rmadhumita378, Desna, twizt312, kittentf. Yes we get to see the babies in their bodies. Today while they are shopping and then again at the party. We love the babies, right guys?
CelticHeart13. (Giggle) I'll consider it. I like the idea.
Stargazer013. Honestly I consider Bickslow's consideration and dedication to be completely unrealistic. However he is an imaginary being so he is awesome.
R3iga1004. Lucy isn't the jump into bed kind even if Bickslow is hot as fudge. She needs her slow burn for her own confidence. Especially with stupid Happy and his stupid comments.
sassykitten1701. Boom. Done tonight just like i said it would be.
Hiro Mashima owns Fairy Tail since he created it and isn't foolish enough to relinquish thise rights.
XxXxXxXxX
"Ok, guys. Ground rules before we go in here. Stay close and stay together. Listen to Cosplayer. Don't... Don't break anything. Please."
"It's a toy store, Bixy. They have kids in here all the time."
"Kids don't shoot lasers and can't fly."
"Some of them can."
"What kind of kids have you been hanging out with woman?" She said nothing, just held up her right hand to show him the pink guildmark on the back. He rolled his eyes. She reached up to grasp his shoulders and tried her darndest to shake his tall as shit self.
"Relax. Have fun with us!" He laughed.
"Fine, but when they break shit remember I warned you." Lucy giggled and pushed into the toy store with his babies swirling behind her. He was pretty sure she wasn't taking him seriously. He was counting on her near miraculous ability to control his babies to help them all survive this little shopping trip of hers.
The babies laughed and zipped back and forth. Lucy dropped back to hold his hand as they followed them. People were giving them odd looks and in a couple cases outright staring as they walked through the store. Bickslow tried to focus on his girlfriend and not wish for his visor. When an obviously terrified employee stepped into their path and opened his mouth to speak Bickslow cringed inside.
"You guys can't fight in the store."
"What?" Lucy was confused but Bickslow just thought it was ridiculous. Did they really think he was going to attack his girlfriend?
"Please. There was enough damage last time and you didn't even come inside yourselves." Say what now? His confusion must have shown because the guy hesitantly continued. "I've worked here a long time and my uncle owns the place. I was here the last time you two were." But they had never gone anywhere together before. They didn't even... Lucy started laughing hysterically and so did he when the whole thing clicked in his head.
"He's... haha... t-talking about..." Lucy's laughter seemed to be affecting her ability to stand upright. "F-fan... Mavis!" He let go of her as she collapsed on the ground. He recovered before she did seeing as how the memory still itched in his gut.
"Man that was a long time ago. Fairies only fight Fairies inside the guildhall these days unless Natsu is involved. Fantasia will never happen that way again, it's just a parade. Cosplayer and I are dating now anyway." The man was quite visibly relieved.
"I'm so very glad to hear that. That was a traumatic experience and I never want to be that close to a wizard duel or whatever you called that again. In that case is there anything I can help you with?" The babies chose that moment to come back and check on Lucy. *Cosplayer ok, fall down, babies help Cosplayer.
"I'm ok guys. You can pull me up if you want." She held out her hands and the babies pulled her to her feet. "I'm not sure how well you remember it because it was a long time ago, but we met here, right on top of this store. I didn't realise it until this nice man reminded me." Papa dropped himself onto her head.
"Here?" Pipi was shifting through the memories he held for her looking for the right one. "Bright lights fight?" *So bright, Bossman's idea, Lucy Kick.
"Yeah. That was before we were friends though." *Cosplayer friend, no more fighting, daddy sad. Her eyes shot to him and he gave her the best real smile he could.
"I'm fine babe."
"Wow!" The employee was staring at the babies with wide eyes. "I thought one of you were just using some sort of telekinesis magic, but they talk!" All Bickslow could think was 'shit.
"Yeah." Lucy snuggled Pipi to her chest with one arm and held her other hand out for Popo to rest on. "These little guys are friends of ours whose bodies were damaged beyond repair. Bickslow's magic keeps them alive and allows them to communicate." That sounded so... positive. He had never heard his magic described like that.
"I didn't know magic could do that! That's amazing!" And now strangers thought his magic was amazing, because Lucy was completely contagious. "You're a wizard too, right?" The man copied Lucy's hand gesture and Pupu slowly came to rest on his palm. The guy smiled at the soul and Bickslow almost fainted.
Pepe sat on his shoulder and he could feel the soul pushing feelings of affection through the link. 'You ok daddy?' 'I don't even fucking know man. Am I dreaming? We just fell asleep while we were doing yoga right? This isn't real.' Lucy was explaining the basics of her magic to the man holding Pupu and smiling. 'It's real. Cosplayer is good for us. She loves us. She's sexy too. You should keep her.' 'No, really? Here I was thinking of taking the most perfect woman to ever exist and just tossing her out the window. Of course I'm keeping her.'
