Forgive the long hiatus for this story. Writer's block, classes and work.

In this chapter, Nashi is around 4-5 years old.

Finding Aunty Mavis

It was a beautiful wedding. Long overdue by three generations of the guild. But it did not disappoint in the slightest.

The bride looked beautiful beyond compare, the groom smiled brighter than he'd ever smiled in his life. Their friends and family laughed, cheered and cried.

There was singing, dancing, drinking and eating. People from all over Magnolia came to see this wedding.

And it was all thanks to the flower-girl, little Nashi Dragneel-Heartfilia.

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"Mama? Papa?" Nashi had asked her parents as they finished cleaning up after dinner one night.

"Yes sweet-heart?" Lucy asked her baby girl.

"Why don't I have an auntie?"

Her parents froze in their places. Happy let his beloved fish fall from his mouth and or once, Carla did not berate him for poor table manners in front of their son, Lucky.

"Ant?" Lucky asked in confusion. "Why want ant?"

"Aunt, sweetheart." Carla corrected. "It's the term of endearment to either the sister of a parent, or the wife of the uncle."

Natsu, surprisingly, handled the situation.

"Well, you see….sweetheart?"

"Yes, papa?"

"Mama and papa don't have sisters by blood…" Then he realized something. "And what do you mean you don't have an aunt? Levy, Mira, Erza, Juvia and them will be crushed to hear…!"

"Why isn't uncle Zeref married?"

….

….

Oh.

The parents understood now.

The subject had come up before, mostly between brotherly bonding and drinks. Zeref also gave Natsu the same answer:

"I'm over 1,000 years old and lost the empire I ran, along with most of my magic. Even with my looks and name cleared, no one would want anything to do with me beyond a trophy date. Besides, I don't need a wife. I have you, Lucy and Nashi. All the family I need."

And while he hadn't liked it, Natsu respected his older brother's wishes.

"Nashi, not everybody gets married, after all." Natsu tried to explain. "And uncle Zeref…"

"He was in love with founder Mavis, wasn't he?"

For once, Lucy cursed her duaghter's brilliant remembering of guild tales.

"When you fall in love, you get married." Nashi said, her four-year old mind's logic being undeniable. "Why didn't they?"

Most parents dread giving their child the 'where babies come from' or 'the more than friends' talks. Natsu and Lucy had to explain why their daughter's beloved uncle was not with the love of his life.

Now it was Lucy's turn

"Sweetie?" She cooed. "Your uncle and Mavis did fall in love. And they did love each other…but something happened and Mavis…."

She didn't want Nashi to know about death just yet.

"Had to be put in a crystal to heal because she got really sick!" Natsu interjected. "And this sickness was real bad, so she had to make a ghost to talk to people! And then people started calling uncle really, really, really bad names and he had to run away."

"But that's all done, right?" Nashi asked, remembering the stories of how her papa had beaten the mean god of magic and liberated the kingdom her uncle had made, turning him good again.

Her parents hugged her.

"Yes, but…" Lucy finished, having exhausted herself through this conversation. "Nashi, when Papa beat the mean magic god, the meanie did one last bad thing….he put a curse on Mavis' body and soul so that they could never fully be together again for more than a short while."

"We're sorry, princess." Natsu sighed, taking his family into a hug.

They then went to bed for the night, and the adults fell asleep quickly. But not their daughter.

Nashi now had a mission.

XXX

Nashi knew she'd get in BIG trouble for this.

She'd probably never be allowed to watch TV again, or be on Santa's naughty list for years after this. Mama would only buy her pretty dresses for special occasions and papa would probably never let her go on a job alone. She'd never be allowed strawberry ice cream ever again and her friends would never let her forget she broke the biggest rule in gulid.

But she didn't care.

In her mind, this had to be done.

Sneaking out of the house into the guild hall as quietly as she could alongside Lucky, they made their way to the furthest room.

Lumen Historie. Aside from the gulid master, only her mama and papa knew about it; where the crystal that keep Mavis' body intact was kept.

"Hello, little one." A gentle voice cooed suddenly. A voice Nashi didn't know that well, but fond familiar.

Nashi froze and shock.

She then turned to see a girl with long blonde hair, two wings in her hair, wearing a poufy yellow dress.

"Mrs. Mavis." She gasped.

"Huh?" Lucky asked, glancing round. "Where? Where is she?"

Mavis took a good look at the girl who'd snuck into her guild's hall. She was very clearly Natsu and Lucy's daughter; her pink hair worn in the sideways ponytail Lucy had for the longest time, wearing a little red dress and carrying a blanket with a dragon on it.

"What are you doing out in the Guild Hall this late, young lady?" Mavis asked sweetly. "NAd by yourself, no less? It's very dangerous. Your mama and papa will be so worried. And poor Zeref…"

Mavis knew very well of her beloved's relationship to this little girl; she was his niece, the light of his life that helped fill the void he felt when he lost her yet again.

