BlackLynx17: Hi everyone. I plan to post a few more epilogues after this, you don't know how happy I am now though that this story is over. I get to work on all my other stories now without worrying about updating this story so thank you all for your support and I hope you'll love my newest fanfictions! Thank you.

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Mythical Creatures

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Epilogue

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Deck The Halls With Balls Of Snowy

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Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la.

"Lucy, why are you whistling deck the halls?" Gazille asked.

I rolled my eyes, not this again.

"I understood why you asked it last time Gazille, but come on! It's Christmas! I'm allowed to whistle Christmas songs on Christmas!" I complained.

Gazille held his hands up and shook his head, as if I was misunderstanding him.

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant. What I meant was why are you whistling it when you should be singing?" Gazille smirked.

I smirked back and wrapped my arm around his shoulder, he wrapped his around mine and we started singing together... well singing on my part and screaming on Gazille's. I didn't want him to be alone in sounding horrible though so I started screaming with him.

"DECK THE HALLS WITH BALLS OF HOLLY! FALALALALALALALALA! TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY! FALALALALALALALALA!"

"Guys! Can't you wait until we're INSIDE the Karaoke Bar to start singing?" Erza asked.

We ignored her.

"I heard you sing balls Gazille, those aren't the lyrics." I lectured him.

"Bullshit, deck the halls with BALLS of holly." He told me.

"BOUGHS, not BALLS."

"What the fuck is a bough?"

I pursed my lips...

"DECK THE HALLS WITH BALLS OF HOLLY!" I sang.

"FA LA LA LA LAAA LA LA LA LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Gazille yelled giving the big finish.

We both started laughing and high fived each others hands. Our friends chuckled on the sidelines, even Erza held a hand over her lips to try and hide her giggles. I saw that Erza, you're not slick. I untwisted myself from Gazille and tackled Jellal, jumping onto his back and wrapping my arms and legs around him. Jellal fell at first, but quickly caught himself and held onto my legs so I wouldn't fall.

"I didn't see you singing Jer-ah-ll." I smirked tugging his cheeks.

"I don't sing." Was his answer.

"Oh really? We both- scratch that, we all know you're going to be singing today! And let me guess what that song will be, WE! ARE NEVER, EVER, EVER! GETTING BACK TOGETHER!" I sang in his ear.

I heard Jellal sigh before he dropped me, luckily I foresaw this and landed on my feet.

"Like, ever." I said in a snooty accent.

I walked backwards and laughed until I bumped into something solid. Hands wrapped around my waist and I looked up, to see my loving boyfriend staring down at me. The bag in his hands brushed against my legs but I ignored it as I went to pull his beanie down over his eyes.

"Hey," he said pulling it back up, "you don't seem like a girl who was recently hospitalize." Natsu said kissing my forehead.

"And you don't seem like a guy who's about to get covered in snow." I said.

Natsu's eyebrows scrunched together, "huh?"

"SURPRISE!" I yelled leaping forward, far away from him.

Gazille and Loke came from behind Natsu and dumped snow all over his head, Gray even finished it off by throwing a snowball at the back of his head.

"HEY!" Natsu screamed turning around.

The Slobs all laughed before they started running, Natsu dropping his bag before chasing all of them. Everyone split up and started running in zigzag formation, using whatever they could for shields. Trees, cars, bushes, old ladies, you name it.

"$20 bucks saying he doesn't catch a single one of them!" I laughed.

"I'm on your side for that one!" Sting laughed with me.

We backtracked to pick up the bag Natsu dropped then started heading with the others. I watched as Natsu chased after the boys, jumping over snow covered bushes and benches, passing shopping stores and lamp posts with cute little Christmas lights draped over them... and what's this? At least a block down from me, standing in front of a clothing store was... Mr. Justine? I'd remember that green hair anywhere, and hanging on his shoulder was... my eyes widened. Nurse Strauss! Nurse Strauss was his girlfriend?! So the mystery is finally solved. I chuckled quietly to myself and smiled towards their direction, they made a cute couple.

