Hey Guys. I'm sorry this one took so damn long. I've just been busy with life along with getting writers block for this chapter.
Everyone in the Fairy Tail guild hall were all on edge, Natsu and Lucy were currently in a meeting with the master while all the others were told to stay down on the first floor. Hibiki and the others Lucy had asked to come to the guild to help were currently sitting at a table, worried for what was going to be happening soon. All the kids had also noticed how tense the rest of the guild was so instead of playing they all were sitting with their parents, except for Nashi and Kai who were sitting at the table with their parent's friends, all the exceeds sitting on the table, worry evident on their faces. While everyone was talking to one another, freed was sitting at the bar trying to make Lilith stop her constant moving. "Come on Lilith, you need to stay put." Freed sighed at his usually calm daughter that had become restless since this all had started happening.
"Your dad's right Lilith, you need to stay still." Mira sighed as she wrapped an arm around her husband's shoulder.
"Sorry, but I can tell something is not right." Lilith explained almost fumbling over her words, even at four years old she had the speech capacity of a ten year old, but that was mostly because of her father.
"I know, but come on, you're more restless than Kai and Nash are normally." Mira sighed as the twins looked over at the small family.
"Heard that!" The twins yelled towards Mira, causing Lilith to giggle lightly.
"What's taking them so long?" Gajeel grumbled, but his grouchiness was soon changed as Natsu, Lucy and The master walked to the railing where all announcements were normally said.
"Hey brats we have some things to talk about!" The master yelled, causing everyone in the guild to stop talking and look at the three, they couldn't help but sigh when they looked at Natsu and Lucy, Natsu had a few bandages over his arms and one around his forehead, that was all caused by the lower level mages he had fought. Lucy's injuries were much more severe, she had bandages wrapped around her stomach, arms and legs, along with the bandages being wrapped around her hands she also had one wrapped around her forehead. Natsu knew what the guild was thinking and just sighed, knowing she was hurt because he couldn't protect her, but he was surprised that she was wearing what they had started calling her mission clothes, even though it showed the bandages wrapped around her stomach.
"Took ya long enough." Gajeel grumbled under his breath even though it didn't go unnoticed by Natsu
"We are going to be fighting against Spriggan tail, but I am not going to be the one to explain it to you all Natsu and Lucy will because they are the ones who came up with this plan." The master explained as the two walked right next to the railing as all eyes were on them.
"Before anything, how do we know we should go along with their plan?" Lyon questions while looking up at the two.
"I trust their plan whatever it might be." Hibiki interjects while looking at the two.
"Lyon if you don't agree with our plan you don't have to participate and you and Meredy will just leave, but if you want to take revenge of those b-er jerks for what they did then I suggest you help." Natsu remarks to the white haired ice mage as everyone noticed how Natsu caught himself before swearing in front of the kids.
"Lyon, we should help, I mean the others can't fight because of Spriggan tail." Meredy reminds the white haired man who sighs in defeat.
"Now that's out of the way, let me explain the one thing I'm worried about." Lucy sighed as she looked at the group assembled in front of them, all had confused looks on their faces. "All the kids except for Lilith will need to fight." Lucy explained in a sigh.
"What?! You can't expect us to go along with a plan that puts the next generation of the guild in danger!" Grey yells towards the two, not standing up because Silver was sitting on his lap.
"Calm down snowflake. It's not like they're going to fight anyone like Jose, they'll be fighting the magic soldiers and low level mages, but they won't be alone." Natsu explains with a smirk.
"What do you mean?" Erza questions as she seemed to be in thought.
"Well I would like to explain the plan further but we're kinda waiting on three people that I contacted while in the chaos tower." Lucy explained as the mages looked confused. "The chaos tower had a large communication lacrima on the top floor and before Ivan got me I was able to contact a few friends of ours to help." Lucy finished as the guild turned as they heard the guild doors creak open. "Right on time." Lucy smirked as two large figures and one the size of a child came into view.
"Sorry it took so long, we had to get some stuff done before hand." A familiar voice to fairy tail remarked before everyone noticed who it was.
"Brandish? What are you doing here?" Mest question in shock, even though he had a more or less full understanding as he had gotten back from a long mission the day before.
