He watched her as he held his large mug of beer in his arm. He leaned back relaxed in the bar with his head cocked to the side and a smirk growing on his face. His dark eyes traveled up and down her smooth movements and body curves. Her dress swam with the wind, her hair ad chest bounced beautifully to the rhythm of her feet and music. Her hips rolled exaggerating every womanly part of her body calling as readiness to be taken, her eyes and smile sparked with a contradiction. Her innocence shined through, giving her a balance of seduction and a girl at play, and he loved it. His fangs sank into his bottom lip as his eyes continued to study the blonde dancing with the crowd. It had been nothing but celebration after celebration since she's made it back to him, and he didn't mind one bit.

"Hey!" a hard smack was given to the back of his pink haired head. Natsu glared at his attacker while rubbing away the pain with a free hand.

"What the hell Gray!?"

"Eyes off my sister you perv!" he growled. He gave him and expression that screamed 'are you fucking kidding me?' . He gestured to the blonde dancing with the other guild girls.

"She's my mate ice princess?"

"I don't give a damn," he looked around the guild, spotting a few more hunters drilling holes into Lucy and the rainwoman with their eyes. The ice mage muscles tensed up in angrier. "I'll be right back..." he gave a growl threw his teeth and marched over to a table in the guild full of lustful men. "Hey jerks!" Natsu pressed his brows together in confusion at the raven haired young man. Why was he so worked up? Natsu gave himself a good inspection of the room. This was not good. He knew the women in his guild were beautiful, but there where two new pieces of eye candy that made the med swirl up with excitement. "Natsu?" a voice or worry crept up on him. He jerked his head over his shoulder to see his foster child gazing up with worried eyes.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah why?"

"You were giving a deep through growl, so I kinda assumed that there was something wrong."

The dragon man returned his attention to the dance floor again, ignoring Happy's sarcastic question. His eyes focused on his mate who twirled the water mage around to the fiddle music. She was his, and his alone. He's claimed her, but has yet to mark her. Mira won't let him, she said that had something to do with giving her a ring and after a nonsense ceremony, she said it was a way to announce to the world that she was unavailable to other men. He thought that it was too much of a hassle, but if would get those looks to stop and Mira off his back he'd do it. He watched as the blonde changed her style of dance from a seductive one to a familiar foot stomping type as the music changed. She linked arms with other guild members and skipped in a large circle around the water mage. She turned to see her mate next to her contactor, she waved them over with smile that he could never resist. The same smile she gave when she became part of the stars, and the same smile gives every night when he or Happy woke screaming. "Nothing's wrong Happy." he finally answered with a large grin. "Come on! It's Juvia's birthday, let's dance!" He grabbed his foster child's paw and dragged him to their partner laughing.

Just before she turned again, the two caught up to the blonde and linked arms joining in on the dancing circle. The fiddle and flute played the loudest out of the band's instruments, Lucy turned the ocean haired maiden with a large grin, she had planned this song to welcome the newest member of her family.

"Merrily we sailed along
Though the waves were plenty strong
Down the twisting river Rhine
Following a song..." her beautiful voice rang throughout the guild blending into the music perfectly.
"Legend's faded storyline
Tried to warn us all
Oh, they called her "Loreley"
Careful or you'll fall..." she eyed an ice mage across the room, he had stopped beating at a few men to listen to her voice, but hearing that line made him want to kill her little sister. He knew he had an...interest, in the legendary water mage. She turned back to the blue woman blushing bashfully at the attention she was getting. At her old guild, she never received so much love and care willingly, since the day she joined the guild, it had been an extraordinary adventure for her, and to celebrate a day she dreaded so much was so strange for her, but it was her family now, and couldn't ask for a better one. She joined in on tNathe rhythmic clapping of the guild and laughed along as Lucy her song.
"Oh, the stories we were told
Quite a vision to behold
Mysteries of the seas in her eyes of gold...
Laying on the silver stone, such a lonely sight
Barnacles become a throne, my poor Loreley..." Lucy and Mira separated themselves from the linked chain dance around the bluenette and made a two person one around her, continuing the song as a duet.
"And the winds would cry, and many men would die
And all the waves would bow down to the Loreley...
And the winds would cry, and many men would die
And all the waves would bow down to the Loreley..." They twirled around her and gave a royal bow before they continued their dancing and kicking around the guild

It was a very joyful day, and a good memory he held on to like may others. It was hard to tell what were his dreams and what where his memories and nightmares. He took a look around, the grin on his face fell. Everything was familiar, but he wasn't in the guild anymore. He felt the floor suddenly on his back, and how everything was once night becoming morning. The pinkette moaned blinking his eyes awake. He patted the cold empty gap behind him in search of the mans warmth. "Dad..." he moaned. "Stop hogging the blanket..." he turned around to reach for it, his tired eyes, half open and gazing around in search for the thick blanket. "Dad?" he blinked his eyes, trying to wake up from his sleepy gaze. His fathers body was missing. Natsu shrugged it off, he was probably outside hunting again. He wrapped his large scarf around his neck and crawled out of the tent, flinching at the sudden bright light. "Dad!" he called out jerking his head left and right. He looked for signs of a man with a darker rose like hair or for a large blood red dragon with white belly. Nothing but trees an the small pond where they set up camp, but everything was destroyed. Some of the trees where torn down and knocked over, some with blood stains and the water tainted with something that didn't look drinkable. He walked around the small tent cling out for him again. I was still silent... He lifted his nose in the air searching for the sent of fire works.

