Child of Darkness has now reached double digits in chapter now with the tenth chapter typed by WildCard555. You all probably loved the cliffhanger I left in the last chapter. Normally I respond to review next, but I got 3 things that kept coming up so I'm just going to respond to those 3, and a concern I got from one of my reviewers about this story. So before I get to those let me say Thank you vary much for your reviews and continual support of this story
Jellal cheating on Erza: First off let me say that JeRza is my number 2 favorite couple in Fairy Tail right behind NaLu so it hurt me quite a bit breaking up the two. In terms of the anime this is the closest we have to a couple for the main four characters. The only thing I could think of that could break the two apart was if Jellal cheated on her. A minute of thinking later I thought of JeTear, and those two slipping up in a one night stand in which Ultear got pregnant. But like I said in the last chapter I'm making this a crack fanfic, meaning no cannons aloud(Alzack and Bisca are the only exception). Fear not I already have someone in mind for Erza, I'm doing my best so no one ends up alone.
Elfman and Bickslow being gay: this one popped up over the last two chapters with a lot of people asking why? I say why not? In most fanfics I read it's always a man paired with a woman, and never once does anyone try to introduce a gay/lesbian couple. You don't have to write a yaoi/yuri to have a same sex relationship in a story. Hell I say it now I may not really use this pairing too much in this story, but its there. Minor Spoiler: I will introduce a lesbian couple later in this story.
Is Lucy pregnant: Where in the world did you people get this idea from. (Looks up at the title of the story.) That doesn't prove a damn thing. I mean cant a girl just have to throw up in the morning without being pregnant. (Sighs.) Who am I kidding we've all read enough fanfics to know where this chapter is going(I Hate Being Predictable).
Nindjo(Concern): Chapter 8 was a set-up for the crack pairing I will be using in this story. Thank you for the concern for this story if I use too many crack pairing as I agree to many could cause people to stop reading since it could off set the entire Mythos of the anime, especially if I don't keep the characters in character. I was originally planing on keeping to the main pairings closest to cannon outside of ZerCy, but I found that idea to be a little boring as most people like you said stick to maybe 2 - 3 crack pairings per story. I really want this story to be a unique one so in the end I've decided to make all the pairings in this story crack pairings so long as I can make sense out of them. Again I appreciate your concern for this story, but it's a risk I am willing to take. Hope you(all) continue to read and enjoy this story.
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Chapter 10.
Under the Weather?
Dear Mama, and Papa.
I've woken up the past six days rushing to the bathroom to throw up. Over those six days I've stayed at home not wanting to get anyone else sick. Part of me wants to deny the truth and say its just some stomach bug that I caught on my last mission. Sadly as much as I wish it were something as simple a bug I caught I fear its something a lot more serious.
(Looking at a small rectangular box with the words 'pregnancy test' written on it sitting next to her desk lamp.)
I think it maybe your first grandchild.
(Letting out a huge sigh looking at the box again.)
Mama I really wish I had you right now to talk to. I know I need to take this test, but I'm afraid I already know what it's going to say. My worst fear may become a reality in a few minutes. No it's not being pregnant, but being pregnant without the father being here to help support it.
One of the things I promised myself when I ran away from home was when I did start a family was to do everything in my power to make sure any children I had would have both its loving parents growing up. But with how that A-e left me that may not be a possibility.
Sending you my love
Your daughter
Lucy Ashley
Lucy finished writing the day's letter to her deceased parents folding it neatly into an envelope before sealing it shut. Next Lucy picked up the small rectangular box hands shaking. "I can't really put this off." Groaning at the thought of what it would say.
"What's up Lucy?" Asked a male voice entering through the girls' bedroom window.
"Use the door for once." She yelled at him. When she saw the pinkette she saw that he had covered his face up. "I'm sorry Natsu. I just wasn't expecting to see anyone today."
Putting his hands down. "It's been a while since I've seen you so I thought I'd come check on you. The whole guild has been worried about you the past couple days." Taking a couple sniffs. "It smells funny in here." Looking around the room he saw Lucy holding a box in her hands. "What's that?" Pointing at the box his best friend was holding.
Lucy then realized she was still holding the pregnancy test in her hands. Quickly she set it down on her desk next to a glass of water. "Its medicine." She lied. "I haven't been feeling to well since I came back from that solo mission."
"So…"
"What have you been up to the last couple weeks?" Trying to change the subject.
