"Oh my…" Mira whispered to herself. She was shocked and a little scared of the small white item she held in her dainty pail hands that now proudly displayed a pink positive sign.
It had now been two weeks since Mira and Natsu had returned from the guild masters meeting. For the past few days Mira had been feeling slightly unwell and had a strange feeling she knew what was causing this.
Mira smiled dreamily to herself as she stood alone in one of the cubicles of the women's rest room in the guild hall. She gripped the small white item in her hand and dashed out of the rest room to find her boyfriend.
Natsu was outside on the training field as he normally was first thing in the morning. He was practicing one of the spells that he'd remembered Igneel had told him about but was too young to learn when he was being trained by him.
The spell was called 'Familiar's of the Fire Dragon' and was supposedly able to allow him to summon fire based familiars to attack and do battle with him. So far he'd had moderate success in perfecting the spell. He'd learnt how to regulate his magical flow properly and he'd perfected the motions his body had to perform in order to cast the spell but putting it all together was coming along quite slowly.
He was preparing himself to attempt the spell again when he heard the guild door burst open behind him. Instantly he recognised the scent of his mate and smiled to himself. He turned around to greet her but as soon as he did he was engulfed into a massive hug from the busty white haired bar maid of Fairy Tail.
"Mira? Is everything alright?" He asked worriedly, the concern was clear in his voice.
"I think so." She said unsurely.
"What do you mean?" He asked as he broke from the embrace and placed both of his hands on her shoulders so that he could look into her eyes, they were brimming with unshed tears. He could smell that Mira wasn't upset but she was quite frightened and a little scared. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong." Mira clarified cryptically. Mira looked directly into his eyes and held his gaze for a while before continuing. "If something ever changed… in our lives you wouldn't leave me would you?"
Natsu felt shocked at the question, surely the answer was obvious. "I'd swim through an ocean of acid if meant being at your side." He answered honestly, it wasn't something he'd usually say but he'd read a similar line in one of Mira's magazines and thought it might fit.
Mira looked down and smiled to herself. She mumbled something incoherent that made her grin warmly.
"What was that?" Natsu asked kindly.
Mira looked back into his eyes, the smile still on her pretty face. "I said… I'm pregnant."
Time seemed to freeze for Natsu. His eyes widened in shock and his mouth hung open widely but Mira could see something tugging upwards at the corners of his lips.
"Pregnant?" Natsu seemed to ask himself. Mira nodded happily to him, even though he was too dazed to see it. "I'm gonna be a dad?" He continued to talk to himself. "I'm gonna be a dad!" He repeated, shouting to the sky as he picked his mate up in a strong embrace spinning around causing Mira to giggle loudly as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"I'm so glad you're happy!" Mira said happily as Natsu finally stopped spinning them.
"Why wouldn't I be?" He replied through his smile. "I'm having a baby with the woman I love!" He shouted.
Mira froze, her smile never faltered even as her tears finally fell. "L-l-love?" She croaked. "You love me?"
Natsu smiled. "I do." He said softly. "I love you Mira."
Mira's smile brightened even more as she let the tears of joy flow freely now. "I love you too Natsu!" She cried in response before kissing him deeply.
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That night the guild partied like they'd never partied before!
Although the guild was shocked at first when they heard the news, and some of the more responsible guild mates did give them a light scolding for not using protection, they were all exceedingly happy for the couple.
Natsu was drinking merrily on the bar, he had started sitting cross legged on top of the bar just like Master Makarov used to do, next to him was Mira who although couldn't drink was stilling have a great time. Happy was flying around the guild hall elated, he kept crying about how happy he was to be getting a little brother or sister.
The noise of the guilds celebration could be heard throughout over half of Magnolia; that is what led some rather unsavoury fellows towards the guild hall.
The doors to the guild burst open causing the guild members to fall silent as they glared at the intruders.
There were five men, obviously all mages. The man in the middle was quite slim but also quite tall. He started laughing condescendingly as he entered the guild hall, uninvited.
"So this is what's left of the once 'great' Fairy Tail." He stated loudly after he finished laughing. "What a joke!"
"We're still great!" Romeo shouted from his table where he was sitting with Happy.
"You let children in your guild?" The slim man continued. "You must be scraping the bottom of the barrel if you're recruiting children!"
"You're not welcome in here." Mira growled from the bar.
The five men froze at the sight of her.
"Well, well, well aren't you beautiful?" The slim man asked disgustingly causing some of the guild members to cringe at how rancid he was whilst others smirked knowing how much Natsu hated people being slimy towards his now pregnant girlfriend.
