Later on that night, with full bellies and tired eyes, Natsu wanted to give Lucy a break and tried to get Nashi to sleep. Both were completely worn out, but Nashi was in one of her "too tired to sleep" moods. The poor kid was exhausted, but didn't understand that sleep would make her feel better. All she knew was that she was tired and didn't like it.
Natsu laid back in the armchair and started to rock her in his arms. Nashi started to become fussy and cried uncontrollably. Natsu tried his best to calm her down and put her to sleep, but his actions seemed to antagonize her more. Out of nowhere, she sneezed, producing a flame that would have scorched anyone else. Natsu looked at her warily. He and Lucy would definitely have to nip that potential fire hazard in the bud.
All of a sudden Nashi's right hand became engulfed in flames. She seemed enchanted by it, waving it around, following the warm light with her eyes. Natsu was just as mesmerized, but for a different reason. Their accidental fire insurance was already at a premium without factoring their little uninhibited firebug.
Excitedly, Nashi waved the fire at Natsu's face, wanting him to see it up close. Luckily he grabbed her little hand before she could smack him in the face with it.
"Nice try you little scamp," he said, all burnt out.
Undeterred, Nashi's left hand also became engulfed in flames. She punched him in his cheek, leaving a hint of soot on his face. Natsu grumbled. This task was seemingly impossible. He decided it was time to call his wife.
"Lucy!" he whined. "Help!"
Lucy quickly came to help, but she was just as tired as Natsu. She also had a hard time calming Nashi down. None of their usual techniques for soothing her were working tonight. Both of them felt like they tried everything, but luckily Lucy knew someone who could possibly put the cranky baby to sleep.
"Open, gate of the harp constellation. Lyra!" she said.
Lyra appeared from her gate, happy as always to see Lucy.
"Lucy! I haven't seen you in so long!" Lyra said happily.
"Lyra, you think you could sing a lullaby to help get Nashi to sleep?" Lucy asked while bouncing a very fussy Nashi.
"Of course I can. I'm happy to help out with this little cutie pie. I know she'll love this song."
Lucy gently placed Nashi in her crib and tucked her under her blanket. She instantly started fussing, upset at no longer being held. Lyra began to sing beautifully as she always did.
'Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, Lavender's green
When you are King, dilly dilly, I shall be queen
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, Lavender's green
You must love me, dilly dilly, cause I love you
Who told you so, dilly dilly, Who told you so?
Twas my own heart, dilly dilly, That told me so
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, Lavender's green
When you are king, dilly dilly, I shall be queen'
Lyra's lovely voice was so soothing and calming, and soon, Nashi had stopped crying. Hearing her beautiful song she let out a little yawn, and her eyelids started to feel very heavy. Not too long after that she finally fell asleep. Lucy felt so relieved that her baby had finally settled down. She dared not to disturb her, though her angelic features were just begging to be hugged, she settled for a soft caress of her face and hair.
Looking up, she was about to thank Lyra when she glanced towards her husband. Seeing the amused look on her master's face, Lyra followed her gaze and stifled a giggled. It seems her song might have worked too well because Natsu and Happy had fallen asleep on the floor. They couldn't help but giggle at them.
"Lyra, thank you so much" Lucy whispered.
"Oh it's no problem. I'm always happy to help. Especially with this sweet little angel." she said quietly as she gazed at the sleeping baby.
Lyra went back to the Celestial spirit world. Lucy gently shook Natsu to wake him up.
Natsu wearily pulled himself up, looked over her crib and sighed. "Thank God, she's finally asleep," he said exhaustingly.
Once they got into their bedroom, Lucy put a sleeping Happy in his cat bed and Natsu had collapsed as soon as he got into their bed. "Man, I am beat," he groaned.
"So am I," Lucy said as she climbed into bed.
"As if parenting wasn't already hard enough." he whined.
"Well, no one said it was going to be easy."
"I know."
"You know, Nashi really takes after you," Lucy teased. "She's easily excitable and doesn't know when to quit."
"No way, I think she's more like you. She definitely knows how to get what she wants. As loudly and persistently as she can." Natsu replied.
Lucy pouted, but couldn't fight her smile for long. They both laughed at each other, then stared lovingly into each other's eyes and leaned towards each other to kiss. But they were both so tired, they passed out just as their lips met.
