"Mommy! Mommy! I want to watch Frozen!", a young, over energized five year old chanted with her long, black pigtails bouncing every where with each jump.
"Alright, you can go put it in." a blue haired water mage replied as she finished pouring a sauce into a bowl. "Merdey, could you place that on the table." she asked as she gestured to a plate on the counter top.
"Sure thing! Hey, when do you think the males will be back.", a pink haired wizard asked as she grabbed the bowl from the water mage's hands.
"Yah!" the young girl added, "When are Daddy and Uncle Lyon going to come back."
Juvia turned away from the stove where she was currently stirring vegetables and gave her answer, "The males should be back by dinner time. It will come faster if you help Aunt Merdey with the cookies, Glacium."
"Okay Mommy." the over energized child replied as she jumped up to the counter to help her Aunt Merdey with the cookie dough.
Soon a click of a lock was heard and the front door of the house opened to reveal two males bickering with one another as they entered the house.
" All I'm saying is that you need to keep an eye on that boy. For my sanity's sake!" the black haired male said.
"No I don't! You're being completely paranoid about something that won't happen for 15 years!" the white haired one replied.
"Welcome home boys." Juvia started with her hands on her hips. " And what would you two be arguing over now?"
Lyon was about to start but was silenced by his wife glaring at him over Juvia's shoulder.
"Nothing ma'am. We were just fighting over the weather." he replied as he hung an arm around Gray's shoulder with large, cheery grins plastered on both their faces.
"Well," Merdey began, "dinner's almost ready. I suggest you two get that little ball of energy settled." she finished as she pointed to her niece currently licking the cookie dough bowl from behind the counter, believing her naughty deed was out of sight.
" Glacium," her father called as he leaned over the counter to find her looking up to him,"go give your uncle a hug."
She bounded up and raced into Lyon's arms saying,"Hi Uncle Lyon!"
"Hi Glacium." he replied as he lifted her into the air and spun her around before placing her down to then allow her to run freely about the house as everyone pitched into preparing dinner.
Once dinner was finished and they had all eaten together, Glacium stated, "Can we watch Frozen now?"
"Isn't that the movie with the proposal, Grey?" Lyon chimed to then be whacked in the shin by his wife sitting across from him.
"Oh yes, Juvia remembers now. We should watch that movie. Glacium loves it." Juvia stated as she moved to clear the table as the two males began bickering again.
"Yay!" Glacium shouted as she ran into the sitting room to start the movie. Grey and Lyon reluctantly followed as their wives threatened them to either behave or do dishes. Either way, they ended up sharing a chair when the group was finally ready to start the film, much their wives' amusement.
Time passed as the film continued with constant side remarks from both Grey and Lyon to then be chided by Glacium telling them to "be quiet or I'll tell mom." This of course kept them silent for a few more moments until the next opportunity arose for sarcasm.
Halfway through the real fun began. "Mommy," Glacium inquired, "how do proposals work?"
Grey nearly spat out his drink as Juvia just stared dumbfounded as her daughter elaborated to louden the silence.
"Hans proposed to Anna and she said yes. Is that how they work?"
Juvia opened and closed her mouth to only produce silence as Grey leaned his head back and was muttering words of disbelief such as ,"Why me?" and "Why did she have to be smart?"
"Well Glacium," Lyon began, "basically, to propose to someone the right way, you have to do something so unbelievably stupid that the person you're askings can't say no."
Glacium nodded in response and turned back to the movie. She didn't know yet, but her question which invoked his answer just costed Lyon a very valuable piece of his pride once he and his wife returned home.
A few more minutes passed before Glacium began again with, "So does that mean I'm engaged to Igneel now?"
Gray repulsed out of his current trance and stared, appalled, at his daughter. "The little rugrat did what?" Soon followed by a string of profanities, Grey began running around the room screaming bloody murder and cursing poor Natsu's son to then be subdued by his lovely wife whacking him on the head and letting him sleep off his anger on the living room floor.
"Glacium dear," Juvia began,"Why do you think you are engaged to Igneel?"
"Cause he gave me a flower ring and asked me to marry him and I said yes. So am I engaged to him now?" she replied.
"Oh" Merdey mused, "I guess you are. You better take good care of that boy. All men are idiots after all. Just look at your uncle."
"Hey! Lyon refuted, "I'm a lot smarter then Grey at least. I didn't shoot you when I popped the question."
"But you did manage to forget the ring at the ceremony" his wife retorted.
This ended in the family stopping the film to continue talking as Glacium listed contently to her family, who honestly, she would want any other way.
Yay! Happy endings are always the best. I'm thinking about an epilogue but I'm not sure yet. We will have to see. Have an amazing day!