Hey Guys!
Man, I haven't posted any content in months. I kept thinking of and abandoning ideas.
However, I began writing outlines and proofreading my work, marking mistakes. Chances are, I might actually finish this.
I came up with this idea when I was in the shower. Yeah. I know.
I hope you actually like this idea. Sorry, Kazuhiro Hyuuga fans. Unless I magically managed to get into Naruto and Harry Potter again, I won't be continuing that story.
With all that said, I hope you enjoy.
They won. They really won.
"Woo hoo! Not even Alvares can defeat Fairy Tail!" One guild member yelled wholeheartedly. More guild members join him and began laughing and screaming at their seemingly impossible victory. Magnolia was wrecked up once again, but they can always fix it up.
A week since Fairy Tail's victory against Alvarez had passed rather slowly. Magnolia, along with the guild of course, had been fixing buildings non stop.
Right now, Team Natsu was busy fixing all the damages of the guild hall. Natsu laughed. "One day we fix it and before we know it, we have to fix it again!" The dragon slayer laughed at the number of times they had to fix the guild, whether it would be with the first, second, or the one Fairy Tail had when the guild was going downhill.
Lucy sighed. "Will there ever be a time when we don't have to fix the guild?"
Erza chuckled and Wendy chuckled. "I highly doubt it," said Erza.
"Aye sir!"
"I'm afraid destruction in inevitable."
Everyone laughed. However, Natsu seemed a bit distant. Gray snapped his fingers in front of his face. "Oi. Flame Brain. Are you there or did whatever brain you had left finally left your body?"
Natsu didn't react. Instead, as if it were in slow motion, he lost balance and fell sideways into the dirt.
"Natsu!" They all fretted.
Slowly, bits of Natsu's body was falling off as black sand.
"W-What's happening?" Gray stammered. Natsu looked exhausted, close to fainting, seemingly unaware of what's happening to and around him. Wendy gasped.
"N-Natsu's fading away!" Wendy fell to her knees and examined him. She held her palms out and began to use her healing magic.
Nothing happened.
The girl refused to give up and let her big brother disappear. "Don't leave us! We just won! COME ON!" Her hair began to lightly levitate and Troia was glowing brighter than it's ever been.
"W-Wendy? What's happening?" Lucy fretted. Wendy didn't look away.
"Natsu's disappearing. It must've been a death spell Zeref casted on him." Upon hearing this, Gray gritted his teeth while Erza felt guilty since she didn't know what to do. Wendy's Troia grew even brighter.
"Wendy! You're gonna waste too much magic power!" warned Charle. Wendy didn't listen to her.
"SAVE NATSU!"
Troia turned into a blinding light, causing everyone present to block their eyes. When the light finally faded away, Wendy was the one who collapsed from magic exhaustion. Natsu seemed to have disappeared, clothes on the floor. Lucy gaped.
She knelt in front of the pile of clothes. "N-Natsu?!" She stopped when she heard a baby wail. Everyone noticed and looked around to find the source, only to pinpoint the location to where Natsu's clothes were...
Slowly, Lucy picked up Natsu's shirt and scarf and dropped them, eyes wide open along with her mouth. All the others were stuck in their tracks.
"Natsu…"
She picked up Natsu in his current state.
A baby.
He was naked and the scars he had once had were gone, including the neck scar. His little patch of pink hair stuck out and was pointing in different directions. No one knew what to say. Gray, Erza, and Happy approached Lucy, who was shaking, holding Natsu in her arms. Charle went to help Wendy.
Erza and Gray took a good look at Natsu. He seemed healthy but continued wailing. Lucy shushed him, which did the job, much to the two's surprise.
Gray refused to hesitate and went to get help, running as fast as humanly possible.
Erza comforted Lucy. "Don't worry, Lucy. I'm sure Natsu will be fine before you know it." Lucy nodded sadly. "I guess you're right." The celestial mage held onto that bit of hope.
Porlyusica came out of the infirmary. "Will Natsu be alright?" Lucy asked desperately. The woman shook her head, disappointed.
"There was nothing I could do. I'm afraid Natsu will just have to grow up."
Lucy shook violently in denial. "This can't be. THIS CAN'T BE!" Gray and Erza had to hold her in order to prevent her from trying to kill the old lady. "As for Wendy," Porlyusica continued.
"She had lost a great amount of magic from the Troia spell she used to save him. She won't be able to do magic for three years." Charle's hair shadowed her eyes. In the end, Wendy lost most of her magic as well.
The guild member present pitied the team. Macao spoke, "What do we do with Natsu? Someone has to raise him. Who knows that the orphanage might do?"
"I'll do it." Everyone looked at Lucy, whose hair also shadowed her eyes. "I'll take Natsu. Natsu would've wanted it."