"I've been taking a bunch of solo missions myself." In reality he was using those missions to cope with his best friend/crush sleeping with another guy. The best solution he could come up with was to beat the crap out of whomever the missions he took told him to. Personally he still needed some more time to think about the situation, but Mira insisted he come over to check on her after she hadn't come back to the guild since coming back from her own solo mission. Taking in another couple sniffs. "It smells funny in here." Not letting the strange smell go.
"You're probably smelling my vomit from a half an hour ago." Reminding Natsu she wasn't feeling to well. But deep down she knew it was most likely from morning sickness.
Still sniffing the strange smell in. "It's not vomit I'm smelling." Walking closer towards Lucy till he was right in front of her. "Have you been using a new shampoo?"
"No!" Pushing the dragon slayer away, as he was to close to her still sniffing around.
"Then what did you change up because your scent is different." Now pinpointing the strange smell on Lucy. It wasn't a bad smell, its just different from what he's used to smelling when around Lucy. It was similar, yet different at the same time.
Lucy started to panic. 'Could it be that he's sniffing…' Starting to look down at her stomach. 'Is his nose really that good?' "You might be smelling my illness." Thinking of it as the excuse for her scent being different.
"Illnesses don't smell like this." Saying in a mater of fact tone. He'd smelt numerous sicknesses and what they can do to someone's scent. This was not an illness he was smelling. It smelt to clean, even with the smell of vomit coming from the bathroom. "At least not any illness I've ever smelled."
"Maybe its something you've never smelled before." Using Natsu's own words.
"Maybe." Not really convinced, especially with the look of desperation on Lucy's face. 'She's hiding something.' Now starting to smell a small amount of sweat coming from the girl.
After hearing Natsu say her scent has changed a couple of times now even more dread was put into the pregnancy test sitting on her desk. 'Now I really do need to take this test.' Now convinced Natsu somehow picked up on a babies scent in her. "Listen if this is something new I caught I'd rather not get you sick too so can you please leave." She could see Natsu wasn't to concerned about getting sick himself.
Sensing his crush's desperation to get him to leave he decided to do as she asked. "I'll send Wendy over to see if she can help you get better." He said with a concerned look in his eyes. Natsu walked towards the still open window.
"Thank you Natsu." Giving him a warm smile.
"No problem Lucy." He said before jumping out the window. Before he started to head towards the guild he took one last look as Lucy through the window she was about to close. "What's wrong Lucy?" Wanting to help her however he could.
Letting out a sigh of relief that Natsu was now gone, but her relief was short lived when she picked up the pregnancy test in front of herself. Heading towards the bathroom after what Natsu just said she was even more convinced than ever it was going to be positive. She sat down of the toilet setting the box down on the sink. Instead of opening the box she just stared at it dreading the imminent results she'd see in a couple of minutes after taking it.
At Fairy Tail.
Natsu kicked open the doors, and shortly got a 'good morning' from everyone inside. Unlike his normal entrance he didn't greet them back with the normal amount of energy he normally would. Instead he was looking around for Wendy. It took him a decent amount of time to find her, but he eventually saw her laying down at one of the tables.
"Oi Flame-Brain what have you been up to?" Gray asked in a challenging way. "I haven't seen you in four weeks." Getting himself pumped up for the usual brawl.
"Not in the mood Stripper." Ducking under Gray's punch. Knowing the routine by heart now. "Yeah I'm a have squinty eyes you droopy eyed bastard." Continuing towards Wendy.
"That's strange." In the near long decade Gray had known Natsu neither one of them had ever backed down from a fight no matter what their condition, or how silly the reason was at any given time.
"So no fight today?" Gajeel asked from a table behind Gray already having both arms coated in iron.
"I guess not." Both Gray and Gajeel were so disappointed they didn't even try to fight each other instead. "Guess I'll go see what Juvia's doing." Quickly spotting the girl talking to Cana at the bar. Instead of going up to talk to her he simply watched her from afar. "Juvia-Sama." Starting to daydream about the things they would do when Juvia would accept his felling for her.
Unfortunately for Gajeel Gray had sat down next to him while the ice mage was staring at the woman he considered a younger sister. "This is messed up." Rubbing his temples remembering this situation being in reverse less than two months ago.
"Hey Wendy." Natsu gently shook the sleeping girls shoulder. "Wendy."
"YOU SAID I COULD HAVE THE DAY OFF LAXUS!" Wendy screamed as if her life was in danger. Looking up she saw it was Natsu who had woken her up. "Sorry Natsu." She quickly apologized to her fellow dragon slayer.