Just before the crack of dawn after almost three whole days of searching Magnolia and turning up empty handed the Orion cult had arrived at Dragneel's home in the forest.
"That's got to be the right house," said Claudius as he put his book on the Fairy Tail guild back in his satchel.
"What do we do now my lord?" asked Sidero.
"Take this" he replied as he handed her a special ocarina "You, Cassius and Lucianus use this on the parents. The song this ocarina plays will put anyone within ten feet into a slumber so deep that they will almost appear dead. Just blow into it. Once they hear its melody it will be near impossible to fight off. When they are asleep come back outside as these ear plugs will only work once on the ocarina."
"What about the rest of us?" added Iago.
"The rest of us will retrieve the Tengoku Wizard. Now let's move".
"Yes sir" they all said as quietly as possible.
Claudius, Horatio, and Iago went to search for Nashi on one side of the house. On the other side, Sidero shot a grappling hook onto a branch of the tree inside their house. One they got a good grip on it they climbed up onto the roof and plugged their ears so they couldn't hear the sound of the ocarina. Once they were ready they began to climb into their home through one of the sides of the hole where the branch stuck out. But Natsu heard the sound of their footsteps scurrying across the roof and woke up immediately. He knew something was very wrong. He turned to Lucy and began to gently shake her awake.
"Lucy. Lucy, wake up" he said quietly.
"Not tonight…I'm tired," she replied.
"Lucy," he said again, this time shaking her harder.
"Natsu! Let me sleep!" she said in annoyance as she turned around. Natsu just continued to shake her harder and harder, quietly telling her to wake up till she was finally up. Lucy wiped her eyes and wondered what was so important "Alright alright I'm awake, what-"
Natsu quickly covered her mouth and shushed her. Happy slowly started to wake up as well. Both of them heard the pitter patter of footsteps enter their home and knew who was inside. Lucy grabbed her gate keys off the nightstand. All three became extremely concerned for Nashi and dashed out of the bedroom.
"My, aren't you two such light sleepers?" said Sidero hanging off the tree branch.
Cassius and Lucianus jumped down from the rafters and tried to attack Natsu and Lucy. They tried to fight them off and protect Nashi.
"Fire dragon-" shouted Natsu.
"Open gate of the-" shouted Lucy.
Sidero blew into the ocarina and it's melody echoed throughout the room. Natsu, Lucy and Happy became very sleepy. Happy immediately collapsed on the floor. Lucy tried her best to summon one of her spirits but the spell made her beyond tired and collapsed as well. Natsu tried his best to fight it off but his fire went out and he started punching thin air trying to fight off the sleep spell but fell onto the floor hard. They were all out cold in a matter of seconds.
While Sidero, Cassius and Lucianus were busy taking out Natsu, Lucy, and Happy, the rest of them searched around the house to find Nashi's bedroom. Once they found the right room Iago pulled out a glass cutter and began to quietly cut a hole in Nashi's bedroom window. When he made a big enough hole he took the glass out with a suction cup and they all snuck in. Carefully walking over to her crib Claudius looked at Nashi sleeping so soundly. Claudius had not realized that the Tengoku wizard was just a baby. Horatio saw how peaceful Nashi looked and didn't want to take her.
"I don't think we should do this," he said softly and reluctantly.
"Shut up you insolent coward" Claudius angrily whispered to him. "I'll have to put an age spell on her. May God have mercy on my immortal soul,".
Claudius tried to pick Nashi up from her crib and she woke up then started to cry. She was scared to death. She cried so much that a light blue aura surrounded her and she rose into the air. Claudius After that Sagitarius appeared in her room.
"At your service Lady Nashi" Sagittarius said with a salute. He was not at all happy to see that Lucy's daughter was being kidnapped. "Back away from that child at once!" he shouted angrily while preparing to fire his arrows.
Claudius quickly pulled out another ocarina from his satchel, he blew into it and it played the same tune used on Natsu, Lucy and Happy. Once Nashi heard the music she became weak and started to gently float back down. Nashi falling asleep meant that she couldn't keep Saggitaruis's gate open much longer. Claudius quickly grabbed her but Sagittarius fired one of his arrows which directly hit Claudius's arm, leaving a wound dripping blood everywhere. Claudius then busted right through the window with the rest of the cult following right behind him.
"I'm so sorry. Lady Nashi", Sagittarius said apologetically as he watched them take her as his gate closed