Very soon Natsu got tired of running around; I watched as he stopped to catch his breath before coming by my side. Honestly, I'm surprise he chased them for so long. I smirked up at him as he tried to wipe the snow from his hair before putting his beanie back on.

"Any luck?" I giggled.

"Why are you never on my side during the pranks? I'm the boyfriend." Natsu asked.

"I can't have favorites Natsu." I teased him.

"Well then before we were dating, you still pranked me. What's about that?"

I hummed and tapped a finger against my chin... "well Natsu, I can always count on getting a rise out of you no matter what the prank and besides, your reaction is always the funniest compared to the others."

"I'm glad you said that Lucy, now I don't have any hard feelings when I do this!" Natsu said and smashed a snowball right in my face.

I paused and blinked, raising a hand to wipe the snow off. Natsu was grinning like crazy, slowly taking steps away from me.

"You do know that, this means war?" I asked with narrow eyes.

"I assumed so, but with you and what army?" Natsu asked.

"Slobs! Assemble! Our target is Natsu Dragneel! Destroy!" I said pointing a finger at Natsu.

... nothing happened. In fact, my Slobs all walked over to Natsu's side with a snowball in hand, excluding Jellal who was busy talking with Erza and Sting who was laughing it up beside me.

"What was that Lucy?" Natsu asked.

I could hear the smugness in his voice.

"Alright then, J Jang! Assemble!" I cheered.

I heard Jellal sigh and walk over on my side, Juvia was happy to come to my help though. She bounced over with a smile on her face and stood by my side.

"Sting, you want to get in on this?" I asked.

"Sure, technically I was never a full Slob anyway. Besides, I prefer the team with the ladies... sorry Jellal." Sting said patting his back.

"Whatever."

"Erza-"

"No."

"I was going to ask if you could hold the bag." I said.

Erza stared at me, "oh... then yeah, sure, why not?" She walked over getting the bag from me.

"Rules are simple, whoever gets totally trashed first is the loser." I called out.

"I want in!" Wendy said running to our side.

"Even better, ready J Jang plus new recruits?" I asked.

Wendy shouted a cute 'yes', Juvia shouted a 'yeah', Jella raised his hand up lazily and said 'uh huh' rather monotonish. Sting was the only one I could truly count on for energy, he jumped up and screamed a 'HELL YEAH'.

"Ready Slobs?" Natsu asked on his team.

Shouts of sures, and why nots were heard on his side. Everyone bent down to roll up a snowball then stood back up, it was a stare off. Natsu and I stared into each others eyes. I could hear what he was thinking, sort of.

Three.

Two.

One.

"START!" We both yelled out.

And everything went exactly as planned. The Slobs separated and surrounded Natsu, so did my J Jang plus new recruits. Soon Natsu was trapped like a rat in the circle around him. His snowball fell from his hand.

"Um... what just happened?" He asked.

"Silly Natsu, they were never really listening to you. It was all a big set up, they were always under my control. I am the mastermind behind this gang now aren't I?" I asked, smiling maniacally at him.

Natsu took a deep breath through his nose and closed his eyes. He held his arms wide open as if to accept his fate.

"You always were Lucy, I regret the day I let you join. If only I knew you would have planned to over throw me, if only I knew... well. I'm ready." He said.

"FIRE!" I yelled and snowballs attacked Natsu from every side.

Ah, I loved the snow.

"Okay... okay now... okay, OKAY! ENOUGH! THIS SNOW IS REALLY STARTING TO HURT!" Natsu yelled.

"Alright, alright, I think that's enough. Natsu's learned his lesson to never question my authority." I sighed.

Natsu dropped his hands and a stray snow ball smacked him on the side of the head.

"I SAW THAT FULLBUSTER!"

"Come on everyone! We're going to miss our reservation!" Erza called out from ahead.

What the? How'd she get so far up? I started wiping my gloves on my pants to get the snow off of them while Natsu just shook his head from side to side.

"Cruel. I'll get you all back for this." He said wiping his shirt off.

