Summary: Master has a wonderful way to ensure the children will eat their vegetables….

Pairings: general family and friendship feels within the guild.

YouTube Prompt: A Erza/Jellal/Mystogen video to 'So in Love with Two' by Mikaila, more for the OVA 2 clips with Erza's final mental breakdown, but just for general fun and kicks XD.

Before the children of Fairy Tail learned to cook, it was up to Master, Macao, Wakaba, and Gildarts to sort out dinner…surprisingly enough, they were all good at cooking apart from Wakaba.

Unless you wanted ash in your dinner (which no sane person did unless you were Natsu and liked the smoky fire taste to it) then you don't let Wakaba cook dinner.

Unfortunately all the other grown-ups were really keen on cooking vegetables.

Even Erza, the good one, hated vegetables. She wanted cake for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack….oh and afternoon tea, and mid-morning tea, and pudding! But after her last sugar rush no one would let her have more than one slice…no one liked to be the one withholding cake, well unless it was Mirajane. She took sadistic enjoyment out of it but this was an entirely different story.

The point was that none of the brats enjoyed their vegetables especially the green beans that Master served with their dinner this one night.

"Urgh," Natsu scrunched his nose up in disgust, "there's no way I'm eating that!" he looked around and smirked evilly when he spotted the window. The moment Master's back was turned he quickly flung his beans out.

"Natsu!" Lisanna hissed horrified. "You can't do that!"

"Well I wasn't going to eat them!" Natsu argued. "If you want to eat them then you can."

Lisanna nibbled her lip nervously, looked down at her plate, and shuddered. With a determination only a Fairy Tail mage could have, she too threw the beans out of the window. Elfman looked shocked but his sensitive stomach won over his manners, and he copied his younger sister. "If Natsu is doing it then I'm doing it and better!" Gray declared, as he too threw his beans out of the window – and threw them further than Natsu did, so ha!

Mira being the rebel child she was, wasn't going to be left out, so she too threw her beans out, Jet threw his and Levy's out quickly (Droy actually enjoyed his but he was weird like that), Cana had no problem throwing hers out either as she cheerfully dumped them out in the garden, and then Erza would have scolded them all but she wanted cake and Master wouldn't let her have any unless she ate all her vegetables….so she threw hers out too.

They then all smiled innocently as they showed Master their empty plates and asked for pudding….but what they didn't know was Master had seen everything.

And it turned out that he had to teach his brats a lesson or two in eating their vegetables.

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"Natsu, wake up!" Lisanna shook her best friend. "Natsu!"

"Huh?" Natsu murmured sleepily. He rubbed his eyes and blinked dumbly up at Lisanna. "Lisanna?" he cried out. "What are you doing here?!"

"I wanted to show you the giant beanstalk!"

"Giant what?!"

"Beanstalk! It just grew over night and it's gigantic!" Lisanna squealed enthusiastically. "Come look!" and that was when Natsu was suddenly dragged out of bed and into town…still in his pyjamas, he might add….if he actually cared.

"Holy shit!" Natsu yelped.

There was indeed a giant beanstalk in Magnolia, it started right outside the guild building and went right up into the clouds. "It's awesome, isn't it?" Lisanna said excitedly.

"Not really," Gray groaned as he appeared out of nowhere, "we're going to have to eat beans for the rest of our lives now."

Everyone moaned at that apart from Natsu. "Awesome!" he crowed. "Let's climb up and see where it'll take us!"

There was a moment of silence and then….

"All right!"

"I bet I'll beat you flame brain to the top!"

"You're on, icy knickers!"

"Oh crap, where did my clothes go?!"

"I wonder if there'll be gold and giants and singing harps!"

"What on earth are you on about Levy?"

"Hey! Don't bad mouth, Levy-Chan!"

"I wasn't!"

"Erza, I challenge you to a race!"

"You're on, Mirajane."

The many citizens of Magnolia sweat-dropped at the children's enthusiasm and loudness as they desperately clambered onto the giant beanstalk. They all hoped it'd be gone soon. No one wanted to live on beans…

Two hours later and the children barely made it to the top when suddenly a loud thump could be heard, and another, and then another….

"FE, FI, FO, FUMP!" a booming voice roared. "I SMELL THE BLOOD OF A FAIRY!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Erza and Mirajane will deny it (and so will Gray and Natsu) but they all clung together and screamed in fear. "We got to get out of here!" Lisanna cried.

"RUN!"

They all scrambled to get down the beanstalk which began to shake as the giant began to follow them. "What are we going to do?!" Cana cried out. "I don't want to die!"

"Neither do I!" Levy wailed.

"We have to cut it!" Erza said decisively. She summoned twenty swords. "I'll gladly hack this monstrous thing away."

"LET US GET OFF OF IT FIRST!" Gray bellowed. "No cutting until we're on the ground!"

"I don't want to cut it," Natsu smirked, "I want to burn it!"

Gray grabbed him by the throat. "I am going to kill you!" he snarled. "It's your fault we're in this mess! If you didn't throw your beans out this would have never happened!"

"You threw yours out too!" Natsu protested. "Moron!"

"Why you-"

"THIS ISN'T A TIME TO BE FIGHTING!" Erza, Mirajane, and Cana all screamed. "JUST MOVE!"

"A-aye!"

They couldn't honestly tell you what happened next. Only that that the beanstalk lurched terrifyingly and they all suddenly fell off and then…darkness, and a strange fuzzy feeling, by the time they all woke up the beanstalk was in pieces scattered throughout the town and Master was glaring at them all.

"I hope you brats all learnt your lesson," Master roared furiously at his youngest guild members. They were all kneeled on the floor with their heads bowed down in shame…well apart from Natsu, that boy had now shame, he stood there laughing. Master knocked him out by making his fist gigantic and squashing the brat into the ground. "You should always eat your vegetables."

His brats merely groaned in response.

(Laxus, who had been watching the whole thing from the balcony, scoffed. He can't believe the old man used the exact same trick that he used on Laxus to get those morons to eat their vegetables. Honestly he thought better of Mira and Levy, they should have realised that the giant had been Gramps.)