Storytime:

A/N: Song used in this is "Love Story" by Taylor Swift. Also, I'm going to be starting an Internship at a local highschool soon, so don't freek out if all of a sudden there's a long period without any updates. I'm going to be a very busy bee and won't have as much time for writing for the next few months, so please be patient with me.

Y'all are all awesome. Love ya'!

Farrah Lee-Dreyar: 7

Nashi Dragneel: 4

Storm Fullbuster: 4

Cato Dreyar: 4

Roman Fernandez: 3

Persephone and Koree Redfox: 3

Bianca Fullbuster: 1 ½

Lorelle Strauss: 8 months

Eva, Minette, and Von Fernandez: 2 months

"Ah, Magnolia, 'bout time!" Gajeel sighed as she saw the sign come into view on the road.

"Agreed," Pantherlily said as he flew alongside him. "That job took much longer than I expected.

"Tch," Gajeel nodded as they reached the town border. "You got that right. Boy, am I ready to get back to my shrimp and my rugrats."

"Why, hello there, stranger!" a voice came from behind them. Gajeel turned, smiling when he saw a middle-aged man with thinning hair walking towards them.

"He, how ya' doin', Pops?" he asked as Jude made his way to his side.

"Fine, fine," Jude answered. "You?"

"Just getting back from a job. What you in town for?"

"Well, Lucy's only a week and a half away from her due-date, so I thought now would be a good time to come down."

"Ah, here to meet the newcomer, eh?"

Jude nodded. "Yes, and to keep Nashi when the little one finally decides to come."

"Well, ya probably won't have to wait long," Gajeel said. "Last letter I got from Levy she's been having false contractions the past few days."

Jude's eyes lightened up in excitement. "Really? Oh, well then, let's hurry."

Gajeel let out a small chuckle. "Surprised a man as old as you can move that fast."

"Careful now, you'll be my age before you know it."

The two men chuckled and chatted until they reached Fairy Tail's guild hall.

"Alright, let's do this in style," Gajeel said.

"In style, what do you-hold on a minute!"

Jude sputtered as Gajeel threw him over his shoulder then kicked the doors open.

"Guess who's back with gifts!" he announced loudly.

"I'm not a present, put me down!" Jude shouted, though he was not even acknowledged by the younger man as two tiny voices shouted out:

"Daddy!"

And the pitter-patter of two sets of tiny feet running towards him.

"Hey, there's my rugrats!" Gajeel said as he knelt down and held out his free arm to his two daughter.

"There's my Presephone-" he pressed a kiss to the little girl's cheek before moving to her sister. "And my Koree!"

"Where'd you go dis time, Daddy?" Koree asked.

"Did'ya kill awot of monsters?" Persephone began pumping her fists in the air.

"Sure did, Sephy," Gajeel grinned just as a small shadow passed over them. He smiled as he stood up, ruffling Persephone's har. "And I'll tell you all about in a minute."

He reached his arm out to his wife, who smiled as she walked towards him, slipping her arms around his neck and standing on her toes for a kiss.

"Welcome back," Levy smiled, cupping his face in her hands.

"Happy to be back, Lev."

"I hate to interrupt this tender moment, but can you please put me down?" Jude asked from where he was still slung over Gajeel's shoulder.

"Gajeel, that better not be my father you'r dragging around like a sack of potatoes!" Lucy shouted from the other side of the main room.

"And what are you gonna do if it is?" he shouted back.

"Don't talk to my wife like that!" Natsu's voice rang from the second floor.

"Oh, yeah?"

"Yeah!"

"And what are you going to do about it?"

Natsu raced to the taller man and stood right in front of him, toe-to-toe. "You wanna go?" He grinned evilly.

"Let's do this, Salamander!"

"Please put me down first!" Jude begged.

"Nobody is fighting today!" Lucy said as she raced (as well as she could being nine months pregnant, to break the two men up, before slugging Gajeel in the shoulder. "And put my dad down!"

"Sheesh, alright," Gajeel set Jude on his feet, the older man looking quite violated.

"Sorry about that, Dad, I don't know what's gotten into them."

"It's quite alright," Jude assured her as he shuffled to a table, and sat down. Lucy sat next to him, giving him a hug.

"How have you been?" she asked.

"Splendid, and you?"

"Eh," Lucy shrugged as she patted her belly. "Ready for this little one to get out."

Gajeel ignored the two as he turned his attention back to his two little ones.

"Teww us whatcha did this time, Daddy!" Koree begged, tugging on his hand.

"Yeah, teww us!"

Levy giggled softly as she watched the girls cheerfully tugged at their father's hands, begging him for a story.

"Sure, why not tell them a story, Daddy?" she said as she approached her husband again, standing on her toes to whisper in his ear. Gajeel listened intently. His smile brightened once she'd finished telling him her secret.

