Here is the start of my drabbles of One Shots for Fairy Tail.
"No momm, you can't do thaat." Nashi stretched out. Why couldn't her mom just get it right?
"What do you mean? It's always like this." Lucy was baffled on the other hand.
"No, what happens is this." Nashi reached over and picked up the dragon before picking up the princess. "The dragon saves the princess from the evil Knight that has her locked up in his castle."
"But Nashi-" Lucy started before being cut off by her four and a half year old.
"No." What about no did her mom not understand? Nashi just told mom how it's supposed to be, what's so hard about that to get? "The knight is always the bad guy. The dragon is the nice one who takes care of the princess no matter what."
"I see." Thanks, Natsu. Lucy knew this was the doing of her husband. Her own dragon that she had married had twisted one of the most common fairy tale stereotypes to fit his thoughts. "Last time we played this, I thought the knight was the nice guy. What happened to that?"
Nashi paused for half a second. "Well that's obvious mommy. He tried to kill the dragon." She looked up at Lucy, making her pink pigtails bounce. "The princess never wanted the dragon to be hurt." She looked back down at the toy's, beginning to animate them. "She just really wanted some friends."
Lucy looked at her daughter, feeling her heart swell. She leaned in and hugged her daughter, who complained at the sudden inability to play with the dragon and the knight. "You're so smart, you know that Nashi?"
"Yea!...Mom?"
"Yes honey?"
"Can I keep playing now?"
Lucy sighed and let the embrace go. "Yes, I suppose you can."
The door slammed from the front door of the small house and Nashi's eye's lit up. "Daddy's home!" She bounced up and away as fast as her small four year old legs could carry her, dragon action figure in hand.
The action figure had been a gift from none other than her father. They were part of the gift shop extension that happened recently at the guild. Each Dragon Slayer already had their own action figure that came accompanied with their Exceed companion. After everyone had seen the dragons during the battle with Tartaros, they decided it would be appropriate to make action figures of each Dragon Slayer's parent. The figure Nashi carried down the stairs was none other than the Flame Dragon King, her grandfather, Igneel.
"Hey Nash! You got grampa with you, huh?" Natsu already had the stubby legged, little girl around his neck sideways. "How's he doing?"
"He's happy, he was having trouble fighting off a Knight while saving the princess!" Then she whispered into her father's ear. "Thats because of mom though. Don't tell her I said that."
"Oh is it?" Natsu looked at his daughter sideways, grinning. "Are you saying that you like that Ice-Brain's boy, Tret?" Natsu clearly just needed to tease Nashi.
"What's this?" Lucy called down from upstairs.
"Nashi's in loooooveee!" Happy giggled from where he floated next to Natsu and Nashi.
"Wha-Daaad!" Nashi hollered, bopping his forehead with her small hand. "Don't say that! Me and Puddles don't like each other!"
Lucy grinned down from the top floor, her hair framing her face as she looked down as the argument continued. "Puddles? Is that you're nick name for him?"
"Mooooommmmy! Don't be silly, he's yucky." Nashi wriggled on her dad's shoulders, who was now walking up the stairs. "I think he likes Mikaela."
Natsu glanced at Lucy with a goofy grin. Jellal's and Erza's eldest daughter, Mikaela was six, the same age as Tret. She was a spirited user of Heavenly Body Magic. Tret, with his nickname being 'Puddles,' had inherited his mothers Water Magic as his strongest. "Is that so? Have you told Mikaela?"
"I don't really talk to her. She's a little scary." Nashi quietly said and stopped moving as she gave up in her fathers grasp. It was true. Mikaela had inherited her fathers magic but her mother's behavior traits. Apparently, those traits made her quite the well behaved child. Most of the time.
"Nashi," Lucy cooed. "It's time for bed."
Nashi, of course, crossed the little arms over her chest and let out a weak 'hmph.' "But I didn't get to finish plaaayingg."
Natsu handed her over to her mother. "I'll play with you tomorrow and we can finish the game then. OK?" He poked her nose while she was in Lucy's arms, his grin big and wide."
Nashi's eyes lit up at the prospect of her dad playing games. He was so much fun! He made real fire come out of the little dragon! Daddy made a good dragon. Some times too good. "OK! But, I get to be the dragon!" She squirmed out of Lucy's arms before sped off to her room as fast as her toddler legs could carry her.
Natsu's eyes fell at that comment as his own inner child poked through, more than usual. "But the dragon is the best part..." He looked at Lucy who just giggled at the two. "...she can't even make real fire come out of it."
"You better not be setting her toys on fire, Natsu."
"Don't worry, they're fine...Except for the last one. The face melted. The one before that, his tail melted.-"
"Natsu..."
"-And the one before that, well that one melted entirely."
"...Have you been spoiling our daughter?"
Natsu walked into the master bedroom, Lucy close behind. "Actually, it's the best way for her to know her grandpa. Practically a real dragon, plus I get to tell her what he was like."
Lucy looked at Natsu as he sat down on the bed. When she looked behind her, back down the hallway, she saw her baby, Nashi, emerge from the bathroom where she had brushed her teeth, and waddle her PJ covered body back to her room and shut the door. "I'm going to say good night to Nashi," she told Natsu. "I'll be right back."
"Nashi?" She peeked into the dark room. "Are you already for bed?"
"Yup." Came the small reply.
"Would you like your night light?"
"Yes, please."
Lucy walked over to the bed and crouched down next to it. She flipped the switch and the red dragon the size of a water bottle illuminated. Another gift from her fire breathing father. "Time to tuck you in." She put a hand on each side of her daughter before tucking the blanket underneath her all the way from her shoulders to her toes. "Tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck." Then she began tickling Nashi, immediately giggles erupted from the room.
"What's going on in here?" Natsu peeked his head in. "Tickle?" He locked onto Nashi, waving his fingers. "Are we tickling Nashi?" He asked, causing Happy to laugh behind him.
"Ooooh, Nashi, you gonna get it!" The blue Exceed said.
After a couple minutes had passed, Nashi had laughed all the energy out of her body and both Natsu and Lucy kissed their daughter goodnight and left the room as the warm red glow from the dragon light covered the room.
As Natsu and Lucy laid in bed soon after, Lucy rolled over, facing him. "Natsu?"
"Yea, Luce?"
"What do you think of Nashi?"
"Wha-" He faced her now. "What kind of question is that? I love her. Duh."
"Have you thought about wanting, I don't know..." Lucy dragged it out.
"Wanting what Luce, I have no idea what the heck you're talking about."
Lucy squished closer to the very warm body of the Dragon Slayer. "Do you want to have another kid? Maybe we can get a son this time."
Natsu looked down at her, eyes displaying the wheels turning. Then they widened. "Oh." He stared at Lucy, who was biting her lip in anticipation. Then a big Natsu like grin broke out on his face. "Hell yes."
And that's as far as that goes. Welcome to my drabbles! I've never written one shots, but hell, here we go! I hope you enjoy my first ever NaLu story and One Shot! I'll be writing these as I figure stuff out for the next chapters of The S-Class Target, my Jerza story, as well as (Unnamed Story). Sorry, that last one is a secret, can't tell you about it yet!
Review away, let me know what you thought!
Cheers,
~NightLocker