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Epilogue

Years later….

"I am going to name all of them."

"Ash. No."

The twelve year old pouted playfully. "I got to name Artemis!"

Said dragon, now the size of a large dog, rumbled happily, snorting out fire. Four baby dragons, the size of puppies, crawled all around her. Two of them were white -one with a yellow tint and one with a blue tint- one was a grayish brown, and one was a bright colorful orange.

"How about Ember for her-" Ash said, despite her mother's disapproval, pointing at the fire hatchling. "And Diamond, or Opal or something mineral for her." She pointed at the iron hatchling. "I don't have a name for the boys."

Said boys, the light dragon and the sky dragon, wagged their tails in unison, causing their butts to jiggle. The sky dragon fell off of Artemis.

"I like Pele better than Ember." Natsu said, sitting on the ground with arms crossed, completely ignoring Lucy as well. "Amethyst is a nice name for the other one as well."

"Zephyr!" Wendy joined in, picking up the fallen Sky dragon.

"Oran!" Sting opened up his arms, and the Light dragon went crazy, running up to jump into them.

"Oi, flamebrain." Gajeel grunted. "Lemme name my own. Mmm Eden. I like Eden."

Lucy looked so unamused. "So you guys are keeping them now?"

The dragon slayers all deflated instantly, except for Rogue, who mumbled. "I didn't get to pick a name."

Kagura cracked a smile as Sting chuckled. "You like the name Artemis, though."

"You couldn't name her." Natsu said. "But you got to be around her for years now. What has she been eating, I feel like last month she was Pele's size!"

"Fish. Pig." Rogue said. "Literal shadows."

Sting grimaced, as if that brought up a memory.

A few days ago, Fairytail got a call from Mermaid's Heel. The eggs had hatched.

Rogue had been visiting, so he and Sting had already shown up, along with Artemis, who was getting super hard to hide.

They put her in a dog costume.

Kagura had closed the guild the day they arrived, since the hatchlings had started to go crazy, running around like actual puppies. Needless to say, they needed to leave.

"I was the one who first saw them!" Storm stated proudly, a hour after Ash left the room the dragons hatched in. Silver, who was still in and out of the medbay, giggled into her hand. "I went in there to check on them, and the fire egg was hatching!"

Ash wrinkled her nose. "Maybe you beat me on this one, but the only reason you won was because I was in another city!"

"I would've won either way!"

"Wanna bet on that!?"

"You're on!"

"How are you going to bet on that?" Silver asked, amused.

The two looked at each other. "...I dunno."

"I beat you some other way!"

"Let's fight! I've gotten strong!"

"I'm stronger!"

"Bet!"

"On what?" Silver added in again, smiling.

"...I dunno. Winner is the ruler! The loser has to listen to whatever the winner says!"

Silver giggled. That would be funny to watch.

In the end, Kagura won, because they had mowed down an entire block and she was furious. Lucy almost moreso.

Natsu was just proud, Ash had less bruises and cuts then Storm. Mostly because she knew his entire moveset, but he had learned some new things that tripped her up.

The next day, Storm came running out of the guild in a panic. "They're gone!"

It set a silence over the group. "What?"

True to his word, the dragons were gone. The window was open and covered in claw marks, but it was like dragons never even lived there.

Eden had eaten her entire metal nest.

"Would Artemis take them back to the island?" Lucy fretted. "Carrying four baby dragons all the way across that much water?!"

"I wouldn't underestimate how well of a flyer she already is." Rogue said lightly. "I have no doubt that she can do it. I've had suspicions that she's done it before already. Hatchlings or not."

It was months later when she next heard of the dragons. She was staying over at Natsu's, since he had an actual guess room, when her father woke her up.

"Come on, quiet now."

They met up with Wendy and Gajeel outside of town, just the four of them, not even an exceed.

She joined Natsu in getting Sting and Rogue, and she giggled the entire time, as Sting walked around their apartment like he was in a horror film, frying pan in hand, looking for an intruder.

They took a speedboat to the island, to get there as fast as possible, before Wendy's sickness cure wore off.

They didn't have any problems with gigantic waves. The ocean was calm, peaceful.

The island looked greener from a distance as well, more alive.

They landed in a grassy plain area, which must've been some bug or grass dragon place, but Ash didn't know or care.

Because Artemis was rolling around in said grass, watching as the months old hatchlings tumbled down hills, puffing out grass as they rolled to a stop.

Ash can't take the adorableness.

She doesn't know how long they stayed there, could've been hours, or weeks. They didn't discuss anything serious while there, just basked in the fact that there were dragons, little, innocent dragons still alive in this world. Dragons related to their own dragons.

For a moment, as each dragon slayer interacted with their certain dragon, Ash thought she saw something. Large adult dragons, ones she's never seen before but certainly looked familiar- encompassing each dragon slayer, mostly translucent but still there. It was only dragon heads, but they looked at the hatchlings lovingly. The hatchlings also seemed to be looking at them, like they could see them in the dragon slayers like Ash could, just did.

The dragons were gone as Wendy broke the silence. "I wish Grandeeney and the others could be here to see this."

Ash smiled. "I really think they just might be…"

End

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