Disclaimer: I don't own anyone from the Fairy tail franchise, maybe except for Nashi.

Fear of the flames

It was a fun day at the Fairy tail guild.

It had been a few months since Nashi's very first visit to the guild and ever since her parents had made it a point to bring her there constantly, even if they were still a tad shaken due to Ivan's cowardly kidnapping attempt.

It was a sunny day in Magnolia and everyone was really happy to be spending it indoors since they had decided to spend this sweltering summer day in the guildhall to cool off a bit; they would have gone into the pool but they couldn't due to a few issues with algae somehow swarming in the water and no one wanted to even go near that —no matter how hot it was.

Lucy Heartfilia, wife to Natsu Dragneel, the guild's Celestial wizard, was sat at a table with Levy, Erza, Juvia, Wendy and Carla with her daughter Nashi sat on her lap.

"I can't believe how much Nashi's grown, Lucy!" Levy exclaimed, gesturing to the fidgeting infant on Lucy's knees.

Lucy smiled down at her daughter.

"I know. It seems that she inheriting her father's bottomless pit of a stomach has been a good thing in her case."

The baby girl in question had (indeed) grown quite a bit and had been dressed in a pretty pink dress that had a bit of frumpy lacing, she had even grown in a single fang in her otherwise gummy mouth. She could be nice and sensible at times, like her mother, but also had inherited her father's daredevil streak. She loved her mother and father respectively and loved spending time with them...however, she was growing bored with just sitting on her mother's lap and listening to some boring stuff.

Juvia smiled too, rubbing her stomach which was a bit swollen. She hadn't been pregnant with Gray's child for too long but she was relishing every moment of it and, no matter how horrible she felt at times because of it, she could never be happier then she was to be with the man she loved and then carrying the child of said man.

"I just wonder if my baby will become just as hungry as Nashi?"

Levy nodded in agreement but she couldn't help but give a forlorn sigh as she rested her cheek against her hand. Her brown eyes were very saddened and her blue hair was slightly more wavier than normal and tied up into a ponytail. She sighed with annoyance.

"I'm still trying to hint to Gajeel that I wanna get married and have kids already, we've been dating long enough."

Nashi had finally enough of this.

She was getting more and more bored by the second but Nashi could hear her father's voice coming out the back door and she couldn't keep a large smile off of her face. Perhaps she could go find him and they could have some fun together, he always picked her up and gave her snuggles whenever he saw her. He loved her daddy so much, he always gave her every ounce of love he had.

So, when nobody was looking, the pink-haired infant hopped off of her mother's lap and plopped down to the ground.

Nobody even noticed her as she shuffled off.

Nashi crawled out the front door, giggling and gurgling all the way as she shuffled through the grass of the courtyard that also doubled as the back garden. She was pretty lost amidst the grass and flowers. She wasn't much used to traversing along ground that was not carpet or a stable ground. She could feel the sun on her back and the wild bristle her wisps of salmon pink hair.

Her eyes lit up the second she spotted her father, he had his back turned to her and he obviously hadn't spotted her quite yet as she kept right on crawling through the grass in an effort to reach the grown up pink-haired fire wizard.

As she drew closer and closer to him, she stopped when she noticed something was off.

She stopped gurgling and cooing and just stared at her father in pure confusion.

"Ahhh...?"

Natsu hadn't noticed Nashi and stood in front of Gray with flames licking at his sides and a menacing look fixed upon his face.

The fire wizard's posture was as stiff and he glared (literally) scorching daggers at the ice mage. That wasn't all but fire, as well as lightning, was flaring around him and sparking in the air. It made Natsu's aura all the more electrifying. He gnashed his fangs angrily and his scarf fluttered in the wind as he stood face-to-face with his rival; Gray stood opposite of him with half of his body covered in black markings and light blue smogs of ice steamed from around him as sheers of ice coated the ground around him.

"YOU'LL PAY FOR MAKING FUN OF ME, FROSTY!" Natsu roared, the electricity amplifying his voice.

Without another word, Natsu lunged at Gray with a flaming/electrical fist and punched him square in the face.

The impact caused Gray to fly backwards a few feet or two until he landed on both feet and forcefully dug his heels in the ground to stop himself from skidding further and he scowled darkly at Natsu. He had activated his Demon slayer form but tried to tone his powers down to avoid hurting his friend/brotherly-figure. He didn't even know how Natsu had managed to swallow the electricity from the nearby power lines anyway...let alone mix it with his normal fiery powers.

