I know you guys probably hate me and all for making you wait so long, but, hey! Cut me some slack! School and gots a wittle cold...sorry for all the late uploads though! Hope you guys like this chapter! And thanks to all the people who sent me names for the kids! Oh, one last thing- I know the girl's name is the same as Wendy's enemy from an earlier chapter but...well, her name means the ocean! I couldn't resist. :D


"Mai and Haru, huh?" Makarov muttered thoughtfully, looking down at the two sleeping children in his arms. "What do they mean?"

"Mai means the ocean," Romeo said, his fingers interlaced with his wife's as she lay sleeping in her bed, exhausted from the hours of birth. "Haru is springtime."

The master mulled over the names for a minute, nodding. "Pretty," he remarked after a while.

"Thanks." Romeo smiled, happily, though you could easily see his own feelings of exhaustion coming in. "They were both Wendy's idea."

Makarov nodded again, then looked up from the two children to look at Romeo. "You're very lucky," he said, smiling. "I can tell they'll both be great additions to the guild. And I may be getting old, but I hope I'm around to see if they are just as destructive as their friends."

Romeo's smile got wider and, after a second, he leaned in and took the twins from the old man's arms. The master slid from his chair and, gripping his new cane, hobbled out the door. Romeo stood there for a minute, just feeling the weight of his kids—his kids!—in his arms. They'd been here for only a few hours, but he already loved them so much, he thought it nearly impossible. The little girl…he could already almost see the tufts of indigo hair coming, exactly like her mother's. But the nose and the mouth was his. And little Haru…even as a baby, he emanated a gentle aura, one he had to have gotten from his mom, although the facial features looked a lot like Romeo. A mini-me, he thought absently, his pinky caught in the baby boy's loose grip.

Suddenly, a sleepy voice said, "Romeo?"

Romeo looked down at the bed and into Wendy's warm brown eyes. He grinned. "Hey, sleepyhead," he said softly.

Wendy smiled and wordlessly held out her arms. Romeo complied to her unspoken want, and gently deposited Haru into her arms while he continued to cradle Mai. The baby boy opened his eyes a little bit as he moved from Romeo to Wendy, looking with chocolate-colored eyes at his mother. Not looking up from the child, Wendy whispered, awe-struck, "Romeo, we're parents, now."

Romeo shook his head a little in disbelief. "Mavis, I know! And they're so beautiful…"

"Are we ready?" Wendy asked suddenly, and they both looked over at each other. For a minute, they just sat quietly and stared at the other.

Then Romeo smiled. "Yes." Then a chuckled a bit. "The question is," he muttered, "will the guild be ready for more kids?"

Wendy laughed. "Remember how they were when we were there? Drinking all the time, throwing each other through walls…"

"Losing their clothes," muttered Romeo wryly.

Wendy looked back down at Haru. "Let's hope they don't fit in too well, eh?"

Romeo stared down his baby girl's face as the child blearily opened her eyes into her father's face. After a minute, Romeo opened his mouth, his words now directed to the little girl and boy:

"Welcome to Fairy Tail. Welcome home."