Authors note :

Hey everyone! If you are reading this, then you obviously wanted to read more after the prologue! Thank you so much for that, you're awesome! Now let's get to chapter 1!


Almost 7 years later...

April 9. X798, just outside of Crocus, capital of Fiore

„Mommy look! Such a big city!"

„I know dear, that's our new home."

Lucy was walking along the street to Crocus, on her shoulders sat a little pink haired girl, about 6 years old. She wore a white dress and a matching hat to block the sun.

"Are we there yet, Mommy?", she asked.

"Soon, Nashi. Soon.", Lucy replied. "The moving company the innkeeper hired should have gotten our stuff into our new apartment already"

"Why are we moving to the city so suddenly anyways?", Nashi asked her mother.

"Because you are almost old enough to go to school Nashi", Lucy said. "And we didn't have any schools in the vicinity of the village."

Lucy thought of her old home at the village. She didn't want to leave it, but, as she already said, there were no schools in the vicinity for Nashi to attend and also she was almost found out.

"I can't go home with a child on my shoulders and say : 'Natsu, this is Nashi... your daughter'", she thought to herself.


Flashback :

August X797, the small village on the countryside

It was a rainy evening. Lucy worked at the inn while 5-year old Nashi sat at one of the tables and looked pretty bored. Everybody there loved Nashi, so Lucy was allowed to bring her since she couldn't always get someone to watch her.

Suddenly the door was opened and two men wearing raincoats entered the inn and sat down at one of the tables.

"I'll be right there", Lucy shouted. "It's pretty busy at the moment, lots of travelers want to get out of the rain."

"No rush! We have all the time in the world!", one of them exclaimed.

"You may have all the time in the world, kiddo", the other one said to him. "But i'm near my 50s so please don't mention time in my presence"

Lucy stepped up to the table and brought them the menu. As the men got out of their raincoats Lucy had a small heart attack. Before her were sitting two men, about 50 and 20 years old. Lucy immediately recognized them as Macao and Romeo Conbolt of Fairy Tail.

She tried her best to look normal and took their orders. As she brought them their food she almost dropped it as she saw Nashi at the table, happily talking with Romeo.

"What are you talking about, you two?", Lucy reluctantly asked.

Romeo began grinning. "I was just telling her something about my latest mission! We are wizards from Magnolia, you know? Why are you asking by the way? Are you her mother?"

"Is that so? And yes, I am!" Lucy replied, while Nashi stared in awe as Romeo lit his fingertips on fire one by one.

Nashi seemed pretty fascinated by Romeo's fire magic. "Do you like those magic tricks, little girl?", he asked.

"It's absolutely wonderful", Nashi replied. "Also, you can call me Nashi!"

Romeo smiled. "I'm Romeo. Nice to meet you Nashi! If you like fire magic, maybe I can bring a friend of mine next time. He can do even more than me!"

Nashi's eyes widened at the thought. Lucy on the other hand knew exactly who Romeo was talking about and the last thing she wanted was to be sniffed out of her disguise by a Dragon Slayer's nose.

"If he can do even more, maybe we should wait until Nashi is a little bit older" Lucy said. "Fire is nothing to play around with after all."

"Understandable", Macao said. "I can remember when Romeo here was 6 years old. I was always worried sick about him"

They talked there for a little while and Lucy was starting to feel all nostalgic. Nashi was a little bit upset because her mother wouldn't allow her to see Romeo's friend, but she soon smiled again after Romeo promised her to introduce them once she got older.

It was almost closing time now and the rain had stopped. Lucy left the now sleeping Nashi with Romeo and Macao to get out of her waitress outfit. The 4 then left the inn together, Lucy carrying Nashi on her shoulders.

"We should get going", Romeo and Macao said.

"Yeah, I should get home too. This sleepyhead here needs to go to bed", Lucy replied.

"Wait, I gave that little sleepyhead a promise!", Romeo said. "What is your name? I need to be able to find little Nashi here once she gets older."

