Best Surprise Ever!
I don't own Fairy Tail. All rights and everything belong to the creator, Hiro Mashima. And also just in case, I also don't own the movie, 'The Gallows.' How's it going everyone? First off, I'm so sorry for the late update. I just finished summer school and now I'm free for the rest of the summer, so no more late updates hopefully. And second, thank you all for the favorites, follows, and reviews. You all are the best as always. Well, without further delay, here's the new chapter. Enjoy.
(Normal POV)
The second that Natsu saw Lucy in his room, he panicked before falling off of his bed. After scurrying in his sheets trying to get out, he saw Lucy laughing uncontrollably.
"WOULD YOU STOP LAUGHING?"
"I CAN'T! YOU ARE JUST TOO FUNNY! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
After Natsu got back up and settled back on his bed, he then realized that Lucy was still there in his room. Once he realized, for the first time ever, Natsu acted….Weird?!
"Ok, now I know I must be dreaming because there is no freaking way that Lucy's here. And if I'm dreaming, how come we're not on an island with food, dragons, and a beach house or something?"
Lucy blush a little, but shook it off to clear the confusion here.
"Well Natsu, you see-."
"If this is heaven, I don't think I wanna wake up forever. Though I wish you weren't so scary."
WHAMP!
Lucy gave Natsu a special kick of hers called, 'Lucy Kick,' and Natsu was out cold again.
"Try saying that again and you'll feel my wrath forever," Lucy said in a furious voice and look that would make Erza look like a harmless kitten. Lucy calmed down after that before heading out of his room.
"I'll just see you downstairs when you're not so delusional. Lunch will be ready soon too." And with that, Lucy shut the door before heading back downstairs.
15 minutes later, Natsu came downstairs, fully clothed and such, to the living room to see his parents and sister sitting on one couch facing another couch with two unfamiliar figures and standing next to them was-.
"LUCY! YOU'RE REALLY HERE."
Natsu ran towards Lucy and envelop here in a big bear hug while spinning around. Lucy was laughing while returning the hug. After another minute passed, Natsu set Lucy back down before he started feeling sick.
"What are you doing here Luce? I thought you were spending the holidays with your family in Acalypha?"
"I am. In fact, my parents are your parents' friends and I'm the guess. I wanted to make this a surprise after finding out you're the Dragneels son."
And the second time of the morning, Natsu hugged Lucy and spin her around. This time, everyone in the room was laughing. Natsu set Lucy back down again before turning to his parents with a surprised look on his face.
"WHO GUYS KNEW AND YOU COULDN'T TELL ME?!"
Grandine and Wendy shook their heads and sighing while Igneel looked irritated.
"Lucy just said she wanted to surprise you, you big dummy."
Natsu then got his face on Igneels' face with an angry look, as usual.
"WHO'S THE BIG DUMMY, OLD FART?!"
"YOU ARE, YOU NUMBSKULL!"
And with that, the two of them got into the brawl with the Dragneel girls laughing while the Heartfillias sweat dropped at this.
"Oh don't worry. Natsu and Dad always do this every day. It actually becomes entertainment for us every now and then."
The Layla and Jude laughed nervously at this while Lucy started marching towards the brawl. Once she made it, she shot a glare towards Natsu, which caused him to stop before landing another punch to Igneels' face.
"Natsu Dragneel, what have I told you about fighting?"
Natsu was sweating bullets while Igneel was starting to look a little scared himself.
"Uh, you Luce, there is a logical explanation for this. And that is… HE STARTED IT!"
And with that, Natsu was 'Lucy Kicked' again and he decided to stay down before he gets any more hurt. Igneel was shocked and scared at the same time from this.
"Wow, and here I thought Grandine was the only one that would look like a monster."
This time, Igneel was sent crashing onto Natsu after getting punched on the face by said wife. Both he and Natsu were knocked out cold while the two females stood triumphed.
"You have a nice kick there Lucy."
"Thank you and same goes to you, Mrs. Dragneel."
"Please, call me Grandine."
Layla and Wendy were laughing while Jude was thinking, 'I'm glad I'm not as insane as those two.'
Once Natsu and Igneel regained conscious, they sat down on the couches before receiving anymore thrashing from the girls. Natsu and Lucy sat on another couch while everyone was enjoying sandwiches that Layla and Grandine made. Natsu was then filled on all the details of the Heartfillias visiting and only had one thing to say.
"THIS IS THE BEST SURPRISE I'VE EVER GOTTEN IN MY WHOLE LIFE! LUCY HEARTFILIA, HERE ON CHRISTMAS, AWESOME!"
Natsu was then introduced to Layla and Jude. Layla was just like Lucy or the other way around, but still very kind and sweet while Jude….well…..it took a little while because Jude was being an overprotective father and asking Natsu a bunch of questions referring to his daughter and such. But one cold scary look on Laylas' face said otherwise and the two of them became friends. Natsu did have one thought about Layla though.
"So that's where Lucy got that scary personality from."
"What was that Natsu?"
"Nothing Luce."
After snacks were through, Natsu decided to take Lucy out to explore Hargeon, since this is Lucy's first time being there.
"So Luce, where do you want to go? Just name the place and we'll go."
"Anywhere?"
"Anywhere." And Natsu gave his toothy grin in response to his answer.
Lucy smiled big before grabbing his hand and started running.
The tour started fine with Natsu showing Lucy some spots that he likes, which includes: his old high school, favorite fishing spot, favorite restaurants, Movie Theater, where Gray and the others live while also popping by to say hi, and more.
The stop Natsu didn't like though was the mall because Lucy went into one of her shopping moods again, which spelled, 'OH NO,' for Natsu, but he also needed to finish up some Christmas shopping as well. However, in the end, Natsu had so many bags and boxes that he can make a 15 foot pyramid if he wanted to.
