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"I can't wait to see Lucy," Happy said.
"Me either, little buddy," Natsu replied happily. He rested his hands behind his head. Team Natsu headed down the road toward Lucy and Laxus' house.
"Gray!"
The group stopped and looked back. "Juvia?" Gray said. The water wizard ran up to the ice mage with a smile plastered on her face. Gray stuffed his hands in his pockets. "What are you doing here?"
Juvia placed her hands together in front of her chest. "Juvia wanted to spend time with Gray."
"We'll about to go visit Lucy," Gray responded.
"But love rival is with Laxus," Juvia cried.
Erza placed her hands on her hips. "We're going to check up on her. She and Laxus haven't shown up at the guild since the twins were born."
"Then Juvia will come too."
The group continued up the road to stop right in the front of the house where they spotted the Thunder Legion. "Huh?" Natsu said. He dropped his hands down. "What are you guys doing here?"
"It seems for the same reason you are," Freed replied.
"You came to see Lucy too?" Natsu questioned.
"I think there here to see Laxus," Gray answered. "So you worried about him or something?"
"I'm sure Laxus is fine we just wanted to know how things were going is all," Freed informed them. The entire group then walked straight up to the door. Freed knocked on the door. The whole group waited a few minutes.
The door opened. "We're not interested in whatever you're selling."
The group stepped back. "Laxus?" Freed questioned. The rune wizard couldn't believe his eyes. The lightning wizard was a completely unkempt mess. HIs hair was all over the places his clothes looked like they hadn't been changed or straightened in days while he had several bags under his eyes. It hardly looked like the proud man they are knew and loved.
"Man those kids really did a number on him," Brickslow said.
Evergreen held her hands to her chest. "Oh, Laxus."
Laxus rubbed the sleep from his eyes. "Oh, it's you guys. Sorry, about that. Come in." The lightning mage headed back inside, gesturing for them to follow.
"What happened in here?" Freed spoke, looking around at the messy living room. Baby stuff that the guild had gotten the couple were scattered throughout.
Laxus made it over to the couch and sat down. He interlocked his hands on his lap, resting his chin on top of them. He shut his eyes. "Bolt and Layla happened. Neither of us have been able to get any sleep for the past two weeks."
The others made their way through the living room, taking up the other seats across from their host. All of them were utterly surprise that Laxus and Lucy would ever leave their place in such a state. Erza looked straight at her fellow S class wizard. "Where is Lucy?"
"Upstairs with the babies," Laxus answered.
The sound of footsteps came from the steps a few moments later. "Laxus," the voice of Lucy whispered. "Did you tell the salesman we weren't interested?" The celestial wizard made her appearance in nothing more than a long shirt that seemed to be borrowed from her husband and her hair tied all the way back in a ponytail.
"It wasn't salesmen. The guys from the guild came over."
Lucy looked over the railing to see the group. The sight seemed to snap her out of her trance like state.
Natsu and Happy waved wildly. "Hey, LU-CE!"
Cries echoed from upstairs.
Laxus sulked. "Just great."
Lucy looked up the stairs depress. "And I just got Layla to sleep." Lucy sighed. "I'll be right back."
Laxus got up. "I better go with you, I know Layla's harder to put down than Bolt."
"Thanks."
Laxus got up about to head up the steps when his leg tripped over the coffee table. He slammed face first into the ground.
"Laxus!" his team shouted.
Lucy shook her head. "Not again."
Laxus gritted his teeth with one eye close. He lifted his head, rubbing the side of it. "Who put that there?"
"Laxus, Layla needs you are you coming or not?" Lucy asked.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Laxus got up.
The Thunder Legion couldn't stand to see their leader in such a sad state and neither could Erza. Erza stood up. She slammed her foot on the ground with her hands on her hips to proclaim her authority. "No, Laxus, Lucy, you both clearly need rest. I shall take care of Layla in your stead."
Lucy sweat dropped. "Uh, that's very nice of you, Erza, but I prefer my baby to live another day."
"Actually, it doesn't sound like a bad idea." Laxus shifted his eyes over to his wife.
"Laxus!" Lucy slammed her hands on the railing.
"I was just kidding, mostly."
As much as Lucy loved her friends, it was next to impossible for her to trust them with her fragile newborns. They group was known for destroying the guildhall, pubs and cities. Natsu was far too loud and wild, Gray stripped and as much as she loved Erza the woman could be a little too passionate about things.
Freed stood up. "We of the Thunder Legion shall assure the safety of Sir Bolt and Lady Layla." The rune wizard placed his hand over his heart to signify this vow. Brickslow and Evergreen immediately stood behind him in agreement.
"That works, I'm counting on you guys." Laxus passed out right then and there.
Lucy couldn't find a reason argue. She couldn't keep herself on her feet from all the walking around and lack asleep. She knew she looked horrible and needed sleep more than anything else right now and that included a good meal which she hadn't had since coming home. She headed down the steps. "Alright, guys I'm trusting you to take good care of them she spoke directly to all of them."
The Fairy Tail wizards all nodded.
Lucy pulled one of her golden keys out from under her shirt. "Open Gate of the Maiden, Virgo." A golden flash went off in front of her and the maid celestial spirit appeared. "Virgo please give them the list to take care of Layla and Bolt."
"Yes, princess." Virgo pulled out hand written piece of paper and handed it over to Freed. "These are the instructions of what the princess has figured out works best for the twins. Please follow it to the letter."
Freed took the paper. "Right."
Virgo disappeared.
Lucy managed to find her way to the couch and fell right on it, going to sleep.
The group of wizards entered the twins' bedroom except for Freed who had stayed behind in the living room to give it a proper cleaning. The rune wizard had given the list of instruction over to Wendy. When the group entered they found both twins were crying.