"What was that about?" Never really seeing the younger girl scream like that before outside of a fight.
Tears formed in the corners of her brown eyes. "Laxus!" Unable to describe what the man told her to be the training he put her under.
Lisanna rushed over to calm Wendy down. "Laxus has been putting her through a lot of rough training the past six weeks. She comes here to rest so Mira or Erza can stop him when she needs to rest." She informed Natsu.
'Poor Wendy.' Only imagining the kind of training Laxus would give someone. After a couple more minutes of Lisanna calming Wendy down Natsu finally asked her for help. "Wendy, Lucy isn't felling to good."
"How's she doing?" Lisanna asked.
Shaking his head. "She says she been sick ever since coming back from that mission. Lucy said she didn't want to get anyone else sick so she's been staying home."
"So you want me to check on Lucy-Chan?" Wendy finally calmed down enough to speak.
"Could you please!" Wanting to get Lucy the help she needed to get better.
"Could you bring her here?" Not wanting Laxus to catch her.
"She says she doesn't want to risk someone else getting sick."
"So you want to send Wendy to check on her potentially getting her sick."
"I can't get sick." Wendy said. "My sky magic works automatically on me." She quickly hugged her legs to her chest. "Because of his training." Despite how harsh the training was Wendy couldn't lie that she had become a lot stronger since the training began. One of the first things they worked on was improving her timing with her healing magic, more specifically healing herself as soon as something happened to her body(injury or illness).
"See Lisanna nothing to worry about."
"I don't want to leave the guild." The little girl begged. "Can't you bring Lucy-Chan here?"
"It would be better if you went to check on Lucy at her place." Said Mira handing drinks out at a nearby table. "I don't want anyone sick coming into the guild now."
"But what if he catches me."
Mira stopped what she was doing thinking about how she could get Wendy to check on Lucy. She couldn't go herself as she was swamped by how busy the guild was today. Erza was currently too wasted to help anyone. She needed a favor from Natsu. Looking around she couldn't see anyone who could help protect Wendy from Laxus. "Lisanna if Laxus gets anywhere near Wendy tell him I'll make him pay, and remind him I control all the jobs coming in and out." Smiling at Wendy. "Don't worry you'll be safe."
"Why can't I protect Wendy?" Asked Natsu. "It's not like I can't handle Laxus."
"I need you to heat the ovens and stove tops." Mira said. "For some reason I can't get them to heat up so I need your help."
"But I…"
"Don't worry Natsu." Said Lisanna. "I'll make sure Wendy gets to Lucy's so she can see what's wrong with her."
Despite how bad Natsu wanted to go with Wendy so he could make sure Lucy got the help she needed, he didn't want to end up on Mira's bad side. It's not seen vary often like Erza's, but when it does come out it was a lot worse. "Tell Lucy I'll come by to see her later tonight." He said before heading into the kitchen to cook the food, Under Mira and Kinana's careful eye.
"Let's get going." Said Lisanna standing up.
Wendy slowly stood up. "Okay." Grabbing a hold of the take-over mage's hand as though it were a lifeline. At that both Wendy and Lisanna left the guild to go find out what was wrong with Lucy.
At Lucy's Apartment
Lucy was still sitting on the toilet. This time not contemplating taking the test. No now she was waiting the two minutes it takes to tell you the results. Looking at her alarm clock through the open bathroom door she saw that she was less than a minute away from finding out if she was pregnant. Staring at the test in her hands waiting till it read the result.
*Knock, Knock*
At hearing someone knocking on the door Lucy threw the pregnancy test as she jumped off the toilet seat as the noise startled her. "Coming." She said making her way to the front door. When she opened it up she saw both Wendy and Lisanna standing in the doorway.
"Wendy-Chan!" Noticing the bluenette first. "Natsu sent you over, right?"
"Yup!" She said entering the apartment quickly.
"What are you doing here Lisanna?" Not really minding seeing the other girl, she was just curious as to why she tagged along with Wendy.
"Wendy was afraid Laxus would catch her if she came by herself." Entering the apartment after Lucy signaled her to come in.
"So what are your symptoms?" Wendy asked noticing the blonde looked paler than normal.
"I've been throwing up ever since I got back." Placing her left hand on her stomach. "And I've been feeling nauseous as well." Putting her right hand on her head.
"Sound like a stomach bug." Said Lisanna. Sitting down on the couch. "Have you tried Pepdo-Bismo."
