Cornelius Caesar Dragneel

A/N: I'm gonna be 100% with you guys, doing these kinds of stories is perhaps the most fun thing I do on this site. Like maybe I should dump all these one shots into a story so there's one place to find them? Maybe I will. But anyways, to the story, I have designed this kid to be like Joseph Joestar from JJBA. I just love him.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Fairy Tail series or any characters in said series.

Warnings: High intensity

"I don't know about this..." - Regular Speech

'I need to get back!' - Regular Thought

"Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora!" - Attack

"The Northern Fortress, Monday 2:36 p.m." - Place Setting

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17 Years into the Future...

Fairy Tail Guildhall, Saturday 7:44 p.m.

"This is you last warning..." A fairly older but still stunning Mirajane Strauss crossed her arms, greatly displeased with the young man in front of her. She was very close to just throwing him out on his ass and suspending him from the guild for an entire month. She had gotten way too many complaints concerning him recently and it was starting to turn into a real issue.

Honestly, with how far she's come in life, almost forty years old now, Mira was about ready to quit and find a new job. She loved Fairy Tail deeply but the recent problems with the young man in front of her and the fact his parents won't step in was really killing her on the inside.

"Stop cheating people or I'm going to have to tell your parents!" Mira threatened, knowing how little effect it would have on him but she had to try anything to give off the appearance of authority.

"Now now Mira-san..." The teen smirked as he kicked his feet up on the table and leaned back in his seat. "You know mom and dad don't give a damn as long as I stay out of their hair during their 'special time'." He said, using his fingers for air quotes around special time.

Mira refused to let her shoulders slump and give him any sign of her giving up. "Then just you wait till Erza gets back, I know she won't stand to have you harassing paying customers."

"Last I checked, Erza was halfway across the country on vacation with Wendy." He smirked.

Reluctantly, Mira huffed before turning tail and stomping off to her post behind the bar.

Lucy, who still to this day stayed a bachelorette, saw her long time friend in such a heated mood and decided to speak up. "Geez, when his parents are here, he's such a good kid. It's only when they leave that he turns into this hustling brat." She commented.

"Tell me about it, Lucy. It's such a nuisance!" Picking up a dirty mug, Mira looked at the blonde with a desperate look. "Please, go get his parents and try to get them down here to set him straight." The white haired woman pleaded.

Sighing, Lucy stood up. "I gu-"

"Sit down Luce." Gray said as he walked up behind her. "If flame-brain's offspring won't leave, I'll make him."

Lucy and Mira smiled at the Ice Mage. Leave it to him to try and pick up after Natsu.

With confidence in his step, Gray walked over to the con man. "Hey kid!" He called out which quickly drew attention from various others in the room who immediately stopped what they were doing, ready to see the little punk get what's coming to him. "Be honest, how much money have you earned in the past hour!"

With a smirk too sleazy for his own good, the young man reached beside him and hefted up a rather large coin purse. "A little under ten thousand jewels and some nifty little trinkets from those who bet more than they had." He stated with no hesitance.

Gray actually laughed, which surprised everyone in the room. "You're a confident little shit, ain't ya?" He chuckled as he walked closer.

"Momma always taught me to be upfront and honest!" He shrugged.

When Gray now stood in front of the boy before crouching, getting close enough to where there faces were only a few centimeters apart from each other's. They began to whisper so now one would hear their conversation. Of course, that annoyed a lot of people as well as Lucy and Mira. Just what were they talking about?

Before anyone could question the secrecy, their little meeting ended with both men standing up... and the teen handing the bag over to Gray! Everyone's money was saved! It was a miracle!

"Eh!" The teen shrugged. "This place was getting boring anyways!" He claimed as he made for the door.

As he walked past the tables, multiple people either gave him disapproving stares or even blatantly telling him less than polite insults. Of course, the young man didn't look bothered in the slightest, merely giving them a chuckle as he walked out, looking for more trouble.

Gray walked back to the bar with a triumphant smirk on his face. "Give me a tall ale please, Mira!" He grinned.

Mira and Lucy just looked at him in bewilderment.

"How?" The barmaid wondered aloud. "How could you get him out so easily?"

Gray sat down and didn't even look at them. "Oh nothing too special, just some words between men."

Mira wasn't happy with that answer. "Tell me or I'm telling Juvia that you used to sleep with a stuffed animal." She threatened.

