A lot of y'all are surprised that Igneel and the other dragons are in this.

Well let me tell you something I completely agree with what happened to the dragons

in the manga but it still breaks my heart it happened so I put this twist in

to heal the broken hearts of those that read or

watched as the dragons protected the world.

Enjoy Chapter 13.

Chapter 13

Dragon Breath and Mistletoe

Month: December

Lucy P.O.V.

We got back home just as it started it snowing, but this was no regular snow storm, this blizzard lasted for a week.

We couldn't leave the house for fear of getting lost just a few feet from the doorstep. The temperatures dropped so low that even in my hybrid form I still cuddled with Natsu every chance I had. For three days Natsu and I just stayed in bed to keep warm.

Until that blissful day the sun came out, when the sun came out everyone started leaving their houses and walking anywhere just to get out of the house.

While Natsu and I are walking towards the guild excited for some good breakfast. The past couple days the pantry had been empty because I hadn't the time to refill it before the snow hit.

We walk into the guild and to the bar ordering some food while we're waiting for two dragon slayers to appear.

"Hey Mira where are Wendy and Gajeel?" I ask once she comes back with our plates.

She frowns and thinks for a second before saying "They should be here soon, they're not on any missions right now. Why do you ask?"

I swallow after taking a bite and say "We have something to tell them, and it's kinda urgent or else they will have to wait for next year. Natsu slow down before you choke."

I said this part a bit too late as he starts choking on a piece of pancake he didn't bother to chew enough. Fortunately Mira was there with a glass of water for the choking fire mage.

After we finish eating Mira and I are going over wedding plans while Natsu is watching for Gajeel and Wendy to show up.

Wendy showed up about 5 minutes after we finished eating and I told her "Hey Wendy, can you wait here for a little while, we're waiting for Gajeel to show up, because this affects both of you."

She just nods her head saying "Sure thing Lucy"

About half an hour later Gajeel shows up with Levy, but doesn't make it 10 feet inside the guild before Natsu is dragging him over to where Wendy and I are sitting.

"What the hell Salamander? Why did you drag me?" Gajeel says standing where Natsu left him.

"Gajeel can you please sit, we have something we have to tell you and Wendy that's for your ears only." Once again dragon curiosity is always a good thing when you're trying to get an iron dragon and a fire dragon to sit at the same table without fighting.

"Alright bunny girl you have my attention." Gajeel growls.

"We know how to find your dragons." I whisper to them. Wendy just sits there in shock while Gajeel sputters.

"How do you know? We've looked everywhere for them." Gajeel says more collected than he was a few seconds ago.

"Because we met Igneel on thanksgiving, but he had to go again." Natsu says a bit down at the thought so I elbow him in the ribs for him to pay attention.

"Look one of the things Igneel told us was that in order for you to find your dragons you have to go to a spot that meant the world to you and your parent. They only show up from Thanksgiving to Christmas so you don't have much time left until you have to wait another year." I say thinking back to what the great king had said.

"He also said that this spot deters magical tracking and is stupid tough to find without knowing where to look." Natsu cuts in giving the shocked dragon slayers a chance to gather their wits.

"Did he also tell you why they left?" Wendy says excitedly then frowns when Natsu says "It's best you find out for yourself."

With that Gajeel stands up and says "Thanks Salamander, Bunny girl, me and shrimp will see you for christmas." Before walking to retrieve Levy and walking out of the guild towards who knows where.

Wendy then gets up and gives me a hug saying "Thank you Lucy, Thank you Natsu." Before grabbing Carla and heading out the doors as well.

Happy goes to follow but Natsu says "Eh. buddy? You may want to leave them alone. This is something they have to do for themselves."

Mira walks over with a confused look on her face. "Uh Lucy why did Wendy, Carla, Gajeel and Levy leave?"

I give her a sad smile saying "They just got a great lead on someone very important to them that disappeared. Wouldn't you go running out of here like your hair was on fire if you heard the same news?"

She replies after a second "Yea I guess you're right."

Natsu P.O.V.

