Silver's POV-
It had taken longer than I thought it would to sneak away from my dad in the guild hall (I was only six), but at last I was away and heading toward the secret hide out. It was no surprise to me that my comrades were already gathered in the small clearing in the forest waiting for me.
"Hey Silver," Iggy exclaimed jumping to his feet pounding his fist together. He was ready to go. Iggy was a spitting image of his father Natsu with the energy to match.
"Where have you been?" Touka asked not even bothering to look up at me. She was too busy drawing something in the dirt. She was slowly rolling an iron screw between her teeth, the scraping sound it make made my skin crawl. Touka looked like her father, Gajeel, minus the piercing.
"Dad kept catching me right before I could make a break for the door," I explained. He would always see me and make me come back to my spot beside him.
"My dad was snoring on the couch with Happy so getting away wasn't really too big of a deal," Iggy smiled. He always had such a huge smile on his face. No matter who you were or how he felt that day, he always had a smile for everyone.
"Did you get the magic down?" Touka asked me referring to the ice make spell to freeze the stream.
"I think so," I said timidly glancing over at the stream. It was a fairly wide and looked pretty deep. I had been able to freeze the water in the bathtub last night so I'd assumed the stream wouldn't be too big of a deal. We had been planning for weeks for me to freeze it so we could slide down and into the pond water. It was burning outside, so we figured the icy water would feel good.
"Don't freeze the pond so that we can actually swim in it," Iggy jumped up and down. I had never seen so much energy from one kid.
"Hey where's Simon?" Issei questioned wearing the same bored expression his sister was. Only instead of chewing on a screw he was writing random words in the air. He was a script mage like his mother, but his hand writing was so awful his casts occasionally went all wrong. Issei was the perfect mix of his parents. He practiced the same magic as his mother, Levy, and had her brown eyes. His hair though was black like Gajeel's, Levy made his keep it shorter so it stuck out in random directions.
We all looked around. We hadn't noticed he wasn't there. He was usually so quiet unless he had a witty remark, or we were about to do something really stupid. Simon was always the voice of reason.
"I'm right here," Simon huffed running up, "Sorry dad made me clean my room before I could come outside."
"You're dad lets you go out by yourself?" I asked astonished. My dad always liked to know where I was, and my mom wasn't too fond of me just going into the backyard without her knowing. My mom was obsessive over always knowing where I was and what I was doing. Dad was bad, but he was more laid back and cool with me going off. That day I was supposed to be with him to see my mom when she got back. I had missed her terribly, but I knew she wasn't going to be back for several more hours at least. Dad just liked to hang out at the guild hall.
"Well I'm not alone I'm with you guys," Simon pointed out. Simon favored his father, Jellal, with his blue hair, but he had his mother's personality and love for sweets.
"Clever," Touka rolled her eyes at Simon's response.
"Did you get the make magic down?" Simon asked.
"I think so," I nodded.
"Of course ya did," Iggy patted me on the back, "Silver's the best."
"I wouldn't go that far," I blushed.
"Gihi, let's see it then," Issei slightly started to smile.
Everyone gathered around the edge of the stream where the warm summer water was flowing at a rapid rate. Just like the bathtub, I thought to myself not wanting to look like an idiot in front of my friends. I hoped I could at least freeze a portion of the stream. I mean half would've still been good.
With shaking hands I reached down to touch the surface of the water lightly with my fingertips. I could feel the magic starting to flow through me before I could even start saying the spell. It was always such a rush to use my magic. It would swirl around inside me when I would think about using it. Then, I could feel it starting to build as I started to speak the words. A warm feeling would take over and flow from my hands relieving the pressure.
"Ice make floor," the magic flowed out of my hands in a rush everything the magic touched froze into solid ice. Unfortunately, I had no control over my magic at the time, only my friends knew I could even use magic yet, and I froze the entire stream and the pond solid.
"Ah crap," I face palmed myself.
"It's okay Silver we can still slide down it," Iggy put his hand on my shoulder.
"Or you could just melt the pond portion," Issei pointed out rolling his eyes.
"Oh yeah," Iggy laughed, "Fire dragon roar!"
With that the entire pond thawed as did the stream and set a couple of the surrounding trees on fire. The brilliant flames danced around devouring the summer trees. Their green leaves produced a lot of smoke as the flames grew at a rapid rate.
"Oops," Iggy said in a panicked voice.
"I got it," I used my magic again to bring the water to the trees and put out the fire. That wasn't the first time Iggy had gone overboard and set everything on fire. One time at the guild hall he and Issei had been going at it like always and he'd set the place on fire. Iggy always over did everything. Thankfully my mom, at water mage was there and put out the flames, along with Iggy's dad, Natsu, whom ate the flames.
Issei tried to help me put by using his script magic to produce water, but only a few of the casts actually worked. The more frustrated he got the worst the casts got.
"Overkill man," Simon shook his head at Iggy.
"Not my fault I'm so powerful," Iggy grinned at Simon giving him the thumbs up.
"What are you kids doing here?" an all too familiar voice demanded.
Gray's POV
"So then I noticed the thing wasn't moving anymore so I thought it was dead," Gajeel continued the story of his last solo mission.