"I guess some introductions are in order." Natsu remarked to the guild. "The man beside Brandish is Raijin, the king of Alvarez" Natsu explains as they look at a dark blue haired man with purple tips, he was wearing a black t-shirt under a dark blue knee length coat and black pants. "Brandish is his wife and also queen of Alvarez" Natsu explained as they looked at the woman who looked and wore the same clothes as during the war with Alvarez Everyone soon took their eyes of Brandish as their eyes were locked onto a little girl that had Brandish's hairstyle but in the color of Raijin and seemed to be wearing a green coat and black shorts. "Oh right the little girl is Midori, their daughter."
"So why are they here?" Sting questions curiously, while looking at the little girl who seemed to be looking around in curiosity.
"We're going to help you guys, it's the least I can do for Natsu and Lucy." Raijin smirks towards the two.
"Anyway, now that everyone's here, let me start." Lucy sighs as everyone has their full attention on the blonde. "What's going to happen is there will be four main groups for when Spriggan tail inevitably attack us. The first group is made up of all the children, except for Lilith since she can't fight right now and a select amount of the others who will be fighting along side them along with defending them in case a strong opponent appears. The second group will be made up of the dragon slayers, they will be helping the majority of us fight off their main attackers and will be fighting Acnologia if he was indeed revived." Lucy explains before getting interrupted.
"So we don't even know if he was revived or not?" Romeo asks confused about the situation.
"Right, the old hag said Lucy's magic was drained, so it's not known if the magic was used to revive him or not." Natsu explains before continuing. "The third group will be fighting off the main forces of Spriggan tail. And finally the fourth group will have the most dangerous job." Natsu explained, a serious tone to his voice. "the fourth group will be fighting the leader of Spriggan tail." Natsu explains as everyone is dead silent.
"Since everyone seems to understand the situation I will now explain who will be in what group." Lucy starts getting right to the point as everyone nods. "The group that will be fighting the leader is going to be Grey, Natsu and Raijin." Lucy starts as some looked puzzled as to why only three.
"Why only three? Wouldn't it make more sense to have more of the stronger fighters to fight him?" Romeo asks the question that was on the forefront of everyone's mind.
"No, it makes the most sense, Grey's demon slayer magic will be very effective against the leader and Natsu and Raijin are both good fighters together along with Raijin having similar magic to Grey." Lucy explains to the group who just nod, not completely understanding what she meant. "The group that will be fighting with the higher ranking members will be Lyon, Meredy, Erza, Jellal, Elfman, Evergreen, Juvia, Bixslow, Levy, Macao, Romeo, Wakaba, Jet Droy, Max, Nab, Reedus, Vjeeter, me and Brandish. The dragon slayer group will of course be Laxus, Sting, Rogue, Gajeel, Erik and Wendy. And finally the group that will be helping to fight with the kids will be Mira, Cana, Lisanna, Guildarts, Alzack, Bisca, Asuka, Warren, Laki and finally Mest." Lucy finishes as every looks to be going over their roles.
"Wait a second, that still leaves a few of us out." Freed explains to the the blonde curiously, not sure what she was planning.
"Right, that's because, Freed, Hibiki, Master and Kinianna will be inside the guild along with Porlyusica, who will be here just in case anyone gets hurt and Lilith will be inside here too because she can't use magic." Natsu explains to the group who seemed to understand.
"So what will the ones who will be in the guild be doing?" Lyon questions curiously as Lucy just smirks.
"Hibiki will be using his archive magic to keep telepathy with everyone and keeping tabs on all of our enemies and their placements. Freed you will be keeping a constant rune barrier up, just in case one of our enemies does try to come into the guild. Master, Kinianna, your jobs are to make sure that if a battle erupts inside the guild, to help freed beat them as quick as possible along with making sure Lilith is safe." Lucy finishes as every nods in agreement.
"So now we have a plan and a seemingly good one we can be ready for when they attack. But there is one thing that me and Luce have though about, and that's that the leader may not show himself right at the start, if he doesn't me, Raijin and Grey will be helping the others fight the stronger members." Natsu explains to the guild as Raijin steps forward.
"If I may, I have some information that will be helpful." Raijin starts as he looks at Natsu who nods. "Using Archive while coming here, I was able to get a glimpse of the leader of Spriggan tail talking to Zero and he said that they would be able to start their full assault on Fairy tail in two weeks, I got that yesterday so we have 13 days until their assault." Raijin states as all mages had a slight look of relief. "There's still one worry I think we all have, the citizens, they can't really be here while Spriggan Tail attacks." Raijin reminds the guild mages.