"WHY LUCE? WHY MUST YOU PUT ME THROUGH THIS PAIN AGAIN?! WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!"
Lucy shot him a bright smile before speaking.
"Because I said I'd fix you something to eat if you'd help me out with shopping."
"That was before I'd knew you go overboard again. Can we please stop?!"
"Oh, that's too bad. And here I was going to try and make something Grandine told me about earlier. I think it had something to do with steak and very spicy peppers and such."
And with that said, Natsu got his second wind and ran past Lucy, leaving her dumbfounded.
"COME ON LUCE! LET"S HURRY SO I CAN EEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAT!"
Lucy laughed at his behavior before joining him.
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A couple days have passed since the big surprise happened. Lucy and her parents are staying in the Dragneels' guest rooms since they have like 10 or 15 extra rooms. Other than that, Lucy and her family are having a great time with Natsu and his family. Natsu and Igneel would try and brawl, but keep getting stopped by Lucy and Grandine that they took their frustrations out on trees in a nearby forest.
Lucy got along well with Igneel and Grandine, but mostly well with Wendy that she thought of her as her little sister. One other thing has happened; both families are teasing Natsu and Lucy about their relationship, which both kept declining and such. It even came to a point where Lucy allowed Natsu to fight Igneel just to stop the teasing. But inside their minds, they wished that they could just confess already because it's driving them insane.
It was now past lunch and Lucy was helping Grandine and Wendy with dishes while Igneel brought Jude to the back porch to talk about the good old days while Layla took Natsu to the family library to talk in private.
"Natsu, there's something I like to ask you and please be truthful to me?"
"Uh, sure Mrs. Heartfillia. What is it?"
"First, call me Layla. Mrs. Heartfillia sounds like I'm old. And second, how do you feel about my daughter?"
Natsu then had an annoyed look on his face after hearing the question.
"I'm sorry, but can we stop with the teasing please?"
"I'm not teasing Natsu. I'm serious here."
After seeing that famous Heartfillia look, Natsu sighed and had his head down before answering her question.
"Ok, but please don't tell Lucy?"
"Of course."
"Alright. Well, to tell you the truth, she is an amazing person. I've never seen anyone who has a smile that is as bright as the sun. Her personality is awesome and I'd love spending time with her. She always makes my day every day. She's also weird and such, but that's one of the best things about her. She can also be scary a bit, but I think it makes her cute.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that….. I love her."
When Natsu looked back up to Layla, he was expecting the usual parent's look that said, 'I don't know' or 'I don't think it's going to happen,' but instead, he saw a bright smile on her face.
"I see. I can definitely tell from your words and expression. But what I like to know is why haven't you confessed to my daughter if you have such strong feelings for her?"
"I would, but I don't know if she feels the same for me and I don't want to ruin what we have."
What shocked Natsu then was Layla laughing a little uncontrollably.
"I didn't realize my pain is hilarious."
Layla then calmed down a little before trying to speak again.
"I'm sorry Natsu. I wasn't laughing at you; I was laughing at what you said because you have no idea how wrong that is."
Natsu then had a confused look on his face before turning into a weird face.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, to tell you the truth, Lucy has been talking a lot about you ever since she came back. She's told us how funny you are, what a great artist you are, by the way, I've seen your drawings. Very intriguing and great."
"Thanks."
"But what I'm trying to say here is, I think you should go for it. Lucy needs a great guy like you in her life. She has been asked out before, but turns them down right after the first date because their always into either her body or money. But when your with her, she's so happy that she just can't stop smiling and I've never seen her this happy in…. ever."
Natsu was just shocked and surprised to hear how much Lucy thinks of him. Natsu then started to have a smile on his face that was filled with confidence.
"So Natsu, I hope what we talked about has helped you some."
"It did. Thank you Layla."
"You're more than welcome. I do hope you'll confess soon because I would love to have a son like you in the family soon."
Natsu then collapsed onto the floor anime style while Layla had a confused look on her face.
"LAYLA! I WANNA CONFESSED TO LUCY, NOT PROPOSE TO HER. ARE YOU NUTS?!"
"Hey, I'm not getting any younger you know?"
Natsu had his jaw drop to the ground while Layla was laughing hysterically. But what they don't was that a certain blond was outside of the room, unseen, and has heard most of the conversation. She had a smile on her blushing face and a tear trailing down her face.
"You crazy pyromaniac."
Lucy then took care of her tears before entering the room.
"Hey guys, we're all going to go out for movie. Are you all interested?"
Layla nodded while Natsu had gotten back to his crazy self while jumping back onto his feet.
"You bet. I'm fired up now."
Everyone laughed and headed out to meet with the others. Along the way though, while Lucy was walking next to Natsu, she grabbed his hand and laid her head onto his shoulder. This caused Natsu to go onto a nervous streak.
"We're gonna watch, 'The Gallows,' and I heard it's really scary, so please don't let go ok," Lucy said with a smile that made Natsu's heart soar right out of his body.
"Uh, s-sure L-Luce. Just d-don't let g-go as w-well, o-ok?"
Lucy nodded and both of them continue forward with Layla behind them, who's seen the entire thing.
"Looks like I might have a new son sooner than I thought," Layla whispered to herself with a smile on her face.
How was it? I hope it was good because it took whatever brain I had left from the semester to do this and now I'm starting to feel like a zombie. Please review and tell me what you think so far and what I can do to improve. Also, Flygon125, sorry for it being late. I hope this makes your day. And also, I recommend another story I've written called, "Wrath of the Fire Dragon." It's my best story so far. Well, I hope you all have a great day. Until next time, see ya.