Epilogue

Months later, it was time for Adryn to give birth. At first, Adryn was calm and collected. The pain wasn't too serious and she was handling it well. It was just her, Laxus and a few doctors in the room. The doctors were hopeful that everything would go well. That was until Adryn was hit with a particularly painful contraction. One after another, the pain kept coming in waves and it progressively got worse. It got worse and worse until Adryn was screaming at everyone and no one in particular.

"You need to remain calm Adryn, everything will be alright." One of the doctors told the screaming and now panicking girl.

"Get this thing out of me!" Adryn yelled at the doctors around her. She was holding onto Laxus' hand tightly and nearly squeezing the blood out of his hand.

"Adryn, you are breaking my hand," Laxus muttered a little nervously to the girl. She just snapped her head towards him and growled at him.

"I'm giving birth to your child! I think I'm worse off than your hand!"

"You're right..." Laxus just tried his hardest to remain calm in face of Adryn's freaking out.

"You're almost ready to start pushing. Alright, Adryn? Just hold on and keep breathing." Another doctor spoke to the girl. She was now screaming incoherently again and wasn't really listening to the doctors. After a few more minutes of screaming, the doctors gave Adryn the go-ahead to start pushing. After that, everything seemed to go incredibly quickly. Adryn was able to get the baby out without any complications.

"It's a boy!" The doctors informed the girl who was now relaxing a bit. Adryn and Laxus looked at each other and smiled. They were surprised to hear that, considering they didn't know what the gender as before then. However, it was more shocking that Serenity had guessed it right. Well more than guessed it, Serenity had known that Adryn was going to have a baby boy. Even so, they'd already picked out a name for a boy and a girl. Now, it seemed that the boy name was coming into play. Not that they weren't happy about it. If anything, Adryn was relieved.

"When can I hold my baby?" Adryn questioned, having that being the only thing in her mind at that moment in time.

"We'll get him cleaned up and get you all cleaned up and then you can hold him, alright? We need to make sure everything is alright with you and the baby." One of the doctors spoke up as he set the baby in something. Adryn frowned but nodded her head. Laxus wanted to see the baby up close, but he ultimately decided to remain by Adryn's side while they were finishing up everything.

"How are you feeling?" Laxus asked his wife as she kept her eyes on where her baby boy was.

"I feel like I could sleep for 8 years, but I want to wait until I see our son," Adryn responded simply as she watched the doctors deal with checking out the baby to make sure everything was alright with him. As some of the doctors were dealing with the baby, others dealt with Adryn and got her all ready and checked her over as well. Once both mother and child were deemed alright and healthy, the doctors handed the baby to Adryn first. "Oh my... Look at him Laxus, he's... he's amazing!" Adryn was moved to tears at holding her child for the first time.

"We'll leave you to meeting your baby, and we'll let everyone know that they can come in." A doctor stated as they all packed up their things and began to leave the room.

"Thank you!" Adryn called out after them as they left. She was so very thankful for all their help and, well you know, the whole helping her with the birth situation. That was nice as well.

"He's beautiful." Laxus found himself saying as he leaned over to look at his son. The baby had a little bunch of blond hair the same color as Laxus'. Adryn secretly hoped that he'd have her eyes though, as currently, they were blue. Before Laxus or Adryn could speak again, people came pouring into the room. First was Master Makarov, who'd shoved people out of the way to get in first. Then the Thunder Legion came in with Serenity in tow. She was holding onto Freed's hand in fact.

"Mother? Is everything alright?" Serenity questioned as she looked up to her still crying mom.

"Everything is more than alright. Come here." Adryn responded as she motioned for Serenity to come closer. Freed then helped the little girl sit up on the bed Adryn was laying on. "Look, this is your baby brother. You were right."

"Of course I was right." Serenity stated with a smile on her face as she leaned over towards the baby. "So, what is his name?"

"Yes, what is his name?" Master Makarov questioned the couple. Adryn looked to Laxus with a smile on her face.

"Tell them," Adryn told Laxus as she looked back to her baby.

"We've decided to name him Makarov, but we'll call him Rov for short," Laxus explained, causing his grandfather to nearly fall over in surprise.

"You don't have to do that, you know that right?" Master Makarov instantly said once he recovered.

"We aren't naming him after you because we felt like we had to. We're naming him after you because we felt like there was no better name than yours to name him." Adryn explained with a huge smile on her face.

"Well... thank you then..." Master Makarov was getting all blubbery about it and tears were welling up in his eyes.

"Oh come on, why couldn't you name him after me?" Bickslow questioned, with his babies repeating "After me!" a couple of times. Adryn just began to laugh in response to that which caused the others to chuckle as well. Adryn was so glad to be surrounded by people she cared about, but she was missing 2 people and hoped she'd hear from them soon.

~

About a week later, Adryn's hopes were answered in the form of a letter arriving for her at the guildhall. It was a black envelope with lavender paper inside of it. The lettering was black, of course. That caused Adryn to realize that it was from Eclipse, without even reading who it was from. She, however, checked the name on the envelope and saw that it was indeed from Eclipse.

The letter stated:
'Hey Adryn, it's been a long while. I hope everything is alright with you and the baby. I'm assuming that the baby has been born by now. I'm excited to hear what it is and the name of the child. I hope you write me back letting me know.

