Shiki and Natsu sighed simultaneously. They were bored which is why they decided to go fishing because the female population had decided to go for a vacation. Of course that meant Carla was going to be there and because Happy 2.0 was Rebecca's cat-bot Happy the original decided to join his mother aka Lucy for the vacation giving Natsu the cold shoulder.

Hence Shiki and Natsu were alone. And bored.

And Natsu couldn't even go for a job Due to the hefty amount of destruction he had caused on his last mission he was banned from taking another job for whole two weeks.

"Say Natsu…" Shiki said finally breaking the comfortable silence. Natsu who had been pouting at the absence of a fish bite, looked at shiki as he continued, "how…how did you proposed to Lucy?"

Shiki completed his question and finally looked at Natsu who was staring back at him. Natsu at first gave it a thought and to Shiki it looked like Natsu's head hurt with the amount of thinking he was doing.

Finally after deciding what the best answer would be Natsu broke his concentration and answered Shiki, "well…I guess it just sort of happened. Lucy and I never made it official officially but everyone knows she is off limits 'coz she is mine."

Shiki grew silent. Letting the word of his fire breathing friend sink in, "But really how did you and Lucy ended up together." He questioned.

Natsu again gave it another thought Shiki just sweat-dropped at his pained expression and debated whether he should drop the topic. Then he decided to just go with the flow.

This time it took a while before Natsu finally opened his eyes and spoke, "what do you want? A broad view of things or the details?"

"The details please." Shiki answered without thinking much of it.

Natsu hummed before starting, "you know how me along with Gajeel, Wendy, Sting and Rough were sent four hundred years in the future?" He asked to which Shiki nodded and then Natsu continued.

"Well…the process of sending us to the future and the magic over all consisted of celestial magic."

To the new revelation Shiki's eyes widened but then drew close as he asked, "how does that has anything to do with Lucy and you?"

"The magic that sent us here uses the celestial magic…true. It involves a huge gate named 'the eclipse' that open pathway between timelines, quite similar to a spirit's gate but a lot different entirely. While a spirit gate's only require their master too open the gate. The eclipse gate require two celestial wizards to open the gate…one in the past and the other in the future. Lucy's grandmother-times-eight Anna Heatfilia was our teacher who came to the future with us. She was the one who opened the gate 400 years in the past and then it was mother Layla who opened the gate 400 years in the future…she died though…because of excessive use of magic power."

Natsu stopped seemingly to catch his breath, Shiki gave the matter another thought before asking, "what is excessive use of power?"

Natsu who had regained his breath saw that question coming which is why he answered it swiftly, "excessive use of magic power means using more magic than you have and that lead to life-source usage in simple terms if a person uses up all their magic power, if and only if their will is strong enough the spell dabs into their life force. In mother Layla's case the same thing happened."

Shiki again pondered the said statement he had two questions on mind that he soon spoke out-loud. "What drove Miss Layla's will"

Natsu smiled fondly and somewhat sadly, "Lucy's freedom." Shiki's eyes shot up in surprise and natsu continued, "the task of opening the eclipse gate had been passed from generation to generation…mother Layla didn't wanted to burden Lucy with that."

Shiki nodded in understanding. "I do have another question though, why do you call Lucy's mother: mother Layla?"

"That's 'cause she is Lucy mother and I am the man who'll become her son in law!" Natsu exclaimed proudly which caused Shiki to laugh.

Lucy's mother was truly an extraordinary wizard and an even more extraordinary mother.

"So you and Lucy knew each other from way back then huh?" Shiki asked to which Natsu shook his head, he was Anna's student but he had no idea of who Layla or Lucy is.

"Anyway where were we…right the eclipse gat-"

"-please forgive me Natsu but this is taking quite sometime how about you just give me the 'broad view'." Shiki asked Natsu almost pleadingly. He may have wanted to take but long lecture or stories just wasn't his thing.

"I gave you the option you idiot you were the one who wanted to go into details!" Natsu scolded Shiki and then turned to his fishing pole. Still no bite and the fun part was the bait wasn't going anywhere. Maybe the fish were really out on a vacation too.

Shiki pleaded Natsu to tell him. He needed help because he wanted to make things official with Rebecca. After some more pleading and a free promised meal Natsu finally decided to speak.

"The first time I met Lucy she was under a charm spell…an illegal magic but it had its perk…"

"So how did the spell broke?" Shiki asked with the curiosity of a small kid. Natsu smiled fondly.

"Because of me of corse." He answered keeping Shiki on the edge of his seat.

"How!?" Natsu chuckled and went over the memories of that 'faithful day'.

While looking at the clear blue sky Natsu answered, "it's not easy to break a charm spell. In fact the only other way for a charm spell to break other that defeating the user is for the affected person to gaze upon their soulmate."

Shiki had his awe expression when Natsu looked at his face. He chuckled and started packing his fishing gear knowing they won't catch a single fish today. While packing Natsu heard Shiki ask behind his back, "then what happened?"

Natsu smirked as he replied, "exactly what was supposed to happen Lucy was my soulmate and we are supposed to stay together. It took a while but then the most brilliant idea stuck me I brought here in magnolia…the home of the fairy tail guild and my home."

Hey guys,

Since I don't write much of it I don't know much but will this count as 'fluff'?

Your truly confused,

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