Hey guys! This is the prologue chapter for my new story: Living in the moment. Just so you guys could tell me if it's good enough and if I should keep going with this. I'm pretty new in this fandom, so your impressions are quite important and feedback will allways be wellcome. Don't worry, I don't mind any kind of criticism, whether harsh or not. So feel free to speak your mind with no restraint!
I'll also, use this oportunity to talk a bit about the particular gender of the story and it's prospect. So this A/N might be a little long. Sorry about it:
As you'll see in the few next chapters, this story is a mix of everything, I'll be listing the genres from the most dominant to the less:
-Mystery: I promise not to kill you with cliffhangers. I personnaly hate them. But as the story progress you'll be confronted to more mysteries. Remeber though that I'm a student engineer and believe me when I say that I hate illogical turns of events, so everything I will write will have a reason.
-Suspence: don't kill me yet, wait until you judge if it's worth it.
-Angst: the start will be quite "happy" and even have a touch of humor to it, but I like emotional characters, so this story will be getting more gloomy and dark with every chapter.
-Romance: I'm sorry to disappoint but even if romance will be present (quite often actually), it won't be the main focus of this story. This isn't about pillow talks or drama. But love is indeed a strong feeling and I'll make sure to use it as a trigger for more prominent turn of events.
-Family: same remark as the romance.
-Crime: I warned you the story will get really dark at some point didn't I?
-Tragedy: because I can't promise you that none of your beloved characters will die in this story, even the main ones. Yes, death is a reality that I plan to make this story embrace.
As far as for rating, you must've already noticed that this is a M rated story. So please beware of the violence, gore scenes and even the steamy mature content! Because I'm sure as hell I'll be needing all of that to make the story progress. And also, I like to have enough freedom, so this is definitely not for kids...
Here we go! Live in the moment, Start!
Full summary:
Living in the moment. That must be one of the few perks of his carefree attitude. And right now, she couldn't agree more to that lifestyle of his. For it's the reason she's enjoying her happily ever after by his side, along with that little bundle of joy allways tugging at his father's pink locks. And here they both believed that everything they went through before reaching this moment, before finally feeling this completeness, the sadness she felt when younger, the deeds he've done whether he acknowledged them or not, the past… Nothing of it mattered, now that they're together… Until, they were thrown into a chain of events showing them that living in the moment was never going to be that easy again. Especially, when the trigger was, ironicly, nothing but lost forgotten memories, coming back with this mysterious man stepping into their lifes.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Fairy Tail, or Hiro Mashima for that matter! (thanks a lot Abraham Lincoln...)
Chapter 0 : prologue : who needs a perfect family ?
Lucy sighed for the upteeneth time that day, before dropping her head on the bar counter. It's been nearly a month since he's left now and she couldn't help but miss him. She knew she was going to end up moping in no time at all, once he told her about the mission he's been asigned to a few weeks ago, but she never thought it would be so horrible having him away for such a long time. To make things worse, she kept on picturing every possible way for him to get injured, every now and then, thus making her loathe her oh so wild imagination. Quite ironic since she's allways been proud of it when she talked about her novels…
"Lucy, you know he's fine by his own. Wasn't you the one who told me and I quote 'he's the strongest mage I've ever met, of course I love him!' you even sang a song about how much you loved him at that time." And just like that the white haired beauty managed to turn all of Lucy's worries into enough embaressement for her head to make quite the contrast of red and yellow, thanks to her shining blond hair and now burning cheeks. "Mira! I never said such thing ! Okay, maybe the 'strongest mage part' was true but I sure as hell didn't sing!" The said Mira only giggled as her blue eyes met Lucy's brown ones. "oh Lucy dear, you have no idea how bold you get when you're drunk. Not that Natsu didn't actually enjoy a love song as a wedding gift from his lovely bride. "
The barista left with a wink, only to come back with a cup of orange juice after a minute or two. Placing the cup in front of the blond, the later looked up with a startled expression on her face. Mirajane could only sigh a little more audibly then necessary before resuming her conversation with her blond friend. "You've been spacing out again haven't you?" The only response she got was a whispered apology and a sad look. "Listen, I know you wish you could've gone with him but it's not like he didn't have faith in your strength. Hell even if he didn't, he's enough confident about protecting you himself if needed. He just didn't want to leave Jaiden alone. Not that he didn't trust the rest of us to take care of him, but the little one still needs his mother by his side. His smiling mother. Besides, I'm pretty sure, even if he asked you to come along, you wouldn't have agreed knowing you won't be seeing your little Jay for a couple of months, would you?" As a reply Lucy swallowed the whole cup of orange juice in one go before smiling warmly and scanning the guild in search for her little baby.
