He opened his eyes slowly. He breathed the sweet aroma of his home and smiled contentedly. This was the best. After 1 month of being away, he was finally home. Finally able to relax in his home. If only Lucy was here with him. He missed her dearly. He remembered that they had a lachrima. Oh but he didn't knew if Lucy had a portable one with her. He had broken his on his last mission. Master would be very displeased and he shivered a bit at that thought. He gyrated his body on his double bed until he saw the clock in the nightstand. Nearly 5 pm. He had to get up. Grunting he stood and put his slippers on. He passed by Happy's room and saw that two little exceed, one rose and the other baby blue were by his side sleeping along with him. He smiled and kissed gently the three of them. It warmed his soul to see his best friend so happy alongside his family. He had such a big family inside the Fairy Tail family. He put on a new cape that found on his wardrobe and some new black and red pants alongside his sandals.

One of the benefits of being married was that he always found cleaned clothes. Lucy always bought new outfits for him and chanted them with cool magic. He looked in the mirror and saw how much he had changed over the years. He was 38 now but Lucy always told him with a bit of jealousy that he looked like 25, yet his masculinity had shown big time. He had let a bit of beard now, which Lucy trimmed for him. It was pink like his hair. His hair was a bit longer then when he was younger because Lucy actually liked this way. She was always bragging to the other girls and women in the guild that she had married the sexiest man out of all of them. Only Juvia bickered with her because the others couldn't do much. He had let Lucy do what she wanted with his appearance, while the other males had too much pride to do so. He put some of the cream Lucy had bought him and he felt the mint aroma and the soft fresh feeling in his face. It was an anti-aging cream and he had promised her he would use it. He fixed his hair and left a note for Happy to make him know where he was.

The path to the guild was now made out of cobblestone because Lucy had enough of the dirt so a few years ago with the help of his children they made it this way. He walked in a relaxed pace hearing the nature around him. It always calmed him to be able to relax his senses to the wildness that was the nature. Birds chirping, insects of different types making their own sound, some bear or small animal here and there, the wind whistling through the leaves and some water gurgling. As he neared the city the sounds quickly changed and the smell too. He liked the sound of the city too. The people walking and talking, some shouting here and there, laughter and bickering. All kind of chaotic sounds and mixed perfumes but all in all, very lively, and he liked it this way. Peace was everywhere in this chaotic dance that was the city. He was just some meters away from the guild and a familiar scent hit him .

"Uncle Natsu, uncle Natsu!" a small brown haired boy assaulted him. He smiled and picked him up.

"Yo Ben, how are you my little boy?" he asked. The boy smiled and his blue eyes sparkled.

"You are finally home, you promised me we will go fishing!" he said excited. Natsu smiled as he put him down and ruffled his hair.

"Of course some of these day we will sure go. Me you and Happy if you want. What do you say?" he asked and the boy's eyes sparkled.

"I'm all fired up!" the little boy said mimicking himself which made him smile widely.

"So are your moms in the guild?" asked Natsu. The boy nodded.

"Yes mama Wendy is inside because she had to talk with aunty Mira about something and mama Chelia is helping the old hag with some medicine." He snorted as the boy called Poluscya old had. Good boy he thought. He took his hand and moved toward the entrance. He pushed the doors and yelled.

"I'm back!" with his free fist in the air. As soon as the guild members heard him, some of them cheered while others just smiled.

"Yo, it's good to have you back!" told him Elfman who now was just some centimeters higher than him. "Hey Natsu, is Frosty still alive?" asked a raven head with spiky hairs and some piercing in his face. But his eyes were a warm brown.

"You bet Gale!" he answered. "He is my apprentice after all!" to this some of the mages rolled their eyes. He scanned the guild and was surprised to see that almost of his oldest friends were missing. He could spot just Mira behind the bar, Elfman, Bickslow , Max ,Jet and Droy and Romeo. Who greeted him and by his side his wife which was a lovely dark haired girl that he had saved a long time ago. Macao and Wakaba had retired but kept around the guild checking out the "new flesh" like they liked to talk about the new girls in the guild. He spotted some of the new generation. There was Raikiri which was the spitting image of his father Laxus but with his blue eyes that was a gift from the she devil. On contrary he was really a sweetheart boy and every one had a soft spot for him because he was very shy and sensitive but they knew how much power he hidden behind all of that. Natsu patted his shoulder softly to which he responded smiling.