"That and three other kinds of medicines that don't want to work."
"I'll see if I can help you get better." Said Wendy. "But I think it would be best if I did this in your bedroom."
"Okay." Lucy began to lead the way to her bedroom.
Before following Lucy Wendy turned to look at Lisanna. "Thank you for getting me here, but can you stay out here until I'm done treating Lucy?"
"No problem." Lisanna said before sitting back down grabbing a Sorcery Weekly off the top of Lucy's coffee table.
Lucy held the door open for Wendy before closing it once both girls where inside. "So what do you need me to do.
"Before I can do anything I need to find out what's wrong." Her hand began to glow from her body scan like spell she was casting. "This spell works best if you lay down."
The Stellar mage did as the Sky Maiden asked resting her head on the pillows.
"Here we go." Wendy began to use her magic on her friend. It didn't even take Wendy's magic three seconds to figure out what was wrong with Lucy. "Lucy-Chan you're not sick." Knowing it was something a lot more serious than a cold or flu.
Sitting up on her bed "Oh God!" Losing what little color she still had on her face knowing the younger mage was about to confirm her fears. The thing she had been dreading the past couple of days was just about to become a reality in just a few short words.
"Congratulation?" Unsure of how her Nakama would be feeling after hearing the diagnosis. "You're pregnant Lucy-Chan."
Hugging both arms around her stomach the one word kept repeating itself in her head. 'I'm pregnant.' After hearing it being repeated in her head for the tenth time she felt her room beginning to spin around her quickly becoming light headed. "I'm pregnant." Saying it for the first time out loud before fainting.
"Lucy-Chan!" Wendy shrieked before tending to the passed out pregnant woman.
Immediately Lisanna burst through the door seeing Wendy aiding an unconscious Lucy. "What's wrong with her?" Immediately noticing the unconscious blonde.
"She passed out after telling her what was wrong with her." Wendy said.
"So what's wrong with her?"
"Nothing is wrong with her. Lucy is just pregnant." Wendy said before giving instructions to Lisanna to help her aid Lucy.
Natsu was sitting on the roof of Lucy's apartment out of view from the window. For those of you thinking it no he didn't run away from Mira. After his failed attempt of running away from Erza weeks ago he knew better. Instead he made a fire seal on the oven and stovetops to keep them hot until Mira needed to turn them off once the bar closed.
He couldn't believe what he just heard from the girls inside. Lucy his best friend, his crush, the woman he loved, the one he wanted to claim as his mate was pregnant. From what Igneel had taught him that meant another man had claimed Lucy as his. "Does this mean Lucy can never be mine?" He asked himself. He was 100% sure that Lucy was his mate even after learning she had slept with that black-haired bastard, but now he was in pure doubt after hearing she was having his child.
His mind became confused. By all the teaching Igneel had given him a person can only have one mate as long as they lived, even if one of them were to die. By Lucy being pregnant with that man's child did that mean he could never have her now. That thought forced the dragon slayer to cry hot tears. "She was supposed to be mine." He whispered. "What am I going to do now." As sure he was of Lucy being his mate he was just as sure he'd never find another who could make him feel the way he did whenever Lucy was around him
End Chapter 10.
Next Chapter.
What Do I Do?
Well for anyone who has yet to get the meaning behind the title to this story you know have the answer. The drama just continues to unroll itself now. I'd like to congratulate FairyLaw15 for being the first one to realize the spell Zeref used on Lucy was a pregnancy spell, or at least the first one to say so in a review. Now the question has become why did Zeref pick Lucy to bear his child? Keep reading to find out.
Bit of bad news for this story as this will be the only chapter coming out for this story till March (3/01/13). The reason being my fist story Dragon's Tear is reaching its one-year anniversary on 2/27/13. Currently I'm working on chapter 16, and I want to have chapter 17 out by that date. In order to do that I have to type 2 chapters that are each going to be 10,000 + words in less than four weeks time. The only way I can see myself doing that is if I put this story on the back burner until I get both those chapters done. So long story short Child of Darkness will be on a one-month hiatus. I apologize for doing this, but it's the only way I can get what I want to get done, done in my other story. To make it up to you all once I get those chapters done I'll bust out 3 chapters of this story straight before going back to Dragon's Tear. Trust me I'll need the break from it once it get those two chapters done(Seriously 20,000+ words for two chapter in less than a months time, Fuck Me).
Hope you all enjoyed.
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