(A.N. I decided to update early seeing as I already got the chapter done.

PS. I'm making the this ark a little bit longer so we can extend Lucy's pregnancy. Now she's already a month and a half pregnant. Sorry if this is confusing I'm just trying to do this for time sake.)

Chapter 16: The Battle Begins

Everyone was quite shocked to see Laxus already so close to Wendy. Everyone but Fairy Tail that is. They knew that Laxus would have to get used to children seeing as Lucy was pregnant. Wendy wasn't really your ideal little girl. She was shy and somewhat withdrawn from everyone else. But one word that could definitely describe her was…adorable!

After the introductions and so forth were done they spent the next week and a half making their preparations and planning their attack. They knew that the enemy wouldn't make their move until they knew for sure that they could pinpoint Nirvana's location. That gave them a little bit more time than expected. So they were going to take advantage of every second they could.

-Laxus' POV-

About a week and a half had passed since we had arrived for the mission. Planning was all we did. We hardly had time for sleep. Out of all the nights I really wanted to sleep tonight I really couldn't. It was 3 AM and I couldn't stop thinking about Lucy. She was the only thing on my mind. I missed her. What the guild didn't know was that I snagged a communication lacrima before I left. I knew the guild gave one to Lucy so that she could call them if she started feeling too sick to stay by herself. I'll call her. I pull the lacrima out of my bag and hold it up to me saying her name waiting for her face to appear. Slowly I started to see a head of messy blonde hair and very sleepy eyes look back at me.

"La..xus?"

"Hey Lucy. Sorry if I woke you up."

"It's okay. I wasn't really sleeping that much anyway. How are things going?"

"Ehh you know…planning to take down an enemy and trying to stop Natsu from barging right into things. That stupid idiot. He's always barging right into situations that could get him killed. And Gray! I don't even want to start on that stripper."

"I don't think I wanna know."

"How are you feeling Lucy?"

"I'm feeling okay. I've just been losing quite a bit of sleep lately. I can't believe I'm already 1 month and a half pregnant. Time sure does fly by huh?"

"Yeah it does. Are you sure you're feeling okay? You're a little flushed. Are you running a fever?"

"Laxus dear I'm fine. Just really tired. Speaking of which shouldn't you try to get some sleep?"

"Yeah I guess I should. Got a long next couple weeks ahead of us."

"Goodnight Laxus."

Just as I was about to switch off the communication between us I stopped and said one last thing.

"Lucy…?"

"Yes Laxus?"

"I love you."

"I love you too Laxus."

Tears filled both of our eyes before I shut off the lacrima and laid my head on the pillow behind me. 'Lucy…wait on me. I'll be back soon I promise.'

-Time Skip *Next Morning*-

Sunlight filled my eyes as I opened them to face the world. Today was the day we were going to start our attack. We were going to go to an open clearing just a couple miles south of here and board the Blue Pegasus ship Christina. From there we would locate their hideout and separate the six generals and attack them in teams. Wendy was going to stay to the rear of the group and help out only when she knew she could. 'Wendy…if me and Lucy were to have a little girl I would want her to be just like Wendy. She is so sure of herself even if she calls herself weak. She knows what's best for her. Sadly I knew I was becoming attached to the young bluenete.' Thoughts of Lucy made their way back into my head but was quickly broken by Ichiya stating that we were ready to go. We left the house and began our walk towards the clearing. We didn't say a word to each other. The walk was completely silent…or not. Natsu opened up his big mouth and started yapping about how we was going to kick the enemy's ass. Nobody even tried to make a comment. We finally made it to the clearing and seen Christina hovering in the air.

"This ladies and gentleman is the great Christina."

We stared in awe at the airship before us that actually looked like a pegasus. It was a little cliché if you ask me that but's just my opinion. Our great plan got ruined as we seen Christina blow up and come crashing down. We looked further ahead into the clearing and there stood our enemy. Things never go as planned. The approached us ready to attack. Some man with a snake made an advance towards me and Erza. We worked together to dodge the attacks. Erza requiped into a her leopard form and attacked the man. He kept on dodging our attacks. Making us look like total fools. We hadn't even noticed that his snake disappeared until it was too late. I hear Erza scream and look to her and notice she had been bitten by the snake. Before I could even turn around it was too late. My vision started to fade and the last thing I heard before my world went back was Wendy screaming.

'Lucy…I'm sorry.'

(Sorry if it's a little short. I was bored and decided to start writing.)