"Aren't you taking a job, it seems like everyone is busy with something." He said to Raikiri.

"Well yes but I thought of helping mom since aunt Lissana went to a job with Kinana and Emma (Gajeel and Levy's daughter)."

"Ah I see." He quickly scanned the room but was unable to find his younger son and quickly tsk-ed. I bet he would be hiding now he thought. At this point two warm hands circled him from behind and a small face was at his back sniffing him. He groaned loudly at who the girl was. "Nova can you release me, every one is watching and how did you hide your scent?" he asked annoyed now.

Said girl released and was facing him now. She was proclaimed to be the most beautiful girl in the guild and had won Fairy Tail's queen of last year (which Natsu had refused to accept saying that they had cheated and Nashi deserved it. A small fight had started but Nova remained the winner nonetheless) Who was Nova? Of course the daughter of Laxus and Mirjane Dreyar. She had beautiful blonde hair and warming blue eyes. Her figure was one of the best. She had had a crush on Natsu by the age of seven and everyone thought it was cute at that time. But here we are ten years later and she resembled the old water mage, which frustrated Natsu to no end. He cared about her but sometimes she went overboard.

"I missed you Natsu!" she said hugging him closely and she could feel that she was trying to make him feel her supple boobs. Natsu sighed as some of the men cheered. Laxus would skin him alive but what could he do. He pried her off of him easily using his superior strength and making her yelp a bit. She wobbled her lips cutely like she was starting to cry, but he knew it was all an act.

"Look Nova I don't have time for this, I really need to talk to master as soon as possible." He said to her and passed past her.

"When are you going to take me on a date?" she asked keeping a pace with him. He made a face of displeasure. "Please Natsu just a date. Make reality a small dream of a little girl" she said.

"I'm a married man and my daughter is your age, what do you think you are doing anyway?" he asked. This conversation was done time and time again and he already knew what she was going to say.

"If it's age your problem, I'll love you till the end of times. You just have to love me back."

"Ohhh" he grunted. He wasn't in the mood to start again an argument with the little obnoxious girl. He knew how Gray must have felt those old times and felt sympathy for him at some point. He finally was face to face with the bartender and a beautiful blue haired girl which he considered his small sister. "Mira please save me, your daughter is insane!" he said when Nova had grabbed his left hand with both of her hands and squeezing her boobs to it. Mira smiled but than her eyes became more menancing.

"Nova, sweetheart do you want me to tell aunty Lucy that you had been a bad girl like last time or will you be a good girl who knows your place?" she asked gently but made Nova and Natsu flinch nonetheless. Nova hesitantly released and pouted. She turned her head to Natsu and waved him a dramatic goodbay.

"I'm sorry my beloved but it seems that I need to go, don't forget my offer still remains!" she winked at him and slowly walked to where her white haired cousin was. Natsu sighed a relief and groaned just a bit. Wendy who was beside him giggled and touched his shoulder slightly. The action brought his smile again.

"Yo Wendy, long time no see eh!" he said excitedly at her. She smiled at him. Now she was more rounder and her height was the same as the other girls of Fairy Tail and she had a more motherly figure.

"Yep, Natsu-san it certainly had been quite some time. I came back to Fairy Tail two days ago and I'm glad you are here now" she said to him. He ruffled her hair and smiled.

"I met Ben just outside the building. We decided to go fishing some of these days. How is life treating you?" he asked to her.