A very small part of her was jealous of Nashi's bond with Zeref. But not to the point of malicious intent; Mavis knew full Nashi was far too cute and sweet to hurt anyone. Her beloved, his brother and that Lucy girl had raised her well.

"Well…" Nashi mumbled, anxious and nervous to be meeting Fairy Tail's founder. "You see, Mrs. Mavis?"

"Mavis is fine."

The little girl let out a deep breath and looked Mavis dead in the eyes.

"….I'm going to break the curse that mean magic god put on you and make you whole again!"

It was a child's promise. A naïve dream. She'd heard Purieto/Hades say the same thing many times over. Other skilled mages had come to try, only to fail.

But the way Nashi had said it…it was not a simple declaration. She WOULD do what she set out to do.

Steeling herself, Mavis made a smile

"And just why are you doing this, little one?"

The little girl's response?

"It'd make my Uncle Zeref really happy if he could marry you and live happily ever after." Nashi admitted. "That's what I want."

Mavis simply smiled and placed her hand on the little girl's head.

"Do what you wish, little one." She smiled, then disappearing from the little girl's eyes. "Never faulter, and all you strive for shall come to be."

Something filled Nashi's mind, but she forgot it. With a sigh of relief that she hadn't been caught, she continued on her way.

"Come on, Lucky."

"I'll stay outside and watch." The baby exceed suggested. "Just in case."

Nashi nodded and forced open the door and froze in shock at what she saw:

There she was, in her restored crystal. Mavis Vermillion.

The thing that had filled Nashi's mind earlier returned, and she spoke it aloud before she would forget again, unintentionally drawing on her magic as she did so.

"From the depths of my heart, please heed my great magics! Bring light into darkness, joy into pain, and eliminate this blight! May love prevail and evil fail…I invoke…Fairy Tale; Happy ending."

Nashi uttered, golden magic pouring from her form and into the crystal, then surrounding the guild. Maivs' ghost found herself picked up by the magic and smiled with anticipation as she drew closer and closer to her body.

The bright lights also forced another to awaken.

XXX

Everyone woke up and saw the glowing, golden magic. They istantly ran to the gulid.

"What in the name of?" Erza started, scaring everyone into stiffening up.

"Not me, this time!" Cana shouted. "Just making that clear!"

"NASHI'S MISSING!"

The guild turned to see a worried Natsu and Lucy, who'd rushed over to the gulid to investigate, only to find their daughter missing when they'd gone to grab her.

The guild was torn between investigating this magic and looking for the child…but that was ended when the magic itself vanished.

Without any thought, Lucy and Natsu leapt into the hall and started shouting their daughter's name. Happy and Carly would've as well, if they hadn't spied their son floating outside a door.

"What do you have to say fro yourself?" Carla asked, tehn taking her son into a hug that Happy joined in. "You could've been…I don't…"

Happy pulled his son away for minute.

"I'm happy your safe…but you're grounded for a while."

"Aye, dad." Lucky said.

By then, the others had joined in, and Levy made something known.

"…Why was that door opened?"

Erza, seeing which door Levy was referring to, requiped herself into her Heaven's Wheel Armour.

"Did Raven Tail try something at night..?"

"No." Jelall calmed his wife.

Natsu and Lucy had brust aay from the group, hoping against hope that their daughter was in the Lumen Historie room.

"NASHI!?" They called out in worry.

What they saw shocked them:

Nashi was unharmed, smiling and crying at the same time. She gave her parents a nod and pointed to something:

Zeref, who'd burst into the room once the magic began, was froze in place; his jaw dropped.

And soon, the whole guild followed in his example.

There, standing before them, barley covered with little Nashi's blanket…was the founder and First Gulid Master of Fairy Tail.

"M…Mavis?" Zeref asked in shock and hope.

The first guild-master smiled sweetly at him, pushing herself over to him.

"Hello….beloved."

XXX

A week later.

The older Dragneel brother's lips separated from those of the woman he loved almost as much as he loved his brother.

"I now proudly pronounce Mr. and Mrs. Zeref Dragneel!" Erza smiled in joy, and the crowd burst into an applause.

Cana and Mavis had a drink contest, which ended after the first beer. Mavis marveled at the spectacle of her mage's magics and laughed at the stories that where shared.

As dinner was about to be served, Nashi clanged her knife against her glass

"Um…I….I'd like to make a piece of toast?" She announced, not sure how else to put it.

Her parents simply smiled and nodded

"Go on." Erza smiled.

Nashi cleared his lips.

"She kisses my boo-boos…braids my hair… She makes uncle smile and leaves everyone happy. She turns our frowns right upside down and makes us laugh when we want to cry. Every guild master is loved everywhere….But my new auntie Mavis….is beyond compare."

Mavis held her voice in her throat as loving tears stung her eyes before opening her arms to hug her new niece.

The Dragneel family had grown by another member.

And in a few months, it would be even bigger.