I want to thank anyone who reviewed the support made my day so much better :) . I didn't expect to have another chapter done so soon but the words flew onto the page without asking me first. I spent 12 hours straight thinking only of this, so I had to do was type it …. Enjoy!

Chapter 2 The Return of Natsu

Lucy woke up in the dark. Beside her was Levy sleeping in Gajeel's lap and Gajeel was asleep. She conveniently had forgotten the fact she was the mother of twins, until she looked around her as saw two tiny rosy cheeked faces. She almost had a panic attack. What the freak am I going to do with twins, she thought silently. She snorted, stupid question. She knew what she was going to do. Raise her son and daughter. She would never leave them, not with all she'd done to keep them safe. They were her and her beloved's children.

Not that's Natsu deserved to be her beloved, but somewhere in the last 9 months she had gotten over her bitter feelings. She was pretty sure he either ran away and is now living it up or he died in some unfortunate accident she never heard about. Secretly even after all everyone had told her, she hoped it was the first one. Because then he at least could come back and see his loving family.

It dawned on her that her children were nameless at the moment. Whenever she tried to pick out names for what she thought would be one child, it never worked. So she foolishly thought that once it was born the name would just fall into place. Well, she knew now she was dead wrong. But she did know one thing; her son would not be Igneel or Natsu jr. He was going to have a unique name, not live in the shadow of his father or his grandpa. But in honor of Natsu she kept a theme going. Her son would be Ryuu Salamander Heartfilia.** Now her daughter's name was trickier to think of, after all it wasn't like she wanted to make a bad choice and have her daughter be laughed at for the rest of her life.

Lucy thought and thought. Her daughter would not be Layla or Lucy jr. And for the oddest reason, and Lucy didn't have a reason, the name Kimiko Sutaa Heartfilia.*** And she instantly those were the names of her children. Smiling she went back to sleep and dreamed of her new life with her children.

The peace didn't last long.

" Lu-chan, wake up! Lu-chan take responsibility for your children! Come on its been an hour." Levy was desperate for the young mother to awaken and take these newborns off her hands. Wendy and Porlyusica ran before they could be roped in to babysitting and Gajeel was no help at all. In fact she had to watch him more carefully than the babies and he was a grown man for the love of God! Lucy's eyes fluttered open as Kimiko began to wail. Then they flew open as she ran to Levy and took her child into her arms.

"Levy-chan," she said to the small blue haired girl, "take Gajeel and go to the guild, tell them of Kim and Ryuu."

Levy couldn't suppress the look of relief on her face as she grabbed her share of the children and ran. Lucy chuckled darkly.

"Geez Levy-chan, you could have at least slowed down." She said once the door slammed shut and woke up Ryuu, who cried as loud as his sister.

She ran to her other child and picked him up so she had one in each arm. Well this is going to be interesting, she thought. Then before she knew it, Happy burst through the window all scuffed up holding a key.

"LUCY YOU GOTTA HELP…" Happy paused at stared at her and the children.

"Where did they come from Lucy?" Happy asked in wonder

Lucy was smarter than to bring things like this up with Happy. Through her entire pregnancy, Happy kept calling her fat. Though eventually Erza happened to hear him and gave him a thorough beating. Lucy shuddered, he never said that to her again.

"They came from my belly, Happy." She said carefully, waiting for the stupid questions to come.

"They smell like Natsu. I like them." Happy purred

Lucy's eyes widened in shock. It's not like it was abnormal, of course they would. Natsu is/was their father. She smiled and thought about what Natsu would think of their children. Then it dawned on her.

"Happy," she asked the cat playing with the babies in her arms, "who do I have to help?"

Then it was Happy's turn to jolt in surprise at what he had forgotten. He shoved the key in his hand into her face.

"This! Lucy open this key!" Happy shouted

She shushed him and stared at the red key in his hands. It looked like it was made of glass, so fragile and thin.

Lucy was about to grab it when a pair of familiar hands grabbed it first.

"Loke!" Lucy pulled the lion into a giant hug.

"Whoa Lucy, your daughter's going to be a looker when she gets older." He joked nervously

She narrowed her eyes in suspicion; he was trying to hide the key behind his back. After putting the children in the cradles so nicely arranged for her, she snuck up behind him and grabbed it.

The word flew from her mouth the second she picked it up.

"Open! Seal of the Dragonslayer!...?" Lucy shouted

She didn't have time to process the meanings of the words, not before a passed out Natsu was laying on the floor.

"NATSU !?" She screeched

Kim and Ryuu woke up and began to scream, but Lucy wasn't sure she could process that as well as what she was trying to process now. A very alive, pink haired, dragon scale scarf wearing Natsu was laying on the rug in the middle of the floor. She heard a cough and remembered who was here. And Loke took one look at the very angry Celestial Spirit mage and tried to open his gate. Lucy closed in in the nick of time, very eager to make this reunion last.