"Well being an ambassador for your guild is a bit tiring, we have to journey a lot. It's a bit more tiring for the little one as well but he never says anything. He really is an angel that made mine and Chelia's life better." Natsu smiled at the fondness he found in her eyes mentioning of the pinkette god slayer. Years ago everyone in the guild thought that the two younger ones of Fairy Tail would finally be together and settle down, but were they wrong! Natsu knew that Romeo felt strong about his 'sister' but he also knew that Wendy had someone else in her heart at that time. When Romeo confessed, she felt ashamed of rejecting him and really felt no chance of winning her own love battle so she halfheartedly accepted. Everyone cheered but him. That night when he was in bed with a pregnant Lucy, he discussed about his worries. Lucy was a bit surprised and when she asked who he thought was the one Wendy loved, she had an 'I'm such an idiot for not seeing it until now' reaction. She told him that he had to speak with Wendy about the situation and make her change her mind. He accepted half heartedly because knew that he and Gajeel were closest to her but knowing that Gajeel would be a little brash about this things. The next day he confronted Wendy before she entered the guild. He told her about his suspicious, earning some wide eyes and some effort to deny it but soon she was sobbing in to his chest and it broke him seeing, her like that. He made a pact with her. She would speak to Chelia and he would speak to Romeo. She accepted saying that she would speak to Romeo afterword as well. That day she parted for Lamia Scale leaving a surprised Romeo behind. Natsu offered a fishing day to tell him the truth. By the end of the conversation, Romeo was running with tears in his eyes and a broken heart, but Natsu couldn't do anything about it.

Two weeks later, Wendy came back and no one knew how things went. When Natsu saw her eyes, he knew that after that seriousness she showed as a façade, there was some peace and tranquility, which made him sigh in relief. At least one of them found happiness he thought. Wendy confronted Romeo and said that she was mortified by her actions. Romeo saw that this was what she really wanted and smiled kissing her cheek slightly and asking her to be happy. Everyone knew that he still was brokenhearted but he had grown to become a real man. Wendy felt really bad but as time went on, Romeo moved on and Wendy would often visit Lamia Scale or a small pinkette girl would come to their guild and hang out with them. The rest was history. After they got together, 7 years ago they found in a mission a little abandoned baby. The village was destroyed by a strange creature and the only survivor was the little brown haired boy that was found in his dead mother embrace. Wendy was the one that helped the boy and soon she became attached to him. After some work from the master, they made the formal letters and adopted the young boy naming him Ben.

"Natsu, it's good to have you here but master is waiting for you urgently in his office upside" Said Mira interrupting his memories. He became serious at the statement and nodded to her. He turned to Wendy once again.

"Well I'm sorry Wen but I have to go. Will you come to my house for the night, the children and Carla would be really happy, and I know how much Ben loves Ares, beside we can really use your cooking because Luce is on a mission these days." He said. Wendy's eyes sparkled.

"Of course. I'll contact Chelia to get some clothes on the way from Poluscya and we'll head your home." He nodded and excused himself.

"Natsu don't forget that tomorrow we have a party ,celebrating Esmeralda's birthday. Since most of the members are missing you have to help with chores and shopping" said the she devil to him while he was already leaving. He grunted but waved a positive answer. He climbed the wooden stairs and pushed the office door open but was surprised to find no one there but a lachrima on the desk. As soon as he approached it the lachrima turned on and a figure appeared on it.

"You took your god damn time reaching me" said the master to him. He scratched the back of his head nervously and started sweating a little bit.

"Sorry about it master Erza" he said to the red haired woman in front of him. Erza tsk-ed him and returned serious now.

"Was the mission successful?" she asked the central question.

"The primary mission was successful, but the undercover one not so much" he said and her eyes fell a bit in concern. "But I found some interesting information to say the least. I don't know if would be helpful though." He added. She had full eyes on him now.

"Tell me whatever you have" he closed his eyes focusing on the memories.

"The attack from last month was not induced by external forces. The attacker had to be inside the sphere of the explosion. When I scanned the debris I found nothing, though the strange thing is that the field was as flat as it could be, like it was made out precisely that way. No explosion should be that regular. Apart from that I found nothing of interest. No surviving witnesses what so ever, an entire village destroyed like it never existed." He said a bit angrily. Erza sighed.

