A/N: Another chapter coming right up... Sorry for the update delay, as I had other stuff to attend to. Anyways, enjoy guys...

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Chapter Four: The adventure continues


While everyone was partying and enjoying, including the pink trio who had just joined, a blonde kid, wearing something that looked like headphones, slightly older than most of the kids there, was watching them from the floor above. He had an indifferent reaction to the merrying.

"Tch. Morons!" he whispered to himself and just disappeared from the scene.

Noticing him from the corner of the eye Natsu asked to no one "Who is that?".

"Oh, that's the guild master's grandson, Laxus." was Lisanna's reply.

"Why won't he come down and enjoy with us?" asked Lily.

"He's a dick. So don't mind him!" Cana joined in the conversation.

"Why is he up there?" asked Natsu "And... why aren't any of you going up there to get him?".

"We can't go up there. Guild's rules!" said Lisanna.

"Its for the S-Class wizards. They are the strongest mages of the guild" said Gray who too joined in the "interesting" conversation.

"Oh... so coool" said Natsu while beaming.

"Is he the only S-Class mage?" asked Lily.

"No, dumbass. The master is also an S-Class mage, then there's Gildarts and her." said Mira with last part coming out with a little venom.

"And who is that?" asked Lily who now became interested in the female S-Class mage, ignoring Mira, pissing her off just a bit.

"She's tha-" Mira was cut off by the sound of the opening guild-hall doors.

"We're back!" said two girls as they walked into the guild and noticed everyone partying.

"What's going on?" asked one of the girls.

Lisanna jumped up and ran upto the two girls followed by Mira, Natsu and Lily. Erica sat on one of the tables.

"Welcome back, Erza... Levy!" said Lisanna "We've got new members!".

"Oh, now I see why the partying!" said the older looking girl with an eye-patch.

"These two here are Natsu and Lily" Lisanna said to Erza and Levy pointing to Natsu and Lily.

"And these two here are Erza and Levy" she continued pointing to a red-haired girl and a shorter blue-haired girl respectively.

"Hello, I'm Natsu Dragneel, nice to you!" said Natsu.

"And I'm Liliana Dragneel, his sister, pleased to make your acquaintance" said Lily while pointing at Natsu.

"I'm Erza Scarlet, pleased to meet you too" replied the older looking red-haired girl.

"I'm Levy McGarden" said the blue-haired girl.

"And over there is Erica Dragneel, their mom" finished Lisanna pointing to a pink-haired lady.

As the two girls approached the woman, Erza noticed something about the woman. She had a familiar looking figure in her life somewhere. 'But where?' thought Erza. The two then just then went to the table and introduced themselves. After introducing themselves, Erza finally had finished figuring out who the person was.

"Miss Linette...?" asked Erza involuntarily.

Erica froze at that address towards her and looked at Erza quizzically. "How do you know that name?" asked Erica. She was referred so when she was a nurse, in the town hospital working with with her husband, in the village. She had almost forgotten that way of addressing.

"You were the town nurse in that village, right?" asked Erza in a hopeful manner.

"Y-Yes, but how do you know that?" asked Erica. Then it struck her that her village her few orphan kids who used to play around the hospital often.

"Are you one of those kids, who played near the hospital?" asked Erica.

"Yes, the five of us played together there!" replied Erza.

"You're one of those five kids! Why this is a miracle! Natsu, Lily come here quick!" said Erica in an ecstatic tone.

"What is it, mom?" asked Natsu.

"Natsu, remember the kids I used to talk about all the time, one of them is here!" replied Erica.

"Oooh... That's awesome!" Natsu and Lily exclaimed in unison.

Erza was overjoyed to know that a person from her village was alive and well and she had a meeting with the person. The person even joined her present family.

"So what happened to the others?" asked Erica.

"They're still at the that tower." said Erza in a sad tone.

"Oh... don't worry we'll save them" said Erica.

"So, h-how did you survive?" asked Erza remembering the raid of the village.

"The answer's here" replied Erica placing a hand on Natsu's head.

"I never knew you had a son and a daughter" said Erza in an astonished tone.

"I never knew myself" said Erica as she drifted away to her dreamland of kids.

'Uhh..uh...' Natsu, Lily sweatdropped.

Natsu then described the whole story and their journey upto joining Fairy Tail. All the while, observing the varied reactions from the two girls. He too was very happy looking at his mom getting happy for another chance meeting.

"So, you lived with a dragon?" asked Erza and Levy with amazed looks on their faces.

"Yeah, it was the most majestic thing I had ever seen" said Erica giving out a chuckle.

