The Fallout 8

I know, I know. I'm sorry for the long wait, but thank your for putting up with me!

Happy

Elfman stepped back to admire his work. Despite everything that had happened, he managed to redeem himself. People weren't scared of him and began to trust him more.

He vowed to put his strength to use and started his own build and repair business. Today, he had been asked to repair a statue in the town. Someone had sculpted a piece of work called Angel that had deteriorated after a while. The statue was very beautiful, it was a woman with long flowing hair and angel wings. She wore a sweet smile and her hands reached outward in a welcoming motion.

It reminded him of them. Quickly shaking the thoughts from his head, Elfman reported back to the man that requested his help.

"Elfman! Need a ride?" a sports car pulled up beside him. Jet was one of Elfman's friends. He was a slim man that was always the fastest person he knew. Back in college, there was one man that challenged his ability, a man named Sawyer. However, it seemed that he had cheated and was disqualified.

"Sure," Elfman hopped into the car and Jet revved up the engine again. He had a fascination of fast card along with his speed.

"I'm stopping at Droy's quickly to pick up something, you can wait here right?" Jet pulled up to a curb where a quaint gardening shop sat. Droy was another friend of Elfman. He was an expert when it came to growing things and he was also a foodie.

"It's man to wait!" Elfman grinned. He pulled a picture out of his pocket and blew off the dust on it. "Nee-san, Lisanna, I think I've manned up. If I could see you again, I'd say sorry a hundred times over," he smiled and gently placed the picture in his pocket.

Mira waited patiently for Juvia to arrive. She squealed as she began to decide exactly how the two would meet the next time.

"Mira-san!" Juvia's voice called. Mira turned to see Juvia flying towards her with a flushed face.

"Did you leave the object of love there?" Mira asked excitedly.

Juvia nodded, but she grabbed Mira by the shoulders and began shaking her violently, "But Mira-san! Juvia met him! Juvia met her prince charming!" Juvia let go of Mira and clasped her hands together with a dreamy look in her eyes.

"Really? I'm happy for you, but-"

"But oh no! Juvia's prince charming has already been taken!" Juvia wailed dramatically.

"By who?" Mira asked with a slight smirk. She decided to humour Juvia until either Gajeel or the shrimp showed up.

"With Natsu-san! He is a love rival having forbidden boy love with Juvia's prince charming!" Juvia began to sob.

"I-I don't think whoever your prince is likes Natsu. I can only name a few who would like Natsu romantically," Mira sweat dropped.

"No! Juvia saw that Gray-sama and Natsu-san were for each other!" Juvia's tears began to stream down her face heavily.

"Gray? Juvia, I don't think Natsu likes Gray..." Mira sighed.

"That's what Natsu-san said as well, but Juvia knows! She will not be fazed by the lies of love rivals!" Juvia declared.

"Very well Juvia. Right now we should hide," Mira gestured for Juvia to join her behind a mound of rocks. The two waited-okay, Juvia wasn't even paying attention, her thoughts were on a certain raven-haired angel-patiently for someone to show up.

A small figure came into view and Mira tapped on Juvia's arm excitedly to grab her attention. Juvia vaguely noticed the small vial that Mira was holding at that moment. "It's Levy!" Mira exclaimed.

"Juvia knows, but why is Levy-san here?" Juvia asked.

"So you really didn't pick up my hints?" Mira said with half-hearted disappointment.

"Hints?" Juvia replied innocently.

Mira didn't have time to explain as another figure came barrelling into the scene shouting, "Rain Woman!"

Juvia whipped her head around, only to notice that Gajeel hadn't spotted them, but was flying towards Levy instead. It was an easy mistake, since the two both wore dressed and had blue hair.

"Gajeel?" Levy said quietly. She cocked her head to the side in confusion.

"Take it! Here! You wanted this right?" Gajeel thrust a cute teddy bear that had a red heart etched into the left side of his chest.

"Um, excuse me?" Levy asked confused.

"Wait, you ain't Rain Woman. You're the shrimp," Gajeel said with realization. Levy rolled her eyes and plucked the bear out of his hands.

"No, you big lug. Why did Juvia request this? Where did you get it anywa-"

"I don't know!" Gajeel cut in, wanting avoid the petite girls' last question. "I was coming back home and found this letter in my stash."

