A/N: E: Hey guys! So this is the long-awaited pairing of myself and Anabelle Blake. This is a continuation of her amazing stories Dragon's Heart and Key to my Heart. For those of you who have read both stories, this is kind of like a different version of Warm My Heart (a very different version). Anabelle's OC's will be featured heavily in this story, so I recommend reading DH and KtmH first, especially because they're amazing!

A: I hope you have as much fun reading this chapter as Emma and I've had while writing it. Enjoy my lovelies!

Part 1: The Ice Bitch

"Hey guys, did you hear about the new girl?" Natsu asked as he joined Lucy, Erza, Kaia, and Gray where they were sitting in the guild hall.

"There's a new girl?" Kaia asked interestedly, looking around as though hoping to spot a new face in the crowd.

"Yeah, Mira said she just joined this morning," Natsu continued as he took a seat. "Apparently she got her guild mark, took a look at the Request Board, grabbed a job and took off. I don't know what her name is yet."

"That's too bad, I would have liked to welcome her to FairyTail," Lucy said regretfully. No later had the words left her mouth when the doors burst open to reveal a fierce looking girl none of them had ever seen before. Her hair was long, ice blonde and pushed over her left shoulder, though her bangs were falling into her face. Her eyes had a hard glint to them, and from what Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Kaia, and Gray could see, they almost looked pitch black. Though the weather was freezing, being one of the coldest winters Fiore had seen in recent memory, she was dressed in a jeans shorts and a belly shirt. Most peculiar of all was a thin, silver circlet she wore around her head. Dangling from this circlet was a beautiful silver pendant that looked like a six pointed star.

"There's your new girl for you," Erza stated obviously. The girl seemed oblivious to any of the stares she was receiving and walked straight up to Mira, and ordered a cup full of crushed ice.

"Well, I'm going to go talk to her," Lucy said confidently, and marched straight up to the girl. Natsu, Kaia, and Erza followed. Now that they were closer, they could see that her eyes were actually a very dark brown instead of black. "Hi, and welcome to FairyTail! My name's Lucy," Lucy exclaimed once the group had reached their destination.

The girl tipped more ice into her mouth before addressing Lucy. "Lavinia," she answered.

"Um, what?" Natsu asked, confused.

"My name's Lavinia," Lavinia repeated before dumping more ice in her mouth.

"I can't believe you already finished a job," Mira said, suddenly joining the conversation. Lavinia just shrugged.

"It was just helping a farmer clear away some snow for his crops," she said between gulps of ice. Lucy was starting to compare her ice intake to Cana's alcohol consumption. "I just needed the quick, easy money to find a place to stay before I could save up enough to buy or rent an apartment."

"Well, why don't you just stay with me and Natsu?" Kaia offered. Natsu gave his wife a confused look, but Kaia just placated him with a pat to the head. "That way you don't have to worry about wasting your money on a new hotel room every night." Lavinia gave Kaia a puzzled look.

"You would do that for me? You aren't worried that I would cause unneeded trouble?" she asked in a surprisingly venerable sounding voice.

"Of course! That's what fellow guild members are for," Kaia assured Lavinia. "It's no trouble at all. In fact, why don't you come with us on our next job?"

A small smile appeared on Lavinia's lips. "I'd like that," she told Kaia.

"All right!" Natsu exclaimed. "Be prepared to witness the power of the strongest team in the guild! I'm Natsu by the way, and that's Erza," he said, pointed out the warrior.

"And Gray is the other member of our te-GRAY WHY ARE YOU STILL OVER THERE?!" Lucy yelled upon seeing that Gray was still at the table they were originally sitting at. Only now did his fellow guild members realize that he was staring at Lavinia, never once taking his eyes off her.

"Does he always go around shirtless?" Lavinia asked, clearly confused. Lucy groaned as the guild once again found Gray without a shirt on.

"Gray fantasizes about being a stripper," Natsu proclaimed loud enough for the Ice Mage to hear. That seemed to snap Gray out of his daydream.