"So you summon friends from another dimension? That's so cool! Here I thought wizards just blew stuff up." Lucy rolled her eyes.
"Some do. My best friend and partner is a fire wizard so that happens a lot around him. In the right hands magic can do some really cool stuff though. Come by the guild some time and we can show you."
"I might do that. My daughter, Sybil, wants to be a wizard."
"Bring her too! Just be careful coming through the doors. It gets real rowdy in there sometimes when some of the crazies get bored."
"My name is Dave by the way. You guys need anything while you are here just let me know."
"We will. It was nice to meet you, Dave. Hope we can see you and Sybil at the guild sometime soon." Lucy waved as the man walked off. Bickslow glanced around and yanked her into an unoccupied aisle to kiss her senseless.
"What," She gasped when he finally let her come up for air. "What was that for?"
"You're just so fucking amazing." He caught the twinkle in her eye and decided to beat her to the punch. "And your blowjobs are fucking fantastic." She blushed red and spun to look at the babies.
"Bodies!" Her voice squeaked a little. "Baby bodies babies. Anybody know what you want?"
"Teeth!" Came from Pepe.
"I wanna be cuddly!" Popo's request was echoed by all the other babies.
"All right!" He grabbed his girlfriend by the hand and they raced off toward the 'cuddly things' part of the store.
"Ok. Here's how we do it when I shop with the girls. Everybody looks for one thing for each... person. So, Pepe wants to have teeth and be cuddly at the same time. Let's start there. Everybody find something cuddly that has teeth and bring it back here." They scattered and in no time at all Lucy had a pile of cuddly teeth. "Lets see. We've got a crocodile, a lion, a fuzzy monster, a dragon, a shark, a bear, and... Pipi this is a hippo."
"It has big white teeth." He tried not to laugh at them.
"I don't think that's what Pepe meant honey."
"Pepe wants teeth."
"You know what, I'll accept it. Which one is your favorite, Pepe?"
"Dragons have the biggest teeth. Can I wear my dragon body so I can practice my roar daddy?"
"Sure man." Bickslow pulled Pepe out of his totem body, catching it when it fell, and gently anchored the soul in the green dragon. The 'roar' Pepe emitted was really just a long drawn out squeal that sent Lucy into a giggle fit.
XxXxXxXxX
"I found a fox! Please can I get this one? I wanna be a fox at the party." Bickslow flinched before giving Pupu a soft smile.
"Of course you do. You're a foxy lady aren't you?"
"Yeah! Can I wear my costume now! Please! I wanna try it on like cloths."
"Sure baby." Pupu dropped into Bickslow's outstretched hands and his eyes began to glow brightly. A moment later the soft fluffy fox plushie jumped up and began to fly around the store making high pitched yipping noises. Lucy ran her hand up her boyfriends arm. His reaction to the fox had concerned her.
"You ok, Doc?" He gave her a sad smile.
"Yeah, just," He pulled her into his arms with her back against his chest and they watched Pepe chase Pupu in circles. "Pupu always liked foxes when she was alive." She snuggled closer and kept her hands running over his forearms. "I lived with her for a while when I was little, not very long, maybe a year, after... after my dad died. She was my cousin I think, or my parents cousin. I wasn't real clear on which because it wasn't important at the time. She was part of a circus, a trapeze artist. They called her 'The Flying Fox' and she dressed as one for performances." He buried his face in her hair and she could feel his breathing grow ragged.
"Bixy, you don't have to tell me..."
"It's ok. Talking to you actually helps." His arms tightened over her ribs. "There was a accident. They said a doctor was coming, told me it would be ok, so I told her she had to hold on, I made her hold on. There isn't a doctor in the world who can fix that. I'm not even sure Wendy or her little god slayer friend could. She fell to far." Lucy wiggled around so she could hold him. His hug was tight enough it was hard to breath. "I can't really remember my mom. I was to young when she died. Pupu was... was the closest thing to a mother I knew."
How many people had Bickslow lost? How young had he been? He spoke of his parents separately. His mom when he was almost to young to remember, then his dad. She knew there was a sister in there somewhere that he wasn't ready to talk about yet, and it seemed as if that was a separate incident. He went straight to Pupu after his dad died and Popo had taken him from 'a bad place' only for sickness to take him when Bickslow was eight. That would make him no more than 7 at the most when Pupu died and probably younger than 6 when his dad did.