Gajeel held out a small note with clean writing scribbled on it.

"Gajeel-kun, could you please meet Juvia at the cliff where you can see the sunset. Could you also bring Juvia your heart teddy?" Levy read aloud.

"Well why are you here, shrimp?" Gajeel asked.

Levy was going to scold him for calling her the ridiculous nickname he had for her, but decided against it. After all the other thirty-four times didn't work, why would this one? "Well, Lu-chan told me she had found something here and told me to meet her. She just had to grab something so she'd be late," Levy explained.

The two sat in comfortable silence, each waiting for the other party. They both ended up sitting back to back, while waiting.

"Mira-san, how did you know that Lucy had found something?" Juvia asked.

Mira placed a finger over Juvia's mouth to silence her then closed her eyes. With a poof Lucy stood in front of Juvia instead of Mira.

"Right, Juvia forgot," Juvia smiled, trying to ignore Mira's fallen face. Juvia knew that Mira did feel bad about her inability to fight along side others. Juvia knew that demons were surprised that Mira could still change her appearance. Mira changed back to herself and simply watched over the couple.

"Lu-chan couldn't possibly be this late. I hope nothing had happened to her," Levy mumbled. Gajeel, being a dragon slayer, was able to hear her and agreed.

Mira bemoaned about how nothing was happening and had to be held back by Juvia when she planned to "spice things up." Apparently the vial was a potion in which someone would show their true feelings to someone.

Though, after a few minutes, Gajeel turned his head to the side, "Hey, Shrimp..."

Levy whipped her head in response and their lips met. Levy-aghast-shrieked and crawled backwards. Gajeel felt his cheeks heat up and he left his mouth agape in shock.

"Y-you were saying?" Levy squeaked.

"Uh, did you bring one of those book things?" Gajeel managed to cough out.

"Er, yeah. Did you want to read one?" Levy pulled out a thick book from her space pocket. Sometimes, when Gajeel was sent as a messenger, she and him would read fairy tales together for a bit. Levy's wings wouldn't turn grey because enjoying time with someone wasn't considered a sin. She thoroughly enjoyed Gajeel's company, but she knew that they couldn't be caught.

Mira watched excitedly, her eyes watering a little bit. "Alright, let's leave them alone for now," she whispered. A devilish grin grew on her face, "We can bully Gajeel into telling us everything later."

Natsu was really questioning what he had said to Lucy. It had an affect on her and they both knew exactly what he meant by it. Did that mean that he should feel the same way? Girls were confusing, that was all Natsu really knew.

He shook his head and strolled into the bar to see Cana, Mira, Laki and Juvia talking.

"Oh, it's just Natsu," Cana waved him off and went back to gossiping.

"What do you mean, just Natsu?" he growled.

"We're waiting for Gajeel-kun," Juvia piped up.

"What, am I not as important as him?" Natsu half-teased.

"Right now, yes," Mira smiled innocently.

Natsu growled, but knew better than to punch them. Erza would kill him after all.

"Heard that Salamander?" a gruff voice said from behind, "I'm more important than ya."

Natsu turned to see Gajeel smirking. Natsu immediately went to go punch him, but Gajeel dodged and turned his arm to iron. Natsu scowled and quickly let out bursts of fire towards Gajeel.

Before Natsu could attack Gajeel again, a piece of wood curled around his iron arm and pulled him to the girls.

"What the hell?" Gajeel mumbled. Mira pushed him onto a bar stool.

"Nice wood make Laki," Evergreen complimented. Laki smiled in return and snapped her fingers. More wood surrounded Gajeel, it trapped his arms from moving as well as his legs. The wood bound itself to the chair so Gajeel couldn't even stand up.

"What the-I don't wanna be part of your kinky shit!" Gajeel screamed.

"Paper beats rock," Laki laughed. So did Cana, but she was also drunk...

"I'm iron," Gajeel deadpanned.

"Now Gajeel, we have lots of important things we need to discuss," Mira said in a terrifyingly sweet voice.

"What about me!?" Natsu demanded.

"Meh," Cana said before she took a swig from her mug. Natsu punched an unfortunate pillar and stormed out of the guild hall.

He flew into the Mortal Realm mumbling. How could Gajeel be more important than him? He was an ass! His face pulled into a sour pout as he flew aimlessly.