I wasn't too interested in it, I was just hanging around because I had promised I would meet Juvia at the guild hall with Silver. Silver always missed her mother when she was away. She wouldn't talk as much, and stayed quiet in her room. It was almost as if she wasn't there either. The little rascal was a spitting image of her mother, aside from her dark gray eyes.
"Hey guys," Natsu called from the door way.
"Hey Salamander," Gajeel greeted Natsu as he walked over to our table.
"Have you guys seen Iggy?" Natsu asked in a hushed voice so Mira and the others wouldn't hear him.
"Did you lose track of him again?" I scoffed. Lucy was going to kill him for sure this time if she got back before he found him. Natsu was notorious for getting distracted and losing Iggy.
"No, he ran off," Natsu exclaimed.
"Gray-sama," Juvia called walking in with the rest of the girls. They had gone into another town for a girl's weekend or something like that. They all wore bright smiles after a whole weekend of rest and no working or taking care of the kids.
"Hey Juvia," I smiled at my wife.
"Hello Gray-sama," Juvia smiled back at me and pecked me on the cheek.
"How was your weekend?" I asked her entwining my fingers with hers'.
"Where's Silver?" Juvia questioned looking around the guild hall.
"She's right-, "I reached under the table where Silver had been sitting to grasp nothing but air. Damn it, she did it again.
Natsu burst into laughter, "You lost Silver!"
"Where's Iggy?" Lucy pointedly asked Natsu.
"Uhh," Natsu scratch the back of his head.
"He lost him again," Happy laughed while floating by with a fish in his mouth.
"Let me guess, all five of them are gone," Erza glared at Jellal. He shrunk under her vicious stare, he almost seemed to disappear behind his scarf once he realized Simon was also missing. I have been on the receiving end of that look before, it is never a good place to be. Jellal was usually the better of us all for keeping up with the kid, ever since he had gotten cleared of his crimes he had been boyfriend, husband and father of the year. Once everyone at the guild had adjusted to having him around he was accepted just like the rest of us.
Then again the look Juvia was currently giving me was making me very uneasy, but I could still see somewhere in her eyes that she was happy to see me. Somewhere deep, deep down…
"So let's go child hunting," Gajeel started to retreat out of the guild hall and away from the death glare Levy was giving him. Levy might've been a tiny thing, but she was a powerful mage and she wasn't the person you wanted to get tangled up with when it involved her kids.
"Good plan," Natsu nodded following quickly after him.
We all followed their lead.
"Any idea where they might be?" Erza asked.
Everyone stopped for a second to think.
"Is that smoke?" Lucy pointed up at the sky.
Well damn.
Silver's POV
"Iggy you idiot you just about caught the whole place on fire," Luna smacked Iggy in the back of the head. Storm, like Iggy, looked like her father with the bubblegum pink hair and bright eyes, but her personality favored Lucy more.
"Ow, you're just jealous I'm so powerful," Iggy stuck his tongue out at his older sister.
"Yeah, that's it," Luna rolled her eyes and lunged for Iggy swinging him up into her arms.
"Hey put me down," Iggy exclaimed thrashing against Luna's hold.
"Not so big and bad are we?" Luna laughed rubbing Iggy's head before setting him back on the ground, "But seriously tone it down on the flames kid."
"You're only four years old ya know," Iggy grumbled. Iggy always hated how Luna upstaged him, but I knew he always looked up to her.
"Mom's supposed to be home today, aren't you supposed to be at the guild waiting for her?" a voice spoke from behind me.
"I was going to be back before she got back," I looked down at the ground.
Storm laughed and patted my head, "I take it Dad doesn't know you're out here?"
"Maybe."
"How about we head back together?" Storm motioned for me to follow him towards the guild hall. I noticed his blue hair was sticking to his forehead and his gray eyes looked exhausted.
"What are you doing out here?" I pointedly asked Storm.
"Practicing magic, now come on," he said.
"Okay big bro," I nodded sighing a little bit. At least with Storm I wouldn't get into trouble. As long as I was with big bro I never got into trouble when I went out.
"Wait, we'll catch up with you guys," Iggy motioned for us to huddle around his and shooed away Storm and Luna.
"Alright just don't take too long," Storm waved as he walked back to the guild.
"So here's the thing," Iggy started, "I want to start a team."
"We can't even go on mission yet and we're not even really in the guild yet," Simon piped in.
"Well not yet," Iggy rolled his eyes, "but I want to have the strongest team in the whole guild!"
"And you're telling us because?" Touka asked biting the screw in half before swallowing it. It always amazed me as to how she did that.
"I want you guys to be on the team, you guys are my best friends after all," Iggy smiled at all of us.
"I'm in," Issei grinned nodding.
"Same," Simon agreed.
"I guess so," Touka sighed.
"Count me in," I nodded.
"So let's all make a promise," Iggy took a step back and stood up straight and put his right hand over his heart, "Come on guys we have to swear to it!"
We all mimicked Iggy as he cleared his throat.
"I promise to one day join the Fairy Tail guild and do everything in my power from this day forth to make the strongest team in Fiore!"
We all recited after Iggy, Touka grumbling the whole time.
"There now no breaking the promise, race you back to the guild," Iggy shouted and took off in the direction of the guild hall.
Quickly, we all chased after Iggy laughing racing back to the guild hall. We didn't make it too far until we literally ran into our parents.