"Right, the day before the attack we will be helping them out of the town, but I will first need to get the approval of The mayor later on today." Master reassures the King of Alvarez.
"That's reassuring, but we three didn't come here alone." Brandish smirks, confusing the guild. "The thirteen generals of the Alvarez royal army is currently stationed around Magnolia to help if need be, they will also be helping Hibiki with making sure everyone knows where everyone is at all times." Brandish explains happily.
"I had a feeling that would happen." Lucy smiles warmly towards the royal family. "Well I guess that's it. So everyone can do whatever you need to to get ready." Lucy states as everyone seemed to be in a happier mood. After finishing, Natsu and Lucy walk over to where Brandish, Midori and Raijin were.
"Still as smart when it comes to tactics it seems." Raijin smirks towards the two.
"Yeah, why don't you guys come and meet our friends since you guys will be working with them?"Lucy suggests as she motions them to follow them over to the table where their friends were located.
"It seems you two made a solid plan." Erza remarks as the five took their seats, as all the kids except for the twins and Midori, who stayed with their parents.
"So what magic do you use Raijin?" Grey questions curiously towards the king, who had his daughter on his lap.
"Other than archive, I use Ice make magic and I'm also the ice dragon slayer." Raijin explains with a smirk as everyone was too shocked to say anything. "And before you ask, I'm a first generation Dragon slayer, Like Wendy and Gajeel." Raijin explains with a smirk.
"So you were raised by the Ice dragon?" Jellal suggests to the male.
"Yes, I was raised by Antarcia in this time. He was the only dragon to live through Acnologia's attack because he was hiding away in a mountain." Raijin explains happily before continuing. "Only thing is, Acnologia found him and me when I was ten and and thought he killed the two of us when he only killed Antarcia. That's why during the war with Acnologia and Zeref I didn't participate, I was still hiding away." Raijin explained as they all nodded.
"I'm surprised you guys brought Midori, I would've thought she would've stayed at the castle." Natsu suggests as he looked at the little girl.
"We would've but she wouldn't take no for an answer, especially when she found out we'd be helping you guys." Brandish explained warmly.
"Yeah, I wanted to see Kai and Nash again." Midori giggled as the two smiled at the girl.
"Hey, why don't you two go introduce Midori to the others? She'll be helping in the fight so it'll be good for her to get to know the others." Lucy suggests to the twins who hop down from the table and practically pull the girl towards the others.
"Oh right, before I forget, we found something of yours Lucy." Brandish smiles warmly as she hands Lucy a sheathed sword.
"You guys actually found her magic sword?" Natsu asks shocked as Lucy pulls out a rapier like sword.
"Yeah, we actually found it on our way here." Raijin explains as the sword changes into one similar like Erza's normal sword.
"I haven't used this sword in a while, Erza would you mind practicing with me? I think this sword may come in handy." Lucy explains to the Scarlet mage.
"Sure, But I won't go easy on you." Erza smirks as the two women get up.
"No problem. If I don't come back by the time you guys leave to get to the house, just meet me at home." Lucy smiles as she places a light kiss on Natsu's lip.
"Yeah, I know." Natsu smiles as he watches his wife walk away with Erza to start training.
…...
It had been a few hours since the plan was explained to everyone, everyone was either talking about ways to go about dealing with the enemy. Lyon, Grey Meredy and Juvia were sitting at the bar talking leaving Natsu, Gajeel, Levy, Wendy, Romeo and Jellal at the table with Raijin and Brandish. "It's kinda weird seeing Brandish Happy." Gajeel remarked as he was watching the couple eat.
"She actually changed a lot since the war with Alvarez. During the couple years me and Lucy spent as the rulers there, Brandish and Luce became close and it was actually me and Lucy who got those two together." Natsu explained, causing the couple to have pink tints on their faces. Even they couldn't deny that if it wasn't for Natsu and Lucy they wouldn't be together.
"You're telling me that flame brain was the one who got you two together?" Grey asked slamming his hand on the bar counter in a fit of laughter.
"Shut it, snowflake!" Natsu yelled as he tossed a fireball at Grey, hitting him in the shoulder.
"You don't need to be so uptight all the time, charcoal brains." Grey growled as he walked over to where Natsu was and picked him up by the shirt.
