Fairy tail's child

Chapter one: secrets

Lucy couldn't help it as she watched Lisanna help out behind the bar as Mira was away, Mira and Erza had been disappearing a lot together lately this seemed to happen a lot some of the fairy tail members would disappear without a mission Lucy had noticed it happening sense she joined it was always like some big Secret too. Gajeel and Juvia had noticed it also so it appeared that only the newest members of Fairy tail were left in the dark when it came to this big secret and no one would tell Lucy when she asked not even Natsu! Juvia had been getting bothered about this also Gajeel certainly wasn't bothered at all the way he figured it, it was one less thing for him to worry about but of course the two women didn't let it drop so easy which he knew meant that he was going to get dragged into something that he wasn't going to be allowed out of until they got what they wanted.
"Levy why won't you tell us" Lucy practically begged her friend as they sat there she wanted to know so badly and no one would say a word, Levy sighed a little putting down her glass of water the two women had been begging her for the past ten minutes to let them know what the big secret was Levy sighed before standing up and heading to the bar for another the two women dragging the dragon slayer with them as they went to follow the script mage
"I'm sorry but if you want to know you'll have to talk to the Master and Gray" Levy said Juvia's eyes lit up with hearts at the thought of having an excuse to speak with the man of her dreams however this confused the other two mages as to why they would have to speak to both Makarov and Gray about it, Lucy, figuring that Gray would be the easiest quickly went to him
"Gray can I ask you an itty bitty favor?" Lucy asked Gray looked at her and sighed
"No you can't know the guild secret" Gray said standing patting her on the shoulder and walking away Lucy glared daggers at his back he hadn't even listened to her! Even though that was exactly what she was going to ask
"Gray you're missing your pants!" she yelled after him Gray swore before quickly running off in an attempt to go find them Lucy muttered a few choice words under her breath Gajeel sighed a little bit
"If you're so curious just follow Natsu tomorrow" Gajeel said Lucy gave Gajeel a curious look not quite understanding how he knew this neither did Juvia
"How do you know to follow Natsu?" They both asked him quietly at the same time causing the iron dragon to chuckle a little bit at the reaction of the two girls as they stared at him in awe
"I was heading to the bathroom my first couple days here and stumbled across a chart in the back room it didn't say what it was for but Natsu is after Mira and her part ends tomorrow" Gajeel explained simply Lucy smiled happily and thanked him before hurrying off the next morning the two women ended up doing the exact thing dragging the iron dragon along with him they followed Natsu and Happy all around town the two stopped at the strangest places first stop was a candy store which wasn't too unusual until Natsu bought three big bags of Candy and he and happy saved the third, then they went into a child's clothing store and bought two dresses a pink one (that kind of matched Natsu's hair) and a blue one, Lily was snickering the whole time they were in there which caused the two women to shush him, and lastly the two went into the toy store again not unusual until they bought a bunch of dolls once their errands were done they headed into the forest the group following after somehow Natsu hadn't noticed them yet at least as far as they knew he hadn't they got to a small little house deep into the forest outside of the town Natsu entered the house
"This is not Natsu's place" Juvia said confused Lucy shook her head this was rather confusing Gajeel sighed knowing they weren't going to let this go, he approached the little house with Lily and went to an open window the two women quickly followed and peered inside Natsu entered the room laying on a small bed in the corner, was a young girl fast asleep, she had pale skin and from they could see she had a rather thin figure most likely from being sick she appeared to be ill she had a cloth draped across her forehead and a flushed face, she had freckles scattered across her cheeks and light red almost orange hair, she wore a white nightgown and was cuddled close to a small purple teddy bear with a green and brown plaid bowtie that was rather worn from years of being plaid with, she was young appearing to be only about four or five years old.
"So the secret is a little girl?" Lucy asked confused instead of clearing things up for the three this kind of just brought up far more questions, was this just some kind of mission that the guild had taken on? Or was this just something more? And who was the child?
"What are you three doing here?" The three all jumped Lucy and Juvia giving a quick shriek of fright and turning to face a not so happy Gray and Erza, they had been caught in the act of spying Natsu quickly came up fists roaring with fire only to see the group he sighed and powered down this was not going to be an easy explanation
"We wanted to see what the big secret was and clearly you weren't going to tell us so we decided to take matters into our own hands" Lucy said Juvia nodded her agreement Gajeel just stayed silent leaning against the wall he didn't have to tell them anything right? Gray sighed doing a bit of a face palm
"So much for the time limit before the secret is brought to new guild members" Gray muttered to himself
"Who is she and what's going on?" Lucy asked glaring
"She's Gray's daughter" Erza suddenly interjected