Chapter Twenty Five

-Tongue Tied-

Laxus and Rogue looked up at the door to see Natsu Dragneel.

"Natsu…?" Laxus questioned and Natsu snarled.

"Just because I forgave you for trying to hurt the guild, doesn't mean I'll ever forget what you did to my Nii-chan! You know you got her pregnant, Laxus?!"

"PREGNANT?!" He repeated in shock. Natsu just glared and look down at Rogue.

"Go on. Get cleaned up, Man. Fuyu would have a heart attack if she saw you like that."

Rogue nodded and gave one last glance to the lightning mage, "I'll be damned if my little sister calls you 'daddy'." Was all he said before leaving the room in a chilled fringe. Natsu heard the door close and sighed. At least the kid was away from this beast. He actually hit a child, blood was streaming from Rogue's nose, Laxus couldn't lie about it. Natsu's attention was on the lacrima card and then back to Laxus.

"You saw those two kids? They were orphans before Fuyu came along. She says that those boys are her boys. You just beat one of her kids, Laxus. For what? What could he have possibly said for you to hit a TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY?!" Natsu yelled and Laxus bit down on his jaw.

All he had wanted was to see Fuyu. To apologize. To tell her to give him a chance, and he could make all the drama dissappear. Yet low and behold here he was, creating more drama.

"What did he say? Huh, Laxus? Did he talk to you about how you raped his mother?…How you used most dragons' weaknesses? Let me explain something to you, Bastard. Obviously you are outta the loop about our kind."

"Mating season is sacred to us, Laxus. Even more so when you're a virgin. The guys are double standardized. We can sleep with as many women as we want, as long as there not a fellow dragon. Women are expected to at least love the guy they give it up to. And by the spirits, Bitch, I pray that she loved you in some type of way. Or else when Kou comes back and hears that his daughter was raped by a FAKE dragon, hell is gonna rain down."

With that Natsu stepped on the lacrima that was embedded into the card before Laxus could retaliate.

Outside the door, Gajeel stood. Unabashedly listning to the whole thing. Natsu did good on handling him, he had to admit.

Natsu walked out and nodded to the other dragon slayer.

"Porlyusica is here. There gonna start now. She wants the kids out of the house."

Natsu nodded and walked into the room Fuyu was occupying.

"Be strong, Nii-San!" He yelled and Fuyu just nodded.

"Watch my kids if your going outside you two!"

Sting, Rogue and Wendy followed the two older dragon slayer's with confused eyes. What was so important that they needed to tell them?

The older dragons stopped and said they would sit in this clearing. "Everybody find some sticks, I'll start a fire. It's getting dark." Natsu announced and the small group got on it. Soon enough a fire was started with a blow of breath and everyone sat around the warmth, the kids flinching at Fuyu's screams from the house a few yards back.

"So what's this about Gajeel-San? Natsu-San?" Wendy questioned, playing with her blue pony tail anxiously. Sting and Rogue looked on expectantly, the two also wondering what the sudden dragon meeting was about. In the distance they heard Fuyu curse and scream again, promising to castrate Laxus. Despite the situation, Gajeel and Natsu chuckled.

"Did your dragons teach you about mating season, you three?" Natsu asked and Wendy and Sting shook there heads. Rogue shrugged in a 'sort of' manner.

"What did your dragon teach you?" Gajeel questioned Rogue and Rogue looked away with a tiny blush forming. Gajeel chuckled, it had to be something good.

"Only that when I have intercourse with a woman it will most likely be 'the one'." Rogue answered and Wendy and Sting blushed.

"Wait! We're having the sex talk?! Noooo! I hardly even know you guys!" Sting yelled which made the two men bark with laughter. They were the same way when there dragons taught them the 'talk'. Wendy shook her head and looked down at her toes in embarrassment.

"U-u-mm I-I-I hardl-l-ly k-k-know w-what s-s-s-s-sex is!" Wendy exclaimed which made it even funnier for Gajeel. Something about tormenting these kids was priceless!

"Well, Wendy, what do you know?" Natsu asked softly with a gentle smile. Wendy's blush grew ten fold and she looked back in the direction of the house.

"Erza-San and Lucy-San said it was when two people that loved each other slept together in the same bed with their clothes off and hold each other close."