"So I'm guessing you wanna start something then?" Natsu asked tilting his head to the side as he kick Grey in the side.
"You've done it now Pyro!" Grey yelled as the two started a fight.
"What just happened?" Raijin questions as more guild members starting joining in, causing an all out guild brawl.
"This happens almost everyday." Gajeel chuckled as he swallowed a piece of metal and entered the fray. The others couldn't help but laugh at the guild members that were constantly throwing punches at the others.
"I see why Natsu and Lucy like this guild so much." Raijin remarked as the guild hall was in the process of getting destroyed.
"You aren't going to partake Raijin?" Mira asked curiously as he was the only man who wasn't fighting at the moment.
"Naw, I-Gah!" Raijin groans as a bar stool hit him square in the face and sending him flying backwards. "OK, who the hell threw that?" Raijin groans as he stood up and saw Natsu smirking towards him. "Oh you're going to get it Natsu!" Raijin yelled before entering the fight himself.
"That was easy to get him involved." Mira giggles as Brandish nods.
After a a half hour the Brawl had finally simmered down with only the dragon slayers left. "So it seems all generations of dragon slayers are strong." Raijin remarks in a long gasp of air before Gajeel hitting him and Erik with a iron club.
"Jeez, that brawl lasted a little longer than I thought it would." Mira remarked as the other slayers fell back onto the floor.
"You've definitely gotten stronger Raijin." Natsu smirked as the slayers sat up to look at each other.
"Five years does that." Raijin sighed as they all got up and walked back to their own tables.
"Hey Natsu, what kind of magic does Nashi use?" Brandish asked said fire dragon slayer curiously.
"She a fourth generation fire dragon slayer, why do you ask?" Natsu asked curiously before eyes going wide at Nashi and Midori, who were sparing using their magic. "Midori is a ice dragon slayer?" Natsu asks worriedly towards the two.
"Yeah." Raijin smirks before noticing the two girls were going to use their breath attacks. "Crap. Ice make wall!" Raijin yells, creating a wall to stop the two roar attacks from clashing, causing the guild and kids to look at Raijin and Natsu who were walking over to the girls and picked them up.
"Oi flame brain, what's wrong?" Grey asked as Natsu and Raijin sat the girls down on the table, confusing everyone in the guild.
"Midori and Nashi almost induced a unison raid." Natsu explained, sweat visible on his face.
"What do ya mean salamander?" Gajeel asks sitting at the table and looking at the two girls curiously.
"Natsu, explain it to them and I'll see if I can find the video using archive." Raijin states as he activates archive and starts searching through it.
"There's a reason why me and Raijin will be helping Grey, we're the fire and ice dragon slayers. We are two of the most compatible dragon slayers because of our magic." Natsu started explaining as Freed looked at Natsu confused.
"But fire and ice are far from compatible." Freed reminds the dragon slayer, causing Natsu to nod.
"Yes that may be true, but what happens when you combine hot and cold air?" Natsu asks the green haired man who starts to come to the realization.
"That would make a... tornado. Wait you don't mean if their breath attacks hit they wouldn't created a breath attack, similar to a tornado?" Freed questions as the guild goes silent. The guild didn't know what to do with the information as they all looked at the father and daughter dragon slayers.
"Yes, they would've accidentally created a tornado dragon's roar." Natsu explained while the two girls looked down as they realized what almost happened.
"Here's one time me and Natsu used it." Raijin explained as he moves the archive to show the whole guild.
~Flashback~
Natsu and a pregnant Lucy were currently walking around the castle of Alvarez while watching the soldiers of the royal army train. As they were training Natsu and Lucy both stopped and looked at Raijin who seemed to be having an easy time fighting the generals of the royal army. "What do you think Natsu? I think he might be able to become the high general of the royal army." Lucy suggested as she pointed to Raijin.
"Yeah, why don't we go and see him." Natsu suggested as the two walked over towards the area, causing everyone to stop and bow to them.
"You majesty, what are you doing here?" A black haired general asks while on one knee.
"We're still looking for someone to become the high general for the army, and we noticed that you were having trouble with him. Do you mind explaining it to us?" Lucy asked while holding onto to her enlarged stomach.
"The one you are talking about is Raijin. He is an extremely capable fighter and I've never fought anyone with such skill or magic." The general explained to Natsu and Lucy, a frown on his face.
