Good lord. The end is upon us - IT'S AN UPLOAD and from Le Senbei no less! I just kind of lost the buzz and time for writing and drawing...But then Cup Ramen updated today and I kinda got the message ahaha *SweatSweat*. AHEM, so...Baby Army is now...too long to just have one chapter as a sequel *Dying whale noises*. What have I done? I'm digging myself a grave, I just know it. Anyhow, life's been busy, especially since I'm graduating after this semester! YAY! Sorry for my inactive-ness but I will have time at the end of this year *guilty laugh*. There will be 2 more chapters after this one, I think? No promises on update times though (sorry!). I hope you guys enjoy the read!

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Several years and a baby or two later, Gray and Natsu's top secret plan of establishing an army of babies had come to fruition. Well, not really, but the seedlings had been planted and harvested just 9 months later. They were fashionably dubbed the 'tiny troopers in training'.

"I welcome thee, cadet #1 of the Fullbuster faction!" Gray had proudly declared as the nurse handed him his daughter. Juvia who only looked slightly better than she felt (that is, not very good) had spared him a tired, confused stare but the ice mage passed her off with a wave of his hand and a kiss on the cheek.

"Guy stuff, sweetie. By the way, I've already set up the crib and cleaned the entire house so you don't have to worry about anything, okay?"

"But Gray-" He shushed her, pressing a finger gently against her lips.

"Ssh…Just get some rest for now."

"O-okay."

Gray smiled warmly at his wife, captivated by how this woman could make him feel so happy and complete at the same time. His eyes then trailed towards the tiny creature in his arms. She was pink and wrinkly and looked as if she had just tasted something extremely sour but for some reason, Gray couldn't stop staring. He vaguely wondered if this was what it meant to be a father and a husband.

His thoughts drifted for a moment as he thought of how his pink-haired idiot of a best friend was coping in the room next door. Hopefully, he wasn't as stupid as Elfman who had loudly declared how manly it was to have a foetus in one's arms after Mira and Laxus had their first child. In any case, it wouldn't be far-fetched to assume that the fire dragon-slayer was basking in the light of new-found fatherhood. Perhaps he was also regarding his partner with as much appreciation as Gray was just moments ago. The image seemed rather foreign to the man but he paid it no heed. He knew that the years had changed them slightly but they had not strayed from their goals…TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE AND BEST ARMY (of babies) KNOWN TO MANKIND. It was unfortunate that it had come to this but the fateful union between Erza and Jellal promised them nothing but despair. Gray wondered what he had done to deserve this.

Dutifully, the ice mage softly skimmed the back of his hand across his daughter's cheek before turning his gaze towards the glass pane not 2 metres away.

"I'm a man on a mission but before that and anything else, I'm your father. Yes, the path that awaits us is not a welcoming one but I'll make sure of it – that one day, you'll be able to eliminate the demonic Jerza faction…That one day, you'll be a demon slayer…Just. Like. Me."

And of course, he was oblivious to the fact that a certain fire dragon-slayer was giving a similar speech to his newborn son on the other side of the wall.

"We're up against the world son, but you don't have to worry about a thing! Papa Natsu has already got a plan and we're going to go through with it, no questions asked. The Jerza twins are no joke. To defeat a demon, you have to BECOME a demon. I'll be with you each step of the way! I'll be there with you until the very E.N.D."

"Oh! Almost forgot," Natsu poked his head out into the corridor before giving Romeo a bright grin, "Romeo, can you tell Gray that the 'goods have been delivered' and to ask him about 'training'? Thanks!"

ONE YEAR. ONE FLIPPING YEAR and all they were capable of doing was toddling around the guild hall while peeing in their diapers. This was…this was turning out to be a harder task than first anticipated. Natsu and Gray were now in a horrifying period of their lives wherein each day guaranteed their regression into stressed, soulless beings constantly wafting into and out of sanity. It had gotten better with time but then Iggy and Sylvia had conveniently decided to start their teething period. Ugh. Drooling machines. Each and every one of them. And that was just the beginning.

It had taken one month exactly for Natsu and Gray to conclude that children under the age of five were vile creatures for obvious reasons, the main one being the fact that they had no sense of judgement or conscience or whatever the heck made people sane. Like, who in their right mind would poke an innocent man in the eye with a finger?! Elfman laughed like the ignorant brute he was when Natsu whined about it the next day.

"Real men don't cry from baby attacks!" The takeover mage wheezed out, one arm supporting his middle from all the laughter.

"Oh yeah, it's not so funny when one second, you're laughing with your mini-me in your arms and then all of a sudden, a finger comes flying into your eyeball with the force of a FUCKING FREIGHT TRAIN!"

