A Natsu and Lucy fanfiction. I don't own FairyTail

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Wow! I can't believe it's 2015 already!

I went to see the New year fireworks in London this time. They were amazing! My family and I also met two Japanese women who were trying to sleep on the bridge a few hours before the fireworks started. One had a plastic bag over her head to keep the wind off. Japanese people are so weird.

But they probably thought the same thing about my family. Anyway the majority of our family New Year Photographs have included our adopted friends, the two Japanese English Teachers.

Japanese people are cool.

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Starlight Stalker: The FairyTail Guild

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Chapter 9:

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I was just as she remembered it. Same buildings, same pathways, same looking people, just some were as little older than she remembered it.

She was being led to Fairytail by Gray although she had told him she could make her way herself he insisted that he had to accompany her. She walked by her old house to see beautiful flowers hanging out of the window and hearing someone else living there singing cheerfully and loudly the sound of their music floating down to her made her feel even more like an outsider.

Then they were at the guild. The doors opened. There was the odd sounds of muffled conversations and the few grunts of acknowledgement, but most disturbing of all there was hardly anyone in the entrance hall and how silent it really was. Then out of the corner of her eye was the sight of a woman Lucy knew very well surrounded by her very well-behaved four small children.

'Oh, my gosh is that Juvia?'

She looked up at Gray to find smiling calmly back at her. Jeza on the other hand had decided it was exciting to see his mother again and ran back to her. "Mummy! Mummy! Look what I found!" He pointed back to Lucy and his father. And then whispered something in his mother's ear.

Juvia stood up in shock and hurried over to where Lucy stood, dumping her seemingly most recent baby in her husband arms, and embraced Lucy as if greeting a long lost best friend. It took Lucy a little while to realize that Juvia was crying her eyes out, as she felt her clothes getting wet.

"You have …" She started awkwardly. "...five very beautiful children Juvia. You must be very proud of them."

Juvia stopped her crying for a short time to acknowledge the compliment. "thank you, ...'sniff'... 'sniff'... but I have six actually. … 'sniff'... 'sniff'... Zarana is the eldest and has wondered off by herself."

The attention she had gotten from Juvia had sparked some interest from a few other wizards as well it seemed and Lucy started to regret it well she felt eyes bearing into her from all sides.

"LUCY!" A young, dark-haired man, who looked about several years older than her ran up and gave her a massive hug. When he pulled back out of the hug, she saw a massive grin, 'looks like Natsu?' and then she recognized him.

"Oh, my gosh! Romeo?"

"There's no need to look so surprised. You seem to be forever giving me reasons and times to get older than you. Now I really am." He looked her up and down. "You still look like you're... what seventeen?"

'Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I suppose.'

Someone else came up behind him and pushed him aside. "Wow!" A beautiful young woman a year or two older than Lucy, with dark hair, and guns strapped to legs studied her as well. "I remember you. You were the pretty lady with the magic keys that fought in the games when I was five."

"Her name is Lucy, Sharpy."

"Shut up. That's not my name."

"Your not the Lucy from Edolas are you?" She saw a woman with a hat covering her head calling out to her from a table not to far away.

"No." Lucy answered and took another curious look at her. "Lisanna? Is that really you?"

Lisanna got up from her seat and hugged Lucy gently. Lucy knew she had seen a slight bump around Lisanna's mid rim and for some reason a feeling of dread rose.

Where is her husband? Does she have a husband? Has she and Natsu gotten back together once or twice before? Was I not the first? I always knew Lisanna had had a strong liking for the guy,...man.

"Who's going to be the lucky father?" Lucy asked trying to sound really interested and kind. She was normally, but she didn't know for sure...

"He's not here right now, but I'll love to introduce you to him when he gets back from his job."

Lucy looked puzzled. "So, it's someone I don't know?" Lucy tried to sound conversational, but she thought she sounded more worried or relieved, and she was.

"No. You didn't meet him. He joined the guild six years ago."

"Oh," Lucy stroked through her hair feeling somewhat releaved but at the same time awkward again and out of place as the once small group had continued to grow to a large mound of curious on-lookers and long lost friends that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

"Right well I had better start introducing you to the new-members." Lisanna took Lucy by the arm and showed her off to the crowd.

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Lucy was tired, and the buzz had finally died down. She decided after Lisanna had gotten her a drink from the bar that she would sit quietly in one small corner and read a book that had been left on the table there.

