Chapter Twelve: Markarov and Yuri

"Natsu there are 3 types of families that human's have. Those you are born to, those that are born to you, those that you let into your hearts." – Zeref to child Natsu.

Mavis was kissing him!

Zeref growled at the taste of her as his body came to life. Her hair was still wet and it slapped his robes when he suddenly pushed her away, "Are you sure about this Mavis?"

"What? You mean you are actually interested?" Mavis teased. "Started thinking you was asexual."

As an answer, he tore the thin dress she was wearing; he never liked the thing anyway. He had been sad when she had put it on. As he rolled to press her underneath him in the grass, he asked "What were you saying?"

Mavis heard the fabric tear but didn't care. She wanted him with the same desperation.

Smiling, she replied, "Nothing at all."

Mavis reached out and made his clothes disappear. She had seen him naked before, but today he looked different. Or maybe because she was in human form.

"Oh you want to bring magic into this?" Zeref smiled down at her. He concentrated his magic into his fingertips, and carefully caressed her skin over her breasts to her stomach. She shuddered as his eyes never left her face.

Kissing her he again, his mouth begin to lick a trail down her neck to right above her heart. He whispered a few words. Warmth begin to radiate from Mavis's body. It was more than just a sexual feeling, but something he had done to her blood. An exotic feeling begin to radiate through out her body. Her skin became extra sensitive. Even the breeze caused her to moan. At the same time, he gently separated her folds to stroke her. She cried out in relief and pulled him close but he wouldn't let her.

He whispered in her ear, "Let me love you."

Mavis trembled with the incredible sensation of his fingers soothing the ache inside by teasing her clit. Never had she experience such. They excited her in a way she never thought possible.

"I am yours Zeref, forever and always."

Mavis awoke sometime during the evening to find herself alone. Zeref had disappeared.

Her dress had been blanketed around her.

A circle had been drawn around her to protect her .

A message had been left for her.

Mavis, I'm sorry if you hate me, but our relationship will never work out. Hopefully you do hate me; it will make it easier for you to forget me for I do not want you to remain depressed over a lifetime. You are a fairy queen, and I am a lowly wizard. The action of taking on a human lover will look poorly on you. You will live forever, while I will die a ripe old age. My heart is heavy while writing this because I do love you though my actions are contradicting with what I say. It is hard for me to come to terms with what happened because I have a goal, which I am trying to attain, the revival of my family. Please do not seek me out. I won't come bother you any more. Take care of yourself.

She couldn't stop the tears. He had left without even talking to her!

Coward!

Clutching her dress, she broke the spell and thought about chasing after him. Eventually, she returned to her fairy life. Her thoughts were consumed with Zeref though.

"Wish he would just die." She found herself saying, even though she just really wanted him back.

Throwing herself into her life as a queen, she began to use diplomacy to try and cease the dragon war.

A few months later, Mavis in human form sought out Zeref, who was living among the dragons sympathetic to human kind.

"I'm pregnant."

(Zeref's POV)

Mavis's cracked her palm against Zeref's check as she said it. The attack was so surprising, along with her words that Zeref lost his balance.

"What? I mean we did. But you're fairy. And I'm human. It should be…." Zeref stammered with a wide eye look from the ground.

Mavis angrily kicked his leg. "And?" He began to retreat crawling backwards away from her.

"I mean how do you know you're pregnant? Are you sure it's mine?"

Mavis screeched at him and proceeded to launch herself at him, using her small fist to smack his chest…

"You bloody bastard, left me! Asshole! And this!" She stopped her rant long enough to open her cloak and point out her stomach.

Zeref gulped, "I didn't plan for this to happen. Honestly, I would have never gotten you pregnant."

Igneel tried to not listen to the humans' conversation, but he winced at Zeref's words… You could be the smartest mage in the world and clearly not understand women. Although Igneel was somewhat amused at how the young fairy queen suddenly reached out to electricut the boy. Sizzling, he lay on the ground in pain.