Natsu decided to exclude the part where his son laughed even harder afterwards. The thought made him shudder and frankly, it did nothing to ease his worries about Iggy's disturbing behaviour. It was almost as if he-

"Okay, okay – Sorry for laughing Natsu. I know at the very least that being a father requires a real man!"

Natsu only grumbled in response, feeling Gray give him a supportive slap on the back.

"Hey, at least we aren't in this alone." The ice-mage said with a shrug. The two shared a knowing look, eternally grateful for the existence of female-kind.

Juvia and Lucy were their saving graces. Their motherly genes or instincts or whatever had somehow gone on full blast after the whole baby delivery thing... which made them think, what the hell happened to fatherly instincts? Jellal seemed to cope well when the twins were born. That blue-haired flying piece of turtle turd. Whatever that was supposed to look like.

Natsu huffed, inwardly admitting that it could have been worse.

"Yeah, I guess so-"

And then Gray made a funny noise – something in-between a gasp and a strangled scream that never really got to make its debut.

"There they are!"

"Oh! Gray-sama!"

Oh god.

Natsu and Gray remained frozen to the spot as they watched their significant others make their way towards them. Yes, Juvia and Lucy were their saviours but right now, it felt as if they were paving a dark path filled with thorny vines and cracked stonework…for what they lugged in their devoted arms were little Sylvia and little Iggy. Yes, they were their children, their very own flesh and blood, but before anything else, they were children under the age of five…and that ultimately translated into 'vile beings without a conscience'.

Gray opened up his arms awkwardly in what seemed like an attempt to give his family a hug.

"O-oh! Juvia, sweetie! What brings you…to this specific corner of the guild!?"

"Y-yeah, what's up Lucy? Looks almost as if you two are planning on going somewhere."

Lucy and Juvia both raised a brow.

"Well, as it turns out, we're going with the rest of the girls to the new place two streets down and because we've been so busy recently, we thought that it was high time for you two to spend some precious bonding time with the kids-" The two women continued to ramble on excitedly about the 'special edition sweets menu' and whatnot but Natsu and Gray had stopped listening long before they even got to that part.

"Holy Mavis, this cannot be happening." The words felt light on Gray's tongue but the meaning of crushed hope and never-ending despair was conveyed all the same.

"We're screwed." Natsu replied briskly, eyes glued to the children.

The dragon-slayer straightened up warily when his son turned to stare him straight in the eyes. Iggy's dab of blonde hair had sprouted into a little nest of spikes within a short period of time and his pair of onyx-coloured eyes shone with misleading innocence. The girls had cooed at how sweet he looked and some guys had even teased Natsu, questioning how somebody so rough around the edges could have such a cute kid. He looked like a cherub and for some reason, everybody else seemed to think that to be the case. IT WAS ALL A LIE!

And then there was Sylvia. She made Iggy cry at least twice a day and Natsu felt bad thinking this but he was somewhat glad about it since it reassured him that his son was at least scared of something. Ugh. Worst father of the year award definitely went to him. The weird thing was that she only had to stare at him silently for around 3 seconds before the waterworks started. And even stranger was the fact that Gray hadn't started teasing Natsu about how much of a cry-baby his son was.

"Uhn-" Oh no. Natsu grimaced when he saw the tell-tale wobbling of Iggy's lips and as if on cue, the toddler started to bawl loudly in his mother's arms.

"Aw, what's wrong baby?" Lucy gave him a kiss on the forehead in an attempt to calm him down.

"Oh no, he's crying again! Does he know that we're leaving them behind?"

Natsu watched on, wondering how nobody else noticed it and then he heard something. Gray who was eerily silent the entire time muttered something under his breath so quietly that it made Natsu think that the words weren't directed at anyone in particular.

"It's all in her eyes and he can see it too."

Natsu shot his friend a funny look. It was hard to believe how threatening a one-year old with wavy, blue strands and inky black orbs the size of the universe itself could be considered even remotely scary. She looked like a porcelain doll but even he had to admit that the 'I-don't-give-a-shit' aura seeped out of Sylvia's very being like she was made from that stuff. He didn't bother questioning Gray about it and it was already too late anyway since the next thing he felt was a familiar weight in his arms.

"We won't be gone for too long – just make sure that they're in one piece by the time we come back!"

The last part was just a joke but Gray and Natsu felt the need to cross their fingers when they answered.

"Of course!"

And there we have it for this chapter! I hope you guys liked it 'cos there's more coming your way! :D Cup Ramen and I will be very busy though since it's our last semester and we have a thesis/giant-pain-in-the-ass project to work on. We're graduating in December so we'll have time then *Cheers*. In any case, I know this may be repetitive of me but THANK YOU SO MUCH! You readers mean the world to me and CR and the fact that you guys still review a billion years after I update means a lot to me! *Huggles*.

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