"That so?" he asked.

Levy nodded.

"Well, it's about time! Alright, shrimp, go help the boy! I got the rugrats."

Levy grinned and kissed his cheek. "Thanks, babe. You're the best."

"I know," Gajeel smirked as Levy scampered off. "Alright, you two anklebiters," he said as he scooped one girl in each arm. "What do ya think Daddy went and did this time?"

"Fought a monsta!" Persephone cheered, pumping her fists in the air again.

"Saved a pwincess!" Koree answered.

"Made a bad guy cwy!"

"Ge-he," Gajeel chuckled as he set the girls on a table and sat in the bench across from them. "Well, here's what happened…"

Both girls leaned forward, attention totally on him, interest peak.

"Daddy went to this town where this nutty inventor lived-"

"Whatta inventorw?" Koree asked.

"Someone who likes to make stuff," Gajeel answered.

"What kinda stuff."

"Oh, know, devices, machines, robots-"

"Wobots!" both of the girls eyes widened.

"Did you fight a wobot, Daddy?" Persephone asked, a wild gleam in her eye.

"Hold on, I'm getting there short-stack," Gajeel said as he ruffled Perspehone's hair.

"Daddy! You messin' up ma haiw!" Persephone whined as she swatted at his hand. Koree giggled at them as Persephone frowned at her father and fixed her hair back.

"So, I go to this village where this crazy inventor lived. Apparently the weirdo had gotten in trouble making a bunch of...can you girls guess…?"

"Wobots!"

"That's right! He'd made a bunch of robots."

"What kinda wobots?" Koree asked.

"Oh, all kinds. Big ones! Small ones! Fat ones! Skinny ones! But, he didn't do a good job making them because he lost control of 'em-"

"Wost controw?" Koree cokced her head to one side.

"Yup, dumba-er-belle. Yeah. The dumbelle thought it would be a good idea to turn them all on at the same time. Well, he must have lost the remote control because the tin cans started running a muck of the whole town. Crashing buildings, tearing up roads, breaking fences, running over people's toes!"

On the word "toe" Gajeel grabbed each of his girls by their big toe. The girls squealed and scooted away from him, tucking their toes under their bottoms to prevent future attacks.

"And so, the town calls on your old man to help clean up the mess and take the robots down."

"What did ya do?" Persephone asked, bouncing up and down in excitement.

"Well," Gajeel leaned in, beckoning his girls to come closer. They scooted close, giggling and squirming in excitement.

"The very first thing I did when I got in town was…"

The girls leaned even closer, eyes growing wide.

"...get a bite to eat from the local diner because Daddy was hungry!"

"What?" Persephone threw her hands in the air.

"Daddy, you silly!" Koree set her hands on her hips, nose crinkled.

"Ge-he," Gajeel chuckled. "Well, after that, I went to the main square of town to get a sense of what was happening. I got there, and the whole square was torn to bits. Fountain had been smashed. Lamp posts knocked over. Road all crumbled, and cracked, and busted."

The girls eyes widened and widened. They leaned forward, attention wrapped in the story.

"The fountain was still bubbling. No one had come to turn it off. So I knew whatever had done this hadn't left too long ago. 'I gotta be careful,' I thought. So I moved slowly, and quietly. And then I heard something!"

Both girls gasped.

"I turned around…"

Gajeel stood to his feet, acting out the scene for his daughters.

"...looked behind me...and there is was…"

The girls gasped again, even louder.

"...it...was...a...robotic...DRAGON!"

Gajeel whipped around, growling and gnashing his teeth at his girls. Both of the twins squealed, scampered off the table and hid underneath, giggling and shushing eachother from the shadows.

"And then!" Gajeel poked his head under the table, causing both girls to jump and squeal in fun. They crawled towards him as he lead them out from under the table. He sat crosslegged, setting one child on each knee.

"So then, I put my fists up-" he held up both of his hands, turning them into anvils.

Koree closed her eyes, focusing hard until both of her hands were covered in metal scales.

"Yeah, like that!" he cheered.

Persephone also closed her eyes and focused. And focused. And focused. But nothing happend, she heaved a sigh and lowered her head, downcast.

"Aw, don't worry about it, kiddo, you'll find a magic that workds for you soon," Gajeel changed one of this hands back to normal and patted her on the back.

"So den what happen?" Koree asked, her hands still covered in scales.

"Well then, I gave him the old left-" Gajeel punched his hand out in demonstration. "-and the right! And then an upper cut to the jaw!"

Koree followed along with her father, mimicking his movements. Persephone watched on in interest, tilting her head from one side to the other, following along with her father and sisters movements.

"And then I gave him a kick-" Rather than actually kicking Gajeel just bounced his knees, making both girls sitting on them giggle and squeal. "And with that, he fell over like a punk!"

"Like a punk!" Persephone repeated.

