Well, I promised the next chapter would be up quicker than the last and it is! Although not by much and for that I apologize, I have a job that takes up most of my time right now. This chapter was written after a harrowing day in a Canadian snowstorm where I narrowly escaped being eaten alive by the snow. I was storm stayed for nearly 24 hours with nothing to keep me company and so I decided to write the next chapter to this story. If it feels inconsistent or something doesn't make sense, I apologize again but I didn't have access to my notes or old chapters for reference.

Also, I have picked up quite a few followers even with the story not being updated very often! Thank you guys so much, and I do read your comments and greatly appreciate them. I only wish I can more time to spend on this project, but alas it is what it is.

As always, I do not own these characters, they belong to Hiro Mashima and Fairy Tail and I thank him for their use in my own creative expressions *bow*


While Fairy Tail seemed to be in a spiral of one disaster after another, two members were a hundred miles away and oblivious as to what was going on but that didn't mean that they weren't worried about their guild.

"I just hope that she falls asleep ok… and that Mira remembers to tuck her in with her stuffed rabbit." Bisca had been rattling off little reminders since they had left the job site for the night and started making their way to the hotel.

"She will, you know Mira, Asuka couldn't be in better hands at home," Alzack tried to reassure her but he knew that she wasn't going to feel better until they got back to Magnolia.

"I know… and its not Mira that I am worried about its Fairy Tail in general. Especially since the Tenrou Group came back things have gone back to their rowdy ways. I love a good party now as much as I did then, but we didn't have an impressionable daughter back then…" They stood in front of the door to their small hotel and looked at each other, Alzack took his wife's hands and gave them an encouraging squeeze.

"What ever happens, Fairy Tail gets through it. We waited for seven years for them to come back and they did, and we will be able to get through one night without our baby. Whatever we do, we trust in the guild, right?" She smiled at him and squeezed back. "Right."

"Good," he answered her turning to the door. "Now lets get something to eat and go upstairs, we do have the night all to ourselves." She laughed at his tone and he turned back to give her a wink as he pushed door open. Instead of giving him one back though, her eyes got large and she cried, "Watch out!" as she pulled him to the ground. A chair whizzed by where their heads had been and shattered against the doorframe. Alzack pulled his wife closer to him on the floor and peeked up to see what the hell was going on. A Fairy Tail style bar fight between the hotel patrons and what he guessed were the locals was well underway and even though he believed that most if not all of them were not mages it was still quite impressive. He was angry at the thought that they could have taken his wife's head off but nostalgic at the same time because the scene was too familiar even with different people playing it out.

"Just so you know, "Bisca's muffled voice came from under his arm. "I am not taking this as a good omen." Alzack couldn't help but laugh and hold his wife tighter in his arms, as pissed off as she had just sounded he could feel Bisca shaking with silent laughter as well. They stayed on the floor, cuddling and laughing until the hotel owner realized they were there and hurried over in a panic.

"Oh my! Are you guys alright? Did you get hit by something?" The Connells raised their heads to look at him with matching amused expressions and said in union, "We're fine" and Bisca knew that she meant it.


The moon was already high in the sky when the short man from Twilight Ogre finally woke up, he could smell a campfire burning and realized that he was freezing cold in the dark. He sat up groggily and looked around to find his other two guild mates huddled around a small fire.

"You're finally awake," the fat man called over to him angrily. The short man moved over until he was in front of the fire and warmed his hands gladly. "Can we go back to the guild now boss? I don't think this plan is going to work…"

"No," the fat man replied. "We went back to the guild after you never came back and the big boss said not to come back until we do what we where told to do."

"You mean, you were just going to leave me here?" The short man squeaked.

"It's your own fault for not coming back when you were supposed to," the thin man spoke up but the short man noticed that his voice was low and slurred like he couldn't use his mouth right. He peered at him across the fire and noticed the fat lip and two black eyes, when the thin man noticed he was being stared at he glared back.

"What are you looking at?"

"What happened to you?"

"None of your damn business! What happened to you? Why didn't you come out with the kid like you where supposed to?"

The short man looked down at the fire, "I ended up getting caught… in a barrel." He didn't want to say anything else or they would think he really was crazy.

"How did you end up in a barrel?" The fat man asked him suspiciously. The short man groaned and explained to them what happened with Lisanna and how he managed to escape, he made sure to leave out the parts about the broom though.

"Well, we need to come up with a better plan for tomorrow, or else we will never be allowed back at the guild," the fat man looked at his two partners in crime. "Ok, tomorrow this is what we are going to do…"


Bisca and Alzack made their way upstairs after having an excellent supper that was complementary from the hotel owner for almost getting injured in the bar fight earlier.

"He was very apologetic," Bisca commented as they made their way to their room.

"He should be, we could have been seriously hurt," Alzack mumbled as he looked in his pockets for their room key.

"Awe, who is grumpy now?" She teased him as he opened their hotel room door. He gave her a flat look and she laughed. "We should be used to it anyway, it was the same thing we have seen and survived in Fairy Tail a million times before." He mirrored her smile as she said the same thing he had been thinking not that long ago.

"Yep, we're just rusty, that's all. After you," he held the door open for his wife gallantly.

