Outburst

Natsu stared at the small broken down guild hall before her. Her small hand gripped tightly in Cobra's larger one, she was glad the guild was more run down now. She doubted she would have been able to go inside the massive castle like structure they had had before she was taken away.

Eric tilted his head. "It looks like a windmill..."

"It is..." Lucy said scratching her head. No one made a move to go into the building where people could be heard chatting and fighting. A chair came flying out at one point and Cobra had side stepped so as not to get a face full of wood. "They're very energetic aren't they..." He muttered. Gray looked over at him.

"That's right, you've never seen our full guild."

"Nope." He dead panned. "Just those of you who came to Nirvana."

"Which was basically all of us here right now..." Lucy said with a small sweat drop. "This will be interesting for both of you guys huh..."

"Let's go inside already!" Happy said excitedly.

"Yeah!" Eric and Aaron cheered at the same time. Natsu bite her lip and let go of Cobra's hand so she could approach the door. One shaky hand reached for the door nob... And she slowly opened it.

Inside people were laughing and cheering as a few people tussled around in a play fight. Cans sat drinking on the guild bar that MiraJane was behind along with a purple haired girl Natsu didn't recognize. Laxus was surrounded by his private group alone in the corner and everyone was watching Gajeel wrestle with Elfman. Natsu felt her heart speed up and her eyes began to burn... It was just like the old days, back when she was still male and she would fight with Grey and Erza. People would take bets on who would win but never found out because Master Makarov would break it apart. Natsu wiped at her eyes before she actually cried. She remembered saying that she never wanted to come back here... She guessed a part of her really did.

"Natsu?" A little girls voice asked suddenly. Her onyx eyes looked to the speaker and she saw Wendy. Sweet little Wendy with Charle gripped in her arms, she had wide eyes and a look of shock on her face.

Someone else had hear her because some eldest called out Natsu's name and soon everyone was stopping what they were doing to look at their gender-bent friend. Master Makarov stood up on the guild halls' bar to see around people and stare at the fire dragon slayer.

"Natsu...?"

She gripped her clothes and felt Cobra come up behind her. Her sons were with him and her other friends came to stand beside them. She felt like she had a thousand pairs of eyes on her, boring into her soul and body like the scars she once held on her skin. Her mouth was dry and she didn't know what to say. No one registered Cobra or the kids, just Natsu.

"Is it... Really you..?" Wendy asked coming forward slowly. Natsu could see the deep gashes along her cheeks and neck where her skin show. The scars all the dragon slayers held on their bodies. She felt ashamed that she no longer had hers while everyone still suffered with the horrible memory permanently engraved into their skin.

Natsu swallowed a lump in her throat and knelt down to look at Wendy from her height. She reached out and drew her thumb across the smaller girls cheek, feeling very motherly she wiped away the tears brimming along the blue haired girls' eyes. "Yeah... It's me." She made sure to be loud enough so everyone could hear her. "I came back for a little while... I know I may look different but-"

She was cut off as Wendy and Charle both lunged forward and hugged her tightly. The girls shoulders starts shaking and she clung harder, thinking Natsu would suddenly vanish if she let go. "Your alive!"

Everyone came barreling forward at that. "Oh no.." Erza said seriously. The entire guild came at them like a stampede.

"Papa!" Aaron said, scared. Cobra quickly knelt down and grabbed his boys before moving out of the way with Lucy, Grey and Happy; so they wouldn't be trampled in the onslaught. The Titania tried to grab Natsu but she got swept away by the crowd.

"Natsu!" Cobra shouted over the voices of the many guild members as he tried to reach his wife. He could barely hear we fear amongst all the thoughts and voices that were ringing in his sensitive ears.

"What happened to you?!"

Are those tits real?!"

"Where have you been!"

"Why didn't you come back?!"

"Did the dark guild keep you hostage this whole time?!"

More and more questions were being thrown at her from all places. She was completely surrounded.

"G-guys..." She said.

"Are you okay?"

"Who are those ankle biters?"

"Isn't that guy from Oración seis?"

"Please- one at a time!" She tried again. She started getting nervous and scared. She could hear Cobra calling to her through the crowd but she could see him. She felt fear seep into her body and grab her with its sharp claws.

"Where have you been this whole time?"

"Where are your scars?"

"What made you come back?"

"Natsu!"

She pried Wendy off her body who was asking he own question. "Stop! Stop talking!" No on listened and Natsu felt her body heat up. "STOP IT!"

No one expected fire to come spiraling out of her body. It came in such a large amount as Natsu just screamed and became the center of the inferno. Her hands clasped over her ears, she screamed and screamed for everyone to shut up. She opened her eyes and realized that she was injuring everyone with her fire. She attempted to get control of her self and the magic but she hasn't used it in years so the flames did not bend to her will. Tears steamed down her face as she tried and tried to stop the fire. She saw her own children shout in fear as a column of flames shot out at them. She threw a hand out shrieking. "NO!"