This brought the couple to the attention of all the dragons present. The lightening dragon snickered at Zeref's misfortune.

Metallicana interrupted, "Lady Mavis, he is the father of the child. You might not want to kill him just yet." He made a mental note to offer Zeref some advice about love later. Maybe he could teach Zeref how to sing his way to a woman's heart because the boy clearly needed guidance.

"Oh I won't kill him! Just need to get some emotions out of my system. They've been building for the last few months. Plus my hormones are high right now."

After Zeref was laying on the ground huddling at her maltreatment, she stopped.

"Now what are you going to do about this?"

"Me?" He squeaked.

"You're always trying to fix things! Fix this! I can't tell my people. 'Hey I'm having a child - its half human.' What are they going to think? Will it even be able to live among fairies? What if it is weird mix of human and fairy that it can't even exist in this world. "

"Uh!" The boy was left stammering as he tried to form words.

"Ah!" Mavis threw up her hands in disgust.

"Well we could marry."

"Why the hell would I want to marry your sorry ass? You didn't want me before, why do you want me now?"

Mavis and Zeref did end up marrying.

It was after their son was born.

At the time, Mavis named him Yuri, meaning the justice of God's light. She decided to choose a last name as well since humans did that sort of thing.

"Why don't you name him after me. Dragneel?"

"Because I don't like you."

She finally decided "Drayer" for a strong sense of responsibility. Zeref was hurt by this.

The two of the evenutally soften towards each other as they produced the Magna Carta. This strengthen their bonds until finally Mavis forgave Zeref.

The Magna Carta was a treaty signed between the fairies, celestial spirits, humans, and peaceful dragons. The holder of the contracted was the Celestial Wizard Anna. The ones that signed were Anna's father, the dragon slayer Achnologia, the fire dragon king, Igneel, Mavis, the Fairy Queen, Zeref, the human representative, and Cephius, the Celestial King.

Once they were wed, Zeref decided to rebuild the cabin by the lake, but with the dragon war growing, the construction proceeded slowly. He found he did not have much free time. One of his first orders of business was to fill the house with defense spells in case of a random attack.

He also continued to hunt for the Temple of Ankhseram.

Three years later, Achnologia started to become very violent in the war, ripping through the enemy lines without care to friend or foe.

Igneel and Metallicana begin to discuss plans for taking out Achnologia. Their plans are discovered by Achnologia, who in retaliation decides to slaughter all living dragons using an ancient place he had found through his wife Andromeda.

Tracking him, Zeref followed him to the northern providence very close to where his childhood homestead was, planning to kill the dragon slayer for threatening his friends.

The place that Achnologia went to was the Temple of Ankhseram.

Nobody knows exactly what happened here. Two men went in... One man came out. The other came out as the Dragon of the Apocalypse.

A miniature Mavis shuffled out the front door as Zeref walked up the path to his house. Zeref shook his head when he thought about how hopefully when his son ages, Yuri would lose the blonde curls and green eyes... He just did not look like a boy. Maybe it was the fairy genes in him? Especially when Mavis dressed him in brightly colored robes that could be mistaken for dresses.

"Daddy!" The little boy said as he flew off the porch.

"What?!" Mavis asked too slow to react from the door. When she waddled outside, Zeref saw it, her fat stomach. Mentally he calculated how long he had been gone … Today was July. It had been 7 months.

"Be careful Yuri!" Mavis teared with pleasure as she saw her husband. She didn't want Yuri falling in his excitement to see his father.

Zeref smiled with the knowledge he soon would have a second child. He was still going to act surprised when Mavis told him. She loved to dramatically tell him things, and she pouted when he would jump the gun. Opening up his arms to grab Yuri, suddenly he felt a prickle on his neck.

The next second a curse activated.

Black waves began to roll off Zeref's body.

It was too late.

Yuri was already jumping toward him.

Zeref held out his hands to push him away.

In mid air, the darkness caught Yuri.