"This might be helpful but how did you found that the explosion required the person to be inside?" asked curious Erza.

"There were signs of an unilateral barrier that cant be accessed by outside so in order to detonate whatever magic was inside the caster had to be inside. The signs left in the border of the explosion were really dim to understand but my heightened senses caught the difference between the normal barrier."

"I see. Thanks Natsu as always you are really good at this." Said Erza grateful that had sent him in this undercover mission.

"The others are on the same case I suppose." Said Natsu referring to the elite mages that were missing. She nodded slightly. "Are they doing any better?" he asked her.

"Not really, beside Laxus and Gajeel haven't contacted in two weeks. Gray returned a week ago and he just found some other ancient language on the inside of the crater. Levy, Freed and Lucy are trying to decipher on their own but the council now had requested Levy and Lucy on some other translation that I think have to do with the Bomber but they are sowing us down. If this happen again this month, the council will decide on extraordinary circumstances and try to create protective shields across the country. As to how they will do it is a mystery. I'll contact Makarov and see if he has a lead." She said to Natsu.

"Where are you know?" he asked her seeing that she was not alone.

"Well the guild masters are having a conference and meeting to decide the course of action seeing the dramatic situation. I wont be back in two days." She said sadly.

"You wont be present for your daughter's birthday?" he asked bewildered. A tick appeared on her forehead and she yelled.

"Being master has its own responsibilities and the situation requires some sacrifice and beside Jellal will be present instead of me. I really wanted to be there , but what can I do?" she said almost in the verge of crying making Natsu panic.

"Hey, hey now. Don't worry I know that Ralda will understand. And she will have Fairy Tail here so we will give her the best of birthday party!" he exclaimed making Erza smile slighty.

"Thanks Natsu! It means a lot to know that I have such a caring family." Said Erza and Natsu grinned at her.

"Of course always. Have fun with the geezers there." He said ready to end the call. Erza changed once again to her serious stance.

"Wait a minute. I will take 2 milions jewels from this month's worth of destruction." She said making Natsu wide his eyes in fear. "And Lucy asked me to make you call her as soon you were home. She was expecting you to be here 2 weeks ago, like the rest of us of course. What happened to your lachrima?" she asked in a demanding tone. Natsu sweatdropped.

"It was broken during our mission with Storm-"

"Ye, ye ye. I don't want to hear your excuses , make sure it doesn't happen again or I'll have your skin as my carpet" with that the line went off. Natsu sighed. Then he remembered what the scary red head said to him moments ago. Navigating through the lachrima he finally found the name he wanted and clicked it. It started to beep making him know that the line was clear. Two moments later a figure appeared before him.

"Yes Erza, I was just about… Natsu, is that you?!" asked a blonde woman excited now.

"Hey babe how are you doing?" he asked her grinning. She smiled tenderly at him and his pulse quickened.

"Oh my god I missed you so much. How are you?" she asked him concerned. He huffed in annoyance for her to even be worried about him.

"I'm fine really, just that this mission took more than what we estimated firstly" he said to her.

"Thank mavis" she said sighing in relief. "Hey what the hell happened to your lachrima I called you for the past two weeks?" she asked now irritated.

"It broke during an ambush. I wasn't careful enough, sorry.!" He said sheepishly. She just smiled and giggled at his antics.

"Well I'm just content that you are alright and home. I really missed you!" she said and it made him lose all of his power to see her upset.

"I missed you to so much, even now. When are you coming home?" he asked impatiently. She smiled at him.

"Well I was originally thinking that it will take us at least some other days but me and Levy found a ne exploitation in the message and by tomorrow we will be done. I hope we can make it for the party tomorrow." She said excitedly. His eyes widened with disbelief.

"Really?! Oh babe, I'll be waiting for you. I want to kiss you so badly." He said and heard a gagging voice from the other side.

"You two are really so mushy even after all of this years." Said Levy but he couldn't see her in the lachrima.

"You are just jealous that you ang Metal fuck doesn't have the same thing!" said Natsu crossing his arms. He heard Levy laugh.

