Authors note :

Finally i get some time to write again, although I doubt I am going to finish this chapter in one go. Anyway, I really hope you have been enjoying the story so far! Also, yeah no Grand Magic Games this chapter... I lied again... boo me! In those 2 days without writing I actually thought a lot about the story and I don't really want to skip to such a mayor event in the world of Fairy Tail without some things leading up to it. But enough talking now, have fun reading this new chapter.


April 15. X798, Crocus

Nashi yawned. She didn't get any sleep last night. She was constantly thinking about the conversation she eavesdropped on between her mother and... who or whatever that other person was.

Lucy was sitting across from her. They both sat in the kitchen eating breakfast on this beautiful Saturday morning.

"Is everything alright, Nashi?", Lucy asked her daughter. "You don't look too good."

Nashi yawned yet again. "I guess I didn't sleep very well", she answered. "Mommy? Can I ask you a question?"

"Of course darling!", Lucy smiled. "Whats on your mind?"

"Who was that woman from yesterday? You know, the one that looked exactly like you?", Nashi asked. Lucy almost choked on her breakfast.

"Nashi, this is a little bit complicated...", Lucy started while looking down at her breakfast. "I don't know how to explain it to you. I guess I will start by telling you she is a good friend of mine."

Nashi looked at her mother. She never saw Lucy so short of words.

"But what is with her vanishing just like that?", Nashi asked.

"You saw that too?", Lucy was completely baffled. "You know you shouldn't listen in on other people talking."

"I know... I just wanted to know who was visiting you so late at night, but then you entered at apartment.", Nashi defended herself.

"Geez...", Lucy sighed. "I guess I should really tell you huh?"

Breakfast continued. Lucy told Nashi that she worked as a wizard until her daughter was born. She also introduced her to her Celestial Spirits.

"Whoa! So you're a wizard, just like Romeo, Natsu and Wendy?", Nashi asked. Lucy swallowed and nodded. "Yeah, but you can't tell anyone!"

"Why not? I think it's super cool!", Nashi protested.

Lucy looked down. "Nashi... it's because of your father. You see, he hurt me pretty bad about seven years ago..." Now she was fighting the tears running down her face. "I ran away unaware I would be having a child and I don't want him to find out about us."

Nashi looked at Lucy in disbelief. "What do you mean with 'he hurt you'? Did he hit you?"

"No!", Lucy exclaimed hastily. "He would never do things like that! He would always come rushing to my side if I was in danger!"

By now Lucy's head sunk to the table. She was crying. Nashi jumped of her chair and ran to her side.

"Why are you crying Mommy?", Nashi asked. A worried look on her face.

Lucy sobbed. "You know, I still love your father after all this time... It's just... I don't think he ever saw me like that!"

Now Nashi was on the verge of crying herself. She couldn't bear seeing her mother like this.

Lucy did her best to gather herself. "Don't cry darling, it doesn't suit you." She lifted Nashi up, sat her down in her lap and began drying the little tears Nashi had built up in the corners of her eyes. "And please don't blame your father for my mistakes."

Nashi nodded. Lucy smiled at her.

"She is so much like you, Natsu!", she thought to herself.

At the same time, just outside the east gate of Crocus :

Natsu sneezed. "Geez... whats up with the sneezing today?"

Wendy chuckled. "You know, according to a saying, when you sneeze, someone you hold dear thinks about you!"

Natsu looked at Wendy surprised, but then grinned. "Well if you say so!"

Carla interrupted. "As much as I applaud your positive attitude you two... we should get going if we don't want to camp outside tonight!"

Natsu and Wendy agreed and with that, they started walking east, towards Magnolia.

Back at Lucy's and Nashi's apartment :

"You know... I would really like to meet him!", Nashi said. Lucy looked at the girl in her lap.

"Give me some time to think about that, okay?", she said. Nashi pouted.

"You are keeping me a secret from him! Do you think that is fair? I want to know who he is!", she exclaimed.

"How does she come up with these arguments?", Lucy asked herself. "She is only 6 years old!"