"Thank you," she entered the room and turned on the light. "You know what we should do? Take a long , long bath…" she looked at her husband with a twinkle in her eye. His smile grew wider as he took unhooked his gun belt and took off his poncho.

"That sounds good, why don't you go and run the tub and I will be there in a sec?"

"Ok." Bisca went into the bathroom and undressed, putting on her pretty silk bathrobe that she had left in there this morning after they checked in. It had been a 4th year wedding anniversary present from her husband and the dark green jewel toned color complimented the lighter shade of her hair very nicely. It didn't take long before the big tub was filled but Alzack still hadn't made it into the bathroom. Closing the tap, Bisca made her way back out into the main room to see what was holding him up. She found him propped up against the pillows on the bed in his pants with no socks or shirt on, snoring away. She sighed and smiled, he looked too peaceful to wake up now. Very carefully she climbed on the bed and curled up beside him, pulling a thin extra blanket over them that had been folded at the foot of the bed. Her last thoughts before falling into a tired sleep like her husband was how happy she would be by this time tomorrow back with her baby girl. She smiled and didn't even notice that the light was still on.


It was well past midnight by the time the Fairy Tail war party had decided that they were getting nowhere and they might as well go home to bed. Mira looked over to the only table that still had people sitting at it, the rest of the guild having gone home hours ago. Her younger siblings and the Raijinshuu were all sleeping soundly in various positions, Lisanna sandwiched between Evergreen and Bixlow cuddling Asuka in her arms. They all looked so peaceful that Mira hated to wake them up.

"THUNDER GOD TRIBE ASSEMBLE!" Mira jumped at the bellow that came from behind her and turned to find Laxus standing there.

"You scared the heck out of me!" She chided him in a soft voice.

"Sorry, Mira," he mumbled. "Well it didn't work anyway." Mira turned back to look at the table and sure enough, everyone was still sleeping except for the little girl. She was rubbing her eyes and looking around for the noise that had jolted her awake, but when she saw Mira she lifted her arms from around Lisanna and held them out.

"Awe, come here sweetie." Mira picked her up and Lisanna slumped forward like the rest of them with her head on the table.

"They really are knocked out, huh?" Laxus stood beside Mira and poked Bixlow in the back with his index finger. "Hey Bixlow! Man, wake up!" The big mage just groaned in his sleep and buried his face deeper into his arms on the table.

The blonde haired man frowned and crossed his arms. "Pathetic," he grumbled.

"Leave them alone, its late and they are tired." Mira turned and looked at the bar that Lisanna had cleaned thoroughly. She then got another one of her wicked ideas in her head and looked up at Laxus.

"Hey, I need to go check the kitchen and lock up, do you mind?" She held Asuka out to him who also looked up at him curiously.

Laxus didn't understand at first. "Mind what?" When Mira pushed Asuka closer he clued in. "Hold the kid? No way! I don't know how to do that," he took a step back and put up his hands in protest.

"Of course you can, here take her." She moved Asuka closer again and this time Laxus tentatively reached out and took her. "Be back quick though ok? Mirajane?" He looked around but Mira had already vanished to the kitchen. Laxus and Asuka eyed each other with suspicion, neither trusting the other completely.

"Just sit still and don't do anything funny kid," he told her, trying to use his best tough guy voice. Asuka narrowed her eyes at him but then noticed something on his face that suddenly she really wanted to touch. She held out her hands to him but was far from reaching her goal. "What do you want now?" He asked her annoyed and relaxed his arms a bit so that she could come closer. He wasn't expecting her to touch his face so when the little hands made contact he flinched a little. "Hey, stop that," he tried to make his arms move to pull her away from him again but found he couldn't. Her one hand found the scar by his left eye and she poked at it gently with a finger. "What kid, you've never seen a scar before?" He knew that couldn't be true, Fairy Tail mages were all covered in scars. He didn't understand what was so special about his lightening bolt eye scar that she had to keep touching it. "Mira!" He called for her to come and get this kid because she was starting to make him really uncomfortable. He hadn't noticed that Mira had been watching him from the bar with a smile on her face.

"I'm here, you didn't have to yell." She moved over to him, holding two large buckets that looked heavy.

"Come and get this kid… And what are you carrying?" Mira set her buckets down and took Asuka from Laxus, cradling her on her hip.

"Ice water," she replied wickedly.
"Ice water?" Again he didn't understand her meaning, then it dawned on him. "Ohhh, my pleasure." Then he picked up each bucket and emptied it on the sleeping mages, one for each side of the table. The yells, yowls, curses and gasps of surprise that follow were definitely the most satisfying fun of the evening.

Then Asuka, Mira and her two soggy younger siblings walked home in silence, Lisanna and Elfman glaring at their older sister with her twisted sense of humor. Little did any of them know that tomorrow would be even more eventful that today had been, and not in a humorous way.


I always thought that Laxus would be great with kids and after seeing him with Mavis during the GMG Arc I knew I definitely had to write in something. Mira has an evil streak in her sometimes, I would bet that she really has thrown a couple buckets of ice water in her days as a bar maid! I hope the next chapter will be up soon, as always, thanks for reading and I will be back!