A week passed and things began returning to normal for the guild but not exactly for the newlyweds. Lucy couldn't help but wonder if she should have married the toilet bowl instead of Natsu; she was seriously suffering from morning sickness and ended up hugging the toilet bowl for a few hours every morning.
Natsu decided that it would be best for him to take on as many jobs as he could during the first few weeks of Lucy's pregnancy so that he could save up enough money to not have to leave when she would need him most, in seven days he had completed thirteen jobs and had earned a hell of a lot of money for his family but now he was beyond exhausted.
Lucy had discovered a way to sneakily leave their bed in the morning without waking her husband up, although she would have loved his help or even just his sympathy she realised how exhausted he was and tried to let him sleep. Natsu on the other hand was determined to be the world's best husband and father and would jump to her aid regardless of how tired he was; it only took him two days to figure out Lucy's new sneaking trick and learn how to hear her getting up anyway.
This morning started out like any other. Lucy and Natsu had been married for eight days and it turned out that Lucy was now three weeks pregnant meaning she had gotten pregnant from her first time. Lucy was hugging the toilet bowl like it was her new best friend as she emptied the contents of her stomach, Natsu was right behind her carefully holding her beautiful blond hair out of the way with one hand whilst the other was holding a damp washcloth that he would use to clean her face with and cool her down during her short reprieves.
Although the mornings sucked for Lucy she loved the rest of it. She got this pleasant warm feeling than ran throughout her body from her core, emanating from her belly where her baby was growing. She couldn't help but subconsciously rub her stomach whenever she was doing something that didn't require her full attention.
Her belly had begun to show ever so slightly, only those who really knew here could have maybe noticed the tiny little bump on her usually ruler straight stomach.
"Natsu!" The blond haired mage whined as she stomped around her apartment looking for her husband. "Where are you?"
As Lucy wondered into the lounge/dining room of their apartment the front door slowly opened revealing a rather strange and almost disconcerting sight. It was Natsu… and he was reading a book.
"Honey?" Lucy asked shell shocked and concerned. "Are you ok?"
Natsu smiled warmly at her. "I'm fine." He answered merrily. "But you should read this when you get the chance."
"And err… what exactly is it?" She asked cautiously as she made her way towards him.
Natsu kissed her happily and wrapped his free arm around her waist before he answered. "It's a book on dragon's and dragon-slayers." He answered. "And it has a section on pregnancy."
"Seriously?" Lucy asked as she pulled the book from his grasp. "Is there any difference to a normal pregnancy?"
"Yeah there are quite a few differences." Natsu responded simply as he wrapped his other now free arm around her waist and rested his chin on her shoulder. "It explains why your morning sickness is so bad, apparently it'll be much worse than what a woman going through a normal pregnancy would suffer but it will only last a little more than a week tops."
"That's sounds like a decent compromise!" Lucy thought happily, considering that she had been having morning sickness for about eight days anyway so it must be almost over. "Any other drastic differences?"
"You won't suffer from many mood swings but you will get really horny quite often." Natsu said with a cheeky grin and a playful tone in his voice. Lucy chuckled at him but didn't find the thought unappealing. "Also you shouldn't get too many cravings and you probably won't hold any baby fat afterwards either."
Lucy smiled. "You're one pleasant surprise after another, aren't you Natsu?"
"I try to please you my queen." Natsu stated with a mock bow, Lucy responded with a mock curtsy.
Their light hearted family moment wasn't meant to last however.
Without any warning a thunderous explosion rocked the entire town of Magnolia sending ash and smoke high into the sky.
"Lucy!" Natsu shouted as he grabbed his wife and held her to him protectively, wrapping his arms around her and burying her head into his shoulder.
"We need to get to the guild!" Lucy shouted over the ruckus that was coming from outside.
"Get dressed! Quickly!" Natsu shouted.
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Natsu ran towards the guild at a highly impressive speed with his pregnant wife in his arms as he carried her bridal style towards the Fairy Tail guild hall. There was a raging fire in his eyes and a stern look across his face as he dashed his way through the dishevelled town. After about five minutes of running the hall finally came into view, ever from where they were they could see guild members running in and out of the hall as they tried their best to help citizens.
Natsu barrelled into the hall with Lucy still in his arms, he came to sliding stop in front of Erza and Grey.
"What's going on?" Natsu barked as he allowed his wife to untangle herself from his protective grip.
"We're under attack!" Grey shouted in response.
Lucy wanted to shout 'No shit Sherlock!' but managed to keep her hormonal temper under control, even though Natsu said that she shouldn't get bad mood swings she still felt a strong desire to separate the ice-mage's head from his shoulders.
Before Lucy could ponder her blood thirsty desires at any greater length the speeding blur form of Jet came racing into the hall and stopping just in front Master Makarov.
"It's a massive army!" The speedster mage bellowed frantically. "Made up of mages and non-mages, I can't tell where they're from though!"
"Damn." Makarov groaned.
"They think they can come to our town and trash it?" Natsu shouted over the chaotic shambles that was the guild hall, he caught everyone's attention. "They need a good ass kicking!" As Natsu continued the other guild members began to get motivated as well.
"We'll eat 'em alive!" Gajeel called from his shadowy corner, Levy and Panther Lily by his side.