"Seriously Nashi! This is hard for me, you know?", Lucy said, giving Nashi a serious look. "I'm scared of how he will react to seeing me after all these years!"

Nashi realized her mothers situation and stopped bothering her with her demands. She was very mature for her age and Lucy was very grateful for that.


June 17. X798, Crocus

The next 2 months went by very quiet. Nashi nagged Lucy about her father occasionally, but Lucy just evaded her questions. That was until Nashi suddenly broke down in the middle of one of their conversations. She had very high fever and Lucy had to call a doctor.

"What is with this fever all of a sudden?", Lucy asked. She was very worried about Nashi's well-being.

"I don't know, Miss Surge.", the doctor answered. "I have never seen this sort thing happen before. I gave her some medicine to lower her temperature, but this is all I can do for her right now. Please monitor her closely and call me again if something happens or her condition worsens."

"I will.", Lucy said. "And thank you!"

June 19. X798, Crocus

Lucy was relieved. She didn't sleep for the last 2 days and had taken a couple of days off of work too. Nashi's fever finally went down after these last days.

"Did you sleep well, darling?", Lucy asked her daughter.

"Kinda I guess.", Nashi answered. "I feel a lot better than yesterday!"

Lucy smiled at her daughter, which grinned at her in response. Lucy then noticed something odd about her daughter. She had inherited her fathers smile, but what Lucy saw for the first time was 2 little fangs that were sitting in her daughters mouth. Lucy didn't think of it very much since Natsu had the same kind of fangs, she must have inherited them as well. Lucy then helped her daughter to get dressed and walked her to school before heading off to work herself.

Classes had just started. Nashi was sitting in between Kaiko and Marika again. The 2 girls were happy to have their friend back.

"Nashi, you wouldn't believe how boring it was without you!", Marika whispered.

"You can say that again!", Kaiko agreed. "Those lectures got me sleeping yesterday!"

"Yeah, I am happy to be back.", Nashi answered with a grin on her face. Marika's eyes widened.

"Nashi... a-are those... fangs?", she asked with a worried look on her face.

"What do you mean?", Nashi asked in return.

Kaiko held her a small cosmetics mirror. Nashi gasped in horror. She was so loud that the teacher paused the class and asked for an explanation on what was going on with the three.

"Well, we kind of got a little problem over here...", Kaiko started.

30 minutes later...

Lucy rushed towards the school. Nashi's teacher had called her workplace because of an emergency. She opened the door to the infirmary with a worried look on her face as she saw Nashi sitting on the bed with Kaiko and Marika sitting next to it.

"What's going on?", Lucy asked. "Nashi what happened?"

"Mommy... am I a monster?", Nashi asked, tears in her eyes.

Lucy hugged her daughter tightly. "Of course not! Now what makes you think that?"

Nashi opened her mouth hesitantly and pointed to her fangs. Lucy smiled lightly.

"Now everyone listen!", Lucy said. "Nashi inherited those from her father. There is nothing to worry about!"

Nashi looked up at her mother with wide eyes. Her father also had fangs? Just what kind of man was he? Kaiko and Marika were quicker to ask those questions out loud.

"From her father?", Kaiko asked. "Is he even human?"

Lucy got angry. "Yes he is! And you would do good not to bother Nashi over those fangs!"

The teacher entered the room and sought to speak with Lucy in private. Lucy told him that the fangs were inherited. The teacher just nodded.

"Okay, I presume your daughter just got scared. If there is no issue with her health she can stay here of course", the teacher ended his sentence.

As they entered the infirmary again, the 3 girls looked up at them.

"Is there something from Miss Surge?", Marika asked.

"No, nothing dear.", Lucy said. "Dont worry, those fangs are perfectly harmless!"

Nashi's face lightened up. She was very glad nothing bad was happening to her.

"If you would excuse me now.", Lucy exclaimed. "I kinda have to go now that this problem is resolved!"

Nashi and her friends said goodbye to her mother. Lucy turned her head and smiled at them before she left the infirmary and returned to work.

The rest of class went undisturbed again. As the bell rung for recess, a little group of kids gathered around Nashi and asked her to show them her fangs. Nashi just grinned at them. She was now proud of the fangs she inherited from the man she didn't know.