I walked over to help him before we started catching up with the others.

"Lucy?" Erza asked.

"Yeah Erz-"

SMACK!

"Got you."


"Someone turn up the thermostat! I'm freezing my ass off over here!" Gazille yelled once we entered our room.

We all piled in there and started taking off our coats, hats, scarfs and gloves.

"Wow!" Wendy cheered walking around the room.

Wow was indeed correct. This room was awesome! It had Christmas lights hanging all along the walls along with Christmas decorations, there was a medium size Christmas tree on the side of them room. There was a mini fridge and sofas next to chairs with snacks all over. On one side there was a huge flat screen TV with a karaoke machine next to it and... was that?

"A Wii! What the hell?! I call dibs first!" Sting cheered.

"Nice room Erza, good planning." Jellal said taking a seat in the sofa.

"Thanks, presents go under the tree everyone! We can open them up later." Erza said walking over.

I followed and helped her dump out the Christmas presents from the bag. Lisanna came over with another one and dumped all the gifts out, the three of us started arranging them under the tree.

"Was that everything?" I asked.

"Yeah, we were able to stuff everyone's gifts in two bags. That should be everything." Lisanna answered.

"I don't understand, I know for a fact that the Slobs have all been naughty! How could there be so many presents then? Santa must have made a mistake!" I complained.

"HEY!" The Slobs yelled at me.

"Do I need to list all the naughty things you boys have been doing?" I asked waving a finger at them.

... some of the Slobs started blushing.

"I know everyone's thinking it, but no one will say it so... that sounded kind of hot." Sting gulped.

I blinked at them before smiling seductively and winking.

"Well," I breathes out, moving some strands of hair behind my ear, "do I?"

All of them leaned back and fell on the floor while I just laughed my giddy ass off at them.

"Lucy! Stop seducing our guys!" Erza yelled.

"Too easy! Hahaha, you should give it a shot! Erza!" I laughed.

Erza looked at me with a glare, then turned her head sideways for a quick second.

"I wouldn't know how to," she mumbled.

"It's easy." I said getting up and walking towards her.

I wrapped my arms around Erza's neck and pushed our boobs together, one of my hands went under her chin to tilt it up a little bit. I gazed into Erza's eyes and licked my lips.

"How about we, join the naughty list too?" I whispered inching towards her lips.

I looked sideways and saw the guys all faint again, but with nose bleeds. I pulled away from Erza and had to support myself with my knees as I laughed my ass off at them, yet again.

"Waaaaay to easy." I snorted collapsing on one of the sofa's.

"I have to say... it really was." Erza smirked then giggled lightly with me.

"Alright girls, enough toying with us." Natsu said wiping his nose .

"Toying? I was thinking more of the lines of teasing." I smiled.

"Either way, you got us. Now can we party now?!" Sting cheered.

I shook my head with a smile on my face, "how long do we have this room for Erza?" I asked.

"About 5 hours."

"Well then what are we waiting for?! LET'S PARTY! I CAN FIRST SONG! JELLAL, GET YOUR A-S-S UP THERE!"


"Come on Sting! It's present time!" Natsu cheered bouncing up and down in his seat.

"Hold on, let me just finish my turn." Sting said.

He held the Wiimote in front of his face before bending it back and launching it forward, the bowling bowl went straight down the middle on the TV and hit a strike.

'TURKEY!'

"OH! WHAT! THIRD STRIKE IN A ROW BABY, YA'LL SUCK!" Sting cheered.

"Whatever, nothing compared to Lucy's score. She's gotten a strike in every turn." Gazille mumbled.

I shrugged, "not my fault. It's an exact science, bowl in the same spot every time and it's a strike." I told them.

"Still, 2nd place right here baby!" Sting smiled.

"Come Sting, your turn is over now. Put it on pause and get over here." Natsu said.

Sting laughed as he paused the game and sat next to me and Natsu in our little huddle around the Christmas tree. After several hours of karaoking, and two hours of Sting complaining about wanting to play the wii before we finally started playing it, Erza finally decided it was time to open presents! And after presents, came desserts! And well food, but I liked desserts better.

