Authors note :

Soooo yeah... i kinda slipped off to sleep after writing the last chapter... sorry...


2 days earlier...

April 7. X798, Fairy Tail Guild Hall, Magnolia

„Hey everyone, I am back!", Romeo shouted as he entered.

He sat down at the bar counter and got himself something to drink. Wendy came over and they began to chat about Romeo's last mission until Wendy suddenly smelled something odd.

"Romeo, is that perfume I am smelling?", Wendy asked, giving him a serious look.

"I don't know what you mean!", Romeo replied. Wendy got really close now and began sniffing at his clothes. Romeo's face became a bright red in a matter of seconds.

"You are definitely smelling of perfume", the Sky Dragon Slayer confirmed. "You better have a good excuse for this!"

Romeo swallowed. Wendy could get really scary when she was angry.

"It's really not what you think right now, sweetheart", he hastily replied. "I just pass through this village in the west a lot. Every time I come by there I visit a little girl and show her some of my magic, that is all. Maybe the scent you are taking in is from her mother."

"Gihi! I didn't know you had the hots for older women Romeo!", a voice from a nearby table exclaimed right before a loud SMACK! was heard. Romeo looked over, seated at the table were Lucy's former best friend Levy McGarden and the owner of that stupid grin, Gajeel Redfox the Iron Dragon Slayer, who now had a big bump on the head.

"Shut up, Gajeel!", Romeo shouted back as he conjured a ball of horribly stinking fire in his hand and threw it at Gajeel. Everyone in the Guild Hall put their hands in front of their mouths and noses.

"Romeo, stop it! Do you want to kill us?", Gajeel and Wendy exclaimed loudly.

Everyone ran for the doors and windows to get the horrible smell out of the building.

It was a windy day, so the smell was gone quite quickly.

At the same time, at the west gate of Magnolia :

"God damn it, Romeo!", Natsu shouted as he was about to leave the city. He could smell the stench from the Guild Hall all the way to the west gate of the town.

20 minutes ago he thought he had smelled Lucy and now Romeo had to go and clog his nose. Depressed about the ill success he went back to the Guild Hall.


"Romeo, are you trying to kill me?", Natsu growled as he threw the door open. "I could smell that all the way from the west gate!"

Natsu sat down at the bar counter next to Romeo. "And just as I thought I got a scent of her"

Everyone stared at Natsu and Romeo in shock. "You smelled her?"

"Yeah, im pretty positive that it was her, I would never forget her smell!", Natsu confirmed, a single tear running down his cheek. "But this genius here thought it was a good idea to infest the whole city with that stench!"

Romeo just looked down in guilt. Gajeel stepped in. "Look Flame Brain, it was my fault, I provoked him!"

Natsu sighed. "It's okay, nobody of you knew I was about to track her"

"Why did you get a scent all of a sudden anyway?", Gajeel asked.

"I don't know! It was just there!", Natsu answered on the verge of crying.

The whole guild was feeling down again. Levy went to Gajeel for comfort while Erza and Mira tried to comfort Natsu.

Gray couldn't bear to see his best friend looking like that, so he tried to taunt him into a fight. It worked. Natsu stood up and within minutes the 2 men were rampaging in the Guild Hall and even Gajeel joined in not much later. In this collective mess everyone that heard the conversation from before forgot about the perfume scent, Romeo brought in that day.

The next day Natsu and Wendy left the city for another mission. Natsu was determined to not let this incident get to him. After all, he had rent to pay.


April 14. X798, Crocus

Lucy and Nashi walked hand in hand towards the Crocus Elementary School.

"Do I have to go?", Nashi anxiously asked.

"Yeah you do!", Lucy replied. "I can't keep homeschooling you! I have to work too!"

Nashi pouted. "I want to stay with you!"

"I know." Lucy said calmly. "But look at it like this : You will find a lot of new friends here!"

Nashi wasn't so sure but as they went inside the school she was feeling a little bit better. Lucy brought her to her new classroom and she and her new teacher introduced her to the class.

Lucy went to work in one of the many inns of Crocus after that. The recommendation letter of her former employer really helped her to find work quickly.

Back in the classroom, Nashi was seated in between 2 other girls. Their names were Kaiko and Marika. Kaiko had light blue hair and green eyes, while Marika's hair was brown with blonde strands and she had marine blue eyes. All three of them wore the schools uniform that day. It consisted of a light blue skirt with a matching jacket.

"I absolutely love your hair!", Kaiko whispered to Nashi. Nashi blushed.

"Did you see her mother?", Marika whispered over. "I bet she got it from her Dad. Am I right, Nashi?"

Nashi looked down. "I don't know, I never met my dad. Mommy doesn't talk about him."

Marika immediately apologized. "It's okay" Nashi said. "My Mommy is always there for me."

"Kaiko, Marika and Nashi, please do not disturb class!", the teacher looked right at them.