June 29. X798, Crocus elementary school

It was 2 days until the Grand Magic Games would begin. Nashi listened to the description of her teacher in awe. She had never witnessed this event before and she could not wait for it to begin.

"Do you already have a guild you will be cheering for?", the teacher asked.

The replies were mixed. Nashi was sure to cheer for Fairy Tail, just like she promised Wendy and Natsu. Kaiko and Marika would be with Fairy Tail too. Some boys in the back row exclaimed that they would be cheering for Sabertooth this year.

"Sabertooth?", Nashi asked Kaiko.

"They are the wizard guild that moved it's building to Crocus 2 years ago. They tied with Fairy Tail for first place in the Grand Magic Games last year!", Kaiko explained to Nashi.

Nashi thought about it for a moment and then nodded. "So they are another wizard guild."

"Not just any other wizard guild!", Kaiko and Marika said in unison. "They are, as of now one of the 2 number one guilds in all of Fiore! The other one is Fairy Tail!"

"I didn't realize it was such a big deal.", Nashi said in surprise.

"Yeah you just moved here. I can't wait to watch the games with you.", Kaiko cheered.

Nashi smiled at her. Now she really couldn't wait any longer.

A couple of hours later :

Nashi and her friends just walked out the front gate where she was waiting for her mother to pick her up after work. Just as Nashi stopped, her shoulder was brushed by someone and she fell onto the floor. As she looked back up all she saw was one of the boys from her class.

Marika got angry. "Hey Yuugo, you owe her an apology!"

"Me and apologize? Don't make me laugh Kaiko! That little animal deserved that!", Yuugo replied.

"Would you mind telling us why?", Kaiko yelled right back him. Marika helped Nashi up.

"Easy!", Yuugo said. "She is obviously a monster that doesn't have the right to be here!"

"And why is that?", Marika yelled at him too.

"Well, did you ever see another girl that has fangs?", Yuugo yelled back.

Nashi got angry too. "Hey, my mother says I got them from my father!", she yelled.

"So then who even is your father?", Yuugo asked Nashi. "I bet you can't tell me that, isn't that right little monster?"

"Why are you doing this to her, Yuugo?", Kaiko shouted. "She hasn't done anything to you."

"Maybe.", Yuugo said. "But what is she going to do about it?"

Marika formed a fist. "She doesn't need to do anything about it, because im going to do that for her!"

Yuugo flinched backwards as Marika raised her hand against him. Just as he expected a hit he saw Nashi holding her friend back. At this moment Lucy walked around the corner and Yuugo ran as fast as he could.

"Nashi!", Lucy called out as she saw her daughter holding back Marika's fist. "What's going on here?"

"It was Yuugo!", Kaiko told Lucy. "He threw Nashi to the ground and called her a monster."

Now Nashi was crying. Lucy gave her a tight hug and then lifted her up into her arms. She thanked Kaiko and Marika for taking care of her daughter.

"Oh im going to have to talk to the teacher about this!", Lucy exclaimed but what promptly interrupted by Nashi.

"Mommy... are you sure im not just some kind of monster?", she cried.

Lucy and the girls smiled at Nashi.

"You are no monster. That guy is just jealous of your cool fangs.", Kaiko said. "Be proud of them!"

After Nashi had calmed down Lucy and her said goodbye to Kaiko and Marika and they each went to their respective home. On the way home Lucy couldn't keep her mind off of what happened at the school. Her daughter had been bullied because of body features that Natsu handed down to her.

"I can't leave it at this! This is going to get worse!", she thought. After some more thinking Lucy was finally pushed over the edge. She would make sure nobody hurt her daughter ever again, even if that meant facing her past.

She decided that she would... that she had to talk to Natsu, because only he could get Nashi the self-confidence she needed.


Aaaaand it's done. Took me 3 days to write this. Again I am sorry it took this long. I hope you enjoyed reading this!

BTW I noticed that we are up to 15 followers and 2 favs on the story and I think that this is awesome. Thank you very much, this means a lot!