Slowly, Natsu pried his eyes open and yawned. The man woke to the sound of birds chirping unnecessarily loud outside Lucy's window. "So annoying.." he groaned to himself, pinching the bridge of his nose between his fingers. When the female on top of him shifted slightly, he looked down. Lucy's head was laying on his chest, and her fingers were loosely intertwined with his free hand as she slept. Rays of the morning sunlight shone through the window, allowing Lucy's blonde hair to shine.

Lucy began to stir not long after the pinkette's awakening. She inhaled deeply, and closed her once parted lips. Natsu kissed her on the top of the head, and grinned as she looked up at him. "Mornin', Luce," he greeted. She smiled tiredly and squinted her eyes to block out the harsh morning sun. "Good morning.. Natsu."

Just then, Lucy's alarm went off and it made both individuals cringe. It read 7:45 AM.

"T-turn it off! Quick- ugh!" Lucy groaned as she put her face back into Natsu's chest. Natsu gladly balled his fist and smashed the alarm clock she had by her bedside, but this made her angry. "Aw.. really?! I loved that clock, Natsu! You're buying me another one!" He silenced her with a deep kiss, but had to pull back shortly after because of the tense position his neck was angled.

"I know, I'm sorry. I just couldn't stand that beeping noise!" Lucy began grumbling to herself about just hitting the snooze button while she was getting off Natsu and soon the bed.

After finishing the shower sex last night, they were both too tired to get properly dressed. Natsu had pulled his boxers back on, and Lucy just wore her panties to bed.

Before Lucy could fully get off her bed, Natsu smacked her ass. That resulted in a squeak coming from his girlfriend, followed by a blush-filled glare. He chuckled, and followed his girlfriend into the kitchen. Lucy began making coffee.

"Aren't you gonna make breakfast? I'm starvin'!" She turned around from the coffee pot, and gave Natsu a full view of her large perky breasts, whose nipples were hard due to the chilliness of the morning air. He couldn't help but gawk at them, they were amazing. A sharp ahem brought Natsu's attention back to Lucy's face, and she was narrowing her eyes. "I'll stop walking around without a shirt on if you can't pay attention to me!" she scolded. "As I was saying, I can't make breakfast now because we have to leave for that mission soon. We won't have time to eat."

Natsu began sulking as he sat down at the table. "But I'm hungry!" Lucy rolled her eyes and brought over the now ready coffee, setting a cup down in front of pink-haired man. She sat across from him, and took a sip of it. "By the way, Luce. Aren't you on the pill?" he asked. Lucy replied without giving it any thought, "Yeah I am, why?" Natsu smiled. "Well you didn't make me wear a condom or anything yesterday."

Lucy came back to her thoughts, and realization hit her like a freight train. Oh shit. "W-wait.. We-we.. You.." Lucy's eyes became large, and she stood up from her chair, so fast the momentum made the chair fall over backwards. Natsu's eyebrows raised at the sudden outburst from the blonde. She began frantically searching for her pills while saying to herself, "Where is it, where is it.."

Around a minute later, she found what she was searched for. Lucy held up a Sunday through Saturday pill organizer, and started looking through the slots. "I took every pill this week.." She trailed off once she got to Thursday and her heart seemed to lodge itself in her throat. "I-I thought I.." Lucy was staring down at the lone pills in the Thursday and Friday slots. She'd forgotten to take the pills, and had sex on top of it. Her irises began shaking after she realized what may be in store for her.

How could she be so careless?

Natsu saw Lucy's reaction, and took one last sip of his coffee before standing up. He calmly made his way over to the Celestial Spirit mage, and gripped her shoulders. "Lucy," he called, and she looked up at him. He could tell tears were making their way to the corners of her brown orbs. "I doubt you'll even get pregnant, so don't stress over it." He paused. "I'd love to be a father anyway!" He reassuringly smiled at her, showing off his fangs. "Especially if the mother is you."

Her eyes softened and she relaxed her body. "Ye-yeah.. you're right.."

"Cm'ere." With that, Natsu shifted his grip on Lucy, and brought her to his chest for a tight hug. He wrapped his arms around her petite body and rested his chin in the crook of her neck. Lucy hesitantly snaked her arms around Natsu's waist.