Nova and I are at the end of Fiore and have set up a little home here. It's a nice 2 bedroom home in the making. It was just a little shack, but we're turning it into a proper home. It's beautiful where we are. Maybe I'll paint it and send it to you so you can see how beautiful it is here.

OH! You'll never guess what! The guy from your pre-wedding party, Dracul, he's here as well! We ran into each other on our way to this town and we decided to stick together. He'll be staying in another part of the town permanently for my sake. We hit it off well again and we're actually dating now. We're going slowly though since you know, this is my first ever relationship.

Nova has also found love in the form of Dracul's younger sister who came to visit him a little while ago. She is about Nova's age and is very beautiful. She looks nothing like you, so don't worry, she isn't trying to live out the old days through this new girl. Oh, her name is Aria.

Anyway, once we get everything fully set up here, we'll all come by and visit the baby and you. I hope to hear from you soon telling me all about the baby and how your life has been going so far. I love you Adryn. You're still my best friend. No matter how far apart we are.

Love, Eclipse'

Reading the letter nearly brought Adryn to tears. She was so thrilled to hear from Eclipse. Adryn was extremely happy to hear that Eclipse had found Dracul again and that Nova even found someone new to love. It was even more amazing to hear that they would soon visit her and the new baby. So with a lot of writing ideas in mind, Adryn asked for some paper and some writing utensils and began to write a letter back to Eclipse.

Adryn's letter stated:
'Hey Eclipse! It's so great to finally hear from you after all this time. I was beginning to worry about you and Nova, but I guess I had nothing to worry about as it seems like things are going great for you two! I'm so happy for the two of you. I never thought you'd find Dracul so easily and I never thought that he'd lead Nova to having someone new to love. It's just so great to hear that.

To answer your wonders about my baby... His name is Makarov, but we call him Rov so no one gets confused or anything. He is happy and healthy. Serenity is thrilled to have a baby brother and I'm sure that Laxus is also thrilled to have a mini him. I wanted Rov to have my eyes, but it seems like they will be Laxus' eye color instead. Not that I'm complaining or anything! I just wanted to see something of me in my son, but I'm sure he'll have my personality... Oh, I sure hope not. I hope he'll be a perfect mix of Laxus and myself. However, no matter how he turns out, he'll be perfect.

Oh gosh, I just went on and on about Rov, sorry about that. Anyway, I'm just so happy to hear all about your new lives and I can't wait until you all come here again. I'm super excited to officially meet yours and Nova's lovers, even though I already met Dracul, but it's different now that he's your lover. I'll be waiting for your next letter or for whenever you decide to show up. I love you too, Eclipse. Never forget that. No matter what we've been through, you've always been my very best friend and you always will be.

Sincerely, Adryn'

Once Adryn was done writing and was happy with how it turned out, she asked Mirajane to make sure it got to where it was supposed to go. After that, Adryn left for home. She'd only shown up at the guildhall for the letter. Adryn, Laxus, and Serenity, along with Rov hadn't been to the guildhall all that week. They were spending time enjoying their life as a family. Of course, various people from the guild showed up at their home to visit with Rov and the others, but mostly the family was kept alone. They would eventually head back tot he guildhall with Rov once he was a little older and once everyone there could most definitely be calm around him, but for now, they'd stay at home and take turns heading to the guildhall and wherever else they wanted to go.

As Adryn walked into her home, she noticed Laxus standing next to the couch. As she got closer, she realized he was watching over Serenity who was holding Rov in her arms. Both of them were asleep. Laxus was hovering around them to make sure Rov wasn't dropped, but it seemed like Serenity had a death grip on the baby.

"Hey, how'd everything go?" Laxus asked Adryn once he noticed her presence.

"Oh, everything went well. I'll tell you all about the letter later, alright?" Adryn responded as she smiled and fully approached the couch to stand next to Laxus. "How are they doing?"

"They are getting along well. Serenity really loves Rov and I think he really loves her as well."

"That makes me happy." Adryn then leaned against Laxus and wrapped her arms around his arm. "You know, we're really lucky to end up with such a great family, our immediate family, and our guild family."

"Yeah." Laxus couldn't help but smile in response to Adryn's words.

"I'm... I'm so glad that things turned out this way and I hope the things to come are as great as they are at this moment in time."

"Yeah." Laxus couldn't think of any other response, prompting Adryn to laugh and look up to him. Laxus then leaned down and kissed Adryn, a simple kiss that honestly meant the world to Adryn. "I promise I will always be by your side and our children's sides, no matter what life throws our way." Laxus' words warned Adryn's heart and caused a bright smile to appear on her face.

"I promise that to you and our children as well. No matter what or who happens, I will always be by your sides." Adryn and Laxus shared another kiss, that would be one of many more to come in their lifetime together. They never thought a love like this could happen to two people thrown together, but now, they were so very happy that it did happen. They weren't just happy due to each other, they were happy because of all the people in their life and most of all, their children. They knew that nothing would stand in the way of their happiness now and they would make sure that nothing stood in the way of their children's happiness as well. There will still be hard times for them, but they knew that after everything they went through, nothing in the world, not even death would tear them apart.