She watched as Cobra jumped in the way and his body was engulfed. He screamed and fell on the ground writhing and rolling to put the fire out. Natsu felt her heart drop and her eyes widen in horror.

"P-papa!" Erik cried. Aaron was already in tears cowering behind Lucy as their father burned.

"COBRA!" Natsu screamed. And her flames instantly went out. The ones on Cobra's body and around the guild snuffed out as well. The poison dragon was curled up on the ground breathing hard. His breath was wheezy and hoarse, and he looked in pain, his skin burned and his clothes were black. Natsu started to reach a hand out but instead turned and fled from the guild.

'I knew this was a horrible idea!' She thought as she fled.

"Natsu..." Cobra whimpered as he tried to get up. Wendy was instantly at his side.

"Stay still!" She said as she quickly started healing his wounds. Everyone else stood around confused and scared for Natsu. The small guild master stepped forward and watched the empty guild hall doors.

He took a deep breath. "Everyone." The entire guild looked down to him in a respected silence. "It was very rude of us to do that... If Natsu compares to how the others acted when they first got back... We should have known..."

The guild members looked down ashamed of themselves. "Sorry master." Many of them said. There was a silence in the air, all that was heard were the whimpers of two children as they asked where their mother went.

"She'll be back don't worry..." Lucy was telling them soothingly. "I know she will and all this was an accident she's not scary right?"

The pink twin shook his head. "I want momma back..."

"I want a hug..." Eric muttered as he rubbed his eyes. Happy wrapped his nubby arms around the small boy who hugged him back, treating the cat like a stuffed animal. Cobra day up stiffly as Wendy finished healing the burns on his body.

"I'm going to find Natsu." He declared.

"We'll come." Gajeel said, stepping forward with a mute Laxus.

"I think it's best I do it myself." The poison Dragon said bitterly as he stood.

"But we can relate..." Wendy said quietly. "We were the same when we came home..."

Cobra looked all of them over. His one eye trailing their bodies and their marks. He stopped at Laxus's throat, it look mauled and ripped to shreds, Erza wasn't kidding... He really did have his Vocal chords violently ripped out.

He sighed. "Alright... She didn't go far. She's sitting at a river bank."

"I know where that is." Wendy said smiling. She then walked out of the guild, Charle following and the other dragon slayers following the cat.

Once they were far enough from the guild Wendy slowed to walk beside Cobra. "We remember you." She said happily.

The maroon haired man looked down at her curiously. "You remember me? I expect you to, we've met before."

She nodded. "Yeah. But you saved me and Laxus back underground." Cobra blinked at her then looked to the blonde. He too now remembered it, when he had taken his metal bar and broken the blonde mans shackles and he had run off with the little blue haired girl. He was surprised.

"That was you two? I barely recognized you with all the bruises and blood and malnutrition."

Wendy giggled. He was surprised at that too, she was able to laugh while thinking back on such horrible times. "Yeah. We're a lot better now."

Cobra looked to Laxus. He made a few signs with his hands and the thunder dragon slayer looked shocked, he then grinned and returned a few hand signs.

"You can talk to him?" Gajeel asked.

"Yeah, I've got a fried back at my home village who can't talk. So we learned sign language so we could."

"Your village, have you been there this whole time?" Charle asked.

"Yup. After the riot, someone started using magic and caused a big cave in."

"My fault." The iron dragon slayer said raising his hand. Cobra cast him a look before looking ahead and continuing his story.

"We'll, when the roof caved in and the ground split open me and Natsu fell in. I blacked out and web I woke up again we were outside..."

"You must have fallen into the under water ravine." Wendy said. "We had to cross a bride over it to get out."

Laxus made a few more signs: I thought I saw someone down there, thought maybe a prisoner threw a guard down there.

"You thought wrong." Cobra grinned. "Me and Natsu woke up in a lake where the Ravine emptied out. We were then found by our two friends, Elipton and Noir. He's the mute one."

Laxus nodded.

"We've been living in the town sense."

"How'd your relationship start?" Wendy asked curiously.

Cobra actually blushed. "It just... Kinda happened? In a fort of pillows and blankets..." He muttered the last part. Gajeel asked what he said and he responded with "oh nothing..."

"There's Natsu!" Charle said, pointing to the woman. Cobra took off in a run and the others followed more slowly. He saw her sitting at the edge of a river bank, tossing rocks into the water. He slowed down to a walks as he went down a steep hill to get to her. Natsu glanced back when she heard his shoes crunch on the gravel. Her pain filled onyx eyes flicked over his body quickly.

"It's okay." He said sitting next to her. "You didn't give me any scars."