"We know better than to be like high schoolers at this age." He saw Lucy shake her head smiling slightly and knew Levy was messing up with him. "By the way more than you miss her I think you miss her little peach for your little Iggy" at that Levy's laughter burst out.

"Levy!" squeaked Lucy turning red now, while Natsu's eyes widened in disbelief.

"What the hell Lucy, why would you talk about those things with her, you know they are personal." Said Natsu feeling betrayed.

"I…-" before Lucy could continue Levy interrupted her again.

"Oh come on, the poor girl is bragging on years how animalistic you are in bed. She thought that fainting was normal during sex. Aahahhah" Levy was way beyond control ,probably drunk now and Lucy was mortified. He saw her clapping both hands behind the lachrima, to her friends mouth most likely and her face was panicking.

"Luuuucyyyyy!" Natsu said slowly. Lucy smiled a fake smile and waved a hand faster in front of the lachrima.

"I love you babe. Tell the guys I miss them and I'll be there tomorrow and goodbay!" she said while trying to click something on the lachrima. The connection went off and the last thing that he heard was Lucy calling to Levy menancingly. Why would Lucy talk about what they did in privacy when he thought they had a silent pact that whatever they did inside their bedroom rested there. He hoped she didn't talked too much. Things they did, well lets weren't always orthodoxical. He sighed now feeling a bit vulnerable. He turned away and left the office. As he descended the wooden stairs, picked up the familiar scent of his daughter. He found her sat in a table with Gray and Esmeralda while they were eating ice cream together. He quickly paced over to them and sat beside the red head girl which resembled more and more her mother.

"Yo!" he greeted them. Esmeralda smiled softly at him. He thanked the gods that both of the red haired monsters took their attitude from their father and not from his current master. Gray just grunted.

"It was about time you came back flame ass!" he told him earning an elbow from Nashi which was seated beside him and earning an ow.

"Yeah sorry for making you worry, but Storm was fine really!" he said and saw the relief in Gray's eyes even though he managed an opposite answer.

"I know he would be fine of course, I was more worried about you." He smirked but Natsu let it go.

"So Ralda tomorrow is the big day eh, you'll be 18! Do you feel more responsible?" he asked facing the girl which smiled softly.

"Not really uncle Nats, mom would always be worrying no matter what she wouldn't let me make important decisions" she said a bit frustrated which made Natsu frown a bit. He knew that Erza was a bit obnoxious when it came to her children. She would over worry and never let them do something dangerous, taking half of their fun. Only when she was away they were more relaxed and that was the motive that they were more attached to their father.

"Hey now, I know your mom is a bit hmm… let's say controlling" "and scary" added Gray "and forceful" said Natsu "and strict" "and harsh" "and obnocioux-"

"Dad!" cut Nashi him off. He looked at Esmeralda bit she was just giggling.

"Well you know, but you two with Xavier are the most important things in her life. She loves more than anything and would sacrifice herself for you without thinking." He said to her. She smiled sadly just a bit.

"I know that uncle, but she need to know that we want to live our life as well and even if we make mistakes it will be good for us. Sometimes is really difficult to make an argument with how overwhelming she is."

"Well I think it's time for you two to confront her for good and make her know how you two feel about this." Said Natsu which earned a wide eyed girl.

"You think so uncle? I don't want to hurt her feelings, you know how sensitive she could be at times" said Esmeralda.

"We know but if you tell her how to change towards you and guide her I think it will the best" answered Gray instead of Natsu. Esmeralda nodded.

"Thanks!" she said and got up to talk to Mira. Nashi got up and circled the table and pecked her father in the cheek.

"I have the best father in the world" she said playing with his hair.

"Obviously!" grinned Natsu like an idiot making Gray roll his eyes as he sipped from his drink annoyingly.

"Soooooo…" said Nashi and Natsu tensed already knowing it wasn't something good.

"If it's money…"

"No its not that" she cut him off.

"Dangerous mission…"

"Not that either."

"A vacation trip…"

"No no" she said.

