, "The contestants who are called, please step forward,"

I growled as the announcer called the name and watched as my friend stiffened.

"Day one battle!"the announcer said excited, "Lucy Heartphilia from the 'A-team' of Fairy Tail versus Flare Corona of Raven Tail,"

"What are you doing Mavis…" she whispered clearly irked as she watched the young mage step forward.

It was the blond little princess from Fairy tail who would be the first one to fight for the pride of her guild. I laughed shaking my head as I watched the girl taking on the psycho from Raven Tail.

"They sure grow fast don't they? Even though Tenrou Island and that Fairy sphere spell messed up our plan big time, didn't it?" I teased.

"Oh hush, Igneel," she reprimanded me not taking off her eyes from the battle. She still had that politeness in her she could never seem to get rid of.

"Gehe," I heard from behind me, the amused giggles of both Metallicana and Grandine, as we watched our nakama encourage Lucy.

"Come on Lu-chan," I heard her whisper as the celestial mage faced her opponent, "You can do it child,"

She would talk to the girl, and praise her when she'd dodge an attack that my son seemed to mimic perfectly. She laughed giddily as the girl summed three spirits at once pride reflecting in her beautiful smile. It had been a long time since we had seen even the shadow of her smile but we had known very well only that child could bring her to laugh now.

I almost laughed at her look of complete outrage at that Flare's cheating and I had to place a hand of her shoulder for fear she would jump down and kill the poor woman. None of us liked this Raven Tail bunch but we had to trust in our kids. Grandine had almost stormed off to them threatening to eat their whole guild when they attacked her precious Wendy. It took the three of us to calm her down and it left us all with so many bruises more than we could count.

We had heard Lu-chan call the child of her guild mates and noticed immediately the strand of hair swishing dangerously close to her. I smirked as I saw my son all fired up running past the crowd of humans watching the games towards his guild who was cheering the

'Hurry up son,' I thought as I saw cracks appearing in the stone of the balcony we were hiding in were she was holding onto, 'Before she takes us all down with her!'

My son affectively burnt the threat encouraging his friend who readily called out her spirits, Gemini and prepared to counterattack.

'I have to remember to tease those two when we meet again,' I thought grinning back at my friend who had relaxed and actually smiled at me. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea for the little ones to be here, it was certainly making my gloomy friend happy.

"Oh Luce," she giggled as she saw the embarrassed blond and her towel clad clone tried to regain composure in the battle field below.

I felt my face flushing at the scene but looked away to see the exact same reaction on Metallicana while Grandine just laughed at us. I could feel the deathly glares of our friend on us and gulped. Three dragons like us and we still could not compete with our companion in times like these we were doomed.

I felt the need to look back as the rush of so much magical power reached me. It was extraordinary for a girl so young and yet she had not yet achieved her full potential. My nakama jumped and smiling and shouted, "Go LU-CHAN!"

Her hood fell back from hear head and I could now see it clearly, the pride in my nakama's eyes as her own blond, wavy hair glistened in the sun. For a moment I thought I saw the child glance this way but her attention was now on her opponent. Mavis on the other hand sent a thumbs up our way.

"Survey the Heaven, Open the Heaven...
All the stars, far and wide...
Show me thy appearance...
With such shine…" the Lucy's said as their hand joined.

"Oh Judo must have given my diary to her," she said jumping in glee as her little girl was about to pound her opponent to the ground.

"O Tetrabiblos...
I am the ruler of the stars...
Aspect became complete...
Open thy malevolent gate.
O 88 Stars of the heaven...
Shine!
Urano Metria!" All three of us could not help but cheer the little girl as she cast her, most probably, first spell we had heard how she had successfully cast it seven years ago against some dark guild woman but we didn't really count that since one of the Blue Pegasus boys helped out and the child didn't even remember.

I do recall our companion had actually smiled when we brought her the news, shortly after we had set out together when our children vanished with Tenrou Island and tried to track down Zeref as was our duty, and one of the reasons we had to leave our precious children. It was our companion who had taken it most badly and had to even fake her own death.

Our joy was short lived though as we felt the long nosed raven Tail mage whom none of us could really understand dispel her magic much to our outrage and that of the Fairy Tail members who noticed. Mavis seemed quite annoyed and I immediately placed my hands on my companions' shoulders. She was shaking and I could feel her anger.

"Layla…" I whispered as I saw the longing in her eyes to run to her one and only child and hug her, comfort her and murder those Raven tail fools.

I saw my son run up to her and I grinned as my brat and Layla's took each other's hand and as they left the arena together I was sure they could watch each other's back. Tomorrow would be another day but right now it was our turn to investigate more.

Layla took a deep breath and put her hand on mine smiling sadly at me.

"Tell your boy to watch those hands," she said her smile turning to an icy one.

"The knight finished the gate," Metallicana smiled, "He really shouldn't talk that loudly,"

"He will want my child," Layla glared at the balcony above us, "However he'll find more than he can chew, Aquarius is…quite protective of Lucy even though she doesn't show it and now that Capricorn is with her there is nothing to worry about,"

"Will you warn her Layla?" I asked feeling the urge to push mother and daughter together. I wanted to meet Natsu again as well, but Layla came first, she had suffered enough. Us dragons had vowed to reunite the two and until then we did not deserve to face our own brats.

"No, Zeref-nii is coming, I can feel him," Layla shook her head, "Mavis-nee probably feels him as well, he must not know of my child,"

'Lucy and Zeref must not meet,' Layla thought fighting the ache in her heart.

FTP: Tada, i just wrote this and yes i do think Layla heartphila is alive, and has something to do with either Zeref, the dragons and Mavis/Lumen Histoire and most likely all of the above...I call her the missing link.

Lucy: oh boy, anyway this will be were FTP's oneshots of fairy tail will be published.

Natsu: REVIEW I"M ALL FIRED UP

Fairy Tail:AYE