"I think that's the aftermath of sex." Sting muttered and Gajeel gave his weird 'gi-hee'.

"Well, uh… yeah Sting had a point, that's more of after the activities." Natsu coughed and Wendy blinked.

"Then what is sex?"

The explanation Gajeel gave would scar the children for the rest of their lives.

"OLD MAN!"

Makarov looked up from his papers, a bit surprised to hear from his grandson so soon. He banished him from the guild, what was he doing here? "What is it, child?" He questioned, placing his pen on the desk. He looked up at the blonde and rose a brow. His grand son looked very enraged, although when in the hell did he not look that?

"Why didn't anyone tell me Fuyu was pregnant?!"

Gramps blinked in surprise but then looked away towards the window. Hearing Laxus's lightning, he turned back around to see him pacing the room.

"Why?! Why didn't you tell me?! I know Fuyu is still pissed with me. Why wouldn't she be? I stole her virginity and replaced it with a kid! But since involuntarily or voluntarily, it takes two to tango. THAT'S MY CHILD! Shouldn't I at least know about what could very well be my only kid for the rest of my life? Am I that much of a waste of space? That I'm not suppose to be able to know if I could help them to the best of my ability?"

Gramps stood and walked around his desk. He knew very well that Mirajane was downstairs, fixing up the guild since it was closed for the night. He could already tell Laxus was on the path to better, thinking about fixing his repercussions for soft endings. His blonde grandson generally looked worried, biting a thumbnail and orange eyes on fire.

"All of those questions can not be answered with a simple yes or no. In fact, the only way to answer them is by asking more questions," Makarov looked up at the young man and icy blue met liquid lava. "Do you deserve to even speak of this child?"

Laxus stiffened. That was a blow, one that he deserved but still pained him. Laxus knew his grandfather wouldn't wait for him to recover, so he braced himself as fast as he could.

"Every one has meaning in this world, no matter how insignificant. Is your meaning good, Laxus?" Makarov paused slightly before continuing, "Your actions and words from the time Ivan was banished untill this very moment has done nothing but break hearts and trouble minds," it was paining Makarov to bunker down on him, but he had to be brought to reality. Even if he was worried about the child and Daiyu, it still inadvertently went back to him. It always did. "To be honest, I'd rather the girl grow up recognizing Fuyu as both mother and father. Sure, send child support. But you being that child's father may do more harm than love."

Makarov waited for Laxus's decision. What would he do now that he knew the brutality of living in the real world? Where everything would not always have a fairy tale ending. He could slip and turn rogue or even worse, dark like his father. Makarov prayed that wasn't the case. Though it was all up to Laxus, in that moment. The decision was in his hands to build a bridge and get over his past or to drown in the detrimental regime that ruled his mind.

And in that moment everything changed.

Laxus felt the pain of hurting his comrades, of uprooting Fuyu's life by his selfish desires by ten fold. His knees felt like buckling and his heart raced a mile a minute. Everything was his fault, it always was! Even so…

"No. I won't settle for that, Old Man."

Makarov stood there, waiting for his grandson to finish.

Laxus took a breath and began pacing the room, "I refuse to leave Daiyu and my kid alone. Hell, my father left me and look what happened. I will never end up like that bastard. My daughter WILL have a family, I'm sure. FairyTail will take care of that just fine. But that fleeting thought of where her dad is will NEVER cross her mind. Do you hear me?!"

Laxus stopped and faced Makarov with absolute determination in his eyes. "Never will she wonder if she did something wrong to make me leave. Like I did. Never will she ask Daiyu if her father hated her. Like I did with you. You can call me the worst scum and vile of the planet but at the end of the day… I won't follow in Ivan's footsteps."

Makarov nodded his approval a watery smile plastered on his aging face. "Very well, my boy. Take responsibility. Say hello to my great grandchild for me," Makarov hiccuped, clapping Laxus on the back. He then chuckled when Laxus wiped away a tear, emotions getting the better of him. Everyone needed to yell to get things out. It was a fact. At least in FairyTail's eyes.

Downstairs Mirajane and Macao smiled in satisfaction. Mirajane shared a toast with the purple fire mage as they both congradulated Laxus silently. Then they both realized something.

The aloof Laxus was going to be a father.