"So what magic do you use Miss Linette?" asked Erza.

"Oh, Erica is fine, and I use wind and healing magic!" replied Erica "Why do have this eye-patch?" asked Erica softly, knowing there may a reason behind it.

"It... It happened there" said Erza.

Then she described the whole kidnapping and how she and the others had worked in building a strange tower. And while retaliating they had mistreated the kids which resulted in her losing her eye. She then told that she had got herself an artificial eye, with the helpof Porylusica, and that could'nt cry because it was a fake eye .and so she used an eye-patch.

"Oh... just show me" said Erica.

Erza hesistantly took of the eye patch to reveal a normal looking eye albeit slightly dull in its iris colour. She then cast some healing magic and it stung Erza's eye. The pain was so acute that her eye watered. Then Erza realized, from the blurry image, that both her eyes now had teared up.

"Thank you, Miss Erica" said Erza hugging Erica.

Noticing the moment going on, Makarov announced another party. The day ended with whole guild partying till night. Then everyone said their goodbyes and left for their homes.

Erica, Natsu and Lily were elated with their decision of joining of the guild. They had already felt that they are a part of the guild. And this would only increase with time.


The Next Day...


"Good morning, everybody!" greeted the pink trio as they entered the guild and sat on the tables. They waited for the rest of the guild members to arrive as they were kinda early. Then greeting everybody and observing the activities of the guild mates, they realized that all of them took a paper from a board. The board read "Request Board".

"So you up for a request?" asked Lisanna, which snapped the trio out of their gaze.

"Oh we gotta pick a request right!" said Erica with a goofy smile and wlaked up to the board 'What should we pick?'

"Ah... this looks good" said Lily as she picked up a request.

The request paper had a peculiar reward money for a request not worth it. It was retrieving a letter. The request just read about task and no other details were specified. Still new to the system of requests, the pink trio took off to do the request.

"That much money sounds like the letter is stolen or something" said Erica, getting a nod from the two kids.

"Well its our first request so we better give it our all" said Natsu while grinning.

Then they arrived at the person's place, who put the request, to get details. They saw that the person was wealthy looking at the property he owned. They knocked at the door and were recieved by a maid, who then let them in when they showed her the request paper. The person who approached them was a middle-aged man.

"Hello, I'm John Abeers, I was the one who put up the request" said the man.

"So where do we have to get this letter from?" asked Lily.

"It's... it's in a dark guild, north of the town. The name is Death's Door, you have to get back my letter from there. It is really important to me!" said the man in a shaking tone.

"So I take it this dark guild has evil mages in it and stole your letter for some reason?" said Erica.

"Rightly put. I want the letter in one piece, not even a scratch" said the man sternly.

"Okay. We'll get it for you!" said Natsu.

With that the trio left and had reached the place told to them. They saw, from a distance, the board of the run-down building which read 'Death's Door' smeared in blood.

"This place gives me the creeps. We probably have to fight our way through" said Erica in a serious tone, signaling the two kids to up their guard. Then they slowly approached the building and had noticed that only five people were there guarding something that looked like a sealed letter tube.

"Let's go" said Natsu as he jumped on the closest one to them, followed by Lily who did the same.

"Ackkk!" came the dark mage's cry of pain as he was hit by a flaming fist behind his head. He was instantly knocked out.

Hearing this the rest four got alerted and the one being attacked by Lily almost dodged the attack.

"Get them" cried the one at the last who looked like the boss of the gang.

"Natsu, Lily, these people are just like those from our village" shouted Erica who attacked a nearby dark mage with wind magic.

"So, no holding back I guess" said Lily.

"Time for a beatdown" exclaimed Natsu.

After fighting for a little time, they had subjugated all the dark mages. They tied the unconscious mages and grabbed the letter container. Natsu had hurt his cheek in the excitement of the battle. But he just shrugged it off.

"Oh, this look so high-class!" said Erica as she looked at the tube.

"Let's read what's inside" said Natsu.

"No, Natsu. I told you no reading others personal stuff" Erica corrected Natsu, who just pouted cutely.

"Okay fine, let's give the letter back" said Natsu in a displeased tone.

They returned to the mansion and handed the letter to him. He thanked them profusely.

"Thank you so much. My life depends on this letter" said the man while shaking.

"What's so important about the letter?" asked Lily.

"This letter is the testimony of my achievements as a minister of this country" said the man.

"Oh. But then why did those guys steal this?" asked Natsu.

"It's because I was being I assigned this town for governance, and they wanted to take advantage of that" said the man.

"And you let them, steal it from you? How can you be so careless?" commented Erica.