Nothing.

"Dad?!" he called again a bit more panicky. He ran a few yards away shaking his head left and right looking. "DAD!" He knew something was wrong, he could feel it in his gut. There was a fight, and his father must have been around somewhere. "DAAAADDDD!" he cried out in horror. If something had happened to him he wouldn't know what to do. What if he was hurt? What if he was dead? No! No! NO! NO! "DAAAADDDDD!" he felt his chest rise up and down faster and faster, the forest trees becoming bigger and taller than him and everything caving. Hot tears bled out of his dark eyes. "DAAADDDDD! DAAADDDD!"

"Natsu what's wrong?"

He truned around to see a blonde child with large honey brown eyes and a princess ball room dress in pink. "Lucy, Have you seen Igneel."

"No, maybe he's up in the stars." she looked up, so did he. The sky wasn't sunny anymore, it was dark with bright white and gold diomonds shining brightly. "Don't worry, I'll get him for you." Confused Natsu looked back at the girl. She was hovering up into the sky and glowing a bright gold color, dissolving into pixie dust.

"Lucy NO!"

Lucy woke to his screams and violate shakes. She turned over her shoulder, Natsu was kicking and screaming, his veins where highly visible on his forehead. "Natsu!" she called out. Immediately she turned him on his side and wrapped herself on his back with her arms on his chest and her legs trying to pin down his, his skin was hot and boiling, but she didn't care. He was having another night terror and she needed to calm him down. "Natsu!" she yelled over his screams. "It's okay! Wake up! Wake Up!" He shot his red puffy eyes open in s blood shot. He gasped for air and looked around the dark midnight room. He was in his house, Happy by his side, and someone holding him. He jerked turning to see his beautiful blonde mate with large worried eyes. He glanced at his exceed and back at Lucy. is face began breaking down to long hard sobs. Lucy crested his cheek, sat up and led his face on to her lap. He cried loudly wrapping his arms around her slim waist, burying his face into her torso. She stroked her fingers through his spiky salmon locks. "Shhhh... It's okay" she whispered. "It's just a dream."

"I-I... I couldn't... find him!" he cried between sobs. She sighed He had another night mare. No, not a nightmare, a memory. It was like that for a while, last week it was a nightmare about her 'dying' with Happy, the week before she was crying over Lisanna's bloody body in her arms, and now it was Natsu... and he had just finished dreaming about her death too. She turned to the little worried exceed on her side and extended her arm inviting him into the embrace. Happy adjusted himself on Lucy's gap between the bed head, her waist and Natsu's burning body and curled up into a ball.

"Just close your eyes The sun is going down." she sang softly. It was the only way to calm him down completely. "You'll be alright. No one can hurt you now, come morning light, You'll be safe and.. Sound." she hummed the rest of the tune still caressing his scalp. Natsu's breathing eased to a calm and slow beat.. She continued to hum in a sweet manner and loving manner, until she heard soft purrs and snores from her two favorite boys. "We'll find him...don't worry.."

He jerked his head off the pillow, his dark forest eyes looking around the room, and falling to the empty space on his bed. Their bed. His hear raced, she was back, he knew she was. She's been back for weeks now, but he still skipped a beat when ever she'd wake before him. He'd lost his father, and her, he couldn't lose her a second time. Sweet tune of humming tickled his sharp ear senses, Natsu flung the sheets off his bed and hurried to the source. He made his way down the hall of his cottage to the kitchen to see a young gypsy maiden with long gold locks tied out of her face and an exceed hovering over her as she cooked over a fire. She looked over her shoulder with bright honey gold eyes. The couple an exceed had moved into his little cottage in the forest after she returned from the spirit world, and the castle was named the official Fairy Tail Guild, she didn't want to go back to their old room on the highest room of the tallest tower, she wanted to star fresh. It's not every day you 'come back from the dead'. "Good morning." she cheered with her infamous smile.