"Raijin come forward." Natsu commands, causing said soldier to walk up next to the general.
"What is your magic?" Lucy asks curiously towards the blue and purple haired man.
"I am the ice dragon slayer along with being able to use Ice maker magic and super archive." Raijin explains towards the king and queen.
"I see, why don't you you show me your dragon slayer powers?" Natsu asks a smirk plasters on his face.
"A-are you sure, your highness?" Raijin asks in total shock.
"Yes, I'm asking a fellow dragon slayer to battle." Natsu smirks as Lucy walks to the stairs to sit and watch the battle unfold.
"You're a dragon slayer too?" Raijin asks in shock.
"Yes, for now I want all of you to clear out except for Raijin and the twelve generals." Natsu smirks, causing all of the lower ranking soldiers to head out with their swords in hand. "I've got a question for you Raijin, do you know why me and the queen change our appearances when we're out in public?" Natsu questions curiously as the soldiers were all gone.
"I suspect to hide yourselves from certain people." Raijin explains towards the king.
"That's actually true. Even though the soldiers all know what we really look like, the only ones who know our real names are the generals and now you." Natsu smirks as he takes of his robes, showing his one sleeved black jacket, with matching, shorts and a waist coat. "Our real names are Natsu and Lucy Dragneel, we're members of the magic guild Fairy Tail in Fiore." Natsu explains as he points to the red guild mark on his shoulder.
"I see. So why are you telling me all this your highness?" Raijin asks as he notices Natsu was smirking.
"Because, I have a feeling you're strong enough to be the high general of the royal army. I want to test you to see how powerful you are." Natsu explains while Raijin jumped back ready to fight.
"OK I will, but I better warn you, I'm going to go all out from the beginning." Raijin smirked as blue scales littered his body as his hair became frozen in ice.
"Very well, I won't at first, but if you prove to be a challenge I will." Natsu explained as red shimmering scales glittered his body. As the scales finished appearing, the two charge at each other slamming their fists together before jumping back. "I see you have the power of a first generation dragon slayer, if you truly are use your breath attack against mine." Natsu commands as he starts getting ready for his breath attack.
"Fire dragons..."
"Ice dragons..."
"Roar!" The two yell as they use their respective breath attack.
What no one was expecting was what happened when the two magics clashed, the two fused into one attack and created a black wind that threw the generals into the air. "What the?" Lucy questioned as the generals were slammed against the walls.
"A unison raid that combines fire and ice?" Natsu questions clenching his fist as he thinks it over. "No it would've turned to either water or stream, it used the properties of our powers... So it used my heat and Raijin's cold to create a tornado." Natsu realized as He walked over to Raijin. "The tornado dragon's roar." Natsu remarked as he put his hand on Raijin's shoulder.
"Yes it would seem, your highness." Raijin remarked as he saw Natsu's smirk.
"And it would seem you are the perfect candidate to be the high general of the Alvarez royal army." Natsu said to Raijin
"It would be my honor." Raijin knelt to the pink haired man as Lucy walked towards the two.
"Your name is Raijin correct?" Lucy asked the new High general of Alvarez.
"Yes it is, my queen. Why do you ask?" Raijin asks the pregnant blonde curiously.
"Do you know a woman by the name of Brandish?" Lucy asked, causing him to blush at the name.
"Y-yes I do, if I may be perfectly honest I have feelings for her." Raijin explained as he stood back up.
"Then go and ask her out, she may also have feelings for you." Lucy suggests with a knowing look on her face.
"I-I don't know." Raijin sighed as he blushed furiously.
"Oi, if Lucy's saying this I know why, we've both seen her watch you train, and blush when we saw her steal glances at you." Natsu remarked as pushed Raijin towards the exit of the training yard. "Now go ask her out." Natsu commanded as he left the yard.
"So I have a feeling you'll be training him to use your dragon slayer abilities together?" Lucy asked as the two noticed that the unison raid had damaged parts of the training yard.
"Yup, but for now lets head back so we can work on the other papers we need to finish signing." Natsu remarked as the two walked away.
"You mean the papers YOU need to sign. I just have to suggest things to you." Lucy smirked as Natsu pecked her nose.
~End Flashback~
"So that's why you guys stopped them from using their breath attacks." Levy remarked as Raijin stopped his archive magic.
"Yeah, in such a small space, even with the small amount of magic power compared to me and Raijin it could severely damage the guild." Natsu sighed as he looked at the girls.