I watch Gajeel then Wendy leave to go find Metalicana and Grandeeney, while I sit there thinking back to what Dad said.

~Flashback~

We are walking to the cave when Dad stops, grabs my shoulder and says "Son, there is one lesson I didn't teach you before I left, but if you'll listen I'll tell you now."

I nod my head as he says "You know how protective you are of your mate? Well once mating season arrives and she becomes pregnant, it's gonna become worse, as in you don't want any male around her and you'll kill them if they do go near her."

"Another thing to remember is that while human pregnancy take 9 months a dragon pregnancy only takes 4 and half months, meaning you can't wait on gathering supplies you have to start once you find out she's pregnant."

"The final thing is that for the first 10 years of the babies lives whenever she changes form so do they, meaning for those two weeks even if you aren't mating when you change form so will the clutch."

I frown while taking this in, but then he says "Even though I won't be with you the entire time you'll know where to find me when it comes time to train them. When they turn old enough to use their hybrid wings, let me know and I'll find a place where we can hide and train."

I nod thinking of the possibility of pink-haired brown eyed babies or blond haired emerald eyed babies, before we walk in sight of the cave and my mate.

~End Flashback~

I'm snapped out of my thoughts when an icicle knocks me upside the head. "What the fuck was that for you bastard?"

Getting up I go over and take a sickly green yellow flame from Romeo and shove it down the back of Ice dicks shirt, which surprisingly he still has on.

Everyone around Ice dick backs away when they get a whiff of the flames that are stuffed down his shirt.

I give Romeo a hive five saying "Thanks bud, now can I get some of that sticky fire there's a certain 'man' that needs his ass stuck to the second floor balcony."

Romeo snickers and says "how are you gonna do that when he's watching?" I grin saying "Easy watch this."

I turn and walk up to Cana and say "Oi Cana, Elfman says he can drink more of your homebrew then you can."

Cana turns to the take over mage and says "Elfman I challenge you to a homebrew drinking challenge first one out like a light loses."

Elfman gets up, walks over and says "A man can beat anyone at a drinking contest. You're on."

"Oi Mira give me two barrels of the homebrew, and make them cold." Cana says to the eldest Strauss sibling as she finishes off the sake barrel she's drinking.

The guild and I watch as Mira carries out two barrels the size of a mini pony and says "Here you go Cana."

Cana pulls the cork out of both and says "Down the hatch." I turn to see Romeo smirking as he understands what I'm doing.

Once Cana is about half way done with her barrel Elfman is already out like a light, so I walk up grab him by the collar and jump to the second floor. "Oi Romeo toss it up."I yell out as I get into position.

He tosses me one flame and I stick it to Elfman's back then I holler "I need two more" so he tosses them up and I finally put Elfman up as a wall trophy and underneath I write with my fire:

"Never challenge Cana to a homebrew challenge,

else you'll end up as another trophy on the wall of shame."

-Natsu Dragneel

Everyone laughs when they see what I wrote even Mira's laughing at her own brother. "Hey Romeo how long will those flames last?" I ask the young fire mage.

He says "I gave those flames enough juice to hang there for a whole day."

6 hours later Elfman wakes up and sees he's hanging out for a little while when someone reads him the message I left.

"Damn it Natsu this isn't manly, you will pay for this." I snicker and say "Oh sure when you come down in 18 hours then we can fight.

He pales at the thought of being up there for another 18 hours when Mira says "Make it 2 hours and you and Lucy have every meal here free until the New year."

I think about it for a second before nodding and drawing enough energy out of the flame so it will only last 2 hours.

"Alright Elfman, Mira drives a hard bargain but you're only up there for another 2 hours." I say before going and sitting with Luce to watch how people react when they walk in and see 'Elfman the trophy' sitting up on the wall.

"Will you never learn?" Luce says shaking her head but I know there's a smile on her face.

"Hey it wouldn't be Fairy Tail if at least one person wasn't stuck on the wall of shame for falling for one of Cana's challenges." I say bearing a grin that matches my pride in the joke.