Natsu kissed Lucy's neck and whispered sweetly in her ear, "Love you babe." This sent chills down Lucy's spine, and she smiled against his skin. "Love you," she stated, and pulled away. "We need to get ready," she sighed, "We have to meet up with the rest soon." She walked back into her bedroom to get a change of clothes, swaying her hips.

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Natsu pushed open the guild doors, Lucy not too far behind. The blonde was deep in thought while she blindly followed her boyfriend inside. I can't even picture myself being a mother! And Natsu the father?! We're way too young. This isn't-

Lucy was abruptly pulled out of her thoughts once she bumped into the back of the pinkette, and she received confused stares. "Well?" Erza questioned. When did she get there?

"Huh?" Lucy asked, now realizing Erza, Happy, and Gray were surrounding them. "I said, can we go discuss a plan before we leave?" The blonde nodded her head and began walking towards a table.

"You guys are late." Erza pointed out, motioning to Lucy and Natsu. "Yeah! I missed you, Natsu!" The blue exceed flew over and landed in Natsu's hair. "I missed you too, buddy!" Lucy smiled at the two. "I wasn't expecting you to get back from your mission so soon," the pinkette stated, watching his blue friend. "Yeah.. Wendy finished up early so we came straight back!"

"But.." the red-haired mage cut in, "I can understand why you two love birds were so late." She paused for dramatic effect. "I, myself, have fantasized about morning sex," she said quietly. Erza smiled triumphantly while Natsu and Lucy both blushed like mad.

Did Erza always have glitter floating around her?

"N-no! Erza! Y-you've got it all wrong! We-" Lucy was cut off by Natsu's arm being slung around her shoulder. He whispered in her ear, "It's fine, whatever."

Later

"We've been walking around for hours!" Natsu groaned. "And I'm hungry!" Lucy also groaned, but out of irritation. "Natsu! We just had lunch not too long ago!"

Gray scoffed and looked around at the crowd. "Yo, Erza. Do you have any idea where this guy might be?" Erza stared at the flowers in the window of William's Florist and Gift House momentarily before looking back over to the dark-haired man. "No, I'm not sure. It wasn't specified as to where he might be hiding. Just don't let your guard down for a second."

"And Gray.. Clothes."

"Dammit.."

The group was now near the hills in Magnolia. Team Natsu split up earlier in the day to cover more ground, but to no avail, Akuzo was still missing. It was becoming dark, and the last place they needed to check was around the hills. "We can always search again another day if we don't find this guy!" Happy exclaimed. He was flying quite a ways above the group as a look-out. "Hey, Happy! See anything up there?!" Natsu yelled up to his blue pal. "No, nothing yet!"

Suddenly and out of nowhere, the group felt as if the air was ten times thicker.

"What the..?"

"You, Fairy Tail wizards," a deep, growling voice said to the right of them. Immediately, they tensed and whipped their heads to find the source of the voice. Happy dropped down to hover near Natsu's head, and he whispered, "Could he be the guy?"

To their right stood a man with chestnut colored hair, and it was quite short. His hair was spiked except a few pieces which hung loosely on his forehead. This man had silver eyes, which seemed to bore into everyone's own, even though he was only looking at one particular mage. Lucy.

The bottom of the dark red cape he sported blew slightly in the breeze that picked up momentarily.

"Natsu Dragneel, Erza Scarlet, Gray Fullbuster, Lucy Heartfilia." He smirked at saying the blonde's name, and this caused Lucy to recoil a bit. "Who are you, huh?!" Natsu called out, while narrowing his eyes and placing on foot in front of the other, ready for a battle if need be.

The pinkette's question only caused the man in the red cape to chuckle darkly. As the sun began to set even more, the man's aura seemed to grow more malicious. "I've been watching you, wizards. I knew you'd come for me. But, I also know you'll be easily defeated."

Erza then spoke up once she narrowed her eyes, "What is your name?" She spoke firmly with no trace of intimidation. The man took a few slow steps forward and smiled menacingly. "Oh, you see. I'm the one you've been looking for." He outstretched his hands, and smiled even wider. "The one and only Puppet Master!"

"I'm Akuzo, and Lucy Heartfilia," the Celestial Spirit mage's brows furrowed deeply once his eyes made their way back to her, "You will be coming with me."