Mira

Laxus and I were walking around Magnolia trying to catch a glimpse of who we now knew were actually our children. I still couldn't believe that it was them. The last time I saw our Raiden and Mina they were so tiny. Raiden was 1 month shy of his second birthday, and Mina was less than a week away from her first. And now they were all grown up. I was past the point of tears at this point. Someone stole all of the moments that I, as a mother, was supposed to have. I never got to watch them as they grew and got stronger. I was angry. We all were. Once we found them, the next step was to find the person who stole them from us, and make them suffer the way we did.

There was a tug on my arm that drew my attention to my husband. He was looking down at me with serious eyes. "Deep thoughts?" he asked me.

"You could say that." I replied, turning away from him and back to the road in front of us.

"I have to admit something." He took his hand away only to hug my arm to his side. "When that one guy sent that lightning bolt at Erza, a part of me thought that he was ours."

"With that kind of power, how could you not?"

He responded with a chuckle that was cut off by a loud BANG a street over. We stopped an watched in that direction for a minute, but when we saw a pillar of ice shoot into the air we started running.

We rounded the turn and froze in our tracks. Gray and Juvia were there and they were facing off with three people, two guys and one girl. The girl was hiding behind one of the guys, and looking at the girl there was no denying that she was Juvia's. It was her Lynne.

Gray saw us but motioned for us to stay back. "I don't want to hurt you!" He told the kids in front of him.

"I don't believe you!" the boy in front of the girl shouted. He held a hand low to the ground and ice erupted and then snaked its way to Gray. I gasped and held a hand to my mouth, that magic, he was Silver. Juvia was there to break it up with her water magic before it even got close to them. I wanted to intervene, but seeing them made me realize that I couldn't. This was something they had to do.

The third guy came up to whisper in Silver's ear and I finally let a tear escape. He wasn't my Raiden, but with that hair, he was a Strauss. He must have been Elfman's boy, Castor. When he leaned away from Silver, he turned to face us. So, he was going to take us on so his friends could deal with Gray and Juvia. I felt the sinister smile spread across my face, he didn't know us at all.

When the thought hit me, my knees buckled. He didn't know us. None of them did. Laxus held onto me, and lifted me back up. I shrugged his arm off of me then took several steps closer to the three kids in the middle of the street. Castor reached back to tap Silver and get his attention. He turned to me, but didn't know what to do when he saw my face.

My heart was broken, it had been since the day they were taken from me. And not that I was pregnant again my emotions were all over the place. I usually tried to hide it, but today I let them show. I let all of the heart ache, sorrow, fear, and concern show as I took those steps to our lost children. My eyes were on Castor, my nephew, and his eyes were on me.

"Do you know our names?" I asked softly, knowing that they didn't but somehow needing to hear him say it.

"No." it was exactly what I thought.

"My name is Mirajane. And your name is Castor."

His head pulled back in surprise. "How do you know my name?"

"Because I was there when you were born. I was one of the first people to hold you, after your mother and father of course. I watched you every day and held you. I laughed when you laughed, and wanted to cry when you cried. But then you were gone." I was less than 2 feet from them now. "I then had to watch your mother and father go through the same grief that my husband and I went through. I held you mother in her bed while she cried so hard I thought she would never stop, and I cried right along with her." I was inches away from him now. I reached a hand out and touched his arm.

"You know my mom and dad?"

His question made my heart ache even more. It was said the way a small child would speak. His eyes filled and he moved to touch my arm. "I have known your father his entire life." I covered his hand with my own and didn't even bother to wipe off the tears that hit it. "He is my baby brother."

His body began to shake and I thought he was going to fall, but then he lifted to shining eyes back to me and asked. "Can I see them?"

"Of course you can!" I lifted my other hand to Silver and Lynne. "They just want you home, you know." He gave me a confused expression, then turned to Gray.

"He's…?"

"Gray Fullbuster, and the woman with him is Juvia." Lynne gasped and pushed back from her brother when I said their names. She looked back at me, and then at her parents, then ran to Juvia. When she reached her, her arms went around her mother's neck and they both fell to the ground. Juvia was crying very loudly, but there was also a smile there as she held her lost daughter and kept running her hand through her hair. Gray stood there and watched them, his own face contorted in emotion. I could see that he wanted to go to his girls, but he also wanted them to have this moment for themselves.

He turned his eyes to Silver, who instead of going to his father, turned and walked in the opposite direction. Gray moved to follow him, but Castor stopped him. "Give him some time. He isn't used to people actually caring about him like this."

I could see Gray force himself to turn away and then go back to Juvia and Lynne. I then turned back to Castor. "Come on, let's go find your mom and dad."

Silver

I was fuming. How dare they just stroll up and want us to be their happy kids. I hated it. They had no right after everything we went through. What I hated the most was how fast Lynne was to just run to her like our past meant nothing. Like she didn't go through hell because of them. If I was stronger I would have pulled her away and made he leave with me, but there was no way I could have beaten them. I would have to just get stronger so I could one day, maybe then my sister would see that it wasn't worth it.

As lost in my own thoughts as I was, I didn't even know someone was following me until I felt the hand on my shoulder. I reached behind me and grasped the arm just under the elbow and twisted, getting a loud shout in response. I let go when I recognized that shout. "Dammit Gunner."