Natsu and Erza looked over the cribs at the twins, staring down on them. Erza's arms were folded across her chest. "Wendy, what do the instruction say to do when they're crying?"
Wendy scanned her eyes over the paper. "Ok, let's see. According to Lucy we should pick them up and rock them gently."
"Understood." Erza re-equipped into her bunny outfit. "I we give them the most gentle rock that ever existed." Erza reached down toward the twins.
"Wait!"
Erza looked back. "Huh?"
"According to Lucy's notes, Layla likes to be rocked by Laxus and Bolt likes being rocked by Lucy," Wendy spoke.
"But they're both asleep," Natsu responded.
"I guess that means that we just have to have a guy rock Layla to sleep while we have Erza rock Bolt to sleep," Gray said.
"Very well." Erza shoved Layla into Gray's arms to his surprise. She pointed at him. "Make sure you rock her gently."
"Why me?"
Erza gave him a hard stare that ended the conversation.
Gray held Layla close to his bare chest since he had already stripped out of his shirt. He rocked her slowly trying to get the hang of it. Layla's cries soon began to softened. Seeing the cute face of the baby girl, resting in his arm made the ice wizard smile.
Juiva looked at the sight in jealousy. "Love rival's baby is trying to steal my beloved away from me."
Charlie walked up to the water wizard. "You could think of it as him being good with children."
"Good with children?" Juvia then imaged Gray holding a child that looked just like him. Hearts filled her eyes at the sight. "Oh, my beloved would make such a good father." She shook her behind left and right.
After Gray and Erza had settled down the twins they put them back in their respective cribs to let them sleep. Two hours had gone by before the twins busted out in tears again. The dragon slayers quickly noticed the problem as they could easily smell it.
Erza took it upon herself to take care of it now wearing a sexy nanny outfit. Ten minutes later the babies were once again crying. Happy and Charlie deduced that the twins were hungry. Happy pulled out a fish in an attempt to feed them only to be told they need to be feed milk. The blue cat raised his paw. "Where are we going to find that?"
"Well, usually around their age they're still breastfeeding," Gray said. The ice wizard wrapped his hand around his chin. "So we have to go get Lucy for that."
"But we promise Lucy she could sleep," Wendy said.
Gray looked over at the Sky Dragon slayer. "We don't have any other choice."
"That's not true." Natsu stood in front of the ice wizard with a huge grin on his face and his fists right in front of his chest. The others looked at the fire wizard confused. Natsu had surprisingly convince the group to go along with his crazy plan.
Natsu and Gray took the twins down the steps where Lucy slept. The living room was completely clean and sparklingly around the sleeping couple that haven't moved an inch from where they originally laid. They could hear Freed in the kitchen continuing his clear up job.
Natsu and Gray's faces flushed red as they looked at their sleeping teammate. They carefully made their way over to her, lifting up her shirt and placing the twins' mouths on her engorged breasts. Both males trembled in fear. If Lucy woke up now they probably be smacked, even worst if Laxus caught them they be killed.
Somehow the two managed to finish their job without incident and ran upstairs where Erza and Evergreen burped them. Twenty minutes later, Bolt had grew upset and started crying again. Natsu stretched open his mouth with his fingers, making all types of funny faces to try to calm down the boy, but nothing worked.
Bolt cried louder.
"YOU'RE MAKING IT WORST, NATSU!" Erza punched Natsu across the face, sending him into a wall. Natsu's eyes went white as he was knocked out cold. His body slid down the wall.
Bolt stopped crying.
Erza looked over at the crib to see what looked like a smile on the boy's face. "It looks like that settled him down."
Thirty minutes later, the crying started again. Juvia and Gray worked to comfort the babies. Layla began to calm down in Gray's arm, but Bolt seemed to refuse to fully settle down. "What is Juvia doing wrong?"
Natsu popped out in front of her. "Let me try!" The act ended up scaring both Juvia and Bolt.
"Natsu, stop scaring Laxus' son!" Evergreen took off her glasses as Natsu looked into her direction. The fire dragon slayer turned into stone. Bolt quickly quieted down after that and that is when the group figured that they could keep Bolt happy by just pounding Natsu. Throughout the night the fire dragon slayer was beaten repeatedly for Bolt's amusement.
Freed had finished cleaning up the entire house except for the twins' room. He headed inside with his cleaning supplies to notice that the twins were crying while everyone else were scattered on the floor completely exhausted. "What's going on in here? Why isn't anyone taking care of Bolt and Layla?"
Tears ran down Erza's eyes. "I've never face such tough opponents before in my life."
Natsu was left unconscious again.
"I don't know what they want," Evergreen cried.
Freed looked at everyone confused.
That was the first day Laxus and Lucy were able to get a full night of sleep since their twins arrived. Six months later, Lucy was able to stop breastfeeding that allowed her to go on missions again. The two blondes had decided that while one stayed home the other could go on a mission with their team. In some ways it allow them to actually relax from all the craziness at home.
Bolt and Layla grew up well and Lucy would bring them to the guild every now and then for the others to see them. The two twins had learned to crawl and done so around the craziness of the guild much to Lucy's anxiety.
Bolt took his fist steps at eight months.
Layla took hers at nine.
Bolt's very first word was 'Boom' followed by 'Bolt, momma, daddy, no, Layla, yes..."
Layla began speaking a week later. Her very first word was 'daddy'. Her next words were 'mommy, yes, no, Bolt, Layla, Natsu..."
Laxus and Lucy had started to get use to their lives as parents, enjoying their son and daughter and one another. That was their first year with their twins.
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