Gray looked at her in a slightly doubtful way. "Are you sure? Taking care of someone is a big responsibility for a long time. It's not like the battles we do."
"You believe you can handle it?" Erza asked concerned. Lucy's eyes hardened.
"Believe me. I can handle it."
~~~Six Years Later~~~
"Kumori! You're gonna get it!" Natsu jumped on his friend and began tickling him with no mercy. Kumori was rolling all over the grass.
Juvia, Gray, and Lucy were sitting on a park grass. "I'm glad our son is able to get along with Natsu," said Juvia, seeing how cute it was as Natsu played with the navy blue haired four year old. Gray smiled sadly, holding his wife's hand.
"Remember…?" Gray got quiet as he reminisced how he and Natsu kept fighting, yet they did cared about each other. Juvia had to lightly hit him on the cheek to wake him up. He jolted back into reality.
"S-Sorry honey!"
Lucy chuckled, but also frowned slightly. The first months were just miserable. At first, Lucy couldn't look at Natsu without bawling horribly. She wished that Natsu would just turn back into the Natsu she knew, close to the point she was gonna give him away to the orphanage. As time went on, however, Lucy began to accept the reality and began to be more motherly, no longer wearing skimpy clothes and moved into a slightly bigger apartment so Natsu could have his own room.
Gray whistled. "Kumori! Natsu! Let's go!" Natsu and Kumori stopped messing around.
"Coming Papa/Uncle Gray!" The two boys raced up the hill.
Lucy stood up. "C'mon Natsu. Let's go back to the guild."
"Yay!"
The single mother, along with Gray and Juvia, chuckled at Natsu's excitement. Natsu would always use every opportunity to step into Fairy Tail's walls.
Natsu pushed open the front doors and left his mother, this time visiting Wendy, who recovered her magic and is up and running. Gajeel and Levy (who was pregnant) were with her.
"Hello Natsu-kun. How was your day?"
"Good. HEY!" Gajeel picked up Natsu by the back of his shirt, effortlessly lifting him at face-to-face height. "Put me down!" He began swinging his limbs to escape. Gajeel chuckled until Levy hitted him with her purse and demanded him to put down the kid.
Gajeel reluctantly set him in the floor. "You're a tough kid. Most would end up crying if I picked them up like that." Natsu looked at him with big eyes.
"Don't let that get into your head, kid," Gajeel deadpanned. Natsu chuckled but nodded his head.
"How's your mother, Natsu?" Levy asked.
"Mama's doing fine. When is the baby coming?" Natsu looked at the bump on Levy's belly. "Five months," the soon-to-be mother answered, holding the bump.
"What? That's so long."
"Sorry little man," Gajeel said. "Babies take a while. When you were two, Kumori came after nine months in his mommy's belly."
Natsu blinked, but somewhat understood. Where do babies come from? He stopped thinking about it as the waft of cooked meat from Mirajane took him away.
At the end of the day when Lucy was tucking the boy into bed, Natsu asked the question he wanted to say. "Mama?" he started.
"Yes, sweetie?" Lucy replied.
"Some time ago, Uncle Gray said I was 'adopted' and that I had no parents. Where was I before you became Mama?" At that question, Lucy froze at her tracks and muttered something Natsu didn't hear. "Damn Gray…"
"Look, Natsu-kun. Lucy actually isn't your mother."
"I can't call her Mama?"
"No, that's not what I meant. Unlike Kumori, you are adopted. It means your real parents are not around and Lucy took you. No one knows who your parents were."
"..."
"Lucy still loves you, Natsu."
"Um, okay Uncle Gray."
Lucy stammered a bit. "Well, Natsu. When you were a baby, someone brought you into the guild." She lied "I wanted to take care of you. You used to live in the forest."
Natsu looked at his mother curious, but was satisfied. "Okay. Goodnight Mama."
"I love you. My little summer day." Lucy kissed him on the shoulder and walked out of his room, closing the door behinder her. When she went to the kitchen, she leaned against the wall and slid down.
"Oh, Natsu. Please don't make me lie to you. You're too young to understand." Lucy buried her face into her hands and wept quietly, not wanting to lie anymore. She pulled out a key and unlocked a locked draw she specifically told Natsu to never open for the love of all.
Inside was the Salamander's scarf. She pulled it out and buried her face into the scaly pattern. Lucy kept dreading that one day every time she thought about it.
"One day, Natsu. One day."
So yeah. By the way, Natsu is NOT gonna magically turn back into his original age. He's gonna grow up slowly. Whether or not Natsu will gain his memories is unknown. I do outlines every chapter and I started writing the outline for chapter 2.
If you think Natsu may be growing up a bit fast, I understand. I'll occasionally put flashbacks or little prequel chapters to feed your curiosity of Natsu's new life.
That's all I have to say. I'm sorry for the lack of content.
Sayonara.