Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks.
Scruff's POV
Ever since the guild disbanded and everyone left, Kanji and Erza mostly keep to themselves, they spend a good amount of time waiting for the baby to arrive. They prep things like its room and little clothes and other things it will need.
I've been trying to figure myself out. I'm supposed to be a knight and I was in charge of protecting Miss Wendy but she had to save me. In the end my Ringblade wound up split into two broken halves.
I was walking around town; I was looking for a blacksmith that could fix the blade.
"Hello?" I said walking into the shop.
"EHHH?" a large, muscular man with a full beard looked at me "What'd ya want?"
"I was wondering if you could fix this." I said flying up onto the counter and placing the ring shards down.
"I'm a blacksmith not a jeweler." The man said.
"This isn't just a ring." I explained "It used to be a growing Ringblade but it broke. I was hoping you might be able to fix it."
The man looked at it "You're defiantly missing a few pieces…and the crystal at the center is cracked, it's mostly unsalvageable. Sorry fur ball I can't help ya.'
"I see…" I sighed.
"Well, I can't restore it to a Ringblade, but I might be able to make something out of it." He said.
"Really?"
"You strike me as a serious swordsman cat." He nodded.
"Oh I am."
"I can tell by looking at these shards part of the reason the blade broke was that it went against a powerful broadsword of some kind." The blacksmith said.
"Uh huh." I nodded "Something like that."
"And the other is that it was poorly maintained." He frowned "If this is your blade you have to treat it with respect, just like a life."
"I see…I suppose I should have shown it more care."
"Well no better time to start than today." The man said wiping his hands off, he reached out "Name's Gerome."
"Scruff." I said shaking his finger.
"Well cat, let's get to work fixin' this blade."
For the next few months I worked with Gerome to fix the Ringblade. I stood next to the hot fires and tempered the blade, learning to care and treat it, and before long, my new weapon was crafted…
Kanji's POV
Shortly After the guild disbands.
"Night Babe." I said kissing Erza on the forehead.
"Goodnight." She smiled.
Erza fell asleep first and I drifted off not long after…
"AHHHH!"
Lucy…?
"Why…"
I was in a big pit of nothing. I walked around and came across a large tube, inside was Mira.
"Mira?" I was confused.
The tank filled with bubbles, there was sharp scream, and the tank emptied. Mira's body was different. It was her Satan-Soul, but it was cruder and more demonic.
"This is your fault!" it yelled "You did this to me!"
And then she was gone…
Mira?
Now I was in a stone room.
How did I get here.
The room was filled with the sounds of a cracking whip, and the rattling chains.
"GAHHH!"
On the other side was Kyouka, torturing Erza.
"See, he's not coming!" Kyouka laughed "You're feeling this because your husband can't do anything! This is his fault."
Again the room changed, and now I knew where I was.
"Plutogrim." I mumbled.
There was a crying noise filling the air. I saw Lucy in a crater, bawling her eyes out.
"WHY?!" she screamed "No one helped me!"
She sniffled and turned to me "If you weren't so weak, this wouldn't have happened to me, Aquarius would still be here…"
"It's your fault."
Suddenly the beaten Erza and the demon Mira appeared and grabbed me.
"This…"
"Is your fault."
"GAH!"
Lucy came up, reached into my chest.
"I'll be taking this as forgivness."
She was holding my heart in her hand.
"Make up for the life you took, die."
"AHHHHGGGHHH!"
"HA!" I gasped sitting up in bed.
"Kanji?" Erza stirred awake "Everything okay?"
"ha…ha…ha…" I panted "Umm…yeah just a bad dream I'll be fine.
But I wasn't every time I tried to sleep, that same dream or some slight variation on it would happen. At first it was no big deal, then a week passed, and then a month…and soon a it was almost half a year…an hour a night at most, sleep eluded me constantly.
I don't deserve to rest…I can't sleep…I'm too afraid of having to face them again…
A few Months later.
"Uhh…" I sighed.
"Still nothing?" Erza said.
"Nah…not even a wink." I mumbled.
I've tried everything to sleep, medicine, magic, nothing works I just wake up from that dream.
"This isn't good." Erza said sitting next to me "I need you at 100%, you work around town all day, and then train all night."
Over the last six months Erza had swelled up, being pregnant will do that to you. Her stomach is big and bulbous, pretty sure her boobs have gotten bigger too…not that I would know, a guy who's half asleep all day and a pregnant woman don't usually have the greatest love life.
My lack of sleep is starting to test Erza, I can see it in her eyes. She's worried…this dream, might end up killing our marriage.
"The baby is gonna be here before you know it." She said "Good luck getting sleep then."
"We're only weeks away." She said putting my hand on her stomach "She's kicking more and more."
We recently found out it was going to be a girl, we had started brainstorming names.
"I want to sleep Erza I really do…but I just can't."
I laid my head on her tummy and kissed it.
"I just…want to sleep."
I see how Midnight feels now…
A Few Weeks later.
"Stop standing there and help me you dolt!" Erza yelled "AHHH! It's here!"
"I'm going, you're not exactly a lightweight sweetheart."
"RAHHH!" she grabbed my arm and squeezed "Wanna try saying that again?!"
I carried Erza all the way to the hospital, they took her and got her set up in a room.
"Okay Erza it's time to start pushing."
"AAHHH!" I yelled as Erza grabbed my arm in an iron grip.
"GAAAAAHHH!" she screamed "You did this to me!"
"I'm sorry!" I cried.
Erza pushed for hours, she seemed to be in intense pain.
"Alright, this is the last push." The doctor said "Put everything into this."
"Ha…ha…hooo…" Erza took a deep breath "RAHHHH!"
"WAHHH!"
Erza's face calmed and the room was filled with a crying noise.
"Congratulations."
Erza took the little bundle "It's over…" she sighed.
"Hello." She made a cute face at the baby "Hi~"
"She'll need a name." a nurse said.
"Elise." Erza said "Her name is Elise Simona Dreyer."
A few days later.
"Oh she's just adorable!" Meredy squealed.
"So this is what human children look like…it is surprisingly bean shaped." Seilah said.
"What a great description." Her father sighed.
"I think she's just delightful." Sorano laughed.
"Yeah it's great and all…" I sighed "But can someone tell me why your whole guild is in my house!"
Crime Sorciere was lounging around my house for some reason.
"What we can't visit our friends?" Erik smirked.
"Since when are you and I friends." I mumbled.
"It has been some time." Richard smiled.
"Besides we wanted to see the child." Macbeth said looking at it.
"No we didn't those three did." Sawyer said pointing at the girl.
"You brutes don't understand anything." Sora pouted and put on a voice "She's just adowable."
"I do feel a strange sense of happiness from looking at the child." Seilah nodded.
"I see this is troublesome." Erza said from the other side of the room where she was talking to Jellal "I'll see what I can do."
"Erza it's not that big of a deal."
"No I can infiltrate it no problem."
"You'll do no such thing." I said standing up.
Jellal had come to talk to about a dark guild he was worried about getting out of control.
"You had a baby three weeks ago Erza. You're not going out, Ellie needs you."
We've been calling the baby Ellie for short.
"Well you can't go." She said "Not with your…problem."
"Still not sleeping Ehh?" Erik said.
"Can we not talk about this." I sighed "Let me make a few calls…"
And so, a few more months passed in relative quiet, before the world began to change.
?'s POV
"The time is drawing closer, I'll be seeing the three of your soon…My sweet babies."
AN
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