2 hours later Elfman falls off the wall and we get into a fight and Erza doesn't even bother to stop it well that is until someone*Ice dick* flies into her, and then we all end up on the wall of shame hanging by her throwing daggers.

An hour later Luce comes up and lets me down saying "Erza said I could take you down so we can go home."

"Did you learn your lesson?" She ask as we walk home, I smile my childish smile and say "Nope"

She kisses me and says "Good I wouldn't have it any other way."

The next week and a half fly by in blink of an eye and we're wrapping presents to hand out on Christmas eve before we go to the quarry to spend Christmas with Dad.

Luce looks up from the gift she's wrapping and says "I wonder if Gajeel and Wendy have met their parents yet?"

I look up from the present I'm wrapping and say "They'll tell us when they return."

"What would pop want for Christmas?" she says as she goes back to wrapping.

"Don't worry about dad I have that all planned out?" She narrows her eyes and says "Natsu Dragneel what are you planning?"

I meet her gaze and say "Dad's choice of meat was always elk, even if we had to fly 100 miles away to find it, we would always bag one for the special occasions."

"Oh so that's what you're planning?" I nod my head hesitantly before finishing up the last gift.

I look at the time and say "I'm gonna go get some fish for lunch. I'll be back in an hour." She nods her head absentmindedly too caught up in wrapping her gifts to notice the amount of money I take from the safe.

Instead of turning towards the fish market I make my way towards the best jewel store in town.

When I enter I walk up to the counter and say "Excuse me may I see what loose gems you have?"

The guy pulls a box out of a safe and says "These are the best in Magnolia take your pick."

I sort through them until I find some that she will like and pay for them. Then I head to the fish market to pick out the fish for lunch.

When I get home I hand the fish to Luce to cook than go up to the attic and lock the door so she doesn't come in.

I walk over to a corner and pull back the boards to reveal a ball shaped rag, when I unwrap the rag a nugget of gold about as big as the tips of both of my thumbs combined falls into my hand.

I take the gems and lay them on the rag then I get to work slowly heating the gold until it's malleable, from there I divide the nugget in half, leaving one half for later.

The half that's in my hands I start shaping into a ring, I pull Luce's engagement ring from the hole in the floor as well for a comparison.

Once I'm sure the ring is an equal size I heat up one side a bit more so I can insert the jewels into the band.

After the jewels are even and the metal cools then I wrap both her engagement ring and the new ring into in the rag, cover up the hole in the floor and go back downstairs to see Luce almost finished lunch.

She's so wrapped up in her cooking that she doesn't realize I'm leaning in the doorway until she hears my stomach growling.

She turns towards me and says "Oh hey Natsu I didn't see you there."

I grin and say "Guess what I found under our bed?" She gasp and says "No you didn't did you? You found my engagement ring?"

I nod and show it to her, then she runs over and jumps up kissing me while wrapping her legs around my waist.

I break the kiss for air and say "You may want to turn the fish they are starting to burn." She squeaks and I set her down on the floor to finish cooking lunch.

2 days later we're at the guild handing out Christmas gifts to our friends. Mira had set up this Christmas party saying everyone had to go, so me and Luce decided we would fly from the guild to the quarry.

As it gets late we finally leave taking off for the quarry arriving not 5 minutes later. Not even bothering to light the fire in the fire pit we just crash into the makeshift bed.

I wake up before dawn and realize it's Christmas eve today, so instead of cuddling with Luce for hours, I use my finger to melt a message into the stone near the opening before taking off to find elk for dinner.

By the time I get back It's past dark but I can see the fire burning bright. Once I land I see dad and Luce chatting.

"Hey Luce sorry I'm late I had to fly further than I thought to find the herds." I put the elk down and start gutting it while saying "Hey dad. Thought you weren't coming until tomorrow."

He says "I was up on the mountain top soaking up the last of the warm rays when I saw you fly out, so I figured once your mate was up I would tell her stories about when you were little."

I glare at him and say "Which stories did you tell her per say?"