"Any new ones..." She muttered and looked down at the river. Cobra wrapped an arm around her and she leaned against him.

"I'm really sorry..." She said in a shaky voice. "I-I don't mean to, I swear..."

"It's okay." He said soothingly.

"I've lost control of my magic..."

"You think I haven't?" Cobra chuckled. "We haven't used it in practically fourteen years? Longer for me cause I was stuck in jail for a little longer... But you get the idea..."

She closed her eyes and curled up next to him. "I still think that coming here was a horrible idea."

"We don't." Wendy said sitting on her other side, Charle in her lap. Laxus and Gajeel stood behind them. Natsu looked at each of them individually.

"I'm so sorry guys..."

"It's fine." Gajeel shrugged.

She smiled at them. "It's really good to see you all again. After all that..."

"We're over it now." The iron dragon slayer interrupted. "It's in the past and we can't do shit about it now."

They all smiled at that. Natsu suddenly reached behind he and took off her necklace. "Hey Wendy." She handed the pretty gold and red jewelry to the girl. "This necklace cleared me off all the scars I had. It can't anymore but... Can you somehow recreate the magic? Sense you can heal too?"

Wendy looked it over and seemed to be concentrating. "Yeah, I think I can." She spun around to look at Laxus with a benign face. "You might be able to talk again!"

The blonde smiled and gave a thumbs up. Natsu looked at Cobra and reached a hand out to touch his right eye. "You can see again."

Cobra smiled and put his hand over hers. "Thanks but... I'll keep this the way it is."

Natsu looked surprised. "Really? You sure?"

He nodded and kissed her hand. "I kind of like it like this."

"Your weird." Gajeel muttered.

"And your brain is full of metal."

" oh yeah you wanna-"

"Don't start anything with me." Cobra smiled back at him. His ears twitching up and down. "Or I'll tell everyone in the guild your a big daddies boy."

Gajeel paled. Laxus glanced away, his cheeks puffed out in a laugh and Wendy was giggling.

"Your a daddies boy?" Natsu asked holding in giggles.

"Shut UP." Gajeel snapped and turned around, storming back to the guild.

Cobra stood up and offered to help her stand. She took it and kept holding his hand. "We can learn to control our magic. We did it once we can do it again."

Natsu smiled. "Yeah. Then we can forget all over again when we leave."

Cobra laughed. "Yes we can."

"Come on." Charle said crossing her arms. "Those boys are crying for you right?"

"Ah! My sons! I'm coming babies!" Natsu took off in a dead sprint. Everyone else sweat dropped.

Laxus did more sign language: she hasn't changed at all.

"You got that right..." Wendy and Cobra said at the same time.

Back at the guild Natsu was cuddling her boys like a cat and her kittens. She held them close and was nuzzling them with her face. "I'm so sorry I scared you boys I won't do it ever again, I love you both." She kissed their heads and they giggled, loving the attention. Cobra was sitting on the table next to her laughing.

"Hey Natsu." Lucy said coming up. The pinkette lifted her head, the entire guild was behind Lucy but giving her much more space this time. "We were all thinking, we want to have a party, like in the old days! What do you say?"

"It's a welcome back party!" Mira said clapping her hands.

"We'll drink and Dance!" Cana said growing a mug of beer in the air before downing it.

Natsu smiled sheepishly. "I don't see why not."

Everyone exploded into cheers. An old times fairy tail party started, MiraJane and her sister Liasana got a happy updraft dog playing and everyone started doing their own thing. Talking, dancing, fight. Natsu started a conversation with Maskrov; just to fill him in on everything and he did the same. Telling her about the grand magic games and how she and Cobra would both participate in the main group. She accepted her temporary guild mark on her shoulder and watched Cobra get his own on his chest, he said it was the same place where his old Oración seis one used to be.

"So after this you'll really leave again?" Makarov asked.

"Yeah..." Natsu sighed. "We're really sorry but we liked our old boring lives. We can visit though. We got magic filled boys under our care after all."

Makarov smiled proudly. "It's great to see you all grown up. You look so mature, albeit your gender is a surprise... But your still a very fine adult."

Natsu smiled kindly at him. "Thanks gramps."

Cana suddenly came up and hooked her arm with Natsu's. "Hey girl. Me and Lucy just had a great idea for a dance, and we NEED you to join us."

"Ah-but well-I don't exactly-" She didn't finish. The drunkard was already absconding with her to a back room where Lucy and MiraJane stood waiting.

Cobra scratches the back of his head. "That was interesting."

Makarov cleared his throat and the poison dragon looked to him. "I just want you to know I do not approve of your relationship with Natsu."

Cobras jaw dropped. "Say what?! But we're already married! And have a family!"

