So I've watched alt of Fairy Tail but because this is always updating im just going to write generic one shots that may lead from one chapter to another but I will let you know which a chapter my link from. Also I'm trying not to have the obvious links to the day prompts so the one you first think is the link might not be it.
Enjoy
Day 1: Aquarius
Laxus was sitting it the s-class balcony of the guild looking out at the surprisingly quiet Guild. Though this might have something to do with the fact that Team Natsu was out on a mission. It always seemed to be much calmer without the most destructive team in the guild.
However, this was also reason that Laxus was restless. When Team Natsu was gone he would spend most of his time at the guild in his office doing paperwork. This was his distraction. It normally took his daughter, Alaula to come and drag him back to the family home every night when Lucy was away.
But this was the day that his wife was coming back from the mission a few towns over. It hadn't been a dangerous job (at least that is what had been made out on the request but with that team, anything was possible) but it was a long one. Lucy and the team had been gone a little over a week.
The request for them to put of stand up 'magic shows' in a different place in the town every morning and afternoon. The Major made the request because he wanted to show good control to help wary town's folk in a wary town more be more expecting of the mages with different kinds of magic.
Laxus knew that Lucy would use a lot of her magic howling off. He knew that she had a lot of magic, using it two time a day for hours for over a week nonstop would trier anyone out. So when he had got sorted out all the guilds paperwork so that when she arrived he could spend the rest of the day with her.
It was while he was watching his oldest daughter serve some of the members their drinks that the guild doors opened. All the heads in the hall turned to see who it was coming in and most had smiles and grins on their faces at who they saw.
"We're back!" Natsu yelled out to the whole hall. Laxus rolled his eyes at the fire mages old habit. But it wasn't long before his eyes searched and landed on the person he really cared about on that team. Lucy had a huge grin on her face as they walked into the guild giving a small high wave to everyone.
"You all behave while we were gone" Lucy called out as she spilt from the group making her way to Alaula who was also smiling at the sight of her mother. It only took a few strides for the two blonds to meet.
"Yo Mum, how was the mission?" Laxus could hear them talk with his dragon slayer enhanced hearing. He didn't make a move towards the group. He knew to let Lucy have a few moments with the guild and then she would make her way to him in her own time.
"It was really good, it seems that we filled what was needed of us, even over heard some of the locals' question why their town didn't have a guild" Lucy told their daughter with a bright smile. "We even found a new young recruit" this caught both Laxus and the rest of the guilds attention.
"Gall, come over here and meet my daughter, Alaula" Lucy turned to a young boy that had been standing behind the group. Laxus thought that he couldn't have been older than 19 with spiky brown hair, almost in the shape of a small lions mane, with brown doe eyes.
Laxus took the time to study the boy that walked towards two of his family members. The kid had grey boots that went just below his knees, tucked in them he had blue splashed patterned shorts. He wore a thick darker grey belt that had the same colours sash leading down from it.
On the kid's top half he wore just a simple hooded sleeveless shirt and a brown rucksack hanging on one shoulder. Laxus could just about see that under the dark grey sash the kid had a special made pocket in the same colour.
This led Laxus to believe that the kid got his magic from wielding rather than inside of himself. Like Lucy with her keys, or Cana with her cards. Looking the boy over Laxus could see that he was a little bit grubby and didn't seem to move in his clothes like he had been in them long.
He avoided going near the side of tables and seemed to look down where he was going. They weren't obvious moves that anyone would normally notice but it did tell Laxus that the clothes were new to him. It also told Laxus something about his background if he was treating his clothes in that way.
"It's nice to meet you, Alaula, your mother has told me a lot about you and your younger sister on our journey here" Gall spoke politely as he raised his hand to shake with her. Alaula looked from her mother to the new comer then put on a smile with a nervous chuckle.
"Oh really sorry about that, I'm afraid that she tends to go off into her own world when she meets someone new to talk about me and Regan, I hope it's just a phase and that she'll grow out of it, but it hasn't happened yet" Alaula said with a nervous chuckle.
"You know how proud mothers can be" Alaula said with a bright smile. Laxus didn't miss the wince in the boy's eyes at the mention of mothers. This told him that the kid had something happen to him that separated him from his mother, probably at a very young age as it wasn't sorrow, but hurt, almost sad.
"it wasn't that bad, parents should be proud of their children, after all they are the ones that should look after and raise them into the people they grow to be" Gall said with what most people would assume was a bright smile, but to others they can tell it was a fake smile. People like him, his wife and his girls.
Laxus choose then to look at Lucy and became puzzled by the look of sadness in her eyes and the sad smile on her face. It was a look that he knew that she was empathic towards the boy. Though the common link of lost parents? No she was empathic but that wasn't just the link the two had.