"Daddy, are we in trouble?" Nashi asked looking up at her father who just shook his head. Natsu knew he needed to talk to her about it but knew that the guild wasn't the best place to do so.
"No, but we need to talk to you girls about it later." Natsu explained as Raijin and Brandish nodded in agreement. "Now you two can go play with the others but no using magic." Natsu said to the two as they hopped off the table to join the others.
…...
It was late evening and Natsu, Raijin, Brandish and the kids were walking towards Natsu and Lucy's house. The three were about ten feet away talking as the parents were watching them closely, making sure they weren't too far away. "Are you sure it's OK for us to stay with you guys?" Brandish questions curiously towards the fire slayer.
"It's fine we have a couple of spare bedrooms that we made sure to have if we needed to watch one of the guilds kids or something." Natsu explained as they started on the dirt path to the house.
"The twins said the house is really nice. But I doubt anything made by you is nice." Raijin picked at Natsu as he just rolled his eyes.
"Daddy can we just run the rest of the way?" Nashi asked curiously while smelling the air for wyverns or any other type of monster. "I can't smell any monsters near by." Nashi explained with a smile on her face.
"Sure, but stay on the path." Natsu smiled as the three started running up the path as the Dragneel house hold came into view.
"Wow it actually is really nice." Brandish remarks as the kids hit their heads on the house.
"Oww, we shoulda been more careful." Kai groans as he gets back onto his feet as the three rub their temples.
"He really is Natsu's son." Brandish smirks as the three kids walk inside.
"Not funny." Natsu rolls his eyes as the three adults walk inside and notice that Lucy was cooking dinner.
"So that's why the kids came here." Lucy smiles as she walks over to Natsu and kisses his cheek.
"Yeah, how was training?" Natsu asked as he pecked her nose.
"Good. The three kids went up to play in one of the kids rooms." Lucy smiles warmly as she goes back to cooking. "You two can chose one of the rooms in the hall to use while you guys are here." Lucy suggests as she points to the hall.
"Thanks, we'll go chose a room." Raijin smirked as the two left to enter on of the rooms as Natsu and Lucy stayed in the kitchen.
"Natsu, what happened? And don't try lying to me, You know I can tell when something happened." Lucy reminds her boyfriend as he just sighed. He knew full well that he couldn't lie to his wife, especially she knew something happened.
"Nash and Midori were sparring in the guild and almost accidentally did a unison raid." Natsu sighed, worried that his wife might overreact at the information. To his surprise she didn't.
"Well knowing you and Raijin, you guys stopped it before anything happened. I hope you don't mind having some tacos for dinner do you?" Lucy asks curiously as Natsu notices the meat she was cooking along with the shredded lettuce, cut tomatoes and other toppings that are used for tacos.
"Not at all. It looks delicious." Natsu smiles as he walks over to the fridge and takes out a bottle of hot sauce. "i just realized something, they didn't have any bags or anything with them did they?" Natsu questioned as he opened the bottle.
"You must've forgot about my magic then." Brandish remarked as the two returned into the kitchen.
"Right, you can change the size of anything." Natsu reminded himself as he helped Lucy set the table for the seven of them. "I'll go get the kids for dinner." Natsu states as Lucy setting the table with the food so that they can start eating.
…...
Natsu, Lucy, Brandish and Raijin were all sitting outside while the three kids were taking their baths. The four parents decided to get some fresh air while the kids took their baths. "It's really peaceful out here, I see why you guys chose this place for a house." Brandish remarks, breaking the silence from not talking for a while.
"Yeah, it's mostly peaceful. The only times it's not is when Wyverns or vulcans come too close from the forest." Natsu remarked before continuing. "But I've actually lived here since I joined the guild. It just wasn't this nice of a house. After we returned to the guild me and some of the others rebuilt the house so it would be perfect for us." Natsu finished as a light breeze blew through the area.
"Yeah and I wasn't allowed to see it before it was finished." Lucy grumbled as Natsu pulled her against him.
"Hey it was also a present for you." Natsu remarked as he kissed her forehead. Raijin and Brandish couldn't help but laugh at the two, knowing how they acted when they were still ruling Alvarez and now, their personalities was the same as back then.
After a few minutes the door creaked open and Nashi ran over to her parents in a red pajama set. "you got done fast." Natsu remarked towards his daughter as she climbed on her mothers lap.