"What did you say you squinty-eyed bastard!?" Gray growled as he ran up and hit his forehead against Natsu's, a bright icy blue aura surrounding him. Natsu glared back at him as an orange aura flared up around the pink haired Slayer.

"What, your hearing going out in your old age you droopy-eyed snowball!?" he growled, pushing his forehead back at Gray's.

"That's enough you two." Surprisingly it was Kaia who said it instead of Erza as she pushed them each to her arm's length. "I already have enough pregnant hormones and mood swings and I don't wanna deal with you guys' PMSing at each other," she huffed. Natsu lost his fire and looked at her in concern.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"No, I want Tessa to come back to the flipping guild and help me with my back again but I'm too far pregnant," she pouted.

"Sorry, I can call Loke and he can get her and see if she has any other remedies," Lucy offered.

"Yes please," Kaia smiled.

"Alright." The blonde nodded and then took Leo's key off of her key ring. "Open! Gate of the Lion, Leo!" she called as she slashed a cross in the air with her key. It took a couple seconds longer but Loke appeared before her, his hair a little messy and his suit disheveled.

"What have you been up to?" Kaia giggled, knowing the rumpled look all too well from when her and Natsu had a quick round of fun.

"Nothing much," he shrugged evasively. "What did you need, I was kind of busy?" he asked Lucy.

"I thought you just said you weren't really up to anything?" the blonde accused.

"Well yeah, I was busy relaxing and hanging out with some people," he shrugged casually.

"Would one of those people happen to be Tessa, if so go back and bring her here 'cause my back is killing me. Oh and by the way, this is another new guild member Lavinia," Kaia said hastily.

Lavinia, who had been watching the whole interaction take place with a quiet amusement (while downing several more cups of ice in the process), inclined her head to Loke when she was introduced. Loke said hello to her, and then quickly left to fetch Tessa.

"Well, that was kind of weird," Gray remarked. "Usually he would have flirted with Lavinia instead of just saying hello." Lavinia gave him a weird look, which Gray couldn't understand.

"You do realize you just took your pants off, don't you?" she asked. The Ice Mage blushed and quickly went to retrieve his clothes.

Loke came back empty handed. "I couldn't find her, sorry," he frowned, looking concerned about something.

"That's okay I guess…. I'll just go sit down," Kaia pouted. Loke nodded and then said goodbye to everyone. He acted like he was going to vanish but then turned back around as though he suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, by the way Lucy," he started, and then lightly smacked her butt. Lucy immediately screamed at him.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" she screeched, rounding on Loke. He held up his hands in surrender, claiming that Tessa told him to do it. With this new information, it took Kaia and Erza a good five minutes to calm Lucy down.

"Wait! I thought you said you couldn't find her!" Lucy accused. "You're just trying to blame Tessa for your perverted tendencies!"

"W- no! I mean- she- I- we-…." Everyone gaped; was the lion spirit blushing?

"You were with her before you came here weren't you?" Kaia asked calmly. He reluctantly nodded. "And you found her, she just wasn't decent huh?" She giggled this time.

"No! Wait, I mean-…. Oh forget it," he grumbled. "We were just hanging out and talking and then when I got back she was gone," he shrugged.

"How was she gone?"

"Uh… She left….." he said slowly.

"That quickly?"

"Yeah I guess," he shrugged. "Well I'm off now that I did everything I needed to," with that he vanished while Lucy started screaming again as he poofed back into his world.

"Well, now that that's all over, we should go see if there are any jobs that we want to do," Natsu said as he hurried over to the request board.

"Hey, how about we do an S-Class quest, they pay better money so we each get a bigger cut," Lucy suggested, forgetting about Loke for a moment.

"I don't know if that would be the best idea since Lavinia just start-" Erza began, but the new girl cut her off.

"I'm sure I can manage," Lavinia assured them. "I've been in dangerous situations before, and besides, how many of you are S-Class?" The entire group confirmed Lavinia of their elite status. "If we have five S-Class wizards, I'm sure that there wouldn't be any reason that I wouldn't be able to cope," she finished.