The man could just manage a sheepish smile. "But, thank you so much again" said John.

"Next time be careful" said Erica as she collected the reward, a hefty sum, and left for the guild, the two kids following behind.

'Oh boy, the city sure is in great hands' sweatdropped Erica.

Arriving at the guild, the three were greeted by the usual noisy guild, wait... usual already? They walked upto the bar and ordered water and slumped on the counter.

"That was so tiring!" said Natsu and Lily.

"What was?" asked Mira.

"Beating up the bad guys" replied the both.

"Hah, you're so weak, that you you got exhausted by just beating them up?" said Mira with a smug look on her face.

"Haa? What was that?" Lily shot back, Natsu just kept quite.

Natsu then got up and turned around, the mark on his cheek visible to the guild members. Looking at this Gray made an entry into the scene.

"Looks like pinky got his ass handed to him" said Gray, which ticked Natsu off.

"Oi, I didn't even get the hurt because of those people, I just bumped into a wall" replied Natsu with an embarrassed look on his face.

"Sure!" said Gray with a I-know-it-all look on his face, which pissed Natsu off.

"Hey, droopy eyes I'll prove it to ya" countered Natsu, which pissed Gray off this time.

"You looking for a fight, squinty eyes?" said Gray.

"Sure, I'll take you on, pervert" said Natsu as he crashed into Gray with a fist cocked back.

Elsewhere in the guild another verbal exchange turned into a fist fight. It was only a matter of time when the other members got involved. As the raging tornado, of randomly flying fists, tables, chairs and guild members, increased in size it engulfed every other member of the guild until it was broken apart by an annoyed Erica who blew everyone away with a strong wind.

"Will you guys simmer down? I am trying to rest over here" she said with a deadly glare directed towards them.

"Uwah! Scary!" said everyone as they calmed down and returned the guild to its former self.

Suddenly the guild doors burst into small cubes and there stood a man with a droopy look on his face. The sound of the door collapsing caused Erica to look up the source.

"Master I'm back!" said the man.

"So, back are you? How was the quest, Gildarts?" said Makarov as he came out of his room on the second floor.

"Oh, new members I see" said Gildarts, finding three new faces in the guild.

"Hello, nice to meet you" said the three as they approached the man.

"Hey, I'm Gildarts Clive, good to have you in fairy tail" said Gildarts.

The three introduced themselves and got to know each other and exchanged other talks. Then, another party was thrown to welcome Gildarts, who apperently only comes to the guild once in a few years as he did very high level quests.

The day ended with party member sall sprawled on the floor, passed out due to the booze. The pink haired family took their leave, went home and rested. The next day they were greeted by the same members, who had passed out, still sleeping peacefully with occasional snoring sounds here and there. They did notice Laxus this time only to be greeted another scorn and a prideful goodbye as he left the guild premises.

"Man, what a jerk!" said Lily accompanied by a nod from Natsu and strangely Erica.

"Guys, rise and shine! It's morning already" shouted Erica, looking at the helpless figures of the guild members still affected by the booze.

"Morning already, that's such a pain" said Macao as he groggily woke up. The other members followed his lead and finally all were up and awake.

Gray and the Strauss family had just entered the guild. Followed by all the girls from Fairy Hills. Strangely all of them were very tired as well. 'Oh, looks like their partying went a tad bit overboard!' thought Erica as she noticed all the sleepy faces.

"Hey Lily, look... droopy eyes really has droopy eyes!" said Natsu while laughing madly as he looked at the half-naked Gray who perked up to the comment.

"Natsu, look... a red dumb face and a white idiot face" said Lily as she pointed at the two girls she was refering to, all the while giggling violently herself.

The people targeted with the insult were quick to react to the statements, quickly snapping out of their lazy states, by pouncing on the intended target. But that didn't happen as their targets seemed to move fater than them for some reason. They then realized that their sleepiness was causing them to slow down.

They resorted to magic b'coz... why the hell not? They tried to hit their target only to miss. They tried and tried but could'nt do it. All the while, the victims of the crossfire were forcefully awakened from their sleepiness which pissed them to no end.

"Get the two brats" said the awakened guild members with a tick mark on their foreheads. They caught the people responsible for the destruction of their peaceful time, namely Natsu and Lily.

"No, no, no, no" said Natsu and Lily. As they were caught, they retaliated, in vain, to get out their holds.

Then they recieved the punishment for their apperant 'crimes'. Though, they didn't give in and fought back. This turned the 'judgement time' into another all-out guild war, with magic flying form one corner to another. The fight was interrupted midway by an annoyed Gildarts who created a hole in the center of the guild and trapped everyone in it. This pretty much was the routine in the guild always.