"Then what is it?" he asked surrendering now.

"Well…you know about the party tomorrow…." He suddenly smiled. While Gray was smirking already knowing something he didn't.

"Of course we will make it a blast, you'll see" he said excitedly.

"Well not that party the after party at this new club Magnus!" she said a little bit faster.

"What?!" exclaimed Natsu while Happy with his two little exceed, Tom and Rosy landed on top of his head and the other two in his shoulders calmly. "You wont party tomorrow in the guild?" asked him really confused and almost hurt. Nashi rolled her eyes and pleadingly she said.

"Dad its not like that. We will party together with our family but after that we decided to head out to this new mega club that everyone is talking about." She said to him. Natsu crossed his arms and started to augh like a maniac making Nashi sweat drop. As he finally finished his dramatic act he said.

"No!" and sipped from Gray's drink which made a hey but was ignored.

"Why not?" asked Nashi and it resembled more Lucy in a way.

"I'm not letting you in a club with strangers and uncontrollable dangerous situation. And what happened to the singing duo contest we have on any party?" he said. Nashi rolled her eyes once again.

"Oh come on, the only other duo for this party is Mira and Raikiri seeing as most of Fairy Tail is missing. Please dad it's not just me that is going, the whole group is going." She said trying to convince him.

"Even your brothers?" he asked. To which she smiled slightly.

"Yep!" she said and his decision wavered a little bit, seeing as she had protection at least.

"You know I don't like those stupid clubs full of horny guys, what if they try to grope you or drug you or worst…"

"Oh please daddy, I have my nose and heightened senses. I promise I'll be with the girl's group, Emma, Ralda, Nova etc. and we just want to dance and have a little bit of fun. They have this cool show and crazy music it's fantastic. We are in the second millennial after all." Natsu groaned not really happy about the situation.

"I don't know…" he said.

"Oh come on fire breath, give her some slack, I think she would be fine. After all she is my apprentice." To this Natsu became furious and agitating his fist in air said.

"Yeah but we are talking about my daughter here and dangerous horny teens, are you fine with your daughter doing the same?" he asked. Gray smirked victoriously.

"Ha ha ha. Yuki isn't going of course. She doesn't like this kind of-" before Gray could finish the sentence he felt a strong grip in his shoulder and knew who the person was which made him grunt. Natsu saw the developing now curious.

"Actually old man, since I'm going and Yu had never been in a club before, I thought of bringing her with me and she said yes." Said a half orange half pink haired boy with brown eyes. Natsu smirked seeing the boiling face of his frienemy and Gray froze his fist already trying to hit the boy behind him. Ares used his teleportation magic and was already outside the guild. Gray stood up now furious.

"I'm going to kill him" he roared, before directing to Natsu who was unmoved. "I'm going to kill your son" he said angrily. Natsu just smirked crossing his arms and indifferently said.

"Good luck!" with that Gray was running after the younger Dragneel even if he hadn't a clue where to.

"So what you say dad?" asked Nashi with her 'Lucy' eyes which never worked for him but he couldn't upset his little daughter.

"No men, no drinking, no exaggerated dresses and I'll pick you up when you finish personally." He said and saw her doing a celebratory dance.

"Thanks dad!" she said and pecked him again on the cheek.

"Is Markus coming?" he asked curiously. To this she shot her eyes suspiciously.

"He is in a solo mission, yet again" she said a bit annoyed. "And why would I care if he comes or not?" she asked him raising an eyebrow. Natsu shrugged.

"Just saying." Nashi finally jogged away happily most likely telling the other girls about the good news. Natsu sighed again. She wasn't ready to let go of her so early. When did she become so big. He thought sadly.

"Hey she isn't going to be married!" said Happy from above of his head sensing his thoughts.

"Yes I know but still." His thoughts strangely drifted to a boy which now was located hundred of kilometers away in a desert of ice.

To be continued…

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This is chapter two. Sorry for bad grammar but English is not my first language. I'm trying to find a beta reader without success. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and if you want more review please!