"We shall teach them a lesson they won't soon forget!" Erza shouted.
"Crush them all my children!" Master Makarov shouted as he led the charge out of the hall. As the members of Fairy Tail followed their expanding Master, Natsu shot a worried glance at his wife who smiled warmly at him. She wasn't going anywhere, she was going to stay in the guild hall with Wendy and Mira and set up a triage.
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The invading army had still not managed to enter the city but were using long ranged artillery to bombard the town from a distance. A lot of damage had been done to the town already and the guards were already being beaten badly.
Leading the charge was the now forty foot tall Master of the guild, in a single leap he jumped over the hastily built defences and came crashing down right in the centre of a now petrified and half annihilated battalion of enemy soldiers.
"You punks have made a grave mistake!" He bellowed loudly and angrily as he started swinging his massive limbs around taking down more and more enemies with each strike.
Natsu and Gajeel were the next two to make it to the battle field. In perfect unison the two dragon slayers launched their individual dragon slayer roar attacks and managed to defeat another advancing battalion in seconds.
Erza, Grey and Elfman were next; using their own different magic's to tear into the enemy forces. In mere minutes the entire Fairy Tail guild was fighting side by side with Magnolia guards to defend their home from the invading army.
But it was not easy.
It seemed that for every enemy that was subdued or defeated another two would take their place, the numbers game was taking its toll on the home team.
"We can't defeat these kinds of numbers!" Grey shouted over the immense noise that swam through the battlefield.
"Fairy Tail does not surrender!" Came the proud call from their master.
"Fire Dragon wing attack!" Natsu screamed as he launched what felt like the hundredth attack that day. Natsu was strong and had almost unbelievable stamina but his magic often began to hurt him if he used it too often and now he could feel his body beginning to show signs of the damage he was doing to himself. "Damn elemental fatigue…" Natsu groaned through his pants of exhaustion as he tried to remember what his father taught him.
Beside him Gajeel was suffering as well, although his own magic didn't hurt his body it did require a hell of a lot of energy to use. For every type of dragon slayer magic there was a draw back. For Natsu it was damage to his own body and for Gajeel it was the energy it cost to use it.
It was clear that something needed to be done soon if they were going to survive this.
"Salamander!" Gajeel shouted to the pink haired mage next to him. "We could use a miracle right about now!"
Heeding his words Natsu began frantically searching the battlefield for a solution; all seemed lost until he spied the enraged form of Loxus.
"Loxus!" Natsu shouted across the battlefield. "Feed me!"
Ally and enemy alike froze at the stupidity of the request, everyone except a blond haired lighting mage who was now smirking almost evilly.
Loxus used all of his energy and summoned one huge lightning bolt which he shot at the tired pink haired mage. Every face on the battlefield seemed to drop at the sight.
"You just fried your own teammate you jerk!" Jet screamed angrily.
"That's cruel…" One of the enemy mages stated solemnly.
"Just watch." Loxus stated calmly, his face still held that evil grin.
The guild members returned their sights to where they expected to see the fried leftovers of Natsu Dragneel but what they got was something rather different.
With flame and lighting surrounding him Natsu stood tall and confidently. His glare penetrated deep into the ranks of the imposing enemy troops.
"Watch this…" Natsu stated darky. Everyone watched has his right arm became engulfed in his traditional flames but they looked on in awe as his left arm became wrapped in lightning. Bringing them together he shouted. "Lightning Flame Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" And with that he launched a massive ball of fire and lightning that struck deep in the enemy ranks sending debris and enemy personal flying in every direction. The shock wave was powerful enough to even force Makarov down to one knee as he shielded his face with one of his giant sized forearms.
"It's even more powerful than last time…" Loxus muttered to himself.
Panting exhaustedly to himself Natsu smiled, but promptly fainted without being able to see how much of an effect he had had on the battle.
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Natsu was lying flat on his back on something quite comfortable. The last thing he remembered was using every ounce of energy he had left in that final attack. His eyes were still too heavy to open so instead he listened. He could hear… laughter? And… drinking?
Lying there without knowing what was going on was proving to be too much for the ever inquisitive dragon slayer. Using the tiny amount of energy he had been able to recover he forced his eyelids to part and was greeted by a sight that immediately allowed him to release a sigh of relief that he didn't know he had been holding.
"Hey sleepy head." The soothing voice of his wife greeted as he stared directly into her glossy brown eyes.
"Hey." He squeaked through his exhaustion.
Lucy smiled warmly at him and kissed him lovingly before playfully hitting him in the arm. "You scared the crap out of me." She said teasingly but the look in her eyes let Natsu know that she was being serious. "You have no idea what it felt like when I saw Gajeel walk into the guild hall with you draped over his shoulder."
Natsu tried to smile but couldn't quite manage a full one. "I'm sorry." I whispered. "I…"
"Just rest." Lucy intoned quietly as she laid her hand across his chest soothingly. "Apparently you managed to take out more than two thirds of the enemy army before you collapsed and the others were able to defeat the rest. So we're safe now thanks to you." She added.
This time Natsu's smile managed to creep its way onto his face as he watched his wife crawl into the infirmary bed with him.
It wasn't long before all that could be heard in the room were the soft snores of two exhausted newlyweds.
But what happened with the other two armies?
