Ive noticed I have this really bad habit of bringing Happy in when he is needed and then forget about him and im trying to be more aware of it. Well enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail (sadly), but I do own this idea!
Chapter 4
Lucy stared at the sleeping form in front of her. She fell asleep waiting for him to wake up, but all that happened was that he whimpered her name in his sleep. She put her hand on the pink mass of hair that really needed a haircut. Natsu looked no worse for the wear age wise, his version of looking older was that he was taller and lost the boyish curve of his face, though Lucy didn't exactly look older either. His breath became slightly uneven as he woke up from his slumber. He groggily looked at his mate and frowned. He put his hand on her cheek and stared her in the eyes.
Then he spoke, "Do you…Am I…..Will you…Can I… be…. forgiven?"
Lucy just looked at him, her eyes filled and she knew that he had been torturing himself with this.
"Natsu of course! I can't live without you. You may have left me, but not on purpose and you came back! That's all that matters to me!" She sobbed as she threw her arms around his neck.
Then she knew, the man she was hugging was really, honestly and truly Natsu. Despite his wounds she jumped on his chest, straddling his waist. He winced, but only slightly because Wendy had healed the injuries to the point of almost disappearance. Lucy felt like a girl again, she was bursting with joy and she was on cloud nine. Nothing could make her happier as she snuggled up to her MIA boyfriend. And then their children stumbled in, not really awake with Exceed on their heads. That reminded Lucy to take Happy out of the closet she locked him in when he tried to wake up Natsu.
"Lucy did you move on? You had kids too?" he looked down in despair
And although it was cruel of her, she began to laugh uncontrollably. Natsu tried to get up, feeling shamed, but Lucy stopped him by pressing a kiss to his lips. Apparently he doesn't remember much about what he had done when he was under Yuki's control. When she pulled back she looked at him with a smirk he didn't understand.
"How can you ask that when they look just like us, well, except for Kim's hair color. Do you know how she got fuchsia? I don't! Their yours, silly! Their father is you, dumbass! The boy is your son, Ryuu Salamander Heartfilia- now Dragneel- and this girl is your daughter Kimiko- Kim -Sutaa Heartfilia- now Dragneel. And the Exceeds on their heads are Poppy- the light grey one on Ryuu's head- and Seb- the dark grey one on Kim's head-and they are twins as well." She explained to the poor confused dragonslayer
After she spoke his eyes widened and he pointed to himself and then them. She nodded slowly so he would get the picture.
"Those are my kids?" He managed
She gave him an exasperated look and then nodded for the zillionth time that day, she looked over to the kids.
"Hey kids, come over and say hi to Daddy." She encouraged
And that was all they needed to run and tackle their parents. Natsu laughed then shooed everyone off him and then he stood to his full height and picked up his children. He adored them from the first second and his dragonslayer instincts made him very protective of the two giggling 6 yr olds. Natsu looked at the couch that he had been previously sleeping on and raised an eyebrow at Lucy. Her face darkened and she pointed at the Ryuu, Natsu laughed and gave her a look that said, "what number?" Her face darkened even further when she flashed 106 with her fingers. Then she glared at him, and Natsu gave her a sheepish smile.
"Like father, like son? ..." He said as a joke until Lucy really gave him a death glare
"And like father like daughter." Lucy said pointedly blaming him for passing on the destructive gene
"Beginner's Luck?" He replied
She rolled her eyes at him. Then an idea sprung on her as she watched the children climb all over Natsu and tell him thing about them.
She looked around for Seb and Poppy and then realized they were trying to rescue the trapped forgotten Happy. She rushed over and unlocked the cabinet, "Happy are you okay?" she apologized
Happy didn't pay attention to her though; he just went to join the fun with the dragonslayer and his children. Then she had the children sit down, and wait for a minute. She turned to Natsu.