"Alright, first up is..." Erza said picking up the first present.

"Me, from Lucy. Thanks Lucy." Erza said reaching for the ribbon.

"Wait! Jellal has to open his at the same time." I reached out.

I started scrabbling through the presents for the blue wrapped present for Jellal; I leaned back in my seat and tossed his towards him.

"Okay, go ahead and open them." I smiled holding Natsu's and Sting's hands.

Erza ripped hers open quickly while Jellal shook his first before neatly unwrapped his gift. Erza was the first to see her gift, a simple blue scarf; Jellal was next to see a matching red scarf. Gazille and Loke chuckled while Lisanna, Levy, and Juvia all awed.

"Thanks." Jellal said dryly wrapping the scarf around his neck for a try.

Erza blushed at hers and did the same... and that was when everyone saw it. We all toppled over in laughter as we read the writing sown on the scarfs.

"What's so... HUH?!" Erza screaked holding up her scarf.

On it in red thread was 'Property of Jellal Fernadez' and on Jellal's in blue thread was 'Property of Erza Scarlet'. I actually saw a small smile on Jellal's face when he read Erza's before he turned away to hide his blush.

"Nice present Luce." Natsu laughed squeezing my hand.

"Congrats you two, don't go breaking up now." I teased.

Erza did a bold thing and reached for her boyfriend's hand, giving a small smile at me.

"Alright everyone, next! This presents for... Sting! And it's from... Lucy again it seems." Lisanna said holding up the gift.

She tossed it towards Sting and yet again, I had to interrupt.

"Wait! Natsu needs to open his up also!" I said.

Lisanna giggled and started looking through the gifts.

"It's the pink one."

"Is everyone's a couple gifts?" Levy asked.

"No, it's just funnier if they opened it together." I said reaching for Natsu's gift Lisanna was passing towards me.

Natsu and Sting both shook the gifts before looking at each other and opening it greedily. When they pulled out their presents, everyone once again died of laughter. Tears started pouring out of Natsu and Sting's eyes as they looked at each others gifts and wrapped an arm around my shoulders.

"Thanks Lucy!" They laughed.

I started laughing with the rest of the gang. In Natsu's hand was a blonde spiky wig that was similar to Sting's hair and in Sting's hand was a pink spiky wig that was similar to Natsu's hair, they didn't have salmon colored wigs at the wig shop.

"I figure you both can start looking like twins now." I smiled.

Both of them tried on their wigs, and with Lisanna's and my help, we were able to put in on correctly.

"I have to say Natsu, you look hot as a blonde." I said nodding at the improvement.

"Thanks, looks like we'll be having even more funny now Lucy." Natsu chuckled kissing my cheek.

"Wow, is this how I look? Gayish? So unmanly." Sting frowned looking at himself in the reflection on his phone.

"Shut up! Salmon is the manliest color!" Natsu yelled.

"Yeah Sting, between you and me you rock pink better than Natsu." I winked at him.

"And I feel so much more better now, thanks Lucy." Sting said ruffling my hair.

"Good gifts so far Lucy, well the next one is for... Levy. It's from Gazille." Erza said holding up a small box.

We all hovered over Levy as she clumsily tried to open her present. I sneaked a few peeks at Gazille and saw him looking away with a slight blush on his cheeks. Levy finally opened the gift and gasped, pulling out a silver chained necklace. On it was two colored diamonds hanging on it with the letters L and G.

"It's our birthstones and initials, whatever." Gazille mumbled.

All the girls, including myself, awed while the boys snickered at Gazille and called him a 'sissy' and 'romantic'. Levy was so happy, her whole face turned red as she started crying. She sniffed and waved her face before pouncing on Gazille and gave him a kiss on his cheek.

"Thank you! I love it so much Gazille! I love you!" Levy cried.