A few days later...


Natsu and Lily both enjoyed Gildarts' company while he was at the guild. The day had come when Gildarts was finally going to leave for another hundred year quest. The strange part about this was that Gildarts had stayed the longest of any his stays in fairy tail. The guild members thought the two kids had an effect on Gildarts, which was true.

Gildarts got the request and left, saying his goodbyes.

"This is so boring!" said Natsu, slumped at a table in the guild. 'I think I should do a request... ?' thought Natsu, snot sure if his boredom would be quenched.

'Okay, let's just go outside' Natsu thought to himself as he left the guild. Noticing this both Lily and Lisanna followed him.

"Where are you going?" asked Lisanna.

"Nowhere in particular" replied Natsu.

While they were walking Natsu picked up a scent of a fruit. It smelled delicious and fresh.

"Hey, I smell fruit over there. And really good ones" said Natsu as he pointed to a forest like area.

The three kids ran over to the tree Natsu had picked in excitement. They saw the tree was quite high and had many fruit hanging from it.

"Lily, help me out here!" said Natsu as he looked up an aimed at a fruit. He then threw a stone, with the help of his fire as boosters, which hit its target and brought down a fruit.

He gave the fruit to Lisanna and got another one for himself. He saw that Lily was also done with her side. They looked at the fruit one more time. It was bright red in color and had a fresh citrus fragrance. It looked so inviting that they all took a large bite out of it.

The thing they tasted was the worst in their life. The three frantically ran around in the sheer amount of shock at the thing they experienced. They then pucked their guts out until they were satisfied that the taste was gone.

"That was the nastiest thing I've ever tasted!" said Lily as she cleaned her mouth.

Natsu, who unfortunately could'nt get the horrible taste out of his mouth started to breath fire out in order to remove the bad taste. Until he was done, he had pucked almost five times.

Pissed, he kicked a nearby tree. "Damn fruit, looks good, tastes shit!" growled Natsu. Before he could kick again, a thing came crashing down on to his head.

"Ow, what's that thing that fell down" as he got up and looked at the thing. "Ooooh, an egg. A dragon's egg! Lily, Lisanna look!" Natsu called out, overjoyed at the discovery.

"Wow!" said the two girls who came to spot and looked at the egg. It was big, almost as tall as Natsu, and had strange intricate patterns which somewhat resembled a dragon.

"Let's hatch it" said Lily. She then remembered the things a mother bird does to hatch an egg.

"We need a straw nest, and we need to keep the egg warm" said Lily.

Both Natsu and Lily built a small hut made of straw and put some more of it inside the hut. Then they rested the egg on the grass. They made the hut close to Natsu's home, just for safety. The day came to an end with all the three taking turns to keep the egg warm. They enjoyed each others company and playing the role of a parent.

The three were so exhausted that they dozed off next to the egg. The next day the three got up because of a strange noise. The noise that woke them sounded like knocking sound. They realized the sound and rushed to get up and saw the egg shaking. Overjoyed they took the egg and rushed to the egg, though very carefully.

Upon arriving at the guild, they kicked open the doors and rushed inside. Dodging the other questions thrown at them they quickly positioned the egg at the center of the guild.

"Everyone, you have to see this!" said the three in a loud tone. "It's an egg. And its hatching".

"Oh, what a rare sight!" said Makarov as he came up to the egg and looked at it amazement.

Everyone gathered around the egg and watched it closely. It shook and made a knocking noise.

"It's a dragon's egg you know." said Natsu. "It will hatch into a baby dragon".

"It doesn't look like a dragon's egg to me" said Gray trying to piss Natsu off, which didn't work as Natsu was too engrossed with the egg hatching.

Then suddenly the egg started cracking. Everyone's attention was drawn to it. It cracked a little more and then a little more. When it was cracked halfway through the egg glowed a bright light and from it emerged a cat, a blue one at that. It was small and had wings. It then softly landed on Natsu's head with a peaceful look on its face.

"Aye!" came the voice of the cat. Hearing this the entire guild burst into a joyous mood.

Looking at the mood change the guild had undergone Natsu decided on a name.

"Happy!" said Natsu to the cat. To which the cat replied "Aye!" while raising its small paw into the air.

This caused another roar of laughter in the guild and the members were overjoyed at the addition of a new member to their already big happy family.


A/N: The chapter's done. Well this may have been boring but I'll try to improvise on this. There is a lot of stuff I've planned for the upcoming chapters so stay tuned. Until then bye guys...