"I'm going to buy a new couch, you're their father and it's your turn to get to know and watch your kids. Oh! And don't take of Ryuu's scarf no matter what, he inherited the weirdness about that thing from you, and if anything gets broken by anybody," Lucy caught the gaze of everyone in the room," you get a time out." Then she pranced out the door thrilled with the thought of a break
With Natsu, Ryuu, and Kim plus Exceeds
Ryuu and Kim really liked their father; he was just as cool in person as Mommy had said he would be. He took them to the park and showed them that the wings of the cats could carry other people. Then Natsu got down to business.
"Alright kids, I need some cooperation from the people in my circus!" Natsu shouted playfully
"Daddy, what circus? Are you crazy?" They giggled stepping in line to play anyway
"My circus of course, and you are my acts! Can you perform any tricks?" Natsu said with a mischievous glint in his eyes
That's when all hell broke loose, what was originally a game for the twins became a chance to show their father the magic they could use. Ryuu was the first to get overly excited; a habit Natsu gave to his son, he realized.
"Roar of the Star Dragon!" He yelled
Natsu was dumbfounded when he saw a blinding white stream of fire come from his son's mouth and head straight toward him. He moved on instinct to eat the fire like normally, and he realized the fire tasted gross, it was like eating his own flames. He reminded himself to never do it again. But that decision, turned out to be a bad one when he saw the park around him erupt into flames.
Ryuu smirked, he was gonna show his papa that that wasn't the only thing he could do. "Wing slash of the Star Dragon!" , then before poor Natsu had time to recover, "Fist of the Star Dragon!"
Natsu was dodging everything, making the fire in the park bigger and he growled in frustration. Then something very unexpected happened.
"Open Gate of the Water Dragon! Aquamarine!" Kim chanted, bringing out her favorite spirit
And a massive water dragon appeared in the park. Kim watched at her father's eyes almost popped out of his head. Seb, Poppy, and Happy joined their mages as the tree they were sleeping in was burning. The dragon spoke in Kim's mind. Dear one, shall I fix this fire your big brother caused? Kim just nodded eagerly and the dragon let a stream of cool water from her giant maw and soothed the greedy white flames to nothingness. Dear one I shall go now, for your magic can't keep me here long. But anytime you need me, open my gate. Then Kim waved goodbye, slightly fatigued from the appearance of her best friend. Seb landed of her shoulder and murmured to her comfortingly, since he was more of a silent fellow.
Natsu stared sternly at his son, even if he was impressed at the sheer untamed power and he had been the same, careless, with power, he had to make sure Ryuu would pull this again.
"Ryuu that was awesome bro! Totally freaking cool!" Poppy shouted giving him a fist bump Then she saw the death glare from Happy and she quickly stared at the ground and mumbled dejectedly about how cool Ryuu really was.
"Ryuu, never again." Natsu kneeled in front of Ryuu, "That fire is was burnt Mom's couch, right? You need to learn to control it, fire hurts people. Fire isn't like Wendy's wind, it won't heal, but fire protects people like Mom, Kim and the guild and it is alive. Every person's fire is different and alive." Natsu explained to his son
Ryuu listened very intently to Natsu speech, and this was stuff his mother could have never really explained to him, as she wasn't a fire mage. Then he stared right into his father's eyes with his big innocent brown ones, one certain part of his father's speech hitting a particular chord with him.
"Daddy, can you teach me how to protect Momma and Kim and Poppy and you?" He asked
Inside Natsu whooped in joy that his child he had known for a day had already trusted him this much.
"Of course Ryuu, I'll train you. You'll be the best mage in the guild, except me." The fire mage exclaimed
Then Natsu and Ryuu's incredibly sensitive hearing heard a thump. And then Seb yelled, both males ran over to a passed out Kim. They ran in circles around her in panic until they ran right into each other and landed on the floor. Then Natsu remembered he was the father here and scooped her up into his arms and cradled her gently, Ryuu and Seb and Poppy were having a rushed conversation until understanding washed over Ryuu's face. He walked over to his father.