... Gazille's face froze. I held out my hand towards Lisanna and waited as she took out her wallet and placed a twenty bill in my palm. Apparently Levy and Gazille had gotten together while I was in my little 'coma'. They've been dating for more than two weeks and Lisanna made a little bet seeing on who would say love you first. Turns out Levy was the first one so hooray for me.

"Yeah, whatever... love you too pipsqueak." Gazille blushed.

Levy eeped while Lisanna groaned.

"You couldn't have said that 10 seconds BEFORE she said it!" She yelled.

I smirked and waved my fingers at Lisanna before reaching for the next present. Levy stayed glued to Gazille's side, wearing her couple's necklace, and I couldn't help but be happy for the two of them.

"Our next lucky contestant is... Wendy! And it's from, Erza." I said handing Wendy her gift.

By the way it was wrapped I assumed it was a book, and Wendy opened it I was right. Wow Erza, way to get into the Christmas spirit. Getting the poor girl a boo-

"OH MY GOD! AAAAAAHHH! THANK YOU SO MUCH ERZA! I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU!" Wendy cheered holding her book in the air.

... I guess not.

"What you get her?" I whispered towards Erza.

"This medical book she's been having her eye on." Erza told me.

I nodded, wow. Who new Wendy wanted to be a doctor? And here I got her a plush toy and a video game, maybe I should have bought her a book as well.

"This presents for Lucy! And it's from... Jellal." Lisanna said handing me it.

"Hold on, Juvia should open her gift also... yeah." Jellal said.

Lisanna rolled her eyes and looked around for Juvia's present. As she did so I stared at my gift then at Jellal, he had a small smile on his face.

"Alright, go ahead you two." Lisanna said passing Juvia hers.

My first Christmas present of the day, I unwrapped the wrapping paper and opening the box up. Inside was tissue paper, I pulled all of them out to find a small box that was similar to Levy's. I opened the small box up and gasped, lifting the gold necklace up in the air with my J name on it. I looked over at Juvia, seeing as she looked over at me, and saw she held up a similar gold necklace expect with her J name on it. We both turned to Jellal only to see him pull down his scarf and shirt to reveal the gold necklace with his J name on it.

"JELLAL!" We squealed jumping up and down.

"Thank you! I love it, right Lucy?" Juvia smiled hooking the necklace around her neck.

"Absolutely adore! We knew you loved us, Erza just give Jellal a huge kiss for us!" I smiled putting my own necklace on.

Erza blushed and actually listened to me; giving Jellal a quick kiss on his lips before leaning back down.

"You're going to have to tell me one day what Jei means." Natsu said.

"Nope, it's a secret J thing." I teased touching my necklace.

"Next up is! Lucy! From Gazille, whooo, it's a heavy one." Erza said lifting it up.

She passed it towards me, instead of tossing, and she was right. It was heavy, real heavy. What could he have gotten me to be this... it clicked.

"Do I even want to open this right now?" I asked Gazille.

"It probably wouldn't be a good idea if you did." Gazille smirked.

"How-"

"Some things are better left up to mystery Lucy, don't question it. Just be thankful." Gazille said.

"I am, thanks, but can I be surprised as well? Here I thought you were going to be my bitch forever." I said placing my gift behind me.

No wonder my gift was so heavy, it had $20,000 dollars in it... how the hell did he get the money so fast? Did he rob a bank? I don't remember seeing any news reports about a bank robbery.

"Should we ask or get to the next gift?" Erza asked.

"Next gift, this is a private one." I told her.

My eyes eyeballed me and Gazille a little before shrugging it off and picking the next gift.

"Let me ask you something Lucy, I know your rich and all but you shouldn't be able to access your money until you're 18." Gazille started.

Oh look how smart he is, someone's been doing their research.

"I checked the day after you milked Natsu and explained it to him, with that being said though how the hell did you bail me out?" Gazille asked.

"I have a secret credit account that no one knows about. My Mother stored money in it for the first ten years of my life in case of emergencies." I told him.

Gazille nodded, "thank god for that."

I chuckled.

"Huh, it's my turn and it's from... Loke. Hmmm," Lisanna said turning around her present.