"Morning..." he muttered as he took his seat on the table behind her. He picked at the wood waiting for her to ask about the dream, but she couldn't bring herself to do that. She knew how it felt to wake up with hot sweat on your face and throat hurting do to screaming, not to mention the pain of remembering it over and over when some one asked. She could still see the image of her little sister's blood staining her cloths as it oozed out of her. She didn't dare bring up something as painful as losing someone you love. She turned around with a large plate of cooked eggs and meats along with s mug filled with honeyed tea and set it on the table in front of her partner. She pecked him gently on the forehead, with out hesitation, the pinkette grabbed her arm and pulled her in closer to him, smacking his lips hard on hers. The burned her skin, but she loved it. It was some thing they rarely did, and every time she would want more, but held herself back. Mira and Erza had ha stick talk to her about lady manners. Her eyes widen in surprise when he finally let go. "Um..."

"Sorry. Just need to make sure."

"O-okay..."

So the dream was worst than she thought... The dragon man stared at the tower of food, not in with his usual gluttonous gleam in his eyes, but blankly. He didn't feel like eating, not at the moment at least. "Natsu...?" she squeaked softly. "You okay?"

"Can we just stay home." he turned to her with a serious hard look, his eyes had a small glint sparking with fear. "Please?" he pleaded. Lucy turned to the exceed next to her with her brows knitted together. They made a deal with the rest of the team to leave on an adventure to look for a lost dragon, but since the day she came back, he had been different, all he ever wanted to do was stay in with them. She didn't quite understand, but Happy did. She'd been gone for so long, and they missed her so much, all they wanted was to be with her and only her. As selfish as it was, he needed it, just for a bit longer until he felt like he could share her with the rest of the guild again. The two looked back at the male and nodded slowly. Without another word he took their hands and led them back to their room and to the bed.

Lucy laid back down on her side with Natsu across from her, and Happy in the middle as always. The only difference being is that they faced each other, and their legs interlocked with one another, foreheads touching and being close. Happy curled in a small ball with his fish still in his mouth am nomming on it quietly. She giggled at the blue cat and looked up to meet Natsu's eyes. They still flickered in fear. "Can you sing...please?"

"Of course." she smiled softly. "What song?"

"A-anything. Just...let me know you're still here..."

She blinked, taken back by his words. "Um o-okay..." she bit her lip, her mind fiddled with every tune she knew trying to find the right song for him.

"When all the world is spinning around like a red balloon, way up in the clouds" she began, she gazed hard into his eyes looking for approval. "and my feet will not stay on the ground," she placed her hand on his cheek, rubbing her thumb back and forward on his cheekbone. "you anchor me back down...". He smiled at her widely. He didn't like the icky lovey stuff, usually cause Happy would tease him for it but right now, it was perfect. Everything he needed was on that bed with him. And it's all a dragon could ask for in his nest.

"I am nearly world renowned
As a restless soul who always skips town
But I look for you to come around
And anchor me back down " she swallowed the ball in her throat as memories of stones and cruel words filled her mind.

"There are those who think that I'm strange
They would box me up and tell me to change
But you hold me close and softly say
That you wouldn't have me any other way

When people pin me as a clown
You behave as though I'm wearing a crown
When I'm lost I feel so very found
When you anchor me back down ..." he brushed her long golden locks behind her ear, and traveled it down to reflect her hand on him. "Thank you..." he muttered. It had been nearly a month... but the pain has not changed. He couldn't lose her. Nor Happy. Not them, not again.

"Promise you won't ever leave us again..."

"I have a deal with-"

"I'll go with you."

"Natsu I don't know how-"

"JUST-!" he took a deep breath calming himself. "jus promise me. Please..."

The blonde swallowed hard, as a spirit, she could never make promises she couldn't keep. She could never lie, not once. It was not programed in her character. But this time..."I promise." ...she needed to make an acceptation. They shut their eyes for a moment, letting the fact that they where alive, well, and healthy sink in...

"No.." her voice cracked weakly over the man's body. His scales sinked into his tan skin bending into a dark red oak color. She lifted his cut up neck, trying her best from keeping the blood gushing out of it She felt useless. She WAS useless. The blonde didn't have the other sky mages to help her this time, nor could she preform a healing spell on her own without Wendy. He was going to dye, and she couldn't do anything about it but watch. "You promised..." she sniffed. Her body shook violently, her fist cling on to him like a life force, her honey-brown eyes swollen with tears making them leak down to her chin. "you said we'd have more adventures!" she shouted furiously at him. This is what Natsu must have felt when she was disappearing, how angry and crushed her chest was as she saw the light in his dark eyes fading fast. She combed her fingers threw his dark rose locks as she choked on the lump forming in her throat. "You promised!"

"I..m...sor...ry..."

A/N: Yeah I know, how cheesy can you get? but anyway, this is the first chapter to the sequel, don't worry, this it's not as cheesy or as lovey-dovey later on (I know I don't usually write like that, I think I'm better at comedy...maybe?). Unless you want it to be, its up to you. Please review and tell me what you think, and I'll have the other one up as soon as I can. Please don't kill me if it's not what you expected...

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