A/N: Hey guys! So first I'd like to apologize for the story going a bit slow at this point, but this will be second to last chapter! Yeah the feels will get strong in the last one, so have a tissue ready ok?
A/N 2: On a side note, any one seen the spoilers for the new Fairy Tail light novel Trouble Twins? Looks like little Garcelle is gonna have siblings! Haha I was surprised, but I'm excited to read it when it gets translated.
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"MAMAAAAA!" A scream sounded clearly through the large guildhall. The wizards which attempted to rest and drink their drinks all looking towards a certain blonde hair child in annoyance. The child ran up to the bar in which his mother stayed at, jumping onto a bar stool as she continued to clean her cups calmly.
"Hm?" Mirajane asked, not breaking her eye contact with the glass in her hand.
"I-I was being nice a-and offered to help papa with his paper work b-but he told me to get l-lost!" He sobbed, big blobs of tears rolled down his cheeks as he looked up to his mother.
"Did he?" Mirajane questioned, stopping the task she was doing to glance to her son. "When did this happen, Giro?"
"A-A little bit ago..." He spoke quietly, rubbing his eyes to stop the tears that had been falling. Most of the time, these were crocodile tears and the whole 'get lost' thing was just a little act to get his father in trouble. He liked to do that for some reason, but kids will be kids. Especially Laxus's kids.
"Giro, you know mama doesn't appreciate lies." Mirajane stated, poking her childs nose and causing him to scrunch it up.
"But it's not a lie, mama!" Giro defended, waving his arms about frantically. He was a drama queen sometimes.
"Mmm hmm, I would believe it if your father was home." She spoke simply, putting a fist on her hip as she rose an eyebrow sternly.
Caught red handed, Giro plopped down onto the seat he stood in. He crossed his arms, puffing up his cheeks and turning his head away. "I thought it would work that time."
"What an odd child you are, Giro." She sighed, going back to cleaning what she needed. "Your papa won't be very happy with you if he heard that."
"I know..." Giro grumbled, kicking his feet as he looking down towards the floor. She couldn't really blame him for acting up, after all Laxus was never home and it was only a sign that he missed him.
As Giro simply laid his head back down on the bar's surface, the doors of the guild creaked a bit as they were pushed open. Looking over to see who it was, Giro smiled widely.
"We're back!" A familiar voice called out, Happy quickly flying out from behind the couple that had entered the guild. "Aye!"
"Welcome back, you three." Mirajane greeted, smiling towards Natsu and Lucy as they made their way into the guild, hand in hand. Happy had quickly made his way over to the bar where he would be greeted by Giro with a tug of the tail.
"Wah so mean!" He whined, rubbing his bottom and pulling away his tail from the curious demon spawn. Giro simply snickered before he jumped off his chair and ran towards the two at the door who were making their way to the bar.
"Lucy-san! Mamas being mean." Giro commented as he looked up to the blonde, causing her to laugh a bit nervously.
"I wouldn't say that if I were you, Giro." She mumbled under her breath, but soon smiled normally towards the younger child when he gave a small pout. Giro was quick to turn his attention to the pinkette before him and Lucy soon let go of Natsu's hand, going over to take a seat at the bar while Giro and Natsu got aquainted once again.
"Fight me, Natsu!" The child shouted, raising his fist up in a fighting stance as Natsu simply sighed.
"Don't you ever give up, kid?" He grumbled, ruffling his hair so that it would be a mess by the time he pulled away. Giro protested against the action, and tried desperately to put it back to it's original style. Thankfully for Giro, all he had to do was brush it back to make it better again due to it being so short.
"What have you three been up to?" Mirajane ignored her child's outburst for the time being, looking towards Lucy who struggled to get comfortable in the small seat to the bar. If it wasn't obvious that she was pregnant 6 months ago, then her large belly now would be a wake up call to anyone who saw it.
"The usual." Lucy replied, resting her elbow on the surface and leaning her cheek on her hand. The usual had consisted of a few simple things as of late. Stay home and write her novel, occasionally stopping to use the bathroom and look for snacks.
Natsu had two moods in the months she had been pregnant. One was 'protective dragon daddy' where he insisted she stayed home and he do everything for her, or 'over energetic dragon daddy' where he tried many times to drag her out the house to do something. She couldn't go on jobs, so it was usually staying at home.