"Ooh, maybe don't say that around Mommy, 'kay kiddo?"

"And den what!" Koree asked.

"And then…" Gajeel wrapped an arm around either girls shoulders, leaning down to create tension and anticipation. "...I ate him."

"Wha-a-a-a-at?" Persephone exclaimed. "No you didn't!"

"Yes, I did! You callin' your old man a liar!" Gajeel began tickling Persephone who squealed and squirmed.

"No! Stop it!" she giggled as she tried to get away.

"Did it taste good?" Koree asked.

"Tasted like chicken!"

"I wike chicken!" Koree grinned. "But did you really beat a wobot dwagon and eat it?"

"Wha-now you're calling me a liar too!"

"No!" Koree raced off before Gajeel could tickle her, so he began chasing her around the guild hall.

"I'll teach you for calling Daddy a liar," he said as she squealed and raced ahead of him. Persephone raced along behind them, laughing menacingly at watching her sister getting the same "punishment" she had earlier. A soft tune began playing from the stage at the front of the main room. Gajeel turned to find Mirajane playing her guitar and Lisanna playing a violin.

"Oh!" he finally caught Koree. "Sh, sh, sh, be quiet for a little while girls," he said as the Mirajane began singing:

"We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts and I'm standing there: On the balcony in the summer air."

The flutter of wings flew overhead as Happy, Carla, and Pantherlily-

"Hey, when did my cat get roped into all this?"

-began fluttering about, dropping rose pedals all over the main room. By now everyone's interest was peaked as Mirajane continued singing:

"See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns, I see you make your way through the crowd and say "hello." Little did I know…"

The three exceeds began clying in a circle around a table where a lone figure sat. Wendy stared up in confusion as she was showered in a soft cyclone of rose pedals. As Lisanna and Mirajane harmonized the chorus Levy and Juvia appeared out of seemingly nowhere and draped a white table cloth over Wendy's table. Natsu popped up behind them, placing several already lit candles on top of it.

"Guys?" Wendy asked as she stood to her feet. "What's going -"

"Open, gate of the Maiden, Virgo!"

"At your service!"

Wendy turned just in time to be whisked behind a giant white curtain pulled from the spirit world. When she emerged out from behind it seconds later she was dressed in a lacey blue and white knee-legnth dress, with matching off the shoulder sleeves and thigh-high boots.

"Guys, what is going o-" Wendy began asking as Mirajane began singing the bridge.

"Romeo, save me! I've been feeling so alone. I keep waitin' for you but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what I'm thinking…"

"Why don't you turn around and find out?" Natsu said with a smile.

Wendy did so and gasped loudly, clapping both hands to her mouth as she saw...

"...He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said-"

"Marry me?" Romeo, who had snuck up behind Wendy and bent down on one knee asked as he opened a velvet black box and held it out to her.

"...you'll never have to be alone. I love you and that's all I really know…"

Wendy squealed as she covered her face in her hands and began jumping up and down in place.

"...I talked to your Dad, go pick out a white dress. It's a love story, baby just say…"

"YES!" Wendy shouted at the top of her lungs, finally gaining enough composure to stop bouncing, pull her hands off her face, and speak.

"Yeah?" Romeo's eyes brightened.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" Wendy cheered as she fell to her knees, throwing her arms around his neck. "Yes!"

Romeo beamed as he hugged her back.

"Woo-hoo! Go Romeo!" Natsu cheered.

"Congratulations, you two!" Mirajane said into the microphone.

A loud sniffle broke through the air as Macao began wiping his eyes on his sleeve. "That's my boy!"

Romeo gently pushed Wendy off his and took her hand in his. Wendy began fanning herself with the other hand, tears of joy streaming down her face and tiny squeals escaping her as he slid to ring onto her finger. The minute it was on her gently grabbed her face and pulled her in for a kiss.

"Aw!" nearly everyone said as they began clapping.

"To the happy couple!" Cana shouted, raising her mug into the air.

"To the happy couple!" a dozen other voices ran out.

Carla gave a watery smile as she landed next to Wendy, who promptly scooped her into a tight hug.

"Congratulations, Wendy!" Carla said through happy tears.

"Thank you, Carla," she said before putting her oldest friend back down and diving in to kiss her fiance once again.

"Well, save some for the wedding night, you crazy kids!" Wakaba shouted out.

"Ah, they're young and just got engaged, let 'em have their fun!" Guildarts slugged Wakaba a little too hard in the shoulder, making the other man cringe.

More cheers and congratulations for the young couple rang out through the guild hall, until a very loud "OH!" caught everyone's attention.

The entire guild turned to find Lucy standing a few tables down from Romeo and Wendy's, clutching her stomach.

"Um.." she said as her face began to blush at the dozens of eyes on her. "...Porlyusica isn't here by any chance is she? Because I think my water just broke!"