"Its okay, she doesn't have very good control over how much magic she uses when she summons a spirit so she overdid it. Momma comes home like this after missions, this happened before, she'll wake up soon. But we gotta go home before Momma finds us in a burnt park! Hurry!" Then Ryuu started running back home.
Everyone followed him, except for Natsu who walked slowly to not disturb the little girl in his arms. When she was asleep she looked exactly like Lucy did, he noted, she looked innocent and defenseless and a surge of protectiveness went through him. He knew he would severely injure any stupid dumbass who harmed his daughter, and he would raise his son to do the same. (Because he was going to get old and frail and unable eventually) When he reached the house he climbed through the window out of habit and scared the crap out an unsuspecting Ryuu.
"Daddy, I'm bored." Ryuu whined as Natsu laid Kim in Lucy's bed.
Just because he became a dad didn't mean Natsu was anywhere near responsible. He still was a hothead, and was really bad at thinking things through. So he suggested they start Ryuu's training now, inside the house. And Ryuu, being a six year old version of that hothead who has no sense of responsibility, thought that was the best idea in the entire world. To their defense they weren't dumb enough to work with fire in the same room that the defenseless girl slept, so they went into a place where they thought they could control the flame; the living room.
Natsu didn't even think about it when they both sent a wing slash of the Fire/Star dragon and burned the crap out of everything as they worked on control. Then when Ryuu was tired and they both collapsed on the floor, then the door swung open and Lucy walked in holding an order receipt for a flame resistant couch. She looked around and dropped everything and let out a screech.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY LIVING ROOM! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? NATSU, RYUU I'M GOING TO KILL YOU! GET YOUR DUMB, BRAINLESS ASSES IN HERE!" Lucy shouted in rage, not even caring she cussed at her child
They sulked guiltily in front of her a minute later. Lucy's face was red with rage and she was giving them a glare so deadly that even the brave fearless mage of Fairy Tail was quivering in fear. She didn't even notice when Kim walked unsteadily to her father and reached up, the universal sign for "pick me up". He obliged trying to use the child in his arms as a shield. It didn't work, she only narrowed her eyes.
"My living room is destroyed. How many times have I told you to not use magic in the house?" She yelled
Ryuu decided to sacrifice his father, "but Momma, Daddy said it was okay!" He said accusingly
When Lucy wasn't looking Ryuu sent his father a sad wave and tears filled his eyes because he knew Momma was going to murder Daddy. Natsu caught Ryuu's gesture and gulped, Gray must have taught the kid to do something like this. There was no other explanation to why his own son would feed him to the wolves or, in this case, a very angry Lucy. He looked to her and tried to save himself in vain.
"Babe, I love you so much. Do you know how beautiful you've gotten. Your looking so slim! You look amazing in….that….dress….OWWWWWWWWWWWW!" He yelped as Lucy grabbed his ear and pulled him to the door.
She was going to kick him out, but bad thoughts came to her mind of him leaving again so she just pushed him against the door.
"One more stunt like this and I'll personally engrave your tombstone. You destroyed my house, again! Why is this poor apartment never safe? Everything in it has been replaced at least once! Or more!" She stabbed a finger in his chest repeatedly with every word
Natsu grinned sheepishly, "So, wanna go get some furniture?" he asked
Lucy flashed him and dirty look and said the most terrifying words he had ever heard in his life, "I'm going to tell Erza."
Natsu's face lost all color and he began to shake uncontrollably, if Lucy wasn't so angry she'd be worried he was having a seizure. Then she went to go stalk off to the guild and do what she threatened when she felt two small weights attach to her legs.
"No Mommy, don't! Aunt Erza will kill Daddy! I love Daddy, don't make him go away. Please Mommy, don't do it!" the twins pleaded
Although Erza was incredibly nice to the children, they had seen her punishing Gray and Gajeel for doing some stupid things. Ever since they had been very careful about not making the swordsmaster angry for any reason. Natsu began to have hope in his children and Lucy sighed at the bond he had already formed with them.