The slim man began walking towards the bar, not really noticing how quickly the temperature was rising in the guild hall.
"Why don't you offer me a drink, sweet cheeks?" The man asked as he got in Mira's face. He lifted his right harm to stroke her cheek but stopped when everyone in the room heard a strange crunching sound.
The men felt an incredible pain surge up his arm and as he looked down he saw a pink haired man's hand gripping his wrist tightly, it was then that he realised what that sound was.
Natsu had broken the man's wrist by simply grabbing it, the skin around his grip was also starting hurt badly as he realised he was being burnt as well. Suddenly the man squealed in pain and dropped to his knees.
The four men who were still on the door way prepared themselves to attack but steadied themselves when they noticed the rest of the guild stand threateningly.
Natsu continued to ignore the man's pleads, his face contorted in sickening anger. Natsu began to turn the man's wrist so that he could see the guild mark stamped on his arm just below his elbow.
"Twilight Ogre huh?" Natsu asked darkly. His eyes were shadowed by his hair. "I heard your trashy guild was scoping around Magnolia. Why?"
The man was still in a lot of pain and was struggling to respond but attempted to in the hopes that this man would release his arm. "We're… setting up a… hall here." He croaked in through his pain.
Natsu lifted his head to glare at the scum that was kneeling before him. "Get. Out." He growled. "Out of my guild. Out of My town. Out of my sight." He said threateningly. He stood up, still gripping the man by his now severely broken wrist and in one fluid motion through the bastard directly at his guild mates sending all of them flying out of the guild hall and into the night.
As soon as the intruders had been expelled from the guild hall its large wooden doors slammed shut and the noise of the previous celebration returned as if nothing had happened, adding insult to injury.
Natsu positioned himself back on the bar next to Mira.
"Do you think they'll take your advice?" Mira asked cheekily.
"Probably not." Natsu stated mockingly. "They didn't seem like the smart type." He added with a chuckle.
Mira giggled. "Thank you." She said before moving her face next to his ear. "I'll reward you for it later." She whispered seductively causing Natsu to blush and grin like an idiot. He really likes it when Mira 'rewards' him. Although the other guild members didn't hear Mira they still wolf whistled and cat called towards the couple teasingly.
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Mira had been floating around the guild on cloud nine for the last week, ever since she'd found out that she was pregnant and Natsu had told her he loves her. It had also been a week since Twilight Ogre had barged into the guild and lost the 'pissing match' that they tried to start with guild.
Word on the street was that Twilight Ogre had set up shop somewhere on the other side of town and had started harassing some of the local businesses about 'protection money'.
Fairy Tail had been on the lookout for the guild but had had no real luck so far. The guild was in relatively high spirits none the less.
Natsu and Mira had begun planning for their kid, they spent the last week looking for a new house to buy so that they'd have a nice place to live; they didn't plan on selling the house they were living in at the moment as it was the Strauss family home and everyone still believed that eventually everyone would return and would need a place to live.
Currently Mira and Natsu were standing behind the bar, serving drinks whilst looking at a real estate broacher.
They were chatting away happily with each other until the guild hall doors opened and in stepped Macao and Romeo.
Macao looked ready to kill someone. Romeo was covered in bruises and shallow cuts, his left eye was so swollen that he couldn't open it and his lip was split.
Mira gasped. "Romeo!" She shouted as she dashed around the bar to the hurt boy. Natsu beat her there after he jumped over the bar and ran to them.
"What the hell happened?" He shouted before kneeling down to Romeo to check him over. Mira appeared next to him a few seconds later with a first aid kit she had grabbed on her way over to him. Other guild members started massing around them as well.
"Twilight Ogre." Was all Macao could growl out, Natsu now noticed that he was crying.
Natsu clenched his fist, the temperature in the guild hall began rising quickly.
"Where?" Natsu growled almost calmly but with a venom that could kill.
"I'll show you." Macao answered before heading out of the guild. Natsu followed after telling Jet and Droy to follow him and having the rest stay at the guild to protect it and look after Romeo.
Natsu, Jet and Droy followed a silent Macao as he led them towards the other side of town and eventually to a large building that had the Twilight Ogre insignia on the front of it.
"Macao." Natsu said quietly before placing his hand on the man's shoulder. "Go see to your son, we'll handle this."
Macao turned to leave but before he did he hugged Natsu whispering a sincere thank you before moving off towards the guild.
"Are you sure the three of us can take on and take out an entire guild by ourselves?" Jet asked unsurely once Macao was out ear shot.
"Yes." Natsu replied. "Droy tear down the front wall… all of it." Natsu ordered.