"Well, there would only be four," Kaia grumbled. Lavinia gave her a questioning look. "I can't take any missions," she explained while rubbing her swollen belly.

"Oh yeah," Natsu muttered. "I should sit this one out too, guys," he said, coming back over and putting his hand over Kaia's on her stomach.

"Natsu, we need the money to keep up with our eating habits," Kaia reminded him.

"Don't you mean flame-brain's eating habits?" Gray questioned.

"No, I'm eating for two Gray. And on top of that I usually eat enough food to rival Natsu when I'm eating just for me," she reminded him.

"Oh…. Right…" Gray muttered looking down at her stomach awkwardly.

"If you hadn't broken up with Juvia you could be starting a family right now too," she teased. He actually blushed and glared at her.

"It didn't work out, you know that," he grumbled.

"Only because you can't hold on to your women, Ice Princess," Natsu teased.

"You wanna go, fire-breath?" Gray growled, standing up abruptly.

"Bring it on, you droopy-eyed stripper!" Natsu yelled, now face-to-face with Gray.

"ENOUGH!" someone yelled. Both boys sweat-dropped as they stared at Lavinia, who had risen from her seat and was glaring at the two. "If you two keep doing this, I'm only going to go on missions with Erza and Lucy. Both of you better behave, because I'm not afraid to kick both of your butts." Neither Gray nor Natsu had any words as Lavinia stared them down. They quickly took their seats again, shamed to silence.

"I like this girl!" Lucy, Kaia, and Erza said at the same time. "She doesn't take any crap, not even from those two!" Kaia added. Lavinia gave the bluenette a wry smile.

"Well, if it's alright with you, Kaia, would you mind showing me where you live, so I can settle in without disturbing the two of you? You're sure this is okay?" Lavinia asked.

"Of course, it's no problem," Kaia said in a friendly way. "Come on let's go! You guys choose a mission," she called back to the remaining members of her usual team before leaving the guild hall with Lavinia. Lucy, Erza, and even Natsu noticed that Gray followed Lavinia with his eyes until she was out of sight.

"Well, how about I go pick a job for us," Lucy said, trying desperately to diffuse the awkward situation that still hung in the air. She hurried upstairs to check out the requests. One of them immediately caught her eye, so she brought it back downstairs to see what Erza, Gray, and Natsu thought of the mission.

"Hey guys, what about this one?" Lucy asked, laying the paper out between them. It was a request to take out a monster that was wreaking havoc in a faraway village. "It shouldn't be too hard, we've done things like this before," Lucy reasoned.

"Still, it has to be a pretty powerful monster to be S-Class," Erza said thoughtfully. She wondered what kind of monster it would be, and what kind of magic would be best used to defeat it. "It's a good thing we have so many different types of mages going with us, the flyer is pretty vague."

"Ah crap," Gray suddenly muttered from his seat. All heads turned to him. "We have no idea what Lavinia's powers are," he reminded his team.

"I'll ask when I head home later," Natsu said. "You would notice that though, Ice Princess," he chortled, addressing Gray.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Gray snapped, instantly getting defensive.

"Oh, nothing," Natsu taunted coyly. "Just the fact that we all noticed how you were staring at her. Although that could have been the fact that she was eating ice-" the Slayer didn't get another word out as Gray began shouting at him, and before long they were in a scuffle. Erza sighed in exasperation before breaking them apart.

Behind the counter, Mira chuckled. Just another normal day at the guild, she thought happily to herself.

She would have no idea how wrong she was.

~TMH~

"Well, here it is," Kaia said, her arm outstretched as if showcasing her house. Lavinia stepped inside carefully, not wanting to disturb anything. She noticed that half of the room looked like it had been scrupulously cleaned, and the other half was an absolute mess. "I'm so sorry about the state of this place," Kaia apologized, also noticing the mess. "Natsu wouldn't know what clean was if it bit him in the butt."

Lavinia let out one dry chuckle. "I don't mind," she assured Kaia. "I've slept in much less pleasant places before, trust me." Kaia waited a minute, but Lavinia didn't continue, so the bluenette didn't pry.

