Hello everyone it's me with another chapter for you all. Now I know that it's been a while since I've posted, but if you read the new chapter for At the Beginning you'll know what happen, anyway I've been curious as to what you think about this story and if there is anything that you would like to see. If you do review if you don't then enjoy. Like I said I hope you like this story and I'll see you next time.
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The guild was lively and noisy today. My family and I was sitting at a table in the corner so that the twins don't get too upset from the noise. Apparently they got my fire dragon slaying magic. What to know how I know that? Well one day I had the kids for the day and wouldn't stop crying. After trying to feed them and checking their diapers I decided to entertain them so they could go to sleep. After a few minutes of drawing little dragons and things related to dragons, Natsuko thought it she would try to touch the flames. She reached up with her tiny hand and took a sliver of fire and put it in her mouth. The fact that she touched the flame almost made me have a heart attack, but I saw that she wasn't crying in pain. I didn't notice Hiroaki doing what his sister just did. He made a noise that I can only contributed to joy. He was playing it in his mouth so for the rest of the day we played with fire, until Lucy got home. Oh when she was our kids on fire, she kicked my ass, then she told the girls at the guild. I got my ass kicked again but hey at least I know the twins take after me. Anyway the reason we were at the guild was because I had to do a job. A few days ago Lucy and I sat down to look at our finances. We were getting low in our money so we are at the guild looking for a job to do.
"Here's one that looks somewhat easy. All you have to do is slay a few Vulcans in the forest." Lucy said.
"Yeah but it doesn't pay that much, and there is no challenge to it."
"Then do more than one job." She retorted.
"I guess but then I don't get to spend time with you guys." I whined.
"That's sweet but sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the ones you love." She said.
"I still don't like it." I pouted still looking for a job.
"Not to seem like I'm eavesdropping but why have him go on a job with us." Erza said.
"Oh hey Erza how have you been?" Lucy asked.
"I've been going good, but would it be okay if he went on a job with the team? I mean the job does pay more however it would take longer to complete it." The red headed knight said.
"I have no problem with it but he the one that has trouble staying away from the kids." Lucy said. She turned to look at me for my answer. No I didn't want to be separated from my children for that long but if the pay is more then I don't have to go on as many jobs.
"I do it but I need to know how long you think it would take to finish this job."
"At most a week or more, the request says that we need to protect the son of a royal family, all we have to do is make sure that the son gets to his wedding reception unharmed. However, the reception is in a different city from he lives. So depending on how fast we get this man to his wedding we could be done in a few days. Okay?" She asked. I nodded.
"When do you figure we'll leave?" I asked.
"Tomorrow morning around eight o'clock." She said. I nodded again and went to off to find the twins.
The next morning, I was sitting on a bench in the train station waiting for my teammates. I didn't have a good night sleep last night aside from the twins waking up every couple hours the nightmares are just about to drive me crazy. For the past few weeks I've been having dreams of the Mistress killing my family and my friends. It's been a while since I've had dreams of my past like that. The dream started out normal, my family and I were at the guild talking to our friends. We were having a good time until the doors to the guild slammed open to reveal the Mistress and the whole assassins' guild was standing there with their weapons drawn. She looked at me and then turned to the assassins and nodded. Then suddenly they started to kill everyone in sight, Mira, Cana, Elfman, Gramps…everyone died in a matter of minutes. The only one left were me, Lucy and the twins. I was taking on three guys at once and then the next thing I know I wake up to either the sound of one of the twins or Lucy waking me up for the day. So yeah you could say that my sleeping habits are messed up, and I really don't want to be here but you do what you got to do for family.
"Natsu…Natsu hey are you okay?" Erza asked. Everyone was surrounding me, looking worried. I guess I was staring into space.
"Hm, oh yeah I'm fine, just tired you know. Having to wake up every few hours in the night to take care of babies takes a toll after a while." I said.
"Well at least you know they're there right?" Gray said.
"Yeah I guess."
"Is there anything else that's bothering you?" Wendy asked.
"No just tired like I said. So are we ready to go or do we have to wait?" I asked not wanting to answer the question.
"Yes the train is here so let's go." We boarded the train and waited for the other passengers to get on.
"Are you going to be okay? I mean it's probably going to be a few hours before we get there. You think you can make it?" Gray asked.
"I'm going to be fine, believe it or not my motion sickness has not been acting up for a while now. I'm probably going to take a nap though so wake me up when we get there." I said laying my head against the window, and closing my eyes.
"Lucky." Wendy moaned in pain.
"I know I am." I said back to her not raising my eyelids. A few minutes later I was consumed in the darkness of sleep.