The three hastily apologized. The rest of the class went by without further disturbance. After recess, the door opened and their teacher came in, by his side a woman with dark-blue hair in pigtails, on her shoulder a white cat was sitting.

"Attention class!", the teacher spoke. "This is Wendy Marvell, she came here from Magnolia to talk to you about wizard guilds and magic"

Nashi's eyes widened at the words of the teacher.

"I'm Wendy and this is Carla, nice to meet you all!", Wendy said pointing at the cat on her shoulder.

"Nice to meet you Wendy and Carla!", the class shouted in unison.

Wendy began her lesson about magic and wizard guilds. As she finished explaining what wizard guilds are, all hands in the room shot right up.

"Oh, it seems you have a couple of questions.", she said. "Okay, you in the back, go right ahead!" she pointed at Kaiko.

"How do you know which wizard belongs to which guild?", Kaiko asked.

Wendy smiled as she turned. "Do you see this mark on my shoulder? This is the mark of the Fairy Tail Guild from Magnolia"

Nashi's eyes widened. She had seen this before on Romeo's shoulder. Did that mean that she knew Romeo? Nashi's curiosity got the better of her.

"So all people with this mark belong to the same guild?", she asked.

Wendy answered smiling. "Yes, all people with this mark are like my family!"

"So does that mean Romeo and you are family too?" Nashi continued. Wendy blushed and stuttered.

"H-How d-do you know Romeo?, Wendy asked. Nashi grinned.

"He used to show me magic all the time", Nashi answered. Wendy understood now. She was that little girl Romeo had talked about a couple of days ago. But why was she here? Romeo said she lived in a small village about 2 days from here.

"Is that so? Did you like it? I hope he didn't do that horrible flame in front of you", Wendy asked. Nashi nodded.

Suddenly the room was engulfed in an orange light coming from outside. Wendy sighed as the kids rushed to the window to see what was going on. In the schoolyard stood Natsu Dragneel, shooting pillars of fire into the sky, the surrounding kids applauding.

"It seems the other class already began with the demonstrations", the teacher said.

"How about we go and join them", Wendy proposed. The proposal was met with cheering from the kids so they all went outside. Natsu introduced himself to the other kids and explained his magic.

The kids stared at him in disbelief, when he told them that a dragon had raised him. All their mouths dropped open as he suddenly lit a torch and chewed on it.

"Did you just-?", Nashi asked. Natsu grinned. "I told you I could eat fire, didn't I?"

"Wendy, what kind of magic can you do?", the other kids asked.

Wendy explained everything to them. The kids couldn't believe it. She was raised by a dragon too? A couple of kids with band-aids came up asking her to look at them.

Wendy laid her hand on the wounds and they stared in awe as they began closing in front of their eyes.

"I almost forgot. In a couple of months the Grand Magic Games will be held again. I hope you will all cheer for us!" Wendy said.

The kids nodded.

As the day was nearing its end as Natsu and Wendy went and said goodbye to all the kids individually. As Natsu went to say goodbye to Nashi and looked her in the eyes for real for the first time, he stopped for a moment. Her eyes reminded him of Lucy so much.

"Natsu, is something wrong?", Wendy came running.

"No, it's nothing" Natsu said as he tried to fight the tears. He faked a smile and said goodbye to Nashi right as her Mother came around the corner to pick her up.

"Nashi, come here. It's time to go home", she called. Natsu and Wendy came over too and Nashi told her everything she experienced today. Lucy smiled. Natsu was suspicious, she looked so much like Lucy, but she had brown hair and didn't smell like her, in fact she didn't smell at all. Also she had a kid. There was no way this was Lucy.

They soon departed and went their own ways, Nashi and Lucy to their home, Wendy and Natsu to the nearest inn.


Around midnight :

Lucy arrived home after a long day of work. When she opened the door to the apartment everything was dark. After she turned on the light and sat on the couch right next to her identical looking friend she began asking how Nashi's day was.

She was torn up inside because she had to work longer today and had to send Gemini to pick her own daughter up after school. Gemini told her that Natsu and Wendy were at the school today and that Nashi had befriended them. Lucy could only stare at her in disbelief.

"Does he know?", Lucy asked.

"I dont think so.", Gemini replied. "I don't smell like you. He couldn't have made a connection, after all it's Natsu we are talking about."

"I guess you are right. And thank you Gemini!", Lucy said. "Is Nashi already in bed?"

"Yeah I tucked her in.", Gemini said. "If you allow I will now return to my world."

"Of course. And thank you again.", Lucy said as Gemini vanished into thin air. Little did she know that through a slit in the door, a little pink haired girl was eavesdropping on the whole conversation.


Okay that´s enough for today. I hope you liked it as much as me. Next chapter will be the Grand Magic Games. Until then, goodbye and thank you for reading!

Update : The next chapter is already in the writing! I hope to complete it in the next couple of days! (Sorry for the inconvinience, but i don't have much time to write at the moment)