This new kid intrigued Laxus and so he stood from his seat. The Bickslow and Freed who had been sitting with him on the second floor balcony stood as well. Both looked to their master then to the boy. Laxus didn't pay much attention to them as he made the way towards and down the stairs.
At the sound of movement from the normally silent stairs most turned to watch as their master descend to the hall with a blank expression. Most of the guild had a look of worry on their faces, knowing that it wasn't normally when the master came down to the hall in the day was normally bad news.
The older members of the guild that dint fear him at all (much to his displeasure), watched with puzzled expressions. Knowing that this wasn't his normal behaviour even after not seeing his wife in a while. And he definably almost never interfered with judging new recruits, he left that to his wife.
Laxus ignored the different looks he was getting and walked up to his daughter's side. He would have preferred it to be Lucy's but she was a step behind the reason he was down in the hall. So he settled for his daughter's side instead.
"Laxus! Meet Gall, fairy Tail's newest recruit" Lucy said with a bright smile. Laxus nodded his head, giving off the image that he was studying the boy, but he had already done this.
"Aren't you recruiting a bit young Blondie? This kid can't be more than 17" Laxus teased. It was a white lie as Laxus could tell the boy must have been around 19 but he knew that this was more what people expected him to say. He had to keep up his image of the hard-ass guild master.
"Who you calling Blondie, Sparky" Lucy said, annoyance dripping into her words. Gall looked between confused and slightly worried. Alaula on the other had closed her eyes and shoved down the urge to face-palm at her parents' interaction.
"Hello Master Laxus, my name is Gall Patter" the boy said, giving a low bow. He had heard Lucy talk about her husband but now meeting him in person, Gall can admit that he was terrified him. "I'm actually 20 sir, I met your wife and her team while they were in Pine Town" he said as he straightened up.
"Yes, well you aren't the first Mage she's seen while out on a mission, though you are one of the few that she brings back through the door" Laxus said, no one missing the oblivious cat reference he made to his wife. He crossed his arms and gave Lucy a sideways glance to see the hard look she was giving him.
"Are you being rude because you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning or have you manged to lose your manners in your piles of paperwork upstairs, dear?" Lucy ask coldly, showing just what she thought of her husband's attitude.
If the two had been alone Laxus would have probably given her a smirk at her feisty common. But right now they were in the guild and he couldn't have her show him up. Not taking his eyes of her he release a little of his magic aura out as a show of respect.
Everyone could feel the weight of his power, Alaula had to take a step to the side so as to not be crushed under it. Normally Lucy new that this was a sign for her to back down. However, Laxus had manged to hit the wrong nerve today. She retaliated by releasing some of her own magic.
This stunned the guild. The couple hadn't hand a standoff in almost five years, not since they had disagreed about Regan and if she was old enough to go on a job with Cana and Lisanna. By now team Natsu had moved off to do their own greetings.
Natsu was sitting at a table with Lisanna, Elfman and Evergreen. Gray had moved to the table Juvia was sitting with their youngest son and daughter. Erza was not sitting at the bar, having just order some cake from Mirajane and a soothing tea while Wendy and Carla had gone to sit with her.
However, with the raise of magic power in the air, Evergreen rose from her seat, ready to move to Laxus's side if needed while Team Natsu did the same if Lucy needed it. The two blondes faced each other. Lucy moving to step in front of Gall and Laxus staying planted to his stop on the floor.
"Is that any way to greet your husband after being away for over a week?" was Laxus' only reply to her comment, not backing down from his wife's rising magic. Sensing the magic rising from their key holder Loki, Virgo and Capricorn all opened their gates to stand behind Lucy and Gall.
"Your right it's not, but then is your behaviour any better?" Lucy asked coldly, raising her eyebrow to give Laxus a questioning look.
"I'm not the one summoning spirits because her temper is getting the better of her" Laxus challenged. He wasn't enjoying one minute of this standoff. All he wanted to do was take his wife to his office and hug her close to his chest as they sat enjoying just being with each other, not fighting with her.
Lucy kept the look on her face for only a few more moments before closing her eyes and silently asking her spirits to go back though their gates. The spirits didn't hesitate to follows Lucy's request. They had first hand experience that when the married couple stood off then neither were in any real danger.
"Hey Mira" Lucy called to the barmaid looking away from Laxus, pretending he wasn't even there. "You got the guild stamp to hand?" she asked when she saw the barmaid nob back at her.
"Yeah, right here" Mira called back softly. Like everyone else in the guild, she was a little shocked that Lucy would just back down from the standoff. Laxus had had a smile on his face thinking he had won but that became puzzled by his wife's question.
