Chapter 15:

Igneel's Forgiveness

It was August 26 and Natsu was in Igneel's office whom he was he arguing with. Igneel yelled, "You invited Zeref?!"

"Yes, he is my brother and I forgave him for the trouble he has caused," Natsu replied and he glared at his father, "How did you even find out?"

"Your mother of course," Igneel told Natsu as he stared him down, "I don't know why she seemed to be perfectly fine with it."

"Maybe because she actually talked to Zeref and heard his story and forgave him," Natsu spoke and Igneel looked at his son in surprise, "If you would just talk to him. Dad, he just wants your forgiveness, but you have too much pride to give him even that! And you don't even realize that you unforgiveness has affected our family. There is a wedge between you and us kids because of how you treated Zeref."

"Natsu… I…," Igneel mumbled while looking away.

"If you still don't want to go to my wedding because my brother will be there then fine," Natsu told Igneel, "But before you make your final decision, I would like for you try to call Zeref and give him a chance. He really has change dad, please give him a chance."

"Natsu Dragneel…," Igneel said, pausing for a moment before he continued as kept averting his eyes from Natsu, "Fine, I will try to talk to Zeref but I make no promises that we'll patch things up."

"Thats all I ask dad," Natsu responded and he smiled up at his dad.

"Boys! We're back!," Grandeeney shouted as they walked in and Natsu ran to meet up with them at the door. Just when Natsu was ready to give Lucy to Lucy a hug, Juvia and Levy gasped and blocked his way.

"Oh no you don't!" Levy barked as Levy and Juvia grabbed Natsu by the arms and pulled him away from the front door.

"What," Natsu spoke in surprise as he looked at both girls in surprise while they dragged him away.

"Didn't anyone tell you, the groom can't see his bride's wedding dress before the wedding," Juvia told Natsu as she and Levy continued to drag him away.

"Yeah," Levy responded as they continued to move away from the door, "Its bad luck!"

"Oh come on!," Natsu shouted as Levy and Juvia finally dragged him into the kitchen while Lucy went upstairs with Grandeeney by her side. While Igneel watched the scene unfold, he couldn't help but laugh and smile at the memory of his own wedding.

It was a few days later and Igneel sat at his desk, staring at his letter from Zeref and the phone, he was trying to decide if he could really call Zeref. In the end, Igneel let out a sigh and he mumbled, "I guess there really isn't any harm in trying…"

Afterwards, Igneel picked up the phone and dialed Zeref's number, then it rang and rang until Igneel heard Zeref say, "Hello?"

"Hey, umm… Zeref… It's me, Igneel," Igneel spoke feeling very awkward.

"Oh, hi dad," Zeref replied in a stiff voice which made things feel more awkward.

"So umm.. Natsu is gonna get married," Igneel told Zeref trying to make things less awkward.

"Yeah, I know in October," Zeref responded.

"Okay, lets skip this awkward moment," Igneel said.

"Ok, so why did you call," Zeref asked.

"Natsu wants me to forgive you," Igneel answered.

"Yes, but do you want to forgive me," Zeref asked and everything went silent for several minutes.

The Igneel sighed and said, "I honesty don't know."

"Alright Dad," Zeref spoke in a calm voice, "Let me apologize. I know I really screwed things up when you were ready to hand down the business I acted selfishly and you saw I was not able to handle the business. And when you decided to give the business to Natsu and not me, I acted out and hurt everyone close me. That would included you and mom and for all that I am so sorry… Dad, I really am sorry."

For the next several minutes everything was quiet until Igneel finally took a deep breath and let out a heavy sigh. "Zeref, I'm sorry too," Igneel replied as he rubbed the back of his head, "I should have explained and talked to you one on one about what was going on with the company and why I had to give it to Natsu and not you. Outside you're selfishness, you had not prepared yourself to take over the way Natsu had, and you were no way ready to run your business."

"I understand," Zeref responded, "Does this mean that you forgive me?"

"Yes," Igneel answered, "Do you forgive me?"

"Yes, I forgive," Zeref spoke f.

"Thank you, son," Igneel said letting out a sigh of relief.

"And thank you, dad," Zeref replied who also let out a sigh of relief.

"So I'll see you at Natsu's Wedding," Igneel asked.

"Yeah, I'll see you there," Zeref replied.

"Alright, good-bye, Zeref," Igneel said.

"Good-bye, Dad," Zeref responded and then they both hung up the phone.

"That went better than I expected," Igneel said to himself, then he dropped into his chair and relaxed.

Dear Readers,
So its been a while like over 6 months ago. Hahaha, I'm sorry about that. Life is busy and the writer's block was bad. I'm sorry. So there will probably be like one or two more chapters after this. I promise to finish the story. Again I am so sorry! Anyways time to respond to reviewers:
~Meredith Archer- First off thank you for being my only reviewer since the last update! Second, I love Zeref and Mavis so that made me super happy to write my last chapter. I hope you liked this chapter as well and I am so sorry for taking so long on this.
So yeah that was it for reviewers, just one, i'm kinda sad about that. Anyways, I hope everybody enjoyed this chapter! Thanks for reading!
From,

Lavawings