Zeref grabbed his own head as the most splitting pain racked his brain. It was almost as if somebody had shoved a knife through his nose into his frontal lobe. Even through the pain, he heard rather than see Yuri's body hit the grass with a sharp crack.

"Yuri!" Mavis shrieked. Zeref tried to see but the pain was so bad, dots danced around his vision.

He could barely make out the body that had been completely drained of life. Mavis leaped off the porch and grabbed the Yuri's lifeless body.

"Stay away!" Zeref shouted. He couldn't breath. His son was now dead. And he had been the cause. The pain seemed to grow worse.

Zeref still held his head as fell to his knees. He fought to remain conscious, as he cried, "What have I done?"

"Zeref!" Terror filled green eyes looked at him as Mavis tried running away.

She took four steps away before she hit the ground clutching her stomach. Blood stained her dress.

It was then that Zeref noticed she had been hit by the curse too.

"NO!"

Zeref was by her side at once, wrapping her in his arms. Yuri fell from her grasp, his body hit the ground because Zeref was too busy holding Mavis to try and catch him.

Blackness still swirled around him.

"You used law, didn't you?" gasped Mavis.

"I didn't realize it had cursed me Mavis! Or I would never have returned! I would have never endangered you two this way! Let me heal you!"

"Zeref, I need you to…." Mavis's voice was almost inaudible.

He interrupted her as he carried her to the house. "Shush don't talk. I will find a way to fix this." He ran one hand over her body. When it reached her stomach, Zeref's heart contracted.

"Mavis?"

"That's what I was trying to tell you, you dork." Mavis broke off to groan softly, her mouth tightening, eyes squeezing tighter shut, pinched with pain. A hand attempted to touch Zeref's robes. "Zeref I'm pregnant again."

"I know! I can see! But! But! There's a strange energy around your stomach!" Zeref cried.

"You have been gone. It was going to be a happy surprise when you returned. Love you."

"I love you too. Everything is going to be fine. You are a fairy. Fairies are immortal." Zeref said.

"Still lying to yourself." Mavis pushed weakly against the spot she held, "You sense it – the energy around the baby? Listen, I –" She started to cough.

"No save your strength."

"Zeref, let me talk." She commanded weakly. "I'm not immortal right now. I'm using my life force to protect the baby.'

"What?!"

"It's a struggle right now to breathe because instead of healing myself, I'msupporting the baby's life." Mavis looked at Zeref with tears. "It's another boy."

Zeref wimpered as he glanced to Yuri's body still lying in the grass. A memory hit him of Natsu's body lying in a similar position when he was younger.

"How can I kill an immortal?"

"That's the part of the contradiction of the curse. You love so much, that you take its life, whether it be immortal or not."

"Mavis, please for my sake, let me heal you." Zeref started doing healing enchantments in the air.

"It won't work. He will be born then I will die. Get Anna. She will help." Cough. "Because you can't be there when the baby is born."

"Shhhh!"

Mavis was growing paler by the second even though he was using his strongest healing spells.

"It's no use Zeref. The more you try to save me, the more your curse sucks the life out of me." Mavis smiled sadly, ""Zeref, I still have the body of your brother. I asked the Tenrou fairies to keep him on their island."

"That doesn't matter now."

"Hey Zeref. I'm not going to last more than another a few weeks. Name the boy, Markarov. He was a prince I read about in a human story once…." Cough " It's befitting a name for the son of a fairy queen."

"Mavis! I will fix this! You just have to hold on."

Mavis touched him weakly, the strain of it showed in her face, "Some things you can't fix Zeref. Even with magic. I don't want you to spend your life regretting this. The moments we shared were the happiest of my life. I want you to live and find a cure for your curse. Life is a gift that I leave you with. And I can rest in peace to know at least one of my sons survived."

Tremors racked Zeref's body as he held Mavis, his lifeline. He rested his head against hers while whispering, "Don't leave me Mavis. Everyone I love leaves me."

"Don't worry Zeref. Don't you know? Fairies always live in your heart."