"Natsu, will you stop this!? I was joking!" The ice-make wizard yelled angrily but calmly, trying to calm Natsu down from his overpowered state, "You need to learn to take a joke, flame brain!"

"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL MEEEEEE!?" He shrieked, clearly even more enraged from earlier.

Gray's face paled.

He clearly made things worse.

"Oh for the love of-!"

Before he could finish what he was about to say, he watched as Natsu leapt high into the air above him and took a deep breath inwards in preparation to launch an attack, unaware of the fact that the small observer a few yards away was beginning to huff and sniffle, opened his mouth and exclaimed powerfully as he watched Gray look up at him with worry and just a twinge of fear.

"LIGHTNING FLAME DRAGON ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!"

He exhumed a huge amount of flames that were covered in live lightning bolts, the sound of his shout caused even the grass to stand on end due to the electricity he was firing from his mouth. He watched with wild jade green eyes as Gray made it so his arm was covered in ice before he blocked the attack with quite a bit of difficulty despite how fluidly he'd done it.

Natsu and Gray kept right on attacking each other since the latter didn't appear to be the slightest bit affected by the barrage of electrifying flames that was just aimed at him and, unbeknownst to them both, however, Nashi had finally had enough and practically exploded into a series of shrieks and cries that mashed together in a bawl so hysterical that one would think that a murder was going on.

Natsu didn't even hear it despite his sensitive sense of hearing.

Nashi started to bawl and cry as loud as her little lungs would allow.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Meanwhile...

Happy had been watching the fight from above with worry.

The blue exceed, in some way, had never liked watching Natsu and Gray fighting so viciously; their quarrels was always humorous (if not a little bit annoying) to the rest of the guild but Natsu had seemed a little bit on edge lately and so was way more prone to lashing out and one "meant-to-be-joking-comment" from Gray later seemed to pop that cork on the unopened bottle that was Natsu's hot-headed temper.

He flapped his wings to keep an arial surveillance on the fight going on below...but then his ear twitched when he heard a sound.

It was a sound that made his stomach clench.

"Nashi?!"

The blue exceed gasped when he flew as fast as he could towards the source of the ear-piercing sound. His mind raced as fast as his pounding heart as he made his way back towards the guildhall because he had a sickening feeling that he knew what had happened. He didn't want to even dare think that he was correct, though, especially since he thought that it would be awful if he was proven correct.

He was.

Needless to say, he was not very thrilled to see that not only had Nashi (whom he considered his little sister) snuck out of the guildhall without anyone noticing but had also witnessed such a frightening scene.

The poor thing.

She must have saw her own father look like some sort of monster.

Nashi was still a bawling mess as she lifted her head up towards the sky and screeched.

The blue anthropomorphic cat landed right in front of the baby, his wings evaporating into thin air as he looked sympathetically at her. He was just a bit taller than she was and he swished his worm-shaped tail as he frowned gently at her as he moved over towards her. He never liked to see his "little sister" cry and even made it a point to take care of her and even rock her to sleep in her crib at night if Natsu and Lucy were either too busy or too tired to do so.

He wanted the best for her, after all.

Happy felt his heart sink when he looked into Nashi's terrified, tear-filled eyes.

"Aww, Nashi." The exceed cooed softly, reaching forwards and making an attempt to scoop her up. He staggered beneath her weight (not too shocking since she was barely any smaller than he was himself) and rubbing her back in a soothing manner with one of his paws, "It's okay, big brother Happy's here..."

Nashi's cries dwindled into whimpers and sobs as she cuddled herself into Happy's azure blue fur.

This was not a good situation. Clearly the baby had seen something she hadn't meant to and, even though she was a baby, she could still remember this for awhile despite her memory not being the best developed due of her young age. She would surely hold on to the fear she had in those moments and she would be very frightened with Natsu.

Maybe he could take her back to Lucy and she could sort things out.

"C'mon, Nashi. I'll take ya back to your mother,"

Happy sighed as he proceeded to activate his Aera magic once again and took to the air with his passenger fast asleep in his arms. He knew that he needed to talk to Lucy about what had happened because this wasn't a good thing to have happened at all —Happy had been raised by Natsu and he was like the father he never had; he couldn't have Nashi being petrified and traumatised by what she witnessed.

He wasn't going to let Nashi be terrified of her own father if he had a say in it.

A/N: Here is the first chapter of my Fathers day fic, I'll hopefully get chapter two out shortly.

I hope you guys like it.

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-Chloemcg