She ripped off the wrapping and saw...

"A newspaper? Gee, thanks Loke. You shouldn't have." Lisanna said shaking the rest of the wrapping paper off of her newspaper.

"Damn Loke, if you needed cash you could have borrowed from me." Gray mumbled towards Loke's direction.

"Yeah, I would have spotted you a few bucks." Sting said.

"Shut up! She hasn't read it yet." Loke shushed.

"Read? What is this, this mornings newspaper?" Lisanna asked opening it up.

"What the?!" Lisanna yelled, we all peeked over her shoulder to see a picture of Loke on the cover. He was wearing a suit, his hair was slick back, and there was a rose in his mouth.

"Damn Loke! Very classy!" Gray laughed shaking him.

While everyone was teasing Loke for his picture, I actually started reading the article that was under his picture and gasped a little.

'Lisanna! Will You Be My Girlfriend?!' Was the headline and under it for the article was all the things Loke liked about Lisanna and all the reasons why she should date him...awww.

"Loke... does this mean you'll stop womanizing?!" Lisanna asked.

... Loke paled a little then he started sweating bullets. I heard the two of them got closer but it seems not that close and finally when Loke made the next big move... it seems like he wasn't ready to commit.

"Hehehe, about that..." Loke said.

"LOKE!"

"Alright, let's keep the presents rolling! Who's next? Gray? Juvia? Lets try to find one gift for them." I said changing the subject.

Erza looked through the presents and lifted one up, "found one! To Gray, from Natsu." She read off the tag. Erza passed the present over to Gray; he started unwrapping it.

... it was a book. Not just any book thought, it was-

"50 ways on how to kiss..." Gray threw the book at Natsu's face.

"What the hell Fullbuster?!" Natsu yelled getting up.

"You what the hell?! Why the fuck would I need that?!"

"BECAUSE! You've missed out on kissing for practically YOUR WHOLE LIFE! BE GRATEFUL!"

"FUCK THAT!"

I turned over to Sting and smiled lightly, "in all honestly, I'm surprised we were able to open as many gifts as we did."

Sting smiled back at me, "I was thinking the same thing."


"So what? Do we just blow out the candles or sing Merry Christmas or what?" I asked everyone.

With the fights being settled and the presents finished opening, Erza decided it was time to pull out the Christmas cake and light the candles on it. We were all gathered around the table, debating on whether or not how to go through this... well they were. I may have been the one to ask the question but I was focusing on the charm bracelet on my wrist. My Christmas present from Natsu. It was the single best present I had ever received in my entire life, better than the pony I got for my sixth birthday and better than the engagement ring I got from Natsu that I now wore on my finger.

Because on that charm bracelet, the charms itself, instead of it being normal things like our initials or hearts or birthstones or zodiacs... instead was mythical creatures. Eleven of them, each one I've told Natsu about and have displayed in my room as ceramic pieces. Unicorn, Dragon, Pixie, Cerberus, Elf, Hydra, Mermaid, Harpy, Jabberwocky, Changeling and Fairy. Each of them, I didn't even know they had mythical creature charms or if Natsu had them specially made for me. The end result was the same, I cried from joy and happiness and kissed him.

My mythical creatures, myself, I'd always be with me and they'd always be a reminder of what I've been through to learn how to love me.

"Just blow out the candles and let's eat! I'm starving!" Natsu said.

"Hold it! Several problems with that, one being who blows them out and two being I don't want anyone's nasty breathe being on the cake. Has anyone ever thought about that? I mean, you're literally blowing your breathe onto the cake then eating everyone's breathe." I stated.

Everyone casted their eyes on me.

"Well what do you suppose we do then genius?" Gazille asked.

"Merry Christmas!" I yelled then started fanning the candles with my hands.

It wasn't enough wind though so the candles were still lit, damn you Erza for not thinking things through.

"Merry Christmas!" Natsu laughed fanning with me.

"Merry Christmas everybody! Sure was a tough year!" Sting laughed fanning also.

