Chapter 3- The Princess and The Dragon

"I guess I'll go first" Natsu said, after taking a sip of the bittersweet coffee that Gajeel was previously drinking, which earned him a slap on the back of his head. He peeked at the blonde haired 4 year, who was now playing with Happy.

Earlier yesterday, after the girls were turned into 4 year olds, Mirajane and Cana decided to help the boys with the baby shopping. Gajeel, Gray and Natsu tried to ran away, not wanting to be seen baby shopping. Mirajane took the new babysitters to a shop that sold baby clothes. The store had clothes that were meant for kids. The store looked like a unicorn had thrown up all over it as the store had different colors, for the boys.

Lucy squealed at the sight of the dresses. She tried to jump off Natsu's back but he did not let as she did not have anything on. The boys decided to split up. Natsu was forced to go to the more colorful part of the store. Lucy pointed at almost anything that has the color pink.

"Lookie!" Lucy squealed once again, she pointed to another pink colored dress, "It looksh like Natchu! I want!" Natsu, who tried to ignore the jumping 4 year old, decided to walk away. Lucy's smile disappeared, and turned into a frown.

"NO! I WANT NATCHU SHIRT!" she began to punch Natsu's back. Natsu sighed, not wanting to argue with the 4 year old anymore. He grabbed the dress and asked "What else do you want to try on?" Lucy took a look around. She grabbed more dresses that Natsu was sure will cost more than he could afford. That will not be good later.

After half an hour, an hour in the boys' mind, Mirajane and Cana took the girls to the fitting room. Natsu collapsed on the couch across the fitting room where Mira took Lucy and Levy, Gajeel sat beside him soon after. Gray unfortunately had to sit on the floor as the couches and chairs were already occupied.

"Why do girls take forever to buy clothes?" Natsu whined, "This is boring"

"You can say that again"

"It's not that hard to pick clothes"

"Easy for you to say, you never have clothes on!" Natsu practically yelled.

"Wanna go flame brain?"

"Bring it on stripper"

"Shut the hell up both of you won't yah?" Gajeel butted in, yelling at both of them.

"YOU SHUT UP!" the Fairy Tail mages yelled, earning Gajeel a punch from both.

Being the Fairy Tail mages they are, the small argument turned into a huge fight. The store ended up with some torn up clothes, thanks to Gajeel, some burned ones, from Natsu, and also some frozen ones, made by Gray. Soon enough, the police got everything under control, though the boys did end up getting banned from the store.

Gray, Natsu and Gajeel quietly sat outside the store waiting for Mira and Cana to finish their shopping with the girls. After another hour or so, they finished shopping. Juvia let go of Cana and Mira's hand and immediately tackled Gray into a hug. Lucy, who was in Mira's arms, jumped off and started to climb onto Natsu's back. Levy being the more calmer child, did not try to jump off from Cana's arms, but as soon as she was let onto the ground, she quickly made her way to Gajeel and held onto his pants.

Lucy had bought the pink dress that she had picked out and was now currently wearing it. Juvia had a plain blue sun dress on. Mira had been nice enough to even but her a smaller version of the cap that she always wear before she was turned into a 4 year old. Levy wore a yellow and orange stripped longed sleeved shirt on and jeans, her hair contained a white flower pin that held her ponytail.

At around 4:00 in the afternoon, Mira decided it would be best if the boys head home and let the girls take a rest. Lucy was still in Natsu's back, telling him a story. Natsu was no longer listening to what the 4 year old was saying. He was making his way through town, earning him some attention because of the little bundle of joy on his back that looked like Lucy.

His dragon ears were able to pick up some of what the people were saying. What he heard was unbelievable, it was no were close to the truth, he just wanted to go over to them and tell them that what they were saying were untrue and they should stop, but then he thought, the sooner he get to Lucy's apartment, the better.

"I heard Natsu knocked Lucy up and they had a kid, they didn't tell anyone though. Mira found out yesterday, Lucy got so embarrassed that she fled town"

Mira had kindly suggested that Natsu and Lucy will stay at Lucy's apartment as his house was a mess and it would not be good if Lucy stayed at that kind of environment. Natsu jumped to Lucy's open window, making his 4 year old team mate giggle.

Lucy climbed off his back and fell on the bed. She jumped off the fluffy pink bed that she had, and ran towards what seemed like a normal box. Natsu collapsed on the soft bed, sighing. He did not expect babysitting his team mate to be one of the hardest jobs that he'll ever under take.

Happy came flying from the window a few minutes after Lucy and Natsu did. He began to try and talk to Natsu, but the dragon slayer is too emotionally tired to listen to his partner. Natsu did not hear anything, his eyes glazed. He was about to fall asleep, when he felt something or someone jump on his chest. He opened his left eye, only to see big brown eyes staring back at him.

Lucy leaned forward to the tired dragon slayer and poked his cheek.

"You tiwed, Natchu?" the little girl asked. Natsu was about to say yes and that she woke him up, he was stopped by the puppy dog eyes that Lucy had. He sighed and shook his head. He sat up, careful not to hurt Lucy.