"Bix," She tightened her arms around him. "When we are done here we are going to go buy me a communication lacrima and I want you to promise me something. If something ever happens where you think... If you even think you might end up with another baby I want you to call me."
"Cosplayer..." She could hear the argument in his voice.
"Don't 'Cosplayer' me, Bickslow. I mean it. If there is even a chance of something like that you will call me. Promise." She leaned back to look in his bright red eyes. "I know it's been years and you have much better control of you magic and know where your limits are. Promise anyway." He dropped his forehead to hers and sighed.
"I promise, Lucy." She smiled and stood on her toes to kiss him.
"Now, let's finish... shopping. Bix, we only have four babies." Pipi seemed to be missing. He chuckled and closed his eyes.
"Give me a sec. I'll find her." She took that moment to just appreciate her boyfriend's angular features and bold, no-shits-given look. He really was handsome, unique, but handsome. His eyes opened and he grinned. "Found her." He led her around a corner where Pipi was sitting face to nose with a reddish orange stuffed animal. Lucy crouched down next to her.
"Whatchya doin baby?"
"Kitty or fox, Cosplayer?" She giggled at the question.
"Actually it's neither. That is a red panda."
"Panda is pretty."
"It is. Pretty and snuggly." She glanced up at Bickslow who nodded. "Do you want to be a red panda for the party sweety?"
"Pipi be pretty and snuggly?"
"You're already pretty snuggly and adorable. You like the panda though don't you?"
"Yes."
"Your daddy can help you and you can go play with Pupu and Pepe in their costume bodies if you want." That snapped her out of her red panda trance.
"Play, daddy, play!" Bickslow had a big grin on his face as he moved her to her chosen costume. The first place she went once she was in the panda way into Lucy's arms for a hug. "Panda squish."
"It does squish. You like it?"
"Pipi be Panda." She shot up to play with the others.
"She loves it, Cosplayer. I don't know why I never thought to do this for them before. They are having so much fun." Pepe was at that moment pretending to eat Pipi. They didn't have full control over the limbs of the little soft bodies, but it didn't seem ment pretending to eat Pipi. They didn't have full control over the limbs of the little soft bodies, but it didn't seem full control over the limbs of the little soft bodies, but it didn't seem trol over the limbs of the little soft bodies, but it didn't seem bodies, but it didn't seem ut it didn't seem to bother them.
"I'm glad. Now let's find bodies for the responsibility crew."
"They really like that by the way." Popo and Papa popped out of a bin of fluffy toys giggling.
"I found it." Popo announced. "Daddy help." He dove back in. Bickslow chuckled and helped him fish his chosen body out of the bin.
"Oh, it's the White Rabbit!" The little rabbit was wearing a blue vest with an enormous pocket watch tucked in the pocket. Bickslow helped him into his rabbit and Popo proceeded to 'hop' around on the floor. No flying for him. He was going to be staying in character. Lucy even heard him muttering about being late.
"Know that story huh, Bixy?" Bickslow blushed and muttered under his breath. "Papa. Your the only one without a costume. What do you want to be?"
"A Fairy Tail wizard."
"Umm... Max sells those little figurines..."
"A cuddly Fairy Tail wizard." She looked up at Bickslow who shrugged.
"I don't think they make plushies of us, Papa. It's not..." She grinned. "I have an idea. I need that com lacrima."
XxXxXxXxX
Communication lacrima procured, they sat on a bench outside waiting for a response to the call she sent. When Mira's face popped up Bickslow leaned away from it as if the woman might bite him. Lucy just smiled.
"Lucy? Why are you calling the guild?"
"I'm trying to get a hold of Juvia. Is she there?"
"Sure. One second. Juvia! Lucy wants to speak to you." Juvia's face appeared a moment later.
"Love Ri... What does Lucy wish to talk to Juvia about?"
"Well, Bixy and I took the babies shopping for costume bodies for the party. Papa says he wants to be a cuddly Fairy Tail wizard. You are really good at sewing, I've seen your Gray dolls, so I was wondering if you would be willing to make him a snuggly chibi version of one of the guild wizards for him to wear at the party and keep afterwards. I'd pay you for your time."
"Juvia will not accept Lucy's money for such a thing! Of course Juvia will do this for Papa. Bickslow's babies are Juvia's friends." Lucy smiled, but it was Bickslow who spoke.
"Thanks, Juvia. That means a lot to us."
"You are welcome. Does Papa know which Fairy Tail wizard he wants to be?" Lucy looked at the silent Papa sitting on Bickslow's shoulder, glanced at her grinning boyfriend and felt an evil smirk worthy of a certain poison dragon slayer grow on her face.
"Laxus."
XxXxXxXxX
To be continued