"Oh just stories of how a fish swam you down the river, then there was the time you caused the whole mountain of snow to fall on you." He stops when he sees the embarrassment ruffling through my wings.

Once the meat is cooking Luce says "Pop we passed the message to Gajeel and Wendy."

He smiles and says "Well that's good, when did they leave?"

"Same day we told them. Grabbed their closest friend, or in Metalheads case his mate, and took off. They're supposed to be back in the next few days." I say smiling at the memory.

"Well it's getting late we should probably head to bed." Luce stands up and says "You coming?"

I say "Be there in a bit."

Once I hear her snoring me and dad get up and walk out of the cave. "That truly is one special bond you two have."

I nod my head before saying "Me and Luce have saved each other so many times it's hard to keep track, I always protect her from the outside dangers while she keeps me from becoming lost in the flames."

"Speaking of flames, How would you feel about a fight for old times sake?"

I look at him and say "Now you're speaking my language, but let's wait for tomorrow so Luce can watch, oh and no cheating this time around."

He sputters and says "I never cheated, you were the one that cheated all the time."

"Only because you did it first. Although it wasn't until me and Luce unlocked our hybrid forms did I understand using your tail to trip your opponents." I say with a smirk.

"Ha told you I wasn't cheating I was teaching you a valuable lesson in the art of tripping your opponent." He retorts

"Sure, whatever you say dad, I still say you were cheating."

His jaw hits the ground before saying "We'll see tomorrow who was actually cheating." With that we head back to the cave to get some sleep for tomorrow.

The next day we wake up to find it had snowed again overnight but I could care less. I'm fired up for our fight later.

Once we're sitting by the fire I give Luce the ring I made for her. "Oh Natsu thank you I love it." She says before putting it on her right ring finger.

"Here's your gift hope you like it." She hands me a bag of coal. Me and dad both start drooling as we think of how delicious the rock taste when it's lit.

"Pop no the coal is just for Natsu, and, no Natsu ,you can't eat it all in one go." We both pout and I say "But Luce it looks so good."

"No means no. As for you pop you can help yourself to the leftover elk as our gift to you." Dad perks up and say "Awesome a travel snack."

Then Dad turns around behind him pulling some boxes out of a pouch he keeps at his side. "This box is for the babies when you have them."

Pointing to the largest one on the bottom. "I put a couple extra since I don't know how many there will be."

'How many there will be?' Luce ask me silently

'Tell you later' I reply returning my focus to see dad handing me another gift. I open the box to see what looks like a compass.

"That compass, instead of pointing north, points directly to me. So you'll always know where to find me. But I warn you now if something should happen to me, the compass will break. Other than that it's unbreakable." Sure enough as I pull the compass out it points directly to him.

I manage to say "Thanks dad."

His final gift goes to Luce. She opens the box and pulls out a pair of what look like earrings, but then he says "These are limiters. If you want to hide how strong you truly are all you have to do is put one of these on, but you have to be careful."

"When the fluctuations are complete you will need one if not both, because that's just how strong the bond is between you and Natsu. Not only will you be stronger in your own right, but when the two of you are together, the impossible can be accomplished."

At a loss for words she just nods her head. "Now I do believe it is time to remind you, son, that I don't cheat in a fight."

We all get up and walk out of the cave, when I turn to Luce "Hey Luce can you just watch, I want to do this on my own."

She nods and flies to my tree branch.

Then I turn back to dad and say "Bring it."

We both transform into Hybrid form and stand there watching the other. Dad makes the first move by flying at me yelling "Fire dragon's Iron Fist"

I counter with "Fire dragon's Claw" I fly back a few feet and we say simultaneously "Fire Dragon's Roar"

And before he can recover I make quick work with a "Fire Dragon's Flaming Elbow"

I hit him and knock him back a few feet when he says "Where'd you come up with that one?" before retaliating with a "Fire Dragon King's Demolition fist"

"During the Phantom Lord Incident came across someone who could control my flames, he pissed me off, so I just put the flames into my elbow and got around him."

