I wanna thank AnimeAngel808 for giving me a name for the little boy! I was totally lost. XD So seriously, thank you!

OMG! I can't believe some many people have already read my story! *squeals* Thank you all so much! And without further ado… I present my second chapter!

Chapter 2: The Little Boy

The boy looks to be about 5 or 6 years old. He has neat short black hair, blue eyes, and slightly tanned skin. (I'll leave his wardrobe up to your imagination, just remember that he's super cute) The boy looks extremely nervous as he looks at the mages surrounding him. "I-I-I-I'm…" He looked back at Lucy.

"Go ahead," she whispers. He gulps.

"M-m-my n-n-name i-is," he swallows again, "um…" He stops. After a while Natsu suddenly starts laughing. All eyes turn to him.

"Your name is 'Um'?" he manages to get out. "That's the funniest name I've ever heard!" He then continues to laugh even harder. *everyone in the guild sweatdrops*

"That's not it IDIOT!" Gray yells with a punch to Natsu's face. Natsu crashes into the table behind him causing it to break.

"What the hell was that for Gray?" Natsu cried sitting up.

"You said something stupid!" he shouted back.

"Gray, your clothes," Cana calls from her perch on top of a table. Gray looks down at himself to find, that once again, he managed to lose his clothes. *Gray's eyes bug out*

"When did this happen?!" he shouts then hurriedly pulls his clothes back on. Luckily he had taken them off while he was still standing near Lucy.

"Be quiet all of you!" Erza commanded the guild falling silent as she turned back towards the boy. Then in a much nicer tone she asked, "What's your name?"

The boy gulped looking back at Lucy, who nodded, before taking a deep breath and saying, "Z-Zen Chase. I come from a family of hunters." Immediately after making this statement he ran and clung to Lucy again.

Lucy giggled turning him around to face Erza while wrapping her arms around him, and he leaned back into her embrace as though trying to get as far away from them all as possible. "I ran into this guy on my mission," Lucy explained. "He's also a mage, and, like he said, he comes from a family of hunters." She frowned. "However, when I was looking for the thief"-apparently her mission was to catch a thief-"I found him after he had just murdered Zen here's family and he was about to kill him as well." She glared at the ground. "I took him down, but Zen was seriously injured so I took him back to the town with me so he could get treated by a doctor. It turns out that his family had been living in the mountains for generations and he had never seen anyone outside of his family before. So, thanks to that thief being the first person he met outside his family, he wouldn't trust the doctors or anyone in town. Thankfully he remembered that I saved him and as long as I was there he would let the doctors treat him, so I ended up staying there for an extra 2 ½ months." She stroked the boy's hair reassuringly as he recalled the events she spoke of. "After he was healed, I decided to bring him back to the guild with me since he only trusts me and he has no family. It was only just recently I was able to coax him into interacting with other people. Do you think he could join the guild Erza?" She looked up to see most of the guild was teary eyed. Erza bent down to look Zen in the eye.

"I don't think the Master would object," the Titania stated with one of her rare kind smiles. She turned to the man in question who was sitting on the bar with his smiley face staff. "What do you say, Master?" she asked. The man jumped up and walked over to the boy. Zen moved closer to Lucy. Makarov simply smiled.

"Welcome to Fairy Tail!" he said. "Mira! Come give our new member his stamp!" Mirajane smiled walking over to Zen.

"Where do you want your guild stamp?" she asked cheerfully. Zen's eyes widened and he looked at Lucy.

"It's okay," she said answering his unspoken question. "Look I have one to." She lifted her hand to show him the pink guild mark. "She won't hurt you." Zen took a deep breath and nodded.

"Where do you want yours?" Mirajane asked again, this time a little more softly as she knelt in front of him next to Erza. Zen thought for a moment before pointing to his back. Lucy's face paled and she stiffened, but she took a deep breath and regained her smile for fear of Zen's reaction if he were to see her expression.

Mira and Erza didn't seem to notice this as Zen turned around and said, "Right in the middle please." He lifted his shirt. When Mira saw the small boys back she gasped tears immediately coming to her eyes. Erza's face became hard as she stiffened. Everyone in the guild looked pale. Even Natsu remained silent. Zen's back had a long, deep, jagged, newly-healed scar running from just the left of his spine towards his right shoulder that was hidden by the rest of his shirt. Lucy stroked Zen's hair as he closed his eyes waiting to hear what they would say. When Lucy saw his eyes close she brought the index finger of her other hand up to her lips. Quietly urging her guildmates to remain silent. Understanding her silent message Mirajane quickly wiped her eyes and pressed the stamp to the spot Zen had requested leaving a purple guild mark as she pulled it away.

