A few sun rays got through the bedroom window, waking Levy up. She stretched her arms and legs and rubbed the sleep off her eyes. She opened her eyes and looked to her side only to find an empty space. She sat up and called her lover's name but he was nowhere to be found. Instead, she saw a note that obviously he had left on his pillow. Levy covered her naked chest with the sheet and raised the letter to read it.
Morning Love,
by the time you wake up I'll be already gone. Be back in a couple of days.
Miss ya, your mate.
Levy blushed and held the piece of paper close to her heart.
The next two days at the guild were peaceful, without any major fights, since all the troublemakers were at Tenrou. Levy waited anxiously for his arrival but the doors never opened. No one would answer the communication lacrimas, so a team decided to go and check. Bad news arrived at the guild that day. Tenrou Island was vanished and so did everyone on it.
Levy fell on her knees, the tears pouring out of her eyes filled buckets. She felt a sharp pain in her heart. Were they dead? Were they alive? No one knew. And there were no clues how it happened. Levy ran to the port and shouted his name, expecting an answer. Again and again. She looked at her reflection on the water. She thought about falling in and drown. Her mate was missing and somehow she had no hope of him returning. She was going to do it until she felt something weird in her. Like her insides twitched. Soon she was puking her guts out.
Her suspicions were correct, after a visit to Porlyusica. She was pregnant. And Gajeel was the father. She once again walked to the port and shouted. "You big ass, if you don't come back to me and your child, I'll come there and drag you out of the sea myself!"
Levy had a lot of support during pregnancy and childbirth. Jet and Droy were too stubborn in the beginning because it was Gajeel's child after all, but then they realized that the mother was their beloved Levy. Bisca also was always there for her and Levy returned the favor, by helping during the green haired woman's pregnancy.
Nine months later, in a snowing winter night, Levy gave birth to a baby boy. The baby resembled Gajeel in his hair and red eyes, but had Levy's facial features. 'The best gift he could have given me.' That was what she described of her son.
Yukine was the name Levy chose, to reming her the day he was born. Yukine grew up with Romeo as his big brother, who he idolized, and Asuka as his little sister, who was also his weak spot. The boy also learned to use Solid Script, like his mother, but when he reached the age of five, he began to show some of the Gajeel part of himself.
Yukine, five years old.
"Mama!" The young boy rushed into the kitchen, crying.
"Baby, what happened?" Levy kneeled to his height.
"Look! What is happening to me?" He revealed his hand that was hidden behind his back. It was covered in iron scales.
Levy's eyes widened at the sight. "So you are a dragon slayer after all." She said proudly.
"What?" The boy dried some of his tears with his sleeve.
"Come sit here with mama, Yukine." Levy sat on the arm chair and her son climbed to sit on her lap. "This is magic, like Solid Script, only much more powerful and beautiful. It is the magic that daddy uses. I didn't know there kind of abilities were hereditary." Levy mumbled the last sentence to herself.
"Herer-?" He tried to say and Levy laughed.
"Hereditary. When a mommy or a daddy pass something to their children. This is what daddy passed on to you." Levy placed her palm on her son's iron covered one and he flinched. "See, they're nothing bad."
"You're right. But how will I turn my hand back to normal again?" He asked and looked at her.
"Well, first give mama a big hug." And he did. Levy caressed his back with one hand and his black hair with the other and rested her chin on his crown. "Think something that makes you calm and happy. And feel your magic energy flowing inside you. You already know how to do that."
The mother's soothing words calmed the boy and soon his hand was with flesh and bones again.
"Mama? If daddy's gift to me was his magic, what did he give to you?" He looked up, curious.
"He gave me you of course. And I couldn't have asked for a more perfect gift." Levy hugged him tightly. "Now go back to your room to play." She kissed his cheek.
Levy stood next to the window and gazed at the sea. She had left her apartment in Fairy Hills and moved in Gajeel's house, which had appropriate size, low rent and was in a good neighborhood for a single mother and her child. Tears reached her eyes as she remembered Gajeel and how much she wanted to have him there, so that they could be a family. "Please Gajeel. Come back to me soon. How will I manage now that I know he is a dragon slayer? I have missed you so much." She cried and cried and cried. They were missing for more than five years and hope fades after all this time.
Some weeks later, Fairy Tail was attacked by one of those guilds that were taunting it and its members. Almost all mages were down, only a few remained, amongst them Levy and Yukine. Two men held Levy from her hair and started hitting her, a sight that the boy was forced to watch.
"Mama!" He shouted.
"Yukine, don't look." Levy coughed.
"Leave her alone or else-" He was stopped by a kick to his stomach.
"NO!" Levy screamed. "Let him go. You can have me but let the boy go!" She pleaded but was not heard.
Yukine laid on the floor, barely able to move. He only picked his head up to see his mother being hit again. Anger rushed through his veins and his instincts took over him. In front of him was an iron plate, which he reached and bit. Levy saw how her son ate the iron and so did the attackers.
"A monster!" One said.
"No. An iron dragon slayer." Levy spat, knowing the stances that the boy had taken. She had seen them performed by his older duplicate.
"Iron dragon roar!" Yukine let out his roar, taking down some of the men, and giving an opening for the still conscious Fairy Tail wizards to counter attack.
After that moment, Levy added iron to Yukine's diet and trained with him every day.
A year later, the news that a hint of magic appeared at the spot that used to be Tenrou Island reached the guild and a team sailed there once more. Levy was not at the guild at that moment and so she didn't hear the news. It was another normal day for her. Again, a guild attacked Fairy Tail, but this time, all the missing members appeared at the doors. The guild hall was once again lively and full of people, after seven long years.
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