Summary: The long awaited sequel to chapter one! Erza's parents want to meet her chosen husband….and for some reason that means Gray and Natsu have to tag along.
Pairings: on-sided Ichiya/Erza, Erza/Jellal, implied Happy/Charle, Erza/Gray/Natsu/Jellal friendship, Natsu/Lucy, implied Gray/Juvia, and some Bob/Ichiya friendship.
Author's Note: For Tsubaki, Happy Anniversary! Thank you so much, for everything, and I mean everything, from your kind words that kept this fic alive at the beginning, to your friendship and company, for the beautiful artwork you have drawn me. Just thank you. I hope you enjoy this.
Ichiya had chanced a perilous journey, the blistering cold, the scorching desert, travelling many days and nights, risking life and limb to reach the Dragon's keep.
"MEN!"
Ichiya screamed as swung across the moat of boiling lava and smacked right into a crumbling stone fall, slowly falling the ground with a squeak.
Quickly, he jumped back up to his feet, and took of his helmet, shaking his red, glorious, mane for all to see.
"Men!" he growled in a very manly way.
For he was the bravest and most handsome in all the land and it was destiny that his kiss would break the dreaded curse.
He alone will climb to the highest room of the tallest tower, enter the princess' chambers and cross the room to her sleeping silhouette.
He took a great deep breath to catch a whiff of the princess' sweet, beautiful perfume, and instead coughed slightly at the strong smell of fish.
He coughed as he ripped open the curtains to reveal…..a blue, furry, cat in a white lacy nightie.
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"….Princess….Erza?"
"What?" the cat frowned. "No! God no. I'm a cat not a princess. Obviously."
"Then," Ichiya coughed again, the fishy smell was really nasty, "where is the gloriously beautiful, charmingly clever, sweet maiden that is the Princess Erza?"
"Eh," the cat shrugged, "she went on her honeymoon."
"H-h-honeymoon?!"
"Aye Sir!" the cat cheered. "After all these years, Erza had finally gotten married. And Charle told me that what Erza really, really, wanted was for me to stop giving Charle fish and instead prove my worth by taking care of her old tower. Even though she hasn't been here for years."
"MEN!"
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Jellal wondered how he got stuck in this horrific situation.
One moment he was about to carry his wife to their bedchamber and have his wicked way with her (again) and then suddenly he discovers half of Fairy Tail had taken over his castle, destroyed most of it with their parties, and then when Erza finally got rid of them and they were just about to have a romantic moment, when a messenger from Erza's parents demanded that they visited them.
All of this could be bearable, even though he was starting to sweat buckets at the thought of meeting his parent in laws, if it wasn't for some reason, that no one could ever comprehend, that both Gray and Natsu had to come ("Please, please, please, let me come!" Natsu had pouted ridiculously. "Lucy has been really, really, moody and mean, and distant with me."), and now he was trapped in a carriage with Natsu sitting next to him because heaven forbid both Natsu and Gray could sit next to one another without a fight brewing between them.
Pop!
Jellal flinched, Gray grimaced, and Erza's eyebrow twitched. This was Natsu's latest thing. First he spent half of the journey on the verge of vomiting on their shoes, then Erza remembered that she had some leftover anti-sickness pills which had unfortunately led to Natsu being the biggest pain in the arse.
He even sang.
Really obnoxious, cheerful, tunes.
And then he kept asking if they were there yet (obviously not) until Erza told him if he didn't keep his mouth shut she would hack his tongue out, and how would he ever be able to enjoy himself with Lucy again ("Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Gray whined. "Too much information! How do you even know that?!" "Girls talk," Erza shrugged, "and quit your whinging before I tell everyone what you and Juvia-" "I'm good!").
That had lasted about give minutes until Natsu had begun his latest annoying thing…..Jellal would have honestly preferred it if Natsu had puked all over his new shoes.
Pop!
Jellal and Erza took a deep breath while Gray gritted his teeth.
Pop!
Erza flinched this time though she kept her eyes hut and was obviously trying to count to ten.
Pop!
Gray clenched his fist and shot Natsu a murderous look.
Pop!
"Natsu," Jellal hissed, "can you please stop that?"
Natsu grinned childishly and gave him a thumbs up sign, which Jellal assumed that meant Natsu would indeed stop his annoying habit.
And for two, glorious, minutes, it honestly looked as if the last leg of the journey in peace and quiet…..then Natsu leaned forward, and Jellal's eyes widened as his mouth moved and –
Pop!
"NATSU!"
Jellal almost fell out of the carriage as Erza and Gray proceeded to try and murder their annoying friend. "God," he moaned to himself, "are we there yet?"
"Yes!" Erza suddenly squealed as she noticed her surroundings. "We are!"
Natsu and Gray immediately stopped fighting to peer out of the window and Jellal stared too…..everything was so clean, and perky, and blonde, and plastic…..
"Are you sure?" he asked disbelievingly. "This isn't the sort of place I would imagine you growing up in."
"It isn't the place I grew up in," Erza said darkly, "I grew up in a crumbling tower surrounded by lava with only him," she pointed a sword at Natsu, "and his annoying blue cat for company."