"Would you rather sleep on the bed with me?" Kaia asked. "I can always kick Natsu to the couch."

"I'm already intruding on your hospitality, I insist I take the couch," Lavinia said rather forcefully. Kaia shrugged, knowing that she wouldn't be able to change the platinum blonde's mind. Instead she grabbed a few of the spare blankets and began arranging a bed for Lavinia on the large couch.

It wasn't long before Natsu came home. Happy and Rose were with him. "So Lavinia, we decided that we were gonna take on a beast that is ravaging some village. It's gonna be awesome!" he exclaimed overexcitedly. "By the way, what's your power?" he suddenly asked.

"I'm a Frost God-Slayer," Lavinia answered, acting as if she didn't just reveal that she knew one of the most ancient and powerful, not to mention extremely rare, types of magic.

"Woah," Kaia muttered. "That's some powerful magic right there."

"But not as awesome as being a Dragon Slayer!" Natsu proclaimed. "I'm a fire Dragon Slayer, and Kaia is a water and ice Dragon Slayer. Lucy uses Celestial Magic, Erza uses Requip Magic, and Gray uses Ice-Make Magic. Oh! Just wait until he figures out that you also use a form of Ice Magic! Ha, he's gonna go insane!" Lavinia simply stared at Natsu, one eyebrow raised slightly as he went over the numerous ways he could torture Gray with this new information. However, when Natsu had mentioned that he practiced fire magic, Kaia thought she saw a look of uncertainty and maybe even fear flicker over the blonde's harsh features. But the look was so quick that the bluenette thought she might have imagined it. Now, the only emotion that could be read on Lavinia's face was utter confusion while Natsu kept talking.

Kaia noticed the girl's confusion. "So, anyway, why were you eating so much ice back at the guild? Gray usually has a really cold body temperature, so wouldn't you too?"

Lavinia shook her head. "I feel heat more than most people," she muttered. "I prefer to keep myself on the cooler side. It's much more comfortable for me."

"Oh in that case do you need more ice? If so I can totally make however much you need, please say yes. You're really be helping me out," Kaia smiled.

"I usually have around thirty cups a day, if I'm at a place where I'm able to have that much. Why would it be helping you out?" the blonde inquired.

"Oh I keep forgetting that you're brand new to the guild,' Kaia said sheepishly as she rubbed one of her arms. "I have too much magic power for my body to really contain. It tends to…. Uh….-"

"It's basically eroding her from the inside out. So any amount of magic she can get rid of is welcomed," Rose cut in.

"Well, in that case, I'd like a glass of ice," Lavinia immediately said. Kaia smiled and immediately grabbed a cup and filled it with crushed ice. Lavinia took it gratefully and starting dumping the ice down her throat like she hadn't had anything to drink in days.

"So, when do we leave for the mission?" the blonde asked Natsu between gulps of ice. Natsu, who had been staring at her swallow the ice whole in shock, quickly shook his head and answered that they would leave on the morrow. "Good," Lavinia answered, holding her now empty cup out for more ice, which Kaia happily supplied. "I hate just sitting around doing nothing. Not that I don't appreciate you letting me stay here for a while."

"Well, we're happy to have you stay here as long as you need to," Kaia assured. The three of them talked for a while longer, until the sun had long set over the horizon. Since the baby made Kaia much more tired than usual, she went to bed pretty early. To Natsu's surprise, Lavinia followed suit. She dragged herself over to the couch, selected the thinnest blanket Kaia had laid out, and fell asleep almost immediately.

Pumped for the mission the next day, Natsu stayed up a bit longer, talking to Happy, but soon enough he joined his wife in their bed. He wasn't aware of the tossing and turning of the woman on his couch, as she felt as if she was literally on fire.

A/N: A: So fun times in the first chapter. Looks like somebody's crushing hard!

E: This collaboration is absolute genius. Anabelle and I have many more surprises in store for you, and the first of which is that the second chapter will be out later today. I hope you liked the first little bit of this story, and don't forget to review!