They had been doing this for a few months now, and everyone at the guild knew about the blondes condition. Natsu convinced her to visit the guild and tell everyone the good news, and it was a big shock to everyone. Gray had teased Natsu a lot, claiming he was surprised that he even knew where to put it. Erza was blushing wildly, shaking Lucy's hand and congratulating her to no end while Jellal was simply happy for the two.
Levy almost began to cry, claiming how she was sorry that she didn't realize earlier what was going on. Gajeel only gave Lucy an approving look, glad that she decided to tell them when they had returned from their vacation. Even Lily and Carla was happy to hear the news, as well as the rest of the guild as they celebrated the whole night.
"I see." Mirajane giggled watching Lucy adjust her seat a bit to her liking. She didn't think having such a large belly would make things so difficult to do but she was sadly mistaken. "You sure have gotten bigger." She commented, Lucy only sulking a bit at it because she knew it was true. Half of her clothes no longer fit and she had to go out and buy maternity clothes.
As of right now, Lucy simply wore a white summer dress, the sleeves were a floral lace and a light pink ribbon accented the look around her chest. It was nice and spacy, but it made Lucy feel like a circus tent.
"Lu-chan! Look at you!" Another voice had approached Lucy from behind, blinking her eyes a bit she turned to see Levy walking towards her with a smile on her face and Garcelle in her arms. Lucy smiled towards her when the shorter female had gotten closer and taken a seat beside her, resting the child in her lap.
"Ah Levy!" Lucy greeted her, Garcelle making bubbles with her spit as Lucy giggled in response. "Yeah, look at me." The blonde looked down to her stomach, sighing exhausted already from talking about her endeavors.
"You're bigger than I was! Are you sure you aren't having twins?" Levy questioned, Lucy practically choking on her own spit when the words were uttered.
"No way! It's just one!" She exclaimed, waving her hands frantically in front of her face. She felt drained enough from one dragon child, two would be too much for her fragile body to handle.
"Don't be so sure about that, Luce~" A firm hand fell upon Lucy's shoulder and she turned her head up towards the pink haired man who stood behind her, grinning like a dork.
"No way, don't even think about it." Lucy spoke sternly, poking his cheek a few times.
Levy simply laughed a bit as the two of them bickered about nothing in particular. As they continued on, a voice from another table had broken the conversation.
"Heh flame breath couldn't handle two brats." Gray, who had been sitting close by at a table with Juvia and Amaya, looked over to Natsu smirking. They honestly could never get enough of picking fights with each other could they?
"Oh yeah? You can barely handle Amaya, I feel bad she has a frozen piece of trash as a father!" Natsu was quick to defend, the two now somehow in each others faces and foreheads crashing into each others as they both tried to one up each other. Natsu's heat was starting to take the guild over until Gray's cold clashed with it causing an odd temperature to rise in the room.
"That is not true, Amaya has a wonderful father!" Juvia interjected, practically fuming with rage over the words Natsu had spoken. Lucy sighed, Juvia always had to add fuel to the fire, but she had a right to defend Gray.
"I ain't scared to take you on right here, right now!" Gray hissed, Natsu returning the hiss with flames now forming at his fist.
"You're on!" He smirked wildly and before long they had both began to throw punches. A ball of fire flew across the room and hit the wall, burning a large portion. After that, an icicle shot out and lodged itself on the request board, almost hitting Nab if he had not taken a step away.
It went on for a bit, that is until a flame had hit a certain iron dragon slayer right in the face. The two didn't stop, but Gajeel stood with rage building deep inside of him. With a burn now on his face, his arm turned into a metal rod and soon he crashed it inbetween the two.
"WOULD YOU TWO IDIOTS WATCH IT?!" He growled, and it wasn't long before an all out brawl had broke out between the drunken guild members and the riled up fathers, Jellal being the only innocent one.
"Ah, there goes the guildhall again." Cana grumbled, dodging a flying chair that had been thrown at her from an anonymous challenger. Miraculously, Lucy and Levy had not been dragged into the brawl and it was honestly a good thing. Garcelle watched things fly with sparkly eyes and Levy simply pout disappointed that her husband had jumped in so quickly.
"Those guys, I swear." Levy sighed, brushing a long lock of blue hair from her face with a sigh. Lucy had turned her back to the fighting, closing her eyes as her eyebrows furrowed a bit. A slight twinge of pain had shot through her like a lightning bolt, and she sat still as the storm blew past her.