"Yup I learned the same trick as you to dry off." Nashi giggled towards her father as Lucy glared at her husband.
"Kai and Midori aren't done yet?" Natsu asked, trying to change the topic from Nashi using his trick to dry off quicker.
"I think Kai's getting done but I'm not sure about Midori." Nashi explained as she rested against her mother.
"Midori said she'll be out in a few minutes." Kai's voice said as they all turned to see the blonde boy, who was only wearing a pair of black boxers, walk over to them and climb on his fathers lap.
"Why are you only in your boxers?" Raijin asked the blonde curiously.
"I always do after I take a bath." Kai explained as he yawned.
"Iggy why are you tired?" Nashi asked as she tilted her head to look at her twin brother.
"I was fighting with Silver for a long time today and I think I used to much magic." He yawned as Natsu ruffled his already messy hair.
"We may wanna go inside then." Natsu remarked as the six headed inside and walked over to the couch.
A few minutes after they get to the couch Midori ran in and climbed on her fathers lap while while wearing a black pajama set. "How was your bath Midori?" Raijin asked curiously towards his daughter who was smiling brightly.
"It was really nice." Midori smiled as the three kids hopped down and started playing on the floor.
…...
It was later at night and Natsu and Raijin were in the kitchen talking about what had happened since Raijin had become King of Alvarez. While they were talking they both could hear water running, meaning that both Lucy and Brandish were taking showers. "So we've both had our own difficulties." Raijin remarked as Natsu finished talking about what happened when they got to magnolia.
"Yeah, Erza for some reason likes thinking that I do more stupid things than I actually do." Natsu sighed while taking a sip of his drink. "I mean seriously, if she thought about it, she would've remembered that I wouldn't never force Lucy into doing anything she didn't want to do." He finished as Raijin couldn't help but chuckle.
"Which do you like better, being royalty or being part of a guild?" Raijin asked curiously towards one of his closest friends.
"Being in a guild. I mean I liked being King but I hated all the damn paperwork." Natsu explained with a smile as the two heard footsteps from upstairs. "Heh, Lucy's done with her shower." Natsu smirked as Raijin nodded to the pink haired slayer.
A few minutes and Lucy emerged into the kitchen in her pajamas. "The kids are all asleep." Lucy smiles as she hops onto the counter next her husband.
"I would hope so, they all seemed really tired after they took their baths." Natsu remarked as Raijin nodded to the two.
"I'm going to head to bed, you guys might wanna too. We still need to make sure we're strong enough for the fighting that's going to happen." Raijin suggested as Brandish came out of the bathroom and followed her husband into their room.
"Shall we go upstairs?" Lucy asked jumping onto her husbands back.
"You can be a pain in the neck, you know that?" Natsu sighed as he started walking up the stairs and towards their room.
"I may be a pain, but I'm a pain you married." Lucy giggled as the two got into their room and she hopped off his back went onto the balcony.
"Lucy, what's bothering you?" Natsu asked in a worried tone as he got next to her and placed his hand over hers, and rand his thumb over her guild mark.
"Lucy couldn't help but sigh. She knew that even though he wasn't using a serious tone, he was serious about getting an answer out of her, especially when he had used her name and not her nickname. "Is it such a good idea to have the kids fight too? I mean I know that Nash and Kai have actual combat experience but I doubt the other kids do as well." Lucy sighed while looking out towards the town.
"Yes but even so, they aren't fighting by themselves, they're fighting with a lot of the adults from the guild." Natsu reminded the blonde as he gripped her hand.
"I guess. I'm just worried the kids may get hurt and it'll be my fault." Lucy frowned,causing Natsu to grip her by the shoulders.
"Listen Lucy." Natsu started as he locked as with the blonde. "No one will blame you if the kids get hurt. They need to know what a real battle is, and everyone knows that." Natsu reassured her as he rested his forehead against hers. "Now lets go to bed. And you better not worry about this, everyone has faith in you." Natsu reassured his wife as they walked over and got into bed.
"Good night Natsu, I love you." Lucy smiled as she cuddled up to the dragon slayer.
"I love you to Lucy, good night." Natsu smiled as he wrapped his arms around his wife as they slowly went to sleep.
Gah, that took so much longer than I was hoping it to. Anyway I hope you guys like this chapter even though it took so long.