7 Years, Two scars

It was almost time for Strom's and Sylvia's 7th birthday party; the house was decorated with blue and pink balloons for the twins and games where set outside for the other children.

Proud Father: Gray Fullbuster along with his heavily pregnant wife snuck into the room in which their children shared, they carefully opened the door and tiptoed to their bunk bed. "Okay,...1...2...3! Happy Birthday!..." Gray bellowed as he and Juvia pulled the covers off the bed to reveal... pillows?...instead of their sleeping children, they looked confusingly at each other "..1...2..3!" they turned around to see their children lunging at them, jumping from the highest shelf and onto their surprised Father giggling, they fell to the floor as their Dad was pinned beneath them chuckling "Happy Birthday Kiddo's".

Gray stood up with his competitive children clinging to him still trying to pin him down "You guys do this every year! Now it's my turn!" Storm yelled clinging to his Father's back; Sylvia glared at Strom "No! It's my turn! I'm stronger than you!" she yelled still hanging from her Father's neck. The two children began to yell at each other with Gray in the middle, he glared at Juvia who was giggling at him "What?! Don't look at Juvia like that! They got that from you, Gray-sama!"

He was fine with them clinging to him in the morning as he drank his coffee and ate his toast in the kitchen... he thought to himself...'was this trait from Juvia?'

The children still clung to him as if they where baby koalas clinging to their parent, he looked at his pregnant wife through the kitchen window, still decorating the picnic benches outside and admired how she put so much effort into their children's parties, he insisted that he would do most of the decorating while she rest her feet but refused. He was about to take a sip from his mug when he heard a faint drip. He looked down into his coffee, it was watery and cold, another drop of water dripped into it.

He didn't even need to investigate; the source of water was none other than Sylvia. She and Storm stood on either side of his shoulders with fists up, producing masses of magic, debating who was stronger.

Storm; who took after him pumped a fist into his open hand which began to emanate an icy fog on impact "ICE MAKE-!" he yelled, Sylvia in another stance turned her arm into a water like whip "WATER CA-!" she yelled, two were about to attack when Gray grabbed them by the collar and stood them in front of him sitting at the table "Woah, kids not in here! And definitely not today your Mom has been working really hard to decorate the house and...Storm wear are your clothes?" Gray asked Storm who folded his arms and raised an eyebrow "Where are your clothes, Dad?" Gray looked down to find himself in his boxers "God damnit" he mumbled as he and his son walked around the kitchen gathering their clothes, Sylvia was walking out the door to the back to help her Mother "They're such idiots" she murmured walking out the door "We can hear you!" the boys yelled still collecting their clothes before they heard- "Sylvia! Where are your clothes!?" Juvia yelled seeing her daughter strip out in the open.

Later on

Storm was standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom, combing his hair. He brushed a finger along the visible scar on his temple which that resembled a curly backwards 'J' and ran down to his cheek bone, he had always wondered why he had a scar, most times he thought that when he was younger he did something stupid to mess up his face, he spent time after time examining the scar.

"Does Stormy wonder about his scar..?" He jumped around to find his mother in the door way "Mom?", she kneed in front of him and placed a hand on his head, brushing the hair aside to reveal the scar "You wouldn't even remember, you weren't even born yet, Stormy... When you and Sylvia were still in Mommy...m-mommy had an accident..." her voice was shaking, recalling the horrible memory of that night at the train station, she hugged her son tight. She stood up and lifted her shirt to reveal a similar scar to his on her swollen tummy. He now understood "M-mom... did it..hurt?" he asked quietly, he looked at her with teary eyes.

She looked at him lovingly and kneeled down to wipe his tears "All cuts hurt honey... and in time all scars heal" she kiss his temple where the scar was and ruffled his hair "Your guests are arriving soon so get ready" just as Juvia said that Sylvia and Gray popped in the door way "Your moms right about scars kiddo" His Father said pointing at his barely visible scar on his forehead "Although scars are...cool" Gray pouted.

The doorbell rang and they all marched downstairs to welcome their guest, Gray opens the door to find their first guests... the Dragneels "Wazzup Gray! Hi Juvi!" Natsu says barging in "Uncle Natsu!" the twins shouted as they jumped and hugged him. Lucy walked in with 3 year old Nashi in her arms and greeted Juvia "Hello Juvi-san!" she said cheerfully and let Nashi run around with the other children "Hello Lucy-san! How are you doing?" Lucy smiled at her "I'm good although I'm having a tough time controlling Nashi after Natsu though him fire magic..." they looked at Nashi who was burning the house plant in the corner, Lucy looked at Juvia who was beginning to get emotional over the plant "I'll get you a new one...".

Not long after nearly 6 year old Luna Dragneel barged in after her mother "Storm! Fight me!" she bellowed as she stomped around looking for him, Storm flies down the stairs with cold fists "Ima beat you senseless!" the two collide as their fathers did when they were younger...not that they've changed or anything... "You wanna go flame for brains!?" Gray said headbutting Natsu, Natsu punches him in the face and the kids cheer them on while their wives look on knowing this would happen.

"Aw man, did we show up late?!" the two women turn to the open door to see Gajeel and his wife Levy and their two children, Victor who was 6 and their other son Steelton who was 5. "Levy-san!" the two women said hugging her and greeting them inside while Gajeel went to roughhouse with the other men in the house and the kids ran around the house playing.

Later the rest of the guests arrived which was basically the whole guild, Erza and Jellal showed up too with their two year old Rosemary. The party was held in the backyard where there was benches and a stage where Mira was singing and music played, there was also a pool and lawn chairs where the Fathers of the party were at.

They sat peacefully around the pool in the lawn chairs drinking beer and chatting among each other and taking in the view of the party "So, when's that baby due?" Jellal asked shifting Rosemary to his other knee Gray took a swing from his beer bottle and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand "I donno...two weeks I guess...maybe less?" the men looked at Gray "Dude! Shouldn't Juvia be like... I don't know, take it easy?...she could go into to labour or something!" Gajeel said in concern for his friend and the men all nodded in agreement "Well she refuses to take it easy, you know cuz she wants to help out with the kids and stuff..." Gray sighed "Then she would complain about working too hard" he puffed out. They all laid back into their chairs "Women..." they mumbled as they took a swing from their beers at the same time.

"You should rest yourself Juvia, you are pregnant after all" Erza said bringing the cake to the table alongside Juvia and the other women who were helping out with food too "Juvia wants too... but theres a lot of work to do and Juvia has to mind the kids and-" "Can't Gary not-?" Levy paused and realised what she was saying when the women stared at her knowingly, their husbands were really childish and would probably end up losing them "...we should have more faith in our husbands..." Lucy said blankly and the women nodded in agreement.

"I have an idea!" Levy said cheerfully "After the party, we'll bring Juvia to a spa for a well deserved break and leave our kids here with our husbands! It will be like a challenge for them" their eyes lit up and they smiled wickedly "spa night, here we come"