"Your name is Lucy Heartfelia right?" She looked up from her reading and noticed Juvia and Gray's third child, Jeza asked her with a very serious expression on his very young face as he tugged on her clothes.

"Yes, it is." Lucy smiled down at the youngster. Kids were just so cute at this age. "And you are Jeza Fullbuster."

He nodded and bowed politely infront of her. "When I grow up do you want to marry me Lucy?"

Woah, maybe not quite as cute as all that. He wastes no time. I suppose ... he's like his mother in that way. Crazy kid.

"I'm sorry, but I already have a boyfriend."

Jeza shook his head. "No, I don't mean as 'I'm your boyfriend' I mean as 'you're my wife' when I'm older."

What is wrong with this kid he shouldn't be thinking about this sort of thing when he's this age.

He looks like a mini Gray, but acts like a hyperactive Juvia.

She felt the strongest desire ever to see a mini Natsu walk into the conversation and challenge Jeza to fight. Tumbling about on the ground the way their fathers had done before them. But there weren't any sons of Drangoneel in the guild apart from Natsu. She felt a bomb hit her stomach hard as her imagination kicked into high speed.

It was her fault that Natsu didn't have children. No, that was stupid. There was no way she could have guessed that he might have wanted that.

Gray and Juvia made such beautiful and gentle kids. What would Natsu's and hers had looked like? Every time Natsu came back to the guild this is what he would see. Maybe this was also what he thought about too.

She suddenly felt very sick at her future...past...something self for even considering another guy. Natsu had always acted as hers. He had always been the first to run to her rescue. He had always wanted to share the tiniest of small adventures with her. He was always the one to cheer her up when she felt deeply depressed. He was always the one to break into her house just so he could see her.

Who digs up an entire tree and allows it to go down a river just so that it might happen to pass by a friend's house and cheer her up? He wouldn't do that if he didn't love her.

"Well? Do you want time to think about it carefully?" Jeza asked bringing her back to the present.

"Well..." This is so awkward I've hardly had any experience in turning down proposals before and what the second one I've ever got is from a tiny 5 year old. "..you see. I was hoping to marry someone else someday. I'm sorry, but I don't think it will work out."

Jeza pouted and looked like he was going to make a big deal about it when an ice ball hit him in the arm. "OW! Zarana! Stop it! Mum! Zarana is throwing ice at me." He gave his mother the most saddest and upset eyes ever and looked as if he was about to cry.

Woah, this kid had his parents eating out of his hand. That's so weird.

"Stop it Zarana." Juvia looked back at her rebel of a daughter with a bit of a glare.

Lucy followed Juvia's gaze and saw another very pretty girl with blue hair, but unlike her mother that was all that seemed to relate her to the well-behaved family. She had her hair cut short and looking really spiky and she carried a somewhat bored expression on her face as if nothing in the guild was good enough for her amusement. Lucy was astonished and somewhat relieved. She definitely was her father's daughter.

"Zarana come down here and say you're sorry to me." Jeza called up to her.

"Come and make me." Zarana goaded.

'KNOCK,'

'KNOCK,'

'BOOM!'

The frontdoors of the guild knocked inwards again and in strode a FairyTail Wizard in shining armour.

"WHERE IS NATSU!" Erza yelled at the top of her voice.

"Not here." Someone else answered back in a very gentle tone.

Gray walked towards her just as she was about to give her second command. Lucy couldn't tell or hear what they were saying, but she knew what the conclusion would be and braced herself for the inevitable. Gray pointed back to her and she waved, not quite sure how she should meet Erza after having been apparently dead for so long. And her calculations were correct. Erza charged across the guild and lifted Lucy up in the air as if holding up a weightless child. And then brought her down into a back-braking hug.

"I have missed you so much Lucy. Natsu is not going to get away with what he has done, but for once I am going to admit I'm glad he did it."

"Er...za... I... can't... breath."

"Oh right." Erza put her back down. "I forgot how small you were."

'Small? I'm not small?'

"You know what they say, tiny waist and a big chest gives women bad backs that are a pest." Erza turned Lucy around and pulled her into the centre of the room leaving the young boy and his strange family behind. "Come on! Time to sort out this problem.

"Mummy she turned my water to ice..." Lucy could hear the argument continuing in the background as Erza took her further into FairyTail.

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End of Chapter 9.

Well I hope you guys liked reading that. I didn't get any opportunity to write this over the holidays just as I expected. Oh well. Now you have it! Happy New year!

Next chapter to be coming soonish. :D