"Hell yeah it was!"

Soon, everyone helped with the fanning and we were able to get those candles out.

"Now who wants the first piece?!" Erza asked energetically.

Again, another mistake.

"Oh me!"

"No I want it!"

"Piss of Natsu, I'm getting it!"

"Ladies first!"

"Youngest first!

"Erza, me! Me!"

As everyone tried to get there two cents in, none of them realized the most important rule.

"I call dibs on first piece." I said.

Erza smiled at me, "that is right. Here you go Lucy." She said handing me the first piece.

"Damn, why didn't I think of that?" Natsu asked.

"Well you did when you first saw me didn't you?" I asked.

Natsu blinked and smiled warmly at me, "yeah, and it was the best damn dibs I've ever called."

I smiled back at him and was about to saw something equally corny back when-

"I call dibs on second piece!"

"Dibs on third!"

"Fourth!"

"Dibs on fifth and sixth!"

"HEY! WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME?!" Natsu yelled when everyone finished calling dibs.

"..." Everyone looked at each other, "... last." We said then started laughing.


Have a holly jolly Christmas
It's the best time of the year
Well I don't know if there'll be snow
But have a cup of cheer

"Mom! We're back! I hope we didn't stay out too late!" Erza called out when we walked into our home.

What a song to come home too I thought taking off my snow boots, scarf, coat, and gloves then threw them on the floor next to me. Natsu and Sting laughed and joined me, Erza stared at us then shrugged and did the same.

"Nope! You're right in time for dinner! I just finished the ham, Merry Christmas kids!" Auntie Scarlet cheered when she saw us walk into the living room.

"Merry Christmas Momma Scarlet!" Natsu, Sting, and I called out.

"Erza dear, could you get your Father? He's out in back shoveling snow." Auntie Scarlet asked.

"Sure Mom." Erza said.

"Merry Christmas Akira." I wished her when I saw her sitting down at the table with a mug in hand.

"Merry Christmas Lucy, and boys! What happened? Did you lose a bet or something, now I know Natsu couldn't have had a growth spurt being out for only a few hours." Akira gasped.

"Calm down Mom, it's just a wig. Lucy's way of a funny Christmas joke." Natsu laughed.

"Oh, well then hahahaha!" Akira laughed also.

"I have to say though dear, Sting looks much better with pink hair than you do."

"That's what I said." I giggled with her.

"Alright, enough teasing. I heard dinner was ready so can we eat? Or can we eat?" Natsu asked.

I rolled my eyes and walked into the kitchen.

"Need a hand Auntie Scarlet?" I asked.

"Sure dear, why don't you set the table."

I started grabbing the plates and utensils, Natsu came to help me while Sting helped Auntie Scarlet start setting out the food. Uncle Scarlet came back in with Erza completely covered from head to toe in snow, he looked like the abominable snow man and we all had a good laugh about that. Soon we all sat down at the dinner table as a family, one family, and Auntie Scarlet asked me to say grace.

"Well, um God. There's a lot of things to be said but I'm sure you heard it all before, or at least already know what I'm about to say, and with the way Natsu and Sting are drooling over the candy yams I'm going to keep things short so I can put them out of their misery. Thank you for my family, the end." I said.

"It's suppose to be amen, but I agree. Thanks to family." Erza smiled.

"And friends." Sting butted in.

"And food!" Natsu cheered.

"To family, friends, and food, amen! Let's eat!" I cheered.

A few months ago, before all of this happened, if you would have told me I wasn't alone anymore... I would have laughed in your face and asked what you were talking about. But if were to hug me close, and whisper it in my ear. You don't have to cry anymore, I'm not alone anymore. Maybe, just maybe... I would have smiled and thanked you with all my heart.

"Natsu... I'm glad that I fell in love with you."

"I'm glad that you didn't sleep with me when we first met Lucy."

...

"OUCH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!"

Some things just never change, do they?

And so Natsu and Lucy

Had a very happy relationship

And lived happily ever after...

Or maybe just happy sometimes and ever after others

The end.