He looked around to see Mystogan fighting over a soul with someone. It looked as if he was winning. Natsu silently cheered for him. Mystogan didn't really talk much. In fact, he rarely came into the guild, but he was a good guy.

Mystogan was always helping around. If some big problem was going on, he would miraculously solve it. If someone was lonely, he would hang out with them. Mystogan had a way of gaining people's trust just by being around them.

"Natsu! Heads up!" a voice called. Natsu looked up to see a spherical object plummeting down, about three feet from his face. Before he could move he found the object make contact with his face and Narsu fell down.

He could hear the light giggling of someone approaching, "Well, I tried," the voice said.

"Oh shaddup Luigi," Natsu groaned. He forced the object off of him and looked at it curiously.

"Don't call me that!" Lucy screeched.

"Alright, Weirdo," Natsu grinned at her then turned back to the object.

Lucy groaned at Natsu's childish behaviour, but ignored it. "It looks like an egg."

"Cool! A dragon egg!" Natsu grabbed the egg and began to violently shake it.

"Natsu! You're going to hurt whatever is inside!" Lucy chided.

"But dragon's won't get hurt from this," Natsu whined before he began to shake it again.

"Natsu, I don't think there's a dragon in there," Lucy replied skeptically.

"But what else would come in an egg this big?" Natsu asked. Lucy had to give him that. The egg was rather big, around the size of her torso. It had a strange blue pattern on it.

"I'm not too sure. I don't really trust you with that to be honest," Lucy said.

"What? Why?" Natsu hugged the egg close as if Lucy was going to steal it from him.

"I can't imagine you successfully raising another life. Whenever I try to picture it in my head, it ends in flames and explosions," she grinned bashfully. With that, she swiped the egg out of Natsu's hands.

"Hey!" Natsu shrieked and tried to grab the egg, but Lucy swivelled out of the way.

"I'll be taking this, maybe Lisanna can help, she's always had a thing for animals," Lucy thought aloud.

"And what makes you think that he'll want you to raise him? What if he wants me to raise him?" Natsu tried to argue.

"Because, us angels are a symbol of life. You demons are the very representation of-"

"Shut up!" Natsu shouted. He looked as if he wanted to punch something with his fists clenched at his side.

"You...don't even know what I was going to say," Lucy said taken aback by his outcry.

"I do, it doesn't take a damn genius to figure it out! Death right? Isn't that always what everyone says? That's what you all think," Natsu's voice dripped with venom. He took advantage of Lucy's shocked state and grabbed the egg out of her hands.

"Natsu, I didn't mean it like tha-"

"But you did," Natsu cut her off again, "It's what you've all been taught right? You never questioned it."

Lucy couldn't respond. Something deep down inside of her knew that Natsu was right, but she was denying it.

"Y'know Luce, I thought you were different from them. I guess you really aren't," Natsu looked at her with genuine disappointment before flying off with the egg.

Lucy stood there with her mouth agape. It was true, she, along with every other angel believed that demons were creatures of evil. That they brought destructive from their horrible nature, that they did ungodly things.

But was that really true?

Natsu didn't do it. He was kind to her and was never really mean. It was easy to tell that he did mischievous things because of his friendly rivalry and he had to blow off steam sometimes too. He was all heart and kept his promises.

Lucy felt guilty for accusing him, stereotyping him. The feud between angels and demons wasn't good and evil, it was the unfair judgement that fuelled it. Lucy thought of all the mortal books she read of the struggle for equality. Was this what the angels were to doing to the demons? Judging them without firsthand knowledge? Stereotyping them because of their wings and where they lived?

Oh gods, we're as bad as the mortals!

Quickly coming to her senses, Lucy spread her large wings and flew in the direction Natsu went, hoping that he hadn't gone into Hell.

"Ultear?" Wendy asked curiously.

"Apparently she was an angel. They think she was captured," Romeo explained. Wendy couldn't help but let her eyes take a wander. Instead of an adorable six year old, Romeo was now her age. And instead of tiny little limbs, Romeo had muscle.

"And they used her to change you?" Wendy asked.

"Yeah. They might've made her do more even. Time magic is powerful, so really anything could happen," Romeo shrugged.

"Ultear..." Wendy repeated the name. She was a new angel so of course she had no idea who she was. Maybe someone else did?