The little one was looking dumbly at Gajeel's face. A man known to be one of the scariest persons you could ever meet. Noticing the weird look the todler was giving him, the black haired iron mage responded with a deadly glare that could make the must courageous of men cower in fear. His red eyes throwing daggers at the boy as the later started laughing as if he's seen the funniest thing in what short life he had so far. Gajeel, already used to this 'brat' –as he liked to call him– behaviour, only turned his pierced face away while mutering a low "he's as dumb as his father". It didn't go unnoticed to the blue haired woman holding the todler in her lap while reading a story to him –not that he really cared about stories when he had Mr iron monster in front of him. "Gajeel ! Don't be mean. Look how cute he is!" Said the bookworm while ruffling the boys spiky blond locks. He was about to retort, only to be inturrepted by a freaked out mother sprinting like a mad woman towards them. "Levy, Thank god! I was looking everywhere for Jay. Here's my little baby!" She squealed with a high pitched voice making Gajeel's sensitive ears ring in protest, before extending her arms for her year and a half baby boy and starting to cradle him. The little one only kept laughing while pointing a little finger at Gajeel's face. A 'bad manner' –as she called it– that she failed to prevent his father from teaching him. At this point, Gajeel stumbled fuming in the direction of a suscipiously half naked guy sitting at the bar, hoping to let some steam out by picking a fight. A comment about the raven haired man stripping habits was all he had to say for Gray Fullbuster to wellcome his challenger fist first.
Lucy was now looking down at the sleeping baby in her arms. And no matter how much time she's seen this, she's still impressed by how easy it is for Jaiden to sleep while the guild is turning into an open battlefield. For she herself found it quite annoying that beer mugs, chairs, tables and practically everything that could be used as a weapon were thrown everywhere with no care for the damage. Thank god the kitchen wasn't in hand reach, otherwise she could end up empalled by a knife for all she knew. But despite everything she thought, she couldn't help but let a smile grace her pink lips. These rowdy, annoying, loud and even barbarian people were her family after all. The family that allways protected her no matter what hardship she was facing. The family that wellcomed her with open arms in her times of despair. And most of all, the family that her beloved one brought her to on that day that changed her life forever. Yes, they were far from perfect, but she loved them no matter what. Who said you needed a perfect family to have a perfect life ? As far as she was concerned, this is the most perfect life she could ever ask for. She had everything she ever dreamed about, after all. She's a mage, something she allways wanted to be and not any mage. She was a proud mage of Fairy Tail. She had this warm family, this loving and brave husband and now, this beautifull baby in her arms. Hell she even published a few novels by now ! She was officialy living her happily ever after.
The ruckus in the guild started to die off as the woman known as the Fairy Queen Titania stepped into the guild, her scarlet hair falling behind her shoulders and her brown eyes expressing her usual serious demeanor. Lucy noticing the sudden calm looked up only to smile at the site of her friend. "Erza! Wellcome back! How was your mission?" She yelled out urging her friend to come and sit beside her. If her son didn't wake up with the ruckus a few minutes ago, he sure as hell wasn't going to wake up from her calling out for Erza. The knight woman smiled warmly at her friend before heading toward her. "Quite easy, actually. But more important, how is the little champ over here doing?" As if on cue, the little Jaiden started rubbing his eyes before reaching out with eager eyes for the armor clad woman. Lucy let out a few giggles as she handed him to Erza. She already grew accustumed to her son's attraction to strong people and Erza was definitly one of the persons he fancied the most. "He's turning into a splitting blond replica of Natsu by every passing day." Noted the redhead more to herself then anything. Oh the irony of it. Thought Lucy remembering the freaked out expression her husband had after their son opened his eyes for the first time. Sure he had expected blond haired children –and was francly releived that his son didn't inheret his salmon locks—but the deep green eyes, almost looking like jade, threw him for a new one. For his own were an onyx shade of black and Lucy's were as brown as chocolate. How in the world, did their son end up with green ones ? And just like that, Lucy started laughing out loud –earning a weird look from Erza who was still busy playing with the todler—as she remembered the next thing Natsu said to her that day "L-L-Luu-cy… Di-did you cheat on me?!".
Lucy kept on reminicing about the happy days that followed her child's birth. From Natsu's hilarious reactions about every single step they took together as new parents, to him looking at her with his ridiculously infatuating toothy grin and saying "he's got jade eyes, let's name him Jaiden!". But for some reason, her memory ended up drifting to a particular time when she was angry about her husband reckless and ridiculously carless attitude…
"why the hell are you allways acting so carefree! For god's sake you just blow up a town! What's your next target now? The whole fricken planet?!" Much to her irritation he replied with a stupid grin. Of course he would laugh it out, he was an absolut idiot! Why did she even agree when he asked her out? Or to put it in his word 'to be his mate'? "God, chill a bit Lucy… So what if a few buildings got destroyed during the mission? It's not like the town's people can't build them again." She looked at him with a burning glare before practicaly spitting her reply "Oh I know they can. But they're gonna rebuild them with MY RENT MONEY YOU MORON!". He looked at her as if she had grown a second head before resuming "See! That's the problem with you. You allways worry about future stuff like that, we'll deal with the rent when it comes to it! Hell, you even worry about things that are done and can't be changed! Just this morning you were complaining about whether that stuff you wrote was good enough to be published…" He trailed of sighing a bit "Live in the moment, Lucy!".
Living in the moment. She could totally get used to the idea, now that her present was filled with joy and happiness. And right now, she believed that for once in his entire life, Natsu Dragneel had actually said wise words. Never could she have guessed that the figure standing in front of the guild doors at that exact same moment, would soon make her question everyone of her believes as she discovers that her life was, in reality, way too much far from its 'happily ever after'.
I know this chapter was way too short! And I'm sorry about it guys. But like I said before it's only a prologue for you guys to taste the waters before we start diving in.
And even though the real story didn't start yet, please feel free to tell me what you think about the whole idea in the box below! And by the way, if you spot any mistake, even the tiniest, please let me know so I can fix them! Thanks.