"Ok." Droy answered. He reached into the belts that hung off his shoulders and pulled out a load of seeds. "Chain Plant!" Droy shouted as he through all of the seeds in his hands at the ground in front of the Twilight Ogre guild hall. As they landed they sunk into the ground milliseconds before about a hundred chain like vines shot from the ground and dug themselves into the wall of the offending hall before ripping the entire wall off like a lid being ripped off of a tin can.
The Twilight Ogre guild members stared at the three in shock after the wall fell.
"Jet, bring me their master." Natsu ordered darky.
Jet nodded in response and then used his speed magic to zip off into the guild returning a few seconds later with a confused looking fat man.
"Watch." Natsu said to the opposing guild master with a glare. He turned to face the guild hall again. "Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" Natsu shouted. He smashed his blazing fists together creating a massive fire ball above his head. Twilight Ogre stared in shock as he lobbed the fire ball at them. There guild hall was instantly blown to pieces sending rubble and badly burnt guild members flying off in every direction. Even Jet and Droy looked at him in awe. Natsu then turned to Jet who was still holding the terrified guild master. Natsu took the fat man by the collar and held him above him, shooting daggers at him with his eyes. "Your guild is gone." Natsu stated like a command. "Don't ever return." The pink haired dragon slayer growled. "Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" Natsu shouted before punching the man with a flaming fist, the punch was so powerful that it sent the man flying off into the distance far beyond the walls of Magnolia. He never even said a single word before being dispatched but did scream like small child as he was sent flying through the sky.
Natsu glared at the spot in the sky that once held that fat man's quickly diminishing form before he turned around and started heading back to the guild with Jet and Droy.
The two members of Team Shadow Gear noticed that the temperature in the air around them was starting to cool down now that Natsu had begun to calm.
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Once again the guild was celebrating. They were celebrating the end of Twilight Ogre. Even Romeo was, his father had given him his first ever beer as a reward for being so tough; Romeo was now piss drunk and playing with Happy after just one beer.
"Jet. Droy come here a sec guys." Natsu called to Team Shadow Gear from his place on the bar, Mira was behind him working. Jet and Droy approached him. "I wanna thank you guys for your help today." He said kindly.
"No need." Jet answered humbly.
"No one hurts one of us!" Droy cheered.
Natsu smiled at the two eighteen year olds. "I want to ask another favour of you two." Natsu stated. The two boys nodded. "I would like you two to start training with me and Mira, we're gonna need to get stronger in case anymore guild decide they want a shot at us."
Jet and Droy looked at each other before Jet answered. "Are you sure? You two are way stronger than us?"
"That's why I want you two to train with us." He answered. "Jet your speed magic is constantly on but apart from that you only have one spell when I know you could do more. Droy you only have three spells, and I think the same about you."
Jet and Droy looked at each other again.
Jet smiled before turning back to him. "I'm in." He said gratefully.
Droy smiled as well. "We'll get so strong Levy will hardly even recognise us when she gets back!" Droy cheered.
"Good." Natsu said. "You start tomorrow." He said with a smirk as they began to walk away.
Mira came up behind him. "There goes our quality time together." She said sarcastically.
Natsu turned on his spot to face her. "You have every second of every day my dear." He said charmingly, it always made Mira giggle when he did this. "And you'll still be there training with me." He added with a smile.
Mira shook her head slowly. "Honestly with the baby I'm going to have to cut down on training pretty soon and eventually stop until the little one is born." She replied whilst subconsciously rubbing her still flat stomach.
Natsu smiled happily, it always gave him a strange giddy feeling whenever he caught her doing it, and she did it a lot. He sighed happily before kissing her and turning back to face the guild after someone asked for a drink.
He took a deep swig of his own beer and sighed.
He looked up to the ceiling deep in thought. The image of Makarov appeared in his mind's eye.
'I hope I'm doing you proud Gramps.' He thought to himself before taking another swig of his beer.
He was enjoying his role as guild master and did think he was doing a good job. He'd now been the guild master for eleven weeks and began thinking to himself. 'Even when Gramps does come back, do I really want to give this up?'
No one in the guild ever said 'if' when they talked about the Tenrou team, it was always 'when', it was their way of coping even if no one could be sure that they'd ever return.
"Natsu honey!" Mira called from the other end of the bar. "There is a call for you from the magic council; the lacrima is in your office."
"Thanks Mira!" Natsu replied warmly.
"Natsu honey!" Wakabe called teasingly emphasising the word 'honey' but quickly shut up when he noticed the death glare Mira was sending him; a glare that strangely resembled her Satan Soul.
"I wonder what the council want?" Natsu thought to himself as he headed towards his office.