…..something told Jellal that his first meeting with his in laws was not going to end well.
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The boring bland King had been in the middle of complaining about his child and new son in law. How?! How could his daughter waste the opportunity to marry a prince in order to marry some minor lord who had the tiniest of land-holdings and even admitted that he didn't do the decent thing and rescue his precious baby girl first?
"I didn't need rescuing!" Erza scowled. "I could have left anytime I wanted to. A good opportunity from someone who isn't a pervert hadn't come up until Fairy Tail offered me to join their guild."
"We didn't," the naked pervert who was ruining their dining furniture with his nakedness, "you invited yourself."
The King shuddered at the memory of Erza's friends, so uncouth, and destructive, and rude, and to think there was more of them.
Anyway, he was in the middle of ranting when a stretch, pink, flying, limo pulled up at his balcony and the door opened to reveal a bald man in a pink tutu. "Hello Your Majesty," Bob-san said coolly, "I believe we need a chat."
"EEK!"
"Honey?" the King's equally boring, but at least she was supportive of her daughter's choices, wife called out. "Is everything fine?"
"Yes, yes, just…..remembered I forgot my tea! I'll be right back!"
The King was then hauled into the limo by Bob-san who proceeded to rant at him while Ichiya sulked opposite. "So just who, who in the whole world, could be a better husband than my Ichiya-san?" Bob-san finished. He shot the middle-aged, ginger, a radiant beam. "Just look at him, most gorgeous guy in the world!"
"Well," the King pulled out a picture he had conveniently on him of his daughter and her husband, "I think my daughter prefers this type."
"Oh my!" Bob-san clutched his chest melodramatically. "He is a hunk! I can see why she went for him. I suppose we should all be thankful she didn't marry an ogre or anything but still," he glowered at the King, "a deal is a deal, and my good man here had chanced a perilous journey, the blistering cold, the scorching desert, travelling many days and nights, risking life and limb in order to climb to the highest room of the tallest tower and find what?! A gender confused cat telling him that your daughter is on her honeymoon! Can you honestly say that you prefer this boy over a man like Ichiya?"
Ichiya suddenly ripped off both his shirt and jacket, sparkled disturbingly, and posed. "Men!" he said in a weird echo-y voice.
"Actually….." the King shuddered, "I honestly can say that I do."
This, unsurprisingly, did not go down well with Bob-san, and the King soon found himself threatened, blackmailed, and beaten into a plot to marry his daughter off to a man old enough to be her father….
You know, like any normal princess would be.
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With the bad guy defeated, with help of a giant gingerbread man, don't ask, it was time to party.
The King and Queen accepted Jellal as their son in law, Erza and Jellal were even more in love with one another, and the world was safe and sound from Bob-san's attempts to hook someone up with Ichiya.
Urgh.
Despite all the things to celebrate, Natsu ended up sulking in the corner as he found more and more that he really missed his Lucy. He wished he never went without her but she had been so scary throwing things at him and growling at him each time he tried to talk to her.
He sighed heavily and wondered if he could get away with tripping Gray on the dance floor, make him look like a fool and then –
"Ouch!" Natsu grimaced as someone smacked him over the head. He turned to yell at the mean person only to see Lucy glaring down at him. "Gah!" he jumped out of his seat, terrified, "Lucy?!" he yelped. "What are you doing here?" he took her in, her red, angry face, her chest, bigger than ever, heaving, and a huge bulge under her shirt. "Why are you so fat?" he blurted out.
He couldn't help it, she wasn't this fat five days ago.
She slapped him.
"Ow!" he yelled. "What was that for?!"
"FOR CALLING ME FAT, YOU JERK!"
She moved to slap him again but this time he caught her wrist, and pulled her closer to him. "You are though!" he persisted. "You weren't this fat last time I saw you, what the hell did you do, eat Happy? Oh my God, you did, didn't you?"
"No, you moron!" Lucy barked. "Happy is safe and sound, trying to woo Charle again. You did this to me."
"What?!" he blinked rapidly. "But you haven't eaten me! Well," he scratched the back of his neck, "not recently. It's been ages since you put my-"
Lucy quickly slammed her lips over his and Natsu happily kissed her back. She then smacked him over the head again. "Idiot!" she scolded him. "I'm pregnant. With your baby. Your rapidly growing baby because Dragons apparently have a faster pregnancy which I would appreciate you telling me before you decided to run to the other side of the country!"
"I'm going to be a Dad?!" Natsu cried out ecstatic. Lucy glared at him but he was so busy patting her stomach, and grinning at the feel of their baby kicking back at him, to really care. "Hey! Gray, Erza, Jellal, oh, hi Juvia, you're here too, huh? Guess what?! I'm going to be a Dad!"
"Oh God!" Gray groaned as he tried to escape Juvia's grasp (he failed). "Lucy, how could you? This idiot of a Dragon doesn't need to reproduce!"
"What was that, you stupid ice freak?!"
It was then when the party ended in typical Fairy Tail Style….complete and utter destruction of their surroundings.
Eh, Erza's parents deserved it.