"Fine, but one more magically destroyed object and Erza will be notified." She replied coolly
"I'll be notified of what?" Erza asked as she walked through the open door and stared at the burnt furniture around her. "Natsu, you haven't even been home a day and your already destroying everything Lucy owns?!" She yelled reequipping to Heaven's Wheel
Natsu's soul began to float away from his body, if nobody did anything soon he would be killed!
"Erza, I-I-I- was just cleaning this horrible mess, because-cause-cause a lacrima went off! Yeah! An explosive lacrima went off! And I don't know how it got in here, it must have been Happy, you know how he loves shiny things and….your…not believing….any of this….are you?" He squeaked
Erza shook her head, about to give him the punishment of a lifetime, when Gray ran in with a little girl and pulled his friend into an uncharacteristic hug, basically shielding Natsu with his body. The girl ran up and gave Erza a hug, trying to save her Uncle Natsu and Papa from Auntie Erza's rage. The older women stiffened then calmed down hugging the small girl back. Mina Fullbuster gave her father a thumbs up. Ryuu ran over to Gray and kicked him in the shin, telling him to let go of his father. Good thing the rivalry with Gray was passed in the genetics, Natsu thought. Though when Ryuu was done he ran over to Mina to give her puppy eyes. Great, Natsu thought, I'm going to be related to Gray. Gray laughed silently, thinking the exact same thing.
"So fire for brains, when did you wake up?" Gray asked
Natsu narrowed his eyes at Gray, and slammed his fist into Gray's stomach. As the poor ice mage coughed and sputtered, Natsu glared with cold eyes. Everybody looked at Natsu in worry and shock. Lucy was waiting for him to walk away and she cringed internally watching him, all he had to do was walk out the door and she would defiantly break.
"Gray, that was for teaching my kids to sacrifice others for the sake of themselves!" Natsu yelled
Gray looked at him liked he'd lost his marbles. Then he began laughing, very hard, only Natsu would pull a stunt like that. Don't misunderstand, Gray was really going to kill him for this, possibly multiple times if Lucy doesn't interfere, but for now the sheer idiocy he was going to laugh. Mina watched her father be punched and knew he deserved it when she heard the reason. Although she was only 2 she had Ryuu wrapped around her finger, and she was amazingly smart. She remembered a month ago when Aunt Erza had tried to kill her father and Gray blamed the twins and let them be punished. They took it to heart and assumed the every man for himself lifestyle. That being said she still didn't understand most of what goes on around her but she could walk, babble and make Erza calm down.
Ryuu and Kim smiled and then thought it was okay to go kick the crap out of Gray since their father had punched him. As they ran to their initiate their surprise attack, a small boy crawled in at an alarming rate. He had longer dark midnight hair, so black it was almost blue, and red eyes. Kei Redfox attached himself to Kim and Natsu looked angrily at the small child. Great, he thought, my children are friends with the spawn of the enemy.
"Kei-kun!" Kim squealed in delight, Seb just stared at the boy jealously
Happy entered the house in an overly dramatic manor. Natsu could have kissed his partner, Erza was about to go on the attack again and Mina was preoccupied with his son. But all the attention in the room focused on the small blue exceed. Happy sweatdropped at the sudden fame. He waved at the people looking at him.
"Natsu, I'm going to go see what Charle and Wendy are up to and maybe I'll go catch some fish…. Bye" And Happy was gone as fast as he came
Poppy, thinking it was all a game, grabbed her brother's tail and flew after Happy in hopes of fish. Then
Erza's gaze refocused on Natsu as another member of the Fullbuster family arrived.
"Erza-san, how have you been? How's Jellal? I know you've been seeing him more lately." Juvia gushed,
the scarlet haired woman embarrassed.
Levy and Gajeel Redfox then ran in and started yelling in panic. Lucy walked over and calmed the
parents down by showing them the child attached to hers.
Great, Natsu thought, a family reunion.
Gosh it took me soooooo long to update! Where is my time going? Gosh darnit, I want my time back!
Well, my readers please review! I will attempt another update in the next month, if luck and the god
Of fanfiction is on my side.