"There!" she exclaimed trying to hide the sadness and pity in her voice. The other guild members, quickly catching on to the situation, cheered.

"Okay everyone!" Makarov shouted at the guild. "Let's welcome our new member Zen Chase!" This got a heartfelt roar of approval from all the guild members. (You can guess which one of them actually roared)

"YEAH!" Natsu shouted. "I'm all fired up!" (Yeah, I couldn't resist. Sorry!) After Natsu's unsurprising announcement the guild began to celebrate the arrival of their new guildmate, a little boy named Zen Chase.

"Lucy," Makarov called the blond to over to where he was sitting on the bar near Mirajane with Natsu, Gray, and Erza when she entered the guild followed closely by Zen. It had been a week since Lucy returned with Zen by her side. (Turns out he was actually around Wendy's age.) The boy hardly left the blond girl's side. He was now staying at her apartment. Mirajane gave the boy a kind smile.

"Hey guys," Lucy called. "What's up?"

"We're here to discuss Zen," Master started. "Since he refuses to part with Lucy, I think he should join your guys' team."

"No!" Zen suddenly moved in front of Lucy and shouted drawing the attention of everyone in the guild. Most of the guild members were in shock. It was the first time they had seen the boy yell or get upset about anything.

"Why not?" Lucy asked squatting to look him in the eye.

"Because he destroys everything,"-he points at Natsu (obviously)-"and he can never keep his clothes on!"-he points at Gray (Duh!)-"I mean," he continued in a softer voice, "I wouldn't mind going with Ms. Erza,"-she blushes at this then he points at her-"however, she's the only one who can get those two,"-again Natsu and Gray-"to stop fighting, and if something happens and we can't come back for a while. I'd feel bad because if those two got in a fight, they might destroy the entire guild. So I think I should just be with you." He finished pointing at Lucy. *everyone in the guild (except Natsu and Gray) sweatdrops*

"You've got a point there," Makarov says.

"I'm also afraid of getting used to it, like you said Lucy," the boy continued. "I'm afraid that if I hang around them too much I might start acting like them one day."

"I can understand why you would be worried about that." Lucy looks at the two boys, from Natsu, who as holding some fire chicken in his hands, to Gray, who once again was clothed only in his underwear. *Lucy sweatdrops* "No, we certainly DO NOT want you to start acting like them." She paused while everyone thought about all the times when either Natsu destroyed something, Gray lost his clothes, or they both nearly destroyed the guild with their fights while Erza wasn't around. *Lucy dead pans* "One of each is more than enough." Erza nodded while the guild muttered in agreement.

"So then… can I form a team with you?" Zen asked with wide eyes making him look extremely cute.

"Zen," Makarov interjected before Lucy could speak, "I can understand your concerns,"*he sweatdrops while looking at Natsu and Gray who were still frozen in place* "but I can't let you and Lucy go off on your own." Zen slumped, depressed. Then he looked around the guild.

"Don't feel bad Zen," Wendy said coming up to the boy. Wendy and Zen had become somewhat like friends over the past week as Zen had slowly begun to open up to the guild. Zen looked at her and seemed to get an idea.

"Then will you join too, Wendy?" Zen asked carefully. The girl seemed surprised. He looked at Makarov. "Could we be a team if Wendy joined?" Makarov wasn't surprised he would suggest Wendy joining the team. She was the only person he would talk to when Lucy wasn't around, (not including Mirajane or Erza) but Wendy just had that effect on people. It was amazing really.

"I suppose it would be alright then," he said after hesitating momentarily, "but only if she agrees."

"Will you Wendy?" Zen asked with hope-filled eyes.

"Sure!" she said. Zen hugged her. Now that was shocking. "What do you say Lucy-san?" Wendy asked turning to the blond girl. "Do you want to form this team?" Lucy bit her lip. She looked from Natsu, Gray, and Erza, to Zen and Wendy who were looking at her with pleading eyes. They looked adorable. She opened her mouth to reply.

"Well…"

What will Lucy say? Is she leaving team Natsu? What's going to happen? You'll just have to read the next chapter to find out! XD

So how'd I do? Was it bad? Tell me! I can take it!