"Damn", Lucy thought. "Now im in trouble!"

"M-Michelle Surge", she said reluctantly.

"Michelle... got it!", Romeo grinned. "I think with that I will be able to find you in this small village". Lucy swallowed.

And with that, they each went their own ways. Lucy went home and brought Nashi into her bed. Romeo and Macao continued their journey to Magnolia.


Romeo came to visit the inn more often over the following couple of months. He always talked to little Nashi and showed her some fire spells while he stayed.

Lucy noticed that Romeo began to look at her strangely. Had he found out?

She walked over to the table Nashi and Romeo were sitting at and asked him if something was wrong.

"Nothing in particular", Romeo said. "Is this yours?". He held open his hand, revealing a small gemstone with a hair inside. Lucy stood there in shock. How did he get her Color Gem?

"Y-Yeah... say how d-did you get that?", Lucy stuttered.

"Nashi showed it to me, that is a Color Gem right?", Romeo replied.

Lucy took the gemstone out of his hand. "Yeah... I don't use it very often though."

"Eye- or hair-color?", Romeo asked.

Lucy laughed. "Did you not see that there is a hair inside the gem?"

Now Romeo started to laugh as well. How couldn't he have seen that?

"Can I see how it works mommy?", Nashi asked. Lucy swallowed. "Okay"

"It would just be suspicious if I refused", she thought. She laid the gem into her hand and slid her finger over it. Her hair began changing color fluently between all colors imaginable.

Just as Lucy´s natural hair color was visible for a split second, Romeo's eyes widened. He was sure that he met this woman before in his life. He just couldn't fit the image.

As Lucy saw Romeo's eyes widen, she quickly stopped the spell at brown again.

"Did you see a ghost Romeo?" she asked at his shocked expression.

"No" he said, trying to smile. "Say, have we met before?"

Lucy's heart skipped a beat at the question. "We've met plenty of times before, haven't we Romeo?"

"No, I mean before me and my dad came here a couple of months ago", Romeo started to sound more eager to know.

"I-I dont think so", Lucy hastily replied.

"Okay, maybe it was just my imagination", Romeo said calmly. "I should get going though, I still have about one and a half days worth of travel before me until I get to Magnolia"

Lucy kept her eyes on him. He was hastily packing up his things and left way too fast. She was certain he at least figured something out.


The next day Lucy had a talk with the innkeeper about moving to Crocus. She had to get out of the village or Romeo would eventually rat her out to her former partners. If any Dragon Slayer met him as soon as he arrived in Magnolia he would still be carrying her scent and they would be able to track her.

The innkeeper was very understanding since Lucy was one of his best and dearest workers. He ordered her a moving company and gave her a recommendation letter, so that she had better chances of finding work in the capital.

Lucy thanked him for everything, picked Nashi up, sat her on her shoulders and went home to pack some things for the 2-day travel to Crocus.

End of Flashback


It was already dark outside as Lucy and Nashi reached the apartment. The apartment was already fully furnished thanks to the moving company. Only the many cardboard boxes they used for their belongings still needed unpacking. Lucy brought Nashi to bed and sat on the couch for a moment. Now that she had an apartment again she was almost expecting Natsu and Happy to break in every second, but of course nothing happened.

Lucy went into the bathroom and splashed water into her face. "What am I thinking?", she told herself as she went to bed.


Okay, I know the chapters are a bit short, but I didn't say that this will be a 15+ chapter story either. It is meant to be a cute little NaLu story, nothing mayor. The next chapter will have Natsu's P.O.V again. Stay tuned. I'll be writing it down right after I publish this one.

BTW : Before I started writing this story I only had a couple mayor plot points in my head and I wanted to write it down so badly. Now I have 6 People that are following the story and want to read more. It took me 6 hours to write this chapter since the story evolves in my head as I am writing it. I am growing very found of this story as I am writing it and you guys are also making it more awesome for me. Thanks a lot!