"I know. But I still don't like it." He jabbed at Cobra's chest and he was surprised the old mans small hands felt so strong. "You were in a dark guild most of your life, you were raised in one and you tied killing both Erza and Natsu. I can't approve of this."

Cobra didn't know what to say. He can't take back what he did in the past just make up for it now. He knew for one thing there was no way in hell he was letting either of his sons join a Dark guild. He'd sooner gouge out his other eye with his own hands.

"There's something else..." The old man said and Cobra returned from thinking and asked what was up. "The magic council pronounced you dead after seven years of your absence."

"Okay? So?" He asked with an eyebrow raised.

"So when you go strolling into the grand magic games as part of our team they will instantly detain you."

Cobra looked like he was thinking for a second then smirked. "Cobra did die."

"Excuse me?" Makarov asked confused.

"Cobra won't be going into the Grand magic games as part of Fairy Tail." The man flattened his hair out by ruffling it up, he now looked exactly like his son. "Eric Senior will."

The guild master smiled. "That's the spirit son."

"Look at that!" Someone yelled from the crowd. Cobra glanced over and his eye widened and his jaw dropped.

Natsu, Mira, Cana, and Lucy all stood in a line dressed in skimpy belly dancer outfits. The blonde and the pinkette didn't look to happy.

"When I said a dance I didn't mean this!" Lucy snapped.

"Oh well." Cana said smirking. "Hit it!"

Lisana pulled out a set of drums and started pounding out a bet. The purple haired girl, Kinana, was shaking a rice filled rain stick to add to the music. Many of the guild mates start clapping to the bet and add more and more rhythm to the song.

"Let's dance Natsu!" Cana said and started shaking her hips quickly.

"Why would we do this?!" She screamed as Mira Jane pressed her hip against hers and forced her to dance too.

"Cause we'll probably never get to do it again!" Cana laughed and snatched Lucy and forced her to dance. All the girls stared dancing swiftly, shaking their hips and stomachs and shoulders. All of them following Cana. They did twirls and clapped their hands, at one point they danced a little to sexually and boys cheered.

"Oh, baby!" Cobra screamed his face started to heat up and he could feel a reaction down stairs. His hands shot out and grabbed his sons heads and spun their bodies around.

"Hey!" Aaron shouted.

"We wanna watch!" Erik said dejectedly.

"Over my dead body." Cobra dead panned, watching Natsu's hips and chest intently. She could feel his stare on her and could already predict how the night was going to end. She started to cry of embarrassment.

"Cana I hate you so much!"

"I know!" The other girl cheered. The dance went on a little longer and when it finally ended Natsu rushed back to change.

"You are a lucky man." A few guys clapped Cobra on the shoulder. And he nodded in agreement. Natsu came back out dressed normally and shoved Cobra a little.

"You enjoyed that way to much I know you did!"

"I enjoyed every second of it." He snatched we up and kissed her deeply. When they broke apart she was left breathless.

"W-well then..."

"Eewww!" The twins said covering their faces. "You kissed again!"

Cobra ruffled their heads. "You kids will being doing it yourself one day."

"No we won't!" Aaron said.

"That's icky..." Eric said.

Their parents laughed. Natsu grabbed Cobra's hands. "Let's go dance please?"

"I don't see why not." Cobra chuckled and they disappeared into the happy dancing crowd their kids following them. The married couple danced together and Lucy and Erza danced with the boys, sometimes they would switch partners or all dance together. Big grins were on everyones faces the whole time.

As the night of their party came to a close MiraJane sat on a stool and lightly played the violin. Erik and Aaron lay curled up on a table, they had Cobra's jacket as a blanket over them while he and Natsu slow danced with a few others to Mira's song. Natsu had her arms around Cobra's neck and her head resting against his chest. He had both his arms around her own body.

"It's been forever sense we slow danced." The maroon haired male chuckled. Natsu hummed in agreement. She was getting tired and didn't mind their slow, lazy movements. She close her eyes as just enjoyed then feeling of Cobra leading her around softly and the light music playing in the background like a lullaby. Her husband looked down at her.

"I think it's time we went to bed." He told her. She hummed again and Cobra stopped, shaking her lightly. "Come on. Gotta take the boys to bed too."

They walked over and each picked up a child. As they walked away Erza came up to them, she held out a key with a number in it.

Natsu took it. "What's this?"

"A room down at the guild halls dorm rooms. It's just a little farther up the hill. I got payed for you."

"Thanks Erza." The pinkette smiled kindly.

Erza smiled back. "Anytime." Natsu took the key and she and Cobra started to head out of the guild.

"Oh and Natsu..." The Titania called after her friend.

Natsu stopped and glanced back.

"It really is good to have you back."

The fire dragon slayer smiled again, but more sadly this time. Before she turned and left with her family to their temporary home.