I reply before swinging with a "Fire Dragon's Iron fist"

I make contact but before we do anything else I hear "Natsuuuu" I look over to see a group of men trying to overpower Luce. She's in her hybrid form but there's too many of them.

Me and Dad take off after the group quickly working our way through the enemy until only one is left.

He's standing there with Luce held in front of him with a knife to her throat. "It's pay back time Salamander for what you and your pretty little girlfriend did to us." He says.

I look closer and notice the burns around his neck. "You're the guy that me and Lucy thrashed back in October."

He watches us and says "Yea so what? I'm gonna kill your pretty little girlfriend right here if you don't back off."

Then I look at Luce and notice her eyes are changing to golden amber again, which pins me to my spot but an idiot's grin starts to spread across my face.

Dad goes to move forward but I grab his arm and say "Don't, you don't wanna mess with her right now."

Dad looks over at Luce and backs off. The guy then starts to frown when he sees the grins on our faces.

"What are you grinning like idiots for? You should be begging me for this dumb blond back." the guy looks down when he hears a growl only to see the knife melted into a puddle and Luce nowhere to be found.

"What the?" Is all he can get out before Luce grabs him and throws him into the air. Before the guy can get his bearings he's already being kicked back down to earth, before being grabbed up again.

But this time Luce doesn't throw him instead she says in an almost demonic voice "What? Were the burn marks not enough last time? Oh well I'll just have to take care of you myself."

At that she lights her body on fire and burns the mage to ashes. Then she sets down and falls to her knees.

I fly to her and settle next to her saying "You ok Luce?" She only nods so I help her up and walk with her to the cave. Dad lands next to us looking at me but I just shake my head.

Once we're at the cave she says "I'm going for a swim." before walking over to the pool and heating up the water.

Dad looks at me and says "What was that about?"

I sigh and say "Back in October we went on a mission to track down a group of bandits that were hiding in the forest near Shirotsume. When we found them we discovered they were actually a dark guild that was forming."

"We found out that they were planning on kidnapping Luce for ransom to help build their guild, well Luce happened to be going through her aggressive phase at the time and let her anger get to her."

"The guy that tried to kill her? Yea that was the leader. And those burns around his neck were from me stopping Luce from killing him. This isn't the first time one of his groups has been here looking for her. There was another one about 2 weeks before Thanksgiving that I took care of."

"I understand all of that but why kill the guy this time?" I grin at him saying "Easy he called her a dumb blond, and she absolutely hates that one."

Dad face completely lit up with understanding before he said "Now I understand why's she so scary when she's mad and in Hybrid form."

I just nod my head. Dad looks at the darkening sky and says "We best part ways for now." I frown at this but then he says "Don't worry you'll see me again when it's time to train the kids."

I don't say anything as we walk out of the cave then I remember our fight and say "Next time I see you, we will finish our fight."

He looks at me and says "You're on."

Luce walks over and says "Goodbye pop see you soon."

He looks at me with an eyebrow raised and I laugh before saying "She hears everything that runs through my head plus her senses are on par or maybe even better than mine."

"Well then Lucy, I hope to see you two soon and hopefully with some triplets running after you." he finishes before changing into beast form and flying south.

She frowns then says "I'm sorry for losing my cool earlier. When I changed over it actually scared me, I thought she wasn't gonna let go."

I look down at her and say "Luce there's no need to say sorry, it wasn't your fault. We had no way of knowing that they would come after us again. You only did what was right to protect what is yours."

She instantly cheers up and says "Merry Christmas Natsu."

"Merry Christmas Luce" And what a merry one it is.

Now normally I don't do this but I'll give y'all a hint to the next chapter and that hint is there gonna be flashbacks and Natsu and Igneel aren't the only two fighting for the sake of old times. Or do you think I should do it separately? I'm writing the next chapter at this point so give me your input on what you think should happen. Also I learned something extremely important. Never, EVER, let your brother near you open document files it took me two hours to fix all the dumb shit he put in.

Grizzly out for the night.

P.S. Don't worry I drop the chapters early the next morning so there will be time for you to dish out your opinion.