Romeo and anther man named Laxus had come into Heaven, claiming they had important information. It turned out that they were explaining Romeo's incident and that both realms should be cautious.

"Alright kid, let's go before Erza thinks I've started a fight and chops my balls off," Laxus' gruff voice sighed. He had just come out of the gates from the courtyard.

"Sure, bye Wendy-nee!" Romeo smiled.

"Remember, you're the same age as me. We went over this before, didn't we?" Wendy said awkwardly.

"Okay, Wendy-san," he grinned.

"Bye Romeo-kun!" Wendy waved as he and Laxus stepped into a portal.

Natsu should've known. It didn't matter how much of an arse Laxus was, his words were true. The angels really did look down upon them.

As much as everyone would argue against him, Natsu wasn't stupid. At least, not very. He knew that going into Hell would not only be too hot for the egg, but others may try to take it from him! He decided to hide out in a small cave. Gathering straw from the ground, Natsu made a makeshift nest for the egg and patiently watched it for a good three minutes.

Then he combusted into flames and covered the egg with it.

"Natsu!" a voice cried out in a scolding tone. He looked up to see Lucy.

"What do you want?" he asked annoyed.

"I'm really sorry! I'll give you a formal apology soon, just stop burning the egg!" Lucy reached into the flames and grabbed the egg from Natsu.

"Lucy!" Natsu shouted. Lucy thought it was because she took his egg, but then noticed the second-degree burns on her hand.

"Shit! Don't do that!" Natsu gently grabbed one hand and took a good look at it with worry. He grabbed the egg and put it down where the straw nest was.

"Natsu I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult you like that. I didn't mean insult any demons! It's true what you said. I'm sure nearly all of us think that, and I know it's horrible. I'm just so sorry! I don't really know what to sa-"

"It's okay," Natsu cut her off. He looked at her with earnest eyes. "Uh, you're gonna wanna get that checked out," he gestured to her burns.

"Anyways, we better take care of this egg," Lucy started. Natsu immediately lighted his fist.

"No! Natsu, we need to warm it slowly and gently," Lucy said hastily.

"But Lu~cy! That takes too long!" Natsu whined.

"Oh come on Natsu! Good things come to those who wait," Lucy sighed and went over to the egg. She summoned a girl with pink hair and a funny dress.

"Virgo, would you be as kind as to fetch me a blanket?" she asked politely. The girl bowed and disappeared.

"She just goes away like that!?" Natsu said confused. Why didn't she give Lucy a blanket?

"Natsu, Virgo can't just pull a random blanket out of nowhere. She's going to get it right now," Lucy rolled her eyes.

"How long do ya think it'll take for him to hatch?" Natsu asked. He crouched next to the egg and inspected it.

"You've already decided it's a him?" Lucy raised an eyebrow.

"Well yeah," Natsu said with a certainty that Lucy smiled at. If there was anything that stood out from Natsu more than his hair was his determination. It was admirable, though Lucy had overheard Erza and Laxus complaining about him being too stubborn.

"I suppose one week, maybe more," Lucy took a guess. She had only read a few books about eggs. Her fascination was mortals. She treated their history of Medieval Times and many wars as fictional stories. In the back of her head, she knew that they were real.

"One week!?" Natsu shouted, "I don't wanna wait that long," he whined.

His mumbling was interrupted by another voice. "Hime, I have brought you the most comfortable blanket. It is made from Thread of Fate. It was given to the Celestial Spirit King after he saved the thread for the sisters," Virgo handed Lucy a blanket then disappeared.

"The Thread of Fate?" Natsu asked as he watched Lucy lay the blanket over the egg.

Lucy used her hands to gently rub the egg with the blanket to provide warmth. "I suppose that you've never heard that story, have you?" Natsu shook his head and followed Lucy in rubbing the egg.

"Well, every mortal has a life. The Sisters of Fate control that life. A mortal's life is represented by string, which we call the String of Fate. Clotho, the first sister, weaves the thread to begin life. Lahkesis embellishes the thread, which decides what will occur in a mortal's life. Finally, Atropos cuts the thread, ending the mortal's life," Lucy explained. The entire story seemed to have flown over Natsu's head as he stared blankly at her.

"Oh okay," he mumbled.