He knew he was screwed. Lucy opened the gate of the maiden and summoned Virgo to carry her twins, while she dragged a groggy Natsu and a scared Loke by the ear to the guild. And the LAST thing Fairy Tail expected that day was to have an angry Lucy rush into the guild with Loke and their Public Enemy #1.

"Loke I brought you here so that I could have witnesses to keep me from killing you." Everybody in the guild was frozen. Loke sweatdropped.

"Well, Lucy-sama, it's kind of a complicated story, so I suggest you sit down seeing as you gave birth yesterday." Loke was speaking rather loudly at the last part in a failed attempt for help. Even Gray, who usually took his side, stayed put. He cowered in front of everyone when he saw the stare of Erza land on him. Loke might be afraid of Lucy, but he was terrified of Erza. And the woman had reequipped to Heaven's wheel and was pointing her really sharp swords toward him.

Lucy sat down. "Alright, talk." She said once she had gotten situated with her twins in her lap.

"Well, you see it all started on a night 9 months ago when," Loke got the death stare from Lucy, "urm uh… we all know this part so I'll skip ahead. Natsu woke up early and saw what had happened, and he knew that he had picked you as his mate. He, being the hollow headed idiot we all know and hopefully don't still want to kill, panicked and tried to resume for the last time his search for Igneel. He knew he had to come back and when he did he would face the music and propose. But he ran into the Dark Guild Black Angel and they didn't let the almighty Salamander walk away without a fight, but it was a whole guild against Natsu and he suffered heavy injuries. That was 8 months ago. Natsu didn't treat his injuries properly and they got infected and something we can't explain happened. That was 7 months ago, and then we found him on one of your missions, Lucy. But Natsu wasn't himself, he was out of control, that was 6 months ago. So to fix it the King of our world sealed him into a key a month ago, which you weren't supposed to find and oh shit he's waking up." Loke stared with the rest of the guild as their former nakama arose.

Lucy knew right then and there that the man in front of her wasn't her Natsu, wasn't the man that fathered the very children in her arms. He didn't even hesitate when he sent his roar of the fire dragon straight in her direction. Everyone in the guild, even Laxus, responded to that. She had been pushed out of the line of fire, (no pun intended) they all went into action. They had him chained to a table by the time Lucy had a chance to blink. Despite protests for her and her family's safety she walked up to Natsu with a baby on each hip and unshed tears in her eyes.

"Ne, Natsu, look at them. This is your daughter Kimiko and your son Ryuu. They look a lot like you except Kim has got this bizarre shade of fuchsia for hair. It looks like your pink on drugs, see? And Ryuu got a weird combo of blond and deep red; it's blond at the crown but red everywhere else, kind of like your flames. They were born with a full head of hair. And both of them have my eyes and your nose. See?" she whispered

Natsu didn't see, though, his eyes were purposed and cold. He had been paid for one mission; kill Lucy Heartfilia. The woman he loved so much before his mind had been tampered with. No, he wasn't the same Natsu. He didn't even remember why her tears hurt him inside, but he thought it was anger so he struggled all the more. Finally Mira, who couldn't bear to see her young friend in so much pain, led Lucy away from Natsu. The rest of them kept staring at him anyway. All of their eyes wide with disbelief, nobody could believe or wanted to believe that Natsu tried to hurt Lucy. After all, he was the one who tried to kill anyone who even laid a hand on her.

Loke sighed looking at his Princess. "I didn't want you to see this Lucy, I really didn't."

Then the lights went out for a split second and just as Elfman went to replace a broken fuse, they turned back on. And on the table where Natsu had been were the chains that served as a reminder he had been there. He was gone without a trace for the second time.

Gray was the first to break the silence. "Was that really Natsu?"

That was all it took for the flood gates to open. Lucy wailed in sorrow, just as she had when he left the first time. Juvia uncharacteristically slapped Gray on the back of the head and told him to shut up. The women of the guild including Lisanna, Mira, Levy, Bisca, Erza, Cana, Ever, and Juvia all huddled around the young mother and tried to calm her down. The males, all being overprotective of Lucy made an executive decision to beat the shit out of Natsu's head next time they saw him so he would go back to normal and stop causing Lucy so much pain.

Natsu blanked out, and awoke at the bar in Black Angel's lair. One of the girls in had poured a mug of ale over his head to wake him up.

"Wake up sunshine." She sneered

"Yes Angie." The new Natsu said obediently

"Go see Master, little Fairy," She commanded, "she isn't happy about your failure. All you had to do was kill a girl. You've done it for us before."

So he walked to a throne that sat in the middle of the room. And on that throne sat a young regal young woman. She had the air of a cruel queen with her cropped white hair and cold icy blue eyes. She knew she was beautiful. She smiled at the fear of the used to be fearless teen.