"What'd you got there, Lucy?" Natsu asked, looking at the book that the little girl was holding. Her face suddenly perked up, like she had remembered something important.

"Wead this to me!" Lucy begged, putting her puppy dog eyes once again. Natsu tried to resist, he really did, but believe it or not, the impulsive dragonslayer had a soft spot for kids.

Natsu sighed and took the book. It wasn't the usual 300 pages longed books that he usually sees Lucy carrying around, which was a relief for him. Lucy snuggled in the comforter and waited for Natsu to start.

"Once upon a time- seriously? What kind of book is this? This is so chee-" Natsu was interrupted by a small 'shh' from the little girl. He rolled his eyes and started over.

"Once upon a time, there was a princess trapped in a tower" Natsu showed Lucy a picture of a blonde haired girl looking out through a window, far up the tower.

"She was lonely. The only company that she had was a dragon. A dragon so vicious that it would do anything to stop any intruders that will try and take his companion" Natsu once again showed Lucy the picture, but this time it was a pink dragon spraying fire through his mouth to attack an armed man.

"The dragon had taken the princess from her kingdom, as a threat to those who try and defy him. But one day, a brave handsome prince snuck into the princess' tower and rescued her. The dragon, enraged by the prince's actions attacked the small kingdom that the princess was in" The picture that Natsu showed Lucy was of the dragon attacking the defenseless kingdom.

"What the dragon did not know was that this was a trap, the prince was hiding on the kingdom's tallest towers and was about to take the dragon's life" the page was pitch dark, only half of the prince's heavily armored body was shown.

"The prince jumped off of the tall tower and beheaded the dragon, holding it as if it was a trophy" Natsu felt enraged when he saw on the page. Cheering villagers, the prince had the dragon's head on one hand, the other had the sword that he mercilessly cut the dragon's neck with. He angrily flipped through the next page.

"Thankful for the prince's bravery, the princess decided to marry him and lived happily ever after" The page showed the couple happy on a wedding dress, the whole town cheered. Natsu had the urge to destroy the annoying book.

'There's no way in hell that a dragon would fall for that trick! And who the hell kills in a children's book?' he yelled through his mind, he was about to complain about the plot line of the book but he was interrupted when he heard slight sobbing coming from his babyfied team mate.

"WAAAH!" her voice rang in Natsu's ears, "Poor dwagon! He just wanted a fwiend"

Natsu was shocked at what he heard. Usually, little girls would be happy that the princess was saved by the handsome prince, and lives 'happily ever after', but Lucy somehow felt bad for the 'antagonist'.

Natsu placed his hand on the little girl's head, "it's okay" he said awkwardly.

"I have an idea! Why not create an alternate ending for the story?" Happy asked, with a fish in hand.

"What's alewnate ending?" Lucy asked.

"It's when you make your own ending, 'cause you didn't like the real ending" Natsu explained. Lucy's teary eyes were suddenly brightened and jumped off of the bed once again. She searched for crayons and papers which were on her little box.

Natsu smiled, and tried to sleep once again, as the little girl was finally entertained. For at least half an hour, Natsu had a nap, but of course, he was woken up by Lucy. She gave him a stack of papers that were hand drawn. Natsu yawned and took a look at the first picture.

It was the prince asking the princess to go back to the kingdom with her, but instead of accepting, in a little bubble it said 'I can't'.

"Happy-chan helped me!" she smiled.

He flipped to the next page, which contained the dragon and the princess confronting with each other, a little bubble had 'I want to be friends with you' written on it.

As Natsu flipped through the little book that Lucy drew, it was all of the dragon and the princess slowly becoming friends, getting closer and closer with each passing day.

"Do you like it, Natchu?" Lucy asked.

"I thought that it was better than the original" Natsu smiled, patting the little girl in the head. Lucy's eyes brightened. Yelling out a loud 'Yay'

"I wanna make booksh shomeday!" Lucy pumped her fist in the air.

"But first, little girls need to go take a nap before we write another book" picking up the little girl, placing her on the bed.

"Okay! Good night kisses!" Lucy waited for the confused Natsu. Happy giggled and purred 'she likes him' in the corner. Not wanting to argue anymore, he kissed the little girl's forhead.

"Shleep by me!" Lucy patted the space beside her. He sighed and got under the covers. 'It's much more comfortable here anyway'

The two unknowingly fell asleep, with Natsu hugging the cuddly little Lucy.


A/N: Sorry for the long wait . ... I began school and I had a writer's block D: Hope you guys liked this chappy! Criticism are welcomed! I really want to improve my writing skills :D

Thank you guys so much for the review ! It keeps me motivated . I'll try to update ASAP , promise ! Oh ! and I thought it would be fun to do little trivias at the end of each chappy !

Trivia:

-This is the first chapter that has a title :)

-If people did not get it. The Princess was a reference to Lucy and the dragon was Natsu.

-Good Night kisses are the best ! :)

-This chapter is released on the author's birthday LOL