That changed Gray's mind real quick.

"I may have told him where he could sneak into a strip club..." Gray rubbed the back of his neck.

"Ugh!" Lucy snorted in disgust. "You're such pigs!"

"Well then oink oink." Gray said before taking a sip of his ale.

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Magnolia Jail House, Sunday 9:28 a.m.

"Cornelius Caesar Dragneel, his friends call him Caesar. We found him out in an alleyway behind a gentleman's club, completely wasted and muttering some girl's name. Now it isn't illegal for him to be drinking at his age but we couldn't have him just lying there in the streets in the middle of the night." The Magnolia Police Officer explained as he read off the list to the two people sitting in front of him. Well, three if you count their child. "Total bail amount comes out to roughly four hundred jewels." He read.

"I'm gonna kill him!" Natsu shouted out angrily as he forked over the cash. "I'm serious! You might as well lock me up now!" He said.

Cana had to cover their daughter's ears as her husband went off on a tirade. She probably should have left Natasha at home or at least let Lucy watch after her. But her poor little girl was worried sick about her big brother all night long and almost jumped to the door when Natsu came back from the guild this morning, yelling about his son getting arrested.

"I'm sorry about him." Cana apologized to the officer. "He gets a little heated when it comes to Caesar."

"Now worries ma'am." The officer said before running his chin. "I oughta let him though, with all due respect ma'am, that bastard son of yours cheated me out of my hard earned paycheck last night." He revealed.

Cana smirked internally when she heard that. 'That's my boy, scam anyone and everyone.' Now perhaps Cana should not have been condoning this behavior out of her son but at this point it was almost too funny for her to see her boy work people like a puppet master.

"Sorry about that sir." She batted her pretty little eyelashes at him to feign pity. "He was such a good kid, I don't know how he ended up like this!" She acted.

Whether the officer bought Cana's remarkable acting skills, she did not know, but he stood up and walked towards the door leading to the cells.

"Mama, are we going to go see Caesar now?" Claudia, their five year old daughter, asked Cana while pulling on her hand.

Cana just patted their youngest child on the head. "Yes sweetie. Well, that is if he hasn't been brutally sodomized yet." Cana joked.

"So-do-mize-d?" Claudia questioned, not understanding the new word.

Natsu, who was still a little heated, came up behind his daughter and lifted her up onto his shoulders. "Something your mother used to be into when she was actually fun to be around." Natsu grinned cheekily.

Cana swatted him on the shoulder. "Shut up! I'm still fun!" The brown haired mother defended herself.

"Prove it!" Natsu leaned down, staring at her with bedroom eyes.

Cana got the message loud and clear. "Oh trust me, I will! Maybe I'll see if we can rent out a cell for a little bit." She purred seductively.

"Hey!" The officer looked back at them. "Far be it from me to judge your obvious bad parenting skills, but you should probably follow me to your son." He interjected politely.

"Right." Natsu and Cana both dropped their prior conversation and nodded their heads before falling in step behind the officer.

The officer looked behind him as he walked down the hall filled with cells, making sure the two were behind him. "Now I will warm you, he was in a sorry state when we found him so I can only imagine how he looks now." He warned.

Cana scoffed. "Don't worry pal, we're from Fairy Tail so we're used to seeing messed up things." She told him.

"Mhm, understood." The officer grunted. "Well, cell number sixteen. Here he is." He said curtly, using his hand to gesture inside.

Natsu and Cana's eyes widened as they saw their son. "Caesar!" They shouted in surprise.

"Big brother!" Claudia gasped as she ran to the bars and took a hold of them.

In the cell lay Cornelius Caesar Dragneel and... a bunch of items that he somehow obtained by unknown means.

"What?!" The officer yelled in surprise as he saw just what was in the cell. "How did he get all of this junk! We left him here under guard surveillance! This is impossible!"

The man in the cell just chuckled as he played with a deck of cards in his hand, nonchalantly flipping them back and forth. "That's the thing mister, I can make the impossible, possible."

The guard then looked at his family. "What is his magic specialty?! Tell me!" He demanded.

"I-I don't know! He hasn't shown any interest in magic so far!" Natsu swore up and down, pretty nervous for both his well being and his son's. "Cana, do you know?" He asked his wife.

Cana shook her head, still surprised by what she was seeing. "No... I was thinking he wanted to learn Card Magic like me but that might not be the case."