"Queen-sama, I have failed." Natsu said kneeling in front of his Queen with a fist on his heart.

This so called Queen's eyes flashed. She had been angered by the words of her favorite brainwashed mage. She beckoned him with a motion of her fingers. Natsu eagerly ran to her side. She leaned up and kissed him. He didn't act surprised, he even leaned into her kiss. But he didn't touch her, no embrace, no caress, no nothing. Then she leaned back to original position and slapped him. It wasn't anything playful, she left a red hand print his face.

"Do not ever fail me again, dear." She said to her lover

"Of course my queen." Natsu whimpered

She smiled and got up brushing his cheek. "Meet me in my room, babe."

Natsu nodded, and she walked away. He had a feeling he was forgetting something important, somebody important, someone who had once before held his heart. He vowed that his master would be the only one to hold his heart; he also vowed to make her happy and that meant killing Lucy Heartfilia. A disturbing smile crept onto his face; he wouldn't fail a second time.

Lucy was in the middle of a stress induced mental breakdown. She had gone to her apartment by herself with the babies. After a self-tutorial on how to change a diaper and a feeding she put Ryuu and Kim to bed and they were asleep, although she feared that when night fell their slumber wouldn't last.

The blond really wasn't supposed to be moving at all, you known with the childbirth thing and all, but she couldn't get herself to settle down. Not what with what had happened that day. Natsu's name was the only coherent word that formed in her head. She was hyperventilating the more she thought about him. She didn't cry. Her tears had run dry that afternoon after he disappeared again.

If the twins hadn't been sleeping she would have screamed, asking why her lover had to be taken away like her mother and father. Looking around the room for something that would calm her, her eyes set on the doll that lay on her desk. She cuddled it, but it only gave her more memories of him. Then Lucy got angry. How dare he try to hurt her, how dare he not tell her anything, how dare he leave her again, after seeing the proof they had once been in love.

She laughed hysterically; the mutual love hadn't lasted long. It dawned on her at some time that it really wasn't very funny, but she couldn't stop laughing anyway. Ezra knocked on Lucy's door, and Lucy opened the door while laughing herself to tears. Erza knew that whatever Lucy was laughing was breaking her apart inside. Erza tried to pull the blond into a hug, but she pulled away.

"I need to be strong Erza. The twins need a strong mom." Lucy gave Titania a determined stare

She decided to be as strong as their father would have been, before the odd brainwashing. Hopefully they would never see him again, and then Lucy could tell stories of the good Natsu. She would forget the man she saw today, because he wasn't Fairy Tail's Natsu.

Erza smiled at determined Lucy. Though the silence was kind of awkward, so she excused herself and Lucy decided to try to get the sleep she needed, before the nightmare of small children began. Her sleep was peaceful until she thought she heard one of her children crying, she got up rubbing her eyes.

"I knew the peace wasn't about to last long…. NATSU ?" she yelped

Sure enough the pink haired man was holding Ryuu by the foot and sniffing him. Once he saw Lucy, he had an odd sensation fill his body. He put down the screaming baby and stared hard at the woman in front of him. In his mind he knew to keep his woman happy Lucy would have to die, but his instincts wouldn't let him. Nobody, not even himself, was allowed to hurt his Lucy. Natsu's eyes widened at the protectiveness of the thought. He was confused and afraid of the feelings he had for this person he never met.

Lucy stood and stared at Natsu while he struggled internally with himself. He went from a sneer to a smile to a confused frown. He walked over to her and pressed up against her.

"Why am I so calm? Lucy…." His eyes flared with recognition, "Oh God, Lucy!"

Natsu remembered, how could he forget his beautiful mate? Lucy could see it, she knew he remembered. But then things went horribly wrong, a woman Lucy had never seen before entered her house. Her first thought was how the hell are these people getting into my house. Her second was I need to get my child. Her last thought was who is this chick?

The queen looked at her lover and she turned her lip up in disgust. The spell was broken. She snapped at the man who appeared next out of thin air next to her. Her icy stare gave him a silent command. Fix him. A magic circle lit up around Natsu. A second later the new Natsu was back. He flung himself backward, like Lucy herself was a contagious disease. The white haired women opened her arms and he ran into them. He closed the distance and sealed their mouths together in a passionate kiss.

Lucy gagged at the sight, and the sound turned both of their attention to her. She paled, why didn't she bring her keys with her?

Natsu smirked. "Next time bitch, I'll get you. Be ready."

And Lucy watched the woman smugly wave goodbye as Natsu carried her bridal style out the window. The last thing she heard the evil woman mutter was, "Goodbye my love."

"Huh?" Lucy whispered

Whoa, do I see Yuri action in the future? ….. No I do not. Ryuu Salamander was a play on naming the kid fire dragon and Kimiko means empress while Sutaa means stars so I was trying to call her empress of the stars. (Warning I did just basically tell you their magical abilities….. which was the point)