"Goodness, where's Giro?" Mirajane looked among the crowd with a worried face, but her question was soon answered when she had seen Giro running among the wild crowd. He was obviously trying to get in on the action, but was getting no where. Mirajane casually strolled out into the middle of the fray and grabbed him by his shirt, dragging him back behind the bar for a quick lecture on staying out of the guilds rumbles.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Erza soon stepped into the storm with little fear, looking around for the source of the whole thing. Natsu and Gray no doubt, who had still been beating the crap out of each other.
"Let's just leave them to tire themselves out." Jellal waved his hand with a nervous smile, Erza glaring at the flying furniture before looking over to Jellal with an eyebrow raised.
"That will be a while." She spoke, "Then again, we haven't had a good fashioned brawl in a while." The scarlet haired mage smirked and before long she had cracked her knuckles before stomping into the fight. Jellal, who had the twins sitting next to him, sighed and let her do as she pleased.
Levy watched things fly to and fro, but her attention was caught by the blonde sitting next to her again.
"Anyways, Lu-chan, I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to buy a few things for Garcelle." She spoke as the fight went on, Erza now joining in on the chaos. She smiled, hoping she would agree since shopping with Gajeel wasn't ever any real fun, not to mention he was obviously busy.
The ringing in her head had caused Lucy to miss part of what Levy had said, and only caught 'for Garcelle' before she looked over to Levy with narrowed eyes. "Eh?" Lucy questioned, raising a hand on to rub her temple slightly.
"Did you want to come shopping with me?" Levy asked again, this time louder and leaning closer to the mage so that she could hear her over the fighting. Garcelle babbled slightly, still watching the fight from over her mother's shoulder.
Lucy had managed to catch that part, and she soon nodded opening her eyes a bit more. "Sure, Levy-chan." Lucy replied with a weak smile, trying her best to ignore the pounding of her head.
"We should go ahead and get going, seeing as how this won't let up anytime soon and Gajeel and Natsu seem too busy trying to bite each others heads off." Levy teased with a giggle watching Gajeel bash Natsu over the head with his metal sword.
Lucy nodded, and when Levy had slid off her seat she held Garcelle in one arm holding out her other hand to help Lucy stand. She took her hand gratefully, and as soon as she rose from her seat she felt her self go light headed and fell down to her knees.
"Lu-chan!" Levy called out startled, kneeling down with her so that she wouldn't hit the ground too hard. Lucy hung her head, her consciousness slowly slipping in and out as she tried to gain her strength back and rise again.
Time slowed down suddenly, Gray was about to land another punch on Natsu when Natsu had suddenly stopped all movements. His eyes widened, the metallic smell of blood reaching his nostrils mixed with the familiar scent he loved so much. With a sharp turn, he immediately put two and two together and pushed Gray away before he could land the hit.
"Luce." He spoke simply and just like that the fight had died down. Gray panted slightly, rising an eyebrow in confusion before he turned his head to look towards Lucy with alarm.
"What's wrong?!" Levy had practically yelled in fear, Lucy had lost her balance and had fallen face forward into the bluenettes chest at this point. Natsu wasted no time in dashing towards his mate, stopping at Levy's side to hold up Lucy who was now fully unconscious.
"What happened?" He asked, almost robotically when he switched into protective dragon mode.
"I don't know, she was speaking just fine a second ago!" Levy said startled, holding Garcelle in her arms tightly as Natsu now picked Lucy up in his arms bridal style. The smell of blood reached his nose again, and this time it was clear where it was coming from. That surely wasn't normal, and fear took a tight grip on the dragon slayers heart.
The guild had gotten deathly quiet while the whole ordeal went down, everyone's eyes wide with panic as they all wondered what was wrong with the pregnant woman. Barely a second had passed, and the dragon slayer was soon running out the guild doors. Erza and Gray exchanged looks, and they too had taken off behind their teammates with little thought. Juvia and Jellal stayed put with the children, despite wanting to follow as well, and Levy shook with fear for her friend until Gajeel had attempted to console her.
"Everyone, don't worry!" Happy was the last to run after the four, and when he gave everyone a reassuring look he flew quickly after them.
"Hang on, Lushy."
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