The officer grit his teeth and began to fumble with his keys, looking for the one to open this cell.

"Yoo-hoo!" Caesar grinned cheekily, playing with a key between his fingers after he set the deck down. "I think the one you're looking for is this one!" He said.

"Wha?" The guard stepped back in disbelief. "How did you get that when it was-"

"On your belt?" Caesar finished. "Well let's start from the basics, shall we?" He grinned as his parents and the officer were beginning to get annoyed. "I specialize in Stealth Magic. I was never one for flashy displays of power like Gray or even you dad. The thing that really gets me is the skill of deception, being to fool one right before their eyes."

Natsu narrowed his eyes. 'Like that son of a bitch Jacob Lessio who worked for Zeref...' He thought, remembering back to the incident that happened over twenty years ago. "Tell me Caesar, how did you learn this magic."

"I'm glad you asked father!" Caesar clapped. "A strange man who wore a checkered hat and a bow tie. He wouldn't tell me his name but I knew he must've been wise. But yes, he taught me the basics and soon I mastered it."

"So that's how you always seem to con people out of their money..." Cana lowered her expression. "Here I thought you won fair and square, but now that I see-"

"No mom." Caesar cut her off as he stood up. "You didn't raise a cheater. You raised a gambler. The truth is, I beat them fair and square, have a bit of fun with them and tease them, but I always return the money and earnings at the end of the day. I don't play for the thrill of taking something from others, I enjoy the feeling of victory and that alone is my reward." Caesar revealed.

"Yeah right, then what's all that shit!" The officer exclaimed, pointing at the loads of treasure.

Caesar titled his head and glared at the man. "Funny. You don't recognize this? Even after it came from your confiscation chest?" The son of Natsu and Cana revealed. "Well that surprises me given how you extort these items out of people who have been wrongfully accused."

"What?!" Natsu and Cana's eyes widened as they heard that.

"Dad, I'm not the one who should be punished. It should be this son of a bitch who frames the poor and cheats them out of their family heirlooms!" Caesar yelled. "I know it's true! Uncle Gray told me so!"

Natsu turned to the shocked man and brandished his fists without a word.

"Now now!" The officer began to slowly step back in fear. "Who are you going to trust, me? Or your son who was caught behind a whorehouse?"

Natsu cracked his fists. "I don't need to know why my son was where he was last night, I'll find that out later, but I trust him. If he says a man is being a no good, lying and cheating son of a bitch, I'll take his word for it!"

Claudia looked up to Cana and hugged her. "Mommy? Is daddy going to beat that guy up?"

Cana covered her little girl's eyes with her hands. "Shh, don't look sweetie. And turn around, I don't want you getting blood on your new dress."

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Path to the Dragneel House, Sunday 10:31 a.m.

"Son." Natsu looked over at his eldest child and crossed his arms behind his head. "I'm proud of you."

"For what?" Caesar asked with a knowing smirk on his face and a small blush as well.

"For listening to your Uncle Gray and trying to do the right thing by getting caught so you could infiltrate their circle from the inside. You revealed an extortion rig that many of us didn't know about. It takes a lot of guys to do that and sleep in the cell all night." The pink haired man said.

"And for finding your own Magic." Cana spoke up and she carried her daughter. "You knew that you didn't have to follow your father or me, so you traveled your own path. That takes guts."

Caesar just whistled. "Well, all in a day's work!" He boasted.

The family laughed for a moment before letting a calm silence fall onto them. Well, it was calm until Caesar spoke up again.

"Wait, I have to be honest..." He said reluctantly.

Natsu and Cana looked at him with surprised looks. "About what?" They asked.

"I actually didn't plan to get caught at the brothel, I actually planned to sneak into the jail. Everything just sort of fell into place..." He revealed.

"Wait..." Natsu's eyes widened.

"Then that means..." Cana realized.

"YOU WENT TO A BROTHEL JUST BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO!" They yelled to which he and his little sister flinched at their tone.

"Cornelius Caesar Dragneel!" Cana yelled at the top of her lungs.

"You are so grounded!" Natsu bellowed.

Caesar groaned before slumping his shoulders. "Just what I get for trying to play the part of an honest hero..."

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A/N: So that is how I envision Natsu and Cana's family to be like. I'm almost positive that they would have multiple children. Now, await the next chapter and the mystery of which girl I will choose next!