He was rubbing his arm and glaring at me when I saw the other 3 walk up behind him. "Where is Lynne and Castor?" Lila asked me, standing beside her brother.

"Probably going back to that building we dropped into."

"Why would they do that?"

"Because we didn't land in some random world. And we are not in another bubble. We are where we started."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"It means, we were born in this world."

"This is our world?" I could see the waterworks starting, and it pissed me off even more. I had to look away from her. "Does that mean our families are here?"

"Yep. But I don't know why you would want anything to do with them."

"What is wrong with you?" her anger sent a shiver down my spine.

"What's wrong with me?" my teeth were clenched together in my rage. I rounded on her and would have hit her but Gunner was right there, making sure I didn't. "THEY ABANDONED US!"

"Who in the hell told you that?" the deep voice sounded from behind me and I spun to see a large and brooding man sitting on the top of a garden wall. His black hair was sticking up in places that reminded me faintly of Gunner in the mornings.

"Who are you?" I asked, squaring my shoulders and readying myself to defend my friends.

"My question first. Who told you your parents abandoned you?"

"No one, but it's the only explanation that fits. We went through hell, and there was no on there to save us, or comfort us. There was no one to tell us that we would survive the nightmare, so we had so tell ourselves that."

"I'm sorry you feel that way kid, but I have to tell you that you are wrong."

"Excuse me?"

"Not about your feelings, but the other thing." He hopped down from the wall and strode over to us with 2 long strides. "We didn't abandon you. You were taken from us, and we never stopped looking for any of you."

"Why should I believe you?"

"You don't have to believe me. In fact, feel free to question every single member of the Fairy Tail guild. But they will all tell you the same thing."

"Why do you even care this? I'm not your kid. I already saw my father."

"No, you ain't my kid, but they are." He pointed behind me to Gunner and Lila. "Heard you say his name, and I would recognize that mop of hair anywhere." Lila took a step back, and would have taken more but Gunner stopped her. The man spoke to me again. "Like I said, you don't have to believe me. But, you really should go back to the guild hall."

"The what?" Gunner asked.

"Guild hall. That building you guys crash landed in, that is our guild hall. Everyone should be there."

"Screw you. I'm not going anywhere." I spun around and started to storm off, but for some reason I got tired and the ground looked like a good place to nap.

Lucy

People were starting to come back to the guild hall. When I saw Gray and Juvia show up with a weeping girl between them, I felt my chest clench. We found one of them. Then I saw Mira enter right behind with a boy and then I almost lost it. There was another one. I watched with misty eyes as she led the boy over to Elfman and Evergreen. The look on Ever's face was priceless, and Elfman cried like a little baby. I didn't blame him.

Another person came through the door and I had to sigh. They still weren't back yet. He promised me that he wouldn't come back without her, so I had to trust that I would see the 2 of them again. I was sitting at the bar again, my seat facing the door. I wanted to make sure I saw them right when they walked through. What I wasn't expecting was seeing Gajeel come in with a boy limp over his shoulder and 4 more kids in tow. Knowing who these kids where now, I knew that one of them was Lila. So did Levy. The second she saw the girl she ran to her and tackled her to the ground.

There was a boy that had been standing close to Lila and he looked like he wanted to pry Levy off but then just sat down hard on the floor.

Gajeel tossed the unconscious boy on a nearby table and was then greeted by a very angry Gray. "What in the hell did you do to my kid?"

"He was being a little punk so I did something about it."

"You beat him up? Is that what you're saying?"

"No, I just knocked him out. Calm down, man." Before Gajeel had a chance to walk away Gray hit him in the back of the head. "What the hell?"

"Don't hit my kid!"

"Teach your kid some manners then!"

"I would, but YOU KNOCKED HIM OUT!"

I sighed as they kept fighting. It was like watching Natsu with Gray, or Natsu with Gajeel. I put a finger to my lips and thought about that. Maybe it was those 2 that were the reason Natsu kept fighting. If they were fighting each other now, then they had to be just as hot headed as Natsu. Right? I slapped myself internally. That was a load of crap, Natsu loved to fight anyone and everyone. That was just him.

I started to laugh at my own stupid thoughts when someone sat down next to me. When I looked over, it was Natsu. "What's so funny?"

I craned my neck around trying to see her, but was disappointed when I didn't. "She's fine, she just didn't want to come back in the building." He told me, sensing my mood.

"Where is she then?"

His eyes looked up and over, I followed them to a window near the roof and saw a figure sitting up there. "Why up there?"

"She said she like high places like that, gives her a chance to see everything."

I just stared up at the window, trying to urge her to join us, but it did no good. She was still lost to me.

"She agreed to come to our house tonight." Natsu said.

I snapped my head around and gave him wide eyes. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah. But don't get to clingy. She doesn't trust us yet."

"No promises." I moved my head back so I could see her again, and that's where I stayed until I felt an odd weight in my lap. It was another envelope. I opened it up and stared in confusion at what it said. I shifted my eyes around the room, seeing if anyone else got a card, but nothing. It looked like I was the only one. I read it again, and the confusion was just as strong.

Ask her if she can fly