A/N Hallo, Loves!
This chapter is dedicated to the fabulous Plurplpengy11, she has inspired me to get off my lazy butt and get this updated!
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Hell of a way to find out you have a son, huh?
I turned to Kazuma, "Will you go find Loke and tell him I'm alright?" My tone made it more of an order than a request.
"But—"
I looked him dead in the eye. "Go. Come back in an hour and we'll have lunch ready."
He hung his head and started to head for the door. He shot Natsu one more glare before turning and bolting out the door.
I stepped closer to Natsu and offered my hand wordlessly. He took it and I hoisted him up. I walked to the kitchen, his hand still in mine. Once we were in the kitchen, I let go of his hand and went to the refrigerator. I started to look through it when Natsu spoke.
"Luce, what are you doing?" He asked.
"Lunch," I said simply.
He was quiet for another minute before he spoke again.
"Are you going to explain?" He crossed his arms and stared at me while I was chopping carrots.
"I'm trying to figure out where to start," I paused in my task momentarily to look at him.
After a few minutes, I took a deep breath. I set my knife down on the cutting board. I braced my hands on the counter and looked over to my husband.
"Do you remember the day we got back from our honeymoon?" He nodded with a small smile. "And when everyone was asking if I was pregnant?" He nodded again. "It turns out I was," I said slowly as I looked down at my chopped orange vegetables. "It was just too early on to tell." I looked over to my husband, who seemed to be processing this information.
"What's his name?" Natsu asked finally.
"Kazuma Igneel Dragneel," I told him as I picked up my knife and went on to chopping potatoes. "He'll be sixteen in a few days."
"He obviously takes after me in magic," He commented.
"Yeah," I giggled.
Natsu took up a knife and helped me cook lunch while we talked about the sixteen years we had lost.
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~Earlier that day~
Kazu shot up from his seat in the hotel room.
"That's it!" He exclaimed to Loke, the loyal loin spirit who was waiting with the boy for his mother to arrive. "She told me this morning she would be back at nine at the absolute latest! It is eight in the morning!" He yelled. "I'm going to look for her!" He grabbed his jacket off his chair before heading to the door.
"We should check the guild first," Loke commented as he grabbed his own suit coat off the bed and headed after Kazu. They ran through the streets towards Fairy Tail, or until Kazu caught a scent.
When they got to the guild, the doors were shut and closed. Kazuma took a huge breath, sifting his mother's scent out from all the rest. When he got it, he and Loke both ran in the direction in which it led, before it stopped suddenly.
"I lost it," Kazu muttered.
"How could you lose it?" Loke growled.
"She changed it," Kazu said, not all there, but sniffing out various scents, trying to find the one... "Got it," He stood up straight. "When she uses her stealth magic, it doesn't remove her scent but changes it. She only has about three she can change it to, cherry blossoms, fresh flowers, and lavender. She used lavender," He told Loke "The trail splits in two, go check that way," He pointed off before he took off running again. He came to a stop right outside an alleyway. Kazu carefully took a step inwards. He stepped down the staircase and opened the door, his face crinkling up as soon as the smell of the bar wafted to his nose.
Kazuma made his way to the bar, to ask around for Lucy.
"Excuse me," Kazuma hit his hand against the bar, gaining the attention of the bartender. He looked to have a scared or worried face on as he turned to them, but it soon disappeared once he saw Kazu.
"What'll you have kid?" He droned, clearly preferring the female he was eyeing two stools down.
"Have you seen a woman about yay tall, blond, brown eyes? She's usually got a belt of keys around her and answers to the name Lucy?" Kazu described his mother to the man.
His eyes widened. "No, I've never seen anyone here by that description," He said quickly.
Kazu leaned across the bar toward the man. "I could hear your heart rate increase once I mentioned her to you, meaning you did recognize her," He grabbed the man's collar and yanked him closer. "Where in the hell is my mother?" He growled to the almost whimpering man.
"I don't know!" He exclaimed. "We left here and some guy came and took her away!" He shouted. Kazu's eyes widened.
"Show me where," He ordered.
The man suddenly gained a bit of confidence. "No way, kid! I got stuff to do!"
Kazu growled as he pulled the man up and over the bar with incredible strength. "You will tell me where she is. Now." He pulled the man close so he was only millimeters from his face. Kazuma could smell how nervous this guy was. Slowly, the man nodded.
"Okay." He showed Kazu where 'A man came and stole the drunken blond he was trying to help home'. Kazu took a deep breath, creating a mental image of the scenario.
Suddenly, Kazu pointed to his right. "You ran that way." He stated.
The man nodded vigorously. "The man knocked me out and I ran that way to the police after I came to." He told the young man. Kazu nodded. He stepped up to the man and offered his hand.
"Thank you, for your help," He said. The man took his hand and shook it gently before Kazuma turned in the opposite direction and bolted off. He came to a small cottage in the woods. He could smell the man and his mother, mixed with the smell of alcohol and some other he couldn't pin down. Before he even got to the door, it was opened by a white haired man.
"Where is she?!" Kazu demanded, recognizing his scent from the trail he had followed here.
The man stood at an annoyed attention, "Who?"
"Lucy Heartfilia," Kazu spat.
Natsu's eyebrow rose. "There's no one here by that name," He told Kazu.
"Bull!" He shouted. "I smell her!" He made a move to go past the man, but he blocked Kazu.
"Hold on a second, kid," He said.
Kazu shoved the man back into the house. He could smell his mother very clearly in here. The man grabbed onto his shoulder, turning him around. The man hit him in the face with a flaming fist. Kazu cocked his eyebrow as he lay on the floor.
'Another fire mage?' He thought. He smirked inwardly. 'That means I don't have to go easy on him.' Kazu jumped up and delivered a uppercut, causing the man to launch back into a coffee table. Kazu was instantly on top of him.
"Where the hell is she?!" He demanded. "Where is she?!" He pulled a flaming fist back, just poised above the man's face, who was staring at the flame. He was leaning up toward it when Kazuma's mother burst into the room.
A/N I would like to note that Takeru is a douchbag.
Also, the Fairy Tail wiki said the legal drinking age in Fiore is fifteen, so Kazuma is able to be there by law.
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