"Come on Gall, let's get you that emblem" Lucy said turning her attention back to the boy behind her, grabbing his wrist and guiding the shocked boy towards the bar. Laxus stopped releasing his power to turn his head in their direction, a bored look on his face.
"And what if I tell as master he's not good enough for our emblem?" Laxus called out as Lucy took the stamp from Mirajane, loading gold ink already into the stamp from the assortment of ink colours. At the choice of colour, Mirajane's eyes widened before turning to Laxus, telling him to stop with her eyes.
"They I'd tell you you're a Jolt-ass" Lucy said already lifting Gall's hooded top. "That's run out of Lucy Luck" and as she said that she pushed the Fairy Tail emblem stamp onto Gall's right hip. She and Gall had already hand the discussion of where he wanted the crest.
He had even told her that he wanted it to be in gold at a statement to his magic, and now he had it to wear with pride. It was that second that since came over the hall and the only thing that could be heard was the pop of the stamp coming off of Gall's skin, leaving behind a clear shape of the Guild's crest.
"Wear it with pride, Gall Patter" Lucy told him as she handed the stamp back to Mirajane. The barmaid took the stamp back but no one else moved, waiting to find out what Laxus would do next. But he just stood there, clear shock in his eyes but the rest of his face was a blank, bored expression.
"Mirajane, I need a new job for…." The next part of the sentence she said quietly as Lucy lent against the bar top, not wanting people to hear what she was going to say. Mirajane nodded in understanding before handing her a request that she must have been holding on to for her friend.
"Like this?" the barmaid asked handed the blond Celestial Mage the request. Lucy took a few seconds to look it over before nodding her head.
"Prefect, thank you Mirajane, Gall and I will head out straight away" Lucy said before passing Gall the bit of paper and indicating for him to follow her as she walked back over to Laxus and Alaula. Ignoring her husband Lucy wrapped her arms around her oldest child.
"I should only be gone tonight, I'll see you tomorrow" Lucy said before pulling back and kissing her daughter on the forehead.
"Maybe by then your father will have sorted his issues out and be a bit nicer to our new guild mate" Lucy said, still not looking in Laxus's direction.
"Well if he hasn't I can just leave him here tonight to sort himself out on his cold old uncomfortable couch in his office" Alaula said with a laugh before her eyes turned a bit sad. "Do you have to go again, I've missed not having you here" Alaula said as she hugged her mother closer.
"Especially after Regan went on her own mission two days after you left" she said as she released her mother from her hug.
"I'll be back tomorrow evening, I promise and then I can spoil you with something mother daughter time" Lucy said before placing her hands either side of the blonde girl's head bring it pulling it down slightly so she could place a kiss on the top of the girl's head.
The two were about the same size but Lucy still treated her girl as her little baby girl from time to time. She treated both her girls that way, though Regan fought against the treatment more than Alaula did so she did it more to Alaula then Regan, but every child needed their mother/ mother figure.
"Right see you all" Lucy called, turning to give Laxus one more glare.
"Guess we'll see each other when we get back" Gall said reaching out to shake hands with Alaula again.
"Guess so" Alaula said back with a kind smile. "Make sure you have my Mum's back" she said with a playful Smirk. Gall laughed nervously using his other hand to rub the back of his head.
"Pretty sure she's just show everyone that she doesn't need it, but I'll try" Gall said back. It was then his eyes caught sight of the girl's necklace. "I like your necklace, it's the same as the head of my Aquarius Celestial Key" he commented looking at it.
Alaula was shocked for a moment letting go of the boys hand and looking downwards. It was the necklace that her mother gave her on her 13th birthday. She had since put it on a longer chain that ran down almost level with the bottom of her bust.
Gall smiled as he reached into his pocket under his sash and brought out something that shocked all of the older members of the guild apart from team Natsu. Laxus looked at the object and then back to his wife, knowing the whole story behind its meaning to her. The Celestial Golden Zodiac key; Aquarius.
"Come on Gall, I need to see just what you can do as a Celestial Mage to train you" Lucy said with a triumphant smirk towards her husband.
"Yes Mrs Lucy" Gall said putting the key away and rushing toward the blonde woman that was standing right by the guild door causing her to laugh.
"What did I say about just calling me Lucy" she said with a smile as the two walked out the doors having their own conversation. Everyone was silent for a few moments. Confused and puzzled by what had just happened in their guild.
Laxus on the other hand was angry with himself for how he had just argued with his wife over nothing important and not stopped to take in his wife's reasons. He left out a sigh and turned to head back to his empty office but paused in his stride.
"You just made a right ass of yourself dad, I hope you come up with a good way to apologise for that" Alaula said, giving her father a hard look. Laxus let out another sigh.
"I know"
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