"Well, I have to get back. We can come back tomorrow, okay?" Lucy offered.

"Sure," Natsu helped her up and the two started to walk out of the cave.

"Have you seen Lu-chan anywhere?" Levy asked the currently half-naked man. Why hadn't she shown at the cliff?

"Nope, I've been training anyway," Gray answered.

"Oh right, you've got the exam. When is it?"

"A couple of days," Gray said nonchalantly.

"As in two days, or more than two?" Levy inquired.

"Don't get all smart on me. Y'know that I'm just using it as a general term," Gray sighed.

"Of course," Levy laughed.

"Levy-san!" a voice cried. The two turned to see Wendy flying towards them.

"Have you heard about what happened to Romeo-kun?" she asked between pants.

"No, what happened?" Levy asked with worry.

Wendy went into her explanation from what she'd heard so far. Both Gray and Levy had horrified faces on as Wendy continued to tell the story. "And Romeo-kun told me that these people captured and angel named Ultear!" she finished with a burst.

Gray's face went white as he heard that name. It reverberated in his head and flashes of destruction flew into his mind. A woman appeared with short purple hair. She stood in front of him with a smiling face. "Gray," she said. "Gray," she said again.

"Gray!" a yell and a shake brought him back. Levy was waving her hand in front of his face.

"Yeah, what's up?" he shook his head and looked down at Levy.

"I was just making sure you were okay," Levy sighed.

"Levy!" another angel came towards them.

"Hello Jellal-san," Wendy greeted.

"Hello Wendy," he smiled back, but looked to Levy. "Levy, I need your help. You spend lots of time in the library. Do you know of we keep any records there or something? Please?" Jellal asked with wide eyes.

Levy and Jellal left Wendy and Gray alone as she led him to the library. They flew through the high shelves and eventually, they reached a small door near the back of the building.

"I'm not supposed to show anyone this, but the look on you face tells me that this is important," Levy flicked her wrist and the door unhinged. She opened it and led him inside.

"Welcome to The Archives."

It was Natsu that heard it first, thanks to his enhanced hearing. He looked back, but turned around. But the sound started to get to him, like an itch he couldn't reach. The sound was akin to a rattle.

"Can you hear that?" he grabbed Lucy's forearm and stilled her.

"Hear what?" Lucy replied.

Natsu didn't respond, he simply dragged her back to the egg. He motioned for her to listen to it closely. The rattling sound grew louder here.

"Well? Do you hear it?" Natsu urged. Lucy nodded in response. They waited when a new sound chimed. This time it was more like a crack. Lucy hastily pulled off the blanket to see small cracks at the top of the egg.

Lucy could see Natsu's tail waving up and down like an excited dog. She stifled a laugh and the two watched and more cracks appeared in the egg.

Lucy felt herself so close to Natsu as they hovered over the egg in anticipation. With one last crack the egg burst open and a small blue figure with angelic wings emerged.

"Aye!" it said cutely.

"It's so cute!" Lucy exclaimed. Nasty agreed wordlessly, but his hyper-wagging tail did all the talking for him.

They both made a leap for a hug when the sneaky creature flew out of the way. Lucy and Natsu crashed into each other and fell down with Lucy on top.

The creature giggled, "Aye!"

Lucy blushed at the position and scrambled to her feet.

"Let's name him Happy!" Natsu decided out of the blue. The cat-like creature with azure fur flew down to Natsu.

"Happy?" Lucy cocked her head to the side.

"Yeah! 'Cuz he makes us happy!"

"Aye!" Happy agreed.

"Y'know, he kinda looks like Lily, but Lily had demon wings as soon as Metal-Face decided to keep him," Natsu rambled. Happy cutely settled into a nook in his scarf, sleeping.

The three emerged from the cave and said their farewells.

"I think he wants to stay with you. He seems to like you the most," Lucy reached to pet Happy.

"I'm sure he likes you too," Natsu flashed a lopsided smile and flew off.

"You llllllllllike her!" Happy squealed.

"Aye," Natsu found himself saying under his breath.

Eeep, Natsu admitted it! I know this chapter might be a bit shorter than others. So sorry!

The Sisters of Fate is a true story in Greek Mythology in case y'all were wondering! Apologies if any information about them was wrong.

Thanks for reading!